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Hoyas sit on Duke’s late command Med Center Georgetown leads Blue Devils at halftime, rally keeps Duke unbeaten By NEELUM JESTE The Chronicle
93 Chris Duhon’s threepoint shot from well GU 86 behind the arc three and a half minutes into the second half sparked Duke’s offense and gave the Blue Devils a lead over Georgetown which they held onto for the rest of the game to win 93-86. Just 21 seconds later, he was followed by a J.J. Redick three-point jumper, to begin a 15-1 run. “First half, we were back and forth, back and forth, and you really can’t win games like that. Second half we really wanted to focus on defense. We were playing well, but we wanted to take it over,” said Daniel Ewing. Top-ranked Duke (10-0, 1-0) and Georgetown (8-2, 0-0) were neck and neck in the first half, with neither team leading by more than four. The Hoyas entered halftime with a 44-41 lead. The Blue Devils came out with a renewed intensity and energy that was unmatched for the remainder of the contest. “What a great basketball game,” men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “The intensity of both teams was sensational.” Ewing notched his career-best 19 points, while Dahntay Jones and Shelden Williams both had double-doubles in points and rebounds. Jones matched his career-high 22 points and scored ten of the team’s first 12 points. Redick scored all 13 of his points in the second half. Though overmatched in terms of size by Georgetown’s Gerald Riley, the freshman beat out his oppoDuke
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An unprecedented construction boom at the Medical Center has led officials to delay long-term planning for now. By MIKE MILLER The Chronicle
A spate of ongoing building projects at the Medical Center points to an institution in rapid flux. The new and the old in medicine, research and clinical
Room 601 in the West-Edens Link may be cursed. Four months after a resident caused a massive flood in the new dorm by accidentally knocking a water sprinkler head in 601’s closet, a contractor working to renovate the room set off the sprinkler again while using a heat gun Jan. 4. The Durham Fire Department responded to the scene and cut off the water supply to the sprinkler within 10 minutes, but half the sixth floor, halls and rooms directly under the activated area and the basement vending area were flooded. Some of the rooms were also hit hard by the original flood in September and residents said they are somewhat upset with the way in which the University handled the situation.
care—everything is expanding its boundaries and demanding space. The Medical has invested more than $l5O million in current construction projects, including several buildings for the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, an addition to the radiation oncology department and facilities for the Ruth and Herman Albert Eye Research Institute. A potential expansion of the School of Nursing is currently in the planning phase. Partly because of these changes, administrators have decided to put off development of a master plan for the Medical Center’s physical structures for at least a year. Rapid change to the physical layout of the Medical Center, particularly surrounding the radiation oncology addition, played a Gordon Williams large part in the decision to delay the plan. Eventually the plan will coincide with the University’s long-range planning, said Gordon Williams, vice dean for administration and finance at the School of Medicine. “We thought the timing might be better to wait, and we all want to see what the economy is doing,” Williams said. Despite the tepid national economy, Williams explained that the sudden surge of expensive building projects will not be a financial burden on the Medical Center. “We’re financially stressed, just like everybody else, but Duke is in a pretty good situation right now. We’ve invested our money well,” he said. He also pointed to recent faculty success in gaining outside research support—including an 18 percent increase over the past year—and a University pledge of $3O million for IGSP construction. Williams maintained that the projects are largely meeting demonstrated need and are not designed to keep up
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DAHNTAY JONES hangs from the rim early in Wednesday night’s game. Duke hung on for the win after Georgetown played the Blue Devils close for most of the game.
WEL 6th floor floods again over break By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle
CLASS NOTES and other personal belongings sit drying outside West-Edens Link residents’ rooms Wednesday. Students are asking administrators for compensation for the flood.
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21 passengers on a U.S. Airways Express flight died Wednesday when their plane crashed into a hangar just after takeoff. See page 3
Duke economists present varying analyses of President George W. Bush’s economic stimulus package, released earlier this week. See page 4
Three people were charged with various crimes related to marijuana last month, and a Hospital visitor was charged with assaulting a nurse. See page 5
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Army expert warns of biological defense gaps
One of the U.S. Army’s top biodefense officers said Wednesday there are “serious” gaps in the military’s
ability to defend against biological agents. He said a lack of commercial financing hampered the military’s ability to provide vaccines against biological agents. •
House passes unemployment legislation
The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to extend unemployment benefits for more than 2.5 million Americans, making the politically popular extension of aid to jobless workers the first legislation to clear the the new Republican-controlled Congress. •
Israelis kill border infiltrator
Israeli soldiers killed an armed man Wednesday who crossed the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from Syria and captured a second infliltrator. The incident marked a rare occurrence on the Israel-Syria border. •
Bush looks to extend free trade agreements
President George W. Bush’s administration began talks Wednesday to create a free trade agreement with five Central American countries, part of its plans for a NAFTA-like zone in the Western Hemisphere. •
Columbian government agrees to peace talks
The Colombian government is set to explore peace talks with a feared right-wing paramilitary group in hopes of lessening the brutality of the nation’s civil war, President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday. News briefs compiled from wire reports.
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U.S. jets strike southern Iraq targets Meanwhile, Iraqi official warns of U.S. and Britain readying for ‘devastating’ war By G.G. LABELLE
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition warplanes struck air defense targets in southern Iraq Wednesday for the second time this week, and a key Iraqi official said the United States and Britain were bent on going into war with Baghdad to subjugate the Middle East. In Moscow, meanwhile, Iraq’s ambassador to Russia dismissed rumors Saddam Hussein might go into exile to avoid war and said the Iraqi leader would “fight to the last drop of blood” to defend his country. Concerns war is imminent have mounted, with the United States and Britain announcing the dispatch
of thousands more troops and who returned to Iraq in November weapons to the Persian Gulf region after a four-year hiatus, had strayed because of misgivings about Iraq’s beyond the search for weapons of commitment to abandon weapons of mass destruction. “They are searching for other informass destruction. Iraq insists it has no such weapons mation about Iraq’s conventional military capabilities, the Iraqi scientific and maintains that claims to the contrary by Washington and London are and industrial capability in the civilian area, and also espionage quessimply a pretext for war. “The aggressors in Washington tions,” Aziz said. UN. spokesperson Hiro Ueki deand London are preparing for a devastating aggression against... the nied those allegations and said UN. people of Iraq, and they would like officials had received no formal comonce again to destroy the City of plaint from Iraqi authorities about alPeace (Baghdad) as they did in 1991,” Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told a visiting South African delegation Wednesday. Aziz said U.N. arms inspectors,
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The United States has accused Saddam of stockpiling weapons of See IRAQ on page 7
Court issues ‘combatant’ citizen ruling By NEIL LEWIS
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President George W. Bush administration a major legal victory Wednesday in ruling that a wartime president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured as am enemy combatant on the battlefield and deny that person access to a lawyer. The closely watched case, which set up a stark clash between the nation’s security interests and its citizens’ civil liberties, resulted in an expansion ofthe power ofthe presidency as the three-judge panel ruled unanimously that President Bush was due great deference in conducting the war against terrorism. The judges of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Richmond, Va., said that it was improper for the federal
courts to probe too deeply into the detention of Yasser Esam Hamdi, a 22-year-old American-bom Saudi who was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan and is now imprisoned in a military brig in Norfolk, Va. The case arose when lawyers for Hamdi challenged his detention, asserting that because he was a citizen he had the same constitutional rights as citizens in criminal cases, including the right to consult a lawyer and to question the reasons for his confinement. The appeals panel said that to deprive any citizen ofhis constitutional protections “is not a step that any court would casually take.” Even so, in the opinion written by the circuit’s chief judge, Harvie Wilkinson, the panel said, “The safeguards See RULING on page 8
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Commuter plane crashes on takeoff, killing 21 Transportation officials have not ruled out any potential causes of plane’s crash into hangar By PAUL NOWELL The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —A commuter plane taking off in clear weather Wednesday veered sharply back toward the airport and plummeted to the ground, hitting a hangar, bursting into flames and killing all 21 people aboard. US Airways Express Flight 5481, a Beech 1900 twin-engine turboprop, was taking off from Charlotte/Douglas International Airport when it hit the corner of the hangar at full throttle just before 9 a.m., officials said. Dee Addison, who works at an airport business about 500 yards away, heard the boom and ran out-
side to look. “It was like a frenzy. People were running out of the [hangar],”*she said. “At the time we didn’t know a plane had actually crashed. It didn’t even look like a plane. It was totally demolished.” No one on the ground was injured, though the building—a maintenance facility for US Airways—was scorched and battered. Heavy smoke poured from the wreckage, so thick “you could taste it in your mouth,” Addison said. The plane, carrying 19 passengers and two crew members, took off to the south, then cut back sharply back toward the airport and clipped the comer of the hangar as it crashed, airport director Jerry Orr said. The airport was shut down for about two hours afterward. The cause of the crash—the deadliest U.S. air accident in nearly 14 months—was still not clear late Wednesday and investigators said they were not ruling anything out. But FBI agent-in-charge Chris Swecker said there was no preliminary indication of terrorism. Investigators recovered the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage and sent them to Washington, D.C., for analysis, said John Goglia, a National Transportation Safety Board member. “Both were burned, but it does appear they were in decent shape,” Goglia said at a late news conference. He said the NTSB had brought 26 agents to help investigate the accident. Goglia said investigators will consider every possible cause, and will review the pilot performance, maintenance records, the plane’s structure and the flight’s passengers and freight. “At this point, nothing is out of the question,” he said. They walked the runway Wednesday and found some bolts and small pieces of debris, but have not deter-
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A FIRE TRUCK AND EMERGENCY WORKERS attend to the crash scene at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport after a U.S. Airways Express plane mysteriously crashed into a hangar just after takeoff. mined ifthey belong to the US Air plane, Goglia said. The pilot, identified by US Airways as Katie Leslie of Charlotte, had contacted the tower to report an emergency, said Greg Martin, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. “However, [the transmission] was cut short and the emergency was never identified,” he said. The weather at the Charlotte airport was clear, with winds of only 8 mph, said Rodney Hinson, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in .
Greenville-Spartanburg. The flight originated in Lynchburg, Va., and was bound for the Greenville-Spartanburg airport in Greer, S.C. Goglia said none of the passengers started their trip in Charlotte, though some may have boarded the plane there, transferring from other flights.
Goglia said the victims’ bodies were still being recovered from the site Wednesday evening, and families were starting to arrive in Charlotte to identify their relatives. Buddy Puckett, chief executive of Willis Group Holding of Greenville, S.C., was awaiting the arrival of a friend and client, Gary Gezzer of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He sent a co-worker to the airport to pick Gezzer up, but discovered he had been killed. Puckett said he would fly to Florida to be with Gezzer’s family. “He was not only a client, he was also a very, very good friend,” Puckett said. Two Clemson University students were among the crash victims. Sreenivasa Reddy Badam, 24, and Ganeshram Sreenivasan, 23, both of India, were graduate students in computer science.
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Stimulus package focuses on long-term, profs say By DAVE INGRAM The Chronicle
President George W. Bush’s plan for boosting the slumping U.S. economy may have some long-term benefits, but it will likely provide little stimulus in the near future, Duke economists said this week after the plan’s release. Reacting to slow economic growth and widespread unemployment, Bush
called for the elimination of taxes on stock dividends, an extension of unemployment benefits, as well as various other tax breaks for individuals and businesses. Overall, the plan would provide about $674 billion in economic relief, White House officials said. Democrats proposed a competing plan Monday that offers more modest,
temporary tax cuts, as well as some relief to ailing state budgets, all totaling about $136 billion in 2003. Duke economists stressed that neither plan is likely to escape Congressional negotiations intact, and professors’ prescriptions for stimulating the economy varied widely. Most agreed, however, that if the president’s plan has an effect on the economy, it will not be
felt any time soon. “The Republican plan appears to be much more of a long-term growth package, where the Democratic plan, from what has been released, is much more of a short-term relief package,” said Paul Cowgill, a visiting instructor in economics who specializes in macroeconomic policy. Citing lack of investment and consumer spending as two of the most pressing economic problems, Cowgill said that eliminating dividends taxes
will, over time, increase stock purchases and enable companies to invest more. Moreover, he said, the extension of unemployment benefits—a bipartisan proposal signed by Bush Wednesday—and more tax cuts will provide relief to those most affected by layoffs, encouraging them to spend more. Other economists echoed many Democrats’ comments that Bush’s tax cuts are too focused on the wealthy to help those in need or to stimulate the economy. Roy Weintraub, James B. Duke professor of economics, said even though many middle-class Americans, particularly senior citizens, receive stock dividends, they do so through retirement accounts or other tax shelters. “It’s not the right kind of package, not as a stimulus. It’s a long-standing agenda to cut taxes for wealthy individuals,” Weintraub said. “Taxes on dividends affect very few Americans. It doesn’t affect tax-sheltered plans, in which most Americans have their savings.” Cowgill rebutted by suggesting that even if most Americans do not benefit directly from an elimination of dividend taxes, the measure could benefit them because, with higher growth, dividends could increase. “Maybe the tax implication isn’t a big deal for some people, but there would still be a trickle down because businesses would be able to pay larger dividends,” he said. Lori Leachman, associate professor of the practice of economics, said a more effective economic stimulus would focus on tax breaks for members of the lower and middle classes, who would be more likely
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CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports
Possession charged Two students were charged with possession of drug paraphernalia—glass pipe with residue, J&B rolling papers and a plastic sandwich bag with green substance —after Duke police responded to House M, room 002 on Dec. 4 at 10:54 p.m. The officers smelled what they believed to be marijuana coming from the room. Alexander Papson, 20, and Matthew Cuneo, 20, have Jan. 29 court dates. They declined to comment on the charges. Dec. 30 at 1:15 p.m. officers responded to a report of someone smoking marijuana in a men’s restroom on the third floor of Duke Hospital. Employees in the area gave responding officers a description of a white man wearing a striped shirt and blue jeans who went into a patient’s room in suite 3100. Officers found Nelson Coley, 36, who admitted to smoking a marijuana cigarette in the bathroom. Coley was arrested and charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana. He could not be reached for comment.
p.m. Jan. 3, her vehicle was parked in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens parking lot when someone broke out the $3OO left rear window and stole her $5O pocketbook, $2O wallet, $2O purse, $5O cash, credit cards and
Duke Gardens parking lot. The vehicle suffered a $l5O broken right front window and $6O in cash was taken.
driver’s license. A visitor reported that someone broke the $2OO right rear window of a vehicle, and stole $165 worth of compact discs in a CD case, while it was parked in the valet services overflow lot next to- Parking Garage II between 11:59 a.m. and 5 p.m. Dec. 28. Someone broke into an employee’s vehicle between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Dec. 31 at the H parking lot on Anderson Street at Erwin Road. The employee said that a $2OO JVC stereo receiver was stolen. The suspect used a pry tool to force open the door, causing $lOO in damage to the vehicle.
An employee reported that her vehicle was broken into at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens parking lot between noon and 1 p.m Jan. 2. The suspect may have entered the vehicle through a window that was partially lowered. The employee reported that her purse containing her wallet, cash and credit cards was stolen, totaling $155. An employee reported that between 8 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. Dec. 12, someone keyed the side of his vehicle parked on East Campus causing $l5O in damage. An employee reported that between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Dec. 10, someone damaged his car while it was parked on LaSalle Street. He told police the antenna on his truck was also damaged about a month
An employee reported that her vehicle was broken into between 2:30 and 4 p.m. Jan. 1 in the Sarah P.
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Dec. 30 at 11:17 a.m. an officer in the Emergency Department responded to a request for assistance with an uncooperative family member in the Medical Center. The officer heard a loud slap as he was entering the room and saw the ED nurse withred marks on her face. The nurse told the officer that Norma Dunn, 20, slapped her when she tried to prevent Ms. Dunn from taking the patient, an infant child, outside with her to smoke. The child was connected to an IV machine at the time. The officer charged Dunn with Assault on an Emergency Services Worker, Dunn could not be reached for comment.
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Someone broke into a visitor’s vehicle parked in the parking lot at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens between 3:40 and 4:36 p.m. Jan. 5. The $4OO passenger window was broken out and a $5O purse, containing credit cards and a $l5O cellular phone were stolen. An employee reported that someone broke into her vehicle parked in the upper Allen parking lot sometime after 11 a.m. Dec. 28. The $4OO front right window was broken and a purse containing $124 in items were stolen.
An employee reported that sometime after 12:30 p.m. Dec. 27, her vehicle was damaged while parked at the Medical Center Warehouse oh Pettigrew Street. The damage was valued at $5OO and was consistent with a break-in attempt but nothing was reported stolen. An employee reported that between 5:05 and 5:22
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Court limits negligence damages Judge J.B. Allen ruled that the parents of a woman now in a coma cannot seek $4B million, although their suit will continue. From staff and wire reports A Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that a couple suing the Medical Center for $4B million in a negligence case cannot profit from their daughter’s pain and suffering. The couple filed suit against Duke after a July 23, 2001 surgery on their daughter to remove a tumor from a kidney. She fell into a coma after going into cardiac and respiratory arrest after the surgery, the couple, Charles and Ginger Mollison, is arguing. The Mollisons filed the lawsuit claiming that staff members at the Medical Center did not properly monitor their daughter and provide her with adequate oxygen. Adequate efforts would have saved their daughter, Tina, from permanent brain damage, the lawsuit argues. Judge J.B. Allen did not elaborate on his reasons for the ruling, but simply rejected the Mollisons’ request of $4B million. The ruling is subject to appeal, and does not touch on the substance of the lawsuit—whether the Medical Center was negligent in its post-surgery monitoring of Tina Mollison. Tina, 27, agreed before her surgery that, if she became brain-damaged from the operation, she would reject life support, and on Aug. 13, 2001, her parents requested that she be taken off life support. They soon changed
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and the $45 million Center for Models of Human Disease—will support the IGSP, a University-wide initiative dewith peer institutions. “It just kind of signed to meet the medical and scientifhappens that they’re all hitting at this ic challenges of the genomic revolution. particular time,” he said. “We’re not The Center for Human Genetics, a doing this because [other universities] 125,000-square-foot facility headed by are doing this. We have great faculty, so Professor of Medicine Margaret Periyou invest in that.” cak-Vance, will house both an informatRadiation oncology is one departics core, dedicated to the collection of ment that has long been pressing for epidemiologic genetic information from additional space. “Right now, there’s no families, and the Genomic Research doubt we’re undersized for our current Laboratory Core, centered around biopatient volume in radiation oncology,” medical research on the nature of geWilliams said. netic disease. One floor of the building Expansion to radiation oncology’s is designated as expansion space for the space will allow the installation of two School of Medicine. additional linear accelerators, an MRI Construction is nearly complete on unit for three-dimensional treatment the second IGSP building, the Center planning for radiation therapy and supfor Models of Human Disease. The port for the hyperthermia unit, noted 129,000-square-foot building will house Dr. Ed Halperin, chair of the departup to 20,000 transgenic mice, each bred ment and vice dean for academic affairs to have a particular set of genes, along at the School of Medicine. “This addiwith the accompanying traits. Retional space will support the developsearchers will use the mice as tools for ment of innovative conformal therapy studying complex human disorders like for the treatment of cancer, radioheart disease. surgery and the use of large-field irraInstead of building a third IGSP fadiation for bone marrow transplantacility, the Medical Center invested aption,” he wrote in an e-mail. proximately $17.5 million in the UniTwo major research buildings—the versity’s Center for Interdisciplinary $4O million Center for Human Genetics Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sci-
ences building—scheduled for completion in August 2004—in exchange for 45,000 square feet of space. IGSP headquarters, as well as space for collaborative programs with the School of Engineering, will find room there. The Medical Center is building an extensive laundry list of smaller construction projects, as well. Eye research has only about 10,000 square feet of research space right now,
which will double with the completion of the Eye Research Institute—an estimated $23 million, state-of-the-art research and children’s clinical facility. “Eye research is a major initiative right now,” Williams said. The Health System is finishing the DUHS Clinical Laboratories Core Lab, a facility located near Durham Regional Hospital designed to coordinate routine clinical testing. Durham Regional Director of Laboratories Dr. John Daly noted that the lab will improve efficiency and turnaround time. A long-awaited expansion and consolidation of the School of Nursing is also being considered. Williams pointed to the diversity of planned and ongoing facilities projects as a sign of success. “From a research standpoint, we’re growing,” he said.
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WEL FLOOD from page 1 “This time we’re frustrated that we didn’t get an e-mail,” said senior Emily Kelly, who lives in room 605, “They [later] told us that they didn’t want us to panic, but we felt like it should have been our choice.... I heard [before getting back] from a friend of a friend of a [resident advisor], but we all would have appreciated a heads-up.” Director of Housing Services Eddie Hull could not be reached for comment. Kelly said the University should
have let residents know. “We’d really like to have a get together with a couple of people of some sort of
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rank who have some influence to create a policy for how students should be treated in the future,” she said. The University once again brought in AfterDisaster—a company specializing in cleaning up floods and other accidents—to handle the clean-up, including expelling water from the building and setting up dehumidifiers and fans. “Mostly we just had to dry out some carpets,” said John Duncan, facility manager for the West Campus area that includes the WEL. He said one room located a floor below the incident will require sheetrock repair. Neighbors with books, papers and clothes on their floors suffered the worst damage. Kelly said all of last semester’s
IRAQ from page 2 mass destruction and says it will use force if necessary to disarm him. Iraq insists it destroyed its biological and chemical weapons and halted its nuclear program and the making of banned missiles. There have been no known instances of serious problems encountered by the inspectors since they began work Nov. 27. Nevertheless, the pace of the U.S.-British buildup has accelerated. The American battle staff that would run a military campaign against Iraq is beginning to assemble at a command post in the small gulf state of Qatar, U.S. officials said. Tens of thousands more combat forces are scheduled to flow into the region over the next few weeks.
Some U.S. soldiers landed Wednesday in neighboring Kuwait, but U.S. officials refused to say how many or identify their units. Among the other forces expected to deploy from U.S. bases in the next several days are F-15E and F-15C fighters and B-1B bombers. Still, U.S. and British officials insist war is neither imminent nor inevitable.
books she had to buy after the last flood were destroyed.
“That’s $5OO in text books that I would like to keep for future reference, but I’m not sure I want to shell out the cash for once again,” she said. Kelly added that she is still working with the University to get some reimbursement for the first flood and hopes to get more money back this time because the most recent flood is the fault of the contractor. Senior and sixth floor resident Erica Featherstone said she lost lecture notes, textbooks and music sheets in the flood. “I’m not worried about monetary damage,” she said. “It’s living in the mold and stench that’s the problem.”
The University told students it will hire professionals to clean all the carpets, Kelly said. Following the first flood, administrators announced they would install screens on sprinklers in the WEL to protect them from further accidents. But Duncan said the University could not put screens on the sprinklers. “We did install signs to warn about hanging things or tampering by each head right after the last incident,” he said. “We plan to replace the closet sprinkler heads with another type after spring semester move-out. We need to do that when we are unoccupied and with the closets empty.” Robert Tai contributed to this story.
As the buildup continued, U.S. warplanes struck vince Saddam to step down and go into exile. Ople, Wednesday against air defense communication sites speaking to reporters in Manila, said he learned of between the cities of A1 Kut and An Nasiriyah. The those efforts by Arab ambassadors whom he refused to U.S. Central Command said the attacks occurred identify. after Iraqi air defense forces fired anti-aircraft arThe German newspaper Tageszeitung said Russtillery at U.S. planes which were patrolling the ian officials had been in Baghdad since November, southern “no fly” zone and Iraqi military aircraft enwhen they began evaluating the chance of Saddam tered the zone. stepping down. In a report for publication Thursday, U.S. planes targeted two Iraqi military radars the newspaper said Russian President Vladimir Monday near the city of A1 Amarah. Iraqi officials Putin would send a special envoy to Baghdad to fisaid two people were killed and 13 were injured in nalize details if Saddam appeared willing to accept Monday’s attacks. the Russian offer of exile. Meanwhile, the official Iraqi News Agency said Russia’s ITAR-Tass news agency quoted an Saddam held a third day of meetings Wednesday with unidentified “high-ranking Russian official” as denymilitary and militia commanders, encouraging them ing that Moscow was working toward Saddam’s denot to fear a technologically superior foe. parture, saying there were “no grounds for the Iraqi “In aerial combat, there is a disparity in weapons, leader to request political asylum anywhere, includbut on the ground, men fight with their guns and it’s ing in Russia.” enough for the men to have bombs, bullets, a loaf of Iraq’s ambassador to Russia, Abbas Khalaf, told the bread, water and a gun,” Saddam was quoted as sayInterfax news agency that Saddam will not leave his ing. As long as Iraqi forces receive the continual supcountry and will “fight to the last drop of blood.” port of the people, “the enemy will be defeated,” SadKhalaf called reports that Saddam might leave dam added. the country “absolute nonsense” and “part of WashWith tensions rising, Philippine Foreign Minister ington and London’s psychological war against Iraq,” Bias Ople said Arab governments were trying to con- Interfax said.
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efforts in the war against terrorism. In one case, a federal district judge has upheld the administration’s decision to hold about 600 prisoners at the that all Americans have come to expect in criminal prosecutions do not Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, rultranslate neatly to the arena of armed ing that the laws of the United States conflict. do not apply there. “In fact,” the opinion added, “if deferOther federal judges have ruled that ence is not exercised with respect to the Bush administration could not hold military judgments in the field, it is dif- hearings on immigration violations in ficult to see where deference would ever secret and could not withhold the obtain.” names of those arrested on such Attorney General John Ashcroft charges from the public. Those cases called the decision “an important victoare making their way through the apry for the president’s ability to protect pellate courts. the American people in times of war.” The Hamdi case began with the narBut Elisa Massimino, a director of the row issue of whether the courts should be Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, satisfied with a Defense Department offisaid: ‘The court seems to be saying that cial’s two-page, nine-paragraph stateit has no role whatsoever in overseeing ment that offered a spare accounting of the administration’s conduct of the war facts to justify the government charge on terrorism. That is particularly disthat Hamdi has been properly labeled an turbing in the context of a potentially enemy combatant. Judge Robert Doumar open-ended, as yet undeclared war, the ofUS. District Court in Norfolk ruled in beginning and end of which is left solely August that the declaration—made by to the president’s discretion.” Michael Mobbs, a special adviser to the The Hamdi case appears to be the under-secretary of defense for policy—first in modern American legal history was not sufficient. in which a citizen has been detained The appeals court reversed that without being charged and without finding Wednesday and went much furbeing given access to a lawyer. The ther in defining the authority of the exlawyers authorized by Hamdi’s father ecutive branch in wartime. to argue the case on his son’s behalf are “The constitutional allocation of certain to seek a review from the war powers affords the president extraordinarily broad authority as comSupreme Court, but there is no guarantee that the justices will take the case. mander in chief and compels courts to The only other US. citizen known to assume a deferential posture in rebe held on American soil without charges viewing exercises of this authority,” is Jose Padilla, the so-called dirty bomb the panel found. While courts are entitled to review suspect, who was arrested in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and is in a detentions when asked, the panel ruled military brig in South Carolina. that “courts are ill-positioned to police The ruling on Wednesday may be the the military’s distinction between those most far-reaching yet in a host of cases in the arena of combat who should be brought on by the Bush administration’s detained and those who should not.” from page 2
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CRIME from page 5 ago. Damage is estimated at $l5O. Officers found a vehicle in the parking lot near 302 Anderson St. with the
left front window broken and the left door ajar Dec. 27. The owner of the vehicle, a Duke student on vacation, was contacted about the incident. It is not known if anything was taken.
CD changer taken A visitor reported that between 9:35 a.m. and 6 p.m. Dec. 12, someone entered his vehicle while it was parked in the H parking lot on Hillsborough Road and stole his $2OO CD changer and six CDs valued at $75. There were no signs of forced entry to his vehicle.
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Between the hours of 6:50 a.m. and 8:05 p.m. Dec. 8, someone stole an employee’s $250 Kenmore CD from her vehicle parked in the H parking lot at Anderson and Yearby Streets. There were no signs of forced entry.
Car emblem nabbed An employee reported that between 4 and 8:58 p.m. Jan. 5, someone stole the $l5O Mercedes emblem offher vehicle parked in the Hanes parking lot.
Equipment stolen Someone broke into the East Campus facilities housekeeping office between 8:37 a.m. Dec. 14 and 6:05 a.m. Dec. 15 and stole keys, vending products from the vending machine, a $lO pair of white work gloves and discharged a fire extinguisher which was taken from a truck that was parked outside.
Someone stole a student’s unprotected $ll5 accounting textbook from the third floor of Perkins Library between 1:10 and 1:20 p.m. Dec. 12.
Purse grabbed A hospital visitor reported that her purse was stolen from the 8200 waiting room Dec. 13. The visitor said that she went to check on a family member between the hours of 6 and 6:30 a.m. and left her purse in the waiting room. The purse was gone when she returned. The purse and contents are
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Employees at the medical records warehouse reported that between 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Dec. 23, two vehicles were broken into at the warehouse on Pettigrew Street. Both vehicles had the right front window broken out and a $25 Bible and $5O in cash were taken from one vehicle.
Vegetables swiped A Duke Hospital cafeteria worker reported that an unknown man stole one tomato and one onion from the Hospital’s cafeteria Dec. 27. The employee saw the man with the purloined vegetables, valued at approximately $l, and asked him to pay for them. The man refused to pay and left
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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.
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of news told her, in his own words. Recess: What were you doing before you came on the show? Lucas Tyler: I was actually an investment adviser for one of the major Canadian banks, and I'd been in finance for eight years. I wanted to stretch my creative side more, so I came across this ad in one of the local papers asking for Naked News anchors Were you nervous the first time? I'm not an exhibitionist; I'm not a nudist. And so yeah, the nudity was definitely something I had to get over in my mind. What's the most difficult part of being on camera naked? Some could say what to do with your hands. Does your family know you're doing this? Oh yeah. They love it actually. When started I was premiered on all first I
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ly elevated their acceptance of what I was doing. What's the strangest piece of fan mail you've ever received? I get marriage proposals from girls and guys, which to me is like, they don't even know who you are. Coming from a completely different world, number one, to have fans is a bit odd for me... and two, getting e-mails, very personal e-mails, when these people don't even know you they see you on a TV screen or on the internet, it's weird. Are there any stories you feel are inappropriate to be nude for? I personally don't. I believe our show is the Naked News, and this is the way we present the news, and we shouldn't really change it for stories because this is what we do. So, I have this class where I get quizzed on world events, is there any way I could hire you as a private tutor? In that regard, absolutely, and I'd even do it for free. Oh, well thank you! Aren't 1 nice? But I would have my
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When computer genius and all-around studmuffin John Bush implemented a new feature for The Chronicle's website that allowed readers to offer their comments to articles online, we thought that our devoted reader(s) would flood the site with insightful glances into the world of arts and entertainment and our coverage of it. Thirteen issues, hundreds of articles, and even a Nick Christie food column bashing the South later, we've received a grand total of eight (8) responses. Friends, this has to change—we expect more from you this semester. When you write us, you not only ■ receive the intrinsic benefit of lending your voice to important campus issues, but you may also receive an electronic mail message from your favorite Recess writer, or, if you act now, you may even be ridiculed on this very page in an upcoming edition! All this talk about upcoming posts, however, does not imply that we did not appreciate our first eight thoughtprovoking nuggets. To honor the brave few, here are some awards for our most vocal readers The Dazzling Insight Award—Ahmed Mohamed, a graphic designer from the Maldives (Maldives??}, wins for this thoughtful analysis of Tom Roller's review of 8 Mile: "This could be the best movie for me coz i really wanna see his life story as a movie, i like his songs too." So do I, Ahmed, so do I. The Instant Loss of Credibility Award-—A mysterious reader known only as "C.R.M." started his post in defense of Pearl Jam's new release Riot Act by announcing, "I am a high school student." The Most Clever Use of a Maiden Name Award Susan Nash wrote this in response to my own parody of Larry King; "HA! As usual, Veis's own style of sarcasm makes some strange and truthful sense. Very funny." After an intense background check, I discovered that Susan's last name by marriage is in fact "Veis." Very iclever indeed, mom —
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Exchange The most acclaimed British release of the year was the Streets' Original Pirate Material, a gritty mix of underground garage, cockney hip-hop and social commentary that is relevant, poetic and sometimes tedious; leave it to our foppish cousins to completely miss 2002's most charming, joyous musical confection, Max Tundra's Mastered By the Guy at the Exchange. Blissful pop diced, sliced, smothered and topped with electronic flourishes, Mastered is astonishing whether as simple melody or mad laboratory experiment. The man behind the Max is Ben Jacobs, who crawled out of his first album's avant-noise cave to enlist his sister's velvety vocal help. Think the White Stripes as phantasmic electrical spirits in an anime funk opera composed by Prince. —Greg Bloom
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...And the Best of 2002
Greg Bloom, Senior Editor 1....And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead, Source Tags and Codes 2. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 3. Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights 4. Sleater-Kinney, One Beat 5. Blackalicious, Blazing Arrow Hilary Lewis, Music Editor 1. Norah Jones, Come Away
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Macy Parker, Music Editor 1. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2. Beck, Sea Change 3. Blackalicious, Blazing Arrow 4. The Roots, Phrenology 5. Norah Jones, Come Away with Me
Greg Veis, Editor 1. Beck, Sea Change 2. The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 3. Bruce Springsteen, The Rising 4. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead, Source Tags and Codes 5. N.E.R.D., In Search of.
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You know it's a slow week in the Triangle when we're highlighting Appetite for Destruction and Zoso, cover bands of Guns 'N' Roses and Led Zeppelin, respectively. Both are constantly playing shows in the area, both sound pretty close to the originals and both haven't the slightest clue how to spell o-r+g-i-n-a-l-i-t-y. Both shows are $7 Appetite plays Saturday at 9 p.m, and Zoso hits it Wednesday at 9 p.m. Cat's Cradle. 300 E. Main St., Carrboro. Demons of the night, summon thyselves from the Alpine Atrium and lend your ghoulish presence to Go! Room 4 Sunday at 9 p.m. for a deadly extravaganza featuring Darkest Hour and Daylight Dies. Pretend to be hardcore. $7 100F Brewer Ln., Carrboro.
f I L~ M In Personal Velocity. Kyra Sedgwick, Parker .Posey and Fairuza Balk are all women who find themselves struggling through very different, but equally traumatic, problems. Good times, good times. 9;30 p.m. every night, and 4;30 p.m. weekend matinees. Carolina Theatre. 309 W. Morgan St., Durham.
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12.4.02. Diary Dearest Went to see Adaptation. Told Roller I'd review it for the next issue; I don't want to psych myself out too early, but Tm already regretting this one. Somewhere, Charlie Kaufman is sighing over a pile of reviews that, if piles had heads, would be scratching itself in befuddlement. Adaptation's premise—or gimmick, depending—is pretty widely known by now; Charlie Kaufman {Being John Malkovitch, Human Nature, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) signs on to adapt Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief. It's a book largely about flowers; it's a book that is not adaptable to the screen. So when Kaufman can't write The Orchid Thief, he writes —
about himself not writing The Orchid Thief. Nicholas Cage plays him and his twin brother, Donald. It was no fun at all yet still exhilarating to watch. I can't stop thinking about it but I couldn't say exactly what I'm thinking about. I needed a cinematic laxative to clear out all that meta, so I saw Jackass again at a second-run theater. Ahhhh, poop-diving. Movie of the year. Kaufman has fashioned himself, like it or not, into a prime influence on budding Hollywood-bound writers for years to come. I've gotta be sharp about this movie, but I can't make up my mind: Is he an iconoclastic genius or juvenile hack with a knack for novelty? And who am Ito make that judgment? He's done what I and any other wouldbe writer secretly wants but never, ever would dare; put himself and his measly brain-fart of a struggle directly into the spotlight. I quiver with the excitement and terror of recognition. But I can't think critically about it; when I tried, my review came out boring and evasive. It's certainly not a flattering self-portrait: Cage mopes in a shlubby face tortured by pathetic self-pity and artistic constipation, day-dreams down dead-ends, Instead, I played Super Smash Brothers a 10t... and masturbates copiously. until my thumbs were calloused. And in this way, Kaufman jerks his narrative energy in either direction—on Orlean's encounter with a passionate orchid collector, and on himself. The two do meet, in a dizzying cyclone of self-indulgence that is as technically impressive as it is unabashedly manipulative and cheezy; you can't condemn him for it because he's condemned himself. He just has to be so goddamn smug about it. The script recognizes this when he refers to himself as an uroboros, a snake locked in an iconic ring of selfconsumption. Perhaps a more proper image is Charlie Kaufman masturbating to his own image in the mirror Ok, that was gross. They'll never let me put that in. It's true, though, the movie is perversely watchable, yet no one—not even the writers who will Identify with his deadlock—can sit there without squirming uncomfortably because Charlie Kaufman is a living joke and we, the audience, are the punchline. The final act threatens to resolve Kaufman's meta-crisis, via cliched Hollywood shlock, into something that resembles conventional narrative form; by doing so, Adaptation makes almost every movie you've ever seen feel cheap, even while it somehow champions the transformative power of story. If you think about any of this too hard, of course, it all turns to bullshit. E-mail Tom. Tell him —this movie is unreviewable. Give Krentcil a column about Gangs of New York fashion, instead. —Greg Bloom
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Martin Scorsese's ambitious epic has flaws, most notably its historical inaccuracies, but nothing can derail this finely crafted freight train of a movie. In time, Gangs of New York will surely prove to be one of the most enduring films of our time, but maybe not for obvious reasons: 1. Daniel Day-Lewis is back from semi-retirement to give the performance of his career. His Bill the Butcher is one of the most complex villains ever to grace the screen, a startling embodiment of the ugly, yet not wholly deplorable, aspects of our nation's spirit and- history. His quiet speech on the power of fear delivered to DiCaprio while draped in an American flag is one of the most engaging moments in recent film history. 2. If Dante Perretti fails to win an Oscar for his brilliant production design, it will be one of the biggest mistakes in movie award history. The overall accomplishment of this film in matching every piece of scenery and scrap of costuming to an historical source is unmatched. The Five Points area of New York, a gritty 19th century melting pot, was literally rebuilt in Italy—a choice which lends incredible realism to the work. Each scene seethes with background energy, a result of Scorsese's and Ferretti's careful attention to detail. 3. This film melds history with fiction in away that is both refreshing and powerful. And while the nature of the New York Draft Riots becomes somewhat obscured by the film's devices, we are at least given a glimpse of an event that few Americans are aware of. Gangs of New York is ultimately astonishing not so much because of what it accomplishes, but because of what it tries to accomplish. The challenges of dealing with such violent and difficult subject matter are too often simplified by the Hollywood powers. Gangs of New York doesn't leave us with a simple answer; instead, by letting the complications linger on, it spawns the kind of further questions that great films always do.
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Belkina’s New ‘Beginnings’ visitors to the Duke University Museum of Art have likely passed by the main gallery without knowing it even existed. The gallery closed last year to prepare for the collection's move to the new Nasher Museum of Art, but the DUMA'S commissioned "Shrouds project cleverly conceals the mayhem The exhibition rotates works by different artists that fit the sevenby-twelve foot windows peering into the main.gallery The current exhibition features works by Anya Belkina, assistant professor of the practice of art, and will hang in the DUMA until Feb. 2. Aptly titled "Beginningsit explores that theme in the artist's life, but also anticipates the opening of the new museum. Belkina has taught painting,
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rendering skills. And it is my students' growth that inspires me to learn more and pursue new, difficult goals for myself. In fact, that's how I would probably define the difference between an artist and a layman. A layman is someone who has mastered a few tricks and keeps safely cloning the output, while an artist strives to grow, sometimes at the cost of enormous personal risks, self-doubt and alienation. How would you describe the body of your work and your personal style as an artist? It is difficult to brand something that is evolving, but there are some themes and formal concerns to which I seem to return time and time again. Like many immigrants, I continue to question such notions as national identity and cosmopolitanism, language dependency and the relative universality of visual communication. Like most parents, I londer on the tension between sacrifice and self-fulfillment. Like any human being, I seek to find answers to the impossible, immortal questions of mortality. However my interest is presently shifting away from single, logo-like images to something that includes a temporal element. How much of your art reflects the tradition of Russian nesting matreshka dolls and how much reflects your own personal feelings and experiences? The first picture in which I employed matreshka forms was painted in 1996, shortly after my daughter's birth. I aspired to convey the feeling of a deep-
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Duke looks for 14th victory at struggling Virginia By TYLER ROSEN The Chronicle
Virginia head coach. Debbie Ryan is not used to losing. In her 25-year career directing the Cavaliers, Ryan has averaged 22.4 wins
per year. But this year, her team, despite possessing talent that is the envy ofall but a few ACC squads, is struggling with a 5-7 record and two losses to no victories in conference. After falling to Wake Forest, Clemson and Florida, Virginia is in its first three-game losing streak in 20 years. “[Losing has] killed our confidence,” Ryan said. “After playing in so many close games, it’s hard to keep coming in after losing and to build that confidence back. This is about as low as it gets.” Virginia clearly has the talent to be much better than 5-7. Picked for third in the preseason ACC poll, the Cavaliers boast last year’s Rookie of the Year and plenty of young talent. “Virginia is an excellent team,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said.
“They have unbelievable talent. Brandi Teamer, who is preseason first team All-ACC, was ACC Rookie of the Year last year. They have a transfer at the point position Cherisse Graham, She
transferred from Purdue and is their leading scorer. “They’ve got so many great players who are capable of big numbers; up to this point, they haven’t put it all together yet, so they are a very dangerous team.”
The Blue Devils (13-0, 1-0 in the ACC) are the nation’s No. 1 and a challenge for any group, let alone one that is struggling with its identity. Duke is off to its best start ever behind the leadership of junior Alana Beard and her 23.7 points per game. The Blue Devil juggernaut has beaten its opponents by 38.3 points per game this season. Only Arkansas was able to stay close to Duke from the opening tip to the final buzzer, though the Razorbacks ultimately fell in overtime. None of Duke’s other opponents have kept the game’s final margin
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Blue Devils play Hoyas’ game, beat them anyway After a long semester abroad, some of the Cameron Crazies made their way back into Cameron Indoor Stadium for a raucous matchup against Georgetown. The Blue Devils were greeted by a full house and fed off their energy to push the ball at a mind-boggling speed up and down the court. Just under three minutes into the opening half Chris Duhon made eye-contact with his fellow h| Si captain Dahntay Jones on the break and motioned him to go for an alley-oop. As the Georgetown vl players stared at Duhon’s pass in n ri Vjltnens mid-flight, Jones snuck up behind several Hoyas and stuffed the ball Game Commentary into the hoop before doing a chin-up on the rim. “It’s just instincts,” Duhon said about his finest assist on the evening. “I saw Dahntay breaking and I felt like that was the play to make. That was a big time finish on Dahntay’s part.” This play epitomized the Blue Devils style and versatility against Georgetown. Against a physical opponent, such as Clemson, Duke used its deep bench to hold its own against strong interior play. In the past the Blue Devils have had problems with teams that like a fast-paced and athletic game such as Georgetown. On Wednesday, the Blue Devils managed to beat the Hoyas at their own brand of ball. Using its speed and depth, Duke was simply the more fit team on the evening. Despite a subpar first half in which J.J. Redick, Duke’s leading scorer, did not ,
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manage to put a single point on the stat sheet, the Blue Devils were able to keep the game in check before halftime. After the break, the Blue Devils played suffocating defense and forced Georgetown into several turnovers and timeouts. “They are a pressure team,” Duhon said. “We were trying to get the ball out quick and see what we could get in transition. We wanted to keep wearing them down until we could make our move.” At the onset of the second period, it was apparent Duke would not relinquish its dominance in the transition game. Duhon pulled up for one of his trademark three-pointers from a yard behind the line and buried it. After a Georgetown turnover, Redick immediately spotted up behind the arc and called for the ball. On one of his nine assists of the night, Duhon found his freshman teammate for a decisive trey that forced a Hoya timeout. “I think behind the scenes it was coach’s energy that won the game for us,” Redick said after a 13 point second half. “He was very energetic. We played down in the first half and in the second half it was basically our defense that won us the ball game.” The Blue Devils playmaker and backcourt wizard, Duhon, set the tempo at a wicked pace the entire game. Daniel Ewing, who led the team with 19 bench points, was right in tune with the style of Wednesday’s game. On several See GITHENS on page 10
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averaging 10.6 points per game. Joining Bass in the paint is junior Iciss Tillis, second on the team with her 14.7 points per game average. Tillis, who saw lots of Teamer last year, has plenty of respect from the Cavalier’s second-leading scorer. “She’s a great player and we’re going to have to come out ready to play her,” Tillis said. Virginia features other talented bailers such as LaTonya Blue and Anna Prillaman, who bring notable athleticism and accurate three-point shooting to the floor. Nevertheless, the Cavaliers will be hard pressed to pre-
Devils about the future of the season. In that game, Duke responded with a 107-58 demolition of Virginia that sparked a run that lasted until the Final Four. This year, no such questions surround the Blue Devils, who are considered favorites to find their way back to the Final Four. To get there, Duke will have to win games such as this one—where underperforming teams lie in wait for an upset. “Virginia’s a great team with a lot of talent, but they’ve been losing a lot of games that they should have won,” Beard said. “This is going to be a game where they’re really in need of a win, so we’re expecting them to come out and be fired up and ready to go.”
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GITHENS from page 9 occasions, Ewing was able to lure the defense to sleep in transition and go back door for an easy score. “They made us push it more than we would but we want to push the ball like that,” Ewing said. “We have great wings who can get out and run. We got some easy buckets from it.” The aggressive nature of the Blue Devils on offense also led to some interior rebounding in the second half which propelled them to a victory. Freshman Shelden Williams was able to pull down 11 boards against an All-American caliber player Mike Sweetney. The fast transition game led to quick shots and long rebounds, which Duke was first to most of the night. Jones, who also contributed 11 rebounds for the game, is known as
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go one of two ways. They can leads to low confidence, which put everything together in one though Debbie Ryan is an excellent *rs will find themselves so soon and really just way too good for Virginia; If the Cavaliers ay relatively competitive with the Blue Devils. If Duke ;ely for a team with as many weapons as Duke has, :ely, however, the Blue Devils will pummel Virginia Compiled by Tyler Rosen Duke rolls 88-61
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Research assistant needed for project on Teacher Quality & Student Achievement. Duties include empirical work with large data sets & miscellaneous related tasks. SAS or STATA required; social science 15-40 background desirable. hrs/wk. $l2-$l4/hr. E-mail resume & cover letter to Helen Ladd (hladd@pps.duke.edu) or fax to 681-8288. RESEARCH TECH I POSITION AVAILABLE in Division of Pediatric Medical Genetics. Full-time tech needed for routine cell, molecular & genetic techniques in ongoing project for human genetic disorders. Duties include maintaining mouse colonies in Duke Vivarium; genotyping animals; gene cloning & other research related activities. Experience with global gene expression techniques as well as excellent computer skills are desirable. Contact Dr. TV. Damodaran: 919-668-6196 or Email: damodOOl @mc.duke.edu. Part-time makeup artist/sales for cosmetic line. Durham Nordstrom. Weekends/evenings. Flexible. Stephen 845-623-6950. Residence Life and Housing Services Housing Assignment Office: 2003 Clerical Help Wanted. Can you juggle work, classes, and studies? If the answer is yes, call Faye Keith @ 6844304. Residence Life and Housing Services, HousingAssignments. 218B Alexander Avenue (Central Campus). Responsibilities: Courier duties, answering phones, filing, copying, running errands. Computer skills required. Driver’s license required. Call for available hours. Job begins ASAP.
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nent with quickness and drive. The first year players showed poise and confidence, as demonstrated by both Redick’s and William’s strong performances. “Age has nothing to do with it,” Duhon said. “Those guys have played in a lot of games now, so they’re getting more and more comfortable.” Georgetown’s leading scorer, Mike Sweetney, fouled out after adding 23 points for his team. His fourth foul came in the first four minutes of the second half, forcing him to sit out for a crucial period ofthe game. Any hope of a Hoya comeback was thwarted when Jones had a huge block of an attempted dunk off a breakaway by Georgetown’s Darrel Owens with 5:53 remaining in regulation and Duke up by nine. Ewing then converted a three-point attempt just 20 seconds later and was followed within the minute by another three from Jones. “We wore them down a bit,” Duhon said. “They were getting tired, we were pushing the ball, and then keeping fresh guys in a lot of the time—l think that helped us out to go on a little spurt.” The Blue Devils shot well from outside, especially in the second half. “The ability to take tough shots and the confidence is what our team is about,” Jones said. “Chris was taking tough shots, J. J. was taking some tough shots, even when he wasn’t making them. When things started to fall, his confidence started to build up and he was making plays rather than shots.” Duke’s defense also stepped up big after halftime and was successful in stopping Georgetown’s transition game. “In the second hal£ defensively we
took away their transition, by not extending our defense, just picking up at the top of the key” Krzyzewski said, “I thought that was a key factor, where they had us basically running back on our heels.” Duke’s Achilles heel was its free throw shooting—the Blue Devils shot 6-of-15 in the first half and 14-of-21 in the second half. Fouls were a problem for both teams. Duke seemed to be fueled by the energy provided by the crowd. “I’m glad we got a sixth man like we got,” Krzyzewski said. “Our students were amazing... They were a huge, huge help. Cameron was hungry tonight.”
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch: 12-1 pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement
DUKE (Pre-Collegiate) STRING SCHOOL: Concerts at 3pm, 4pm and 7pm. Dorothy Kitchen, director. HOLIDAY FESTIVAL; Concerts for the holidays. Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University East Campus. All string school holiday festival concerts are free. RESCHEDULED EVENT from 12/7/02.
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In support of breastfeeding mothers: Duke Lactation Services and the Duke Hospital Auxiliary are pleased to announce that the Bouncing Ball Gift Shop now has available breastpump sales and rentals, breastcare products and breastpumping accessories. First floor, Duke Children’s Health Center. Monday-Friday 9-4, 668-4112. Payroll deduction is also available for some sales.
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Allen Building Lock-In: Do you like the Diversity Initiative? Do you feel safe on campus? Do you care about the war Iraq? Do you like to have fun? If any of these questions interest you, help plan the Allen Building Lock-In. The lock-in aims to promote fun and constructive dialogue in an uncommon format on Duke’s Campus. Please contact TeMeka for more info at tcw3@duke.edu.
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Organ demonstration: Weekdays, 12:30-1:30pm. A daily recital of mostly sacred music on the Flentrop organ, which both tonally and visually reflects the techniques of Dutch-French organs of the 18th century. Duke Chapel, West Campus. Schedule subject to change. For information, call 684-2572. Exhibition Continues: “‘Shroud’ from Anya Belkina.” Exhibition runs through February 2, 2003. Duke University Museum of Art Exhibit: Through Feb 2. “Pedro Figari (1861-1938); Lines of Uruguayan Life, A Student Curated Exhibition.” North Wing gallery. DUMA, East
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PPS quality the norm at Duke On Dec. 2, 2002, The Chronicle ran a scathing editorial deriding the Sanford Institute of Public Policy for its “lack [of] the substance, coherence and difficulty of other disciplines at Duke.” Not only is this statement inaccurate, it skirts a more important issue the University needs to address.
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this week, President George W. Bush proposed a new round of tax cuts designed to stimulate the economy, setting the stage for a Congressional battle over the future direction of
domestic policy. Bush’s plan consists of several key aspects; It ends the taxation of many stock dividends, reduces personal income tax rates this year, provides tax-break incentives for investment to small businesses and gives many families a $4OO-dollar-per-child tax credit. Bush’s plan will cut taxes by about $670 billion over the next decade and by about $lOO billion this year alone. The two largest parts of Bush’s plan are a reduction in dividends and speeding up the reduction ofpersonal income taxes. The dividend reduction seems more to be a proposal that will stimulate long-term economic growth rather than having a large immediate effect. Thus, while reducing dividends will surely improve the economy, it is not so much a short-term stimulus as a policy encouraging long term development. The reduction ofpersonal income taxes is not a new plan, but rather simply pushing forward tax cuts that would have taken place eventually anywhere. Moving these tax cuts forward is only sensible, which will not only help the economy. Democrats have responded to this plan negatively, arguing that it is unfair since it gives the largest tax breaks to the wealthiest tax payers. However, the wealthiest taxpayers currently bear a disproportionate share of the tax burden, meaning that any tax cut will benefit the wealthy. In terms of short-term improvement in the economy, Bush’s plan would immediately give $4OO dollar checks to families in anticipation of an increase in the per child tax credit at the end of this year. This immediate injection of money into the system will surely help improve the economy. Additionally, the measures encouraging small business investment—tripling the amount to $75,000 of new purchases that businesses can write-off—will also help to stimulate the short term economy by increasing the incentives for businesses to invest. One other aspect of Bush’s plan is his support of extending benefits to unemployed workers. These workers need coverage, and by giving them benefits, the government not only ensures their continued wellbeing, but it also helps the economy by giving these thousands ofworkers hope for the future and motivation to find employment. Altogether, Bush’s proposal demonstrates that he is focusing on domestic problems and the economy, even while continuing to fight the war on terrorism. While the debate in Congress over the efficacy ofhis proposals and what tax structure is just will surely continue for a long time to come, it is encouraging that the government is focusing its energies on improving the situation in America and not being completely wrapped up in foreign affairs.
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the exception but the rule for the humanities and social sciences at Duke. The issue the University should address is the schism between the grading and course difficulty between science and non-science courses. The Chronicle cites several examples of academic weaknesses to justify its claim against the institute. These examples include the following: no set sequence of core and upper-level courses, a glut of professors of the practice and no real identity as a discipline. The first statement can be made about any non-science department. Students routinely take religion, history and English classes without taking any other class in the department. Students can be interested in a certain professor or class topic or fulfilling some silly distribution requirement and choose to take classes outside their major at any level. Rarely, if ever, does an English major take physical chemistry without any other chemistry background. This is justified, however, as the humanities and social science courses do not depend on knowledge gained in previous classroom experience; the sciences do. Professors ofthe practice are essential to an organization like the institute. Public policy is about the doing of public policy... if students were interested in pure theory they would have become political science majors [a disclosure note: I was a biology and PPS double major]. Often, these professors are the most engaging and enlightening, as they have not been warped by the isolation of the Ivory Tower. Without solid professors of the practice, Duke students could have never shared the genius of William Raspberry, Alex Jones and David Gergen, though not any more as the latter two were lured away to the prestige and cold of Cambridge, Mass. The institute explores the real world application of public policy. They employ methods from various pure disciplines, but assemble and package them in away other departments do not and cannot. That is the goal of any interdisciplinary institute. Perhaps the Academy has grown tired of the interdisciplinary buzzword and is finding fault with an organization built on this concept. That is an
unfortunate, but predictable outcome. The main concern with PPS as an undergraduate major, according to The Chronicle, is its lack of rigor. The PPS major is no different from any other non-science at Duke. It can be as easy or challenging as the student desires. The skeleton of the major does not require much effort, but specializing in a particular area, usually exemplified by writing a thesis,
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requires academic discipline and curiosity. The ownership of one’s own academic growth is a key component in education, one that should not be tossed away in favor ofrigid, prescribed course groupings that the Chronicle seems to suggest. The responsibility to create a challenging yet satisfying course of study is sometimes taken lightly, of course, but since no accurate data is kept relating to the relative difficulty of each student’s career, I cannot comment on it. The critical issue that has not been addressed, much less acknowledged, in any substantial way, by the administration is the disparity between science and non-science majors. Despite spending hours and hours more time than non-science majors in labs and recitations, science majors usually do not receive extra course credit. Taking two labs in one semester could mean that a student would spend 20 hours in class versus 12 hours for the average four credit load. Disparate grading philosophies widen the gap. In biology and chemistry, classes were usually graded around a C center, with grade distributions readily accessible after a test. Students were ranked relative to each other, and then given grades around the center of a C. In other majors, classes were graded around a loose B center, meaning work was graded based on the starting point of a B, with the majority (over 70 percent) of the class receiving above a B-. This leads to the grades one sees today at Duke, where a 3.3 is respectable in chemistry yet weak in public policy. Some may think this raises the ghost of the Academic Index; the idea, killed in 1996, consisted of switching the University-wide grade point average to a system that weights a student’s grade based on the others in his class. This would make a B+ in a class where the average grade was an A- lower a student’s GPA. Although it is still a good idea, it is not feasible. The administration is not capable of taking such a bold and innovative step, especially since none ofthe University’s competitor schools have done anything similar. A more palatable approach may be to establish a Trinity College grading standard to address grade inflation and incompatible grading philosophies. A universal grade center could be established, with semi-flexible guidelines on how grade distributions should look. This would at the least recognize the issue and begin to ameliorate the two faces of Duke undergraduate academic life. The Sanford Institute is a fine interdisciplinary organization that offers students the opportunity to study public policy alongside champions of the field. Its undergraduate major may be “lightweight” in its bare bones form, but that is par for the course at Duke. By unifying grading philosophies, the University can further empower students to choose their own academic paths not based on concerns for their GPA, but on their genuine interest and curiosity in their chosen field.
David Nigro, Trinity ’Ol, is a former columnist for The Chronicle.
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I’m not worried about monetary damage. It’s living in the mold and stench that’s the problem. Senior Erica Featherstone, a sixth-floorresident in the West-Edens Link and a recent flood victim, on the challenges of living in dorms at Duke (see story, page one).
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Tupac versus bin Laden “I don’t know Tupac,” I’d say. “Well have you met him?” “Nope. I think he might be dead.” “Tupac? No way. You really don’t know him?” When I first came to m |rr 1 study for the fall semes-
The significance of this question Korea, it’s amplifying the battle rhetoric can’t be ignored, because it says somewith Iraq. Is this because Bush is out to thing important about how Muslim get Islam? Fd say probably not. Why is teenagers in Kenya tend to view our it? Well, there's oil, but the administra“War on Terror.” They point to U.S. tion won't say that, and if they won't say action in Somalia (which, according to that they better say something, because the State Department, is currently 99.9 so far they've done a poor job of convincter on the predominantly. percent Muslim), U.S. policy in the ing me one country is more dangerous Muslim coast of Kenya, I Middle East and increased war rhetoric than the other, or that military action is had a feeling the t against Iraq as only the latest evidence suitable in Iraq but not Korea. On a hucas Kenyans I’d encounter, the U.S. is involved in a plot to destroy recent This Week on ABC, Colin Powell particularly the Schaefer their faith. Make no mistake about it: If was asked this very question. His teenagers and ones my bin Laden’s goal is to create a war answer, that the administration was Axeto Grind age, would have lots of between “Islam and the West,” and if trying to solve both through diplomacy, questions about America, just as I had Muslim East Africa is any indicator, but that Iraq was more likely to use lots about Kenya. I didn’t think, however, Osama is winning the war. weapons of mass destruction whereas most of the questions would revolve Now, I don’tbelieve George Bush’s goal the situation in North Korea wasn’t a around the whereabouts of Tupac is actually to destroy Islam. It’s not feasi“crisis,” but rather a “serious situation,” Shakur. ble, there’s not much incentive to him or wasn’t wholly convincing. Despite all the post-Sept. 11 talk about to us and I can’t find any evidence of it. And if Bush can’t effectively persuade ‘Why They Hate Us,” in Muslim Kenya But I can see why many Kenyan Muslims his own constituents, I promise you he one could have an equally interesting would feel this way. In Kenya, there is no hasn’t effectively persuaded the Muslim conversation about “Why They’re distinction between the American politicommunity worldwide. Fascinated by Us.” Kenyan Muslims are cal left and right. The U.S. government is It’s worth noting, too, that just like the used to living among non-Muslims the U.S. government, elected by the peo15-year-old boys I would encounter on the (though the majority in Mombasa, they ple. And right now, what many Muslim street, our president insists on reducing make up only 20 percent of the country’s Kenyans see is a U.S. government willing the entire “War on Terror” to one unhelppopulation), and, generally speaking, to wage war against Islamic countries, ful phrase: “You’re either with us or they’re not as conservative as their while seeking out diplomacy with non- against us.” Are you with Bush or with Middle Eastern brethren. There is a Muslim ones. bin Laden? heavy influx ofAmerican pop culture onto What makes the situation worse is It’s not that I think the United States the coast, and for the most part people that Bush does not seem to undershould ever negotiate with terrorists or were interested, often eager, to hear what stand the problem exists in the first even terrorist it’s like to live in America. Before coming place. And it’s not like when Bush sympathizers. to Kenya, I figured a majority of my conmakes a speech it’s aired in America But if our pres:' versations with Muslims my age would and not in Kenya. Kenyans have a free dent is going be about politics. In truth, they mostly press, and when Bush goes off about simplify a situ, focused on whether or not I had personal rounding up evildoers and crushing tion like t> connections with Tupac, TLC or Dwayne the bad guys, Kenyans see that, just down to Bush Wayne (never underestimate the internalike Americans do. But while that sort bin Laden, tional popularity ofA Different World). of rhetoric may make sense to us, it better be p That said, Mombasa has plenty of seems threatening to a lot of Kenyans, pared to sell anti-American sentiment, though I get not necessarily because they sympaproduct the sense it’s less overt than in other thize with bin Laden, but because they American f parts of the world. The root of this anti- see the U.S. inflicting violence on eign policy—i Americanism, in many cases, is the fact Muslim nations without adequately just to that a surprising number of the Kenyans explaining what they are doing. American v> I met were convinced the U.S. was out to Take the current situations in Iraq ing body, but destroy Islam. ent; and North Korea, for example. Iraq is the In conversations with younger currently 95 percent Muslim according Muslim work Muslims (particularly in the 15 to 20 to the State Department. North Korea The burdi bracket), once we got past Tupac, a second is just above 0 percent, if that. While the right now is important question usually arose: “So: are Bush administration is trying its best to the U.S. you with Bush or with bin Laden?” keep the war talk down with North prove ...
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Muslims worldwide we are not out to get them. And right now, if Kenya is any indicator, we’re not doing that. What we see is what they see, and what they see is a cowboy who wants to round up The Evildoers, the Muslim Evildoers, If Bush can’t at least attempt to explain to people why we’re going to war with Iraq and not North Korea, then we shouldn’t be going to war with Iraq, plain and simple. In the wake of Sept. 11, our president made a concerted effort to reach ' out to Muslim Americans and to discourage discrimination against them. He now needs to do the same to Muslims worldwide. He needs to articulate precisely what he is trying to do in the Middle East, Iraq and elsewhere, otherwise in the game of Bush v. bin Laden, Bush is going to lose. For the most part, in my experience, the kids in Muslim Kenya don’t hate us and (like most American kids) were more interested in talking Tupac than terrorism. But if Bush continues on his course, if he doesn’t begin to treat Muslims worldwide like his constituents, too, Tupac will hit the back burner fast. Lucas Schaefer is a Trinity junior and an associate editor for TowerView magazine. His column appears every third Thursday.
Land of excess Instead of just complaining about the economy, politicians and foreign policies, we should try to reform global crises with our daily decisions. It is time to adjust the way we view the world and change how we resolve k dilemmas. The attitude that we have JT \ the right to use as much as we want of every resource on the planet is not helping the nation or the international community. Random tax cuts tnuly encouraging us to buy more and use more will not solve any problems, as LaDue wonderful as the cash seems to many. Beyond the This past year, working and middle Ivory Tower class consumers had less money to spend flagrantly on gifts and were preparing for a potentially worse future. Still, the giant corporations made even more billions by using sweatshops and ..
downsizing. Throughout the year, eager consumers in their 15miles-per-gallon SUVs swarm in the parking lots. By December, the parking lots have reached their limits. In the week after Christmas, the trees are on sidewalks and in garbage cans, and the cars again storm the stores as everyone tries to return their unwanted gifts while getting back to work the next day. The executives enjoy their vacation time and profits, and America keeps rushing on. Meanwhile, American troops , are practicing in the desert until war is officially declared on Iraq and it is no longer merely called “bombing.” On demand, they
are ready to kill, ruin millions of lives and set up another nation that acts when we tell it to act, sells us what we demand and gives us more petroleum for our cars. So we continue to make more and make them bigger and less fuel-efficient, with the world’s secondlargest oil supply almost in our hands. We are used to getting what we want and taking it all for granted. But the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider. And we are in the process of waging a war costing billions of dollars and an invaluable number of lives, so our oil use can remain higher per capita than any other nation’s. And of course, to save the people of Iraq by bombing them even more, the same individuals we have been slowly annihilating for years with economic sanctions. The ends do not justify the means, and breaching international law and waging war will not lead to peace in Iraq. The fact that the international community (minus Tony Blair and Ariel Sharon) does not support the war will not get in the way of our belligerence. America will secure its wealth and power at the expense of anyone, any treaty or any international law that we can override. By being at Duke, our chances of becoming part of America’s elite have already skyrocketed. Many of us will make enough money to support at least five families. Instead of just promising our children financial stability, we should promise them a nation that values peace, equal opportunity and environmental respect over exorbitant wealth. Instead of continuing to live as we have been, treat-
ing everyone and everything as if we have the right to its use, we should step back and realize that our mindframes need to be adjusted. If we are worried about gas and oil prices going up, we should stop using so much and not try to control the world’s supply. Americans work hard and earn their paychecks. Overtime pays for everything we own. And as long as we can buy it, we will. But now that small businesses are rapidly going bankrupt, war is in our future and security measures are increased every day, is our consuming tradition worth it? Do we really need to own bigger and less fuel-efficient cars for our four-person families and support the same conglomerate companies that are laying off our neighbors and family? We recycle, we volunteer, we support our children’s schools. Then we drive SUVs, forget about the budget crisis and segregation in poorer school districts and elect policy makers whom we know will not respect the environment and the lower and working class populations. We work hard to buy more, to make our children’s lives better and financially secure. But what will the future be like when our children are even more excessive prodigals than we are, the world economy turns on the United States, our oil reserves run dry and the international community will no longer accept American exceptionalism? Emily LaDue is a Trinity freshman. Her column appears every third Thursday.
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