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Off-campus frats draw rushees Administrators discourage joining recently dissolved fraternities By MEGAN CARROLL The Chronicle
Even though Delta Phi Alpha and Eta Prime are off-campus fraternities this year, leaders said the groups are up to the challenge of recruiting a pledge class—and they have the numbers to prove it.
Amidst University
concerns,
Delta Phi Alpha and Eta Prime—formerly Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Kappa Sigma fraternities, respectively—are conducting recruitment as they have done previously and are following a schedule similar to that of on-campus fraternities in the Interfraternity Council. Members of the off-campus fra-
ternities said the current number of potential new members is similar to the number that rushed their groups in the past. “We’re observing the shorter rush period.... We want to make things as comfortable and as easy as possible for the freshmen themselves,” said Mark Boyd, president ofEta Prime. “It’s not fair to be demanding bids back before the IFC
gives them out. If we play fair ball Moneta is not qualified to discuss with the IFC fraternities... both of his off-campus fraternity. us can be successful.” “I find it interesting how Larry Delta Phi Alpha President Will Moneta would comment about our Brown, a senior, agreed. “I would organization and call it superficial say it’s been pretty on par with pregiven... the fact that he’s not a vious years.... Around 100 people,” member of our organization,” said he said. “There’s also a lot of guys Yardley, a senior. “He’s an adminiswho didn’t really come to the fortrator at this school.” mal sign-ups.” Members of the off-campus fraDespite promising rush numternities said they are viable greek bers, administrators are strongly groups and believe they can even advising freshmen against rushing attract stronger classes by organizoff-campus fraternities. ing off-campus. Larry Moneta, vice president “We’re very pleased with the for student affairs, called the fraturnout we’ve gotten so far,” said ternities’ decision to move off-camBoyd, a junior. “Overall I met more pus “romantic escapism” and cauquality boys per capita this year tioned students to think carefully than last year.” before deciding to join an off-camSue Wasiolek, dean of students pus fraternity. and assistant vice president for “Don’t waste your time. Don’t student affairs, said she believes make a foolish decision based on off-campus fraternities will not be superficial attributes,” Moneta able to maintain their organizasaid. “They’ll continue to be tions and said potential new memaround for a while, but they can bers could be disillusioned by joindo damage.” ing an off-campus fraternity. Delta Phi Alpha Rush Chair Charlie Yardley said he believes See FRATERNITIES on page 6
Late 2nd-half run sparks Duke win � The Blue Devils sent the Cavaliers home empty-handed as JJ. Redick set a career high and a freshman school record with 34 points, and Dahntay Jones added 23. ByNEELUMJESTE The Chronicle
Four and a half minutes into last Duke 1 04 night’s game, J.J. Redick sank a three93 point jumper to set off an unstoppable Virginia shooting spree. Add to Redick’s fire the best free throw shooting Duke has seen of late, and there lies the answer to No. 1 Duke’s (12-0, 3-0) 104-93 victory over Virginia (10-4, 1-2). Redick was four-for-four shooting from beyond the arc in the first half, and his first three-point miss came with only 2:49 left in regulation. The 6-foot-4 guard set a freshman school record, surpassing Johnny Dawkins, with 34 points against his native state. “[ln the first half] we kind of got into a lull offensively, and I kind of got hot,” the Roanoke, Va. native said. “I wanted the ball. [ln the second half], they went to their matchup zone, and they were matching up pretty well out of it. We were still scoring points—guys were taking advantage of them putting so much pressure on me.” With Duke down 22-17 midway through the first half, Redick made a layup to bring the Blue Devils within three. Just twenty seconds later, he cut across the lane, caught a pass from Chris Duhon off a Shavlik Randolph block, and nailed a long-range three. His biggest play of the game came with about four minutes remaining in the game. Redick doubled Duke’s lead with a three-point play and the Blue Devils never led by fewer than six points for the rest of the game. See VIRGINIA on page 10
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Duke political experts reflect on newly declared presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards’ chances of capturing the Democratic nomination. See page 3
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J.J. REDICK shoots over Keith Jennifer en route to a 34-point performance, including four-for-four three-point shooting in the first half.
The Duke Endowment donated $700,000 toward various programs within the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership Initiative. See page 4
The women’s basketball team gears up to face Wake Forest tonight, hoping to continue a 20-game streak of victories over the Demon Deacons. See page 9
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Deficit projected to top $2OO billion
The White House reported Wednesday that the federal deficit would exceed $2OO billion in this fiscal year and probably go over $3OO billion next year, with deficits continuing for the next decade. •
Sniper suspect can be tried as adult, judge rules
A judge ruled Wednesday on the basis of strong circumstantial evidence that 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo can be tried as an adult, making him eligible for the death penalty. •
Republicans propose spending cuts
Senate Republicans unveiled a $386 billion measure Wednesday night that would cut proposed spending for most federal agencies by 1.6 percent and eliminate $9.8 billion approved by senators last year for domestic security, education and other domestic programs. •
Pilots ignored orders, commander says
An Air Force commander who supervised combat in Afghanistan testified Wednesday that two F-16 pilots had ignored orders meant to prevent innocent deaths when they dropped a bomb on a squad of Canadian soldiers last April, killing four and wounding eight. •
Harvard offers aid for future public servants
Flarvard University raised the stakes in the national financial-aid competition Wednesday, announcing a $l4 million fund to cover costs for aspiring teachers, public health workers, and other graduate students headed for low-paying public-service careers. News briefs compiled from wire reports.
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Bush condemns admissions ‘quotas’ Administration plans to file brief opposing affirmative action in admissions By NEIL LEWIS
New York Times News Service
core, the Michigan policies amount to a quota system that unfairly rewards or penalizes prospective students
President WASHINGTON George W. Bush offered a sweeping denunciation of direct preferences for racial minorities in university admissions Wednesday and said his administration would file a brief with the Supreme Court urging that the affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan be de-
based solely on their race.” In putting himself on the side of three white students who assert they were denied admission to the undergraduate and law programs in favor of less qualified minority candidates, Bush moved to the front lines of the
clared unconstitutional. “I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education,” Bush said in a nationally televised address. “But the method used by the University of Michigan to achieve this important goal is fundamentally flawed. At their
tive action programs. The president said that while he believed there should be away to ensure more minority students in the nation’s universities, programs like the ones at Michigan “create another wrong and thus perpetuate our divisions.” Such programs, he said, “are
nation’s heated debate about affirma-
divisive, unfair and impossible to square with our Constitution.” In a sign of the careful political calibration of his words, Bush repeatedly used the term “quotas” to describe Michigan’s admissions policy, a word that draws strong opposition in polls. The decision by the president to intervene in the case was significant in itself. The administration is not a party to the Michigan fight and was not obliged to take a position. Shortly after the president spoke, a senior White House official involved in drafting the brief, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters the legal pleading would be “very narrowly tailored” to address only the Michigan programs.
U.S. resists calls for 2nd vote on Iraq war By DAVID SANGER and RICHARD STEVENSON New York Times News Service
The Bush administration ignored WASHINGTON calls by other nations on Wednesday that it rule out a war with Iraq without first securing the explicit blessing of the U.N. Security Council, and suggested that it could decide in favor of military action even if weapons inspectors did not turn up concrete new evidence against Saddam Hussein. A day after President George W Bush warned that “time is running out” on Saddam, a senior administration official said the, timetable for a decision about war would be “driven by events.” Those include a report to be submitted by the U.N. weapons inspectors Jan. 27 and evidence that Saddam is truly complying with the U.N. demand that he give up any weapons of mass destruction. In another sign of the growing frustration with what the
White House views as stalling and evasion by Iraq, the official said Saddam was intimidating his scientists into refusing to travel outside of Iraq for interviews about Baghdad’s weapons programs. Iraq has said publicly that none of its scientists want to go outside the country for interviews. Clearly intent on not allowing the weapons inspections to continue for months without a decision on confronting Saddam, the administration said it would try to head off pressure from some nations to work according to a timetable established under a 1999 U.N. resolution that would require the inspectors to report again in late March. The resolution adopted in November, No. 1441, “lays out a more intensive rhythm for inspections and a set of expectations meant to test Saddam Hussein’s readiness to disarm peacefully,” said the senior administration official. “It is an immediate test.”
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2003 � PAGE 3
Edwards focuses presidential bid on ‘regular guy’ By RYAN WILLIAMS The Chronicle
When Sen. John Edwards comes to Durham Monday to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, he will do so not only as the newly-senior senator from North Carolina, but as a newly declared candidate for president as well. Recent polls show that Edwards has gained ground in the 2004 Democratic presidential pack in the two weeks since he first announced an exploratory committee for the nomination. The first-term Democrat—once named the nation’s sexiest politician by People Magazine—announced the committee’s creation Jan. 2 on The Today Show and reaped a blitz of favorable media attention as he promised to wage his campaign in the name of “regular people,” contrasting himself with President George W. Bush. In an interview with The Associated Press, the senator decried the Bush administration as run “by insiders and for insiders.” “I believe I can be a champion for regular people. My own life experience allows me to see things through their eyes,” Edwards said. “They are the people I grew up with, the people who worked with my father in the mill, the people I fought for as a lawyer. They’re not the insiders, they don’t have lobbyists, but they’re the heart and soul of this country, and their voices should be heard.” Duke political experts said Edwards’ personal story would lend credibility to that crusade. Raised in Robbins, N.C., the son of a textile mill worker, Edwards graduated from North Carolina State University before earning his law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “I don’t think he’s trying to come across as a regular guy,” said Michael Munger, professor and chair of political science. “He’s trying to appeal to the
regular guy.”
After law school, Edwards turned to a different kind of campaigning—winning jurors, not voters, as a personal injury lawyer. Piling up a personal fortune and newspaper headlines for the massive
His nascent campaign has focused on improving homeland security, reforming education, promoting a more multilateral foreign policy and stimulating economic growth. To boost homeland security, Edwards has called for the creation of a new domestic intelligence agency to take over the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s task of combating domestic terrorism. In a well-received address last fall, Edwards also proposed a “College for Everyone” plan that would make the first year of college at every public university free for students who could not otherwise afford it. In an increasingly tight Democratic field that already includes outgoing Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont, former House Democratic leader and Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and the Rev. A1 Sharpton, experts have mixed views on whether such a fresh face could emerge from the primaries with the nomination. Munger said Edwards’ liberal voting
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SEN. JOHN EDWARDS discusses his intentions to enter the presidential race with the media at a press conference last month. awards he won in court, Edwards became one of the top trial lawyers in the South—he won the state’s largest-ever verdict of $25 million in 1997. But while experts believe Edwards’ ties to trial lawyers—one of the Democratic Party’s most deep-pocketed interest groups—will allow him to raise enough money for the 2004 race, those ties could backfire, especially in the midst of a debate over the possible excesses of medical malpractice suits. In a speech today, Bush is expected to renew a call on capping awards for suffering in such cases at $250,000. Last month, doctors went on strike in West Virginia, citing as too costly their insurance bills
for malpractice protection. John Transue, assistant professor of political science, said that while Edwards could focus on individual cases of fighting for “regular people,” he should be wary of running for president as a trial lawyer.
“If I were him, I would not do that,” Transue said. “It’s going to depend on how he packages it.” Edwards had never held public office before becoming a senator four years ago—he defeated Sen. Lauch Faircloth, a conservative Jesse Helms protege, in one of the 1998 midterm election’s most expensive and closely watched races. Indeed, the fresh appeal that draws many supporters to Edwards may also hinder him at a time when voters may be more comfortable with a candidate
of greater experience, especially in foreign affairs. “Saying, ‘I want to help the common person,’ works if you’re talking to a jury, but on a national level, you’ve got to say more than that,” Munger said. To fight that image, Edwards, a member of the Senate’s intelligence committee, has worked to bolster his credentials with a series of detailed policy addresses.
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record will help him in the primaries, where left-leaning voters and party activists have more influence than in the general election. In addition, as the only Southern candidate currently in the race—which could change in the event of a run by Sen. Bob Graham of Florida—he has the geographic edge in the vital South Carolina primary next February. Edwards is also hoping that Democratic voters remember that the only successful Democratic presidential campaigns in the last 30 years have been those of Southerners—Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Munger cautioned that Edwards’ lack of experience in public office, and particularly his perceived lack of expertise on foreign policy issues, could damage him. Furthermore, Transue noted that regardless of which Democrat wins the nomination, an extended economic downturn could make Bush more vulnerable. “The best [election] forecasting models always rely on the economy,” he said. The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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Duke Endowment gives S7OOK to NPI programs A $700,000 grant from The Duke Endowment will help the University increase programming at the Walltown Children’s Theater, open a health clinic in the new Lyon Park community center, continue affordable housing initiatives in Walltown and support efforts by Durham Public Schools to close the achievement gap. The grant from the Endowment’s Children and Families Initiative brings to $2.5 million the amount that the Charlotte-based organization—which is separate from the University—has donated to the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership Initiative over the past five years. About one-third of the grant will support projects designed to help improve the lives of children in low-income families in partner neighborhoods.
Gettes hired for new OIT position Michael Gettes, who helped develop Georgetown University’s network and computing services, has been appointed senior technology architect and strategist for Duke’s Office of InformaJENNY MAO/THE CHRONICLE
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for information technology and chief information officer. He comes to Duke from Georgetown, where he serves as principal technologist with the Office
of Information Services. He previously held information technology positions at Princeton University and Boston University “Michael will stimulate discussion throughout Duke about the form our technological environ-
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robust infrastructure to support Duke’s core missions of teaching, research and patient care.”
Robertson collaboration fund details announced The Robertson Scholars Program is accepting grant proposals for its collaboration fund. The Robertson Scholars Collaboration Fund has been instituted to fund projects that have the potential to initiate or enhance collaborative
projects between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty members, staff and students from both campuses are eligible to apply. One-year grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded. The program has revised the timing of the awards. Instead of having a grant cycle in both the fall and spring semesSee BRIEFS on page 6
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Fourteenth Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Thursday, January 16
January 16-25, 2003 at Duke University
Wednesday, January 22
WORKSHOP “Framing Dr. King.” Dr. Charles Payne discusses Dr. King in the context of the broader civil rights movement. This workshop is appropriate for both elementary and secondary grades. E.K. Powe Elementary, 913 9th St., 4 6 pm
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PANEL DISCUSSION “Conversation on Health Disparities,” Dr. Rodney Hood, immediate past president of the National Medical Association;
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Friday, Januaty 17 CANDLELIGHT VIGIL SERVICE
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s demand for a nonviolent revolution against racism, poverty, militarism, and injustice worldwide helped galvanize an invigorated movement towards social justice . . . and it continues to inspire us today. In this year’s commemoration of Dr. King’s lite and legacy, we pause to honor and study the preceding “strides towards freedom” of King and other civil rights activists, before and since. And, as heirs to King’s tradition of activism living in equally turbulent times, we also stop to consider the necessary pathways for future action in pursuit of justice and peace. From January 16 through January 25, Duke University welcomes its students, employees and faculty as well as the communities of Durham to join in thel4th annual campus celebration of the life and work of Dr. King. A series of events guest speakers, panel discussions, musical presentations, and community service activities will bring us together to help us better negotiate the past footsteps and establish new ones in the names of social equality, justice and peace. We invite this vast community to assemble throughout the week in a spirit of hope as we dedicate ourselves to commemorating and answering Dr. King’s call to collective action. -
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“The Country Church,” an original musical featuring medical center employees. Page Auditorium, 8 pm [ticketed event]
Saturday, January 18 COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENT
COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING
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Professor Guinier will sign her books Schaefer Mall, Bryan Center, 5 6 pm
Performances and presentations by student groups. Page Auditorium,
Monday, January 20 COMMUNITY SERVICE
Facilitated discussion based on segments from “Two Towns of Jasper” documentary. Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, West Union, 11 am -1 pm
PROJECT Duke Student Government and campus groups host Durham school children. Morning.
PANEL DISCUSSION
Sunday, January 19 DUKE CHAPEL SERVICE Sermon by Reverend Michael Walrond, Duke Black Campus Ministries. Duke Chapel, 11 am
Undergraduate students will discuss “Dr. King, Poverty and Labor Issues,” sponsored by the Student Employee Relations Coalition. Breakfast will be served. Von Canon Hall, Bryan Center, 10 am
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featured speaker, music by the NCCU Praise and Inspiration Choir. Duke Chapel, 4 5 -
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Thursday, January 23 MEDICAL CENTER PRAYER BREAKFAST Room 2001, Duke Hospital North, 7:30 am
LECTURE Author Dorothy Allison will discuss “The Dream of Justice,” sponsored by Duke’s Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life. Richard White Auditorium, East Campus, 7 pm
Friday, January 24 VIGIL Durham Regional Hospital, 4 pm
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Students will bag produce for food bank. “Krzyzewskiville,” adjacent to Cameron Indoor Stadium, all day.
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Featuring Duke University Medical Center employees. Duke North Cafeteria, Noon 1 pm
READINGS/DISCU SSION Undergraduate students will discuss “Current Issues of Globalization and War” and the readings of Dr. King. Chapel Quad, 12:00 pm
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FILM SHOWING “Slam,” Grand Jury Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, 6:00 pm
POETRY
SLAM/LECTURE Performance by poet Saul Williams, a Grand Slam
Champion at the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, and writer and lead performer in the film “Slam.” Page Auditorium, 8 pm
Tuesday, January 21 INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Featuring Duke University Medical
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Building, 1 pm
WORSHIP SERVICE Durham Regional Hospital, 1 pm
PERFORMANCE Blind Boys ofAlabama. Fee. Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus, 8 pm
Saturday, January 25 READING AND LITERARY DISCUSSION Professor Wahneema Lubiano discusses Toni Morrison and her book “Beloved” with teachers. Lunch provided. John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road, 9:30 am 2:30 pm -
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“The past 30 years suggest that this configuration will not be able to sustain itself,” said Wasiolek, who has been at the University nearly continuously since the early 19705. “I worry about those young men who are attracted to this and find down the road that it fizzles.” Yardley said the social life three decades ago at the University is not indicative of the current social climate and said off-campus fraternities are a new phenomena. “It’s a whole new social environment right now,” he said. “Now things are different, and the Duke social environment is now adapting to that change.”
said they are adjusting to this altered social scene by hosting parties in their off-campus houses or in nearby bars, which provide larger, more open spaces that they say promote
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interaction better than crowded dormitory or commons rooms. “Social life taking place off campus is an impetus
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that started from the administration. We’re responding to that in a rational way,” Boyd said. “We don’t need a social
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life centered on campus when [the administration is] not allowing us to do it in a reasonable manner.” Brothers in Eta Prime and Delta Phi Alpha said they believe they can preserve their longevity and are cooperating to strengthen their organizations. They decided to follow similar rush schedules, though they will host their events separately. “We’re coordinating with [the former members of] SAE for the big nights. If they take Friday, we’ll take Saturday for financial reasons and not wanting to get the kids burned out,” Boyd said. “We consulted [the members of Delta Phi Alpha] pretty extensively before rush and established a schedule.” Delta Phi Alpha brings experience to
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ters, as in past years, there will now be only one grant cycle annually. Applications are due April 18, and grants will be awarded soon thereafter. Funds will be expendable from July 1, 2003, through June 1, 2004.
GPSC calls for funding requests The Graduate and Professional Student Council’s next funding deadline is 5 p.m., Friday, Jan. 24. Funding applications may be submitted electronically to hld3@duke.edu or in the GPSC mailbox in the Bryan Center. Forms can be found at http://www.duke.edu/gpsc/fundingo3.htm. GPSC officials said they are looking for a fairly detailed budget. Although GPSC does not tend to fund food services for an event, it often pays for advertising costs and speaker fees.
volvement with the University. Both he and Komberg have requested Price’s presence at their classes before; his experience in government provides insight to students engaged in discussion or debate. “He’s really committed to Duke,” said Munger, who has known Price since 1992. He added that the congressman’s heavy involvement with the University often surprises outsiders as well. “[Price] almost never says no—in fact, he’s never said no to any of my requests,” Komberg said. “If he’s in town, if he can make it, he’ll come.” Professors also refer students to Price if they have questions or are looking for contacts. Despite his continued interaction with Duke faculty and students, Price believes his greater contributions to the University lie in his accomplishments as an advocate for higher education—and that Duke is not the only institution that benefits from his acts in Congress.
creating a pledge class as an off-campus fraternity because its members decided to dissolve during rush last year. Under those circumstances, it attracted 21 freshmen to the group. Brown said Delta Phi Alpha’s main goal during recruitment is to show freshmen the benefits of an off-campus fraternity and to allow them to decide if they want to join. “We are hoping [the potential members] will see for themselves and see that it’s fun. They can do a lot more things off-campus. They’re just a closer group of guys,” Brown said. “We’re not trying to convince them that off-campus fraternities are in some way superior. We hope that they see that for
themselves.”
“I think that spending years in the academic life made me a more effective advocate for funding and legislation in that area,” he said. Price admitted that he did not know if he will return to Duke or stay in office, though both remain possibilities. “Returning to the classroom is certainly an option. I enjoyed teaching,” he explained, adding that his position on the House Appropriations and Budget committees keeps him productive and active in Congress. “[Price is] very smart, very reflective,” said professor of political science John Aldrich. He likened him to a minister—a fitting comparison, given Price’s Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale. Price, who was a Morehead Scholar while an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, even displays his suave political skills in regard to his alma mater and current employer. “I cheer for both, and when they’re playing each other, I just try and keep my head down,” said Price, whose two children both attended Duke, in a neat avoidance of any loyalty claims. Smart man? Yes.
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Sexual Harrassment And Rape Prevention Are you concerned about rape and sexual assault on campus? Do you want to make a difference by empowering yourself and other individuals? Come be part of the leading edge of peer education! Applications to be a SHARP Healthy Devil peer educator avaliable now at: The Women's Center, Student Health, CAPS and healthydevil.studentaffairs.duke.edu (Men are encouraged to apply!) Applications due by 1/21/03
in the Department of Theater Studies THEATER STUDIES 113: British and Irish Drama
THEATER STUDIES 1455: Acting: Analysis/Performance
TTh 2:15-3:30 Carr 243 Instructor: Phyllis Randall
TTh 2:15-4:15 209 East Duke Instructor: Jeffery West
A survey of British and Irish drama from Wilde to Beckett. Other dramatists to be considered will include, among others, Shaw, Synge, O'Casey, Eliot, and Coward.
Text analysis from the actor’s point of view, research, preparation, technique, voice, and movement. Scene work with focus on bringing interpretation to performance of modern and contemporary plays. Consent of instructor required.
THEATER STUDIES 1295.4: From Hamlet to Hamletmachine: Performance, Identity, and Metatheater in Modern Drama
THEATER STUDIES 1495: Drama as a Medium for Teaching and Learning
TTh 9:10-10:25 105 Art Museum Instructor; Dave Worster
MW 2:20-4:20 104 Branson Instructor: Christine Morris
A close reading of several texts which are concerned with metatheater: identity as performance, the artistic purposes of performances within performances, the act of creation, the role of art in life, and the place of the artist in society. Course will cover some historical background, dramatic theory, and scholarly criticism, a context necessary for an intellectual appreciation of modern drama as it moves from early modern through melodrama into realism and anti-realism. Plays under consideration are Hamlet, The Doll House, Six Characters in Search ofan Author, Rosencrantz and Guildenstem are Dead, The Verge, Our Country's Good, and Hamletmachine.
This service-learning course with Kenan Institute for Ethics, is a study of use of drama as teaching tool with fieldwork at theWest End Teen Center. Consent of instructor
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THEATER STUDIES 1695: Technical Theater: Theory/Practical Application TTh 10:55-12:10 Sheafer Theater Instructor: Douglas Martelon
This introductory course investigates the theoretical and aesthetic aspects of technical production for the theater and its practical applications. Topics include artistic and budgetary assessment, tools and equipment, construction materials and techniques, and production implementation. The costume, set, lighting, and sound designs of current Theater Studies productions will be the focal points of the course work and discussion. Requires a four-hour weekly lab.
Duke University Department of Theater Studies Info: (919) 660-8843 orwww.duke.edu/web/theaterstudies
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easily slip into a Golden Girls sequel in another 30 years, bringing the cycle full circle. SATC 's single divas lost 40 years but retained the septagenerians respective naivete, brains, endearingness and downright sluttiness. And despite the conventional married-with-children nature of women in both their mid-30s and 70s, these two sets of bachelorettes still manage to put Duke's dating scene to shame (not quite a Herculean feat, but point made). For those still in doubt, we submit a list of similarities between the two shows: —Whitney Beckett
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Rehearsal and performance dates: April 8-19, 2003 in Sheafer Theater To sign up for an audition slot or for info about internships, email Anna Upchurch at upchurch@duke.edu or call 660-3346 by spm Tuesday.
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The Glow of Lee's NYC Calendar Spike
Lee loves his city, but unlike most of his fellow New York filmmakers, Lee has always refrained from over-exaggerating the positive attributes of it. Through his carefully restrained camera, New York City seethes both with love and rage; Spike understands better than anyone that his hometown's true charm lies in its gritty reality. As one of the first films to live and breathe in post-Sept. 11 New York, 25th Hour serves as a brilliant tribute to a surviving metropolis But this atmosphere of a broken city is only drop for Lee's compelling characters. His film: always drawn the big names, but never has a been more successful at setting a consistent! ing mood. Edward Norton took $500,000 (ins his normal going-rate of $7 million) for the lea of Monty Brogan, but as usual, his acting is p as he plays a drug dealer on his last night bef* to jail for seven years. Philip Seymour Hoffma, Barry Pepper also shine as Jacob Elinsky, a pn teacher with an obsessive crush on one of his students (Anna Paquin), and Francis Xavier Slaughters a ruthless Wall Street stockbroker. These two are Monty's best friends, the guys he grew up with, and they are among the people whom Monty must make peace with before facing his prison sentence.
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Ed Norton's great talent for emotional intensity is on display as he visits his father (Brain Cox) at the bar he owns on Staten Island, and as he struggles with the possibility that his girlfriend, Naturelle Riviera (Rosario Dawson), was the one who ratted him out to the police. David Benioff's screenplay from his own novel is so remarkably reserved that the film's few climaxes GRADE: turn into moments of raw importance. The most notable outburst comes when Monty sees himself in a : rror, and as the frustration of his situ'S over him, he commences a tirade of every eth;ial group connected to New York City—from icers to Osama bin Laden, from black bailers to messmen. Seeing this kind of efficiently blatant on screen is at first jarring until one realizes e Lee is really going for —a condemned man's farewell to the town he loves. *ur does not contain a traditionally coherent plot lovie seems to drag from time to time, but what it ;s in story is more than made up for in its skillful icting and careful direction. Spike Lee has often >een accused of targeting a narrow audience, but here, he has made a great film, one that will linger in the minds of moviegoers long after others have been forgotten. —Jacob Usner
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Startling Velocity From breaking point to breakthrough, Personal Velocity leaves most traces of sappiness behind as it tracks the progression of three young women—Delia, Greta and Paula (Kyra GRADE: Sedgewick, Parker Posey and Fairuza B Balk, respectively) —as they attempt to endure grave circumstances Director Rebecca Miller (daughter of playwright Arthur Miller) adapted the screenplay from three short stories she published several years ago and has cut up her film into three vignettes—each following a different character. The harsh visual clarity of the scenes is due to the financial necessity of filming on Digital Video, keeping the picture slightly grainy and dull. What could have been perceived as a potential pitfall is transformed into a boon, as the technique seems more true-to-iife than the Technicolor brightness of most films—the rough, seemingly "uncut" scenes create a sharply private view into the characters' worlds with a piercing, almost documentary realism. The enduring beauty of the film, however, lies in the great tie among the three otherwise unrelated women. Neither bogged down by pessimism nor overly cheerful. Velocity proves that each woman can find her own balance regardless of past transgressions —Allison Gianino
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Slam poet extraordinaire Saul Williams will perform at the Page Auditorium Monday at 8 p.m. as part of the University's Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration. Over his career. Williams has performed with artists like Erykah Badu and The Roots. Plus, if you don't go, Arts Editor Vicki Kaplan will smack you upside the head.
M V S I CAmbassador of female rock and former Indigo Girl Amy Ray takes to the Cat's Cradle tonight with The Butchies behind her. She'll most likely play a number of cuts off her new album Stag, and if we're super duper lucky, she might even play some old Indigo Girl faves. Oh joy! Doors open at 8:30, and it's only $8 300 E. Main St., Carrboro. At the green age of 9, Derek Truck picked up a guitar at a yard sale for $5. Now, he's leading a band that's playing the Lincoln Theatre Saturday. What a go-getter, that Mr. Truck. Doors open at 9 p.m. $13.126 E. Cabarrus St. Raleigh.
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across the railroad tracks on Swift Avenue, the large white house almost hidden down West Pettigrew Street has been home to some of the finest documentary work in the country for over a decade. Founded in 1989, Duke's Center for Documentary Studies has had a hand in everything from documentary photography and filmmaking to oral history, folklore and writing, all with an eye toward promoting education and change. According to their website, the center supports "the active examination of contemporary society, the recognition of collaboration as central to documentary work, and the presentation of experiences that heighten our historical and cultural awareness." To help further its goal, the center offers academic courses available to both Duke students and community members, houses a gallery on its ground floor that routinely displays innovative documentary work, prints books through its own publishing program, sponsors research and fieldwork and presents
and international filmmakers CDS also involves itself in a host of community-based projects. The "Literacy Through Photography" program's goal is to help Durham Public School teachers and students integrate photography into their classrooms as a tool for observation and a catalyst for creative writing. The center's "Document Durham" program also supports communitybased efforts toward education and exploration. "Behind the Veil" examines the lives of African-Americans in the South during the time of Jim Crow laws, and "Indivisible" is part of a nationwide effort to document grassroots social change. Almost an afterthought around campus, but recognized elsewhere as one of the foremost institutions supporting the teaching and practice of documentary work, CDS is well worth the trek across the railroad tracks. —Macy Parker
Jan. 10 March 30 The CDS Gallery will be displaying "Dream Street —W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs." This photo essay on 1950s Pittsburgh represents the work of one of the century's greatest documentary photographers. To complement the exhibition, the CDS is also displaying "Our Streets; Photographic Portraits of the Evolving Triangle," a photo essay inspired by Smith's work that features a variety of local photographs. The opening reception for this exhibition and a book signing of the companion book Dream Street will be held January 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. In addition a panel discussion on "The City as a Living Entity" will be presented Jan. 20 at 7 p.m., and March 5 at 7 p.m., photographers whose work is displayed in "Our Streets" will discuss their work. On March 26 at 7 p.m. "Dream Street" curator and writer Sam Stephenson presents "The Jazz Loft Tapes: W. Eugene Smith's Obsession with Music" to provide further insight into the man behind the lens. -
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Recess: Most Duke students involved at CDS are only just starting to discover the field of documentary work. When did you get involved with it? Doctor Thompson: In one way, I started back when I was a community organizer in the 1980s, before I decided to go back to school. My degree is in religious studies but I incorporated field work into my research —that's how we define what doc. studies is. If you go out and learn from experience in a community, then you're doing documentary work, particularly if you use some sort of technology like a tape recorder or a camera or a video camera to record experiences and to reinterpret them. And what kinds of Duke students can go out into the community and do documentary field work? All kinds of people —I like to say, "From anthropology to zoology"—who are interested in getting
out into the community can incorporate documentary skills.... We have a course, for example, called "Children and the Experience of Illness," that's probably very moving for people who are going into medicine because they're taking something that seems clinical and making it real. We have another course called "Documentary Approaches to Nature Studies," and it teaches students to take a camera and develop away to interpret information and bring it back to the community. Duke undergraduates sometimes think of this place as its own planet. How do the courses at CDS help us burst the Duke bubble? Well, we're a little bit off campus and across the tracks, and we are a little bit more accessible to the Durham community, so we like to think of ourselves as having one foot in the rest of the world. We reach outside of the heart of Durham, too, and we have students going into other countries to do their work internationally after they graduate.... We have a program called the Hines Fellowship, named after Louis Hines, the famous documentary worker who exposed child labor practices, and it allows graduates to work on a project, usually relating to children, on an international level. Most Recess readers are pretty film savvy. Why should they come check out the film festi-
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vals at CDS instead of going to see Lord of the Rings for the fourth time? I like to think that by watching a documentary film, you're glimpsing another person's real life for one day. There's still the filmmaker's creativity, and we do have an invisible script, whether we admit it or not —we all have an agenda, but I like to think of documentary work as letting the camera roll in a way that's not directing what happens, it's just following events. We're never going to experience all that everyone else experiences, so a documentary film is really away to see through someone else's eyes and maybe gain a new understanding of how other people, or other cultures, organize their information and meaning.... And that can help us make sense of our own notions of meaning. What's the difference between a good documentary film and a good episode of The Bachelor? At the very basis, documentary work and reality TV are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Documentary work is about enhancing understanding between human beings, and reality TV is not only about pitting people against each other and looking at the worst of people, but it's also making that into a spectacle and a spectator sport. A large goal of documentary work is to create understanding, and not to laugh derisively at someone's faults or shortcomings, but to create bridges across cultures.
Besides attending events at the center, those interested in documentary work can enroll in academic classes sponsored by CDS. The center has sponsored a certificate program in documentary studies for continuing education students for several years, and it has since become known as one of the strongest of its kind. Recently, CDS has also begun offering a similar certificate program to undergraduate students at Duke. The undergraduate certificate consists of six classes: a survey course in documentary work, four approved elective courses and a capstone seminar in which students complete a documentary project and present it to the community. Elective courses for the certificate include classes in photography, oral history, internships in the "LiteracyThrough Photography" program, documentary writing and many other approved courses cross-listed with various Duke departments. —Macy Parker
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have had a healthy dose of laughing gas. The seemingly child-friendly songwriting duo of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken adapted the original film into a long-running Broadway musical. They are also the masterminds behind such Disney classics as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. We've all heard about subtle Disney sexual innuendos (think Aladdin, "All good teenagers, take off your clothes"), but when Hoof 'n' Horn hit the stage during rehearsal, the raunchy humor of Little Shop was in full effect. Just like Ashman and Menken's Disney scores, Little Shop of Horrors features music that ranges from doo wop to funk to monster rock ballads. The band is featured prominently on the intimate set, and includes several campus rock stars from the Alan Davis Band. The cast and the band feed off each other throughout, with cast members occasionally tossing tips into a top hat. The signature -V ■»> element of this better life and a more natural shade of platinum. Photos by Yoav Lurie show has always been Audrey 11, the the plant human blood, Weitberg didn't realize it'd be his own. giant plant that makes Venus fly "The damn teeth always graze my head, and the hinge left me this scab on my hand," he said. traps look like garThe payoff for all this bloodshed: Little Shop is nish, and this production features two hours of straight fun. Stabs at higher meaning ultimately fall dead. Farokh Irani, the voice four of these puppet plant pods on different characters behind Audrey 11, said, "Some people go with the loan from a recent Faustian theme with the whole greed and backstage within a damnation thing. But I don't know if I believe span of seconds, a Greensboro that." And Carl Pearson, the man who operates College production. feat which would leave Clark Kent But with these the body of Audrey 11, posited that drug use was lavish props an obvious influence since a plant plays such a baffled. As a sadistic dentist addicted comes an element big role in the play. *iOpt * pi ovirlp to nitrous Who knows what the real theme is and frankly, if mu uus u uc, p Motten of the Botany Department said, "We have a magnificent display of carniv- of danger. While Anderson will make orous plants. However, the largest have ever seen is the size of a quarter. The the play calls for a production is this enjoyable, who really cares? —Mark Pike biggest thing a terrestrial plant could eat is a small mammal, never a human being." Seymour to feed you feel like you Science Theater 3000: The Musicaß It might sound strange, but Hoof 'n' Horn's Little Shop of Horrors, coming to Sheafer Theater this weekend, is a satirical, rock and rolling production that features carnivorous alien vegetation the size of most dorm rooms. Instead of having robots quipping jokes, as in Mystery Science Theater, Little Shop of Horrors has a trio of doo-wopping, candy-colored chorus members comically crooning. The original Little Shop of Horrors is a cult 1960 B-rate science-fiction motion picture thriller, also known as The Passionate People Eater. The film even includes an appearance by a young Jack Nicholson as a dental patient. The Hoof 'n' Horn production could be a similar opportunity to see an up-and-coming actor —Seth Weitberg, a member of Duke University Improv, blossoms in his stage debut as the nebbishy experimental botanist Seymour Krelborn. Fellow cast member Greg Anderson shows off his range in a mercurial performance of 10 different characters. In the funky number "The Meek Shall Inherit',' Anderson changes into three
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We want to remind everyone about the bonfire policy we established several years ago, which will again govern this year’s activities. The victory celebrations following big games in recent years have been what we have all hoped for, and ones in which the Duke community could take pride.
The same rules will remain in effect this year and, with your cooperation, we will continue to celebrate our victories safely and enthusiastically. In keeping with this goal, we remind you of some key concerns:
1. The University will obtain City permits for four potential bonfires, on the days of men’s home games against North Carolina (February 5) and Maryland (February 19), and the Women’s and Men’s National Championship Games (April 6 and 7). The first permitted basketball bonfire is Wednesday, February 5. 2. Bonfires on any other days will not be permitted by the City and are, therefore, illegal. Anyone who participates in a bonfire on any other day will be subject to University discipline and potential criminal prosecution.
3. The City Fire Marshall asks that everyone stay at least 10 feet away from the fire
4. Please keep stacked benches to a reasonable height (not more than three) and do not climb on top. The tragedy at Texas A & M a few years ago provides ample evidence why. 5. If you carry a beverage, please use a plastic or metal container. There will be additional trash receptacles on the quad. 6. Do not sit or stand on building roofs. 7. Do not add fuel to the fire more than two hours following the game. Refrain from using dorm furniture as fuel for a bonfire.
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The Wake Forest and Duke women’s basketball teams have met 20 times dating back to the 1993-94 season—Duke has won all 20 games. The Demon Deacons will try to break the streak tonight when they travel to Cameron Indoor Stadium for a 7 p.m. matchup with the undefeated and No.l ranked Blue Devils. Duke enters tonight’s game with a 15-0 record overall, three wins coming in ACC action. Alana Beard leads the team in scoring with just under 25 points per game and has received ACC player of the week honors six times on the young season. TTie Blue Devils are coming of a 79-59 victory over Georgia Tech in Atlanta this
past Monday. Iciss Tillis led the team with 24 points and 14 rebounds, picking up the slack for an uncharacteristic slow first half from Beard. “I think in the long run it was really good to have Alana struggle,” said head coach Gail Goestenkors. “Sometimes
ICISS TILLiS and No.l Duke hope to continue their 20-game conference winning streak Thursday.
when Alana is having a really good game, they watch instead of participating. We do need other people to step up.” The Demon Deacons (14-4, 1-3) are coming off consecutive losses for the first time all season. After a disappointing showing against UNC at Chapel Hill, Wake Forest hosted Maryland Monday but fell to the Terps 75-73. The Demon Deacons tried to come from seven down with 47 seconds remaining but ran out of time on their final possession. Eafton Hill leads Wake in both scoring and rebounding. The junior forward, aver-
aging just under 13 points per game, has paced her club in scoring in six contests. Two other Demon Deacons, Cotelia Bond-Young and Tonia Brown are averaging in double figures in points. BondYoung, a talented freshmen guard, is shooting an impressive .429 percent from three point range. Duke has gotten off to a slow start in each of its ACC contests, trailing at halftime in all three. If the Blue Devils misfire at the start again, Wake Forest will try to capitalize against the No. 1 team in the nation. “I am glad we’ve had the ability to come back, but we understand that that’s not going to be the way things work for us all year long,” Goestenkors said. Wake Forest has been strong defensively, forcing an average of 21 turnovers per game. The Duke ball handlers, Beard and Vicki Krapohl, will have to be vigilant when brining the ball up the court. After a great game against Georgia Tech, Tillis needs just one point tonight to be the 17th women’s player to reach the 1,000-point mark for her career. While Duke has an edge on paper, Goestenkors knows that if her side falters, Wake will be ready to challenge for the victory. “Hopefully we can regroup a little bit and get ready to play Wake Forest,” Goestenkors said in a Tuesday teleconference. “I think all of us in the league knew they were going to be much better this year. They just continue to get better year in and year out, and this is going to be their best season ever.”
Redick-ulous: Freshman torches familiar foe for 34 Prior to last night’s game against ACC-foe Virginia, sharp-shooting Duke freshman J.J. Redick said that he would have likely remained in his home state to play college basketball for the Cavaliers if he had not grown up a Blue Devil fan.
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would play well, but we were hoping he wouldn’t get thirty-something or whatever he got.” Redick was simply sensational against the Cavaliers, scoring 21 firsthalf points on his way to 9-of-13 shooting from the field, including 5-of-6 from behind the arc, and a perfect 11-of-ll from the free-throw line. “There’s a look that he has when I know he really wants the ball,” Duke captain Chris Duhon said. “I knew that anytime he was open we needed to get the ball to him. He came out and put on a show tonight. He’s an amazing player.” While Redick’s numbers are remarkable on their own, the way in which he broke Johnny Dawkins' single-game scoring record for Duke freshmen in the team’s most difficult contest this year was the most impressive. In the first half Redick fought off constant screens to get himself open for his See COMMENTARY on page 9
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J.J. REDICK, a Virginia native, shot 9-for-13 from the field against the Cavs, and made all 11 free throws.
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VIRGINIA from page 1 “That may be, for us, the biggest play,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He not only got fouled, but somehow he put that ball in.” The Blue Devils were also hot from the line. What has normally been Duke’s Achilles Heel, its free throw shooting, was key to its victory. The Blue Devils missed a mere three of 40 for the entire game and shot 100 percent in the first half. Virginia also looked strong from the line, shooting 72.4 percent. “For our kids to be able to hit that many free throws at that percentage in a game that we’re either behind or one or Wo possessions up—and we haven’t been hitting them well—was key,” Krzyzewski said. The second half seemed to be more of a free throw contest rather than a continuous basketball game. A rare minute went by without a fouled being called. An astounding 64 of the game’s total points came off free throws and a combined 61 were shot by both teams in the second half. Virginia’s preseason Naismith Award candidate
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Travis Watson led his team with 26 points, though he too found himself in foul trouble. He came up with his fourth when both teams were tied at 59, which created an opening in the inside for the Blue Devils. "It was a weird game,” Duhon said, who played the final four minutes with four fouls himself. “There were a lot of f0u15.... It was just one of those games where everything was just going right for both teams. We did a great job of just holding them off and making the most plays to be victorious." Five minutes into the game, Krzyzewski used one of his classic moves in pulling out all five starters. Sean Dockery, Daniel Ewing, Nick Horvath, Lee Melchionni and Randolph stepped into the game, while the five starters were benched for a couple minutes. Randolph also had a stellar game, scoring 17 points. His three-point straightaway 5:22 into the second half was the start of a seven-point run for the freshman. “I'm proud of our guys because we beat a heck of a basketball team tonight in kind of a different game,” Krzyzewski said. “It's a heck of a win for us because I think they're really good. I think they're extremely good.”
COMMENTARY from page 10 trademark three-point jump shot. The Cavaliers contested nearly every opportunity that he had, yet Redick still managed to go a perfect four-of-four from downtown, drawing by far the loudest cheers from the
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Cameron Crazies. The second stanza began in much the same way, with Redick knocking down another bomb just 15 seconds after play resumed. However, Virginia managed to tighten up its defense on the Duke freshman, allowing him just one more three-point shot for the remainder of the game. At that point, Redick could have continued to fire illadvised shots from long range, but he instead disproved any skeptics’ claims that he is a one-dimensional player. The Roanoke, Va. native adjusted his game to the Cavalier defense by driving to the basket and getting himself to the free-throw line, where he misses about as often as the CrazyTowel Guy fails to show up for a game. Such maturity is rare in a freshman, and Duke
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MIKE KRZYZEWSKI tries to fire his team up during the Virginia game, head coach Mike Krzyzewski realizes the special combination of talent and basketball I.Q. of his first-year phenom. “The thing about J. J. is he has the maturity of a senior,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s got his feet under him, he understands the game and he’s such an easy kid to play with. He’s not just a good freshman; he’s one of the outstanding players in the conference.” Redick may have had some extra motivation to perform well against Virginia, as two of his former summer league teammates and best friends—Elton Brown and Jason Clark—play for the Wahoos. Although both Brown excelled, scoring 19 points, the night clearly belonged to Redick. “I was excited about this game simply because it was an ACC game, but it made it a little bit more special that I was going against my home state and two of my best friends in the world,” Redick said. “I was just feeling it tonight. In the first half, I felt like every time I touched the ball, if I got a look at it, it was going in. I knocked down a few in a row and when I got hot, that’s when my confidence just skyrocketed.”
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Academic THURSDAY, JANUARY 16 Popßio Seminar: 7pm. “Molecular insights into hybrid breakdown in intertidal copepods,” Chris Willet, University of North Carolina. 140 Biological Sciences. UNC-Ouke Lecture in Women’s Studies: 7:30B:3opm. Professor Hortense J. Spillers, Frederick J. Whiton Professor of English at Cornell University and Visiting Professor, Literature, Duke University. Spillers is the author of Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text. This lecture is part of the Lecture Series, Feminist Studies Across the Disciplines. A reception will follow.This is the first Annual UNC-Duke Lecture in Women’s Studies. UNC, Dey Hall, 4th Floor, Toy Lounge. Contact, llps@duke.edu.
Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch 12-1 pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen. Wesley Fellowship Eucharist: 7:3opm, Thursdays. Wesley Office Chapel Basement. Intercultural Christian Fellowship Weekly Gathering: 7:3opm, Thursdays. Duke Chapel Basement. Study the Bible and enjoy fellowship with friends from cultures worldwide. More info: www.duke.edu/web/icf/, contact: dsw9@duke.edu.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 University Program in Ecology Seminar: 12:45pm. “Grassland responses to altered soil community,” Mark Bradford, Duke University. A247-LSRC.
Lecture: 4pm. “Forgotten Soldier Boy: War
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the Politics of Country Music,” David Whisnant, Emeritus Professor of English at the Univ. of North CarolinaChapel Hill and a folklore scholar, reflects on the relationships between war and country music, illustrated with musical samples. Offered as part of the series ‘The Arts in Times of War,” sponsored by the Duke Institute of the Arts and the Franklin Humanities Institute. Free admission. 101 Biddle Music Building, East Campus. &
Wesley Fellowship Bible Study: 12noon, Fridays Wesley Office. Tu B’Shevat Shabbat: 6pm. Tu B’Shevat (Jewish Earth Day) marks the beginning of spring in Israel. Join us as we rejoice in the fruits of the tree and the fruit of the vine and celebrate the abundant gifts of the natural world. RSVP to jewishlife@duke.edu by 12 pm on Friday if you’d like to stay for dinner and a taste of the holiday.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16 Hoof ‘n’ Horn Presents: Bpm. Little Shop of Horrors! A rock musical comedy. Get your tickets at the box office in the top level of the Bryan Center, on the BC Walkway starting January 9th, or at the Box Office Website: ww.tickets.duke.edu Questions about the show, contact producer Ethan Brown: edb@duke.edu. Sheafer Lab Theater, Bryan Center, Duke University.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 Employee CandlelightVigil: 12-12;45pm. The Service of The Lights: Members of the Office of Religious Life will move through the congregation lighting the candles of those seated at the end of each pew. Duke Chapel. Coffee Connection; 12noon-Ipm, Fridays. Chapel basement.
Opening Reception: 6-Bpm. Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Photographs, an exhibition of work by one of the 20th century’s greatest photographers, will be on view at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) from January 10 through March 30, 2003. Center for Documentary Studies. Screen/Society-MLK Day Film: 7pm. ‘Two Towns of Jasper” (dir. Whitney Dow & Marco Williams, 2002, 91 min, Color). Richard White Auditorium. On June 7, 1998, the most vicious racially motivated murder since the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till occurred in Jasper, Texas. Two Towns of Jasper is a feature length documentary about the murder of James Byrd Jr. Sponsored by the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. Filmmakers appearing in person. Hoof ‘n’ Horn Presents: Bpm. Little Shop of Horrors! A rock musical comedy. Get your tickets at the box office in the top level of the Bryan Center, on the BC Walkway starting January 9th, or at the Box Office Website: ww.tickets.duke.edu Questions about the show, contact producer Ethan Brown: edb@duke.edu. Sheafer Lab Theater, Bryan Center, Duke University.
Musical Production: Bpm. ‘The Country Church," a free musical production by Oren Marsh. Performed by Duke Employees to celebrate the vision and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Page Auditorium.
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Exhibit: On display at FCJL until March 2003. “Horizons: an Aerial Photo Exhibit of Israel” Lent to FCJL by the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta, this collection of 28 breathtaking aerial photographs includes images of historic and religious sites in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, the Sea of Galilee and many other locations throughout the Holy Land. Two former Israeli Air Force pilots, who own the Albatross Aerial Photography Company, captured these dramatic scenes from a helicopter. The photos can be viewed free of charge in the downstairs dining area and upstairs hallways. 9am-Bpm, Monday-Friday and
9am-12pm, Sundays. Duke Police offers following services: Crime prevention presentations, Rape awareness presentations, Alcohol Law presentations, Workforce violence educational programs, Personal property engraving. Please contact Lieutenant Tony Shipman at 668-2627 to schedule these programs/services.
Weekly Vespers/Fellowship: Orthodox Christian Student Fellowship. Duke Chapel Basement. Father Edward Rummen, 919-782-7037, fatheredward @ mindspring.com. Exhibition Continues: “‘Shroud’ from Anya Belkina.” Exhibition runs through February 2, 2003. Duke University Museum of Art
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years after its demise, the greek judicial board is returning to campus. This board, rather than the Undergraduate Judicial Board, will hear judicial cases and complaints involving greek chapters. The board’s resurrection is disappointing, since the disappearance of the greek judicial board 20 years ago was a good thing, and the University has little reason to revive it today. The situation is simple: A panel consisting entirely of greek-affiliated students will have the final say on punishment with any case involving a greek chapter. There are at least two ways in which this could result in a miscarriage of justice. First, the administration expects a board of greeks to sanction other greek organizations. This view is unrealistic, since most of the infractions on which greek chapters are tried can be committed on a regular basis by greek chapters who are not caught. Since greeks will be judging other greeks, they have an incentive to be lenient on each other in repayment for future lenience. Thus, one way the greek judicial board could abuse justice is by giving every greek chapter a get-out-of-jail-free card. On the opposite end of the spectrum, however, is the possibility that inter-greek rivalries will be played out in the judicial board. That is, if one fraternity has a strong rivalry with another, what will prevent members of the first fraternity from harshly penalizing members of the second fraternity in the greek judicial board? There is a real possibility of harsher punishments based on outside vendetta. Although these represent two opposite extremes, they are both miscarriages ofjustice. Most judicial systems are based on the idea that whoever is doing the judging should be as impartial as possible. However, the system set up for the greek judicial board chooses the most biased people possible by making the judges people intimately invested in greek life. Another problem with the board is that little thought seems to have been given to what its purview should be. The board regulates on-campus fraternities, off-campus sororities, and non-residential fraternities, but not on-campus selective houses. Does it make sense to have a single board governing some selective living groups but not others? And does it make sense to have a single board governing some groups that have housing and others that don’t? What is it about naming your organization with greek letters that entitles it to special treatment from the University? Moreover, the cases that the board hears seem to come in two distinct types. There are those cases that are largely internal and affect only greek organizations—e.g., dirty rushing—and other cases that affect the broader Duke community—e.g., a greek group vandalizing a commons area. A better system would separate the judicial enforcement for these two types of violations, since non-greeks should have a say in regulating greek activity that affects everyone. This is not to say that more greek input in the system is not needed. It is. Many of the current rules the administration makes greeks follow are ridiculous, and enforcement of the rules in the past has often been arbitrary. But the fact that the current system has flaws does not justify implementing this system. Ultimately, the fact is that this board failed and lost its credibility 20 years ago, and little has changed since then. It could very well fail again now. University officials would be better served by changing their minds and not resurrecting the past.
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Reducing dependence on oil may not reduce terror Martin Bama’s Jan. 14 column, “The Axle of Evil,” argues that becoming less dependent on al Qaeda linked OPEC oil is a viable means to cut off terrorist financing, which is an honorable goal but presents myri-
ad challenges. The fact is that oil will continue to be the primary world energy source for years to come, even if ihe United States
becomes much less dependent on oil and much more efficient at using it. Even with conserva-
transportation. My inkling is that this will not come in the form of SUVs. Oil is often cheaper than water, and the cost of energy is the driving force for the growth of most developing economies. So it is a reasonable assumption that the developing world will most likely take up the slack from the industrial world. The question
then arises, from where will this oil come? Presently, OPEC constitutes only 40 percent of the world’s oil production, while 65 percent of discovered deposits are located in these countries. These two categories, current production and discovered
tion engine. So where do we get the hydrogen? Gasoline powered fuel cells are advantageous because the infrastructure for transporting and storing the hydrogen would not need to change. You could fill up your car at the regular gas station. Oil and car companies, as well as universities, are pouring hundreds ofmillions of
dollars into hydrogen cells, and
experimental models are already around. Barna is correct in saying that energy policy initiative is needed, but becoming less dependent on OPEC oil and pouring federal dollars into renewable fuel research may
tion assumptions and the advent of other energy sources, including very aggressive growth rates of 20 percent for renewable energy sources such deposits, constitute approxias wind and solar, the world will mately 82 percent ofall recovernot have a drastic effect on need 50 percent more oil in able oil resources, so OPEC will terrorism. 2020 than it needs today. likely be a major contributor to Developing countries will the growth of the world econoRami Zheman require 56 percent of world oil my for decades to come. Pratt ’O2 demand in 2020 as opposed to It is fair to assume that the The writer is a former columnist only 44 percent today, and 60 hydrogen fuel cell is the likely and University associate editor percent of this will go toward replacement for the combusfor The Chronicle http://www.chronicle.duke.edU/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/01/14/3e241a7a91849
Registrar should be Four days after my exam, I checked my grades on ACES Web. I “aced” the political science exam—a solid ‘A’ in the class. I call my parents and break out the champagne. My A’ is still there the next morning. I was not seeing things. An A’ in polisci, what’s next, The White House? But I guess it was not meant to be. A couple days later, I get an
email from the University
Registrar. The subject line is “Incorrect Grade Entry” and the entire email is only two sentences long. They got right to the point. My real grade was a ‘B.’ They typed the wrong letter. Oops.
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The registrar should not make these mistakes. Grades are important to us and influence our futures. The spirit of the registrar’s office suggests that mistaken grades are acceptable and normal. How often does the registrar and his staff type the wrong grade, anyway? Maybe it’s harder than I think to distinguish between As, B’s, C’s and D’s. Now, I understand that mistakes happen, and that the registrar was correct in fixing bis mistake. But when the registrar and his staff tell you about the error, it sure seems like they don’t care. Mr. Registrar, if you continue to mix up peo-
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pie’s grades, please at least call them and offer an apology. Your two-sentence e-mail just doesn’t cut it. I hope you and your staff will have more respect for students and our grades in the future. As students, we can’t easily, quickly, and impersonally correct our mistakes like you can. If you are not too busy, why not make a phone call and apologize for mixing up letters our grades? Mr. Registrar, shouldn’t your office be held to the same standards as everyone else at Duke?
Dan Freilich Trinity ’O6
On the record I find it interesting how Larry Moneta would comment about our organization and call it superficial given... the fact that he’s not a member of our organization. Delta Phi Alpha Rush Chair Charlie Yardle, on administrator negativity (see story, page one).
Announcement Larry Moneta’s guest commentary in Wednesday’s Chronicle was an edited version. The full text of his column is available at:
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Liberating aardvarks When my parents were in college, the students were revolting. Not just in the sense that several of them didn’t shower very often or were afflicted with the undergraduate curse of nauseating self-righteousness. I mean they were rioting in the streets and burning things. Organized “Angry Groups” like Students for a Democratic Society and their conservative counterparts had plenty of members. The year before my parents arrived, protesters even set fire to the union, and, since it wasn’t a concrete monstrosity like the Bryan Center, it burned. I can only imagine the university’s promotional literature; probably it touted the “involvement” and “enthusiasm” of BS the zealots on campus. But administrative whitewashing aside, it is pretty clear this was not a great climate in which to t
Just living Since the start of the new year, Senator Trent Lott’s name has fallen from the headlines, his comments that the nation would have been better off if then-segregationist Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948 no longer shocking to anyone. In truth, Lott’s comments and the weak punishment he received (demotion to chair of the immensely powerful Rules Committee) should not be all
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For the sake of a brief example, I’ll take education. Black students as a group routinely score lower than white, Asian and Hispanic students on standardized exams, even in communities (like infamous Shaker Heights, Ohio) where the races are socioeconomically equal. This is known as the achievement gap, and it is a terribly daunting problem that no school system yet seems to be able to solve. But when was the last time you saw the phrase “achievement gap” on the front page of The New York Times ? National leaders have simply stopped talking about closing the gap and improving inner city education. How about higher education ?1 College is made affordable for all students, including many black students, through government-funded state schools. But in the past year virtually every state in the country has been forced to cut the budgets for their state schools, from California (3 percent cut) to Virginia (around 10 percent cut) to right down Route 15-501 at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, where more than 200 faculty positions are in danger of being cut this year. Yet the recently-unveiled George W. Bush “stimulus” plan provides no money at all to flailing state governments, leaving colleges to spike tuition and leaving poorer students in a financial bind. With the skyrocketing cost of higher education and a decades-old legacy system that pervades college admissions, the nation’s universities are in danger of reversing the progress of the 1980s and 90s. I could go on and on about issues, but the point is this: When it comes to the problems that many black Americans are experiencing in their everyday fives, the president and
that surprising. Republicans have iilffiv. been voting against the interests of black Americans for decades. What is Andrew surprising and dismaying is that Furlow Democrats—who routinely attract 80 Off the Party line to 90 percent of the black vote—have not been doing a whole lot better, and the problems Margaret get an education. that blacks identify as most pressing have fallen by Meanwhile, my parents were also in Harris the wayside. an Angry Group. Their society called Freed Aardvarks' As you can see from my picture, I am not black, and, itself the Aardvark Liberation Front, and as you might guess from the college I attend, I am not * its members were angry about Angry miSM s,7s m poor. But although I can never understand the situation Groups. Really. The ALF had all the trappings of a “real” that many African-Americans are in, I feel confident movement, including a newspaper, a mascot (take a wild that I can see the effects of policies that are implementguess) and a political wing, the Apathetic Party. For years, ed—or not implemented—by their government. the Apathetic Party even held a majority in the Student A few days ago I spoke with a black woman doing mainSenate. After all, 60 percent of the students did not vote, tenance on East Campus, and asked her what her biggest and every non-vote was... exactly. concerns were in everyday life. She replied without hesitaThe ALF’s greatest political triumph came when they tion: “Living.” She needed a good job to provide money, she showed up en masse at a Students for a Democratic needed to maintain her health so she could stay on the job Society meeting and voted in a new constitution. The and she worried about the education of her two daughregular members’ response? Eject the Aardvarkist interters—one in law school, one an undergraduate—and their Republicans in Congress are stalwart in opposing any lopers from the meeting and bar them from future parfuture. And, underlying it all, she rehed on her faith. help, while the Democrats who are ostensibly there to proticipation. Brilliant strategy from the staunch advocates It struck me that what this woman saw as the biggest tect black interests are content to vehemently criticize of Giving Power to The People, So Long as The People concerns facing many black people were generally the Republicans for supporting de jure segregation, then sit Agree With Us. biggest concerns facing all people—money, work, family, back and watch as de facto segregation becomes the norpi. The Aardvark Liberation Front was by no means a con- faith. Not once did she mention her desire to see Congress The fact is that they seem to have given up. One of my servative organization, though. In fact, if its members’ curpass strong hate crimes legislation nor her abhorrence of usually fiery libertarian friends, when confronted with the rent political leanings are any indication, it was pretty lib- the continued display of the Confederate emblem on many problem of America’s urban schools, said, “I have no idea eral (my mother hasn’t voted for a Republican president Southern states’ flags. These are certainly important conwhat to do about that.” Apparently nobody in Washington since Nixon, and no, I won’t let her forget that). What set cerns, but they pale in comparison to having a home and does either. it apart from the more “serious” left-leaning organizations raising a family. When we look at the recent record of was something implicit in its opposition to Angry Groups: achievement on the worries she mentioned, it’s hardly surAndrew Furlow is a Trinity sophomore. His column Its members realized that issues are never simple. prising that they come at the top of the list. appears every third Thursday. For example: American soldiers in Vietnam were not butchers and the Viet Cong were not freedom fighters. On the other hand, a draft that sent mostly poor men to fight while the sons of the ruling class hid in the National Guard (or college) was fundamentally wrong. Oh yes, and When a person believes that anothment in Palestine or the Russian govclose ties to the oil industry only serve if you call your group Students for a Democratic Society, er person is threatening her safety in ernment in Chechnya? And if we realto drive the point home. you’d better be prepared for days when democracy means spite of there being ly care about enforcing world nuclear Popular support for a war in Iraq that people you don’t like get elected. no evidence to supdisarmament, shouldn’t we start with has fallen steadily over the past few This column, however, is not about history. It’s not even port her claims, we our own arsenal of over 15,000 nuclear months despite escalating media covabout the Aardvark Liberation Front. Instead, it’s about call it a self-reinforcwarheads instead of funding domestic erage of our government’s relentless the lessons we might draw from stepping back and realizing paranoid delunuclear weapons research to the tune pursuit of war. Many polls now suging that fervent belief doesn’t have to imply a desire to sion. When governof $6 billion in the 2003 proposed miliV gest that fewer than half of avoid or shout down opposition. ment officials believe tary budget? Americans support going to war, and This realization ought to happen more often, particular- that another country We have also been told that going to those numbers are expected to drop Jillian ly at a university. The trouble with campus discourse at poses an imminent in Iraq will allow the United even further as the possibility of a war Johnson Duke is not that students here don’t have ideas or that the threat to Americans States to remove Hussein from power military draft is explored. Dozens of The Red Pill administration is conspiring to suppress dissent. The troudespite haying no and install a U.S.-friendly dictator in Duke students will join thousands of ble is that when students come here thinking a certain way credible evidence and proceed to conhis place. This situation will, of course, Americans in Washington, D.C., this and are enthusiastic and articulate about their beliefs, they duct a drive toward war with that be no more democratic than the curweekend to protest a war in Iraq and tend to join—are encouraged to join—organizations com- country, intending to seize control ofits rent political environment in Iraq as it the regular bombing and economic posed ofpeople who think exactly the way they do. government and resources, we call it will not give the Iraqi people the right sanctions that have crippled the It’s the activities fair writ large. Conservative? Join foreign policy. to choose their own leader. It will, howcountry for the last 10 years. Two the DCU. Think slave labor is bad? Students Against If you’ve been listening to Ari ever, give the United States unfettered independent collectives of students, Sweatshops has a place for you. You’re a selfish, rich Fleischer, you might believe that if we access to the world’s second largest faculty and administrators have snob who’s been misreading too much Ayn Rand? The go to war with Iraq it will be because reserves of oil, a resource lacking in formed in the last few months to proDuke Review is hiring. Christian? Chapel services are Saddam Hussein’s government is other “enemy” countries, with enemy mote alternatives to and dialogue Sundays at 11 a.m. for Protestants, 9 p.m. for Catholics. developing weapons of mass destrucnow framed as those who defy UN. resabout a potential war. All over the And so on. tion. Never mind the fact that in sevolutions. As a side note, the United world people are attending demonWhy don’t we say, “Oh, you’re a radical left-winger? eral weeks of inspections UN. officials States and our closest ally, Israel, have strations and speaking out in protest Come to the Duke Conservative Union meeting. We’d like have found nothing to indicate a funcdefied more UN. resolutions than the of a unilateral and preemptive to hear what you have to say, and we’re going to listen to tioning chemical, biological or nuclear entire “axis of evil” put together. American attack in the Middle East. you without smirking.” And if we did, why wouldn’t the weapons program. Before these inspecThe government has repeatedly If we continue on this path toward leftist accept the invitation? Why do most of our self-con- tions took place the American people denied that this war is about oil, but unprovoked aggression, we will emusciously earnest panel “discussions” seem to have a specif- were made to believe that a failure to how can it be about anything else? late more and more closely the foreign ic agenda before they even start talking? find weapons of mass destruction in There are many other anti-US. gov- policies of nations we call enemies. Do I’m not saying campus political organizations are a bad Iraq would prevent a preemptive war. ernments in the world, and we are not we want to be part of a camp of nations thing. In fact, I think they can be excellent ways offoster- Now we’re told that clean inspections trying to force "regime change" in any that ignore international law and staning discussion. But what we have now isn’tintellectual dismean only that the Iraqis must be hidofthem. There are many dictators who dards in pursuing their own economic course. It’s preaching to the choir. Until that changes—- ing their weapons and refusing to coopcommit human rights violations with and military interests, instigate illegal until we seek out people who think differently instead of erate with the international communi- regularity, and there are many counwars with other countries and sacrifice hiding in our comfort zones—we aren’t going to make ty, making war all the more necessary. tries that actually have the huge arsehuge numbers innocent fives to their progress on issues that really matter. What else has the government lied nals of illegal weapons of which we foreign policy machines? This is not And a whole lot of aardvarks are going to live and die to us about? If George W. Bush really have no evidence in Iraq. None of these the impression of our country that we in unenlightened, unliberated darkness. cared about the murders of Iraq’s ethcountries are coming under fire. 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You call this foreign policy?
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The weight of war falls not on combatants
alone, but on society at large.The horrors
WEIGHT OF WAR
of modern war make the weight seem heavier now than at any time in history. War bears
down on our society; our society bears up. us as we measure the weight of war across
modern human history.
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