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Howlin’ Wolves The men’s basketball team seeks to blow off steam against N.C. State, its first opponent since Maryland. See page 11

THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

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Or so it seems with the debate surrounding abortion. Thirty years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Roe v. Wade to legalize the practice. At Duke, the anniversary has sparked a wide range of discussion on the ruling’s significance, as well as a reexamination of the seemingly stagnant debate. “The decision itself was a landmark injudicial review. Many advocates say that Roe v. Wade ‘recognized’ a woman’s right to choose, but in fact it created that right,” Professor and Chair ofPolitical Science Michael Munger wrote in an e-mail. “The 30-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade marks the continuing controversy that attends an attempt of overt judicial legislation.” Supreme Court justices ruled January 22,1973, to give women a qualified constitutional right to an abortion during most of a pregnancy. Roe v. Wade challenged a Texas law that banned abortions except to save the mother’s life. In the decision, Justice Harry Blackmun argued laws banning abortion violate due process of the Fourteenth Amendment, which the court said protects a woman’s right to privacy against state action. This privacy, which some argue has little constitutional basis, in-

eludes a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy. The justices also qualified when abortions could take place; no government regulation during the first three months; limited regulation in the second trimester to protect the woman’s health and safety; and government power to ban abortions during the third trimester, during which physicians have agreed the fetus is capable of living on its own.

However, medical advances have changed dramatically in the last 30 years, creating more ambiguity. “The word ‘abortion’ doesn’t really cover the scientific and technical possibilities and we don’t have a consensus on how these possibilities should be regulated,” said Jean O’Barr, professor of the practice in the women’s studies program and former chair. “Debate is particularly intense because there are so many things we still don’t know.” Some perceive the discussion on abortion shifting from civil rights concerns to broader morality issues. “The 60s and early 70s were a time of civil liberty concern across the board,” said Laura Edwards, associate professor of history. “Civil liberties are not as much the focus of our politics but we’re moving toward concern for substantive morality and revisiting issues of economics, which might be good considering how strong religion and morality are talked about in mainstream politics.” However, while some believe the Roe v. Wade decision See ROE V. WADE on page 10

BAA profs express frustration Faculty members speculate that a severe reduction in the department could eventually mean the demise of one of Duke’s strengths. By KELLY ROHRS The Chronicle

Following the announcement that a reorganization of the biological anthropology and anatomy department will likely reduce the faculty by more than half, professors have expressed concerns about the future of the department. BAA department Chair Richard Kay told faculty members last week that, through retirement and attrition, fulltime faculty positions in BAA will probably drop from 10 to four and temporary positions from seven to two. Although professors in the department indicate such a drastic reduction would take several years, BAA Professor William Hylander said the faculty was “hopping mad” after the announcement. “You could see a very rapid bailout of faculty. They’re all very good, so it’s not going to be difficult for them to end up in really good places,” said Steve Churchill, associate professor and director of undergraduate studies of BAA. Four tenured professors are near retirement age, but none of them are likely to leave the University for at least See BAA FACULTY on page 8

Students criticize Young trustee finalists chosen ‘terrorist’ speaker By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

Becky Thompson, a visiting professor in AAAS, thought Whitehorn’s past political experience—from women’s liberation to civil rights to HIV/AIDS

The Inter-Community Council selected the three finalists for this year’s undergraduate young trustee this week, and for the first time ever a member of Duke Student Government was not in the group. Senior Brady Beecham, former president of the Duke University Union; senior Andrew Nurkin, president of Campus Council; and senior Jesse Panuccio, current president of the Union, were notified late Tuesday night of the decision that they are finalists. The DSG legislature and the ICC will vote together on who will be the young trustee at DSG’s meeting next Wednesday, Jan. 29. Since the ICC took over the process and DSG was formed from the remains of the Associate Students of Duke University in 1994, each group of finalists has included at least one member of DSG. Last year’s group of finalists was the first not to include an executive officer ofDSG. Of the nine semifinalists, four were DSG executive officers or Cabinet members, including DSG President Joshua Jean-Baptiste. None of this year’s finalists thought the absence of

See WHITEHORN on page 10

See YOUNG TRUSTEE on page 8

By WHITNEY ROBINSON The Chronicle

Laura Whitehom never thought her invitation to speak at an African and African American Studies graduate seminar would attract a second glance. The problem, the Duke Conservative Union charges, is that Whitehorn is a convicted terrorist. Whitehorn spent 1985 to 1999 in prison for planting a bomb in the U.S. Capitol in protest of the U.S. invasion of

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have dec| jnec] t0 gjve any details of how the recruitment process went. See page 5

Alan Kors, an opponent of speech codes and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke about campus dialogue Tuesday. See page 6

Members of the Durham City Council voted Tuesday night to increase city employees’ benefits package 5 percent, a return to the traditional raise. See page 7

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President George W. Bush said Tuesday that Iraq was not complying with demands that it disarm and expressed frustration at calls from other nations to allow more time for diplomacy and U.N. weapons inspections. •

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To protect against the threat of bioterrorism, the Bush administration announced Tuesday a national system of environmental monitors intended to tell within 24 hours whether anthrax, smallpox and other deadly germs have been released into the air. •

Latino population on the rise

Latinos have overtaken blacks as the largest minority group in the United States. Also, the Census Bureau reports that the population increase from 2000 to 2001 among Latinos was 4.7 percent, while the increase among blacks was 2 percent. •

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A federal appeals court dismissed thousands of cases Tuesday brought by World War II prisoners of war who were allegedly forced into slave labor. The appeals court said using American courts to seek restitution would be contrary to U.S. foreign policy. •

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American killed in Kuwait attack Officials describe shooting near U.S. military base as latest terrorist ambush By PATRICK TYLER

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KUWAIT CITY An unidentified gunman or gunmen opened fire Tuesday morning on a car carrying two American civilian defense workers near the main U.S. military base here, killing one of them and severely wounding the other. U.S. and Kuwaiti officials described the ambush as a terrorist attack. It was the third such shooting incident since last fall when U.S. forces began deploying to Kuwait on Iraq’s southern border in preparation for a possible invasion to remove Saddam Hussein. About a third of the country has been closed off to accommodate the U.S. build-up. The U.S. Embassy identified the

American who was killed as Michael Rene Pouliot, 46, of San Diego, Calif, the passenger in the tan Toyota SUV. He was an executive vice president of Corporation, a San Diego software development company that produces military modeling and simulation training software for the U.S. military. Tapestry Solutions identified the wounded man as David Caraway, a senior software engineer for the company, The Associated Press reported. He underwent surgery at Razi Hospital here for six bullet wounds, three of them in the chest. He was in stable condition after surgery, hospital authorities said. “The president’s heart goes out to the families affected by this attack,”

the White House spokesperson, Ari Fleischer, said in Washington. “It’s a reminder of the dangers and risks servicemen and women face every day in service to our country.” Pouliot’s stepmother, Fern Pouliot of Jacksonville, Fla., said he was the father of two teenage daughters and was “a very considerate person, an excellent husband, an excellent father and an excellent provider.” Police said officers arrived shortly after the shooting, which occurred at 9:15 a.m., but that the suspected terrorists, who fired 24 shots from a Kalashnikov rifle, had escaped by car. A search was underway Tuesday See KUWAIT ATTACK on page 8

Pilots face trial for accidental shooting By KEVIN McGILL Trie Associated Press

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. The two U.S. pilots who mistakenly killed four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan last year showed a “reckless disregard” for standing orders by attacking instead of continuing on their way, an Air Force general testified Tuesday. Brig. Gen. Stephen Sargeant, who headed the investigation into the bombing, said the pilots failed to follow procedure by not communicating about gunfire they had spotted on the ground. At an altitude of more than 15,000 feet, the pilots were not in range of the gunfire, he said. “At that point it would have been possible to continue on,” Sargeant said at a military hearing to determine whether the pilots will face a court-martial for the deadly bombing last April.

Defense lawyers asked the hearing officer, Col. Patrick Rosenow, to throw out Sargeant’s testimony. They said the law bars the opinion of investigators on the cause of the accident from being considered as evidence in civil military proceedings. Rosenow heard arguments on the issue, but did not immediately rule and allowed Sargeant to keep testifying. He said he would disregard the testimony if he ruled in favor of the defense. Maj. Harry Schmidt, who dropped the bomb, and Maj. William Umbach, who was flying another F-16 and was mission commander, were charged with involuntary manslaughter and other counts after investigators concluded they had acted rashly by attacking ground fire rather than evading it. The ground fire came from liveammunition exercises by the Canadian troops.

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Endowment New cell tower improves reception gives Duke $13.5

By CINDY YEE

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� Continuing an annual tradition of giving, the Charlotte-based group donated mainly to Duke’s effort to improve the sciences. From staff reports

The Duke Endowment has awarded

gifts totaling $13.5 million to the University for science, engineering and research initiatives, as well as several other projects. The largest grants will go toward programmatic support for Duke’s

new multidisciplinary science facility and the new Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Science. “We are extremely grateful to The Duke Endowment for its sustained and generous support of university priorities,” President Nan Keohane said in a statement. “These gifts will enable us to create much-needed science, engineering and research programs and facilities that will unite disciplines and improve teaching and research in these fields. It will also

See ENDOWMENT on page 7

CLARIFICATION A page 10 graphic in the Jan. 17 edition did not make clear how much The Campaign for Duke’s largest donors have given the University. The amounts cited represent gifts that have been publically announced, not all gifts. The Duke Endowment is the campaign’s largest donor, at a total of $270 million. The Nicholas family has contributed more than any other individual or group of individuals.

Senior Rod Fertig no longer has to brave the elements when he wants to get in touch with the folks back in Wyoming. Before winter break, students could only dream of getting a cellular phone signal in the stone fortresses known as the Edens Quadrangle dormitories. A new tower constructed over winter break by Verizon Wireless, however, will allow some students to call home on their mobile phones from the comfort of their own rooms. The tower, which doubles as a light fixture over Koskinen Stadium, went

live Dec. 31 and will ensure continuous coverage on and around campus. Jeffrey Potter, director of real estate administration at Duke, said that although cellular phone providers periodically approach the University with requests to put a tower on campus, those requests are seldom granted. “We don’t look with favor on cell towers,” Potter said. “We can’t just put up an ugly cell tower for the sake of putting up a tower. There has to be another reason.” In addition to funding the tower, Verizon will pay rent for use of University land. Two off-campus towers also provide coverage for parts of campus and surrounding areas. Frank Cairon, Verizon’s executive director of networks for the Carolinas, said the Koskinen site was chosen in response to complaints from campus customers and through the company’s routine searches for areas that need additional or improved coverage. The company realized there were spots on campus where signal strength was either weak or nonexistent, and approached the University with a request to construct a tower. Potter noted that although the tower went up in a matter of days, it took more than a year to negotiate the terms of the lease.

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Cairon added that the company worked closely with the University in order to design a tower with which both parties would be satisfied. “Verizon Wireless went to extra lengths and expenses to build a stealth [towerl,” he said. “It does not appear as a cellular tower because we’ve tried to disguise it as a light pole fixture.” Currently, the tower serves only the Verizon network. Whether it may be used for other carriers is up to the University. Ginny Cake, Duke’s director of information technology, noted that the University works directly with Alltel exclusively as a cellular carrier. She added, however, that students under other carriers are welcome to express concerns about cellular needs. “Historically, Duke only works to improve reception with the cellular vendor who has a contract agreement with Duke to provide beneficial pricing and services to the University as a whole... meaning faculty, staff and students. Currently, that vendor is Alltel and they are working to expand the coverage within buildings on campus,” Cake wrote in an e-mail. Although some Verizon customers said they have not registered a change in reception since returning from winter break, many said they immediately recognized the change. “Before, the only place I was able to get reception was outside because I live in Edens,” said Fertig, a Verizon customer. “Now I have plenty of reception there, even in my room, and also in the library and in parts of the Bryan Center as well.” Fertig said the improved reception will help reduce phone bills because he no longer has to use the more expensive calling card when he wants to call long distance from his dorm phone. Customers of other carriers, such as Sprint PCS and AT&T Wireless,

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A NEW CELLULAR PHONE TOWER also acts as a light post at Koskinen Stadium. said they would welcome a similar change in reception for their carriers. Sophomore Josefina Farm, who also lives in Edens but uses AT&T instead of Verizon, said she cannot get reception in any of the dorms on campus. “Ifyou’re in your room and you get calls on your cell phone, then you don’t even know [that you’re getting a call]. You might not even get messages until a long time later,” Farm said. “It can be really inconvenient.”

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Health

Tumors may adapt to popular drug

Breast cancer tumors that resist treatment from the cancer-fighting drug tamoxifen may actually change their cellular characteristics in reaction, opening them up to other drug treatments, say oncologists at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. The results could renew options for women who have tumors that have stopped responding to tamoxifen. •

New agent may aid blood transfusions

An agent made of purified human hemoglobin appears to be safe and effective when used instead of transfused human blood to replace blood lost during heart surgery, according to a study conducted at the Medical Center and five other institutions. If the promising agent, known as hemoglobin raffimer, passes Phase 111 clinical trials, physicians would not need to use as much donated blood during surgery.

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Cholesterol may negate aspirin’s benefit

High cholesterol levels may undermine aspirin’s protective effects against heart attacks, according to a study from the University of Maryland Medical Center. By making it harder for platelets in the blood to stick together, aspirin normally helps to reduce the chance of a clot forming, thus blocking off circulation. However, among heart patients regularly taking aspirin, the research showed a strong correlation between a high incidence of platelet clumping and high cholesterol. •

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Biologists find greater purpose for RNA

A string of discoveries are necessitating a complete reinterpretation of the role of RNA within the human cell. Long thought only to operate as an intra-cell messenger ferrying instructions for protein creation from the genetic hard copy of DNA, RNA may actually serve other purposes important to operations within the cell, say biological researchers. In particular, tiny snippets of RNA with two strands instead of the usual one can be used to shut off specific genes and gene signals, according to a recent paper by Harvard University researchers published in Nature. News briefs compiled from staff and wire reports

Scientist interprets vision as a reflex By MALAVIKA PRABHU The Chronicle

A new theory of how people see proposes that past perceptions, as well as evolution, influence the recognition of visual stimuli, perhaps replacing the accepted theory that perceptions correspond exactly to the real world. Dr. Dale Purves, chair and George B. Geller professor of neurobiology, co-authored Why We See What We Do: An Empirical Theory of Vision with Beau Lotto—a faculty member of the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London. The project is a culmination of the research the two have conducted for the past eight years. Purves’ and Lotto’s theory is based on probability distribution—a statisti-

cal theory that helps state that, although one object can produce many stimuli, some stimuli are more likely to occur based on the past perceptions one has experienced. The perception of vision, according to the new research, is a reflex response to the summation of all previously experienced scenes. “You see in terms of the statistics of things you’ve seen before... and unusual scenes are interpreted to the best of your ability,” Purves said. He added that, in a sense, everything one sees is “new” because no two encountered scenes are ever similar. If one does experience a “radically novel thing,” the brain’s best response will be to interpret it based on the most related past experiences, however removed they may be, Purves said. This idea is the latest theory advanced in an effort to address the mystery of how light falls unidimensionally and ambiguously on the eye’s retina but is nevertheless translated into a three-dimensional picture. Purves’ team studied the way people perceived objects in relation to what was really “out there,” which was determined by using an objective measuring device. The best way to validate this theory, he said, is to obtain infor-

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PROFESSOR OF NEUROBIOLOGY DALE PURVES (LEFT) and Beau Lotto have written a book positing that vision is a reflex response to experience, not a flawless perception of the real world. tion over a lot ofregions,” Voyvodic said, emphasizing again that the “where” was not as important because it is difficult to know exactly the activation over a bundle of areas. As this research continues, Purves is diversifying his own research to extend it to the auditory system, studying how people respond to music. The implications of this new avenue of research extend out to many other fields, including artificial intelligence. An explanation of the way in which vision actually works—which could aid computer scientists in constructing robots to see the way humans do—hinges on the successes of brain-imaging studies. “My hope is that the probability distribution and the three-dimensional perception are very closely related,” Voyvodic said.

mation about the world by using technology—through brain-imaging studies. Jim Voyvodic, assistant research professor in the Department of Radiology’s Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, is collaborating with Purves in an effort to prove his theory. Voyvodic said that Purves is not interested in where brain activity is occurring, but rather what is happening. “It’s likely to mean that, as the brain accumulates information through experiences, it’s modifying the ‘this is here and that’s there’ theory, although it’s not contradicting it,” Voyvodic said. Voyvodic and Purves are, in essence, attempting to elucidate how the brain makes sense of three-dimensional objects because the brain encodes the source of the vision, not its properties. “What we view is the net of activa-

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Panhei officials release few details of sorority rush By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle Sorority recruitment week ended Sunday afternoon with over a thousand female students screaming, cheering, crying and hugging on Main West Quadrangle. But those involved in the events remained relatively closelipped Monday and Tuesday about how the week went. Panhellenic Council officials would not release statistics or comment on any specific rush violations, but called this year’s process—which involved several new or altered elements—a success.

Nicole Manley, Panhei adviser and program coordinator for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, said sorority recruitment was generally on track with previous years, but the computer containing statistics for this year’s recruitment crashed and that it would take her about a week to compile the numbers again. Such information, however, will not be made available to the public, she added. “The numbers aren’t exactly explanatory. They don’t really indicate anything, so we’re not going to release them,” said Panhel President Kerianne Ryan, a senior. In 2002, 88 percent of the women who completed rush received a bid from their first choice, the highest percentage in four years. Although each sorority except Alpha Phi and Chi Omega met its quota of 40 pledge class members last year, those statistics—as well as the number of students who did not receive any bids—were not available this year. “Recruitment is a mutual selection process,” Manley said. “The women who were not matched chose not to maximize their options. There was no one who was horribly surprised.” Last year, three students received no bids, compared to four in 2001. This year’s process included new features intended to ease the process, such as providing two recruitment coordinators for every group of about 30 rushees, maintaining chapters’ locations for each round and delaying payment of the $5O rush fee. “A lot of changes to the [recruitment coordinator] program was to make sure that [rushees] really felt informed and understood exactly what their options were,” Manley said. “It was met with a lot of positive feedback.” The changes also included a more public bid day, held Sunday. “We made some decisions based on what the national Panhellenic Council is recommending and other schools are doing,” Ryan said. “We wanted to make bid day a little more exciting. In the past, bid days have been a little anticlimactic.” Previously, recruitment counselors delivered bid cards to rushees in their mostly East Campus dormitory rooms, and the rushees traveled on buses several hours later to find their sororities scattered in rooms throughout West Campus. Recruitment coordinators gathered their groups in the Bryan Center Sunday to hand out the bid cards. Afterward, the rushees—some excited about their selection, others upset—ran or walked down the Bryan Center walkway to meet their new sisters, who were assembled on various Main West quad locations. Male students gathered along the side of the walkway—some jeering, some throwing beer and some videotaping the proceedings. The event was inspired by similar ones at schools like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“This was a first shot of how something like that would look like,” Manley said. “We might see a change next year.... Obviously, we don’t want to embarrass people. We had folks taunting and ogling. There is a lot that we can do to make it more visible, but less discomforting.” Although rumors have widely circulated among the undergraduate student body about alcohol violations, “dirty rushing,” unfilled quotas and discomfort with the new bid day system, no Panhei officers, sorority rush chairs or sorority members returned calls or emails to The Chronicle regarding those issues. Manley said the newly-created greek judicial board will hear some cases over the next few weeks, but said nothing out of the ordinary occurred. “You hear conversations around the office, but nothing that I’m too worried about,” Manley said. Manley said she will convene sorority leaders over the next few weeks to reflect on this year’s process.

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First Amendment speaker faults ‘double standard’ ‘Water Buffalo’ case exemplifies careerist administrators, Kors says; Moneta defers comsity

By AARON LEVINE

Alan Kors reached into his back pockets and stepped from behind the podium with an air of confidence, unafraid of offending. “I wondered who would possibly hire him,” he said. A roll of laughter descended upon him, and Kors stepped back to the podium, grasping it on both sides. Kors was referring to Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta as exemplifying what he calls a “generational swindle of truly epic proportions.” More specifically, he said, college administrators often take duplicitous stances on the freedom of speech. “Most universities promise academic freedom, but deliver selective discrimination,” said Kors, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, where Moneta previously worked. In a Duke Conservative Union-sponsored speech delivered to about 60 people, Kors focused on what he sees as the inequalities of censorship and the overemphasis of politically correctness at American universities. In attempts to include all ethnic groups, Kors said universities have simultaneously alienated both minorities

and non-minorities alike. “So-called multiculturalists have never meant the evangelical culture, the traditional Catholic culture or the Protestant culture,” Kors said. While emphasizing his more serious lines, Kors delivered much of his speech tongue-iP-cheek, citing examples of uni-

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plinary action. “[Moneta] sat down with 10 dictionaries and two papers from leading mammalians. Later he called me up and said he had found that in the American Heritage Dictionary, the fifth entry described the water buffalo as originating in Africa. It turned out that, in fact [the dictionary] had confused the water buffalo with the cake buffalo,” Kors said. “This kind of prosecution is absurd,”

ALAN KORS, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, addresses the issue of speech codes before a group of about 60 people Tuesday night. versity rulings that many in the audience responded to with laughter. In response to the question of why people who occupy top university positions continue to subject students to double-standards when addressing free speech, Kors said, “The highest administrators, whatever their ideologies, they are careerists.... They are talentless people.... They can’t offend certain self-appointed spokespersons of certain groups,” in order to keep receiving promotions. ",

One example Kors mentioned was the “water buffalo incident” at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, in which Moneta, then Penn’s associate vice provost for university life, played a decisive role in the university’s disciplinary action. Eden Jacobowitz, studying in his room, was continually disrupted by a group of girls outside. After allegedly telling them to quiet down several times, he referred to the girls, who were black, as “water buffaloes.” The univer-

he added. Kors did not mention Moneta except in reference to the “water buffalo incident,” but Kors did say that Duke used a form of unfair censorship with its tendency toward “in loco parentis social engineering.” Reached by telephone Tuesday evening, Moneta declined to comment on Kors’ speech, which he did not attend. He recommended a recent book, Innocent Until Nominated: The Breakdown of the Presidential Appointments Process, by Colby College government professor Calvin MacKenzie. It describes the pitfalls of getting nominated to positions of importance. And while unabashed humor characterized much of Kors’ speech, more serious political lines crept their way into the talk. “It is a defining struggle in the time which we find ourselves,” Kors said. “All students have the right to equal protection under the law.”

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ENDOWMENT give our students new opportunities to experience the excitement of research, and continue to enhance the ways in which Duke students learn.” The Duke Endowment gift will provide $5 million toward programs at CIEMAS, $6 million for the University’s new science initiative, and provide $1 million for the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy, a core compopent of the University’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. The Duke Endowment gift also provides $700,000 to the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership Initiative; $500,000 for expenses incurred during The Campaign for Duke; and $300,000 to restore the Aeolian Organ in Duke Chapel. “The Duke Endowment tends to prefer to use its funds for programs rather than for buildings—for scholarships for students, books for libraries, and support for faculty,” Elizabeth Locke, president of The Duke Endowment, said in a statement. “This year, however, our trustees made an exception because the need is extraordinary. If the buildings and labs aren’t built and modernized, the faculty and students won’t be able to do their work.” The Duke Endowment, based in Charlotte and separate from the University’s own endowment funds, was started in 1924 by industrialist, philanthropist and Duke University benefactor James B. Duke. Today, it is one of the nation’s largest foundations. In 2002, The Duke Endowment awarded more than $llB million to agencies and organizations in the Carolinas.

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an increase in registration fees should the need arise. The increase would go toward what council members saw as much-needed aid for local transportation. Three out of the seven council members voted against the authorization. “Durham has the third highest taxes in North Carolina,” said John Best, a member who voted against the measure. “I will be voting against this because the fewer chances we give local and state government officials of reaching in our pockets, the better.” Mayor Bill Bell supported the authorization, saying that the fee was only to be implemented in the event of a budgetary need. “I don’t want to be in the position of asking for funding,” Bell said. “It’s just what it is—an authorization.”

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By LAURA BEACH The Chronicle A large audience of city employees applauded the City Council at their meeting Tuesday night upon hearing the news that a 2 percent rate increase would be added to their 401(k) plans. The council voted unanimously to reinstate a 5 percent rate to employee benefit plans. The rate had been the standard for Durham city 401(k) plans until last year, when the rate dropped to 3 percent to accommodate budget shortfalls. Prior to the council’s decision, several long-term city employees voiced their support for the increase and the more employee-friendly attitude it would imply. They hoped that it would add incentive for people to seek city employment. “Not only will it attract and retain employees, but it will increase morale,” public works employee Bambi Wilson said. Stuart Carson, a city engineer, said that morale among workers had decreased in recent months due to what he saw as a steady degradation of employee benefit packages. Other speakers from the audience argued that the increase was needed more than ever in the wake of less-than-prosperous economic times. “These are lean times,” said Robin Bibby, a city employee for the past 18 years. Once council members were assured by city financial officials that the budget could easily sustain the increase, the motion passed with little delay. “These are no-brainers,” council member Howard Clement said. “I don’t see how we can afford not to support them.” IN OTHER BUSINESS: The council voted to accept its staff’s recommendation that Central Parking Systems of North Carolina be hired to implement city parking services in the future privatization of Durham parking. After some discrepancies over its cost relative to

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League’s schools in this department.” Duke consistently ranks among the best BAA programs in the country, comseveral years. If downsizing occurs, it peting with Washington University in may result from departing non-tenured St. Louis and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Reducing the professors. Christine Drea, assistant professor of department’s size would hinder Duke’s BAA and non-tenured faculty member, ability to remain a leader in the field. “If [the downsizing] becomes publicly said that given the announcement, faculty “would be stupid not to [take other known, it would really affect graduate student yield in a negative way,” Hylanoffers]” ifthey have them. The news comes at a time when der said. Professors worry that fewer faculty Duke has pledged millions to develop members will lead to the dissolution of the sciences as part of Building on Excellence, the University’s long-range the department. “Just imagine running a department strategic plan. “If the goal is to work on the quality with four people,” BAA professor and diof science and natural science, why rector of graduate studies Carel Van would you start reducing the size of a Schaik said. There are currently four major administrative positions in BAA; highly reputable department?” said Hylander. “We beat the hell out of the Ivy chair, director of undergraduate studies,

YOUNG TRUSTEE a DSG member in the round of three would significantly alter the contest. “I just think it proves the impartiality of the process, because there were concerns raised last year,” Nurkin said. Beecham, a double major in biology and environmental science and policy from Lincoln, Neb., is a member ofRound Table selective house and the Freshman Advisory Council Board, and she vied for the DSG presidency last spring. She has said that continuing research, safety issues for women and selecting a new president would be her top priorities on the Board. “For me, it’s an honor to look at the other candidates and know they are peopldT have seen dedicating their time and energy to Duke over the course of many semesters,” said Beecham, who spent the fall semester studying abroad in Brazil. Nurkin, an English major from Atlanta, is also a member of the Duke Honor Council, Sigma Chi fraternity and Project BUILD. The three-year member of Campus Council said he would work on the Board to

director of graduate studies and director of the Primate Center. “It’s just not doable,” he said. If BAA does survive, downsizing will detract from the research quality of the department, making it less interdisciplinary, Hylander said. “There would be that much less opportunity for cross-fertilization. Everyone’s research would suffer. It would become much more narrow and less cross disciplined,” he said. Van Schaik and several faculty members will meet with Dean of the Faculty ofArts and Sciences William Chafe and Dean of Natural Sciences Berndt Mueller Thursday rather than in two weeks, as initially planned, to discuss the department’s options and the motivations behind the University’s proposed reduction.

The department has been hindered by geographic dispersal since its inception 15 years ago. It is jointly administered by Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine, placing faculty members in the Sands Building, the Biological Sciences Building and other Medical Center buildings. The proposed reorganization will consolidate BAA withinArts and Sciences and eventually base the department in the Biological Sciences’ Building. Disinvesting in BAA has been discussed at various points in the department’s short history, most recently in late 2000, but each time it was rejected because of the department’s strength, said faculty members. “This thing comes totally out of the blue,” Hylander said. Kevin Lees contributed to this story.

KUWAIT ATTACK

help design and complete campus construction and work to implement the academic program as laid out in the University’s long-term strategic plan. “Obviously, it’s a tremendous honor and I’m very humbled and I look forward to the rest of the process,” he said. Panuccio, a public policy studies major from Rockaway, N.J., who is also a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, has served as the Union’s executive vice president and chair of the major speakers committee. He said that social life on campus, including the future of greek organizations and the student village, monitoring facility changes and their influence on campus life, maintaining the Medical Center’s national reputation while balancing research and patient care, and employee care and benefits are issues the

night. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. The two Americans may have stopped for a traffic signal at a desert intersection when the shooting occurred about three miles from Camp Doha. The attack was also a troubling reminder to U.S. military authorities that the Arabian desert is no longer the friendly territory it was a decade ago when U.S. and allied forces liberatedKuwait after it was occupied by the Iraqi army. While many Kuwaitis and other Arabs welcome U.S. intervention aimed at toppling the regime in Baghdad, a significant number of Islamic extremists and their sympathizers oppose U.S. policy in the Middle East and see an attack on Iraq as unjustified. The site of the shooting was flanked on one side by a housing complex, businesses and a McDonald’s restaurant. The desert side of the road, however, was bounded by border shrubbery and trees that provided the hiding place from which the assailant or assailants fired, leaving a litter of shell casings behind.

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Panuccio characterized the field as both fantastic and highly qualified. “I’m looking forward to the chance to speak to the DSG legislature and to outline my love of Duke and my vision and my experience,” Panuccio said. Molly Nicholson contributed to this story.

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The African and African-American Studies Program at Duke University is funding a TERRORIST. On March 3, the African and African-American Studies Program (AAASP), along with the John Hope Franklin Center, the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, and the Women's Studies Program, is sponsoring a lecture at Duke University by LAURA WHITEHORN. Who is Laura Whitehorn? Although the original AAASP advertisement for her talk disingenuously refers to her as a former "political prisoner," Laura Whitehorn is a CONVICTED TERRORIST. In 1983, along with a group called the Red Guerrilla Resistance Unit, Laura Whitehorn PLANTED A BOMB IN THE U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING that demolished a section of the building.

The AAASP's original advertisement never mentions Ms. Whitehorn's terrorist activities. And it fails to mention that Ms. Whitehorn spent 1985 to 1999 in prison as a result of her bombing. And it also fails to report that Ms. Whitehorn feels no remorse for her actions; rather, she condones violence as a means to further her radical political agenda. The AAASP only changed its advertisement and admitted Ms. Whitehorn's crime after the Wall Street Journal— which was informed of the AAASP's dishonesty by the Duke Conservative Union—publicized the story on its website.

Why did the AAASP try to hide the truth? Why is it using student funds to bring a terrorist to campus? Why did it describe Ms. Whitehorn merely as a "revolutionary anti-imperialist" and a "political prisoner"? Wasn't Timothy McVeigh a "political prisoner," too? After all, Mr. McVeigh had radical political views of his own. What's next? Perhaps the AAASP will bring Osama bin Laden to speak on campus; he, like Ms. Whitehorn, hoped to destroy the U.S. Capitol Building.

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ROE V. WADE from page 1 opened doors for women, others do not think there have been necessary parallel shifts in structural or cultural treatment of women. Amy Laura Hall, assistant professor in the Divinity School, said the decision was, for many, the only answer to the question of the tragically unexpected pregnancy

resulting from non-consensual sex. “Roe v. Wade was also, for some, a concession made in the face of a society unwilling to make room for women and children in the larger economy,” Hall wrote in an e-mail.

Although Duke administrators are expected to announce major changes to University policy this semester, Hall cited current limited maternity leave options for pregnant women at Duke as an example ofthese societal inconsistencies. “Since Roe v. Wade, women have entered all sectors of the workforce, but the workforce has hardly changed to accommodate the fact that women have babies.... This is, increasingly, a culture that accepts abortion as a tool to keep women compliant with the norms of the U.S. market,” Hall wrote. “I find Roe vs. Wade to be a dubious victory for women and children.” The 1973 decision also spurred con-

WHITEHORN„o m pa gei awareness in prison—made her a perfect addition to a six-part lecture series in her class, “Teaching Race,

Teaching Gender.” But a heavily critical column last week in the Opinion Journal, a division of The Wall Street Journal, sparked a number of letters about Thompson’s choosing her as a speaker, most of them addressed to President Nan Keohane. The column was motivated by information from the DCU. “That the African Studies Department, the Center for Black Culture, the Women’s Studies Department and the John Hope Franklin Center would sponsor such an event is a travesty,” DCU officials said in a

statement.

It is “particularly flagrant that the University and co-sponsors are sending their funds the way of someone who is trying to kill our leaders,” added Bill English, president of the DCU. “How does this reflect on us as a prestigious university?” Whitehorn, 60, expressed shock at the negative press. Active on the campus lecture circuit—delivering several annual speeches at institutions such as Vassar, Cornell, Columbia, Brown and the Church of St. John

Thompson said she was equally surprised by the

The debate is a free speech issue and the definition

of patriotism does not exclude dissent, she said. David Jarmul, associate vice president for news and communications at Duke, issued a statement last week defending Whitehorn’s speaking on campus. He

consideration of the candidate’s overall judicial philosophy and abilities has, and will, continue to be harmful.” Thirty years after the decision, little has changed in the abortion debate. “To me, [the abortion question] really points to some unresolveable conflict. I can’t think how you can get people to compromise and that’s why this issue is so frightening to people,” said Will Willimon, dean of the Chapel. “I was looking back at a seminary I wrote while I was at Yale Divinity School about the [abortion] debate and I was disappointed because it was the same debate then. I get the sense people are exhausted after 30 years of discussion.”

said Whitehorn’s invitation was a free speech issue for the University and that both he and his colleagues agree that Duke is acting in an appropriate manner by upholding the invitation. Thompson said there has been unanimous support from AAAS faculty members for Laura Whitehorn’s continuation in the series.

“When people hear the word ‘terrorist,’ they stop thinking,” said Charles Payne, chair of AAAS. “If you think about how civic climate has changed since 9/11, the term ‘terrorist’ gets thrown around in some ways that aren’t helpful.” English, who is a senior and also a columnist for The Chronicle, stressed that the DCU is not trying to censor anyone, and that they were simply asking for an “explanation.” This is “another example of perverse priorities,” he said, describing Whitehorn as

“unrepentant.”

In a statement released by the DCU, the group asked, “What’s next: a lecture by Osama bin Laden?” “I am shocked that students would use this definition [of terrorism] without knowing what it means,” Whitehorn said. She cites U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, and the possible war in Iraq, as the real terrorism. The purpose of a university, she added, is that all points of view are available for discussion.

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date’s views, or non-views, on the abortion question,” said Professor of Law Thomas Metzloff. “The often singular focus on a possible candidates views on abortion, to the exclusion of a broader

DCU’s reaction to Whitehorn speaking on campus. “Her work was actually the opposite of terrorism,” she said, adding that it was protesting other acts of perceived terrorism. “Part of being patriotic is trying to encourage the government to stand by principles of equality and democracy.”

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the Divine in New York City—she said this is the first time her speaking has garnered any negative publicity. An electronic search of campus publications found no mention of her. “I was a pacifist for much of my life, and I am very against terrorism,” she said. “Terrorism is the targeting of civilians, a reactionary form of arms struggle. I’ve never been involved in targeting civilians. [The U.S. Capitol bombing] was a symbolic action. Great care that no one would be hurt was taken, even the janitorial staff.” While she does not encourage anyone else to copy what she did at the U.S. Capitol, she said she is not ashamed of her motives.

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By TED MANN The Chronicle

When the men’s basketball team travels to Raleigh to face N.C. State tonight at 9 p.m. in the RBC Center, it will carry with it some unfamiliar and unwanted baggage; a loss. The No. 3 Blue Devils (12-1, 3-1 in the ACC) became the last team in the nation to lose a game when they were dominated at Maryland this Saturday, a loss which dropped the Blue Devils from their perch atop the polls and prompted head coach Mike Krzyzewski to criticize the team’s play. “We’re concerned about everything,” Krzyzewski said. “We’ve got a team that still has a lot of development, and [the Maryland game was] not a good effort

This past baseball season, a handful of Seattle Mariners fans were stopped at the gate and told that they would not be allowed inside unless they covered up the “Yankees Suck” T-shirts that they were wearing. “This is about appropriate behavior,” Mariners spokeswoman Rebecca Hale told the Associated Press. “We have a code of conduct, a aP policy for language on clothing and banners and signs. Our feeling was this was not pro- Evan Davis moting what we want.” From ,he cheap seats A bit over the top? Perhaps. But at least the idea was noble Most organizations like to think that their fans act in respectable manners, and every sports team tries to maintain a family atmosphere at its stadium, arena or field. Well, all but one. Welcome to the Comcast Center, a brand new building residing on the campus of the University of Maryland. Comcast, not as in a Comcast family with a long legacy at the school, but rather Comcast Cable, the company to which the school sold out.

on our part.” Aside from trying to regain its swagger following the lopsided defeat, Duke hopes to avoid losing consecutive games for the first time since November 1999. The last time Duke lost two straight regular season ACC games was in 1997, when J.J. Redick was in seventh grade. Recent history suggests that Redick and the Blue Devils will rebound quite nicely. Since Duke’s last back-to-back losses in 1999, it has won its ten games following a regular season defeat by an average of 29.3 points. Krzyzewski is savoring the opportunity to find out if this year’s team has the same ability to

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Women swimmers win, men fall at Wilmington By EVAN DAVIS The Chronicle

A week after taking first place in every event against Davidson, the men’s and women’s swimming teams came away with a split decision against UNC-Wilmington. The women (6-4) downed the Seahawks 142-97, while the men (2-6) were not as fortunate, losing 130-101. In their victory, the women captured nine of the 13 events. Freshman Nora Stupp and junior Amy Halligan were instrumental, playing a role in six of the first-place finishes. Stupp won the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:56.45, while also posting a time of 5:10.39 in the 500 freestyle to place first. Halligan took first place in both the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:10.03 and the 200 butterfly, finishing in 2:07.58. Stupp and Halligan also were components of victorious relay squads, as Stupp swam the second leg of the 400 freestyle relay, which posted a time of 3:38.19, while Halligan went third on the 400 medley relay, the meet’s first race. Lauren Cornet, Lauren Hancock and

Katie Fay also placed first in races for Duke, while Jeanne Dewitt placed first in the three-meter dive. “We’ve been training a lot the last month,” said Katie Ness, who swam the third leg on Duke’s winning 400 freestyle relay team. “So the meet was more of a mental challenge to get up and swim.” The men, however, were not as successful as their female counterparts, capturing only four of the 13 events. Andy Storm’s time of 2:09.16 in the 200 breaststroke was nearly four seconds faster

than that of teammate Ben Rowland, who placed second. Cooper Moore won the 500 freestyle by an even greater margin, beating teammate Teddy Heifers by 4.63 seconds. Billy Pearce also posted a win in the 200 backstroke, while the 400 freestyle relay placed first with a time of 3:07.81. “We swam against Wilmington at the George Mason Invitational, so we knew what we were coming into,” Storm said. “But we were tired from training. There certainly weren’t any individual best times.” Robert Samuel contributed to this story.

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Va. Tech Invitational leads to EC AC, IC4A bids By PAUL CROWLEY The Chronicle

After performing strongly in the field events at the North Carolina Collegiate Big 12 competition last week, the Blue Devils distinguished themselves on the track Friday and Saturday at the Tech in Virginia Invitational

Blacksburg, Va. The middle and long distance runners ruled the day for Duke, with a host of Blue Devils qualifying for the ECAC/IC4A Championships at Boston University in early March. The two organizations are both umbrella leagues that include a multitude of colleges on the East Coast; the ECAC holds the women’s championships, and the IC4A holds the men’s title competition. Friday, the first day of the competition, the Blue Devils qualified three women in the 1,000-meter run. Junior Lauren Sally Matic, freshman Meyerhoff, and sophomore Meghan Leon logged times of 2:51.37, 2:53.40,

and 2:57.07, respectively. The men’s middle-distance runners turned in a strong performance, as the Duke distance medley relay team earned

a spot at the IC4A championships. Freshman Allison Nesbitt proved that distance was not Duke’s sole strong

suit, improving her ECACs qualifying time in the 60-meter hurdles to 8.73, the second fastest time in Duke history. The meet’s second day featured similarresults to the first, and many of the same Blue Devils turned in noteworthy efforts. Matic qualified in a second event with her blistering 2:14.39 800meter run; Meyerhoff did the same with a speedy 9:45.17 in the women’s 3,000-meter run. Senior distance runner Donny Fowler was the only Duke man to qualify Saturday, with his 1:53.95 time in the 800-meter run earning him a place at the IC4A championships. The cut-off time for qualifying was 1:54.4. “I wasn’t expecting to qualify this early,” Fowler said. “With about a lap to go, I just took off. I’m very happy, of course.” Both the men’s and women’s teams head to Chapel Hill next weekend to compete in the Tar Heel Invitational. The men will compete Friday and the women Saturday.

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FRESHMAN KEITH RAND (left) placed third in the 5000-meter run with a time of 15:36.36

Free throws give FSU last-second win ACC names top 50 men, From wire reports Florida State 60 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida State 59 was unable to beat Oemson Clemson in 60 minutes of play. Fortunately for the Seminoles, the game went on a little longer. Officials added 0.4 seconds back on the clock after a late foul, giving Anthony Richardson a chance to hit two free throws and clinch the first ACC win of the season for Florida State (10-6, 1-4 in the ACC) with a 6059 win over Clemson. The Tigers (11-3, 1-3) looked to have pulled out a 59-58 win when the Seminoles’ Nate Johnson missed a jumper in the final seconds. However, Richardson snagged the offensive

rebound and officials called the Tigers’ Sharrod Ford for a foul as the clock expired. The call prompted a video review.

LARRY SHYATT said that he did not disagree with the call on Sharrod Ford with 0.4 seconds left.

After the time was added back, Richardson, who had missed his only previous try from the line Tuesday, sank both with perfect form. Richardson had hit his last 13 freethrow attempts entering the game. “They reviewed [the foul] over and

over and over,” Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton said. “So I’m assuming they had to be accurate. They took their time to get it right.... We felt very confident that Anthony got fouled before the light went on.” Clemson coach Larry Shyatt hoped to get a foul called on the subsequent inbounds play, when contact was made on the Tigers’ Edward Scott as Chris Hobbs hurled the ball downcourt. However, officials signaled no call and Florida State escaped with the win. “I thought we executed that last play exactly how we had to,” Shyatt said. “We inbounded the ball exactly where it was supposed to be. We got the charge on Scott, we just didn’t get the call.” Despite the no-call, Shyatt said he did not disagree with the earlier call that resulted in the two free throws. In a game the Seminoles rarely led, Tim Pickett led Florida State with 21 points and snagged three steals to break the Seminoles’ three-game losing streak. Richardson added 12 and had six rebounds for the Seminoles,

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UVa falls against rival Virginia Tech By HANK KURZ The Associated Press 73 BLACKSBURG, Va Bryant Matthews 55 and his Virginia Tech Virginia teammates knew their annual game against Virginia had a lot riding on it, not only for their coach, but possibly also for their prospects this season. Coming off a 92-79 victory against Providence in their best performance of the season, Tuesday night’s game was a chance to keep momentum going and possibly make a four-game homestand a season-maker. And for Ricky Stokes, in his fourth season as Virginia Tech’s coach, it was another chance to get his first victory against his alma mater. Thanks to Matthews, who scored 22 of his career-high 30 points in the secVa. Tech

ond half, and a defense that held Virginia scoreless for the final 3:22, the Hokies accomplished it all with an emphatic 73-55 victory. “We’re building onto something that we’ve already established—two wins in a row,” Matthews said after the Hokies ended a six-game losing streak against Virginia. “We’ve got to keep on sticking it to people.” The Hokies (8-8) did it by getting a season-high 16 steals, outscoring the Cavaliers 17-1 from the foul line and with a huge dose of Matthews. He was 12-for-20 from the field with three three-pointers and a handful of dunks, grabbed nine rebounds and had five steals and two assists. The career-high was also his second See VIRGINIA on page 14

women From staff reports The Atlantic Coast Conference announced its men’s and women’s Golden Anniversary teams yesterday, naming the top 50 men and women ever to play sports in the ACC. Duke finished tied for second overall placing 14 athletes on the teams—six men and eight women. North Carolina led the conference with 27, 12 men and 15 women, while N.C. State tied with the Blue Devils, placing the same numbers on each team. Five of the six Blue Devils chosen were former men’s basketball players; Shane Battier (1998-2001), Johnny Dawkins (1983-1986), Grant Hill (19911994), Christian Laettner (1989-1992) and Jay Williams (2000-2002). The other male member from the University was outdoor track star Dave Sime (1954-1956). The women’s selection from the University were more diverse. Beth Bauer (1998-2000), Jenny Chuasiriporn (1995-1999) and Candy Hannemann (1998-2001) represented the golf team, while Alana Beard (2000-2002), Chris Moreland (19851988) and Georgia Schweitzer (19982001) from the women’s basketball program were also selected. Swimming and tennis also each placed one on the list, with Nancy Hogshead (1981) and Vanessa Webb (1995-1999) respectively. The Golden Anniversary team selections are part of the year-long celebration ofthe 50th anniversary ofthe ACC.

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bounce back from losses as his former Duke squads. “I want to see our reaction after [losing to] Maryland,” Krzyzewski said. “Has it done something to our confidence level? Do we get stronger as a result of that loss? Do we learn?” Duke will be confronted with a talented but inconsistent N.C. State (9-4, 2-1) team determined to end a 13-game losing streak against the Blue Devils. “We haven’t beaten them since I’ve been here, so we [would like] to change that,” N.C. State forward Marcus Melvin said. “When you play those

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No. 3 Duke (12-1,3-1) Coach Mike Krzyzewski Guard Chris Duhon, Jr. 9.7 ppg, 7.9 apg. Guard JJ. Redick, Fr. 16.7 ppg, 2.1 apg. Forward Dahntay Jones. Sr, 17.4 ppg, 5.5 rpg. Forward Shavlik Randolph. Fr. 9.8 ppg. 4.7 rpg. Center Shelden Williams, Fr. 6.8 ppg, 4.5 rpg.

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Coach Herb Sendek Guard Clifford Crawford, Sr. 8.5 ppg, 4.5 apg. Guard Scooter Sherrill, Jr. 10.5 ppg, 3.5 apg. Forward Julius Hodge, So. 18.8 ppg, 6.2 rpg. Forward Marcus Melvin, Jr. 13.2 ppg , 6.3 rpg Center —Josh Powell. So. 12.2 ppg, 5.;2 rpg.

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idful of players who can stake a legitiir in the ACC. Dahntay Jones, however, iding scorer, made his name by shutIf the two battle to a draw, give the ise Marcus Melvin and Josh Powell are e better than Duke’s starting big men. ).

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JULIUS HODGE, shown here last year against Duke, is second in the ACC in scoring.

assists, steals, field-goal percentage, and free-throw percentage. “He’s been outstanding all year,” Krzyzewski said of Hodge. “He does everything, and he does it well. He’s the key to their team. When he’s playing well, they go up a notch.” Fortunately for Duke, N.C. State lacks the strong inside presence that Duke’s toughest competitors this season have had. The Wolfpack’s two biggest contributors in the paint are 6foot-9 Josh Powell and the 6-8 Melvin, both of whom average fewer than 14 points and seven rebounds per game. As a result, Duke will be able to focus

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Duke be saddled with consecutive losses for the first time in years, but it would find itself in another unfamiliar position: the middle of the pack in the suddenly tight ACC standings. Duke is tied for first with Maryland at 3-1, but several other teams—including N.C. State—lurk just behind at 2-1. The close race sits fine with Krzyzewski, who is looking forward to the challenge facing his young team. “We’ve had a couple of good days of practice and we’re going to get ready for the conference now,” Krzyzewski said. “We’ll be ready to play. The only way we’ll get through this is to play good people in tough places.” Gopack.com contributed to this story.

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DAVIS from page 11 The arena was wonderfully designed, with student seating surrounding the perimeter of the court as well as forming a “wall” behind the opponent’s second-half basket. Bringing the students close to the action is usually an admirable goal, but at Maryland, there’s one catch. The court isn’t simply surrounded by students. It’s surrounded by “F-k Duke” T-shirts as well—except many replace the dashes with a ‘u’ and a ‘c’. Saturday’s Duke-Maryland game should have let the nation see Maryland students’ excitement and energy, but as far as ABC was concerned, the risk was

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incredibly difficult to find an area without that magic four letter word. For the school, this was probably a blessing in disguise. One assumes that the school would rather be known for mottos such as “Go Terps” or even “Duke sucks,” something PG-13 at worst. But even without the airtime, Terp fans did their part to get their profanity on the air; “F-k Duke, clap, clap” became a chant that was repeated several times during the game, effectively adding more “color” to the broadcast than ABC’s color man, Dick Vitale. Maryland fans’ image is already less than sparkling. Two years ago, the mother of Duke center Carlos Boozer was hit in the head by a full water bottle after the Blue Devils beat the Terrapins in overtime. Maryland students have rioted following big wins and losses, one time causing over $500,000 in damages. The school has been trying to reverse this

trend and clean up its image. Having your student body decked out in profanity doesn’t help. After the incident involving Renee Boozer, Yow, President C.D. Mote and head coach Gary Williams wrote open letters to the Maryland community, asking for the fans to correct their behavior. “The chant of F— Duke must stop,” Williams wrote. “There are young kids at the game, plus most adults find the cheer objectionable, plus it shows a lack of class.” The pleas have been made—and ignored. It’s time for Maryland to start monitoring what its students wear inside the Comcast Center, or else risk what to some may seem impossible: watching its fans’ reputation grow even worse. Evan Davis is a Trinity senior and senior associate sports editor. His column appears every Wednesday.

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ANTHONY RICHARDSON had 12 points for the Seminoles, including the game-winning free throws

FSU from page 12 who won despite trailing throughout the first half and never leading by more than one. The Seminoles earned their first lead 1:03 into the second half, when Pickett sank a layup off a pass from Richardson to put the Seminoles up 37-36. Florida State trailed after scoring just 10 points in the game’s first 10 minutes.

The Tigers stretched their lead late in the second half through the perimeter shooting of Shawan Robinson, who nailed a trio of three-pointers and another jumper to put the Tigers up 3523 with 3:17 left in the first half. However, Robinson was held scoreless in the second half. Olu Babalola scored 12 points to lead Clemson, which has come out on top in only three of the series’ 15 contests in Tallahassee.

in as many games, following a 26-point effort against the Friars, but he said winning was what mattered. “If I get a career high and we don’t win, it means nothing,” he said. Stokes said that beating Virginia meant no more to him than the victory over Providence or any other team, but his team said otherwise. “I know it’s an emotional victory for him,” Carlos Dixon said. The Hokies took the lead for good with 9:54 left when Eric Branham made a pair of free throws. Moments later, Matthews fed a streaking Branham for a layup, pushing the lead to 52-48, and the end was nearing. Virginia (10-6), coming off a onepoint loss at Clemson on Saturday, scored only seven points in the final 10:20 and fell to 1-5 on the road. The Cavaliers’ Travis Watson scored 11 and was their only player in double figures. Elton Brown was the only one to attempt free throws. He was l-for-6. “They’re big. Their size hurt us,” Virginia coach Pete Gillen said of the

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expect to win.” With the crowd of 8,152 hooting and roaring with each positive play as the final minutes wore down, Matthews put the finishing touches on the victory with two emphatic two-handed dunks in the final minute. The last came with 2.9 seconds left, and when the clock ran out, hundreds of fans ran onto the court to celebrate with the players. “I’ve never seen nothing like it,” Dixon said.

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The Chronicle Keep Roe v. Wade marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most controversial U.S. Supreme Court decisions ever, Roe u. Wade, and in a debate often characterized by extreme, rigid rhetoric, this anniversary presents an opportunity for thoughtfiil discussion on how abortion fits in with American society and values. The basic premise of the ruling—that women should have a right to do as they please with their own bodies—remains sound and is consistent with how most Americans view their rights to privacy. Before Roe u. Wade, women in states that outlawed abortion were forced to carry to term pregnancies that they did not want, or they chose to have illegal, unsafe abortions. Even now, many American women have limited access to abortion clinics, and doctors who perform abortions often face intimidation and threats. This only underlines the need to keep most abortions safe and legal. But the ability of a woman’s privacy rights to defend abortion only exists as long as one sees a fetus as simply part of a woman’s body. In the first trimester of a pregnancy, a developing child is clearly physically dependent on the mother and could not live on its own outside the womb. It lacks many of the basic characteristics of a human being, and women should have the right to an abortion in the first trimester for any reason. Ensuring the continuation of this right goes a long way in protecting abortion rights because the vast majority of abortions do or can take place in the first three months. By contrast, abortions in the last three months of a pregnancy are far more rare, and at such a point a developing child has a very high chance of survival outside the mother’s womb. To allow indiscriminate abortion at such a late stage would be morally abhorrent, and states that have put restrictions on late-term abortions are acting reasonably and prudently. Women whose life is endangered by a late-term pregnancy should be the most clear exception to this rule. Abortion rights proponents claim that late-term restrictions present a “slippery slope” that would eventually allow the elimination of all abortion rights, and opponents hold up “partial-birth abortions” as a political red herring; both could benefit from realizing that there is a middle ground. Some time between the first and third trimesters lies a point at which a child becomes viable and deserves greater protection. This line differs for every pregnancy, and it has certainly changed over 30 years as doctors’ ability to keep premature babies alive has improved. This line should be the guiding standard for when abortion should become restricted. Court rulings do not last forever, especially those that depend on cultural and scientific beliefs that are easily subject to change over time. Roe v. Wade is one such decision, and other adjustments may be necessary as genetic selection becomes more of a reality. However, the vast majority of abortions should remain safe and legal.

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We had folks taunting and ogling. There is a lot that we can do to make it more visible, but less discomforting. Nicole Manley, Panhellenic Council adviser, on changes to the end of this year’s Panhel sorority rush (see story, page seven).

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Duke professor defends terrorists in commentary As a Duke alumnae, I comment on Ebrahim Moosa’s piece found in the Sunday Jan. 19 edition of The Washington entitled “Peace Times, Patina Under Glass.” It did not surprise me that given his ideological history of disAmerica and paraging Israel, Moosa portrays

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rorists as pitiful freedom fighters struggling against West. “imperial” the According to Moosa, in defense of terrorist Palestinian groups, there is

moral equivalence between Israel’s right to self defense and the Palestinian “resistance” movement. He’s right about that only in the opposite direction; Israelis do not celebrate in the streets when Palestinian no

civilians are accidentally killed in the crossfire. But Palestinians march around the streets with the Qur’an in one hand and an AK-47 in the other rejoicing the bloodbaths they organize and execute. Moosa claims Muslims want to live in free societies like the United States, but is

Abortion should continue Today is the 30th anniversary of Roe u. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal in the United States. This landmark decision cited the right to privacy as grounds for legalizing

abortion.

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when

Americans are faced with threats to other civil liberties, less focus is being placed on their freedom to choose. Although most voters are prochoice, the current actions of elected officials are not representative of popular opinion. The George W. Bush administration and the newly elected Congress have put reproductive freedoms in crisis. Currently, the lower level courts are being stacked with anti-choice judges. In addition, if President George W. Bush

to be

this why they choose to rally around leaders like Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein? Is this why they are oppressing half their populations? And finally,

yes, President George W. Bush is hell-bent on going to war with evil Muslims who want to destroy America just as Osama Bin Laden is hellbent on destroying Western civilization. Perhaps the only “moral cretins” here are apologists such as Moosa. Katherine Kelly Trinity ’O2

protected in U.S.

places anti-choice justices on the Supreme Court, the delicate 5-4 balance will be tipped, potentially reversing the outcome ofRoe v. Wade. Under these circumstances, we will regress to the days of backalley abortions. Certified abortion providers may soon be replaced with coat hangers and “street doctors.” The so-called pro-life movement is misguided in its efforts to prevent abortion. By supporting abstinence-only education, pro-life advocates perpetuate the circumstances that lead to abortions in the first place. The pro-choice movement not only aims at keeping abortion safe and legal, but also making abortions less necessary by preventing unintended pregnan-

cies through comprehensive sex education. The pro-choice movement empowers men and women to make decisions about their own sexual health, from reducing the occurrence of STDs to promoting family planning. Today, join in celebration with the millions of men and women who support sexual health and reproductive freedom. To take action, www.naral.org visit or www.saveroe.com.

Nicole Ambrosetti Trinity ’O5 Ivy Chen Trinity ’O5 AND TWO OTHERS The writers are members of

Students for Choice

Student on leave-of-absence experiences troubles Hello, friends. My name is Jeremy C. I am a sophomore amidst a leave-ofabsence. I am back, visiting school this week. You may have seen me around campus, shivering near building entrances, waiting to be swiped in by a passer-by. my That’s because DukeCard has been completely frozen: no flex, no dining, no vending, no access to campus buildings. I wasn’t even able to get into Wilson Recreation Center for a workout today.

I spoke with a man at the DukeCard office, who, after typing in my Social Security number and clicking around a bit, slowly shook his head and said, still looking at the computer screen, “Nope, your account has been suspended.” Suspended? Did I get one too many speeding tickets? Other than my webbased, automated ACES

account, there is essentially no evidence around here

that I still exist, which, I

think, is a bit ridiculous. I would rather take the positive approach than the bitter approach. I hope that in the near future temporarily absent students like myself (a.k.a. those not currently paying tuition and housing fees) can be recognized as part of the Duke community during short visits. Next stop; Allen Building, If I can get in. Jeremy Chapman Trinity ’O5

University should invest its money in a mono-rail With the University having completed a $2 billion capital campaign, it is distressing that we refuse to do anything “fun” with the money. Why not build a mono-rail? A mono-rail would instantly solve all the University’s transportation problems. In addition, the

“cool factor” would be offthe

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charts. Surely applicants would be lured away from Ivy League schools with the promise of riding a monorail to class. At least ternporarily, class attendance with would skyrocket, everyone excited about riding the mono-rail. And surely there is away to work the mono-rail into the campus’s

Gothic theme. With all of Duke’s wealthy alums, it’s certain that someone out there has the Mark Cubanesque vision and enthusiasm to donate a mono-rail, We are all waiting for this person to emerge

Tom Price Trinity ’O6

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A unique experience “Dude...honestly, on a scale of 1 to 10, how black am I?” “Oh my god, it’s gonna be SO awkward going there.... I’m gonna feel soooo uncomfortable.” “Oh, woe is me, I’m white and unable to interact with people different than myself!” I have heard the above comments (okay, at least the first two) from my nonblack friends over and over again. Perhaps surprisingly to many, I’m not Phil in talking about a visit to a Black Student y Kurian Alliance meeting or a trip to the local historically black college. I’m talking about The Pen is Mightier something as simple as a social event, a gathering of people having fun. What I’m talking about is black parties. I specify that the problem is particular to blacks (and not minorities in general) because the relationships among whites and non-black minority groups are fundamentally different, since the relationship between blacks and whites has been almost exclusively characterized by fear. Many Latinos can pass for white in appearance, while many Asians are identified as model minorities by the white community. The same fear is not instilled in the hearts of white Americans by gatherings of Latinos and Asians because that fear has not been nurtured in them from an early age as acutely as with blacks. Slavery has, undoubtedly, played a role in fostering this peculiar attitude. The “problem” with blacks is that they are not palatable to the vast majority of white America. To many, blacks are loud, rude, arrogant and unrefined. If they would just act more properly, more like whites then of course all these problems would go away and race relations would be easy. Perhaps it is because of the small numbers at Duke and thus any black congregation startles the eye, but it is certain that gatherings of black people can scare the holy bajeezus out ofnon-blacks. It is important to recognize that these fears associated with attending black parties are unfounded. The fact that students attend other parties without the same regard for the dangers of those social scenes implicitly reveals their conviction that blacks are unsafe to be around or that they are inherently more violent than non-blacks. This characterization of blacks, particularly black males, as perpetrators of violence, crime and sexual assault is ludicrous at an institution of higher learning, but these social mores continue to pervade our thinking and go all but unnoticed. What adds insult to injury for most blacks is the selfrighteous way in whichwhites who DO manage to make it to these parties complain about their lack of acceptance within the group. Don’t get me wrong: I applaud the efforts ofindividuals who try in any way to get to know people differentfrom themselves. However, the lack of acceptance felt by whites at these parties is often more perpetrated by their own feelings as an outsider rather than by any real animosity from the blacks at the party. Further, blacks deal with this silent burden of exclusion each and every day of their lives—when they go to eat, in their classes, at the gym—not because they wantto expand their horizons or try something new but because it is required ofthem to cope within a white society, a world in which “white” equates with what is normal and most desired. A black person cannot simply “leave the party” and choose not to deed with living as a minority in the group. Consider the fact that blacks are nearly three times more likely than whites to be labeled “mentally retarded” and that the odds of being labeled mentally retarded actually increase for African-American boys in middle- and upper-income districts. Taken together with the evidence for a strong correlation between educational achievement and socioeconomic status, these data can only tell us that a latent fear and misunderstanding ofblacks continue to pervade American thought. The fact that we still cannot interact with each other on a social level is the real problem of race relations in America. Politicians may use black voters to serve their agendas and save political face, but the racial goal we strive for in America is simply one on paper. When talking about social problems disproportionately affecting black America, we focus on university affirmative action policies rather than addressing the nation’s darkest fears of interracial marriage or even befriending a black family in the neighborhood, always forgetting the daily psychological trauma laid heavily on the shoulders of African-Americans by the media, by the education system and by our own friends. Only by making fundamental changes in how we approach social situations with black Americans can we hope to stop hiding behind the excuse of race in our daily fives. *

Philip Kurian is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears every third Wednesday.

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Fighting Moneta’s repression “Romantic escapism "Waste ofTime. Superficial. I never would have expected these terms to be used by school officials in describing a student-initiated project. Unfortunately, these are the words used by Larry Moneta and Sue Wasiolek to criticize an undertaking that is exactly what this campus needs. To come out so strongly against the off-campus reorganization ofSAE and Kappa Sig is a sign that Duke University no longer cares about those who choose to not simply fall in line Tal Warning freshmen about off-campus Hirsbbera fraternities in such an outright manner k Like It Is as these two did is a disgrace. These two groups are fairly playing the hand Duke has dealt them. Only they did not accept failure. They chose to create thenown college experience and diversity, rather than have it force-fed to them by the powers that be. Moneta would not have been happier had the fraternities accepted the punishments they were being offered, losing pledge classes and fading silently from the scene. Instead, they did what should be expected from students ofthis so-called “institute of higher learning.” They beat the system, and now it appears that the system is running scared. Two years ago, Several ofmy friends and I accepted our bids to Phi Kappa Psi, having received threats of sanctions, yet not fully aware of what was at stake. Less than a week later, the Annual Review Committee took away our housing, and all but led to the dissolution of Phi Psi. The Inter-fraternity Council had no problem taking the $4O fees from the 30 or so of us who accepted bids and then dropped us like a bad habit. We were shell-shocked, and while our friends in other fraternities were all pledging, we were left feeling betrayed. I only wish we had half the vision that the members of Kappa Sig and SAE have now (and they will be known by those names no matter what they are forced to call themselves). Before we knew it, it was April, the school had taken our bench, and we juniors were handed the fate ofbeing the last Phi Psi class on campus, if you could even call us that. The school, I’m sure, was ecstatic.The first step in its goal to kill the social life at Duke was complete, and there would be no formidable response. That was until SAE started what I hope becomes the norm at Duke—their own rush, separate from the rules and regulations of the IFC. Adding Kappa Sig this year is the ®_

next step in turning the tables on people like Moneta. Not only is it a great effort to continue tradition despite major setbacks, but it also finally shows the administration that we will not stand back while they attempt to have us fit their mold of a Duke student. It is the school’s worst nightmare that the fraternity system which seemed to be given its last rites only a few months ago now has a system in place to not only survive, but also is out of the school’s jurisdiction. Last week Moneta wrote a guest commentary, writing about his vision for a “village.” While it is easy to take credit for the extra beds now on West Campus, what changes have in fact been made to benefit us, the heart and soul of Duke University? Eliminating Trent as a residence hall? Must have been such a tough decision once you could house the population of a small country on West Campus. And let me tell you, the addition of Subway has made my fife so much more “diverse.” Moneta goes further, claiming that the move of the student nightlife off campus is due to the “growing maturity and sophistication of the student body.” It couldn’t have anything to do with the systematic elimination of any fun on campus, could it? And as much as it pains me to say, let’s see the guest commentary Moneta provides after the first, and certainly inevitable, death due to drunk driving coming from an off-campus bar. Then we will truly see how beneficial this “village” will be. Moneta and Wasiolek should fix the problems that exist, before showing theirfear of off-campus fraternities that have not even been given a chance to succeed. Let me be the first to officially call for an apology from Moneta and Wasiolek to the members of Kappa Sig and SAE. Shame on you. If there is one thing this school should encourage, it is student initiative. To publicly not only oppose but also severely criticize these two off-campus fraternities’ efforts goes against everything this “University” should stand for. It has worked at universities like Emory, and it will work here. I am making a public call to those fraternities and/or living groups who are being targeted by the school: join in with SAE and Kappa Sig. In the words of Rage Against the Machine, “take the power back.” Show this school that you can do anything you set your mind to, and that you will not be pressured into the “village” image those we pay to run our University have for us.

Tal Hirshberg is a Trinity junior. His column appears every third Wednesday.

Islam—the misunderstood religion The founders, some 300 years ago, had the vision and foresight to establish freedom of religion and prohibit any laws restricting the free exercise thereof. Because of this, people of all religions have chosen to live in America. But now Hamza the scope of these Aziz freedoms is curbed for many Muslims, as more and more are being profiled, denied visas even for education, have their phones tapped, etc. Every day Muslims are in the news (Fox News seems fixated on them), generally in the following context: picture of a bearded man, followed by some name the newscaster mispronounces every time, something about an explosion or explosive or some virus or some toxic chemical being made in an apartment. The connection between a Muslim and some sinister activity has been reinforced so much in the media that people disregard statements promoting the peaceful side of Muslims and Islam. Frankly, this is a great misfortune. Our modem American society must try to deal with Muslims by trying to understand the values of Islam and the culture and history of Muslims rather than by closing the channels of reason and allowing others to foster stereotypes, misconceptions and bias notions toward Muslims. Muslims simply profess Islam, a religion which emphasizes belief in

one God (Allah), the creator of this universe, the provider and protector of mankind and all the living and nonliving things therein. He has no partner in His creation and He alone is running the affairs of this universe and He alone is worthy of worship. God places total responsibility on each individual for his or her actions for which they are answerable to God (and to society to a certain degree).

Furthermore, Islam places great value on the protection ofhuman life, be it a Muslim or a non-Muslim. It provides honor, dignity and stature to women that was unprecedented in human civilization and provides guidelines to establish a just and peaceful society. In practice, however, Muslims around the world do not present a good model of these and other Islamic teachings. They are doing things that are contrary to what Islam requires of them and as a result, they become targets of criticism. Positive and balanced criticism is essential, but undue criticism that steps into the realm of propaganda is wrong. Today in the West, religious and academic scholars, blinded by their preconceived notions and prejudices, are consumed in criticizing Islam and Muslim societies. They create suspicion and fear regarding Islamic laws and the spread of Islamic ideas. Some in their failure to curb Islam have stooped so low as to make slanderous remarks about Muhammad (pbuh) and Islam. In September 2001, when a large number of innocent lives were lost

because of the highly condemnable act of some Muslims, it provided an ideal opportunity for some to further spew out their venom against Muslims and Islam. (Some groups of our society were in fact probably waiting for such an opportunity). Numerous books and

articles have since been written, and continue to be written, spreading hate about Islam and about Muslims, branding them with all kind of names. On the other hand, there are others, who in their professional pursuit and intellectual honesty, such as Hodgson, Armstrong, Sells, Wolfe and others have presented a rather objec-

tive analysis of Islam and its impact on mankind, thereby promoting religious understanding and harmony rather than widening conflicts between religious ideologies. Given these two sides, ask yourself if you would want to live in a society under persistent fear where its character is determined by hatemongers, where people live behind walls of hatred and apprehension, or in a society with mutual trust and harmony among its members. The choice may seem obvious, as presented above, but the difficulty is in fulfilling it in reality. In closing, I urge the saner elements of Duke community and community at large to exert social pressure against policies and individuals that try to create dissensions in the fabric of our society. Hamza Aziz is a Trinity junior. His column appears every third Wednesday.

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