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Moneta shakes up personnel Also at Wednesday night’s DSG meeting, legislators approved a referendum question on raising the student activity fee. By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

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A RINGTAIL LEMUR sits among the brush of the Primate Center. The center is home to hundreds of prosimian primates, and whether administrators decide to continue with a downsizing of the biological anthropology and anatomy department could determine if the center stays open.

Cuts threaten to close Primate Center By KELLY ROHRS The Chronicle

The announcement of potential cutbacks to the faculty of the Biological Anthropology and Anatomy department has heightened anxiety about the future of the Primate Center. Even though the Primate Center is a separate entity from BAA, the proposed cutbacks to the department cast further doubt on the likelihood that the Primate Center will remain at the University. All the center’s directors have been

BAA professors since the department’s inception in 1988. “When I see the demise of [BAA], it makes me very worried about the Pri-

mate Center,” said center director William Hylander. “Like it or not, they’re intrinsically linked.” About two-thirds of the Duke-initiated research done at the center is undertaken by members of the BAA department. All those projects except two are currently run by researchers based in either BAA or the Primate Center itself.

“There will definitely be a lesser number of projects in the future if BAA is reduced,” said Julie Ives, primate research assistant and coordinator of all the research done at the center. “It would really affect us also if they’re not taking in as many graduate students in the future. To me, personally, it paints a grim picture of the Primate Center.” Downsizing the BAA department, however, will not necessarily translate

Student activities took center stage at last night’s Duke Student Government meeting. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta kicked off the evening by announcing a sweeping restructuring of the Office of Student Activities. Later, legislators approved a referendum question proposing an $8.50 per semester increase in the DSG component of the student activities fee. Last semester, the Duke University Union approved a similar referendum question calling for an $ll per semester hike in its component of the fee, and both questions will appear side by side on the ballot of DSG’s spring executive elections. Moneta offered few details about transforming the Office ofStudent Activities to the new Office of Student See DSG on page 8

See PRIMATE CENTER on page 10

Doctors address Duke drops 2nd straight in ACC gap in heart care By PAUL DORAN The Chronicle

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U.S. hospitals often vary widely in the level of care given to patients immediately after heart attacks. Now, Duke is teaming up with other medical centers to increase awareness. By LIANA WYLER The Chronicle the heart If it’s not attack, it might be the care given by doctors afterward that kills a heart attack victim—a problem that Duke doctors are hoping to confront with a new push for greater education of their peers. According to a Medical Center study last fall, some cardiologists are unnecessarily putting the lives of recovering heart attack victims at risk by not adhering to established guidelines by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. In response, Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are paving the way with a nationwide initiative to publicize this issue of quality improvement. “What is novel about these findings is that we were See HEART ATTACKS on page 7

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RALEIGH Wolfpack senior guard Clifford Crawford nailed a pair of key three pointers and cen-

Duke 71 ter Marcus Melvin drained nine-of-10 clutch free throws as the N.C. State Wolfpack snuck away from the men’s basketball team in the waning minutes, winning 80-71 last night at the RBC Center in Raleigh. The loss marked the first time since November of 1999 that the Blue Devils (12-2, 3-2 in the ACC) lost back-to-back games and the first time since 1997 Duke dropped back-to-back conference meetings. The win was also noteworthy for the Wolfpack (104, 3-1), who beat Duke for the first time since dropping the Blue Devils in the opening round of the ACC Tournament in 1997. “On a night when you can certainly say a lot about a lot of individual players I think one word is best, and that is ‘team,’” N.C. State head coach Herb Sendek said. “Tonight was team, team, team.... Anytime you put it together like they did tonight, it puts an accent on ‘team.’” With 7:20 remaining and the Pack holding a slim 5453 margin, Wolfpack sophomore Julius Hodge grabbed an offensive rebound off a Scooter Sherrill jumper that was blocked by Blue Devil freshman Shelden Williams.

FRESHMAN GUARD J.J. REDICK, who scored 24 points Wednesday night, sheds a tear following the men’s basketball team’s loss.

University housing officials will discuss plans for this year>s | ottery and other residential policies at tonight’s Campus Council meeting. See page 3

Students returning from abroad had less of a chance of being placed in Trent Drive Hall or Edens Quadrangle this spring. See page 4

SeeN.C. STATE on page 14 Durham Mayor Bill Bell is renewing efforts to integrate Latinos into the city’s fabric through recreational activities and other programs. See page 5

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NEWS BRIEFS •

Rescuers search for earthquake survivors

Emergency crews dug into piles of collapsed cement and brick Wednesday in Colima, Mexico, to reach victims trapped by an earthquake that killed at least 25 people and registered 7.8 on the Richter scale. •

AOL Time Warner looks to lower debt

In its ongoing efforts to reduce the heavy debt taken on with America Online’s acquisition of Time Warner, AOL Time Warner is considering sales of its Atlanta sports franchises and interests in cable channels. •

United Kingdom considers tuition fees

A proposal, introduced in Parliament, for charging fees to university students for their education is causing serious division within Tony Blair’s cabinet. A mass student protest took place Wednesday in London. •

Cabinet looks to combat faith group bias

The Bush administration, which has made faith-based initiatives a priority on its agenda, is looking for ways to correct what it sees as discrimination against religious groups in the competition for federal funds. •

Parents lose lawsuit against McDonald’s

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against McDonald’s filed by parents of children who claimed its food made them obese, insisting that consumers “cannot blame McDonald’s if they choose to satiate their appetite with a surfeit of supersized McDonald’s products.” News briefs compiled, from wire reports.

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Officials to confront skeptics on Iraq Bush renews condemnation of Hussein amid poll evidence of less war support By STEVEN WEISMAN

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WASHINGTON Officials in President George W. Bush’s administration said Wednesday that next week they would confront France, Germany and other skeptics of military action against Iraq by requiring them to agree publicly that Iraq had defied the Security Council. The officials, expressing exasperation with the refusal of longtime allies to back the United States, said they were vigorously debating whether to seek a second UN. resolution authorizing force against Iraq. At the very least, they said, they will demand that the nations opposed to the American position acknowledge that Iraq has not

supporting a war, Bush condemned the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein. Labeling him “a dangerous, dangerous man with dangerous, dangerous weapons,” the president said in St. Louis that “if Saddam Hussein will

not disarm, the United States of America and friends of freedom-will disarm Saddam Hussein.” The Pentagon, meanwhile, announced that more than 20,000 members of the National Guard and

mass destruction. The administration asserts, though without offering evi-

Reserve had reported for active duty this week. The activations brought to nearly 79,000 the number of National Guard members and Reservists called to active duty for pos-

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dence, that Iraq has thwarted inspectors by hiding the weapons. Confronted Wednesday by recent polls indicating that Americans have

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birds and flight. It also solves another dilemma. This could also be the long-sought answer to the question Scientists in China have found the fossils of a feathered of how birds first took to flight: from the ground up, or from creature, identified as a small dinosaur, that they say casts the trees down? Did some fleet reptiles with feathered forelimbs run faster and faster until they became airborne? Or new light on the origin of birds and their ability to fly. With two sets of wings, one on the forelimbs and the other did tree-dwelling reptiles learn to glide through the forest on its legs, it was a strange-looking animal, something like a canopy, then gradually evolved powered flight? scaled-up, 3-foot-long dragonfly, but with feathers. All four of Only a week ago, scientists had advanced indirect eviits wings were covered with feathers that appear to have dence that seemed to support the ground-up hypothesis. A been arranged in a pattern similar to that of modem birds. study of the habits of modem flightless birds showed that flight may have evolved in two-legged dinosaurs that flapped Even its long tail was fringed in feathers. feathered forelimbs to get better traction to climb slopes. Reporting the discovery in Wednesday’s issue of the jourBut Richard Pram, an ornithologist at the University of nal Nature, the Chinese paleontologists said the animal probably used its four wings to glide from tree to tree, much Kansas, said the four-winged dinosaur, which lived about as flying squirrels do today. This represented, they said, a previously unknown intermediate stage in the evolution of See FOSSILS on page 10 New York Times News Service

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Program for Housing officials to reveal new policies Latino health kicks off By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle

Staffers at a new Medical Center program use a recent federal grant to diagnose why Latinos miss out on health care benefits. >

By CINDY YEE The Chronicle

Although a Medical Center program designed to improve health care for Latinos secured a one-year federal grant at the beginning of September, program coordinators did not find out about the award until October. This little complication aside, planners and newly-hired staffers at the Latino Access to Coordinated Healthcare program wasted no time preparing for Wednesday’s kick-off. Since being notified of the $835,911 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, LATCH coordinators have been busy hiring and training staff, enrolling potential patients, adapting software and building from scratch a computer system for El Centro Hispano, a well-known, selfhelp organization for Latinos. Community health workers began contacting enrolled patients Wednesday, launching without ceremony what has been described as the most comprehensive effort Durham County has had for Latinos in terms of medical care. “People have been really receptive to getting more information on how they can take care of themselves and where they can go for services. We feel it’s going to be a really great thing for the

Latino community,” said Leslie deßosset, LATCH coordinator for El Centro Hispano, the program’s primary contact with the county’s Latino population. Even before LATCH was officially launched Wednesday, El Centro Hispano had logged close to 200 enrollSee LATCH on page 7

CORRECTION In a page six story in the Jan. 22 edition, The Chronicle incorrectly identified a book recommended by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. The book is The Politics of Presidential Appointment by Sheldon Hackney.

Seeking in part to amend a housing lottery that caused anger among many students last spring, Assistant Dean of Residence Life Bill Burig will unveil this year’s undergraduate housing plan at tonight’s Campus Council meeting. Although Burig and Director of Residence Life and Housing Services Eddie Hull would not disclose any details before the meeting, the plan is expected to maintain a number of last year’s policies, including some form of seniority,

all sophomores living on West Campus, linked housing for rising sophomores and an independent corridor. Last year’s system was intended to implement a new upperclass residential life plan, which included opening the West-Edens Link, moving all selective organizations off the center of Main West Campus and adding a new sophomores-on-West requirement. The initial plan last year met with some opposition, as juniors were granted first picks in the lottery process. Both Campus Council and Duke Student Government criticized the policy as unfair to seniors, convincing Bung’s office to institute a seniority-driven process. With seniors guaranteed first crack at the most coveted spots on MainWest and the West-Edens Link, and sophomores taking many of the remaining spots via the new linked dormitory system, many juniors—especially independent male students—were disappointed with their lack of West Campus options. Some juniors were forced to choose Trent singles or Central Campus apartments. Compounding those problems was perhaps the most controversial and problematic element of last year’s plan—the reservation of some West Campus singles for rising sophomores. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta has admitted that the move was a mistake that will not be repeated this year, and said a new policy will ensure that rising seniors who have never lived on West Campus will have that opportunity. Housing officials will also not have to deal with the reallocation of space to selective houses. In 2002, every residential selective living group was relocated throughout campus. This year, the only change anticipated is the arrival of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity on campus after a 10-year absence. The group will most likely take the Edens Quadrangle section that members of the former Kappa Sigma fraternity now occupy. Kappa Sig decided

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UNDERGRADUATES AT LAST SPRING’S HOUSING LOTTERY compare potential rooms during a process that drew much student frustration, particularly from juniors and seniors. to dissolve itself earlier this year. Furthermore, for the first time since the mid-19705, the often-disparaged Trent Drive Hall will not house undergraduate students next year. The longanticipated move will eliminate what has historically been the least popular dorm on campus.

This semester’s process marks the first that Hull will oversee since taking over his newly-created position last semester. In anticipation ofHull’s arrival, Campus Council members discussed in November important questions they hoped he would address in forming the new policy, including: What role should seniority play? What is the ratio of bed space for •

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Is linked housing going to happen? Is the linking process actually creating a sense ofcommunity? Will there be quad “squatting”? Will the housing contract be binding like last year? Are selective living groups going to receive more beds? Will the three-consecutive-year oncampus requirement begin this year? Will Southgate Dormitory continue •

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to be linked to Edens? Campus Council President Andrew Nurkin declined comment until after tonight’s meeting, which will be held at 7 p.m. in the Griffith Board Room in the Bryan Center.

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Students who spend a semester studying abroad on the beaches of Australia and alongside the Seine in Paris have nothing to complain about, right? Ask them in years past, and they might have given you an earful about the travails of returning to on-campus housing. Previously, students returning from abroad faced possible placement in Edens Quadrangle or Trent Drive Hall, each relatively far from the center ofWest Campus. With the West-Edens Link’s opening this year, this spring is the first semester most abroad students have a greater possibility of avoiding placement in Edens or Trent, and some say they have little to complain about. “By and large, students came back to more preferred locations this year,” said Bill Burig, assistant dean of residence life, “But not everyone got exactly what they wanted.” Burig stressed that while the WEL did provide more attractive options for students returning this year than in years past, it did not, by any means, amend all students’ situations and the assignment process did not differ from years past. “It provided one more attractive option for students, it added one more preference, and that expands the number of people that received their preference,” he explained. Abroad students received letters last fall asking them to rank their top quad choices along with whether or not they had a specific roommate request. Burig said his first priority was to keep roommate pairs together. “All of the students that wanted to be together as roommates were put together,” Burig said. Such was the case with Andrew Perlstein and Eric Klinek, juniors returning from Madrid, Spain who asked for space on Main West Campus, the WEL, Edens and Central Campus, in that order. Originally, the housing office placed them on Central Campus in order to keep them together, but later reassigned them to the WEL. Despite not receiving his first choice, Perlstein is content with the new dorm, “Everything functions very well, as it should considering it’s brand new. And having the diner and the coffee shop has been very good,” Perl-

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Australia, last fall, exp. choice to live in the WEL, Main West Campus—a single, double or triple—above those in the WEL. “I got a letter while I was abroad that said this was one of the best years for a student to study abroad and choose to have on-campus housing when they return,” said Howard, who was ultimately placed in the WEL. Howard explained that if she had the chance to rank her choices another time, she would have still preferre Main West, but is happier to be in the WEL than Edens. “I met with Bill Burig when I got back, and h said everyone’s top 10 choices are rooms on Main Wes, and they can’t accommodate everyone,” she said. “At first I was very upset, but I think the WEL is a lot better than Edens.” Burig said that while they do not keep numbers on where students were placed this year in comparison to past years, he did think that housing reassignment requests “have been on par with other years.” Burig said that no student returning from abi was placed in Trent, despite requests by some s dents to live there. “We only opened Trent for stude: who participated in last spring’s process,” he said, plaining that they had ample space for students side Trent. But Burig added that it is not clear whether “ample space” was a result ofthe WEL or due to the vo ume of vacancies across campus. While the WEL has not revolutionized the on pus housing process for students returning abroad, on the whole students agreed that it has helped eliminate some fears ofreturning to less-desired hous-

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Mayor renews effort to include Latinos in city life By JOHN KORMAN The Chronicle

With Durham’s burgeoning Latino community

now 7 to 8 percent of the city’s total population, Mayor Bill Bell is pushing the city’s Hispanic Outreach Initiative as a renewed attempt to address

Latinos’ increasing needs. Spearheaded by Bell since last September, the initiative has entered a new phase ofvitality in the past three months. Bell said he has met with his staff on a daily basis to develop a comprehensive approach to addressing the needs ofDurham’s Latino population, primarily the “large incidence of crimes against the Latino-Hispanic community.” One of the city’s means of reaching out to the Latino community has been recreational venues, particularly public soccer fields. On Nov. 17, Durham Police Chief Steve Chalmers and other members of the Durham Police Department participated in an exhibition soccer game with coaches from the Latin American Soccer League, Two hundred fifty spectators attended the game and paid the $2 admission fee. Chalmers said such community interaction can be a means of exchanging ideas and enhancing the safety of all Durham residents. “This is something

we wanted to build on,” Chalmers said. The city’s outreach attempts have gone far beyond the soccer field. Approximately 35 members of the Latin American Soccer League attended a meeting Jan. 15 at Durham Police Substation 1 to discuss issues important to the Latino community. In addition, a check of $5OO raised from the Nov. 17 exhibition game was presented to Durham County SAFEKIDS, a child

safety advocacy organization. Throughout the meeting, attendees introduced a broad range of topics. With Officer H.L. Borges serving as a Spanish interpreter, Latino citizens’ concerns ranged from maintenance and lighting at local soccer fields to difficulty in opening bank accounts. Most Durham Latinos who attended the meeting viewed the Hispanic Outreach Initiative as a step in the right direction.

“This is the beginning of something,” said Orlando Vasquez, a Durham resident since 1992. High-ranking members of the municipal government, including Chalmers and City Manager Marcia Conner, fielded many of the questions.

Chalmers said that, through the Hispanic Outreach Initiative, officials plan to “identify those who can take

a leadership role within the Hispanic community... [and empower! our community to be more involved in addressing their quality of life issues... not just crime, but issues ofrecreation.” Conner deemed the meeting a success, but described the event as “just another effort in terms of outreach.” Latino residents in attendance were encouraged to present their grievances to City Council, specifically at a budget meeting slated for Feb. 3 at 7 p.m.

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Education conference begins today The University will host the “Conference on Global Challenges and US. Higher Education: National Needs and Policy Implications” this week, Jan. 23-25. The events will focus on evaluating the continued importance of an international education, especially in the post-Sept. 11 world. Speakers include Richard Wagoner, president and CEO of General Motors Corporation; Eugene Hickock, US. undersecretary of education; and David Ward, president of the American Council on Education. Most of the conference activities will take place at the Millennium Hotel of Durham and require previous registration, but students are welcome to attend the opening welcome in the Duke Chapel today at 6:30 p.m.

University announces new website link The University’s redesign of its main website went public this week as a link off the current home page. Online officials encourage community members to visit the site, designed to facilitate access to the most commonly visited webpages, and to provide feedback. The new site is available at: www.duke.edu/staging/index.html.

Korea scholars gather for conference As international leaders struggle to deal with North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, experts from Korea and the United States will gather at the University this week for a one-day conference on contemporary Korean politics. The conference is open to the media, but not to the general public. Panelists include various political and military leaders from Korea, including two current visiting Duke fellows. The conference will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 25, in the Kresge Classroom of the R. David Thomas Conference Center.

Panel to address journalism, civil rights

As part of Black History Month, the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy will present a panel discussion that reflects on journalism’s role in the civil rights struggle. The event, titled “Mightier Than the Sword: Journalism’s Effect on the Civil Rights Movement,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, in Lecture Hall 04 at the Sanford Institute. It is free and open to the public. Panelists will be Gene Patterson, former editor, president and CEO of The St. Petersburg Times; Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar, Poynter Institute; and Raymond Arsenault, John Hope Franklin professor of history, University of South Florida. Patterson, Clark and Arsenault collaborated on the recently published The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights 1960-68.

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CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports

Statue maimed An employee reported that between 4:30 p.m. Jan. 17 and 10 a.m. Jan. 20, someone entered the Sarah B. Duke Gardens, broke the arm off of a lead statue in a water fountain causing $5,000 in damage, pried off the copper roof on the donation box causing $1,500 in damage and broke the plexiglass to the bulletin board causing $75 in damage.

Belongings taken A Duke Clinic-F employee reported

that between the hours of 1 and 6 p.m. Jan. 21, someone stole an employee’s unprotected $75 black leather brief case, $3OO Palm Pilot hand held computer, and $75 Texas Instruments ad-

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Bicycle stolen

Vehicle vandalized

A student reported that between 5:15 p.m. Jan. 18 and 6:36 p.m. Jan. 19, as his vehicle was parked in one of the Edens lots on Towerview Road, someone kicked his vehicle causing $3OO in damage, as well as $2OO in damage to the grill and part of the license plate was ripped off causing $6l in damage. A large boot print was near the left side mirror. The

student said that he had seen lots of beer around his vehicle.

Property stolen, found

Someone broke into an employee’s vehicle parked at 2815 Pettigrew St. sometime between 11 a.m. and 1:44 p.m. The vehicle’s $l5O window was broken and a $330 digital camera, $2OO brief case and day planner were stolen. The employee later found all his property on the railroad tracks near Pettigrew Street.

Property stolen

of Perkins Library. When she returned her property was gone.

A student reported that between 3 p.m. Jan. 15 and 4:55 p.m. Jan. 17, someone stole his forest green $2OO Treck crossbread bicycle from the bike rack in the courtyard of Blackwell Dormitory. The $lOO cable lock securing his bike was cut.

Possessions taken

An employee reported that between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Jan. 20, someone entered her unsecured office in Duke Hospital North, 7600 area, and stole her $25 wallet, $llO in cash, credit cards, driver’s license and Social Security Card.

Money bag stolen An employee reported that between 4 p.m. Jan. 16 and 9:15 a.m. Jan. 17, someone entered an office in the Eye Center and stole a money bag containing $125. There were no signs of forced entry.

Phone filched

A visitor reported that between 4 and 4:30 p.m. Jan. 21, she left her $2OO black bag, $4OO Motorola cellular phone and credit card unattended on the third floor

A student reported that between 3:30 and 3:40 p.m. Jan. 8, he left his $l5O Verizon VX-10 cellular phone on a patio table on the Blue Devil Beanery’s exte-

rior patio on the West-Edens Link. When he returned to the table the phone was no longer there.

Vending machine damaged At 11:45 p.m. Jan. 22, the front display of a vending machine located in lower level laundry room of House B was broken causing

$l5O in damage.

Nike Air Pegasus running shoes and a small $l5 travel bag.

Vehicle window broken An employee reported that between 10 a.m. and noon Jan. 17, her vehicle was parked in the RX parking lot at Coble Health Care on LaSalle Street,

when someone broke out a $l5O window.

Nothing was stolen.

Property taken, found

An employee reported that between 3:45 and 3:50 a.m. Jan. 21, her unprotected $2O make-up bag, containing her $5O wallet, credit card, checkbook, $4O cash and driver’s license were stolen from a conference room located on 5100 Duke Hospital North. She recovered all her property with the exception of the cash in a trash bin in the men’s bathroom on 5100.

Belongings taken A student reported that between 12:01 and 2 a.m. Jan. 12, someone stole her unprotected $45 Nine West messenger bag, containing a $2O Nine West

wallet, $4O cash, checkbook, credit cards, $BO Nokia 5160 cellular phone, $l7 sunglasses, $lO earmuffs, $2O white hooded sweater by Rampage, keys and driver’s license. The items were stolen from the Wannamaker Dormitory commons room.

Shoes stolen Someone stole an employee’s unprotected $3O multicolored sports bag from the basement of the Parking Garage II vending area between 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. Jan. 12. The bag contained $5O

Vehicle vandalized An employee reported that between 8:30 a.m. and 1:25 p.m. Jan. 18, her vehicle was parked in the lot at the Nearly New Shoppe, 615 Douglas St., when someone broke out a $l5O window and stole $5.

Tag taken Someone stole an employee’s temporary license tag between 7 p.m. Dec. 29 and 9:30 a.m. Dec. 31 from his vehicle in parking garage 11. The vehicle was not entered and nothing else was stolen.

Bag stolen An employee reported that between 9:15 and 9:45 p.m. Dec. 18, she left by mistake her $2O blue bag containing ATM card, driver’s license, Social Security card and birth certificate in the women’s restroom located in Duke North. When she returned her bag was missing.

Crime briefs are compiled from Duke University Police Department reports. Anyone with knowledge about those responsible for these or other crimes at the University can contact Lt. Davis Trimmer at 684-4713 or Durham CrimeStoppers at 683-1200.

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able to link adherence to guidelines to patient outcome,” said Dr. Eric Peterson, author of the recent study and associate professor of cardiology at the Medical Center. “Physicians hadn’t previously received such feedback.” Peterson’s results emphasized adhering to guidelines to care for heart attack patients. The study, pre-

sented at the AHA Conference last November, found that heart attack victim mortality rates were nearly twice as high in hospitals that followed the guidelines the least, when compared to leading hospitals. “We [physicians] all thought we were delivering the best care, until we realized what was actually delivered,” Peterson said. Duke is heavily involved with increasing awareness of the gap in heart attack patient treatment. One such program is CRUSADE, a collaboration with UNC, designed to provide feedback to hospitals nationwide on their adherence to the established heart attack patient care guidelines.

“Doctors need to be involved in the quality improvement process, evaluate their practices and improve them,” said Dr. Kristin Newby, who worked with Peterson on the Duke study. Other programs, such as AHA’s “Get with the Guidelines,” have also promoted guideline use. Duke will likely remain at the forefront of this effort through 2003 since Duke cardiology professor Dr. Augustus Grant is president of the AHA. Besides identifying “leading” hospitals as having lower mortality rates, 8.3 percent, than “lagging” hospitals, 15.3 percent, the study found that an overall large gap exists between the guideline suggestions and the actual use of the recommended care to heart attack patients, and that the magnitude of this alleged gap varies widely across the nation and among hospitals. Records from over 250,000 heart attack victims in the past two years were reviewed in order to determine a correlation between the number of patients who died while in the hospital and how strictly the hospital followed the established guidelines for patient care. A total of 1,247 hospitals were ranked according to the level of adherence to patient guidelines, and the top 312 “leading” hospitals were compared to the bottom 312 “lagging” hospitals. Fifteen guideline-indicated treat-

ment measures tracked immediate and discharge care. ‘What Eric Peterson has done is extremely important,” said Dr. Pascal Goldschmidt, chief of the Division of Cardiology at the Medical Center. “To show that successful patient outcome is a function of the degree of the compliance to the guidelines is a breakthrough.” Dr. Imad Alhaddad, director of vascular services and cardiology division at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, agreed. “Adherence to the guidelines are good because patient welfare is important. Guidelines recommend procedures that are known to offer better patient care and ultimately can save lives.” Despite what may seem as overwhelming support for adhering to the guidelines, resistance to having “algorithms of care” or “cookbook medicine” still exists. “Everybody practices medicine differently. If a doctor finds that something not suggested by the guidelines [works] better, that has some validity,” said Priya Singh, a nurse at Cardiovascular Care of North Carolina. Nonetheless, such arguments are waning when confronted with patterns correlating better overall patient outcome with guideline use. “Physicians aren’t perfect,” Newby said. “[And] although there are lots of subtleties that make judgment often difficult, we must find away to enhance adherence to the guidelines.”

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LATCH from page 3 ments from theLatino community, deßosset said. LATCH was designed to help uninsured Latino patients from Durham County understand and use the health care system more effectively. The program is coordinated through Durham Community Health Network Carolina Access ll—which operates under Duke University Medical Center’s Division of Community Medicine—and is based on a partnership between Carolina Access, El Centro Hispano, Duke Hospital and a number of other county health institutions. This past month, Carolina Access, El Centro Hispano and two other partners—Lincoln Community Health Center and the Durham Center—have taken on staff members who will work for LATCH. In addition, the Durham County Department of Social Services will be hiring a social worker to join the Carolina Access team. The new LATCH staffers are all bilingual and many are of Latino origins—part of an attempt by program coordinators to offer culturally sensitive assistance to Latino families when workers make in-home visits. Since joining the LATCH team at Carolina Access Jan. 2, community health worker Donna Bernstein has completed the program training, which includes diversity training and a shadow session with a current Carolina Access worker. In a matter ofweeks, she and other new hires have had to learn about documentation processes and proper behaviors for in-home visits. “While I was shadowing, I got to see things like why people miss appointments. It’s not that they don’t want to take a child to a doctor, but there are so many other things going on at home,” Bernstein said. In addition to training its new hires, Carolina Access had to revamp its information systems, which were originally designed to track Medicaid patients. “When you’re managing someone’s care you need to know what their needs are,” said Susan Epstein, chief of the DUMC Division of Community Health. “We’ve adapted for the uninsured, who won’t have a Medicaid number. Many Latino patients also use a double last name, so we had to make adaptations for that too.” The federal grant is good for one year, givingLATCH an eight-month run before it must be re-evaluated.

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DSG from page 1 Life, but cited Executive Vice President Tallman Trask’s reorganization of the Division of Auxiliary Services as moti-

vation. Trask’s reorganization will transfer oversight of student events and student center facilities to Moneta’s office July 1. Current Director of Student Activities Sue Coon will vacate the position May 31, Moneta said, to be replaced by a new Director of Student Life. “[Coon] has been wonderful in trying to manage the transition from the old arts-oriented Office of University Life to the student-focused Office of Student Activities,” Moneta said after the meeting.

“But as we move towards an even more comprehensive model, we needed a different skill set than she had. It is not at all about competency. She’s been terrific.” Coon, who has worked at the University in four different positions for more than 19 years, said she has enjoyed working in Student Affairs and is weighing various options for her career, including opportunities both inside and outside the University. “I respect my colleagues in Student Affairs and am excited about the change,” Coon said after the meeting, which she attended with Moneta and Assistant Vice President for Campus Life Zoila Airall. “I will lend my support as long as I can. There is very challenging work ahead.”

Moneta said staff were notified of the funds available for student groups. The SOFC distributes money each year to changes Thursday morning. “They were obviously very concerned groups through annual budgets and proabout Sue first and foremost, because gramming funds. “We receive requests for over $1 milthey are longtime colleagues of hers,” Moneta said. “They’re also concerned lion in funds, but can cover less than 40 about the implications of this, and I’ve percent of that,” Raja said. “Much of that tried to make it very clear that I have no shortage comes from the exponential increases in honoraria and tech costs, hidden agendas here.” He added that there are no future which greatly surpass the yearly inflapersonnel changes on the horizon, and tionary increases in the fee.” Panuccio said the Union is under he said he hopes to hire the new director by the end of the semester as similar pressure, as the annual inflaprogress continues on the new student tionary increases are not enough to offset the rising costs of the Union and its village. “It’s a continuation of what has been committee’s programming. called the shakeup of Student Affairs,” “We have found the level at which said Union President Jesse Panuccio. “I we used to be able to program is no think that it makes sense to organize longer being met because our revenue the division in a more logical manner, has not increased proportionally to the but personally, Dean Coon has been a rising costs,” Panuccio said. “This trend great adviser, a strong supporter of the has been especially pronounced over Union and a good friend to me personalthe past 15 to 20 years, and so the realy, and I will be sorry to see her leaving son we are pursuing such a significant that position.” increase is to correct for this and to Discussion of the potential increase provide Duke with the level of proin the student activities fee also highgramming that a school of its caliber deserves.” lighted the DSG meeting. If both referHe noted that the additional approxendum questions are passed by the student body, the overall fee for the entire imately $130,000 would help bring in year would increase by $39 to $167. better and more major speakers and DSG’s Student Organization Finance major attractions, possibly reduce the Committee would receive $B9 of that price of Quad Flicks, and allow for mulfee, up from $72 this year, and the Union tiple performances for Broadway at would receive $7B, up from $56. Duke shows, thereby increasing the opSOFC Chair Pushpa Raja said the tions ofbringing in touring shows. hike for the DSG component would pro“It’s pretty evident to a lot ofpeople if vide almost $120,000 in additional you look at the amount, the quality and

the notoriety of speakers and bands that we have, we don’t necessarily compare favorably to schools of similar size or caliber,” Panuccio said. IN OTHER BUSINESS; Legislators heard the first reading of a possible change to the election by-laws, which would require a candidate to receive a majority vote in the presidential election or face a run-off election with the next highest vote-getter. If approved at the Legislature’s next meeting, the move would virtually guarantee that every DSG presidential election would end in a run-off. A presidential candidate has never garnered more than Lisa Zeidner’s 48.4 percent in 1999. Executive Vice President Justin Ford said the executive committee felt the change would help with presidential elections with a high number of candidates, and that the committee chose not to pursue other options, such as allowing for a several-member ticket. •

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Colin Powell to tell aides that he would accept military action against Iraq without approval from the Security Council. Powell had resisted that position for months. Sounding tougherWednesday than he has previously, Powell said on the PBS program The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer that the question was whether to allow Iraq “a few more weeks, a few more months” to comply when it was clear already that it would never do so. “Frankly,” he added, “there are some nations in the world who would like simply to turn away from this problem, pretend it isn’t there.” Powell’s comments appeared to be a direct rebuttal of the call for a delay of two or three months by the French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, with whom he has talked frequently—some said

tensely—since the weekend. Going further, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed the German and French roles in a newly expanded NATO, which has been asked to pro-

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and that Bush should not bother to seek a second resolution condemning Iraq and authorizing the use of force. In another sign of their irritation with longtime American allies, aides to Bush said they were increasing efforts to line up support elsewhere in Europe and would try to portray France and Germany as holdouts against a quick Security Council indictment of Iraq. Officials said Wednesday support was forthcoming not only from Britain but also from Poland, Spain, Italy

sible service in the Gulf or for protection at home. A total American military force of 150,000 is expected in the region by the middle of February. Some administration officials expressed the belief that France and other reluctant allies, seeing American military action as inevitable, would be won over in the end—perhaps out of concern that their businesses might lose any role in exploiting Iraq’s oil resources. Others said the French might ease theirresistance if the United States allowed the inspectors a few more weeks. But some were skeptical of these arguments, saying that the French ought to be taken at their word,

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vide indirect assistance for an Iraqi invasion. “You’re thinking of Europe as Germany and France,” Rumsfeld told foreign journalists at the State Department, as leaders of the two countries solemnly celebrated the 40th anniversary of their treaty of friendship in Versailles, France, Wednesday. “I don’t. I think that’s old Europe.” He added: ‘You look at vast numbers of other countries in Europe. They’re not with France and Germany on this. They’re with the United States.” The Iraq situation appeared Wednesday to have been thrown into some turmoil by the French and, to a lesser degree, by the German rejections of American policy Monday—and by the publication of poll results showing a drop in the number of Americans supporting a war, and a vast majority of Americans opposing action without the support of allies. Administration officials said that although both President Jacques Chirac and Chancellor Gerhard Schroder had called on the United States to slow down its move toward war, their foreign ministers’ comments Monday at the United Nations were surprisingly vehement. France had called for the special U.N. ministers’ parley Monday, ostensibly to discuss terrorism, and many American officials expressed the opinion that de Villepin had somehow set Powell up.

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PRIMATE CENTER to an end of the center. A growing percentage of its research is from external sources and other departments are beginning to use the center, Ives said. Its existence has been in limbo since an internal review revealed in 2000 that the center was overly concerned with conservation and education, at the expense of research. “I don’t think people have felt very secure [about the center] lately because the threat of closure is still hanging over our heads,” said Dean Gibson, assistant director of the center. In July 2001, Provost Peter Lange appointed Hylander director and gave him three years to increase the amount of research done at the center. At. the end of three years, the University would evaluate the center and, based on the quantity and scope ofresearch projects, student involvement and the amount of grant money garnered, make a decision about whether to

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FOSSILS from page 2 125 million years ago, “provides striking support for the arboreal-gliding hypothesis of the origin of bird flight.” The discovery team, led by Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, wrote that the “forelimb and the leg feathers would make a perfect aerofoil together.” The team said the findings were important for understanding how ancestors of birds, widely thought to be dinosaurs, “first learned to glide by taking advantage of gravity

continue funding. The Primate Center has shown substantial progress in several of these areas. The first year Hylander took over, research fees paid to the center increased from around $9,000 to $35,000 and the number of new research projects more than doubled. This spring, administrators will conduct a preliminary review of the center with three

options; close the center, keep it open and invest money in permanent improvements or extend the time allotted for revitalization. “I would hope they’ll say, ‘Dump the money in,’ but given the current economic climate, I doubt it,” Hylander said. Vice Provost for Research James Siedow suggested the center’s future is tied to its ability to accrue funds. “When we went down this road several years ago, we recognized that ramping up the grant money was not an overnight process,” he said. “Are we now at the level of grant support we’d like to be? Probably no.” Lange was out of town this week and unavailable for comment. This is not the first time the University has considered closing the Primate Center. In 1975, an administrative decision to close the center was followed by a massive influx of protest letters from all over the world. Shortly after the letters, the University decided to keep the Primate Center open. If the center does close, the hundreds of animals will likely be dispersed among many institutions, said center employees. Hylander ruled out the possibility that the Primate Center might be transferred to another university if Duke withdraws its support. “There isn’t any place that would have the resources and the know how to take the cen-

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before flapping flight was acquired in birds.” tioned that “substantial questions remain” concerning Even though he disputes the predominant view of a how the fossil animal used its four wings and whether direct ancestral link between dinosaurs and birds, it had the shoulder and wing anatomy to sustain powAlan Feduccia, an ornithologist at the University of ered flight. Xu said the new fossils represented a distinct species North Carolina at Chapel Hill, called the new-found of the small predatory dinosaurs known as drofossil “a new kind of animal that we’ve never seen before.” Its characteristics, he said, “argue against a maeosaurs. It has been given the name Microraptor gui. The clear outlines of four feathered wings, the ground-up origin of flight.” Xu’s team noted that the presence of feathers on the Chinese scientists said, were found in all six specimens of the species. The specimens were uncovered legs would be a hindrance to running fast. It thus “provides negative evidence for the ground-up hypothesis.” recently in the fossil-rich Liaoning province of northIn an accompanying article in Nature, Prum cau- eastern China.

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sent photo editor and resident horn dog Yoav Lurie to investigate the phenomenon of sorority bid nights. Below is the report he drunkenly sent in moments went to press Here is the plan: my three best fn Cheap, Lite and Domestic—and I an set out to some local bar where we find a good number of sorority girls much too cool to speak to us. For ob reasons, we have been asked to kee names of the alleged sisterhoods an* membership in strict confidence, so don't even attempt to connect the di Monday; The night began with some friend campus exploring the insides of dom tic beer cans when the evil-doer Everclear came crashing into our part Not only did he drag my tanked butt out, but he wiped clean the memory of anything I might have done. Trying to trace back the night, I reviewed the dialed calls on my cell phone. Sure, there are the obvious ones to my best friend and , mom. But I am still trying to figure out what I could have talked to my ex-girlfriend about for six minutes at 3 a.m. I just hope it didn't involve canned ham and one night last summer. Tuesday; My friends drag me out again, because they didn't understand

what I meant when I said, "I'm going to puke and I haven't even started drinking yet! The club is teeming with temptation, so I tearing near the middle of the room. But g flung through the air by the raging anding on the bar that is now filled with "

One of the Recess editors explained "Bid Night Drinking Game" to me as recovered from my fall at the edge of le dance floor. "Every time you see imeone dancing in the cage, dancing on i bar, hooking up on the dance floor or ; ng for the camera lady, you drink. If you , the person doing this, you drink twice." went on to specify that at Shooter's: :e a cigarette while sitting on the upperid ash on the people below you. If they you drink. If you hit them and they don't your partner drinks." Needless to say, 'f the night was a blur, lay: (Note: Yoav called this section in) m. right now, and f am stumbling back to ti a Safe Ride back to West. Dude, let me I am not That Guy!' Dude, Papa John's. the cops are following me. gotta go! /nd ft ofe/ sfi*y// [aside 1 What did do with my underwear!?" Thursday; See me riding the Bull again tonight—if I'm still alive and able to find my pants. ter

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is amazing how many people are surprisingly illiterate about film," said Associate Dean of Student Life and Director of the Bryan Center Peter Coyle. Coyle sees film as the major literature of our time, but laments the fact that so many students go through college without ever seeing the truly important movies—be they classics or modern masterpieces. Existing for the purpose of solving this problem, Freewater Productions and Presentations has treated students to a wide array of blockbusters and lesser known movies for over 25 years. It is the task of the Presentations branch of the organization to show some of these great films for free every week, mostly on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights. Each semester the group comes up with unique ways to expose their fellow students to important directors, actors or genres in a series-oriented structure on weekday nights, like last fall's Positively Pacino Series. The weekend, however, belongs to QuadFlicks, another branch of Freewater which specializes in bringing the big movies to the Bryan Center usually the most popular or talked-about box-office releases from the previous semester. And although these screenings are not free ($4), the shows tend to attract a larger audience. Given the projected attendance for films like Star Wars Episode II and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, one would expect the ticket price to cover Freewater's overall expenditures "No, we're lucky to break even I know we lost money last semester," said Toby Chu, the chair of QuadFlicks. She cited that a big blockbuster typically costs close to $l,lOO to rent for the weekend, minimizing any profits. But the larger reason why Freewater rarely breaks even deals with the fact that they do not charge for the other three films shown during the week "I would like to think that if you go to all four films, that it's only $1 a show," Chu said. But Freewater's overall goal is more expansive than what is shown in Griffith Auditorium every week: The Productions branch of Freewater, independent of the Presentations side, is filled with students who are making their own movies right under our noses. As an advisor to Freewater Productions, Peter Coyle is intimately involved in the process of helping students organize and produce their film projects. "We give grants of up to $2,000 for students to actually make their own films based on a process where they submit ideas and demonstrate that they have the technical and artistic capacity to actually get them done on time," he said. Despite not having that much visibility in campus culture, Freewater Productions has been a first step for many Duke alums with careers in Hollywood. Ross —

Spears and Jude Cassidy were the first students ever to receive a Freewater grant back in the 70s, and they went on to make the Oscar-winning feature documentary Agee in 1980 about the famed writer and critic James Agee. From obscure Boris Karloff films on Tuesday nights to student-made start-ups, Freewater is a rich resource for mere enthusiasts and budding film students, alike. Plus, it gives organization members like Chu a chance to display their affection for the movies they show:" I have a thing —1 like to dress up for the movies, like how I cut my hair for Amelie...." —Jacob Usner

One dazzling Hour

!n 1941, writer Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and quietly waded into the River Ouse. So begins and ends The Hours, with the minutes between offering a staggeringly insightful look into the female psyche. Director Stephen Daldry expertly weaves together the tales of three women—played by Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep—each struggling to face the unhappy hours before them. Instead of offering easy explanations for the misery of its characters, The Hours forces us to wrestle with the more powerful concept that unhappiness can persist in the face of seemingly GRADE: a pp ea |i n g circumstances. Rather than finding joy in life, the three women tolerate it as a daily alternative to suicide. Kidman is fantastic as Woolf, falling into the role so completely—even wearing that now-famous prosthetic nose—that we're unable to separate the actress from her character. Backing her up is a phenomenal supporting cast that includes Ed Harris, as a tortured writer dying from AIDS, and Stephen Dillane, who brilliantly portrays Woolf's caring husband. The score is occasionally intrusive, and the parallels between the three women's lives sometimes feel forced, but overall, the formidable cast and incredible technical artistry bring the three stories and their separate time periods alive with such strength that The Hours is by far one of the best films of the year.

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Calendar urs If you can somehow still grab some ducat, by all means, attend Friday's performance of Rent at Page Auditorium. It's part of the Broadway at Duke series, and there's a reason why it's been one of the most successful musicals of the last decade. Tix range from $l7-27 for students and $35-45 for the public.

MUSICNorth Cakalaka born and bred, Weekend Excursion will enter into the Cradle of Catness tonight at 9 p.m. They've got more hooks than they know what to do with, and the inflammation on my neck is now grotesquely large. Oh, and the concert's $B. 300 E. Main St., Carrboro. Fresh off their still-hot single "All for You," Sister Hazel is going to play the Lincoln Theatre Tuesday night at 8.1 mean, these guys haven't missed a beat since 1997, as evidenced by their many other hit singles since hitting it big. Oh wait... f-k! $l5. 126E. Cabarrus St. Raleigh.

FILM In a damn cool event, the Carolina Theatre is putting on the 4th Annual Nevermore Horror, Gothic & Fantasy Film Festival. They will be playing a bunch of new and extremely rare films from within the genre. Truly, one of the region's best festivals. Friday-Saturday. $3O for an unlimited pass, $7 for individual ones. 309 W. Morgan St.

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°p-“. A waitress leads us to our seats, which are, incidentally, as close to the stage as one can possibly sit. The ceiling is a twisted jumble of pipes, wires and lights, coated in black paint to hide the mechanical nakedness. Crude brick walls enclose the main room, and rows and rows of bare black tables form a sea of circles within. The house lights soon go down and "Low Rider" pumps from the speakers. Leroy Seabrooks, the host and opening act, runs on stage. Vulgar and profane, Seabrooks' routine is disturbingly hilarious. "I got me a trophy girlfriend," he tells us. "But the thing is, she ain't pretty. She's like a trophy for ninth place in a pingi pong tournament." He then announces that he's been drug-free for two years, and everyone claps and cheers in docile empathy. An array of drug and alcohol jokes follow. His routine becom ecatory, and the laughter grows to a roar. He wears he audience eats it up. t possible for Seabrooks to trivialize and I find mv even get a when most of us try to stash them away? When Duke sociology professor Linda George she notes 1 s the feeling it gives audience members being conn ething bigger. "Humor is a learned skill," George sa\ y hat we think is funny.... When we engage humor and laugh at the same things as our peers do, we're demonstrating that w an insider, that we're really a part of the culture. Humor is used a lot to define ins ers and outsiders. It can be used to create bonds and create divisions. Everyone j wants to fit in." *

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HUH?: Mike Epps, coming to Charlie Goodnight's Friday (and Saturday) After Next, looks like we did a stocky Italian-American man, takes the stage. Playing up his after we had the pleasure of sitting through anothhow ay-um DO-in," he paces back and forth, spit flying from his er gem of his, All About the Benjamins.

rcnirr&ns:!: rjFi-errnjsn* Charlie Goodnight's—B6l Morgan St., Raleigh Wednesday and Thursday shows at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday shows at 8 and 10:15 p.m. Check times prior to show to make sure though

Jan. 30-Feb.2 Mike Epps—star of the All About the Benjamins and Friday After Next, two of the best films ever released. Hopefully, his stand-up routine is more impressive than his film resume.

lips and sweat dripping down his chee he will get tangled and come flying ini hairy arm. The pace of his routine is pi "I went to a Catholic school," he t tie tyke!" He cites not only drug and alcohol; self with gusto. Chest hair pokes thro The subject of his criticism soon sh Ricans; Guatemalans and gays; psych tions. Some blush with recognition, oi humor, this self-effacing er is absolving them of theirs. Even as he addresses extremely sensitive issues, the laughter continues in cathartic bursts Commenting later on this style of stand-up, George attributes its appeal to the taboo-breaking it embodies. "All of us have things that we'd like to say and do, but we don't [do them]" George says. "It can be a real 'up' to encounter someone who will say and do these things.... If we can mask taboos or social norms with humor, it's a good way to get away with it, so to speak." But not all comedians decide that taboo-shattering is the best approach Hedberg, the headliner, swaggers onto the stage—more refined, his routine is based less on c He is tall and lanky and dressed in co Haight-Ashbury, and he talks like it to into hilarious punch lines: "Dogs are forever in the push-up p "Why do they say that ants live in f look like snowmen." Throughout his whole routine Hedto ress walks on stage at one point and her until the audience yells his name.; and thoughts. He has the audience sli Toward the end of his act, I realize t hours straight. I look out into the sea waves of laughter are continuous. Will ans have roused the audience and coij They've revealed themselves with hui and they've given audience membersl After the show, I look around. Empfl the people around me—everyone ses After laughing together for nearly twdc but an electrifying affirmation of our d

Feb. 6-8 Richard Jeni (right)— American Comedy Award winner and all-around stud. Richard Jeni on the block (as his friends like to call him) also boasts a few recent appearances on Hollywood Squares. Feb. 13-15 Joe Rogan—host of Fear Factor apparently knows how to do more with his immense talent than feed horse testes to willing contestants.

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building looks just like all the others red brick walls slouch upon the grass and bare metal stairs look smoky in the sunlight. Almost faded from rain and wear, painted words appear on the building's side. One would hardly guess that, beneath such a common exterior, an age-old, thriving subculture attracts hundreds of people each weekend. The place is Charlie Goodnight's, and it is one of the most popular stand-up comedy joints in the country. Located just off North Carolina State University's campus in Raleigh, Goodnight's has been the only one of its kind in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area for over 20 years. Nominated by Citysearch.com as one of the "Best Singles Scenes in the Triangle," word has spread that Goodnight's offers not only a great show, but a rare chance to bond with both performers and fellow audience members in the temporary community that stand-up comedy creates.

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As he clumsily navigates between the mic stand, cord and kitchen stool, worry that ny lap. He brushes back a strand of gelled, black hair and wipes off his forehead with a ig up, and I am helplessly drawn in. -us. "But the priests never molested me. I'm surprised too—l was a handsome lit-

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ictions, but also time spent in jail. Self-righteously proud of his sins, he defends himhis shirt, and the sweat keeps dripping. He says "fuck" a lot. from himself to specific groups of people. He makes fun of blacks and Puerto ists and women; and several others. Faces in the audience display alternating emoirs gasp in shock. Still others show pure elation, as if, by justifying his sins with

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The three high school girls behind us were howling. So were the 20 Peace College students in the first few rows, and so was this guy to my left who had a lazy eye, three front teeth and more than a little spittle running down the right side of his chin. Of course, I don't know these people personally, but from the mere fact that they were so enamored with the improvisational techniques of the company members at Comedy Worx (yes, they replaced "works" with "worx," and yes, it's tacky), I can say with relative assurance that they are walking representatives of the fall of

western civilization. At Comedy Worx the performers' improvisational style is reminiscent of that found on Whose Line is it Anyway?, and when one ponders what makes that type of comedy work, a sense of inventiveness immediately comes to mind. The audience member wants to be taken in directions that are completely unexpected, and the journey should be, at the very least, a witty one. Having seen The Groundlings, probably the most widely respected of these groups, about a month ago, I learned to appreciate the great difficulty of improv, and I respected how the comedians were able to make each sketch enjoyable—even when they ran out of material and started poking fun at their own lack of creativity. Improv isn't about constant genius; it's about survival, and the Groundlings thrived under the circumstances. No such comedic flexibility exists at Comedy Worx, though. Every joke is completely foreseeable, the comedians are not at all endearing, and they didn't even live up to the promise that their jokes would "tickle until we tinkle." Hell, 1 even brought an extra pair of pants just in case, but you tend not to laugh that much when the night's best joke consisted of one of the comedians leading the crowd in a cheer; "Give me a 'B.' "

rf~ WmS star of the Fox show—did anyone watch it?—heads into the Triangle for your comedic Friday and Saturday at Charlie Goodnight's. See Calendar

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izing others and more on spewing off one-liners and observations of absurd details, clogs and a patterned button-down shirt. He looks like he walked straight out of is detached, pothead-sounding delivery is key, as he turns otherwise-lame comments

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ses. A waitsways back and forth and ke s to notice with a fresh gin a: own jokes makes fun of his own lazine: ig with laughter, or almost two my facial muscles are sore /d the riotous aces and the audience is trai The comediiy spirits lifted, I feel as if I'vi ned that we are sinners. The'y id perspective, •ut humanity, :y and granted revelation. They sense that we are not so bad after all. T v: aer bottles and drink glasses clutter the tables,.and smiles linger. I chat with some of content. An atmosphere of giddiness and euphoria pervades the rising audience, jrs, we feel connected to one another; this wasn't just a comedy show we attended, flawed humanity.

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"Ok, that's it." The concept behind Comedy Worx, however, is a relatively harmless one. Two teams—in this case the Hillsborough Street Malamutes and the Durham Docks —face off in a comedic battle for points. The audience, with the help of a "referee," decides which side is performing with more comedic proficiency, as the performers stumble through a variety of guessing games where one company member has to discover what word the others are acting out. Instead of impressive improvisational comedy, these role-playing games make the company members look like the rejects at an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons role-playing tournament. And don't even get me started on the frighteningly sadomasochistic usage of the "Paddles of Justice" throughout the performance.

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Comedy Worx —431 Peace St., Raleigh Their weekly showtimes are Friday at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday at 4:45, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. But who really cares? The reason we're writing this is to encourage you to audition for them. You couldn't be worse.

WHOSE LINE ISN’T IT ANYWAY £ If you're thinking of making the drive to Raleigh to check out Comedy Worx, save your money and tune into these guys on ABC.. But we're still left with the question; Why were the other people in the audience having such a raucous good time? These are my only guesses; 1) Drugs—lots of 'em. 2) They were an easy-to-please (read; not-so-bright) bunch. When the referee asked for an adjective in one of their wordguessing games, one of the Peace College students yelled, "Tungsten," and nobody seemed to notice its distinctly not being an adjective. 3) They were brainwashed. In between almost every sketch, the referee made us scream that we were all "loyal fans," and before the show started, we were forced to sing a "warm-up song" whose lyrics, to the tune of "Take Me out to the Ballgame" read, "For it's HA, HA, HA HA HA HA/As we laugh till we gag!" Whatever the answer, it sure wasn't the comedy they were laughing at. —Greg Veis If you're still interested, and it might be fun if you're blasted out of your mind, Comedy Worx is found at 431 Peace St. in Raleigh.

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Innocently flipping through a list of upcoming album releases, we found a new trend in the industry that left us trembling in fear for the future of recorded music: Over the last couple months, a gigantic influx of tribute albums to artists that have less than five years of industry experience have littered the scene. Although we firmly do not believe in the notion of the tribute album to begin with, we are willing to accept the fact that aspiring musicians occasionally like to pay homage to their greatest musical influences. But this only works for a few musicians; The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon. In what has since become known simply as "HackTuesday"—Jan. 14, 2003—tribute albums for the Goo Goo Dolls, Nelly, R Diddy and Usher were all released to our collective chagrin. Needing to record this historic day, we sent four new writers, all pure of any critical pretense, to review these new albums. What they have unearthed may—but probably will not—shock you:

Various Artists, Tribute to Nelly In this, if nothing else, ambitious effort, Nelly's infectious rhythms remain intact throughout. In fact, the borrowed melodies are probably the highlights of the album, which otherwise features sub-par vocals from various Indie rappers that either try too hard to reproduce Nelly's own distinctive voice or end up sounding like an irritating, cacophonous garble of noise. A prime example of the latter ccurs in MissTriss' interpretaion of the hifsingle, "Dilemma," here the syrupy sweet lyrics e overshadowed by what ounds like a sheep being-torired to death in the back■ound. The featured vocalists m unable to make the jump relying too heavily on the origieces to forging their own rendition of each song, making ig more than a weak karaoke ellyville and Country Grammar. —Robert Winterode

Various Artists, A Tribute to R Diddy Greg Veis told me that my first Recess was to review A Tribute to R Diddy, I ized that my budding journalism career owhere. Featuring such "rising stars" as Bling Blingin', the album manages to take.songs ranging from the "puffy" era to the "diddy" age and make them even worse than the originals, especially the ill-conceived tribute to "I'll Be Missing You." The production of the album was about as logical as making Jeremy Morgan head line monitor. Although for a price of around seven bucks, true bad boy fans may find the extra Combs worth the buy,

nawhaimean? -Chris Cox

Various Artists, A Tribute to Usher This is the album middle school kids will dread. Like coming to lunch with Sam's Choice cola, Big Eye label brings you not Usher, but A Tribute to 'Usher, by Everlast, Evander and the 7th Street Choir. And no, it's not the Everlast you're thinking of. Usually a tribute album brings a new look to songs, tries to change things around, pays homage to the artist. In this case, nope, nope and hell nope. The opening to "Nice and Slow" says all: There's some guy seemingly singing off a note card telling me what to wear. I know he doesn't have Usher's abs and obsessive U'ness, and I doubt he can do that cool dance thing with his feet. It just doesn't work. Get this album if you're not willing to pay 15 bucks for the real deal, otherwise its just like Malk, with more vitamin R. —Charles Lin

Various Artists, Tribute to the Goo Goo Dolls Only one word entered my thoughts after listening to this album... why? What have the Goo Goo Dolls done that is worthy of mention, least of all a tribute album? Anyone who lays down money for this ridiculous circular piece of plastic should have his ears ripped off and be thrown in jail for propagating noise pollution. The CD sounds as if someone hired a mediocre Bar Mitzvah band to play a few songs they heard on the radio and 11 other songs that no one except for that one die-hard Goo fan actually knows. I apologize for wasting the 45 seconds it took you to read this review; I am going to go drag some nails across a chalkboard to cover up the ringing in my ears —Andy Kay

Bringing Page to Higher Ground

This Friday, Jan. 24th, the congregation inside Page Auditorium will throw up its hands and praise the Lord to the sweet sounds of Gospel greats The Blind Boys of Alabama. Since forming at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939, founding members Clarence Fountain, Jimmy Carter and George Scott—along with more recent additions Joey Williams, Ricky McKinnie and Bobby Butler—have enjoyed over 60 years of success not only on the Gospel circuit, but also in the larger spheres of blues and straight-up, downhome rock and roll. Their latest CD, Higher Ground— which has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional

Soul Gospel Album—features the back-up talents of Ben Harper and Leon Mobley of the Innocent Criminals, plus gospel-rock up-and-comers Robert Randolph and.the Family Band. On Friday they will join forces with legendary blues harpist (that's har-

monica to those of y'all who don't know) Charlie Musselwhite, who is also up for sev-

eral Grammys, including Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year. Get ready for traditional gospel favorites peppered with innovative covers —Higher Ground covers everyone from Aretha Franklin to Prince. See y'all on the other side. —Macy Parker The foot-stompin' begins at 8 p.m., and student tickets are only $l2. ($22 for the general public). It's a small price to pay for music that will shake your booty and save your soul.

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The Power id you say prophets, or profits?" a student conversation with Saul

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lyrically field questions Monday night as broad as "Could you talk for a bit about the prison industrial Williams before his performance in Page complex?" and "What can you say about love?" All the Auditorium Monday night. tangential musings and discussions —from his love of "Good question," the poet responded. punk rock to his activism against war on Iraq—left Even dinnertime disWilliams time to read only three or cussion with Saul four poems. But among these was Saul Williams lends itself to an excerpt from the manuscript of Booh poetry. his forthcoming book Said the Williams, perhaps she (1999) Shotgun to the Head, which today's most well-known The Seventh Octave: The E arly Writing# sW Williams shared in front of an audiand influential performence for the first time in Page. Stacey William# (1998) ance poet, is himself a Written as one long poem with Muoic prophet. But he's not out words jumping off the page the Amethyot Bock Star (looij for profits of the moneway they leap from Williams' Film tary kind; he seeks an tongue, Said the Shotgun to the /

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his words, his deeds, and his mere presence (or presents?). If Williams is the prophet, then the 15 students at his workshop Monday afternoon were his disciples, and the nearly 500 people at his performance/sermon Monday night as a featured speaker for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day were his congregation. An aspiring actor since age six who was born alongside hip-hop and grew up with it, Williams was a graduate student in drama at NYU when he wrote and performed his first poem in 1995. As he stepped off the stage in Brooklyn that night, he was immediately ambushed by promoters offering him opening gigs for The Roots, Dead Prez with KRSOne and The Last Poets. One year later, in 1996, Williams earned the title of Grand Slam Champion at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Championship in New York City. In 1998, he co-wrote and starred in the feature film Slam, which won the Grand’Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d'Or at Cannes. Williams has released one solo hip hop/poetry album, Amethyst Rock Star, while appearing on many others, and has published two books of poetry, The Seventh Octave and She. Yet another is on the way this fall. His breadth of experience and insight allowed him to

Head centers around the modernday journey of a female messiah. At a university former| ly known as Trinity and Rom College footsteps away the emblematic Chape Williams delivered his version of a matriarcha trinity—that of father, mother and child. The book will be published fall by Atria/MTV books a move Williams felt compelled to clarify as away to bring his counter-stream, socially conscious work into the minds of the mainstream

Addressing the hypnotic powers of anything mass-produced—from news media to hip hop— Williams emphasized his conviction that “to be on the cutting edge art is to be on the cuttin edge of thinking." —Vicki K

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Performance artist Claire Porter's newest

piece, Namely, Muscles, begins to answer one of Shakespeare's most relentless questions: What's in a name? With nomenclature at the heart of Namely, Muscles, Porter portrays Forensic Autopsy Muscular Surgical Specialist Dr. Nickie Nom. The character's preoccupation with the bodily form causes her to write 30-plus poems about its functions, appropriately titled Namely, Muscles. Porter uses this conceit to actively interpret 68 major muscles of the body through dance and script. Porter's one-woman production—an intersection of dance, theater and comedy—will be performed this Friday in the Ark Dance Studio on East Campus.

Duke Associate Professor of Dance Carol Childs studied under Porter at Granville University in Michigan, and she has grown to know Porter as more than a performer. According to Childs, her sophisticated work touches on elements that have characterized her past experiences, including stints as a mathematician and an educator for the deaf. Porter, now based in New Jersey, comes to Duke after production works spanning the globe. She has been commissioned for a wide range of companies, from university dance programs to Domino's Pizza—yes, you did read that correctly. This diversity of experience leads to her ability to please a wide range of artistic tastes, Childs said. "She gives you a place and a storyline," Childs said. "Her work is accessible even for those who haven't experienced Dance Theater before" —Kim Roller

Namely, Muscles —brought by the Duke Dance Program—will show Friday, Jan. 31st at 8 p.m. in The Ark. Call 660-3354 for reservations. It's $7 for the public and free for Duke students. The Ark's intimate setting only holds 100 people, so to muscle your way inside, get a ticket ahead of time.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2003

Blue Devils host middling Maryland Duke learns from loss to Terps

By JAKE POSES The Chronicle Coming off an overtime victory over rival North Carolina, No. 1 Duke expects another challenge against a struggling Maryland (8-9, 2-4) squad tonight at 7:00 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium. “We’re looking forward to the game coming up on Thursday with Maryland,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I think they are playing excellent basketball as well and we need to be ready

� Despite similar results to the recent loss in College Park, Md. the men’s basketball team played very

because we understand probably more than ever that if we’re not ready to play, everybody’s going be ready to play against us. We need to make sure that we’re always ready and focused.” Although the Blue Devils have struggled of late, Alana Beard and Iciss Tillis have carried the Blue Devils, compiling over 50 percent of the team’s points and rebounds in the previous three contests. Beard, averaging a shade under 25 points pregame, dominated the overtime session to secure Monday’s victory over North Carolina. Not to be out done, Tillis scored her I,oooth point for the Blue Devils in last week’s victory over Wake Forest and will be honored for her accomplishment prior to today’s game. Even with its stars shining brightly, Duke has struggled at the start ofrecent games, trailing at halftime in three of its last five. Making up for its mistakes, Duke has improved its shooting percentage by an average of 10 percent in the

RALEIGH As the Blue Devils came out of the locker room to begin the second half, the scoreboard showed a fivepoint Duke advantage, a margin one smaller than the halftime lead Duke enjoyed against Maryland Saturday. The Terps needed only 44 seconds to knot the score at 43-43. Against the Wolfpack

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Davis before N.a State had put together Game Commentary an 8-1 run to turn a 39-34 Duke halftime advantage into a 42-40 Wolfpack lead. Both times, the result for Duke was the same; a loss in the record book and a mob of screaming fans storming the court. But even though both games saw the Blue Devils blow a halftime lead, they were hardly similar in nature. “The thing that was better about this game was that they made a run on us

second half. “I don't think [we’re playing not to lose]

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See MARYLAND on page 13

MISTIE BASS and the women’s basketball team take on Maryland tonight

See COMMENTARY on page 12

Mitchell takes Bth straight, Duke wins 2nd of year By MICHAEL JACOBSON The Chronicle

With perhaps its best effort of the season, the Duke (2-6) wrestling team walked away from Boiling Springs, N.C. having left everything on the mat, gaining a dual meet victory for only the second time this year. Behind crucial extra team points at three different weight classes, the Blue Devils eked out a 23-20 victory over a Gardner Webb (6-9) team on a threematch winning streak. The Bulldogs came into last night’s action fresh off a sweep at the Duquesne Duals in Pittsburgh last weekend. “I was real pleased with the team’s effort and fighting to get the extra points—that was the deciding factor,” Duke coach Clar Anderson said. Duke took command early with 165pounder Mike Mitchell’s dominating 224 technical fall over the Bulldogs’ Michael Ard for a 5-0 lead. The victory

I Maryland beats UNC Drew Nicholas scored 20 points as the Maryland Terrapins held off the North Carolina Tar Heels 81-66 last night in Chapel Hill. Maryland moved to Ist place in the ACC.

was Mitchell’s 21st of the season—a

team high. “It was real important to get an early lead tonight,” Anderson said. “They thought they were going to beat u5.... [Mitchell’s match] definitely pumped

the guys up.” Despite being obviously exhausted, Mitchell continued to attack Ard, setting an aggressive precedent that his teammates would emulate for the duration of the evening. A narrow 2-0 defeat by 174-pound junior Tim Marcantonio in the next match brought the Bulldogs back to

within two, but senior 184-pounder Tom Cass extended the Blue Devils’ advantage to 9-3 with a major decision over Michael Mays. Gardner Webb did not go away quietly, however, winning

the next two bouts for its first lead of the night at 13-9. See WRESTLING on page 14

MIKE MITCHELL helped lead the wrestling team to a win over Gardner-Webb,

Conradt wins 800

Howard has solid week

Texas head coach Jody Conradt became just the second women’s head coach in NCAA history to win 800 career games when her Longhorns defeated Texas Tech 69-58.

Wake Forest’s Josh Howard was named ACC player of the week after averaging 26.5 points, seven rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. UNC’s Rashad McCants was rookie of the week.

Jordan passes Wilt Michael Jordan moved into third place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list, passing Wilt Chamberlain with one minute left in the first half in last night’s game.

Men’s Basketball

No. 1 Arizona 71, ASU 63 Colorado 60, No. 6 Kansas 59 No. 10 Kentucky 67, Auburn 51 No. 14 Louisville 71, DePaul 43 No. 15 Illinois 75, Purdue 62 No. 22 Georgia 81, Tenn. 76 No. 23 Miss. St. 64, S.C. 48

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Former State ballboy Randolph returns to boos By EVAN DAVIS The Chronicle RALEIGH As a little kid, Shavlik Randolph was a ballboy for the N.C. State basketball team. After his freshman year at Raleigh’s Broughton High, Wolfpack head coach Herb Sendek offered him a scholarship. Randolph’s grandfather, Ronnie Shavlik, was one of N.C. State’s great players, and currently has his jersey hanging from the rafters at the RBC Center. But despite all of that, Randolph told Sendek that he wanted to wear Duke Blue. Wednesday night marked Randolph’s first game at the school where his grandfather played, and the fans let him know what they thought about his college choice. The 19-year-old was booed every time that he touched the ball and whenever he entered or exited the game. Cheers for Randolph were heard only when he missed a shot or was fouled hard, as was the case in the first half, when N.C. State’s Marcus Melvin’s arm left a slight imprint on his face. “I was pretty much expecting to get booed,” Randolph said. “It wasn’t a surprise to me.” In fact, Randolph said that the only surprise was the extent —or lack thereof—to which the fans heckled him. “[The crowd] wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be,” he said. “It wasn’t too bad.” While Randolph wasn’t particularly upset with the fans, he was not exactly thrilled by his own performance in the game. The 6-foot-10 freshman played only 10 minutes, going O-of-3 from the field and scoring two points, both of which came at the free-throw line. “I didn’t play as well as I could have played,” Randolph said. “I wish I could have done better to help our team.” Though he was reluctant to admit

it, Randolph clearly knew that this stage was better than any to have a

breakout game. But he knows that the season moves on, and that he will have his chance to enact revenge on the Wolfpack when they visit Cameron Indoor Stadium Feb. 22. Tm going to move on, and we’re going to move on,” Randolph said. “I can’t keep dwelling on this.”

COMMENTARY from page 11 JENNY MAi

and then we kind of weathered their storm and took the lead again,” Duke forward Shavlik Randolph said. “To

their credit, they played great. They hit big shots—they hit the type of shots they need to hit to win.” Such was not the case against Maryland, where the loss was much more a function of Duke doing things wrong then the Terrapins doing them right. Against N.C. State, the Blue Devils continued to fight, at one point a regaining lead. three-point Wednesday’s loss was simply a case of an inconsistent Wolfpack squad catching fire in the second half, going 11-of-20 from the floor, including 5-of-9 from three-point range.

Duke also suffered from an injury to freshman sharpshooter J.J. Redick, who appeared to hurt his foot in a collision with a Wolfpack defender with 8:46 remaining in the game and the score knotted at 51-51. Redick, who in

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(top) SHAVLIK RANDOLPH returns to his hometown of Raleigh with a less than friendly welcome from N.C. State players and fans. JULIUS HODGE, who had 18 points on the night, drives past sophomore Daniel Ewing.

the first half went 4-of-5 from threepoint range while scoring 20 points, tried to keep playing, but was clearly struggling and went scoreless for the remainder ofthe game. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski could easily distinguish this loss from the one his team suffered in College Park. Saturday, Krzyzewski criticized his team’s effort, while against N.C. State, he did no such thing. “I don’t fault the effort of our kids,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought our kids played their hearts out, and that’s what we need to keep doing because that’s how we’ll become better.” Even still, the Blue Devils were far from flawless. They allowed N.C. State to have a number of open looks from behind, the arc, especially in cases where Duke’s big men were too

slow in getting out to defend along the baseline. The Wolfpack’s Clifford Crawford made the most of these opportunities, going 3-of-3 from three-point range in the second half and 4-of-5 in the game. But the Blue Devils know that, even with N.C. State’s lights-out shooting, they still needed to come out and make the second-half statement so characteristic of past Duke teams. Duke’s point guard Chris Duhon was around for several of those games, and knows that this year’s squad needs to do likewise. “We can’t let teams in the first few minutes get a run and build confidence,” Duhon said. “In those first four minutes in the second half, we need to come out and execute and finish.” Forward Dahntay Jones insists

that, following Duke’s second-half collapse against Maryland, he and his teammates were cognizant ofthe need to replicate their first-half intensity. This time, however, their opponent was just too much to handle. “We wanted to handle it a different way and not let them get out to an easy start, but we really couldn’t,” Jones said. “We didn’t come out with the same mentality that we did a couple days ago—they just made plays.” The lesson to be learned, Duhon says,, is that if the other team plays well, anything can happen. As a result, he says, the Blue Devils need to come out each night and perform at the highest possible level. “We’re a better team from the Maryland game,” he said. “Now we just need to get even better.”

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No. 1 Duke (17-0,5-0) Maryland (8-9, 2-4) Coach Gail Goestenkors Coach Brenda Frese Guard Vicki Krapohl, Jr. 5.5 ppg, 2.9 apg Guard Vicki Brick, Jr. (RS) 8.6 ppg, 3.8 apg. Guard Alana Beard, Jr. 24.9 ppg, 7.7 rpg Guard Renneika Razor, Sr. 16.1 ppg, 4.2 spg (ciss Tillis, Jr. 15.1 ppg, 7.2 rpg Forward Forward Terri Daniels, Sr. 9.5 ppg, 4.6 apg. Forward Michele Matyasovsky, Sr. 6.2 ppg, 3.8 rpg Forward Angel Ross, Fr. 6.8 ppg, 6.3 mg Center Mistie Bass, Fr. 9.5 ppg, 4.1 rpg Center Delvona Oliver, Jr. 16.0 ppg, 6.9 rpg

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tle bit’ because we’re behind,” Goestenkors said. “So now we can just go out and play the way we need to play.” Struggling in nearly all of its halves, Maryland comes off a loss to Virginia by a score of 69-58. It was the second consecutive ACC defeat for the Terrapins. “We had a tough week,” Maryland head coach Brenda Frese said. “This will be the first time [one of my teams] is playing a No. 1 team. That will be our biggest factor against Duke: Not put them at a higher standard or level.” The Terrapins are no push-overs, however, boasting an experienced starting lineup: Maryland starts the game with a pair of seniors and a duo of juniors on the court.

On the perimeter, senior guard Renneika Razor leads the Terps with 16.1 points per game and is the ACC’s steals leader. Inside, the Terp’s biggest threat is Junior Delvona Oliver. The 6foot-3 forward is averaging 16 points and seven rebounds per game. Freshmen Angel Ross will also eat up space inside, leading the team in blocks with 15 on the season. Last season, the Blue Devils were

victorious in both matchups with Maryland. Alana Beard fell two assists short of a triple double at Cameron, nailing the Terps with 35 points. Duke hopes to repeat last years victories against Maryland by not looking ahead to the highly anticipated game against Connecticut Feb. 1. “I have not done one thing [to prepare for Connecticut]” Goestenkors said. “I can’t afford to right now. I’ve got to focus on what is happening here and now.” Robert Samuel contributed to this story.

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The Blue Devils learned their lesson against the Tar Heels over the holiday weekend, and it was just the test they need to give them an edge. Though reigning national coach of the year Brenda Frese has begun to harness her raw squad, Gail Goestenkors now has herself a tested No. 1 team, playing at home with a fire too hot to handle.

game between these two schools’ men’s teams this weekend saw the Terps 10. 1 Duke, the circumstances tonight are all together different. With Iciss Tillis leard becoming a tandem for the ages and starting to streak as the season lese Blue Devils aren’t fearing the turtle in the least. Even if Renneika Razor —by Matt Sullivan >ard in check, Duke’s loaded. Duke takes it, 80-67.

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N.C. STATE from page 1 Hodge then kicked the ball out to a wide open Crawford on the wing, who drained the three to give the Pack a four point edge. The shot signaled lift off from the 19,048 person crowd and gave State a hold on the lead—something they would never relinquish. Crawford came through again for the Wolfpack when the Blue Devils were knocking with about four minutes left. After stealing the ball from Duke for-

ward Nick Horvath, Crawford, let the offense set,

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baseline trey, giving the Wolfpack a 64-58 lead with 4:05 remaining. “One of the keys to the win was the play of Crawford,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He went 4-for-5 from three point range, and they seemed always big. In pressure situations he either increased the lead or got his team coming back but he played like a real veteran. My hat goes off to him.” The Wolfpack played most of the rest of the game from the charity stripe, with Melvin sinking eight straight. Hodge then hit a pair before Melvin, a 73 percent free throw shooter, appeared again, going 1for-2 and giving N.C. State a 77-69 lead. “They did a great job of making plays and knocking down shots,” Blue Devils captain Chris Duhon said. “It happens. That’s the game of basketball—it’s a tricky game.” Duke started the game knocking down most ofits shots and taking a 7-0 lead that mushroomed to 177 against a weak zone defense by N.C. State. Sendek then switched up his team’s play and N.C. State matched Blue Devil threes before slowly crawling within one point halfway through the first act. The teams continued their sharp shooting before getting into a hackfest with about two minutes remaining. The Wolfpack started the second half by going on a quick 8-1 run on the heels of Horvath’s fourth foul. “We came to play today, but we didn’t play as smart as we could have,” Horvath said. “Things didn’t go our way, and we know that next time we need

to come out and play even harder and more together. We’re going to come out on top.” The Blue Devils were led by J. J. Redick who had 24 points—2o of which came in the first half. Redick, who injured his foot late in the game, shot 4-for-5 from behind the arc in the first 20, but missed all four ofhis attempts in the second. The Blue Devils now face the unfamiliar position of having to fight back to the top of the ACC standings—a conference they have dominated over the last five years. Duke will get its next chance for a conference win when it faces Georgia Tech Saturday at noon in Cameron Indoor Stadium. “State was good,” Krzyzewski said. “Herb did a great job with his team. Hopefully we can rebound ffom here and get going for Saturday.”

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After Duke’s Andrew Herbert dropped a major decision to Brent Blackwell at 197 pounds, Blue Devil heavyweight Trey Williams was caught on his back and pinned for a huge Gardner Webb point swing. “Trey was doing really well in the third period when he was just caught,” Anderson said. “Those [six] points really brought them back into the game.” The Bulldogs looked to jump on their momentum and extend their lead heading into the lower weights by countering Duke’s two-time 125-pound NCAA qualifier, Tommy Hoang—who has not seen much mat time this season—with Josh Pniewski. In an extremely physical match wherein Hoang re-aggravated his back injury that has only permitted him to wrestle sparingly up to this point, Pniewski defaulted to give the Blue Devils a 15-13

back into shape. Hopefully this won’t be too much of a setback with the back injury.” Senior Andy Soliman followed by fighting to accumulate points at the end of his match, and extended the Blue Devils lead to 19-13 at 133 pounds. Freshman 149-pounder Brandon Foose sealed Duke’s victory with an 11-1 major decision over John Gofer in the night’s penultimate bout. Looking to start a winning streak, the Blue Devils face Delaware State and Anderson College in their first home action of the season Saturday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke 23, Gardner-Webb 20 Mitchell (Duke) tech falls Ard, 22-4 Wince (GWU) defeats Marcantonio, 2-0 Cass (Duke) defeats Mays, 14-5 Blackwell (GWU) defeats Herbert. 12-4 Richard (GWU) WBF Williams, 6:23 Hoang (Duke) injury dqs Pniewski Soliman (Duke) defeats Neal, 15-6 Lansley (GWU) defeats Benitez. 5-3 (OT) Foose (Duke) defeats Gofer, 11-1 Gulliver(GWU) defeats Balmages, 14-3 Host; Gardner-Webb University Records: Duke (2-6); Bucknell (6-9)

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Academic THURSDAY, JANUARY 23 Population Biology Seminar: 7pm. Matthew Hahn. Duke University. 140 Biological Sciences.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 UPEcology Seminar: 12:45pm. Susan Alberts, Duke University. “Life in a constantly changing environment: baboon ecology in a tropical savannah.” A247-LSRC. Lecture Series with Fred Mdus: 4pm. Three Songs by R.E.M. 101 Biddle Music Bldg; Duke University East Campus.

Religious THURSDAY, JANUARY 23 Presbyterian/UCC Campus Ministry Drop-in Lunch 12-1 pm, Thursdays. Chapel Basement Kitchen. Wesley Euchrist: s;3opm. This short communion service will be followed by an informal dinner somewhere around campus. Wesley Office. 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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Broadway at Duke; Bpm. “Rent.” A musical updating of La Boheme celebrating a community of young artists. Tickets are sold out. Call 684-4444. Page I——————Auditorium, West Campus. Wesley Freshmen Small Group: 9;oopm. Blackwell Writing Workshops co-hosted by the Duke Multicultural Commons with JoAnna (jm2l). center and the Writing Studio. Sessions will be held in SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 Duke University Eye Center: 9am-2pm. Free the Multicultural Center, 0010 Bryan Center. Call 684Annual Eye Screening. Duke Eye Center FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 6756 for information. Wesley Fellowship Bible Study: 12noon, Fridays. (Wadsworth Building). Free Parking. Hoof ‘n’ Horn Presents: Bpm. Little Shop of Horrors! A Wesley Office. Hoof ‘n’ Horn Presents: 2:3opm & Bpm. Little Shop rock musical comedy. Get your tickets at the box office Quranic Recitation: 12:30pm. Followed by Muslim in the top level of the Bryan Center, on the BC Walkway of Horrors! A rock musical comedy. Get your tickets Friday Service. Chapel Quad. Rainsite: Top Floor of the starting January 9th, or at the Box Office Website: at the box office in the top level of the Bryan Center, on the BC Walkway starting January 9th, or at the Bryan Center. ww.tickets.duke.edu Questions about the show, contact t ~i

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 Coffee Connection: 12noon-Ipm, Fridays. Chapel basement. Concert: Bpm. The Blind Boys of Alabama with Charlie Musselwhite, blues harmonica Gospel legends. The Blind Boys of Alabama, sing pieces from their latest CD, Higher Ground, including spirituals, gospel music, and the foot-stomping, hand-clapping versions of old favorites that are sure to move the spirit. Tickets $22 General, $l2 Students. Baldwin Auditorium. 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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Graduate Student Composers Concert: Bpm. Join Duke’s graduate student composers as they share some of their most recent works. Nelson Music Room; Duke University East Campus. Admission Free. Tokyo String Quartet: Bpm. Annual visitors on

Duke’s Chamber Arts Series, the Tokyo appears this year with new principal violinist Martin Beaver. The ensemble has been garnering rave reviews with this new configuration. Limited number of tickets will be available, first-come, first-served, at the University Box Office in the Bryan Center outside Reynolds Theater beginning at 7 pm on concert night. No advance ticket sales. Tickets are $25 general public, $l2 students. Reynolds Theater.

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this week, Duke administrators announced plans to cut the number of faculty positions in the Biological Anthropology and Anatomy to a third ofits current size, although it remains a complete mystery why the University would choose to eviscerate one ofits top science programs in such a manner. Currently, the BAA department has 17 faculty members, 10 tenuretrack and seven research professors; with the proposed cuts, the total would be reduced to six, four tenure-track and two research. This vast reduction threatens all aspects of the department: the undergraduate program, the graduate program, and the Primate Center, which although technically separate, is used largely by BAA faculty. What is most perplexing is why the University would choose to destroy one of its most highly regarded programs when it supports so many other less distinguished departments and during a period when it is investing heavily in the sciences in general. Although the current en vogue fields in science include genetics, molecular biology and the like, as opposed to the largely organismalbased orientation of BAA, the University should not base decisions about which departments to support on the relative popularity of the departments. Indeed, at a time when much of the natural sciences are moving toward an emphasis on biomedical applications, it is important to remember that biology is much larger. The University’s biology offering should not be exclusively those that are the most popular; rather, it should continue to support departments like BAA, which continues to ask important and interesting question and pose problems that are incredibly relevant to us as humans. BAA’s study of humankind’s closest animal relatives and of the evolution of humans is central to what defines humanity. What is especially disappointing about this whole situation is how the deans have handled it. They revealed the plans to slash the department’s faculty in a private meeting late last week, after which Richard Kay, professor and chair ofBAA, announced the plans to the entire department last Friday. However, since that time the administration has not justified or defended its plan. The professors and students of BAA deserve better from the administration. They deserve answers and an explanation for why a top program is being crushed. It seems rather capricious that the University should target BAA, both because ofits valuable contributions to science and because of how well regarded it is. Eliminating the department will reflect very poorly upon the University and make the natural sciences less well rounded. Unfortunately, the damage may already be done, since now that the sword of Damocles is dangling over BAA, graduate students will no longer come to Duke and professors will no longer be motivated to turn out quality research for a University that has abandoned them.

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University should not eliminate BAA positions We are very disappointed by the proposal to downsize the Biological Anthropology and Anatomy department to levels that would, in effect,

lead to its demise. While BAA’s external review noted that “disinvestment surely cannot be an option,” leave it to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe to suggest divestiture. It is apparent not only to the external reviewers but also to the students who sit in BAA classes every day that BAA is a “world-class program.” But, it does not surprise us that Chafe and the University do not see it this way. Meanwhile, the department has been making great strides in terms of research, instruction and providing an

intellectual climate. Most recently, professor Carel van

Schaik made headline news for his work on orangutan culture. His work and that of other professors in the department are providing us with valuable insight into human origins and behaviors through our most proximate relatives, the non-human primates. Professors doing this research are also devoting a large amount of their time to instruction, providing us with valuable tools to conduct our own research and satisfy our own intellectual curiosity. This type of passion for their research as well as for instruction sets the bar for other departments, and their commitment seemed to be paving the way for many future dividends until this latest news by Chafe and the University. We would implore Chafe to sit amidst the stu-

dents in a BAA lecture, take a tour of the Primate Center, visit the research facilities in the Sands Building, or even sit and talk with a couple undergraduate students to find out what positive changes have occurred in the

BAA department during their time here at Duke so that perhaps he too may realize that “some of the brightest and most productive young scholars in the business” might be lost through a truncation of the faculty and facilities of the BAA department. Wylie

Carhartt Trinity ’O3

Lily Kimbel Trinity ’O3 The writers are co-presidents of the Biological Anthropology and Anatomy Majors Union.

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website (dsg.duke.edu/kv. Html). Tents will be registered

on a first-come, first-serve basis. A tent needs only one member present in order to register, but that member must have his Duke Card. Beginning at 11:59 p.m. Jan. 26, all tents must have at least one member in K-Ville at all times. If you have questions about the rules or tent registration process, please visit the website or e-mail me at j.morgan@duke.edu. Jeremy Morgan Trinity ’O3

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Whitehom’s visit provides opportunity for dialogue The reactionary response of

the Duke Conservative Union to Laura Whitehom’s invitation to speak at the University is hypocritical. This is an issue offreedom of speech, a freedom that conservatives love to support—except when they dislike the message. In a day when the word “terrorist” is thrown around to label anyone who is seen as slightly threatening, we should be mature enough to engage people with different

perspectives instead of ignorantly dismissing them. Whitehorn is a political activist who has done substantial anti-racist work for over 30 years. While in prison, she started HIV/AIDS programs and wrote for various publications. Whitehom’s activism has included working with the civil rights movement, the anti-

Vietnam War movement, the

Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Movement, the New Independence Afrikan Movement and the Puerto Rican Independence movement. She has fought against the white supremacy of the KKK and has continually spoken out for women’s and gay rights. Her experience with

these movements gives her a unique perspective to share with the Duke community.

Whitehorn has also spent 14 years of her life in prison. She was convicted in 1985 of “conspiracy to oppose, protest and change the policies and practices of the United States government in domestic and international matters by violence and illegal means.” At that time, the United States had just invaded Grenada and had recently shelled Lebanon. These actions were part of a long-standing imperialist policy of US. military foreign interventions. Because there was no militant reaction to these events in the United States, Whitehorn wanted to draw attention to these crimes that caused harm to so many people. She helped set a bomb that destroyed part of an empty conference room in the US. Capitol. It took months of planning to ensure that no one would be killed or injured in the action. Whitehorn grew up as a pacifist, but working in solidarity with various freedom movements made her aware of the police, the government and

the military’s power to stop struggles for social justice. “We have to fight back on their bat-

tlefield,” she said. As for her political bombing, her stance is

resolute: “We were not terrorists. Terrorists target and terrorize civilians, and we never tried to hurt anyone.” Even if one does not agree with her tactics, it would be difficult to make an argument that she would not be an interesting person to dialogue with and learn from. We applaud the University for protecting

free speech on our campus and encourage all Duke students to learn more about Whitehom’s political activism. Out: The Making ofa Revolutionary, is a powerful documentary film about her life and her journey. The film will be shown Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in Social Sciences room 139. Whitehom will be speaking as part of the Teaching Race, Teaching Gender series at Duke March 3. Jessica Rutter Trinity ’O4

Johanna Pemberton Trinity ’O4

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Praising Christina Aguilera.... No, seriously Despite lewd reputation, pop starlet makes a valuable contribution to today’s music scene Caution: This column includes one of my more radical statements ever put down to paper. I have attacked God, the South and our nation’s drug war, but yet here I I|| stand articulating a perhaps viewpoint shared by only the K slimmest of minorities. . Aguilera Christie Christina is a positive influence on Removing the today’s youth. Gte sl that. I’ll

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of work. She broke through with “Genie In a Bottle,” the music video for which is basically one long shot of Aguilera rolling around in the sand and showing off some uninventive dance moves. Her first single off Stripped, her newest CD’s title that clearly plays off Aguilera’s sexual reputation, was “Dirrty.” That’s right, with two r’s, perhaps because the dance beat will inspire those to bump and grind with reckless abandon. There is more to Aguilera than simply sex and more sex, though. Her second single off Stripped is “Beautiful.” Now, the refrain isn’t very deep: “I am beautiful no matter what they say/ Words can't bring me down/ I am beautiful in every single way/ Yes, words can't bring me down/ So don't you bring me down today.” Either charming or bland depending on your point of view, the lyrics offer nothing original. But take a look at the music video. As Aguilera sings within the solitude of some random beat-up apartment, the video follows several different storylines. One features a severely anorexiclooking girl standing in front of a mirror in just a bra and panties, plucking the skin off her protruding ribs. Another follows an attractive pair of gay men kissing on a park bench in

personal demons of being beaten by her father and seeing her father beat her mother. (Say what you will about Aguilera’s musical ability or lack thereof. Her childhood experiences, by their very nature, reveal depth and grit). The song’s opening verse: “Once upon a time there was a girl /In her early years she had to learn/How to grow up living in a war that she called home/Never know just where to turn for shelter from the storm /Hurt me to see the pain across mother's my face/Everytime my father's fist would put her in her place/Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room/ Hoping it would be over soon.” Say what you want about Aguilera or other frequently reviled pop stars and I chose to write about Aguilera precisely because of her decidedly poor reputation among young adults my age—there is an irrefutable reality that —

even with all the cheesy bubblegum pop and Hollywood veneer playing 24/7 on MTV, there is also a wealth of material offering outlets for those affected by divorce, physical abuse and social ostracization. With so many millions of American youth struggling with these problems, I think it’s important to acknowledge the cultural and musical evolutions of the last decade or two. For so long, problems like parental abuse and angst over sexual orientation were subjects entirely almost untouched within best-selling music; artists always spoke in metaphor. Today’s artists are graphic and open with songs and videos that even legends like the Beatles never produced. I think that’s worth being acknowledged.

Nick Christie is a Trinity senior and associate sports editor for The Chronicle.

front of passers-by. Whether you like the song or not, the video montage is touching. We talk about public demonstrations and awareness campaigns, but a pop star’s impact can be far, far greater. With teenagers being the superficial, insecure people they are, a warm melody supporting those that too much of society considers amoral can be quite comforting. Can you imagine such a video even a decade ago? That a pop star, even one

mocked as often as Aguilera, can achieve commercial success through a video like “Beautiful” is impressive. “I’m Okay,” another song off Stripped, offers a poignant message on physical abuse. Aguilera attacks the

Germany 1939; Iraq 2003 For all of you out there who are opposed to us going to war with Iraq, how would you feel if we had never entered WWII? Should we have just let Hitler take over the world

Jenny Niedermeyer Guest Commentary and impose his Final Solution? Well, that’s a good point you have there when you say that we were provoked. I can hear you saying “Hello! Pearl Harbor!” and you’reright. We were provoked. However, by then it was nearly too late. You see, we should have entered that war far before Saddam Hussein had amassed such a huge base of power and conquered territory. I’m sorry; did I say “Saddam Hussein” when I meant “Adolf Hitler”? My mistake. It must be the immense number of similarities between our current situation and the situation in Europe circa 1939. In the Versailles treaty that ended WWI Germany was treated just harshly enough to make her really mad but not quite harshly enough to prevent a resurgence of her power. Germany was forced to reduce her army to 100,000 men, reduce the navy to 6 warships and no submarines, demilitarize the Rhineland, pay reparations to the Allied countries for all damage caused by the war and accept all ofthe blame for the war. All this was decided in a negotiation to which Germanywas not even invited. This created a popular resentment in Germany that Hitler exploited. In the years following the treaty Germany systemati-

cally violated almost all of it: Reparation payments stopped within a year, rearmament began in 1933, 1936 saw the reoccupation of the Rhineland and in 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, England and France finally decided to declare war. By then it was almost too late. Each violation ofthe treaty, each act of aggression, was dismissed by countries who didn’t want to get involved in a war. Was this a good idea? Hindsight is of course 20/20 but from where I sit it would have worked out better if perhaps when Germany remilitarized the Rhineland England and France had done battle to put Germany in her place. That situation is frighteningly comparable to what we are facing right now with Iraq. In 1991, Iraq surrendered to the United Nations and agreed to end their weapons of mass destruction program and to submit to UN. inspections. For 11 years now UN. sanctions have been imposed on Iraq, to be lifted only once the chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs are verified extinct by UN. inspectors. These sanctions decrease the quality of life of the average Iraqi, creating—you guessed it!— popular resentment, ripe for exploitation. In 1997, Iraq first expelled UN. inspectors, then proceeded to allow inspections sporadically. This begs the question; What are they hiding? They have disregarded nofly zones. Iraq has violated terms of the 1991 settlement to an extent that it is impossible for the masses to determine. Are these all seemingly relatively small infractions? Yes. Will they add up to another WWII? Not likely. Should we really wait for another Pearl Harbor before we act? We11....

I do not advocate or oppose a war with Iraq; I simply do not know enough to make that decision. It would be impossible for the average citizen to know whether or not it is wise to attack a foreign country. Well, scratch that, not “impossible,” simply militarily suicidal. If the US. government were to reveal everything they knew about Iraq, everything that made it imperative for us to attack them, we would be showing our hand to Saddam Hussein. CNN is not only broadcast in this country. Luckily I don’t have to make that decision, because we five in a representative democracy. What that means is that we elect leaders to represent our wishes to our governing body. Indeed, we even elect the leader of our government. Everyone in the position of making the decision of whether or not to go to war with Iraq, or any other nation for that matter, has either been directly elected by the voters or appointedby a duly elected official. There are some matters in which popular referendums are ideal: Should we ban the death penalty? Should we have tougher gun laws? These are the types of questions where popular opinion can and should play a large role; these are the types of questions that the population can be fully informed about without any loss ofnational security. Will we go to war with Iraq? Is it a good idea to do so? I don’t know. And for now I’m going to have to be satisfied with that answer. Until I become president that is. Jenny Niedermeyer is a first-year graduate student in ofEngineering.

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Thanks for Giving to the Blue Devil Holiday Food Drive The Facilities Management Department of Duke University gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and organizations that supported the 2002 Blue Devil Holiday Food Drive. Difficult economic times and extraordinarily bad weather have dramatically increased needs and made donations more difficult to collect. The joint effort at Duke resulted in the contribution of 38,000 cans of food to the Food Bank of North Carolina. That translates into 100,000 servings for more than 66,000 people, including many children and seniors, in Durham and the five counties nearby.

Special thanks to: ■ The Duke University student body, led

by Donald Wine, Clifford Davison, Avery Capone, Peri Kadaster, Jessica Ogbonnaya, McCormick Conforti, Liz Reaves and Kirsten Hopkins of the Duke Student Government, who donated over 10,000 cans of food ■ Employees of the Facilities Management Department, and faculty and staff at University, Hospital and Medical Center locations around campus, who donated more than 4,000 cans ■ Duke University Department heads who contributed funds to purchase more than 10,000 cans, including: > Office of the President, Dr. Nannerl Keohane O. > Office of the Executive Vice President, Dr. Tollman TVask, 111 > Vice Dean for Administration and Finance, Duke University Medical Center, Gordon Williams > Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations, John Burness > Associate Vice President for Human

Resources, Clint Davidson Chief Operations Officer for Duke University Health System, Bobby Clapp > Facilities Management Department, Jerry C. Black Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services, Joe Pietrantoni, who facilitated the use of student debit card donations and waived all handling fees Kroger Food Store on Hillsborough Road, whose manager, David Gardner donated cans and arranged special pricing for the purchase of much of the food DeHavens Transfer and Storage, which donated the services to transport the food Members of the Duke Recycles Ibam who collected and counted cans from over 80 locations on campus

■ The following Contractors, Consultants and

Vendors who donated more than 12,000 cans > ACR Supply Company, Inc. > Asphalt Experts, Inc. > Bar-Lyn Enterprises, Inc > Beacon Beers Partnership, Pratt School of Engineering Tfeam > Bovis Lend Lease, Keller II Tfeam > Brown Brothers Plumbing and Heating Company, Inc. > Carway Interiors > C. C. Woods Construction Company, Inc > Comfort Engineers, Inc. > Custom Overhead Door Company > Duane K. Stewart and Associates, Inc. > Foushee Electric Company > George Kirschmann, Architect > Gurtner Metal and Building Specialties > J. W. Grand, Inc. > > > > >

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L. A. Downey & Son, Inc. LTB Cleaning Services, Inc. Maddux Supply Company

Mid-Atlantic Infrastructure Systems, Inc. Mixon Construction Co., Inc. North Carolina Mechanical, Inc. O. C. Mitchell, Jr. Inc. Pearce, Brinkley, Cease and Lee, P.A. RGG Architects, PLLC Riggs-Harrod Builders, Inc. Romeo Guest Associates, Inc. Signature Blinds Steve Bass, Inc. Sutton-Kennerly and Associates T. A. Loving Company Triangle Green Scene, Inc Tbrf Service, Inc. W. W. Kingsbury, Architect