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Duke Corporate Ed turns Ist yearly profit Univ. cuts

Fuqua spin-off avoids national trend as it eyes expansion in Seoul By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

After looking at his company’s earnings last quarter, Blair Sheppard was able to deliver the University a nice holiday present—a $1 million check from Duke Corporate Education. Sheppard, CEO of Duke CE, the customized executive education venture and spin-off from the Fuqua School of Business, said the corporation made enough money in the last two quarters of 2002 to pay Duke $1 million of the $5 million it owes the University for its royalty obligations and other start-up costs. “It’s the first time we’ve given money back to the University,” Sheppard said. “We have enough cash flow that we probably could have done a little better than that.” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said the money will go to the busi-

Administrators are seeking to stabilize spending from the University’s endowment as investment returns stay low. By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

ness school as operating revenue. The company, competing in a tight economy in which relatively few people are seeking executive education, has seen three quarters of consecutive growth and

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tion, amortization and Duke royalty of $1,526 million, including

$469,000 profit in the last quarter of 2002. By contrast, the company lost money in every quarter of 2001

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and in the first quarter of 2002. “We’re growing, but we’re not out of the woods yet,” said Trask, who has the

final authority over Duke CE. Sheppard said he hoped to give the University another $3 million by the middle of the year. “My expectation for the subsequent

year is to meet our entire obligation, and we make money on top of that,” he said. “It’s been a hell of a year. Everybody else is shrinking and we’re growing.” Last month, Fuqua officials announced a wide-ranging partnership See DUKE CE on page 9

To ensure that the economic downturn does not adversely affect the stability of growth in the University’s endowment spending, administrators have decided to lower the endowment’s payout rate from 10 percent to about 3 percent. The payout rate—the percentage of the endowment that contributes to the operating budget—is the cap on how much of the endowment can be spent in a given year. Administrators estimated that reducing it will mean the University will have tens of millions of dollars less to spend in the next fiscal year. Executive Vice President tallman Trask said that, ideally, the payout rate is determined so that it reduces the likelihood in the future that the University would have to cut the rate to zero or have negative growth. When the endowment made a whopping 58.8 percent return on its investments three years ago, the 10 percent figure was especially prudent planning, administrators said. Because the University did not spend all of the reSee ENDOWMENT on page 10

Med school offers taped lectures online By WHITNEY ROBINSON The Chronicle

If you could watch all your classes on a personal computer in the comfort of your room, would you ever sit in a lecture hall again? First-year medical students at the School of Medicine now have the ability to access their lectures online, raising questions regarding possible declines in student attendance and how they are utilizing the new technology. Students and professors have so far expressed divided opinions on the system’s merits. [l]f you can’t make it to the lecture, you can log on to the site and [seel the lecture,” said Dr. Edward Buckley, associate dean of curriculum development. “Or, if you’re studying anatomy and you’re like, ‘Jesus, what did he say?’... and your notes don’t make any sense, you can go back and log onto the websites to find the lecture—every last one of them is taped and “

on the web.”

The first-year lecture hall at the School of Medicine is outfitted with several built-in cameras and microphones, said Tom Hurtgen, director of Educational Media Services. The equipment is connected via a central control room, where lectures are assembled, switching between graphics and video IllQiffp iiibluc

using high-tech touch screen controls. “Usually when students are finished [with the class] they can access the file within 15 minutes,” Hurtgeri said. The new system of recording lectures replaces the antiquated and unpopular VHS recordings and audio tapes. These video streams, located on Blackboard, cover all first-year medical school lectures, from microanatomy to neurobiology. Most students are using the system and praising its convenience. Hurtgen said results from software that analyzes web activity shows that “every lecture got looked at a significant number of times by more than half the class.” “It’s fantastic! I love it. I use it everyday. It gives you a little more control over how you want to spend your time,” said Hui Xue, a first-year medical student. “I try to go to class whenever I can, but ifI have a conflict or have to go to the dentist, I know I’m not missing anything.” Buckley said there are concerns about a decrease in the number of students attending class, but the ultimate decision to attend is in the hands of the students. “There's been an issue about [missing the lectures],

The Samuel Dußois Cook Society honored William Chafe, dean Qf the facujty of arts and sciences, and Dr. Charles Johnson, professor emeritus of medicine. See page 3

See VIDEO LECTURES on page 7 Last year, the Department of Chemistry changed how its introductory course was taught. Following mixed responses, the department is still fine-tuning the class. See page 3

Duke sophomore Cameron Levy will appear tonight on The Price is Right Million Dollar Spectacular, although he cannot yet say what he w0n..,. See page 4

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Bush says ‘game is over’ for Iraq

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Hospitals reject smallpox vaccinations

President Bush declares Hussein will be disarmed with or without U.N. support

President George W. Bush’s plan to vaccinate 500,000 health care workers against smallpox is getting off to a very slow start as hundreds of hospitals and thousands of nurses across the country say they will not participate. •

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United States, along with a growing coalition of nations, is resolved to take In the face of whatever action is necessary to deWASHINGTON stiff opposition from allies, President fend ourselves and disarm the Iraqi George W. Bush declared Thursday regime,” he said. “the game is over” for Saddam HusAides said the next few days would sein and urged the United Nations to be spent turning up pressure on relucjoin in disarming Iraq. tant allies such as France and Ger“Saddam Hussein will be stopped,” many as well as other U.N. members. Bush said. Bush was silent on a timetable, The president said he would be Earlier in the day, Secretary of open to a second U.N. resolution on State Colin Powell stuck to the phrase disarmament, following up one apthe administration has been using proved last November, but only if it concerning a final decision on possible war—“weeks, not months”—but led to prompt action. “The Security Council must not White House officials noted that Bush back down when those demands are was no longer saying consultations defied and mocked by a dictator,” would last that long. Bush said. If the U.N. fails to act, “The “Saddam Hussein was given a final The Associated Press

State sex offender databases incomplete

In a startling new survey, a child advocacy group found that states across the country have lost track of tens of thousands of rapists, child molesters and other sex offenders who are supposed to be registered in Megan’s Law databases. •

British police arrest suspected terrorists

The antiterrorism police detained seven people in coordinated early morning raids in four cities in England and Scotland Thursday, and officials linked the operation to recent arrests in Britain of North Africans charged with plotting attacks with the deadly toxin ricin. •

Army deploys 101st Airborne Division

The Army’s 101st Airborne Division received orders Thursday to deploy overseas. The legendary division—with its 270 helicopters —will “support possible future operations in the global war on terrorism.” •

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He spoke after meeting with privately with Powell to discuss efforts to win U.N. approval of a resolution specifically authorizing use of force.

Powell, who laid out the U.S. case to the U.N. Security Council Wednesday, told lawmakers Thursday that the Iraqi situation would be brought to a conclusion “one way or another” in a

matter of weeks. Sticking largely to the case Powell

outlined Wednesday, Bush said there is no doubt Saddam is not complying with the earlier U.N. order to disarm. See IRAQ on page 9

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SEOUL, South Korea North Korea stepped up its verbal bombardment of the United States Thursday, warning of “total war” if the United States dared to attack its nuclear complex. The North fired its strongest salvo a day after declaring that its five-megawatt reactor was up and running “on a normal footing” after what it said was its “restart.” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld added to the war of words by charging that North Korea was ruled by “a terrorist regime” that had been “involved in things that are harmful to other countries.” Rumsfeld made the remark to the House Armed Services Committee as he and other high-level officials in Washington and Seoul sought to discern how seriously

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The North Korean party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, warned of the consequences if the United States seriously considered a pre-emptive strike on the nuclear complex, saying“a surprise attack on our peaceful nuclear facilities” would “spark a total war.” Making clear the potential of North Korea to wreak havoc on South Korea and possibly targets in Japan, the commentary said it would be “foolish for the United States to think that we sit idle with folded arms to wait until it gives orders” to initiate the attack. The inference of the commentary was that North Korea might be the first to strike if the United States built up its See NORTH KOREA on page 7

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Cook Society honors supporters of diversity Chemistry

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By BENJAMIN PERAHIA The Chronicle In a moving dinner and awards ceremony, selected Duke professors and students were recognized for their contributions to a more tolerant community. About 150 people, including many faculty members and President Nan Keohane, attended the sixth annual

� Two years after the departure of legendary professor James

Samuel Dußois Cook Society awards dinner at the Bryan Center Thursday. The society was founded in 1997 to honor Cook, who was the first black faculty member at Duke. The society’s aim is to “recognize, celebrate and affirm the presence of African-American students, faculty and staff at Duke

Bonk, the chemistry department is still trying to fill his shoes. By KELLY ROHRS The Chronicle

University.”

As students in General Chemistry prepared for today’s midterm, freshman dormitory halls echoed with standard complaints about the difficulty of kinetic reactions and stoichiometry. Last year, when professor James Bonk stopped teaching the class after 38 years, some students had more substantial issues to complain about. Faculty members struggling with how to fill Bonk’s shoes decided to pioneer a new method of teaching—one that introduced chemistry in a less abstract manner. “We wanted to bring modem chemistry into the introductory courses rather than teach it how it was 50 years ago,” said Bemdt Mueller, dean of the natural sciences. “The major challenge is how to do that in the best way and how not to base it on one person.” Bonk, who had personified introductory chemistry for almost four decades, stepped back from the curriculum development process. “I’ve basically put earplugs in and a blindfold on,” he said. “I didn’t want to push my ideas onto [the new instructors].” Chemistry faculty collaborated to design a course focused on exposing students to real-world applications of chemistry rather than textbook computations and verification labs. Six faculty members would team-teach the

William Chafe, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, and Dr. Charles Johnson, professor emeritus of medicine, were the special honorees of the evening. “As a superb dean, Bill has been a voice and a force for the things that Cook stands for,” said Myrna Adams, former vice president for institutional equity, who presented Chafe with the award. “He carries a vision and a sense of higher historic mission in everything he does.” In addition to his role as a founder of the Center for Documentary Studies,

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SAMUEL DUBOIS COOK, the first black faculty member ever at Duke, thanked those who have contributed to Duke’s diversity at a dinnerand awards ceremony Thursday evening.

Chafe’s achievements include co-directing the Duke Oral History Program and its Center for the Study of Civil Rights and founding the Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women. Johnson received the same award—the Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service, the University’s most prestigious award. In his acceptance

icine’s only black professor. “I was the first, so it was a very hard journey,” Johnson said. Charles Payne, director of the African and African-American Studies Program was recognized with the Pioneer Award, while two graduate students—Victoria DeFrancesco and David Edwards—and an undergraduate, Kesav Mohan, were also given awards. A final award for “community betterment” went to Durham dentist and humanitarian Dr. Curtis Bowens, who expressed his gratitude to Cook for helping him through difficult times after his arrival in Durham. “Dr. Cook came back there and said ‘you are going to make it,’” Bowens recalled. “Dr. Cook, I thank you, I thank

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Alabama to become the School of Med-

CORRECTION A page-five story in the Feb. 6 edition of The Chronicle incorrectly gave the date that John Browne stepped down as director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. He left the position last month.

you, I thank you.” Bowens was not the only speaker to praise Cook—among others, Keohane also showed her appreciation of his work. “What has been done here, we attribute and trace back to the commitment of one man,” she said. Cook began his closing comments by discussing the importance of helping both the community and one another. “No matter what you say or think, we belong to each other because we are

all God’s children,” Cook said. He praised those who received awards, mentioning Chafe and Johnson in particular, as well as Keohane. “As always, I am very grateful to President Keohane for her continued support to the Cook society,” he said.

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CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports

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Student caught breaking gate arm

A student reported that between 10 a.m. Jan. 10 and 6 p.m. Feb. 2, someone stole his vehicle from the Blue Zone. The $2,500 car is described as a 1995 green four-door Toyota Camry, license plate number 3LCX452 CA.

On Feb. 2 a stake-out of the traffic control gate arms located in the Beta parking lot on Union Drive resulted in the charging of Paul D. Colavita, a 21year-old junior of House N room 105. He was observed breaking the gate arm and was given a March 12 court date. Colavita could not be reached for comment.

$2,000 in equipment snatched

An employee reported that between 6 p.m. Feb. 2 and 7:39 a.m. Feb. 3, someone entered a Duke van by breaking a $lOO window. They stole over $2,000 worth of property consisting of smoke detectors, one ABC fire extinguisher, tools, a tool bag, an extension cord, 20 padlocks, one Syranex body suit, two spill jump suits, chemical gloves, a face respirator, a fire safety jump bag, a box of assorted nuts, resistors, fuses, work gloves, a raincoat, an OESO traffic vest with the name “Larry” on it and four OESO baseball caps. The van was parked at the 1411 Hull St. Occupation and Environmental Safety Office.

Patient charged

At 6:20 a.m. Feb. 4, Barbara Harding, 34, of 2020 Jersey Ave., was charged with striking a doctor who was attempting to provide her care in the Emergency Department. She was given a Feb. 18 court date. Harding could not be reached for comment.

Laptop taken

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A visitor had a $2,000 Rolex watch, Oyster model, stainless steel, stolen from the information desk in Duke Hospital North or South between Jan. 23 and Feb. 3.

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CAMERON CRAZIE AND SENIOR Robert Ross Findly streaks across the floor of Cameron Indoor Stadium during Wednesday night’s Duke-UNC men’s basketball game. room. At that time the man left the room The suspect is described as a white man, student age, over 6’ tall, stocky build, and wearing yellow boxer shorts, possibly with polka dots. The Duke University Police Department advises students to keep the doors to their rooms secured when sleeping. In such incidents, students should contact DUPD as soon as possible at 911 or

Man enters dorm room

A student reported that at around 6:45 a.m. Feb. 2, she and her roommate woke to find a white man in their unlocked Blackwell Dormitory room. She reported that she observed the man near her roommate’s bed touching an extension cord. She said she started yelling, questioning his presence in their

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UNC basketball game. His bond was placed at $l,OOO and he was given a March 25 court date. Findly could not be reached for comment.

A student reported that between 10:15 p.m. Feb. 3 and 8:30 a.m. Feb. 4, he was loading books into his car parked at Whitford Drive facing the Fuqua School of Business, but accidentally left his $1,200 white Macintosh ißook laptop computer on the ground. When he returned, he was unable to locate it.

Eggs damage vehicle A student reported that sometime Feb. 3, someone threw eggs at her vehicle while it was parked at Brodie Gym, causing $4OO in damage to the 'paint.

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N.C. NEWS THIS WEEK From staff and wire reports

Powell convinces N.C. senators on Iraq; Price hesitant North Carolina’s senators say the United States made a strong case to the United Nations for disarming Iraq, but some House members were uneasy about the possibility of war.

“I have long argued that Saddam Hussein is a grave threat and that he must be disarmed,” Democratic Sen. John Edwards, a member of the Intelligence Committee, said after Powell’s Wednesday speech. “Iraq’s behavior during the past few months has done nothing to change my mind.” Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole said Saddam Hussein has been given “12 years and 17 chances by the UN. to show that he has destroyed his weapons

of mass destruction.” “Engaging the military is a final option to pursue after all others have been exhausted, but if this course is taken, I believe America will be joined by a unified coalition of the willing, and the president and our troops will have my full support,” Dole said. Rep. David Price, a Democrat, said Powell made an effective case “as to the likely existence of Iraq’s weapons program” but did not convince him that

Iraq had strong ties to the terrorist organization al Qaeda. Price cautioned that military action could draw attention away from threats posed by North Korea’s nuclear program and al Qaeda terrorist cells.

Cigarette smugglers funneled profits to Hezbollah, feds say

a pattern of racketeering activity, including contraband cigarette trafficking, possession of counterfeit cigarette tax stamps, credit card fraud, money laundering, arson and witness tampering. The indictment says the defendants would at times use fraudulent credit cards to purchase the cigarettes and then use counterfeit stamps to make it appear that Michigan taxes had been paid.

percent in the past two years to $13.9 million. State budget writers have asked for proposed cuts of an additional 7 percent to 11 percent, Baldwin said. State inspectors found 30 violations at the West Pharmaceuticals plant in October, including 22 that were considered serious. Labor Department officials and Wright say that number is typical for many of the state’s factories.

Labor leaders want to stop occupational safety cuts

Court negates death sentence for policeman’s killer

Two men linked to a cigarette trafficking ring have been charged with tunneling contraband profits to the Islamicmilitant group Hezbollah. Michigan residents Elias M. Akhdar, 30, and Hassan M. Makki, 41, were charged with frying to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars to the terrorist group, said US. Attorney Jeffrey Collins. The two were among 11 people charged in an indictment with buying cigarettes in North Carolina and an Indian reservation in New York, then

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals A coalition of state labor leaders recognized the one-week anniversary of a in Richmond, Va., overturned Wednesfatal explosion at a Kinston factory by day the death sentence of Timothy calling on state leaders to spare the state Allen, who was convicted ofkilling state Labor Department from budget cuts. Highway Patrol Trooper Raymond WorThe department oversees workplace ley in 1985. Worley was shot to death safety programs through its occupationduring a traffic stop on Interstate 95 near Enfield, North Carolina. al safety and health division. “We cannot talk about balancing the The appeals court said both statistical bringing them back to Michigan to be budget of this state and do it on the and circumstantial evidence showed prosresold at a profit by taking advantage of backs of workers,” said Alyce Gowdy ecutors had used their peremptory chaltax differences. Wright, acting director of the North Carlenges to exclude blacks from the jury. Cigarette taxes are $12.50 per carton olina Occupational Safety and Health “The best and most direct evidence in Michigan and 50 cents per carton in Project. The Durham-based group advo[of Allen’s challenge] is evidence of whom the government chose to strike, North Carolina, and no cigarette taxes cates better working conditions. exist on the reservation. John Baldwin, the chief of staff for because that is something over which The indictment unsealed Tuesday labor secretary Cherie Berry, said the the prosecutor has complete and undicharges all 11 with conspiracy to commit department’s budget has been cut 13.5 luted control,” the court wrote.

Hamas aims to take over Palestinian leadership Polls have shown consistently that Arafat’s Fatah through elections, not a military operation. Palestinimovement is more popular than Hamas among Palesans had elections scheduled for Jan. 20 but postponed tinians, but Arafat has not visited Gaza in more than them because Israeli troops are in control of most of GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Hamas is prepared to assume leadership of the Palestinian people, a senior a year. He has been confined to his Ramallah West the West Bank population centers. Hamas official said Thursday in a rare expression of Bank headquarters by the Israeli military presence. Ziad Abu Amr, a Palestinian legislator from Arafat’s Hamas has moved into the vacuum in Gaza, stepthe goal of the violent Islamic movement. Fatah movement, said Hamas leaders rarely state the Hamas has avoided direct conflicts with Yasser ping up social services in the crowded, poverty-stricktakeover goal in public, but said it is clearly their inArafat’s leadership, although from time to time, clashen territory. Also, its frequent attacks against Israel tention. “They want to mold things according to their vision,” he said. “All along they presented themselves es between the groups have erupted. have bolstered its backing. Mahmoud Zahar, a leader of the Hamas political Hamas has been responsible for dozens of suicide as an alternative, but they want to do it peacefully.” Earlier in the Gaza Strip, two male nurses at a wing, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursbombing attacks against Israelis during 28 months of day that his group is “absolutely” prepared to lead the fighting. Hamas does not recognize the existence of a home for the aged were killed by random Israeli heliPalestinian people now. Jewish state in the Middle East, opposing Arafat’s polcopter fire. The Israeli military said the gunfire was He said Hamas has the infrastructure to take over icy of creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel. aimed at an open area to deter militants from firing Zahar said the Hamas takeover would come rockets and mortars at nearby Israeli villages. leadership “politically, financially [and] socially.”

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VIDEO LECTURES

Vik Devisetty. “If you have to watch the lecture, you still have to spend the hour watching it. You might as well be there [in lecture] and have the ability to ask

because for some [professors] there's been a little bit of a drop-off in attenquestions.” dance,” Buckley said. “These are adult Emma Jakoi, associate research prolearners, and for adult learners, we don't fessor of cell biology, agrees, suggesting require that you sit in a lecture hall to students are not using the system “in learn. If you can learn it in another way, lieu of going to class” because they have then so be it.” no time. Some students and faculty members, “Medical classes go extremely fast,” however, do not see the system as a reJakoi said. Students really don’t have placement for going to lectures. the ability to streamline their extra “I personally don’t use the streaming time. They want active interaction. They video,” said first-year medical student want dialogue with faculty.” “

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forces in the western Pacific, as the Pentagon has indicated may well happen. The North Korean commentary appeared as a response to the disclosure that the United States is preparing to send two dozen bombers to Pacific bases while senior American officers have reportedly requested an aircraft carrier and additional troops to brace up the defense of South Korea. The threat posed by North Korea’s 1.1-million troops, 80 percent of them within 50 miles of the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, was acknowledged by Thomas Hubbard, the U.S. ambassador

to South Korea. “Your country would be the one most immediately and directly affected should, God forbid, conflict break out again,” he reminded an audience of senior South Korean officials and foreign ambassadors Thursday night. The North, he said, “has the capability to devastate Seoul and neighboring areas through convention-

al forces alone.” The remark reflected what is viewed as the central reason why the United States shrinks from attacking the North Korean nuclear complex at Yongbyon, site of the nuclear reactor. Intelligence officials believe North Korean ar-

giant lecture where you have 200 people, it is not a big factor if there are a few less students present.” Devisetty, Trinity ’O2, added that the whole issue was a question of learning style. “[Video streaming] doesn’t facilitate missing class,” he said. “It’s a great tool to have if you miss class, on purpose or not. It can only help students.” He said people would be surprised that almost everyone still shows up in class. “If I don’t want to go to lecture, I don’t go,” he said. Mike Miller contributed to this story.

Ivana Nikolic, a first-year medical student, said she has attended all of her classes while utilizing the system. “I used it mostly for review time for exams, if I can’t understand what I wrote down in class or if the lecture is not really clear. It is just a really huge help,” she said. “Some lectures go faster than others. Sometimes I don’t have time to get it all down.” “I think it is too early to tell yet

[about attendance],” said Thomas Mcln-

tosh, professor of cell biology.

While he noted a decrease in attendance in the fall, he said that “for a

tillery, most of it at least a generation old, could in a day pour thousands of shells on the Seoul metropolitan area, including the surrounding province and the port city of Inchon, where half of the South’s 48 million people live. Hubbard sought, however, to temper the sense of crisis generated by North Korea as well as comments from Washington by pledging “the support and cooperation of the United States” for efforts of Presidentelect Roh Moo-hyun to seek “dialogue with Pyongyang within the framework of a broad international effort.” The reference to an international effort reflected American insistence on including other countries in any negotiations with North Korea, which has been equally adamant in stating that it wants negotiations only with the United States.

While American officials seemed to think that the North had raised the stakes in the confrontation by saying that it had restarted its reactor, South Koreans did not seem nearly so concerned. Roh, addressing economic officials and foreign business leaders at the end of a two-hour panel discussion on South Korea’s potential as Asia’s leading financial center, drew applause as he remarked, “Please don’t worry about investing in Korea.” He was, he said, “going to assure peace on this Peninsula” of his basic commitment and was going

“to prevent war on this peninsula.” At the Foreign Ministry, a senior official scoffed at the latest commentary from Pyongyang, calling it “a repetition of their usual rhetoric.” As for Rumsfeld’s remark referring to North Korea’s leadership as “a terrorist regime,” the official said he was commenting “only in general terms.” Officials in both South Korea and the United States, however, have derided North Korea’s claim that it was operating its reactor at Yongbyon “for the production of electricity,” observing that the reactor was not capable of generating more than minimal amounts of electrical power. American intelligence analysts are puzzled by satellite imagery that has shown trucks covered with tarpaulin moving in and out of the reactor site. One suspicion is that the trucks are picking up the 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods that North Korean technicians removed from a cooling pond after withdrawing from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty in December and expelling inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency on New Year’s Eve. The next step would be to extract plutonium, from which technicians could then produce nuclear

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American officials here and in Washington said that North Korea, at every stage of stepping up the crisis, has further cut itself off from the rest of the world.

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Academic FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Evolutionary Development Seminar: 12;30pm. Andrea Sweigart, Duke University. “Genetics and physiology of Mimulus hybrid male sterility.” 107 Biological Sciences.

University Program in Ecology and Faculty Search: 12;45pm. Emily Bernhardt, University of Maryland. “Future directions in freshwater ecosystems research.” A247-LSRC.

Building.

Free Music: 11pm-I:3oam. Duke Union Small Programming Committee and Mi Gente present Samecumba. Armadillo Grill.

Technology in teaching undergraduate foreign language writing. Speaker: Dr. Katherine UNC-Charlotte. Registration Stephenson, required (free to Duke faculty, staff students). &

Contact Samantha Earp at ssearp@duke.edu for more information.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 TRI-TECH 2003: Triangle Area Foreign Language Technology Conference. Presentations from Triangle college/university faculty on applications of instructional technology in the undergraduate foreign language curriculum. Registration $3O. on-line at Information www.duke.edu/web/tilli/tritech2oo3/.

Religious FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Wesley Fellowship Bible .Study: Fridays. Wesley Office.

12noon,

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Episcopal Student Center: spm, Sundays. Service of Holy Eucharist followed by fellowship dinner. Located at the Episcopal Student Center, 505 Alexander Ave. Contact Anne HodgesCopple at annehc@duke.edu for more information.

with dinner.

Social Programming and Meetings FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Connection:

12noon-Ipm, Fridays

Chapel basement. Screen/Society-Cine-East: 7 9:3opm. “Spirited Away” (dir. Hayao Miyazaki) Griffith Film Theater. Sponored by Asian Pacific Studies, Freewater Presentations, Duke Anime Club. &

An Evening With Anna Deavere Smith: Bpm. One of today’s sharpest cultural observers, Anna Deveare Smith (Fires in the Mirror, Twilight Los Angeles) presents a one-woman performance that channels a multitude of characters. Tickets $2O General, $l2 Students. Page Auditorium. International Jazz Festival: Spm.The Duke Jazz Ensemble with guest artist: The Frank Lacy-John Farnsworth Jazz Quintet with a guest appearance by Clarence Allen, Jr. Baldwin Auditorium.

Film Festival: February 7 & 8. MadCat and Ms. Films join together for two-day celebration of women making movies. For a complete schedule of panels and workshops, as well as complete biographical information for all presenters and panelists, please visit www.msfilms.org.

UK Institute, Cambridge University. “Integrins, actin and morphogenesis.” 147 Nanaline Duke.

Carillon Recital: Weekdays, 5 pm. A 15-minute performance by J. Samuel Hammond, University carillonneur. He also gives a recital before and after the Service of Worship each Sunday. Duke Chapel, West Campus. For information, call 6842572.

University Program in Genetics Distinguished Lecturer Series: 4pm. Douglas Wallace, University of California, Irvine. “Mitochondrial genes in human origins, degenerative disease and aging.” 103 Bryan Center.

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I:3opm. A daily recital of mostly sacred music on

the Flentrop organ, which both tonally and visually reflects the techniques of Dutch-French organs of the 18th century. Duke Chapel, West Campus. Schedule subject to change. For information, call

The Cimopi Quartet; 3pm. Conclusion of the Quartet’s exploration of the Late Beethoven Quartets with the performance of Opus 130 (Bflat Major), Opus 131 (c-sharp minor), and Opus 135 (F Major). Tickets are $l4 General Public, $8 students. Advance 684-4444 or at the door. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building.

Upcoming Events:

Ongoing Events

for Documentary Studies. Touchable Art Gallery: Art and crafts by people with visual impairments. Main Lobby, Duke Eye Center.

Perkins Exhibit: Through February in the main Perkins Library gallery. That Half-Living Thing; a Book’: Extending the Half-Life of the Libraries' Collections. An exhibit describing the Duke University Libraries’ strategies for preserving its collections: books, journals, CD-ROMs, DVDs, floppy disks, sound recordings, videotapes, and other materials, so that they will be available to scholars now and in the future.

Carved in Wood: hand-worked hardwood carvings from six continents. John Hope Franklin Center Gallery, 2204 Erwin Road. Gallery hours vary; call 684-2888. Excerpts from Mao II: by Scott Lindroth and William Noland. Lower Level Art Space. John Hope Franklin Center Gallery, 2204 Erwin Road. Gallery hours vary; call 684-2888.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Biology/EEOB Seminar: 4pm. Kerry Shaw, University of Maryland. “What’s in a song? Divergence in mating behavior and the genetics of speciation in Hawaiian crickets.” 111 Biological Sciences.

Readings: 7pm. ‘Theatrical Voices from 9/11 and Beyond” Faculty members of Duke’s Theater Studies Department present an evening of readings. Participants include John Clum, Ellen Hemphill, Rafael Lopez-Barrantes, Christine

Morris, Jay O’Berski, Richard Riddell, Jeffery West, Jeffrey Storer, and Erin Wilson. Admission is Free. Presented by Theater Studies as part of ‘The Arts in Times of War” series of events. Admission is free. Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. Relay for Life: Bpm. Be

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.Wesley Fellowship Worship: 6pm. Beginning

Developmental Biology Colloquium: 4pm. Nicolas Brown, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research

2nd Annual Latino Issues Conference: Friday and Saturday, February .14 & 15. “Seeds of Change: Latino/a Citizenship(s) in the Here and Register Now.” Free. online at www.duke.edu/web/las. Four panels, screening of two short films. Keynote speaker, Alex Rivera. Questions about conference, visit website and/or contact Jenny Williams, jennysw@duke.edu. Bryan Center, Duke University.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9

TRI-TECH 2003 Pre-conference workshop:

Coffee

The Ciompi Quartet: Bpm. Performs Beethoven String Quartets Opus 127 (E-flat Major), and Tickets are $l4 Opus 132 ( a minor). General Public, $8 students. Advance 684-4444 or at the door. Nelson Music Room, East Duke

Westminster Presbyterian/UCC Fellowship: 910pm, Mondays. “Haphour,” informal time of refreshments and fellowship, begins at B:3opm. All are welcomed. Unitarian Universalist: 9-10pm, Mondays. Social time, dinner, worship. It’s a religious community for people who question, look for life’s meaning, and believe that truth doesn’t begin with one particular religion. Basement of Duke Chapel. Patty Hannenman, hanneOOl ©earthlink, net.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

Photo Exhibit: Through March in the first floor hallway gallery at Perkins Library. “Photo by Griff Davis” was a common credit on news photographs from the 1940sthrough the 1980s. Griffith Davis took photographs for the Atlanta Daily World, Ebony, Black Star, and Negro Digest. Exhibit: through February 8. “What’s Left: New Sculptures out of the Heart of the Earth "Works by Aaron Lee Benson. Duke University Brown Gallery, Bryan Center. Exhibit: On display at FCJL until March 2003. “Horizons: an Aerial Photo Exhibit of Israel” Lent to FCJL by the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta, this collection of 28 breathtaking aerial photographs includes images of historic and religious sites in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, the Sea of Galilee and many other locations throughout the Holy Land. Two former Israeli Air Force pilots, who own the Albatross Aerial Photography Company, captured these dramatic scenes from a helicopter. The photos can be viewed free of charge in the downstairs dining area and upstairs hallways. Exhibit: February 12 April 1, 2003. Through the Lens Duke Gardens Images by Ed Albrecht. In the Harriet Jackson Phelps Library in the Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens. 919-8643698, www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens/

Exhibit: Dream Street W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Photographs, an exhibition of work by one of the 20th century’s greatest photographers, will be on view at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) through March 30, 2003. Center -

Haiti & Memory: photographs by Phyllis Galembo. Perkins Library, West Campus. Hours vary; call 684-6470.

Sports photographs: “Four Horseman of the Apocalypse #1” and ‘Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.” from Paul Pfeiffer. On loan to DUMA.

Volunteer Ronald McDonald House: 506 Alexander Ave, http://ronaldhousedurham.org. Chris Hill, 286-9305. Women’s Center: 126 Few, Box 90920. Contact Shannon Johnson, Program Coordinator, 684-3897 Sarah P. Duke Gardens:

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 Wesley Fellowship Morning Prayers: 9am, Wednesdays. With JoAnna in the Bryan Center, Alpine. Email(jm2l).

Wesley Fellowship Increase the Peace: 11:30am, Wednesdays. Meets on the Divinty School side of the chapel for short prayer. If you can’t make it, please take time wherever you are, and pray for God’s peace in our world. Presbyterian/UCC Ministry Bible Study: 12:15Ipm, Wednesdays. Bring your lunch and Bible. Chapel Basement, Room 036. Catholic Mass: s:lspm, Wednesdays. Duke Chapel Crypt. Campus Ministry Service.

Duke Police offers following services: Crime prevention presentations, Rape awareness presentations, Alcohol Law presentations, Workforce violence educational programs, Personal property engraving. Contact Lieutenant Tony Shipman at 668-2627 to schedule these programs/services.

In support of breastfeeding mothers: Duke Lactation Services and the Duke Hospital Auxiliary are pleased to announce that the Bouncing Ball Gift Shop now has available breastpump sales and rentals, breastcare products and breastpumping accessories. First floor, Duke Children’s Health Center. Monday-Friday 9-4, 668-4112. Payroll deduction is available for some sales.

Duke Volunteer Services: Duke Univeristy Medical Center:

http://volunteer.mc.duke.edu Best Buddy: Jane Schroeder, 668-1128 Cancer Patient Support Program Susan Moonan, 684-4497 Caring House: Meg Harvey, 490-5449 Children’s Health Center: Edith Rosenblatt, 668-4107 Children’s Classic; Lucy Castle, 667-2567 Duke Ambassadors: Kay Satterwhite, 684-3835

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DUKE CE from page 1 with Seoul National University, part of which will be Duke CE’s involvement in widening its client base in Asia and setting up a similar custommade education firm for Seoul National’s business school. Indeed, Sheppard said that Duke CE would have several upcoming announcements this spring designed to provide the company an even firmer financial base, but he would not provide any details about what that next step will be. “[Our goal is to] become the preeminent player in the marketplace. We’re working on that one. We’re positioned for that one in a very interesting way,” he said. “We’re going to create something you’re going to be incredibly proud of being associated with the

University.” Sheppard said that Duke CE is doing so well because it designs for each client a program tailored to its problems and that it has a large resource pool of faculty members and

other experts. “We have a faculty list of 1,500 people we use on a global basis,” he said. “We have the ability to orchestrate a large-scale activity that virtually no one else can do.” Last May, Duke CE was ranked third in the world among customized education programs for executives by The Financial Times, after Columbia Business School and IMD in Switzerland. Its website lists several big-name recent and current clients, including Bank ofAmerica, Deutsche Bank, Ford Motor Company, GlaxoSmithKline,

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IRAQ from page 2 “Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons, the very weapons the dictator tells the world he does not have,” Bush said. “Saddam Hussein has the motive and the means and the recklessness and the hatred to threaten the American people. Saddam Hussein has to be

stopped,” Bush said. He suggested anew that there is a link between Saddam and the terrorist group al Qaeda. “The same terrorist network operating out of Iraq is responsible for the

murder—the recent murder—of an American diplomat, Lawrence Foley,”

Bush said. Foley, a U.S. Agency for International Development official, was killed last November outside his home in Amman, Jordan. Foreign ministers responded mostly with calls for more weapons inspections after Powell’s U.N. presentation, in which he asserted that Iraq was shifting and hiding weapons and missile programs from the current inspectors. Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that most of the statements read by foreign ministers after his speech had been prepared beforehand. He said he detected a shift in attitude when he talked to 13 of the

ministers in private afterward. Still, President Jacques Chirac said Thursday France’s position on war with Iraq was unchanged by Powell’s presentation. “We refuse to think that war is inevitable,” Chirac said. Powell told the senators that Bush would welcome a second resolution and “many members of the Council would not only welcome it, some of them would say we require one for participation in whatever might come.” A resolution approved unanimously by the Council in November authorized a new round of U.N. weapons inspections

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INTRO CHEM from page 3 course to 200 students over both semesters, with each professor using a reallife scenario to discuss fundamental

chemical concepts. Students in other sections of the course would take a traditionally-structured class. “What we wanted to do was projectbased learning,” said John Simon, chair of the department. “We would focus it around a set of problems rather than a set of textbooks.” However, the professors ran into problems at the beginning of the semester when Simon, who was scheduled to teach the second unit, was delayed in Europe for several weeks following the Sept. 11 attacks. The entire class needed to be restructured at the last minute, he said. “The four of us [teaching the class first semesterl sort of agreed how it would all link together,” he said. “After rearranging, there was no way to tie it all together.”

ENDOWMENT

Students in the case-based class said they felt the effects of the shake-up. “It was so abstract,” said Debbie Linder, a sophomore who took the class last year. “You would talk about gasses and you would go over gasses and then the test would be about the ozone layer. It was a mess.” Others complained to both professors and administrators that the material in the case-based class was much harder than that in the more traditional section. They said they felt like “guinea pigs.” “The problem was that the students were not aware that this was being done,” said Ross Widenhoefer, assistant professor of chemistry. “I think what was a bad idea was forcing people into that class with no idea what they were getting into.” No class description forewarned students that the two classes would be structured differently and students could not choose one over the other. The two classes were supposed to be equiva-

turn, much of that money is still in the long-term pool.

Given the last two years, in which the endowment’s long-term pool shrunk—by 4.6 percent in the 2000-01 fiscal year and by 3.8 percent in the 2001-02 fiscal year—administrators said the new adjustments to the payout rate were in order. “The real question is how many years can you just let it run at 10 [percent],” Trask said. “We’re just trying to keep the likelihood that we fall off the cliff as unlikely [as it was at 10 percent].” Provost Peter Lange said the action should ensure steady growth through the next few years, allowing the University’s spending to grow even if the national economic forecast remains poor. Lange said that when the change was announced to

lent in content despite their differences in approach. “The hope was that everyone would get the same information in the end, but apparently some students weren’t ready for this,” said Richard MacPhail, associate professor of chemistry. When second semester arrived, Professor of ChemistryLinda McGown took over coordination of the class and began to teach her portion with a more textbook-oriented approach. Simon said he

did not discover that McGown had elected not to use a case-based approach until several weeks into the semester. McGown had always intended to teach her portion of the class traditionally because of her lack of experience teaching low-level undergraduate classes, she said. “[Simon] had indicated that we could teach as we saw best,” McGown noted. “I chose for myself to go by the book. There were no meetings where we sat down and said this is the way we were going to do it and then I diverted.”

deans in January, none of them objected—in fact, they welcomed the measure. “We have no problem with that kind of intelligent planning,” said William Chafe, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. Chafe said spending is based on a three-year rolling average of the endowment’s performance and that next year, the 58.8 percent figure would no longer be part of the average. “It’s important to provide a hedge against a precipitous drop,” he said. “You need to protect yourself against variances. It’s meant to stabilize, meant to avoid significant dips and rises.” Trask said the Board of Trustees will discuss the action at its February meeting and ultimately make a decision as part of its budget deliberations at the May meeting. “So far as we can tell we are one of the few univer-

McGown added that she supported the concept of the case-based approach. Despite the poor student response to the class, the chemistry department remains committed to developing a casebased chemistry course. “I maintain that students have no idea how freshman chemistry should be taught,” Simon said. “We came pretty close to doing it exactly the same way this year.” Instead, the department has taken a year to re-group and evaluate the program. General Chemistry is cur-

rently being traditionally taught, and faculty members are discussing how to best revive the case-based chemistry class, but probably on a smaller scale to allow for closer faculty-student interaction. “There were some students who got a lot out of it, but they’ve been drowned out by the more vocal students who didn’t like it,” Widenhoefer said. “If you ever want to develop more effective classes, you have to try these things.” •

sities in this position,” Trask said. “Most are projecting flat distributions or reductions.” Duke’s endowment, which is managed by its own Duke Management Company, is smaller than most of its peer universities—at $2.37 billion, it is dwarfed by Princeton University’s $8.3 billion, Stanford University’s $7.6 billion or Harvard University’s $17.5 billion. Nevertheless, administrators say that because of the smaller endowment size, Duke’s spending is not tied so closely to the stock market, the ultimate performance of which determines how well the endowment’s invested funds perform on a year-to-year basis. “Ironically... given that we have a smaller endowment, we are less directly affected by the downturn than some of our peers that have a huge proportion of their resources every year coming from endowment income,” said President Nan Keohane. “It means we’re somewhat cushioned in the lean years.”

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Duke pacifies Tigers with 61-49 win MJ. All-star by merit, not By PAULA LEHMAN The Chronicle

CLEMSON, S.C.

After their first loss of the season this past weekend to then-No. 2 Connecticut on national television, the women’s basketball team (21-1, 9-0 in the ACC) continues to roll along their undefeated ACC path outlasting a struggling Clemson team (11-10, 3-7) that has lost five consecutive contests. Duke’s game plan started by implementing strong defense, keeping the Lady Tigers on the perimeter without even permitting a look for an open pass inside. An essential cog of the defense was Lindsey Harding, a lightning-fast point guard who recorded her first career start by replacing fellow freshman, Mistie Bass. She did not enter shyly, contributing a consistent and intense effort on defense. Harding finished with a team-leading five steals, and forced two consecutive turnovers three minutes into the first half “I think Lindsey’s playing great basketball,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said about her decision to start Harding. “She does a tremendous job of setting the tone for us defensively. She had another really nice game

just name As I rummage together the $175 I have saved over the past seven weeks to buy the Air Jordan XVlll—discounted from last year’s $2OO model—that go on sale Saturday, it is pretty apparent that I still want to be like Mike even as his fortieth birthday is only ten days «

again tonight.”

Still, offensive play from both squads was faltering on both sides during the first half. Iciss Tillis managed to lead the Blue Devils by scoring some short jumpers over Clemson power forward Amanda White, but the game’s edge continued to oscillate. The Blue Devils went on a 7-0 run after the first five minutes, but the Lady Tigers fought back as if it were clockwork, with two consecutive three-point field goals by Lakeia Stokes, who came off the bench and led Clemson in points, with eight entering the second half.

However, the Lady Tigers’ usually-dominant player, Chrissy Floyd, fell short of leading her team as she ROBERT TAI/THE CHRONICLE

See CLEMSON on page 16

away. But after his third comeback to basketball, it seems that the rabid fans like me are becoming rarer and rarer, as Robbie Samuel cntlCS Ot Jordan are This is an e-mail finally having their day with his Airness apparently having joined the human race both on the basketball court and off. Since Jordan signed a two-year contract with the Washington Wizards a year and a half ago, No. 23 has been barraged with questions about his diminishing talent, troubles with his wife, disagreements with his youthful teammates, possible children out of wedlock, the tarnishing of his legacy and simply not being Mike. And now, just as it seemed that the greatest player that you, your parents, your grandparents, your grandchildren and your great grandchildren will ever see could not be discredited any more, his selection as an All-

LINDSEY HARDING started for the first time in her career Thursday night,

See JORDAN on page 13

Blue Devils look to continue resurrection Sunday Dahntay Jones, Chris Duhon and Daniel Ewing must pick up where they left off against UNC By MATT SULLIVAN The Chronicle

defense and fans earned their stripes Wednesday night—more than enough to take on a couple of Tigers.

The Clemson Tigers prance into town Sunday at 6:30 p.m. to take on “When we were down there they the No. 9 men’s basketball team, but were undefeated. They gave us a real after a rapacious triumph over North tough game down there,” said freshman Carolina Wednesday night, it’s the J. J. Redick, who scored 22 points in the Blue Devils prowling around the ACC teams’ first meeting. “I don’t really with plenty of growl back in their slugknow how they’ve been playing lately, but we expect them to play us tough. gish-gone-tigerish season. When Duke (15-3, 5-3 in the ACC) Everybody does. Everybody comes into beat Clemson (12-6, 2-6) in a battle of Cameron and gives us great games, so the unbeatens Jan. 5, it vaulted itself that’s what we expect out ofthem.” to No. 1 in the nation the next day, After a scheduled day off yesterday, despite head coach Mike Krzyzewski Duke still has time to revel in everysaying after the game that his current thing that went right after a great game team wasn’t of the top-ranked ilk. in Cameron Wednesday, before translatWhile the coach’s sentiments proved ing its newfound momentum into a sectrue during Duke’s plummet down the ond-half surge starting with Clemson polls and the ACC standings in the following weeks, the Blue Devil veterans, See DEVILS on page 14

Baseball opens season The unranked baseball team hosts a three-game series against Cincinnati this weekend. The opening game is Friday at 3 p.m. Senior Jeff Alieva is, scheduled to start for Duke.

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DAHNTAY JONES collapses on a loose ball in a recent game in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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Woods to debut in Buick

The men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams will compete at the Carolina Heels Challenge Saturday with field events beginning atlOa.mand running at 11 a.m.

UConn men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun, recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, said he expects to return to the sideline by March. His prostate was removed Thursday.

Tiger Woods, who says he wants to talk with Phil Mickelson regarding his }

disparaging comments about his Nike golf clubs, announced he will play in the Buick Open.

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No. 3 Tennessee 86, Miss. 43 No. 4 LSU 69, No. 15 S. Car. 66 Ohio State 66, No. 16 Minn. 58

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Blue Devils bounce back strong against Tigers CLEMSON, S.C.

After an emotion-

ally draining loss, it takes a strong team to come out dominating the next game,

regardless of the caliber ofthe opponent. While there were no explosive minutes or complete breakdowns, the women’s basketball team dominated I

Clemson tonight. From the smiles and k j cheers of the Blue Devils even during Paula Lehman warm ups, any on-looker could tell that Duke was n n , Uame Commentary not going to be broken down by a single loss. The team came ready to play their game, even with No. 1 Connecticut in the back oftheir minds. “Since UConn, I think this past week we’ve had our best practices that we’ve had all season,” Alana Beard said. “It has been three consistent, intense practices, and everybody came back focused and ready to play and learn from what we did wrong during the UConn game. It was very intense and I loved it.” .

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ICISS TILLIS soars over a Clemson defender as she goes up for two of her 11 points Thursday.

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Beard came out quietly, yet forcefully. The astounding Beard dismayed Tiger fans once in a while with hard drives toward the basket, including her opening jumper which swished through the net as she fell on the floor. The physical treatment of Beard would continue as many ofher 21 points were from the free throw line where she went 9-for-10. More notably, perhaps, were the abilities displayed by Lindsey Harding, a young freshman coming off of the same loss but a different position on the team: non-starting role. But partially because Harding started for the first time this year with the defensive intensity and offensive leadership of any Duke player that has started this year. With five steals, four assists, and four defensive rebounds, Harding took on the Clemson contest with intensity and experience. “I thought we had good pressure on the ball,” head coach Gail Goestenkors

said about the offensive struggles of the Lady Tigers. “Having Vicki, Lindsey and Alana in the backcourt—they are all very

quick and work very hard, so I think part of it was our defensive pressure.” Tonight’s game against Clemson proved that a contest like the one against UConn is not going to leave Duke down for the count. Certainly the loss on national television dealt them a heavy blow, but the Blue Devils have the rest of the season to keep on blowing by teams with the same grace and dominance they’ve exhibited all season. They may not have played like a No. 1 team tonight—maybe not even a No. 2 but their ability to enter a game with a forceful attitude and a resilient determination exemplifies the qualities of a top-

ranked team.

“Every time this team has been tested and we’ve had to deal with some adversity, we’ve always shown great character,” Goestenkors said. “The Connecticut game was some adversity for us, and we did the best thing we could which was learn from that experience and show the character that we have and become a better team because of that game.”

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6 The No. 4 women’s tenDuke nis team crushed No. 34 I Kentucky 6-1 last night Kentucky in the first round of the ITA National Team Indoor Championships at Madison, Wis. The victory sets up a showdown tomorrow in the quarterfinals with Tobacco Road foe, No. 5 North Carolina. Against the Wildcats, the Blue Devils captured the doubles point by playing very strong doubles, winning all three matches with its trio ofranked pairings: No. 13 Kelly McCain and Hillary Adams won 8-2 in the first slot; No. 11 Julie Deßoo and Amanda Johnson pulled through 8-6; and No. 49 Katie Granson and Julia Smith edged the Wildcats 8-7. Head coach Jamie Ashworth is confident that his team’s winning doubles play will continue, building on the confidence of having not dropped a doubles point yet this season. “I am really confident with our doubles,” Ashworth said. “I think that we can win at least two doubles matches against anybody we play.” In singles action, the Blue Devils won five of their six contests. Duke’s Katie Blaszak started the landslide, scoring a 7-6, 6-2 win in the fourth singles spot. No. 15 Johnson, who struggled early in losing the first set 6-1, regrouped and

pulled out the final two sets 7-5, 6-0. McCain, currently ranked second in the country in singles, cruised by Kentucky’s top-player, No. 37 Sarah Witten, to the tune of a 6-1, 6-2 thrashing. Duke’s other points came from Deßoo and Granson. “We can definitely be the best team there,” McCain said. “I think we can with if we play well and have our

heads together.” In other action, Stanford, the tournaments No.l seed, knocked offhost school Wisconsin. National powers Florida, UCLA and Georgia also advanced to the second round. Finally, the Tar Heels knocked off Texas A&M by a score of 5-2. The Blue Devils and UNC split matches in 2002, and will clash tomorrow in an important early season battle. The Blue Devils have reached the tournament finals twice in their years competing at the National Indoors, and fell in the semifinals last year. The Blue Devils, having returned the nucleus of its team from 2002, has higher expectations this season and would like to use a successful tournament as a jumpstart. “I expect us to have a chance to win it,” Ashworth said. “We have never won it. We have been close a few times. I think as a team we have stuff to prove to the rest of the country.”

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Howard pours in 24 as Wake muzzles Wolfpack By DAVID DROSCHAK The Associated Press 6 WINSTON-SALEM Duke Josh Howard flirted Kentucky 1 with leaving school early for the NBA, the same way five other Atlantic Coast Conference players did a season ago. A leg injury changed his mind. It’s funny how things work out sometimes.

Howard, coming off a career-best 32 points over the weekend, scored 20 of his 24 in the second half as No. 14 Wake Forest beat North Carolina State 73-58

Thursday night. “No telling where I would be if I went last year,” said Howard, who is having an All-American type of season. “All things happen for a reason. I took everything in focus when I stayed and I have a chance to graduate in May—then I’ll have a chance to make it to the next level.” He has—averaging 23 points in eight ACC games as the Demon Deacons (162, 6-2) secured their best start in the ACC since going 7-1 in 1997. The Wolfpack (12-6,5-3) dropped into a third-place tie in the ACC with Duke at the halfway point. The Wolfpack led by four at halftime, but missed its next nine three-pointers and finished 6-for-26 from beyond the arc.

Howard was 8-for-13 from the field, 7-of-7 from the foul line and added 12 rebounds as Wake Forest improved to 12-0 at home. “When the game hung in the balance

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some really nice plays,” N.C. State coach Herb Sendek said of Howard. “He’s been our bell cow,” Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser added about his

star. “He has tremendous passion and he has an abhorrence of losing and that’s had a ripple affect on our team. He doesn’t like to talk about it much, but he raises the level of our play with his actions.” Howard was helped on the scoring side by Eric Williams, a freshman who has had trouble staying on the floor the last six games, and point guard Taron Downey.

Williams, who committed 25 fouls in his last six games, had 16 points on 7for-10 shooting, while Downey added 12 and was key, along with Howard, during Wake Forest’s late surge to victory. The score was tied at 49 with 9:30 left before Downey hit a bank shot and made two free throws to begin a 15-2 run. Howard then helped to close the spurt with a baseline jumper, a followup shot and two free throws for a 13point cushion. He added an exclamation mark to the win with a driving slam with 1:19 left as the Demon Deacons shot 61 percent in the second half. “Josh always finds away to help out the team,” Williams said. “He always finds away to get us a win. His leadership is amazing. He leads by his emotion, we can see it in his face that he’s serious and he’s not going to back down.”

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JORDAN from page 11 reserve has been said to be a choice based on former prowess, not current merit. This is in fact incorrect, as the 10-time NBA scoring champ a Chinese newspaper refers to as “the flying man” still proves though not as consistently as in his younger years —why it is rare that someone doubts his distinction as the greatest basketball player who ever lived. As basketball purists will surely complain that the current NBA players only care about the dunk and flashy moves during Sunday’s All-Star game, Jordan still shows why he is the most fundamental player in the history of the game. While many ofhis basic skills were hidden by his athleticism in the 1980s, Jordan at 40 still makes defenders look stupid with his footwork. This is the reason that after analyst John Thompson jokingly nicknamed him “Floor Jordan” for his most recent run, the Wizards captain took the comment as a —

compliment. Nearly everytime Jordan matches up with a young superstar, Thompson’s point is proven. While players like Paul Pierce and Tracy McGrady would dominate other players in the NBA with comparable speed to the current Jordan, the CEO of the Jordan Brand instead has taught those two specifically lessons about the game, scoring over 20 points against the 20-somethings in Wizard victories over the Celtics and Magic, respectively. Criticism for returning solely for the attention he missed in basketball exile has also been slapped onto Jordan. Most persons with this theory claim he did not return to the game he loves to rebuild the Wizards —who have not reached the playoffs since 1997—but to continue to once again be the talk of the town. This has certainly not been the case,

as Jordan even sacrificed his starting position to Jerry Stackhouse earlier this season in order to give the Wizards a more cohesive line-up. It was only after the Wizards entered a tailspin and were several games under .500 that Jordan began to look for his shot again. After his average hovered in the low double digits earlier in the year, Jordan is now averaging 18.8points a game, and if the playoffs began today, the Wizards would qualify as the eighth seed. If the Wizards qualify and the post season proves to be anything like the regular season, watch out for another spectacular post-season run from the six-time Finals MVP. Jordan has performed closer to the player he was of old against great teams rather than the Gandalf-like Wizard he has sometimes resembled in his off-games. Jordan’s two best games were against playoff bound teams this year, netting 41 points in a win over the Indiana Pacers, who are tied for first in the Eastern conference, and dropping 45 against the New Orleans Hornets to get his team out of a slump while Stackhouse watched from the sidelines with an injury. And as you watch the game Sunday, critics and fans alike, remember that you are seeing the supernova; no player like this will be seen in our lifetimes, perhaps even the earth’s lifetime. Famed sociologist Harry Edwards said that if he were to introduce an alien “to the epitome ofhuman potential, creativity, perseverance and spirit, I would introduce that alien life to Michael Jordan.” So just sit back and enjoy watching the man who is said to have played basketball better than anyone in the world battle with his fellow AllStars for one last time.

Robert Samuel is a Trinity sophomore and associate sports editor.

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DEVILS from page 11 and, in the coming weeks, Wake Forest and Maryland. Dahntay Jones found his shot—and his competitive edge as the UNC bench knows all too well—after an uncharacteristic performance against Florida State in which he scored a mere two points. And Chris Duhon’s vision, secondhalf shooting and a makeshift scoop shot put the fire back in his eyes and more than likely put himself back into the starting lineup. But it is the Tigers’ point guard that will keep the Blue Devils on their heels Sunday. After Tar Heel floor general Raymond Felton crawled his way through a Duke defense that needed to snap and revert to a matchup zone in order to stop him, Krzyzewski will devote much of the weekend preparing

for Edward Scott. Clemson’s leading scorer dug his team out of a four-game ACC losing streak with a game-winning jumpshot in a win over Georgia Tech minutes before UNC and Duke tipped off. “They’re going to play tough defense, and they’ve got a great point guard in Scott,” said senior Casey Sanders, who received one of five technical fouls when the January game got a little spicy. “They’re really going to try to push the ball up on us. We’ve just

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The Chronicle Necessary budget deficit

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federal budget President George W. Bush sent to Congress this Monday would mean a return to large deficits for the next several years. Important parts of the budget include expanding the military, a new social entitlement and tax cuts now and in the future designed to stimulate the economy. But, despite the undesirability of deficits in general, in the current economic and political situation, deficits are both necessary and expected. Basic economic theory means that in times of economic downturn governments will run deficits. If government fiscal policy remains the same when the economy is weak, tax revenues will be lower and transfer payments to hurting Americans will be higher, overall implying that the government will have less revenue. Therefore, Bush should not be blamed for the deficits, since they are largely a product of a sluggish economy. Moreover, the United States is at a pivotal moment in its history. In the aftermath of Sept. 11 and with the continuing threat of international terrorism, the federal government has new responsibilities to improve national security. This involves increasing funding for organizations like the FBI and the CIA so that they can better gather and analyze intelligence about security threats. Also, security at borders and airports needs to be improved to better screen for potential threats. All this costs money, which is part of the reason the budget increased. Tax cuts also figure prominently in Bush’s plan and speeding these up to get money to consumers, in order to boost the economy and stock market, is a wise move. This, too, increases deficits in the short run, but the long-term economic growth from tax cuts will outweigh this impact. Of course, there are probably portions of the budget that can and should be trimmed. For example, spending on projects like missile defense or prescription drug benefits can be delayed until economic times improve. These huge programs are not needed at this time.

In terms of spending for higher education, it is welcome that Bush raised funding for the National Science Foundation, but it is discouraging that he raised funding for the National Institutes of Health by only two percent. Funding research is one of the most important roles of the federal government, especially since this research benefits all Americans, meaning that the government should continue to rapidly increase its spending in these areas. Overall, although it is unfortunate that deficit spending is necessary, with the economic downturn and international threats, it is Bush should not be criticized for running a deficit, but Congress should take additional steps to trim spending where possible.

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On TV you can’t really tell, hut in person they were pretty perfect. Cameron Levy, a Pratt sophomore, comments on the “Barker Beauties” whom he met during the taping of The Price is Right television show (see story, page three).

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Mutilate women nee My mother’s mother is Manyua Sesay; she passed away long before I could ever learn to know her as most children know their grandmothers. I can recall in my youth, a tall regal woman with radiant skin that reflected the deepest shades of brown. She seldom spoke to me, yet I detected a burning nostalgia in her eyes as she dreamt of returning to her jm home—Sierra Leone, West fl Africa. She was born into the Mandingo tribe, one of the many tribes in Sierra that to this day practice Nlkyatu female genital mutilation. In a variety of its forms, Jusu female genital mutilation is H „t and Bothered practiced to some extent in Middle Eastern countries (Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Syria and southern Algeria). In Africa it is practiced in isolated villages in the majority of the continent including Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Mozambique and Sudan. Neither my mother nor I know for sure if Grandma Sesay was a victim ofthis surprisingly prevalent practice;

she was not the type to delve into such taboo matters. Yet, my mother suspects that her mother may very well have followed the ascribed cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual of having her genitals mutilated. Many Americans are ignorant to the fact that there are several degrees offemale genital mutilation: partial removal of the clitoris or removal of the entire clitoris and labia minora. Or, in FGM’s most extreme and inhumane form, the entire external genitalia are removed and the remains ofthe outer vulva are stitched together. In the aforementioned form, the legs are then bound together tightly until scarring almost entirely closes the vaginal opening, leaving a tiny and inadequate opening for urination and menstruation. While women in this prosperous nation of America are struggling to be heard in the arenas of equal pay and equal opportunity in the work place, women in Third World countries such as Sierra Leone are fighting to gain control over the destiny of their vaginas! What could be the motive for such a cruel and seemingly nonsensical act? In such male dominated societies as Saudi Arabia and Mali for instance, women are not at all encouraged to flaunt their sexual prowess, so for a woman to go as far as to experience sexual pleasure in the act of love making

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their genitals! The most frequently cited justification for FGM is that it diminishes sexual instinct, which, if not kept in control, reduces the woman to the perverted condition of animalistic sexual behavior. The underlying fear in all this is that women will be capable of straying from their mates and could potentially disrupt family life by practicing adultery. Imagine such a condition in which the mere thought of male penetration incites such fear and pain that a woman could never hope to enjoy any form of sexual contact. The aftermath of this mutilation has various physical and physiological side effects: painful scars, keloid formation and sterility just to name a few. Additionally, the woman loses a sense of her femininity; she lacks sexual appetite. Orgasm no longer exists in her vocabulary. Depression sets in. An ethical dilemma presents itself in trying to combat these atrocities. What grants Westerners the right to enter these countries and ban a system of tradition that has been instilled almost since the beginning of time? I totally disagree with what is going on in these nations; I clearly understand the potentially deadly confrontation that could arise if such practices were to be challenged by “high and mighty” Westerners. The ritual is so deeply rooted in the fives of these people that some women who have gone through the ordeal have an attitude ofnonchalant indifference—it is just something that must be done, no questions asked. On Tuesday Feb. 4, 2003 four wives of African presidents joined hundreds of women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to call for zero tolerance to FGM. For the first time, a common panAfrican agenda is being drawn up in order to tackle the practice. According to studies, some two million girls are subjected to mutilation each year with 120 million women in 28 African countries having suffered through the torment. This problem is quite obviously one that needs to be addressed delicately and immediately because as women’s health activist Leah Muuya poses: “What can be more important than the health of thousands of women? About 70 percent ofthe food produced in Africa is the work of women. Women also carry the burden of raising children and running the household. Without women, African society would fall apart.” Despite my grandmother’s silence, the pain of female genital mutilation rings piercingly in the screams of young victims. Nikyatu Jusu is a Trinity sophomore. Her column appears every other Friday.

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Out of your league?

Keep BAA

Talk to an evolutionary biologist long enough and you’ll eventually hear the words “minimum population size It’s a simple concept: If a group’s numbers dip below a certain

Saturday night on a Craven Quad window seat: saying they’re too good for you. And that’s pretty sad. Between sips of Smirnoff, the three of us play 1.8.E.(oth“But wait,” cautions a California girl late one night. erwise known as I’d-Bang-’Em), a party game that goes “There are people you would never date, because they’re back to the halls of Aycock. not up to your standards.” It’s true; there are those who “The one on the left,” giggles the just aren’t romance material. But deep down, it’s not girl to my right, pointing at a shaggy always about looks. We 11... not totally. Guest Commentary kid in a shabby hat. “Looks like a P “I’ll second that,” laughs my study buddy. We’ve bailed rock star. I’d bang him.” I scan the on our homework to drink Bailey’s, and she’s describing point, it has no hope of survival. I was 17 when I learned room before seeing the object of my her new crush. “He’s not my type—too short, too shagthis lesson in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy 93, so affection, sadly pictured only on the gy—but every time he smiles, it’s like the sun seriously I know it’s one a teenager can easily comprehend. Why then wall. raran “John Cusack,” I sigh, nudging a comes up. Now all I want to do is pull him into my room cant Dukes administrators? There’s little other explanaSay Anything poster. “I’d bang him. Krentcil and lock the door.” tion for their recent decision to cut the BAA faculty below I’d marry him, too.” After a long And there’s another reason why the league theory is YouWrite its critical minimum, from 17 to six—either they don’t pause, the third party speaks. a little far out: it depends on perception. “Totally,” agrees Like a Girl understand that this will result in the department’s extinc“There’s my crush,” she whispers, a senior cutie one night. “You’re always going to find tion, or they are hoping for just such an outcome. It’s hard pointing to a guy in the corner. “I’d bang him.” something wrong, with yourself or someone else. But She to say which makes them look more foolish. buries her face in the sleeves of her hoodie and sighs. you’ve got to be your own cheerleader. Hell,” she grins, Today, administrators are meeting for the first time with I hand her my bottle. “Go!” I command. “Offer him a “I’m not the prettiest girl at this school. But I’m hot!” We the BAA faculty. They have already written in The drink and start talking!” both laugh, but I know she’s right. Her attitude is part of Chronicle that it’s all been a “misunderstanding”—that “Look,” she says, “I’d totally bang him. But he’d what makes her so appealing, and when we go out, she external reviews and the professors themselves have never go for me.” makes heads swivel. “The only league I’ve got,” she says “repeatedly endorsed” consolidation within Arts and I nod; yes, he would—this girl is one ofthe most beauas I swish her in Stila All Over Shimmer, “Is the one Sciences, which is driving the plan to shrink the depart- tiful people around. I choose the players.” where ment. This is baloney. Consolidation plans aside, no profes“Please,” she snaps. “Look at him. Tall. Hot. My latest heart-thumper was the guy who made sor has argued that BAA should have only six people and Wearing Lacoste. He’s one of those high maintenance me laugh until I couldn’t breathe. I never thought he for good reason. Duke leads the field in the number of guys with boarding school sweats and more bath was a hottie, but lately he’s never looked better to papers published. With six on staff, either research will products than me.” me. And as for the crushed, crushing girl at the drop off or undergraduate education will suffer (or, most “You don’tknow him,” I protest. “He could be cool.” Craven party, she finally caved and talked to the guy likely, both). Sure, there will still be Curriculum 2000“He looks like a snob.” She said. “And I don’t. He’s out at Alpine the next day. friendly classes like BAA 93. But there won’t be enough of my league.” “So,” I asked, “Is he in your league?” Her cheeks people to teach advanced classes or tend to the Primate The next morning, I dragged myself out of bed and turned daquiri pink. “Well,” she smiled, “We’ve ran a few Center—which, as it happens, the higher-ups have been dragged out my dictionary. Just as I thought, there are bases together. So yeah, I guess so.” targeting for years. The department will find itself overonly two places where the word “league” can be used: And with that, she reapplied her lipgloss, headed out whelmed, and it may eventually die. measuring sea depth or dividing sports teams. And even the door and got ready to play again. Every argument the BAA professors can make deserves if the purpose of some dates is to score, the word “league” to be heard until it is answered, not brushed off as a “mis- just doesn’t apply to people. Saying someone is out of Faran Krentcil is a Trinity senior and senior editor of understanding.” Today the administrators will hear pleas yours—especially before you talk to them—is basically Recess. Her column appears every other Friday. from bright young academics who came here because they thought their efforts might be rewarded with tenure, or at least valued. If there has been any misunderstanding, it was clearly theirs. Frankly, they may be better off leaving: The department’s rankings will plunge as scientists come to view Duke as a purveyor of false promises, not a nationPresident George W. Bush raised sex with other men or were intraare admittedly misleading since ally-renowned research base. How can the University let some eyebrows last week during his venous drug users who shared neeAIDS takes years to develop, meanthis happen when it has just raised $2 billion and State of the Union Address when he dles, that as a sophomore in college ing that those most recently affected expressed its dedication to the fife sciences? The degree of asked Congress “to commit $l5 bilI would have never known an AIDS have only HIV, which does not have cognitive dissonance is mind-boggling. I sincerely hope lion over the next five years, includvictim, I would have been quite to be reported in most states. But ing nearly $lO billion in new money, confused. Secretary of Health and even to this day, it can be said that Duke is not letting BAA. suffer because it yields no technological applications or IPOs. But given the facts, it is all too to turn the tide against AIDS in the Human Services Otis Bowen had individuals who do not have homoeasy to conclude that the administrators’ “dedication” to the most afflicted nations of Africa and said in 1985 that AIDS could make sexual sex and do not inject drugs or the Caribbean the Black Death “seem pale by have sex with individuals who do life sciences is merely a single-minded focus on moneymaking fields like pharmacogenomics. Surely people who Though comparison.” U.S. News & World have a far greater chance of dying most Report declared that “the disease from prescription drugs that are have risen so high in academia know that the true value of applauded the presof them is suddenly the disease of properly prescribed and correctly scientific research is not preceded by dollar signs. Then ident for his seemus.” And Oprah Winfrey made the taken than AIDS. again, this is a school that apparently would rather have a ingly noble gesture, ridiculous Such truths are met with chagrin a academic some statement in 1987 that 1 top complained cross-campus monorail than department. out of 5 heterosexuals would likely by AIDS lobbyists, who realize that, These are tough times for biological anthropology. In that the money Nathan be dead from AIDS by 1990. for better or worse, accurately the past year alone, its brightest have found would be more just- Carleton It is now 2003, however, and describing AIDS as a disease that Sahelanthropus tchadensis, the first ancestor of ly spent combating Getting down to AIDS has still failed to become a has killed a relatively small and humankind; they have discovered culture in our more AIDS in America. individuals business major health problem in America. very specific group of people in the These primitive primate cousins; they have contributed enorspecies. likely pleased, Now, by making this statement, I in last 20 years will not inspire a pubof ourselves as a were mously to our understanding no way mean to undermine the lic outcry. So they, along with the. None of it has made any difference. The field is still in then, three days later when the presdanger—and its woes are not limited to Duke. At ident announced that he would ask severity of AIDS, which is a terrible media—who wish to increase ratColumbia, where I am now pursuing a master’s degree, for $l6 billion to fight AIDS in disease that absolutely no one ings by running stories about people should have to suffer through. If the who their audiences will identify the cultural anthropologists have staged an insurrection America, stating that “a major initiaagainst the biological wing, with the deans’ blessing. They tive in Africa doesn’t mean we’re government had an unlimited and sympathize with—continually have chased out every bio-anthro professor save one, a going to forget the 900,000 people amount of money, I would support scare Americans into believing that AIDS is a serious threat to everybrilliant man responsible for much ofwhat we know about living in America today who carry much more than $l6 billion in funding to combat it. But unfortunately, one. And judging by the federal the evolution ofthe human brain. Nearing retirement age, the HIV virus.” the government must prioritize. And budget the president submitted this Though I’m certainly not conhe can barely teach enough courses to give his students week, their strategy has worked. viable degrees. Replace the cultural anthropologists with tending that we “forget” about it is prioritizing incorrectly. In thelast 20 years, about 30 times If the president wants to commit administrators, and it is a scenario frighteningly similar these people, I do question Americans from $l6 a billion more have died heart himself to a foreign struggle, then they require Is what we want? whether to what could happen at Duke. this Years ago, when I was a Chronicle staffer, one of our let- federal commitment. Especially disease than AIDS. About 20 times combating AIDS in Africa is a good ter writers got angry at an administrative decision and when I find myself unable to shake more have died from cancer. Yet when one. AIDS poses a tremendous it comes time to write the budget, the threat to Africans and will for wrote that Duke was getting “not one red cent” from her in the impression that the commitdecades to come. But America is not alumni donations until the problem was solved. I found it ment is an agreement to the views government treats AIDS as a catastrophic problem and spends about Africa. America is a country where amusing at the time (what a silly, overheated little girl!), of the AIDS lobby—a group of indicondom use is prevalent, people do but now I understand. If I ever have, say, a spare $2 bil- viduals who have, for over 15 $lB,OOO per victim fighting it. massive What makes this even less not walk around with open genital approanthrofinancial garnered years, itinto biological even funnel s2oo,ooo—l’ll lion—or pology. If Duke doesn’t have a department, it won’t get one support by unethically scaring priate is the fact that AIDS is much sores and hospitals don’t use the red cent. I’m not saying Duke’s top priority should be rak- Americans with unsubstantiated easier to prevent than more deadly same needles on multiple patients. ing in alumni donations. Its top priority should be its right characterizations about AIDS that diseases like cancer. Statistics show Unfortunately, it is also a country that a vast majority of those infect- with politicians and citizens who to be called a research university. As of now, though, it time has shown to be inaccurate. What activists have AIDS been ed with AIDS are men who have sex give in to hysteria and scare tactics. stands to lose both. so wrong about? Well, let’s put it with other men, individuals who use Mary Carmichael, Trinity ’Ol, a former BAA major, is a sci- this way: If you had told me 10 intravenous drugs and people who Nathan Carleton is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears every ence reporter at Newsweek and a former executive editor years ago, when practically all have sex with bisexuals or intraAIDS victims were men who had venous drug users. Such statistics other Friday. and TowerView editor The Chronicle. ”

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