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Hospital Asian matriculation hits record high probe finds deficiencies By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle

The next entering class at Duke will be stronger and markedly more Asian

� In a recent audit, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the Hospital risks noncompliance with its conditions of participation. By MALAVIKA PRABHU The Chronicle

The latest report from a series of probes into the Duke University Hospital found deficiencies in the Hospital’s dialysis division, medication administering procedure and infection control, according to a memo issued Friday by Dr. William Fulkerson, CEO of Duke Hospital. The Hospital’s shortcomings in these areas caused it to be noncompliant with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ conditions of participation and placed it in “immediate jeopardy” of losing participation rights in Medicare and Medicaid services. An audit conducted by the CMS was initiated in response to the case of Jesica Santillan, who died from complications resulting from a mismatched heart-lung transplantation. The first audit occurred Feb. 24, two days after Santillan passed away. The CMS always undertakes reviews after hospitals have committed errors of such gravity to ensure they comply with the conditions of participation for Medicare and Medicaid. Richard James, chief ofthe CMS survey and certification operations branch in Atlanta, said the results of the February partial survey of the Hospital prompted a week-long, comprehensive “full validation” examination of the entire Hospital, the results of which were

released Wednesday. CMS officials were unable to provide the detailed report as of press time, and James refused to comment on the specifics of the report, which delineated the particular deficiencies of the Hospital. Specifically, the report noted problem areas in dialysis water testing for chemical makeup and bacteria, dialysis machine testing and oversight of the water treatment process. Updated equipment was installed in April, according to Fulkerson’s memo. In reviewing 84 records, the North Carolina Division of Facility Services, which conducted the in-hospital study on behalf of CMS, found one instance in which a patient was administered the wrong medicine. However, Fulkerson’s memo made clear that the patient’s life was not endangered by the mistake. Another problem described in the

and Asian-American, said Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag. The robust applicant pool, somewhat ironically, led to a declining yield for the third straight year (see graphic). With a larger number of top-notch students admitted, Guttentag said he expected that slightly more people would turn down Duke’s offer, and that a statistical model also anticipated the decline. About 295 Asian students will enter with the class of 2007—a record high, up from 239 last year and now comprising 18 percent of the total. Guttentag credited a flourishing international applicant pool and possibly a changing perception of the University

as reasons for the sudden increase. “Part of it reflects an increasing interest in Duke among Asian students,” he said. “We’ve been fortunate in gradually increasing the presence ofAsian students on campus, and I think we may be at the point where there’s a large enough Asian population to make a difference in the perception of

Duke among Asians.” Of the top five foreign countries for class of 2007 matriculants, three are in Asia—China, Singapore and Korea, Guttentag said. The international nature of this year’s class is reflected beyond the increased Asian population, however. The

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By GILLIAN BARNARD The Chronicle The name Duke University conjures up images of a national championship basketball team and an internationally renowned medical center. If University administrators get their wish, a worldclass art museum could be added to that list within a few years. With the construction of the new Nasher Museum ofArt and the decision to initiate an international search for a new museum director, the University’s museum will undergo a dramatic makeover in the next few years. Administrators and museum staffers hope the opening of the $23 million dollar Nasher facility in fall 2004 will usher in a new era ofinternational prominence for the museum. In the past, a combination of lack of funding and lack of space has hampered the museum’s ability to reach its full potential, said Provost Peter Lange. Lange was involved in the decision not

to rehire Michael Mezzatesta, current director of the Duke University Museum of Art, when his contract expires in

late August. “Mezzatesta did very well with that level of enterprise,” Lange said, referring to the smaller and more sparsely funded DUMA on East Campus. When the decision regarding Mezzatesta was announced, both Lange and President Nan Keohane cited the goal of cultivating a world-class museum in the new, See MUSEUM on page 8

Duke s Human vaccine Institute and Medical Center have begun work in pursuit of a vaccine for SARS, the deadly virus that has hit hardest in Asia. See page 4 X

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Eight Saudi militants arrested for attacks

By DAVID FIRESTONE

New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON A last-minute revision by House and Senate leaders in the tax bill that President George W. Bush signed Wednesday will prevent millions of minimum-wage families from getting the increased child credit that is in the measure, according to congressional officials and other outside groups. Most taxpayers will get a $4OO-perchild check in the mail this summer as a result ofthe tax bill, which raises

Columbian cocaine lord convicted

Fabio Ochoa, one of the biggest drug lords of the 1980s, was convicted Wednesday of joining the cocaine business again after he was released from prison in Columbia and given amnesty. He could get life in prison.

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The United Nations Security Council rallied Wednesday around a proposal to send a multinational force to The Congo to prevent massacres following continued bloodshed that has killed hundreds of citizens,

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The U.S.-led war on terror has made the world a more dangerous and repressive place, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday, but the White House dismissed it as “without merit.” •

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proved Friday, several liberal and child-advocacy groups discovered that a different group offamilies will also not benefit from the $4OO increase—families who make just above the minimum wage. Because of the for-

mula for calculating the tax credit, most families with incomes between $10,500 and $26,625 will not benefit from the increased credit. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal research group, says those families include 11.9 mil-

lion children, or one of every six children under the age of 17. “I don’t know why they would cut that out of the bill,” said Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., who persuaded the

full Senate to send the credit to many more low-income families before the provision was dropped in conference. “These are the people who need it the most, and who will spend it the most. These are the people who buy the blue jeans and the detergent, and who will stimulate the economy with their spending.” Lincoln noted that nearly half of all taxpayers who resided in her state had an adjusted gross income of less than $20,000. Families with incomes lower than $10,500 will also not get the refund checks, Proposals to give them the child tax credits failed on both the House and Senate floors on party-line votes.

Palestinians demand statehood affirmation

Iraqi trailers suggest biological weapons use

Two Iraqi truck trailers equipped with fermenters is the strongest evidence yet that Saddam Hussein had a biological weapons program, a U.S. intelligence report said Wednesday, though no weapons have been found. News briefs compiled from wire reports.

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Some low-income families do not qualify to receive proposed tax-cut benefits

Police raids late Tuesday and in previous days around the city of Medina have led to the capture of up to eight suspected militants wanted in the bombing attacks against residential compounds in the Saudi Arabia capital. •

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An Israeli government official said Israel would consider issuing such a declaration on Palestinian statehood but probably only as part of a package to be announced at the meeting with Bush which would include a credible Palestinian crackdown on Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militant groups who have been attacking Israelis. Israel has been insisting that although the road map calls for parallel steps, it would not budge until such a crackdown was evident. Israel’s own road map obligations include a total freeze on construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza and the dismantling of scores of illegal settlement outposts erected in the past two years. But Palestinian legislator Saeb Erekat said the declaration that recognizes Palestine as a state, also mentioned in the road map, was key.

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JERUSALEM Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas will ask Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon at their upcoming meeting for a declaration accepting the Palestinians’ right to statehood, Palestinian officials said Wednesday. The two leaders are tentatively scheduled to hold their second summit in many weeks Thursday, ahead of a threeway meeting with President Bush that the White House announced for next week in Jordan—a diplomatic push unprecedented in 32 months of violence and aimed at jump-starting the U.S.-backed “road map” to peace. The sides have been wrangling over how to implement the road map—co-authored by the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia—since it was presented to the sides last month.

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Institute hops sea to Japan By CINDY YEE The Chronicle

The SAKS epidemic in China and southeast Asia has forced yet another change ofplans for a Duke summer program. This time, though, no one seems to mind. The School ofLaw has relocated its Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law from Hong Kong to Fukuoka, Japan, due to the prevalence of SAKS in Hong Kong. The law school will collaborate with Kyushu University in Fukuoka for the month-long summer program, carrying out the planned curriculum with only minor changes. “We certainly couldn’t bring faculty or students from anywhere in the world to a place where they’d have to catch a very serious disease,” said Judith Horowitz, associate dean for international studies. Earlier this month, the Duke-in-China undergraduate study abroad program was relocated to the Marine Laboratory at Beaufort, N.C. Horowitz noted that program coordinators chose Fukuoka for its relatively removed location in the southwest corner of Japan. “We purposefully did not locate in Tokyo or Kyoto where most Asian tourists would tend to locate,” she said. She added that Kyushu University was a logical choice because it has an established relationship with law faculty from Hong Kong University, with which the law school collaborated when the program was based in Hong Kong. Those participating in this summer’s program said they are comfortable with—even excited about—the program’s relocation. All seemed to support the decision to move the program out of Hong Kong. “Moving the program is not a loss at all,” said Lisa Wechsler, director of special international projects at Duke Law. “In fact, we’ve been very fortunate to be able to move it to the Kyushu University, which is definitely one of the top

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TRINITY JUNIOR TINA CHANG is one of an estimated 80 Duke students unable to return home over the summer due to international concern regarding SARS.

Students stuck at Duke by SARS By GABRIEL CHEN The Chronicle

The University’s recent warning against travel to SARS-afflicted areas underscores a dilemma faced by many Asian students, who have been unwilling to return home due to the epidemic. Most students, however, had already made plans prior to the University’s caution against non-essential travel to countries affected by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. The warning, issued jointly by a number of University health organizations, advises members of the Duke community to avoid SARS-affected regions in Asia, including parts ofChina and Taiwan. Junior Harold Chen said he decided to stay in Durham after his friends advised him not to go back to Beijing, as it was possible that he might have difficulties re-entering the United States.

“Most Chinese students at Duke are not changing their plans despite the travel warning,” Chen said. “I know a couple of graduate students who have to go back for research purposes and official matters, but they would rather stay here. “Most of us do not want to risk being unable to return,” he continued. “The travel warning might, however, deter American students from going to China.” Chen will visit friends in Boston and then stay in a temple in San Diego to practice meditation. Others, like sophomore Trina Kok said the travel advisory would not change her plans to go back to Singapore. “I originally decided to stay at Duke to do summer school for two terms,” she said. “But now that the SARS situation in Singapore has improved, I’m considering returning home.” Singapore reported a new case on May 18, just be-

universities in Japan.” Carolin Spiegel, a law school student participating in this summer’s institute in Japan, agreed that much will be gained by relocating the program from Hong Kong, especially in terms of cultural immersion. “Fukuoka has the potential to provide a much more Asian’ experience,” Spiegel wrote in an e-mail from Bangkok, Thailand, where she is working until the program begins. “I am very excited about having an immersive experience in Fukuoka, as opposed to one in Hong Kong where the possibility of Western exposure always exists.” However, Horowitz added that the Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law is not based solely on localized cultural immersion. It was designed about 12 years ago for See JAPAN on page 9

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Snyderman awarded Ellis Island Medal

Chancellor for Health Affairs and President and CEO of the Duke University Health System Dr. Ralph Snyderman was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. The son of Russian immigrants, Snyderman was recognized as a distinguished American of ethnic origin for his contributions to biomedical research and leadership in medicine and health care by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations. •

Katz receives Sabin Gold Medal

Wilburt Cornell Davison Professor and Chair Emeritus of Pediatrics Dr. Samuel Katz was awarded the Sabin Gold Medal by the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute. Katz was recognized for his contributions to disease prevention, such as his role in developing the measles vaccine. Katz is the tenth recipient of the Sabin Gold Medal ever.

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RESEARCH AT DUKE

Genetics used to predict breast cancer

Using a woman’s genetic profile, a team of researchers has been able to predict with 90 percent accuracy whether a breast cancer tumor has extensively spread to her lymph nodes. Cancerous lymph nodes are critical in determining a woman’s long-term survival, according to research between Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy and a Taiwanese institute •

MRi techniques enhance asthma testing

New magnetic resonance imaging techniques developed at the Medical Center have enabled researchers to see into the lungs of live laboratory rats as they are administered doses of metacholine, a drug used to test asthma. In combination with molecular genetics techniques, the imaging method can even aid in identifying the root causes of lung disease, the researchers said. •

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THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2003 INSIDE THE HEALTH SYSTEM

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Long-lasting benefits of exercise found

Duke researchers have found that the positive effects of exercise on cholesterol levels persist even after exercise cessation, suggesting longterm physical adaptations from exercise. The study also found that intensity and gender affect the extent of beneficial exercise effects. News briefs compiled from staff and wire reports

HVI, DUMC work to prevent SARS By LIANA WYLER The Chronicle

As the spread of the SARS epidemic in Canada lurks threateningly close to the United States border, researchers at the Human Vaccine Institute are pursuing the development of a SARS vaccine and Duke public health officials are trying to make sure that all the necessary safety precautions are in place. SARS is a new form of the corona virus, only 30 percent identical to any previously known corona viruses. With more than 8,000 cases and an approximately nine percent mortality rate, the SARS epidemic has “enormous societal, economic [and health] implications,” said Dr. Larry Liao, associate professor of medicine at the HVI. Experts are currently unable to forecast how long the disease will remain a dangerous threat, although Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, said in a conference call with University public health officials last week that she is “cautiously optimistic” that the outbreak of SARS is being brought under control. Others, however, are not persuaded. “SARS has the potential to be a serious pandemic,” said Dr. Bill Christmas, director of Student Health and clinical professor of community and family medicine. “SARS is a moving target and conditions are expected to change.” Director of the HVI Dr. Barton Haynes said he does not believe the epidemic will go away because animals will still be able to host the virus. “It’ll come

back,” he said. In a recent study by the World Health Organization, Chinese cats, badgers and dogs were discovered with SAKS, though the WHO said in a press release that “it was impossible to tell from the study whether any of the animals spread the virus to humans or whether they caught the

THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION are working closely with the World Health Organization and other partners as part of a global collaboration to address the SARS outbreak. virus from people.”

Research geared toward the development of a vaccine for SARS, despite the unclear long-term implications of the virus, is “moving quickly” Haynes said. It took a couple weeks to culture the virus and another six days to sequence the 28,000+ nucleotides, which were immediately released on the Internet so that researchers around the world could have access to the information. “When the U.S., Canada and the Western world started to get involved in the research for SARS, we got the full picture of the virus in just about two weeks,” Liao said. “I could not ap-

predate more how high the quality of work for the SARS virus has been.” The impressive global collaboration on SARS research is due in large part to the United States’ campaign to combat newly emerging infectious diseases and antibioterrorism efforts since the Sept. 11 attacks. As an integral component of the Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense, the HVI has made a significant effort to search for new vaccines for anthrax, smallpox

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THURSDAY, MAY 29,2003 � PAGE 5

Summer construction provides minor inconvenience By JANE HETHERINGTON

the ongoing construction. “It’s noisy and it’s difficult to get work done on campus during the While students are no longer wakday,” said classical studies graduate ing up to jackhammers at work outside their windows, an increase in student John Bauschatz. “It ruins construction on campus has caused your lunch when you are outside on a community members to change some nice day.” In Kilgo Quadrangle, Houses N, O of their daily routines. The second year ofrenovations to and P are being renovated, said West Housing Facilities Manager campus dormitories and a number of I other major projects will persist Shawhan Lynch. Former residents of through the length of the summer, houses N and O were forced to move out several days early, but Lynch creating various detours and disturbances for pedestrians. said he received no complaints. East Campus is also receiving a Students on campus this summer have already felt the ramifications of face lift. New construction on the all-

freshman campus includes the creation of additional residence coordinator apartments and offices in Randolph and Southgate dormitories, said East Campus Facilities Manager Tony Bumphus. In addition, the Gilbert-Addoms Down Under will be renovated, storage rooms in Randolph will be converted into bedrooms, and several commons rooms and kitchens across East Campus will be brought in line with Americans with Disabilities Act

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yond the summer and into the fall, the incoming class of 2007 should not be affected. “Nobody [on East Campus] was forced to move out early due to the projects. However, projects may be extended after move-in,” Bumphus said. “It won’t hinder moving in, because it can take place while the building is occupied. [Students] most likely will find out what might be taking place or what to expect in their information packets over the summer.”

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Lyerly to Late-night Rick’s cuts others’ business take helm of DCCC By CINDY YEE The Chronicle

By MALAVIKA PRABHU The Chronicle

Famed researcher Dr. Kim Lyerly, who helped develop the AIDS breakthrough drug AZT and served as the leader of a top-notch breast cancer research program, was recently named Director of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center by Dean of the School of Medicine Dr. Sandy Williams. In the last five years, the Cancer Center has rapidly become one of the top programs in the nation, said Dr. Michael Colvin, the previous director of the center, who will now devote himself full-time to laboratory

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Loyal patrons of local late-night restaurants can rest assured that their favorite late-night dives will continue to serve their favorite late-night eats, despite the popularity of Rick’s Diner in the West-Edens Link. When Rick’s first opened last fall, some questioned the viability of a 24hour diner on Duke’s campus. But as the weeks flew by, the West Campus eatery had a sufficiently consistent stream of customers to keep the doors open all night, every night, throughout the academic year. The proximity of the diner, coupled with students’ ability to buy midnight hash browns on food points, certainly had an impact on some ofthe local businesses competing to satisfy students’ late-night cravings. Some restaurants have felt the diner’s impact more severly than have others, but representatives of the most popular late-night food sources for Duke students all said they will continue to make their services available well into the night. “Our night business was pretty much cut in half,” said Michael Farabee, general manager of Jimmy John’s on Ninth Street. “I’m going to do advertising like I always do, and try to get as many students as I can. If I can’t get enough, I’ll have to take matters into my own hands, maybe by expanding into Research Triangle Park.” Farabee said there are no plans to cut back on delivery to the University. With the sandwich shop’s delivery hours running from 11 a.m. to 4 a.m., business overall is still sound enough to continue delivering on food points. Other businesses said they had seen less drastic dips in business over the academic year. Buck Dickerson, a co-owner of Honey’s Restaurant on Guess Road, said he noticed a slight decrease in Duke student business on Friday and Saturday nights. “We were really fortunate. At the same time as we had some decrease in student business, Pan Pan, the all-night

COSMIC CANTINA, a mainstay of late-night dining in Durham, is one of the many local restaurants affected by Rick’s Diner, the round-the-clock eatery located on Duke’s campus. diner near us, closed down in February” Dickerson said. “We picked up a consid-

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so we’ve been keeping on keeping on.” Leo Rodriguez, a manager at Cosmic Cantina on Perry Street, said late-night business did not drop off significantly after Rick’s Diner opened. Instead, he

pointed to the discontinuance of wholesale business with Duke University Hospital as the most significant factor contributing to the restaurant’s slight business drop over the last year. The least concerned about competition from Rick’s seemed to be Waffle House on Hillsborough Road. Although manager Dorothy Davidson said the restaurant’s business has dropped off

slightly in the last year, she credited the economy at large rather than a dearth of Duke student late-night business. Many of the restaurants stressed that they still get their fair share of Duke students, but at different times of the day or week than they did before. Few have offered any special promotions in an effort to reclaim some of their late-night student customers; in general, it is business as usual. “When you give [students] a place like Rick’s Diner where they have phone jacks and internet connections and give them a place that’s comfortable and close by, so they can walk over there in their pajamas—you can’t compete with that,” Farabee said.

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Jury count hits 7 in Peterson trial

CRIME BRIEFS From staff reports

Items to be picked up stolen

A student reported that on May 12, he left the following items in his room located in HH3, to be picked up by his friend on May 14: a $2,000 Twin head laptop computer, a $l5O TI-89 calculator, a $lOO Ckei sleeping bag, a $l5O Delsui suitcase, a $l5O threeinch sword, a $lOO silver necklace with stone Buddha, $lOO camper shoes, a $2OO Banana Republic brown leather jacket, a $lOO red jacket with blue stripes, assorted clothes valued at $1,200 and a bag of assorted medications valued at $3OO. His friend did not pick up the items as planned, and when the victim returned on May 17 he found his room door open, with noted items missing and the remaining property in disarray.

From wire reports A woman who said two of her relatives have been murdered was selected Wednesday as the seventh juror in the Michael Peterson murder case. During three hours of questioning, the 55-year-old woman told defense attorneys that an uncle and the wife of a cousin were murdered. Her brother is a retired state trooper, she said. She described herself as a Christian and, under questioning from defense attorney David Rudolf, said she would not want to view homosexual pornography but would do so if required. Rudolf has filed a motion asking that evidence about Peterson’s sexual orientation be barred from the trial. During a hearing earlier this month, prosecutors said police found gay pornography. Rudolf said then that he would object if prosecutors tried to use that evidence during the trial. He later said Peterson had been writing a novel about gays in the military. Rudolf also indicated Wednesday that he was close to accepting an eighth juror, a 37-year-old woman who works for the state Department of Correction in Butner. She also worked as a correction officer on death row for two years. Rudolf said he would decide Thursday whether to accept the woman as a juror after she reviews a list of potential witnesses to see if she knows any ofthem. He also used his first peremptory strike to dismiss one juror, a retired University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel

Development computer nabbed

Ail employee reported that between 10 a.m. May 13 and 2 p.m. May 14, someone stole a $5,000 Dell Poweredge 4300 computer, serial number IBZNX, from the Office of Development.

Cars broken into At 5:20 p.m. May 27, employees reported finding two vehicles broken into at the Hillsborough Road overflow lot at the comer of 15th Street. Both vehicles were parked in the lot around 8:30 a.m. The first vehicle had the front driver’s side window broken and an Alpine compact disc player stolen, and also suffered damage to the dashboard. The damage to that vehicle is estimated at $5BO. The second vehicle had the passenger side front window broken and a Sony compact disc player stolen. The damage to that vehicle is estimated at $440.

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Bike swiped A student reported that sometime between April 24 and 12:27 p.m. April 28, someone stole her secured $250 blue Giant/Cyprus bicycle from the stair railing between dormitories A and B of the West-Edens Link.

Credit Union card pinched On March 24, an employee reported that someone stole from her purse her Duke Credit Union “Combo Card” from Duke North 5600. At least $735 was charged to her card after it was stolen. On April 28, a warrant was served on former Duke employee Kenneth Lawrence Scott, DOB Nov. 1, 1961. He was charged with financial transaction card fraud, placed under $l,OOO secured bond and sent to the Durham County Jail. He could not be reached for comment.

Stone stolen An employee reported that between 8 p.m. April 25 and 3:31 p.m. May 1, someone stole 40 square feet of blue stone valued at $6OO from the Center for Human Disease loading dock.

Items taken from Alspaugh room A student reported that between 12 p.m. May 3 and 10:40 p.m. May 6, someone entered his unlocked room located in Alspaugh Dormitory and stole his $250 Sony digital camera, his $lO laundry detergent and toiletries valued at $3O.

Student charged for underage possession

At 2:33 a.m. April 27, a Duke Police officer responded to the third-floor commons in Edens IC, in reference to excessive noise and underage drinking. Subsequent investigation resulted in Jon Wedrogowski, DOB Feb. 11, 1983, being charged with underage possession of a malt beverage. He was given a June 10 court date. Wedrogowski could not be reached for comment. See CRIME on page 9

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STUCK AT DUKE ,omP a9 e3 fore the WHO was to declare it SARSfree. It was the city-state’s first case in 20 days. Since May, about eight to 10 students from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore have approached the International House for help with summer plans, officials there said. The International House, which helps international students forge social ties at Duke, has responded by working with senior administration officials to offer the students jobs on campus for the summer. Catheryn Gotten, director of the International Office, which helps students and others review and process visa applications, said that one ofher chief concerns regarding summer travel and return was not that great numbers of people would contract SARS, but rather that the SARS problem in China and

elsewhere would limit the number of U.S. embassy and consulate staff members available to review and process visa applications. “Reduced staff will lead to long delays in obtaining visas for new and returning students and scholars,” Cotton said. “Students have to consider their options carefully, understand the possible consequences of any decision or action, and prepare as well as possible to deal with those consequences.” Lisa Giragosian, assistant director of the International House, said she was “pleased that Duke did not follow in the steps of the University of California at Berkeley,” which announced in early May that it would restrict summer enrollment for all students from countries hardest hit by the deadly SARS virus. The campus revised its policy more than two weeks ago, saying it would allow an estimated 80 foreign students from areas with significant SARS out-

MUSEUM from page 1 state-of-the-art facility on the corner of Anderson Street and Campus Drive. “We are very ambitious for the museum, not only to increase the importance of arts here at Duke, but to bring our museum to the level of a top university museum,” Lange said. In order to do so, the new facility will have to achieve the highest level of accreditation, said Mark Antliff, associate professor of art history. While Antliff applauded the University’s devotion to the new facility, he added that a higher accreditation will also depend upon a commitment to creating a solid endowment, which will in turn be crucial in attracting collections that will be most beneficial to the University.

Bruce Evans, public relations specialist for DUMA, agreed that the University must look beyond the new structure, which was designed by renowned architect Rafael Vinoly, who designed the Tokyo International Forum and Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and whose name and design alone could attract visitors. “So far we have done very well with fundraising, but we need further endowment in order to develop an acquisition fund,” Evans said. While the current financial focus is on the formation of the building itself, there is a fund set aside to increase spending in educational areas as well. The new museum is intended to be a place that can contribute to the University as well as to the Durham community, said Adera Causey, DUMA’s educational director. The Nasher facility will include two classrooms, an in-house library and a computer alcove. “All of these things, merely in terms of structure, will allow us to do more,” Causey said. “As more and more programs call attention to the museum, it is anticipated that more gifts will roll in.” Evans said one of the goals in creating a worldclass institution will begin with the museum’s ability to attract greater regional attention. “We do not

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Giragosian acknowledged that some students are still going home despite the travel advisory issued by Duke. “I believe those who are going home do so because they miss their family and friends and want to be with them,” she said. Tina Chang, a junior, said she was supposed to go home to Taiwan in May to visit her family because she has not been back for five years. However, because of SARS, she was forced to stay here. Worried about her family, Chang said she still might go back if the situation continues to improve. Bo Jiang, a graduate student who is already back in Beijing, summed the situation up succinctly. “I agree that we should be more conservative and cautious in time of uncertainty and danger. However, I do not think we should let SARS change our

lives,” he said.

have the facilities [with DUMA] to attract people. Fifty percent of students do not even know we exist,” he said. With the Nasher facility’s prime location near the Sarah P. Duke Gardens and a Central Campus that will witness a dramatic revitalization over the next decade, Evans said the new museum will lead to increased student interest and attract more potential donors as well. The attraction of potential donors was also on Lange’s agenda with the decision to change over the museum’s leadership after August. He explained that administrators hope to create an environment where people with connections to the University will feel encouraged to donate and lend art from their

private collections. “It is essential that the University community, including alumni, feel comfortable with donating and loaning works of art,” Lange said. He declined to comment on how new leadership will achieve this goal, focusing instead on the dramatic increase in space and capital that accompanies the construction

ofthe Nasher museum. “In the past, the museum just did not have the capital to create this sort ofenvironment,” he said. In addition to stressing the need for a serious acquisition budget, Antliff said he envisions an increasing integration between the University and the While DUMA contains a nationally museum. renowned collection of medieval and pre-Columbian art, there is a significant need for expansion in the contemporary fields, including “a teaching collection strong in all fields including 19th- and 20th-century art,” Antliff said. The greater focus on contemporary works could happen sooner than many would think. With the opening ofthe new museum in 2004, it is anticipated that the Nasher collection of modern sculpture, renowned as one of the most significant collections in the world, will be the opening exhibit. As Antliff explained, “The important thing is not to dwell in the past. We have to think about the future. What we have unfolding here is very exciting.”

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LYERLY from page 6 “Synergistic relationships between the Cancer Center, the IGSP, the [Duke Clinical Research Institute] and our departments are critical, and Dr. Lyerly is proficient in negotiating such interactions,” Williams wrote in an e-mail. Lyerly similarly emphasized the need to explore the relationship between the Cancer Center and DCRI. Lyerly comes to the post with experience in one ofthe center’s core areas. “I was impressed by his record of successful leadership of the Breast Cancer [Specialized Program Of Research Excellence]... and his understanding of tumor immunology,” Williams wrote. Only 40 SPORE grants exist nationwide, and the Cancer Center boasts two, for breast and brain cancer. Lyerly also cited the center’s programs in cancer genetics, cell signaling, and immunotherapy as being very strong. Looming near is the Feb. 1,2004 deadline for the center to resubmit its grant request to the National Cancer Institute, and the strength of these programs is critical to maintaining adequate funding. Once an intern at Duke, Lyerly continued his residency in the department of surgery, where the chair at that time emphasized basic science research. As a result, Lyerly got involved in AIDS drug research at Duke in the 1980s with Dani Bolognesi, one of the premier AIDS drug researchers in the world. Lyerly also pioneered strategies targeting virally associated tumors with viral-specific immune cells and was the first to show this technique to be effective in eradicating tumors in mice—an approach that is now in clinical practice. Chief of Surgery Dr. Randal Bollinger said Lyerly is “a superb scientist and surgical oncologist.” Bollinger cited the nine active National Institutes of Health grants for which Lyerly is principal investigator as being a “phenomenal” record. Additionally, Lyerly co-directs the NCI-sponsored workshop of cancer clinical trials. “There are a lot of opportunities for cancer research that didn’t exist five years ago,” Lyerly said. “It’s an exciting time.”

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law students with a particular interest in China, Japan and southeast Asia. Abizer Zanzi, another the Law student enrolled in the Fukuoka program, wrote in an e-mail that he was initially apprehensive about the move from Hong Kong, but now believes the relocated program will be a success. “While they offer different experiences culturally, both Hong Kong and Japan are important places in the Asia-Pacific region, certainly with respect to law,” he wrote. “The law school has done a great job of putting together an excellent program in Japan on such short notice.” Wechsler said the relocated program was set up within the course of one week. “It was quite a whirlwind, but I think it’s had a wonderful result,” she said. Wechsler, who lived in Fukuoka for two years, played an integral role in making preparations for the 42 students confirmed for the Fukuoka program thus far. Horowitz said she expects a final enrollment of about 45 for the institute in Japan—about 15 fewer than were enrolled in the Hong Kong institute last summer. She attributed some of the drop-off to the fact that Duke Law did not admit any students from SARS-infected areas, but mostly to the fact that it is the first year the program will run from the new location. The program in Hong Kong has traditionally been centered on courses in topics such as international trade, law development and security issues. The institute also offered seminars focusing on the political, economic and constitutional issues of Hong Kong—seminars that will now focus on the same issues as they pertain to Japan. Students will also visit approximately six Fukuoka law firms and will interact with local judges and their legal trainees. Wechsler said the law dean and faculty at Kyushu University have been extremely “welcoming and collaborative,” and that a law school graduate working in Fukuoka has been helpful in making connections with the international law division of the Fukuoka Bar Association. She added that one of law school’s strongest alumni bases is in Japan. Program coordinators decided to relocate the institute a few months ago, when it became clear the SARS epidemic was a force to be reckoned with. After this year, Horowitz said, coordinators will reevaluate conditions in Hong Kong, and may even consider a permanent move to Fukuoka.

years of experience in vaccine development, and because of this, I think we can contribute to the SARS research,” Liao said. In collaboration with investigators from the National Institutes of Health and working groups from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Emory University, Vanderbilt University and University of Florida, Duke is in the process of developing a subunit vaccine, in which a surface antigen such as a protein, will produce an antibody immune response to neutralize the effects of the virus. Because SARS patients in Hong Kong and China treated with the serum of recovered patients recovered, the subunit vaccine “holds promise,” Liao said. The Spike protein has been identified as the site, or epitope in the virus as having the neutralizing characteristics. Researchers are currently in the stage of optimizing the expression of the Spike protein’s genes, which will take another four to six

CRIME from page 7

weeks before all 1,500 amino acids are optimized. Then the vaccine with be tested in animals to see if it induces an antibody neutralizing response. In the meantime, while there have been no ‘probable cases of SAKS’ in the U.S., eight suspected cases of SARS in North Carolina—two as near as Raleigh—were investigated “back in the early days ofthe epidemic,” according to Dr. George Jackson, director of Employee Occupational Health. “SARS is certainly a risk for the health care setting, particularly in the case that a SARS patient goes [undiagnosed],” said Dr. John Engemann, a medical fellow at Duke. “If you’re caring for patients with suspected SARS, health care providers should have proper protection.” Such suspicions of SARS as well as the fact that 75 percent of the virus’s transmission has occurred through health care workers in the health care setting, stress the importance of the Medical Center’s goal to “make sure that the necessary mechanisms are in place to deal with a suspected case of SARS,” said Sharon Henricksen, Student Health nurse manager. er arrived at the Emergency Department with a passenger who had no money to pay for her $22.80 fare. Shelia Dew was charged with defrauding a taxi and given a July 7 court date. She could not be reached

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An employee reported that she parked her car at 6:30 p.m. May 26 at the 500 block of Oregon Street, and when she returned to her vehicle at 6 a.m. May 27, she found her passenger side rearview mirror broken and hanging by a wire. The damage is estimated at $5OO.

Palm Pilot palmed An employee reported that between 12 p.m. May 22 and 8 a.m. May 23, someone stole his $3OO Palm Pilot from the Duke Health Clinic located at 4020 North Roxboro Rd.

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Pants pilfered An employee reported that around 12:50 p.m. May 8, while he was in the shower in Brodie Gymnasium, someone entered his secured locker and removed his pants. He found his pants in a locker to the left of his. He did not leave anything of value in the pants so nothing was stolen.

Coins, cigs taken

An employee reported that between 3:12 p.m. May 9 and 2 a.m. May 11, while his vehicle was parked in the Allen Building parking lot, someone broke a $l5O window and stole $2.50 in coins and a $5 pack of Newport cigarettes.

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CONSTRUCTION

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Besides the dormitory renovations, additional construction this summer includes the final leg of the new parking deck behind the Bryan Center, the initial stage of the Perkins Library expansion, preliminary development of the multidisciplinary French Science Center on Science Drive, and the ongoing work at the Nasher Museum of Art and the Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences, an extension of the Pratt School of Engineering. Towerview Road remains under construction and signs posted on Duke University Road indicate that Towerview may be closed for much of the summer. Meanwhile, access to the Bryan Center Walkway from Main West quadrangle closed this week for pipe work. “I can certainly see [the construction], hear it and even feel it on occasion,” said Lincoln Pratson, assistant professor of sedimentary geology. “It is disruptive, [but] I appreciate the fact that they have things to accomplish.”

HOSPITAL from page 1 memo was the inconsistency in contact isolation protocols the hospital must follow—a problem area the hospital addressed by conducting a skills blitz for nurses. Dr. Michael Cuffe, vice chair of medicine for clinical affairs, said the results ofthe CMS survey pertain only to minor issues in the hospital. “Apart from [Santillan’s] pediatric transplant, I don’t think things have gone wrong,” he said,

“[patient safety] is more of a global problem in medicine.” Cuffe pointed to the hand off of information within the hospital as having the greatest potential for error, emphasizing that steps had to be taken to close the

though the Asian boom led the way, the number of blacks, Latinos and Native Americans held about steady. The total percentage of students of color reached 36 percent for this incoming class, compared to only 24 percent for the class of 2000 and 35 percent for the class of 2006. “The makeup of Duke has changed in a heartbeat,” Guttentag said, “and I think that we know that a diverse student body is attractive to talented students. I think that part of it is additional recruitment, part of it is we’ve improved the appeal of our publications, part of it is we’ve increased the presence of students of color, part of it is this is the second year we’ve been able to offer need-based financial aid to international students.” Guttentag added that administra-

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DEMOLITION WORKERS clear out Kilgo Quadrangle dormitories earlier this month to make way for air conditioning and interior renovations.

gaps created by middlemen. He cited the Computerized Physician Order Entry system, in which physicians type prescriptions directly into a computer, as an easy way to eliminate one of the hand offs. Fulkerson’s memo also cited the placement of internal checks in known problem areas, primarily pertaining to

the transfer of information. Santillan’s botched transplantation was a direct result of miscommunication somewhere between the donor service and Santillan’s physician. Simply complying with the directives of the CMS, Cuffe said, does not result in better patient safety. Instead, he advo-

cated that Hospital take additional steps to reform pathways of communication within the hospital—steps that might eventually serve as a model for

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other hospitals nationwide. Cuffe drew a parallel between a fourday suspension the Hospital faced four years ago in human subject research. Following the suspension, the hospital changed its human research methods and became an example for other hospitals also conducting human testing, he said. “The Santillan case may have been the impetus for the Hospital to improve its communication plan [regarding patient safety!” he said. Now, Cuffe said, the Hospital is prioritizing safety differently. The Hospital is preparing for the DFS to return for a follow-up inspection in mid-July and for a visit in late June by the Joint Commission for the Accred-

itation of Healthcare Organizations, which originally downgraded the accreditation of the hospital in March.

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tive efforts to increase intellectual engagement at the University have not been lost on the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. “In our evaluation of the letters of recommendation in particular, we are paying more attention to how a student’s intellectual qualities are described,” he said. “This is a fairly nuanced shift, but in this particular area, we are looking at them a little differently, and we are paying more attention to those qualities that are being described by teachers that reflect someone who is really thoughtful, creative and very much engaged in the process oflearning.” Guttentag said he was unsure how the class of 2007 would fit into the University’s changing social scene, but had nothing but high praise for the new class. “If you define social as really engaged outside ofclass, I think this class will be at least as engaged as their predecessors,” he said. “I really believe that this will be a class where the faculty will know the students. I think this is going to be a terrific class. I think it’s going to be an unusually lively and talented class.”

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Men’s golf drops from fifth to 23rd Despite ending day one just a stroke back of the lead, the Blue Devils dropped to 23rd place after the second day of action. By MIKE COREY The Chronicle

So much for fast starts. After getting out to a scorching start, the men’s golf team struggled on day two of the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, Ok. Duke began play in their first NCAA tournament action since 1999 by firing a 300, putting them just one back after day one. Duke was led by freshman Ryan Blaugh’s 73, and senior Leif Olson and freshman Nathan Smith each shot 74s en route to their high finish. Such was the type of performance expected from the Blue Devils for much of the season, as Duke was ranked in the top 10 during the fall season. However, Duke struggled throughout much of the spring season—that is, until the regional championships where Duke placed fifth. Wednesday, the Blue Devils’ rollercoaster soared back towards the earth. Duke shot a 326 during the second day of action, putting them 28 strokes behind of the leaders, UCLA. Duke’s fall can be attributed to the fact that all five of the Blue Devils’ golfers shot a 79 or worse. The previous days stars were unable to match Tuesday’s low scores, as Olson and Smith each dropped six strokes to an 80 and Blaum added 14 strokes with an 87. LEIF OLSON has fired rounds of 74 and 80 in the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament,

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Can you handle the truth ? Things just don’t seem the same in the NBA’s Western Conference Finals without the Los Angeles Lakers. This is to take no credit away from the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks; those two teams surely earned their spot and the Lakers did not. But when one looks at the 1999-2000 Laker team, it is hard

to believe that the 2002-03 Laker squad achieved less than that

youthful group. ODCrt Samuel samuel The 2000 Laker Robert This is an e-mail team featured a 28old Shaquille year O’Neal, who led the NBA in scoring and grabbed his one and only MVP award that season. Most experts felt this was the beginning of O’Neal’s prime, as the Louisiana State alum made quite a rebound from the disappointing 1999 season in which he was voted only the No. 2 center in the league behind draft classmate Alonzo Mourning. The 2000 team also claimed 21-year old Kobe Bryant on its tax return. While Bryant is now known as the most clutch scorer in the NBA, the barely-legal Bryant in 2000 was still developing into a dominating force. Bryant averaged 22.5 See SAMUEL on page 13

Add U.S. national team to resume for Beard, Tillis By CATHERINE SULLIVAN The Chronicle

Two of Duke’s women’s basketball players—rising seniors and AllAmericans Alana Beard and Iciss Tillis—were among 24 players chosen to represent the United States this summer on a pair of 12-member 2003 USA Basketball teams. The Blue Devil duo, along with sophomore Mistie Bass, competed with 55 of the nation’s top collegiate players in team tryouts at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. May 22-25, with Beard being named to the USA World Championship for Young Women team and Tillis being selected for the Pan American Games roster. After taking the 2002 summer off from competitive basketball, Beard will be representing the United States for a third year, this time as one of the veterans on a team trying to win the inaugural FIBA World Championship for Young Women in Sibenik, Croatia, July 25-Aug. 3. “It’s an honor to be part of USA Basketball,” Beard said. “Having two

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years of experience with the national team, I’m expected to be a leader, which is a role I love.” The Shreveport, La. native, who averaged 18 points per game as a member of the third-place 2001 USA Basketball Women’s Junior World Championship team, will be surrounded by a plethora of talent on the 21-and-under squad coached by Ohio State’s Jim Foster. Eleven of the 12 players named to the team are All-Americans, including

fellow first-team member Nicole Ohlde of Kansas State, three-time USA basketball participant Cappie Pondexter of Rutgers and National Freshman of the Year Simone Augustus ofLSU. “This team is very unique and definitely one of the best that I’ve played on,” Beard said. “Everyone has at least one year of college experience, and several players on the team have had international exposure. I think that’s going to help us in the long ran” Because the USA Young Women’s

See BEARD AND THUS on page 13

McCain nominated

All-American women’s tennis star Kelly McCain has been nominated for the prestigious women’s tennis Honda Award, which recognizes the top athlete in the game.

ALANA BEARD will take her All-American skills to the international scene this summer.

Cassesse All-American Men’s lacrosse player Kevin Cassesse was named first-team AllAmerica for the second consecutive season. He is also a candidate for the Tewaaraton Award.

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Keebler wants Oui 2002 individual NCAA champion and Duke junior Virada Nirapathpongporn will participate in the LPGA Kellog-Keebler Classic this weekend in Aurora Illinois

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No. 1 women’s golf unable to defend national titles By ROBERT TAI The Chronicle

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana The defending national champion Duke women’s golf team relinquished its reign last Friday as it finished a tough four days at Purdue University’s Kampen Golf Course in a tie for 10th place, 28 strokes short of champion Southern California. Duke’s cumulative score of 1,225 was its highest in the tournament since 1996, when it shot a 1,260. “We are disappointed,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “We came here to win this and didn’t get that done.” To add salt to the Blue Devils’ wounds, defending national individual champion Virada Nirapathpongporn turned in a birdie-less 76 on the final

HEAD COACH DAN BROOKS speaks to his team following a 10th-place finish at the NCAAs

day, finishing 11th overall. Still, the East Region champs had some good news while in Indiana, as both Nirapathpongporn and freshman Liz Janangelo were named to the firstteam All-America squad. Nirapathpongporn’s honor is the third of her career, making her the first Duke women’s golfer ever to receive

first-team status in her freshman, junior seasons. sophomore and Janangelo is just the third Blue Devil ever to be an All-American as a freshman—Nirapathpongporn and current LPGA star Beth Bauer are the others. In addition, junior Leigh Anne Hardin earned honorable mention AllAmerican accolades. After a disappointing first two rounds left the Blue Devils seemingly out of reach of the national title, they shot a third-round 294, third best overall on the day. Coach Brooks’ squad was then in a not-so-distant tie for Bth place. “I have seen this team over and over play comeback golf and they did it today,” Brooks said after the third round. Janangelo’s performance mirrored that of her teammates. After firing an 82 and a 76 in the opening two rounds, the All-American stormed back with two consecutive rounds at even-par 72. Her individual resurgence helped contribute to the team’s comeback. “I wanted the team to play well and we hadn’t been playing very good at See WOMEN’S GOLF on page 16

Baseball knocks off two before falling to Jackets P Duke eliminated No. 10 Clemson from the ACC tournament on the strength of a superb pitching

performance by Tim Layden. By MIKE COREY The Chronicle Tech 23 Despite winning two games in the ACC Duke 4 tournament, and therefore matching its conference win total during the regular season, the men’s baseball team’s quest for a league championship was derailed last week in a 23-4 shellacking at the hands of No. 10 Georgia Tech (41-16). “I knew after six hitters that we were in trouble,” head coach Bill Hillier said after the game last week. “I think it was 5-0 at that point.” The Yellow Jackets were fired up early on, piling on nine runs in the first inning en route to the victory for the eventual ACC champions. “We took control early,” Georgia Tech head coach Danny Hall said. “We got contributions from a lot of people. This is the kind of day that you like to have.” Hillier tried to shake things up by

changing pitchers often, going through three hurlers in the first two innings alone, starter Kevin including Thompson, Zach Schreiber and Justin Dilluchio. Dilluchio remained in the game for four innings. “I told my guys that we have to give

credit to Georgia Tech,” Hillier said.

“They hit everything we threw. In the first inning we kicked it around a little bit. We just don’t play consistently.” In the end, Georgia Tech set an alltime team high for runs in a tournament game, and was just one off the conference record. However, the 19-run margin of victory did break the ACC tournament mark. “We went into the game knowing we had a job to do,” Georgia Tech’s Jeremy Slayden said. “We felt like we could bat

Duke and that we were better than them. We had to get the job done and we did it.” In the previous game, the Blue Devils (18-36) collected a remarkable 7-4 win

over No. 17 Clemson, which eliminated the Tigers from the tournament. It was Duke’s second win over Clemson in 2003. ANTHONY CROSS/THE CHRONICLE

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BEARD AND ULUS from pag en National Team was limited to players born on or after Jan. 1, 1982, Beard’s teammate Tillis was not eligible to join her. However, 6-foot-4 forward was chosen to participate in the Pan American Games, a multi-sport competition held every four years in the year preceding the summer Olympics. “It is definitely one of the highest honors to represent the United States, especially now with the war going on and everything,” said Tillis, who also played on the 1998 USA World Youth Games team. “It will just be a really incredible experience.” Tillis, a 2003 Wade Trophy finalist, will be teaming

with several familiar college foes under University of

Virginia head coach Debbie Ryan. Connecticut’s Ann Strother and Barbara Turner, as well as Stanford’s Nicole Powell, will join the Tulsa, Okla. native for the August 2-9 tournament in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. “I think playing against the great post players that are on the team and practicing against these girls every single day is going to help me when the season starts next year,” Tillis said. “When you play against the best of the best, you can’t help but raise your level of intensity.” The only other Blue Devil invited to the tryouts, sophomore Mistie Bass, was not selected for either team. However, Bass’s teammates believe that the four days of basketball were an important learning experience for her. “This is a great experience for anyone,” Beard said. “Just being here will boost Mistie’s confidence. I saw improvement in her game after the first day, and it gave her a chance to see things that she needs to work on.”

SAMUEL from page 11 top 10 players in NBA for the first time, and it was agreed that the Lower Merion High School graduate’s best basketball days were ahead of him. Those two young guns were led by already six-time NBA champion head coach Phil Jackson, who used his triangle offense to finally get the Lakers to the pinnacle for the first time since 1988. So with its two best players and coach at their peak performance, how did their great run end three years later in a lopsided loss to the San Antonio Spurs in game six of the Western Conference Quarterfinals? One factor is that the 2000 season was not the beginning of O’Neal’s prime, but the end. While many still consider O’Neal the best player in the NBA, because of an innumerable number of problems with his feet, O’Neal no longer can take over every game at any time. In addition, because of health problems Jackson no longer can use the same deceptive energy he demonstrated when he led his teams to nine championships in 12 of his coaching seasons. But the health problems that have diminished Jackson’s and O’Neal’s talents have been some what balanced by the emergence of Bryan’s dominance. Unlike many athletes in modem sports, Bryant has lived up to his gigantic hype by averaging 30 points per game this season, and improved that average by over two points in the playoffs. So with the Lakers big three—Bryant, O’Neal and Jackson—still dominant, though not to the same extent as in 2000, why are the Lakers no longer a dominant team? The person most responsible is Lakers’ General Manager Mitch Kupchak. While no one expected Kupchak to be as good as his predecessor Jerry West, no one expected him to be this bad. Kupchak seems to have learned almost nothing

from the greatest mentor he could have possibly had. During the three consecutive championships the Lakers won earlier this decade, West always surrounded Bryant and O’Neal with veteran role players such as Ron Harper, Glen Rice and Horace Grant. These players were not replaced when they decided to retire, and the Lakers’ other role players like Rick Fox, Brian Shaw and Robert Horry have aged passed their usefulness. While these current role player problems seem easily remedied in the free-agent market, the future ofthe big three seems far more perilous than even a year ago. O’Neal’s injuries could have him out of basketball within two years, and Jackson, who missed games because ofkidney and heart problems, is yet to commit to coach next season. It seems the Lakers, who were called the team of the decade a season ago, will have won their last championship before the interval was even half over.

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Last weekend was an important one for the men’s basketball program. Four of the nation’s top ten recruits in the class of 2007 were in the Durham area for the BeActive Tournament of Champions, a high school tournament that was played on the campuses of Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State. Headlining the group was Duke commit DeMarcus Nelson, a 6-foot-3 guard from California who gave a verbal commitment to the Blue Devils during the summer before his junior year of high school. Nelson had the third-highest scoring average at the tournament with nearly 24 points per game. The leading scorer with 26 points per contest was Greg Paulus, a 6-foot-2 point guard from New York who is being heavily recruited by every major program in the country, including Duke and North Carolina. Other Duke recruits that performed well were Shaun Livingston, a 6-foot-8 player that can alternate between point guard and small forward; Sebastian Telfair, a 6-foot-1 point guard and the cousin of former-Georgia Tech star and current NBA All-Star Stephen Marbury; Dave McClure, a 6-foot-5 wing player from Connecticut; and Dwight Howard, a 6-foot-10 power forward from Georgia.

Track and field to compete at regional meet 13 women and six men will represent the track and field teams at the East Regional this weekend in Fairfax, Va. Duke’s women will be participating in a total of nine events, while the men will compete in three. The Blue Devils qualified for the meet by matching or surpassing times that were set prior to the season. Duke’s top female sprinter and multi-event schoolrecord-holder, Janay McKie, is entered in the 400 and 200meter races, as she is the only Blue Devil competing in multiple events this weekend. Other female participants include Heidi Hullinger, Clara Horowitz and Laura Stanley in the 5,000-meter run; Meaghan Leon and Sally Meyerhoff in the 1,500-meter run; Lauren Matic and Shannon Rowbury in the 800-meter run; Jenna Turner in the 400-meter hurdles; Alison Nesbit in the

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Miami begins talks about possible ACC expansion The University of Miami’s executive committee met Wednesday for a discussion regarding a possible move to the ACC from the Big East. In addition, three members of the ACC will conduct site visits of Miami’s campus Thursday through Saturday. USA Today reported Monday that ACC representatives are also expected to visit Boston College and Syracuse, the two CLASS OF 2007 COMMIT DEMARCUS NELSON poured additional schools that were in an average of nearly 24 points over the weekend. invited to join the ACC by the conference. However, ACC officials are keeping the dates ofthe visits confidential Also, Miami football coach Larry Coker expressed his hope that Miami and Florida State would be in opposite divisions in the new 12-team ACC. The advantage of being in opposite divisions is that the two football powers could continue their annual rivalry, with the loser still being able to win their division See NOTEBOOK on page 16 -JhTiXwTiTT

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a 74 in round three “It was up and down and then up

a11...” Janangelo said. “I want to go out there and play my best because that is going to help out the team. My goal was to climb up individually so I could help out the team.” AazamNiloufar Sophomore Zanganeh’s recovered after four straight bogeys on holes six through nine to shoot a back-nine 34, two-under par. She concluded the third round with a birdie putt on 18 to finish with a 74. “I knew I could do much better than that...” Aazam-Zanganeh said. “I gave everything that I had. It’s a tough course and the pin positions are hard especially with the wind so you really need to be focused on every shot and that’s what I tried to do today.” Aazam-Zanganeh finished the last day five over par and tied for 55th overall. Nirapathpongpom started out day three at two-under par with a chip-in birdie on hole No. 4, but a quadruple bogey on No. 9 and a shot in the rocks on No. 13 increased her score to fiveover par. She then came back to birdie three of the last four holes to end with

BASEBALL from page 12 The victory was manufactured in two parts: a seven-run second inning from Duke’s offense, and a stellar pitching performance from sophomore

Tim Layden. “Every time you step onto the field, you have something to prove,” Layden said. “And, regardless of your record or ERA, you are going to go out there and battle. Today, I just basically did that and went out there and threw out the

again today,” Nirapathpongpom said. “I am happy with the way I finished [round three].” Unfortunately for Nirapathpongpom, the tournament ended on a down note. She fired a birdie-less 76 on her last day

to finish tied for 11th. Indiana native Leigh Anne Hardin ended her homecoming with two straight rounds of 74, en route to a 66th-place individual finish. Senior Kristina Engstrom concluded her Duke career by firing a 79, her best round of the tournament. Despite Duke’s disappointing finish at the championships, the women’s golf program has much to look forward to next season, as four of the team’s top five players return. In addition, the Blue Devils will add one of the nation’s top recruiting classes in 2004. This should add up to another top-five preseason ranking for Brooks’ squad. “We will come out okay from this,” Brooks said. “You never know, sometimes these kind of things make you stronger for the future.” stats and record book and pitched and got the ball down.” Layden struck out a career high eight eight batters, as he held the Tigers to just one run in the first six innings. “Tim Layden is the main reason we are sitting here as winners,” Hillier said. In the second inning onslaught, Duke played opportunistically, capitalizing on two Clemson errors and a pair of basesloaded walks. In addition, Layden and senior Troy Caradonna each had two hits, while senior Brian Patrick collected two RB 's with a two-run single.

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ALL-AMERICAN PHILLIP KING was unable to advance to the final four in singles or doubles. opening round. The duo finished the season with a 21-4 record. Ultimate Frishee beats Michigan, Delaware at nationals The women’s club ultimate frisbee team defeated Michigan and Delaware as they held its No. 12 national ranking at the National Championships in Texas last weekend. Duke dropped games to lowa, Brown, the University of Califomia-San Diego and Stamford. Billy King promoted to team

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Former Duke basketball star Billy King, the general manager ofthe Sixers for the past five years, was promoted to team president following the resignation of head coach and vice president of basketball operations, Larry Brown. “Billy King has developed a leaguewide reputation as one of the best and brightest young executives in the game today,” Sixers chairman Ed Snider told the Inquirer of Philadelphia Tuesday.

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THURSDAY, MAY 29 Bpm. "Nod to the 90s: Five Centuries of Harpsichord Music." Conceived and performed by Elaine Funaro, harpsichordist, regarded as one of the leading performers of new music for harpsichord. Kirby-Horton Hall in the Doris Duke Center, Duke Gardens main entrance. For tickets, call (919) 684-4444 or visit tickets.duke.edu. Performance;

Symposium: 8:30-4. Suffer The Children: Caring for Children at the End of Life. Griffith Theatre, Bryan Student Center. A day-long symposium focusing on the care of children at the end of life. Join parents and health care professionals, experts in bereavement counseling, and advocates for the well being of children and families.

FRIDAY, MAY 30 Continuing Education Course: 9am-4pm, 1 Friday. Reflecting On Leadership In A Changing World. Center for Documentary Studies, Library. Pre-registration required. Visit our web page www.learnmore.duke.edu for details and online registration, or call 919-684-6259.

Continuing Education Course: 10am-3pm, 1 Friday. E-Philanthropy & Small Nonprofits; Using The Internet To Maximize Fundraising! Bay C, Erwin Square Mill Building, 2024 W. Main Street, Computer Lab. Pre-registration required. Visit our web page www.learnmore.duke.edu for details and online registration, or call 919-684-6259.

SATURDAY, MAY 31

Joann Gaddy Grimes Bike and Walk to Fight Cancer: Sam, Registration for bikers, 9:3oam, Registration for Walkers. Hagan Stone Park,

Duke Events Calendar Duke Proceeds benefit the Greensboro. Comprehensive Cancer Center. For more information, visit bike4duke.org or call Michele Wittman at (919) 403-4316.

MONDAY, JUNE 2

Continuing Education Course: 1-spm, 1 Saturday. Exploring the Literary Magazine Market. The Bishop's House 101. Pre-registration required. Visit our web

Kewaunee Lecture: 2-3 pm. The University Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering Kewaunee Lecture by Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Whitaker Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Operation of the EOF Receptor System; A Bioengineering Approach." CBTE Poster Session and Reception, Hall of Science, Levine Science Research Center. Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center. Contact: jmberry@acpub.duke.edu.

SUNDAY, JUNE 1

Exhibition: During library hours, through July 15. "Wesley in America" is an exhibit highlighting the ministry of JohnWesley, founderof Methodism, in America. Divinity School Library. Contact (919) 660-3567.

page www.learnmore.duke.edu for details and online registration, or call 919-684-6259. Do you have poems, short stories, personal essays, short memoir pieces that you are ready to send out into the world for publication, but don’t know where to send them? Chancel Choir Spring Concert: 3pm. Schubert’s “Mass in G” and works by Haydn, Brahms, V. Williams. Free. Donation collected. United Church of Chapel Hill, 1321 Airport Road. Call 968-3914 for info. Gardens Class: 2-4pm. Summer Pruning. Durham Co. Master Gardeners will discuss how and what to prune in the home garden. Adult classroom, Doris Duke Center. Contact Alice LeDuc, aleduc@duke.edu, www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens.This workshop is free, but registration is requested. Gardens Event: 6-Bpm. An Evening Walk in the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum. Paul Jones, horticulturist of the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum, will lead this walk. Meet at the front of the Doris Duke Center. Contact: aleduc@duke.edu, LeDuc, Alice www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens.This event is free, but registration is requested.

TUESDAY, JUNE 3 Gardens Class: 7-9pm. Conserve Water and Simplify Your Life: How to Install Drip Irrigation. Learn how to install a drip irrigation system with Stefan Bloodworth, Blomquist horticulturist. Fee, $lO (for Friends of Duke Gardens): $l5, general public. Adult classroom, Doris Duke Center. Contact: Alice LeDuc, aleduc@duke.edu,

www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens. Performance: 7pm. "Garden Music Al Fresco" Mallarm6 Chamber Players Wind Quintet. Angle Amphitheater at the Doris Duke Center, Duke Gardens main entrance. Event URL: www.duke.edu/web/dia. For tickets, call (919) 684-4444 or visit tickets.duke.edu.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 7 Community Yard Sale: 7:00-noon. Trinity Heights, Old West Durham, Walltown and Trinity Park are hosting a community yard sale near East Campus. Asbury Church parking lot (Markham & Clarendon). Please join us. If interested in selling your treasures, contact Pat at 236-9977 or Risa at risafoster@aol.com (refreshments will also be on sale). Come meet your neighbors and dig for deals.

SUNDAY, JUNE 8 Performance: 7pm. Vocal Arts Ensemble. Duke West Event URL: Campus. www.duke.edu/web/dia. For tickets, call (919) 6844444 or visit tickets.duke.edu.

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Bush’s radical worldview

Revisit sit-down dining Closure of Oak Room opens the door for new dining space, options for student groups

an unfortunate but necessary action, officials recently announced the closure of the Oak Room, which has lost money for many years. In spite of the restaurant’s departure, there remains a need for a fine dining facility on campus. In the coming months, officials must reassess the campus dining culture and provide a new restaurant for

faculty, students and staff who desire upscale dining without having to travel off campus. Foremost, officials must recognize that the demise ofthe Oak Room was the result of a combination of mediocre food, poor accessibility and a bland atmosphere, and not of a lack of demand for fine dining. Admittedly, the pace of life at Duke has endowed more and more people with the “grab and go” mentality associated with Subway or the Great Hall. However, situations like faculty dinners, student-faculty meals or gatherings of large numbers of students or staff will always necessitate the presence of a sit-down dinner spot on campus. Many people would often opt to eat on campus rather than driving to off-campus restaurants or paying steep prices at the Washington Duke Inn. In order for a new eatery to be successful, it must create the feel of an off-campus restaurant, while catering to the specific quirks of Duke students. Most importantly, it must offer payment on points, and be situated so as to be more accessible than the Oak Room, with indoor and open-air seating. At the same time, there should be an effort to lend the restaurant some semblance of a firm identity, whether that be by assigning a particular theme to the menu, like Italian or Mediterranean, or by decorating to unify the menu and the atmosphere. Preferably, the new eatery should be built in a prominent location, along the BC walkway. Regardless, a moderately-priced fine dining facility should be a component ofthe proposed Student Village. The Oak Room’s departure will also benefit two growing campus organizations. The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture will move from the basement ofthe West Union Building into the space vacated by the Oak Room, while the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life will move from the second floor of the Flowers Builing into the West Union basement. Leaders at the Mary Lou Williams Center have acknowledged the symbolic importance of moving from a relatively obscure loation to such a prominent spot on campus. The LGBT center is happy with their new basement loaction, as it will allow people to enter and leave discreetly. Members of both groups say the moves will give their respective staffs more meeting, work and programming space. The loss of the Oak Room brings an end to one ofDuke dining’s longstanding traditions, and creates a void in dining services that may remain unfilled for a long period of time. However, the benefits of a potentially revamped fine dining facility, combined with the added space provided to the Mary Lou Williams and LGBT Centers, make the Oak Room’s closure a positive building block for the future.

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ATLANTA George W. Bush was elected as a conservative but governs as a radical. And in the end, most radicals prove to be failures.

Jay Bookman Guest Commentary But the exceptions to that rule-well, they change the world, often for the better. Certainly, the president does not lack confidence in his goals. Rather than preserve the status quo or tinker at the margins, he and his advisers are pursuing an agenda of dramatic transformation that would inspire awe under any circumstances. But coming from an administration that just 30 months ago drew fewer votes than its main challenger, the ambition is even more impressive. In fact, the scope of proposed change is difficult to even describe. Tax cuts last year, tax cuts this year, tax cuts next year, too—and forget about deficits. Reward success, punish failure, at least for those outside the corporate boardroom. Unshackle the wealthy; shrink government. Drive the middle and working classes to become more productive by dismantling the social safety net and exposing

them to the discipline of the market. Make private enterprise, not government, the primary provider of services from the education of our children to the income security of our elderly. Loosen and in some cases remove altogether the regulatory handcuffs that restrain corporate power in fields ranging from environmental protection to labor relations to media ownership. And while we abandon the top-down, “command and control” system ofregulation here at home, we build exactly that kind of system internationally, with the United States sitting unchallenged in the seat of global power. Still unsettled, though, is whether the Bush revolution will actually work. The most influential president of the 20th century, Franklin Roosevelt, made the Democrats the dominant party only because his programs succeeded. In a crisis situation, the only “ism” that held much interest for Roosevelt was pragmatism. If it worked, he did it. This is a different case entirely. President

Bush is taking ideologies that have been nurtured in the intellectual hothouses of right-wing think tanks, and is trying to make them bear fruit out here in the cold,

cruel world.

Politically, that has its advantages. As we’ve seen, true believers can be incredibly energetic and insistent, recognizing no legitimate obstacle to implementing their vision. Eventually, though, policies succeed or fail on their own merits. And in this case, the ideology that motivates the Bush administration seems unlikely to work over the long term because it does not seem grounded in the real world as many of us know it. For example, globalization and highspeed communication have made the world economy more volatile and unpredictable. In such a fickle system, some people can suddenly and undeservedly be enriched, as were many during the dot-com era; others can just as suddenly and undeservedly be impoverished, as are many today. That instability seems permanent, not temporary. And in such an up-and-down economy, it hardly makes sense to weaken an already frayed social safety net. Nor does advocating such a step seem the pathway to permanent political power. The Bush foreign policy suffers a similar disconnect between ideology and reality. Trying to fight global terrorism by adopting a harsh unilateralism may make us feel more powerful as a nation, but it seems unlikely to succeed. Already, the illusions we harbored going into Iraq have begun to fade under its harsh desert sun. It is sobering to note that of the 164 U.S. military personnel killed so far in Iraq, 47 have died since Saddam’s statue was pulled down, the day the war was supposed to have been won. a •,/*■ i I accept the fact that in timer- the president and his ideological soulmates may be proved correct, but I also confess that I just don’t see how. In so many ways, his approach contradicts how I understand the world to work. It challenges my concepts of who we are as a nation and a people. According to the polls, most Americans don’t yet share those misgivings. Maybe they never will. We shall see. Jay Bookman is deputy editorial page edi-

tor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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“When you give [students] a place like Rick’s Diner where they have phone jacks and internet connections and give them a place that’s comfortable and close by, so they can walk over there in their pajamas—you can’t compete with that.” Durham Jimm\ John’s general manager Michael Farabee, on the late-night impact ofRiches Diner (see story, page 6).

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Economists

The symptoms of the poser

say that the middle class in the United States shrinks every year. As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, those left in the average income noman’s land struggle to come to grips with an American dream fading faster than the paint on a mid-90’s Ford Tempo. The storied middle-American ideal of the two-story house with the white picket fence in suburbia is no longer a fortress of solitude for the average man. It has become the cave of the unwilling hermit, hiding from the polarizing socio-economic forces that threaten to tear his world apart.

Andrew Waugh Guest Commentary As these pockets of brickfront/vinyl-sided housing break down across the United States and are replaced by mansions and tenements the middle class is sadly losing its identity. Children growing up in this climate, constantly being bombarded by the media with imagery of the rich and famous or the ghetto-fabulous, have no appreciation for the stable and comfortable lives they have been afforded. Rather, they are pulled towards one of those two glorified economic extremes. While these poor, misled children build up the facade ofrich or

poor with designer jackets, gaudy jewlery or baggy pants, they lack the soul and attitude of true members of the fringe social classes. Middle class kids are too poor to afford the vast wardrobe, expensive automobiles and pridefull recklessness of their upper class peers, and lack the grit and determination of their poorer ones that comes from years of struggle and street life. Unable to truly attain either goal, the children continue to try in vain, ultimately taking the most stereotypical aspects of their ideal and twisting and contorting them into a truly unique and evil middle class entity: the poser. Posers cluster around two modes on the graph of socio-economic wannabeism. Naturally, these two modes correspond to lower and upper class posers. Lower class posers, the more entertaining of the two groups, are those

scape, but their souls aren’t pockmarked with toil and want. Their Reebok Classics are a little too clean, their hair combed a little too straight, and their vocabularies a little too selfconsciously ignorant. Even a casual glance reveals that these poor fools wouldn’t last five minutes on the streets of a ghetto or the gravel paths of a trailer park. While lower-class posers cannot achieve the attitude of their idols, they can after a fashion achieve the style, which is sometimes enough to gain a minute amount of acceptance. Tragically, upper-class posers are unable to attain either the attitude or the style of their wealthier counterparts. Despite this ultimate futility, the upper-class poser remains a persistent fixture in the American adoles-

cent landscape. For entertainment,

these specimens enjoy fawning over

the ideal of great fame and fortune in middle class kids who spend their free such time-honored television shows as hours watching a crazy amalgam of Melrose Place and Beverly Hills, professional wrestling, NASCAR and 90210. Their mp3 players follow the MTV. The gigantic headphones hung dance pop mainstream of Christina around their oversized sports jerseys Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin blast gangsta rap or perhaps the latest Timberlake with a dash of Dave Linkin Park single direct from some Matthews and John Mayer for some useless pocket in the endless sea of slight rock credibility. cotton provided by enormous gray Though there are occasional outsweatpants. They are filled inside with bursts of designer clothing, the domia faux inner rage which mirrors the nant trend in rich posers is an attitude of anger, violence and hopeattempt at trying to appear down to lessness that pervades the urban landearth. Armed with either a leather

Jigglypuff domination Jigglypuff

domination! Eat it! David Arthur, rising Duke senior, has been playing Super Smash Brothers on his Nintendo GameCube for five hours. And now, as he nears the end of a climactic battle, Mr. Arthur delivers a decisive uppercut that sends three nasty opponents spiraling off the screen, sealing his victory (‘Jigglypuff” is his character of choice, on which more below). “Raaaaaaaa!” bellows Mr. Arthur. I asked to attend one of Mr. Arthur’s multiplayer gaming sessions at his jtiKKtok. Central Campus apartment so I could report on the cult sensation that is sweeping Duke and, indeed, much of the nation. I found Super Smash Brothers has volumes to say about the men and JHfJL women who play it, as well as the Jre&fr American culture in which we live. Mr. BIMk Arthur was a natural interview subject. Rob Goodman At age 21, David Arthur has already accomplished more than most of us will in a lifetime. He is a gifted mathematician; the nation’s top collegiate computer programmer, as winner of the 2003 TopCoder Challenge; and the owner of the thirdhighest grade-point average in the class of 2004. But the first thing one learns when talking to Mr. Arthur is that all these achievements are trifles. His one abiding passion: Smash (as aficionados know the

videogame). He describes Smash as “this game where all these old Nintendo characters, like Bowser and Donkey Kong, fight each other on historical Nintendo stages, like the castle from Zelda. For anyone who ever wondered who would win a fight between Mario and Link, it’s really an eye-opening experience.” This simple format has proved to be exceptionally addictive: Mr. Arthur says he spends 9 to 10 hours at Smash each day in order to keep his skills sharp and his senses at the ready. As for homework, “I really don’t have much time at all. It’s a good thing math is such an easy major.” Mr. Arthur is a self-taught Smash expert, having mastered Jigglypuff after months of intense training sessions. Jigglypuff, a floating, pink marshmallow-like object, assaults enemies with the “Sleep Attack,”

whereby she hovers over an opponent’s head and falls asleep, somehow in the process sending the victim fly-

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satchel bag from the Gap or a North Face jacket andbackpack, these posers dress religiously in plaid and khaki, piling on enough t-shirts to survive an arctic excursion. Their cell phones are packed to the brim with the numbers of people they barely know and will never call. And yet, despite the posers’ best efforts, the true upper class constantly finds ways to confound the attempts of posers to blend seamlessly in the atmosphere of fast money. Layers of clothing designers with varying prices force posers to surface like oil in water, while the constant opportunities to spend quickly reveal the limitations of the posers, forcing them into a state of open ridicule. Always conscious of their truncated funding, the upper class poser can never appropriately feign the innate attitude or muchenvied style of the truly rich. No easily conceived plan can rescue these children from the confusion of their doomed middle class existence. The best we can possibly hope for is to pray that when they enter the workplace and have children of their own, the tax bracket they enter will reflect an attitude and identity that kids can easily latch onto and emulate, lest they too spend their fives feeling isolated from the realm of cool.

Andrew Waugh is a Trinity junior and a Chronicle summer columnist.

the secret world of Smash

ing into oblivion. Mr. Arthur isn’t quite sure about the mechanics of this wonderously effective attack, but he says, “The fact that you can just destroy everybody by falling asleep is one of the most unique abilities in the world, and to be a meaningful part of that is truly

reaction to post-9/11 trauma. “We all know about the alleged link between video games and real-world violence,” says Duke psychology professor Allan Piersall, who has studied Smash in a laboratory setting. “But no videogame I’ve ever seen combines that violence with repressed homoerotic tension in the way that Super Smash Brothers does. I don’t know what these boys do when they stop playing and go home at the end of day, but I would by no means be surprised to find a correlation between Smash and instances of brutal sexual assault.” Dr. Piersall said that a more definitive conclusion would have to wait for the completion of

something special.” Asked if he had any long-term goals for improving his Smash performance, Mr. Arthur’s face, normally lit up with laughter, grew deadly serious. “This summer, I’m going to play the 99-minute Smash.” It turns out that Smash games are customizable to last anywhere between two and 99 minutes—but 99 minutes of uninterrupted Smash have never been further research. completed. I spoke to Dr. Ali Rafsanjani, an expert on This controversy aside, defenders of the game point to what they call its greatest societal benefit: its use as a Sufi mysticism at the University of Michigan and twotime Super Smash Brothers world champion, for some tool for the appreciation of diversity. Indeed, I can recall perspective. “David Arthur is attempting something no videogame with a more diverse cast of characters extremely dangerous,” says Dr. Rafsanjani. “No recordthan Smash. Players can choose from characters repreed game has ever broken the 70-minute mark, and all senting over 15 races—from humanoids to several varithose who tried to do so have been driven mad. But eties ofPokemon to “Kirby” who appears to be a sentient still it is believed that 99 continuous minutes of ball of red gas. Characters are equally divided between Smash would cause the player to enter a trance-like the genders, and any given match can be won by a male or a female (like Jigglypuff herself). Like all great art, state, enabling him to see the Face of God.” Smash appears to have a truly edifying effect: it helps That is indeed Mr. Arthur’s objective; but as he conplayers learn to respect our differences. tinues to put himself through rigorous training to pre“I know it sounds a bit silly, but every day when I pare himself, I decided to examine the game’s broader sociological implications. Though many seem to believe see Smash characters of all races and genders battling that Jigglypuff can do no wrong, I discovered in the on an equal playing field, it makes me a little more course of my research that Smash has a dark side. hopeful about the future of our fitfull world,” Mr. Most evident is the way the game channels sexual Arthur insists. “And it gives me the strength to try and aggression. During the five-hour session, Mr. Arthur make it a better place. When I see Star Fox [an anthroand his friends routinely threaten each other with pomorphic, cocky, spacecraft-piloting fox] and the Ice invasive sexual acts. To my count, opponents are Climbers [a pair of “very close” male mountaineers who instructed to “suck it” a total of 261 times (“it” referring fight as a tag team] being able to settle their differences with a fair fight, I just know there can be peace to a portion of the male anatomy). Defeated adversaries are frequently referred to as having been in the Middle East.” “reamed.” It’s a noble goal indeed. For generations, wars, international institutions, treaties, trade and acts of goodwill Smash aficionados downplay their game’s significance as a carnal metaphor. “Look, we don’t take any haven’t been able to afford men enough opportunity to of this seriously,” says Jonathan Wills, a rising senior come together and reconcile their differences. And if a and one of Mr. Arthur’s longtime Smash partners. simple videogame can bring us one step closer, I say— “What goes on in Pokemon Stadium [one of the stages Smash on. on which Smash battles occur], stays in Pokemon Stadium.” But some experts aren’t so sure; they see interest in Rob Goodman is a Trinity junior and a Chronicle Smash as emblematic of increased male hostility in summer columnist.

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