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University neutral on political discussions by Cindy Yee THE CHRONICLE

Since Sept. 11, 2001, many people have expressed support for “patriotic correctness” in higher education—a concept that discourages teachers from expressing dissent

Zaid Al-Husseini has all but stopped downloading music due to the recent spate of recording industry lawsuits.

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Download music? Call your lawyer. The recording industry has sued more than a thousand peer-to-peer music sharers, including many college students. Are you next? By Gabriel Chen The Chronicle •

Jaid Al-Husseini is frustrated He hails from Saudi Arabia, a place where albums by Britney Spears and N*SYNC may be purchased in stores but songs by his favorite artists —including Marvin Gaye and some techno acts—are harder to come by. With the rise of file sharing over the Internet, however, he has been able to obtain music that would otherwise be inaccessible. “I can download the rarer songs with Kazaa,” said Al-Husseini, a sophom

more. “Anything that sounds good, anything I hear on the radio, or songs

that my friends recommend.” Now Al-Husseini, who used to download about six songs a day, has cut back on his downloads, as the Recording Industry Association of America has begun threatening to sue students who use file sharing

programs. Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, released a letter to the public two weeks ago stating that the industry

would not target “de minimis” users. Instead, subpoenas would be sent to people who download “a substantial amount,” although the letter did not specify how much that is. Industry officials hope the campaign will scare students away from copying songs when they see classmates who have downloaded significant numbers of tracks getting slapped with lawsuits. SEE DOWNLOADING ON PAGE 9

from American foreign policy in the classroom. Members of the Duke community, however, say faculty members should be allowed to express personal opinions in an academic setting, at least to a degree. Many professors said there is no clear line between expressing an opinion and pushing a political agenda, but that faculty members have an obligation to separate fact and opinion if and when they express their own views in class. “We should have the right to express our views, but perhaps not the right to impose our views,” said Frederick Mayer, director of graduate studies for public policy studies. He added that faculty members must be careful not to punish students who take different views from their own. Provost Peter Lange echoed Mayer’s sentiment, saying faculty members should be able to express theirviews as long as students understand that differences of opinion will not influence how they are evaluated in the class. This sort of punishment, Lange said, would negate some of the positive effects of SEE ACADEMIC FREEDOM ON PAGE 7

Fuqua class increases by 60 by

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Even with a 17 percent jump in daytime MBA students it’s been business as usual at the Fuqua School ofBusiness, which started classes Monday. Amid some concern for “team Fuqua,” the school’s catch phrase commitment to a learning environment of cooperation over competition, Fuqua decided last year to add a sixth section of 60 students to the daytime master’s of business administration program—but the move has been highly successful, said James Gray, associate dean of marketing and communication. “When you add another 60 students...you want to make sure the quality is not diluted by going farther into the applicant pool,” Gray said. “And we were concerned about whether having another 60 students would make it a little less personal around here, but a lot of good work has been done by students, faculty and staff to make sure that we did well on both those counts.” By the usual objective measures, Fuqua has continued a streak of strong performance. This year’s matriculating

class of 405 daytime MBA students boasts a mean GMAT score of 704, up from last year’s 701; the average undergraduate GPA, however, went down from 3.59 to 3.39. “When you [add students], you always fear the quality is going to go down,” said Provost Peter Lange. “I think the quality has gone marginally up.” Associate professor Simon Gervais was optimistic about the entering class with regards to previous student performance. “On paper, [they’re] at least as good,” Gervais said. “If anything, there’s a slight improvement.” Gray said Fuqua plans to add more students again next year, making for a total of 120 new MBA spots in two years. ‘Typically, higher education is counter-cyclical,” professor Michael Bradley said. “When people find it’s difficult to get a job, they decide instead to increase their human capital and go back to school, and that’s what we’re seeing now.” Meanwhile, Fuqua, traditionally one of the smallest SEE FUQUA ON PAGE 9

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Iraq announces formation of cabinet by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq The Iraqi governing council Monday named a 25member Cabinet to begin taking over day-to-day control of the government, as tension grew between American officials and the council members over steps taken to protect them against assassination. The formation of an Iraqi Cabinet is regarded as an important first step in the effort to transfer authority to the Iraqis from the Americans, who have been intimately involved in running the government since former leader Saddam Hussein’s government

collapsed in April. The Iraqi ministers named Monday are to take over important posts like

foreign affairs, finance, internal security and oil. The group largely reflects the ethnic and religious makeup of the country, with a majority of Cabinet posts going to Shiite Muslims, the country’s largest religious group. ‘The Iraqis are going take over these ministries and run them,” said Ahmad Chalabi, the council chair. These are very independent people, and they are going to start issuing orders and conducting the affairs of state.” Yet even as the Iraqi officials began taking over the government, they

clashed with American administrators over the security issue. In a meedng Monday with the L. Paul Bremer, the top civilian administrator for the occupying forces, council members complained that the Americans were failing to protect them adequately. The meedng of council members and senior American officials had been called to discuss matters of Iraqi security—for the country’s sacred sites and for the country as a whole, as well as for the council members. Even in the aftermath of the deadly car bombings, some council members said, they were being left to protect themselves.

Libya search begins for missing American by

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MONROVIA, Liberia An intense search behind rebel lines is under way for an American believed to have been kidnapped and held hostage by Liberian dissidents. Officials from the U.S. Embassy here are trying to find Nabil Hage, a U.S. citizen and a prominent member of the tight-knit population of Lebanese who do business here. He served the embassy as a warden, part of a network of 15 volunteer neighborhood-watch officers. Hage has an extended family in Virginia. His father was killed here 13 years ago, caught in the crossfire between government and rebel forces.

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No one here knows if Hage is dead or alive. Members of the Lebanese population here say he was taken hostage and remains a captive, and that the rebels have sent ransom demands. The search for Hage has taken U.S. officials more than 20 miles behind the lines held by the rebel forces of the group called Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, or LURD. This is a rare, risky effort by the intensely security-conscious and understaffed embassy,.which has been evacuated under fire three times since 1990. There are no indications that the small contingent of U.S. marines stationed here are to become directly involved in the search.

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Venezuela court denies nixing Chavez Venezuela's high court denied ruling that President Hugo Chavez could not run if there are new elections, saying a statement purportedly from the court making that claim was a forgery.

China to relax foreign economic policies China is preparing to reduce incentives for exporters, increase purchases of U.S.Treasury bonds and loosen controls on foreign currency holdings to blunt pressure from the United States regarding its growing trade surplus.

Testing begins for new anthrax vaccine A new vaccine that launches a two-pronged at-

tack on anthrax—battling both the bacteria itself and the toxin it produces—is undergoing preliminary tests at Harvard Medical School.

U.N. considers lifting Libyan sanctions In the wake of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's offer to pay $2.7 billion to the families of the victims of the 1989 bombing of Pan Am 103, the U.N. Security Council is considering lifting the sanctions it imposed 11 years ago.

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sheds.... So I was down there measuring streams in the summer, the rainy season, close to the Amazon, but not really in there. But it’s still jungle and crazy so that was a great little bonus there. I'd measure widths TODAY'S and depths [of streams], take the water insects out and classify those—chemical analysis. It Emma Boa-Durgammah, junior DESTINATION: was. pretty crazy, throw lemons in water to Grant study tourism effects on measure the velocity and then chase after AMERICA the porters of Macchu Picchu them just ‘cause I didn't wanna lose them Cusco, Peru down the stream. “Now what the porters do is, when you go on the Inca trail, Another day, I went out to this community in this valley, like an hour and a half hike on a trail that was mud up to they're the ones who carry your bags, your tents, who cook for you, who basically make sure that you have a great trip. So my your knees. It's really a short hike but it takes so long because you're slippin' and slidin' in the mud everywhere. And project was to interview them on their working conditions, I really wanted to measure the rivers in the valley because their living conditions and also what it is that they get paid. the land above it was less interfered with. So I come in, SEE OH, THE PLACES ON PAGE 8 spend the night. The first day I'm out there measuring a

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Briefs Duke giving rebounds

Donors contributed $296,827,306 in charitable gifts to the University between July 1, 2002, and June 30, 2003, as the University bounced back after donations flagged in a post-Sept. 11 recession climate. The total was more than $32 million—or 12.2 percent—above the previous year’s total. The nearly $297 million received is eclipsed only by donations given in 1999-2000,when more than $3OO million was received. Among specific donors, the Annual Fund set a new record with about $19.5 million of the overall total, more than $1 million more than last year. The Duke Endowment, with gifts totaling $42.4 million, was the largest single donor.

Emeriti affairs position announced

Provost Peter Lange announced that Patty McHenry has been named to a new position ofassistant for emeritus affairs, effective July 1, to aid emeritus faculty with issues as they arise. The position came out of a wish list advanced to Lange by a retirement committee, headed by sociology professor Angela O’Rand. The Provost announced his approval of the request to the faculty at the March 21 meeting of the Academic Council. Emeritus faculty are expected to go through McHenry only if their questions or problems cannot be resolved through their department chair or dean.

Hamilton to speak at Divinity convocation

Adam Hamilton, pastor ofThe Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kan., one of the fastest growing United Methodist congregations, will give the keynote address at the Divinity School convocation Oct. 14. Hamilton was named in 2000 by Religion and Ethics Newsweekly as one of the ‘Ten People to Watch” in shaping the country’s spiritual landscape and was recognized as the Distinguished Evangelist of the United Methodist Church by the Foundation for Evangelism. Other speakers at the convocation will include Divinity School professor Richard Lischer, North Carolina bishop Michael Curry and Dallas pastor George Mason.

Science professors earn awards Cell biology professor Thomas Mclntosh will receive the Avanti Award in Lipids Feb. 16 for his contributions to membrane lipid biophysics. He will be honored by the Biophysical Society at its annual meeting in Baltimore. Adam Wax, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been selected to receive a 2003 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Asso-

ciated Universities for his research in early detection of cancer using light scattering and interferometry.

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OSAF narrows director search by

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After undergoing a complete physical and organizational overhaul this summer, the newly revamped Office of Student Activities and Facilities is preparing to hire a full-time director. Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Zoila Airall, who is heading the OSAF on an interim basis, said a job offer has been extended to a “very competitive” candidate and that the directorship should be filled by Oct. 15 at the latest. The Office ofStudent Activities merged with the Event Advising Center effective Aug. 1, forming the OSAF. Groups seeking to reserve space in the Bryan Center and other locations now go through the combined office instead of shutding between the OSA and the EAC for authorization. “It’s much more consolidated,” said Assistant Director for Student Affairs Brian Denton. “People are not running back and forth between the two offices. There’s much better communication because we’re all together.” The OSAF’s new director will be intimately involved in planning for the new West Campus student village, Airall said, and will be “the key person” for village programming. Also joining the student activities staff with the merger is Roger Belanger, coordinator for space management and planning, who will work extensively on the village project.

Airall said there are still kinks to be worked out and that the OSAF still needs to communicate information about the new system to some student groups, but that the transition has been relatively smooth. Some space on campus must be reserved through other offices, since some of the events management operation is still lumped in with Auxiliary Services. Academic rooms must be reserved through the Registrar’s Office, for example, and events in or around residence halls require registration with Residential Life and Housing Services. “We can’t be an ultimate one-stop shop,” Denton said, “but we can at least give people the resources to know everybody they need to talk to.” The OSAF also spruced up its advising for clubs last spring with a new website, co-sponsored by Duke Student Government, called Student Organization Advising Resources On-line. SOAR includes topics like “Starting an Organization,” “Motivating Members,” and “Effective Email Communication.” Airall said the OSAF will be educating groups and their advisors in a series of workshops designed to improve organizations’ effectiveness. A project for club presidents, treasurers and one additional member each will aid these officials with strategies for operating a student organization, and advisor orientation will follow. SEE OSAF ON PAGE 7

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A student reported that at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 27, he left his $9O Evidence textbook, $4O Problems in Evidence textbook and two textbooks with unknown titles valued at $B5 in the School of Law library carrel 2C16 while he attended class and lunch. When he returned at 1:30 p.m. his items were gone. In a separate incident, a student reported that he ordered some textbooks sometime during the first week of August. The books, valued at $209, arrived during the second week of August. They were placed in the mailroom located on the third floor of Perkins Library. When he went to pick up the books Aug. 24, they were missing.

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DSG brings back nat'l newspapers By Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE

What’s black and white and read in some places? The newspaper readership program returns to campus Tuesday, providing free copies of The New York Times, USA-Today and The Herald-Sun of Durham at various locations. However, community members looking forward to picking up their favorite national paper at its usual location may have to search a little further than last year. While the newspapers were previously available in manylocations around campus, including the Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Levine Science Research Center and West-Edens Link walkway, this year they will only be available at the West Union, the Bryan Center, the main bus stop ofCentral Campus and the Marketplace. Even then, students who wait until late in the day may find themselves staring at an empty kiosk due to a lower paper-per-kiosk ratio. Citing a lack of financial support from the University, senior Rick Garcia, Duke Student Government director of student services, explained that with DSG footing the bill for the majority of the program’s costs, the newspapers would be available only in a few key locations on campus and in smaller quantities. While the Alumni House, the Bassett Fund and the Duke University Union have each donated around $l,OOO, DSG is spending over $20,000 to keep the program afloat. “Whatbothers me a lot is that there is so much talk at Duke about increasing the intellectual climate outside the classroom and while we have this plan that affects so many students, it is not being picked up by the administration,” Garcia said.

To help solve financial concerns, DSG President MattSlovik hopes to institutionalize the program, created in 2000 by President Nan Keohane exclusively for East Campus residents, and see it continue in the fliture. ‘This is a program here to stay,” Slovik said. .“It is just a question of how big of a program this is going to be.” Even with the cuts, Slovik and Garcia were quick to point out what they felt were the benefits the program provides students. ‘The program aids the intellectual experience inside and outside of the classroom,” Slovik said. “It keeps people informed about world news and enhances classroom discussions.” According to a USA-Today survey administered to 250 Duke students in the spring, 94 percent of students thought the newspaper program should be continued and 70 percent said the were more likely to pick up the papers because of the program. “I think [the kiosks] will continue to be empty by the end of the day and hopefully the administration will see that and take the numbers to heart,” Garcia said. After finding little support from the senior administration, Garcia said he approached the public policy studies department about helping to foot the bill for the program in Sanford, but to no avail. Still, students and faculty members were disappointed with the news that there will not be a kiosk in Sanford, which averaged a daily consumption around 88 papers last year, about double the average daily consumption for the Central Campus kiosk. “I read the paper anyway, I just found it very convenient to pick it up here,” public policy professor of the practice Professor

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A kiosk for Duke Student Government's newspaper program sits in its office. Art Spengler said. “I’ll just have to buy it, it’s not worth running across campus.” Public policy studies major Tommy Swanhaus echoed Spengler’s sentiments. T don’t have any classes on Main West so that will limit my readership. I won’t go all the way over there just for a free paper,” he said, adding that he is an off-campus senior who would have to search for parking or walk some distance. Senior Dominique Ramirez pointed out the contradictory nature of the lack offree papers in Sanford. “Sanford is a pretty popular place for people to relax between classes or discuss tilings,” she said. “Having papers there to read would seem like something PPS majors would really enjoy.”

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expressing personal opinions in class, such as the generation of discussion on a particular topic. Many professors have put their careers on the line by allegedly allowing their political views in the classroom. For example, a part-time instructor at Citrus College near Los Angeles was removed from teaching a course last spring after students said she offered extra credit for writing letters to President George W. Bush opposing the war with Iraq. Duke’s own policies on freedom of expression in academia have not stirred as much controversy as those at other schools. However, in March, members of the cultural anthropology department used department funds to publish an advertisement in The Chronicle disapproving of the war with Iraq. Provost Peter Lange notified the faculty that it was against the University’s responsibilities under the federal tax code for one ofits departments to pay for a political advertisement. Lange said he was not opposed to faculty members expressing their views in the classroom, and that a universal policy banning such would be inappropriate. Many professors agreed with Lange’s sentiments. “There may be some topics where it is appropriate for the instructor to air his political views, and some topics where it is not. We would need a case-by-case determination of what is appropriate,” said Tad Schmaltz, director of graduate studies for philosophy. “The administration is probably safest to be as open as possible to different ways of teaching, rather than enforcing a particular model.” Schmaltz added that theadministration might want to step in only in cases where the professor’s views can be construed as threatening: “The relevant yardstick is not what a teacher’s political views are, but whether there’s some sort of coercion or harassment going on.” Many noted that the expression of personal 01 dons in class

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is not only inevitable but also desirable. a conversation, moving the conversation “It’s inevitable that each of us comes to forward rather then being partisan,” the class with certain political beliefs and Grant said. “But that doesn’t mean there backgrounds,” Mayer said. “I don’t push aren’t some cases where a professor mine, and I’m careful to say that there are should speak up.” other legitimate beliefs, but I believe it’s imStudents seemed to be of thh same portant for students to know where I’m mind, saying faculty members can express their personal opinions in class as long as coming from. This is not because I’m trying to persuade them, but because it emthey also leave room for other views. powers them to make a judgment about “[Expressing their opinions] is okay, but what I’m saying.” they shouldn’tbe closed off to the political Mayer noted, however, that some ofhis opinions they disagree with,” said sophocolleagues believe it best that professors more Sarah Bennett They should keep an not reveal personal beliefs in class—politiopen mind and encourage students to do cal or otherwise. the same.” Ruth Grant, political science profesEmma Wallace, a sophomore, said she sor and chair of the faculty council for thought professors’ views were an importhe Kenan Institute for Ethics, said it is tant part of a college education. most important that teachers create an “We’re coming to college to be exatmosphere where students feel their posed to different ideas, and if our professors aren’t allowed to express their opinions are valid. “It’s probably best for professors to see own ideas, then why are we coming to themselves as facilitators or moderators of class?” she said.

OSAF

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“We had a lot of the pieces [of good advising in the old OSA] but it wasn’t a smoothrunning operation, so we needed to make some changes,” Airall said. “The goal was to make sure that all organizations are getting the same information, and getting it in a timely manner. We wanted students to be good leaders.” The ultimate manifestation of the revitalized OSAF is the major renovation of its physical office space. The space, located in the Bryan Center, received a new carpet and paint job and its offices were reconfigured over the summer.

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You can't just go and talk to anybody and expect them to be open with you. So when I wTent the first week to talk to the porters, they almost thought I was from an agency, because that’s something they have to fear. The porters run the risk of losing their job. I think that being black in that case made it easier for them to relate to me 'cause I was darker and there are not that many black people in Cusco. Another cool thing is that Cusco has a black Jesus. As soon as you enter the Cathedral, you make a right and right there you have a black Jesus. They look at you in a positive light ifyou're [black and] not from Brazil or Peru. Me saying I'm from the US definitely helped a lot. In Cusco, people from the US are appreciated and welcomed. From a porter's perspective, the US tourist are the ones who tip the most, who bring clothes and blankets. European tourists tend to be more stingy. I got altitude sickness... on the Inca trail. As you're approaching 4200 meters the oxygen gets lower and lower and lower. I get to the top and it started hailing and it started snowing. I was cold, I had on a wool jacket that was getting soaked, was not a happy camper, and I was running out of breath. I asked the guide to find the person with the oxygen tank but that person was two hours ahead of us on the trail. It was so intense that I had to walk for four minutes then rest for three. The thing about the Inca trail, you look up the stairs and all you see are stairs. Like there's no end, you feel as though you will not ever get out of the situation. The nice thing is that every morning we were awakened by a porter. They knock at your tent, you unzip it and they give you tea: coca, chamomile—anything you want in terms of tea, they have it.”

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“My favorite part of the trip was when we on a week-long medical brigade. We jumped in a boat and boated up the river. We would travel anywhere from four to eight hours a day, just in the boat. And then we would stop along the way. We'd dock on the riverbank, I don't know if dock is the right

embargo and stuff. But regardless, even if they think I'm from Spain or from France, these people would yell out random countries, ‘SPAIN, FRANCE, ENGLAND,’ depending on how bad the Spanish I was speaking was. I think a lot of times I was seen as money and not a person from another place. Once people found out that I was American it usually did turn over into idle curiosity. Like, ‘I wanna know about this place [the United States] that I hear so much about.’ I was at this outdoor market—it was kind of a tourist trap—and people were asking where I was from and that kind of stuff. Finally I told them the US and the [vendor I was talking to] had already told me how much the price was for a tablecloth I was thinking about buying. So I'm like, ‘Ah, I guess the price goes up now.’ And she was like, ‘No, we like Americans and we like for you to come.’ She said the same thing that everybody says, that ‘the American people are very different from the American government. We love the American people, we really like Americans. We don't like the American government.’”

that. That was cool ‘cause it was just in the boat and nature. One time we docked and had to still walk two hours to get to the communities. These were very, very remote areas. It was good to do that kind of service, but I saw that more as social service, short term kind of stuff. Having antibiotics only lasts so long and then the public health seminars [we were giving] were trying to effect systemic change. A big part of our program was working with the children in the community. Since our house was a little bit nicer than other houses in the community, it [served as] a community center. And so the children, they [live in] houses and stuff, but they're just always in the street because there's not a lot of space. So they would come over all the time and we would sing songs with them, feed them sometimes, take care of them. Just give them attention you know, hold them, play with them. The kids were a very important part of the experience because it was kind of like doing justice... we did all these seminars that were bigger ideas of justice. But it was really being in solidarity with the people, like living as a person does out there to understand where the problems come from, to be with the children, to be as a child with them and also then to be almost as like a parent. It was a really good experience in getting a less censored view of poverty and also of humanity.”

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word. And we'd unload and go work with very, very small communities that don't have access to getting to any kind of larger community. That's when we'd do the vaccinations and the [child] weighing and stuff like

Tyler McCormick, junior Casa de las Americas Havana, Cuba “They see you walking down the street and go, "Oh, white guy!" They think you're from Eu-

rope or from Canada or someplace like that. Usually people wouldn't guess US because of the

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DOWNLOADING RIAA has now issued more than 1,145 subpoenas to Internet service providers—such as Comcast, Adelphia, RCN and Time Warner—across the United States. The subpoenas demand the ISPs hand over contact information of the users the RIAA is targeting. Chris Cramer, information technology security officer for the Office of Information Technology, said it was certainly possible for Duke students to be sued for copyright

infringement.

“While Duke has not received any subpoenas ordering us to identify students, several other universities—including [the University of California at Los Angeles], [the University of California at Berkeley] and [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] —have,” Cramer said. “This may be a prelude to a lawsuit against those students.” Cramer said OIT does not track or monitor student downloads or usage of person-to-person transfers. The office also does not scan for P2P traffic or attempt to monitor for copyright infringement. ‘The RIAA would like for us to do this; however, we believe that it violates students’ privacy,” Cramer said. “But we do pass along notices of alleged copyright infringement from copyright holders to the students to which the notice refers.” He added that OIT will continue stressing to students that copyright infringement is illegal and consumes Duke’s bandwidth. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said Duke has not yet decided what it would do if a student were to be named in a lawsuit.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that provides legal counsel and assistance to users of new technologies, has developed a website that allows users wondering if their file-sharing username may have been subpoenaed by the RIAA to check their IP address or username with the Washington D.C. District Court’s publicly available database. The website of the donor-supported membership organization can be found at www.eff.org/IP/P2P/riaasubpoenas/. It also includes useful tips on how not to get sued by the RIAA for file sharing; many of the tips are in fact links to OlT’s website. Although no Duke students have appeared yet on the RIAA’s list, students like Louisa Watkins said they are now more careful when they download their songs. “I sign on as little as possible and download less frequently,” said Watkins, a Junior. “I’m happy with the music collection I have, and I’d rather just listen to those MP3s.”

top-tier business schools, has moved past competitor Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in size. And while several peer institutions saw a decline in applications of 10 to 20 percent, Fuqua lost only about 2 percent. The $27 million Fox Student Center, which opened last month, has helped to accommodate the larger student body, Gray said. Faculty numbers Jiave shot up as well, from 69 to 99 over the past three years. Several departments have expanded sharply—the finance department, for instance, added seven faculty, more than doubling the number, Bradley said. Women comprise 30 percent of this year’s class; minorities, 20 percent. Twenty-two percent hail from the Northeast; 10 percent, from the Midwest; 9 percent, from the Mid-Atlantic; twenty percent, from the West or Southwest; and 13 percent, from the South. International students make up 26 percent. Andrew Collins contributed to this story.

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Show me the results In Jerry Maguire, a staple of the college DVD collection, Tom Cruise sweats through the night writing a mission statement—25 pages of coffee-filled 8.5., a statement for the future, a Duke public policy memo, what have you. It was called “The Things We Think and Do Not Say,” Jerry’s honest vision for his fellow sports agents. In October 2002, after two “encouraging” wins by the Duke football team, athletic director Joe Alieva released his own mission statement. For his title, Alieva went with “Rebuilding Duke Football.” The right sentiment was there: an acknowledgment that it was finally time for the forever-crumbling football team to shape up. Alieva and Nan Keohane released the statement together, pledging to take it a bit easier on admissions standards, to give coaches fatter contracts and to let rich alums help out in the recruiting process (without tampering with the NCAA’s regulations, of course). Now this mission statement got some serious fanfare, just like Jerry did. In the movie, Jerry comes to the hotel lobby the next morning to a round of applause. One of his peers yells, “Finally, someone said it!” But two others in the corner mutter, “How long you give him?” “Ehh, about a week.” Jerry lost his job a few scenes later. Well I don’tknow if Joe Alieva’s seen Jerry Maguire, but he might want to get the hint that mission statements are as fluffy as their name sounds. He might want to get started on an initiative that served as a breakthrough for an athletic department that revolves around just one revenue sport. He might want to look at the box score from Saturday’s blowout football loss. He might want to start giving us some answers. Lowering the standard for admissions was the major point of controversy in the mission statement, and probably the reason there hasn’t been much talk of it since last year. It’s probably also the hardest aspect of the rebuilding process to set in motion logistically and in terms of the school’s reputation. As for those ten fewer SAT points shaved off Christoph Guttentag’s expectations? Well, you’ve got to start somewhere. SEE MISSION ON PAGE 16

Spoils of victory The women's soccer team jumped from 24th to 12th in the Soccer America poll after a pair of victories over the weekend, including an upset win over then-No. 4 Texas.

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Wynter Whitley will be sidelined until at least December.

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Last year, Wynter Whitley was the only member of the class of 2005 to play on the women’s basketball team, as then-sophomore Monique Currie tore her anterior cruciate ligament in the first exhibition game and was lost for the season. This year, though, their roles may be reversed. Currie is on schedule to return at full strength by the start of the 2003-2004 season, while Whitley will be sidelined for much or all of this year after major left ankle surgery. “The doctors had to fix my tendons because they had slits in them and were basically shredded,” Whitley said. “The ligaments were also really stressed. It was essentially just ankle reconstruction.” Whidey, a strong and athletic post player, made her mark at Duke as a freshman, averaging 7.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game in 22.5 minutes of play. The Adanta, Ga., native started 20 of the team’s 35 games and earned All-ACC freshman accolades. However, her numbers decreased

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by nearly 50 percent across the board during her sophomore campaign, as she collected just 4.4 points and 2.8 rebounds in 14.5 minutes per game. Her field goal percentage also fell from .481 as a freshman to .390 during her second year. In hindsight, the ankle sprain that Whitley sustained in a December practice may have been pardy responsible for her struggles. “I hurt my ankle really badly in practice but I played a game the next day against St. Joseph’s,” she said. “I was starting that game so I tried to tell myself that I was fine.” As the numbers indicate, though, Whitley was far from healthy last year. Her ankle never fully recovered, and she suffered numerous additional injuries to it during Duke’s run to the Final Four. “I think [the injury] really did affect me on the court,” she said. “Even my mother could tell that something wasn’t right. I just kept trying to think that it was normal, but it impaired my shooting and jumping. I started to favor my right side more and that also probably hurt my shot.” SEE WHITLEY ON PAGE 16

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Greg Paulus, one of the nation’s top junior point guards, will announce his college decision at a noon press conference Tuesday. Paulus’ announcement will end a recruiting battle involving some of the biggest names in college basketball. The 6-foot-l star is expected to choose between Duke, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Syracuse, and Xavier. The Manlius, N.Y native, averaged 24.5 ppg and 6.5 apg as a sophomore for Christian Brothers Academy. He has already scored 1,305 points in his high school career and is considered one of the nation’s top point guard prospects for the class of 2005 “Greg is very sound, he’s very unselfish, [and] he sees the floor better than anybody I’ve ever coached,” Christian Brothers Academy head basketball coach John Wleklinski said in an interview last week. “A lot of the things Greg does right now are talents and abilities that you wouldn’t normally see in a junior-to-be.” Also a top quarterback, Paulus has already GregPaulus broken the New York state touchdown pass record and has garnered offers from some of the nation’s top football programs, including Georgia, Alabama, Florida State, and Miami (FL). He has indicated, however, that his primary sport would be basketball in college.

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“[Paulus’] expectations are to be the starting point guard at whatever school he goes to,” Paulus’ father Dave said Saturday afternoon. “His first love is basketball.” According to Wleklinski, Paulus came to his decision came over the weekend. “We figured it would be a short period of time,” Wleklinski said. “It was just whenever he felt comfortable. He’s comfortable in his decision; he’s excited about his decision; he just wants to do it now and move on.” Though he is only a high school junior, Paulus has remained very level-headed during the recruiting process. The two-sport star has received over 50 offers from schools in basketball and football, including the nation’s top programs in both sports. “[Paulus] has been in a very unique position to go to any school in the country that he wanted,” Paulus’ father Dave said in a telephone interview with the Chronicle Monday night. He also expressed that the Paulus family had been very impressed with all schools involved in Paulus’ recruitment. “Greg would like to thank all the people who have been involved in all the schools with him,” Paulus said. “We have been fortunate to have met a lot of good people [throughout the recruiting process]. Everything has been first-class.”

Capriati moves on Many of yesterday's

matches were rained out at the US. Open. However, in a rain-interrupted match No. 6 seeded Jennifer Capriati defeated No. 11 Elena Dementieva 6-2,7-5.

AP Football Poll 1. Oklahoma (1-0) 2. Ohio State (1-0) 3. Miami (1-0) 4. USC (1-0) 5. Michigan (1-0) 6. Texas (1-0) 7. Kansas State (2-0) 8. Georgia (1-0)

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Head football coach Carl Franks described Saturday’s

27-0 loss to Virginia as “unacceptable” at a press conference yesterday. Franks went on to say that there is a strong

chance there will be line up changes before Saturday’s game against Western Carolina, including at the quarterback position. Franks was unsure why his team lacked enthusiasm, and felt complacency from having 22 returning starters could have been part of the problem. Although obviously dismayed with his team, Franks had an aura of resiliency not normally seen from the coach with a 4-41 career head coaching record. He spoke of Virginia quarterback Matt Schaub’s 2002 season in hopes of finding a parallel with the 2003 Blue Devils. Schaub a season ago was booed off the field by the Cavalier home crowd after he only threw for 73 yards in the 2002 opening loss to Colorado State. Schaub eventually rebounded to become the ACC offensive player of the year. “It’s a good lesson for everybody in life,” Franks said. “Sometimes you’ve got to fight back for something. You can’t just sit around and feel sorry for yourself.” Franks pointed out that it was only the first game of the season, and that the team had plenty of time to make up for the loss. “I hope the cliche that a team gets better from its first game to its second [is true],” Franks said. “I’m a big believer in that one right now.” The biggest change Franks hinted at was a shake-up at the starting quarterback position. Last year’s surprisingly productive starter Adam Smith had an atrocious game Saturday, throwing only f>for-20 for 47 yards. Franks, although hesitant to talk about Smith, expressed his disappointments with the California native while speaking very confidently about back up Mike Schneider’s skills. “The guys that are second team, they’re going to get some opportunities,” Franks said. “We can’t allow some of the guys to continue to play the way they’ve played and not give somebody else a chance. It’s not really the American way of operating. “I liked [Schneider’s arm strength]. The ball came out with a different velocity. I liked the way he handled himself.” Franks hoped the team will get angry about the loss and play with more intensity. In an ominous statement for the players, Franks said he would make practices extra competitive this week. Franks did point out the few things that the Blue Devils did do well, most specifically kick-off returns and the running game. But aside from that Franks was nothing less than disgusted with the team’s execution. *

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MikeSchneider threw for 73 yards—and ran for seven more—in the fourth quarter of Duke's disappointing loss at No. 17Virginia last Saturday. “We did do a few things good, but very few,” Franks said. “We didn’t get lined-up very well. We didn’t tackle well. We didn’t execute on offense. And we didn’t execute on special teams.” 2002 team MVP Alex Wade, who only ran on one play against Virginia because of a hamstring problem, practiced well Sunday, according to Franks. “He was moving around pretty good,” Franks said. Linebacker Ryan Fowler and running back Chris Douglas also were present at Monday’s press conference. Fowler stressed Duke’s big problems containing Virginia’s running game were purely from execution, not personnel. The only two starters lost from the Blue Devils’ 2002 team were on the defensive line that finished first in the ACC against the run a season ago. Fowler feels this was in no way part of the reason for Virginia’s 204 rushing yards compared to its two yards against the Blue Devils in 2002. “They weren’t running on us because of personnel, we just weren’t tackling,” Fowler said. “We had guys who

are great tacklers that were missing tackles. I missed about 10 tackles all last year, and I missed three or four on Saturday.” On the other side of the ball, Douglas blamed Smith’s failing Saturday bn the entire offense’s inability to execute. “I think what was more unexpected for me was the overall productivity of the offense,” Douglas said. “We’re all kind ofintertwined together. Both players were extremely disappointed in the team’s performance and vowed to do better. “We were mad at the beginning Saturday, but it became embarrassing,” Fowler said. ‘This is going to piss us off enough to do something about it. It’s a wake up call.” Douglas added more. “Losing is always a bad thing,” he said. “Getting beat like that really causes you to look at your program and look at yourself. ‘Why didn’t we play at the level we’re capable of playing at?’ You know, reassess the weaknesses. It’s better for us to find out about those weaknesses now rather than later in the season.”

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Ryan Jackson strolled to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday evening with runners on first and third, no men out and his team trailing by one run. It was the type of situation that, had he still been playing in the big leagues, would surely have thrust the former Blue Devil star onto television screens nationwide. Instead, it was in front of 9,531 anxious fans that the 31-year-old Jackson was trying to push his Triple-A Durham Bulls into the playoffs on the second-to-last day of the season. He didn’t take long to deliver. The left-handed Jackson

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roped the first pitch he saw down the right field line, bringing the winning run all the way home and launching raucous celebrations on the field and in the clubhouse: the Bulls were playoff-bound. Jackson’s professional career has taken him to points far and wide since he was drafted in the seventh round by the Florida Marlins in 1994, but following three separate stints in the big leagues as well as stops in such exotic places as Elmira, New York and Toledo, Ohio, the first baseman finds himself in much the same place he started: launching home runs in the Bull City, in search of elusive big league success. The all-time Duke career home run leader and 1994 Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Year, Jackson’s pro career has seen its share of highlights; to be fair, making the major leagues for even a single day as a seventhround draft choice defies the odds. In 1998, following a breakout campaign in Class AA, Jackson was penciled in as the opening day starter for a Marlins squad that had been dismanded following its World Series championship. “That was the biggest day for me. Just being able to not trip as I’m going out to line up on the first-base line for the opening day introductions [was great],” Jackson said with a chuckle. Jackson wasn’t able to maintain his starting job as well as his balance, however, hitting just .250 with five home runs in 111 games and spending some time back down atTripleA Charlotte. It was the beginning of Jackson’s career-long struggle with major league pitching; while he’s hit .301 with 93 home runs in 3,225 minor league at-bats, crushing Triple-A pitchers with regularity, Jackson has batted only .239 with 7 home runs in his 452 major league at-bats. Since ’9B the 6-foot-2, 200-pound Jackson has had spells with the Mariners and Tigers, but now finds himself back in Triple-A in his second stint with the Bulls. Regardless, for a man who’s shared a clubhouse with Ken Griffey, Jr. and Edgar Martinez, Jackson remains incredibly enthusiastic about Durham, the Bulls, and the International League playoffs. ‘You learn to appreciate it all a little more, really,’’Jackson said. ‘You want to go to the playoffs, win a championship,

Jackson lines up for a hit as a Durham Bull in a game last week. earn an extra paycheck, too—every little bit counts. I’d say I definitely haven’t been jaded by the big league experience.” Jackson has also grown to further appreciate his career by having baseball put in perspective in recent years. Once a man who brooded over on-field frustrations, Jackson now has a one and a half year old son, Jakob, to put a smile on his face following an 0-for-4 night at the plate. “It takes a little of the pressure off, if anything,” Jackson SEE JACKSON ON PAGE 14

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They slapped hands, smiled and exhaled, accepdng their gold medals as incentives for the real thing next summer in Greece Roy Williams stood to the side Sunday and watched the players on the U.S. men’s basketball team celebrate after they thrashed Argentina to win the Americas Olympic qualifying tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico. “The greatest thrill for me was standing over by the chairs and watching the medal ceremony, just seeing our guys,” Williams said. It gave him ideas. Williams, whose shiny gray hair, 80.5 winning percentage at Kansas and new job at North Carolina make him one of the most visible college basketball coaches in the country, was under the radar the last three weeks as an assistant to coach Larry Brown in Puerto Rico. The two are longtime friends whose coaching roots at North Carolina and Kansas are intertwined. As Brown returns to the Detroit area to prepare for his new job with the Pistons, Williams returns to work in Chapel Hill, where he has only just begun. On April 14, one week after coaching Kansas in the national championship game and losing to Syracuse, Williams ended the speculation and his 15-year tenure at Kansas. Three years before he had turned down an offer from Dean Smith to return to North Carolina (and he

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said. “\bu’re not thinking so much about baseball. You have a bad game and come home to the family and you tend to forget all that. How can you possibly be mad after you has said no to 11 NBA teams inquiring see the little one smiling at you?” Thus far, he’s managed to resist the over the years), but last spring he felt that it was the right time to take the job at temptation to thrust bat, ball and glove UNC, his alma mater. into Jakob’s small hands—though it’s clear Williams, 53, has these immediate goals that the father wouldn’t mind seeing his for the tarnished Tar Heels program: son take up the family business. restore tradition and play in the NCAA “I don’t want to be like psycho baseball dad or anything like that,” Jackson says, tournament. And there is that item still missing from laughing. “I’ll let him go at his own pace, his resume. Sunday’s celebration gave him whenever he wants to start doing it.” Meanwhile, Jackson knows that while a preview of the ultimate success he craves: winning that elusive national Jakob awaits his first ever ballgame, his own time on the diamond is nearing its end. championship. “It puts you on an emotional high and “I know I’m not that far from retiregets you excited about our own season ment,” Jackson said. “I’m getting up there age-wise in baseball years, but I would like coming up, and hopefully on special occasions our club will be able to react and to play a couple more years.... I guess respond like this club did,” Williams said. when they don’t give me a uniform and a The U.S. basketball program was contract, that’ll pretty much tell the tale.” embarrassed in the 2002 world champiAfter the conclusion ofhis playing career, onships when it finished sixth and Jackson hopes to stay in the game as a coach, Argentina snapped its 58-game interna- be it in the professional or college ranks. He tional winning streak. Brown, the coach of also wants to finish the last few credits he the 2000 Olympic team in Sydney, needs to finally complete his Duke degree—Australia, was brought in this year to meaning a major league veteran may be restore direction and the team theme with roaming main quad, rather than a baseball diamond, some spring to come. top-level NBA players. That cohesion emanated from the Which brings to mind a few memories coaching staff, which included Gregg from the Gothic Wonderland... “One time the team went out all night Popovich, the San Antonio Spurs’ coach and the lone holdover from last year’s before a Carolina game that was supposed to coaching staff, and Oliver Purnell, the new be canceled, because it was supposed to rain coach at Clemson. [the next day],” Jackson recounted with a Every day in Puerto Rico, the coaches grin on his face. “Obviously, when we woke went for power walks, discussing life and up in the morning the sun was shining and strategy. Elton Brand, who was on last it was 85 degrees, but we ended up going out year’s squad, said he felt very prepared there and beating Carolina [in both ends of this year. a doubleheader], which was pretty exciting.” -xaasv. .aMMgfts.

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Although Whitley’s exact recovery time is unclear, her doctors hope that she can be back on the court by December or January. She is currendy doing physical therapy three days a week to expedite the process and help ensure proper healing. Given this lengthy layoff, Whidey and head coach Gail Goestenkors are considering the possibility of her redshirting her junior season, leaving her two years of college eligibility. “I’m not sure yet if I’m going to redshirt,” Whidey said. ‘The main thing is that I want it to heal completely and I want it to heal right. I don’t want to come back at 75 percent and then hurt it again.” The loss of Whitley may be felt most heavily at the defensive end, as she is perhaps the strongest post defender on the team. ‘We’re definitely going to miss her,” sophomore guard Lindsey Harding said. “She brings a lot of strength to our team, and she’s one of our best defenders. Hopefully our freshmen can step in.” Although she will be sidelined for a significant amount of time, Whitley remains close with her teammates, as many of them have also suffered longterm setbacks. “My teammates joke around with me a lot about [the injury], but they’ve been supportive more than anything,” Whitley said. “This is the longest injury that I’ve ever had. It’s frustrating watching my teammates do stuff that I can’t, but I’m still there for them and still feel like part of the team.”

Easier to handle is upping coaches’ salaries. It’s away to bring in big names—even modest ones would do at this point—and attract big players. So what happens when Duke needs a new offensive coordinator earlier this year? The program promotes Jim Pry, the ever-successful quarterback coach who had a stellar, primetime career as offensive coordinator at intimidating East Stroudsburg for 13 years. And in his first test against Virginia this past weekend, Pry planned out one hell of an offensive threat, all right; new contract, no points. Most egregious of all, though, was Alieva boldly handing Carl Franks a three-year contract extension almost as soon as last season ended. “Continuity is a key factor,” Alieva said then, calling Franks —who has a 4-41 record as a head coach—“the right man” for rebuilding. The third part of this ever-depressing mission was the “show me the money” clause—a combination of getting help from alumni and beefing up the facilities (read: a nice little addition to tack on when the former-Head of the Board has already given $2O million to put his name in front of some shiny new work-out equipment). Now I don’t want to get ahead of myself; Alieva did make sure to say “the mission is long-term.” As in when Miami and Virginia Tech march in here too and start smoking us. I’m just going to hope, then, that Alieva has been too busy with the madness of ACC expansion and the befuddlement of basketball recruit Kris Humphries’ transfer to give a second thought to “Rebuilding Duke Football.” I’m just going to hope that we don’t lose to Western Carolina this Saturday. I’m just going to hope that we get around to this mission of ours. Mr. Alieva, complete me.

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Presidential Search Forum: Express your thoughts on the search for a new President of Duke University. The meetings will be held from 12-1 pm; lunch will be available for $3 or you may bring your own; refreshments available for all. All women employees are invited to participate. Invitations will be mailed to AWN members and RSVPs will be required. Presented by Duke University Administrative Women’s Network, if you have question you may contact AWN Chair, Judith S White at judith.s.white@duke.edu.Thomas Reading Room, Lilly Library, 2nd floor.

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Walltown Neighborhood Ministries: 12:30pm. Sylvia Hayes of Walltown Neighborhood Ministries Sponsored by Basin and Towel. Please feel free to bring your lunch and learn how you can participate in this ministry. Alumni Memorial Common Room. Contact

Exhibition: Through Rebel Eyes; Youth Document Durham. An exhibition of photographs, audio pieces, art installations, and writing exploring and expressing ideas about how race, media, and sex affect youths’ everyday lives in Durham. Free event open to the public. Refreshments provided. Center for Documentary Studies, Porch Gallery.Through September 27, 2003.

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Volunteer: Community Service Center. Contact Dominique Redmond, 684-4377 or http://csc.studentaffairs.duke.edu. Volunteer: As little as 2 hours/week. Women’s Center. 126 Few Fed, or 684-3897.

Duke University Museum of Art Summer Exhibitions: “Brodsky and Utkin Prints” through September 7. Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin were bom in Moscow in 1955, where they studied architecture together. Turning to pure ideas rather than the physical world, they became known as the “Paper Architects.” Their etchings of fantastic projects draw freely from the past, and were responses to the dehumanizing Soviet architecture that surrounded them. They were leaders of the Moscow conceptualist movement of the 1980s. On Display: Through October 31. Alex Harris: Photographs, 1998-2000. Duke Professor Alex Harris juxtaposes two groups of color images—a series of Havana views seen through the windshields of aging American automobiles and a series of American landscapes seen in the context of a boy’s electronic game—to explore the potential of the photographer’s eye and the camera’s frame both to limit and to expand our view of the world.Perkins Library, Special Collections, hours vary; call 684-3009. Gallery.Through Oct. 31. On Display: Through October 19. 20/40: The Celebration of a Legacy of Struggleand Excellence at Duke University. An exhibit chronicling the twenty-year evolution of the university’s Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture and the contributions and experiences of African American students at Duke from 1963-2003. Perkins Library Gallery, hours vary; call 684-3009. Duke Donation Center: Tuesdays 12 pm 4:30 pm, 1:30 pm. Duke South Hospital Thursdays 9 am Clinic Trent Drive Ground Floor Red Zone. -

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The Chronicle

Letters to the Editor 1 Duke Honor code ‘goes all the way

The Independent Daily at Duke University

See you in class, (on Friday!)

appears that the Task Force commissioned by the provost to reexamine Duke’s scheduling model will soon announce a mixed bag of changes to the current system, the mainstays of which include fewer classes in the busy 10:30a.m.-2:30p.m. time-slot, and the addition of more classes that meet twice a week. The Task Force has correcdy identified several weaknesses in the existing overarching class schedule, but seems to have unfortunately succumbed to the national trend of scheduling more courses on

Fridays.

The current University class schedule has several deficiencies that create problems for students and professors alike. First, many courses are offered solely between the hours of 10:30a.m. and 2:30p.m., meaning that students must often choose between two classes that are essential to their majors, or are taught by excellent professors. Further, the logjam between the hours of 10:30-2:30 means that students must often wait several minutes for buses, and are late to their second and third classes of the day. The new model will mandate the number of courses that can be offered in this period, relieving much of the tension in transit between courses, and will hopefully make it easier for students to select classes. In addition, the new model will offer more courses that meet twice a week, with the day beginning at 8:45a.m. rather than at Ba.m., as happens currendy. This will give students and professors more time in-between class sessions to read, do homework, prepare lectures and grade papers, and increases the likelihood that students in the engineering school will be able to find Trinity courses that do not interfere with their rigid Pratt lab schedules. While these changes are much needed and commendable, the recommendation that the number of Friday classes be increased is problematic. The theory behind adding Friday courses is that more two-daya- week classes can be offered, meeting on Tuesdays and Fridays or Mondays and Fridays. This would alleviate pressure on the rest of the week in terms of scheduling. Also, many people believe that the “realworld” works 9a.m.-5p.m., and that we are being done a disservice by the University should we not incorporate this into our lives now. While these are legitimate points, many students, and professors for that matter, put Fridays to very efficient use. Many students do internships, take jobs, perform community service, run errands, and do homework on Fridays, when classes are light. Professors commonly leave for conferences on Fridays, and use that time outside of class to work with graduate students,or devote time to research. As alternatives to Friday classes, more one-day-aweek evening courses could be offered. The Task Force’s new model will affect several important alterations to the scheduling process. In the long run, it will save students and professors time, and allow more students to select the courses they really want, without having to make trade-offs. However, we strongly encourage the University to re-think the addition ofFriday courses.

On the record “What bothers me a lot is that there is so much talk at

duke about increasing the intellectual climate outside the classroom and while we have this plan that affects so many students, it is not being picked up by the administration —Rick Garcia, DSG’s director of student services, ”

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In Tal Hirshberg’s column “A Couple Things to Make You say HMM,” Tal expressed his concerns with the current Duke Honor Code, now known as the Duke Community Standard. Tal insists that if you’re going to have an Honor Code, then “do it all the way.” The Duke administration, the Undergraduate Judicial Board, DSC, and the Honor Council have worked hard over the last year to do just that: make the Duke Honor system more complete, or done “all the way.” The signing of the Community Standard is an affirmation by each student that they agree to the principle of integrity on which Duke is completely dependent. The signing ceremony is not carried out due to distrust in students, but rather carried out due to complete trust in students. The ceremony is just that, a ceremony—no one checks the parchment to ensure that every student has signed, rather, it serves as an opportunity for students to voluntarily sign their name to the very pledge of “respect” that we all find so necessary. Tal insists that a two-semester suspension is not lengthy enough for students that have been caught cheating and at the same time he urges the community to adopt a general principle of expulsion for all students found cheating. Tal also advises, however, that Duke trust its students more. In an effort to fulfill both of these near contradictory wishes, it is necessary to point out that Duke does trust its students, despite the fact that sometimes students do get caught up in the heat of exams and other pressures and cheat. Duke has enough trust in its students to believe that they are responsible enough to learn from their mistakes. Lastly, Tal contrasts Duke’s honor system with that of the University of Virginia, a school that treats “their Honor Code seriously.” He points out that UVa students can

take their exams on their own schedule. The Duke Honor Council has been pushing for such legislation for a very long time. Though that legislation remains pending, just last year we worked with other student groups to make the Dean’s Excuse policy more amenable for students who fall ill before an exam. Similar movements in that direction, such as scheduling exams on one’s own time, are options that Duke is willing to look at down the road. It is important for Duke students to take the Community Standard seriously, as the Duke administration has put their trust in us that we will not cheat. If we abide by these standards and do not tolerate cheating in our community, than we will have more opportunities to make our lives easier in the years to come. As pointed out in an email from one concerned student, “Duke University is not a criminal organization and encouraging a code of silence is ultimately detrimental to the community as a whole. If cheating is a serious enough transgression that some universities terminate a student’s right to attend college over it, shouldn’t it be serious enough to not look the other way when we see it occur?” Tal’s column highlighted some very interesting and pertinent concerns with the Duke Community Standard; hopefully it is clearer to him and to the entire student body that Duke has fulfilled many of the wishes that he has laid out. Most importantly, though, one thing remains common in our thinking: Duke students will not tolerate academic dishonesty. Robert McDonald Chair, Duke Honor Council

Avery Reaves VP of Academic Affairs, DSG

Open Letter from DSG As your new Duke Student Government executive members, we want to welcome everyone back for a great year. Last Spring, we promised to include as many voices as possible in decisions made on this campus. There is no better way to ensure that your voice is heard than to run for a position as a DSG Senator. There are many opportunities to improve your college experience and we encourage you to help find innovative solutions to the problems faced by Duke students. Every year, numerous students join the Senate, Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee and many other committees. We welcome everyone to stop by the DSG office in the Bryan Center to pick up an information packet about opportunities to make changes at Duke. We hope you take this chance to represent your East, West, Central, or Off-Campus community by running for the Senate or exploring appointed at-large positions. We encourage all of you to help improve Duke. Bring your enthusiasm and communicate new issues and ideas to DSG. If you have questions about how to get involved, email

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Apology accepted, the war rages on

This

past April, in the midst of the ongoing Iraq War, a number of

Duke students staged an on-camblockade to demand an end traffic pus to “business as usual” while American tax dollars supported an unjust war being fought abroad. Many bystanders issued words of support, while a few were even inspired to join the human chain that blocked Duke buses from entering Chapel Drive. Others, however, were simply annoyed at being forced to walk to class in the rain. The Chronicle Editorial board denounced the event “because the war in Iraq [had] essentially ended” the previous day.

In hindsight we can see that the war was anything but over. It was just getting started. Since Bush’s proclamation on May Ist that the major fighting had ended, at least 140 American troops have died—more than in the entire period before the president’s statement. Yes, the war rages on. And it remains as unjust as ever. Let us begin with the popular justifications for going to war: to diffuse the threat of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, and to liberate the Iraqi people from his brutal regime. To date, no WMDs have been uncovered. However, the anti-war claim was not that Iraq possessed no dangerous weapons. Instead, the assertion main-

tained all along was that even if Iraq did American project in Iraq is taking the The Iraqi resistance, in turn, made possess such weapons, their insignificant form of a test-lab for absolute free-trade plain its awareness of the reasons for the quantity combined with the interests of policies and the total privatization of naAmerican occupation last week, in two tional resources. The “corporate invaIraq’s power-hungry then-dictator, Sadbombings of the oil pipelines running dam Hussein, would never lead him to sion” of Iraq began well before the miliinto Turkey just three days after they restage an attack upon the U.S. tary one; before U.S. troops had even opened. landed on Iraqi soil, USAID was requestConcerning the supposed “liberaBut Secretary Kissinger only told us tion” of the Iraqi people, Americans ing reconstruction bids from an excluhalf the story, as oil is not the sole rehave already seen the violent reality of sive list of American corporations with source that the American government this failed ideal. Weekly attacks upon strong ties to the Bush administration. in collusion with American multinationU.S. armed forces, their vehicles, and Obviously, one of the hottest Iraqi real corporations—conspired to swap for the Americorporate-led “rebuilding” sources up for grabs was oil. Vice Presi- blood. Water is increasingly becoming projects —combined with numerous the most precious resource in the newspaper interviews with Iraqi citiworld, especially in the arid environ"The 'corporate invasion' of Iraq ment of the Middle East. Zens—have aptly demonstrated the began well before the military Iraqi people’s disdain for the AmeriHere, the Bechtel corporation has one; before U.S. troops had even stepped in to secure hegemony over the can occupation of their land. Instead, the Iraqi resistance has landed on Iraqi soil, USAID was reregion’s water supply, thanks to its fordisplayed an acute understanding of questing reconstruction mer president and current board membids their oppressors’ aims and the comber George Shulz—not coincidentally from an list of American exclusive plicity of their collaborators. The list Ronald Reagan’s former Secretary of corporations with strong ties to State. Bechtel of collaborators, judging from the restands to profit immensely cent attack on the UN compound in the Bush administration." from its $6OB million contact to distribute and, probably, eventually privatize Baghdad that killed over 20 people, includes the United Nations, which Iraq’s water systems. Shultz can be credauthorized 13 years of outrageous sancdent Cheney’s former company, Halited with helping to secure the contract, tions on the people of Iraq. liburton, received the largest share of but also with helping to bring about the The United Nation’s own reports that market, netting a $77 million conwar that allowed the space for a contract to document the deaths of well over 1 miltract to distribute Iraq’s oil. open in the first place. As chairman of the lion Iraqis —more than 500,000 of them This bidding process was open exadvisory board of the Committee for the children—as a direct result of the sancclusively to American firms strongly Liberation of Iraq, Shultz was central in tions. The attack on the compound linked to the Bush administration. Forthe movement of American businessseems to be a bitter reminder that the eign companies, non-governmental men fiercely lobbying for the “liberaIraqis will not feed from the very hand groups, and even the United Nations tion” of the Iraqi people. that maims them. were prohibited from taking part, let There is indeed something rotten in Among the real motivations for the alone the Iraqis themselves, in accorBaghdad. This entire war stinks of coloAmerican attack in Iraq is the thinlydance with former Secretary of State nization. veiled arrangement of government Henry Kissinger’s philosophy that, “Oil hand-outs to American corporations in is too important a resource to be left in Yousuf Al-Bulushi is a Trinity senior. His the form of “rebuilding projects.” The the hands of the Arabs.” column appears every third Tuesday. —

Gay? Not fine by

While

walking through Craven Quad last week, I passed a student who I knew to be a homosexu-

al. He was wearing a navy blue “gay? fine by me.” shirt. It was no doubt a comical sight; a homosexual declaring personal tolerance for homosexuality. But my amusement quickly waned as I began thinking about the brief, but eventful history of the “gay? fine by me.” movement.

Nathan Carleton It began last April, when a group of students stood on the Bryan Center walkway for several days and passed out 500 of the free shirts. Seemingly unaware that few refuse free clothing, the Duke Allies—a group which calls itself “open-minded” and supportive of “a culture free of homophobia and heterosexism”—instantly dubbed the giveaway an “amazing success” and, along with some other students, ordered over 500 more shirts. Much attention followed. The campaign was covered by the News and Observer of Raleigh, which reported, slightly inaccurately, that President Nan Keohane and basketball players Shavlik Randolph and Nick Horvath had been wearing the shirts (only Horvath had). Another article appeared in a Boston-based gay and lesbian newspaper. A website complete with pictures of Duke students wearing the shirts soon arose. The “gay? fine by me.” movement was definitely rolling along. And it seemed harmless enough. There was no flamboyance, just a simple message: “gay? fine by me.” In a world where Berkeley students recently took a course called “Male Sexuality” and watched their instructor have sex at a gay strip club for a final project, the Duke movement had the potential to be the most re-

So the “gay? fine by me.” movement, which attempts spectable pro-gay campaign ever. But then those involved got carried away and used the r-word —rights. only to curtail homophobia, should not be said to proI still remember the red flags that went up in my mote gay rights. It simply encourages people to declare mind as I read the first sentence of the April 15 Chronthat homosexuality is “fine,” and thereby does nothing icle cover story: “A simple slogan...moved about campus more than express an opinion that all have the right to Monday as people donned free T-shirts in support of either support or disagree with. The campaign is merely the most subtle step yet that gay rights.” The article made two more mentions of the vague campus homosexual activists have taken to self-rightterm “gay rights.” Tyler Pulis, a said eously bully others into supporting homosexuals and to be working “in a nuclear physics lab on campus” was their supposed plight. They don’t tolerate opposing views and strive to gain symquoted saying, “while handing out shirts,” that the giveaway “is pathy by claiming that there an easy way to show that there "To frame the 'gay? fine by me/ exists an ongoing national are people on campus who are campaign as a rights issue is to epidemic of physical viocool with gay rights without any argue for mind control. For if a lence towards homosexuals. other sort of agenda attached.” As graduate student homosexual has the right for Thomas So here we have a person Scotto put it in a claiming to be promoting gay others to be 'fine' with his or her September 26 letter to The rights by giving away shirts that gayness, then others have a Chronicle, homosexual indiattack homophobia and declare legal obligation to not personalviduals don’t “walk and hold tolerance for homosexuality. hands with their partners” ly oppose it." The only problem is that we live because “the idea of a glass bottle flying at one’s head is in America, where no one has the right for others to be personally “fine” with his or not appealing.” her choices But as much as they like to play the fear card, Duke’s To frame the “gay? fine by me.” campaign as a rights homosexual activists are often more than happy to issue is to argue for mind control. For if a homosexual flaunt their sexualities. Many of those in the “gay? fine has the right for others to be “fine” with his or her gayby me.” movement will later this month host “Coming ness, then others have a legal obligation to not personOut Week” —a heavily-covered celebration of homosexally oppose it. uality flamboyant enough to make Ken Kaniff blush. I personally believe homosexuality to be immoral. I In an almost laughable twist, the very paper that refuse to become “open-minded” and acknowledge it as Scotto’s letter ran in featured, prominently on the a happy and healthy lifestyle equivalent to heterosexualfront page, a color picture of two females sitting in ity. Does my position violate anyone’s rights? Surely front of Duke Chapel at the “Kiss-In Lunch” on the not—it’s merely an opinion. In fact, because it is an Quad. The couple kissed passionately. There were no derived almost from relientirely glass bottles in sight. one opinion—and my gious beliefs—campaigns to silence it and other “homoNathan Carleton is a Trinity junior. His column appears phobic” views violate both my rights to free expression and my religious freedoms. every other Tuesday.

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