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DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 82

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Some students coming back from fall study abroad have discovered to their dismay, what others in the University have known for months: Duke computers are under siege from hackers.

Since August 2003, the Office ofInformation Technology has had to reinstall the operating systems of hundreds of hacked computers —the computer equivalent of a lobotomy. Although not unprecedented, the recent surge in hacking has inconvenienced many and shows no signs of abating.

Former study abroad students report that a disproportionately high number of their fellow travelers have been hacked. A possible reason is that since they were gone last semester, some of these returning students may have failed to take precautions OIT recommends to guard against hacking.

Junior Vinitha Kaushik said she did not pay adequate attention to an OIT security patch download page that greeted her when she returned to her computer from a France study abroad program. ‘They put the patch in the middle of a registration form,” she said. “All I really wanted to do was get back on the Internetwhen I got back to school, so I skipped the middle part.” Kaushik’s computer was promptly hacked.

OIT security officer Chris Cramer said computers become vulnerable when individuals fail to create an administrator SEE HACKING ON PAGE 8

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Several members of the University community criticized a report in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, detailing accusations of gender-based harassment in Duke’s physics department.

They said the piece misconstrued facts and inadequately discussed the steps that have been taken to deal with harassment.

The lengthy article, entitled “Louts in the Lab,” outlines allegations ofmistreatment of female faculty members and graduate students by males in the Duke physics department. While many of the allegations have been previously reported —in The Chronicle and elsewhere this is the first dme the issue has been comprehensively treated by The Chronicle of Higher Education, a weekly publication with wide readership in the academic community.

In a letter to the editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Provost Peter Lange wrote that the article “reflects more on the past than the present and more on the problems we all recognize than the efforts that have been undertaken to improve the situation. In doing so, it does a disservice to the department, to manyofits faculty and its chair and to the University.”

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Legacy admissions to continue Cindy Yee THE CHRONICLE by

When TexasA&M University announced earlier this month that it would abolish its preferential admissions policy for relatives of alumni, debate swirled nationwide over the merit of such a move. Some said the new policy was unnecessary, while others said it was not drastic enough But whatever the outcome of Texas A&M’s decision, Duke administrators say the children of Blue Devils will continue to receive special consideration during the admissions process.

“We’ve had a very long-standing policy of taking family ties into account in admissions decisions, and there are no plans to change that,” said Christoph Guttentag,

Andrew Collins

director of undergraduate admissions.

“It’s Just a plus factor, so it doesn’t predetermine the admissions decision. But the University community extends well beyond the people that are currendy here; alumni feel very much a part of the University community, and we try to take those ties into account when it is appropriate to do so.”

At Texas A&M, the controversy over legacy admissions stemmed from a greater controversy over affirmative action admissions after the U.S. Supreme Court decided last spring that race may be a factor in admissions on a case-by-case basis.

Since then, Sen. Edward Kennedy, DMass., has filed a bill that would require colleges to disclose the race and economic status of first-year students related to alum-

ni, and Sen. John Edward, D-N.C., has advocated an end to college legacy programs.

“As a broader educational or public policy issue, this is a fairly new subject,” Guttentag said. “In the Texas A&M case, a tie was made between legacy admissions and affirmative action. I’m not sure that they should be so closely tied, but I think that the reason some people are paying greater attention to legacy admissions now is that it has to do with a renewed interest in issues of affirmative action.”

After Texas A&M decided it would no longer use race as a factor in admissions, the school’s legacy admissions policy came under fire. Many argued that the school had abolished one type of affirmative action, while retaining another type.

Like affirmative action, the “other affirmative action”—legacy admissions—gave SEE LEGACY ON PAGE 6

SEE PHYSICS ON PAGE 7

Penn picks new prez From staff reports The University of Pennsylvania has named Princeton University Provost Amy Gutmann as its eighth president, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported late Wednesday night.

Gutmann succeeds current President Judith Rodin, who was the first woman to be elected president of a national research university. Duke President Nan Keohane was the second female president of a research university and like Rodin, will step down June 30.

According to the Pennsylvanian, other candidates included current Bush cabinet member and former Stanford Provost Condoleeza Rice; Drew Faust, the dean of Radcliffe Institute; and Nancy Cantor, chancellor of the University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign.

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For months, the BAGHDAD, Iraq George W. Bush administration has resisted Iraqi calls for direct elections by June 30, citing the need for a census to compile voter rolls and other measures to ensure fair balloting too cumbersome to complete in time.

But some experts say that many of these conditions could be met. In spite of the continuing violence in Iraq—another obstacle, perhaps greater and largely unacknowledged, according to the military, United Nations and outside election experts. To argue that se-

curity is a serious impediment, however, would be to admit that American forces are unable to quell the running war with the Iraqi insurgents.

Some American generals now say privately that the continuing attacks, especially those against Iraqi civilians, present a daunting obstacle to holding the direct elections demanded by Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, the country’s most powerful cleric among the majority Shiites.

Even those outside experts who say there are practical ways to hold a quick vote also say turnout could be suppressed by violence and soldiers or policemen protecting the polls.

“I guess you could devise mechanisms to make it possible, security permitting,” said Joost Hiltermann, a Middle East expert at the International Crisis Group, a conflict-prevention organization, whovisited Iraq this week to research the prospects for elections here. “But ‘security permitting’ is a big if. The risk is that if you go ahead, the results could be seriously skewed, even dangerously skewed.”

If bombings or other attacks like those that occurred this week in Baghdad, Karbala and Mosul take place in one section of the country or another during balloting, the resulting disparities SEE

IRAQ ON PAGE 7

BBC under fire for misuse of Iraq Intel

By Patrick Tyler NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

LONDON Days before a verdict on whether Prime Minister Tony Blair exaggerated the case for war in Iraq, the BBC broadcast a documentary Wednesday that aired a litany of its own mistakes in reporting the suspected misuse of intelligence.

The clash between the BBC and the state has turned the outcome of the inquiry by jurist Lord Hutton into a referendum on Blair’s future and the broadcaster’s credibility.

The BBC, which as much as any institution created a distinct culture of worldwide news gathering and reportage, was described by its own producers as being too loose with language, too distracted to investigate charges that its reporting

was wrong and simply negligent in checking the basis of a two-minute report May 29, 2003 that members of Blair’s staff had “sexed up” the case to go to war with Iraq by using intelligence they “probably knew” was wrong.

But the 90-minute program also asserted that British intelligence chiefs were too willing to approve the sensational formulations Blair’s staff wanted to use to persuade the public that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat.

The May. report, by defense correspondent Andrew Gilligan, incited a strong public reaction as manyBritons, already disturbed by Blair’s close alignment with the war camp in Washington, learned that trust in the intelligence services may have been undermined by politicians.

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Wednesday raided the home of a reporter for The Ottawa Citizen to learn how she obtained secret documents concerning a suspected terrorist.

Iran president brings 'message of hope' Iran's president, facing doubts about his nuclear agenda, brought a robust, if mixed, message of hope and defiance Wednesday to this year's World Economic Forum.

Feds can overrule states on pollution The federal government has broad power to overrule states when they do not need new or upgraded industrial plants to achieve the maximum reduction of air pollution technologically possible, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

Israel PM faces pressures over bribery case Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faces increased polit-

ical pressure regarding two corruption investigations after a criminal indictment Wednesday of a real estate developer with ties to Sharon.

Cheney: Search not over for WMD Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that the administration has not given up on the so far fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; the "jury is still out," he said.

News briefs compiled from wire reports.

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DSG: Duke needs new Career Center Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE

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Duke Student Government passed a resolution

Wednesday night endorsing an overhaul of the Universi-

ty’s Career Center facilities.

After a presentation by the center’s Fannie Mitchell Executive Director Sheila Curran, the student senate voted to encourage the development and construction of a new center. The current center is presently inadequate for students’ and employers’ needs, officials said.

“If we want to be one of the top universities, we can’t have the interview rooms in a basement,” Curran said.

The center—which has been slated for a location change for several years—is currently housed in the Page Building on West Campus, and lacks the space and necessary amenities to sufficiently provide for student employment counseling or job recruitment. After discussions about possible space allocation in the new student center proved fruidess, Curran spearheaded a proposal to build a new facility.

“We’ve heard from employees that although Duke students are some of the best in the nadon, our [Career Center] facility is one of the worst,” Curran said. “It’s really a dungeon down there and they’re really interrogation rooms instead of interview rooms.”

The Board of Trustees, which first heard the proposal in December, will discuss and vote on the issue in February.

‘This is what we think Duke students deserve,” Curran said. “Duke students can get jobs, but they could get far more jobs if we could attract more employers to the Career Center.”

Under the proposal, a new building would be constructed to house both the center and a new space for alumni affairs. Curran said that after the Trustees’ approval, plans could proceed—including hiring an architect, finding a campus location and raising the expected SEE CAREER CENTER ON PAGE 7

CORRECTION The name of one of the semifinalistsfor Young Trustees was misspelled in Tuesday's edition. Maya Washington, not Mary Washington, is in the running

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Health policy experts sound off on SOTU by

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With a short 54-minute State of the Union address

Tuesday, President George W. Bush addressed a broad

span of issues, including foreign affairs, national security, marriage and healthcare, kicking off his re-election campaign in the new year.

But for many healthcare experts at Duke, the president’s message was not comprehensive.

“There was a lot of discussion of terrorism and the country’s response to that,” said Frank Sloan, J. Alex McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Fuqua School of Business and professor of economics. “That limited the amount he could say about other issues. He touched on healthcare so briefly that it was hard to follow.”

With Bush’s “piecemeal” proposals, including tax-free medical savings accounts and risk pooling for small businesses, Sloan found much of the plan lacking.

“We have 43 million people uninsured and it isn’t clear how [Bush’s] proposals deal with this,” he said. “They are certainly not dealt with in a comprehensive way.”

Sloan said there are various ways in which the government could address the problem, through refundable tax credits, Medicare/Medicaid expansion, or universal healthcare, which Bush strongly decried.

He noted that it was difficult to ascertain how much money Bush was committing to healthcare. “If he’s not committing any resources, he won’t do anything,” Sloan

said, adding that he was uncertain about the probability of change resulting from Bush’s speech.

There has been evidence that medical savings accounts have not been very popular, so take-up rates are not likely to be high, he said. Furthermore, there are no barriers to risk pools in the market place, and states that have tried such plans have encountered difficulties.

Paul Vick, associate vice president of government relations for Duke University Health System, seconded Sloan’s view of the State of the Union, adding that few proposals have been added since last year.

“Most of them dealtwith insurance payment structures, and obviously if more people had more insurance, it would have a positive impact on the hospital, because we would see fewer uninsured patients,” Vick said.

In 2003, DUHS provided $41.8 million in charity care and $87.2 million in uncompensated care, which is a significant share in a billion-dollar budget.

As the presidential election approaches, two major healthcare issues will be at the forefront of the campaign—the continued growth of the uninsured and the increasing costs of healthcare, said Dr. Kevin Schulman, pn> fe§sor of general internal medicine and director of the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics.

“Will it be addressed before or after the election? That depends on how much pressure the president is under,” Schulman said, although the chance of any further legislation being passed is minimal.

From a Republican perspective, emphasis will be

placed on the plight of the underinsured—middle class and working class Americans who find their insurance covering fewer services and their out-of pockets continually increasing.

Many of the provisions of the landmark Medicare Prescription Drug Modernization Act, which Bush signed into law Dec. 8, will take effect in several years. Specifically, the prescription drug benefit—which will aid senior citizens in purchasing medications—will be in place in 2006. The bill also revised the fee-for-service payment system, which Vick said would have a positive financial impact on DUHS, although the prescription drug benefit will not have much of an effect.

Schulman said the bill will not affect Duke direcdy, in regards to the prescription drug benefit. However, because the federal government will be covering drugs, the hurdle to get payment will increase, he said.

“Medicare as a centralized payer may create high standards of evidence for determining which [drugs] are the preferred agents, potentially higher standards than in the market today,” he said. While the private insurance market makes choices about therapies based on clinical results and rebates, the federal government will rely primarily on clinical and economic evidence.

The legislation thus reinforces the importance of having the Duke Clinical Research Institute review data from clinical trials, Schulman said.

“We’ve really got big questions before us,” Sloan said ‘Those questions were not addressed [Tuesday] night.”

Trimeris’ new AIDS drug development on hold by

Malavika Prabhu THE CHRONICLE

Trimeris, a small Research Triangle Park pharmaceutical firm that produced the first drug in a new class of HIV medications last year, has recendy encountered some bumps in the road.

Arising from the labs of Duke University Medical Center in the late 19905, Trimeris launchedFuzeon in March 2003, after accelerated FDA-approval. Fuzeon is a fusion inhibitor, which prevents HIV from fusing to cells within the immune system, and is used in combination therapy for HIV-positive patients who have developed resistance to more established treatments such as antiretrovirals and protease inhibitors.

Earlier this month, Trimeris and Roche, a partner firm, issued a joint press release pledging continued commitment to “discover, develop and commercialize the next generation of HIV fusion inhibitors.” The next fusion inhibitor, Trimeris’ T-1249, was to be Fuzeon’s successor.

More importantly, the release later states that Roche and Trimeris have decided to put the early stage clinical program of T-1249 on hold because of challenges in achieving the desired technical profile of the current formulation of the investigational compound T-1249.

“The T-1249 program was put on hold until we find a formulation that is longer acting, perhaps requiring weekly or monthly dosages,” said Robin Fastenau, director of public relations for Trimeris. “It could be a delay of several years.”

Dr. John Bartlett, professor of medicine at Duke, praised the potential of T-1249 as the next generation of fusion inhibitors, but was disappointed in Trimeris’ announcement to delay its development, as much for the greater philosophical implications as the lost potential of its clinical efficacy.

“This is a very important precedent,” Bartlett said.

“The realities of resource availabilities are impacting on drug development, in the context of a drug that has been

shown to have a unique characteristic.”

As a patient advocate, Bartlett said he saw T-1249 as being “potentially important” for HIV/AIDS patients, and preliminary results, as presented last fall, were promising.

While Trimeris waits to conceive a more effective method of delivery, the firm has been forced to lay off 25 percent of its workforce—largely the programmatic staff related to the project, Fastenau said.

She added that Trimeris would turn to Fuzeon to improve the drug in terms ofbetter delivery devices and improving formulations to reduce the number of subcutaneous injections and extend the dosage.

Trimeris, a publicly traded company, has netted $18.3 million since the launch of Fuzeon. The company will release its fourth quarter results Feb. 3. However, analysts downgraded Trimeris’ stock rating Jan. 6 as a result of the previous day’s press release, which some analysts perceived SEE TRIMERIS ON PAGE

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WASHINGTON Despite President George W. Bush’s plea for an extension of the counterterrorism law known as the Patriot Act, leading Republicans and Democrats in Congress said Wednesday they were in no rush to take up the politically divisive issue in this election year.

Crucial provisions of the law do not expire until the end of2005, and Bush’s push for theirrenewal during his State of the Union speech, which he repeated Wednesday, caught many lawmakers off guard.

“I’d say he’s about a year early,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-lowa, a leading member of the judiciary committee. “If I were running for president, I wouldn’t have brought it up now.”

Grassley, like other members of Congress interviewed Wednesday, said while he believes the anti-terrorism act includes some important law enforcement tools that are worth keeping, it is so far-reaching that its continuation needs careful scrutiny. “I would not take a position of outright renewal at this point,” he said.

The expanded authority the law gave the government to track people suspected of terrorism after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has come under growing criticism from liberals and conservatives alike because of civil liberties concerns.

Democratic presidential candidates, although differing on many issues, largely agree in opposing the law.

Members of Congress from both parties have sought to repeal main parts of it, and the Los Angeles City Council became the latest of more than 230 communities nationwide Wednesday, to approve a symbolic resolution in opposition to the law.

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Bush administration officials said Wednesday that the president wanted to use the high visibility of the State of the Union speech to further propel his unwavering support of the law.

‘The president strongly supports the Patriot Act, and he was setting out a marker and engaging in a public debate at a time when a lot more Americans would be tuning in,” said Trent Duffy, a White House spokesperson.

Bush, Wednesday in Ohio, said the act provided law enforcement agents with important tools to fight terrorists.

“I called for the renewal of the Patriot Act; I want to tell you why,” Bush said. “It is important that we be able to share information at the federal level. It’s important we have the authority to be able to seize assets.”

By putting his personal imprimatur on it, Bush ratcheted up the visibility of an issue on which some critics believe he is vulnerable.

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growing criticism coming across the country about the Patriot Act,” said Anthony Romero, head of the ACLU. Democrats, civil liberties advocates and even some Republicans said they were wary of extending the act without far greater scrutiny of how it had been used thus far.

“If you have extraordinarily secret powers, with no checks and balances, the temptation is going to be too great to over-reach,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermonter who is also the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis., who heads the House Judiciary Committee and has criticized some of the administration’s counterterrorism policies, plans to hold hearings on the possible extension of the act in the spring or summer of 2005, and he had no plans to speed that timetable, a spokesperson said.

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TRIMERIS from page 4 as “deceptive,” causing the stock to fall 14.5 perwithin the day. It has recovered from some of that drop since.

As Trimeris faces these setbacks, HIV .AIDS patients who need Fuzeon are also facing barriers to obtaining the drug.

In ajan. 13 article, the Wall Street Journal reported that the high price ofFuzeon was restricting North Carolina’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program, a federally and state-funded program, from providing appropriate care for patients unable to afford it. ADAP, unlike Medicaid, is not an entitlement program, and is the last resort for many patients not poor enough for Medicaid, which also only covers patients with fully developed AIDS. Steve Sherman, director ofNC’s ADAP, said the program set a cap for 25 state residents to be eligible for Fuzeon treatment at any one time, creating a system of rationing medical care. ADAP serves approximately 3,500 HIV/AIDS patients total, he added. The eligibility requirements for the program are state residency, HIV-positive status, a family income at or below 125 percent of the poverty level—one of the tightest criteria of the nation—and no third party coverage.

“Despite what is a fairly hefty cost, we were willing to include Fuzeon in the formulary,” he said. Although the going price for Fuzeon stands around $20,000, ADAP, whose 2004 budget is $25 million, does receive pricing considerations. Sherman, however, would not reveal the negotiated rate.

Although North Carolina was able to include Fuzeon on its formulary—the list of drugs ADAP can cover—the WSJ reported that Alabama’s ADAP decided not to include Fuzeon and, in doing so, denied more affordable HIV/AIDS treatment to many more residents. Currently, Fuzeon is included in the formulary for 31 states, Fastenau said.

“ADAP nationally has been on a budget cricent

sis,” she said, ‘This was the case oven before Fuze on was launched.” She added that North Carolina has had one of the largest waiting lists due to the nature of the virus afflicting die lower-income segment of the population, and that Fuzeon was in no way responsible for the budge tar) problems.

Roche also maintains a charity program, pror

viding Fuzeon free to certain low-income patients demonstrating need. Fastenau, however, could not comment on how many people the program screed.

“Use of drugs like [Fuzeon] is clearly cost effective, and these programs need to be given adequate resources to provide the best treatment,” Bartlett said. “If the [ADAPs] are underfunded, difficult decisions need to be made to allocated resources,” resulting in the rationing of medical care.

Only three state residents are on the waiting list for Fuzeon, but the application process through which patients must go to meet eligibility criteria, requires a clinician assess the severity of the need before ADAP can recommend immediate treatment or placement on the waiting list.

Currently, 2002 estimates of North Carolinians afflicted with HIV/AIDS ranges from 17,000 to 24,000, Sherman said. The ambiguity in the infected population is due to high number of people who could be infected and not have sought out treatment due to factors such as income, location or stigma associated with sexually transmitted diseases, especially AIDS. Despite the combination of state and national budgetary crunches and the prohibitive cost of Fuzeon, Sherman said he did not expect Fuzeon to be removed from the formulary in the near future.

“While I’m not convinced our budget will grow over the next several years—maybe not even at all—l don’t think we will lose any of our budget,” he said. “Given that, I’m not anticipating we will drop Fuzeon or any other AIDS medication.”

LEGACY from page 1 preference to students for factors beyond academic and personal qualifications, but the latter tended to favor whites over minorities, sim-

ply because there were more white alumni than alumni of other races.

At Texas A&M, for example, blacks were not among the student body until 1963.

Provost Peter Lange noted that the situations at Duke and Texas A&M are inherently different, as one is a private university and the other is public. Duke, he said, has other ways to increase the diversity of the student body than abolishing legacy admissions preferences.

In fact, Lange said, by establishing alumni loyalty through policies like the legacy admissions policy, the University is able to fund other programs that actually increase diversity.

“Among private universities, the loyalty of alums is very important to a whole range of things we can offer, including the kind of funding that makes Duke a great university and offers substantial amounts of money for financial aid,” Lange said. ‘You can’t pull out one thread and ignore otherways of promoting diversity. Need-blind financial aid is one of the biggest ways to achieve this goal.”

Guttentag also noted the difference between private and public universities in terms of legacy admissions. He said Duke’s policy is fairly

typical for private universities.

“Every selective private college and university that I’m aware of takes legacy status into account to some degree,” he said. “In selective private universities, admissions have never simply been about academic and personal qualifications. It’s always been about the community, and all the different things we’re looking for in an entering class.”

As a result, selective private college and university admissions have long been more complex and more nuanced than the admissions processes of public universities, Guttentag said.

Even after Texas A&M announced its decision to abolish legacy admissions preferences, some complained that taking this step to diversify the student body was like treating a broken bone with a Band-Aid—the concept, they said, was admirable, but the decision will ultimately have a negligible effect.

Guttentag noted it will be impossible to satisfy all constituents. “The admissions process is not one that can ever be perfect because it’s not entirely quantifiable and there’s a great deal of weighing different factors,” he said. “We certainly can’t make everybody happy, but I think we balance all of the various factors that are taken into account appropriately, and the result has been an impressive student body that keeps getting better.”

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PHYSICS from page 1 Physics professors from both sides of harassment allegations—both accuser and accused—contested the content of the article, though for different reasons.

Associate professor Roxanne Springer, who leveled numerous accusations against former visiting professor Sergei Matinyan and was featured extensively in the article, said although the piece accurately captured the wide variety of opinions about the harassment issue, she wished it had better communicated the strides the physics department has made since allegations first surfaced years ago.

Among the forgotten anti-harassment measures, Lange wrote, was the establishment of a new associate chair in the physics department to focus on improving teaching and mentoring. He also noted that the University has launched a review of the its harassment policy to ensure that it is effec-

five “not only in principle, but in implementation” and pointed to surveys, intensified recruiting efforts and ongoing work by the department toward developing written guidelines and resolution mechanisms for allegations of harassment.

On the other hand, Springer added that the piece understated the patterns of harassment that have led to the disciplining of several faculty members, specifically citing a case documented in the report, in which Associate Research Professor of physics Thomas Phillips was disciplined for allegedly staring at physics lecturer Mary Creason’s breasts.

“The implication was that Tom Phillips was taken out of the classroom based on her complaint alone,” Springer said, “and that was absolutely not true. There was a history there.”

For his part, Phillips vigorously objected to the content of the article, saying it was imbalanced and inaccurate. He complained that the author deliberately omitted infer-

mation that left the piece one-sided.

Among the inaccuracies in the article, he said, is the description of the breaststaring incident. “I believe that what you’ll find is that [Creason] didn’t say what is attributed to her in relation to the incident in the hall that involved me,” he said. Creason could not be reached for comment.

Phillips also said the reporter inaccurately credited an idea for department lunches to physics chair Harold Baranger, when she knew it was actually Phillips who came up with the idea.

Lange, Springer and Phillips expressed diverging opinions on whether the publication of the report was a good thing.

Lange expressed a generally optimistic view. “Although we were disappointed the article did not say more about what Professor Baranger and others have done to improve matters, we welcome the debate it will spark about the continuing responsibility we all face to help more women succeed in the sciences at Duke and else-

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in security might badly reduce turnout in certain areas and render the election unfair, election experts say. Iraq’s ethnic divisions, mirrored imperfectly in its politics, tend to follow rough geographic lines that define the largely Kurdish north, the central Sunni Arab heartland and the overwhelmingly Shiite Arab south.

It would be especially dangerous if security is weak in Sunni Arab areas and consequently depressed turnout among that group, which makes up a fifth of the country’s 25 million people. Sunnis formed the core of Saddam Hussein’s government, and it is in the so-called Sunni triangle, where violence against the American military is fiercest. Many Sunnis already feel disenfranchised, and their anger will only grow if security problems keep them from voting and skew the election results, Hiltermann said.

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With a growing expansion of services such as the new event Duke Career Week, the center hopes that the new space will allow for the development of new programming to more effectively aid students in their career search.

“Ideally we would like to build relationships between students and personal career counselors for three or four years,” Curran said.

IN OTHER BUSINESS; The Senate selected six new legislators—Chris Bowes, George Flemming, Ryan Kennedy, Jesse Longoria, Meri Levy and Pascal Thomas—to fill vacancies. The body also began using the Personal Response System for attendance and voting decisions, the result of a resolution passed last semester.

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where,” he wrote By contrast, Phillips said the publication of the article damaged his reputation, led to a deterioration of the atmosphere in the physics department and will cause male professors to be overly cautious when dealing with female members of the department.

“I had been very careful not to tell anyone about what had happened to me because I didn’t want other male professors to think if they had a conversation with another professor in the hall and didn’t make eye contact, they could be disciplined. That has a very chilling effect on personal interactions,” he said. “Now everybody knows about that.”

Springer came out somewhere in between. She said she would be pleased about the article’s publication only if it led to more people understanding what actually took place and if it sparked more support from the administration for the physics department’s efforts to improve climate.

Under the current plan, a transitional assembly—several hundredIraqis from every region and social sector will be chosen in caucus-style elections from the country’s 18 provinces. This assembly is to choose an interim government in June, and that indirectly-elected interim government is to draft a constitution.

But shordy after the Nov. agreement, al-Sistani came out against the caucus plan and for direct balloting. A direct ballot would give the Shiites, who account for 60 percent of the population, a clear advantage, while the caucus plan is more likely to give moderate politicians a leg up.

100,000 supporters of al-Sistani marched through Baghdad Monday, protesting the coalition’s plans. The crowds have been peaceful, if adamant, in echoing his repeated calls for the kind of democracy they say direct elections would produce. Because the issue of violence would lend weight to the arguments of those who oppose a direct election, the ayatollah’s supporters generally avoid the issue of security.

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PIANO from page 3 the Arts Dorm is as hard as getting to Biddle since I live on Central. And the piano there is not as nice as some of the ones in Biddle.”

Traveling to Biddle has forced Horn into a routine that has even affected his health.

“It is a pain that all the practice rooms are on East,” he said. “Since I have to travel to practice, I usually can only practice a few days a week and end up practicing for long periods of time at once. It has actually led to some back problems that I had to see the physical therapist about.”

There are certainly those who feel comfortable with practicing the piano in the gym, but for others like Horn, there are proposed plans currently underway to carve out a private space for practice a little closer to home. Associate Professor of the practice of music Randall Love, who gives piano lessons, has spearheaded the music department’s efforts to put pianos in West Campus dorms. He has also advocated for the future expanded Bryan Center to include two or three practice rooms.

“People £re always saying I wish there was a place to practice on West,” said Love.

“The problem is for upperclassmen who practice a lot to schlep over here [to East].

What we’re trying to do is create spaces for them to use.”

Harry Davidson, professor of the practice of music and director of the Duke Symphony Orchestra, supports additions of West Campus practice facilities. He believes, though, that only a very specific group of students will benefit.

“Even within the context of orchestra, it becomes that much more difficult after the students are finished with freshman year to return here [to East] for rehearsals,” said Davidson. “I think the dedicated ones will always find away to do this, but those students who are just playing in orchestra because they want to keep playing and aren’t

as musically involved as others are the ones that might find places to practice on West Campus [helpful].”

He added that the current lack ofrehearsal space on West Campus has not necessarily inhibited his students’ level of performance.

Still, the popularity of the gym piano and the long trek to East commonly taken is a testament to the need for centrally-located practice rooms on West. Love’s proposal for the Bryan Center to host pianos not only solves this lack offacilities on West, but will also remedy Duke’s past mistake of placing pianos in open, unprotected areas—which is how the piano in the gym got there in the first place.

Five years ago, the Kawai piano company began a loaner program with Duke—they would provide pianos at designated places and replace them yearly. They would then sell these pianos, which fetched a higher price because of their University affiliation.

Kawai, however, made it clear from the beginning that their pianos would not be located at places as unprotected as the Bryan Center, which housed a piano from 1982 to 1992. Instead, they wanted more protected venues such as Wilson Recreation Center to assure the pianos would remain in relatively good resale conditions.

“Kawai didn’t want its pianos to be in such a public area, so they searched for other locations on West,” recalled Love.

“There was just no room at all, and some of the oddest places were chosen because they were semi-protective.”

Although the current location of the gym piano is accessible, while still providing protection, it doesn’t provide a suitable venue for serious practice. Until music students can walk into enclosed practice rooms in the new Bryan Center or other West Campus locations, however, it seems that the only options will still have to be making the long journey to East Campus—or setding for serenading elliptical machine users and

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HACKING from page 1 password or when they fail to download security updates for their operating systems. Most of the University’s recent hacking cases have resulted from a lack of an administrator password, he said.

The identity of the hackers —and Cramer said there are almost certainly multiple people involved—is largely impossible to trace. Many of the suspected hackers are thought to be from foreign countries, including Brazil, while others are suspected to be from within the United States.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has not taken up any Duke cases yet, Cramer said, because the amount of damage from each hacking is relatively small.

Cramer said there are three main motivations to hacking Duke computers: fun, data storage and as a means to attack other computers. Although the hackers’ amusement factor may be impossible to gauge, hacked Duke computers have been used for data storage and, occasionally, to launch attacks on other computers.

“Typically, these are teenagers younger teenagers—-just looking for thrills,” Cramer said. “The folks who break into the machines are [often] looking for some computer where they can store movies, music, pornography, et cetera, all these illegal materials, so that other people can download them.”

The standard OIT protocol for dealing with hacked computers is to wipe clean the hard drive and reinstall the operating system. This reinstallation service is free but leads to five to seven days of computer deprivation, as well as the inconvenience of having to back up important data and reinstall programs.

Hacking victims, predictably, voiced their displeasure about their computer lobotomies. “It’s awful,” Kaushik said. “I —

live in Edens [Quadrangle]; the computer lab isn’t even close and applications and resumes are due.”

“It’s just sort of a pain... actually, it’s a big pain,” said junior Kate Hansen. “I don’t have a burner, so all my music and picture files are gone. I was only able to salvage some [Microsoft] Word files and stuff.”

For those who did not save their original CD-ROMs for application packages such as Microsoft Office, the operating system reinstallation can become quite expensive. Duke Computer Store manager Clarence Morgan said the computer store cannot replace lost disks.

OIT insists on reinstalling hacked operating systems because of the relatively unlikely possibility that a hacked system could attack other computers on the network. Failure by a hacked individual to bring his or her computer to OIT within a week results in a severed internet connection, Cramer said.

“Unless you really know what you’re doing, the safest thing to do is reinstall the operating system and then restore that data to a clean computer,” Cramer said. ‘You can attempt to get the hacker off your system, but it’s never as simple as just changing your password, because usually the hacker has installed back doors—ways they can get back in.”

Some students are complaining about shorter-than-advertised periods between initial notification and losing their inter-' net; others say their computers have remained in the shop longer than five to seven days. Despite the grumbling, most praised OIT workers’ helpfulness and others have even identified positive aspects to being temporarily stripped of their computers.

“My roommate’s computer got hacked into too,” said Hansen of her fellow study abroad veteran, junior Jessica Laun, “so we actually have real conversations.”

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Simpson recently graced the cover of Rolling Stone. What she was wearing or not wearing isn't important here. What she was holding, however, is—namely a green mop clearly labeled as a Swiffer Wetjet. It's official; As if sixty pages ofadvertisements plus three more inserts weren't enough to sell the reader, the plague of product placement is now on the cover of one of rock & roll's once venerable institutions. The concern that the next almost-nude pop tart might be sporting a brand-new bottle of Febreze or hawking the latest picture phone from Motorola Is not as pressing, however, as the tremendous change it represents in the music world. Rolling Stone was a publication borne out of the '6os counterculture, a magazine without any big-name advertisers. And as recently as the early '9os, in the early days of"modern rock" —the genre RS represents when it's not covering the next flavor-ofthe-month—there was a little band called Nirvana, whose frontman wore t-shirts that read "Corporate Rock Still Sucks."

It's a sign of the times when former rocker Jewel's latest hit is written for a Schick commercial.

Back in the 70s, when the Kinks wrote "Lola," they

were forced to change the words "Coca-Cola" to "cherry cola." Corporate song sponsorship wasn't imagined then. Now, however, OutKast just shook it "like a Polaroid picture" and Lil' Kim's "The Jump Off" contained a mind-boggling 14 product references ("make a Sprite can disappear in my mouth" for one.)

From Busta's"Pass the Courvoisier"in 2002 to Phat Farm clothing's debut in 1992, hip-hop has always been above the product-marketing-music and music-marketing-product curve. But unlike Nelly's selling Air Force Ones (also a song), P. Diddy's successful Sean John line or Mya's popular Coke jingle, rock & roll merchandization has thus far yielded fewer success stories and oftentimes, it Is perceived as a money-making degradation—rather than a complement —to a band's musical repertoire.

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Forget anything you thought you knew about independent film. Nevermore represents an entire cross-section of independent filmmaking, including everything from low-budget student films to international blockbusters. This is an opportunity to savor the most unapologetically indulgent of the genre; from no-holds-barred slashers and impossi-

ble conspiracy-theory science fiction, to the most elaborate exercises in spoof, farce and black comedy. Cursed as we are with such a limited fantasy-horror repertoire (pretty much every horrorflick of the last decade or so seems like a patchwork of the old Stephen King and teen-scream classics), Nevermore picks up where the studios can't (or won't) go, taking chances on elaborate plots and lots of gore.

Nevermore also provides a great opportunity to talk directly to directors and producers.

Filmmajcerss Alan Rowe Kelly {l'll Bury You Tomorrow), Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley {Ghost of the Needle), Stefan Avalos { The Ghosts of Edendale) and lan Hayes Brett {At Night With No Curtains) will be in attendance, introducing their films and remaining afterward for questions. Even if you don't have any specific questions it's always entertaining to listen. Q&A's are a great opportunity to examine technique and talk shop, and most filmmakers are eagerfor feedback.

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Right now, we can't deny that you don't like u5.... You really, really don't like us. Recess answers some of its actual online feedback: On David Walters' potshot at country music's Billy Ray Cyrus: "I think that this is a very sarcastic, rude, and uncalled for article regarding Billy Ray Cyrus. Billy Ray, like everyone else, including David Walters, has made mistakes. I've seen so many of his efforts to help people that go unnoticed, and he likes it that way. He doesn't do it so people can praise him for the kind heart he has. Likewise, he could careless [sic] for the ignorant David Walters' of the world and what they have to say."

—Patrick Gear, Wisconsin Rapids, Wl Dear Patrick I've seen the error of my ways. I now have a full mullet and every episode of the PAX TV gem "Doc" on Laser Disc. Clint Cassidy rules.

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Dear Matthew NERD ALERT! How about "Do not read this ifyou ever want to get laid again?"

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On Natalia Antonova's review of Mystic River: "DEAR SEAN PENN I SURE WOULDN'T GO SEE YOUR MOVIE IF I GOT IN FREE YOU AND TIM ARE TRAITOR AND TREASON TO THE UNITED STATES OUR COUNTRY YOU NEEDTO CHANGE AND QUIT GRUMBLING AND PRAY INSTEAD OR YOU ARE GOING TO HELL." SINCERLY [sic] BETTY A WALDRON Dear Betty—We have no affiliation with Sean Penn, but we think you're adorable.

On Katie Latanich's Matrix review: "In response to your article about the Matrix Revolutions film, I try and shed some light on its significance. Despite practically every critic slamming it, I want to give you my perspective. It does not give you all the truths to the film, but hopefully you will have a much higher appreciation for it. I warn readers, DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED." [The writer then proceeded to offer a 1300 word explanation.]

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On Hilary Lewis' look at politics and rock: "I doubt if anyone is listening except to the overwhelming propaganda of the Bush admin.We see your country not gaining freedom but losing it day by day starting with the Patriot Act. No one in the US except the rich and powerful Democrats can really criticize the policy of GW. Most people have to hide their thoughts for fear of repercussion from a president that we in Canada feel is out of control with power, greed and his belief in the Christian God.God help you all."

—Jim Barz, Canada Dear Jim—Settle down, eh? Hoser.

On Gillian Barnard's view of samesex kisses: "Well this is what we call the X-generation and some of this [sic] things are quite mad but anyway we have to understand the end is near and some of this stuff is just but madness."

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By Sean Biederman Last night at 10:30, you missed out on some crazy sh*t, biatch. In the image of "The Ben Stiller Show,""Mr. Show,""The State"and other fine sketch comedy series that have gone the way of Crystal Pepsi, Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show" is currently pushing the envelope. It delivers at least an hour of laughter in its halfhour time slot with an exceptional assortment of pop culture spoofs, sketches about crack heads and jokes about boobies, knockers, chesticles and sweater puppets. Each episode consists of a smattering of skits, linked by stand-up segues and topped off with a musical performance by one of hiphop's finest. Artists in store for the upcoming season include DMX, Common and Ludacris.

Dave Chappelle, most notably of the 1998 cult classic Half Baked, is in the midst of his second season of comedic brilliance, as he narrowly avoids cancellation each Wednesday at 10:30 p.m.

This season, Chappelle will undoubtedly continue to give us a non-stop set of laughs offending anyone and everyone who tunes in, but this is precisely the beauty of the program. He spares no one with take-offs on Apple Computers, Girls Gone Wild, Kinko's, Nostradamus, It's a

Wonderful Life, Yoda and of course, white people. Not to exaggerate the issue, but

Chappelle's material is often as risky as a bet on Dennis Kucinich for the Democratic nomination.

With Chappelle himself getting all of the attention it is easy to overlook the fine job done by his supporting cast of regulars and notable guests including Old School pledge Eddie Pepitone, "Sex and the City" queen Mario Cantone, "Last Comic Comedy Central should be shopping for more shows like Dave Chappelle’s.

Standing"should've-won Rich Vos and prolific redhead Michael Rapaport. Street segments have even featured such wild cards as Stephen King, Carson Daly,Twisted Sister's Dee Snider and "Fear Factor" host Joe Rogan.The moral of this story is that when you tune in you never know just what to expect.

We can hear your pitiful excuses now:"But every Wednesday night at 10:30 I'm busy sowing my wild oats!" Well, you won't get out of this that easily."Chappelle's Show" appears again Thursdays at 12:30 p.m., Saturdays at 9:00 and 9:30 p.m., Sundays at 10:00 and 10:30 p.m.ad infinitum.Thanks to Comedy Central's dearth of programming, we essentially get Chappelle at our convenience. If that isn't enough to please your insatiable comedy appetite, Chappelle's 12-episode first season will be released on DVD Feb. 24 in uncensored form.

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(Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 9:45 p.m.)

The Human Seeing is a short "Twilight Zone" style spoof, complete with black and white sets, goofy costumes and overblown caricatures. Seeing imagines a future in which corporate masterminds replace office drones with genetically altered worker-bee/human hybrids. Bring your l-banker roommate. Best of all is the spot-on campy dialogue, which manages to be ridiculous without missing a beat, (Showing with Ultrachrist, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 9:45 p.m.)

2009Lost Memories:The year is 2009. More than fifty years have passed since Japan won World War 11,annexing the Korean peninsula and making Seoul the Empire's third largest city. 2009 is part sci-fi time travel, part Bond, part... who knows. It's well-made, very wellfinanced; and all the more compelling for some unfamiliar political undercurrents. (Friday, 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 p.m.; Sunday, 9:30 p.m.)

I'll Bury You Tomorrow is the story of Dolores, a

beautiful young mortician (the very best kind) seeking work in a New Jersey funeral home. Delores likes to cuddle with cadavers. She talks to them, too. ("You are a little ripe," she smirks, spritzing one bruised stiff with cologne.) This is the best kind of horror film —all the blood-guts-and-adrenaline sensuality of a good slasher, with a surprisingly substantial plot. (Saturday, 10 p.m.; Sunday, 7:15 p.m.)

My Little Eye returns by request, following its debut this fall at the Carolina's Escapism Film Festival. If we've learned anything from reality TV—bless that addictive bullshit—it's that the higher the stakes, the bigger the twist. Five co-dependent strangers compete for millions, their lives recorded on 24-hour webcams.The question: Why isn't anyone watching? (Sunday, 7:30 p.m.)

The Ghosts of Edendale is the story of East coast yuppies-turned-screenwriters who move to a creepy Hollywood neighborhood where everyone's in the business. Director Stefan Avalos is renowned for his early advances in digital filmmaking technique. Look out for seamless special effects, including ghostly faces in the wood of a backyard fence. (Saturday, 5:15 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.)

From director John Hancock (Let's Scare Jessica to Death) comes Suspended Animation, the story of an animator's inexplicable obsession with the reclusive cannibalistic family that tries to kill him. Hancock's film, which includes a neat animated sequencers big,sprawling and goes on forever—in the very best sort of way because a good horror film is never really over. (Friday, 9:15 p.m.; Saturday, 3:15 p.m.)

But who will stalk the stalkers? Ghost of the Needle —

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settles all the nagging little horror questions that other films tend to gloss over: what to do with a recent kill, for example, (vacuum pack for freshness); or how to tourniquet a neck wound (sorry). Most importantly, it explores the possibility of the hunter—you knew this was coming—becoming the hunted.'Cause even serial killers are scared of needle-wielding psychos. (Saturday, 3 pm; Sunday, 3 p.m.)

Lethal Dose features abandoned laboratories,animal testing, torture chambers, idealistic Brits, wayward poltergeists and even a Spice Girl (Melanie Brown). Quite possibly the festival's freakiest offering in terms of creative mutilation.(Saturday, 5:30 p.m.; Sunday, 3:15 p.m.)

Don Coscarelli's Bubba Ho-Tep is another feature piece and the festival's most-requested title. Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and JFK (Ossie Davis) play geriatric budges yillain in a Texas nursing home, battling an df“possibly Johnson an (former president Lyndon make this stuff up.

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Additional selections include At Night With.No Curtains, a creepy Civil War ghost story by North Carolina director lan Hayes Brett (Saturday, 1 p.m.; Sunday, 5 p.m.); the big budget Korean sci-fi flick Yesterday (Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m.); road kill thriller MonsterMan (Friday, 7:10 p.m.);the utterly indescribable (but most highly recommended) The American Astronaut (Saturday, 10:15 p.m.; Sunday, 1:15 p.m.); and Octane, which stars a solid young cast (Bijou Phillips, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and "The O.C.'s" Mischa Barton) experimenting with car wrecks and satanic cults. (Saturday, 1:15 p.m.; Sunday, 5:15 p.m.)

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From the steel drums and horn riffs at the beginning of"Spiderwebs" to the discoesque"You Can Do lt"and the Disneyland-directed title track, No Doubt displays the creativity and enthusiasm only exhibited by a then-unknown band.

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In "Anna Begins," lead singer Adam Duritz recounts losing his virginity, while his candid "Raining in Baltimore," stands out as a high point. Every word registers, every note penetrates. Every song is a gem. Duritz's uniquely controlled whine conveys emotion without being trite or sweet; all guitar work accentuates rather than overshadows the songs .August is an album that I've loved since childgood, one of those CDs in which just hearing the introduction to any of its songs conjures up memories. One of the best albums of any decade.

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In a convertible, Nina Persson barrels down the desert highway; she tosses a Felix the Cat doll to the road's mercy, slams into every other car and runs over one very unlucky guy.This is the scene for the "My Favorite Game" video, the first single off The Cardigans'fourth LP, Gran Turismo. Here, the group no longer trumpets'6os candyfloss like "Lovefool," the band's breakthrough hit, or lounge versions of Black Sabbath. It is a radical departure ofform and atmosphere, a dark and not-so-dreary night in Stockholm, as this Swedish ice queen croons about wrecked relationships and lost love.The bittersweet electronic beats and distorted guitar set the stage for Persson's piercing vocals, and unlike most of trip-hop, the album's obvious influence, the songs are not quickly disposable; they may be hook-laden, but Persson's icy yet pained voice leaves an indelible impression on the listener.

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Local boy Ben Folds has done just fine solo, but not too long ago it was Folds Five making mainstream-snubbing piano rock, and that's when I fell in love. 1997's Whatever and Ever Amen remains one of the trio's most celebrated successes, and it's never that hard to remember why. Folds and Co. wield irony and sardonic wit with surgical precision, making the album timelessly appropriate for anyone whose ever felt picked on ("One Angry DwarfandTwo Hundred Solemn Faces"), put down ("Song for the Dumped") or generally annoyed ("Steven's Last Night in Town"). The real gem of Amen, however, is the manner in which Mr. Folds handles his obsessive bouts with dysfunctional love. From the wrenching "Brick" to the equally haunting "Evaporated," Ben Folds Five has made many a young man employ the "I'm not crying, I just have dirt in my eye" defense. I say cry away; it's a classic.

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Before their new album came out in 2003, the Shins' 2001 release Oh, Inverted World had been in my car stereo for over seven months. That's like three oil changes. It's an album that never gets old. Two years later, the chorus of"Girl on the Wing" still gives me goosebumps. A modern reincarnation of'6os pop-rock, the album is as much a tribute to Brian Wilson as it is to Syd Barrett or Nick Drake.

Each track is an understated gem, building masterful melodies with jangling guitars, psychedelic keyboards and a lead singer (James Mercer) that is at once wildly dynamic and quietly personal. Upbeat tracks like "Know Your Onion" and "Girl Inform Me" are irresistibly catchy, while "The Past and Pending" is sweetly hypnotic. The effect of the album might be captured in its best track, "New Slang," a timeless song you hope will never get out of your head.

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By Corinne Lowe Some people will like Along Came Polly. Those same people probably liked Duplex. These are the people that keep Hollywood in business, and these are the people that will forever stunt every sort-of funny actor like Ben Stiller from taking chances on films that aren't exactly like the lastfour he's done.

In case you've ever wondered what would happen if you put Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston in on the spin cycle together, Polly is the answer. It is every boring, predictable Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy smushed together with every tiresome, overdone Ben Stiller screwball farce, with no attempt made by writer-director John Hamburg to reconcile the two.

Stiller is Reuben Feffer, an insurance risk analyst

who thinks he's finally found the right anal-retentive gal to settle down with. Unfortunately, when his new spouse (Debra Messing) takes more than just diving lessons from an island scuba instructor (Hank Azaria), poor Reuben finds himself heading back to the mainland alone.

Surrounded by his walking-punchline supporting cast (his boss, played by Alec Baldwin,funny in that'Tmhosting-Saturday-Night-Live" way; and best friend, played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, funny in that "I-should-have-been-a-character-in-O/d School" way), Reuben tries to pick up the pieces of the perfect life he had planned out. Instead, he picks up an old middle school friend, Aniston, as the free-spirited, flaky Polly.

The wackiness that ensues as Polly penetrates Reuben's

sedentary world is mildly funny at its best. At worst, it's as irritating as spicy food is to Reuben's sensitive bowels.

Though Stiller's antics get more screen time, most of the film's scenes remotely appealing revolve around Aniston's everyday quirks. In one scene, Polly desperately searches for her keys, eventually acquiescing to use the key finder Reuben got her. She traces the beeping to inside her refrigerator, marveling "How?" That's A ferret joke only goes so funny. That's clever. Maybe just a far. tad unrealistic, but close enough to home that it's charming. Here's something that's not funny: Reuben trying to unclog Polly's toilet with a $2OO loofah, after an unfortunate bout with the aforementioned irritable bowel syndrome. Although to some audiences"embarrassment comedy" like this will never go out ofstyle, either it or the sporadic attempts at sentiment are entirely out of place here.

Aniston maintains her dignity through it all, acting her part like she's in just another Picture Perfect romantic comedy. In fact, it's as though she's the only one who's not joking. Maybe the joke's on her: I | Aniston's grace can't save this grade train wreck.

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continued from page 1 Clown Posse members ("7 inches tall, and he's holding a red axe, ready to do what insane clowns do") and a throw from Social Distortion. Other online retailers such as rockmerchuniverse.com sell band-approved PC mouse pads, license plate frames and windproof lighters. Featured musicians include the Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, the Doors and yes, Nirvana. On these websites, every normal supermarket product has its band equivalent, including Linkin Park's "Gold Drip Air Freshener" —"scent of air freshener may vary" —and "20 sticks of intense incense filled with the essence of AC/DC." Of course, ordering directly from the artist's website is yet another option. Here, product availability and quality vary considerably. For example, Wilco's advertised dog sweater is woven from 100% cotton, comes in five different sizes and fits even the most portly of specimens (a bulldog is the model). The inexplicable selection of eight different mugs on Ani Difranco's site might be less utile.After all, some things are more functional than others. Available for nextday shipping are No Doubt bras, 3 Doors Down metal bottle openers and a postcard set from electro-wiz Moby. Death in Vegas offers a set of rolling papers; the Grateful Dead has bar stools covered; and as usual, name-brand Avril ties are must-haves. Rhinestone bracelets, and indeed, last Christmas' special, tree ornaments from Metallica are somewhat less tasteful, as are bobbleheads of any kind, Fuel condoms and Rolling Stones-approved "animal-print knickers." The ugliest thing I've ever seen is the Jimmy Eat World cowboy tote bag.

Merchandising music obviously has its downsides.

Affiliating yourself with a product can poison the original if, for example, a band puts its face on shoddy sweatshop-produced calendars (or shot glasses or thongs). There's also the everpresent threat that the apparel and accessories production side could overshadow the music side. But with album sales falling 2.1 percent in 2003, there is ever-increasing pressure for bands to remain profitable and financially-solvent.

Here's one final pitch: Willie Nelson's Old Whiskey River Bourbon retails for around thirty dollars. Each bottle comes with a personally autographed guitar pick. Indeed, pick and choose: rock-n-roll is for sale.

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By Gillian Barnard It seems almost surreal that contemporary dance celebrity Ronald K. Brown has been frequenting campus to choreograph a piece for Duke students. In addition to his own dance company, Evidence, Brown has choreographed works for Alvin Ailey [see neighboring story], Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Jeune ballet d'Afrique Noire and countless others. Brown is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has recently been heralded as one of the most profound choreographers of the modern dance generation by the New York Times. Fiercely in demand as a choreographer, Duke and the surrounding communities have eagerly awaited his arrival.

Assistant Professor of Dance, Ava Vinesett, explained that students were invited to participate in a three-day workshop with Brown in October. It was from this workshop that the dancers for Brown's piece, titled Common Ground, were selected. Brown visited campus this past weekend to work for four days with this selected group, and their piece will be performed in its entirety this March.

Btown is careful to explain that he wants his dancers to experience more than merely memorizing the intricate steps for a performance. He said that every movement tells a story and that he works hard to relate this concept to his dancers/'Executing the step is one thing, but understanding and feeling what is behind it is another," he noted. Dancer Victor Jeffreys explains "at first 1 was really nervous about getting the steps, but Ron would have a story for the movements, and now I realize how much that makes sense."

Evidence is renowned for its electrifying shows that are frequently categorized as African dance. As Vinesett describes, Brown's piece combines African, modern and ballet dancers.Thls variety of dancers makes Brown's piece remarkable. Brown's choreography is renowned for providing the audience with an explosive and electrifying performance, and Common Ground does just that.

While Brown's dancers were quick to praise him for his patience, Brown describes himself as demanding."! teach classes and work all day long. When the day ends I'm tired, yet I still go and take dance classes. I encourage my company members to do the same. Dance is something you always have to be learning and exploring."

Ronald K. Brown's Common Ground will premiere March 27 & 28 in Reynolds Theater.

Some go for the flying leaps, the revolutionary choreography, the Revelations.

Others go for the hot black men.

Whatever your nectar, A iley II will be in Page Auditorium on Mo iday at 8 p.m.to satisfy the craving.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, founded in 1958 by legendary dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey, is a company committed to performing the highest caliber of modern dance and preserving the uniqueness of African-American cultural expression.

Known largely for its interpretations of the African-American experience, its dancers are a combination of the ballet artist's form and the jazz performer's heart—arms flailing, but always in perfect form. The Ailey II that have posters graced campus since December, featuring Ailey II dancer Brandye Lee, exemplify the aesthetic. The personal connection that Ailey II performers make with their dances and their audiences has kept the company touring since 1974 Alley II dancers are selected from the graduating pool of The Ailey School. Sylvia Waters, artistic director of Ailey II since its inception, looks for "a willingness to reveal oneself... a style of 'dancing from the inside out'—the uniqueness of the individual, and how they convey it," in addition to technique and adaptability. Ailey II is not an imitation of the primary compa-

Ny, Alvin Alley American Dance Theater.

The dancers are younger, and usually stay on tour for two years, working through the transition from rehearsal studio to performance stage with a demanding and varied repertory, requiring them to push an assortment of skills. Although the dancers are young, they exhibit a fresh energy and vitality as the promising artists of tomorrow on the threshold of their careers. Most eventually join either the New York company or pursue careers professional with other groups.

Monday evening, the troupe will perform five dances, set to music from Bach to spiritual, and including Alley's signature piece, "Revelations."

Choreographed and first performed in 1960, "Revelations" is a chronicle of the AfricanAmerican religious experience. With live singers and the characteristic image of a group of dancers moving in unison, reaching towards the audience before looking downward with arms curved to the sides, it is reminiscent of a sunrise, or rebirth. Alvin Ailey often remarked how he attempted, especially with "Revelations," to create a ballet for everyone. Although the company is primarily African-American, it includes the occasional white, Latino or Asian dancer anyone with the technical skills, stage charisma and passion for a uniquely American form of dance.

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With a showdown against No. 2 Tennessee looming Saturday night, the top-ranked women’s basketball team (14-1, 5-1 in the ACC) will look to stay focused on conference foe Maryland (12-5, 4-2), which will be traveling to Durham for tonight’s 7

find ways to win, and despite their offensive struggles in the second half, the Blue Devils

o’clock game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The Blue Devils are coming off one of their shakiest contests of the season last Sunday, when they defeated Virginia 64-53, and head coach Gail'Goestenkors wants her team to perform better as it looks to extend its 48-game winning streak in the ACC. “We did not have a particularly good game against Virginia, so we want to come out and try to improve,” Goestenkors said. “It doesn’t matter who the opponent is; every game we want to get better.”

Although Duke has beaten Maryland six consecutive times, the Terrapins are vastly improved from last year’s 10-18 team and currently sit in third place in the conference.

Freshman guards Shay Doran and Kalika France, who combine for 25 points per game, lead a revamped backcourt that is the strength of the 2003-2004 squad. “[Maryland] is pretty guard strong,” Duke senior Vicki Krapohl said. “They just do a great job moving the ball, and they’re going to be a totally different team this year than they were last year. In the past we’ve been beating them pretty badly, and I think this year they’re going to come ready to play.”

Krapohl and point guard Lindsey Harding —who is tied with Maryland’s Alii Spence for sixth in the league in assists with 4.27 per game—will be largely responsible for shutting down Doran and France.

‘Their freshmen have been stepping in for them a lot this year,” Harding said. “They’re very guard-oriented, and we’ve got to stop their transition and get into the lane offensively against them.”

In addition to their freshman tandem, the Terrapins have been getting strong post play from 6foot-3 center Delvona Oliver, who is one of the most improved play-

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. —JJ. Reclick was unfazed by the derision of nearly 18,000 screaming Maryland fans, and his shooting touch and tenacity helped the men’s basketball team fend off a late second-half surge by Maryland en route to a 68-60 win last night.

When the Terrapins pulled to within three points of Duke on a Nik Caner-Medley trey with just under five minutes remaining, Redick, who already had 19 points, took over the game. The sophomore shook his defender with a ballfake and pulled up for a three-pointer which fell through the hoop, giving Duke a six-point lead.

“I like to play with emotion,” Redick said. “I can’t explain it any other way.”

In the game’s remaining four minutes, Redick logged two rebounds and a steal. Even more impressive. Redick also nailedfour free throws to seal the game once Maryland head coach Gary Williams’ squad resorted to fouls, as Terrapin fans howled “F— you,JJ.” ‘You put [Redick] on the line, you might as well put two points on the floor.” Caner-Medley said after the game.

Duke’s win at Maryland was its first in three years, and it came on the strength ofRedick’s near-perfect (five-for-six) three point shooting, as well as his flawless nine-for-nine mark from the charity stripe, which helped him post a teamhigh 26 points. The entire Blue Devil squad played relentless basketball, posting a season-high 24 offensive rebounds, which allowed head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s squad to log 71 field goal attempts to Maryland’s 59.

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. The offense was struggling to put up points, a once-commanding lead had been whittled to three late in the game, and the hostile Maryland crowd—the self-dubbed Red Army—had finally found to reason explode. It was a recipe for disaster that had done in the Blue Devils recent in But years.

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ers in the ACC. Oliver’s matchup inside with Duke center Mistie Bass, another candidate for the conference’s most improved player, will be one of the keys to the game.

“Delvona Oliver is a good post player for them who has a big, strong body and can also shoot the three,” Goestenkors said. “She is one of the most improved players in the conference, along with Mistie Bass, so I think that’s going to be a really good matchup.”

Maryland will be looking to improve on last year’s dismal showing in Cameron, when six Blue Devils scored in double figures to lead Duke to a 10152 blowout victory.

For the Blue Devils to have similar success this year, they will need to show more patience on offense than they have in recent games.

“We need to get back to moving the ball a little more,” Krapohl said. “I think in the Virginia game we were doing one pass and then a shot a lot of the time.

We need to move the ball and take a little more time off the clock on offense and make Maryland work a little harder than Virginia.”

Goestenkors has been preaching discipline on the offensive end in practice, and she hopes that her team will

respond tonight.

“Sometimes I feel like we’re in such a rush to score and be ahead by a lot that we rush things,” Goestenkors said.

“We’re working on showing more patience. If we have a good shot, we still want to have that attack mindset, but if not we want to work a little bit more.

Instead of getting a good shot, we want to work for a great shot.”

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Redick’s performance was not the only impressive or versatile effort from a Duke player, as freshman forward Luol Deng tallied 13 points and 12 rebounds, while senior point guard Chris Duhon had eight points, eight assists and seven rebounds, including a lunging fingerroll to help Duke pull away in the waning moments of the second half.

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“Late in the game, when both teams were tired, he was determined to make a play for us. It wasn’t always pretty, but you have to make a play.”

Coach K, on Chris Duhon “Late in the game, when both teams were tired, he was determined to make a play for us,” Krzyzewski said.

“It wasn’t always pretty, but you have to make a play; he was a great senior leader tonight.”

Maryland was paced by 21 points from CanerMedley, including 11 of Maryland’s final 16 points.

The sophomore also logged eight boards and two lategame blocks Duke led for the game’s last 36 minutes—including leads that peaked at 14 points—but Maryland was able to close the gap with dead-eye shooting from CanerMedley and sophomore guard John Gilchrist, as well as stifling defense in the paint that limited Duke center Shelden Williams to a quiet six-point performance.

Duke’s lead shrunk shortly before halftime, as Maryland put up six points in 64 seconds to send Duke to the lockers with a 35-29 lead.

“Maryland played with all their heart, and they put themselves in a position to win,” Krzyzewski said. “We had to respond to that; I think our kids did.”

Park unscathed for the first time in three years.

“I think we showed a lot of maturity today,” senior point guard Chris Duhon said. “We were able to withstand their runs, and we didn’t quit. We kept fighting.”

Duke’s second-half struggles began when Maryland clamped down on Shelden Williams in the paint and kept JJ. Redick from getting free on the perimeter. With their primary inside-outside threats shut down, the Blue Devils had difficulty finding open looks, and Maryland slowly chipped away at the lead.

“When you’re seeing triple-teams, and people being physical and kind of getting you out of the game a little bit, it is frustrating,” Williams said.

Nonetheless, every time the Terrapins were on the verge of taking control, the Blue Devils responded.

“I think we have the poise now to not panic in tough situations,” Duhon said. “We made some big plays down the stretch. It was really physical, but we just needed to play through it and keep attacking, and we just [barely] held them off.”

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road. But defense and rebounding don’t take a night off, and whereas in past years Duke has been routinely dominated on the glass and in the paint, Duke beat Maryland Wednesday night largely because of its 49-34 edge on the boards and its astounding 24 offensive rebounds.

What had been a liability is now a

prolific strength.

It also doesn’t hurt to have a veteran point guard finally playing up to his potential and taking charge of this relatively young team. While Redick earned the headlines with a

phenomenal 26-point performance,

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski knows his team would never have stood a chance without Duhon.

“Chris was huge for us,” Krzyzewski said. “I told him in the locker room at halftime, ‘lf I put up the word determination, I’d put your picture right next to it.’ You’ll hear about J.J., but we wouldn’t have won without Chris.”

Senior leadership, inside toughness, the ability to grit out wins when the shots aren’t falling those are the intangibles that win teams championships, and those are the intangibles that allowed the Blue Devils to escape College Park with their 12th consecutive win.

“It was a big test for our team tonight, especially with the way we played up here last year,” junior Daniel Ewing said. “We answered their runs with great defense and execution on offense and we were able to get a good win against a tough team.”

Duke’s Christian Laettner was named to ESPN’s All-ACC team, honoring the conference’s top players in the past 25 years.

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MEN’S VARSITY LACROSSE MANAGER The Duke men’s varsity lacrosse team is looking for a male or female work-study eligible student to be team manager for the upcoming 2004 spring season.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to practice set-up, filming practice, keeping game statistics and limited office work. Position will commence as soon as candidate is chosen. If you have interest please contact Jon Lantzy, Assistant Men’s Lacrosse Coach at 684-4427 or email at jplantzy@duke.edu.

Open Temporary Positions at Athenix Corp. (January 2004).

Research Associate

Molecular Biology (Temporary): Job Screen microbes Responsibilities: for pesticidal proteins, and use molecular biology techniques to identify the responsible genes.

Construct vectors for the expression of genes in microbes and plants. Several positions: 20-40 hours per week, initial assignment for 6 months. Required skills and experience: M.S. in biochemistry or related field; experience a plus; or B.S. in biochemistry or related field years with 2-4 experience.

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Excellent organization, recordkeeping and computer skills.

Research Associate Vector Construction (Temporary): Job Responsibilities: Construct and analyze plasmid vectors for expressing foreign genes in bacteria and plants. One position: 20-40 hours per week, initial assignment for 6 months. Required skills and experience: B.S. in molecular biology, microbiology, biochemistry or related field with 0-2 years of experience. Molecular biology techniques (plasmid isolation, restriction digests, agarose gel electrophoresis). Excellent organization and record keeping, skills.

Familiarity with DNA mapping and sequence editing software a plus.

Research Associate Plan Transformation (Temporary): Job Responsibilities: Transformation of corn and tobacco, maintenance of cultures, generation of plants, some plant analysis to monitor gene expression. Several positions; 20-40 hours per week, initial assignment for 6 months. Required skills and experience: B.S. or M.S. in biology with at least 2 years of laboratory experience in plant tissue culture and transformation.

Experience with transformation of corn, cotton, or tobacco are preferred. Excellent organization, recordkeeping and computer skills.

Ability to work independently and to maintain a contamination-free tissue culture area are critical. We offer competitive salaries and an exciting opportunity to work for a cutting edge company. To apply, email resume to please careers@athenixcorp.com or fax to (919) 281-09Q4 or send to Athenix Corp., Human Resources, 2202 Ellis Road, Suite B, Durham, NC 27703.

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Student (work study or other position Duke in Dermatology Research Labs. Dependable and detail-oriented student needed to perform essential laboratory duties such as preparing reagents, washing and autoclaving glassware, getting references from the library, preparing slides, updating computer databases and performing literature searches. Knowledge of sterile technique is preferable but we will teach a student who has the interest and motivation to learn this and other techniques that may progress to tissue culture and molecular biol-

ogy protocols involving RNA/DNA preparation and cloning. Work hours are flexible to fit student’s class schedule, approx. 10-20 hours/week. Please contact Linda Walker at walkeol7@mc.duke.edu.

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Physiological Ecology Assistantships: Work-study positions available with Dr. Ram Oren.

Please contact April Melvin, LSRC A250, phone 613-8050, email: april.melvin@duke.edu. Students will assist with projects on carbon and water cycles in southeastern old-field, pine, and hardwood forests. This work will be part of larger global change projects and involves processing vegetation samples and some field-work. 10 hours/week- scheduling is completely flexible. $8.50/ hour. No previous experience is necessary.

PART-TIME POSITION AVAILABLE Ten-person law firm in Durham area seeks part-time combination Reception! st-Administrative Assistant. Polished speaking skills required, with at least moderate-togood administrative assistant skills desired; position offers attractive office venue and environment.

Forward resume to Hiring Partner, P.O. Box 52394, Durham, NC 27717-2394,

RAINBOW SOCCER COACHES WANTED! Volunteer coaches needed for Youth, ages 3-13. Practices M&W or T&TH, 4:15 5:15 pm. All big, tall, large-hearted, willing, funloving people qualify. Option to play free in Adult Rainbow Recreational league. For information call 9673340 or 967-8797, e-mail rainbowsoccer@earthlink.net or register online at www.rainbowsoccer.org.

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Must be dependable, good with kids of all ages, have organizational skills, dynamic attitude and reliable transportation. Soccer coaching and refereeing experience preferred. Call 967-3340 or 967-8797 ASAP.

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House for rent, option to buy. 2BR, hardwood floors, central AC and heating. Fireplace, carport, large utility room, W/D hook-up. Stove and refrigerator furnished. Country wooded setting. 6 miles west of Duke. On Linden Rd. Call 382-8012.

Rustic cabin in woods near Eno River for Rent; 8 minutes from Duke.

SMALL (900 square feet, 4 rooms tiny bathroom), unfurnished, very rustic cabin in Orange County, near Duke U. No appliances are included. You must have refrigerator, cooking stove and heat source—woodstove, kerosene stove, gas heater. Current tenant may have some of these items for sale to new tenant. Limited well water is included, but no washer/dryer hookups. $350 per month $350 security deposit: $7OO to move in. Available +

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This is one of 4 closely located cabins at the same location. Current residents appreciate quiet, considerate, responsible neighbors. You must keep yard mowed, raked, etc.

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Houses For Sale

105 CARVED OAK DR. 144,900 2 bedroom 2 bath Townhome.

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RESEARCH ASSISTANT

BARCELONA SUMMER 2004

The Cognition lab in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience is looking for a responsible, interested undergrad to start right away. 10-15 hours a week starting @ $7/hour. Assistant is needed to schedule and run subjects in studies of language and the brain. Psychology major preferred but not required.

Interested? Call Chrissy at (919) 681-1023 or email ccc9@duke.edu.

6-wk, 2-cc language study program in sunny Barcelona offering immersion into the rich heritage of the vibrant Catalonian culture. Meet program director Prof. Teresa Vilaros at a 2nd information meeting, Thurs., Jan. 22 at 5:30 p.m. in 228 Gray Bldg. Merit-based language scholarships are available! For applications, visit

Get paid for your opinions! Eai $l5-$125 and more per surve

www.paidonlinesurveys.com TestMasters is hiring GMAT, GRE, and SAT instructors. $3O/hr.

Minimum 99th percentile score required on an actual test administration. 800-696-5728x103.

The Office of the University Secretary seeks a work study student to assist the office with confidential projects. Day and hours are flexible with class schedules (anticipate 8-10+ hours per week).

Interested students, please email julie.clodfelter@duke.edu with a brief resume, showing previous work responsibilities.

WAITSTAFF NEEDED Blue Corn- an established restaurant on 9th St. is now hiring waitstaff. All shifts. Please come in and fill out application.

Houses For Rent Close to Duke. 2BR, IBA, big kitchen, W/D, 2 car garage, storage, 1/2 acre, deck. Bus line. Available February. $B5O/month. Call 2805091 or 933-4233.

//www.aas.duke.edu/study_abro ad/ or the Office of Study Abroad, 2016 Campus Dr. Deadline to submit application material is Feb. 6.

Questions? Call 684-2174.

DUKE IN RUSSIA SUMMER 2004 Join program director Prof. Edna Andrews at the 2nd summer information meeting, Mon., Jan. 26 at 4 p.m. In 101 Old Chem, & learn more about this 6-week, 2-cc program in St. Petersburg, focusing on Russian language & culture.

Merit-based Mac Anderson Scholarships are available! Obtain forms onsite, online at

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Deadline to submit all application material is Feb. 6.

Questions? Call 660-3140.

PROGRAM II INFORMATION MEETING Thursday, January 22, 4-s:oopm, Room 204 Perkins. Program II provides an alternative self-designed degree program in Trinity College.

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RENT: American Village Duplex. 2 Bedrooms, 1.5 Baths, Fireplace, Refrigerator, 4 minutes to Duke. New carpet, vinyl, and counter top. $825/mth. 782-0094 or 4140528.

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Real Estate Sales OFFICE CONDO 3,200 sq. ft. condo in University Commons near South Square.

Great condition. $409,000. Details call Maverick Partners- 682-0501.

Roommate wanted for 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 1200 sq. ft. furnished apartment complete with washer/dryer and private garage/storage space. $6OO per month plus 1/2 utilities.

Call (919)-383-7329.

Roommate Wanted for 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment with W/D. Near Southpoint Mall. $350 per month plus 1/3 utilities. Call Joe at 2604703.

Senior needs 2 tickets for home game, preferably Maryland. Email eacl4@duke.edu or call 613-2558.

WANTED: Tickets for either Duke vs. Maryland (Jan. 21) or Duke vs. Georgetown (Jan. 24) game. Please contact Stephanie at srisbon@duke.edu or call 684-3811.

Roommate Wanted

DURHAM Furnished, LR, DR, Kit, Den, 3 bdrm, 2 bath, porch, two phone lines. Hope Valley Rd., $375, 1/2 utilities, deposit.

Available Jan 25. 919-493-7739.

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2+ tickets needed for DukeMaryland basketball game on Feb. 22 to highlight bachelor party weekend. Please call 888-311-1070.

Need 2 -4 men’s basketball tickets for Maryland or Valparaiso. Call Peter 6130689oremailpdm@duke.edu.

WANTED: Two tickets to DukeMaryland game, February 22. ‘6B grad’s 14 year old son has never been to a game at Cameron.

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Academic THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004 Environmental Institutions Seminar: 12:30-2pm.

Subhrendu Pattanayak, Sr. Economist at RTI. Subhrendu Pattanayak, Senior Ecnonomist at the Research Triangle Institute will conduct the seminar "Light lunch (RSVP: leithc@duke.edu). "Sponsored by the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions. Room 158 A, Levine Science Research Center (Nicholas School), Research Drive. **

Chemistry Seminar: 3:3opm. Public seminar by Boris Mizaikoff, Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology. 103 P.M. Gross Chemical Laboratory.

Popßio Seminar: 7pm. Alison Sweeney, Duke University. 140 Biological Sciences.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 Visualization Seminar: 12noon-Ipm. Seminar with Carlo Tomasi, Ph.D, Dept, of Computer Science: "Tracking Hand Gestures." Location: Room DlO6, Levine Science Research Center.

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Music Lecture: 4pm. "Listening to the Wild Blue Yonder; The Challenges of Acoustic Archeology." Mary Duke Biddle Music Bldg, Room 101. A lecture by BRUCE SMITH (Univ. of Southern California, English Dept.) This lecture is co-sponsored by the English Department and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. It is free and open to the public.

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Social Programming and Meetings THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 Concert: Bpm. Piotr Anderszewski, Piano. Polish-born pianist Piotr Anderszewski is hailed in Europe as a stylish performer, and an exceptionally interesting one. This year's winner of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, Anderszewski is a rising star on the international concert scene, a strong-minded, sensual artist with dazzling technique. Page Auditorium.

AID-Duke Social Awareness Film Series: 7pm. VILLAGE REPUBLIC. A Film on sustainable development through local governance in Sukhomajri, Haryana; Seed, Rajasthan; Ralegan Siddhi, Maharashtra; and Kesharpur village, Orissa. This film is very relevant to Panchayat Academy project approved by AID-Duke recently. Soc. Sci. 136.

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DUMA exhibition: Through May 16.Koz'ma Prutkov: A View of St. Petersburg. Thirty-one hand-colored etchings with aquatint by Alla Ozerevskaia and Anatoly Yakolev illustrate a 1990 edition of the writings of Koz'ma Prutkov, described as "the greatest Russian writer who never lived." Prukov was the collaborative invention of four poets in nineteenth-century St. Petersburg and quickly became a cult figure. These prints reveal the continued relevance of the political aphorisms of the fictitious, nineteenth-century bureaucrat and writer. Call for Museum Hours: 684-5135 Location: Duke University Museum of Art. -

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DUMA exhibition: Through February 1 . Art Stars: An Alumnus Collects. Some of the hottest contemporary artists are represented in this amazing collection from Chapel Hill’s Charlotte and Tom Newby (T66). Duke University Museum of Art.

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Inspections will yield benefits coming weeks, the city of rently occupied by Duke students Durham will kick off a housing are in poor condition. Landlords safety inspection initiative de- rent the residences out from one signed to improve areas of substan- group of students to the next each dard housing across the city. Al- year, and given the rancorous though the inspections will be lifestyle ofmany off-campus college conducted throughout Durham, individuals, the owners have little the program will indirectly target incentive to make meaningful and often cosdy repairs residences occupied to homes. The

by Duke students, STAFF EDITORIAL inspections will especially those living in houses off of East Campus, force substandard residences to be While the inspections may cause revitalized, and not at the expense temporary headaches for students, of students. Residents may be rethe overall result of increasing safe- sponsible for damage they caused ty and health standards will ulti- directly, but on the whole, students mately benefit students and will be getting more than they give.

Several negative caveats do accomDurham residents immensely.

The inspection program is long pany the inspection program. Inoverdue, as the dilapidated condi- spectors, though not explicitly seektion of many of Durham’sresiden- ing to cite students for alcohol or tial neighborhoods proves. The living violations, will do so if rules are inspection program itself is not observed being broken. A law stating the final word in housing safety, that there can be no more than three but is a reasonable short term re- permanent occupants in a single sponse to the many safety and family home may be enforced, to the health ordinance violations in the unfortunate detriment of some offcity’s residences. The initiative campus students. Individuals should seems to be well designed, with be aware that this law exists, and that appropriate mechanisms for vio- they may be forced to make altemalation identification, enforcement live arrangements.

The city’s inspection plan is amand advising in place.

The inspections will begin on bitious, and although it targets Jan. 28 in Trinity Park off East Cam- Duke students at the outset, the inipus. While this will in fact mean tiative will eventually expand to that many Duke students will be cover every residence in all older the immediate targets of inspecinner-city neighborhoods. Durham tions, the inspections will actually should be praised for its efforts, prove to be a bonus for them in the and for taking meaningful steps to long run. Many of the houses cur- ensure the safety of its citizens.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Many benefits accompany sororities As members of a vapid cult, we have a few to correct.

Shadee misconceptions Malakalou’s most disconcerting claim is that sororities are not true sisterhoods. Maybe since she is a freshman who did not go through recruitment, she has only.seen certain aspects of sorority life.

If she had been in our last round of recruitment, she would have seen the way we interact: we support one another, we like each other and we do cry on each other’s shoulders.

We are both seniors who were tentative about sorority life; however, we decided to give it a try. We have made some of our best friends through our sorority. They are intelligent, diverse, capable and confident women who we go to for comfort, support, friendship and fun. We do not understand her negativity towards something we have come to care about deeply. It’s her prerogative to have her opinion, but perhaps she should think twice before insulting a community in which roughly 40 percent of the women on campus are involved.

We do agree that we would like to have more time to get to know future sisters; however, as our chapter says, recruitment is a superficial process, but we are not superficial women and we do the best we can in the time allowed.

Since when is being womanly a bad thing? In our sorority being womanly means that you are poised, thoughtful and self-assured.

Sororities on campus are involved in many different things. Duke sororities raise thousands of dollars every year for charities.

Malakalou’s ideas demonstrate an extremely shallow view of sororities. We guarantee her opinions are not true of our sorority and, from what we have seen, they are not true of any sorority. If she would contact us, we would like to invite her to one of our functions, where she will meet women who are friendly, spirited and strong with genuine smiles. Hey, maybe even some stilettos and black lace.

Vanessa Drumm Trinity ’O4 Ellen Newby Trinity ’O4

All Americans deserve health “A govemment-run health care system is the wrong prescription.” Experts predict that it could cost up to $1 billion a year to maintain a public healthcare system like the one Canada has. Most Americans can't fathom that amount of money, but we all shouldrealize that there are 300 million Americans.

Quick math tells us that if each American was required to give $33.33 along with theirregular income tax, it would produce ten times that much, and everyone in America could have health care for less than three dollars a month. Please, I beg anyone to find a reason why this should not be done.

Yes, I realize the consequences for all the pompous health care corporations existing now. More than half the country has no coverage at all right now; this plan would eliminate that need as well as maintain the current system for those who wish to pay extra.

care

The prescription may be written in messy handwriting, but it nonetheless says clearly:

you and your stone heart are wrong for America, Mr. Bush—all Americans have a right to basic health coverage.

Though critical for most of this, I must emphasize that the state of the union is indeed strong; stronger than any nation in human history. Advances in science and art explode exponentially as a bright new generation sits poised to grab onto the reigns of a powerful horse. But strength is something that is very easily misused, and if has been misused by our current administration. So let the union remain strong; may we use that strength to help others, to understand and to dream, rather than for destruction and hatred.

Matt Johnson Trinity ’O6

Alspaugh is still the same Reading Professor Cook-Deagan's guest commentary, ‘To Alspaugh, with Love” Monday, I was saddened to hear that old Alspaugh hasn't improved much in two years.

case, but after talking to students at Duke and elsewhere it is clear that this stupidity goes on in dorms all around the country. Is this supposed to be one of those inevitable college ex-

The list of the selfish acts its residents have committed this year kicked up some of my own memories from freshman year—writing covering the second floor walls, vomit flooding the guest bathroom downstairs and broken glass scattered in front of the Fac-in-Res' door all come to mind. Could you imagine walking over to your neighbors house and covering his front yard with a handful of tiny glass shards, knowing several small children lived there? Just another example of how a few careless people managed to ruin a perfectly good dorm.

I wish that this small-mindednesswere confined to just Alspaugh. However, I’d bet every college student in America could ratde off half a dozen Alspaughisms committed in their own dorms. Okay, maybe we were an extreme

periences, indulging in childish disregard for the people that live and work around you?

Faculties-in-residence are here because

they absolutely love teaching and want to be around students all the time, not so they can mop up vomit and run fire drills in the middle of the night. It just doesn’t seem right that, because they choose to dedicate so much to teaching, they have to put up with, in some cases, the most selfish behavior imaginable. However, clearly it’s not the majority of students doing this. During my freshman year I learned to respect and admire the people I lived with in Alspaugh, and I am confident that now it’s still just a few ignorant people ruining it for the rest.

Chris Einmo Pratt ’O3

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Memoir from the lowa caucuses

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had the unique privilege of spending this tion, however, made all the angry rejections past Monday evening in the heart of the worthwhile. The process also became exAmerican democratic process: the oneceedingly more rewarding as we aproom Municipal Library in Albion, lowa. On proached caucus night and shifted our Thursday/Friday I had made the 21-hour focus from swaying undecided voters to raltrek from Raleigh, North Carolina to Ames, lying those who had expressed support for lowa with around 40 other volunteers, mosdy Edwards. This latter group was, not surprisstudents from other North Carolina colleges. ingly, a more sympathetic lot, particularly When I initially agreed to make the trip (and when we would show up at their house out also, more strongly, about 15 hours into the of the -15 degree wind chill and tell them how far we had come. trip) I thought myself to be as crazy as you may well To provide a very brief think me. Nonetheless, overview of the caucus what transpired was, at the process: on caucus night, lowa voters gather someperhaps unavoidable risk of where in their precinct to sounding cliched and corny, divide that precinct's deleone of the most fulfilling exgates among the candiperiences ofmy life dates. The room is divided Our tasks the first few "* IT r» i ReslllCK into different preference consisted almost endays m J opinion, man groups, one for each cantirely of making phone Just didate. Supporters of the calls and going to door to door to try to shore up support for our different candidates, both voters and obcandidate. Since this process of systematic servers such as myself, are then allowed to harassment had commenced long before try to win over people from other groups our arrival and was being carried out by at or undecided voters. When people are least three other campaigns, some folks done realigning, the precinct's delegates were, understandably, not too pleased to are awarded in proportion to the number of supporters each candidate has. hear from us. The only frightening enWhen I first walked into the Albion Mucounter, though, came not with a disgruntled lowan but when a van full of Dean nicipal Library, caucus location for lowa supporters, a cult-like crowd wearing and Taylor Townships in Marshall County, bright orange hats and dressed from the lowa, things did not look good for John Edneck down in black, pulled up beside me wards. The only person there when I arand a fellow volunteer and flung its doors rived, apart from the librarian and a few children, was a woman hanging John Kerry open. I was certain they were going to kidnap and somehow brainwash into followsigns and balloons. The next group to arrive ing their lord and master, but instead they was armed with Gephardt stickers and signs. just hissed at us (I swear I'm not making As people filed in, I worked my way through the crowd, trying to keep a fairly low profile this up) and drove away.

Those voters who did want to discuss the and not appear slick or pushy. While I overheard people here and there saying they is?vte§, GT. express their thanks or admira-

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were for Edwards, there were no signs, no stickers, no buttons; no visible signs of support for Edwards at all, save for the photo of him which hung by a piece ofyarn from my neck. When the caucus chair called for the voters to break into preference groups, I feared the worst. To my pleasant surprise, as one woman went to the front to grab the “Edwards” sign, which the chair had printed up and nearly half the room followed her to our corner.

Before sending the volunteers out to our precincts, the paid campaign staff gave us instruction in the art of deal-making, different ways of trading support or winning over undecideds based more on process than principles. As things unfolded on caucus night, the caucus strategy briefing moved further and further from my thoughts, particularly as I listened to people discuss why they were supporting a certain candidate. I do not mean at all to sound condescending when I say that it just didn't seem right to discuss any coolly calculated deals with people who were supporting a certain candidate because they believed that person was best equipped and most willing to save their job, or simply because they had heard him speak and trusted him at a gut level. As things worked out, simple logistics played more to my advantage than any strategy session ever could have. The precinct's lone uncommitted voter and the four Dean supporters, not enough for Dean to win even a single delegate, all happened to be standing near the Edwards area, and no one from the Kerry or Gephardt groups made any effort to win these people over. Other than one Dean supporter who saw this as an opportunity to duck out early, they were all easy converts.

The undecided woman told me the most important issues to her were the loss of factory

jobs and health care, two of the issues Senator Edwards is strongest on. After reciting some biography and quoting some proposals, she was on board. The remaining Dean enthusiasts, who had been instructed to back Dean by their union representatives, all said that Edwards had been their second choice going in, but I like to think I cemented their support by poindng out that he had the highest rating from the AFL-CIO of all the candidates. When all was said and done, Senator Edwards won five of the 10 delegates from the lowa-Taylor precinct, with Dick Gephardt taking three and John Kerry two.

Because Edwards had done so well in the library, I was a little disappointed when I learned that he had only finished 2nd, even though the 32 percent of caucus goers he won quadrupled his poll numbers from only two weeks before. Within the Edwards camp, I was alone in feeling disappointed. I was one of the last to arrive back at the Ames headquarters on caucus night, and when I arrived the celebration was in full swing as people shared war stories and congratulated one another. Putting aside the whole “helping to change the course of the nation” aspect, the displays of elation on the part of this group of people whom I had labored with, and grown rather fond of over the past four days was enough to make all the travel and all the work worth it. And, I must admit, although while the Edward’s campaign prides itself on its reputation as “the positive campaign,” the somber mood emanating from the Dean headquarters next door didn’t exactly hurt.

Anthony Resnick is a Trinity sophomore.

His column appears every third Thursday.

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have changed my opinion. I love sororities. This past Sunday was bid day, and marked the end of rush for the nine chapters that belong to the Duke University Panhellenic Council. Hundreds of freshman girls (though supposedly less than in previous years) finally found their true sisters. Of course, Sunday night was the time to celebrate the continuity of these institutions of oppression and segregation Martin Luther King Day provided the rest these girls needed so badly.

This was the week that C2K was kicked off its

pedestal by a faculty committee that Tallman Trask decided demand for housing on West exceeded supply and that Duke donated half a professorship to UNC in

honor of Nan. But rush was more fun.

As a Durham police officer shot the suspect of a drug-related crime, a Caucasian girl on East Campus had to choose between Louis Vuitton and Prada. The classic defence of sorority rush is that it works. It results in good matches.

These matches, however, only work Irony? Probably. because new sorority members undergo Leon Dunkley, campus visionary a (sometimes drastic) personality and director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture provided change in order to fit in with their newly some excellent analysis in the pages of acquired family. I have seen this happen once too often. Peer pressure can this paper several days ago: “Giving stube a bitch. dents the day off does not mean they it reflection Perhaps the best matches are made will automatically spend in JoOSt Boslaild through dirty rush. Despite the staggerabout King’s life.” Nope, they spend it Ihe Caterpillars leachings c u u A £_ IH. ing amount of space points thrown recovering from substance abuse and around, this practice was not absent filling in memory gaps. from the 2004 rush process.

“Did I, like, really do that?”

Why should it be?

Last week, flocks of perfumed, immaculately lost 18 wandered around olds Dirty rush, for those ofyou who are blissfully ignoyear campus. I dressed, was greatly entertained by this humiliating spectacle. rant of greekspeak, is the process where freshwomen These girls were clearly on a mission. Through abactually spend time with members of a sorority chapter, go to parties, get to know wonderful women and short these decent were conversations, surdly girls discover that they like the group of people. This fondabout to discover a new identity.

Fortunately, the sorority empresses know that these ness can be mutual, which would result in a bid for the girl. Dirty rush is considered a heinous, unspeakconversations provide no basis for a decision. These friendly exchanges, of which girls have up to 30-some a able atrocity at our University.

Duke’s collective memory is on par with that of day, are clearly superficial.

So instead, a rushee is judged on more substantial America. Only a few months ago students publicly degrounds. Her reputation. Who she knows. What she cried effortless perfection. In a touching column on said on the bus three months ago when someone overthese pages, we were given an insight into the world of her conversation.

How much she drinks.

Whom depression encompassed by the notion from the heard she sleeps with.

Women’s Initiative.

And of course her physique. Everything is perfectSince then, the term has found its way into a eulofor Sasha Burakow as a positive attribute. I do not ly graded on a five point scale. gy .

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blame the author of the piece. It is the student body as a whole that perpetuates the ideal of perfection.

And rush is the time ofyear perfection matters most.

One high rush official told her chapter, after an efficient planning meeting, that she ruined the cookies she had attempted to bake for the occasion. Only to add that it will help them lose weight for rush.

We, as undergraduate members of women fraternities, stand for good scholarship, for guarding of good health, for maintenance of fine standards, and for serving, to the best of our ability, our college community.

That is the Panhel creed. And we have all heard the rants about leadership, sisterhood and GPA’s. If these are truly the ideals of sororityland, why are their listservs dominated by missing underwear, AA meetings and the search for a good bikini waxer?

When I first heard that Tri-Delt had a particularly strong rush class last year, I assumed they had impressive resumes and lively spirits. It turned out to mean that the new members where particularly attractive.

But the farce does not stop here.

A good friend of mine told a rushee she had to pee, which is apparently considered an awful faux pas during rush. Let me reveal a secret. Everyone pees.

Pretending otherwise is absurd.

While General Motors and Elsevier Science are hijacking our University, I find peace in the mind numbing traditions on display during rush. Brodhead’s presence on campus makes me nervous, but knowing that Kappa turned down a legacy puts me at ease. Mad Hatter’s new laptop outlets were topped by a rumor about a first-year girl choosing Delta Gamma over Tri-Delat.

I love sororities. They are terribly entertaining and iniquitously harmless. I just cannot understand why rush numbers were down this year.

Joost Bosland is a Trinity sophomore. pears every third Thursday.

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