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Classes canceled again as employees brave ice Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE

The four-wheel drive van pulled up in front of Miranda Hunter’s home Monday morning, like it did for Monte Tatum, Curtis Payne and a host ofothers. While the streets around their neighborhoods remained eerily quiet as the asphalt lay covered with a slippery mix of snow and ice, the uniformed workers climbed into the vehicle and began their morning commute. These essential staffers had a job to do, and one that could not wait, according to their bosses—the University’s students needed dining services. When inclement weather hits the University, a conference room labeled “022” in the basement of the West Duke building becomes alive. There are walkie-talkies to be doled out, managers to confer.with and hotlines to be set up. The “snow desk,” as it is referred to, is responsible for organizing Auxiliary Services’ efforts at ensuring that when the weather goes haywire, the University’s fundamental services remain constant and calm. Classes were canceled for both Monday and Tuesday, but a legion of the University’s dining and auxiliary employees were and will continue to be at their regular posts, fixing breakfasts at Alpine Bagels or replacing a lost DukeCard. Perilous road conditions are on the tip of every supervisor’s tongue—a concern for each and every employee. ‘We always provide the best we can for our employees,” said Tammy Hope, manager of the Cambridge Inn and a 20-year University employee. “In the winter storms that means transportation.” Business Manager for the DukeCard Office Roger Poff agreed. ‘Transportation of our employees in bad weather is our biggest problem,” he said. “We have to be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.” Preparedness is the key to ensure that things work smoothly. Director of Planning for Auxiliary Services David Majestic and Human Resources Manager for Auxiliary Services Richard Lee lead the pack in 022. Everyone already SEE EMPLOYEES ON PAGE 7

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A snow plow works to clear snow and iceoff the Durham Freeway.

Treacherous roads keep many home by

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and The Associated Press Durham and the Triangle lay under a blanket of snow Monday morning that left classes canceled at the major universities in the area and city government offices closed. The National Weather Service had predicted up to a quarter-inch of ice would lie on top of the several inches of snow by the end of Monday. The thaw was not expected to begin until noon Tuesday, when temperatures will finally rise above freezing. Gov. Mike Easley declared a state of emergency, allowing him to activate the National Guard. Two teams of 25

soldiers each were put on immediate standby while others were put on alert. “We’re ready to assist in the rescue of stranded motorists, emergency evacuation and transportation, search and rescue operations and auxiliary power generation,” said Lt. Col. Barney Barnhill. Easley warned motorists to stay off the roads Monday, after road conditions Sunday caused four traffic fatalities. The Highway Patrol had received 3,000 calls for help as of Monday afternoon since the snow started Sunday morning. Chief of the Durham Fire Department Otis Cooper

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Carl Rist, a Durham resident, cross-country skies down Main Street near Brightleaf Square.

While much of the University and the local Durham area stayed off the roads Sunday amid below-freezing temperatures, snow and ice, the school’s Merchant on Points food delivery program recorded the largest single-day sales in its history. “We had a record day with over $14,000 in sales with our Merchants on Points program,” said Jim Wulforst, director of dining services. Cinelli’s Restaurant & Pizzeria, which is currendy in its first year of delivery contract with the MOP program, sold over $5,700 worth offood to University students Sunday, an alltime high for the eatery.

“We did that amount of business with only four drivers,” said Gaitano Cinelli, the restaurant’s owner. “We only took orders for five hours yesterday but we had a surge of phone calls, begging us to deliver.” Cinelli cited employees’ concerns about using their personal vehicles to make deliveries in hazardous road conditions as a primary reason for the limited delivery availability. Cinelli’s orders were delivered by businessowned vehicles which are equipped with gas-heated ovens. Nearly 90 percent of Cinelli’s total business Sunday was through MOP as few frequented the Main Street establishment during its limited hours. “We’re going to go as long as the

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weather permits us [Monday],” Cinelli said. Domino’s Pizza also recorded an excellent day for food delivery sales through MOP. Manager Mack MeDougald said the restaurant delivered around 350 orders to University students on points, although he was unable to report sales figures because of security concerns. The franchise was only open until 8 p.m. because of the inclement weather. “We had an incredibly good day [Sunday],” McDougald said. “One of our main problems wasn’t the weather but finding the students once we got to Duke.” SEE POINTS ON PAGE 7

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World&Nation Powell blasts Russian censorship by

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MOSCOW Secretary of State Colin Powell criticized curbs on free elections and the news media, as well as the Russian military campaign in Chechnya, in meetings with the Russian president Monday arid in an essay in a Russian newspaper. His words represented one of the toughest public stances to date by a Bush administration official. “Certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause,” Powell said in his essay, published Monday in the newspaper Izvestia. Powell said he"

raised these concerns in seven hours of less likely to cooperate on a range ofismeetings with the Russian president, sues, from nuclear proliferation to Vladimir Putin, and other officials at Iraq’s reconstruction. the Kremlin. But growing concern about Russian Administration officials said Powell’s actions —along with rising criticism in concerns included the arrest of a Congress and among Democratic presidential candidates about American pasprominent businessperson and political rival of Putin, Mikhail Khodorsivity—have contributed to an adjustkovsky, and the seizure of his assets. ment in the administration’s stance. Powell also commented on parliamenPublishing Powell’s article markedly tary elections in which several parties increases the pressure, but it also avoids complained about a lack of access to putting Bush and Putin direcdy at logthe news media. gerheads. One senior official said earliThe Bush administration has been er this month that the strategy was to reluctant to criticize Russia publicly, “avoid making this a leader-to-leader saying Russian officials’ extreme sensiconfrontation,” using surrogates to tivity to such remarks could make them send the messages.

Court strikes down part of PATRIOT Act by

Eric Lichtblau

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WASHINGTON For the first time, a federal judge has struck down part of the sweeping anti-terrorism law known as the USA PATRIOT Act, joining other courts that have challenged integral parts of the Bush administration’s campaign against terrorism. In Los Angeles, the judge, Audrey Collins of U.S. District Court, said in a decision made public Monday that a provision in the law banning certain types of support for terrorist groups was so vague that it risked running afoul of the First Amendment. Civil liberties advocates hailed the decision as an important

victory in efforts to rein in what they regard as legal abuses in the government’s anti-terrorism initiatives. The Justice Department defended the law as a crucial tool in the fight against terrorists and promised to review the Los Angeles ruling. At issue was a provision in the act, passed by Congress after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that expanded previous anti-terrorism law to prohibit anyone from providing “expert advice or assistance” to known terrorist groups. The measure is part of a broader set of prohibitions that the Bush administration has relied on heavily in prosecuting people in Lackawana, N.Y, Portland, Ore., Detroit and elsewhere accused of providing money, training, Internet services and other “material support” to terrorist groups.

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White House softens stance on Iraq WMD The White House began to back away from its assertions that Iraq had illegal weapons, saying it now wanted to compare prewar intelligence with what may be actually found there.

France seeks to end China arms sales ban France pushed the European Union Monday to lift a 14-year ban on weapons sales to China and succeeded in putting the issue on the organization's agenda for the spring.

Congressman seeks reward for Libya Rep.Tom Lantos, D-Calif.,said Monday night that he believed that Libya's leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, had "turned the corner" in

abandoning terrorism and illicit weapons and should be rewarded with improved relations.

Terrorist plot simulation a false success Security guards who repelled four simulated terrorist attacks at a nuclear weapons plant had been tipped in advance, undermining the encouraging results, the Energy Department said.

Neanderthal probably not ancestor of man A study of the skulls of Neanderthals, compar-

ing them with early and modern humans, concludes that the ancient group is unlikely to have been the ancestor of people today. News briefs compiled from wire reports. “Now is the winter of our discontent...” William Shakespeare

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Siegel Wandering in a winter, Gothic Wonderland considers mentoring awards Reporter’s Notebook I Ruminations

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Although capable mentoring has long been recognized as a key factor in seeing graduate students through the completion of a degree, the graduate

my room, but we need to get Scotch tape, which is in his room.” Someone’s knocked the trash can tops off nearby, and one of the three plastic Dole bottles weighing down a poster has fallen to the ground, half-frozen, with a silver string wrapped around its neck like a misguided office tie. Emma and the guy, tape in hand, pass by again on the way to Wilßec. Crowell is practically empty, just a girl in green shorts talking to someone else in sweatpants. The flag by the Ambler tennis courts—which are, for perhaps the first time, unlocked and open, welcoming anyone crazy enough to play —still flies, wrapping itself, wholly tranquil, around the pole, a frozen grommet clanging gently against the metal. K-ville remains equally silent. A lone figure, clad in green jacket and hat, knocks snow off the open-air shelter he has provided for a chair. Most of the tents remain upright; two or three have been felled,

school has yet to hit upon the best method of encouraging good mentoring practices among faculty members. Lewis Siegel, dean of the Graduate School, said discussions about mentoring were sidelined a bit as the Graduate School busied itself last semester with other administrative matters, but that the school is ready to refocus its attention to the issue of mentoring. “We’ll have a task force take a fresh look at it and probably come up with some guidelines and standards about what good mentoring is,” Siegel said, adding that the Graduate School will work closely with the Graduate and Professional Student Council to develop a working system. This, however, is only the first step. Siegel said he is even considering the creation of a rewards program for good mentors—an idea he garnered from the National Conference on Graduate Student Leadership in St. Louis last October. Washington University in St. Louis, which hosted the conference, has had a rewards program in place since 2000, honoring faculty members “whose dedication to graduate students and commitment to excellence in graduate training have made a significant contribution to the quality of life and professional development of graduate students” in Arts and Sciences at Wash. U. Eligibility for the awards, dubbed the

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Sophomore Glenn Nick scrapes ice off the windshield of a friend's car. a Friday night and find an abandoned campus, but it’s not the same—there’s no drunken stumbling today, no alcohol-induced stupor, no impending sense of dread and regret. Same thing Sunday morning right before church. Lingering in the wind today—where all the frantic third-year pre-meds, all the assistant professors of economics racing for tenure, all the overworked Alpine employees, all the garbagemen and research assistants and fencers and neurobiologists and history TAs aren’t—there rests a sense of peace, of purity. No one is here who isn’t present, and the omnipresent stench of overachievement and sloth and exhaustion—that elixir we call the University—for a single, glorious day, escapes. Everything feels joyfully quaint, slightly askew—reveling in its own simplicity. Slushing past the Kilgo entrance, that ironic Jolly Roger pirate flag that’s been out since August stares down the quad, impervious to all. A tall blonde girl and the guy with her walk out of a House J door and stop for a moment. “We’re really not doing

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You can go anywhere on a snow day at Duke. That old burnt-green landscaping melts into shades of white and gray—streaks of brown sand a mere ambulatory suggestion—the no-longer-roped-off distinctions ofPath and No Path falling to the whim of a few venturous boots. Today holds the possibility—that grand, overlooked possibility—of walking straight down the grass from Crowell to the main quad, not deigning to choose left or right. Today sends you scrambling to find a new way up the chapel steps, the stone fixtures frozen into a slick ramp emptying on the icy blacktop. Suddenly even old ossified James B. Duke, his cigar’s burning embers bearing little grains of ice, wears the countenance of a man ready to get up and go. After all, every once in a blue moon, even a WEL freezes over. A game of snow football ripples with anticipation outside West Union. The teams—four on four—line up on opposite sides of the makeshift field, and someone punts. The ball comes flying through the air, landing in one of the guy’s arms with a dampened thud. Then comes the charge. “Oh yeah, way to fall,” someone shouts. “Where did Siegel come from? I’ve never seen this kind of ‘athletic ability’ before.” The sneer quotes fly. A guy on a bike rides by while someone else chats on a cell. “Hey, what the hell is going on over there?” asks one of the linemen. His fingertip points up toward Kilgo, where six students stand on the staircase, half-naked, shivering. Four males—all in boxers and sandals—two females, one wearing a green bikini top and pink bottom, the other donning what looks like a black sports bra. Everyone’s laughing, and a seventh (clothed) brandishes a camera. Nearby, a group congregated outside Craven shouts up to a girl poking out of a third floor window. “You’re gonna get cold!” she yells, teasing. “Aw, shut up! Shut up!” they return. She giggles. “I wanna get some food!” This is a Duke that rarely shows its face. You can go out at six in the morning after

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News Briefs Former Duke Police chief dead at 81 John Goodfellow, a veteran of three wars and chief of the Duke University Police Department until his retirement in 1995, died Jan. 17 in Durham. Goodfellow joined the DUPD after 30 years of service in the United States Marine Corps, where he achieved the rank of sergeant major. He served in World War 11, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. A native ofPort Jervis, N.Y, Goodfellow is survived by his wife, Betty Lou; his sisters Joan Donahue, Betty Lynch and Marie Perkowski; his two sons, William and John; his three daughters, Kathleen Goodfellow, Sharon Riddle and Jaclyn Grover; his stepsons, Don and Brad Schlitz; his step-daughter Kathryn Schlitz Hinkle; 15 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Dining head wagers on Super Bowl

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst has accepted a friendly wager from his counterpart at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on the upcoming National Football League Super Bowl between the Carolina Panthers and the New England Patriots. Wulforst accepted the challenge from UMass Dining Services Director Ken Toong Friday morning. If Carolina wins, Toong will send Wulforst a six-person feast of lobsters, clam chowder and other Massachusetts delicacies. Whilst preparing them, UMass execudve chefWillie Sng will sport a Carolina Panthers T-shirt and cap. If New England wins, Wulforst will owe Toong a true Carolina barbecue—with all the fixins’—cooked by executive chef Olivier Altman in a Patriots T-shirt and cap. The meal would also serve six people. Toong is no stranger to the Super Bowl wager. Two years ago, he won a bet with his

stair report® Washington University in St. Louis counterpart for die 2002 Super Bowl between die Patriots and the St. Louis Rams. This is the Panthers’ first appearance in the Super Bowl. Law school tax program returns The law school’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program has been revitalized by second-year law student Janna Lewis, allowing over 30 law students, staff members and faculty members to help low-income Durham residents with their taxes this year. VITA, a long-standing community service project that had languished in recent years, will offer free tax assistance to hundreds of workers across the city. “Our VITA program will truly be a community-wide effort,” said Director ofAcademic Advising Chris McLaughlin, Law ‘96. “Students, staff and faculty from Duke Law are spearheading the program, but we’ve attracted volunteers from a numberof schools and organizations so that we can provide valuable services to our neighbors throughout the city ofDurham. This is town-and-gown cooperation at its best.” Local synagogue hosts speech on IsraeliPalestinian conflict Professor Yaron Ezrahi, professor at Hebrew University and a frequent commentator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will explore approaches available to Israeli and American Jews in resolving the competing demands for safety and sovereignty among Israelis and Palestinians in an upcoming speech. Sponsored by Brit Tzedek, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, the address, “American Elections and Israeli Politics: Front-line Perspectives on the Middle East Peace Process,” is scheduled for 7 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 5 at Beth El Synagogue Social Hall. The event is free.

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Supreme Court OKs decision on execution Lyle Denniston THE BOSTON GLOBE

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on the constitutionality of executing inmates who committed murders as minors, taking a Missouri case that could lead to the next step in narrowing capital punishment across the nation. In a brief order, the justices took on the often-debated social question of whether a 16- or 17-year-old is too young to be subjected to the death penalty. At issue is whether such executions are “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment. The court granted review 19 months after striking down the death penalty for the mentally retarded, based on “currently prevailing standards of decency”—the kind of standards it is likely to apply to minors. Robert Blecker, a law professor at New York Law School who writes frequently on capital punishment, said the issue now before the court “fits into the long-range history of progressively limiting the death penalty” but at the same time reflects “a deeper and more general trend of taking the death penalty more seriously.” Thus, he predicted that a decision against executing all youth murderers—the outcome he expects—would “embolden the abolitionists” and at the same time “may well make the death

penalty more palatable, by making it more clearly focused on the worst of the worst.” Sleeker said he favors the

penalty, but only for those found to be

“real monsters.” The National Mental Health Association, a longtime opponent of sentencing minors to death, said the court had taken a “monumental step toward ending a barbarous practice.” The association president, Michael Faenza, said it was “clear that the public does not support executing people who commit crimes before adulthood.” The debate over executing young murderers has been heightened in recent months by the trial of a youthful sniper who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in the fall of 2002. The youth, Lee Boyd Malvo, was eligible for a death sentence after his conviction in Virginia in December of a capital murder. But he was given a life sentence without a chance of parole. Jurors told reporters they ultimately were influenced against execution by his age and by the influence an older man the other sniper—had on him. Malvo was 17 at the time of the murder. He will face trials for other shootings, in Virginia and perhaps other states, and may again be faced with the possibility of a death sentence unless the Supreme Court strikes down capital punishment for juveniles. The court is not expected to issue its ruling until sometime next year. —

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eral winners list their mentor award alongside other prestigious research and teaching awards from their career,” she said. Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards, are “Given that biographies such as these are normally designed to list only the highbased loosely on a set of “best practices,” issued by the school’s Arts and Sciences lights of one’s career, I think this is very reGraduate Council Policies Committee. vealing of how the awards have impacted our campus.” Among the good mentoring practices enAnother university with a similarrewards dorsed by the committee are advising and guiding students in research; sponsoring program for good mentors is Oklahoma students and their work in and beyond the State University, which has been presenting its version, the Phoenix Faculty Awards, for campus community; and leading in administrative and professional matters such as decades. The Phoenix Award is presented publishing, grant writing, presentation of each year by the Graduate and Professional Student GovernmentAssociation to a faculresearch findings and job placement. Recipients of the award receive a ty member who exhibits “excellence in plaque and enter a hall offame of sorts for graduate teaching and advising.” Justin Moss, GPSGA president, said the outstanding faculty mentors. Each year, faculty views the award as very prestigious, past awards recipients are honored alongfor the most part. side new inductees, creating a sense oflast“Some faculty don’t pursue it at all, and outstanding among accomplishment ing then there are others who think it’s really faculty mentors, said Elaine Berland, associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts important,” he said. “If it’s getting close to their RTP seminar for tenure, I have a feeland Sciences at Wash. U. Berland said many graduate students ing that a couple might actively pursue it.” The faculty member who receives the have commented on the benefits they receive from faculty members—thanks, in Phoenix Award receives a plaque and is recognized by the president of the univerpart, to the awards. “There’s an increased awareness of how sity, Moss said. essential faculty mentoring is to graduate A number of other universities, such success and education and, later, careers,” as Harvard University and the University Berland said. “It’s also empowering to of Maryland, have rewards programs graduate students because they begin to akin to those at Wash. U. and Oklahoma State University. Siegel said he is considdevelop a better sense of what type of menering a number of different forms of a tors will be useful in supporting their successful completion of a degree.” faculty mentoring award program for Berland added that the awards provide a Duke’s graduate school. “It seemed that at Wash. U. in St. Louis, working model for other faculty members for what good mentoring should look like. it succeeded in encouraging faculty to Jessica Logan, former Graduate think about how mentoring was regarded School Senate president and the instigaand thus improve it. Plus, they got recognition, and grad students saw who were the tor of the mentor awards, said faculty members at Wash. U. consider the award best mentors,” Siegel said. “If it’s done with enough fanfare, the award can have an efquite an honor. “In academic biographies and vitae, sev- fect on the quality of mentoring here.”

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said that the volume of calls in the city was relatively low Monday in comparison to other ice storms. “People are heeding the warnings,” Cooper said. ‘The roads are not very busy. There are just isolated vehicles —no real traffic.” As of 1:30 p.m. Monday, there were no reports of any downed power lines in the city of Durham. Most of Fayetteville Road, the Durham Freeway and Interstate-40 between Durham and Chapel Hill was plowed by Monday afternoon, and the litter of wrecks that populated road shoulders Sunday was absent Monday. The forecast late Monday afternoon predicted that the heaviest accumulations of freezing rain would occur in the Sandhills area and Fayetteville, south of the Triangle. The National Weather Service maintained a winter weather warning for this area, but downgraded the Triangle area to an advisory. “We are expecting freezing rain to blanket most of the state this afternoon and evening,” Easley said. “Driving conditions are already unsafe due to the weekend storm, and this additional ice will

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gaggle heads out of the closing gym, hands red with incipient frostbite. A few insane joggers head past, and two guys help push a car stuck in the slush. Someone else warms his hands on a closed steam valve. An hour later, Duke administration breaks the news that classes will be canceled again tomorrow. IMs fly back and forth one more time; mindless screaming fills the halls one more time; whoops of joy and fist-pumping, all one more time. And so one day becomes two.

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make travel extremely dangerous.” He also advised citizens to expect significant power outages across the state. “The volume of outages will depend on the route of the storm,” Cooper said. But he added that the quarter-inch of ice expected is “the critical point for limbs beginning to snap” and fall on power lines. Tom Shiel, a spokesperson with Duke Power, said that no weather-related power outages had been reported in North Carolina by Monday afternoon, but that the company has dealt with about 7,000 in South Carolina—it had already been affected by the ice storm making its way into North Carolina. Although North Carolina crews were on standby and in contact with regional centers to keep abreast of emergencies, the storm’s path from South Carolina was not yet clear, Shiel said. “We’re monitoring it,” he said. “We’re going to keep an eye on it.” Facing the possibility of accumulations of a quarter-inch or more of ice from the freezing rain Monday evening, other utilities kept repair crews on alert too. These crews were in addition to the 1,000 National Guard soldiers put on alert by the governor and the 6,000 N.C. Department of Transportation maintenance workers already on duty.

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knows the drill—the department meets twice a year to plan for days like these where hazardous road conditions and frigid weather make normal operations treacherous. Dining services are ready in full force, says Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst, sitting in his office, walkie-talkie on his desk. The staff is being transported by special vans and there are enough supplies for the time being. “We typically have enough food on campus to last four or five days,” he said. ‘We have provisional systems and a contract so that in a tough situation we can work things out.” Most employees rely on the Auxiliary Services’ van to transport them to and from work. Wulforst said that roughly 25 employeeswere unable to make it to work Monday, but the rest of the staff was operational. Many cited the vehicle as instrumental. “I felt it was safe in the van but I would definitely not drive myself in this weather,” said Hunter, a Great Hall employee. Alpine Bagel employee Tatum thought the transportation was essential. “All I had to do was call in and they picked me up—it went smoothly,” he said. “Still, anything can happen out there on the roads and it’s bad.” While many essential services employees rely on the van for transportation, others were housed near the University’s campus Sunday night because of transit issues. The Lobby Shop’s manager Alvin Puett stayed at the Washington Duke Inn off of West Campus because he was unable to commute 45 minutes in the weather to his home in Roxboro. “It’s pretty standard,” Puett said of his overnight accommodations. ‘They’ve been very good at letting us stay at a hotel. I might be there tonight, too.”

Although the “snow desk” works to ensure employees can be transported to and from campus for their shifts, students take it upon their own initiative to prepare for the weather. ‘We saw students stocking up—one girl carried out six boxes of cereal,” Payne, a Great Hall employee, said. “People were buying $3O worth of non perishables, [or] even yogurt and sodas,” Hunter added. At the Lobby Shop, students lined up Sunday night shortly after it was announced that classes were canceled Monday to purchase breakfast foods, milk and microwaveable meals. ‘We’re fresh out of hot chocolate,” Puett said. Vendors such as Nabisco that typically deliver items daily to the Lobby Shop were unable to reach the campus because of limitations on commercial transport due to the weather. While threats of a heavy ice storm loomed over campus Monday afternoon and word spread of class cancellations for Tuesday, many employees wondered whether they were truly integral to the University at a time when hazardous road conditions made such a trek from their home dangerous, even if provided with University transportation. Junior JanielBelle sat in the Great Hall, eating and doing homework, a short distance from the register. “Because we are stuck on campus I think the dining staff is pretty essential,” she said. “But I think they should be paid double-time or something.” Still, many employees planned to choose whether to brave the inclement weather on a daily basis. “If the weather gets much worse, then I won’t even take the van,” Hunter said. “You never know... you can’t trust any one out there driving.”

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Anissa Degraffenreidt serves students in the Great Hall. Degraffenreidt was one of many Duke employees called in to work Monday despite the harsh weather conditions throughout the Triangle area.

POINTS from page 1 Wulforst also said that Grace’s Cafe had a brisk business day with successful sales with MOP. Torero’s Restaurant also reported successful sales, earning $3OO in two hours. “Business is unbelievably busy because no one can go out—so basically we can be open and provide food for them,” said William Bell, owner of Cibarius Incorporated, which delivers food for Torero’s. Although Cinelli’s, Domino’s, Grace’s

and Torero’s operated under a limited schedule Sunday, all of the Duke DelivService ery companies except Francesca’s Italian Cuisine & Grille were closed. Despite dangerous road conditions and weather remaining a hazard, the student-owned and operated company was operational Monday evening and expecting business. “Students will be delivering and we’re just encouraging [them] to be very careful in their deliveries [Monday night],” said DDS employee and Trinity junior Rhys Jones.

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“We definitely feel like it,” linebacker Dan Morgan said Monday. “We like that role. It fit the past three weeks in the playoffs and why would we want to change it now? “We like proving people wrong.” Oddsmakers, who made the Patriots a seven-point favorite, have been wrong in recent Super Bowls. Last year, Oakland was a 3 1/2-pointchoice and was routed 4821 by Tampa Bay. Two years ago, New England came into the big game a 14-point underdog to St. Louis and not only covered, but won 20-17 on Adam Vinatieri’s last-second field goal. Since the 1996 Super Bowl, only two favorites have covered: Denver in 1999 and Baltimore in 2001. “I didn’t even see the line. We really don’t care what the line is,” Morgan said. “It don’t matter to us. The SEE UNDERDOGS ON PAGE

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UNDERDOGS from page 9 be played out there on the field. All the outside stuff can really get thrown out the window once the opening kickoff starts.” While Carolina has won six straight, including three in the playoffs the last two on the road against NFC favorites St. Louis and there is no debate Philadelphia the Patriots should be favored. They have won 14 in a row, only the second time in NFL history a team has done that. They are more experienced in these surroundings, of course. And their resilience, work ethic and brilliant game plans have created a sort of inevitability about the Patriots’ results since September, when they last were beaten. “We are the underdogs out of respect,” Panthers receiver Muhsin Muhammad said. ‘They’ve won 14 games straight and beat a lot of good football teams and won under adverse conditions.” About the worst thing the Patriots can do now is become overconfident. There was a sense the Rams became big-headed in 2002, and the Patriots pounced on them. “You have to enjoy your time here, but don’t take it for granted,” linebacker Ted Johnson said. “Players understand that you work too hard to get to this point to not take full advantage of this opportunity by not preparing and letting it slip away,” tackle Matt Light added. “We know what is at stake.” Even if they can barely remember

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what it feels like to lose “I think we are always going out there trying to prove something,” quarterback Tom Brady said. ‘Two years ago, we were trying to prove something. “But I think the goal is the same, and it’s the same this year. Being a favorite, I don’t think Carolina cares much where they are or where we are. I think we have accomplished just as much as they have this year, and they have accomplished just as much as we have. They won their conference, and so have we. They are a team that beat St. Louis on the road, beat Philly on the road. They’re the toughest team we’ve played all year.” Naturally, the Panthers are saying similar things. But they are buoyed by their ability to win close games—seven by three points or less, four victories in overtime—and believe the Super Bowl will fall into that category. If it does, well, underdogs have won three of the last four Super Bowls decided by seven points or less. The Patriots have won their share of tight games, too. They have nine wins by eight points or less this season, including the playoffs, an unusually high number for a 14-2 team. That’s why they are only sevenpoint choices. They don’t blow out good teams. And the Panthers (14-5) are a good, confident, self-assured team. Even as underdogs. “I didn’t know it was going to be the Patriots,” safety Mike Minter said, “but I knew we were going to be here.”

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HOUSTON The New England Patriots have a pronounced advantage in experience at the most important position. Jake Delhomme doesn’t see it that way. In his mind, he’s been to the Super Bowl many times already. Delhomme often pretended that he was Joe Montana leading his team to another Super Bowl victory when he and his boyhood friends played in the yard at his Louisiana home. It was one ofhis favorite fantasies. “I played this game a great deal,” Delhomme said Monday, after the Panthers’ first Super Bowl week workout. “I can remember playing at halftime of Super Bowls, going out and throwing a couple of touchdown passes and practicing my dance out in the front yard.” He’s got a Super Bowl dance in the works? “No, I don’t have a dance, I can promise you that,” he said, laughing. “I did that when I was young.” New England’s Tom Brady already has won a Super Bowl and knows exactly what to expect. He threw for 145 yards and a touchdown in New 2O-17 victory over St. Louis in the Super Bowl two years ago. Brady thinks that experience is a huge advantage. “I think I have somewhat of an idea of what I’m getting myself into this year,” Brady said. “A couple of years ago, it was just so chaotic from that third week on. And then being in the Super Bowl, it was almost like, ‘When is this season going to end?”’ Dan Morgan born, raised a linebacker “My dad saw it and he told me, ‘lf I see that

happen to you again and you don’t do nothing about it, you’re going to be beat up by me, not the kid,”’ said Morgan, who has filled out to 6foot-2 and 245 pounds. “So I went out there and took care ofbusiness and beat both of them up.” With a father like that, becoming a linebacker was a natural. “My dad, he always taught me those values just being tough and not letting anybody mess with you,” Morgan said. —

Former Ohio and Ohio State native saw current coach struggle in Cleveland Belichick sparred with the media and ignored fans’ chants of “Bill must go!” as the losses piled up. He was fired after the 1995 season, his fifth in Cleveland. Now, Vrabel is trying to win his second Super Bowl in three years with Belichick as his head coach. “I remember seeing him on television and seeing the press conferences and reading the stuff in the papers,” Vrabel said, referring to Belichick’s rough stay in Cleveland. “That’s definitely not the image I think of him now. He’s probably grown a lot and changed. I’m definitely happy I’m here.” Former Super Bowl MVPs to attend Troy Aikman (1993), Terrell Davis (1998) and Marcus Allen (1984) will host the Ultimate Low Garb Tailgate Party on Saturday with 50 members of the 147th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard. The players also will offer zero-carbohydrate cocktails and low-carb food recipes on a Web site. “It’s great to have members of the armed forces at the party,” Aikman said Monday. “It’s a chance to honor the things they’ve done for this country.” >

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Academic TUESDAY, JANUARY 27 Biology Faculty Search Candidate: 2:lspm. Coleen Murphy, University of California, San Francisco. "Future research directions." 113 Physics Building.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28 Wednesdays at The Center: 12-1 pm. A. Everette James, Jr. "Images of African-Americans in Southern Painting, 1840-1940." John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240 (2204 Erwin Road, parking available in the Duke Medical Center parking deck). This event is sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Developmental Biology Colloquium Series: 4pm. Alexander Schier, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University. "Nodal signaling in development." 147 Nanaline Duke.

spm. Saxophone Workshop. Saxophone workshop with jazz great Branford Marsalis. This workshop is free and open to the public. This artist residency is made possible with the support of the Duke University Institute of the Arts. Nelson Thursday, January 29 Branford Marsalis Jazz Residency:

Branford Marsalis Jazz Residency: spm. "The Future of Jazz." Lecture on the future of jazz given by Branford Marsalis, with a question and answer period. Free and open to the public. This artist residency is made possible with the support of the Duke University Institute of

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Engaging Faculty Series: spm. Associate Professor of History Simon Partner will speak about the writing of "The Story of Haruko," his novel-in-progress, which is set in early 20th century Japan. Perkins Library Rare

Covenant Communities: Bpm. Discussion Group, Wesley Office. Contact: k!2B@ duke.edu.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28 Catholic Mass: s:lspm. Chapel Crypt.

Spanish Film Festival: 6:3opm. Todo sobre mi madre” in Spanish with English subtitles. Almodovar's resonant comic melodrama about women’s solidarity and their infinite capabilities in real life or onstage. Winner of the 1999 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Soc. Psych 130.

Campus Crusade for Christ: 7:3opm, Wednesdays, Come Journey with friends, Pursue truth and Encounter Christ! Nelson Music Room in the East Duke Building on East Campus. Open to absolutely everyone! For more information visit us on the web: www.dukecru.com.

Blackburn Festival: 7-9pm. Paul Muldoon reading & book signing. Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon will read from his work and entertain questions from the audience. A reception and book signing will follow the reading. Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Music Room, East Duke Bldg.

Weekly Eucharist (Holy Communion): s:3opm. Wesley Office (Chapel Basement). Contact: pgilbert@duke.edu.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28 Screen/Society: Bpm. Cine-East: “A Sigh" presented by Screenwriter! Griffith Film Theater (Bryan Center), West Campus.

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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. Volunteer: Community Service Center. Contact Dominique Redmond, 684-4377 or http://csc.studentaffairs.duke.edu. Volunteer: As little as 2 hours/week. Women’s Center. 126 Few Fed, or 684-3897. 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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Career Center needs new digs Student Government re- trek to (fill in the blank)?” Potential locations notwithstandcendy passed a resolution adthe Career Center is in dire multi-million doling, a vocating lar overhaul of the Career Center, need of new facilities, especially the While it is clear that a new facility is rather embarrassing interview necessary, administrators need to rooms in the lower levels of Page Auremember the age-old saying of lo- ditorium. Prospective employers imcation, location, location when pressed by Duke students’ resumes and other qualificaplanning for the tions are not going new center. STAFF EDITORIAL be dissuaded Cento The Career ter currently occupies one of the from hiring them because of the lack of an imposing and modem inbest spots on campus as far as stuis concerned. the centerviewing facility. However, Duke is If dent traffic infamous for its poor career faciliter were moved to allow for the conties, and some top firms with only struction of an entirely new in their budget to visit a few would be enough likely placed building, it universities are looking to other corin a location less frequented by stuners of the country, where they dents. Accessibility would be contheir visit to campus will be diminished. know siderably Vice President for Student Affairs comfortable and professional. The offices of the career servicLarry Moneta has already determined that the new Career Center es personnel could also benefit will not find a new home within the from more space and more logical planned West Campus Student organization, and Career Center Center. This leaves Campus Drive, Executive Director Sheila CurCentral Campus or somewhere on ran’s ambitious new plans for the the outskirts of West Campus as future of the center will only flourlikely locations. Administrators ish with a center that staff, stumust be careful in identifying the dents and potential employers perfect spot on campus and should find accommodating. Further, the proposal to link the consult heavily with students to determine which areas of campus they Career Center with the Office of would be willing to go out of their Alumni Affairs is also a move in the way to visit—at both the beginning right direction, as it would facilitate and end of the career exploration the less-than-stellar connections beprocess. A simple question to pose tween students and alumni with regard to employment. to students might be, “If you have the biggest interview of your life at Ultimately, the issue comes down the Career Center, how far are you to one of the fundamentals of interwilling to trudge in your finest viewing for a job: the first impressuit?” Or, on the other end of the sion, no matter how superficial, scale, “If you were just curious makes a big difference. It’s time for about what the Career Center has Duke to go out and find itself the to offer, would you be willing to power suit of career centers.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letter on health care misguided Mark Twain once said that there were “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” This has once again proved to be the case in Matt Johnson’s Jan. 22 letter. Johnson proposes that 300 million Americans should give just an additional $33.33 on top of their regular income tax to pay for national health care coverage. Unfortunately, 300 million is the estimated population of the entire country—according to the IRS, only an estimated 132 million taxpayers will be filing 2003 1040 forms this year. This would adjust his $33.33 figure to around $75. How many of those extra-$75-taxpayers are the teenagers making a few hundred dollars at McDonald’s over the summer or the seniors greeting people at Wal*Mart? Mr. Johnson also points out that “more than half the country has no coverage at all right now.” Again, his numbers are off wildly; the U.S. Census Bureau reports that an estimated 15.2 percent of the population were without health

insurance coverage during the entire year in 2002. One wonders how much of this 15.2 percent consists of college students, no longer covered by their parents’ plans, not yet covered by an employer plan, and, due to their fairly good health and the availability of campus medical services, not interested in pursuing a personal Blue Cross policy. When it is no longer in a person’s financial interest to be proactive about their small, inexpensive problems because Uncle Sam will pick up the bill when it becomes a big, expensive problem, will liposuction, plastic surgery and liver transplants become the order of the day? Will this lead to waiting lists for commonplace procedures, and will the overall price tag per person rise? I’m not sure Johnson has those answers. Maybe we should ask Canada...

John Straffin OFT Customer Support Analyst

An open letter to the administration Last semester, the Campus Council Housing Committee spent more than 35 hours meeting with Dean Burig about the status ofDuke’s residential community, and we feel more confused now than we were last August. We tried to come up with solutions for what has been dubbed “the housing crunch,” a striking disparity between housing for affiliated and unaffiliated students, a migration of seniors to off-campus housing and a quad system that many students feel is disjointed and contrived. We failed because we feel there is no cohesive vision for housing at Duke. If we had to predict what the housing situation would be in three, two or even one year, we would have no answer. Clearly, this is troubling. Let’s take a look at the problem: many students are unaware that last year only 104 beds (not rooms) were available for male unaffiliated upperclassmen (both juniors and seniors). Given that there are 619 upperclassmen unaffiliated males who chose to live on campus, this basically means ifyou’re a male not in a residential fraternity or selective living group (SLG), there’s an 83 percent you’re going to Central. This estimate is actually pretty low; it doesn’t include any junior or senior male living off campus, which is a significant number. Then again, even if you request a Central Campus apartment, you’re still subject to the Central Campus housing crunch. There’s a possibility you’ll end up in Edens, or rooms on West right next to fraternity and SLG sections—the least popular rooms on all campuses for unaffiliated students. While we’d like to think the situation will get better, it will almost certainly get much worse in the coming semesters. With Pratt enrollment increasing by 150 over the next three years, the looming possibility of more fraternity, sorority, or SLG sections, and the increase in Faculty-inResidence, there is no room for hope on West Campus. As bad as all this sounds, this is only one aspect of the problem. These are only numbers —the bigger, underlying problem, is a lack of community with our peers at Duke. Now, “community” is a popular buzzword at Duke. Here’s what we’re talking about; what motivates an unaffiliated student to get to know the people around her when the chances of living near them again are absurdly low? Communities for unaffiliated students are transient. How many people in Kilgo feel they have an intrinsic bond with the people around them just because they’re in Kilgo? Students —think of the people in your hall that aren’t in your block or SLG: do you know them? Do you talk to them? Are they a significant part of your life, or are they little more than an obligatory “Sup?” Is community a privilege reserved for those in SLGs or an opportunity guaranteed to all Duke students? Our system attempts to foster relationships between residents; we feel too many unaffiliated students would deem the system a failure. Why is it failing? After spending a semester immersed in the milieu of housing policy, it seems the administration has no cohesive vision for the residential community; the right hand

doesn’tknow what the left is doing. The “administration” includes The Board of Trustees, Student Affairs, Residence Life and Housing Services (RLHS), Housing Assignments and any other relevant body or official. These offices provide well-intended, yet uncoordinated, policies that when meshed together result in a chaos that detriments Duke students and counteracts the intentions of these policies. Here’s an example: The Board ofTrustees in May 2001 mandated the sophomores-on-West and linking combination of policies (a good idea in theory). However, when meshed with existing policies and University conditions (e.g. SLGs on West, increasing Pratt enrollment, increasing Facultyin-Residence program), it defeats its main purpose: to continue the camaraderie of freshman year throughout the Duke experience. Now that all sophomores are taking up beds on Wefct; .juniors are necessarily shifted to Central (see above), killing the continuity that was the intention of the Board ofTrustees. All of the policies mentioned above are good ideas, but put together, they work against each other. Where are we headed? Ifwe were to pose this question to five different University Administrators, we would almost surely get five different answers. This makes Campus Council uneasy. Seniors have experienced so much radical change since their freshman year, and it worries us that we don’t know what the residential community will look like when today’s freshmen graduate. Will West become only sophomores and SLGs? Will Central Campus become Fraternity row? Will the gateway to prime housing on Campus (wherever that may be in five years) still be through SLGs? Most importantly, what kind of community will Duke students inherit? Will the camaraderie of the freshman dorm continue, in some form, through graduation? Simply building a new Central Campus (another well-intended policy) won’t solve all our housing problems. Who will live there anti why? Though it helps the numbers crunch, somewhat, how will it help our “community” problems on West? We need a cohesive plan that accommodates the students that live here—us —while the new Central Campus is being planned and built. After 35 hours of meetings on today’s residential problems, we found it impossible to delineate any solutions because there is no vision; no one knows what Duke will look like in five years, and as a consequence, we can’t solve the temporary problems that we are now experiencing in this transition phase. And so we write this letter to the senior administration, not demanding, not inquiring, but calling for help. The student body is lost. We don’t know where we are in the housing situation, but we know we don’t like it. Please, tell us. Tell us where we are headed. And tell us soon. Chris Kallmeyer

Treasurer, Campus Council Pasha Majdi Communications Coordinator and Housing Committee Chair, Campus Council

COMMENTARIES

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Let’s talk ab out sex, baby Over our winter break, 500 mark in Iraq with its own attack of where NGOs and social justice workers the Guardian newspaper of the useless information on how to snatch up from all corners of the world converge United Kingdom reported that the right Duke guy for you. I’m not quite to discuss strategies for combating the Chinese workers in Israel were forced to sure what makes these writers think they oppressive policies of Western governments, their Southern Hemisphere colsign a contract that stipulated they actually have enough substantial informawould not have sex with Israelis. The tion to publish entire pieces on how to luders, and the multinational organizafind out if the guy they have a crush on tions such as the IMF and the WTO that workers are also banned from any reliseek nothing but profit from Third gious or political activity while they work has bitchy female friends or any other antraits before into his World they get peoples. pajain Israel. There are over 250,000 foreign noying Almost 100,000 people representing workers in Israel, most of mas at the next ingeniously themed off-campus 2,660 organizations from 132 countries atwhom began replacing frat party. tended this year’s gathering in Mumbai Palestinian workers in the Newsflash; As if passfrom Jan. 16 to Jan. 21. Speakers at this 19905, as the Israelis being the 500 mark wasn’t year’s Forum included such notables as came increasingly fearful enough, those of us who 2003 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shirin of relying upon them as a find extra time to read Ebadi, American economist and Nobel source of cheap labor. BBC News online after Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, renowned author The apartheid-like no-sex devouring the pages of and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy policy for the thousands of Chinese workers Yousuf A1 -Bulushi The Chronicle heard and former American Attorney General Action and Reaction that the American head Ramsey Clark. Never heard of the World forced to sign a contract of the team searching Social Forum? No worries. There are way should throw up red flags for all those alleged more people at Duke concerned with dataround the world for ing patterns and hook-ups. weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, those who choose to do business with IsNewsflash; Renowned international rael. Meanwhile, upon our return from David Kay, had resigned. Mr. Kay said that he did not believe Iraq had enjournalist Naomi Klein, author of the winter break on Jan. 7, Dukies were greeted with a heavy dose of intellectual gaged in a mass production of chemical analysis on the editorial page of The or biological weapons since 1991. With Chronicle in a piece about little black regards to the alleged massive stockpiles of WMDs cited by the Bush administrabooks and bras. Newsflash; In Iraq this month, the tion as justification for attacking Iraq, count 500. The Kay said, “I don’t think they existed.” American body surpassed heaviest loss was on Jan. B—our second The new head of the weapons search, day back in learning mode—when nine Charles Duelfer, said in early January American soldiers were killed when their that the chances of finding chemical or helicopter went down near the town of biological weapons in Iraq are now Fallujah. Witnesses said the chopper was “close to nil.” But hey, we columnists here at The Chronicle won’t let that bit hit by a surface to air missile before crashing. Either these resistance fighters are re- of information keep us from addressing ally stupid, and believe Saddam Hussein the more pressing issues of the day, such is going to escape from the hands of as our relationships, and yet another thousands of American guards, or they round of Duke’s very own version of a actually have legitimate grievances with well-known HBO special. After all, rethe American occupation of their coungarding the whole Iraq thing, Bush has wasted around $97 billion so far have to do with a only supnothing try that posed loyalty to the ousted Hussein. I searching for those WMDs, and if that’s guess us Dukies wouldn’t know too much nowhere near what our daddies earns in about that, though. In the most popular a month, then why should we care?! Newsflash: Mumbai, India was the source of opinion on campus, The Chronicle followed up the passing of the site of this year’s World Social Forum,

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bestselling book No Logo, will be speaking at Duke University on Wednesday,

Jan. 28, at 8 p.m.

in the Reynolds Theater of the Bryan Center. Her speech title will be “Bomb Before you Buy: The Economics of War,” and will address the current conflict in Iraq and the quesdon of why, if not for the ever-more mysteriously illusive WMDs, the richest country on the face of the earth would consider invading and occupying Iraq. What would you like to see in The Chronicle in the days following the speech? More sex columns, or real debate about the ideas of Klein and other people like her around the world who engage with a range of issues on a daily basis? It is your paper, and it represents you, whether you like it or not. Is the intellectual capacity of the student body at the nation’s fifth-ranked university really this shallow? I think not.

Yousuf Al-Bulushi is a Trinity senior. His column appears every other Tuesday.

Defining Feminism

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As queen of the Ya Ya Triangle Sisters (a.k.a. president of Tridelta sorority) and more importantly as a self-proclaimed raging feminist, I will not tolerate such slander. Like our freshman columnist, I too am restless and overwhelmed with the gender inequalities on this campus and the world beyond. I too yearn for women to become conscious of the discrimination against them belian monster that 40 percent of Duke Katie Mitchell to each cause they were born female and to dewomen choose encounter JanGuest Commentary mand systemic and cultural change. Yet, want to be clear that am I I uary. Yet, it must break our mothers and not writing this column in order to jusgrandmothers’ hearts to hear a 21st tify my enthusiastic devotion to Tridelta woman equate female equality with her liber(although indeed I am enthusiastically devoted). Century ated libido. dear sister in the struggle, feminism is My have 200 a girls in Bosland, you are correct: When you commons room where the nearest single-stall, unisex infinitely greater than black bras and thongs. Feminism is about giving voice and power to all bathroom is two dorms away (remember, non-residents cannot access dorm bathrooms), peeing is a big women, especially to those who are not permitted to deal! And Malakalou: I unabashedly admit that alongwhisper or stand. More concretely, feminism battles the one in five women in this country who will be too like Polaroid for side Pi Phis, I a picenjoy shaking it ture with my sorority sisters during the Panhellenicraped during her lifetime. Feminism cries for the 25 mandated “song and skit round.” percent of U.S. women who are domestically abused, and it bleeds for the 100 million African girls who are I have no problem tolerating constructive criticism—or even outright malicious defamation—about the victims of female genital mutilation. It demands sororities at Duke. My confidence and my belief in my that we fight against the killing of Chinese girls and lifestyle choices are above petty speculations. Oh, but the kidnapping of young women in India. Feminism also requires personal investment in our Lord help me if I allow anybody to belittle feminism in order to perpetuate propaganda, diminishing it to a intimate female communities. It holds the hands of statement about women’s right to sexual promiscuity Duke women fighting eating disorders and surviving or their obligation to condemn organized female rape. Feminism admonishes the Duke community that when President Keohane steps down, almost all of friendship.

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Duke’s top administrators will be white men. Feminism protests the lack of mentoring and of female tenured professors, especially in the sciences and engineering, and it allows Duke women to dream of being CEOs, mothers who work at home, or both. Holistically, feminism is about women supporting, advocating, and edifying other women. To me, feminism is beautiful because it allows for you to wear your black bra and Manolos while I burn my white one wearing Reeboks. Neither action deems us superior to other women, but both provide us with an outlet to physically protest patriarchal hegemony. I may be a prude in pearls while you stand sexy in stilettos, but I dare argue that we desire the same outcome: the equality of men and women in all spheres and both hemispheres. Gloria Steinem stated in one of her recent works, “I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.” I applaud this columnist for the courage to make herself vulnerable through the written word, but I also challenge her to step back and to explore a new layer, one that can be profoundly more provocative and controversial. Oh, and lay off my Ya Ya sisters. They too, are on our side. Katie Mitchell is a Trinity senior. She is president Delta Delta sorority.

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Exhibition Opening: “Migrations: Humanity in Transition.” Photographs by SEBASTIAO SALGADO. February 1,1-5 pm, Juanita Kreps Lyndhurst Galleries, Centerfor Documentary Studies, Free. Thru Mar. 28.

READINGS/LECTURES/

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Saxophone Workshop with BRANFORD MARSALIS January 28,5 pm,Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Free.

Choral Vespers Thirty- minute candlelight service. All are welcome .

January 29,5:15 pm, Duke Chapel, Free

Master Class Violist SCOTT RAWLS has performed throughout the United States and abroad as a recital artist and chamber musician. He is currently Artist/ Instructor of Viola at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he is a member of the resident Delphic String Trio.

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ARTS EVENTS ON CAMPUS This week: January 27-February 4

ON TAP! is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of the Arts in cooperation with participating campus arts departments and programs. For more information about performing arts events, call the Duke University Box Office, 684-4444 or view online at tickets.duke.edu. To inquire about this ad call 660-3356.

For additions or changes, visit Duke’s Online Calendar: calendar.duke.edu Note; Students must show Duke I.D for free admission to events.

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January 30, 3:30 pm. Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building, Free.

FILMS ON EAST

GAIL ARCHER, Barnard College/Columbia.

Freewater Presentations presents

February 1,5 pm, Duke

1/29 WHALE RIDER 1/30 WHALE RIDER GROUNDHOG DAY

Chapel, Free.

More Exhibitions....

WEST

(Midnight, Free)

1/31 LOST IN TRANSLATION

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10 pm, $3 general; $1 employees; $1 students)

LOST IN TRANSLATION 8 pm, $3 general; $1 employees; $1 students)

DEATH IN VENICE

Screen/Society presents

Lecture: “Psychoanalysis and the Music of Charisma in Freud’s and Schoenberg’s Moseses.” RUTH HACOHEN, Hebrew University. February 4,4pm, 104 Biddle Music Building, Free.

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7 9:30 pm unless otherwise indicated, Griffith Film Theater, $2 general; $1 employees; students free.

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8 pm, Richard White Auditorium, unless otherwise indicated, Free.

1/28 A SIGH. Cine-East 3: Another Side Cinema. (Griffith)

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Exhibition: “Mapworks.” Paintings by JEFFREY WHITTLE. Brown Gallefy, Bryan Center, Free. Thru Feb. 6.

Ongoing Exhibition: “A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. Dußois and the Photographs from the Paris Exposition.” John Hope Franklin Center Gallery, Free. Wednesdays At The Center: “Images of African-Americans in Southern

Osier Literary Roundtable (7 Discussion offiction by EDWARD P. JONES, 2/1

“A Rich Man” January 30, Noon, Administrative Conference Room, 14128 Red Zone, Duke Medical Center, Free.

Ongoing

Thru Mar. 12.

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Organ Recital

Contemporary works from the collection of Tom (T’66) and Charlotte Newby. Duke University Museum of Art, North Gallery, East Campus, Free .Please call (919) 6845135 for museum of hours. Thru Feb. 1.

Painting, 1840-1940.” A.EVERETTE JAMES, Jr., art collector and retired Professor and Chair, Department of Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. January 28, Noon, Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, Free.

Lecture: “The Future of Jazz.” Given by BRANFORD MARSALIS with a question & answer period. January 29, 5 pm, Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus, Free.

Reading: Blackburn Festival Pulitzer Prize winning poet PAUL MULDOON will read from his work and entertain questions from the audience. A reception and book signing willfollow. January 29, 7 pm, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Free.