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es the previous week. Clark matched Edwards’ 12 percent and bested Sen. Joe Lieberman ofConnecticut’s 10 percent.

Ever the optimist, Edwards said in a speech after the primary results were announced that he considered New Hampshire a victory for his campaign and pointed to next week’s primaries as his real time to shine.

“Look at what we’ve done. This momentum is extraordinary!” Edwards shouted to a throng of supporters. “Now we’re going to take this energy and this momentum that we saw in lowa, that we have seen in New Hampshire and take it right through February third!”

Despite a remarkably high level of turnover in the senior administration this year, top officials said they are confident of a smooth transition when the bulk of the new crop arrives this summer.

The lengthy list of departing administrators from the last two years includes many names that have long been associated with the University.

President Nan Keohane, Chancellor and CEO of the Duke University Health System Ralph Snyderman, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe, Dean of the School of Nursing Mary Champagne, Vice President for Institutional Equity Sally Dickson, Vice President for Financial Services Michael Mandl, Duke University Museum of Art Director Michael Mezzatesta, Assistant Vice President for Administration Dan Rodas, Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joe Pietrantoni and Director of Facilities Management Jerry Black have all either left or are on their way out.

With the Dec. 31, 2003, conclusion of the Campaign for Duke, Senior Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development John Piva’s future plans are unknown.

This tremendous transition has already begun, with President-elect Richard Brodhead ofYale University and George McLendon of Princeton University leading the infusion of administrators from the Ivy League and elsewhere who have been enlisted to replace the old guard. Vice President for Financial Services Hof Milam and Vice President

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This past weekend’s winter storm

dropped three inches of snow, half an inch of sleet and a layer of frozen rain an eighth of an inch thick. The mix of wintry elements congealed into a white, opaque ice, leaving many roads dangerous and much of North Carolina in a temporary paralysis.

Though North Carolina’s winters are generally weak compared to those of northern and mountain states, when winter storms hit the Tarheel State, they hit hard—putting classes, meetings and appointments on hold.

Authorities have a number of theories for the state’s vulnerability to winter weather.

North Carolina’s geography plays a key role in its winter weather battles, said Jeff Orrock, the warning coordinator for the National Weather Service in Raleigh.

During the winter, warm, moist air from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf ofMexico collides with cold fronts from the North. These meteorological conditions make North Carolina especially vulnerable to freezing rain and sleet, which form ice on the ground, he said. ‘lt’s not really snow that causes the big problems,” he noted. “Ice is a big problem, and there’s not a whole lot you can do about it.... Everybody is really at the mercy of theweather until the weather improves.”

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John Edwards gives a double-thumbs-up in New Hampshire Tuesday.

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After a whirlwind week of rallies in

high school gyms, coffee shop pit stops

and town hall meetings, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina wrapped up his campaign for the New Hampshire democratic presidential primary Tuesday night, finishing in a virtual tie for third place with retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark.

Edwards finished with just 12 percent of the vote, well behind Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, who garnered 39 percent to pick up his second win of the primary season. Former Vermont governor Howard Dean also topped Edwards with 26 percent of the vote after lagging behind him by 12 points in the lowa caucus-

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The Florida State Seminoles will return to Cameron Indoor Stadium Thursday to face off against the Duke Blue Devils... and the Cameron Crazies.

The giant slayers have arrived Florida State (14-5, 3-3 in the ACC), fresh off recent victories over then-No. 7 Wake Forest and former No. 11 North Carolina, will try to complete the hat trick Thursday in Durham against No. 1 Duke (16-1, 5-0). Seminoles’ head coach Leonard Hamilton, who has pumped new life into his program, understands the magnitude of the task.

“In all my years of coaching, I've never been a part of a scenario where your team is on the rise and you play the [seventh]-

ranked team, the [loth]- ranked team, and then have a chance to go play the No. 1-ranked team all in succession,” Hamilton told Tampa Bay Online. “That's going to force you to really, really elevate your focus and intensity... Hopefully, that's what will help us understand what we have to do and hopefully it's something that will carry over for the rest of the year.”

But as impressive as FSU has been in recent weeks, this has been the year of the Blue Devil.

Duke comes into the game with its 36-game home winning streak intact, and having obliterated

Georgetown in front of a sold out MCI center 85-66 Saturday. Chris

Duhon and Shelden Williams highlighted the contest for the Blue Devils, scoring 17 and 26

points, respectively.

‘Those two guys work together,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said to the Washington Post. “Duhon hit a couple of threes that gave us a working margin, and then all of a sudden, he'd go right in to Shelden, and Shelden produced. He was really strong with the ball, and he finished. You should shoot a high SEE FSU ON PAGE 16

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Pakistani ISLAMABAD, Pakistan officials said Wednesday that their investigation into the sale of Pakistan’s nuclear technology to Iran had now focused directly on Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb, and that his house was now under surveillance to keep him from leaving the country.

But it was unclear whether the government had the evidence, or the political will, to bring charges against the widely revered scientist. In Washington, senior administration officials said the investigations under way in Pakistan

were beginning to tie together a number of different nuclear programs—an apparent reference to Iran, North Korea and Libya, all ofwhich dealt with Pakistani scientists—and that soon U.S. officials would be able to draw connections about the black market that fueled all those efforts.

The Bush administration is engaged in a delicate series of exchanges with Pakistan, encouraging the investigation of Khan and his aides, providing data obtained from Libya as it turns over nuclear designs and parts and helping identify the middlemen who sold parts for uranium enrichment and other

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Arab prisoners and a single Israeli TEL AVTV, Israel flew on separate planes toward freedom in Germany Thursday, in a long-awaited prisoner swap between Israel and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah.

A plane carrying 36 Arabs prisoners took off from Jerusalem shortly before 4 a.m., while another plane left Beirut, Lebanon, carrying kidnapped businessperson Elhanan Tannenbaum and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers.

Under the German-mediated swap, expected to be completed later Thursday, Israel is to release 436 prisoners in exchange for the businessperson and the soldiers’ bodies. Most

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Second suicide attack kills British soldier In Kabul, a suicide car bomber blew himself up in a taxi next to British peacekeepers patrolling the Afghan capital Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding four.

Iran's governors deepen election crisis Iran's provincial governors escalated the crisis over next month's legislative elections by declaring they would not allow polling unless conservative clerics reverse their disqualification of hundreds of reformist candidates.

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But the White House has insisted it is simply aiding Pakistan, rather than leading the investigation, making it clear that Pakistan’s ruler, Pervez Musharraf is in control. Musharraf has already been under attack for doing America’s bidding in the investigation.

In Islamabad, a senior Pakistani official said “All these investigations are pointing towards Dr. A.Q. Khan. But who provided what to whom, this is very difficult to establish.”

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of the prisoners are Palestinians but the 36, including two Lebanese guerrilla leaders, are from other countries.

Israel will free 400 Palestinians into the West Bank and Gaza, turn over the remains of 59 Lebanese militants at the border with Lebanon and release the 36 non-Palestinian prisoners in Germany.

The deal boosts the Lebanese guerrilla group’s standing in the region because of its success* in freeing Palestinian prisoners, while Israel, besides the bodies and the businessperson, wins its first pledge of concrete information about an airman captured in 1986 in Lebanon.

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That winding path of wartime corruption and shady business deals—a snake, says progressive journalist Naomi Klein, slithering from the battlefields in Baghdad through lobbyist firms in London and Washington, headquarters in Houston and San Francisco —ends, of all places, in Durham.

The Research Triangle Institute, a corporation Duke founded in 1958 in conjunction with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, has won a contract initially worth $167 million to set up regional caucuses in Iraq as part of the administration’s effort to establish democracy.

“You, more than anyone else in the country or world, are involved in a crucial decision in whether Iraq has a democracy or an ‘appointocracy,’” Klein said, speaking Wednesday night before an audience of about 200 in Reynolds Theater.

Klein, who has written for The Nation, Ms. and Newsweek and authored “No Logo,” a leading book on corporate lambasted President imperialism, George W. Bush as a strategist, a leader and a person—yet Klein insisted, in a Machiavellian sort of way, that she remains optimistic.

“Democracy is the only excuse [for invading Iraq] that Bush has left,” she said, also describing the president as “an older, male version ofParis Hilton.”

“It’s 50... important and hopeful and exciting to that think that out of this disaster, something good could happen,” Klein continued.

Anyone who thinks the war in Iraq is going badly need only consult a government contractor to find a second opinion, she said While attending “Rebuilding in Iraq II,” a Washington conference, Klein heard one subcontractor speak with words of optimism about the continuing resistance. “[He said,] ‘Look, there’s a lot of bad news,’” Klein recalled. “‘But for every helicopter that goes down, another one has to be built.’ That’s looking death in the face and seeing an opportunity.”

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Journalistand activist NaomiKlein spoke to a crowd ofabout 200 Wednesday on profiteering and corruption in post-invasion Iraq.

Klein repeatedly questioned the Bush definition of democracy, charging also that the June 30 deadline Bush has declared for the beginning of free Iraqi elections entails little more than a publicity stunt geared toward the Aug. 30 start of the Republican National Convention.

“I’m not talking about holding ritualized elections every four years where the decisions are pre-made,” Klein said, alluding to the authority L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq, wields and may retain over the Iraqi regional caucuses. “I’m talking about the real, messy business of having people rule themselves, making decisions that sometimes you won’t like and your government certainly won’t like. That’s democracy.”

Economic policy in Iraq—which in-

eludes a flat 15 percent income tax rate and privatization of water, gas and other utilities —represents a “Republican dream” too radical for the United States, Klein said.

She also charged the Coalition Provisional Authority, Bremer’s organization, with knowingly defying international law, a fact that concerns contracting corporations such as Halliburton and Bechtel only due to the consequent reluctance of insurance companies to grant them expropriation insurance.

“Iraq is a pot of honey, and it’s attracting a lot of flies,” Klein said, paraphrasing Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. “But the honey isn’t just oil—it’s schools, hospitals, prisons, water.... And the flies aren’t just Halliburton.”

‘"You, more than anyone else in the country or world, are involved in a crucial decision in whether Iraq has a democracy or an ‘appointocracy.”

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North Korea, Nigeria to share weapons tech bly, Abubakaur's spokesperson, Onukaba Ojo, told The Associated Press.

North Korea has The two committed to a “program of LAGOS, Nigeria dial includes missile technolmissile with cooperation to share -technology agreed Nigeria, the Nigerian government said ogy,” Ojo said.

A statement from Abubakar’s office said Wednesday—a deal that would take the seNigeria’s “government would continue to cretive communist nation’s missile busicooperate with the Korean government in ness to sub-Saharan .Africa. would the defense sector, an area in which both If the deal goes through, Nigeria and and North Korea had cooperated Pakistan Syria Nigeria Iran, join Libya, Egypt, over the years.” among countries reported to have reThe North Korean was in Nigeria’s capceived North Korea’s help with either misital, Abuja, on a bilateral visit from Tuesday siles or missile technology.

Nigeria, which is not at war or under to Saturday.

The United States alleges that Pyany known threat from other countries, said any missile help would be used for ongyang reaped about $560 million from “peacekeeping” and to protect its territory. missile sales in 2001.

The deal made public Wednesday takes It said it was not seeking nuclear technolothe North Koreans well out of their normal of mass destruction. or gy weapons selling base, the Mideast, Gottemoeller A Nigerian official said no hardware acdecided. said. “What is surprising is that they’re so had been made or yet quisitions The government did not say whether Nigeria, far afield,” she said.

Nigeria would be North Korea’s first the continent’s most populous nation and known sub-Saharan partner.

Africa’s would obtain mismilitary giant, West Ojo initially said both sides were comsiles or simply receive help making them.

Referring to the announcement —as mitted to the deal, but later called back AP well as press reports that Nigeria later to say that “nothing was written in stone.”

Although North Korean officials had turned down the offer—State Department shown their Nigerian military counterparts spokesperson Richard Boucher said: “Obviously, this issue of regional stability and a “catalog of what they have, nothing has military acquisition is something that we been finalized and Nigeria has not taken do care about, something that’s a regular any concrete steps toward acquiring it yet,” the Nigerian official said. part of our dialogue with Nigeria.”

Ojo said he had not seen the catalog North Korea largely exports “simple, roand did not know what kinds of missiles or bust” Scud missile technology—not up-todate, but useful for countries with relatively other weapons were in it.

“This is just a memorandum of underunsophisticated militaries, said Rose Gottemoeller of the Washington-based Carnegie standing. No action has been taken yet,” Endowment for International Peace.

Ojo added.

Weapons sales are a major source of revNigeria hopes the United States and Korea, North other Western nations opposed to North enue for financially strapped but it is unusual for one ofits clients to talk Korean nuclear and weapons proliferation would respect the deal, Ojo said. about a transaction publicly.

Vice PresidentAtiku Abubakar “We are a sovereign nation. We should Nigerian reached the accord with Yang Hyong Sop, be able to cooperate with any nation we the visiting vice president of North Korea’s wish to cooperate with as long as it is in the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembest interests of Nigeria,” he added. by

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LONDON A senior British judge Wednesday cleared Prime Minister Tony Blair and his government of any deliberate attempt to deceive the British public over the threat from Iraq mentioned in a September 2002 intelligence dossier.

The judge, Lord Hutton, then castigated the BBC for sloppy, inaccurate reporting and “defective” editorial supervision in asserting in a broadcast report that Blair and his aides had exaggerated the case for war in Iraq.

The assertion that government officials had used intelligence they “probably knew” was wrong was “unfounded,” Hutton said in the long-awaited, 740-page report.

After Hutton read his conclusions from the bench in the Royal Courts of Justice, the chair of the BBC’s board of governors, Gavyn Davies, resigned in the face of one of

U.S. inspectors deny pressure

by Kirk Semple NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

The former chief American weapons inspector in Iraq refuted suggestions that intelligence analysts were under political pressure to bolster President George W. Bush’s case for war, saying Wednesday that faulty intelligencegathering was to blame for the belief that Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction.

The inspector, Dr. David Kay, also called for an independent inquiry into the errors of the intelligence community. “It’s quite clear we need capabilities that we do not have with regard to intelligence,” he said during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“We were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here,” Kay said.

Kay said that “limited data” fed a widely held view among intelligence agencies and governments that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. That view was seized upon by the White House in justifying its decision to invade Iraq last year.

‘I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated,” he said. “And never, not in a single case, was the explanation, ‘I was pressured to do this.’”

“Almost in a perverse way,” he added, “I wish it had been undue influence, because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who in fact were exercising that. The fact that it wasn’t tells me that we’ve got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong.”

Kay resigned last week as head of the Iraq Survey Group, which led the American effort to find evidence of an illicit weapons program. In interviews since then, he has revealed his belief that Iraq had no stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons when the United States led an invasion last year.

Kay concluded that American intelligence agencies became “addicted” to information from U.N. inspectors and did not develop their own on-the-ground sources.

Under pointed questioning by both Democrats and Republicans on the Senate panel, Kay said an independent review was needed.

“We’ve got enough history to understand that closed orders and secret societies, whether they be religious or governmental, are the groups that have the hardest time reforming themselves in the face of failure without outside input,” he said.

He told the senators that an “outside inquiry” would “give yourself and the American people the confidence that you, have done it.”

In his testimony, Kay tried to maintain a neutral political stand, telling the committee: “I think the aim, and certainly the aim of what I’ve tried to do since leaving, is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It’s to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.”

Iraq was not the first grave American miscalculation of a rogue nation’s weapons capabilities, Kay said, pointing to recent disclosures by Iran and Libya that revealed larger weapons programs than were previously known.

“There’s a long record here of being wrong,” he said.

the worst journalistic debacles in the 78-year history of the network. “The Beeb,” as it is known, operates a worldwide broadcasting empire and has set standards for editorial integrity for decades. Many ofits journalists were astonished

by Hutton’s rebuke.

For Blair, who narrowly escaped defeat Tuesday by rebels in his own Labor Party in a fight over university tuition, Hutton’s findings provided a welcome and personal vindication at a timen when the prime minister’s government seemed to be teetering from internal clashes over ideology, Iraq and leadership style.

Though Blair was seen as gaining strength from the Hutton verdict, political experts still wondered how much further he would be able to take his party, given the continuing rebellion within its ranks and the corrosive effects of his close alliance with President Bush on Iraq.

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day to consider further steps in response to Hutton’s findings. Greg Dyke, the BBC’s editor in chief, issued a recorded statement saying that the broadcaster had already admitted that “certain key allegations” of the May 29 report by its defense correspondent, Andrew Gilligan, “were wrong, and we apologized for them.”

But he added that “at no time” did the network accuse Blair of lying, and he insisted that “the public in a modern democracy has a right to be made aware” of the serious concerns that were expressed to the BBC by Dr. David Kelly, the government weapons scientist who was the source for Gilligan’s report.

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do occur.

“Up north, they get snow in the order of feet,” he said.

“It’s away of life for them. We get maybe a couple of winter events a year and that’s it. We’re not dealing with it day after day. People here aren’t accustomed to it.”

North Carolina’s preparations for winter storms also beg the question of practicality. Some policymakers argue it is not cost-effective to dedicate more resources to coping with snow and ice.

“In the South, you don’t typically book yourself for having frequent storms,” said Sharon Laisure, assistant city manager of Durham. “I think it’s fiscally proven not to do that.... I don’t think we’re ever truly caught off guard.”

Response to the weekend storm was carried out by the state Division of Emergency Management and the Department of Transportation.

The North Carolina DOT bears a higher burden than most other state DOTs. A law passed by the state legislature during the Great Depression set the precedent that NCDOT maintain highways, interstates and secondary roads, or the roads that link to highways, explained Steve Varnedoe, chief engineer of operations for NCDOT. Most state DOTs maintain only highways and interstates, while secondary roads are kept up by county or local authorities. Only about six states besides North Carolina, including Virginia and South Carolina, follow this practice.

“Our first priority... is the highway system,” Varnedoe said. “As soon as the storm progresses, we plow the other routes. The type of event [last weekend]... made it difficult to get back to the secondary road system....

When temperatures are sustained at 18 or 20 degrees and precipitation continues, it’s certainly a very challenging situation.”

NCDOT owns over 2,000 pieces of equipment to deal with the snow. When the DOT needs more snowplows or similar machinery, it relies on contractors rather than purchasing its own additional equipment, a measure that helps to control costs.

“At one point you are wasting money to have tremendous amounts of supply on hand for events that don’t

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happen that frequently,” said Ryan Boyles, an associate climatologist for the State Climate Office in Raleigh. “If we could predict a harsh winter, then city planners could better prepare for it, but the science isn’t there yet. Planners have to rely on long-term trends and weather patterns.”

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Pakistani investigators are trying to trace the origins and history of “large amounts” of money found in a series of bank accounts spread across the Persian Gulf region. The bank accounts, they say, were used by middlemen from Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Sri Lanka and other countries who Iranian officials say sold them nuclear hardware and centrifuge designs.

Accounts in Dubai and other Gulf locations believed to be controlled by Khan have also been found.

Investigators are now trying to determine whether Khan controlled some or all of the bank accounts. They said they did not yet know whether the money was deposited after hardware and designs were delivered to Iran, in the late 1980s or early 19905.

Payments from Iran to the accounts, they said, were apparently funneled through a third party.

“It’s very difficult to track money,” the senior official said. “We have some leads and these leads are credible.

People are pointing fingers at certain individuals.”

Khan’s annual salary as the head of the Khan research laboratories was $2,000 a month, at the most, an official said. But the scientist purchased houses across Pakistan and lived lavishly.

A senior official said that whether the hardware came from Pakistan is still being investigated. But he said there were “strong indications” that Khan was suspected of having sold the design for the centrifuges that ended up with the Iranians.

The official said that investigators widened their inquiry two weeks ago after receiving information from Libya that Pakistanis may have provided nuclear technology to Libya though middlemen based in Dubai.

A senior intelligence official who also asked not to be named said intelligence agencies had noticed that Khan was amassing wealth, but had chosen to look the other way. The scientist, who has long been considered a national hero in Pakistan, did not respond to a call

Wednesday requesting comment.

Pakistani officials say they began inquiry after Iranian officials told U.N. inspectors that they had received nuclear hardware from middlemen with ties to Pakistanis.

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EDWARDS from page 1 Ed Turlington, general chair of Edwards for America, said because the senator had never expected a win in New Hampshire, his “strong showing” was as good, if not betthan expected.

“A few weeks before the vote he was 20 points behind Wesley Clark,” Turlington said. “Also, Clark and Lieberman literally lived in New Hampshire for the past year [and] Dean and Kerry were from adjoining states. But [Edwards] still tied for third. It was a good show of strength.”

The Edwards camp is now resting its hopes on the Feb. 3 primaries, specifically in Edwards’ birthplace, South Carolina. Edwards has admitted he “must win” in South Carolina after banking on a victory there for months. Most experts and fellow Democrats agree.

“In his own words, he has to win in South Carolina,” said Ted Benson, chair of the Durham County Democratic Party. ‘There’s a lot of pressure on him to do well. If he doesn’t win there, where is he going to win?”

Professor of Political Science John Aldrich also noted that after Kerry’s pair of victories, the race in South Carolina and the other states with upcoming primaries may be tighter than Edwards once anticipated.

“Kerry is on a roll right now after doing really very well in New Hampshire, even for a guy from next door, and very well in lowa,” Aldrich said. “Plus he’s had a lot of time for raising money, so he’s sort of in charge [of the race], the front-runner right now.”

Turlington, however, said that Edwards is the one with the capability of “winning in every region of the country,” not only in the primaries but also in the general election.

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for Campus Services Kernel Dawkins are well into their first years on the job, and of the major vacancies, only Snyderman, Champagne and Mezzatesta’s positions have yet to be filled.

The general consensus among remaining senior administrators is that the new crew’s energy and heterogeneous views will make up for what is lost in the transition.

“You’re losing a heck of a lot ofinstitutional memory,” said Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations John Burness. “On the other hand... there are times when a fresh perspective is a very healthy kind of thing.”

Burness, Provost Peter Lange, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask and Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta form the core group of remaining administrators, along with most of the academic deans.

During the early months of the transition, these old hands will be called on for their expertise in the nuanced ways of the University.

For Lange, the added burden of preparing clear and comprehensive briefs about his work for incoming administrators has proven to be invigorating. “I think it’s really exciting, to be honest with you,” he said. ‘“Exacdy what am I working on? I’ve got 45 minutes. Distill it down.’”

Lange said helping with administrative turnover does not make him more likely to remain as provost, a position he has held since 1999. “I want to stay long because I want to,” he said. “Ensuring continuity is a pretty lifeless goal.

It’s not something you get up for in the morning.”

The Allen Building academic trio of Keohane, Lange and Chafe will soon become Brodhead, Lange and McLendon. Numerous administrators pointed out with delight that the social scientists of the previous troika have been replaced by a balanced threesome of a humanist, a social scientist and a natural scientist, respectively.

Burness said, however, that the seamless meshing of personalities would be more important than any disciplinary complements in determining how well the new brass works together. “It’s fit, it’s people, it’s how they work as a team,” he said.

Brodhead and McLendon are frequently described as possessing great “energy,” and their mere presence may enhance the vitality of the policymaking process of the administration. Both men will certainly have priorities of their own, but their question-asking and status quochallenging will also infuse the old guard with some fresh energy, administrators said.

“Now I can suck energy off the arrival of a new president or a new dean to push... new initiatives or push existing initiatives,” Lange said.

Moneta said he would be reactive in waiting to see what Brodhead’s new priorities are for student affairs. Moneta is himself relatively new to Duke, having arrived from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, but will enter next fall as an entrenched veteran.

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to individual voters to being a national candidate all at once. That might be one of the ways his inexperience may hurt him, having less campaigns under his belt and being less experienced with the media.”

Turlington, however, said he is not concerned with Edwards’ ability to prove himself as a national, viable candidate.

‘John is always good on TV in addition to being good in small group settings,” Turlington said. “He’s done a lot of campaigning on television, in debates and on news shows. We’re now in a phase of the campaign where paid advertising certainly matters. But I think he’s definitely in the national spotlight, and the more people know him the better chance he has to win.”

Whether or not Edwards has the mass appeal needed to win the Democratic nomination and the presidency may soon be decided, as the nation’s political eyes shift south to the Feb. 3 primaries.

“Every Democrat that has won [the presidency] since Kennedy in modern history has won the South,” Turlington said. “And John can carry the South.”

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“The relative lack of long-time experience in politics and government lets him portray himself as someone who knows how it works, but not as someone who’s sunk too much into the details,” Aldrich noted. “But it makes it harder for him to demonstrate that he could handle foreign policy, stand up to leaders of foreign countries and get what he wants done.”

Aldrich also maintained that Edwards’ relative inexperience with campaigning may prove detrimental to him, as the primaries now turn from the hands-on, personal style at which Edwards excels to a more mass media, advertisement-based variety that may give wealthier candidates like Kerry an edge.

“Find some other way to get a few more million dollars, that’s the biggest thing,” Aldrich said when asked what advice he would offer Edwards. “That and try to figure out how to make a transition from going door-to-doorand giv-

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sa\ing he was satisfied that the contents of about the reliability of some intelligence the dossier "Were consistent with the intelfindings on Iraq to Gilligan and another ligence available” to the Joint Intelligence BBC reporter. That put him uncomfort-

BLAIR from page 5 not to enter the debate over the failure by American and British forces to find chemical, biological or other unconventional weapons in Iraq. It was the putative presence of those weapons, highlighted in Blair’s 2002 intelligence dossier, that .created a strong public impression that Saddam represented a threat that had to be removed.

Recent comments by David Kay, who led the American search for Iraq’s unconventional weapons, have cast further doubt on the reliability of pre-war intelligence assessments. Kay, the former head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he could find no evidence that Iraq had either stockpiles of the weapons or programs to produce them.

Hutton vindicated British intelligence,

Committee that advises the British leader.

But he added that he could not rule out the possibility that intelligence chiefs were influenced “subconsciously” by the prime minister’s desire to have a strongly worded report to back the case for war.

Kelly’s suicide last July set off the political crisis and Hutton’s inquiry, but the judge said no one in the government or the news media was to blame or could have foreseen the scientist’s death.

Hutton, however, did criticize the Ministry of Defense, where Kelly was employed, for not communicating clearly with Kelly about a high-level decision to make his name public.

Kelly had expressed his private doubts

ably in the middle of the clash between the government and the network over the credibility' of the BBC’s reporting, the truthfulness of intelligence findings and Blair’s statements about them.

Addressing a key phrase used In the BBC’s broadcast report, Hutton allowed that it was possible to say that Blair had “sexed up” the intelligence findings, as long as the meaning was that the final dossier “made the case against Saddam Hussein as strong as the intelligence in it permitted.”

But if the meaning was that the intelligence was “embellished” with items “known or believed to be false or unreliable,” then Hutton said, “I consider that the allegation was unfounded.”

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were dead only hours before it delivered them to a German air force plane at Beirut airport. The group had long refused to divulge the fate of the soldiers whom it captured on the Israeli-Lebanese border in

anonymity, said the crucial stage would be after the planes reach Germany and the identification process begins.

Since Israel’s founding in 1948, Israel has participated in several dozen prisoner exchanges with its Arab neighbors, many of them lopsided in the Arabs’ favor. In 1985, Israel freed 1,150 Palestinians in exchange for three soldiers held in Lebanon.

There is opposition to this deal among both Israelis and Palestinians.

Some Israelis complain the price is too high and hands Hezbollah a victory that could help it destabilize the area.

Many Palestinians expressed disappointment with the deal, complaining that no prominent uprising figures are included. Also, most of the 400 were scheduled to be released this year.

‘The Palestinians had hoped that the deal would include prisoners with long sentences, that it would include the sick, or

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film footage of Tannenbaum, the first such pictures of the businessperson since he was seized in October 2000. The tape was aired shortly before Hezbollah took Tannenbaum to the plane.

The brief clip showed a man with graying hair folding clothes on a bed. The presenter said Tannenbaum was preparing to leave for freedom. It was not clear when the video tape was made or if Tannenbaum was under any extra duress.

“I have to say that the treatment I received was good, almost without exception, even very good,” he said.

Tannenbaum’s son, Uri, confirmed the man in the video was his father, adding “he’s not looking well.”

The Hezbollah guerrilla group announced that the three Israeli soldiers

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Positive identification is to set off the rest of the events.

Israeli military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they received information that the bodies of the soldiers had been preserved in formaldehyde, which could speed up the identification process. The forensics team also brought along dental records and other evidence.

However, an Israeli military officialwarned that “complications could occur at any time.”

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In Berlin, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s spokesperson, Bela Anda, declined to discuss details of the exchange. However, he said Germany “is thankful to be able to contribute to humanitarian progress here, to the extent that it is possible.”

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The Chronicle's Arts and Entertainment Magazine

January 29, 2004, Vol. 6, No. 17

The Price of Perfection Recess exposes the ugly business of looking pretty.

By Corinne Low

Makeup

is money. Each year, women purchase billions of dollars in cosmetics and skincare. Although the drugstore market is significantly cheaper, most consumers lack the expertise to determine solo what products are right for them, and without testers, end up wasting money on incorrect colors. For these reasons, millions of women turn to luxury retailers, putting self-shop behind them and entering into the terrifying world of salespeople. Driven by daily quotas and commission percentages, these harmless-looking creatures size you up, decide how much money you have to spend and then set out to make you spend a little more.

Laws regulate what companies can claim on the back of their packaging. Sales associates, though, are a different story. Over the course of my seven-month internship in beauty retail,! told customers everything from "this product will work like a face peel without the side effects" to "the mascara you're using is going to tear out your lashes." Some of it was exaggerations; some of it was guesses; some of it was lies.

Experience as a consumer myself informs me that such behavior is not limited to the company I worked

for. At the counter of a well-known beauty brand, a salesperson tells me that the lip balm I'm trying is actually a lip smoother, packed with gentle exfoliating ingredients. Curiously, the packaging of this $22 product makes no mention of the extra properties I'm being sold on.

Incidents like these are reflective of problems in the industry. First of all, department store employees frequently switch between counters (known as floating), and end up selling the same product on Tuesday that they were calling near-toxic on Monday. Many are never actually trained by the company whose products they sell. Stranded on the sales floor without concrete information, they are left to improvise.

At higher levels, lack of communication between the department that develops products and marketing personnel leads to deception. If, say, a $22 lip balm performs poorly in store, marketing executives will invent alternative selling points for the product and send them in memos to field employees. At my company, when a cream designed to calm allergic reactions began to accumulate in our stockroom, corporate offices proposed we suggest it to customers as a

remedy for diaper rash and bug bites.

Other times, the lies originate with in-store management. "It's all about how you put things to people," my boss explains, as she instructs me to tell customers over the phone that we received "a very limited shipment" of a product we actually have piled in box after box in the backroom, so they "better order right now."

Even when salespeople have good intentions, they frequently end up misleading customers simply out of ignorance. Only a handful of mall employees have attended cosmetology or esthetician school, and they certainly aren't dermatologists. I've watched associates sell hundreds of dollars in powder foundation to teenagers with blemishes, completely unaware that although it might look great, a product that heavy is only going to make them break out more.

So what's a girl to do when faced with this gauntlet of ruthless industry deception? Take everything you hear with a grain of salt. Remember that what works for one person might not work for you, and if all else fails, return.

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the horror. This past weekend was—dare we say?—the best Nevermore film festival to date, setting new attendance records and making Carolina history by selling out the theater's entire 1000-seat Fletcher Hall. Better still, many of the films'directors, producers, writers and actors were in attendance to make the rounds and chat with the audience. Finally, Recess gets to the heart, soul, blood and guts of independent filmmaking.The highlights: Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley are writer/director and producer, respectively, of Ghost of the Needle.

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Brian: Well, we filmed in 45 days. It really had to do with our budget and the level of time commitment.

R: What was it like acting out those violent scenes?

B: I really enjoyed doing the violent stuff!

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conserve film B Except there was this one scene where I slam my head against a concrete wall. We had to do that one six or seven times.

Stefan Avalos and Marianne Connor, writer/director and producer ofThe Ghosts of Edendale, describe their film as semi-autobiographical... with a twist.

Stefan and Marianne: We had just moved out to Los Angeles, and the move was fresh in our memory.The film really plays off our fears of moving to L.A.... It's about meeting the people who will become your continued on page 4 :

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The hottest thing on campus Business is booming

for sophomore jewelry designers Lizzie and Kathryn

By Whitney Beckett Sophomores Lizzie and Kathryn Fortunato just bunked the beds in their Craven Quad room—not to frat-boytize their room, but to fit Lizzie's sewing machine, which they brought back with them over winter break.

"Our room is literally a craft center," Kathryn laughs.

The identical twin sisters run their jewelry business out of 310 House D. Their jewelry—which they have sold to stores all over Philadelphia, the stylist for "Will and Grace" and to beaucoups of fashionable Duke girls —is on display full-time in their room, for friends and costumers to continually view.

Described by Lizzie as "urban chic with an island twist," every single piece is one of a kind. Although some pieces might mimic the style of another piece.

A sample of the jewelry produced.

the color and materials always change. The pieces' names are equally appealing,finding origins in friends' nicknames, places the girls have traveled and drinks they have enjoyed.

When the twins—who are going to Fashion Week

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in Paris over Spring Break —sell directly to customers, they charge between $5O and $BO for earrings and between $BO and $lBO for necklaces.

Stores that buy from them also pay those prices but up the retail price.

Licensed as "Lizzie Fortunato Jewels," the company informally started when the twins were juniors in high school in Delaware and began to sell the jewelry on consignment to the trendy local boutique. Over the next year, the business grew, and they began to sell to stores throughout Philly.

As they adjusted to their first semester at Duke, they tapered production until girls on campus began inquiring about the twins' unique jewelry, prompting them to open their room up to sales.Their business is booming —in the last three days alone, they've sold more than 15 pieces—with girls constantly in to look at their newest items. For friends, they even lend out a piece for a night. "It's not just being nice—it's great advertising," explains Kathryn. "We get our business through word of mouth."

Straight out of an economics textbook, the twins' company operates under a clear division of labor.

Lizzie, who plans to major through Program II under a tentatively titled "Style,Cultural Studies and Enterprise" label, designs and creates all the jewelry. The Style Channel constantly runs in her room, and she hides Vogue in her notebook during chem. Kathryn,fittingly an economics major, handles the business side of the operation. She keeps track of the buying, selling and bank book-balancing.

"We are a really good team," says Lizzie, who also makes clothing that she does not sell but that she often lends to friends."! couldn't make a spread sheet for my life."

"She's really good at predicting things," Kathryn said, turning praise back at her sister."She knew last fall that color would be the big thing this spring."

Their biggest exhibition yet will be next month.

From 5 to 8 p.m. Feb. 29, the Fortunatos are hosting their first trunk show at Duke in the back room of Parizade's.The sisters are donating 15 percent of the profits from the show to a scholarship fund in honor of Sasha Burakow, the freshman who passed away over winter break.

The mood of the event should be light, however, with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres. The twins also predict that the show's timing —just days before Spring Break —will up sales of their colorful and eclectic jewelry.

The company is an incredible way for both girls to showcase their talents to future employers. Kathryn wants to go into business, and Lizzie wants to go into the fashion industry. As for the future of "Lizzie Fortunate Jewels," both girls seem dedicated to the endeavor—"But not for our real job!"

Insider beauty advice Corinne's tips from the other side of the counter.

9 Cetaphil: Dermatologists will tell you this mild skin cleanser at $6.49 is the best anywhere.

Expensive eye shadows (like MAC, $l5 a pop) have higher pigment concentration and will blend better than the drugstore alternative.

Sheer foundations like Revlon SkinLights Diffusing Tint {$ 11.99) are easier to color match without professional help.

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Maybelline Great Lash: Beauty editors agree that this drugstore classic is still tops, but go waterproof to prevent smudging ($4.79).

Shu Uemura eyelash curler: $l5, but unlike the cheap version, won't rip out your lashes.

Helpful Hints At Bloomingtiales: —Yes, you can return that. With a receipt, most counters will give you a cash refund. Without, they should allow you to exchange the product.

—lf you want fast, honest service, try saying:Tm looking for lipstick and eyeshadow for a dance this weekend, but I don't want to spend any more than $30." She'll help you because she knows it's a sale, but won't waste your time trying to up-sell you.

—Don't let her put three different eyeshadows on you. You'll spend $6O and NEVER be able to replicate it at home.

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drugstore:

—Cheaper blushes actually contain coal tar to make the pigment stick, which can wreak havoc on your complexion. If you want an inexpensive glow, try a bronzer instead.

—DONT pile on the harsh acne-fighting products. Many medicated products actually aggravate blemishes.

—Pick up your lipsticks and glosses here. Colors come in and go out so quickly that it's not worth spending big bucks.

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An open letter to Henry Rollins

By Mike Sacks Dear Henry, You are everything I want to be: artist, writer, musician, political pundit, pop culture critic, activist, movie star and hardcore motherf—er. I went to see you speak last night at the Lincoln Theatre.

Although I heard some of your material last March when you spoke in LA, your words remain fresh, inspiring, humorous and caustic. Why, you ask? It is not what you say, even though political and personal content of your serio-comic rant is substantial, intelligent and insightful, but how you say it. You see, last Monday Talib Kweli spoke at Duke. His reputation as a "conscious MC" preceded him, but his irresponsible use of our time abused our respect and insulted our intelligence. But you. Hank, deliver.

Your infectious charisma, ferocity and integrity, although slightly abated by some self-effacing jokes, keep your audiences literally standing at attention for TWO AND A HALF HOURS! From your criticism of the Bush administration, to your love letter to Ann Coulter, to your USO performance in Afghanistan and to your jam session with William Shatner, you know and believe in everything you say.

In 9th grade, I used to find the most

public places in my high school and read aloud from your book, High Adventure in the Great Outdoors, just to freak people out.Then, I only knew you as a poet haunted by the murder of his best friend and as the totally jacked singer for the Rollins Band, whose song "Liar" enjoyed some MTV airtime. But as I've discovered since, one can learn a lot from your words and actions. You, big man, have truly lived.

Mr. Rollins, the greater Duke community needs to know your story. They need to know that you were a teenager who took hold of his destiny the night he jumped onstage as a fan at a Black Flag show and stepped offstage their new singer, thus launching his career as a relentlessly articulate hardcore icon.

They need to know what you've seen and done in the twenty-five years since—the books, poetry, memoirs and albums you've created and the concerts you've performed. But most of all, they need to hear your voice, connect with your eyes and witness your intensity to understand what living is really about.

You are the real deal, Rollins.Thanks for a killer show.

Rock, Mike

JohnDoe; Duke alum returns to perform one-man show

By Meghan Valerio "This show is a plea to everyone to just take a hard look at yourselves, and no matter what you see, just rock the hell out."

So says Seth Weitberg of his new one-man show,"The John Doe Project."

Although it begins and ends at a karaoke bar,"The John Does Porject"is hardly wrought to a prerecorded beat. Weitberg, who graduated from Duke last year and currently lives and performs in Chicago, wrote and performed the show, which premiered at Duke's Branson Theater last weekend. He aims to bring the show to Chicago later this year.

The show, an amalgam of short monologues, features contrasting karaoke bookends, beginning with painfully insecure warbling, and ending with a character singing the same song, rocking out with overconfidence. Weitberg framed the piece as such to highlight the journey of insecurity, the show's

through-line.

"It's crucial for a show to have a through-line, and when it's a one-person show, that's even more important. What started to develop was this group of characters who all seemed really insecure to me, no matter to what degree they actually expressed that.The show ...

itself came to highlight them," Weitberg said.

The theme is more apparent in some monologues and less in others: strongest were scenes of a sharptongued Jewish rapper taking papal potshots and ripping on everything from Yasir Arafat to the cult of the Republicans, and an emotionally servile magical clown exiled from marshmalllow land.The characters, while removed from the realm of recognizability, were disarmingly close

home, with refreshingly pointed political expression. One of the more predictable pieces—featuring a one-sided discussion with a hyperactive and emotionally stunted cop —took new perspective when Weitberg later performed the other side of the conversation, in what could have been a scene from a house off East Campus.

Weitberg is strongest at his most outrageous, and this is also when his themes of insecurity become apparent, through seemingly superficial characters' emotional depth.

"I know the whole message of the show is very easily lost," he said,"because you're at a comedy, and you just want to laugh and enjoy it, but I hope people take a second to think about what it might be trying to say, t00..,. It really is an extension of my voice. The best advice I got in the writing process was to write the show I wanted to write and not the one I thought the audience wanted to see."

As Weitberg, who participated in Duke University Improv as an undergraduate, moves the show to Chicago, he plans to rewrite and expand the material, echoing the process that brought it to Duke, honing sentences and performance beats up until its premiere. He'll be entering "The John Doe Project" in a festival of solo shows at the ImprovOlympic, where he also trains. In Chicago he also performs at the Second City Skybox Theater and trains at the Second City Conservatory. He also teaches elementary school, in what he calls his biggest acting job to date. to

Last week, we incorrectly identified Kerry Douglas Dye's Ultrachrist as a sequel to Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter. That film was directed by Lee Demarbre.

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Resurrecting the Spice Girls

By Robert Winterode Before Simon Fuller struck paydirt with "American Idol," he used a similar cattlecall method to manufacture the Spice Girls: Ginger (Geri Halliwell), Posh (Victoria Beckham), Baby (Emma Bunton), Scary (Melanie Brown) and Sporty (Melanie Chisholm). After one year, a movie (SpiceWorld) and two albums that collectively sold 38 million, Fuller and girlpower leader Halliwell jumped ship. It's been three years since the rest of the group disbanded, but what's happened since then is the fascinating part: four have been dropped from their label; two reportedly chose breast augmentation; two talked candidly about their same-sex flings; three published autobiographies and each has charted.

And now, with less musical creativity than Madonna displayed on her last album, the Spice Girls are staging a comeback—of sorts.

The predominant presence on their breakthrough, Spice, Halliwell represented the group in its neo-proto-"wannabe"-feminist sound that she carried to her solo efforts.The predicted "successful spice," she released two albums to mixed reception. Her debut single,"Look At Me," barely penetrated American radio; here, she's known for hooking-up (Fred Durst, Eminem), rather than for singing. Indeed, without the aid of backup singers, her strident vocals became the song's centerpiece and its death knell. It doesn't help that—with little abandon—she skids through neo-disco, balladry and electronica.The worst comes when this Brit goes Latin and croons,"iDonde esta mi chico latino?"

Melanie Brown fared even worse on her debut, Hot, where she pushed the Spice sound into tired R&B territory with a noticeable edge. Lyrics like "Think you'll find your destiny?/ A shallow grave is all you'll see," remind listeners why she was the scary one. And while she can carry a tune, her beats lack. Her only hit,"l Want You Back," is perhaps the worst track Missy Elliott has ever guested on. Brown's performances as a man-eating nurse on the Brit TV series, "Burn It," an animal rights guerrilla in the film, LethalDose and a castmember in the English run of the Vagina Monologues were somewhat better received.

Spice with talent sums up the other Melanie, "Sporty." With a U.S. dance-pop following and three million sold of her debut. Northern Star, Chisholm's the most successful thus far. A fellow genre-hopper, some of her catalogue is downright revolutionary ("Coin' Down") and some is same-old-same-old ("Melt"), as was last

year's sophomore set, Reason.

On the other hand, Emma Bunton, the least visible Spice, has stuck closest to the Girls' sound. A lush melodic sensibility combined with expressive yet measured vocals has pushed several consecutive singles into the charts, including the on-a-cloud "Free Me"and the kitschy "Maybe." With her sophomore album set to hit stores Feb. 7, her breakthrough may be at hand.

Represented once again by Fuller, Bunton and Beckham have their sights set on the American market. Beckham, however, with her über-famous hubby, a spot singing alongside Elton John on the Fuller-produced international special "World Idol" and a producer who's also the founder of a $3OO million rap music empire, namely Damon Dash, has the advantage. A new double-sided single containing two flawless pop gems that was the highest chart-placer by a Spice since May 2001 and a $2 million stateside contract from Roc-A-Fella mean that Posh is poised to achieve success in the U.S.once again.

continued from page 1 friends. Remember the old adage; it's about who you know. There's this paranoia—who's out?

Who's in? Why? Everything you hear about Hollywood—it's true.

Recess: How did you turn your story into a ghost story?

S: Well, you take every aspect and made it bad. Hey, you made some friends —ooh, that's sinister!

You quit smoking and lost weight?That's a bad thing.Then we used special lighting,to create this leprous, hepatitic sunlight....

R: You filmed Ghosts in your own house. Was that kind of creepy?

M: Not really; it's our home. It's just that closet,though....

R:The one with the dead ghost-child inside?

M: Yes... sometimes at night, it kind of scares me....

Lan Hayes Brett director of At Night With No Curtains, describes the making of a good Southern ghost story: Recess: What can you tell me about the filming location?

Brett: It's a real abandoned Southern plantation; the owner's ancestors were slaves there. He gave us permission to film there. It was scary..., definitely helped the actors get into character!

R:The premise of Night—the legend of Elizabeth Hatley (a Civil War widow who has her servant wound each of her five children, then locks them in a closet and listens to their dying screams...) is a pretty violent story. How much violence did you choose to depict onscreen?

B: I try to use a lot of Hitchcock—don't show the violence; let them imagine it.

R: Is there any truth to the legend?

B: Nah,the legend was made up. I based Elizabeth Hatley on my kindergarten teacher.

Alan Rowe Kelly, director of I'll Bury You Tomorrow; and music director/composer Tom Burns spill all: Recess: I'm really curious to know what you used for blood, because you used so very much of it.

Kelly: I'm really proud of that.You know how other people bleed pints? I wanted to bleed gallons.

Burns: Yeah, I'd go to the fridge for a beer, and there'd be just gallons of blood in there.

K: It's mostly caro syrup and food coloring, with a little Dawn to make it more viscous. Oh, and it helps the blood wash out more easily, so you could kill someone, and they'd be back in their same clothes the next day.

R: How do you feel about your film being compared to older classic horror films?

K: It's a great compliment. I'd take it.

B: Especially these days, it's all Scream this, Scream that, I Know when you Screamed, 1 Know what you Did Last Fall,Spring,Whatever...

R: Your film takes place in a funeral parlor. How accurate are the techniques shown? Did you do a lot of research?

K: It's amazing what they do to a body before they go and stick it in the ground.. ..We saw how they do all those things; it really is as disgusting as thunk [mimes stabbing embalming hose in cadaver]. ,

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Cat's Cradle. Doors: 7. Show: B.Tickets $lO in advance, $l2 day of show.

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The ACC schedule was taking its toll on Florida State’s men’s basketball team, especially senior guard Tim Pickett. The Seminoles found themselves in a 24-point hole against North Carolina last week and seemingly on their way to their fourth consecutive conference loss.

Pickett, generally known for his shooting ability and stealthy defense, had been struggling mighdly in conference play. He was shooting just 25 percent from the field and was not getting to the free throw line often.

Prior to the Carolina game coach Leonard Hamilton spoke about Pickett’s slump to the Tampa Tribune: “We've had two or three talks this week. I told him to maintain a positive attitude, keep taking shots and relax and go out and play.”

Pickett then went on to score 30 points in the upset overtime victory against the Tar Heels, with 22 of them coming after halftime.

“Pickett played a heck of a game, and he had been struggling,” North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said. “He was difficult for us to handle.”

While Pickett was clearly the star, he credited his team for the victory and putting a stop to its ACC woes.

“Even though we [were] down, I looked in everybody's eyes and everybody was looking like they didn't want to give up,” Pickett said. ‘We stuck together and we didn't give up as a team.”

The same was the case this past weekend, as Pickett led his team to another impressive victory against Wake Forest. He scored all 18 ofhis points in the second half as the Seminoles beat their second straight top-10 team.

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The men’s tennis team will start off it’s first weekend of the 2004 regular season in Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center with a full calendar. The eighthranked Blue Devils will host No. 41 William & Mary Thursday, No. 9 Texas A&M Saturday, and No. 49 Notre Dame in a weekend that looks to be a good early test of the team.

After strong individual performances in the fall and early winter, Duke will embark on its team-oriented season. Returning senior and three-time All-American Phillip King will be playing for the first time this year after taking time off due to a wrist injury. “[King] is certainly one of our franchise players, he’s up to the task,” head coach Jay Lapidus said.

In his absence, sophomore Ludovic Walter has taken the stage as the centerpiece of the team. Walter is ranked seventh in singles competition and second in doubles with partner Jason Zimmermann. In November the duo was crowned ITA National Indoor Doubles Champion and has recently shared the spotlight with teammates Peter Rodrigues and Jonathan Stokke, who captured the doubles crown at the ACC Indoor Championships earlier this month.

“William & Mary is very good, they’re not a team to look past,” Lapidus said. ‘There will be no easy matches.”

Duke will certainly be taking its matches one at a time. The Tribe have already recorded an upset in January over then-No. 30 San Diego State. William & Mary’s biggest threat is 26th-ranked singles player Jeff Kader, who, last fall, beat the fourth-ranked singles player in the country.

The most competitive match this weekend will likely be against Texas A&M. The Aggies are coming off a close loss to defending national champion Illinois. Texas A&M’s players were dominant, winning the top-three singles matches and top doubles match.

A&M will look to do the same against the Blue Devils.

The Aggies boast the highest ranked doubles team in the country of Lester Cook and Ante Matijevic, who will matchup against Duke’s most prolific duo in the battle for the No. 1 doubles spot in the nation. Cook, No. 17, and Matijevic, No. 19, will also compete in singles. A couple of thrilling matches should come

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Phillip King returns to the action in time to face three tough opponents this weekend at home. from pairing the two against Ludovic and King in singles play.

“We will have to play well to stay with them,” Lapidus said.

Duke will close out the long weekend against Notre Dame Sunday. The Fighting Irish lost to the Aggies last week, but have since rebounded with two consecutive

victories. The Blue Devils cannot take any match for granted against the deep Notre Dame team. Each of the three teams Duke faces is deep and will pose a challenge, but the weekend should be a good gauge for where the team stands.

“We’re strong and deep, I think we can compete with anyone,” Lapidus said.

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Coach Roof landed yet another big prospect.

Football coach Ted Roof garnered his sixth commitment in the past ten days in Patrick Bailey from Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Tex. Rated as a two-star prospect by theinsiders.com, Bailey spurned interest from Notre Dame, Arizona and Michigan State in narrowing his list to Purdue and Duke and ultimately selected the Blue Devils over the Big 10 power.

“He’s going to be a Duke Blue Devil,”

Alamo Heights football coach Don Byrd told The Chronicle. “I think coach Scott Brown recruits this area, and I think he just did an outstanding job of selling Patrick.”

Bailey attributed the new energy surrounding the football program to the commitment.

“I guess I had a gut feeling when I got up there,” Bailey said. “I enjoyed the enthusiasm up there.”

Bailey, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound prospect, notched 124 tackles and six sacks on

defense while catching 26 passes for four touchdowns as a senior forAlamo Heights.

He projects to be a tight end or defensive end on the collegiate level.

“They originally were going to start me at tight end,” Bailey said, mentioning that there remains a possibility he might play defensive end.

Education also played a major role in Bailey’s recruitment. An outstanding student, Bailey scored a perfect 800 on Math SAT II and plans to major in electrical engineering.

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Pickett was awarded both ACC Player of the Week and ESPN’s “Big Man on Campus” honors.

On a team that hits been touted as young but dangerous, Pickett appears to be living up to his second-teamAll-ACC status of a year ago. The senior is providing leadership for a recruiting class that is considered the best in the nation according to Thelnsiders.com.

“He's a warrior with a capital W. I'm not sure I've ever been around a guy who gives more effort, or plays widt more passion,” Hamilton said of Pickett in the Tampa Tribune.

As a junior, Pickett led a mediocre Florida State squad to a 14-15 record, while ranking fifth in the nation with 2.83 steals per game and leading the Seminoles in both scoring (17.1) and rebounding (5.7).

With the addition of Hamilton’s talented recruits, Pickett may not be putting up the statistical numbers he did a year ago, but his role has become even more important.

Standout freshman Von Wafer, among others, has given him a supporting cast that helped FSU have its best start in over 30 years.

With a greater emphasis on the team game and more talent

around him, Pickett has become a leader for his teammates on and off the court.

‘Tim is a very confident, outgoing, warm and charismatic guy. He’s got the smile,” Hamilton told the Baltimore Sun. “When pracdce starts, he turns into a totally different animal. It’s all about working the hardest he possibly can. He's not playing around anymore.

His motor is always running.”

Pickett has fit into his hew role quite nicely and has begun to recognize the importance he has in developing FSU. “I justtry to keep us going by helping out in any way I can,” Pickett said in the Baltimore Sun. “I have a lot ofenergy, and I want to make sure everybody follows my lead. I try to put in a good day's work and I try to have hm, wherever I'm at.”

If Pickett continues to play like he has of late, and the younger players continue to do their part, Florida State could be a tough opponent for Duke.

The Blue Devils will need to control Pickett in the second half, where he has been on fire, if they expect to win.

“Were just depending on each other when we get behind and we’ve really been doing that the last two games and not giving up,” Pickett said. “That's the main thing that's bringing more togetherness to this team.”

If anything, the state of North Carolina has been spoiled with sports success. The Tar Heel state has been a breeding ground for basketball talent since Dr. Naismith invented the game, producing talents such as Michael Jordan and Jerry Stackhouse. The state’s college basketball programs rival, if not exceed, the prestige of any other state. North Carolina sports have even been immortalized in films such as “Bull Durham,” a movie that made the Durham Bulls the most famous AAA baseball team in America.

But football, America’s most popular sport, has never resonated with North Carolina citizens for the simple reason that they rarely have a reason to get riled up for a game of pigskin. That is until now.

Two years after a 1-15 season, the Carolina Panthers will play the New England Patriots for the right to become Super Bowl Champions this Sunday. While ACC basketball is currendy in full swing, there is little doubt that the citizens of North Carolina will be giving the Panthers their undivided attention.

“This whole week is about the Panthers,” said self-described “big Panthers fan” Zeb Smathers, a Trinity Junior from Canton, N.C.. “As soon as church is over on Sunday the Panthers hat is on and it's one big party.”

Adding fire to the Panthers fans’ fuel earlier in the playoffs was Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist Will Bunch.

Bunch bluntly insulted the city of Charlotte and the state ofNorth Carolina with nearly every word of his Jan. 12, “In our mind there’s nothing in Carolina” article, demeaning the state’s politicians, culture, and economy. He even pointed out

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that Connection Charlotte’s online list of ‘TOO things to do” included “visit the main branch of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library” and “go shoe-shopping at DSW,” Needless to say, Panther fans were not pleased. North Carolina State Senator Elizabeth Dole assuaged some of the state’s grief by writing a letter to the editor of the Philadelphia Daily News that politely pointed out many great things about the city, while also throwing in a shot or two at Philadelphia.

“As a bonus, remember that Panther fans are well-behaved—they don’t throw iceballs or batteries at players during football games,” Dole wrote in obvious reference to the raucous Philadelphia fans.

Panther supporters’ anger did not completely subside, however, until Carolina defeated the Eagles 14-3 in Philadelphia in the NFC Championship game.

So how did the Panthers go from the league’s worst team to be playing in America’s biggest sporting event in just two years? A large part of the credit has to be given to head coach John Fox, who IS 1 n his second year with the organization. Fox has put in place a very simplistic system that involves a smashmouth defense and a mistake-free, run-oriented offense that has allowed defensive end Julius Peppers and running back Steven Davis to dominate opponents. In addition to surprisingly productive play from quarterback Jake Delhomme and wide receivers Steve Smith and Muhsin Muhammad, the system allowed the Panthers to win nine games by six or less points this season.

“For those of you who say we’re not exciting?” Panthers offensive coordinator Dan Henning said to Sports Illustrated.

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percentage if you get the ball around the basket.”

On the other side of the floor stands Seminoles’ guard Tim Pickett. The senior from JDaytona Beach leads FSU in points per game (14.9), and steals per game (2.21). And against big teams Pickett has stepped up. In a matchup with Wake Forest, Pickett had 18 second-half points, which included six straight clutch free throws to seal the victory.

Versus the Tar Fleels, Pickett dropped 30, including six overtime points. His efforts earned him ACC Player of the Week honors for the second time this season.

Krzyzewski is a fan.

“He’s a really good kid,” Krzyzewski said. “He has fun playing. He’s not going to lose because of being nervous. He loves being out there. It’s an energy that he doesn’t keep inside of him, it spreads to his teammates. I admire him for doing that.”

Pickett, Besides the Seminoles also have the consensus No. 1 freshman class in the nation. Starting center Alexander Johnson and reserve guard Von Wafer

JJ.Redick and the Blue Devils are in position to squash FSU's streak against top-10 teams.

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Johnson is averaging 8.9 points per game, and Wafer is averaging 7.8 off the bench. Both freshman are great athletes, and perform well on the defensive side of the ball.

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“They have a good mix of veterans and some really talented young players. They’re just a really good basketball team.”

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“We have not been as successful on the road as we’d like to be,” Hamilton admitted. “But I think that’s a learning process. Hopefully we’ve learned from our last two visits. I’m encouraged by the progress we’ve made in the last week or so, and I’m hopeful that we’ll have a better understanding of how to prepare ourselves when we go up to Durham this week.”

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Academic THURSDAY, JANUARY 29

Visualization Seminar: 12 noon-1 pm. Seminar with Anya Belkina, Department of Art & Art History: "Fundamental Graphic Design Principles." Room DlO6, Levine Science Research Center.

Speaker Series lecture: 3-4:3opm. Ann Anagnost, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington; Editor, Anthropology. “Strange Circulations: Cultural Refiguring the Object of Area studies.” Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library) Duke West Campus. For more information call 684-2604 or visit us at

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 the Arts. Baldwin Auditorium.

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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

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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.

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.

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Music Master Class: 3:3opm. Scott Rawls, viola. This master class is free and open to the public. Bone Hall, Mary Duke Biddle Music Bldg.

Chemistry Seminar: 3:3opm. Public seminar by F. Sherwood Rowland, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine. 103 P.M. Gross Chemical Laboratory.

Psychology SHS Colloquium Speaker Series: 4pm.

Michael Scheir, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University "Optimism, Coping, and Health." Continuing Education provided.

Credit offered "Refreshments Psychology/Sociology, Room 319.

University Program in Ecology Seminar: 4pm.

Steven Handel, Rutgers University. "Biotic constraints and possibilities in restoring degraded habitats." 144 Biological Sciences.

Lecture: 4-6pm. SYLVERE LOTRINGER "TRAVELING THROUGH THE VOID." Department of Art & Art History Guest Lecturer. 2048 EAST DUKE BUILDING. Lecture Series: 4pm. Ruth HaCohen (Dept, of Musicology, Hebrew Univ.). "Psychoanalysis and the Music of Charisma in Freud’s and Schoenberg’s Moseses." Biddle Music Building, Room 104. Free

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 Duke Union's Freewater University Presentations: 7 & 9:3opm. Whale Rider. Griffith Film Theater. Movie presented by Free to Duke students, $1 for employees, $2 for the general public.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 Duke Union's Freewater University Presentations: 7 & 9;3opm. Whale Rider. Griffith Film Theater. Movie presented by Free to Duke students, $1 for employees, $2 for the general public.

Concert: Bpm. Branford Marsalis with the Duke Jazz Ensemble. The Department of Music hosts a three-day residency by noted jazz artist Branford Marsalis, culminating in a concert by the Duke Jazz Ensemble, directed by John V. Brown with Marsalis as guest artist. Tickets: $lO/$5. Call 684-4444 or go to tickets.duke.edu. Baldwin Auditorium, East

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Freshman Small Group II: 9pm. Blackwell Commons Room. Contact: rnd2@ duke.edu.

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Wesley Worship: 6pm. Divinity School Lounge Contact: erb6@ duke.edu.

Catholic Mass: 9pm. Main Chapel

Eno River Winter Hikes: 2pm. Explore a different section of the Eno River Valley each week. 3-4 miles.

All hikes are free. No registration required. Start from Eno River State Park Headquarters, 6101 Cole Mill Rd. For more information, contact Marcia Eickmeier at 919-644-1806 before 9pm.

Organ Recital: spm. GailArcher. Duke Chapel. Free event.

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Liberal Studies needs defining academic officials are set of students commonly considering grouped into the category of “concurrently adding a liberal studies tinuing education students.” In to Ph.D. the Graduate School cur- addition, the relatively unstrucriculum. While the logistics of tured nature of a degree in liberal structuring and implementing studies would be ideal for students such a program will prove diffi- who do not necessarily desire a degree to further professional aspicult, its addition will provide imrations but sim P 1Y portant intellectual STAFFE niTORIAL desire immersion opportunities to for sake. learning’s a while degree adults pursuing Should a doctoral program in balancing an existing career. The liberal studies be incorporated program is currently in the brainstorming stage, but it is an idea into the Graduate School, there are several important consideraworth exploring further. tions to be dealt with. First, some Duke has always marketed itself as a liberal arts institution, formal structure must be leveled and despite the pre-professional upon the doctoral curriculum. bent of a majority of its student Although much of the program’s body, it has managed to maintain appeal comes from the freedom of study, students should be able a broad liberal arts focus. The addition of Curriculum 2000 is a to demonstrate that they have acquired a significant skill set or actestament to this ideal. The University’s Graduate School also crued a substantial amount of currently offers a Master of Arts knowledge in one or more fields. in Liberal Studies. However, a Before having their specific course of study approved, stucapstone program in liberal studies is lacking. The addition of a dents should declare a firm set of Ph.D. would greatly enhance the goals and, along with professors, create a formal plan to prove that existing liberal studies track. said goals have been met. Most In support of the proposal, officials have presented a convincing graduate students must pass precase for the existence of a demand liminary exams on basic subject matter, as well as produce a thefor a liberal studies doctorate program. First, the existing Master of sis, and liberal studies doctoral Liberal Arts program can be candidates should be held to similar standards. viewed as a litmus test for the deA liberal studies Ph.D. is an idea mand for a doctorate. The program has met with success, its plan that should be carefully examined, but not rushed into. Much work of intense research in a wide variof a must be done before its approval. to subsubjects appealing ety

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Al-Bulushi paraphrasing is misleading I want to bring your attention to a very misleading section ofYousuf Al-Bulushi’s column, “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby.”

In the first paragraph of his column, AlBulushi maintains that the “Guardian newspaper of the United Kingdom reported that Chinese workers in Israel were forced to sign a contract that stipulated they would not have sex with Israelis.” And that “the apartheid-like no-sex policy for the thousands of Chinese workers forced to sign a contract should throw up red flags around the world for those who choose to do business with Israel.”

Al-Bulushi’s very loose paraphrasing unfortunately fails to mention that the article in the Guardian refers to the practices of only a single company and not, as Al-Bu-

lushi would like us to believe, every company in the entire country of Israel. His language is purposefully vague on this account.

The Guardian article also never mentions how many Chinese workers do work at this particular company. So how Al-Bulushi has the authority to tell us of the plight of “thousands of Chinese workers forced to sign a contract is truly a mystery.

I do agree with Al-Bulushi about one thing. A red flag should indeed be thrown up. Don’t believe everything you read in The Chronicle. Go back and check the facts yourself before subscribing to misleading rhetoric simply used to further an opinion or political end.

Scott Hechinger Trinity ’O4 “

Campus lacks meaningful discussion For some Duke students, the past two snow days have been spent sledding, frolicking in the snow, partying, sleeping and catching up on work. While many rejoiced about cancellation of classes, many probably were also rejoicing about the opportunity to stop briefly from our “busy” schedules and reflect.

As I reflected, I want to say thank you to all those “essential staff” that came in Monday and Tuesday, despite weather conditions, which made it too dangerous for the school to hold classes. This deserves thanks from all members of the Duke community, not only during Employee Appreciation Week.

Secondly, Yousuf Al-Bulushi’s article “Let’s talk about sex, baby” was incredibly refreshing to read. It is about time someone pointed out how the recent columns in The Chronicle fail to address serious domestic and international issues, but rather seemingly petty narcissistic issues such as hook ups, dating, black lace and sororities.

Though these columns may be relevant and interesting to some extent to our “Duke bubble” lives, it is time to wake up and realize that more

balance is needed. It is time for students to demand, as Al-Bulushi states, for key domestic and international issues to be raised and debated in The Chronicle and around campus. Why, when it was questioned about holding classes on MLK day, did I hear little outcry from my fellow peers? Probably because few students actually attended the many MLK sponsored events. Why have I seen and heard little talk about the upcoming presidential race? What happened to discussions about Iraq? What happened to the thought-provoking editorials about important social issues from Emily LaDue and Derek Gantt? Instead we have allowed these issues to go to the backbumer, preferring to focus on the “Duke Dating Scene” and “Hook-Up culture.”

At an MLK panel a final question was posed to the audience: “How do we mobilize students?” I pose this same question to my fellow Duke peers. Discussion through various mediums can serve as a catalyst for mobilization. It is time to start having these discussions.

Linda Arnade Trinity 'O6

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Clearly, my fellow students and I were excited about the snow and ice that kept most professors and off-campus students at home, giving us a short break from the day-to-day stresses of class. I knew simply from the sound of ecstatic screams on my hallway that Tuesday’s classes had been canceled.

While we were comfortable in our rooms, however, the “essential staff’ braved conditions on the roads so that they could be here to provide services for us. For the many students who complained the last few days about the inconvenience of the limited dining options and hours or the fact that Duke hadn’t called in a small army of employees to shovel snow, take a minute to be thankful for those people who did risk their own safety to come provide services for us at Duke. Actually, we would all do well to

be more grateful and kind to such employees instead of taking their services for granted. As for the “non-essential staff” whose presence was greatly missed by those of us accustomed to their service, let this teach us to appreciate them more.

Instead of casting your eyes down the next time you walk by someone working on the landscape, or someone emptying your garbage or someone fixing your food, take but a moment to tell them thank you. If we want to foster a healthy community at Duke, let’s stop worrying about how to best develop a class identity, and start worrying about how we treat these members of our community who do so much for us.

Allison Zbicz Trinity 'O5

Thanks for Bus Driver Appreciation Day I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Community Service Center here at Duke for Bus Driver Appreciation Day. It was cold Wednesday when classes resumed after the weekend snow storm, and you all stayed outside to make sure we got some food and drinks. For the past 11 years

that I have been working here at Duke, you have done this for us and I just want to say thanks a lot!

I look forward to seeing you and everyone around campus.

Steven Calder Bus driver

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Seven reasons why I love Nan

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the importance of scholarly work at all levels of higher education. Nothing speaks greater of that commitment than her own return to a life of the scholar after years of supporting the research of others.

Nan; princess of Liechtenstein.

I thought I had a cool name: Christopher Eugene Goerdt Scoville.

Four names always gives me a sense of royalty, mm but who can beat Nannerl Overholser Keohane? What is she doing at Duke? Shouldn’t she c oCOYII 1C be heading some small Parade European fiefdom or principality, like Liechtenstein? Her name is even cooler than mine. And rumor has sponsibility.

To be appointed president of Duke it she was named after Wolfgang University is no small feat for anyone, Amadeus Mozart’s sister, Nannerl. I’m not sure where the Overholser comes let alone a woman who dares to transfrom, but you can make fun phrases traditional roles.

With a gender gress campus administration heavily white like “horse lover” with the same letters.

“Horse lover” beats Brodhead anytime. and male, Nan had to carefully navigate the halls of power in the Allen And she certainly isn’t your average Cohen either. Keohane —with its elubuilding upon arrival. sive pronunciation and spelling—adds I am sure Nan’s first appearance disthe final oomph. comfited some of her senior adminis4. Nan; leading humanely. trators, as the culture of male power at Under Nan’s leadership, Duke has a once gender-segregated institution was shaken for the first time in Duke’s continued to transition from a provinhistory. Nan’s adeptness and style make cial Southern university to a nationally and, increasingly, an internationally her a role model for all of us, especialwho similar renowned institution. Nan’s influence ly women are eyeing seats of responsibility. reaches from across the street to around the world. The Neighborhood 2. Nan: a scholar.

Nan returns to research and teachPartnership is quickly changing the ing as one of the nation’s premier face of Durham as Duke becomes more scholars in political philosophy. Nan of an engaged citizen in the community and less of an ivory tower. She has has buttressed research efforts of professors and students, always reinforcing strengthened academic and social ties

okay. Yes, I am starting the “we’ll miss you, Nan” bandwagon. Someone had to do it.

Maybe it’s tacky, but all I’m saying is, “Go, Nan! Go!” Imagine me with pompoms as I cheer Nan’s name. Just humor me for a second. Thanks.

Now I present to the prestigious Duke community the seven reasons why I love Nan. 1. Nan; a woman with power.

Nan is only the second woman to lead a major research institution in this country. Imagine the ohstacles she had to face Topher’s moving up the institutional ladder of power and re-

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with UNC-Chapel Hill and other surhas become a nationwide guide to asrounding universities, expanding sessing and addressing issues of gender Duke’s purview in the academic world. disparity and social climate for stuMuch to DCU’s chagrin, Nan has dents, faculty and employees at univeremboldened the presence of minorisities across the country. ties on campus with increased outreach The dialogue the report generated to minority students and faculty. She has been phenomenal, if not unprecedented, at Duke, and the national dishas ensured that all full-time employees receive a living wage, and she has course continues to expand. It’s hard spoken out on issues of social justice to envision or describe the full range of vis-a-vis sweatshops and labor unions. impact the report will have on Duke She responded promptly and adeptly and countless other colleges in the to “the demands” last semester and recoming years. mains committed to the voices of stuI am certain that the report has aldents who approach her. ready changed some people’s lives at Duke’s global presence continues to Duke, as these issues no longer carry as the same taboo expand Duke now ofin our daily infers financial teractions.

“I thought I had a cool name: aid to interna7. Nan: a protional stufessorship.

Christopher Eugene Goerdt dents. Duke a Finding Scoville. Four names always has a long way scholar to fill the gives me a sense of royalty, to go before it position of Nanbut who can beat Nannerl becomes a neii O. Keohane household Distinguished Overholser Keohane?” name in SloveVisiting Profesnia, but Nan’s sorship at UNCleadership has Chapel Hill and set the tone for a future Duke UniversiDuke University will certainly be a cumty founded upon humanitarian and bersome task.

To equal such a regal and promiglobal values. nent name/person will require a schol5. Nan; on fire With over 2.3 billion in the bank, ar of enviable talents and distinguished Nan’s fundraising drive has astounded accomplishments. Nan mayjust have to return to the Triangle and take the pothe world of higher education. said. sition herself.

Enough 6. Nan: setting trends.

All the best to Nan: a woman, scholNan may not have coined the term ar, princess, leader, fundraiser, trend“effortless perfection,” but she certainsetter, professorship and most of all ly landed it straight onto the pages of one hell of a president.

Webster’s Dictionary.

Christopher Scoville is a Trinity junior.

Perhaps one of Nan’s greatest accomplishments, the Women’s Initiative His column appears every fourth Thursday.

Snow day ruminations

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is a tough month at Duke. There’s the weather, the tents, the contagious I-just-gotback-from-abroad depression, the recruitment and rush, the general atmosphere of sickness and judgement and fatigue.

To counteract the suckiness of winter I decided to make the most of my academia-ordered time off for four inches of snow, and occupied myself looking for careers. Alas, the euphoria of concrete activity crashed quickly; after realizing the limitations of the Career Center website, I became the other spring downer, the senior realizing that outside life is within smelling distance and that I’m with neither a viable employment option nor a trust fund/large rock on my left hand/winning lottery ticket to render said employment optional.

So, what did I do? Spell-check my resume, call in connections and borrow a suit? Or listen incessantly to depressing music, make slightly bitter valentines out of construction Meghan paper/old magazines on the floor The F with my friends and go to the Down Under Pub, only Durham watering hole open in in the snow? Take a guess I wrote that this is a tough month at Duke, but “tough” is a relative and probably inappropriate word.

On my list of life goals, “survival,” “eating enough” and “not getting AIDS” are taken for granted, left off in favor of hiking the Appalachian Trail and writing a decent play.

My future life is uncertain, but the relatively pathetic backup of moving back home is still pretty cushy. Certain phrases have been ringing in my mind, though, and I can’t get them out, things along the lines of contribution and responsibility. To whom much is given, much is expected—stuff like that. The

admissions office didn’t decide I should have this education for me to live all hedonistically and spend my greater years as a bartender. On what basis should I plan my life? How should I judge?

There’s been a rash of judgement on campus lately, largely regarding recruitment and feminism and appropriate versus realistic female behavior. Parts of those attacks I probably would have written as a freshman, when rush, as it was still called back in the day, literally decorated my dorm with door decks, and male friends dropped me for their new brothers, and I spent bid week all depressed that first semester had fooled me into thinking I could have friends without writing a check. I don’t think that anymore; I can drink from my roommate’s Delta Gamma mugs without rolling my eyes and realize that as a member of a selective house I shouldn’t throw so many stones. But the discussion has made me think hard about judgement and its place in our lives.

Last year I wrote a column blasting a Valerio for refusing to let me into a professor Word class because, I presumed, he thought me too blonde. I couldn’t remember anything stupid when I met with him about the saying class, but had revealed that I’m from New Jersey, went to private high school and had worn a sweater set.

Clearly, I thought, he’d judged me. It was a rush I hadn’t signed up for, all getting cut on small talk and the wrong shoes.

I wrote the column as closure, to tell myself that he was wrong, I am not completely lacking in intellectual promise, but I still think about the conversation almost two years later, and my stomach still flips when I walk past his office en route to class. Something doesn’t fit. I think I was right, that it didn’t matter what I had to say about Willa Gather novels or the Duke ed-

ucation, but that I responded the same way he had attacked, with judgement and a patchy basis for it. What can you know about someone without really knowing them? It goes both ways. Whether it’s begging for permission numbers, “mutually selecting” a social group, or interviewing for a job, it’s all about communicating through surface.

I suppose that’s why I like theater; it’s openly about communicating through signals and signifiers and submitting your work to the approval of an audience and a critical community. It looks for deeper meaning through the literally superficial.

Auditions, based entirely on judgement, are some of the most terrifying and exciting times in the run of a show, with the sense of opportunity and fear. Rather like rush. Forget judging the fact that it’s all about judging, and move on, start practicing that winning interview smile.

So brush up your resume, start padding it now. I’ve written my cover letters for training programs in the extremely non-lucrative field of theater directing, and begun to think about contribution and responsibility and how they’ll fit into my life, whether in the extremely unlikely possible situation of a thriving theater career, or somewhere else.

Maybe I should go into government or lobbying, and do what I can to stop our government from attacking other countries on the basis of fabrications, or take baby steps towards getting the U.S.’s stockpile of anti-retroviral AIDS drugs to Africa, or somehow block Bush’s commitment to bring back 19505-era sex ed. Maybe, instead of whining about people not liking me for no reason and driving on ice to drown my sorrows in dark lager and Davidoffs, I could start making some plans.

Meghan Valerio is a Trinity senior. Her column every third Thursday.

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