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DCU sparks varied reactions
YOUNG TRUSTEE FINALISTS
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ANTHONY CROSSTTHE CHRONICLE
Alex Garinger, Trinity 'O4, will hear the results of the young trustee selection on Wednesday evening.
Garinger looks to Duke's future desire since birth to become a Dukie like many other campus leaders. However, Garinger says his passion for Duke developed purely from chance. Garinger applied as a high school senior to 10 colleges and was rejected from seven schools and wait-listed at the remaining three, including Duke. The University was the only school that accepted him off the wait list, and so Garinger headed down south to Durham.
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This story is part two of a threepart series profiling the finalists for the undergraduate young trustee position, which will be selected by a vote of the Duke Student Government Wednesday night.
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The story of how young finalist Alex Garinger ended up at Duke University is, for lack of a better word, surprising. Many might think that this literature major from Greenwich, Conn., has had a burning trustee
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ofDCU. “Their viewpoints don’t represent a broad, diverse intellectual balance of opinions, but rather a monochromatic look at certain subjects.” John Burness, seniorvice president for public affairs and government relations, said the data presented in DCU’s advertisement is largely irrelevant to intellectual diversity within the classroom. “I know faculty members who are conservative and faculty members who are liberal. When I’ve talked to students about being in their classes, I am struck repeatedly by how often the fact of where a faculty [member] may stand in his or her own political views does not govern what goes on in class,” Burness said. “In some cases, faculty members even take a different position than what they believe, just to challenge students to think differently.” Burness added that it would be difficult to adjust an imbalance in political affiliations among faculty members because the University’s hiring processes do not take such affiliations into consideration. “When departments are making choices about whom they select as members of the faculty, I don’t think party registration is a litmus test,” Burness said. Indeed, department chairs said their hiring decisions are based in no way on a candidate’s political affiliations. “I don’t know the political affiliation ofall ofmy colleagues in philosophy, nor do I care,” said Robert Brandon, chair of the philosophy department. “Our last hire was in the history of modem phirector
Administrators had mixed reactions to a Duke Conservative Union advertisement in Monday’s edition of The Chronicle that claimed the University lacks intellectual diversity. While most said DCU’s interpretation of an imbalance in political affiliations among University deans and faculty members in certain departments was misleading, others said the data they uncovered could, in fact, hint at an underlying need for change. In the advertisement, formatted as an open letter to President Nan Keohane, DCU alleged that a number of humanities departments “have become increasingly politicized over the past few decades” and, furthermore, that this politicization has had “a significant impact on the daily workings of their faculty members.” The advertisement listed the break-down of faculty members’ political affiliations —Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated for each of eight humanities departments, based on a cross-reference of Duke’s departmental faculty lists with North Carolina voter registration records. According to DCU, 142 of the faculty members and deans included in the survey are registered Democrats, 28 are unaffiliatedand 8 are registered Republicans; “The purpose of the ad was basically to bring to light the fact that the faculty in many humanities departments are completely skewed toward the left,” said Madison Kitchens, executive di—
losophy. We hired an expert in Kant and Newton. Politics never came up in the interview.” Burness noted that the same policy holds in the selection of University administrators, from the president down to the department chairs. William Chafe, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, defended the University’s current hiring practices.
“Political perspective should never be a consideration in a faculty appointment,” he said. “Nor should there be an effort to have the number of Democrats or Republicans reflect national norms. In that case, over half the faculty would not vote or have a party affiliation. Rather, the key is openness fo intellectual discourse, embrace offree speech and a belief that the quality of an argument is the key to its success.” Kitchens argued, however, that the University does show a bias in its hiring process —not necessarily based on political affiliations, but remotely indicative of such. ‘The University isn’t looking at party registration when it is hiring, but it is looking at what faculty members’ research interests are, where they fall on certain issues, and whether they toe the ideological line,” Kitchens said. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that 32 Democrats are in the history department, and zero Republicans. We’re not saying the University needs to hire more Republicans, but rather that it needs to be open to conservative perspectives SEE DCU ON PAGE
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Student patrols Students question police action to help security by
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For all the graduate students who dreamed of being Batman when they were young, the chance may soon come to live out their childhood fantasies: biology TA by day, crime stopper by night. Clarence Birkhead, chief of police of the Duke University Police Department, said the University is currendy looking at a number of options to increase the visiblity of security personnel on campus—an ongoing initiative that received particular attention after a student was robbed, presumably at gunpoint, at an ATM in the Bryan Center Nov. 30. Among the possibilities under consideration is the initiation of graduate student patrols at night. “We are reviewing all our options in employing indhdduSEE POLICE ON PAGE 8
When senior Georgette Nicol heard about some partybusting tactics by the Duke University Police Department last semester, she was confused. After searching the DUPD website, she found that University regulations require students to show their Duke Cards when prompted by administrators or the DUPD, but students can remain silent if only asked for their names. This was one lesson shared at a Black Student Alliancesponsored Town Hall meeting last night as students, administrators and members ofDUPD discussed racial issues and the rights of students in dealing with law enforcement. The meeting, mediated by BSA president Maya Washington, was held in part to address concerns of some Central Campus residents that their parties are being unfairly targeted by DUPD. Additionally, students sought clarification on DUPD procedures including responses to SEE TOWN HALL ON PAGE 8
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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush said Monday that a soft economy had caused “hardship for people in many industries and regions of our na-
tion,” but he declared that “America’s economy is strong and getting stronger,” and he predicted the creation of 2.6 million new Jobs this year. The prediction provides a benchmark that can be used by the president and his critics to measure the performance of the economy in this election year. In his annual economic report, Bush defended his record, which has been
harshly criticized by Democrats. “Since May 2003,” Bush said, “we have seen the economy grow at its fastest pace in nearly 20 years.” He predicted that prosperity would soon “reach every corner of America.” On a trip to Missouri, Bush said Monday that the economy was showing
“good growth, good strong growth.” He gave much of the credit to three tax cuts that he has shepherded through Congress. But he warned that the recovery could be imperiled if Democrats block his call to make permanent the tax cuts, some of which expire over the next few years. The Democratic presidential can-
didates have all called for rolling back some or all of Bush’s tax cuts. But Republican leaders in Congress are planning to push this year to extend or make permanent at least some elements of the tax cuts. Bush renewed his proposal to overhaul Social Security by encouraging people to set aside some of their payroll taxes in private retirement accounts. He acknowledged that such a change could increase the federal budget deficit in the next 15 years, by reducing federal revenues. But he insisted that the proposal would lead to “smaller SEE
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian WASHINGTON suspected of ties to al Qaeda, is now thought likely to have played a role in at least three major car bombing attacks in Iraq that have killed well over 100 people in the last six months, according to senior U.S. officials. Intelligence information, including some gathered in recent weeks, has provided “mounting evidence” to suggest that Zarqawi was involved in the bombings. These incidents include the attacks in August on a Shiite mosque in Najaf and the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, and the attack in November on an Italian police headquarters.
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Compensation ordered for war loot
The Commission for the Indemnity of Looting Victims said France should pay compensation requests of $154 million to the families of Jews whose property was looted in the Nazi occupation ofWWII.
Uprising in Haiti spreads to 9 towns
An insurrection in Haiti continued to spread Monday, with anti-government rebels taking control of nine towns in eastern Haiti.The death toll has reached more than 40.
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One official cautioned that the evidence stopped short of firm proof about involvement by Zarqawi. But the official said that the intelligence had added significandy to concern about Zarqawi, who one official said was now “really viewed as the most adept terrorist operative in Iraq, in terms offoreigners planning terrorist activities.” The indication that Zarqawi played a role in the bombing attacks adds evidence that the Jordanian has been active in Iraq since the U.S. invasion last March. A U.S. official said that Zarqawi had been “in and out” of Iraq since March, but “at last report” was operating inside Iraq. One of Zarqawi’s top lieutenants, Hassan Ghul, a PakSEE BOMBINGS ON PAGE
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Diana Ross to spend time in the slammer Singer Diana Ross was convicted Monday of driving under the influence. She was ordered to spend two days in jail and seek alcoholabuse treatment.
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Right now he’s learning about science policy on Capitol Hill, but next year, junior Kevin Parker will be responsible for the policy and programming coming out of the Duke University Union as its incoming president. Parker was elected Monday by the Union, the largest student programming body on campus. He will begin his term in April and serve for one year, succeeding junior Jonathan Bigelow. “The Union has done a lot of great things over the years, and next year is the 50th anniversary,” Parker said. “What we need to do is not only remember all the great things we’ve done before... things like bringing concerts back into Cameron.... [We] also need to move in new directions. There’s a lot of talk on campus about problems with social life... [and the] Union needs to step up.”-
Although much of his work with the Union will involve the commemoration of its 50th year on campus, Parker said that plans for that celebration are still in their infancy. In the meantime, he said he hopes to focus on increasing the Union’s presence on campus, improving opportunities for faculty-student interaction and providing input and direction as plans for the new West Campus student center evolve. “It’s certainly clear that he’ll have to continue the Union’s advisory role as far as West Campus student center renovations are concerned, which will be a tremendous challenge as the renovations begin to come to fruition,” Bigelow said. “The Union has also been very committed to advising the administration on how the [Bryan Center] can be better maintained in the short term and maximized for use of students who may not see the BC renoSEE PARKER ON PAGE 6
Officials begin fundraising efforts for student center Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE
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University students preparing to stay for summer session this year should ready themselves for plenty of noise, as construction crews prepare to unleash their jackhammers on the area surrounding the Bryan Center. As plans progress for the development of the new plaza that will form the centerpiece of the West Campus Student Center, officials have yet to raise the necessary money for the project, but are still looking to a tenative June ground-
breaking. The plaza is the first phase of the devel-
opment of the new student center, which will combine the Bryan Center, West Union Building, Flowers Building, Page Auditorium and a new facility. Early estimates place the cost of the
plaza at $lO million, but Treat Harvey, major gifts officer for student affairs, said no money has yet been raised specifically for the plaza and officials are hopeful that in the upcoming months they will be able to the raise the funds.
“Because it will probably take a year to construct, ideally we will raise the money over the next few months,” said Harvey. “A more realistic scenario is [raising the money] over the next year.” She added that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s $5 million gift to the University for student life in May 2002 is the only received funding eligible for the plaza. Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta said that the donation would not be necessarily earmarked for the plaza but could be used if the search for other funding proved fruitless. Moneta added that without specific de-
sign plans from the architect available to present to potential donors, it has been difficult to illicit funds. Instead, officials have focused on identifying and befriending potential donors, who they will approach when they are more prepared. “All we’re doing is making friends right now—that includes parents, alumni and lots of folks who have affection for or affiliation with the campus,” Moneta said. Officials said they remain optimistic that they will be able to locate a donor who would be interested in being the main supporter for the project. “I think it is the dream of every capital project to find one major donor who will take on the lion’s share of the commitment,” Harvey said. “For buildings you tend to try to find one person who will want to name the building or structure and pay half of the construction
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GPSC parking survey reveals dissatisfaction by
Davis Ward
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Graduate and Proffessional School Council Parking/Transportation Committee Chair Brian O’Dwyer presented an analysis of the committee’s parking survey, conducted over a four week period last winter, at the Monday night meeting of Graduate and Professional School Council. Of the 875 graduate and professional students who filled out the internet questionnaire, only 27 percent reported that they were satisfied with parking overall, while 21 percent reported that the parking situation is now better than it was last year, O’Dwyer reported. The majority of the respondents were students in the Graduate School, followed by Fuqua, Divinity and Law students, respectively. The survey also found that of the different areas of concern, students were most dissatisfied with the costs related to parking.
O’Dwyer acknowledged that the survey results were imperfect because students w ho were not happy with parking were more likely to make the effort of fdling out the survey, adding some bias to the results because the students selected themselves into the experiment. Despite that bias, O’Dwyer maintained the value of the survey results in helping the administration respond to the concerns. “The way [the results are] significant is that we’re moving from people saying, ‘parking’s bad, parking’s bad’ to quantifiable data,” O’Dwyer said. “What we do about the results is the meaningful part.” O’Dwyer added that the parking and transportation committee is currently meeting with Cathy Reeve, director of parking and transportation, and plans to meet with the Duke Transportation Advisory Committee, made up of faculty, staff and graduate and undergraduate stu-
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dents alike, in the near future During the survey period, GPSC decided to run a raffle for a free parking space to be given to survey respondents as an incentive to the survey. At the Monday night meeting, Reeve picked the winner of the raffle by drawing numbered ping pong balls out of a bag to pick a corresponding Duke ID number. The winner, however, was not present at the meeting. Reeve was enthusiastic about the survey results. “I hope this sets a standard so we can go back and check ourselves against it,” Reeve said. “I hope we can really put this data together into a meaningful planning document.” IN OTHER BUSINESS: Julia Bowsher of the Building and Grounds Committee reported that the undergraduate safety walk with Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus serv-
ices, held last Thursday was a success. “In general the campus seemed quite safe,” Bowsher said. “The lighting had improved in many places.” Rob Saunders, president of GPSC and chair of the health insurance committee, announced that students will learn of changes in their Duke health insurance plans in March when the committee meets with an insurance broker representing Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Saunders said that he hopes insurance premiums do not rise too much this year. Over the past two years, premiums have risen almost 20 percent each year. Lara Oliver, chair of the student life committee, said a speed dating event will be held for all graduate and professional students Feb. 18 at the Tosca Ristorante. The tickets will cost $l5, and are currently on sale in different locations across campus. There are 35 tickets left of 100.
California supermarket New HIV drugs help union strike intensifies babies, hurt mothers by
Steven Greenhouse
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LOS ANGELES Four months into one of the biggest labor actions in decades, the union representing 70,000 striking or locked-out Southern California supermarket workers is waging an increasingly confrontational—some say desperate—campaign to fend off cuts in members’ health benefits. One hundred Union supporters shut down a Safeway in Santa Cruz for an hour and a half, dancing and chanting in a conga line through the store. Others disrupted a golf tournament in Pebble Beach Friday, shouting slogans at two supermarket board members who were about to tee off. In the biggest rally yet, about 14,000
union supporters demonstrated in Los An-
geles on Jan. 31. Pressure against the affected supermarkets is being brought outside Southern California as well. Thirteen union supporters were arrested blocking the entrance of a Safeway in Oakland, and 200, including a dozen clerics, demonstrated near the Bay Area home of Safeway’s chair, Steven Burd. “This is not a battle about Southern California, this is a war for the whole country, particularly over health care,” said Ron Judd, West Coast regional director of the AFL-CIO “This should be seen as the poster child of what employers are willing to do to take away health care.” The United Food and Commercial Workers Union is making what it calls a SEE STRIKE ON PAGE 10
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SAN FRANCISCO Highly successful efforts to use combination drug therapy to stop transmission of the AIDS virus from mothers to their babies carry a troubling consequence for the mother: the development of resistance to HIV drugs now recommended to fight their own infections. The findings, reported Monday at the 11th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, involve studies in Thailand and South Africa about the use of AZT and nevirapine to try to prevent newborns from becoming infected. The research could have far-reaching implications. Experts knew that HIV could be resistant to nevirapine, but they were surprised by the findings that even a
single dose could cause such a reaction. And because nevirapine is one of the three front-line therapies recommended by the World Health Organization to fight the spread of AIDS in developing countries, the results provide a sobering counterweight to its potency in reducing transmission of the virus to infants. While the rates of transmission from mothers to infants have fallen considerably in the United States, they are still rampant throughout other parts of the world. Health officials have recommended since 1999 that an infected mother receive a single nevirapine pill during labor and that her newborn receive nevirapine once within the first three days oflife. The simple therapy can reduce the risk of transmission of the AIDS SEE HIV ON PAGE 10
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BOSTON Massachusetts House and Senate leaders Monday struggled to craft a revised constitutional amendment that would ban same sex marriages, but give gay couples some rights under civil unions. The strategy was designed to win enough votes for passage of the amendment later this week by reaching out to lawmakers who want to overturn the historic Supreme Judicial Court decision that declared gay marriage constitutional as well as those who would like to extend some rights and benefits to gay couples. As currently written, an antigay-marriage amendment sponsored by state Representative Philip Travis of Rehoboth defines marriage as only a union of a man and woman and contains language that some specialists say would bar civil unions. Some wavering lawmakers say the amendment appears punitive and would use the state constitution to restrict rights, legislative strategists said. In another development, House Speaker Thomas Finneran and several of his lieutenants were considering a bill that would block the issuance of samesex marriage licenses in May when the SJC decision takes effect. The measure would also define marriage as a union of a man and woman, but provide civil unions for gays. Finneran’s idea was rejected by Senate leaders Monday night, but he may nonetheless push the bill on the House floor as early as Tuesday. “Everything is still fluid,” said one strategist. The strategies are being made as lawmakers, lobbyists, and the police prepare for a debate on the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that could come as early as Wednesday. State House police said Monday they were expecting 4,000 people Wednesday, even though the amendment may not come up on that day because the agenda is crowded with 10 proposed amendments. Legislative staffers were also trying to decide who should get the 120 seats available for the public in the House chamber. One official said the staff would most likely set up television sets in two rooms inside the State House for the overflow crowd to watch the
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With all eyes on Massachusetts, a poll taken after last week’s SJC opinion affirming gay marriage shows that by a 2-to-l ratio, Americans do not want laws in their states that would legalize gay marriages. The National Annenberg Election Survey of 814 adults was conducted Feb. 5-8 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. No reliable legislative source Monday Could provide a vote count on the Travis amendment. Most legislators and lobbyists gave its supporters a slight edge, but still short of the 100 votes that are needed. Many lawmakers—between 25 and 30 in number—are still undecided. The compromise for the Travis amendment that the Senate and House leaders are considering would keep the language that defines marriage as solely a heterosexual union. It would strike a final sentence that states, “Any other relationship shall not be recognized as a marriage or its legal equivalent.' That phrase, according to legislative leaders, would be replaced with a statement that civil unions “should be authorized and shall be provided....” Senate Minority Leader Brian Lees, who has been involved in the negotiations to add the civil union language to the Travis amendment, said he and other leaders were trying to defuse opposition among lawmakers who would not support the amendment if it barred civil unions. “I am optimistic we will get the vote with the additional language,” Lees said. “We are all grappling to come up with a compromise.” “If there are enough votes to put civil unions on the amendment, I would see that as less restrictive,” said Senate assistant majority leader Robert Havem, a Democrat from Arlington, who supports gay marriage but said he will consider a compromise. Gay rights advocates panned the move by House and Senate leaders to find middle ground as “empty promises.” “This compromise, while interesting, still leaves us 1
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Legal scholar to distribute settlement funds University law professor Francis McGovern has been selected to dole out $4OO million to aggrieved investors who bought stock tainted by overly bullish research. The settlement covers those investors who relied on the banks' allegedly tainted research when trading in specific stocks during time periods that generally stretch from the market highs of the late 1990s until after the dotcom meltdown. The securities include some popular technology stocks, such as Razorfish Inc. and Agilent Technologies Inc., and telecommunications
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the Daikon-Shield and the silicone gel breast implant. He is also helping to build a legal framework for handling the 2.6 million claims for reparations from Iraq. Soros to lecture in Reynolds
Theater International investor, philanthropist and author George Soros will present a lecture at 5 p.m. Feb. 17 in Reynolds Theater in the Bryan Center. He will speak on his book The Bubble of America Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power in a talk that is free and open to the public. SEE BRIEFS ON PAGE
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PARKER from page 3 vated while they’re here as students.” Parker’s goal of focusing on the smaller aspects of the Union’s programming as well as the major events will be important in the coming year, as the Small Programs Committee is just finishing its first full year of operation, Bigelow said, adding that he was confident in his successor’s ability to carry out the Union’s mission of enriching student life on campus. “Kevin is going to breathe some fresh air into the Union’s leadership next year,” Bigelow said. “He speaks with authority about the importance of the Union’s role in student life and in general. He also has interesting things to say about how important the
GARINGER from page 1 “I call it divine intervention,” he said. “But I’ve loved every minute since I’ve been here.” Since becoming a Blue Devil, Garinger has spent the majority of his tenure involved in campus journalism, rising among the ranks ofThe Chronicle, the independent daily student-run newspaper at Duke. Garinger currently serves as editor of The Chronicle and president of the Duke Student Publishing Company. Garinger previously served as a wire associate editor, university associate editor, university editor and associate film editor for Recess, The Chronicle’s weekly arts and entertainment section. Through his multiple positions at the newspaper, Garinger has illustrated his ability to lead. Rishi Jaitly, a senior at Princeton University and a friend of Garinger’s for eleven years, sees him as a natural leader. “He leads by example,” Jaitly said. “A lot of people look up to Alex because of his unparalleled dedication to what he’s
Union is for the Duke community and the Durham community.” Since the beginning of his involvement with the Union’s Cable 13 committee his freshman year, Parker has gained experience with the individual membership, financial and leadership aspects of the organization. He served as chief financial officer for Cable 13 his sophomore year and as the station’s chair last semester. “He’s a joker basically,” said Wai-Ping Chim, the current chair of Cable 13. “He has his professional side, but he’s really goofy and light-hearted. He would make being part of the Union and running the Union a friendly, happy place to be. It can get stressful, but if he keeps the mood lighthearted, it would definitely help.” In addition to exercising general authority over all of the Union’s activities, Parker will serve as chair of the Union’s
doing—he can show people he is committed.” Jaitly also added that Garinger is very approachable. “He has an ability to relate and connect to a wide range of people,” he said. Garinger wants to apply his leadership skills and his knowledge of the University to the position of young trustee. He said that one of his plans, if elected, would be to ensure that the University works to make the school “one of the most incredible undergraduate and graduate experiences in the country.” Garinger said the biggest projects the Board of Trustees will have to tackle are the campus’ construction plans—namely the new student center and the redevelopment of Central Campus. “There are going to be tons and tons of decisions on both aspects that the Board is going to have to make, not only where things are going, but the general tone of the project,” he said. “Questions like, ‘What the mix of residential and commercial areas will be like?’ and ‘Are we going to have a frat row?”’
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board, which serves as a governing and steering organization. “He is tasked with representing the Union to administrative bodies, not least of which is [the Office of] Student Affairs,” Bigelow said. “One of the big duties will be to connect with Duke’s incoming leaders to make sure they understand the Union’s role and significance on campus.” Hailing from Bearington, 111, and double-majoring in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering, Parker—also a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity—is spending his semester taking classes at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and working for the House of Representatives Committee on Science. He said he hopes to pursue the science, technology and human values certificate. Cindy Yee contributed to this article.
Garinger also said the Board will have formulate a vision for the future direction of the University and its potential
to
“ivying.” “With all of the top administrators com-
ing in from Ivy League schools, they are going to have to make some decisions about where we want Duke to be,” he said. “What is so unique is that we are so young —there is so much opportunity to change things, where at other schools that isn’t there,” he said. “It is also a question of where to put resources.” To compete with its top-ranked peers, institutions such as Harvard and Stanford Universities, Garinger believes the school will need to work on recruitment of top faculty members as well as making student life a priority. “It’s tough to lure [top faculty] to Durham, but we could do it,” he said. As part of the undergraduate life exA perience on campus, Garinger sees a need for the evaluation of locations for social events. “When fraternities left the Quad, students suddenly looked around and said
‘lt’s not that fun to have a party in a commons room,”’ Garinger said, accounting for the growth in the off-campus social scene. “I am not sure that the on-campus scene will ever die —I think we’ll just get to a point where commons rooms will need to be made more hospitable.” He thinks that the new construction could provide an opportunity for the return of social life on campus. “I think there are so many opportunities in the new student center, for example a pub or something, that could be there socially,” he said. “Social life has been in a transition period at the moment—it’s sort of all about location, location, location.” As the primary news source of the Duke Community, The Chronicle places a high value on credibility and objectivity and is committed to upholding this standard of editorial decisions as it relates to this year’s young trustee selection process. Alex Garinger, has not participated in any discussion, decisions or editing of stories related to theyoung trustee coverage.
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in the hiring process.” Kitchens noted that DCU had not intended to advocate an absolute balance between Republicans and Democrats in the faculty. Rather, he said, the group wants to be sure that both sides of political argument are given heed in classes that deal with political matters. Furthermore, he said, though the imbalance in political views may not show up in any particular classroom, it is evident in the University’s course offerings. “Certainly there’s been an incredibly disproportionate focus on race, gender, class consciousness and post-modern thought in Duke’s course offerings,” Kitchens said. “We’re not saying there should be conservative classes to take their place, but we are saying the University should look at the subjects it offers in a more objective manner.... The University does not necessarily need to offer a cpurse in conservative thought, but it does need to provide some balance so that students can decide for themselves which they choose to take.” A number of chairs of humanities departments said they were surprised by both the DCU’s findings and conclusions. “My sense is that a University community represents all opinions, and somehow just your party affiliation seems a very odd way of sampling it,” said Maureen Quilligan, chair of the English department, fioting that she has never received any complaints of professors’ bias in her department. “Besides, there are many differences within Republicans and within Democrats, and Republicans certainly are not the only conservatives.” John Thompson, chair of the history department, similarly questioned DCU’s usage of party registrations to make their point. “The interesting thing about the United States is that the political spectrum is very narrow,” he said, noting that other countries, such as Canada, represent a much broader sampling of political leanings. As such, he said, the question of political affiliation in the United States becomes relatively trivial. Kitchens acknowledged that party affiliations were not a perfect test of ideological groundings. He said DCU merely intended to use the party registration data to demonstrate an imbalance, lacking a more accurate ruler.
Thompson also questioned the data presented in the advertisement. His department was by far the most imbalanced of those presented in the advertisement, with 32 Democrats, four unaffiliated and zero Republicans. “Not only do we not have 36 members of the department, but three or four members are foreigners, so aren’t even registered to vote,” he said. Some argued that the political imbalance within the humanities departments is to be expected, and in no way reflects the University’s lack ofcommitment to true intellectual diversity. “We try to hire the best, smartest people available,” Brandon said of his philosophy hires. “If, as John Stuart Mill said, stupid people are generally conservative, then there are lots of conservatives we will never hire. “Mill’s analysis may go some way towards explaining the power of the Republican party in our society and the relative scarcity of Republicans in academia. Players in the NBA tend to be taller than average. There is a good reason for this. Members of academia tend to be a bit smarter than average. There is a good reason for this too.” Burness also noted that the humanities may be particularly oriented toward Democratic minds. “If you were to look at most business schools, you might find more people that were Republican than Democratic,” he said. “If you look at the humanities in general, there’s a great deal of creativity that goes on. In a sense it’s innovation, and a perfectly logical criticism of the current society, in one form or another, that plays itself out in some of these disciplines. It doesn’t surprise me that you might find people in humanities are more liberal than conservative.” Bumess added that the course imbalance Kitchens described was also not surprising. He argued that, because gender and race are lively forms of scholarly inquiry today, it is natural that a number of courses should treat these subjects. Michael Munger, chair of the political science department, was not so quick to dismiss DCU’s arguments, although he noted that a balance of political affiliations within a department is not necessarily the answer. ‘The solution is not to have 15 Republicans and 15 Democrats in one department. If everybody forced students to write papers based on a faculty member’s particular perspective, that’s still not diversity,” he said. Rather, he said, the classroom, not the department, must be depoliticized.
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the 100th anniversary of the Bassett Affair-a landmark case in which the Board of Trustees decided to support one of the University’s professors, despite the unpopularity of his views—in Dec. 2003. Munger stressed that Duke is the “best place I’ve ever been for ideological diversity.” More recendy, the issue ofacademic freedom—orof what a professor can or cannot say in the classroom—sparked controversy after current senior Matt Bettis accused history professor GeraldWilson of “blatant indoctrination” in his class, “History 97D: American Dreams/American Realities.” Bettis dropped the class after attending for one day, claiming that a seemingly innocuous joke Wilson made had in fact pointed to an implication that opposing political views would not be welcomed. Bettis wrote an account of the experience for the Sept. 9, 2003, issue of FrontPageMagazine.com, which caught the attention of David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture and leader of a national campaign to erase political bias from the classroom. At the center ofHorowitz’s effort is an “Academic Bill of Rights,” which he is currently trying to push through Congress and state legislatures. Kitchens said it was merely coincidence that the DCU advertisement ran the same week an article was scheduled to be printed in The Chronicle of Higher Education about political imbalance in higher education. The article, entitled “Patrolling Professors’ Politics,” is set to appear in the journal’s Feb. 13 issue and leads with Bettis’s claims. “There was no tactic in our timing,” Kitchens said. “We just wanted President Keohane to be aware of the situation and hopefully to respond to it. Either that, or quit heralding diversity when in fact she knows her faculty is anything but diverse in opinion.” Keohane was in New York at the time the DCU advertisement ran in The Chronicle. She said she had not yet seen the advertisement, but would consider it when she returned.
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In his latest book, Soros argues that the current U.S. administration has based its foreign relations on military might rather than on principles of international law. Soros believes this assertion of American power in the world resembles a financial ‘bubble’—the boom in a boom/bust cycle that promises to deliver long-term negative consequences. Immediately following the lecture, Soros will take questions from the audience and Provost Peter Lange will moderate a panel discussion. Panelists include
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was black and white. She said police action at parties varied depending on the race of partygoers. “Officers are aggressive in the way they deal, with black parties on Central Campus,” Nicol said. ‘They’re more lenient at white parties.” Several students noted that black parties they had attended were broken up after one complaint, while other parties on Central received several warnings. Students also sought a clarification for when and where metal detectors should be used. They mentioned one particular instance when a metal detector was used at a step show in Page Auditorium, a location where detectors are generally used. DUPD Special Operations Manager Major Burnice Parker said that such an incident will not happen again, but that DUPD reserved the right to put metal detectors into use in most cases. DUPD Chief Clarence Birkhead said the meeting was productive and a necessary means of progress between students, police and the administration. “I think these forums are great to let the air out of the balloon if you will,” Birkhead said. “We can’t change a thing unless we have a meaningful dialogue.”
to assist with an increased security visibility effort,” Birkhead said. “If graduate students are interested in giving back to the community while being paid to do so, we need to consider them as an option. It may be a pool we haven’t looked at in the past, so it could be an untapped resource
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hours, between 6 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. Although the program under consideration has not drawn overwhelming interest from graduate students, Birkhead said a few have contacted his department about the positions. “The fact that we do have some interest is a good sign,” he said. Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, noted that the use of students to augment security patrols is a tactic other universities have employed in the past. “Students, particularly graduate students, have been involved in providing security in other places. They are not necessarily on patrols, and their roles may be as simple as providing building security, locking doors, serving as eyes and ears and radio contact around campus, or providing escort assistance.” The University of Carolina at Chapel Hill is among those universities that have used student patrols for a number of years, said Derek Poarch, director of UNC’s department of public safety. He noted that UNC’s student patrols include undergraduate students. Although Birkhead said the University was not currently considering undergraduates as possible patrollers, Dawkins said the option was not ruled out entirely. Poarch said the student patrollers at UNC are trained on such basics as eyewitness identification, how to call in information over the radio and what to look for on their patrols, but that they do not take ac-
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JOBS from page 2 deficits in the long term,” by reducing the growth of Social Security benefit payments financed from federal revenues. The White House thus acknowledged that the government would need to borrow large sums to cover the costs of a transition to a new Social Security system with
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“Personal retirement accounts widen the deficit by design,” the report said. “They refund payroll tax revenues to workers in the near term while lowering benefit payments from the pay-as-you-go system in later years.” The administration said that current workers would not be harmed by the reduction in payroll taxes. ‘They save this money in their own accounts, which can
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give them retirement income just as surely as if the government were promising it to them,” the report said. The president’s Council of Economic Advisers said the coming crisis in the financing of Social Security and Medicare “results mainly from the fundamental demographic shifts to lower birthrates and longer lives, rather than the impending retirement of the baby boom generation.” Overall, the report predicts that the economy will create 2.6 million jobs in 2004, increasing nonfarm payroll employment to 132.7 million. In February last year, the White House predicted that 1.7 million jobs would be created in 2003. In fact, nonfarm payrolls showed a small decline. If the president’s forecast is correct, 2004 will be the first year of the Bush presidency to see a net increase in payroll jobs.
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istani, was arrested by U.S. officials near the Iranian border last month, and has been interrogated since by U.S. military and intelligence officials. The U.S. officials who described Zarqawi’s suspected role would do so only on condition of anonymity, and they declined to discuss the nature of the information pointing to a role by Zarqawi in the major bombings. But the officials who described what they called “mounting intelligence” included some who have been skeptical in the past of the idea thatforeign militants were playing a major role in the violence in Iraq. “The fact that we got Hassan Ghul is new intelligence information,” one senior U.S. official said. “The fact that Zarqawi is a bad guy is something we’ve been saying for a long time, but we’re learning more about him.” In a separate raid on a safe house in Baghdad Jan. 23, U.S. officials found an electronic copy of a document believed to have been written by Zarqawi. That document was a detailed proposal asking senior leaders of al Qaeda
Since he took office, the country has lost 2.2 million payroll jobs, as nonfarm employment dipped to 130.2 million. On his trip to Springfield, Mo., Bush highlighted what he said were significant improvements in the economy. He plans to sound the same theme at a meeting with “economic leaders” Tuesday. In the economic report, Bush said he inherited a weak economy when he took office Jan. 20, 2001. He traced many of the nation’s economic problems to the “recession that began in 2000” and “the decline of the stock market beginning in early 2000.” N. Gregory Mankiw, chair of the Council ofEconomic Advisers, said Monday that the administrationbelieved that the last recession began “sometime in the fourth quarter of 2000.” Donna Zerwitz, a spokesperson for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a
for help in waging a “sectarian war” against Shiite targets in Iraq in the next six months. Parts of it were made available to The New York Times. The writer of that document indicated that he had directed about 25 suicide bombings inside Iraq, “some of them against Shiites and their leaders, the Americans and their military, and the police, the military and the coalition forces.” A senior U.S. intelligence official in Washington said Sunday that he knew of “no reason to believe the letter is bogus in any way.” In the period before the war, Bush administration officials argued that Zarqawi constituted the main link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s government. At the United Nations in February, Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Iraq of harboring “a deadly terrorist network” headed by Zarqawi, whom he called “an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda lieutenants.” At that time, Zarqawi was believed by U.S. officials to be in the mountains near the Iranian border with Ansar al Islam, a group linked to al Qaeda that is suspected of
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private group that defines turning points in the business cycle, said it had not changed the dates of the recession, from
March 2001 to November 2001. But Zerwitz said economists at the bureau were reviewing the data. Some experts, she said, believe the recession began in November 2000, while others would put the date at February 2001. Democrats mocked Bush’s prediction about jobs. “I don’t think we need a new report about jobs in America,” said Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. “I think we need a new president who is going to create jobs in America and put America back to work.” At a rally in Roanoke, Va., Kerry said, “I’ve got a feeling this report was prepared by the same people who brought us the intelligence on Iraq.”
mounting attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq. Since the war has ended, little evidence has emerged to support the allegation of a prewar al Qaeda connection in Iraq. Powell
announced last month that the U.S. government had found no “smoking gun” linking Saddam’s government with al Qaeda. The largest of the three attacks that U.S. officials now say may be linked to Zarqawi was the Aug. 29 explosion outside a mosque in Najaf, a city holy to Shiite Muslims, which killed more than 85 people, including Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, one of Iraq’s most important Shiite leaders. The raid on the safe house in Baghdad used by associates of Zarqawi was said by one U.S. official to have provided valuable new evidence against him. The items seized included a compact disc that contained the 17page proposal to senior leaders of al Qaeda as well as a seven-pound block of cyanide salt, which the officials said was suspected of having been obtained for use as an ingredient in a bomb that, while not a weapon of mass destruction, could have spread a cyanide gas within an enclosed area.
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STRIKE from page 4 er. “This fight will go on as long as it takes to bring management to their senses and to negotiate a fair deal.” The union is running radio advertisements in Seattle, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington urging shoppers to shun Safeway, seen as the hardest-line grocery chain. On Oct. 11, more than 20,000 workers went on strike against two Safeway subsidiaries, Vons and Pavilions. The next day, Albertsons and Kroger, which owns the Ralphs chain, locked out nearly 50,000 workers to show solidarity with Safeway. The three companies negotiate jointly with the union. The supermarkets say they need to cut costs —deeply and soon—because Wal-Mart is planning to open 40 combined discount stores and supermarkets in Southern California over the next five years. Grocery executives say they will not be able to compete because WalMart and other nonunion companies often pay their workers $8 an hour less in wages and benefits than unionized grocer)' workers receive. Mangagement wants workers to begin paying $260 a year for individual health coverage and $7BO for family coverage, less than 10 percent of what the companies now pay. Management also hopes to cap its health contribution to $4.30 an hour per worker, a move the union says will hurt coverage as health costs escalate. For new workers, management has proposed contributing $1.35 an hour for health coverage, less than one third the old rate. Union officials call it a paltry health plan. Management has also proposed a lower wage tier for new workers. Wages range from $7.40 for grocery baggers to $17.90 for cashiers, but management wants to reduce the top cashiers’ salary to $15.10. “We’re not asking for more for ourselves,” said Virginia Whitney, a Vons worker for 28 years. “All we want is a decent living. They want to set up an industry with lower benefits and no pension. I worry there will be no benefits for our children.” Paul Clark, a Penn State laborrelations professor, said
the dispute could have nationwide repercussions. “If the union loses this and has to give back a significant portion of their health benefits,” Clark said, “you’re really moving down the road to everybody beginning to be a Wal-Mart worker with low wages and low benefits.” In the last week, there has been a burst of maneuvering. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Monday that he was willing to intervene to foster a settlement. Union leaders called Wednesday for binding arbitration, but the companies refused, saying the federal government’s top mediator, Peter Hurtgen, was already involved. He has asked the two sides to resume talks quickly. The two sides have agreed to meet Wednesday. The grocery workers’ union recently asked the AFLCIO to get more involved and to oversee national strategy to pressure the supermarkets. The labor federation has asked other unions to contribute millions of dollars to the cause and has asked union members to “adopt” California grocery workers to help them make ends meet. Brian Dowling, Safeway’s chief spokesperson, said the supermarkets were not worried about labor’s pressure tactics. ‘The market pressure that gets exerted on us if a low-cost nonunion operator is allowed to enter a market like Southern California with a major cost advantage, that’s really pressure,” he said. ‘The other pressure they’re putting on us is ho-hum.” At Vons and Pavilions stores, union and supermarket officials say, about 10 percent of the union members have crossed the picket line and returned to work. Outside the Vons at Vermont and Third, strikers said 21 union members had returned to work, but store sales had plunged by more than half. Union leaders say they have offered an important concession, saying that if the company pledged to maintain health coverage at the current level, workers would pay 23 percent, saving the companies $340 million over the life of the three-year contract. But management says the proposal does not cap the amount contributed for health care, saying that the three companies’ health costs were projected to rise by $1 billion over three years.
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HIV from page 4 “This compromise, while interesting, still leaves us with the terrible situation of enshrining discrimination in the constitution,” said Arline Isaacson, cochair of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Caucus. “If a ballot question passes that prohibits marriage regardless of whether it gives civil unions, we will have lost our opportunity for marriage for decades to come. That is obscene.” Shawn Feddeman, a spokesperson for Governor Mitt Romney, said he would oppose an attempt to place civil unions in the constitution. “The governor believes the amendment should be narrowly written to preserve marriage as an institution as between a man and a woman,” she said. “Any rights and beneifts extended to same sex couples should be statutorly defined and not written into the constitution.” Lawmakers also struggled with the SJC’s rulings that say gay couples can be married in Massachusetts starting May 17. A constitutional amendment could go before voters in November 2006, placing people who were married in a legal limbo. Finneran and other House lawmakers suggested legislation to quickly declare marriage as as heterosexual institution—not waiting for the constitutional amendment to pass—and allow civil unions. The House plan also would attempt to head off the issuance of marriage licenses. But senior legislative leaders said Monday that Finneran’s legislative approach was running into strong opposition from Senate President Robert Travaglini and his aides who feel the court has made clear that, under the Massachusetts constitution, the refusal to grant marriage licenses to same sex couples is unconstitutional. One leadership source said Travaglini, after meeting with Finneran, contacted Attorney General Thomas Reilly, who insisted that an attempt to block the issuance of marriage licenses to gay couples would violate the court’s ruling and be overturned. Tavaglini also checked with former attorney general Francis Bellotti and received the same response.
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“What’s up Harrison?” This phrase can be heard with nearly machine-gun frequency as Harrison Till strolls through the Gothic Wonderland. The remark comes from persons of all plights, from a 5-foot4, 110 pound freshman, to Shelden Williams, the 6-foot-9, 245-pound center on Duke’s topranked basketball team. Harrison lives in a Cheers-like world where everyone really does know his name. Popularity can be expected for someone like Till, a thrower on the track and field team and the newest long-snapper on the football squad. Till personifies the word jovial, always smiling, happily concerned with the daily lives of nearly everyone around him. “He’s an amazing person,” said men’s basketball player Shavlik Randolph, who is Till’s unlikely but appreciative roommate. “Anyone who knows him will say he’s an amazing guy. His hospitality [is] towards everybody. He treats everybody like they’re the most important person. It doesn’t matter who you are, he can make you feel like a million bucks.” While his amiability cannot be denied, there
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tal, organized things. Taunting isn’t that bad. It’s when thousands of people get together and say something that is inappropriate. That I think becomes outrageous. I think if you are a competitor, you expect people to yell at you on
the road. You don’t want to get really out of taste. I don’t see it getting any worse. I think it’s just always been there. Again, in 1991-92, we’ve never been berated as much on the road as we were in those two years.
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again, before you use the word great, I don’t know how many great players there are, but there are really good players. One of the reasons we have so many teams ranked nationally and have done so well nationally as a conference is because our teams have good point guards, and a number of the teams have really good backup point guards—guys who are going to emerge or can give them minutes...That’s why the games are so good in the conference. I think they are making each other better. Look at the kid we played last night, Shawan Robinson. In one month, I think that kid has really emerged as one of the really good players in our league. It comes from good coaching, and I’m sure he’s working really hard but also the competition that he faces day-today. I think they are making each other better.
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tie bit down. You’re getting ready for the week, but overall I’m not saying we should never do it. It shouldn’t be done with the frequency that we do it basically because of the welfare of the student-athlete. These kids then lose a weekend. This week we’ll give our kids off on Thursday, but they go to school all day...lt doesn’t give them a break, and I think it impacts them as players but also as students—the quality of life. I think we should re-look at what we’re doing there. I’m not saying eliminate it, but really take a look at how much we play on Sunday, and especially Sunday night. Coach, along those lines, can you talk a little about the grind of the ACC schedule and how difficult it is to maintain intensity from game to game and maybe little but of what you to do to keep the team up at a certain level for each game on the schedule.
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The Cameron Crazies have come undercriticism in the last several years—most recently by Coach K last week—for supposed decreases in originality and support.
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good ball, and you’re not a Cameron Crazie at all. Trust me, you don’t want to be. But some of you don’t tent and still revel in your spectatorship, and more still just wait for the “White Registration” or the “Secondary Line,” or follow some other statute from your bible, the Undergraduate Admissions Policy for the 2003-2004 Men’s Basketball Season, which you’ve already memorized more of than the equally dense Tolstoy reading you’re doing by flashlight, justwaiting for Shelden to slump by and suit up for the walk-up game. You know you want it. Your buddy comes by after class, a plastic bag in his hand from the Duck Shop on Ninth Street. He didn’t have time to grab dinner on the way over; the blue and white body paints were far more important. Yes, whether this is the Valpo game or the Georgia Tech game just hours away from UNC, you streak by Donald, flashing your Duke Card and start jumping up and down, so you can maybe, justmaybe, get on ESPN2
for three seconds at the TV timeout in the second half. Do you do this because you love the team, or because you simply have nothing better to do with your time? Fm afraid it’s the latter, and, frankly, it’s pathetic. I went to a small prep school in New York City, where high school basketball is king, no matter how many wins you get. We got rowdy —that real, nasty kind ofrowdy—and no one wanted to play in our house because of it. But we got that way for the thrill of sport, not for the sensation of being a fan. You dress up in capes and take your shirts off to be a Cameron Crazie because you care about being at the game and being part of this scene, not watching it and being witness to the best college sports program there is. You cheer to be part of your big, dorky club, one that’s lost any pure root, root, root for the Blue Devils in the name of just being another dyed-blue skull in the mass. And now, apparendy, you’re not even living up to your reputation—one that gives you a lot more credit than you’re worth, one that’s probably perpetuated by a media that needs a cutaway shot and an administration
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that needs some nice photos for the admissions book. Now, evidendy, your supreme god, who’s earned the respect to yell at you and shut your lame selves up when he wants to, can’t even put up with your being pathetic. “I can tell you what,” Mike Krzyzewski said Sunday night, “the last two places we played in were a heck of a lot louder than our place tonight because they wanted to beat us badly. When we’re here we need to want to beat somebody. We need to create that atmosphere. We’re the team that is in first place.” Damn straight they’re in first place, and it has nothing to do with you. You don’t want to beat anybody; you just want to be a part of No. 1, and if Duke loses, you just whine and head back to your tent, spending more time pondering what name you can call DJ. Strawberry or Roy Williams a month from now than you do pondering what the hell you’ve been doing in this puddle of mud for a month already. Sunday night, I had a good look at you from across the court, in the first row past that gold bar that divides the basketball fans from the real whine and cheese crowd in
front of them. Sure, you had a better seat than me—by a little bit at least. But I jumped up and pumped my fists when Luol Deng threw down that first big dunk in the second half, appreciating this 6-foot-8 talent before he leaves for the NBA. But when I glanced over to you guys, poor Body Paint Crazie didn't know what had just happened. He had been too busy looking around at the rest ofyou for which imcreative chant to sputter out next, and he flat-out missed Shelden’s steal and pass (and after he had made all that effort to stop by the tent!). Two ticks of the clock later, though, Body PaintCrazie was right back up again, Lets Go Duke-ing and Ohhhhh-Boing-Boing-Pass-ing and Yeah Luol-ing, savoring that god of a freshman no older than he who Body Paint Crazies is just going to liate when he declares for the draft this spring, What a phony, little nerd. MaltSullivan is a Trinity sophomore and is the
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USA Today Rank: Ist
RPI: Ist 2/11 vs. Virginia 2/15 0 N.C. State
Two weeks in a row for Deng Luol Deng earned his second consecv dve ACC Rookie of the Week honor. H matched his career-high 22 points set last at Georiga Tech Sunday night in the Devil’s 81-55 victory over Clemson. The Lo England native was instrumental in Duke’ time triumph over North Carolina, see points and grabbing a career-high 12 reb< Playing for the No. 1 team in the nati is among the leading candidates f Freshman of the Year along with Wake
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BMOC from page 11 strength to achieve his dream. “I was just obsessed with trying to get recruited for football,” Till said. “1 was 6-foot-l, trying to gain weight. I would eat tvhole packages of cottage cheese at night. I got to 6-1, 265.1 didn’t put weight on the right way.” Although he gained mass, recruitment letters did not
exacdy come in waves. “My high school football coach and my athletic director both said, you’ll never be a Division I athlete,”’ Till said. Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania eventualdesired Till’s sendees on the football field, but he soon ly began to realize that his dream of becoming an AllAmerican football player was fading. Just as this window was closing on Till, another one was opening. After he quit the basketball team in order to pursue indoor track, Till began to excel at the hammer-throw and the 35-pound weight throw. He soon realized he needed to trim down his substantial girth if he was going to improve in his new-found talent. Till felt Camilion Training was the best way to improve himself into the athlete he desired to be. “I recommended the boot camp because of the simple fact that I felt that’s what he needed to do to get over the hump,” said Carini, who trains many NFL players at his Four Seasons Fitness Gym in West Patterson, N.J.. “He could focus on what he needed to do [at Camilion Training].” Though Till went to the camp with life-long friend and current West Point football player Joe Palantino, the two-sport star was far from comfortable in the first days of the training. ‘The first day all these kids were giving Bloods and Crypts signs,” Till said, as many of the those enrolled in Camilion Training were juvenile delinquents trying to mend their ways. Needless to say, Harrison’s mother, Debbie Till, was not exacdy gung-ho about the entire situation. “I didn’t want him to do it, but I wasn’t going to stop it if he wanted it bad enough,” Mrs. Till said, proving her motherly instincts were intact. Though the instructors pre-empted any gang violence by stressing the lessons of team work, the regiment was far from easy-going. The troops would rise at 5 a.m. and begin a three-mile run at 5:30. Each teenager that did not make the run in 22 minutes would be forced to run another three miles later in the evening. After breakfast, there was a class on marine life, and then obstacle training to enforce the concept of teamwork. Following lunch, the students listened to a motivational speaker. “You had to line up and stand stiff and listen to the motivational speaker for two hours,” Till said. “He walked up and down the line screaming in your face. I was never a selfish kid, but it really made you think about spending
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more time with your parents and your grandparents because they’re not always going to be there for you. It made you think, do you want to be smoking up your whole life, you want to be drunk, or do you want to sign that letter ofintent and make your parents proud?” Till and his classmates would eat dinner and have a chance to call home from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., which was immediately followed by two hours of “rec time.” “They call it rec time which is where they took you into a sand pit,” a not-joking Till said. “One at a time you had to go in there and box. They gave you head gear and a mouthpiece and gloves. You had to go barefoot in a sandpit and box some people.” After taking a beating, the Camilion Training class would bond by joking in the showers about the intensity of the work-outs. The schedule remained the same every day of the week, including Sundays, and the same meals were served every day over the three-month training session. When Till entered Camilion training, over 300 people were in the program. By the August graduation date, only 110 teenagers remained. After Till finished the program, he had new-found confidence. “His self esteem grew so much that he was able to accomplish something so challenging,” Mrs. Till said. ‘Just the way he stood, I realized it was a good thing.” Soon after Till signed a track and field scholarship to Duke. Till has not disappointed in his time at Duke, as he is one inch away from the all-time Duke record in the 35pound weight throw. “He really wants to knock the hammer and 35-pound weight throw over for [track and field head] Coach [Norm] Ogilvie,” Harrison’s father Peter Till said. “Harrison is deeply indebted to Coach Ogilvie.” In addition, Till has decided to join the football team after spending time with some of the gridiron players while rehabbing an injured knee at Duke this summer. The active sophomore soon grew nostalgic of the camaraderie of being on a football team, and though he loves track and field, throwing is much more of an individual sport. “He apparently has a very', very big kinship with a lot of the guys on the football team,” Peter Till said. Till has combined the work-ethic he developed at Camilion Training with his glowing personality in football, as well. “He’s in there all the time even though he doesn’t have access [to the Yoh Football Center],” current Duke longsnapper Mark Thompson said. “He’s always waiting outside the building. He’s probably the most outgoing person I know. He takes time to give handshakes and give bear hugs even while being a really intense worker.” Because of his two-sport status, Till’s days typically begin at 6 a.m. and don’t end until 11 p.m.. Despite this stressful schedule, Till still maintains his contagious smile and magnetic personality. “I love the kid,” Carini said.
VERBATIM My high school was really competition for sports. My high school football coach and my athletic director said, “you’ll never be a division I athlete.” Harrison Till He’s an amazing person. Anyone who knows him will say he’s an amazing guy.... His hospitality [sic] towards everybody. He treats everybody like they’re the most important person. It doesn’t matter who you are, he can make you feel like a million bucks. Shavlik Randolph He’s always had the ability to connect extremely well with a diverse group of friends. There’s always been a great range of friends. Harrison likes to surround himself with people accomplished on many levels. He’s comfortable being around with people in the limelight. Harrison’s mother Debby I met him last year randomly because he knows everybody. Harrison’s teammate from the football team, Mark Thompson
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polit- reasonable right to expect that the only partisan campaigning during
ical one—period. During the Jan. 29 men’s bas- the game will be done on behalf of ketball game against Florida the teams on the court. Duke Students for Bush violated State, a group of students led by this implicit contract by deliberateDuke Students for (George W.j Bush sat together in the stands, ly using the game as a forum for political expression. many wearing blue ctacc cmmoiiu ED,TORIAL STAFF In the midst of a T-shirts with large heated election cycle, a sporting “Ws” printed on them. While the actions of the students event is one of a handful of places were not illegal—political speech where one can expect to remain being protected by the First isolated from politics for a short Amendment—the implicit politi- while. By wearing politically-moticization of a sporting event intro- vated shirts and voicing support for duced an element of divisiveness their candidate, the students disinto the crowd, subjecting a major- rupted the athletic spirit of the ity of fans to an unwelcome inva- game, and exploited the teams on sion of partisan politics into an at- the court to bolster their agenda, There are several more appromosphere of unity and fun. In approaching the issues raised priate campus venues available to by the “W” shirts, it is essential to individuals wishing to share their understand the expectations held political views. Quads, classrooms, by the average fan upon entering the Bryan Center Walkway and Cameron Indoor Stadium for a countless other spots are perfect game. First and foremost, they are for such uses, It is important to note that the there to witness and cheer for their team—their basketball team, not actions of Duke Students for Bush their political team. Any sort of di- would be equally as deplorable had vision in the crowd naturally arises they been conducted on behalf of a from athletic competition. You Democratic or third party candidate. Duke basketball games are root for one team and against the other, approve of the team and not simply not appropriate situations the referees, cheer louder than the for political campaigning. Fans do not pay to learn about other squad’s fans. Fans can set aside the differences that pervade political platforms, they pay to their lives outside of Cameron, and see the Blue Devils put the.ball unite around their common in the hoop.
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Biology majors not The
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cerning biology majors was a thoughtful analysis. It showed that the number of majors in biology reflects both national trends in career choices and changing opportunities
within the University. However, I’m afraid that the headline, “Biology major a vanishing breed”, was simply all wrong. First and most notably, the number of biology majors is actually on the increase. As the data published with the article shows, biology is up from 118 seniors graduating this year to almost 160 in 2005. Enrollments in introductory-level courses are also up from previous years, suggesting that this upward trend will continue in the near future. Secondly, the decline in biology majors in the past several years is far from an “un-
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precedented exodus.” The numbers of all majors go up and down periodically. Indeed, the peak of 270 biology majors in 1998 was a historic high resulting from a
dramatic increase during the 19905. The decline in the last few years was well within the usual ebb and flow of majors. Finally, even at “only” 120 seniors, biology is still one of the largest majors on campus. Far from “vanishing,” biology continues to be a foundation discipline in a liberal arts curriculum that is well supported by this University and embraced by.a large and growing number of students. Lecturer
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Alex Garinger fo r Youn g Trustee Of the three finalists for Young Trustee, Alex Garinger stands out from the crowd. As editor of The Chronicle, Garinger has a perspective unmatched by other Duke undergraduates. While many passionate students choose to spend their time lobbying for changes in institutional policy or student programming via DSG, Campus Council, the Union and a host of smaller student organizations, Garinger has served faithfully at The Chronicle during his undergraduate career as steward for the University community. He is the only candidate with a proven grasp of the major challenges posed by our new academic facilities, the restructuring of West Campus, Arts & Sciences and the inevitable changes the student body will experience as our now Ivy-led administration resolves the debate about the role of intellectualism in Duke’s undergraduate experience. While his understanding of the Medical Center is admittedly lacking, Garinger’s knowledge of this major University sector far exceeds that of the other candidates, and he will learn more quickly because of it. Furthermore, his priorities are balanced—he knows the importance of the revolutions in science that will be stimulated by CIEMAS, the
French Science Center and the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, yet he remains committed to the strengthened role that the arts should play in revitalizing this often lackluster undergraduate campus. The fact that Garinger is editor of The Chronicle should not count against him in the process. Quite the contrary, indeed, for Garinger has already had to serve in a trust position for the University as The Chronicle’s editor. If elected Young Trustee, Garinger must be sure to exclude himself from any role he might play on the advisory board of The Chronicle or Duke Student Publishing Company. However, Garinger’s insights should not be squandered; his background as a journalist makes him an ideal candidate for Young Trustee. As Terry Sanford would have wanted, Garinger represents no particular constituency, but has simply demonstrated his love for the University and the larger Duke community by his tremendous dedication to the newspaper that serves them. To the senators of DSG: Feb. 11, Vote Alex Garinger for Young Trustee. Philip Kurian Trinity ’O5
This letter was originally submitted as a column, but was rejected. The Chronicle will accept young trustee endorsements only in the form of letters.
Carleton leading Crazies astray If we want to keep our reputation as the best fans in college basketball we should ignore almost everything Nathan Carleton had to say in his Feb. 9 column, “Little bags filled with flour: The future of the Crazies.” Nothing Carleton suggests is original or clever. From how many different schools do you think D.J. Strawberry has heard the DARR-YL chant? The fans at the University of Florida tried that chant and the Gators ended up losing to an inspired Terp team (led by the defense of one DJ. Strawberry) in overtime. We don’t want that, now do we? The little bags of flour that Carleton suggests are just inappropriate. He mentions Herman Veal as a precedent for this behavior. Herman Veal was himself accused of sexual assault. DJ. has done nothing to warrant this kind ofbehavior from the Crazies, other than be Darryl Strawberry’s son. His father was the cocaine addict, and D.J.’s relation-
ship with his father is tenuous at best. A better precedent would be Juan Dixon, whose parents where drug addicts and died prematurely ofAIDS. The Crazies did not target Juan with chants of crack-baby or the like.
UVA students did and came under fire from the rest of the ACC. I agree with Carleton that the Cameron Crazies are at a crossroads. However, the choice is whether we will follow the national trend toward ugliness and poor sportsmanship, or whether we will prove to be the greatest fans in the game and rise above the disturbing nastiness that seems to permeate college basketball. I think Carleton should ask the real Crazies—the grad students who have been to every game for 6 years or so, or the guys in tent number one—whether they think we should take his suggestions. Jonathan Wallace Trinity ’O6
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Due to recent incidents, this n’t printed. (I’mma try to get that into column has been put on 7 word print sometime in the future for those of delay. you who still haven’t gotten it through eFor those of you confused, I will be mail.) Secondly, the Taljezeera Network has received a copy of a printed on Tuesdays Chronicle from almost exactly from now on. Just remember, it’s the same a year ago. Apparently, Christie wrote an article that day as American Idol Real World. not only is he guilty of Stay proves and Tuned producing the same sex-life literature he is so offended by, Like, so, apparently, but also that he should have last week we were stuck to covering Duke athletgraced with a well ics. thought out letter from ThaePeople would like to Tal enter Feb. 3, 2003 into evia former Chronicle TALing it like it is dence. The title to this one sports/editorial columwas “So Long As Men Can nist for three years, Breathe...” I won’t ruin it for Nick Christie. You all remember that one, right? Feb. 3. Where of all things, he calls you, but I can promise you he wasn’t referme out on adding to this editorial page fad ring to Medicare. And it’s not just one speof replacing columns with blatant attempts cific time. Listen, I may write about “24”, at attention and booty calls. A member of but at least people enjoyed it. Check both of our columns out at the class of 2003, he is so affected by The Chronicle that he is “fatigued at flipping www.chronicle.duke.edu. Nick, just because you write nice things about through to find yet another columnist obsessed with his or her, or his fellow stuwomen in columns doesn’t mean that dents’ sex lives.” Furthermore, he made us they will sleep with you. You have to buy know that he is personally “ashamed at them nice things. what The Chronicle editorial pages have And so the smooth transition to become.” Folks, let me tell you, I agree. I some of the more interesting issues of hate what we have to read. Much ofit is not the past few weeks. And funny, a bunch even funny in an “I cannot believe she has to do with college basketball. And thinks no one knows about the lax player they say Duke is a football school. Wait, she is describing” type of way. Call it the no they don’t. Who are people kidding Anti-enjoyable. by criticizing Maryland fans for their But Nick Christie, you yourself are part methods of cheering? The t-shirts that of the problem. First off, anyone with a say “F**K Duke” on the front and “And sense of humor got the sarcasm in my last Bin Laden” on the back? What, you like column, as well as in the editorial that was- Bin Laden? Traitors. And “F**KJ.J.” as
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an inappropriate cheer? If my team was getting lit up like Maryland was, I’d agree that the first thing that comes to mind is “F**KJJ.” Quitchyabitchin. With the history behind the Cameron Crazies, Duke criticizing anyone for chants and gestures is simply laughable. Okay, I know, Boozer’s mom got hit in the head. That’s not cool. But he’s a pro Blue Devil actually doing well, and I’m sure all has been forgotten. Duke fans of the late 80s early 90s flat out embarrassed players. Most of us are here because we know of Duke as the Duke when the legend of Kville and the Cameron Crazy were being made. In fact, it’s a legacy that the fans of today are undeservedly getting credit for. Personally, I don’t think Duke fans now are classier, I believe they are simply boring. I would not describe turning JJ. Redick into a 4 syllable phrase followed by a simple clapping scheme as crazy. So crazy to be willing to sleep in snow to watch 40 minutes of basketball, yet after 3 years of nastiness y’all can’t come up with a good chant for Daniel Ewing. I don’t know, maybe “Ewing, you win!” That took me 5 minutes. You guys have 2 months in that tent. Du-Du—Do you guys have anything original? More than half the cheers done are done at other schools. You want some suggestions? How bout this: before the next game against Maryland, you tenter people with cell phones split up. Half will be the “caller”, and half will be the “receiver.” When a Maryland player is at the foul line, get everyone
real quiet. Now this has to be timed perfectly, but as the opposing player is about to shoot, you hear cell phones go off everywhere. I mean like 100 different phones all ringing loudly. At least it’s a new idea. As I always say, if you are going to have the rep of being obnoxious, be obnoxious. Don’t fight it. Segway to the next issue. Those Bush supporters at a men’s game. I am a Bush supporter by no means, but I have no problem with the T-shirts. It’s actually inspiring. Someone else other than me has an opinion about something. It’s at least a step in getting this campus a bit more politically active. In fact, I may vote for Bush myself. I believe that Bush deserves 4 years in office to explain why none of the reasons he gave for the War in Iraq were true, while the Republicans have to stand by and defend the dumbass. Then we will see how big a deal a blowjob truly is. And then let Hillary get die hell out of New York to become the first female President in 2008. (A real opinion in The Chronicle? Psyche). Almost finished. A few random thoughts: If I see one editorial about the Sex and the City series finale, I will hunt you down. Over/Under on the Siren’s Lounge has been set at 73 days. How is “Happy Valentine’s Day” by Andre 3000 not the most played song this week? See you at Moe. Tonight, •
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Jean Genet, the Black Panthers and the PLO
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past weekend I had the good fortune of being were obvious parallels for Genet between the Algerian era, Genet writes, ‘The Blacks were no longer seen as able to see Jean Genet’s play The Blacks; A Clown anti-colonial struggle for independence and the revolusubmissive people whose rights had to be defended for Show as it was put on by Urgent Theater, a new tionary movement of Palestinian refugees seeking to rethem, but determined fighters, impulsive and unpredictable but ready to fight to the death for a movement group that plans on producing shows with particularly claim their historic land of Palestine. He even desalient themes for the Duke public. nounced his new fan Sartre for supporting Israel, saying that was part of the struggle of their race all over the “He (Sartre) is a bit of a coward for fear that his friends world.” Wow, what a show! Directors Amy Eason and Mary Adkins surely deserve our utmost thanks for bringing such in Paris might accuse him ofanti-Semitism if he ever said Through such an analysis, Genet avoided an essena thought-provoking performance to the Duke auditialist understanding of race and national identity. It was anything in support of Palestinian rights.” ence. All plays were followed by a discussion between acBut Genet’s attraction to the Palestinian cause went just such a stance that allowed him to say, “The Day the tors and the audience. The reaction of beyond mere solidarity with an op- Palestinians become institutionalized, I will no longer be audience members to the unsettling pressed people. What intrigued him by their side.” Today, the apparatus of the Palestine Libabout the Palestinians concerned their .eration Organization (PLO) no longer reaches out in an play on the themes of race and power was met with attempts by producers and construction of a resilient and resistant attempt to question society from the bottom up, rather, actors to explain the message behind identity. In Prisoner of Love, Genet it seeks to be that “institutionalized” apparatus that the confrontational approach of its aunotes that for the Palestinian resistance Genet had so feared. thor. However, instead of going through Beyond the immense corruption within the PLO, it fighters, being Palestinian came before the plays numerous themes, of which the religious identity of Christian or has also ceased to be that organization that once racism is only one, I would like to discuss Muslim. To be Palestinian in the 1970s fought for autonomy and a better global society alongthe playwright himself, and the incrediwas to question the overall structure side thousands of other marginalized peoples Yousuf Al-bulushi and institutional base of society as a throughout the world. It seems evident that the curbly unique and inspiring life he led. Action and Reaction whole, to make alliances with all those rent structures of power, including the Israeli imposiJean Genet (1910-1986) grew up in in the world attempting to resist opFrance’s orphanages after his mother tion of daily desperation upon Palestinian life, have abandoned him at seven months. His pression of all kinds and to fight from birthed a PLO that lacks the revolutionary fervor that exile for a land that would most likely never be seen. It once attempted to question the whole of society and early life in France included thievery and pimping, landing him in jail on numerous occasions. It was while in was this understanding of the power behind the ability produce a necessarily Palestinian identity that stood prison that he first began to write the poems and plays to produce resistant identities that sparked Genet’s for something greater than another nation-state ready that would later attract the attention of literary giants other love affair with The Black Panther Party. to take its place beside 200 other pawns at the United such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. He is At Sunday’s panel discussion on the play someone Nations, while today’s political game is being played famous for his life as a homosexual, a playwright and a from the audience asked if anyone thought it possible across town at the IMF, World Bank and WTO. radical political militant, allying with movements around for us to be self-creative, to forge an identity based on The cause of the Palestinian people is today more just the world. “Obviously, I am drawn to peoples in revolt,” race or other categories that are defined not by an outthan ever. But today we must understand that what the he said, “because I myself have the need to call the ward imposition, but on our own terms. For me, this is Palestinian people have come to symbolize is the desperwhole of society into question.” precisely what Genet captures in his writing on the Black ation of an entire generation of humanity, who through Over winter break I purchased one of his books as a Panthers, and especially in his description of their adoppolicies of neoliberal globalization has been exiled from Christmas gift for my sister. The book, Prisoner of Love, tion of slogans such as “Black is Beautiful.” their homes and from their ability to make and remake was recommended to me by a friend who described it as The Panthers chose not to stop short by simply anathemselves. Genet’s brilliant account of the time he spent throughWe must understand,, as Genet did in the past, that lyzing ‘the powers that be.’ According to Genet, for the out the 1970s with the Black Panthers in the U.S. and Panthers it was equally important to believe that anothtoday when we say, “Palestine must exist!” we are really the Palestinian resistance fighters based in Jordan and er world was possible, a world where we would not limit saying, “Another world must exist!” Lebanon. Genet found immediate sympathy with the our political action to a defense of who we are, but Palestinian cause as yet another example of a people rather, where we would invest in attempts to actualize Yousuf Al-bulushi is a Trinity senior. His column appears forced to. become strangers in their own land. There who we want to become. On the effects of the Panther every other Tuesday.
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French-born chanteuse CLAUDIA HOMMEL and pianist Bob Moreen. A delicious potpourri of songs celebrating the Paris of Edith Piaf and Yves Montand, and the Paree of Duke Ellington and Cole Porter. February 17,8 pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, $l2 General; Free to Duke students & faculty.
Duke Symphony Orchestra HARRY DAVIDSON, music director. “American Spring. ”
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2/10 BLOW-UP 2/12 SWIMMING POOL 2/13 SWIMMING POOL WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (Midnight, Free)
Photography Lecture Series: “The Documentary Imagination.” CORINNE DUFKA. February 10, 7pm, CDS Auditorium, Free.
Osier Literary Roundtable Open Reading. February 13, NOON, Administrative Conference Room, 14128 Red Zone, Duke Medical Center, Free.
Lecture JONATHAN STERNE, Univ. of Pittsburgh. Author of “The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction.” February 13,4 pm, 101 Biddle Music Building, Free.
Exhibition: AIDS Quilt Panels. Brown Gallery, Bryan Center, Free. Thru Feb. 1.4. Exhibition Opening: Lineaism, artwork by JONATHAN BLACKWELL (T01). February 16 Brown Gallery, Bryan Center, Free Thru Mar. 12. Public reception, February 17,5-7pm, Brown Gallery.
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Ongoing Exhibition: “A Small Nation of People: WJE.B. Dußois and the Photographs from the Paris Exposition.” John Hope Franklin Center Gallery, Free. Thru Mar. 12.
Ongoing Exhibition: “Migrations: Humanity in Transition.” Photographs by SEBASTIAO SALGADO. Center for Documentary Studies Galleries, Free. Thru Mar. 28.