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The Chronicle made an egregious error in the Feb. 12, 2004, edition by printing a racially-insensitive phrase about freshman Luol Deng in the Duke-Virginia men’s basketball game story. We apologize to Deng and our readers. For a further explanation and a note from Chronicle Editor Alex Garinger, please turn to page 18.

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The Aits and Sciences Council heard a presentation of proposed changes to Curriculum 2000 Thursday, in an extended meeting that also included further discussion of proposed amendments to the council’s by-laws—an issue that has been taken up in each of the council’s last three meetings. Biology professor Steve Nowicki, chair of the ad-hoc Curriculum 2000 committee, presented a list of recommendations, which represent both a easing of course requirements and a general clarification of “the matrix.” The committee’s recommendations were based on datareceived from the Registrar’s office, combined with surveys from faculty, pre-major advisors and students. ‘There was widespread concern that the curriculum was too constricting in some dimensions and perceived as being too complex,” Nowicki said. “Some of the problem was true constraints placed on students, but a lot of it was perceived complexity.” A reduction of required courses from 12 to 10 in the Areas ofKnowledge distinction is the most significant proposed change to the curriculum. The plan would create a new Area ofKnowledge, Quantitative Studies, adding a fifth designation in Areas of Knowledge, but would require only two courses in each of the five, lessening the overall requirement. Along with a reduction of required Areas of Knowledge courses, the plan would reduce the required number of courses fulfilling the various Modes of Inquiry designations to 11 to 13. Nowicki said the current requirement of 15 to 17 courses added both unnecessary complexity and a greater burden for students. The lAA classification in Modes of Inquiry would be dropped under the plan, a SEE C2K ON PAGE 4

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Brittany Hunter blocks a shot by Wake Forest's Elizabeth Strunk during theBlue Devil's 80-55 victory. See story in Sports, page 11.

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Campus Council devoted much of its attention last night to what they feel is a deterioration in landscaping quality in the quadrangles Duke students employ most. Two key administrators present at the meeting—Joseph Jackson, manager of grounds and sanitation at the Facilities Management Department, and Mark Hough, a landscape architect with the Office of the University Architect said they understand that the conditions of the grounds are not acceptable, and they cited a variety of limitations that hinder Duke’s floral potential. Problems include incompatibility between Duke’s various grass species and the volatility of Durham’s weather patterns, and the apathy of Duke’s most powerful administrators with regard to this situation, they said. However, the most —

“We can spend a lot of money, but there will have to be a commitment on the students’ part, some kind of stewardship.” Mark Hough controversial reason they offered was that students are not taking on responsibility for the preservation of the grounds. “We can spend a lot of money, but there will have to be a commitment on the students’ part, some kind of stewardship,” Hough said. Jackson echoed Hough’s sentiment, and noted that specific student activities must be reconsidered. SEE LANDSCAPING ON

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According to a new report from the Office of Public Affairs, the University’s total annual economic impact on the city and county of Durham is an estimated $2.6 billion. The study used government and other data and models from FY2002-03 to determine the financial impact, taking into account local spending by the University, its students and visitors. In all, the report reads, spending came to $1.3 billion—a figure that must be doubled to estimate the University’s total economic impact because each dollar spent initiates at least one more round of spending before it leaves the local economy. Economists from Duke and North Carolina State University, who advised the study, said the $2.6 billion estimate may even be too low, as a conservative multiplier was employed in calculations. “Duke University takes seriously the degree to which the University’s and the city’s fortunes are intertwined,” President Nan Keohane said in a statement. “This report provides further evidence that major research universities such as Duke are economic engines whose activities dramatically benefit their hometowns and regions.” Thomas White, president of the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, said Duke was the “quintessential towngown partner.” “In my job, I couldn’t ask for a more wonderful institutional partner,” he said. “My job is to promote the community as a great place to work, raise a family and live, and in all respects Duke is a huge draw.” White noted that the new report itself could help attract new businesses to the area. “It catalogs and captures the kind of information that we can then package and send to investors that are representing corporate or non-profit interests,” he said. The University’s largest contribution by far was in wages and benefits. As the largest employer in Durham County, Duke paid $732 million in wages and benefits to 18,343 Durham residents, or 15 percent of the employed persons who reside in Durham County. The mean salary was $63,046 for employees paid monthly and $36,571 for employees paid hourly. The report also notes that a national study using U.S. Commerce Department data conservatively suggests that Duke’s $365 million in research funding in SEE IMPACT ON PAGE 6

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the attackers may have targeted Abizaid, the four-star general who runs the war in Iraq—raising new questions about how much control Americans have in the region. It also seemed to underscore that much work remains before the Iraqis are ready to handle violence encouraged by shadowy former members of Saddam Hussein’s government as well as foreign terrorists. In Thursday’s incident, Iraqis initially refused to go into a mosque to search for the attackers, U.S. officials said. The violence broke out as a U.N. envoy met with Iraq’s leading Shiite cleric and told him the world was be-

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WASHINGTON The Iranian government, confronted with new evidence obtained from the secret network of nuclear suppliers surrounding Abdul Qadeer Khan, has acknowledged it possesses a design for a far more advanced high-speed centrifuge to enrich uranium than it previously revealed to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The centrifuge, called a “Pak-2” because it marked Pakistan’s second-generation design, would allow Iran to produce nuclear fuel far more quickly than the equipment it reluctantly revealed to the lAEA last year. But it is unclear whether Iran succeeded in building the new equipment, which is the type

hind his demand for national elections. But there was no sign of agreement on when a vote would be held—the central issue in Shiite opposition to the U.S. plan for handing over power to Iraqis this summer. The cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali alHusseini al-Sistani, wants elections to create a provisional legislature that can run the country, but the U.S. says there is not enough time to organize an election before the deadline for transferring power. In New York, the spokesperson of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan

U.S. soldier may have assisted Al-Qaida Army soldier Spc. Ryan G. Anderson was taken into custody Thursday to face possible charges that of trying to pass information to the AlQaida terrorist network.

Israel not to attend West Bank hearings National officials announced Israel will not attend world court hearings on the West Bank separation barrier, saying the judges do not have the authority to rule on this case.

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Civil unions on the table in Massachusetts

Massachusetts lawmakers defeated a ban on gay marriage Thursday but proposed a compromise that would establish civil unions while stripping couples of the right to full-fledged marriage.

the Khan network sold to Libya in recent years. Some details of Iran’s shift were reported in Thursday’s edition of the Financial Times. Iran’s new statements to the lAEA, which last year compelled the country to open to fuller inspections, are important for two reasons. They mark the first evidence that Iran did not tell the full truth when it turned over to the lAEA documents it said described all the important elements of its program to enrich uranium. The enrichment program, Iran admitted at the time, had been conducted in secret and out of the view of international inspectors for 18 years. SEE CENTRIFUGE ON PAGE

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“Ah! Frat boys in pink tights, doing aerobics and yoga,” Jack Chao exclaimed energetically, making the bananas that he had been peeling jump by smacking his palm onto the countertop. “That’s one o'f the interesting things I’ve seen around here.” It was 5:30 p.m. and the owner of Quenchers, the juice bar at Wilson Recreation Center, had been working ceaselessly since 7:30 that morning. Still, he was bursting with energy—almost like one of the yogurt power bars he had on display—his hands always busy and his legs never static. Chao attributed the zest for his job to his interesting customers. “I enjoy the conversations with people that come here everyday.... I get to interact with students,” he said. “I also try to speak with my customers in their native language —ifI can. I try to make an initial

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Han’s Fine Chinese Cuisine. Although the contract for the on-campus Chinese eatery ended in 2000, giving way to The Loop, Chao kept busy with his other University dining ventures—first

years, and the University got one more this week, of a slightly different variety, as senior Sara Hudson was named to USA Today’s 2004 All-USA College Academic First Team. The name of the award does not do her accomplishments justice, however. The award is not simply for her academic achievements, but recognizes her contributions to the community, both at Duke and beyond. “I am amazed by her insights, aspirations and personal commitment on behalf of others,” Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta wrote in an e-mail. He added that Hudson possessed “incredible energy” and “a remarkable range of areas of involvement.” Hudson indeed has an impressive list of extra-curricular activities—she is copresident of Mi Gente, has worked with the Academic Integrity Council in modifying the University’s honor code, helped start the Duke-Durham Hunger Alliance and is the co-facilitator of a house course that deals with ethical issues from intergenerational perspectives. Beyond her work on campus and within the Durham community, she has pursued her interest in books, which she has incorporated into her Program II major, “History of the Book,” through several research endeavors with the help of grants from Duke. Hudson has visited libraries across the United States and England to research the golden age of children’s stories during the turn of the twentieth century, and this past summer she worked with the Mayan community of Xocen, Mexico, to compile a collection of chil-

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Chao, who grew up in Taiwan and Korea, speaks Mandarin, Korean and English—the latter which he picked up when he moved with his parents to North Carolina at a young age. Although he grew up watching the Blue Devils, Chao later went on to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. at

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the home of the die-hard Cameron Crazies then, is a bit ironic, but the students appear to have made a positive impact on Chao. “My first impression of Duke was that it was full ofpreppy, nerdy kids,” he said with a grin, gesturing with a banana. “But you have to remember this was my impression in high school. Now I see that they work hard [and] play hard. They’re great kids.” A Carolina graduate in the midst of Dukies hardly seems plausible, but a Tar Heel with a Duke basketball poster not used as a dartboard is even rarer. Chao is this very anomaly and as a testament to this fact, an unadulterated men’s basketball poster hangs above the counter. “I love Coach K, I love Duke basketball,” Chao said, when quizzed about bas-

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Jack Chao works to satiatethe thirsts of students at Quenchers in Wilson Recreational Center. ketball. But with a chuckle, he added, “But loyalties are loyalties after all.” His allegiance to the university down the road, however, did not stop Chao from coming to the Gothic Wonderland when he was recruited by the Duke Dining Service in 1997—n0t for the juice and fresh fruit most students associate him with, but for Chinese food. When Dining Services began its quest seven years ago to expand culinary options by including more international cuisine, Chao was working at his family busi-

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step which originally met with opposition from department heads and directors of undergraduate studies, Nowicki said. To accommodate those concerns, the amended plan broadens the arts and literature classification in Areas of Knowledge to include performance arts, an area which the IAA distinction was intended to promote. “The lAA designation wasn’t doing what it had been intended to do,” he said. “It wasn’t representing the aesthetic arts and was perceived as largely redundant by faculty-, pre-major advisors and especially students.” Nowicki noted the new Arcs, Literature and Performance designation in Areas ofKnowledge would better showcase the creative arts as a vital part of a liberal arts education. In a further change to the Modes of Inquiry designation, a course would be allowed to satisfy up to three modes of inquiry. Currently, a student must chose two codes, even when three are available. Professor of psychology Ruth Day worried that this change would cause students to search out courses that offered three codes at the expense of those satisfying fewer re-

quirements “What really drives the Nowicki said that he found this to already be best students is that they the case, but noted want to take the best such results were not necessarily prejudicial, courses. as a course with more codes covers broader Steve Nowicki academic and intellectual areas —the ultimate goal of the curriculum. He further noted that while some students sought “to beat the system” by satisfying many requirements at once, most would not avoid classes with a single designation if the course was well-regarded on campus. “What really drives the best students is that they want to take the best courses,” he said. “I don’t think Duke students are working the system so much that they miss out on that.” IN OTHER BUSINESS: After a lengthy discussion, the council voted on several smaller issues, precipitating more significant changes in the council’s composition, which will be voted on at the March meeting. The council extended the term of both the chair and members from two to three years in an attempt to promote greater continuity in the body. The members also chartered two new committees—the nominations committee and the faculty/student interaction committee. The members failed to vote on a bill that would have set the official start to the Academic Council’s term in the spring, although most members voiced support for such a measure.' Chair Kathy Ewing took a straw poll regarding the greater changes to the council—a reduction in size from 56 to 35 and a new election procedure —with the condensed council proposition receiving broad support and the new election protocol receiving neither support nor opposition, as most members abstained.

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Student and visitor spending accounted for a good portion of Duke’s total economic impact as well. The University’s FY2002-03 created more than 13,300 jobs 11,700 students spent an estimated $89.5 million off campus. The Durham Convenin the area. ‘The University' has achieved a level of tion and Visitors Bureau esdmated that expertise and talent, such that a lot of campus visitors spend about $227 million [National Institutes of Health] grants are in the community. Reyn Bowman, president and CEO of coming to Duke,” White said. “When there is a lot of research being done, it is the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the $227 million included exa harbinger of subsequent investment.” The University also spent a good deal penditures both by visitors who had of money on purchases from Durham come to town because of Duke and by those who had gone to Duke because County firms in FY2002-03—$171 milthey were in town. He noted that many lion in direct impact, or about $366 million in total impact. Some 632 individual visitors come to Durham because of the non-government Durham vendors sold Duke University Medical Center, alat least $lO,OOO in goods and services to though many visit campus to see the Chapel, sports teams, gardens, art museDuke, according to the report. In addition, the University leased about a third um or primate center. Duke visitors’ biggest expenditures of the office space in Durham, paying about $l2 million in rent and generating were for transportation, Bowman said, about $1.5 million in property taxes followed by food, lodging, shopping and entertainment. payable to Durham. Duke also contributed to Durham’s number of A special purchasing arrangements accounted for part of the economy by providing $l4 million in mupurchasing sum. For example, the Minornicipal-type services, such as police and maintenance, that the city otherroad Business diProgram ity/Women-Owned rected about $3.4 million in purchases to wise would have had to provide. Soon, the University will be paying an additionminority-owned and women-owned venal $300,000 per year for five new police dors in Durham. Construction also comofficers to help with Duke University Poprised a significant portion of the University’s purchases in Durham. Duke spent lice Department’s extended patrols near $lBB million for construction—including East Campus. In addition to the $1.5 million in propwages paid to workers, purchase of equipment and fees for architects and other erty taxes based on Duke leases, the University paid direct taxes and fees in professional services—in FY2002-03. Donations accounted for $5l million FY2002-03 totaling $5.4 million. This of the $1.3 billion in direct impact, with money went toward expenditures such as Duke University Health System providing property taxes, water and sewer fees, land$4B million worth of uncompensated fill tipping fees and motor vehicle taxes. medical care for Durham residents. The The report is the third such report the other $3 million was donated through the University has issued. The first report, University and its community members to conducted in 1997, estimated the Univerlocal nonprofit organizations. The Self- sity’s economic impact at $1.9 billion. The second report, issued in 2001, estimated Help Community Development Corporation, for example, received $4 million in the economic impact at $2.23 billion. “It’s really valuable thaj; the Universian affordable housing loan. “What President Keohane and Duke’s ty takes the time to gather this data,” leadership have done in the pockets of Bowman said. “We all have a tendency to poverty is an extraordinary statement,” take each other for granted, and it’s cruWhite said. “The qualitative impacts the cial to keep focused on what the mutual University has in areas around campus are benefits are, both from the community just important as the big numbers—3s,ooo to the University and from the Universitotal staff, for example—and it speaks volty to the community. They’re fundamenumes about Duke’s social commitment.” tally intertwined.”

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“It’s difficult for grass to survive, period—but when you add [student] programming and activity, it makes that even more difficult,” Jackson said. “We keep these activities and bonfires going, and by the end of the academic year [the grounds] look like trash. I think the maintenance dollars are there, but we don’t have the right [student] programming going on.” Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli insisted that no such compromises will be considered by the student legislators. “Campus Council will not recommend a reduction in the activity in our quads,” he said. “It is possible for us to maintain our usage level on the quads without sacrificing our landscape quality, and it just requires a high commitment to aesthetic excellence.” Vitarelli asserted that responsibility for the well-being of the quad should not rest with students, because students do relatively little damage to it. “Student activities are the least detrimental to the quads, anyways,” Vitarelli said. “Administrative activities, like alumni weekend, damage the quad most

significantly.” Vitarelli also questioned the discrepancy in landscape quality between the grounds immediately surrounding administrative and academic buildings and those associated with student residential areas. ‘There is an undeniable disparity be-

ABIZAID from page 2 suggested that moving up elections wasn’t likely and the discussions were centered on finding an alternative to Washington’s plan for local councils or “caucuses.” “Everyone expects elections in 2005. The question is what can be done before

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if it can’t be elections, what other way can you find to establish a legitimate provisional government,” spokesperson Fred Eckhard said. The U.N. assessment team, led by Lakhdar Brahimi, met al-Sistani for two hours Thursday at his home in Najaf, a Shiite holy city. The cleric has refused to meet with Americans. In Fallujah, officials traveling with

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Jackson countered Vitarelli’s observations of inconsistency. “We don’t have as much activity on the academic quad as we do on the residential quad,” Jackson said. The topic of landscape quality is gaining traction with Duke’s most influential administrators, said Hough, as he advised that real progress on this issue will not be made without their involvement. “It’s not just money, the issue has been commitment, and that has been brought up by [Executive Vice President Tallman] Trask,” Hough said. “It is an issue, and the Board ofTrustees are concerned with this.” IN OTHER BUSINESS: Residence Life and Housing Services Director Eddie Hull reported that the pilot project of DukeCard access to dormitory bathrooms will likely not come to fruition at any time this school year due to software problems. “We have the wiring in place but not the software,” Hull said. Senior Kesav Mohan presented an idea for a campus-wide Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament. Student legislator reaction to the suggestion was very positive. The event will accommodate 100 participants, first come, first serve, and will be open to faculty and students. Abizaid said they did not know if any of the attackers were killed. Iraqis in Fallujah said two people were killed when the Americans sprayed the area with automatic fire. Video taken by Associated Press Television News showed civilian cars with bullet holes and blood stains. Dozens of Iraqi men milled around a white car pocked with bullet holes. The side windows were shot out. Blood coated the front seat and floor. Fallujah police Lt. Omar. Ali said, “When we arrived there, we saw American forces. They took two dead, put them in a vehicle and left.” All’s account could not be confirmed. Abizaid was accompanied by Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.

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dren stories, as told h the children themselves Hudson has also incorporated Latino/a studies into her major, which she says came as a result of her close connection to Hispanic culture of San Antonio, Texas where she grew up—and at Duke, through Mi Gente and her work in the Durham community. As one of 20 recipients of the award out of 600 applicants, she is in exclusive company, receiving a $2,500 scholarship in addition to a trophy, which she says there is only one place for—her closet. “I am not displaying a trophy in my room,” Hudson said. Despite her modesty, Hudson’s involvement has given her plenty of fans around campus. Vice Provost for Academic and Administrative Services Judith Ruderman, who worked with Hudson on the Academic Integrity Council, said that she was very easy to work with, very collegial and stressed the enthusiasm she had for her work. “I feel like saying pages and pages about her,” Ruderman said. “She’s incredible.” Hudson said she was unsure of her future plans, but expressed interest in working with people at the grass roots level. “I would love to do something in the community something documentarybased along the lines of what the [Center for Documentary Studies] does,” Hudson said. At the same time, she said graduate school is an important part of her future. She also has a few job offers, most of which do not interest her. However, there is one particular job for which she has unique expertise. “In New York, I worked in a children’s bookstore. That’s an option I have,” she said. —

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The revelation has also touched off a debate within the American and European intelligence communities over whether the Khan network also sold a full weapon design to Iran, similar to the one found in Libya. “It’s natural to question whether the Iranians got everything the Libyans did,” one senior administration official said. “Why wouldn’t they?” But Thursday in Rome, Iran’s foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, denied the country is pursuing a nuclear weapon, and said the uranium enrichment is intended solely for fueling nuclear power plants. “Basically, we do not think that a nuclear weapon is going to bring us more security,” Kharrazi said. “It is not part of our doctrine.” He added later that “we do not have anything to hide and we are ready to be inspected more seriously by lAEA inspectors.” According to diplomats in Vienna, Austria, the lAEA compiled a stack of evidence suggesting Iran already had more sophisticated uranium enrichment designs than it had admitted. “Partly the evidence came from Libya, and pardy from the network of suppliers and from member states” of the inspection agency, one senior European diplomat said. Another official said the agency had privately charged Teheran with hiding that fact from the inspectors. The Iranians strongly denied any effort to deceive, the official said, and some Western experts familiar with the debate and the evidence said Iran’s stance had some merit. “The truth is somewhere in the middle,” one official said, adding that the degree to which Iran disclosed details of its technology last year was at the heart of the dispute.The diplomat added that the Iranians had actually tried to build some prototype P-2 centrifuges but found the steel-rotor devices too difficult to manufacture. He added that Teheran, if it decided in the future to try manufacturing the more advanced centrifuges, could probably not do so itselfbut would have to rely heavily on imported steel parts. Given the new disclosures about the Iranian plans and work on advanced centrifuges, he said, the next logical question for the lAEA is whether Iran, like Libya, also got from the Pakistani black market plans for an atom bomb. “They’re asking that,” he said. But American officials say so far, they have received no convincing answers. In recent daysj the George W. Bush administration has taken an increasingly hard line against Iran, openly questioning why it is continuing to build parts for its centrifuges. (Iran responds that it is simply fulfilling previously-signed contracts for domestically-produced equipment.)

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Over the past week, The Chronicle has received over 100 letters to the editor on a widerange oftopics—from an advertisement placed by the Duke Conservative Union to the behavior and attendance patterns ofCameron Crazies. Today, on pages 8,9 and W, we present a sample of those submissions. Letters to the Editor may be sent via letters@chronicle.duke.edu. Word limit is 325 words.

Reader disgusted by Deng description I was appalled by what I read in just the opening sentence of Matt Sullivan's write-up of the Duke victor)' over Virginia. That the

Chronicle saw' fit to publish such ugly language is something I never would have imagined from my alma mater, and I am sad to say that I am ashamed to share school ties with your paper today. I cannot understate how disgusted I am with your reporting, and though I see the arti-

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now been taken down from your website, that is far from sufficient. Both the

Chronicle and Sullivan himself owe an explanation and apology, and I will be very disappointed if you do not publicly present both. Michael Rothstein

Fuqua '97

Phrase about Deng insulting Matt Sullivan owes his university and Luol Deng an apology, immediately followed by his resignation. To liken an African classmate to a monkey is so far beyond the realm of good taste that no other response is sufficient. There is no possible satisfactory explanation, and anyone with aspirations in journalism must know the

history behind such insulting comments. Let Matt spend the next couple of years researching the career trajectories of A1 Campanis and Jimmy Snyder

James Voltz Grad ’O5

Intellectual diversity important It is disheartening to me that so many would so casually dismiss the DCU’s observations of political diversity among faculty at Duke. At an institution as respected and highly ranked as Duke, where intellectual growth is encouraged, I submit that intellectual diversity, as represented by things like political affil-

iation, is at least as important as racial diversity. I chuckle at the irony that the liberals, who always scream for equality and diversity, are against promoting diversity and equality of this form. Sort of hypocritical, isn’t it?

Joe Volpe

Grad ’lO

With the death last week ofDuke Law Professor Jerome Culp, the University community has lost a great man and a great teacher. We remember the first time we met Professor Culp, a notorious insomniac and unparalleled late-night sounding board. It was the fall of 1992, when we were both freshmen living in Gilbert Addoms. Because the law school library never closed, we would study there three or four nights a week, usually until 4 or 5 a.m. One night about 3 a.m., we were sitting in the law school’s Blue Room, reading and occasionally napping on the large couches there, when Professor Culp walked in through a side door. He could tell that we were obviously not law students and asked, smiling, what on earth we were doing in the library at this time of night. We told him we were freshmen and we were just studying, which seemed to amuse him. So he sat down and started talking to us. Our conversations, which began that night and occurred frequently throughout the year —invariably in the wee pre-dawn hours of the morning—ranged from race to torts to various legal theories of justice, and what we

might do to pursue it. Through it all, Professor Culp never failed to impress us with his intelligence, kindness, wisdom and dedication to the cause of making the world more just. More than 10 years later, we are both lawyers now, and we consider ourselves beneficiaries of a chance meeting with a man whose legacy and contribution to the legal community and to the Duke community are immeasurable. Above all, by his own example, Professor Culp showed us that each of us has an obligation to step into the arena. His was, in words spoken by Daniel Webster of Justice as a solace in the midst Story, “an example of [our] sorrows, which death hath not touched and which time cannot obscure.” As two people whom, as freshmen, he generously befriended and to whom he imparted a sense of the majesty and possibility of the law, we offer our thanks to Professor Culp. He is sorely missed. ...

Justin Dillon

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Felicia Gross Trinity ’96, Law ’99

Brandon’s logic applicable to all groups It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to see that something is wrong with having 17 times more Democrats than Republicans on faculty at Duke. While defensive professors can argue all they want about the merits of party affiliation, 0 Republicans out of 32 professors in the History Department is not random chance. Rather, it points to a system of institutional bias. As if to prove the point, Prof. Robert Brandon’s arrogant, bigoted tantrum makes the lofty suggestion that conservatives are underrepresented because they’re all stupid. The

logic of his statement is incredible—is he suggesting that Duke’s Black Faculty Initiative proves that blacks are stupid? Is there a quote from Mill to hide behind on that subject? If Prof. Brandon goes undisciplined and this diversity problem is not addressed, Duke will have sent a chilling signal to the academic community—“alternative thought not welcome.”

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Keohane misses point in response to DCU I appreciated President Keohane’s open-minded response to the DCU’s letter, but I am still dissatisfied. She asserts that “[the issue is] whether the faculty member provides a classroom environment that supports learning across a wide range of views.” I do not believe it should be the responsibility of conservative students to air opposing points of view in class. Having fulfilled this role throughout my education, I know that it is a heavy burden, and one that generally invites the revilement of fellow students and professors alike. It is fine to say that students should be expressing varied arguments, but in classrooms with heavy bias, these opinions are not treated with equal legitimacy. I am glad, however,that Keohane is cognizant of the potential for abuse of a professor’s authority. Keohane also tells -us that for her, “the question is not the... party affiliation, it’s the quality of [professor’s] scholarship and the strength of their teaching.” The DCU ad raised the question of why this orthodoxy doesn’t extend to minority professors. Traditionally underrepresented professors are hired by this University, even when they are not the strongest teacher, with the idea that underrepresented students will have mentors and be more likely to succeed and enter academia. If this logic is sound for minority students, why not for conservative ones? I claim that Keohane is not interested in having her prejudices confronted. Her actions indicate a belief in a phony, superficial diversity in which we all look different but think the same. Finally, I wonder how a University that hires faculty based on their scholarship can end up with someone like Professor Brandon, who apparently does not research his opinions beyond listening to the speakers at the latest, liberal rally. I will leave you with another quote, and you can decide which modem political group J.S. Mill would call stupid. “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight—nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety—is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions and blood ofbetter men than himself.”

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“It’s really an undergraduate relationship between the school and its team—this may be a wake-up call for students to budget their time more carefully and be a true fan.” —Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. Sigh. Is it true that all of Duke needs to stop to figure out how to fix this “problem” of only having 1,000 undergraduates give up 3+ hours of their time instead of 1,200? And aren’t there multiple teams to consider here? How about, instead of getting on students for not being true fans, we agree that Sunday night games during midterms may make it difficult for as many “true students” to devote so much time, and we show appreciation for the people that were there? Beyond that, why is there no statement from the athletic director (or his assistant) or from the vice president about the lack of attendance at women’s basketball games? Or anything about any other sport that is in the top 10? Or anything

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hypocritical. Duke has risen to the level of top-notch universities, and as such it has the privilege of selecting from the best professors in the nation and the world. Given the competitive nature of staying among these ranks, the University cannot afford but to choose the best faculty with the highest qualifications. The University does not take political alignment into consideration when selecting its staff; if they happen to be Democrats, so be it. The reality is that the majority of intellectuals in liberal arts fields tend to be (gasp!) liberal. Among those who are not, lecturing to undergraduates may not have much appeal. When it comes to professorship, there is prestige, and to a certain extent; power, but there ain’t much dough. Conservatives with the qualifications necessary to teach at Duke might prefer to seek book deals and national lecture tours rather than draft lesson plans and assign readings. The only statistics presented by the DCU were the political affiliations of current faculty members. There were no numbers representing the political affiliations of prospective faculty or even applicants. How can the DCU claim that Duke is gazing solely Left in its search for staff, when they present no evidence that they are ignoring something equivalent on the Right? The sheer irony if the DCU’s “open letter” to President Keohane is that it essentially equates to a call for Affirmative Action for Republican professors. The vast liberal conspiracy really must be out of control. Should Duke seek out conservative professors over better-qualified liberals? DCU, I am sorry that you have had to put up constantly with democratic professors and their liberal ideology. Perhaps it will serve as a comfort to you, though, that among institutions of Duke’s caliber, we are not known as a very liberal university. If anything, students at the more liberal schools like Brown and Columbia sneer at our lack of social activism. Then again, the view might be quite different from Bob Jones. It’s only a state away!

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I love Duke basketball, but I also love Duke track, swimming, baseball, lacrosse and myriad other Duke sports, and am having a hard time swallowing the abundant sense of entitlement that one sport has with apparent disregard both for other sports and for undergraduates’ other priorities. For example, school. Or sleep in a warm bed they’ve paid Moneta’s office between $4,000 and $7,000 to rent for the school year. Or deciding to be a “true fan” and go to a basketball game on Saturday to re-energize a team with a recent loss and an injured player. I agree this is a wake-up call, I just believe that students may wake up and find that there are other programs that will be

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Brandon’s logic is sound I do not agree with Professor Brandon’s assumption that stupid people are generally conservative. However, once some implicit assumptions are brought out into the open, his argument is not logically fallacious as Ms. Bejan claims. Since the DCU’s advertisement was focused on party affiliation, Dr. Brandon almost certainly meant “Republican” when he said “conservative.” although using the latter term was convenient because of the John Stuart Mills quote. Therefore, we can assume that about 50% of the population qualifies as conservative. (For the moment let’s ignore independents-their existence does not affect my basic point as long as there are roughly the same number of Republicans and Democrats.) Now let’s assume that by stupid people Dr. Brandon is referring to the stupider half of the population. In this case, if stupid people are generally conservative, then conservative people must be generally stupid. Try it yourself—if 80% of stupid people are conservative, then

that means that 40% of the population is both stupid and conservative. Thus, 80% of conservatives must be stupid. A similar argument holds even if by “stupid people" Dr. Brandon was referring not to the stupider half of the population but to the stupider 70% or 20% or any percentage of the population: If stupid people are disproportionately conservative, then conservative people are disproportionately stupid-although they may not be “generally stupid,” which I interpret to mean that more than half of conservatives are stupid. Again, I do not support Dr. Brandon’s views. However, given the clearly implicit assumption that the population is essentially half conservative and half liberal, and the very reasonable assumption that half of the population is “stupid,” his argument is logically sound. Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman

Trinity ’O4

Dining rant lacks thought Joost

Bosland’s Thursday column criticizing Duke’s dining system and Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst was nothing more than overstated whining, and was riddled with bad ideas supported by bad information. His assertion that our dining points system was a sales tax scam to con the Durham community is ludicrous. Not only are all institutions of learning exempt from such taxes, but Bosland also misses the fact that the dining points system was created for our convenience. I can’t imagine many people would be happy standing in line at Chick-fil-A or Alpine between classes waiting for each customer to pay cash. Instead of swiping, he suggests that we should all go off campus to eat, virtually impossible to do between classes and activities, not even considering that we all aren’t privileged to have a car on campus. Bosland’s other vision for dining on campus is even more contentious, stating we should revert to “Ivy-style” communal dining halls. I doubt that stripping Duke students of their eating flexibility in favor of a four-year

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pleaser. While it is true that vendors on campus operate in an environment of minimal competition, Bosland goes too far in blaming Duke Dining Services for him spending all his food points on espresso shots at the Beanery. Just because we are away from mommy and daddy doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be smart consumers. If someone chooses to spend all their food points at the Washington Duke or for beer at Dillo, and then finds themselves paying cash for food at the end of the year, well, they’ll have to accept that. Instead of taking responsibility, however, Bosland has chosen to instead take a cheap shot at Dining Director Jim Wulforst, who has a commendable record of listening to and working with students and employees. Bosland should first get his facts straight, and then make an appointment with Mr. Wulforst to offer real suggestions instead of slinging mud from behind a brick wall.

The Duke Conservative Union’s full page display in Tuesday’s Chronicle strikes me as an embarrassing confession or today’s conservatives. I came to Duke in 1971,product of generations of Midwestern conservative Republicans and within a few years became chair of one of the local republican groups. No one at Duke almost forty years of teaching at Harvard and Duke, I have never known such a question to be raised in the hiring process. We judgepeople’s work ancl not party affiliations.

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Ticket changes meant to reward The actions taken by the Athletic DepartCoach K, against the undergraduate students who wished to attend the UVA game on Wednesday night are unacceptable- and require not only an explanation, but an apology. Their claim that the removal of one hundred undergraduate seats was a means of rewarding the commitment graduate students have shown to the basketball program is a slap in the face of all the undergraduate fans who have packed Cameron all year long. The slight decrease in undergraduate attendance at Sunday’s game against Clemson is understandablefor a student body that was preparing for a hard week of midterms. The Athletic Department works for Duke ment, not

University, a place where undergraduates come first and foremost to be educated in a world-class academic environment. I would continue to urge the undergraduate student body to keep their academic priorities straight and to continue supporting our great Duke basketball team. I look forward to a great undergraduate turnout as we teach Maryland on February 22nd what it means to not only have the best basketball team in the country, but also the best fans. Alex

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DCU misled student body Thank you, DCU, for alerting a tragically misled student body to the fact that “race, gender, class consciousness, and post-modern thought” are all linked to (American) liberal politics. Before your ad in the Chronicle and the ensuing response article, I thought that issues of gender inequity, poverty, and racial discrimination were universal concerns, taught to us because we will each have to dealwith them in some waywhen we leave the relatively sheltered world that Duke provides for us as students. Now I see that these issues are the intellectual property of liberal Democrats

only.

The DCU’s

publicity in recent days has been exemplary of why most students seem to reject the conservative union’s views: What, exactly, are their views? In my time at Duke, I have seen the DCU fight against liberal perspectives both in general and in response to specific happenings last year’s student preacher sermon in the chapel, for instance, or the “Gay? Fine by me.” t-shirts. -

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late 70s when Jesse Helms and the radical conservatives financed by the Congressional Club took over the state party. I no longer recognize the party that I belonged two for more than twenty years. Conservatives should be asking; Why are so many scholars who have dedicated their lives to the humanities, not only here at Duke but throughout the nation, now Democrats? It is because the meaning of conservative has changed.

What I have not seen is someone from the DCU fighting for their own views. It’s not very difficult to argue that any particular ideology is wrong; what is impressive is being able to argue with equal persuasiveness that your ideology is right So, instead of putting forth the claim that a disproportionate focus on race, gender, and class issues within Duke’s course offerings indicates an undesirable liberal bias, why doesn’t the DCU write a cohesive argument explaining what more conservative course topics would address and why we’ the students, should want them? Flinging insuits at and provoking the opposing side is rarely away to entice outsiders to join your cause. Perhaps when the DCU starts convincingly defending their own views, the student body will start to respect them. Until then, I for one will continue to assume that conservatism has no convincing defenses to offer.

Casey Held Trinity ’O5

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After a surprising loss to Florida State last week, the women’s basketball team has been revitalized in its last couple games, defeating both opponents by considerable margins. Last night’s contest against Wake Forest (10-13, 3-9 in ACC) demonstrated just how strong Duke (19-3,10-1) is both offensively and defensively. The team shot 50 percent from the field and collected 14 blocks and 12 steals. Alana Beard and kiss Tillis combined for 45 of the team’s 80 points, en route to an 80-55 defeat of the Demon Deacons. In Tillis’s first game since February 2nd against Clemson, when she suffered a concussion during the first half, she ■scored the first points of the game off a jumper. She sank half of her shots from the field and all of herfree throws, giving her 22 points. The Oklahoma native also contributed to last night’s win with four blocks, three steals and seven rebounds. “I felt good [tonight],” Tillis said. “I was really excited. You never know how much you miss the game until you can’t play.” With four minutes left in the first half, the Demon Deacons were within four points of Duke, keeping the game relatively close. That was until the Blue Devils went on a 12-2 run to close the half. Wake Forest was led by guard Elizabeth Strunk and forward Erin Ferrell, who scored all but three of the Demon Deacons’ 25 first-half points. Because it relied so heavily on these two

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For the critics who have all but handed Duke the ACC regular season championship trophy, there happens to be a second-place contender that would like to voice its’ opinion. Head men’s basketball coach Herb Sendek’s 21 st-ranked Wolfpack (15-5, 8-2 in the ACC) is coming off a hectic 10-day schedule, which included a four-game winning streak. Heading into Sunday evening’s matchup with the Blue Devils, N.C. State has the opportunity to crawl within one game of the ACC lead with a victory at the RBC Center. “State’s playing great right now,” Duke guard JJ. Redick said. “I’ve watched them play against Carolina.... When you see 20,000 people dressed in red screaming at you, it’s definitely a road game.” The Blue Devils (21-1, 10-0) have recently shown defects in their armor against ACC opponents, and Sendek will prepare to attack Duke on both ends of the floor. During Duke’s 93-75 victory over Virginia Wednesday, several players went down with injury, most notably center Shelden Williams and forward

teams set Luol Deng. Although both Blue Devils returned, UVa was able to cut the lead to 57-54 before Duke made one of its patented runs to seal the game. Duke’s thin inside rotation, which was also

players, Wake Forest struggled when Duke strengthened its defense on the duo with more on-the-ball pressure. Strunk and Ferrell only scored five points apiece in the second half. The Blue Devils dominated both offensively and defensively in that period, shooting 52 percent from the field and outrebounding Wake Forest 22-11. Lindsey Harding also reached double digits, scoring 10 points to go with her eight assists and six rebounds. Duke outscored Wake Forest by 20 points in the paint because of superior vision, as the team’s ability to pass well and anticipate movement allowed many free opportunities to score. Defensively, Duke showed no sign of passiveness in the second half. The team avoided taking the charge and attacked the ball, thereby recording 14 blocks, a school record. Duke also attacked the boards better in the second half after Wake Forest pulled down more than the Blue Devils in the first 20 minutes. “I thought we were not nearly as aggressive as we needed to be [in the first half],” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. Sometimes our defense helped to create our offense but we didn’t seem to get out on transition the way we normally do in the first half. We blocked shots but they ended up getting a lot of offensive rebounds so I think we took ourselves out ofa lot of plays where we needed to box out and get the rebound. But we came out much more aggressive in the second half and did a better job.” “

for Saturday showdown Watkins and Ilian Evtimov, the Wolfpack big men will be out for

redemption against Williams, Deng and Shavlik Randolph.

“Right not we feel that we have a rotation we’re comfortable with,” Sendek said. “On any given night guys have to be ready to step up. You never know who’s night it’s pushed to the limit in going to be.” an 83-81 In the earlier matchup this season, N.C. State guard Julius Hodge, the win ACC’s second-leading scorer at 18 per r h No. 1 DUKE contest, attempted to put the team on Blue Devik (21-1, 1M) his shoulders, but failed considerably will be the by ending the night with as many AT turnovers main target as points —seven. for the Consequently, Wolfpack domination in the paint is crucial because N.C. Wolfpack, a State’s guard play has come up on the squad that short end of the stick against Duke’s boasts four all-star backcourt. Since Daniel Ewing interior and Deng have been able to handle players. 21 N.C. STATE Marcus No. Hodge, there will be added pressure Wolfpack (15-5, 8-2) Melvin, an on Wolfpack guards Scooter Sherrill and Engin Atsur to nail open shots agile forward, leads the N.C. State onslaught and penetrate the gaps to widen the in the paint with 14 points and eight lane for Melvin and Watkins. rebounds a game. In Duke’s 76-57 On the other side of the ball, throttling of Sendek’s team earlier Redick, Duke’s leading scorer at 17 this season, Melvin was held to a SEE WOLFPACK ON PAGE 16 measly seven points. Along with Levi °

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Metaphors constantly pervade the consciousness ofsports rivalries. In the women’s basketball Duke-UNC matchup, not even the most extreme comparisons are withheld. “It’s going to be a war out there,” Duke senior Alana Beard said. They’re going to bring it to the court just like we’re going to bring it to the court.” While the women’s team used the most extreme rhetoric in predicting the intensity of its game against No. 15 North Carolina (18-4, 8-3 in the ACC) Saturday at 6 p.m. in the Dean Dome, the Blue Devils’ pre-eminence in the series is analogous to the United States’ dominance in world military affairs. The Duke seniors are

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the c i ear owner of Triangle women’s hoops hegemony, Duke ( Can harclly con v—sider Saturday’s matchup an easy No. 15 UNC win. For one, the Tar Heels (18-4, 8-3) women’s psychodomilogical nance no longer flows with die same inertia after the Blue Devils fell to Florida State 80-74 February 4 in Tallahassee, ending Duke’s 51-game ACC winning streak. While the Blue Devils responded to the loss with two wins over Georgia Tech and Wake Forest by an average of 32.5 points, it is now obvious that No. 4 Duke (19-3, 10-1) can be defeated. Another reason the Blue Devils cannot take the Tar Heels lightly is that North Carolina is led by two freshman who are developing into superstars. Camille Litde and Ivory Latta lead the Tar Heels with 14.2 points and 13.6 points per game, respectively. In the blow-out loss to the Blue Devils, Little and Latta shot only 1 l-for-35 from the field in performances one would expect from wide-eyed first-year players, not the transcendent scorers the two have been for most of the season. “I just think we gave up at the end,” Latta said after the game in January. “From now on, we just need to play the whole 40 minutes instead of playing 34 or 35 minutes, because that's not going to help us out at all.” Adding fuel to its fire, North Carolina is ‘

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coming off a loss to its other rival, North Carolina State. The defeat ended the Tar Heels’ 18-game home winning streak. The Blue Devils expect North Carolina to be hungry to start a new streak. “We still have many tough games to play,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. To defeat the Tar Heels, Goestenkors expects a tough rebounding battle with the physical North Carolina post players.

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score 22 points and grab seven rebounds. At 6-foot-5, Tillis should be able to help the Blue Devils like Goestenkors desires. ‘You never know how much you’re going to miss the game until you can’t play,” Tillis said about her return. Though Duke is not underestimating its foe, the Blue Devils feel they are in command, “We’re in control of our own destiny,” Goestenkors said.

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Ivory Latta, No.l 2, had a subpar performance against Duke in Cameron earlier in 2004.

It is inevitable that, as much as a university’s residential service tries to match up first-year students with each other, there will be roommates who by the end of the first semester hate each other. Others are more fortunate and bond together in their tiny quarters over freshmen meal plans, boring classes and relationship woes. And then, of course, there are those like Camille Litde and Ivory Latta who, on the campus of UNGChapel Hill, have become adjusted to college life together starting for the No. 15 women’s basketball team in the country. Before slipping on their baby blue uniforms, Litde, who hails from Winston-Salem, N.C., and Latta, from McConnells, S.C., were very familiar with each other from high school hoops. Both played AAU basketball for Team Carolina, which won four consecutive State Championships during their high school years. By their senior year in high school, the two were winning many of the same national accolades, including playing in both the WBCA High School All-America game and the McDonald’s All-American Game. In the latter, Little and Latta started together as a prelude to their current UNC roles. In the WBCA game, Latta was named MVP, scoring 17 points and handing out six assists. On the other team, Litde came off the bench to score 10 points and grab threerebounds. When it finally came time to think about living arrangements in Chapel Hill, the decision was a no-brainer for the two basketball stars. “We knew each other from playing AAU basketball, so we picked [to room together],” Latta said.

Besides basketball, the two players had another high school court in common—that of prom and homecoming royalty. For Latta, this honor came when she was named Homecoming Queen her senior year. Litde waited a little longer, undl the spring, when she was named Prom Queen for Carver High School. For Litde, this honor was a great supplement to her basketball accolades. “Sometimes you get upset because you are in season like during Homecoming [and do not get to participate],” Little said. “I was really glad I got this.” At the beginning of the season, both players were honored just to wear their North Carolina uniforms. Latta grew up watching UNC basketball with her four older brothers, while Litde always dreamed of playing college ball in the state where she grew up. However, with Litde leading the team in rebounds for twelve games thus far and Litde and Latta each pacing the team in scoring in nine games this season, the players have fit well into theirroles as team leaders. “They're both outstanding players, and they're going to make us a better team,” head coach Sylvia Hatchell said. “I don’t know if we've ever had a player who talks as much on the floor as Ivory does. She shows great leadership and plays with so much heart... Camille will help us out at the four position. She has looked outstanding there.” When not starting for one of the best women’s teams in the country, the roommates are enjoying their first year as normal college students, including cheering on North Carolina’s men’s basketball team. “I watch [Raymond] Felton a lot and try to do what he does,” Latta said.

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JonathanStokke and the No. 6Blue Devils appear primed to knock off No. 11llinoisand its nation's-best winning streak.

One week after narrowly falling 4-3 to top-ranked Illinois in the quarterfinals of the National Indoor Championships, the sixth-ranked men’s tennis team (51) will get a chance for revenge, as it hosts the Fighting Illini (7-0) Saturday at 6 p.m. in the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. “Illinois is clearly the number one team in the country right now, so it will be a challenge,” Duke head coach

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Duke breaks school record for blocks in win Duke proved it has a defense good enough to win games. The Blue Devils’ tough defensive efforts muted Wake Forest on die offensive end of the court, holding the Deacons to a mere 30.6 percent shooting average. With five minutes left in the first half, only two Wake players had scored and Duke had tallied seven blocks—it finished with 14 total, a new school record. With this kind of dominance on the defensive end in the first half, the Blue Devils were able to offset a more aggressive offensive attack in the second half, specifically getting many more inside looks. “I thought our defense was pretty good. I thought we gave a lot of help and we usually don’t go for that many blocks. We usually try to take more charges. It just so happened

tonight we were blocking a lot of shots,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Sometimes our defense helped to create our offense, but we didn’t seem to get out on transition the way we normally do in the first half.” With 16:44 on the clock, Wake Forest center Melissa Washington went up against Mistie Bass for a layup and was rejected- Bass deflected the shot to Monique Currie, who threw a lead pass to Alana Beard. Then it was just up to Beard to do her thing—she drove to the paint and put up a power layup to make it 50-27 in favor of Duke. The Blue Devils outscored the Deacons in the paint 44-24 and 20-12 in points off turnovers. At 52-27, Duke was still creating turnovers, setting a trap on the ball at the half court line, forcing point guard Porsche Jones to lose control ofher dribble and another layup opportunity the next time down for Iciss Tillis. Tillis models the offensive-yielding defense concept on a

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more individual level. After being benched for the last week due to a concussion, Tillis came back last night playing like she did at the beginning of the year before her offensive freeze. This is the third time all year Tillis has scored over 20 points and it had mostly to do with a great defensive effort and an increased number ofopen looks in the post. Tillis had all four of her blocks and two steals in the first half. Her defensive consistency allowed for eight points off turnovers and eventually led to an offensive run that was much hotter than what she’s been laying down recently. “I’m feeling more comfortable inside and I was trying to get more opportunities to seal,” Tillis said. “I was watching Mistie [Bass] and what she does in practices, posting up and trying to get opportunities to seal and it was working.” With 16 minutes left to play, Tillis ripped the ball out of the hands ofWake Forest’s Elizabeth Strunk and after dribbling down center court found Bass open under the basket for the easy layup. The next time down, it was Tillis under the basket; after pulling down a defensive board, Beard found Tillis inside the post defense for the inside bucket. With the teams they’ve been up against, with the exception of UConn and Tennessee, The Blue Devils’ defensive efforts are enough to win them games. Even if their offense comes out sub-par, they have the defensive strength to maintain control of the game long enough to heat up.

WOLFPACK from page 11 points per outing, will be cloaked by a Wolfpack player all night. Krzyzewski’s ACC foes have found out quickly that Ewing, a 39 percent three-point shooter, and senior captain Chris Duhon, who hit the game-winner at UNC, can both bum teams from the outside and driving to the hoop. Duke’s inside-out combination will focus on Williams, who is averaging eight rebounds per contest, to handle the interior. N.C. State will have to counter with its inside depth to slow down Williams and Deng. If the Wolfpack can manage to get Hodge clicking on the perimeter, then N.C. State could find itself nip and tuck with the Blue Devils at the end ofSunday’s game. “They’re a talented team,” Ewing said. ‘We did a great defensive job, and made them throw out their offense and really bothered them [last game]. Hopefully we can have the same type of game plan, and get them to do away with their offense.”

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Biology Faculty Candidate: Ipm. Craig E. Nelson, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Future research directions." 144 Biological Sciences.

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University Program in Ecology and Center on Global Change: 4pm. Peter Reich, University of Minnesota. "Causes and consequences of plant functional diversity: biotic effects on ecosystem processes and responses to global changes." At 58 LSRC. Reception follows. Reading: Bpm. Duke University Department of English and the William Blackburn Fund present distinguished fiction authorand poet Toby Olson, who will read from his new novel, /The Blond Box/, at 8:00pm in the Rare Book Room (Perkins Library). A book signing and reception will follow the reading.

Religious FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Statewide Shabbat w/UNC: s:3opm, dinner at 7pm. Duke Freeman Center for JewishLife. Afterwards join us to see the Vagina Monologues Bpm. Email mednick@duke.edu for more info.

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Wesley Worship: 6pm, Sundays. Divinity School Lounge. A student-cooked dinner will be served each week and Eucharist (Holy Communion) will be served. Catholic Mass: 9pm. Main Chapel.

Social Programming and Meetings FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 International Coffee Connection: 12noon, Fridays. Basement of the Duke Chapel (entrance opposite the Bryan University Center). A free, light lunch is served. All students are welcome. This is sponsored by the Duke Chapel and Bridges International. Duke

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V-Day University: Bpm. Vagina Monologues. V-Day is a worldwide movement to end sexual violence against women and girls and to proclaim Valentine's Day as the day to celebrate women and demand the end of abuse. Page Auditorium (West Campus). Piano Festival of Four Hands: Bpm. RANDALL LOVE and his students. Baldwin Auditorium. Four-hand piano works by Russian masters. FREE.

V-Day Duke University: Bpm. The Vagina Monologues. V-Day is a worldwide movementto end sexual violence against women and girls and to proclaim Valentine's Day as the day to celebrate women and demand the end of abuse. Page Auditorium (West Campus). Concert: Bpm. The Ciompi Quartet with Susan Narucki. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. Tickets: $l5/$B. Call 684-4444 or go to tickets.duke.edu. Duke students free with ID. Valentine's Day Jazz Festival: Bpm. CarolinaTheatre; Durham featuring the jazz ensembles from Duke, NCCU and UNC. Tickets $l5 andslo for students and senior citizens.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Free Workshops; 12pm, Feldenkrais workshop for singers and actors. 3pm, Feldenkrais workshop for dancers. Led by Maxine David. The Ark. To register, email opera@duke.edu. The Feldenkrais method improves posture, coordination, flexibility and suppiemenss. Sponsored by the Duke Dept, of Music, John Hanks Fund, Duke Institute of the Arts, Department of Theater studies and Duke Dance Program. Eno River Winter Hikes: 2pm. Explore a different section of the Eno River Valley each week. 3-4 miles. All

hikes are free. No registration required. Start from Eno River State Park Headquarters, 6101 Cole Mill Rd. For more information, contact Marcia Eickmeier at 919-644-1806 before 9pm. Parlor Concerts 2004: 4pm. "Dances and Fantasies: Brahms, Schubert, and Liszt." The Janus Duo: Barbara Rowan and Francis Whang playing music for piano, four hands.The Hattie Brown House, 153 W, Margaret Lane, Hillsborough. Admission is $l2 and includes a reception. Tickets are available at Callaway Jewelry,lls N. Churton Street in Hillsborough, 732-2013.

Screen/Society Global/Pop/Culture: Bpm. "Qurbani." Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus. Film: Bpm. Elf. Griffith Film Theater. Movie presented by Duke University Union's Quadflix. Duke students $l, employees $2, general public $3.

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DCU letter sparks debate The Duke Conservative their own opinions. Some students, however, Union’s open letter to President have alleged that professors Nan Keohane claiming the University lacks intellectual diversity, do not offer a balanced politias displayed by an imbalance of cal perspective and fear that they will be penalized for the political affiliation of profesholding political views that sors in a number of the humanidiffer from their professors. ties departments, was an adStudents should mirable effort on STAFF EDITORIAL not be afraid to DCU’s part The advertisespeak up and voice their opinions in class, ment draws attention to a potential problem concerning the regardless of the political affilpoliticization and liberalization of iation of the professor. Most professors do not allow these departments. Although the DCU’s their personal political views to logic behind the argument may be flawed and political party enter into the classroom to the affiliation may not be the ideal negative effect of students. Promeasure of political ideology, it is fessors tend to recognize respectable that the DCU thoughtful arguments regardless broached the issue to begin with, of whether they are liberal or and the letter can increase awareconservative and will be equally ness of politics at the University. likely to give a student of the The issue of intellectual diversame political affiliation a low sity is one that deserves conversagrade as they are to give a stution and debate on campus, and dent with an opposite affiliation a high one. Students that have DCU’s letter has served to do exsuch fears cannot be sure if their actly that. However, one must be cautious opinions will be well received in interpreting DCU’s claims and unless they voice them. Also, there are means to remecarefully consider the ramifications of such accusations. dy the situation if a student has This event should serve as a been unfairly treated because of reminder that professors their political views, and students’ willingness to voice their ideas should not apply their personal political philosophy in the may actually serve as a means of classroom at the expense of weeding out any professors who other, alternative points of do penalize students for having alview. The discussion in the ternative political views. classroom should never be DCU’s advertisement was a solely liberal or conservative, mechanism for starting an onbut instead an open forum of campus debate that can greatly all perspectives. Only then are benefit the intellectual atmosstudents able to formulate phere of the University.

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this week’s column, Rock You has decidmaking a real effort at cracking down on greek Life, ed to get the real scoop on Duke’s greek especially fraternities. Duke’s social scene has been said to be composed of a ‘Fab 300’ scene by interviewing some real life, lookthem-up-in-the-face-book-you-stalker fraternity group of students who actually go out, and for and sorority members. Rock You’s goal—in light the most part, that core group is either affiliated of the recent anti-greek backlash following the with or very closely tied to the greek community. Truly, greeks seem to provide the social spark culmination of sorority rush and the start offrato not see what all of you on a campus full of, well, big nerds. Aside from ternity pledging —is bitter independents think of greeks (because, a kid or two falling out of a window now and really, who cares what you think) but what then, this seems to be a pretty healthy thing. So what’s the problem? greeks, the people who matter, think of greeks. The second frat guy Rock You interviewed Rock You’s first questions were directed at a seemed to have the answer. In repretty standard-seeming sponse to questions about the fufrat boy last weekend. ture of greek Life at Duke, he had The interview proceeded this to say. as follows ‘The way I see it, regarding greek RY: So, Frat Guy, what life, there are some very central issues. is your prediction for the The first is whether or not the new future of greek culture here on Duke’s campus? president will follow in Nan’s footsteps on the ffat crackdown. Duke’s Do you think Nan’s efadministration needs to realize what forts to reign in remainy U6IIISO INapOll many students, affiliated and not, ing on-campus ffatemities have had a real Rock You Like a Hurricane have already come to terms with: greek culture is indeed the focal point impact? Do you ever feel of Duke’s social scene. Sorority houslike the fact that greek culture is at the epicenter ofDuke’s social scene ing should be granted. On-campus drinking is a negative thing? must be acknowledged. Fraternities and sororiFG (acronym for ‘Frat Guy’): Yo Sweet Chill ties must be embraced by the administration in order for them to properly monitor and reguBeer Dance Party! Wasted! RY: What are you saying? Is the Duke greek late them. They present a much-needed social outlet on a highly competitive, academically scene strong as ever or not? What is the reason for the campus backlash? strenuous campus. Until the Duke community FG: Dance Party! comes to see sororities and ffats as the important component of student life that they are, RY: What? those groups will never be able to grow into the FG: Topless Dance Party! Aaaaah! Rock You’s next target was a sorority girl who healthy, socially and culturally enriching institutions that they could be.” refused to reveal the name of her sisterhood, Wow. Exactly which fraternity was Frat Guy #2 and in fact requested to be identified only by her screen name, XODukeLuvQTPie. When in, anyway? “Oh, I was almost in Pike a bunch of times. asked whether she felt that sororities helped Sometimes female or they let me help them build things.” promote healthy relationships whether they were a testament to women’s inThe final word goes to a male independent abilities to form meaningful friendships with living in an Edens’ single who, though bitter and one another, XO said, “I know that me and my relatively nerdy, is a member of the majority of fellow sisters, especially my big-big, really share non-affiliated students on campus and, I supeverything with one another. We are really close. pose, deserves a say. “I find fraternities and sororities to be an We go to Parizades together, like, every weekend. My Big-Big’s grandmother and her Big- abomination in the eyes of Christ.” Great Aunt are totally anti-effortless perfection And there you have it. The future of greek life at Duke, in the end, and everything. They’re really involved in the whole women’s movement” seems to be contingent on the recognition of So, sororities are more than Just a group of fraternities and sororities as important institutions by the administration and the student girls who get their bikini lines waxed together? ‘We are a sisterhood. We are there for each body alike. If we didn’t have them, things would other. And it’s totally gross when you talk about probably suck. And, most importantly, there bikini waxing in the Chronicle. Ewww!.” would be no Dance Parties—a bleak alternative After this second interview, Rock You was left indeed. with some lingering questions. The social scene Denise Napoli is Trinity sophomore. Her column at Duke is clearly changing. Iron-Fist Nan Keohane will be famous for, among other things, appears every otherFriday.

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two days of venomous, hate filled and (I assume) economics.Let me stick to itics differs from theirs. Why not see this as e-mails from self-described “conserphilosophy. Again, here I think there are an opportunity to hone your political thinkvatives,” I am convinced that there is courses where the political leanings of the ing rather than see it as an obstacle to the a large group of people in the country who professor are exactly as relevant as those of sort ofeducation you want? are not at all interested in a calm rational your math professor. As a graduate stuFinally, let me go over what I did and did discussion of the issues raised by the recent dent I was a teaching assistant in a logic not say. The DCU seems to believe that the ad in The Chronicle taken out by the Duke course taught by a socialist. He used the difference in the politics of the faculty vs. the population as a whole is due to hiring Conservative Union. However, in the hopes textbook written by his colleague, a conthat there are a larger number of people servative Republican. If the teacher has bias. The claim is that we liberals only want been a Republican and the text written by to hire other liberals. The process for hiring more interested in the issues, and less interested in spitting venom, I would like to clara socialist I don’t think the class would faculty in our university is largely decentralify the comments attributed to me in The have been any different. But what about courses in philosophy of law, Chronicle article of Feb. 10. First, unlike some of the people interethics and social and political philosoThere seems to be a widespread phy? Here I accept that the course viewed for the story, I accept the DCU’s concontent might well tention that the distribution of perception that professors rebe different were it political views ofDuke’s faculty ward students for agreeing with by a conseris significantly different from, Robert Brandon taught vative Republican and to the left of, the United them and penalize those who Guest Column vs. a liberal DemocStates population as a whole rat. Different, but disagree with them. That has As a philosopher of science I not radically differsee this phenomenon as worcertainly not been my experient. If you study 20th century poltical thy of exploration and explanation. I’ll reence; not as a student, nor a turn to that shordy. philosophy, you will read John Rawls (the textbook definition of a late capIn my response to The Chronicle reprofessor. porter I gave a quote from John Stuart italist liberal) and Robert Nozick (perMill that I thought was quite funny. I now haps not textbook libertarian, but libertarian nonetheless) see that the humor is not much appreciatThere seems to be a widespread perized. The hiring units in universities are deed in this context. Furthermore, as a political philosopher Mill is a hero to both the ception that professors reward students partments, not the administration. I did not left and the right. So, except to say that we for agreeing with them and penalize those presume to speak for other departments, but I did categorically deny that there was should all read more Mill, I’ll leave him who disagree with them. That has certainout of this. ly not been my experience; not as a stu- any such bias in the hiring practices of dent, nor a professor. Philosophers value Duke’s philosophy department. None of us There is another point where I susgood argumentation. If your professor is a would want such a bias to be there, and in pect wide agreement can be reached, namely that there are a large number of Rawlsian and you offer a strong argument virtually all cases there is no mechanism for classes at Duke that are apolitical. Supfor preferring Nozick’s position to Rawls’ it to be there. Typically, we know nothing find out that math pose you your you will be rewarded. You don’t need to about the candidates’ politics until after professor is a socialist or a libertarian. Why agree with your professor in order to learn they are hired. should you care? I hope that most memfrom him or her. If one looks carefully at what I was bers of the DCU would not care. So I agree with the DCU that conservaquoted as saying in The Chronicle, I did What they do seem to care about is the tive Duke students will in fact take a large not say that all conservatives are stupid, political views of the faculty teaching histo- number of their courses with a significant nor even that most conservatives are stury, literature, philosophy, political science political content from professors whose pol- pid. I will go on the record as saying that

some conservatives are stupid, but so are some liberals; there is plenty of stupidity to go around. The serious and interesting issue is how do we explain the surplus of liberals in academia. If we rule out the hiring bias hypothesis, what’s left? The phenomenon could be due to the political indoctrination of new hires. But given the independent nature of most academics this is not at all credible. Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems to me that the only viable hypothesis left is something like the following: There is a statistical association between the qualities that make for good academics and those that lead to left-leaning political views. Said another way, a larger proportion of academics are likely to be liberal, but certainly not all, and this may also vary by field and subfield because of the nature ofknowledge, learning and the advancement of knowledge in that field. But, stated this way the hypothesis still remains incredibly vague. What qualities, what traits are we talking about? What causal relations underlie these statistical associations? These questions are worth exploring, but I think the hypothesis is right headed. If conservative Duke students object to being taught by liberal professors, there is not much they can do about it in the short term. But over the longer haul they could change the political landscape of leading research universities. Study hard, do well in school, go on to get a Ph.D. and get yourself a job teaching at a university. But if you do you might find that political indoctrination is not really what animates academic life.

Robert Brandon is the chair of the Philosophy Department.

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New York Times in the midst of the imbroglio conDCU’s open letter to President Keohane and journalism is a constant and nauseating reinforcement status “debate” of the beneath the veneer of tending that the new rules deregulating the media inquo redress for the lack of seeking political diversity dustry posed a threat not only to a, competitive media among Duke University faculty has sparked a that effectively shuts out third parties that challenge marketplace, but to real (democratic) debate. flurry of debate over what constitutes a politically di- accepted views. When a private corporation like CNN grows to In his personal account of his 2000 presidential verse, and thus—so goes the association—an intellecrun, Crashing the Party, Ralph Nader describes the such a scale that it reaches a broad range of the electually rigorous academic climate. Lost in the argument from both sides, however, is a collaboration between the major political parties to torate —and when it is not challenged to conduct vigorous investigative reporting by small upstarts—it will prevent any rocking of the boat from outside the beltrecognition that a more equitable number of Democratic and Republican faculty would hardly achieve this way. The Commission on Presidential Debates, which do everything it can not to upset anyone to maintain first handled the 1988 debates, is its profit margin. In the context of political debate, objective, as reflected by our national twoheaded by the former chairmen of this means having heated arguments between a Demoparty system. the RNC and DNC, with an equal crat and a Republican on emotional issues like aborWhen we speak of debating an issue, we think of reaching a more informed posinumber of representatives from each tion or gun control or Janet Jackson’s breast-exposure, that safely reinforce Americans’ already strong opintion on that issue by considering different party sitting on the board. But instead of fostering thoughtful debate ions on these issues and so merely strengthen a status viewpoints, ideally more than two. Unforon the issues, the CPD serves to reinquo of perpetual disagreement. As a general rule, it is tunately, our society has moved dangersafer to debate issues so divisive that they leave little force the status two-party quo. ously far from the original purpose of deThe CPD was forced to make an ex- hope for resolution because the argument will result bate as espoused by Aristotle and Plato, or in a stalemate whereby ception in 1992 even of 30 years ago. Today’s “debates,” Jared Fish little will change and no Perot, for Ross broadcast on programs like Crossfire and who, with his imone will have to sacriThe O’Reilly Factor, have become little The result of such conglomeration New Sanity fice anything. mense wealth and more than sensationalist shouting matchin both politics and journalism is a It is time for us as stues between Democrats and Republicans, widespread constant and nauseating reinforcedents, scholars and that sacrifice our useful understanding of the issues polling support, could not be disment of the status quo beneath the American citizens to defor commercial entertainment and a deepening of the carded as a “non-viable” candidate mand more than an enAfter he of the entrenched political establishment. veneer of “debate” that effectively captured 17 percent trenched, self-interested vote, however, the CPD found away To understand this phenomenon, we must recogshuts out third parties that chalsystem that uses orchesnize that both political parties and the private media to bar him from the 1996 debate lenge accepted views. trated political cat-fights organizations that report on them are self-interested based on vague concerns over his as a substitute for real, entities. The Republican National Committee and its electibility. In 2000, the commission intellectual debate. The counterpart, the Democratic National Committe, have further entrenched the two party system by requiring that third-party candidates poll at least CPD has clearly illustrated that having an equal numthe same goal of maintaining a broad-based constituency. Similarly, the major media corporations, 15 percent before being allowed into the debate, an in- ber of Democrats and Republicans sitting on any board such as Viacom, Vivendi, GE, Rupert Murdoch’s News credible feat considering that third-party candidates could not be further from realizing the goal of critical discussion. Duke should focus on the erosion of public Corp., AT&T, and AOL/Time Warner, own the lion’s rarely attract the media’s attention. debate, not its faculty’s political affiliations. the media. Last in share of our nation’s thousands of media outlets, and similar is A squeeze happening summer, the FCC voted to allow media conglomerates also have a vested interest in attracting a wide audito buy out the now dwindling locally owned outlets. ence base. Jared Fish is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears The result of such conglomeration in both politics Ted Turner, founder of CNN, wrote an op-ed to the every other Friday.

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