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The University will host a panel discussion on academic freedom and faculty political affiliation March 1, weeks after a Duke Conservative Union advertisement ran in The Chronicle alleging a lack of intellectual diversity among Duke faculty.

Since the advertisement ran, campus has been abuzz with debate about the role of politics in the classroom and the extent to which students may feel restricted in their course work by their professors’ ideologies.

“The DCU raised a really interesting question with their advertisement, and the provost thought to put together faculty from a broad range of the political spectrum and political affiliations to discuss the issue,” said John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Monday’s panel discussion—’The Politics of Academic Freedom: Does Political Affiliation Matter?” —will be held at 8 p.m. in room 130 of the Sociology/Psychology Building. Provost Peter Lange, who selected the panelists, will moderate the discussion.

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Administration officials are exploring an expansion ofFOCUS to include a single program in the spring semester for the upcoming year. FOCUS Director Angela O’Rand said the specific program had not yet been chosen but that a decision would be made within the next two months.

O’Rand said the popularity of FOCUS among all involved—students, faculty members and administrators—led to the desire to make it available to more students. Although O’Rand said she was excited about a wider FOCUS program, she noted that the incremental and experimental nature of the expansion is necessary.

“We are being encouraged by the administration to carefully experiment,” she said. “We have to move carefully because FOCUS is a great success as it is

[currently]. If [the spring program] flops, then we will see that second semes-

ter freshman students don’t need or want

A bicyclist rides across the Main West quadrangle Thursday during a break in the snowfall. By early evening, Duke's severe weather policy was in effect, but as of 3 a.m., no decisions had been made regarding Friday classes.Anywhere between 3 inches and a foot of snow was expected to fall over Thursday and Friday, but in Durham, the heavy snow did not begin sticking to roads until after midnight.

a FOCUS program.”

This minor expansion is part of the administration’s greater plan to make FOCUS available to more freshman; in recent years an increasing number of students have SEE FOCUS ON PAGE 9

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rate. The Blue Devils held the Crusaders to a

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31 percent shooting effort from the floor, including It may have been cold outside, but inside a 24 percent effort in the second half.

“I think we were as cold as that snow outside Cameron Indoor Stadium, head men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils kept everyone from shooting in that first ten-minute period,” Drew joked. “I’ve always admired Mike’s defense from warm with their torrid three-point shooting.

Duke (23-3,11-2 in the ACC) made a season-high afar, and today I got to admire it from too close.”

Senior forward Joaquim “Kikas” Gomes had 18 15 treys in slamming Valparaiso (13-12, 10-5 MidContinent) 97-63. points and 11 rebounds for the Crusaders, who, de“Duke was extremely hot, and I think that the spite the lopsided score, still managed to outredifference in the game happened too early for us,” bound Duke by a 45-39 margin. Sophomore Dan Valparaiso head coach Homer Drew said. “They Oppland, tl\e team’s leading scorer, added 11 points went ten for eleven in three-point shooting in that and eight rebounds Regardless, the Blue Devils put the game away span when they really just dominated us, and if been human for a while and early, opening the game on a 21-4 run. Valparaiso they could have just missed some of those, it would have helped us stay countered by cutting the deficit to 27-13, but the Blue Devils then scored 12 points in just 109 seca little bit closer.” finished the an onds to put the game well out of reach.

The Blue Devils game shooting arc, the led by 58 from beyond otherworldly percent Junior guard Daniel Ewing started the onslaught with a three-pointer. Sixteen seconds later, Ewing Redick and Daniel with three But Ewing apiece.

JJ. the two off guards did not provide all the hot shootgrabbed a steal and found JJ. Redick, who hit anhit threes the other trey despite being fouled. After converting the different against ing. Eight players Crusaders, including Luol Deng, Shelden Williams, free throw, Ewing stole the ball again, this time finishing with an emphatic one-handed jam that sent Shavlik Randolph and Nick Horvath.

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Luol Deng scored 18points to help Duke beat Valparaiso Thursday.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq's most powerful religious leader, demanded Thursday that nationwide elections be held by the end of the year, but dropped his earlier insistence on holding them before the United States transfers sovereignty to the Iraqis June 30.

In a statement released by his office in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, al-Sistani called for “clear guarantees,” possibly in the form of a resolution by the U.N. Security Council, that elections would be held in 2004. He said the caretaker government that is likely to

take control of the country from the Americans at the end of June should confine itself to an agenda largely limited to setting up the elections.

‘The period in which an unelected government should take control of this country must be short and for a few months only,” al-Sistani said.

His remarks increased pressure on the United Nations, the United States and Iraq's U.S.-appointed leaders to get to work immediately on setting up the elections. There is no firm plan on how to do so, or what shape the caretaker government would take after June 30.

Nor is it clear how such a government would have the power to administer a

country faced with violence and growing religious and ethnic differences.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said last week that the earliest possible date for elections could be the end of this year, provided the planning for them begins immediately. But Annan also implied that it would be difficult to stay on that timetable and suggested that elections could be held later in 2005.

Although al-Sistani has long maintained that he and other Shiite leaders shouldremain aloof from the give-andtake of politics, he is not hesitating to use his moral authority to affect the SEE ELECTIONS ON PAGE 8

Fetus protection bill passed by House

By Carl Huse NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON The House approved a measure that would make it a separate offense to harm Thursday the fetus while committing a violent crime against a pregnant woman, overcoming objections that the legislation was intended to undermine abortion rights.

With advocates pointing to recent highly publicized criminal cases as a rationale for the measure, House members voted 254-163 to approve the bill, which faces a more difficult test in the Senate.

The proposal defines the “unborn” victim of a crime as a “member of the species homo sapiens, at any stage of de-

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velopment, who is carried in the womb.” It applies only to federal offenses.

“Members of Congress do agree that it is important for us to recognize two victims when a crime of violence is committed against a pregnant woman,” said Rep. Melissa Hart, R-Penn., the author of the measure.

Opponents said the legislation was a thinly veiled effort to confer new legal standing on a fetus for future use in court fights over abortion and that there were more effective ways to reduce violence against women.

“This is a direct assault on Roe v. Wade, a direct assault SEE FETUS ON PAGE 8

NEWS IN BRIEF President presumed dead after plane crash Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski, widely respected for calming ethnic tension, was declared missing and presumed killed Thursday in an airplane crash in Bosnia-H.erzegovina.

New abuse scandal statistics released The Boston Archdiocese said Thursday that 162 of its Catholic priests had been accused of sex abuse since 1950—about 7 percent of all the archdiocesan priests serving during that time.

Authorities knew Columbine killers well In a report that enraged victims'families, the Colorado state attorney general said Thursday law officers were warned about the Columbine High killers at least 15 times in the two years before their murderous rampage in 1999

Space-walk interrupted by suit problem A riskier-than-usual spacewalk outside the international space station was cut short Thursday

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To exercise or not to exercise?

That is the question Mike Hauser, assistant research professor of medicine at the Center for Human Genetics, asked himself two years ago when he made the decision to participate in a ground-breaking exercise study at the Duke University Medical Center’s Center for Living.

As a father of young children and as a genetics researcher who spends the majority of his time at work sitting in front of a computer screen, Hauser wanted to change his sedentary lifestyle and be able to once again play with his kids.

‘The study targeted sedentary folks,” Hauser said. “I’m on the faculty at Duke and I write and I sit in front of my computer all day, and there’s not much activity in that. But now, it’s nice to be able to get out and be more active with the kids—l have young kids—and it helps to be able to run with them.”

Two years later, Hauser has lost 10 pounds in fat and continues the regular exercise regimen that he began as part of the DUMC study. Now, a healthier Hauser knows that the answer to his question clearly is to exercise.

The study in which he participated, dubbed Studies of Targeted Risk Reduction Interventions through Defined Exercise, was instigated by the questions of how much exercise is needed to prevent weight gain and how much is needed to lose weight, said primary investigator for the study and cardiologist Dr. William Kraus.

Supported by a $4.3 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and published in the Jan. 12 issue of Archives ofInternal Medicine, the trial provided the first scientific basis for moderate exercise as a method for preventing weight gain. In addition, the study found that any further exercise can lead to additional losses in weight and fat.

“It is common wisdom that the more exercise you do is better,” said Kraus, who is also the director of clinical research at the Center for Living. “But nobody had done a controlled study... like this before.”

For the study, researchers randomly placed 120 overweight and sedentary adults into one of four exercise groups. The control group was required not to do any exercise whatsoever; two groups, differing in the intensity of the workout, exercised the equivalent ofeither walking or jogging 12 miles per week; and a fourth, high dose and vigorous intensity group exercised the equivalent of jogging 20 miles per week.

Hauser was in the high dose, vigorous intensity group.

This meant that his regimen consisted of burning 2,000 calories per week at 75 percent of his maximum exercise intensity. So at 6:30 a.m., four days a week, Hauser headed

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A new Duke University Medical Center study finds thatexercise is key in maintaining and losing weight. to the gym, where researchers monitored his performance and encouraged him to continue working out.

“It was gruesome at first,” Hauser reminisced. “It was very difficult to get into it at first. But the nice thing was that during the studies, they had people at the gym for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening—it was as if you had your own cheering section. They were like a surrogate for the nagging friend, who would not let you get away from exercising.”

By measuring changes in weight, body composition and waist circumference, the researchers found that all participants who exercised, lost weight and those who exercised the equivalent of20 miles per week, lost more than those exercising the equivalent of 12 miles per week. In particular, the high dose group experienced a 3.5 percent weight loss, the low dose group experienced a slightly greater than 1 percent weight loss while the control group showed a 1.1 percent weight gain. In order to isolate the weight effects ofexercise from those of a diet, participants were encouraged not to alter their dietary habits.

Clinical Research Coordinator and member of the research team Brian Duscha emphasized the importance of exercise in order to prevent weight gain, “Americans are very result oriented—whether you take a pill or exercise, people want to see results,” Dusha said, “But if you don’t do anything, you actually gain [weight], People would say that’s not a big deal but [over a lifetime] it creeps up on you. To prevent weight gain and not just weight loss is an important—perhaps even the most important—aspect of the paper.

Kraus just recently secured another five-year grant to continue this exercise research. In the upcoming research, 20 of the original participants—Hauser included—will continue to be monitored in order to explore at what intensity and what amounts they choose to exercise on their own volition. The future research will also integrate a resistance or weight lifting component into the study, Although Kraus would not discuss the findings, he said he is encouraged by preliminary findings. “I promise the findings will be interesting, he said.” ”

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For Campus Council, Alumni Weekend is a matter of unfinished business. In the past few weeks, student legislators have incorporated into their agenda a healthy dose of criticism for Alumni Weekend, an annual event that welcomes back to campus the Blue Devils of past

generations.

At a meeting two weeks ago, the members expressed their disapproval of the strain the festivities put on the Main West Campus Quadrangle grass. Thursday night, the council unanimously passed a resolution suggesting to the coordinators ofAlumni Weekend that guests no longer have DukeCard access to residence halls or residence hall bathrooms.

Explaining the rationale behind the resolution, Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli cited mostly security concerns.

“We have limited access to our residence halls for a reason, and normally, if you see someone in your residence hall who you think shouldn’tbe there, that’s a problem,” Vitarelli said. “When additional people have access to the bathrooms, then you don’t necessarily know if that’s an alum or someone who is not supposed to be there.”

Vitarelli stressed that the University leadership should be taking every measure to ensure that recent security breaches do not repeat themselves. “In the past couple of years, it’s become evident that bathrooms are a particularly vulnerable area.”

As they proposed changes to Alumni Weekend, members insisted that what they suggested in no way means disrespect to the alumni who will be attending the event.

“I think it’s unfortunate that we have to send a message that they’re not part of the community, but the reality is it doesn’t matter who it is, as long as they don’t live in the residence hall, they shouldn’t have access,” said Campus Council Communications Coordinator Pasha Majdi.

Members ofCampus Council voted unanimously to not allow alumni access to residence hails during Alumni Weekend.

“We have limited access to our residence halls for a reason, and normally, if you see someone in your residence hall who you think shouldn’t be there, that’s a problem.”

Anthony Vitarelli IN OTHER BUSINESS: Prior to the men’s basketball contest

against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill March 6,

Campus Council will hold True and Blue, an annual affair that is meant to energize and encourage the Cameron Crazies by providing free Duke paraphernalia.

“It’s just a little event to get people excited before the DukeUNC game,” said Vice President of Campus Council Gerald Oliver. “What we’re going to do is spray-paint people’s hair blue while they’re standing in line, we’ll apply decal stickers to their faces and we’ll also pass out sunglasses so they can wear them during the game.”

Normally, Campus Council provides students with free t-shirts, but this year, the members have chosen a cheaper alternative in the sunglasses.

“We think it’s something people will actually wear at the game,” Oliver said.

Another item on the agenda Thursday night was the discussion ofLast Day ofClasses. Campus Council is pursuing acclaimed producer and rapper Kanye West for the Last Day ofClasses concert, an event the group sponsors annually. The artist has not yet accepted the council’s offer of $30,000.

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WASHINGTON Secretary of State Colin Powell distanced himself Thursday from Haiti's president, JeanBertrand Aristide, saying the embatded leader needs to make a “careful examination” of whether he should step down. Powell did not call for Aristide's departure—as his French counterpart, Dominique de Villepin, did Wednesday—but he signaled for the first time thatAristide's resignation might be in the best interests of Haiti.

“I think it is a very difficult time for the Haitian people,” Powell said. “And I know that President Aristide has the interest of the Haitian people at heart. I hope he will just examine the situation that he is in and make a careful examination ofhow best to serve the Haitian people at this time.”

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called Powell's remarks “disgraceful.”

“The president is not leaving, and he's made it clear today that despite the rumors and psychological warfare, he's not leaving until his term is up in February 2006,” Kurzban said.

Powell's comments were the most pointed indication yet from a George W. Bush administration official that it views Aristide's determination to serve out his term as an impediment to a peaceful resolution of a three-week-old uprising that has claimed the lives of about 70 people and left the northern half of the country in rebel control.

In Port-au-Prince, tensions mounted when rebel leaders said they were moving closer to an assault. At dusk flaming barricades went up across the city, and truckloads of armed masked men patrolled the streets.

Bemie Leon, manager of three terminals at the port, said more than a hundred people had looted shipping containers there. Many gas stations stopped selling fuel, leading to long lines at those that stayed open.

At the airport, hundreds of people waited to board flights to the United States, but late Thursday, American Airlines announced it was canceling all flights from Haiti until March 3, The Associated Press reported.

Powell, who traveled to Haiti a decade ago and attempted to negotiate the departure of the military leaders who had ousted Aristide in his first term, has been one of the administration's strongest voices in defense of keeping Aristide in office to uphold democratic principles. Several of his subordinates have privately indicated disaffection with Aristide, whom they accuse of ruling autocratically.

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Dem. candidates focus U.S. plans not to sign on gay rights in debate anti-land mine treaty

By Nedra Pickler THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES Democratic presidential rivals Sen. John Kerry and Sen. John Edwards voiced opposition to gay marriage Thursday, but said the issue should be left to the states rather than banned by a constitudonal amendment as recommended by President George W. Bush.

On the day that celebrity Rosie O’Donnell was married to her longtime girlfriend, Kerry and Edwards both sharply criticized Bush for his request to Congress to amend the Constitution.

“He’s doing this because he’s in [political] trouble.... He’s playing politics with the Constitution of the United States,” said Kerry, the front-runner for the nomination, at a presidential debate.

“This president is talking... about amending the constitution for a problem that does not exist,” Edwards said.

Kerry and Edwards also sparred about which one of the two has the better chance to defeat Bush this fall as they debated five days before a 10-state slate of contests known as Super Tuesday.

Asked whether he thought the Massachusetts senator could appeal to voters in Southern and border states, the South Carolina-born Edwards responded, “I think that’s his test.... I know I can,” he added.

But Kerry quickly said he, like Edwards, can appeal to independent voters and even Republicans that the party will need to prevail in November. He pointed out that he has won 18 of 20 primaries

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and caucuses to date, including Tennessee and Virginia.

The debate unfolded in close quarters on a stage at the University of Southern California.

It was the eighth debateof the 2004 year, and unlike the others, this time the contestants sat elbow-to-elbow around a table.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and Rev. A1 Sharpton also had seats at the table, unwilling to leave the race despite an unbroken string of primary and caucus defeats.

CNN’s Larry King moderated, and Ron Brownstein and Janet Clayton of the Los Angeles Times were the questioners.

Brownstein asked the gay marriage question. Noting that O’Donnell had been married a few hours earlier in San Francisco, he asked Kerry why other states should be required to recognize a license the couple received from city officials. He also asked the senator why he had opposed legislation in 1996 that would have allowed states to deny such recognition.

Directly contradicting a claim made

by Bush, Kerry said the Constitution does not require states to recognize gay marriage licenses granted elsewhere in the country.

“I think, in fact, that no state has to recognize something that is against their public policy,” he said. And for two centuries, “we have left marriage up to the states.”

Sharpening his attack on Bush, Kerry said the president “always tries to create a SEE DEBATE ON PAGE

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By Barry Schweid THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The Bush administration intends to end the U.S. military’s use of land mines that are not timed to selfdestruct but will not sign a 150-nation antiland mine treaty, a senior administration official said Thursday.

The new policy also will double, to $7O million, what the United States spends annually to locate and remove mines considered hazards to people and serving no deterrent purpose, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Lincoln Bloomfield, an assistant secretary of state who is President George W. Bush’s special adviser on land mines, was expected to announce the new policy at the State Department Friday.

From now on, all new U.S. land mines will be detectable to U.S. authorities and geared to become inert. But those considered to be part of deterring attacks, such as in Korea, will remain in use. Those mines will be timed to self-destruct, but they can be reset to remain operable.

In Afghanistan and Cambodia, among other countries, the buried land mines serve no military purpose and are a menace to farmers, children and other people who accidentally trip over them. The mines can maim or kill.

Stephen Goose, executive director of the arms control division of Human Rights Watch, praised the plan to increase spending for mine clearance projects. But he said the United States is iso-

lated by its insistence on using land mines in its defense programs.

“We have a great deal of momentum everywhere else around the world. The U.S. is the only country in NATO that hasn’t banned this weapon. We have a situation where the U.S. is undermining the international norm against this weapon,” said Goose, who said he was informed by the State Department on Thursday about the new policy.

Goose said that the U.S. goal, for a decade, has been to move toward the point where it could eliminate all antipersonnel mines.

‘This is a goal that has been embraced by the entire world. But it’s a goal that the United States has now given up on. They now say they want to use some types ofantipersonnel mines, the so-called smart mines that self-destruct, anywhere in the world in perpetuity,” he said.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a leading opponent of land mines, said although there are some positive aspects of the policy, “on the whole it is a deeply disappointing step backward.”

“This is another squandered opportunity for U.S. leadership on a crucial arms control and humanitarian issue,” he said.

“Worst of all, in a sharp departure from past policy, it says the United States will continue using land mines indefinitely.”

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which won the 1997 Nobel SEE LAND MINES ON PAGE 9

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he Duke University Graduate School proudly presents the Dean's Award for Excellence in

Mentoring to recognize the considerable efforts and acomplishments of faculty who

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allow graduate students to identify faculty who embody both the letter and spirit of mentoring, this award will take its place among the university’s

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4 p.m. Friday Feb. 27,2004 Love Auditorium

in the Levine Science Research Center Ellen Ochoa, who became an astronaut in 1991, has logged more than 978 hours in space during her four space flights, including the first mission to dock with the International Space Station. She plans to show a video capturing her flight experiences, and discuss how her engineering training influenced her career development.

Ochoa is now the deputy director of flight crew operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Her technical assignments to date include flight software verification, flight software and computer hardware development, robotics development testing, and training.

Ochoa’s NASA awards include the Exceptional Service Medal (1997) and the Outstanding Leadership Medal (1995). She is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Women in Aerospace Bfiran Outstanding Achievement Award, the Hispanic Engineering Albert Baez Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Humanity, and the Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award. She received her Ph.D. IDUKEI in electrical engineering from Stanford. b^inering

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States looking to take action on gay marriage James

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. In state after state, fierce battles have broken out this week in the legislative aisles, as conservative lawmakers push for much more than the federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that President George W. Bush has endorsed.

It does not go far enough, they say, and they do not want to wait years for an amendment to pass. Not even laws already banning same-sex marriage in three-fourths of the states go far enough, the legislators say, invoking the events in San Francisco and Massachusetts that are driving their debates.

To shore up existing laws these lawmakers want individual amendments, which take as little as a year to be enacted. Only four states have enacted amendments concerning same-sex marriage, but nearly two dozen are now considering enshrining prohibitions in state constitutions, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group that tracks such legislation.

In Michigan, Georgia and several other states, voters might even see the amendments on their ballots as early as this November. Embossed with the voters’ stamp of approval, statewide constitutional changes are more likely to withstand legal challenges than mere legislation.

“The Georgia law is clear on banning gay marriage,” said Mike Crotts, a Republican state senator who has sponsored an amendment in Georgia. “My bill is focused on activist judges who don’t rule from the bench based on the law, but based on their personal views or opinions. We’re seeing more and more of that throughout the country.”

And so the more marriages San Francisco grants, the more intense the fights become between Republicans and Democrats across the country.

In Indiana, Republicans in the Legislature walked out several times this week when their efforts were stymied.

‘The public is watching the Legislature very closely on this issue,” said Brian Bosma, the Republican House minority leader. This is the most important thing that faces us at the moment.”

In Oklahoma, where Democrats have bottled up a constitutional amendment in committee, dueling protests last week led to the arrest of a man who was carrying a fake gun and yelling anti-gay epithets.

In Georgia, some Democrats have tried to rebuff the constitutional efforts by suggesting an amendment that includes a ban on adultery.

Critics argue that the state amendments are redundant, discriminatory and mainly intended to energize social conservatives in a election year. “The other side is doing this to make political hay,” said Wally Paynter, chair of Hoosier Families for the Preservation of the Constitution, a group fighting an amendment in Indiana. “I think this issue does mobilize the Republican base.”

The new push for constitutional barriers against gay marriage has been clearly motivated by recent rulings from Massachusetts’ highest court, which declared that denying marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples violated the state’s Constitution, and by the granting of marriage licenses to thousands of same-sex couples in San Francisco.

Democrats and Republicans credited that galvanized base with successfully getting Bush to endorse a federal constitutional amendment Tuesday.

But amending the U.S. Constitution is difficult and can take years, requiring the approval of Congress and 38 ,

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legislatures.

Here in Maryland, where conservatives have introduced a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, gay rights advocates are pushing for legislation that would grant certain health care rights to same-sex partners.

Those would include hospital visitation rights and the power to make decisions for a partner concerning medical care, autopsies and burials.

“These are among the most human and emotional issues to same-sex couples, because we are denied marriage rights,” said Dan Furmansky, executive director of Equality Maryland, a gay rights group.

Proponents of banning gay marriage say the Maryland fight shows the bipartisan, multicultural nature of their movement: One of the most outspoken proponents of a constitutional amendment is a black Baptist minister from Baltimore who is a Democratic state delegate.

“The overwhelming majority of people don’t agree with gay marriage,” said the delegate, Emmett Burns Jr. “But the gay and lesbian lobby has scared the heck out of the Democrats.”

Seeking to counter the swell of activity, gay rights activists are mobilizing, imploring their congressional representatives and local lawmakers to seize the spotlight for more opportunities. Legislatures in at least six states, including New York and Arizona, are considering bills that would grant same-sex couples many, in some cases most, of the state rights married couples have. However, none of those bills are expected to pass.

In Massachusetts, where a constitutional convention will reconvene March 11, legislative leaders have coalesced behind an amendment that would both ban gay marriage and authorize civil unions, which confer state but not federal marriage rights to same-sex couples.

Only Vermont currently grants all the state benefits and responsibilities of marriage—including matters relating to taxes, health care, inheritance and insurance—

same-sex couples. California, Hawaii and New Jersey give partial benefits.

The emotional quality of the debates within statehouses across the country has been reminiscent of the abordon fights of the 19905, marked by impassioned hearings, dueling rallies and aggressive lobbying campaigns that have often drowned out discussion of other matters.

‘This is the last thing on people’s minds,” said Cheryl Jacques, president of the Human Rights Campaign, arguing that gay-marriage fights are diverting attention from more pressing matters, like budget deficits.

Such arguments have not discouraged the combatants, and their positions are expected to resonate for months through the election season. In New Hampshire, a hearing last week on a law defining marriage as stricdy between a man and a woman drew more than 450 witnesses. to

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fundamental decisions that will shape Iraq's future.

It was al-Sistani's remarks last month that forced the United States to abandon its earlier plan to hand over sovereignty through a system of nationwide caucuses.

And it was the ayatollah's pleas that brought the United Nations back to Iraq after the organization largely pulled out of the country following the deadly truckbombing of its headquarters in Baghdad last August. A team of U.N. experts who visited Iraq issued a report last week concluding that it would not be feasible to hold credible elections before June 30. The United States argued Iraq lacked a roster of voters and other fundamental elements that could make elections possible.

In his statement Thursday, al-Sistani said he accepted the U.N. team's assess-

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on abortion,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the constitution.

An alternative offered by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., would have created a second offense punishable by up to life in prison for the interruption or termination of a pregnancy, but it did not extend any new status to the fetus. It was defeated by a vote of 229-186.

In the end, 207 Republicans were joined by 47 Democrats in adopting the measure.

Backers of the law disputed the idea that the measure was aimed at abortion rights, noting that abortions were specifi-

eluding an interim constitution, due Saturday, and a status-of forces agreement for

ayatollah did not spell out any design for the caretaker government. The 25 members of the Iraqi Governing Council, appointed by U.S. leaders, are current-

ly drafting a temporary' constitution that is supposed to lay out the shape of that temporary government. Al-Sistani, leader of the country 's Shiite Muslims, said the elections should select members of a national assembly, which could then draft a permanent constitution.

“Although the team has dismissed the idea of handing sovereignty over to an elected government, its decision that it is possible to hold elections at the end of this year is extremely important,” the statement said. Before issuing his statement, alSistani met for more than an hour with five Shiite members of the Iraqi Governing Council. It was not clear what was discussed during the meeting.

In his remarks last week, Annan said that one of the first necessary steps would

be establishing an election commission to establish the rules and structure for a national vote. After that, Annan said, it would take a minimum of eight months to set up the polling places and other election hardware.

“We support the statement made by Sistani in all its details,” Mowaffak A1 Rubaie, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council, said after the meeting. “We have been blessed by visiting Sistani, and we took instructions from him.”

Rubaie gave no other details.

Officials at the U.N. said Thursday that they would refrain from speaking publicly about al-Sistani's statement. Still, it seemed improbable that the U.N. Security Council, the organization's most important body, would issue such a guarantee.

While Iraqi leaders continue to wrestle with the timing and structure of the elections, they are also working to resolve several other potentially divisive issues, in-

the continuing presence of U.S. troops, due by March. The interim constitution would provide a basic political framework for Iraq until an elected body could draft a permanent one.

The negotiations over the temporary constitution have been riven by disagreements over several issues, including the role of Islam in politics and the degree of autonomy that should be granted the Kurdish people in the north.

Dan Senor, a spokesperson for the civilian administrators here, predicted that the Iraqis would complete their work by their deadline Saturday. But he suggested that some important elements of the document might be left for later.

“It doesn't have to cover everything," Senor said of the temporary constitution.

“But it certainly has to include the separation of powers, an independent judiciary.”

cally allowed under the bill “This is not an abortion issue,” said Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-111. “It is a crime issue.”

The House has passed similar legislation twice before, but it has never reached a vote on the Senate floor.

The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, RTenn., has indicated he is ready to move forward with the proposal, but would probably need agreement from the Democratic leadership or face a filibuster.

Senate opponents are also prepared to offer an alternative similar to the one defeated in the House.

Trying to increase pressure on the Senate, House Republican leaders after the vote held a news conference with the parents of an 18-year-old Kentucky woman who was

about five months pregnant when she was found murdered last month. The Kentucky Legislature, pardy in response to the case, adopted a measure similar to the one passed by the House.

“For anybody to say that is not two victims, I don't know where their heart is,” said Buford Lyons, the father of the murdered woman, Ashley Lyons.

The Republicans also played a video message from Sharon Rocha, the mother of Laci Peterson, a pregnant California woman who was murdered in a case that has received national attention. She called on Senate opponents to drop their objections to the measure that backers refer to as Laci and Connor's law.

Connor was the name Peterson had picked for her unborn child. Laci Peter-

son’s husband, Scott Peterson, is currently on trial for the murders.

Hart, the bill's author, said that 29 states have laws allowing prosecutors to bring two separate offenses against those charged with violent crimes against pregnant women.

She added that she hoped the congressional action would spur more states to do so.

President George W. Bush supports the measure and called on the Senate to adopt it.

“Pregnant women who have been harmed by violence, and their families, know that there are two victims—the mother and the unborn child—and both victims should be protected by federal law,” Bush said in a statement.

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been turned away due to the popularity of the program.

“There are only so many programs that you can offer for a number of reasons budgetary reasons and faculty time reasons,” O’Rand said.

According to figures from FOCUS Program Coordinator Barbara Wise, the number of students who were not admitted into the program has increased from seven in 2000 to 80 in 2003. This is largely due to a greater amount of applicants applying for roughly the same number of programs, which range from 10 to 14 depending on the year.

FOCUS is not only growing in popularity among incoming students; top administrators are also singing its praises. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe sees the program as a major drawing card for the University.

“FOCUS is probably one of our strongest magnets to attract students because it makes us differentfrom other research universities and colleges,” he said. “It’s the only program really in the country that offers as many opportunities to the freshman class to study together an issue or themefrom multiple interdisciplinary perspectives. No one at other universities or colleges has anything as broad or deep as this is.”

Along with attracting prospective students, a study conducted this past summer

by Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson found that FOCUS might better prepare students for academic success throughout college. Thompson’s findings—which are based on the current class of 2004—highlight statistically higher CPAs for FOCUS students in both the short and long-term.

“At the end of the first term, there is a statistically significant difference in GPA between FOCUS and the matched control group—not more than a few tenths of a

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Panelists will include law professor William Van Alstyne, a constitutional scholar on free speech and academic freedom; University Counsel David Adcock, an expert on tenure rules and processes; Political Science Department Chair Michael Munger; Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Affairs Cathy Davidson; and Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences William Schlesinger, who is also a longtime member of the University’s Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee.

“The provost picked a good group of people for this discussion,” Burness said, noting that the panelists come from different schools within the University and that a number of them have been involved in faculty selection processes outside their own departments by serving on the APT committee. “They are all very, very thoughtful, and none of them are bashful.”

Senior Madison Kitchens, executive director of DCU, said the panel discussion was a step in the right direction because it would help generate further dialogue on the issue. “Being mute on the subject certainly is not preferable to actually having people debate the matter,” he said.

Kitchens noted, however, that Lange’s choice of panelists may be “merely another manifestation of precisely the problem we’re talking about.”

“If you actually look at the scheduled

LAND MINES from page 6 Peace Prize for its efforts in getting the treaty approved in Ottawa, Canada, said 150 countries have signed on.

They included Afghanistan, Canada, Germany, Italy and Britain. Among the 44 nations that had not done so, as of October, were the United States, China, Iran, North Korea, South Korea, Pakistan and Russia, according to the group.

The 1997 pact went into force March 1, 1999, and bans the stockpile of mines and requires each nation to destroy its stock within four years.

Jody Williams, who shared the 1997 Nobel prize with the group she helped create, said in a telephone interview with AP Radio that the latest move “is yet another indication of the Bush administration’s total disdain for international law. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I’m not” In early 2001, a Pentagon-commissioned study said advances in technology could lead to alternatives to anti-personnel land mines that would pose fewer risks to civilians. But it

see it’s already skewed in one direction,” he said. “You might come away from the panel with a different view from what the actual dynamic on campus is.”

Burness said he believed the panel would give a full sense of the various forces in play in the debate and that students concerned about potential bias in the panel may be in for a “very surprising discussion.”

William Chafe, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Avery Reaves, Duke Student Government vice president for academic affairs, are organizing a second panel discussion, to be held during one of the first two weeks back from spring break. Reaves said the panel would probably discuss freedom of expression in the classroom.

“The faculty panel is a good idea because academic [freedom] is something we all need to explore,” Reaves said. “Having a panel strictly for students is the logical flipside to that. Students need their own event where they feel free to speak their minds—where they can say what they have to say about how they feel about the classroom experience.”

He added that while the panelists have not yet been selected, they would probably include a representative from DCU, a panelist from the opposite end of the political spectrum and two panelists with more moderate views.

Chafe said he expected high attendance at both panel discussions. ent—you can

said that not all of these emerging technologies were likely to be ready by 2006—a target set by the Clinton administration for deciding whether the United States should approve the international treaty.

Former President Bill Clinton said land mines were a necessary deterrent that protected South Korea from the North; thousands ofmines lie in the demilitarized zone between the two countries. He indicated the United States would be willing to sign the treaty by 2006 if armed forces could find alternatives to the mines.

In May 1998, when Clinton for the first time indicated a willingness to commit the United States to joining the treaty, he linked the move to development of alternate weapons.

He also agreed for the first time to order the Pentagon to seek alternatives to the practice of combining anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines. The technique is used to deter enemy troops from trying to defuse the anti-tank weapons.

The shift was spelled out in a letter from then-National Security adviser Sandy Berger to Leahy.

point, but a difference,” Thompson said.

“In general that difference persists [after freshman year].”

Although Thompson noted that, on the whole, incoming FOCUS students have

“FOCUS is probably one of our strongest magnets to attract students because it makes us different from other research universities and colleges.”

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said the study matched FOCUS students with an equivalent control group.

Thompson also pointed to the statistics on study abroad as separating FOCUS students from the control group. He said 46 percent of FOCUS students went abroad during their junior year, compared to 37 percent of students from the control group.

As part of their strong support for FOCUS, administrators are considering implementing similar inter-disciplinary programs for students after freshman year.

Thompson said he saw great potential in having seminars across disciplines that, like FOCUS programs, are centered on common themes. Unlike FOCUS, however, the programs could take place over

multiple semesters.

Thompson said certificate programs offered in some departments are broader examples of the upper-classman program he

has in mind. He added, however, that those programs often require six courses; he sees the inter-disciplinary seminars as

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ARISTIDE from page 5 The secretary's shift appears to muddle further the status of peace talks based on a plan backed by the administration and the Caribbean Community, or Caricom. That plan, which the State Department says it still supports, calls for allowing Aristide to continue in a titular role while a government of national unity takes over under the direction of a politically neutral prime minister.

Aristide agreed to the Caricom proposal over the weekend, but opposition leaders balked, saying they could not accept his remaining in office.

Working the phones doggedly, Powell has been frustrated in his efforts to persuade opposition leaders to accept the deal, which would be monitored and enforced by the United States, France, Canada and other nations.

In an interview Thursday with CNN, Aristide noted that he had accepted the Caricom's power-sharing arrangement but would not relinquish the presidency.

“This agreement includes the possibility to have a new government, where we share power and share responsibilities,” he said. “And I think that's fair, when we can do that with members of the opposition, from civil society.”

Asked pointedly whether he would step aside, Aristide replied: “No. We had 32 coups d'etat in our history. We will strengthen our democratic experience by moving from one elected president to another elected president, but not from one coup d'etat to another one.”

Kurzban, an immigration lawyer who works for the Aristide government, said Powell was confusing the issue by focusing on Aristide as the problem. He said former members of the Haitian Army and known human rights violators were fomenting the violence, not the president's loyalists.

“If, by this, Secretary Powell is suggesting that a democratically elected government should give up power, it's disgraceful that that should be the formal position of the United States,” Kurzban said.

Some specialists in the region's foreign

policy disagreed.

Bernard Aronson, who served as the top Latin America policy-maker under the first President Bush, said international leaders were only now coming to acknowledge Aristide's failings as a leader.

‘You have this real dilemma of how do you defend constitutional democracy when the democratic leader is part of the problem?” Aronson, who is managing partner with Aeon Investments, said earlier this week in an interview.

DEBATE from page 6 cultural war and seek the lowest common denominator.”

Edwards said gay marriage “is an issue that ought to be decided in the states. I think the federal government should honor whatever decision is made by the states.” The North Carolina senator also said he would have voted against the Defense of Marriage Act that Kerry opposed in 1996 because he disagreed with part of it. He said he was opposed to a provision that would have let the federal government ignore state-licensed marriages.

Kerry, the front-runner by far, entered the debate with 686 delegates in The Associated Press count, compared to 206 for Edwards, with 2,162 needed to clinch the nomination.The 10 states on next week’s ballot offer 1,151 delegates combined, including 236 in New York, 140 in Ohio and 370 in California, site of the debate.

Edwards told reporters in advance that the debate marked “an important opportunity for both” him and the frontrunner, but said he was in the race “for the long haul.”

Kerry hopes to lock up the nomination next Tuesday so he can devote his full energy and resources to combatting Bush.

Polls show the Massachusetts senator

well ahead in California, Ohio and New York, with Edwards within single digits in Georgia. A new poll showed Kerry ahead only narrowly in Maryland, another Super

Tuesday state.

Edwards hopes to defeat his rival in Georgia, Ohio and Minnesota, and gain a share of delegates in California and New York. His advisers argue that would be enough to let him survive to the following week, when four states in his native South hold contests.

However long the Democratic primary season lasts, Bush wasn’t waiting for it to end.

At a fund-raiser in Kentucky, he said a Democrat in the White House would bring higher taxes while opposing “every idea that gives Americans more authority and more choices and more control over our own lives.” He added that a Democratic leader would create a nation “uncertain in the face of danger,” and be less than aggressive in battling global terrorism.

The country had lost more than 2 million jobs since Bush took office, and while the economy is recovering, his stewardship is a key campaign issue.

Trade, in particular, has become a point of contention between Kerry and Edwards, both men maneuvering for the position as the stronger, more reliable defender of U.S. workers whose jobs are threatened.

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The season is young, but Sunday’s home Maryland is as critical as any.

Not only would a win mean another early season confidence boost, but it would give the Blue Devils an early lead in their quest for a first-ever ACC crown.

And after a pair of strong performances last weekend to open the season 2-0, the fourth-ranked Blue Devils will try to upset the No. 2 Terrapins (1-0) Sunday at noon. The game, which was originally scheduled for Friday night, has been postponed until Sunday due to the expected inclement weathcontest against

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against the nation’s most dominant program under the direction of former Maryland All-

American and current Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel. The Blue Devils are 2-2 alltime at home against a Terps team that has a .895 winning percentage in fourteen seasons under head coach Cindy Timchal.

Playing in the nation’s most competitive conference, the matchup will be the ACC opener for both squads. But with only three regular season ACC contests, this

game is no warm-up as a loss would severely damage the Blue Devils’ hopes of winning the conference.

However, a victory, Besides likely boosting Duke in the polls, would prove to the nation that the Blue Devils are more than just a young and talented squad.

And, if the previous two contests between Duke and Maryland are any indication, Sunday’s matchup could come down to the final minutes. When the teams last met in Durham, the Blue Devils edged the Terps 9-8.

Last season’s game in College Park went into overtime and also resulted in a 9-8 win for the home team.

Through their first two games this season, the Blue Devils have been an offensive juggernaut, scoring 32 goals during those contests.

Maryland’s defense will likely pose more of a defensive challenge for a Duke attack that is young and unaccustomed to facing a high caliber defense.

Freshman Michelle Menser has led the way for Kimel’s squad tallying seven goals.

Joining Menser, both standout sophomore Katie Chrest and senior Corinne Broesler had hat tricks in each of the season’s first two games. Chrest and 2003 second team All-

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The Florida State Seminoles might be best known for the famous “tomahawk chop” chant their fans use during football games. But the men’s basketball team has been making some noise in the ACC this season. The No. 4 Blue Devils (23-3,11-2 in the ACC) hope to pull off a sweep Sunday at 8 p.m. against the surprising Seminoles (18-10, 6-8) as the teams square off in Tallahassee for their second meeting of the year.

FSU is an ornery opponent for any ACC squad this year, winning batdes against hard-boiled opponents like North Carolina, Maryland, Wake Forest and Georgia Tech. Head coach Leonard Hamilton and his squad have also demonstrated that they are a tough team on the road, giving some serious resistance on the inhospitable home courts of Pittsburgh and Duke.

The loss to Duke was a heartbreaker for FSU fans, as a lategame three-pointer by Duke guard Chris Duhon put an upset out of the Seminoles’ reach. Senior guard Tim Pickett (16 points, 10 rebounds) was the leader of the FSU squad that night, and has been their go-to guy for most of the season, averaging 16 points and nearly five boards per game.

“He’s the leader of their team and is willing to take the big shots and put himself in a position where, when the game is on the line, he’s the kid that every coach would like to coach,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He’s been good for Florida State and he’s been good for the league.”

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With the regular season ACC title already in hand, the women’s basketball team (22-3, 13-1 in th ACC) will look to celebrate the occasion with a

league victory on Senior Night against Clemson, as Alana Beard, Vicki Krapohl and kiss Tillis will be playing in the final regular season home game of their college careers.

The Blue Devils clinched their fourth-consecutive conference title with a 13-point win at Maryland Sunday afternoon. That win means their performance Friday will have no bearing on the conference standings. Despite this, assistant coach Georgia Schweitzer does not believe Duke will put forth a lackluster effort against the Lady Tigers (17-8, 6-7).

‘We already know we have it wrapped up,” the third-year assistant coach and former Duke AllAmerican said. With it being Senior Night, I think we are really going to have a lot of emotion.

And also, [the chance of] finishing another conference season undefeated on our home floor will get us going.”

Clemson is coming off a dominating victory at Wake Forest, as the Tigers were led by center Khaili Sanders’ 12 points and 12 rebounds for the visiting team.

The Lady Tigers depend on versatile forward Lakeia Stokes for the bulk of their offense. The star is averaging 16.9 points and 7.2 rebounds a game for the season. She also added an 18-point

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“She’s a versatile player who can score in different ways,” Schweitzer said. “They post her up, she can shoot the three, and she can take you off the dribble to the basket.”

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Duke rally thwarts No. 5 YCU From staff reports The No. 15 men’s tennis team ousted No. 5 Virginia Commonwealth in a pivotal non-conference early-season matchup for the Blue Devils Thursday afternoon.

After dropping the doubles point 2-1, head coach Jay Lapidus’ squad continued to fall back to the Rams, as junior Jason Zimmerman suffered a 63, 6-3 setback at third singles, and Stephen Armitraj retired late in the second set after trailing 7-5, 5-0.

But Duke found success in pairs, as the Blue Devils’ won on the first, second, fourth and fifth courts to storm back to down VCU (11-1) and hand the Rams their first loss of the season.

Sophomore Jonathan Stokke won the decisive match at No. 5 singles by holding off Serge Arumi 6-2, 7-5 to clinch the comeback victory.

Peter Rodrigues and ninthranked Ludovic Walter also won in straight sets for Duke, respectively. The lone three-set victory of the match came at No. 1, however, as three-time Duke AllAmerican Phillip King emulated his team’s win by retaliating from an early deficit to down his VCU foe. After dropping the opening set 6-3, King captured the remaining sets 6-4, 6-2.

The win put an end to a three-game skid for the Blue Devils, who struggled to pull out close matches last weekend when they were knocked off by Tennessee and No. 7 Florida, 43. Prior to that, No. 1 Illinois won close matches on the singles courts to down Duke 6-1.

Regradless, the Blue Devils’ win over VCU affirms that they remain a legitimate NCAA title contender despite their string of losses.

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keep zone, Valpo at bay The Valparaiso men’s basketball team arrived in Durham known for its accurate set shooting. Meanwhile, Duke has built the best basketball program in the country largely due to its slashing and driving within its motion offense. Logically, the Crusaders tried to force the Blue Devils into becoming a set-shooting team, and Duke attempted to force Valparaiso into a slashing and driving team.

Both strategies worked. The Blue Devils adapted.

The Crusaders did not.

Faced with Valparaiso’s loose zone, Duke actually seemed liberated against the foreign defense. The Blue Devils nailed 10 of their 16 three-point attempts in the first half, with nearly every player getting in on the binge of trifectas which led to a insurmountable 53-29 halftime lead.

While JJ. Redick and Daniel Ewing surprised few by knocking down five of their six attempts from long range, Nick Horvath, Shelden Williams and Shavlik Randolph, who all stand at least 6-foot-9, actually combined for a more accurate percentage by popping in six of their seven first-half attempts.

“People that don’t statistically shoot well from the three-point line, they all hit,” Valparaiso head coach Homer Drew said. ‘Two or three started to hit on us, and Sheiden Williams scored his usual inside points Thursday night, but he also nailed a three-pointer as did most of theBlue Devils. then everybody started to hit. It just mushroomed on us.

We were more concerned with the quickness on penetration. We were more focused on that, and the three-point same system regardless of the defense. It’s not like were shooting attack, as the Crusaders shot only three-for-11 shooting really hurt us.” running a totally different thing. There’s maybe a couple behind the three-point line.

“It’s not so much the pressure they give me, but the Coming into the game, Drew knew he would have to different reads, but a lot of the plays and a lot of the way pick his poison with the Blue Devils, and he chose to hope we play is similar [against the zone].” pressure they give to all of the guys,” Berdiel said. “It’s Duke had an off-night from behind the arc. Drew’s relucThe Crusaders also had few answers to Duke’s pressure hard for me to pass to the other guys when the pressure on tance to adapt ended his team’s chance at even a moral man-to-man defense. Blessed with a 6-foot-6 frame and them is the same as on me.”

Duke did not slow down in the second half, constandy victory, as Duke owned a 20-point lead before 10 minutes agility of a player six inches shorter than him, Valparaiso were played. point guard Ali Berdiel came into the game 14th in the adapting its plays against all types of defenses as it gears up It is a credit to the Duke coaching staff that the Blue nation in assists while also scoring at a 11.5 point per game for the NCAA tournament.

Devils so eflfordessly adjusted a defense it does not often see. clip. But harassed by Chris Duhon, Sean Dockery and “During February we try to make adjustments that we “We do practice against zone,” Horvath said. “We Ewing, the Puerto Rico native was unable to control the think will be beneficial to us during March,” Duke head watch tape of zone offenses. When we’re going to play tempo of the game, forcing his team to play the driving coach Mike Krzyzewski said. ‘There's a reason to do it, and against a team that runs zone, we’ll practice it more in the and slashing game for which the Blue Devils are known. as a result of what we're doing, I think we’re getting a little deeper, getting accustomed to one another.” practices leading up to that game, but really we run the This disabled Valparaiso from setting up their vaunted set-

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VALPO from The Chronicle page 1 the capacity crowd into a frenzy. A little over a minute later, Ewing capped the run with another three-point basket.

When the smoke cleared, Duke had claimed a 39-13 lead, triple that of their opponents.

“I had some really good, wide-open looks,” said Ewing, who finished the game with twenty points to lead all scorers. “We attacked them with the right mindset and we had a good outcome.”

Many of the Blue Devils’ open looks came thanks to Valparaiso’s zone defense, which Duke shredded early with its hot perimeter shooting.

‘They were playing the zone and hoping we would miss shots, and we Just had a great night shooting,” said Deng, who finished with 18 points and eight rebounds.

“I think Shav and Shelden both had threes, and when that happens, I step to the line with confidence,” Deng added,

laughing.

Krzyzewski was obviously pleased with his team’s all-out effort during the entire game, an effort which generated 16 Valpo turnovers, 11 blocked shots, and 17 team assists.

“I'm really pleased with the effort of our team. I thought we handled things as a mature basketball team tonight,” Krzyzewski said. “We certainly respect Valpo. They're extremely well coached.

Homer's kids —they're a real good basketball team right now. I would think that they've got a great shot at winning their conference and being an NCAA team.... I thought we played very good defensively against them, and we were ready to play.

We handled it properly and we played well and we won. We got double figure

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The victory allows Krzyzewski to focus on his team’s upcoming game against Florida State, where the Blue Devils have been upset the past two years. Nonetheless, Duke, which has won two games by a com-

bined 57 points after consecutive ACC losses, is confident about their chances.

“We have a little momentum; we’ve played well the last few games, and we just want to keep it going,” Deng said. “We’re confident; we’re not nervous or scared to go down there. We feel that we can win.”

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Duke and FSU are both coming off different games, but each team will likely display matching intensity in a game that is perhaps crucial to Duke’s hopes of earning a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament and essential to the Seminoles’ aspirations to any NCAA bid at all. The Blue Devils showed their intensity, athleticism and long-range shooting capabilities in Thursday night’s lopsided drubbing of Valparaiso, where Duke had four players score in double figures and seven players make at least one three-ball.

On the other end of the spectrum is FSU’s 90-87 overtime loss at Wake Forest Wednesday. Pickett logged 23 points, but he and the rest of the Seminoles went cold in the second half, and Wake was able to overcome a 15-point deficit with only twelve minutes left to play.

The Seminoles have not been a power in ACC basketball in the past, but for the past two years they have been thorns in the side of the Blue Devils, handing Krzyzewski and his squad a loss during Duke’s last two trips to Tallahassee. “[FSU] isn’t a difficult place to play, but unfortunately, the past couple of years, we haven’t played the best basketball down there,” junior guard Daniel Ewing said. “But give them credit: they played well

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Daniel Ewing will once again be charged with guarding FSU'sTim Pickett Sunday.

American Meghan Miller, were named to the 2004 Tewaarton Trophy watch list.

Freshman Kristin Waagbo has been putting her teammates in position to score with precise passing.

The Ellicott City, Md., native has assisted on six Blue Devil goals and has scored three of her own.

The Terps have a more experienced offensive core including midfielder Kelly Coppedge. The senior, who is among the pair of Maryland standouts named Wednesday to the Tewaaraton Trophy watch list, paced her team with three goals in die season

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against us. We haven’t played our best basketball the previous two years down in Tallahassee.”

Ewing will have his hands full, as he will likely be tasked with guarding Pickett, the only true scorer in the Seminole lineup. The next-best scorers on the squad are senior point guard Nate Johnson and junior forward Anthony Richardson, who average 9.4 and 8.2 points per game, respectively. Junior forward Adam Waleskowski and sophomore guard and deep-threat Todd Galloway round out the starting lineup.

Regardless, if FSU cannot find away to stop the treys from piling up, Duke and its bevy of long-distance shooters will have the upper hand.

Nor are the Seminoles particularly dominant in the post, as Waleskowski is the team’s leading rebounder, averaging only 5.1 per game. By contrast, Blue Devil center Shelden Wiliams averages 8.3 per game, and swingman Luol Deng is logging 6.7. With these two players cleaning the glass and a backcourt that frequently pulls down more than a few boards, Duke should have the advantage in the paint.

Nevertheless, Duke is a team twice bitten and doubly shy headed down to Tallahassee.

“Florida State has a talented team, they’ve played really well, and they’re going to come after us,” Ewing said. “I’m pretty sure they are prepared for this game, and we have to be prepared for what they’re going to try to do.” opener. Freshman attack Jessica Domey also added a hat trick in her first career game.

Maryland also got off to a hot start offensively in its 16-6 season-opening victory over Richmond. The Terps jumped on the Spiders early, scoring seven of the first eight goals.

The early stages of Sunday’s contest could be a perilous time for Duke. The Blue Devils started slowly during their home opener against Northwestern and trailed the Wildcats by three at the beginning of last Sunday’s contest. Only after a timeout did the Blue Devils begin to run their sets effectively. Consequently, the high-octane Maryland attack could punish Duke if it fails to play strong from the start.

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SENIORS from page 11 a 15-0 run and never looked back. Beard led the team with a game-high 26 points. Beard and the other two honorees of senior night have helped Duke tally some impressive numbers over the past four years. With these players, the Blue Devils have gone 118-13, with a 58-4 record in ACC tilts. They have also been a part of two Final Four appearances.

Friday night’s contest is anything but a meaningless end of the season game to this trio. The game represents their last time to shine in front of the Cameron crowd in a regular season match up.

“I am going to miss playing in this atmosphere,” Tillis said. “When I come back to visit Duke years from now, and I come to watch other teams play, I’ll remember playing in this gym. I'll remember what it is like.”

Beard sees Senior Night as Just another game.

However, the All-American guard truly understands how the program has evolved from her days as a freshman to today.

“It has been great to see this program grow,” Beard said. “When I came in there would be empty seats all over the place. It wasn't frustrating because I played because I love the game, but I remember our first sellout crowd my freshman year December 27th when we played lowa State and that was the best feeling ever.”

Head coach Gail Goestenkors will have her hands full next year without the trio.

“I think they have set the standard for all of the other classes that is who we are at Duke women's basketball,” Goestenkors said. “We will play hard, we will play smart, we will play with class, play with integrity and we will win.”

Beard has earned many honors throughout her career. The senior night hoopla, along with all of the other awards she has received, still has not skewed the bigger picture for Beard.

“All of those awards, all of those accolades, they mean nothing if youdon't have a national championship,” she said.

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Student Symposium: 4-s:3opm. “Meat, Photography, Modernity,” Department of Art & Art History Graduate Student Symposium. 204 B East Duke Building. Contact lbst@duke.edu, 684-2224, Dept, of Art & Art History.

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Global Trade, Local Environments: 9:30-4pm. Student International Discussion Group and the Carolina and Duke Consortium Working Group on the Environment in Latin America. Reception immediately to follow. Levine Science Research Center (LSRC), Love Auditorium (B101). For more information and to reserve lunch, conor Marion (cc67@duke.edu) Cheryl tact (jma22@duke.edu) RSVP only to reserve lunch that is

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Black History Keynote Speaker: 7pm. Civil rights activist and poet Nikki Giovanni. Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center. All members of the community are invited to this exciting event. Questions, contact Wintta Woldemariam (wmws@duke.edu) or Rasul Miller (rhm@duke.edu).

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Shabbat: Services at 6, dinner at 7. FCJL.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Senior Havdalah Wine Tasting: Havdalah at 7, Free Wine at 8. FCJL, ID required.

Musical Gala: 7pm. Eno River Unitarian Universalist

Catholic Mass: 9pm. Main Chapel.

Social Programming and Meetings FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27

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.

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

The Pitchforks' Spring Jambo: 7:3opm. Page Auditorium. Come see The Pitchforks’ biggest show of the

Student Recital: 4pm. Anne Butler, soprano. Free event. Nelson Music Room.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 29

Opening Reception: until 4pm. The Migration Transitions Project: Photonarratives with Latina Immigrant Women. CDS, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, off east campus. Contact; 919-660-3663.

Music Faculty Recital: 4pm. RANDALL LOVE, fortepiano. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Bldg. Contact Dept, of Music, 919-660-3300, duke-music@duke.edu.

Free.

Movie: Bpm. Something's Gotta Give. Griffith Film Theater. Movie presented by Duke University Union's Quadflix. Duke students $l, employees $2, general public $3.

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or third party candidate no matter what Bush does. It is more reasonable to assume that Bush is reacting to a ruling by the highest

issue of same-sex marriages is a contentious one for many Americans, regardless of which viewpoint they advocate. There are persuasive argu- court in Massachusetts,. which ments for and against same-sex ruled bans on gay marriage violatunions, appealing to legal, ethical, ed gay rights, and the issuance of economical and religious ideals, marriage licenses to gay couple in San Fransisco, CaliHowever, regardless C ACE critadiai STAFF EDITORIAL fornia. Both of one's opinions of on same-sex unions, a Constitu- these rulings stand in opposition tional amendment is not the cor- to the 1996 Defense of Marriage rect vehicle for coming to a con- Act, passed overwhelmingly by both Houses of Congress and sensus in the debate.

A Constitutional amendment is signed by President Clinton, a bold step, and one which is diffi- which defined marriage in legal cult to ratify. A Constitutional ban terms as a union between one for gay marriage would need to man and one woman. A Constitufirst pass through the House of tional amendment is Bush’s atRepresentatives and the Senate, tempt at setting a universal stanwith a two-thirds majority in each, dard for the country, While Bush has the right to set before being passed to the individual states for a vote, in which 38 of his opinion before the nation, and the 50 states would be required to to support legislation in line with vote in favor. Since the writing of his political ideals, his call for an the Constitution, the document amendment goes too far. The right has been amended only 17 times, to allow gay marriage is an issue the majority of which, excepting that should be left up to individual Prohibition,which was eventually states, and one state is not obligatrepealed, expanded people’s rights ed to recognize a union legitimized by another state. When possible rather than limiting them.

Bush’s support for such an the Constitution should be amendamendment has been lauded by ed for the expansion and protecconservatives, and heavily criti- tion of the rights of Americans, cized by many gay rights groups Banning same-sex marriages may and liberals. Some critics call the protect the institution of marriage move a blatant appeal to Bush’s in a traditional sense, but it releconservative base during an elec- gates a segment of the population tion year. This is a flawed argu- to second-class status in another ment however, when one consid- sense. Furthermore, the decisions ers that a ban on same-sex of “activist” judges in individual marriage is most welcomed by states should be dealt with in the steadfast conservatives—voters state courts of appeals, rather than unlikely to vote for a Democratic directly by Bush.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Class of 2004 picture today near Chapel Seniors—remember our first Friday at Duke University?

The now dreaded PLAYFAIR seemed harmless. My roommate and I followed the crowd and joined the rest of Alspaugh on the quad.

Had I not quickly been traumatized and met Mark Pike, I would have marched back to my fan-filled sauna I called home. Instead, I found myself in a long line, stopping only when I was stationed in the upper right corner of the tail of an enormous number two. Holding onto some gadget that hung around my neck, I looked up toward the roof of the Marketplace, that miraculous haven for Golden Grahams, weekend memory-triggering music and my all too frequently empty mailbox.

The 2004 photo reminds me of how quickly the last four years have passed, how much I have grown, reverted and grown again, that I made the right choice in choosing a school that is a true university community, and that our class will live in our own

sort of infamy.

This Friday, we can do it again, and this time well have the freedom to do it our way!

At 3:00 p.m. today, we have the opportunity to use the scaffolding set in front of the Chapel to take a giant senior class picture.

Please Come.

Let the Chick-Fil-A coupon, the opportunity to send a picture home, the time to see a ton of seniors, the ever exciting excuse to dress in costume, or my plead that we use this semester to show some senior love be your motivation.

My smile this afternoon will be more assured, a little wiser, backed by the memories of wicked crazy times and spurred by reflection, not by nervous anticipation. How about yours? I wont show up this afternoon simply to follow the crowd as I did on our first Friday at Duke, but I will show up today, and I hope that you will too!

Devon

MacWilliam, Trinity ’O4

Equal treatment for Chanticleer I was always suspicious of the Chanticleer.

It’s another one of those “free” things we get all the time at Duke like t-shirts but is really covered by our parents who pay the activity fee which funds the Student Organization Finance Committee.

Except this free thing costs $126,000 a year and takes up nearly a quarter of the funds SOFC appropriates.

Once that money is out of our hands we trust DSC to democratically allot it among the various student organizations who must petiton for funds through SOFC by writing proposals and speaking before a comittee.

The Chanticleer recieves 100 percent of its funding from SOFC unlike any other student organization.

As the Duke yearbook, which will hold a place on our shelves as an important memento of our time here, the Chanticleer should also be held accountable for the product it makes, which could mean asking it to raise some of its own money by charging a fee to students and recieving feedback through sales.

Joel Sholtes

Trinity ’O4

Annual Review good for fraternities Eddie Hull’s decision to suspend the nnual review process for the Spring semester will be damaging for the residential living groups on campus. Efforts have been made to streamline the process, and the recent resolutions passed by Campus Council over the last few semesters with respect to the process have improved the situation.

While there might be positive reactions for the short term, the long term effects will not produce any benefits. Yes, the seniors will not have to hear the same presentation from the Healthy Devil for the fourth year in a row and it will reduce the pressure to schedule events lacking great interest, but residential living groups will no longer be assured of an objective method for evaluating their contributions on campus.

Hull’s refusal to explain his decision can only be viewed as a gross violation of our rights as students to be informed about poli-

cies that affect our daily lives. The speculation that the decision was related to the citizenship category of annual review is also

troubling.

Without annual review, “citizenship” is now the only way in which living groups can be evaluated. It seems that damage reports and noise complaints will be the only information that RLHS will have at its disposable to make future housing placement decisions.

As a member of an on-campus fraternity, I am deeply concerned that the loss of annual review will cause living groups to be subjectively evaluated based upon a few negative incidents, which often involve only one person, rather than on the numerous positive contributions that each living group, as a whole, makes to the campus community.

Kyle McCarter Pratt ‘O5

Groups still need to live up to standards Though the decision to can the Annual Review is immediately troubling for all parties involved (i.e. resident Undergrads), the larger picture of Selective Living Group-related events is far more worrisome.

Over the past year we’ve seen complaints about the number of beds available to independent upperclassmen and vows to repair the situation. We’ve seen a moratorium on new housing for Selective Living Groups, and now after many many hours of work on the part of Campus Council, the termination of annual review, the main chance for Selective Living Groups to justify their existence to the University at large —a decision made without any notice or public justification.

And so I issue this warning to all Selective Living Groups as they carry out their business for the next year: Even with Annual Review abolished indefinitely, the onus is on you to make a case for your existence. The University wants beds that you have, and to keep them, you must show yourselves better stewards than the alternative.

To the relevant administrators, I issue a request. Please tell us what’s going on. If the pieces falling into place are part of any larger puzzle, announce to the undergrads what the finished work is going to look like.

Carver Moore Pratt ’O6

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Checks and Balances up your sleeves, ladies and that to explicitly infuse religious argugentlemen, it looks like we’re ments would be to open it up to the inheaded for another heated stitution’s history of contradictions.

Human history is replete with cultures wedge-issue election season.

President Bush’s official backing of that have exercised polygamy (just look at the Old Testament), as in much of the Federal Marriage Amendment TuesAfrica and the Muslim world. The instito divert attention from day threatens his administratution has also been used for child marissues regarding major tion’s leadership and policies, and turn riages, forced marriages,and arranged marriages. The point is this campaign into a danthat marriage’s religious irrationally and gerously and historical contexts “moralistic” one. In the do not line up neatly coming months, we will with the current acceptbe treated to passionate ed definition of marappeals to the sanctity of riage—a legally-bound, a “fundamental instituvoluntary, monogamous tion,” and the need for “moral clarity.” relationship.

Put another way, marMr. Bush’s emotive enJared Fish riage is fundamentally a dorsement of FMA is disNew Sanity legal institution, not a turbing for two major muddles religious one. Outside reasons. First, it of one’s religious faith, the clear Constitutional marriage is not about God, it is about separation of Church and State, infusing the Christian right’s religious defini- what the government permits. And it is tion of marriage with the legal one that an institution that is bound by the same constitutional principle of sepaultimately defines the institution. Equally dangerous is Mr. Bush’s attempt to ration of Church and State. Bush is paint the issue as one of “activist judges” hoping to avoid acknowledging this distinction by allowing his statements’ unwilling to yield to popular will, inreligious appeals (red meat to the stead of a referendum on another historical step towards achieving equal Evangelical Christian right) to speak rights for all Americans. Mr. Bush must for themselves, never explicitly stating have slept through his Gov 101 class at that the impetus behind the AmendYale, or he would know that it is the ment is religious, which would open courts’ job to uphold the Constitution’s the matter to a Church and State legal inalienable rights for all Americans, not debate. cede to popular will.

Putting the shallow religious arguNotable in Bush’s special address ment aside, then, an examination of the proposed same-sex marriage ban clearly Tuesday is the ringing silence of any reference to religion. Note Bush’s careful reveals that not affording gays and lesbians the legal right to marriage is tanterminology—marriage is a “fundamental” institution rather than a “sacred” tamount to precluding anv other minorone. Leaving religion out was a smart ity equal civil rights. A Constitutional starkly remove, since the administration knows amendment would thus be a

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gressive political and social route for the 21st century, after 100 years of major civil rights advancements for women, African Americans, and minorities in general.

This clarification should explain why there exists an uproar over a ban on same-sex marriage, when civil unions are an acceptable alternative to many Americans. The Christian right no doubt hopes that most Americans who favor equal rights for gays and lesbians on principle, will not put up a fight over gay marriage because civil unions seem a more practical alternative. The danger with complacency by the latter group is that marriage is a legal institution, and as the FMA indicates in its call to deny same-sex couples not only marriage, but its “legal incidents,” a Constitutional ban on same-sex marriage would effectively roll back gays’ and lesbians’ recent gains in equal rights. Considering the legal nature of marriage, the FMA’s legal addendum is even redundant.

Thus, in a legal sense, the distinction between marriage and civil unions is ultimately semantic.

With that said, if this debate is to be a rational one, absent the emotional tactics so prevalent with traditional wedge issues like abortion and gun control, it must be placed in a legal and historical context. Bush’s condemnation of “activist judges” suggests that the judicial branch represents the will of the people—it does not. Mr. Bush seems to forget that he would not be president today if the Supreme Court had sided with the people’s will four years ago. In fact, the courts’ greatest decisions have come at a time when that came out of Brown v. Board oj Lducation was not a popular one, but it was

crucial to the advancement of African Americans’ civil rights.

Further, Mr. Bush’s censure of the Massachusetts and California courts as “activist” is hypocritical, considering his administration’s active use of executive power and the court system itself to advance its own ideological agenda. The most blatant examples of this have come in the last month, when Mr. Bush used his power of recess appointments to seat Charles Pickering and William Pryor, Jr. to the federal court system.

Both have flagrantly displayed their contempt for equal rights and protections in the past, with Pryor even advocating dropping parts of the Voting Rights Act. Similarly, Mr. Bush has issued a flurry of executive orders not representing the people’s will. One seals presidential records, effectively nullifying the 1978 law requiring presidents to open their records after leaving office. Another opens up the Tongass National Forest to commercial logging, defying the roadless ban in place. None of these executive acts represent the will of the people, nor do they respect the ostensibly sacrosanct states’ rights and federalism Mr. Bush claims to defend.

Mr. Bush’s argument for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is not only hypocritical in invoking popular will, it diverts attention from the real issue of equal rights under the law for all. The administration’s push for FMA must be seen for what it is: An ideological tactic that threatens to turn back the clock on the advancement of civil rights in the world’s freest nation. umn

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No Yelling on the Bus realize that there are some very important issues I could use this bi-weekly space to discuss. I could write about the rejuvenation of the “effortless perfection” issue around campus (getting kind of old). I could offer my views on gay marriage, currently a big issue in the White House and around the country (what does Bush care about gays marrying when he has Laura, that vixen). But maybe more serious topics should be left to more serious people who actually w have some idea what they’re talking about. And no one reads those articles anyway.

So: it’s 10:30 on a Friday morning.

You’re hung over. You’re wearing the same underwear you wore last night.

You woke up 20 minutes ago, thought Denise it was Saturday, went back to sleep, and then realized, 3 minutes ago, that Rock you like not only is it Friday but if you miss another French class Madame L’lownYourAss is going to fail you. You smell like the bathroom at Bully’s and look like you must have spent the night there. You nearly did. Or anyway, that’s what they told you. Even worse, you realize after you accidentally put your jeans on backwards when you got that you’re still drunk. And now you have to take up the bus to East.

East-West buses in this state are not fun. In fact they are awful. If you can somehow maneuver your way to the front of the line and get a seat, you run the risk that Robbie from your freshman year seminar, to whom you may or may not have confided your undying love for the X-Files and Fox Mulder last night at the bar, will sit next to you and start in with those sideways, Wow-are-you-a-mess glances. You also stand a chance that the only seat left on the bus will be next to the weird girl in your linguistics class with two tongue

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beers in 30 minutes which is totally 76 percent faster than you’re supposed to, man! And since I have that liver condition, you know, I was like so wasted! It was awesome!

Why is it that people think it’s okay to talk about very private, secret thing on buses full of nosy columnists like myself? To the blonde girl whose boyfriend, last week, told her she would be more attractive if she got with her roommate from time to time: I can hear you. To the kid talking on the phone to his mother about getting more urinary-tract infection medication sent down to Duke: that is gross. And to the kid speaking another language to avoid my overhearing your conversation; I appreciate the gesture, but don’t make those motions with your hands. I figured it out, and that is just disgusting.

At the start of freshman year, I remember I used to think riding the bus back and forth was a great way to make friends. You could just sit down next to someone and start talking, and if they sucked, well, you’d be off the bus in 5 minutes.

Now, riding the bus has become one of my least favorite college experiences, right up there with Calculus 41 (made me cry) and having to use the Delta Sig section bathrooms on Saturday mornings (gross).

Let’s not make this experience any worse than it is, people. If it is before 11 a.m., speak quietly. If you’re about to tell your friend about this really weird smell that all of the sudden filled the room last night and how you finally realized what it was... don t speak at (wasted, man! Yeah!), asorganic chemistry class, upcoming test dates, a re- all. And if you got drunk else cares. think we can all have a more I one sume no counting of what took place at the last SAFLA Stuthat way. Or anyway bus experience riding or are pleasurable dents Against Fragrant Lemur Abuse’ meeting, will.

I spoken in another language.

Have a great Friday.

Another hot topic for nerdy people to shout to one another across a crowded bus at 10 o clock in the Denise Napoli is a Trinity sophomore. Her column apmorning is how crazy drunk they were last night, drank like 3 every otherFriday. pears of, Man, lines I something along the

rings who, you’re almost positive, has a crush on you, and if you don’t sit next to her you’re going to look like a big jerk.

You look like even more of a jerk ifyou don’t at least say hi to these people, but this begins an awkward, terrible cycle of awkward, terrible conversation that neither one of you has the power to stop. You say hi. Crazy Tongue Ring girl says hi, what’s up. You say nothing, just going to class. Robbie (who you definitely saw at Shooters last night, you’re having flashbacks left and right of him trying to dance with you and you feigning sickness) asks what class you’re going to. French, you say, or history or calculus or whatever it is. You can’t concentrate because you realize you forgot a pen and now you’re going to have to ask someone in class for one, which means that at least two more a hurricane strained interchanges are going to have to take place this morning, one when you ask to borrow the pen and one when you return it. What history class are you in? asks Crazy Tongue Ring Girl, even though none ofyou really care at all, and by now you’re pretty sure this is the all-time worst day of your life.

Overheard bus conversations have the potential to be even more annoying. For some reason, the nerdiest conversations are always the loudest, longest, most involved, and taking place right next to you. They always include elements from the following topics; tenting,

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