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According to the position’s official job description, a residence coordinator is responsible for supervising resident advisors, graduate assistants and between 400 and 800 students in a residential quadrangle. But, in practice, what does that actually mean? As part of the fledgling 20-month-old Office of Residence Life and Housing Services, residence coordinators have not yet had their job defined beyond its formal description. Residence Life and Housing Services Director Eddie Hull said the RCs’ chief duty is to elevate the academic climate outside the classroom and to make residence hall rooms more than just an address and a place for be-

longings.

‘The RCs have a responsibility to challenge the way things have been,” Hull said. “It’s not about the place, but about the people.” Even though all the RCs share the same main responsibilities, there is significant autonomy in terms of how each RC chooses to perform his or her daily tasks, said Edens Quadrangle RC David Montag, who was among the first batch of RCs in July 2002. Montag added that there is a degree of discretion when dealing with students who violate the University’s standards. But he said he does not see the RCs’ role as policing students. ‘To the extent that they are seen as someone with a badge is unfortunate and SEE RCS ON PAGE 10

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A screening of"Welcome to Durham" was followed by a panel of Duke and Durham leaders Monday.

Film, panel detail gang violence in Durham by

Will Rosenthal THE CHRONICLE

The film “Welcome to Durham” opens with familiar images of Duke basketball, but the rest of the film shows a side of Durham that most students probably never see: the lives of local gang members. The one-hour documentary, which Durham natives Cicero Leak and Courtney Conrad produced with a meager $3,000 budget, had its second showing Monday night at Griffith Film Theater. More than a thousand people viewed the film between two screenings—one

for local residents and one for Duke students—and many stayed for a panel discussion featuring local leaders that followed. In a frank look at gang violence in Durham, the film features confessions of local gang members as young as 12, who proudly display their guns, drugs, gang signs and bullet wounds. These adolescents have joined local gangs in Durham such as Life on Barnes, known as L.0.8., as well as others with ties to the Bloods and the Crips.

Less than 36 hours after a student was reportedly raped on West Campus by an unknown assailant, another forcible sexual assault was reportedly committed by a Central Campus intruder early Sunday morning. Police consider the assaults to be unrelated at this time. The first incident involved a 21-yearold woman who was returning home from a party Friday night at around 10:15 p.m. A man ambushed her from behind and reportedly raped her in the wooded area between Edens Quadrangle and Wannamaker Drive. The woman returned home after the incident and was taken to the Duke University Medical Center and released. Duke University Police Department ChiefClarence Birkhead said he had no information about the suspect’s idendty other than the fact that he is male, but officers were “doing some knock and talk” around the area of the reported rape to accumulate information about the incident. The second incident occurred at about 6 a.m. Sunday morning. According to a police report, a man entered an unlocked Central Campus apartment at 1913 Erwin Rd. that was occupied by three women. As one woman described the incident, she was asleep inside her bedroom when she heard her door open and saw a man standing in her doorway. The man immediately fled, taking with him another woman’s Canon SDIOO Power Shot Digital Camera, serial number 7023521104.

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Duke minority programs remain unchanged ft£made couple By Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE

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the first in her family attend college, but Norton doesn’t intend to stop her studies there. Instead, the political science and African American studies major plans to earn a doctorate in political science, crediting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship as a key factor in her decision to pursue a post-graduate degree. “Being a Mellon fellow has opened a world ofresearch and academia to me,” Norton said. “I probably would have had the opportunity [to pursue an additional

degree without the fellowship], but I wouldn’t have known about it or had the advantages [of research and mentorship] in general.” The MMUF, which aims to increase the presence of underrepresented minorities in academia, is one of several other national programs, however, that have recently decided to expand their eligibility criteria to allow students ofall ethnicities to apply. In light of last June’s U.S. Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action at the University of Michigan and pressure from lobbying groups, several top universities—including Harvard Univer-

sity, Princeton University and Yale University—have decided to alter their programs that aim to increase or support minority students by opening them up to all qualified students. Duke, however, stands by its programs, holding that its endeavors promoting underrepresented groups in specific fields or academia are in line with current

legislation.

“We’ve done a very careful review of the [Michigan] decisions and our programs. We made a couple of adjustments where we felt we were out of compliance with the rulings, but beyond that

we’re pretty comfortable,” said Provost Peter Lange, noting the existence of a “gray area” for higher education on these issues. “[We] are satisfied that Duke’s programs are appropriately structured to provide opportunities for members of groups that have historically been disadvantaged, without disadvantaging others who do not participate,” added President Nan Keohane in an e-mail. Many of the nationally-based programs with chapters at Duke have already changed their requirements, but other programs, SEE PROGRAMS ON PAGE 7

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Hamas leader's death raises ire by Greg Myre NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

In killing the JERUSALEM Hamas spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Israel is wagering that it has so weakened his Palestinian faction that it cannot retaliate with the wave of revenge attacks it has threatened. After nearly two years of systematic Israeli raids against Hamas and other violent Palestinian groups, suicide bombings fell to 20 last year, down from 54 a year earlier. Overall, Israeli deaths fell by half in 2003 compared to 2002. But the deadly helicopter strike outside a Gaza City mosque generated such rage among Palestinians Monday

that many here fear Israel could face a surge of retaliatory strikes. The question, then, is which will prove more important, the leader who was slain or the following he inspired. “Hamas has the same overall capability to deliver attacks that it had yesterday,” said Boaz Ganor, head of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel. “And now it has tremendous motivation.” But in the longer term, Ganor said, the group will be hurt by the absence of Yassin. “The person that set their strategic policy, the person that incited them and was leading the way, is gone and is

perhaps irreplaceable,” he said. “I don’t see any figure in Hamas that will have Sheik Yassin’s level of influence.” Yassin was absolutist in his views. “I believe completely that Israel will vanish, and that we Palestinians will recover the lands and homes that were stolen from us in 1948,” Yassin said in an interview with The New York Times shortly before the current Palestinian uprising began in September 2000. Yassin, who spoke in a high-pitched rasp that was barely audible, became a quadriplegic at age 12. Aside from daily wheelchair trips to the neighborhood SEE HAMAS ON PAGE 10

Clarke questions Bush policy in book by

Todd Purdum

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON It could be the accusation of the angriest Bush critic: that President George W. Bush failed to adequately grasp the threat of al-Qaeda in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, then followed up with “an unnecessary and costly war in Iraq that strengthened the fundamentalist, radical Islamic terrorist movement worldwide.” But that is the stinging indictment of Bush’s own former top counter-terrorism adviser, Richard Clarke, published in a new memoir this week. The book undercuts Bush on the issue that he has made the unapologetic centerpiece of his administration and a

linchpin of his re-election campaign: his handling of the

global war on terror. For more than a year, Bush has portrayed the invasion of Iraq as a critical battle in that war, and despite some significant setbacks and stiff international and domestic criticism, he has so far won broad political support for his position. Clarke agrees that Iraq and terrorism are linked in the president’s mind, but in away that he contends runs counter to the facts. “In the end, what was unique about George W. Bush’s reaction to terrorism was his selection as an object lesson for

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Pakistani forces discovered a mile-long tunnel leading from a besieged fortress to a dry stream bed, and Pakistani officials said Monday the secret passage may have allowed top al-Qaeda suspects to escape toward the Afghan frontier.

Gradual mercury waste reduction planned The Bush administration is leaning toward stretching out plans for reducing mercury pollution from power plants until 2018 due to a lack of essential technology.

NASA recognizes problematic tall rudder Some of the nation's space shuttles may have flown for 25 years with a potentially fatal problem in the rudders of their tail sections, a NASA official said Monday.

Taiwanese President agrees to recount President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan agreed Tuesday to a recount of his disputed victory in the presidential elections on Saturday, giving in to pressure from demonstrations and the U.S.

Youth more supportive of gay marriage While polls show the majority of Americans oppose legalizing gay marriage, people under 30 are much more evenly split than older generations.

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Entering Duke Student Government executive elections on three strikingly different platforms, freshmen Anthony Collins and Joel Kliksberg and junior Kirstin Hopkins are vying this year for the position ofDSG vice president for community interaction. The current holder of that office, junior Andrew Wisnewski, said he supported all three. “They’re all qualified—they all have energy, enthusiasm and scope,” he said. “All three have experience—Joel with [lnter-Community Council], Kirstin is on DSG and Anthony is on DSG on my committee.” Collins, a University Scholar from Dallas, said he would like to redefine the term “community” by forging greater ties with Durham, citing a strong social conscience as his distinguishing characteristic. A freshman senator for DSC and member of the Honor Council, Project CHILD and Durham CAN, Collins also pointed to his youth as an unexpected asset. “I’m still young and possibly idealistic about certain things,” Collins said. “I’m glad about that, because I don’t know if I could deal with many more years of inefficiency in DSC.” Other goals include increasing multiculturalism and reducing self-segregation through face-to-face meetings rather than dead-end dialogue—an effort to, as he puns it, make Duke a “tighter” campus. “Basically, I think... there’s a lot of complaining that goes on, debate about [how to solve] multiculturalism, self-segregation,” he said. “But I don’t think that dialogue is going to get us anywhere.... We have to actually hammer something out.” Hopkins, the lone upperclassman on the ballot, pointed to her experience on DSC as her greatest advantage over the other candidates. Along with bringing some of Wisnewski’s unaccomplished goals to fruition, Hopkins—a member of DSC since sophomore year and currently the organization’s director of public relations —hopes to enhance the committee’s

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visory Counselor program and the 2005 Commencement Planning Committee. Kliksberg, chair of East Campus Council and a member of the Young Trustee Selection Committee, said he supports the creation of online referendums for major DSC decisions, increased participation at monthly town hall meetings and public forums and revival of the ICC, which boasts the University’s major student group leaders as members. He said his active role in campus politics on the ECC has helped him stand out from the other candidates. “I think that the vice president of community interaction should be a leader from the Duke community, not the DSG community,” Kliksberg said. “I wasn’t just

The Graduate and Professional Student Council heard a presentation about the Women’s Initiative and confirmed the selection of its basketball co-chairs at its meeting Monday evening. Jacqueline Looney, associate dean for the Graduate School, outlined key points from the Women’s Initiative report, which was released Sept. 23. She paid particular attention to the report’s findings on mentoring and child care. Looney said the Women’s Initiative Steering Committee found that graduate and professional student mentoring issues resonated with men and women alike. ‘We got a lot of comments that pointed to a need for more mentoring, for better mentoring,” she said. She noted that the graduate school has established a Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring, which pulled in 98 nominations by its March 15 nomination deadline. The award is expected not only to reward faculty members who are effective mentors but also to generate dialogue about good mentoring practices. Looney said the Office of the Provost has also been brainstorming ways to improve mentoring at the University and that she anticipates an initiative from that office soon. Another issue the Women’s Initiative report highlighted was the need for more accessible child care for graduate and professional students, Looney said. She noted that child care issues surfaced long before the Women’s Initiative began, but that a number of improvements have

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Redefine the term “community” with greater ties to Durham

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effectiveness by having senators represent specific student issues, and improving an online database to enhance relationships among alumni, graduates and undergraduates. “One of the main things is that the relationships [among groups] range from the very good to the nonexistent,” Hopkins said. ‘There are often conflicting visions in different areas. She stressed, meanwhile, the attainability of her goals. “I don’t have 50 pet projects, because these are the two things I want to do,” Hopkins said. “If it gets done, DSG will get to be a much more effective organization.” Hailing from Providence, R.1., Hopkins, a political science major, is also a member of Delta Gamma sorority, the Duke Equestrian Team, the First-Year Ad“

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Spanish judge charges four in Madrid bombings by

Mar Roman

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADRID, Spain A Spanish judge charged four more suspects early Tuesday with terrorism and mass killings for alleged roles in a string ofrailway blasts that killed 202 people.

The charges against three Moroccans and one Spaniard followed hours of interrogation and brought to nine the number of people charged in the March 11 terror attack. The court action came as outgoing Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar defiantly declared that he has no regrets over supporting the Iraq war. He added that his successor’s plans to likely pull troops from Iraq would weaken the international coalition against terrorist violence. Aznar’s party suffered a surprise defeat amid charges that he had provoked the bombings by backing the war. “I am going with my head held high and proud of the job I have done,” he said

in an interview with the televison station Telecinco. He also accepted some of the blame for his party’s loss. Judge Juan del Olmo charged Spaniard Jose Emilio Suarez, accused of providing explosives for the attacks, with 190 counts of murder, 1,430 counts of attempted murder, robbery and collaborating or belonging to a terrorist organization. Moroccan Abderrahim Zbakh was charged with all those same offenses except robbery. Officials said he left the courtroom in tears. Mohamed El Hadi Chedadi and Abdelouahid Berrak, also Moroccans, were charged with collaborating with or belonging to a terrorist organization. The judge ordered a fifth suspect, a Moroccan, released due to lack of evidence. Besides the nine suspects formally charged, four others are being held but haven’t been formally accused. The charges stop short of a formal indictment, but suggest the court has strong evidence against the suspects. They can re-

main in jail two years while investigators gather more evidence. Court officials said the latest suspects were arrested early Monday, three who were picked up in Madrid’s Lavapies district, a multiethnic neighborhood where chief suspect Jamal Zougam ran a cellular

the government’s decision to hold a state funeral Wednesday for those slain. It is the first time since democracy was restored after Gen. Francisco Franco’s death in 1975 that a state funeral has been held for anyone other than a member of the royal family, government officials said. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, telephone shop. Suarez, a former miner, admitted helpFrench President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, British ing Moroccans still at-large obtain explosives but he said he did not know what the Prime Minister Tony Blair, England’s Prince Charles and other dignitaries are to dynamite would be used for. All three Moroccans denied involvement in the attacks. attend the service at Madrid’s Almudena Chedadi, the brother of a suspect jailed cathedral. Senior intelligence officials of Britain, in Spain in 2001 on charges of being part of a Spain-based cell that allegedly helped France, Germany, Italy and Spain met plan the Sept. 11 attacks in the United Monday in the Spanish capital to discuss States, denied any involvement in the the bombings. The officials also met to Madrid attacks. He said that he learned of address fears that the Continent might the bombings that same morning while become the next front in the war against watching cartoons at home with his chil- terrorism. The Spanish Interior Ministry declined dren, court officials said. The scale of the March 11 attacks, to comment on the results of the meeting, which also wounded more than 1,800 and traumatized the country, was reflected in SEE SPAIN ON PAGE 7

Shiite leader warns against U.N. endorsement by

John Burns

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has warned of “dangerous consequences” if the United Nations endorses the U.S.-sponsored interim constitution for an independent Iraq that was adopted over Shiite protests two weeks ago. The warning came in a letter released by al-Sistani’s office Monday, four days after it was delivered in New York to Lakhtar Brahimi, the chief U.N. envoy to Iraq. It amounted to a warning that the ayatollah’s followers, by far the most powerful political bloc in Iraq, could move to paralyze U.S. plans for a smooth transfer of sovereignty on June 30 unless Shiite terms for changing the interim constitution were met. Al-Sistani warned in his letter that he would boycott a coming visit to Baghdad by Brahimi, refusing to “take part in any meetings or consultations” conducted by him or his emissaries, unless the United Nations offered guarantees that it would not endorse the interim constitution. After nearly a year of discounting the value of a U.N. political role in Iraq, the Bush administration shifted its position recently, saying it strongly favored the United Na-

tions having a part in helping to establish an interim government and organize elections. Brahimi, a former foreign minister of Algeria, is to arrive here late this month or early in April to help broker the talks on a transitional government and election arrangements. But Shiite groups that accept al-Sistani as their ultimate political arbiter have said they will use negotiations over the interim authority—blocking agreement, if necessary—to expand the Shiite majority’s powers before an elected government takes over at the end of 2005. The al-Sistani letter was the latest move in a complex game of maneuver with the U.S. occupation authority and the United Nations. As the political timetable here shortens, the ayatollah has appeared to oscillate between ultimatums that stop Just short of threatening to provoke public disorder and conciliatory moves encouraging hopes of the Americans that he will in the end prove an ally in their push for a peaceful transfer. After Shiite leaders on the U.S.-appointed advisory body, the Iraqi Governing Council, agreed earlier this month on an interim constitution that included elaborate minority guarantees, they staged a last-minute boycott of a signing ceremony. It was an effort to force a scaling-back of

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the blocking powers granted to minorities, particularly Sunni Muslims and Kurds, who are fearful ofShiite domination. After talks with al-Sistani’s aides at his headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, the Shiite leaders signed the new charter, only to recant immediately after the ceremony by again denouncing the minority guarantees. As he has with the Americans, the ayatollah has played hot and cold with the United Nations, signaling only a week ago that he favored its participation in the talks on an interim government and elections, then backtracking with his letter to Brahimi. His moves have kept senior U.S. officials here on edge, uncertain how far he is prepared to go to realize his demands—and unsure of what they will do if Shiite demands lead to an impasse that threatens to leave Iraq with no government capable of taking over authoritatively on June 30. Al-Sistani’s warnings to Brahimi were stark. The interim constitution, he said, “enjoys no support among most of the Iraqi people,”—meaning the Shiites who account for about 60 percent of the 25 million people—and “confiscates the rights” of the national assembly that is schedSEE

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Patients taking antidepressants can become suicidal in the first weeks of therapy, and physicians should watch patients closely when first giving the drugs or changing dosages, federal drug regulators said Monday. The warnings are part of a public health advisory issued by the Food and Drug Administration and are a reminder that antidepressant drugs, a favorite cure for a stressed-out world, are not without risks. The agency is asking drug manufacturers to place detailed warnings about the drugs’ possible side effects prominendy in their labels. The request is not mandatory, but drug manufacturers are expected to go along. Agency officials took pains to point out that they have not decided that antidepressants are to blame when patients take a turn for the worse. Suicide is such a rare side effect that studies on the subject have been difficult to interpret, the regulators said. Even in the absence of clear proof, the agency decided to act. “It warns physicians that patients’ depression may become worse, that they may develop suicidal thinking or behavior after the initiation of treatment,” said Russell Katz, the FDA’s chief of neurological drugs. Millions around the world have taken the affected antidepressants. Eli Lilly’s Prozac is one of the most widely prescribed drugs of all time. Pfizer’s Zoloft had $3.1 billion in sales last year, making it one of the world’s top-selling medicines. The agency’s decision to issue such a broad warning was a surprise. Top FDA officials have long insisted that their decisions are driven only by clear-cut evidence from well-run clinical trials. But in a conference call with reporters Monday, agency officials said that no studies had shown a convincing link between drug therapy and suicide. Still, they issued the warnings anyway. A series of secret studies undertaken by drug companies became public last year that seemed to show that depressed children and teenagers given antidepressants were more likely to become suicidal than those given placebos. The studies also showed that most antidepressants were not effective in treating depression in children and teenagers. Those studies are still under review at the agency. Nevertheless, a scientific advisory panel last month urged the FDA to issue stronger warnings about the possibility that teenagers and children given the drugs could become suicidal. Studies in adults have found no link between the drugs and suicide, but the agency included adults in the warnings, in part because of anecdotes shared at last month’s advisory meetings. Katz said that “a number of witnesses

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said that these were experiences that they had with adults, too.” So the agency decided that adults should be included in the warnings. “We think this is good advice whether the drugs did it or not,” said Dr. Robert Temple, the agency’s associate director of medical policy. “If someone commits suicide, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s the drug or the underlying disease. In either case, you need to pay attention.” Some psychiatrists said that the new warnings were likely to slow sales, which were about $l2 billion worldwide in 2002, and change how the drugs were prescribed. Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that the FDA’s action suggests that antidepressants have become too popular and physicians too casual about dispensing them. ‘1 think the effect of these warnings will be to have physi-

dans become a bit more conservative in using these drugs,” Lieberman said. ‘They’ll start limiting their use of them just to patients who are clearly depressed with clinically significant symptoms as opposed to thosewho have very mild symptoms.” Dr. Regina Casper, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, said that family physicians had become far too confident in the safety of these drugs. A patient who is given his first prescriptions for an antidepressants should see his doctor at least once a week and perhaps more ffequendy, something family physicians rarely have time to do, she said. “I think this will have a real sobering effect among family practice doctors,” Casper said. The warnings also tell physicians to be particularly careful to evaluate whether patients have bipolar illness, also known as manic depression. Antidepressant therapy in such patients can cause a manic episode, the label states. Manic attacks can be “very dangerous,” Katz said.

Nichols may face death penalty by Tim Talley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

McALESTER, Okla. Terry Nichols went on trial for his life Monday in the Oklahoma City bombing and was alternately portrayed as an eager participant in the attack and a fall guy in a conspiracy wider than the government has acknowledged. Nichols hated the U.S. government and worked handin-hand with Timothy McVeigh in assembling and detonating the “huge, monstrous bomb,” prosecutor Lou Keel said during opening statements in the state murder trial. “These two were partners, and their business was terrorism,” Keel said. Defense attorney Brian Hermanson countered that McVeigh and other conspirators were responsible for the bombing and Nichols was manipulated by McVeigh to take the blame. “Timothy McVeigh set him up so McVeigh could cover up the others who acted in this conspiracy,” Hermanson said. Nichols, 48, is already serving a life sentence on federal changes for the deaths of eight federal law officers in the April 19, 1995, blast that killed 168 people. The state charges are for the 160 other victims and one victim’s fetus. Prosecutors brought the state charges in hopes of sending Nichols to the death chamber for his role in the bombing —the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil at the time. McVeigh was executed in 2001. Prosecutors allege that Nichols conspired with McVeigh to build the bomb in a plot to avenge the Federal Bureau of Investigation siege against the Branch Davidian sect at Waco, Texas, exactly two years earlier. Keel said Nichols bought 4,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer for the bomb in 1994 and stole blasting caps to set it off. Nichols, who met McVeigh in the Army, also robbed an Arkansas gun dealer of weapons and gold and silver coins to help finance the plot, Keel said. The blasting caps were stolen from a Kansas rock quarry and drill marks on a padlock at the quarry matched a drill bit found in Nichols’s basement, he said.

The bomb was delivered in a Ryder truck that exploded outside the Alfred R Murrah Federal Building. Prosecutors say Nichols helped McVeigh pack the bomb inside the truck. ‘This huge, monstrous bomb was detonated right in front of that building,” Keel said. He said those not killed in the initial blast died because of glass that was sent “flying like bullets.” Keel said Nichols “had long been mad at the federal government” and was outraged by the siege in Waco that killed about 80 people. Hermanson said prosecutors are relying heavily on “assumptions and circumstantial evidence.” He said the state is going to “leave things blank” in its evidence against Nichols, who was home in Kansas when the bomb went off. The defense plans to show that Nichols was involved with a shadowy group of conspirators, possibly including members of the white supremacist and anti-government group Aryan Republican Army. “People will testify about seeing McVeigh, seeing him drive that truck, seeing him with other persons,” Hermanson said. ‘The evidence is going to show many people who saw John Doe No. 2,” he said, referring to the mysterious alleged accomplice who some eyewitnesses saw with McVeigh on the day of the bombing. The first prosecution witness was an FBI agent who searched Nichols’s home two days after the bombing. Mary Jasnowski testified she found four 55-gallon drums that looked like the ones prosecutors say were used in making the bomb. She also testified that she found a receipt for 2,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and found small white bits of ammonium nitrate outside the house. Also discovered was an address book containing the names and phone numbers of McVeigh’s sister, Jennifer, and Michael Fortier, a former Army buddy of Nichols and McVeigh who is serving a 12-year prison sentence for knowing about the bomb plot but not telling authorities.

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SEXUAL ASSAULT from page 1 The first woman did not realize her roommate had been assaulted until 12:30 p.m. that day. The intruder was described as a 5-foot-8, 150-pound white male in his early 20s with short, wavy brown hair, dark eyes and medium build. He was reportedly wearing a wrist watch, a dark blue hooded sweatshirt and possibly shorts. The man is wanted for first-degree burglary, second-degree forcible sexual assault and larceny. Officials would not comment as to whether the alleged assailant was a student. The exact nature of the sexual offense is unclear. By way of explanation, DUPD Maj. Phyllis Cooper said only, ‘The [charge of] sexual assault was because the victim was touched.” The victim was unhurt in the incident and has received counsel from the Women’s Center, officials said. Some concern has arisen from the University community about the administration’s failure to notify students about the first assault Friday and then the burglary and assault Sunday. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said he intended to send an e-mail to all students notifying them of the incidents, but wanted to make sure he had all the facts straight first. “[There was] not sufficient information to share in a broadcast e-mail,” he said. “In some ways, rushed information that’s inaccurate is worse [than no information].” It is unclear what the administration’s next steps will be. Birkhead said security will not be increased because the DUPD is “already at a heightened alert.” Although the reported West Campus rape took place within yards of a blue light emergency phone, which was not used, Moneta said it is too early to say whether the phones will remain a part of safety strategy at the University. Moneta said he is concerned, upset and angry, but lacks solutions at this time. “There’s no quick fix,” he said. ‘We will once again review all of our security coverage, we will once again review all of the technology we can, but it’s a difficult situation to resolve.” As for the assault victims, Moneta said they are doing reasonably well as far as he knows. He said he does not know if the students will remain at the University this semester. Kelly Rohrs contributed to this story.

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such as the Summer Research Opportunities Program and the American Economic Association’s Minority Scholarship Program, are still limited to students of specific ethnicities. ‘The whole purpose of SROP is to actually increase the number of minority students into the [research] programs,” said Dr. Soman Abraham, director of the program and a pathologist at the School of Medicine. “In our particular case, we are funded by the Mellon Foundation and immediately after the Michigan case, they were a little bit nervous and asked us to remove the wording from the webpages indicating the program is targeted at minority students. Even though we’ve changed the wording, we’re still abiding by the original goals to bring in underrepresented minorities and expose them to research in an academic environment at Duke.” The AEA’s minority scholarship, for its summer economics program held at the University, also gives preference to underrepresented minorities. “The minority scholarship program is restricted to those disadvantaged in the American context and groups for whom there would be diversity,” said Charles Becker, director of the program and research professor of economics. Economic research scientist and assistant program director Rhonda Sharpe added, however, that any student who perceives himself or herself as disadvantaged has the opportunity to apply. “If you’re an Armenian student who thinks [you] are eligible and you can demonstrate financial need, you could apply,” she said. The University’s chapters of the MMUF and the Summer Medical Education Program have already changed their application limitations. MMUF at Duke has changed its requirements to meet the national guidelines, said Deborah Wall, associate director of undergraduate research and the program’s local head. Lydia English, national director of the MMUF, noted that the decision of the Mellon Foundation to change its eligibilityrequirements was pre-emptive of the Michigan decisions. “It means that our focus is still on diversifying the faculties at American universities and colleges and that we still are looking to recruit students of color, particularly African American, Latino and Native American students,” she said. “But we are also open to accepting students who don’t belong to those groups but who are interested in diversifying the faculty and committed to finding ways to increase the diversity in institutions.” Like the MMUF, the Summer Medical Education Program at the medical school is a satellite of a larger initiative aimed at increasing underrepresented students in medicine and has followed its national organization’s lead of allowing any student to apply to the program. “We’re trying to help end disparities in health care between populations ofcolor and the white population in this culture,” said Maureen Cullins, director of both the Multicultural Resource Center at the medical school and of the program. “What we know from a number of studies is that the people who tend to go into underserved communities tend to come from there, so we’re looking for people who will be interested in that.” Although Duke has maintained its minority programs, some worry that changes in admissions criteria could hurt students for which the program aims to help. “By opening up [the programs] to everyone it could adversely increase the number of minority applicants to get into them, which could defeat their purpose,” said LaQuisha Bonner, president of the Duke chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “At Duke, I think it would harm a lot of the minorities here that are vastly underrepresented, especially since Duke is fostering multiculturalism and a diverse student body.” Others worry that changes, such as those seen at Yale, may be on the horizon with the new administration set to take over in July. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that as dean of Yale College, Duke President-elect Richard Brodhead wrote to students at Yale that recent legal decisions have made it “harder to justify programs that separate student communities instead of building them into an interactive whole.” Keohane, however, remained optimistic that Brodhead shares the same vision of fostering diversity. “I have not discussed this issue with the President-elect, but I know that he is generally supportive of reaching out to historically disadvantaged groups,” she said.

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one of a series of European Union actions triggered by the commuter train attacks. EU heads of state and government are to hold a special summit this week in Brussels to review security proposals. These proposals include the appointment of an anti-terrorism coordinator, establishment of a European terrorism database, mandatory national identity cards and increased security at train stations, airports and other vulnerable targets. A French newspaper reported Monday that Jordanian terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi personally asked Osama bin Laden to help finance a Moroccan group suspected in the Madrid bombings and the attacks last May in Casablanca, Morocco that killed 45 people including 12 terrorists. Bin Laden was at first reluctant but eventually gave alZarqawi $70,000, Le Figaro said, quoting a senior Moroccan official. This was the genesis of the Moroccan Islamic

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Combatant Group, which may have had a supervisory role over the attacks in Casablanca and Madrid, Le Figaro said. Al-Zarqawi is said to have strong links to Ansar al-Islam, an Islamic extremist guerrilla group blamed for terrorist strikes in Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Morocco. Zougam, a Moroccan immigrant, is a prime suspect in the Madrid bombings. He and two other Moroccans have been jailed on multiple counts of murder. Four other Moroccans were arrested last week. Le Figaro named another Moroccan who holds British nationality, Mohamed Guerbouzi, who allegedly met with Zougam in London. Gherbouzi was convicted in absentia by Morocco in December in connection with the Casablanca attacks and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Suspicion over the 10 bombs targeting the Madrid commuter rail network has focused on the al-Qaeda terror group or an alleged Morocco-based terror cell believed to have links to bin Laden’s organization. Of the suspects detained before Monday, a judge jailed three Moroccans on charges of multiple counts of murder.

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“All of you need to put your time, your energy and your resources into programs that help young people,” said Martina The youth discuss how a lack of role Dunsford, director of the New Horizons almodels and other opportunities led ternative school in Durham. “New Horithem to join gangs. “It’s what you gotta zons is not the only program, but it feels do, not what you want to do,” one gang like it is sometimes.” Chris Martin, the former rapper and member says. “Welcome to Durham” also focuses on actor who portrayed “Play” in the movie how the media helps glambrize the gang “Kid N’ Play,” said he could relate to the lifestyle through rap music and movies youth in the documentary, “For a brief period of time, that was that give kids the idea that crime is the me,” to Several Martin said. “I took pride in being a in make people money. only way the film blame the news media for exacer- career criminal.” Martin also said that although he esbating Durham’s problems by exploiting a that from a life of crime, the best way he creating hysteria violence, of caped images discourages citizens from living in or get- thinks he can combat gang violence is to change Hollywood, as entertainment has a ting involved with the city. a candid impact on young people, the movie offers large Although After viewing the film, which was sponportrait of the dark side of the Bull City, it ends on a positive note, with several local sored by the Duke University Union along with the Office leaders disof Student Afcussing what they fairs, junior see as Durham’s put future. of need to “All bright your Charlotte yOU Vaughn said she j In the panel time, your energy and your re- hop | d it would that followed, sevmake people eral of the particiSOUrCCS into programs that help aware of the pants emphasized of yOUllg people. the alarming naproblem violenceture Of the film as Martina Dunsford ‘lt was ve discussed they unsettling, just possible solutions to the issue of that this is where we live and this is the reality of the gang violence. Dan Hill, former City Council member, situation,” Vaughn said. “Hopefully, peoopened the panel by calling “Welcome to ple will realize it’s going to take a lot more Durham” one of the most powerful films to solve it.” he’s ever seen Yet Steven Chalmers, chief of the “It should serve as a wake-up call to Durham Police Department, said the isDurham,” he said. sues in the film are not exclusive to Durham In proposing solutions, several pan“It could have been called ‘Welcome to elists stressed the importance of educaAny Town, USA.’ It’s happening all over tion and after-school programs as alternatives to gangs. the country,” Chalmers said.

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mosque, he ventured out infrequently from his modest Gaza City home. For all his frailties, Yassin made himself one of the most influential figures in the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the founder of Hamas, the Islamic movement that has carried out the most, as well as the deadliest, suicide bombings against Israel. Yassin was always identified as Hamas’ spiritual leader, and the group sought to distinguish between its “political” and “military” wings. Yassin and other political figures said the responsibility for attacks was left in the hands of the military wing. Israel dismisses the claimed division as fiction, saying Yassin was “the authorizing and initiating authority for all Hamas terrorist attacks.” To Israelis, Yassin was an arch-terrorist whose group not only rejected Israel’s right to exist, but was also bent on its destruction. While complicated peace plans came and went over the past decade, Yassin and his Hamas followers lived and died by a simple formula: Reject negotiations and attack Israel as part of a long-term strategy to drive out the Jews and establish an Islamic state. Hamas’ large following and its ability to consistendy carry out bombings gave it the ability to disrupt, if not derail, the potential compromises it opposed. Most Israelis supported the decision to kill Yassin. Israel’s interior minister, Avraham Poraz, said he was one of two dissenting voices when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Cabinet approved the operation. “I think the damage is greater than the usefulness,” Poraz told Israel radio. ‘The blow to him will not eliminate Hamas.” According to Israeli news reports, the Shin Bet chief, Avi Dichter, also opposed the strike. Some who opposed this move recalled that Israel had made a similar wager in 1996 and fared badly. In that instance, Israel killed Hamas’ chief bomb maker, Yahya Ayyash, with an exploding cell phone. Hamas responded with a series of bombings that killed dozens of Israelis in the next two months and contributed to the electoral defeat of Prime Minister Shimon Peres. It could do so again, some terrorism experts warn. While Yassin’s movements were limited, he granted interviews and occasionally appeared at Hamas rallies, energizing crowds with his mere presence. The father of 11 children, Yassin maintained a simple lifestyle and was viewed as being in touch with the poor, who make up the core constituency ofHamas. He was instantly recognizable in his white robe and headdress, with a long straggly beard. He rarely spoke at length, and his distinctive whisper could be difficult to hear even in a small, quiet room. He Suffered frequent illnesses, and had poor eyesight and hearing that deteriorated during years in Israeli prisons, he said. Until last year, Israel refrained from attacking the group’s top political figures, though they appeared in public and took few precautions against a possible Israeli strike. That changed last summer, when Israel carried out four separate airstrikes against the four most prominent Hamas leaders in Gaza. One was killed, and three were wounded. Yassin suffered only light wounds when Israel bombed a house he was visiting on Sept. 6. Ziad Abu Amr, a Palestinian legislator and a former Cabinet minister who dealt frequently with Hamas, said he viewed Yassin and other political figures in Hamas as less extreme than those in the group’s military wing. “If Israel continues with this assassination policy against political leaders, it will pave the way for the younger and more militant leaders,” Amr said. But Ganor, the Israeli analyst, disagreed. “Viewing Yassin as the sane, moderate voice ofHamas is ridiculous,” he said. “He was an ultra-radical who would not accept the right of Israel to exist under any circumstances.” Ahmed Yassin was bom in the 1930s in an Arab fishing village near what is now the southern Israeli coastal town of Ashkelon. At the time of his death, he was believed to be 67, though information on his birth date is sketchy and conflicting. His family became refugees in the 1948 Middle East war that erupted at Israel’s founding. The Yassin family setded in Gaza, and at age 12,Yassin suffered a sports accident that cost him the use ofhis arms and legs. After high school, he studied in neighboring Egypt and then made his name as a teacher and a preacher in Gaza’s mosques. He eventually attracted the attention of the Israelis, who arrested him in 1984 on weapons charges and released him a year later in a prisoner deal.

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told reporters on the weekend that the interim constitution would matter less in the 18 months before there is an elected government than the competence and honesty of the individuals appointed to head the ministries. But that, too, the official acknowledged, has been giving the Americans cause for unease. The official said the Iraqi groups on the Governing Council had submitted names for more than 80 deputy minister positions—jobs, the official said, that would be crucial to the government’s efficiency. Of the names submitted, he said, about 50 were people with no known qualifications other than their political affiliations. The official said Paul Bremer, the chief of the U.S. occupation authority, had “put a stop” to the Iraqi machinations and had demanded that the council members provide career histories of each nominee. “What we’ll do is create a professional, uncorrupt administration,” the official said, and trust that Iraqis appointed to head the ministries, not the details of the interim constitution, will prove decisive in keeping the country stable.

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tions he has persistently demanded—for the assembly, for the constitution it will draw up, and ultimately for a permanent government —“become useless.” The cleric said he feared that the U.N. Security Council resolution he has demanded as an international guarantee of elections could be expanded to endorse the interim constitution, “obliging the Iraqi people to abide by it against their will.” He added, “We warn that such a step would be unacceptable to the majority of the Iraqi people, and would have dangerous consequences in the future.” He offered no elaboration on what those consequences might be. U.S. officials have played down the possibility that the maneuvering here could descend into open conflict, or even civil war, saying U.S. powers that will remain after June 30 will be enough to ensure stability. One top official

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“People think the implementation of the quad system means the end of selective groups, and that’s not the case. The should only be reflective of the degree to selective groups are members of the which students are insisting on another quad, and hopefully they take pride in level of behavior,” Hull said. ‘The RCs being members of their quad,” Carter walk a fuzzy line as friend and letting said. “[The quad system is] not a weird, things slide.” strange beast. It’s just another way to deHull added that RCs—who can file in- fine a community.” cident reports, but not be a direct particiMon tag said fraternities and selective pant in a case as a witness, prosecutor or living groups should have missions and judge—need to hold students accountgoals that focus on the betterment of the able for following University procedures, entire quad, not just their individual entipolicies and regulations, and for showing ty. He said all students in the quad should mutual respect for others. be integrated and working toward one “[Misbehaving students] understood common goal. what was expected of them,” Hull said, But helping the quad system come to “and they made a choice knowing what fruition may be difficult for the RCs as the expectations were.” they have live-in positions and are on When violations occur, RCs are enthe job 24 hours a day, seven days a couraged to maintain a supportive enviweek. It is also an entry-level position ronment where students can turn to them with a turnover rate of staff leaving for support and advice, Hull said. every two to three years. Although only Stephanie Carter, RC in the West- one RC out of 10 will not return for the Edens Link, said RCs need to ensure that next academic year, three out of nine students demonstrate healthy behavior RCs chose to leave last year. “It kind of and drink responsibly. feels like you’re working all the time,” “We don’t spend our lives patrolling the said Gene Tien, RC for Crowell and residence halls trying to crack down on unWannamaker quads. The turnover rate is a reality of student derage drinking. We just want everyone to be safe and know their limits,” said Carter, affairs positions. Many RCs—who mosdy who will return next year for her third year have masters degrees—leave the position as an RC. “If that means breaking up an to pursue higher jobs in the institutional event because we feel it’s too unsafe or out setting, said Hull, who has worked with of hand, then we have to do that.” over 300 RCs in his career. Hull said that in addition to helping “I have high aspirations,” Montag said. students distinguish between rights and “I want to be president of an institution.” Hull added he can only hope the Uniprivileges, RCs are expected to help implement the new quad system, which enversity does not lose all its critical resitails encouraging students to identify dential life staffers at one time and rethemselves first as a member of the larger turning RCs serve as mentors for newer quad and any other affiliation—such as a employees. member of a selective living group—secMeg Bourdillon contributed to this article. ond.

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sidearm to the office, and made many bureaucratic enemies. He acknowledges his close friendship with Rand Beers, a forpotential state sponsors of terrorism not a eign service officer who succeeded him at country that had been engaging in anti- the White House and who now advises U.S. terrorism but one that had not been, Kerry’s campaign on national security. Iraq,” Clarke writes in his book, “Against But his critique can hardly be chalked All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terup to partisan politics as usual. He was a ror.” “It is hard to imagine another presiregistered Republican in 2000, a career dent making that choice.” White House civil servant under three Just as Bush appeared to be gaining presidents, one of the few national securithe upper hand over Massachusetts Senaty experts held over from the first Bush tor John Kerry in the fledgling general administration into the Clinton years, and election campaign after weeks on the dethen held over again under the current fensive over the failure to find weapons of President Bush. mass destruction in Iraq, Clarke has put “Dick Clarke had a front-row seat on the White House squarely on the defenAmerica’s counter-terrorism efforts for sive again. He paints a scene that it is easy almost two decades,” said Sen. Bob Grato imagine turning up with spooky music ham, D-Fla., a former chair of the Senate in a Kerry campaign commercial as eviIntelligence Committee. He added: “The dence of Bush’s determination to invade facts are that within six months of the Iraq. On Sept. 12, 2001, Clarke writes, first bombs falling on Afghanistan, this Bush approached him in the White administration was diverting military and House Situation Room and thrice asked intelligence resources to its planned war him to “look into” whether Iraq had been in Iraq, which allowed al-Qaeda to regeninvolved in the attacks on the World erate. As the people of Indonesia, MoTrade Center and Pentagon. rocco, Saudi Arabia and most recently “And in a very intimidating way, I Spain have learned painfully well, this mean, that we should come back with that president failed to execute the real war answer,” Clarke elaborated in an interview on terrorism.” on “60 Minutes” Sunday night. Morton Abramowitz, whom Clarke Clarke is far from the first critic to disserved as a deputy when he was assistant agree with the president’s Iraq policy. But secretary of state for intelligence in the his insider status gives him special standReagan administration, and who later ing and credibility—a reality that a parade served as the first Bush administration’s of Bush administration officials from Vice ambassador to Turkey, said he had always President Dick Cheney on down implicitvalued Clarke’s advice. ly acknowledged with their swift and uni“I can only tell you I think Dick has fied efforts to dismiss Clarke’s charges as a enormous credibility,” he said. “He’s got blend of 20-20 hindsight and sour grapes a first-class intellect. He’s very dedicated. from a civil servant whose status suffered He tries to make things happen. He before he resigned last year. doesn’t hesitate to take unpopular In 30 years in government, Clarke had stances, and he doesn’t hesitate to push a hard-charging reputation. He wore a the envelope.”

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GPSC from page 3 been made since the initiative kicked off in May 2002. ‘The Children’s Campus has been expanded... and graduate and professional students have been allotted 30 spots,” she said. “Every year we’ll have those 30 spots available to us.” Looney said the University has also given $200,000 to 11 child care centers around Durham, thus further expanding graduate and professional students’ options for child care. She added that an e-mail listserv has been established for graduate and professional students with children. The listserv currently has about 80 subscribers. “Overall, Duke graduate and professional students feel pretty satisfied about being at Duke, but there are areas we need to improve and there are also areas where

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men and women differed,” Looney said of the Women’s Initiative findings. She said one of the most surprising differences between men’s and women’s experiences as graduate and professional students at Duke was in the level of self-confidence students feel after the initial adjustment period that accompanies any transition to a new environment. “Women tended to have more of a crisis in confidence levels,” Looney said. Although both men and women said they experienced a drop in their confidence levels when they first came to Duke, men said they eventually regained their old confidence while women said they never quite achieved their old confidence again. Looney said women also tended to worry more about having to balance family and work life. ‘Women thought it was nearly impossible to balance family and career, whereas men thought women could do it,” she said.

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IN OTHER BUSINESS GPSC confirmed the selection of Jeff Kovacs, a molecular cancer biology student, and Andy Baraniak, a microbiology student, as the 2004-2005 basketball cochairs. Both Kovacs and Baraniak have been through four campouts. They said their biggest goals for the coming year are to run the campout as smoothly as it has been in recent years and to foster more interaction between graduate and professional schools. Although the dates for the campout have not yet been approved, Kovacs and Baraniak said it will most likely be held Sept. 10 to Sept. 12. The council also approved theselection of Rachel Lovingood as GPSC attorney general. Lovingood will serve in her new post until the council’s April 19 transition meeting. The council’s next meeting, the election meeting, has been moved from April 5 to April 12 because of March Madness.

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a representative [this year], I was the representative of the freshman class.... I’m a student leader from an outside organization with a proven record.” Kliksberg, a Rockville, Md., native, who sits on the Mi Gente Council, the ICC and the West Campus Center and Plaza Advisory Committee, also proposed sending student representatives to Durham City Council, Durham Neighborhood Council and Durham School Board meetings. “I’m hoping to take more time to focus on students and student issues and to revive a lot of the tools that DSG has at its disposal but is currently not using,” he added, referring to previous sparsely attended town hall meetings and public forums.

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Reading in translation selected tragedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca) and comedies (Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence) with emphasis on political, social, and cultural developments, contemporary theatrical practice and influence on later European drama. Instructor: Burian. C-L: Classical Studies 106.

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Theater, in Latin American culture, has historically been both a barometer of political weather and a force for social transformation. This course focuses on contemporary texts and performances, that provoke discussion and thought of what theatre means as a communal, participatory experience. Plays and readings are geared to show both the diversity of Latin American theatre and how and why theatre practitioners choose particular theatrical forms. Among authors, theorists and performers we will study: Enrique Buenaventura, Augusto Boal, Osvaldo Dragun, Griselda Gambaro, Nelson Rodrigues, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Luis Valdez. All texts are in English translation. Instructor: Damasceno C-L: Spanish 124.1

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We examine Asian American theatre in terms of an American historical context. Toward the end of the course, we will use a case study approach that highlights Chinese dramatic production in transnational and intercultural contexts. We will develop a critical vocabulary for discussing race and ethnicity as well as stage production both within and outside of a national framework. We will also consider the formations of gender and sexuality that help to shape and are shaped by specific theatrical productions. Instructor: Metzger C-L: English 179E52

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Surveys the dance and dance-theatre performance genres of India covering cultural traditions of its diverse regions. Includes the socio-religious as well as entertainment genres of performance: the religious, ritual, folk, and royal court forms of artistic performance, the mythology, the legends; issues on the spiritual importance of disciplined training; and the rhythmic variety and diversity across regional cultures of India. Instructor: Shah. C-L: Dance 147, Religion 161J, CulturalAnthropology 1498 Duke University Department of Theater Studies

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Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics Bio 187 Drs. Cunningham, Lutzoni & Rausher <cliff@duke.edu> WF 1:15-2;30PM Basic evolutionary processes including natural selection and genetic drift; molecular systematics; evolutionary bioinformatics. C2K: QID Develqpmental/Molecular Genetics Lab Bio 205L Dr. Alyssa Perz-Edwards <akperz@duke.edu> MW or TTh 1:15-5:15PM Learn about developmental biology using plant & animal model systems while acquiring lab skills. C2K: R

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You’re either with Duke or against Duke. If you’re with Duke, you’re likely arrogant, spoiled and armed with a big ego; if you’re against Duke, you’ve managed to avoid the influence of the devils incarnate: Duke’s absurdly high number of McDonald’s All-Americans, its glossy media image (as buffed by the equally maligned Dick Vitale) and, of course, Coach K. That seems to be the prevailing ideology world of sports, anyways. the in How sad (sports aren’t nearly this important). How inevitable (people love the underdog). How trite (people love rooting against the impeccable favorite). Regardless, don’t expect contrition from either side—anytime soon. —

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nomenon that once only broiled in the Underworld—the phrase was once Anybody But Carolina—to one that has engulfed an entire sports nation’s fury. That UNC disliked Duke was and is, of course, perfectly understandable because the two institutions are long-standing rivals. But that America’s fury seems intent on shredding each Duke win with jeers dubbing the Blue Devils as duplicitous (with referees, with the Almighty, etc.), and draping every Blue Devil loss in shrouds of jubilation (rushing the court is customary when beating the 800 Devils) seems a bit

trepidacious. “I understand that when you win a lot, people are going to want to see you lose,” Coach K told former Chronicle Sports Editor John Feinstein of The Washington Post last Saturday. “I’ve got no problem with that. But this year, it really seems to have gone to a new level. People don’t just want us to lose, they seem to want us to get hurt. They take their frustrations with our success out on the kids. We’re not judged anymore on what we accomplish, but on what we don’t accomplish. That bothers me.” That schadenfreude, or taking pleasure in the misfortune of others, is hardly anything new to Duke. “Everyone loves a good fairy tale, but there was more to the strong anti-Duke senSEE ADVOCATE ON PAGE 20

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In the 2003 men’s NCAA Tournament, the Marquette Golden Eagles played giant killer, defeating top-seeded Kentucky to advance to the Final Four. The ninth-seeded women’s team will hope to make headlines as the spoiler in this year’s tournament when it takes on No. 1 Duke (28-3) at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Marquette (22-9), which is only 2-6 lifetime in the tournament, will have its hands full against a Blue Devils team that has won 11 straight NCAA games in Durham. ‘To begin the tournament, it’s always nice to shoot the ball well, and you tend to do that a little bit more when you’re comfortable and when you’re at home,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Essentially with the first two teams that we play playing zone [defense], you want to be able to hit your outside shot. I think most teams tend to shoot better from outside when they’re at home. I think that’s been good for us.” The Blue Devils are coming off a 103-51 drubbing of 16th seed Northwestern State Sunday, marking the fifth time this season that they have topped the century mark. Sophomore Jessica Foley scored a careerhigh 18 points against the Lady Demons, while Monique Currie, Iciss Tillis, Mistie Bass and Vicki Krapohl also reach doubledigits in the scoring column. National

Player of the Year candidate Alana Beard had a quiet night on offense with just eight points, but she did chip in with a team-high nine assists. However, Goestenkors knows that her team may be in for a more competitive contest

tonight.

“I think we’ve learned to play well in tight situations,” she said. “But certainly I think that because we had a blowout [against Northwestern State], we’re not going to get away with some of the things we were able to get away with in

[Sunday’s] game.” The Golden Eagles advanced

to the second round for the first time since 1997 after squeaking by No. 8 Old Dominion 67-64 in Sunday’s opening round. They were led by a career-high 24 points from freshman Christina Quaye, who is third on her team in scoring with 8.9 points per game. Marquette’s other main offensive weapons are guard Kelly Schwerman and forward Carolyn Kieiger, who average 11.8 and 10.4

points, respectively. Marquette’s main strength, though, is on defensive end. Its scoring defense is ranked 24th in the nation, giving up only 57.2 points per game. Duke, though, has the third best offense in the nation and should test the Golden Eagles’ prowess. “[Duke is] scoring 82 points a game for a reason,” Marquette head coach Terri SEE MARQUETTE ON PAGE 18

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Down the stretch in close games this season, Chris Duhon has stepped up at pivotal moments, often standing several paces behind the three-point arc, and nailing threes. At other times it has simply been the senior’s

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Mike Krzyzewski said he was not sure if Chris Duhon would practice before Friday's Sweet 16 game against Illinois, but Duhon has been there when needed.

And after a junior season that was nothing short of disappointing, Duhon has returned to past levels, following a year in transition, able to step out of Jay Williams’ shadow. ‘This year, he’s had a great year, and I don’t hear people saying he’s had a great year because he is at Duke,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said of his point guard, who finished second in the ACC Player of the Year voting. ‘The kid has been one of the most courageous players in the history of our conference. He’s been terrific.” And after breezing through the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, earning a pair of lopsided victories, Duhon’s team, will begin its quest in earnest for a second championship in four years. However, Krzyzewski’s ability to use his senior point guard may be limited, just as it has been since he sustained a bruised rib running into a television camera during an overtime loss to Maryland in the ACC

Championship game. But if the league final was any indication, Duhon will be ready to play with the game on the line, just as he has been all season. Fortunately for Duke, there were no potential buzzer-beaters for the Blue Devils to defend against this past weekend, allowing Duhon to play fewer than his normal number of minutes. The senior will also benefit from almost a week off between second and third-round games, as Duke does not return to the court until Friday night when it matches up with fifth-seeded Illinois. The senior, however, who is considered one of the best offthe-ball defenders in the country, will need to be at his best Friday night. The Illinois backcourt ofDeron Williams and Dee Brown is among the most explosive on the offensive end. Point guard Brown is a superb dribbler with great quickness and is the playmaker for his Illini team. Duhon will be asked to match up with Brown during critical stretches of the game. “Their perimeter is one of the best in the country,” Krzyzewski said of the Fighting Illini, who shot the lights out Sunday to advance to the Sweet 16 over Cincinnati. “That’s going to be the key for us, if we can stay with them.” Along with Sean Dockery and Daniel Ewing, the Blue Devils

have one of the best exterior defenses in the country, but Duhon is the facilitator of this massive effort. Krzyzewski is still unsure of his point guard’s ability to practice prior to Friday’s game. During the pair of games over the weekend in Raleigh, Duhon —who had not practiced since sustaining the injury the previous Sunday—played well but was visibly inhibited by the rib injury and the wrap that surrounded his torso. “He played very well, but he could not really shoot the ball well,” Krzyzewski said. “He never looked for his outside shot. I think he could have driven the ball more. He actually got free ‘throws, driving. But he would have to be very selective in his drives. We told him, ‘You’ve got to do a little bit, but don’t go overboard.’” Duhon has defined the term “most valuable player” for the Blue Devils all season, and if he hopes to bookend his career with national titles, he will have to be at his best, playing through the pain, leading on the court and sinking the three-pointer that everyone remembers. “What he’s learned over this year was to lead by example and by word,” Krzyzewski said. “I hope he’s a little bit better by Friday night so he can play even at a little bit higher level.”

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This course traces the birth of modem English and Irish drama back to the theatrical conventions of English popular entertainment and the continental “high” art of Ibsen. Out of such varied dramatic forms as melodrama, vaudeville, opera, realism and the well-made play, English and Irish drama evolved by both criticizing and capitalizing on these traditions. Topics will include audience response, a comparison of the movements for national theaters in England and Ireland, and the various critiques that these playwrights leveled at the societal ills of the Victorian era. Readings will include works by such authors as Ibsen, Gilbert and Sullivan, Pinero, Shaw, Wilde, Yeats, Synge, and O’Casey. Instructor: Foster C-L: English 1732

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WOMEN’S TENNIS I JOHNSON CO-ACC POW Duke ace Amanda Johnson took home half of the ACC Women’s Tennis CoPerformer of the Week award yesterday after a dominating weekend. The senior picked up a quartet of wins between Saturday’s 7-0 shutout over Yale and another 7-0 trumping Sunday in the Blue Devils’ conference opener against North Carolina. After an inconsistent 4-4 start to the season, the three-time All American has setded down to win her last three singles matches. Sunday, she paced Duke with a 6-3, 6-1 smashing of UNC’s Aniela Mojzis. The fifth-ranked Blue Devils swing into more ACC action Wednesday, when they host N.C. State and then travel to face Florida State Sunday.

I SCHREIBER ACC PITCHER OF WEEK Zach Schreiber shut down N.C. State Saturday afternoon, and the senior righty garnered the ACC’s Pitcher of the Week honors yesterday for his dominating effort. On a surprising weekend for the Blue Devils in which they took two of three from the Wolfpack, Schreiber pitched a complete game and held N.C. State to five hits while allowing just one run and striking out eight. While Schreiber thanked his defense for the effort behind him, he still only let the Wolfpack put three runners in scoring position as Duke beat its in-state rival for the first time in almost two years.

Amanda Johnson went undefeated this weekend, rebounding from a rough start to her season.

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Chris Dapolito's quarterbackbattle with redshirt sophomore Curt Dukes and Mike Schneider should begin in earnest this spring season. Ted Roof’s reign as head coach kicks off tomorrow, with the football team opening up its first year under Roof in the annual spring practice session. The Blue Devils return 14 starters, and Roof wants the energy forged in wins over Georgia Tech and UNC in the final three weeks of last season to cany over. “We were able to carry a positive attitude from the end of the season into the winter, and now we must continue with a good mindset as we head into the springpractice,” Roof said Despite having to replace halfback Chris Douglas, Duke has three new coaches and one new quarterback to look forward to. Curt Dukes redshirted last season after transferring from Nebraska and could end up under center before season’s end.

Schreiber and Co. take on UNC-

Wilmington at Jack Coombs Field Wednesday before heading north for a daunting three-game series against Maryland starting Friday.. ROWING I ACC CREW OF THE WEEK

The Blue Devils hooked in four wins at the Longhorn Invitational this weekend and then reeled in their second straight ACC Crew of the Week award. Big wins over host No. J4 Texas and No. 20 lowa—the latter with the best time at the invite in a 6:36.6 regatta —gave the 18th-ranked Blue Devils a big late-season boost before heading to Syracuse, N.Y, this weekend.

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Stars, seniors, experience make sweet success in March UConn routed DePaul, 72-55, Saturday and advanced in the Phoenix regional. “If we have one bad half or do not handle a matchup well, the opportunity

St. Joseph’s transcendent player outrebounding Illinois-Chicago and the heart of its senior leaderand Pacific by a combined 28. The Even before the NCAA men’s ship. So far, he is the tournament’s Blazers play 40 minutes of pressure defense, inspired by Nolan tournament began, Connecticut leading scorer with 57 points. The Demon Deacons’ youth is Richardson, and will try to make Coach Jim Calhoun talked confiembodied in point guard Chris Kansas run baseline to baseline. dendy about how his team had disappears.” Paul, who is the tournament’s the right stuff to make the Final The tournament is really played In the other St. Louis semififourth-leading scorer with 51 nal, third-seeded Georgia Tech Four. With good reason; the 20 minutes at a time. Just look at Huskies can put a check next to the slow starts or late collapses that points. He carried Wake into the (25-9) and lOth-seeded Nevada Round of 16 with a Nelson-like 29 (25-8) will rely on two juniors. each of the three criteria that sank the No. I’s Stanford and recent history, shows will produce Kentucky and the No. 2’s Gonzaga points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 The Yellow Jackets’ BJ. Elder had and Mississippi State. blocks and 3 steals in an 84-80 vic18 points against Boston College a national champion. and is the calming influence on In the Phoenix regional, sectory over Manhattan. First, a team must have a tranCan Nelson join players like the team. The Wolf Pack’s Kirk scendent player to bail it out ond-seeded UConn (29-6) may from the inevitable dry spell durMaryland’s Juan Dixon and Snyder has averaged 18 points in appear to have the easiest road, Duke’s Shane Battier and lead the tournament and keys a baling a six-game run. The Huskies but its semifinal game Thursday have two, in center Emeka night against sixth-seeded the Hawks to the Final anced offense. Okafor and guard Ben Gordon. Vanderbilt (23-9) presFour and an eventual In the Adanta regional semifiSecond, a team must have senents an unusual matchup tide? Or is Paul sensanals, two of the hottest teams in the nation, fifth-seeded Illinois (26-6) ior leadership. Point guard Taliek for UConn’s big men tional enough as a freshThe Illini match two of perhaps The Commodores’ Brown has been a starter for four man to cut down the nets and seventh-seeded Xavier (25-10), seasons and is the Huskies’ career best shooters are also the speediest guards in the touras Anthony did last year? are taking on experienced foes. assists leader. their big men—6-foot-9 Pitt and Oklahoma The Ulini (26-6) match two of nament against three heady ones State, on the other hand, perhaps the speediest guards in the Finally, a team must have driv- Matt Freije and 6-foot-ll en deep into the tournament Dawid Przybyszewski—are defensive-minded tournament against three heady for top-seeded Duke. teams that do not mind a before. In 2002, Okafor, Gordon and Okafor and Josh ones for top-seeded Duke (29-5). and Brown gave the eventual Boone have rarely had to tussle. The Panthers have The sophomores Dee Brown had two of them in the and Deron Williams ignite a fast champion, Maryland, all it could roam the perimeter as handle in a 90-82 loss in the East much as they will Thursday. Even against showed tournament and have not played break for a team that has won 14 Maryland) more rare are the times Gordon Syracuse returned plenty of firewell offensively; Oklahoma State of its last 15 games. The Blue Regional final. The five most recent champiand Brown have had to defend power from last year. shot 68 percent in the first half Devils’ JJ. Redick, Daniel Ewing The East Rutherford regional, against Memphis. and especially Chris Duhon must ons—Syracuse, Maryland, Duke, against backdoor cuts without Michigan State and UConn—- Okafor, the nation’s leading shot on the other hand, features perIn the St. Louis regional, slow them. Although Duhon is each had at least two of these blocker, lurking in the middle. haps the most entertaining indi- fourth-seeded Kansas (23-8) not a superstar, he is the epitome vidual matchup, with top-seeded returns three starters from last of a senior leader. In the other Phoenix semificomponents. But Calhoun knows that no one is giving his team the nal are eighth-seeded Alabama St. Joseph’s (29-1) against fourthXavier’s senior backcourt of year’s national runner-up and title, a message he has been hamand fifth-seeded seeded Wake Forest (21-9). Two meets ninth-seeded Alabama at Lionel Chalmers and Remain (19-12) Sato has been sensational as the mering into the Huskies since the Syracuse (23-7), teams that look gritty and often brutish teams colBirmingham (22-9). a lot like each other. lide in the other semifinal, No. 2 The Jayhawks have pounded Musketeers have won 15 of their Big East tournament. We are capable of going to “I think that our team is long, Oklahoma State (29-3) and No. 3 their tournament opponents last 16, handing St. Joseph’s its San Antonio, but that doesn’t we are tough and we shoot the Pittsburgh (31-4). down low with the inside duo of only loss and routing Mississippi mean we will,” he said after ball pretty well,” said Alabama Point guard Jameer Nelson is Wayne Simien and Jeff Graves, State by 15 in that span.

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scored 14 points in the Crimson Tide’s victory over Stanford. “We do a good job of passing and sharing the ball. We use our length and quickness on the court to our advantage.” The Orangemen used a similar formula to win last year’s national title. Carmelo Anthony may be gone, but Gerry McNamara (43 points against Brigham Young in the first round) and Hakim Warrick (26

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AUSTIN, Texas The Texas Longhorns have not taken over the palace in college basketball. They have’nt executed a coup on the sport. But here they come, with a big orange van, loaded with trophies from three straight trips to the NCAA tournament’s round of 16, and one Final Four appearance. “I think we’ve definitely moved into the neighborhood,” said Rick Barnes, who has taken Texas to the NCAA Tournament in each of his six seasons as coach. “I want us to be one of the top-10 programs in the country. I hope people look at us that way.” Barnes isn’t angling for revisionism. “Carolina, Kentucky, Duke... •those schools have been doing it a long time,” Barnes said. “[Carolina and Kentucky] have been good my whole life. But in the last 10 to 15 years, other schools have emerged.” Texas is one of five schools that will appear in the round of 16 for the third straight season, joining Duke, Connecticut, Kansas and

Pittsburgh. “I do think people know that we are serious about what we do,” Barnes said. Enough of them seem to. Jay Bilas said so even before the season. Just the other day, the talking heads—Bilas and Digger Phelps were debating on Andy Katz ESPN whether Texas would beat North Carolina. Phelps, who —

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Seniors Brian Boddicker (left) and Brandon Mouton (right) have seen a lot at Texas but couldface Shavlik Randolph (middle) soon.

picked the Longhorns to win the national championship before the tournament began, thought so. He’d dismissed other Final Four favorites of his during the season. He’s stuck with Texas all the way. Talk is cheap, of course, unless you have more than basic cable. But perception matters. One never knows which 17-year-old with a 40inch vertical jump, or an active pituitary gland, or magnificent three-point shooting accuracy, is watching. They’ve already been tuned in, Texas having collected one of the top-two-ranked recruiting classes in the country last fall. “It’s a compliment that these guys who are paid to analyze basket-

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ball are talking about you,” Barnes said. “It’s great for your program.” Barnes says something else is great, too. The Longhorns’ advancement to the round of 16— they face Xavier Friday in Atlanta—means that seniors Brian Boddicker, Royal Ivey, Brandon Mouton and James Thomas are leaving in style. “This is a bonus for me, having the chance to spent more time with these seniors,” Barnes said. ‘These guys have been something special.” It isn’t always easy for those guys. Mouton has been injured for much of the season with a bad ankle. Thomas had back problems, and sometimes he struggles

a nutritionist from the

Bpm Dr. Pedro Jose Greer, keynote address (Von Canon, Bryan Center) Nationally renowned physician Joe Greer will speak on his medical work with the homeless and immigrant populations of Miami.

Tuesd March 23 11 am-2pm Health Awareness Fair (top level, Bryan Center) Get free samples (including Luna Bar, Soulfood juices, and Kroger) and learn about health issues affecting you and your community. 7pm Dr. Samuel Katz (SocSci 136) Dr. Katz is the co-developer of the Measles Vaccine and will discuss the impact the vaccine has had on children around the world. This event is part of the Measles Initiative. March 24

12-2pm Condom demonstration on Main West quad Come see campus celebrities put a condom on properly with Generation HIV and the Red Cross HIV club. 7pm Operation Smile speaker (Faculty Commons,West Union above Chick fil-A) Dr. Glenn Davis will discuss his work with Operation Smile, an organization that sends plastic surgeons to third world countries to repair childhood facial deformities.

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Boddicker doesn’t rebound well enough to please his coach, and he recently endured a shooting slump. Ivey’s been forced to play out of position at point guard. And yet, all of them succeeded, on grand or subde levels last week, helping Texas beat Princeton and North Carolina in the first two rounds. For the most part, the Longhorns took advantage of their strengths in those games. They defended. They rebounded well in three of the four halves, the first half against North Carolina the exception. They hit three-point

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shots, 16-of-28 in the two games. And, of course, they exploited their depth. All 11 players scored against North Carolina, 10 of them before halftime. Barnes was pleased that the Longhorns defended well against teams with completely dissimilar styles of offense—Princeton deliberate, Carolina high-octane. Fans do not always understand, or accept, Barnes’ 11-man lineup. Someone always deserves more playing time. Someone else deserves less. Somedmes Barnes agrees. He has said several dmes dial 6-foot-10 junior Jason Klotz, now the stardng center, should have played more early in the season. For several weeks, he ranked last in playing dme. Barnes has spoken similarly of reserve point guard Edgar Moreno, but the coach has not elevated him like he did Klotz. Barnes has his reasons for doing these things. He regards Moreno as more of a pure point guard than Kenton Paulino. But Paulino shoots better. And when opponents defend aggressively on the perimeter, Barnes is likely to hand the ball to Ivey. One of his biggest challenges, Barnes said, was overcoming the injuries to Mouton and Thomas. Another was the difficulties endured by Thomas and sophomore Brad Buckman as the two 6foot-8 post players tried to be effective near the basket. Each made welcome contributions during the first two rounds of the tournament, Barnes said.

March 25

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Lindsey Harding, will try to use their team speed to counter the Golden Eagles’ stingy zone defense. “I like to push it up the floor anyway, so that would be my goal,” Harding said. “After a score or after a miss, [we need to] get the ball from the post and push it up the floor until they stop. Then we move into our secondary fast break.” The winner of tonight’s contest will advance to the Mideast Regionals in Norfolk, Va. to face fifth-seeded Louisiana Tech, who downed No. 4 Texas Tech.

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get criticized enough, or so goes the train of thought of Bill Livingston, a columnist

for Cleveland’s Plain Dealer who recently timent running throughout the Byrnes berated Krzyzewski in a column. And Meadowlands Arena during Saturday’s though he correcdy pointed out that John NCAA East Regional final than admiration Wooden of UCLA and Dean Smith were for Connecticut’s Cinderella-like season,” known for arguing with referees during Anthony Cotton wrote in March 1990 for their programs’ golden eras, and though the Washington Post. Cotton noted that he also compared Coach K and Duke to George Steinbrenner and the Yankees, he “along the media table or in the areas outside the locker rooms, where, even before wrote that “no dynasty in this country gets the Blue Devils’ 79-78 overtime victory, a pass as often as Duke does.” Unfortunately for all the detractors many people complained about how tired Duke has inadvertendy pulled in over the they were of Duke’s act.” The reason for such fervent animosity is years, the Blue Devils are just about as a pretty common refrain. “No one wants to dominant now as they were back when the dynasty got rolling in 1986, when Duke fell root for a team that wins all the time,” my She to Denny Crum and Louisville in the friend Amy euphemistically explained. national to that draws similar championship. a Kentucky, place goes As a result, the mainstream distaste for vitriol from opponents. Two other explanations abound. One is Duke has grown accordingly over time. But that Coach K is seen as a manipulator of so too has the team’s acceptance of its officiadng, and is a recipient of leniency vociferous anti-fan base. “There are people who look at us that along the way. The other is that the Cameron Crazies aren’t all they’re cracked way, but I take it as a compliment,” Alaa up to be, and that they are, in fact, more Abdelnaby told Cotton in 1990. And just last week, JJ. Redick noted, “It is fun that annoying than clever. These aren’t original viewpoints, either. people hate us so much. I’d rather be on a “On the court, one coach theorized team that everybody hated because we won that the school’s pristine image has than be on a mediocre team.” Dean Smith and his Tar Heels used to brainwashed officials into believing that Duke is too smart to commit fouls,” occupy Duke’s current place in the national Cotton continued. “Off the floor, others ire light. Consider an April 1995 column insist that the Blue Devils’ players are too from Wally Hall of the Arkansas Democratgood to be true, a tad too articulate, and Gazette. The story, entitled ‘The Dean that Coach Mike Krzyzewski can be a bit Turns into Crybaby at Final Four”, described preachy when the subject is the reform of Smith as being the recipient of a double standard from officials and the media. college basketball’s ills.” of Which brings us to 1984, when Coach K Coach K is an outspoken proponent college basketball who is unafraid to speak charged ACC officials with applying a his mind. Nevermind that he’s widely “double standard” to Smith. In an article acknowledged as one of the top coaches also written by Feinstein in The in the history of the game. His opinion Washington Post, then-UNC athletic direcshould be discredited, his reputation tartor (and current ACC Commissioner) nished, because he and his program don’t John Swofford noted that Krzyzewski’s

complaint was “ridiculous. What [Coach

K] has done is totally unfair. It’s gotten much more ink than it deserves...” So now that Coach K is viewed and often depicted as having his way with officials, many have pointed out an apparent hypocrisy. So Feinstein went to Coach K last week and asked for an

explanation.

“When I said that [about Smith], I said it because I believe it,” Krzyzewski acknowledged. “But there’s no question I was looking at it through Duke-colored and Krzyzewski-colored glasses. Carolina did what it did because Dean was a great coach, and he had great players. My guess is they didn’t get as many calls back then as I thought they did. And I’m pretty convinced we don’t get nearly as many calls now as people think we do. My vision is a little bit different.” Be that as it may, consider the vision of an outsider. His name is Mike Orr, and he is an undergraduate at Furman College in South Carolina. I asked him to try to explain why people dislike Duke to such a great extent. He gladly obliged. “I think a lot of people really don’t like Duke, especially from other ACC areas like Adanta or other N.C. areas, because they just grow up hating them. I grew up in Charlottesville, so I’ve hated Duke since the day I was born.” The same used to be true for foes of Wooden’s Bruins and Smith’s Tar Heels. Indeed, Duke will not always be as dominant as it is now in basketball. Success is not to be taken for granted. Just ask UCLA and UNC. But for now, the Blue Devils likely have little else on their mind but a fourth NCAA championship, whether you like it or not. Mike Corey is a Trinity juniorand sports editor The of Chronicle. Reach him at mlc2o@duke.edu

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Academic TUESDAY, MARCH 23 Talks: 11:30-12:30pm. Geometry and Protein Evolution: Patrice Koehl. DlO6, Levince Science Research Center (LSRC). Features talks by the faculty and students of the Duke University Department of Computer Science, as well as visitors with common research interests.

Readings: 1;30-2:2opm. Lauren Winner, Author of "Girl Meets God" at the Divinity School: Presented by the Center for Theological Writing. Alumni Memorial Common Room.

English Dept Symposium Series: 4-6pm. Jahan Ramazani, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will give a talk titled "Modernist Bricolage, Postcolonial Hybridity." Q&A period to follow. Carpenter Boardroom, Perkins Library. George L. Maddox Lectureship: 5-6pm. Guest Speaker: Richard Schulz, PhD Topic: "Health Effects of Chronic Stress Exposure in the Elderly: Resignation and Resilience". Lecture is open to the public and attendees are invited to attend reception which follows. Searle Center Lecture Hall, Duke Campus. Lecture: Bpm. Emmy award-winning TV journalist Rick Kaplan, who oversaw coverage of the Iraq War as senior vice president at ABC News, will give the Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Communications, "Journalism and the War on Terrorism." Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

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Film Theater. Movie presented by Duke University Union's Freewater Presentations. Free to Duke students, $1 for employees, $2 for the general public.

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7. The Communications Certificate program from Duke, open to the community, hosts free information sessions on East Campus. 6pm on the sth or noon on the 7th. To register for free session: 684-6259, www.learnmore.duke.edu/shortcourse/comm. &

April 6, 7, & 12. The Technical Communication Certificate Program from Duke, open to the community, hosts free information sessions on East Campus. Noon on the 6th or 12th, or 6pm on the 7th. To for free session: 684-6259, register www.learnmore.duke.edu/techcomm. Upcoming:

Upcoming: April 7. The Documentary Studies Certificate Program from Duke, open to the community, hosts a free information session at the Center for Documentary Studies, 7pm. To register for free session: 684-6259. Upcoming: Angels Among Us 5K Run and Family Fun Walk. Saturday, April 24, 7am registration. Wallace Wade Stadium, Duke University Campus. Proceeds benefit the Brain Tumor Center at Duke. For more information, visit angelsamongus.org or call 919-667-2616. Exhibit: Through March 28. Sebastiao Salgado's "Migrations: Humanity in Transition." Sebastiao Salgado began a photographic investigation into the phenomenon of mass migration at the end of the twentieth century. Call

Display: Through March 28. The Migration Transitions Project: Photo narratives with Latina Immigrant Women. CDS, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street. The Migration Transitions Project studied Latina immigrant women and the role of social support in making the transition to a new community and in accessing health services, particularly preventive health services such as prenatal care, immunizations, and cervical cancer screening for women. Display: Through April 4. Portraits of Members: the Photographs of Michael Francis Blake. Perkins Library, Special Collections Hallway Gallery. Photographs lay one of Charleston, S.C.'s first African American studio photographers. Display: Through April 11. Francesco Petrarca, Poet and Humanist. Perkins Library Gallery. Selections from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to commemorate the 700 th anniversary of Petrarch's birth and to honor Professor Ronald G. Witt on his retirement. DUMA exhibition: Through May 16. Koz’ma Prutkov; A View of St Petersburg. Thirty-one hand-colored etchings with aquatint by Alla Ozerevskaia and Anatoly Yakolev illustrate a 1990 edition of the writings of Koz'ma Prutkov, described as "the greatest Russian writer who never lived." Prukov was the collaborative invention of four poets in nineteenth-century St. Petersburg and quickly became a cult figure. These prints reveal the continued relevance of the political aphorisms of the fictitious, nineteenth-century bureaucrat and writer. Call for Museum Hours: 684-5135 Location: Duke University Museum of Art. -

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Taxation without representation Vice President for Student Affairs Why, though, did Moneta not go to Larry Moneta’s shocking decision to the student body for at least a Duke raise the quadrangle fee by $3O and Student Government rubber stamp? the student activities fee by $7O with- Presumably because he expected stuout consulting students underscores a dents to reject his proposal, he had no serious problem in his management of need to do so given his authority and, Student Affairs. By leaving students most alarmingly, he simply did not out of the loop on an issue that immecare about what students thought. This is not the first diately and exclusively STAFF EDITORIAL affects them, Moneta time this year Student is conveying that he Affairs has levied undoes not care about their opinions on popular decrees on students. Earlier the increases. this semester, Residence Life and It goes back to the old U.S. colonial Housing Services Director Eddie Hull rallying cry of “no taxation without abolished annual review, much to the representation.” Students, like the consternation and puzzlement of secolonists of old, should refuse Monelective living groups, student leaders ta’s feckless taxation by urging their and independents. But at least Hull parents not to pay the student activities asked students to examine annual refee on their Bursar’s bill. view before discarding their work; Moneta’s mistake here goes beyond Moneta did not even tell students of his failure to consult students. With his decision until it was already made. the student activities fee hike, he has Refusing payment of the student overstepped the definition of the activities fee is a forceful statement of charge by appropriating some of the defiance for students and parents, but monies to the Office ofStudent Activiit is only a start. We also urge the Board ties and Facilities. While the OSAF is in of Trustees to revisit the power it inthe midst of a major overhaul and un- vests in Moneta to make these sorts of doubtedly needs money, let’s be forth- unilateral decisions. If the faculty is to right and acknowledge that the stu- be consulted on all issues affecting its dent activities fee is now misnamed. constituency at Academic Council, stuBetter yet, let’s find the OSAF funding dents should be similarly consulted besomewhere else and reserve the stufore they are assessed fees that purport dent activities fee for students only. to fund their “activities”—especially if It’s pretty obvious why Moneta those activities are actually the workchose to answer his $620,000 question ings of an office within Student Affairs. by shaking down the student body: it’s Moneta can save face on this issue simple, it’s hassle-free and he doesn’t by putting a referendum on next have to beg the central administration week’s DSG ballot asking students or donors for money they may be hesiwhat they think about the fee increase. tant to give. As important as fundraisShould they reject the tax, Moneta ing is to the Division ofStudent Affairs, should drop the increase—lest they giving to a new student center is a lot heave his media room equipment into sexier than supporting the OSAF. Boston Harbor.

ON THE RECORD There's no quick fix. We will once again review all of our security coverage... but it's a difficult situation to resolve. —Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta on the weekend’s sexual assaults, see story, page 1.

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If your life had a soundtrack, what songs would (Eminem, Tupac, Nas). People in this category be on it? With the advent of digital music, Dick care about lyrics, but don’t care so much that Clark’s age-old question has become our generathey need to sort through every song in the tion’s great metaphysical exploration. world to find the right words. Thus, they get the We expect the music we choose to be a reflecname “Satisficers.” Satisficers crave meaning tion of our personality and the way we view and from their music. They want music to tell them treat life. In our gigantic digital playlists we atabout how they feel, and lyrics that vaguely retempt to solve the riddle of our souls. From an flect events in their lives. At best, Satisficers are early age we have developed our own tastes and normal people who simply don’t have time or inopinions about music to the extent that we use terest in exploring music or themselves more music as a tool to judge the depth and human deeply. At worst, they are whiners who think that worth of others. Rememthe shallow depictions of life and emober in middle school tion expressed in this music are the when you talked to peogrim truth, and there is no escaping it. That means you, Fred Durst! ple online in chat rooms? The first or second quesVenturing to the bottom half of our tion asked was always, matrix, we come to the “Resenters.” Re“What music do you sen ters are those who demand the highlike?” This question wasest quality in their lyrical expressions, n’t really about music, and refuse to be satisfied with popular Resenters condemn the estabthough, far from it. This Andrew Waugh music. lishment and its candy-coated view of question was intended to The Widening Gyre weed out the stragglers; life. They spend their time searching those poor depraved music magazines in search of independsouls who liked to music ent-label heroes (Wilco, Pavement, considered so horrible that they couldn’t possibly Aesop Rock), who refuse to whore out their music have redeeming qualities. If she says “Backstreet for the sake of huge sales and popular audiences. Boys,” she’s off the show like it’s Survivor. If she Resenters fear and mistrust each other, always trysays “Ben Folds Five,” she comes back for the alling to one-up their friends in the search for the star special. next great thing in music, the next great definiThese “stereo” types (get it?) make evaluating tion of life (I’ve got one for you, Greg!). They potential friends quick and painless. However, in even go so far as to mistrust the very music they their infant stages they offer very little in the way of love, often casting out former favorites, when they an intricate personality assessment. Though a simtransition to popularity and ‘sell out.’ Being a Reple comparison offavorites can be useful, it does- senter is time-consuming and cannibalistic, but it n’t answer the broader sociological question: do is also often highly rewarding, as one can discover certain types of people like certain types ofmusic? many great things beneath the mainstream. It ocNow, I have been an avid music nerd for severcasionally pays social dividends, as the Resenter al years. Having access to high-speed internet has can drop cool band names at hipster parties. allowed me to listen to most of the important alFinally we come to the intersection of the obbums and songs in popular music over the last 20 scure and the non-lyrical. This category contains or so years. I have even traversed the beaches of most electronica (Aphex Twin, Chemical Brothsuch strange and foreign shores as electronica, ers) , and nearly all jazz and classical music. This is jazz, and soul. My sonic adventures have led me to music at its most artistic. It doesn’t look for listenbelieve that there are two dimensions along which ers, and it doesn’t bother to say anything in words. music correlates with personality. Is the music This music and its authors don’t care about you popular and readily available, or do you have to and wouldn’t mind if you never heard what they seek out the music? And does the music have incomposed, and those who listen to it are the same trinsically meaningful lyrics, or are lyrics second- way. These people are the “Connoisseurs.” They ary to the overall sound? Placing these dimenappreciate the challenge involved in uncovering sions on a 2x2 matrix, we come out with fourbasic such obscure and complicated music, and take ‘stereo’-types. care to completely absorb every aspect of it. They The first intersection we will examine is that of don’t need lyrics to tell them how to think, or repopular music with secondary lyrics. Most dance mind them what they felt. Connoisseurs just need pop (Britney Spears or Kylie Minogue), and most a background of detailed sound to inspire them hip-hop tracks (Ludacris, Sean Paul, Sisqo) fall and drive them on in their pursuits, whedier they under this category. People who listen to this be social or solitary. music predominantly are “Confectioners.” ConAnd there you have them: the four basic fectioners like their music sweet and easy. They “stereo’’-types, each with its own advantages and don’t want to work to hard to get it or understand disadvantages. Like all stereotypes, very few peoit because their fundamental goal is not music, ple fit neatly into one category. More than likely but the social exploitation of music. They want to particular whims, emotions, and phases of life get on the floor and dance with somebody; to extrigger different musical explorations and reacplore the raw physical drive inherent in great bass tions, bringing out different “stereo’’-types at difwith a driving beat. Lyrics that don’t add to the ferent times, but there still remain fundamental sound only get in the way, and anything too obrelationships between certain attitudes about life scure wouldn’t be on in the club. and living and certain types of music. Ifyou don’t Our next intersection is popular music with believe it, just think: how many really deep and inmeaningful lyrics (or at least lyrics the artists and teresting people do you know, and how many of their fans consider meaningful). Almost all them love Limp Bizkit? mainstream rock and roll (Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne) falls into this category along with hipAndrew Waugh is a Trinity junior. His column aphop that displays an emphasis on lyrical prowess pears every other Tuesday.

COMMENTARIES

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Grade inflation in humanities a dangerous trend teaching. 2. Student evaluations of teaching

“Yes, lama criminal. My crime is that of curiosity.

are not reliable indicators of teaching effecand think, not what they look like. My crimeis that tiveness. 3. High grade distributions cannot of outsmarting you, something that you will never be associated with higher levels of student -Mentor, computer hacker achievement. 4. Differences in grading pracforgive me for. tices have a substantial impact on student enThe success hackers enjoyed breaking rollments, and cause fewer students to enroll into student computers over winter break in those fields that grade more stringently. 5. Grading practices differ sysforces us to own up to the fact that we utterly misuntematically between disciderstand the technology plines and instructors, and these disparities cause seriupon which we depend ous inequities in student asupon utterly. Our modern sessment.” All of these are world has become what literature professor Fredric grounds for concern, but most unsetding is the eviJameson describes as “a dedence he presents that recentered network of microveals the effect differences in circuits and blinking lights,” Matthew Gillum instructor grading practices whose significance and ophave on student course selecerating principles we treat Veritas with careless indifference tion. As he reports elsewhere, students are twice as How many of your friends could explain, in detail, the technology belikely to enroll in a course with an A-minus avhind the übiquitous cell phone? This proberage as they are to enroll in a course with a B average. The big losers are the natural scilem of ignorance is by no means a recent development; Americans have been notorious ence and math departments, since they grade underperformers in math and science, on av- hardest, and the big winners are the humanierage, compared to the rest of the world for ties, since they grade easiest. Johnson writes, decades, but only recently has this malady “On average, American undergraduates take crept into our institutions of higher learning, 50 percent fewer courses in the natural sciriding on the coattails of grade inflation in ences and math than they would if grading the humanities. If grading practices at Duke practices were more equitable.” between departments were fair, you would be A number of theories claim to identify the better equipped to survive the technological causes of grade inflation, and some are rich with hilarity, e.g., ‘The students just get better era, and protect yourself from hackers. Last year Valen Johnson, a former Duke every year!” or “What an effective teacher I am!” while the best considers teachers as selfprofessor of statistics, published “Grade Inflainterested decision makers who are aware of tion: A Crisis in College Education,” chronicling the rise of grades at the college level, the strong correlation (as high as .75) beusing data collected here during the 1998- tween the grades a student receives and her 1999 academic year. His exhaustive quantitaratings of the professor and accordingly give tive study, which I highly recommend to stagood marks to advance their careers since rattistics majors and chronic insomniacs like ings factor into pay, promotion, and tenure myself, gives bales of empirical support to a decisions. Unfortunately for scientists and number of “duh” observations—similar to mathematicians, this tactic is structurally inthe recent paradigm-shattering conclusion of feasible. As I have heard for years, often daily, the Duke University Medical Center that from my math teachers: “Matthew, either you there is a relationship between exercise and have discovered the first contradiction in mathematics, or you’re wrong.” The search weight—with which all of us are already anecdotally familiar, in addition to other counter for contradiction continues. Since scientists intuitive points. His conclusions: “1. Differare unable to inflate grades because their disences in grading practices between instrucciplines lack the subjectivity of humanities courses, a gap in average grades develops betors cause biases in student evaluations of

My crime is that of judgingpeople by what they say ”

tween the humanities, math and the natural

sciences and students, also self-interested decision makers, take courses in departments likely to boost their GPAs and, by extension, improve their prospects for employment and graduate school. If one agrees with Galileo, as I do, that the universe is writen in the language of mathematics, we are in the middle of a bad trend. To see the ugly effect of a regional disregard for math and science, we need only look to the Arab world today, where a United NationsDevelopment program study found that no country spends more than 0.2 percent of its gross national product on research in the sciences, 10 times less—in percentage terms —than the U.S., that only 370 industrial patents originated in the Arab world between 1980 and 2000, in striking contrast to the 16,000 patents granted in South Korea over the identical time span and that more than 19 out of every 20 Arab university attendees go into a field other than science. Not coincidentally, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the per capita GDP of the entire Arab world is only a little more than that of Spain, an unimpressive economy itself, even though the population of the Arab world is more than six times larger. Being ignorant of math and science is a tragedy for other reasons as well. Scientist and writer Carl Sagan argues in his book: ‘The Demon-Haunted World,” “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is away of thinking.” It teaches us to be rational, to base our decisions on evidence and judge options against the merits of their alternatives. Moreover, it repairs itself when off track, and as Sagan points out, has much more prophetic power than religion, is away to free poor countries from misery, warn ourselves of impending disasters, answer the questions of the universe, and encourage the democratic values of free inquiry and truth questing. In order to be responsible global citizens who understand our world, we-need to take science and math in addition to the humanities, and grade inflation is an enemy of this. Finding a solution to grade inflation that everyone can palate is impossible, but a single step (Johnson suggests many more) could be taken at Duke to make things better; Average grades should be made to fall within a specif-

ic range for every course regardless of department. B-minus is a fair place to start. Equalizing grading practices across departments will do much to properly reunite science and the humanities by eliminating the disincentive for taking science and math courses, encouraging greater scientific litera.cy and wider pursuit of scientific careers, with all the individual and societal benefits that entails. Second, it will make the GPA a fair measure of relative achievement, which is the fair thing to do. Of course, grades are superfluous, important only if you plan on working for someone; retention is what counts if you plan on working for yourself, but this is another matter. Thousands of objections can be raised to constraining average grades to a value of Bminus. Professors—particularly postmodernists who don’tbelieve in “truth”—will wail and rip out their hair at the abrogation of academic freedom and at the difficulty of distinguishing between the qualities of student work in humanities courses, but the reality remains that current grading practices are damaging to math and the natural sciences, that the GPA in its present form is meaningless, and that any change to ameliorate the situation is surely worth a few trampled toes because the cost of not acting (proliferating scientific ignorance, a widening rift between science and the humanities) is far greater than the cost of acting (professorial irritation).

What I have tied to argue for here is a reduction of grade inflation at Duke so that science and the humanides can be brought back into proper equilibrium. Ultimately they are interdependent; each needs the other. Both devote themselves to seeking truth, but neither has a monopoly. It is unbecoming to be lopsided in either direction, as history has taught and will condnue to teach. Bertrand Russell puts it well: “If a sciendfic civilization is to be a good civilization, it is necessary that increase in knowledge should be accompanied by an increase in wisdom.” Or, in other words, the humanities without science are lame, and science without the humanities, blind. Matthew Gillum is a- Trinity junior. His column appears every other Tuesday.

Get involved with sexual assault prevention Researchers at the Family Violence Prevention Fund estimate that almost one-third of women in the United States have been physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some time in their lives. Health-related costs of You might recognize these lines ifyou attended this year’s violence against intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion per V-Day Duke University benefit production of Eve Ensler’s year, and women are five to eight times more likely than ‘The Vagina Monologues.” Part of the V-Day College Cam- men to be victims. It is also estimated that 50 percent of men who frequently assault their wives also paign, ‘The Vagina Monologues” has abuse their children, and 3.3 million to 10 been sponsored by the Women’s Cenchildren witness domestic violence million ter for five years. I had the opportunity pi i r» i p IctlTC r GlQlTl Til ill OFQ cLM each year. to organize this year’s production as Guest Commentary Clearly, violence against women affects part of my graduate internship at the coundess women, children and families in Women’s Center. the U.S. and worldwide. So what does any of The monologue entitled “My Short Skirt” focuses on the day-to-day performance of gender this have to do with The Vagina Monologues,” sexual asthrough our clothing and alludes to how harmful some of sault, or students’ day-to-day lives at Duke? At Duke, efforts to end violence against women focus prithe norms around gender performance can be. It raises awareness about sexual assault by asserting women’s right to marily on sexual assault. No college campus is immune to decide how to express their sexuality without being judged, sexual assault issues, and Duke is no exception. However, harassed, or violated. The issue of sexual assault on campus Duke is fortunate to have many sources of support for responding to and preventing sexual assault. These sources inhas made recent national headlines because of the reported clude Sexual Assault Support Services, the SHARP Peer Edrapes at the University of Colorado and the disturbing comucators, the Women’s Center, and many concerned ments made by now-suspended football coach Gary Barnett. But the V-Day movement focuses on issues of violence students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The students who pubagainst women that go beyond sexual assault. Performances lished Saturday Night are an excellent example. In addition, ongoing work by the Sexual Assault Supof ‘The Vagina Monologues” have raised awareness about violence against women and girls worldwide. In “Memory of port Services office promotes ongoing dialogue about how Her Face,” Ensler illustrates the universality of violence to end sexual assault. From The Vagina Monologues to the new judicial policy to Sexual Assault Prevention Week, reagainst women by describing government-sanctioned or warshe also cites related violence in Mexico, Iraq, and Pakistan; sponses to sexual assault at Duke include prevention, poliadvocacy, support services and education. Ending sexuviolence women each in cy, statistics about against horrifying al assault in any community is a long-range project, but at country. “My Vagina Was My Village” focuses on the gruepresent it is clear that many members of the Duke commusome physical and sexualviolence perpetrated against Bosnnity are committed to addressing sexual assault as a cornian women. also occurs every day munity problem. However, violence against women Violence against women worldwide and sexual assault on in the United States in the communities we all call home.

My short skirt /is not a legal reason /for raping me / although it has been before / it will not hold up / in the new court. -EveEnsler, “My Short Skirt”

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college campuses may appear unconnected, yet the truth is

that all forms of violence against women are inextricably linked. Beyond attending ‘The Vagina Monologues” —one night out of the whole year—what can each of us do to help end sexual assault and other forms of violence? At Duke, one option is to volunteer for Sexual Assault Prevention Week (March 29-April 2) or join Men Acting for Change. Women and men are welcome to contact the Women’s Center at 684-3897 to find out more about these efforts. But to end violence against women on a more global scale, the challenge for all of us is to find ways to promote prevention, policy, advocacy, and support services that we feel will be successful at addressing violence in the communities we call home. Sometimes support for a friend in crisis can go a long way toward making a community change. In another community, the best intervention may be to fight for changes in a workplace harassment policy. Speaking up really does make a difference, particularly in everyday social situations where people often laugh about violence, ridicule its victims, or —worst of all—ignore it altogether. To end violence, we must stay involved, be courageous, and use our voices whenever and wherever possible. Each of us can help end violence against women. To get involved at Duke: Mark your calendar for Sexual Assault Prevention Week, March 29 through April 2. Volunteer for Sexual Assault Prevention Week. Planning meetings are held every Monday 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Women’s Center. All are welcome; no previous involvement necessary. For more information, contact the Women’s Center at 684-3897. join Men Acting for Change. E-mail sss7@duke.edu to find out more. ClaireFeldman-Riordan is a Graduate Student Work Intern at theDuke University’s Women’s Center.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 23,

THE CHRONICLE

2004

SUSAN GRAHAM,

CHOREOLAB 2004

Mezzo-Soprano

Featuring a new work by RONALD K. BROWN and A Choreographic Offering by JOSE UNION.

All-American Grammy winner and 2004 Vocalist of the Year Susan Graham has emerged as one of the most winning singers of our time. She is an

extraordinary artist at the apex of her career.

March 27 at 8 pm, March 28 at 3 pm, Reynolds Theater,

March 24,8 pm, Page Auditorium, West Campus, $3O/$25/$2O.

ryan Center, 15 General, $8 Students. ckets also available at

door one hour before

rtain

PERFORMING ARTS

LECTURES/EXHIBITIONS

CHORAL VESPERS

Photography Lecture Series

The Duke Vespers Ensemble directed by SUE KLAUSMEYER, will lead this candlelight service.

“The Documentary Imagination,” SUSAN MEISELAS. March 24, 7 pm, John Hope Franklin Center, Free.

March 25, 5:15 pm, Duke Chapel, Free

“Student Voices in Response to Salgado”

SPRINGTERNATIONAL Celebrating and uniting

IHr

verse

!(gii«wl it.

For more

information, please call (919) 684-4741. March 26,10

ARTS EVENTS ON CAMPUS This week: March 23-31

ood crafts, music and dance.

5 pm, West Campus. (RAIN

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ON TAP! is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of the Arts in cooperation with participating campus arts

departments and programs. For more information about performing arts events, call the Duke University Box Office, 684-4444 or view online at tickets.duke.edu. To inquire about this ad call 660-3356.

For additions or changes, visit Duke’s Online Calendar: calendar.duke.edu Note: Students must show Duke I.D

DATE: April 2)

for free admission to events.

duke arts

COLLEGIUM MUSICUM KERRY MCCARTHY, director with ELIZABETH CASON, harpsichord.

Featuring music by Dufay, Frescobaldi, Gagliano, Lasso, Marenzio, Monteverdi and Rore .

FILMS ON EAST

LADY BLUE Groovin’ Spring Concert

March 27, 8 pm, Richard White Auditorium For more information, visit www.duke.edu/ web/ladyblue.

3/23 TEEN KANYA (Three Daughters) 3/25-3/28 SPRINGTERNATIONAL MOVIE FESTIVAL 3/26 CARTOONS (Midnight, Free) 3/30 MONSOON WEDDING Screen/Society presents

3/24

3/28

...

THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR.

of New East Asian

PEKING OPERA BLUES. Global!Pop! Culture .

3/29

Fred Burns: NATTY BUMPPO works.

other

Faculty Film Showcase. (Griffith)

Latin American Indigenous Films with guest speaker FREYA SCHIWY. 3/31

Osier Literary Roundtable. Discussion

offiction by Virginia

Wolfe, “Lappin and Lapinova.”

March 26, Noon, Administrative Conference Room, 14128 Red Zone, Duke Medical Center, Free. &

Art History Lecture

JOHN MILNER, Professor of Art History in the Department ofFine Art at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK will be guest lecturer. March 30, 5:30 pm, 204 B East Duke Building, Free.

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

BLACKMAN. March 31, Noon, Duke Chapel, Free

...

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

Cine-East 3: Another Side Cinema . (Griffith)

CHAPEL LUNCHTIME CONCERT Early English viol music and consort songs presented by the Duke Consort Viols with soprano KRISTEN

WEST

Freewater Presentations presents 7

March 27, 8 pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, Free.

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Art

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Student research responses to Salgado exhibition, “Migrations: Humanity in Transition from various documentary points of view. March 25, 7 pm, Center for Documentary Studies galleries, Free.

Ongoing Exhibition “Domestic

Threats” Works by BARBARA RACHKO. Brown Gallery Bryan Center ,

Special Events.

Free.

THE HARDER THEY COME. Global! Pop! Culture. (Griffith)

Thru April 9.