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This is thefirst in a series of articles examining current research trends.

Across the nation, universities are changing the definition of research as they incorporate their various departments in order to take an interdisciplinary approach to research, teaching and learning. At Duke, some of the nation’s leading scientists and scholars are collaborating in projects that take this trend to a new extreme.

Professors, scientists and administrators have taken notice of the unique qualities Duke has that have enabled its transition from traditional research within discrete departments to a more modem approach, encouraging cooperation among departments.

“Duke is a young university that isn’t caught in its own traditions,” said Cathy Davidson, vice provost for interdisciplinary studies. “If Duke has a tradition, it is to be bold, even fearless, in trying the new, while also doing its best to appreciate and reward the tried-and-true.”

The Institute for GenomeSciences and Policy has taken center stage in Duke’s shift toward interdisciplinary research, maintaining the most overlaps with other departments across campus as well as with other institutions. In collaboration with the Duke University Medical Center,

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IGSP has produced groundbreaking results in the fields of genomics and cancer research.

Although science is most often associated with the latest research trends, nearly every area of the University has moved in the direction of interdepartmentalresearch. The Fuqua School of Business, the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, the Kenan Ethics Institute and the. Pratt School of Engineering are all models of interdisciplinary research in full force.

Duke’s academic and administrative flexibility has enabled its smooth transition to more collaborative research.

“We have a culture open to new initiatives—it is part of our signature—and we have been working on this for a long time,” Provost Peter Lange said.

‘Therefore, it is definitely a sustainable program at Duke.”

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have rigidly defined their research, but Vice Provost for Research James Siedow is confident in Duke’s grasp on more cooperative work. “It is the wave of the future. Science is definitely heading in that direction, and now we just have to cross the [gaps] between departments,” he said.

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President GeorgeW. Bush renews his commitment to fighting terrorism Tuesday night.

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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush Tuesday night vowed that the United States would not bow to the surge of violence in Iraq, saying that to change course in the face of mounting attacks would betray the Iraqi people and embolden America’s enemies around the world.

Bush strongly reiterated his commitment to transferring sovereignty in Iraq back to Iraqis on schedule on June 30 despite the spike in resistance from members of the two leading religious groups in Iraq.

“Now is the time and Iraq is the place in which the enemies of the civilized world are testing the will of the civilized world,” Bush said to a prime-time audience from the ornate setting of the White House East Room. “We must not waver.”

Appearing somber but relaxed as he confronted what he called tough weeks—and what his advisers acknowledge has been one of the most trying periods of his presidency —Bush cast the conflict in Iraq as an integral part of the broader fight against terrorism and suggested that any failure to follow through would be unthinkable and have dire consequences for Americans.

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And you thought AIM “stalking” was time-consuming Harvard College-based social network Thefacebook.com opened to the Duke community Sunday night and immediately became Duke’s hottest way to keep track offriends—and would-be friends—online.

With a few clicks, registrants enter personal, course and contact information.

Add a few friend requests, and you’ve got a network of classmates and friends.

“This is absolutely ridiculous,” freshman Tyler Green said. “I just logged on and approved a bunch of people as my friends, and apparently I’m connected to 170 people. I’ve spent maybe 20 minutes on this in the past 24 hours,” he said.

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Thefacebook opened to Harvard Feb. 4.

From there, interest among other student bodies stimulated expansion to schools that have social contacts with Harvard. The latest wave includes Georgetown and the University of Virginia, as well as Duke.

Already, Duke has made its presence known. After two days of operation, the Duke website has about 1,050 members out of a total site membership near 51,910. “[Duke’s site] is growing faster than most of the schools we’ve gone to,” said Harvard sophomore Chris Hughes, the website’s public relations officer. “It’s one of the fastest-growing, if not the fastestgrowing network we have.”

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U.S. tanks, artillery push to Najaf

by Denis Gray THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NAJAF, Iraq A 2,500-strong U.S. force, backed by tanks and artillery, pushed to the outskirts of the Shiite holy city of Najaf Tuesday for a showdown with a radical cleric.

The standoff in the south came as a U.S. military helicopter went down near Fallujah in the west. Three soldiers were woundedand a Marine helping secure the site was killed by mortars, the military said.

Meanwhile, the string of kidnappings that has coincided with violence around Fallujah and in the south this month continued. A French journalist

was reported abducted, and four Italians working as private guards were missing and feared kidnapped.

An Associated Press tally shows that 22 were being held hostage, while 35 others had been taken hostage and released.

However, Senor, Dan the spokesperson for the U.S.-led administration, said Tuesday that about 40 foreign hostages from 12 countries were being held by Iraqi insurgents, and that the FBI is investigating the abductions. Among those held are three Japanese and truck driver Thomas Hamill of Macon, Miss., whose captors had threatened to kill them.

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not negotiate with “terrorists or kidnapto gain the hostages’ release. He

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would not comment on efforts to free the captives.

Gen. John Abizaid, the top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said he has asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to adjust the U.S. troop rotation into and out of Iraq this spring so that U.S. commanders can have the use of perhaps 10,000 more soldiers than they otherwise would have.

On the way to Najaf, the U.S. force’s 80-vehicle convoy was ambushed Monday night by gunmen firing small arms SEE

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Four bodies in Iraq may be contractors by

Lee Keath

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD, Iraq Four bodies have been found in Iraq, possibly the remains of private contractors missing since an assault on their convoy outside Baghdad amid a wave of kidnappings of at least 22 foreigners.

A State Department official Tuesday confirmed the discovery of the bodies, but the private contractor Halliburton said it did not know whether the dead were its missing employees.

Initial reports said the four bodies were mudlated, but those reports were not confirmed, the official said.

NBC News reported that the four bodies were in a shallow grave between Fallujah and Abu Ghraib, scene of the convoy

attack, and that U.S. officials were led to the grave by an Iraqi.

Two U.S. soldiers and seven employees of Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root have been missing since their convoy was attacked Friday on the main highway west of Baghdad, between the district ofAbu Ghraib and the central city of Fallujah.

The roads west of Baghdad have been a site of many of the kidnappings since the bloody fighting broke out across Iraq this month. Some abductions have also occurred in the southern part of the country.

The most recent reported abductions were of four Italian security guards working for a U.S.-based company and a

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Duke power plant case leaves tower court The ERA and Duke Energy together asked a federal judge Tuesday to rule against a lawsuit in which the ERA had accused the company of violating a part of the Clean Air Act.

Polio cases surface in Northern Nigeria The effort to eradicate polio worldwide by year's end received a major jolt Tuesday as health investigators confirmed a new case in Botswana that they traced to northern Nigeria, 3,000 miles away.

Cheney praises China for fighting terrorism Vice President Dick Cheney praised China Tuesday for cooperation on issues such as countert-

errorism and NorthKorea's nuclear ambitions, but tensions ran high over Taiwan.

Pakistan: No comment on Korea bombs Pakistan said it was sharing data divulged by disgraced top scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, but did not comment on a report that he had seen nuclear devices in a North Korea plant.

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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

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being and place in community. The composite is an equally-weighted average of the seven domains. This

value is then used to show a year’s overall trend compared to other years.

According to the study of the 27-year period, child well-being has increased 11 percent from the late 1980s. Because of the long-range scope of the project, the researchers could hypothesize reasons for future declines in well-being Land said two things happened in the 1980s—the economy underwent a massive restructuring and the baby was one of the researchers’ top concerns. boomers replaced the GI generation. He also pointed out “If you want to pinpoint [the most problematic] of that a struggling economy often correlated with lower the indicators, it would be obesity,” said Sarah.Meadchild well-being levels. According to some experts, this ows, data manager of the project and a graduate stucould indicate a future problem for children. dent in sociology. “Obesity has risen to a “Due to recent economic conditions, it is point where it negates the other positives. possible that we could see some declines,” For instance, the rate of infant mortality said Ruby Takanishi, president of the Foundaand teenage pregnancy has decreased, but tion for Child Development. “Now [improvobesity is holding back the progress that ing child well-being] must be fixed a little bit could have been made against the tides due to the current economThe project also revealed a decline in ics and uncertain national condition.” criminal activity and victimization, from Takanishi also expressed disappointment about 20 percent above the 1975 baseline levover the results of the study. “If you look at els in 1994 to about 38 percent below those 5 percent over a quarter of a century and levels in 2002. look at increases in economic well-being Project coordinator Kenand our leadership in the neth Land, John Franklin world, I think the answer is Crowell professor of sociolowe should be doing a whole gy, pointed out an interesting lot better for children than “While the parents are overly correspondence between obewe are.” protecting their children fromsity and crime.

She added that through “While the parents are statistical analysis, children in victims or viobeing committing overly protecting their chilthe U.S. could be 15 to 20 dren from being victims or lent crimes... the children get no percent better off than they committing violent crimes, are currently. exercise. This leads to higher Land admitted that the [by keeping them inside] the children get no exercise,” he index was not flawless and had rates.” obesity said. “This leads to higher the potential to be improved.

Kenneth Land obesity rates.”

“Part of this study was to Over the last three years, reidentify data gaps,” he said searchers organized previously “We will then work with the recollected data from 28 national indicators, including searchers to design new indicators for the next generaeverything from secure parental employment rate to tion. This [system] is not ideal but is still, interesting.” mathematical test scores, to objectively determine the Even thought the system might have some flaws, health and well-being ofchildren.

Takanishi expressed hope for the future.

The ages of the children studied ranged from zero to “I think that the whole idea of the index is to really call 29. The one 29-year-old was a special case, included bethe nation’s attention—policy makers and parents —to cause of the indicator for rate of graduation from college. how well our children are doing over a period of time,” These indicators were arranged into seven “quality of she said. “It should serve as a reminder that we need to life” domains—material well-being, health, safety, propay attention to their well-being and shows that we have ductive activity, social relationships, emotional well- far to go.”

technology improve lives, Duke researchers have found that the level of well-being for American children has increased only slightly since 1975.

According to the recently released Child Well-Being Index, children are safer and more educated than they were in 1975, but they are also less healthy and more prone to suicide. Childhood obesity, which is already an alarming trend for parents and physicians nationwide,

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The police said the victim was unable to provide a sufficient description to produce a composite drawing of the second suspect, who was described generally as being a black male of approximately the same age and height as the first suspect.

The two men robbed the Duke student at approximately 1:50 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Erwin Road and Anderson Street. The student handed over his wallet, and the two men fled.

—from staffreports Two-time trespasser arrested on West Campus Duke University Police Department officers arrested Willie Graham Burton, a 41-year old black male, on the Main West Quadrangle at 10:54 a.m. Tuesday on charges of second-degree trespassing.

Burton was reportedly seen wandering around West Campus, incessandy asking students and faculty for money. In response to a phone call from a student, the police arrived on the scene to question Burton.

Burton had previously received a trespassing warning on East Campus at 9:32 p.m. April 10 and, since Tuesday’s incident was his second violation, he was quickly arrested.

His warning last week was in response to several concerned phone calls received by the DUPD. The first call reported a man who fit Burton’s description was walking around Branson Theater asking people for money and trying to break into a parked car. A second call later that evening described a similar individual wandering around Randolph Dormitory, again asking students for money.

The police responded to the calls immediately and gave Burton his initial trespassing warning. North Carolina law states that an individual must be given a warning before being arrested for trespassing.

Burton is being held on $2,000 bail. His court date is set for May 10, 2004.

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WASHINGTON In a strong defense of the Bush administration, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday the nation was stunned by the Sept. 11 attacks because “for nearly a decade our government had blinded itself to our enemies.”

Appearing before a commission looking into the worst terror strike in the nation’s history, Ashcroft also said he moved quickly once in office to overturn a “failed policy” that allowed American agents to capture terrorist leader Osama bin Laden but not to assassinate him.

In nationally televised testimony, Ashcroft said that a legal wall that had been put in place to separate criminal investigators from intelligence agents.

“Even if they could have penetrated bin Laden’s training camps, they would have needed a battery of lawyers” to take action, he said dismissively.

Ashcroft slid into the witness chair on a day on which the panel issued reports indicating that a more nimble FBI and CIA working together might have uncovered the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist plot, and

cratic inertia.

In a written report, the panel also quoted former Acting FBI Director Thomas Pickard as saying Ashcroft told him in the summer of 2001 that “he did not want to hear” additional information about possible attacks.

Ashcroft denies making the statement, the commission said.

The attorney general followed to the witness table a series offormer top-ranking officials, pressed by members of the panel to explain why neither the CIA nor the FBI was successful in uncovering the plot in which four jetliners were hijacked. Nearly 3,000 people perished that day, “We did not have great sources in al Qaeda/’ conceded Pickard, who was acting FBI director briefly at a critical period in the summer of 2001.

“We didn’t have enough people to do the job and we didn’t have enough money by magnitudes,” added Gofer Black, former head of the ClA’s counterterrorism activities. “When you run out [of money] people die. When people die

you get more money,” he said bitingly.

In one prominent case, the commission said officials did not immediately recognize the significance of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was taken into custody the month before the attacks on immigration charges while attending flight school in Minnesota. A dispute between FBI agents in the field and supervisors meant no search warrant was immediately obtained to search his computer, the commission said.

Nor was Pickard told after Moussaoui’s arrest on Aug. 16, 2001—less than a month before the attacks that resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,00 people.

And it wasn’t until after the attack that the FBI learned that an imprisoned terrorist told agents he could have recognized Moussaoui from Afghan training camps run by al Qaeda.

Additionally, the commission said the FBI asked the British for help in identifying Moussaoui. “The case, though handled expeditiously at the American end, was not handled by the British as a priority amid a large number of other terrorist-related inquiries,” it said.

The commission said that “a maximum U.S. effort to investigate Moussaoui could conceivably have unearthed his connections” to the plotters.

The hearing unfolded in the same Senate hearing room where national security adviser Condoleezza Rice testified last week and former counterterrorism aide Richard Clarke a few weeks before that.

But there were empty seats this time, and the event lacked the electricity of those appearances, both of which were devoted largely to the question of what President Bush had been told about the terrorist threat and what he did about it.

One relative of a Sept. 11 victim, Nancy Aronson of Bethesda, Md., blinked back tears when commissioner Fred Fielding noted to Freeh that all counterterrorism systems had failed, allowing the hijacking plot to succeed. “I really was shocked that there wasn’t more awareness of the threat,” she said afterward.

In a report that adopted a sports metaphor to describe the counterterrorism effort, the commission said the CIA SEE ASHCROFT ON PAGE 9

Madrid terrorists had mulled Jewish targets by

Elaine Sciouno

NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

MADRID, Spain Terrorists believed responsible for the Madrid train bombings last month also considered attacks on a Jewish community center and cemetery outside Madrid, a senior Spanish investigator said Tuesday.

A map showing the two sites was found in the ruins of an apartment destroyed 10 days ago when at least six of the suspected bombers blew themselves up to avoid capture by the police, the official added.

The police also found evidence that the men were investigating the possibility of hitting at least one other target that would inflict major casualties.

“We are sure they were looking at an attack of the Jewish targets,” the official said. ‘They apparently had other alternatives as well, although we are less sure of them.”

The bombers were plotting new attacks because, it appears from evidence found in the apartment, they were

unhappy with suggestions by the newly elected Socialist government that it would double Spain’s contingent of soldiers in Afghanistan to 250 troops.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who will be sworn in soon as prime minister, has pledged repeatedly since his election victory that he will remove Spanish troops from Iraq unless they are placed under a U.N. mandate by June

30. But he told Secretary ofState Colin Powell at a meeting here on March 24, for example, that Spain was prepared to play a bigger role in Afghanistan, and other leading Socialists have said that the plan was to double Spain’s troop strength.

The full text of a painstakingly reconstructed video found in the ruins of the apartment and released by the police Tuesday offered the terrorists’ first criticism of the Socialists, who defeated Spain’s center-right government in the election three days after the March 11 bombings.

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and that your new government announced it would start its mandate with yet more fighting against Muslims and the deployment of more crusader troops to Afghanistan, the Death Squadrons and Ansar al Qaeda have decided to continue on the path of holy war and resistance,” the speaker on the video said.

The speaker added that unless all Spanish troops were withdrawn from Muslim lands within a week, the holy war would continue.

One senior official said investigators believed that the speaker, who was masked and wearing explosives strapped around his waist and who was flanked by two other masked men, was Serhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, the Tunisian thought to have been at the center of the train bombings. He was later killed in the suicide explosion in the apartment.

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Israel defers Gaza Strip referendum to May 2 by

Josef Federman

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The ruling Likud JERUSALEM Party Tuesday delayed its referendum on a withdrawalfrom the Gaza Strip by three days to May 2, fearing a basketball championship game would have kept too many voters at home.

The agonizing over logistics reflected the difficulties Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faces in trying to sell the plan to his hawkish party. Backers of the plan were concerned that many of those who did not feel strongly would rather watch the game than vote “yes,” while the ideological core of the party would vote “no” in any case.

Sharon has proposed uprooting all 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza, as well as four settlements in the West Bank, as part of his plan to separate Israelis and Palestinians in the absence of progress toward a peace agreement. In return, Sharon hopes to expand five large blocs of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Sharon traveled to the United States

Tuesday looking for an endorsement from President George W. Bush.

Ahead of a meeting with Sharon Wednesday, Bush gave only qualified support. He said Monday the pullout must also be part of a peace agreement that would then establish an independent Palestinian state.

The Palestinians have demanded that the Gaza pullout be accompanied by a much larger West Bank withdrawal. More than 230,000 Israelis live in some 140 settlements in the West Bank. The Palestinians want all of Gaza and the West Bank for their future state and demand that all the settlements be dismantled.

Speaking at a West Bank settlement before leaving for Washington, Sharon said Israel would keep the five blocs where almost half the West Bank settlers live, and linked that to his Gaza pullout proposal.

But Sharon’s biggest immediate challenge is persuading his own Likud Party to support him. Likud, like Sharon himself, has been a main backer of settle-

ment construction for decades

one of the games is scheduled for April 29. The Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv is in the tournament.

Party officials said they were concerned many Likud members would decide to nents Tuesday. watch the game rather than vote. “They Arens told Army Radio that the plan is [party officials] decided that the Final a “real mistake,” adding, “I shall do everyFour really does conflict,” said Likud thing in my ability” to persuade members spokesperson Shmuel Dahan. to vote no.

In other developments, Israeli troops Settler leaders met in Jerusalem to backed by armored vehicles raided a fivelaunch their campaign to defeat the prostory apartment building early Tuesday in posal. “Our fear is this is just the first step the West Bank city of Nablus, ransacking of many,” said settler leader Bentzi Lieberevery apartment in the building in a search for a wanted Hamas militant, Palestinian man. West Bank settlers fear a Gaza withdrawal will set a precedent for a pullout witnesses said.

The raid sparked a shootout with Palesfrom their areas.

Lieberman said the settlers plan an extinian militants, and windows were shot tensive public relations campaign under out by the gunfire. The army said it arrestthe slogan, “Brothers don’t disengage.” ed two wanted militants. No casualties Polls show that the Likud vote could be were reported on either side. close, and party officials decided to delay it In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian court from April 29 to May 2 to avoid a clash with convicted three men of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl and sentenced a major sports event.

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Several leading Likud figures oppose the withdrawal plan and have begun campaigning against it. Former Defense Minister Moshe Arens joined the list of oppo-

Bush, Cheney benefit from income tax cuts by

Jennifer Loven

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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney reaped tax benefits last year from the cuts that they pushed through Congress and that many Democrats have criticized as an unfair boon to the rich.

The government’s top two executives, both wealthy men, paid smaller shares of their income in federal taxes in 2003 than in the year before, according to returns released Tuesday by the White House.

Bush and his wife, Laura, paid $227,490 in federal income taxes—or about 28 percent of their $822,126 in adjusted gross income. For 2002, the Bushes paid about 31 percent of their adjusted gross income—slightly higher at $856,056—in federal taxes, for a total of

$268,719.

The difference from one year to the next was even more pronounced for Cheney. He and his wife, Lynne, owed $253,067 in 2003 federal taxes—about 20 percent of

their $1.3 million in adjusted gross income. In 2002, the Cheneys earned less but paid more, owing 29 percent—or $341,114—of their $1.2 million in income.

White House spokesperson Claire Buchan said the president and vice president join 109 million other Americans also benefiting from the tax cuts.

“And that’s had the effect of spurring economic growth and creating jobs,” she said.

Bush’s presumptive Democratic rival, John Kerry, also released his returns, which he files separately from wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, heiress to the $5OO million Heinz Co. food fortune. Kerry’s forms showed he paid $90,575 in taxes, or about 23 percent of his adjusted gross income of $395,338.

Bob Mclntyre, director of Citizens for Tax Justice, a liberal advocacy group whose statistical analyses are respected by mainstream economists, analyzed the returns and found the tax cuts Bush backed saved him nearly $31,000 on his 2003 bill over what he would have paid if there had been no cuts.

Cheney saved $ll,OOO, mostly because the alternative minimum tax—designed to curb tax sheltering among high-income taxpayers—took back about three-quarters of the tax-cut benefit he would have otherwise reaped, Mclntyre said.

Among the cuts that were in effect in 2003 but has not been in effect in 2002 were further decreases in tax rates at all bracket levels, an expansion of the lowest 10 percent bracket and lower taxation of capital gains and dividends.

“What can you say? They’re rich, so you’d expect them to benefit from a tax cut for the rich,” Mclntyre said.

Bush sees the tax cuts passed on his watch much differently. He has traveled the country touting them as the reason the economy is rebounding and likes to espouse his philosophy that cuts should go to all.

“I insisted, on the tax relief, we cut the rates on everybody who pays taxes,” Bush said in El Dorado, Ark., last week.

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educational systems of its peer institutions. Although Stanford University, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis and the research power-team of neighbors Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are credible and accomplished, Duke has invested the most resources in its research program, said IGSP Director Huntington Willard.

“In the long run, I bet my money on Duke for being a leader in studying science and society at large,” Willard said.

Other insdtutions are impressed by the program’s structure, Davidson said. “They often need to be convinced that certain things can be achieved because, at their institutions, such would be impossible,” she added.

The University’s interdisciplinary initiative was sparked in 1987 in a report in which Duke launched its institutional commitment to research of a more competitive caliber.

Lange says the strategic planning committee hoped to build upon the academic excellence that already existed, in addition to welcoming specific bottom-up faculty initiatives.

Davidson said she likes to encourage thinking on a national level by surveying other institutions as models as they continue to revise their strategic plans. “Rather than reinvent the wheel, we like to see where the tire marks are and then think about whether we want to travel that same road or veer off in a promising new direction,” she said.

“Often, we do the latter.”

Duke has implemented systematic reviews of all its interdisciplinary research programs through a process known as “sunsetting.” Every five years, the unit must prove to external evaluators that its work is vital and significant in order to receive University support and funding.

Otherwise, money is allocated toward other research ventures. This allows for constant replenishing of resources and revitalizing of programs to ensure that the best research teams are being rewarded.

While this new approach has its near future carefully mapped out, there are still areas of the program that need further development. Administrators have discussed the possibility of offering “university courses,” which would allow undergraduates, graduate students and professional students to take courses patterned after Duke’s interdisciplinary programs. The extensive coordination among various deans, a central way of naming and funding the

courses and other means of cooperation would be a daunting task for any university, officials said.

“I think we can accomplish this here, just as we have already created ‘university professors’ who have similar farranging responsibilities,” said Davidson.

If scientists hope to address the large-scale problems and research questions society faces today, an interdisciplinary approach is required, because the complexity of those questions spans the expertise of an entire institution. A trademark feature of the University is its creative and unique combinations of various disciplines. While other universities might solely focus on the science, Duke researchers, for example, can combine sociology with engineering or computer science with financial policy. “We are concerned with policy and applications even in highly theoretical areas of study,” Davidson said.

The IGSP is one of the fastest-growing interdisciplinary centers at Duke. To realize the benefits of the completion of the Human Genome Project, it combines efforts that extend beyond the traditional scope of science—especially social science, ethics and public policy.

“Duke is superb in smoothing disconnected foci ofactivity to grapple with the Human Genome Project,” Willard said. “Everything works hand-in-glove and an interdisciplinary approach provides a more fun, educational and inspiring environment and portal for research and teaching.”

Director of the Program in Integrated Toxicology Richard Di Giulio emphasized the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in a field like environmental toxicology. To study organisms in polluted environments, different types of scientists must work together, including molecular, organismal, community and ecosystem biologists and toxicologists.

The Comprehensive Cancer Center is an example ofcollaboration between DUMC and other departments on campus. The study of cancer genetics is at the forefront of biomedicine, and the ground-breaking breast cancer research conducted there could not have been completed without many specialists, said Kim Lyerly, the Center’s director.

“The research is really advanced and the techniques involved simply do not exist in one person,” he said.

To bridge the gaps between science, technology and understanding, geneticists and statisticians are essential. In the recent breast cancer research, scientists examined the 30,000 nucleic acid events of 300 patients. Without mathematicians, geneticists would not have been able to make sense of any of the data. This approach is quite common for

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cancer research since it mimics management and treatment of the disease, which always requires a team of surgeons, oncologists and radiologists. Doctors are now expanding their research methods to include their treatment practices.

While faculty and administrators concur on the inevitability of interdisciplinary research, they have expressed varying levels ofenthusiasm. Lange believes some professors and researchers would prefer not to become involved in the trend since they find it less intellectually interesting than department-specific research or feel individual disciplines’ funding should not be cut.

Other Duke faculty members recognize the issue of tenure and promotion, which becomes complicated when people are working in multiple fields. Usually, appointments are based on one’s ability to demonstrate expertise and success in one area. Therefore, professors might find it safer to stick with one track, thereby avoiding distraction from their main focus that would result in diluted work.

While the general requirements for tenure will not be altered, officials said, deans will need to take into consideration one’s impact on an interdisciplinary research project.

Additionally, the prioritization of research interests could present complications. Willard suggested that team members focus on their own priorities while working toward a common goal. Departments should focus on training, internal priorities and expanding their own areas of competence, and a director should then aid in finding the program’s common endpoint, he said.

“As long as faculty are truly interested in their research and in helping others, we can avoid a tight-rope walk,” he said. “I think why Duke is so successful at [research] is that faculty look for this attitude, and therefore choose Duke.”

Funding for interdisciplinary research is received from governmental grants in a similar fashion to grants for specific disciplines. Money still goes to the University in the name of the principal investigator, but indirect costs are split between the multiple departments and institutions involved. The number of these grants nationwide has grown markedly, although the majority of grants awarded are not interdisciplinary, Siedow noted.

Despite their marked progress so far, interdisciplinary centers at the University have failed to develop a model for all programs to follow in funding their administrative structure, Siedow said. “It is not insurmountable, just difficult,” he added. “For now, financial coordination requires a lot of individual negotiation between deans.”

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MADRID from page 4 The suspected plan to attack Jewish targets near the of Hoyo de Manzanares north of Madrid was first reported in the newspaper El Mundo Tuesday.

The Interior Ministry spokesperson, who declined to be identified by name, insisted that there was no evidence to confirm “the intention of targeting any Jewish target around Madrid.”

However, Fernando Esteban, the mayor of Hoyo de Manzanares, said that Spanish authorities had alerted him last Thursday that the Jewish center had been a target and that “security measures had to be taken.”

“They told us documents were found in the Leganes apartment in which the center appeared as. a target,” he said in a telephone interview.

The mayor said that he was told that only the Jewish center, which is next to one of Spain’s few Jewish cemeteries, was marked on the map, and that the police combed the area around both sites for explosives. None were found.

—Jacobo Israel, president ofMadrid’s small Jewish community, said this would be the first time that a Jewish site in Spain had been threatened by Islamic extremists, but that the news did not come as a surprise.

“We always thought we were a target and I think this just confirms the reality,” he said in a telephone interview.”

Investigators have drawn no concrete link between the Madrid train bombings and attacks against five targets last May in Casablanca, Morocco, in which 47 people, including 12 suicide bombers, were killed. However, one of the places attacked was a Jewish cemetery; another was a Jewish community center; a third was the Casa de Espana, a Spanish-owned restaurant and social club.

There are 15,000 to 20,000 Jews in Spain, most of them immigrants from Morocco and Argentina. Spain’s indigenous Jewish population was expelled from the country in 1492 by the Catholic monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella.

That was the same year that the monarchs defeated AlAndalus, the Muslim kingdom that had ruled parts of Spain for 800 years. A decade later, a royal decree declared that all non-Catholics had to convert or leave.

In the video, whose complete text was released Tuesday, the speaker referred to “A1 Andalus,” saying that the “brigade located in Al Andalus will not leave here until there is an immediate, unconditional withdrawal of their troops from Muslim bases.”

As part of their continuing investigation, the Spanish police arrested at least two more Moroccans in connection with the train bombings, a court official told reporters Tuesday. town

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THEFACEBOOK f„m page, students’ general preoccupation with social networking.

“It Just has to do with forming a personal web of people,” sophomore Matt Topel said. “There’s a fascination with the whole, ‘I know somebody who knows somebody who you could potentially meet.’”

Hughes said the site was designed to serve two primary roles: first, as a recreational tool, and second, for more utilitarian forms of contact!

‘There’s definitely the friend aspect,” he said. “At the same time there’s contact and course information, which you can use for anything from just getting the screenname of someone you know to setting up a study group.”

Thefacebook has drawn wide comparisons as a campus-friendly version of Friendster. Like the older and larger network, Thefacebook shows links between indirecdy connected participants. Unlike Friendster, a privacy measure only allows participants to view full profiles from other members at their college or university.

“We were very conscious from the outset that there

is a lot ofinformation on the website and that students may only want certain information available to certain users,” Hughes said. “With Facebook, the only profiles that you see are people that you really might see around campus. It’s grounded in a certain reality that Friendster.doesn’t have.”

Unlike Friendster, Thefacebook offers connections through course rosters. And while Hughes said that he knows of a handful of people who have gone on “facebook dates,” the site is less dating-geared.

“I don’t see myself going out and meeting people just because there are four degrees of separation between my roommate and that person,” Topel said. “If I’m going to meet them through social interactions, then I’ll probably meet them through social interactions and not through a computer database.”

Even those who don’t know why they love Thefacebook can’t stay away.

“It’s a stupid, stupid website, but I am completely addicted,” freshman Emily Bruckner said. “I just go around and look at all ofmy friends and see who they’re friends with. It’s like a contest to see who has the most friends.”

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IRAQ from page 2 and setting off roadside bombs north of the city. One soldier was killed and an American civilian contractor was wounded, officers in the convoy said.

The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, said their mission was to “capture or kill” radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

American units set up a cordon on approaches to the city, barring milidamen from leaving.

Some 2,500 U.S. troops were massed outside of the city and commanders met Tuesday to review battle plans.

“We have consolidated north of Najaf and are preparing for combat operadons,” said Maj. Gen. John Batiste, commander of the Ist Infantry Division.

Clashes took place Tuesday when a U.S. unit on the edges of the city pursued armed supporters of al-Sadr into Najaf and killed several milidamen, Badste said.

‘Treat the people of Najaf with dignity and respect,” Batiste said. “Only bite off the head of the poised rattlesnake.”

Iraqi leaders launched hurried negotiations aimed at averting a U.S. assault on the city, site of the holiest Shiite site, the Imam Ali Shrine. Al-Sadr was photographed by Associated Press Television News leaving the shrine Tuesday.

The sons of Iraq’s three grand ayatollahs—including the most powerful one, Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani —met al-Sadr Monday night in his Najaf office and assured him of their opposition to any U.S. strike.

‘They agreed not to allow any hostile act against Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr and the city of Najaf,” said a person at the meeting, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The delegation also was reportedly trying to work out a compromise to prevent a U.S. attack.

Col. Dana Pittard, the commander of the force, said his troops were aware that a “single shot in Najaf” by U.S. soldiers could outrage Iraq’s powerful Shiite majority.

“Look at this as the Shiite Vatican,” Pittard said before the deployment.

The grand ayatollahs—older, moderate leaders with immense influence among Shiites—have long kept the young, fiercely anti-American al-Sadr at arm’s length.

The dispatch of the delegation reflected the eagerness to avoid bloodshed in Najaf and the new influence that the uprising by the al-Mahdi Army’s milida has brought al-Sadr.

In a concession to American demands, al-Sadr ordered his militiamen out of police stations and government buildings in Najaf and the nearby cities ofKarbala and Kufa. Police were back in their stations and on patrols, while alSadr’s black-garbed gunmen largely stayed out of sight.

But the militia rebuffed a U.S. demand to disband.

While a cease-fire has kept Fallujah relatively calm for four days, the area between the besieged city and Baghdad has seen heavy clashes by insurgents and U.S. forces. An Apache helicopter was shot down Sunday in nearby Abu Ghraib, killing its two crewmembers.

Tuesday’s helicopter crash happened when the Sikorsky H-53 was hit by ground fire and forced to land, wounding the three soldiers, said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy chief of U.S. military operations in Iraq. An insurgent said he hit the chopper with a rocket•

propelled grenade.

The team that extracted the crew and secured the craft later came under mortar fire and as it withdrew was ambushed by gunmen using small weapons and rocketpropelled grenades. Another team went in afterward and blew up the craft to prevent it from being looted, Marine Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne said.

A Marine was killed by mortar fire, Kimmitt said. Marine spokesperson Ist. Lt. Eric Knapp said seven Marines were wounded in the area.

Before the crash, a U.S. convoy was attacked near the same site, and two Humvees and a truck were burning, said witnesses, who also reported U.S. casualties.

The U.S. military said about 70 Americans and 700 insurgents had been killed this month, the bloodiest since the fall of Baghdad a year ago with U.S.-led forces fighting on three fronts: against Sunni insurgents in Fallujah, Shiite militiamen in the south and gunmen in Baghdad and on its outskirts.

More than 600 Iraqis have been killed in Fallujah since the siege began on April 5, said the head of the city hospital.

Tuesday, and an Arab satellite TV broadcaster said they had been kidnapped.

Al-Jazeera broadcast a video showing four Italians sitting on the floor holding French TV journalist.

A U.S. spokesperson said 40 foreigners passports. Behind them were men with from 12 countries were currently held by machine guns.

The kidnappers demanded the Italian kidnappers—though an Associated Press count put the number at 22. government apologize for insulting Islam The State Department official, speakand Muslims, Al-Jazeera said. They also ing on condition of anonymity, said the want Italy, which has 3,000 troops in Iraq, four bodies had not yet been identified. It to withdraw its forces.

The four Italians work for the U.S.was unclear when the bodies were found.

A spokesperson for Halliburton Co., based DTS LLC Security company and the major U.S. contractor in Iraq, said the were first reported missing Monday, the firm also was aware that remains had been Foreign Ministry said. The Italian news recovered but said it was not confirmed agency AGI and other reports said they that they were those of its employees. were seized in Fallujah.

“We are not yet certain of the identificaItalian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, a tion of these brave individuals, and no strong supporter of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, ruled out a matter who they are, we at withdrawal of Halliburton troops based in “The FBI is working with coalithe southern are saddened to learn of of city Nasiriyah. forces and Iraqi security tion “The peace these deaths,” forces to seek out the hostagemission of the the firm said in a statement.

Italian soldiers takers and the hostages.”

One of the in Iraq, in line Dan Senor seven missing with the international comemployees Thomas mitments that Hamill, a 43-year-old truck driver from have been taken on, is absolutely not in Macon, Miss.—is known to have been abquestion,” he said. ducted. His captors have threatened to kill The French government demanded and mutilate him unless U.S. troops ended the immediate release of Alexandre Jortheir assault on Faljujah. The deadline danov, a journalist for Capa Television in passed Sunday with no word on his fate. Paris, who was seized Sunday while Halliburton would not say if the six others videotaping an attack on an American were U.S. citizens or from elsewhere. military convoy.

The FBI has joined the investigation of Franck Duprat, a television editor the kidnappings, coalition spokesperson who worked with Jordanov on an invesDan Senor said in Baghdad Tuesday. tigative television show called “The Real Among the captives are three Japanese News,” said he disappeared on the road whose kidnappers threatened to bum them south of Baghdad. alive ifTokyo refused to withdraw its troops.

Three Czech journalists feared kidSenor said the U.S.-led coalition would napped Sunday are fine and could be renot negotiate with “terrorists or kidnapleased as early as Wednesday, Iraqi Minispers.” He would not comment on efforts ter of Culture Mofeed al-Jazaeri told Czech television from Baghdad. to free the captives.

‘The FBI is working with coalition The three reporters, who were last forces and Iraqi security forces to seek heard from Sunday, are believed to have been kidnapped while headed toward Jorout the hostage-takers and the hostages,” Senor added. “We have a number of dan on a road that goes through Abu other law enforcement agencies from Ghraib. They were identified as Czech the international community who are Television reporter Michal Kubal and camera operator Petr Klima and Czech Radio working on this.”

The four Italians were reported missing reporter Vit Pohanka.

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ASHCROFT from page 4 ferred a zone defense, concentrating on “where” an attack might occur, not “who” would carry it out. By contrast, it said, the FBI focused more on individuals.

“A combination of the ClA’s zone defense and the FBl’s man-to-man approach might have been far more productive,” it noted.

Among other findings: —Pickard said he told FBI agents in charge of the bureau’s field offices of an increased possibility of terrorism.

But the commission said that during field office visits ofits own, several personnel “did not recall a heightened sense of terrorism.”

—The search for Khalid al-Mihdhar, one of the 19 9-11 hijackers, was slowed because of a question concerning the legality of sharing intelligence information with FBI criminal agents. Additionally, the search was “assigned to one FBI agent for whom this was his very first counterterrorism lead. By the terms of the lead, he was given 30 days to open an intelligence case and make some unspecified efforts to locate” him.

—Pickard told the commission he was briefed about a step the CIA was taking to investigate possible terrorist ac-

TAX CUTS from page 5 “Some of them howled up in Washington when I did that. See, my attitude is, government ought not to play favorites.”

Most of the income for B,ush and his wife, Laura, came from his $397,264 in presidential income and $401,803 in interest from trusts, plus $23,417 in dividend income.

Cheney and his wife had more varied sources of their earnings, including the vice president’s $198,600 government salary; the $178,437 he earned in deferred compensation from Halliburton Co., the Dallas-based energy services firm he headed until Aug. 16, 2000; cap-

tivity, but said he believed he had “no authority to brief the attorney general” about the matter.

Despite the lapses it detailed, the report stopped well short of claiming the worst terrorist strikes in the nation’s history could have been stopped.

Even in the case of the man taken into custody after drawing the FBl’s notice in Minnesota, it said, “A maximum U.S. effort to investigate Moussaoui could conceivably have unearthed his connections (to the plotters) though this might have required an extensive effort, with help from foreign governments. The publicity about the threat also might have disrupted the p10t.... But this would have been a race against time,” it concluded.

The report recalled the nerve-racking months leading to the attacks, a period during which CIA Director George Tenet told investigators “the system was blinking red” at times with warnings of attacks at nonspecific times and places.

Freeh and former Attorney General Janet Reno took turns in the witness chair during a morning session that focused unstinting criticism on the FBI. The bureau failed miserably over several years to reorganize and respond to a growing threat of terrorism, and Ashcroft rejected an appeal from the agency for more fund-

ital gains of $302,602, Mrs. Cheney’s income from work at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank; and compensation from her service on the Reader’s Digest board of directors in 2003.

Mrs. Cheney also brought in $327,643 in royalties from her books, “America; A Patriotic Primer,” “A is for Abigail” and soon-to-be-out “Fifty States.” The Cheneys donatedalmost all of those proceeds to charity. The couple also earned $627,005 in interest that was exempt from taxes.

Halliburton has been awarded as much as $6 billion in contracts in postwar Iraq but has been under scrutiny for allegedly overcharging the government.

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ing on the day before al Qaeda struck, the commission said.

“On Sept. 11, the FBI was limited in several areas,” the commission said in a staff report.

On the day of the attacks, “about 1,300 agents, or 6 percent of the FBl’s total personnel, worked on counterterrorism,” reported the commission investigating the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Freeh politely and firmly took issue with the findings.

“We had a very effective program with respect to counterterrorism prior to Sept. 11 given the resources that we had,” he said.

But Reno testified that she had told Freeh “if we need to reprogram, let’s do it.”

More broadly, Reno said the FBI faced huge challenges in learning how to use all the information it collected on intelligence and criminal matters. ‘The FBI didn’t know what it had. The right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing,” she said.

Asked whether the government had ever contemplated the use of planes as weapons, Freeh said the subject “was part of the planning” for the summer Olympic Games at Atlanta and other special events.

But he said, “I’m not aware ofany such plan “being incorporated into routine air defense plan in Washington or elsewhere.

Cheney elected in 1998 to recoup over five years a fixed portion of the money he made in 1999 as the company’s chief executive officer.

Cheney’s office has repeatedly stated that the vice president doesn’t have a financial stake in the success of Halliburton nor has had any involvement in defense contracts.

The Bushes reported itemized deductions of $95,043, including $68,360 to churches and charitable organizations, bringing their taxable income down to $727,083.

The Cheneys reported itemized deductions of $454,649, including Mrs. Cheney’s book royalties, making their taxable income $813,266.

ISRAEL from page 5 them to death in a case that has generated a massive public outcry in the Gaza Strip. A fourth defendant was sentenced to life in prison.

The death sentences would be carried out only if Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat gives his final approval. Arafat has commuted some death penalties and approved others.

Late Tuesday, Israeli tanks entered the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza-Egypt border, residents said. Military officials said the operation was to search for weapons smuggling tunnels. No casualties were reported.

TEN YEARS OF FREEDOM IN SOUTH AFRICA. South Africa's third democratic general election is being held today.

The first all-South African election, marking the end of the apartheid, took place ten years ago on April 27, 1994. Every year April 27 is celebrated as Freedom Day. This year, on South Africa's Human Rights Day (4/21), the Constitutional Court opened the doors to its new Court House, atop Constitutional Hill. The Court House is located on the grounds of the Old Fort prison, famous for having incarcerated Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and many others who struggled and suffered for the freedoms embodied in the South African Constitution. On the doors are carved the numbers 1 through 27, memorializing the length of former President Mandela's jail term. Each number is linked to the text of a specific constitutional right. Bricks from the old walls that once imprisoned people are now visible components of the new Constitutional Court House. A wall dedicated to "We-the-People" invites comments or drawings from all who wish to offer their own articles of faith to the ongoing project of South African democracy. Each year on Human Rights Day a selection of these offerings, etched onto copper plates, will be added as symbolic bricks in the wall.

On this anniversary-looking back to South Africa's first Freedom Day and forward to its 10th-we invite the Duke community to honor the ongoing effort to give form to the promise of a new South Africa.

South African Faculty Concilium For more information, contact Prof. Peter Storey at pstorey@div.duke.edu or Prof. Grant Parker at grparker@duke.edu or Catherine Admay at admay@duke.edu See: http://www.constitutional.org.za and http://www.southafrica.info/1 Oyears

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upon even in the toughest times,” Bush said in a 17minute statement that opened his news conference.

“Above all, the defeat of violence and terror in Iraq is vital to the defeat of violence and terror elsewhere, and vital, therefore, to the safety of the American people.”

In what was apparently a response to critics who have called on him to give the United Nations a greater role, particularly his Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, Bush noted that the U.N. envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, was taking a central role in seeking to establish a transitional government. He also cited the presence in Iraq of a U.N. team planning for election’s next year.

In a statement, Kerry criticized Bush for not giving the United Nations a bigger role and for not offering a specific plan for stabilizing Iraq. “Rather,” Kerry said, “the president made it clear that he intends to stubbornly cling to the same policy that has led to a greater risk to American troops and a steadily higher cost to the American taxpayer.”

Speaking only hours after the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks held a full day of hearings on failures by the Justice Department and the FBI, Bush was asked repeatedly whether he felt personally responsible for the terrorist attacks or owed the nation an apology.

Bush said; “I feel incredibly grieved when I meet with family members, and I do quite frequently. I grieve for, you know, the incredible loss of life that they feel, the emptiness they feel. There are some things I wish we’d have done when I look back. I mean, hindsight’s easy.”

But Bush stopped short of offering an apology for the fact that the U.S. government failed to prevent the attacks, something the former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke did in testimony before the 9/11 commission.

In response to a question, Bush made a bow to the political difficulty he faces after two weeks in which more than 80 U.S. service men and women in Iraq have lost their lives. Still, he said: “I don’t plan on losing my job.”

“Nobody likes to see dead people on their television screens,” the president said. “I don’t. It’s a tough time for the American people to see that. It’s gut-wrenching.”

Bush acknowledged that the upsurge in violence in Iraq was coming from an array of disparate forces that have

never before acted in concert, including remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Shiite radicals and foreign terrorists.

‘They want to run us out of Iraq and destroy the democratic hopes of the Iraqi people,” he said. “The violence we have seen is a power grab by these extreme and ruthless elements. It’s not a civil war. It’s not a popular uprising.”

Bush’s challenge Tuesday night was to halt the erosion in what his advisers consider his most precious asset—his standing as a decisive leader in confronting threats to the United States—and to reassure the electorate that he can bring order to an increasingly chaotic and violent situation in Iraq.

In just the last two weeks, 86 U.S. service members have been killed and 561 wounded in Iraq. That is the highest casualty rate since last May, Army officials said. Since the war began, the Pentagon has identified 672 U.S. service members who have died in Iraq, not all of them in combat.

And in the same period the Sept. 11 commission has held a series of hearings that have brought out the accusations of Clarke that the Bush administration paid little heed to the growing warnings of a terrorist attack through the summer of 2001.

The White House has scrambled for weeks to cope with the renewed insurgency in Iraq and questions about its handling of the threat from al Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks. In the wake of those developments, polls have shown Bush again trailing Kerry in the presidential race, and the electorate increasingly concerned about the country’s direction, an ominous sign for an incumbent.

The president has come under growing pressure from within his own party to be more aggressive in asserting that the United States is making progress in Iraq in the face of a host of challenges, not least the legacy of decades of despotic rule by Saddam.

That Bush ultimately chose to address the nation and take questions in prime time, in the formal setting of the East Room, underscored the sense that it is not just Iraq that is at a critical juncture, but Bush’s presidency as well.

Only twice before has Bush called a full-scale news conference in prime time —the first a month after the Sept. 11 attacks, the second last year just before the invasion of Iraq.

In both cases, Bush was leading the nation into confrontations with what he cast as mortal threats to its well-being.

This time the nation is far more polarized, and his path, in Iraq and politically, was less clear. Certainly, there

was no hint of the triumphalism of 50 weeks ago, when Bush stood on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln off San Diego before a banner declaring “Mission

Accomplished.”

Bush’s central message was that Iraq, with the help of the United States and other countries, can transform itself into a stable democracy and a model for Arab and Muslim nations that have been breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists.

But Bush announced no major new initiatives for dealing with Iraq as the deadline for the transfer of sovereignty approaches, and he offered only limited roles to the United Nations and NATO in overseeing tho political transformation in Iraq and the continued U.S. military presence after the transfer of sovereignty. He said he would dispatch Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to consult with Arab, nations about helping in Iraq.

The mood in the East Room lacked the high tension of Bush’s last prime-time news conference, in March 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Tuesday night’s news conference had a more war-weary feeling. Bush appeared tired at times but also more relaxed, and seemed determined to respond evenly to even the most provocative questions.

The president displayed none of the cockiness he sometimes does at less formal news conferences. But he also did not directly answer many questions, and his responses sometimes wandered.

In response to questions about his administration’s preparedness for a terrorist attack, Bush said he was “sick when I think about the death that took place on that day.”

But, he said, “The person responsible for those attacks was Osama Bin Laden.”

Asked if he ever admitted mistakes or would acknowledge errors in judgment, Bush focused on how different the country was before the Sept. 11 attacks.

“This country wasn’t on a war footing, and yet we’re at war,” he said. “And that’s just a reality.”

Most of the country, he said, “never felt that we’d be vulnerable to an attack such as the one Osama bin Laden unleashed on us.”

Apparently referring to the Clinton administration, he said, “I don’t think the prior government could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale.”

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Frustrating Face-offs: Duke’s face-off man by committee Matt Zash, Nick O’Hara, and Tony McDevitt finally got the face-off percentage spilt Duke head coach Mike Pressler had hoped for much of the season. And they got it against one of,the best face-off tandems in the country in Johns Hopkins’ Kyle Harrison and Greg Peyser, who entered the game winning 64 and 75 percent of their opportunities, respectively, although Hopkins Head Coach Dave Pietramala said his team had been underperforming in that area in the last two weeks.

Winning 60 percent is where most teams are happy to be. Entering Saturday, Duke was around 45 percent. The Blue Devils have missed Kevin Cassese and Devon Wray, who were responsible in helping Duke win around 60 percent the last four years.

The Blue Devils’ strategy seemed to be to tie up Hopkins’ Harrison and Peyser and make it a group scrum for the ball or at SEE LACROSSE ON PAGE 14 MEN’S BASKETBALL | ST.

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With his no-hitter, Tim Layden improved to 4-2 on the season and Duke beat ODU, 4-0, to win its fourth straight game.

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With one man on and two outs in the top of the ninth, catcher Adam Loftin fielded a ground ball and threw it into first baseman Brian Hernandez’s glove to secure the final out and pitcher Tim Layden’s first career no-hitter, as Duke (19-18) beat Old Dominion (13-20) last night at Jack Coombs Field, 4-0.

“Once I saw that ball in Hernandez’s glove at first base, I just let loose,” Layden said. “It was just one of those days. My slider was on. I was throwing my fastball and change-up at times that I wanted.”

Layden had just three walks and a career-high twelve strikeouts in the Blue Devils’ first no-hitter in 13 years. The last one was thrown by John Courtright against North Carolina A&T February 13, 1991.

The Blue Devils encountered a tricky situation in the first at bat of the game when Old Dominion centerfielder Keith Hahn reached first on a fielding error by Hernandez. Then Justin Gregula

reached on a fielder’s choice and advanced to second on a wild pitch.

With no outs and one man in scoring position for Old Dominion, Layden was able to strike out the next two batters to get out of the inning without giving up a run. Layden’s dominance continued, as he recorded two strikeouts in both the second and third innings and put down the side in order through the fifth inning.

While the Blue Devil win was fueled

by Layden’s pitching efforts, the bats were also key for the team—especially the star pitcher’s bat After leaving one man on base in both the second and third innings, Duke started off the bottom of the fourth with Layden up. He singled to right-centerfield, moved to second after the first baseman erred on a pick-off attempt, and advanced to third on a wild pitch.

Layden scored the first run of the game on second baseman Bryan Smith’s single that landed just inside fair territory in SEE NO-HITTER ON PAGE 14

Something about 24 The last Blue Devil pitcher to fire a no-hitter was John Courtright, who did so in 1991 in the season’s fourth game. That contest ended after just 7 1/2 innings, however, due to darkness.

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St. John’s search for a NEW YORK basketball coach ended Tuesday when Norm Roberts agreed to leave his job as an assistant coach at Kansas and return to his native Queens to try to resuscitate the Red Storm’s once storied program.

His hiring, under a five-year contract, filled a job that had been vacant for nearly five months. It also concluded several fractious weeks of lobbying among various factions of the university’s alumni, who were backing different candidates.

St. John’s president, the Rev. Donald J. Harrington, said he offered Roberts the opportunity to return to New York at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday after having dinner with the coach and his wife, Pascale, in a Manhattan restaurant Monday night. Roberts, 38, was one of three candidates interviewed by Harrington. The others were Matt Doherty, a former coach at Notre Dame and North Carolina, and Dave Leitao, the current DePaul coach.

Harrington said he was impressed with Roberts’ energy, his New York roots and his qualifications. But he also acknowledged that St. John’s various constituencies had strong opinions on the final three candidates, and that Roberts “was not as SEE COACH ON PAGE 16

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From staff reports Connecticut guard Ben Gordon will announce today whether or not he will skip his senior season to enter the NBA Draft, ESPN.com reported Tuesday evening.

Gordon will hold a press conference today at 3 p.m. in Storrs, Conn., University spokesman Kyle Muncy told ESPN.com.

If Gordon chooses to make himself eligible for the league, he would likely join teammate and fellow underclassman Emeka Okafor in opting for the NBA. Okafor, a junior center who was named as the 2004 Final Four’s Most Valuable Player, is graduating this May, though an official declaration is yet to have been made. Pundits expect Okafor to be one of the top two picks in the Draft.

But it was Gordon who led UConn in scoring in its national championship season, tallying 18.5 points in 39 contests.

His performance in the NCAA Tournament perhaps boosted his NBA stock, however, accumulating 21.2 points in six games.

UConn head coach Jim Calhoun has previously stated that Gordon is ready for the NBA, according to ESPN.com.

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Ben Gordon helped lead Connecticut to its second championship in five years.

Vaughan told ESPN.com’s Andy Katz that the UConn staff expects both Gordon and Okafor to head to the pros.

In order to be eligible for the June 24 draft, student-athletes must send a letter to the NBA by May 10.

A potential Blue Devil is yet to make a final decision regarding his direction to either the pros or to Duke in the next couple of weeks. Shaun Livingston, a 6-foot-7 point guard from Peoria, 111., committed to Duke long ago, but NBA Draft projections listing him in the top five have made Livingston strongly consider his original decision. Both his grandfather and father are in favor of Livingston attending college before entering the NBA.

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Gary Barnett, the suspended University of Colorado football coach, told an investigative panel on Tuesday that he believed therewas inappropriate behavior at a 2001 party attended by football players and recruits, during which two women said they were raped.

But Barnett said that all those at the party shared the blame.

“In 2001, 10 young people, four of whom were my students, made poor decisions,” said Barnett, speaking for the first time before the panel.

“There is no question in my mind that behavior inappropriate occurred. There is also no question in my mind that the behavior of the 10 young people involved was the result of their own poor decisions under the influence ofalcohol.”

Four Colorado football players attended the off-campus party. Since then, three women have come forward to say they were raped during or after the party and are suing the university in federal court.

In all, at least eight women since 1997 have come forward with rape allegations against Colorado football players.

Barnett is on paid suspension after making comments about the place-kicking skills of the former Colorado player Katie Hnida while discussing her charge that she was raped by a teammate in 2000.

The president, university’s Elizabeth Hoffman, reprimanded Barnett for the comments while placing him on leave. She said she was equally troubled by a police report in which an unidentified woman accused another Colorado player of rape and said Barnett had told her he would side with the player “100 percent” if she pressed charges.

Barnett appeared before the panel for about five hours on Tuesday. The commission was established by the university’s Board of Regents in February to determine if sex, alcohol and drugs were being used to lure recruits to the university.

The panel requested more time to finish its work, meaning a report will not come out until late May. The state attorney general is conducting a separate investigation into recruiting at Colorado.

On Tuesday, addressing Hnida’s charge, Barnett said that he had spoken to Hnida’s friends, former teammates and a rape counselor and that none had heard Hnida talk about harassment or an assault.

“I couldn’t find anybody to substantiate one single claim, and I was looking to substantiate it,” Barnett said.

He also said it did not matter to him that Hnida lacked kicking talent because he wanted to give her a chance. “I felt it was time for college football to have more diversity,” he said. “This was a chance to have her on our team, and it didn’t make any

difference to me how bad she was.”

Barnett said he had repeatedly and publicly asked Hnida, who has not filed charges, to give him names of those who she said had harassed and assaulted her.

On Monday, a letter from Dave Hnida, Katie’s father, to a lawyer for the commission was made public.

Dave Hnida, a military doctor serving in Iraq, wrote: “We both have been distressed at the information we read coming from the university, as well as Gary Barnett. To be blunt, there is quite a bit of lying and deception right now. Once again, I am stunned to read how they now say they had no knowledge of problems with Katie and the team.”

Referring to Barnett, Dave Hnida wrote, “He is quite aware of those who sexually harassed Katie verbally and physically.”

Barnett told the panel that in his three years as head coach of the Colorado team, he had tried to implement higher standards than those at other programs. Barnett noted that while it was legal for anyone who is at least 18 years old to enter a strip club, and not against university policy, such action violates Barnett’s team rules.

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In the top of the

eighth, Layden walked the first

right field. In the next at bat, Mike Miello followed Smith’s lead with a shot right down the line. Both Hernandez, who had walked and moved to second on Smith’s hit, and Smith scored giving Duke the 3-0 advantage.

Layden continued his show on the mound in the sixth with the help of a strong infield effort by Smith and Hernandez.

Old Dominion’s CJ. Lee hit a hard grounder between first and second, which Smith was able to field to get the out at first. Layden’s first walk of the night also came in the sixth, but he was able to get out of the inning with a fielder’s choice.

“I realized right around the sixth inning that they didn't have any hits,” Layden said. “I really appreciate the way the guys backed me up. Everyone

really came to play. They got me out of trouble a few times.”

It was about this time when head coach Bill Hillier also realized that history was in the

making.

“I was watching his pitch count,” Hillier said. “In the sixth he went to 73 pitches. I wasn’t going to take him out [but] if he had another walk, it was going to be hard.”

Layden struck out the side in the top of the seventh, getting Derrick James looking for the

batter, and the second batter reached on an error by shortstop Kyle Silver, who hobbled a grounder hit his direction.

Duke got out of the inning with a foul pop-out fielded by Layden, and a groundout to second base.

Layden recorded his second hit of the night with a line drive to centerfield. Then Hillier put Senterrio Landrum in to pinch run, and Layden thought he was being taken out of the game and hesitated to get off first base.

“I didn’t want them to hit the ball in the gap and to have him have to score from first,” Hillier said. “He thought he was being taken out completely. He didn’t realize he was in there as pitcher and DH. He didn’t want to leave first base [because] he thought he was out completely.”

Layden did leave first base eventually but came back out to pitch for the top of the ninth.

After a quick pop-out, Layden the second Old walked Dominion batter, but was able to strike out the next and get the final batter to ground out, ending the game.

The Blue Devil win, which was the team’s fourth straight, ends the team’s play for a week. They next host Davidson, followed by a three-game series with No. 10 North Carolina.

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least slow the face-off down enough to the point where Hopkins couldn’t get any quick fastbreaks, a Blue Jay specialty. That tacdc might have disrupted Harrison and Peyser enough, as Hopkins was called for a false-start or two during the game.

Facing the dearly departed: Of the four leading scorers on Duke’s roster in 2003, two graduated and two transferred. The Blue Devils faced both those transfer players, Matt Monfett and Matt Rekowski, this year against Loyola and Hopkins. In those games, Duke held the two players to a combined one assist and zero goals. Both players would have most likely been key players in the Blue Devils’ offense this year. After the Loyola game in Baltimore last month, Pressler said, “He’s happier, we’re happier, and we’ve moved on from there.”

Fate of the NCAA tournament: Whether the NCAA tournament will go on this year is not in question, but whether Duke will be going is.

Duke’s record now stands at 4-5 with a 0-2 record in the ACC and travels to Virginia next weekend.

WEIYITAN/THE CHRONICLE As it stands now, with only one quality win against Duke will need to continue its aggressive play and win the ACC then-No. 13Loyola, the Blue Devils would need to Tournament to qualify for this year's NCAA tournament. win the ACC tournament to reach the NCAA tournament. This scenario did happen in 2001, but will his steady and sometimes spectacular performances be tough in 2004. Maryland was ranked tops in the in key games. In eight games, Fenton has a 8.01 country in the last poll, North Carolina has already goals-against-average and has saved 64 percent of beaten Duke, and although Virginia (3-6, 0-2 in the shots he has faced. the ACC) hasn’t played to the best of the defendAgainst Hopkins Saturday, Fenton had a careerabilities all the season, NCAA ing champions’ high 20 saves and allowed just six goals halfof what Cavaliers did knock of Hopkins last week. It won’t the Blue Jays usually average. After the game, be easy for the Blue Devils to make the NCAA tourPietramala said “that Fenton played the game of his nament. If the Blue Devils don’t make it, it will be life.” Fenton, whose two brothers, senior defensethe second consecutive year without an appearman Zach and senior midfielder Ben, also play for ance after Duke went to six straight under coach Duke, credited good preparation in regards to his Pressler. play Saturday. “I was just seeing it real well,” Fenton Fantastic Goalie Play: Senior goalie Aaron said. “I knew these guys’ tendencies and where they shot the ball. In our scouting report, coach singles Fenton has strung together a rather impressive campaign thus far in 2004. He spend the early part of out guys. These guys like to shoot high, and I kind of the season competing with freshmen Dan Loftus for kept that in the back ofmy mind. And I just kind of the starting job but has made the position his with stuck with it. I was feeling it today.”

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“It pains me to see guys from New York City wearing other uniforms,” Roberts said. “It pains me to see guys winning national championships that should be playing at St. John’s.

We’re not going to get them all. It’s impossible to get them all. But there won’t be one kid in New York City that will say St. John’s didn’t bust their tail recruiting.”

The Red Storm has won 1,668 games, made 27 NCAA tournament appearances and reached the Final Four twice, the last time in 1985, under Lou Carnesecca, a St. John’s graduate from the Lower East Side of Manhattan whose team was led by three unmistakable New Yorkers, Chris Mullin, Walter Berry and Mark Jackson.

As an assistant for nine years to Bill Self at Oral Roberts, Tulsa, Illinois and finally Kansas, Roberts rose to the title of associate head coach and earned a reputation as a tireless and convincing recruiter, especially in the New York-New Jersey area. He spent four years as the freshmen coach at Archbishop Molloy High School, under the legendary Jack Curran, where he helped develop Kenny Anderson.

Roberts nurtured his New York ties over the years and got a verbal commitment from the 6-foot-10 forward Charlie Villanueva to attend Illinois a

COACH from page 11 polarizing as some could be.”

“I was very comfortable with the three we interviewed, as was the committee who worked with us, and the challenge became who would fit in the best,” Harrington said. “I worked the phone over the weekend, trying to get to people I didn’t even know and ask them their opinions of the candidates. At the end of all that, I felt confident Norm had what we needed, and he had the best potential at unifying.”

At a news conference in Alumni Hall on Tuesday, Roberts, who played and coached at nearby Queens College, called the St. John’s position his dream job. He also gave a tearful and passionate speech about how he intended to turn around a program that had just endured one of its worst seasons. Last December, after six games, St. John’s fired Mike Jarvis. He had posted a 11061 record, made three NCAA tournament appearances and won a National Invitation Tournament championship over five seasons.

The Red Storm finished the season with a 6-21 record and eight players, four of them walk-ons, after seven players were suspended or expelled last season. Five players were disciplined after taking a woman to a hotel room for sex after a loss in Pittsburgh. Another was disciplined for marijuana use and another for academic problems.

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Harrington acknowledged he was taking a chance on an unproven coach, but said he was moved by Selfs testament to his longtime friend.

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Physics Colloquium: 3:3opm. "Has a New State of Matter been discovered at the Relativistic Heavy lon Collider.” Room 114, Physics Building, West Campus.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 15 Weekly Eucharist (Holy Communion): s:3opm, Thursdays. Wesley Office (Chapel Basement).

Graduate Christian Fellowship: 6pm, dinner; 6:45pm, program. Dr. Richard Hays (New Testament) and Dr. Grant Wacker (American Christianity) will be speaking on Christian perspectives on the nation of Israel, ill be ample time for question and answer as well. Q & A. Chapel Basement. Come and bring a friend.

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Upcoming: April 17, 2-6 pm. MAYFAIRE. Edens Quad, Gazebo Lawn. The Arts Theme House presents Mayfaire, a medieval celebration of spring, with Maypole Dancing, Human Chess, Archery, Crafts, Games and Refreshments! Free activities, food and drink for all comers. Rain date: Sunday, April 18th.

Sponsored by ATH, Quad Council, Campus Council and the Multicultural Fund.

Upcoming: April 17. The Duke University Primate Center6th Annual 5K Run for the Lemurs at the Duke Golf Course Trail. Registration is available online at www.lemurlanding.com.

Upcoming: Angels Among Us 5K Run and Family Fun Walk. Saturday, April 24, 7am registration.

Durham Farmers Market: Saturdays, 8-12. Rain or Shine. Located on Morris St. one block south of the Old Ball Park. For more information, visit www.durhamfarmersmarket.com or cal 484-3084.

DUMA exhibition: Through May 16. Koz'ma Prutkov: A View of St. Petersburg. Thirty-one handcolored 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.

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Bush memo raises questions memo and the comission. Now that more information has been made public, there are only more questions to be asked.

The answers to these questions can help establish a more effective anti-terrorism policy and ensure, to the best of anyone’s ability, that another terrorist attack STAFF EDITORIAL on the scale of Sept. state 11 never happens. curity should have been made pubThe nation must be cautious, lic before now, but the fact that the memo has now been released and however, to not become too caught that the 9/11 comission hearings up in a past that cannot be changed. are not closed shows that the govFollowing a complete discussion of ernment is not hiding anything the events leading up to Sept. 11, the country should move foward in from the American public.

The memo has proven not to be addressing issues that are important to the future and not dwelling on the smoking gun that many Democrats and critics of President George potential mistakes of the past. still The release of the August 6th be, Bush it would it W. hoped raises important questions about memo and the 9/11 commission are the first step in accomplishing this. the preperadness of the administration prior to Sept. 11.

In the long run, this will only be What is most important now, good for fighting terrorism and imhowever, is the response to the proving homeland secutiry.

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Don't charge for T-shirts The free Last Day of Classes Tshirts have long been a staple of students’ wardrobes. This year, however, due to the costs incurred from performer Kanye West, Campus Council will charge a small fee for the T-shirts.

This is a terrible idea for a number of reasons. Since students are so accustomed to getting the T-shirts for free, they may be reluctant to pay even a few dollars for one. If Campus Council overestimates the number of students willing to buy a shirt, than they will not recoup the $7,000 they need to pay for the shirts.

However, at the same time, if Campus Council prints fewer shirts with this potential problem in mind and there ends up being a high demand for the shirts, than many students may miss out on a nice tradition. Either way, the decision to charge for T-shirts and deviate from

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It is wonderful that Campus Council has spent their Last Day of Classes budget on a musical act they think students will enjoy, but this does not mean that students should be deprived of their shirts, especially since T-shirts are a souvenier they can keep for years to come.

Since Campus Council simply does not have the neccessary funds left to pay for the T-shirts, someone else in the administration should step forward and offer to fund the remainder of the T-shirt money from their discretionary funds. The University can surely find $7,000 somewhere to continue this long standing tradition on what is one of the most enjoyable and memorable days for students.

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Grade inflation arguments illogical The Tuesday staff editorial on Princeton’s grade ceiling perpetuates some of the ridiculous attitudes that plagues the Duke undergraduate population. The statement “What

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sarily their school” is outrageous. The fact that Princeton currently is awarding 46 percent A’s underlines how meaningless the GPA has become. What once was a useful way of separating the best students from the average students has become away of separating the average students from the worst students. Taking easy classes to boost your GPA instead of pursuing tougher classes that test your intellect is a waste of time. If a GPA of 3.7 from a school with an easier grading policy is indeed better than a 3.5 at Duke

then why do people come to Duke?

The statement “if two or more students are competing for A grades, and are equally qualified, a professor must create arbitrary distinctions between them” is also uninformed. Many classes at Duke, especially freshman science classes, have preset limits on A’s of about 10 to 15 percent. Teachers at Duke are distinguishing between A’s and B’s every semester. If Princeton implemented this policy, a professor could preset a limits on A in his or her class to 30 percent and then have a little room to give more or less As if he or she wanted.

Ben Cooke Grad ’O7

Feminism discussion tonight For Duke students, the editorial page of The Chronicle serves as an outlet and a forum for debate to the larger Duke community. However, what image of women at Duke is actually portrayed in the editorial pages?

That of table-dancing, sororities, feminism, hooking-up, Christians, non-Christians—girls will be girls, right?

What are women at Duke really like? We come in as freshmen, having been chosen for our highly individual achievements and personal ambitions, then things begin to change.

Because we all tend to be such high academic achievers, many of us begin to feel that we must establish other ways of being noticed, liked, popular, attractive, fit, organized, loved and respected —in a word, perfect.

We personally see little difference between the girl who feels that she must wear pearls and join a sorority and the girl that wears black lace and dances on the tops of bars. They are both caught up in the throws of effortless perfection.

If we knew nothing more about Duke than the editorial page of The Chronicle, we

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to believe that all Duke women are transfixed on their social lives and have no more worldly concerns than dating, parties and appearances. But we have experienced Duke outside of these pages, and we know this is not the case. It is our sincere hope that the representations of women at Duke, in The Chronicle and elsewhere, will become less concerned with the way we think we should be and more honest about the way we really are.

We’d like to leave you with some questions to ponder: Stilettos and pearls... what’s the difference? Are you afraid to call yourself feminist? What does it mean to be a liberated woman at Duke?

There is a discussion of these issues tonight at 8 p.m. in the Women’s Center entitled, “Feminism in The Chronicle: what does it mean to be a female student at Duke?”

Anna Fisher Trinity ’O4 Vanessa Rodriguez Trinity ’O6

Low-carb diets dangerous to health As a local nutritionist, I want to applaud Duke University Dining Services for refusing to jump on the low-carb bandwagon.

Despite the hype surrounding these diets, it’s increasingly clear that low-carb eating plans pose a serious threat to public health.

Of course, any diet high in saturated fat increases the risk of heart disease and some cancers. But low-carb diets have also been linked to other maladies, including constipation, poor exercise and cognitive per-

formance, cardiac arrhythmias and kidney problems.

That’s why major health organizations like the American Kidney Fund and the American Cancer Society have warned consumers about the dangers posed by the low-carb fad.

My only question is this: How long will it take other schools to wise up and follow Duke’s lead?

Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D.

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your last one,” said my editor as we son they used to be. In most cases, you crossed paths on campus. I knew it. just opt for a path too different to mainI’d been mulling over how to write a tain the relationship. But with each enfitting end, the proper send-off for two counter of change, feelings of loss arise.

College is the first taste of perpetual years as a columnist, but more importantstudent.

When we will find in people throughout four as a applied change I ly, years life. Friends here will come and go. Often for the position of social/greek columfriends from home will follow suit. The nist, I knew I would be writing for a microcosm of this campus. I knew I would best thing we can do is learn to accept this idea, minimize the have to look deeply into disappointment and aptrivial matters, or at least even more those to But preciate try anyway. ending rare and wonderful peomy stmt with some ple we meet during this grandiose look at life from chaotic time who become SaturThursday through fixtures in our lives. day night would do a disOn Self: “You need to service to you. out for your own watch what leave on I Instead, best interest because no the page are the things Jen Wlach one else in this world I’ve learned about the The Wlach Attack will.” This was said to me human condition. Forget lectures and formal eduduring the first weeks of freshman year. Not to be cation. This, right here, is the big picture. This is what I have misconstrued for selfishness, the point is learned from you; what I have taken to that we are the only ones responsible to heart from my fellow students; what I will pursue a life of happiness and respect, for these things are not handed to us. carry with me that can never be expressed by the calligraphy on a diploma. What’s crucial and often overlooked is the fact that seeking thatwhich is best for On Change: People change. It’s simlives must stem from self-respect. It but this is our someple and seems obvious, means with time and time understanding the difference bewe struggle thing again. The reality is amplified because tween standing up for yourself and taking we’re thrown together for a short, but too much; tlie divide between selflessness and permitting people to walk all over poignant, time in our lives.

College presents the challenge of you. Most importantly, it means choosing to live on your terms, not in order to etching your identity. Away from everyothers, garner your parents’ praise molded we’re please us, that to expecting thing grasp the independence that comes with or simply do what society tells you is adulthood and decide who we’re going to right. When you learn to live for yourself, contentment isn’t far behind. be. And all this goes on while in the comOn Love: As we come to understand pany of thousands of strangers. In four meet bonds who we are, we also look into the type of new people, form years you and watch some of them deteriorate as person we want to share our life with. Despite all the talk about the death of roone or both of you change.

180; do a others will mance on campus, love does abound.

Some people will During our time here, many.of us have themselves to the where point dizzy spin fallen in love. We’ve also fallen out of you don’t recognize an ounce of the perlove and grown as individuals while in re-

The misuses

lationships. For some of us, it’s in college at a time of total inconvenience—but we where we learn to be one-half, to depend connect to the person, not the gestures. on others and be depended on in a sense You have to love your friends for who that we never could before comprehend. they are, not fault them for not being And it’s these things, these unspoken perwho you expect. Focus on being the best sonal growths that come with relationpossible friend to others by your definition and appreciate what friends bring to ships, that matter. It’s not getting a threeor with a BS as a leaving your life when they follow theirs. carat ring On Conviction: The beauty of a school soon-to-be Mrs. I’ve heard comments like, “you know like Duke is the intellectual diversity. We you meet your husband during your first all know the student body is diverse—it’s year at Duke” and I’ve seen girls’ eyes practically programmed into our brains searching feverishly at bars hoping to that we’re here because they saw somespot this man. The grand lesson on love thing “different” in each of us. Unless in college, and in general: love sought is you’re the kid of alumni, in which case not pure. they saw something similar—your last It is a miserable truth, but those great name. Among the students you’ll find an relationships that lead you to fall in love insanely wide range of ideologies on an when even broader set come not lookof re topics. We’ve you all had intense ing, when you “It is a miserable truth, butconversations least expect it, and a lot of those great relationships that about our beliefs; and if things went times when you lead you to fall in love come right, we’ve had least want it. when you’re not looking, our viewpoints We’re a group when you least expect it, and challenged. of ambitious I think it so kids who have a lot of times when you least admirable to edbuilt lives on want it.” ucate oneself on the mentality of a subject, form getting what we want by working for it. Love is an accomvalues and be confident enough to displishment, but it’s not one that comes with cuss them. The problem lies in narroweffort. So sit back, relax and enjoy learning mindedness. Holding so tightly to one’s beliefs that we refuse to listen to others is from those who pass in and out of your romantic life. One day you’ll find the right dangerous. Faith is wonderful; blind faith mate; and shockingly enough, that person is ignorance.

This is especially true for an institumight not have attended Duke.

On Friends; To expect your friends to tion like Duke. Many of us will go on to be the same friend you are to them prombe leaders, to wield great influence in the ises for disappointment. I learned this workings of this nation. To leave this Uniearly on in life, but found myself saying versity unwilling to hear others, unable to this to many people here over the years. accept their beliefs or to question our Friendships don’t work because we all own, is to leave unaffected. The best eduact, think and react in the same way. It’s cation we receive is from one another. so easy to get frustrated with someone for not doing what you Would have—for not Jen Wlach is a Trinity senior. Her column taking the time to listen or be thoughtful appears every other Wednesday.

of the Bible

a week ago, on the very page that you’re convincing nonetheless. For example, the Bible clearly looking at right now, there was an incendiary col- states that one may own slaves as long as they are obumn about religion that seemed to set the whole tained from neighboring nations (Lev. 25:44). I was under the impression that the abolitionist movement in campus on fire. the United States history stemmed from the fact that offended, it did make me While I personally wasn’t think about my own experiences as an agnostic on this people found slavery to be morally wrong. The Bible campus where the Christian presence is strongly felt, clearly doesn’t see it this way since the problem isn t that The very first thing that came to my mind was an inci- slavery is immoral or wrong but rather that we obtained the slaves from Africa, which isn’t a neighdent that one ofmy close friends went boring nation. It goes to reason then that if through last year. She had decided to we had enslaved Mexicans or Canadians we attend a speech on dating hosted by would have been in the clear as far as the of the Christian on groups one major word of God goes and we could have avoidcampus. One of the key pieces of ade<f that disruptive little Civil War. vice that the speaker gave to the audiAn even more poignant example is date that should not ence was they found in Exodus 35:2, where it is clearly people who aren’t Christians. When stated that one should work for six days and my friend, who wasn’t a Christian but then rest on the seventh (i.e. Sabbath). Any’ of curiosity was there simply out it l rladZlOSmailOVlC one who works on the seventh day, whether raised her hand and asked how he it is Saturday according to Jewish tradition could be telling the audience that The Other Side Sunday according to Christian, is to be or like her they shouldn’t date people put to death according to the Bible. I don’t the man politely apologized but firmly maintained that this was simply what it said in the know about you, but I know plenty of students at Duke Bible. This incident aside, there are many things that who study seven days a week and even have part-time to defend by the simple fact that it says so in the jobs on the weekends. I guess we will have kill them— to marry beare not tor allow gays mean, the we going I if Bible. Opponents of gay rights almost always quote and shouldn t it is forbidden the Bible we if by cause preChristians who condemn Bible as their reason as do marital or cross-religious sex, just to name a few. And date non-Christians because it’s also forbidden by the those kids who after all is there anything wrong with this? Christians Bible then we have to be fair and kill all the in Doing oththeir library. studying and spend Sundays God, the word of believe that the Bible contains be erwise would simply hypocritical, would His that obey they it makes sense consequently Furthermore, homosexuality and premarital sex may word religiously be abominations but so is eating anything from the sea isn’t There is only one minor obstacle—this simply that doesn’t have fins or scales (Lev. 11:10). Therefore, only that Christians not The Bible is full of things true if you’re one of the many Christians on this campus who don’t obey but completely ignore. in favor of an amendment forbidding gay marriage are one and lam The list of these things is a rather long because God condemns it in the Bible then shouldn’t are but they with handful of examples a only familiar

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you also be in favor of one forbidding consumption of .lobster and shellfish since this is forbidden just as strongly? Granted, places like Red Lobster would go out

of business, but don’t we have an obligation to be fair and just in how we follow God’s word?

I am clearly being sarcastic, but despite my sardonic suggestions, I have nothing against the Bible or Christianity in general. Nonetheless, the Bible is two thousands years old, and it is essential that readers interpret it in an intelligent and modern way using their own faculties to truly think about everything that it says. The problem arises from the fact that so many people interpret the Bible in a hypocritical, self-serving way. Furthermore, many use it as a shield behind which they can hide their own prejudices If you don’t support alternative lifestyles have the courage to own up to this as your own belief and your own interpretation of the Bible. Saying that you’re against gay marriage because that is what the word of God dictates is an incomplete argument and a cowardly one since there are clearly so many other things that God says in the Bible which you obviously don’t follow.

The same goes if you don’t believe in cross-religious dating or premarital sex solely because that is what is written in the Bible.

As a Christian, and a human being, you have a responsibility to ask yourself why you are choosing to honor certain parts of the Bible while ignoring others since this will tell you so much about who you are as a person. I would hope that this is what religion is all about—gaining an understanding of yourself and your relationship with God rather than following blindly things that are convenient and in agreement with what you already think or want to believe.

Emin Hadziosmanovic is a Trinity sophomore. His column every other Wednesday.

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