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WEL done/ Duke will honor outgoing President Nan Keohane today by renaming the West-Edens Link Keohane Quadrangle. A dedication ceremony is set for 4:30 p.m. oh the first floor of the McClendon Tower. Several student and administrative leaders will offer short remarks and a Keohane name plate will be unveiled. “When you have a president with a legacy as broad and deep as President Keohane’s, it’s only appropriate that the University offer a suitable symbol of appreciation,” said Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli. “Duke’s quads are named after our great presidents, and Nan Keohane belongs on that list.” Indeed, four of the five other quads are named after former presidents—Craven, Crowell, Kilgo, Few and Edens. Back in October, Campus Council passed a resolution recommending naming the WEL after Keohane. The resolution came just a few days after a Chronicle editorial made the same recommendation. It had long been rumored that the University would eventually name the new quad after Keohane—even as far back as when the old Ocean parking lot was torn up to make way for the horse-shoe-shaped, four-building, 350-room structure. But the change necessitated the approval of the Board of Trustees before coming into fruition. The WEL took its original moniker both from its location—in between Main West Campus and Edens Quadrangle—and its primary purpose—to make residents in Edens not feel completely isolated from the rest of campus. Students living in dormitories adjacent to the WEL endured several years of early
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In their final meeting of the semester, members of the Graduate and Professional Student Council reviewed the progress the organization has made this year. GPSC President Rob Saunders, Treasurer Heather Dean and the chairs of each of GPSC’s subcommittees reported on how successful they had been in accomplishing their objectives. The year has been marked by increased efforts to publicize the organization and reach out to other graduate and professional student groups and to help them solve problems they face on such issues as
parental rights and rising health insurance costs, Saunders said in his Presidential Report. Saunders cited jointmeetings with Duke Student Government and high-profile administrators such as Provost Peter Lange and Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, increased funding for the 70 graduate and professional student groups that have become affiliated with GPSC over the past year and vigorous efforts to control health insurance costs as some highlights of the Council’s accomplishments this year. Health insurance has been an especially SEE GPSC ON PAGE
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BAGHDAD After days of talks and threats of a military showdown, U.S. officials agreed Monday to call off an offensive in the flash point city of Fallujah if civic leaders can persuade insurgents there to turn in their heavy weapons. The agreement was the first firm sign that at least one. of two serious standoffs with anti-American insurgents—in Fallujah, west of the capital, and in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, to the south—might be resolved.peacefully. But the possibility of renewed fighting in Fallujah remained real, as U.S. officials expressed skepticism that Iraqi
civic leaders could actually persuade the insurgents to disarm. “There is a big question about whether or not they can deliver, and that remains to be seen,” Dan Senor, a spokesperson for the U.S.-led civilian administration, told reporters Monday. “And we have been very clear that time is running out. There’s only so much longer we can continue this process before we have to re-engage and reinitiate operations.” Although Iraq is calmer now than earlier this month, when the most serious insurgency yet in the year-old occupation flared, there is still much violence. The Swedish Embassy, now
vacant, was hit Monday with what appeared to be at least one mortar round.
Three mortar rounds near the U.N. complex killed two people and sprayed shrapnel on several young girls returning from school. The A1 Iraqiya television station, financed by the U.S. government, reported that U.S. soldiers shot to death two of its employees and wounded a third. The station said the men had been traveling in a car near the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad. The standoffs with Sunni Muslim militants in Fallujah and Shiite Muslim SEE
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BEIJING Before his high-profile visit to China last week, Vice President Dick Cheney insisted that Beijing leaders allow him to speak, live and uncensored, to the Chinese people. After weeks of intense negotiations, Cheney was granted that measure of openness—but not one millimeter more. Anyone who tuned in to CCTV-4, China’s all-news television channel, shordy after 10 a.m. Thursday could watch Cheney deliver an address to students at Fudan University in Shanghai. A State Department translator provided simultaneous interpretation. But the broadcast received no advance promotion or
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write quizzes for the Discovery Channel and have been written about in several Back in 1997 when Will Pearson and other publications, including an article in Mangesh Hattikudur, both class of 2001, the current issue of Newsweek. were freshmen, they became enraptured Mental_Floss has also recently signed with Jeopardy-esque trivia craze like the deals for a column in Reader’s Digest as rest of the world. well as a boardgame, due out next year. Their late night TV sessions were more Their first book, titled “Condensed Knowlthan just a break though; the realization edge,” consists of chapters featuring quick that people like to be educated and enterhits about subjects like History and Pop tained at the same time led them to coCulture and will be released May 1. found Mental_Floss, now a nationally While things are busy at the moment, the renowned magazine company that seems company also hopes to launch a children’s to have no limits. version of the magazine, which they’ll call “It’s kind of ridiculous that a bunch of Elemental_Floss, in the near future. kids are doing this, but we’ve been lucky,” “[The goal of ElementalJFloss is] to get said Pearson, who was a history major and, kids interested in learning in away that they like Hattikudur, had little journalistic exmight not be stimulated in school,” said Hatperience before Mental_Floss. tikudur, adding that both he and Pearson During their junior year, Pearson and have always liked being around kids and enHattikudur created a test issue of their pet joyed participating in WOODS—Wilderness project on campus and received positive Outdoor Opportunities for Durham Stufeedback. The two then set up dents—while at Duke. an advisory board consisting of So what’s with all journalistically oriented prothe underscores? fessors and alumni and naively The title, explained dove into the complex world Pearson, includes the of magazine production. underscore because The national pilot issue was it gets people’s attenlaunched in summer 2001 tion and reminds with the addition of art directhem of the internet, tor and fellow classmate where information is Lisako Koga. Another alum, readily available. It Neely Harris, ‘OO, was added was Hattikudur’s idea to the staff as the editor-inand it stuck, just as chief when the main office of they hope their adMental Floss moved to Birmdiction to entertainingham, Ala. ing education will Today, Mental_Floss boosts stick in the minds of a 25,000 subscription base their followers. with an additional 70,000 copies of the The possibilities truly are infinite for magazine out on newsstands each month. Mental_Floss, not only as a magazine but But unlike other magazines, Mental_Floss also as a company. “We want people to see has gained its reputation and fame without [MentalJFloss] as a company that’s conspending a cent on marketing. “We didn’t standy blurring the lines between educahave the money to do that,” said Pearson. tion and entertainment,” said Pearson. “We had to pay off financial aid bills.” It wasn’t always that easy, but Hattikudur Instead of paying for advertising, the attributes part of their success to their ignogroup worked on other ways to get their rance of the magazine industry and naive name out there. Their ideas have natures. “I didn’t know how much failure branched out into other fields—aside from there was [in the magazine industry],” he the magazine issues, they currendy do a said, adding that the hardest part of their weekly segment on CNN Headline News, start-up project was at first explaining the
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“This idea really came out oflate night freshman dorm [conversations],” said Hattikudur as he offers his advice to current Duke students. “Really take advantage of all the intelligence around you. There are so many people [at Duke] I was almost envious of because they were so talented in ways I wasn’t,” he added. And Mental_Floss clearly demonstrates that these talents, when combined—such as Hattikudur’s own creative abilities alongside Pearson’s entrepreneurial drive and the different areas of expertise that the company has taken on in the recent years—can yield incredible results.
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Court rules on r ght of Ind ian tribes to prosecute typically, a state prosecution followed by a federal prosecudon, or vice versa. WASHINGTON The Supreme Court Under Supreme Court precedent, ruled Monday that American Indian tribes tribes lack power to prosecute non-Indihave the authority to prosecute members of ans. It was also clear that a tribe exercises other tribes for crimes committed on their its sovereign authority when it prosecutes reservadons. Because tribes act as independone of its own members, and that double ent sovereign nadons in such prosecutions, jeopardy therefore does not apply. The the court said, ordinary principles of double question in the new case was whether, in jeopardy do not apply and do not bar the exercising its restored authority to prosefederal government from bringing a subsecute nonmembers, a tribe continues to act for the same offense. as a sovereign. prosecudon quent The 7-2 decision was welcomed by AmerThe Indian defendant in this case, Billy ican Indian tribes, which under a 1990 Jo Lara, is a Chippewa who married a member of a different North Dakota tribe, Supreme Court decision had lost their authority to enforce their criminal laws against the Spirit Lake Tribe, and was living with members of other tribes. Congress prompthis family on the Spirit Lake Reservation. ly amended the Indian Civil Rights Act to The Spirit Lake Tribe prosecuted and conrestore the right to prosecute nonmembers. victed him in its tribal court for assaulting The case Monday required the Supreme a police officer of the Bureau of Indian AfCourt to decide both the nature and the vafairs. When the federal government then filed charges against him for the same incilidity of the congressional action. dent, this time on a charge of assaulting a American Indian law is extremely complex, and the answers to these questions federal officer, Lara argued that the Fifth were not obvious. The practical implications Amendment’s protection against double were evident, however. Under a legal docjeopardy should bar the new prosecution. trine devised by the Supreme Court in 1922, The question then became how to dethe usual constitutional protection against scribe the source of the Spirit Lake double jeopardy does not apply to consecuTribe’s power to prosecute Lara. His tive prosecutions by “separate sovereigns” lawyers argued that under the new law, a by
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New Spanish leader orders troops home But officials made little secret of the fact that the decision was a bitter moment MADRID, Spain for President George W. Bush. They fear Spain’s new Socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zathat it will make an international effort in patero, announced Sunday that he was orIraq harder to maintain as the June 30 date dering Spanish troops to leave Iraq “as approaches for the handover of sovereign soon as possible.” power to the Iraqi government. The naZapatero, speaking just 24 hours after tional security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, he was sworn in, said he had ordered Desaid in an interview on Fox News Sunday fense Minister Jose Bono to “do what is that she was concerned that terrorists necessary for the Spanish troops stationed could draw “the wrong lesson from Spain,” and try other attacks aimed at dividing the in Iraq to return home” in the shortest possible time. Zapatero said he had made his coalition. decision because it was unlikely that the Nonetheless, McCormack said, “We are United Nations would be playing a leading grateful to the other coalition partners for role in Iraq any time soon. Involvement of their recent expressions of solidarity.” the United Nations had been his condition John Kerry, the likely Democratic candifor Spain’s 1,300 troops to remain. date for president, issued a statement SunThe prime minister spoke briefly at the day in Washington about Spain’s anMoncloa Palace shortly after appointing nouncement. “I regret Prime Minister his Cabinet. His new foreign minister, Zapatero’s decision,” he said. “Rather than Miguel Moratinos, is leaving for Washinglosing partners, I believe it’s critical that we ton this week for meetings Wednesday with find new coalition partners to share the burden in Iraq,” the statement said. Secretary of State Colin Powell; Condoleezza Rice, the national security advisThe new Spanish government has been er; and members of Congress. Iraq is exaccused by the departing leaders and by pected to figure prominently in his American conservatives of capitulating to discussions. terrorists. Elections here occurred three The trip will begin with a stop Tuesday days after terrorist attacks on March 11 left in Ireland, the current holder of the Euro-, 192 people dead and more than 1,400 wounded. pean Union presidency. But on the eve of the elections, many Zapatero’s move, though a serious setback, will not come as a surprise to the Spanish voters apparently turned against United States. Two high officials of the the conservative government ofJose Maria new Spanish government, in a briefing for Aznar, who had a narrow lead in the polls, because they thought it had been less than reporters, said that since Zapatero’s election victory on March 14, intense consultatruthful about the terrorist attacks, insisttions had been held with the heads of goving on blaming Basque separatists while evernment or top officials of 12 nations. idence was already strongly pointing to IsBono made an undisclosed visit to lamist militants. Richard Gardner, a former U.S. ambasWashington this month and met with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Spain sador to Spain, here on a private visit, also conferred with Britain, Italy and called the troop pullout bad news and said, “Let’s hope it does not trigger other withPoland, which have troops in Iraq. A Defense Ministry official said at a drawals.” He added that it was now imporbriefing that the Spanish withdrawal might tant “that Spain demonstrates its willingtake a month. ness to assume a larger share of the The officials said that the new governmilitary burden in Afghanistan, the Balkament made its announcement on its first ns or other areas.” day to avoid being drawn into a debate A European diplomat called the pulland to avoid possible complications in the out a serious setback for Washington befield. They did not want any future event, cause Spain’s presence was more imporlike taking of hostages or the deaths of tant symbolically than in a military sense. any soldiers to be used to misinterpret The United States has been eager to mainSpain’s motives. tain the international veneer to the inAt the White House Sunday, officials creasingly beleaguered coalition force. sounded resigned to Spain’s withdrawal Italy, which has about 3,000 soldiers in from their coalition. ‘We knew from the reIraq has said it will stay the course. Prime cent Spanish election that it was the new Minister Silvio Berlusconi said late last prime minister’s intention to withdraw week that an Italian withdrawal was “abSpanish troops,” said Sean McCormack, the solutely out of the question.” spokesperson for the National Security Wednesday, Iraqi insurgents killed one Council. He said the White House expected of four Italian security guards who had Spain to carry out the decision “in a coordinated, responsible and orderly manner.” SEE TROOPS ON PAGE 7 by
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militants in Najaf have posed a crucial test for the U.S. forces here, caught between the need to maintain order and a desire not to alienate moderate Iraqis. U.S. commanders have been keen to show a willingness to negotiate, as away to prevent growing anti-American sentiment from swelling further in the event of a major military confrontation with Iraqis. But with U.S. plans to hand over power to Iraqis a little more than two months away, the standoffs are also paralyzing the political process here, and U.S. officials are running thin on patience. Sunday, Paul Bremer, the leader of the U.S. occupation, repeated that the standoffs must be resolved quickly. Among the other risks of prolonged negotiations are provocations, which soldiers in Fallujah have complained about in frustration, and mounting American casualties. Monday afternoon outside of Kufa, near Najaf, where some 2,500 troops are ringing the cities, a U.S. military convoy was ambushed by insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and small-arms fire. At least one Humvee was seen burning, with militia men loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, the rebel Shiite Muslim cleric who has been leading a broad uprising against U.S. forces this month, dancing around the wreck. Two U.S. soldiers wounded in the attack were flown out by helicopter. Their medical conditions were not immediately known. Despite the attack, Shiite leaders said negotiatiorts to end the standoff had revived after appearing to break down over
the weekend. “The two parties showed some positive signs regarding our proposal,” said Jawad al-Maliki, a senior official with the Dawa Islamic Party, a venerable Shiite political group. He planned to travel to Najaf Tuesday with a delegation of clerics and politicians. Maliki, one of the negotiators, said both sides were working to forge an agreement that would address seven conditions, four from the Coalition Provisional Authority and three from al-Sadr. He said al-Sadr has expressed a willingness to disband his militia, the Mahdi Army, responsible for many attacks on U.S. soldiers this month —a proposal he had previously refused to discuss. But, he said, al-Sadr is balking at a demand that he promise not to rise up against the government again. The agreement announced over Fallujah came after nearly a week of talks between U.S. officials, Iraqi leaders and local civic leaders in the city, most of them so afraid of being seen negotiating with Americans that they arrived at talks in buses with the windows covered with blankets. The aim was to end the fighting that began after four U.S. security officers were killed and mutilated in Fallujah on March 31. Several hundred Iraqis were reported killed in the fighting. “We are trying to use peaceful negotiations to try to bring the situation in Fallujah to an end,” said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, chief spokesperson for the military command here. But he said there was “a very clear understanding” that if the agreement did not “bear fruit, that the Marine forces out there are more than prepared to continue offensive operations.”
CHENEY from page 2 says Yu Maochun, a China expert at the U.S. Naval Academy who noticed discrepancies between Cheney’s speech and the Chinese transcript. “Censorship is a habit they can’t kick.” In a similar sleight of the invisible hand late last year, a government-owned Chinese publisher issued an authorized Chinese version of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s autobiography, “Living History,” thatremoved most of Clinton’s references to her and former President Bill Clinton’s visits to China. The Chinese company did not notify Clinton’s publisher that it was making any changes to the text and it was sold as an unabridged translation. American officials say that to the best of their knowledge the Chinese side lived up to the letter of their agreement on Cheney’s speech, but expressed frustration that the record was later expunged. “It was extremely important to the White House to have a live and uncensored broadcast,” said a U.S. consular official in Shanghai. “We feel good that we were able to do that.” Bush administration officials said they had not negotiated how the Chinese transcript would-be handled. When the excised version came to their attention, they worked to prepare their own Chinese version. It was posted to the American Embassy’s Web site Friday. In his speech last Thursday, Cheney spoke broadly about American foreign policy. But he devoted much of the talk and a subsequent exchange with students to links between political and economic free-
dom in China, as well as Taiwan, the most delicate topic in U.S.-China relations. The Chinese transcript was prepared by People’s Daily, the main newspaper of the Communist Party, immediately after the address and was distributed to newspapers and Web sites across the country. While faithful to most of what Cheney said, it dropped many references to “political freedom” and “individual freedom.” While Cheney praised “rising prosperity and expanding political freedom” across Asia, the official Chinese transcript refers only to “rising prosperity.” It dropped his statements that “the desire for freedom is universal” and that “freedom is indivisible.” It also wiped out any record of what Cheney had said about the Taiwan Relations Act, a U.S. law passed in 1979 mandating that the United States sell Taiwan military equipment so it can defend itself against any attack from the Chinese mainland. China maintains that the act violates agreements with the United States. Cheney said the war campaign against terror must not be used as a pretext to suppress “legitimate dissent.” The Chinese, who have battled dissidents they say are terrorists in their largely Muslim region of Xinjiang, dropped that phrase. The longest elisions involved Cheney’s references to the North Korean nuclear crisis, North Korea’s acquisition of nuclear technology from Pakistan and the problem of weapons proliferation generally. China, which is closer to NorthKorea than any other country, is acting as a broker in negotiations over how to end the North’s nuclear arms program.
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KEOHANE QUAD fro.page, GPSC from page 1 mornings of jackhammering and dumptrucks backing up, but officials and most students say the disturbance was worth it The quad offers spacious dormitory rooms, an expansive lawn and a recreation tower complete with game room, 24-hour diner and a Starbucks Coffeeserving cafe. “President Keohane had many years of great service to this University,” said Duke Student Government President Matt Slovik. “During her tenure, there was unprecedented growth here, including the WEL, and it’s only fitting that the quad bears her name.” Keohane and other University officials could not be reached for comment.
salient issue for graduate students iii the past few years, with premiums rising on average 20 percent every year. In March, graduate students anticipated premium increases of more than 28 percent, but two weeks ago, representatives from Blue Cross/Blue Shield informed members of the Health Insurance Advisory Committee that the increase would be only 21.9 percent. “With health care and health insurance, in the future we can help control costs by taking a wellness approach,” Saunders said. “With costs rising, we have to look at preventative care, and hopefully in the long run that will lead to lower health insurance costs.” IN OTHER BUSINESS: GPSC basketball subcommittee co-
chairs Andy Baraniak and Jeff Kovacs presented next year’s basketball policy. There were only slight modifications to the current policy, which outlines the procedures for the annual three-day campout. Each year, about 500 students win the lottery for the opportunity to buy season tickets for $l5O, and nearly all the students who win chose to buy the tickets. The new policy states that only full time graduate students are eligible for the '■campout, which will take place Sept. 10 to 12. Treasurer and President-Elect Heather Dean presented the year’s final budget. Funding for GPSC affiliated groups increased from $lO,OOO to $25,000 over the past year. As her first act as president, Dean created a new position to oversee the affiliation of these groups and appointed Council member Jenny Woodruff to the position.
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TROOPS from page 5 been traveling with a U.S. supply convoy. They threatened to kill the others unless Italy withdrew its troops from Iraq. The new Spanish foreign minister, Moratinos, a career diplomat with long experience in the Middle East, is making the hasty trip to Washington to explain
that the new government had no choice but to bring the troops home. A senior Socialist Party official said the minister would stress that the decision by Zapatero was not anti-American, but rather the fulfillment of a pledge he had been making for the past year. He is also expected to discuss a future role in Iraq for Spain, like training Iraqi police or helping in reconstruction.
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Sports They put it all on the line as well Several years ago, on a long night in February of my freshman year, I sat through my first annual multi-hour sports editor elections for The Chronicle. One of the aspiring candidates, who eventually won the job, avowed in his speech that he desperately wanted this position because he had been a lifelong fan of Duke men’s basketball. He said little about the school’s other 25 varsity teams—many of which were and still are national-championship caliber—and clearly based his candidacy on his appeal to other diehard supporters ofDuke’s most storied program in the room. I don’t fault him for being honest (although perhaps he was not best suited to be the sports editor at a college paper), because he was simply reflecting a common sentiment in the student body. Certainly I have thoroughly enjoyed the privilege of sitting in the Cameron press row for the highlight-reel spectacle that is men’s basketball games, and the excitement surrounding the team serves as a unifying force for the student body, a means of attracting some of the most dynamic and vibrant high schoolers, and away of encouraging alumni donations. But the success of men’s basketball also has the unfortunate effect of rendering other sports on campus invisible. In my four years and 140-plus articles with the Chronicle, I know that Duke athletics is so much more than a oneteam show. I have had the pleasure of watching, interviewing and writing about some of the nation’s finest athletes, many of whom go through Duke with relative anonymity. Take the women’s tennis team, for example. My freshman year, I watched Ansley Cargill have one of the most successful seasons in school history, and since she left for the professional tour after only one year, I have seen her compete against the likes of the Venus Williams in Grand Slam events. Sophomore and junior years it was 5-foot-2 sparkplug Kelly McCain, who I got to cover for two seasons before she turned professional as well. McCain’s ranking has shot up in the last year, and she is currently No. 176 in the world. And this year I have seen four-year player Amanda Johnson take the reigns of the team as a senior. Despite her success as a soon-to-be four-time All-American, Johnson remains one of the most humble athletes you will meet, and her commitment to the program is admirable. I have also witnessed the dedication of the rowers and swimmers, some of the hardestworking but least-heralded athletes at Duke. Chronicle writers tend to do most of our interviews for preview after teams get out of practice, but the rowing and swimming squads have often completed multi-hour morning workouts SEE SULLIVAN ON
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year in the Tobacco Road rivalry may be remembered for a pair of men’s basketball games that were nothing short of breathtaking, but for a group of athletes and the spectators who looked on, there are other events that certainly have certainly already become indelible memories. Away from grandeur of national television and ESPN’s stage erected outside Cameron Indoor Stadium in early March, three of Duke’s teams accomplished things they hadn’t done in years—they beat the Tar Heels. The trio of wins, scoring the Blue Devils four somewhat unexpected points in the 2003-2004 Carlyle Cup race, helped Duke capture its third victory in the cup’s four year existence. The Blue Devils current sit in 15th position in Directors’ Cup standings SEE CARLYLE CUP ON PAGE 12
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Well, at the very least I can look into my magical 8 ball and find out what my fellow colleagues will be doing in the near future. Here’s what the enchanted pool ball forecasts.... 8 Ball: This summer the graduating seniors will fill a host of positions in the real world. The companies that employ them will be focused on profit margins and competing with other firms in the industry. There will be little room for failure, and even less toleration for a disappointing finish. Sounds like a bummer, man. GG: So mystical 8 ball, what happened to all the courses that I used to take about the history of jazz or leisure in modem Europe? 8 Ball; Those courses have no use in the real world. Their relevance does not pervade the corporate society that runs our country. Learning about bohemians in Parisian culture will not help any firm
increase its profits, and therefore has no place in the real world. Wow, this little black ball is dishing it out today. I’ve had just about enough. Wait, it has one last piece of advice. 8 Ball: Don’t fret, young man, the future holds many treasures that you will open. Thanks for being as vague as possible with that one. Now I guess I have to synthesize all this magical 8 ball knowledge and figure out what exactly I’m going to do next year in this real world. First of all, I have to realize that some topics which have captivated my mind during the past four years will suddenly become obsolete in this real world. When I studied Greek civilization, I had a genuine interest to investigate further into the subject. In the real world, the study of such a random topic would not be relevant. At least, that’s what my black ball of fun tells me. SEE GITHENS ON PAGE 12
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SULLIVAN from page 11 before most of the student body has stirred. Unfortunately, when I cover most of the non-revenue sports (anything other than football or basketball), I am often one of the few spectators besides friends and family, and that’s truly a shame. I’m not sure why more Duke students, who are such incredibly passionate men’s basketball fans, don’t go out to cheer on more of their teams. Certainly we are a campus full of former high school athletes with letters galore in varsity sports, so I would figure that the interest would carry over into college. One message that is thankfully beginning to resonate among the student body—and hopefully will continue long after the graduation ofAlana Beard—is the talent of the women’s basketball team. In the past two years, Cameron has sold out for games against North Carolina, Tennessee and UConn. I had the honor of covering those events for the Chronicle, and the devotion of the Crazies gave me hope for the future support of women’s basketball at Duke. Sure, the Blue Devils’ greatest senior class will be moving on— Beard and Iciss Tillis to the WNBA, and Vicki Krapohl to put her engineering degree to work at NASA—but the team is still brimming with talent. Look no further for excitement than returning point guard Lindsey Harding, whose freakish speed and athletic prowess will be featured more prominently next year. I urge anyone who hasn’t already done so to give the women’s basketball team and the other under-appreciated programs a chance. Head over to Cameron to see the volleyball or wrestling teams compete; go to the track team’s annual Duke Invitational at Wallace Wade Stadium; or check out the ridiculously talented women’s golf team when it tees off nearby. I’ve had a chance to do all this and more in four years with The Chronicle, and it’s been one of the most rewarding activities that I could have ever hoped to have found in college. Sure, it’s a hell of a lot of work, but it also has its perks (trips to New Mexico, Florida and Purdue, not to mention a would-be journey to New Orleans had the women’s basketball team made the Final Four). This year’s sports editor, Mike Corey, truly valued the talents of all of Duke’s teams, and I hope that we conveyed that to the public. I can only hope that my devotion to this school’s athletic programs—and women’s basketball in particular—has been evident in my writing, and that perhaps, in some way, this passion has rubbed off on would-be fans who might otherwise have passed up a chance to witness some of the greatest athletic talents in the nation right here at Duke.
CARLYLE CUP from page n with their best season, the spring, still to be tabulated. Duke’s football, field hockey and wrestling teams all terminated long losing streaks versus the Tar Heels this year—the field hockey and wrestling teams went on to groundbreaking seasons and then-interim head coach Ted Roof may just have earned himself the top job with the win in his rival’s stadium. Under first-year head coach Beth Bozman, the field hockey squad beat North Carolina for the first time in 49 contests dating back to 1981 with a 5-0 shutout. The team had fallen earlier in the season to the Tar Heels and then earned the cup point with a win in the ACC Championship semifinals. Only a month later, the Football team snapped its 13-game losing streak to the nearby foes, returning
GiTHENS from page 11 Since work in the real world sounds fairly dull, let’s focus on something a bit more exciting. How about sports? I remember when I used to walk a mere 100 yards to one of the most historic sports venues in the world. And after the short journey I was privileged enough to watch the Blue Devils and Tar Heels renew the fiercest rivalry in collegiate athletics—four times. Next year, I’ll probably walk 10 feet to watch the game on ESPN before muting Dukie Vitale for the entire 40 minutes. No more will I stroll over to Koskinen Stadium for a soccer or lacrosse match between two squads who are playing for nothing more than glory. In the real world I’ll probably go downtown and pay $2O for nosebleed seats at an NBA game when half the players, on the court don’t give a damn during the regular season. It sure seems like this real world doesruin everything. What about the atmosphere which has surrounded so many memorable sporting events at Duke? Magical 8 ball, can that be matched in this real world? 8 Ball: That’s a negative ghostrider, all patterns
the victory bell to Durham after the Blue Devils were
tantalizing close a year earlier, but lost 23-21 on a last second 47-yard fieldgoal. Then in early February, the wresding team came from behind to break the longest of the three streaks, a 21-year, 30-match drought. But then again, who could forget those men’s bas-
ketball games, never mind the two cup points that swung in Duke’s favor. To the chagrin of the North Carolina faithful clearly preparing for the possibility ofrushing the Dean Dome court, senior Chris Duhon took the ball 94 feet and slipped a reverse layup in the hoop as an unsuspecting North Carolina defense. Then to finish the regular season Duke earned a hardfought victory in Cameron. And remember way back when, North Carolina’s chancellor James Moeser and Duke’s president Nan Keohane stood as the two opposing voices to the ACC expansion—what a year it has been in the history of a are full Shootin’ me down every time. Well let’s recap one of these moments, just for old-times sake. August 31, 2002. The Duke Football team has managed-to reel off 23 straight losses spanning three seasons. I was a junior at the time and had not seen my football team win a single game (think about that freshman). Fortunately for Duke the rain pours all game long and the sloppy conditions resemble an old-school backyard brawl. Somehow, just somehow, the Blue Devils pull out a 23-16 victory and the entire raindrenched fan base rushes the field in pure glory. The players and students celebrate in ecstasy. Goalpost—torn down. The streak —over. Now imagine for a moment if your favorite NFL team loses 23 straight. Would you even care anymore? All the fans become critics and slowly wash away with the losses. The proud may stick around for a bit, but the celebration after that first victory would not even compare to Wallace Wade Stadium on that fateful Saturday night. Those were the days, huh? I guess all this talk about Duke makes the real world seem pretty depressing. The 8 ball did say something about treasure in the future. But what will I do until then?
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Academic TUESDAY, APRIL 20 Environmental Institutions Seminar: 12:30-2pm. Frederick W. Mayer on The Future of Trade and the Environment. Room 158 A, Levine Science Research Center (Nicholas School). Light lunch provided. RSVP: Carolyn Leith at leithc@duke.edu or 613-8131.
Exploring Issues in International Medicine Series: 34pm. Sten Vermund, MD, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham. “Developing an HIV/AIDS therapeutic research agenda for resource limited countries.” Sponsored by Duke University Center for International Studies, the Department of Medicine, the Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs. John Hope Franklin Center.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 Wednesdays at The Center: 12-1 pm. Alisa Harrison, "Representing Slavery in the 20th-Century South: History and Memory at Somerset Place." John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. Dissertation Presentation: 4pm. Andrew Yang (Duke University). Division of labor in ant colonies:variations in form and function of a superorganism. 111 Bio Sci Bldg.
Developmental Biology Colloquium: 4pm. Doug DeSimone (University of Virginia). Cell adhesion in Xenopus morphogenesis. 147 Nanaline Duke.
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Alpha Omega: Tuesdays, 7-B:3opm in York Chapel. All are welcome to combine prayer and song with a chance to learn more about the Catholic faith in a large group setting. Each week a speaker covers a different topic selected by students. Newman Catholic Student Center, www.duke.edu/web/catholic.
Wesley Fellowship-Getting With God Small Group:
Bpm, Tuesdays. Wesley Office. How does the Old
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Dissertation Presentation: 4pm. Andrew Yang (Duke University). Division of labor in ant colonies: variations in form and function of a superorganism. 111 Bio Sci Bldg.
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Collections Hallway Gallery.
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THE CHRONIGL,E
TUESDAY. APRIL 20. 2004
The Chronicle The Independent Daily at Duke University
Lack of communication, trust
A
fundamental ingredient in a eliminate selective living on camrecipe for successful interac- pus. Moving fraternities off the tion between the administramain quad and cracking down on off-campus socializing providtion and student body on a university campus is communication. ed, at best, circumstantial eviThis academic year has been dence for an anti-frat campaign. marred by a lack of effective dia- However, Eddie Hull’s decision logue between campus officials to eliminate the annual review process without and students. Staff Editorial first consulting This has resulted in a growing lack of trust on with student leaders came as a the part of students. One of the complete shock, and corroboratadministration’s top priorities ed much of what students had for the summer months should suspected all along. Furthermore, the failure to be to outline methods to reestaban students in the immediate notify lish open and mutually advanwake of two sexual assaults on tageous relationship. Admittedly, a good deal of the campus called into question offianimosity between the groups is cials’ regard for student safety the result of the dynamic created vis a vis media damage control by the role of the administrators and the University’s image. as parental figures of sorts. Part Larry Moneta’s abrupt hike of of their job is to attempt to reign the student activities fee without consultation of the Duke Student in and monitor students’ behavior, despite the fact that the comGovernment or Duke University mon moniker for our college Union, and the University’s failure to notify students of the closure of years is “freedom” from such suthe Blue Zone during the celebrapervision. However, while supervision is certainly necessary, it is tion of the completion of the Camgrounded in the notion that offi- paign for Duke provided more excials have our best interests at amples of failures to communicate. Sadly, it seems as though officials heart. Lately, the administration are poised to continue this trend of has given students several excuses to question whether or not poor communication in the future. The University faces a major test in this is indeed the case its handling of the further impleForemost, students are suspimentation of the “quad system.” So cious of the administration because they perceive many actions far, little effort has been made to as being undertaken behind stuclarify the University’s intentions. The message should be clear by dents’ backs. The prime example of this is the long-standing now: When it comes to residential life, be clear with students from the claim that the University is conducting a quiet campaign to start.We deserve as much.
ON THE RECORD Duke’s quads are named after our great presidents, and Nan Keohane belongs on that list. Anthony Vitarelli, Campus Counicl president, on honor-
ing Nan Keohane after her departure page one.
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OlT’s poor performance unacceptable OIT has had a poor performance this year in several of the services that they are in charge of. The e-mail had gone down several times without notification, and then later would go down after we were notified, but that didn’t help the fact that no one could send or receive e-mail. For several of my friends and me, this was during the period when we were trying to secure internships, and not knowing whether or not a potential employer received an email that was sent out by me, or if an employer had sent me an e-mail is unacceptable. Then there was the registration fiasco, which inconvenienced all undergraduates. And then there is the cable television. OIT changed out MTV2 and added the Disney channel, completely contrary to the demographic of its subscribers. Also, the channel outages have been completely and utterly
unacceptable. A good portion of the people who subscribe to HBO do so for HBO Sunday nights, namely “The Sopranos,” and for HBO to be out on a Sunday night negates the reason why these people are paying for the channel. And this is not the first time that OIT has had problems with the premium channels going out. If OIT did not have a monopoly over these services that they provide, no one would accept this low level of service and would switch to a new provider, or at least demand a refund for the services that were not provided. OIT should be held responsible for their performance and at least offer those students who have been affected some sort of refund for paying for channels that they did not always receive.
Roy Williams Trinity ’O5
Men can help prevent sexual assult We are two senior women who came to Duke terrified of rape. Freshman year, we felt compelled to become sexual assault peer educators, hoping to make this campus a safer place. This last semester, we realized that in order to accomplish this, men must be our allies in the effort to end sexual assault. Therefore, we designed an independent study to educate the young leaders of sports teams and fraternities about sexual assault. Sexual perpetrators exist outside of these groups, but talking with these groups was one way to initially connect with men on campus. We spent the semester meeting with groups of 2 to 3 men, discussing definitions of rape and sexual assault, what factors cause men to sexually assault women and how they could handle potentially harmful situations. This is what we found... Most Duke men did not realize how prevalent sexual assault is on campus. When we told them that statistics show 1 in 6 women will be sexually assaulted while on Duke’s campus, they were appalled. Most Duke men believed alcohol to be a big factor in explaining why men on this campus sexually assault women. When asked what separated the drunken man who rapes from the drunken man who respects females, they thought it had to do with feelings of entidement, arrogance and insecurity. Some felt that personality was a big factor, and others thought
that moral upbringing contributed a lot. Most Duke men knew somebody who had been raped, and a fair number knew somebody who had committed sexual assault. In both instances, the men felt angry, sad, disappointed and powerless. All these men want to do something to make Duke a safer place for women. We were skeptical at first about this independent study, but the men we met with gave us a lot of hope. Many of these male leaders have expressed a strong interest in becoming more involved with sexual assault prevention. Some men came to a big group meeting we held. Others are planning to take a male only, male-led house course on sexual assault prevention and education. Two young leaders have offered to teach this house course and recruit next year’s freshmen. We look forward to this becoming a continuous cycle of sexual assault education for young male leaders, in hopes that it will have a trickle down effect in their respective organizations.. Men, know that you are not alone in wanting to end violence against women. Please step up and take the challenge of ending sexual assault, because without men as our allies, rape will never end. Kristin Grimm Brooke Palmer Trinity ’O6
Last Day of Classes schedule I hope everyone is excited because some of the biggest names in music are coming to help us celebrate our Last Day of Classes festival Wednesday. It should be beautiful for the festivities out on the West Campus quads. Starting at 3 p.m., there will be a small stage in Crowell quad with some of your favorite Duke student bands you’ve grown to love at the Dillo. The main stage event should begin around 7 p.m. with our very own Andre Buckner warming up the mic. Da Drizzle will play between all of the sets, which will feature local superstar 9th Wonder from LitUe Brother and Dilated Peoples. And finally, headliner Kanye West will take the stage. We are selling t-shirts for $5.00 to cover the costs of printing them (nearly $15,000 dollars
or 25 percent of our LDOC budget). We’d love it if you supported LDOC and bought a t-shirt. Yes, we would have loved to have given them out for free like we did in the past, but we decided that this year’s LDOC budget would be more about the celebration than the accompanying wardrobe. It’s hard to please everybody, but we tried hard. Also, if you buy a shirt, you will be entered in to a raffle to win a FREE Spring Break vacation. We hope you enjoy your LDOC festival Please don’t drink and drive.
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COMMENTARIES
THE CHRONICLE
TUESDAY. APRIL 20. 2004
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Deflating the myth of grade inflation People
in academia have been carp-
past alumni. For one, many subject areas, like economics or psychology, require the and it seems like a professors’ verlearning of far more subject material than sion of other overdone debates like the even twenty years ago. Knowing how to acdegradation of morals in society or sex cess computers, the internet and other reand violence on TV. That said, just becent forms of technology for information cause the demerits of grade inflation have is not merely helpful but required in modbeen thrown around for a while does not ern learning institutions. This technology mean that they are not legitimate condrastically increases the resources at our cerns. However, as a Princeton University fingertips, and- therefore makes us capable student, I firmly believe that proposals of learning more and producing higher which seek to cap the number of As that quality work. It makes sense,- then, that can be awarded in classes are not merely today’s students receive higher grades relative to past years. misguided, but detrimental to the academic environment on college campuses Despite this rationale, there is a strong across the country. argument that grades must be recalibrated before little distinction beI’ll state my position up front: Grade inflation is octween them exists at all. However, my experience at curring everywhere, includJonathan Princeton has led me to being in the Ivy League. HowGuest Commentary lieve that grade inflation is ever, this issue is not a not by itself a disease, but simple matter of whether rather a symptom of deepgrades have been going up. The real questions are whether we should care, whether er problems In our universities. First, it’s possible to do anything about it, and while most graduate students are just as lasdy, whether we should act if we can. qualified as professors to instruct students, As is often mentioned, too much grade almost all are ill-prepared to teach the inflation can delegitimize the work of classes in which they find themselves. those of us who put in the most effort. And Guidelines on how to grade, and what exeven worse from my perspective, grade inpectations to have for each grade striation flation likely promotes a far more cutare the- exception rather than the rule. throat environment than would exist othColleges need more explicit rubrics for erwise. We compete against each other categorizing each grade, depending on over thirds of grades and who can get the such factors as an essay’s thesis or supportmost As, instead of striving to become welling evidence. The purpose of grades in the first place is to motivate by providing rounded academic stewards who appreciate the merits and undulations of the information about our relative academic learning process. performance. If universities were truly seNonetheless, there are also logical rea- rious about correcting grade inflation, sons as to why today’s students should be then a nice start would be to establish receiving higher grades. While we may clearly outlined scoring systems so that not be any “smarter” than our predecesgrades would be assigned objectively across classes and departments. sors in years past, the educational environment in which we are immersed is drastiAnother deeper problem is the overcally different than that experienced by abundance of reading today’s students are
ing about grade inflation for years,
Bydlak
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to do. The best courses I’ve taken at Princeton have been focused on reading less material, while examining the contained ideas in greater depth. While most students understand that it is necessary to expose us to large amounts of material in a short amount of time, this does not justify the fact that many of us have over 1,000 pages of reading per week to wade through. For today’s social science or humanities student, it is virtually impossible to do all the reading assigned during the course of a semester. Rather than targeting grade inflation, resources would be better spent reassessing how much students are expected to read, so that exams are based not merely on course “buzzwords,” but rather on specific concepts from the scholarly literature we are reading. Anyone at the college level is capable of memorizing all the minutiae that may appear on a test. However, it is inappropriate to merely be remembering “who said what” in journal articles, rather than learning to think like mechanical engineers, historians or chemists. A third problem—that which is perhaps at the crux of the grade inflation debate inherendy stems from assessing students relative to their peers. For grading based on a curve to be effective, exams must be structured in away that separates students based on relative understanding of the subject material. Unfortunately, many professors put whatever material they wish on exams, regardless of whether students can realistically be expected to correcdy complete them. As a result, the existence of a wide range of understanding across students is being washed out as all students merely end up answering between 40 percent and 60 percent of the material correcdy. It is imperative that exams be explicitly designed to result in greater standard deviations from the mean, with
“required”
—
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to
be solved to
completion by the A-caliber student. If this were done, then the need for wild scal-
ing would eliminate itself, and grades would come down in a heartbeat. The appropriate steps that should be taken are those which help to mitigate these other problems, thereby to help either reduce grade inflation, or at the very least provide a more reasonable justification for its existence. Unfortunately, now our faculty is proposing a sort of 35 percent threshold on the number of As that can be awarded in classes—and many other schools are considering to follow suit. This approach is not merely misguided, but dead wrong. Faculty need to realize that targeting grade inflation inevitably represents an indirect and inadequate means for addressing the larger problems already mentioned. While targeting grade inflation through a grand, Orwellian policy may sound good to outsiders, it imposes unfair opportunity costs on students. Most students know that grade inflation is only a problem in a few classes, and treating a 500-person lecture equal to a five person seminar creates huge problems for such quota systems. The truth is that no two classes are the same, and a system of quotas makes it unclear as to how professors in smaller classes are to grade students. While it may be true that grade inflation harms the brightest students in large classes, it is simply not educationally beneficial to preclude students who take tough, smaller classes from receiving As, simply because other students chose not to challenge themselves. Moreover depressing grades across the board eliminates any incentive for students to take classes in unfamiliar subject areas.
Jonathan Bydlak
is a junior at Princeton
University.
of pre-medicine
you finish reading this sentence, another cise their natural curiosity by taking each other’s clothes Duke student will become pre-med. Simple steps off and anatomizing. But in our society, thanks to mocould have prevented this, saving people like this rons, this curiosity is stigmatized and suppressed more writer—the recent descendant of both a meatpacker and vigorously than Iraqi newspapers. An article in Parenting a butcher—the sorrow of studying organic chemistry inMagazine, May 2000 issue, illustrates this point. A constead of organs. (Yet to be fair, great-grandpop didn’t cerned mother sent in the following question: ‘The other much care for organs either, shown by day I caught my 4 year-old, half-nude, playhis permanent trip to California for a ing with a friend. What’s going on?” The new career without the family.) But magazine printed a response by Stephanie Shine, PhD, assistant professor of human the world demands doctors, just as it demands smut-peddlers, alcoholics, development and family studies at Texas Tech, that said: “Young children need to be zealots, morticians and compulsive cat collectors, and these doctors must be taught that there are boundaries ofpersonal space, and that their bodies are private.” undergraduates someplace. Only bad She never says why. The article continues, sports make claims without evidence, but there does seem to be truth in the advising: “If you discover your child and a Matt Gillum rumor that pre-meds are particularly playmate of either sex disrobing, don’t Veritas panic or embarrass them. Simply say, ‘When abundant here relative to other instiwe play with friends, we keep our clothes tutions that promote a “liberal arts” education. For the sake of faulty argument, I will assume on,’ help the kids get dressed, then redirect them to anthis true and set out to discover why so many students want other activity such as giving medical care to some ailing to be physicians stuffed animals.” Ask an aspiring doctor why sheit (this pronoun inteFor another example one may look to the Los Angeles grates all possible gender parameters, and is much better Times for an article from December 12, 1999 titled: “Rethan he/she, heshe or sh-t) wants to study medicine, and spect for Bodies Starts Now,” which printed a letter from a concerned reader, of pseudonym “Dr. Quinn’s Mother,” the answer will likely fall into one of the following five categories: medicine is an interesdng career; it is lucrative, who had received a call from a “frantic and embarrassed” stable, respected, and altruistically approved —the Kix of babysitter who had been watching her 4 year-old daughter ebbing adolescence. Though these are the given reasons and one ofher girlfriends, only to witness reciprocal pant for a career in healing, they are no more the real reasons removal. The heroic babysitter forced the girls to put their than a fear of weapons of mass destruction was the motive pants back on and “sit where she could see them” until their mothers could be summoned. At a loss for how to for war in Iraq. Humans have a sinister gift for cloaking directives of the id in rational language. Masters of post hoc handle the situation were it to happen again, the girl’s reasoning are we, beginning with desires and inventing mother wrote in to the Times, which advised her to ask for grounds to justify their satisfaction. As you shall see, many her daughter’s side of the story, without Dick Cheney prespre-meds have a much older reason for coveting the path ent, and keep a straight face, warning that kids often come up with creative ways of rationalizing their behavior, saying of Hippocrates. A game played by all children not raised by feral dogs things like: “Mary’s bottom was on fire, and she wanted me or gregarious ungulates is “doctor,” wherein youths exer- to put cream on it!” and “Johnny had my underwear on by
mistake, and I was just getting it back.” The upshot, of course, is the conclusion that: “one’s privates are a special gift to be kept to one’s self. Mommy and Daddy and the family doctor may need to touch those areas from time to time, but no one else should, without parental permis-
sion.” No wonder urine floods boys’ bathrooms. I believe that the pre-medical mania at Duke University originates with parents and views of parenting like those described above, with households where adults banned children from prodding each other and undressing Barbies. (My brother used to catch hell for the latter, especially after decapitating them in the fan.) Pre-meds ought td> consider the possibility that their interest in doctoring derives from deflected sexual curiosity. By prohibiting kids to play “doctor” authority figures invested the profession with a shimmering, illicit quality, thus planting the first seeds of the premedical urge, encouraging children to yearn for the forbidden. While I have no evidence, it would be easy to design experiments to test this hypothesis, and is equally easy to believe Duke parents more Draconian than most, especially with regard to their mores. But the significance of this genealogy of pre-medicine lies in the power it has to suggest ways in which we can improve the college climate by reducing the number of preprofessionals, since we aren’t overly interesting—destined to become like the pasteurized alumni of last weekend, sporting flaccid, botoxed faces. As it is with most problems, the solution is better parenting. How to stop the phenomenon of pre-medicine is already known to the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert, who allow their children to explore and play in any way they see fit, presumably including equivalent “doctor games.” And—mercifully—the Dukes and Harvards of the !Kung are not overflowing with neurotic future doctors; intellectual adventurism and risk-taking there is de rigueur, insofar as it helps kill things with fur. Matt Gillum is a Trinity junior. His column appears every other Tuesday.
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