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Football star dies in weekend crash Matt Sullivan

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Jacqueline Walker, 40, was pinned under a campus bus Tuesday. She is currently in serious condition at Duke University Hospital.

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A Duke University Medical Center employee was in serious condition Wednesday after a campus bus ran over her left arm and both legs Tuesday morning on Trent Drive.

Jacqueline Walker, a 40-yearold medical secretary in the medical center’s pediatric neurology

division, stepped off the campus bus around 7:20 a.m. Tuesday, falling in front of the bus as it headed toward Erwin Road. The front wheel of the bus rolled over Walker before the bus could stop.

After the bus came to a halt, Duke Emergency Medical Service workers and members of Duke University Police Department used airbags to lift the bus, freeing Walk-

er and moving her to Duke University Hospital, where her condition was pronounced critical.

The driver of the bus, Henry McNair, has been driving at Duke for 15 years without a blemish on his record. Catherine Reeve, director of parking and transportation services, said SEE BUS ON PAGE

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Micah Harris, a senior with an infectious smile to match his standout play as a defensive lineman on the football team, died Friday when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel driving through Virginia to visit his girlfriend. He was 21.

Harris was an hour away from his destination ofRichmond just before noon, when his 1989 Volvo veered off Interstate-85 in Brunswick County, struck a tree in the median and burst into flames Sgt. D.S. Carr of the Virginia State Police said Harris was driving 10 miles over the speed limit but was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, after which witnesses rushed to the scene of the accident.

“Passers-by saw the crash and stopped immediately,” Carr said, “but they were unable to help before the car caught on fire and burned up.”

Carr could not confirm whether Harris, who had left for the weekend after summer school classes and a workout at

Duke, died on impact, but he speculated that the Poland, Ohio, native had dozed off on what he called “a very monotonous and boring drive.”

Word got back to Durham Friday night, and the several dozen football players and coaches in town for the summer gathered at Harris’ off-campus apartment to remember the two-year starter known for having one of the most energetic personalities on the team —let alone the senior class “He was just the type of guy that you can put him to anyone and you instantly like the guy,” said quarterback Chris Dapolito, Harris’ best friend and roommate last year. “He was Just that nice, that caring, just a funny guy all around.”

Even at 6-foot-4 and 235 pounds, Harris blended into the student body and became very well-liked among athletes and non-athletes alike—jamming on his acoustic guitar in the dorms, singing and dancing SEE HARRIS ON PAGE 9

Admissions figures echo Class of 2007 Paul Crowley THE CHRONICLE

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Nearly four out of every five high school seniors who applied to be a member of Duke’s Class of 2008 had to make other plans for the fall. But preliminary numbers describing the 81st class to matriculate at the University reveal a handful of interesting trends—many of them continuations of patterns observed in years past.

Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Gutreleased statistics indicating that the Class of 2008 will be very simr

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The new viewbook has drawn more applicants in the past two years.

ilar to its immediate predecessor. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handled 16,714 applications this year. “[lt was] as close as we can be to the

16,719 applications processed in 2003,” Guttentag said.

‘This year was a lot like last

year,” he said. “[The applicants] really caught our attention last

year; it’s a little harder to improve upon that. Still, I’d hate for anyone to be disappointed with this class.”

The past two years have constituted a significant bump in application numbers, an increase Guttentag credits to a colorful new viewbook which premiered in 2002.

Of the thousands of applicants, only 3,780 were admitted, SEE ADMISSIONS ON PAGE 10

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No link between Hussein and 9/11 by

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WASHINGTON Rebuffing claims of the George W. Bush administration, the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said Wednesday no evidence exists that al Qaeda had strong ties to Saddam Hussein. In hair-raising detail, the commission said the terror network had envisioned a much larger attack and is working hard to strike again.

Although Osama bin Laden asked for help from Iraq in the mid-19905, Saddam’s government never responded, according to a report by the commission staff based on interviews with government intelligence and law enforcement

officials. The report asserted “no credible evidence” has emerged that Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 strikes.

A1 Qaeda is actively trying to replicate the destruction of that day, the report said, though the terrorist network has been weakened by losing its sanctuary in Afghanistan and many leaders to U.S. strikes and arrests. The terror organization also is trying to obtain a nuclear weapon and is “extremely interested” in chemical, radiological and biological attacks, including the use of anthrax, it said.

‘The trend toward attacks intended to cause ever-higher casualties will continue,” the report said.

The commission staff said that

Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Mohammed initially outlined an attack involving 10 aircraft targeting both U.S. coasts. Mohammed proposed that he pilot one of the planes, kill all the male passengers, land the plane at a U.S. airport and make a “speech denouncing U.S. policies in the Middle East before releasing all the women and children,” the report said.

Bin Laden rejected that plan as too complex, deciding instead on four aircraft piloted by handpicked suicide operatives. The report said the targets were chosen based on symbolism: the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, the Capitol and the White House. Training for the attacks began in 1999.

Iraqis gain control of government by

Robert Reid

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BAGHDAD

At the same time, Iraq’s new leaders are beginning to astheir independence, taking public stands different from their American backers on issues including the fate of Saddam Hussein, security and control over key public property.

The differences have not approached a serious breach and could simply reflect the fact that no Iraqi politician wants to be seen by his own people —or the wider Arab world—as a Washington puppet.

American officials in Iraq have publicly downplayed any talk of differences with the new government, which the United States and the United Nations put together to take power until national elections planned by Jan. 31.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has arrived in Baghdad to discuss the fine points of the power transfer. sert

With two weeks left until full sovereignty,

Iraqis already are running more than half the government’s ministries, making key decisions, setting policy and managing

their own budgets withoutdirection from the U.S.-led coalition.

As of this week, Iraqis are in full control of 15 of the 26 ministries—including the key departments of oil, foreign affairs, health, education, transportation, public works and municipalities —even before the June 30 transfer of sovereignty, coalition officials say.

Over the next two weeks, the remaining ministries will assume full powers in such critical fields as defense, communications, electricity and finance.

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Russia, Uzbekistan sign partnership deal Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a strategic partner-

ship deal Wednesday with Uzbekistan, seeking to restore Russian influence in the Central Asian nation which became a key U.S. military ally after the Sept. 11 attacks.

U.S. special envoy to Latin America resigns Otto Reich, President George W. Bush's special

envoy to Latin

America, resigned Wednesday, citing "personal and financial reasons."- He has a lifetime of experience fighting Fidel Castro and other enemies ofU.S.foreign policy.

Rocket attack kills two U.S. soldiers in Balad Insurgents struck at the heart of Iraq's economic livelihood Wednesday, near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad, blasting a major pipeline to halt vital oil exports and killing the top security chief for the northern oil fields.

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University agrees to pay fees Duke plans to study traffic and further appeal costs Kelly Rohrs THE CHRONICLE

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Tuesday, West Campus is a vision of serenity as the Chapel /~ \ glows in the sunset.

“I got it! I got it!” The call punctures the silence, and a swarm of pre-teens pours onto the Main Quadrangle to play soccer. It’s another summer at Duke, and the armies of ambitious 14year-olds have arrived.

This summer, more than 10,000 visitors from all over the nation—and even the world—are on campus attending residential and day programs. From rising seventh through 12th grade students taking college-level courses through the Talent Identification Program, to athletes honing their skills at soccer camp, to Expressions!, a fine arts program for fifth through eighth graders, summers here are anything but serene.

Megan Brandon is one of only three girls playing soccer on the quad with the boys. A rising ninth student from Ft. Myers, Fla., Brandon is among 448 TIP participants for Session I, which began Sunday. Duke is expecting another 453 TIP students for Session 11, beginning in mid-July, plus 100 Pre College students taking regular courses for credit during Duke’s second summer term.

“I really enjoyed my experience at TIP last year. The classes are really hard and really intense—we have classes for seven

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hours a day,” Brandon said. “It’s like cramming a whole semester’s worth of college work into three weeks. I also love the social aspect. That’s why everyone comes here.

It’s an amazing experience.”

Allyson Gutstein, another one of the girls playing soccer on the quad, raved about her social psychology class. “It is really, really interesting,” she said. ‘You start to question all ofyour behaviors. In high school you don’t really get to apply what you learn, but here, you start applying your knowledge right away. It’s definitely a new experience.”

Down the quad at the bus stop, a group of rising ninth graders are waiting to explore Durham for the first time with their Resident Counselor, Adam Weiner, a sophomore from the University of Notre Dame.

“I went to TIP for four years and loved it. I wanted to give back,” Weiner said. ‘These are cool kids—getting to know them has been the best part of TIP.” TIP students’ drive is evident in the way they talk about their classes and their future goals. “For many of these students, for the first time, they are in a classroom of equals and they are being challenged to stretch themselves,” said Scott Greenwood, interim executive director of operations for TIP. “It is a great benefit for Duke to have this wonderful group of students be on campus and think of

Duke as a possible college option.”

From a quick pick-up soccer game to intense tennis drills, Duke’s summer programs offer something for everyone. For Mary Santos, a rising 10th grade student at the tennis camp, coming to Duke is something she looks forward to every year.

“I came here last year, and it was really fun. It helped me get better and make it onto varsity,” she said.

The week-long camp runs for six hours a day, but it’s hardly all work and no play.

“My favorite part of camp was when the counselors played ‘Butts Up’ after a doubles match. The losing pair would have to stand on the court with their butts up while the winning pair served at them,” Santos giggled.

This carefree attitude epitomizes the philosophy of the sports camps, noted Gerry Brown, administrative assistant for the basketball camp. ‘These camps are for athletes of all levels,” she said. “The ratio between kids and coaches is great. We take great pride in the program.”

Campers worry about feeling lost on Duke’s expansive campus, but seeing the school overrun by so many bright, precollege kids can be just as intimidating for Duke students. “They’re literally everywhere,” said Aaron Marco, a rising senior. They’re loud, and I just feel like I can’t get away from them.”

After more than five months, Duke has finally settled the first piece of its threefold fee dispute with Durham.

In discussions last week that University officials described as “contentious,” Durham and Duke officials reached a tenuous agreement. Duke has agreed to pay nearly $BOO,OOO in impact fees, which are used to repair city infrastructure, but it plans to conduct an independent study of the traffic generated by its construction and appeal for a pardal refund of the money.

The city originally charged Duke $1.4 million in fees, but after Duke protested earlier this year, the city lowered the charge by nearly half. Although the University is not satisfied with the current method of determining the fees, it has decided not to fight with the city any further until it collects independent data.

“We finally agreed we weren’t going to likely be able to resolve the issues that we brought with us as areas ofconcern,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

“Therefore we have agreed to the amount stipulated in the proposal impact code, but with the understanding that lets us invoke the provision in the code that allows us to appeal.”

Development fees are levied on new construction because new buildings are assumed to generate greater use—and thus increased wear and tear—on roads. Duke claims, however, that its new construction merely redistributes existing traffic and SEE IMPACT ON PAGE 7

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to the mother and baby. In fact, they are recycled from material that would other-

Annabelle Green is two years old. She wakes up at seven in the morning, eats breakfast and then, for 16 hours, she is infused with medication and nutritional supplements. She sings the alphabet and does not cry when her blood is drawn.

Annabelle has Sanfilippo syndrome and, if not for an innovative medical procedure performed at Duke involving stem cells, she would have gradually lost the rest of her hearing, her speech, her mental capacity and her ability to walk. Her longterm outlook is now positive, but without the treatment, it is likely she would not have reached her 10th birthday.

Sanfilippo syndrome, a rare disease diagnosed in less than 100 patients per year, was first discovered in 1963, and until recently there was nothing doctors could do to slow the painful deterioration. Now Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg, professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, has developed a procedure that'gives hope to the few in need.

Annabelle became the 12th child to receive Kurtzberg’s treatment and is slowly recovering—the last five did not survive.

The procedure involves destroying all traces of the disease in the patient’s bone marrow and immune system, and replacing those diseased cells with healthy, unrelated stem cells from a donor umbilical cord. The hope is that these new cells will become the host’s primary source for blood after therapy, a goal not nearly as incendiary as others involving the hot-button issue that stem cells have become.

“Cord blood stem cells are not a controversial stem cell source,” Kurtzberg said. “They can be collected without risk

wise be discarded.”

Annabelle’s transplant is considered a success. Full results, however, will not be available unt.il a few months from now.

Now, 55 days after the operation, Annabelle still has 100 percent of the donor cell engraftment.

Sanfilippo is a genetic disorder that occurs when the body fails to produce an enzyme responsible for cutting up used mucopolysacchrides, long sugar molecules with the consistency of glue. These incomplete, broken-down molecules remain stored in cells and can cause significant damage to the body. Symptoms of the syndrome are subtle at first and include restlessness and slowed development, followed by loss of language, mental capacity and the ability to walk.

Duke’s Medical Center is the only location with doctors implementing the procedure. Christine Barrietua, Ahnabelle’s grandmother, was initially told that nothing could be done for her granddaughter.

Barrietua did not give up, however, and after six months of searching and networking from Boise, Idaho, she finally learned about this therapy.

According to Marjorie Reedy, Annabelle’s head fundraiser and campaign manager, Barrietua sold her house in order to help fund the $BOO,OOO procedure, which was also bolstered by Medicaid. “She doesn’t take no for an answer,” Reedy said.

The Boise community has also supported the family. Through various fundraisers, including a rodeo, they have raised over $175,000 in a city with a population of about 100,000.

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Tickets sold on concert night beginning one hour before concert Nationally celebrated, five-time Grammy-nominated jazz singer (and Durham resident) Nnenna Freelon joins with Duke's own ensemble in residence, The Ciomp Quartet, in a program of music inspired by folk tales and lullabies Nnenna will narrate Tales From Cli based on Eastern European folk ta and sing a new work written for h that draws on popular lullabies. ?

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Two-year-old Annabelle Greene and her mother, Jennifer Loves, read together in their apartment.

“There was this little school in Oregon, a private school where the kids are rather poor. These kids usually raised $l,OOO a year so they can go on a field trip,” Reedy said. “This year they gave it all to Annabelle and didn’t go on their field trip.”

The complete results will not be clear until the enzyme from the new stem cells reaches the brain, which will take about five to nine months. But because doctors diagnosed Annabelle’s disease early— when she was ten months old, she was

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swelling—developmentally, she is only a couple of months behind her age level and has only minimal hearing problems, As long as the child’s deterioration slows, Annabelle’s mother, Jennifer Loves, will consider the struggle worthwhile.

“The transplant will still be successful if [the progress ofher symptoms] flat-lines. I could communicate with her,” Loves said, “[The diagnosis] was very disappointing to find out, but it just makes Annabelle special in her own way.”

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The dispute between the University and the YMCA of the Triangle Area over whether a family membership rate should apply to families headed by same-sex couples encountered another minor setback this week.

The YMCA sent Duke a note late Friday afternoon canceling a Monday meeting that had been scheduled to resolve the issue. John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, answered with an e-mail to Judy Bright, executive vice president of the YMCA of the Triangle Area, expressing frustration at the cancellation.

Over the weekend, Bright clarified to the University that the YMCA’s request was due to scheduling conflicts and was not an attempt to skirt the issue.

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Bright did not return repeated calls last week, but officials from her organization issued a statement Monday morning saying the YMCA needed more time to “communicate with its various constituent groups.”

“The YMCA is in its annual process of reviewing membership categories and pricing structure, which addresses the questions Duke University and others have raised,” Doug McMillan, chief executive officer of the YMCA of the Triangle Area, wrote in the statement.

The initial controversy arose when the Downtown YMCA of Durham merged with the YMCA of the Triangle Area. Prior to the merger, Duke and the Durham’s YMCA had an agreement by which the University would promote YMCA programs to its employees in exchange

for a price break offered to Duke affiliates.

For several months following the merger, the YMCA has been fighting with both Duke and the city of Durham to exclude same-sex couples from the family rate, which is $6B a month for Duke employees. The individual rate for Duke employees is $45 a month.

The city, which subsidizes the YMCA with $70,000 a year, requested the organization expand its policy to include families headed by same-sex partners earlier this year. In April McMillan told the City Council the YMCA uses the state’s criteria for family; a married couple.

The national YMCA offers several definitions for family, which allows for the possibility of same-sex couples to receive family discounts. The organization allows homosexual individuals to join.

The canceled meeting will be rescheduled for no later than June 28, officials from both Duke and the YMCA noted.

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Union, DIA boost 2004-05 arts programm mg Liana Wyler THE CHRONICLE

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.Although summer will not technically begin until June 22, plans for arts and culture events at the University for the coming academic year are swiftly being realized. Duke University Union and Duke Insdtute of the Arts, two of the largest arts programming bodies on campus, are looking forward to a landmark year of more —and cheaper—performances.

“This year, we’ll have more speakers, one extra Broadway at Duke show and On Stage wants to do a couple more events,” said graduate student Douglas Dumont, vice president of the Union. “We’re increasing quantity and quality on campus.”

The Union is looking to improve on its already extensive events programming, which last year brought performers such as Ludacris to Cameron Indoor Stadium and comedian John Leguizamo to Page Auditorium. So far, the Union has confirmed appearances by comedian Lewis Black and American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen, as well as authors Dave Eggers, David Sedaris, Amy Tan and Sarah Vowell. Broadway at Duke performances will include Rent, Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk, Contact, Grease, The Full Monty and the world premiere ofLittle Women.

The 2004-05 school year is particularly important to the Union as the group marks its 50th Anniversary. To celebrate its longevity, the Union plans to invite its alumni

back in April and to unveil 50 additional programming events over the course of the year, geared toward reflecting the 50-year history of the Union.

“As a member of the student body, you should be excited,” Dumont said. “We do want to celebrate with our alumni, but why not make it an exciting year for everyone?”

DIA, which has been promoting professional performances on campus for 18 years, will be making its first improvement for the upcoming school year with a name change. Effective July 1, DIA will formally be re-named Duke Performances. The decision to switch names grew from a desire to give the group more visibility. “[Changing our name] is away of clarifying the principal activity of our office —to bring professional performance activities to campus,” said Kathy Silbiger, program director for DIA. “We wanted to make it sound more dynamic. Some people thought it connoted more of a research institute, which it is not.”

After adopting this new moniker, Duke Performances will work together with the Union to co-sponsor choreographer Nicholas Lechter’s dance company at Duke.

While no other cooperative projects between the Union and Duke Performances are currently in the works; the two groups will be sharing a $50,000 arts fund to subsidize the cost of event tickets for students in the upcoming year. As part of a series of strategic initiatives by the Office of the Provost designed to improve the status of arts

and culture activities at the University, the funds will subsidize all but $5 ofeach ticket sold to students in an effort to bolster student attendance at professional arts events.

“We learned that such a subsidy... is provided at some schools, and it seemed a good idea to us as we are trying to strengthen the available opportunities for student engagement with the arts, broadly understood,” Provost Peter Lange said.

Up to $20,000 will be used to subsidize Union event tickets, and another $20,000 will go toward Duke Performances. Theater Previews, an organization that brings professional theater performances to Duke, will receive up to $5,000 and another $5,000 is allotted for all other � professional events this year.

Currently, a paltry number of students attend cultural performances at Duke. An average of fewer than 90 students went to each DJA event over the course of the past two school the number of students attending Broadway at Duke is in decline. Officials hope for a reversal of such trends in student attendance with the implementation of the subsidy.

“Having this subsidy will help reduce the loss of revenue from selling low-priced tickets to students and encourage us to target more events toward students, while still serving our loyal audiences and the surrounding community that depends on us for adventurous programming,” Silbiger said.

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As prices remain high across the nation, a full tankof gas can cost as much as dinnerfor two.

Despite high gas prices this summer, junior David Krauss and the rest of his American Civil War class did not let transportation costs get in the way of their field trip to Richmond, Va., ■ nor their next one, slated for this weekend, to Gettysburg, Penn.

“Our teacher actually offered to subsidize gas costs because he knew they were expensive, and he thought the [field trips] were important,” Krauss said.

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greater effect on such long-distance trips than on his everyday needs as a motorist, which primarily consist of getting back and forth from his off-campus residence on Erwin Road to Duke’s campus, “Gas prices-are fluctuating all the time, I< don’t change my ways accordingpto a couple of cents here and there,” he said, “But if you’re on a road trip, it definitely matters. Like ifyou’re on the highway and you need gas, you’ll go to the other side of the highway to get cheaper prices.”

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using city infrastructure.

Durham and Duke are also feuding over the University’s voluntary payments to the city and $lO million the city has requested Duke contribute to the construction of a downtown theater. The tax-exempt University currently pays $300,000 annually for fire protection, but the city is requesting an additional $1 million annually. Officials from Duke have said it is unlikely the University will increase its annual payment or give the $lO million for the theater.

At the most recent meeting between Durham and Duke, city transportation officials presented the same revised numbers they offered Duke earlier this year.

After an initially frustrating discussion, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask left the meeting, officials said, but other University administrators continued to

negotiate.

“At that meeting, we looked into those concerns again,” said Mark Ahrendsen, transportation manager for the city. “And we said, ‘ln response to those additional concerns you raised, here’s what we’ve looked at and here’s why we feel this is still appropriate.’”

City officials also pointed to a provision in the impact fee code that allows anyone who disagrees with the extent of

the fees to reserve the money owed in escrow and present a traffic study that proves the fee formula overestimates the new trips generated by construction.

Duke plans to begin its own study of the impact of its construction. Ahrendsen said studies of the magnitude required usually cost “several hundred thousand dollars.”

In order for the resolution between the city and Duke to become final, the City Council must approve the adjusted impact fee guidelines at its June 21 meeting.

Because of the breadth of Duke’s campus, it falls into two different zones in which fee rates are slightly different.

Also, because the buildings are designed for a variety of uses, each zone is subject to fees from several different categories of buildings.

One of the major aspects of the original fee rate to which Duke objected was the new “Major Research University” category, which listed Duke as its only member.

“A policy category with only one member is, on the face of it, suspect,” Trask wrote in an April letter to the city protesting the fees. This category still exists in the current methods. Trask was out of town last week and unavailable for comment.

The south zone of the city, where West Campus and the Medical Center are located, recently depleted its financial reserves with the construction of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The entire city, however, is facing difficulties in obtaining sufficient revenue.

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McNair was quick to call emergency personnel after the accident. Reeve added that he was “very upset” about Walker’s medical condition.

“Our drivers have protocol in terms of calling in emergency services,” Reeve said. “[McNair] followed that protocol.”

Although McNair has not been accused of driver error, he is currently on paid leave pending the results of DUPD’s investigation into the accident.

DUPD Maj. Phyllis Cooper declined to comment on the ongoing investigation headed by Officer Rekaya Eisley, except to note that DUPD had not yet received a statement from Walker and that there would be no official accident report until the investigation had concluded.

Reeve said it was “way too early to say” whether any changes in bus policy would come about as a result of this accident, but she said a passenger falling in the path of a moving bus was an unusual oc-

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currence. “That process [of reviewing policy] takes time,” she added.

“I suspect that [Parking and Transportation Services] will examine what happened,” said Keith Lawrence, associate director of Duke News and Communications.

“I would be surprised if they didn’t take a step back and look at their policy.”

The University conducted an investigation into the operations of its bus system after a campus bus struck and killed freshman Amy Geissinger in November 1992, also at the intersection of Trent and Erwin. A task force formed after the fatal accident recommended several changes, including the hiring of a fulltime transit inspector.

In March 2000, a Durham Area Transit Authority bus struck Ruby Shandilya, Trinity ‘O2, at the West Campus bus stop, fracturing her pelvis.

Reeve said accidents on campus are “very much not the norm” and cited initial training and periodic retraining as reasons for Parking and Transportation’s relatively clean accident record.

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DUHS from page 1 head of the University, the Board of Trustees has set the relationship: Part of the president’s job is to keep the Medical System in check.

“When we’ve done it in this way—first the president and then chancellor position—we have the best ability of having those strong relationship and trust-building that will accomplish the most in the long run,” said Professor of Medicine Dr. Nancy Allen, who served on the search committees for both the president and the chancellor.

Building the wall There has always been a chalk line drawn on the ground between the Medical System and the University. But in the mid-19905, when Duke acquired several hospitals and health care subsidiaries, administrators realized that more than a line needed to shelter the University from the financial liabilities of a full-blown health system.

In 1998, the Board ofTrustees created a separate board for Duke University Health System, a firewall against financial downfall.

As DUHS walled itself offfrom the rest of Duke, it inadvertently strengthened the barrier between the academic pursuits in medicine and in other areas of the University.

With a multidimensional health system, the chancellor’s job became too extensive for one man, and Snyderman handed off his role as dean of the School of Medicine.

Dr. Ed Holmes and then Dr. Sandy Williams took the job and the regular meetings with the provost that came with the position.

The chancellor let his own communication with the provost lag, and Provost Peter Lange focused his time with the dean.

“I think on die balance,” Snyderman said, “the relationships in some ways are even further differentiated than they ever were before—such as the far-flung aspects of the Healdi System —and many of the filings we do are technically even more complex and differentiated in the practice of medicine.”

Some areas of scholarship have always straddled the fence between medicine and the rest of science. Anatomy, for one, will always be a relevant class for medical students; research frontiers evolve, though, and great strides can no longer be made in the field.

“How many times have you read in the newspaper that a Duke professor discovers

Chancellor-elect Dr. Victor Dzau, left, and President-elect Richard Brodhead, middle, greet well-wishers. a new organ?” asked Richard Kay, chair of biological anthropology and anatomy.

Duke has responded to this development by hiring anatomists with research interests in anthropology and paleontology. As a result, several anatomy-teaching faculty did research with little connection to DUMC, further widening the gap between the University and the Medical Center.

Punching holes in the curtain Meanwhile, the University and the Medical Center have forged partnerships where relevant knowledge refuses to remain strictly within the bounds of medicine. Administrators have tried to remove the obstacles, many of them financial, that once blocked those paths.

“There are always problems about dividing resources in a fair and appropriate way,” Lange said. ‘We put in place some rules about sharing indirect costs and grants that go across the schools, which has facilitated faculty on both sides feeling more comfortable.”

The Levine Science Research Center houses Medical Center and other University departments. Similarly, the Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences is primarily devoted to the needs of the Pratt School of Engineering, but it includes lab space for Medical Center researchers.

The Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy draws scholars with appointments in all areas of the University even though it

primarily lies within the purview of the Medical System. On the reverse side, nearly half of the 50-plus scholars working with the Institute for Care at the End of Life, founded through the Divinity School, hold appointments in DUMC. ‘There’s a lot of goodwill there and the administration is doing the best they can to foster that, but there are a lot of institutional issues still,” Kay said. “Still something exists that Bill Anylan [former chancellor for health affairs] used to call the ‘gauze curtain,’ which was a line drawn across campus that kept things somewhat separate... but people are poking holes in it.”

Orchestrating a connection If it weren’t for a coincidence of timing, the gauze curtain might remain in place as it has for more than two decades. Institutes and individual collaborations could continue to poke holes in it until it looked like netting, but without the leadership shifts it would still delineate a boundary between the Medical System and the University^ A steadily growing percentag e of research is leading back to collaboration between medicine and basic science, medicine and public policy, and medicine and ethics. Still, the fear that DUHS might spiral too far away from the rest of the University nags at trustees and administrators.

“Across the whole history of Duke University and every university, academic medical centers have a strong penchant for a certain degree of independence, and that will cer-

tainly continue,” Keohane said. “But I think some of the unnecessary drivers for it that we unwittingly built up over the last few years, we’ve tried to work through this past year.”

The personal relationship between the president and the chancellor has contributed to the strain. Keohane leads by consensus; Snyderman often invokes a stronger voice, which, on occasion, has overpowered Keohane. The chancellor also boasts a longer tenure, arriving four years earlier.

“It’s complicated,” Allen said of the sometimes-strained relationship between the Medical System and the University. “I think there probably are a number of factors, including the fact that [Snyderman] had been in place for those years before Nan became president. I think she had a learning time where there were a lot of big decisions to be made.”

Seizing the moment But Duke has stumbled upon a serendipitous moment. Coincidentally, both the chancellor and the president picked the same year to step down. This allowed the Board of Trustees to first pick Brodhead, then let Brodhead help select Dzau.

At the same time, the Board redefined the chancellor’s position, which also includes responsibilities as chief executive officer of DUHS, so that he will report to the president for all matters—including the financial aspects for which he previously reported only to the DUHS Board. The wall that the Health System Board intentionally established still stands for financial protection, but it can no longer serve as away to circumvent the president’s authority.

“The intimate relationship between the University Board, the Health System Board, the involvement of the president in the Health System Board and being involved in interaction weekly with me is far greater than ever before,” Snyderman said.

On both the University and Medical System sides of the line, administrators are stepping up efforts to unify Duke.

Dzau has advocated intra-school partnerships, noting that Duke is one of only a few schools where the academic medical the rest of center, the health system the University share geographic space.

“At many universities, I think there isn’t such a relationship with the health system,” Dzau said. “There’s so much opportunity to collaborate.”

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HARRIS from page 1 local bars, cracking jokeron his way to football practice.

“He was a gentle giant with a heart proportional to his body,” said senior Nico Richardson, good friends with Harris since their freshman year. ‘The guy was a mountain of a man, but he wasn’t like other athletes, where their stature can be intimidating. He was just too nice.”

On the field, Harris converted from outside linebacker to defensive end after his first season in 2001 and started on the line for the last two years. He battled injuries early this past season and returned to total 32 tackles and 2.5 sacks for the Blue Devils, bringing him to 124 tackles and 6.5 sacks in his career.

Despite his ability to sneak into the backfield, it was Harris’ blithe spirit that steadied a football program plagued by loss after loss. at

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GAS from page 6 ing—and will probably continue to decline as the summer progresses—the descent is also likely to be slow and steady, according to Energy Department reports.

Consequently, motorists like SUV-ownerJoe Elliott will experience relatively high fuel prices for a while. “[My parents and I] are actually about to sell the car,” said Elliott, looking over at his hulking sports utility vehicle parked next to a gas pump.

The recent Duke graduate attributed his parents’ motivation to high maintenance costs—about $BO worth of gas every two weeks.

“Yeah, well, it’s just not practical anymore,” he said Gas prices have also been on TJ. Pineda’s mind of late, but the issue is not one he has had to deal with directiy.

“My dad pays for the gas,” the senior explained, “but I’m looking out for my dad so I don’t put him in a hole.”

For Pineda, who in the past often road-tripped to des-

“His experience made a big difference for us,” former head coach Carl Franks said in September 2003 after Harris returned from an injury to lead Duke to an early-season win. “He had a big smile on his face before, during and after the game.”

Current head coach Ted Roof, formerly the team’s defensive coordinator, worked with Harris as he made the transition to defensive end. “He was a converted linebacker and worked real hard to change his body, get bigger and play down,” Roof said.

“And he was a high-energy, high-effort guy and was a guy that had a very soft side to him, a very kind side to him.”

In Ohio, where funeral services will take place Friday, Harris was a small-town hero, a big man on campus who led Poland Seminary High School to a 15-0 record and a state tide his junior year with enough humility to fill that big frame.

“Senior year, he did everything but sell the popcorn at halftime,” said Poland Seminary head coach Paul Hulea, who called

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Harris “superman” at Poland, as much for being a sports star as a community leader.

“He had a real presence here too,” Hulea added. “Obviously a lot of his teammates while he was a player have been in town and have stopped by and seen us, and it was really neat, especially the first night, because I was just kind of sitting around listening and not one of them talked about a football story.”

Harris, Dapolito and linebacker Giuseppe Aguanno had planned to drive to New York City for Harris’ first trip to the Big Apple this weekend, but instead much of the team will attend Friday’s funeral.

Plans for a service at Duke have yet to be finalized, but Roof said it would most likely take place in early July, when the entire team returns to school.

Harris, the first Duke football player to pass away as an undergraduate since Mike Suglia died in 1977, is survived by a tight-knit family that visited Duke often: his parents, Diane and Richard Harris, and two brothers.

tinations beyond Durham, his place of residence, this people who are willing to give us a break.” has translated into going out less and “trying to not go No matter the different changes in driving routines out of town anymore.” among Duke students, many suggest long-term solutions Graduate student Barbara Richardson has come far that may be less cash-consuming over time and more enfrom her home in Alabama to study and work full-time in vironment-friendly.

North Carolina. The combination of her busy schedule Although the likelihood of buying a a new car in the and being in a new place allows her little time or energy near future remains small, Richardson said her next car to go looking for cheaper gas stations, or to try an alterna“would definitely be a hybrid car... or something like that, tive form of transportation, like biking or walking, to but that’s not an option right now.” make things less expensive for her.

Gas prices had never really been an issue for senior “[Driving less] is just not a possibility,” Richardson said. Mike Morrell, who lived on-campus the last three years.

“Rather than biking to work, which would take 50 minHe acknowledged, however, that it “may certainly be a utes, I just drive 15 minutes to work. I get off at work at concern” when he moves off-campus this year—especially midnight. I don’t have an extra hour to bike home, espewith the limited budget that he, like most college students, will have. To appease such worries, he hinted at recially in the dark.”

Back home in Alabama, however, Richardson is more lying on other energy resources instead of being primarifamiliar with the surrounding area and takes advantage of ly dependent on petroleum.

“Down the road, we need to try and come up with some gas stations that offer cheaper prices.

‘There’s this one station that has the lowest [prices],” kind of alternative fuels and alternative power sources so she said. “I make it a point to go there and support the we’re not paying as much money,” Morrell said.

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ADMISSIONS from page 1 yielding an admissions rate of 22.6 percent. In 2003, Duke admitted 23.2 percent of its applicants; this percentage has been decreasing steadily for years. At press time, 1,644 potential students had accepted their places in the class, and Guttentag said he hopes that this number will fall to somewhere around 1,618 by the beginning of fall.

“What happens is that some students will get off of other schools’ waiting lists, and some will defer their admission for a year,” he said, adding that having more students than hoped for is “very typical” at this time of year.

The most notable trends in the applicant numbers disclosed by Guttentag are the increases in the number of students seeking places in the Pratt School of Engi-

neering and in the proportion of students from either North or South Carolina.

More than 2,900 high school students applied to Pratt, and this number has been increasing steadily for four years. In Fall 2005, there will be a 50-student increase in Pratt. Guttentag attributes the growth in the number of applications to an increased focus on engineering in the Admissions Office, which has devoted one staff member primarily to engineering applications.

“We’ve been a little more aggressive [with potential engineering students],” Guttentag said. “We’re doing this so there won’t be any sacrifice in quality when the class size increases.”

Of the Class of 2008, 17 percent are from the Carolinas, up from 14 percent last year. Guttentag cited an improved economy as a reason more Carolina natives would opt for Duke over cheaper pub-

lie colleges and universities.

The new class currently is comprised of 280 Asian students, 101 Latino students and more than 180 black students.

This represents approximately the same number of Asian students, a decrease of 17 Latino students and an increase of more than 20 black students as in the class of 2007.

‘These are relatively small [changes],” Guttentag said. “I think they’re not part of a big trend.”

No data has yet been released on the grade-point averages, class rank or SAT scores of the Class of 2008, but Guttentag characterized the incoming class as strong students.

“In terms of academic qualifications, they are pretty much the same as last year’s class,” Guttentag said. Tm pleased that this is the first class I will present to President [Richard] Brodhead.”

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forfootball The last time North Carolina conducted a search for a new football coach, it hoped to find a leader that would bolster its program onto the national scene, much like A1 Groh has done at Virginia and Ralph Friedgen has done at Maryland.

But UNC didn’t hit a grand slam with its hire—it got John Bunting instead.

The gradual disintegration of the ability of the Tar Heels to win on the gridiron serves as a stark contrast to the rising tide of its athletic program as a whole.

While the football team has been pummeled into inconsequence the pasLlwo seasons, UNO's. athletic teams have finished near the top of the list in the NCAA’s allsports standings.

UNC football was supposed to be on the same path to success, and not the highway to hell on which it currendy careens. Why? Because this program is just three years removed from a Peach Bowl trip and from having two individuals taken in the top 10 of the NFL draft.

So at a time when UNC athletics are primed to peak—its field hockey, soccer, basketball and lacrosse teams will all be legitimate national championship contenders in 2004-05—the heat on the football program is as scorching as the Florida sun.

In fact, Bunting’s career is on its death bed in Chapel Hill.

Hope of resuscitation from the top 25 recruiting hauls of the past three seasons is practically all that keeps optimism afloat—for Bunting’s supporters, at least.

The bell is tolling for change the victory bell, that is, which Duke rung proudly after wrenching it from UNC for the first time since Steve Spurrier coached the Blue Devils to a 41-0 slaughter of the Heels in 1989. If the Blue Devils ring it again in 2004, it will be Bunting’s death knell.

And just as any program laid up in bed, that bell will also call for a benevolent servant ready to return the Heels to prominence.

It’s ironic, then, that Spurrier may very likely be standing at the door of the football program, waiting for that tintinabulation to call him to duty. He’s been —

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WASHINGTON Her just blew a double-digit lead and lost again, which makes it four losses now to go with those two wins. So as she sits her in locker room, it would be understandable if Alana Beard began to cry. Or scream. Or try to click her Nikes and ask to be sent back to Duke.

Life has changed just a bit for Beard since fans watched her college career come to an end on a court in Norfolk, Va., one foggy night several months ago.

Beard is now a professional basketball player in the WNBA, playing for the Washington Mystics.

Graduation broke the old Duke crew up: Iciss Tillis is playing for Detroit and Vicki Krapohl is out of basketball.

There’s no more Blue Devil cheering alongside the Cameron Crazies. They’ve been replaced by 12,000 fans in the MCI Center (the Mystics have the best attendance in the league) and a mascot named Charm, who looks like the Cat in the Hat after a mixup with the blue-colored Gatorade.

And then there’s the difference between pro ball and college. It’s a big gap, somewhere between a chasm and a gulf. The WNBA may team

receive criticism, especially from men, but the league’s commercials aren’t kidding —these girls really can play. Compared to college, every player seems bigger, faster, stronger.

Even Alana, whose athleticism seemed to float around the opposition at Duke, gets bogged down in the professional trenches.

Yes, life definitely is different for Beard these days. And the crazy thing is that, on the court, she’s kind of struggling.

Paltry production The Mystics are a quarter of the way through their season. They are on pace to finish at 12-20,which would be an improvement over last year. The team beats the defending champs, Detroit, one night and blow a big lead the next game.

The jury’s still out on Beard. There’s no doubt that she’s every bit as good as she’s touted to be. Against Connecticut June 9, Beard went through a stretch in the first half where she made scoring look easy. Then she disappeared after halftime, not making another bucket—and the team blew its big lead.

“I was a little pissed,” Beard said. “We just got to get that chemistry, discipline.... It’s SEE BEARD ON PAGE

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Mr. Livingston, we presume? Not at Duke next year.

Shaun Livingston has hired sports management agency CSMG, which includes Chicago-based attorney and agent Henry Thomas, to represent him in the upcoming draft, personal trainer Tim Grover and grandfather Frank Livingston both said. By hiring the firm, Livingston formally forfeits his college eligibility and becomes the first Blue Devil commitment ever to declare for the draft out of high school.

“It was a pretty tough decision,” Livingston told ESPN.com. “I told Coach [Mike Krzyzewski] that I never committed to Duke thinking I wouldn’t suit up for them.”

Livingston made his decision last week after strong workouts with a host of teams, including the Orlando Magic (first pick), the Los Angeles Clippers (second pick), the expansion Charlotte Bobcats (fourth pick) and the Philadelphia 76ers (ninth pick).

“I guess he thought he was doing well [in the workouts],” Livingston’s grandfatherFrank said. “He always wanted to play in the NBA.” Among the teams interested in selecting Livingston in the June 24 draft are the aforementioned Clippers and Bobcats, both of whgtn attended the lanky point guard’s indilast week.

T would probably say the Charlotte Bobcats [were most impressed],” said Grover, who is also working with erstwhile Duke star Luol Deng. “I could just tell by the way the workout went.”

Projected as a top-10 pick in the upcoming draft, Livingston, the nation’s top prep point guard and Duke’s highest-rated signee for the class of 2004, has captivated college coaches—and NBA scouts—with uncanny passing and ballhandling ability for a player

standing 6-foot-7.

“He is a phenomenal handler of the bas-

ketball,” Duke associate head coach Johnny Dawkins said. “He is a mature player on the court. He has great vision on the court and has the ability to make the guys around him better.”

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Smith makes Open family affair that people are excited to be a part of and watch.”

The Junior earned his invitation NEW YORK Rarely is a Duke student-athlete afforded the chance to Shinnecock thanks to the stunto compete against the best compening six-under round he shot in the tition his sport has to offer. afternoon session of the sectional Certainly, Blue Devils graduate and qualifier in Columbus. After birdymove on to various professional ing the first three holes of his secleagues, but it’s only after they leave ond round, Smith never looked the world of academia that they test back, finishing ahead of a field that their mettle against included professionals seasoned with tremendous success. the world’s best. ’■* Nathan Among the pros failing to qualiJunior jjpSg Smith will become fy were Mark O’Meara, (’9B Masters an exception to that and British Open champion) Jesper Parnevik, (5 Tour victories, 9 rule.

Last week, the International Paul victories) U.S. OPEN Santa Cruz, Calif., Azinger, (’93 PGA Champion) Bob 2004 native shot a sevenEstes (38th on the ’O3 money list) under 137 at Brookside Golf & and Tom Lehman (’96 British Country Club/The Lakes Golf & Open champion). But the laundry Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, a list of defeatedpros is of little signifperformance that earned him a spot icance to Smith.

“It feels great just to qualify,” in the ,104 th U.S. Open at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Smith said. “I don’t think it really matters who I beat. It could have Southampton, New York.

For someone who carries the high been a bunch of no-names up there hopes ofhis family, his coach and his for all I was concerned.” school, however, Smith is willing to One of the first people to know let high expectations keep him from about the junior’s qualification was his coach, Rod Meyers, whom Smith enjoying what will become the greatcalled immediately -after his perest moment of his short career.

“It’s just more fun than anything, formance in Columbus. This will be to just be out on the course and the first time in Meyer’s 31-year enjoy having the chance to play in a tenure a current Duke golfer will golf tournament where everything compete in the U.S. Open, and he just feels so special,” Smith said. has earned high praise from his pro“Everywhere you go, people are tege.

“I’m real happy for Coach Meyers watching your every move and you’re signing autographs. It’s just because he’s the greatest coach I’ve pretty amazing to believe that ever wanted to play for,” Smith said. you’re playing in a golf tournament “I didn’t know how great he was Greg Czaja THE CHRONICLE

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going to be coming to Duke. People were telling me he’s an awesome coach, but you really can’t understand what it’s like until you play for Coach Meyers; it’s as if he takes you to become part of his family.”

Smith has not forsaken his original family, though. In fact, his father Ken will serve has as his caddy during the Open. Although Ken may lack the knowledge base of a professional caddy, he more than makes up for his inexperience with his enthusiasm, according to Nathan.

“My dad was not that into the sport,” the younger Smith admitted.

“He’s into my play and he appreciates it and he loves the sport just because I play it. But he’s not very over-competitive, and I think that’s g00d.... My dad’s going to have a great time out there. Today we played the front nine with a few pros, some real good players, and played the back nine with ['ol U.S. Open champion] Relief Goosen, and I could tell that my Dad was out there having a great time just enjoying the moment like I am.”

Nathan will also receive the support of his mother, Daryl, even though she might not understand the momentous nature of her son’s

accomplishment.

“I don’t think my mom really understands the ramifications of making the U.S. Open, and how big of a deal it is,” Smith said. “So I just think she’s happy that I’m happy and having a good time. I don’t think she SEE SMITH ON PAGE 14

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Clara Horowitz earned All-American honorsafter crossing the tape in 16:34.44in Austin, Texas.

The same could not be said for the other Blue Devils in Austin.

Three runners competed in the longest race of the championship, the 10,000meters. Heidi Hullinger, Natasha Roetter and Laura Stanley finished 14th, 21th and 24th, respectively. Stanley was hampered by side pain that developed during warmups and slowed her during the race.

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Clara Horowitz realized that she was legging it out in person with opponents she usually on sees on results sheets.

Even though the other six members of the track and field team representing Duke at the NCAAs failed to finish as high as Horowitz’s fifth place, it was a feeling shared by the entire team.

Previously the Blue Devils had only sent a single runner to the National Championship meet, but this year Duke qualified seven.

Horowitz garnered All-American honors after clocking in at a time of 16:34.44 despite the humid conditions this past weekend in Austin, Texas.

“It was just a great feeling coming in—the excitement of the whole National Championship atmosphere with the packed stadium,” said Horowitz, who became just the fourth Duke woman to earn All-American honors in outdoor track. “I feel like I have stepped it up a level, and now I have to stay there.”

Kim Smith dominated the 5,000-m final throughout, while Horowitz stuck with a pack or runners behind Smith for the race’s entirety. Over the final 800 meters, Horowitz moved up a position, after running a race that head coach Norm Ogilvie described as “smart and smooth.”

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From staff reports Duke women’s basketball coach Gail Goestenkors has already concluded her recruiting from the high school Class of 2005—before the four players start their senior years of high school.

Goestenkors’ latest commitment came last week when Keturah Jackson, a swing forward and guard from Columbia, S.C., decided to become a Blue Devil.

According to Roundball Journal, Jackson is the No. 7 recruit in her class, making her the highest-ranking Duke commit in the 2005 high school class. Jackson averaged 18points and eight rebounds per game as a junior for Dreher High School.

The Gatorade South Carolina Player of the Year choose Duke over Connecticut and Tennessee, and academic strength was an important factor for Jackson, a strong student with an interest in sports medicine.

In recruiting the class of 2005, Goestenkors had several victories over the perennial powerhouses UConn and Tennessee. Abby Waner, an All-America from Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Carrem Gay, a 6-2 power forward, also chose the Blue Devils over the Huskies.

Alongside her future Duke teammates Waner, Gay and Brittany Mitch, Jackson is currendy competing at the USA Basketball Women’s Youth Development Festival in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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the two to skyrocket the league to whole new levels of ratings, revenue and athletic glory.

And then there’s the Washington Mystics.

No one—not anyone realistic—expected the Mystics to win the championship this year.

The team’s record last year was 9-25, secondworst in the league.

But the Mystics have some solid veterans and one of top players around, Chamique Holdsclaw. Thankfully for Beard, the Mystics are Holdsclaw’s team, so the rookie isn’t being asked to lead them on the court.

No, but the organization has put her smiling face all over the place doing all sorts of stuff.

So there’s the franchise pressure, hoping she’ll lead the team out of the cellar.

“Just got to go out and play,” teammate Page Murriel said. “She can’t worry about what her critics say. We’re playing.”

Kind of makes the memory of college that much sweeter.

“I miss it,” Beard said about Duke. ‘This is the road God has chosen for me. That chapter of my life is over, closed. It’s all going to benefit me in the end.”

Statistically, Beard’s second-best on the team in most categories. Her biggest weakness in college, shooting the outside Jumper, jumped with her into the pros. Her shooting percentage (.289) is last among rookies.

Worried that she wasn’t getting involved enough in the offense, Mystics head coach Michael Adams switched her to point guard.

The move has helped. Ballhandling is the new problem. Beard’s turnovers per game are second-worst among rookies, but at least she’s tied with—guess who—Diana Taurasi.

Beard’s WNBA stat line per game is; 29.8 minutes, 8.8 points, 2.1 assists, 1.88 steals, 2.63 turnovers, .133 percent threepoint shooting and a .289 field-goal percentage. During her senior year at Duke, Beard averaged almost 20 points a game, tallied 5.4 rebounds and 3.9 assists and shot 49.6 percent from the field.

“It’s totally different from college,” Beard said. “I think I’ve got to learn not to think. It’s different. I’m still there on the college level. Everyone is good. Can’t What lies ahead attack just one person. It’s a lot frustrating.

There’s little question thatBeard is going It’s the most I’ve 105t... in a long time.” to be great. It’s just a question ofhow soon.

There was a reason she went No. 2 in the draft and was college player of the year Feeling the heat Like Leßron James and Carmelo last season. It doesn’t help that Tarausi is Anthony, like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, having an easy transition. And the pressure the WNBA has a lot riding on the dynamic is huge, of course—although a majority of duoBeard and Tarausi are meant to become. it comes from within.

The pairing makes sense. The two were One of the more interesting facets of the college rivals: Tarausi winning NCAA titles whole experience is thatBeard and Tarusi’s for the established Connecticut Huskies, early experiences will be more looked at Beard trying to give relative newcomer Duke than any female athletes before them. its first championship. Tarausi was picked But as far as the on-the-court matters go, first in the draft, Beard second. Both are Beard will be fine.

“Alana’s great, already one of the top already household names. The league has plastered their names on media guides and players,” said Murriel. “Everyone wants to billboards everywhere. see her play well. She does what she’s supSo there’s the WNBA pressure, expecting posed to do. What more can you ask for?”

SMITH from page 12 I’m playing in the U.S. Open.”

Mr. and Mrs. Smith already have much to be proud of, as Nathan started 2004 with an impressive collegiate season, finishing in the top-10 in 6 of the 12 tournaments he played in. This spring was in many ways a breakthrough season for Smith, who finally gained confidence in his shot-making ability.

“Overall the place where I improved the most this year was my ball striking consistency,” Smith said. “I’ve always had a good short game and I’ve always had a good putter but I’ve been not-so-consistent with my ball striking. Once I started to hit the ball well I could really go at it out there and my whole game came together.”

Assertive ball striking will be an important skill to posess at Shinnecock, where strong winds, narrow fairways, and small, hard, elevated greens make accuracy a must. What many pros have dubbed the “fairest” golf course in the country will prove quite the challenge, in Nathan’s mind.

“It’s definitely a manageable golf course,” the Santa Cruz native said of Shinnecock. “It requires a lot of accuracy off the tee, like all Open courses, which plays into my hand, and it’s not that long, but the greens are very hard, it’s like hitting concrete. If you leave your shots in the wrong places you are just not going to be able to make par. That’s what a U.S. Open course is—even par for four rounds is a great score out there.”

Smith is not daunted by the strong winds that have made previous Opens at Shinnecock notoriously difficult and can make a three or four club difference depending on its direction.

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rience with that, and I’m able to control my ball flight pretty well,” Smith asserted.

“It’s definitely going to be the biggest challenge for me, just because the wind is such a great factor out there at Shinnecock, and the golf course can play entirely different over the course of two hours if the wind changes and picks up.”

So how does Smith expect to finish?

Frankly, he doesn’t know—he is looking at this tournament one round at a time.

“My first goal is to get off to a good start and play well in the first round, then to make die cut, then to play well on the weekend,” Smith said. “If my first two goals get fulfilled, then I’m going to try to go after [the championship].”

Nathan does not possess Tin Cup delusions of grandeur, however, and he understands the disadvantage his inexperience creates.

You have to differentiate between your goals and your expectations,” the Duke junior said. “My goal, as any golfer who is competing, is to win. My expectations, however, are going to be a little less than that. Being 20 years old, it is, partly, just a blessing to be out here and not have any pressure other than to go out and have fun. But in other ways its tough —you don’t have a lot of experience and there are certain things that I don’tknow.”

There is added incentive for Smith to make the cut, though, because doing so might allow his mentor to witness one of his greatest accomplishments as a coach. “[Meyers] didn’t plan his schedule according to me and he actually had a family trip planned, so he’s not going to be able to make it out, unless he possibly makes it out Sunday,” he said. “I’m hoping I can make it to the weekend so Coach Meyers will have a chance to come and watch me play, because that’s something I’d really like to have—l’d like to have him out there a lot.” lf

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UNC from page 11 patient, taking a year off to bide his time, allowing Bunting to go of natural causes (or insufficient coaching, as it were) so he can send him off with a 21-gun salute.

Everyone knows that Spurrier’s the man, too, as has been noted in the season preview ofStreet & Smith’s, and as is rumored all across the Internet message board circuit.

In a New York Daily News article from Nov. 6, 2003, reporter Dick Weiss wrote that Spurrier had “definite interest in the University of North Carolina job. There is even one report Spurrier already has secredy met with Carolina officials about the job.”

Even more reputable publications like USA Today have suggested that Spurrier and UNC would be a good match.

But certainly, Spurrier will be the man that every school with a coaching vacancy wants to hire at the end of the season—or rather, he’ll be the man for every school that wants to make space for him. The proverbial rumor mill lists Texas, UCLA, Stanford and, of course, Florida, among the other schools that will be—or already are—-

vying for Spurrier’s offensive expertise.

Quite obviously, Athletic Director Dick Baddour could have plenty of targets not named Spurrier on his list if and when the time comes to remove Bunting. But I’m willing to bet that Spurrier would be the top priority.

All Spurrier has to do, then, is wander his way into Baddour’s office, cast a sliver of light on Bunting’s hideous eyesore of a program and remind Baddour that he can

light up the scoreboards better than anyone in America.

Then again, Spurrier may not have to do anything at all but hold his breath, and let the winds of change chill Bunting’s career after what is shaping up to be another dreary year of football in Kenan Stadium.

Those highly ranked recruiting classes the Tar Heels lured the past three seasons haven’t been as strong as advertised, and now that Ted Roof and his band of recruiting mavens are in charge in Durham, UNC’s ability to lure high school stars is now beginning to wallow in the shadows of Duke’s resurgence and ChuckAmato’s prowess at N.C. State.

Still, UNC currently has a very talented athlete in quarterback Darian Durant, and other blue chip-type players are scattered on both sides of the ball. They’ve also got a few

new coaches to fix up one of the nation’s worst defenses.

But Bunting has been the team’s Achilles heel, and the crew of Baddour and company would be wise to prepare his ship for sail as soon as possible.

Football plays second fiddle to basketball in the state of North Carolina, but the Tar Heels are sitting on a gold mine of a program. UNC is a school with great exposure across the country (its merchandise is always among the nation’s best sellers), so the football coaches should have the ability to recruit well both locally and nationally. Its facilities are new and gaudy, its academics are superlative, and its campus is, quite honesdy, every bit as impressive as any in America.

Most importandy for the future ofUNC football, however, is that the weather in North Carolina is good enough to play golf eight months out of the year. Why? Steve Spurrier loves golf.

Spurrier also loves competition, Winning and being in control. That’s why he got out of the NFL. And that’s why he’ll come back to the college game in just a short while.

In due time, Baddour will be unable to hear above the din in Chapel Hill calling for Bunting’s ouster and Spurrier’s hire. Soon, he’ll have litde choice but to quote the ravin’, and put the Bunting-induced losing behind the Tar Heels evermore.

TRACK from page 13 very strong finish.”

Wednesday’s high jump preliminaries were canceled when rain wiped out much of the first day of competition.

In Saturday’s final, freshman Debra Vento jumped 5-10, two inches short of her season-best mark, to earn a 15thplace finish. Vento cleared each ofher first two heights on her initial attempts and then jumped over the 5-10 mark on her third and final chance.

Sally Meyerhoff competed in the same 5,000-m event as Horowitz, crossing the tape 19th. Wednesday’s preliminary heats were also not run in the 5,000-m because ofrain.

Thursday, Shannon Rowbury failed to advance to the finals of the 1,500-meter run, finishing 18th.

“Rowbury has had the best overall season of everybody, so to have one off race is not a big deal,” Ogilvie said.

No one on the men’s team qualified for the meet.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 17 Chamber Music Festival: Bpm. Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center. The Ciompi Quartet with guest artist Nnenna Freelon "Folktales and Lullabies" An imaginative concert featuring "Elegy" by Mark Kuss, "Tales from Chelm" by Paul Schoenfield with narration by Nneena Freelon, and a new work by Kuss composed especially for Freelon and the Ciompi Quartet, based on lullabies. Tickets $l5 Gen Admission. Free for Duke students.

Paul Taylor Dance Company; Bpm. Page Auditorium; To purchase tickets: Box Office 6844444. Society for Dance History Scholors Conference.

Law Forum: 6-9pm. Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions will be hosting a free (open to the public) Law Forum at the UNC School of Law. Anyone interested in pursuing a career in law or law school in the near future would greatly benefit from this event. Advanced registration is highly encouraged for this event as seating is limited. 1-800-KAPTEST or www.kaptest.com

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Dance Performance: Bpm. Keigwin & Company.

Reynolds Theater; To purchase tickets; Box Office 684-4444. www.americandancefestival.org.

Paul Taylor Dance Company: Bpm. Page Auditorium; To purchase tickets: Box Office 6844444. Society for Dance History Scholors Conference.

SUNDAY, JUNE 20 Chamber Music Festival: 7pm. Duke University Chapel. Vocal Arts Ensemble, conducted by Rodney Wynkoop. This outstanding chamber choir, made up of the finest choral.singers in the Triangle, will present an eclectic program, enhanced by the impressive acoustics of Duke Chapel. Tickets $lO Gen Admission. Free for Duke students.

2004 Summer Festival of Music: 7pm. Vocal Arts Ensemble. Duke University Chapel. Tickets: $lO General: Free to Duke Students. Call 684-4444 or go to tickets.duke.edu.

Dance Performance: 7:3opm. Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Teaching Tribute to Gus Solomons Jr. Griffith Theater; FREE.

www.americandancefestival.org.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 Dance Performance: Bpm. Keigwin & Company.

Reynolds Theater; To purchase tickets: Box Office 684-4444. www.americandancefestival.org.

THURSDAY, JUNE 24 Summer Jazz Concerts: Bpm. Susan Reeves and Friends "Standards and Lesser-Known Gems". Duke Gardens.

FRIDAY, JUNE 25 Chamber Music Festival: Bpm. Griffith Theater, guests Nicholas Kitchen, violin and Yeesun Kim, cello Two members of the well-known Borromeo Quartet join our own Ciompi Quartet members in a concert of music by Martinu, Hindemith, and ending with the great Brahms Quintet. Tickets $lO Gen. Admission.

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Special Olympics: Chapel/Orange County seeks volunteer swim coaches for 2004 summer swim program. Call Colleen Lanigan, Special Olympics

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Exhibit: Through June 14.Uncommon The Presidents of Duke University.

Documents and photographs from the University Archives trace the history of presidential leadership at the university from 1838 until the present, with an emphasis on presidents Few through Keohane. Perkins Library Gallery.

Leaders;

On Exhibit: Through July 25. Highlights From the Picture File: A treasure trove of images, including photographs of the Socialist Party of America, ship building in the New York City Navy Yard, and missionaries in various overseas locations. Perkins

Library, Special Collections Hallway Gallery.

Volunteer: Community Service Center. Contact Dominique Redmond, 684-4377 or http://csc.studentaffairs.duke.edu.

Volunteer: As little as 2 hours/week. Women’s Center. 126 Few Fed, or 684-3897.

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.

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The Chronicle The Independent Daily at Duke University

Real-world road rules is so much a part of phone while behind the wheel, The difficulties of long distance everyday life for many Duke students and community driving are markedly different from members that people forget driving is those of everyday, short-distance driva serious activity that can have tragic ing, which requires a different set of safety precautions, consequences. The Even when the drive is STAFF EDITORIAL recent fatal crashes only a few miles long, of senior Micah Harris and graduate student Zhaochun such as between an apartment and Xu, however, should raise awareness campus, seat belts can save lives and of the potential dangers of driving should always be worn. Itis also imporand should encourage safe practices tant to pay attention at all times, even on the shortest drives. Talking on cell in the future. crashes phones, changing CDs or putting on Not all car are necessarily preventable. Accidents do happen. makeup while driving are distractions But, there are particular precautions that can cause accidents.

Even if drivers take all of these that drivers can take in order to make the roads safer for themselves, other safety precautions, we must remember that there are other cars on the drivers and pedestrians. road that may not be acting as pruforemost, and individuals First must not have a cavalier attitude todently. Especially during the sumward the road. Driving, even for short mer, when all of the Duke social distances, requires attentiveness and scene is off-campus, drunk driving focus. Although driving is often can be a problem. Students should viewed as simply a means of getting plan ahead in order to avoid driving from point A to point B, failure to after drinking, but it is also imporrecognize the responsibility of being tant to be aware that other drivers may not have acted so responsibly. It in a car can lead to accidents. is a good idea to practice defensive College campuses in particular provide a unique, set of driving challenges. driving and to be extra cautious late Students may drive long distances to at night and on weekends.

Another thing to be aware of is the and from Duke during breaks as they commute home. Groups of students number ofpedestrians on campus. It is may take long road trips, particularly especially important to remember that a lot of people do walk in the areas surin the summer. This type of long-distance highway driving is different from rounding campus, and drivers must be short distance driving: the monotony cautious of this. Simply knowing this of highways and the length of time and keeping an extra eye out for spent at the wheel can make distances pedestrians can go a long way in preventing accidents. difficult to drive.

When taking long trips it is imporDespite everyone’s best efforts, traftant to get sleep well the night before, fic accidents are bound to happen, and take breaks from driving every few it is tragic when they do. But, the Unihours and make sure someone knows versity community should remain when and where you are driving. It is mindful of the dangers of driving and also a good idea to carry a charged cell take certain precautions in order to phone in case there are any problems, make hitting the road as safe an activieven though it is tempting to use a ty as possible.

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Remembering Zhaochun Xu Editor's note: Zhaochun Xu, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering, was killed in a car accident June 7. The Chronicle asked members of the Duke community who knew Zhaochun to share their remembrances of him.

A brilliant student and colleague It is quite hard for me to look back to the time I spent with Zhaochun, but I do hope that people can know how nice of a person he was. Zhaochun was very, very smart.

There are many smart students at Duke, but he is one of the smartest person I ever met.

Zhaochun was a student in ECE 299, Information Theory, a course that I was a Teaching Assistant for last spring. Though many graduate students felt the class was hard, Zhaochun’s homework answers were always correct and brilliant.

Zhaochun was also my colleague at the Fitzpatrick Center. We worked together on a very meaningful project, Blood Alcohol Concentration Testing. We did research to

design a portable system to test driving while impaired. This system will help a lot to control the potential danger on the road and can also be used on disease testing.

Zhaochun was always willing to help you whenever you needed him to, and he always knew the smartest way to solve problems.

Zhaochun and I always talked together, not only about the research, but also about many other things like the education in China, the global news and career development. I will miss him both as a colleague and as a friend.

Lin Wang Staff, electrical and computer engineering

Abolish the penny WASHINGTON Because my staunch dumped their low-denomination coins 30 years the war in Iraq has generated such ago, will be laughing at our senseless jingling. support of The penny-pinching horde argues: Those overwhelming reader enthusiasm, it’s time to $9.98 price tags save the consumer 2 cents bere-establish my contrarian credentials. (Besides, I need a break.) Here’s a crusade sure to cause if the penny was abolished, merchants infuriate the vast majority of penny-pinching would “round up” to the nearest dollar.That’s traditionalists: pound-foolish: The idea behind the 98-cent The time has come to abolish the outdated, (and I can’t even find a cent symbol on my keyalmost worthless, bothersome and wasteful board any more) price is to fool you into thinkpenny. Even President Lincoln, who distrusted ing that “it’s less than 10 bucks.” In truth, merchants would round down to the notion of paper money be$9.95, saving the consumer bilcause he thought he would lions of paper dollars over the have to sign each greenback, William Safire next century. would be ashamed to have his Guest Commentary What’s really behind Ameriface on this specious specie ca’s clinging to the pesky That’s because you can’t buy anything with a penny any more. Penny penny? Nostalgia cannot be the answer; if we candy? Not for sale at the five-and-dime (which can give up the barbershop shave with its steam is now a “dollar store”). Penny-ante poker? Pass towels, we can give up anything. the buck. Any vending machine? Put a penny The answer, I think, has to do with zinc, which is what pennies are mostly made of; light in and it will sound an alarm.

There is no escaping economic history: copper plating turns them into red cents. The It takes nearly a dime today to buy what a powerful, outsourcing zinc lobby —financed by penny bought back in 1950. Despite this, Canadian mines as well as Alaskan—entices the U.S. Mint keeps churning out a billion front groups to whip up a frenzy of save-thepenny mail to Congress when coin reform is pennies a month.

Where do they go? Two-thirds of them improposed.

But when the penny is abolished, the nickel mediately drop out of circulation, into piggy banks or—as The Times’ John Tierney noted will boom. And what is a nickel made of? No, five years ago—behind chair cushions or at the not the metallic element nickel; our 5-cent back of sock drawers next to your old tin-foil coin is mainly composed ofcopper. And where ball. Quarters and dimes circulate; pennies disis most ofAmerica’s copper mined? Arizona. If appear because they are literally more trouble Sen. John McCain would get off President Bush’s back long enough to serve the economthan they are worth.

The remaining 300 million or so—that’s 10 ic interests ofhis Arizona constituents, we’d get million shiny new useless items punched out some long-overdue coin reform.

What about Lincoln, who has had a centuryevery day by government workers who couldbe more usefully employed tracking counterfeitlong run on the penny? He’s still honored on ers—go toward driving retailers crazy. They cost the $5 bill, and will be as long as the dollar sign more in employee-hours to wait for the buyers remains above the 4 on keyboards. If this to fish out, then to count, pack up and take to threatens coin reformers with the loss ofIllinois the bank, than it would pay to toss them out. votes, put Abe on the dime and bump FDR. That’s why you see “penny cups” next to every What frazzled pollsters, surly op-ed pages, cash register; they save the seller time and the snarling cable talkfests and issue-starved candibuyer the inconvenience of lugging around dates for office need is a fresh source of hotloose change that tears holes in pockets and eyed national polarization. Coin reform can now sets off alarms at every ffisking-place. close the controversy gap and fill the vitriol the last of the indusvoid.

Get out those bumper stickers: Abolish is the U.S. Why among trialized nations to abolish the peskiest little bits the penny! of coinage? At the G-8 summit next week, the Brits and the French—even the French!—who William Safire is a columnist for theNew York Times.

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don’t think it’s technically one of the tein, low-[insert nutrient that is integral ating notion that losing weight is easy as signs of the apocalypse, but I was for a working body here]? cake; or rather protein bar. Every other Everywhere you turn, it’s low-carb this commercial for food has a low-carb twist strolling through the supermarket when I saw low-carb pasta. Pasta, what and no-carb that! Even beer has sucto it. Yes, it caters to those who need to runners are supposed to eat before a big cumbed to the demons in low-carb land. find healthy alternatives to devilish white race to give them the energy they need to We all know that too much beer will give bread, but isn’t it a little much? Advertisperform at their peak, has been robbed you a beer gut, but no more? I will admit ers talk about it because it’s what we want of its function—carbohydrates. What’s that there was a time when I thought I’d to hear, but it’s what we want to hear benext? Low-carb soda? And, what do you give Atkins a try. Sadly, I lasted about five cause we’re faced with it at every corner. know, Coca-cola has released C2, half the hours. I know some people who have When the Idw-fat bandwagon first apcarbs and half the calories as regular done it for longer though. Actually, a peared, I’m sure it was successful; or else, Coke. Also known as Diet Coke. Except friend ofmine was on Atkins before it was it would’ve disappeared to Trimspa and that Diet Coke has no carbs and no calothe cool thing to do. Three or four years Xenedrine oblivion. But, somehow, we ries. Just drink Diet Coke. ago, she went on Atkins just continued to fatten up. Maybe the Like every summer, the and lost 20 pounds. It was low-carb will turn into the low-fat of this dramatic and very fulfillnation has once again generation. If so, be aware. There is no been swept up in diet fever. ing; but ultimately, it made easy way to lose weight. I’ve learned this her miserable. As she With celebrities that swear watched her friends eat the

by Atkins, South Beach and the Zone, dieting has bread they serve at restaubecome this decade’s rants without thinking twice, she had to restrain anorexia. This is a healthiSarah Kwak herself and show that she er trend, since depriving The Skwak Box could beat the urge to paryourself of food will untake of the fluffy, bready doubtedly take tons of willpower and a toll on your body. Almost goodness. Soon, she gave in and her pants everyone wants to lose weight, look nice in gave out. But that was before Atkins was a bathing suit, have a “dank bod.” Atkins simple to follow. Now, everybody and and all the others promise you that. their mother (literally) live by it.

There is a reason that everyone has So, what do we think of this lowcarb/no-carb frenzy? It sounds awfully fa- found the miracle of low-carb: It works. I miliar, like a name of somebody we knew don’t have to go into the physiological once and cared for, but then forgot workings because, well, everybody already about. Once upon a time, before Atkins knows. However, like any diet, it is a lifetook over the world faster than Starbucks style change. The reason why it is not as did, low-fat was the tune they all were easy to keep the weight off is because we singing. To lose weight, cut out the fat in can all fall victim to cheating. “A slice of your diet. It was as simple as that. For bread won’t kill me” turns into “a loaf of decades, low-fat dictated our lives. When bread slathered in butter over a bowl of it seemed this method was failing us, expasta and rice is actually good for me.” The wonders ofAtkins and other diets are true, said, Did low-fat? we “Whoops! perts say What we meant to say was low-carb.” which makes the actual substance of this When low-carb kicks out, will it be lowcolumn harder to convey.

What’s bothersome is the self-perpetusugar? And then low-vitamins, low-pro-

the hard way, and many others before me know. I’m not preaching like some superfitness guru because I’m definitely not.

Not even remotely close. However, if I’ve learned anything, from countless hours ofVHl’s Rock Bodies and pages of stupid fitness magazines, it is this. The best and healthiest way to lose weight? Eat less and exercise more. Take in less calories than you expend. Simple, huh?

Not satisfied?

Well, good luck trying to avoid carbs for the rest of your life. I wish you the best of luck; and if you can do it, then you are a much stronger person than I. Sarah Kwak is a Trinity sophomore.

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Paul Carrington for State Senate

is the political candidate for state legislature whelmed and largely under-financed court system. He is determined public service rather than self-promoting also committed to protecting those most likely to be unambition. In fact, the only elected public position in who combines legal acumen with a career of sensible and compassionate community service. fairly exploited. In particular, he wrote the first draft of which he has served is trustee of the Ann Arbor Board Rarer still is the candidate who possesses these attributes the Fair Bargain Act, now enacted in New Mexico and of Education from 1970-1973.

Throughout the entirely of his career, however, he and remains unencumbered by years of political dirty before the legislature in several states including North Carolina. The act protects consumers and employees has played a leading role in the formation and passage work and ambition. of important and responsible legislation. He was instruPaul Carrington, professor oflaw here at Duke, is just from being victimized by unfair contracts that strip emsuch a candidate. He is running for State Senator in ployees and consumers of their state and federally grant- mental in the enactment of the Uniform Commercial Code in Wyoming in 1960 and brokered the enactment Senate District 18, which encompasses Lee, Chatham ed procedural rights. An extreme example of commerand Southwest Durham counties. Since the general elec- dal exploitation that Carrington would like to disarm is of a 2001 North Carolina statute that provides for pubtion is likely to be won by the Democratic nominee (as the practices of payday lending institutions. In short, his lic finance of judicial campaigns (thereby encouraging a history and voter registration numbers indicate), the goal is to demand institutional and legislative changes broader spectrum of qualified judicial candidates).

He hopes his presence in the State Senate will influDemocratic primary weighs heavily on the immediate that would create a healthier democratic and commerdal environment for all North Carolinians. ence the enactment of the Fair Bargain Act in North horizon: July 20.

His vision of fairness is backed by an outstanding caCarolina. Paul Carrington’s lack of elected experience is Carrington is the only candidate who actually lives in reer as a legal scholar and educator that more than superseded by his life-long dedication to apthe Durham portion of the Senate district, plying his legal expertise to the task of realizing demohas led to his membership in the Amerwhich alone makes up over forty percent athail Chapman ican Academy ofArts and Sciences and cratic ideals. of the constituency. His two Democratic . t^ie National Academy of Science comIt would be a shame to miss the opportunity to elect opponents both hail from northern Guest Commentary mittee. Since graduating from Harvard Paul Carrington to State Senate—not because Duke’s own Chatham County. If Carrington is not reputation would be strengthened by adding a notch to Law School in 1955, he has been a memelected to the Senate, Durham will lose at ber of the at five law schools and was dean the resume of one of her own, but because Duke would faculty half voice the State Senate While in one of its next term.

Carrington does face opposition in the primary, it is dif- Duke Law School from 1978-1988. In addition, he held miss the opportunity to have a true representative in State ficult to imagine a candidate more ideally suited to rep- visiting appointments at ten other American law schools government. Paul Carrington has spent his life embodying resent the district in general and the Durham and Duke* and five foreign universities and has authored seven that to which Duke faculty and students ought to aspire: books and over hundred major articles in academic Brilliant academic and intellectual leadership that affects communities in particular.

Carrington’s primary motivation for running for this legal journals. His writings have spanned numerous positive and far-reaching results for individuals and socieparticular office is his interest in helping forge a legal topics, including civil procedure, constitutional ty. Paul Carrington’s commitment to excellence in the classroom are sidelights to what students should learn stronger commitment to fairness throughout North Car- law and the history of the legal profession. His experiolina government. His interest is evidence of his long ence in the realm of judicial reform would make him an from his dedication to put to use his talents and education standing belief that the legal profession is not primarily insightful and particularly knowledgeable advocate for outside the classroom for the good of society. To capitalize on our rare opportunity to be truly represented at the about exploiting the necessity of lawyers inherent in improvement. He directed the American Bar Foundademocracy but in sensibly practicing law to preserve and tion study of the United States Courts of Appeal from State level and therefore enjoy some level of the best democracy has to offer, don’t forget to vote in the July 20 enhance democracy, demanding that political institu- 1967-1969, served as Reporter to the Advisory CommitDemocratic primary. tions serve all citizens efficiently and effectively. His plat- tee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the UnitFor absentee ballots and/or information, call (919)733forms are consistent both with this ideal and his previ- ed States from 1985-1993, and directed a program in juor see webpage: http://www.co.durham.nc.us/ dicial and for the 7173 accountability independence ous work as an academician and advocate. He hopes to work to bring about more stringent lobbying regula- American Bar Association, organizing a national conferNathan Chapman is a graduate student in the divinity tions, campaign finance reform, a moratorium on the ence on that subject in 1999.

Paul his school and the law school. s Carrington political experience bespeaks death penalty and more money allocated to the over,

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