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cited about the idea ofrelief from the alltoo-familiar and crowded confines of Hudson Hall and Teer Engineering Library. The building comes on line just before the expansion of Pratt to include 50 more students per class, set to begin in Fall 2005. First-year graduate student Debby Chang, who is concentrating on mechanical engineering with an emphasis on biology, said Duke’s dedication to improving Pratt and its facilities factored into her decision to attend the University. ‘There was definitely a pull to come to Duke because of the new building,” Chang said. “I definitely see myself spending a lot of time here.” Other students, such as Pratt sophomore Chris Morecroft, praised the interdisciplinary ideals that goverened the design of the new center. “The interdisciplinary program at Duke makes it unique from other programs in the country,” Morecroft said. “[CIEMAS] is an outstanding building that will really

Durham Regional Hospital is at risk of losing $67 million of Medicare funds following a patient’s leap from a fifthfloor window Aug. 11. After Durham Regional, which is a part of Duke University Health System, reported the incident, die federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services placed the hospital in “immediate jeopardy” of losing all reimbursement from Medicaid patients —which amounts to about 40 percent of the hospital’s total revenue. The patient, whose name and patient care information has been withheld dm to federal privacy guidelines, smashed the window with a bedside tray and jumped, landing two floors below on a gravel-covered roof. He was then transferred to Duke University Hospital in critical condition. Two CMS inspectors visited Durham Regional Aug. 13, and late Friday it received the designation of “immediate jeopardy.” If satisfactory action is not taken by Sept. 5, the hospital will lose Medicare funding until is passes a review. “What it would mean is until such time that they lift the sanction, any patient that comes through with Medicare or Medicaid will be treated but the hospital will not receive any reimbursement,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. The hospital was most recently put on probation by Medicare officials in 2002, over an incident regarding management of a contract of an inpatient dialysis unit. Administrators quickly addressed the issues and was not penalized. The hospital has already put in place an “action plan” designed to remedy the problems noted by CMS, said Katie Galbraith, director of marketing and corporate communications at Durham Regional. Hospital officials expect CMS to check the hospital and remove the designation by the Sept. 5 deadline. “It is important that people know that we take the concerns raised by CMS very seriously and welcome the feedback from them,” Galbraith said. ‘We are committed to take all the necessary steps to always serve our padents.” The action plan involves a small change in Durham Regional’s patient

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A student takes advantage of Safeßides, which is struggling to keep up with the demand for its services.

plement bus service and is not a taxi serv-

ice for community members. The dispatch center takes an average of 300 calls per night from students, visitors to the Medical Center and employees. During peak periods, calls frequently come in six or seven at a time. Although Safeßides administrators said more than two-thirds of ride re-

quests are answered within 10 minutes,

they have been working to shave minutes off the response time. “When someone’s waiting for service, 10 minutes can feel like an hour,” said Catherine Reeve, director of parking and transportation services. SEE SAFE RIDES ON PAGE 8

opens, cafe to come soon Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE

After years of anticipation, the University’s engineers and scientists have a new place to collaborate on research —and just as importandy, a new place to eat—with the opening of the nearly-completed CIEMAS building. The building’s full name is the Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences; it consists of two wings that will include faculty and

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Callers say Safeßides is unreliable The only thing junior Shahrazad Shareef wanted to do Sunday night was get home safely. She had been with friends all evening at 220 Alexander St., and by midnight the gathering was breaking up —so Shareef called Safeßides. “There had been that robbery the other night, and I didn’t want to sit at the bus stop by myself, and everyone else I was with lived on Central,” she said. The Safeßides dispatcher told Shareef that buses were running and if she felt unsafe waiting then she could call the police department for a ride to West Campus. A friend eventually drove Shareef to her dorm in Edens Quadrangle, but she remained frustrated with the transit service. Shareef is not the only one. Over the past year, undergraduate dissatisfaction with the surface has ballooned, and students often complain to one another about rude dispatch officers and slow or denied service. Students allege that Safeßides’ occasional reluctance to pick people up is unsafe, especially given the multiple reports of armed assaults on campus since November. Officials who run the service explained that Safeßides is meant to sup-

administrative offices, laboratories, student areas, a “cave”—an advanced visualization room that will provide virtual scenarios on its six-sided surface—and the brand-new Twinnies Cafe. All of these venues will boast some of the hottest technological innovations available and are aimed at furthering the University’s emphasis on interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Many students and faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering have been eagerly awaiting the completion of the building. They’ve already checked out some of its state-of-the-art features, undoubtedly ex-

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MOSCOW, Russia A Russian airliner crashed and a second disappeared from radar about the same time Tuesday night after both planes took off from the same Moscow airport, raising fears of terrorism. The Russian news agency Interfax reported that a hijacking signal was activated on the second plane before it went missing. The signal came at 11:04 p.m. from the Tu-154 airliner, Interfax quoted the source in Russia's “power structures” as saying. There was no word on survivors among the 89 people believed to be aboard the planes, which left Moscow's Domodedovo

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agencies reported. PresidentVladimir Putin fire about 600 miles south of Moscow in the ordered an investigation by the nation's top region where the second plane was missing. Putin ordered the Federal Security intelligence agency, and security was tightened at airports across the country. Service to investigate, Russian news agenAuthorities have expressed concern cies reported. The service is the successor to the Soviet-era KGB. No restrictions that separatist rebels in the southern republic ofChechnya could carry out attacks were placed on flights at Domodedovo, linked to this Sunday's presidential elecInterfax reported. A Tu-134 airliner with 43 people aboard tion there. Chechnya's previous president, the pro-Russian Akhmad Kadyrov, was killed crashed in the Tula region, 125 miles south of Moscow, at about 10:56 p.m. Tuesby a bombing in May. Witnesses reported seeing an explosion day, Emergency Situations Ministry before the first plane crashed about 125 spokesperson Marina Ryklina said. She miles south of Moscow, and authorities were said the plane was carrying 35 passengers not ruling out terrorism, the agency said. and a crew of eight.

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Richard Bernstein

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MANNHEIM, Germany The judge in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse case said Tuesday he might award immunity from prosecution in exchange for the testimony of several senior military intelligence officers who prosecutors said are likely to be charged in the case. The judge, Col. James Pohl, referred specifically to Lt. Col. Steven Jordan and Col. Thomas Pappas, both commanders of a military intelligence brigade responsible for interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib. He was responding to a request by one defendant, Sgt. Javal Davis, that higher officers in the chain of command be induced to testify, presumably to show that the abuses that took place had authorization and were not the work of rogue enlisted men and women acting on their own. “Isn’t the fundamental issue whether there was some authoriza-

tion given that authorized extreme measures such as the accused are being charged with?” Pohl said, asking prosecutors why he should not grant immunity to Jordan and Pappas. Military prosecutors had argued against a grant of immunity for the two men and several others, saying that they are being investigated for possible prosecution and that a grant of immunity would probably make it more difficult to bring charges against them. But Pohl, who seemed sympathetic to the defense request, dismissed that reasoning, saying the government’s interest in prosecuting others in the prison abuse case needed to be balanced by Davis’ right to a fair trial. He gave the prosecution until Sept. 17 to show cause why immunity should not be granted. Pohl was presiding at a second day of pretrial hearings during which a defense lawyer for one of the accused said he had reached an agreement with the government for his client to plead guilty.

newsinbrief Fischer loses latest appeal Japan ordered Tuesday that Bobby Fischer, the American chess master wanted in the United States for violating a trade embargo, be deported after rejecting his request for protection as a political refugee, his supporters said.

ERA finds mercury in lakes More than one-third of the nation's lakes and nearly one-fourth of its rivers contain fish that may be contaminated with mercury, dioxin, PCB and pesticide pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency said The EPA found contamination in 48 states.

Disease spreads in Africa Polio has spread to two more African countries that had been freed of the crippling disease and threatens to become a major epidemic across west and central Africa, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The disease begins reaching its high season next month.

Travelers stranded at airport Thousands of British Airways passengers were stranded at Heathrow Airport in London after more than 50 flights were canceled because of a staff shortage caused by recruitment delays and workers taking sick leave. News briefs compiled from wire reports "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." Willa Gather

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Senior Kevin Parker drinks wine. Not beer, wine. He’s big on gin and tonic as well. His friends say, a bit tongue-incheek, that Parker sustains himself on the “finer spirits.” He’s a classy guy, a real leader—whether he is acting as president of the Duke University Union or hanging out with his friends and Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity brothers. A biomedical and electrical engineering double-major from Barrington, 111., Parker is surprisingly personable. Instead of being the stereotypical science nerd (although he presented research to the American Physical Society his sophomore year), Parker is a politician at heart. “It is not much wonder that he is the Union president,” said Sean Biederman, Parker’s junior year roommate. “He has the

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Duke University Union President Kevin Parker has loftygoals for the largest programming body on campus. celebration in April and the renovation of the old East Campus coffeehouse. In addition, Parker hopes to encourage people to care more about programming on campus. “I think there is a lot to do on this campus and people just aren’t personally invested in it,” he said. “I think people need to get involved in creating programming. We also need better and more ways to disseminate information, such as an online calendar that is worthwhile.” These seem like lofty goals, but senior Jonathan Bigelow, last year’s Union president, has great confidence in Parker’s

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In a heavy blow to the already embattled performing arts center proposed for downtown Durham, industry juggernaut Clear Channel Communications Inc. pulled out Monday from its commitment to be the theater’s operator. The corporation would have borne the brunt of the operation costs while paying a percentage of the center’s profits to the city. The city and Clear Channel had not forged a solid partnership, said Alan DeLisle, Durham’s economic development director, adding that he wasn’t surprised the company backed out. “There was never a certainty that they were going to do this project,” he said. ‘They mentioned that the strategic plan for the company is being redefined, that there are some management changes and that they could not commit to the conditions that the city laid out in our discussions with them.” Clear Channel of Raleigh officials could not be reached for comment late Thursday afternoon. The proposed theater has been plagued by controversy from its inception, said City Council member John Best, Jr. A portion of the center’s funding was planned to come from a new hotel tax, levied specifically to cover most of the project’s construction costs. Durham residents have complained to City Hall that the theater would be a misuse of tax dollars and hurt ailing Durham institutions like the Carolina Theater. “I was against the original theater plan because it is too large of a venue to be paid for with additional taxpayer dollars,” said Best, the only council member who voted in June against the extension of the exclusive development rights to Clear Channel. SEE CLEAR CHANNEL ON PAGE 8

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complete package.” Last spring, Parker left Duke to spend the semester at Georgetown University interning for the House Committee on Science. An aspiring politician, Parker hopes

attend law school and has an interest in science and technology policy. “I am very interested in government, and if the opportunity to elected office presented itself, I would take it,” he said. “I really enjoyed my work on Capitol Hill last spring.” Parker became involved with the Union after doing some technical work for Cable 13. As president of the studentrun television station his sophomore year, Kevin impressed the Board of the Union with his vision for how to increase student involvement. This year Parker hopes to continue to enhance the Union’s profile. “I think our most important goal for this year is to increase visibility on campus because there are a lot of events going on on-campus that people just aren’t aware of,” Parker said. “I wanted to be Union president because I believe .that the Union is a great organization that can provide a lot for students. It is currently underutilized and I want to reverse that trend.” The Union has two big projects in the works for next year: the 50th anniversary

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John Kerry delivers a speech at Cooper Union in New York City.

called “the clear choices” between him and his opponent, and to challenge the Bush-Cheney campaign for what he called its “attack politics.” “I’m here to call for a truthful and robust debate about our values as Americans and the fundamental choices we will make at a critical time in America’s and the world’s history,” he said. “But from the other side, we see a calculated effort to evade that debate. The Bush campaign and its allies have turned to the tactics offear and smear because they can’t talk about jobs, about health care, about energy independence.” As his campaign continues to accuse Bush and his allies of attacking on his record as a decorated Vietnam War veteran, Kerry used the words “truth” and “truthfulness” dozens of times to delineate the strategies of the two campaigns. ‘They can’t, or they refuse to talk about the real issues that matter to the American people,” he said. ‘To me the contest this year is not just about winning a campaign,” he

continued. “It’s about reclaiming the character of America’s integrity and the integrity of our politics. For the last few days, veterans supporting and opposing Kerry have fiercely debated accusations against him by a group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In television appearances, a book and television advertisements, members of the Swift Boat group have asserted that Kerry lied about the circumstances leading to his receiving three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star and that he discredited Vietnam veterans with his anti-war statements when he returned from Vietnam three decades ago. The Kerry campaign and several veterans who served with him have disputed the charges by the group, which received early financial support and guidance from some wealthy and well-connected Republicans in Texas and elsewhere. Bush, when asked Monday by reporters at his Texas ranch about the anti-Kerry advertisements said that he wanted to stop “all of them.” “That means that ad, every other ad,” he said Bush has also been the target of attack ads by groups questioning his stateside National Guard service during the Vietnam War, among other things. Kerry spoke Tuesday in Cooper Union’s Great Hall, the same chamber where four presidents have delivered major

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Rep. Richard Burr (R)

N.C. Hometown: Winston-Salem Past Political History: U.S. Congress Representative, sth District (1994-present (R), White House Chief of Staff (1996-1998), White House the Business (1994-1996), director Small Past Career: National sales managerfor deputy Chief of Staff of Administration (1993-1994) Carswell Distributing Past Career: Investment banker. Served far 6 months on the Krispy On the Issues: Supports strong missile Krerne Inc. Board of Directors before resigning to devote his attendefense and an increase in the military’s tion to the Senatorial race. Erskine Bowles Richard Burr budget, champions the No Child Left Behind education reform legislation, defends the Patriot Act, opposOn the issues: Supports doubling the SBA budget, a ‘pay as you go'’ policy for foieign trade agreements, health insurance for the unemployed, bunging more defense contracts to es any increases in federal taxes on individuals or businesses N.C. Hometown: Greensboro Past Political History: Lost 2002 Senate race to Elizabeth Dole

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Anyone seeking a concentration of religious experts on the University’s campus might look first in the Duke Chapel, the Freeman Center for Jewish Life or the Gray Building. But thanks to a surprising number ,of Divinity School graduate students serving as graduate assistants, Duke residence halls are home to several of the University’s spiritual scholars. Of the 20 GAs that Residence Life and Housing Services is employing this year to assist students in dormitories, 15 are graduate students enrolled in the Divinity School. This preponderance of Divinity students is a result not only of the servicebased nature of the school’s focus, but also because the school’s curriculum and costs make the benefits of a stint as a GA particularly appealing to its students. ‘There’s a certain simpatico between the pastoral careers that many of [the Divinity students] have chosen and helping other students out in a residential setting,” said Eddie Hull, executive director ofhousing services and dean of residence life. Hull’s office recruits from every graduate and professional school in the University, but the yield from the Divinity school has been dominant for several years, due in large part to greater publicity for the opportunity put out by the school’s admissions and financial aid offices. “I think our Divinity program does an outstanding job marketing these opportunities to first-year [graduate] students,” said Deb Lo Biondo, assistant dean of students for residence life, who has coordinated numerous GA hirings. ‘There’s also a programmatic connection between counseling [in the dorms] and ministry.”

Divinity School administrators agree that the GA position is an excellent enticement for aspiring ministers. “It is very much a part of the admissions and financial aid offices’ spiels in terms of attracting students,” said Greg Duncan, associate dean of student services at the Divinity School, Not only do Divinity School students dominate the GA roster, they also account for about half of the graduate students serving as residential advisors, Lo Biondo noted. The most evident reason that so many GAs are in the Divinity School is that they are preparing for a similar role after graduation. ‘These are of course persons who have been called to be with people, to help people,” Duncan said. “Helping people, offering advice is what they have been trained to do—in a Christian context, but this applies to GAs and RAs as well.” The financial benefits RAs and GAs receive can also account for the popularity of being a GA for graduate students, as the benefits are particularly helpful for those planning careers in ministry. “A lot of times, in other graduate programs at Duke, the debt that’s accumulated [through student loans] is more easily paid off in the yearsafter graduation,” said Major Treadway, a second-year Divinity student who serves as a GA in Alspaugh Dormitory. GAs at Duke receive a stipend of at least $3,000, as well as a single room or an apartment with local phone service donated by the University and a food stipend of roughly $l,OOO. Duncan noted that Divinity students will likely continue to dominate this position, as many of them have had positive experiences with it. “I enjoy it because I enjoy having an impact on people’s lives,” Treadway said.

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Duke to help pay for the center. University officials have repeatedly said Duke wouldn’t pay for any of the theater’s costs unless special accommodations, such as a modified stage and dressing rooms, were included for the American Dance Fesdval, which holds its summer season at Duke. Two deadlines loom on the horizon: If the city does not commit to build the theater by this October, it could lose the plot of land on which it hopes to build the center. And if construction doesn’t start by October 2005, the city will lose state money. The city is already searching for a new operator, but now, city officials are more unsure than ever whether the project will break ground. “[Clear Channel’s departure] could be the best thing that ever happened,” DeLisle said. “Or it could be the kiss of death.”

CLEAR CHANNEL “I’ve always felt that local taxpayers can’t afford to put any more money into a facility like that when we have the Durham Bulls, the Arts Council—things we have paid for in the past and continue to pay for to this very day. A new theater is fine, but not with additional taxpayer dollars.” Some members of the local arts community had also charged that Clear Channel enjoys a virtual monopoly of the music venue industry. ‘The fact that Clear Channel is no longer involved may make people more comfortable with the project,” DeLisle said. “Certainly a number of people have raised concern.” Adding to the turmoil, City Council members had asked

tion, Safeßides has contracts with Duke Manor and the apartment complexes owned by Triangle Communities to provide transit service for $56,000 a year. She said that some people —both in the Medical Reeve said that even though demand for Safeßides Center and on campus—abuse the service, especially has increased substantially since its inception a decade when it is raining or when students are drunk. The ago, the resources of the program have remained relaextra calls tie up the four vans Safeßides and prevent tively stagnant. Several improvements, however, have been in develtimely answering of legitimate calls opment all summer, she Officials emphasized that the security of commusaid. Transportation servnity members is always the ices a hopes to train the “If guy calls, Safeßides doesn’t take it primary aim of the service. dispatch officers for all very seriously. Safeßides doesn’t take “If it’s an area that isn’t van services so that safe, we will pay added atSafeßides will be able to your word for it if you don’t feel safe.” tention to that,” said Peter help callers find the most Murphy, assistant director Stephen Miller appropriate transportaof parking and transportation method, including tion services and coordinathe Medical Center buses tor ofSafeßides. He added, however, that the definition and Charlene’s Safe Rides taxi company. of safe is subjective In addition, regular East-West Campus bus service Students are concerned that the definition of “safe” may be extended on Thursday nights until 4 a.m. to is too strict. free the vans on the high-demand night. The office is “If a guy calls, Safeßides doesn’t take it very seriousalso considering a door-to-door shuttle service from a ly,” sophomore Stephen Miller said, citing the experisingle point on Central, with connections to the buses. ences of mujtiple friends. “Safeßides doesn’t take your Until the changes take effect, though, students who feel word for it if you don’t feel safe.” uneasy sitting at the shadowy bus stops on Central Campus Many of the administrative difficulties stem from the are left wondering whether Safeßides is doing its job. merger of the transit systems of the Medical Center and “Aren’t they supposed to pick people up when it’s the University, which occurred just last year. In addi- late? Especially a female alone,” Shareef said.

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CIEMAS from page 1 improve the quality of engineering at Duke.” As each day passes, the anticipation of gaining full access to the CIEMAS building grows. “We had hoped to occupy the building earlier, but construction has moved on schedule,” said Robert Clark, senior associate dean ofPratt and chair of the space planning committee for the new center. “We are currendy moving students into the east wing; the west wing is sub-

stantially completed.” Although faculty members are gearing up for their new high-tech laboratories, they also seem excited for a new place to take a break from their work. “We’re all really looking forward to having another eating place as opposed to the [Levine Science Research Center],” Clark said.

Jim Wulforst, director of the University’s dining services, said students and faculty should have to wait no longer than late September for the opening of Twinnies. The cafe will be very similar to Blue Express in the LSRC in that the food served there will be madeto-order. In addition, Twinnies will be a Starbucks-licensed vendor. Wulforst was quick to note that although Twinnies will share some similarities with Blue Express, students and faculty should not dismiss the new cafe as a mere carbon copy of the popular eatery only a few hundred yards away. ‘The atmosphere [of Twinnies] is really unique—it’s a really neat space... the aesthetics will have a different feel,” he said. Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, was very excited about the entire project and said the addition of the new cafe will have a positive impact on the community. “There is a body of research that shows good food is one of the key ingredients to positioning researchers to make major breakthroughs in their work—that for me translates into ‘good coffee and tea,’” Johnson said. “While in Ireland I researched the famous Bewley’s Cafe, where many Irish Nobel Laureates sipped coffee and wrote and thought great ideas and deeds. The impact of the cafe will be to provide a wonderful intellectual collision space for the brewing of great ideas—and coffee—by our students, faculty and staff,” she added.

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that the 2004 U.S. basketball team has been at a low point—probably the lowest in the American history of the event. Other countries have thus far been able to field superior teams, but American players are still the best in the world. For example, although Sarunas Jasikevicius torched America for 28 points in Lithuania’s 94-90 victory, he has yet to make an NBA roster despite trying out for nearly every team. Yes, Europe has produced All-Star caliber players such as Dirk Nowitzki and Paul Gasol, but players like Shaquille O’Neal and Lebron James —players with extreme size, athleticism and skills—are not found any where but America. So why then is the American team struggling to defeat teams comprised of less talented players? One reason is that winning an Olympic gold medal is not a top priority for NBA players. The Olympics are held in the offseason, when players are recuperating from the most physically taxing basketball league in the world. The stars are simply not interested in playing with extreme effort before the NBA season starts. There is little America can do to remove those two obstacles because winning an NBA World Championship will always be the No. 1 goal for professional players. The good news is the above problems did not prevent NBA players from taking home gold in 1992, 1996 and 2000. Therefore, those problems cannot be the complete cause of the 2004 team’s troubles. The biggest difficulty for this year’s team is that the 2004 representatives are far from the best available. There’s no Kobe, no Shaq, no KG, no Kidd and no T-Mac. The second biggest hurdle is that this is by far the least balanced group the Americans have fielded since NBA players were added the Olympics. Tim Duncan is the only player that could start at center for an NBA contender, and his natural position is power forward. Stephen Marbury is the only player who has played point-guard for his entire career (Dwyane Wade played shooting-guard in college), and the best three-point shooter on the team, Richard Jefferson, has a career percentage of 31.6 from behind the arc. In addition, nearly every player on the team is a slasher, a style which is easily neutralized by international zone defenses. The obvious solution is to have the designated Olympic coach choose which players are on his team. For the current games, a committee chaired by Stu Jackson select—

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On Oct. 10, 2003, 200 people had the privilege of seeing Nigi Adogwa come of age. While the rest of the school enjoyed Fall Break, the men’s soccer team hosted the N.C. State Wolfpack needing a win to reverse a nine game winless streak—a period over which the Blue Devils failed to score more than two goals in any game. Duke rippled the net three times that day. All three goals were scored by Nigi Adogwa. The team responded to the senior’s electrifying performance with an equally impressive run, winning five of its next six games and finishing the regular season with an 8-10-1 record. Adogwa went on to score 11 goals that season, and as he enters his senior year, Duke head coach John Rennie expects his star forward to lead his squad with similar displays ofexcellence. “He leads by example,” Rennie said. “He works very, very hard. When he’s out there working hard defensively and challenging for head balls in the penalty area, he adds a kind of adrenaline to the team and gets the other players excited, and the other players respond to Nigi and work harder as a result. He’s more a leader in that manner than a verbal leader.” As is often the case with Duke athletes, Adogwa’s road to Durham was a long and eventful one. The path began in his birthplace of Nigeria, where he developed his soccer skills at an early age. “In Nigeria, soccer isn’t very organized,” Adogwa said. “You don’t have the best facilities and you don’t have the best equipment. When I was six, I used to go out with my cousins—l had a pretty big family—and just did stuff... it was just like the way [Americans] play basketball.” At the age of 10, Nigi’s family moved to Trinidad, a tiny island off the coast of South America. Although the move was primarily motivated by the desire of Andrew Oche, Nigi’s father, to expand his medical practice, it also allowed the budding soccer prodigy to refine his play at various preparatory schools including St. Mary’s and St. George’s, and on his club team, Malta Carib Alcons. At first, Nigi’s passion was met with a bit of disdain. “My mother did not approve of it,” Adogwa said. “My dad didn’treally care, but mother came around very slowly.” When American coaches started to take notice of Adogwa’s play, however, it became clear just how far playing soccer could take him. Rennie’s interest in the young forward was first SEE ADOGWA ON PAGE 14

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ATHENS, Greece The U.S. Olympic Committee would consider supporting South Korea’s bid to pursue a duplicate gold medal for one of its gymnasts to make up for the scoring error that gave American Paul Hamm the all-around title. USOC officials met with members of the South Korean Olympic Committee and are trying to find an “equitable solution,” Darryl Seibel, a spokesperson for the USOC, said Monday. “We have indicated to them that we would be willing to consider the notion of a second gold medal being awarded,” Seibel told The Associated Press. “It’s up to the Korean Olympic Committee to determine how it wants to proceed. There’s a willingness to at least consider this idea.” Hamm won the gold medal Wednesday after judges incorrecdy scored Yang Tae-young’s parallel bars routine, failing to give him enough points for the level of difficulty. Yang ended up with the bronze and Hamm became the first American man to win the all-around title. Seibel said USOC officials were also consulting with USA Gymnastics, the sport’s national federation. “We’ve said from the very beginning that Paul and USA Gymnastics would respect any decision by FIG, the lOC and the USOC,” USA Gymnastics president Bob Colarossi said. Jae Soon-yoo, an official for the South Korean delegation, was in a meeting Monday afternoon and did not have an immediate comment. If the USOC and the South Koreans do reach an agreement, it doesn’t automatically clear the way for Yang to get a medal. The International Gymnastics Federation would have to give its approval and then ask the International Olympic Committee to award a second gold medal. The federation, known as FIG, did not immediately have any comment.

Asked if a duplicate gold medal would tarnish Hamm’s accomplishment, Colarossi said that was not for him to decide. “As far as I’m concerned, Paul Hamm is the allaround gold medal winner,” Colarossi said. “He showed it on the field of play.” At issue is the tenth of a point deducted from Yang’s start value in the fifth of six events in the all-around. He received a 9.9 for a routine that had been given a 10 start value in team preliminaries and finals. He finished third, 0.049 points behind Hamm, who came back from 12th with two events left for the victory. With the extra 0.100, Yang would have finished first and Hamm second, and Kim Dae-eun of South Korea would have won the bronze instead of silver. The FIG admitted the error and suspended the two judges who determined the start values—Benjamin Bango of Spain and Oscar Buitrago Reyes of Colombia—along with the judge who oversaw the panel, George Beckstead of the United States. But the federation said it would not change the results because the South Koreans did not file their protest in time. South Korea promised to take its case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, although it had not filed its appeal as of Monday afternoon. CAS indicated it would not take the case because it involved a “field of play” decision, so the South Koreans approached the USOC about finding a diplomatic solution. “All of this, it opens a whole Pandora’s box of future challenges that aren’t within the rules,” said Peter Vidmar, the silver medalist in the 1984 Olympics. “What’s the statute of limitations for grievances in sport now? There have to be rules.” Former U.S. coach Peter Kormann agreed. “You don’t get Olympic gold medals in a gumball machine,” Kormann said in a telephone interview from New York.

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ATHENS, Greece When a day of drama had ended and the quarterfinal pairings were set, the news was not great for the United States. In order to get to the semifinals and possibly the gold medal game, first the Americans will have to defeat Spain—the team that left the widest wake of impressed and defeated opponents during the preliminary round. T don’t know anything about them,” Tim Duncan said of Spain after the Americans cruised past Angola 89-53 to finish the opening round with a record of 3-2. Here’s the scoop, Timmy: The Spaniards have finesse yet they are physical, they’re led by an NBA player who’s tougher than he looks, and they usually shoot 3-pointers the same way your teammates do—not all that well. Spain’s players had an opportunity Monday to take it easy against New Zealand, lose a game and thereby knock Serbia-Montenegro out of medal contention. Instead, they banged bodies as though it was a wresding match, won by four points and let Serbia-Montenegro self-destruct later in the day. “This is the Olympic stage, the setting for miracles,” China guard Liu Wei said after his team stunned the defending world champions 67-66 to advance to the quarterfinals and relegate SerbiaMontenegro to Tuesday’s llth-place game against winless Angola. In other games with medal-round ram-

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Allen Iverson drives to the basket as Angola's Olimpio Ciprian defends during the U.S. victory Tuesday. ifications, Greece defeated Puerto Rico 7858 and Italy edged Argentina 76-75. The matchups for Thursday’s quarterfinals are Lithuania-China, Italy-Puerto Rico, Greece-Argentina and Spain-United States, ‘We went out and tried to get the victory for the respect of the competition, the respect of our rivals and the respect of ourselves,” Spain coach Mario Pesquera said.

‘There’s also another important factor: When you have a winning streak like we have, it’s a little dangerous to break it.” Spain (5-0) also won all of its tuneup games before the Olympics, and the Americans would be ill-advised to underestimate them. “Spain dominated our group,” New Zealand coach Tab Hunter said. “I think

any team going against Spain has probably got to be considered an underdog.” The Americans are likely to learn that you can’t spell “Spain” without “pain.” In a game marked by hard fouls and confrontations, Spain’s Carlos Jimenez made two free throws for a four-point lead with 12.4 seconds left after an intentional foul on New Zealand’s Dillon Boucher, who violendy threw Jimenez to the floor. The intentional foul allowed Spain to retain possession, and the four-point lead was key as Pau Gasol—who plays for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies—missed a pair of free throws with 9 seconds left. Despite the physical nature of the game, there were no hard feelings afterward as players from both teams exchanged hugs and handshakes. The Americans’ latest game couldn’t have been more different. In the opening moments of the first quarter, Duncan found just one defender—not the usual two—guarding him. He gladly took advantage, dropping in a shot. Duncan scored a team-high 15 points in just 13 minutes, and the Americans dominated the boards Barcelona-style with a 52-17 edge in rebounding as NBA commissioner David Stern watched from 10 rows behind the American bench. Shawn Marion made the U.S. team’s first 3-point attempt 82 seconds into the second quarter for a 28-14 lead, and Leßron James hit another 3 to extend it to 33-14. The U.S. team finished 3-for-6 from behind the arc and 33-of-60 (55 percent) overall.

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Responsible? Computer Literate? The Chronicle Creative Department is looking for graphic artists to design and process ads for the newspaper. We offer on-thejob-training to qualified students. Hours are flexible between 9a.m. and sp.m. Monday through Friday. Contact starbuck@duke.edu or call Barb at 684-0388 for more details. Part-Time

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PART-TIME POSITION AVAILABLE Ten-person law firm in Durham area seeks combination part-time Receptionist-Administrative Assistant. Polished speaking skills required, with at least moderate-to-good administrative assistant skills desired; position offers attractive office venue and environment. Forward resume to Hiring Partner, P.O. Box 52394, Durham, NC 27717-2394. PART-TIME RESEARCH ASSISTANT to help me and part-time secretary to draft and research manuscript on medical theology from internet to library, to drafting and editing dictation. 2 week trial period. Home office 10 minutes from Duke. Pleasp email briefly: qualifications, background and interest, starting salary, flexibility of daytime schedule, saulboyar@aol.com. Part-time secretary and research assistant. Graduate student. To help complete book on science and religion by retired, visually challenged professor. Home office about 10-15 min. from campus. To work about 3 hours a session, mornings, 2 sessions per week or more. Salary commensurate. Two week trial. Please respond by emailwith brief background, qualifications, interests, flexibility of schedule, and required

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Expand summer reading year, as part of freshman class. Also, if the discussion sparked orientation, first-year students from the summer reading is to have a attended a panel discussion of place in the classroom, professors the summer reading book, Moun- must also read the book, tains Beyond Mountains. The discusAlthough incorporating the summer reading book sion was a new eleinto Writing 20 coursment the Staffeaitonaf es may prove to be a University’s threeyear-old summer reading program. good use of the program, forcing discussions where they do not naturally Also, as part of the newly-expanded occur would be detrimental to intelto several approach summer reading, professors in the University Writing lectual life on campus. If the themes Program plan to incorporate the text and ideas brought up in the summer reading book are relevant to a Writinto classroom discussions. Both of these efforts—extending ing 20 course, or any other course for the orientation aspect of the summer that matter, than by all means they reading program beyond discussions should be discussed. One of the sellwith potentially uninformed First- ing points about Writing 20, however, Year Advisory Counselors and seeking is the variety of themes offered, and the summer reading book is not to integrate the book throughout the going to fit seamlessly into all Writing year—will make summer reading more effective than it has been in the 20 courses. That said, having a common text past, but the summer reading prothat the entire University has read gram still lacks any perceivable purcould do a lot to foster discussion in a pose and needs to be thoughtfully renumber of areas—both academically order to have the desired vamped in and socially. The books should have impact on students. relevance to a number of subjects, One of the stated goals of the summer reading program is to give all of and professors and students should be able to pull the book into a lot of the first year students a “shared intellectual experience.” The hope is that different disciplines. The books should function as an important refthe students will have a common exerence that can be approached from perience in reading the book and develop a shared vocabulary. In theory, a number of different directions. The the freshmen will be able to interact books should inspire meaningful poon a deeper intellectual level because litical and social dialogue on campus. The University’s efforts to improve they have all read the same book this program, which has a lot of poto to Duke. prior coming If this idea is to have any merit, tential, are respectable. In future however, the program must be not be years, however, the administration should try to create a program with a limited to freshmen. Instead, all students should be encouraged to read farther-reaching impact for the entire the book. That way the entire campus University. Otherwise, summer reading contributes little to the intellectuwill have this shared experience instead of it being exclusive to one al environment on campus.

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Egypt—Ahh, the start of a past interactions with the Far East or the new school year. Like baseball’s Super Near East (Europe), it is an ongospring training, people report in ing, complicated web of events. Before Sept. 11, there was the Gulf hopefully decent physical shape, every team is still undefeated and the facilities War and the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beruit. Before that there was just look great. For freshmen, it is the excitement of the 1967 and 1973 wars between the beginning a new life at Duke—from their Arabs and the Israelis and British first collegiate class to their first colie- Colonial Iraq and the Ottomans and back and back and back until you reach the giate beer. For upperclassmen, it’s time to com- Moors and the holy lands and the Christian Crusades. pare summers with old There hasn’t always friends, get back in the been the same balance of saddle and, for some, a r CL I]ffpr i power> an d lt definitely chance to be that guy who Jesse OHuger Checkpoint Cairo hasn’t been always hands those freshmen jihadists and infidels. their first beers. Did you know when our Unfortunately, were mission in Iraq has taken quite a nasty Europeans struggling through their Dark in the Middle East the Israel-Palestine situation Ages, physicians turn, remains a mess (though check out the were performing eye surgery? Or that conference at Duke hosted by the Jews and Muslims had an unbelievably Palestine Solidarity Movement Oct. 15- different kind of relationship way back 17), Osama is still on the loose and the when? And that’s just the stuff on the surface. current state of affairs seems to be aiming the next generation of Arab and Muslim We’ll dig deeper to see if America can find peoples against the United States. And, of its way in Iraq, if democracy has a chance course, our election, perhaps the most of working in the Arab/Muslim world, if we crucial one we will participate in during can fix the Israelis’ and Palestinians’ probour lifetimes, looms in the balance come lems, if we can prove that the U.S. is better than what’s shown on Aljeezera and Arab November. Over the next several months, leading television—to see if we can remind the rest up to the election and eventually Duke of the world what makes America great. It’s final exams, this column will be about easy today to think the situation is hopewhat is going on the world, especially in less, but with any luck, it’s not. So that’s where this column is going. the Middle East. I say especially the this isn’t your cup of tea, then you can be here Middle East because I will on a If to the crossword, get back to unpackabroad flip program in Egypt. study I think one of the funny things about ing or grab a beer. (And if there’s there a freshmen the U.S. and the Middle East—if there are any laughs to be had—is that it wasn’t attached to that beer, well, that’s up to until Sept. 12, 2001 that Americans began you too.) Otherwise, see back here at this to really take notice to that part of the spot in a few days. world again. But it’s hardly the first interaction our Jesse Shuger-Colvin is a Trinity junior. His respective cultures have had. Like our column appears every other Wednesday. •

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we be beat pimpin \ smoking teas. become two decades later. Rather, the scope to recognize only the most readily The beats came of age at the end beat motivation emanated from a thirst attainable of goals. Intellectual curiosity and experimenof World War II; younger brothers for understanding and living beyond the and sisters of the men and women who knowledge of the mainstream served to tation were bred out of the souls ofyoung boys and girls in favor of a twisted brand had fought the war. Their generation facilitate their incessant questing. of consumer hedonism. This unflagging pursuit of possibilimissed out on the convenient definition and literconflict. ties resulted an era of artistic in In a time of historic wealth, in a time afforded by great of unprecedented access to media and While their older friends and relatives ary achievement unparalleled in the lattechnology, this new generation learned flocked to the suburbs to, build the ter 20th century. Half a century later, to be happy with what it was given: the American Dream and the Baby beyond the Baby Boomers hottest clothes, the real-est television, the perpetrate and a short hop, skip and hippest music, all created by and in servBoom, the men and jump past Generation X, a ice of an establishment bent on continuwomen of the beat gennew generation comes ing the cycle of spending. eration found theminto its own. So pervasive was the establishment selves alone, without Like the beats, this that even alternative lifestyles became name or direction, in generation had no glori- fashion industries. In this parliament of cities across America ous military charge. It was whores, it seemed there was no room left They became social Andrew Waugll raised in a time of cultural for creation, experimentation and pasdrifters, ebbing and flowturmoil, when the X sion. Would even the beats have survived across the The ing country, Widening Gyre Generation fought their such an onslaught? Probably not. constantly struggling to The beat sentimentality was founded Hippie-turned-establishcreate a unique identity. ment overlords on an ability to live below and beyond discover an orgiastic explosion in Their searches led them to society, to live around it. such core beat concepts as jazz, writing of corporatism and technology. As computers got faster and businessYet the nature of modern technology and recreational drug use. Forming into efficient, became the Gen-X and directed marketing leaves no shadmore idiosyncratic hipster collectives, urban es rebellion folded into the mainows for the wanna-beat to hide and develdiscover alternate vision gradually beats came to an op into a proper dope-smoking, mindof America cast in shadows in the back of stream and created the glossy pop-culture sheen which has dominated the expanding hipster. seedy bars and smoked out music halls. No, in order to turn the tide of 21st country ever since. Theirs was a raw assault on the capacRaised this atmosin century society, the hipster of today must human the boundpost-apocalyptic ities of knowledge, phere, the new generation had neither exist in and be a master of the very aries of human sensation and the convenan identity nor a desire to forge one. Its whoredom he wishes to undermine. tions of human experience. Their exploShe must be a tech-wise street hustler hopes and dreams were closely moniration was not a reaction against estabtored and shortened who in systematically plays all the games and sees all the culture would lishment, as hippie

guiles of the man. She must be a pimp. But being a pimp in today’s society is not enough. Pimping puts the potential hipster so deeply into the mainstream that without a guiding light, she might never know when it’s time to smack a ho, or when it’s time to lay back and smoke a blunt. Enter the beat pimp: a person who knows the ins and outs of popular culture, but is at once informed by the relentless experimentation of beat culture. The pimp half knows how to work the world, and the beat half knows how to break it down. Where the beat has ideas, the pimp has implementations. Together in one person these forces can flip the script on the establishment and use modern technology and opportunity to both create and disseminate the beat pimpin’ ideals to the masses. The beat ideal will be more popular, and the pimp ideal more powerful, than would be possible for either one alone. As the ideal slowly takes hold, those coming of age in the 21st century will learn of a hedonism used not to enslave people, but to set them free. They will learn of a popular culture born not of efficiency, but of creation. And they will learn to know themselves as the beat pimpin’ generation. Andrew Waugh is a Trinity senior. His column appears every other Wednesday.

George W. Bush, pagan

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mind of George W. Bush, for all its alleged sim-

plicity, has proven an exceedingly difficult nut to crack. Indeed, we can look at recent political discourse as an extended, inconclusive argument about the

Presidential character: Does Bush act from obliviousness or certitude? corruption or conviction? misunderestimation or strategery? And so on, with little consensus in sight. May I suggest that instead of using a politicized narrative to make sense of the prime mover’s behavior, we take the opposite tack? Let us, contrariwise, use the president’s observable behavior to interpret his character from scratch. When we do so, we come to a most surprising conclusion: it appears that President Bush draws the better part of his inspiration not from conservative philosophy or the Christian religion, but rather from the heathen kings of old. Using as our source-texts the great epics of the ancient world, let’s explore several key concordances as evidence of the presidential pagan propensity,

Pious Aeneas, whom double cares attend For his unburied soldiers and his friend, Yet first to Heav’n perform’d a victor’s vows: He bar’d an ancient oak of all her boughs; Then on a rising ground the trunk he placed, Which with the spoils of his dead foe he grac’d The coat of arms by proud Mezentius worn, Now on a naked snag in triumph borne, Was hung on high, and gliter’d from afar, A trophy sacred to the God ofWar.” -Vergil, Aeneid, Book XI, 11. 1-12 “So, needless to say, our people were thrilled to have captured [Saddam]. And in his lap were several weapons. One of them was a pistol, and they brought it to me. It’s now the property of the U.S. govern-

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ment.” 2004

—Bush, press conference, June 10,

3. Ritualized boasting “’Grendel knows he need never be in dread 1. Blood-vengeance Of your blade making a mizzle of his “Tve lost the will to live Goodman Rob blood To take my stand in the world of men—Lobster Sticks to Magnet Or of vengeance arriving ever from unless, this quarter Before all else, Hektor’s battered From the Victory-Shieldings, the shoulderers of down by my spear And gasps away his life, the blood-price for Patroklos, the spear. He knows he can trample down you Danes Menoetius’s gallant son he’s killed and stripped!... To his heart’s content, humiliate and murder Let me seize great glory!— Without fear of reprisal. But he will find me differAnd drive some woman of Troy or deep-breasted Dardan ent To claw with both hands at her tender cheeks and wipe I will show him how Geats shape to kill away In the heat of battle. Then whoever wants to the sobs come from her Her burning tears as choking May go bravely to his mead, when morning light, throat!”’ Scarfed in sun-dazzle, shines forth from the south —Homer, Iliad, Book XVIII, 11. 105-109, 144-147 And brings another daybreak to the world.’” —Beowulf, 11. 595-606 “He tried to kill my dad.” —President Bush on Saddam Hussein, press confer“There are some who feel like that if they attack us that ence, Sept. 26, 2002 we may decide to leave [lraq] prematurely. They don’t understand what they’re talking about, if that’s the case. 2. Display of captured war-trophies Let me finish. There are some who feel like that, you “Scarce had the rosy Morning rais’d her head know, the conditions are such that they can attack us Above the waters, and left her wat’ry bed; —

there. My answer is, ‘bring ‘em on.’ We got the force necessary.... We got plenty tough force there right now.” —Bush, press conference, July 1, 2003

4. Thanes recognized with lavish gifts “The battle-famed king, bulwark of his earls, Ordered a gold-chased heirloom of Hrethel’s To be brought in; it was the best example Of a gem-studded sword in the Geat treasury. This he laid on Beowulf s lap And then rewarded him with land as well, Seven thousand hides, and a hall and a throne.” —Beowulf, 11. 2190-2196 “As it turns out, many of the [top fundraisers] who have served enthusiastically in the Bush administration have done so in particularly choice locations, including Austria, Belgium, Belize, France, Ireland, Norway and Portugal.... For example, Bush appointed longtime family friend (and $lOO,OOO inaugural contributor) William S. Parish to be ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, a post whose perks include a stately residence that sits on 12.5 acres of prime London parkland.” —The Center for Public Integrity, The Buying of the President 2004, pp. 236-237

I was lucky enough to represent The Chronicle at the August 3 White House press briefing, where I had the opportunity to discuss my research with Press Secretary Scott McClellan. ROB: Scott, with the President’s national-security and polling numbers in decline, is there any chance we might see the Bush campaign trying to incorporate some sort of “warrior-chieftain” angle in coming weeks? A national chariot tour, presidential decapitations of enemy combatants, joint appearances with Governor Schwarzenegger, things of that nature? MCCLELLAN: Fie on your impiety—10, the bloodguilt is upon you! Surely you must sacrifice a fat heifer to Olympian Zeus in expiation! Other than that, I have no comment at this time. war-on-terror

Rob Goodman is a Trinity senior. His column appears every other Wednesday.

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