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The weekend began with a rumor. Then it became a declaration of the University’s commitment to academic freedom. Now campus groups are working to ensure that for three days this fall, Duke will become the world’s center of discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dozens of experts and celebrity speakers on the conflict are expected to descend upon campus Oct. 15 to 17, when the Palestine Solidarity Movement will hold its controversial annual conference at the University. Jewish groups plan to sponsor a similar number of major speakers and scholars during the weekend. Although PSM’s schedule for the weekend will not be available for several weeks, many people expect the slate of speakers to be incendiary. Jewish groups are countering with a series of events that will set forth a strong pro-Israel position during the conference. Previous conferences have drawn large crowds of protesters, but organizers from Hiwar, the Duke student group sponsoring the event, have assured the community that the conference will be an opportunity for discussion. PSM declares that its primary goal is discovering non-violent means to end the conflict between Israeli and Palestinian people. But pro-Israeli and Jewish groups have accused PSM of tacidy condoning terrorist activity and promoting antiSemitism, and many people have voiced fears that all the discussion that weekend will focus on solutions that marginalize Israeli people. Jewish groups maintain that their goal is to make information

easy. Your burden has not been light, yet you have displayed the peace that surpasses all understanding. We salute you.” Dole, a native of Salisbury, N.C., who returned to her home state and won election to the Senate two years ago, also touched on the legacy of party icons Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, linking their accomplishments to those ofBush. She didn’t mention her Senate counterpart from

For now, late-night trips to the bathroom will still require fumbling around in the dark for a bathroom key. Early this August, all DukeCard readers that were installed last summer to give students access to the bathrooms in Kilgo Quadrangle and Southgate Dormitory were removed due. to technological difficulties in finding a feasible and functioning system. The pilot program, suggested by Campus Council in Spring 2003, was set to begin last fall as soon as the bathroom readers were ready to operate on a new wireless system that would enable the readers to connect to the University network without being hard-wired. A working wireless system, however, proved difficult to implement, and DukeCard access to the bathrooms was delayed throughout the 2003-2004 academic year. “We were not able to find a product that was satisfactory,” said Fidelia Thomason, director ofresidence hall operations. ‘This is a new way of using wireless readers and this kind of wireless technology has not been around for a long time.” Residence Life and Housing Services officials have not given up on DukeCardbathroom access and are planning a meeting in September to discuss alternative wireless system options from other vendors. Security concerns —heightened after reported sexual assaults in the Wannamaker and Randolph dormitories in 2002 —have been the driving force behind the push for bathroom DukeCard access. In theory, students would no longer need to prop open lavatory doors or jam locks if they had DukeCard access,

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N.C native Elizabeth Dole addresses the Republican National Convention in New York City Tuesday night.

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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth NEW YORK Dole defended conservative values and saluted President George W. Bush for his leadership in a time of crisis during a prime-time speech Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. ‘The presidency tests all who have been there,” said Dole, R-N.C., who briefly challenged Bush for the Republican nomination for president four years ago. “It has tested you, sir. Your road has not been

N.C SAT scores, participation rate hit high marks by

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The state average SAT score for the 2003-04 school year rose to 1006 points—a record high for North Carolina. The boost comes a year after the state passed the 1,000point mark for the first time, Governor Mike Easley and State Superintendent Mike Ward announced Tuesday at a news conference at Enloe High School in Raleigh. The average SAT score for students in Durham Public Schools has also risen, reaching 1001 points. For the first time since 1991, the average DPS score has increased for three consecutive years. In addition, more North Carolina students are taking the test than in previous years, up to 70 percent from 68 percent last year. Durham had the third highest participation rate in the state, at 78.1 percent. Although the national participation rate remains at 48 percent, the state’s av-

erage SAT score falls short of the national average of 1026, according to the governor’s release*Tuesday. ‘The bottom line is more North Carolina students are taking the college entry test, and more are excelling each year,” Easley said in the release. Ann McArthur, teacher advisor to the governor, said the high North Carolina participation rate illustrates the growing interest that students have in taking the SAT and benefits from the opportunities the exam provides. ‘We are especially proud of the fact that DPS continues to have one of the state’s highest participation rates, a strong indicator of our students’ plans to investigate postsecondary educational opportunities,” DPS Superintendent Ann Denlinger said in another release published Tuesday regarding Durham. SEE SCORES ON PAGE 10

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Palestinian suiBEERSHEVA, Israel cide bombers blew up two buses in the Israeli desert city Tuesday, killing 16 passengers and wounding over 80 in an attack that ended a six-month lull in violence. The buses exploded into flames just seconds apart and about 100 yards away from each other in the center ofBeersheva—the deadliest suicide strike in nearly a year. Israel had attributed the lull to its separation barrier, arrest sweeps and widespread network of informers. The Hamas militant group claimed responsibility, issuing a leaflet in Hebron the closest Palestinian city to Beersheva—saying it was avenging Israel’s assassinations of two ofits leaders earlier this year. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with his security advisers to plan a response, expected to include a military operation in Hebron. Just hours before the attack, Sharon presented the Likud Party with the most detailed dmetable yet for Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Despite the bombings, Sharon promised to push forward with the Gaza pullout, while insisting Israel would keep fighting terrorism “with all its might.” “This [the attack] has no connection to disengagement,” he said, referring to his program to separate Israel from the Palestinians. In Washington, Secretary of State Colin

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A gruesome video posted on a Web site purported to show militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency. If confirmed, it would raise the number of foreign workers known to have been slain by extremists to at least 22 in a terror campaign aimed at forcing foreign troops and contract workers out of the country.

Moscow bomber kills 10 A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station Tuesday night, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 50 in the second terrorist attack to hit Russia in a week, officials said. Seven days earlier, almost to the hour, two Russian jetliners crashed within minutes of each other in what officials determined were terrorist bombings. All 90 people aboard were killed. A militant Muslim web site published a statement late Tuesday claiming responsibility for the subway bombing on behalf of the "Islambouli Brigades," a group that also claimed it caused the jetliner crashes with suicide teams in retribution for Russia's war with Islamic rebels in Chechnya.

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An injured man is carried away after bomb blasts tore through two commuter buses in Beersheva Tuesday. Powell condemned the bombings and offered condolences to Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, and State Department Spokesperson Richard Boucher said Hamas must be put out of business. White House Spokesperson Scott McClellan said President George W. Bush was briefed. ‘There’s simply no justification for the killing of innocenrcivilians,” he said. Israeli officials said the bombings proved the need for the barrier now under construction between Israel and the West Bank. The section between Hebron and Beersheva has riot been built.

“We should go ahead speedily now and finish construction of this fence,” government spokesperson Avi Pazner told The Associated Press. The barrier, which Israel said is necessary to keep out suicide bombers, has been widely condemned internationally because of the hardships it imposes on Palestinians. Palestinian analyst Hani al-Masri agreed with the Israeli assessment of the lull in suicide attacks. He told AP that it resulted from Israel’s assassination ofHamas leaders and the difficulties of infiltrating posed by the barrier.

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O'Neill takes on DUHS planning Upperclass by

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As Duke University Health System benew year of health care, research and education, Molly O’Neill, chief strategic planning officer, vice president for business development and vice chancellor for Medical Center integrated planning, will work to streamline the future vision of DUHS by combining roles previously held by several people. O’Neill is the first administrator to be hired by Dr. Victor Dzau, who assumed the role of chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of DUHS in July. In her newly created position, O’Neill will focus on strategic planning, business development and network strategy for all components of the Health System. O’Neill began her' duties June 28 and has been working to understand the breadth and depth of the medical facilities as well as the culture of the local community. “Duke has a rich history to build on,” she said. “We need to improve the synergy of all the different pieces and create a culture that will foster innovation.” O’Neill’s responsibilities had previously been fulfilled by approximately six other officials, but the administration felt it was time for DUHS to create a more unified vision for the future. “With an organization as large and varied as Duke, you really need structure in the planning process,” said William Donelan, chief operating officer of DUHS and vice chancellor for health affairs. “We have lots of ideas, but they need to be evaluated in the context of an overarching strategic director.” The last strategic plan for DUHS was completed in 2000, and Donelan noted that there has been a need for someone with O’Neill’s strengths and capabilities for years—and O’Neill is ready for the job. “We need to make sure all the best pieces fit together in the best way possible—especially since there are limitless opportunities here at Duke,” she said. O’Neill will be a key figure in designing the new strategic planning initiative DUHS will launch this October. In the initiative she hopes to include improving ambulatory care and community hospitals and extending

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When senior Ashley Carlson has to make an important decision in life, who does she turn to for advice? Her grandmother—“Nana,” for short—the “backbone” of her family. “She was also my role model,” Carlson said. “She shared with me personal stories, and she always encouraged me to go to college to get an education so that I could support myself no matter what happened in my life. She showed me that it is possible to have it all.” After this month, Carlson might be able to turn around her invaluable relationship with “Nana” and invest her energy in the lives of younger women. Carlson is one of 60 upperclass women who applied to be one of 18 Giles Mentors for first-year women. These women will comprise the inaugural class of the Alice M. Baldwin Scholars Program, a major product of the Women’s Initiative. The future Baldwin Scholars, who are also in the middle of their own application process, will pioneer the University’s latest attempt at addressing some of the social and academic pressures facing undergraduate women revealed by the Initiative. The Scholars will enroll in an interdisciplinary seminar their freshman year and will live together on West Campus during their sophomore year as part of the program. For their part, the Giles Mentors—named after Mary, Persis and Teresa Giles, the first women to graduate from Duke—will each be matched with one of

Molly O'Neill is the first administrative hire under Dr. VictorDzau's tenure as chancellor for health affairs. like Medicare and Medicaid Duke’s influence to other facilities, ‘There is an insatiable need for capital She also aims to expand outpatient services such as diagnostic testing and here,” she said. “We need to ensure the cancer treatment, which she hopes will best technology for patients to keep up with the technology arms race.” encourage patients to choose Duke UniO’Neill said she hopes to comprehend versity Hospital instead of competing medical facilities. “It is important not to the basic sciences in more detail while addilute the brand but ensure Duke-level justing to her new role, and her energy and past experiences will certainly aid her. care throughout our neighboring counBefore arriving at Duke, she spent six ties,” she said. O’Neill wants to establish a network of years working in Boston for Partners cancer and heart treatment centers with Healthcare System, which includes Massahospitals in elsewhere in North Carolina chusetts General Hospital and Brigham and in other states, including Virginia and and Women’s Hospital. Florida. This will require extensive finan“Molly is a very creative thinker who cial planning, since DUHS would support has the capacity to envision the future,” these facilities. Another hurdle that said Peter Markell, vice president for fiO’Neill may face is potential restrictions nance at Partners. “She is very good at unon funding distributed by the National Inderstanding the physicians’ perspectives, stitutes of Health, as the government may needs and how to build collaborations tighten support for health care programs among physicians.”

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from behind the thick lenses ofhis trademark over-sized glasses, Senate candidate Erskine Bowles admitted he had never planned to get into politics. “I wasn’t an outgoing enough person,” the former investment banker said with a laugh, reflecting on his younger years after speaking at a campaign rally Monday at North Carolina Central University. Now, at the age of 59, the Greensboro native is promoting a more gregarious image in his campaign against Republican Rep. Richard Burr to claim the U.S. Senate seat currently held by fellow Democrat and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards. Bowles reluctantly began his political career in 1992, when former President Bill Clinton appointed him chair of the Small Business Association. He later served as Clinton’s chief of staff, winning praise in 1996 for his role in balancing the budget. “Erskine was a key player, not someone there by virtue of his title but by virtue of his management approach to things, hands-on [and] personally involved,” said South Carolina Rep. John Spratt, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee at that time.

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After 10 years in the House, Rep. Richard Burr, right, hopes to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. sentadve, Burr came to Congress in 1995 with the goal of reducing federal taxes after a 17-year sales management career. His strong support for Republican initiadves rapidly helped him earn the admiration of his party’s leadership. “He’s a quick study,” said Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C. “I noticed

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Peering out from behind the thick lenses of his trademark over-sized glasses, Senate candidate Erskine Bowles admitted he had never planned to get into politics. “I wasn’t an outgoing enough person,” the former investment banker said with a laugh, reflecting on his younger years after speaking at a campaign rally Monday at North Carolina Central University. Now, at the age of 59, the Greensboro native is promoting a more gregarious image in his campaign against Republican Rep. Richard Burr to claim the U.S. Senate seat currently held by fellow Democrat and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards. Bowles reluctantly began his political career in 1992, when former President Bill Clinton appointed him chair of the Small Business Association. He later served as Clinton’s chief of staff, winning praise in 1996 for his role in balancing the budget. “Erskine was a key player, not someone there by virtue of his title but by virtue of his management approach to things, hands-on [and] personally involved,” said South Carolina Rep. John Spratt, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee at that time.

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CONFERENCE from page 1 from the pro-Israeli side readily available. “We’re really trying to give students an unbiased forum,” said Rachael Solomon, president of the student board of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life. Jewish student groups have joined with the staff of the Freeman Center to create the JointIsrael Initiative. The coalition aims to expose the campus community to views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that Isr rael-identified groups fear might not get enough emphasis at the PSM conference. Other groups, with political views ranging from the far left to the far right, may join the technically non-religious Joint Israel Initiative, but at the moment only the staff of the Freeman Center, the student board of the Freeman Center and Duke Friends of Israel have signed on. The Duke Conservative Union, traditionally an active pro-Israeli group, has not yet determined how or whether its members will protest the event and its ideals. Behind the scenes Officials at the Freeman Center began to brace for the conference early in the summer when someone confidentially forwarded an e-mail that mentioned Duke as the site for the next annual PSM gathering. Students and staff members tried to confirm the rumor for weeks but could not do so undl newspapers reported that PSM planned to arrive at Duke. While student leaders from Hiwar worked with University administrators to ensure the safety of participants and the rest of campus, the Jewish community sprang into action. Within hours of the initial publicity for the conference, the Freeman Center posted a statement on its website explaining its view of the conference as a “source of anti-Semitic arid antiIsraeli sentiment.” Despite those objections, the Freeman Center encouraged students to use the conference to explain the IsraeliPalestinian conflict rather than protest the meeting. “Unfortunately, attempts to block the conference not only are unlikely to succeed, but also will draw more attention to the conference and its messages,” the notice read. “We do not want to be seen as opposing freedom of speech or exercising some kind of power over the university administration.”

A week later, Duke accepted the conferafter it had been sufficiently reassured that accusations alleging PSM’s connections to terrorist groups were unfounded. Jewish campus leaders immediately updated the official statement, reiterating the original position that free speech is important even though they found the conference’s content objectionable. ence,

This official “no comment” may prevent groups at Duke from directly discussing political issues with PSM members. Many Israel supporters claim PSM’s refusal to condemn violence makes the group complicit, and they see support for a twostate solution as a mutual recognition of existence for Palestine and Israel. “If one side comes into the discussion not even recognizing the other’s right to exist, then you can’t even have a discussion,” said Jonathan Gerstl, executive director ofJewish life.

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During the weekend The Joint Israel Initiative is hoping its plan of weekend events will spur discussion among a greater array of students Throughout the year All year long, the Freeman Center’s and prevent many people from direcdy programs will include a larger-than-usual protesting the conference. With as many as 1,000 people expectslate of big-name Jewish and pro-Israeli ed to descend on Duke during the Octospeakers. Several academic departments ber weekend, campus Jewish groups want will also host speakers with expertise in the Middle Eastern conflict. to keep the students who object to PSM “More high-profile speakers are willing constructively occupied. “We want to give students an opportunity to engage with to come because of the high profile of the conference,” Yoffie said. Jewish groups on each other in dialogue and not be participating in protests,” said junior Adam campus have also received funding from national and international pro-Israeli and Yoffie, president of Duke Friends of Israel. ‘We don’t want to create chaos and religious groups such as Hadassah and Hillel International, he added. tension between the two groups.” stuunavoidable, be The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is politiBut tension may dents said. The Joint Israel Initiative, cal, centered on land and sovereignty, but which was created solely to deal with the nearly everyone with a strong opinion about the politics adPSM conference, mits the quesUons are expressed a desire to talk with any “We don’t want to create intertwined with religion. The land is congroup. But the inchaos and tension between sidered holy to folvitation is continlowers of both Islam gent on the agreethe two groups.” and Judaism, and Isment of two Adam Yoffie rael is frequently conditions; “We thought of worldwide condemn the as a Jewish state murder of inno“The conflict is in some measure relicent civilians” and “We support the need gious in nature,” said Rabbi John Friedfor a two-state solution with safe and seman of Judea Reform Congregation in cure boundaries.” Durham. “I don’t see how you could sepSolomon and Yoffie said they presented the conditions to Rann Bar-on, local arate the two.” To that extent, some of the most vocal spokesperson for PSM and a graduate student in mathematics, but he declined to objections to PSM conferences in previous years have come from Jewish organisign a commitment to them. Bar-on said that he had not seen the zations—both on and off the hosting camagreement, but that PSM would not sign puses. Individuals from the Boston Israel such an agreement because the group Action Community, a predominately Jewdoes not endorse any particular solution ish group, started a petition to prevent the for the conflict, nor does it condemn any conference from coming to Duke. President Richard Brodhead will visit actions of Israeli or Palestinian people. local synagogues in early September to ex“As a solidarity movement, we do not consider it our place to dictate the ways by plain Duke’s freedom of speech policy and which Palestinians resist the occupation,” quell the fears ofmany local Jewish people, he said. “However, only actions that are who Friedman said are still “uneasy” about having the conference at the University. non-violent are endorsed.”

DUKECARD from page 1 Thomason said. The University would also have a record of all the students who entered the bathroom if needed. The unusable card readers were removed because they presented a false image to students, leading them to think that DukeCard access was available, said Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean ofresidence life. “We got criticized for installing them and then never having them operable,” he said. “The criticism was fair, we didn’t have the service available to have them installed in the first place.” Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli remains adamant about the need for allowing students access to bathrooms through their Duke Cards, calling on the administration to pursue different vendors with alternative solutions. “Bottom line, there is no future for bathroom keys, in the sense that every time someone loses their keys they are charged an exorbitant fine and everyone else in the dorm is also inconvenienced,” he said. There are two options other than the wireless system. First, the bathroom’s readers could be hard-wired back to the central system, like all other DukeCard readers. The financial aspects of this alternative render it impractical, as it would cost $1.2 million to install the system, Thomason said. Second, the card readers could run on an off-line system similar to the systems found in hotels. This alternative, while cheaper, could compromise the safety of students if a DukeCard were lost. Regardless of the system’s details, students are clamoring for bathroom card access for many reasons. “Duke needs to take some action or implement some measures to protect students in the dorm,” said senior Julie Hutchinson, who has written opinion pieces for The News & Observer of Raleigh and spoken on National Public Radio about the subject ofbathroom security. “Card readers both restrict access and, if there is a problem, provide a log of who accessed the bathroom. They have them on all the dorms anyway.” Sophomore Arthur Fischer-Zernin sees the issue as one of convenience. “It’s such a huge ordeal every time you needed to go to the bathroom,” he said. “It doesn’t seem necessary.”

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BOWLES from page 4 Bowles’ experience in Washington helped him realize his own political potential. “I thought, ‘Gosh! What I’m good at is bringing people together and finding common sense solutions,”’ he said. Bowles first ran for office in 2002, vying for the Senate seat left vacant after Republican Jesse Helms announced his retirement. Criticized for his often aloof and impatient persona on the campaign trail, financial background and personal campaign spending—he invested over $6 million of his own wealth in the race —Bowles lost to Republi-

can Elizabeth Dole by 9 percent. Since then, Bowles has honed his campaigning skills. “He’s more seasoned now with regards to the political process, and he’s better known than he was at that time,” said Barbara Allen, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. Embracing supporters and signing autographs at the rally Monday, Bowles appeared the epitome of a political veteran, despite letting the occasional “gosh” or “golly” slip into his speech. In addition to his newly-crafted campaign style, Bowles has also created a detailed platform he hopes will launch him to victory in November. His top priorities include offering incentives for businesses

to keep their facilities within the US, providing health care for children and the unemployed, increasing the SBA budget and

directing more federal funds towards early childhood education programs. When it comes to voting on these issues, Bowles said he will not be a yes-man to any administration, Republican or Democrat. “I don’t think you need a rubber stamp... for either party,” he explained. “What you need is a strong independent voice that will stand up for North Carolina and try to do the things that can really make a difference.” Republican adversaries in North Carolina are criticizing Bowles’ past financial career, questioning his role in a law suit filed and won by the state of Connecticut

deep-seated values were the main source ofhis political decisions. “Richard just wants to do the right thing,” Ashworth said. “People have different opinions about Committee on Intelligence, but he has devoted much of how to get things done, whether you go through big government [or] big business, but he has the wellhis tenure to another pressing national issue. “He’s pretty much carved his niche in the area of health being of his electorate at heart.” Democratic opponent Erskine Bowles has also criticare,” said Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., who entered the House the same year as Burr. “He has a strong desire to try cized Burr for “voting with the [George W. Bush] administration 95 percent of the time” or lacking an “indeand reduce the health costs of the American people.” the initial of the “Medicare Rx pendent voice.” Burr, however, said he does not simply sponsor Burr was 2000” bill, which, among other items, offers Medicare vote along party lines, citing the differing opinions he beneficiaries a choice of drug insurance plans. He has and the administration had on the initial structure of the also signed a pledge in support of legislation that limits newest Medicare bill. “We have differed on legislation, and I haven’t been non-economic medical liability awards and voted shy to vote against it or work against the re-importation of it,” he said. against prescription drugs. Bowles is currently topDespite Burr’s legislative ef“[Richard Burr] hasn’t put thn ping Burr by 10 percentage forts in areas such as health points in statewide polls. care, much of the recent media interests of North Carolina beHeye, however, attributed attention surrounding the conthese results to the media fore the interests of some of his gressman has focused on his and electorate’s current campaign finances. Burr has rebiggest contributors:” focus on the presidential ceived more than $1.9 million campaign and party convenBarbara Allen in political action committee tions as opposed to the Burrcontributions, making him the Bowles battle. top recipient of special interest ‘The more attention peomonies in the House Some Democratic critics say this has and will continple pay, the more [Burr] will increase in the polls,” Heye ue to influence his decisions in Washington, pointing said, confident that the race will receive more coverage in the coming weeks. to votes Burr has cast for legislation that favors pharmaHeye also pointed out that in the 1998 senatorial race, ceutical companies and other large business groups current vice-presidential nominee John Edwards came who support him. “He hasn’t put the interests of North Carolina before back to win after being down 15 points in the late summer. Friends and supporters are optimistic about the final the interests of some of his biggest contributors,” said Barbara Allen, chair of the North Carolina Democratic party. stretch of Burr’s campaign, asserting that his amiable, dedicated appeal will propel him to a win in November. Campaign spokesperson Doug Heye denied this accu“He’s a very gregarious fellow, easy to be with [and] sation, calling Burr’s voting record “clear and consistent.” Ashworth also deand friend Steve good company,” Coble said. ‘That’s the reason he’s an efNeighbor college fended Burr, emphasizing that the Congressman’s fective candidate.”

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against his former investment firm, Forstmann Little & Co., for a $lOO million loss in state workers’ pension funds. Burr supporters have also accused Bowles of “flip-flopping” on issues. “If you look at Erskine’s record, he’s tended to be on every side of an issue that you can be on,” said Doug Heye, a spokesperson for the Burr campaign. Despite these criticisms, Bowles remains a comfortable 10 percent above Burr in the polls. Encouraged by this gap, supporters are confident he will soon prove a positive addition to the Senate. “He’s a very kind, highly intelligent man,” Allen said. “He would do the state of North Carolina so proud.”

BALDWIN from page 3 the first-time scholars and help ease the transition for the select group of first-year women. “We hope they can give back to the Duke community through their wisdom and experience,” said Colleen Scott, assistant director of the Baldwin Scholars program, who is still accepting mentor applications over the course of the next two weeks. Another Giles applicant, senior Mary Ellison Baars, said that there is no better feeling than knowing that there is someone out there who cares about you. She put her name in the hat because she wanted to reach out to a group of talented women, much like she does as vice president of the Panhellenic Association. “From my gymnastics coaches to my teachers, these people have influenced my decisions, my goals and my confidence all in a very positive way,” Baars said of the mentors in her life. “I consult them on many of the decisions that I have made while in college, my decisions to take certain classes and join ROTC.” Junior Liza McClellan, who has applied to be a mentor, said that females on campus deal with very different issues. The select body of Baldwin Scholars, who choose to live and work with other women, deserve to be advised by their own select group of women, she said. “For instance, a female mentor could be there to help guide first-years through problems such as dating scenarios that males never encounter,” she said. “In addition, the first-year may be more open with a female mentor, as she may be self-conscious around a male mentor.” Freshman Serwaah Agyapong, who has applied to the Baldwin Scholars program, loves the idea that the mentors would be upperclass women, as opposed to first-year advisory counselors, a program open to a legion of upperclassmen and upperclass women. “I think in many situations females are intimidated by the presence of men,” Agyapong said. “With just females, that stigma or distraction will be removed.”

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Boozer’s dirty trick Carlos Boozer has always been an exception to the rule. Unlike many other former Duke basketball players, Boozer has overachieved in the NBA, becoming an all-star caliber player in only his second season. Overlooked until the second round of the 2002 NBA draft, Boozer finished fifth in the league in rebounding last year while also knocking in 15.5 points a game for the Cleveland Cavaliers. But Boozer seems to be different from Duke NBA players off the court, as well. Although Christian Laettner has failed NBA drug tests and Grant Hill left the Detroit Pistons in the prime of his career for no good reason, former Blue Devils, for the most part, have shown the type of character they demonstrated in Durham. Uncormpted by fame and millions of dollars, Mike Krzyzewski’s former players have been known for their community service and commitment to charity rather than their propensity for criminal charges and greed. Carlos Boozer's behavior this summer, however, can be described as nothing less than reprehensible in his business dealings with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The drama began when Boozer decided he deserved more money. Because he was only a secondround draft pick, the Cleveland Cavaliers could only pay Boozer several hundred thousand dollars a year under the NBA’s rookie salary cap rules. According to Cavaliers owner Gordon Gund, Boozer first approached the ownership about his desires for financial security and to remain in Cleveland for the duration of his career in December 2003. “[Boozer] and his agent made it very clear that if we respected them, and provided the security he was looking to gain, he would respect us,” wrote Gund in a letter to Cavalier fans dated July 14, 2004. “Given his record on the court, with the franchise, and in the community, we had every reason to believe his commitment.” This summer, Gund and the Cavaliers’ general manager, Jim Paxson, gave Boozer two options. The first was to play out his original contract, which ended at the conclusion of the 2005 season. After the season, Cleveland would then let Boozer test the free agent market while also offering the former Duke center the SEE BOOZER ON PAGE 13

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By the end of today’s men’s soccer team’s 7 p.m. season opener against Emory & Henry at Koskinen Stadium, head coach John Rennie hopes to have learned much more about his team. After playing to draws in two exhibition games, the coach and his team are excited for the start of the season and the chance to improve on last year’s 8-10-1 mark. ‘The opening game is for real, it counts and there’s going to be some nervousness,” Rennie said. “We’re going to learn a lot about our team... who can play under the pressure of a real college game, who’s ready to make the adjustment to the quicker pace the higher tempo, playing against older stronger players. Some guys are doing quite well, but it hasn’t been for real, so this is the first time it counts.”

Although Rennie hopes to learn about his team, Duke has not spent much time preparing specifically for its Division 111 opponent. The Wasps finished last in their conference in 2003 with a 1-14-2 record, and the Blue Devil players believe they will have no problem defeating their less-talented opponent. “We don’t know much about Emory & Henry and we’re going to try to keep it that way,” said goalkeeper Justin Trowbridge, one of three senior team captains. “We’re just going to go out and play our game,and we’re confident in our game.” Rennie, however, said Emory & Henry may pose more of a problem than his team is anticipating. Emory & Henry’s slow-down style of play may give Duke fits, as it did to Division I Appalachian State in SEE SOCCER ON PAGE 16

The cross country teams will kickoff their season tomorrow with a small meet on Wake Forest’s wooded course in Winston-Salem. Today is the first day the NCAA allows cross country teams to compete and the Blue Devils will take advantage of the opportunity, racing against Wake Forest and High Point in an informal meet. “This is a chance for three local schools to get together and have a little bit of competition at the beginning of the season,” men’s head coach Norm Ogilvie said. The meet’s format is a four-stage relay in which a pair of runners alternate 3.5-kilometer segments to reach the 14-kilometer finish line. Although the Blue Devils have not raced using this unique format in the past, it should ease the transition for the freshmen, who were used to running shorter distances in high school competition. The Blue Devils open their official season with a typical 8kilometer race Sept. 11 at the Georgetown Invitational. For the men’s team, a mix of upperclassmen and underclassmen will assume leading roles. The top pairing, however, will be two experienced seniors, Nick Schnieder and Michael Hatch. Pairing number two represents the young talent on the team with sophomore Keith Kreiger and highlytouted freshman Chris Spooner. SEE X-COUNTRY ON PAGE 16

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quiet in Durham, 7,014 fans packed into Durham Bulls Athletic Park to see the final regular-season home game and made plenty of noise. But the Bulls’ bats could not match the din of the crowd, as Durham fell to Richmond 3-2. Despite the loss, with six games left in their season the Bulls (74-64) did not lose any ground in the RICHMOND 3 wild card race. In the winning DURHAM 2 series, the Braves (74-58) stretched their division lead over the Durham to three games. ‘That’s playoff baseball,” Braves manager Pat Kelly said. These are probably the two best teams in the league. We saw three outstanding games in this series and we were fortunate to walk away with two of them.” The Bulls had their chances, especially early in the game, but the Braves got on the board first. In the fourth inning center fielder Ryan Langerhans hit a solo shot to deep right, his 18th home run of the season. Richmond continued to put the pressure on Durham starter Doug Waechter, a Tampa Bay Devil Ray pitching in a rehab start. The next three runners reached base on two hard-hit singles and a walk. And with the bases loaded, right fielder Damon Hollins hit a sacrifice fly to the wall in right, knocking in Luis Lopez for the second run. After fouling off numerous pitches, the next batter, J.C. Boscan, blooped an RBI single in front of Bulls center fielder Joey

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Gomes led off the inning with a double and advanced to third on Paul Hoover’s broken-bat single. The Bulls scored their second run,, pulling within one, on a weak RBI groundout by catcher Keith Osik that scored Gomes. But this was the end of the scoring for Durham, The Braves bullpen shut down the Bulls over the final three innings, preventing any Durham runner from getting

past second base. Durham’s best opportunity came in the seventh with the tying run on second and one out, with the heart of the lineup coming up. Diaz and Cummings, however, both struck out swinging against Braves reliever Kevin Barry to end the inning. Barry then retired the side in order in the eighth, and the Braves called on allstar reliever Matt Whiteside in the ninth, who recorded his league-leading 38th save. Whiteside retired the first two he faced, and, after being knocked down by a Gathright single up the middle, he struck out pinch hitter Jared Sandberg on three pitches to end the game. “It’s nice knowing you got [Whiteside],” Kelly said. “As a team, we know if we can get the lead and hand it over to Whiteside in the ninth, we’ve got a pretty good chance.” The Bulls relievers were equally impressive, allowing one hit and one walk over five shutout innings. One of Durham’s best scoring chances came in the opening innings when in the third, Gathright and second baseman Brooks Badeaux led off" the frame with singles and Diaz and Cummings were on deck. The rally ended quickly, though, as International League post-season all-star and team MVP Matt Diaz struck out on a breaking ball in the dirt. Braves catcher J.C. Boscan then threw out Gathright trying to steal third, and cleanup hitter Midre Cummings popped out weakly to 2nd base, ending the rally. ‘They made some good pitches when they had to. They’re a good ball club, we’re a good ball club. That’s what it’s going to come down to,” Bulls Manager Bill Evers said.

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BOOZER from page 11 NBA maximum. Boozer’s second choice was to terminate the option on his current contract and sign a long-term deal with the Cavaliers for the maximum as soon as possible. Paxson, wary of ending Boozer's current contract for fear that the Duke alumnus would sign with another team, told the two-year veteran, ‘There are at least seven teams that have cap space right now who will want to pay you more than we can now. We don’t want to lose you. Why would we not pick up the option?” According to Gund, Boozer's answer to Paxson was that he wanted to end his current contract “because we’d like long term security and we want to stay in Cleveland.” Boozer has never denied Gund’s account. After Boozer consulted with his agent, he decided to ask the Cavaliers to release him from his current contract and negotiate a long-term deal. “We’d like to begin, as soon as permissible, to negotiate an agreement that we can sign on July 14,” Paxson said to Boozer. “That's exactly what I want,” Boozer responded. “I want to get this done as quickly as we can.” Boozer continually told Gund and Paxson: “If you show respect for me, I will show respect for you.” Gund and Paxson decided to trust Boozer, and decided not to pick up his option so they could negotiate a long-term deal for their up-and-coming power forward. But instead of showing the same respect for the Cavaliers,

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Boozer signed a six-year, $6B million deal with the Utah Jazz —a deal the Cavaliers could not offer under the restriction of the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement unless they made impossible changes to their team. Cleveland had no choice but to loose Boozer without compensation. So ridiculous was Boozer’s behavior that his agent, Rob Pelinka, refused to represent Boozer in the future. Pelinka claimed to be on the Cavaliers’ side and was confused as to why Boozer did not honor his verbal agreement. In addition, after hearing the full story, Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller reportedly considered finding away to send Boozer back to the Cavaliers. In his business dealings this summer, Boozer let down not only all Cavaliers fans, but all those who looked up to the prolific rebounder for his commendable citizenship. I personally interviewedBoozer several times during his junior season at Duke, and the 6-foot-9 Alaska native even agreed to talk with me in the midst of his final season with the Cavaliers. In all my conversations with Boozer, he was as polite and considerate as any person I had ever talked with. On Cleveland local television, young children cried when they learned about Boozer’s departure. Boozer read to children in the community and seemed like he really cared about all those around him. In just two years he had become a beloved figure in a city loyal to its hard-working athletes. But Boozer showed everyone that a few bucks was worth more to him than being a hero.

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SOCCER from page 11 a 0-0 exhibition tie “What you do as the underdog is try to keep the other team from scoring,” Rennie said. “I would expect that they would have a plan to come out and do something tactically t0... make it hard to score. I don’t think they’ll come down here just to play.... We’re going to have to figure out what their plan is and how we’re going to attack it.” However the Blue Devils decide to attack the Emory & Henry defense, they will have several new weapons to call upon. Thursday’s game marks the debut of a freshmen class that many rank among the nation’s best. Rennie said that

X-COUNTRY from page,, Although the meet is primarily just for the athletes to get a feel for competitive running early in the season, their matchup against Wake Forest will be a good indicator of where the men’s team stands. In addidon, High Point, a school with an upand-coming Division I cross country program, should provide a good push for the younger Blue Devils. The stronger women’s team will similarly use this meet as part of its training. Under newly promoted head coach Kevin Jermyn, the Blue Devils are ranked ninth

many of his freshman have had productive preseasons and should be ready to contribute right away. For their part, the freshmen are nervous but excited about the opportunity to compete on the collegiate level. “I think I’m going to be nervous, but once the game starts I’ll be fine,” Parade and McDonald’s All-American Michael Videira said. “We [freshmen] have a bunch of teammates around us to help us out.” As the team embarks on a new season, Rennie and his players have no doubt that they are ready to perform. “I think we’re ready to play our opening game,” Rennie said. “We’re not as good as we’re going to be, but we’ve improved a lot in the preseason... and hopefully we’ll continue to do that.”

in Harriers Magazine’s preseason poll. The Duke women are experienced and deep with seniors Paris Edwards and Meaghan Leon and juniors Natasha Roetter and Laura Stanley leading the way. Wake Forest, which has finished around 20th nationally the past two seasons, will provide some stiff competition for the women. “We are going to treat this as a race simulation to help die girls mentally and physically get into race shape,”Jermyn said. Given the relaxed format, the Blue Devils are taking this meet very lightly and are looking to having fun with new style of

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Duke’s culture. For many students and professors, a three day age a Thursday night social scene, weekend has become the norm, and Students, however, are likely to keep instead of dedicatgoing out Thursday St3ff6ultori3l to nights, regardless, ing Friday classtime, students Instead, attendance devote the last day of the typical to Friday classes will probably fall, to work week to meetings, errands and the disadvantage of both students and professors. catching up on sleep. The University, however, did not Last week, however, a new class schedule—featuring a greater number implement the new class schedule of period one classes, more classes on without thought and purpose. The atFridays and 50-minute classes nestled tempts to spread out classes may within longer 75-minute blocks—deprove beneficial to some students. buted, and many students found Also, the best asset of the new schedthemselves in the unusual posidon of ule thus far seems to be the relief it spending Friday in a classroom. The has given to mid-day demand for new schedule, a plan over a year in the lunch and bus services. The new formaking, seems positioned to achieve mat gives students time to sit down some of die University's goals but fall for lunch with friends and the lines at short in other areas. popular dining locations and at the bus stop have been noticeably shortThe timing of classes, both on Friday and in the morning, seems to be er. The principal drawback of the new one of the more important issues to students. Under the new schedule, plan is that it has left insufficient time the earliest class period was moved for extracurricular meetings. In years from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. What the past, Friday afternoons have been a University neglected to consider, time when groups could meet behowever, was that the number of stucause most of their members did not dents now enrolled in the period one have class. So far this year, some class block has exploded, with nearly groups have had difficulty scheduling 3,000 students taking 8:30 a.m. or meetings. This is a problem that the 8:45 a.m. classes. It is not in the UniUniversity needs to address if it does versity’s best interest to force so many not want to risk losing some of the students into early classes. College student activity on campus. The new schedule is here to stay, students are notorious for having erratic sleeping habits and for staying but as the year progresses, the Uniup unusually late. Most students will versity should continue to search for perform better in classes starting ways to alleviate persistent problems later in the day. arising from the schedule—from the A similar cultural observance can potential for sleep deprivation to the be seen in Friday classes. By forcing need for more meeting time—in --

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Shiffman ignores facts In his Aug. 31 letter, David Shiffman presone-sided opinions with little factual justification. Shiffman points out that Jews purchased the land in Israel from Palestinians, who were “thrilled to get such a good price.” Palestinians did sell land to Jews in the early part of the century. However, Shiffman ignores the fact that once Israel became sovereign, it used much less noble practices to obtain land. Ask any Palestinian, and they’ll convey to you a story about their grandparents being threatened with death by Israeli soldiers if they did not vacate their homes. There are thousands of refugees who wish to return to Palestine but cannot. Shiffman’s claim that Israel is a secular democracy is far from the truth. Israel is perhaps a democracy if one is Jewish, but Palestinians have far fewer rights than Jewish citizens. I was in Jordan recently and had a conversation with one of the many Palestinian taxi drivers. He told me that he lost his Palestinian citizenship for spending three years out of Israel without returning. Imagine losing your citizenship simply for living in another country. This policy does not hold for Jewish citizens. Additionally, Palestinians in Israel lack a number of the basic human ents

rights that we all take for granted. For example, Palestinians are required to carry identification cards and drive cars marked by unique license plates, enabling the Israeli government to restrict Palestinian travel. Palestinians face more rigorous criteria for admission into institutes of higher education. Palestinian regions of the country are left undeveloped industrially. Ownership of land in many areas is restricted to Israelis with at least four generations of Jewish lineage. This all is in addition to the recent construction of Israel’s apartheid wall, which would simply be unacceptable anywhere else. Even these few examples demonstrate attempts by the Israeli government to deny Palestinians a viable future. To Palestinians, basic rights exist only in their dreams. Israel may have legitimate complaints towards the Palestinians as well. However, I cannot sit idly by and read a letter like that by David Shiffman which concludes that one side is completely right while placing whole blame on the other. Surely, peace will require quite an effort from both sides. Hany Elmariah Trinity ’O4

Ban greeks, all extracurriculars In the Aug. 26 column ‘The Duke of New,” Christopher Scoville provides a handy five-step recipe for ensuring Duke’s “future glory” as a university by resolutely pursuing “intellectual dynamism” as its pre-eminent goal. Scoville provides his most interesting suggestion when he advises Duke to ban the greek system due to the fact that “it does little to add to the intellectual life on campus.” What a great idea! Why waste our time with activities that aren’t direcdy related to the intellectual life on campus? But why stop with the greek system? The administrators quite simply need to cut the fat in all aspects of Duke. Anything that does not foster intellectualism must be banned from campus. Only then can we “wedge [our] way into the Harvard-Princeton-Yale triumvirate” and join ranks with the academic elite. The most obvious place to begin is with those pesky extracurricular activities. Why should students be enriching their lives with activities outside the classroom when they could be inside the classroom and learning? Take a capella groups, for example. Unless they are singing that timeless ditty about the quadratic equation (or some other compara-

bly cerebral tune), kick ’em out. Let those gap-toothed Tar Heels sing away their intellectualism, but not us. And intramural and club sports? Can you say “waste of time?” Speaking of sports, we should really just completely extricate the sports culture from Duke. You know, Cameron Indoor would make a lovely research laboratory. Doesn’t the sound of Wallace Wade Auditorium just roll off the tongue? And while we’re on the subject of denaturing campus landmarks into bastions of academic intellectualism, my heart just skips a beat when I imagine the endless mouth-watering possibilities of using the Chapel belltower as a library stacks. I, for one, am outraged that we should allow for such distractions. Let’s rally together to fight for our intellectualism, to stand up for our education, and most importandy to prove the truth in those “Harvard of the South” T-shirts. No matter the cost, we need to purge ourselves of the non-academic pursuits that make Duke a vibrant, fraternal and unique university. Andrew Longenecker Pratt ’O7

K-ville town hall meeting Thursday There will be an open forum for all students interested in contributing input for the upcoming season’s K-ville policy Thursday at 8 p.m. in the sth floor of McClendon Tower. A second meeting will take place at the same time and same place next Thursday, Sept. 9. This will be an opportunity for you to share any thoughts or concerns from last year or for the current year in K-ville, and discuss them with me and other K-ville veterans. Potential topics include: which games to tent for, possible rule changes for tenting and/or admission to games and

anything else you bring to the table. Line Monitor applications and information on the application process will be available at the meeting (as well as on the web, soon). Potential applicants are encouraged to attend so I can meet you. Hope to see you all there, I’m looking forward to serving you this year in making K-ville the best it can be! Steve Rawson Trinity ’O5 HeadLine Monitor

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Love at Duke Tcm did not come here to find love. But rest asV/ sured—it will find you. Do not be surprised when it JL appears at uncommon hours or in uncommon forms. Friendship, after all, is the truest sort of love. And do not be surprised if that person is unimaginably different from you. It may be someone you meet late one Saturday night by the sushi bar at George’s or someone you meet on a Wednesday afternoon over steaming beakers in your chemistry lab. If you are a scholar, that person may be an athlete. If you are an athlete, that person may be a scholar. It may be your neighbor. Or—as it was in my case—he may have been all three Tall and muscular with an unruly mass of long, dark hair, Micah Harris looked fierce. When we first met on our hall in Blackwell, I thought my new neighbor resembled a linebacker, which —as it turns out—was exactly right. I expected a year of being woken matt up at all hours of the night with revelry and other kinds of loud behavior of which I suspected Division I football players capable. What I did not expect was a neighbor who would regularly bring over pizza and tea, shout greetings across the West Campus quad and spontaneously give bear hugs and piggyback rides. Nor did I expect a neighbor who, during class, would contribute insightfully on philosophers ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Kuhn or someone who would go out of his way to be friendly, getting to know everyone on our hall and spending time with us on weekends. I will never forget when he took Krupal —a studious Indian math and econ double major—out to a football party and spent the entire night gleefully introducing him to girls. Micah was always doing things like that. Nor will I forget our last hug this summer, the feeling of his arms squeezing, the sight of the floor getting farther away, the bottles on the walls, the neon lights, the smoky air, the roughness of his palm and mischief in his eyes as

we said goodbye and promised to call. Today I write with my tears and the tears of the countless people who knew and loved Micah. He was an irreplaceable treasure, and his death is an irreparable tragedy. It will be impossible to find another like him with his spectacular thoughtfulness, intelligence and athleticism. An embodiment of the Olympic ideal, Micah was exceptional in mind, body and spirit, living proof that people are our greatest resource and that very different individuals can love one another. But he was also an athlete and a competitor who inspired us by relentlessly fighting to give his all, always. Watching him play was to see an artist painting with blood and grass, to see someone who understood—as some students here do not —that our competitors allow us to be our best, to achieve the gillum most we are capable of achieving, and verttas are not our enemies. He was an illustration of the Latin words that were combined to form the word competition, which mean, “to strive together.” Micah sought to not only to better his own life, but also to better the lives of everyone around him. He recognized the interconnectedness of humankind and the mutual nature of our quest on earth. All of us strive to live and love. We strive to be happy and —like Micah—to make the world a more decent place for everyone. For our time here on earth, our brief liour of consciousness with darkness at our front and at our backs, we have each other and—in our shared fate and aspirations—are one. So as you go home today, I ask you to remember. Stop a door before your own and knock. Perhaps Micah will be there to welcome you.

Matt Gillum is a Trinity senior.

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walk into a supermarket and are able to choose where he desperately wanted to live. He didn’t care that he from countless types of perfectly ripe fruit. You don’t would be a minority, away from his familiar culture and relhave to spend hours planting and harvesting the atives. He knew that if he made it to America, he would be fruit, rather you can eat it at your convenience. able to build a life that would give his family and children the chance to attain the many freedoms of our nation. If you are angry about local politics, you can write a letter or hold a protest without fear of being shot or deAs he began speaking, I felt goose bumps begin to rise tained if your ideas don’t agree with your government. on my arms, and I realized that the same freedoms and If you get in a car accident, you can go to the hospital choices that I take for granted every day were the liberties and receive medical attention immediately. You don’t and ideals that he would eagerly have fought for. But behave to walk 10 hours to the nearest clincause of his economic situation, these are ic, only to discover that the doctor is on also the freedoms that he will most likely strike and there are no medical supplies. never know. You carr drink the water from your sink Many of his relatives and friends had paid without having to boil it or worrying an exorbitant amount of money to cross the about it spreading illness. In fact, you border illegally just so they could experihave enough water to bathe every day, ence a new kind of freedom. Yet, after only a water your grass, fill your pool and even few weeks, many had been deported. They have a water balloon fight. It seems like had returned to their village with the visions anne Katharine wales Qf America vividly haunting their dreams everything is perfect. Yet, we’re used to complaining about and the feelinS of freedom still arousing getting high on life America, griping about how we don’t their senses. have enough and how our neighbor has a I do not intend to make you feel guilty faster car or a bigger house. Despite all the wonderful for everything you have in America. I am writing this bethings that we do have, we instead choose to focus our at- cause it is important to realize and appreciate every wontention on what we still want. One of the fundamental readerful opportunity thatyou are given. Just for one second, sons why Americans are so successful is because we are alstop complaining about how terrible our country’s ecoways seeking to attain more, but sometimes we drastically nomic situation is, how you hate the food on Duke’s camunderestimate the vast opportunity and fortune in having pus and how Durham is a terribly boring city. our homes, families and freedoms You are a college student with a variety of amazing opI’m not saying we should merely reflect momentarily portunities and chances to explore the world. The food on how lucky we are, but rather this is something we that you complain about every day would make a gourmet should really think about. Forget about that Z3 or that meal for my Honduran family. The job opportunities and iPod that you want and instead focus on the beautiful freefree market that our economy supports are things that doms you have in front of you. people hold revolutions and risk their lives for. Although I spent this summer in Honduras living with a family we have become accustomed to our lifestyle, that doesn’t that had dirt floors, a contaminated water supply and no mean that we should take it for granted. Yes, it’s true that America is the land of opportunity, electricity. They ate only corn tortillas, beans and rice and didn’t ever think about owning a bike... let alone a BMW. the land where all things are possible. We’re a country One day while I was talking with my host father, he asked where people can dream big dreams and if we they try me about America. He had heard about the universities, hard enough, we can accomplish them. We’re a country the fast food restaurants and the job opportunities, and that values equal opportunity and the importance of basic he wanted to know more. He wanted to know about the human rights. But sadly, we’re also a country that often forfreedoms and choices that we, as Americans, had. gets just how lucky we are to have such good fortune. He had only heard bits and pieces, but it was clear he Anne Katharine Wales is a Trinity junior. thought of America as a beacon of freedom and a place ,

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favorite part of the Blue Zone is how Parking Services ensures an abundance of spaces, especially toward the very end of the lot because they clearly understand that diose of us who are fortunate enough to live off-campus enjoy an even further commute. Oh, but what’s even better than that is my arrival to West Campus, where I can no longer freely use my iPod without being subjected to the venomous stares and verbal bitch slaps of jealous iPod-less upperclassmen. Litde do they know that this freshman, and by freshman I mean senior who bought his own baby blue-covered iPod, was already running late for class and hardly ready to start the year. Welcome to the final season of the Class of 2005. Sorry to say, but we won’t be picked up for another season, and we will all enter syndication, otherwise known as the real world. Oh yes, we have heard this all before, about four years ago just before we all left our previous shows to do this spin-off. That’s the pitch the powers that be tried to sell us with: That college was the real world and diis would be the most important crossroad that you will ever come to. Unfortunately, the network didn’t tell you about that small tiny clause in your contract, that this was a complete lie because it’s happening all over again. So instead, if this, senioryear, is the real season in which you make your most imdecisions portant Charles gomez about jobs and careers and pretty the ministry of sound much the rest of your life, tying up all those loose-ended plot lines and finishing up character development, does that mean that we are finally being cancelled? No more spin-offs, no more cameos, no more anything, just real world syndication? For the first time, those monotonous “What did you do during the summer?” morphed into “So, what do you think you might be doing after graduation?” At least for me, I couldn’t find the cue card with a response for that one. Of course, I could take the route of those characters that use the lines of job-resume-intemship-D.C. as if it gave them a perpetual nerd-anal orgasm each time they gloated. Aaid then there is always what Duke is known best for, at least according to us, the pre-professional lines of LSAT-MCAT characters, whose egos are just as inflated as their GPAs. I didn’t understand why I couldn’t bring myself to utter these lines wholeheartedly. I mean, I wanted to go to law school and eventually get a job, so why was I so disillusioned? It then dawned upon me why I believed senior year was the final season, forever cancelled and into syndication. Although a very important part of it, the past three seasons were never really centered on our careers, goals and “what do you think you might be doing after graduation,” and neither should the final season. Instead, more so, it was about us. It was about our personal culture, our lifestyles, our dreams, our hopes, our failings, our suffering, our relationships

and the human condition. These crossroads that we encounter will always continue so long as you let them be about yourself as a whole and not as yourself entirely as a career or a job. As we all anxiously wait to see how our final seasons will develop, it’s important not to ask “What do you want to do with your life?” but rather, “How do you want to live your life?” Professions are necessary, if not compulsory, but the decision to enter one should only be a part of the grander pitch ofhow you would want to live your life, continuing your personal culture and lifestyle as it exists now or envisioning a bold new look to your postuniversity spin-off. As the final season begins to take shape, bring it to a final climax and a satisfying resolution, but don’t resolve everything and keep things open-ended. Go to med school or work in D.C. or do nothing at all, but don’t do it because you haphazardly answered “What doyou want to do with your life?” instead of “How you want to live your life?” Maintain a balance between that which is scripted and planned goals and that which is un-scripted and unexpected. Don’t go blindly into syndication. The show must go on, but then again, it’s just a show, right? Charles Gomez is a Pratt senior.

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