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North Carolina’s statewide shortage of teachers has become critical, according to a report published in late August by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research.

The report, “Addressing the Shortage of Teachers in North Carolina,” was published by the North Carolina-based Insight magazine and calls the teacher shortage an “impending crisis” that requires immediate state action. The report cites the growth in the school-age population, efforts to reduce class size and a high teacher turnover rate as reasons for the aggravation of the problem.

Eddie Davis, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, highlighted a particular need for more teachers in subjects such as science, math and special education.

“Shortages in these areas are typical—they always seem hardest to fill,” he said. “We sometimes have problems with foreign language teachers, especially Spanish, and with teachers of English as a foreign language.”

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At the first Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting of the semester, GPSC President Heather Dean presented her objectives for the council in three major areas: communication, community building and continuing projects from the previous year.

“My biggest goal this year is to work on better communication between stu-

dents, student groups and the administration,” Dean said.

Members supported building a more informative website and creating a mentoring program between graduate and undergraduate students. Dean noted a joint effort that was in the works with Sheila Curran, executive director of the Career Center, for organizing five menSEE GPSC ON PAGE 8

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Charybdis, an autonomous underwater vehicle built by the Duke Robotics Club, claimed fifth place at the annual Association for Underwater VehicleSystems International Competition last summer.

The Duke Robotics Club has taken on the national challenge to come up with innovations that will eventually reduce warrelated casualties by creating robots that can perform military roles that humans now have to do.

This year the team built Charybdis, its autonomous underwater vehicle, for the annual Association for Underwater Vehicle Systems International Competition in San Diego, Calif. Charybdis was named for the Greek monster that formed a whirlpool by pulling water down and spurting it out of the bottom.

“We wanted to say that it was tougher than the other robots,” senior team member John Felkins said.

Bright blue in color and resembling a flying saucer, Charybdis moves through the water with two thrusters and a propeller.

Duke’s robot features both a forward-facing camera and a downward-facing camera, an altimeter to measure distance from the bottom of the tank, a pressure gauge and a sonar system to calculate velocity.

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After a wholesale reorganization that left five former student advisors jobless, four new hires in the Office of Student Activities and Facilities are scrambling to navigate University red tape and guide students to do the same.

When school began, the Office had only two staff members to help student groups plan the slew of events that mark orientation week, and one of the staff members arrived only weeks before the opening of dorms. The unacclimated advisors stalled event registration slightly, student leaders said, but most programming proceeded on time.

“I’d be lying iff said it hasn’t been difficult,” said senior Kevin Parker, president of Duke University Union. “In general this is going to be a hard year, just getting everyone else acquainted.”

Due to a. Duke payroll requirement, the new staff members could only start work at the beginning of a month and could not move into their positions before students arrived. The gap between the start of school and the beginning of a payroll period left OSAF clambering to accommodate students.

“It would’ve been nice to have a couple of days under our belt, but it’s not too big a deal,” said Brian Crews, one of several new program coordinators. “They’re doing some training, but we’re jumping right in. School’s already in session, and there’s stuff that needs to be done.”

Crews, along with fellow advisors Deborah Hackney and Marissa Weiss, arrived at Duke last Wednesday. Tari Hunter, also an advisor, arrived Aug. 1.

Student leaders said the new staff s inexperience with Duke’s procedures is somewhat frustrating but has not been a major problem. “I had to figure out new contact people and ask a few more questions than I normally would have,” said senior Aileen Shiue, president of the Asian Student Association.

Groups also bemoaned the loss of institutional memory. Several of the staff members who were forced out to make room for the new advisors had been at Duke for more than a decade, and their personal knowledge offered continuity and historical context to groups whose leadership changes every year.

The changes to OSAF were part of a sweeping plan from the Office ofStudent SEE OSAF ON PAGE 8

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U.S. death toll in Iraq surpasses 1,000 by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. military deaths in the Iraq campaign passed the 1,000 milestone Tuesday, with more than 800 of them during the stubborn insurgency that flared after the Americans brought down Saddam Hussein and President George W. Bush declared major combat over.

A spike in fighting with Sunni and Shiite insurgents killed eight Americans in the Baghdad area Tuesday and Wednesday, pushing the count to 1,003. That number includes 1,000 U.S. troops and three civilians, two working for the U.S. Army and one for the Air Force. The tally was compiled by The

Associated Press based on Pentagon records and AP reporting from Iraq.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cited progress on multiple fronts in the Bush administration’s global war on terrorism and said U.S. enemies should not underestimate the willingness of the American people and its coalition allies to suffer casualties in Iraq and elsewhere.

‘The progress has prompted a backlash, in effect, from those who hope that at some point we might conclude that the pain and the cost of this fight isn’t worth it,” Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news conference. “Well, our enemies have underestimated our country, our coalition. They

have failed to understand the character of our people. And they certainly misread our commander in chief.”

The Bush administration has long linked the Iraq conflict to the war on terrorism.

The Sept. 11 Commission, however, concluded that Iraq and al-Qaida did not have a “collaborative relationship” before the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, and some have questioned to what extent foreign terror groups are involved in the antiU.S. insurgency in Iraq.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry issued a statement saying SEE DEATH TOLL ON PAGE 7

Israelis attack Hamas training site in Gaza by

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GAZA CITY Gaza Strip Israeli helicopters attacked a Hamas training field in Gaza early Tuesday, killing at least 13 Palestinians and wounding 25, officials from both sides said. It was Israel’s deadliest strike in the area in four months.

The attack came a week after Hamas carried out a double suicide bombing in the southern city ofBeersheba, killing 16 Israelis and breaking a six-month lull in major violence against the Jewish state.

The Israeli military said the air force targeted the field, near the Israeli border, because it was being used by Hamas for bomb assembly and the training of and-Israeli fighters. The Hamas military wing, in a statement, acknowledged its use as a training site.

Hundreds of Hamas militants gathered at Shifa Hospital in

Gaza City—some with blood on their clothes from carrying victims—shouting “revenge, revenge.”

“This bloody crime is a new wave of aggression committed against our people and against our sons,” Hamas spokesperson Mushir al-Masri said. “It’s an ongoing war. One day for us and one day for them.” The Israeli statement said training at the site “was led by senior Hamas terrorists who were involved in the carrying out of deadly terror attacks and attempted attacks.”

The military said a suicide bomb prepared at the site was discovered last Tuesday in the underwear of a Palestinian at the Erez checkpoint between Gaza and Israel.

The statement also listed events that it said took place at the field in recent days, including assembly of a large bomb and a suicide bomber’s vest, practice in hijacking vehicles and training in preparing and firing mortars and rockets.

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The federal deficit will swell to a record $422 billion this election year but fall short of even more dire forecasts, Congress' top budget analysts projected Tuesday in a report that became instant fodder for both political parties.

Russians protest in Moscow Thousands of people respond to a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives.

Bush's flight records released President George W. Bush ranked in the middle ofhis Air National Guard flight class and flew 336 hours in a fighter jet before letting his pilot status lapse and missing a key readiness drill in 1972,according to his flight records belatedly uncovered Tuesday under the Freedom of Information Act

Summer rains drench China Floods and landslides triggered by torrential summer rains have killed at least 143 people and left dozens missing in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, officials and state television reported Tuesday.

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The freshmen flew solo for the first time this year, and the effects of an independent election were clear in a race in which three out offour positions were uncontested and voter turnout was lower than expected.

Senior Andrew Wisnewski, executive vice president of Duke Student Government, said the turnout was “below our expectations,” but he attributed this lower turnout to the fact that this election was solely for the freshman class and not for executive DSG positions, which usually yield greater interest. “I am disappointed in the numbers, but I still think we have a great staff to get things done this year,” Wisnewski said.

Attorney General Elizabeth Ladner, a senior, also said turnout was lower than expected, but that did not make the elections non-functional.

In past years all elections for DSG positions were held in the fall, but this year, all other classes chose their representatives last spring as a result of a March 2004 executive election referendum.

The new election system is designed to promote greater efficiency and output from DSG. Ladner said the previous electoral process led to apathy from members of DSG, which led to fewer measures being passed and less initiative by its members.

The elections changed seasons because of a push to have committees begin their work in the spring and summer. “There was also an incredible lag time. If students were elected in the fall it took quite a few weeks to have things up and running, and everyone on the same page,” Ladner said of past elections.

Senior Chase Johnson, vice president of academic affairs, also found the new electoral system conducive to increasing DSG efficiency. Johnson has already met with his committee members to learn about their goals for academic affairs. “[Now] you can begin meeting with your committees in the spring,” Johnson said.

“And in the weeks preceding the fall election you can spend time creating a committee dynamic, prioritizing the year’s issues and having preliminary meetings

Three out of four of the freshman elections were uncontested this year, according to the new system of representation.

The new election system is designed to promote greater efficiency and output from DSG.

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In the new election system, representatives are no longer selected proportionally from East, West and Central Campuses, as well as from off campus. This system of proportional representation presented problems, because it meant that the sophomore class would have a disproportionate amount of influence owing to the presence of the entire class on West Campus, Ladner said. ‘We wanted each class to have an equal voice,” she added.

Another change to the election process is that candidates now run for specific committees rather than for at-large student government positions. ‘We wanted to make sure that people were actually running for something specific in mind.

In the past we had a problem with people running and not being frilly committed to the organization. We just wanted to make sure that they were fully committed, they had an idea specific of goals they wanted to accomplish, and we felt the best way to do that was have them run for a specific committee,” Ladner said.

The new electoral process has also had an impact on the style of campaigning for both upperclassmen and freshmen. Ladner first noticed a difference in tone during the spring elections when she was running for executive vice president. “I remember thinking that campaigning was really clean when they were running for specific committees. There was a larger percentage of people currently on DSG running for a position,” she noted.

The fall elections also seemed different to Ladner this year, in that there was less campaigning and it all took place on East Campus. She attributed the changes in the nature of the campaign to a lack of experience with Duke elections and the lack of upperclassman examples.

Chase viewed freshman input in the organization as essential to DSG operation.

Although Chase noted their inexperience as a weakness, he also said he saw it as a strength. ‘They’re not institutionalized.

They have a strong ability to see outside of the Duke bubble and bring intense positive energy,” he said.

Durham’s brief interim era got off to a relatively quiet start Tuesday night, as acting City Manager Patrick Baker helped preside over his first City Council meeting. Mayor Bill Bell still ran the show, but for the first time in three years the seat to his right was not set aside for the much maligned former City Manager Marcia Conner, who stepped down last month.

The agenda and the atmosphere were much more low-key compared to the past several months, when concerns about a proposed downtown theater and Conner’s future dominated the docket. Instead, Durham’s main legislative body got back down to basics—housing, highways and holdover tidbits.

But Councilman John Best, Jr., changed the mood midway through, challenging the council and Baker, who served as assistant city attorney for the past seven years, to explain an engineering study involving Durham Public Schools.

“I am aware vaguely of this particular issue,” Baker replied, “but not with its authorization.”

Bell went on to spell out the background on the issue, which was Conner’s final project before she left her post amid a firestorm of criticism for allegedly playing favorites with municipal contracts, botching a police chief search and pushing the housing department to the point of major job losses.

And when the mayor said paying an independent engineering firm nearly $6,000 to look into a more sanitary sewer system affecting schools near FarSEE COUNCIL ON PAGE

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He may be a passionate outdoorsman and avid NASCAR fan, but when it comes to politics, North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley is all business.

In his latest television campaign ad, the incumbent and Democratic gubernatorial nominee wears a simple suit and stands alone in front of the camera, responding to attacks lobbed against him by his opponent, Republican Patrick Ballantine “The negative ads have started, but I think you deserve some straight talk,” Easley says before briefly touting his record as governor.

Only 76 words long, the ad is succinct and no-nonsense, yet personable —much like

Easley’s political style.

“He may not be the barbecue circuit, slapback and glad-hand type, but he cares deeply about individuals and making North Carolina a better place to live,” said Jay Reiff, Easley’s campaign manager.

It’s been a whirlwind of a summer for North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Patrick Ballantine.

After winning the Republican primary in July by less than 1 percent, Ballantine resumed the stumping campaign he had begun during the primary season, criss-crossing the state in search of voters and financial support. He then paused his campaigning to travel to New York City for the Republican National Convention, where he was wined and dined by Gov. George Pataki and slated to cast the North Carolina delegation’s votes for President George W. Bush—an honor he had to forfeit after getting stuck in one of the city’s notorious traffic jams.

‘There was a huge boost of enthusiasm that came with the euphoria that came with the primary,” Bob Rosser, Ballantine’s campaign director, said of the recent rush of activity.

Ballantine is no stranger to the excitement that accompa-

nies a life in politics. Before choosing to run for governor, the Wilmington, N.C., attorney served in the state Senate for 10 years, five ofwhich he spent as the minority leader. A selfdescribed “Ronald Reagan conservative,” Ballantine is now running on a platform of eliminating what he considers wasteful government spending and reducing the state’s bureaucracy.

“We need new leadership to bring real change to state government,” Ballantine said in a statement on his campaign website. ‘We need to address the fundamental problem we face in NorthCCarolin bloated state government that takes more and more of our tax dollars.”

Rosser said Ballantine’s first action as governor will be “prioritizing state government,” or defining the activities of each state department based on its stated mission and goals and setting spending priorities in accordance with those definitions in order to do away with current redundancies. a

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hold onto office Easley, a proud native of Nash County, N.C., has endured a tumultuous and crisis-ridden term as governor.

After defeating Republican Richard Vinroot in the highly-contested 2000 election, the former state Attorney General inherited the worst financial crisis the state had faced since the Great Depression. Forced into an uphill battle with Republicans over how best to balance the budget —a requirement according to state law —Easley weathered accusations from many legislators that he was too willing to raise taxes and dip into special state funds to generate the monies needed each fiscal year.

The Ballantine campaign has consistently used these same criticisms as fodder for its attacks on Easley’s record. “When he ran for governor, he promised not to raise taxes, and in his first year, we had the biggest tax increase in North Carolina history,” said Bob Rosser, Bal-

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Patrick Ballantine has promised tax cuts and a smaller bureaucracy if elected to office.

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Incumbent Gov. Mike Easley has set a balanced budget and educational reforms at the top of his campaign agenda.

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Thaler acted as referee and emcee for an informal We’re taking recommendations for [substances] we wresding match between seniors Jenn Davis and Margaret can wrestle in,” Worthington said.

Worthington in a kiddie pool filled with cole slaw. Dubbed the “Slaw Slam” by Davis and Worthington, who were its organizers, publicists and participants, the match is the culmination of a plan the pair originally hatched months ago.

“Apparently some radio station in Raleigh does it, and we had a history of fighdng before so we decided to do it,” Davis said, adding that the entire spectacle only appeared impromptu. ‘We started to think about it in December.”

At 7 p.m., a small group of students strode out to the center of the lawn, placed a kiddie pool on the rain-soaked grass and filled it with bags ofcole slaw and bottles of water.

After a few moments of trash-talk and strutting, the two competitors stripped down to Spandex shorts and sports bras. Thaler explained the rules—first to pin the other twice would win—and the combatants stepped into the pool.

Davis took the first round handily, pinning Worthington in roughly one minute. Worthington took the next match, a bitter battle during which the contestants seemed to be the only ones not laughing. Davis prevailed again in the final frame and both women arose from the pool, covered in the popular side dish.

During the match, the number of spectators increased from the dozen or so who had known about the event in advance to about 60 onlookers, mostly freshmen coming from dinner at the Marketplace. All stood transfixed by the sight.

The reaction of the crowd ranged from “That smells foul,” to “Can I go next?” and from “I’m getting out of here,” to ‘Throw slaw in her eye!” Many of the audience members were aligned with one side or the other, vocally supporting their favorite fighter.

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Western North Carolina braced for up to 10 inches of rain Tuesday, while heavy winds toppled trees and utility poles and snapped power lines in Mecklenburg County as the remnants ofHurricane Frances spun into the state.

Flooding forced the closure of more than 50 roads from south of Boone to the Asheville area as of late Tuesday, state officials said. Alerts spread north from the South Carolina and Georgia borders as the broad storm moved through the Southeast.

Governor Mike Easley declared a state of emergency and activated an emergency bilingual hotline in response to the hurricane's arrival. "Let me reiterate the biggest concern we have associated with Frances is not hurricane wind damage," Easley said, "it is water, it isflood damage, and it is tornadoes."

Bands of heavy rain and wind from Frances are expected to continue sweeping through the state on Wednesday.

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each year, the state has to hire 10,000 teachers, or about 11 percent of its teaching pool, the report stated. However, North Carolina does not produce nearly enough potential teachers in its schools to meet that quota with in-state candidates alone.

“The state’s public and private universities combined produced about 3,100 prospective teachers in 2003,” the report noted. “Only 2,200 of these graduates were hired by local school districts.”

Fred Williams, human resources coordinator for Durham Public Schools, said DPS hired more than 300 teachers between June and August this year. Williams called the number of new hires for the period “reasonably consistent..-, for this district.”

The sheer number of students in the North Carolina school system has also contributed to the teaching shortage. According to the report, there were 1.4 million school-aged children in North Carolina in 2000, and this number is expected to rise to 1.6 million by 2010.

The federal government’s No Child Left Behind Act, enacted in 2001, also aggravated the need for more teachers by requiring “a fully qualified teacher in every classroom by the end of the 2005-06 school year,” the report stated.

Adding to the crunch, Gov. Mike Easley has called for class size reduction, with the objective of reaching an 18-to-l student-teacher ratio for kindergarten, first and second grade classes. The report predicted that the NCLB Act and the governor’s efforts to lower student-teacher ratios will raise the demand for new teachers by 2,000 positions annually.

Williams suggested that the availability of a number ofalternatives to teaching might be another reason for the current shortage. “Teachers feel they have more options and might want to explore more professions outside of the classroom,” he said.

To attract potential teachers to the state, the report suggested emphasizing the convenience of teacher education programs that offer night and weekend classes.

The NCAE has also attempted to increase the pool of teaching candidates by supporting programs that help high school students become involved in pre-college education courses.

“We are trying to grow our own [teachers],” Davis said But the report indicated that simply hiring more teachers would not solve the problem. “Producing more teachers is like pouring water into a leaky bucket if officials don’t adopt effective reforms to retain the teachers we have,” the report stated.

With almost one-third of new teachers either quitting, moving out of the state or retiring after three years and 40 percent leaving after five years, teacher turnover is also a large factor contributing to the problem, the report stated. In some urban districts, the percentage of teachers leaving their jobs each year reaches as high as 50 percent.

“Students who are already behind the learning curve must rely on inexperienced teachers to help them catch up,” the report stated.

Pointing to potential ways of retaining teachers, Davis mentioned three areas that need improvement; work conditions, salaries and teachers’ administrative power.

“Teachers have to have a more empowered voice on issues of curriculum, professional development and issues that deal with budgets and other kinds of administrative decisions,” Davis said. The report similarly stated, “[teachers] lack professional support, are frustrated by student apathy, or are exasperated by poor behavior.”

Davis said low teacher salaries are a challenge to keeping teachers satisfied with their job.

“We often lose people because they can get higher pay in other professions,” Davis said. According to the report, North Carolina ranked 22nd in the nation in teacher pay. For the 2002-03 school year, the mean teacher salary was $43,076, while the national average was $45,930.

Williams added, however, that the Triangle area generally has higher teacher salaries than other districts in North Carolina.

“This region is easier to attract teachers to,” Williams said. “Teachers look to Durham as an intriguing place to teach due to its diverse student body.”

the United States joined the friends and families of those who died in mourning their loss.

“Today marks a tragic milestone in the war in Iraq.

More than one thousand of Americas sons and daughters have made the ultimate sacrifice. Our nation honors their service and joins with their families and loved ones in mourning their loss,” Kerry said.

“We must never forget the price they have paid. And we must meet our sacred obligation to all our troops to do all we can to make the right decisions in Iraq so that we can bring them home as soon as possible.”

The 1,003 figure includes deaths from hostile and non-hostile causes since the United States launched the Iraq campaign in March 2003 to topple Saddam’s regime. The vast majority of U.S. deaths—all but 138 came after Bush’s May 1, 2003 declaration of an end to major combat operations. “Mission Accomplished,” read a banner on an aircraft carrier where Bush made the announcement.

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“It is difficult to establish the right number of casualties,” said Amnesty International’sMiddle East spokesperson, Nicole Choueiry. She added that “it was the job of the occupation power to keep track of the numbers but the Americans failed to do so.”

The grim milestone of 1,000American military deaths was surpassed after a surge in fighting, which has killed 17 U.S. service members in the past four days. A soldier was killed early Wednesday in when a roadside bomb struck a convoy near Balad, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. Two soldiers died in clashes Tuesday with militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Five other Americans died Tuesday in separate attacks, mostly in the Baghdad area. Seven Marines were killed Monday in a suicide car bombing north of Fallujah. Two soldiers were killed in a mortar attack Sunday.

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But Best, who was a leading advocate for Conner’s departure, pushed back. “In the future, I would suggest that there’s a formal vote put to the City Council and City Manager,” he said, “just to make sure that everything is done on the table rather than under the table.”

Cutting him off across the room, Bell began a loud back-and-forth with Best.

‘There wasn’t anything under the table about this,” he declared, going on to make only a quick allusion to Conner. The motion to pay the firm then passed, 4-3—by far the tightest vote of the evening—with

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Affairs to improve University support for student groups. Long-time members of the Student Affairs staff said they were prepared for the structural reorganization itself, but the associated firings were a startling surprise.

“I did not know that they were going to lay off the six people that were there and make us re-apply for our positions,” said Rick Gardner, former event advising coordinator.

Of the original staff; only Melinda Roper, now senior associate director for student activities, was re-hired. The other five administrators were ousted in mid-July.

“I was told that they were going to go in a different direction and my services weren’t needed,” Gardner said, acknowledging that the University handled the situation “very professionally.”

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Much of the early part of Tuesday’s meeting concerned eminent domain expenses for three property owners frustrated with the construction of turning lanes for Highway 98.

Homeowners cited a gap as high as $47,000 between what the city-appointed appraiser and another independent assessor had determined that the highway developer Ganyard Farm, LLC, owed one of the affected locals.

Although the City Council voted 7-0 to table a resolution until it had a concrete second appraisal to consider at Thursday’s work session, Bell made clear his compassion for the homeowners.

“Someone’s property’s going to be taken by this,” the mayor said of the highway widening. “If it were my proper-

ty, I’d certainly want to know how my to be damaged and compensated for.”

Baker, for his part, is trying to mend fences while the City Council tries to finalize a search firm for a permanent replacement, a job Baker has not decided if he wants or not.

Councilman Howard Clement was the only one to mention the job vacancy directly at Tuesday’s meeting. While handing out trinkets from a recent trip to each City Council member, he paused before giving Bell a framed picture of Mount Rushmore with the mayor’s face included.

“I want to thank the City Council for not appointing a city manager before I got back,” he said, prompting a hearty if interim—round of laughter around the chambers.

Student advisors Peter Coyle and Brian Denton declined to comment, but both said Tuesday night that they were still searching for work. Gregg Heinselman, director of OSAF, said the other two former OSAF advisors had already begun new jobs.

“It’s hard, and I think that each has their own feelings,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. “But it’s certainly our attempt to be supportive and provide whatever help we can.”

The new staff members, all of whom hold master’s degrees related to student affairs, are the foundation for Heinselman’s plans to reimagine the philosophy ofOSAF. Since Heinselman arrived at the University last October, he has been refining what he called the “archaic system” of support to empower students in planning their own events.

He said when a group came into the OSAF office to put on an event in the past, staff members often took on many of the

organizational tasks themselves rather than showing students how to maneuver through the institutional bureaucracy.

“I felt like we were serving more as an entertainment agent,” he said. “It came to a question ofwho has the ownership. Does OSAF own it, or does the student club or organization own it? Our philosophy is that the group should.”

The new advising system, which is still being developed, will force students to pursue more of the event details themselves and relegate OSAF to a resource bank.

Even though five staff positions in the restructuring have now been filled, one senior program director position remains vacant. Heinselman said some programs, such as the Krista Cipriano Craft Center on East Campus, will remain closed until OSAF hires someone with suitable expertise.

“We had our speed bumps and hurdles in the road that we needed to get over,” Heinselman said, “but it went okay.”

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Coring dinners during Career Week in January. The dinners will be grouped by discipline, with nights devoted to the humanities and social sciences, science and engineering, medicine and nursing, business and public policy, and law. Currently, GPSC is seeking one graduate student to help organize each dinner.

Other issues raised during group brainstorming included support groups for international students, health care and insurance policies, parking and safety concerns and venues for interaction among the professional schools.

Council members unanimously approved 58 student groups for GPSC affiliation. GPSC will award these groups funding, and they will have the opportunity to advertise in the GPSCNews email list, which all graduate and professional students automatically receive.

Members also approved changes to a budget proposal that will allocate more funds for undergraduate interaction, student leader receptions and a new work-study office position.

“We are looking for an undergraduate who is interested in website design and who will be able to update it regularly for us,” Dean said.

Other announcements included GPSC’s plans for the Graduate Student Football Campout this weekend, which will include a prayer Saturday to commemorate Sept. 11. Members also approved the new GPSC logo, designed by Joy Ganes, a third-year student in the School of Law. GPSC will convene again at a Joint meeting with Duke Student Government Sept. 21, at which President Richard Brodhead plans to address the two student groups.

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ROBOTS from page 1 Charybdis took fifth place out of 18 and won $l,OOO for being the most innovative vehicle in the competition. The team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took first place.

This year’s competition featured three tasks. All vehicles were required to navigate themselves, locate and move through a specific gate, drop markers in underwater bins and surface within a marked zone.

These movements resemble the field operations that a real autonomous underwater vehicle might actually perform.

In the practice round of the competition, Charybdis performed with few errors, giving the team a good chance at a secondplace prize. During the final round, however, the cameras failed and the vehicle was unable to see the marked bins. Despite the malfunction, Charybdis still came within four feet of the designated surface zone.

The team remains excited about its showing and is already making plans for next year, eager to improve its performance and maintain Duke’s status as a “strofig school” at the prominent competition.

“We had some flaws, but we are going to try to work them out,” Felkins said.

The team’s goal for next year’s competition is to increase the vehicle’s reliability and speed. Charybdis’ flying saucer design makes it more maneuverable, yet slower in the water. “MlT’s robot was much faster teams

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The competition also gives the team members opportunities to apply engineering principles to real-life situations and obtain hands-on experience.

“It teaches you a lot about technology and shows you how the theories really work,” said senior Andy Smith, who noted that representatives from engineering firms attend the competidon in order to seek out future employees. “A lot of companies indicated that they were particularly interested in competition participants because we have experiences that no other new hire will have.”

Tyler Helble, Pratt ’O4, took advantage of the opportunity to network with interested companies. Because of his work on Charybdis, he received a job offer from the competition’s organizer, the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Systems Command.

The presence of robotics industry representatives was of particular help to senior JoshJohnston. “I learned so much from talking ft) other teams and even got to bounce some ideas for next year off the experts in the field,” he said.

Field representatives were impressed by Charybdis’ originality, and Duke team members noted that experts can sometimes learn from the competing teams.

“We really get to think outside the box because we haven’t been conditioned to believe that certain things won’t work,” Johnston said. “It’s a good and bad thing.”

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101WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2004 lantine] shows a lack of understanding of the functions and the services that the department provides to local school districts.”

In conjunction with this prioritization Despite these questions looming over and a “spending freeze” that would limit his budgetary plans, Ballantine has atstate spending to correspond with the inflatracted several key supporters since his tion rate and population growth, Ballantine primary victory. Last week, he won the enhas introduced a $1.2 billion package of tax dorsement of the State Employees Associcuts that he would work to put in place if ation of North Carolina, marking the first elected. The cuts include reductions in pertime in the organization’s history that it sonal and corporate income taxes and a rehas thrown its support to a Republican gubernatorial candidate. peal of the capital gains tax.

Ballantine has repeatedly criticized in“Patrick brings a fresh, energetic apcumbent Gov. Mike Easley, his opponent, proach to state government and its polifor raising taxes and has used his own tax cies,” SEANC Executive Director Dana proposals to cast himself as a foil to the cur- Cope said. “He is driven, very committed rent executive. Easley supporters, however, and very passionate about helping workargue that Ballantine’s voting record in the ing families.”

Ballantine also supports a 15 percent Senate contributed to the budget crisis that necessitated the tax increase implemented increase in state employees’ paychecks under Easley’s watch. over the next three years. Democratic “Ballantine voted for all of the budgets critics, however, have scrutinized his that got us into the financial hole that plan to boost employees’ incomes, arguGov. Easley had to dig us out of,” exing that he has not explicitly outlined plained Mac McCorkle, an adviser to the how he plans to balance his cuts and Easley campaign. ‘Then in 2001... Ballan- spending. “Talk is cheap. You can always tine had no solution [to balance the budgtalk about things, but how is he going to do the things he’s going to do?” said Baret] but to cut education.”

Viewing education as too valuable a pri- bara Allen, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. “There are a lot of ority to compromise, Easley instead supported a temporary tax increase to setde the things that are going to have to be cut, crisis, McCorkle said. it’s going to be services and that isn’t Ballantine still plans to make cuts in the going to sit well with people.”

Ballantine currently lags behind Easley area of education, but only to the administrative budget of the Department ofPublic in the polls by a margin of 10 percent. After Instruction. Many educators and DPI offia hard-fought primary race, he is also cials, however, view this plan as a potentialstrapped for funds, though he continues to ly detrimental blow to an already over- accumulate new contributions. Nonetheworked department. less, Rosser describes his candidate’s current position as “a great place to be.”

- ‘To cut the administrative budget of the “We’re confident that we’re going to department would be myopic,” said June Atkinson, Democratic candidate for state raise the money to get Patrick’s positive conservative message to voters,” he said. superintendent of public instruction. “[Bal-

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lantine’s campaign director. “That in itself exhibits the difference between Patrick Ballantine and Governor Easley: Mike Easley is a tax increaser, Patrick Ballantine is a tax cutter.”

The governor’s supporters, however, say this broad accusation is misguided.

Campaign officials assert that a tax increase was enacted in 2001 because Republican legislators refused to support a state lottery as an alternative source of revenue, and Easley was unwilling to bow to their proposals and balance the budget by cutting education funding.

“He worked to make appropriate cuts, but drew a line when it came to education,” Reiff said. “He made sure our priorities were protected.”

Education has been one of Easley’s pet issues during his term. He fought to create and fund “More at Four,” a prekindergarten program that targets disadvantaged children. Over 10,000 children statewide are now enrolled in the program, which received $43.1 million in the 2003-04 budget. An additional $7B million is currently devoted to reducing the size of kindergarten, first and second grade classes.

Despite these educational developments, many Republicans maintain their criticism of Easley’s budgetary policies.

They also point to an increase in unemployment during Easley’s term as evidence of his poor economic leadership.

According to the state’s Employment Security Commission, the unemployment rate rose to a high of 7 percent in 2002.

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paign, explained that much of the state’s job crisis has been driven by forces beyond the governor’s control, specifically federal policies that he said encourage the outsourcing of businesses overseas.

“We suffered perhaps the worst blow and international trade policy wallop in the nation right as Governor Easley came into office,” he said.

In the face of this “wallop,” the governor made job growth—like education one ofhis top priorities. As a result, North Carolina has experienced substantial job growth in recent months, McCorkle said.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, North Carolina leads the Southeast and ranks fourth in the nation in total job gains in 2004.

In addition to criticisms of his policies and priorities, Easley has endured accusations that he is an aloof executive unwilling to include people outside his tight circle of advisers when making policy decisions.

“It’s a total product of Republican, sourgrape, political insiders in Raleigh who like the old way of doing things,” McCorkle said in defense of the governor. “He is proud of the way he conducts himself and the way that he is inclusive. It’s a lot ofbad advice-that he’s not inclusive of.”

Easley, who is currently several points above Ballantine in statewide polls, plans to continue promoting improvements in education and job creation —along with fiscal responsibility —as his top priorities in his second term.

“He is really passionate about doing what’s right,” McCorkle said. “He has a prosecutor’s zeal for doing right and letting the chips fall where they may. That’s what attracts a lot ofregular people to him: He’s willing to take some tough stands.”

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BUIES CREEK, N.C. Coming back from the West Coast and playing on three days’ rest, the women’s volleyball team knew it had to make quick work of Campbell (1-3).

That is exactly what it did, sweeping the overmatched Camels 3-0 Wednesday night.

It took just over an hour for the Blue Devils to level their season record at 2-2. Duke dominated its in-state opponent 30-8, 3025, 30-19.

With their home opener Friday, the non-conference game came at a pivotal point in the young 3 season for the Blue Devils. The CAMPBELL team returned from the weekend’s Loyola Marymount Tournament with a record of 1-2.

Despite the midweek game, head coach Jolene Nagel said her team was rested and

Bonds busts through records Barry Bonds is no stranger to milestones.

In the past four seasons, Bonds has hit home runs number 500, 600 and, to pass Willie Mays, 661. In that span, Bonds has also broken the single-season home run record (73 in 2001), led the major’s in batting average (.370 in 2002), created a new playoff home run mark (eight in 2002), became the only player with at least 400 home runs and 400 stolen bases (698 and 506, respectively) and drew more intentional walks than any player in one season (over 100 so far in 2004).

This year Bonds has merely batted .374, knocked out 40 home runs, obtained a .610 on base percentage and an .824 slugging percentage. With all these records and milestones, it is easy not to get overwhelmed by yet another. But when Bonds likely blasts out his 700 th home run, the accomplishment should be met with the exultation deserved by a feat of this proportion. Bonds will Join only two other players—Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth—who have hit more than 700 home runs in the history of baseball.

One significant reason why Bonds’ achievement will not be celebrated like Aaron’s or Ruth’s is because of the recent increase in home runs throughout the major leagues. “When Babe Ruth was hitting 60 home runs in a season, the next closest player was only hitting in the 205,” is a frequently used argument.

But in Bonds’ case, this contention holds little weight. If pitchers threw to Bonds the same way they pitch to other major leaguers, there is no telling how many more No. 25 would splash into the McCovey Cove.

The way Bonds slashes through milestones should also be noted. As The New York Times’ Lee Jenkins pointed out, unlike many players who press themselves once on the verge of a record or milestone, there is a small interval between the time Bonds eyes the record and breaks it.

For example, when he was on the verge of hitting his 500th home run, he hit six long balls in seven days. The day after he tied Mark McGwire’s record for most home runs in a single season, he ended the stalemate when two balls flew off his bat and out of SBC Park. When he tied Mays’ 660 career home runs mark, he hit No. 661 the next day.

“The guy’s a drill bit when he gets close; he just bores right through,” the Mets’ Mike Piazza said to The New York Times. “I remember when I got close to my [most home runs for a catcher] record, I pressed, then I got mad, then I SEE BONDS ON PAGE

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After starting strong, Duke suffered a minor letdown in the second game.

“We stopped busting,” Nagel said.

The Blue Devils, however, responded quickly to avoid a loss in the second game.

Nagel felt that strong serving propelled the team through a competitive second game.

At the start of game three, Duke returned to the court energized and focused, finishing off the match with ease.

“We came in fired up and ready to go,” sophomore Pixie Levan as said. “We saw this as an opportunity, and realized we must seize it.”

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Michael Huff, coordinator of sports performance at the Michael Krzyzewski human performance lab, said he tries to encourage student-athletes to avoid the substance by educating them about the lasting negative effects.

“Alcohol is not the ideal type of fuel—it is like bad gas in a high octane car,” said Huff, adding that the behaviors associated with drinking, including sleep deprivation and unhealthy eating, compound the negative effects of alcohol.

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The Durham Bulls quest for a threepeat begins today.

In the first round of the International League playoffs, the Bulls (77-67) will square off against Buffalo (83-61) in a bestof-five series. The Bulls are seeking their third Governor’s Cup in a row. Games one and two will be played in Durham, before the series shifts to Buffalo for the SimWm remainder of the series. marks This year Durham’s sixth trip to the the playoffs in seven years, but playoffs its first as the wild card. In that span, the Bulls have faced Buffalo two times in the postseason—losing in 1998 and winning in 2002 but they have never faced the Cleveland Indians affiliate in the first round.

The Bulls will likely have their hands full with the Bison. Buffalo’s record was the league’s best this season, as it won the North Division by 10 games over Pawtucket. The Bison compiled a record of 5-3 against Durham. The last time the two teams met was just before the All-Star Break in July.

The Bison tend to win games with their bats—they led the league in batting average (.270) and runs scored (5.90 per game) and were second in home runs (188). Their offensive prowess helped them overcome the worst pitching staff in the league, with a team ERA of 4.71.

Buffalo’s heavy hitters are led by International League MVP Jhonny Peralta. The shortstop batted .333, good for second in the league, and established league records for hits, runs and doubles.

He was especially potent against Durham’s pitching, batting .480 in six games.

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To counter the Bison offense, Durham will dispatch the league’s fourth best pitching staff. The Bulls’ pitchers have been successful although none of them finishing in the top 10 in wins, ERA or strikeouts in the International League.

All-Star right-fielder Matt Diaz led Durham’s offense this season. He batted .331 and finished in the league’s top 10 in six other offensive categories.

The team also hopes to get big contributions from its two “Mr. Septembers.”

Catcher Paul Hoover was September’s big producer last year, batting .476 with two home runs in Durham’s march to the title. Thus far this September, outfielder Jonny Gomes has shined, hitting home runs in four of six games and earning Player of the Week honors in the final week of the regular season.

In game one, Durham’s Jason Standridge (8-4, 3.85 ERA) will pitch against Buffalo’s Kyle Denney (10-5, 4.41).

Standridge was effective in his only start against the Bison this season, lasting seven innings and giving up only three runs on as many hits. Denney pitched twice against the Bulls, winning once and taking a no decision after failing to finish the fifth inning in the second.

In game two, Durham will send out Jim Magrane (8-5, 3.93) to face Kenny Rayborn (8-2. 3.64). In both of Magrane’s starts against Buffalo, the Bulls lost, with only one charged to Magrane. Raybom also started twice against the Bulls, with his team losing both times.

Game three in Buffalo will feature Durham’s Todd Ritchie (4-6, 6.29) and the Bison’s Francisco Cruceta (6-5. 3.25).

Ritchie is 0-1 in two starts against Buffalo, pitching poorly in both. Gruceta won his only start against Durham, scattering five hits over five innings and allowing only one run.

Game four will pit Durham’s John Webb (1-3, 3.27) against the Bison’s Fausto Carmona (1-0, 6.00). Game five’s starters have not been announced.

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NEW YORK Unfairly, unbelievably, Serena Williams was robbed of a point by an umpire’s mistake at the U.S. Open, just like her sister was at Wimbledon.

It happened in the opening game of the third set between Williams and Jennifer Capriati, who went on to win their Open quarterfinal 2-6, 64, 64 Tuesday night.

“I’m very angry and bitter right now. I felt cheated. Shall I go on? I just feel robbed,” a composed Williams said, laughing a bit. “At first, I thought it was another Wimbledon conspiracy.”

The match was tight and testy, the way it almost always has been during their 17 matches: contested calls, spiked rackets, some gamesmanship and strokes pounded with power. A lot of power.

Capriati played superbly, without a doubt, but what always will be remembered is the miscue by chair umpire Mariana Alves of Portugal. She awarded the point to Capriati after Williams hit a backhand that landed in—and was ruled good by the line judge.

“I don’t need to see the replay. I know my shots. Not only was it in, it wasn’t even near the line,” said Williams, who couldn’t defend her 2002 Open title because of left knee surgery that forced her to miss eight months. “But I’m not making excuses. I didn’t lose because of that. I probably should have closed her out in the second set.”

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that went against Williams in the final game, when Capriati needed three match points to serve it out.

“I didn’t even, like, look at it. It was close. I was just going to do what the umpire said,” Capriati told the crowd afterward, drawing some boos and murmurs.

“Believe me, I’ve had things go against me many times, plenty of times. I deserve to get a call once in a while.”

In the semifinals, the eighth-seeded Capriati will face No. 6 Elena Dementieva, who outlasted No. 2 Amelie Mauresmo 46, 6-4, 7-6 (1) in a match marred by 24 double-faults, 82 unforced errors, 36 break points and 14 service breaks.

Mauresmo would have clinched the No. 1 ranking if she had won.

After all the theater of CapriatiWilliams, defending men’s champion Andy Roddick assembled a matter-of-fact 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 victory over No. 18 Tommy Robredo to reach the quarterfinals.

Roddick’s next foe is No. 28 Joachim Johansson, who beat Michael Llodra 6-2, 6-3, 6-2.

Earlier, 2001 Open winner Lleyton Hewitt beat Karol Beck 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 for his 14th consecutive win, and Tommy Haas beat Tomas Berdych 7-6 (6), 6-1, 7-5, erasing three set points in the tiebreaker.

Tm playing pretty solid tennis, day in, day out,” said Hewitt, who like Roddick has yet to drop a set.

Williams hadn’t either until Tuesday, but she was broken to start the second set when Capriati hit a deep return that forced a forehand wide.

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ALCOHOL from page 11 performance and weight.”

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Sarah Salem digs theball Tuesday night as the Blue Devils top Campbell in threestraight games.

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Fisher and freshman Carrie DeMange. New freshman star Ali Hausfeld paced the Blue Devils with 23 sets.

Because of the inferior opponent, the team was able to use 13 players, which enabled the team’s younger members to gain valuable experience.

The home opener for the Blue Devils is Friday at 7 p.m. against South Carolina, the first of three games in the Duke Invitational Tournament. Duke will also play host to Towson and Northern Illinois Saturday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“Tomorrow is a big practice day,” said Nagel, who is helping her team cope with another quick turnaround.

“If we are going to compete this weekend, we are going to have to do a lot of defensive work.”

With the start of the conference season just a mere two weeks away, Levanas knows the team has a great deal of work to do.

“We need to communicate well, and be ready for every point, every game, and every match,” Pixie said.

administrator, has seen the effects in her extensive work with students and alcohol.

“We know that drinking alcohol has many effects but for athletes in particular—it is a very dehydrating substance. If an athlete is drinking heavily and then going out to engage in sports their risk of dehydration, heat stroke and heat-related illness is much greater and the effects are often felt for 72 hours,” Alphin said.

Most coaches have some sort of alcohol policy, but the specifics, like the duration of the ban and enforcement, vary from sport to sport.

The alcohol policy ofDuke’s football team, enacted by its players in 2002, allows moderate consumption on Saturdays after a game and on Sundays but upholds a zerotolerance policy for drinking Monday through Friday duo ing the season. There are no specific punishments for violations, but players said sanctions are serious.

Field hockey coach Beth Bozman said her players are

BONDS from page 11 got frustrated. After I hit every color in the spectrum, I

finally threw my hands up in the air and it came. Barry’s not that way. He doesn’t struggle with this.”

Bonds isn’t currently talking to the newspaper media after games, claiming he needs to focus. The lefty is, however, regularly recording his thoughts on www.mlb.com.

Though he mentioned the 700 mark, most of his most recent rumblings have discussed his team’s playoff chances.

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A study published in the journal Sports Medicine found that the aerobic performance of athletes who consumed alcohol 24 hours prior to a game fell by 10 percent, and competitors who drank under the same conditions were more than 25 percent more likely to sustain an injury.

But the effects of alcohol in the short term are not the only issues players, trainers and coaches face. Excessive use ofalcohol in the off-season also affects one’s performance during the season. Alphin said the biggest problems that develop from consumption are alcohol dependence and weight gain. She added that weight gain can be avoided given athletes’ extensive training, but alcohol dependence can be harder to overcome.

“If you are talking about athletics, alcohol has no room in sports at all,” Alphin said. “It is not a good matchup.” not allowed to drink any alcohol

Ruth (714) and Hank Aaron (755). But what we do as a team along the way is just as important.

“We're 3 1/2 games behind the Dodgers now in the division race, and there's still a long way to go. We're also right there in the Wild Card. Anything can happen. We're going on the road this week for eight games in Denver, Phoenix and Milwaukee. There's 23 games to go. We have to have a good road trip and then come home.”

So sit back this week and enjoy watching something that may never be done again. Behind Michael Jordan, Bonds will be the second most dominant team sports player you’ll ever see. Forget about the media’s constant criticism of the left fielder’s attitude and ignore the unproven allegations of steroid use. Look at Bonds for what he is: The greatest baseball player of our time.

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Smaller faculty, better professors The 24 faculty searches are distribthe context of ongoing efforts to maintain a stable faculty and uted fairly evenly among the humanibudget, Arts and Sciences has ap- ties, social sciences and natural sciproved 24 faculty searches this year, ences, but it does not appear that This marks an increase of four from resources devoted to capital improvements are distributed last year but still lies as evenly. below StsflGClltOricll significantly In recent years the the more than 30 searches that had been approved in University has seen far more building earlier years. Even though the Uniprojects devoted to space for science versity will conduct more searches, and engineering than for the humanities and social sciences, and even acthe actual size of the faculty is expected to decrease, in accordance with counting for contributions to those projects from the Pratt School of Engoals set by the Provost’s office.

Since the majority of faculty at the gineering, the balance of Arts and University work under the umbrella Sciences resources is still off.

It’s true that facilities matter far of Arts and Sciences, this conscious contraction of faculty searches over more for faculty in the natural scithe past two years will ultimately lead ences than in the humanities—you don’t need fancy labs to hold a semto a smaller faculty at the University.

Administrators say they want to cut inar discussion. But if Arts and Scithe size of the faculty slightly because ences is willing to make the tradeoff they are working from a bottom-line between hiring more faculty members and spending money elsebudget and must spend a certain portion of it on capital improvements where, then it needs to treat its divisions fairly. Many of the seminar and resources. If the faculty is smallrooms on campus are less than adeer, Arts and Sciences will be able to attract and retain better professors and quate, and the University is short on the area will be able to grow at a more classroom space in general, as several of the smaller classes are currentreasonable rate than it did throughly held in seminar rooms in residenout the ’9os—or so the administratial space. tion’s theory goes.

Overall, Arts and Sciences is corCertainly faculty development should be a priority and having fewer rect in pursuing a smaller, stronger faculty members allows the University faculty, especially given the budgetary constraints it constantly cites. But if a to entice better, more prominent professors with higher pay. But if admincertain portion of the money truly istrators must make a choice between cannot go to hiring and must be deddevoting funds to faculty positions icated to capital improvements and and capital improvements, then they resources, then Arts and Sciences has need to support all of the areas of to follow through on that logic and Arts and Sciences equally as they dedicate appropriate, if not equal, make those decisions. funding across its divisions.

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Intellectual condoms time I checked, scientists had not ease and the necessity for increased public awareness of sexual health. When it comes to documented any conversationally transmitted diseases. Yes, despite a culture of sex, the condom has become a beacon of rerampant diversity and multiculturalism set in sponsibility and respect for the safety of an era of unprecedented information flow, it prospective partners. While we may never have experienced an era of widespread conremains safe to entertain mind-altering discussions with any number of different partners versational orgies and displays of risque intelnight after passionate night. And yet, instead lectual activity, in the words of Jonathan Larson, “there’s no day but today.” of experimenting with new and unfamiliar sitA successful attempt to discourage the uations, instead of rolling the dice on the chance of intellectual ecstasy, we are content use of intellectual condoms must be rooted to trade exotic romance for another night of in a commitment to debunking those aspects cold pizza, cheap beer and old friends in a of group formation which rely on demeansymbiotic circleqerk. While there is a certain ing outsiders. For most groups these aspects comfort in familiarity, at a certain point one are not crucial to the group’s mission and must question the motivation for continued could potentially be eliminated without subabstinence from new experiences, especially stantive changing core beliefs. The goal of given the apparent lack ofconsequences. Why, intellectual discourse, after all, isn’t necesthen, do we continue to pracsarily change but open and honest experience. Most of us tice safe syntax? are probably lost as to how to Could it be fear that keeps convince others to abandon us from putting the moves on condoms. Fortunately, generaa new ideology? Surely any tions of sleazy guys have comrational person, when teeterpiled a vast sea of anti-condom ing on the verge ofintellectuliterature for us to cross-apply al exploration, would be and fit to our peculiar situaafraid of getting shot down as Andrew waugh tion. For example; soon as he exposed himself “I’m too big a condom. ’’This to the world. Everyone acts the widening gyre excuse isn’t sofor much about realunder the assumption that outreaches will be met with ity as it is about persuasive abilihostility, and given the state of discourse in the ty. In a situation of limited information, your world today, I am not surprised. Not only have potential partner is probably unfamiliar with the size and scope ofyour intellect so you will most of us formed into collectives oflike-mindhave to convince him that your ideas are big ed individuals, but most of these groups establish part of their identity in opposition to and exciting enough to warrant the risk of reother groups. The adversarial nature of group linquishing protection. Explain to him that formation leads to the conclusion that any your conversational method is so cerebral and inter-group mingling must be conducted intricate that any protection wielded against it under conditions of consummate safety. We will surely cause you to break concentration accomplish this by trafficking in the broadest and result in a sub-par intellectual experience and most easily defensible paradigms of our for both ofyou. Only in a state of complete vulgroup and mentally shielding them from any nerability will you be able to employ your tools towards a state ofmutual benefit. suspected outsider subversion. We wear intel“It’s against my religion. To use this argulectual condoms.

To the extent that each group fears being ment you must not be concerned with boastinfected by influence from another group, the ing of the intricacy of your methods or the size of your intellect. Rather, you must be usage and strength ofintellectual condoms inconcerned with communicating to your partcrease. What we experience in effectis an armsrace of adversarial ideas. Even if we would be ners that you are truly committed to the ideal willing, in theory, to toss out our condoms and of free and open discussion. You must conengage in unprotected intellectual inter- vince your partners that, constricted by ideocourse, we fear that our partners are wearing logical commitments (be they to a god or any protection, that the sacrifice is uneven and the other abstraction of moral force), you have no choice but to conduct relations without discourse therefore cheap and hollow. Convinced that experimentation results only in using protection. This strategy provides your abuse, we have developed a disturbing pattern partners with a complete set of information, of intellectual assault in our society. In an atallowing them to make their decision with confidence. If they lie to you and you get contact, to for we tempt satisfy urges out-group whip out our paradigm, fully sheathed, and at- screwed, no matter—you can take solace in your beliefs and rest assured that they will be tempt to force it on our adversaries. They, however, being appropriately condomed thempunished for their impiety.

If both of these attempts fail to break the selves, take little notice of our assault, other than to note its sadistic impropriety and use it condom, and you are still desperate for a wild as fuel for future attacks. No information is exnight of unprotected intellectual stimulation, changed except the notice ofcontinued malice you can always rely on my old standby: “C’mon and the deepening of adversarial divisions. baby, it justfeels better ivithout one.

Free love may have died in the ’7os, but its Andrew Waugh is a Trinity senior. demise was motivated by the spread of dis-

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'Kiss me, John Forbes Kerry' When John reached out across the space between them, he knew bones Kerry, what’s the big deal? he was doing more than symbolizing how theirpartnership would 2. Sex as meta-discursive power metaphor Foucault also criticized the ‘juridico-discursive” conbridge the gap between the divided halves of America. He was making an overture that could both save him and damn him, but ception of power as that which simply operates legalisticalas he took John’s rough-skinned palm into his own cool, smooth ly and hierarchically. Instead, power is better understood as a multiplicity of productive forces, working in every difingers, he knew he couldn’t resist.

That touch sparked something in him, something that made rection in every relationship. The sexuality-discourse is so him dream of an end to so many cold, lonely, long Massachusetts pervasive, then, because it is a powerful metaphor for nights, and a beginning to something beautiful and warm in the such subtle and complex power relations.

District of Columbia. He looked into those twinkling eyes and So even if the Kerry/Edwards encounter did not hapleaned forward, hoping to hear that soft Southern voice tell him, pen exactly as described, it is still important as a signifier—“Yes. ’’Just that one word, and then he could take so much more a means by which a disaffected public can grasp the details of an increasingly arcane and rarified pofrom those soft lips. above represents just one instance litical world. Edwards’s comparative charisin the recent explosion of Kerry-Edma advantage is thus signified by a femiwards “slash” fiction. Slash fiction (a nized sexual desirability, just as his “rough label derived from its original designation as hands” serve as a metonymy for his work“Kirk/Spock” fiction in the years of the first ing class background.

“Star Trek” television series) traditionally The sex metaphor even has room for subversive elements. Consider this complaces figures from popular culture in homoerotic situations; the genre was recognized as ment appended to another text by rob goodman a legitimate branch of folk literature by a “nzrayza”: “I like how it’s now ‘canonilobster sticks to magnet cal’ (!) that Big vote of the Brown University English departJohn is mesmerised by ment in 1998 (www.brown.edu/departLittle John’s ‘warmth’ and his neck. I like how you take that canon and build on it by adding ments/english/enormouscock/slash.html).

The recent outpouring of Kerry/Edwards slash marks, the smell (Edwards *looks* like he’d smell good!). I like however, is the first known occurrence of politically-rele- how Edwards is the one who’s really in control, from revant erotic fiction. What these texts signify in the current membering the press to taking command in the bedsocio-political climate is best examined with special refer- room.” Just as Foucault’s model would predict, K/E ence to Michel Foucault’s landmark 1976 work, Histoire de slash characterizes the running-mates’ relationship as la Sexualite. We will see that the phenomenon of K/E slash much more multifaceted than a straightforward top-toconfirms several of Foucault’s key theses. bottom one/ 1. Sex as vicarious confessionality Let’s look at one last text, this one a rare instance of For Foucault, Western sexuality is less fixed in a state of Kerry/Gephardt slash, composed by “marcusaureliusl “Dick, there’s no easy way to tell you this... There’s another repression than part of an evolving discourse, the “scientia sexualis,” which attempts to anatomize carnality as an apman. propriate object of empirical enquiry. Key to this enquiry is The former House Minority Leader’s muscles tensed in a brief the concept of confession, which has as its goal the expospasm of agony, but Kerry’s hand was suffered to remain where it sure, rather than the repression, of sexual singularity. was. “Let me guess, ’’Dick said. “It’s some pretty young thing you A look at the above passage shows that its author, met in the Senate.

“Whitney,” is playing a dual role as confessee/confessor.

“It’s not like that! Listen to me, Dick, no one can ever replace As confessee, Whitney has sexualized her political moyou or your sterling ties to organized labor or your comprehensive tives, tfahSmuting her implied goal of Kerry/Edwards vicnational healthcareplan or, sweet Jesus, those eyebrows—not now, tory into a narrativized fantasy of successful courtship in a not ever. It’s just that the American people demand process of reverse sublimation that makes her text avail“Shut up! Kiss me, John Forbes Kerry. able for public consumption on the Internet.

We see, of course, the same tendencies at work. The Even more importantly, Whitney is acting as confessor writer reconceptualizes Gephardt’s rejection to be runfor Kerry and Edwards by imputing sexual motives to their ning-mate as romantic rejection and employs a trope that political partnership and then publicizing those motives recasts the Congressman’s constituencies (“organized as actual fact. In this, she seems only to be in keeping with labor”) as physically attractive attributes on par with the trend in politics toward extreme personalization in“those eyebrows.” At the same time, Gephardt emerges tended to bridge the mass-media-imposed gap between not as abject victim but rather as sexo-political aggressor.

3. Further reading image and felt reality that was noted by Marshall McLuhan as early as the 19605. Nor, considering the ’9os, is the Editorial constrains prevent me from continuing in this politicization of actual sex a bridge too far. vein, but I have 17 more points. However, a full precis will So now we have the sexualization of actual politics. be appearing in the October issue of the Journal ofSocial Whitney vicariously confesses a sexual encounter on beHistory, and I encourage all interested parties to give it half of Kerry and Edwards, and the result is no less “real” their consideration. than any number of soundbites, photo-opportunities or convention balloon drops. In other words: If Edwards Rob Goodman is a Trinity senior.

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people say that when you look into a child’s eyes you can see the future. Now normally after those people say something like that, we usually ask them whether they have taken their pills, and most of the time, their response is, “No, not yet.” But regardless of whether those people had neurotic disorders, there is probably some truth in that statement.

So it got me to thinking: Can you really tell what will happen to a person given their actions as a kid?

I mean, George Dubya did some drugs as a kid, and he ended up being president. And dial’s not just a Republican phenomenon. Many of our past presidents have experimented with illegal substances— Clinton with the wacky tobacky and Eisenhower with gin and tonic (hey, he grew up during prohibition, people). So does that mean that if I do drugs, it will strengthen my chance of winning the New Hampshire primary in 2024? Because if so, that would be a great excuse for parents when they find out I was doing something illegal.

There has got to be some sort of tell-tale sign that will show us just how this child will turn out. And then I realized, you know, I used to play with that board game Sorry all the time when I was a kid, and as it turns out, I happen to be apologizing for lots of things in my life. So that’s got to have some sort of connection. The toys that a yoni riemer kid plays with have don't read me got to be telling.

Now I’m not talking about “kids” as in the people who live in my dorm who play X-box seven hours a day and who think Tom Clancy is “this guy who keeps coming up with great first-person shooter games.” I’m talking about kids between the ages of “oops, I wet myself’ and “what is this bumpy pink thing on my face.” Now those kids have lots of influencing what happens to them.Who’s to say that a kid’s older brothers should have more influence than the Milton Bradley brothers?

I did a nationwide survey ofinfluential people and received some very interesting results: Toys are very influential on kids.

Donald Trump said he played a lot of the game Monopoly when he was growing up. Risk, the game of world domination, was a childhood favorite of our very own commander in chief (although he did mention that holding onto North America for more than four years always proved pretty difficult for him).

And of course, when Oprah was seven years old, she would go nowhere without her traveling set ofHungry Hungry Hippos.

While there was so much more, what was truly interesting about all these retrieved surveys was a consistent “no” answer to the question, “Do you play with these toys anymore?” While some celebrities said the occasional yo-yo trick would prove amusing, they rarely had time to sit back and play one of their childhood games. Now that’s got to be a tragedy.

Some of us are already making important decisions in life, like what to study, who to date or what light beer to buy. And for the rest ofyou, one day that time will come when you will have to make a decision, like whether to spend that extra 59 cents to Biggie Size it. But all of us need to be aware that when we get out into the real world—a world where you may actually have to pay for drinks, a world where AIM is just a word for sportsmen with rifles, and in that world we might get lost. And you might get out of Duke and grow up a little too fast. Chill out, cub scout. Have a nice quiet night at home and whip out that Scrabble set. Find those old dominos or, dare I say, Magic cards? Pogs?

So maybe I poked fun at the kids down the hall with the high scores in Mario Tennis, but perhaps we need a little of those kids in each of us when we get out of here. Go for that law-school-Fortune-500-cure—

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er-you-want lifestyle, but don’t get so swept up that you lose the big picture. Play Monopoly. What’s the fun in life if your life isn’t really that fun? (And stop giving Buzz Lightyear toys to kids. We have way to many unemployed astronauts in the world).

Yoni Riemer is a Trinity sophomore.

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The Inauguration

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The following inaugural activities are open to everyone.

Please join us in the celebration of the Inauguration ofRichard H. Brodhead.

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Saturday, September 11 10:00 a.m.

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Gatheringfor Community

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Panel Discussion Duke University Past Present and Future

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Reynolds Price, English Nancy B. Allen, School of Medicine

Panel Discussion Globalization of Culture'

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West Campus Quadrangles (Rain Site: Bryan University Center)

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Anne Allison, Cultural Anthropology Ariel Dorfinan, Literature and Latin American Studies Henry Petroski, Civil Engineering and History Richard J. Powell, Art and Art History Annabel}. Wharton, Art and Art History Von Canon B, Bryan University Center ~

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Moderator: Victor J. Dzau, Chancellor for Health Affairs

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Panel Discussion Global Challenges Bruce W. Jendeson, Public Policy Studies Nan M. Jokerst, Electrical and Computer

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