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Although Duke University Health System is growing from cigarette money, it received a bill of excellent health this year. DUHS reported its best financial performance since the system’s inception in 1998: $55.5 million in operating income from a total patient revenue of about $1.4 billion. This marks a major recovery following a low of $ll million in operating losses in 2000. Despite this income—which is from the fiscal year that ended June 30—hospital officials remained cautious about future performance. ‘This level of profitability really represents what I would

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political craving and a sweet tooth with the cast of a single ballot. Students can turn in absentee ballots in return for a bar of chocolate through One Sweet Vote, a program developed by Craven Quad graduate assistant Melissa Bixler. After Bixler spent the summer leading political focus groups, she brought her ideas back to Duke hoping to achieve two goals. The new program aims to heighten awareness about issues on both ends of the political spectrum and to prompt more students to vote, even if they are not registered in North Carolina. Bixler said the absentee process is more difficult than switching voter registration to North Carolina, so she felt that providing help and easy access was an important element of the program.

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George McLendon gives his first official address to the Arts and Sciences Council Thursday, noting undergraduate research as a high priority for the coming years.

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characterize as baseline performance,” said Ken Morris, chief financial officer of DUHS. “If we maintain this level, we will have the flexibility in the future to do what we want to do. But if we fall off, it might be tight, and some things might not get done.” Frank Sloan, J. Alexander McMahon professor of economics and a specialist in health policy and management, agreed and said profitability is highly volatile. “This is a razor thin kind of situation,” he said. “It doesn’t take much to go from a profit to a lost.” DUHS, a non-profit and private organization, outperformed last year’s earnings by about $lO

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At Thursday’s meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council, the first since it was restructured last year, everything was new: the members, the Executive Committee and George McLendon, who addressed the Council for the first time as dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences. After praising the “very thoughtful new format” of the Council, McLendon oudined his vision for the role ofArts and Sciences at the University. Intellectual climate among students, faculty hiring amid budget concerns and opportunities for excellence in interdisciplinary work topped his list of issues on which to focus. In order to enrich the intellectual climate at the University, McLendon plans to boost the number of students participating in academic research and improve the availability of resources needed to increase collaboration between faculty and

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“It felt somewhat irresponsible to say, ‘Here’s the absentee ballot, good luck,’” she said. The GAs running One Sweet Vote hope it will alleviate some of the apathy Duke has seen in the past when it comes to voting. Deb Lo Biondo, the assistant

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Comedian Lewis Black gave a profanity-laced performance Thursday night in Page Auditorium to a sold-out crowd. A regular correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Black was typically caustic in his scathing political and social commentary. “I thought it was a great success. We had a sold-old crowd and Lewis did a great job,” said Kevin Parker, president of the Duke University Union, the organization that brought Black to campus. Black’s visit to Duke was a homecoming of sorts, as he attended the University' of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an undergraduate. He often escaped the “oppressive preppiness” of UNC by visiting the gothic wonderland several times a week. The comedian began his set with events at the beginning of the calendar year. “For the first time in my lifetime, this entire country stopped and focused as one,” he said. “We could see where all our problems were coming from. I am speaking, of course, ofjanetjackson’s breast.” Derisively referring to the MTV-produced Super Bowl halftime show as the “most important

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Comedian Lewis Black performs for a boisterous crowd in Page Auditorium. cultural show of the year,” Black argued that Americans were as desperate to see her breast as they were to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He also out the irony with America’s “revulsion” at the faux-pas while network news continuously replayed the moment. “Oh, let’s look at that nipple again! It’s 5:02 and we haven’t seen it since 5 o’clock,” he joked. Black returned to the issue of sex and society throughout the night. “The idea of gays marrying each other made our president crazy. [President George W.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq American warplanes struck militant positions in two insurgent-controlled cities Thursday and U.S. and Iraqi troops quietly took control of a third in a sweeping crackdown following a spike in attacks against U.S. forces. More than 60 people were reported killed, most of them in Tal Afar, one of several cities which American officials acknowledged this week had fallen under insurgent control and become “no-go” zones. Nine people, including two children, were reported killed in an airstrike in Fallujah against a house which U.S. command

suspected of use by allies of the Jordanianborn terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. American and Iraqi troops also moved into Samarra for the first time in months. The robust strikes came during a week in which nearly 20 American troops were killed—pushing the U.S. military death toll in the Iraq campaign above 1,000—and al Qaeda claimed U.S. forces neared defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan. ‘The Americans in both countries are between two fires, if they continue they bleed to death and if they withdraw they lose everything,” Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy, said on a videotape broadcast Thursday by Al-Jazeera.

President George W. Bush received a National Security Council briefing on Iraq early Thursday from Geh. John Abizaid, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte and other top officials. White House spokesperson Scott McClellan refused to say what they toldBush of the surging violence. In a statement, the U.S. command said military operations around Tal Afar were designed to rid the city of “a large terrorist element that has displaced local Iraqi security forces throughout the recent weeks.” The U.S. military said 57 insurgents were killed in the attack on Tal Afar, a northern city near the border with Syria that lies on smuggling routes for weapons and fighters.

NCSU parking rules revised Parking at North Carolina State University home football games will tighten after the shooting deaths of two men during a tailgate party last week.The plan will limit access to the state fairgrounds lot where the men were shot to ticketholders, allotting 600 spaces for students and 600 for others.

Congress passes suicide bill Legislation passed Thursday that sets aside $B2 million over the next three years for programs to help prevent youth suicide. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., sponsored the bill as a tribute to his son in an attempt to help families avoid the pain of suicide.

Ivan devastates Caribbean, heads for Fla. by

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ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada Hurricane Ivan took aim Thursday at Jamaica and possibly Florida after killing 23 people in five countries and devastating Grenada, where police fired tear gas to stop a looting frenzy and frightened students armed themselves with knives and sticks. Ivan, the deadliest hurricane to hit the Caribbean in a decade, pummeled Grenada, Barbados and other southern islands Tuesday. It weakened slightly and was downgraded Thursday from a Category five hurricane—the most powerful —to a Category 4 storm packing 150 mph winds but was still expected to pound Jamaica, where officials urged a half million people to evacuate coastal and flood-prone areas by Friday. “I don’t think it will make much difference to the impact for Ja-

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maica because they’re going to get a direct hit,” said Chris Hennon, a meteorologist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. U.S. officials ordered people to evacuate the Florida Keys after forecasters said the storm —the fourth major hurricane of a busy Atlantic season—could hit the island chain by Sunday after crossing over Cuba. It was the third evacuation ordered there in a month. Officials are also thinking evacuating the 1,000 Americans in Grenada, mostly university students who said they want to leave. The storm left its worst damage in Grenada, where from the air it appeared that nearly every house had been ripped up. Hunks of twisted metal and splintered wood torn from homes were strewn across the hillsides and roads of this country of 100,000 people. Many trees were snapped off, and those left standing were stripped of their leaves. The stone walls of the capital’s cathedral withstood the storm, but the entire roof had caved in.

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Representatives agreed that maintaining the initial freshman pride fostered in Led by the seasoned and poised senior the East Campus dormitories is crucial in Anthony Vitarelli, the first Campus Council making the quad model successful on meeting of the year touched on a variety of West Campus. “The quad model seems to start with topics ranging from a lengthy discussion freshmen, and when you move to West about the quad model to approving Campus Council’s annual budget and goals. you seem to lose it,” said sophomore Ben“I hope you all are ready for a fun time jamin Rubinfeld, Campus Council repreand what I think is going to be a wild sentative at-large. “We have to make sure ride,” said Vitarelli, who is president of that we help transfer that sense of identiCampus Council for the second year in a ty to the quads.” The question of how selective houses row, to a room full of eager Campus Council representatives, a handful of stufit into the new mold was also tossed dent affairs administrators and several around among the members, with several residence coordinators. representatives noting the importance of The meeting was dominated by delibencouraging the selectives to participate eration about how Campus Council in quad events. could work within the newly implementCouncil members brainstormed several ed quad model to foster a sense of pride venues through which Quad Councils and identity within each of West Camcould foster a sense of identity and pride pus’s six quadrangles. in their quads. These ideas included quad“We aren’t just talking about T-shirts only intramural leagues, quad mascots and with nothing to connect the words on the colors, the ability to decorate and paint shirts to real experiences,” said sophoresidence halls as well as quad barbecues more Damian Denoble, vice president of SEE COUNCIL ON PAGE 4 Campus Council. by

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Students will remember the Sept. 11 attacks with a memorial Saturday at WallaceWade Stadium at 4:30 p.m. The event will include a three-mile run/walk,followed by an a capella performance by Speak of the Devil, remarks from Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, an open mic, free food and a vigil.

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A week after the Durham Police Department arrested a Duke alumna and detained a sophomore at Cafe Parizade in an event an observer called a display of “police brutality,” none of the involved parties or any other patron has filed a complaint with the DPI). DPD officers arrested Claudia Steer, Trinity ’O4, for assault Sept. 7 when she allegedly resisted a police officer who tried to remove her from Parizade. Steer had entered the club by a side door after being denied access because she did not have proper identification. A bouncer called DPD for assistance when Steer reportedly refused his request for her to leave the premises. Lt. Norman Blake, a spokesperson for DPD, said that Steer “refused and became belligerent”

when the police arrived. He said she pushed an officer, which “constitutes an assault.” Onlookers claim immediately after the arrest that it was unusually violent. They said Steer was pushed to the ground by a police officer, causing her top to fall off. Blake denied any claims of excessive force in the arrest and said he did not know how Steer “ended up on the floor of the premises.” Steer could not be reached for comment. Officers detained sophomore Anteneh Addisu, who had recorded the arrest on a digital camera. Addisu alleges that he was handcuffed and’ thrown against a police car. Although he believes he was mistreated, Addisu said he does not think a formal complaint would help the situation. “I’m dealing with the Durham Police DepartPETER GEBHARD/THE CHRONICLE

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At 8 p.m. Thursday, more than 100 people gathered near Brightleaf Square in downtown Durham, candles in hand, imposing an austere silence on the popular destination. These Durham residents standing on the corners of Main and Gregson streets were among tens of thousands of people across the country participating in silent candlelight vigils to honor soldiers killed in Iraq, whose numbers swelled past the 1,000 mark this week. Several Duke graduate students and at least one Duke professor were among the crowd. Jack Bookman, associate professor of the practice of mathematics, said he came to the vigil because “1,000 young people died for no reason.” Stephen Shepherd, a neurobiology research assistant? graduate student, and Elizabeth Bigger, a fourth-year medical student, said they were mourning the deaths of both Americans and Iraqis killed in the war, a sentiment echoed by many people attending the vigil. “Nationality does not determine the sacredness of life,” Durham resident TINA LIANG/THE CHRONICLE Alice Hall said. “That Iraqi lives are lost is I,oooth Just after the U.S. died Durham honortheircontributions. in Iraq, vigil participants in days soldier just as horrific as the fact that Americans were killed.” Connie Stafford, who was in town from with him,” Stafford said. “But when you’re memberWorld War 11, when war was honColorado visidng her friend Susan Holder, not be behind the decisions, and when I orable,” Ron Greene said. ‘That war was served with the Air Force during Operathink of people blindly going to war, it just not only honorable, but also necessary.” tion Desert Storm fixing military aircraft at breaks my heart.... Any number of people Ron Greene was 17 years old at the a base in England. Stafford said she could killed there is too many, but 1,000 is just end ofWorld War 11, just missing the last not imagine being in the armed forces way too much.” draft for the war. The event attracted many generations “It’s such a waste, all those young lives during the current conflict. “It’s hard enough when you sign up and of people. Durham residents Ron and being lost,” said Ron’s wife Chris Chris Greene could not help but draw give your allegiance to whatever the commander in chief proposes when you agree comparisons to World War 11. “I can reSEE VIGIL ON PAGE 6

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COUNCIL from page 3 that were open to freshmen who would link to that quad the following year. Vitarelli focused on creating a feeling of home within the quads byway of empowering the Quad Councils to sponsor inclusive events and meaningful projects. ‘The concept is two-fold,” he said to frame Campus Council’s debate. “First, how do you get people to associate a sense of belonging with their quad? Second, how do you make a quad home?” Before the discussion of identity within quads, Campus Council unanimously approved its budget for the 2004-2005 academic year. The budget totaled a little less than $130,000, divided among internal costs, external programming and the finance committee. The Last Day ofClasses celebration received the largest portion of the programming budget, close to $60,000, the same amount it received last year. “We want to be able to have an amazing Last Day of Classes, and we have the money, so why not?” said treasurer Brittany Greenfield, a sophomore, of the allocation of funds.

VOTE from page 1 people’s minds, students agreed that One Sweet Vote can expect a high turnout due to the combination of convenience and sugary allure. “It’s good to have a place where you can turn in your absentee ballot,” senior Larissa West said, “especially if there’s chocolate. One Sweet Vote will also sponsor four election-related, including political party question-and-answer sessions and debates that will culminate in an election night party Nov. 2. ”

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BLACK from page 1 Bush] found it so intolerable he wanted a constitutional amendment, Black said, adding that he thought it was ludicrous. “It’s a borderline psychotic idea. Code Orange! People who are in love getting married—that’s the real threat to America.” Having a field day covering the recent Republican National Convention, Black appealed to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to make up a better story of why he became a Republican other than that he was “inspired” by Richard Nixon. “If you are going to make up a story, make it a happy story,” Black said. But his attacks were not limited to one side of the political spectrum. Not only did he mock Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s daughters for their “pathetic” hamster stories, he painted a grim picture of current politics. ‘The Democrats blow—they have no ideas. The Republicans suck—they have bad ideas,” said Black, describing the political contest as an uninspired bit of insanity. Black added that he could not understand how people ”

DUHS from page 1 million and grew its patient revenue by about $lOO million Morris attributed the turnaround to better cost control and the re-negotiation of unfavorable managed-care and insurance contracts. Patient volume has also risen. “Take those three things, and... we have a different picture,” Morris said, adding that DUHS has solved many of its core, income-draining problems. Durham Regional Hospital, part of DUHS, also contributed an all-time high of $8 million to the system’s total profit. “[Durham Regional] was a problem when we acquired it, but now it is fixed,” Morris said. “It is operating at a level that is equal to what it should be.” This increase is a big change for Durham Regional which has posted $35 million in losses over the last five years. Last year, it turned a profit for the first time since Duke acquired the community hospital. Sloan said part of the boost was increased market share in an incredibly competitive market. The tough market will still require careful diligence by Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and CEO of DUHS. “[Dzau] will be forced by the markets to watch costs,” Sloan said. “This is not a high profit industry.” Sloan also attributed the increased income for DUHS to hiring permanent nurses instead of using traveling nurses, which are a greater cost burden. The health center currendy has approximately $795 million in unrestricted cash and investments with a $445 million debt load. Officials are required to pay back $ll million per year, but this year it lowered its debt by $45 million. Morris said the system annually pumps $BO million into equipment and infrastructure each year.

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plaint would do any good,” he added Addisu said that Steer bore the brunt of the “mistreatment,” but he did not know if she had any plans to fde a formal grievance or otherwise make her claims

more public. “I spoke with her about two days ago, and I sent her the video clips, but beyond that I don’t know,” he said. “If what happened to her happened to me, I’d definitely press charges.”

Addisu said that his experience would make him more wary of similar entanglements with the police in the future. “If the situation happened again, I’d try to stay out of harms way,” he said. Because no one has come forward with a formal grievance, DPD cannot conduct an inquiry into its officers’ behavior. “No complaint has been filed,” Blake said. “And with no complaint, there will be no internal investigation.”

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would make to the University as a whole. “We have grown beyond what’s really a steady-state, sustainable size,” McLendon said. ‘We’re no longer able to provide sufficient resources for the excellent faculty that we already have here.” However, McLendon promised to fulfill prior commitments to specific departments and to maintain faculty diversity and interdisciplinary strength as top recruitment priorities. In McLendon’s view, interdisciplinary academic work is one of the University’s greatest assets. “Differentially, we’re likely to invest there,” McLendon said. ‘That’s a signature opportunity for Duke, to build bridges of that kind.” He also highlighted opportunities for capitalizing on the links between Arts and Sciences and the other schools at Duke. In the course of his speech, McLendon praised Gregson Davis, Susan Roth and Steve Nowicki—recently appointed deans of Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences, respectively —and laid out the challenges and opportunities each of them face, among which are budgetary issues. “We laugh together and, sometimes, cry together when we

look at the budget,” McLendon said. Fiscal difficulties will likely to constrain any new initiatives within Arts and Sciences over the next few years, but McLendon called financial frustrations a sort of blessing, pushing faculty to be creative in the paths they take to success. “The president and I are committed to obtaining new resources,” McLendon said, “but it is going to be critical that those resources be used strategically.”

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“Duke students tend to characterize themselves... as Vork hard, play hard,’ where ‘work hard’ generally means drinking,” said McLendon, adding that he would rather students replace this dichotomous conception of work and play with an appreciation for the pleasure of intellectual pursuits. To this end, he announced his intention to double the percentage of students graduating with distinction, an honor that requires the research and completion of a substantial thesis. Currendy, 12 percent of undergraduates graduate with distinction. McLendon said the accomplishment of this goal would make such an intellectual focus “normative” among students. McLendon’s comments about future faculty recruitment were full of decrees. No longer will hirings be “business as usual,” nor will “adding a random appointment here or there to an individual department” solve any problems, he warned. Departments will now need to justify additions to the payroll in the context of the contributions that new faculty members

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The following inaugural activities are open to everyone. Please join us in the celebration of the Inauguration ofRichard H. Brodhead. Saturday, September 11 10:00 a.m.

Saturday, September 18

9-11 Remembrance ~

10:00 a.m.

Memorial Grove Keohane Quadrangle

Campus Tour ~

9:30-10:45 a.m Moderator: Faculty:

Community and Family Life Recreation Center at Lyon Park ~

Panelists:

(1 313 Halley Street; corner of Halley and Kent Streets)

Tuesday, September 14

Faculty: Panelists:

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Moderator: Faculty: Panelists:

Panel Discussion

Global Health

Victor J. Dzau, Chancellor for Health Affairs and President and ChiefExecutive Officer, Duke University Health System Robert M. Cook-Deegan, Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy Barton E Haynes, School of Medicine James A. Joseph, Public Policy Studies William Roper, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Priscilla Wald, English Von Canon A, Bryan University Center

Panel Discussion Globalization of Culture Anne Allison, Cultural Anthropology

3:00 p.m

Inauguration Ceremony Duke Chapel Quadrangle (Rain Site: Duke Chapel) ~

4:30-6:00 p.m.

Reception West Campus Quadrangles (Rain Site: Bryan University Center) ~

Community Dance

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Tight end Ben Patrick will look to find holes in the UConn defense whenthe tradition basketball powers square off Saturday.

Duke aims by

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When Dan Orlovsky headed college, he stayed within the small state of Connecticut. He a mere 70 miles froVh ■holme instead of heading to a more established football power like Notre Dame. Since the senior joined the Huskies, his impact has spread far beyond those 70 miles. He has led a team that moved from a to

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Division I-AA status to a legitimate Division I-A football program in a BCS conference, Orlovsky was voted Big East Preseason Player of the Year and named to the watchlists for top quarterback lionors. After starting 32 games, he is set to lead Connecticut into his 33rd start against Duke. For the Blue Devils, Saturday’s noon game will come down to defense, Just as last week’s contest

Navy did. The team faced Navy’s triple-option offense that rushed for 301 yards and left Annapolis with a 0-1 record. Saturday, Duke will have to conat

tend with a very strong passing game led by Orlovsky. “Obviously it’s a lot of speed and a fantastic quarterback and a very solid offensive line,” Duke head coach Ted Roof said. “First

SEE UCONN ON PAGE 12

Two Goliaths of the turf meet this weekend. In a rematch of last year’s national championship game, Duke (3-1) travels to WinstonSalem to take on Wake Forest (50) in a game that has as much importance as any regular season duel can have. The two squads met earlier this season for a preseason scrimmage in which the Demon Deacons shut out the Blue Devils 2-0; but a lot has happened since then. Wake Forest opened its season in style, beating a wellrespected Michigan team 3-1 and steamrolling through four other opponents. The Blue Devils, however, started the season with a very hard-earned victory over a weak Louisville team, and then promptly lost to Michigan State the next day. Even though Duke bounced back after the breakdown against the Spartans with two blowout victories over New Hampshire and Towson, it is obvious to Blue Devil’s head coach Beth Bozman that this team should have done better.

“This has been a long process really get into our game this

year for whatever reason,” Bozman said. “I mean, there is pressure, there are expectations, there is the fear of failure, all that stuff, but I think we are evolving every day.” Duke is approaching the battle with its intra-state rival knowing that this year’s Wake Forest team is different from last year’s. The inexperienced sophomore goalie Kristina Gagliardi will start for the Demon Deacons, and her team has adjusted its game plan to support her. Wake Forest will play with two forwards, while the Blue Devils use three. The extra body allows the Demon Deacons to keep one extra player in the circle for defensive purposes, allowing the team to protect its keeper, who is not as strong as last year’s netminder, Grant said. To cope with the extra defender, Bozman has had her forwards work on movement this week. In the preseason scrimmage against Wake Forest, Duke not only lost, but failed to create solid scoring SEE FIELD HOCKEY ON PAGE 12

MEN'S SOCCER

Rennie to face former team in Classic by

Galen Vaisman THE CHRONICLE

On the surface, Duke’s Friday night matchup against Columbia (1-0-1) in the

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Classic appears to be like any other regular season game. For the second week in a row though, the Blue Devils (3-0) will play a match that bears additional meaning for head coach John Rennie. In his 26th year at Duke, Rennie will square off for the first time against the team with which he started his Division I head coaching career. “I’m justlooking forward to it,” Rennie said. “Last week we played Temple and they were my alma mater so it was interesting playing against [them]. I’m sure it will be mixed emotions playing against the team I used to coach, but it will be a great experience for me.” In 1973, the 27-year-old Rennie took over a program at Columbia that was not in the best of shape. His first three seasons at the school were tough, as the Lions only mustered four wins over that stretch. Through hard work and perseverance though, Rennie turned the program around, and in 1978 the team won its first Ivy League Championship. In the wake of this accomplishment, Duke offered Rennie its head coaching position, and he moved from New York to Durham. What makes the matchup more intriguing, however, is that Rennie’s successor at Columbia, Dieter Ficken, remains the coach

there to this day. Following Rennie’s departure, Ficken built on what his predecessor started and turned Columbia into the premier soccer power of the Ivy League. The school won seven consecutive Ivy League Championships from 1979 to 1985, and one more in 1993. However, Dieter is not the only area head coach that Rennie has maintained a relationship with over the years. During the past few seasons, Rennie has grown close to Seth Roland, the head coach of No. 17 Fairleigh Dickinson. So, when the time came to determine the teams for this year’s Classic, the decision was fairly easy to make. “We just thought it would be fun to play,” Rennie said. “So of course, Farleigh Dickenson is another northeast, New York metropolitan team... so we just thought that I’d be kind of like... [a] New York versus the ACC sort of thing.” Although Duke has outscored its opponents 18-0 over their first three games, Coach Rennie and his team acknowledge that its success has come largely against competition that is weaker than its opponents this weekend. “We realize the competition is going to be a little bit better and we’ll be prepared for that,” said junior midfielder Blake Camp, the SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 10

Before becoming head coach at Duke 26 years ago, John Rennie called the shotsfor Columbia.

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Sometimes, a bench clearing incident Just gives a team that little extra push it needs to get going. For the second consecutive day, Durham kept a normally raging Buffalo Bison offense dormant to

Snapping a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the sixth, the Bulls exploded offensively for six runs, capped by a monstrous Jonny Gomes three-run home BUFFALO run. After a brilHant eight-inning DURHAM 7

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VOLLEYBALL

Blue Devils aim to spike tournament competition

win 7-3.

Matt Guisinger THE CHRONICLE

When teams host their early-season tournaments, they generally schedule a

Jim Magrane, Durham has a commanding 2-0 lead in their best-of-five openinground playoff series as the teams head to Buffalo for the remaining games. The Bulls’ sixth-inning offensive spurt came after Buffalo reliever Jack Cressend plunked Charlie Gipson in the arm. The two exchanged some choice words, both benches cleared and the teams argued around the mound until the umpires broke up the crowd. The near-brawl was just what the Bulls needed. The team poured it on with a single by Keith Osik, an RBI single by Luis Ordaz and a walk by Gathwright. With the bases loaded, first baseman Jason Maxwell ended Cressend’s night when he ripped a two-run single up the middle. To top off the six-run inning, Gomes ripped a threerun homer off ofreliever Lee Gronkiewicz. After a pair of scoreless innings, the Bulls’ bullpen struggled through the ninth. Two runs crossed the plate and the Bison had runners at first and third, but Durham got out of the inning to leave town with a 7-3 victory. Although the Bulls ultimately won the game with their hot bats, Magrane keep the team in the game until it broke the contest open in the sixth. For second consecutive game, the Bison, who usually plate six runs per game, were held well under their average. Marvelous defensive plays by second baseman Brooks Badeaux also saved several of runs. Both teams staggered out of the gate, wasting solid scoring chances. In the top of the first, Buffalo threatened after consecutive singles by left fielder Jason Tyner and Jhonny Peralta. Magrane got out of the inning with some crafty pitching and a marvelous showing of athleticism, when, he snagged a one hopper to start a 1-6-3 double play. In the bottom of the second, the Bulls had their first good scoring chance when Jared Sandberg and Gipson hit consecutive singles. With two on and two out, however, a

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Jonny Gomes was instrumental at the plate for theBulls. He smashed a three-run homer in the sixth.

good defensive play by Buffalo second baseman Brandon Phillips ended the inning. The Bison continued to apply pressure in the top of the third, as Phillips, a former Expos top prospect, ripped a line drive up the middle with one out. On a miscommunication by outfielders Joey Gathwright and Gipson, Phillips scored from first on a Peralta single with two outs. Durham breathed a sigh of relief when Badeaux saved at least one run, snagging a ball off the bat of Grady Sizemore. The Bisons wasted another great scor-

ing opportunity in the top of the fifth. The visitors began the inning with three consecutive singles but ultimately failed to score a run. Magrane struck out the fourth hitter Peralta looking and then induced a 5-3 double play when Ernie Young hit a ball sharply down the third base line. The Bulls leave for Buffalo needing to win only one-of-three games to go on to the International League Championship next week. With the way they have played the last two games, the Bison are most definitely shaking in their hooves.

series of games that should result in easy victories. But that is far from the case for the Blue Devils volleyball team at this weekend’s Duke Invitational Tournament in Cameron Indoor Stadium. ‘This should be a good tournament, all games are going to be very competitive,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “It should be a good weekend of volleyball, we’re excited to come out and show the Duke community what we have to offer.” Duke (2-2) looks to build on a promising start in its home opener tonight at 7 p.m. against South Carolina (3-1). The Blue Devils will then face Towson (3-1) and Northern Illinois (2-3) Saturday at 12:30 and 7:30 p.m., respectively. After Duke squared off against some tough competition in the Loyola Marymount Classic last weekend, including a host team which consistently ranks in the top 25, the Gamecocks will present another formidable challenge. “South Carolina is a good team that is always physical, aggressive and well coached,” said Nagel of a team that has already notched victories against Clemson, Marshall and Connecticut Towson scored an impressive victory last weekend against ACC foe Virginia Tech to go along with wins over Lehigh and Morgan State. The Tigers are the unanimous favorite to win the Colonial Athletic Association. “With Towson, you’re talking about a scrappy, gutsy team that’s coming off of a conference tide last year,” Nagel said. ‘This will be a very competitive game.” The Blue Devils come into the weekend SEE VOLLEYBALL ON PAGE 12

M. SOCCER from page 9

Midfielder Spencer Wadsworth is one of several freshmen who play significant roles for the Blue Devils.

team’s leading scorer against St. Francis last Sunday. The Blue Devils, however, do not plan any radical departures from their normal routine and will continue to look to capitalize on their tremendous depth up front. On the defensive side of the ball, freshman Tim Jepson has drawn much of the attention for his stellar play as Duke’s starting sweeper. Jepson’s teammate in the backfield, sophomore Danny Miller, said Jepson has shown “not only good defending, but great leadership as well.” Jepson, Miller, senior Mike White and the rest of the defensive unit will be hardpressed to continue their shutout streak against a potent Columbia offensive, which features sophomore forward Scott Waddell, theLion’s co-leader in goals last season and two time recipient of the Ivy League’s Rookie of the Week honor in 2003.

Senior leader Tassy Rufai is one of the team's best blockers at the net.

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UCONN from page 9 thing we always got to do is stop the run. You can’t let people have both [a running and passing game]... you got to take away one. You got to try and keep him off-balance.” For Duke, stopping the running game will likely be easier than shutting down Orlovsky’s air attack. Last season the UConn quarterback averaged 2.9 touchdown passes per game. Orlovsky tied his career-high with 382 passing yards and five touchdown passes in last weekend’s win over Murray State. Duke’s ability to counter the Huskies’ air assault may be hampered by the loss of Kenneth Stanford. After suffering an injury at Navy, Stanford is still listed as day-to-day. Roof said that although much of the focus is on defense, the team still has to make plays on the other side of the ball. As was the case last week, both signalcallers, Mike Schneider and Chris Dapolito, will see time running the offense. Roof said that Schneider would remain the starter. ‘You just have to be ready to play no matter where you are on the depth chart,” Schneider said. ’’Right now we are both number one it seems like, until one of us proves that we’re head and shoulders better than the other... [Last week] penalties really killed us. We shot ourselves

FIELD HOCKEY w. opportunities. The Blue Devil forwards’ hard work has paid off, and seniorback Grade Sorbello can attest to that. “As a defender playing against our forwards, it is hard,” Sorbello said. Duke also did

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against Wake in the scrimmage, and it is another way the Blue Devils plan to generate offense this weekend, said Sorbello. The mindset Duke has coming into this game is very much shaped by its loss to the Spartans. Grant thinks that her team is much better off after the loss, and is happy the team was tested early in the year.

in the foot and next thing you know the game is over.” If the game comes down to the wire, the Huskies have the advantage; the Blue Devils struggled in the second half last week, and the Huskies have a strong track record in close games. UConn, which has won its previous six games dating back to last season, has had four of these contests decided within the final 30 seconds. “Whether it’s business or whatever, you got to be able to close the deal,” Roof said. “We got to be able to get to the end of the deal to close it. You attack it and you don’t watch the scoreboard. You think about your assignments. You just play the game, play the next play, and play it as hard and aggressively as you can. You worry about the other stuff at the end of the game.” This is the first meeting ever for the two football squads, but the UConn-Duke rivalry has taken shape over the last few years on the basketball court. Indeed, fans are eager to see the schools send their best to Rentschler Field Saturday. Only 1,000 tickets remain in the stadium that fits about 40,000. “I think it’s two teams that are very hungry to win and there is certainly a history there that started in basketball and developed into a good rivalry,” Roof said. ‘The more hostile the environment, the better it is. We can’t control how they feel. We’ve got to make sure we’re ready to go and we’re representing ourselves.” “I think coming into the season, it is not that we thought that no team can beat us and no team could stop us, but in our heads we thought that we were a winning team and don’t lose too often,” Grant said. “It was almost good to get [the losing] out of our system the first weekend, rather than playing weaker teams like we did [last] weekend.” Duke and Wake Forest met a whopping four times last season, with the Demon Deacons winning three of the contests, but it doesn’t seem to be on the mind of this year’s Blue Devils. “It is Wake, so there is sort of stuff left over from last year I guess, but it is just another game,” senior Johanna Bischof said. ‘We are preparing heavily for that game now, but once you get out there it is just another game.”

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on short rest, but Nagel said the team has had time to improve in practice. Tuesday, Duke had an impressive 3-0 win over Campbell, during which the Blue Devils were in control from the very beginning. “By challenging ourselves it has told us where we are,” said Nagel of the difficult opening stretch. “We’ve learned about ourselves and what we need to work on in practice.” Although freshmen start at key positions, Nagel said the Blue Devils have been serving, passing, and running the

offense well. Senior Tassy Rufai slams down 3.7 kills per game, and emerging freshman stars Ali Hausfield and Carrie DeMange average 13.0 assists per game and 4.6 kills per game, respectively. “We’re excited to be home,” Nagel said. “Cameron is beautiful, and a great place to play.”

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an effort to cut costs and save ter should consider the impact that money, the Career Center is out- paying for credential services will have sourcing its credential services, on the students. Instead of charging which graduate students use to apply graduate students, the Career Center for academic jobs. Interfolio Inc, an should find the money somewhere and subsidize the mailings, online company, has StaiTGdltOricll This would be in the the ability to store best interest of both documents electronically and will improve the quality of the the students and the University. service. The tradeoff, however, is in the If Duke wants to build up its acahundreds of dollars the new service demic reputation, it should turn out will cost graduate students, who are algreat academics. The University ready strapped for cash. Instead of should be encouraging graduate stuusing student payments to defray the dents to apply for the top jobs, and it cost, the Career Center should subsishould be taking all the possible steps dize the estimated $5,000 bill. toward helping them land those jobs. This change is expected to hit huBy making graduate students pay what manities graduate students especially could amount to hundreds of dollars, hard, since it is not unusual for them to however, the University is only accomapply for 50 to 100 jobs. At $5 per mail- plishing the opposite—making it more ing, it can add up quickly. Graduate difficult for graduate students to get students already live on a tight budget, jobs by effectively limiting their opoften a stipend of around $14,000 a tions. If applying to the best job, the year, and some students view the new reach job, means dishing out another $5, the student may not take that risk. fees as a choice between buying groceries and getting a job. And if the students do not apply for The University must understand the best jobs, than they will never get the lives graduate students lead. them. This is no way for the University They subsist on meager stipends to treat scholars. and often turn to teaching or other The Career Center should have part-time jobs during the final years done a better job handling the situaof completing their degree; some tion. Although the Career Center says have families that could also feel the it consulted faculty and students bestrain of the students’ financial fore making the decision to outsource, struggle. Adding another cost to some faculty and students are upset begraduate students’ already tight fi- cause they weren’t consulted. There nancial budget is going to be an exshould have been greater communicatreme, and unnecessary, burden. tion between the Career Center and To the University, the Career Centhose most affected by the change. ter and most of the humanities departWhat the Career Center failed to realments, $5,000 is not a substantial ize is that what it considered a simple amount of money. To these graduate move to cut costs and streamline its students, however, $5,000 is a huge process actually has a much greater imamount of money, and the Career Cenpact on graduate students. .

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Russia understands that the war on terror must go on there was any doubt that the forces of Russian President Vladimir Putin underremain wholly indiscriminate in stands that negotiation with terrorists always their campaign of mass murder, they proves counter-productive in the final ended Sept. 3, 2004. Coming almost three analysis. Unfortunately, the use of force is years to the day after the attacks on the sometimes the only viable option, as it seems to be after the events of Sept. 3. United States, the slaughter of schoolchildRussia crossed line of sanObviously, the rejection of negotiation every ren in truly ity. Like the Madrid train bombings, they does not mean that talks should not be atshowed that Europe is not immune to the tempted to defuse a situation where innoterrorist menace. And perhaps most imporcents are caught in the middle. During the Moscow theater standoff in 2002 as well as tantly, they shattered any illusions that Russia is a bystander in the U.S.-led war on inthe school siege in Breslan, the Putin adternational terrorism. ministration—to its credit—tried to bring Many of America’s traditional allies have about a peaceful resolution. That both situwaged, and in some cases continue to wage, ations ended in bloody shootouts may be struggles against local terror partly attributable to the itchy trigger fingers of poorgroups: Britain vs. the IRA’s splinter factions, Spain vs. p3V6I VTIdIChdVIOV ly trained Russian troops, ut rea * blame still lies ETA and France vs. Corsican guest commentary with the terrorists—not the separatists, just to name a few. The key difference beKremlin. Putin’s resolute stance on Chechnya is tween these struggles and that which has become painfully clear in the city of Beslan is certainly not perfect. Both under his adthat the Russian people face an enemy with ministration and that of Boris Yeltsin, Russia a truly global reach. This enemy has every missed many opportunities to engage the intention of making Russia a major front in moderate elements in the breakaway its renewed global offensive. province and restart a political process. FurThe war in Chechnya may have started in thermore, the human rights abuses commit1991 as a justifiable dispute over self-deterted by the Russian army are well-documentmination, but it has since morphed into ed; these have no excuse whatsoever. But something entirely different. Over the past criticism of Russia’s handling of this war—decade, the conflict spread to much of the including disapproval continually exnorthern Caucasus, adopted tactics that viopressed by the U.S. State Department and late the most basic laws of war and drew in the European Union —does not imply that elements of the al Qaeda network. If only the war is unnecessary. for that last reason, it has to be viewed as In part because both their countries have suffered enormously from terrorism, President part and parcel of the war on terror. For al Qaeda, Chechnya today holds George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart much the same appeal as Afghanistan in the have enjoyed close, cooperative ties, not to 1980s and ’9os. In a lawless state with a baremention a very personal friendship. The latest ly functioning government, the opportunity ouU ages in Russia can only strengthen the bito recruit militants and set up operations is lateral relationship—still the world’s most vital—between the two superpowers. The comlogistically effortless. In addition, al Qaeda is exploiting the mitment Bush and Putin share to tackling terChechens’ legitimate grievances against rorism is real and genuine. Because of Putin’s vocal opposition to heavy-handed Russian tactics in the same way that it jumped on the bandwagon of the war on Iraq, not to mention the legacy of the Cold War, Russia does not exactly Afghan resistance against Soviet occupation. Osama bin Laden’s terror masters are have the best reputation today among taking full advantage of the situation for Americans. The substantive merits of its potheir own diabolical aims, which have nothsition on Iraq may certainly be debated, but it was not an unprincipled or dishonorable ing to do with Chechen independence. The broader Chechen conflict will have stance to take. Most importantly, this disto be eventually resolved by political means; agreement must not be allowed to overshadthat is not in dispute. In the meantime, ow Moacow’s strong support for the war on however, there is no alternative to tough terror —a war, after all, that Russia is fightmilitary measures to root out those who put ing on its soil. suicide bombers on civilian airliners, blew Pavel Molchanov, Trinity 'O3, is a former up a subway station and seized over a thousand hostages—all in the course of ten days Chronicle columnist

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and anti-Semitics like Benjamin Rubinfeld and Joshua Solomon just get to respond. ‘The PSM is not coming to foster debate or ‘start a dialogue’ but rather to recruit American students as human shields to die while working to destroy Israel,” Benjamin Rubinfeld wrote in his Aug. 26 letter; ending with, “Do not legitimize a group that seeks to destroy my people.” Similarly, Joshua Solomon wrote Aug. 27, ‘This is the true face of an organization that seeks... the annihilation of Israel and her people.” I don’t know where Rubinfeld and Solomon conjured up their so-called facts, but I recommend that these two men (and the multitudes of people that object the Palestinians’ right to advocacy, even on Duke’s campus) do theirresearch before they start pointing fingers.... They should have known that someone like me would point right back. According to the official PSM website shadee (www.palestineconference.com), ‘The PSM endorses... education, public demonstrations and rallies, and non-violent direct action for the purpose of encouraging awareness of Palestine issues;” and in fact, the PSM supports both Palestinian and Israeli efforts for justice and peace. If college is supposed to be a microcosm of the real world, then Duke is the perfect political arena for this debate. Much like the millions of dollars and immense political support that the United States pours into Israel, Duke is a highly pro-Israeli campus; it hurts as a Middle Easterner and as a Palestinian rights advocate to see Duke students conditioned, convinced and confused about the Middle East. Palestinians are the little people in a bigger issue, and they are used to being shortchanged and silenced. Palestinians have no nuclearweapons, no organized military or security and (unlike their Israeli counterparts, Ariel Sharon) no voice with which to form political bargaining power. We see this translated in our own politics at Duke: Even Palestinians on campus feel silenced by Duke Friends of Israel and the Freeman Center for Jewish Life’s undying presence. Donations to the Freeman Center and the cash flow of Jewish alumni present Palestinians as terrorists and threats,

and not the Israeli government and army as terrorizing and threatening towards Palestinians. Even President Richard Brodhead recognizes Jewish influence on campus. Why else would he have made a visit to the Freeman Center last Wednesday to address concerns about Jewish life on campus? To the students of Duke, in preparation of the heated days before us, I pose to you the following questions: How many Jewish and Zionist (because in the United States, yes, to be Jewish and to be Zionist is one in the same) students do we have at Duke? How much power do they exude? How many speakers from Israel (or even just pro-Israeli speakers) did we have last year alone? How big are the Freeman Center and Duke Friends of Israel in comparison to HIWAR? Rubinfeld makes sure to include in his letter to the editor that “It is hard enough to be a practicing Jew on Duke’s campus.” I challenge Rubinfeld, Solomon and any and all of their Zionist, Jewish friends to spend malaklou one day as an Arab or Muslim on this campus and in this country... and then to come viva la vulva back and letter to the editor that. I want to make clear that I’m not saying this because (like most people believe Middle-Easterners to be) I want to kill all the Jews, take over Israel and claim Palestine the new Holy Land. I say this because for years the world has been looking at anti-Semitism from a purely Jewish standpoint, when in reality the term “Semite” applies to my people as well. Rubinfeld and Solomon would be shocked to hear this, but what they wrote in The Chronicle was highly anti-Semitic. According to yourDictionary.com, a “Semite” is any “member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs.” The Jewish people are not being destroyed, but rather because of heated opposition to the PSM conference, the Jewish students of Duke have continued a tradition of offending and potentially destroying mine—the same way many thousand people who suffer as refugees while Israel builds new walls and forts to keep these starving and innocent people of mine away. Shadee Malaklou is a Trinity sophomore.

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about protection of rights for all citizens, not just straight months away from the election, I should probably pick a candidate. After all, this is the MOST IMones (or as I like to refer to us, the “poorly-dressed”). PORTANT ELECTION EVER as everybody keeps reSo do I vote Kerry? Nope. Not going to vote for a guy minding me. (Let me tell you, there’s nothing I love more who’s going to slam me with taxes just as I’m about to set out than when the democratic process meets WrestleMania hyon my own. His foreign policy sounds suspiciously like apperbole.) So what are my choices? I like peasement, which hasn’t exacdy been stellar for us in the past. Most importantly, I don’t Jeb Bardett’s integrity, but he’s a little too leftist for me. I used to like Andrew trust a guy who can’t make up his mind about Palmer, but the whole murder/cover-up policy. “Flip-flopping” is not entirely the probthis season was a bit... excuse me? You say lem, either. A leader who will change his views it’s completely irresponsible and naive to when he has been proven wrong is a good vote for fictional characters (the Presileader. But a “leader” who changes views dents on West Wing and 24, respectively) ? whenever it’s politically convenient—and I In the words of Michael Corleone, “Oh. have a very strong feeling this is the case with Who’s being naive, Kay?” Hiatt dctlira born politician John F. Kerry —is a mercenary. This is the first presidential election Fact is, they’re both born politicians. Any«or goodAor tor awesome .. • T /t u i missed 111 be casting a vote m(I barely body else think it’s spooky that the two canthe cutoff in 2000), and I couldn’t be less didates, according to the by-laws, have to thrilled about my choices. One’s a walking caricature. The greet each other with a Skull and Bones Secret Handother’s criminally indecisive. Fictional characters? Hell, shake? And where does that leave us poor undecideds? For they’re sitcom gold. (First episode: Kerry takes hours to guidance, I turn to the strong. The courageous. The Nader decide what kind of pizza he wants, claiming he was misvoters of 2000. Huh? Nader is even less likely to get my vote led into picking pepperoni and he really wanted mushthis year thanBush or Kerry. In fact, I have a sneaky hunch rooms all along. When the delivery man gets there, Bush Nader spends non-election years in a spaceship orbiting has him put on a watch-list for forgetting the cheesyVenus. But Naderites, I salute you: Crazy as I think you are, bread. Hijinks ensue.) you had the conviction to vote for the man who most closeWhen I tell people my political leanings—which, I’ll ly shared your beliefs, in spite of Bush-haters telling you admit at the cost of crippling my chances of getting laid this that you “blew the election.” year, are Republican—the second question they ask me is Voters, believe me: your only responsibility in this elec“So, you’re voting for Bush this year?” (The first is usually, tion, no matter what the political machines might tell you, “Oh, did you just get back from a fun afternoon of clubbing is to vote your beliefs. Me? I think I’m going to take the road less traveled and write-in McCain/Giuliani: The two guys I baby seals and lighting immigrants on fire?”) The answer to both questions is “Uh, no.” Yes, I supporttrust most. I have no delusions that someone other than ed the war in Iraq, and I still do. No, I don’t think Bush is Bush or Kerry will be our next president, but hopefully, I’ll pure evil. I lean to the right, but I don’t embrace it at all send a small message that McCain and Giuliani are the right costs. Having spent serious time on the Jersey Turnpike, I guys for the job in 2008. Take a stand, undecideds: If you know that environmental protection is important. Also, it's can’t get behind the Big Two, don’t vote for a character. ridiculous that with so many other important issues on the (Unless it’s the Thundercats. They get an exemption.) table Bush is most concerned about the ominous threat of gay marriage. Last time I checked, the Constitution was Matt DeTura is a Trinity senior. -

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happened to the benches at the bus stop on main West? Undergraduates, graduates and visiting professors who aren’t given a parking space on West and random visiting high school students and their families who are savvy enough to figure out the complex transportation system now have to stand and wait for a bus. On what will the protesters under white sheets protest? Have the benches gone the route of the Hideaway and the Oak Room, disappearing into obscurity and leaving behind only a vague sense among the older students of “hey, what happened?” Why can’t we walk on the grass on the academic quad? I remember people enjoying various quad activities over there, or even being able to cut across from Allen to Perkins without worrying that someone will fly up behind you on a Segway and tackle you before you step over the yellow string. Are we saving the grass for something, or is it just going to be killed off by the big white tents like it is every year? Then it will have to grow back and we won’t be able to walk on it again (until we are alumni, of course). What happened to Friday and Saturday nights on campus? Wasn’t there a time not too long ago when there was some sort of party enc vivier on main West every calmer than you are weekend, with alcohol to be had for some blissful underage drinking and no party monitors in bright green shirts? When you didn’t have to go off campus to get busted by Durham police officers because Duke had not yet pushed all alcohol away to make the campus appear to be safer? Why are there only enough laundering facilities for approximately 27 people on Central? And speaking of Central, why did they make us pay full price for a parking pass if we aren’t even going to be able to find a parking place? I don’tknow if the lack of spots is due to off-campus commuters, hospital employees or, more likely, Parking Services ignorance, but I’m about to demand a refund. Why do we have to pay extra for telephone and cable? Cell phones are making the land line obsolete (so just accept it and give it to us for free). Shouldn’t television, the watching of which certainly is an “activity,” be covered by the increased price of the “activity fee?” Or is it that OIT is there to run a business and therefore profit from their “customers” (on whom they have a monopoly) just like RLHS and their three year housing requirement? Are guys going to have to pay to live in commons rooms again this year because silly Duke juniors won’t go abroad in the spring and miss the basketball season? And will we once again be reprimanded for “not having our priorities in order” when we study for midterms instead of packing the house against Clemson? What happened to individuality on this campus, and how do we get it back? I would like to know what exact moment it was that Duke students sat down and collectively decided to try as hard as possible to become the same person. Wait, are we still wearing those awesome tan boots, with the fur lining? Mine got scuffed, and I’m going to need a new pair. Yeah, my summer in New York or D.C. was great, but I’m already looking forward to Myrtle next year. Hey, can I borrow one of your little pleated tennis skirts? Why is the crossword puzzle fuzzy sometimes, and why does it always have to be on the days when I need it most? What is it that DSG actually does, aside from that one time when they vetoed the idea of security cameras only to have it overturned by the people who really wear the pants at this school? Where will the next traffic circle be? Why didn’t guys get a bleach pen in their Sponge Bob Campus Pack (do we not launder)? Why does the free T-shirt at Midnight Breakfast cost $6.95? Why do we now have to swipe to get out of the Allen lot? And what happened to the benches?

Eric Vivier is a Trinity senior.

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