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Competing with the first home football game of the year for attendance, members of Duke For Kerry and Duke Democrats organized a rally to get Duke students and Durham residents fired up about the Democratic presidential ticket of John Kerry and Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. The rally kicked off the two groups’ political activities at Duke for the fall, said senior Andrew Collins, president of Duke for Kerry and former University editor for The Chronicle. Duke Democrats President Jared Fish, a junior, said although Duke has been labeled an apolitical campus, the students at Saturday's rally proved that political fervor is still alive and well.

Many important players in city and state politics came to praise Kerry and Edwards, gripe about Bush and encourage people to vote. Rally speakers included U.S. Rep. David Price, professor of political science; Bruce Payne, lecturer in public policy; William Schlesinger, SEE RALLY ON PAGE 7

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Students and community members gather on West Campus Saturday to support Sen. John Kerry and Sen. John Edwards.

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Cate Edwards is living out of a suitcase and running on adrenaline. The 22-year-old daughter of vice presidential nominee Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., has been on the campaign trail for months, balancing appearances at events like the Democratic National Convention with a nationwide tour of college campuses.

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my apartment of where I’m going to be over the next few weeks so that my friends actually have a clue where their roommate is,” Edwards said Saturday after giving a speech at a KerryEdwards rally on the Main West

Campus Quadrangle.

Next on her schedule are stops at several other North Carolina colleges followed by a quick plane flight to Michigan for appearances and a “debate-watch-

college voters ing party” there Thursday night, when Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and President George W. Bush will go head-to-head on the issues at a debate at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. Edwards said she hopes she will get to meet up with her parents in Ohio for a joint appearance in a few weeks.

But Edwards quickly added that the constant travel, long SEE EDWARDS ON PAGE 7

list of panelists for its annual conference Oct. 15 to 17 at Duke.

The eight speakers will comprise three panels: one on divestment—or the selling off of stocks—as a tool to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a second about the historical background of the conflict and a third about garnering support for the Palestinian cause.

Rann Bar-on, local spokesperson for PSM and a graduate student in mathematics, noted the organization advocates only nonviolent solutions to the lyaeliPalestinian conflict and all the speakers support that goal. “They are all on the left wing, but they vary in their views, and they’re not all political,” Bar-on said.

Leaders from Hiwar said they were part of the organizing committee and are happy with the speaker list.

Several groups have accused PSM of supporting terrorists and advocating militant activity in the SEE PSM ON PAGE 6

Police raise Undefeated Duke upsets No. 1 Terps visibility by

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As the University bolsters its security programs in an effort to increase campus safety, additional police officers are noticeable all over campus. Officers from both the Duke University and Durham Police Departments cite this visibility as a key element of any strategy to decrease crime at Duke, but many students see the increased security efforts as misdirected.

In a letter to the editor published in The Chronicle Sept. 13, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask wrote that DUPD would expand its pedestrian and vehicular patrols and increase overtime hours for its officers. In addition, the DUPD would supplement its own forces with

The men’s soccer team once stood atop the ACC, annually contending for and often taking home the conference championship. In recent years, head coach John Rennie’s squad had taken a backseat to rivals North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland, but the backDUKE -2 seat ohase mav be coming to an end.

MARYLAND 1 With a huge 21 victory Saturday over No. 1 Maryland (5-2-1, 0-1-1 in the ACC), the 13th-ranked Blue Devils (9-0, 2-0) continued their unexpected resurgence.

Freshman Michael Videira put Duke on the board six minutes into the second half when the midfielder’s intended pass from 25 yards out missed his target, but the ball squirted through the Maryland defense and found the back of the net.

After another six minutes, junior Danny Kramer scored what ultimately became the game-winning goal. Freshman

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RALEIGH North Carolina’s governor’s race now has no firm dates for debates after Republican Patrick Baliantine said Friday he would not appear with Democratic Gov. Mike Easley at an education forum next month.

Both candidates had agreed to the debate assembled by a collection of business and education groups for Oct. 4 in Cary, scheduled for broadcast on cable television stations statewide.

The Baliantine campaign said in a news release it was withdrawing from the event because of reservations Easley had ex-

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two other debates on a wider array of topics.

“I hope he will debate me,” Baliantine told a crowd at a barbecue in eastern Wake County Friday evening. “So far, he has refused.... The governor does not want to talk about these [campaign] issues.”

Easley campaign manager Jay Reiff accused the Baliantine campaign of playing games, noting that dropping out of the debate event will only hurt voters.

But Easley’s campaign said a debate on education is key to him agreeing to future debates. Ballantine’s announcement “puts all the other debates at risk,” according to a campaign news release.

Easley has already expressed concerns over two other proposed debates because one or more groups that have donated to or endorsed the candidates.

“We believe that sends the wrong message,” Reiff said. “The voters expect the organizations promoting the debates to be impartial.”

Ballantine’s withdrawal means he could lose an opportunity to get his message out free of charge. The incumbent governor has been leading in the polls and has a financial advantage over Ballantine.

Easley and his 2000 opponent, former Charlotte Mayor Richard Vinroot, held two televised debates.

Iraqi security service faces challenges by

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The National Guard, which, is the centerpiece of U.S. plans to over security responsibilities after elections slated for January.

Guardsmen have been targeted repeatedly by insurgents who are trying to undermine Iraq’s interim government and drive out the U.S.-led coalition.

But the threat may not only come from outside the force.

Guard Brig. Gen. Talib al-Lahibi, who previously served as an infantry officer in Saddam Hussein’s army, was detained Thursday in the province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement announced.

The statement provided no details, but said he was suspected of having links to militants who have been attacking coajition and Iraqi forces for 17 months. Al-Lahibi was the acting head of the Iraqi National Guard for Diyala province, said Maj. Neal O’Brien, spokesperson for the U.S. Army’s Ist Infantry Division. turn

BAGHDAD, Iraq Two car bombs wounded American and west of the capital Sunday and a few hours later, the Iraqi troops U.S. military announced the arrest of a senior Iraqi National Guard commander on suspicion of ties to insurgents, underscoring the challenges to building a strong Iraq security service capable of restoring stability.

The two attackers who died in the twin blasts tried to ram their cars into a National Guard base in Kharma, a town on the outskirts of the insurgent stronghold ofFallujah, a U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity.

The number of U.S. and Iraqi casualties was not immediately clear, but a statement from the U.S. Marines said there were no serious injuries among American troops at the base.

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Hurricane siams Into Florida Jeanne, Florida's fourth hurricane in six weeks, piled on destruction in already ravaged areas Sunday. At least six people died in the storm, which was a cruel rerun for many still trying to recover from earlier hurricanes.

ILS.Navy to deploy defense In the first step toward erecting a multi-billion dollar shield to protect the United States from foreign missiles, the U.S. Navy will begin deploying destroyers to patrol the waters off North Korea as early as next week. The mission will help to detect and intercept ballistic missiles launched by "rogue nations."

Judge overturns music ban A federal judge Friday struck down a 1994 law banning the sale of bootleg recordings of live music, ruling the law unfairly grants "seemingly perpetual protection" to the original performances.

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Members of AQUADuke kick off their week ofLGBT awareness events by painting the bridge on Campus Drive Sunday night.

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Duke will celebrate its annual Coming Out Week with a series of eye-catching awareness activities ranging from movies and music to a Pride Parade Sept. 26 to Oct. 2.

The Alliance of Queer Undergraduates at Duke will host the week’s events in an attempt to raise greater awareness of the issues that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students face. Senior Adam Hall, is a celeAQUADuke programming chair, said the week ability to bration of collective pride and LGBT students’ be comfortable with themselves.

The main objectives for Coming Out Week are to raise the visibility ofLGBT issues and reach out to the campus community in order to make Duke a more welcoming place for LGBT students, said senior Brian West, president of AQUADuke.

“Duke does have an image of being indifferent or homophobic,” West said. “It is important to raise these issues in order to provide a more comfortable campus.”

Kerry Poynter, Center for LGBT Life program coordinator and AQUADuke advisor, said the two goals for the week are support and community building for LGBT issues and awareness education for the general communi-

ty—heterosexuals, people who are still unsure of their sexuality and those who are looking for more information.

To meet these goals AQUADuke, in conjunction with North Carolina Pride, has arranged a variety of events starting with Sunday night’s bridge painting on East Campus. In addition, tonight is movie night at the LGBT Center and a Coming Out Week barbecue picnic will take place Tuesday on the Chapel Quadrangle.

“It is important to make the group that is pushed off onto the fringe visible during the week,” West said. “The goal is not to rip people out of the closet.”

Although some of the events focus on community building, others involve more academic and political issues. AQUADuke will sponsor a “Marriage (In) Equality in America” panel with the American Civil Liberties Union Tuesday that will provoke discussion about civil liberties ofLGBT people.

The Coming Out Week dinner at the LGBT Center Wednesday will feature a film about coming out issues that was produced by two Robertson scholars from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill followed by discussion among students, faculty and staff in attendance.

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A woman drove her car off the third story of the parking deck on the corner of Elder and Fulton streets across the street from Duke University Hospital Thursday at about 5:45 p.m.

Before the car fell, it plowed through the wall of the garage when the accelerator stuck and the brakes malfunctioned, according to an accident report. Sharon Michel, the driver, was treated at the Hospital for minor injuries and then released. No one else was hurt. Duke University Police Department is investigating the incident.

Michel, a social worker at Duke University Medical Center, said she pulled her 2001 Ford Focus out of her parking space and began to accelerate down the ramp. As she drove out of the parking garage, she realized that her brakes were not working and the gas pedal was stuck.

“It all happened so quickly and I just looked at my options and I didn’t want to hurt anyone,” Michel said.

She noticed an empty parking space adjacent to the cement half wall of the garage and turned her car, assuming the impact with the wall would stop the car. Instead, the car broke through the wall and fell three stories to the ground below, landing on its roof.

“When I realized I went through the wall, frankly a sense of peace came over me, and I knew I was going to be okay,” Michel said. When the car landed, she remained conscious and crawled out of the car.

“I’m just so thankful not only to be alive, but also that I did not hurt anyone,” she said.

Michel visited her co-workers Friday, and she will return to work Monday.

The parking garage was closed at the time of the accident to evaluate the safety of the parking deck, said Becky Oskin, a spokesperson for DUMC. The immediate analysis revealed that the garage was structurally sound, and it opened at 8:45 p.m., Oskin said.

The damage to the parking deck is still unknown, but according to an accident report from DUPD, the damage to the car was about $20,000.

The damage will likely be covered by insurance. According to the police report, the primary cause of the accident was the car’s malfunction.

Ford has recalled the Focus for a variety of reasons at least 11 times in recent years, and several websites noted that the Focus had issues with faulty brakes and the accelerator sticking. In the most recent Consumer Reports survey, however, the Focus was the “top pick” for allaround performance and the magazine noted that the model had improved considerably.

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“From the USA to the Middle East; we demand Justice, we demand Peace.”

“Bush and Cheney, don’t you lie; because of you, children die.”

These anti-war chants are just a couple of the slogans created in 2002 to protest the current war in Iraq. “There was a lot of activity in the spring of 2003 at the initiation of the war, and then last year it dropped off pretty substantially,” said Peter Feaver, professor of political science.

“I’ve seen very little activity now that’s war-related. The reason is the election is sort of sucking the air out of the war protests.”

Duke has existed through both World Wars, Vietnam, the Korean War and the first GulfWar, to name a few. And now, once again the country is at war. Not only have the past two years been shrouded by the attacks of Sept. 11 and the war in Iraq, but in the past 100 years, wars have changed the Duke University experience drastically.

D.W. Newsom, an 1899 graduate of Trinity College, wrote a poem entitled “To the Men of the Golden Star” June 3, 1918. The poem was read at the Memorial service in honor ofalumni who fell in World War I. “Proud stands your old mother College today, though sorrow hath touched her soul, that these nevermore shall enter her door nor along her old pathways shall stroll,” reads one stanza of the poem.

Duke contributed most of its resources to the World War II effort in the 19405. “The Second World War is the fifth armed conflict in which the nation has been engaged during the life of Duke University and its antecedents,” reads a Duke University and the War pamphlet from 1943.

Duke programs and celebrations formed to support the war effort with pamphlets informing students on how to accelerate their course loads and continue their education after the war. The University also set up a number of units on campus, all geared toward helping the war effort. The Navy College Training Program provided a continual supply of officer candidates in the various fields required by the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Duke had one of the largest units in the country with over 1,500 men.

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University in 1947, soon after the end of World War 11.

Holley has seen the University change over the years.

“When I first started teaching, virtually half of my class were veterans. The war experience was a very maturing one and they grew up in a hurry,” Holley said.

Holley describes one of his “boys” as returning to college after being shot in the stomach four times during battle. “Here was a man who was deadly earnest in getting an education and right next to him in class was a youngster, a callow kid, who had just emerged from high school,” he said. “There were great contrasts.”

The fear of being drafted played a large role during World War 11, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. School of Law graduate Charles Henderson highlighted the constant fear of the draft in a letter to The Chronicle

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Nov. 24, 1980: “On Sunday afternoon, December 7, 1941, I was a 21-year-old law student... as [l] walked out into the chill of the late afternoon [l] learned that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. Everywhere students stood in clusters whispering their shock. Since the draft had already claimed many and the rest of use were very much ‘military age,’ we knew that many in our midst would not survive (and many didn't).”Holley recalled his own fear of being drafted during the Korean War. “Members of the Reserve always lived with the fear of being called up. I put in five years of my life and wanted to get on with my career,” he said. ‘The good thing is that everyone in the Reserve and the National Guard today are volunteers; they know what they are getting into when they sign up. But back in the older days we had a draft and people who weren’t willing to volunteer felt that they were being coerced against their will.”

Duncan Heron, professor emeritus in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, taught at Duke during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and remembered students who were afraid of being drafted. “I remember one student who failed a course and was very much concerned because he was drafted,” he said.

“Beats me what happened to him. That was a big concern when the draftwas operated—to stay in school and not be drafted.”

Professor Emeritus of political science Ole Holsti said the late 1960s and early 1970s was a time of considerable turmoil. “During World War 11, the country was really quite united, which was not true in the later stages ofVietnam,” he said. “Today, it doesn’t seem like we are in a war.

The President tells us to contribute by shopping til we drop, or pay the war by cutting taxes. It just doesn’t have a kind of war-time feel to it.”

Kenneth Surin, professor of literature, said he thought the absence of a draft since Vietnam has contributed to less activism on Duke’s campuses. “Because of the draft back then, there was much more activism on Duke’s campus at that time and I don’t think that we will ever reach that level of activism again,” Surin said. “Let’s face it, it’s self-interest that gets people riled up and until there is a draft, people in the middle class and upper-middle class are not going to feel the impact of this war.”

Surin quoted statistics to point out the disparity between how people feel about the war and what they will contribute. “When college students are surveyed and they do support the invasion of Iraq, the number is something like 65 to 78 percent,” he said. “When students are asked whether they are prepared to fight in this war, the number is something like 25 to 30 percent. Clearly there is a disconnect there and that’s a problem.”

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This past Thursday and Friday, several professors were spotted running around campus dressed from head to toe like drag queens.

They’re called DRAGnet, or Duke Radical Action Group, and they identify themselves as an organization that, aside from wearing neon wigs, emphasizes political awareness and activism on campus.

The Bryan Center, the Great Hall and Alpine Bagel and Brews Co. were their stages, and students eating lunch were their audience. The skits, which lasted about 10 minutes each, intended to galvanize student dialogue about voting rights in the upcoming election and promote a weekend panel [see story, page s]. However, under the glossy outer garments of the group lies a more personal message.

“A number of us have been involved in student-generated political events on campus,” said DRAGnet co-founder Wahneema Lubiano, associate professor of African and African American Studies.

“However, this summer Diane Nelson and I thought: ‘Why don’t we try to hone a larger group of people who have political interests and want to be engaged in both support of student actives and from our own vantage points?’”

Lubiano said that while the group is left-of-center, DRAGnet prides itself on its diversity of opinion and personal experience to produce meaningful discourse.

For others, like Dr. Hasan Shanawani, a house staff member at Duke University Medical Center, the organization resonates more with his background. “My concern is that people from ethnic and racial minorities, like Arab Americans, will

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vampire cape he used to portray the “evil” election board official Thursday afternoon.

Nelson, associate professor of cultural anthropology, had a more targeted concern for the group: “Are there deeper problems in the electoral process?”

Aligning with common leftist concerns about the upcoming election, Shanawani said he believed that increased security due possible terrorist attack will drive people away from the voting booth. ‘There may

be extra requirements that are legally unnecessary,” he said, “but people don’t know that and it’ll be a real barrier to voting.”

Some DRAGnet professors and their supportive colleagues interpreted the problem in the political process to be simply the lack of discourse. Even though students might be politically conscious at Duke, associate professor of English Priscilla Wald said controversial issues are “just not talked

Who votes in the United States? Who doesn’t? These are two of the questions a panel of professors from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill addressed Sunday in “The Voting Event,” co-sponsored by DRAGnet, the deans of Arts & Sciences and the political science department.

Speakers discussed issues thatrelated voting to social class, women and age. They also addressed voter suppression and how voting differs in South Africa and Turkey from voting in the United States.

Andrew Janiak, assistant professor of philosophy, said he organized the nonpartisan event because he is “perpetually shocked at how few students actually vote.”

Romand Coles, associate professor ofpolitical science, talked about die relationship between voting and social class. “Especially lower income families vote not to vote,” Coles said, noting that the socioeconomic bottom third of the population has been voting less often.

Turning to voter suppression, Anita Earls, professor at the UNC School of Law, discussed the importance of giving minority voters access to the ballot, fair representation and a powerful presence after they elect their officials. ‘The 2000 election was a wake-up call in showing us that even today

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Groups that have historically opposed PSM alleged that several of the speakers maintain ties to militant organizations.

David Horowitz, author and conservative political commentator, accused the conference of being a political rally rather than an academic endeavor. “I think our universities are becoming in danger of becoming like talk radio instead of like universities,” he said, noting that the roster of speakers “lacks an appropriate diversity for a university.”

Specifically Horowitz accused speaker Diana Buttu, legal advisor for the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, of being affiliated with a “terrorist group.”

PLO holds official observer status at the United Nations and is not on the U.S. government list of active terrorist groups.

Another of the speakers, Brian Avery, served as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, during which time he

can deter furtheyncidents. The idea is that the more you see us, the safer you feel.”

The increased safety efforts come after several violent incidents on and around campus, the most recent being an armed robbery' in near the Edens dormitoriesSept.

11. The robbery immediately precipitated the changes, and DUPD stepped up its collaboration with DPD as a response.

“They called us in the next day [after the Edens robbery],” DPD Cpl. Tim Leathers said. “We’re just acting as another set ofeyes and ears.”

Many students have noted the increased police presence on campus, but some feel that an increase in the number of officers has not helped safety in areas most at risk.

“Basically, [Edens residents] have been saying there’s 20 [police officers] on Main West during the day, but at two in the morning in Edens, you can’t find them,” said sophomore Chauncey Nartey, Edens Quadrangle representative to Campus Council.

Other students cited Central Campus, site of two armed robberies this semester, as another place where the increased police presence will not result in a safer campus until priorities of enforcement change.

“I think its interesting that eight cops show up to bust a party off East, but there are still armed robberies,” senior Emily Hartye said. ‘They’re out and about, but I think they’re in the wrong place.”

Although some students are unhappy with the deployment of the officers, many said they feel safer with the security efforts.

“I know they’re working hard on it, and I know that there are dialogues going on to improve public safety, and I appreciate that,” sophomore Mallory Thompson said.

The increased visibility ofsecurity has not had an impact in tenns of arrests, but officials say that Duke’s campus is safer already.

Leathers noted that there have been no incidents since the University increased security on campus, and students say more police has eased their peace ofmind.

“I think they’re doing the right thing with increasing police presence,” freshman Keith Edelman said.

said he was shot by Israel Defense Forces.

Multiple groups have linked ISM to Hamas and other militant groups. Bar-on said there are no formal connections between PSM and ISM, although some individuals are affiliated with both organizations.

None of the speakers could be reached for comment Sunday night.

The University viewed the proposed speaker list earlier this month, but at that time it did not investigate potential security concerns individual speakers might generate, said John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Duke will take the speaker list into account when constructing a security plan for the weekend, he added. Burness reiterated that the University would not influence the content of the conference—even if it is controversial.

The Joint Israel Initiative, a coalition of primarily Jewish pro-Israeli student groups, declined to comment on the list until it had dme to discuss the individual speakers.

Planned panelists; Dennis Brutus, professor of African Studies and African Literature at the Univer-

sity of Pittsburgh Brutus was active in the anti-apartheid campaign in South Africa and involved with South Africa’s exclusion from the Olympic games. The Zimbabwean native has written poetry and books and spoken out against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on behalf of developing nations.

Diana Buttu, legal advisor for the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization Buttu is a Stanford-educated Palestinian.

Although people accuse PLO of supporting terrorists, the organization pledged to cease all “violence and terrorism” in 1993, according to a U.S. government document. Several splinter organizations that left the PLO in protest have continued sporadic violent activities, but they are no longer associated with PLO. Buttu spoke at Duke last year.

T.BA, a leader of the First Presbyterian Church in Durham, N.C. The church has halted investments in Israel and discouraged people from contracting with companies who do business with Israel. These actions are the hallmarks of PSM’s divestment plan.

Mazin Qmnsiyeh, associate professor of genetics at Yale University Qumsiyeh was born near Bethlehem and has written about politics and environmental issues, concentrating on the Middle East. He served as director of the Cytogenetics Laboratory at Duke. Walid Shoebat, a pro-Israeli advocate since 1993 who said he grew up with Qumsiyeh, said Qumsiyeh tormented and abused Israeli soldiers in his childhood, but The Chronicle found no evidence of Qumsiyeh’s connections to organizations that advocate violence. Qumsiyeh is co-founder of Al-Awda, an organiza-

tion that advocates for the right of Palestinians to return to the land of Israel, and he has been active in several groups advocating divestmentfrom Israel.

Rebecca Stein, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University Stein is an expert in the culture of the Middle East, particularly of Arab Jews.

She has worked as an activist in the Israeli peace movement and is a founding member of Jews for Justice in Israel and Palestine, a group that has published a history of the conflict.

Nasser Abufarha, author of theAlternative Palestinian Agenda and founder ofPalestineFair Trade Association Abufarha has advocated a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that includes two states, but a single military force and federal parliament. Jerusalem would remain a separate district.

Rania Masri, fellow at the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, N.C. Masri is a Lebanese native and an environmental scientist who has written about the situations in Iraq and the Palestinian and Israeli areas. She is a human rights advocate and served as the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association’s representative to the United Nations.

Brian Avery, International Solidarity Movement volunteer While the Jenin area of Israel was under curfew in January 2003, Avery resisted by throwing stones at tanks and other military vehicles of the Israeli army, according to an account from his friends. As Avery stood in the path of a tank, he was hit by a burst of machine gun fire that ISM claimed was from the Israeli military. Avery now works as a Palestinian rights activist.

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Casey McCluskey breaks away from a pair ofWake Forest defenders.The co-captain scored the team's first goal and assisted on the other. McCluskey has scored 10 goals in Duke's last five games,

McCluskey's magic sparks victories by

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. After the women’s soccer team voted Casey McCluskey captain last season, big things were expected out of her. More than

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In its ACC opener Sunday, Duke was aggressive and two first-half goals were enough for a 2-0 victory. The scoring began

with a McCluskey goal 13 minutes into the first half. Darby found McCluskey Kroyer around midfield, and she dribbled the ball through a thin Wake Forest defense before firing a shot into the top left-hand corner of the net.

“Their defense just kind of stepped back,” McCluskey said.

‘They maybe thought I was going to dribble it, and instead, I just took an early shot and caught the goalie off guard.”

During the first half the Blue Devils exerted pressure as they have throughout their current six-game win streak.

“We’re getting into the attack really fast,” McCluskey said. “We have a real scoring mentality right now that we have not always had in the past.”

Already up one goal, McCluskey led the attack again when she found teammate Rebecca Moros streaking down the opposite side of the field. McCluskey

sent a pass that hit Moros in

stride. With no one to beat except the goalie, the sophomore connected on a low shot that hit off the left post and ricocheted into the back of the net.

“I thought in the first half we had two really good looks and we scored on both of them,” head coach Robbie Church said.

Although Duke kept the Demon Deacons off the scorehoard in the second half, the team did not exhibit the same type of dominating play it had in the first half.

On one of its best scoring chances, Wake Forest’s Melanie Schneider had the ball along the end line just outside the goalie’s box. Blue Devil freshman keeper Allison Lipsher tried to make a play on the ball, but Schneider found teammate Sarah Kozey, who kicked the ball well over the top of the net.

Just 10 minutes later, Schneider hit a bending shot to the top

right corner of the net, but Lipsher jumped to deflect it away for her only save on the night.

With a lead late in the game, Duke seemed to be falling into the same trap that it did against Tennessee in the first game of the season, when the Blue Devils blew a three-goal lead late in the game. Duke’s offensive aggressiveness, however, reemerged in the latter portions of the half to seal the victory.

“I think we learned from the [Tennessee] situation,” Church said. ‘There are going to be times when a game swings one way and then swings back another way. I really thought we did a great job.

It’s a big win for us.”

The Blue Devils’ defense was incredible again as it recorded its eighth shutout of the season.

Duke has yet to allow a goal in a victory this year.

“Our defense is just really solid,” McCluskey said. ‘They just don’t make any mistakes, which is

exactly what the defense is supto do.”

Friday night Duke cruised to a 8-0 win over in-state rival Davidson. Although the Blue Devils scored just one goal in the first half, they responded well after the break, when McCluskey recorded her first career hat trick. It was the fourth consecutive game in which she had recorded at least two goals.

“We attacked well and scored goals on our opportunities, and I think we broke their spirits,” Church said.

Duke has the week off before facing Florida State Friday night at home. At the start of the ACC season, Church is excited with what he has seen from his players.

“When you have those opportunities you have to score on them because we will have no more 25, 30 [shot games] on people because we’re out of that type of competition,” Church said.

‘We’re back in the ACC.”

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Duke lethargic in second-half stumble

In the second half, the texture of the game changed. The Tar Heels were die The Blue Devils shed tears and did not faster and more aggressive team and inhide their frustration after losing to their vaded the circle frequently, putting a lot of biggest rival Saturday. pressure on the Duke defense.

Only five minutes into the second In front of a lively and packed crowd half, North Carolina generated a corner at Williams Field, No. 2 North Carolina (11-0, 2-0 in the ACC) came back in the after Duke failed to clear the ball multisecond half and beat No. 5 Duke (7-2, 1- ple times. A mishandled pass out of the corner bounced to Laura Douglas, who 1) 2-1. Blue Devils head coach Beth Bossent a shot on net. Karen Mann deflectnian was not pleased with her team after ed the ball up and over the shoulder of the game.

“We were really casual,” Bozman said. Duke goalie Christy Morgan to even the “How you can be score at one.

UNC 2 really casual in a After the goal, the Tar Heels did not like this is stop attacking. Fifteen minutes later, 1 game DUKE beyond me, but North Carolina once again converted on a there were definitely people who were capenalty comer, and this dme the Tar Heels sual in that second half, and we let them executed perfectly. After faking a shot at back in the game.This is a team sport. We the top of the circle, Carey Fetting-Smith know that one person is going to make a fired a low, hard shot past Morgan to take mistake and when they make a mistake the lead 2-1.

For North Carolina head coach Karen we need to be back there covering for them. But we let them back in the game.” Shelton, the difference between the teams The problems for Duke did not start in was depth. The Tar Heels used six substithe first half. The Blue Devils played sting}' tutes while the Blue Devils only used one, defense and did not allow the Tar Heels to and Shelton said her team had fresher legs penetrate the circle easily. Except for a few in the second half. But for Bozman, stamidangerous but failed counterattacks, Duke na had nothing to do with the outcome of for the most part forced UNC to stay on its the game.

“We had a good game plan for this side of the field and defend.

Amy Stopford broke the scoreless tie game, and people did not take responsibility for their roles, and this is what hapwith a goal in the 28th minute on a penalthe ball to corner.

Katie Grant passed ty Jo- pens,” Bozman said. hanna Bischof, who faked a pass to Gracie As the clock ticked down, Duke had Sorbello and sent the ball to Stopford on opportunities to send the game into overthe left side of the circle. The sophomore time but failed to convert on penalty cormidfielder sent a hard shot in toward the ners. Sorbello hit the back of the net on goal that deflected off a stick and hopped SEE FIELD HOCKEY ON PAGE 7 over the keeper’s right shoulder. by

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Duke’s pair offreshman standouts have

played together since the third grade and could be a dangerous twosome for many

years to come. The combination of Ali Hausfeld setting to Carrie DeMange led the Blue Devils (11-3, 2-1 in the ACC) to victory over the Virginia Cavaliers (11-3,11) Sunday. The two freshmen sparked a 81 run that turned VIRGINIA around the momentum of the DUKE fourth game and allowed Duke to MARYLAND come away with a 3-1 win.

DUKE This ACC victory was the second of the weekend for the Blue Devils, who also beat Maryland Friday 3-1.

Duke opened the match against Virginia by winning two closely contested games. The Cavaliers then dominated the third game and were outplaying the Blue Devils in the fourth before an 8-1 Duke run. Down 13-9 and with all the momentum in Virginia’s favor, the Blue Devils’ employed solid blocking and serving along with offensive power from Hausfeld and DeMange to stop the Cavaliers’ spurt and secure an important conference victory.

“Carrie and Ali have been playing together a very long time;/’ coach Jolene Nagel said. “I think it is a hard combination for opponents to stop because they know each other so well.”

The Blue Devils were sluggish at the start, falling behind 10-3 in the first game.

Duke came back, however, and tied the game at 17. From there, neither team built a secure lead in a back-and-forth game.

Duke took control late when sophomore Tealle Hunkus hit two straight cross-court kills and senior Karen Noble combined

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After losing to North Carolina Tuesday, Duke rebounded to take a pair of contests from ACC opponents. with DeMange for a powerful block that led to a 30-27 victory.

Duke then gained a 2-0 advantage after holding off a late run by the Cavaliers to win the second game 32-30.

‘The first two games we just kept our intensity up the whole way through,” senior Stephanie Istvan said. “We served tough and played great defense, and we always put them on the defensive.”

DeMange led the team with 26 kills and five blocks, while Hunkus and Junior Tiffany Perry also contributed with 18 and 11 kills, respectively. Hunkus and Istvan controlled the defense, each with 25 digs, and Hausfeld directed the offense with 63 sets.

“It was really a team effort,” Nagel said

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With four Duke runners in the top 50, the men’s cross country team had a strong weekend that will boost the team in the national standings. Nick Schneider, Michael Hatch, Keith Krieger and Chris Spooner all completed the 8-kilometer course at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis, Minn., in under 25:30, contributing to the Blue Devils’ ninth-place finish.

“The top four hit every expectation we had,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said.

“We’re extremely happy.”

Crossing the tape first for Duke was Schneider, a senior and native of Minnesota* who ran in what was his last scheduled collegiate meet in the state. Schneider, finishing with a time of 25:01, was quick enough to place 26th in a pool of some of the most talented runners in the nation. Right behind Schneider was Michael Hatch, who finished 29th overall.

“Both these guys are on track to qualify for NCAA’s as individuals,” Ogilvie said.

Rounding out the pack of runners who scored for Duke were sophomore Krieger and freshman Spooner, running in his first ever 8-k college race, as well as Marco Salmen.

“Krieger is running so much better for us than he was last year,” Ogilvie said.

A clear gap between the quality of the fourth and fifth men was apparent in the middle of stiff competition at the Invitational. Although Ogilvie knows his team has been lacking a consistent runner in the fifth spot, Dan Daly turned a slowerthan-expected time and did not place for the Blue Devils. Despite this disappointment, junior Cameron Bell recorded one of the best times of his career, reassuring Ogilvie that the gap may close.

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aroundtheACC Florida State tops Clemson in Bowden Bowl Wyatt Sexton threw for 162 yards and a touchdown after replacing an injured Chris Rix, and No. 8 Florida State forced five turnovers in a 41-22 victory over Clemson on Saturday.

A Rix sprained his right ankle late in the Qe_ first quarter and was able to return, but he spent the rest of the game on the sideline m watching Sexton direct the offense. a redshirt sophomore, completI ed Sexton, 17-of-26 passes with a 47-yard scoring pass to Chauncey Stovall—the Seminoles’ first touchdown pass of the season.

Justin Miller matched a school record with two kickoff return touchdowns for Clemson (1-3, 0-2 Adantic Coast Conference), which has lost three straight.

EmEm The Seminoles (2-1, 1-1) avenged last year's 26-10 loss at Clemson and gave Florida State coach Bobby Bowden a 5-1 record in matchups against his son, Tigers coach Tommy Bowden.

It was also elder Bowden’s 344th career victory, the most ever by a Division I-A coach.

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“Man, it was like: If he kicks it, you’re going home sad,” McLendon said. “It just so happened he missed. I can’t tell you how happy I am.”

N.C. State (2-1,1-0 in the ACC) solidified its reputation as having one of the country’s best defenses by sacking Tech quarterback Bryan Randall 10 times and holding the Hokies (2-2, 1-1) to 192 total yards.

Randall scrambled and spun, but he rarely had more than a second to look downfield before the Wolfpack was on him. He finished 11-for-25 passing for 156 yards, quiedy setting Tech’s career record with 6,106 total yards.

“I never thought they would handle us that way never, never, never,” Holdes coach Frank Reamer said.

“We got our quarterback beat up today.” (AP)

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Shelton rushed for 86 yards to lead the Cardinals, who improved to 3-0 for the second straight season under coach Bobby Petrino. Brian Brohm added a touchdown run and Michael Bush ran for 82 yards. m Louisville averaged 35 points in 15 *£h|i games under Petrino, but the Cardinals did not need much offense Saturday. Their deshut down North Carolina’s balanced attack, closing just about every running lane and allowing few gains through the air.

Louisville, which ranked 11th nationally by allowing 10.5 points per game, opened the season with a 28-0 win against Kentucky.

North Carolina (2-2) came in averaging 36 points and 478 yards, but the Tar Heels finished with 222 total yards. They also committed two turnovers inside Louisville’s 20. (AP)

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The football team just couldn’t hang on.

In Saturday’s loss to No. 23 Maryland (3-1, 1-0 in the ACC), Duke (0-4, 0-2) seemed to bring out two different teams. Keeping up with a strong Terrapins running game, the Blue Devils trailed by only six at the half, but

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defense and stacked up four unanswered touchdowns to eventually beat the Blue Devils 55-21.

“Regardless of what the stats said, the second half was just a completely different football game,” head coach Ted Rood said. “I think we wore down. I think our lack of depth was very obvious.”

Although Duke was not too far behind, the Maryland controlled the first half. With 330 yards of offense, the Terps possessed the ball for over 22 minutes in the first half, had 18 first downs to Duke’s three and completed more than halfof their passing attempts.

Meanwhile, the Blue Devils’ offense struggled. The team posted 85 total offensive yards, possessed the ball for seven and a half minutes and made it into the red zone only once.

Despite the disparity in offensive production, Duke only trailed by six at the break and led game at one point.

The Blue Devils took the lead from Maryland with 8:46 left in the half, when sophomore corner back John Talley intercepted a pass and returned it for an 85-yard touchdown along the sideline. From that point, however, the Terps did not allow Duke to score for the rest of the game. Trailing by four, Maryland drove down the field in four minutes and took back the lead when quarterback Joel Statham completed a 12yard pass to Vernon Davis, his second of three receiving touchdowns.

Maryland’s powerful ground game allowed it to control the time of possession, while the Blue Devils struggled to penetrate the Terps’ line.

Quarterback Mike Schneider led the Blue Devils, rushing for 28 of the team’s 83 yards. With 99 and 87 yards respectively, Terrapins Sammy Maldonado and Josh Allen each individually ran more yards than Duke did as a team. Without Cedric Dargan, who continues to lead the Blue Devils in rushing despite being injured since the first game of the season, and Aaron Fryer, the team has not been able to create a strong rushing game.

Duke’s defense began the game relatively strong, holding Maryland to only one touchdown on three firsthalf drives inside the Duke 10 yard line. CJ. Woodard, Eli Nichols and Talley each intercepted a pass.

Woodard’s catch in the end zone kept Maryland from scoring on its second possession. Because the Terrapins relied heavily on a rushing game, however, the Blue Devil defense was forced to take 100 snaps by the end of the game.

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Codey Lowe (58) reaches over the line to try to block a Maryland field goal attempt. The Terrapins had a pair offield goals and seven touchdowns on the afternoon. dred plays on defense, then get off the field on third down,” a disappointed Roof said. “Make a big play when you have a chance to make a play. And we didn’t do it, so we ended up staying on the field. On offense, we need to convert some third downs so that we can keep our offense on the field and let our defense get a rest because that’s nobody’s formula for success.”

In the second half, Duke’s tired defense missed tackles and assignments, allowing Maryland to score four touchdowns. Twice in the third, Statham completed passes of more than 25 yards for scores, to increase Maryland’s advantage to 20. In the fourth, the Terps twice capped off long drives with rushing touchdowns in the red zone. Meanwhile, the Blue

Devils punted four times, fumbled once and Schneider threw an interception in the second half.

The offense was only successful on two of its nine third-down conversion opportunities, while Maryland gained first downs on 16 of its 20. Even though Statham threw 22 completions for over 350 yards and four touchdowns, the Terrapins quarterback was still inconsistent. Statham, who was the only Maryland player to fumble, did so three times and threw three interceptions, keeping Duke in the game in the first half.

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Head coach Ted Roof is trying to build Duke football, but right now he is lost. It almost seems like all the life has been sucked out of a coach who took the job last December displaying raucous confidence.

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A few seconds later analysis the demoralized coach responded “We are definitely not where we want to be and that’s the most honest answer I can give you, and definitely not where we hoped to be,” Roof answered, acknowledging that early expectations have not been followed by results.

Roof has reason to be upset. What was as hyped a potential turning point for Duke football has disintegrated into the worst start since 2001, a season when the Blue Devils went 0-9. The Blue Devils have lost their four games by an average margin of 21 points.

Furthermore, Duke has yet answer a number of lingering questions and yet to form any offensive or defensive cohesion.

Whether it’s fair or not, a teamjs identity is based on its quarterback, and for a team that is struggling to establish itself, a solid starter behind center is critical. At first, Mike Schneider and Chris Dapolito gave Roof two options. After Curt Dukes >

played a solid second half at Virginia Tech, Roof had a trio ofchoices. Essentially, the quarterback dilemma has translated into musical chairs in the backfield, and against Maryland, Dukes and Dapolito bounced around to different positions.

Roof has sought a single leader behind center all season, and after the game, he appeared to be fed up with the current shuffle. Schneider played the entire game Saturday, except for several short stints when Dukes was behind center, and Dapolito didn’t take a single snap at quarterback. With Roof intent on selecting one quarterback, it seems like Schneider, who has started three offour games, will get the nod for the rest of the season.

Injuries have thrown the team some very different curveballs. Phillip Alexander, the team’s most experienced defensive lineman, broke his leg against Connecticut, and junior Justin Kitchen has stepped up to take his spot at defensive end. Because of injuries and inexperience,

the offensive line shuffled like the quarterbacks—only two Blue Devils have started all four games.

At running back, Cedric Dargan and Aaron Fryer missed Saturday’s game, and at wide receiver, a host of injuries have left Roof searching for fill-ins. True freshmen have been called up to make up for the injuries.

Saturday, these volatile elements lacked the balance to maintain their precious structure. After the first quarter, Duke should have been in a much larger hole than its 10-7 deficit. Maryland had three dangerous chances in the red zone, wearing down the Blue Devil defense for almost 13 minutes in the first quarter. Some key tackles, however, held the Terrapins to a 20-yard field goal and a one-yard touchdown in the quarter.

One of the reasons the Blue Devils were not further behind after only 15 minutes of play was the skillful maneuvering of true freshman Chris Davis, who ran a kickoff back 94 yards to get the Blue Devils on the

scoreboard. Maybe, just maybe, Davis is a sign that the football program is set to launch forward. But it doesn’t look like it will happen this year.

Duke’s opportunistic defense allowed Roofs team to stay in the game, and even go ahead in the second quarter. But Duke did not have a first down or even attempt a pass in the first quarter. The Blue Devils’ 35 rushing yards were significantly exceeded by Maryland’s 119. Joel Statham, a firstyear starter for the Terps, threw for 211 first-half yards. Schneider, who looks to be Duke’s permanent starter, threw for a mere 50 yards in the first half. Yet at the end of 30 minutes, the Duke squad found itself only six points behind.

As Roof put it, the team was able to “hang in” through out the first half. Duke looked like an unranked, injured, winless squad battling against a team that has gone 29-0 under head coach Ralph Friedgen when leading at halftime. The Blue Devils’ defensive line was not stopping the Terrapins. Instead it was tiredly dragged down the field as Maryland marched to 38 unanswered points.

That’s not how you win a football game, especially against a top-25 team, and it’s not a sign Duke will contend for victories by season’s end. Roof may bring everything that was advertised to Duke football, but the first four games of 2004, especially the struggles against Maryland, show it is going to take more than one off-season and a lot of optimism.

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Lauren Archer’s singles victory in her first tournament at Duke signals strong things to come. Archer, a transfer from Rice, won her singles bracket at this weekend’s William & Mary Invitational in Williamsburg, VA. In addition to Archer, two other Blue Devils advanced to singles finals and Jackie Carleton won a consolation singles final. One Duke doubles team lost in the finals while duo Tory Zawacki and Kristin Cargill won in a consolation final.

“We had three main goals this weekend,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said.

“We wanted to play a lot of matches, see the new players in real tournament play, and find some doubles teams.”

Eight players competed in the threeday tournament. Archer defeated fellow Blue Devil Parker Goyer in the Flight C singles finals 6-0, 6-3.

“Teammates playing each other is not a great situation for the players,” Ashworth said. “But it adds to the pressure of the match, which is great preparation fqr the future. It allows us to gauge the player better.”

Carleton, a junior transferfrom UCLA, won the Flight A singles consolation bracket with a victory over Ashley Kroh of Marshall 6-3, 6-2. Carleton is the Blue Devils’ highest-ranked player at No. 19 but lost early to Megan Moulton-Levy of William & Mary 6-3, 6-1 Friday.

No. 96 Saras Arasu lost her first match of the season in the Flight B finals 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 to Lena Sherbakov of William & Mary.

Freshman Clelia Deltour won a consolation match Sunday 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 over Kristen James of Virginia. Deltour also played doubles in her first college event and, along with partner Goyer, lost to a pair from Virginia 8-5 in the Flight B doubles title match. Zawacki and Cargill won the Flight A doubles consolation 8-3.

“With seniors gone and so many new players, we wanted to see who worked well together in doubles competition,” said Ashwoth, who mixed up his doubles pairs this weekend. “Tory made some

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No. 68 Jennifer Zika won a consolation match Saturday against Darcy Robertson of Princeton 6-4, 7-6. No. 114 Nida Waseem of Boston College downed Zika Sunday in another consolation match.

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The Blue Devils next compete Oct. 2 to 10 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Riviera All-American in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

The men’s tennis team kicked off its fall season over the weekend at Georgia’s Southern Intercollegiate Tournament. Although Duke’s top two players did not participate in the tournament, several veterans—juniors Stephen Amritraj, Jonathan Stokke and sophomore Peter Rodrigues —picked up wins in Division I singles competition.

Rodrigues, in his first match against Middle Tennessee State’s Kai Schledom, cruised in the first set 6-2 and worked to a win in the second set with a tie-breaker. Rodrigues was tested in his third match when he struggled against second-seeded Franticek Babej of Southern Alabama. Rodrigues dropped the first set 6-3 and fought his way back to win the second 6-3. But Rodrigues was not able to maintain his momentum, losing the match in the third set 64.

Amritraj and Stokke each earned a victory. Amritraj handled Florida’s Chris Brandi 6-2, 6-1 in the first round, before a tough loss to Georgia’s eighth-seeded John Isner 6-3, 64. Stokke also picked up a fifst round victory against Mississippi State’s Florent Girod (64, 7-5), before dropping his second match against Auburn’s 14thseeded Robert Lothouwers.

Freshman Ned Samuelson advanced to the quarterfinals of the Division II singles draw. Samuelson easily handled his first two opponents, Georgia Tech’s George Grelesiani and Winthrop’s- Alejandro- Portugal, winning both matches in straight sets. Fighting his way through his second match against second-seeded Jordan Dolbeg of Florida, he won the first set in a tiebreaker and the second set with more ease, 6-4. Eighth-seeded Chipp Webb ended Samuelson’s streak (64, 6-3).

In doubles competition, Rodrigues and Stokke won three matches, advancing to the semifinals. They will finish the tournament today with two potential matches.

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with a solid performance Saturday at the Lake Michie Invitational against North Carolina. Rowing in twos and fours, the the Blue Devils won three of four events, including both the first varsity events.

‘Today was a great way to start off the race season,” head coach Robyn Horner said. “Our crews were very smooth and raced with composure, particularly considering they had only rowed these lineups once before.”

The Blue Devils fared exceptionally well in the women’s first varsity pairs.

Duke boats captured the first five spots, with the team’s last boat finishing 15 seconds ahead of the nearest Tar Heel craft.

“We were definitely happy with the results,” senior Julia Gelfand said. “It was good to see the hard work paying off and we’re technically doing a very good job.”

The Duke freshmen also had a strong showing at the race, rowing primarily in the second varsity crews. The second varsity pairs took the top three spots, and

the second varsity fours grabbed second and third.

“I’m really proud of the confidence with which the freshmen raced today. This was their first opportunity to represent Duke and they made a statement,” freshman coach Emily Egge said. “Our race training is Just getting started, and today’s performance tells us we are moving in the right direction.”

Friday the team honored three members of the Duke Athletic Department who have been instrumental in starting the program, which is in its seventh year with varsity status. In a ceremony held at Lake Michie in Bahama, N.C., team members splashed champagne on three new four-person boats in a symbolic dedication of the new crafts. The boats are named after Athletic Director Joe Alieva, Senior Associate Athletic Director Chris Kennedy and Associate Athletic Director Jacki Sillar.

“All three of the athletic directors we are honoring have been instrumental in our development as a varsity program,” Horner said. “I can’t think of a better way to say thank you than to have their names on our bow, leading the way."

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one corner, but the shot was ruled high. For the game, the Blue Devils were l-for-12 on corners, while North Carolina was 2-for-3.

“Corners have a lot to do with what corner you call and with what defense they run,” Bischof said. “We got shots on net, but we didn’t follow them in. If the initial shot doesn’t go in, we need someone to tip it, or sweep it off the sides, and we didn’t do that.”

Shelton said her squad was fortunate that the Blue Devils didn’t capitalize on its corners.

“I think our corner defense did a nice job,” Shelton said. “I know that Duke can be better in their offensive production on their corners. I think we were lucky to only give up one. A good team will score on 30 percent, so we were lucky to hold them to one.”

The big concern for Duke was not its inability to score on corners, but was its trouble on defense. The Blue Devils did not do a good job blocking North Carolina attackers and beating them to the ball, Sorbello said.

After the game, emotions were flying high. The Tar Heels jogged over to their cheering section and celebrated as the Blue Devils looked crushed. Some Duke players shed tears, while others had blank and confused looks on their faces.

“We definitely know we could’ve beaten them,” Sorbello said. ‘We could’ve and we should’ve. It’s one of those things where we didn’t keep to our game plan, so we are going to face the consequences of that.”

Stopford, who has scored in both ACC games this season, knows her team can play better. “[Coach Bozman] emphasized more effort and passion and playing with passion,” Stopford said. ‘We are a great team, and we should play like we are a great team because we definitely have the potential to go very far.”

Spencer Wadsworth received a feed down the sideline and crossed it to the far post, where Kramer cracked a one-timer for his fourth goal of the season.

“One of the midfielders played a great ball down the wing to Wadsworth,” Kramer said. “Nigi [Adogwa] and I were running towards the net, then Nigi went near post and took two defenders with him as I went far post.

[Wadsworth] played a great cross, and I was lucky enough to one-time it and score.”

In the 76th minute, Duke sophomore Danny Miller got tangled up with Maryland’s Abe Thompson and fell on the ball in his own box, giving the Terrapins a penalty kick, that Thompson successfully converted. It was the first goal allowed by Blue Devils’ goalkeeper Justin Trowbridge all season, ending a string of 571 consecutive scoreless minutes.

Thompson was the only Terrapin who could capitalize when the team had many opportunities to score. Maryland outshot Duke 24-8, and the Terps’ best chance came in the 37th minute, when a Maurice Edu header hit the crossbar and bounced over the net.

“Their entire team put us under a lot of offensive pressure,” said Trowbridge, a senior co-captain. ‘They were good at attacking us, but we put their forwards in check and they didn’t have a lot of really good opportunities. We knew going into the game that their entire team was extremely dangerous and that we were going to have to weather the storm.”

In addition to Edu’s header, Maryland had a flurry of chances in the first half, as the Terps rode the momentum supplied by the supportive home crowd. With each Terps miss the fans died down slightiy, and the Blue Devils took advantage.

“It was an extremely hostile environment at Maryland,” Trowbridge said. ‘They bring out good crowds with fans who are very enthusiastic, and it’s a tough place to play. The first half was not pretty soccer, we Just played well defensively and in the second half came out and took it to them.”

Duke’s 9-0 start has surprised many observers, especially because freshmen play key roles on this year’s squad. Seven freshmen have started during this young season, and their efforts, combined with the production of seven or eight key returners, has given Duke what so far has proven to be a winning formula.

‘The freshmen are definitely helping, and we did only graduate four or five guys from last year,” Kramer said.

“People have been down on us recently, but the team has kept its composure and its confidence. This win shows we can play with the best in country.”

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50 yards per half and completed about half of his attempts. As Roof has done the entire season, he has switched his quarterbacks between plays throughout the games. Roof sent in Curt Dukes for a few plays Saturday, but Dukes did not complete a pass.

Roof expressed; his hope to name a single leader for the position.

“I’d like to just have just one quarterback and let that be our leader,” Roof said. “I certainly have some feelings, but I just want to verify them by watching the game tape.”

Although the quarterback question continues to linger for Duke, Schneider, who has started all but one game, has been the most consistent.

Each unit—offense, defense and special teams scored a touchdown, something that hadn’t been done since 1977, but the team still agrees that it will need a great deal of improvement to turn around its season.

“We’re definitely not where we want to be,” Roof said.

“We’re not where we had hoped to be, but we are where we are and we’re going to dig ourselves out of it. Nobody’s going to be wallowing around in self-pity.... We’re going to go back to work and get ourselves out. That’s the only way I know how to do it.”

As for the lingering questions—why the team cannot seem to play strong through the end of the game and how to improve certain areas of the team—senior co-captain Guiseppe Aguanno seems to be at a loss.

“We don’t have the answer yet,” Aguanno said. “We don’tknow what it is, but someway, somehow, we’re going to have to find away to hang on.”

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against 10 nationally ranked opponents at the Invitational and notched a respectable ninth-place finish. The Blue Devils beat two of the' nationally ranked teams and were only six points behind eighth-place finisher lowa.

If Duke had beat lowa, Ogilvie said, the team would have been in position to secure an at-large point.

With a week until the GreatAmerican Cross Country Festival in Cary, N.C., and just more than two until PreNCAA’s, the success of Schneider, Hatch, Krieger and Spooner this weekend earned them a light week of training. Yet with such a distinct gap between this core group and a fifth runner, the other Blue Devils will be working hard to solidify the lineup.

“Next week is an important one for the next group of guys,” Ogilvie said. “A number of guys could step up and do it for us.”

Duke will watch the national polls intently, hoping for consideration. With Pre-NCAA’s nearing, the Griak Invitational marks an important stepping stone for the Blue Devils, as they seek to assert themselves on a national level.

VOLLEYBALL,™ page 3 “So many people contributed. Ali made some great decisions as a setter. She’s a freshman, but she certainly doesn’t play like a freshman.”

Duke could not finish off Virginia in the third game, as the Cavaliers came back strong. The Blue Devils did not look nearly as crisp as they had in the first two games and dropped the third game 30-23.

Duke came back and finished off the Cavaliers in the fourth game 30-24.

“We relaxed a little bit [in the third game],” Nagel said. ‘We almost did it in game four, too. Early in that game, I think we got ourselves down a little bit before we were able to come back strong.”

Duke also defeated Maryland, the defending ACC champions, 26-30, 30-26, 30-20, 30-27 this weekend. After dropping the first game to the Terrapins (5-6, 0-1), the Blue Devils won three straight games, the last two in convincing fashion as they led the majority ofboth games.

Duke used a deep offensive attack to defeat Maryland, as four players recorded double-digit kills. The Blue Devils also set a season high for team blocks.

“Getting these two wins was very important for us for the conference standings,” Nagel said. ‘The conference is very tough.”

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hours and lack of sleep are well worth the rewards of campaigning. “It’s very energizing to come to these campuses and see the students,” she said.

Edwards, a North Carolina native who recently graduated from Princeton University, is playing a key role in the Kerry-Edwards campaign’s attempts to reach out to young voters, particularly in the final thrust as Election Day nears. The theme of her stump speech —which she has delivered at over 25 colleges—is “We have a choice,” a catchphrase she repeats numerous times in her delivery.

At Saturday’s rally, Edwards contrasted the Republican and Democratic candidates’ approaches to various issues, from education and health care to the budget deficit and Iraq. Criticizing the current administration’s stances on each issue, she urged members of her young audience to choose the Democratic ticket and “vote for change.”

We do not want four more years of wrong decisions,” she said to the crowd ofroughly 400 people gathered on the quad. “Vote to change history. Vote to change this country.”

Edwards said the ultimate goal of speeches like the one she gave at Duke, however, is to encourage her peers to be involved in the election process and “get out and vote” for whichever pair of candidates they think will best represent their interests. She noted that young people supporting either candidate is better than no young people supporting any candidate. “Even when you see someone holding a George Bush sign, that’s not quite discouraging because it means that they are involved in this process and that they’re excited,” she said, standing in front of the Duke Chapel to greet students and answer questions.

Edwards said she has been encouraged by the number of students—both Republican and Democrat—turning out for her campus appearances. Though she hopes to be a catalyst in the process of eliminating young voters’ traditional apathy, Edwards said it is up to other involved young people, like the ones she has seen at rallies, to reach out to their peers before Election Day. We can get

not everyone has access to the ballot,” Earls said, to the convicted felons kicked off voting rolls.

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each other out there,” she said, Edwards admitted that being on the hectic campaign trail has had a major impact on her public identity. “I’ve become John Edwards’ daughter instead of Cate,” she said.

But Edwards also said the sudden celebrity is a welcome development in her life. She is even ready to take on the added attention that would come with her potential role as the vice president’s daughter. “It would be tough, but I’d take it any day of theweek because it wouldbe a lot tougher having George Bush in office,” she said.

After the election, Edwards plans to return to her New York City apartment and live there “for more than three days at a time.” She will also begin a job at Vanity Fair magazine later this year.

Until then, however, Edwards said she will continue with her travelsand media appearances, all with the hope of getting young people to turn out en masse to vote Nov. 2.

“There are 40 million of us across the nation,” she said.

“If we get out in large numbers, we can make the difference and decide this election.”

Grant Farred, associate professor of literature, also discussed the importance of the 2000 election while addressing voting in South Africa. “What does it feel like to live in the Third World?” he said a South African friend of his asked him after the election. There was a corrupt, new sense of “what the U.S. really represents” after the events in Florida, he said.

Farred explained that after 1994 the South African government decided that white South Africans living abroad were not allowed to vote. “Voting matters in the U.S. for one reason and one reason only: You still have the semblance of a choice,” he said.

In his speech, Guven Guzeldere, associate professor in the philosophy department, said he was shocked by the “narrowness of political choice” available to U.S. voters and voter apathy that particularly plagues those between 21 to 24 years old. “Do you really... want to be governed by people chosen by old farts?” he asked the crowd of students.

Elizabeth Kiss, director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, addressed the lack of student voters and refuted the reasons students typically give for not voting. ‘There is a sense of politicians being corrupt that has fed into cynicism,” Kiss said, suggesting that this feeling should instead be channeled into political activism. “[Everyone should remember] how hard people had to fight to get the right to vote.”

Felicia Kornbluh, assistant professor of history, spoke about the history of women voters. In the 19th century, Kornbluh said, “voting was the means to an end,” but women increasingly fought for the vote alone. Kornbluh also described the “gender gap” and the fact that although “U.S. women vote more than U.S. men d0... [there] has not been a movement [to] appeal to this group.”

A question and answer session followed, addressing issues including political cynicism and the influence of Sept. 11 and the war in Iraq.

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dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences; Durham Mayor Bill Bell and John Edwards’ daughter, Cate.

Students and Dxlrham residents came to support the speakers, eat free food and hear free live music from the groups Kody and The Alan Davis Band. The rally started at 2 p.m. and concluded at around 4:30 p.m.

Fish kicked off the rally by stressing the importance of getting voters to the polls. He cited the importance of a large voter turnout to his cause, saying, “When Durham votes, Democrats win.” Collins supplemented Fish’s message, saying voting is “every American’s greatest responsibility and privilege.”

Price, D-Dist. 4, echoed the theme ofKerry’s campaign, stressing that America needs to become “stronger at home and more respected around the world.” Schlesinger criticized the Bush administration’s environmental policies and decried Bush’s rejection of the Kyoto Protocol.

Following Schlesinger, the Durham mayor delivered a fiery and emotional speech that identified Durham’s chief concerns in the Nov. 2 election. Bell said Bush’s economic plans are hitting Durham especially hard. He also criticized Bush’s education plans.

In between speeches, rally participants passionately discussed concerns they had with the Bush administration and talked about why they liked Kerry.

Several Bush supporters, mostly students, yelled out pro-Bush remarks during the speeches as they trickled back from the football game in Wallace Wade Stadium.

Many Kerry supporters looked annoyed at the “Go Bush!” and “Bush is my boy!” remarks, but responded with louder applause to drown them out.

The loud Bush supporters caught Cate Edwards offguard during her speech, to the point that she admitted being distracted. Edwards, a recent graduate of Princeton University who has actively campaigned for her father and Kerry, delivered an address with a peer-to-peer feel wearing Rainbow brand sandals and casual clothes.

Her speech hit home to many students. Sophomore Quindelyn Cook said she appreciated that Edwards acknowledged that the soldiers who have died in Iraq are

about—there isn’t much conversation on campus. The more, the better!”

Lubiano suggested that this symptom is not isolated to Duke, but rather reflective of society today. ‘We also want to remind people that the reason that we got involved in political work is that it feels good to do something,” she said.

But is drag the right medium to bring about change?

When told of the group’s methods, senior Nathan Carleton, president of Duke Conservative Union, described the skits as “bizarre.”

From his vantage point at a coffee table at Alpine Atrium, junior Trip Attaway viewed things differendy. “It was great!” he said. “I was really pleased to see them.”

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New sorority unnecessary week representatives from and adding Zeta as another option Duke’s sororities voted to add a will only make recruitment harder chapter of Zeta Tan .Alpha to for those sororities, Starting a chapter of a sorority is the Panhellenic Association. Zeta with its strong alumni presence in the extremely difficult because it lacks the tradition, reputaTriangle and a great StSTTGuItOITSI tion and membernational repulaship that established tion —was probably the best choice the sororities could sororities have. .Alpha Phi, for examhave made, however, we still question pie, was recolonized a few? years ago the logic behind expanding Panhel and its numbers are still noticeably lower than the other sororities. in the first place.

Two of the stated goals of adding Since Alpha Phi is still finding its another chapter are to decrease the place within Panhel, it seems too size of pledge classes and to give soon and unnecessary to bring in anmore women an opportunity to en- other new sorority. Although Zeta gage in sorority life. .And although may provide opportunities for upwell-intentioned, the former may ac- perclasswomen, it will likely only aptually do more harm than good and peal to a handful of them.

Sororities already have a reputaDuke does not need the latter. Pledge class size is not a universal problem, tion for promoting social elitism, and women at Duke have more than and greek life may inadvertently contribute to racial and class segregaenough sorority opportunities.

The size of pledge classes is deter- tion at Duke. Adding another chapmined by dividing the number of ter will only perpetuate this. Zeta will girls participating in the last round only further stratify the sorority hierof formal recruitment by the num- archy, and the “core four” sororities ber of sororities, currently nine, will become more of a social elite beSome people feel they are too big. cause they will have fewer members.

Assuming the number of girls who The sororities traditionally considrush remains roughly the same, ered to occupy the lower strata will adding a 10th sorority would techni- only be hurt by the addition, Zeta may grow to be a successful cally solve this problem.

However, if Panhel is successful in sorority—in fact, Zeta may prove to attracting more women into sorority be a resounding success story, much life—one of the things it seems to be in the way the fraternity Delta Tau aiming for—recruitment numbers Delta was two years ago, and some will rise and pledge classes will grow girls may in fact benefit from it. At again. Indeed, having a smaller this point in time, however, bringing quota would benefit the sororities a chapter of Zeta to Duke does not that currently fill their entire pledge seem to be in the best interests of class. There are sororities, however, sororities, girls interested in recruitment or the overall social scene. that do not fill their pledge classes,

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Police response is unsatisfactory At around 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, Sept.

11, following the armed robbery that oc-

curred in the early hours of that same day in the Edens Quadrangle fire lane, an incident occurred with a Duke University police officer that has prompted this letter.

Six female students, all residents of Edens Quadrangle, were discussing campus safety with a uniformed police officer on patrol in Edens at the time. Students inquired as to what safety precautions they should take to protect themselves, in light of the armed robbery as well as the alleged rape which occurred in March in the wooded area surrounding Edens. The students indicated that they felt there should be greater surveillance of the area in response to those incidents.

The officer responded that female students’ best option would be to simply not go out late at night, and that those who did so, particularly while drinking, were “putting themselves in a position of danger” much like the student who was allegedly accosted and raped last year “at two in the morning.” Furthermore, the officer stated that if students weren’t always “actin’ a fool”—regarding drinking and partying on campus —more DUPD officers would have time to patrol the area.

This kind of response from a uniformed officer of the DUPD is completely and utterly inappropriate. It is an egregious overstatement to associate “walking late at night after drinking” to causing a rape like one which allegedly occurred last semester, in part because that incident, according to DUPD records, reportedly occurred at 10:15 p.m. (by general standards not especially late at night) and did not involve any alcohol. Furthermore, to claim that student

actions of drinking, partying and walking after dark provoke rape, robbery or other crime is inappropriate and wrong.

The officer did say that he wished there were more officers than the DUPD budget allowed in order to increase campus safety, an issue that in part is being alleviated by the administration’s hiring of outside security guards to patrol all of West Campus.

However, a shortage of officers and security guards is not where the heart of the problem lies.

While there is no doubt that students must take an active role in making good decisions regarding drinking and safety, no amount of good decision making will have an impact if paired with a police department whose officers think that certain students, by drinking, partying or even by simply walking home at 10:15 on a Friday night, are somehow deserving of a crime committed against them—and act according to that false notion. An officer whose job is to protect Duke and its community members carries with him this mindset—and it should be made clear to this officer and the department as a whole that no students, no matter what actions they participate in, deserve to have the entitlement of safety and security on campus taken away from them.

Professor Betsy Alden Visiting lecturer, Kenan Institude for Ethics

Megan Rebecca O’Flynn Trinity ’O7 Lissett Babaian Trinity ’O7 and 12 others

Former Brown resident defends dorm As a former resident of Brown Dormitory, I felt that The Chronicle’s article “Alcohol flows in Brown dorm” portrayed Brown in an negative light. There are a few things I would like to say on the subject ofBrown and the reality of its “substance-free” nature.

Yes, some people in Brown drink. Yes, people in Brown are not supposed to drink under their contract. But of course, considering that all of East Campus is composed of freshmen, almost all of whom are under 21, almost no one is supposed to drink. A lot of people who aren’t supposed to drink do.

What differentiates Brown from the rest of the freshman dorms is the attitude people have about drinking. Those who did drink generally did not do so in the dorm.

And yes, there are students who did not drink. For those of us who fell into this category, Brown provided a welcome alternative.

It made it easier to find people who didn’t want to drink and wanted to do other things for fun. It also helped lessen the peer pressure to drink that I feel exists for people living in non-substance free dorms.

As for James Coyne’s statement that “the Brown stigma is not about substance-free, but

fun-free,” the fact that this stigma exists is absolutely ridiculous. People need to realize Brown residents have just as much fun as everyone else. How much fun you have in college depends on you and you alone, not what dorm you live in. There were Brown residents that went out to Parizade and Shooters orvarious frat parties every weekend. Brown residents had just as much fun as the rest of campus. It might not have been fun in the same way as a lot of students, but we did have a lot of fun. I also feel that Brown, at least in my year, was one of the most closely-knit groups of people on campus. Our dorm had a real sense of community to it.

While I obviously don’t speak for everyone who lived in Brown, I feel that living in Brown was a great experience, and, even if some of the residents did drink, I don’t think that is reason enough for Residential Life and Housing Services to be assessing “the practicability and future viability ofBrown.” I think it offers an option that enough students want to justify its continuation.

Katie Zimmerman Trinity 'Ol

Professor clarifies message on votmg In his Sept. 24 column Yoni Riemer attriband my PPS 55 class, the claim that “votes don’t matter.” He is kidding, and that’s okay, but there is an important underlying point.

What I said is that “No one vote determines the outcome. So, that can’t be the reason people vote. In a well-functioning democracy, people vote out of attachment to a party, and the vision of governance it represents, not because they think they are going to decide who wins or who loses.”

In a republic, we all have obligations. Participation in civic life is one of the most imporutes to me,

tant. It doesn’t have to be all about my own narrow self-interests.

For example, one more voice in Cameron doesn’t affect the outcome of the basketball game, yet people yell themselves hoarse, cheering for the team they love. It’s part of what makes Duke such a great place.

So, go out and vote, all ofyou! Not because you will determine the outcome, but because you are part of community, and you take your obligations to that community seriously.

Michael Munger

Chair, Department ofPolitical Science

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summer before freshman year, I got my housing dal contract. Sounds like Locke. Well, I guess he was right package from Duke. Immediately, a CD-ROM stuffed about some things. into the packet caught my eye. I popped that bad boy So does Duke have a right to take away some of our freeinto my computer, and voila! A nice little interactive menu apdom in the name of safety? Inevitably, yes. They have the peared. I looked through the various choicright. Duke is not a democracy. It’s not a es, and finally clicked on the option labeled dictatorship either, but it’s still not a “DukeCard.” At once, I was assaulted by an democracy. The administration decides entourage of enthusiastic Duke students saywhat is best for us. Think about it: without ing scripted phrases like “I can’t live without an administration, without rules and laws, my DukeCard!” “DukeCard for life!” and without obligations or oversight, what “My DukeCard rules every aspect ofmy life... would Duke look like? Kegs on the quad, I am its slave!” I rolled my eyes and made fun toking up in the open, Beirut everyof the video clips with my dad. Little did I where... and what about grades? If we know, however, that I would soon be echoing could assign our own grades, how many of matt dearborn the same sentiments about this enigmatic us would simply give ourselves A’s and unreal city card... especially that last one. never go to class? I would, at least for some of my classes. So much for higher educaAlthough the DukeCard may not literally rule our lives, it sure helps us go through our daily roution’s purpose of learning and expanding the mind. In tines. As a student, I would find it hard to do laundry, hardessence, we give up part of our autonomy to allow Duke to er to eat, and next to impossible to live anywhere on campus make decisions for us. And yet we fight these decisions. We without a DukeCard. One thing, however, that many stupick out certain administrators to hate because they’re “takdents do not realize is that the Duke Card allows for the Ading away freedom.” And yet no one complains about privacy. ministration to watch our every move on campus. They see But we want privacy, we demand our freedom. We’re still where we last swiped, where we go and where we were all young, though, we still don’t know what’s best for us. Duke does. At least that’s what they think. But they’re wiser, more day. Now, this brings up an ethical question; does the Unierudite... They’ve devoted lives to learning, academia. We versity have the'right to invade our privacy? To be a proverbial Big Brother and watch our every move? According to shouldn’t argue. They’re right.

So what can we say to this? We need to realize Duke’s role Campus Council, video cameras are a breach of privacy. But what about our DukeCards? in our life. We’re not free, but it’s better this way. As I’m going to keep this discussion local (so no PatriotAct Rousseau says, we’re free but everywhere we’re in chains. tangent). In any case, we pay a great yearly sum to attend We can’t see our freedom; all we see are our restrictions.

Duke. Where does this money go? Well, statistically, a cerLarry Moneta is doing good things for us, but we can’t see tain percentage goes towards tuition, a portion to quad past the fog of resentment. He’s “restricting our fun.” Nan dues, etc. But more importandy, while some of the money had great policies, but there’s still bitterness. No kegs on the goes towards education, some also goes towards insuring quad? Bah! our safety (“Safety,” you say... “How about police in Edens?”

Alas, if only we could see the higher authority, the more But that’s beside the point). So the question then transobjective reasoning, maybe then we could empathize and forms into “Yes, we pay for our security and safety, but do we understand. Maybe then we could see the true Gothic pay to give up some of our freedom?” Oh, no, not the FWonderland. word. Anything but the F-word. No, no, no. But yes, we do lose freedom by willingly entering into the University’s soMatt Dearborn is a Trinity sophomore.

SIR ELTON feels pathetic

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week and 14 more diary entries have SIR attendance is as serious as armed robbery. But SIR ELTON ELTON all cried out. SIR ELTON makes sure to write felt extra safe when he saw that the cops roaming the tailan entry every morning and every night to maximize gate area after the game had started charging people with not having the Blue Devil spirit to actually attend the game. conveyance of pathetic feelings of vulnerability.

SIR ELTON thinks Prozac sales are going to skyrocket as But it’s understandable that Coach Roof would be a little midterm week ended with depressed test-bombers moping worried about student support, after all this is the only everywhere. Fortunately, SIR ELTON’s midterms were school where when the team talks about the 12th man curved to athletes’ scores so he didn’t do so badly. SIR cheering them on they literally mean the one guy that ELTON appreciated the return of peoshowed up. SIR ELTON was pretty annoyed to have to move his car out of the Blue Zone to ple to the gym near the end of the week as they tried to make themselves feel accommodate football fans, mosdy because better by working out. Don’t worry peothere’s just no way they need the whole lot. If Duke needs to empty out a parking lot big ple, SIR ELTON noticed, and he’s laughing at you right now. The excepenough to fit all the people coming to a game, tions of course are the girls who preSIR ELTON suggests that they just clear out tend like they can get any studying the fire lane outside Wannamaker. It can fit a done while running, or that they can few cars and a Segway, right? sir elton brand, SIR ELTON is getting kind of irritated with pass off that they are working out when all the class barbecues going on all the dme, they’re motionless on the bike reading. prince of tennis SIR ELTON was amazed at the too. The administration always gets his hopes monday, monday up with pipe dreams of magnificent feasts of groundswell of support for making the campus more biker friendly. Now some sumptuous steak and turkey. Instead, he gets of the bikers’ complaints seem reasonable, but complaining nasty food from these turkeys. Oh sorry, SIR ELTON is supabout having to breathe in bus fumes for five minutes durposed to be working on his English grammar. He finds this ing the ride is just going too far when SIR ELTON has to unpleasant situation most discouraging, especially when he smell people who forgot that classrooms can be stuffy. Even deliberates it over a spot of tea. Nonetheless, SIR ELTON makes the lonely three minute walk to the quad expecting a Captain Planet wears Old Spice, dude. Of course not everyone bikes to save the environment; some people just want to veritable smorgasbord ofAmerican delights, and what does he find but stringy chicken and a cardboard roll? Can SIR get exercise. These are the same people that were still runELTON get a decent portion of quality chicken? Since when ning everywhere 30 years after horses were invented.

But bikers aren’t the only activists on campus. SIR is the Bojangles tailgate special the high standard in food ELTON was extremely offended that Duke for Kerry is getquality? Probably since the Great Hall opened its doors. ting funds from DSG. Then SIR ELTON heard that DSG is Although SIR ELTON doesn’t always make it to the cool going to buy kegs, too, and he thought DSG should have parties on time, he’s always sure to be there just as they get given the beer to Duke for Kerry. Then the Republicans raided by DUPD. He’s not sure the resident coordinators could request DSG funds to buy cocaine to emulate their appreciate the irony as much as he does (SIR ELTON has a candidate. It makes sense considering that you’d have to sixth sense for irony), but it sure is going to be funny when be on some kind of mind-altering drug to really like either people start getting mugged on their way to off-campus parcandidate. ties. Devil daily might as well tell freshmen to walk into Now that e-mail is emergency-only, SIR ELTON was a lit- Duke forest at midnight. tle surprised to get a personal e-mail from Coach Ted Roof (SIR ELTON’s e-mail is students-undergrad-all@duke.edu) begging people to come to games. Apparently low football beries and football games so it can send out less e-mails.

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the fundamental science and ultimate source of technological innovation in our society, focused at the heart of inquiry about space and time. What Einstein called “the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.” With high scores for affricative value (ffffiFiiiizzziiiixx!) and nerd quotient, it inspires the deepest of fears in the best of us. And its ranks are filled with the most boring, odd and quirky people you’ll ever meet.

Take, for example, my former intro physics TA. He’s an 80-something-year-old physicist who spent the greater part ofhis life working for the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Department of Energy on secret projects that he never knew were being used to develop the atomic bomb. When the war ended he packed his bags and headed for the Gothic Wonderland to teach aspiring scientists the basics of the forces of nature.

He speaks like you would imagine a physicist to talk: Bordering on comatose, with a style that toes the line between Stephen Hawking and Walter Mathau.

When he’s talking physics, he never, ever misspeaks or obfuscates. I believe he’s incapable of wrong, and I love him for it.

One day he’s delivering a summary of what went on in lecture that day, in his characteristically dry monotone. ‘You must be certain to ground current when working with high electric potentials. Observe, thefollowing [pregnant pause —he raises his hands in demonstration]: In an infinitely thin wire with marginal Philip kurian resistance (we must asthe pen is mightier sume the infinite to avoid complications of the real world), a battery of just 100 volts can create more than 1,000kilojoules of excess disorder—what we humans call heat.”

You can always tell when he’s about to go on these mini-digressions; He stops writing equations on the board, turns to fashion his ever-so-light-blue, shortsleeved Walmart polo and adjusts his monstrous hornrimmed spectacles before continuing.

“If that infinitely thin wire were replaced with, for instance, one of you, this spontaneous generation of heat wouldresult in the very unfortunate phenomenon known as death."

I got an A in that course, a directresult of the hours spent with my TA in office hours. Whenever he walks by me in the physics building, I always say “Hi,” silently acknowledging his wisdom, hesitant to show my enthusiasm. And, never remembering my name, he walks by, not without purpose, not hastened by his ignorance of me, just replying confidently, “Hullo.”

Fast-forward to my general relativity class this fall.

The students in the class affectionately call it G-R. Our professor, a mathematician, argues that Einstein’s theory of relativity was a direct outgrowth from the “uncleanliness” of Newtonian mechanics. “This theory was not beautiful; in Newton’s time we did not know G-R, but we had an idea that this just couldn’t be it” In order to reconcile the theory with simplicity—in other words, to make it beautiful—Einstein had to remove the artificial constrictions on the quantities themselves.

“Convince yourself of this by proving Theorem 2-A, Exercise 3,” he continues with the lecture.

We must all learn to convince ourselves of things. We have minds that strive to be infinite, that want to know all, but we are constandy vexed by the imperfection and limitations of being human. Whether in physics, literature or political science, students can find the whole of the human experience in every discipline. Yet we spend much of our time trying to justify that whatwe’re doing at the moment is the right thing to do.

I am a firm believer that if students can be taught the big ideas of what physics strives to do, then they will be hooked to it like a drug. The same holds true for every field of knowledge or achievement, and specialization in any endeavor does not exclude making the great connections. As Brian Greene, the famous string theorist, apdy puts it; “It seemed that if one could gain a deep familiarity with the questions, a real profound understanding of them, then at least that would be the first step towards coming to answers about the purpose of our existence.”

Philip Kurian is a Trinity senior.

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