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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 29

Ban’s expiration creates controversy PSM draws continued criticism Adam Eaglin THE CHRONICLE

Since a national act banning assault weapons expired Sept. 13, activists on national, local and campus levels have debated its impact on the future of gun violence. The Federal Assault Weapons Act of 1994, part of crime legislation from former President Bill Clinton’s administration, prohibited the manufacture and distribution of 19 varieties ofassault weapons and expired this month. Recent polls demonstrated widespread support for the ban—even among gun owners. About 68 percent ofAmericans and even 32 percent of National Rifle Association members advocate the ban’s renewal, according to two studies released this month by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. North Carolina’s local governments have expressed general support for the ban as well. David Jones, director of the North Carolina Governor’s Crime Commission, said nothing negative has been said “among commission members or anyone in our circles” about the ban. “By and large, they would be in favor ofits continuation,” he noted. In Durham, activist groups such as the Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham, are adamant in their approval of the ban. “We have increased the risk factor for

Jewish schools withdraw support from Duke,TlP Kelly Rohrs THE CHRONICLE

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Dallas, Texas, gun dealerTom Mannewitz displays assault-style rifles inside his shop.

DUMC outlaws company handouts did occur in both private practice settings and in medical school faculties.” Kussin noted that he did not wish to cut all ties between DUMC and pharmaceutical companies. “They’re a major source of philanthropy, research support and support of medical students and post-graduate trainees,” he said. “They are rightfully partners, and our whole effort is to treat them as partners —to take the commercialization out and focus on

by Tony Tu THE CHRONICLE

Everyone knows the general public is inundated with promotions for newly developed drugs from major pharmaceutical companies. They’re not the companies’ only target—physicians who prescribe medicine and administrators responsible for entire medical departments are also targets of pharmaceutical advertisements. But the messages they receive are much more enticing, ranging from stationery and pens to golf outings, expensive dinners, tickets to major sporting events and lavish trips. In a move to reduce excess influence that could potentially arise from close relationships between doctors and the drug industry, Duke University Medical Center has banned pharmaceutical companies from presenting its medical staff with handouts, giveaways and other enticements. DUMC has also changed its policies regulating company-sponsored events and interactions with sales representatives. The policy, presented by DUMC’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and implemented last year, requires all vendors to sign in, disclose the names of the Duke staff they are visiting and report the purpose of each visit. Further-

Amid a preponderance of negative reactions from beyond the Gothic walls, the University is striving to defend its decision to allow the annual conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement to proceed Oct. 15 to 17. Multiple Jewish groups, including an alliance of campus organizations and representatives of the Jewish Federation, have supported Duke, but a number of outside organizations are still objecting that the University is letting the student group Hiwar host the conference on campus. Davis Academy, a Jewish Day School in Atlanta, Ga., has severed its ties with the Duke Talent rililAC Identification Program, which allows middle school students to take the SAT and attend summer camp at the University. Rabbi Steven Ballaban, head of the school, accused PSM of being a forum for terrorists, and he said that by permitting the conference the University is complicit in its activities. “As far as I’m concerned, as long as Duke has a public posidon that it will allow a group that has terrorist speakers or has had people make terrorist threats at their conferences, I will not support Duke in any way,” he said. PSM is regarded in many circles as antiSemidc, and a variety of groups have accused it of implicitly suppordng terrorism. In their own investigation, University officials said they did not find any direct links between terrorist activities and PSM. A letter from the head of Greenfield Hebrew Academy in Atlanta also withdrew that school’s support for the TIP program, but University administrators said they were unaware of the decision. University officials attributed the flood ofreactions to the deep-seeded emotions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the quantity of unverified information about PSM on the Internet. John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said Duke is working with Davis Academy to help it understand the University’s policies of academic freedom and its decision to allow the conference. PSM refuses to condemn any actions

partnership.”

Doctors in DUMC used to receive gifts like pens, note pads and novelty items regularly. more, promotional materials such as pens and bags may not be distributed to the staff at all; only appropriate educational materials are allowed. The policy also dictates that no displays or exhibits can be placed in public and patient care areas and that food may be delivered to the Medical Center only if it is part of an approved educational activity. “The freebies and giveaways have been a problem for many years,” said Dr. Peter Kussin, chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. “Duke physicians have traditionally avoided taking part in these sorts of activities, but they

Kussin said when he began medical school, he and his classmates were all given stethoscopes branded with a drug company’s name. He noted that he received other drug company enticements that have now been eliminated by DUMC’s new policy. Dr. Joseph Miller, School of Medicine ’73 and a specialist in high risk obstetrics and clinical research at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, said he understood Duke’s decision to ban drug company giveaways. “In an educational setting, it would be best to avoid any hint of conflicts of interest,” Miller said. “Most physicians use drugs that they know and establish SEE GIFTS ON PAGE 10

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Argentina school shooting leaves 4 dead by

Bill Cormier

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A high BUENOS AIRES, Argentina school student opened fire in a classroom in southern Argentina, killing four classmates and wounding five Tuesday in Argentina’s worst school rampage on record, police said. The 15-year-old suspect began his attack without uttering a word, letting go with intermittent bursts of gunfire from a 9-millimeter handgun as students cowered beneath their desks, authorities said. The rampage at Islas Malvinas Middle School No. 2 in a remote southern comer of

Buenos Aires province, touched off intense nationwide debate about spiraling school violence in Argentina. Stabbings and other attacks on teachers and students have recently alarmed educators and parents alike. Tuesday’s gunfire triggered public soulsearching about the state of Argentina’s classrooms. Argentina has long been considered one of South America’s safer countries. “We heard gunfire and a lot of screaming and then everyone coming out into the hallway,” said one boy on local television, who did not identify himself. “We saw three bod-

ies on the ground with bullet wounds.” Authorities provided no immediate motive for the attack but said they were questioning the student, who was arrested soon after the attack on the classroom in Carmen de Patagones, some 610 miles south of Buenos Aires. The suspect showed up around 7:30 a.m. before the teacher arrived, walked into a classroom, drew the gun from its holster and began firing indiscriminately at classmates, according to police. SEE SHOOTINGON PAGE 12

Kidnappers release 7 hostages in Iraq by

Alexandra Zavls

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Kidnappers released two female Italian aid workers and five other hostages Tuesday, raising hopes for foreigners still in captivity. But insurgents showed no sign of easing their blood—soaked campaign against the U.S. presence in Iraq, staging a show of defiance in Samarra and striking twice with deadly force in Basra. Three Egyptian telecommunications workers abducted last week were among those freed Tuesday, their parent company, Orascom, announced in Cairo. A fourth Egyptian in the groupwas released Monday and two others remain hostage. It was unclear what prompted the two separate groups of kidnappers to release their captives, including two Iraqis who had been seized with the Italian women, and whether any ransom was

paid.

The Italians were wearing full black veils that revealed only

their eyes as they were received by the Italian Red Cross in a Baghdad neighborhood, according to video broadcast by the Arab news station Al-Jazeera. Looking dazed but smiling, Simona Torretta lifted her veil and repeated, “Thank you,” in Arabic. Simona Pari hesitated before also lifting her veil. Later Tuesday, the two women were flown to a military airport Rome, where they were greeted by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusin coni. The two aid workers, now in long, white dresses, emerged smiling and held hands as they walked on the tarmac, theirrelatives by their side. Asked by reporters how she felt, Pari said only, “Good.” Pari and Torretta were abducted Sept. 7 in a bold raid on the Baghdad office of their aid agency “Un Ponte Per...” (“A Bridge

newsinbrief CNN producer released

An Israeli Arab who works as a producer for CNN was released Tuesday, a day after he was kidnapped at gunpoint, relatives and Palestinian police said, Riad Ali said his kidnappers identified themselves as members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.

Girt killed in day-care shooting A man opened fire at an in-home daycare center in Detroit, Mich., Tuesday, killing a 3-year-old girl and critically wounding two women, officials said. The child died after being rushed to the hospital. She had been shot in the head.

Haitian gangs attack convoys They mob aid convoys, break into homes to steal food and shoot anyone who gets in their way. Street gangsters put aid workers squarely in their sights and are subjecting storm survivors to life-threatening delays in getting food and water.

Oil prices rise above $5O Crude oil topped the psychological milestone of $5O per barrel Tuesday for the first time, and a Saudi Arabian oil official said it would raise its production capacity by nearly 5 percent in an effort to calm prices.

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selection Jennifer

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council took the first official step in its selection of the next Young Trustee representative for graduate and professional students at its general body meeting last night. Members elected a six-person Young Trustee Screening Committee, chaired byjulia Bowsher, a graduate student in biology. The committee will collectand examine applications for the position in November. After conducting interviews, it will narrow the pool to three candidates and present those finalists at a general body meeting

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Contestants wait eagerly as emcee Robby Robbins announces the Queen of the Triangle in The Independent Weekly's fourth annual drag queen pageant.

Drag queens lure loyal, royal crowd by

Robert Samuel THE CHRONICLE

RALEIGH Performers at the Lincoln Theater sang and danced for a cheering audience in highly choreographed routines wearing high heels and tight, sparkling dresses. And all but one of the entertainers were men. The most experienced and talented drag queens in the area competed Sunday in The Independent Weekly’s fourth annual Queen of the Triangle Drag Pageant in Raleigh. Former pageant winners Jezebel, Tequila Rose and Nellie Bottoms started off the festivities with energetic performances that drew gleeful cheers from the crowd. Jezebel showed off her athletic abilities by

shouted things such as, “Shake it sister!” Master of Ceremonies Robby Robbins encouraged the crowd to “tip” the performers. “It’s expensive to look this however, weren’t flawless; Nellie Bottoms cheap!” he belted into his microphone. After the formal wear round Justin lost an earring and her blonde wig while Keiler, the owner of Expressions in dancing her routine. “When my wig fell off I was sort of Ghapel Hill, gave away sex toys and lubriplucked,” said Bottoms, an eight-year vet- cants to lucky winners of a raffle in order eran to drag queen pageants. “It didn’t to keep those assembled entertained stop me from going on because a true pro- while contestants changed wardrobes, fessional would have kept on, and I did.” Keiler gave out several trash-bags full of The formal wear competition was the sexual paraphernalia, including some next phase of the pageant. The 2004 conobjects worth more than $lOO. “Its a wonderful event. It’s a great way testants paraded their sparkling dresses and elaborate makeup as those in atten- to reach out to the public,” said Keiler, dance—a crowd that was evenly split SEE PAGEANT ON PAGE 8 among gay and straight fans —playfully

gracefully prancing to her music. Tequila Rose particularly excited the raucous crowd by gyrating her full-figured body direcdy in front of her fans. The champions,

tee preempts the University Board of Trustees’ decision on GPSC’s proposal to restructure the graduate and professional student representative’s tenure from a three-year to two-year term. “If approved, we will be able to have two representatives at the table each year, one as an observer

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CORRECTION The photograph that accompanied a story about vaccine therapy for cancer on page 4 of the Sept. 24 edition of The Chronicle pictured Dr. Johannes Vieweg, not Dr. David Rizzieri.

CLARIFICATION A Sept. 28 story that ran on page 1 stated that North Carolina senatorial candidate Erskine Bowles supported a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Bowles said in Monday's debate that he only supports a constitutional amendment as a last resort.

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With little more than a month remaining before Election Day, President George W. Bush has extended his lead over challenger Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in North Carolina to a 6 percent margin—the widest spread between the candidates since Kerry became the Democratic nominee for president. According to the most recent News & Observer, WRAL-TV and WUNC radio poll, 50 percent ofNorth Carolina voters prefer Bush to Kerry, who garnered support from only 44 percent ofrespondents. The results of the poll—conducted by the group Research 2000 via telephone from Sept. 20 to 22—indicate that the president has doubled his lead in the state since last month, when only a 3 percent spread separated him from Kerry. On the issue of the United States’ actions in Iraq, 47 percent of those polled said the situation was “not worth going to war over,” while 46 percent said it merited U.S. involvement. But 49 percent of respondents also said they

believed the war has made the nation safer from the threat of international terrorism, in comparison to 44 percent who said it has not. The results of the statewide poll mirror polls conducted nationally in the past week. A Sept. 23 to 26 Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated that voters nationwide prefer Bush to Kerry by a margin of 51 to 44 percent. Fiftythree percent of those polled also said they would trust Bush to do a better job handling the situation in Iraq, in comparison to 40 percent who said they would trust Kerry to do a better job than the current president. The spread between the presidential candidates on the question of whom voters would trust to better handle the national economy is slightly smaller, but Bush still tops his challenger, 48 to 43 percent. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted from Sept. 24 to 26 that shows the president leading Kerry by 52 to 44 percent also asked respondents which candidate’s policies would “move the country in the right direcSEE POLLS ON PAGE 7

Anti-Bush students wear politics on their backs by

Blake Rose

THE CHRONICLE

Cate Edwards has one, and so does Alexandra Kerry. T-shirts inscribed with the slogan “bush? not fine by me.” have become the latest fad for some Duke students in the last week. On the back, the T-shirt displays a list of numerical statistics that add up to 2004, which sophomores Ben Abram and Vijay Brihmadesam said explain why President George W. Bush should not be reelected. Abram and Brihmadesam designed the shirts in an effort to encourage Duke stu-

dents who oppose Bush’s reelection to voice their opinions. The slogan stems from a similarly popular but controversial T-shirt that read “gay? fine by me.” that a group of Duke students distributed last spring to promote tolerance of alternative lifestyles on campus. “We were thinking about different ways to get our message across,” Abram said. “We realized that T-shirts were a pretty effective way, seeing as the ‘gay? fine by me.’ T-shirts were so successful.” SEE T-SHIRTS ON PAGE 12

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Founders’ Day to honor faculty, alumni The 103rd annual Founders’ Day Convocation will take place this Saturday at 4 p.m. The University will honor distinguished faculty with awards for teaching, scholarship, mentoring and meritorious service. The Distinguished Alumni Award will be given to trustee emeritus Raymond Nasher, Trinity ’43, the major benefactor for Duke’s new art museum. The celebration will be the first at which President Richard Brodhead will preside. The service will also recognize various groups of scholars, including the Angier B. Duke Scholars, Benjamin N. Duke Scholars and University Scholars. Sedans tickets go on sale Tickets for the Oct. 22 speech and reading by humorist David Sedaris went on sale Tuesday to Duke students. Tickets will be $5 for Duke students, and will sell for $2O to the general public Oct. 13. Sedaris, a North

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Carolina native, is the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Barrel Fever, and the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He is also a frequent commentator on National Public Radio. All tickets for the 8 p.m. show in Page Auditorium are general admission. Medical Center wins Consumer Choice award Duke University Medical Center was awarded the Consumer Choice award from the National Research Corporation. The award comes after a national survey of the consumer attitudes of almost 140,000 households named Duke the most preferred hospital in Durham and Raleigh. DUMC and the 153 other winners were named in the most recent issue ofModern Health magazine. DukePass adds “academic dashboard” The academic Internet portal DukePass, which combines ACES and Blackboard information with individual-

ized library and DukeCard status, has added a new compoallowing students to access germane information about class meeting times and syllabi. The new “academic dashboard” will also allow students to create links to course websites and to read updates on their courses without logging directly into Blackboard. nent

HAND announces poetry contest The Health Arts Network at Duke has put out a call for submissions to its seventh annual poetry contest. The contest is open to the entire Duke community, including students, faculty, current and former staff members, volunteers and patients and their families. HAND is seeking poems from the heart or about the heart as they relate to medical practice, experiences in illness, health and healing in the Duke University Health System environment. Entrants can register at http://wwwdev.hr.duke.edu/events/poetry_registration.html. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 1.

One Person Can Make A Difference

Joseph White

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Major League Baseball will announce Wednesday that Washington will be the new home of the Montreal Expos, bringing the national pastime back to the nation’s capital for the first time in 33 years, a city official said to The Associated Press. The city official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington has been notified by Major League Baseball of the impending announcement. The city is planning its own news conference at a downtown location Wednesday afternoon, the official said. “I think we’ll be in a position where we can have a celebration tomorrow,” Mayor Anthony Williams told WUSA-TV. The announcement will come one day before the 33rd anniversary of the Washington Senators’ final game. The Senators moved to Texas after the 1971 season, which was also the last time a major league team changed cities. Baseball has been looking for a new home for the Expos since the financially troubled team was bought by the other 29 major league owners in 2002. The Washington official said the bidding group had been told that baseball had reached an understanding with Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, who had previously objected to having a team relocate just 40 miles from his franchise. Bob DuPuy, baseball’s chief operating officer, did not return telephone messages Tuesday night, Angelos refused comment whenreached at his home, and there was no confirmation by baseball of a deal between the commissioner’s office and Angelos. Las Vegas, Nev., Norfolk, Va., Monterrey, Mexico; Portland, Ore., and Northern Virginia also made bids, but Washington clearly took the lead during negotiations over recent weeks, strengthened by its wealthy population base and a financial package that would build a new stadium primarily with taxpayers’ money. The negotiations have produced a 30-page document that would conditionally award the Expos to Washington, pending approval by the City Council. The document had not been signed as of Tuesday night, the source told the AP. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, reached at his Milwaukee home, declined comment. Plans call for a $440 million package that would include a new ballpark to be built along the Anacostia River about a dozen blocks south of the Capitol. The package also includes a $l3 million refurbishment of RFK Stadium, where the team would play for three seasons while the new facility is being built. Washington needed an answer from Major League Baseball this week because the ballpark legislation had to be introduced by Friday in order for it to be passed by Dec. 31, when terms expire for several pro-baseball City Council members. The move must be approved by threequarters of major league owners and survive legal challenges by the Expos’ former limited partners. After the announcement, the process of selling the Expos will start. A group that includes former Rangers partner Fred Malek has been seeking a Washington franchise for five years. In addition, several baseball officials have said in the past week that Stan Kasten, former president of the Adanta Braves, Hawks and Thrashers, might be trying to assemble a group. Ronald Blum in New York contributed to this report.

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Litt graduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with bachelor's degrees in history and French. As an undergraduate, he spent his junior year studying Russian at the University of Leon, % in Leon, France.

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International Studies with a master’s degree in international relations, specializing in European affairs and international economics. As a graduate he spent his

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For the past 30 years, Ambassador David Litt has dedicated his life to foreign service, and for the next year and possibly longer, he will be a diplomat in residence at Duke. The majority of his service has centered around Middle East affairs, and his assignments have included serving as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, the Deputy Chief of Mission in Niger and the director of Northern Gulf Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., where he oversaw the nation’s policy for Iran arid Iraq. His role at the University will be to primarily serve as a resource for students, faculty and alumni who are interested in a career in the Foreign Service. Although it appears unlikely that Litt will teach a course in the spring, he hopes to do so during the next academic year, if his assignment as a diplomat in residence at Duke is extended.

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cials each year to act as diplomats in residence to various institutions of higher education throughout the nation in an effort to recruit intelligent individuals. They act as foreign service ambassadors to various regions—at Duke, Litt is to be a resource for a region that includes North Carolina, South Carolina and parts of Tennessee. “I am delighted to have Ambassador Litt as a member of the Duke community this academic year,” said Gilbert Merkx, vice provost for international affairs. “The diplomat in residence program is a marvelous mechanism for bringing to campuses not only the international knowledge of a senior diplomat, but also access to a first-hand account of what it is like to have a career in the Foreign Service. Not only doesAmbassador Litt bring these attributes to Duke, but also he is a Middle East expert who has spent the last two years dealing with Iraq issues. His pres-

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Litt begins his service in Kabul,

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Afghanistan, during the throes of the Afghan revolution.

Damascus, Syria, where he begins serving as the junior

political officer.

Over the course of his extensive academic and professional career, Litt has become fluent in nine languages, one of which is Afghan-Persian, or Dari. “I very rapidly switched over to the Middle East [from my background in Western European affairs],” Litt said. “I was told what a wonderful place Kabul, Afghanistan is, and that if I ever got the chance to serve there, I should. So I did.” Litt noted that he found his assignment in Afghanistan from 1978 to 1979 particularly interesting. “[lt was a] challenging, professionally energizing environment to work in,” Litt said. ‘Tragic, too, in many ways—not the least of which was the kidnapping and murder of our ambassador.” Litt also reflected on his service in Niger. “The government under a military president decided to democratize the country SEE LITT ON PAGE 10

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GPSC from page 3 and the other as a voting member,” GPSC President Heather Dean said. The Board will vote on the proposal Saturday. Dean stressed the importance of increased representation on the Board, given that Duke now confers more diplomas to graduates and professionals than to undergraduates. “We want to go ahead and establish the Screening Committee, before the Board votes on the change,” Dean said. “I cannot say for sure that the proposal will pass, but we are very optimistic.” In other business, GPSC Basketball Committee co-chairs Andy Baraniak and Jeff Kovacs commented on the Basketball Campout that took place two weeks ago. About 1,300 students lasted through the entire weekend, and they considered the

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by the Palestinian people. Rann Bar-on, local spokesperson for PSM and a Duke mathematics graduate student, has said it is not within the group’s authority to comment on the means of resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian region. The group, however, advocates a peaceful solution to the conflict, and federal officials have found no direct links between the PSM and any militant organizations. An online petition, started by a member of the Boston IsraelAction Community, calls for Duke to shun the conference and boasted 67,686 signatures as of Tuesday night. The University has met with local and nationalJewish groups to defend its decision. “On those occasions where we’ve had the opportunity to sit down and talk with people directly, they’ve been pretty responsive, and they understand the issues we’re dealing

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weekend’s charity basketball tournament a success. Suggestions from GPSC members for future campouts included better communication and revisions to the attendance check system so as not to interfere with guest speakers. Members also separated into seven internal committees and reported major goals for the coming year. Among several goals, the Academic Affairs Committee aims to improve training in ethics. A major concern for the Community Affairs Committee is to focus on the needs ofinternational students through support networks. Members of the Health Care/Insurance Committee want to develop a strong relationship with the yetto-be-named director of student health. And the Community Service Committee will set out to find an organization with which to work consistendy and make service opportunities more accessible. with and the importance of academic freedom and free speech,” Bumess said. After discussing the University’s rationale, local and national leaders of the Jewish Federation issued a statement discouraging people from protesting during the weekend of the PSM conference because such action would lead to more attention. Instead, they encouraged people to take advantage of the variety of events the Jewish campus groups are offering in response. “We don’t want people protesting because it doesn’t lead to meaningful dialogue, and it creates an atmosphere where violence is more likely,” said senior Rachael Solomon, student president of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life. Among the alternative events planned for the weekend are a Shabbat dinner, several discussion groups and a speech by Avram Berg, former speaker of the Israeli parliament. Phil Zaleon, president of the DurhamChapel Hill Jewish Federation, noted that

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tion” overall. Fifty-four percent of those polled said Bush’s policy package would be the better choice, while 44 percent expressed support for Kerry’s proposals. Despite North Carolina voters’ and the general electorate’s increasing preference for the incumbent, Kerry campaign officials are confident that the upcoming debates between the two candidates will diminish and could possibly eliminate the current

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“We think the race is very close—probably closer than those polls indicate,” said Ron Eckstein, a spokesperson for the Kerry campaign in North Carolina. “We think we’ll get a lot of late momentum after the debates and the public seeing where the candidates are [on the even though he does not support protests during the weekend of the conference, he finds the views of the conference itself objectionable and advocates voicing that opinion. “Protest in and of itself is a good thing,” he said. “And people should express their own concerns if they have concerns that it is being held.” The University has fielded more than 1,000 e-mails and letters, with alumni penning about 15 percent of them, Bumess said. Only about one-tenth of the notes have supported the University’s decision. Most of the letters have expressed simple disapproval, and individual alumni have pledged not to donate money, he said. Burness noted that several efforts are underway to explain the principles of academic freedom and freedom of expression that dictate the University’s policy. President Richard Brodhead will send a letter to alumni this week that will address the issue. Officials are expecting to spend about

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issues]. We will probably have a lead.” Bush campaign officials, however, said the current poll numbers are an accurate reflection of the growing popular support for the president, and the Sept. 30, Oct. 8 and Oct. 13 debates will only solidify Bush’s lead over Kerry. Unlike Eckstein, members of the Bush camp said the debates are a last resort for Kerry to make a respectable showing in the polls, not a chance for him to improve his prospects and ultimately take the election. ‘The debates are the only thing left that John Kerry can utilize to bring this campaign back to dead even,” said Matthew Dowd, a chief strategist for the Bush campaign, in an interview with USA Today. The first presidential debate, held at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., will be broadcast on most major television networks Thursday at 9 p.m.

$50,000 on security for the October weekend. That number includes protection for the PSM conference as well as the variety of events put on by the Freeman Center and other groups. The Thursday before the conference begins, students will also host a “Students Against Terror” rally, featuring the band Sister Hazel, local politicians and survivors of terrorist attacks. The event will focus on the effects of Sept. 11 as well as the situation in Sudan and die Middle East, junior organizer Dave Gastwirth said. Multiple groups, including Campus Council, Duke University Union and the Freeman Center, are helping to sponsor the event, which is distinct from the student programming in response to the PSM conference. ‘To the extent that the conference doesn’t condemn terrorism, it’s a response to the conference,” Solomon said. “But it’s a separate event.”

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whose business has sponsored the pageant for the last three years. ‘The past few years it’s been pretty wild. Never can I see such interesting people.” The drag queens competed in the performance category after the interlude. Conchita Coco opened the main event with an ambitious number that included background dancers. Next, Loreal St. Lauren did her best rendition of Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle” and “Dirty,” prompting Robbins to scream in his highpitched voice, “HOLLA!” Captain Jack, the only “drag king” in the pageant, said he wanted to show support for the drag and gay community. The

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18-year-old female dressed as a pirate and sword-fought with another cross-dressed woman during the performance round. While the crowd cheered with sporadic

enthusiasm for the other contestants, Chastity Nichols clearly became the audience favorite after singing her bi-lingual version of Toni Braxton’s “Unbreak my Heart.” Before the winner was crowned, the pageant honored 2003 winner Nellie Bottoms with a special ceremony. Bottoms had decided to settle down and to begin using his real name, Jesse Jones, on a more permanent basis. Jones, who said he lettered in football, basketball and baseball at Plymouth High School in Plymouth, N.C., wanted to spend more time with his husband. Bottoms teared up during the ceremony and thanked everyone at the event.

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this community,” RCND director Marcia Owen said. “The availability and accessibility [of assault weapons] has increased the risk to public health.” Despite the ban’s broad support, gun activists are quick to counter that the legislation dealt more with aesthetic issues than function. Sharyn Duke, owner of Armory Arms Inc. in Durham, explained that even prior to the expiration, she carried similar weapons in her store. “You could still get the guns,” she said, noting loopholes in the law. She added that she had seen no increase in sales of such weapons at her store in recent weeks. The ban, Duke argued, had essentially no effect. Anti-gun activists said gang violence is one issue that the ban’s expiration has the potential to affect. “In certain areas of the state, there seems to be a growing number of gangs,” Jones said. In the future, he said, the Crime Commission and the N.C. Gang Investigator’s Association will monitor violence in relation to assault weapons. Owen said Durham is an area in which gang violence is present, and that “criminals will use assault weapons to defend turf.” “It doesn’t take a lot of intelligence to recognize that

After the immediate-past winner was honored, Robbins announced Chastity Nichols as the 2004 Queen. “I thought Conchita won,” Nichols said. “I was like, ‘I hate her.’ When they called her out for first runner-up, I was like, ‘Oh my God, did I just win?’” Many in the crowd agreed with the judges’ decision to crown Nichols the winner. “I thought she was really talented and she deserved to win,” 19-year-old Kathryn Lee said. “I thought it was a lot of fun. There was a lot of really positive energy.” Loreal St. Lauren, GeanaL-Tate and Conchita Coco all tied for the first runner-up. ‘They were all fabulous—it was a tough choice,” said Richard Hart, judge of the competition and editor of The Indepen-

[gun violence] is the problem of weapons that are designed and produced and marketed to inflict bodily trauma,” Owen said. “It is the presence of guns that really have an enormous risk to our culture, to our society.” The low homicide rate in certain European coun-

tries, Owen added, shows a direct correlation to very strict gun laws in those nations. Opponents of the ban said it does not target the roots of gun violence. “People who commit crime prefer something easy to conceal, like handguns,” said Wayne Paschall, owner ofThe Country Store in Durham, which used to carry guns but no longer does. “In cases that involve extreme shooting, like Columbine, it has been

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plained, makes them less applicable to many crime situations. Paschall also noted that in the Durham community in particular, drugs often lie behind gun violence, and the government should work to handle this problem first. On campus, an organization has already emerged to publicize the issue. Within the Humanitarian Challenges FOCUS program, students developed People Against Assault Weapons. The students said they were unaware of the issue until just a week before the expiration date and they wanted to spread the word to other Duke students.

dent Weekly. Hart, a happily married straight man, said although this was his first experience attending the pageant his newspaper sponsors, he had performed in and won similar pageants in New Orleans, La. “Growing up I went to drag shows all the time,” he said. “If you grow up in New Orleans, it’s just part ofyour life.” Robbins said he chose to hold the event at the Lincoln Theater because the venue normally houses more mainstream events. “The thing about this pageant is that I could have had it at a gay bar any day of the week,” he said. “But it’s always a gay night at that venue, and a lot of the straight people that are here tonight don’t come to [gay bars]. It’s a good way to mix it up. We’ll be here as long as we have enough room.”

Members of PAAW coordinated events around campus that allowed interested students to put their handprints in paint to support the ban’s continuation. In addition, postcard petitions were available, addressed with detailed messages to Duke alumna Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C. “When she ran for Senate, she pledged to make a difference in gun violence,” said PAAW member Megan Moskop, a freshman. “And she really hasn’t done anything with that so far.” The postcards aimed to remind Dole of her history with Duke and urged her to support the continuation of the ban. “I would support a much stronger version of the ban,” said Moskop, “although the renewal of the ban would be better than nothing.” Despite his vocal support of the act in the 2000 election, President George W. Bush has not pushed for its continuation as the original legislation encouraged. Because the ban was a federal law, many local officials noted that nothing more can be done than observe effects in the coming months “I can’t predict what’s going to happen,” said Owen, who fears the ban’s expiration will lead to increased violence. “Maybe nothing will happen, and that would be fantastic.”

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GIFTS from page 1 brand loyalties early in their career. Freebies may influence new starts; hence it would be desirable for drug companies to have their medication available for physicians in the office.” In a study published in the October 2003 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, physicians and residents completed questionnaires that presented scenarios of the interactions between doctors and drug companies and were asked to rate whether the scenarios were “ethically problematic.” Scenarios included accepting an “all-expenses-paid weekend trip to a resort hotel... [with the] physician’s only obligation... to spend several hours in seminars focusing on the company’s products.” While some physicians in the study believed that even trivial giveaways influenced their judgment when prescribing medications, results showed that a significant number of both trained physicians and inexperienced residents in the study did not view the gifts as ethically problematic The label “freebie” can encompass a broad range of items and activities. For example, unrestricted grants allow physicians to determine their own educational programming about a company’s products, whereas a company-sponsored trip rests programming decisions on the company trying to sell the product. Among physicians, there are differing views on what should actually be called a “freebie.” “If there’s an educational aspect, and it entails time away from the office and the family, is that really a gift?” asked Dr. David Pisetsky, director of DUMC’s Arthritis Center and chief of rheumatology and immunology. Moreover, Pisetsky noted that information from companies about the dosage and mechanisms of their drugs is important because clinical trials may not always compare two drugs of the same class. “In a highly competitive market, there may be several drugs for a given category, but the relevant studies may not always be designed to tell you which drug is better,” he said. “So, the company-sponsored sessions are useful for information to guide decision-making about the available products, as long as it’s open and you have access to multiple viewpoints.” In many cases, the information provided by the drug companies during free events is hard to find elsewhere. “When you’re the number-three drug, it’s not likely that you’ll be publicized in major journals,” Pisetsky said. “Most doctors find [company sponsored events] a good source of information, especially for updates that are not found in literature. From the drug company’s point of view, they are looking for communication with busy physicians. What’s more likely to get the time and attention of physicians? It’s an incentive for doctors to get there. And if the companies are doing their jobs, they’re going to make it as educational as possible.”

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HIT from page 6 and asked the U.S. and United Nations to help,” he recalled. “We rolled up our sleeves and worked very hard to help the people of Niger develop a democracy, which is particularly hard to do in a country that is extremely poor, but they were determined to do it. It was very rewarding, very challenging and one of the most fulfdling experiences I’ve had in the Foreign Service.” Litt, a Miami, Fla., native, specifically bid to come to Duke so that he could be near his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he said he is proud to be here. “Duke is a particularly prestigious institution,” he said. Although there are certainly ways the Duke community and the greater Triangle area can benefit from Lilt’s presence, there are also ways Litt can benefit from his time at the University. “I hope that Ambassador Litt will find this a stimulating intellectual environment in which he can speak his mind,” Merkx said. “Here at Duke he can temporarily shed the role ofrepresenting the United States to enjoy the exchanges of ideas—the give and take—that mark

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this academic community.” Katie Joyce, special assistant to the vice provost for international affairs and president of the American Institute of Afghan Studies, is also delighted by Litt’s presence on campus. “He has managed to establish himself in a very timely fashion, which speaks to his organizational skills and ability to adapt,” Joyce said. “As a diplomat, he’s had to adapt to many different environments and familiar and comfortable in many places.” Litt’s wife Beatrice, whom he met in Palermo, Italy, is a visiting instructor this semester with the romance studies department. Officials hope Litt will help illuminate the community’s understanding of recent happenings in the Middle East through panel discussions, lectures, symposia and speeches for various programs. Litt is also open to meeting with individuals in one-on-one conferences. “When I was an undergraduate at Harvard, Ambassador Ralph Bunche spent a period in residence,” Merkx said. “Getting to know him was an unforgettable part of my undergraduate experience. Duke students have the same chance with Ambassador Litt—he is easy to approach and very nice.”

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Some students said it sounded like firecrackers going off, until they saw bloodied students screaming as they fled the room, according to local news agency Diarios y Noticias. One boy said the suspect terrified classmates as he took out the weapon and began shooting. “Everyone hid underneath the desks and then he began firing,” he told local Canal 7 television station. After the shooting stopped, police said, two girls and a boy ranging from 14 to 16 were dead and a teenage girl was mortally wounded. Five others

were injured, one in serious condition. Police said they arrested the suspected gunman without resistance soon afterward in the schoolyard. Mario Oporto, education minister for vast Buenos Aires province that includes Carmen de Patagones, lamented the violence. ‘This is a case of violence that has exceeded all bounds,” the minister said. Reports of classroom violence have raised public concern in recent months and years even before the shooting, which is the worst on record. In July, a 12-year-old schoolgirl was hospitalized after she was badly beaten, allegedly by classmates, at a

school in La Plata southeast of Buenos Aires. A 17-year-old student in central Cordoba was found stabbed, last November. In October 2003, a teacher in Mendoza, western Argentina, had her skull fractured by a tossed paving stone. Before midday Tuesday, firefighters rolled three bodies out of the school in black plastic body bags. A shocked crowd milled outside amid the ambulances and police cars standing by. Authorities said they had whisked the teenage suspect to a juvenile court center in Bahia Blanca, another city in southern Buenos Aires province. Officials said he would undergo psychiatric tests as part of the investigation.

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HOSTAGES from page 2 News of the release came after a Muslim leader from met with an influential Muslim association in Baghdad Tuesday to press for their freedom, though it was not immediately known if there was a connection. The two women, both 29, had been working on school and water projects in Iraq. The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai al-Aam had reported a $1 million payment was involved, but Al-Arabiya TV, citing unidentified sources involved in the negotiations, said no ransom was paid. The Egyptian charge d’affaires in Baghdad, Farouq Mabrouk, said the kidnappings of the Egyptians were “motivated by financial reasons.” But an Orascom spokesperson declined to comment on whether a ransom had been paid. More than 140 foreigners have been kidnapped in some by anti-U.S. insurgents and others by crimiIraq nals seeking ransom. At least 26 have been killed, including two Americans whose beheadings were recorded on grisly video footage and posted on the Internet last week. A Western official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said this week’s releases raised hopes for the at least 18 other foreigners still in captivity, including British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was captured with the Americans from their Baghdad house on Sept. 16. But with so many different groups involved in the kidnappings, the diplomat cautioned against drawing any conclusion. Tuesday, kidnappers of two French journalists who have been held more than a month in Iraq praised France’s “positive steps toward the Iraqi people,” a sign that they may be preparing to release their hostages. In a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press in Cairo and also posted on a discussion board of the Islamic Army in Iraq, the group said it hopes “this is a beginning for a new era of understanding our issues and respect of our constants.” However, the statement did not refer to the French captives, journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot. The group, which claimed the kidnapping of the Frenchmen in previous statements, did not elaborate on the “positive steps” it said France has taken. Monday, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said that an international conference on Iraq proposed by the United States should consider the question of a U.S. troop withdrawalfrom that country.

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The women's golf team took over the No. 1 ranking for the seventh straight season after winning the NCAA Fall Preview.

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Assistant head coach Ansiey Cargill hits with current player Parker Goyer Tuesday. Cargill played the 2000-01 season at Duke.

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Duke has a chance to do more than just win its first game of the season against The Citadel. Roofs team has the opportunity to prove it can win in times of adversity. With four of its most important players missing entire games this season, the Blue Devils need to win the first game they are expected to win. Past Duke coaches have consistently said the Blue Devils have made excuses as to why the team does not win even when it is expected to do so. “The league is getting tougher and tougher,” said assistant Fred Chatham said, explaining Carl Franks’ 7-45 record at Duke. “We made great strides here at Duke, but so did everybody else.” Even Fred Goldsmith, who the

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taken two semesters of classes and doesn’t have a major. Cargill, however, is 22 years old and an assistant head coach for one of the nation’s elite women’s tennis programs, and she spent the last three years battling the likes of Venus Williams and Mary Pierce. Now she is taking classes again. “It’s strange,” she admits. “But it’s been fun.” Cargill’s road back to Duke has been anything but typical. As a freshman in 2001 she immediately made herself known when she climbed to No. 1 in the nation, was named ACC Player and Rookie of the Year and advanced to the quarNCAA terfinals of the

Tournament. She loved every minute of it. “Being a student-athlete at Duke is one of the most fun and rewarding experiences you can have,” Cargill said. “I had a pretty successful freshman year and that gave me a lot ofconfidence.” The fun was one thing, but Cargill always had an eye looking past Duke, an eye on another level. She saw college tennis as a step between high school and professional tennis. “She knew she wanted to play professional tennis and she was willing to do everything she could possibly do to be able to achieve that,” Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “As a freshman she set a really good example.” For Cargill, the road from high school to the pros turned out to be pretty short. After her freshman season, she teamed up .

with coach Ola Malmqvist and reached the finals in two of her first five pro tournaments. As she played in a host of Grand Slams including the 2001-03 U.S. Opens, the 2002-04 Australian and Opens Wimbledon in 2003, Cargill found out what the game’s best had to offer. “Playing in the Grand Slams was a real highlight,” Cargill said. “It was great making it into the top 100, and doing well in doubles was a lot of fun.” But between the majors and the highlights Cargill only had mixed success. Losing was something new, something she expected but struggled to adjust to. After a high school career in which she blanked overmatched SEE CARGILL ON PAGE 17

The National Association of Basketball Coaches has withdrawn its proposal to the NCAA to add a fifth year of eligibility. The recommendation was a piece of a larger legislative package aiming to boost graduation rates and allow coaches greater access to players both on and off the court. An ACC proposal submitted to the NCAA for football that would add a year of eligibility remains underreview. The “greater access” legislation with which the eligibility proposal was initially tied, championed by Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski and others, remains under NCAA review. “Although the committee still believes that such a proposal offers a viable solution to furthering its goal to increase graduation rates in the sport of men’s basketball, it recognizes that there are some potential unintended consequences that warrant additional consideration,” a statement from the NABC read in part. Duke does not suffer from many of the same graduation rate problems its peer athletic institutions face. The majority of Duke players who fail to graduate do so because they leave college early to play in the NBA. “For basketball it doesn’t make any sense,” Athletic Director Joe Alieva said. ‘The really good basketball players don’t even stick around anyway.” Although retraction eases national concerns that an even greater rift would have formed between the revenue and nonrevenue sports based on variable eligibility, a similar package proposed by the ACC to increase eligibility in football to five years remains on the table. Alieva said the eligibility extension makes more sense for football than basketball at Duke and nationally. Because many players redshirt during their freshman year, the majority of football players stay at school for five seasons. ACC officials hope the extra season of playing time will entice those players who currently do not redshirt to stick around through graduation, which often takes more than four years, even for non-athletes. “I think five years of eligibility SEE NABC ON PAGE 18

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Williams will surprise like Boozer in NBA Is Shelden Williams suffering from Boozer’s Syndrome? Chad Ford of ESPN.com recently ranked the top five NBA prospects at each position, placing Duke’s Shelden Williams in the middle of the pack of power forwards. I believe that Williams is being underestimated. The reasons why experts are overlooking Williams reminds me a great deal of how Duke’s Carlos Boozer was passed over as a top prospect. Williams is suffering from Boozer’s Josh Dell guest commentary s xn Irome He is surrounded by tremendous perimeter players who can all nail the short college three, and as a result, his touches are limited. Williams, like Boozer, has all the physical tools and basketball skills necessary to succeed at the next level, but we only get to see glimpses of his potential at Duke. Physically, he has good height, long arms and broad shoulders—he is listed at 6foot-9, 250 pounds. He is not afraid to bang around the basket, gets well above the rim and is quick on his feet. His post moves are deceptively quick, and he is fast enough to run the floor and get easy baskets off the break. Williams can finish around the hoop with either muscle or touch. He has a nice midrange stroke that has looked better each season, and his jumping ability allows him to finish strong on one end and swat shots at the other. Those of us who watch him regularly know what he is capable of on any given night. Williams will be a solid pro like Boozer.

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Cut the crap, go back to sports, ESPN So Grove, Tril and I were watching Sports Center for the third time one night

Chris Duhon. Given that he took 138 shots fewer than Luol Deng, his scoring average is not bad at all. In fact, he led Duke in scoring seven times and put at least 20 points five times, against teams like North

last week—I mean it’s not like we had work to do or anything —and when I saw that Stuart Scott was hosting, I got nervous and placed a brown bag beside me, just in case. During the-very first highlight, Barry Bonds hit his 701 st home run and prompted Scott to yell, “Holla at a playa when you see him in the street!” This prompted me to grab /or the brown bag, Grove to throw his hat at the television and Tril to ask the question, “So what is his deal, man?” I have been ESPN’s biggest fan for the past 13 years of its 25-year existence, and Scott’s hackneyed act is just the beginning of my many criticisms of a network that has lost its innocence and become a totally commercialized, self-loving ratings prostitute. Whether it is airing another Drate movie such as Hustle or promoting itself with the countdown of the 25 most voluptuous cheerleaders of the past 25

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Post player Shelden Williams averaged 12.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game in 2003-04. It is easy to see why Boozer was taken 35th in the draft, after averaging 15 points and 7 rebounds per game. Williams’ numbers are comparable to Boozer’s, and his shotblocking ability is a major plus considering he was Duke’s fifth scoring option behind Luol Deng, J. J. Redick, Daniel Ewing and

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Defender Danny Miller anchors the backfield and feeds Duke's forwards on the counterattack.

Appalachian State will look to dethrone Duke tonight at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium. Third in the Southern Conference standings, the Mountaineers (4-3) have nothing to lose and everything to gain against the undefeated Blue Devils (9-0). ‘The guys have seen that no matter who we play, we are a big target right now,” Duke head coach John Rennie said. After a stunning victory over topranked Maryland Saturday, the bullseye on the Blue Devils is bigger than it has been all season. With a strong offensive unit, the Mountaineers will be itching to take down Duke, but the Blue Devils’ defense has only allowed three goals in 2004 and has recorded seven shutouts. Rennie is wary of underestimating any team at this point in the season. “[One] has to respect the game, it can be a one-goal game no matter who you play,” Rennie said. “A lot of the preparation for [tonight] is mental.” The Blue Devils practiced a new defensive strategy Tuesday. Although ecstatic about the win over Maryland, Danny Miller, Duke’s backfield leader, respects the challenge posed by Appalachian State. “Against Maryland we got spread out on defense and it became a run-and-gun type of game,” Miller said. “We need to

stay together more as a team defensively.” The new strategy places four defenders in the back and should enable the Blue Devils to be quicker on the counterattack and generate more goal-scoring

opportunities. “At Maryland we ended up just playing straight defense,” Miller said. “[The new defense] will help us put more pressure on the opposing offense.” The Mountaineers, defeated by thirdranked UNC-Greensboro Saturday, have demonstrated an ability to score frequently with 24 goals in seven game. ‘They have very good speed upfront, they will be looking to always counter,” Rennie said. Appalachian State is similar to Duke in that its roster is also dominated by strong freshman. The young Blue Devils, however, must not be overconfident. Saturday’s performance earned the Blue Devil’s a No. 7 national ranking in the NSCAA National Coach’s Poll. Although Appalachian State may appear to be a typical midweek opponent, Duke has learned to take nothing for granted. “I think the guys have learned from Campbell and ECU that no game is an easy game,” Rennie said. The Blue Devils, atop the ACC after the weekend, last met the Mountaineers in 2001, when they won 3-1. Duke will resume its ACC season Sunday against rival North Carolina.

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CHAPEL HILL Quarterbacks are criticized when things don’t click on offense and taken for granted when things run smoothly. Such is the life of Darian Durant, North Carolina’s record-setting

signal-caller.

The school’s all-time passing leader is off to a slow start in 2004, and no one is more frustrated by it than Durant heading into this weekend’s game at Florida State. After a 34-0 loss to Louisville last Saturday, Durant bowed his head and said a 30-point loss counts the same as a onepoint defeat. That is true, but in reality the competitor in Durant does not even believe that statement. “Some ofit has been mechanics,” coach John Bunting said. “He’s pressing and trying to make a play too fast. His footwork has been off a couple of times and that’s because he’s so anxious to make a play.” The senior quarterback has completed just 10 passes in each of North Carolina’s last two games—his lowest numbers in 26 career starts. And while some of it has to do with North Carolina’s success on the ground, Durant has also been off by just an inch or two on a few key passes and seen several others dropped. He also has five interceptions in 81 attempts —halfway to his total of 10 in 2003—and UNC’s offense has struggled somewhat in the red zone. “When you sum up what took place in the UVA game and in the Louisville game there were four or five plays that if we connect it’s a different ball game and his stats are different,” Bunting said Tuesday. “I know he doesn’t feel good about it

North Carolina matchesup against Florida State Saturday in Dock Campbell Stadium. because he’s a good player and he’s extremely competitive,” Bunting added. “He’s got a ton of pride. But it’s not justhim. Our receivers have to do a better job, too.” Durant will try to pick up his game a notch against a Florida State defense that Bunting said boasts five or six No. 1 NFL draft picks. Some chore. However, wide receiver Jesse Holley knows Durant will rise to the occasion. “Darian is going to be okay,” Holley said. “He’s got every record in the book. He struggled on Saturday, but those kinds of things happen. Bret Favre didn’t win as many games as he did without having a bad game, same with Joe Montana. This is football, things like that happen. You’ve

just got to roll with the punches. “We can’t look back to Louisville and say, ‘I didn’t throw it right or I dropped a pass.’ And there are no 10-point plays in football. You can’t throw a pass 70 yards and get 10 points. Sometimes you’ve just got to take what you can get. Darian’s a winner and a fighter and I’m going to be side-by-side with him and back him up as much as I can.” Look for the Tar Heels to throw it more Saturday against a defense that likes to take away the run. ‘We’re putting in a package this week with five wide receivers,” Holley said. “I’m smiling about that and so are the rest of the guys.” SEE UNC ON PAGE 18

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CARGILL from page 13 opponents and a college season in which she finished 45-4, Cargill’s record in professional tournaments was 106-115. Although it was good enough to keep her on tour, it was not the success she had imagined when she was the No. 1 college player in the country. There were other things she was missing as well. “It gets hard when you’re in your sixth week in Asia, in the middle of China with the flu,” she said. “I enjoy having a social life not tailored only to athletes, to women on the tour. I felt like being in that environment, everyone is so competitive and so intense that it’s really hard to relax.” Now Cargill is back at Duke, taking at least a break from the pro circuit and helping the team that helped her just three years ago. She is taking classes again, although she is not yet sure where academics will lead her. Ansley also has more time to spend with her sister Kristin, a Duke sophomore as well and a player on the women’s tennis team. “It’s been nothing but great so far,”

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years, ESPN is no longer the source of sports information it once was. No one will even compete with ESPN’s sports empire in for the foreseeable future, but that doesn’t mean the real sports fans should just stand by as the channel gets on its proverbial knees for Joe Schmoe and his tasty Nielsen point. What happened to a full page of statistics after every game highlight, where I could see that the boorish

Kristin said. “When she was on tour she was never around, so I think we’ve gotten closer.” Ansley echoes those sentiments “I haven’t been able to spend too much time with my sister the last few years,” she said. It s good to be able to get to know your family, and I’m able to do that now.” On the court, Cargill provides a professional edge to a team gunning for a national championship. “She brings a different kind of experience,” said senior Katie Blaszak, who has been learning from Cargill. “She’s very enthusiastic, and it helps just having a female coach.” Ansley is happy where she is now, but unlike four years ago, she is not sure where she wants to go after this season. She has academic aspirations, a promising professional tennis career and the skills for a coaching job. “Who knows, I could go back to the pro circuit again,” she said. “I would like to be a head coach somewhere. It might be fun to work at a TV station or to write or something along those lines. I haven’t really figured it out yet.” Like most sophomores, Cargill has left her options open.

Gheorghe Muresan scored in double digits for the third straight game, or that the Oakland A’s now have four guys on the DL with pulled groin muscles? These days you get a little blip in the lower right-hand corner that says the score and how one player from each team did and that’s it. It’s like ordering the shrimp platter for $8.99 and getting three shrimp. It’s freakin’ terrible. Why has it changed so drastically? So ESPN can focus all of its efforts on segments like the Ultimate Highlight, when it plays some radio-popularized song by

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Ansley Cargill played in seven GrandSlam tournaments on the professional tour from 2001 to 2004. Creed in the background that totally ruins anything cool that might happen in the highlights. Or how about Chris Connelly, yeah that guy from MTV, who finds sports relevance in a feature about some homeless guy named Kenny picking balls out of the water hazard at one of the 80,000 municipal golf courses in South Florida. I mean, I really just want to punch Chris Connelly in the face. ESPN still does some great work that makes you beg for more. Baseball Tonight provides incredible analysis, so good that

the nerdy Peter Gammons is worthy of

being called “The Man.” NFL Primetime is absolutely redonkulous, with the lovable Chris Berman describing every tantalizing highlight and elaborating on all the statistic minutia unveiled that Sunday. So why do we have to put up with Woody Paige? Or what about this guy the Schwab, who has probably never gotten any in his life? ESPN is my crack, so it’s not like I will ever stop watching without an intervention. But please, stick to what made you ESPN in the first place.

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University fired after the 1998 season, also rationalized the losses. “My transition to the ACC wasn’t that tough because the conference wasn’t all that strong [in 1994],” Goldsmith said this fall. “I thought I could recruit Just based on the strength ofDuke University. But the University of Virginia, Georgia Tech and North Carolina all lowered their academic standard for their football players. The money poured into [other ACC schools] was unbelievable. I didn’t realize the commitment these guys were making. That caught up to me. At the time we could have asked for more; I didn’t realize how much to ask for.” Roof, who has refused to use injuries as an excuse for the losses this year, may actually win this game. During the Carl Franks era, games against teams like The Citadel produced more anxiety than contests with powers like Florida State. The Seminoles are supposed to dominate the Blue Devils, but a loss to the Division I-AA Bulldogs is despicable for any ACC school. But this year, Roofs squad can finally

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is really good for football,” Alieva said, whose school had the highest graduation rate in Division I football last year. “I don’t think it makes sense for other sports, Football is the only sport where people play five years anyway. The way it works

show it is made up of athletes who play to win instead of competing not to lose. In addition to injuries, this Duke team lost a significant amount of talent to graduation. If the Blue Devils lose, they could make all these excuses against The Citadel. For the future of the program, however, it is important that they come out on top. A loss to the lowly Bulldogs would dispel the remaining hope that Roof brought with his intensity and optimism. The football team also has a chance to get the more fans to leave their tailgate parties and actually come to the game. Homecoming weekend should provide slight uptick in attendance. If Duke can show its fans that it is a different team, the Blue Devils—fans, players and coaches finally can begin to move past the losing culture that is—present today. If the team loses to The Citadel Saturday, there will be long-term damage. Pessimists will have even more evidence that winning is impossible at Duke. This will likely not be the case. I expect the Blue Devils to have their best game of the season and blow out the Bulldogs. For every Duke fan, let’s just hope I’m right. —

now doesn’t make sense.” Kathleen Smith, Duke’s faculty athletics representative, is skeptical whether expanded eligibility would be effective. “The football coaches made an argument that has some merit, although I don’t know if I agree with it,” Smith said. “It may or may not have an impact nationally in terms of graduation rates.”

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UNC from page 16 And with running back Ronnie McGill still out with an ankle injury, Durant and the receivers will need a big-time game to hang with the Seminoles. “The defense that we played against last week was good, but gave us opportunities

to make big plays, which we did not make,” Bunting said. “This Florida State defense is not nearly as wild and crazy as Louisville. They are just real, real, real, real good, “We better make some plays this week-

end. You’re not going to have 12- and 14play drives against this football team. This is a more conservative defense, but it’s talented that blows plays up.”

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is no secret that some students community, and it is not the message who live in Brown Dormitory Duke needs to be sending, Third, students can make the decidrink. It is also no secret that Brown is stigmatized as the dorm sion to drink or not drink regardless of where students study all the time and which dorm they live in. Every' year there are more stunever have fun. StatTGultOTlQl dents who request Based the upon substance-free housnumber of Brown residents who break their contracts to ing than beds available to them. Sturemain alcohol- and drug-free and dents who end up living in dorms the stigma attached to the dorm, it is other than Brown can still make the clear that having a substance-free choice not to drink. A studentdoes not need to live in a substance-free dorm to dorm is not effectively serving its purpose. While it is important for the be substance-free. The final failing of Brown is that a University to offer a substance-free number of students who live in Brown number environment for a of living do drink. Whatever the reason —bereasons, this objective would be betcause their parents filled out dieir ter reached by replacing Brown with housing forms or because they came to substance-free halls in several dorms. First, by designating Brown as the college and changed their mind about alcohol—having students living in only substance-free dorm and holdwho are not committed to a to Brown students Brown a different in ing substance-free lifestyle jeopardizes the standard, the University is fragmenting the freshman community. One of entire Brown community. For all of these reasons, Brown is the primary purposes of the all-freshnot the right option for substanceman East Campus is to build community among the freshman class. But free housing on East. The University Brown and the stereotypes associated should consider the option of replacwith Brown do more to undermine ing Brown with substance-free halls in a number of different dorms. this community than build it. StuThis way the University could acdents who live in Brown are immediately judged based upon their resi- commodate all of the students that redence, and an “us” vs. “them” quest substance-free housing. It would mentality is created between Brown also lessen the stigma of substance-free and the rest of East Campus. living, in addition to better integrating Second, by designating Brown as substance-free students with non-subthe single substance-free dorm, the stance-free students. Having subUniversity is implicitly saying all the stance-free halls within larger dorm other dorms are not substance-free. communities would allow students to This undermines the fact that all of experience the best of both worlds—students could live in a substance-free East is technically dry. Also, the University should not promote a culture environment without being stigmain which not drinking is stigmatized. tized and segregated from the rest of This is not healthy for the campus the freshman community. „

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And it gets even foggier: CAIRO, Egypt—Back when television carThe 18-day gap between arrest and inwere a bigger part of my life, there was a program called G.I. Joe. Joe and co. were a dictment and lack of news regarding the case bunch of tough military men whose primary is partially explained by an Israeli gag order, objective in life was to save the world from a Sept. 18 AP story says. In Al-Ahram, one father said this about his the evil Team Cobra. Who was good and was bad? There was never any question. Team son Mustafa: “He even used to consider atCobra was out for world domination and Joe tempts to sneak into Israel to carry out suicide was the “real American hero,” as the theme bombings futile,” and Mustafa “never focused song went. Accordingly, at the end of every on anything other than his studies and working in the summer to help with expenses.” episode there was a public service announceAccording to a Sept. 19 Reuters story, the ment on safety'—how to call an ambulance or students’ families acknowledged their sons how to avoid drinking poison. “And knowing,” the G.I. Joe team member would say at went to Israel to look for work. the end the show, “is half the battle.” According to the charge sheet, the Well, I’ve been thinking these days: Egypt, group used to be larger but others dropped out; there were also earlier failed attempts to where the media is sometimes state-controlled and conspiracy theories abound, get into Israel. Some versions says the students’ maps could use a “G.I. Mohammed” to draw a neat had Israeli settlements and line between true and false. roadblocks marked (Haaretz Because a lot of the time in Daily, an Israeli newspaper), Egypt you just aren’t sure while others don’t mendon it whose opinion or version you either way (the AP). should believe. An example of So what on earth is going this moral and factual mistihere? Who are these guys? ness made its way into the Does this smack more of ofEgyptian press in a bizarre way this week. Simply put, the story cover up or dumb frajesse shuger-colvin ficial ternity prank? Did these involves Egypt, Israel, six detained Egyptians and an alcheckpoint cairo guys really think they could waltz into Israel and do all leged murder-tank robberythese things? bank robbery-Robin Hood scheme I, for one, have no idea From what I can gather from multiple It’s no secret that there is a lot of the illegal Egyptian and Israeli news sources, six Egyptian men were arrested by Israeli border traffic along the 320 kilometer border between Israel and Egypt, mostly drugs and prostitutes. forces on the Israeli side of the Egyptian-Israeli border. Five of the six studied together But if it was a serious operation, why not use at Cairo College of Technology. The sixth was the terrorist tunnels from Egypt into Gaza that an acquaintance. They were carrying the folyou regularly see the Israel Defense Forces lowing: 14 knives, an air gun, dark clothes, bulldozing for? Maybe we are just seeing the walkie-talkies and maps ofIsrael. The six were public face of a story that is really about spy arrested Aug. 25, and the Israeli Beersheba swapping, as speculated in Al-Ahram. If it a stupid fantasy, then I want to know District Court handed down its indictment Sept. 12. The group appears to be independwhy these students are more worried about ent ofany larger terrorist organizations. killing Israeli soldiers and robbing banks should note thatwhile the has been than final exams or chasing girls? Maybe I story on both the Associated Press and Reuters’ this incident is a glimpse into the feelings and frustrations of the up-and-coming genwire services, no major U.S. papers have coveration in Egypt. I don’t know what a deered the story, as far as I can tell. But there’s more to this story: According gree from Cairo College of Technology is to the Israeli charge sheet, the group’s plan worth, but I do know I’ve met lots of taxi drivers in Cairo who claim to have college was to slip through the border, kill some Israeli soldiers, commandeer a tank, use the and graduate degrees. tank to rob a bank and take the money and Maybe we should just listen to Mustafa, hostages back to Egypt to help fund the who Al-Ahram said sent a letter to his parents Palestinian cause. In addition, according to urging his parents “not to believe ‘anything interviews given with Al-Ahram, a semi-offithey had read about the case in the papers.’” cial Egyptian newspaper, the parents of the This all leaves me wondering one thing: men were under the impression that their Where’s G.I. Joe when you need him? sons were spending the week on vacation in the Sinai. Jesse Shuger-Colvin is a Trinity junior. toons

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Commend DUPD for doing a good job In response to the Sept. 27 letter “Police response is unsatisfactory,” I feel that the sentiment that Duke Police 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” is not just simply untrue, but it is also unfair and insulting to the members of the DUPD. I fail to see how the statement that students out late and drinking are “putting themselves in a position of danger” can be construed in any way to mean that they deserving of assault and/or rape. The endemic feeling that DUPD officers are not doing everything within their power to protect the student body is a gross generalization and blatantly untrue. The officers are attempting to perform a two-fold job—patrolling the streets for threats (do not fail to consider that they are not just working

on the University campus, but also at Duke Hospital) and enforcing the administration’s policies. Thus the problem is not that police officers feel that students that have been drinking “deserve to have the entitlement of safety and security on campus taken

away from them.” That is simply not their attitude. The problem does indeed lie in the fact that there are too few police officers, too many things to be done and that it is absolutely impossible to prevent all instances of crime. All told, I think the Duke Police officers are doing the best job that they can and should be commended for doing to. To insinuate that officers somehow revel in the crimes against students is false, patently offensive and altogether counterproductive. William Pitt Trinity ’O7

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Cyndi Lauper for President

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it be known in no uncertain terms that ‘Girls Just For clarification it is important to understand what LauWanna Have Fun’ by Cyndi Lauper is the greatest per is advocating. The philosophy of her song certainly doesn’t embrace mainstream society, but she doesn’t advosong of all time. Whenever I speak this phrase and absorb the consecate social change, as the punk movement had in the late quent ridicule and harassment from my fellow music 19705. On the contrary, the line “girls just wanna have fun” snobs, I feel like the Greek prophetess Cassandra—cursed functions as a resignation to the inevitable self-destruction to forever speak the truth and never be believed. But you, of modern life. If the world is doomed, what recourse have the compassionate Chronicle reader, will surely help me we but to pure hedonistic glory? “I wanna be the one to break my fate. walk in the sun,” Cyndi declares at the end of the third One listen is enough to convince the listener that ‘Girls verse, revealing her desire for happiness while tacitly acJust Wanna Have Fun’ is a catchy slice of pop perfection knowledging that she will be consumed in the end. Without overstating the point, it has a bigThis message is further borne out by ger hook than the marlin in The Old Man Cyndi’s public image—on her album covand the Sea. The world, though, is full of ers, in her music videos and live performances. With her myriad hair colors, creative tightly crafted pop songs, so hooks alone cannot make a song the greatest of all time. use of makeup and shockingly atypical style Fortunately catchiness, though crucial, is of dress, Lauper is ground zero in the time but one facet of this song’s brilliance. bomb of 1980s gluttony. Her career arc To be truly remarkable, a song must not confirms this, as after the phenomenal suconly master the pop genre, but twist, alter, cess of She’s So Unusual, Lauper’s star exsubvert or transcend it in some significant ploded as fast as it formed, leaving her conAndrew waugh fashion. ‘Girls...’ accomplishes this by mapdemned to two decades of albums the widening gyre from mediocre to terrible. One ranging cannot ping a painfully bleak and resigned portrait ofAmerican life to its giddily pristine musihelp but believe that the damage was self-incality. The song’s power to wrap up suffering and deprav- flicted. And this is the true tragedy of ‘Girls Just Wanna ity in a pretty white bow and present it as an outwardly Have Fun’—that it created a venue of escape for young happy pop song is a rare musical gift, rivaled only perhaps women and men at a time when one was desperately needby the second greatest song of all time: ‘Spanish Bombs’ ed, but never truly believed in a permanent solution. And when the fun ended, as end it must, these poor souls were by the Clash “But Andrew,” you may assert, “I have heard ‘Girls Just consumed by the corporate music machine and recycled Wanna Have Fun’ a hundred times—it really is a happy into a factory line ofyoung urban professionals. Ultimately, the song served to create the very people it feared the most. song! It is all about celebrating life and the glories of feminine power!” And you would be right... to an extent. AlEnter Christian Bale in American Psycho. That ‘Girls...’ captures the party-till-the-world-ends though it is true that the song portrays a woman apparently taking control of her life, a seemingly positive and hopelessness of the 1980s within the confines of a happy cheerful message, a closer inspection of the lyrics proand danceable pop number might be enough to make it vides insight into Cyndi’s motivation and the limitations the best song of all time, but understanding the deeper structures of the lyrics requires far too much thought for placed on her by her environment. The first two verses describe Cyndi’s encounters with her the casual listener. A great a song must reveal its depth mother and father, both ofwhom challenge her lifestyle and with a degree of immediacy. Cyndi accomplishes this with yearn for her to “live your life right.” As a theme in music her most valuable feature—her voice. With her cascading this is nothing new. However, Cyndi’s justification for her trills of note-shifting genius, Lauper hurls the listener continued pursuit of “fun” is rather unique. “Oh mother through the gauntlet of her world. Every high-pitched dear, we’re not the fortunate ones,” she cries, “and girls just squeal and plaintive wail betrays the urgency of her pain, wanna have fun.” This suggests that Cyndi isn’t dabbling in even when the lyrics and music do their best to hide it. a trite exorcism of parental authority. Rather, she uses her When master craftsmanship, transcendent lyrics and senrebellion to escape from social, class and gender limitations. sitively nuanced vocals all intersect, the results are nothing Hers is a rallying cry for all the downtrodden in society to short of spectacular. And in the case of ‘Girls Just Wanna melt down the chains of convention, of popular society and Have Fun,’ the result is the greatest song of all time. Now I challenge you, listen to the song again, and if forge them into a collage of unique social identities that are beholden neither to relics of the past, nor to present solidaryou still don’tbelieve... well, you wouldn’t be the first. ity, for their success. In fact, it is ambiguous whether she believes in success at all. Andrew Waugh is a Trinity senior.

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you are brilliant, aren’t you? No moderation for Duke students; nothing gradual, temperate, half-way about you. Nothing for you but the extremes; nothing but 80-hour work weeks, networking and recs for you on the one hand; nothing on the other hand but finger paint. Mechanized or infantilized. And since so much has been written on the stress, to so little effect, let me speak to the equally foolish reaction, to de-stress and the destressors, to the proselytizing relaxants and finger-painters. If you’ve ever preached for whiffle-ball in these pages. If you’ve ever ridden the Slip-n-Slide down the quad. Ifyou’ve ever worn pajamas to class or blown a condom-balloon or giggled at Dick Brodhead. If you’ve ever offered students candy as a reward for doing their civic duty, this is for you. You know, of course, what you’re about. You’ve heard the noise briefly drop, you’ve put down your drink, and you’ve felt, under and behind everything, the quiet desthe dlying jou peration, animal to which you’re strapped, there and gone in a second. And the music goes back up, but now you’ve smelt it, your own especial stench of death, and rob goodmati you don’t forget the lobster sticks to magnet smell. And try as you can to scrape it off, to relax your way out of it, to suckle your way out of it, it seeps in deeper, the deeper into your skin for every day you pretend you’ve killed it. Today we see you playing whiffle-ball on the quad, like children; tomorrow we see you pouring your pay into plastic surgery, into sports cars and trophy wives and shameless tourism, all in a series of increasingly futile attempts to deny your own mortality. We see a whole campus tied together by nothing so much as a calendar of flailing collegiate attempts to reclaim childhood. We see suffocation by nostalgia. So what is to be done? It would be too much to ask someone to sing the praises of n_ over ,of adult dignity and decency, of the salutary heaviness of duty to state, community and family. It would be far too much to ask someone to suggest that the former were all possible without a single resume workshop, that seriousness could exist without soullessness. We must not ask any of this from The Chronicle, because none of it would ever be read, because you’d prefer another story about masturbation. We would ask something very simple instead. Finger-painters—we would ask you simply to acknowledge your good fortune. Whiffle-ballers—only to humbly recognize that the gardens, the midnight movies, the 10 hours of class a week—the Duke lifestyle altogether—comprise an extraordinary island of privilege, one with few analogues in human history. But even this is too much for you. “Privilege” is said by everyone and meant by no one; it’s exploited as an excuse for radical politics; it’s used as the manipulative punchline in any number ofoh-isn’t-itsad stories about recreational slumming; but never is it examined, never interrogated, never treated with much more than a shrug. And yet even the most cursory dismissal of the idea of privilege surpasses your insouciance when you tell us to “relax.” You hold stress to be a moral failure. You would pass off the fruits of your parentally-funded Saturnalia as somehow worthy of commendation. You would turn luck into merit, like the worst Social Darwinist. You are worriless. You are free spirits. You are effortfully imperfect. I am radically unimpressed. So this is for you, before you waste one more day with your preening. God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another; you jig, you amble and you lisp, and you nickname God’s creatures, and you make your happenstance your virtue —I’ll have no more ofit! It has made me mad! Rob Goodman is

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