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THE INDEPENDENTDAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 30

County selects

ECE to revamp courses

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The Board of Durham County Commissioners named Deputy County Manager Wendell Davis the interim county manager in a

special meeting Wednesafterday The meeting came two days after commissionnoon.

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voted 3-2 to remove County Manager Mike Ruffin from office.

Wednesday’s two-hour meeting was open to the public when it began, and more than 200 people attended. Twenty people, mainly Ruffin supporters, spoke on the floor for three minutes each.

The board then moved into a closed session to lay out the terms of Davis’ contract. He will be paid a pro-rated salary of $140,000, and when a permanent county manager is appointed, Mike Ruffin

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of Electrical and Computer Engineering that is designed to revamp the way students think about problems in engineering.

Starting in 2006, freshmen will begin their ECE curricula with a hands-on course featuring a project that will be threaded through four core upper-level classes. The goal is to let the theories of engineering flow from real-world products like iPods and medical devices.

“This is much more a change in the way we teach as opposed to what we teach,” said Lisa Huettel, assistant professor of the practice in electrical and computer engineering.

Under the current curriculum students often have to wade through several introductory courses before they get a chance to explore applications for any information. Faculty said students sometimes leave engineering because they do not get a chance to actually create useful things.

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Dr. Paul Farmer (left) and author Tracy Kidder discuss Farmer's travels and life experiences in Page Auditorium Wednesday.

Farmer shares by

Elizabeth Floyd THE CHRONICLE

The world-renowned infectious disease specialist has an infectious wit.

Freewheeling humor infused nearly every breath of Dr. Paul Farmer’s speech Wednesday night in Page Auditorium, as he and Pulitzerprize winning author Tracy Kidder discussed Mountains Beyond Mountains, this year’s summer reading selection, which chronicles Farmer’s life.

Farmer made very clear from the beginning that educating freshmen was the focus of his talk. In between repeated goading of his student audience with insinuations that they had not actually completed the book, Farmer buckled down to the task: describing his experiences at Duke and encouraging students to appreciate their own.

“Don’t be as blind as I was,” he said. “Make sure and take a measure of our own privilege

wisdom and be sure to use it wisely.”

Farmer, Trinity ’B2, went on to describe Duke’s influence in his life. He traced back to his undergraduate years all of the interests that now define his work, from a fascination with medical anthropology to the Clinique Bon Saveur, a small hospital he founded in Cange, Haiti.

“I feel a great debt to this place,” he said of Duke. Farmer SEE FARMER ON PAGE 6

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Northgate unveils plans for movie theater, plaza Mingyang Liu THE CHRONICLE

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Officials at Northgate Mall announced 13-million renovation project last week to redevelop and expand die oldest mall in Durham over the next year.

Anchor tenant Hudson Belk is scheduled to close its Northgate store in February. In the eight months to follow, the 102,000-square-foot department store will be split into two parts, with the top floor being renovated into a 10 to 12-screen cinema. The lower level will also be renovated and leased to one or two “junior anchor” tenants. In an effort to “turn shopping inside-out” the plan calls for the creation of a 33,000-square-foot outdoor plaza and the reconstruction of the parking lot in that area. The proposed changes will allow Northgate, located off of Club a

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Boulevard near East Campus, to develop their indoor and outdoor venues to attract more customers, from both local communities and neighboring Duke.

Talk of expansion started before Belk’s April announcement that it was leaving, said Gerry Boyle, the mall manager at Northgate. The new Northgate and other malls, including The Streets at Southpoint in southern Durham and Triangle Town Center in Raleigh, all reflect the new national trend to offer a more attractive outdoor setting “We had been working on it for quite some time because ofBelk’s departure,” said Ginny Bowman, the owner of Northgate Mall. “But [if Belk did not decide to leave] we would have made the changes anyway.”

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Northgate Mall plans to begin a comprehensive renovation next year to update the mail's image.

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newsinbrief North Koreans seek safety Forty-four men, women and children using ladders clambered over a spiked fence around the Canadian Embassy in

Gubernatorial candidates plan 2 debates Gary Robertson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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RALEIGH After weeks of posturing and negotiating, the candidates for North Carolina governor agreed Wednesday to a pair of debates, the first scheduled for Oct. 4 with a focus on the issue ofeducation.

The two campaigns confirmed Monday’s debate at SAS Institute in Cary and a debate on a wide array of issues Oct. 15 at the WRAI/TV studios in Raleigh.

The possibility of having no debates loomed last week when Republican Patrick Ballantine withdrew from the education

forum because he said the two sides could not pin Easley down for a second debate on taxes and other topics.

Easley’s campaign said Tuesday they had agreed to a second debate at WRAL-TV but would not participate unless they had assurances from Ballantine that the original education forum would be held.

Both camps sounded pleased after their hourlong discussion with representatives of television stations and a coalition of education groups to hammer out the details and sign an agreement.

“The governor looks forward to this

opportunity,” Easley campaign manager Jay Reiff said. “We believe the voters are the winners.”

Bob Rosser, Ballantine’s campaign director, expressed sentiments similar to Reiffs.

“The Ballantine campaign is extremely pleased to achieve the goal of two debates for the voters ofNorth Carolina,” he said.

Monday’s debate, sponsored by Education: Everybody’s Business Coalition, will run on cable television stations, including live on News 14 Carolina on Time Warner SEE DEBATES ON PAGE 7

Palestinian rocket attack kills 2 children by

Peter Enav

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Palestinian rocket slammed into a street SDEROT, Israel in the southern Israeli town of Sderot Wednesday, killing two preschool children playing in a yard.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon phoned Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal and told him that “Israel will respond” to the attack, a government official said.

The rocket attack came in defiance of a major Israeli raid into the nearby Gaza Strip aimed at roodng out militants behind an unending wave of rocket attacks in recent weeks. The raid, which began late Tuesday, killed four Palestinians and wounded 46 others, Palestinian hospital officials said In response to the Sderot attack, Israeli security officials said they would broaden the operation in northern Gaza; an Israeli helicopter strike near a Gaza refugee camp killed one Palestinian militant and woundedanother.

Beijing on Wednesday in what appeared to be the biggest recent bid for asylum

by North Koreans. One other man was stopped by police.

Arab TV airs hostage video A British hostage pleaded for his government to save his life in a new video aired Wednesday on Arab television after the release of two Italian women and 10 other hostages.Iraqi militants still hold at least 18 other foreigners captive.

Vatican gives first U.N. speech In its first speech ever to the U.N. General

Assembly, the Vatican called Wednesday for a total ban on human cloning. It also criticized the war in Iraq and unilateral responses to terrorism.

Elsewhere in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, seven Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli army fire.

The government official said Sharon promised Moyal that the

military would make it more difficult for Palestinians to launch missiles at the border town. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not give details.

The rocket slammed into a quiet street earlyWednesday evening, just as Sukkot was beginning. Most residents in the neighborhood are immigrants from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union.

The blast blew out the windows of a house, showered a minibus with shrapnel and killed two children of Ethiopian descent. Dorit Benesay, 2, and Yiival Abeva, 4, were playing under an olive tree outside Yuval’s grandmother’s house when the rocket struck, emergency workers and neighbors said.

“After the rocket fell, a man, maybe 20 years old, took the boy

Judge sentences 6 in Yemen A Yemeni militant and a Saudi suspected of being an associate of Osama bin Laden were sentenced to death by firing squad Wednesday for the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole four years ago, the first convictions in the al Qaeda terror attack that killed 17 American sailors. The judge ordered four other Yemenis jailed for five to 10 years.

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Academic freedom, campus safety top DSG agenda by

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Duke Student Government members scrutinized issues ranging from campus safety to academic freedom and representatives of the University administration defended Duke’s policies in the light of recent controversies at DSG’s meeting Wednesday night.

The submission of a resolution affirming academic freedom, motivated by debate over the University’s decision to allow the upcoming Palestinian Solidarity Movement conference, led to contentious discussion among senators and members of the University community. After a lengthy discussion of the validity of such a resolution, DSG voted 20-18-1 to approve it.

Both Provost Peter Lange and John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, spoke to defend the University’s decision to host the PSM conference. Burness quoted President Richard Brodhead’s outlook on the controversial forum. “All ideas are not NATE EMERY/THE CHRONICLE equal. All ideas should have equal opporDawkins, Kernel vice for with Duke Student president safety Wednesday night. heard,” services, to said. discusses Government campus campus be Burness tunity The original rationale for the resolution—which cited the PSM controversy as fore DSG to discuss recent updates to and police attention to party-busting over immediate responses arc necessary to solve a test of academic freedom and reaffirmed campus security. Dawkins announced crime prevention. security issues, we must assure that we are the intellectual independence Duke has that following recent incidents on- and Dawkins discussed his visit to the Univeraddressing the most pressing security isshown by agreeing to allow student group off-campus, the University was extending sity of Pennsylvania to learn about other sues. And that’s why it’s important to have the joint security patrols by the Duke universities’ security forces and explained the communication of the students to let Hiwar to host the conference—was amended so that all references to the PSM University Police Department in collabohow effectively that university has utilized the administration know what our top priavailable technology. He also said Duke is orities are, so they can create a timetable ration with off-duty Durham police offiwere stricken from the document. which represents student concerns.” cers from three to seven days per week. especially vulnerable because of the perme“In general I was pleased with the outMusgrave said he wished Dawkins’ prescome, both the discussion and passing of He also noted that 10 additional officers ability of the campus, but he noted that entation had included more specifics. “L the resolutions,” said DSG Senator Chris have been added to the patrol forces and Duke would remain an open campus.

‘The one thing that’s kind of upsetting Chen, who submitted the resolution. ‘1 recthat investigations into updating campus SEE DSG ON PAGE 5 is the lack of a time-line for getting things safety conditions are underway. ognize where the proponents of the [resolu“I won’t promise you the moon,” done, and it’s disconcerting,” said senior tion’s] amendment were coming from. That Dave Rausen, chair of the Student Organithey didn’t want it misconstrued that DSG Dawkins said in response to student concerns over topics like police behavior, safety zation Finance Committee chair. was taking a stance on the merits of PSM.” Junior Jesse Longoria, DSG vice presiIn a page 3 article in the Sept. 23 ediJunior Tom Musgrave, a DSG senator, in Edens Quadrangle and a recent incident dent of athletics and campus services, has saw the vote’s narrow margin as a conseat Cafe Parizade that involved Durham and tion ofThe Chronicle, the role of a reDuke police intervention. He did, however, worked with Dawkins in a joint student-ad-' cently formed committee was unclear. quence of the fact that it lacked any conThe Graduate and Professional Student crete recommendation. pledge to fulfill as many realistic goals as ministration safety initiative. He noted that Council will elect a Young Trustee “It wasn’t really going to have that possible and said it is important “that we Dawkins has been especially concerned with whether or not the Board ofTrustees student input in the decision-making much of an impact on anything. It was hold ourselves to some sort of standard.” a proposal to revamp the approves code and with that there is con“I’d like to create some sort of a “ensuring process more of a statement than designed to system of graduate and professional make a change,” he said. “It just seemed of conduct for Duke police,” Dawkins stant communication concerning possible student representation.The establishsaid in response to student allegations of future initiatives concerning campus safety.” like it was so pointless.” ment of a Screening Committee does ‘There’s to be an answer easy not going Kernel Dawkins, vice president for inefficient security force deployment, senot presume the proposal's approval. campus services, made an appearance be- curity officials falling asleep in their cars to campus safety,” Longoria said. “While

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Experts say hurricanes have positive effects

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Hurricane Jeanne, which passed through North Carolina Monday, killed 1,500 people and left 300,000 homeless in Haiti. Earlier this year, hurricanes Charley,

Frances and Ivan also wreaked havoc in the South. Yet Duke experts at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences say these deadly storms yield beneficial outcomes.

Although researchers understand the plight of the victims, they insist these islands need tropical storms and hurricanes to hit periodically to counteract the effects of erosion—a process that removes earth and sand, people view hurricanes as a force of destruction rather than a beneficial, natural process because of the damage to beach properties the cause. If island-dwellers instead had carefully selected where to build the structures, and had not constructed roads or houses near beaches, less destruction would occur, scientists say.

“It isn’t very smart to inhabit these islands. But it is too late to say that now,” said Brad Murray, assistant professor of geomorphology and coastal processes at the Nicholas School.

He added that if people attempt to prevent the effects of hurricanes through unnatural means such as leveling the island or building taller sand-dunes, rising sea levels and diminishing beaches would shrink the size of the island. “Hurricanes help reform the island,” he said.

Murray said these unnatural means also block hurricane overwash, which is a

natural process that brings sand to the island from the mainland coasts reshaping its original contour.

Andrew Cobum, associate director of the program for the study of developed shorelines at the Nicholas School, noted that humans demonstrate poor judgment when building structures, turning hurricane effects into tragedies. He also highlighted that precautions had to be implemented before potential disasters occurred.

“If the structures were moved before the damage, then people w ould be better off now. However, nobody wants to pay [for precautions]. It is a human issue that people generally favor the status quo.

They are afraid of what change may bring about,” he said, adding that lack of policies and incentives discourage communities from taking action.

Cobum also noted that beach houses are mosdy second homes for people and they are unwilling to spend money to relocate them to a safer place. After a storm, people would rather focus on rebuilding in the same spot rather than thinking about future effects of upcoming hurricanes, he said.

“The islands in nature are dynamic and they have to be allowed to move around,” Coburn said, noting that rebuilding those structures, although emotionally understandable, will only foster the cycle ofhurricane deconstruction and human reconstruction.

As the hurricane season—which lasts from June to November, peaking in mid-

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Experts in the Nicholas School of theEnvironment and Earth Sciences sayhurricanes can counteract erosion.

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crimebriefs from staff and Library lurker located Officers responded to a burglar alarm in Lilly Library Sept. 23 at 2:42 a.m. When officers arrived they found Quincey Earl Holden (DOB Nov. 8, 1972, 110 W- Main St., Carrboro, N.C.) on the second floor of the library. A records check revealed that Holden was caught trespassing at Duke in 2003. Holden was charged with Breaking and Entering and 2nd Degree Trespassing.

Holden was held at the Durham County

Jail under a $5,000 secured bond.

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could not be reached for comment.

Two men sought in attempted theft An employee reported the attempted theft ofher laptop computer from her office in the Biddle Music Building Sept. 22. The employee said she saw a man carrying her computer toward the loading dock door at around 9:30 a.m. She confronted the man, who told her he thought the laptop belonged to a friend. The man returned the laptop and left the building in the company of another man. The first suspect is de-

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scribed as a black male between the ages of 18 and 20, 6 feet tall, around 170 pounds, slim build and wearing a yellow shirt, yellow pants and a black ball cap. The second suspect is described as a black male between the ages of 18 and 20, slim build and possibly wearing a blue shirt with a green jacket.

after being told to leave the area by event staff. Officers asked O'Dwyer for identification, which was refused. After O’Dwyer refused to cooperate with officers, he was cited for resisting, obstructing and delaying an officer. His court date is set for Nov. 15. O’lawyer could not be reached for comment.

Man arrested for emergency room behavior Frederick Pratt ( DOB Dec. 27, 1983, 2705 McArthur Dr., Greensboro, N.C.) was arrested Sept. 21 in the emergency department of Duke University Hospital and was charged with Disorderly Conduct by Abusive Language or Gestures. He was given a $5OO unsecured bond by the Magistrate.

His court date is set for Nov. 24.

Man refuses to leave busted party Officers responded to Edens Quadrangle Sept. 26 at 2:02 a.m. to assist in closing down a large party. While at Edens, officers asked Raymond Moore (DOB Nov. 1, 1983, 118 E. South St, Apt. 910, Raleigh, N.C.) to leave the area. Moore refused to leave after being warned by officers several times. Moore was cited for second degree trespassing and escorted off campus.

His court date is set for Nov. 18. Moore could not be reached for comment.

Football fan cited for resisting officer Officers were asked to assist football game staff Sept. 25 at 1:39 p.m. at the East Gate of Wallace Wade stadium with an uncooperative person. Officers spoke to Brian O’Dwyer (DOB Mar. 1, 1975, 632 Glenhollow Dr., Durham, N.C.) who refused to leave

DSG from page 3 felt like he was very vague, and he gave some pretty dissatisfying answers in reference to the Parizade’s issue,” he said. “He talked about how a lot of the information regarding that incident would not be available to students in a timely fashion.”

In other business: DSG passed both the DSG Surplus By-Law and the Amendment to the SOFC By-Law for the Creation of the Bartender and Alcohol subsidy fund after a second reading of those bills.

The DSG Surplus By-Law allows for the creation of a five-member trustee board composed of the DSG presi-

Student arrested for DWI Officers responded to a vehicle accident on Flowers Drive Sept. 25 at 1:01 a.m. Officers arrested senior Joseph Grot-

dent, executive vice-president, chief of staff, treasurer and SOFC chair. The board will oversee the management of approximately $120,000 in surplus funds, which were discovered last spring in an audit.

The Bartender and Alcohol subsidy is an amendment to a previous SOFC bylaw stating that SOFC funds cannot be used for the purchase of alcohol. The amendment, which allows for the use of money from the surplus fund to be spent on alcohol, is a pilot program to sponsor kegs for chartered groups. The legislation limits sponsorship of kegs to two organizations per week, with two kegs at each event.

The amendment sparked debate between some DSG legislators who said under-21 students would not benefit from the alcohol subsidies and therefore should not have their student activities fees spent on alcohol funding, and

ty (DOB Dec. 25, 1981) and charged him with Driving While Impaired after finding evidence that Grotty had been drinking. Grotty was taken to the Durham County Jail, where tests showed a Blood Alcohol Content of 0.24. Grotty was placed under a $l,OOO secured bond. His court date is set for Nov. 9. Grotty could not be reached for comment.

Man arrested for outstanding warrant, marijuana possession Officers arrested Edward Njorge (DOB Aug. 14, 1981, 1315 Morrene Rd., Durham, N.C.) for Possession of Marijuana Sept. 25 after a traffic stop showed that Njorge had an outstanding warrant for Failure to Appear with the Durham Police Department. The marijuana was found in his vehicle after he was arrested on the old warrant. He was transported to the Durham County Jail and held under a $3,000 secured bond. His court date is set for Oct. 22. Njorge could not be reached for comment.

other DSG legislators who felt that the funding would benefit all students. ‘This is really used as a push to get attendance up,” Rausen said. “I’m not saying that you have to drink to enjoy an event on campus.”

Charters for the Inferno, a group of Duke sports fans, and Justice, a broadly focused human rights group, were both approved.

DSG also approved $3,790 in funding for a concert sponsored by Students Against Terror. The group is bringing the band Sister Hazel to campus Oct. 14 and sponsoring a rally with various speakers who have experienced the effects of terrorist actions.

DSG held two elections, filling SOFC committee memberships and student justice positions. Ten students ran for six positions on SOFC and nine students ran for three justice positions.

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Despite the harm hurricanes cause, they have environmental benefits.

HURRICANES from page 4 September —begins to wane, there will be fewer major

that will affect coastal-dwellers. A hurricane, which is classified as a tropical storm until its winds exceed 74 miles per hour, usually forms off the west coast of Africa, starting as a thunderstorm and growing over the ocean.

‘Just a few key ingredients, moisture, no opposing winds and warm water, when combined, can produce the wild winds, huge waves and torrential rains we know as tropical storms and hurricanes,” Janice Jones, NBC 17 chief meteorologist, said in a statement.

A hurricane’s strength depends on its side effects such as lightening, tornadoes, winds and rain, Jones said. She added that the amount and strength of storms this year is not extraordinary, but the weather pattern, which directs the storms, is different than in previous years. “Weather patterns steered this activity to our coastline,” she said.

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neers try to do is invent things that improve the quality of life,” said Gary Ybarra, director of undergraduate studies for ECE, noting that the early lab work is often formulaic. “We want to move away from recipe, cookbook approaches to laboratory work.”

The ECE project is largely funded by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation that totals more than $1 million. Leslie Collins, associate professor ofECE and principle investigator, said the amount of money for teaching engineering was unprecedented but necessary for the project to materialize. “As you can imagine taking apart and putting back together an entire curriculum is quite an undertaking,” she said.

The department recendy created a position for director of undergraduate laboratories, which Huettel now holds.

Laboratory work will be integrated into the entire program.

The four basic fields of ECE will be introduced through the lab work. Eventually, elective classes will also draw from the experimental work in the introductory classes.

“We want to show students who think they’re interested in ECE what different fields there are in ECE,” Huettel said. “Our goal is to show them the breadth offields.”

ECE’s proposed revisions follow a revamping of the introductory undergraduate classes several years ago that were designed to let freshmen experience the actual process ofinvention that drives engineering.

“You motivate people by what they’re passionate about,” said Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering. “So the way you look at performance is you take something that’s very cool and requires all of the components of interdisciplinarity and you explain them through the application of product.”

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Planning began about a year ago, and the entire faculty, regardless of rank, has been involved in the effort. In addition to multiple faculty committees that will construct each individual course, one committee is dedicated to integrating applications through each course. Outside consultants will also evaluate the curriculum as it develops.

Faculty said such a time-intensive teaching project would have been nearly impossible several years ago, because untenured faculty would not have been able to devote time to teaching rather than to research. Ybarra and others noted, however, that the school has emphasized the importance of teaching in the tenure process.

Johnson said the school has stressed the importance of teaching at least since she became dean in 1999.About half of Pratt’s departments are focusing on undergraduate education while the other areas focus on graduate training.

The new curriculum is also part of a long-term trend toward interdisciplinary thinking, Collins said.

Several years ago, the department adjusted the electrical engineering major so that students could elect for a hybrid electrical and computer engineering program. When the new changes are fully implemented, faculty said the classic electrical engineering degree will likely disappear completely. “I think it’s a recognition that over the last decade a lot of the interest, student interest, has been in computer engineering, ’’Johnson said, noting that electrical engineering is increasingly dependent on computers.

In response, ECE has been collaborating more with the computer science department in Arts and Sciences. A joint task force has been examining the relationship between the two departments for the past year. The task force will continue to work with the curriculum revision committee to increase flexibility.

‘We do feel like it’s time to revisit what it is we’re teaching and if it’s what we still need to be teaching,” Collins said. than any other nation and yet still lags far behind universal equity. We can deliver some of the best tertiary care,” he said. Primary care access, however, is still greatly unequal, he said. He attributed the lack of a universal health care system to an absence of collective “political will” among voters.

Farmer often employed biographer Tracy Kidder as a foil for his humor. Kidder spoke very little during the discussion, playing a quiet background to Farmer. Echoing Farmer’s advice, Kidder cautioned students, “Pay attention.

You don’t want to join the collective amnesia that I feel like a lot ofAmericans share to the suffering around us.”

He also warned students, however, not to “try to reproduce a life like Paul Farmer’s.”

‘That’s not the point,” he said. “The point is to take heart from the example that he and his colleagues like him prove—that individual people can improve the world.”

While both men often intentionally directed their speech to students, Page Auditorium was packed with a wide spectrum of Duke community members. Chris Ellis, the residence coordinator on-call, managed to find a few minutes between pages to listen. “I thought [Farmer] was very down to earth, very engaging with students in his conversation,” he said.

Although senior Kimberly Noel also found Farmer engaging, she expressed a little regret at the general nature of the speech. “When you read all the books, you want to get so much more than a lecture like this can give you,” she said. “

said he came to the University with the conviction to become a doctor. In 1980, his junior year, the 20-year old Farmer began to feel the need for “broadening.” He subsequendy enrolled in a medical anthropology class that landed him a job in the emergency room of Duke University Hospital, where a profusely bleeding stab wound his first night on the job landed him “flat on the floor.”

Farmer, now a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School, has traveled from the labs of Duke’s to the prisons ofRussia and the mountain villages ofHaiti as a much-celebrated authority on global health issues. It was there in rural Haiti, just three years after his graduation from Duke, that Farmer founded the Clinique Bon Saveur and Zanmi Lasante, Creole for Partners in Health, a state-ofthe-art health clinic featured significantly in Kidder’s book. Farmer did not make Haiti the focus of this speech, however, alluding only vaguely to slow relief efforts in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Jeanne and the long history the United States shares with Haiti. “Unfortunately it’s a very tragic and brutal history,” he said. “It’s a history not of distance, but of closeness.”

Farmer spoke more extensively about the state of American health care, pointing out that the United States spends more of its gross national product on health care

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stantly reinvented the center,” Boyle said.

“We are primarily trying to meet the wants and needs of the customers while staying About 31,000 square feet of current with the trend of the industry.” indoor shopping space that include Demolition has already begun with the smaller stores leading up to Belk will be parking lot between Belk’s and the food converted into outdoor space as a part of court entrance. It will be replaced with a the proposal. smaller surface parking lot and a pedestriOne major difference Northgate will an walkway in front of the mall and next to offer is a venue for entertainment, spethe plaza. According to Northgate’s official events for families and special comcial announcement, the parking lot will be munity programs, among other activities easier to navigate and new architectural and events. The plaza will also feature features will make the fagade more “aesthemed restaurants with outdoor seating, thetically pleasing” to the public. convenient store front parking and new Mall officials plan to make the construcspecialty stores. tion period as is convenient as Change “We are primarily trying to meet commonplace possible for at their customers.

Northgate the wants and needs of the cusMall. Built in Security will be 1960 by Bowpresent to ditomers while staying with the man’s father, W. rect traffic to trend of the industry.”

Kenan Rand, other parking lots during this Jr., Northgate Gerry Boyle started out as a time. The only strip center. It disruption is the was enclosed in razing of Deck 1974 due to the growing popularity of a No. 1, Bowman said. The deck is expected more enclosed shopping environment: to be reopened by Nov. 1. the mall. Since then, Northgate Mall has Furthermore, because of current road expanded several more times. But none construction on Interstate 85, the traffic was as ambitious as the plans released last is expected to more than double. “We want to be prepared for the increase in Thursday.

‘There has been so much retail added to travelers,” Bowman said. “We’d also like the Triangle area,” Bowman said. ‘There’s a to think that these changes will attract lot more competition and every property more of the Duke student, faculty and has to constantly change to keep up their staff population.”

Next year will also mark the 45th year of competitive edge.”

Several Northgate officials addressed the Northgate. The renovation project is exgrowing competition. “I think this center pected to be completed in October 2005, has maintained its market share and posiduring which a grand opening ceremony is tion considering the Rand family has con- scheduled to take place.

DEBATES from page 2 Cable stations. Some broadcast networks also are seeking to air a tape of the forum.

The Oct. 15 debate would be aired on a same-day tape delay on WRAL and will be available for other stations, said John Harris, WRAL’s news director.

The Ballantine campaign release announcing the debates said the deal occurred despite “weeks of political games and debate-dodging by the Easley campaign.”

Ballantine has said he wanted a debate where he could challenge Easley on the tax policies of his first term and refute Easley’s charges that he is a big spender.

Reiff said the debates were exactly the same as the ones that had been agreed to earlier. “This is where we were the Friday before Ballantine withdrew,” he said.

Easley wanted a separate forum on education first before a debate on other issues.

“I think it’s the most critical issue to the future of the state and especially for this campaign,” the governor said earlier this month.

The Easley campaign has accusedBallantine of not telling the truth about the state’s educationalprogress during his term.

Ballantine agreed to the education forum despite what Rosser called “the apparent coordinated efforts between the governor’s campaign and education establishment insider John Dornan.” Dornan negotiated debate details for the education coalition.

When asked to explain his comment, Rosser said later Wednesday that Dornan and Reiff had exchanged e-mails about debate details Tuesday but his campaign was left “out of the loop.” Dornan said he had not met Reiff until Wednesday’s meeting.

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

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be sustained and supported a finding that some employees’ performance appraisals had not been signed.

“It’s one thing to say something about somebody,” Ruffin said. “But it’s another thing to prove it. [Hobgood] has to prove the charges of favoritism with verifiable records that substantiate the conclusions. He did not do that.”

Hobgood could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Bowser argued that Ruffin’s dismissal of the findings and dismissal of the auditor were unacceptable and were major reasons for his urging to fire Ruffin. “[Ruffin] used his power of office to discredit the findings that were made,” Bowser said.

Ruffin also charged that Bowser put pressure on him to fire Knight and that he was fired because he refused.

“I’d been repeatedly told that this would all go away if I’d just fire Jackye Knight,” Ruffin said. “But she did nothing that deserved a dismissal action.

That is the issue, no matter what.., Mr. Bowser was able to get two votes to make [my] firing happen and that’s exactly what he did.”

Reckhow and Commissioner Becky Heron, however, disagreed with Bowser, Jacobs and Cousin and objected to Ruffin’s dismissal.

“We had an excellent county manager, and he was fired without cause,” said Reckhow, who is chair of the board of commissioners. “The issues raised [were] about his personnel concerns and some other relatively minor issues.... All the charges of favoritism were answered and there’s no evidence of favoritism related to raises.”

Battles between commissioners and county managers have haunted Durham County government for years. Commissioners hired Ruffin in November of 2000 after former County Manger David Thompson not

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Davis is guaranteed his old position as deputy county manager. After hammering out the conditions of Davis’ position, the commissioners unanimously appointed Davis the interim county manager.

Davis is one of two deputy county managers who were considered for the job. Commissioners picked Davis after Carolyn Titus, the senior deputy county manager, declined the offer, Board Chair Ellen Reckhow said.

Commissioners Joe Bowser, Philip Cousin, Jr. and Mary Jacobs had voted to fire Ruffin at a closed-door session late Monday. At the regular session’s start, Bowser, vice chair, had added a closed session item at the bottom of the agenda to discuss a “personnel matter.” No official reasons were given for Ruffin’s dismissal, but the commissioners are permitted by law to fire the county manager without explicit cause.

“They had no reason to fire me other than it being their will,” Ruffin said.

“They have every right to make that decision, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the fair thing to do.”

Ruffin’s ouster followed months of tension between the county manager and Bowser. Bowser said Ruffin’s “failure to act upon” allegations of favoritism in a May audit conducted by then-internal auditor Charlie Hobgood was a motivation for Ruffin’s dismissal. The audit alleged 11 instances of favoritism in granting raises and poor record-keeping under Durham County Human Resources Director Jaekye Knight.

Ruffin relieved Hobgood of his auditing duties and transferred him to the county’s finance department following the audit’s release. Ruffin claimed that 10 of the Hobgood’s 11 findings could

resigned in the wake of disagreements with commissioners. County manager George Williams was fired by the commissioners in 1995 “for no reason,” Bowser said.

Bowser also pointed to the racial issues in both the Williams and Ruffin dismissals. Each county commissioner who supported Ruffin’s ouster is black, and Ruffin and his two supporters are white.

“George Williams was black, and the commissioners were white,” Bowser said.

“In 1995 they walked in and fired his butt for no reason. And this community did not say one word about it. This time around, the county manager is white, and the commissioners are black, and the white community is in an uproar about it.”

It is unclear how long Davis will serve as interim county manager. Ruffin could yet be reappointed to the post in early December, when Bowser’s and Jacobs’ terms end. Bowser lost the July democratic primary election, and Jacobs decided not to run for reelection.

Lewis Cheek, a former Durham City Council member running for the Board of County Commissioners, is leading in the polls, and has said he would consider reappointing Ruffin to the post of county manager.

With Reckhow and Heron expected to win reelection, Cheek would be the deciding third vote for Ruffin.

Ruffin’s contract states that he receive his $142,500 salary for another year and that the county provide him free health care benefits for the rest of his life since he was fired without official cause. But Ruffin, 51, said regardless of the possibility ofreturning to the commission, he has to deal with being unemployed.

“I certainly would characterize myself as a victim.... I’m out of a job,” Ruffin said. “But since I’ve got a contract that gives me an income for year, I have some time to assess what I need to do.”

ROCKET from page 2 in his arms. He was in shock. He ran with the boy, he didn’t know what to do,” said Zina Shurov, 48, a neighbor. “I saw the boy, he had no legs.”

The homemade Qassam rocket was the 30th to hit Israeli communities in the past month and the 14th to hit Sderot in that time, according to the Israeli army.

“We live from Qassam to Qassam. The situation gets worse and worse every day,” said Mordecai Moyal, a Sderot resident.

The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the rocket attack in a statement on its Web site, and the group said it would not abandon the rocket attacks. “We will continue with this honorable battle until we achieve either victory or martyrdom,” Nizar Rayan, a local Hamas leader, said in Jebaliya.

The violence highlighted the failure so far of Israel’s increasingly intense efforts against militants firing the rockets from Gaza. The militants have been intensifying anti-Israel attacks ahead of the Jewish state’s announced pullout from Gaza scheduled for next year.

The rockets are inaccurate and often ineffective, but they have created fear in Israeli border towns. A previous attack in June killed two Israelis in Sderot.

“Once again we are witness to a brutal terror attack aimed at hurting innocent women and children. Once again such a deliberate attack takes place on the eve of ajewish holiday,” said Gideon Meir, an Israeli government spokesperson. “No state can tolerate such an attack on its citizens, and it is the government’s obligation to protect its citizens.”

In clashes that continued into Wednesday, militants battled Israeli troops, who responded with machine gunfire and tank shells.

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Alright, so I’ll come right out and say it; I didn’t like Antics the first time I heard it.

If you are expecting to hear Turn on the Bright Lights part two, you probably won’t care for Antics the first time you hear it, either. This initial distaste is probably due in great part to the first track, "Next Exit," a slow, uninspired song that is unfortunately both the weakest song on the album and unincredibly a comInterpol plete about-face to the sound that made their debut wonderful. so Indeed, as is made obvious by the first track to almost exaggerative pro-

portion, Interpol has changed their sound on Antics Interpol The emphasis seems to have shifted in almost every aspect. Where vocalist Paul Banks was drowned by Bright Lights’ driving guitar pulses, his voice is pushed to the forefront in Antics. Where the first album exhibited a gloomy and almost inhuman quality in its production, the follow-up sounds like an see interpol on page 7

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on as well. “Between 97 and 98, there was a schism in Drum and Base,” he explained ‘The drum programming changed; it became much simpler, and I just wasn’t as interested anymore. I wanted something more intricate, more fluid.” He then progressed int 2-step (UK Garage without a bass drum on every beat) and eventually became the moderator of a national 2-step email list. “About ‘99, some people I knew told me ‘Hey, you gotta check out this 2step stuff, it’s on all the pirate stations London,”’ in Cooper said. Ever since then, he has been playing 2step, UK Garage (130 BPM) and Breakbeat (135 BPM) at WXDU, local venues and clubs across the country.

as small as five beats per minute, However, Cooper Bethea, Trinity ‘O2, rambles off the aural idiosyncrasies without ever stopping to think. Cooper, the founder and owner .of the Durham-based label Urban, Renewal Records, is saving music, whether he knows it or not.

By day, Cooper works as a systems programmer for Duke’s Center for Applied Genomics and Technology. By night, he transforms into DJ Cooper, playing regular shows at Ringside in Durham and occasionally touring the nation. He runs Urban Renewal out of his own home, all of his monthly wages going toward creating, mixing and producing music. The label’s first big release, Transatlantic Bass, came out in late August. The album, hailed by Philadelphia-based DJ 99 as being “mixed tighter than Dick Cheney’s buttcrack,” is a compilation of several DJs’ singles mixed by Cooper.

Cooper grew up in small-town South Although Carolina and attended the Governor’s School of Science and Math in Hartsville JDurham does have a for his junior and senior years. It was in small but substantial Hartsville that he learned about electronic 4 underground electronmusic. He was originally interested in ic scene, London is the Drum and Base (electronic music whose center of the electronic beats per minute fall between 165-170), see renewal on page 7 but its scene changed, and Cooper moved

How to succeed in tailgating without really trying Chrissie Gorman recess It is 9 a.m. on Saturday morning and all is quiet on the Western front. The lights at Wally Wade are the only indications that a football game between Duke and Maryland will be played in three hours.

Over 1,000 miles away in Fayetteville, Ark., there is another competition taking shape, this one between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Outside Razorback stadium, there are likely hundreds ofRVs set up before the 2:35 p.m. kickoff, which is set to attract over 70,000 rampant fans. To the Alabama tailgaters, the pageantry does not begin at game time, but days before. As they count down the final hours before the gridiron matchup, these diehard fans enjoy "Bama Bombs" maraschino cherries soaked in by

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It is this phenomenon that Alabama native and New York Times reporter Warren St. John lives out in his first book, Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer. St. John spends a season with some of the most intense fans in college football—those who live to speak and hear the words "Roll Tide."

Back in Durham, Duke officials are working to develop a legitimate football team on the field through recruiting efforts, coaching changes and game strategies. Yet, as St. John illustrates, there is much more to college football than the actions from goalpost to goalpost. It is often the action in the parking lots surrounding the stadium that make the atmosphere. see tailgate on page 7

sandbox What’s the difference between Cassius Clay and Cat Stevens?

When Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, he became champion of the world; when Cat Stevens became Yusuf Islam, he became champion of mediocrity.

I know what you are thinking; How could Cat Stevens possibly become more mediocre? Well, apparendy finding his religious calling only accentuated the cominess of a Sixties quasiicon who clearly took one too many rides on the Peace Train.

In honor of Yusuf Islam’s deportation last week, I took the liberty to download some of his Arab-language music onto my new iPod (and you said it had no educational value!). And let’s be honest—if the government thinks he’s a terrorist, they probably won’t let him sue me. Beyond the utter pain of hearing a tambourine-hand shaker back-beat to the theme chorus of Thank You Allah, his music lacks any creativity and leaves us guessing why exactly is he thanking Allah? But, the worst part about the song is it gets stuck in your head the way all his miserable-catchy songs do.

Islam does seem to find a less nauseating song with A Call to Prayer, which is sang in Arabic and accompanied by the sounds of morning birds and reverbed to simulate it being piped through the public speakers over a Muslim city. As with all of Stevens’ older songs, this one has gleeful melodies, and his soothing voice, though to our benefit he sings words we cannot understand. As the Arabic chant stretches over a rhythmic beat, you can almost imagine that he is still singing about Where the Children Play.

The administration has taken steps to rid this Wild World of the clear evil of corny lyrics by giving Stevens a ride on The Wind. And while The First Cut is the Deepest, we can only hope that Stevens will rebound from A Bad Night, and help us once again Remember the Days ofthe Old Schoolyard.

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veracity" and "micro-fact checking" than the substance of Kerry’s character.

Essentially, Munger said, the film retells the damaging story the Swift Boat ads have been pushing, "with somebody else doing the voiceover." Although the film won’t have the negative spin the ads placed on Kerry’s extensive protests of the war, the images themsleves could potentially invoke the same sentiments.

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Democratic nomination, Butler revisited his archival footage and photographs as he contemplated making a film about the Massachusetts senator. Despite having set out to make a film about Kerry’s present candidacy, however, Butler found himself drawn to the past. "The most interesting material was his time in Vietnam and the peace movement," he said in a statement.

Drawn into the time warp that would later shape so much of the presidential race, Butler began to make a movie about the heroism he saw in Kerry’s Vietnam-era actions. The result, a 90minute documentary entitled- Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry, is set to hit theaters on Friday. But for the Kerry campaign, something much bigger might be hitting the fan.

Although the campaign has consistently emphasized Kerry’s service and decoration in Vietnam, it has been much slower to speak of Kerry’s high-profile criticism of the war upon his return.

Michael Munger, chair of Duke’s political science department, explained that it’s all too easy for the opposing camp to paint any "criticism of America, [even] as a loyal American," as unpatriotic.

Many Democrats view Kerry’s antiwar activism as a goldmine for the other side—an unsightly blemish on an otherwise clean record.

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heavy involvement of many prominent Democrats in its production (such as Ben Affleck), the release date was never pushed back. Think Films picked up the movie over the summer and finalized its slated September premiere at the Toronto film festival.

When asked whether the Kerry campaign has played any role in shaping the documentary, Butler responded in a statement, "There has not been any contact with the campaign or Kerry regarding the making of this film...l’ve never talked to Mary Beth Cahill or any of the top campaign people." Nonetheless, Butler has consistently emphasized his strong loyalty to Kerry, saying that the two "raised our kids together."

But if the Kerry documentary is anywhere near as harmful as analysts like Munger predict, perhaps George Butler will come out looking more nonpartisan than even he could have hoped. narrator

Many audiences will see the controversial Vietnam-era footage for the first time in Butler’s documentary, Going Up River: The Long War of John Kerry Festival back in April, however, Butler spoke with optimism about his film’s potential to positively influence voters.

Although he warned that making a film with the intention of changing minds is usually a doomed prospect, he maintained that a filmmaker can get his message accross simply by making a good

movie. Explaining the film’s planned October release date, Butler asserted that if the world saw John Kerry as Butler himself knew him, they were bound to understand his leadership potential.

Munger, on the other hand, predicted that the buzz around the film is more likely to consist of "arguments over the

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An instance of such collaboration was the international symposium on 19th century French opera held last weekend. Friday’s events took place at Duke, while the rest were at UNC. Organized by Duke’s Elizabeth Bardet and UNO’s Annegret Fauser —both music professors —the event was funded largely by a prestigious grant from -

the National Endowment for the Humanities.. Nineteen speakers from all over the globe Australia, Germany, France, Canada, Britain, and a few locals presented their research.

According to Bardet, the event sought to "bring together scholars who work on French opera" and provide them an opportunity "to learn from each other new methods and ways of approach."

The series of lectures covered a wide variety of topics, including costumes and set designs in Verdi’s ‘Les Vepres siciliennes’, the lobbying of French composers for another national opera house in the 1820’s, and French critics’ response to Bizet’s portrayal of Spain in Carmen. The organizers also hope to -

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way, scholars and students who were unable to attend will still have an opportunity to benefit from the symposium.

Saturday’s highlight was "A Soiree at Choufleuri's; Music from French Opera", a free public concert. Students and professors from both universities collaborated, resulting in an eclectic concert. Selections included portions of the operatic staple Carmen, and also lesser-known compositions such as Philemon et Baucis. The performers, clad in evening finery, sang to a full house in Hill Hall’s band-room-turnedFrench-parlor, complete with elegant candle-lit tables, champagne, and a grand piano. Cries of "Bravo! Bravo!"

rang out after each "soiree guest" sang.

Between the soaring arias and melodious duos, the soiree’s "hostess" playacted when introducing the program, to the delight of the audience.

Fauser noted that the purpose of the symposium was to stimulate innovative ideas. "The goal of this is intangible in away," she said, smiling. "You see these people talking to each other? It’s not just ‘Hello, how are you’; everyone already knows the material they’re throwing around ideas and developing new ones." It is exactly this type of scholarly exchange that promotes progressiveness and erudition yet another reason why dark blue and light blue sometimes go together rather well.

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A: They are all devotees of a website called ItsYourTurn.com.

Not much to look at, but with 2,000,000+ registered accounts in dozens of countries ItsYourTurn is the largest, most vibrant turn-based gaming site on the web. Great, but why does this matter to you? Because it is the brainchild of Duke graduate Patrick Chu. And it is based right here in Dear Old Durham.

After graduating from Trinity College in 1988, Patrick traveled coast to coast as a consultant on large database projects to companies like AT&T. When life on the road grew dismal, and it did rather quickly, he looked to settle down. Remembering .

fondly his days at Duke, he returned to the area in April of 1998 to launch ItsYourTurn.com which he describes as “one big, fun database problem.”

Utilizing his database skills he created ItsYourTurn to get the enjoyment of board games at work without the pieces sprawled out in the middle of the office.

You might ask why you should visit ItsYourTurn.com any more than you watch Duke grad Charlie Rose’s PBS talk show (once for like a second because I thought it was the Daily Show) or patronize alumna Dylan Lauren’s candy store on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan (over the summer when I was craving some Abba Zabbas). For starters, ItsYourTurn has a total of 70 variations of 11 games including Chinese checkers, checkers, backgammon, and versions of Scrabble and Stratego (sadly, no

Guess Who? or Girl Talk). What's more, IYT gives you an easy way to

play with friends and family from whom are you geographically removed. In contrast to sites like Yahoo! Games and Games.com, you and your opponent need not be logged on at the same time to play.

You simply make your move and then are alerted via e-mail to move again once your opponent has done so himself. For games requiring extensive contemplation, you’ll save the time you would have spent watching the wheels turn in your opponent’s head.

Perhaps the most celebrated feature of ItsYourTurn is the ability to carry on a dialogue with each move.

Whether you are trying to clear up some paternity issues over a game of Go, or planning a clandestine rendezvous between moves in Chinese Chess, you won’t have to worry about

it getting in the way of a busy schedule. With an inexplicable yet convenient feature, you can also find your local 5-day weather forecast on-site.

Looking ahead, Chu plans to add more social functions to IYT similar to those found on Friendster and thefacebook. Mobile phone access to IYT is also on the horizon.

ItsYourTurn allows you to make as many as 25 moves a day with no charge. For a monthly fee of as little as $2.50, members can play up to 200 games at once and are freed from banner ads.

Never growing to more than four employees in their lone office, Patrick has created a small business making a big impact. Maybe this is a story of a man succeeding by doing what he loves, or maybe it’s just a guy who wanted to find away to play chess at work without the boss finding out.

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am naturally suspicious of movie in the horror-comgenre, perhaps because had the misfortune of seeing the entire Scary Movie franchise. However, Shaun pulls it off with panache. It has everything a good horrorcomedy film should: a preposterous plot-line, jokes that make your stomach ache with

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Londoner who works with a bunch of teenagers at an electronics store by day and drowns his sorrows with his friend Ed at the Winchester Pub by night. When the zombies first begin taking over the human race, he and Ed are in fact so oblivious that they think all of the zombies are just a bunch of drunks recovering from a bender.

Once the duo realize that the zombies are in fact zombies and not fellow alcoholics, they arm themselves with a cricket paddle, a hockey stick and a stack of old records

set out to save Shaun’s mother, Shaun’s ex-girlfriend Liz and, unfortunately, Liz’s two annoying roommates. The sextet tries to think of a safe place to weather the storm, and what better place to wait out the apocalypse than The

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Winchester Pub (of course!).

The bulk of the film consists of the protagonists trying to make their way through the zombies to the safe haven of their beloved pub.

To recount the jokes here would spoil the fun of watching the movie, but Shaun contains a lot of humor, some

subtle, some anything but.

My only quibble with the movie is that the climax seems a bit obvious considering the rest of the movie’s ingenuity and wit, but it was so fun getting there, and the falling action was so redemptive, you’ll hardly notice. The acting is spot-on, the wonderfully British humor is consistently laugh-out-loud funny, and there is plenty of really graphic gore to boot. This movie is sure to please anyone without a weak stomach.

Look for Shaun of the Dead to become an instant cult classic.

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During the energy-filled performances of a step show, the synchronized thunder storming from the steppers’ feet can be felt as well as heard.

For step show fans, the infectous, corporeal beats often distract from the history, work and dedication that go into in the final performance.

But any stepper will tell you that there’s more than noise behind the thunder.

Stepping began in African dance and rhythms, the elements of which have since been adopted by the nine historically black fraternities and sororities nationwide that comprise the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

Every year Duke’s six NPHC member groups spend months preparing for

their performance in the increasingly competitive Homecoming Step Show.

The non-NPHC Latina sorority Lambda Pi Chi performs non-competitively, rounding out the performances with its step exhibition.

Though the most skillful member of each group creates an original routine for the show, most groups have signature moves. Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity is known for using canes during performances, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity notoriously joins steps with soulful song and Omega Psi Phi fraternity is distinguished by its powerful, forceful stomps. Lambdas incorporate their Latin roots with traditional steps by interspersing salsa or merengue moves to give their routines a distinctive feel.

Rehearsals for competition are

"closed for the same reason that a football team doesn’t give its playbook to the opposing team before they play," says A1 Curtis, ’O5, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Like most steppers, he is quick to add that routine theft rarely happens because each team understands the importance of the routine. "We do not have to ‘enforce’ closed rehearsals... [T] hat's just respect frats and sororities have for each other to not roll in on other groups."

This universal respect arises from an understanding that, as Delta Sigma Theta sorority stepmaster Akosua Kankam puts it, "stepping is something that is sacred to us."

Practices are physically challenging, occur almost daily and require nothing less than the utmost dedication.

"You’re representing your organiza-

tion...regardless of if you’re sick, you still have to go to practice and put your all into it," says Lambda president Alexa Ramirez, who practiced and performed for last year’s step show despite a bout with mononucleosis.

The physical hardships of practice are rewarded when the steppers enter the bright lights of the stage. "I could not put into words the rush of adrenaline feel. is you Everything surreal,"Curtis says.

Sigma President A.J. White feels similarly awed-after three years of performing, he says he still experiences butterflies before stepping.

The nervousness steppers feel may also be attributed to the show’s transition from an exhibition to a competisee steppers

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They call him Mellow Kweller.

Ben Kweller chills out with recess before heading south Former child prodigy and current indie darling Ben Kweller will play alongside headliner Incubus Oct. 6 at the Alltel Pavillion. RECESS music editor Robert Winterode speaks with the wunsinger-songwritin’ derkind about his sophomore album, On the Way, what to expect from his live show.

Recess: Ifyou can, explain the cover of On The Way. Is there any symbolism there?1 Well, originally, I just thought it would look really cool to have me standing with a pack of wolves. It was just really a visual thing. But now when I look back I can see the symbolism with the wolves because they mate for life and they travel in packs and

they’re warriors. It sort of goes hand in hand with the

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my new album is a lot about and family friends and keeping them as close as possible What genre of music would you say you fit into ?

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It’s kind of hard to pigeonhole them into a category.

Who are your favorite bands ? of Kings Leon.

The Strokes. Adam Green. They’re

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I’ve been really surprised that they’ve been so into it.

I’m not playing my acoustic set or many of my ballads. I’ve caring got to perform the more upstarts about the press, tempo songs for the kids. that’s what And I also know that you also toured and recorded in a to screw recently going them up. I’m side-project called the Bens [a among just doing my joint collaboration Kweller, Ben Folds Five and Ben own thing outside of all that. Lee], How did that come about ?

It was just something that Maybe people out of the blue happened notice.

What can peoreally. We’re all friends and ple expect at the we were hanging out in Ben Folds’ studio and we just startupcoming coned recording. We didn’t even cert?

I’m playing a tell our labels because we didreally n’t want any false expectashort high-energy tions.

Okay, my all-time favorite Ben show. I think I’ll first come Kweller song is "In Other Words," out with my but I’ve been meaning to ask you cover of "Ice Ice about the line that talks about pasBaby"—that’s sive-aggressive butterflies. .. the part of the Well, I meant like buttershow, where flies are so beautiful and they people usually really don’t have any problems, at least compared to say, "Who the fis this guy?" our lives. The passive-aggresAnd then I’ll sive thing just sounded good probably do a when I wrote it down. I’m not Ben Kweller few of my faster sure what it means. People to shed some light on that ? keep, asking me about that. songs and a piano ballad.

You’re touring cross-country Maybe the next time we talk, The truth is I was going out with Incubus and playing in I’ll have the answer. a lot in New York and I regularly play private concerts at larger venues, what’s the response places like Spin.... But maybe been so far? swear in one issue of Rolling Stone you must’ve been in there three different times.

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tion in 2002. The Alphas and the Sigmas have since passed the winning trophy back and forth. Among the sororities, there also exists a friendly rivalry between the Deltas and Zeta Phi Beta, largely because they are the only NPHC sororities competing in the show. White assures that "rivalries are not

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Tailgating occurs on fall weekends from coast to coast, but has found a unique breeding ground in the American South. After buying his own RV, St. John found himself alongside some of the craziest in the business. One couple missed their daughter’s wedding because it was scheduled the same afternoon as an Alabama football game. At the Arkansas game, he sat beside a woman who has a "cusrenewal from page 1

world. Cooper wants to stay in the Triangle, however at least for now. “I was thinking pretty seriously a year or two ago about what it would take to go over to London,” he said. “It’s really expensive to live in London, and it’s really hard to get work. It’s not the type of thing where I would be able to go over there and just make a living being a DJ.” -

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up-tempo live band. Interpol’s mood-first, melody-second style has been flipped on its head and so too, it seems, has Interpol itself in an attempt to fix something that was never broken.

After the initial confusion wears off, however, Antics makes perfect sense. Interpol could have traveled the

based on serious hatred" but on friendly competition.

The Step Show provides a rare social forum on a campus where students often complain that interracial interaction is scarce. Still, attendence tends be be largely black and latino. "I think it’s kind of sad,"Ramirez says of the spectrally one-sided audience. "I would like to see more people come out

from different backgrounds." Those involved emphasize that stepping is not a culturally exclusive phenomenon. "I'd say the Step Show is the single most unifying event on campus,"Curtis says.

"Everyone can appreciate it, and everyone does. It is difficult to get our sometimes-splintered community to enjoy an event together. The Step Show definitely accomplishes that."

tody arrangement" with her ex-husband regarding the couple’s season tickets.

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer is an eloquent ode to the legacy of Alabama football. With a school tradition that includes 12 national championships, 20 conference championships and 49 bowl appearances, how could it not be? However, it is also a celebration of those that come to expierence the magic of the games, the tailgaters.

By 10 a.m. at Duke, students are doing exactly what St.

John did every Saturday morning during the 1999 college football season. Heading out to the Blue Zone decked in traditional tailgate gear— pastel polo shirts and sundresses— students are not witnessing, but instead experiencing, a passion for the pageantry of football not previously known by most students.

This is Rammer Jammer’s south, and although the team may struggle on the field, the tailgaters continue to revel in spectacle of the tailgate.

Cooper just plans on keeping the music flowing and the people dancing as long as he can. “I feel really privileged to be a part of the ‘Downtown Durham Renaissance,”’ he explains, citing a term coined by The Independent this summer. “It makes me proud to say I’m from Durham.” Not giving into demands for making popular music or heavily commercializing Urban Renewal keeps it real for Cooper. “Sure, the scene’s struggling, but

all the best scenes are,” he says, smiling. “I just enjoy playing music...lfs not the type of thing where I’m going to have a massive popular following or put out a number one single. I just love what I do.” Cooper’s unadulterated love for music is what will keep Urban Renewal going, even if there is no commercial success., IJe is saving music, keeping it genuine and he probably does noipven know it] For Cooper, it’s just about the beat.

Strokes route and produced a follow-up effort that basically mirrors the formula of their successful debut, but they have instead made a conscious effort to develop a broader style and sound. This adventurousness may turn away some fans, but, in the end, Antics remains as a solid collection of songs that does not deserve the inevitable sophomore slump accusations it will receive.

"Narc," a strangely danceable track with a soaring cho-

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off of the first album. Hints of "PDA” and "Obstacle 1" shine through on tracks like "Slow Hands" and "Evil," but the brilliance of Bright Lights is never fully focused in these moments.

On the whole, the songs of Antics are engaging and worthwhile, and the album, though at times slow and ineffective, gets better with each listen.

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The seventh-ranked Duke men’s soccer team pushed its win streak to double digits with a 3-0 midweek over victory Appalachian State at Koskinen Stadium Wednesday.

The in-state matchup, sandwi c he d APR STATE 0 between DUKE 3 imp ortant ACC games against Maryland and North Carolina, featured dominance on both ends by the Blue Devils. Duke (10-0) started early, attacking the Mountaineers’ net (44) using the entire width of the field. But Appalachian State countered, creating numerous scoring opportunities off free kicks.

The Mountaineers prevented Duke from playing the ball through the middle of the field, but the Blue Devils adjusted by advancing the ball down the sides. Duke netted the first goal when Nigi Adogwa headed home Kyle Helton’s blocked cross in the 19th minute.

“They pushed up and left a lot of space for us to play to,” head coach John Rennie said. ‘We have good speed on the flanks so we could capitalize.”

The Blue Devils’ attack was

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With Duke basketball’s storied Cameron Indoor Stadium has long been a breeding ground for the professional basketball players of tomorrow.

But from Oct. 5 to 12, the gym will become a training center for NBA players of today.

The Philadelphia 76ers will use the Blue Devils’ facilities to prepare for their upcoming season and will play their first preseason game Oct. 12 against the Washington Wizards. This is the second consecutive year the 76ers will have training camp at Duke.

76ers President and General Manager Billy King, who played at Duke in the late 1980s and was named National Defensive Player of the Year in 1988, is the link between the organization and Duke. King requested use of Cameron for the preseason to give his team a chance to get away from Philadelphia and focus on basketball.

“Duke’s got the great facilities, the storied arena, and I want our players to have a little to do, but not a lot to do,” King said.

Past 76ers practice sites include Penn State and North Carolina, but King Joked that the latter is no longer an option.

University officials said the 76ers will not disrupt any Duke teams even though the volleyball team, which plays but does not practice in Cameron, has a pair of matches while the 76ers are in town. The 76ers will practice twice a day in Cameron, and Assistant Director of Athletics Mike Cragg said “the 76ers have been very accommodating” to Duke’s facility restrictions.

Athletic Director Joe Alieva hopes the 76ers will foster a positive environment that can benefit Duke athletes.

“I think it is good to have professionals around to learn from their culture,” Alieva said.

2001 NBA MVP Allen Iverson, who has led the NBA in scoring three times and has a career average of 27 points per game, highlights the 76ers’ roster. Although Iverson has had tumultuous relationships with authority figures, King has nothing but respect for the 2004 Olympian.

“Allen Iverson in a word?

Unique. In a phrase? One of the most loyal and competitive people I’ve ever met,” King said. “He

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Nigi Adogwa scored Duke's first goal last night against Appalachian State.The goal was Adogwa's secondof the season. energetic as defenders Danny Miller and Kyle Helton repeatedly fed balls over the Appalachian State defense. Both Wadsworth and Spencer Michael Videira had early shots via the counterattack.

Duke struck the back of the net again in the 45th minute

when Tomek Charowski kicked in Zachary Pope’s cross after a sliding Wadsworth narrowly missed the ball. Videira was also credited with an assist on the play after sending a pass to Pope in the corner. The fast-attacking forwards created chances with their repeated runs.

“The energy was there from every player on the field,” Adogwa said. “We had a lot of fresh legs.”

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Two-piece set DeMange and Hausfeld bump Duke to strong start by

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Sitting on a bench after practice, players Carrie DeMange and Ali Hausfeld laugh and exchange nervous smiles.

After the led two Alter Archbishop High School, a school with no previous volleyball tradition, to back-to-back state titles, they have transitioned seamlessly to

college volleyball. DeMange

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Freshmen Ali Hausfeld (1) and Carrie DeMange (15) played together in high school and have led the Blue Devils to an 11-3 record in 2004.

leads the team in kills and earned an ACC Player of the Week award, while Hausfeld has paced the team in assists and posted Duke’s only tripledouble of the season to date.

For these burgeoning superstars, there seemed to be little they could not do together.

But after practice last week, they ran into a question neither one could answer when asked, “What’s something

interesting you two did together in high school?”

‘There’s a good story but it’s like...” said Hausfeld as her voice trailed off and another teammate egged her on. “Can we come back to that one?”

Answering a reporter’s questions has been the only area where DeMange and Hausfeld have proven to be immature.

On the court the two, both among Volleyball Magazine’s top 50 freshmen, have helped lead Duke to an 11-3 start.

Middle blocker DeMange is unquestionably more spectacular on the court. At 6-foot-2, she has a defensive presence and a ferocious finish. Most players use an overhand motion to spike, but DeMange’s arm seems to windmill around from her side, creating the velocity not

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surprised by their easy integration.

“Even though they got a lot of attention from everybody [in high school] they are both the most humble athletes,” Jasinowski said. “They were both just regular high school volleyball players, which says a lot about their character. They were personable, mature and responsible right from the time they were [high school] freshmen.”

Although the girls are alike in several aspects, they are far from identical.

DeMange is a flamboyant player and a quiet person, and Hausfeld makes up for her understated game with her outgoing personality and vocal leadership.

While playing together in college did not figure into either player’s decision to come to Duke, DeMange might not have visited Duke without Hausfeld’s encouragement.

“Ali told me she was going on a visit when we came to UNC basketball camp,” DeMange said. “So I went with her to visit here and I loved it.... I came back a few more times before I decided if I wanted to go here or not.”

Nagel said she recruited the players separately, paying less attention to their similar backgrounds and focusing on each girl’s individual interests.

“We actually thought it might be a negative,” Nagel said about whether DeMange and Hausfeld’s bond helped Duke to land them both. “But they were our favorites so we put it out there to them and we are the lucky beneficiaries.”

The Blue Devils’ benefit, if DeMange and Hausfeld have their way, might take a mid-range program to another level.

Hausfeld does not pause when asked what she hopes to have accomplished four years from now.

“National championship,” the threetime All-State selection said. “I think we can do it.” not

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powering her to 4.98 kills per game, fourth-best in the ACC. “First let’s talk about Carrie’s weaknesses—she has none,” Hausfeld said when asked about DeMange’s best on-court attributes. “Her strengths would be hitting and blocking and passing and playing defense and serving. She’s all right.”

Ironically, it’s Hausfeld whom many would describe as the more complete player. The setter, who was a two-year team captain at her Cincinnati, Ohio high school, ranks third in the ACC in assists and sixth in hitting percentage.

Hausfeld’s triple-double against North Carolina Sept. 21 is more evidence of her versatility. Archbishop Alter head coach Tina Jasinowski simply calls her “the package.”

“She’s actually like a hitter too, hitting the second ball over,” DeMange said. “She tries to trick the other team; she’s really good at that.... Sometimes they’ll jump with her and I’ll be wide open with no block because of that.”

In addition to their individual talent, Hausfeld and DeMange have developed strong chemistry from playing together since third grade. Jasinowski likened their awareness of each other on the court to a “sixth sense.”

“Timing’s a really big issue in the middle with the setters,” DeMange said. “I know how she sets, and I can tell where she’s going to set me or if she’s going to set me. I know when to be up and when not to be. It’s really good, the communication and everything. If I was with a different setter I’m sure I’d get used to it, but it wouldn’t be the same.”

The familiarity between the two girls on and off the court has helped all four freshmen volleyball players become closer than

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All Hausfeld (1) and Carrie DeMange (15) led theirCincinnati high school team to two consecutive state titles.

they had expected.

“At first we didn’t know our way around Duke, so we all became really close, the four of us freshmen. Them two knowing each other has been cool because their knowing each other has made all of us freshmen feel like we’re one,” said libero Jenny Shull, who rounds out the freshman class along with

outside hitter Shelly Capito. “Having them connect as freshmen on the court just makes our team stronger because it makes us all work harder on the court to connect as one unit.”

Despite their status as high-profile recruits, the.freshmen have been able to seamlessly blend into the team, said Duke head coach Jolene Nagel. Jasinowski is

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Nate James is the only former Duke player in the 76ers’ camp. James, who averaged 12.3 points per game for the 2001 Nadonal Championship team, is trying to make an NBA team for the first time in his career.

Iverson and James will get the chance to see where they stand at the end of their practice stint in an exhibition game against the Wizards. 76ers and Duke officials are encouraging students to attend the 7:30 p.m. contest with a reduced ticket price of $lO and a pregame fan meet-and-greet. Tickets for the general public range from $2O to $5O. “[King] wanted to create an exhibition game and put his franchise in more of a collegiate atmosphere,” Cragg said. “We will try to have real low prices for students. So hopefully we will have a great student turnout.”

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Seniors Justin Trowbridge and Mark Valdez combined for the shutout, and Trowbridge played all but 18 minutes and recorded all of Duke’s six saves.

Appalachian State controlled the ball for the first 10 minutes of the match but only mustered one shot on goal as the Duke defense stifled most chances.

“We’re just sticking to what we’ve been good at so far,” said Miller, whose team knocked off then-No. 1 Maryland Saturday in College Park. “We really don’t want to change anything right now.”

The Mountaineers created 15 shots, but most were taken outside the 18-yard box. Appalachian State’s for-

wards had chances early after several Duke fouls gave the visiting team free kicks near the Blue Devils’ goal.

In the 24th minute, Trowbridge corralled an Appalachian State header by Raphael Jones on a free kick. Eight minutes later, Trowbridge again faced a free kick near the Duke goal but the shot sailed wide. The closest the Mountaineers came to scoring was in the 69th minute, when Naeem Frederick’s free kick hit the Blue Devil wall, was deflected by a soaring Trowbridge and ricocheted off the crossbar, only to sputter away from the net.

The first half ended with a flourish as Duke barely missed a scoring chance at the buzzer. Cavicchia caught a high ball but collided with a teammate and lost control of the ball. A Mountaineer defender at the goal line blocked Charowski’s shot off the rebound, but time expired before a Blue Devil could capitalize as the goal lay open.

After topping three North Carolina schools this season, Duke will try to continue its dominance of the state when the team squares off against North Carolina at Koskinen Stadium at 7 pm Sunday.

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an effort to curtail the relation- free gifts and trips, the potential for ship between the drug industry and abuse arises, they argue. Although the medical administrators, reduce the vast number of doctors probably do influence prescription drug compa- not violate any ethical standards, ethinies have on physicians and remove cal questions arise at the mere opporthe potential for ethitrinity offree gifts, Sl3T|GClltori3l Thus, DUMC’s decal problems, the Medcision to ban drug Duke University ical Center has banned pharmaceuti- company incentives is a good one. It cal companies from giving gifts, din- is also good that DUMC made the ners and trips to doctors. This is a ban universal instead of trying to degood idea that will eliminate any velop a complex set of rules restrictchance of ethical violations without ing some gifts while allowing others, The ban makes the situation clear-cut sacrificing patient care.

Sales representatives from drug and easy to comply with. If DUMC companies currently face no regula- were to draw a line somewhere in the tions in their interaction with physi- middle, that line could become cians. In addition to providing physi- blurred and the potential for ethical cians with information about new abuse might grow. drugs, the pharmaceutical companies Physicians do not need to be inunoffer the doctors added incentives, dated with the names of drugs. This which often take the form of free only provides the possibility that the handouts, expensive dinners or weekphysicians’ decisions about prescripend getaways. For example, a drug tions will be unconsciously influenced. company might hold an educational Doctors will still receive all of the inforseminar at a resort —physicians would mation about the drugs from the drug attend the conferences to learn about companies, simply without the unnecthe drug, but would also essentially get essary gifts. The informational semia free vacation. nars held at weekend getaways could Some doctors defend the free gifts equally as easily be held in hospital conference rooms, and doctors will reby saying they are the only way physicians can learn about less-mainstream main as well informed.

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like “dressing cute,” there is still a problem with this. As skirt hems rise higher and higher, so does the likelihood of you being objectified sexually as opposed to being viewed as an intelligent individual with goals and passions. Truthfully, guys don’t view “hooking up” and your low-cut shirts and think “Hmm, she just made a statement about female empowerment because she’s confident in expressing her sexuality both in her appearance and actions!” They think, “Hmm, I’m glad I got some play and a free look at that cleavage!” Perception is key. There is nothing wrong with dressing cute; just think about what other people are associating with that ridiculously short Abercrombie skirt, and whether that’s the image you truly want to portray.

As my favorite high school teacher used to say all the time—“Rhetoric is epistemic” and the words you use to express yourself form and are a reflection of your knowledge. Saying

pears in between programs When I was little, I had a Carolina astigarraga be major issue with Lego commercials. Two boys with shadows on the cave wall such a girl” or “you throw like a girl” ultimately form scowling faces would lead one’s battle.

One to believe that women opinions knight plastic knights into would cross a bridge, plummeting through should automatically be equated with the “hidden trap door” into the dungeon. signs of weakness and vulnerability. By This would cause Boy #2 to pump his fist publicly condemning this rhetoric, guys into the air in ecstasy and let out a manly and girls, we can take an important step “YEA!” Well—as manly as one can be for for women equality.

Finally, women must take an active someone who has about six more years to stance on breaking down stereotypes. I saw he hits This was disvery till puberty. go concerting to me. Not only because as I sat a girl playing football with a group of guys among the 400-plus Lego blocks of my on Main West yesterday. She leapt and own Black Knight castle, I vehemently made a spectacular interception* running hoped that the plastic pieces my little sis- nearly the entire length of the field beter had eaten weren’t the ones needed to cause the group of guys was so stunned they didn’t run after her. When we interconstruct that ultra-cool dungeon, but because I had never seen a single girl on act with guys, whether it’s an .academic setthose commercials. I firmly believe that ting or recreational one, we have the one of the reasons there are so few female power to deconstruct preconceived, often engineers is because girls are taught at a incorrect, notions of women.

This allows everyone to realize that the young age that toys like Legos and Lincoln between men and women are meant disparities if are not for them.

Perhaps Logs commercials appealed to both genders, differences—not inferiorities—and makes the notion of female equality (and maybe this wouldn’t be a problem.

Another thing keeping women from that of a future female president) a little achieving the respect and equal status of more feasible. men in society is the way women often Carolina Astigarraga is a Trinity sophopresent themselves physically. While I know that many times girls buy clothes not more.

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the elections approach and I glumly realize that a woman has still not become president, I’ve begun thinking a lot about gender stereotypes and equality for women. But wait! Before half of my readers flip the page and become engrossed with finding a four-letter synonym for “aspersion,” stop. You play a part in this as well (and not just as a source of the problem either). You also have the power to create a fairer, more educated society through simple steps that can have great impact.

As one of the most influential forces on society, the media is largely to blame for gender stereotypes. Although shows that feature ditzy,relationship-obsessed women whose biggest dilemma is that the shoes they’ve been lusting over are out of stock will probably not leave television anytime soon, there is still something that can be done. One major factor in

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Political correctness is not about sensitivity or friendliness. Persons extending political correctness are often masking their own fear or cultural prejudice. It’s no coincidence that the three groups often extended the most courtesy in this respect blacks, gays and Muslims—are the same three groups perceived as most dangerous, sexually impulsive and riot-prone. In protecting their sensitivity, outsiders not only patronize them, but they affirm these groups’ inferiority.

On the other end, the recipients of the political correctness conceal manipulation and willful disregard for other people’s right to free speech. They exploit their own minority group’s struggles, history and triumph through the constant and usually hypocritical censorship of other people.

Their leaders make civil rights a business and render the community an interest group with its interests and its interests alone in mind.

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24 column, “Does it really matter?”, I wished he was being ironic, that his questions were all rhetorical and that his anecdotes were meant to be facetious.

Unfortunately, the smattering of earnest comments throughout the column, including: “suffice it to say that the mood was ruined for the rest of the night,” was not meant sarcastically. So to save him time “figuring out some answers” to these questions of his, no it does not really matter.

Yes, people have a right to be offended. It is not illegal. However, yes, people have a right to speak freely, tell jokes and state their opinions. If the person who is offended feels moved to do so, seeing as it is not illegal, he or she can ignore it completely, reand quit spond communicatively

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BACK TO REALITY

Mr. Brodhead tear down the wall ,

“It’s a paradox we call reality/ So keepin’ it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality...”

I see a place where a person who possesses 50 grams of crack gets a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, but a person possessing the same amount of cocaine I am increasingly reminded of these words, (the form of the drug that wealthier, usually white conspoken by Talib Kweli of Black Star in their song sumers prefer) walks free, a place where it takes at least “Respiration.” If you watch the news or read the 100 times more cocaine than that to get jail time. I see a papers, you can find numerous examples of warped replace where we learn in history class that our country is that make minimal reference to the only one to ever actually use a weapon of mass dethrough reports ality, facts or that manipulate language or context to give struction, yet our country is the one policing the world them different meaning. We live in a world where seeing for them. the paradoxes of our reality and acknowledging the Yet when many people see me, or listen to me talk, presence of different realities make you they see a “radical.” I’m seen as “unpatribecome what Kweli calls “a casualty of abotic,” in a place where patriotism has normal normality.” As he points out, even come to mean not questioning, not chalthe very concept of reality is paradoxical. lenging, not asking for justice. It’s almost We all see it as a concrete, finite thing, but unbelievable to me, that people who ask in actuality, reality is one of the most abfor accountability, people who ask for stract concepts. Reality looks different detruth and people who ask for equity are seen as extreme, yet people who propending on whose eyes are observing it.

When I see reality in this country, I see Amelia Herbert mote war, people who support the rich on the backs of the poor and people who troubling contradictions. I see a place don't believe the hype where the Ku Klux Klan, an organization choose profit over integrity can be see as that has inflicted much terror in history, the patriots. Sometimes I even wonder if has numerous public rallies a year, yet people of Arab I’m living in some sort of twilight zone. I wonder how descent who might be associated with terrorism are depeople who see what I see are seen as the crazy ones. But then I remember the words of Akira Kurosawa that a ported or detained. I see a place where we violate international law by starting a war with Iraq and then try friend one shared with me, “In a mad world, only the their leader for war crimes mad are sane.” These are just the casualties people must I see a place where our government gives a known endure for “keepin’ it real” and refusing to view the criminal destructive weapons to do our dirty work, then world through the rose-colored glasses our government years later bombs his country for having possession of and media provide us with. those same weapons.

I see a place where many people have no idea or inI see a place where the government denounces rap terest in what happened in real life yesterday, but everymusic for using profanity and containing macho, chauone knows what happened on reality television last vinistic messages, yet our vice president tells Vermont night. Often I wonder why this is. Maybe it’s because Sen. Patrick Leahy “go f— himself’ when he asks about people just don’t want to see certain realides. Maybe it’s Cheney’s involvement in oil companies, and the gover- because it’s more pleasant to ignore the realities in nor of California calls politicians “girly men” when they which thirty percent of your neighbors have AIDS, or don’t “have guts.” ones in which all you know about the United States is I see a place where we build jails instead of schools, and that it dropped the bomb that killed your brother or it in some cities, a young black boy in elementary school imposed sanctions that add to your family’s starvation, doesn’t have a guaranteed spot in class when he reaches so joining a group that targets them makes sense to you. high school, yet his spot in prison is waiting for him.

Maybe it’s because, in a world like this, it’s certainly I see a place where news reporter Dan Rather is asked more pleasant to imagine at least this country as we’d to resign because of faulty evidence in his reporting on like it to be —“an example for all nations,” a place Bush’s shady National Guard record, but the President where opportunity is spilling over for everyone. of the United States is not asked to resign after using Or perhaps it’s because it’s easier to imagine it that faulty evidence to start a war that has killed 1,053 Amerway than to actually work on making that a reality. icans (with a modest estimate of the Iraqi death toll Amelia Herbert is a Trinity senior. being at least five times more).

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Really. I promise to not even mention either killing or pigs or how Duke should be above all that.

In the spirit of tolerance and diversity, I thought I’d cover another favorite left-wing cause. I’m sure you’re all baffled, wondering what that could be.

Abortion rights? Nah, I’ve got too many babies mommas running around out there. How about gay rights? Nope. Although they’re fine by me, and I think everyone should be a little less uptight, anyway.

Instead let’s talk about unions. You know, your friendly neighborhood, corrupt, mafia-connected, Jimmy-HofFa-killing, Cleveland-Browns-loving, support groups for the sartorially-challenged. But I’m not just talking about any union. I’m talking about a union of the graduate students here at Duke What? Could such a thing happen?

Well, not at present, because the esteemed folks at the National Labor Reman, beast or God? lations Board decided over the summer that graduate students at private universities, in particular those who are teaching assistants, are not technically employees. You heard right. Although we work like employees, and although we get paid for our labor like employees, and although we pay taxes like employees, we’re not really employees. In their unfathomable logic, since we are here at Duke primarily for, educational purposes (some of you in my TA section may find that hard to believe), we should not receive the same rights to collective bargaining that other employees are entided to. But just because I’m here for an education, does that exclude me from being considered an employee? How is it that when a grad student teaches the same class as a professor, the grad student is just a student while the professor is an employee? When the class appears on a transcript, isn’t an “A” in the one class worth the same as an “A” in the other?

Most of the undergrads have stopped reading at this point, but for those of you still with me, congratulations. You may have the stamina to make it as a grad student yourself one day. And guess what? Ifyou’re at a public school, you can be in a union. If not, tough luck. Odd how being a student at that reform school over in Chapel Hill might actually have some advantages over going to school here.

I write this not just to kvetch about my miserable life, though I could do that too. I could tell you about how one ofmy neighbors ratted me out to my apartment manager about my dogs being off the leash. But that’s not why I wrote this. I wrote this because we need to start thinking about this issue as it relates to Duke. We need to start organizing ourselves so that one day down the road there is a union here. We need to tear down the wall between being a grad student and being an employee. Mr. Brodhead... you know the rest.

I know some of the arguments against unions.

They say that they poison the atmosphere between faculty and students, and that graduate school is temporary anyway, so why bother? But maybe a union is exactly the right kind of poison for our complacency. Maybe the fact that they stir things up and create a little controversy is a good thing. And maybe if unions bring up grievances, it’s not the union that should be blamed, but the unjust situation they

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I know one more thing. My friend Dan Lee thinks a graduate student union is a good idea, and anyone that good-looking has got to be right.

Stefan Dolgert is a graduate student in Political Science.

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