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List system replaces matrix History bolsters

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Kelly Rohrs THE CHRONICLE

When class registration opens at 7 a.m. Friday, a group of seniors will undergo the familiar ritual of waking at up to a 6:55 a.m. alarm to ensure their spots with Duke’s handful of celebrity professors. But the once-infamous Curriculum 2000 matrix, which has guided students’ course selection for the past four years, will be missing. The University abolished the matrix this summer in favor of a list system as part of its efforts to help students understand the driving force behind C2K; the desire to integrate general education requirements with students’ majors. “The matrix gave the impression of a bingo game where you had to get a certain number, which I really think is antithetical to the way that people should be thinking,” said Steve Nowicki, dean of the natural sciences and chair of last year’s C2K revision committee. The old system included a multiplication-table style matrix with the Areas of Knowledge, such as Social Sciences and Civilizations, along the side and Modes of Inquiry areas, such as Ethical Inquiry and Research, running across the top. Students filled boxes in this matrix as they completed classes. The matrix

Deutsch initiates major department overhaul after 2000 external review by

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Change is not just a thing of the past for the Department of History, which has significantly reformed both its undergrade ate and graduate the -'qrams over

John French, diof undergraduate studies for this academic year, said responsiveness to students’ desires has improved, “We’ve developed courses in areas that people are interested , especially in, such as law,” French said. “We also went for much more aggressive ate Professor rector

advertising.”

As a result, enrollnumbers are much stronger than they were during the 2000 review, and the number of majors has increased during the last year. An emphasis on research has also contributed to the department’s strength, said Associate Professor Edward Balleisen, who directs the senior thesis seminar. “The department is working very hard to continue to improve its underment

Senior Sarah Wingate ponders her ACES bookbag—withoi in preparation for course registration Friday. would also indicate which courses in students’ ACES bookbags filled requirements, allowing students to see how potential classes advanced their progress toward filling the quotas. “Our strength was in recognizing principles that used to be confined to general education and recognizing that they could

be learned reer,” Provost Peter Lange said, The revision committee’s report, completed last January, suggested a variety of changes that reduced the number of classes required for each area. The changes allowed students to earn SEE MATRIX ON PAGE 5

partment to initiate the recent changes. The revamped undergraduate program now features

more lecture classes and im-

proved coordination between courses. The challenge now is to suslain the progress the department has already made. Associ-

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Yoga promises students physical, spiritual gains by

Angela Munasque THE CHRONICLE

Since coming to Duke, senior Franklin Winokur has regularly participated in what he describes as one of the most demanding workouts he has ever undertaken. Senior Deirdre Hess, on the other hand, has found an exercise routine that allows her to concentrate on de-stressing. These two students are describing the same activity: yoga. Members of the Duke community can easily reap the physical and emotionalbenefits of an ancient form of exercise by participating in a variety ofyoga classes: traditional hatha yoga, yoga and pilates and yogaflow, just to name a few. Lisa Jindra, Duke’s program coordinator for group fitness classes, said a yoga and tai chi mix may be added to the list next semester. Yoga stems from the Hindu belief that knowledge, action, devotion and self-control are pathways to a higher consciousness. The counterculture of the 1960s brought the practice into vogue in Ameri-

ca, and Madonna made it even more

prevalent when she credited ashtanga yoga for her ultra-toned arms and lean look in the 19905. Since then, popular culture has largely disassociated yoga from its nonphysical benefits. While it is evident that yoga is a common practice among health-conscious members of the Duke community, Jindra stressed that it is still a fairly new fitness trend. ‘We only added yoga to the recreational fitness schedule four to five years ago,” she said. Since then, the demand for yoga has only increased, and Duke has responded with half-credit physical education classes, walk-in group fitness classes and even a full-credit course that allows students to leam both the practice and ideology behind kundalini yoga. “We offer three sections ofyoga [in the physical education department], and they’re always full,” said Michael Forbes, director of intramurals, sports clubs and SEE YOGA ON PAGE 6

The University's yoga classes,available daily on campus, have become increasingly popular with students.

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Knesset approves Gaza Strip withdrawal by

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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a historic victory Tuesday when parliament voted to approve his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank—the first dme lawmakers have authorized the removal ofjewish setdements from lands the Palestinians claim for a state. The 67 to 45 vote, with seven abstentions, gave strong backing to Sharon’s plan to evacuate 21 setdements in the Gaza Strip, where 8,200 Jewish setders live amid 1.3 million Palestinians, and four in the West Bank.

“I think that the prime minister of Israel had a great victory tonight,” Vice Premier Ehud Olmert told CNN. Sharon won, with the help of dovish opposition parties. Many members of his center-right coalition, as well as religious opposition parties, voted against him. Sharon had hoped a strong victory such as the one he secured Tuesday would allow him to fend off settlers’ calls for a national referendum on the plan something the prime minister has publicly denounced as a delaying tactic by opponents of the withdrawal plan. —

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key Likud ministers who had voted in favor demanded Sharon call a referendum or said they would resign from the government. The U.S. State Department praised the vote as a step forward in peacemaking with the Palestinians. “We think the withdrawal plan presents an opportunity to advance the interests of both sides,” Deputy spokesperson Adam Ereli said. Sharon’s victory came a day after he surprised both detractors and supporters SEE WITHDRAWAL ON PAGE 7

78 Muslim detainees die in Thailand riot by Alisa Tang THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PATTANI, Thailand —At least 78 Mus-

lim detainees suffocated or were crushed to death after police rounded up 1,300 people and packed them into trucks following a riot in southern Thailand. Islamic leaders accused troops Tuesday of overreacting and warned the deaths could worsen sectarian violence. The arrests followed a melee outside a police station, where protesters had demanded the release of six Muslim men accused of transferring weapons to Islamic separatists. Six people were shot to death during the riot Monday, apparently by security forces.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra,

speaking to reporters while rumors of the

suffocations circulated but before the 78 deaths were officially announced, tried to blame the casualties on traditional dawnto-dusk fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight,” Thaksin said. “It’s a matter of their bodies becoming weak. Nobody did anything to them. But the death toll shocked moderate Muslim leaders who accused security forces of overreacting—a charge they have repeatedly made as the government has failed to halt the violence that has

claimed more than 400 lives this year in the Muslim-dominated south. “I am in shock,” Abdulraman Abdulsamad, chairperson of the Islamic Council of Narathiwat, the province where the unrest occurred, told The Associated Press. “I cannot say what is going to happen, but I believe that hell will break out.” Violence has troubled overwhelmingly Buddhist Thailand’s three Muslim-majority southern provinces for decades, but it has worsened this year amid claims of governmental discrimination. As news of the tragedy spread, six people were shot and seriously wounded in separate attacks Tuesday. The victims included an assistant village chief and her husband.

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newsinbrief NASA builds supercomputer The builders of a new $5O million NASA supercomputer claim the 10,240processor machine, named Project Columbia, is the fastest in the world. The speed title has yet to be officially bestowed on the machine.

Cuba eliminates US dollar Communist Cuba said "adios" to the Yankee dollar that shored up its struggling economy for a decadie, launching a two-week process Tuesday to eliminate the U.S. currency from its stores and businesses in response to steppedup American sanctions.

ATA files bankruptcy claim ATA Airlines, the nation's lOth-largest airline, filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday, becoming the latest U.S.airline tripped up by rising fuel costs and fare wars. ATA sold off airport slots and other assets to AirTran Airways for $87,6 million.

Japanese captive held in Iraq Video posted Tuesday on a militant Islamic Web site showed what it claimed was a Japanese captive kidnapped by Abu Musab at-Zarqawi's group and threatened to behead him within 48 hours unless Japan pulls its troops from Iraq. News briefs compiled

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Experts sound off on health policy newsbriefs Preeti Aroon

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This is the first in a three-part series about health and science issues in the 2004 election. All Duke students have health insurance. Duke requires it. But for the 45 million Americans who do not have health insurance, a major illness or accident could prove financially catastrophic. According to The Washington Post, health insurance premiums have risen 36 percent in the past four years, placing insurance beyond the reach ofmany families. Given the reality of rising health care costs and the steadily aging population of baby boomers, affordable health care has emerged as a major domestic campaign issue. President George W. Bush and challenger Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass,, have responded to voters’ concerns by laying out broad plans for how they would fix the nation’s health care-woes. These complicated proposals often confuse the average voter. Christopher Conover, assistant research professor in the Center for Health Policy, and Donald Taylor, assistant professor of public policy studies, use their health policy expertise to see through the candidates’ spin and explain the issues to voters. Kerry plans to provide all Americans with access to the Congressional Health Plan, the same health care plan that members of Congress have. Kerry has said tax credits will make the plan affordable for families. Additionally, Kerry proposes a “premium rebate pool.” If an individual incurred catastrophic health costs that exceeded a threshold amount —$30,000 in 2006 —the government would reimburse employer and group insurance plans for 75 percent of the costs above the threshold. Kerry argues that insurance companies’ savings would lower family insurance premiums by up to $l,OOO annually. Although Kerry’s plan is ambitious and expansive, doubtsremain about whether it is financially feasible. Conover said independent non-partisan groups have estimated the cost of Kerry’s plan to be far more than Kerry claims. On the other side of the debate, Bush

Schwartz tapped to lead NIEHS in 2005 Dr. David Schwartz, a professor of medicine, was named Monday to head the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a branch of the National Institutes ofHealth located in Research Triangle Park. Schwartz, who is also vice chair of research and director of the pulmonary, allergy and critical care division of medicine, will take the helm as NIEHS director in April 2005. He is replacing Kenneth Olden, who has been director since 1991 and was former professor and chair of oncology at Howard University Medical School. The purpose of NIEHS is to study and help minimize the contributions of environmental conditions to human diseases. Schwartz said he hopes to develop a deeper understanding of why people have different reactions when exposed to the same toxin, as well as expand NIEHS’ interdisciplinary work by focusing on asthma and Alzheimer’s disease. Schwartz has done research for the past 14 years on the genetic and biological causes of environmental lung disease and on the genetic regulation of environmental asthma. He will continue to see patients sever-

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Allow the Secretary of Health Will continue implementing the Medicare prescription drug benefit: and Human services to negotiate Prescription drug discount cards lower drug prices. let seniors save on drugs. Allow reimportation of FDALow-income seniors get a $6OO approved drugs, annual credit to help pay for drugs.

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has proposed expanding health savings Conover said he finds Bush’s proaccounts. According to the Bush camposed HSAs to be an interesting and innovative idea, however, there is the risk paign website, families and individuals inithat as healthy people make use of HSAs, tially would purchase low-premium, highdeductible insurance plans. Conover said those with chronic health conditions typical deductibles, which is the amount a who are also more likely to remain with person has to pay first before insurance conventional insurance—will then have coverage begins, would be from $2,000 to higher premiums. $3,000 per family. On the issue of prescription drugs, Then, both employees and employers Bush has touted his recently enacted would receive tax credits for contribuMedicare prescription drug benefit. tions made to HSAs. Individuals would Kerry has criticized Bush for blocking use money from their HSAs to pay for' Americans from purchasing drugs from health care expenses, including their deCanada and for prohibiting the Secreductibles. The accumulated savings in tary of the Department of Health and the accounts would carry over from year Human Services from negotiating lower to year so that after a few years, individudrug prices. als would have enough in their HSAs to SEE HEALTH CARE ON PAGE 7 pay for the entire deductible.

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As the 2004 campaign draws to a close, North Carolina voters seem to be leaning the same direction they did in 2000; toward President George W. Bush. According to the most recent WRALTV/Mason-Dixon North Carolina Poll, 51 percent of North Carolina voters support Bush, while only 43 percent support his challenger, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Five percent of 625 respondents said they were undecided. The statistics gathered from the poll conducted by telephone from Oct. 18 to 19 by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research of Washington, D.C.—were largely unchanged from those collected last month, when Bush led Kerry by a 9-point margin. According to Mason-Dixon’s numbers, the race in North Carolina has not been in a statistical dead heat since July, when Bush led Kerry by only 3 percent—just after Kerry chose Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., as his running mate. The October poll shows Bush besting Kerry in voter favorability. Fifty-six percent ofrespondents expressed a favorable opinion of the president, while only 39 percent said they viewed Kerry favorably. The president also eclipses Kerry in five of the six geographical regions that Mason-Dixon di-

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vides the state into for surveying purposes. Bush’s lead currently ranges from a 7point spread in the Charlotte area to 16differences the pomt Greensboro-Winston-Salem area and the southeastern part of the state. Bush garnered support from 55 percent of men and 48 percent of women polled compared to 39 and 46 percent, respectively, who support Kerry. White voters also prefer Bush by a 27-point margin. ,

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With tensions rising Tuesday in both camps, Kerry escalated his criticism of Bush over explosives missing in Iraq, asserting that the weapons could be used against both Spanish and English soldiers to undecided voters. “We’re in a bigger mess by the day and the president can’t see it or can’t admit it, but either way, America is less safe,” he said.

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ONALASKA, Wis. President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry, D -Mass., accused each other of lacking the hardnosed resolve of Cold War presidents—from Democrat Truman to Republican Reagan. They attempted to reach across party lines a week before Election Day to try to break their campaign deadlock and sway undecided voters.

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curriculumoverhaul Changes to Areas of Knowledge

graduate curriculum,” he said.

Required Areas of Knowledge courses will be reduced from 12 to 10. Originally there were four areas of knowledge: Arts and Literature, Social Sciences, Civilizations and Natural Sciences. A new, fifth Area of Knowledge, Quantitative Studies, has been added to the original four and the Area of Knowledge Arts and Literature, will be modified slightly into Arts, Literature and Performance. Students will be required to take at least two courses in each Area of Knowledge. •

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Changes to Modes of Inquiry The required number of courses to fulfill the various Modes of Inquiry designations will become 12 to 14. Currently 16 to 18 courses are required. The lAA classification in Modes of Inquiry will be dropped A course will be allowed to satisfy up to three modes of inquiry. Currently, a student must chose two modes, even when three are available. Transfer credit can be coded. Foreign language credit will count—but administrators are still working out the details on this. •

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MATRIX from page 1 area codes for transfer credits and to count all the codes available for a given class. The less stringent requirements will allow students to consider the philosophy of learning behind the seeming multitude of mini-requirements as they choose classes, Lange said. The advisement report, which replaced the matrix, elimirlates the boxes. Instead, it lists the required areas and the completed or in-progress courses that fulfill them. Unfinished areas are in bold and carry a red “requirement not satisfied” tag. Courses in the bookbag do not appear on the report. Several students have said the lack of a matrix has made it more difficult to fulfill distribution requirements because they must flip between the advisement report and the registration window. Michele Rasmussen, the assistant dean who runs the Pre-Major Advising Center, said many students complained about the elimination of the matrix in C2K information sessions. Although she recognized the ease of the matrix, Rasmussen said the new report included more information about requirements, such as total number of credits and

the small group learning requirements. The new system also standardizes the content between the differentACES versions that advisors, deans and students see. Rasmussen underscored the administration’s commitment to explaining that the learning areas are not simply requirements. “It’s going to take more than just changing the tool to think about how students think about their general education requirements,” she said. “I think that once they understand, then they begin to see that this curriculum isn’t something that has been randomly forced on them.” Bruce Cunningham, University registrar, said it would be technically impossible to apply bookbag classes to the advisement report because the software is embedded into ACES. The matrix, he said, was from separate software so it was possible to attach to class selection, but it caused a multitude of technical issues. Many students, even those who have not had problems with the system, said they do not think of C2K as integral to their majors. “It kind of seems like a bunch of requirements,” sophomore Lauren Hanson said. “But I realize that they want us to broaden our requirements and take classes so that we have a good background in a lot of areas.”

Since the department fell to 15th in U.S. News and World Report’s 2001 ranking of history graduate programs, graduate students have seen changes as well. One problem for the program has been large fluctuations in the number of incoming students. Enrollment in the graduate program has varied in part because of a dispute with the administration that caused the entering class in 2003 to be unusually small, Deutsch said. Greater numbers of students make it possible to schedule more graduate courses, such as a class on pedagogy that the department will be offering again next year after a hiatus. ‘You want to have a critical mass of graduate students,” Deutsch said. The department is also working to foster community among its students by promoting seminars instead of individualized tutorials. In the future, impending retirements and a need to expand the faculty will mean more hires. Deutsch emphasized the importance of faculty recruitment to the department’s future, explaining that a lack in numbers can restrict its ability to offer coherent course sequences and grant leaves to professors who have earned time away. Right now a search for a colonial Latin

Americanist is underway, but to hire more faculty the department will need permission from administrators who are facing serious budget constraints. “There are a bunch of potential searches in the works,” Deutsch said. “We don’t know if we’ll get authorized or not.” George McLendon, the new dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, has said he will honor prior agreements with departments, known as memoranda of understanding, about future hires, but that implementation may take longer than planned. For the history department, that means it may take years to build from its current number of 35 faculty to its desired strength of 38 to 40. Before Deutsch accepted the job, “they said at least two searches in the forthcoming year,” she said. “Now they’re saying one search a year.” Amid all these changes, the new chair is sure to play an important role. ‘When a department experiences a significant number of retirements and also changes in the composition of the faculty,” French said, “one of the things that’s really important is to have strong leadership—and new strong leadership—on board.” People in the department seem satisfied with Deutsch and the energy she brings. “She is really confident,” said Alisa Harrison, a fourth-year graduate student. “I like that she’s come in with a really clear idea of how she wants to do things.”

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But 82 percent of black voters polled expressed support for Kerry. The challenger also holds a 14-point lead among voters in the Raleigh-Durham area—one of the most populous regions in the state. With these promising figures and the state’s nearly 46,000 newly registered Democratic voters in mind, the Kerry campaign remains optimisdc about the possibility that its candidate will carry 1 North Carolina. Ashley Turton, deputy state and communications director for the Kerry campaign in

North Carolina, pointed out that a Zogby International poll conducted Oct. 18 showed Kerry down by only 4 percent in the Tar Heel state. She also noted, however, that the campaign does not rely heavily on poll results when evaluating the senator’s prospects because poll numbers can be misleading. For example, recent news reports have pointed out that telephone pollsters do not contact respondents via cellular phone. According to the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics, 5 percent of U.S. households only use cell phones, which eliminates them from poll lists. In addition, poll numbers may not translate

YOGA from page 1 recreation. In addition, some form of yoga class is available either on East or West Campus daily. Winokur decided to test out one of these walk-in yoga classes during his freshman year. Although he was a tri-varsity athlete in high school, he opted out of organized sports when he arrived at Duke. He still runs and lifts weights on a regular basis, but he looked to yoga for some variation to his physical regimen. “Yoga makes more sense than some traditional exercise, like weightlifting,” Winokur said. “In yoga, you can work on strength, flexibility and cardiovascular endurance

simultaneously.”

Senior Maureen Clair also started practicing yoga through a group fitness class. She has now incorporated ashtanga yoga, which focuses on breathing throughout a series of poses, into her regular schedule. “I do yoga for spiritual development,” Clair said. “The bonus is that it strengthens muscle and improves posture. But yoga is not for appearance. It gives me a quiet space to breathe.” Joanna Spector, a yoga instructor with the physical education department, stresses both the quiet space and breathing quite literally. Her class begins with participants lying still on the floor and concentrating on deep breathing. “It’s not about perfection. It’s about inner peace. Be in the present,” she urges gently throughout the class.

into actual ballots cast Nov. 2 Cognizant of such discrepancies, Turton said the campaign’s main focus in the days before the election is on voter outreach, not tracking polls. “We are moving forward as if we plan to win North Carolina on Tuesday, and we feel that we will,” she said. Despite the Kerry campaign’s efforts, professor of political science John Aldrich said he does not foresee “any realistic scenario in which Kerry would win North Carolina” based on the state’s voting history and current poll numbers. “The range will probably be 5 to 10 points in outcome, but it’s not going to get

Spector also tests the physical limitations of her students at times. In a class filled with varsity athletes, very few could match Spector in holding a push-up position only one inch from the floor or in balancing in a spiderlike pose. Yet, at the end of the session, Spector always returns to deep breathing, leading the class in the affirming recitation, “I am happy.” While the spiritual benefits are what draw many individuals to yoga, they are also responsible for keeping some away. Junior GloriaLee said she is intrigued by yoga but at the same time apprehensive about it. “I feel that it would be disrespectful for me to participate in yoga since I would be doing it only out of practice and not understanding,” she said. “I’m uncomfortable with making something ritualistic that shouldn’t be.” As a Christian, fully involving herself in true yoga would conflict with her personal faith, she said. She ventured that she was more likely to try a practice like pilates, which was designed purely for physical benefits, as away to build strength and flexibility. Still, yoga has proven to be a practice that draws a diverse following, though classes at Duke tend to be disproportionately comprised of women. “Sometimes it is intimidating to participate in yoga classes because the ratio is about 70 percent women to 30 percent men,” Winokur said. “On the plus side, guys can definitely meet girls. On the downside, some guys are worried about what their friends or strangers might think. But that mentality is just something that guys have to overcome themselves.”

down to a nail-biter,” Aldrich said. The Bush campaign could not be reached for comment. On a larger scale, the most recent nationwide polls also show Bush leading Kerry by a slight margin. A Washington Post tracking poll conducted between Oct. 19 and 20 placed Bush ahead of Kerry among likely and registered voters by 50 to 46 percent. Similarly, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted from Oct. 22 to 24 indicated that the president leads his challenger 51 to 46 percent among likely voters. Among registered voters, however, Bush bests Kerry by only 2 points.

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by giving a speech accusing settlers of suffering from a “messianic complex” and telling Palestinians that Israel

In response, Bush claims that safety concerns keep him from approving the re-importation of drugs from Canada. Taylor, however, disagrees with Bush’s position. “The ban on reimportation is one of the silliest issues in the campaign,” Taylor said. “It’s ridiculous to say there’s a patient safety issue.” He noted, though, that if a lot of Americans did purchase prescription drugs from Canada, prices could go up. Or, as Conover said, if drug companies are forced to accept lower prices, they will cut back on research and development of new drugs. Another issue hotly debated between the presidential candidates has been the issue of medical liability reform. Bush claims that defensive medicine, which is the extra costs associated with doctors’ protecting themselves from liability, annually costs the federal government $2B billion and society $6O to $lOO billion. On the other side, Kerry claims that medical liability has only a negligible affect on medical costs, raising them by only 1 percent.

has no desire to rule over them. The victory appeared to signal a final break between the settlers and Sharon, who spent most of his career championing their cause. Thousands of Jewish settlers demonstrated outside the Knesset, or Parliament, in a boisterous show of force Tuesday, denouncing Sharon as a traitor. “I came here to tell the people of Israel that this is our land and my home,” said David Pinipnta, 31, of the Gaza settlement of Neve Dekalim. “No power on earth can move me from it.” Sharon entered the parliament building surrounded by an unprecedented 16 bodyguards—reflecting security officials’ fears of an attack by right-wing extremists who believe the prime minister is forsaking God’s will by giving up parts of the biblical Land ofIsrael. Posters outside the Knesset declared that “Sharon has disengaged from reality” and “the evacuation of settlements is a victory for terror.” The parliament vote took place on the anniversary of two events that embodied the Jewish state’s history of bloodshed and yearning: the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin nine years ago on the Jewish calendar and the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, signed Oct. 26, 1994. Notably absent from Israel’s debate on withdrawing from Palestinian territories are the Palestinians themselves, whom Israel accuses of being unreliable negotiating partners. Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat said Israel should not be making unilateral decisions about the Palestinians’ future. “Now the seriousness of the Israeli government will depend on resuming negotiations with the Palestinian Authority,” he said. Tuesday’s vote came as speculation mounted that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, confined to his West Bank headquarters for the past two years, may be seriously ill. Arafat has a large gallstone that is not life threatening, a Palestinian hospital official told The Associated Press. But the 75-year-old leader broke his Ramadan fast and underwent medical tests Tuesday, and Israeli officials have speculated he is suffering from stomach cancer. Late Tuesday, Sharon fired Uzi Landau, a Cabinet minister who voted against him, and a senior official said the prime minister in the coming days will dismiss other ministers who opposed him. The referendum initiative got another boost Tuesday night when the National Religious Party, a key part of Sharon’s coalition, announced that it will quit within two weeks unless the parliament vote is accompanied by a pledge to hold such a vote.

Working with Spiritual Teachers A Talk by Professor David Need 7.30pm-9pm, Wed, October 27

Breedlove Room floor Perkins (2nd Library next in

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Professor Need will speak on the benefits and problems of selecting and interacting with spiritual teachers. Biography: Professor Need is an Adjunct Professor in the Religion Department at Duke. He was a long time practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in religious studies; his scholarly research focused on Southeast Asian and Tibetan forms of Buddhism. His teaching interests include Asian religions, film, culture and literature. Visit www.duke.edu/web/meditation for more info on Buddhist Community at Duke.

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Kerry’s running mate John Edwards is a trial lawyer who has defended individuals in medical liability cases. Although both candidates claim to support medical liability reform, the fierce debate may be more political than economic. Taylor said the medical liability issue is “mostly an ideological thing,” and when it comes to rising health care costs, “malpractice reform is not a panacea.” Whether either candidate offers anything close to a panacea is up for debate, experts say. Conover said he believes the most important problem with health care is the distortions created by third-party payments of health care costs. He said Bush has more promise when it comes to addressing this issue, although he does not believe Bush has articulated himself in public very well on this problem. Kerry’s plan, if enacted, would cover more people, but Conover said he questions whether the government can afford it. Meanwhile, Taylor said Bush’s plan is more modest and inexpensive, but it would do less for decreasing the uninsured rate. The future of each candidate’s plan ultimately depends on just whom the American people elect this Nov. 2.

OOMMOKITY SERVICE WEEK 2004 Civic Engagement Keeping the City in Citizenship Sunday, October 24 Saturday, October 30 -

Tuesday, October 26 7-9 pm (WEL Media Room): Garret Keizer, author of Help The il Human Dil mma. will from service. be on hand to discuss his book and host a Q&A the audience on Co-sponsored by Duke Chapel Pathways and LEAPS. -

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Thursday, October 28 12:30-1:30 pm (Multicultural Center, BC): Brown bag lunch with President Brodhead 5-7 pm: East Campus Halloween Carnival hosted by the CSC First-Year Representatives for children in the community. Email frnt3@duke for more information. 6-7:30 pm (McClendon Tower): Roundtable Discussion on issues in community service with guests including Teddie Brown (Public Policy) and Claudia Horowitz, founder of Stonecircles

11 pm-2 am: “Dance for the Kids!” at Parizades. Campus-wide party, all proceeds go to benefit Project Share, a program which sponsors families during the holiday season. Email nealO@duke.edu for more details.

Friday, October 29 12-1 pm (Old Trinity Room); Lunch discussion on service with Dr. Brenda Armstrong, Dean of the Medical School and founder of the Durham Striders Track Team 4 pm: Boys and Girls Club Service Excursion. Email kad2l@duke.edu for details

Saturday, October 30 8:45 am-4 pm (Bryan Center): North Carolina Campus Compact Conference. Visit csc.studentaffairs.duke.edu to sign up for this day-long conference on service and civic engagement with college students from across the region!

Look for our table on the BC and in the Marketplace all week to get information on service issues and opportunities to get involved.

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BRIEFS from page 3 al times per week at Duke while working for NIEHS. Frush named DUHS patient safety officer Duke University Health System named Karen Frush, chief medical director for children’s services at Duke University Hospital, as its chief patient safety officer. As the first chief patient safety officer for DUHS, Frush will be responsible for developing a comprehensive patient safety program across all components of the health system and will provide leadership in strategic planning, analysis, development, implementation and measurement of patient care quality and safety initiatives. The chief patient safety officer will work closely with leaders at Duke University Hospital, Durham Regional Hospital, Duke Health Raleigh Hospital, the Private Diagnostic Clinic, Duke University Affiliated Physi-

cians and Duke Health Community Care. Frush begins her new responsibilities immediately and will report direcdy to Dzau. Frush’s plans as chief patient safety officer include the development of a Patient Safety Center at Duke to further the clinical understanding of the science of safety. The center will support educational initiatives, clinical research and outreach opportunities related to safety. Three new members appointed to board of advisors Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center’s NationalBoard of Advisors has selected three new members; Earle Finley of Raleigh, Richard Lake of Pinehurst, N.C., and S. Scott Edwards of Rogers, Ark. The new members begin their terms Oct. 22. The primary purpose of the Board of Advisors is to oversee and promote activities intended to secure philanthropic support for Duke Children’s, including philanthropy development, advocacy and

CAMPAIGNS from page 4 Bush made a direct pitch

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“If you believe America should lead with strength and purpose and confidence and resolve, I’d be honored to have your support and I’m asking for your vote,” he said. In a gesture of moderation aimed at the same voters, Bush told ABC-TV he supported civil unions for homosexual couples “if that’s what a state chooses to do.” The remark upset some conservatives who not only want to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage, as does Bush, but also would bar state approval of gay civil unions. Campaign pitches varied from deadly serious to almost silly. A radio ad reminded Wisconsin voters that

outreach and strategic planning in development and marketing. Finley, a Baltimore native, is a graduate of Western Maryland College. After working in the construction equipment business in sales and management for 10 years, he founded Finley Realty and later Evergreen Properties. He now serves as a member of the board of directors for the A.E. Finley Foundation in Raleigh. Lake, a graduate of Marshall University, recently retired from his position as chief executive officer of National Welders Supply Company. He has been a long-time supporter of Duke Children’s Hospital. Edwards is a regional vice president with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., where he started as an hourly associate in receiving 18 years ago. Petes named MGM chair Thomas Petes, a professor in the department of biology and a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Kerry got the name of their beloved Green Bay Packers’ football stadium wrong. Kerry recruited rocker Bruce Springsteen to play it his rallies. In Wisconsin and a dozen or so other competitive states, mailboxes were being flooded with campaign leaflet—most of them negative. A Republican National Committee mailing features a picture of Jane Fonda and Michael Moore, two anti-war liberals supporting Kerry, and the headline, “John Kerry’s heart and soul of America?” In Ohio, voters received a mailing with a picture of a soldier in camouflage uniform with the caption, “Supporting him in Iraq shouldn’t mean shortchanging working families in America Voters in New Mexico began getting recorded messages by telephone from an abortion-rights group, telling them Bush “has devoted four years to disman”

at the University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill, has been named the new

chair of the molecular genetics and microbiology department for DUMC, Duke officials announced Thursday. Pending approval by the provost, president and board of trustees, Petes will begin his duties at Duke this month and expects to have his laboratory up and running by 2005. Petes specializes in the study of yeast as a model for understanding genomic instability and chromosomal aberrations commonly found in cancer cells, which has yielded new insight into genetic defects underlying cancer. “New technology has opened the door to questions in genetics that couldn’t be asked just a few years ago,” Petes' said. “As a result, we are on the cusp of discoveries that promise to establish a whole new set of scientific principles. It is my goal for Duke to play a central role in that discovery process.”

ding a woman’s right to choose.” In Pennsylvania, the state released figures that show the Democratic Party registered 108,000 more new voters there than the GOP since the April primary, good news for Kerry

if they actually cast ballots. Both campaigns braced for a long Election Night—or longer —with many legal fights. A federal judge in Miami ruled against Democrats in saying Florida election officials will not be required to process incomplete voter registration forms. First lady Laura Bush abrupdy scheduled a solo trip to Florida, underscoring the hard-fought battle being waged in that state. Former President Clinton, campaigning for Kerry a second straight day, told Jewish voters in Florida that Kerry’s commitment to the security of Israel “would be unshakable.

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optimism Diehard Duke basketball fans may be concerned that their beloved team has been picked as low as fifth in preseason ACC polls. Rest assured, Blue Devil faithful, there is little reason to worry about the 2004-05 men’s basketball team. This year’s squad will be the most experienced and efficient group head coach Mike Krzyzewski has had since the 2001-02 team attempted to repeat as national champions. The surprisingly low expectations reflect the level of competition in the ACC instead of a decline in Duke basketball. With its highly competitive schedule, Duke may drop a few more games in the regular season than it is used to, but this is not a regular season team. The Blue Devils are engineered for the NCAA Tournament, as this sleek group has more experience in big games than any other team in the nation. If one looks at the patterns in Krzyzewski’s career since his Final Four run in 1986, one observes two things. From 1986 to 1994, Duke largely exhibited solid regular seasons and then dominant tournament runs. The Blue Devils were in the Final Four seven times in those nine years, winning two titles. But in Krzyzewski’s post-back surgery career, a pattern of dominant regular seasons mixed with slightly less blessed tournament runs emerges. Duke’s regular season resume has persuaded the NCAA selection committee to seed Duke No. 1 in its region for six of the last seven years. But in that period, the Blue Devils have won only one National Championship and competed in three Final Fours, which is no small accomplishment by any measure. This recent run, however, did not bring the same postseason success as the period from 1986 to 1994, when Duke had slightly less regular season prowess. I believe this team will be a throwback to Krzyzewski’s first group of great teams. Duke will be a very good team this year because every player on the team has improved his game. I think at least three players will especially surprise the conference and the nation with their improved games. Sean Dockery—Krzyzewski called “Dock” the best teammate on the squad several times last year. Coach K said that because Dockery does whatever is best for his team, never letting his ego get in the way of a team goal. Last year Dockery played behind the Blue Devils’ clear leader, Chris Duhon. Dockery accepted his role as a scrappy backup and helped the Blue Devils with his quick defensive •

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Duke freshman DeMarcus Nelson will out 2 to 4 weeks after rupturing a thumb ligament during Saturday’s Blue-White Scrimmage. The guard underwent surgery on his right hand Tuesday and will likely return in time for the Blue Devils’ season opener Nov. 20 against Tennessee-Martin. “Injuries are part of the game and if there is a bright side, it is that it happened early in the season and the expected recovery time is relatively short,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a statement Tuesday. “We have the best medical personnel working with DeMarcus and we’re very optimistic about a quick return.” Nelson scored five points on 2-for-8 shooting and pulled down two rebounds in 29 minutes Saturday. Although Nelson has only had a week and a halfofformal practice under his belt, he has been on campus since July training with members of the team. After Saturday’s contest, Nelson said he already had a strong understanding of Duke’s sets and how his teammates play but was working on “learning all the Duke principles as far as offensively and defensively and being more precise with every movement on the court.” A top-30 recruit, Nelson was a McDonald’s All-American in high school. The 6-foot-3, 195 pound guard holds the California state high school record with 3,462 career points. be

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DeMarcus Nelson injured ligaments in his right hand during the Blue-WhiteScrimmage Saturday night.

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Shannon Rowbury always thought of herself as a track runner. And Shannon Rowbury’s race was the mile. Not anymore. Head coach Kevin Jermyn told the All-American track star she could also be a quick-footed harrier, and after refocusing her training, Rowbury has in fact run into the cross country elite. “I realized that cross country was something I could be good at even if I was a middle-distance type runner,” the Junior said. During the off-season Rowbury, armed with new confidence and resolve, made huge strides, dropping times and dashing past competitors. After routinely hitting the tape behind several teammates a year ago, Rowbury now paces the Blue Devils. Rowbury’s Top-100 fin-

ishes in 2003 have become podium performances this season, including firstplace times at the San Diego State Aztec Invitational and at the Great American Cross Country Festival. The two-time ACC Performer of the Week has given the Duke program, which has been on the verge of breaking into the nation’s elite for the past few seasons, the lift it needed to become a national championship contender. Ranked 20th in the preseason poll, Duke now sits at the top of the ACC rankings and holds the No. 5 spot in the nation as the team prepares for the ACC Championships this weekend. Rowbury says most of her newfound success stems from herrenewed focus on training, driven by an increased level of talent and camaraderie on this year’s SEE ROWBURY ON PAGE 12

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ST. LOUIS Get ready, Boston. There’s no other outcome now. The Red Sox will either win the World Series or add another historic collapse to their legend. They’ll either reverse The Curse and end 86 years of futility' or they’ll fall apart, just as they did the BOSTON 4_ jast four times they got this close. ST. LOUIS Pedro Martinez made his long-awaited Series debut a special one, bailed out when Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz did as much damage with their arms as bats. Backed by the surprising show of defense, Boston cruised past St. Louis 4-1 Tuesday night for a 3-0 lead and left a crowd that loves its Cardinals booing the home team. “It is big, but we learned our lesson against the Yankees,” Ramirez said. Until this October, it was considered almost impossible for any baseball team to recover from such a deficit in the postseason. No one had ever done it—that is, until the Red Sox bounced back to stun New York in the AL championship series. ROBERT GALBRAITH/REUTERS “We’re not going to relax that much,” Martinez said. “I don’t think our team’s Pedro Martinez, who gaveup no runs and earnedthe victory, points to sky at theend of the seventh inning. going to relax as much as the Yankees were.” And now, after being only three outs Wednesday night, with Jason Marquis startWhile Red Sox fans gathered around the Boston dugout and chanted “One away from getting swept last week, Boston ing Game 4 for St. Louis. is on the verge of sweeping the club that “It’s something you’ve got to notice. It’s more win! One more win!” a sign curiously led the majors in wins this year and claimpossible,” Cardinals manager Tony La was posted on a side scoreboard at Busch Russa said. “Hard not to get discouraged. Stadium: ‘Thanks for a great 2004 season.” ing the ultimate prize. Derek Lowe will try to finish it off They didn’t.” Pitching a day after his 33rd birthday,

Martinez threw seven innings of shutout ball, holding the limp Cardinals to three hits and retiring his last 14 batters. “He has a history of being pretty good,” Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. Ramirez put Martinez ahead with a firstinning homer and the three-time Cy Young winner held it, helped by superb defense and shaky baserunning. Added up, the Red Sox set a team record with their seventh straight postseason win, bettering the streak of six capped off by Babe Ruth’s win in the 1916 Series. That Martinez won was hardly amazing. That Boston’s defense contributed was

downright shocking.

The Red Sox made eight errors and still won the first two games. This time, they were flawless in the field—and maybe even better than that. Ramirez threw out Larry Walker at the plate from left field to end the first inning. The lumbering Ortiz, in the lineup because Boston did not have the DH

slot, alertly caught losing pitcher Jeff Suppan later. Combined with a couple of more twoout runs, the Red Sox were home free.

Ramirez was the MVP of the first

inning, by far. After getting some pine tar from the top of his gooey batting helmet, he hit a solo home run with two outs into the loge level

in left field. Ramirez was familiar with

Suppan, going 7-for-18 with three homers against his former teammate. But Ramirez’s arm did even more damage to St. Louis in the bottom half.

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hands and fast-break skills, Some worried that Docker}' would not be able to run Duke’s offense effectively because he rarely took the reins from Duhon and did not demonstrate much leadership. But Docker)’ is the type of player that will fit any role he is given. When he needs to follow, he will follow. When he needs to lead, he will lead. In Saturday’s Blue-White game, Dockery led the Duke offense with ease while also showing an improved jump shot, a skill he developed with the help of sharp-shooting assistant Chris Collins. After the next two seasons, I believe Dockery’s name will naturally appear on the list of great point guards under Krzyzewski. Daniel Ewing—Something happens to some players their senior years in college. Often one will observe a player who had a solid first three years break out for a giant senior season. Chris Carrawell comes to mind as an example from Duke. Ewing has the potential to pull this feat off as well. The senior captain has shown signs of brilliance in his first three years at Duke, winning the 2003 ACC Tournament Most Outstanding Player award. With his shy demeanor, something seems to always hold Ewing back from taking over games. He often deferred to his elder teammates, allowing them to control the game. This year, however, Ewing is the only senior expected to get major playing time. With his role as elder statesman and his combination of skills and athleticism, 1 expect Ewing to be considered for firstteam all-conference. Shavlik Randolph—”Shav Diesel” has yet to have the opportunity to show how great a player he can be. He played his entire freshman season with a major hip injury and did not fully recover from corrective surgery until the 2003-04 season began. With his increased bulk and improved skills from working alongside Duke big-man coach Steve Wojciechowski, Randolph should finally be able to show off his array of skills that are rarely seen in

“Knowing that we had such an awesome team really motivated me to train hard,” Rowbury said. ‘You want to run well because you know your teammates are depending on you, and if your teammates are your friends, it means that much more.” Jermyn shared the sentiment that intra-squad competition has pushed Rowbury to new levels, but he also offered an alternate explanation. “I think the biggest difference between last year and this year is that she’s a year older,” Jermyn said. As a junior, Rowbury, who continues to compete in track and ran the 1,500-meter at the 2003 NCAA Championships, only has another year and a half to run at Duke. Talent-wise she has always had the potential to run on the trail like she does on the track, Jermyn said, but in the off-season she decided she wanted to go after a more diverse set of goals. “I used to bury myself in the beginning and lose all concept of place and where I was and what I was doing,” she said. The extra training gave Rowbury a vital confidence boost on the course. Now, with an increased aerobic base, she knows that she can keep up with the race leaders. But becoming a team and national front-runner also has its challenges. “When you start doing so well, you start to put so much pressure on yourself,” Rowbury said. Heading into the ACC Championships this weekend, pressure will definitely be a factor, but Rowbury will rely on the strength of the team and her coaches to keep the situation from becoming overwhelming. “Our 10th Runner could be in the top three on other teams, so I know we have the depth to challenge anyone out there,” Rowbury said. Although the team could be satisfied with Rowbury’s growth this season, her coach is most excited about potential for team.

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Daniel Ewing goes up for a layup during the team'sintra-squad scrimmage Saturday. a 6-foot-ll player. Catapulted into the starting lineup due to Luol Deng’s departure, Randolph has the opportunity to show why he was rated the No. 1 high school junior in 2001. JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams should also have strong years, which is a surprise to no one. Redick will be the best shooter in the country again and will compete to lead Duke in scoring for the second year in a row. Williams could become a first-team All-American this season, as most big men of his size and talent have already left for the professional ranks. Freshmen David McClure and DeMarcus Nelson will give Krzyzewski quality minutes this season, as some

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2000, after a highly-contested race, Gov. Mike Easley entered offree only to find himselffaced with one of the worst financial crises in

Ballantine and Easley have very similar positions on social policies. North Carolina’s history. Since then, Neither support extending marriage benefits to same-sex Easley has worked, in StaffetlltOrial accordance with couples, and both are opposed to private state law, to balance school vouchers and cutting Medicare the budget, an effort that required provider rates. Both candidates also cutting funding and raising taxes. Both legislators and constituents disapprove of a proposal for a moratohave criticized Easley for raising rium on the death penalty. Neither Ballantine nor Easley is taxes—breaking a campaign promthe ideal candidate for governor. ise—and his seemingly un-even budget cuts. Easley, who considers educaEasley is often characterized as tion one of his main priorities, being aloof and as being a weak defends his financial decisions and leader. He also has developed a repusays he was unwilling to take money tation as relying heavily on his inneraway from education funding. In his circle and not listening to outside opinions. first term, Easley has remained dediBallantine has few concrete plans cated to education. He created a preand seems to lack strong leadership kindergarten program aimed at disadvantaged children, and he remains skills. Between the two candidates, a proponent of establishing a state lottery to fund education. Easley’s experience and ardent support of education, make him the betDespite making strides in education, however, Easley has overseen a ter choice. The Chronicle’s support for Easley is with reservations, howevrise in unemployment, and Republicans believe this is evidence of er, as the governor has shown weakEasley’s poor economic leadership. nesses in his first term. Easley’s work in office has benefitEasley, who has had to deal with outsourcing of jobs, cites substantial job ed the urbanized areas of the state. It seems, though, that Easley does not creation in recent months as evidence that the economy is improving. think about the state as a whole when The Republican challenger, making policy decisions. He must rePatrick Ballantine, has served in the member that the governor serves the State Senate for 10 years, but he lacks entire state, not only Raleigh and the Easley’s experience. Ballantine wants Triangle. If elected for a second term, to streamline the government, reEasley should consider the broader duce bureaucracy and cut taxes by implications of his position. He $1.2 billion. Ballantine’s plans on should remain committed to education, push for a lottery and continue how to accomplish these goals, however, are not clearly spelled out. Bal- to bolster the state’s economy. lantine is also against a state lottery, The Chronicle endorses Mike which could provide much-needed Easley for governor. ,

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Based on past campus responses, it seems know we are all tired of talking about sexual assault on Duke’s campus. We all that after a sexual assault is reported, stuknow the statistics by heart: one in four dents will talk about it for a week or two. The women and one in 10 men will be sexually asgirls will become scared to walk around camsaulted in their lifetimes. These numbers pus at night or shower in the bathroom if the don’t mean much anymore. We’ve heard hall seems quiet. The Chronicle will publish them so often that we’ve almost become articles about the incident and our adminisnumb to the reality behind such grim numtration might even make an official remark. bers; we keep on thinking “that won’t happen But after all this, life will go back to normal. to me.” Despite all the dialogue and activities We will pretend that such offenses don’t actuto promote sexual assault ally exist. After all, who really wants to face such realities? prevention and awareness, As students, I think it is time our campus has sadly rewe changed the way we dealt mained very much unwith sexual assault. We should changed. So what can we do demand that our university imabout this? to make plement programs so that both order people In students and faculty can discare about an issue or event, f ee l that sexua l they have to be directly af- anilG kdthdrillG WdIGS cuss assault is an issue. Yes, sexual fected by it. They may begetting high on life assault is a touchy subject and lieve something such as is something that our universiracism or the Palestine Solinot wish to draw attention to because but does ty Movement conference is darity wrong, unless the issue touches them personally, they there isn’t a clear cut solution to this probare unlikely to become vocal about it. Using lem. But, our university shouldn’t be intimithe above reasoning, people are truly condated by this. Rather we should draw on our cerned with sexual assault prevention only resources (faculty, administration, alumni) to after they or a friend has been a victim; only think of a creative, effective way to alleviate after they have seen the pain and suffering in the issue. If this means implementing some the eyes of their friend are they angry enough sort of sexual assault prevention talk during to do something about it. Unfortunately, this freshman orientation week, so be it. If we are truly interested in changing the is almost too late. While reading the accounts of sexual as- world, as many of us claim to be, we must first sault in “Saturday Night” I can feel the anger start by changing our community. As Duke and hurt of the authors leaping off the pages, students we should take full advantage of the These women wrote courageously in the resources around us. We have professors hopes that no one else would have to experi- dedicated to implementing social change ence their pain. It takes guts to share your and fighting for human rights and we have student groups passionate about their ideals. most intimate experience with the world, While lam deeply bothered that these indi- Working with these groups we can engage the viduals were physically assaulted, it scares me campus about sexual assault, an issue that for even more that they no longer feel they can too long has been thrown under the table, Yes, changing the attitudefltpwafds pexual trust other people. Trusting other people is assault on campus will be hard, but it isn’t such a fundamental part oflife: relationships, jobs, and families all depend on trust, impossible. Something desperately needs Through trusting a friend, their lives were de- to be done stroyed. When this trust is broken, the person is broken too Anne Katharine Wales is a Trinity junior.

lettertotheeditor Anti-Israel activism is not anti-Semitism I want to make something very clear. There is a real difference between anti-Israel activism and anti-Semitism. Although I strongly disagree with the Palestinian Solidarity Movement’s platform—especially the conference’s support for the right of return and refusal to condemn the murder of innocent civilians—l never witnessed any anti-Semitic acts nor heard any anti-Semitic rhetoric from and of the conference’s organizers on campus. Philip Kurian, on the other hand, included centuries old Jewish stereotypes in his highly anti-Semitic column ‘The Jews.” His references to the “Holocaust Enterprise,” “shocking overrepresentation” and “wellfunded Jewish establishment” are not knocks against the state of Israel but anti-Jewish conspiracy theories that have plagued Jewish people across the globe for years. It is hardly surprising—and must be pointed out again—that not a single Jewish group

on campus objected to President Richard Brodhead’s decision to hold the PSM at Duke. Yet understandably so, Jewish groups and students on campus have objected to Kurian’s detrimental propaganda and DavidDuke-like hate speech. Brodhead, Chronicle columnists, and student activists must stop conflating the two issues and constantly referencing the PSM when addressing Kurian’s column. In order for any productive dialogue to occur on this campus—something that I along with many other student leaders are currently working on—it is absolutely essential for activists, writers and the greater Duke community to make this extremely important distinction once and for all.

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A global conspiracy Only

fools deny that a powerful establishment with exorbitant privilege controls Duke University, the United States and the world. Agents of this entity are shockingly overrepresented wherever life maybe found, influencing all actions, policies, ideas and beliefs. Four billionagenarian elders—Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine and Guanine—lead it, and they have successfully infiltrated all organisms. By consorting in dark nuclei, they make genes, which in turn make human beings so that they may reproduce themselves. Some members of our community, however, remain ignorant of their true oppressors. Or perhaps they are simply bad spellers. After all, both ‘JEW” and “DNA” have three letters. But old habits of thought die hard, and—as anyone who’s ever kicked one can attest—beating the addiction becomes far easier if it can be replaced with something else. Why not anti-geneticism? The most important goal of our genes is, matt as biologist E.O. Wilson points out, to be biochemical “with the least possible spread perturbation,” and to do this they make us mortal and prone to having screaming horrors known colloquially as children. And because of this we should hate them. For those of us who are worried about meeting the Giant Owl who set off the big bang (don’t make fun of my religious beliefs, you prick), dying is not good at all—albeit faintly more appealing than the thought of having a toddler. DNA invented mortality and pregnancy to serve its ends, not ours. After a while, it tells our cells to stop dividing and we die. It also produces neurotransmitters that con us into “falling in love” and having sex and enduring the miserable mewling and puking child that ensues. Our genes do many other wicked things, like urging us to devour pie, guzzle Coke and sit around because fat, sugar and not wasting energy were very good things back when we were evolving, but certainly aren’t now. Selective pressures have changed, changed utterly. Now it is a good thing to eat salad, wear condoms and go jogging. Unfortunately, our

neural machinery is not built for any of this, so we don’t and wind up fat, constipated and itchy. Our genes also encourage stupidity. As was amply illustrated last week in a vague column about ‘The Jews” and at the Palestine Solidarity Movement conference when a Duke professor tried to argue for a “moral equivalence” between Israel and apartheid South Africa, humans have a predisposition to jump to false conclusions, recognize phony patterns, make fallacious analogies and just plain think sloppily. Natural selection, sadly, does not select for truth. It operates on one principle alone—reproductive success. In short, if you are good at surviving and reproducing, it doesn’t matter what you believe, and that’s the way your genes want it. One can easily see how this tendency bodes ill for critical thinking skills in the population when, overwhelmingly, the religiously inclined have the most children. By now you should be able to see the ungillum mistakable, helical silhouette of the real veritas global conspiracy; The gangs of nucleic acids that use us as carriers and copiers. If you are going to be prejudiced, it makes more sense to be virulently anti-genetic than anti-Semitic. Genes, not Jews, oppress you. In fact, there is much to admire about Jewish culture, and we would do well to copy the hard work and valorization of education that, when coupled with high intelligence, allows Jews to enjoy “shocking overrepresentation” in prestigious universities. Blaming the children of Moses, Maimonides and Mendelssohn for defending their values and for succeeding in America is wrong and it misses the mark. In the end, a single molecule enslaves us all. But together we can find ways to thwart its plots and make our lives better by inventing synthetic donuts, virtual reality kingdoms and rationality medication for Chronicle columnists. For the Edisons among us, these will be the projects of the 21st century. Matt Gillum is a Trinity senior.

The shady, the sexy and the squirrel-y

the past I have used my column to write about sex and to ad in The Nuticle last year. The ad not only displayed a lack of also write about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and I have Republican faculty but also starkly demonstrated the absence of Squirrelicans. received criticism for doing so. For a group that outnumbers any other organization on Is it so impossible for the Duke community to believe that a woman who is sexually active can be politically active as well? campus, die squirrels feel politically disempowered and sexually frustrated. According to the infamous Nuticle, the dating I would like to preempt this column by imploring that my articles on the big “S” word—SEX—should not discredit those I rituals of squirrels are comparable to that of Joe-Fratemity’s write addressing Middle Eastern politics and civil rights at rendition of the “White Man’s Overbite” at Parizade, explainDuke. Instead, the column below should. ing why both groups have had to resort to their nuts in the to past months of sexual frustration. It has been brought my attention in reThe squirrels have listed a series ofactions to cent weeks that I am a Joke on this campus. be taken in the event that the above-mentioned In lieu of this somewhat disturbing revelademands are not met: tion, I have decided that writing about poliDivestment from Duke; increase in the use tics and SEX are what make me a joke. This ofcruise nussiles (also known as Smart Nuts) to column, I hope, will restore my dignity, pride be launched from trees down on to unsuspectand legitimacy as a crime-fighting, completeing civilians; a breach of the 1951 Squirrel-Duke of all truths. ly objective, reporter Accords encompassing the bilateral matrix reTltere is something disturbing happenshadee malaklou quirements; As well as a strategic military coup ing on our campus right now. It is more imthan the Palestine Moveagainst the DUPD. Solidarity portant viva la vulva You see, the squirrels have had long-standment conference, Students Against Terror, ing qualms with the DUPD. Their concerns inPhilip Kurian’s column and the controvervolve campus security. Joe-Fratemity has been passing out on sial wall separating Palestine Durham from Israel Duke I have decided to prove myself to the students of Duke by their lawn and polluting it with beer; and no one seems to writing about yet another “S” word. I dedicate this column to care. Also, the sorostitute has caused considerable damage since the introduction of the fashionable stiletto, popularized a group on campus that is perhaps more hated than I am. by an inane article published in The Nuticle’s counterpart, Fm a little brown. The Chronicle. It is important to note that no squirrels died They’re a little furry. when the sorostitute wore pearls. to on tables of balls. I like shake my ass in hopes The recent holdups of squirrels around Nuts Diner have They like to shake the trees in hopes of nuts. also been the subject of recent squirrel debate. These They are hounded by the cats. holdups have caused considerable mental and economic I am hounded by the sorostitute felines. harm to the squirrel community. The DUPD’s lacking refrom the Homeland in Department, Squirrel Security Just sponse to these holdups has also further enraged these norDuke’s somewhat underground and above-the-canopy publimally-all-too-compliant furry friends of Duke. They too only cation, The Nuticle, has reported that Duke’s infamous squirwish to exist in peace. rels are planning a conspiracy against us, the students. To address these topics and other pertinent issues squirrels The squirrels have such poignant grievances as the barricading of their homeland, which we have co-opted as our face nationwide at college campuses, the much-controversial Squirrel Solidarity Movement (SSM) has chosen Duke has the quad. As part of their conspiracy, the squirrels have demanded the following: Space in the sorostitute’s Longchamps bag host of its next conference. The SSM hopes to draw attention for some quality R&R, Joe-Fratemity’s nuts as rations for the to the plight of the squirrels by addressing the apartheid beharsh winter ahead, and the eradication ofcampus kitties who tween college students, squirrels and cats. The conference is still under consideration by Duke President Dick Brodhead. want to “Pussy Control” them. The campus squirrels are also erred by the bias in faculty Shades Malaklou is a Trinity sophomore. hiring at Duke, as displayed by the Duke Conservative Union’s

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so I’m not really going to talk about either topic. Instead, I am going to talk about my adventures in body sculpting, otherwise known as liposuction. In fact, I specifically chose this headline because I figured if there would be one sentence that would deter any avid Chronicle reader, then this would be it. So, why would I not want you to read the following? Well, I admit it, last week I went in for “body sculpting” consultation. Phillip Kurian, although I believe not be an anti-Semite, uses controversial if not provocative arguments. Do you see this? I’m actually going to randomly put in comments to throwoff those quick skimmers Kurian The Jews PSM. Why was Iso embarrassed? It’s funny how titles can at times determine how we experience things, such as the aforementioned headline. Am I fat? No. Am I overweight? Nope. Did I let my friend talk me into going with him? Clearly. Since when did the sensibility of good old-fashionedcalisthenics and moderate eating become muted by my own

body-dysmorphia? Probably around

the time I realized I could say “F— this Sas I inhale a bucket of Popeye’s fried chicken and Pepsi, set fire to my treadCharles gomez mill and ultimately the ministry of sound quell my own sense of self-illusion. No pain all gain, except for recovery time from the operation to fix something that really only I see is there, but beyond that, I convinced myself, at least for the consultation, that it was true. Nonetheless, the mere prospect of liposuction lured me in like a siren. As I waited for the Barbie-esque doctor, I wondered if all of our problems, ranging from economic to political to social, could all be solved if we just went in and sucked it all out in one swift session with a vacuum and a long metalrod. Could all of our ills and frustrations, especially the numerous ones that have plagued our world be easily solved? Forgo arduous due process and bureaucracy just go deep and under to suck all of our worries out. Either way, through hard-work or a quick solution, you end up at the same point. Although I attempted not to get too lost in imagery as I glanced over pictures of 40-year-old hairy men in bikini Speedos modeling as their new “satisfied customers” persona in the clinic’s catalogue, I realized that if this were possible, then we as a society must therefore be suffering from our own sense of body-dysmorphia. More often than not, humanity consistendy blurs the line between that which is efficient and that which is a hap-hazard quick-solution. In either case, there is always a price and in the end, all of society must pay. In all fairness, it’s within our nature to attempt to simplify things we cannot understand to a more efficient format. It is in our very nature to oversimplify, until the truth is no more than just stretch marks and flabby skin. Unfortunately, yet again, we also do not know our limits. Such is the nature of stereotypes and ignorance as being the precursors to some of our most unspeakable lipo-jobs. This paradigm of thought has pervaded in social stigmas from racism and ignorance to the most despicable ofhuman atrocities. Now before, my name now joins a long line of Chronicle columnists appearing on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings for, in my case, equating liposuction to genocide, I only put forth this column as a mere observation. A very dumb one, at that? Maybe, but that’s up to you to decide. All I’m saying is that when all is said and done, and you spend two months recovering from the suck-u-vac, all that will remain will be loose flabby skin, stretch marks and scars that will never heal and a fat ass. As a result, my friend and I left the doctor’s office jaded, reflecting on our own interpretations of this experience over a bucket of Popeye’s fried chicken, minus the Popeye’s fried chicken PSM Kurian The Jews. Charles Gomez is a Pratt senior.

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Thursday, Oct 28 Rwandan Genocide Survivor: Forgiveness and Reconciliation Rev. Celestin Musekura 7:30-9:oopm Love Auditorium [Additional seating in Teer 203]

Friday, Oct. 29 The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life Dr. Os Guinness

7:30-9:oopm Love Auditorium [Additional seating in leer 203]

Saturday, Oct 30 Heaven in a Nightclub: The Spiritual Roots of Jazz Dr. William Edgar

7;30-9;oopm Baldwin Auditorium

In addition t0... Workshops on the relationship between Christianity and *Academia *Politics *Professional Ethics *Science *Dating

By notable speakers such as *Dr. Peter Feaver *Dr. Tom Nechyba *Pastor Allan Poole *Father Edward Rommen All events free and open to public See online schedule for more details:

www. veritas. orglduke

Software Training free for the Duke community W#

provided by OIT-ATS

this week*s workshops: Wednesday, Oct 27 Old them 016 6:3opm-8:30

Flash 1

The first (and currently only) session in Macromedia Flash teaches the basics of the program's typology and animation methods. Topics covered include symbols, buttons, instances, basic tweening, and saving for the web.

Typography

Thursday; Oct 28 Perkins 119 6:3opm-8:00

We look at how to type a manuscript so as to keep your editor happy, some quick steps to making text look more professional, and some tips to make formatting long documents go smoother (such as style sheets). To sign up or for more

information, please visit:

httD://www.oit.duke.edu/ats/trainin£