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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 66

Duke trudges to 2nd at NCAAs

Duke yields no Rhodes Scholars Paul Crowley THE CHRONICLE

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For the first time since 1992, no Duke students or alumni were awarded Rhodes Scholarships this year. The prestigious scholarship, which allows college graduates from across the world to study at the University of Oxford for two or three years, is granted to 32 American students annually.

Although the University did not claim any Rhodes Scholars when the winners were announced Sunday, nine students were interviewed by their states’ Rhodes committees.

Seven Duke seniors and alumni have been awarded the scholarship in the past three years, but Professor of History Peter Wood said this year’s drop-off is not emblematic of any larger trend.

“I don’t think it’s indicative of anything at all,” said Wood, who chairs the University’s Rhodes Advisory Committee. “[The scholarship] is extremely rarefied, to the point of being impossible. If there were 200 of them, I’d expect Duke would have several every year. But with 32, this is... the way it goes.”

The Rhodes application process begins in the fall, when interested students notify the University of their plans. The Duke committee thenwrites a letter of endorsement and helps each student prepare for interviews.

Candidates are selected and then interviewed—either in North Carolina or their home states —by the state committee. The committee sends several students to the final, regional round. At this level, each region selects four Rhodes Scholars. “It’s a very decentralized process,” Wood said.

Candidates interviewed by their states faced a committee comprised of Rhodes Scholars from that state who conducted lengthy discussions with each student.

‘They examined our graduate proposals and really attempted to get at peoples’ motives for applying,” said senior Anthony Vitarelli, who interviewed in his home state of New Jersey. “It was the most equitable and professional interview process I’ve ever dealt with.”

Senior Philip Kurian, who applied in South Carolina, was surprised by the variety of the Scholars that interviewed him. “There were some people who were really stuffy, and some who were real straight shooters,” said Kurian, who is also a columnist for The Chronicle. “It’s kind of a weird experience.... There’s an element ofluck and flipping a coin to it.”

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In the dwindling days before the holidays, as most students salivate over the promise of Thanksgiving delicacies and pine for familial comforts, George Rogosa lays down a bountiful feast for friends Feline friends, that is.

‘Tis the season, after all, of nondiscriminatory sharing.

But for some, the presence of the free-loading, freeranging feral cat population on campus has become a nuisance. With the ever-fickle challenge of population control and without an exact tally of all resident cats, concerns over what to do next are widespread For Rogosa, the cats that roam Main West Campus are more peaceable than pesky. The adjunct professor of physics assumed feeding responsibilities by accident.

‘There was a lady in the math department who put food out for them daily.

One day, I made the mistake of asking her what happened on the weekends,” he said. Rogosa, who often works on Saturdays, offered to help out on weekends when she was unable to. When the

woman left Duke, her legacy was left for Rogosa to uphold; he’s been at it ever since. The three “regulars” at the Physics Building even have names: Bubba, a stout black-and-white male, a molded tortoiseshell named Poopsie and a red tabby called Orange.

“I can afford to buy cat food, so I do, and I come in every day,” he said.

“They like to eat Chefs Blend.”

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Meaghan Leon heard the voice of head coach Kevin Jermyn screaming through the crowd at the NCAA Cross Country Championships as she spotted the finish line.

Four Blue Devils had already crossed the line, and Jermyn thought Leon’s kick would make the difference between second and third place for Duke.

“I got to about 200 meters left and heard my coach yelling, ‘You have to pass 20 people,’ and I just tried to finish strong,” Leon said.

The senior sprinted by 20 people over the final meters to lock up a second-place finish for the Blue Devils on a course described as “a quagmire of mud.” The Duke women’s cross country team completed its best season in school history by finishing runner-up at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., Monday.

At the halfway point, the Blue Devils were in third place behind the eventual champion Colorado and defending champion Stanford. Powering through thick mud left by evening and morning rain showers, the Duke harriers showed their strength by surging ahead in the second half of the race. Norm Ogilvie, director of SEE NCAAS ON PAGE 10

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Initiative, however, sees major problems with what Karen Fadely, a sec-

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student in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, calls the “cat situation.” DUGI’s members, mostly graduate students, are looking to get a cat-control program off the ground in attempt to protect other campus critters.

“Cats are known as being very good hunters,” Fadely said. “It is a topic we are interested in since they kill many more songbirds and other wildlife than people like to admit. Our concern is that they’re being fed, but there isn’t anything being SEE CATS ON PAGE 6

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Junior Sally Meyerhoff crossed the tape first for Duke and led the team to its best-ever NCAA finish.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq’s interim prime minister said Monday he is confident only a small number of people will boycott the Jan. 30 elections despite anger among many Sunni Muslims over the Fallujah offensive and a deadly U.S.-Iraqi raid on a Baghdad mosque.

‘The forces of darkness and terrorism will not benefit from this democratic experience and will fight it,” Ayad Allawi told The Associated Press. “But we are determined that this experiment succeeds.”

Allawi spoke as violence raged in the capital and other cides, and the U.S. Embassy said a bomb was discovered Monday on a commercial flight inside Iraq. Gunmen in the north assassinated a prominent election opponent, and five decapitated bodies were discovered south of the capital.

Despite the violence, the Iraqi government Sunday set Jan. 30 as the date for parliamentary elections, the first since the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. Officials said the balloting would be held even in areas still plagued by insurgency and despite calls by militant

Sunni clerics for a boycott.

But Allawi, a secular Shiite hand-picked by the Americans last June, said he believed that only “a very small minority” would abstain during the election “for one reason or another.”

“Their reason will be political, and not sectarian, and they will not be more than 5, 6 or 7 percent,” Allawi said in his office in the U.S.-guarded Green Zone. “They are the eventual losers.”

Allawi is expected to run for a seat in SEE

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Thousands protest election runoff in Kiev by

Natasha Lisova

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KIEV, Ukraine Tens of thousands of demonstrators jammed downtown Kiev in freezing temperatures Monday night, denouncing Ukraine’s presidential runoff election as fraudulent and chanting the name of their reformist candidate who authorities said was trailing in the vote count.

Viktor Yushchenko stood beaming on a platform with campaign aides and flashed a “V” for victory sign—even though the Central Election Commission said earlier that with nearly all the votes counted, he was losing to Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

“Yushchenko—our president!” chanted the crowd, many of whom waved orange scarves—his campaign color in Independence Square. Others had set up a tent camp along central Khreshchatyk Street, and organizers were inundated with piles of winter clothes donatedfor protesters expected to arrive from other cities.

The election commission’s announcement galvanized widespread dismay and anger among the former Soviet republic’s 48 million people. The capital’s city council and several other municipal governments rejected the official results and a major chocolate factory closed plants in protest.

Russian PresidentVladimir Putin sent a

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him on the result, Russian news agencies reported, but a group of international observers described Sunday’s balloting as severely flawed.

Observers with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said there were extensive indications of vote fraud, including people apparently voting multiple times and voters being forced to turn over absentee ballots to

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Iran said Monday it has frozen uranium enrichment programs, weakening a U.S. effort to refer Tehran's suspect nuclear activities to the U.N. President George W. Bush said he hoped the statement is true but "there must be verification."

U.S. pledges election support Secretary of State Colin Powell made a new push for Mideast peace Monday, promising Palestinians full American support for elections to replace Yasser Arafat and receiving Israeli assurances of eased travel restrictions and letting Palestinians in east Jerusalem vote by absentee ballot.

Bush praises war on drugs Under a security web of warplanes, battleships and 15,000 troops, President George W. Bush praised Colombia's battle against drugs and Marxist guerrillas Monday and pledged to keep U.S. aid flowing so "this courageous nation can win its war against narcoterrorists,"

Arafat's nephew blames Israel Freshly armed with Yasser Arafat's weighty medical dossier, his nephew pinned blame on Israel for the late Palestinian leader's death and refused Monday to squelch rumors of poisoning. He acknowledged that doctors found no known poisons.

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They say that good things come in small packages, and for petite sophomore Adedayo Adeniran, that couldn’t be more true.

The only female competitor in Campus Council’s “Ultimate Hot Dog Challenge,”

Adeniran defied all expectations Monday night by defeating her 21 larger, more testosterone-infused competitors in only 6:22.

Yesterday’s competition to devour 10 hot dogs in the shortest amount of time looked rough from the start. Standing, sitting, and in one case, shirtless, most of the participants wore expressions of either grim concentration or wide-eyed enthusiasm as they voraciously tore their hot dogs apart.

Taking the early lead was one young man sporting a shirt that read “Let’s GetRaytarded,” although he quickly fell victim to a PETER GEBHARD/THE CHRONICLE common ailment in the world of eating contests—suffice it to say that the complimentaCampus Council sponsored the Ultimate Hot Dog Challengethat took place in the Great Hall Monday and ry “Official Puke Buckets” were a good idea. crowned sophomore Adedayo Adeniran the hot dog-eating champion.

As the minutes passed, crowd favorites like junior Justin Bieber—who before tained a steady yet sure pace Many spectators were supportive of the start of the contest confidently proSenior Katherine Robinson, one of the Adeniran’s victory. “There is an art to eatfessed to have “about a 95 percent event coordinators, said the contestants ing and Dayo has mastered it,” sophomore chance of winning”—and sophomore used various strategies in hopes of becomDietra Brevard said.

Will Moss fell back, while Adeniran main- ing the hot dog-eating champion. “Many The second and third place winners—of the [male contestants] said that they those who were also able to finish all 10 had not eaten anything in 24 hours or that hot dogs in less than 15 minutes—were they’d drank a lot of water all day to exsophomore Matt Wilson and senior Ben pand their stomachs,” she said. “And then Burnham, respectively. our one female contestant came in and “It was insane,” declared junior Brenna said that she’d had a normal day.” In Benson, another event coordinator.

Adeniran’s case, the strategy of no strategy “We’re always looking for an opportunity proved to be the most successful. to bring the campus together for some Despite her small physique, some comevent, and we thought, ‘Why not right bepetitors still suspected Adeniran’s potential fore Thanksgiving, a big glutton fest?”’ early on—even Moss confided that he conThough motivations for entering the sidered her “the dark horse candidate.” The contest were diverse, one remained conenthusiastic cheering ofAdeniran’s friends, stant throughout—food points shortages. unquestionably the loudest group in the “I’m running pretty low on food points but hall, likely provided the driving force behind I am very hungry, so I want to get some her win. To cries of “Da-yo! Da-yo!” she went food before Thanksgiving,” sophomore on to take home the ultimate prize: a twoKevin Ford said. foot trophy, a Pauly Dog T-shirt, 25 Pauly In other cases, the driving force was somewhat different. “My girlfriend’s in Dogs and a large bottle of Pepto-Bismol.

“I feel great and happy,” Adeniran said charge of it, and it seemed like one of those following her triumph. “There were lots of boyfriend things to do,” junior Mark Midbig guys, but I took my time and did my daugh said. “Also, I just want to support thing.” She also noted that winning had Pauly Dogs because it’s an independent vengiven her the confidence to enter more dor who actually provides good service on eating contests in the future.

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Overall crime in North Carolina public schools increased during the 2003-2004 school year, but the number of violent crimes—specifically assault on school personnel, sexual assault not involving rape or sexual offense and robbery without a dangerous weapon—decreased, according to the annual report published Nov. 3 by the Department of Public Instrucdon.

Public schools in Durham have followed the statewide trend.

The total number ofreported incidents throughout North Carolina increased 15 percent to 9,800 acts in 2003-2004, a rate of approximately 7.4 acts per 1,000 students, according to the report. Possession of drugs and weapons other than a firearm represent 75 percent of all North Carolina incidents. Statewide, there was a 17 percent increase in possession of drugs.

In its third straight year of decline in violent acts, Durham faired slightly better SEE SCHOOLS ON PAGE 5

Correction: In a picture caption that accompanied a picture of Battle of the Bands on page 5 of the Nov. 22 Chronicle, the winning band was misidentified The band is called The Pulsar Triyo and is comprised of Duke sophomores Eric Bishop and Pulsar Li and junior Zachary Kilgore.

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crimebriefs Student arrested for cocaine possession Duke University Police Department officers observed junior Paul Musselwhite in the Blue Zone parking lot with a white powder-like substance Nov. 20 at 2:06 p.m.

The substance tested positive for cocaine.

The student was placed under arrest and transported to the Magistrate’s Office. He was charged with felony possession of cocaine and placed under a $2,000 secure bond. His first court appearance was scheduled for Monday Nov. 22. Musselwhite declined to comment.

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from staff and olice re orts possession ofalcohol by a person under 21 Whitford Drive at 6:49 p.m. Nov. 21. The at 11:35 p.m. Nov. 21. Lomax was also isofficer identified Melvin Burnett Hilton, sued a state citation for misdemeanor posJr., and found he had been previously session of marijuana for an incident that found trespassing on the University’s propoccurred Nov. 13. The court date for the erty. Hilton was issued a state citation for second degree trespass. Hilton could not charges was set for Feb. 1.

Although DUPD reports indicate that be reached for comment. drug paraphernalia and several bags of counterfeit marijuana were also found in Tailgater winds up in ER the room, Lomax said the alleged counterDUPD officers responded to a fight-infeit marijuana was instead a “legal herbal progress call from the Blue Zone parking smoke.” Perriman said there were no factulot at 3:27 p.m. Nov. 20. The fighting was al inaccuracies in the police charges. over when officers arrived. They found a Duke student with a bloody face who had been assaulted and injured during the Stranger found trespassing on campus A DUPD officer noticed a suspicious fight. The victim had been hit in the face person looking into vehicles parked on and had a tooth knocked out. The victim

SCHOOLS from page 3 than the state with a 13 percent increase in total crimes.

The most common criminal violation in Durham is drug possession—specifically marijuana and cocaine—which accounts for almost 50 percent of all reported acts and rose 27 percent in the 2003-2004 school year.

Although some school officials find these numbers problematic, others argue there is no reason to worry about the increase in reported crime because these numbers may simply indicate that the reporting process itselfhas improved.

“There has been an increase in better reporting,” said Tina Ingram, director of security for Durham Public Schools, noting that more recorded incidents does not necessarily mean crime itself has become more common.

Eddie Davis, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, said despite increased reporting, the statistics of the DPI report remain ‘Very troublesome” and school safety still needs much improvement.

“We are not quite sure whether this is a reporting issue,” he said. “What we do know is there are way too many incidents of either violence or crime.... We have to allow the

community to understand that our public schools have to be safe, orderly and disciplined if we want to get the maximum amount from the teaching and learning process.”

Davis noted that continued reporting vigilance, however, could have a positive effect on preventing future criminal acts at schools. “The reporting will cause students to realize that they cannot get away with these kinds of things,” he said.

Officials pointed to the importance of continuing to standardize definitions of criminal acts and clarifying which incidents need to be reported so that all schools report incidents in the same way.

Reginald Davis, principal of Glenn Elementary School in Durham, said regulations regarding definitions and the importance of recording all cases have resulted in better reporting. In 2003-2004 Glenn Elementary reported two criminal acts, both possession of a weapon other than a firearm.

Eunice Sanders, principal of Hillside High School which had a rate of approximately 33.6 recorded criminal acts per 1,000 students, the highest in Durham—also said reporting played a large role in the statistics. “We’re just making sure that we’re reporting all the incidents. When it occurs we want to make sure we report it,” she said.

Despite the high numbers of acts reported at Hillside,

was transported to the Duke University Medical Center Emergency Room for treatment. Officers on scene located persons who witnessed the assault. Two suspects, also Duke students, were identified.

Charges are pending further investigation.

Student cited for property damage Junior Michael Kenney was seen and issued a state citation for damage to property after damaging a gate arm at the lower Allen Building parking lot at 8:47 p.m.

Nov. 20. Damage was estimated at $25 and a court date was set for Jan. 14. Kenney could not be reached for comment.

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Sanders said students, parents and teachers alike feel safe.

“Parents understand that their schools are safe,” she said.

“And teachers, as well, are not concerned [about safety].”

Officials are also implementing additional plans to reduce the rate of crimes in Durham schools. Ingram said DPS has stepped up its efforts to search for drugs and weapons by sending sniffing dogs into schools more frequendy, and walk-through metal detectors have been placed in all high schools and middle schools.

Both Reginald Davis and Sanders noted the importance of formal and informal counseling systems in improving crime prevention. The systems help both victims ofcrime and perpetrators to discuss their problems rather than receiving punishment without dialogue.

Reginald Davis noted the necessity of “building relationships between teachers, parents and students so that students feel comfortable at school.”

Eddie Davis emphasized that discussion should not be unique to school grounds. “It needs to be a community effort,” he said. Increased communication between school educators and parents is necessary in developing “strategies that will prevent students from disrespecting and/or disregarding die rules and regulation of our schools,” he added.

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Rhodes rolls, with six students receiving scholarships.

The United States Naval Academy had three, and four other schools had two scholars each. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University each had one.

In previous years, the University’s Angier B. Duke Scholars have produced many Rhodes Scholars—five since 2001. This is the second consecutive class of A.B. Dukes that has not produced a Rhodes Scholar.

Wood congratulated each of the University’s finalists and said the lack of any Rhodes Scholars in the group did not reflect on them.

“Obviously, it’s very good when we get one,” Wood said. “But these things go up and down.”

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CATS from page 1 done to control their population.”

DUGI has yet to solidify any plan of action. But Operation Catnip, a Raleigh-based nonprofit that specializes in spaying and neutering feral cats, has already implemented its program on campus. The “trap-neuter-return” program, or TNR, has succeeded in spaying and neutering hundreds of Durham-area cats, as well as vaccinating them and finding homes for new kittens. Each cat’s left ear is cropped to identify it as sterile.

Catnip representatives initially wrote letters to former President Nan Keohane concerning the issue; Keohane responded enthusiastically. Facilities management agreed to buy traps and set up feeding stations around campus, and for each cat sterilized by Operation Catnip, Duke agreed to make a donation. Trapping feral cats was accordingly included as one of the facilities management supervisor’s duties, according to a 2000 Duke Dialogue press release.

But efforts to coordinate DUGI’s goals with the monthly off-campus Catnip clinics are thus far nonexistent, leaving the issue essentially ungoverned. “I think the problem with us is that we have no idea how to get started,” Fadely said.

Likewise, it remains unclear if current efforts to turn cats over to Operation Catnip are University-wide. Med-

ical center employees like critical care nurse Helen Cook, unaffiliated with facilities management, are involved with Catnip’s TNR efforts and assume most of the responsibility for their sterilization. So far, the three physics cats, five Free Electron Laser Laboratory cats and a group of Chapel cats have been sterilized, along with dozens and dozens of others. But whether or not the entire campus is being included in TNR is indefinite.

Also under scrutiny are the cats themselves. Some students and faculty alike wonder if they truly pose a problem, especially when it comes to threatening wildlife.

“First and foremost, these cats don’t catch or chase anything,” said Donna Roger, staff assistant in the physics department. “God knows the squirrel population on this campus is enormous—l don’t see why there’s a reason to get rid of them. All the ones here [at the Physics Building] been spayed and neutered.”

Meanwhile, Rogosa makes sure that at least a portion of the loosely estimated 100-cat horde is fed. He cited the issue as “controversial” and explained that he did not wish to stir up further contention. “I’m not the authority on the cats,” he said. “I think the administration just doesn’t want to make some big ruling.”

Looking to the future, Rogosa hopes someone new will step up where he may leave off after this coming

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UKRAINE from page 2 changed relationship with the United States.

Echoing criticism by the European Union, the OSCE, Freedom House and others, spokesperson Adam Ereli said the United States was deeply concerned and called on Ukrainian authorities “to act to ensure an outcome that reflects the will of the Ukrainian people.”

The State Department is not calling for new elections and it is not too late to address concerns, but “quick action on the part of the government of Ukraine is required,” Ereli said. Otherwise, he said, “we would consider the results tarnished and would have to consider what responses in the relationship would be appropriate.”

Some demonstrators in Kiev waved large Georgian flags, echoing the mass protests a year ago that drove President Eduard Shevardnadze from office in that former Soviet republic after a fraudulent parliamentary election.

“We will not leave this place until we win,” Yushchenko said. ‘The people’s will cannot be broken.”

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The men's basketball team jumped two spots to No. 9 in the AP Poll. Wake Forest took over the No. 1 spot, and UNC fell to No. 11.

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CHARLOTTE Daniel Ewing stole the ball from Davidson forward Logan Kosmalski at the top of the key with 5:02 left in the game and there was nothing but clear sailing between him and the basket.

With the Wildcats in the middle of a 27-9 run that had DUKE 74 sliced Duke’s 20DAVIDSON 161 point lead to just four over the course of 10 minutes, the senior captain knew what he had to do.

Ewing’s right-handed, breakaway dunk pushed Duke’s margin to 57-51, silenced the raucous Davidson fans and brought the Blue Devil fans back to life. The margin would not drop below six for the rest of the game as Duke pulled away to win 74-61.

‘They had a chance to cut the lead to two or one with a two or three-point play,” Ewing said. ‘The play was there, and I made it. I got the finish and obviously it was a turnaround point in the game. It kind of changed the game around, changed the momentum a little bit. That was a big play for us.”

No. 9 Duke (2-0) received a scare against the Wildcats (1-1) Monday in the Charlotte Coliseum. In front of a crowd of 8,793, the Blue Devils overcame Davidson’s first-half advantage, weathered the Wildcats’ mid-second half tear and put the game away in the end, avoiding the upset.

After Duke opened the second half with a 13-2 run, the Blue Devils setded for outside shots and lost their offensive rhythm. Davidson had a spurt of its own with accurate outside shooting, necessitating Ewing’s late-game heroics.

The Wildcats shot 5-for-8 from threepoint range during their second-half flurry, during which guard Brendan Winters contributed a trio of threes. For the game, Winters scored 24 points on 10-of-17 shooting, including 4-of-7 from behind the arc. Kosmalski contributed nine points during the Wildcats’ second-half run and finished with a career-high 25.

“They play hard and smart—they’re a difficult team to defend,” Duke head

go-to scorer as clock winds down by

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CHARLOTTE With 6:09 remaining in a five-point game, Duke rotated the ball around the perimeter to Shavlik Randolph, who hoisted up a three-pointer from the top of the key. The ball clanged off the rim and Davidson grabbed the rebound.

The shot was representative of the Blue Devils’ offense, which struggled in its execution and was hounded by a stingy Wildcat defense throughout Monday’s 74-61 win. Duke needs to improve its half-court sets so that Randolph—who has only hit nine threepointers in his career—is not taking long shots late in the game.

“Our offensive struggles were primarily due to Davidson’s defense,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. ‘We did not get good shots because of their defense, not because we missed shots. Toward the end of the half, we missed a couple inside, but for most of the first half they played hard and they played really good D.” For the second straight game, the Blue Devils were flat at the start. J.J. Redick missed his first free throw attempt of the season and was just l-for-5 from threepoint range in the first half.

Davidson applied pressure against Redick around the perimeter the entire game and double-teamed center Shelden Williams whenever he caught the ball in the low post, limiting Williams to 15 points.

“I was thrilled with our defense,” Wildcat head coach Bob McKillop said. “I thought we played gutsy, gritty and aggressive defense throughout the game.”

Duke looked unsettled at timeswith the SEE GO-TO SCORER ON PAGE 10

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DeMarcus Nelson and fellow freshman David McClure each played only seven minutes Monday night.

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Revitalized after handily defeating Coastal Carolina 3-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the men’s soccer team (15-5) will travel to Norfolk, Va., where it will take on 12th-seeded Old Dominion (13-5-2) Tuesday.

The Monarchs, who earned a first-round bye, have had more than 10 days to rest and prepare for tonight’s roundof-32 matchup. Most recently, the Monarchs fell to Hofstra in the Colonial Athletic Association finals 1-0, and three players garnered All-Toumament honors.

“Old Dominion hasn’t played in a pretty long time now,” Duke forward Tomek Charowski said after beating Coastal Carolina Friday. “So I think we’ll have the upper hand in terms of being in a rhythm and a f10w.... But there’s no telling how the next game will go.”

The contest will likely be a defensive battle between the

two clubs. Duke demonstrated its ability to pressure the ball against Coastal Carolina, often double-teaming attackers and controlling many loose balls. The Monarchs do not allow many shots to get through to their keeper and, like the Blue Devils, will keep defensive pressure on the opponent’s forwards.

A patient team that executes efficiendy, the Monarchs take advantage of opportunities and put about half of their shots on goal. Led by Kevon Harris and Brian Cvilikas, Old Dominion may not have the individual talent that Duke faced against Coastal Carolina and several ACC teams, but it can still pose a serious threat to the Blue Devils as it did to other ACC teams earlier in the season.

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The Blue Devils beat Coastal Carolina in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament 3-0 at home Friday night

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sportsbriefs Lone men’s harrier lags behind Senior Nick Schneider finished 99th in the NCAA Cross Country Championship Monday after securing an at-large individual bid with a fifth place finish at the Nov. 13 Southeast Regional.

Schneider was the only member of the Duke men’s squad to compete in the 10kilometer race. Head coach Norm Ogilvie said the extremely muddy course conditions hampered the speedy harrier, who also runs the mile for the Duke track team.

“The course was a good two to three minutes slower than usual on account of the mud,” Ogilvie said.

ADs take away bowl chance after brawl Clemson and South Carolina will not accept bowl bids, punishment for players who brawled near the end of Saturday’s game.

South Carolina Athletic Director Mike McGee said Monday that the Gamecocks’ actions on the field were not consistent with the values and ethics of the school.

Clemson Athletics Director Terry Don Phillips said in a statement the decision isn’t fair to the majority of the players.

“But given the circumstances, I believe strongly that it is the right decision so that our university, our student-athletes, supporters and all people that love Clemson know without question what our values are,” Phillips said.

SEC Mike Slive and ACC John D. Swofford both said that their respective conferences support the decision by the universities. (AP)

Duke faces Old Dominion tonight in Norfolk, Va. Both teams have strong defenses, but theBlue Devils may have more firepower around the net.

MEN'S SOCCER from page 7 Virginia 4T Oct. 27. The Cavaliers’ previ-

ous game had been their come-frombehind, overtime victory against the Blue Devils.

Since the middle of the season when Duke lost several conference games, including the loss to Virginia, head coach John Rennie has tinkeredwith his midfield and forwards. Chris Loftus has moved back into the midfield while Charowski, who scored a pair of goals against Coastal Carolina, has replaced him at forward.

“We know enough about Old Dominion and we’ll certainly prepare for them, but we’re mainly focused on ourselves,” Rennie said. ‘They’re a very disciplined and organized team that doesn’t give up many goals.”

Rennie has made small changes to the Duke attack, but the backline of Danny Miller, Tim Jepsdn and Kyle Helton has remained intact throughout the season.

Both teams are defensive-minded—the Blue Devils have allowed only 16 goals to the Monarchs’ 22.

Duke keeper Justin Trowbridge boasts a save percentage of 80, while John

Connelly saves about 70 percent of his shots. And although Old Dominion has shut its opponents out eight times this season, the Blue Devils have done the same in 11 games, most during an eight-game shutout streak to open the season.

Quick attackers near the net, junior Danny Kramer and freshman Spencer Wadsworth lead the team in points.

Michael Videira and Blake Camp anchor the midfield for Duke.

The winner of Tuesday’s matchup will go on to play either fifth-seeded Notre Dame or Ohio State in the third round either Saturday or Sunday.

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NCAAS from page 1 track and field, said Leon’s performance was the boost the Blue Devils needed.

“Our normal five and six runners weren’t running up to par, so we really needed Meaghan to step it up, and she did a wonderful job,” Ogilvie said. “She was kind of the hero of the day.”

The Blue Devils never challenged for the title as Colorado dominated the event, placing three of its runners in the top 10.

The Blue Devils edged out Providence for second, and Notre Dame and Stanford finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Junior Sally Meyerhoff crossed the tape 16th, followed by Shannon Rowbury in 27th. Meyerhoff emerged as the leader of the Duke squad with an individual title at the ACC Championships Oct. 30 after consistently finishing behind Rowbury throughout the season.

After earning the ACC Championship and an NCAA Regional title, the Blue Devils came into the race ranked fifth in the nation. With the recent return of junior Clara Horowitz, however, Duke was poised to earn one of the trophies awarded to the top four teams.

“We were fifth in the nation,” Ogilive said. “So we knew we could compete for a trophy and to do that we had to exceed

expectations.”

Starting the 6-kilometer race at an aggressive pace, the Blue Devils demonstrated they intended to compete with the top teams. Six of the seven Duke competitors began the race inside the top 40 and tried to maintain this position as the com-

petition progressed.

“It was a very muddy endurance race,” Jermyn said. “We did a good job of holding position toward the front.”

Meyerhoff pulled ahead for the Blue Devils in the first several kilometers and finished with a time of 20:50.

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Daniel Ewing is adjusting to the point guard position while maintaining his scoring presence.

M. BASKETBALL from page 7 coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “One of the things that makes their team difficult to defend is that they scored from a lot of spots.... Kosmalski played a man’s game he was the best big man on the court and gave them a presence, and he lifted his team with that.”

After Ewing’s dunk ended the Wildcats’ run, the guard helped the Blue Devils put the game away. On Duke’s next possession, forward Shavlik Randolph was fouled on a put-back attempt and only made the first attempt. Ewing leaped into the air and grabbed the rebound before crashing to the court and passing to guard Sean Dockery.

The ball eventually worked its way back to Ewing, who swished a three-pointer —

The Duke women's cross country team stands with the NCAA runner-up trophy Monday.The team edged out Providence, Notre Dame and Stanford for second place.

“A few of us Duke girls got out towards the front at the beginning,” Meyerhoff said.

“At the second big loop I made my first move to try to stay with the front of the pack and made my second big move with 1,000 meters to go. The last straightaway was a gradual uphill and it was difficult, but I just tried to pass as many people as I could.”

Meyerhoff, Rowbury and Horowitz, who finished 29th, all earned All-American honors for their performances in the championships. Horowitz and Rowbury are All-Americans in track. Natasha

Roetter finished 45th, and Leon surged late to complete the race in 89th.

“I think the field went out too aggressively,” Jermyn said. “If we had started out at a more moderate pace we might have closed the gap on first, but [Colorado] ran so well I don’t think we could have beaten them. I am proud of the girls for keeping up with such a competitive pace on such a difficult course.”

Ogilvie credited Jermyn’s coaching as the factor that moved the Blue Devils, who were unranked at the start of the sea-

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Dockery has struggled with his shot throughout his career, especially from the line, where he connected on only 51.5 per-

ball and although Daniel Ewing led the team with 19 points, he shot just 7-for-19.

One of those was a 35-foot heave from midcourt as the shot clock expired after a poorly executed set.

Luckily for the Blue Devils, Sean Dockery had the best offensive game at Duke, setting a career-high with 15 points.

He drained a clutch three-pointer from each corner in the first half and iced the game by making 7-of-8 free throws in the final two minutes.

“The kid who had a magnificent game for us was Sean Dockery. He gave us great energy,” Krzyzewski said. “We needed that experienced perimeter to play against them and Sean came through, not just in shooting but with three steals and no turnovers.”

cent of his attempts last season. Despite

from the left wing to lift Duke’s lead to 10.

“I’m the captain of the team, and I’m able to do a lot of things for our team,” Ewing said. “If I’m able to make a play—whether it be making a steal, making a bucket, making an extra pass to the guy that’s open—I want to do whatever it takes to win.”

Even with Ewing’s performance, the player Krzyzewski said was most essential to keeping Duke in the game in the early stages was the normally low-scoring Dockery. The junior defensive stopper nailed two three-pointers in the first half as the teams batded back and forth.

Although Duke staked out a 5-2 advantage two minutes into the first half, Davidson led for the next 13:36, with the lead swelling to as many as seven points.

An 11-0 Duke run to close out the half,

the strong performance, his success on the offensive end must be looked at with cautious optimism.

Davidson needs to be applauded for its defensive intensity, but at the same time Duke fans should be concerned that their team lacks a player who Coach K can rely on for production in a close game.

Ewing came through briefly with two crucial scores with five minutes left to

play Monday.

“When it was 55-51 I thought our captain Ewing made two great plays,” Krzyzewski said. “He got the steal and then we called a set for him to shoot the high-ball screen and he knocked down a three. Those five points I thought were the tale of the game.”

son, into the national title picture.

Jermyn earned both ACC Cross Country Coach of the Year and Southeast Regional Coach of the Year accolades.

A second-place finish at the national championship race seems a fitting end for a Duke women’s cross country team that has exceeded expectations all season.

“We were so excited we started screaming and jumping up and down,” Meyerhoff said. ‘We proved that we were in the position where everyone thought we could be.”

Ewing, however, lacked consistency and at times appeared out of control while drivto the basket, which resulted three offensive fouls.

Four Blue Devils scored in double digits but Duke received almost no offensive contribution from Randolph or its two freshmen, DeMarcus Nelson and David McClure, who each played just seven minutes.

Nelson, who is California’s all-time high school career scoring leader, is not even looking for his own shot on the offensive end, and McClure, who is not expected to carry much of the offensive load, missed his only shot.

Despite its struggles, Duke still managed a win against a Wildcat team that Krzyzewski said would have beaten most opponents on this night. But Duke’s most glaring weakness—its lack of a big-time scorer—was revealed.

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which included both of Dockery’s threepatented Duke run,” Kosmalski said. “We pointers, provided the Blue Devils with a were victim to that tonight.” seven-point halftime advantage, 29-22.

NOTES “I’ve been working so hard on it, I might as well shoot it,” said Dockery of his Randolph and Shelden Williams each two long-range shots. “People don’t picked up four fouls, with only one foul respect me. You know, we’ve gotJJ. Redick apiece coming on the defensive end.... and Daniel Ewing on this team, so they’re Dockery’s previous career best effort was going to leave me open. I worked on it all 12 points last season against St. John’s....

Redick attempted his first free throw of day, all night [this summer].”

Dockery’s hot close to the first half the season on Duke’s first possession. earned him a second-half start, and he Though he missed his first attempt, he did

made the most of it. He recorded an assist and a steal as Duke went on another scoring spree, an 11-2 burst that lasted 4:01 and pushed the team’s lead to 20 points.

The lead would not stay that large as the Wildcats were able to chip away most of it before Duke closed the game out.

“That’s what Duke’s known for: the

not miss another for the rest of the game

finishing 5-for-6.... Duke shot 43.1 percent for the game, but just 28.0 percent from three-point range. Davidson made only 38.3 percent ofits shots, but shot 34.8 perfrom long distance.... The Wildcats scored 16 second-chance points, while the Blue Devils only scored eight. cent

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Although the company experienced some complaints early on concerning shipping time and fraud, Marlin described those problems as “outdated.”

‘There was a fulfillment problem early on,” he said. “We’ve had to grow to sustain the volume of users. Fraud is also a big concern —we’ve seen it all. Unfortu-

nately, people try to get a free product without playing the game. We’re very strict about any type of abuse and fraud.”

Martin was quick to add that although shipping time has improved immensely, users should expect to receive the product in no less than a few weeks as “back-orders” and U.S. Customs can delay the overseas shipping process.

Some users of the site, including Duke junior Andrew Todd, had to wait several months after

completing the process before receiving their iPods.

T can’t be frustrated for something that only cost me $14,” said Todd, who placed an ad at a popular news website soliciting help from anyone willing to give the promotion a try. “I knew it was a pyramid scheme going in, but I figured I’d give it a shot.”

Other students, like junior Kosha Tucker, still have not obtained their iPods as they have experienced difficulty finding five

other people to participate in the program. But students’ hesitancy to sign up is understandable, she said. “iPods are pretty expensive, so when you see a ‘get a free iPod’ [on the computer screen] you think it’s a scam,” said Tucker, who signed up for the promotional offer Oct. 31.

Still, some Duke students encourage others to try the promotion. “You have to put in the work,” sophomore Alec Macaulay said. “It’s difficult to see it

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U.S. officials are concerned that a boycott could deprive the new government of legitimacy in the eyes of the Sunni Arabs, who make up an estimated 20 percent of the nearly 26 million population. The majority Shiites, believed to form 60 percent of the population, strongly support elections.

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Allegations by Fallujah residents that U.S. troops defaced mosques and the large-scale devastation of the city have further stoked the anger of Sunnis, who were further enraged Friday when Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops raided Baghdad’s Abu Hanifa mosque, Iraq’s most revered Sunni site.

Witnesses said three' worshippers were shot dead and at least 40 others were detained in the raid. In a gesture to the Sunnis, Allawi has ordered an investigation.

Monday, an Iraqi Red Crescent convoy carried blankets, water and first-aid kits into Fallujah, the first time an independent organization has been able to visit the city since U.S.-led forces invaded two weeks ago.

Allawi was defiant in his defense of the Fallujah operation, describing it as an unqualified success. “We went to Fallujah and we broke their back,” he said. “We found enough weapons there to destroy an entire country.”

He said that because of the success in Fallujah, “those who will try to obstruct democracy and election are finished....

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Sororities offer sisterhood, substance Although most of the Chronicle’s readers know that Shadee Malaklou’s latest invective, “The Red Light,” is merely another disdainful attack without merit, we think it’s important to paint a more accurate picture of sorority life and involvement at Duke. We would like to supply some facts about sororities at Duke, which we hope will shed some light, other than red, on the substance of their being.

Unlike the author of Friday’s column, we are actually members of a sorority. Over the course of our four years at Duke we have enjoyed interacting with other sorority girls in myriad situations. Our experiences therefore are not solely limited to Malaklou’s cited observations at Parizade and Shooters, an inadequate basis on which to make such derogatory conclusions.

However, one of Malaklou’s generalizations does ring true—girls in sororities are a “big deal” around here, maintaining higher than average GPAs, planning philanthropic events, playing on various varsity sports teams and, yes, heading to off-campus bars to have a good time.

Sororities at Duke extend far beyond the

social arena, sponsoring events like Habitat for Humanity, book club discussions and peer tutoring. We know we’re not alone in stating that some of our favorite sorority events are ones in which we watch our sisters star in a University play, attend a trunk show of the jewelry they have personally created or sing in an a capella concert. One of the truly great aspects of sororities is the diversity of girls with whom you become friends and, yes, sisters.

To first year women who may not know that Malaklou’s columns are often full of overgeneralizations and devoid offacts or intellectual honesty, we urge you to get to know sorority girls. A more than cursory effort towards this goal will show that there are both differences between the various sororities and differences within each sorority, as every chapter is filled with girls who are not only accepted but valued for their individuality.

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View of promiscuity hypocritical I find it ironic that Shadee Malaklou is

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She commends girls who “take men home on their own terms” and “lay guys instead of waiting to get laid,” then insults “sorostitutes,” calling them trashy and disgusting. Isn’t that rather judgmental, coming from someone whose entire life philoso-

phy seems to revolve around sex? Is licking whipped cream off another girl to get male attention all that different from dancing on tables in black lace and stilletos... to get male attention?

Promiscuity isn’t synonymous with feminism or self-respect, and while giving up your identity to a sorority certainly won’t make you a strong, independent woman, neither will the “sexually-liberated” lifestyle that Malaklou endorses.

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Shadee Malaklou's Nov. 19 column, "The Red Light," was written to target primarily the actions of one sorority and not the general body of sorority women at Duke.

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The Joost Bosland awards Ladies

and gentlemen, may I present to you the “Support being in the pubpol building, I think of Rosey and why I Duke’s Troops” Joost Bosland Awards (SDTJBA’s). love Duke.”

The jury, consisting of me, myself and I, had an extremeAngie Thornburg’s nomination was the most elaborate ly rough time ploughing through the myriad nominations and descriptive. A financial specialist in OSAF, she handles that flooded my inbox after the column appeared. The stats: financial transactions for some 500 student groups. AccordSeven people bothered to e-mail me. Six of these e-mails ing to the nominating e-mail, “sheTl go the extra mile, make contained nominations. One person nominated two peothe extra phone call.” Her attributes include a “friendly demeanor, a helpful attitude, a quick wit, a soft southern drawl ple, one hero got nominated twice. and a smile on her face.”

Guys, you are pathetic.

All I can do is hope that more people took my advice for A worthy recipient indeed. the jaded and showed appreciation of our Now it’s time for the drum r011... The winner of the top award in this year’s SDTJtroops at a more personal level.

Your unbelievable laziness and apathy BA’s was not only nominated twice, his does make my job a lot easier. With only six nomination was also the only one to innames to work with, I can legitimately give clude outside evidence (in the form of a column space to all of them. And, let’s be discussion on DukePass).

Wallace Burrow—aka The Omelet honest, they deserve every last inch of it.

I have already elaborated on the qualities Guy—is a chef at the Marketplace and is alof Charidy Morris and Cathy Penny. Let me ways up for “a conversation about sports [and] politics.” That he truly cares about now turn to the troops nominated by you. To joost bosland students is evident from one ofhis nominafeign some sort of tension build-up, I will the caterpillar's teachings 3 tions: “He is the nicest guy ever and at my praise five runners-up before announcing the winner of the top 2004 “Support Duke’s miserable 8:30 econ that I have twice a week, he is a warm and welcoming guy to be around.”

Troops” Joost Bosland Award.

Wallace, mad props to you. The SDTJBA’s have, as of yet, Gallic Ayers-Cox, the StaffAssistant to the Director ofOffice for Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, is the first no sponsors. Unfortunately, this means I cannot offer you proud warrior that deserves an SDTJBA. According to her anything tangible. Jim Wulforst, however, could. nomination, “she’s certainly underappreciated in the office, Jim, I directly challenge you to recognize Wallace’s great as the director and assistant director get all of the credit, contribution to the Duke community.

With so few respondents, this years awards are hardly repthough she does a lot of the legwork Her role as a “second mom” to several students, also resentative. Many more excellent service soldiers are out mentioned in the nominating e-mail, deserves an extra there on our campus, waiting for some recognition. Let me round of applause. plead my case one last time: Support Duke’s troops!

In other business: Pasha and his henchmen have manBetsy Wagner and Diann Walker, both Staff Assistants at the Community Affairs Office, are also praiseworthy recipiaged to convince me that DSG might not be beyond repair ents of an SDTJBA. The nomination for Wagner brags that after all. In response to my “Grannies” column, the DSG she ‘just does it,” and her “willingness to explain procedure website has been completely revamped, and it has been kept along with her partner, Diann Walker” qualify both for the up-to-date since. Their bi-weekly e-mail updates are a further step in the right direction. Who said DSG hatin’ on the category exceptional support staff. editorial pages wasn’t productive?

Rosey works the register at the Sanford Deli in the mornThat being said, I bid farewell to my readers for at least a ings. Why does she deserve an award? The following statement really does say it all: semester. I need a break.

“In a long hellish week, the warmth emanating from her cheerful,f^ /^way^i brightens my day, and when I get sick of Joost Bosland is a Trinity junior.

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I’ve finally defined helplessness, and I don’t feel the bettime ago, a column ran about grieving for a loved one’s death and the subsequent enlightenment: Life is ter for it.

I think a lot of people have the same misconceptions beautifully short, so treasure it. This is a wonderfully about death. but it’s one that don’t share.

I optimistic viewpoint, Movies, songs, the mainstream —so many It’s frightening how fast a person can disappear, unthinkingly leaving behind things play into our consciousness, trick us into traces that easily fool others into thinking thinking that there is only one right way to feel that it never happened —unanswered when something like this happens. We have been conditioned into thinking that once you phone messages, a dentist appointment, a novel dog-eared only a chapter in. It’s move on after someone’s death, it means that you didn’t love them that much after all. It even more frightening how the loved ones means that you place more worth on your life I \ must come to terms with a world that conW tinues without a hitch. than the life of that person because you have the ability to function in his or her absence. j. patncia kim People will still get up for work in the But if we proceed with this rationality, any morning, you realize. They will make cof- the }ittfe englne that ran you over fee and pump gas and sit at their desks idea of self-preservation goes out the existential window. You die, so I die, and then we all and not think once about what has hapdie. If we care too much about others, it’s overwhelming. We pened to me For a while after it happened, I walked around campus would become extinct via the disease of sorrow.

Which is why that cannot happen. But if self-preservafeeling vaguely sick. I would watch people as they passed or tion is the key, then a new crop of difficult questions takes as they tanned in the grass, and I would have to keep myself from detonating into a bitter mass of nausea, confuroot. If someone dies and you move on, exactly what hapsion and rage. piness are you entitled to? How many times in a day are How can life be so important when we don’t care or you allowed to not think about what has happened? even know about each individual loss of it? When we walk Should the things that used to make you happy not make around like pod people, a large percentage of our friends you happy anymore?

So many questions. Hopefully you’ll never have to ask composed of people we met when we were drunk, a large percentage of our conversations composed of fleeting them but, more likely than not, something in the course of weekend plans, petty relationship woes and where to meet your life will make you sad. And then you will look for your for dinner? own answers.

This column isn’t meant to trivialize your life or mine.

Wridng this, I find myself thinking about him again. I reThis column isn’t about how to cope with someone’s death. alize that so many things remind me of him —this character This column would be about how to cope with someone in that film, the color and model of his car parked in the very close to you coping with the death of someone very second lot on the right, the way the lampshade throws the close to him or her—except I wouldn’t know where to start, light in a sprawling arc on this ceiling every night. I feel like I’m stalking him in his afterlife, if there is such a thing. or how to talk about it.

I know this column feels like it’s everywhere, that I’m And I sure as hell don’t have any answers.

Mourning is an innate human reaction. People instinctalking about everything important and getting nowhere tively feel the need to mourn, and this need manifests itself special. But, to some extent, I guess that’s what life is after in a variety of ways. But taking part in someone else’s all. That, and not dying until you have to. mourning is like tap-dancing on ice. You’re trying your best, but you know that that will never be enough.

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Realizing these could be my last words, even ifjust

for the semester, I smuggled with what to write about.

I considered going on a tirade about how rude people are. Like the intoxicated freshman who attempted to cut in at the beginning of the walk-up line for the game Saturday. When my roommate politely asked him to return to his group, he responded with a vulgar and inappropriate statement (which cannot be repeated here). This isn’t high school anymore.

Get some class and learn some manners.

I almost wrote about how students either don’t pay attention or consider other people insignificant. For instance, every time I attend CRU meetings, the same people introduce themselves to me.

Number one, the organization is not that big.

Number two, I understand if it’s a mistake once, but when it’s a weekly occurrence, there’s a problem. Number three, I can understand if you forget my name, but how can you forget my face? There’s no one else with it.

I almost chose to write about that inconsiderate

of himself. About that girl who reprimanded me when I made a mistake at Wind Symphony rehearsal. I could have discussed the thin line between selfishjina jang ness and looking out guilty by associasian for oneself, or about ■ow generosity an d altruism might not truly exist. About how you’re hypocritical, I’m hypocritical and how we’re all snobs about something. I wanted to tell you how I understand that the human race isn’t perfect, but it’s astounding as to how rude, how stupid, how insufferable people can be.

But after a semester’s worth of primarily uplifting columns, I cannot reveal my cynical and pessimistic side to you now and leave on a sour note (perhaps next time). So instead, I offer you one piece ofadvice: no matter how difficult people can be, no matter how difficult life is, don’t distance yourself from it all.

I’ve seen students here who only seem to go through the motions. They study subjects because they’re told to. They interact with others in a certain manner because they believe it’s expected of them.

They do certain actions and say certain statements because they think it’s what they should be doing. It almost seems like they’re puppets; they’re instructed on how to live, and these people listen and follow, not caring, not wanting anything for themselves.

They’re so stoic, so detached from everything, you wonder if their hearts are beating at all.

Please, don’t fall into this trap. If you hold yourself back, you won’t discover all that life has to offer.

Without any emotion, you won’t experience the power of genuine friendship, the drive for knowledge or just the enjoyment of being alive.

The key to life is passion. If you don’t have that, what’s the point? You would only be half-living.

There’s nothing wrong with immersing yourself into something, with being emotionally involved. Some people accuse me of being too emotional, of being oversensitive; but at least I care at all, right? Find something—anything—that you’re passionate about and follow through with it. It can be school, people, your faith, a hobby, a place. Whatever, as long as you feel strongly about it.

But it’s not enough to pick something out and say, “Hey, I’m passionate about this.” I once heard a speech given where the speaker compared passion to setting yourself on fire. Not only do others see it, but you can feel it, as well. Look around you.

There’s BA and her pride in Minnesota, CW and her loyalty to Duke basketball, LCH and her love for her family. LAH is always practicing her many instruments; JB can be frequently seen constructing something in his room; KF spends a majority of the week helping out her church. And HV? He’s wanted to make that spaghetti sauce for over a month now.

So find your passion, and light yourself on fire.

Maybe your passion is to light yourself on fire. Either way, find it. Find it, hold on to it and live for it.

JinaJang is a Trinity sophomore.

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