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Student challenges MPAA warning Chancellor hires chief of staff Kelly Rohrs THE CHRONICLE
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When freshman Elliott Wolf opened his e-mail last week and found a forwarded note from the Motion Picture Association of America, he didn’t think much of it. Sure, he had downloaded some television shows, but he didn’t mind that the Office ofInformation Technology was telling him the industry wanted him to stop. He did. But when he opened his e-mail this week to find another note from the MPAA, he wasn’t sure what to think. The warning, which applied to TV shows from weeks earlier, was the same as the first, but this time Wolf was armed with a slew ofresearch. He was willing to quit sharing his files over the Internet because, as he said, “it’s just not worth it.” But the prospect of a legal fight with the MPAA intrigued him. ‘What the MPAA is yelling at me about, at Duke about, is really ambiguous,” Wolf said. Because the MPAA warning is about television shows, which are initially broadcast free of charge, Wolf thinks the industry is on questionable legal ground. He has contacted independent activist groups to help him figure out if the same court rulings that made VCRs legal in the 1980s protect downloading. Ren Bucholz, activism coordinator for the advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the copyright law that governs file sharing cases has not caught up with technology. Whether file sharing
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Pamela Sutton-Wallace, a Duke University Health System employee since 1997, was appointed chiefof staff to the chancellor for health affairs, officials announced Monday. She has held the position since October. Sutton-Wallace’s promotion marks the fourth major
FreshmanElliot Wolf is challenging the MPAA's contention that downloading television shows is illegal. is legal at both individual and large-scale levels depends on interpretation of “fair use” exceptions in copyright laws. “As far as personal file sharing and copying a television show, there isn’t something in the law that gets you off the hook right away,” Bucholz said. “The argument is that they may have been broadcast for free in the first place, but
Federal legislation to reduce Pell Grant aid by
Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE
A bill that passed Congress last week may cut government funding of Pell Grants, the primary source offederal grant aid for undergraduate students, by more than $3OO million. Although Duke students will likely be unaffected by the measure, should President George W. Bush sign it into law, more than 1 million students nationally could be affected by the Republican-backed initiative, and Democrats are fuming. Activists estimate that the changes would effectively lower individual aid by $2OO to $3OO for approximately 1 million students, and an estimated 90,000 others would lose their Pell Grants entirely. “In 1999-2000, costs were preventing even college-qualified students from attending school,” said Brian Fitzgerald, director of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, an independent group that advises Congress on student fi-
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nancial aid legislation. ‘There’s no question that it’s simply getting harder to afford college —the barriers have increased because tuition costs have increased.” The bill will not affect those students whose family income falls below $25,000 but will most drastically affect the university and college students from “moderate income” households—those earning between $30,000 and $45,000, Fitzgerald said. “It won’t affect most [well endowed private institutions],” he added, “because there is zero expected contribution for those earning less than $40,000.” Fitzgerald also explained that for students who would lose Pell Grant funding under the new legislation at most wellfunded private universities, like Duke and Harvard University, the schools would most likely be able to support their students’ changing needs. “State schools and smaller private institutions, however, may SEE
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they may not remain free.” In the absence of a clear legal course, the industry often sends “cease and desist” requests to people they find
trafficking files.
OFT receives about 300 to 400 warnings from the recording and movie industries SEE MPAA ON PAGE
appointment Dr. Victor Dzau has made since he took charge of DUHS July 1; all four administrators have been women. The hiring trend indicates a shift in focus for the Health System, which for years was regarded as an exclusive club of white men within the organization. Dzau said he was conscious of the change and had made an effort to diversify his senior administration. “Its not only the quality of people, but the message you’re giving people in what you are looking for,” Dzau told The Chronicle earlier this month. Previous appointees are: Molly O’Neill
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newsinbrief China forges free trade pact Rising power China moved Monday to expand its influence in a region long dominated by the United States, signing an accord with Southeast Asian nations aimed at creating the world's largest free trade area by 2010—a market of 2 billion people.
Militant group will hold off on violence by
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A local Hamas leader indicated Monday the militant group would not attack Israelis during the Palestinian presidential campaign and would consider a formal truce with Israel in the latest signs of hope for renewed peace efforts in the region. However, just hours after Sheik Hassan Yousef spoke, two Hamas militants were killed while trying to attack an Israeli military outpost in Gaza, and another Hamas official said there was no such truce.
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Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a crucial coalition partner were locked in an angry budget standoff that could bring down the government and delay its planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. There has been a sharp drop in violence since Yasser Arafat’s death Nov. 11, with Palestinian militants cutting down on attacks and the Israeli army scaling back raids before the Jan. 9 election for Arafat’s replacement. “In the current situation, many political and militant groups have halted their at-
tacks. They are waiting and exploring the new era,” said Yousef, the top Hamas leader in the West Bank who recently was released from an Israeli prison after serving 28 months. Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in attacks during the last four years, opposes the existence of the Jewish state. Though Yousef is leader in the West Bank, the top leadership of Hamas, which is based in Lebanon, denied any halt to violence, citing a raid on an Israeli army
U.N. agrees on plan for Iran
The U.N. nuclear agency agreed Monday on a plan for policing Iran's nuclear programs.But Iran's representative immediately raised questions about the wording of the pact, and the United States said it retained the right to take the case to the U.N. Security Council on its own.
Sinn Fein helps Ireland deal Leaders of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party talked with Northern Ireland's police com-
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American soldiers die in insurgent attacks by
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Insurgents stepped up attacks on Iraq’s fledgling security forces, killing seven Iraqi police and guardsmen Monday in a suicide bombing hours after storming a police station north of the capital. The military reported five new U.S. deaths. Thirteen Marines were wounded Monday in a mortar south of Baghdad, the military said. No further details were released. Military offensives in Fallujah and elsewhere have made November the second deadliest month for U.S. troops since the March 2003 invasion, with at least 133 American dead.
Monday’s suicide attack occurred in Baghdadi a Euphrates River town about 120 miles northwest of the capital, where a driver detonated his vehicle near a police checkpoint, police Lt. Mohammed alFehdawi said. A hospital official, Hatim Ahmed, confirmed seven police and Iraqi National Guard members were killed and nine were wounded. Late Sunday, gunmen stormed a police station west of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, looted the armory, commandeered several police cars and fled after encountering no resistance, Iraqi officials said. U.S. troops went to the police station Monday morning and arrested two dozen
mander for the first time ever Monday in pursuit of a new peace agreement between Catholics and Protestants. Leaders of Sinn Fein described their talks as useful and pledged to return later this week.
people, police said. American officials had no comment. U.S. and Iraqi troops recaptured Samarra from insurgents in September, but the city remains tense. Two American soldiers from Task Force Baghdad were killed and three wounded Monday in a roadside bomb explosion in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. command said. One American soldier died and two were injured in a vehicle accident 30 miles northwest of the town of Kut in eastern Iraq, the military said. In addition, two U.S. Marines were killed in a weekend bombing south of the capital, a U.S. official said Monday. U.S.,
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Facing a relentless tide of protests, President Leonid Kuchma said Monday that a new election might be the only way out of a crisis that threatens to break up this former Soviet republic between the pro-Russia east and the Western-leaning rest. News briefs compiled from wire reports "You can never escape,you can only move south down the coast." Counting Crows
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Duke’s undergraduate chemistry department has set up a new committee to evaluate the department’s faculty, curriculum and freshman and sophomore student participation. Chemistry professor Alvin Crumbliss, chair of the new committee, would not comment on any specific areas that might need to be changed but noted that the committee is looking to evaluate the way the department operates.
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in 2002, attempted to shift the focus from the traditional abstract style of teaching chemistry to a more modern, realworld approach, Beratan said. When the department tried a case-based approach a few years ago, many students complained of the program’s poor organization and confusion within the curriculum, which was ultimately abandoned. Students claimed they .had not been informed of the new approach and that while professors were supposed to be working together they had branched off into their own styles. “It was bumpy, reviews were mixed,” said Beratan, who believes this approach has the potential to still be effective. “If we had worked it out for two or three years, it would have become just as popular.” The department is consider-
mg many new initiatives, some of which the committee might be evaluating. One such hope is to better link chemistry with other courses for the freshmansophomore curriculum—such as biology, physics and math—to take a more integrated approach to chemistry. James Bonk, director of undergraduate studies in the chemistry department, believes the problem with this transition to this more integrated approach is that “most people are pressed for time to cover the nuts and bolts of chemistry and there are an ungodly amount of nuts and bolts.” At the same time, the department has emphasized a focus on the core material of chemistry to enable students to pursue various different fields. With a
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Tragedy shook the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill early Monday morning when an apparent murder-suicide on University property claimed the life of a UNC Health Care System employee. Just as University offices were opening their doors for the week, UNC Public Safety and the Chapel Hill Police Department responded to a 7:41 a.m. call reporting a shooting near the James T. Hedrick Building, which houses several of the health care system’s administrative offices. Randy Young, a spokesperson for public safety, said officers found two victims of fatal gunshot wounds at the scene. Young said witnesses told the officers that Shennel McCrimon McKendall, 37, an office support assistant in the Hedrick building’s employment office, was walking through a parking lot to work when her husband, Randy Leveme McKendall, 34, got out of a black Ford pickup truck and confronted her. Randy McK-
endall then reportedly shot his wife with a 9 mm handgun before turning the weapon on himself. Based on conversations with Shennel McKendall’s coworkers and people who lived near the McKendalls’ home at 612 Mitchell’s Chapel Road in Pittsboro, Young said the couple had been “estranged”—a factor police will examine further in their investigation of the event. “We’re continuing to interview witnesses, getting in contact with people near where they lived to find out what their relationship may have been like,” Young said, adding that it could take “days... even up to weeks” to conclude the investigation. Until that time, the names of witnesses will not be released. Lynn Wooten, a spokesperson for the health care system, said the employment offices in the Hedrick building were closed for the day. Counselors, however, remained on-site for employees who wanted to talk—a move Wooten believes helped SEE SHOOTINGS ON PAGE 8
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Tortured by tests, harassed by homework, stressed by social obligations —where does a Duke student turn? Mental Issues and Needs of Duke Students is a new service offered by the Duke Student Health Center, designed to help both undergraduate and graduate students answer this and other questions. Created as part of the Healthy Devils health promotion program, MINDS seeks to help Duke students deal with college-induced stress and depression. Currently, MINDS is comprised of five peer educators and two staff advisors. John Blackshear, clinical director of Counseling and Psychological Services, is the program’s primary adviser. Blackshear is aided by co-advisor Andrea McMillon, a health education specialist.
crimebriefs Woman charged with assault, trespassing Terease Christmas was arrested for simple assault at 8:19 p.m. Nov. 26. Christmas hit her 16-year-old daughter in the face, held her down and had her hands around her daughter’s neck. The assault took place in the DHN lobby and was witnessed by Christmas’ other 18-year-old daughter. Christmas was also charged with trespassing on Duke property. She was placed under a $5OO secured bond with a court date of Jan. 10. Christmas could not be reached for comment. Inebriated student charged with posses-
McMillon said she hopes that through MINDS, students will feel more comfortable voicing their worries about stress. “Everyone experiences mental concerns to some degree,” she noted. “We want students to feel safe talking about them and not ‘crazy.’” The program seeks to “help students cope with difficulties brought on by stress and erase the stigma surrounding mental illness,” said sophomore Colleen Lynch, a MINDS peer educator. Lynch said the program’s goal to eliminate the prejudices associated with mental illness is necessary because of the “high stress environment here at Duke.” Originally conceived in Spring 2004 and organized this semester, MINDS aims to resolve stress-related problems at Duke by launching campus-wide awareness events. Information will be available
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sessions held in dorms across campus and on the Bryan Center walkway. There, students will have the opportunity to obtain brochures and get in contact with mental illness counselors on campus and in Durham. Although MINDS is not targeting any specific group, special emphasis will be placed on freshmen. “A lot of the programs will be geared toward freshmen because they’re still in the transition period and still getting used to college life,” Lynch said. Senior Ruby Lekwauwa noted information for freshmen will focus on issues like leaving home for the first time, not getting enough sleep and being overwhelmed by homework. McMillon said she believes MINDS, as the only student health group that adat
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from staff and olice re oils sion of fake driver’s license At 12:49 a.m. Nov. 24 a DUPD police officer was driving on Alexander Avenue when he observed an intoxicated student staggering and needing assistance from another person to stand. The intoxicated student displayed a fraudulent driver’s license. Sophomore Andrew Kim was charged with possession of a fraudulent identification card. His court date was set for Jan. 7. Kim could not be reached for comment. Students suspected of foul play A small group of students unlawfully discharged a fire extinguisher behind Aycock Dormitory at 1:27 a.m. Nov. 24.
Duke University Police Department are following up on suspect leads. Unknown object shatters window pane At 2:02 p.m. Nov. 24 a student reported an unknown object being thrown at her room window in Wannamaker II Dormitory that shattered the glass pane. Damage to the window pane was estimated at $5O. Suspect charged with trespassing, larceny DUPD received a larceny in progress call at 3:59 p.m. Nov. 26 about someone trying to steal a bicycle from the Blackwell Dormitory bike rack. The suspect was described as a tall black male in a blue cap
and a green jacket. Officers responded to the area and arrested 43-year-old Robert McAdams. McAdams was charged with second degree trespass and misdemeanor larceny. He was placed under a $5OO secured bond with a court date of Jan. 4. McAdams could not be reached for comment.
4 Parked cars damaged, pushed together At 5:04 a.m. Nov. 25 a DUPD Security Officer noticed damage to four vehicles parked in the Edens Drive Parking area of Duke University Road. The vehicles looked like they had been deliberately pushed out SEE CRIME ON PAGE 7
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as chief strategic planning officer, vice president for business development and vice chancellor for Medical Center integrated planning; Dr. Catherine Gilliss as dean of the School of Nursing; and Karen Frush as chief patient safety officer for DUHS. Dzau said in a release that he looks forward to the opportunity to work closely with Sutton-Wallace. “I am thrilled to be working with someone as knowledgeable and capable as Pam,” Dzau said in the statement. “Her education, commitment and working knowledge of the Medical Center and Health System make her the ideal person for the job. Sutton-Wallace will work Dzau and senior Health System administrators in shaping the future of DUHS. According to a Duke University Medical Center news release, she will focus on developing and implementing systemwide projects such as coordinating the various aspects of DUHS, improving technology and pioneering a vision for Duke’s role in global health. Sutton-Wallace said Dzau’s passion for ”
PELL GRANT from page 1 not be able to make up the difference [in
government awarded aid],” he said.
Jim Belvin, Duke director of financial aid, noted that the measure will not affect students at the University. ‘The fact that Duke meets 100 percent of each student’s demonstrated need will serve to protect those students who apply for and receive need-based aid,” Belvin wrote in an e-mail. “If a need-based aid recipient’s Pell Grant is reduced, additional aid will be provided to cover what would otherwise have been provided by the Pell Grant program.”
community and global health care drew her to accept the position overseeing his agenda. “I really felt called to do this work, hoping that I could contribute to Dr. Dzau’s work and represent those who feel like their voices have not been heard,” she said in a statement. At a time when much of the Health System is focusing on improving patient safety and care, Sutton-Wallace’s experience in the area will be an asset. In recent years she led patient safety efforts and program growth within DUMC as assistant operadng officer for Medical/Surgical/Cridcal Care and Digestive Clinical Service Units. She has also served as administrative director of the Adult Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program. Lisa Wright, administrative coordinator of the adult bone marrow transplant center and employee who worked with Sutton-Wallace, noted Sutton-Wallace would make an excellent chief of staff as she is a good role model and supervisor. “I only have good things to say about her,” Wright said. “I knew her when she first started at Duke, and she has excelled since she has been here.”
cohort of students interested in different areas —including medicine, science, policy and environmental graduate studies—the department has implemented courses that are not tailored to one subgroup more than another. One curriculum change that the department has discussed is compressing freshman chemistry to one semester to allow students to take Organic Chemistry in the second semester. With more students entering the department reasonably well prepared, there has been a steady push to decrease the number of classes that come before Organic Chemistry. In looking around the country for ways to improve their curriculum, the department is considering taking up the approach found at the University of Michigan in which the order of subjects is reversed so that Organic Chemistry, which places a smaller emphasis on math, could be taken first for students uncomfortable with the quantitative aspect of General Chemistry.
Another major goal of the departis to intensify student participation, especially in student research and independent study. Beratan hopes to see an increase in the number of students who participate in the senior research experience as well as those who graduate in chemistry with distinction. One way to accomplish this, Beratan said, is to get more undergraduate participation in advanced undergraduate classes and beginning graduate level classes. Although this does not happen very often currently, it could prove especially helpful in the future to those interested in graduate school. The biggest challenge for the department seems to be how it will deal with a largely understaffed faculty. The department currently maintains about seven faculty members fewer than what it would like, Beratan said, limiting its ability to try new things. He also noted that some classes were currently taught by “non-tenure streamed” professors, who are not “research active” and were brought in under various different contracts.
Belvin added that providing funding to students previously receiving aid from the government will add stress to the University’s financial aid budget. “Although there is no way to know at this point, we hope the impact will not be significant,” Belvin said. “Any increase in costs, of course, puts additional pressure on the aid budget. The University is, however, prepared to meet these costs.” Regardless of the costs to individual institutions, some members of Congress are concerned about the potential effects of the changes on students’ ability to afford college. Last year, Congress adopted an amendment proposed by Sen. Jon Corzine, D-
to block the implementation of changes to financial aid eligibility formulas that would have effectively reduced financial aid for students. This new bill, pending the president’s signature, supersedes Corzine’s proposal last year. “We should be expanding opportunities for college in America, not eliminating opportunities for students to seek financial aid,” Corzine said in a Nov. 18 press release. “I don’t know how the Bush Administration can call themselves compassionate when they are throwing students out of the opportunity to seek a college education. It is now clear to me that this was a backdoor attempt to cut funding from the
Pell Grant program.... We need to expand opportunity in this country, not relegate it to only those who can afford it.” Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., maintains that the bill seeks to make the way in which government regulates funding more efficient. He noted, however, that he does not support the changes to the funding formula. ‘The Pell Grant program was supposed to help those who were less fortunate,” he said. ‘The intent of the revision should allow the Department ofEducation to help the young people who need the help, get the help. We need to ensure the integrity of the program.”
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MPAA from page 1 each year, said Chris Cramer, information technology security officer. It then forwards the messages to the people accused to violating copyright law. Whereas most allegations used to come from the Recording Industry Association of America, Cramer said a majority now concern movies and television. In mid-November, the MPAA filed an undisclosed number of lawsuits against multiple individuals who were only identified by their IP addresses, which serve as computer identification codes. Following the same model the RIAA used, the studios said they will identify the individual defendants at a later date. Cramer said none of the IP addresses named in lawsuits have belonged to Duke community members. These lawsuits encountered resistance Nov. 23 when a federal judge in California ruled that individual lawsuits must be filed for each unnamed defendant. Officials from the MPAA did not return repeated phone calls. Most of the lawsuits so far, from both the RIAA and the MPAA, have been filed
CRIME from page 4 of their parking spaces and pushed into each other. Total damage to all four vehicles was estimated at $5,500. Vehicle damaged, gas stolen At 6:18 p.m. Nov. 23 an employee reported damage to her 1989 Ford Probe that was parked in Parking Garage Two, level 1-C. She told police she parked her car Nov. 19 at 12 p.m. and returned Nov. 21 at 12 p.m., at which point she found pry marks on the passenger side window frame and noticed some gas missing from the car’s gas tank. Damage to the car was estimated at $2OO.
Projector, carrying case stolen An employee reported the felonious larceny of a projector with carrying case val-
ued at $5,050 at 9:29 a.m. Nov. 24. The projector was last seem in room 228 of the Social Psychology Building Nov. 16 at 9 a.m. Woman reports vehicle damage, stolenwallet At 1:23 p.m. Nov. 27 an employee re-
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formation, rather than people who download it. OIT includes instructions on its website about how to prevent uploading while using file sharing sites. “Practically speaking, it would be difficult to catch people who have disabled uploading, whether or not you are violating copyright law.” Cramer said. The University has never tracked downloads or person-to-person file transfers and does not disclose the names of alleged violators without a subpoena, Cramer said. “Since these are things that are alleged, there is no real reason to turn over the names of the alleged people,” he said. The policy is one that Wolf, like many other Duke students, is grateful for. In practice, it prevents the MPAA from linking Wolf to his address and becoming an easy target for a lawsuit. So as Wolf attempts to argue for downloading, he is keeping specific details of the MPAA’s accusations, such as what shows he downloaded, quiet. “I guess I’ll go as far as I can without telling them my identity,” he said. “Because if I become the one person who gets identified, then WHEW.”
ported a breaking and entry and larceny of her vehicle that was parked in the gravel lot on Highway 751 near emergency phone number eight. The victim told police she parked her
2002 Jeep Cherokee Nov. 27 at 12:10 p.m. When she returned at 1:23 p.m. she noticed her vehicle’s driver side window broken. Her wallet, which had been left on the driver’s seat and valued at $lOO, was missing as well. The wallet contained $lOO cash and her North Carolina driver’s license and a Wachovia bank card.
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An employee reported larceny of his $5OO Palm Pilot and $2OO Dictaphone at 11:41 a.m. Nov. 26. The items were last seen in his office, room 00570 Duke Clinics White Zone, Nov. 26 at 8:30 a.m.
Construction tool box purloined At 11:05 a.m. Nov. 23 a construction worker reported the larceny of a tool box valued at $l5O. The tool box was last seen Nov. 22 at 7 a.m. at the Bovis Construction site at the Duke Eye Center.
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SHOOTINGS from page 3 make “a positive difference” in the wake of the shootings. “This is a tragic and shocking event to all of those who work out at the Hedrick building,” Wooten said. “Those who were friends of [Shennel McKendall] and knew her well are stunned.” Wooten said the health care system’s administration and public affairs division will continue communicating with employees about the event over the coming days. Wooten also noted that to his understanding, Shennel McKendall had a child and that there have been prelimi-
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IRAQ from page 2 British and Iraqi forces have been sweeping through the area to clear Sunni insurgents from a string of towns and cities between Baghdad and the Shiite shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala. Attacks have increased against U.S., Iraqi and other targets on the road leading from the center of Baghdad to the city’s international airport, located on the western outskirts of the capital. The British Embassy announced Monday that its staffwould no longer be permitted to travel on the airport road, which the U.S. State Department has identified as
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My wishes for a new season It’s finally that time ofyear again All the turkey’s been eaten, college football’s regular season is winding down and shoppers are frantically searching for this season’s newest toys. Yes, it’s Christmas time. And just as importandy for sports fans, it’s the beginning of the college basketball season. Without further ado, here are a few Christmas wishes I have for ACC and Duke basketball during the next year: Often temMore four-year players peramental on the court and in interview rooms, Julius Hodge wasn’t everyone’s favorite. Yet this season he will provide N.C. State with the stability and experience, that only a senior like Hodge, who has starred for the Wolfpack-since his freshman year, could offer. By forgoing NBA riches for a fourth year in Raleigh, Hodge gets another shot at an ACC championship and, more importantly, a degree. In a league as talent-rich as the ACC, some early defections are inevitable. But as athletic as these youngsters are, it’s no fun to watch players take the league by storm and leave after one or two years. They become a liability to the league and the programs that must cope with the instability left by their departure. Here’s to hoping that players like Chris Paul, Shelden Williams, Raymond Felton and Rashad McCants stay in school and give ACC fans four full years of great memories. At least one ACC win for newcomers We all know that the primary purpose of ACC expansion was to bolster the confer•
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JJ. Redick streaks by a Michigan State defender during last season's 72-50 victory in East Lansing, Mich., as part of theannual ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
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This time last year, the men’s basketball team pulled into East Lansing, Mich., its deep roster showcasing a newly modeled lineup led by a veteran point guard with an engine full of steam. Forty minutes and a few thousand jaw drops later, Duke had driven circles around Michigan State and was rolling out of town with a 22-point win. The Blue Devils would not lose for another two months. But as the Spartans stampede into Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight at 9 p.m. for another ride in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, head coach Tom Izzo won’t even think of mentioning last year. Because all of a sudden it’s No. 10 Michigan State (3-0) with the rewed-up returning roster and a player it can actually call a point guard, leaving reversed No. 9 Duke (3-0) on the wrong side ofrevenge. “They’re a real veteran basketball team this year,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They pretty much could’ve played a game after one week of practice because they have the same guys. So they’re probably ahead of us right now, and I don’t think that was the case last year. I think we were probably both on the same course last year.” Both teams are off to quick starts this season after rolling over flimsy foes, but the Spartans’ high-octane, four-guard offense has put up more than 100 points in each of its first three games and could
pose a matchup melee for the Blue Devils. Run-and-gun is the name of the game for Izzo’s seasoned crew, with sophomore Maurice Ager and junior Shannon Brown filling the lanes around resurgent big man junior Paul Davis. Still, Michigan State’s seniors represent the core of the attack. Alan Anderson, at 6foot-6, struggled during last year’s meltdown as a makeshift point guard, committing five of the 20 turnovers forced by Duke. But he has shifted smoothly to become an inside-outside player to complement his now well adjusted classmates. Wingman Kelvin Torbert, one of five returning starters, now comes off the bench and is tied for the team scoring lead at 17.3 point per game. Chris Hill has taken over the bulk of the point guard duties and has an almost 4-to-l assist-toturnover ratio, doing what Izzo called “an incredible job of just letting the game just come to him, almost to a fault—like all these seniors have.” As the Spartans have spread the wealth with 10 players averaging at least 14 minutes per game, the Blue Devils’ depth and offensive inconsistency could frustrate a Duke team that Krzyzewski admits is still trying to figure itself out. Duke is hoisting up an average of 28 three-pointers per contest, and while that strategy did wonders in a 98-44 win over UNC-Greensboro Saturday, the erratic SEE MSU ON PAGE 10
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MSU from page 9 shooting of leading scorers Daniel Ewing (18.3 ppg) andJJ. Redick (18.0 ppg) was the Blue Devils’ downfall as they slipped by Davidson Nov. 22. And when it comes face-toface with a spread-out offense tonight, a Duke defensive unit that has held opponents to an average of 50.3 points on 34 percent shooting may not be as dependable for the untested Blue Devils. “It’s still early, but 1 think we have a lot to learn,” said forward Reggie Love, who added some bench surprise with 10 points on
perfect shooting Saturday. “Defensively, I think we’re doing awesome. I think we’re playing well offensively, too. There are plays that happen on the court turnovers and not finishing at times—but I definitely think we’re doing really well as a team.” —
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players after fight Six Clemson players COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) and six South Carolina players were suspended for one game by their conferences Monday for brawling during a game between the in-state rivals Nov. 20. TheACC and SEC handed down the punishment. “The actions of these suspended student-athletes violate the letter and spirit of the SEC and NCAA rules and regulations of sportsmanlike conduct,” SEC commissioner Mike Slive said. ‘These suspensions are intended to send a clear and unequivocal message to all student-athletes in the Southeastern Conference that this conduct will not be tolerated now or in the future.” Both schools declined bowl invitations last week as punishment for their teams. Clemson’s Duane Coleman, Nathan Bennett, Brandon Cannon, Roman Fry, Maurice Nelson and Anthony Waters were suspended. Four other Clemson players will receive letters of reprimand: Cory Groover, Tommy Sharpe, Nick Watkins and Bobby Williamson. It will be up to the team to decide when the players will serve their suspensions. The Tigers open the season against Texas A&M Sept. 3. There is no justification for the altercations that took place,” Clemson coach Tommy Bowden said.
ence’s football talent. Expansion did just that; Virginia Tech is close to winning the ACC title, and Miami is in the top three. Nonetheless, old ACC schools responded to the challenge with upsets. Clemson and North Carolina each beat Miami, and N.C. State edged out Virginia Tech. Any wins in basketball the Hurricanes and Hokies get against the original nine will be just that; upsets. Miami’s basketball team is as weak as its football program is strong—the Hurricanes’ hoopsters lost to South Carolina State and only barely beat Wofford for their lone win. The Hokies aren’t much better. Though undefeated, Virginia Tech has yet to play an opponent more difficult than William & Mary. Suffice it to say that neither newcomer is near ACC-caliber, especially considering that a record-tying seven ACC teams are ranked in the top 25. Nonetheless, it would be nice to see the newcomers begin to close that gap with upset wins over some of the toast of the ACC. The Hokies, for example, could start Dec. 19 with their ACC opener against North Carolina. Stardom from Shavlik Randolph Okay, maybe I’m getting a little overanxious here. The season’s barely started, and Randolph’s numbers and minutes have improved somewhat. But even in a pair of bloWout wins and a close call against Davidson, Randolph still couldn’t escape foul trouble, and he has failed to hit a majority of his shots in any game. Even more troubling, the Davidson defense handled Randolph easily, which makes me wonder how he will fare against more talented frontcourt players, such as Michigan State’s Paul Davis, Oklahoma’s bruising duo of Taj Gray and Kevin Bookout, or the athletic big men of Virginia, Maryland or North Carolina. Randolph isn’t a bad player. His strength and conditioning have paid off in the form of more assertive rebounding, and his turnover totals are down from last season. But three games into his junior year, Randolph is a far cry from the player who broke Pete Maravich’s high school single-game scoring mark. Greg Paulus in a Duke uniform Paulus did not sign a basketball letter of intent for the Blue Devils in November, fueling rumors that the two-sport star may opt to play either football only or both sports at a school other than Duke. I’m optimistic he’ll be on campus next fall—after all, his parents have reiterated that he is still committed to Duke, and it doesn’t appear that head coach Mike Krzyzewski has made any major moves in point guard recruiting. But Paulus and power forward Josh Mcßoberts could form a one-two punch reminiscent of former Blue Devil greats Bobby Hurley and Christian Laettner. Besides, if Paulus ever gets the gridiron itch at Duke, the football team did just get a new practice field.... •
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Republicans Outnumbered In Academia, Studstrangers in the room are liberals. It is a reasonable assumption, given that in ies Find New York Times, Nov. 18 order to enter the profession, your work must WASHINGTON Oh, well, if studies say be deemed, by the criteria of the prevailing so. The great secret is out: liberals dominate culture, “relevant.” Bauerlein says various accampuses. Coming soon: “Moon Implicated ademic fields now have regnant premises that embed political orientations in their very defin Tides, Studies Find.” One study of 1,000 professors finds that initions of scholarship: “Schools of education, for instance, take Democrats outnumber Republicans at least constructivist theories of learning as definitive, seven to one in the humanities and social sciexcluding realists (in matters ences. That imbalance, more of than double what it was three knowledge) on principle, qeorqe y y while the quasi-Marxist outdecades ago, is intensifying guest commentary look of cultural studies rules because younger professors out those who espouse capitalare more uniformly liberal. ism. If you disapprove ofaffirmative action, forthan the older cohort that is retiring. Another study, of voter registrations get pursuing a degree in African-American studies. If you think that the nuclear family records, including those of professors in engineering and the hard sciences, found nine proves the best unit of social well-being, stay Democrats for every Republican at Berkeley away from women’s studies.” and Stanford. Among younger professors, This gives rise to what Bauerlein calls the “false consensus effect,” which occurs when, there were 183 Democrats, six Republicans. But we essentially knew this even before due to institutional provincialism, “people The American Enterprise magazine reported think that the collective opinion of their own in 2002 of examinations of voting records in group matches that of the larger population.” various college communides. Some findings There also is what Cass Sunstein, professor of about professors registered with the two political science and jurisprudence at the major parties or with liberal or conservative University of Chicago, calls “the law of group minor parties: polarization.” Bauerlein explains: “When like-minded people deliberate as an organCornell: 166 liberals, 6 conservatives. ized group, the general opinion shifts toward Stanford: 151 liberals, 17 conservatives. Colorado: 116 liberals, 5 conservatives. extreme versions of their common beliefs.” UCLA; 141 liberals, 9 conservatives. They become tone-deafto the way they sound The nonpartisan Center for Responsive to others outside their closed circle of belief. When John Kennedy brought to WashingPolitics reports that in 2004, of the top five ton such academics as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., institutions in terms of employee per capita contributions to presidential candidates, John Kenneth Galbraith, McGeorge and William Bundy and Walt Rostow, it was said the third, fourth and fifth were Time Warner, Goldman Sachs and Microsoft. The top that the Charles River was flowing into the two were the University of California system Potomac. Actually, Richard Nixon’s adminisand Harvard, both of which gave about 19 tration had an even more distinguished acatimes more money to John Kerry than to demic cast—Henry Kissinger, Pat Moynihan, Arthur Bums, James Schlesinger and others. George W. Bush. Academics, such as the next secretary of But George Lakofif, a linguistics professor at Berkeley, denies that academic institutions state, still decorate Washington, but acadeare biased against conservatives. The disparimia is less listened to than it was. It has marginalized itself, partly by political shrillness ty in hiring, he explains, occurs because conservatives are not as interested as liberals in and silliness that have something to do with academic careers. Why does he think liberals the parochialism produced by what George Orwell called “smelly little orthodoxies.” are like that? “Unlike conservatives, they believe in working for the public good and soMany campuses are intellectual versions of cial justice.” That clears that up. one-party nations—except such nations usuA filtering process, from graduate school ally have the merit, such as it is, of candor admissions through tenure decisions, tends about their ideological monopolies. In conto exclude conservatives from what Mark trast, American campuses have more insisBauerlein calls academia’s “sheltered habitently proclaimed their commitment to divertat.” In a dazzling essay in The Chronicle of sity as they have become more intellectually Higher Education, Bauerlein, professor of monochrome. They do indeed cultivate diversity—in English at Emory University and director of research at the National Endowment for the race, skin color, ethnicity, sexual preference. In everything but thought. Arts, notes that the “first protocol” of academic society is the “common assumption”— George Will is a syndicated columnist. that, at professional gatherings, all the
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are lots of problems on earth today that we just ing movies pronto. It’s important for the morale of the can’t seem to figure out solutions for (like the flu or movie going American public. Keanu, if you’re reading the rubiks cube). Our politicians, leaders and Sally this (because I know how you like to read college newspaStruthers all give us possible solutions, but for some reaper columns) for the love of pete, stop making movies. son these problems just don’t go away. So as we go into We need robots. A lot of robots. 4. Unemployment exam time and winter break, I decided to address some of In fact, one for every human. (Like in that new movie the most detrimental situations that currently plague our with Will Smith but without all the robots revolting). little spherical garden of Eden and attempted to provide That way, the robot can do every single human’s job, and some fun hands-on solutions for our media-crazed Amerinone of us will have jobs at all. But you won’t NEED jobs. See, if we’re all equally unemployed, then can minds. Amerno one will complain about not having a 1. International Human Rights ica is pretty lucky. Most people here are crejob. You don’t have to pay robots (other ated equal, and if you’re not, you can probthen some electricity) and they’re usually ably sue someone in order to be pretty tame. We could name every robot compensated. But other countries just don’t funny names and even color them. It have these rights and privileges. Take equalwould be fun! 5. Terrorism Put a hologram of ity for women, or labor rights, for example We send jobs overseas to people who pay Dubya all over the world in the hotspots riemer yoni their workers 50 cents and don’t buy the of terror. That way, all the suicide don't read me bombers will see their chance to attack, fluffy toilet paper for the company bathrooms. Those conditions are HORRIBLE and go for it, only to find out after that... What we should do is hold a worldwide reality TV contest. oops, that was the hologram ofBush. The real president is Have every country compete for some grand prize (like standing over here. Won’t that just make them chuckle? American monetary aid or “not getting bombed”) and 6. War (killing and all that)—I think what we should do is put lots of money into NASA, and tell those “space enthey compete by answering world trivia questions and raising human rights standards. And at the end of every week, trepreneurs” (as President George W. Bush called them) all the nations come together and vote off the nation that not to stop searching the universe until you find some hasn’t raised its human rights enough. aliens. And not just normal martians, we want the vindictive angry needy ones. And then tell NASA to piss them off 2. Environmental Problems (the ozone and whatnot) We just need to make some really big sunglasses for the (I dunno, make fun of their multiple limbs and green skin world. Heck, we built the international space station. Just tone). That way, the aliens will fly to our planet in an atmake another one of those but make it really big, stick tempt to kill the human race, the whole world can unite in a fight against them (like in that awesome Will Smith some oversized Oakleys on that puppy and watch our planet cool off a little bit. Lemonade helps too. If that doesn’t movie), and if we make it through all that, there won’t be work, I’m not using my freezer, so they can go and make any more wars on earth because we’ll all see how silly it is ice in it and ship it to the North Pole so as to stop all that to kill humans when there are still good non-humans out there that we haven’t killed yet. melting. 3. Keanu Reeves You might be thinking, how does an Enjoy your exams, and if you have any left over energy actor equal in importance to international human rights. after that late night study session, try to save the world. If you’re thinking this, you probably have never seen a Keanu movie. We need to get this individual to stop makYoni Riemer is a Trinity sophomore.
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sure that you’ve all noticed that Duke bashing is quite popular among your peers. These very back pages are filled with it, and I’m just as guilty as any
other columnist. Whether its professors, fellow students,
administrators, security officers or rambunctious cats, we love to pick on our school. There are definitely many things that are not quite right within our Gothic Wonderland and the only way to fix them is to address them. I must admit, though, that after a whole semester it’s beginning to wear on me As we begin to study for finals and
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While the Duke football tradition is not 2. Tailgate currently one we are exceptionally proud of, the tailgate tradition is. Essentially a massive, school-wide Halloween party that occurs in broad daylight, tailgate has a little something for everyone (including some parents and even grandparents). I like to imagine that nothing like it exists at other schools. I’m sure it does, but still, tailgate rules. 3. The Chapel Bells Last semester I had a class that ended at 5:10 p.m. in the Gray Building. For the last 10 minutes of class, we could hear the Chapel bells ring. When I walked out of class, no matter how boring it lauren fischetti was, one look at the Chapel with its bells chiming beautifully made me feel incredibly fishy business smart and incredibly happy to be here. Sounds lame, I know. Just try it.
write research papers, I think it is importhat we are reminded of why we do this. Why do we spend an incredibly large sum of money and endless hours studying at this place that we all seem to have a high level of dissatisfaction with? This question often creeps into my head, usually after I’ve done particularly poorly on an exam or paper, after agreeing with a strongly anti-Duke article or after the administration has made a bad policy even worse. Then I get in a bad mood, mope around and think about all the other colleges I’d be happier at Most of the time, I do come to the conclusion that Duke is not so bad after all. There are many things that help me realize this: My friends, that class I actually enjoy going to, the sheer number of my peers who are really freaking smart or that really fun weekend I just had. There are also things that make me feel proud to go to Duke. Some of them are normal, some are a little strange. I want to share them with you so that maybe in the last leg of the semester, you can take pride in this institution that makes you work your ass off. So, in no particular order, things that make me proud to go to Duke... When people think of college 1. Duke basketball basketball, they think of Duke. If I tell someone I go to Duke, they say “great basketball” just as often as they say “great academics.” Whether I am cheering in Cameron or screaming at the television, Duke basketball fills me with tant
pride. So many people hate us, and that makes it even better. My friend at Maryland asked her roommate for a shot glass. Expecting a Terrapin logo, she instead received one that proclaimed “F— Duke.” We are their most hated enemy, but they are barely on our radar. And we get to go
None of the schools I’ve been to 4. The Benches have benches like ours. My friends from home just don’t get it. Whether doing homework, hanging out or staring at passersby, the benches are the perfect locale. I made many of my friends on the Alspaugh bench last year, and the benches continue to be an awesome place to chill. They look pretty cool, too. 5. Textbooks At risk of sounding like a giant loser, I love when I encounter Duke in my textbooks. I am reminded of what an outstanding university I attend when my text tells me that an amazing science innovation was invented or groundbreaking research occurred at Duke University. Maybe these things don’t really do it for you as far as Duke pride goes, but remembering what you love about Duke just might be what gets you through finals week. Lauren Fischetti is a Trinity sophomore.
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Love of Love of money is the root of all evil.
I Timothy 6:10 is a two word phrase that, when entered into the Google search engine, nets one and only one response. This is much more difficult than it seems. I suggest you try it when you have time. Finding a Googlewhack is incredibly frustrating and time consuming. This, of course, only makes the prize shine more brightly. With the discovery of a Googlewhack comes pride. You can revel in the looks of unabashed wonder, awe, respect and envy that are flashed by your peers when they actually Google your phrase and become skeptics no longer. You can bask in your own glory and even bask in the reflected glory of the reflected glory your peers are basking in!!! But what now? You’ve clearly reached the pinnacle of whatever field Google-searching falls under, but what now? Do you sit in your throne all day, ruling with the scepter of smug superiority? Do you just sit there and wait? No, you can’t. Remaining sedentary and not rocking the G, as Googlewhacking is called in the inner circles, is a luxury that you cannot afford now. There is no off-sea1* p son for the G rocker. They rock the G If 24/7/365.25. they get cocky and stop rocking the G, invariably some young hotshot will thaddeus edwards II come along, as hot- embiggened with cromulency shots are wont to d.o, an d challenge h the big dog at the top of the pile. This makes the full time Googlewhacker an ever vigilant surgeon who is just waiting to slice open the body of the English language and, with the utmost care and precision, extract two words that, when combined, show the greatness of she who unleashed them. If they stop practicing, honing and cutting they will surely lose their edge and their rightful position at the top. But what of the retired Googlewhacker? What of the person who has achieved such greatness with respect to their peers and decided to leave the game while on top? What of the person who was so focused on one goal, rocking the G like it had never been rocked before, that they ran full speed forward, not noticing the periphery? What happens when the person realizes that their entire life was a mad dash to a goal thought to be all-encompassing but instead was hollow, short and underwhelming? Can she reach back into the depths of his memory from when he was merely rocking the g, note the case, to his retirement and salvage enough of her past to Justify her present? Will she be filled with regret at realizing she didn’t enjoy the proverbial ride, or will she delude herself into thinking that what she neglected her husband and children for all those years was truly worth it? Is being a hotshot G rocker that important? If you rock one G, you’re the new kid on the block. You’re the next Bob Dylan or Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky or Mozart. If you lucked into that first G, you spend the rest of your life looking for the second. You go crazy because you can’t come up with another G, business proposal, closing statement, diagnosis, lesson plan, cleaning solution, et cetera, that was nearly as good as the first. You keep your eyes firmly planted on the prize and, in so doing, convince yourself that you are weak if you stray from the path and that you are a failure if you fall short. You letyour want of the prize distort your perception ofits importance. If you stray or fall short, you blame the shortcomings on the prize you coveted to desperately, the prestige granted to the G rocker at the top you wanted so badly to best. You blame the prize for your cheating spouse and chilly-at-best relationship with your children. You go to the grave/um believing that Googlewhacking and the whole Googlewhacking system is corrupt because, after all, “money is the root ofall evil.” In your quest for the G rocking fame, you forget the two most important words of all.
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Thaddeus Edwards II is a Trinity sophomore.
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