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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 70

University to improve advising BY

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Administrators may completely overhaul the first-year advising system effective Fall 2005 if the Board ofTrustees aptheir proves proposal today.

Championed by Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College, and Michele Rasmussen, assistant dean of Trinity College, the program aims to focus primarily on dorm-wide community and student-adviser interaction.

The new advisory system would assign each dormitory a cluster of advisers, each specializing in a particular field. The advisers from each dorm will also work with students within their residence coordinator-based neighborhood, offering their expertise to students who are not necessarily in their assigned dorms.

In revamping the system, the University aims to address students’ frustration with the current system, which draws a group of students together based on their academic interests or intended major.

Their assigned adviser is a faculty or staff member in that particular field, but problems arise when students change their minds and the advisers cannot offer much help outside their own areas.

Administrators hope to couple the new neighborhood-oriented advising with social events designed to loosen up the advising environment and increase advisers’ accessibility. The goal is for students to become familiar with all the advisers in their area.

‘This is what the intention is: To take advantage of the fact that we have a firstyear campus, we have a pre-major advising system, and we want to intentionally align SEE ADVISING ON PAGE 8

McLendon aims to eliminate course buyouts by

Meg Bourdillon THE CHRONICLE

Plenty of professors complain when teaching duties

into their research time, but soon those who wish to do something about it will face changes to the course buyouts system.

Course buyouts allow faculty members with unusually large research time commitments and extra research money to give some of those funds to the University in exchange for a temporarily lighter teaching load. George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, has initiated changes to the buyout procedure that will introduce greater transparency and prevent faculty members from eliminating their teaching responsibilities entirely.

Students benefit when professors are active researchers, but teaching must remain a priority, McLendon cut

said. “I am unashamed about stating that a critical goal ofDuke University is the quality of the educational experience,” he explained.

Greg Wray, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Biology, reaffirmed the value placed on educating students at Duke, which seeks and attracts faculty with a genuine interest in teaching, he said.

‘This is not the kind of institution that a professor should come to if they want to only focus on research,” Wray said. “At peer institutions, there is definitely a lot of people who George McLendon buy out their teaching.”

Course buyouts are already relatively rare among Arts and Sciences faculty, even in departments that attract a relatively large amount of grant money.

David Beratan, chair of the chemistry department, has been at the University for more than three years. “I don’t know of anyone in that time ever buying themselves out for a full year,” he said. Beratan himself has bought out his teaching load this semester to advance a research project that must produce results quickly in order to continue receiving funding.

“Being able to do the buyout was really important to me,” Beratan said, but he favored some limitations. “It needs to be a special circumstance, and it shouldn’t happen too often.”

Although very few professors choose to buy out their whole teaching load, “I think the right SEE BUYOUTS ON PAGE 8

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newsinbrief FEC approves finance rules The Federal Election Commission voted 42 in favor of a series of campaign finance rules Thursday. The rules are meant to make it harder for some independent political groups to spend millions in unrestricted contributions in future elections.

Jailed Palestinian leader seeks election by

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RAMALLAH, West Bank Jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti declared his candidacy for president Wednesday, a stunning last-minute reversal that shook up Palestinian politics ahead of the Jan. 9 vote for Yasser Arafat’s replacement.

Adding to the uncertainty, the militant group Hamas said it would boycott the election. It was the first sign of open divisions between the interim Palestinian leadership and the Islamic opposition group since Arafat’s death Nov. 11.

The moves injected drama into what has been a smooth transition of power. Before Wednesday, interim leader Mahmoud Abbas managed to win pledges of unity—if not outright support —from the disparate Palestinian factions and seemed a shoo-in to win the presidency.

The fiery, charismatic Barghouti, who is serving five life terms in an Israeli prison for his role in deadly attacks, is far more popular among young Palestinians than the staid Abbas.

Last week, Barghouti sent a message from his prison cell saying that he would

pursue the presidency for the sake of unity in the ruling Fatah movement. But Wednesday, he abruptly changed his mind and registered for the election.

Cheered by supporters who shouted “With our blood and souls, we will redeem you, Marwan,” Barghouti’s wife, Fadwa, dropped off his registration documents at the Palestinian election headquarters ahead of a midnight deadline. “I officially registered Marwan,” she told reporters. Earlier, the campaign paid a not

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Powell condemns violence on Haiti visit by

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Heavy gunfire rang out near Haiti’s presidential palace Wednesday as Secretary of State Colin Powell met with the country’s interim leaders. Powell said international peacekeeping troops need to come down hard on street toughs and those who carry out political violence in Haiti.

“They have to forcefully take on those armed individuals of the kind who were firing this morning,” Powell said after meetings at the National Palace with President Boniface Alexandre, Prime Minister Gerard Latortue and other Haitian political leaders.

After Powell wrapped up his one-day Aristide’s ouster approaches in February. trip, shots continued to echo through the The country’s caretaker government has streets. Four people were killed and at least pledged open elections next fall, a goal Pow11 were injured. ell said Haiti can meet with outside help.

Bloodied gunshot victims crowded the “The only outcome that will satisfy the corridors at the capital’s main hospital, U.S. is an election next year that is free and where U.N. police were standing guard. fair,... that is not fraudulent and stolen,” U.N. troops were also on alert at the naPowell said later in his one-day trip to tional penitentiary, said Damian Onses shore up democratic efforts in the desperCardona, a spokesperson for the U.N. ately poor country. force, now at more than 6,000 members.

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Most of the clashes occurred in Bel Air, a slum loyal to ousted President JeanBertrand Aristide and several blocks away from the National Palace.

Haid is still beset with violence and political infighting as the one-year anniversary of

Israel to evaluate wall ruling The Israeli Supreme Court ordered the government Thursday to produce a statement within 30 days assessing the ramifications of a non-binding ruling of the International Court of Justice in The Hague that declared the Israeli security barrier around the West Bank to be illegal.

Spanish officials under fire Spain's eight Cabinet women are being criticized for appearing in a fashion shoot for the September issue of Vogue magazine's Spanish edition. The criticism of the article is the first significant attack on the Socialist government's feminist credentials since it came to office in April.

Refugees fill camps in Chad United Nations officials report that hundreds of refugees from Sudan have poured into the already overwhelmed camps in Chad.This latest influx comes as a result of Sudanese military attacks in the violenceridden Darfur region.

ular, have been instrumental in Haiti’s chaotic power shifts over the past decade.

Powell was once an Aristide supporter but helped arrange Aristide’s exile this year.

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Rebecca Herman, troubled by the high

rates of HIV infection in Durham, looked for ways to raise AIDS awareness on campus when she came to Duke as a freshman.

Unable to find any AIDS awareness groups at the University, she put up flyers and started her own group called Generation HlV—during her sophomore year.

“I think that the complexities behind why [HIV] continues to spread are worth addressing as a community,” said Herman, now a senior and current co-president of Generation HIV. The mission of Generation HIV is to raise campus awareness about HIV and AIDS both in Durham and internationally and to provide a space for interested students to become involved in HIV/AIDS-related service, fundraising and political lobbying.

“AIDS is a disease that points out all the problems in society that people don’t want to deal with—like poverty and race,” said Chelsea Friauf-Evans, co-president of Generation HIV. Friauf-Evans pointed to the fact that the South is the only region in the country where infection numbers are still increasing. Especially at certain college campuses, infection rates are high among African American women, she said.

In the past, Generation HIV has collaborated with local AIDS organizations in Durham. This year, they focused on a informational campaign to mark World AIDS Day by posting over 500 flyers around campus with different facts and statistics about HIV and AIDS in the U.S. and worldwide.

“This year, the focus was on getting the message out on what the epidemic is—what that means and the impact of disease,” Friauf-Evans said.

While Duke was full of reminders of the World AIDS Day, the international day of commemoration received only sparse

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“On the way driving to Duke, there was a half-hour special on the BBC radio. It certainly doesn’t get enough attention in United States—there’s very little in the American press,” said Sheryl Broverman, assistant professor of the practice of biology. “We don’t have a very international [focused] community and we see this as a problem of others.”

Several students in Broverman’s course Aids and Other Emerging Diseases commemorated World AIDS Day by working with World AIDS Day planners in Durham to organize local events such as a candlelight vigil and presentations by HIV positive people.

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“I think it’s important to have World AIDS Day to heighten awareness. It’s a major problem and we need to be constantly reminded of that,” said David Montefiori, director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development “We can’t let up for a minute in our effort to conquer this disease.”

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Food points dwindle at semester’s end Stricter Lindsey Lapin THE CHRONICLE

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It all seemed so simple in the beginning.

Students who live in University housing are required to have a meal plan, and one swipe of their Duke Cards allows them to partake in on-campus, and occasionally offcampus, dining. But as food points gradually diminish as the semester wears on, Duke students, the resourceful kids that they are, are forced to find ways to adjust.

Since October, “hordes” of students have begun flocking to the DukeCard Office in order to add funds to their food point accounts. Roland Getdiffe, the system administrator for the DukeCard Office, said year after year, the office becomes crowded early on with seemingly hungry students.

“Kids have been coming in to the office for months in order to add to their food points,” he said. ‘The last week of classes is when things get pretty crowded around here. By then, an enormous amount of students have always run out of money.”

Gettliffe said he believes students do not spend enough time at the beginning of the year making sure they choose the best meal plan for themselves. “Every visit kids make to the office is time and effort,” he said. “We wish that students would pay closer attention to their bursar accounts in the very beginning. They might save themselves a few trips.”

Students also find relief in the FLEX Account—known by some as the “luxury account”—which can also be used to purchase food at dining locations. When it comes to the relief of vending-machine shopping, however, this account is useless, much to the dismay of junk-food lovers across the University.

Students also have the option of using debit cards to buy their meals, but compared to die ease of swiping one’s DukeCard at mealtime, waiting for debit card receipts seems too taxing on a student’s limited time.

Freshmen appear to be most in need of relieffrom dwindling food points, as a high percentage ignore the meal plan offered them and spend their points at more attractive dining locations rather than the Marketplace. Students often favor ordering food from restaurants such as Grace’s Cafe, Jimmy John’s, Francesca’s Italian Cuisine and Grill and Cinelli’s Pizza. Freshman Daniel Freedman found out the hard way

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that neglecting the meal plan has its consequences, when he discovered he was scraping by on a meager amount of food points. “I now skip lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays in order to conserve points,” he said.

“It’s really quite sad.”

Freshmen seem to fall into two categories: those who avoid the Marketplace at all costs and those who grin and As the fall semester winds down, students struggle to stretch their food points to last them through next week. bear it.

“The Marketplace is terrible. I try my best never to eat there,” had to call my mom to transfer money confessed Matthew Contreras, a freshman into my savings account, immediately, bemember of the Duke track team. “I order cause it was the only way I could buy mytakeout pretty much every day.” self lunch.”

As he usually eats two dinners each But not all freshmen have found night, Contreras’ appedte has put him themselves struggling with their food into a compromising position. “I ran out point situations. Unlike many of her of food points before Parents’ Weekend, peers, freshman Brittany Lees has stuck so I’ve been paying for everything in cash.” he said. “But the day I ran out of cash, I SEE FOOD POINTS ON PAGE 9

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The domestic violence laws in North Carolina just got tougher.

A new law, which was passed July 15 and took effect yesterday, puts increased restrictions on domestic violence.

Among other changes, strangulation is now a legal offense and abuser treatment programs for perpetrators on probation are compulsory.

This law—House Bill 1354—will put North Carolina “at least in the top third of states effectively dealing with domestic violence,” said Beth Froehling, public policy specialist for the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

With 74 deaths, North Carolina was ninth in the nation in 2002 for the number of domestic homicides, according to a 2004 report by the Washington D.C.based Violence Policy Center. Since then there has been marked improvement, decreasing from 71 recorded domestic homicides in 2003 to 65 so far this year.

“Domestic violence is about one partner having power and control over another partner,” said Froehling, noting that although it can take many forms, including emotional, physical and financial, the legal definition refers only to physical violence.

“Strangulation is a common tactic, which often leads to homicide,” Froehling said, and making strangulation an offense is a positive step in attempting to limit the number of deaths resulting from domestic violence.

North Carolina is only the third state to consider strangulation a legal offense, Froehling added.

The new law also requires convicted abusers on probation to complete an abuser treatment program approved by the Domestic Violence Commission. The SEE VIOLENCE ON PAGE 12

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Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and largest academic honor society, was founded on December 5, 1776 by five students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Since then, it has evolved to become the nation’s leading advocate for arts and sciences at the undergraduate level. Phi Beta Kappa elects over 15,000 new members a year from 270 prestigious chapters across the United States. The Society’s distinctive emblem, a gold key (with the Greek character Phi along with B and K as the initials of the name of the society), is widely recognized as a symbol of academic achievement.

The Duke Chapter, Beta of North Carolina, was formed in 1920 at Trinity College. We are delighted to receive into membership the following;

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At the last Duke Student Government meeting of 2004 Wednesday night, the body addressed the dearth of off-campus transportation options and the subsequent drunk driving among students partying at clubs in the Ninth Street vicinity.

DSG passed a resolution to re-route East-Central-West campus busses on the weekends—Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights between 10 p.m. and 3 a.m.—to extend to the clubs around Ninth Street to prevent problems stemming from students leaving venues without a safe or free way ofreturning to campus.

“What we’re promoting is a very viable solution that administrators recognize,” said junior Brandon Goodwin, vice president of student affairs. Goodwin recognized the new route would “slow down travel a small amount,” but also said that the convenience and safety of the Ninth Street stop would outweigh the additional time.

Although DSG has not received a response from parking and transportation services and a prior resolution was declined by University administrators, Goodwin and junior Jesse Longoria, vice president of athletics and campus services, were optimistic.

Longoria said the resolution would “put the impetus on Parking and Transportation Services.” He also stated that the new bus route is more important now because “the social scene is moving more and more off campus,” and because Duke is interested in expanding into the Ninth Street area.

In other business: The Senate heard reports from sophomore Joel Kliksberg, vice president of community interaction, and Goodwin.

Kliksberg focused on his committee’s attempts to define its role for the future and on its work to revamp the InterCommunity Council.

ICC is now a more formal body with more administrative involvement and more stringent attendance policies, Kliksberg said.

Kliksberg also explained his committee’s development of formal mediation programs, which they implemented this semester during the Palestine Solidarity Movement conference, prior to Alpha Tau Omega fraternity’s “ghetto fabulous” party and following an incident involving police at Cafe Parizade. The committee is in the process of creating a handbook of guidelines for “Leading in Times of Conflict” for student groups.

The Community Interaction committee has also extended its involvement in other spheres; it has sent representatives to Graduate and Professional Student Council meetings, planned to send a student as a liaison to the City Council and increased its involvement in planning the Martin Luther King, Jr., Day events.

Goodwin’s speech centered around his committee’s progress in the areas of technology, dining, residential life, student health and alcohol initiatives. He mentioned the committee’s work to implement SEE DSG ON PAGE 9

More N.C. troops to go to Iraq this month by

Robert Burn

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The United States is expanding its military force in Iraq to the highest level of the war—even higher than during the initial invasion in March 2003—in order to bolster security in advance of next month’s national elections.

The 12,000-troop increase is to last only until March, but it says much about the strength and resiliency of an insurgency that U.S. military planners did not foresee when Baghdad was toppled in April 2003.

Brig. Gen. David Rodriguez, deputy operations director of the Joint Staff, told reporters Wednesday that the American, force will expand from 138,000 troops today to about 150,000 by January.

The previous high for the U.S. force in Iraq was 148,000 on May 1, 2003, when President George W. Bush declared that major combat operations were over and most soldiers thought the war had been won. The initial invasion force included SEE TROOPS ON PAGE 11

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Officers charged junior and Christopher Mandracchia and senior George Furtado with Felony Assault Inflicting Serious Injury. Furtado and Mandracchia appeared in court yesterday for first appearances after being given a $3,000 secure bond.

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Although students are unenthusiastic about the installation of several Spanish benches on the Main Quad, a far more basic hindrance has kept the benches off of West Campus.

Four benches ordered from Spain were held in Customs in October and developed mold in the process. “Mold was an outcome of them being held in customs, not the reason they were held,” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of student life. Students have expressed their questions and concerns about the changes to the Main Quad throughout the semester, and the lack of transparency and communication between students and administrators continues to be a

source of tension “It seems like the whole thing has been kind of secretive,” said sophomore Will Moss.

Many students are still sour over the purchase of alternative benches. “I think all benches should be able to be burned, so I don’t really approve of the concept of permanent benches,” said Moss, “Fewer benches means smaller bonfires, which sucks.”

Even freshmen have expressed disappointment and skepticism about the changes. “It sounds kind of sketchy. 1 don’t think that fancy Spanish benches SEE BRIEFS ON PAGE 9

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Wilson, Southgate and Alspaugh dormitories have already been testing the program out this semester. Rasmussen said the results from the three dorms this fall have reinforced her hope that the program will forge better connections among students, advisers and the PreMajor Advising Center.

“One of the things we’ve learned in the experiment this semester is that the center needs to be more engaged and proactive, and it will be,” she said. ‘There may be instances that it could be fun to get together in the dorm, maybe over coffee, whereas right now it’s just too difficult logistically to do that kind of thing.”

Wilson faculty-in-residence and adviser Carol Flath, who is a professor of the practice in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, said the University’s attempt to blend academics with residential life is a great idea. As an adviser, she places great importance on interpersonal relationships and said the current advising system does not make this kind of interaction easy.

“If I was a typical student, I would generally think of advising as a hoop I have to jump through to get my PIN number, as opposed to a chance to spend quality time with my adviser,” said Flath, one of approximately 120 Duke faculty members

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number should be zero,” McLendon said.

He was uncertain if the number of professors buying out only part of their courseload would change substantially under the revised policy, but he said the alterations would generally improve instruction.

Some standardization of how much money buyouts require is also among the proposed changes. Since the money that professors use to buy out class responsibilities goes towards hiring instructors to take on their teaching loads, the University must ensure that faculty pay a sufficient amount to maintain the same level of quality in course offerings, McLendon said.

“There’s just conversations about what’s the right dollar figure,” said Robert

that serve as pre-major advisers.

She said the advisers hope to do all they can to coordinate, reach out and stay alert to possibilities and students’ “social rhythms” to facilitate the advising experience. She emphasized the prospects of eating opportunities as a method of drawing students to organized advising events, and also as a means of enabling students to spend time with their advisers in a casual setting.

“We probably won’t perform skits, but I will have some tiramisu at the drop of a hat,” she said.

Some students voiced frustration with the lack of their advisers’ accessibility in the current system. “I just talk to my adviser about school stuff that I can discuss with anybody, but I wish I could contact him more. I think that’s more important than having him be in a specific field,” freshman Rick Park said.

Freshmen living in Wilson who have already experienced the tentative advising model said they think it is a good idea from a social standpoint. I have friends in my advising group, but I think it would be good—that way the students and advisers can collaborate,” freshman Keith Greenberg said.

This collaboration is the ultimate goal in making first-year advising easier and more enjoyable, both for students and advisers. “Duke is really interested in bringing intellectual life into the dorms,” Flath said. “It’s your home, after all.” “

Thompson, dean of Trinity College. Variations in research funding among the many disciplines mean that complete uniformity may not be possible, he added.

“One size won’t fit all there.”

This policy review is one of several initiatives through which McLendon hopes to make faculty more fully aware of the University’s priorities.

“It’s just a general statement of our shared goals and values as an institution of higher learning,” McLendon said. “I don’t believe that the faculty are best served by not knowing what the principles are.”

McLendon is eager to implement the changes, but he is waiting for the Arts and Sciences Council to report back to him with its analysis of the proposed alterations.

“I wouldn’t mind having this in place as early as next semester,” McLendon said.

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Abbas already has been nominated as Fatah’s presidential candidate, so Barghouti must run as an independent. But as a leading Fatah member, he would likely undermine Abbas’ prospects.

Barghouti, 45, represents the younger generation of Fatah that grew up in the West Bank and Gaza, while Abbas, 69, comes from the “old guard” of leaders who returned from exile with Arafat a decade ago.

Barghouti became a political activist in the 19705, joiningArafat’s Fatah movement.

He spent six years in Israeli jails—where he learned Hebrew—for his membership in Fatah, and was deported in 1987.

He was one of the first exiles to return seven years later under interim peace deals with Israel. Barghouti supported those accords, advocated a Palestinian state alongside Israel and had close ties to Israeli peace activists.

But when the Palestinian uprising broke out in September 2000, Barghouti used Arab satellite television to turn himself into the most prominent voice of the Palestinian resistance. Though he said he still supported a peaceful solution, Barghouti said force—including shooting attacks on Israelis—was justified to end Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israeli arrested Barghouti in 2002, accusing him of funneling money to militants and being involved in attacks that killed 26 Israelis. He was convicted of attacks leading to five deaths.

While Abbas and Barghouti both favor a negotiated settlement with Israel, an election victory for Barghouti would significantly complicate matters. Israel has quietly embraced Abbas, whom it considers a pragmatist, and has ruled out freeing Barghouti.

However, because of his popularity, it might be easier for Barghouti to make the

concessions needed to reach a peace deal with Israel.

Some Fatah members were skeptical about a Barghouti candidacy.

“How is he going to rule a nation while he is inside the jail?” asked Hani al-Hassan, the top Fatah official in the Gaza Strip.

“I know one thing: There is one candidate for Fatah and that is Mahmoud Abbas,” said Palestinian legislator Mohammed Hourani, a contemporary of

Barghouti.

Late Wednesday, a militant leader who could be seen as a natural Barghouti backer came out for Abbas instead.

Zakaria Zubeidi, the 29-year-old West Bank leader of the A1 Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a violent group linked to Fatah, said he would back Abbas. “Barghouti... should resign from Fatah,” he said.

Abbas, who formally launched his campaign Wednesday in Ramallah, brushed off Hamas’ decision to boycott the election and signaled that he is ready to take action against the militants.

“Every nation has opposition groups, but there are also laws and institutions,” he said. “I am committed to having one authority and only one army.”

Abbas called for a renewal of peace talks with Israel and said the two sides would meet after the election to discuss the “road map” peace plan. “We must have a dialogue with the Israelis,” he said, The peace plan calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state next year, but has been stalled since it was signed in June 2003.

Instead, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has pushed forward with a plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and four small settlements in the West Bank at the beginning of next year, Sharon’s internal problems threatened the pullout plan anew Wednesday. Parliament voted against the state budget, and Sharon was scrambling to build amew governing coalition. Ifhe fails and is forced to call elections, that could delay or scuttle the withdrawal.

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DSG also allocated $2,000 to the Duke Allies for “gay? fine by me.” Tshirts, despite a precedent that usually prevents groups from receiving funds for clothing. Senior Dave Rausen, Student Organization Finance Committee chair, said the provision was appropriate because “The T-shirts are the event.” To allay senators’ concerns over future organizations requesting money for Tshirts, Rausen suggested a change to the

because it takes too long to be delivered, so I pretty much always go to the Marketplace for dinner,” she said. “I have a ridiculous amount of food points now and I have no idea what to do with them.”

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letting this take whatever shape the stuidence structure would create communities to supplement, rather than supplant, dents want.”

Hull, however, said the growth of the residents’ intimate circles of friends. Stunetwork in which students can operate. dents, however, do not always view the quad model depends on a “blend” of student engagement and administrative polimodel in that light.

“Quads are like neighborhood associa“It’s a combination of answering the students are confused about how cies.

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“The can always get tions,” quad together, but your real social life exists in the quad model affects their daily life,” question of what we want to accomplish Campus Council President Anthony and what’s necessary to get there,” he the house around you.”

Several inherent structural problems Vitarelli said. He emphasized that with the said. “It’s possible that policy may be needed to get there.” quad model students receive more rewith West Campus, however, have prefunds but they sources and programming vented students from fully embracing lose a “sense of intimacy” that was implicit Where quads are headed their quads.

The definition and implications of the The architecture of the West Campus in the house model. directed model have started to come together are at sophomores, quad dormitories is not conducive to building Quads the of the as the administration has begun to create a housing and, multitude of nature by system, the community. Currently, unified vision for West Campus—and for fire doors and the lack of common space they fail to include many juniors and senprevent student interaction. “As my quad is iors who are unable to fit into the limit- all residential life.

Associate Dean of Residence Life Joe ed housing on West Campus. The proright now, I could go the entire year withGonzalez is creating an advisory body out seeing someone on the opposite side posed Central Campus renovation aims of the quad,” said sophomore Matt Levy, to create a place for juniors and seniors, that will consider the concept of the quad model and deadministrators who lives in Few Quad. velop strategies Indeed, the physical composition of a said. to bring it to are like neighborhood asUltimately, a quad contributes significandy to its sense fruition. The of community. Residents of Kilgo Quad growth model will with sociations. The quad can always get committee which was recently renovated with the emerge, of freshmen living quad model in mind —identify more with together, but your real social life composed students, stuthe other members of their quads. Tm on a supportexists in the house around you.” dent affairs not entirely sure what the quad model is,” loaded East Camrepresentasophomore David Walker said, “but I cer- pus, sophomores Larry Moneta tives, RLHS tainly enjoy Kilgo and the community feel on a more austaff and facultonomous West that is has to it.” ty—will begin and junThe existence of selective living groups Campus its discussions next spring. and fraternities within the larger quads iors and seniors on an intimate, private CenAdministrators hope to increase student also compromise the model’s potency betral Campus. The four-year experience will echo students’ and resources in the quads to boost student parmaturity levels. growth cause these tight-knit student groups do ticipation in the new residential system. Lo not often look outside their organizations Biondo and other administrators hope to for residential social life. Students said A muddled definition While both top-ranking administrators add several quad-based programs: tutoring quad-wide events are often dominated by and RLHS agree on the basic residential in various subjects, a faculty-in-residence, these groups.

Students have also said it is difficult to foundations of the quad model, there is properly insulated music practice rooms and possibly a quad course—a class similar form new bonds with people during their discordance about why the model was imvarious to current house courses. have As a when plemented. consequence, they already sophomore years, pieces of the administration express conestablished friendship groups. The curQuad Councils, the local student govrent housing crunch also prevents many flicting views about their future role in de- ernments, have begun to serve as outlets for students to voice opinions about events students from investing in their quads, as veloping the system.

Most administrators agree that the new and implement programming to make they know they will likely have to move residential paradigm was implemented each quad intrinsically their own. junior year. mainly to alleviate the disjointed nature of Although many students still feel the the sophomore residential experience. quad model forces artificial friendships, How quads began Since Fall 2002, when the Board of Many sophomores felt lost and forgotten President Richard Brodhead assured stuTrustees voted to focus West Campus after a unifying freshman year on East dents that the University does not intend around quadrangles, West Campus housing Campus, said Deb lo Biondo, assistant to dictate their social lives. “Of course everyone will have their smaller communihas gradually shifted from a traditional dean of students.

Executive Director of Housing Services ties, but you don’t want to have a smaller house model, which based residential life on individual entryways, to the quad model, and Dean of Residence ofLife Eddie Hull community be the only thing there is,” in which students’ residential experience said the previous residential system, in Brodhead told The Chronicle earlier this which independent students often ended year. “You want to create more places centers on the six quadrangles on West.

Several large residential life changes up in undesirable housing, was alienating. where people could more naturally have “Students feel marginalized by the selecthe continual experience of meeting and accompanied the new paradigm. Most imtive he said.

“The and forming relationships with would all be living groups,” popular mingling portantly, sophomores housed on West, rather than scattered belief is that what goes on on West Campus people much more broadly than the subset across the University. Additionally, all of is what everyone wants, but some students of their friendship groups.”

But while students wait for larger scale the selective houses were moved off Main say there are things on West that they changes that will put the quad model into West Campus and placed throughout the would like to change.” context, many still fail to see quads as an Officials agreed that the eventual sucquadrangles. Six professional live-in staff lies the in residential coordinators were cess of the model mainly integral part of their residential experiknown as quad hands of the students. ence and social life at Duke. “It fails to afhired by Residence Life and Housing SerMoneta said all that remains in order to fect the social scene would be my point,” vices to help facilitate quad life. Finally, Quad Councils were created to act as li- strengthen the quad model is student in- sophomore James Hicks said. “Besides the aisons from the residents of the quadranterest and ownership of the new system. people I block with, I don’t know any of “There will be no more policy changes,” the people in my quad, and I don’t feel any gle to RLHS staff.

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until March. These are the soldiers who in line with expectations—a combination also providing security for the elections. originally were told they would be leaving of holding some troops in Iraq longer than One unit, the 2nd Brigade of the Ist Iraq in November. scheduled and sending some fresh forces —About 2,300 members of the 31st Mafrom the United States.

Cavalry Division, is being extended for the second time. Its soldiers originally rine Expeditionary Unit, based in OkiSen. Jack Reed, D-R.1., a critic of the adwere told they would be going home in nawa, Japan and in Hawaii, and California, ministration’s handling of the war, said the November at the end of a 10-month aswill stay until mid-March instead of leaving Pentagon’s announcement confirmed that the effort to stabilize Iraq would take years, in January. signment, but in October they got —About 160 with no certainty of success. the news that they ‘This announcement makes it clear that “This announcement makes it soldiers of the would remain 66th Transportacommanders in Iraq need more troops clear that commanders in Iraq tion Company, and that this will be a long and very expenuntil mid-January.

Now they are sive process for the United States,” Reed in Gerneed more troops and that this based many, was due to said. “It is still not clear whether Iraq will being extended until mid-March. depart Iraq in emerge from this chronic violence as a viwill be a long and very expenThe 2nd early January but able and stable country.” sive process for the United instead will stay Officials have said they were considerBrigade of the Ist undl March. early sending some elements of the 3rd InCavalry and most ing States. It is still not clear The 82nd Airof the other exfantry to Iraq earlier than scheduled, as whether Iraq will emerge from borne is generally part of a force-bolstering plan. But Rotended units will end up serving upon by driguez said it was decided that no units this chronic violence as a viable relied the Army to keep will have their deployments accelerated as about 14 months one of its three part of the pre-election security effort. in Iraq, exceedand stable country.” two brigades on shortproblems are most severe in by ing Sen. Reed notice alert year- theSecurity months the 12area north and west of Baghdad, as month standard round to deploy well as in the capital itself. Voter registration has not yet begun in the more unstaset by the Army. abroad in the event of a crisis. Shortly before the October elections in Afghanistan, ble cities such as Fallujah and Ramadi, west Rodriguez listed these unit extensions: —About 4,400 troops of the 2nd about 600 members of the 82nd Airborne of Baghdad.

Recently there also has been trouble in Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, were sent there to strengthen security. which is operating in north-central Iraq, Military officials have said repeatedly in the northern city of Mosul. Wednesday, recent weeks that they were considering U.S. soldiers traveling through Mosul on a will stay until mid-March, instead of departing in early January. Those soldiers’ whether more American troops would be mission to discuss the January election home bases are mostly in Hawaii. required to provide sufficient security be- with Iraqis came under fire at a gasoline station, witnesses said. One U.S. soldier —About 3,500 soldiers of the 2nd fore Iraqis vote.

The moves announced Wednesday are was wounded in the ensuing gunbattle.

Brigade of the Ist Cavalry, will be extended

thousands of sailors on ships in the Persian Gulf and other waters, plus tens of thousands of troops in Kuwait and other surrounding countries.

The expansion in Iraq will be achieved by sending about 1,500 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, N.C., this month and by extending the combat tours of about 10,400 troops already in Iraq. Those 10,400 will be extras until March because the soldiers who were scheduled to replace them in January will arrive as planned.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved the moves Wednesday, according to a Pentagon statement.

“They are the most experienced and best-qualified forces to sustain the momentum of post-Fallujah operations and to provide for additional security for the upcoming elections,” the statement said.

The Pentagon originally expected to train and equip enough Iraqi government forces to fill the security gap in the weeks leading up to the elections, but that hope was not fulfilled.

The military is reluctant to extend soldiers’ combat tours because of the potential negative effect it could have on their families, and thus on their willingness to remain in the service. In this case, Gen. George Casey, the most senior U.S. commander in Iraq, decided it was necessary to

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Officials held varying degrees of optimism about how effective such programs will be for counseling perpetrators and limiting domestic violence.

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“But it is also typical for [aggressors] to have an ‘aha’ moment... six to eight weeks into the program... when they start being honest with themselves.”

McCool said it is important to note, however, that although the treatment programs are considered mandatory, judges have the option of granting reprieve, and therefore, there is some chance “that the law will not be as effective as might be

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“By treating domestic violence more seriously we think we will save lives.”

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works for some perpetrators and for others it doesn’t.... It has a better success rate for offenders who are firsttime offenders, and the further along you get in the cycle, the less effective it is.”

Jean Leonard, sexual assault support services coordinator at the Duke Women’s Center, said “treatment for perpetrators is not usually considered highly successful,” and argued instead that counseling for victims was more effective for lasting change.

Ada Gregory, co-executive director of Durham Crisis Response Center, agreed that “the key to making an impact is to treat victims.... You need to help the survivors.”

But others, such as Amily McCool, program coordinator for CHANGE—a sixmonth treatment program for domestic violence aggressors in Durham and Orange counties—argue that prevention programs can produce positive behavioral changes in the perpetrators.

“When they come to the program,, most are in denial. They are usually angry about being here. They don’t think they have a problem. They feel justified in their ac-

Froehling said another condition is necessary for the program’s success, noting that “it is very important for there to be consequences,” if perpetrators do not fulfill their treatment program requirements. As a result, the perpetrator would legally be required to serve time, she explained, however the extent to which the court will enforce this is questionable.

The law also calls for specialized law enforcement training and legal assistance for victims. In addition, it charges abusers who have two convictions—instead of the previous five—with a habitual misdemeanor assault.

Overall, officials agree that the law’s increased punishment for aggressors is a positive development in North Carolina’s approach to domestic abuse.

“By treating domestic violence more seriously we think we will save lives,” Froehling said, adding that it is important to keep in mind that “the court system is just one [avenue] which is impacting domestic violence. It will take our entire society to eliminate domestic violence.” t

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Aristide and others claim the George W. Bush administration coerced him to leave Haiti. Aristide’s followers say Powell signed onto a plan to remove Aristide because he was viewed as a troublemaker whose unpopularity could destabilize the Caribbean country and cause a tide of refugees to head for U.S. shores.

The administration says Aristide departed voluntarily.

Gunshots, including several long bursts of automatic weapons fire, were heard in front of the palace shortly after Powell entered with a small U.S. delegation. A palace security official said a shot was fired from a passing car, and U.N. forces guarding the palace returned fire.

A palace security official said a shot was fired from a passing car, and U.N. forces guarding the palace returned fire.

Several U.N. tanks appeared a short while later and patrolled the palace front.

Shots were also fired at the U.S. Embassy, according to a U.N. official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Witnesses also reported shots being fired at the National Palace and the National Penitentiary late Wednesday afternoon. It was unclear who fired the shots.

In Washington, State Department spokesperson Adam Ereli said Powell was in a holding room at the palace when shots were fired outside. Powell and others in his delegation heard the gunshots, Ereli said.

The incident prompted a change of meeting rooms but otherwise had no effect on Powell’s schedule or plans.

Despite the presence of Brazilian-led U.N. peacekeeping troops, rebels and former soldiers have refused to abandon police stations across the country. They have also refused to disarm, saying they need to stabilize Haiti until the government reinstates the military and the police hire more recruits.

The U.S.-backed interim government has accused Aristide of orchestrating recent political violence from exile in South Africa. Aristide has denied supporting violence.

At least 89 people have been killed in politically linked violence since Sept. 30, when pro-Aristide groups stepped up protests demanding his return.

Besides Alexandre and Latortue, Powell saw leaders from various civil and political groups in Haiti, including some who supported Aristide. He also met with young Haitians who receive and provide HIV and AIDS services.

Powell said the United States will spend $4O million on AIDS prevention and treatment in Haiti next year, double the current amount.

Wednesday’s trip was likely to be Powell’s last visit to Haiti as the United States’ top diplomat. He announced last month that he would leave his post in President Bush’s second term, and Bush nominated White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice as his successor.

Powell also visited in April, five weeks after Aristide fled the country.

Associated Press writer Amy Bracken in Port-au-Prince contributed to this report.

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The Triangle Youth Ballet brings The Nutcracker to the Durham and Chapel Hill rea in an effort to instill an appreciation >r the arts while bringing the Christmas hrit to life. With a cast of 100 students, lis production is “geared to be accessible specially for young children” TYB direc>r Lauren Lorentz de Haaz says.

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"People see the holiday season as so* thing magical.” snow soloist Alyx Cull says. “North Carolina is a place whej sometimes we miss out on the enchan ment of a white Christmas. The Nutcra<. has the ability to bring that missing el ment of magic to life.”

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Meet the Fockers This sequel to the ridiculously successful Meet the Parents stars Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand as the Fockers, parents of the hapless Greg.

This time around fiance Pam travels with parents DeNiro and Danner to the Focker homestead in Detroit. If for nothing else the film is worth the money just to see acting superstars Hoffman and DeNiro side by side. Dec. 22

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou The fourth feature from Rushmore director Wes Anderson, Life Aquatic also marks the third collaboration between Anderson and Bill Murray. This time around the due goes to the sea. As the screwball Captain Steve Zissou, an oceanic explorer, Murray again brings his subtle wit to the screen as he sets out for revenge on the shark that killed his partner. Anderson’s directorial spirit shines through in Life Aquatic, which also marks the director’s first use of CGI technology. Dec 25

PLACESTOVISITONNEWYEAR'SEVE NEWYORK NYC has always been the ultimate hot spot for New Year’s. But if you’re in the city, look beyond the touristclogged Times Square for some end of the year partying.

Head down a few blocks to Madison Square Garden and rock out to the The Flaming Lips, Wilco, and Sleater-Kinney, or see The String Cheese Incident over at Radio City Music Hall. The bars in the East Village are always a notorious hot spot, but be warned: the admission prices can be a little over the top. If you’re strapped for cash just buy a $2.00 Metrocard and head to Prospect Park in Brooklyn for its yearly fireworks display. There’s just as much flash and glitter as in Times Square, only less people to elbow for a good view.

spin. For those without the thick skin or thick coat, Navy Pier offers an indoor rink. But don’t get too tuckered out because when the clock stikes the magical hour the Pier rolls out an incredible fireworks show to light up the lakefront.

CHICAGO There isn’t any place hotter than Chi-town for New Years. And if you’re in the Windy City the place to be blown away is at Navy Pier. Some of the wildest scenes includes parties at the W and Bordo in Lincoln Park.

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In its toughest matchup of the season, the No. 10 Duke women’s basketball team faces No. 4 Tennessee in Knoxville tonight, looking to upset a squad that has a 4-2 record against the Blue Devils.

Two years ago, the Lady Vols squashed Duke’s national championship ambitions with a Final Four victory.

Last season, the top-ranked Blue Devils suffered their only home loss when Tennessee, then the second-ranked squad, edged out Duke 72-69, silencing a sold-out Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“I’ve never had the opportunity to play at Tennessee before, so I think it will be a tremendous experience for the entire team,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said.

‘This will be our toughest challenge to date and will take a tremendous team effort, and we’re going to have to play with extreme poise. It’s a challenge but it’s also

a great opportunity.”

For Goestenkors’ squad, this is a challenge that mirrors last year’s game at Connecticutwhen Duke faced the Huskies for the first time ever at the Hartford Civic Center. The Blue Devils won 68-67 on Jessica Foley’s last-second three-pointer.

In Duke’s quest for an upset tonight, the Blue Devils (5-1) are facing a Tennessee squad (4-1) that opened the season as the No. 1 team in the country but slipped last week when the Texas Longhorns crushed them, 74-59.

Just as the Blue Devils started the season with uncertainty because of the loss of Duke’s all-time leading scorer Alana Beard, Tennessee lost three players. Both teams have responded with their younger talent, especially freshmen, filling more prominent roles.

To this point, Tennessee has used its healthy freshmen—Nicky Anosike and Alexis Hornbuckle—off the bench.

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Junkanoo Jam Nov. 26 and 27 in the Bahamas, 6-foot-7 Alison Bales and Black were able to control the low post and finally give the Blue Devils a solid inside game, “We are excited about Duke, and speaking of inside game, they have size with Alison Bales inside and Monique Currie on the wing,” Tennessee head coach Pat

It is one thing nearly every athlete and coach can agree upon: Beating an opponent three times in one season is among the hardest things to do in sports.

The men’s soccer team hopes the cliche holds true as it faces fourth-seeded Virginia Saturday at 7 p.m. in Charlottesville, Va., with a berth in the College Cup on the line. The Cavaliers (18-4-1) have beaten the Blue Devils (175) in both of the teams’ previous matches this season.

Duke head coach John Rennie, however, believes that the results of the teams’ other contests will have little bearing on their NCAA Tournament quarterfinal.

“Every game has a tendency to take on a life of its own, and I’m sure this game will be different from the other two,” Rennie said. ‘The first game we took a 2-0 lead, the second game they took a 2-0 lead, so every game is different even if it’s the same opponents.”

While much could change, some things will remain the same. The Cavaliers will play a rough, tireless brand of soccer, a factor that has weighed heavily in their two prior games against the Blue Devils.

“I think we have to match their intensity,” Duke goalkeeper Justin Trowbridge said. ‘They’re a very hard-working team, they’re very physical. I think the first game we played at Virginia for the first half we did that, matched them physically. In the

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ACC Player of the Week Monique Currie is averaging more than 18 points per game this season.

freshman, Candace Parker, who was last year’s top recruit. Parker underwent two surgeries on her left knee before the start of the year but is expected to return by

mid-season.

The Blue Devils’ freshman center Chante Black was out earlier in the season with an ankle injury, stalling the team’s rebounding ability and hurting its post game. With Black back in the lineup at the

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Micah Harris (55) played three years the defensive line for the Duke football team.

Prior to the kickoff of the Duke-North Carolina football game Nov. 20, parents of seniors joined their sons on the field for the annual Senior Day ceremony. At the end of the line stood Richard and Diane Harris, parents of the late Micah Harris, who passed away this summer in a tragic car accident.

As the PA Announcer read Micah Harris’ name, his former teammates huddled around the Harris’ in a circle of what his mother said has become her extended family.

“When they gave the announcement that Micah had passed away in June, it was another closure to a chapter with him and

his years at Duke,” Diane Harris said of her son, who would have been celebrating Senior Day with his classmates. “When the players joined us and left their own parents and own families to come and stand in Micah’s place, it was almost more than we could endure because we know how much he loved them.”

Harris was killed June 11 when his 1989 Volvo struck a tree in Brunswick County, Va. The 21-year old was driving to visit his girlfriend when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel.

The following days were traumatic for everyone who knew Harris, especially his teammates, coaches and others who were SEE HARRIS ON PAGE 20

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While Luol Deng and Chris Duhon are out of town with the Bulls, the Blue Devils will replace their former teammates at Chicago’s United Center Saturday against Valparaiso.

Even without the support of Deng and Duhon, the atmosphere will be comfortable for the Blue Devils, as it is a homecoming for junior Sean Dockery and head coach Mike Krzyzewski. The pair returns to a city with an extensive basketball history and distinct street style of play.

‘There is inner city Chicago, and there are the suburbs. In the city, it’s a lot offastpaced games, a lot of running, pressing. I hate to generalize, but the exchanges are not too long, so you wouldn’t need a shot clock. Sean has had to change his game to play at this level,” Krzyzewski said. “He is changing, and sometimes when you change, you find a strength that you never knew you had.”

On the Chicago streets, Dockery learned to be a hard-nose on-the-ball defender, but lacked some tools to be a point guard when he arrived at Duke.

With Duhon on the Bulls and Duke trying to solidify a replacement, Dockery returns to a familiar turf.

Though the closer team geographically, Indiana’s Valparaiso (0-3) will certainly not be the comfortable one this Saturday afternoon in Chicago. Ninth-ranked Duke (4-0), led byJ.J. Redick and Daniel Ewing, is coming off a high-intensity win over Michigan State.

Despite a winless record so far, the Crusaders are not a lifeless team and have several individual scoring options.

Junior Dan Oppland leads the Valparaiso attack in minutes and averages 11.7 points per game. Additionally, Ron Howard and Jimmie Miles contribute more than 12 points per game, and each of the three has stepped up in games this season.

As a team, however, the Crusaders are shooting only 39 percent from the field.

This weakness will likely play to the Blue Devils’ advantage. Duke’s strong defense has held opponents below their average shooting percentages this season, as it did to Valparaiso in last year’s 97-63 victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

After facing a larger Michigan State team, which controlled the paint, Duke and its big man duo of Shavlik Randolph and Shelden Williams will look to make an early impact under the basket.

“We have two of the most talented big guys in the country, and we’re starting to develop really good role players,” Redick said. “So on a night where Daniel and I don’t combine for 60 points, I still think we can get the job done.”

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Sean Dockery returns to his hometown of Chicago Saturday for a matchup with Valpo in the United Center.

Valparaiso’s lineup is also larger than Duke’s, with each starter several inches taller than his Blue Devil counterpart.

The most notable force is 6-foot-10, 310pound center Kenny Harris, who could lure Duke’s big men into foul trouble, decreasing their defensive aggressiveness.

“Throughout the year we need him to play a lot of minutes, and the less fouls he has, the more minutes he will play,” Krzyzewski said of Williams. “He’s in shape to play a full game, and he can

play 40 minutes, that’s what we have our guys trained to do. Part of it is playing well, part is staying out of foul trouble and being smart.”

While the Blue Devils have several days to prepare for the contest, the team will use its time to recover from a physically taxing stretch of three games in eight days.

“We’ve been trying to get our bodies back,” Randolph said after the exhausting win over Michigan State.

One of the nation’s top defensive tackles continues to list Duke among his favorite schools.

Vince 6-foot-6, 310-pound Oghobaase will make an official visit to Durham this weekend. One of the nation’s top 50 players in the class of 2005, Oghobaase has scholarship offers from 31 schools, including every school in the Big XII, his coach Wade Luker said. The Alief, Tex., native is considering the Blue Devils Miami, along with Arizona, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. “They’ve been on him ever since spring training after his junior year,” Luker said of Duke. ‘The kid wants to go to a really prestigious university and get an education. He wants to be a really good football player, but he’s also real academically-minded, too. That was one of the drawing points of Duke.”

Oghobaase’s size and strength have made him one of the nation’s premier run-stuffing tackles. As a senior, the 300-pounder tallied 9 sacks and 96 tackles.

“He runs well, he’s extremely strong and he’s a very intelligent kid,” Luker said. “He’s got all the tools he needs to be a really good football player. He just needs to keep working.”

Oghobaase’s trip to Duke will be his third official visit as the lineman traveled to Arizona and Oklahoma State earlier in the year. In addition, he has visits planned to Miami and Oklahoma in the next month.

Oghobaase will make a decision sometime in December, Luker said, and he plans to enroll in college in January. Should he choose Duke, Oghobaase would be one of the highest-profile football players ever to commit to the Blue Devils.

Oghobaase, however, is not the only big-name recruit visiting Duke this weekend. Dalton, Ga., athlete Marcus Jones will be visiting campus as well. Jones, a 6-foot-5, 211-pound prospect, played multiple positions SEE RECRUITS ON PAGE 20

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CHAMPAIGN, 111.

With about two and a half minutes still left in the game, Illinois’ rabid “Orange Krush” student section started chanting “WE’RE No. 1!

WE’RE No. 1!”

No. 5 Illinois certainly made a case for the top ranking Wednesday night, turning No. 1 Wake WAKE Forest into a ILLINOIS 91 nonconference patsy with a 91-73 rout that was not nearly as close as the score indicated.

‘They played infinitely better than we did. I don’tknow how much more clearly I can say it,” Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser said. They made shots that were open, they made shots that were contested.

Their offense was exponentially better than our defense, hence die score of the game.”

Roger Powell scored 19 points, Dee Brown and Luther Head added 16 each and the Illini (5-0) beat Wake Forest (5-1) in every single phase of the game. Illinois led by double-digits the last 28-plus minutes of the game and were up by as much as 32 in the second half.

That was even with Deron Williams having an off night. Williams, the preseason pick as Big Ten Player of the Year, missed much of the first half because offoul trouble and finished with only eight points, though he did have a team-high 11 assists.

“Playing without Deron, the best player, player of year is tough,” said Brown, who added seven assists. “He’s a great asset to

Illinois held a double-digit lead for thelast 28 minutes of its game against No. 1 Wake Forest. our team, but when he goes out, someone else has got to step up, and I thinkLuther and Rog and myself made some shots and played hard.”

The Illini were so dominant in stretches they looked like the Globetrotters. They held the Demon Deacons to 39 percent

shooting, and their two best players were never a factor. Chris Paul, the leading votegetter on the Associated Press’ preseason All-America team, had 10 while Justin Gray, MVP of the preseason NIT, had 11.

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TheBlue Devils face theirfourth top-25 opponent of the season tonightJhe team defeated No. 16Kansas State and No. 23 Penn State but lost to No. 11 Notre Dame.

ILLINOIS from page 15 “I don’t know what to say,” Brown said when asked if the Illini should be No. 1.

“After that performance, you tell me.”

The Illini are now 2-19 in games against No. 1 teams —but they won both played at Assembly Hall. They beat then-No. 1 Michigan State 57-55 in 1979—if it’s any consolation to the Demon Deacons, the Spartans still won the national championship that year.

Illinois has now won 35 straight at home against non-conference opponents, a streak dating back to Nov. 17, 1998. The Illini are 67-3 overall at Assembly Hall since the 2000-01 season.

“You don’t get many chances to play a No. 1 team on national television,” said Jamaal Levy, who had six points and seven

rebounds. “They were definitely ready.

They proved they wanted it.”

And Wake Forest, which earned its first No. 1 ranking last week, proved it has some work to do. Though the Demon Deacons won the preseason NIT last weekend, they looked at times like they were still trying to find their rhythm against Providence and Arizona.

Illinois did not give the Deacons time to catch their feet, let alone get a rhythm.

Harassed and badgered anytime they tried to get close to the basket, the Demon Deacons had no answer for Illinois’ speed—or its smoothness.

“We’re a good team, but the way they shot the ball they couldn’t be stopped,” Paul said. “And then they’d turn around and defend.”

The Illini shot a blistering 60 percent, including 8-of-16 from three-point range

as they raced out to a 54-33 lead at the half. They had assists on 27 of their 38 baskets, and they played with a crispness that will make opposing coaches jealous—and a little ill.

“We tried different defenses, but the bottom line from a defensive standpoint was we couldn’t guard them in man-toman,” Prosser said.

With the crowd of 16,618 ewed up for“Paint the Hall Orange” night—even Illini coach Bruce Weber sported a dayglo orange blazer—Illinois took a seven-point lead five minutes into the game and Wake Forest never recovered. The Illinois broke the game open with a 104 run midway through the first half, sparked by a play that symbolized the kind of night it was.

Brown fed James Augustine for what was supposed to be an alleyoop, but the ball rolled slowly around the back of the

Summitt said. ‘To me, she is one of the most powerful three players out there and certainly one of the best we have faced. It is going to be a big challenge for us.”

As Duke’s only seasoned players on the court tonight, Currie and junior Mistie Williams will lead the team against the most formidable front court it has faced.

Currie is averaging 18.5 points per game and has shown her skill in Duke’s two wins over top-25 opposition.

The.uncertainty at the point guard with the suspension of Lindsey Harding has given freshman Wanisha Smith the chance to develop her ball handling.

“I really am happy with her,” Goestenkors said. “She is turning the ball over a little too much, but under the circumstances, I just take deep breaths and know that she is just going to continue to improve.”

Tennessee will counter with experienced junior guard Shanna Zolman and senior forward Brittany Jackson.

“It’s one of the greatest programs, and day in and day out they come to play,” Goestenkors said ofTennessee. ‘They are always prepared and focused. They do not take teams for granted. It is not about a person, they come and go, it is about their program. You know they are going to play great defense, and they are going to rebound the heck out of the ball.”

rim before trickling into the net.

Paul finally ended the run with a jumper, but Brown and Powell were soon at it again. Brown scored on a baseline jumper and a 3, and Powell hit another three before scoring on what had to be the most impressive shot of the night, Working the shot clock down to the final seconds and with no one else open, Powellspun awayffomone Wake defender and put up the softest of hook shots. The crowd oohed as the ball setded into the basket for the 54-33 lead, “Some of those shots that go in, I surprised myself sometimes,” Powell said, The Demon Deacons tried to make a run in the second half, opening with an 84 spurt to pull within 5841. But Head responded with a three-pointer, “It was damage control after that,” Prosser said.

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second half, we lost our composure and unfortunately lost the game. When we played in the ACCs, we did not have the right level of intensity, and they punished us for it.”

In the teams’ other two matchups, they combined for 82 fouls, nine yellow cards and two ejections. Virginia’s late secondhalf goals were key each time.

In the teams’ most recent contest, a Nov. 11 ACC Tournament quarterfinal, Virginia dominated throughout the first halfbut did not score until 27 minutes remained in the game. The Cavaliers scored again less than three minutes later and held on to win, despite Duke’s late charge.

Earlier in the season, the Cavaliers dashed the Blue Devils’ hopes for an ACC regular season championship with a 3-2 overtime victory in Charlottesville. Duke scored two goals in the opening 28 minutes but was forced to play two men down for the last 11 minutes of regulation and all of overtime after the ejections of Chris Loftus and Zachary Pope.

Virginia capitalized on the two-man advantage, scoring three goals in less than 10 minutes to steal the game from the Blue Devils. Hunter Freeman, who also recorded an assist in the game, scored the gametying goal on a controversial penalty kick and Mike Littlefield scored the game-winner in overtime.

“I think everyone on the team is well aware of the history of the programs and the intense rivalry,” Trowbridge said.

“Obviously we’re excited about playing UVa. I think if you ask anyone on the team, we’d rather play them than anyone else right now.”

The Cavaliers are led by Freeman, who paces the team with 27 points, and defend-

er Matt Oliver, both first-team All-ACC selections. Freshman midfielder Nico Colaluca made the second-team.

With six freshmen receiving playing time, Rennie has tried to impress upon his young team the importance of focusing on just one opponent at a time. And after the two tough losses earlier in the season, the Blue Devils could have looked ahead to playing the Cavaliers in the Elite Eight and overlooked their earlier opponents. Duke topped Costal Carolina, 12th-seeded Old Dominion and Ohio State to reach Saturday’s quarterfinal.

‘This time ofyear, the old saying in the NCAA Tournament is ‘Survive and advance,’ that’s all you’re concentrating on,” said Rennie, whose 26 years as Duke’s head coach have included several runs deep into the NCAA Tournament and 1986 National Championship. “If you’re goal is getting to the Final Four, you’re going to lose in the first round. I think they’ve been very good about respecting each opponent and respecting the game....

It’s really all a coach wants his team to do, not even think about the tournament aspect, it’s who are we playing.”

The young Blue Devils have responded to their coach’s one-game-at-a-time doctrine, advancing to the quarterfinals for the first time since 1995.

“It really hasn’t hit me as much as I’m sure it has hit the upperclassmen,” forward Michael Vidiera said. Vidiera, the ACC Freshman of the Year, has registered three assists for the tournament, and his lone goal was the only one Duke would need in Duke’s 3-0 round-of-16 victory over Ohio State. “[The team’s freshmen] have never actually been in a situation like this, and seen other teams make it and not us, as they have in previous years. So I guess it’s almost like, it’s new to us and we don’t know what it’s like without it.”

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during phone conversadons and visits, helping them to better understand the type of person their son was during his time at Duke. His teammates remember his contagious laughter and how he was never afraid to tell his friends that he loved them.

“Anytime I think of Micah, I always remember him smiling, having a good time and one of the biggest things is he loved to be around all of

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Head coach Ted Roof is looking to add players to his strong recruiting class this weekend.

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for his high school team, including quarterback, wide receiver, linebacker, safety and even punter. An impressive athlete, Jones has garnered scholarship offers from Duke, N.C. State and a host of SEC schools, including Tennessee.

“He’s just an extremely versatile kid who can do just about anything,” said David Gann, one of Jones’ assistant coaches, adding that Jones’ coachability makes him a prime Division I prospect.

Head coach Ted Roof and the Duke coaching staff have piqued Jones’ interest.

“He’s extremely impressed with what they’re doing and what they’re trying to

do at Duke,” Gann said. “He really appreciates their honesty and their being straightforward with him.”

Two other three-star prospects, linebacker Adam Leonard and defensive tackle Patrick Kuntz, will be in Durham this weekend for official visits, according to the recruiting website scout.com.

Leonard, one of the top 100 players on the West Coast, lists the Blue Devils as a solid favorite over interest from California and other Pac-10 schools.

Kuntz, one of the top prospects in the state of Indiana, has received scholarship offers from Louisville, Michigan State, Indiana and Northwestern, among others. Both have received scholarship offers from Duke.

involved with the Duke football program.

And they flocked to his memorial service in his hometown of Poland, Ohio.

At the time, Harris’ closest friends on the team insisted on finding ways to commemorate Harris. Throughout the season, the players have paid tribute to their “We have his locker, we keep it us,” Dapolito friend and teamsaid. “He didn’t mate in a variety intact, and we always dress it up to want be of ways. Several for Game Day.” alone, he loved have gotten tatto be around all toos to rememChris Dapolito of us to hang ber Harris, while out. He’d put others have carried around two nickels, symbolic of the aside anything, school work or whatever, just to hang around with the guys.” lineman’s number 55. And Just as his parents held his place on the field on Senior Echoing sentiments of his former Day, his teammates preserved his locker, teammate’s other close friends, senior Giuseppe Aguanno described Harris’ parturning it into makeshift memorial.

“We have his locker, we kept it intact, ents as “two of the greatest people we’ve and we always dress it up for Game Day ever met,” and the feeling is mutual.

‘Theway I look at it is I lost a son, but I’ve and put his jersey in there. We have picgain so many others, so many more sons, tures in there and flowers and cards,” former roommate Chris Dapolito said. because ofhow they’ve intertwined their life “Ajnytime you just want to do a little with Micah’s,” Harris’ mother said. “For us it something special, you want to write was very touching, a tribute to them.”

This crop of seniors will leave Durham another note, just throw it in his locker, it’s for us to without ever forgetting their classmate, another picture, always open and most importantly their friend, and do that.” teammate go The team also reserved a locker for and Duke will never forget Harris either. “[Roof] has said many times to us, ‘you Harris on the road, and the Blue Devils continue to cope by keeping as many are always part of our family,’” Diane reminders of the lineman with them, head Harris said. “It has not ended because Micah is not here to play his senior season coach Ted Roof said.

The players and coaches continuously and is not here to graduate. He will always share stories about Harris with his parents be a part of that institution.”

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Duke will likely be un- commitment to undergraduate fiaffected by a bill passed by nancial aid—and this is the perfect Congress last week that may opportunity for Brodhead to speak out on the topic. cut government funding for Pell As the leader of one of the most Grants, the major source of federal well-respected univeraid money for underStatT6ultori3l sides in the nation, graduates, the Uniwe want to see Brodversity should still be concerned about potential changes head weigh in on the bill and the potential impact it could have on the in financial aid.

The bill, if signed into law by Presability of some students to afford a college education. Although the merident George W. Bush, will cut fundof aid to its of the bill are understandably deundergrading government batable, the parties currently enuate students by more than $3OO million. The bill could lower Pell gaged in the debate should include Grant aid for approximately 1 million representatives of higher education, students and 90,000 others might lose not just politicians.

Federal financial aid is an asset to their grants entirely.

The changes are not expected to economically disadvantaged students affect students whose annual family that deserve a college education but income is below $25,000, nor will cannot afford it. Ensuring that colthey affect universities such as Duke lege is a practical option for all stuthat meet 100 percent of students’ dents who qualify academically demonstrated need. The financial aid should be a goal of the government, offices of those universities would and legislation that may eliminate or incur the extra cost ofany cuts to Pell lessen financial aid need to be seriously considered.

Grants and pay what the federal govIt is the universities like Duke, that does not. ernment Despite the fact that Duke stu- need to utilize their influence in dents will not be directly affected by Washington when it comes to the the bill, the measure still has an imright of qualified students to afford a pact on the overall state of financial college education.

Even if Duke is not direcdy affected aid for higher education, and as a should be this particular bill, Brodhead by institution, Duke reputable should still voice his opinion on the concerned about the changes.

Republicans backing the bill matter. If administratorsofuniversities argue that it is a positive change for do not discuss these issues, the needs financial aid while opponents of the of higher education may go unaddressed. If Brodhead is truly commitbill say it will only serve to make affording college more difficult. In his ted to the state offinancial aid in highshort tenure as president, Richard er education, he should weigh in on Brodhead has repeatedly voiced his the potential cut to government aid. .

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Apparently the new mandate has been government to ban alcohol or tobacco or even carcinogenic pesticides used in food translated to mean the renunciation of the Enlightenment and the regression of this production?

Commenting on a different sort of sin, country to moral absolutes in defiance of the Federal Communications Commission every advance made toward justice, equaliis threatening Fox with a $1.2 million inde- ty and reason in the Western world. Our cency fine for its now-defunct show “Mar- immoral television programming, radical ried by America.” The fire-alarm was gays and doped up youth must explain our pulled on the show by several conservative appalling poverty rate, lack of universal organizations, and the FGC cited 159 pub- health care, pervasive racist policies, inlic complaints in its case. Frank Rich of sanely high incarceration rates and the The New York Times reported there were American penchant for murder.

Just look at Canada, our friendly neighactually only 90 complaints written by 23 bor to the north. Medical marijuana, civil individuals.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2,

Let's talk about AIDS

Oct.

5, the 2004 vice presidential candidates were aware how grave this epidemic is in minority communiasked to speak “...not about AIDS in China or ties, how can they begin to fight it?

In the past, the CDC has followed a communityAfrica, but AIDS here in this country where black women between the ages of 25 and 44 are 13 based health education approach to AIDS prevention; however, recent cuts in government funding have times more likely to die of the disease than their counBoth had poor responses, generally skirting eliminated many such initiatives. terparts.” the issue. Vice President Dick Cheney’s answer was parMany of these targeted African-American and Latino communities, overwhelmingly at risk as a result of ticularly appalling. “/ had not heard those numbers until respect to African-American women, I was not aware that it poverty and resulting factors. These cuts result from new national program guidelines that shift the focus was—thatit’s that severe an epidemic there. away from funding HIV/AIDS educaAIDS is the leading cause of death for tion for those who are at risk, but curblack women between the ages of 24 to 45. Every day, more than 20 black women rently free from HIV/AIDS, toward programs for those who already know are get infected with HIV. Black that they are infected.

23 times more likely to be diagnosed with Meanwhile, President George W. HIV than white women. We can sit in the Bush recently asked Congress for more computer cluster and find these devastatthan $230 million toward abstinenceing facts just a mouse click away at the based education that does not include Center for Disease Control website. How Amelia Herbert instruction on safe sex and received is it possible that this information can don't believe the hype over $l3l million. Bush’s administracome as a shock to the second-highest official of the U.S. government during a tion has attacked effective HIV prevention programs that promote comprehensive sex educanationally televised debate? tion, needle exchange, access to condoms and other Would he feel comfortable admitting he was unaware of an epidemic killing white women at alarming interventions proven to prevent the spread of HIV. The rates? Where exactly is this “there” that he speaks of? Is CDC was instructed to remove all references to conthe place where these women live daily with HIV and dom effectiveness from its website. Bush has been freAIDS separate from the America where Cheney requently quoted saying, “Abstinence works 100 percent sides? Is “there” Durham, North Carolina? Brooklyn, of the time.” But, with surveys indicating that roughly New York? Chicago, Illinois? Los Angeles, California? 50 percent of teens say they have sex before leaving When will we realize that “there” is right here? high school and young people 15 to 24 accounting for Yesterday World Aids Day was commemorated about half the new cases of sexually transmitted disaround the globe. Did its urgency resonate here? Did eases in the United States each year, how long can we allow faith to drive public health campaigns? we relegate the gravity of this epidemic to remote locaOn Aug. 7, 2003, hundreds of people living with tions on the globe, neglecting to contemplate its deHIV, activists and service providers from a coalition of struction at home? Many focus on AIDS abroad, comfortable with perceptions that it’s because “they are AIDS organizations protested during the 22nd meeting poor,” they are in sub-Saharan Africa or India, the of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. “third world.” Rarely do we direct that urgency inward They carried coffins to dramatize the deadly impact of HIV policies motivated by faith, not science. On August to our own country where we construct this only as a problem of the “undesirables,” gays, drug users, sex 26, 2004, four organizations that lost funding in D.C. held a candlelight vigil on Capitol Hill. Letters were workers, people who somehow “deserve it.”

Words like “invisible;” “silent,” “falling through the collected and sent to the office of Tommy Thompson, cracks” are used to describe people suffering from secretary of Health and Human Services, asking for an AIDS in the United States. Why are they invisible? How explanation of the funding cuts targeting youth procan an administration claiming to lead the fight against grams. They remain unanswered. On Monday, Oct. 18, global AIDS not know how it’s affecting people right in 2004, AIDS activists and HIV-positive black women Washington D.C., the city with one of the highest rates? from Brooklyn-based AIDS group Housing Works were arrested after chaining themselves to the doors of the It’s true the plight of this disease has crippled Sub-Saharan Africa and other developing areas. We must also Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters.

How long will words like “invisible,” “silent” and realize, however, that the plight is not only abroad. AcNations, to the United North America had the “falling through the cracks” remain accurate descripcording world’s largest rate of increase of infections among tions of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, which women between 2001 and 2003. According to federal continues to devastate minority communities? Mr. Chdata, African-American and Hispanic women account eney, we hope “there” doesn’t seem so far away anymore. for less than 25 percent of this country’s female popuAmelia Herbert is a Trinity senior. This column was colation, yet account for almost 80 percent of all female AIDS cases. If our top government officials aren’t written withLinda Arnade, a Trinity junior. ”

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Imagination

In

second grade, my teacher prompted us to enter BOOK IT! —a competition where you read books for points that earned you a free pizza at Pizza Hut. Ecstatic that I could I could combine two of my favorite pastimes—eating and reading —I delved into the eccentric world of that zany housekeeper Amelia Bedelia, that magical babysitter Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and my all time favorite crime-fighting orphans, the Boxcar Kids, earning my way toward many a free personal pan pizza. Reading was an activity where I could transcend my mundane polo shirt, plaid skort life whose most exciting exploits included struggling to memorize times tables and swapping stickers to obtain the “greatest sticker collection ever.” “Reading,” as the corny free bookmarks they passed out at the library said, “was an adventure.”

So why is it that as we grow oldpr, reading becomes more of a chore than a pleasant diversion from them?

Is it because of that dreaded “summer reading,” an ordeal where you come back to school and sit around in a circle voicing carefully crafted analysis you wrote in the page margins, to mask your ambivalence? Is it because it’s easier to be spoon-fed entertainment-sitcoms that are thoughtful enough to prompt you when to laugh, that book-turned-movie that saves you the trouble of engaging your imagination or messing around with those bothersome polysyllabic words? Or is it because of the amount of reading you get in college already those 100plus page articles off of ereserves? After you get r ■ 35 through deciphering the dde, you feel as if reading is one of the very last activities you want to enCarolina astigarraga gage in voluntarily.

It’s easy to blame shadows on the cave wall those demanding professors that assign those dry, lengthy articles for our apathy toward reading. Or the entertainment industry for pumping out a “quick fix” of fun in the “unreal” reality TV shows or shoddily crafted sitcoms. Or those crazy Christian fundamentalists who banned the Harry Potter books from their towns because kids that read obviously want instructions on how to commune with the dead, or tips for smuggling illegal dragons out of the country. As with most problems, it is up to each of us to change our apathy and our misconception that “we just don’t have the time.” As finals draw precariously closer and you look for a diversion guaranteed to be more entertaining than watching Jessica Simpson mistake tuna for chicken, or as inevitable flight delays for winter break approach, here are some easy-to-digest, fun book suggestions: Tired of those sappy, happily ever after stories? Read any one of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events books-hilarious books about children living in misery. How can you not laugh at kids who are orphaned, sent to live with an eternally cough-ridden banker, and try to elude an evil uncle who is intent on stealing their fortune all in the first chapter?

Second suggestion: Douglas Adams’ Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Discover the ingredients for the best drink in the Galaxy, The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, ponder your own insignificance in the Total Perspective Vortex, learn the meaning of Everything and take counsel in the wise advice that as long as you have your towel well, there’s really no reason to panic. For a good conspiracy theory book fraught with politics, science, action, and a little bit of romance, pick up Deception Point

by Dan Brown. Yes, the author of TheDaVinci Code—but if you’ve already read that one (or feel like you have because everyone has told you the ending), read this lesser known, equally entertaining novel. Finally, a great comedic fantasy book is either one of the Artemis Fowl novels. Artemis Fowl maybe incredibly rich, infuriatingly smug and diabolically intelligent, but you’ll never cheer so hard for a nine-year-old’s machinations. A fun diversion is to try and decode the encrypted message in fairy script that runs across the bottom of each page.

So, most of the work has been done for you. Perhaps these books won’t be as intellectually stimulating as those e-reserves, but they are guaranteed to help dust off that cobwebbed recess of your brain housing your imagination.

Happy reading, and now that the semester is over, thanks for reading me.

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Carolina Astigarraga is a Trinity sophomore.

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