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K-ville's city limits by

Saidi Chen

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While current Duke students were en-

joying theirwell deserved winter vacations, 1,494 high school seniors from around the world were on edge. They were anxiously awaiting word back from the Office of Um dergraduate Admissions on the status of their early decision applications to join Duke’s Class of 2009.

Almost one-third of those applicants 465 in all—were admitted Dec. 15, while 262 students were denied admission and 767 were deferred and-will be reconsidered for admission in the spring.

Based on early decision results, the admissions office could become more selective this year: only 31 percent of early applicants were admitted this time around, compared to last year’s rate of 36 percent and 33 percent the year before.

Demographically speaking, the Class of 2009 figures to be especially diverse. Approximately one-fourth of the 465 students already admitted are students of color, and half are women. About 43 percent have applied for financial aid.

“The group as a whole is slightly more diverse racially and economically than last year,” said Christoph Guttentag, director of undergraduate admissions. “Beyond that, I’d say that in many ways they are typical of early decision students we’ve admitted in the past several years—very bright, very talented and very enthusiastic about Duke.”

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Freshmen Drew Braucht and Sofija Degesys are among thehundreds of students already camping out.

Instead of the usual gripes about the frigid weather, the complaints heard this year in Krzyzewskiville seem to be about the noise level as hundreds of students have been partying late into the night.

As the weather has stayed near a balmy 60 degrees, reaching 70 at times, students have flocked to K-ville as the social center ofcampus. The new Black Tenting period has been hugely popular as more than 460 students returned to tent before classes started.

The turnout for early tenting was so high that the line monitors decided to expand the cap that is usually set on the number of Blue and Black tents from 30 to 40 tents. Even with the increased cap all 40 spots were filled and there will be no new tents allowed in K-ville before the start of White Tenting a week before the Duke-UNC men’s basketball game Feb. 9.

“I think since the weather has been unbelievable, people thought ‘if it’s going to be this easy we might as well go out earlier and get a better tent spot,”’ Head Line Monitor Steve Rawson said.

‘This year’s freshman class has also been more excited about basketball than the classes we’ve had for a couple years, and that’s great.”

Returning from four weeks of rest, Duke students are gettingright back into the swing of college life as hundreds have headed out to K-ville to watch movies, throw a football around or play a game at one of the many Beirut tables.

The tents set up on the can-strewn lawns in front ofCameron Indoor Stadium show that though students are willing to leave their dorm rooms for SEE TENTING ON PAGE 7

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Junior endures tsunami

Our beach was gone by

Skyward Darby THE CHRONICLE

tarted out like any othervacation. Junior Jenny Heyand her family spent a relaxing few weeks in Thailand, lounging at a beachside resort, shopd traveling to nearby villages for a flavor of the ture.

The Chicago family’s idyllic experience was ihattered, however, on a bright Sunday morning, when the ocean waters suddenly rose and swalowed the shore.

“I didn’t even really know the term ‘tsunami,’” Heydemann said Tuesday, curled on an overtuffed chair in her brand new Durham apartment. “I just thought our town was gone, our each was gone.”

Heydemann and her family were among the thousands of tourists in Southeast Asia on Dec. 26, when the most powerful earthquake of the last 40

years triggered a tsunami that slammed the coasts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India and several other countries on the Indian Ocean.

To date, the disaster has claimed the lives of more than 150,000 people, mosdy natives of the region but many tourists as well. Indonesia experienced the greatest loss of life, with estimates ranging from 77,000 to over 106,000.

In Thailand—the Heydemanns’ holiday destination 5,309 are dead and 3,396 are missing, according to government numbers.

Heydemann said she had left her family eating breakfast on a terrace overlooking the ocean just before the wave struck. Her sister, Lizzi, came up to their third-floor hotel room a couple of minutes later and told her—as an afterthought —the “weirdest thing”: a wave had washed the beach away. Her father, Peter, had gone to the shore to investigate.

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newsinbrief Court condemns sentencing A splintered Supreme Court threw the nation's federal sentencing system into turmoil Wednesday, ruling that the way judges have been sentencing some 60,000 defendants a year is unconstitutional.The court found judges have been improperly adding time to some criminals' prison stays.

Indonesia imposes tighter restrictions

BY Yeoh En-Lai THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The U.S. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia military faced tighter restrictions Wednesday as the Indonesian government sought to reassert control over foreign troops, relief workers and journalists in the tsunamidevastated region, which also has been the site of a rebel insurgency.

In Paris, the world’s wealthiest nations said they support a moratorium on debt repayments by countries stricken by the Dec. 26 disaster that has killed more than 150,000 people.

The moves by the Indonesian government, aimed primarily at U.S. troops, un-

derscore the nationalistic country’s sensitivities at having foreign military forces operating there. They also come amid warnings from the Indonesian military that areas of tsunami-battered Aceh province may not be safe for aid workers.

Although hundreds of troops from Australia, Singapore, Germany and other nations are also helping the relief mission, the United States has the largest presence by far with about 13,000. The Indonesian military is providing security for all of them.

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is leading the U.S. military’s relief effort, steamed out of Indonesian wa-

ters Wednesday because

the U.S. Navy only has permission from the Indonesians to fly aircraft into its airspace that are directly supporting the humanitarian operation, said- Lt. Cmdr. John Daniels, spokesperson for the Lincoln carrier strike group. Helicopters will still deliver aid to Sumatra’s devastated coast, however.

Indonesia declined to let the ship’s fighter pilots use its airspace for training missions. Under U.S. Navy rules, pilots of carrier-based warplanes cannot go longer than 14 days without flying or their skills are considered to have degraded too far.

Ridge pushes for fingerprints Americans' fingerprints should be added to their passports, outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday, hoping to include the United States in a growing global security standard but risking a privacy fight at home.

Drug ads deemed misleading Advertisements for the arthritis drug Celebrex were misleading and unsubstantiated, overstating the pain reliever's benefits and understating the risks, the government said Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration asked for an immediate halt to all ads for Celebrex.

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U.S. declares end to WMD search in Iraq by

Katherine Pfleger Shrader THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The White House acknowledged Wednesday that its hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction—a twoyear search costing millions of dollars— has closed down without finding the stockpiles that President George W. Bush cited as a justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein.

Bush’s spokesperson said the president had no regrets about "invading Iraq.

"Based* on what we know today, the president would have taken the same action because this is about protecting the American people," said White House

spokesperson Scott McClellan.

The Iraq Survey Group—made up of as many as 1,500 military and intelligence specialists and support staff—is ending its

search of military installations, factories and laboratories where it was thought that equipment and products might be converted to making weapons.

McClellan said the active search had virtually ended. "There may be a couple, a few people that are focused on that," he said, adding that they would handle any future reports that might come in.

At a meeting last month, McClellan said Bush thanked the chief U.S. weapons in-

spector, Charles Duelfer, for his work. A special adviser to the CIA director, Duelfer will deliver a final edition of a report on Iraq’s weapons next month. McClellan said it is not expected to fundamentally differ from the findings of a report last fall.

Duelfer said then that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991. However, he said the government harbored intentions of recreating its weapons programs and had gone to great lengths to manipulate the U.N. oilfor-food program.

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Hacker compromises security A hacker broke into T-Mobile USA's wireless network over at least seven months and read e-mails and personal computer files of hundreds of customers, including the Secret Service agent investigating the

hacker, the government said Wednesday.

News briefs compiled from wire reports

"The purpose of life is to fight maturity."

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Week

February One A Documentary Film...

The 1960 Greensboro Sit-In

Friday, January 14, 2005 5:00 P.M., East Duke Building (Parlor-first floor) Reception Come for pizza!

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Speak of the Devil Student A Capella Group Special Award Presentation to UNC-TV, Bridges to Diversity Project Documentary Film Showing Panel Discussion with Steve Channing, Executive Producer and other Special Guests -

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Spanish benches debut on Main West Quad by

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Like many students, junior John Erickson came back to school and noticed four large benches on the Main Quadrangle—and he was confused.

The Spanish benches—as many students are calling them—arrived from Spain while students were on Winter Break. “I don’t know where you would get an idea like that; a bench from Spain?” Erickson wondered while sitting on the Campus Council bench, which is about 10 feet away from one of the new Spanish benches.

The $4,000 benches look markedly different from existing student-built bench designs. They are low platforms made of dark thick wood. One vertical piece juts out from the platform, allowing people to sit or lie down on them.

The benches, promised by administrators last semester, finally made it to campus after a two month delay in customs.

While in customs, mold began to grow on them, preventing their entry into the United States and postponing their arrival at Duke. The benches went through processes of cleaning and refinishing before being placed on the Main Quad.

Until administrators decide the future of the four wooden monoliths, the benches will endure a trial period on the Main Quad. Residential Life and Housing Services bought the benches to explore possible seating options for the West Campus plaza, which will replace the Bryan Center Walkway in the next few years. Administrators said the European style of the benches offers a preview of the plaza’s proposed European theme. Construction on the plaza is scheduled for next summer.

‘These benches were ordered to be placed in the main quad for students and other members of the campus community to determine if they were possible seating options in the plaza,” said Eric Van Danen, director ofcommunications for the Office of Student Affairs. “The main quad seemed to be a good place for temporary seating options,” he added.

Van Danen said that he hopes that “throughout the semester, students and

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Sophomores Lauren McLaughlin and Jay Larson lounge Tuesday afternoon on one ofthe Spanish benches installed on Main West Campus. other members of the campus community will be socializing around the benches” as they have in years past.

The very heavy wooden benches were cemented into the ground to prevent their destruction in basketball bonfires. Some students predicted that despite the perceived permanence of the benches, they will not escape a fiery fate.

After being criticized about the lack of student input in the benches’ purchase, administrators are now starting to. gather feedback about them from students. Van Danen encouraged students and other members of the campus community to email him direcdy with their reactions.

He said that although the benches were

bought with the intention of providing seating for the new plaza, “if they are embraced, they could be seating options for

other parts of campus.”

Students, however, are skeptical about the benches. Junior Ross Rickoff—who was seated on one of the new benches—said that although the new benches look classier, the student-built benches are more comfortable and hold more sentimental value.

“I don’t know how comfortable or practical they are,” he said. “I would like to see more student benches back on Main West Campus.”

Tsunami Aid Organizing Meeting

Friday, January 14, 2005 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Von Canon Hall, Bryan Center Join student leaders and key administrators to learn more about campusfund-raising efforts, volunteer service opportunities, research and educational resources, and faith responses from the Duke community.

If you plan to attend[ please reply to pnobles@duke.edu.

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RLHS decided that permanent seating was necessary due to students’ lack of interest in building benches themselves. A bench building contest, however, sponsored by the Alumni Affairs office during Homecoming week last semester drew large student interest with many student organizations participating. The majority of these benches were removed from the Main Quad on West Campus to make room for the Spanish benches.

Erickson also expressed negative sentiments from his perch on an old bench.

“They look like half benches,” he noted.

“My roommate said he hoped we paid half price.”

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Experts say Pell Grant newsbriefs changes will reduce aid by

Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE

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of Pell Grant aid to college students was signed into effect as part of the omnibus spending bill last month. Although lawmakers claim that more money is available for Pell Grants, financial aid experts said fewer students will qualify for the funding.

Non-partisan aid specialists estimate that the changes could 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. James Belvin, Duke director of financial aid, said the changes to the federal Pell Grant program would not have any effect on the total amount of aid awarded to Duke students from the University.

‘Those on need-based aid will see no effect in the total amount ofaid—the University will make up the shortfall for students,” he said. “Other institutions that meet full need will have the same results.

Institutions that have a policy of meeting full need will meet full need.

“If institutions do not meet full need,” he said, “students will have less funding available.”

Brian Fitzgerald, former director of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, an independent group that advises Congress on student aid legislation, said the changes would most drastically reduce aid for students

from “moderate income” households—those earning between $30,000 and $45,000 per year.

The Committee on Education and Work Force under President George W. Bush’s administration maintains that the changes only increase the aid awarded to students, not decrease it, as many experts, financial aid directors and news sources have attested.

Although Belvin reiterated Duke’s pledge to meet students’ financial needs, he said these changes will add pressure to the University’s financial aid budget.

Duke is prepared to address the additional strain, he said.

“We’re going to have to find additional funding,” Belvin said. “We’re not sure exactly what the shortfall will be, but right now we’re working on finding that out.”

Although Duke students will continue to receive funding for tuition costs regardless of whether there are changes to their Pell Grants, many are not happy about new distribution formula.

“As a student who needs financial aid to pay for tuition, I don’t know what the motivation really is for changing funding—it doesn’t seem very fair,” senior Tyler Yoon said. “It seems like the change was made under the understanding that it won’t affect too many people. The government probably had their own reasons for changing [the policy], I would like to know what those are. They wouldn’t just change the policy for no reason.”

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Ben Folds concert tickets on sale today North Carolina native and pop piano pro Ben Folds is coming to Duke’s Page Auditorium Thursday, Jan. 27 for a concert presented by the Duke University Union.

Tickets will be on sale for Duke students only at a discount price of $2O, starting at 10 a.m. this morning at the University Box Office in the Bryan Center.

General tickets will be available tomorrow at $22 for students and $25 for the public.

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“Dr. Shingleton remained a friend to the Cancer Center long after his tenure as director and will forever be remembered as the man who created the foundation on which we all stand today,” said H. Kim Lyerly, current director of the Cancer Center.

Grad student injured in Iraq Jonathan Kuniholm, a biomedical engineering Ph.D student serving as a combat engineer in the Marine Corps Reserves, was seriously hurt when insurgent attacks in Baghdad, Iraq, flared up briefly on New Year’s Day. Kuniholm had been working on a roving reconnaissance device with the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion before he was transported to Germany to wait for a trip home to the United States where he will be treated at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. He is expected to recover fully.

Orientation required for job database For the new semester, the Career Center is requiring all students to attend a one-hour job recruiting orientation before they can access the online career network BlueDevilTrak. The training sessions, which run from now until late February, are meant to explain job recruiting, interviewing, company visits to campus and job offers. Both new and existing users ofBlueDevilTrak must register at for orientation online

http://survey.oit.duke.edu/ViewsFlash7s ervlet/viewsflash?cmd=page&pollid=STU AFF-CAREER! OCR. Duke cancer research pioneer, 88, dies Renowned surgeon William Warner Shingleton, who founded the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center in a push for nadonal cancer studies in the 19705, died Jan. 2 in Chapel Hill. He was 88.

Under Shingleton’s direction, Duke’s Cancer Center gained recognition from the National Cancer Advisory Board as the No. 1 comprehensive cancer center in the nation in 1977, just five years after its inception. The center expanded rapidly and maintained national prestige

Grant pumps SO.SM into Durham area The Duke Endowment, the University’s foundational and philanthropic arm, has offered a $515,000 grant to pump resources into Duke-Durham SEE BRIEFS ON PAGE 7

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Professor Philip Stewart French 1425.03 TTH 2:50-4:05 207 Languages The novel: form. message, history. An overview that addresses

Women Black Professor Jean Jonassaint ,

FR 1685.01 MW 2:50-4:05 210 Branson A corpus of works by Francophone women writers from Africa and the Caribbean in a introduction to general contemporary Francophone literatures and the history of Black Women though space and time. Sensitivity to fundamental issues of Francophone spaces and literatures, like the socio-political status of writers, the weight of traditions and prejudices, the shock of cultures, the postcolomal disillusion, and the woman’s condition.

Readings include Manama Ba, Calixthe Beyala, Maryse Condi;, Fabienne Pasquet. and Simone Schwarz-Bart. C-L: AAAS 1385.01, AALL 1685.01 ALP, CCI, FL

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the female Pirandello’s Enrico IV and representation of self-reliance in Goldoni’s La Locandiera. Taught in Italian. ALP, FL. C-L:

.Visiting Professor Laura Orsi IT 113.01 MW 2:50-4:05 207 Languages Novellas and short stories drawn from different of Italian periods literature. ALP, CCI,FL

questions such as: What

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What kinds of choices does the novelist have, and what are their advantages and limitations?

How does it compare with other narrative forms (film, epic. etc.). ALP, CCI,FL

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“Orientalism” and Colonialism in Italian Literature Professor Valeria Finucci Italian 1425.01 TTH 1:15-2:30 208 Languages Course retraces the discourse of the “Other” as registered in orientalist and colonial writing in

Italy. Early modem examples of racial differences and/or racial erasures (i.e, the travails of the sultan of Babylon’s virgin daughter, Alatiel, and of the cross-dressed Ginevra at the Sultan’s service in Boccaccio’s Decameron) as well as narratives of the “Turk” (i.e, Umberto Eco’s sack of Constantinople in Baudolino and Ottaviano Bon’s visit to the harem in Istanbul in II Serraglio).

Taught in Italian. ALP, FL

Identity and Social Change in the Italian Theater Professor Valeria Firmed IT ISIS.OI TTH 2:50-4:05 208 Languages

Identity and conflict in the Italian theater.

Includes Pirandello’s Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore, in which the individual is deemed less real than the character representing him/her on

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Gender and Cross Cultural Experience Professor Stephanie Sieburth RS 170 MW 1:15-2:30 305 Languages This course begins from two presumptions; that you have either studied abroad or had an internship experience, and that you are interested in gender issues and feminism. Course will require you to develop and ask new questions about your experiences through a feminist lens, and then work S

FRENCH The French Novel

to answer those questions through a sustained research project. What does activism look like across time and across cultures? How have women

identified and resisted oppressive conditions in their lives? What consequences have they home for theirresistance? C-L: WST 180 S

Post-War Culture in France and Italy Professors Alice Kaplan/Roberto Dainotto RS 2005.01 TH 1:15-3:45 136 Carr Explores two different strategies of cultural reconstruction after fascism and war in France and Italy. As the French republic is restored after Vichy, and the Italian one created anew following the downfall of monarchy, national cultures face the difficult role of confronting an often unpleasant past tainted by collaboration and collusion with the forces of fascism. Post-war cultures in France and Italy record, through literature, journalism and cinema, the newly recovered normality of everyday life, and ideologies of Gaullism. Communism and the “third way.” Readings: Sagan. Bonjour Tristresse Sciascia, Sicilian Uncles, Vittorini, Men and not men films include Hiroshima mon amour The Battle of Algiers Bitter Rice, and Two Women.

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SPANISH Vanguardia, arte politico y practices de resistencia en Chile Visiting Professor Federico Galende SP 1425.02 WF 4:25-5:40 311 Soc Sci Temas a cubrir incluyen: Obra, cosa, mundo: las reglas del arte {rente a la obra corao “materialidad en sf El arte en la cadena de su serialidad tecnica: de la estetizacion de la politica a la politizacion del arte Balmes y la huella del primer arte politico en ’

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Thursday, January 13 9;ooam 4:oopm SERMONS AND SPEECHES OF REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Recorded sermons and speeches will be played throughout the day. Duke Chapel.

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Duke University School of Medicine Chapter of the Student National Medical Association. HIV/AIDS educator and

patient Rae Lewis-Thomton will speak on “Ensuring Equality in Health Care through Exposure and Education.”

Durham Marriott at the Civic Center, downtown Durham (contact Porcia Bradford: ptb2@duke.edu).

Friday, January 14 10;30am MUSIC OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA Performers from the Duke University community will sing songs from the civil rights era to patients, staff and visitors Duke Hospital.

Noon MUSICAL REMEMBRANCE Music by Duke Jazz Ensemble, readings and the ringing of carillon bells will punctuate “A Moment ofRemembrance” for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Duke Chapel.

12:00pm 1:00pm MUSIC DANCE Performances by Clay Taliaferro (words from Dr. King); &

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Barney Branch (saxophone); N.C. Central University jazz musician Baron Tymas (hymns), students from the Duke Dance Program and members of the Duke Choir. Duke Hospital North, lobby to

Monday, January 17 10;30am 4;3opm FREEDOM SCHOOL Inspired by the Freedom Schools organized during the Civil Rights Movement, a series of concurrent discussions featuring Duke students, faculty (including William Raspberry, Ariel Dorfman, Jim Joseph, Bruce Payne, Alex Harris and Peter Storey), alumni and invited speakers.

Topics include Sunflower County Freedom Project (Missisippi Freedom School), environmental justice, the ethics of protest, NFL sports management and presentations by the Center for Race Relations and the Freeman Center. Von Canon Hall, Griffith Theatre in Bryan Center and Mary Lou Williams Center, West Union, Duke’s West Campus.

4;oopm to s;3opm SPEECH. Marshall Jones, a Ph.D. mechanical engineer, fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, GE Fellow, and winner of the National Society of Black Engineers Pioneer of the Year Golden Torch Award, will speak on in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences, Auditorium B. Sponsored by Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering.

3:3opm “MAINTAINING YOUR CULTURAL IDENTITY IN TODAY’S POLITICALLY CORRECT (P.C.) WORLD” Panel discussion led by graduate faculty and students.

CIEMAS Auditorium (Fitzpatrick Centerfor Interdisciplinary Engineering Medicine and Applied Sciences), Light refreshments served. Duke’s West Campus

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4:45pm A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO KING Duke’s Faculty in Residence perfom a tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Food and drink to be provided.

Gilbert-Addoms Residence Hall, Down Under, Duke’s East Campus.

7;oopm KEYNOTE SPEECH ANGELA DAVIS, civil rights activist, criminal justice critic and University of California, Santa Cruz professor will give the keynote speech of the day. Page Auditorium, Duke’s West Campus. A book signing and reception will follow in the Faculty Commons and Mary Lou Williams Center, West Union, Duke’s West Campus.

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7:oopm “SHATTERED DREAMS” A musical production by Oren Marsh, performed by Duke University and Durham Regional Hospital employees.

Carolina Theatre, downtown Durham.

Sunday, January 16

11:00am DUKE CHAPEL SERVICE Sermon by Bishop Gregory Palmer, resident bishop of the lowa area of the United Methodist Church, on “Martin Luther King Jr. and Vocational Discernment.” Special music

by Duke Chapel Choir. Duke Chapel 4:oopm 16™ ANNUAL MLK SERVICE OF

CELEBRATION COMMEMORATION Bernice Johnson Reagon, scholar, artist, activist and founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock will be keynote &

speaker. Duke Chapel. Reception will follow in Mall, Bryan Center.

Schaefer

Noon “HEALTH DISPARITIES WITHIN THE

AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY; THE UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED” Forum led by hospital staff and employees. Durham Regional Hospital, first-level classroom.

3; 30pm “THE LEGACY OF

JOHN HOPE

FRANKLIN” In celebration of John Hope Franklin’s 90th birthday, the historian’s former students will discuss his legacy, (seating is limited) Nelson Music Room, Duke’s East Campus.

6; 00pm Q&A

Historian JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN will mark his 90th birthday with a discussion and question-and-answer session. The talk will be preceded by a reception and followed by refreshments, (seating is limited) East Duke building, Duke’s East Campus.

7; 00pm “UP ABOVE MY HEAD, I HEAR MUSIC IN

cafeteria.

s;oopm B:3opm “FEBRUARY ONE” A documentary film about the 1960 Greensboro Woolworth sit-in followed by a panel discussion with the film’s executive producer and special guests. Performance by student a cappella group. Speak Of The Devil, and a reception will precede the film. Richard White Auditorium, Duke’s East Campus.

Thursday, January 20 Noon “IS KING’S DREAM STILL ALIVE?” A British Parliament-style debate, modeled after those held in the House of Commons, on King’s contributions and legacy. Audience participation encouraged. Duke Law

Tuesday, January 18

s:oopm CANDLELIGHT VIGIL Hear excerpts from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and lighting of candles in remembrance. Durham Regional Hospital, front lawn Time: TBA “FIFTY YEARS AFTER BROWN, WHY ARE WE STILL USING THE WORD SEGREGATION?” Abigail Themstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and author of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning (2003), will discuss topic. Duke Law School.

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NC Senator Jeanne Lucas will deliver keynote address. Durham Regional Hospital Auditorium.

Noon “CHRISTIAN CALLING AND THE WORK OF THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.” Craig Kocher, acting dean of Duke Chapel and the Rev. Patrick Thompson, director of Black Campus Ministry will lead discussion. Lunch provided. Mary Lou Williams Center, West Union, Duke’s West Campus.

For further information contact the

THE AIR” Musical presentation honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Durham Regional Hospital auditorium.

Friday, January 21 8:00pm STEP SISTERS: A POETIC DIALOGUE ON RACE AND WOMANHOOD” GLENis Redmond AND PATRICIA Starek. Through the language of poetry and the power of stepping, these two women communicate the hardships that they have endured and also speak passionately about the power that the present holds to change the future. Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, Duke’s West Campus. Tickets: $5 General, Free to Duke students and employees. 919-684-4444 or w ww. tickets.duke .edu.

Saturday, January 22 Noon POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP Glenis Redmond and Patricia Starek conduct workshop. Mary Lou Williams Center, West Union, Duke’s West Campus. To reserve space call 684-3897.

Sunday, January 23 2:oopm THE FISK UNIVERSITY JUBILEE SINGERS World-renown group will sing for John Hope Franklin and in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. Duke Chapel.

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Sharon’s government Insurgents ambush wins first Knesset vote troop convoy in Jraq by

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JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fended off the latest challenge to his Gaza withdrawal plan Wednesday, winning a parliamentary vote that had threatened to bring down his new moderate government.

But hard-liners in his Likud Party said they will topple Sharon if he does not put his pullout plan to a national referendum—a step he has ruled out.

The political crisis revolved around Sharon's 2005 state budget, which must pass three votes by March 31. Otherwise, the government must resign and new elections would be scheduled, putting the Gaza pullout in jeopardy.

Sharon this week formed a new government with the dovish Labor Party and a small ultra-Orthodox Jewish party.

The alliance, with the occasional backing of several opposition parties, gives Sharon a solid majority in favor of the Gaza withdrawal, despite objections from 13 Likud lawmakers.

Without the hard-liners' support, however, Sharon doesn't have enough votes to push his budget through parliament.

Some of the opposition parties backing the withdrawal oppose Sharon's 2005 spending plan.

Just before Wednesday's vote, the Likud rebels said they would temporarily support the budget. But they threatened to oppose the budget in subsequent votes if Sharon does not hold a referendum on the plan.

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“We call on the prime minister to reconsider holding a referendum.”

Sharon has rejected a referendum as a stalling tactic. Sharon's spokesperson, Asaf Shariv, said after the vote that the prime minister's opinion hasn't changed.

Sharon was expected to court the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party to shore up support for the budget. But Shas would likely demand hundreds of millions of dollars for its religious schools and social programs, throwing the budget process into disarray.

Sharon's plan, which includes the evacuation offour West Bank settlements, would uproot 8,800 settlers from their homes. Settler leaders, along with many members of the Likud, the traditional patron of the settler movement, oppose the plan.

Israeli military officials have expressed growing concern that a majority of settlers could violently resist removal.

The army will mobilize several thousand troops during the evacuation, scheduled to begin in July, military officials said. The operation will be called “Brethren Dwelling,” a phrase from the Book ofPsalms.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said an extra army division will be deployed in Gaza a month before the withdrawal begins.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Insurgents ambushed a convoy of American and Iraqi forces in the northern city of Mosul, detonating a roadside bomb and firing from a mosque in an attack that killed three Iraqi National Guardsmen, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

In Baghdad, U.S. forces detained six suspects in the Jan. 4 slaying of the governor of Baghdad province, Ali al-Haidari, the military said Wednesday. The suspects were detained Tuesday during a raid on a house in northern Hurriyah neighborhood.

Brig. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, assistant commander of the Ist Cavalry Division, which controls Baghdad, said he believed two of those detained were direcdy involved in the slaying.

Al-Haidari was the highest-ranking Iraqi official killed since the former president of the now defunct Governing Council, Abdel-Zahraa Othman, was assassinated in May. In Mosul, the troops were bringing heaters and other supplies to a school when they came under attack Tuesday, a military statement said. The convoy was first hit with a roadside bomb and then sprayed with gunfire from a nearby mosque. Three Iraqi troops were killed and six were wounded. No Americans were reported hurt.

Violence has surged in the run-up to Iraq’s Jan. 30 election, and Mosul has been a major trouble spot in recent weeks. Prime Minister Ayad Allawi acknowledged Tuesday that parts of Iraq probably won’t be safe enough for people to vote and said he plans to boost the size of the country’s army from 100,000 to 150,000 men by year’s end.

In an editorial published in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, former Iraq administrator Paul Bremer defended the coalition’s decision to disband Saddam Hussein’s military after the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 and bar senior members of the Baath Party from government

jobs. Some have criticized the move, saying it helped push out-of-work military

men into the ranks of the insurgency.

Bremer cited past abuses against Iraq’s Kurds and repressed Shiite communities as “monuments to Saddam’s army’s brutality toward Iraq’s citizens.”

He wrote that disbanding the army reassured Iraq’s Kurds and was a decisive factor in convincing them to remain in a united Iraq. “This decision... signaled to the Iraqi people the birth of a new Iraq,” Bremer wrote.

Allawi discussed preparations for this month’s election by telephone with President George W. Bush Tuesday, and both leaders underscored the importance of going ahead with the vote as planned, White House spokesperson Scott McClellan said.

The prime minister said at a news conference that “hostile forces are trying to hamper this event.”

Also Tuesday, gunmen stopped three trucks carrying new Iraqi coins south of Baghdad and killed the drivers, stole the money and set the trucks on fire, a police official said.

The attack occurred near the town of Salman Pak, some 12 miles southeast of Baghdad. The trucks were carrying the money from the southern port city ofBasra to the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Police searching the area found the three burnt trucks a few miles from the scene before discovering the three burnt bodies of the drivers, he said. The official refused to say how much money was in the trucks.

The Central Bank announced Jan. 1 that it would start circulating coins for the first time since Saddam’s regime abolished them in the aftermath of the 1990 Gulf War. Coins were scrapped in 1991, when the international embargo sent Iraq’s annual inflation rate soaring upward of 1,000 percent.

A U.S. soldier was killed in action in Iraq’s volatile western Anbar province.

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In addition, 82 of the new Blue Devils have indicated that they plan to study engineering, up from last year’s number of 68, reflecting the University’s new commitment to the Pratt School of Engineering, which hopes to increase enrollment by 100 over the next two years.

“We wanted to start with a good core of students who have a strong commitment to engineering and to Duke,” Guttentag said.

JeffHu, a senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham, was admitted from the early decision pool and plans to study biomedical engineering. He interned with Duke’s biomedical engineering department last summer and was impressed with the increased focus on engineering.

“Over the summer I noticed there was a lot of construction going on, and there’s a new building, CIEMAS, which was opened recently,” the Cary, N.C., native said. “When I worked with post-doctoral students and resident professors, I realized that they were a lot like my Science and Math professors. And I really like the atmosphere there. It’s very encouraging and very open.”

Guttentag said the early admission process benefits the undergraduate community because it attracts students that are very keen on Duke.

‘The enthusiasm for Duke of those students who apply under our early decision program is always especially striking,” Guttentag said. “The balance between their exceptional academic and personal credentials and their wonderful sense of spirit helps maintain Duke’s special quality.”

BRIEFS from page 4 most recent gift—the priorities of which were determined by residents, according to Duke officials—is intended to continue development on affordable housing, youth programs and nonprofit organizations in the West End and Walltown neighborhoods near East and West Campuses, respectively.

Anothier $240,000 will go to an expansion of the Lyon Park Clinic and the eventual opening of the Walltown Neighborhood Clinic, giving more healthcare options to areas where Duke has already reached out in community-based health programs.

“It enables the Neighborhood Partnership to work on long-term goals rather than mere short-term fixes,” President Richard Brodhead said. ‘We are extremely grateful for the vision of The Duke Endowment, which has made possible much of the progress we have seen.”

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Grills, stereos and lawn chairs were scattered in front of tents with awnings, porches, and multiple rooms. “There are tents out here that are bigger than my dorm room,” freshmen Tom Tait said. “I’ve lived here for 12 hours now and I like it, but people need to shut up at night.”

Freshman Hannah Kaye spent the morning reading on the floral couch inside her carpeted tent. “We’re innovators, so I have a feeling that our tent’s soon going to rival our dorm room,” she said. “I think that we’re really lucky that the weather’s been so nice. I’ve been hearing horror stories about tents that caved in because of snow.”

The first tent this year was pitched New Year’s Eve, a relatively late starting date in K-ville—in previous years, students have been known to come back the day after Christmas.

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The new stricter guidelines for early tenting were passed by Duke Student Government in September with a view to improve the safety of students who chose to cut short their vacations to tent and to-establish a more energetic feeling of community that some felt had been lacking in K-ville in recent years. The rules stipulated that anyone who wanted to start tenting before classes started must have 10 students in their tent at night and eight during the day.

“We were concerned about people being out on Christmas Day for almost three weeks with no dorms or any campus buildings open,” Rawson said. “Previously early semester, pre-semester tenting has been pretty dangerous. With more regulated pre-semester tenting and more people there, there is a more vibrant social atmosphere for those who do come back early.”

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TSUNAMI from page 1 “My dad had seen the wave and the destruction it had done, and the fact that our beach was floating away with the wave receding, and he had gone down to take pictures,” Heydemann recalled.

But initially, she added, neither of them thought the event was serious. When her mother, Helaine, came upstairs in a panic because her father had not returned, screaming that another, larger wave had hit, Heydemann said she thought she was overreacting.

“I just thought, ‘okay, that’s weird,”’ Heydemann said. ‘Then we looked out over our balcony and saw boats and lounge chairs and umbrellas and lots of rubble.

The first wave had broken out the windows in a bunch ofshops on the sea.... It was taking huge structures with it.”

Nonetheless, Heydemann, her sister and her mother waited an hour for her father to return.

‘Then we started to realize that he wouldn’t let us worry like that,” she said.

“It had been so long; we didn’tknow where he could possibly be.”

Downstairs at the hotel, chaos reigned.

Water had pooled around the base of the building, and loud popping noises—flood-

ed cars exploding in the parking lot—mingled with the screams of frightened guests, staff and victims, Heydemann said.

After wandering for an hour, asking person after person ifthey had seen her father, Heydemann finally gave up.

“I stopped and just got in a chair and started crying,” she said, her voice trailing off as she recalled the peak of her fright.

“For a while, I thought, ‘Of course he’s not out there. Look, that water’s not that strong, he’d be fine.’ Then the longer it g0t.... It didn’t make sense anymore. I just thought about the fact that I might never see him again.”

But moments later, her fears were quelled: A concierge found her and told her that her father was in a nearby hospital.

He had been taking photographs in a destroyed store when the second wave came.

“He heard a lot of screaming and knew another wave was coming, but there was no time, no warning,” Heydemann said. “And the next wave took him and the store with it, completely out to sea.”

After being swept away, Heydemann explained, her father fought to make his way back to shore with a fractured left arm.

“He plays tennis so he has strong leg muscles, and he just pushed and pushed with his legs and held onto things with his one hand,” Heydemann said. “He said he

INDONESIA from page 2 Since the AbrahamLincoln has been stationed off Sumatra since Jan. 1, the carrier moved out of Indonesian waters so its pilots could conduct their training flights in international airspace.

Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said foreign troops would be out of the country by March 31.

"A three-month period is enough, even the sooner the better," Kalla said.

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was in the water and there was an electric line above him and sharp nails and boards and things that had broken off all around him.”

Reunited at the hospital, the Heydemann family watched in horror as victims—mostly tourists—poured into the emergency room nursing wounds and screaming for help. A young female doctor, also from Chicago, had been trapped under her bungalow for hours after losing her boyfriend in the water.

“She was humiliated in her little red bikini, sitting there covered in blood with a severed hand, which I think she had to have amputated,” Heydemann said. “And her leg was just useless and bloody.”

Once her father was released, leaving the country proved difficult, Heydemann explained. Masses of tourists jammed airplanes, desperate to get home. As her family finally left for Chicago days later, Heydemann said, she observed the aftermath of the disaster firsthand with a heavy heart.

“What we saw walking, leaving our hotel were just piles of rubble—anything you can think of in piles,” she said. “And the poor Thai people had lost everything.

They were sifting through, taking anything they could find.”

Back at school after a brief respite at home, Heydemann said thai she, like the

nalists to declare travel plans or face expulsion from Aceh as authorities moved to reassert control of the rebellion-wracked area.

The White House said Wednesday it has asked the Indonesian government to explain the restrictions on aid workers and journalists.

"We’ll seek further clarification from Indonesia about what this means," White House spokesperson Scott McClellan. "We hope that the government of Indonesia and the military in Indonesia will continue the strong support they have provided to the international relief efforts so far.”

of the world, is still shocked by the aerial footage she sees on television, noting that being on the ground did not give as broad a view of how much the tsunami destroyed.

But smiling and chatting about sorority recruitment and the new-semester, Heydemann said she and her family—including her father, whose arm is expected to heal in eight weeks—are coping with their experience. She said she is thankful her father was saved and hopes relieffunds continue to flood the affected region. Despite her experience, she said she would even consider returning to Thailand someday.

‘The day of, I was thinking a lot about the what-ifs... looking at the people around us and wondering, ‘What if that had been us?’” Heydemann said. “But this kind of thing is so infrequent. They say something like this happens every 700 years. We were just unlucky.” rest

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PELL GRANTS from page 4 Some students are upset the recent changes to the Pell Grant program will further hinder opportunities for those seeking an education.

“There’s a lot of spending on things less important than education and in order for this country to keep improving, more and more of the population needs to get an education,” senior Adam Katz said. “This will affect more and more people who can’t afford college and therefore impede progress in education.”

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The member chapters of the Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council have voted to adopt the following resolution effective immediately: The member chapters of the Interfratemity Council and Panhellenic Association do not recognize any Greek letter organization that is not affiliated with one of the four umbrella councils of Duke University or another recognized institution of higher education.

Furthermore, the member chapters do not recognize any group, under whatever name, that was formally associated with one of the member councils, but no longer is.

As such, the member chapters of the (Interfratemity Council/Panhellenic Association) will not engage in any activities, be they social, philanthropic, educational, or otherwise, nor associate with these organizations or groups.

All allegations will be investigated by the Greek Judicial Board and the chapter in question will remain on interim suspension until the allegations are resolved.

Each council adopted the above resolution according to its constitution and by-laws. In both cases, each chapter cast its vote pertaining to the resolution through its voting representative. The Inter-Greek Council has passed a similar resolution as well.

Throughout their collective history, and during the past several years more specifically, the member chapters of the Panhellenic Association and Interfratemity Council have worked to uphold their commitment to

brotherhood, sisterhood, service, philanthropy, leadership, social development and academic development.

These fraternities and sororities have made a conscious choice to affiliate with the University and work to support and enhance its mission through continuous achieyemept and improvement.

Regretfully, in the past, organizations have chosen to leave our community, foregoing university and council recognition and becoming disaffiliated with national fraternal organizations. As such, the chapters of the Panhellenic Association and Interfratemity Council cannot continue to support these groups or similar future groups through any type of activity due to a need to protect the character and reputation of our community, comply with national decrees, minimize financial liability and ensure the overall long-term best interests of the community.

The decision to adopt this resolution was neither reached lightly nor in haste, but rather was the product of difficult discussion that took place over the last few years. Although their members remain our classmates, neighbors, and friends, we are unable to support those organizations which have chosen to withdraw from our community.

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IRAQ from page 2 In an interview Wednesday with Barbara Walters ofABC News, Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq.

"I felt like we’d find weapons of mass destruction—like many here in the United States, many around the world," Bush said in the interview, to be broadcast Friday night. "We need to find out what went wrong in the intelligence gathering....

Saddam was dangerous and the world is safer without him in power."

In a statement, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said Bush "needs to explain to the American people why he was so wrong, for so long, about the reasons for war."

The search’s end comes as the administration struggles with a tense security situation in Iraq leading to Jan. 30 elections.

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Meanwhile, other countries—notably Iran and North Korea—are suspected of building covert nuclear weapons programs.

When asked whether the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq would damage U.S. credibility in handling future threats, McClellan said the president would continue to work with the international community, particularly on diplomatic solutions. He said pre-emptive military action was "the last option" to pursue.

'We are acting to make sure we have the best possible intelligence,” McClellan said, adding that a number of changes have been made since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Almost one year ago, Bush formed a presidential commission to investigate U.S. intelligence capabilities on weapons of mass destruction, focusing not only on Iraq but on how well the intelligence community understands the threat from other countries and terror networks.

SHARON from page 6 They Said Netzarim, an isolated enclave where 500 settlers live, would be the first settlement to be evacuated to test the level of opposition. The Gaza withdrawal will take two months, and the four West Bank settlements will be evacuated in September, the officials said.

Sharon proposed the Gaza plan last year as a unilateral move, but he has said he is ready to coordinate the pullout with newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Sharon refused to negotiate with the late Yasser Arafat, accusing him of encouraging terrorism.

Sharon called Abbas Tuesday to congratulate him on his victory in this week's Palestinian presidential election. Both sides said a meeting between the two will take place soon, but no date was set.

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Abbas is trying to win a cease-fire from Palestinian militants as part of his efforts to restart peace talks.

Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas leader in Gaza, said Wednesday his Islamic militant group has no plans to disarm and that Abbas has no authority to order an end to attacks on Israel.

However, the threat appeared to be largely a negotiating tactic. Zahar said that his group would be meeting with Abbas soon.

Even if Abbas can persuade the militants to halt their activities, he will likely face pressure from Israel to go further.

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom ruled out a cease-fire Wednesday. “We don’t accept the idea,” he told delegates from the World Jewish Congress. “Ceasefire is only more time for the extremists to review their infrastructure in order to carry out more attacks.”

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“Today wasn’t the prettiest game,” Roy Williams said. “It was one of those ugly games, where you’ve got to score more points than the other team.”

Marvin Williams had 14 points and Rashad McCants and Sean May each added 12 for North Carolina (14-1,3-0 in the ACC), which has won 14 straight since an opening loss to Santa Clara. Point guard Raymond Felton was suspended for that game because he played in an non-sanctioned summer league game, and with him on the court, the Tar Heels have had few challenges.

“I feel like I’m the leader of the team,” Felton said. “I feel like I’m the one that gets everybody going. I’m the floor general.”

The Yellow Jackets (11-3, 2-1) certainly did not provide much of a test. Playing without injured guard B.J. Elder for the third straight game, Georgia Tech led only at 1-0, quickly fell behind and never recovered. Jarrett Jack had 24 points and Luke Schenscher finished with 13.

“They’re an outstanding team, maybe the best team in the country,” Yellow Jackets coach Paul Hewitt said. “But we had some guys not play as well as they’re capable of playing. It’s one of those things.”

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The Blue Devils held N.C. State star Julius Hodge to just seven points in Cameron IndoorStadium last year.

Julius Hodge has never backed down from a challenge against the nation’s elite. Nor has he ever been afraid to speak his mind.

In this season’s only scheduled meeting between N.C. State (10-4, 0-1 in the ACC) and fifth-ranked Duke (11-0, 1-0) tonight, Hodge will seek bragging rights against 'one of the few teams that has aggravated him throughout his four-year career.

Hodge has at times struggled against the Blue Devils, but with his team stumbling into the contest on a three-game losing streak, Hodge and once-No. 13 N.C. State need a win to prevent starting 0-2 in the nation’s toughest conference.

“It’s going to be tough because not only is he good, he really thinks that he’s good,” Daniel Ewing said of Hodge. “It’s a tough matchup going against him, and he’s going to have his team ready with his confidence alone.”

Throughout his career, the 6-foot-7 guard has thrived in the Wolfpack offense as a slasher and cutter, but his jumpshot is also effective. Because of his tall frame, Hodge creates matchup problems for most defenders, but currently he is hobbled by a sprained ankle he suffered in a loss to St. John’s Dec. 30. Without its offensive centerpiece, N.C. State fell to West Virginia.

Returning less than 100-percent healthy against Miami, Hodge could not prevent a third-straight loss despite a double-double.

Fortunately for Hodge and his teammates, tonight’s 7 p.m. tipoff is in Raleigh, where the Blue Devils have lost the two previous seasons. Last year Duke had its 18game win streak snapped against the Wolfpack as Hodge avenged one of the worst performances of his career—a seven-point, seven-turnover outing in a loss at Cameron Indoor Stadium a month earlier. “[lt’s] the atmosphere, the crowd, and when they play they’re competitive,” Sean Dockery said. “Last time we were coming SEE N.C. STATE ON PAGE 14

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North Carolina has won 14-straight games after falling in its first contest of the season.

The wrestling team emerging from break has a different look to it than the one that went into it.

Injuries and new additions have forced the team to shuffle its lineup at times, and those Blue Devils who changed weight classes and stepped into the starting lineup gained experience for thedual meet season.

Duke wrestled in two national tournaments in December that drew some of the top teams in the country. The Beast of the East Tournament featured No. 22 Northwestern and ACC rival North Carolina, while No. 7 Minnesota, No. 11 Cornell, No. 19 Edinboro and No. 20 Navy led the competition at the Southern Scuffle Tournament. The Blue Devils placed eighth at the Beast of the East and 20th in the Southern Scuffle, both times competing

without a full lineup.

“Individually, I am proud of what our guys accomplished against some tough competition,” head coach Clar Anderson said. “As a team, it was hard to compete at a high level when we were missing so many key wrestlers. But I think the experience was important, and I am hoping that our team rises to that level of competition.”

Although the team results suffered from the injuries, Duke’s'top wrestlers stood out with impressive performances over the past month. Steve Smith, who has been hampered by some nagging injuries of his own, placed fourth in the 165pound weight class at the Beast of the East. At 174 pounds, Levi Craig also placed fourth in the first of the two tournaments and won three matches at the SEE WRESTLING ON PAGE 16

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N.C. State will be in for a long night trying to defend the perimeter without point guard Tony Bethel, who is sidelined with the lingering effects of

the flu and colitis. Williams, the ACC's leading rebounder and shot-blocker, could be looking at a big day in the paint if head coach Herb Sendek can't find a remedy for the Wolfpack's recent rebounding woes. On Sunday against Miami, N.C. State was overpowered inside as the Hurricanes racked up 21 second-chance points on 17 offensive rebounds.

While Duke relies on its "big three," N.C. State's chances sit squarely with Julius Hodge, the reigning ACC Player of the Year. Hodge leads the team in scoring, rebounding and assists and is the only N.C. State player to average double digit points this season. Although Hodge is still nursing a sore back and a sprained ankle, he notched a double-double against Miami. Duke's aggressive defense will look to defuse the Wolfpack's Princeton-style offense, taking cues from a victory earlier this season against the Tigers.

N.C. State is coming off an embarassing one-point loss at the hands of ACC newcomer Miami. Back in front of a raucous home crowd, the Wolfpack will be fired up for their only chance to knock off the Blue Devils this season. N.C. State's homecourt has proved a difficult place for Duke to play in recent years. The Wolfpack slayed a third-ranked Duke team in 2003 and knocked the Blue Devils out oftheir number one ranking in 2004.

Barring a heroic performance by Hodge in front ofthe home crowd, the Wolfpack will matched against Duke's "big three." If JJ. is hitting from the parking lot and Williams boards, this one could get ugly. Duke wins 72-58. Compiled by Dan Kapnick

over therewe were kind of cocky, a little big headed before we came over there and underestimated State. Now we’re just focused and know that State’s a real good team.”

The game, which opens Duke’s ACC schedule in earnest, also marks the Blue Devils’ first true test in a hostile environment, but head coach Mike Krzyzewski does not expect any problems from a veteran team.

“We have played in bigger arenas this year,” Krzyzewski said. “Even if you’ve played on someone else’s home court, it’s still a lot different than playing an ACC opponent on their home court. Every year you have to cross that bridge. We’ll do that Thursday and see how we respond.”

The Wolfpack play a similar style to Princeton, a team Duke defeated last week 59-46. State’s offensive scheme includes frequent backdoor cuts and relies heavily on three-point shooting, even from their big men.

Although Hodge, the reigning ACC Player of the Year, is still the focal point of the team, junior Ilian Evtimov may be the difference tonight. When the two teams met at the RBC Center last season, Evtimov scored 15 points, and his tendency to float away from the basket prevented Shelden Williams from staying in the lane as an intimidating shot-blocking presence.

“Evtimov did hurt us last year,” junior Lee Melchionni said. ‘1 think he’s a crafty player, he’s smart, he’s heady. But our defense is deny, and we have a really pressure defense, so I don’t think we’re going to change anything because he’s hot.”

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The Blue Devils are also still hampered by injuries and illness, as Shavlik Randolph and Reggie Love will be absent from the Duke front court. But Williams, the nation’s leading rebounder, should be able to control the boards, where N.C. State has struggled this season.

‘We just can’t allow other people to just crash the boards on us and use that as another weapon against us,” Evtimov said.

‘We play good defense in the half-court set for 25 or 30 seconds, they’ll throw up a bad shot, and we should get the rebound and go on. Instead, they get the rebound and score. That helps them get emotional and get more confident” Because of ACC expansion, this will be the first time since the 1924-1925 season that the two teams will not play a homeand-home regular season series.

“I love playing Duke, and I love playing at Cameron Indoor Stadium,” Evtimov said, despite his team’s recent struggles in Durham. ‘1 wish we played them more than once, but it’s certainly something we have to embrace because there are new teams in the ACC. That means we’ve got to play Duke once and this is the biggest game of the year for us right now.”

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“I am really proud of the way our guys are coming along,” Anderson said. “Bryan Gibson was injured for a while but he is starting to look very strong. Steve Smith, if he can stay healthy, will have a great season. Right now, if we can get a full team, I think we have some good potential.”

No matter who else returns from injury, the Blue Devils will have to compete without one of their top wresders for the rest of the season. Christian Smith, the defending ACC Champion at 125 pounds, tore a ligament in his shoulder during the fall and will remain off the mat until next season.

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his redshirt year to compete for Duke in Smith’s place. McKeon is a two-time North Carolina state champion but is now competing at a higher weight class than he did in high school. Anderson would have liked to give McKeon a year to adjust to the higher weight class, but Smith’s injury forced him into the starting lineup.

“Kellan has done a great job filling in for Christian so far,” Anderson said. “It hasn’t really shown yet in terms of wins and losses, but he is coming along very well.”

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Fix pattern of mistakes a two-month period the tion as one of the nation’s top medDuke University Health Sys- ical centers, and if these errors contem exposed more than 4,000 tinue, the hospitals may have accredContinual problems. patients to a potential health risk itation when two hospitals washed surgical mistakes, even ones that may not harm patients such as tools with elevator St3TTGClltori3i the hydraulic fluid fluid inhydraulic also make the health stead of detergent.

This incident, the latest in a string of system vulnerable to lawsuits that foul-ups at Duke-run hospitals, is could prove costly.

Furthermore, this series of misalarming and raises questions about what DUHS is doing in order to pretakes may be symptomatic of larger vent more mistakes. problems within the administrative DUHS has been plagued with structure of the health system. It sugmajor errors over the past several gests that the infrastructure ofDUHS years, the most high-profile mistake is not sufficient to handle the vast being Jesica Santillan’s botched size and breadth of Duke’s medical heart-lung transplant in 2003. Alholdings.

DUHS must move forward from though DUHS officials say that the mix-up has had no effect on patient this incident and seriously reconsidhealth, it is still a mistake that never er its safety methods. In the meanshould have happened. A health systime, officials affiliated with DUHS tem as reputable as Duke’s cannot have been less than forthcoming continue to allow miscommunicaabout its response to the discovery. tion and oversight to compromise Community members, the people who are being treated at Duke hospipatient safety.

The elevator hydraulic fluid incitals, deserve a candid explanation of dent is contributing to a pattern at the mix-up and information on what Duke’s hospitals. It is evident that DUHS is doing to prevent future misDUHS is failing to provide patients takes. It is necessary for patients to with a safe hospital environment, and trust that they are being treated in a it must take more safety precautions. safe environment, and right now Mistakes do happen, and when DUHS is doing very little to provide mistakes occur there are lessons to this trust. be learned from them. In the case of In the long term, DUHS needs to DUHS, however, the number and reevaluate its safety methods and make wholesale changes to a system severity of the mistakes is highly disconcerting. This is not DUHS’s first that clearly is not working. This patmistake, and the errors made in tern of mistakes cannot continue.

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A new cap-over-the-wall challenge WASHINGTON

On Nov. 21, 1963,

The Financial Times’ Andrew Balls and report that “even using the was murdered in Dallas, President John F. infinite horizon model, the unfunded liabilKennedy explained the importance of the ity is only 1.2 percent offuture gross domesspace program by citing a story by the Irish tic product.” Assuming, which of course we novelist Frank O’Connor. The story involved cannot do, that we know the future GDP. a boy who, when he came to a high wall he And America’s future birth and immigrawas afraid to climb, would toss his cap over tion rates, which will influence not only ecothe wall. “This nation,” said Kennedy, “has nomic growth but also the ratio of workers tossed its cap over the wall of space, and we to retirees.

The Social Security trustees assume that have no choice but to follow it.”

The 43rd president, even more than the 10 years from now economic growth will 35th, favors a cap-over-the-wall presidency. slow to 1.8 percent —about half the average growth rate since the Civil War —and will reKennedy’s cap-tossing was confined to his optional vow in 1961 that America would land a main that low until 2080. How do they man on the moon before that decade ended. know? They don’t.

Surely the beginning of wisdom is to begin That vow pulled policy. President George W. Bush’s even bolder cap-over-the-wall decision not with such speculations but with the quesis to define his second term tion asked, in a Wall Street by a vow to “transform” Social Journal essay, by Edward C. Prescott, co-winner of the Security. george 2004 Nobel Prize in economThis decision, although guest commentary ics . -, fwe could wipe the slate desirable, was optional. Bush does not need to attempt it. clean, what kind of governThe current estimate—it probably will be rement retirement program would we build vised upward, again—is that Social Security from scratch today?” In no 15-year period in oudays will not exceed revenues until 2018. the last eight decades has the growth of So Bush could have kicked this can down the stocks ever been negative; in no 20-year periroad, which is what democratic governments od has the average growth been less than 3 are wont to do. percent, which is better than the rate of reDemocracies generally do difficult things turn on Social Security assets. So if we were only under the lash of necessity. The British starting with a clean slate, surely we would tardily brought Churchill to power in May consider some use of the market to be prudent rather than risky.

1940, only because Hitler’s tanks were headWe see next month —never mind the next ing for the Channel ports. In the 19305, Americans fundamentally changed their rela75 years—as through a glass darkly. But surely it is prudent to assume the need, and reationship to the federal government only because they were afraid that, absent sweeping sonable to rejoice in the opportunity, to restructure a program that was designed during changes, they might be consigned to permanent stagnation. In the 19605, the nation adthe Depression, when there was excessive pesdressed its civil rights shortcomings only besimism about the prospects for American capcause they had ignited a crisis, threatening italism and there were more than 40 workers for every retiree. domestic tranquility.

This is why the Democrats’ first defense The political problem is this: Even if the that future were knowable and we knew that the Social reform is to deny against Security the system faces a serious crisis. They might Social Security solvency problem actually is be right, but cannot know that they are: The smaller than Bush assumes, he would still size of the solvency problem is unknowable. favor reform involving personal accounts It might be less menacing than as portrayed funded by a portion of payroll taxes. He beby Bush administration projections, which lieves such reform would be conducive to peer far—beyond 75 years, using what is civic virtue, as conservatives understand called “the infinite horizon model”— into that—individualism, self-reliance, limited government. Unfortunately, it is difficult to the future.

However, it has been said that economists get many Democrats to toss their caps over use decimal points only to prove that they the wall for that. have a sense of humor. The same can be said of a familiar form of political fiction, the 10George Will is a syndicated columnist for The year economic projection.

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What's in a paycheck?

X Tou would invest in a major pharmaceutical compaV' ny?” I asked my boyfriend incredulously. He gave JL me a meek smile and a shrug as he said, “Yeah, I might.”

“But what about how they drag their feet on HIV drugs to African countries? What about the lawsuits they bring against groups that try to market generic drugs?

And what about that crap with Glaxo SmithKline testing HIV drugs on little kids in Harlem?”

“Bridget, I would never invest in a company that did stuff like that. Of course I wouldn’t, you know that,” he said adamantly.

To his credit, my boyfriend has taught me. a lot about money and investing

tivities and goals that always made so much sense to me—social justice work, my honors thesis and “making the world a better place.” I questioned my past course choices and I looked with some envy upon the hordes of economics majors I met at information sessions and interviews. “Why didn’t I choose a more realistic major?” I asked myself. ‘Why didn’t I intern at a financial firm?”

And, as I struggled at my Boston Consulting Group interview, “Why didn’t I take a few economic courses?”

Luckily, I have a mother who always helps me to keep things in perspective. As a single parent without a college degree, she's had to work hard to support me. But she’s always encouraged me to do what I love and learn as much as I can at Duke, even if it doesn’t directly translate into paycheck dollars. After talking with other students, I am thankful that I never had any pressure on me to do certain things or take a particular path in life. I did what I loved in high bridget newman school, this passion helped get me into looking for the holes Duke where I also lived my dreams, and I see no reason for this to change anytime

While I did give him a hard time for reading Black Enterprise and teased him about CNN Money being his start page, I now understand just how revolutionary it is for people of color, women and other disadvantaged groups to control their financial future. The challenge is balancing this need for financial stability with a social conscience. Unfortunately, achieving this balance is difficult for low-income college students, especially when they face crushing debt burdens.

I knew that ÜBS, Boston Consulting Group and Wachovia weren’t for me, but the prospect offat paychecks and enticing sign-on bonuses compelled me to attend their information sessions and grit my teeth through their interviews. At the information session for ÜBS, the presenter told a room full of enthusiastic Duke seniors that our job would be to help “wealthy and ultrawealthy individuals grow, maintain and transfer their wealth.” My boyfriend and I exchanged smiles as the other attendees listened with rapt attention. It was disappointing to see firsthand just how coveted such positions are for many Duke students. I’m not saying that people from ÜBS were evil capitalist money grubbers—in fact, all of them seemed to be quite normal, caring individuals. But I do think that most of them and the majority of students in that room didn’t reflect on what it really means to devote yourself to the goal of keeping the ultra-wealthy (and subsequent generations) loaded with cash and lucrative investments.

While I think it's dangerous to base employment decisions solely upon money, I understand the allure of high-profile jobs. My whole Duke career has been centered around learning for its own sake, but suddenly last semester I found myself viewing my degree as just a piece of paper to cash in. I lost track of some of the ac-

soon

I know that right now, I and many other seniors are trying to decide what we want to do next year. I am extremely fortunate to be considering joining Teach for America as a middle school social studies teacher in Camden, N.J., as well as becoming a legal assistant with a law firm in New York. I’m still not sure exactly which one I will ultimately choose, but I am definitely leaning toward teaching. Sometimes, I wonder if a teacher made a financial advisor’s salary and those on Wall Street earned teacher salaries, how many Duke students would still be so excited about maintaining the status of the

ultra-wealthy?

Despite his interest in real estate and the business world, my boyfriend is considering working as a teacher

year as well. He has been offered a position at a charter school in New York close to where he grew up as a kid. And he has decided he couldn’t invest his money in a big pharmaceutical company, nor could he invest his life in something he didn't believe in.

“I mean, how else could we have such a huge impact both on ourselves and the lives of others?” I asked as we sat in the moonlight on a Chapel bench and considered our future as teachers. I was posing that question to myself as much as I was directing it at him. next

Bridget Newman is a Trinity senior. Her column every other Thursday.

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Duke donors and politics

Duke

graduate Aubrey McClendon has donated over to Duke, and the University holds him and his wife Kathleen in extraordinarily high esteem.

Whether it’s the WEL tower that was named for him, the newsletters publicizing his work or the gargoyle that was sculpted to resemble him, McClendon has been a frequent recipient of high profile thank-you’s for his commitment to academics and student life at Duke.

Now, thanks to a rather large political contribution, McClendon has put Duke in a position that its administrators almost certainly would rather not be in: honoring a man who played a major part in financing the “Swift Vets and POWs for Truth” political advocacy group, the same group that is widely accused of derailing Sen. John Kerry’s presidential campaign through questionable tactics.

According to Federal Election Commission records, McClendon gave $250,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans Sept. 8, 2004. His contribution was the second-largest the group had received, and no doubt paid for some of the new advertisements the Swift Boat Veterans were able to «crun after their original one The in August. following month, prominent Duke donor Peter Nicholas contributed $500,000 to the “Progress For America” nathan carleton Voter Fund, another “527” poker advocacy group, though it was far more pro-Bush than it was anti-Kerry.

McClendonand Nicholas’s donations raise an important question that President Richard Brodhead might want to answer before the the next U.S. presidential election rolls around: Would Duke ever reject donations from an individual based on his or her other financial activities? The question could become especially relevant in 2008, as the 527 loophole to campaign finance reform practically invites the formation of political groups who attack candidates in personal, vicious and dishonestways.

On one hand, an all-out political litmus test for donations clearly violates basic principles of free expression and diversity. That said, I doubt many would support an ‘anyone and anything’ donations standard, especially if the current practice of naming campus landmarks after donors continues. There would certainly be an uproar, and rightly so, were Duke to honor a prominent financial supporter of the Ku Klux Klan with a building and statue because of a large donation to the University.

In McClendon’s case, he did more than just give money to a candidate or party this election. Specifically, he handsomely funded an independent group that was attacking Kerry over his Vietnam service, claiming that Kerry, among other things, lied about being injured in combat. The group’s message was not one of opinion, but accusation.

The Swift Vet ads were widely criticized by mainstream newspapers, third parties and even some Republicans as lacking in truth. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called them “dishonest and dishonorable,” while the Annenberg Political Fact Check concluded “the veterans who accuse Kerry are contradicted by Kerry’s former crewmen, and by Navy records.” Even President George W. Bush and his campaign objected to the ads, continually claiming Kerry served honorably in Vietnam. As Vice President Dick Cheney said to lengthy applause in his convention speech: “The President’s opponent is an experienced Senator. He speaks often of his service in Vietnam, and we honor him for it.”

The Swift Boat Veterans also have their defenders, but the accuracy of their claims is not the issue here. What is at issue is whether a Duke donor could find him or herself in a position where the University rejects donations or revokes past honors because of other financial activities. The decision seems rather easy in some cases—“no” when it comes to donating to candidates or parties, “yes” when it comes to violent or racist groups—but more difficult in others.

Seeing that the current amount of 527 groups will likely increase before the next election and seeing that the individuals who keep the groups afloat will again be some of the same individuals who keep Duke’s endowment strong, it seems that someone should at least articulate a policy for donations and the honoring of donors. That way, it won’t seem to be driven solely by dollars.

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Nathan Carleton is a Trinity senior. His column Thursdays.

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