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The Academic Council elected Paul Haagen, a professor in the School of Law, as its next chair Thursday afternoon.

Haagen defeated Roger Barr, a professor of biomedical engineering and associate professor of pediatrics.

The tenure of the chair lasts two years and oversees all aspects of the Academic Council and its executive committee, which approves most University initiatives.

“What any body like the Academic Council needs to do is make sure that’s being handled properly —a stewardship of the resources so that we are not going beyond our ability to handle the growth,” Haagen said.

Haagen foresees that his term will focus on Central Campus planning and development, strengthening faculty governance and continuing faculty diversity initiatives.

“At the moment, Duke University is living a kind of charmed life. In virtually every respect, it’s a stronger institute SEE HAAGEN ON PAGE 8

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Virginia Tech collapsed on Shelden Williams whenever he caught the ball Thursday night, limiting him to 6-for-l3 shooting.

Va.Tech upsets No. 7 Duke by

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BLACKSBURG, Va. Virginia Tech was up by two points with 4.9 seconds to go, and with Duke’s Daniel Ewing set to inbound DUKE 65 the ball, 67 t h e VA.TECH H o ki e fans were all leaning up against the railing. Ewing found a smothered JJ. Redick, who kicked it back to Ewing for a wide open -

look to win the game.

Ewing’s attempt glanced of the left side of the rim, and the fans rushed the court to celebrate a 67-65 upset victory.

“The basketball gods were smiling on us a little bit tonight,” Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg said. “Duke is Duke.

They’ve been to 10 final fours, and everything that is great about college basketball Duke epitomizes. To have a chance to win against Duke, and win is

something I’m proud of.”

The clutch shot of the game belonged to Zabian Dowdell, who hit a three-pointer with 14 seconds remaining to give Virginia Tech (13-10, C 6 in the ACC) the two-point cushion that Duke (184, 8-4) could not overcome.

Dowdell’s shot came in response to a Redick three that put Duke up one with 23 seconds to go.

“Zabian is not afraid to take a SEE UPSET ON PAGE 11

City refuses to reinstate bonfire permit by

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Duke got burned Thursday,

seemingly before the smoke even

Students celebrating the basketball team's Feb. 9 victory over UNC stacked too many benches on the bonfire, city officials said, which led to the revocation of future permits.

cleared, as Durham City Fire Marshal Ken Crews extinguished any hopes of official post-game bonfires for the remainder of Duke’s basketball season.

Fire marshals refused to reinstate the bonfire permits they revoked after students stacked too many West Campus benches during the blaze after the men’s basketball team’s victory over the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Feb. 9.

After officials from Duke University Police Department and the Division of Student Affairs failed to win Crews over at a meeting Thursday afternoon, student leaders rushed to organize an alternative way for

students to celebrate if the Blue Devils beat Wake Forest University in Cameron Indoor Stadium Sunday.

DUPD Chief Clarence Birkhead said he hopes to regain the permits first revoked after the UNC game with a better bonfire strategy —possibly in time for the NCAA Tournament in March.

“We had to apply for the permit, and an agreement [with fire officials] may be a bit of a stretch, but we certainly have to support the decision that the fire marshal made,” Birkhead said. “We talked about it, we looked at alternatives and we asked for the opportunity to enhance our plan.

We did not do a good enough SEE BONFIRES ON PAGE 6

Duke plans to raise the minimum wage it pays regular employees to $lO an hour. Details of the raise are not yet final, but administrators expect to announce their plans within the next two weeks.

The University would not officially release its new base pay rate, but several administrators confirmed that Duke will pay employees at least $lO an hour—about 10 percent above the federal poverty level for a family offour.

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said the new wage level would apply to fulltime and part-time employees hired by Duke University Health System, Duke University Medical Center or the University directly. It will not apply to students, temporary workers or contract employees, who are hired by outside organizations but work on campus.

When the University completes its analysis about the number of employees the increase will affect, Trask said more information will be available. Administrators said they are still examining multiple issues about the wage increase and its implementation, including how to extend it to unionized employees.

Preliminary analyses estimated the cost of implementing the wage hike to be as much as $500,000 per year. Because exact details of the increase are not final, a firm estimate is not available.

Any increase in wages would likely take effect in July 2004 when employee raises annually take effect, said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Officials would not release the number of employees who currendy earn less than $lO an hour, but Paul Grantham, communications director for the Office of Human Resources, SEE WAGE ON PAGE

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Congress pushes lawsuit reforms by

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Congress sent President George W. Bush legislation Thursday aimed at discouraging multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuits by having federal judges take them away from state courts, a victory for conservatives who hope it will lead to other lawsuit limits.

The legislation the House passed is the first of Bush's 2005 legislative priorities to win congressional approval. The president has described class-action suits as often frivolous, and businesses complain that state judges and juries have been too generous to plaintiffs.

“This bill is an important step forward in our efforts to reform the litigation system and to continue creating jobs and growing our economy,” said Bush, who is expected to sign the bill Friday. The legislation is “a payback to big business at the expense of consumers,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Changing the legal system—including class-action, medical malpractice and asbestos injury lawsuits —has been a priority for Bush, the GOP and the business community. They have criticized what they see as a litigation crisis that enables lawyers to reap huge profits while businesses and consumers are stuck with the bill.

“This is the beginning of meaningful efforts by the Congress to curb lawsuit abuse,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairperson James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. Under the legislation, class-action suits seeking $5 million or more would be heard in state court only if the primary defendant and more than one-third of the plaintiffs are from the same state. But if fewer than onethird of the plaintiffs are from the same state as the primary defendant, and more than $5 million is at stake, the case would go to federal court. State courts have been known to issue multimillion-dollar verdicts like they SEE CONGRESS ON PAGE 7

Foreign envoy sent to North Korea by

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China said Thursday it will send a top Communist Party official to North Korea for talks with its longtime ally in an effort to break a stalemate over the North’s nuclear program, but Beijing urged patience in its dealing with the volatile country.

U.S. and South Korean envoys visited Beijing to seek help in persuading the isolated North to rejoin six-nation nuclear talks that were suspended in June. Memers of those talks include the United States, the two Koreas, China, Russia and Japan.

China, the North’s biggest backer and a

major source of aid to the impoverished country, has been wary of openly testing its influence with Pyongyang.

China urged patience with the unpredictable North, which has rejected calls to return to the six-nation talks, accusing Washington of hostility. Last week, Pyongyang announced it has produced nuclear weapons. The claim could not be independently verified.

“We are of the view that we should not resort to sanctions or pressure in international relations,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Kong Quan said at a regular briefing. “Further complicating the

issue will compromise the safety and security of the region.”

Kong confirmed that Wang Jiami, head of the Communist Party’s international department, would visit North Korea this week, but he did not give specific dates.

Meanwhile, South Korean officials said they believed China could do more to win over the North.

“I think China has a much bigger card to play than we expect. The question is whether it will play it,” Kim Ha-joong, South Korea’s ambassador to China, said at SEE CHINA ON PAGE 8

newsinbrief Intelligence chief selected President George W. Bush named John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as the government's first national intelligence director Thursday, turning to a veteran diplomat to revive a spy community besieged by criticism after the Sept. 11 attacks.

New Iraq government begins A Shiite alliance won a slim majority in Iraq's new National Assembly, according to certified election returns announced Thursday, but it may take weeks to form a government. Meanwhile, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi cautioned against excluding all Saddam Hussein's supporters.

Nations push space system The European Union called Thursday for more international cooperation in space as plans move ahead for a combined global observation system to predict natural disasters like tsunamis and drastic weather changes.

Cosby cleared of all charges Bill Cosby will not face charges stemming

from a woman's allegation that he fondled her at his suburban mansion after giving her medication that made her woozy, a prosecutor said Thursday. Cosby, 67, has ied the allegations.

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‘Yasser Arafat was an impediment to any change,” Ross said. “Abu Massim is someone who has always been against violence.

He believes that the Palestinians have to reform themselves to have any future.”

Additional strides discussed by Ross included Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal of Israeli settlements and a greater commitment from Egypt, Jordan and the United States to the peace process.

The possibility of renewed violence, however, still exists. “We’re in a race against time,” Ross said. “Hamas will wait for a while... but they will contrive cir-

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cumstances to break the cease-fire.”

To secure a lasting peace, Ross felt that the two sides needed to clarify expectations. “[The current roadmap] can’t be a foundation because there’s nothing in it that’s agreed,” he said.

Ross’ speech was well-received. “He distilled the information in away that the audience could understand,” said Erin Shively, a second year law and public policy student. “His theme of learning from the past was a really good one, especially when he’s got as much perspective as he does.”

As regular free access to credit reports becomes available nationwide this year, senior Linda Brogdon would prefer not to see hers. While she pays for her own expenses at Duke, she is ineligible for work study and is forced to bounce from job to job.

“I switch jobs so much, sometimes it’s very hard to keep a consistent income,” Brogdon said. “At the beginning of the semester you miss some credit card bills when you’re trying to get a job.”

By September, all consumers will be able to keep a better check on their credit. In an effort to combat identity theft, Congress added an amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, giving people the right to check their credit reports for free once a year. Credit reports document how well people have managed to pay bills as well as whether they have ever been sued.

Three companies—Equifax, Experian and TransUnion—compile this information, making it available to banks and other corporations. Corporations, in turn, report on the reliability of their clients.

In order to comply with the recent amendment, the companies have set up a website (www.annualcreditreport.com) that will allow anyone to log on, punch in their name, address, Social Security SEE CREDIT ON PAGE 6

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After recently finishing a lengthy book tour, Middle East policymaker Dennis Ross addressed a large crowd at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy about building lasting peace in the Middle East, with an emphasis on learning from past mistakes.

Ross’ latest work, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace, is intended to serve as a “book of hope rather than a chronicle of frustration” based on his experiences.

Having served for 12 years as special envoy to the Middle East between 1988 and 2000, Ross played a key role in several important peace accords. A recipient of the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service, he currently works as a Ziegler distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

In his discussion, Ross suggested that U.S. involvement in Iraq could be long.

“I would not be overly optimistic that we’re going to be out of there any time soon,” he said.

Ross’ criticisms centered on Iraq’s continued instability and emphasized the need for increased unity and regional autonomy. “If the Shiites want Iraq to be whole, they must reach out to the Sunnis,” he said. “What emerges there is going to be something uniquely Iraqi.”

Ross also felt the Iranians were still a problem and they were attempting to build nuclear weapons. “The real issue is: Can we head it off?” he said. “If the Iranians go nuclear, then the Middle East looks very different as a result.”

To prevent this cascade of weapons acquisition, Ross favored a joint U.S. coalition with the British, French and Germans, with the stipulation that collective action to isolate Iran would be taken if demands weren’t met.

“The only way to delay [nuclear proliferation] is to convince the leadership in Iran that they will pay a price for this down the road,” Ross said.

He was more optimistic, however, with regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and cited the change in Palestinian leadership as a driving force in conflict mediation.

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Campus Council debated two current residential life issues—transportation and security problems with Central Campus and the organization of quad councils—at its meeting Thursday night.

Most of the discussion revolved around Central Campus safety issues and the role of Securitas officers in protecting the student body. Members expressed unhappiness with the performance and effectiveness ofSecuritas since extra security forces were contracted last September.

“The philosophy of having additional security forces on campus makes sense, but they aren’t doing half as much as they could,” said senior Anthony Vitarelli, president ofCampus Council. He also stressed the need for a mechanism through which “inferior” Securitas behavior can be addressed.

Council representatives voiced concern that Securitas officers were unable to take appropriate action to address any crime taking place and instead had to contact the Duke University Police Department. The color of the uniforms and the screening process for employment were also issues of contention.

“We are dealing with supervillains, and instead of hiring superheroes, we just have these guys in brown uniforms,” said sophomore Damjan Denoble, vice president of the council.

Central Campus representative Katrina Howell, a senior, noted that the number of safety complaints on Central have decreased since Securitas began to patrol the campus.

The Central bussing system also received attention from the council.

Howell cited the necessity of two major SEE C.C. ON PAGE 8

The National Outdoor Leadership School tours its bus across the nation, promoting envlronmentalawareness. The bus, which was parked in front of the Chapel Thursday, can run on vegetable oil and solar power.

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As a former co-sports editor of The Chronicle and president of Duke Democrats, Ed Turlington was an influential student leader as an undergraduate in the late 19705.

These positions, he says, were launching pads for a future career in leadership and politics on the state and national levels. Turlington is now running to become the next chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party.

Turlington remembers two things quite well from his undergraduate days: Democratic politics and Duke basketball.

As the leader of Duke Democrats, he was highly involved in the 1976 presidential election.

“That was in the cycle when Jimmy Carter won the presidency. I remember

Duke undergraduate students were active that year in the presidential campaign. It was a very exciting time,” he said.

Turlington also spoke fondly of his relationship with James David Barber, a political science professor who received national acclaim for his research on the American presidency. Turlington assisted Barber, who died in September, in an independent study about the vice presidential selection process.

His involvement at a young age with the Democratic party was not confined to campus. Turlington was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1976 at only 19.

“Democrats had a great chance to win,” he said. “I felt like I was part of history.”

While politics has always been his passion, he says he has reserved a special place in his heart for Duke basketball.

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“That was a ton of fun my junior year when I went to the final game when we played Kentucky,” he said.

And although Duke lost that game, his political career has blossomed.

Turlington has held both high-profile and behind-the-scenes positions in the Democratic Party. He has served as the executive director of the N.C. Democratic Party, the national general chair for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards’ presidential campaign, the statewide campaign manager for Jim Hunt’s bid for the governor and the North Carolina co-chair of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry’s presidential campaign.

Turlington also worked as a special assistant to Terry Sanford, a former N.C. governor, U.S. senator and president of Duke.

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In a meeting overshadowed by the election of a new council chair, the Academic Council heard a presentation about the creation of a public policy doctoral program from Frederick Mayer, director of graduate studies for the public policy department, and Bruce Jentleson, director of the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy.

The proposed doctoral program would extend beyond studies in public policy, focusing on fostering interdisciplinarity, and use available resources from other departments within the University.

Duke is currently the only school with a top-ranked public policy program that does not have a doctoral program. “[lnstituting a Ph.D. program] is what we need to do to continue to be a leader in the field,” Mayer said. “We fully intend to continue to be at the top, but we feel we need a program.”

The proposed degree would be centered around a public policy core of classes but would then require students to choose a disciplinary concentration—economics, political science or sociology —and also an area of policy focus, such as social policy, health policy or globalization and development.

“Duke is an ideal place to do this. Our interdisciplinarity is a huge asset,” Mayer said.

“We really think we can have a top-five Ph.D. program in a fairly short amount of time.”

Mayer also talked about the advantages that would be gained from synergy with the undergraduate program, the possibilities for expansion into other schools within Duke and the current demand for graduates with a public policy doctorate degree.

While the market for doctorates continues to grow in academia, Mayer estimates

that about two-thirds of the graduates would find jobs in other fields, working for consulting firms, think tanks, government agencies or international organizations.

The proposal has already been endorsed by a number of committees on campus including the Academic Programs Committee and the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty.

In other business; Dr. Ann Brown, associate dean for women in medicine and science, updated the council on the School ofMedicine Faculty Diversity Plan. She said progress has been made in the the appointment of women to leadership positions in the medical school; the revitalization of the Faculty Women’s Council has facilitated the search for women and minority candidates during hiring. Exit interviews are also being implemented to examine what qualities attract and keep female and minority faculty.

Provost Peter Lange submitted his proposal for revising the system underwhich distinguished professors are selected. “We have a set of procedures considerably out of line with our peer schools,” he said. Under the proposed changes, committees would be formed within each school to recognize candidates who would then be presented to the dean of that school and then to the provost.

The council also reviewed the main points of the academic integrity document written by the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics. The document addresses concerns about the “impact of athletics on academic standards and integrity” and recommends examining admissions requirements of athletes, athletic scholarships and missed class time. The coalition is an alliance offaculty senates from Division IA schools.

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Bruce Jentleson, directorof the Sanford Institute, explains theneed for a public policy doctorate.

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Cityfire officials were concerned thatstudents got too close to the bonfireafter the UNC game last week.

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job convincing them.”

The permits obtained by the Universithe UNC, Wake Forest and NCAA for ty men’s and women’s championship games state that the bonfire’s height should stand no more than three benches high, but as many as 11 benches of multiple sizes were in the fire last week before firemen put it out, just 45 minutes after it was lit. “[The benches] could collapse on the students. You run the risk of it falling on the students or something like that,” Crews said. ‘You don’t know what way a bench might fall when you build them up high.”

Junior Paul Koepke sent an e-mail Thursday that circulated to University administrators insisting that students were confused as to whether the permit mandates a height of three benches or merely a total of three in the fire at a time. Koepke also said police and fire marshals at the UNC bonfire did not take into account the new six-foot benches lining the Main West Quadrangle along with the approved, more traditional 12-footbenches.

“We all thought, ‘These are- small benches and this is half the wood, so let’s throw ’em on,”’ Koepke said. “Maybe the permit has not taken that into account.”

Birkhead said there would be increased security to discourage impromptu bonfires after the Wake game. Duke Student Government President Pasha Majdi said DSG would organize an alternative celebration

by Saturday given the high risks involved now that students can be arrested for starting illegal bonfires. Majdi blamed the loss of the permit on the city’s lack of communication with Duke administrators.

The last time Duke lost its permit was in January 2001 after students ignited an unauthorized bonfire after a win over the University of Maryland. That permit was reinstated after a few days.

After negotiations broke down Thursday, Birkhead said he would reconvene Duke officials and students to assemble a new strategy as soon as possible.

“Our plan is a living document, so we’re constantly looking toward change,” he said. “We want to hear from all the stakeholders as to how we can hopefully restore this tradition, if not this season than certainly next.”

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number and date of birth and receive reports simultaneously from all three of the

companies.

Residents of California and otherWestern states have been able to check their credit reports free since Dec. 1, 2004, and the service will be available to the entire country by Sep. 1, 2005. Residents of North Carolina and most other Southern states will gain access starting at the beginning of June.

Users of the service will be able to check their reports to see if there are any suspect transactions listed that they did not make and may have been a result of identity fraud. Credit reports are an effective way to identify and stop this kind of criminal activity.

“There is a lot of fraud out there, and it is very important to make sure that there is nothing going wrong with your credit report,” said Melissa Langdale, a loan manager for Mortgage Research Corporation.

The amendment was passed as part of an attempt to reduce the number of victims of identity theft, which now stands at about ten million a year. Through the service, however, users will also be able to maintain a general awareness of their credit status and know what banks will see if they apply for a loan.

Brogdon is enthusiastic about the opportunity to regularly check reports, but said most people already “have an idea of [whether] you have a good one or not.”

Failure to pay bills on time creates permanent marks on a credit report and could contribute to a bad credit rating. “[Bad credit] can affect all sorts of things: the ability to get a house, the ability to get credit cards, the ability to get a car,” Langdale said.

While unpaid and late bills could tarnish credit reports, students get tripped up most seriously by late or unpaid credit card bills. “For every credit card that’s 30 days past due, it affects your scores significandy,” Langdale said.

Furthermore, credit card companies—knowing students’ tendencies to overspend—target them with free merchandise, “Students’ main problem is that there’s always people with the little tables on campus that try to get you to sign up for every credit card imaginable, and students don’t realize what they’re getting into,” Langdale said.

She also warned against overspending

Consumers in the Southern states can order their free reports beginning June 1, 2005.

“The higher [bills] get, the higher the interest gets—their inability to pay is going to increase as their balance increases.”

In order to beef up profits and take advantage of the new laws, the companies involved will offer premium services that analyze and explain your credit report. This will include a creditworthiness rating, which will tell users how much interest they can expect to pay on loans and mortgages.

For those who become obsessed with

their credit rating and the possibility of identity theft, there is a premium service available that will monitor credit reports from all three companies. Triple Alert—offered by Experian for a monthly price of $5—will send text messages to customers’ cell phones immediately after a company requests their credit reports. If a customer suspects that he did not make an application to that company and the application may be the result of fraud, he can do some-

thing about it immediately.

Unfortunately, there is no premium service that can help turn a bad credit report into a good one. The good news for students who have already accumulated bad credit is that things can only get better over time.

“The further in the path your late credits are, the less they affect your credit score,” Langdale said, “but that doesn't mean that you don’t have to pay them!” t

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Several dozen different jobs—many of them in DUHS—have starting pay rates under $lO an hour, according to guidelines from the human resources department titled “Job Classifications & Pay Ranges for FY 2004-2005.” Although individuals’ pay rates are partially determined by seniority and experience, food service workers, housekeepers, grounds operators, lab assistants, various medical technicians, clerks and others have starting salaries between $8 and $lO an hour.

Senior administrators have been working to help employees who fall at the “low end of the wage scale” for about two years,

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Bumess said. After considering several ways to compensate employees, officials decided that raising all regular employees to a certain wage level would be beneficial for the greatest number of workers, he said.

Initial studies began under former President Nan Keohane, but the effort gained momentum about four months ago as preliminary discussions about next year’s budget started. “It’s clearly something that President [Richard] Brodhead is quite interested in,” Burness said.

Although Trask underscored that the University does not regard the move as implementing a living wage, the planned rate is in line with what other groups have considered a living wage for the Durham area. The Durham County Board of Commissioners set the current county living wage at $9.74 an hour in June, and the Durham City Council sets the living wage at about $9.50 an hour, 5 percent above the poverty level.

Although the increase will be offered to all University-paid employees, union-

ized workers have separate contracts, and their raises must be part of official

recoup their costs.

House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said that moving those cases to federal court will ensure that state judges will no longer “routinely approve settlements in which the lawyers receive large fees and the class members receive virtually nothing.”

But Democrats say Republicans just want to protect corporations from taking responsibility for their wrongdoing by keeping them clear of state courts that might issue multimillion-dollar verdicts against them.

“It’s the final payback to the tobacco industry, to the asbestos industry, to the oil industry, to the chemical industry at the expense of ordinary families who need to be able go to court to protect their loved

ones when their health has been compromised,” said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass.

Democrats warned that Republicans may try the same thing with other lawsuits.

“Today we will attempt to pre-empt state class action,” said Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. “Next month we will take up a bankruptcy bill that massively tilts the playing field in favor ofcredit card companies and against ordinary consumers and workers alike. On deck are equally onesided medical malpractice bills and asbestos bills that both cap damages and eliminate liability to protect some of the most egregious wrongdoing in America.”

The legislation is not retroactive, and cases already in court will go forward in their current courts.

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did against tobacco companies. Critics of the current situation have said federal jurists are not as likely to let multimilliondollar class-action lawsuits move forward.

Bush and other Republicans say greedy lawyers have taken advantage of the state class-action lawsuit system by filing frivolous lawsuits in certain states where they know they can win big dollar verdicts.

Meanwhile, those lawyers' clients get only small sums or coupons giving them discounts for products of the company they just sued, GOP lawmakers contend.

In response, Republicans said, companies have had to raise prices on products

negotiations.

“Anything that would affect the employees represented by one of the unions here at Duke, you would have to do the negotiation before anything could be written into the union contract,” Grantham said.

Two of the University’s unions—Local 77 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Local 1328 of the Amalgamated Transit Union—are scheduled to negotiate contracts this year. The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 465 finalized a three-year contract with the University in May. Grantham did not know if the University would renegotiate its contract with Local 465 early to include the wage hike.

Although less than 5 percent ofUniversity employees are union members, unions are active in areas likely affected by the wage increase, such as dining and

housekeeping.

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TURLINGTON from page 4 Whether or not he wins the upcoming vote, Turlington said he wants to continue his commitment to strengthening grassroots politics.

“I know that the party at the local level needs to be stronger so we can win more elections. I want to win more elections,” he said. “There is a direct link between how strong your local politics are and how many elections you win.”

Because of his connection to Duke, he understands its students’ short-term relationship with local politics, he said, but he would like students to make an effort to get involved. “The party is relevant to Duke and its students because during the four years they are here, the state’s policies affect everything about their lives,” he said.

Turlington is optimistic about newlyelected chair of the Democratic National Committee, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

“The most important thing he is going to do is direct DNC resources into state and local parties to make them stronger,” he said. “That will be a good thing in North Carolina to help us win elections.”

Gov. Mike Easley, Edwards, Hunt, Attorney General Roy Cooper, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, former Commissioner of Agriculture Britt Cobb, State Treasurer Richard Moore and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tricia Willoughby have all publicly endorsed Turlington for the position.

The 570-member state executive committee will decide between Turlington and the Democratic Party’s Vice Chairman Jerry Meek in a vote Saturday.

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a news conference Thursday in Seoul China, which hosted three earlier rounds of nuclear talks that resulted in little progress, has consistently said it favors a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.

Though China helped defend North Korea in the 1950-53 Korean War, Beijing worries that a nuclear-armed North would raise tensions in the region and prompt Japan and South Korea to develop atomic weapons.

While working to resolve the standoff, “the Chinese side requires that the DPRK side and United States show more flexibility and sincerity,” Kong said, using the acronym for the North’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic ofKorea.

Washington views North Korea as a formidable threat even without a nuclear

than the one I came to 20 years ago,” Haagen said. “The professional schools have gotten better and stronger; the undergraduate school has gotten stronger; the graduate schools are more sophisticated.”

Haagen joined the University’s faculty in 1985 after receiving a doctorate in history from Princeton University and a law degree from Yale University. He has served as a member of the Academic Council for the past 12 years, and as vice chair during the 20032004 academic year. He was the senior

capability.

North Korea expelled the last U.N. nuclear monitors in late 2002. It is not known to have tested an atomic bomb, although international officials have long suspected it has one or two nuclear weapons and could be making more.

CIA director Porter Goss told a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday that the North has been developing, making, deploying and selling ballistic missiles.

CIA analysts believe the North plans to build a uranium-based nuclear bomb in addition to plutonium-based weapons and chemical and biological weapons programs.

Speaking in Seoul, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said Thursday

from page 4 reforms: an additional bus to run during peak traffic hours and a new bus stop on Oregon Street, which would ease access to the Devil’s Den and increase safety for Central residents.

The council also extensively discussed the quad councils, setting new standards for the groups and urging them to discuss their respective quads’ aesthetics.

Quad councils, beginning this year, will have event logs that record important information concerning past quad events

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Wang Jiarui (right), a leader in theChinese Communist Party, shakes hands with Japanese officialTakenori Kanzaki Feb. 10 after they agreed to enhance cooperation on issues related to North Korea. that China told his government it plans “other initiatives” apart from sending Wang to Pyongyang.

Ban did not elaborate, but Kim, the South Korean ambassador to Beijing,noted Beijing’s role as the North’s main supplier of fuel, aid and other imports.

China is believed to supply Pyongyang with up to one-third of its food and one-quarter of its energy. The North’s farm system collapsed in the 19905, forcing the country to depend on and program information from the previous year. In order to lower programming costs, Campus Council intends to invest in equipment —such as microphones, amplifiers and video projectors—that quad councils repeatedly rent for events.

In other business: The council unanimously passed a resolution calling for the University to add more teller machines that enable students to add more food or FLEX points 24 hours a day on Central Campus, East Campus and distant locations on West Campus. The resolution also suggested creat-

foreign aid to feed its people.

“There are currendy a few railways and 15 unofficial roads connecting North Korea and China,” Kim said. “Imagine what kind of situation will arise in North Korea if China decides one day to close three of those roads for repair for a couple of months.”

In the past, Beijing has insisted it has little influence over the Stalinist regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and has resisted U.S. appeals to pressure its ally.

ing an online system for adding food and FLEX points.

Campus Council also discussed the composition and obligations of the task force that will be created to review the process of linked housing.

The group will meet at least monthly and submit monthly reports to both Campus Council and Residence Life and Housing Services about its evaluation of the housing assignments process. The task force is expected to create a proposal by Sept. 16, which will be reviewed by RLHS and then submitted to the Board of Trustees.

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dean for academic affairs in the law school and Paul Haagen teaches legal history, contracts and the law of sport. He has previously taught an undergraduate freshman seminar on constitutional history.

Peter Burian, chair of the Academic Council Chair Nominating Committee and professor of classical studies, was satisfied with the nominations offered at the Academic Council meeting Feb. 11.

“The first gratifying thing about this assignment is the fact that working together we were able to put together a long list of people we all believed were well qualified to serve,” Burian said.

“The second gratifying thing is that we didn’t need to go very far down that list.”

Haagen assumes the role previously held by Dr. Nancy Allen, professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center. During her reign, Allen, the first chair to serve for three years, oversaw the transition between new University presidents, the approval of the new harassment policy and the beginning of a new diversity initiative.

“She’s been a terrific chair, and she’s a very gracious person,” Haagen said. “I assume that this will be a smooth transition, and I look forward to having her help over the next two years.”

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Duke and its hot hitting freshman open a three-game weekend series with Cincinnati today at Jack Coombs Field.

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The Blue Devils BLACKSBURG, Va. should be embarrassed by their performance Thursday night at Virginia Tech.

Not because it lost. Not because it had their worst shooting performance of the season. Not even because it lost to a lesser opponent. Duke should he ashamed because it analysis got outhustled.

If the Blue Devils are famous for two things, it is their strong man-to-man defense and intensity. Duke did not perform either well last night, and that is the reason it lost the game.

“We gotta get back to playing Duke defense,” senior captain Daniel Ewing said.

“They beat us on a lot of the little things.

They got a lot more out of their hustle plays than we did.”

On one key possession late in the second half with the Blue Devils leading by two, Daniel Ewing failed to corral a ball as he fell out of bounds. Following the inbound pass, the Hokies had three attempts before reserve forward Jeff King was fouled. King made the first free throw, missed the second but dove to the floor to tip it to a teammate who promptly found Carlos Dixon the corner to bury a three, putting Virginia Tech up two.

“That was the possession of the game It was so emblematic of [Virginia Tech’s] effort,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“I’m disappointed with my team, but they played better than we did.”

The four-point possession was indicative ofDuke’s struggles throughout the game. In a subsequent possession, a missed Hokie shot was dpped high into the air. Dixon jumped just a little bit higher than Ewing to bring the ball in and draw Ewing’s third foul.

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The ACC’s last-place team, Clemson, gave the league’s first-place team, Duke, a scare for 32 minutes Thursday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Eight minutes into the second

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Using a late second-half run, No. 3 Duke (24-2, 10-1 in the ACC) beat Clemson (7-17, 1-10), 72-48.

Clemson guard Tasha Phillips nailed a three-pointer at the 7:58 mark, closing Duke’s lead to just five points at 50-45.

Phillips’ basket was Clemson’s last field goal of the game, however, as Duke turned up its defensive intensity.

Coming out of an ensuing timeout, Duke put its offense into gear. Junior forward Mistie Williams converted a threepoint play, extending Duke’s lead to nine and bringing an emotional lift to the team. Williams’ play was the second basket of a 22-3 Blue Devil run, a stark change from a lackluster first half.

“It seems to take us a run by the opponent to help us to realize we need to play with that sense of urgency,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Our team knew that they were in last place and it was a tough game to get up for. We just needed to play with more emotion.”

Chante Black continued her improved play while dominating down low. Black finished with a career-high 16rebounds.

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Duke and Wake Forest are testaments how many ways a team can win in the brutal ACC. The Blue Devils have only won one of the four games in which their opponent scored 75 points or more, while the Demon Deacons are 7-3 in games when their opponent reached that same mark.

The Demon Deacons rank in the ACC’s top three in rebounding margin and assists per game; the Blue Devils are in the bottom half of the league in both categories.

Duke is in the conference’s top three in turnover margin and blocked shots; Wake Forest ranks in the ACC’s second tier.

Despite their differences, No. 5 Wake Forest (22-3, 10-2, 10-2 in the ACC) and No. 7 Duke (18-4, 8-4) are first and third in the conference, respectively. If Wake Forest wins Sunday at 6:30 p.m. in to

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Cameron Indoor Stadium it will control its own destiny in the race for the ACC regular season championship.

Duke’s players know that they will need to focus on what differentiates them most from Wake Forest: their tight pressure defense. The Blue Devils rank second in the ACC in scoring defense, while their opponent ranks ninth.

“Defense, man. The whole thing is defense,” Daniel Ewing said. “The biggest thing for us is to stop teams and hold them under 75 points. We’ll be in a good position to win the game if we play great defense.”

Stopping the explosive Wake Forest offense has been among the more difficult tasks in college basketball. Only six teams have held the Demon Deacons to less than 80 points this year, and their 85.5 points per game is fourth best in the nation.

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Shelden Williams blocked four shots in the Blue Devils'first meeting with Wake Forest Feb 2.

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Duke opened its season out of the national championship picture. As the season has progressed, however, this picture has changed. The Blue Devils, currently No. 3 in the nation, have reached the top of the AP poll and have emerged as a contender an~tlvck for that coveted title.

All the team s success bodes well heading into March, but without improvements to its half-court offense, Monique Currie and the stifling defense will not be able to carry the team to its NCAA Championship goal.

In Thursday night’s win over last-place Clemson, Duke’s offense struggled against a much smaller and less-experienced team. With just under eight minutes to play, the Blue Devils held a mere five-point advantage—a far cry from the expected Duke blow out.

This offensive struggle revolved around the perpetual passing woes that have prevented the Blue Devils from getting good looks in the post.

With tall post players, including Mistie Williams, Alison Bales and Chante Black, the Blue Devils should be dominant in the paint. To this point in the season, however, this dominance has not been apparent.

The only real post scoring threat has been Williams. Bales and Black have primarily been rebounders, scoring mostly junk baskets after offensive rebounds.

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Monique Curriefinished Thursday's win with 10 points on 3-for-8 shooting in 28 minutes. son has been the outside shooting of Jessica Foley, Wanisha Smith, Currie, and to some extent, Bales. Bales, who has said she is not comfortable playing with her back to the hoop, has shown surprising skill at hitting the outside jumper.

In last night’s victory over Clemson, Bales and Black dominated the boards, combining for 24 rebounds, but only tallied nine points for the Blue Devils. With Currie playing on a stress-fractured left foot, Foley stepped up for Duke, hitting 3of-5 from behind the arc en route to a team-high 21 points.

Duke has struggled all season to integrate its great outside shooting with its potential on the inside, stemming from the Blue Devil post players having a major size advantage over almost every team.

Duke’s post problem is not simply the big players’ fault. Some of the blame should be placed on the guards, who do not get open and present a passing option if there is not a clean look at the basket.

“We’re trying to find our happy medium,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said.

“We've been working so hard on getting the ball inside to our post players.”

Early in the first half against Clemson, Smith got the ball inside on numerous occasions, as the forwards were drawing Lady Tiger fouls. As soon as the double-teaming began, Duke’s offense halted, and Clemson managed to keep itself in the game much longer than it should have been able to.

“They started double-teaming, and I think we continued to look inside,” Goestenkors said. “Sometimes we become stagnant when we pass it in and then we just watch our post players.”

Duke has many ways of fixing its post dilemma—some coming at the player level.

Bales has been the most prolific shotblocker in Duke history this season because of her improved conditioning, but she still lacks the pure athleticism to be a true scorer. In order to be an effective player, however, she needs the option to kick the ball out to a guard when she is in trouble, instead of forcing an awkward layup.

Early in the season, Black seemed to be on her way to being a dominant scorer and rebounder, but the freshman injured her ankle and has only recently been playing at full-strength. It will be up to Black to become Duke’s second go-to player in the post behind Williams and give Duke the threat down low that it needs for a balanced attack.

Although Currie’s injury will ultimately determine the Blue Devils’ fate this year, the half-court offense is the only aspect of the game within Duke’s control. If Bales can pass out of double-teams to open Blue Devil guards and Black can improve her scoring ability, then Duke will have the inside-outside attack it will need in March.

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CLEMSON from page 9 ‘We had to get some pride in our defense and be a lot more aggressive,” Williams said.

Both teams came out slowly, with Duke struggling to make shots.

“It was a very strange game,” Goestenkors said. “There was not really a whole lot offlow to it.”

Even though it did not pull away earlier, Duke dominated inside all game long against a much smaller Clemson front line.

The Blue Devils finished with a 40-4 advantage on points in the paint.

“That’s bordering on ridiculous,” Clemson head coach Jim David said. “WeTe Just absolutely too soft and lazy. All those things that you don't want to be described as in the post, that’s what we are.”

Despite the weak effort down low, Clemson kept the game close by running the ball against a lethargic Duke team.

The Blue Devils led 33-24 at halftime, but the Tigers came out from the break with a running game designed to wear out Duke’s eight-woman roster.

Phillips capitalized on her team’s energy, hitting back-to-back three-pointers to draw her team back within striking distance. She finished with 18 points, 15 of which came in the second half. When Phillips lost her touch, her team could not find another offensive option and fell apart on defense, securing Duke’s win.

“We just absolutely stopped competing,” Davis said. ‘You just can’t do that against a team of this caliber and expect to win.”

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With Currie hindered by the stress fracture in her left foot, look for Duke to concentrate its offensive efforts in the post.

Both Williams and Black are coming off strong games against Clemson and should continue using their size advantages against a smaller Yellow Jacket front-line. Once the posts get going, expect Duke to look for Foley, who has shot better the past two games on the perimeter.

Georgia Tech will attempt to use its quickness and speed to counter Duke's size and short rotation. The Blue Devils have proven that they can handle any attack the opposition throws at them. Look for Black to clean up on the boards and Bales to block at least five shots. Around the perimeter, Smith will pressure the Yellow Jacket guards. Last time the two teams met, Georgia Tech shot just 34.9 percent from the field.

Georgia Tech will be looking for revenge after a January loss at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke always draws large crowds away from home, and this game will be no exception. Currie's injury could also spell trouble for the Blue Devils. Against Clemson, she was unable to provide her usual intensity on both ends of the floor. Duke will need to find another leader both on the court and in the huddle if it expects to win.

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Monique Currie struggled all night long, only scoring 10 points in 28 minutes.

Currie has not practiced this week because she has been suffering from the flu and has a stress fracture in her left f00t.... Duke improved to 12-0 at home this season.

Currie's injury and Tech's homecourt advantage will help keep the game close throughout. But Duke has too much power down low for the Yellow Jackets to handle and will pull away down the stretch because of its defense.

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big shot,” Greenberg said. “He thinks every shot is going in.”

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski had only praise for both Greenberg and his squad.

“They outfought us, they showed a great deal of poise,” Krzyzewski said. “For us to get outrebounded by 17 in a basketball game shows something about us but more about the other team. I thought they had tremendous desire and hunger, and they were extremely well-prepared.”

The difference in aggressiveness between the two teams was evident in the Hokies’ 14-2 advantage in second chance points, a discrepency that heavily influenced the outcome of the game.

“They killed us on the boards,” Ewing said. “They also beat us to a lot more loose balls.”

Virginia Tech’s Coleman Collins provided much of that rebounding edge. The sophomore grabbed 18 rebounds, including eight on the offensive glass, to open things up for his team’s main scoring threats.

Leading the wayfor the Hokies offensiveDixon and Jamon Gordon, ly were who scored 18 and 17 points, respectively.

Dixon, guarded most of die game by Redick, was the team’s go-to guy all night, and he made several key shots to stall Duke runs.

“Dixon played real well tonight,” Redick said. “He hit some tough shots on me. I know he’s a right driver, and I gave him the right drive one too many times.”

Returning to the Blue Devils lineup was forward Reggie Love, who missed nearly seven weeks with a broken right foot. Love appeared out of sync with Duke’s offensive flow on several occasions in his 19 minutes of play.

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Daniel Ewing finished Thursday's loss with 13 points and only one assist. Healso turned the ball over four times against the aggressive Virginia Tech defense. made it hard,” Love said. “It did feel good to be out there again.”

Virginia Tech came out hot in the first half, using an early 10-2 run to stake a 2012 lead. After Duke came back with a 102 run of its own to tie the game, neither team led by more than seven for the rest of the game. They traded leads for the rest of the contest.

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who played 21 minutes off the bench. In addition to scoring seven points and grabbing four rebounds, King helped contain Shelden Williams all night.

Williams still managed 16 points and seven rebounds, but Thursday he was not the impact player he usually is.

“I made a huge mistake when we first got [King],” Greenberg said. “We never got him into basketball shape. We went up

and down three days in a row, to give him a feel for what it would be like, because I knew he would be important to this game.”

As the game remained close and the clock dcked down, the 9,847 fans in Cassell Coliseum became louder and louder, providing a Cameron-like sixth man advantage.

“I think their fans were great,” Krzyzewski said. “They had a great team effort tonight, and it paid off.”

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they can compete with the elite teams in the country, as they proved against North

sive rebounds, got defensive rebounds.” junior Lee Melchionni said. “They were hungrier than us. That’s something that’s

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Junior Lee Melchionni shot O-for-4from the field, and the Blue Devils shot Just 39 percent as a team.

In recent games, Melchionni and freshman DeMarcus Nelson have contributed significant lifts off the bench. But Thursday, the two were limited to combined totals of 16 minutes, five shot attempts and two points. Reggie Love, who saw his first action since he broke his foot Jan. 2, played 19 minutes but only managed to record two points, four rebounds and one blocked shot.

Even without a great deal of intensity, Duke’s defense appeared to play well statistically, forcing the Hokies to shoot a mediocre 39 percent from the field. But when a team gathers just 23 defensive rebounds and allows its opponent 19 offensive boards, it is going to be difficult to win any game. Many of these offensive rebounds led to tip-ins, including Jamon Gordon’s bucket that gave Virginia Tech a twopoint lead with 32 seconds remaining.

“Hunger is something you can’t really fake,” Melchionni said. “We’ve got to get our passion and our desire back. Right now, we’re not playing with that.”

Duke easily could have won Thursday night. Ewing had two open looks for gamewinning three-pointers in the final 15 seconds. But in the grand scheme of the season, it may have been a good thing for the Blue Devils to go down in Blacksburg.

Realistically, Duke had virtually no chance to win the ACC regular season title. Instead, this game may serve as a wake-up call for the Blue Devils. They now are well aware, as they should have been all along, that they are a very vulnerable team. When they play their hearts out,

arolina last week. But in any contest when they leave something in the tank, they are beatable, as Virginia Tech showed Thursday night.

“You’ve got to want to win. That’s what hunger is,” Sean Dockery said. “It’s pride.

It’s pride having this jersey on your back.”

DUKE FG 3-PT Williams 6-13 0-0 Randolph 3-4 0-0 7-16 3-8 Redick Ewing 5-14 2-8 Dockery 1-5 1-3 Melchionni 04 0-3 Nelson 0-1 0-0 Love 1-2 0-0

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The women’s swimming and diving team earned 41 points Thursday, as Duke dropped from fifth to 10th place at the ACC Championships after two days of competition.

The Blue Devils’ poor performance in the preliminary rounds yesterday morning placed them into C-Final heats, in which individuals are unable to score points.

“We had a little bit of a rough morning,” assistant coach Lauren Hancock said. “They came back tonight and swam a lot faster.”

More than a second quicker than her preliminaryround time, junior Ratio Ness finished second in the 200yard individual medley with a NCAA B-cut qualifying time of 2:02.07. Her performance earned Duke 17 points, its only individual points of the day.

The Blue Devils’ 200-yard freestyle relay squad, consisting of freshmen Danielle Spearman, Anna Rogers, and juniors Nora Stupp and Julia Lewis, placed seventh with a.1:36.07 time, scoring the remainder of the team’s points.

“We swam alright in the [preliminary] relay, and we were really pumped for the second,” Ness said of her teamates’ performance.

Despite the day’s low point total, the team recorded several personal best times. Jackie Rodriguez’s lifetime best 4:53.44 in the 500-yard freestyle earned her an NCAA B-cut. Spearman’s times in the lead leg of the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 200-yard individual medley were also lifetime bests.

Duke’s current meet total of 89 points trails N.C. State and Miami by only one point and Georgia Tech by one and a half points.

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The eighth-seeded Blue Devils (5-1) defeated No. 10 seed LSU (7-1), 4-2, at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship in Chicago Thursday. Duke came out victorious despite its top three players losing their respective individual matches. The win places the Blue Devils in the quarterfinals for the eighth straight year, the longest current streak in the) nation.

Though Duke held the lead for the entire matchup, it faced a challenge throughout the afternoon. The Blue Devils’ top doubles pair of junior Ludovic Walter and senior Jason Zimmerman went down, but the two other Duke doubles teams beat their LSU counterparts to give Duke the overall doubles advantage. Senior Peter Shults, sophomore Peter Rodrigues and freshman Charles Brezac each won individual matches to secure the victory for Duke.

It was this depth that led Duke to its first victory of the tournament, junior Jonathan Stokke said.

Last year the Blue Devils fell to top-ranked Illinois in the quarterfinals of the ITA Championship.

“In my mind, that’swhat separates us from some of the other teams,” Stokke said. “Everyone here has really talented one, two and three guys, but we have a lot of depth.

We felt like our four, five and six were better and we had an advantage there. It’s really a testament to those guys that they came out and really took care ofbusiness today.”

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After months of preparation, the 2005 men’s lacrosse season has finally arrived.

Although it might be excessive to announce that hope has sprung eternal among the No. 13 Blue Devils, the excitement surrounding Saturday’s 1 p.m. home opener against Butler at Koskinen Stadium is undeniable.

“We’ve been battling with each other day in and day out,” junior Matt Zash said of the Blue Devils’ six-month training season. “It’s nice to finally start hitting a different jersey.”

For some players, the wait has been even longer. Senior Bill Gerrish has been sidelined ever since the second game of 2004, during which he suffered a seasonending knee injury.

But all of the disappointment of last year has been washed away, and the captain looks forward to the defensive squad he will lead starting Saturday.

“It’s very, very rewarding to know that nine months of rehab paid off,” Gerrish said. “When I’m on the field I feel awesome. Our defense couldn’t be any better.

We have a solid unit of guys—very deep, a lot of numbers. We’re going to be very strong defensively.”

For Duke’s freshmen, the wait has been almost intolerable. Highly touted attackman Zack Greer has exhibited no signs of pre-game jitters however—the Ontario native was completely focused on Saturday’s contest against Butler.

“We hear they play a lot of zone de-

fense,” Greer said. “We don’t think they can match up with our offensive guys and our middies, so we’re going to try to play a fast game, run it by them and hold them on the defensive end.”

Greer will be joined on the Blue Devil front line by junior Dan Flannery and sophomore Matt Danowski, who emphasized the need for offensive focus Saturday afternoon.

“Offensively we just have to put the ball in the cage,” Danowski, the preseason third-teamAll-American said. “We’ve done a good job this preseason offensively, but we’re hitting pipes, hitting the goalie in the chest and taking bad shots. If we shoot smarter this Saturday, we’ll have goals in the high teens and our defense should be able to hold.”

The last time Duke played Butler was in a 2004 preseason scrimmage. In that matchup, the Blue Devils easily manhandled the Bulldogs, but a lot has changed since then.

‘You can’t compare them, because they have a brand new coach at Butler, Stan Ross,” Duke head coach Mike Pressler said. “It’s a whole new system, a whole new program. He’s cleaning house and doing things his way. I think they’re going to be a very strong program in the future.”

To some Blue Devils, all the unknowns surrounding the Bulldogs are downright scary.

‘We don’t really know what to expect with a new coach and a lot of new players,” Gerrish said. We’re focusing more on us and on SEE M. LAX ON PAGE 14

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Duke will combine a mix of veteran leadership and talented freshmen in an up-tempo style of play this season.

Kimel said she would like to use the games to experiment with various line-ups and offensive schemes. She wants to develop a rotation that takes advantage of the team’s deep bench this season and indicated that many of the team’s freshmen are likely to see action this weekend.

“We have 11 freshmen, and a lot of them will help us,” Kimel said. “Philosophically I've always wanted to have a bigger team that will allow us to play as many kids as possible—maybe 18 to 22 kids per game—to have the rota-

tion to play that up-tempo style but with the discipline and the ability to pull back and run a set offense when we need to. With this group we have that.”

Among the freshmen likely to receive playing time this weekend are midfielder Jess Adam, defender Kerry Costello, attacker Caroline Cryer and midfielderKimberly Pastrana.

Still, central to the Blue Devils’ success will be junior attack Katie Chrest and junior goalkeeper Megan Huether, both of whom were recently named to the 2005 Tewaaraton Award Foundation preseason watch list.

Chrest led Duke last season with 43 goals and earned second-team All-American status. Huether averaged 9.05 SEE W. LAX ON PAGE 14

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saves per game, which ranked second in the ACC a year ago.

“We feel like there are three big things this weekend that we can control,” Kimel said. We want to communicate well on the field, play at a high level of intensity, and maintain a persistent effort for all 60 minutes ofboth games.”

When Duke faces off against Duquesne today at 3 p.m., its main focus will be on midfielder Ginger Flocco, the 2004 Atlantic 10 Offensive Player of the Year and a third-team pre-season All-American selection. Last season, Flocco led the A-10 with 42 goals while notching a teamhigh 13 assists.

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The Duke baseball team looks rebound from Wednesday’s loss to UNC-Wilmington during a three-game series against winless Cincinnati this weekend.

The Blue Devils (4-2) and the Bearcats (0-3) have played each other in each of the past five seasons. The overall series record is tied at 7-7, but Duke took two of last year’s three games. The teams play Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. in Durham.

Since last season, Cincinnati’s pitching rotation has been in flux, as six of its 11 starters from 2004 are either injured or no longer on the roster. The Bearcats plan to send right-hander Tony Maynard, their most experienced hurler, to the mound Friday. Freshman righty Kevin Schrader will get the start Saturday, and Cincinnati’s Sunday starter has yet to to

be named Danny Otero will start Friday and David Torcise will take the mound Saturday for the Blue Devils. Head coach Bill Hillier said he is considering pitching his best starter, Greg Burke, on four days rest Sunday but may opt to use a variety of pitchers instead.

Through six games, the Blue Devils pitching has been consistently strong with a staff ERA of 3.40.

Along with its changes on the mound, Cincinnati has lost its top three offensive threats since the last time it faced the Blue Devils. Last season, Aaron Moll, Steve Pickerell and Drew Saylor combined for 45 percent of the Bearcats’ RBIs and 66 percent of the team’s homers. Shortstop Mark Haske turned in Cincinnati’s best offensive performance against Florida Adantic, going 6of-14 with two RBIs in the team’s first three games.

After a slow start, production

at the plate has picked up for the Blue Devils.

Infielder Adam Murray, who was named ACC Player of the Week Monday, has been the team’s offensive leader, batting .455 with seven RBIs. Freshman bats have also provided a spark for Duke scoring efforts. Ron Causey, Jimmy Gallagher and Brett Bartles have all been hitting well, especially in Duke’s sweep of MarylandEastern Shore last weekend.

Causey has homered in backto-back games, and Gallagher batted in two runs Wednesday and hit a home run Sunday against UMES. Bardes is in the middle of a five-game hitting streak, which includes three hits in Sunday’s 8-6 win.

Duke has had to overcome multiple errors, both in the field and on the base path. The Blue Devils have been charged with at least one error in every game since theirFeb. 5 season opener.

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our game plan, as opposed to what they’re going to bring.”

The key component of the Duke strategy will be to play a fast-paced game and force the inexperienced Bulldogs into making mistakes.

“I think pressure is the key word for us, Pressler said. “We want to make it a 110-yard game. They’re going to want to make it a half-field game at a slower tempo, we certainly want to make it an up-tempo

game.”

TENNIS from page 12 Walter, Duke’s top player and No. 6 in the nation, lost his first match of the season to the Tigers’ top player, No. 12 Ken Skupski. Walter must now bounce back in a challenge against Baylor’s Lars Poerschke, ranked 11th in the nation.

Duke looked like it would secure an easy victory early in the singles matches. Having already secured the doubles team point and with only three individual victories necessary for the win, the Blue Devils led five of the six

ing threat, Duke will call on fifthyear senior Carline McHenry to defend Flocco and will bring up an extra defender should Flocco penetrate deep into Duke’s defensive zone.

“We’re going to-do what we need to do to stop her,” Kimel said.

When these two teams met in Orlando last season, Duke scored quickly and often, jumping out to a 10-1 halftime lead en route to a 12-3 win. Chrest led the team with four goals while the defense held Flocco to only one goal and no assists.

Duke will square off against Denver for the first time in seven years Sunday at 12 p.m. The last time these two teams met was in 1998, when the Blue Devils dismantled the Pioneers 15-0.

Butler should pose little threat for the Blue Devils, provided they maintain their focus.

“We can’t beat ourselves,” Zash said. “We’ve been known in the past to look past some teams —this year we’re looking to get a ‘W’ every week.”

So is this team ready for the 2005 season? These first few games will go a long way to answer that question.

“Guys have been working their tails off in the preseason,” Pressler said. “With each scrimmage we’ve improved. I wouldn’t say we’re a great lacrosse team yet, but we’re getting better.” matches after the first set. LSU, however, tied up three of those five matches, and it took Rodrigues’ 6-4 third set to close out the Tigers.

“Our guys fought well,” Duke head coach Jay Lapidus said. “We won five first sets, and I thought we had it in the bag, but it got pretty tight. LSU did a good job coming back—both teams did.”

For the second year in a row, the Blue Devils face the topseeded team of the tournament in the quarterfinals. The team will take on Baylor Friday afternoon at 3 p.m..

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WAKE from page 9 The Blue Devils know first-hand how hard it is to stop the Demon Deacon offense. In their previous matchup this season, Feb. 2 in Winston-Salem, Duke allowed 92 points on its way to a 92-89 loss.

Wake Forest registered 42 points in the paint that night, with point guard Chris Paul (23 points) doing much of the damage on drives to the basket.

Paul, a National Player of the Year candidate, is the leader of the Wake Forest attack. His team-high 6.8 assists per game places him among the nation’s top 15, and he ranks in the top three on his team in almost every major statistical category.

He is exceptional at driving to the basket and scoring, and he also shoots better than 50 percent from beyond the arc but attempts less than three per game.

‘Your point guard is like the quarterback of the football team,” Wake Forest head

Wake Forest (22-3,10-2) Guard Justin Gray (16.8 ppg, 2.9 mg) Guard Chris Paul (14.6 ppg, 6.8 rpg) Center Eric Williams (16.3 ppg, 7.5 rpg) Forward Jamaal Levy (7.8 ppg, 7.0 mg) Vytas Daueflns (6.7 ppg, 4.2 mg) Forward -

The Blue Devils will look to grind down the pace of the game and force Wake to play solid defense in the half-court set. With Eric Williams and Shelden Williams locking horns down low, Duke will look to the perimeter. Redick's 33 points weren't enough last time the teams met, so Ewing, Melchionni and others will need to contribute. Wake is 10th in the ACC in defending the trey, so the Blue Devils should get plenty of opportunities.

The Demon Deacons like to run the floor and outgun their opponents. Paul and Gray are the most dynamic backcourt duo in the ACC and will look to repeat their combined 39-, point output against Duke earlier this season. The Blue Devils have the second-stingiest defense in the conference and will try to follow their recipe for success against North Carolina disrupting the transition game and forcing turnovers.

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Boasting a 6-2 record against ranked opponents this season,

Wake Forest is a veteran team that knows how to perform in big games. The Demon Deacons are emboldened by a current six-game winning streak and a win over the Blue Devils in Winston-Salem Feb. 2. But this game is in Cameron, where the environment will be electric. If the game gets into the 80s, fouls could be an issue again for Duke.

coach Skip Prosser said. “I said last year, and I still stand by this, I wouldn’t trade Chris Paul for any guard in the country.”

Paul will likely be shadowed by Ewing, assuming the Blue Devil captain remains on the court. In the teams’ last contest, Ewing faced early foul trouble and was eventually disqualified after playing only 20 minutes. Ewing has proven he can contain top-flight point guards, holding North Carolina’s Raymond Felton to just 13 points and forcing him into eight

This will be a classic ACC matchup: The big men should cancel each other out down low, so it will come down to guard play and which team can control the game's tempo. Some Crazies have been tenting for more than 50 days to see this, and they compiled by Dan Kapnick will be in for a good one. Duke wins, 79-74

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Paul is surrounded by one of the nation’s most talented supporting casts. After Duke’s loss to Wake Forest this season, Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski praised the Demon Deacons’ versatility on offense.

“They can score from a number of different positions, so you can’t key in on one guy,” Krzyzewski said. “The sign of outstanding teams is that you can’t key in on just one guy.”

Shooting guard Justin Gray is Wake For-

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Center Eric Williams is a talented scorer who also excels at finding an open shooter when he faces a double-team. He finishes consistently around the basket and is a tenacious offensive rebounder.

Forward Jamaal Levy is stronger inside

and on the glass than his 6-foot-9, 186pound frame would indicate. He can score in the paint as well as from long distance and has the potential to create matchup problems for Duke’s defense.

The Blue Devils know that slowing Wake Forest’s talented and versatile offense is the most important key to victory.

Judging from the Demon Deacons performance all season, it will not be easy.

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their dorm rooms and at dinner tain mode of thinking. In graduate tables, students have long joked school, students in different disciabout how easy it is to sail through plines will often approach the same a public policy major. It has always problem in vasdy different ways; some been possible to take the discipline of those differences ought to carry over to undergraduseriously, but it has St3TTGClltorien ates and their majors, been just as easy to Because of public complete requirements while skimping on the actual policy’s inherendy interdisciplinary learning. PPS 55 is notoriously the nature, the department has debated its role in teaching a theory of thinkintro class full of seniors.

Some of that is beginning to ing. Although Sanford established its change. After a lengthy evaluation method for teaching master’s degree process, the public policy department students long ago, its undergraduate has introduced a series of changes to program has lagged behind. Recent the undergraduate major that are de- steps to establish a doctoral degree alsigned to give the program more lowed deep-rooted questions about rigor and greater focus. The most whether public policy is an amalgasubstantive changes center on mak- madon of other disciplines or a sepaing students take the core classes ear- rate field to surface. The proposed doctorate firmly establishes public lier in their undergraduate careers.

These courses teach the funda- policy as a distinct field. The revised mentals of the discipline, and it major reinforces that conclusion, Other changes to the major inmakes sense for students to learn how the discipline works before they elude a wider variety of ways for stuforge into subdivisions of the field, dents to pursue an honors thesis.

Majors can gain more from electives This is in line with the University’s when they have background in the school-wide goal to expand underdiscipline, and the class as a whole graduates’ role in research. Encourcan only benefit from having more aging undergraduates to write subpeople well versed in the theory of stantial research papers also underscores the scholarly legitimacy public policy.

But the alterations to the major of public policy, The final change is the addition of signal a more subtle shift going on a series of elective clusters that will the Sanford Institute of in larger Public Policy. Public policy itself is a allow students to focus on a specific hybrid field, drawing heavily from policy area. These paths seem to be a economics, political science and so- step in the pre-professional direction, ciology with contributions from a a direction most areas of the Univerhost ofother areas of study. Many of sity have avoided. But since the the professors—and even many of paths—including global, social, ecothe field’s experts—were trained in nomic or health policy—are optional, more classical disciplines. they do not force undergraduates At some level, majors in a liberal into a career too early, The only thing students are forced arts college are designed to give students notjust expertise in a particular to do early is learn the basics of the area but also understanding of cerdiscipline. „

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Wake Forest game policy Starting at 9 p.m. tonight, personal checks for the Wake Forest game will begin.

Tent rosters will be frozen at that time.

The walk-up line may begin at 9 p.m., and no earlier. Groups of two people with one person always present may register.

We only have 70 tents for Wake, so there will be a great deal more space for walk-ups than there was for UNC (when we had 100 tents). Students should not be intimidated by the length of the walk-up line, as it will undoubtedly extend to Towerview and turn toward Sanford.

With only 750 tenters, there should be room for up to 600 walk-ups, though no walk-up line member is guaranteed entrance, regardless of number in the line.

All students, not just tenters, are encouraged to enjoy the weekend in K-ville. WXDU

will be broadcasting live from K-ville and holding a raffle for some sweet prizes on Friday night beginning at 9 p.m. Saturday night will include Coach K’s speech at 9 p.m., classic game tapes and live music at 10 p.m. and the Relay for Life kick-off in K-ville at

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Columnist’s view of Monologues skewed As a member of the Vagina Monologues cast and a newly self-proclaimed feminist, and as someone who used to giggle every time the word “vagina” was spoken, I want to rebut the misinformed and biased account of the purpose of the Vagina Monologues in Nathan Carleton’s Feb. 17 column. I am honored and proud to have been a part of a production pulsing with eccentricity, women from different backgrounds and at differentlevels of their sexuality. And guess what, Nathan Carleton, our vaginas have nothing to do with you.

This “overpriced” play donated the majority of its proceeds to the V-Day Spotlight of 2005: Women of Iraq, Under Siege and the Sexual Assault Support Services and the Durham Crisis Response Center (our local rape crisis and domestic violence agency). I didn’t know safety had a price tag on it. The

author’s skewed information regarding the actual monologues he cited make me wonder if he even saw the production this year.

We did not impersonate vaginas. We told the stories of real women who find peace and beauty in their shadowed sexuality cast in the wake of arrogant assumptions, which is exactly what we’re trying to change.

The Vagina Monologues is not about lesbianism or man hating. It’s about grabbing our notoriously taboo sexuality by the horns and cultivating it. It’s about liberation from the double standard. It’s about saying what we feel, about saying what too many women are afraid to feel. And yes, its about sex (gasp) and enjoying it.

Laura Fausch Trinity ’O6

Monologues about strong, real women Nathan Carleton’s depiction of the Vagina Monologues as merely a series of sexually explicit, pointless and denigrating skits Feb. 17 column is trivializing and inaccurate. I sincerely doubt that Carleton attended the show with an open-mind, if he attended it all.

The Vagina Monologues is much deeper than the image Carleton’s words painted.

It’s about freedom from the boundaries enclosing women all over the world. Thus, there’s a piece that addresses female genital mutilation, a cause that Carleton even admitted was worthy; a piece giving voice to women stifled by the traditions of some Middle Eastern countries; a piece about the detrimental, residual effects of rape, a worldwide horror; a piece about the natural beauty of birth. Why didn’t he mention any of this in his fiery dismissal of the show?

There’s not, as Carleton’s erroneously wrote, a single “anti-male” piece in the show. In fact, there’s a piece based on a woman’s wonderful experience with a man titled Because He Liked To Look At It. Remember that one?

Yes, the show discussed the VAGINA as a

sexual organ and a possible place of immense pleasure! Yes, there was a Vagina Workshop that introduced women to new and different ways to please themselves and their partners! So what? Two Facts: People are sexual beings. Many people have consensual sex. Why not be vocal about women’s wants, needs and concerns?

Women deserve to be able to claim their sexuality as their own. We deserve to explore and enjoy our personalities, sexualities, spiritualities and more. We deserve all of this without the fear of alienation, or the anger of men, or other women, who find this uncompromising stance too audacious, threatening or, like you say, “anti-male”.

The Vagina Monologues and the Vagina Workshop provided a safe space for dialogue about these issues.

The Vagina Monologues and the entire VDay campaign are about love, freedom, laughter, healing and growth for everyone.

You’re sincerely welcome to join us.

Florence Noel Trinity ’O7

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carry a copy ofF. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in my Buchanan does to his mechanic Wilson: frustrated, disrecar’s glove box. Why? Out of the desperate hope that one spectful and altogether uninterested. At least we’re not day someone will be sitting in my passenger seat when cheating on Durham’s wife. they pop the handle, see the book and say, “Why do you How many Jordan Bakers do you know? In the past few have a copy of The Great Gatsby in your glove box?” years we’ve had one of the best women’s golf team in the naThe problem has always been what to answer. I mean, tion here, if that’s any coincidence. But go deeper than that. there’s always the look. You know the look. It’s the “you betFind all of the people who wouldn’t have a problem leaving ter believe I carry a copy of The Great Gatsby in my glove box the top of their convertible down during a rainstorm be’cause I’m gangsta’ like that” look. Apparently girls do not cause they wouldn’t have to deal with the consequences. like this look or really the concept of keeping quasi-symbolYup, I see a few. ic reading in the car. Then, the other day it hit me. I’ve got And who out there is pursuing the dream that Gatsby an answer now. Ahem, “Aaron, why is this did? Make the money, create the persona, book in here?” get the girl (or guy?) and live happily ever after. Or do enough of us see thatthe dream In response to your question, allow me to unfold the greatest undiscovered literary he chased was false? Have you ever made a strict schedule for self-improvement, pledganalysis of all time. This is why The Great ing constandy to clean up your act, change Gatsby is about Duke.

There are spacious lawns and buildings your ways and commit yourself to your goals? Gatsby did. playing host to nightly get-togethers ofpeoThen there’s our debate about shirts—ple perfectly unbeknownst to each other, aaron kirschenfeld pink shirts, “fine by me” shirts, shirts that fit guests especially. We’re all really just so far, so good effordessly... Gatsby had tons of shirts. Wonstrangers out there, absorbed in our own der if he popped the collar. Or is that more the under things, combining briefly in night pretexts of some fabulous party and then returning to our of an East Egg thing?

Haven’t you felt the loneliness felt by all of the characters clearly defined, day-lit, regular worlds.

What about West Campus, plopped down in the middle as you wander through those beautiful Gatsby-esque garof Durham, N.C., the proverbial less-fashionable West Egg of dens or quads, sometimes covered bylarge party-tents? All of Fitzgerald’s world? It’s modeled after Princeton, right? Just the faces are familiar but not too familiar. There are memoas Gatsby’s house was a copy of some stuck-up long-standing ries or flashes of unrecoverable times scattered though tradition, our campus wishes to reflect the very things we nights of going from room to room, inviting others in and both love and hate—those New England, East Egg, Ivy watching them leave.

There is a member of the Class of 2007 named Tom League schools. There are similarities in our founding and manufactured identity, also. How nouveau-riche was James Buchanan and there are more people here from New York B. Duke? About as nouveau-riche as Jay Gatsby. Can anyone than I’ve ever seen before. But am I stretching it? Is there really no connection between The Great Gatsby and Duke? I’m say tobacco money?

What about the “valley of ashes” that exists between getting the feeling like I’m back in AP English trying to Long Island and New York City where George Wilson and argue that Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” was rehis wife Myrtle live? All I can think about is the way that we ally about the League of Nations. Wait. What’s this? Of drive through the streets outside our three-foot wall look- course!

Case closed. ing at the advertisements for detached gods (read: Nick Carraway is an investment banker. without ever to Parizade, Shooters, Bully’s) really stopping give our neighbors, the people of Durham, a hand. Sure, Aaron Kirschenfeld is a Trinity sophomore. His column usually tol buy'gas (or alcohol, which during the ’2os was prohibited—oh irony!) from them, but we end up acting like Tom appears every third Monday.

Smokey, this is not ’Nam This is bowling. There are rules. arcane legislation. We should make it legal to fart in an eleBut how many rules do there have to be? vator in Port Arthur, Texas, and permit children in Mesquite Why can’t I read Catch-22 in Strongsville, Ohio? Why to have bad haircuts. People shouldbe allowed to flirt in pubcan’t I go to a theater within four hours of eating garlic in lic in New York and San Antonio, and, if the need should Indiana? Why can’t I participate in more than one game arise, own more than two dildos in Arizona and six in Texas. show per year in the United States? Why can’t I walk around We should get rid of the drinking age. The relocation of on Sundays in the state ofNew York with ah ice cream cone Duke’s social scene to off-campus residences of upperclassmen is a problem universities across the country are facing as in my back pocket?

Because there are rules that say I cannot. they awkwardly try to enforce inane underage drinking laws.

We have a president that tosses around the word “freeAny hopes to find a replacement for alcohol as a social lubridom” like nobody’s business. We are told cant are useless. Students would be healthier that we live in a society that defends freeand at considerably lower risk if they were aldom from those who want to destroy it. Eilowed to drink freely in the comfort of their ther or. Black and white. We are left to figdorm rooms or on the main quad.

Am I wrong? ure out for ourselves that nothing is that The laws that prevent homeless people clear cut. Our freedom is qualified. There from performing daily activities fail to preare restrictions. And more are proposed vent homelessness. Another solution needs every day. to be found, and laws against sleeping in If we should choose to own an elephant, eric vivier for example, we could not plow cotton fields cars or on streets, sitting on sidewalks, bathing in parks and urinating in public in North Carolina, nor could we secure it to calmer than you are need to be repealed. a parking meter in Florida without paying the parking fee required for an automobile.

We don’t really need the PatriotAct. The We couldn’t even walk down Market Street in San Francisco powers of the president and the federal government were without having our elephant on a leash. That would be illegal. wide enough to prevent terrorism before September of This is an administration that cares less about the actual 2001. People just need to read what is handed to them.

Some laws limiting sexual freedoms have been repealed freedom of its citizens than it does about the term in the abstract. This is a government that wants to dictate how we in the last few years, but not all. It is illegal to sleep naked should live. This is a ruling class that wants to impose Chrisin Minnesota. Unmarried couples who live together and tian morality and corporate capitalism while undermining “lewdly associate” with one another in West Virginia may the welfare state. This is a form of compassionate conservaface up to a year in prison. If a man and a woman who tism that wants to prevent women from having a choice, aren’t married go to a hotel in North Carolina and register poor people from advancing, sick people from health and themselves as married, then, according to state law, they are legally married. gay people from being gay.

Laws that no longer apply should be cast aside to make We can’t even be irritated. We have to be patient.

And now we must be patient as Congress cuts social room for the laws of the fixture. And if progressives don’t get spending in an attempt to balance a budget thrown awry by their act together soon, the laws of the future could be as ridiculous as some of the laws of the past. the billions spent every day on the war in Iraq. As it underIt’s a league game, Smokey. mines the laws passed during the New Deal.

As long as we’re at it, we might as well make a clean sweep Eric Vivieris a Trinity senior. His column appears every otherFriday. through the law books and throw out some other pieces of

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Class struggle ends February 25, 2005 —New Durham, North Carolina His uniform freshly-pressed and his cap set rakishly

askew, Dick Brodhead swings open the bus door and greets a fresh load of passengers with a hearty “Hidey-ho, friends and neighbors!” One would hardly guess, from the looks of him, that Brodhead had once been president of one of America’s foremost academic institutions. But indeed he was, as recendy as a week ago—just as sure as he now sits on the 550-member Rotating Central Committee of the New Durham Independent Learning Collective.

I climb on, in the midst of a chorus of reciprocal “Hideyhos,” and take the seat nearest our driver. Brodhead throws the bus into gear, and as we glide past the red-draped Allen Building and no less than three spontaneous student-worker solidarity demonstrations, it’s evident that quite a bit has changed on the campus once referred to as “The Plantation.”

“To be honest,” explains Brodhead, “I think it all started with Employee Appreciation Week. One day, the hautebourgeoisie is arranging picnics and gift baskets for their janitors. The next day, they’re completely handing over the means of production. Amazing.”

Amazing is one word for it. Even a week later, no one here at NDILC seems to fully understand the direct link between a series of rob simple gestures—bagel lobster sticks to magnet breakfasts, “THANK YOU” fliers—and what appears to be a complete localized cessation of the class struggle. Nor can anyone put a finger on just what made this year’s Employee Appreciation Week such a monumental success. But there’s no quibbling with the facts.

A single living wage for every student, employee and administrator. Professors sharing tenting duties in K-ville.

Manual labor assigned on an rotating, egalitarian basis. The entire Campaign for Duke, by a unanimous vote of the Central Committee, earmarked for full-tuition student-worker scholarships over the next decade. Several dozen rhesus monkeys freed from the Duke University Medical Center.

“We were politely asked to thank Duke employees, and really mean it,” senior Ben Wolinsky told me earlier in the afternoon. “Well, I figured the only way to really mean it was to reconceptualize the capitalist superstructure, and I suppose I wasn’t alone.”

Wolinsky and his fellow student-workers may not have been seeking attention when they marched arm-in-arm down the BC walkway to peaceably strip the Duke Store of all economics textbooks and liberate the McDonald’s, but they soon found that the world was watching.

By Tuesday of Week Zero, international teams of observers from the Carter Center, the United Nations and Cuba had set up shop in GA Down Under, and President Fidel Castro was reported to have remarked that “the students of the university formerly known as Duke obviously appreciate their employees very much.” Reaction from academia was more mixed, but, in an op-ed in yesterday’s Corriere della Sera, leading Marxist Antonio Negri grudgingly leant his support to Employee Appreciation Week.

“Granted, the events in New Durham underminealmost every theoretical model I have developed over the course of my career,” wrote the bestselling co-author of Empire. “But, upon further reflection, the words of Karl Marx in the 12th footnote to the Communist Manifesto could hardly be more clear: ‘Dialectically speaking, the dictatorship of the proletariat will only come about via the revolutionary overthrow of the bourgeoisie and/or free cake.’”

As I think back over the week that was, our bus is pulling into East Campus. Expertly bringing us to a stop, Brodhead wishes me and hands off his driver’s cap to a student-worker in the second row. At the bottom of the steps, Shelden Williams is waiting with a pickaxe. He tosses it to Brodhead, who catches it, pauses and then turns back.

“We’re finally gonna tear down that wall,” he tells me.

I gather he means the three-foot-high barrier separating East Campus from greater Durham. But before I can ask, he and Williams are off to the borders of East, holding hands and singing Woody Guthrie songs.

There goes the last president of Duke, I think to myself. And he’s never looked happier.

At such a moment, you’ll forgive an old columnist a sentimental thought. As Williams and Brodhead strolled off, I can’t help reflecting that they’re walking into a bright new future. A future without exploitation and alienation. A future without the tyranny of capital. A future where everyone here in New Durham appreciates everyone else very, very much.

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Rob Goodman is a Trinity senior. His column appears Fridays

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