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work on a new Ph.D. program in nursing and the construction of a new nursing facility.

The new degree was approved last December, and Gilliss said it will begin in Fall 2006, shortly after the completion of the building’s construction. The doctorate program will prepare nursing scientists for academic careers while attracting research faculty, grants and publications. “[At] a place like Duke, where we understand that knowledge can be applied in the service of humanity, a career like nursing makes a lot of sense,” Gilliss Said. “Nursing is a knowl-

Catherine Gilliss, Duke’s new dean of the School of Nursing, can barely contain her excitement when she describes her vision for the future of nursing at the University.

Holding a photo of herself in a nurse’s starched white cap and blue shirtwaist dress with “DU” embroidered on the collar, Gilliss compares her days at Duke as a nursing major in an undergraduate program on the decline to the rapidly expand32nd-ranked nursing ing, school she hopes to bring to the top 10 within five years.

“My return this time is really thrilling,” said Gilliss, Nursing ’7l. “It’s very exciting to come back to my own alma mater at a time when my own alma mater is really ready to break into the top-tier schools. It deserves a place in the top tier, and I’m very confident that we’ll be there in short order.”

Since her August appointment to replace Mary Champagne as nursing dean, Gilliss has transitioned from her most re-

The University is well on its way to reaching its goal of raising $270 million by the end June.

Robert Shepard, vice president for university development, said Duke is 10 to 15 percent closer than they were at this time last year to reaching their goal for the fiscal year.

Despite the lack of an official, large scale campaign—such as the Campaign for Duke, which raised more than $2.3 billion between 1996 and 2003—the University continues to set ambitious goals.

There are, however, certain features unique to large scale efforts, such as a University-wide

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Students who work at the Annual Fund calling drive solicit donations from alumni and othermembers of the Duke community Thursday evening.

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Malcolm Gladwell wants to remove the accused from courtrooms, separate boys and girls in math classes and mandate that students wear school uniforms —all to help eliminate the biases that influence people’s snap judgements.

Wearing blue sneakers with neon yellow shoestrings and gesturing energetically to an audience at the Sanford Institute for Public Policy Thursday night, the quirky bestselling author and journalist for The New Yorker discussed his new book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, which explores the concept of

rapid cognition.

Just warming up Mistie Williams and Alison Bales smother the Miami offense in Thursday night’s 95-61 blowout in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils will look to carry the same energy into Sunday’s Tobacco Road showdown when the Tar Heels come to town.

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and volunteers who take ownership [of the project],” Shepard said. “Without that type of campaign focus, it can be hard to maintain momentum.”

Thus far, though the University has had more than kept pace.

Hank Woods, associate director

Using anecdotes, humor and references to current social dilemmas, Gladwell analyzed the process of making judgements and decisions on the spur of the moment. “This kind of instantaneous decision making is absolutely central to the way we make sense of the world,” he said. people make bad snap judgments, Gladwell said, because they are blinded cognitive

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Author and journalist Malcolm Gladwelladdresses a crowd at Sanford Thursday night.

predilections —such as racial or gender bias—or overloaded with

information that burdens their mental capacities.

Changing this trend and removing bias from judgement require boosting individual awareness and altering the context in which people make decisions, not “changing the hearts of the decision makers,” Gladwell explained.

“We are powerfully attracted to these biases, and they are not easy to dislodge,” he said. “The only way we can effectively dis-

lodge them is to make some kind of systematic structure change.”

Gladwell told a story of a female trombone player who auditioned for a philharmonic symphony in the early 1980 and was selected as a member of the historically male organization because there happened to be a screen between die musicians and the judges the day she auditioned.

Gladwell said the situation exemplified the kind of institutional

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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia Struggling to troubled relations, President George W. Bush prodded Vladimir Putin on Thursday about Moscow’s retreat from democracy, but the Russian leader blundy rejected the criticism and insisted there was no backsliding.

“Strong countries are built by developing strong democracies,” Bush said he told Putin. “I think Vladimir heard me loud and clear.”

“Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy,” the Russian leader replied.

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ing dissent and consolidadng power, Pudn said Russia chose democracy 14 years ago and “there can be no return to what we used to have before.”

Four years after Bush said he had gotten a sense of Putin’s soul and found him trustworthy, the two leaders talked for 2 1/2 hours at a hilltop castle in hopes of easing mounting distrust between Moscow and Washington. Bush said he had not changed his opinion of Putin and wanted to remain friends.

“This is the kind offellow who, when he says “Yes,’ he means yes, and when he says ‘No,’ he means no,” Bush said.

Yet Bush challenged Putin about his

government’s behavior, saying that democracies reflect a country’s customs and culture but must have “a rule oflaw and protection of minorities, a free press and a viable political opposition.” He said he talked with Putin about his “concerns about Russia’s commitment in fulfilling these universal principles” and about Putin’s restrictions on the press.

“I’m not the minister of propaganda,” Putin said, standing alongside Bush at a news conference.

They also confronted differences over Moscow’s arms sales to Syria and Russia’s SEE RUSSIA ON PAGE 6

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VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation Thursday night to insert a tube in his throat to relieve his breathing problems, hours after he was rushed back to the hospital for the second time in a month with flu-like symptoms of fever and congestion, the Vatican said.

The pontiff was conscious in his hospital room after the tracheotomy, breathing with the help of a respirator, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

A top aide to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who visited the pope Thurs-

day said John Paul was “serene” after waking up from the anesthesia. The pope raised his hand and attempted to speak

with doctors but was told not to try, Cabinet

Undersecretary Gianni Letta told reporters at Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital in Rome.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the tracheotomy lasted 30 minutes and that the outcome was “positive.” The pope had approved the procedure, which the Vatican characterized as elective—underscoring that it was not an emergency measure.

The frail, 84-year-old pontiff, who was taken to the hospital shortly before 11 a.m. in an ambulance, was to spend the

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But the tracheotomy may require a longer hospital stay and have serious consequences for the pope’s abilities to carry out his duties since he will not be able to speak, at least initially, while the breathing tube is in his throat.

Medical experts said the respirator was a serious development. “The fact that he is on a respirator is not good. The fact that he was readmitted so quickly is not good.

All this suggests there’s a serious problem,” SEE POPE ON PAGE 8

Anglican primates agreed the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada would withdraw from a key tody of the global church after failing to overcome internal disputes about the election of a gay bishop in the U.S. and the blessing of samesex unions In both countries.

30 die In attacks around Iraq A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew up his car at police headquarters in Tikrit, killing at least 15 people in Saddam Hussein's hometown in the bloodiest of several attacks that claimed 30 lives. Two American soldiers were among the dead.

Canada says no to defense shield Prime Minister Paul Martin said that Canada would not join the contentious U.S. missile defense program, a decision that will further strain brittle relations between the neighbors but please Canadians who fear it

could lead to an international arms race.

Court rules on sperm theft A man who says his former lover deceived him by getting pregnant using semen obtained through oral sex can sue for emotional distress but not theft. The Illinois Appeals Court decided however the baby was conceived, the mother did not steal the sperm.

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An ex-military recruitment officer, his wife, a local activist, a spoken word artist and a soldier’s wife may have seemed like a mismatched crowd. But sitting before a dozen local educators and activists in Durham Thursday night, they were part of a group that hopes to change the face of military recruitment across the state—and perhaps the country.

Headlined by Jim Massey, a former military recruitment officer in North Carolina, the event presented several speakers and a hip-hop performance by artist Langston Fuze at Hayti Heritage Center as local organizers spoke out against military recruitment.

“This is not just about military recruiting,” local activist Ajamu Dillahunt said to introduce the workshop. “We oppose the war in Iraq. We oppose the occupation of Iraq.”

The meeting served partially as a starting point for future counter-recruitment activism throughout the state. Planning to begin in Durham, the leaders spoke of their ambition to spread their message across the campuses of North Carolina's high schools and colleges.

“We want to help the youth to organize themselves [and] to inform the youth that they have the right to opt out” of military recruitment, Dillahunt said.

The speakers stressed the need to raise awareness of alternatives to entering military service and warned of pitfalls created by recruitment officers, whom they said often target young, low-income minorities.

“As a recruitment officer, I started witnessing how they were manipulating and lying to young men,” Massey said. “I was also noticing... this economic conscript where we were basically forcing our younger generation, be it male or female, into the military.”

Since his honorable discharge, Massey has sought to convey this experience to the people he would have been attempting to recruit only years ago.

One speaker, Kara Hollingsworth, told SEE RECRUITING ON PAGE 8

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A group of Duke University physicians has threatened to stop treating military veterans referred by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center because the VA will not pay enough.

Executives of Duke’s Private Diagnostic Clinic physicians’ group—which acts primarily to match doctors and patients—voted to stop treating the veterans Jan. 15 because the VA system would not agree to pay them more than 100 percent of current Medicare reimbursement rates.

PDC Executive Director Paul Newman wrote in a Jan. 7 memo that the group would not treat VA patients. The new rule was to take effect Jan. 15, according to the memo, but apparently has not.

“As far as we’re aware it’s never been implemented,” said Hal Hummell, spokesperson for the Durham VA hospital. “They haven’t stopped seeing our patients.”

Hummell said the VA was negotiating with Duke about the reimbursement rate for patients referred to PDC when the VA physicians cannot provide needed care.

Hummell said the price the VA can pay referral doctors is set nationally and is pegged to the Medicare rate schedule.

The VA pays 100 percent of the Medicare-established price of a procedure when veterans are referred to specialists outside the VA system, he said Hummell said he knew of no other situations across the country in which VA hospitals paid physicians more than the going Medicare rate. Duke is a Medicare provider ajid nearly 42 percent of the padents at Duke-owned Durham Regional Hospital are Medicare recipients.

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The most popular Internet hobby is beginning to attract an

older generation here at Duke—thefacebook.com is now home to more than one hundred faculty and staff members.

So the digital directory is not limited to students, as most may have assumed.

“Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at coluniversities,” and leges spokesperson Chris Hughes, a junior at Harvard University, explained in an e-mail.

Owen Astrachan, professor of the practice of computer science, joined thefacebook when it first arrived on campus last year. “It’s just out of curiosity,” he said, as he confirmed two new friend requests. “You get a different view of what people are interested in.”

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Astrachan also uses thefacebook to familiarize himself with students who have taken or are taking classes that he teaches.

From a computer science perspective, however, he is more interested in social computing, how people interact in this kind of social network.

Residential advisers in Crowell and Wannamaker Quads successfully convinced their residence coordinator, Lesley Hill, to join thefacebook when she came to Duke this year.

“I use it to put a face to a name,” she said. “I’ve never used thefacebook.com for any judicial purposes.” Hill said that she and her residents “got off to a rocky start because they weren’t used to my expectations” but have “pretty decent” relationships now.

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For many students, the reason some professors have longer titles than others may seem a mystery, but plenty of thought, time and effort goes into the awarding of distinguished professorships.

An improvement to the procedure of distributing these honors earned faculty approval at last week’s meeting of the Academic Council.

Under the revisions, school at Duke will have a separate group of 12 faculty members to evaluate who ought to re-

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ceive the distinguished chairs restricted to faculty in that field. A campus-wide committee, which used to be responsible for all of these honors, will now consider only appointments that are open to faculty across the B. Duke professorships, for example.

These new committees will report to the deans of their divisions, who will then make recommendations to the provost.

“I get the final approval,” said Provost Peter Lange, “as I have in the past.”

An update to the system was necessary, Lange explained, because it had under-

gone no serious revisions since the 1980s.

At that time, there were 75 chairs, and 40 of them were open to professors across the University. Today, there are 235 distinguished professorships, of which 150 chairs are endowed and school-specific, and a further 35 unfunded titles are also largely restricted.

“One of the reasons we now have 150 school chairs ’is that when we switched to decentralized [budgeting], we created all these incentives for the deans to raise endowments for chairs,” Lange said.

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RALEIGH The Democratic candidate for state school superintendent wants the Legislature to settle her race as soon as lawmakers pass a bill setting rules by which the General Assembly can resolve disputed elections.

Although the measure is expected to get final legislative approval early next week, it could be a month or more before the General Assembly—or the courts—finally name a winner in the school superintendent vote that took place Nov. 2.

“I want this political soap opera to have its final episode,” June Atkinson said Thursday in a phone interview. “I’m ready to go to work as state school superintendent.”

Atkinson, who leads Republican candidate Bill Fletcher by 8,535 votes, last month asked the Legislature to intervene, even as the state Supreme Court was hearing arguments over whether certain ballots should have been counted.

The state constitution gives authority to the General Assembly to resolve contested elections. But lawmakers realized they had no rules in place to decide this or other statewide races.

So Democrats wrote a bill to creates those rules and passed it out of the Senate on a party-line vote.

Following an hourlong debate Wednesday, the House gave its final approval Thursday by a vote of 59-49—also along party lines.

The bill now returns to the Senate, which could approve the House changes as early as Monday and send the bill to Democratic Gov. Mike Easley for his signature.

Under the bill, the Legislature would

form a 10-member panel to hear the claims of both sides in the disputed election, then make recommendations. Following the state constitution, the General Assembly would then meet in a joint session to choose a winner.

But the procedures can take some time In the superintendent’s race, Atkinson would have 10 days after the bill becomes law to ask for the rules to be used to resolve the election. Atkinson would then have 40 days to file a petition laying out her arguments. Fletcher would be given five days to respond.

There’s no time limit on how long the legislative panel would meet and when it would present its recommendations and vote. Under the proposed rules, a loser in the General Assembly vote would not be allowed to appeal to the courts.

Fletcher and other Republicans said the courts already are involved in the case and the Legislature should not intervene.

The state Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that elections officials should not have counted provisional ballots cast Nov. 2 by voters who went to the wrong polling place in the final totals.

A second bill now moving through the General Assembly would attempt to clarify that provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct may be counted.

“The Democrats are trying to steal an election,” Fletcher charged. “Taking the court out is a problem. Making it retroactive is a problem.”

Atkinson and several newspapers have called upon Fletcher to concede the race, something Fletcher will not do. “Our goal is to get an accurate count,” he said.

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If Campus Council gets its way, Duke students’ newest instant messenger buddy will be the police.

Representatives suggested an AOL instant messenger “police buddy” to improve communication between the Duke University Police Department and students at a meeting Thursday that focused on safety.

Leanora Minai, senior public relations specialist for DUPD, DUPD Lt. Tony Shipman and Eric Van Danen, director of communications for student affairs, addressed student concerns about safety and a lack of communication between students and administrators. While the officials stressed that Duke’s campus was safe, they acknowledged there will always be room for improvement.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” Minai said. “We have to take small steps to improve [security].”

Council representatives said some students have complained about the work ethic ofSecuritas officers. Minai and Shipman clarified that the role ofSecuritas a private security company that provides more than 20 supplemental officers on campus each night —is to increase patrol presence, not to make arrests.

“Securitas is trying to bring their

Republican Bill Fletcher believes the courts should decide the state school superintendent race.

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Democrat June Atkinson currently leads by 8,535 votes in the race for state school superintendent.

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of annual giving, is pleased with the contribution that the Annual Fund has made to this year’s overall increase in giving.

“We are pleased to be ahead this year in the Annual Fund, and it’s a continuation of the momentum we’ve built,” he said.

Peter Vaughn, director of communications and donor relations for the development office, attributes the increase in funds received to a rise in individual giving.

But the increase is not a clear indicator of a sudden wave of generosity.

“While this [increase] is at least partially attributable to new gifts—for instance, annual fund giving is up—it also reflects payments on previous pledges, many of which were made during the Campaign for Duke,” Vaughn said.

Out of the more than $2.3 billion pledged during the campaign, approximately 83 percent, $1.9 billion, was received by the time it closed at the end of 2003. Consequently, about $4OO million remains to be collected during the cur-

for nursing affairs will enable Gilliss to “bring academic nursing into the mainstream of the larger health system,” said Elizabeth Clipp, a professor of medicine at the nursing school and a member of the search committee.

“The school of nursing should be a good citizen of the Health System, and that citizenship means that we will partner around innovations to practice,” Gilliss said.

Looking outward, Gilliss already serves on the campus steering committee for the Duke’s Global Health Initiative —a broad-based campaign for global welfare and well-being that the University has set as one ofits main priorities.

“The importance of how linked we are globally, what we learn and the wealth of knowledge and research of all we have in this school can be shared with our colleagues in other schools and in other countries,” said Brenda Nevidjon, clinical professor in the School of Nursing. “[Gilliss] brings a very inclusive style of leadership, someone who will be a catalyst to bring the most knowledgeable and the best to the table.”

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While the University has seen a number of changes since last year, particularly in its leadership, “in my opinion” said Vaughn, “[there are] none that would account for a significant change in giving.”

He also stressed that giving rates vary throughout the year. “This increase is not necessarily an indicator of how the year will end,” he said. “The current 13 percent increase over last year may be due to unique circumstances in mid-February 2005 versus the same period in 2004.”

Whether in a campaign or not, the fundraising never stops.

“We have an organization that continues to garner charitable gifts for all areas of the University,” Shepard said.

The financial contributions made to the University are consistently accompanied by a wide range of behind-thescenes work.

‘You can be sure that the development office is doing everything it can—specifically communicating and working with its donors in lots of ways—to maintain this progress, which we hope is in fact ‘a trend’,” Vaughn said.

RUSSIA from page 2 help for Iran’s nuclear program. While Bush tried to keep a smile on his face throughout the session with reporters, Putin seemed tense. It was their first meeting since Bush opened his second term promising to spread democracy and freedom and asserting that relations with all leaders would be predicated on how they treat their people. Bush faced pressure from home —from prominent Republicans and Democrats alike—to get tough with Putin, and their talks were seen by some as a test of whether the president would put his inaugural pledges into practice.

For over an hour of their meeting, the leaders were alone with only translators, in a private session that was the longest they have had in over four years. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the discussions were never heated.

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Catherine Gilliss, Nursing 71, hopes to propel the nursing school into the top 10 of programs in the country. end direct popular election of regional governors to the American process of electing presidents through the Electoral College rather than by the results of the popular vote. “And it’s not considered undemocratic, is it?” Putin said.

He suggested that Russians who oppose his actions, such as a campaign against the Yukos oil company and his shutdown of independent media outlets, can sway public opinion because they “are richer than those who are in favor.”

“We often do not pay the attention to that,” Putin said.

Bush was challenged as well, by a Russian journalist who asked about “violations of the rights of journalists in the United States” without giving specifics.

Bush seemed irritated. He said he talked with Putin about Russian press freedom and that the Russian leader asked in turn about practices in the United States.

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But while saying that a free press is the sign of a healthy society, Bush added, “Obviously there has got to be constraints.

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Another question from a Russian reporter prompted a broad defense from Bush on the way democracy is practiced in the United States. “I’m perfectly comfortable in telling you, our country is one that safeguards human rights and human dignity, and we resolve our disputes in a peaceful way,” he said.

Bush and Putin said they were in united on the desire to stop suspected nuclear weapons programs in North Korea and Iran. They remained at odds over Russian arms sales to Syria, which the United States wants halted, said a senior administration official.

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“Of all the people in the group, I probably only know about 50 percent of them.

How [the rest] can be oppressed by me is pretty impressive,” Hill said with a laugh. “I didn’t know my power extended that far.”

Groups ofall sorts have been popping up left and right over the past few months.

“In general we want the site to be as responsive to students needs as possible,” said Hughes. The groups optipn was added at the end of the summer as a result of frequent e-mail requests from students.

Although containing only 13 members, the “I Baby Oil Wrestled at Ben Richapalooza” group is one that is pretty wellknown —and self-explanatory. Members claim to have been participants of the

COUNCIL from page 5 standards up to our University standards,” Shipman said. “At our University we demand the best.... When a Securitas [officer] doesn’t meet expectations, it should be addressed.”

Campus Council representatives also offered ideas to increase student awareness about safety issues. Some of their non-traditional ideas included implementing a cellphone text messaging system that would notify students after a violent crime or retrofitting blue light phones with informational plasma screens and ringers so that police could call the phones to notify nearby students when crimes occur. Students also suggested creating an AOL instant messenger buddy that would function much like Duke Student Government’s “devildaily” activity messaging program.

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now-infamous incident at an off-campus party the morning of Jan. 23. The associate press wrote a story about the party after it was broken up by police.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, a member of thefacebook.com since Feb. 1, is familiar with this group and has been “in conversation with some of the students involved, but it was purely educational and conversational,” he said. Moneta added that he knew the names of the participants before looking at the facebook group.

“I don’t see the facebook as an administrative tool,” Moneta said. “Whatever we know through the facebook, we know through other sources anyway.”

Hughes explained that using thefacebook “for an organizational purpose rather than a personal one... would be against the terms of agreements of the site” and would result in suspension of the

account.

“If some users aren’t comfortable allowing faculty to access their profiles, they can change their privacy settings to match their preferences,” Hughes said.

Hughes noted that for the most part, faculty and staff members use thefacebook the same way as students do—as a fun-to-use resource for information and communication.

“It makes professors seem more human,” said Christopher Roy, a chemistry instructor and a recent member to thefacebook. “My educational philosophy is all about breaking down barriers between students and professors.”

Other members of the faculty and staff shared a similar outlook on the new trend.

“Its dominant use is to reinforce the personalization of the community,” Moneta said. “[lt] makes the campus a little smaller and our relationships a little more intimate.”

Minai added that the fastest way for individuals currently to get information about crime and police news is by joining the “PoliceNews” email list.

Another issue addressed included identifying the expectations of both police officers and students so that such information could help dispel accountability misconceptions. Such information, which would include DUPD code-of-conduct guidelines, would likely be posted on the DUPD website.

Senior Katrina Howell, Central Campus representative, hoped knowing such expectations would begin to remedy alleged racial profiling, a problem she said plagued black residents at the beginning of the year. She said one black resident

was asked to show a Duke ID while sitting on a picnic table and reading.

“We are Duke students too, and we go to school here,” Howell said. Shipman and Minai reassured the council that this behavior would not be tolerated and to report such incidents to the police station.

“I’m glad we got to talk about it. It is especially helpful to figure out where we stand,” Howell said after the meeting.

Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli, a senior, agreed that the meeting was informative and provided a unique opportunity for dialogue.

“It is not often police officers and [public relations] officials get to talk with students about how we should be interacting with officials,” he noted.

PROFESSORS from page 4 recently won distinguished chairs.

“I’m not surprised, and I am impressed at who gets chosen,” Rosenberg said.

Decentralized committees will have closer access to information, but comparing candidates to others across the University could become more difficult, particularly in the smaller schools, Rosenberg said. Furthermore, the close acquaintance of committee members with those they are evaluating could lead to breaches in privilege.

With the University’s current system, “the confidentiality rules are actually honored,” Rosenberg said. He described the surprise of receiving his own appointment: “I couldn’t know either that I was being fired or that I was being awarded a distinguished chair.”

The changes probably will not have a great effect in practice, though they will streamline the procedure, said Lawrence Zelenak, Pamela B. Gann professor of law.

“I would guess that to an awfully large extent the University-wide committee pretty much has to take the word of the people from the relevant department or school anyway,” Zelenak noted.

One thing is certain: the number of endowed chairs is still on the rise. They are important in part because they help to alleviate the hiring constraints imposed by a tighter budget, explained George McLendon, dean of the faculty ofArts and Sciences.

“We can anticipate that there will be a number of those kind of appointments that will become available over the next several years,” McLendon said.

Seyward Darby contributed to this story.

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affect their ability to perform.

“It’s about imparting knowledge in a social environment, and we have to have our hands around that environment... and be more proactive,” Gladwell said.

After the speech, audience members mulled over Gladwell’s ideas as they stood in line for him to sign copies of his book. Senior Maital Guttman said she liked the idea of removing prisoners from courtrooms but thought both genders should remain together in math classes. Junior Liz Groeger said many of Gladwell’s ideas “make sense” but are “probably impractical.”

In his speech, Gladwell said he recognizes the complexity of questioning snap judgments and implementing the ideas in his book but stressed that they are only a starting point for social dialogue.

“This book is asking all of us to conduct a far more finely grained analysis of the world,” he said.

changes that should be made to improve the quality of people’s rapid cognitive choices.

“We don’t have nearly enough ‘screening’—to use it as a metaphor —in our lives,” he said.

Gladwellalso commented on snapjudgements in law and education, noting that many people’s cognitive decisions are wrongly shaped by physical appearances.

Physicality can be removed from the decision-making process in legal situations, Gladwell said, by requiring that defendants never come face-to-face with a jury and e-mail their testimony from another room. In educational contexts, he added, students should dress alike and be divided by gender in math classes to avoid the emergence of any ingrained biases or fears that might

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of her family’s personal experience with military recruitment. Reiterating that recruitment officers are often engaging in “economic conscription,” she told the story of how her husband left college for the military as a lastditch financial effort.

“It was sold to us like a college scholarship program,” Hollingsworth said.

Instead of entering the service for a brief period, she explained, her husband was sent into combat for months, and since joining, he has yet to attend a college class.

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Hollingsworth said her husband’s situation is identical to that of many other young fathers who choose to enter the military because ofits lure of easy money.

“They told him if you do communications, you won’t see any fighting,” she said. “Everything they prepared him for—everything they prepared us for—it all fell apart. It was a lie.”

Although its primary goal is to reach youth, the campaign also hopes to convince school boards and town councils to limit the military’s access to students. As one of the next steps in the campaign, Massey’s organization, Iraq Veterans Against the War, has helped organize a public march opposing the war in Iraq in Fayetteville March 19.

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A Wake County judge has set a hearing for next week

to hear arguments from Fletcher and state officials about how to remove the disputed votes. Fletcher be-

lieves there may be thousands more illegal ballots that were counted, some of which cannot be retrieved.

Eliminating the provisional ballots from the totals should reduce the margin between the two candidates.

But it is unclear if taking them out would reduce Atkinson’s lead to less than 4,438 votes—which is the number of ballots that were lost when an electronic machine malfunctioned in Carteret County.

That could force state election officials to figure out how to deal with the missing votes in that county, possibly calling for a new election. The Carteret ballots were at the center of a dispute over the narrow agriculture commissioner’s race, until Democrat Britt Cobb conceded earlier this month.

The Democrats’ bill to clarify that out-of-precinct provisionals should be counted continued its swift journey through the Legislature Thursday, as a House committee sent it to the floor on a voice vote.

“It’s not the point of this bill to change the law,” the bill sponsor, Sen. Dan Clodfelter, D-Mecklenburg, said during the House election law panel hearing. “It’s to declare what the law has been.”

Republican Party state chairman Ferrell Blount asked GOP lawmakers this week to vote against both of the measures.

Gebala, a 73-year-old retiree, as she left a church in Wadowice, the pope’s birthplace in southern Poland. “We are praying for him every day, for his well-being. But it's all in God’s hands now.”

Vanessa Animo Bono, 32, a Catholic being treated at Gemelli, expressed fear because of the pope’s recent treatment. “He is one of the few popes who is actually able to listen to people.”

Papal officials played down the seriousness of the hospitalization, saying a patient of the pope’s age is always at risk from the flu. Vatican aides said the pope had a fever and congestion in addition to the breathing problems.

ANSA reported the pope was conscious when he arrived at Gemelli and that he was sitting upright in a stretcher.

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said Dr. Michael Kaplitt, a Parkinson’s disease expert at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Before the tracheotomy, outside medical experts had said John Paul may have pneumonia. However, NavarroValls’ statement made no reference to pneumonia, saying the pope suffered a narrowing of his larynx.

President George W. Bush said in a statement: “On behalf of all Americans, Laura and I send our heartfelt best wishes to Pope John Paul 11. The Holy Father is in our thoughts and prayers and we wish him a speedy recovery

and return to the service ofhis church and of all humanity.”

In recent days, the pope appeared to be recuperating from an illness that kept him in the hospital for 10 days earlier this month. On Wednesday, he gave a 30-minute audience by video hookup, reading a statement in six languages before waving and giving his blessing at the end.

With each successive appearance, he seemed a little stronger, a little more alert, and his voice rang out with greater clarity.

That made Thursday’s reversal all the more shocking for the faithful from Nigeria to the Philippines to St. Peter's Square, and raised more doubts about his ability to carry on.

“We have prayed for the pope to live as long as possible so we can still share our joy with him,” said Zofia

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when Duke was getting back to full strength, the men’s basketball team was dealt another blow.

Point guard Sean Dockery is out indefinitely with a torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee.

The junior injured his knee Wednesday in the team’s win at Georgia Tech when he collided with Reggie Love while chasing JarrettJack through a screen.

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The Blue Devils will likely strugglereplacing Dockery and his on-the-ball defense.

“It’s the kind of season we’ve been having so far,” Shelden Williams said. “It seems like we can’t get everyone on the same page for an extended period of time.”

Dockery, one of the team’s best defenders, has averaged more than 27 minutes per game, scoring nearly seven points and handing out 2.3 assists per contest.

The Chicago native is also shooting the best percentages of his career —48 percent from the field, 42.9 percent from threepoint range and 76 percent from the free throw line.

“We feel badly for Sean,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He was having a great year for us and was an integral part of the success we’ve enjoyed so far.

He is one of our fighters.”

With Dockery out, the ballhandling responsibilities shift further to senior Daniel Ewing and freshman DeMarcus Nelson, who had been injured at the start of the season. Nelson will likely pick up many of Dockery’s minutes.

Love, who missed the first half of the ACC season, is healthy again after breaking his foot Jan. 2. Freshman David McClure, who returned to action after sitting out four weeks with a knee injury, played two minutes Wednesday night and is still getting back into game shape.

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While Monique Currie has been garnering most of the attention from opposing teams this season, it was Mistie Williams who provided the offensive MIAMI 61 fi re towDUKE 95 er m No. 2 Duke’s 95-61 rout over Miami (12-14, 4-9 in the ACC) Thursday night.

With foul trouble relegating Currie to the bench midway through the first half, Williams stepped up and inspired of the team. When the Blue Devils (26-2, 12-1) were up 36-14 with 7:55 to go in the half, Williams began a three-minute stretch in which she scored Duke’s next 10points. During the same period, Williams also recorded one steal and assisted on a Chante Black layup that extended Duke’s lead to 25, forcing Miami to call a timeout.

“I think after our last game at Georgia Tech, we just felt like we didn’t have as much intensity as we did at the beginning of the season,” Williams said. “Basically we made a promise to each other that if we’re going to do good in the tournament and in upcoming games, we need to start now.”

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“Revenge” is a dirty word Although none of the Blue Devils would readily admit it, revenge, or at the very least pride, will be on the line when they face St. John’s Saturday at 1 p.m. in Madison Square Garden. This will be the first time Duke (20-4) meets the Red Storm (9-15) since the firing of Mike Jarvis, the long time St. John’s coach who is also a personal friend of head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Last season Jarvis was saddled with a team that had already been decimated because of numerous ethics violations. The undermanned St. John’s team began

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shooting 9-for-ll from the field, tying her career high of 23 points. In addition, she led the Blue Devils with eight rebounds and tallied three steals.

the 2003-2004 season with a horrendous 2-4 start that included an embarrassing 79-58 defeat at the hands of the Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium Dec. 6.

Less than a week after that loss, Jarvis was fired, and the very next day Krzyzewski publicly showed his support for his close friend. The Duke head coach personally invited Jarvis to sit with his family during the Blue Devils’ 89-61 win over Texas at Madison Square GardenDec. 20.

This fall, Krzyzewski strengthened his close relationship by tappingjarvis’ son, Mike Jarvis 11, to serve as assistant development SEE ST.JOHN’S ON PAGE 14

“I thought we did a really good job getting the ball inside Mistie,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “I thought she

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Monique Currie hadall the help sheneeded from her teammates Thursday night as the No. 2 Blue Devils stole the show. Miami was down 25 points in the first half.

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At the end of last season, no one expected the Blue Devils to be in their current position.

Alana Beard, Iciss Tillis, and Vicki Krapohl graduated. Brittany Hunter transferred to Connecticut and Lindsey Harding was suspended for the season, leaving Duke with just eight

players.

The No. 2 Blue Devils (26-2, 12-1 in the ACC) were picked to finish second in the ACC, even though they had lost only one conference game the past three seasons.

But despite the less-than-lofty expectations, Duke has the chance to win its fifth consecuMICHAEL CHANG/THE CHRONICLE tive ACC regular season title Wanisha Smith will try to forget her last Sunday against eighth-ranked North Carolina (23-3, 11-2)* in performance against UNC Sunday.

Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Blue Devils lost consecutive A loss to the Tar Heels, however, would crown North Caroligames to UNC since the 1997na champs of the most talented 1998 season. and deepest league in the coun“Gail’s done an excellent job try and mark the first time the with the team at Duke because

they’re very different than how they’ve been the past few years,” Tar Heel head coach Sylvia Hatchell said. “They’re playing basketball according to what their strengths are and they’re really a tough team.”

In the two squads first meeting of the season Jan. 12, then No. 12 UNC outhustled former top-ranked Duke to a 56-51 victory. After a sloppy first half in which the Tar Heels doubled the Blue Devils’ offensive output, 26-13, junior forward Monique Currie valiantly tried to carry her team back, only to come up short and have the Blue Devils’ 12-game win streak their archrivals against snapped.

“They got a big win in Chapel Hill so we’re definitely looking to redeem ourselves on Sunday,” Currie said. “Everyone knew that game was coming up and we’re all looking forward to it.”

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Rivalry rematch Expect a Cameron sellout when No. 2 and No. 8 go at it Saturday night.

Junior Mistie Williams' father, Chubby Checker, will sing the National Anthem before theBlue Devils try to twist their way through the UNC defense.

To the Big Apple Madison Square Garden is the Blue Devils' second home, and Coach K will bring his team up to NYC for the second time this season. Since Duke lost to the Red Storm two years ago, the St, John's program has been struggling.

After playing one solid half in their home opener against Butler last weekend, the No. 13 Blue Devils (1-0) will look to play two good halves this Saturday against the University of Maryland at Baltimore County (0-0) at 1 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium.

Duke defeated Butler 12-8 in its first action of the season, but the team did not play up to expectations.

“We were up big at half, a nice 8-2 lead,” head coach Mike Pressler said. “[We] just didn’tfinish it in the third quarter and allowed Butler to hang around.”

This game marks a rematch of last year’s season opener—a contest that Duke won 11-8. Both teams bring new players to the field this year, most notably Duke freshman Zach Greer.

The team would love an encore performance from Greer, who scored four goals in his first collegiate game.

“Zach is going to have a huge contribution, week in and week out,” sophomore Matt Danowski said. “He is going to put the ball in the goal.”

Duke will also look for freshman midfielder Brad Ross to control the faceoffs against UMBC—Duke won only 5-of-22 faceoffs last year. Fortunately for the Blue Devils, UMBC graduated senior faceoff ex-

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through an inexperienced UMBC defense.

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traordinaire Pat Muston “The key loss for them is Muston,” Pressler said. “We were very fortunate to score 11a year ago when we didn’t even have the ball.”

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With only four games left until ACC play begins, the baseball team has to get its wins while it still can. A sweep at the hands of Conference USA cellar-dweller Cincinnati last weekend doesn't leave Duke fans optimistic.

Head coach Bill Hillier was clear in his of the baseball team’s three losses to Cincinnati Feb. 18 to 20.

“We’re not doing the little things,” Hillier said after one of the losses. “And unless you have an explosive offense and can just go and blow people out, if you want to win, you have to do the little things well.”

Duke (4-5) will have another chance to pay attention to the details this weekend in a three-game series with Army (0-3) at Jack Coombs Field. After suffering a threegame sweep by the College of Charleston, the Black Knights come to Durham for the teams’ first series since 1940.

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Last chance Winning theACC Championships was never a realistic goal for the men's swimming and diving team, but climbing out of the ACC's basement maybe.

Right now Duke is clinging on to second-to-last place.

Senior co-captain Joe Kennedy and the rest ofthe Blue Devils will try to improve their record to 2-0 Saturday.

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While Duke's pitching staff has been solid, costly errors have been the team's Achilles heel.

Tournament last season, setting the Patriot League record for conference victories in a season with 17. The team returns six of eight positional starters and nine of its 11 top pitchers, including three of its four top starters, from a staff that finished 12th nationally in team ERA last season.

Against such a deep and talented staff, the series will likely feature close games in which the Blue Devils will need to make more key plays than they have their last few times out.

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In its first year in the ACC, Virginia Tech has already made an impact on the conference. After some success in football and basketball, however, the Hokies (3-4, 0-3 in the ACC) ran into a wall Thursday on the tennis court. The Duke women’s tennis team (7-2, swept

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Coming off a loss to then-No. 4 Northwestern and a win over then-No. 20 Notre Dame last weekend, Duke faced the ACC newcomer as the fifth-ranked team in the country. Led by No. 42 Katie Blaszak, the Blue Devils dropped only one doubles court before winning out.

In doubles competition, senior Saras Arasu and sophomore Kristin Cargill won handily on the second court, 8-3, and sophomore Parker Coyer and freshman Clelia Deltour took the third court, 8-3.

The first-court pair of junior Jackie Carleton and sophomore Tory Zawacki dropped a close match, 9-7. Virginia Tech’s top duo ofFelice Lam and Jennifer Larson, the 43rd-ranked doubles team in the country, sat out the match.

“After this weekend, we changed teams to rest people,” said head coach Jamie Ashworth, whose squad has shifted throughout the season. “We’re trying to get Jackie back out on the court playing too.”

Carleton, who had been out with severe tendonitis in her right ankle, sat out for the singles competition, but Duke had no problem cruising to victory. The Blue Devils secured the victory with three straight singles Wilis at the 2, 4 arid 5 spots.

Deltour rallied to win 6-2, 6-0 on the second court to put Duke up 2-0, improving her personal record to 19-6 for the season.

“Clelia played well,” Ashworth said.

“She struggled last weekend but did a

good job recovering today.”

Zawacki and Cargill netted the next two points to finish off the Hokies. Cargill, playing in the fourth spot, won 6-4, 6-1 to

secure the match victory after Zawacki defeated Virginia Tech’s Kate Harrington 64, 6-1 at the fifth spot.

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Zawacki had a little extra motivation in her match as her older sister, Terry Ann Zawacki-Woods, is the Hokies’ head coach.

“She was a little nervous to start,” Ashworth said. “She was down 4-2 in first set but came back to win. It’s never an easy thing to compete against family, but it has happened to the team before, so it wasn’t new to me.”

To round out the singles field, junior .

Lauren Archer won in her first spring match, 6-1, 6-0. Blaszak and Arasu similarly defeated their opponents 6- 4, 6-1 at the first and third slots, respectively.

The team’s win was Ashworth’s 200th career victory at Duke. In nine years with the Blue Devils, Ashworth holds a 200-32 record. °“lt is really nice to win 200,” Ashworth said. “It says a lot about our players we have had here over my nine years.”

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The men’s swimming and diving is placed ninth out of 10 teams with a total of 71 points at the ACC Championships with two days of competition remaining.

Over the course of the meet’s first two days, Duke scored in five of the seven events, but its three relay performances provided the bulk of the team’s points.

“Relays are double the points, so our finishes helped us score,” assistant coach Lauren Hancock said. “We’ll continue to score points in the relays, and we’re also looking to score more individually.”

Duke times in two relay events broke school records.

The squad of seniors David Peck and John Humphrey, sophomore Kevin Arthofer and junior Billy Pearce earned the team 24 points seventh in the 200-yard medley relay with a 1:31.59 time and beat Duke’s previous record time of 1:32.75, set in 2004.

Peck, Arthofer and Pearce also combined with freshman Ryan Packer to produce an 18-point ninth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Their 1:23.30 time shaved .12 seconds off the Blue Devil record time. Packer led off the race, swimming 50 yards in 20.92 seconds, the team’s fastest time this season and his lifetime best.

Individually, senior Tim Hyer scored 7 points in the one-meter diving finals with a lOth-place 270.75 score. Humphrey added the team’s only other individual points with a 13th-place finish in the 200yard individual medley.

The team hopes to be more competitive in upcoming individual events today and Saturday.

“The next two days are our stronger days,” Hancock said Thursday. “WeTe only going to improve.” team

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wearing a piece of tape on his head that

said “Bienvenido a Cameron,” but Duke’s greeting for Miami Thursday was a lessthan-warm welcome.

Behind the recendy inspired play of junior forward Mistie Williams, Duke played its best game of the conference season. Not since their close victory over Tennessee Dec. 2 have the Blue Devils played a whole game with all their pieces working so well together.

“I felt like we were hitting on all cylinders, probably our best overall game [of the conference season],” head coach Gail Goestenkors said.

For all the conference games, the Blue Devils have won all but one of their games but have failed to play energetic basketball at times. The ACC is strong this year, but Duke is significantly better than it showed in a series of close games recently.

Much of the credit for the win against Miami goes to Williams. A third-team AllACC selection last year, Williams was expected to anchor Duke’s efforts in the post this season.

After a strong start to the season, though, Williams has struggled during most of conference play and failed to provide offensive support under the basket that the Blue Devils needed to complement versatile junior forward Monique Currie.

“I think I kind of went through a little slump there,” Williams said. “I was thinking too much. My focus over the past couple games is just to do what I can. If it’s not scoring it’s rebounding, if it’s not rebounding or scoring then it’s defense. I think it’s all starting to come back.”

Against Miami, Williams finished with

a career-high tying 23 points along with eight rebounds and three steals. One of the steals came in the open court when Williams took the ball all the way and converted the layup, providing a lift to the team during a boring second half. A week ago against Clemson it was also Williams’ emotion that gave Duke the edge it needed to pull away.

“I’ve always been that type of player since I started, basketball,” Williams said.

“If it helps the team then it’s going to be my job, it’s going to be my role. I love to do it. I need to do it more.”

Several Blue Devils capitalized on the energy, hitting the deck to chase after loose balls after Duke was leading by more than 20 points. Even Currie, who is playing with a fractured foot, was all over -the floor, playing with the same kind of intensity she was known for before the injury.

Williams’ resurgence provides Duke with an unparalleled quartet of post options, each with unique skills to bring to the team. Six-foot-seven center Alison Bales is leading the ACC in blocks, reserve forward Wynter Whitley can play inside and outside and freshman center Chante Black has shown lately she can provide energy off the bench. The power Williams gives Duke in the post completes the rotation.

“She’s a big, solid girl,” Miami forward Tamara James said. “She’s good and knows how to use her weight.”

What’s missing right now is consistency. If Williams can develop more of it, the Blue Devils will be more dangerous come tournament time than it appeared a month ago when they lost to North Carolina.

With a rematch with the Tar Heels looming Sunday before the ACC and NCAA Tournaments, Duke is finally returning to the form it displayed on the way to its No. 1 ranking in January.

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Jessica Foley contributed 18 points and three assists and was perfect from thefree-throw line.

did an excellent job posting up, calling for the ball and finishing her shots.”

Williams, however, was not alone in her efforts. In what Goestenkors called her team’s best effort since the start of ACC play, the Blue Devils shot a combined 56.9 percent from the floor and recorded a total of 26 team assists. Currie and Jessica Foley each contributed 18 points for the Blue Devils, and freshman Wanisha Smith dished out a career-high 10 assists. Foley also continued her tear from the three-point line, going 4-for-5 from behind the arc.

“I think this was one of our best overall efforts,” Goestenkors said. “When you see 26 assisted baskets, that just shows, I think, the type of team basketball that we played. We were all looking for one another.”

In its first visit to Cameron Indoor Stadium, Miami struggled to find its offensive rhythm throughout the entire game. The Hurricanes were led by NCAA scoring leader Tamara James, who poured in a game-high 26 points despite suffering from foul trouble throughout most of the first-half. In addition to James, senior guard Yolanda McCormick scored 20 points and led Miami with four assists.

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Mistie Williams helped carry Duke to a 95-61 victory,shooting 9-for-11 from the field and 5-for-6from theline.

The two players combined for 46 out of the Hurricane’s 61 points.

Duke, however, was able to exploit their size in the paint, outscoring the Hurricanes 32 to 14. In addition, the Blue Devils used 6-foot-7 sophomore Alison Bales to distract Miami in the post, freeing Foley and Smith to get several wide-open looks from three-point land.

“We allowed them to play the game they wanted to play instead of us coming in here and setting the tone,” James said.

“They have a height advantage. They out rebounded us. They got a couple of offensive rebounds. They were more physical than we were. We allowed them to shoot uncontested threes.”

NOTES: Wanisha Smith raised her season assist total to 131, breaking Lindsey Harding’s single-season record of 124.... Smith’s 10 assists also set a new freshman single game record.... Duke extended its current home winning streak to 20 games....

Duke’s 34-point margin of victory was its largest in the ACC this season.... The Blue Devils will look to avenge last month’s loss to the Tar Heels as they take on UNC in Sunday night’s season finale at Cameron.... A Duke victory in that game would clinch the top seed in next week’s ACC Tournament.

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Duke will try to avoid the spate of turnovers it incurred last time at Chapel Hill. Smith will need to control the ball and feed it into the post, where Duke has a huge size advantage. Williams will aim to capitalize and have another big game down-low. Expect the Tar Heel defense to come out trapping and trying to get hands in Duke's passing lanes. Smith and the rest of the team are preparing for the pressure and should score more than last time.

Tar Heel guards Atkinson and Latta will look to push the ball as much as possible against the slower Duke squad. Neither team shot the ball well last time, and North Carolina must light it up from behind the three-point line if it expects to win away from home. The Tar Heels will try to draw Duke's front line away from the basket so their guards can get some closer looks. Expect the Blue Devils to have at least 10 blocks on the game.

This is what it all comes down to. Not only are bragging rights on the line, but the winner also takes home the ACC regularseason title. Duke's players were angry after losing last time and seem pumped at the thought of revenge, especially at home. When the Blue Devils play with energy, they are tough to beat. In addition, Currie looked comfortable with her foot injury against Miami, so her injury should not factor into the game.

Duke has been waiting for this chance ever since the loss in Chapel Hill. North Carolina was picked to win the conference, but winning on the road in Durham will prove to be too tough a task. With two teams close in talent, the home team gets the edge.

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Wanisha Smith will face UNC for the second time since she took over at point guard for Lindsey Harding.

UNC frompa^9 hesitation Thursday night for the first time since being diagnosed with a stress fracture in her left foot. Head coach Gail Goestenkors said she expects her star to play at full capacity now that she has gotten adjusted to the fiberglass orthotic she has been wearing in her shoe.

Once again Duke will need to contend with Naismith Trophy mid-season candidate Ivory Latta. The speedy point guard struggled from the field in UNO’s Jan. 24 win, but she still managed to lead her team in scoring and hit a three-pointer that sealed the contest.

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In the first meeting, the Tar Heels outrebounded Duke despite their significant height disadvantage. Senior Nikita Bell grabbed five offensive boards on her way to 12 points and both Erlana Larkins and La’Tangela Atkinson pulled down 10 rebounds a piece.

Also contributing to the Tar Heels win in the Dean Smith Center was the sloppy job the Blue Devils did handling the North Carolina pressure, as they turned the ball over 23 times. Duke’s freshman point guard Wanisha Smith had the worst game of her collegiate career turning the ball

over eight times, in just 22 minutes.

She enters the rematch coming off one of her best games, however, dishing out a Duke freshman record 10 assists.

Much of the Blue Devils’ success Sunday will depend on her effectiveness handling the quick UNC defenders. Duke cannot afford to turn the ball over around the perimeter and allow the Tar Heels to break.

The two teams play contrasting styles.

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“That matchup between Carolina and Duke is going to be an awesome game for the last game of the season prior to the ACC Tournament,” Miami head coach Feme Labati said.

Prior to the 8 p.m. tipoff, the Blue Devils will honor Wynter Whitley, the team’s lone senior, as she competes in her final home contest. In addition, Duke junior Mistie Williams’ father, famous singer Chubby Checker, will be singing the National Anthem.

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Guard J.J. Redick (22.9 ppg, 2.7 rpg) Guard Daniel Ewing <15.6 ppg, 3.6 apg) Forward Lee Meictilonni 0.2 ppg, 2.7 rpg) Forward Sheldeu Williams (15.9 ppg. 11.5 rpg) Forward Reggie Love (2.3 ppg, 2.8 rpg)

Guard Daryll Hill (20.5 ppg, 3.6 apg) Guard Eugene Lawrence (7.2 ppg, 4.0 apg) Guard Cedric Jackson (4.3 ppg, 3.6 ipg) Forward Deleter Gray (6.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg) Forward Lament Hamilton (12.9 ppg. 7.6 rpg)

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Since his father’s firing, Jarvis II has done his best to avoid any feelings of ill will towards the St. John’s program.

“I don’t have any personal feelings,” he said. “Obviously it will be kind of weird at first, but I think once they throw the ball up it’s competition, and you’re out there to win.”

Although senior Daniel Ewing emphasized that payback would not be the primary motivating factor against the Red Strom, he did hint that a victory would be a little a sweeter than usual.

“I’m not sure,” Ewing said of the emotions that might come into play Saturday.

“Coach hasn’t said anything about it. We’ll go up there and try to play our game and go up there to win. Hopefully, if we win we can do whatever we want to do with the game ball and dedicate it to whoever.”

There has also been speculation that Jarvis 11, a former St. John’s assistant, might have some secret tips for beating his former employers.

“If he has, then he hasn’t let it out yet,” Ewing said.

Ideally, the Blue Devils should not need any inside information to beat the Red Storm. Although the Red Storm upset Duke 72-71 the last time they hosted the Blue Devils, this year’s team pales in comparison to the 2002-2003 squad that finished the season 16-13.

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The sub-. 500 record is slightly misleading, however, when viewed in the context of the Red Storm’s last four games. St. John’s lost back-to-back games against Seton Hall and Virginia by a two-point and one-point margin, respectively. It followed those games with a win over Georgetown and a deceptively lopsided loss to No. 15 Syracuse.

The Red Storm lost that game 83459, but the Orange only narrowly outscored St. John’s 40-39 in the second half. Red Storm junior Darryl Hill shot 7-for-13 from downtown en route to a season-high 33 points. The Queens, N.Y, native is averaging 20.5 points per game this season.

The Blue Devils will also have to find a way to cope with the loss of junior guard Sean Dockery, who is out indefinitely with a torn MCL in his right knee. The devastating injury will force the Blue Devils to once again dig deep into their bench.

“We have a lot of people coming of the bench now, and our bench guys have been extending their playing time,” junior Shelden Williams said. “Lee came in last game and had great minutes. Big Patrick Johnson and little Patrick Davidson came in with some good minutes.

The guys who you wouldn’t think of playing last year are playing right now. We have to depend on each other.”

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St. John's tries to force turnovers with aggressive defense, which often leads to opportunities for opponents in the post or behind the arc. The Red Storm gave up 55 points in the paint against Syracuse and allowed opponents to shoot .352 from three. With Dockery injured, Ewing and Nelson will both need to become bigger contributors, which means they must stay out of foul trouble. Look for Meichionni's confidence to continue to rise after Wednesday's win.

With the worst assist/turnover ratio in the Big East, St. John's should provide the Blue Devils with plenty of transition and fastbreak chances. Like Duke, the Red Storm looks behind the arc for a big chunk of its scoring. Hill is the second leading scorer in the conference at 20.5 ppg and has the potential to unload if he gets into a rhythm. Duke needs to play disciplined defense so that its foul trouble doesn't let St. John's hang around.

After last week's loss to Virginia Tech, Duke knows it cannot afford to look past anyone. Re-energized by the wake-up call, the Blue Devils are playing with intensity and have their eyes on a high seed in the postseason. St. John's has lost 11 of its last 14 games, including three straight. Way out of contention for an NCAA Tournament bid, the Red Storm's season is spiraling downward and their youthful lineup does not help.

After playing the past 13 games in the treacherous ACC, Saturday's out-of-conference matchup against the Red Storm should provide a welcome break. In Duke's second trip to the Big Apple this season, the l-banking alums should have a good time watching the Blue Devils put on a show. Duke wins, 85-67. compiled by Dan Kapnick

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Ewing and Dockery had been sharing much of the ball handling responsibilities, with Nelson filling in at times. As the game against the Yellow Jackets proved, however, if Ewing and Nelson get into foul trouble there are no other

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Walk-on Patrick Davidson earned brief playing time Wednesday, but it was obvious that Duke was vulnerable bringing the ball up during this time.

Although Redick has become a much more capable dribbler in his junior season, he still is not reliable enough to fill the point guard role. Davidson, similarly, has his issues handling pressure and has the tendency to pick his dribble up too easily—a problem he will likely deal with until he becomes more confident.

“They said he could be out for a couple of weeks, but [Dockery’s return] depends on how well we play,” Ewing said.

“If we take care of business in the first rounds of the NCAA Tournament, then hopefully we’ll have him back.”

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Against Elon Feb. 23 in a game that was called because of darkness with the score tied after the ninth inning, the trend continued as the Blue Devils allowed another unearned run, committing two errors in the game.

The Blue Devils will likely pitch their usual weekend rotation of Danny Otero, David Torcise and Greg Burke against the Black Knights’ pitching trio of Justin Kashner, Dan Cappello and 2004 Patriot League Pitcher of the Year Nick Hill. The three Blue Devil starters are allowing opponents just a .234 batting average and have a combined ERA of 3.14.

Infielder Brett Bartles will look to continue his ninegame hitting streak; the freshman is batting at team-leading .531 and also paces the team in on-base percentage, RBI and hits. The team is batting .302, good for fifth in the conference, and features four players with batting averages of .333 or better—infielders Bartles, Adam Murray and Bryan Smith as well as catcher/DH Eric Baumann.

The Black Knights’ offense is lead by catcher Schuyler Williamson, last season’s Patriot League Player of the Year.

The senior batted .357 last season with nine home runs and 48 RBI. Although Duke’s base-stealing has been near perfect this season, succeeding on four of five steal attempts, the Blue Devils will be contending with a defensive force over the weekend —Williamson threw out 44 percent of would-be base-stealers last season.

Second baseman Nate Stone is the other anchor of the Army offense. He batted .414 last season and knocked in 53 runs, earning third-team All-America honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association.

A freshman All-American from a year ago, Milan Dinga is the leadoff hitter and spark-plug for Army. He batted .323 last season and scored 51 runs while also pitching out of the bullpen as the Black Knights’ closer.

Despite its success from last season, Army has opened the season with some disappointment, losing by wide margins in its first three games. Black Knight coach Joe Sottolano has cited a lack of mental focus as the reason for his team’s early season losses.

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This UMBC team relies heavily on offense. Junior Brendan Mundorf led the attack last year with 48 points.

He returns along with the other two leading scorers from last year’s team, junior James Hyland and sophomore Drew Westervelt.

“We will have our hands full with their attack,” Blue Devil co-captain Bill Gerrish said. “It is the strong point of their team. Hopefully we can stymie them.”

This game pits two long tenured coaches against each other. UMBC head coach Don Zimmerman has been with the program for 12 years, after leadingjohns Hopkins to three national championships in the 1980s. This season marks Pressler’s 15th year with the Blue Devils.

Both coaches have turned mediocre teams into contenders, but Pressler has won all five head-to-head matchups.

“We don’tknow much about them, but we do not know much about ourselves either,” Pressler said.

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Campus could use a true tions, and a bar would offer a safe and bar. Serving beer at Rick’s convenient environment for students Diner isn’t enough. The bar to get together and drink responsibly, Until it closed several years ago, in the Armadillo Grill is in the middle of the Bryan Center and completely The Hideaway was a popular student lacks the ambiance of hangout. There is StaflGoltOridf still a demand for a a bar—it feels like it’s bar on campus. in the student center.

Duke needs a full-fledged, Irish pubThe space previously occupied by style bar on West Campus. .Although a The Hideaway is no longer a feasible bar is one of the amenities being displace for a bar since the construccussed as a possible addition to the retion of the new student plaza will developed Central Campus, that is eliminate that area. The fifth floor of McClendon tower in Keohane Quadyears in the future.

Social life, particularly the balance rangle, however, could be a prime of on-campus and off-campus social spot for a new bar. When Aubrey and life, has been a subject of constant Kathleen McClendon donated discussion and debate recendy. If the money for the construction of the University is serious about keeping tower, they requested that alcohol be social life on campus, it must provide served in the building. According to the appropriate space.

Larry Moneta, vice president for stuCurrently, there are a number of so- dent affairs, the McClendons wanted to “create an environment for stucial spaces on campus catering to difdents to stay on campus for alcohol.” ferent student needs. The CoffeeThat request is fulfilled by the beer house, for example, offers an indmate gathering place for students and a served in Rick’s. The problem of a lack venue for bands. There is also other of appropriate alcohol-permitted programming, including speeches, space, which the McClendons identified, remains. A bar on the fifth floor concerts, movies and plays. But the majority of on-campus social life revolves of the Tower is not a perfect solution—it is still in space that is primarily desigaround non-alcoholic events.

Although non-alcoholic events are nated for undergraduates—but it ofcertainly necessary, alcohol is a part fers a clean slate and a chance to create of college life for a large segment of a bar where patrons can unwind for students, and alcohol-permitted sohappy hour, or where seniors and graduate students could meet for a drink to cial events on campus are also necessary for there to be a well-balanced, carry a classroom discussion outside.

Ultimately, a bar on Central inclusive social atmosphere.

A bar space could function as a would be more accessible and would gathering space for undergraduates better foster the community the Uniand graduate students. If done corversity is looking for. It will be years rectly, a bar could be an effective to fruition, however, and in the means of building community, and it meantime, students need to have might also help curtail drunk driving. more social outlets, including outlets that may involve alcohol, on West On-campus social life no longer revolves around pardes in fraternity sec- Campus now. „

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On Churchill’s ‘little Eichmanns’ In her column “In Defense of Ward Churchill,” Bridget Newman states that she “should have known better when she read the headline claiming that Ward Churchill had compared Sept. 11 victims to Nazis.” Interestingly, and revealingly, Newman does not give her readers the quote in question. In fact, she does not even bother to give the title of Churchill’s essay, preferring to force the reader to trust her interpretation before she launches into her tirade on American policy.

The offending passage from Churchill’s “Some People Push Back” (which can befound at http://www.kersplebedeb.com/ mystuff/sll/ churchill.html) is as follows: “If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I’d really be interested in

hearing about it.”

Eichmann, of course, refers~to Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi official sometimes called the “Chief Executioner” of the Third Reich. In other words, Churchill analogized the World Trade Center victims to one of the great mass-murderers of the 20th century. Later he defended the statement, although he said that he was

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Base pay raise insufficient Duke’s announcement that it will raise the base pay for full- and part-time University employees to $lO an hour indeed sounds positive. It is essential, however, to recognize that this action does not address many of the most severe problems faced by employees.

The base pay raise is effective for only the “official” University employees; this leaves out all the contracted workers, meaning employees of outside companies hired

by Duke. It therefore carries no benefit at all for Angelica workers, who provide clean linen for the entire Duke University Health System and whose mistreatment has been clearly documented by the National Labor Relations Board. It carries no benefit at all for the construction workers who build the Gothic Wonderland. Most of these contracted workers make a base pay of well less than $lO an hour.

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing trend to outsource basic service work on campus to private companies. As

the trend continues (and it will with the expansion in Central Campus), it makes a mockery of the University’s supposed effort to improve the conditions of employees on this campus, as it nominally raises base wages to $lO an hour only to outsource these jobs to companies who will pay far less.

Simply raising the base pay of Duke employees is insufficient. Duke has the resources to not only extend the base pay raise to all of its employees, contracted and otherwise, but also to offer full benefits, including healthcare, to all workers. We must not stop now when we have both the means and the obligation to truly live up to the ideals of this institution of higher learning and to provide an example for colleges across the nation.

James Zou

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With the recent articles pertaining to the African-American role in higher education, Phillip Kurian’s column, “Shades of Black,” and then the Feb. 24 article, “BSA forum explores recruiting, diversity,” the subject of affirmative action has once again crashed the Duke party in its proverbial elephant suit. Although not totally ignored in years past, all sides surrounding this controversial policy should agree that its treatment remains incomplete.

Over the course of the four years that I have attended this school, affirmative action has garnered attention in a variety of forms, from guest lecturers to the myriad back-and-forths within the editorial pages. Sadly, each dialogue has failed to address the vital questions that surround this issue. In turn, the undeveloped rhetoric regarding affirmative action has rendered the discussion blatantly unsatisfied, while the policy itself trudges ahead without specific direction or adequate defense.

This is not to say that the opponents ofaffirmative action are winning the debate (see Grutter v. Bollinger, case no. 02-0241); however, the concerns expressed by both Kurian and in the BSA article reveal that opposition to the current state of this admissions policy is not exclusive to people of races that have not benefited from its application. Hopefully, this revelation is not new to the majority of our Duke community, as this affair not only transcends the black and white paradigm (racially speaking), but also includes more stances than simply “yay” or “boo.”

Luckily, Kurian is able to reacquaint us with this unresolved matter, as he aptly poses some of the most important questions at the crux of the affirmative action debate.

To paraphrase Kurian, Duke—as a community and a University—needs to ask itself: What are the goals ofaffirmative action? By what means should Duke achieve these goals? To what groups should these means be applied? In short: What exactly is affirmative action?

As a glimpse into the future of this debate, we should revisit the BSA article. The mention of a shared opinion that emerged from the BSA meeting—Duke has lowered its “emphasis on targeting lower-income [black] students”—offers another component to this discussion, socio-economics.

Challenges to the dynamic which creates disparities along the financial lines within the black demographic tacitly invite consideration for lower-income non-minorities as well. Once race and gender discrimination no longer hold almost exclusive rights to affirmative action, then this issue has the potential to become unbearably complicated.

Thus, in preparation for this collision of interests, Duke, as a University, a student body and an overall community, should feel compelled to answer the aforementioned question? in specific language within the policy of affirmative action.

Chris Quirk Trinity ’O5

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live in the 4D building ofKeohane Quad, which means they’ve been extensively applied to Duke and will continue that whenever I am hungry, 24 hours a day, I can walk to hold true. But there’s a wrinkle, I think, that makes down two flights of stairs in my slippers and order a wafDuke’s case unique. fle. Or, between the hours of 8 a.m. and midnight, I can That is, Krzyzewskiville. Every year, as many as 1,000 of walk up two flights of stairs and buy a mocha frappuccino us spend the better part of two winter months sleeping on and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Down my hall there the ground in tents. Creatures of luxury that we are, why is a big-screen television and a floor above there is a 24- would we do such a thing? hour game room with a free jukebox.

Is it devotion to basketball? I tented for the Wake ForWhenever I’m required to pay for something, which is est game, and basketball was barely mentioned. Besides, infrequendy, I swipe my free-money card, and if there’s any number of schools are sports-crazier than we without any money left on that card at the end of the semester, I’ll requiring camping.

Is there a unique “K-ville experience?” If buy myself several three-course dinners at the Washington Duke Inn. Or I might, by “unique” we mean unavailable during like a friend of mine, spend it on a $5O the rest of the year, the answer is no again. bottle of scotch This year’s grand finale, the night before Wake, had beer and loud music. Put it in If I were a freshman, I could have had, for a small fee, all my first-semester textPika section, and it wouldn’t have been out books delivered to my dorm room, of place. It was a frat party, except that it was outdoors, and we were cold. wrapped up in a box. I could look forward to the prospect of a Johnny Rockets theme In fact, I lost feeling in my big toes. And rob goodman restaurant above the Marketplace; but that, I think, is the crux. K-ville is about sufuntil then, I could, whenever I wanted, lobster sticks to magnet fering. And not just any suffering—masochism, the kind ofsuffering the bored order a $l5 Italian dinner directly to my rich inflict on themselves. door. There would also be the matter ofmy iPod. And in the provision of luxuries, Duke is hardly Say what you will about us Duke students, but we have alone. “The University of Houston has a $53 million moral intuition.And though few of us say it, I suspect that wellness center with a five-story climbing wall,” writes a lot of us recognize the absurdity of our privilege. A lot of James Twitched, a professor at the University of Florida. us recognize that Rick’s and the Beanery and the Media “Washington State University has the largest Jacuzzi on Room and die Game Room and free iPods, as delicious as the West Coast (it holds 53 students); Ohio State Univerthey all are, are just too much. Some of us see a college high sity is building a $l4O million complex featuring batting on fun and low on college and wonder if it was supposed cages, ropes courses, and the now-essential climbing to be that way. Most of us, I think, are a little embarrassed.

K-ville is our attempt to compensate. It’s not a very conwall; and the University of Southern Mississippi is planstructive attempt. With Ethernet jacks and power oudets ning a full-fledged water park.”

With that in mind, it’s no surprise that “the college exbuilt into the lampposts, it’s not even much of an attempt. perience” figures so heavily in these institutions’ jargon, But we’re trying. Trying to balance things a little. Trying, Duke’s included. What are they if not amusement parks? very genteelly, to self-flagellate.

In that spirit, I’m proud to report that my nights on the They offer an experience that combines pleasure with the slightest hint of intellectualism, and if after four years their ground were cold and miserable. I hope yours were, too. customers are satisfied, they’ll reap a profit.

The commodification of. the university and our conRob Goodman is a Trinity senior. His column appears every comitant coddling aren’t, of course, new observations; Friday.

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One could drown in it. I can now read ing supposedly grown up in the vast savannah, had learned enough English to pick up about every teenage breakup and incident of oppressive white suburban parenting in a secret Swiss bank account but not quite the country. Thank you, World Wide Web! enough to spell the name of his homeland You may have been led to believe that correctly. Now we’re firmly entrenched in the Pseudonymic Period, in which the writkeeping ajoumal is cool, probably because matt datura ers all disguise their identities, usually with Important People have been known to random dictionary words, so that my filters keep them. This could not be further from for good or for awesome won’t catch an e-mail from Mr. Couch Q. Elthe truth. There is nothing cool about evator. Mr. Elevator has important things to keeping a journal, especially since your life is much less interesting than that of Important People, say about the length of my penis, apparently, but I wouldn’t which is why they are Important in the first place. Your know from the innocuous name and subject line. The susjournal is boring and mundane. And remember, guys, a pense built going from subject to body text is fantastic!

It’s not any better when you get offline, either. At least journal is always just one picture of a unicorn away from the Internet allows me to publish my own work, as trite and being a diary. Think about that the next time you’re quoting emo lyrics. (I like to go with ones from The Cure: They mundane as it is. In print, I can’t get my poetry published. tend to deliver the appropriate amount of angst while alJJ. Redick’s work, meanwhile, has appeared in most major media oudets, not to mention the cheersheets of every other lowing you to still act snobby with your musical tastes.)

Don’t get me started on instant messaging, either, team in the ACC. This sort of exposure is invaluable. The which is doing more to destroy the English language universe owes me some sort of retribution; I should wake up than an entire army of L’il Jons ever could. To wit: one morning nine inches tallerand possessing the capabiliShakespeare once wrote, , ty to dnbble a basketball.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, In fact, I should write Mr. Elevatorback and see if he can help me with that.

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved, Matt DeTura is a Trinity senior. His column appears every I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (Sonnet 113) The other night, somebody wrote me on AIM: other Friday. is the worst possible time to be a writer. By “worst possible time,” I mean the whole “this day and age” thing, and not Friday, specifically. Although, given that most of my potential readership is either a) too hangover to read this without a headache, b) too hungover to even get to campus to pick up a paper or c) still drunk, Friday’s not spectacular either.

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was your first impression of me?” I asked my closest Duke friends over the past summer. I vividly remembered the sweltering, August movein day when I first met them in our freshman dormitory.

I eagerly smiled and introduced myself during our first floor meeting, the moment I wanted them to recall. In my self-introduction, I identified “Miho” with the usual; my home state, hobbies and interests. I assumed that their first impressions of me would be an initial response to these three areas about myself. Their first impressions, however, weren’t related to these aspects of “Miho” at all.

Smart. Extremely studious. Goody-goody. Innocent.

Non-drinker.

My friends admitted that their first impressions drew from the typical Asian stereotypes of books and brains.

Even though I had dressed like a typical college student in an Abercrombie polo and khaki shorts during that floor meeting, and even though I spoke English with no trace of an accent except a southern one, I was not “Miho, hailing from Birmingham with a love for reality television, poker and basketball.” In their eyes, I was “Miho, the Asian.”

No doubt, most first impressions are based on one’s appearance. My jetblack hair and slanted eyes clearly contrasted with the other freshmen at the meeting, as I was the only Asian American on my hall. However, my

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traits that defined me as discere vivendo “Asian” and my typical name immediJapanese ately gave way to a preconceived personality, as if the intellectual ability, social inabilities and studiousness were as innate as the hair color.

Essentially, “Asian” was not just my ethnicity and a box I had checked on my college applications; it was also a specific type of a personality. I was automatically assumed to stay in on the weekends to study in the library. I didn’t have to state my major or intended plan of study because being Asian meant that I was either a Pratt engineer, premed or both. Before I could even shape my own self, I was already dubbed a nerd that rarely partied.

While myfriends and I laugh at our wrong first impressions of each other now, I can’t help but think about the strange phenomenon of the “Asian” personality. Not only does this stereotyping force misguided assumptions by non Asians, it also creates a conflict within Asians themselves, who largely do not identify with this cookie-cutter personality. Consequently, Asian Americans place themselves on a spectrum that quantifies just how “Asian” they really are in comparison to these main stereotypes, from the extreme “F.0.8.” (“fresh off the boat”) all the way to the absurd “pseudo-minority,” ethnic by physical appearance but completely whitewashed, whatever being “white” means. Thefacebook.com’s group “Crappy Asians,” which boasts a whopping 77 members, is evident of this conflict.

Even if I don’t boast a 4.0 CPA, even if I’m not pre-med and even if I don’t play the violin, I am no more or less of an Asian American than the next one. And while I’d like to think that the Duke community agrees with me, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve received the comment, “You’re so Asian,” when I’ve had to hit the books in Perkins. I’m not “being” Asian; I’m being a Duke student.

My ethnicity is certainly one aspect of myself, but it does not solely define “Miho.” Likewise, Asian Americans are all too often clumped together to be one component of “diversity,” without considering how diverse Asian Americans are compared to each other. The one defining characteristic that all Asian Americans do share is a rich heritage. The Asian Student Association will celebrate a part of this heritage, the Chinese New Year, tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Page Auditorium through its free, annual Lunar New Year show. The wide range of personalities, talent and perspectives of the Asian Aimericans, though, will be most evident in the unique dancing, acting and musical performances.

I am: Miho. From an independent day/boarding school.

Almost a legal midget Old Navy shopper. Closet Ashlee Simpson fan. Partier who likes to dance, though not well. A first-generation Japanese American. Loud and obnoxious.

And I hope to see you at Page Auditorium tomorrow night.

Miho Kubagawa is a Trinity sophomore. Her column appears every other Friday.

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