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speaking out against President George W. Bush’s new budget this time because of proposed funding cuts that would eliminate the Perkins Loan program.

The Perkins Loan, established in 1965, provides low-interest loans to lower- and middle-class families and gives students 10years to repay them.

As a revolving fund, the Perkins Loan uses money students pay back to continue to fund new loans. But Bush’s plan to cut domestic spending, beginning next fall, would recall the federal money invested in this program, effectively ending it.

In addition to providing lowinterest funds, the Perkins Loan is also one of the few programs with a loan forgiveness provision, cancelling loans for students who plan to work in underserved areas, such as teaching and nursing.

“We are very concerned that the elimination of the Perkins Loan fund would make it even more difficult for students to determine how to afford to go to college,” said Hope Williams, president of North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, a statewide organization of 36 non-profit, private colleges.

For the 2002-2003 school year, 14,500 students in the state benefited from Perkins Loans with an average loan of —

After provost questions diversity on committees, DSG scrambles

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Facing concerns that student representation on the Central Campus Planning Committee may be inadequate, some Duke Student Government leaders are

devising supplementary avenues for undergraduate input.

Fourteen students currently hold positions on Central planning committees, which are responsible for developing the Uni-

versity’s vision for the impending overhaul of Central Campus.

DSC President Pasha Majdi, a senior, personally appointed all the students to the committee.

Half of the students have served on DSC; the remaining seven have all held prominent campus leadership positions. Of the 14 representatives, six are current members of the DSG-run Inter-Community Council.

Provost Peter Lange, co-chair

of the steering committee, said he gave Majdi complete freedom to choose the student representatives, but he expressed some concern about the homogeneity of the selected group, which only includes one black student.

“I think there could have been greater diversity—I have suggested to Pasha that he look into it,” Lange told The Chronicle when SEE CENTRAL ON PAGE 7

Tapping into the classics Internationally acclaimed tap dancer Savion Glover performs his latest show, Classical Savion, in Page Auditorium Tuesday night. The onenight stand was sponsored by the Duke University Union through Broadway at Duke. Accompanied by a full orchestra, Glover danced to classical music by composers such as Stravinsky and Bach. In 1996, Glover won a Tony Award for his dancing and choreography in his Broadway hit, Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk.

Since then, he has toured the country performing.

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Alumni giving rates rise across schools

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As a young institution with a relatively modest endowment, Duke is always hoping its alumni stay happy—especially the folks in the Development Office.

The amount alumni give to the Duke Annual Fund and other restricted funds has grown steadily over the past six or seven years, but the percentage of alumni who participate has been inconsistent.

About 33 percent of Trinity College and Pratt School of Engineering graduates made monetary contributions to the annual funds of their respective schools during

the last fiscal year. With gifts to restricted funds, athletics and other programs factored in, the overall alumni participation rate moves closer to 42 percent.

In Fiscal Year 2004, which began July 1, 2003 and ended June 30, 2004, alumni donated $lO.B million to the annual funds of Trinity and Pratt—a slight increase from the year before. The Duke Annual Fund tally reached $21.5 million overall last year, and the University is still pushing ahead, with $l4 million of its projected $23 million already in the bank for FY 2005.

Annual Fund money is unrestricted,

which means those funds are primarily used to further Duke’s academic mission and are directed to areas of greatest need—from faculty to financial aid to dayby-day operations. Restricted funds, however, are confined to specific endowments, scholarship programs or disciplines.

“Alumni choose to give or not give for a variety of reasons,” said Hank Woods, director of development for the Annual Fund. “Those who give have related that they feel a deep-seated obligation to support Duke because Duke provided them SEE ALUMNI GIVING ON PAGE

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Supreme Court alters death penalty

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WASHINGTON A closely divided Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals Tuesday, declaring there was a national consensus that such executions were unconstitutionally cruel and ending a practice that had brought international condemnation.

The 5-4 decision, which overturns a 1989 high court ruling, throws out the death sentences of 72 murderers who committed their crimes as juveniles and bars states from seeking to execute others.

Nineteen states had allowed death sentences for killers who committed their

crimes when they were under 18. Four men who committed murder at 17 will be taken off North Carolina's death row.

The ruling was greeted with enthusiasm by numerous death penalty opponents, here and abroad.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, said manyjuveniles lack maturity and intellectual development to understand the ramifications of their actions.

“The age of 18 is the point where society draws the line for many purposes between childhood and adulthood. It is, we conclude, the age at which the line for death eligibility ought to rest,” Kennedy said.

The United States has stood almost

alone in the world in officially sanctioning juvenile executions, a “stark reality” that can’t be ignored, Kennedy wrote. Juvenile

offenders have been put to death in recent years in only a few other countries, including Iran, Pakistan, China and Saudi Arabia.

“It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty, resting in large part on the understanding that the instability and emotional imbalance ofyoung people may often be a factor in the crime,” Kennedy wrote.

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U.S. pressures Syria to exit Lebanon by

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LONDON The United States called for an immediate end to Syrian military and political dominion over neighboring Lebanon Tuesday, applying its strongest pressure to date.

“The Syrians are out of step with where the region is going and out of step with the aspirations of the people of the Middle East,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. She blamed terrorists operating in Syria for last week’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

Rice said there was gathering intema-

tional resolve that Syria must pull out of Lebanon and allow the Lebanese to choose their own political future. That choice must be independent of “contaminating influences,” she said, underscoring a joint U.S.-French statement Tuesday and a United Nations resolution last fall.

“I think it’s one of the strongest statements in a long time about what needs to happen in Lebanon,” Rice said.

She hinted that international peacekeepers could help secure democracy for the Lebanese if the Syrians withdraw their thousands of troops and security forces.

Huge street demonstrations and Mon-

day’s resignation of the pro-Syrian Lebanese government mark the most serious challenge to Syrian authority in Lebanon since the end of the civil war that killed 150,000 and crushed the Lebanese economy in the 1970 and 1980s.

The events are also an opening for President George W. Bush’s administration to press its wider goal of promoting democracy across the Middle East and throw a spodight on what the United States contends is long-standing Syrian support for terrorism.

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newsinbrief Medicare's problems loom A looming Medicare shortage is seven times the size of the one Social Security faces and nearly four times the entire federal debt. It is going unaddressed by President George W. Bush and Congress, and, to some, that’s just as well.

Court charges BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, the churchgoing family man and Cub Scout leader accused of leading a double life as the BTK serial killer, was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder. Rader made his first court appearance by videoconference from his cell.

Palestinians to receive money The Palestinian finance minister saidTuesday that donor nations have promised $1.2 billion this year to help the new government of Mahmoud Abbas establish itself after four years of ruinous conflict with Israel, and he expects to get additional aid from Arab states.

Woman dies in hippo attack A hippopotamus flipped and trampled an Australian tourist to death at a popular resort in central Kenya, police said Tuesday.

No one else was injured in the attack. Vicky Elizabeth Bartlett, 50, was with a groupof 12 tourists Monday when the hippo attacked.

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construction process, and a lack of drainage exacerbated the problem.

The first incidence of leaks in January was significant enough to disrupt classes.

Subsequent leaks, including one Monday, however, have been much less serious.

This is good news for both students and faculty as the problem will not be completely fixed until a new cover is built over the air conditioning unit.

“It’s a continuing, minor, aggravating problem,” Metzloff said. “Anytime you do renovation, problems crop up.”

Many law students said they do not mind the leaks because the construction will ultimately provide additional space to an overcrowded school. The $l4 million project will also redesign the school’s physical appearance and improve classroom functionality. The increase in space provided by the

Some North Carolina smokers are fuming about the state’s new cigarette tax.

Under Gov. Mike Easley’s recently unveiled budget proposal, the price of a pack of cigarettes will increase 35 cents this year and will jump another 10 cents by 2007. The current state cigarette tax is 5 cents per pack.

Smokers are not the only ones affected by the tax increase, however.

The state’s 6,016 convenience stores will also feel the pinch of the tax hike as they sell 62 percent of the nation’s cigarettes in the offline market. Currently, cigarette sales generate an annual average of $304,000 per store —an amount officials fear will decrease due to the new tax.

Easley designed the tax with the dual purpose of helping to ameliorate the state’s current budget crisis and curbing underage smoking. Jeff Lenard, a spokesperson for the National Association of Convenience Stores, speculated that since smokers are a minority group—they comprise about 26 percent of the state’s population—they couldn’t fight the tax effectively, making it easier for Easley to pass the law through the state legislature. “It is easier to tax a group that doesn’t have a voting majority,” Lenard said.

North Carolina’s 5 cent state cigarette tax is currendy the second lowest in the country, behind Kentucky’s 3 cent charge. Rhode Island boasts the highest tax at $2.46 per pack. The federal government requires all packs be sold with

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A tarp covers the roof on the law school building because recent renovations exposed a foot-wide hole that hasled to leaks down through the second floor.

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During last week’s wet weather, Duke law students and faculty found it raining indoors.

Since January, renovations at the School ofLaw have caused leaking in the second, third and fourth-floor ceilings—the leaks did not even let up for romancing students as rivulets of water meandered throughout the building on Valentine’s Day. Third-year law student Janna Lewis remembered a night spent in the library, when the librarian on duty had to “run around getting barrels and garbage cans to hold the water.... It wasn’t dripping water, but a stream.”

The leakage problem became evident when renovation during Phase Two of the law school construction project—which began last August and will ultimately add

a 25,000-square-foot wing and tower temporarily exposed the fourth-floor ceiling. Although fourth-floor offices and electronic equipment were especially vulnerable to damage, no harm was done.

“It was a very big leak, but it wasn’t a problem for us,” said Kim Burrucker, coordinator of public interest and pro bono, who works on the fourth floor. “It could have been so much worse. We didn’t lose anything that couldn’t have been replaced very easily.”

Centex, the general contractor, did not anticipate the leaks, said Thomas Metzloff, law professor and chair of the Planning and Building Committee. While creating a housing area for the air conditioning system, workers discovered a one-foot gap in the roof. The gap was caused by a mistake in the 1995 addition to the building, which was originally built in the 19605. It let rain enter during the —

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Scientists help military, whales As scientists puzzle over why dozens of whales beached themselves here in January, Duke researchers are working on a system to help the military steer clear of marine mammals along the East Coast. The research comes as authorities investigate whether the Navy's use of sonar has caused beachings elsewhere.

American life expectancy rises Declines in death rates from most

major causes—including

heart disease and cancer —have pushed Americans' life expectancy to a record 77.6 years. Women are still living longer than men, but the gap is narrowing. Women now have a life expectancy of 80.1 years, the National Center for Health Statistics said Monday.

Football players called obese It's no secret that size matters in the National Football League, but a new study by a North Carolina researcher suggests that a whopping 56 percent of NFL players would be considered obese by some medical standards.The NFL called the study bogus for using players' body-mass index, a height-to-weight ratio that doesn't consider body muscle versus fat. The players' union said there's no proof that obesity is rampant in the league.

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Stan is perpetually sick. Docconstantly surround him, treating his plethora ofailments.

Sometimes his tongue swells up, blocking his airways. Depending on the day, he is allergic to different drugs. But, if Stan dies, doctors reboot him and try again.

Stan is a $200,000 robot.

“My kids call him Ken as he looks like a giant Ken doll,” said Dr. Jeffrey Taekman, director of the Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center and assistant professor of anesthesiology.

“But that’s where the similarities end.”

Five-foot-ten and brownhaired, Stan, or standard man, is a computer-controlled mannequin that doctors, researchers and students use at the Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center at Duke University Medical Center to practice emergency situations. Dr. Michael Alton, clinical operations director for the Pediatric Patient Safety Initiative, said this lab center is a critical way to improve safety and teach students and doctors.

“We understand the importance not just of skill, but of skill building,” Alton said. “Doctors don’t have time to sit and have a discussion during an emergency.”

Started in February 2001, this project is a joint venture between the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing and the Department of Anesthesiology.

The simulator is based on the aviation industry’s simulators, tors,

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Dr. Bret Stolp leads a team of first-year medical students in a patient safety simulation lab as they practice treating Stan therobot. which they use to train their pilots, Taekman said.

The center has bought both a life-sized adult and a pediatric simulator from Medical Education Technologies, Inc. Among other human functions, the robot urinates, keeps a pulse and has eyes that react to light.

Experimenters can therefore perform different tests and procedures on the robot, including determining blood pressure and body temperature.

The robot also reacts to about 60 drugs. Doctors can “inject” a drug by scanning the drug of choice using lasers and

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bar codes and filling a volumetric sensor. If the doctors prescribe an incorrect dosage, the robot will act accordingly. “We can show therapeutic effects of drugs, but also show overdoses,” Taekman said. “If the robot overdoses, then we reboot and start over again. It allows them to experiment.”

Students from the School of Medicine use the facility to train and prepare for their future careers. Clinicians watch the students perform from a different room and then offer critiques of the students afterwards. Professors have also integrated this fa-

cility into several points of their curricula. The facility replaces

the use of animals in cardiovascular physiology, for example.

The School of Medicine’s capstone course has added the facility to teach students advanced cardiac life-saving techniques aspects currently not focused on during a clerkship or through basic science courses. Scientists program the robot to respond as patients would in similar clinical situations.

“There are certain described scenarios. Certain things will —

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they plan to pressure the U.S. government and international community into swifter and more satisfactory action. Group leaders outlined seven demands that they, along with other student group leaders from around the country, plan to present to Congress. One of these demands is a call for the United Nations to strengthen its current mandate of the African Union troops to the level of U.N. Chapter 7, a peacekeeping resolution that allows the troops to directly intervene in the violence.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell officially termed the Khartoum regime’s another name for the Sudanese government—ethnic cleansing of Sudanese

From staff reports Douglas Breeden, dean of the Fuqua School of Business since 2001, was reappointed to a second five-year term last week.

“I am pleased to be able to continue to be a part of this exciting University and see more of our efforts come to fruition,” Breeden said in a statement.

Provost Peter Lange said he and President Richard Brodhead were “strongly committed” to Breeden’s reappointment because of his successful work at Fuqua over the past three and a half years.

“He’s really pushed up the quality of hiring and intellectual tenor in this school,” Lange said. “He’s done a very significant job of financially restructuring the school, and he’s done a very good job in the development area —building financial resources.”

Under Breeden’s leadership, Fuqua’s faculty has expanded to 98 and its enrollment has increased to more than 800 students after the addition of a sixth section to its Daytime MBA program. Breeden has helped build international programs in Europe and Asia and overseen the creation of several research centers, including the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and the Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership and Ethics.

Breeden has also managed Fuqua through a series of significant challenges, including a national economic recession after Sept. 11, 2001. Fuqua cut 10 staff positions in 2003 in an effort to reduce its budget and respond to the weak economy.

The school also closed its Frankfurt, Germany campus in 2002 because of a lack of interest among European students. A year later, however, Fuqua established a

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SophomoreCarly Knight explains the conflict in Sudan and upcoming activism efforts to more than 100 students Tuesday night.

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the potential of this student-driven effort that of the effort college students showed throughout the late 1970 and 1980 to ending apartheid in South Africa.

The objective of the meeting was to communicate the impact of the genocide by highlighting the personal lives of victims—“thousands of numbers aren’t real, the lives are real,” said sophomore Carly Knight, one of the meeting’s organizers.

The group showed a short documentary on some of the civilian victims and then outlined systematic ways in which Duke students can mobilize and implement actual change, focusing around divestment campaigns and letter-writing.

The group presented and handed out detailed information about ways in which to

More than 100 students gathered to discuss strategies to take action and help stop the Sudanese genocide in an auditorium at the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy Tuesday night.

The diverse group of students in attendance formed a task force called the Sudan Coalition, which is largely backed

by Justice—a group geared towards promoting human rights —and is also sponsored by the Muslim Student Association, Black Student Alliance and Duke Africa.

Duke’s Sudan Coalition is part of a national effort to garner the attention of the U.S. government in order to help end the Sudanese genocide. Group leaders likened

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Woman fondled by attendant in Medical Center An 82-year-old woman reported to Duke Police that she was fondled Feb. 23 by an attendant in the Duke University Medical Center. The patient told police she was in the hospital for a procedure and being escorted in a gurney to her room by a male attendant when he allegedly touched her private area with a wash cloth as they rode alone in an elevator. No arrest has been made, and the investigation is continuing.

Impatient motorist bumps and runs A motorist left the scene Monday after striking a vehicle in the parking garage at the North Pavilion. Lynette Wright told police she was driving toward the visitor gate at 4:25 p.m. when another driver approached, honking the horn. As Wright and the other driver got closer to the gate, Wright said the other driver moved around her and hit the rear bumper of her Nissan Sentra, causing $lOO in damage. No one was injured. Police are searching for the suspect vehicle, a 1995 to 1999 red or burgundy model.

Duke student accused of cyberstalking An Oklahoma man has accused a Duke student of cyberstalking. The man, who is in his 40s, reported to police last week that the student is sending harassing e-mails. No arrest has been made, and the investigation is ongoing.

Patient harasses doctor over phone A doctor reported receiving a harassing telephone call from a patient Feb. 21. The doctor said the patient called the brown zone at 1:38 p.m., cursed and hung up.

Student crashes car at Flowers Drive and Yearby Street Duke student Danielle James, 21, received non-lifethreatening injuries Feb. 23 when her vehicle struck a tree and flipped over at the intersection of Flowers Drive and Yearby Street. The vehicle was apparently speeding on Flowers at 11:19 p.m. when it went through a stop sign at the intersection, hit the far right curb and struck an oak tree, police said. James told police the brakes on her 2001 Ford Explorer failed. No drugs or al-

cohol were involved in the accident. Estimated vehicle damage is $lO,OOO. James declined to comment on the accident.

Computer stolen from clinic A computer was stolen this week from the Duke South Clinic. The Dell system was last seen at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 21 in the nurses’ station near Room 2648 in Clinic 2F/2C. The computer, which was secured with a cable, was discovered missing at 7 a.m. Tuesday. The system is worth $l,lOO.

Parking decal stolen from garage A parking decal worth $l,OOO was stolen from an employee’s car in the Bryan Research parking garage.

William Wetsel, 58, told police he last saw the decal at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 26 and discovered it missing from his Mazda Miata the next morning.

Jewelry stolen from clinic patient Jewelry belonging to a patient at Lenox Baker was stolen Feb. 20 while she was in the clinic. Mary Alston, 63, told police she put her jewelry in her bag but that when she went to get it, the property was gone. Among the items missing were a gold cross with diamonds and a black watch with a diamond. She reported the jewelry missing Feb. 25.

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RICHMOND, Va. A federal appeals court Tuesday awarded $350,000 in attorney’s fees to a former Duke female football kicker who had won a $2 million judgment from the school and then lost it on appeal.

In 2000 Heather Sue Mercer won $2 million in a sexdiscrimination case against the school, claiming she was cut from Duke’s football team because she was a woman. Duke argued on appeal that sex discrimination law does not include punitive damages, and in 2002 the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, leaving Mercer, Trinity ’9B, with just $1 in compensatory damages.

The 4th Circuit sent the case back to district court to determine if Mercer deserved to have her attorney’s fees paid. The court granted Mercer the $350,000, and Duke appealed.

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that while Mercer was awarded only $1 in compensatory damages, she was entided to higher attorney’s fees “given the nature of this litigation.”

“Mercer’s claim was a novel one that established a new rule of law with regard to liability under Title IX,” the appeals court wrote. The court said because Duke allowed Mercer on the team, it could not use the singlesex contact-sports exemption, which doesn’t require schools to allow men and women to compete together.

“Mercer’s case was the first to so hold, and it will serve as guidance for other schools facing the issue,” the court wrote.

After former Blue Devil football coach Fred Goldsmith allowed Mercer to join the football team, she said he would not allow her to dress for games or practice on a scrimmage team against Duke’s first-team players. She also said he once suggested she should be more interested in beauty pageants than football. #

Ring stolen from restroom A ring belonging to a visitor was stolen Feb. 10 from the Children’s Health Center. The owner was at the hospital for her son's appointment and left her ring on a restroom sink after washing her hands. When she returned to the restroom, the ring was gone. She reported the theft Monday. The ring is gold with a square topaz stone.

It is worth $950.

Purses snatched at basketball game Purses belonging to two Duke students were stolen Feb. 24 during a basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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CENTRAL from page 1 the planning committees were formed in late January.

No formal application process for the committees was ever conducted; Majdi forwarded a list of 14 names to Lange’s office, where the appointees were divided into official members and alternates. The representatives only learned of their appointments when they received an e-mail informing them of the planning committee’s timetable.

Majdi said he selected the most qualified students, based on whether he thought they would do “a good job.”

“An inferior way to select people would be to select diverse people speaking from their personal perspective,” he said in early February. “A better way is to select a whole group that would be reflective and speak on behalf of the whole community.”

Central Campus has historically been home to a disproportionate number of black students. According to data from Residence Life and Housing Services, about 27 percent of the students living on Central in Fall 2004 were black. Black students, however, comprise about 10 percent of the overall undergraduate community.

Senior Pascale Thomas, president of the Black Student Association and the only black student representative, serves as an alternate on the committee that deals with extra-curricular and social life. She could not be reached for comment.

Chronicle Editor Karen Hauptman, a junior, serves on the same committee as an official member; she was not involved in the reporting, writing or editing of this story.

Although the committees have already met several times and submitted preliminary advisement reports, Majdi said plans for augmenting or diversifying student representation are in the works. He said an additional advisory committee may be formed to poll the undergraduate community; the committee would then relay the collected data to the representatives.

Junior Brandon Goodwin, DSG vice president of student affairs and a representative on the main Central committee, is spearheading efforts to create the group.

In two weeks, a statement asking for student input will be released, he said. Subsequent dialogue will be similar to the town hall-style meeting that the Central planning committee ran earlier in the year.

Majdi, however, said members of the additional advisory committee would be drawn from ICC and its affiliated organiza-

DEATH PENALTY Scalia disputed that a “national consensus” exists and said the majority opinion was based on the “flimsiest of grounds.” The appropriateness of capital punishment should be determined by individual states, not “the subjective views of five members of this court and like-minded foreigners,” he wrote.

The ruling continues the court’s practice of narrowing the scope of the death penalty, which it reinstated in 1976. Executions for those 15 and younger when they committed their crimes were outlawed in 1988. Three years ago, justices banned executions of the mentally re-

Majdi’s plans.

Lange said he was also unaware of an

extra advisory committee, but he support-

ed efforts to strengthen student representation. “This was DSG’s business,” Lange said. “We often delegate to the representative organizations for this type of thing.”

He also mentioned other avenues of student input that the official planning committee will put in place. Several focus groups composed of current and former Central residents are expected to facilitate dialogue about improving campus life.

Current student representatives welcomed further student advice but maintained that their qualifications were sufficient.

‘You can never get enough input, and I appreciate the progress that DSG is un-

tarded, citing a “national consensus” against executing a killer who may lack the intelligence to fully understand his crime.

In finding a similar consensus against juvenile executions, the court noted that most states bar them and those that allow them do so infrequently. Only three states—Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia —have executed juveniles in the past 10 years.

Legal experts said the ruling could have widespread ramifications for the future of capital punishment, with courts empowered to strike down the practice on evolving notions of decency.

“The lasting significance of this case is that it opens the door to the abolition of the death penalty judicially,” said

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tions. He and Goodwin offered contradictory plans about how members of such a committee would be selected, and it remains unclear whether there will be a permanent set of supervisors or a rotating group of opinionated students.

“The committee membership was actually too small to incorporate everyone that I wanted,” Majdi said, noting that he has been working to increase students’ voice.

Several members of ICC said Tuesday night that they knew nothing about

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dergoing right now by holding open forums and gathering student opinion,” said senior Anthony Vitarelli, Campus Council president and a member of the housing and dining subcommittee. “But when it comes down to it, there can only be so many student representatives on the committees.”

Vitarelli added that the current representatives are all qualified for the job. The knowledge necessary to make informed decisions about Central, he said—fromknowing its physical characteristics to gauging its potential impact on student life—is already part and parcel of most members’ work on DSC or Campus Council.

Senior Kevin Parker, president of the Duke University Union and an alternate on the academic programs and spaces committee, echoed the same sentiments.

“I think it’s important that the committee represent a cross section of the University as a whole, not necessarily targeted to one certain group of students that may or may not have historically lived on Central,” Parker said shortly after he was appointed to a committee.

“The goal is to change the dynamic of space so that it is utilized by all different segments of the University.”

Emily Almas contributed to this story.

Jordan Steiker, a death penalty expert at the University of Texas law school. “If a national consensus can emerge without a majority of the death penalty states moving toward abolition, then it suggests that judicial abolition is a genuine prospect.”

The impact was immediate. In Prince William County, Va., officials said Tuesday they will not prosecute a murder case against teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, who is already serving life in prison in two of the 10 sniper killings that terrorized the Washington area in 2002.

Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert had hoped to get the death penalty for Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the killings, but he said another trial would now be an unnecessary expense.

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ALUMNI GIVING the foundation to succeed in life.”

For FY 2004, the Graduate School Annual Fund raised $15,707 with a 16 percent participation rate —a level consistent with income in academia.

“The reason graduate students don’t give as much as professional students is that Ph.D.s don’t make as much money as M.D.s or J.D.s,” said Charles Clotfelter, professor of public policy studies, economics and law.

The School of Medicine led the pack in terms of participation rate, succeeding in its “all-out” effort to reach a 40 percent giving rate as 41 percent ofits medical degree alumni gave to their annual fund in 2004. These unrestricted donations totalled over $1 million, while alumni gave an additional $2.2 million to the medical schools’s restricted funds.

“Gifts are definitely up,” said Ann Horner, senior director of the Fund for DukeMed and director of the Davison Club. “The market has come up and evened out over the past three years, and we are seeing that in the amount of the gifts.”

At the School of Law, one-third of degree holders contributed to its annual fund last year. Law alumni contributed more than $1.9 million, but the school’s extensive building project pulled in direct funding that diverted money from its annual fund.

While FY 2005 has yet to conclude, Melissa Richey, director of the law school’s annual fund, hopes to increase participation to at least 33 percent. As of Feb. 25 the Duke Law Annual Fund had already raised more than $1.4 million, which is 78 percent of its $1.85 million goal.

The 2004 fiscal year was a time of transition for the development office at the Fuqua School of Business. Staff turnover

BREEDEN from page 5 partnership with Frankfurt University’s School of Business and created a dual degree with the school in 2004.

Despite institutional growth, Fuqua’s status among peer schools has slipped recently, dropping from seventh to 11th in the

and the inability to execute some of its strategic plans left Fuqua with a participation rate of 23.4 percent, down slightiy from 24.2 percent in 2003.

“There are several issues at play with the business school—about a third of our alumni are international, and there isn’t a history of philanthropy,” said Jim Gudaitis, director of development and alumni information services at Fuqua, adding that executive M.B.A. programs and projects with global reach were also factors. “There isn’t necessarily an affinity to Duke itself and therefore no sustained giving.”

Nonetheless, the amount of alumni donations at Fuqua has been increasing at a steady clip of 9 percent each year for the past six to seven years. Gudaitis noted that the business school is currendy 15 percent ahead of last year in terms of giving.

The Divinity School reported a participation rate of 32 percent and a giving total of over $500,000. The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences declined to disclose its figures.

In breaking down donations to Duke, older alumni tend to be the most generous donors, while young alumni are a difficult constituency to raise funds from because they are often difficult to locate.

Many Duke alumni pursue graduate and professional degrees, and thus, do not have the resources to support Duke during their continuing education.

“Because alumni giving is profoundly unequally distributed, the people at the top give much more than their proportionate share,” Clotfelter said.

Nevertheless, Woods emphasized that alumni support, no matter what the amount, is important “Foundations and corporations do look at these figures on rates of giving when they’re deciding to make a grant to Duke,” Woods said. “These are typically dollars that support important research initiatives around campus.”

2005 U.S. News and World Report business school rankings. Lange, however, said he is confident Breeden will continue to “identify and improve peaks ofexcellence.”

Breeden plans to build more academic and research spaces, continue to improve the quality of Fuqua’s faculty and collaborate with other schools and departments the University in his second term.

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new wing will be used for offices, journals, clinics and seminar rooms.

Associate Dean for Student Affairs Jill Miller has noted that students overlook the leaks in anticipation of the structural improvements to come.

“People have been very accommodating and the construction crew has been working very hard to put things back in

SUDAN from page 5 blacks a genocide in late 2004, but the U.S. government has yet to provide the $250 million in aid promised to the victims. Although a preliminary peace agreement between the northern government’s Khartoum regime and the southern Sudanese rebels was signed in January, the killings have yet to end. So far, there have been upwards of 300,000 civilian lives lost by the hands of the regime and Janjaweed—Arab militia supported by the regime—and more than 1.2 million people displaced in refugee camps in the neighboring nation ofChad.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the United Nations to take “swift action” to stop the killings in Sudan last month, but the group has spent time deliberating whether it should send the case to the International Criminal Court or establish an entirely new court oflaw to manage the case.

The Sudanese genocide bears striking resemblance to the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which 800,000 people were killed in 100 days due to lack of international intervention. At the time, Anthony Lake, former President Bill Clinton’s National Security Advisor, was asked how U.S. policy towards the Rwandan crisis could be changed. His response: “You will have to change public opinion. You must make more noise.” Duke’s Sudan Coalition was formed as a direct response to Lake’s charge and is attempting to do just that.

Locally, the Sudan Coalition’s plans to take action include promoting a divestment campaign to pull Duke’s funding out of TIAA-CREF, one of the investment carriers for retirement plans in which Duke faculty and staff participate. TIAA-

order,” she said Vikram Patel, a third-year law student and president of the Duke Bar Association, said he has actually heard more student complaints about jackhammer noises during class than about leaks in the ceilings.

“It’s very far off the middle of the radar screen,” Patel said. “[Putting up with construction inconveniences] is much better than Duke not catching up to peer schools in terms ofconstruction.”

CREF holds 3.5 million shares in Alcatel, a French-based telecommunications corporation that has over $5O million in contracts to support the Khartoum government with telecommunication devices.

The North Carolina Retirement System also has more than $2 billion in companies either directly or indirecdy providing aid to the Khartoum regime.

Duke has outlined a set of guidelines for ethical investment but has yet to revoke funding from any particular investment.

The coalition also plans to start a letterwriting campaign in which they will pen 4,000 letters to undersecretaries of State and Congress. In addition, the group plans to go to a Durham City Council meeting and persuade the community members to support Duke students’ actions, as well as travel to local schools and educate children on the issue. The coalition plans to join with University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill’s chapter and adopt a refugee camp to provide funding for Sudanese children’s education.

Those in attendance appeared motivated and dedicated to their cause.

“It was inspiring but I already felt very strongly about it,” sophomore Patrick Erker said. “I think our generation has a moral imperative to do something to stop what amounts to genocide and massive human rights violation.”

The group is planning to participate in National Lobby Day, a day in which representatives from Duke’s coalition will join other university representatives and lobby government officials, as well as organize a campus-wide student demonstration and town hall meeting.

“This is our generation’s holocaust,” Knight said. “Forty years from now, your grandchildren are going to ask, ‘Where were you?’”

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PERKINS from page 1 $2,245, according to records at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Shirley Ort, associate provost and director of scholarships and student aid at UNC said her school distributed more than $9 million of Perkins capital to 3,366 students last year.

According to Bush’s budget proposal, the Perkins Loan program “duplicates other student loan programs and serves a limited number of institutions.” Officials on the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, an independent group that advises Congress on student aid legislation, confirmed that the Perkins Loan is seen as a small part of the loan program.

In order to fill the need created by eliminating Perkins Loans, the Bush administration has suggested increasing Pell Grant awards—federal, need-based grants rang-

ing from $4OO to $4,050 a year that do not require repayment. Bush’s plan wouldraise the maximum grant level $lOO per year for five years, until it reaches $4,550 in 2010.

“Bush hopes to move the money out of the Perkins program and into supporting higher Pell Grants,” explained James Belvin, Duke’s director offinancial aid.

Although the proposal suggests increasing the monetary value of Pell Grants, it also reduces the number of students eligible to receive them. The U.S. Department of Education will change the formula for eligibility by updating the tax tables used to structure student award packages, denying some students who would have been eligible in the past.

Officials at Durham Technical Community College, which does not distribute money through the Perkins Loan program, are worried that their Pell Grant program might suffer under the new plan.

Financial Aid Officer Cameron Murray explained that “students receiving a small

SYRIA from page 2 Speaking to reporters following an international conference on Palestinian security and political reform, Rice accused Syria of supporting terrorists who are trying to undermine progress toward reaching IsraeliPalestinian peace.

“This is a long list of concerns about a Syria that is standing in the way of Lebanese, Iraqis, Palestinians and others in their aspirations for a better world,” Rice said.

In a separate interview with ABC News, Rice also said the deadly bombing last week in Tel Aviv, Israel, was planned in Syria.

“There is firm evidence that Palestinian Islamic Jihad, sitting in Damascus, not only knew about the attacks, but was involved in the planning,” she said.

At a press conference with French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, Rice said their two countries would sup-

Pell Grant will not receive any, and some students may receive smaller amounts.”

The resulting greater financial burden will either fall on universities and colleges that will have to find new funding for students, or on the students themselves who will have to find alternative ways of paying for college.

“Our concern is that those students will still have financial need and will be back in the financial aid office asking for more help,” Williams said. “And not all colleges will be able to support that need.”

Emphasizing Duke’s commitment to meeting 100 percent of students’ need, Belvin said “we will certainly find away to fill that gap. But how we^will do that is an unknown.”

Currendy, Duke operates with a self-help threshold, providing work study and federal loans—Perkins and Stafford loans—for students whose need reaches a certain level. If need surpasses this level, students may also receive grants from the University.

port the scheduled election in Lebanon, perhaps by sending observers and monitors.

She suggested international peacekeepers might be needed eventually.

“As we see how the Lebanese will move forward I think we have to look at what can be done in terms of helping them to stabilize the situation, should that become necessary,” Rice said.

She gave no details, and later said it was too soon to talk about the specifics of security in Lebanon after a hypothetical Syrian withdrawal.

In Washington, State Department spokesperson Adam Ereli said the administration had seen no signs that Syria was inclined to withdraw. “We are looking for clear indications that Syria intends to comply” with the U.N. resolution, he said.

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Even with the planned increase in Pell Grants, colleges will not receive as much federal funding, and officials at many schools worry that students will be forced to turn to more expensive loans.

“We applaud their efforts to increase the Pell Grants,” UNC’s Ort said. “But the changes would still leave a big hole in students’ financial aid packages.”

Education officials have expressed concern about Bush’s $2.6 trillion budget since he first brought it to the table in February, as about one-third of the 150 programs the administration plans to cut are in the education sector.

Williams noted that “the amount that they are proposing to increase the Pell Grants by will not be enough to balance the amount we are losing by cutting Perkins....

Students will still be on the losing side.”

pinned some ofits hopes for the region.

The United States pulled its ambassador from Damascus last month in protest over the assassination of a leading Lebanese politician. The Bush administration did not blame Syria outright for Rafik Hariri’s killing.

The deadly bombing that killed him in Beirut on Feb. 14 set off a popular uprising against Syria and a series of apparent concessions from Damascus, which keeps about 15,000 troops in Lebanon. All key Lebanese political decisions get a stamp of approval from the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Syria in recent days has abandoned the pro-Syrian Lebanese prime minister, announced troop shifts at home and turned Saddam Hussein’s half brother over to Iraq.

Rice said international pressure on Syria is working, and the United States probably will not ask for further international sanctions or other strong measures for now.

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SIMULATION from page 4 happen consistently. For example, to simulate an allergic reaction, we can program the simulator to have its heart pressure drop and lungs wheeze,” Taekman said.

In addition to giving potential doctors practice, officials are also using the facility to test new research initiatives to improve patient safety. Melanie Wright, a human factors engineer who works in the simulation center, is studying the effect of hierarchy in team dynamics through a grant by the National Board of Medical Examiners. By observing teams interacting in the faux emergency situation, she can begin to understand team dynamics and figure out how to in-

an additional 39 cent federal tax Regardless of possible economic and social benefits for the state, some Durham smokers are not happy about the new tax.

David Lasater, a manager at the BP convenience store at Main and Ninth streets, said many customers have come in to gripe about Easley’s plan. Employees at Sam’s Quik Shop across the street said their customers expressed similar complaints.

Lenard said convenience stores will not only lose money from direct cigarette sales, but also from decreased sales of other merchandise as customers come to purchase cigarettes and then buy items they otherwise

still better communication “A nurse might be treated differently than a doctor, or a doctor will be less likely to listen to what a nurse says —the hierarchy can get in the way of good communication,” Wright said. “Yes, we have different roles and backgrounds, but we need to recognize different inputs.”

The full potential of the center is just becoming evident. Officials are now allowing businesses to test the effectiveness of new products in simulated situations.

But all initiatives, Taekman said, come down to one mission.

“Each one of the things we are doing in the center is training future or current health care workers,” he said.

“Every project we work on is focused on improving patient safety and patient outcome.”

would not have bought.

And officials say smart shoppers will inevitably find ways get around the tax and score cheap smokes. Crossing the border into South Carolina, which has a 7 cent tax, or to Tennessee, where a 20 cent charge is enforced, will become ways for frugal shoppers to save money. “In areas where it’s convenient to go across the border, retailers will expect to lose sales,” Lenard said.

The tax increase could also encourage people to buy cigarettes online. The Internet, a market where vendors do not charge tax, is currendy the cheapest way to buy cigarettes. Even though online retailers are required to charge a state tax, the rules have not been enforced.

Some smokers, however, feel

CRIME from page 6 told police the purses were under the Duke Band bench at 8:45 p.m. and went missing a short time later. A digital camera worth $350, and a $2OO cell phone were among the items in one of the purses.

Man steals iPod from Duke computer store

Duke Police arrested a 19-year-old Durham male resident Feb. 22 on charges he stole an Apple iPod from the Bryan Center. At 6:56 p.m., Elijah Vick, a Jordan High School student, was seen walking into the Duke Computer Store and removing a white iPod, which is worth $299, police said. Vick left the store, but a witness in the store wrote down the suspect's de-

compelled to quit their habit because of the increased cost. “It’ll probably make me stop,” said Durham resident Ron Ferrell, after pausing for an extended drag off his cigarette. “Everyone else will probably tell you the same thing.”

Another Durham resident, Taishay Allen, a non-smoker, liked the idea of increasing the tax of cigarettes. “I think it’s good. Maybe people will end up quitting,” she said.

Freshman Yuri Roh, a member of the “I Smoke, Get Over It” group on thefacebook.com, was skeptical that the tax increase would affect sales. “If something like the smoking tax goes up and you quit smoking, you aren’t a real smoker anyway,” she said.

scription and a description of his vehicle.

Duke police Officers Christopher Day and Brandon Perry found Vick at a home on Clarendon Street soon after the incident.

Vick was arrested and taken to the magistrate's office, where a $1,500 bond was set.

Vick could not be reached for comment.

Students break the noise barrier Two Duke students received citations Feb. 18 for noise ordinance violations at 837 Clarendon St. Durham and Duke police responded to a noise complaint during a party at the house at 10p.m. The occupants were given a warning about the noise. Durham and Duke officers were called back to the house at 11:55 p,m. The party was stopped, and Durham city police issued city noise ordinance citations to seniors DanielKedem and Paul Novick.

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Ewing must take control This Thursday Cameron will be loud as ever as the quietest star of the Mike Krzyzewski era plays his last game on his home campus. That player, of course, is Daniel Ewing, a 6-foot-3 guard from Texas who has had one of the most atypical careers of any Blue Devil in the past 25 years.

Ifyou ask his teammates, the biggest difference in Daniel Ewing today compared to that of his freshman year is that he has finally learned to open his mouth.

“He talks now,” senior Reggie Love said with a laugh. “He was real quiet [when he was a freshman.]”

Ewing credits Coach K for the development of his vocal and leadership skills, as the guard is now considered one of the biggest trash talkers on the squad by some ofhis teammates Ewing’s career has had several highlights: He was the MVP of the 2003 ACC Tournament and he is currently one of 10 finalists for the Bayer Senior CLASS Award, which goes to the top men’s basketball player in the senior class.

Although Ewing heads to a likely spot on this year’s second-team All-ACC squad, it still seems that he could more thoroughly dominate games, and his personality has held him back. Though he SEE EWING ON PAGE 16

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play,” Greer said, who has now scored 14 goals in only three games. “I’m trying to read off the other [players] and get ready

In last year’s game against Virginia Military Institute,. highly touted freshman for the rest of the season.”

Danowski set up Greer for two dazzling Matt Danowski VMI |_s tallied seven scores in the first quarter, the second one DUKE *l5 points as Duke silencing the charging Keydets (0-2).

With just five seconds left in the first quarwon, 18-11. result similar against VMI ter and Duke (3-0) clinging to a 4-3 lead, The was very Tuesday but a new freshman star led the Danowski slashed through the middle way. Zach Greer one-upped Danowski by and fed Greer for an easy goal.

The goal demoralized the VMI team ripping off eight points, including seven goals, to lead the 13th-ranked Blue Devils and started a 9-1 Duke run that lasted to a 15-5 win over the visiting Keydets.

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Duke received scores above the national average for nearly all of its teams according to the initial academic progress rates released by the NCAA Monday.

The report evaluates the retention and academic progress of varsity athletes, and beginning in Fall 2006 teams which fall below cut lines will lose a percentage of their scholarships. If the sanctions were to begin immediately, none of Duke’s programs would face penalties, although the baseball team is bordering on the 925 threshold.

“The numbers just validated what we think is what we’ve been doing all along, which is a good job academically,” Brad Berndt, assistant director of athletics for academic services said. “Our students are graduating, and they’re being retained from year to year and that’s what the numbers reflect.”

Duke’s overall academic progress rate of 984 far exceeded the national average for all schools (948) and private institutions (965). The University also surpassed the average for the nation’s three worst scoring sports—baseball, men’s basketball and football.

According to the most recent data, 94 percent of Duke student-athletes graduate —the same percentage as the general student body.

“We weren’t surprised,” said Chris Kennedy, senior associate athletic director. “The only thing we’re looking at a little bit was the baseball program. Last year was an unusual year in that several people transferred.”

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Brodhead talks college athletics PresidentRichard Brodhead, who came to Duke inJuly after serving as Dean of Yale College, sat doom with Chronicle Sports Editor Jake Poses last month to discuss issues in collegiate athletics ami athletics at Duke.

You came from Yale to Duke, where athletics have a higher profile nationally. What role do you plan to take nationally, and do you want to be someone who speaks out about intercollegiate athletics?

Duke is a university active on so many fronts.

Whether athletics is the one where I would seek right away to be a leader I can’t say —I think others would actually be more natural at first. How long have I been president? Six months. For me to stick my face in front of those who have been at this for many years would have a certain inappropriateness.

But I take athletics very seriously, and I was attracted to Duke in no small part by the combination of the high quality of its athletics with the strong

sense of values that circumscribes that program

Do you think Duke’s values differ significandy from some of the trends that have been discussed

nationally?

I would never be comfortable at a school where student-athletes were not taken seriously as students as well as athletes. When I go to the football stadium and I see the statistics about the number of football players who graduate from Duke; I take great pride in that Over the course of your life intercollegiate athletics only takes you so far in the best case, and a good education takes you a lot further.

Are you worried about some of the separation between athletes and non-athletes on Duke’s campus, or do you think that is a natural separation?

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Heading into the 10th inning, the

men’s baseball team and Elon are tied 8-8, and it’s been that way for a week.

Since the Feb. 23 meeting at Elon was postponed because of darkness, the Blue Devils (6-6) and the Phoenix (74) will head into extra innings at Jack Coombs Field today at 2 p.m. Once a winner is determined, the teams will play another nine innings—the match that was originally slated to begin at 3 p.m.

Although the Blue Devils dropped both of their games against Elon last year, Duke could earn two wins in just a single day’s work.

“We’re all really excited,” pitcher Paul DeMarco said. “We have a chance to go out and win a quick one. That could give us some momentum, and we could possibly take two.”

With a Phoenix on every base and only one out in the bottom of the ninth Feb. 23, Danny Otero managed to get out of the inning unscathed. He struck out one and forced the last batter of the night to ground out. The relieverturned-starter leads the pitching staff with a 1.44 ERA and has already registered 17 strikeouts, second to veteran Greg Burke’s 25.

Collectively the Blue Devil pitchers have kept their opponents to fewer than four earned runs per game. The same opponents, however, are averaging 5.77 total runs per game against Duke. The Blue Devils’ 23 errors in the field, which resulted in 24 unearned runs, can account for this anomaly.

Fielding, an area on which the Blue Devils have concentrated all year, continues to be problematic for Duke, which has not played an errorless game since its first of the season, Feb. 5. The team, however, believes that it is improving.

“We’re getting lots of groundball repetitions in practice,” freshman Ron Causey said. “The infield has improved the most, and it showed Sunday [against Army].

There were a lot of hits that could’ve snuck through the infield that they got.

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Jimmy Gallagherand theDuke pitchers have held their opponents to fewer than four earned runs per game. and win against Army.”

Similarly, the Phoenix have played only two clean games of baseball this season, both early in the year.

At the plate, Elon exploited earlyseason opponents, but since their fourth game, the Phoenix’s collective batting average has steadily declined

from .368 to .284 after their recent series against Auburn.

“We know they’re going to come out and have a good arm,” Causey said. “We know we have to get that ball in play. Guys aren’t going to be throwing a long time, and so we want to get into their bullpen especially for the longer game.”

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The Blue Devils played their best round of the Puerto Rico Classic Tuesday, but it was not enough to help the team climb up the leaderboard.

After having three players at least three under par at some point during the round, Duke had some minor struggles and finished with an even-par 288.

The Blue Devils ended the tournament in seventh, exacdy where They started the final 18 holes.

“We had a really good round going, but we let some strokes get away,” head coach Rod Myers said. “I’m certainly a little disappointed by that, but overall we played a solid round.”

Nathan Smith finished in a tie for second place at seven under par after firing a 69 in the final round. The 42ndranked junior was the only Duke golfer to be under par each day.

“I think this tournament was one of my better performances —three rounds under par felt pretty good,” Smith said.

Smith had success on the par 5s Tuesday, birdieing the 11th and eagling the 13thwith a 15-foot putt. He was as low as four under before bogeying a par 3 to drop to three under.

Even with his low scoring, Smith finished five strokes back of the champion Alejandro Canizares of Arizona State.

The 2002 NCAA Champion took home the trophy with a 12-under-par performance, firing three rounds in the 60s on the par-72 course.

“It’s pretty dam impressive to play really well every single round,” Myers said of Canizares. “He’s terrific.”

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Junior Monique Currie lead the voting, earning a unanimous firstteam selection from the 74 members Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. She is fourth in the conference in scoring, averaging 17.6 points per game.

Fellow juniors Mistie Williams and Jessica Foley were also honored, as both were named third-team AllACC. Williams averaged 11.1 points and seven rebounds per game this season. Foley is in the ACC Top 10 in three-pointers made and threepoint shooting percentage.

North Carolina was the only other team to match Duke’s three All-ACC selections. Sophomore Ivory Latta was named to the first team, freshman Erlana Larkins was a second-team pick and sophomore Camille Little made the third team.

Miami’s Tamara James, Florida State’s Roneeka Hodges and Maryland’s Shay Doron join Currie and Latta on the All-ACC first team. They are the ACC’s three leading scorers.

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until midway through the third quarter.

Greer’s most dramatic goal came in the second quarter. With 7:14 to go and Duke playing a man down, Greer took a tough hit behind the net and almost fell. He gracefully kept his balance, powered through three Keydet defenders and released an acrobatic, diving shot past VMI goalkeeper Matt Hook to put the Blue Devils up 10-3.

The Duke offense began Tuesday’s game just like the weather—cold.

Six minutes into the game, with the score still knotted at zero, Pressler decided enough was enough and called a timeout.

“He called us out,” junior Dan Flannery said. “We came out a little bit flat and they came out fired up. [Pressler’s words] opened our eyes a little bit.”

As the sun crept out from behind the clouds, and the weather warmed up a bit, so did the Duke attack. Danowski weaved a pass through the heart of the Keydet defense for Greer’s first goal.

“We made some early mistakes,” Greer said. “[We were] throwing the ball away, not being cautious on defense.”

Once the carelessness subsided, the offense sprinted to a 10-4 lead at the half. Flannery and Danowski guided the team with two goals and three assists each before leaving the game in the middle of the fourth quarter. Pressler was pleased to get some of his starters out of the game.

“We got some contributions from a lot of guys, guys that haven’t played,” said Pressler, whose team travels to Maryland

Casey Carrolland the Duke defense held the Keydets to a single goal in the second half of play. for its ACC opener Saturday. “That’s important because they practice every day.”

Despite what looked like a dominating, double-digit win, the team remained critical ofits slow start.

“I would not say this is the best we have played,” Pressler said. “We certainly played better in our other two games than we played today. But, that said, its nice to be 3-0.”

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BRODHEAD from page 11 When any group of people share a deep dedication to something, they inevitably spend lots of time together—their commitments drive them closer together. If you find student-athletes spending a lot of time together, there is no surprise in that. I would certainly prefer a world in which everyone who wished to also got out of their team world and got a broader sense of who their contemporaries are. The students I know who are student-athletes, certainly every sign I have is that they have much broader acquaintances than who their team members are.

NCAA President Myles Brand has talked about getting away from a “sports-entertainment” setting and getting back to a university setting. Are there certain things at Duke that you and your peers need to rein in that have gone too far?

Here we are in the middle of basketball season, but one has to remind themselves that this school has produced teams at the

highest level in intercollegiate competition this year. I think it was an under-noted fact that Duke led nationally in the Sears [Director’s] Cup competition at a point this year until Stanford pulled ahead with a cheap 100 points for a volleyball championship. I was delighted having watched all those teams play, but I’ll tell you, the people I know who are on the field hockey team—they were second in the nation—it includes people who are pre-med and all kinds of challenging and interesting things, and that is the kind of mix I am

happiest to see.

In college athletics there are things one hears about that falls outside ofany limit of what I would tolerate—recruiting abuses,

academic dishonesdy instances and things of that sort—those things have no business in college sports, and colleges and universities have an important role to take in asserting the joint values of scholar and athlete and of education and athletics. I have not found anybody at Duke to quarrel with me about this. When I speak to [Athletic Director] Joe Alieva or any of the coaches I find that that is there thought as well.

Then of course you come into questions of emphasis. When Duke accepts a student-athlete we have to think of them as a student as well as an athlete and we have support them as a student as well as an athlete, and we have to define their aspirations for success in academic terms as well as athletic terms.

Are you worried that your view is not necessarily the same views that the coaches have. Do some coaches consider them athletes first and compromise certain academic issues, and even their social lives, for the good of the team or the pressure of winning?

Since the day when I myself was a student, college athletics have changed a lot and they haven’t only changed in the world of very high visibility sports and very high visibility teams. There has been a professionalization of college athletics that is true of every sport.

The most minor sport, not that I consider any of them minor, the amount of time people spend practicing, the amount of specialized training and coaching people have before college —these things have come a very long way. In such a world you have to figure serious athletes go to places where the coaches take athletics seriously.

I do think, though, that every conversation I have had with people in the Athletics Department administration and with the

coaches that everyone understands that what is important here is the balance of multiple values rather than the absolute dominance of one.

Would you be against moves like adding a tide game in football or an extended

playoff?

I begin to answer that by asking on what grounds would one decide. At the press

conference at the end of the Lakers business on July 1, I said something to which Coach K nodded his head vigorously. I said that in a college and university setting, no matter how good your team, basketball will only be a relative value, not an absolute one. Part of the interest in coaching college and not the pros is getting the proportion of different values right.

It seems to me that if there were no other considerations, who would care if there were 40 football games? But the trouble is that in academic terms you run up against exam schedules, you run up against the particulars of the ends of the term, you run up against the physically taxing nature of certain sports that produce extra injuries the longer you play.

The price of college athletics has been another hot-button issue as some have reported that athletic budgets are growing at twice the rate of other expenses at universities. Is that the case at Duke?

Lets put it this way: Athletics isn’t cheap. And one of the things that Myles Brand has said is that although general public thinks that athletics are a source of great revenue they are also a source of considerable cost.

You talked about the pride of being No. 1 in the Director’s Cup, but several years ago

Duke decided that winning the Director’s Cup was not an attainable goal right now.

Do you think that in the next five or 10 years that philosophy on athletics can change, and Duke can go after the Director’s Cup? You are never going to hear me say that my highest goal for this University is to win a national athletics cup across all sports. I have lost my voice totally at sports competitions. I have been to lots of different sports since I have been here—l’ve been to wrestling and it is one of the places where you see the nature of what disciplined skill looks like. It is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

But I think of athletics as a very important value but not the absolute value. I don’t believe that Duke should seek to be uncompetitive in a wide variety of sports, and as I say, I just loved it this fall when we were out in front in men’s soccer, women’s soccer, women’s cross country and field hockey that is a lot offall sports to be out in front in.

I have admitted to you that I do take considerable pleasure in beirig the president of a university that scores so high. On the other hand you are never going to come in here and find that I am trying to re-organize the University for the sole purpose of athletics.

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What are some of the differences between Duke and Yale on the athletics side?

The kind of things that are discussed at a school like Yale and Duke are not that different. One of the serious sources of concern is as the level of athleticism rises in college athletes, how are you going to encourage people to know when enough is enough? If you spend four hours a day, if you spend five hours a day, if you spend six hours a day, when have you reached the point where that is not wise?

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has shown enough fire to draw a teamhigh three technical fouls, Ewing often takes the back seat to fellow stars JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams. Despite displaying enough talent to be considered by many scouts a first-round pick in this year’s NBA draft, Ewing is content to not only play second fiddle, but third.

The Texan has had to deal with such problems his entire career. He only lost one high school game in his entire career as he teamed with three other Division I prospects, including former NCAA National Player of the Year T.J. Ford. During his freshman year at Duke he played in a lineup with five future NBA starters.

He also played a supporting role in the middle years of his college career, though he would occasionally explode as he did in the 2003 ACC Tournament.

This year he has been more assertive, but it seems as if he has played with superior players for so long that he does not know how to take over games consistently throughout the season. “[Playing with stars is] something I just learned to deal with,” Ewing said about his high school experience. “I think it really helped me coming here, playing with a lot of good players, players that were better than me my first couple of years. I knew had to play with guys who were as good as me or better than me. I know how to sometimes take the backseat and how sometimes to be aggressive and be the star.”

Although his skill with playing with superstars came in handy his first three years at Duke, Ewing should be demanding to be this team’s No. 1 offensive option. His time taking the backseat to his teammates

should be limited, as he is capable of being the star on this squad.

Shelden Williams is the best post player in the conference and Redick’s outside shoodng makes the game asymmetric for the Blue Devils’ opponents, but Ewing is the only player who can consistently take defenders off the dribble and score by either pulling up for a jump shot or taking the ball all the way to the hole. Ewing’s reluctance to take this role has hurt the Blue Devils this season.

Another problem with Ewing’s play this year is that it has not been mature.

Ewing is a senior but he consistently makes underclassman-like mistakes. He gets in foul trouble more than any other perimeter player in the conference, he shoots a lower free-throw percentage than Shelden Williams and he’s picked up three technical fouls at horrible times for his team.

Even though he is Duke’s best finisher, Ewing also does not convert in the paint as well as he should. He often misses layups at the end ofhis drives that are difficult, but makeable, shots.

But all of these weaknesses I’ve listed could be erased this postseason. Unlike Redick’s speed and ball-handling skills, Ewing’s problems could be instantly improved with elevated intensity. If Ewing focused a bit more on not fouling, a bit more at finishing around the hoop and a bit more at knocking down his freethrows, his downfalls would become strengths.

The only problem is that with Sean Dockery’s injury, Ewing has even more responsibilities in running the team’s offense and defense. But if Ewing is to play in his second Final Four, he must for the first time in his career take full advantage of his lethal athleticism and versatile skills.

NCAA from page 11 Duke received a score of 926 in baseball, which reflected the four transfers, each of whom left in good academic standing, Kennedy said.

Head baseball coach Bill Hillier attributed his teams’ mediocre score to players leaving for the Major League Baseball draft following their junioryear and the one-time transfer rule. For baseball, unlike basketball and football, the NCAA does not require student-athletes to sit out one year if they decide to transfer to another institution.

“It’s kind of a catch-22,” Hillier said.

“We’re a sport that you kind of hope you’ve got to worry about it because that means you have good enough players that are getting enough money in the draft.”

Berndt said the fall semester’s data has. already been compiled and indicated the baseball figures looked “very, very good.”

The new regulations are part of the academic reform package approved by the NCAA April 29.

MEN'S GOLF from page 12 Blaum and Michael Quagliano. Blaum entered the day at even par and completed his round in the same place, earning a tie for 18th.

Quagliano carded his third consecutive 73 to finish his first tournament of the spring season at three over par. The freshman was as low as three under, but a triple-bogey brought him back to even par before falling to one over.

“It’s awesome that he shot three 735, but I expect that out of him,” Smith said. “I know he has much lower scores in him, and I think we’ll see that from him later this sea-

“For the first time, the NCAA is holding teams and institutions accountable for the academic progress and success of their student-athletes,” NCAA President Myles Brand said in a statement Monday.

“The goal of the academic reform package is to reinforce good behavior. The new reforms are tough but fair.”

The formula rewards teams for retaining their students and keeping their athletes in good academic standing. An APR score of 925 is equivalent to a 50 percent

graduation rate.

According to this preliminary report, 410 teams nationally are at risk of facing sanctions, but schools have the next six months to attempt to correct their academic difficulties. More than half of the nation’s schools have at least one team that would lose scholarships if penalties were based on this one-year snapshot.

If programs fall below the cut line, the NCAA can prevent a coach from awarding up to 10 percent of his scholarships.

Penalties will be assessed yearly as new data is released. son and throughout his Duke career.”

For the second week in a row, the Blue Devils struggled to deliver a strong fourth score. Freshman Bryce Mueller played solid rounds, Myers said, but had a few too many errors, such as a bogey on his final hole Tuesday.

Duke has almost three weeks before its next tournament, March 19 in Statesboro, Ga., and Myers plans to use the time off to solidify the bottom of his lineup.

“I definitely think we may look at giving some different guys an opportunity,” he said. “We just want to continue to work on getting better, and hopefully we’ll make some nice improvements before our next tournament.”

Child Care Scholarship Fund for Duke University Undergraduate and Graduate Students The Office of Dean of Students is currently accepting applications for the 2005 Duke University Child Care Scholarship Fund. The scholarship fund, developed through gifts from the classes of 1990 and 1992 and from an alumna trustee, was established to provide support to Duke student families who need assistance with child care.

For detailed information about scholarship criteria and/or to obtain an application, use the following contact information:

Office of the Dean of Students Attn: Child Care Scholarship Fund 200 Crowell Hal! Box 90946 Durham, NC 27708-0946 Tel: 919-684-3853 Fax: 919-681-7390 http://deanofstudents.studentaffairs.duke.edu Application deadline is 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, 2005.

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Why bid numbers matter has been three weeks of silence, very relevant question. Residence life Since Feb. 8, when students turned issues affect every single undergraduin their bid cards and became new ate on this campus, IFC and fraternity officials have no fraternity pledges, none of the 15 fraternities governed by the Interfrater- formal obligation to release this information, but they nity Council have reSt3rfGdltoiT3l have an obligation to leased either the the larger community number of bids they extended or the number prospective to be up front about how they play members who accepted their bids. into it. Not releasing the numbers Members of fraternities have given leaves students lacking a piece of inthe same cookie-cutter answer every formation that could potentially aftime The Chronicle has. approached fect University decisions about social and residential life. them about the numbers.

The administration has access to IFC has never reAlthough officially leased rush results, informally the this information and can take it into account when making decisions about numbers have been available and published in The Chronicle for years. greek life or residential life. But stuWithholding the numbers robs the dents and other members of the UniUniversity community of the ability to versity community cannot weigh in if interpret those statistics and any trends they do not have the appropriate inforthat might appear. One year’s results mation. On a campus where students have continually complained that they do not necessarily indicate a trend, eiare not consulted about decisions that but the if ther positive or negative, direcdy affect undergraduate life, the numbers become permanently unavailable one can never discern larger deliberate lockdown of information trends about male greek life as the face flies in the face ofany attempt at bringing students to the table when such ofresidence life on campus changes.

Fundamentally, the issue isn’t the matters are under discussion.

To the IFC presidents: Rumors success or failure of certain greek groups. It’s not even the success or about fraternity rush are already failure of fraternity life in general. floating through campus. The best But fraternities, especially those with way to squelch murmurs that fraterniUniversity housing, are one piece of ties might be struggling is to numerithe puzzle as Duke continues to cally show that pledge classes are reevaluate how quad communities full—and explain the insignificance of the numbers. relate to the larger community. FraTo the larger community: Deternity sections alter the balance of mand the numbers. Without this inbeds available in their respective formation, the University knows quads and bear heavily on the number of women and independent men something that you do not. As discusthat live there. Furthermore, they act sions about the future of greek housas cohesive blocks in less-than-coheing continually arise, do you want to sive quad units. As the University at- be in that position?

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Senior game wristband policy This Thursday’s match-up against Miami will be the final home game of the men’s regular season, and I want to pack Cameron to the rafters! This game is designated the Senior Game, but one thing must be clarified: UNDERCLASSMEN CAN AND SHOULD STILL COME!' Here is how game admissions will work; Beginning at midnight on Wednesday night, wristbands will be distributed.

The line may begin anytime Wednesday afternoon. The line is entirely self-representative; there will be no holding of places, and you may not leave the line once you have joined it or you will lose your spot. The first 200 wristbands are for anyone, regardless of class. The next 1000 will be reserved for seniors, though based on previous years’ turnouts I only expect to give out about 600 of these. The remaining up-to-500 spots in Cameron will be filled by underclassmen who may form a walk-up line along the Cameron parking lot headed toward Towerview anytime after the first 200 wristbands have been distributed. Wristbands will be distributed

from 12 to 2 a.m. Wednesday night, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday. All wristband holders should return to K-Ville by 5 p.m on

Thursday evening.

Additionally, as you know, Duke has been challenged by UNC to a canned food drive this week. We will be collecting cans at the door of Cameron for Thursday’s game, so please bring whatever you can. If every person brings one can, we will be 1,300 cans closer to outdoing UNC for the second straight year. I recommend Kroger or Food Lion, where you can get 2 cans of chicken noodle soup for about one dollar.

This is the final home game of the regular season; it needs to be full.

Thank you to the Cameron Crazies for a fantastic year, it has truly been a pleasure to work with you. Let’s give our boys a great send-off as they head into a monthTlong run to St. Louis!

Go Duke!

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Just say no

President

Bush’s effort to hustle the nation into dismantling Social Security as we know it seems to be faltering: The more voters hear about how privatization would work, the less they like it.

As a result, some Republicans are reported to be talking about a compromise in which they would agree to some kind of tax increase, probably a rise in the maximum level of earnings subject to the payroll tax.

They would offer to use the revenue from that tax increase, rather than borrowed

growing burden from the alternative mini-

mum tax.

As a result, an increase in the payroll tax maximum would make it much harder to pass other tax increases, frustrating efforts to do something about the deficit.

Furthermore, it’s all too likely that any compromise that created private accounts would turn into a Trojan horse that let the enemies of Social Security inside the gates.

This might happen almost immediately, as a result of the legislative process. As you funds, to establish private accounts, thereby may have noticed, moderates don’t run Congress. Suppose that a moderate senator assuaging fears about the thinks he has struck a deal for huge debt buildup that fully funded private accounts would take place under the Uimman Paul Kiuguian that don’t directly undermine administration’s plan. They guest commentary traditional Social Security. Almight even agree to make most surely, he would be kidprivate accounts an add-on to traditional benefits, not a replacement ding himself: by the time the But it would still be a bad deal. Creating conference committees were done with the legislation, the funding would be gone or private accounts in the current environmatter ment, no how they are financed, greatly reduced, the accounts would be bigger, traditional benefits would have been would be a mistake.

First, think about the fiscal implications. cut, and the whole thing would have turned We have a huge budget deficit, largely into a privatization wish list.

Even if that didn’t happen, private accaused by Bush’s decision to cut taxes while waging war. Any realistic plan to bring the counts, once established, would be used as a tool to whittle down traditional guaranteed budget deficit under control \vill have to include tax increases, especially if we want to benefits. For example, conservatives would avoid the harsh cuts the administration is use the existence of private accounts, together with rosy scenarios about rates of retrying to impose on Medicaid and other esturn, to argue that guaranteed benefits sential programs.

There might be a place for a rise in the could be cut without hurting retirees.

In short, anyone who wants to see the napayroll tax maximum in such a plan: AARP, tion other has such a return to fiscal responsibility, wants to proposed among groups, preserve Social Security as an institution or rise as one way to improve the Social Security system’s long-run finances. Devoting the both should be opposed to any deal creatextra revenue to the trust fund would also ing private accounts. And there is also, of course, the political question: Why should reduce the overall budget deficit. any Democrat act as a spoiler when his party But if the revenue from a rise in the payis doing well by doing good, gaining politiroll tax maximum was used to subsidize prical ground by opposing a really bad idea? vate accounts rather than to bolster the (Hello, Senator Lieberman.) trust fund, it wouldn’t address any urgent The important thing to remember is why priorities: It wouldn’t help the long-run fithe right wants privatization. The drive to nances ofSocial Security, it wouldn’t reduce the budget deficit, and it wouldn’t support create private accounts isn’t about finding a crucial programs like Medicaid. way to strengthen Social Security; it’s about What it would do, instead, would be to finding away to phase out a system that conservatives have always regarded as illegitiget in the way of any return to fiscal sanity.

After all, raising the maximum taxable inmate. And as long as that is what’s at stake, come would be a fairly stiff tax increase for there is no room for any genuine comprosome taxpayers. For example, someone mise. When it comes to privatization, just making $140,000 a year might owe an extra say no $6,000. And the taxpayers who would be hit Paul Krugman is a syndicated columnist for hardest by this tax increase would, in many The New York Times. cases, be the same people who will face a

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frequent student gripe about coursework is that what we’re learning has no relevance to our lives.

For relevance, fortunately, we can turn to the library. A quick stroll through my favorite section turns up riveting titles like The clitoral truth: the secret world at your fingertips (Perkins Stacks 306.772 C 436),” written by Rebecca Chalker with “illustrations by Fish,” an individual whose ability to draw clitorises (clitori?) apparendy resulted in enough fame to merit taking on just one name, like Bono or Christo. Other good titles include Gaydar: the ultimate insider guide to the gay sixth sense (Perkins Stacks 306.7662 R447) and Temptations: Igniting the Pleasure and Power of Aphrodisiacs by Ellen and Michael Albertson (Perkins Stacks 641.563 A334) The last book in this list is a particularly awe-inspiring addition to the sum of human knowledge, consisting of ten chapters from Neptune’s Gift: Oysters, to The Cooking Couple’s Best Sex Diet. In this postmatt Valentine’s Day period, one gets the impression that many campus couples are experiencing romantic ennui, a cooling of amorous passions that can have disastrous consequences for relationships. Happily, by marshalling the forces of the Duke University Library System, y’all can avoid this tragic fate.

In chapter nine, Edible Orgy, the Albertson’s recommend using one’s imagination to come up with a themed encounter built around food and eroticism. Examples they suggest include rock and roll star, geisha-samurai, and the president and the intern. A sample program for their “Arabian Nights Edible Orgy”:

1. Put Arabian Nights grazing tray items on a platter 2. Make Camel’s Milk Express 3. Feed each other items either in bed or on a carpet-

ed floor 4. Serve postcoital Turkish coffee and baklava 5. Try a little belly dancing and read each other Tales from the Arabian Nights. Then re-enact one of the tales.

Extra slave girls and eunuchs are optional.”

The fact that an academic library owns books like these is enough to choke one up with love for the university and all it stands for, an ivory tower where no kind of inquiry is discouraged and all varieties of knowledge are accumulated, criticized, and applied. Even though a paperback about aphrodisiac cooking may not be as useful to humanity as a treatise on astrophysics, it has a place on the nightstand of every physicist, and a place in inspiring her. Undoubtedly, love is the most useful motivator of them all. gillum Unlike Spongeßob Squarepants, these veritas books have not yet attracted the eye of Sauron (operated by liberals and conservatives alike), which suppresses anything it finds disagreeable. But a political climate where free inquiry and fun library reading are encouraged may not be with us forever.

The governor of Colorado is working to have an academic fired for making idiotic comparisons between Sept. 11 victims and NAZIS in an essay when he should be discrediting him with evidence and argument, and school boards are perverting science curricula by majority vote. One worries that with the rising tides of conservatism and intolerant religiosity in America libraries may eventually “Arabian Nights Grazing Tray: Hummus, stuffed grape come under attack by the armies of Revealed Truth.

When they do, we Knights of the Clitoral Truth must be leaves, pita bread, olives, dates, and pomegranates. ready for battle.

Camel’s Milk Express (milk, saffron, cardamom and honey) Baklava Matt Gillum is a Trinity senior. His column appears Wednesdays.

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March Madness

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for a moment that you are our beloved Coach changes to succeed, we must be fully on board. Ignoring K. One day, you wake up and decide that you’ve had it the international community has only led to trouble, and with the NCAA and their rules—their unfair calls on we do not want another Iraq or Afghanistan where we are Lee, their causing Shelden and Shavlik to foul out game required to do all the work for less-than-pitiful credit. Furafter game. You decide to lead a revolution against the thermore, we simply cannot underestimate the power of NCAA. You start scheduling matches on the side, booking collective security—it should, in fact, be the cornerstone your own stadiums, coordinating your own schedules. ofAmerican security policy for the coming decades.

Soon, otherACC teams jump on the bandwagon and start Unlike the bipolar conflict of the Cold War, the new taking over those tasks that used to be the responsibility of threat to the United States comes from clandestine groups the NCAA. But it doesn’t work out quite as smoothly as that move silendy from region to region. The U.S. intelliyou thought it would. Three teams show up for a single gence community cannot adequately monitor the globe game, referees can’t decide what fouls are legitimate, and with the same careful attention that was paid to Soviet misteams sometimes simply choose not to sile silos and troop movements. Cooperatshow up for games and say they won anying with other countries, however, we can ways. In other words, like Dickie V would vastly increase our effectiveness and “human intelligence.” But countries won’t say, it’s pandemonium, baby!

This is the kind of pandemonium that help if you tell them they’re either with has disrupted the efforts of the United Nayou or against you. And in the post-Sept. tions for the last decade and a half. I liken 11th world, there’s a much higher price to the crusading Coach K to individual mempay for not finding common ground. ber nations, who have forgotten the misUnfortunately, if the past is any indication, then the future looks bleak forAmersion of the larger organization. The jimmy som NCAA, like other collectives, functions beican cooperation. President Georgti W. matter of fact cause the individual parts believe in sacriBush hasn’t always given the warmest shoulder to the U.N.. And this brand of ficing selfish personal interest for some greater good—in this case, basketball games. In the U.N.’s American nationalism is neither new nor unique to his adcase, that higher purpose is international security and coministration. Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. ambassador to operation, but during the last decade and half, member the U.N. under former President Bill Clinton, was quoted nations have carved up U.N. dictates and distorted them in the Monday New York Times as saying, “There are no to their individual interests, overlooking the U.N.’s broadcircumstances where the U.N. can operate in opposition er mission. to the United States, and that is a fundamental misunderNaturally, this has led to trouble, with some members standing of the idealists.” This rhetoric isn’t going help ducking financial and military obligations. As a result, the move the situation along—and at this critical juncture, U.N. limped through most of the 1990 and was held parthere’s no prize for flexing nationalist muscles.

We must give a little to get a little. We have to bite our tially responsible for failures like Rwanda, East Timor, and Kosovo. Recently, the U.N.’s internal turmoil topped the tongues, support the new direction of the U.N., and allow headlines as the exalted body gave many of its top adminthem to call some fouls on us as well. March is the beginistrators the boot in relation to last year’s self-described ning of a critical time for the U.N., andAmerica must sup“annus horribilis.” Secretary-General Kofi Annan is lookport it so that we can all avoid the madness that has ing to hire modernizers who will find new ways to admin- plagued the world. ister collective security.

News flash; we must help him! The United States has Jimmy Soni is a Trinity sophomore. His column appears every been a vocal critic of the U.N. in the past, but for these other Wednesday.

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Why grad school is like communism

Welcome,

comrade! Congratulations on defecting to graduate school, an endless march from darkness into light towards a bountiful utopia, guided by scientific principles and strict adherence to the Five-Year Plan.

Rumors that this utopia does not exist are the work of capi-

talist reptiles and class enemies. Heed them not!

No doubt you would like some advice on how to succeed in our worker’s paradise. First, remember that everyone else is smarter and more diligent than you. Nevertheless, if you just work twice as hard as your comrades and meet all your production targets, you too will become renowned as a Good Worker, and will be happy. Probably.

Nothing matters more in graduate school than being a Good Worker. Good Workers gain the respect of their superiors, and are rewarded with research grants and meetings in California. They are also kept away from the unwashed masses of undergraduates—the proles. Although the proles provide us with our livelihood, their plebeian tastes can grate. Indeed, most of them have a poor grasp of Correct Doctrine, and some harbor capitalist sympathies. Pity them, even if they seem to be happier than you.

The great task ahead, comrade, will be adherence to the Five-Year Plan.

All must be sacrificed to the success of the Glorious mike dickison Five-Year Plan! (In practice, of course, the Fivea modest proposal Yi.ear Plan cru\ds up hr' jemg the Six-And-A-Half-Year Plan. Or the Eight-Year Plan. Did they not mention this when you defected? Oh. Well, don’t tell the other workers; it would only demoralize them.)

Being a Good Worker and meeting production targets may sound like a wearying existence. But sloth is for capitalists; it has no place in our paradise, where we happily work all the time. Thus, shirkers who indulge in effete music, intoxicating substances, or frivolous hobbies are rightfully viewed with suspicion by the Central Committee; they may be committing the thoughtcrime of Not Taking It Seriously. Why would a Good Worker waste valuable work time dining at a fancy restaurant (assuming, for the sake of argument, they could afford to)? The onlyacceptable food for a Good Worker is leftover noodles, eaten at one’s computer. Sometimes there is even free pizza. Who could possibly want more?

Indeed, such healthy austerity demonstrates the moral purity of graduate school. Not for us the new cars, nice clothes, adequate dental care, and living wages that are the decadent trappings of the reactionary lackeys in the professional schools. Lickspittle lawyers! Running-dog doctors! We mock the inanities the class traitors! Remember, Good Workers selflessly help each other meet production targets, unlike these cutthroat capitalists. Their gaudy luxury is tempting, yes, yes, but adhering to the Five-Year Plan will allow us one day to equal or even exceed theirstandard of living! Then we shall dance on their graves. Although our dancing will be somewhat rusty. (Note how weaklings and malcontents who defect to the capitalist lackeys are Never Spoken Of, and their names expunged from the records. Be strong!)

Ultimately, comrade, your happiness in graduate school depends on the favor of the Central Committee, also known as the Gang ofFive. The Committee is your friend. Trust the Committee. Because one day you will undoubtedly be dragged before it and interrogated on your grasp ofCorrect Doctrine. In Room 101, you will gabble forth your knowledge of the Approved Writings for hours, undertaking frank and forthright self-criticism until you break down, hoping desperately that the Committee will find you innocent and say “Congratulations, comrade! You are a Good Worker!”

Never fear; they usually do.

If you progress according to schedule in the Five-Year Plan, you may even be invited to join the Party one day.

Membership has many benefits, such as fine wines and caviar; your just rewards for service to the collectivist ideal.

Party members fondly remember the days when they too were Good Workers; remember to nod respectfully when they reminisce. Strangely, attaining Party membership seems to get harder every year... but not for a Good Worker like you, I’m sure!

Anyway, enough chit-chat! Why aren’t you working? Onward! Forward! *

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Thanks to Google, it may one day be possible to avoid all those overdue library charges by reading all books online.

Recently, colleges such as the University of Michigan and Harvard University have collaborated with the search engine Google.com in pilot programs to digitize volumes in their libraries.

Harvard joined forces with the Google Print program, which aims to eventually digitize entire library collections, allowing an unlimited number of users to search for and then read books on the Internet. Although only books that have no copyright restrictions can be read in their entirety, Google Print lets users read excerpts from books that are still under copyright and offers a link to a library where that book is located.

But although some scholars have raved about the prospects of such a project, others are more skeptical about how online books will affect the way people read.

“We’re still in a ‘wait-and-see mode’ to see what happens with other schools,” said Jean Ferguson, senior assistant librarian at Perkins Library.

“Our concern is that they are not actually helping them link to the library catalogue, so we’re not sure they’ll be able to have an in-depth search of their materials.”

Google has also compiled a database, Google Scholar, that lets users search various universities and organizes the search results by relevance.

Duke participates in Google Scholar, but it has also recently developed the Digital Production Center, a new enterprise with the goal of digitizing library collections and expanding digital content to the Duke

community.

Tina Kirkham, manager of SEE GOOGLE ON PAGE 6

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Spanish plaza? Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, presented updated plans for the West Campus plaza last week to the Board of Trustees, which gave the project the final go-ahead.

Benches similar to the “Spanish benches” on Main West figure prominently on the plaza, a 40,000square-foot open space that will replace the Bryan Center walkway and connect the Bryan Center to the Main West Quadrangle. Other features include outdoor dining and a platform for performances.

Construction on the $lO million project will begin in May and is slated for completion in Fall 2006.

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After just over a decade off the job, Professor of Public Policy and History Bruce Kuniholm will soon retake the reins of public policy studies at Duke.

Provost Peter Lange announced Wednesday that Kuniholm will become the director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and chair of the Department of Public Policy Studies after current director and chair Bruce Jentleson steps down at the end of June.

Kuniholm previously served as director and chair from 1989 to 1994.

Lange said Kuniholm was appointed internally—and only three weeks after Jentleson’s decision to leave—because his experience at Duke lends him an understanding of public policy’s past growth and the issues related to upcoming initiatives.

Input from public policy faculty and staff as well as Kuniholm’s experience in the field as an administrator, teacher and researcher made him the “right person” for the job, Lange explained.

“He’ll be an excellent leader,” Lange said. “He has a SEE KUNIHOLM ON PAGE 6

Wilson Gym to get big-screen TVs by

Sarah Ball

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Duke Student Government allocated nearly $24,000 last night to the Wilson Gymnasium Audio-Visual Project, cash intended to purchase and pay for the installation of six 42-inch plasma-screen televisions in the gym’s main exercise hall.

The project is DSG Senator David Snider’s brainchild; he has been developing it for six months.

“I was a frequent user of the gym first semester, and it was disappointing to me that such a high level facility had such outdated [visual] equipment,” said Snider, a sophomore. “I saw the potential to really expand the capacity of [Wilson].”

Gym patrons will be able to borrow headsets to tune into PM radio waves transmittedfrom the muted televisions. Students’ own radios will also function on the FM transmission system.

Each television is expected to cost $3,100, a discounted rate from the average retail value of a plasma-screen television. The Duke Athletics Department is working in conjunction with DSG to fund the project. Due to the significant costs associated with a spinning studio currendy in the works, the department was unable to contribute significandy.

The vote was unanimous. “It’s a no-brainer,” said senior Pasha Majdi, DSG president, who co-presented SEE DSG ON PAGE 7

DSG will partially fund six 42-inch plasma televisions in Wilson Gym.