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Prof argues 10 Commandments case

by Hope Yen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON —With demonstrators shouting religious slogans outside, Supreme Court justices questioned, argued and fretted Wednesday over whether Ten Commandments displays on government property cross the line of separation between church and state.

Back-to-back arguments in cases from Texas and Kentucky were the court’s first consideration of the issue since 1980,when justices ruled the Ten Commandments could not be displayed in public schools.

Clearly reluctant to adopt a blanket ban, the current justices wrestled with the role that religious symbols should play in public

life—right down to the Ten Commandments display in their own courtroom.

Several expressed support for a 6-foot granite monument on the grounds of the Texas state Capitol, but were less certain about framed copies of the commandments in two Kentucky courthouses.

“If an atheist walks by, he can avert his eyes,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in a

courtroom filled with spectators, many of whom could be seen glancing at the court’s frieze of Moses carrying the tablets.

Banning the Texas display might “show hostility to religion,” he said.

But Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, while acknowledging the nation’s religious history, won-

dered where the line should be drawn.

The court ruled in 1983 that legislative prayer is allowable, citing its historical significance, but in 1992 said prayer in public schools is not because students may feel pressure to participate.

What if every federal court had a Ten Commandments display over its bench and opened with a prayer, Ginsburg asked, brushing aside Justice Antonin Scalia’s retort that the justices already open their sessions with “God save this honorable court.”

The suit was brought by Thomas Van Orden, a former lawyer who is now homeless. Van Orden, who enlisted the help of Duke law professor Erwin Chemerinsky in the appeal, did not comment on the case.

Iran fears information leaked to U.N. by

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Declaring some sites off-limits to U.N. inspectors, Iran said Wednesday it fears that leaked information gathered by them could help those planning a possible strike on its military installations.

Meanwhile, the United States, which has not ruled out such an attack on Iran urged the U.N. Security Council to take action against Tehran, saying the Islamic Republic is "cynically" pursuing nuclear arms while hiding its intentions from the world, an allegation Iran denies.

Jackie Sanders, chief U.S. delegate to the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, called the lAEA report a "starding list of Iranian attempts to hide and mislead and delay the work" of agency experts, and urged other countries to support a U.S. drive to have Iran referred to die U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

Iran's refusal to grant lAEA inspectors renewed access to the Parchin military site after an initial, severely restricted visit last month was one of the issues raised by the agency's review. The United States says Iran

may be testing high-explosive components for nuclear weapons, using an inert core of depleted uranium at Parchin as a dry run for a bomb that would use fissile material.

The lAEA says it has found no firm evidence that Iran’s nuclear program is intended for anything other than peacefully generating electricity. The agency also has not been able to support U.S. assertions that nearly 20 years of covert nuclear programs discovered more than two years ago were aimed at making nuclear weapons.

Iran says these programs, too, were intended to generate electricity.

newsinbrief Jackson sex case progresses A Las Vegas public relations specialist who briefly worked for Michael Jackson gave damaging testimony against the pop star Wednesday, suggesting his associates arranged a smear campaign against the family who would accuse him of molestation.

Cancer treatments successful Cancer patients who tried experimental treatments are helped more than previously

thought. This latest and largest study found that about 11 percent were helped by experimental treatment, and in some cases as many as 27 percent were better off.

Syria must withdraw troops President GeorgeW. Bush increased pressure on Syria Wednesday, demanding it withdraw its troops from Lebanon. Overall, the American rhetoric was combative, reminiscent in some ways of the tough talk that preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq two years ago.

Talks on Iraqi coalition falter Talks aimed at forging a coalition government faltered Wednesday over Kurdish demands for more land and concerns that the dominant Shiite alliance seeks to establish an Islamic state. The snag in negotiations came as dashes and two car bombings in Baghdad killed 14 Iraqi soldiers and police officers.

News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Jennifer Finney Boylan, co-chair of the

English Department at Colby College, spoke about her experiences as a transgender woman to a diverse audience on behalf of the center for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-

sexual and Transgender Life in Richard White Lecture Hall Wednesday night.

Boylan’s stop at Duke was part of an ongoing tour discussing her memoir, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders.

Amidst comical excerpts from her book, Boylan focused on what it means to live a new life. She emphasized that finding the courage to be oneself is the most important thing in life—something to which both transgenders and non-transgenders could relate.

“The word transgender is this umbrella term used to include a lot of different people,” Boylan said. “If you get any two transgender people in a room together, discussing even the most basic thing—about what it means for them to be a transgender and what their experiences are like—you’re going to get very different stories.”

Boylan said that only through sharing different stories and personal experiences will transgenders become more familiar in society. Because there is no universal definition of what it means to be a transgender, it is “hard for people to be our allies,” she said.

For Boylan, a necessary part of the road to understanding is having an active imagination, like being able to think about what it is like to wake up and want something impossible. ”If people don’t use their imaginations, transgender understanding will be hard to achieve,” she said.

During her childhood as a boy, Boylan did not have many feminine characteristics, she said. Instead, she always yearned to be a female. At a certain point, she thought that maybe if she was loved enough by others, her desire to be a female would disappear. But her longing to be a girl never left. “It was eating up a lot of my life,” she said.

Boylan underwent surgery to become

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Top scholars don’t just have lots of publications. Their writings also have a powerful influence on future research.

That’s the message of Thomson ISl’s database of “highly cited” researchers, which honors academics whose articles most frequently earn mention from their peers. Among the 5,016 scholars listed are 34 Duke faculty.

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Boylan spoke to audience members of the hardships she faced as a male child who desired to be a female. a female in the summer of 2002. One reason her transition was so smooth was that she was surrounded by loving, openminded and understanding people, she said. In particular, she spoke of her mother, who initially had difficulty accepting the change but later declared that she could never turn her back on her child. Boylan emphasized that her financial resources, as well as the privileges of race and class, also helped her with the transition.

Currently, Boylan lives with her partner, Grace, and their two boys, ages eight and 11. Boylan and her partner were married before Boylan’s sex change operation and are legally still married.

“Everyone has the right to be who they want to

be,” Boylan said. “I hope that peo-

ple will see in me a model for how to find the courage to become themselves, whatever that may be.”

Boylan has tried to provide that model even more widely since the release of her book in August 2003, visiting 50 universities around the country and appearing twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show —and now at Duke, too.

“I have an interest in gender issues in general,” said junior Karen Nelson. “I think the talk went really well, especially hearing her read from her book—l thought that was the most personal

part.”

ISlHighlyCited.com provides an index of researchers in 21 categories spanning the physical, life and social sciences, engineering and medicine. Only the 250 researchers in each grouping who are most often cited over a 20-year period merit inclusion on the list.

“When you reference the work of another scholar, you are, in essence, acknowledging an intellectual debt,” said Marie McVeigh, product development manager for Thomson Scientific, which created and continuously updates the list. “Being ‘highly cited’ is not a designation that we create. It’s the acknowledgement of one scholar by his or her peers.”

Although visitors to the site can browse researchers by institutional affiliation, constant updates and unstandardized biographical information make comparisons among universities’ numbers relatively unimportant, McVeigh said. In some fields, a couple of institutions may dominate, while in others excellence is more widely scattered.

“We don’t like to use Highly Cited as a comparative tool or an analytical tool,” McVeigh said. “We don’t present the lists as ranked.... We try to focus on the individual researcher.”

For Kishor Trivedi, Hudson professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center for Advanced SEE CITED PROFS ON PAGE 7

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Text messaging hasbecome popular with students, like freshman Dan Phan, who use theircell phones to talkwith friends.

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Some people do it in class when their professors aren’t looking. Others do it in the library, in the gym or just in their rooms. No matter where you are, chances are someone has done it there. Everyone seems to be text messaging—sending short written messages over their cell phones.

Although most major cellular carriers have special plans for the more eager texters—Verizon customers can send and receive up to 1,000 messages for a monthly fee of $9.99—many customers do

not opt to include the extra cost

until after seeing steady rises in their phone bills. Junior Garver Moore said he spent about $lO to $l5 per month on text messaging before he got a plan that included 500 texts every month.

Moore said he uses text messages as a convenient way to reach his friends. “Sometimes you don’t get reception,” he said.

“And at parties, you can’t really hear [the caller] very well.”

Freshman Vasavi Reddy has unlimited text messaging on her cell phone plan and uses it on a daily basis, partiy to save precious daytime cell phone minutes.

“During the day when we don’t have unlimited minutes, I’d just text people to ask ‘Where are you,’ instead of having to waste both our minutes,” she said.

In recent years, text messaging has become immensely popular among teenagers and college students. In a national survey by the market research study Student Monitor, nearly 90 percent of college students owned cell phones in Fall 2004, up from 33'percent in 2002. Like most other wireless data capabilities, from games to ring tones, SEE TEXT ON PAGE 6

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Everything looks better in Duke Blue. At least, that’s the theory behind Duke for LIFE bracelets, which are modeled after world-famous cyclist Lance Armstrong’s übiquitous, yellow LIVESTRONG band.

The blue Duke for LIFE bracelet is the first product sold by a non-profit corporation of the same name. Five MBA students at the Fuqua School of Business founded the corporation in September 2004 to benefit the new Emily Krzyzewski Family LIFE Center, a community center that aims to provide an enriching environment for Durham families and children.

Matt Corona, a first-year Fuqua student and founder of Duke for LIFE, said he was inspired to create the non-profit organization because of a confluence of events. He was struck

by Fuqua’s focus on philanthropy during the school’s Orientation Week, and at the same time he noticed the prevalence of LIVESTRONG bracelets and learned of the Emily K Center.

Creating Duke for LIFE, Corona explained, seemed like the perfect way to tie inspiration, need and method into one.

“It seemed like such a good opportunity to stretch ourselves and make a difference,” Corona said.

Since beginning sales in late January, Duke for LIFE has

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Blue Duke for LIFE bands, designed after the successful LIVESTRONG bracelets, are sold to benefit the EmilyK Center. sold more than 11,000 bracelets,

raising approximately $lB,OOO for the Emily K Center and surpassing its initial goal of $lO,OOO. Corona said the group started selling bracelets to students in the individual graduate schools but quickly expanded its market to Duke Stores on campus and online.

“Probably the biggest response has been external community outside Duke through the online bookstore,” Corona said.

“But we’ll be involved in more marketing campaigns to reach out to undergraduates and see how they can help contribute.”

The bracelets have been in high demand at the Duke University Bookstore. It sold out of the first shipment in February and is waiting on a new order of 12,000 to arrive next week.

There are also 5,500 bracelets backordered online.

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Drexel gives out iPods to education students by

Steve Veres

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They say imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Drexel University will hand out free iPod Photo players to between 30 and 50 students entering its School ofEducation this September. Educators hope to use these devices to spark innovation and curiosity among students through an instrument most students would want to carry around anyway.

“It seemed like a great way to try and extend MP3 technology into the realm of learning technology,” said William Lynch, director of the School of Education at Drexel. “If they are carrying it around and using it for a variety of purposes, they will be more likely to use it for education.”

This announcement comes days before Duke University completes an evaluation of its own iPod experience program. Last fall, Apple Computers and Duke gave about 1,650 iPods to the members of the entering freshman class. Although Duke professors and administrators have said they were pleased with the project overall, students have reported that the primary uses of the devices have been recreational rather than educational. Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology officials were unaware whether Drexel administrators had contacted

Duke for technical or practical advice.

The retail price of Drexel’s new devices is $349, but officials have said Apple offered the product at an unannounced discount and will provide technical support for the school. The new generation iPods can both play music and display digital pictures —a feature not included in Duke’s program. Lynch said the students could use the photo feature to store projects and to orient themselves with die campus. Drexel students will also receive a voice recorder.

“As students go into the [professional] field, they will record what goes on and keep a log and be able to share... with others who are having similar experiences,” Lynch said, adding that Drexel students typically accept temporary jobs while enrolled in college.

Drexel is also offering students Pod2Go, a program turning the iPod into a “portal” of information. The iPod can automatically download news headlines, directions and local movie times when it syncs up with the Internet.

“Part of the application will be using this for students to provide daily files with info of what’s going on at the University on a daily basis,” Lynch said.

Vicki Russell, a senior lecturing fellow in Duke’s First-Year Writing Program and SEE IPODS ON PAGE 8

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Duke students received iPods in August as part of a University initiative.Drexel will follow suit in the fall.

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Dialogue delves into column's aftermath dence were among the different aspects participants said they would like to see in In a generally cordial meeting at the dialogue between the groups.

Juniors Dinushika Mohottige and Multicultural Center Wednesday night, a Williams, co-directors of Diadiscussed relaCharisse 20 students of about group tions between Jewish and black students logues on Race Relations, initiated the discussion among the audience members. and other topics brought about by a conThe Black and Jewish students who attended in column published troversial the event did not focus necessarily on the Chronicle last fall.

The Oct. 18 column, written by senior column itself, but primarily discussed curPhilip Kurian, argued that Jewish students rent issues between the two communities.

The dominant debate Wednesday was are overrepresented at Duke and at other over and that many charged college campuses Jewish students’ ability to blend into the white community because of their of a mipart of advantage being take Jews nority that has little implication of skin skin color. Some Jewish students admitcolor. The column left many members of ted that because of their skin color, they the Jewish community at Duke upset with did not feel like members of a minority Kurian and The Chronicle, calling for racial group.

Students argued about the status of Jewsome members ofThe Chronicle to resign and for Kurian’s Truman Scholarship to ish-black relations at Duke and in the nation. Some audience members claimed be revoked. stuwith that a strong relationship between the two began Wednesday’s dialogue communities never existed at Duke and dents in attendance coming up with qualithat it would be hard to see the two minorties that they wanted to make up discusblack and student ity groups acting together. between the sions Jewish communities. Honesty, respect for each SEE DIALOGUE ON PAGE 7 other, open mindedness and self-confiBY ORCUN UNLU THE CHRONICLE

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Black and Jewish students gathered in the Multicultural Center Wednesday to discuss community issues.

Luncheon explores diversity, knowledge by

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People aren’t always what they seem.

That was the focus of a luncheon highlighting the “relationality”—not just similarities and differences—among approximately 100faculty, students, administrators, staff and University affiliates in attendance Wednesday afternoon. A large, diverse group filed into the Bryan Center for the fifth annual “Unity through Diversity Luncheon: Multiple Identities and Shared Histories,” sponsored by Trinity College ofArts and Sciences, the Center for Multicultural Affairs and the Center for Race Relations.

Keynote speaker John Jackson, assistant professor of cultural anthropology,

stressed the importance of reassessing the “value of our own epistemological calculation of identity”—that is, how one’s true identity lies beyond face value.

“There is a lingering fear that what we see is not always what we get,” Jackson said, referring to the potential “fear” a person might have that the true identities of others are not always obvious. “There is a productive value of fear—the fiction that we have to propagate is that the epistemology is not always right.”

After Jackson spoke, attendees directly challenged the epistemology —the way a person knows what they think they know that they may have used to classify others by participating in a candid and confiden—

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tial exercise about labeling others. The goal of the exercise was to debunk notions of an absolute correlation between the way people look and the terms they use to identify themselves.

During the exercise, one facilitator went through identifying statements dealing with topics like race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and socio-economic class. The facilitator then instructed those audience members who matched the indicated profile to stand, telling the group to take note of who was standing and who was not.

In only three cases did no one stand: those identifying themselves as Arab, Middle Eastern and Muslim. Many in attendance nodded in agreement as one

of identity

student said the lack of people in attendance from the three backgrounds spoke volumes.

Others pointed to a conflict throughout the exercise between acknowledging the way society would classify individuals and acknowledging the way individuals classify themselves. For example, not every person that stood in order to acknowledge himself as “black” stood to acknowledge himself as “African American,” and many of the people who identified as “middle-class” also identified as being

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DUKE'S DIGITIZATION PROJECTS Wait Whitman Archives Project

tremendous amount of respect from his colleagues based on his experience, on

HASTAC

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The Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory is a project founded in part by CathyDavidson, vice provost for interdisciplinary studies. HASTAC involves many separate projects but they are all designed to find innovative ways for data acquisition, synchronization and retrieval and develop communication tools and information portals. HASTAC allows researchers to overlap information to see connections between events with dramatic precision that would not be possible without this project. For example, researchers can bring together information about climates and topography with detailed information about migration patterns and determine relations between them.

Duke Papyrus Archive

Duke University Digital Archive

This project is a collaboration between many different scholars around the country, and at Duke is headed

by Matt Cohen, assistant professor in the Department of English. This project takes the works of Walt Whitman such as "Leaves of Grass" and digitizes all its editions so scholars can examine them side by side and study differences between multiple volumes. It also digitizes works by scholars of Walt Whitman. The students of Cohen's Digital Textuality class worked during the semester to transfer 450 pages of Whitman scholar Horace Traubel's work. The Walt Whitman archives project can be found

Supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities and a subset of the Advanced Papyrological Information Systems Project, the Duke Papyrus Archive has worked to conserve, interpret, catalogue and image nearly 1,400 papyri from ancient Egypt. Scholars at Duke have also developed the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, an electronic compilation of nearly 500 volumes of Greek and Latin text that were found on papyri, wooden tablets or ostraca. More information about these two projects can be found* at: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/#dpa.

GOOGLE from page 1 DPC, said because traditional scanning could damage old or rare volumes, much of the work is done by scanners mounted on a stand overhead that shoot down at the object and move across it pixel by pixel to create a digital file.

This process allows for extremely detailed images at more than 10 times their normal resolution. Scanning procedures like the ones at Duke take between 30 seconds and 2 minutes per page—which means it would take more than nine and a half years of continuous scanning to put the University’s full collection online.

The Google Print initiative has invested in technologies that allow it to scan books at much higher speeds. Some scanners can even automatically turn the pages, dramatically increasing the efficiency of the process.

“Digitizing scholarly material enables scholars to see connections between scholarly materials that would be impossible to see in the analog world,” Kirkham said. “If those materials can all be digitized and brought together, a scholar can see the full range of these documents all at once and make intellectual connections among those materials that couldn’t happen if those documents were separated by thousands ofmiles.”

Matt Cohen, who heads the Walt Whitman Archives digitization program at Duke and teaches a class about digital textuality, is a big proponent of digitization of information, but he said there are

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Information Technology Services is in the early planning stages of the Duke University Digital Archive.This is a project that will store, capture and manage important scholarly digital materials. A resource open to the everyone and not just the Duke academic community, the Duke University Digital Archive will be a collaboration with many other universities and outside partners. It will handle information typical of other electronic archives such as electronic books and journals, but will also be able to handle other media formats such as disk images, data sets and computer programs.

some things you get from physical texts that simply cannot be obtained through their online versions.

For example, he said the social dimension of the library is key to creating an intellectual environment. “That’s why we have classrooms,” said Cohen, assistant professor of English.

He also said books are useful because they tell you something sociological about a text: “If you want to look up what book everyone reads on a particular subject, you look at which one has been hammered, worn down.”

Cohen believes it is critical for readers to understand texts as they are because books have meanings In three-dimensional ways due to their look and feel whetherreaders are aware ofit or not.

“If you just doubt me, make one of your guy friends read a romance novel,” Cohen said. “I guarantee one of their friends will come up to them and say ‘Dude, you’re reading Flame of the Flower?

What’s up with that?!”

Peter Kosewski, director of publications and communications at Harvard University Library, said it is too soon to tell the impact Google Print will have on the university since the 40,000 volumes that are being digitized do not even comprise 1 percent of Harvard’s selection. He said, however, it could eventually grant students and faculty access to the 5 million volumes that are housed in a depository off site.

“Libraries are much more than books—for example, we have 8 million photographs,” he said. “Libraries are not

his even-handedness.”

During his first run as director and chair, Kuniholm led a $l2 million fundraising campaign for the construction of the current institute’s building before stepping down to pursue research opportunities. After traveling, teaching and serving in other roles at the University for 11 years, Kuniholm said he is “excited” about the opportunity to again take Duke’s public policy studies “to the next level.”

Kuniholm’s major priority will be steering a new task force that will consider whether or not to transition the institute into a school of public policy. In a charge to the faculty, Lange outlined questions the task force should address, including how the creation of a school would impact students’ academic experiences, the institute’s finances and the connections between public policy and the University’s other schools.

“They will be looking at whether or not and to what extent there might be an institutional advantage to being a school,” Lange said.

Over the past decade, the public policy program has expanded into one of the largest and most popular disciplines on campus. Noting an increase in the number of faculty and students, the creation of various academic centers and the completion of new construction projects, Kuniholm said becoming a school will require looking holistically at the disparate aspects of recent growth.

“It is sort oflike tacking on additions to

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text messaging was well adopted and accepted by young adult cellular users since

it was introduced, analysts have reported—and the trend is still growing.

The business consulting firm Frost and Sullivan predicted that the number ofUnited States subscribers to the texting service, known as SMS—Short Messenger Service—will increase to 75.5 million by the end of 2007, up from 26.4 million in 2003.

Americans sent a total of 2.5 billion text messages in June 2004. That’s triple the number sent just two years before, according to Forrester Research, a firm that analyzes trends in technology. Although it has been popular throughout Europe and Asia for years, the hype of text messaging did not take off until 2002, when the wireless industry opened up SMS to all wireless customers served by the major providers.

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“I think the undergraduate major is

our heart and soul, and it’s what makes us unique in the country,” Kuniholm said, adding that he hopes to enhance the benefits of recent changes to the major.

Lange said Kuniholm will continue tra-

jectories set by Jentleson, including increasing the number and quality of faculty appointments. Kuniholm said he is also committed to increasing the interdisciplinarity among public policy and other academic fields and expanding the international dimension of the discipline—one of Jentleson’s top priorities.

“All students have to understand that they are a part of a global society,” Kuniholm said. “You can’t be in a class just focusing on domestic American policies.

You’ve got to see yourself as a global citizen and what that means.”

Kuniholm received his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College and his MA, M.A.P.P.S. and Ph.D. at Duke. In addition to serving as the University’s vice provost for academic and international affairs, Kuniholm has worked with the United States Department of State and divisions of the nation’s armed services. His academic research focuses on diplomatic history and U.S. policies in the near and Middle East, including countries such as Turkey, Greece, Iran and Palestine. He received Duke’s Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989. ting for about two years and uses the service about three to four times ever)' day. “I think I changed my phone bill to get free text messages about a year ago,” she said. “I use text messaging when I don’t know where someone is, just in case they’re in class.”

The texting craze ranks among AOL Instant Messenger and thefacebook.com as the trendiest forms of communication on campuses. In fact, the latter two have already hopped on the bandwagon. IM forwarding and a text-message feature on thefacebook offer their users yet another option to reach someone.

But not everyone is as enthusiastic as the most passionate texters. There are still wireless users out there who remain skeptical about text messaging or ignore it altogether.

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But Kuniholm said he will also prioritize bolstering the institute and department’s existing strengths, particularly the

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the project with Snider. “Students are going to love it. It’s a great way to spend money.”

If all runs according to schedule, installation will be complete by March 21, the day that students return from spring break. Kontek Systems, the same company behind the audio-visual equipment in the Fuqua School ofBusiness and the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences, was hired for the project.

In other news:

Sophomore Senator Joe Fore presented an updated constitutional amendment regarding “academic expectations” for students. Provisions within the proposed

CITED PROFS from page 3 Computing and Communication, appearing in the list is the result of more than 30 years of work. His 338 publications listed on the site date from 1973 to 2002.

“Citation really tells you that people are reading your articles and that they are having an impact,” Trivedi said.

Academics need not consciously focus on being cited, Trivedi reflected, since conducting comprehensive research on important topics is the best way to get the attention of other scholars. He added, however, that the best articles are also particularly well written.

Another Duke faculty member on the list, Richard Staelin, Edward and Rose Donnell professor of business administration, shared those sentiments.

“After doing this for 35 years, I have a feel for what makes for a good article,” Staelin said. “We all have in mind what is

amendment, which would eliminate the “tired and unclear” Community Standard, include increased access to academic facilities and greater flexibility in rescheduling exams.

“This has the potential to be a fundamental guiding document for the entire university,” Fore said. “As a living document with application to daily life, it will help to instill a since of academic community.” He added that such legislation was “unprecedented at any of our peer institutions.”

DSG will vote next week on whether to submit the amendment as a referendum for the entire student body to vote on. It would appear on the the March 31 ballot at elections for next year’s DSG president.

In an attempt to structure and codify the planning process for Last Day of Classes an article that would be impactful and useful for our target audience.”

Just four of the 34 “highly cited” Duke faculty are women, a portion below even the percentage of female tenure-track faculty in the natural sciences, which is the lowest for any division at the University.

“A very, very significant majority of the researchers on the site are men,” McVeigh said. This disparity, she explained, reflects the long time frame used in compiling the data. Many of those now on the list received their doctorates in the 19705.

Margaret Pericak-Vance, one of Duke’s few “highly cited” females, said advances in equality have increased the number of women in scientific research, and she predicted that many ofher female colleagues would fill the ranks offuture ISlHighlyCited.com lists. She added, however, that balancing personal and professional life remains a challenge for women.

“If you have children, you take time off,” said Pericak-Vance, James B. Duke profes-

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tive $l5 increase in the student activity fee last night. Sophomore Brittany Greenfield, Campus Council treasurer, and senior Dave Rausen, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, were co-presenters of two proposed changes in by-laws.

Greenfield and Rausen also discussed an additional increase in the fee for sophomores, juniors and seniors as a means of funding the class councils. Currently, money to support class social events and programming is collected from a pool of each class’ residential fees; Greenfield explained that seniors, who often move off campus and do not pay the fee, have by far the smallest sum.

“Sophomores shouldn’t have $14,000 for events while seniors only have $7,000,” Greenfield said.

“Some people say Dr. [Martin Luther] King is dead and racism is over,” said sophomore Tiffany Locus, one of the event’s organizers. “However, I think it still exists.”

Most attendees felt Kurian’s column ignited the “contest” of which minority group suffered the most. Students supported their arguments by citing their views on the Holocaust and slavery.

“We shouldn’t question who suffered the most,” Kurian said at the event. “We should question the hierarchy among the minorities.”

Members of the Jewish community noted that their public outcry in response to the column was also influenced by the tension that built up surrounding the Palestinian Solidarity Movement Conference held at Duke the weekend before the piece ran.

Most of the attendees agreed that there should be more open dialogue between the two groups.

“I was encouraged by the ability of people to try to sympathize with the experience other people had,” Kurian said, “but I still think there are a lot of issues to be teased out.” Kurian also said that he hoped upcoming talks would be more open and honest. . Senior Andy Kay said he was disappointed by the lack of an intense debate.

“We needed people who were still very angry at Phil or completely agree with Phil,” he said. “We were already agreed to disagree.”

sor of medicine and director of the Duke Center for Human Genetics. As a woman, she continued, “It still is difficult to be a high-profile, highly successful researcher.”

McVeigh said the list should better reflect the increased gender diversity of today’s academic world as Thomson ISI compiles more citations from the past couple of years and the years to come.

“It’s a snapshot of time,” McVeigh observed.

Finding out that he had made the “highly cited” list a couple of years ago “wasn’t a surprise,” Staelin noted, because Duke does its own internal studies of how often faculty are cited.

Being “highly cited” is flattering, the honored professors pointed out, but writing influential articles can also have a major impact on a scholar’s career ad-

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BRACELETS from page 4 Patricia Silver, Duke University Bookstore administrative assistant, attributed most of the bracelets’ popularity to inter-

in the Emily K Center but added that the accessory’s trendiness has also helped generate interest.

“Probably certain people have heard we have the take-off of the Lance Armstrong bracelet and just want it because it says Duke on it,” Silver said.

The Duke for LIFE founders have been able to apply marketing and inventory skills they learned in class at Fuqua to running their new corporation. Corona cited the challenge of replying to market demands while complying with Duke standards for fair labor practices in manufacturing.

But enhancing business skills is a fringe benefit of the project. Corona emphasized that the top priority of the corporation is to help raise support for the Emily K Center.

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some of the things that make people vulnerable, a sentiment that was a common thread among Wednesday’s diverse group of participants.

“The exercise was pretty intimidating,” said junior Kwadwo Acheampong,

head coach Mike Krzyzewski and named in honor of his mother. The 30,000square-foot facility is projected to open in Durham’s West End neighborhood in February 2006. The center’s mission is to help Durham residents, especially children, develop fundamental life skills by integrating education, health, recreation and performing arts.

“Our feeling is, the earlier we can get to the children and help them with their life skills in every way, the better off we’ll all be,” said Matthew Laurance, director of donor relations for the center.

The Emily K Center is currently under construction and has raised $5.4 jnillion of its capital campaign goal of $6.4 million. Sales of the Duke for LIFE bracelets will continue to add to the center’s funds as well as increase its publicity.

“This is a program in which individuals can make a difference without spending millions of dollars. You can make a statement without saying a word,” Corona said.

“If each student purchased the bracelet, it would be a significant boost in helping the center reach out to the community.

It’s greater than anything we could accomplish alone.” “but people shouldn’t be embarrassed to ask questions that might offend people. I wonder how many people were really honest with themselves.”

Others in attendance said they thought the luncheon was a step in the right direction as far as encouraging administrators, faculty and staff to engage in a discourse about diversity.

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Students in an economics lecture in Griffith Film Theater record lectures with their iPods.

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tion, is using iPods for her class to tape Writing Center tutoring sessions.

“As far as I’m concerned it's a wonderful device,” she said. “I’m not sure if we would be able to have as effective tutor training without iPods. They give us a richer experience.”

Sophomore Colleen Lynch, a student in Russell’s education class who is not related to William Lynch, has enjoyed the device but was unsure whether it was worth the hassle.

“I'm not a computer expert, when it comes to all the programs I found myself a little behind,” she said. “It’s more frustrating than beneficial—l don’t have time to dedicate to learning new programs.”

Even though there has not been much communication between the schools yet, Lynch said he and other Drexel officials hope they can learn from Duke’s experiences.

“Duke has been an inspiration here,” he said. ‘You have to respect the early adopter and we want to build and extend on the risks and opportunities that were pursued by Duke.”

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The cover of Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, proudly displays a pink and green ribbon belt, which, for a pressed piece of paper, feels incredibly realistic. So too does the painfully honest narrative of Sittenfeld’s heroine Lee Fiora. Don’t be fooled by the cover’s shallow appearance.

While 'Prep is certainly an enjoyable read, it is not fluff. Sittenfeld delivers an extremely well-written coming-of-age commentary on sexuality, race, gender and especially social privilege.

A South Bend, Indiana native, Lee decides on a whim to apply to New England boarding schools because, according to her, her public high school “had hallways of pale green linoleum and grimy lockers and stringy-haired boys who wrote the names of heavy metal bands across the backs of their denim jackets,” while boys at boarding schools held lacrosse sticks, grinned handsomely over their mouth guards and wore wool sweaters.

Surrounded by money and beauty, Lee feels like an outsider at the fictional Ault school located outside Boston. Everyone seems so perfect: her crush Cross Sugarman, her roommate Martha, senior prefect Gates Medkowski, blond popularity queen Aspeth and the endless sea offaces that fill the halls of Ault. Amidst the perfection around her, Lee loses confidence in herself. Instead, she tries not to be noticed but still feels sadly miffed see PREP on page 4

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Left of Cool Brian McGinn recess There is a possibility that the world will never end and that movies like Be Cool will continue to be made forever.

Thankfully, for those of us who don't particularly like the sound ofthat, there is a theory that one day the earth will explode, killing all of humanity in one large “apocalypse.” But with a distinct lack of raining frogs in the forecast for the next few days, it seems likely that tomorrow will arrive without incident, and for the next month or so millions of Americans will be afflicted with a crippling virus innocuously titled Be Cool. Among the many questions Be Cool raises: Who decided that Aerosmith is still hot enough to warrant screen time? Who injected Cedric the Entertainer’s onscreen posse with Jason Giambi’s left-over steroids? And what happened to John Travolta’s neck?

The premise of Be Cool, a sequel to the vastly superior Get Shorty, is that Chili Palmer, mobster-turned-movie by

producer, has decided to leave the movie industry in favor of the hip-hop music scene. He is lucky enough to immediately discover a “raw talent,” the clearly lip-synching Linda Moon (Christina Milian). Unfortunately Linda is officially under contract to Raji (Vince Vaughn), and wild fun ensues!

Just like 2004's useless sequel Ocean’s Twelve, Be Cool assumes that moviegoers can be satisfied by watching stars sleepwalk through stale material. The timing of the name-brand cast (Travolta, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito and Vaughn) is so bad that even Keanu Reeves would make the movie funnier. The stagnant feel is due, in part, to horrific editing, which inserts awkward periods of silence after each “joke,” practically begging the audience to laugh. When they don't, the movie grinds to a halt, if it ever had any momentum to begin with.

No rock has been left unturned in the search for generic humor. At one see COOL on page 4

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Spring fashion: where to find it Trends writer Madeline Andrews stepped out into the crowded world of fashion to find the hottest looks for this spring. But this time she did you one better, dear reader, scouting the locations that are hocking alt your must haves. It's about to start warming up, so kick that wardrobe into shape, recess is here to help.

the life aquatic Why we love it: Everyone looks better on the water, ing skin, wind-swept hair, sun-kissed shoulders, why In’t we all want a little sea spray in our land-locked Not everyone can look as cool in a red beanie as Bill ly, but that doesn't mean the nautical look won't for you this spring.

Whafit to look for; Nautical style jackets, bright white, stripes, boat shoes, wide leg pants, crisp short ikirts, anything with rope (including the braided .ope bracelets sold at Army/Navy stores), anchor and button details What to avoid: Looking like a cruise ship captain, >r worse, cruise director—you want to channel the ica, not dive head-first into the briny deep We love: This very fleet week top from Fleur in lhapel Hill. Don't let the navy and white horizontal itripes scare yOu away; paired with wide-leg white linen »ants, this Edward Ah top is just the right balance of toyish and beautiful. Made with just the right amount if stretch to flatter your figure and featuring perfect ;minine detail at the cuffs, this is Navy-chic at its best.

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From Capetown chic to Marrakech market to Athenian adventure, this spring fashion’s inspiration is any place but home. Perhaps rebelling against their own streamlined, super-modern, stark and simple clothing of the late ’9os, designers are hitting the other end of the spectrum, and they're hitting it hard, bright and fast. This means returning to the bold prints, vivid colors and exquisite details found in the exotic locales offaded photo albums. From Asianinspired embroidery to African-style prints to classic Grecian tailoring, spring fashion is designed to make the wearer look like she just came back from a whirlwind trip around the globe.

What to look for; Think beach market. Greek tunic-style tops and dresses, anything with drapes or pleats, luxurious-looking jewelry with lots of gold and bright stones; African-safari animal prints and skins, natural-looking jewelry with shells and wooden beads; Asian prints and fabrics; head scarves; big sunglasses; bags with natural details (bamboo, coral, wood, beads) What to avoid: Anything that doesn’t jive with your personal style—you don’t want to look out of place or

awkward in your exotic apparel—or becoming a walking multi-cultural bazaar, You wouldn’t put sushi and spaghetti the same plate, would you?

We love: That there’s no need to head-to-toe tribal. Try this lime gre python belt that we found Loehmann’s to add just enou African safari chic to an outfit to make a statement without feeling like you’re doing a presentation for your social studies class, At $2O this Valentino Couture beauty is not quite village-market price but bargain-basement enough for us.

Where to find it: Loehmann’s on Hillandale road; The Untidy Museum; and, for accessories, check out Duke’s own Lizzie Forpieces tunato-designed

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what year is it? 1969?

As fabulous as you feel decked out in your chicest black cigarette pants with your tallest skinny heels, there's something equally fabulous about walking around barefoot in something so wom-in that it. feels like next to nothing against your skin.

Maybe our parents were onto something with their free love and ripped jeans. Don't all of us have a little hippie child inside? This spring, channel that inner flower-child, pull out onto the road, find your bohemian soul, turn up the Zeppelin and dare to dress down. Slip on billowy tops and dresses cinched with thick leather belts, flat sandals with criss-crossing straps or ankle ties (anything but the traditional flip flop V), and layers upon layers of jewelry only slighdy more formal than a chain of daisies—all perfect to embark on a spring and summer filled with peace, love and linen.

What to look for: Flowing tops and dresses; soft colors; distressed clothing (wrinkled, dyed, and ripped); long strands of beads; wom-in leather and suede; big shoulder bags, What to avoid: Looking like you haven’t showered in a week—even hippies had time to bathe; patchouli; tie-dye or anything else Jerry

Garcia-inspired.

We love: This button-down, collared, vintage-print shirt-dress from the Untidy Museum. It comes with its own tie belt, easily replaced with a vintage scarf or heavy belt, or better yet left hanging—wrinkled and free like you just woke up in a field after a four-decade nap.

Where to find it: The Untidy Museum on Broad Street; Abercrombie & Fitch; your local thrift store

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recess Study abroad gives its participants the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the culture of another country: its language, food and the familiar American hit songs typically blaring out of European radios. But for many Duke students, their cultural immersion in Europe also included exposure to local music they have brought back with them and shared with friends, creating a European invasion on Duke’s campus.

Many were often introduced to European music at clubs, later downloading the music they remember hearing. Some were introduced to more obscure songs by their roommates or host families in Europe. Still others simply began listening to local hit songs they heard on the radio, like Vasco Rossi’s “Un sense,” which junior Lauren Phillips-Thoryn, who was with NYU’s program in Florence, said was popular in Italy last fall, or Laura Pausini’s “Resta in ascolto,” the video for which Phillips-Thoryn first saw on

MTV Europe.

Although Phillips-Thoryn and others began listening to local hit songs, she said it was difficult to get into the Italian music scene since many stores and clubs played American music. Moreover, she mentioned that most of the videos shown on MTV Europe consisted of American hip-hop, U 2 Duran Duran. Junior Stephanie Scott, who was with Duke in Madrid last fall, concurred, noting that American music was also popular in Spain, specifically “rap and pop songs from the U.S.”

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Despite these difficulties, some students ventured out on their own, truly immersing themselves in the local music and occasional discovering unique underground artists. SenL Natalie Centeno, who was with Duke in Spain’s summer program in Madrid, said that while members her study abroad group were content to socialize amongst themselves, she met a group people with whom she stays in contact, who introduced her to the “Gypsy Kings-esque folk” genre known as sevillanas.

Junior Megs Bridges, who was with Duke in Florence last fall, also had a unique musical experience abroad. She began listening to Velvet Score, a local band made up of the bartenders at a bar she and her friends would frequent. Bridges suggested it was the band’s underground nature that truly interested her. “I love listening to music—period—and just to witness this band that’s trying to make it, I loved seeing them perform,” Bridges said. “I guess it didn’t matter . what type of music it was.”

While Bridges may have been indifferent to Velvet Score’s music, the appeal ofother European imports ranged from the “cheesy” nature of the songs’ messages to simply liking a song’s beat. Junior Stephanie Scott also noted that the foreign nature of the music she discovered made it particularly appealing. see ABROAD on page 4 .

shorttakes

Awfully Deep, the third full-length album from UK rapper Roots Manuva, whose real name is Rodney Smith, is the hip-hop equivalent of Wilco's A Ghost Is Born—a chronicle of the artist's battle with serious inner demons. Recorded after a stint in a mental institution. Awfully Deep conveys Smith's paranoia and hysteria through intensely introspective lyrics and an eccentric mix of reggae, dub, drum 'n' bass and Manuva's unique rapping style. The title track is the most brutally personal—a tale of his time in the mental ward told over an excruciating (yet strangely danceable) dentist-drill electro riff. "Too Cold," like much of the album, features a string-laden spooky beat progression that could have been made by Dl2 were it not for the sonic flourishes and powerful lyrics. The rest of the album varies between sing-song chants and beat poetry, but, in the end, produces a both coherent vision of the inside of Smith's mind and one of the strongest hip-hop albums to come out of the UK in recent memory.

—Andrew Galanopoulos

Dizzee Rascal could easily be dismissed as Great Britain's 50 Cent. With nine stab wounds to the chest and a ferocious flow.

Rascal dominates the English charts much like his American counterpart.

The similarities end there, however. Rascal does rap but what he produces is not hip-hop but an emerging style called "grime," an urban-flavored combo of electronica, house and garage. His follow-up to his critically-acclaimed debut Boy In Da Corner further distinguishes him from the American rap pack. His unique and blustery lyrical delivery is unheralded in our hip-hop, where crunk's the hottest thing around. L'il Jon's got nothing on Dizzee Rascal. in many ways. Showtime sounds smoother than its predecessor. The minimalist beats that seem stolen from an oldschool Nintendo game remain, but after opening up for Jay-Z, Rascal has learned a thing or two. He one-ups his boy's Anniederived "Hard-knock Life" with a Rogers and Hammerstein sample on "Dream."

And while he's still swaggering all over the place like a certain Japanese lizard monster, his flow is tighter and more radiofriendly. Moreover, he's stepped up his game, branching into dancehali, glitch pop and electro. Now, he's ready to take America by storm.

—Robert Winterode

Politically and socially conscious poet Saul Williams has once again put his words to beats, creating one of the most impressive hip-hop albums of the year. His self-titled LP questions the conventions of his art, pleading to fellow rappers to use their intellect for the sake of music itself.

His second release is anything but a sophomore slump. Williams has pushed the limits of his genre, exploring a variety of sounds. The album opens with "Talk to Strangers:" an impressive free flow where only the ivories of a piano

keep the beat going. Collaborating with Zach de la Rocha, formerly of Rage Against the Machine, and Serj Tankian of System of a Down, Williams is not afraid to use rock samples, either.

However, the album fails to achieve perfection. Verses get repetitive in songs like "List of Demand" and "African Student Movement." His lyrical talent and ability to deliver get lost in the more intense songs. But when Williams displays his passion for change, his intensity on record is genuine.

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point, Thurman's character recounts a story ofRussian gangsters to Cedric the En-

tertainer and his mob. At the conclusion of the story, Cedric and his group bust out in laughter. Slowly but surely, all but one of the group stops laughing. Yes, that's right, the joke is that one member of the posse laughs too long. If you haven’t already left the theater in disgust, there’s more transparent Hollywood drivel in store for you: The Black Eyed Peas make a self-promoting appearance as Thurman and Travolta shimmy on the dance floor (an obvious and unnecessary homage to Pulp Fiction), and Raji’s boss obnoxiously slurps on a conspicuously labeled JambaJuice smoothie whenever he appears.

There are two slightly redeeming aspects of the movie: One of the most annoying characters in recent cinema history is introduced and killed within the first five minutes, and Vince Vaughn is occasionally funny as Raji, the white record agent who thinks he’s a black gangster. The film’s only other appealing quality is that director F. Gary Gray has mercifully kept its running time shorter than say, Fellini’s three-hourLa Dolce Vita. Why La Dolce Vita, you may ask? According to the press notes, Gray was attempting to create a “hip-ho La Dolce Vita” with Be Cool.

Yikes! Bring on the apocalypse.

BUCK profound. “I get what I want but got no one to share it with / A fee to compare it with / The bachelor of science, I run my own compa

in my chest and nothing he raps on “Bachelor of

Science.”

On this current tour, Buck has chosen to travel with minimum bagi ;e: his turntables and a miundeniable passion, brancrophone. Like a musical mad scientist, he works the turntables with trademarkfacial contortions and mannerisms as he Ivers his lyrics to the audihis quirky dishing ence. Between songs, Buck entertains the audience with his Canadian May. Collaborating with As far as the future is concerned, he plans to release another album will be different Claire, and Buck admitted that the release his fiancee DJ QBert, DJ D-styles from This Right Here. On his new release he alternately raps-and sings o\ a touch of strings, piano and danceable beats. After the new album drops, Buck will be touring wi Moby. One might say it’s will be more receptive to his style than the audience at an Eminem show would be.

Although the typical MC isn’t rapping about David Lynch films or the sex drive of a centaur, Buck 65 has the metde to explore his own talent, even if that means straying from the mainstream.

ABROAD “It’s different, unique and not many other students know about it,” Scott said.

Indeed, while many students brought back foreign music, no two students seem to share the same European mix. Several former Madrid residents, however, did cite Aventura and David Bisbal as favorite artists.

While interpreting the lyrics of the Spanish music she discovered helped Scott increase her mastery of the language, many study abroad students are now giving their fellow Duke students a cultural education in European music. Scott, for one, said she has shared her music with other students and that she and friends of hers who were abroad in London have exchanged music. She commented that this musical trading was “big among the study abroad students.”

JuniorJim Camden, who was with Duke in Venice last fall, noted that the same sort of European invasion had occurred in years past, with study abroad veterans passing on Aseraje’s annoying yet infectious “The Ketchup Song.” He also suggested that another popular club song by the band O-Zone infiltrated Duke’s campus partially due to students bringing it back from abroad. The song, “Dragostea din tei” is also the soundtrack to a popular web video that has been circulating online.

Yet thanks to study abroad, the hit may have already made it here.

when she is ignored.

Throughout the early parts ofLee’s Ault career, she spends most of her time as a loner, feeling incredibly out of place in a community of such wealthy students. She observes the exquisite and daunting world around her while shying away from real interactions. Lee’s heartrending yet witty account leads the reader through the adolescent maze of money, peers, family, sex and academics found in America’s boarding schools. But many Duke boarding school veterans said the book’s fictional school was both realistic and exaggerated.

Sophomore Fiona Reeves definitely agrees with some of Lee’s observations about Ault.

Reeves attended The Peddie School in New Jersey, where students are definitely quite rich. The only ones who aren’t wealthy are on scholarship or are the children of Peddie’s teachers, janitors, kitchen staff, etc. and were allowed to attend for free. But according to Reeves, you wouldn’t be able to tell that unless you knew them.

“If you’re on scholarship, you try hard to make it look like you’re not,” she said. “There was a lot of pressure to have a Coach bag and other material items.”

While Lee observes that almost everyone at Ault was beautiful, Reeves did not find the same to be true at Peddie. “People did not seem effortlessly perfect. There were definitely a lot of unattractive people. Everyone seemed rich, but

perfect.”

Sophomore Maggie Smythe, who attended The Taft School in Connecticut, really enjoyed the references Prep makes to unique boarding not

school traditions. She remembers fondly her school’s version of surprise holiday, when the Dean gives the students a random vacation day; roll call, when the whole student body meets for daily announcements; inter-dorm visitation rules; the gossip section in the student newspaper and playing pranks on friends.

While Taft students that are not on financial aid are certainly wealthy, Smythe feels that there was not a lot of material pressure. “When we weren’t in class or at sit-down dinner [when they had a dress code to follow] people usually wore sweatpants or pajamas.” As a matter of fact, Smythe said she feels that wealth is as much, if not more, visible at Duke than at Taft.

While the inspiration for the novel certainly stemmed from Sittenfeld’s boarding school experience—she attended Groton, just outside Boston much of the story, including Lee, is her invention.

“Of course I borrowed some things from real life, but I changed them to make them more dramatic, interesting and orderly,” Sittenfeld said. “Real life tends to be fairly messy.”

The motivation for writing the novel stemmed from a desire to realistically depict a particular subculture, not to attack life at boarding schools.

Speaking about social pressure, Sittenfeld commented, “I think there’s pressure to conform in most high schools, including boarding schools.

Boarding schools and typical public schools seem to have more in common than not.”

Prep is currently at No. 9 on The New York Times bestseller list, and the book has been on the list for three weeks. Sittenfeld attributes some of Prep' s success to the fact that “a lot of people have a prurient interest in both wealth and youth, and boarding school is one setting where the two intersect.”

While Sittenfeld certainly did not anticipate such success, she believes readers are responding to the fact that the book has “a soul.”

“Although I’m not Lee, I think I wrote in a sincere way and tried to depict life honestly instead of trying to seem like a clever person who can do wacky tricks with language,” Sittenfeld said.

This honesty definitely comes through when reading the novel. Whether it is true to boardingschool life may depend on the reader’s personal opinion, but it is definitely true to the human experience. This book is a well written account of serious issues. Although Prep takes place at a fictional boarding school, it is still relevant to many people’s experiences here at Duke.

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“I tell my guys that physical erELON rors will cost you a base, but mental DUKE errors will cost you a game,” Hillier said Coming off a 2-1 series win over Army last weekend, the Blue Devils (6-8) dropped a pair of games to the Phoenix (9-4) Wednesday, including the conclusion of a Feb. 23 game started at Elon that was postponed in the ninth inning because of darkness.

The Phoenix defeated Duke, 4-0, in the day’s regularly scheduled contest with the help of a stellar outing by Elon starting pitcher Patrick Adams. The freshman threw 10 strikeouts and allowed no runs in seven innings of work to earn the first win of his college career.

‘You’ve got to give [Adams] credit,” Blue Devil shortstop Adam Murray said.

“He was mixing speeds very well, and that’s the name of the game, to keep hitters offbalance. He did a good job of that today.”

Ryan Sember threw for 4.2 innings in his first start of the season for Duke. The junior notched two strikeouts but gave up six hits and three earned runs.

“It’s been a long time since Sember’s been able to go out there and give us some innings because he’s had a couple surgeries,” Hillier said. “Because of his surgeries, it’s hard for him to keep his SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE 12

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Daniel Ewing, the winningest active player in college basketball, will play his final game in Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight against Miami on Senior Night.

Ewing bids farewell to Cameron by

Alex Fanaroff THE CHRONICLE

At Duke, Daniel Ewing has won a lot of games, but he’s also had to take the back seat.

As a freshman, he played on a team featuring five future NBA starters and was then partially overshadowed by the members of the 2006 “Super Six” recruiting class for three more years.

With so much star power around him, Duke’s senior guard has become the nation’s winningest active player with 109 career victories, but has never really had a chance to be The Man. “Guys want to be the best at something

they do,” Ewing said. “I always want to be the star, if possible. But sometimes you can’t.”

Senior Night will be all about Ewing.

Not only will Ewing and fifth-year senior Reggie Love participate in pre- and postgame ceremonies celebrating their Duke careers, but Ewing will also be forced to shoulder more of the burden than he ever has in his Duke career.

No. 6 Duke’s matchup against Miami, tonight at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium, will be the team’s first major test since Sean Dockery suffered a medial collateral ligament tear Feb. 23 at Georgia Tech.

Specifically, the game will be a test for Ewing, who will take on even more point

guardresponsibilities against a team known for its strong guard play. “[Dockery] and Daniel shared our ballhandling responsibilities and on-the-ball defense, [and] there’s nobody who can take [Dockery’s] place in doing those things,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Daniel has more responsibility.”

Though Love described the possibility of Ewing being overworked as a “concern of the team,” he also expressed confidence that the senior guard can handle the increased workload.

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Senior SarasArasu won her singles match Wednesday, 6-1 (retired), but Duke fell to William & Mary 4-3 at Sheffield IndoorTennis Center.

Down 1-0 in a third-set tiebreak that would decide the match, Jackie Carleton went to serve but stopped before her toss, wincing in pain. The junior slammed her fist into her thigh and tried to serve again W&M but stopped mid-motion. Finally, the chair umpire penalized CarDUKE leton a point for a time violation.

Four hours and 20 minutes into Duke’s match at Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, Carleton cramped, and William & Mary’s Candice Fuchs took advantage.

The Tribe’s No. 3 singles player worked both sides of the court, forcing errors from Carleton, who struggled to chase down the shots. The junior, who had enjoyed a 5-2 lead in the third set, suddenly found herself down 6-1 in

the tiebreak with everything on the line.

Carleton tried to fight off" her cramps to make the final points competitive but was ultimately in too deep a hole. She hit a forehand winnerand her opponent made a series of unforced errors, bringing the score to 64. Then Fuchs put a backhand past Carleton as she approached the net, forcing the Blue Devil to scramble to get her racquet on the ball. Her return landed wide of the court, giving Fuchs the decisive tiebreak, and William & Mary the 4-3 win Wednesday.

After the No. 5 Blue Devils (7-3) were shut out in their doubles matches, it was apparent they would need an impressive singles showing to to have a chance to defeat the 20th-ranked Tribe (7-1).

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Men’s tennis had to work harder than usual to win this ACC matchup.

Duke (7-2,1-0 in the ACC) overcame an upset to its top doubles pair to defeat N.C. State, 6-1, in a matchup that was much closer than the final DUKE 6 score indicated.

No. 6 Duke pulled N.C STATE 1 out the No. 3 doubles match to secure the doubles point, and senior Peter Shults won a tight singles match to lock up the team victory.

“N.C. State is much improved over the last few years,” Duke head coach Jay Lapidus said. “They have a new coach there and he is doing a great job. They’re getting better.”

The No. 3 doubles match was the turning point in the contest. With the first two doubles matches split, the pair of Shults and junior Stephen Amritraj finally broke the Wolfpack pair’s serve and held on for 8-6 victory that gave Duke the critical doubles team point and the momentum.

“With men’s doubles indoors, it is sometimes very hard to break serve,” Lapidus said. “They held for much of the match until we were finally able to break them and hold on for the win.”

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Wolfpack (12-1, 0-1), which had not played a top-50 team on its way to an undefeated record. Duke was coming off an impressive fifth-place finish in the National Team Indoor Championships, which featured the

nation’s top 16 teams, Junior Ludovic Walter, ranked No. 2 in the nation, defeated N.C. State’s top player Conor Taylor in two sets to improve to 15-3 on the year. Walter

and held on to win 6-4 before finishing off Taylor 6-3 in the second set. Freshman Charles Brezac dominated his Wolfpack counterpart, winning the No. 5 singles match, 6-2, 6-1.

It was not so easy for Amritraj and Ned Samuelson, the Blue Devils’ No. 3 and No. 6 singles players, respectively. Amritraj, ranked No. 97 in the nation, was beaten in straight sets by sophomore Aaidre Iriarte, who improved to 9-0 on the year. Samuelson, in only his third match of the season, bounced back from dropping the first set 6-3 to win the next two, including the second in a debreaker.

“The doubles were tight and we had a couple of single matches that were close,” Lapidus said. “They pushed very hard at the No. 4 and 6 spots and beat us a.t No. 3. They were really fighting well.”

The top doubles pair of Jason Zimmermann and Walter fell 9-7 to the Wolfpack pair of junior Will Shaw and freshman Nick Cavaday. The pair, which was ranked No. 14 in the preseason poll, dropped its third match in a row and is currently unranked.

“I felt like we had a chance to pull that out late, but we did not play our best match at No. 1 doubles,” Lapidus said.

The Blue Devils next take on Maryland at home Sunday.

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NO. 6 Duke (21-4.10-4) Guard U Redick (22.5 ppg, 3.3 rpg) Guard Daniel Ewing (15.3 ppg. 3.6 apg) Guard DeMarcus Nelson (6.6 ppg, 4.4 apg) Reggie Love (2.3 ppg, 2.8 mg) Forward Forward Shelden Williams (15.6 ppg. 11.4 rpg)

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MIAMI from page 9 in great condition,” Love said. “I think he’ll handle it well.”

Against the Hurricanes, Ewing will likely be responsible for star guard Guillermo Diaz, the conference’s second leading scorer at 18.6 points per game. Diaz scored 25 points on 11-of-23 shooting in the teams’ last meeting Jan. 19 in Coral Gables, Fla. He plays off the ball and shoots well from long range, ranking among the ACC leaders in three-pointers made and three-point field goal percentage.

Miami’s three-guard lineup could cause problems for the Blue Devils, who are left with only three available scholarship guards after Dockery’s injury. Robert Hite is the ACC’s fourth-leading scorer at 17.2 points per game and is also one of the conference’s top rebounding guards, hauling down 5 boards per contest. Hite shoots often from long range, tossing up nearly seven three-point attempts per game.

Anthony Harris, the Hurricanes’ point guard, is fourth in the ACC in assists with 4.77 per game, but he also turns the ball

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point guards.

In the teams’ first contest, the Blue Devils were able to hold Hite in check, limiting him to just six points on 2-of-7 shooting.

Harris had more success, racking up 15 points, but he only had three assists.

Duke was most successful pounding the ball inside against Miami the last time the teams played. Shelden Williams scored a career-high 30 points on 11-of-12 shooting from the field and a perfect 8-of-8 from the free throw line.

The Hurricanes allowed several opposing, post players to notch big games in matchups immediately following their loss to the Blue Devils.

But recently Miami has performed bet-

ter against opposing big men, including holding Georgia Tech’s Luke Schenscher to just five points Feb. 26.

“We’ve really made a conscientious effort to keep the ball out of the paint and really work hard at shutting down the opposing team’s post players,” Miami head coach Frank Haith said. “Shelden is definitely a

guy that we must focus on. He can’t have a

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Duke sorely missed Dockery in the half-court against St. John's Feb. 26, failing to execute for most of the game and shooting only 31.4 percent from the field. Because Ewing must now play the entire game at the point, his responsibilities are even greater. But having averaged just 12.3 ppg over the last four contests, he also needs to increase his scoring load. Williams should carry some of the burden since he scored a career-high 30 points against Miami Jan. 20 Ewing will most likely have to guard Diaz, the ACC's second leading scorer, who will look to shoot the three. The Hurricanes will try to get both Ewing and Williams in foul trouble and force Coach Kto use his shallow bench. Look for Hite, also in the top five in scoring, to attack the Blue Devils from the outside. Miami, however, lacks the ability to score regularly in the post and so they must shoot the rock well to have any chance tonight.

Miami is fighting for an NCAA Tournament berth at 7-8 in the ACC. It knows that a win at Cameron would look very good to the selection committee, but on Ewing and Love's Senior Night it will not come easy. Duke needs to adjust quickly to the loss of Dockery, with only a week left until the ACC Tournament. The team should be fired up and look to prove that it belongs with the elite in the country, even with its only true point guard out of commission.

Daniel Ewing played his best ball in March last year and knows how to turn up when it counts. He will lead a Duke team that needs to play well heading into Miami may be fighting for a NCAA berth, but these Blue Devils are fighting for -compiled by Andi NCAA crown. Duke wins, 77-62.

Although their post defense has recently improved, the Hurricanes’ interior players have excelled all season on the glass, ranking first in the ACC in offensive rebounds. This prowess may give them an advantage against a Duke team that has been outrebounded by significant mar-

gins in all of its losses this season, “They’re going to come into Cameron on Thursday, they’re going to be aggressive, they’re going to be hungry,” Love said. “They’ve got guys that hit the boards really hard, so we’ve got to be ready to lock in defensively.”

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Sember’s pitching effort was not enough for Duke, as the Phoenix scored the only run they would need early. In the second inning, Sember gave up a lead-off walk to catcher Drew Davis, and designated hitter Chris Vasami advanced the runner with a sacrifice bunt. Right fielder Matt Stocco singled to leftfield to score Davis and give Elon the 1-0 lead.

Despite posting six hits in the game, Duke was unable to convert offensive production into runs.

The Blue Devils’ best chance to retaliate came in the bottom of the fifth. Trailing 3-0, Duke opened the inning with back-to-back singles by leftfielder Cody Wheeler and second baseman Bryan Smith. Catcher Ron Causey followed with a sacrifice bunt, advancing both runners into scoring position. Centerfielder Jimmy Gallagher then drew a walk to load the bases.

The Blue Devil rally fizzled, however, as third baseman Kyle Kreick struck out looking on the next at-bat. Murray grounded out to third to end the inning.

“I think that we shot ourselves in the foot a lot today,” Murray said. “We are not putting ourselves in positions to be successful. That includes walking batters, that includes striking out looking, that includes making errors in the field.”

Similar problems kept Duke from capturing a win in the conclusion of its Feb. 23 contest, which was tied 8-8 when play resumed. Elon scored the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning.

Blue Devil pitcher Jimmy Gallagher issued consecutive walks to Vasami and Paul Bennett, after which pinch hitter Danny

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We just couldn’t sustain it.”

Katie Blaszak responded to her coach’s request. Trailing 5-4 in the first set, the senior collected herself and won the next eight games to go up a set and take a 5-0 lead in the second. With Duke down 2-3 in the overall match, Blaszak won the set 6-1, never letting her opponent get close to clinching the final point.

“You lose, but you turn around, and you have to play, and get right back and get ready to play singles,” she said.

Although Carleton and Blaszak nearly pulled out the Blue Devil win, Duke appeared to be struggling most of the match.

“We just weren’t all there today,” senior Saras Arasu said.

Duke uncharacteristically dropped all three doubles matches before Arasu and Kristin Cargill gave the Blue Devils a 2-1 lead by defeating their singles opponents.

That was the only lead the team would have all evening, as Jennifer Zika never found a rhythm in her singles match. She dropped the first set 6-3 and subsequently lost the second 6-0 as some of her shots sailed wide and long.

Freshman Clelia Deltour, usually a solid performer, was next to fall. An attempted drop-shot, which fell into the net in the final game of the match, was indicative of her frustration as she lost 7-5, 6-3.

Deltour’s loss set the stage for Blaszak and Carleton to make a charge for a second dramatic, come-from-behind victory in two weeks. Duke rallied from an 0-3 deficit against Notre Dame Feb. 18.

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More diverse committees needed was irresponsible for Duke Stu- opportunity for more diverse comdent GovernmentPresident Pasha mittee and it would have been the Majdi to select the student mem- proper course of action, Furthermore, Majdi’s response bers of the Central Campus Planning Committee without an application after the absence of diversity pointed out to him did not process.

StaTT6dltori3l solve the problem and This is not to say only made the process that the student on more complicated. Majdi choose to these committees are not qualified they are all well-informed campus form another committee—an advisory leaders who will contribute a great committee that could poll the underdeal to the discussions of the redevelgraduate population and report the results back to the original committees. opment of Central. The committees, Majdi appointed Brandon Goodhowever, lack the desirable diversity of viewpoints that may have been win—himself a member of a Central achieved had an application process committee and DSC vice president for student affairs—to head the advibeen in place.

There is a reason why committees sory committee. Goodwin is going to are appointed and not elected, and lead a committee to advise a committhat purpose is to ensure that the tee his is already on. And the memcommittees are adequately diverse bers of this new advisory committee and give minority perspectives and will be selected from ICC —an organperspectives that are in the minority ization that already has six members the proper voice. Majdi, however, did on the Central committees. Finally, Majdi decided to create this commitnot select committee members that tee without telling Provost Peter end. served this It is disturbing how homogenous Lange or the member of ICC who would be the potential members of the Central committees are, especially when considering the impact the such a committee.

This is doing nothing to add more redevelopment of Central will have on all students in the coming years. perspectives to the Central committees. It is merely a poor attempt to Of the 14 students on the committees, only one of them is black. In compensate for an error Majdi made 2004, about 27 percent of Central to begin with. It is no solution and Campus residents were black. Halfof does not even do a good job masthe committee members have served querading as one. Although there is on DSC and six currently serve on the not much the University can do about the composition of the committees DSG-run Inter-Community Council.

There is a diversity of perspectives now, this incident should serve as a lesson to both administrators and stuon campus that cannot be representdent leaders. In the future, Universithis matter ed by group of people, no how much leadership experience ty committees should include a wider they have or how qualified they are. array of student perspectives.

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Health vs. beauty After trying to make some sort of sense of the ridiculousness of David Kleban’s column “Have You Lost Weight?”, I am left with nothing else to do but wonder if we go to the same school.

The perspective that this column takes is not one of thoughtful awareness, but rather one of the all-too characteristic ignorance that erodes away at the efforts of those who work so hard to abolish destructive body images at Duke.

He, like so many others, is simply missing the point.

Implicit in sentences such as “there are some who want to rid our culture of any factors that encourage people to avoid [obesity] is the notion that the problem of obesity is somehow as pressing as that of the “few who develop pathological eating habits.”

To note the fallacy of this reasoning, I simply ask Kleban and those who share his perspective to do one thing.

Look around you. How many clinically obese students do you see walking around campus every day? How many have you seen since your time at Duke? Now ask yourself, how many dangerously-thin individuals comprise this student body?

If you are honest with yourself, you will realize that the concerns of the Duke community are justifiably focused on that which is posing the greatest threat to the health and well-being of so many young women; eating disorders.

Kleban is right; obesity-related health issues are among the most serious threats to American life today.

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problems at this University is nowhere near that of the national average. The obesity epidemic is not and should not be our

greatest health concern at Duke.

What Student Health educational programs have done and should continue to do is take a realistic stance on the major problems afflicting the student body, recognizing that assuming a passive approach to the “innocent” thinking that perpetuates such problems is tantamount to encouraging the spread of poisonous thought patterns that lead to these disorders in the first place.

Yes, the billboards on the C-3 want us to “do away with [bodily standards] altogether,” and rightly so. I, for one, am sick of seeing so many talented young women held to absurd standards imposed by Kleban’s and so many others’ “devotion to healthy and

beauty.”

A healthy medium does exist between being weight-conscious and becoming ob-

sessed with thinness, and it starts with developing your own standards without regard for what you see on TV or read in The Chronicle.

Health is about more than a dress size, and beauty is about more than what you see when you look in the mirror. I can only hope that the women of Duke who have read Kleban’s column will be smart enough to realize that his or anyone else’s approval of your looks or body size is the last thing you need.

Emily O’Brien Trinity 06 ’

The responsibility for eating disorders As a member of ESTEEM, the group re-

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Another’s Eating Disorder?” fliers, I am constantly frustrated by responses that are completely misinterpreting our message. I know that informed, as well as professional, people oversee our group’s goals and approaches. It is obvious that the author to Tuesday’s column responding to these fliers had no such education on the matter. Perhaps he would like to change that.

Does ESTEEM blame McDonald’s for obesity? Are we undermining the serious health problem of obesity in America? No. Your article shows your ignorance in our beliefs. If someone who is actually overweight wishes to lose weight, we support that goal.

We are simply trying to discourage obsessive, compulsive behavior to control eating.

We don’t claim that people that do the things on our flier are “insensitive.” That’s the whole point—almost everyone inadvertently does these things. Even the most sensitive, well-meaning people. Because they are so embedded in our culture, we don’t realize the impact they may have.

In addition, our media does not always portray “healthy” individuals as attractive.

Many are underweight, and being too thin can be just as unhealthy as being overweight. Also, not all eating disorders make people thin. Disorders like Binge Eating Disorder contribute to health problems like

obesity.

Thinness is not the issue. The issue is mental—a distorted sense of self-worth. Is a healthy mind any less important than a healthy body? Do we consider our mental health today as much as we should, as much as we consider our physical health?

And while you say “we aren’t liable for the fact that some individuals resort to” eating disorders, we aren’t liable for a lot of things. Does that mean we should ignore what we can do to help the situation, or what we might be doing to make it worse? I hope not, because that sounds like you’re the one who is abandoning some responsibility there.

Janice Wilson

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one more week. Just one more week until Dan Rather “retires” from CBS News’s anchor chair and starts filing reports for 60 Minutes.

Just one more eek until a 24-year run of biased, misleading, politicized TV journalism comes to an end. As Dan’s colleagues give him a hero’s sendoff, remember the rest of the story: 6/17/87: On CBS’s Evening News, Rather says viewers are wrong in believing the Soviet people want freedom. “Despite what many Americans think,” he says, “most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Westernstyle democracy.”

1/25/88: Rather invites Vice President George H.W. Bush to interview for the last in “a series of candidate profiles,” but wildly badgers him about the IranContra scandal. Rather yells at the Vice President and accuses him of lying: ‘You and the President were being party to sending missiles to the Ayatollah of nathan Iran!,” he shouts, “...You made us hypocrites in the face of the world!”

Rather’s hostile questioning went on for five minutes, and other reporters like Sam Donaldson and Mike Wallace called it over the line Interestingly, Rather told reporters in the 1990 that he did not grill President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal because Clinton had already answered questions about it.

5/27/93: Rather gives a less-than-objective ‘thanks’ to President Clinton after being congratulated for his new CBS partnership with Connie Chung, saying “Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. President. If we could be one-one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been together in the White House, we’d take it right now and walk away winners.” Adds Rather: “Tell Mrs. Clinton we respect her and we’re pulling for her.”

4/11/94: Rather blames “the worst of the Christian Right” for gays being “beaten to death in the streets with increasing frequency.”

2/28/95: Rather describes a Republican-sponsored bill as “making it harder, much harder, to protect health, safety, and the environment.”

3/16/95: Rather leads off “Evening News” by describing Republican legislation as a “legislative agenda to demolish or damage government aid programs, many of them designed to help children and the poor.”

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raid, Rather says Fidel Castro “feels a very deep and abiding connection to those Cubans who are still in Cuba,” adding “there’s little doubt in my mind that Fidel Castro was sincere when he said, ‘Listen, we really want this child back here.’”

12/13/00: Rather begins the evening news broadcast by suggesting that a “politically and ideologically motivated” Supreme Court “handed the presidency” to George W. Bush. A month later, on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” Rather twice refers to Bush as an “elected or selected” as President.

1/22/01: On George W. Bush’s first day as President, Rather reports that the President reinstituted a Reagan-era ban on federal funding of overseas abortion “to quickly please the right flank in his party.” When Bill Clinton did the opposite eight years before, Rather described it as Clinton having “delivered on his

campaign promise.”

3/21/01: Rather speaks at a Democratic Party fundraiser and raises $20,000 poker for the Travis County (TX) Democrats.

5/15/01: Asked whether Bill Clinton can be described as “an honest man,” Rather says: “Yes, I think he’s an honest man,” and explains that “You can be an honest person and lie about any number of

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9/8/04: On “60 Minutes II,” Rather ignores warnings from experts and uses forged military documents to report that President Bush may not have fulfilled military obligations while serving in the National Guard.

CBS also contacts the John Kerry campaign on behalf of the story’s source.

Rather spends the next 12 days defending himself, calling individuals who question the documents “partisan political operatives,” interviewing “experts” who say they are accurate, and claiming to have “solid sources” behind the story, even though he had only one questionable one.

Rather also demands that President Bush himself“answer the questions” and quit the “denial,” saying that the story is true even if the documents are false. Rather later admits that he erred in verifying the story.

11/23/04: Rather announces he will step down as anchor in March.

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The future of PBS

WASHINGTON In 1967 Lyndon Johnson added yet another piece to the jigsaw puzzle of national perfection; The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was bom. Public television was a dubious idea even when concocted as a filigree on the Great Society. Why should government subsidize the production and distribution of entertainment and, even worse, journalism? Even if there were—has there ever been?—a shortage of either in America, is it government’s duty to address all cultural shortages?

Today, with iPod earphone cords dangling from millions of heads and movies flooding into homes where they jostle for plasma screen time with video games, Americans are entertaining themselves into inanition. Furthermore, journalism and imitations of it have become social smog. Even in airport concourses you are bombarded by televised human volcanoes verbally assaulting each other about the “news,” broadly —very broadly—defined to include Kobe Bryant’s presence oh Michael Jackson’s witness list.

In 1967 public television did at least increase, for many persons, the basic television choices from three—CßS, NBC, ABC—to four. Not that achieving some supposedly essential minimum was, or is, the government’s business. In today’s 500-channel environment, public television is a preposterous relic.

The Public Broadcasting Service recently tried an amazingly obtuse and arrogant slogan: “If PBS doesn’t do it, who will?” What was the antecedent of the pronoun “it”? Presumably “culture” or “seriousness” or “relevance.” Or something. But in a television universe that now includes the History Channel, Biography, A&E, Bravo, National Geogeorge will graphic, Disney, TNT, BBC guest commentary America, Animal Planet, The Learning Channel, The Outdoor Channel, Noggin, Nickelodeon and scads of other cultural and information channels, what is the antecedent? Now PBS is airing some HBO films. There is a nifty use of tax dollars—showing HBO reruns. Which contribute how to “diversity”?

In 1967 public television’s enthusiasts were ahead of the curve ofcultural inanity, making frequent use of the d-word, which required several more decades to become the great signifier of cultural correctness. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission hailed public television’s promise of “more diversity” and a Carnegie report foresaw increased “diversities.” Thirty-eight years later, 500 channels mock public television as crucial to diversity.

The recent spat about Buster, PBS’ cartoon rabbit, visiting two lesbian parents quickly became a second spat about the Education Department’s threat to stop financing Buster.

But a third spat should have been about why the Education Department (a fourth spat; Is that department necessary?) is paying for any ofBuster’s adventures.

Is there a desperate shortage of television cartoons? Is Buster to other cartoons as Beethoven is to Bon Jovi?

Public television, its supporters say, is especially important for poor people who cannot afford cable or satellite television. But 62 percent of poor households have cable or satellite television and 78 percent have a VCR or DVD player.

Public television is akin to the body politic’s appendix: It is vestigial, purposeless and occasionally troublesome. Of the two arguments for it, one is impervious to refutation and the other refutes itself.

The impervious argument is: The small size of the audiences for most of public television’s programming proves how necessary public television is. The big networks gather big audiences by catering to vulgar cultural tastes, leaving the refined minority an orphan, because any demand the private market satisfies must be tacky.

The self-refuting argument is: Big Bird. Never mind that the average age of PBS viewers is 58. “Sesame Street” supposedly proves that public television can find mass audiences.

But the refined minority, as it sees itself, now has ample television choices for the rare moments when itis notrereading Proust And successes such as “Sesame Street” could easily find private, taxpaying broadcast entities to sell them.

President Johnson, no slouch at the “progressive” rhetoric of platitudinous gush, said the prospect of public television should fill Americans with “the same awe and wonderment” that caused Samuel Morse, when he successfully tested his telegraph, to exclaim, “What hath God wrought?”

But by 2002 PBS president Pat Mitchell was warning: “We are dangerously close in our overall prime-time numbers to falling below the relevance quotient.”

Public television’s survival, with no remaining rationale, should fill students of government with awe, wonderment and melancholy. Would it vanish without the 15 percent of its revenues it gets from government? Let’s find out.

George Will is a syndicated columnistfor The New York Times

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A specially molded Duke Blue mouthpiece has given freshman center i£hante Black a new aggressiveness after a summer facial injury.

Instead, the freshman shows her Blue Devil spirit by flashing a royal blue grin at the crowd during Duke’s women’s basketball games, usually right after pulling down a monster board.

“It’s like a trademark, I guess,” Black said. ‘You don’t see that many Duke blue mouthpieces.”

The center began sporting the conspicuous blue mouthpiece Feb. 1, and her play since that time has reflected the worth of the dental appendage. Since she began wearing the mouthpiece, Black has averaged 7.3 points and 9.0 rebounds per game, above her season averages of 5.9 and 7.4, respectively.

The protective gear has made such a difference in Black’s play that head coach Gail Goestenkors has forbidden the center from stepping on the court without it.

“We noticed the first time she had her mouthpiece in, she was so much more aggressive,” Goestenkors said.

“The next time I saw her without her mouthpiece, I didn’t even know she didn’t have [it] in, I just noticed she was very timid again. That’s when I said I didn’t ever want to see her again without the mouthpiece in.”

The Honorable Mention All-ACC freshman’s relative timidity without the mouthpiece stems from the fear of repeating a facial injury she suffered during a summer practice session.

“An elbow went up, and [my teeth] just split right through my chin,” Black said. “I had to get a glue stitch in it.”

Both the injury to her face and an ankle injury, suffered during Duke’s Nov. 14 win over South Florida, hampered Black’s progress early in the season.

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All the hard work, all the tough wins, all the emotions of the last four months will boil down to a seed next Sunday when the NCAA Tournament field is announced. The only opportunity remaining for ACC teams to help their own causes is the conference tournament this weekend.

If precedents and rankings are correct, the outlook for the ACC, the nation’s top-ranked conference according to collegerpi.com, appears favorable. Seven of the 11 teams are in the top 19 in the rim and two more are in the 50s, generally considered the “bubble” area for teams to make the 64-toam field.

“I think some of the teams that don’t have as many wins feel like maybe they can get on a roll and do something special,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said of the ACC Tournament, which begins Friday.

Starting at the top, Duke and North Carolina may each be competing for an NCAA No. 1 seed. The Blue Devils won the regular season and ACC Tournament crown each of the previous five years and have received a No. 1 seed the past four seasons. If North Carolina or Duke were to win the conference tournament, especially with the ACC deeper than it has been in years past, a top seed would be likely.

“This year, Carolina feels that they need to win the tourney to get a No. 1 seed,” Goestenkors said. “We want to make sure we solidify a No. 1 seed. We feel we need to win this tournament to make sure, to leave no doubt.”

Beyond seeding, an important implication of this weekend’s games is the location for the teams’ first two

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G & Co.: Coaches nurture in tight system by

Gregory Beaton THE CHRONICLE

When the whistle blows for a timeout during a Duke women’s basketball game, there is an unmistakable routine.

The players on the floor hustle to the bench, where they begin to catch their breath.

Meanwhile, the coaches are busy taking part in their own pseudohuddle 10 steps in front of the bench. Duke’s three assistant coaches surround head coach Gail Goestenkors and quickly whisper thoughts to one another.

“We talk about where we’re after the game,” going Goestenkors joked. “I just want ideas from them, and they know they have just a couple seconds and then I go and meet with the team.”

The timeout routine is in many ways a microcosm of how the Blue Devils’ coaching staff operates —Goestenkors is the CEO of a slick corporation. And with this structured leadership style, she has elevated Duke’s program into the elite ranks of the sport.

A definitive hierarchy At the start of every game, freshman guard Laura Kurz and assistant coach Gale Valley sit at one end of the bench while forwards Wynter Whitley and Chante Black sit with LaVonda Wagner, the second assistant, at the other.

There is no rift on the team, though—Uiis is just an example of the framework organized Goestenkors has constructed.

In the system, Valley works'ftlmost exclusively with the guards and sits beside them throughout the game., Wagner, in charge of what the team calls “post play,” resides closer to the baseline, next to Black and Whitley, both reserves.

The coaches’ responsibility extends beyond talking through the game with their respective players, though. It ranges from skill development to off-court management. On a given day, Valley might do anything from work with Wanisha Smith on her ball-handling to review Jessi-

ca Foley’s exam scores to accompany injured Caitlin Howe to a doctor’s visit.

“I think it’s really good to have the coaches broken up to players,” Foley said. “I’ve never had anything like this before on any other team. I think it really helps them pay attention to every per-, son on the team and helps you look at strengths and weaknesses and work on them. Sometimes

when you’ve got a whole team in front of you, people get lost.”

Adding to the personal attention, assistant coach Shannon Perry fills in the gaps —working with both groups, coordinating managers, directing the male practice squad and handling film

Head coach Gail Goestenkors manages a staff of threeother coaches, running her program with a simple but defined structure. In the system, players receive the majority of their personal attention from assistant coaches LaVonda Wagner, GaleValley and Shannon Perry. Wagner (bottom) works primarily with the post players, while Valey supervises the guards. Perry helps out where attention is needed and coordinatesthe male practice squad.

exchange.

While running the show from her lofty perch in Schwartz-Butters looking out over Duke’s athletic campus, Goestenkors still makes sure to spend one-on-one time with all the players. At specific junctures during the year, the head coach arranges sit-down meetings with each player so that they have a chance to discuss their roles as well as air any concerns they have in a private setting.

“I definitely think that if you’re in the post group, you’re going to gel to know your coach better and if you’re in the guard group you’re going to get to know yours a lot better,” junior forward Mistie Williams said. “It’s really up to the athletes to make those kinds of bonds with your coaches. It’s like a big family, so we really just talk to everybody.”

An around-the-clock job The workday for Duke’s

coaches begins before most students have even begun to hit the snooze button on their alarms and ends late at night, if at all.

The coaching staff only gets a few hours a day with the players because of NCAA regulations, so they must prepare extensively to maximize the time. With prac-

tice as early as 11:45 a.m. during the season, the coaches get ready hours before to use the practice hours most effectively.

After practice most days, the coaches will eat with the players and oversee their weight-lifting program.

But the workday is hardly over

when the players leave for the afternoon. Once the business of the current team has been squared away, the coaching staff gets to work on the Duke teams of the future.

The assistant coaches have SEE COACHES ON PAGE 11

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If the Blue Devilsand theTar Heels get past their opponents in the first two rounds, they will meet in theACC Tournament final Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Duke enters in unfamiliar 2nd by

Gregory Beaton THE CHRONICLE

With all eyes on a potential rematch against North Carolina Monday night, the women’s basketball team will first have to contend with a bracket full of upset-minded squads on its quest for a sixth consecutive ACC Tournament championship.

After losing twice in conference play to the Tar Heels, Duke (26-3, 12-2 in the ACC) earned the second seed for the tournament.

The Blue Devils received a first-round

bye and will begin play in the quarterfinals Saturday against the winner of the game between lOth-seeded Wake Forest and seventh-seeded Virginia Tech.

Although Duke swept the rest of its conference slate, including wins against the Hokies and Demon Deacons, its

In their first ACC game of the season Devils pulled away late to defeat Virginia Tech, 88-67. Ten days later, the Blue Devils rode the hot hands of Mistie Williams and Alison Bales to beat Wake Forest, 99-86, in a shootout in Winston-Salem.

By the time the teams step on the floor in Greensboro, it will have been nearly two months since Duke has faced either potential opponent.

“I’m glad we only played them once because I think it’s much more difficult to beat a team three times than it is to beat them twice,” Goestenkors said.

Though Duke is able to anticipate its tournament matchups, it will only have 24 hours to prepare once the game is over between Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.

“It’s just the tournament atmosphere,” Bales said. “The ACC is a big deal for us, and that’s just how much time there is.

You can’t spend a week preparing.”

The 24 hours that the Blue Devils will have to ready for their opponent will be spent readying for one of two vastly different styles of play.

The Demon Deacons are extremely quick and will often throw five guards on the court at a time. Their high-pressure, high-octane game could spell trouble for a slower, more traditional Blue Devil squad.

Virginia Tech usually pounds the ball

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losses to North Carolina may provide a blue-print for other teams to attack. Last Sunday’s loss to the Tar Heels exposed several weaknesses that the Blue Devils must improve upon before this weekend.

“We’ve just been breaking things down again and making sure everyone’s on the same page again,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Rebounding and handling traps and pressure were obviously things that were not successful against [North Carolina] in both games. [That lost] brought the team together and caused them to re-evaluate and rededicate themselves.”

As she has been all season, Monique Currie will be called upon to take the final shot in close games.

A wake-up call like its regular seasonending loss might be exactly what Duke

to maintain focus for the tournawith ment a pair of potential sleeper teams looming in the quarterfinals. The Blue Devils only played Virginia Tech and Wake Forest once each during the regular season because of conference expansion.

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Number crunch reminiscent of 'O2 Final Four team by

Patrick Byrnes THE CHRONICLE

Eight was enough.

This year’s Blue Devils are hoping that rally cry from the 2001-2002 Final Four team will apply to their postseason as well.

These two teams, separated by two seasons and one win, share striking similarities.

Both teams finished the regular season with just three losses and a top-five ranking in the AP Poll. Both teams had only eight players on the roster with Monique Currie as a starter and Wynter Whidey a key con-

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But the resemblance stops there.

“That team was a totally different team,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said.

“We were very, very athletic, but we had no post game. Now we’ve got much better size at 6-foot-7 [Alison Bales] and 6foot-5 [Chante Black], and just a better inside-outside attack. But we don’t have that ability to break teams down with our pressure on the ball.”

With athletic guards Alana Beard, Vicki Krapohl, Sheana Mosch and Currie, Duke was able to beat its opponents with outside shooting. Additionally, its strong pressure on opposing guards led to steals and fast-

break scoring for the Blue Devils. kiss Tillis was the team’s tallest player at 6-foot-4, and though she would later become an inside presence for Duke, she was hesitant to play in the post during her sophomore season.

This left 6-foot-l Michele Matyasovsky as the only inside threat on offense. The center had very few opportunities to score with no help on the inside, finishing the season with only 6.6 points per game.

“I think my freshman year team was a lot more athletic and could run more on the fast break and get steals,” Currie said.

This year’s team does not feature a guard with the talent of Beard. Currie has shifted to the forward position and, with new additions, Duke has transformed into a dominating post team.

Aside from Bales and Black in the post, Duke has often passed to Mistie Williams down low. The junior forward has been the most consistent scorer in the paint for the Blue Devils this season.

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Black has again been able to excel at her favorite aspect of the game.

“Rebounding has always been my forte, ever since I was small,” Black said. “Going to camps with boys, I used to get trophies for being the best rebounder. Growing up, I remember being like, ‘Oh, I want to be like Dennis Rodman, just good on the rebounds.’ That’s always been something that I’ve enjoyed doing. I’m just happy that now it’s picking back up like it was in the beginning.”

Black’s success on the glass has been essential to the Blue Devils, especially as of late, when some of the team’s more experienced post players have been struggling in that area.

“Mistie [Williams’] numbers are down lately, Monique [Currie’s] numbers are down lately, and Chante helped to pick up some of that slack for us,” Goestenkors said.

Although Black originally envisioned herself as a rebound specialist, the freshman has been concentrating on improving her offensive performance since coming

from three-point range, and freshman Wanisha Smith has filled in at point guard valiandy after Lindsey Harding was suspended prior to the season’s start. This team’s guards rely heavily on the post players to draw attention from defenders for open looks, in stark contrast to Beard’s team, which simply beat its opponents from the perimeter.

On the defensive end, Duke has become a rebounding and shot-blocking nightmare for opponents, whereas the 2001-2002 team used its athleticism to keep the ball on the perimeter and force opponent turnovers.

That team blocked a then-impressive iO4 shots during the regular season, but this year’s squad has crushed that figure in deflecting away 229 shots. Bales alone has tallied more blocks than the entire 2001-2002 team with her 112 rejections.

The current Blue Devils will look to their own strengths as they hope to extend the team’s ACC Tournament championship streak to six and win the national title that eluded the 2001-2002 team.

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In practice, Black has been working on becoming more comfortable with the physical aspect of the game.

The male practice players have been using a pad while guarding Black to simulate the pressure of game situations. As a result of this focus, the freshman has noticed a difference in her scoring ability.

“During the first part [of the season], I was more mechanical [on offense]. I was just going through the motions,” Black said. “Now I can put a little twist on it. Be more productive while running the play, not just running to get the offense going for that person, but also to try to produce something for myself and for the team.”

As she furthers her development into a threat on both ends of the court, Black will be a valuable reserve for Duke during its postseason pushes for both the ACC title and the NCAA Championship.

That is, as long as she remembers her mouthpiece.

“I have two of them,” Black said. “The trainer has one, and I have one, just in case I forget it.”

While the rest of the team has struggled on the boards, Black has become a stable force.

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Both teams are fighting for their postseason lives, with Virginia Tech hoping for a strong tournament showing that will propel it into the NCAA bracket.

“I think whoever we play, unless we get to the finals, will feel like an underdog,” Goestenkors said. “We’re used to that.”

Another pair of hungry teams, Maryland and N.C. State, looms in the semifinals for Duke. The Blue Devils needed late buckets by unanimous first-team All-ACC selection Monique Currie in wins over each squad in late January.

Third-seeded N.C. State has a first-round bye and sixthseeded Maryland has the easiest opening matchup against cellar-dwelling Clemson.

The Wolfpack matches up well against Duke, playing a similar style to that of North Carolina. They are the second-most athletic team in the conference after the Tar Heels, Goestenkors said.

“We’ll be prepared for whoever comes,” Currie said.

The Blue Devils will need a balanced attack to counteract the athleticism of potential opponents.

“We can’t just watch one player make plays,” Goestenkors said. “I think we learned that again in the Carolina game. We have to be able to trust each other.”

Duke will be able to put more faith in Currie who, after weeks of hobbling on a fractured left foot, has looked healthier the last two games and will soon be free of the boot she has been wearing on her foot while off the court.

Another comforting factor for the Blue Devils will be the venue. The ACC Tournament has been held in the Greensboro Coliseum for the past five seasons.

“It’s like a second home for us, and that’s the way we need to play,” Goestenkors said.

Barring any mishaps, though, all eyes will be on the championship Monday night. With the unbalanced schedule this year, the only true league title will be given to the team that wins the tournament. In addition to pride, a likely No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament is at stake.

“I think this tournament’s going to be Goestenkors said. “Every game is going to be a great batde.

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For the other five teams N.C. State, Florida State, Virginia, Maryland and Virginia Tech —that already appear to have secured at-large bids, the ACC Tournament will play a large factor in determining seeds. A year ago, North Carolina, with an RPI ranking of 21, finished second in the nation’s third-best conference and received a No. 4 seed.

It is unlikely that seven teams from one conference would all be within the top 16 seeded teams in the tournament. But with RPIs of 19 or better, it is unlikely that any of the five will have a seed lower than seven or eight.

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“Playing at home is a tremendous advantage,” UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell said.

“Hopefully we can get a couple of ACC teams in here, and that will help our conference do even better.”

Even though it would be in Chapel Hill, Goestenkors considers playing the first two rounds eight miles from home to be a major advantage.

“Anytime you have the opportunity to play close to home, you want to fight for it,” she said.

“We’ve already played over there, and we’d have the opportunity to

two bubble teams, play each other in the first round of the ACC Tournament and the loser will be all but eliminated from NCAA contention. The winner will play North Carolina in the second round Saturday, and a victory in that game may be enough to secure a bid. Last year the 57th team in the RPI, West Virginia, made the 2004 NCAA Tournament after losing in the Big East Tournament finals. With a similar performance, Georgia Tech or Miami could be the eighth ACC participant in the NCAA Tournament.

“Our league is so strong,” Hatchell said. “The parity is incredible. I’m hoping we’re going to have seven, maybe eight teams that will get in the NCAA Tournament.”

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specific responsibilities in the never-ending recruiting process. Valley was in charge of next year’s incoming class, and Wagner is in charge of the high school class of 2006. Perry spends her time chasing after the current high school sopho-

more class.

The recruiting tasks often extend late into the night, when potential Blue Devils can be contacted on the phone or even through AOL Instant Messenger. Often the coaches are online until they leave the office and all evening once they get home until they go to bed.

“You don’t really think about it as taking it home with you,” Perry said. “I’m single. It’s what I do. I don’t know any other way.”

From October into April, there really is no time offfor the quartet of coaches. The NCAA requires that student-athletes be granted at least one day off a week, but the same is not true for the professional staff.

Instead, players’ days off are an opportunity for the coaches to get in extra scouting or go on recruiting trips.

“The other day [Goestenkors] came in and said, ‘You need to go home,’” Perry said. “I said ‘Do I look that bad?’ She was like, ‘When do we ever have a break during the season to take a break and do something like go shopping?’ I was like, ‘Okay,’ and it was 6 p.m. and I was still at work. It doesn’t really feel like work most of the time, though.”

The next step Similar to any business environment, Goestenkors must also consider the career aspirations of her staff when breaking up responsibility. Both Valley, who has been at Duke longer than Goestenkors, and Perry,

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“There are great opportunities for advancement.”

The variety of future interests is something Goestenkors must consider each year when she puts together the staff.

Coaches must be willing to work well together but also to bring diverse skills in order to round out the program.

“I want to help them attain their goals, whatever they are,” Goestenkors said. “I always encourage them, if they’re interested, to look for jobs and know that I’ll help them get there.”

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