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The economy in our country fluctuates, but what does it matter to students? During times of economic growth, more undergraduates opt for a major in economics, and the boom in the 1990s correlated with an increase in majors in the field across the nation. The enthusiasm did not pass by Duke, which in fact anticipated the growth, and for several years economics has kept its title as the University’s most popular major. Despite fluctuating numbers, Duke has worked to accommodate both large and small majors without compromising academic standards. “The [economics] trend at Duke was faster than the national trend,” economics department chair Thomas Nechyba said. “A large part of the explanation was the introduction of the [Bachelor of Science] major in the mid- to late-19905. All of the growth has been in the B.S.

major, so that seemed to accelerate the trend here.” The high numbers of students majoring in particular areas may place more pressure on the University to maintain the desired level of academic quality. When the number of economics majors began to rise, the department realized the need for a new approach and introduced the EcoTeach Center, which administers all services for undergraduates and graduates in economics, two years ago. It is now fully implemented and provides the vast number of students with smaller upper-level classes taught only by Duke faculty. The department has also made sure more classes are taught by professors. “The intro classes are big... but I have yet to take a class taught by a [teaching assistant],” senior economics major Marco Gonzalez said. Over the last couple of years SEE

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Sophomore Jay Ganatra, newly elected Campus Council president, speaks before the Council Thursday. He plans to further develop quad programming and unity.

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As student after student begins to select housing for next year, the Office of Residence Life and Housing Services still lacks a permanent director to coordinate the process. RLHS has reopened its search for a new director of housing assignments and communications after declaring its initial fall effort a failure in

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Blackwell became a reservoir Thursday as a resident accidentally set off a sprinkler at about 10:30 p.m., flooding the dormitory. A student in room 206 hung something on the sprinkler in her room, activating it, police officers on the scene told students. Water filled the room, flowed down the hall and leaked through the floor to rooms below. Residents reported that the sprinklers stayed on for about 30 minutes and the water was several inches deep in parts of the hall. About 20 rooms sustained water damage, students said. Fire alarms went off, and officials evacuated the building. Sarah Andrews, a graduate assistant in

It was the end of an era Thursday night, two-year Campus Council President Anthony Vitarelli stepped down as the organization chose a new executive board. Campus Council members determined the winners in a closed majority election after candidates gave speeches and took questions for seven minutes each. The new executives are President Jay Ganatra, Vice President Ben Rubinfeld, Treasurer Brint Markle and Communications Coordinator Brenna Benson. “I am so proud and excited about our four new executive members,” said Vitarelli, a senior. “I’ve never worked with a more talented or exceptional group.” Ganatra, a sophomore from Duluth, Ga., plans to enhance the quad model by designing activities to bring students from various living areas together, including independents and students in selective houses. Tie also expressed interest in making improvements to the University grounds and in

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Police officers survey the second-floor hall of Blackwell Dormitory late Thursday night. Residents estimated the deluge of water damaged about 20 rooms.

mg department. The refashioned position will include supervision of all communications for RLHS—from the website to materipublished als—in an effort to develop a unified identity and voice in all RLHS communication outlets, “This is a tough position to fill,” said Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean of residence life. “We didn’t find a person with the right blend of technical expertise and background and that had the ability to communicate at a high level. It’s not the easiest blend to find.” The first search was headed by a committee that worked with Spelman and Johnson, a SEE HOUSING ON PAGE

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Saudis tell Syria's Assad to withdraw by

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creasingly impatient at Syria’s resistance to a quick, complete withdrawal of its

troops from Lebanon, with Saudi leader Crown Prince Abdullah sharply telling Syria’s president Thursday to start getting out soon or face deeper isolation, according to a Saudi official. The unusually tough message came when Syrian President Bashar Assad met Abdullah and other Saudi leaders in the kingdom’s capital, the Saudi official said. Arab League foreign ministers, meeting in Cairo on Thursday, added to the pres-

sure, expressing support for the two Mideast powerhouses’ diplomatic push. Syria has resisted Arab pressure to withdraw, saying in behind-the-scenes diplomacy in recent days that it wants to keep 3,000 troops and early-warning stations in Lebanon, according to an Arab diplomat in Cairo. The Syrian army already operates radar stations in Dahr el-Baidar, on mountain tops bordering Syria. Israeli warplanes have attacked the sites in the past. But both Egypt and Saudi Arabia feel those conditions are impossible, the diplomat said. Abdullah told Assad the kingdom insists on the full withdrawal of all Syria’s

15,000 troops and intelligence forces from Lebanon and wants it to start “soon,” the Saudi official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Assad replied only that he would study the possibility of carrying out a partial withdrawal before an Arab summit scheduled for March 23 in Algeria. The Syrian leader insisted he is doing everything he can to resolve the problem but that not everything is up to him, the official said. Saudi officials replied that the situation was his problem and warned that if Damascus refuses to comply, it would lead to tensions in Saudi-Syrian.ties, the official said.

Iraqi forces killed in terrorist attacks by

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Car bombs killed BAGHDAD, Iraq six police offcers and wounded 15 in new attacks on Iraq’s security services Thursday as political factions wrangled over putting together a government. The Shiite Muslim-dominated United Iraqi Alliance and a Kurdish coalition, which emerged from the Jan. 30 elections with the two biggest blocks of seats in the National Assembly, made little headway in their talks on combining forces to select the leaders of the new government. Meanwhile, interim Prime Minister

Ayad Allawi, whose party finished third, denied rumors he had given up his effort to stitch together support from other groups, including the Kurds, that would allow him to remain prime minister.

Forming Iraq’s first democratically elected government is a key step in the U.S. plan for stabilizing the country, and insurgents have been striking at Iraqi police and military forces seeking to undermine the effort. Two suicide car bombs exploded outside the Interior Ministry in eastern Baghdad, killing at least five police officers and wounding nine, the defense ministry reported. Another car bomb targeted a police

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newsinbrief Bush reassures CIA employees President George W. Bush promised CIA employees they would retain an "incredibly vital" role in safeguarding the nation's security despite a reorganization that diminishes the agency's 60-year dominance of the intelligence community.

U.N. drops abortion demand The United States pressed ahead with its campaign to change the final declaration of a high-level U.N. meeting to advance the fight for women's equality, but it did bow to pressure and drop a controversial demand for a reference to abortion in the document.

Bombers plotted follow-ups Islamic militants blamed for last year's commuter train bombings in Madrid we(e plotting more bloodshed—a string of suicide attacks in the months after the massacre, Spain's counterterrorism director told The Associated Press.

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If the creators of thefacebook.com have typed up another online hit, Thefacebook junkies across the nation will soon be clicking to the same tune once again. Wirehog, a new peer-to-peer file-sharing program, was launched last November by two Harvard University students, Facebook originator Mark Zuckerberg and graphic design head Andrew McCollum, along with Adam D’Angelo at the California Institute of Technology. Since its release at Harvard, the program has branched out to Stanford University, Columbia University, Yale University and Dartmouth College, with students at other Thefacebook-member schools joining via invitation from members at the current five. The trio began designing the program over the summer with hopes of adding another social element to thefacebook.com and to file-sharing in general. Unlike other peer-to-peer file-sharing systems, the downloadable program is geared toward connecting files among friends who share interests besides file-sharing itself, on the assumption that Thefacebook friends have common tastes. “You’re not only likely to find the things that interest you, but you’re much more inclined to share personal

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media like pictures and music you’ve created yourself,” said McCollum, adding that sharing digital pictures was probably Wirehog’s most popular use so far. The program also allows users to view thumbnails of photos, download entire music albums at once and recommend files to friends—even those not using Thefacebook—in addition to posting all of their word-processing files on the site. “For me, the best use [of Wirehog] is sharing my artwork with friends,” Stanford freshman Jacob Arias said. Arias and students at Yale said most students use OurTunes and other similar programs for downloading music and video files. Duke freshman Cart Weiland, one of a limited number of Duke students familiar with Wirehog, visited the site to listen to a friend’s song and has never returned. “[lf Wirehog was available at Duke] I would probably not download it personally because it apparendy takes too much time,” he said. Many other Duke students voiced similar responses and likened the program to a more complicated version of AOL Instant Messenger’s file-sharing feature, which also allows for direct file transfers. But some who SEE WIREHOG ON PAGE 6

When will residents of Gilbert-Addomscatch a break? In the past seven months, the East Campus dormitory has endured invasions of mice, cockroaches, ants and, most recendy, rats. felts have been reported in Gilbert-Addoms Down Under, a space below the dorm for students to eat, study and congregate. Freshman Grant Smith is one of a few GA residents who has witnessed the rats firsthand. “I was in GA Down Under, studying back by the pool table, when they ran right by me,” he said. Jeanne Duncan, East Campus facilities manager, insists that the presence of rats will not be an ongoing problem. She Said the appearance of rats is most likely in correlation with the increased disposal of food and garbage, due in large part to the arrival ofThe Q Shack as a food distributor in GA Down Under. “Whenever there is a sighting of rodents, as there was in Gilbert-Addoms, we place about a dozen humane traps in the area, an’d later release the animals away from the campus,” Duncan said. “We do not expect this problem will continue, but if it does we will communicate with sanitation about how to handle it.” The discovery of the rats may be the current focus of attention for the dormitory, but only a few weeks ago another type of rodent was sending the first-floor girls’ hall into a frenzy. One night, as Tia Ferguson and her roommate prepared for sleep, the girls heard a strange rustling sound coming from the closet. The morning light revealed a gnawed-upon protein bar—the first telltale sign that they had an unwanted guest. Days later, the girls watched in terror as a mouse ran under their desk, and they quickly alerted theirresidential adviser and neighbors of the problem. “We heard that mice run in packs of six, so we were really scared,” Ferguson said. “Our RA told us that it wasn’t likely that anyone would do anything about the mouse, so our SEE RATS ON PAGE 5

CORRECTION A caption on page 1 of Thursday's paper should have said that Spanish benches will likely not be, part of the new West Campus plaza.The images were simply representations of potential seating.

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newsbriefs From staff and wire reports Provost reappoints vice provost Gil Merkx has accepted a second five-year term as vice provost for international affairs, University officials announced Thursday. Merkx came to Duke in 2001 to take on the job. During the past five years, the University has focused on expanding its international reputation and outreach. Duke has pioneered programs in Germany, Singapore, China and many other countries. It has also developed programs and centers on Duke’s campus focused on internationalization. “He has not only done an outstanding job within the University, but has taken Duke University to a new level of visibility as a leader in the development internationalization programs among American universities,” Provost Peter Lange wrote in an e-mail to faculty and staff. Gas leak closes Markham Avenue Portions of Markham Avenue, one of the streets adjacent to East Campus, and Green Street were blocked off for 90 minutes Thursday morning after a car crashed into a house, rupturing a gas line. Durham police reported that at 9:18 a.m. a woman drove her car off the side of the road and into a house at 1516 Markham Ave. Police said the woman seemed to have blacked out, causing her to lose control of the car. The car damaged the house and gas line and meter. No one inside the house was injured, and paramedics treated the woman at the scene of the accident. SEE BRIEFS ON PAGE 5

MAJORS from page 1 the numbers have leveled offfor the economics major, holding steady between 800 and 900 students. Nevertheless, the department is still looking for ways to help the many majors through course offerings and research experience, said Lori Leachman, professor of the practice of economics and director of the EcoTeach Center. Trends regarding major distribution have remained fairly stable throughout the past several years. Apart from economics, areas such as public policy studies, political science and biology retain a monopoly on Duke undergraduates. Last year students earned a total of 582 first-major degrees in these fields, while smaller departments such as theater studies and Asian and African languages and literature each had just four first majors, Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson said. Areas like psychology, English and history also tend to be in the top tier of popular majors. Students often choose their majors to correspond with the careers they hope to pursue after graduation. “If you think about the major jobs that people want to prepare themselves for, you certainly have the sphere of economics and the sphere of public policy, and then the sphere of the pre-med world. History and English come into the pre-law world,” Thompson said. And economics holds its ground as a gateway into the world of business and the many coveted job opportunities. “We don’t have a business major, so the next logical thing to do is look for courses in economics, particularly those that may prepare one [for] careers like investment banking,” Thompson said.

A student’s choice of major does not always indicate career goals. More than half of the students majoring in fields like Medieval and Renaissance studies or Slavic languages and literature go to medical or law school, often with a double major in biology or chemistry. Senior Carolyn Eng is a biological anthropology and anatomy majbr, an area that had 24 graduates last year. “With fewer students there’s more opportunity for one-on-one attention from the professors, and better discussion,” she said, comparing her major to some larger ones. But her focus doesn’t end at BAA: She is pursuing two minors in biology and psychology and intends to go to graduate school for physical anthropology. She added that many BAA majors are pre-med, so they are able to reap the benefits of a biology or chemistry major from a slightly different perspective. This kind of academic multi-tasking is popular among Duke students. Edna Andrews, professor and chair of the Department ofSlavic Languages and Literature, said she urges students to pursue a double major. “Everybody does well on the MCATs, everybody has their basic science down, but if they can do something else—the medical profession is changing, and being able to be cross-cultural in addition to your basic science is very advantageous,” she said. Despite their seemingly small numbers, these departments are pleased with the way the major programs are evolving. The Slavic languages and literature department has more majors than corresponding departments at other universities, Andrews said, and the Department ofAsian and African Languages and Literature is expecting an increase in ma-

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jors because of a surge in interest in Arabic and Chinese. The AALL department has 12 majors this year, but filling classes has not been a problem. “Our enrollments-are huge,” said Leo Ching, chair of AALL. “Our majors might be small, but last year, for example, we served over 1,000 [students].” In fact, professors across several small majors agreed that being involved in such a field does not pose any problems regarding class size or class availability. Like AALL, the Department of Medieval and Renaissance Studies caters to students outside its major, and its only difficulty is finding enough willing professors to direct a FOCUS program every other year, which fulfills a major requirement. “Over the last several years we’ve averaged between 15 and 20 majors, but it’s important to know that 25 percent of the Duke student body every year takes a Medieval and Renaissance studies course,” said Michael Cornett, program coordinator for Medieval and Renaissance studies. “Our faculty is in 10 different programs across the University, so our challenge is with faculty being able to have time to participate in FOCUS.” Though political science and biology are some of Duke’s more prominent majors, areas such as Germanic studies and Medieval and Renaissance studies are academicallyjust as strong, Thompson said. The opportunities for first majors, second majors, minors and certificates are abundant, and the full range of courses allows students to explore their interests in myriad ways. “Maybe they’re an econ major,” Thompson said, “but maybe they’re also an art history major. That’s where our strength comes from.”

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poison the ant nests. “They bit me while I slept,” recalled freshman Joseph Williamson. “Worse, they would run across my fingers as I typed on my keyboard and would get squashed between the keys.” Williamson’s neighbor, freshman Matt Rinehart, has difficulty forgetting the night Uiat he went to die bathroom to brush his teeth, opened his retainer case and discovered dial his retainer was buried under a mound of ants. Since the start of winter, residents have said ants have been much less of a problem. Although the cold weather may have discouraged the ant populations, it seems a new insect has worked its way inside GA’s walls and made itself at home. “The cockroaches are huge!” Williamson said. “We mostly saw them outdoors at the beginning of the year, but it seems they’ve come inside for the winter.” Despite the influx of inconveniences, residents of GA maintain that they would not sacrifice their dorm for a more sanitary living space. “Don’t get me wrong, GA is such a great place to live,” said Smith, who, despite his rodent encounter, remains faithful to the dorm. “The people, the atmosphere—I wouldn’t have it any other way.” to

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Not every resident had an adverse reactions to the sudden appearance of rodents, however. Around the time that Ferguson’s unlucky visitor made its first appearance, three or four other mice found their way into Will Arnold’s first-floor room through a hole in the wall. Arnold <and his roommate caught two of them and kept them, for a day or two, in a cardboard box with a water tray. “Their names were Jesus and Jamal,” Arnold said. “They were our pets. We clothed them, fed them, paid their way through school.” Another common residential annoyance is the infestation of ants, and Duncan admitted that most, if not all, East Campus dorms experienced this problem. But GA residents say they endured more than their share first semester, especially during prolonged periods of warm weather. Authorities dealt with the infiltration by installing “bait stations” within GA halls that were meant

Atkins donates S2M to Duke The Robert C. Atkins Foundation has given $2 million to the Duke University School of Medicine to fund an endowed professorship and support research, clinical care and education in the areas of nutrition and metabolism. “Obesity is one of the leading chronic health problems in this country and globally, and it is linked to a host of other medical illnesses in both adults and children,” President Richard Brodhead said. “The Atkins Foundation’s generous gift will advance scientific research already underway at Duke to understand why obesity is increasing at such alarming rates and what we can do to improve treatment and prevention.” The University has made combatting obesity part of its global health initiative. The endowed professorship will be named the Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Professorship in nutrition and metabolism.

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CC from page 1 augmenting West Campus social life “I have seen the decline in social events from my freshman year to this year and find it to be saddening,” Ganatra said. “If elected, anything I do next year will be in the spirit of uniting our campus.” A member of the Campus Council Programming Committee and Campus Council representative for Kilgo Quadrangle, Ganatra intends to use his prior experience to successfully meet the needs of students. Though not previously a part of the Campus Council executive group, Ganatra expressed confidence in his ability to easily transition to the role of president. He ran against sophomore Brittany Greenfield for the position. Rubinfeld, a sophomore from Seattle, Wa., hopes to create a student Judicial board to deal with disciplinary issues. The

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search firm that specializes in academic institutions, to find a set of finalists. Four finalists were selected, two of which were “good matches” but decided not to take the job for personal reasons, said Donald Love, manager of housing administration. RLHS has implemented the same search method for its second hunt for candidates. Hull said the search committee and RLHS intend to be “more aggressive” in the second quest in order to find the proper candidate. Love added that more officials are looking for jobs in the late spring and summer than in the fall. The national deadline for applications for the position is March 22. The position became vacant last April

Campus Council representative and vice president of Kilgo Quad also plans to address the poor lighting on Central Campus. Like Ganatra, Rubinfeld hopes to

unite students living in separate areas of the Duke campus. In his speech, he expressed his intent to unite quads by initiating a quad-based intramural sports system. “It’s a great way to have quad unity and quad pride,” he said. Rubinfeld ran against freshman Christopher Hopper, freshman David Lorch, and sophomore John Zhuo for the position. Markle, a freshman from Devon, Pa., hopes to extend the traditionalrole of Campus Council treasurer by focusing on student event programming. He also hopes to implement an online finance log of the Campus Council budget to facilitate communication between the organization, students and administrators. In his speech, Markle said he wants to increase the budget allotted to student programming, strengthwhen previous director Bill Burig transferred to the registrar’s office. Love has been acting as the interim director and will continue to do so until a permanent candidate is found. Love, however, has no interest in assuming the positron full-time. “I’m just much more interested in behind-thescenes work,” he said. “It’s not a good match for my personality.” There has been some flux recently in housing positions within RLHS. The job of housing assignments coordinator, now filled by Jen Frank, was created last January as Burig announced his move away from RLHS. Love said there was no correlation between the events. The new director would oversee room selection but primarily concentrate on larger communication issues. Frank will coordinate housing picks.

en community within the current quad model and increase collaboration between the Campus Council finance committee and quad councils. Freshman Brandon Fuqua challenged Markle for the position. Benson, a junior from Gainesville, Fla., hopes to design events to “make students think twice” before they head off campus to socialize. She expressed interest in increasing the number of activities Campus Council coordinates and improving communication with students using the Internet or a message board in the Bryan Center. Benson also wants to create an online suggestion box. Freshmen Dan Mintzer and Kaitlin Bidder ran against Benson for the position. Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean of residence life, feels positively about the new executive board. “I think they’re going to be outstanding,” he said. “They are from a group as capable as I’ve ever heard presented.”

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have given the program a spin had other things to say. Junior Connie Leeper, who has almost her entire computer’s content on the site, used the program to download a lab writeup from Perkins Library that she had forgotten in her dorm room. “I found the program pretty easy to understand. And you can totally choose everything to put out there,” Leeper said. McCollum said a major feature that makes the program worthwhile is its tight security—users access friends’ computers direcdy rather than through servers. “We realized that this removed entirely the legal morass of traditional file-sharing,” he said. McCollum added that the direct filesharing also dramatically cut down on

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Blackwell, said residents in affected rooms would not be able to move back until Friday at the earliest. Residents’ reactions varied, with some women who live on the drenched hall crying and other students donning ponchos to slide down the overflow outside. “My boyfriend stole my computer so it was not on the floor—praise the Lord!” said Emily Thomey, who lives on the first floor. Second-floor resident Lara Jones said her room was submerged under about one and a half inches of water. She barely saved her iPod, she said. In 2002, Keohane Quad flooded in a similar incident, and Randolph Dormitory did the year before. At the time, residents said the University did not compensate them for damages.

bandwidth use—currendy the major concern of college technology officials.. Chris Cramer, information technology security officer, agreed that Wirehog’s closed network setup makes it more favorable for bandwidth usage across college networks. It also reduces the risk tied to downloading copyrighted files since direct sharing makes it harder for queries to penetrate, he said. When asked when Duke students will have direct access to the secure system, McCollum said the program’s user base will simply grow organically—the creators eventually hope to make it accessible to the general public. keeper said the program has the potential to become a technological icon. “At Duke, I can definitely see the program catching on like facebook as a great way to download music,” she said.

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When important people in our lives move on, those of us who were affected by them tend to reflect. After all, it is during this period when we decide how we will remember our heroes. Witness the goodwill extended to President Reagan last summer analysis and all things written about Hunter S. Thompson the last several weeks. Here at Duke, where basketball is king and Coach K is something more supreme, it goes without saying that basketball players are some of Duke’s VIPs. Accordingly, for those who follow the team a tendency arises to determine each player’s correct place in the annals ofDuke basketball history. And with Daniel Ewing’s last game in Cameron Indoor Stadium Thursday, this phenomenon has been in effect, no more noticeably than in the pages of this newspaper this week. But with his final contest in Cameron behind us, let us ask what kind of place No. 5 will assume in the hearts and minds of Duke fans? (This, of course, could all change in the upcoming ACC and NCAA tournaments.) . Well, Ewing has certainly never been the superstar. Even in his senior year, teammates JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams still get the majority of the team’s press. SEE EWING ON PAGE 12

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Duke’s “big three” has accounted for more than 65 percent of its points and just about 100 percent of its individual accolades this season. But with their hustle plays and refuseto-lose attitude against top opponents, the Blue Devils’ seven role players have carried the team through many tough moments.

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On a night that was supposed to belong to seniors Daniel Ewing and Reggie Love, junior J.J. Redick stole the show. Coming off two of its worst shooting performances of the season against Georgia Tech i MIAMI 1_59 an d St. john’s DUKE 83 Duke put Miami away early Thursday night with an offensive explosion. Led by Redick’s 18 first-half points on 5-for-6 shooting, the Blue Devils used constant defensive pressure and sharp outside shooting to build an early 17-4 lead that they would expand to 44-24 at the break. Miami (16-11,7-9 in the ACC) had no solutions on either end of the floor and Duke (22-4, 11-4) ran away with an 83-59 victory. “We played very well tonight,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I thought last week, playing those three games in six days, and especially with Sean [Dock-

ery’s] injury, we just needed some time to get a little bit more fresh.” The rest certainly appeared to help. In its last two games, Duke shot a combined 32 percent from three-point range. Against the Hurricanes, the Blue Devils shot 58 percent from behind the arc in the first half as they built their lead and finished 14-for-33 from long range. Redick, the ACC’s leading scorer, had struggled recendy as well, but he rebounded against the Hurricanes with six three-pointers to lead Duke with 29 points. “He’s just a great shooter,” junior Lee Melchionni said. “When he plays like that teams just flock to him and pay him a lot of attention. That creates some shots for other guys.” Although Ewing did not have a standout game in terms of points scored, his performance Senior Night was memorable nonetheless. On the Blue Devils’ SEE MIAMI ON PAGE 12

It will take another determined effort from Duke’s stars and role players for the No. 6 Blue Devils to win their next game, against No. 2 North Carolina at 4 p.m. Sunday in Chapel Hill. Each team features plenty of starpower; The Blue Devils’ have their “big three” of Daniel Ewing, J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams, and the Tar Heels counter with Raymond Felton, Sean May and Rashad McCants. But in the teams’ last meeting Feb. 9, less heralded players shined the brightest. “A lot of times, in games like this, really good players cancel out one another because they're playing so hard,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after that game. “Somebody else steps up.” The last time the teams played, it was DeMarcus Nelson. Despite guarding taller players all night, including 6-foot-9 Jawad Williams for a stretch, Nelson contributed 16 points and four steals in 29 minutes. After the game, Krzyzewski said the freshman guard played “at a level, or even a couple levels higher, than he has played.” More likely than not, a similar type of player —a guy that usually blends into the background —will take a starring role in the teams’ second matchup. SEE UNC ON PAGE 10

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With a win over No. 7 Maryland behind them and three top-10 opponents looming in the next two weeks, staying focused this weekend may be the biggest challenge for the women’s lacrosse team. Duke plays No. 17 William & Mary (0-1) Friday at 3 p.m. and Richmond (0-1) at Koslanen Stadium Sunday at 1 p.m. The fourth-ranked Blue Devils beat Maryland 10-7 in College Park Saturday and face North Carolina, Princeton and Georgetown in the coming weeks. Head coach Kerstin Kimel said her team cannot look past this weekend’s opponents. “Both of these teams are really tough and really scrappy,” Kimel said. “They always come in to play us with a chip on their shoulder, because we’re a big game—we’re Duke, and that’s what every sport here has to face.” William & Mary features several speedy goal-scorers capable of putting points on the board. Senior All-American candidate Morgan Watkins, who totalled 38 goals and 20 assists last year, leads the Tribe. Junior Colleen Dalon adds another threat and is a dynamic attacker who racked up 34 goals a year ago. Kimel said in order to stop Watkins, who scored four goals

JuniorKatie Chrest has led a balanced Blue Devil scoring attack, in which eight players have scored at least three goals.

in William & Mary’s opener, the. Blue Devils will have to mark her across the whole field. “We want to limit her touches and try to slow her down in the midfield,” Kimel said. “She’s a great player, and we will just have to use our whole defensive unit to slow her down.” William & Mary shot better

than 50 percent as a team in its season opener. Led by Junior goalie Megan Huether, the Blue Devils have allowed opponents to shoot only 29 percent this year and will try to continue this shutdown defense against the Tribe. “One of our big focuses this year is on team defense and knowing that no one person is

going to have to make the big stop because everybody out there is going to be right behind them to back them up,” Huether said. That just allows us to take risks and try to create things on the defensive end because you know that if something happens you’ve got six other people there behind you.”

Duke will need a a similar collective effort on the offensive side this weekend. Last season, Duke defeated Richmond, 12-7, largely because of now-graduated senior Meghan Walters’ schoolrecord six goals. “This year’s team is more capable of putting out a team effort, and we as upperclassmen know that,” junior Katie Chrest said of a team that has eight players who have scored at least three goals. “I think that it’s just engaging everyone and letting the younger guys know that they are capable, and we need every single one of them.” Along with Chrest, who has scored 10 goals, a number of freshmen are taking on larger roles than members of the incoming class have during prior seasons. Freshmen have totaled 12 goals, led by midfielder Rachel Sanford’s five tallies. Because of this offensive firepower, neither William & Mary nor Richmond may have the skills to keep up with the Blue Devils, but Duke is still focused on this weekend’s matchups. “They always bring a ton of intensity and a ton of emotion, and it tends to get teams out of their rhythm,” Chrest said of this weekend’s opponents. “We just need to not worry about what they’re doing and focus on our game

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The Georgia Tech baseball team has been playing way out ofits league. The No. 13Yellow Jackets (8-2) come to Duke this weekend after losing to the Atlanta Braves in an exhibition game Wednesday night. The Ramblin’ Wreck have never beaten the Major League team in the annual exhibition, losing in each of the last 11 games. “It’s a chance for our players to measure themselves against the guys they see play on TV everyday,” Georgia Tech head coach Danny Hall said. “They’re comparing themselves to a very high caliber player.” When the Yellow Jackets open their ACC slate at Jack Coombs Field today at 3 p.m., they will be on the winning side of a similar streak. Dating back to 2001, Duke has lost 13 consecutive games to Georgia Tech. “We know they’re good. We know we’re the underdog,” Duke head coach Bill Hillier said. “We’re not going to be intimidated, and we’re going to come out and play hard and see what happens.” Hillier will send ace Greg Burke (3-1, 3.21) to the hill to face the Yellow Jackets’ Jason Neighborgall (2-0, 3.18) Friday.

Burke’s three victories are currently tops on the team. Burke will have to bring his best stuff, however, if Duke wants to compete with a Georgia Tech team that has averaged just under 10 runs a game this season. Burke and the rest of Duke’s staff, which will feature David Torcise (1-2, 4.58) Saturday and Danny Otero (2-2,1.44) Sunday, need to pitch ahead in the count and keep walks to a minimum against a lineup that is hitting .313. The number of free passes issued by Duke pitchers may prove to be an important factor if the Blue Devils defensive struggles continue. Georgia Tech has reached base in 43 percent of its at-bats this season and has scored four more runs a game than the Blue Devils. The Yellowjackets’ offense is strong top to bottom. Five of the eight regular starters are hitting over .300 this season. Wes Hodges leads the potent lineup with a .474 average and is tied for the ACC lead in home runs with six. “Their lineup is solid, they’ve got great depth,” Hillier said. “If you pitch behind in JESSICA SCHREIBER/THE CHRONICLE

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TheDuke pitching staff will contend with a GeorgiaTech lineup thatfeatures five batters hitting above .300.

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After winning the ACC regular season title last season, Duke struggled throughout its 2004-2005 campaign on the way to a 9-5 overall record and a 2-3 mark in the conference, good for fourth place. But the Blue Devils have a chance to redeem themselves at the ACC Championship Tournament Saturday in Greensboro. Last season, Duke had three No. 1 seeds in the ACC Tournament and earned four individual championships on its way to a third-place team finish. The Blue Devils will be hard-pressed to equal those individual accomplishments, but they could be poised for a better team finish. Head coach Clar Anderson has preached intensity and aggressiveness all season, but it has not yet translated to action on the mat as the Blue Devils have lost a number ofclose decisions. “So far this season we haven’t had savvy, we haven’t had the self-confidence we need,” Anderson said. “We’re going to need that, and we’ve got to win the close matches this time.” The one wrestler who Anderson says has consistently shown the aggressiveness his team needs is 133pounder Bryan Gibson. Gibson has been improving all year, capping off his regular season by pinning N.C. State’s Jeremy Hartrum. Gibson, however, is wrestling in the toughest weight class, and he will most like be the third seed behind the nation’s No. 11 wrestler Evan Sola of North Carolina and No. 13 David Hoffman of Virginia Tech. “I am expecting him to place third, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he upset either of those guys,” Anderson said of Gibson. “He is really tough, and he just needs one break to make it over the top.” Levi Craig at 174 pounds and Frank Comely at 184 pounds are the defending conference champions in

their respective weight classes, but neither is favored Saturday. Craig will most likely be the third seed in his weight and is coming off a loss to N.C. State’s Kevin Gabrielson, when he was pinned in 43 seconds. Comely is the reigning ACC Wresder of the Week, but a mid-season loss to Virginia Tech’s Steve Boija will leave him with the second seed this weekend. “Levi lost a couple of tough matches this season and will have to really wrestle well if he is going to win again,” Anderson said. “Frank has really turned it on at the end of the season. He believes that he is

And with each team potentially missing a regular starter, role players could mean even more. Duke’s Sean Dockery will miss the game as he continues to recover from a medial collateral ligament tear suffered Feb. 23. McCants, UNC’s top scorer, has missed the team’s last three contests with an intestinal disorder. No timetable has been set for McCants’ return, and he may not play against the Blue Devils. The Tar Heels (25-3, 13-2 in the ACC) have not suffered in the junior guard’s absence, winning their games against N.C. State, Maryland and Florida State and topping 80 points each time. Duke (224, 114) is 2-0 in Dockery’s absence, recording wins over St.John’s and Miami. Dockery’s absence has given Nelson and forward Lee Melchionni even more room to shine; the two have combined to average 21.5 points over Duke’s past two games. For the deep Tar Heels, who often give as many as 10 players meaningful minutes, several role players have stepped forward in McCants’ absence, including seniors Jawad Williams and Melvin Scott. The Blue Devils, who claim the ACC’s top scoring defense, successfully contained the Tar Heels’ NCAA-best offense the last time the teams met by slowing the tempo of the game to a crawl. Only one fast break basket was scored in the game, and the Tar Heels’ 70-point output was their lowest of the season. Both teams cited the Blue Devils’ defensive effort as the key to the game. Duke was especially successful in its endeavors to prevent North Carolina from pushing the ball up court for easy baskets. “The main thing for us was just getting back on defense,” Redick said after the game. “They only had a few fast break opportunities, and that’s because we hustled back.”

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be an All-American, and it starts this weekend.” A few other Duke wrestlers have the potential to win or to place high. Wes Kuser at 141 pounds could be seeded anywhere from first to third, 197pounder Mark Thompson will likely be the third seed and 149-pounder Antwone Floyd will probably be the fourth seed. Heavyweight Venroy July will be seeded fifth or sixth, but he won last season’s tournament at 197 pounds and has the talent to win again. “I don’t think anyone is going to want to face Venroy this weekend,” Anderson said. “It has taken him a long time to get in shape, but he’s been looking great in the practice room and he could do some damage.” to

The Blue Devils will have to do more, of the same if they hope to win Sunday because North Carolina is at its best when it gets out in transition. Point guard Felton is one of the quickest players in the country, and the Tar Heels have plenty of players athletic enough to finish around the rim. Even May’who is chided often by opposing fans for being overweight, has been able to run the floor and score. The junior center is also one of the Tar Heels’ best half-court scoring options, especially if McCants is unable to play. He is virtually unstoppable when he catches the ball near enough to the basket and registered a game-high 23 points and 18 rebounds in the teams’ last matchup. \With a win, the Tar Heels would clinch their first outright ACC regular season championship since 1992-1993. But if the past is any indicator, they are going to have to fight through a determined Blue Devil defense to do it.

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NO. 2 UNC (25-3,13-2) Guard Raymond Felton (12.0 ppg, 7.2 apg) Guard Jackie Manuel (5.9 ppg, 3.0 rpg) Guard Melvin Scott (5.5 ppg, 1.4 rpg) Forward Jawad Williams (14.6 ppg, 4.0 rpg) Center Sean May (16.3 ppg. 10.4 rpg)

The Blue Devils may have answered some of the questions about their ability to run their offense in the absence of Sean Dockery. After scoring only 58 points against St. John's, the Blue Devils responded with an 83-point effort versus Miami. They moved the ball around the perimeter well and Melchionni, Redick, Ewing and DeMarcus Nelson knocked down outside shots. The Tar Heels love to run. Raymond Felton quarterbacks a fast

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break that some television commentators have compared to the Magic Johnson-era "Showtime" Los Angeles Lakers. In the teams' last meeting Feb. 9, the Blue Devils made an effort to get back on defense in order to limit UNC'sfast break opportunities. The strategy worked as the Tar Heels' NCAA-best offense struggled in the half-court and scored just 70 points.

Rashad McCants has not played in UNC's last three contests, suffering from an intestinal disorder. No decision has been made on his availability. McCants' ability to play will be a huge X-factor in the game. Nevertheless, the Tar Heels have compiled a perfect 14-0 record at home this season will be playing for their first outright ACC regular season championship since 1992-1993, so they should be motivated.

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EWING from page 7 For the season he is averaging 15.3 points per game, compared to a career average of 11.4. Playing for the last time in front of the Cameron Crazies, Ewing managed 14 points, a career-high 10 assists and his first double-doublo. “It’s like a storybook game,” Ewing said. “It was good to go out like that.” Without the same attention given to his teammates, particularly Redick, Ewing is quietly the guy who has won more games (110) than any other player in the country. Also high on his resume would be MVP of the 2003 ACC Tournament. As the Crazies chanted his son’s name, George Ewing recalled his favorite moment of Daniel’s career. It was from the second game of the NCAA Tournament in 2002, when the freshman Ewing scored 18 points and grabbed six rebounds to fend off an upset from Notre Dame. “I know the coach of Notre Dame said, ‘lf anyone was going to beat us; it was Daniel Ewing,’” George Ewing said. “And he was the one that beat [Notre Dame].”

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lost two games in Cameron Indoor Stadium over his, four years. “I hope that he is remembered as a champion,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He’s just a kid you want to be around all the time.” Those close to Ewing—from teammates, to coaches, to the team’s sports information staff—all echo Krzyzewski's feelings. Yet I always thought Ewing carved an uneasy presence on campus, especially among his fellow students. His reputation is not one of being easily approachable. He is not the kind of guy who has the same rapport with the student body as some of his teammates, like Redick and Lee Melchionni, do. “I would say it’s almost like people might think he’s standoffish,” Melchionni said.

lead. Harris, the Hurricanes’ point guard, had five assists but was also forced into 6 turnovers. Normally a team that shoots 35 percent from three-point range, Miami was held to 25 percent by Duka’s defense. “We really have defended the three well and a lot of that has to do with the fact that they know they have backing,” Krzyzewski said. “This has been the best shot-blocking team that I’ve ever coached.” Melchionni and Shavlik Randolph were particularly impressive on defense. Melchionni was often assigned the task of defending one ofMiami’s smaller and quicker guards but held his own and snatched two steals. Randolph grabbed nine rebounds, blocked two shots and drew several charges

opening possession, he drove hard to the basket against Miami’s Guillermo Diaz and laid the ball in, setting an aggressive tone for Duke’s offense. Ewing also proved that he can be effective as the team’s only point guard, distributing a career-high 10 assists while only giving up one turnover against a fearsome trio of Miami guards. Along with his 14 points, the assists gave Ewing his first ever double-double as a Blue Devil. “I’m going to call [Bobby] Hurley tonight and tell him he never did that,” Krzyzewski said of Ewing’s assist-toturnover ratio. “We were very unselfish tonight, and for Daniel to get a doubleNOTES: double is really great.” Ewing is now 110-21 as a Blue Devil Duke moved the ball well against a myrand 56-2 at Cameron Indoor Stadium.... iad of defenses—Miami alternated beWith two three-point baskets, Ewing tween a box-and-one, a 2-3 zone and man(201) became the eighth player in Duke to-man —and finished with 16 assists, three history to make 200+ three-pointers in a above its season average. career.... Redick reached double figures While its offense set a torrid pace, the for the 25th time this season and his six Blue Devils’ defense kept Miami’s backthree pointers increased his ACC-leading court trio of Diaz, Robert Hite and Anthototal to 99.... Melchionni is 14-for-26 from ny Harris in check the whole night. Diaz behind the arc in the last four games.... and Hite, both in the top four in the ACC Williams now has 96 blocks on the season in scoring, were held to a combined 13 and needs 16 more to break his own points in the first half as Duke built its record (111 in 2003-2004). freshman Brett Bartles, will need to bounce back against a Georgia Tech pitching staff that surrenders an average of four runs per game. Duke’s staff sports the better ERA heading into the series but has not yet faced an offense as dangerous as the Yellow Jackets’. Bartles, whose .500 batting average is

third best in the ACC, will need to have a good series if Duke is to be successful. Hall is very familiar with the Blue Devil freshman, as Georgia Tech expressed interest in recruiting him. “He’s established himself as one of the most promising players in the league,” Hall said.

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Ewing recorded the first double-double of his career Thursday, scoring 14 points and dishing out 10 assists.

Talking is not something that comes naturally to Ewing. From all accounts, the maturation of the incredibly quiet freshman to the team’s vocal leader has been a long one. Even now, Ewing is arguably the Blue Devils’ biggest trash talker, but you still have to pay close attention to catch it. “He’s learned to deal with a lot of things at Duke,” George Ewing said. “This year has brought a lot out of him because he had to be vocal, had to talk.” So, then, where does Ewing belong? Given his statistics, his victories, his journey, he ought to be remembered more than he will be. And wherever it is, he’ll probably be overshadowed by someone else, and he’ll most likely not speak up about it. ‘You aren’t going to know the true effect or wealth of Daniel until he’s gone,” Melchionni said. “He’s like the superstar who is underappreciated.”

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FG%: Ist Half: 34.5; 2nd Half; 41.9; Game: 38.3 FT%: Ist Half: 75.0; 2nd Half; 87.5; Game: 83.3

Regardless of the difficult matchup Duke faces this weekend against one of the ACC’s premier powerhouses, Hillier is happy to be beginning the ACC season at Jack Coombs Field. “It doesn’t matter if we’re playing Army, or Elon, or Georgia Tech, it’s nice to open up conference play at home,” he said.

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Loan cuts hurt University the University pays any demonstrated need with grants. Duke, on the other eliminate the Perkins Loan pro- hand, does not have the endowment gram—a move that will be detrimen- to run financial aid this way. Duke stutal to higher education on the whole dents receive federal work-study and loans first and then and will be partialStSttGultOflcll to get grants if their larly harmful demonstrated need Duke’s financial aid exceeds that amount. program. With the elimination of Perkins Perkins Loans are low-interest loans to lower- and middle-class fami- Loans, the University must find addilies; the program was started in 1965 tional money to bridge the gap. It is with federal money, and Bush’s budg- unclear how the University will address these financial aid concerns if et would take back the initial federal investment, making the program in- federal money is reduced. Currendy, operable. Bush plans to compensate too much of the money for financial for the elimination of Perkins Loans aid comes from the University’s operby increasing the amount of money ating budget; President Richard offered to needy students through Brodhead, however, is serious about Pell Grants. working to endow financial aid. If The number of students who will Perkins Loans are eliminated and the qualify for Pell Grants, however, will University has to address short-term financial aid concerns, it will only not compensate for the number of students who could have received make the campaign to endow finanPerkins Loans, so under this change cial aid more difficult. Besides reducing the number of fewer students would qualify' for fistudents who would receive financial nancial aid. The segment of the population that will be most hurt by the aid, eliminating the Perkins Loan proelimination of Perkins Loans is the gram may also reduce the number of middle-class families whose income is students who enter public service occutoo high to qualify for grants but too pations. Perkins Loans are forgiven if low to pay for college without some students enter fields such as teaching or nursing, and without this motivating sort of financial assistance. The factor fewer students may seek profeschange will also place a greater burden on the universities—need-blind sions in those areas. Education does not have an advoschools that want to remain needblind will have to come up with other cate in Washington. It is the thing that every cares about except on elecsources of financial funding. Duke is a unique position among tion day. Perkins Loans are important top-ranked institutions when it comes to the financial health of higher eduto financial aid. Other universities cation, and if universities hope to such as Harvard University and keep that source of federal funding, Princeton University have large enthey need to mobilize and lobby for dowments that can offer students the their interests. Duke and other instinecessary aid in the absence of tutions need to take a stand and prePerkins Loans. Students at Princeton, vent the government from eliminatin fact, do not have any loans because ing the Perkins Loan program.

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Brave, young and Muslim The last couple of years have not been the main point of my book—to show that easy for anyone, myself included, who Islam once had a pluralisticjradition of critihoped that the Iraq war would produce a cal debate and dissent, and that we Muslims decent, democratizing outcome. And even need to rediscover this tradition to update Islam for the 21st century. That’s not being in the wake of the remarkable Iraqi election, the toppling of the Lebanese Cabinet radical. That’s being faithful.” Born in Uganda of an Indian-Muslim faand the reforms brewing in Egypt, it is too soon for anyone to declare victory. We’re ther and a mother with Egyptian roots who dealing with some very unstable chemicals. immigrated to Canada, Manji is a frequent But what makes me more hopeful today is lecturer about diversity on college campuses. precisely what made me hopeful that the “Even before 9/11 and my book, I noticed Iraq war might work out, and that is the that after my lectures young Muslims would number of Arab-Muslim youth I’ve encoungather at the side of the stage, wait for everytered since 9/11 who have urged me to one else to leave and then walk over and say keep writing about the need for democracy things like, Trshad, we need more voices to and reform in their part of the world. help open up this religion of ours, because if Of course, many Americans are surprised it doesn’t open up we are leaving it’ That is by this. America has treated the Arab-Muslim what the clerics don’t get. We’re saving Islam states for 50 years as a collecby showing the emerging generation how they can be part tion of gas stations. All we cared about was that their tIIOITI3S fl*i6CllTlc)H of a pluralistic world and be faithful Muslims.” pumps were open and their guest commentary low, and that be To that end, Manji has just . they prices nice to the Israelis. As long as launched what she calls Prothe regimes did that, we said, they could do ject ljtihad. “The goal,” she explained, “is to whatever they wanted “out back.” They could create a leadership center that will attract treat their women however they wanted, they young, reform-minded Muslims to network could write about America in their newspa- with one another so they see that they’re, pers however they wanted, and they could not alone, to develop the confidence to preach intolerance ofother religions all they openly dissent with conformity in Islam and wanted—just keep their pumps open and to learn about the golden age of Islam, prices low and be nice to the Israelis. On when Muslims, Jews, Christians worked to-9/11, we got hit with everything that was gether to preserve and expand knowledge—something we’re rarely, if ever, going on “out back.” Since then, it’s been clear to me that un- taught in our public schools or in our Islamless we partner with Arabs and Muslims to ic religious schools.” At the urging of students, Manji recently change their context, unless we help them create the free space for a war of ideas that had her book translated into Arabic and will allow for a new discussion out front and Urdu and posted on her Web site. Young out back, we’re just begging for another Arabs and Pakistanis are now downloading 9/11. I always knew we had partners there, it in private and discussing it. This week she but the democratic movements that have now was approached by a small Arabic publisher emerged have shown me just how many who operates in Lebanon and Germany young people there want to give voice to their and has just opened in Baghdad —offering to publish her book in Iraq! aspirations and achieve their full potential “I can’t help but appreciate the symbolsomething their governments and spiritual ism,” she said. “Baghdad was the seat of the leaders have been blocking. If you want to get a taste of what they Islamic enlightenment from the eighth to sound like, read Irshad Manji’s courageous 12th centuries. It was a crossroads of goods, book “The Trouble With Islam Today,” and services, big ideas.” the letters and debates from young Muslims This will take time to play out, and a deon her Web site cent outcome is not assured. But the good (www.muslimnews is that young Arabs and Muslims are refusenik.com). Manji is a 36-year-old Canadian Muslim feminist who has dared to write starting to have a very different conversation “out back,” and more and more of them are a book calling for a reformation ofIslam. “There’s no bigger idea for the Muslim demanding to have it out front. world today—and consequendy for all of Thomas Friedman is a columnist for The New us —than reopening the gates of independYork Times. ent thinking, or ‘ijtihad,’” she said. “That’s —

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woe unto us! Hunter S. Thompson has died! He ’76? Thompson’s answer, in his own words: “I said he had has shot himself in the head while talking on the been a party to the Stop McGovern movement and dial he telephone with his wife. His children were in the was a worthless pigf—er.” Thompson was removed from home at the time. And now he is dead. There is not much the stage by a small blond girl. Before leaving, however, he more to say. This man is dead. tossed his glass ofWild Turkey in the air against a curtain Who was he? He was the man who authored Fear and on stage so everyone would remember he’d been there Loathing in Las Vegas among many, many other things. He for years in the future. was the counterculture icon who took quarts of booze, two Think that’s where the connection stops? You’re wrong, bags ofpot, a ton ofacid and a million pills to that sinful city. bud. In Fear and Loathing, his pseudonym is Raoul Duke. He was there with his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, a Samoan, to This tells me only one thing: HUNTER S. THOMPSON DEcover a motorcycle race. They did all the drugs. It was a chal- SERVES A MEMORIAL AT DUKE! And lam giving it to lenge and it was a new thing that Thompson him. I feel I must. He showed that you could called Gonzo journalism. I have never read break convention, experiment with yourself this man s famous work, but as a writer, I feel and still entertain, challenge and downright him in my soul. This man was an adventure frighten everyday people with a piece of in human life AND human chemistry, an expaper and some ink. pertinent, a searching force unleashed out Imagine the power and energy of that into the world. His rules only, thankyou very time. Imagine the drugs. This was all new! much. He decided to die. It was time to die. Thompson was living out front, in the open, It was on his own terms. out of control. He proved you could do it. So that explains this column. lam drunk aafOII KirSChenteld And I think lam helping him to live on. now on Wild Turkey bourbon whiskey, regisThis is Gonzo journalism. I challenged myso so good tered trademark, sitting in my room and self to write this very drunk. I took a risk. I doing this. Why? Because in 1974 Hunter S. am reaping the journalistic rewards. I also Thompson came to Duke University. He was going to give a justordered a pizza. Because who said you can’t use “I” when lecture about Mark Twain. When the Duke student emissary you write? Who said you couldn’t use abbreviations? That’s met Thompson at the airport, the student gave our man all BS, man. Writing is all about communication. Hunter some hashish. He gave Thompson some Wild Turkey, too. helped to change the rules for us. And for that, having read Forty-five minutes late to his lecture here on our college none of his works (although I plan to), makes me love him. campus, Hunter S. Thompson walked on stage and proudly At this point I stopped writing, left my room, ate some proclaimed: “I am very happy to be here at the alma matter Fritos and went to bother my friends. I was too drunk to of Richard Nixon.” I must say something else now. Thomp- keep writing. The pizza did come and I ate some of it, alson covered the 1972 presidential campaign. He liked though honestly I was surprised to find it in my fridge this George McGovern, Nixon’s opponent, and thought he was morning. So yeah, it’s morning. About half of my Wild the only honest politician ever. Thompson thought Nixon Turkey is gone and so is Hunter. Farewell, my man. And was scum. His opinion on Nixon’s funeral was to only go to while they probably took that curtain down long ago, I still make sure the SOB was really dead. remember you. Anyway, Thompson was drunk on the stage. He accepted a question from the audience: Would Terry Sanford Aaron Kirschenfeld is a Trinity sophomore. His column usually (president of Duke at the time) run for U.S. president in appears every third Monday. -

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you’ve been writing these for as long as I have, the commissary of the Third Division... managed to get a you start seeing arguments everywhere. They cart forward and rolled a barrel into the middle of a sprout from exhausted soil, even from the most square, where it was broached, and the contents distriboutworn rhetorical tropes. uted, during the closing stages of the battle itself.” Take the issue of the draft age. I’m sure we’re all familiar Turn to page 245: the Battle of the Somme, 1916, with formations of the type “An 18-year-old can be drafted which included the most lethal single day ofWorld War I. but he can’t vote [before 1971], drive a rental car, kill a “The last thing almost everyone had received [before hooker” and so on. Just last week, we saw that template apgoing over the top] was a strong tot of rum-Navy rum, and plied in this space to the age of consumption, as a columnist extremely alcoholic.... J.EC. Fuller, investigating a confuwrote that “we live in a country where 18-year-olds can... be sion in the Sherwood Forester Brigade, was told that the whole of the leading wave was drunk.” drafted, yet cannot legally drink.” It’s an entirely valid point, but one likely to be overSo we have three data points, separated by 500 years, looked. It’s a child not a choice, no blood for oil, guns kill each remarkably similar in this one key regard; evidence enough for Keegan’s claim that, throughout history, people, and we are inured to slogans. And yet sometimes slogans conceal drinking has been “an inseparable part both of preparation for battle and of comdeep truths. bat itself.” Millions of soldiers have given I refer you to John Keegan’s seminal their lives for their countries simply be1976 work of military history, The Face ofBattle. Keegan set out to write on war from the cause they were intoxicated, to the enduring credit of the intoxicating agent. soldier’s perspective and he began with the But flash forward to the present. The most basic question of all: How is battle even United States, unique among nations, possible? What would make otherwise sane bans drinking until the age of 21. But acyoung men run headlong and willingly into rob goodman the jaws ofiron death? cording to the Defense Department’s demographic figures, hundreds of thousands It turns out that, from the Middle lobster sticks to magnet ofAmerican military personnel are underAges to the Great War, there is one conage! Among all members of the armed forces, 9.9 percent stant: Alcohol. Such a constant thatit receives its own entry in the index: are between the ages of 17 and 19, and a whopping 33.4 percent are between the ages of 20 and 24. That means “drink, and will to combat, 114,115, 183-4, 245, 333.” that as many as 443,486 soldiers, sailors and Marines have It becomes clear that alcohol —“which, as we know, no access to alcohol. absolutely reflexes”—has depresses the self-protective quite simply Four hundred thousand of our fighting men and made war possible. Turn to page 114: the Batde of Agincourt, 1415. English women potentially going into batde stone-cold sober! I’m against French for dominion of France, familiar to anyone sure I am not alone in seeing this state of affairs as a prowho’s read Shakespeare’s Henry V. “There was drinking in found risk to national security. For the sake of our armed forces, it is imperative that the the ranks on both sides during the period of waiting and it age be immediately lowered to 17. soldiers both armies went into drinking in is quite probable that many As for the unrestricted drinking that wouldresult among the melee less that sober, if not indeed fighting drunk.” our significant number of unenlisted youth? Such are the Turn to page 183: the Battle of Waterloo, 1815, a verisacrifices we make for freedom. of the soldiers table frat party gone horribly wrong. “Many And you’re not against freedom, are you? had drunk spirits before the battle, and continued to drink while it was in progress. Corporal Shaw was... guzRob Goodman is a Trinity senior. His column appears every zling gin at about noon, drunk and running amok when he was cut down by the French cuirassiers... and Dallas, Friday.

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Give the governor a harrumph Harrumph, harrumph. This has been a boring semester. Maybe I have buried

myself too far into the stacks to notice otherwise, but the campus (and, to a certain extent, the nation) seems to have settled into an uneasy complacency since last fall’s election. Some cried and swore and stared offinto space in disbelief; some cried and laughed and hugged and stared off into space in equal but opposite disbelief. But ever since, we’ve had nothing to talk about. We’re bored with Iraq. Most of us don’t notice the rising death count (1,499 Americans as ofMarch 1) because it has been replaced by the Michael Jackson trial as headline news. The White House got upset with the media for portraying the aftermath of “Operation Iraqi Freedom” in a negative—i.e. accurate—light. The Israelis and Palestinians are on the verge of kissing and making up, which is great. I have, however, two fears about the situation: first, that President George W. Bush will go down in history as a great peacemaker (instead of die originator of the preemptive strike doctrine), when the truth A is thart Yasser Arafat was the obstacle that needed to be prif viuipr removed. Secondly, I am calmer than you are afraid that the PSM will never come back to Duke, and we won’t get to talk about it anymore. The biggest political news of late is that some guy—with the last name Wead—recorded a conversation with the then-not-yet-elected President Bush in which Bush alluded to using marijuana. And? Didn’t we already know that Bush, like every other ridiculously privileged member of his generation, experimented with drugs in his youth? Social Security is the main issue of the president’s second-term agenda. But how much time do we want to spend discussing whether a system is doomed for failure (and whether the Republican Party can escape any obligations to their less affluent fellow citizens) in the next 20 years when there are other social welfare programs that are already failing due to neglect? Harrumph. Why aren’t we talking about Medicare and Medicaid, or the millions of Americans without health insurance anymore? Have they been insured since the election? Why isn’t someone, anyone, screaming in outrage, on behalf of women everywhere, that the leaders of the Democratic Party are working to shift its position on abortion? Where are the debates about “effortless perfection,” Jews, censorship, affirmative action, women’s sexual liberation or employee wages and benefits? Why aren’t we talking abouthow rape and sexual assault happen all the time, even here, but are almost never reported? Why aren’t we talking about what can be done to prevent future rapes and protect future Duke students? You there. Reading this column. Say something. Anything. I don’t care if you agree with me or not. These pages have been subdued lately. The Chronicle is so short on editorial contributions that they have to run syndicated pieces on an almost daily basis and bring back staunchly conservative columnists from the past who cannot let go of the “big fish in a small pond” glory days oftheir undergraduate career. Aren’t there more people out there with something to say? We have gotten to the point where columnists who attempt to start new controversial conversations are snubbed by their peers. Why shouldn’t undergraduates be able to raise questions about how their education is funded? Why does a large donation to the Annual Fund or the Campaign for Duke automatically require our unquestioned adoration? You don’t have to be so cynical, you might say. But someone needs to be. We need to talk, debate, converse; complacency gets us nowhere. Things will never improve if you are happy with the way they are. Look at me! I’m making people happy! I’m the magical man from happy land with a gumdrop house on lollipop lane! Harrumph. Eric Vivier is a Trinity senior. His column other Friday.

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