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Stress proven to bring down grades by

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Monica Coehle studies hard, but sometimes her work just doesn’t pay off.

Reading over her chemistry notes in the Great Hall, Coehle, Trinity ’O3 and a continuing education student, said she gets frustrated when her grades do not reflect how well she knows the material before a test. But even more puzzling to Coehle is why other students who have not studied as thoroughly get better grades than she does.

“When I’m sitting in class or talking with friends in group discussion, I think I always know the information in a much deeper way than a lot of people, but I am

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Lori Hu, a junior, studies in Perkins Library, surrounded by textbooks.

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by no means the kind ofperson that could wreck the curve,”

Coehle said.

The problem? Pressure A new study, conducted by Michigan State University psychological researchers Sian Beilock and Thomas Carr, shows that academically gifted students are more likely than their peers to “choke” under pressure—or do worse than expected, given their academic skills.

“The individuals most likely to fail under pressure are those who, in the absence of pressure, have the highest capacity for success,” Beilock and Carr wrote in the report, which was released in February.

After administering math tests to students in both highand low-pressure environments, Beilock and Carr reported that students with high memory capacities—or excellent abilities to retain and information—are process more likely than students with low memory capacities to clam up in “high stakes situations” because anxiety targets memory capacity.

Coehle said nerves often hinder her during tests. “The fact that you know that you have to go there and put out all the information and everything you know in a short amount of time, I think maybe for me that is the anxiety factor that SEE STRESS ON PAGE 6

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Rock band Collective Soul will perform at the Last Day of Classes this year.

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Amid a lackluster reception from some students, organizers hope the band Collective Soul will “Shine” as the main attraction at Last Day of Classes April 27.

Part grunge and part rock, Collective Soul is best known for the 1994 breakout hit “Shine.”

The band faded in popularity

after about 2000 and now considers itself to be re-emerging from the indie rock scene.

In the mid 1990 s the band had 19 songs on the Billboard charts, with seven of them hitting the number one spot, but Collective Soul has been off the hit music radar screen for the past few years.

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When Senator Joe Fore looked at the hefty Duke Student Government Constitution for the first time, he saw something most students would not: the need for even more.

“I started out by examining the current Section 2 of the DSC Constitution—Academic Rights and Responsibilities. It was one paragraph, and it was inadequate to say the least,” he said.

Which is why Fore, a sophomore and executive secretary of Inter-Community Council, will present a finalized version of a sweeping constitutional amendment to DSC tonight. If passed at the meeting, the amendment will be presented as a referendum on the ballot presented to the student body March 31, DSG’s election day.

Entided “Academic Expectations and Responsibilities,” the lengthy addition sets forth a series of rights and responsibilities for both students and faculty.

Late-night access to facilities, better academic advising and greater flexibility in rescheduling exams are all specific expectations delineated in the SEE DSC ON PAGE 6

Nursing building breaks ground by

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If you have $8 million to spare, you might consider using it to have Duke’s new nursing building named after you.

You only have until August 2006, however, and the clock started ticking Tuesday afternoon, when administrators and faculty of the School of Nursing, along with President Richard Brodhead, participated in a ground-breaking ceremony for the new 56,000-

square-foot facility.

The new building will bring all nursing students together under one roof, a change from the current

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amongst the school’s five locations—a building on Ninth Street that houses the Accelerate Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program, the basement of Duke South that serves several nursing master’s programs, the Bell Building, which is primarily used for its labs, and the offices and classrooms in both the Hanes House and the School of Nursing building on Trent Drive.

The new facility will also allow for the expansion of more programs such as the creation of a new doctorate program called “Trajectories of Care” that will prepare nurse scientists to answering questions about the outcomes

of health and illness over time.

Dr. Catherine Gilliss, dean of the School of Nursing, hopes that a large cafe and a central courtyard with wireless Internet access will bring together not only nursing students, but undergraduate students as well, creating a better educational environment that will “lead to intellectual synergies that just aren’t happening right now.”

“Duke undergraduates don’t understand what a nurse does today,” she said. “Everyone has seen ER, but there’s no clear concept that they could do that as a career.”

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Officialscelebrated the ground-breaking for the nursing school's new building Tuesday.

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Lebanese rally in support of Syria by

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BEIRUT, Lebanon Hundreds of thousands jammed a central Beirut square Tuesday, chanting support for Syria and anti-U.S. slogans in a thundering show of strength by the militant group Hezbollah—a rally that greatly outnumbered recent demonstrations against Syria’s presence in Lebanon.

Two huge banners in Riad Solh square read, in English: “Thank you Syria” and “No to foreign interference.” That was a reference to U.S. and U.N. pressure on Syria not to the Syrian military, which the protesters made clear they were happy to have stay.

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“We’re here for the independence of Lebanon but not for Syria to leave,” said 16-year-old Esraa Awarki, who traveled to Beirut by bus with a number of schoolmates from Sharkiya, in southern Lebanon. “Syria was helping to protect us.”

The sprawling crowds sang, waved a sea of red-and-white Lebanese flags and burst into the national anthem, some touting posters with pictures of the Lebanese and Syrian presidents. Throughout the afternoon, loudspeakers blared songs of resistance and officials gave nationalist speeches.

“We are demonstrating here against foreign intervention in our internal affairs, and we're supporting Hezbollah,” said Maha

Choukair, a 21-year-old Lebanese University student. “Here we are saying thank you to Syria, not asking them to leave.”

Hezbollah, an and-Israeli party representing Shiite Muslims, organized the rally as away of demonstrating that it will remain a powerful force in Lebanon even if Syria leaves. The Lebanese opposition, which opposes Syria's presence, has been trying to persuade Hezbollah to remain neutral in the country's political crisis.

Hezbollah is the best armed and best organized faction in Lebanon and enjoys strong support among Lebanon's Shiite community, which at 1.2 million is a third of the population.

Russians kill Chechen rebel leader by

Jim Heintz

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MOSCOW Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, a fugitive with a $lO million price on his head who was linked by the Kremlin to a deadly school hostage siege and other terrorist attacks, was killed Tuesday during a special forces operation.

Reports differed on whether he was killed by the Federal Security Service forces or inadvertendy shot by one of his bodyguards in a bunker in north-central Chechnya.

Russian television showed video of a shirdess corpse strongly resembling the 55year-old Maskhadov lying in a pool ofblood.

The leader of separatist forces in Chechnya camp of the Wahhabi radical Basayev.

“Maskhadov was the only one with fought the Russian army to standstill in 1996 and then was elected president of the rewhom a peaceful agreement could have been made,” the Interfax news agency public when the Russians withdrew.

But as head of de facto independent quoted Alexander Cherkasov, of the Chechnya, the secular-minded Maskhadov human rights group Memorial, as saying. lost influence to fundamentalist Islamic Maskhadov last week reportedly called rebels. By the time Russian forces returned for talks with President Vladimir Putin on in 1999, he was overshadowed by warlord ending the war. But that call, like previous Shamil Basayev and regarded as a comparproposals, was rejected. ative moderate among the separatists.

When informed of Maskhadov's death, Putin said, “We must augment the effort Although his death is a significant propaganda victory for Russia, which alleged he aimed at the defense of the citizens of the was behind major terrorist attacks, it also republic,” a clear indication that Russia incould place the insurgents firmly in the tends to wipe out the rebels.

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newsinbrief Bush insists Syria must leave President George W. Bush said Tuesday that authoritarian rule in the Middle East has begun to ease, and he reiterated that Syria must end its nearly three-decade occupation of Lebanon.'Today, I have a message for the people of Lebanon: All the world is witnessing your great movement of conscience."

Clinton returns for surgery Six months after undergoing heart bypass surgery, former President Bill Clinton will return to the hospital this week to have a rare buildup of fluid and scar tissue removed from his chest."l feel fine," Clinton said.

U.S.to investigate Iraq killing The U.S. military decided Tuesday to conduct an accelerated inquiry to learn why American troops opened fire, killing an Italian intelligence agent and wounding an Italian journalist he helped rescue from insurgents in Iraq.

Snow causes highway pileup A snow squall in Michigan caused a string of highway pileups involving as many as 90 vehicles Tuesday, killing one person and injuring at least 34 others, police said. Rescue crews needed hours to untangle and clear what Fire Chief Dave Peterson described as "knots" of wreckage.

News briefs compiled from wire reports

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

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Panelists explore Democrats’ future IGSP adds evolution center by

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What is the future of the Democratic Party? The Duke Democrats, in conjunction with Campus Council and Duke Political Union, held a panel discussion Tuesday night at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy to address precisely this

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question.

An audience of approximately 60 un-

Duke’s giant genomics research branch is ready for a new arm.

The Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy announced Monday that it has taken charge of the Center for Evolutionary Genomics from the Department of Biology, adding a seventh specialty to the leading interdisciplinary organization Directed by

dergraduate students, graduate students, professors and community members were on hand for the event. The panelists’ overarching advice to the Democratic Party

was to regroup and put forth a unified message in order to revitalize and recapture the American public debate.

The panel was comprised of Frederick Mayer, professor of public policy studies, Robert Entman, professor of communication and political science at North Carolina State University, Lanya Shapiro, chair of the Durham Democratic Party Second Precinct, and Bruce Jendeson, director of the Sanford Institute for Public Policy.

“What is it that’s keeping us back from figuring out a stance and then hammering it in over and over again?” asked Robert Entman, echoing a call for unification that ran throughout the other

panelists’ comments.

Mayer spoke on the subject of trade and globalization in the context of the Democratic Party’s future, urging it to “devise a global economy that works for laborers, the environment, and for community.”

He cautioned against simply rejecting President George W. Bush’s agenda, calling instead for the Democratic Party to articulate a “progressive internationalist” line, with “cautious support of free-trade agreements, conditioned by a whole lot of things.”

For the long term, Mayer stressed the importance of taking a positive stance in order to regain a place in the public debate. He pointed out the division within the party over globalization and trade agreements such as the North America Free Trade Agreement.

Entman then discussed the Democratic Party’s position in the media and public eye, emphasizing the need to take a uni-

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Bruce Jentleson, director of theSanford Institute of Public Policy, speaks at a panel discussion Tuesday. fied stance. He pointed to a link between the Democrats’ waning media hold and its declining influence over policy. While acknowledging the Republican Party’s increasing control over the media, he placed the blame on the Democrats for not putting forth a vocal front.

By not protesting or taking strong stances, the Democrats are making it easier to be ignored, he said. “Why pay attention if you pretty much already know the song?” Entman asked, alluding to the one-sided nature of today’s public discourse.

Entman emphasized how Democrats failed to denounce the Bush administration for its reliance on Ahmed Chilabi—an Iranian spy —for information regarding Iraq. “Imagine for a moment if [Bill] Clinton had been the president who had led the country to war on false reasons,” Entman said. “What would the Republicans have done?”

Shapiro called on the party to stop focusing on winning elections and instead to focus on re-examining its core values in order to put forth a vision.

“Democrats should be out there knocking on doors right now, helping people change their community yearround, making our world a better place,” she said, calling for fresh leadership and for Democrats to adhere to core values.

Shapiro’s personal project for the Democratic party is making politics more fun. “So many political events that I organize are populated by people with white hair,” she said. She envisions a politically progressive social group targeted at young people in their 20s.

Jentleson discussed the important role of foreign policy in the future of the Democratic Party. He stressed the need to SEE PANEL ON PAGE 7

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an associate pro- Gregory Wray fessor of biology who has conducted extensive research on the evolution of regulatory sequences in genomes, the new center contributes a heavy biological component to the IGSP mix.

The institute will provide many resources in the form of project grants and other forms of support for the new center, which will make the crossover from an Arts and Sciences department to the more specialized research wing of IGSP. “It was essentially an interest group with not a lot of resources and a mission statement,” Wray said.

Evolutionary genomics is the study of how genomes have evolved by comparing SEE IGSP ON PAGE 7

Correction A page 3 story March 8 about a fundraiser for the conflict in Sudan should have said the event was sponsored by Duke Africa and the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture.

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I.MiMI.U'BI Depression, risk of death linked Duke University Medical Center researchers have found a strong association between depression and a higher long-term risk of deathfor patients with chronic heart failure. Additionally,the researchers said even a psychological status previously considered to be sub-depressive puts these patients at higher risk of death.

While it has been known that depression is associated with higher short-term mortality rates, this is the first study to measure the long-term risks of depression, they said.

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A Duke Life Flight nurse leaps his feet at the sound qf his walkie talkie, straps on his helmet, zips up his bright blue jumpsuit and runs to the landing pad. He’s ready to fly.

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Anti-smoking pill developing ResearcheTs are racing to develop a potentially lucrative drug that would make smoking as treatable as erectile dysfunction, high cholesterol and add reflux disease. Major pharmaceutical companies and small startups see the potential for billions of dollars in sales for a vaccine or a nicotine-free pill that could end addiction at the chemical level for America's 50 million smokers.

Tech officials: U.S. lags behind Leaders of high-tech companies said Tuesday that the United States risks losing its competitive edge without significant new investments in education, research and the spread of broadband technology.

King Jut's death still a mystery King Tut wasn't killed by a blow to the head, nor was his chest crushed in an accident. But after ruling out those theories, the most revealing tests ever performed on the mummy didn't solve the mystery of how he died. The results of a hightech CT scan released Tuesday raised one new possibility: Tut might have badly broken his left thigh, puncturing the skin—an injury that could have caused a dangerous infection.

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by Emergency Services at Duke University Medical Center. Established in 1985, it was the first hospital-based emergency transport service in the state. Now it’s a critical source of providing level one trauma care to padents in North Carolina and four surrounding states. This week marks the 20th anniversary ofits inaugural flight and will culminate Saturday with an open house at Durham Regional Hospital, part of Duke University Health System.

Life Flight’s success relies gready on its two helicopters, six ambulances and a slew of professional pilots and administrators.

But it’s the program’s flight nurses who —literally—save the day.

“A job as a flight nurse is like being a fireman—you never know what’s going to happen, and you’re always anticipating the worst,” flight nurse Jay Cook said.

Life Flight employs 22 registered nurses, who are skilled in procedures that emergency room nurses often do not perform. Their knowledge of advanced skills—such as intubation or needle chest decompression—is imperative as they carry out their primary goal: keeping patients alive as they’re flown to

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Life Flight, the first hospital-based emergency transport service in the state, has two helicopters and sixambulances at its disposal.

DUMC from accident scenes or other hospitals.

The patients are often in critical condition, and in an area the size of a walk-in closet, two nurses work over a stretcher, leaving the highway far below.

Any equipment they could potentially need has been tightly sealed and economically packaged in containers stashed in the back of the helicopter.

In this limited space, it’s up to the nurses to make the decisions without a doctor and to take appropriate action and re-

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“There’s a sense of thrill from the speed, from the different environment. You’re scared because you don’t know what to expect,” Cook said. “It’s just you and another nurse, and you’re the life link for a patient.”

The nurses’ experiences range from flying with premature infants to accident victims to hospice care patients. Often patients are in need of transport from other hospitals—as far away as West Virginia—that cannot administer the necessary levels of care. Patients require the advanced medical prowess that only

DUMC offers in the area “The niche that this program fills is extremely critical for patients,” said Jeffrey Doucette, associate-operating—officer- —for Emergency Services. “In many cases we are their only hope.”

The Life Flight team strives to bring patients to DUMC within the “golden hour”—the critical 60 minutes after receiving the call. After this time, the patient’s chances of survival decrease drastically. The team generally manages to achieve this goal, which SEE LIFE FLIGHT ON PAGE 8

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In a presentation Tuesday detailing his experiences working with the Spirit and Opportunity robotic rovers at NASA, Dr. Firouz Naderi, manager of the Mars Exploration Program, narrated the story of sending the rovers that found evidence of water’s past existence on the red planet.

Naderi, who serves as the associate director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, provided an inside look into the design, launch and operation of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars exploration rovers.

Naderi said the objective of the Mars exploration program is “to find out whether the environment on Mars was ever right for the emergence of life.”

Since sending geologists to Mars is currendy not feasible, the “robotic geologists” Spirit and Opportunity had to be sent in their place. The rovers were designed to examine rocks on Mars to find evidence of water.

The designs for Spirit and Opportunity were based on the Sojourner rover used in the 1997 NASA Pathfinder Mars mission.

The Mars exploration rovers faced the same size constraints as the Sojourner rover but needed to accommodate many additional instruments. To fit into the cruise stage capsule the rover was folded and packed so densely that it took 11 days to unpack on Mars.

Naderi devoted the second part of his presentation to the complex task of landing the Mars exploration rovers.

The two identical rovers, launched separately during the summer of 2003,

journeyed 300 million miles in the span of seven months.

On approach, the disc-shaped cruise stage that encased the rovers for protection travelled at 12,000 miles per hour as it entered the Martian atmosphere 80 miles above the planet’s surface. A system of heat shields, parachutes,- rockets and air bags decelerated the rovers for a safe landing.

The six minutes of deceleration was a harrowing experience for Naderi as he observed back on Earth. Past NASA missions to Mars have often ended in crashes, including the Mars Polar Lander and the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999, and most recently the British Beagle 2 lander in 2003.

Naderi recalled being asked by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger why he was so nervous. He replied that unlike in acting, “in space there are no second takes nor cuts.”

Fortunately, both Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars without damage and started their scientific mission to find evidence that water had once existed there.

Naderi compared the evidence necessary to prove the existence of water on Mars to pieces of a puzzle. “There was not one ‘Eureka!’ moment that said there was water on Mars,” he said. Instead, different clues were pieced together to conclude, without doubt, that water once existed on Mars.

The twin rovers were designed to operate for 90 Martian days, but they have surpassed all expectations and are still functioning 300 Martian days beyond their anticipated life span.

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Clack said Beilock and Carr may have changes the way I can manipulate infor- “overgeneralized” their assessment of students’ performance in all exam situamation that I know,” she said. “The pressure of the test and having to do well and tions because the researchers only dealt having to show everything you know can with math skills and neglected verbal and analytical abilities. He also noted really affect your performance.”

Freshman Whitney Mickens also said that academically gifted students who the 55-minute time limit ofmany tests has perform well in one aspect of a class—an impact on her anxiety level—and her such as homework, discussions or papergrades. Not all students, however, report writing—usually get good grades on exams as well. the same problem.

“If I go into something that I feel highwho the study “I know there are people and highly skilled in, I can than competent and do much better ly before night usually control my anxiety because I have me, and I think I’m really not doing somethe capability to do well,” he said. thing right,” Mickens said.

Nonetheless, Clack said the study proClack, director ofDuke’s CounJames seling and Psychological Services, said vides food for thought about how to address students’ negative responses to stress can —and often does—lower even the best students’ test performance and pressure during tests and exams. He said grades. Many students come to CAPS “systematic desensitization”—or thinking calming thoughts and tensing and complaining that anxiety-induced hyperventilation, heart palpitations or upset releasing muscles—can help students stomachs are hampering their ability to relax during tests.

Noting that a certain level of anxiety take tests. Others complain about “zonhas been shown to enhance concentratheir “disassoor anxiety ing out,” letting ciate” them from the work at hand, tion, Clack also emphasized the need for students to find the right balance between Clack added.

Like Beilock and Carr, Clack said the nervous tension and ease.

“If you go into a vigilant state, your pertesting environment is often what produces students’ stress. He pointed to time formance on most anything —academics, constraints, noise, crowded rooms and sports or whatever —improves, but if you get hyper-vigilant, it declines,” Clack said. odors as some of the most problematic en“Somewhere in that spectrum, there’s an vironmental factors. those kinds of optimal level of vigilance.” are to attending “If you

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amendment. Other, more abstract concepts, like ensuring freedom from bias and instilling honesty and integrity into the classroom, are also included.

“This document is a foundation. It covers all the bases and has three key pillars honor and integrity, access to opportunities and freedom of academic inquiry,” Fore said. “I’m going to be here all summer and next year; I fully plan on seeing this through.”

The academic integrity and honor components, he said, have already been articulated in the Duke Community Standard but have not been translated into action.

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The Community Standard was implemented in 2003 and is now the University’s sole honor code. The proposed Academic Expectations and Responsibilities amendment, Fore explained, would represent the policy counterpart to the code.

“I think we need more things in practice—we need more policy. The Community Standard is the reference point; policies that will grow out ofit are everyday applications,” Fore said, adding that the two documents are “very much in concert.”

Fore began his drafting process months ago; at the time, he was focused simply on enumerating student rights. Following several meetings with faculty and administrators, however, Fore altered the scope of the document to further include expecta-

“Collective Soul is an amazing act that puts on an absolutely electric live performance,” said senior Anthony Vitarelli, president of Campus Council, which sponsors LDOC events with Duke University Union.

“They have broad appeal and are the perfect headliner for Last Day ofClasses.”

Some students, however, were initially unimpressed with the headliner.

“That’s it?” junior Yurosh Tomavich said. “It’s just weak considering the names and caliber of acts we’ve been able to get in the past.”

Several students in the Great Hall Tuesday night had never heard of the group. Others were skeptical because of the band’s diminished popularity.

“If they were going to get a smaller band, they could have gotten somebody good,” sophomore Claire Thompson said.

“I don’t think it’ll be very exciting.”

Students who had seen the group live, though, echoed LDOC planners’ enthusiasm. “They’re just a great concert band and a good choice for the Last Day of Classes because they’ll have broad appeal even if people don’t know who they are,” sophomore Kenny Morrison said.

After a disappointing concert last year when rapper Kanye West played for less than an hour, organizers concentrated on finding a band that thrived on live per-

formances and would foster the festival atmosphere ofLDOC. “I know for a fact that they put on a really good live show,” said senior Matt Greenfield, chair of the LDOC committee.

Collective Soul has promised to play for at least 90 minutes and may stay on stage for up to two hours, Greenfield said.

The band’s cost is between $25,000 and $35,000. The planning committee is still searching for an opening act for the main stage, but Greenfield said smaller acts will play on several stages throughout the day.

Name recognition will be a factor in selecting the opening act, he said.

The LDOC committee originally extended an offer to angst-ridden rock band Live. But the group, which would have cost about $45,000 to $55,000, was unable to book other gigs nearby and declined Duke’s offer.

“I, for one, feel that [Collective Soul] will be a better headliner,” Greenfield said. “We were going to spend a lot less on the opener if we got Live, so I’m kind of happy we have more to spend.”

Other events for LDOC will be decided when band costs are finalized, but food vendors will be scattered throughout the quad and beer will likely be available on points. Greenfield also said Tshirts for the day would be free again, after an attempt last year to charge students for them.

Seyward Darby and Matt Sullivan contributed to this story.

tions that faculty have of students.

Judith Ruderman, chair of the Academic Integrity Council and vice provost for academic and administrative services, first saw the amendment in early February. “I felt that the resolution as it then stood didn’t hold high enough standards... of students,” she said. “It was all well and good, but it didn’t go far enough.” Allotting certain freedoms like unproctored exams, she said, should come with higher expectations for the honor and ethics of students.

“Even if you do trust students, you still might not thrust into their faces a multitude of temptations,” she said. “Most students aren’t willing to do anything when they see someone lying or cheating.”

And though she lauded the efforts of

Fore and others on DSG’s Academic Affairs Committee in drafting the amendment —“I approve very much in theory,” she said—there are still shortcomings she thinks should be addressed. Inconsistencies, she said, could have potentially been prevented had Fore met with either the the Honor Council or the Academic Integrity Council.

“My main beef was the failure to discuss with constituencies around campus who deal with these matters on a daily basis,” she said. “If Joe had asked to come before the Academic Integrity Council, we would have welcomed him with open arms.”

Should the amendment pass tonight, members of the Academic Affairs Committee plan to publicize and promote it in the remaining campaign weeks.

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The Academic Deans of Trinity College take pleasure in announcing the 2005 Deans’ Summer Research Fellowship Program in support of undergraduate research and inquiry in all areas of the arts and sciences. Approximately 30 Trinity College students will be awarded fellowships of up to $2,500 toward reasonable expenses associated with research projects planned for the summer.

Several awards are designated for research in libraries or archives, for first year students and for research projects associated with the Talent Identification Program. See http://www.aas.duke.edu/ trinity/research/deansmr Application deadline: March 23, 2005 (Wednesday after Spring Break)

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dition of the Ph.D. program will increase student enrollment, up from the current 433 students in the 2004-2005 school year. In addition to the current construction, they also hope to complete a second phase that would increase the square footage to 71,500 and would cost an additional $5 million.

The groundbreaking ceremony went smoothly, but Gilliss said she was faced with some humorous problems when Mitchell Vann, building manager for the School of Nursing, confronted her about the building’s design.

“He inquired about the specifications for parts of the building and he said to me, ‘Are the urinals in the men’s room automatic flush or not?’ and I looked at the Associate Dean for Business and Finance, and he looked at me, and I haven’t got a clue,” Gilliss recalled. “But Mitchell said it’s important because apparently the structure of the plumbing system varies if you have an automatic flush or a manual flush.”

Costing $17.8 million, the facility will bring state-of-the-art computer and website technologies to the school, supplementing technology the school already relies on, like video-conferencing and the Internet.

In addition to wireless access inside and outside of the facility, the new building will have a distance-based learning room where teleconferences will let students listen to faculty lecture from different universities across the country.

The new building will also have several innovative labs using simulation technology to recreate actual health care events by having mannequins wired to computer programs. A large suite will function as a control room where different programs can be conducted, said David Bowersox, business manager for the School of Nursing.

Administrators hope that the construction of the new building and the ad-

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“So much of what we’re learning about human biology and medicine depends on knowing what’s going on in other species,” said Huntington Willard, director of IGSP. “We certainly have the ability here and a great environment for interdisciplinary science that is unmatched, but we have to pick the big questions carefully that are most appropriate for science and society.”

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“Out of the approximately 24,000 genes in the human genome, you’re looking for one gene that contributes to muscular dystrophy, and you’ve got 24,000 possibilities,” Wray said, adding that computational roadblocks require statistical tools, fostering the interdisciplinarity of the field, In further helping to understand the “tree of life,” IGSP’s new center will also address the area of conservation biology, using genomic tools to understand the preservation of endangered species, Wray said part of evolutionary genomics also has a very direct bearing on medicine by providing analytical and computational tools for looking at genomic dir

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genes associated with disease.

“The thing about genomics is that you need technology, analytical tools and biological relevance—three things that rarely reside in one individual,” Wray said. “The spirit of genomics is very much collaborative.”

That team environment within IGSP manifests itself in a bi-weekly meeting known as “Genomes@4,” where faculty and trainees take part in presentations about the institute’s latest developments. Willard said with a wide array of participants, ranging from professors in the Divinity School to researchers in Duke University Medical Center, this type ofinteraction will build up an academic community that explores all parts of genomics and policy.

address both “September 10th” and “September 11th” policies. Jentleson urged Democrats to accept America’s power and become comfortable with it.

“The world is better off if we play a positive role,” he said, citing U.S. inaction in Rwanda as a situation where American power could have been exercised to bring about positive change.

Jentleson—linking back to what the other panelists said—concluded that the Democratic Party needs to reconnect with its principles, combining social values with political values.

A question and answer session followed, with the panelists encouraging audience members to comment. “There were a lot more community members than we anticipated, probably because of Lanya Shapiro, which was very exciting,” said sophomore Hillary Caron, a Duke Democrats member. “There were definitely a lot ofunfamiliar faces.”

The general theme of the discussion was the need for leadership and a stance on issues in which the party believes. “It was fun to have a free-for-all like that,” Mayer said. “It’s unwieldy, untidy, but nonetheless a lot of good stuff came out.”

Commenting on the overall success of the event, Duke Democrats President Jared Fish, a junior, said he was pleased with the diversity and size of the turnout. The discussion “raised more questions than answers, but that’s really what the Democratic Party needs to do right now,” he said.

Senior Deirdre Hess, who was in the audience, agreed. “It’s nice to know that it’s happening at all, talking about these issues,” she said. “That’s a good place to start.”

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LIFE FLIGHT from page 4 can become a difficult task given the large number of flights.

Approximately 1,100 helicopter transfers are carried out annually, with potentially up to three or four individual transports a day. But even when combined with the ambulance system, the number of patients served does not nearly reflect the number of patients in need of help.

“The communications center receives 18,000 calls per month—that’s a hellacious amount of calls,” said Marie Hale, clinical operations director for the transfer center.

The calls are screened in the communications center, and approximately 8,000 go through to the Life Flight transfer center.

Out of these, Life Flight takes as many as possible until the beds at DUMC are full.

The flights are conducted by highly

trained pilots, who have at least 3,000 hours of flight experience and comply with Federal Aviation Association regulations. Duke employs seven pilots, some of whose previous experience includes flying aircrafts in the army and transporting former presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.

During a flight, helicopter pilots report their latitude and longitude every 10 minutes, and the control room —staffed 24 hours a day—keeps track of their positions and an eye on the weather. The pilot is not informed of the awaiting patient’s condition, so he can make the ultimate .decision—to fly or not—based solely on weather and safety, not conscience.

The Life Flight team is crucial to bringing DUMC’s high level of care to those who need it.

“When people see that helicopter orsee that blue truck going down the road, they

don’t say ‘Here comes Life Flight,’ they say ‘Here comes Duke,”’ Doucette said. “Life Flight and Emergency Services are the front door for how many people experience Duke for the first time.”

Many of the flight nurses said checking up on patients or being thanked and recognized by them is perhaps the most rewarding part of their jobs.

“The best part is knowing that I am able to do something for a patient and see a change,” Cook said.

The program’s management is constantly evaluating possibilities for improvement and considering future additions of fixed-wing aircraft or a third helicopter.

For now, Life Flight strives to provide the best transport service and care it can.'

“Our goal is to be the standard by which other programs will be measured,” Doucette said. [The Life Flight team] can do just about anything.” “

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The celebration only inspired giggles from the Duke faithful—the goal was Penn State’s first of the game, and Duke still held a comfortable 9-1 advantage.

Although the goal spoiled Fenton’s shutout, it did little to inspire a Nittany Lion comeback. The No. 4 men’s lacrosse team (5-0) cruised to a dominating 12-2 victory over No. 17 Penn State (2-2) Tuesday afternoon at the turf field behind Koskinen Stadium.

The win will garner even more national attention for the Blue Devils, who shot up nine spots to No. 4 in the USILA poll after upsetting then-No. 5 Maryland 10-8 last weekend.

“This could be the best regular-season week in Duke history,” head coach Mike Pressler said. “We’ve never scheduled Maryland, Penn State and Loyola —three games of that caliber—all in one week.”

The Blue Devils jumped out to an 8-0 halftime lead with a superlative defensive effort. Duke aggressively attacked the Penn State offense, forcing numerous turnovers and preventing the Nittany Lions from getting good shot attempts.

“The defense was terrific today from start to finish,” Pressler said. “I was so proud of my guys. I challenged them to step up here against a very good Penn State team and put the Maryland game behind us, and we did

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I’ve often described Duke as the New York Yankees of college basketball. It’s an apt analogy because both programs have enjoyed rich winning traditions, and, as a result, both have become targets of universal hatred and jealousy.

Now I can stretch the comparison even further.

Both teams have recendy built up rich traditions of choking in pressure-packed

In October, I saw my beloved Yankees become the first team to blow a 3-0 advantage in a playoff series. I witnessed them squander back-to-back late-inning leads to the Red Sox in Fenway Park, and then cringed as the Sox thumped them in the final two games at Yankee Stadium.

Whom did I blame for this meltdown of epic proportions? Joe Torre, the Yankees’ four-time World Series Champion manager. I found it inexcusable to allow your players to lose their concentration for four straight games. The killer instinct just wasn’t there, and I was calling for Torre’s head.

After October, I assumed I would never feel that ashamed ever again.

I was wrong.

Last Sunday’s meltdown against North Carolina was equally embarrassing. I don’t think there was a single person on the campus who didn’t feel like crawling in a hole and dying after seeing the Tar Heels score the game’s final 11 points and witnessing the UNC faithful going absolutely bonkers at the end of the 7573 comeback victory.

Who do we blame? Daniel Ewing for coughing up the ball in the face of the UNC press? JJ. Redick for missing that game-winning shot? Shavlik Randolph for fouling out with three minutes left to play? The refs?

No, this choke was a team effort, so the blame must fall squarely on the shoulders of one man.

Mike Krzyzewski Just like that of the 2004 Yankees, this was a tremendous meltdown, and Krzyzewski, just like Torre, should not have let it happened on his watch.

This debacle would not be so alarming if it were not for the rich tradition of squandered leads that Krzyzewski’s team established last season.

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These days afford players who did not re-

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“Today is when you’ll see where you stand with regards to the NFL,” linebacker Giuseppe Aguanno said.

Blue Devils participated in events showcasing their abilities, including the 40-yard run, vertical leap and bench press, in addition to skill drills tailored

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for individual position players.

Standout performances included defensive tackle Orrin Thompson’s 24 repetitions in the 225-pound bench press. Cornerback Kenneth Stanford and wide receiver Senterrio Landrum led the field in the 40, recording times in the low 4.5 range. The fastest times clocked at the NFL Combine hovered around 4.3 seconds.

Safety Alex Green, named Defensive MVP of the Jan. 15 East-West Shrine Game, is likely Duke’s best future NFL prospect. The senior had a 34.5 vertical and turned in times near 4.6 seconds in the 40. He also achieved a personal best in the bench press by tallying 15 reps, improving his previous record by three.

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it. Even though we don’t have a lot of seniors out there, they played like veterans.

They took Penn State out of the game right out of the box.”

The Blue Devils’ defensive persistence was particularly noticeable in their man-down defense—Penn State only scored one goal in seven extra-man op-

Fencers earn NCAA bids Five Blue Devils posted top-10 finishes at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional in Madison, N.J., this weekend. All five earned berths in the NCAA Championships March 17 to 20.

Sophomore Ibtihaj Muhammed, who won the Junior Olympic title last month and finished second at the regional for the second consecutive year, will represent Duke in the women’s saber.

Muhammed finished ninth at NCAAs last season.

Alison Schafer will join Muhammed on the women’s saber squad, and sophomore Anne Kercsmar will compete in the women’s epee. Kercsmar finished second at regionals for the second year in a row and posted a third-place finish at NCAAs during her freshman season.

Senior Nathan Bragg and freshman Jackson McClam will represent the men’s squad in the NCAA Tournament in the epee and foil, respectively. Bragg’s regional finish was his fourth top-10 result at the regionals in as many years. In his four trips to NCAAs, Bragg has never placed higher than 18th.

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“In my two years here, this was the cleanest defense we’ve ever played,” said sophomore Casey Carroll, who along with freshman Zack Greer lead the team with four ground balls apiece. “We made the fewest mistakes and, for the most part, we were able to get the ball up-andout on our first opportunities.”

Fenton stopped 9-of-10 shots but wasn’t terribly distressed with the one that got through.

“You got to give them one—it’ll be something for them to think about on the long bus ride home,” Fenton said.

“Our defense was unbelievable. It’s a true test to play two games in a row and step it up in the biggest game in the year.

We made a statement, and it just feels really good. They made myjob really easy.”

Once again, Greer propelled the offense. The freshman, who finished the day with five goals, leads the nation with 21 on the season.

Duke established its offense right from the opening faceoff. The Blue Devils started the game with a lengthy threeand-a-half minute possession, during which the Duke offense took several shots and scooped up three ground balls. The relentless attack culminated only after sophomore Matt Danowski blew past his defender and converted a close-range shot from the right side of the field.

Currie makes Wooden list Duke junior Monique Currie is one of 17 finalists for the John R. Wooden Award given to the nation’s top women’s basketball player. The award, given by the Los Angeles Athletic Club, will be announced April 9.

Currie has averaged 17.6 points per game, 7.0 rebounds, 3.3 assists, scoring in double figures in 31 of Duke’s 32 games.

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“We got it going early,” Pressler said. “I thought the attack did a good job on the ride, and we never let them back in it. That was the key for us.”

Although a let-down would be a natural reaction for a team coming off the victory in College Park, Md., Pressler had been

stressing the importance of this game long before Duke surprised the Terrapins.

“Coach put a star next to this game at the beginning of the season and called it our ‘trap game,’” sophomore Dan Oppedisano said of Tuesday’s matchup. “It was the game we had to win.”

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COACH K from page 9 Terrapins to erase a 12-point deficit with five minutes remaining in the game. The Terps went on a 15-3 run to close out the half and force overtime. They would go on to win 95-87.

Less than a month later, Duke blew its chance at a national title with an equally embarrassing letdown.

Leading UConn 75-67 with 3:28 left to play in the NCAA Tournament semifinal game, the Blue Devils allowed the Huskies to go on a 12-0 run. UConn won 79-78 and waltzed over Georgia Tech to win the national title.

Pretty disturbing trend, isn’t it? Why are Krzyzewski’s teams suddenly choking under pressure, and what can he do to stop it?

I think he just has to get angry.

Don’t get me wrong—I love the amicable, genteel, TV-friendly Coach K who jumps out of bushes and embraces thirtysomethings recreating the glory days of Duke basketball.

I just think that every now and then, he should shake things up—like the manager in Bull Durham who hordes all ofhis players into the shower room, throws a rack of bats at them, then chews them out for being

“lollygaggers.”

God knows I’d play a little harder if I thought my coach exhibited temporary signs of insanity.

Okay, Okay. Maybe that’s not such a great idea. It would be a big step backwards, and Coach K already spends enough time yelling at the refs. Furthermore, it would definitely not be in the best interest of Krzyzewski’s personal health.

Nonetheless, something must be done to reverse the trend of Duke teams choking in crucial moments.

Krzyzewski’s three national championship rings do very little to assuage my concerns.

Like a good columnist, I must ask Krzyzewski: “What have you done for me lately?” If you define “lately” as the last three seasons, the answer is: Not Much.

This year’s team, like last year’s, has all the pieces to make a run at the ACC and NCAA championships. It is up to Krzyzewski to find a new way to ensure that the pieces don’t fall apart, because whatever he’s doing now, it ain’t working.

NFL scouts measured everything from flexibility to strength to 40-yard dash time Monday when they visited Duke.

TIMING DAY from page 9 rounds of the draft “I have no control over that at this point,” Green said. “I can justdo my best and perform as well as I can when I have the opportunity. I guess that will be up to everybody else.”

Several NFL teams have shown interest in the safety.

“I was told some time ago that Green Bay was looking at me,” Green said. “Earlier in the year at practices the Eagles were always around. I just know there’s certain teams here and there.”

The Washington Redskins have also scheduled a private individual workout with Green for April 1.

Aguanno is another graduating Blue Devil hoping to make a career out of football.

“I’m looking at the NFL, but also the Italian football league,” Aguanno said. “It’s like going back to my roots.”

The linebacker’s bench press rep total Tuesday was 19, and he indicated that the rest of the day’s performance lived up to his expectations. Aguanno performed

a series of receiving and footwork drills with quarterback Chris Dapolito in addition to the running, jumping and lifting exercises.

“Hopefully I’ll make it here [in the NFL], maybe Italy, maybe somewhere else,” Aguanno said.

Former Duke players have enjoyed a measure of success playing in the professional ranks. Seven ex-Blue Devils are currently active in the NFL, including three who played at Duke during the 2003 season. Ryan Fowler signed on at linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys, Drew Strojny mans right tackle for Philadelphia and Matt Zielinski fills in at defensive tackle for the Ravens.

Other Blue Devils who worked out at Pro Timing Day were tight end Galen Powell, punter Trey McDonald and kicker/punter Matt Brooks. Former Duke tight end Nick Brzezinski also participated in drills after spending a season away from football battiing injuries to his medial collateral ligament and anterior cruciate ligament.

“I think it went pretty well for pretty much everybody,” Aguanno said. “We’re really not going to know anything for sure until Draft Day, until free agents get signed.”

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Even out class council funds and funding are a bit ofa four-year undergraduate experience, mystery to most students. Money If the University is going to succeed at appears for various groups and this task, it cannot afford to consider the financial work is about making the only students who live in the residence halls. Juniors and seniors, currendy most of whatever money you’re given, the only students alBut buried in the StatTeClltOrial lowed to move off technicalities of stucampus, need to play dentfees is a tiny alloin integral role. And junior and senior cation inequity that could have a tangiyears need to have distinct and coheble impact for undergraduates.

Class councils, which plan events sive identities, just as the freshman designed to build class unity, each re- and sophomore years do.

One of the easiest ways to foster ceive a different amount of money to spend. Their budgets are drastically class communities is to let students themselves construct them. Class different—the sophomore class council has about $B,OOO this semester and councils can—and should—plan acthe senior class has only about $4,000. tivities that draw students, regardless The disparity is because class council of where they live. It is much easier to do that with eight grand to send each budgets are tied to the number of students living on campus. When juniors semester than with four.

In past years, some classes have exand seniors go abroad or move off celled at hosting events that encourhave recent in years), campus (as they their class councils get shortchanged. aged students to attend and mingle.

Even though class councils are Two years ago, one council threw a massive party on the main quad that overseen by Campus Council, the reswas open only to students from that life have body, they governing idential nothing to do with on-campus life. Ac- year. Senior class councils have sponsored nights at Satisfaction Restaucording to the Campus Council charrant and other places offcampus. ter, they are supposed to promote inThese are exactly the events that enteraction and serve the interests of their respective classes, sophomore courage students to interact with peothrough senior year. East Campus ple they would not ordinarily see.

Council serves the same function for When students run into acquaintances freshmen. Class councils’ work ought in these social atmospheres, they can casually get to know each other better. to be relevant to all juniors or senBut one of the most visible projects iors—not just the ones who live on of class councils right now is handing campus. So why are only the on-camout students for it? free gifts with “Class of 2000-somepaying pus thing” stamped on them. These presSeveral student leaders have realents are fun but, they don’t seem to ized this issue and are working to separate class fees from residential fees. promote class unity and interaction in All undergraduates pay for student the same way that events can. If stuactivities; class councils should be dents are going to pay more in fees, it treated the same way. ought to produce something more Duke is currently striving to build a than a pair of flip-flops.

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Giving Wolfowitz his due us now praise Paul Wolfowitz. Let us pected him to be, in part because, like everynow take another look at the man who body in government, he is busy with the constant flow of decisions. He said he spent 75 has pursued —longer and more forcepercent of his time on the Pentagon’s budget fully than almost anyone else —the supposedand administration. ly utopian notion that people across the MusHe deflected all my Oprahesque attempts world for freedom. lim mightactually hunger Let us look again at the man who has been to get him to open up and describe what it vilified by Michael Moore and the rest of the has felt like to be him for the past few years. infantile left, who has been condescended to Our tissues remained dry. But he was eager to think ahead. “It’s fascinating how many by the people who consider themselves foreign policy grownups, and who has become echoes this is going to have,” he said. “The the focus of much anti-Semitism in the world Iraqi election is an inspiration. It’s going to today—the center of a zillion Zionist conspir- be a real challenge to all absolute rulers.”

He went on to suggest that American acy theories and a hundred zillion cleverjewbehind-the-scenes calumnies. democracy-promotion could now get back It is not necessary to absolve Wolfowitz of onto its preferred course. Iraq, he said, was all sin or to neglect the postwar screw-ups in the outlier. “Iraq is exceptional because of the use of the U.S. military,” he observed.

Iraq. Historians will figure out who was reNormally, the United States sponsible for what, and Wolfowitz will probably come in plays the supporting role. For example, Americans can usefor his share of the blame. brOOkS fully raise the profile of dissiBut with political earthquakes guest commentary dents so dictators feel less innow shaking the Arab world, clined to kill them. In the it is time to step back and ob-Philippines, Wolfowitz was the first U.S. offiserve that over the course of his long career—in the Philippines, in Indonesia, in cial to meet with Corazon Aquino. The UnitCentral and Eastern Europe, and now in the ed States can use its access to dictators to presMiddle East—Wolfowitz has always been an sure and annoy them, and Wolfowitz worked ardent champion of freedom. And he has with George Shultz in the testy exchanges usually played a useful supporting role in with Ronald Reagan, who was less inclined to ease Ferdinand Marcos out the door. making sure that pragmatic, democracy-proThe United States can spark debates, but moting policies were put in place. it cannot conduct them. When he was ambasIf the trends of the last few months continsador to Indonesia, Wolfowitz gave a speech ue, Wolfowitz will be the subject of fascinating biographies decades from now, while calling for political “openness.” He was caremany of his smuggest critics will be forgotten. ful not to use the words “freedom” or Those biographies will mention not only his “democracy” because, under Suharto, Indonesians might have felt inhibited about intellectual commitment but also his personal commitment, his years spent learning the talking in such bold terms. But they were languages of the places that concerned him, comfortable with openness, and it became and the thousands of hours spent listening the subject of magazine cover stories and a deferentially to the local heroes who led the great national discussion.

Wolfowitz does not talk like those foreign causes he supported. rjqp To praise Wolfowitz is not triumphalism. policy blowhards who thiwk the The difficulties ahead are obvious. It is simple by chess masters sitting around at summits. justice. It is a recognition that amid all the le- He talks about national poets, national cultures and the power of people to bring gitimate criticism, this guy has been the subjectof a vicious piling-on campaign by people sweeping change. His faith in people probawho know less than nothing about what is acbly led to some of the mistakes in Iraq. But tually going on in the government, while he, with change burbling in Beirut, with many in the core belief that has energized his work, young people proudly hoisting the Lebanese flag in a country that was once a symbol of may turn out to be right.

I have had only two long conversations tribal factionalism, it is time to take a look at with Wolfowitz. The second was the day after this guy again. the Iraqi vote. I figured that would be an inDavid Brook is a syndicated columnist for The teresting day to get a sense ofhis mood.

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Editorial policy inconsistent Monday I learned that The Chronicle has taken the ultimate step to remedy what many perceive to have been a lapse in journalistic standards: the editorial board fired the authors of Monday, Monday. While I suspect the decision to silence a columnist had much to do with the author/editor relationship, the editorial board should take time to think about the ramifications ofits decision, particular in light of its history.

The Chronicle has never been shy about printing stories to create controversy. When I was a student at Duke, the editors elected to run a paid-for advertisement written by a well-known neo-Nazi under the guise of “revisionist” history. Simply put, the ad claimed that the Holocaust never happened. To make matters worse, the editorial board defended its decision to print the advertisement because of the advertiser’s First Amendment rights.

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Since that time, the Chronicle’s history of publishing offensive letters and columns has sadly continued. At least until a columnist had the gall to poke fun at St. Mike and his 11 apostles. Yes, the column in question was in poor taste. Yes, Monday, Monday did unfairly malign one or two of the members of the men’s varsity basketball team. But when compared with the truly egregious submissions that have been published in the past, how can the editorial board justify its decision here?

If this is a first step in a new policy at The Chronicle, the editors should be applauded in taking a more active stance against publishing offensive material. However, perhaps the furor over these articles and advertisements could have been avoided if the editors actually did their jobs in the first place and edited the materials submitted to them before publication.

Ethan Litwin Trinity ’92

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More than a game I have been to lots of different sports since I have been here—l’ve been to wrestling and it is one of the places where you see the nature of what disciplined skill looks like. It is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

—President Richard Brodhead sixth century Greece, wresding was a much more homoerotic act of disciplined skill, featuring nude combatants drizzled lightly with olive oil. Even though those days are gone, it was refreshing to hear President Brodhead affirm a classical Greek view on college athletics in a conversation with The Chronicle last week. He said that his ideal mix in Duke sports would be to combine high athletic achievement with high intellectual achievement. In praising the development and exercise ofboth physical and intellectual faculties, he—probably knowingly—invoked the Greek principle of arete, a word roughly translated as a combination of excellence, virtue and achieving one’s full potential in every area of life.

This attitude is nice to hear, because data matt published in a recent book, The Game ofLife: College Sports and Educational Values, starkly show the decline in number of good athletes who are also good students at selective universities since 1951. Lately, particularly in high profile sports, the trend has been toward more athlete and less student. This development is particularly unfortunate because many of the best students I know also happen to be on varsity teams. (Fd put money on the fact that the distribution of athletes’ academic performance has “fat tails,” meaning that athletes are disproportionately represented at the extremes of scholastic performance, both good and bad.)

For one reason or another, there seems to be a powerful synergistic effect between athletics and academic performance for those who take both seriously. This insight is by no means new; the Greeks saw fitness as essential and challenged their children with rigorous physical training. “Music and gymnastic together made up Greek education. From the day that the Greek boy went to school about the age of seven he spent a considerable portion of each day in the palestra and gymnasium exercising himself under trained supervision,” historian Norman Gardiner writes. This practice, htis-^Oittethrng'to'do with the incredible creative fertility of Greek civilization and culture.

Unfortunately, this happy union did not last. “By the time of the Peloponnesian War the word ‘athlete’ had come to

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mean professional, while athletics were out of fashion among the young men generally. Aristophanes sadly contrasts the pale, narrow-chested youths of his day with the men who fought at Marathon,” writes Gardiner. One would be right to argue that the change in university admissions policy from the “balanced student” model a few decades ago to the “balanced class” model of today has effectively created a community of specialists who are much less versatile than their parents. The pressure to focus on a particular thing on campus now extends to athletics, and the result has been to make varsity participation and scholastic leadership less common than they were in the past.

College athletics are at a similar crossroads to that the Greeks experienced in 340 B.C. According to historian Stephen Miller, it was at this point that a massive rift developed between competitors and spectators, brought about by the infusion of Pr'V, large sums of money from Alexander the Great’s conquests, ultimatelyleading to the increased specialization and professionalization of athletics. ventas Since increased professionalization in college sports tends to withdraw those students from the community, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the highest academic achievers I have known are clustered in disciplines that lack substantial opportunities for future careers: field hockey, volleyball, swimming and track.

That said, Duke ought to . take steps to promote and maintain high academic standards for recruited athletes, some of whom enjoy a much larger admissions break than minorities or legacy students. By doing this, athletics can be brought back into the academic fold. When seen as an essential part of the educationalprocess, athletics have the potential to create a culture of excellence that extends beyond the playing surface, as it has so strikingly for Stephanie Istvan, a Phi Beta Kappa member of the volleyball team.

“It is no coincidence,” Miller writes, “that the Akademy of Plato was first and foremost a place of exercise for the body, and that the best preserved portrait of Plato, who we think of as a thinker, a philosopher, and a man of letters, appears on a herm from his gymnason and that we wears the ribbon of an athletic victor.”

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I realized the unique experience that is college, dustry. Is it the dying chickens, the fact they are wearing a I had only secondary sources such as history books chicken costume, or the fact that you saw them out there and Saved by the Bell:. The College Years to go on. When I championing the chicken cause? Is it for the living chickens? finally arrived, the lack of social upheaval surprised me. I I didn’t realize the living chickens had it so bad sweating it could have sworn it would be like UC Berkeley in the ’6os, out in the coop on 18-hour days for less than minimum wage. but I guess people just don’t do enough drugs nowadays. Thanks for the pamphlet. I’ll write your name on it right now so I can compliment you on your altruism next time I see Sure, there were random events that seemed more like sociology seminar group projects than populated movements, you. Lobby Congress for pro-chicken legislation? No, I can’t, I have a paper due, and who gives a cockle-doodle-doo about but these seemed poindess or just searching the chickens? for legitimacy. Whiling away the hours at a That may just have appeared as me rantschool where I’m supposed to be thinking ing about chickens, but it was really way constandy despite the fact that I run out of more complex. Could it have been a satirihomework fairly easily (and I have yet to succal allegory on the futility ofcampus social cumb to 24) , an epiphany slapped me in the movement? I don’t know, what’s allegory face: there is no legitimacy. mean? Anyway, it’s not that raising awareSome people here seem to wish we busded about on a ’6os campus in a mire of soness isn’t effective, but that there are too many factors involved in which people eicial movement, but aspiring to mimic these ashwlll bhirild ther forget or confuse the message. In addicharacters is only aspiring to grow long hair what can brown do for you? tion, what kind of response do you expect and listen to Peter, Paul akd Mary. Th?only from regular people, who have their own things they moved were their limbs, and even those actions were very slow. These “active masses” problems, not to mention interests, and your self image just were not representing a disillusioned majority, because the doesn’t happen to be one of them. You’re not petitioning the Superfriends for help. actual masses ofAmerica were fighting the war.

I’m not being cynical just to spite all you do-gooders eiStudents feel like they must strive for some arbitrary purpose, as the young arbiters of change in a new millennium, ther, but to help you all with your time-management skills. just because they are on a college campus. The only benefit For example, instead of spending so much time strategizing that arises from the prospective protester’s passion for his the newest cause, you could take up a new skill. Whittling is very popular these days. All the hours you fritter away paintdubious cause is the content feeling he gamers from rationing posters and affixing them to wooden posts could be betalizing of the world’s problems. The grass certainly isn’t getthese think have moral ter spent reading a book about a guy who painted some they a obligating greener. Do types tion to save the world because Batman isn’t doing it? This posters for a while, but then became president. That way you isn’t “The Care Bears go to College.” By picking up a piece can learn how to skip all the painting and jump straight to molding the nation’s actions to your worldview. And if that of litter and throwing it in the proper recycling bin (malleable glass polymers ONLY), I’m not equaling the Kyoto doesn’treconcile the fact that you are partially responsible Protocol in environmental impact. The only thing you’re for all the world’s problems, nothing will. saving is yourself from whatever form of damnation you fear.

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Let’s stop complaining.

I’ve been thinking about the way Duke functions. Students find things we don’t like, complain endlessly about them and then—once the administration or whatever other governing body makes a concerted effort to solve them—find something new to whine about. Explosive controversies have been refreshingly absent this semester, which certainly marks a kind ofprogress, but the complaining continues.

Maybe we complain because it works. While it may be effective as a kind of negative feedback system, motivating organizations by nagging them makes the entire campus environment unpleasant. With less than 48 hours standing between me and a plane to a sunnier hemisphere, I think it would be appropriate to inject a littlewarmth into the student-administratorrelationship. This column will be devoted to a few of my favorite things that have happened in the past year at our beloved alma mater.

1. It may seem shocking, but most first-years at Duke can only remember “The Matrix” as a pretty sweet action movie with ground-breaking special effects. For most of us, though, enrollment at Duke replaced those fond memories of Keanu Reeves with an endlessly confusing grid representing the diversity of courses we were supposed to take during our undergraduate education.

The idea behind Curriculum 2000 —that students ought to take a number of mi er J o lll mlllAx courses in different fields the foster grindstone to interdisciplinary learning—was sound, but the execution was another matter. We found ourselves cutting back on the classes we really wanted to take in favor of cop-out courses in other fields that were designed specifically to fulfill the C2K requirements.

Last March administrators approved a number of changes to Curriculum 2000, the most significant being a reduction in the number of classes students had to take outside of their chosen fields ofinterest. Not only does this allow students to experiment more without Big Brother guiding all their choices, but the abolition of the matrix in favor of a list system unburdens us from the psychological weight of a poorly designed grid that even our advisers had to shrug their shoulders at. While it might still be too easy to satisfy the core requirements without really applying yourself in other academic fields, the revisions made in the past year constitute a dramatic improvement in the allaround quality of our educations here at Duke.

2. It’s the idea we love to hate, even as a large portion of us reap its benefits. No, I’m not talking about capitalism— I’m referring to The iPod program, whose future continues to hang in the balance as officials assess its performance during die past year. Regardless of what happens, the initiative represents the kind of creative thinking we should be encouraging at Duke. The paucity of courses that effectively integrate iPods into their curricula stems largely from the fledgling nature of the program. Their tremendous utility in foreign language, music and linguistic courses aside, iPods could stimulate the creation of currendy non-existent courses like spoken word poetry, rhetoric in public speaking and radio in society, to name a few off the top of my head.

But even if the University ultimately dismandes the program, Duke has gained from the “media frenzy” that portrays us as a forward-thinking school. With initiatives like the iPod program, Duke has attracted the attention of innovative students and faculty members interested in hooking up with a university that isn’t afraid to spend some money on trailblazing towards the future.

3. As a temporary solution to a larger problem, the patrolmen with Securitas make me feel safer. I spend a significant amount of time walking around campus in the early hours of the morning, and seeing an official outside the WEL or strolling down Towerview means would-be assailants are that much more likely to think twice before entering those areas. Meanwhile, DUPD and the administration are working together to forge better, more permanent solutions.

None of these changes are perfect, but they are all progress, which is something we don’t focus on enough as a student body. Let’s try to make spring break a break from complaining, and remember when we return to be appreciative of those people who work to see our desires through to fruition.

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