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Aviki out, DSG set for runoff Ferguson, Longoria remain on today's presidential ballot by

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Brandon Jenkins and Matt Dorsey paint paddles Tuesday on the porch of Epworth, which will becomeacademic space next year.

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The University will likely turn Epworth Residence Hall into an

academic swing space that would temporarily house departments during renovations of their permanent spaces. Although plans are not final, the new East Campus dorm, which opens in August, will allow Residence Life and Housing Services to find rooms for all incoming freshmen. Bell Tower Residence Hall,

to convert currently under construction, will house 138 beds—more than enough to accommodate Epworth residents and 50 additional freshmen when the Pratt School of Engineering expands its class size this fall. George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, said Epworth was “scheduled to come out of dorm-dom” this year. Given the schedule of impending renovations, the Department ofLiterature will likely occupy the space next year.

for profs has long several of the academic buildings on East Campus. When the Duke University Museum of Art moved out, the building jumped to the top of the renovations list. The former museum lacks modern amenities such as wireless Internet access, and some of its piping is outdated. Because of the extent of the necessary renovations, the literature The

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State seeks death in Pitt case by

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to state law, the judge must make

sure the defendant is represented At a hearing Tuesday afterby two lawyers at a pretrial hearing. Two attorneys had already noon in Durham County Superibeen appointed to repreCourt, District Attoror sent Pitt. David Saacks ney Orlando Hudson, declared the state plans resident Superisenior the death to pursue or Court judge, allowed penalty for Thomas Anthe state to proceed thony Pitt, who has conwith first-degree murforfessed to murdering der charges and seek mer Duke employee the death penalty, sayCurt Blackman last May. ing he thought there said Pitt The defense Thomas was “at least one aggrathe actual court case may not begin for another year vating factor.” An aggravating factor is a cirand a half. cumstance that adds to the seriSince the prosecution is pursuing capital punishment, according ousness of a crime. Capital ag-

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capital charges. Saacks defined the capital aggravator in this case as financial gain from theft—Pitt allegedly stole and pawned a digital camera and a DVD player from Blackman’s apartment and the particularly “heinous, atrocious and cruel” nature of the murder. According to the autopsy report, Blackman was stabbed 30 times. Pitt told police that the killing was an act of self-defense, but Saacks will try to prove the —

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After a majority vote of the Duke Student GovernmentElection Commission disqualified her Tuesday night, junior Emily Aviki will not appear on the ballot for today’s runoff. Candidates Russ Ferguson and Jesse Longoria, both juniors, will square off for the presidency instead. The decision to disqualify Aviki came after Ferguson—who trailed his opponents in the original March 31 race —appealed the commission’s Sunday night ruling to keep Aviki on the runoff ballot with Longoria but sanction her for prohibited campaign activities. Aviki was found guilty of illegally posting a live link to the DSG voting website on her AOL Instant Messenger profile. “I looked through the bylaws and found that [the original ruling] wasn’t in accordance with them,” Ferguson said. “The only option was to appeal.” The DSGJudiciary Committee ruled that Ferguson’s appeal —a four-page letter urging the Election Commission to rethink Aviki’s inclusion in the runoff—was a valid complaint. Committee members decided early Tuesday morning that the Election Commission’s sanction on Aviki, which barred her

JuniorEmily Aviki was removed from the ballot intoday's runoff election after she posted an illegal link online. from campaigning before the runoff, was unconstitutional. Following the ruling, Election Commission members reconvened Tuesday night to structure runoff plans. “Of their possible options, it was felt that simply running a three-candidate runoff was not a sanction or did not provide severe enough consequences for the violations,” said senior Elizabeth Ladner, attorney general of DSG and head of all election activities. Ladner added that Aviki’s 33 percent of the original vote will SEE DSG ON PAGE 9

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Vatican plans break from tradition by Victor Simpson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY Responding to Pope John Paul IPs request, the Vatican will depart from centuries-old tradition by ringing bells in addition to sending up white smoke to signal the election of his successor. Before he died Saturday at age 84, John Paul also made his wish known “to be buried in the ground” and not placed in an above-ground tomb, Archbishop Piero Marini said Tuesday. He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter’s Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification. John Paul will be laid to rest with a white silk veil on his face, a rosary in his hands and his body clad in liturgical vestments and the white miter. Following the centuries-old custom for burying popes, his body will be placed inside three coffins—wood, zinc and wood—a design meant to slow decomposition, the Vatican confirmed. A small bag of commemorative medals issued over the course ofhis 26-year pontificate, as well as a sealed document featuring a brief description in Latin of John Paul’s life, will be buried with him near the tomb that is traditionally believed to be that of the first pope, St. Peter. John Paul’s personal physician told La Repubblica newspaper that the Polishborn pope “passed away slowly, with pain

Thousands of people packed into shelter, and hotels Tuesday, forced from their homes by flooding that caused millions of dollars in damage in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Nearly 10,000 residents evacuated their homes after the Delaware River surged out of its banks over the weekend.

Yushchenko receives award Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko, the populist politician who survived dioxin poisoning while forcing out Ukraine's pro-Russian government last year, was bestowed Tuesday with this year's John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

Anchor diagnosed with cancer Peter Jennings, who revealed he has lung cancer Tuesday, plans to continue on "World News Tonight" as much as he can after beginning chemotherapy. Jennings, ABC's chief anchorman since 1983, was replaced by Elizabeth Vargas Tuesday but taped a message telling viewers about his diagnosis.

Philip Morris plans new center Philip Morris USA announced plans Tuesday to build a $3OO million research and development center in Richmond, Va., that will focus on reducing the hazards of smoking. Virginia offered Philip Morris $l5 million in incentives to beat out North Carolina for the project.

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Nuns stand in line outside St. Peter'sBasilica Tuesday as the Vatican planned JohnPaul ll's funeral. and suffering which he endured with great human dignity.” “The Holy Father could not utter a single word before passing away,” said Dr. Renato Buzzonetti. “Just as happened in the last days he could not speak, he was forced to silence.” Marini brushed off rumors that Polish soil would be placed in the coffin, as

many Poles had hoped. “Everybody has wishes. It is impossible to fulfill them all,” he said. One of John Paul’s wishes, Marini said, was for bells to ring in the announcement of a new pope to avoid confusion over the color of the smoke coming from the

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A- piece of Duke land is finally about to find a new owner. In an effort to preserve a tract of land adjacent to Duke Forest, the Durham County Commissioners voted 3-2 Monday to commit $900,000 to help buy the tract —currently owned by the University—under one condition; Orange County must commit to pay $75,000 more. Durham City Council members also supported the land purchase, pledging to pay $75,000 in a 4-3 vote Monday. Durham Mayor Bill Bell, however, said most of the burden should rest on county officials rather than the City Council. “I think we’ve got what we needed to move the deal forward,” he said. The 42.8-acre tract—priced at $1.5 million—is located at the corner of Erwin and Pickett roads. The property stretches from Durham to Orange County and lies between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The County’s decision stymied a developer’s proposal for the land, which included building an upscale housing division on the tract complete with 49 executive-style houses. Duke announced four months ago that it had a contract to sell the land to Crosland Properties Inc. Controversy erupted among local government officials and community groups who feared the development of the land would eliminate a potential recreation area for local citizens. Since then, neighbors have campaigned to stop the development. Negotiations between local government officials and community groups still have not been finalized as the Dukeset deadline approaches Friday. SEE DUKE LAND ON PAGE 7

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Taking participants back to their grade school days, kickball has recently become a popular IM sport.

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Tensions ran high as students across campus watched the NCAA Championship basketball game Monday night. But on the East Campus turf field, another game was building in excitement, as a dozen Blue Devils of various ages tested their skills in the childhood-favorite sport ofkickball. Even though the stands were nearly empty, the bright lights illuminated Williams Field as John Triggs, a first-year student in the Fuqua School of Business, kicked the approaching rubber ball in a swift move that his teammate

Linh Tran described as “textbook.” Triggs and Tran are two dedicated members of The Deuce, an intramural sports team made up of 21 Fuqua students with ages ranging from 26 to 29 years old. The team has participated in IM sports from softball to flag football to dodgeball—and now, kickball. Although IM kickball started only two weeks ago, it has already attracted 19 teams made up ofaround 300 students. Its popularity follows in the footsteps of the IM dodgeball phenomenon of last season. “I came up with dodgeball, kickball

For graduate students, making ends meet is one thing. For those like Jen Graber, balancing a family of three with the prospect of a Ph.D is another. But adding the weight of healthcare insurance —especially under Duke’s increasingly expensive student plan—makes her balnews ancing act a precarious one analysis Graber, a fourthyear doctoral candidate in religion, is currendy insured as an individual student but plans to privately look for a cheaper, less comprehensive family plan than the one the University offers. “If Duke’s going to say that they are supportive of families, then they have to follow through with it,” she said. About 78 percent of users covered under Duke’s student health plan are graduate students who must choose to receive coverage individually or as a family. But for many frustrated students who feel they are overpaying, it seems that single students may be subsidizing insurance for students under the family plan. In the 2003-2004 year, single students paid premiums of $1,063, with average claims of $757 per person. Families, meanwhile, paid $2,282 in premiums, but with an average claim of $4,773. For Jennifer Gibbons, a married Ph.D. candidate in the department of pharmacology and cancer biology, the disparity is unacceptable. “I don’t think that single students

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Duke finds predictor of arthritis For children with arthritis, increases in stress and depressed mood worsen disease symptoms and predict cut backs in social and school activities, according to a Duke University Medical Center study. The researchers found mood was a key predictor of flare-ups in symptoms such as pain, stiffness and fatigue. Daily pain diaries showed as mood worsened, reporting of disease symptoms increased.

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You’ve heard of joints, bongs and brownies, but now there’s a new way for students to get high on marijuana—vaporizers. Although vaporizers may be a less detectable and less dangerous alternative for smoking on campus, students may be slow to trade in their bongs for the time-consuming and more ex-

pensive equipment. The typical vaporizer consists of a box with an electric cord on one side and a tube on the other. The user stuffs a small quantity of marijuana between the tube and the box and plugs the cord into an outlet. When the drug is heated to a high enough temperature, it forms vapors that the user inhales through the tube. Though this new technology has been slow to catch on at ;

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with which they have no experience,” said Cynthia Kuhn, professor of pharmacology and cancer biology. “I would expect more overdoses. For pot, it could mean more hallucinatory experiences instead of just a pleasant buzz, although it would be unlikely to be dangerous to your life.” Many students on campus prefer vaporizers because the devices provide incentives over regular methods. They are efficient, smokeless and odorless—indetectable by residential advisers, said a freshman who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Research indicates that vaporizers may also emit less carcinogenic fumes than other methods because they are smokeless, said Jeff Kulley, a staff psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services. “It also takes a while—it’s not like lighting up a joint and taking a hit. The heating process takes a bit of time and could slow down someone’s usage,” Kulley said. But the added time it takes to get high frustrates students who use va-

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‘Yousmoke all day, everyday, and you don’t get any work done,” the freshman said. “And the high is different—it’s not as fun as other highs from bongs or joints.” He and Kulley both did not think vaporizers would catch on at Duke. “Typically, if a method actually takes longer to get high, most people would abandon it and try something more instantaneous,” Kulley said. The price of the new technology SEE VAPORIZER ON PAGE 7

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Iraq to choose new president by

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The new, interim government will lay the foundation for future elections and a permanent government—all key to an eventual U.S. withdrawal. The U.S. military said four service members were killed Monday and Tuesday in one ofits biggest losses in recent weeks. As of Monday, at least 1,536 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. In Washington, President George W. Bush said Iraqis were increasingly joining the fight against terrorists like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head ofal Qaeda in Iraq. “The American people ought to take heart to know that we have now more allies in defeating these few, and those allies are the Iraqi citizens,” he said. Interim Vice President Rowsch Nouri Shaways said Saddam will

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein will be able to watch from his Baghdad jail cell as Iraq’s newly elected parliament chooses a new president Wednesday, the next step in building Iraq’s first democratically elected government in 50 years, Iraqi officials said. Lawmakers put the finishing touches Tuesday on an agreement making Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani president and Shiite Adel Abdul-Mahdi and interim President Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni Arab, his two vice presidents. Thursday, the 275 lawmakers elected Jan. 30 likely will name Shiite leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari prime minister, clearing the way for lawmakers to begin focusing their attention on writing a permanent constitution by their Aug. 15 deadline.

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be able to see the parliamentary session from his jail cell, although it was unclear if the broadcast will be live or taped. U.S. military officials declined to comment. “This is a very important session because this is the first time in Iraq’s history that the president and his deputies are elected in a legitimate and democratic way by the Iraqi people,” he said. “That’s why the Iraqi government thought it would be beneficial that the former dictator see this unique process.” Saddam was captured north of Baghdad in December 2003 and has been in custody with several of his top henchmen at a U.S.-guarded detention facility near Baghdad’s international airport. U.S. military officials transferred the 12 defendants to Iraqi custody in June with the transfer of sovereignty. SEE IRAQ ON page 7

Veteran Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani will be named Iraq's new president at a parliament meeting today, senior government sources said.

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Prime Minister Ariel JERUSALEM Sharon and setder leaders worked Tuesday to hammer out a compromise that would move thousands of Gaza setders en masse to an area on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, even before the country’s withdrawalfrom the Gaza Strip in the summer. The tense and deeply emotional meeting was the first concrete sign that many setders were willing to cooperate with the pullout and abandon threats of violentresistance. “We understand that there is no choice. We are one people, we want to remain one people, so that’s why we met with the prime minister,” said Eliezer Yaakov, a representative of the Gan Or settlement at the two-hour meeting. President George W. Bush, speaking at his Texas ranch Tuesday in advance of next week’s meeting with Sharon, reaffirmed his support for a Middle East peace plan freezing expansion of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories. “Our position is very clear that the ‘road map’ is important and the ‘road map’ calls for no expansion of the settlements,” Bush said. Last month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Israel’s plan to expand the Maale Adumim setdement—home to 30,000 Israelis in the desert three miles DAVID FURST/AFP east of Jerusalem—was “at odds with American policy” and could threaten peace with An Israeli settler hangs her laundry in Morag, one of the settlements involved in pre-withdrawal talks. the Palestinians. The Gaza setders have vigorously opwe have to take out life insurance because their settlement, the size of their houses posed Sharon’s “disengagement” plan, we know we are in a political struggle that and their salaries. we can lose,” said Aharon Hazut, a setder The Gaza Regional Council—which holding huge rallies, plastering the counat the meeting. try with protest slogans, pushing for a narepresents 8,500 settlers slated for evacutional referendum to delay the pullout, The new plan would relocate setders ation—said it still opposes evacuation, and encouraging their allies in parliament from many of the 21 Gaza setdements to but favors the move to the Nitzan area if to try to bring down the government. between seven and 10 new communities the withdrawal goes through. When those tactics failed, some apnear the Israeli town of Nitzan, about 12 The meeting ended with the two sides miles north of the Gaza Strip, along the agreeing to convene again in 10 days for pealed for soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate the settlements and made vague Mediterranean coast. further talks. threats of impending civil war. The plan would require a major overThe new plan faces several obstacles, But with the July pullout approaching, haul of the government’s earlier comincluding the potential opposition of resisome setders have begun worrying that if pensation program, which allocated dents near the planned communities and they don’t negotiate with the government $9OO million to be divided among the protests by environmentalists concerned now, they will have litde say in their fate. settlers based on complex calculations, that the government could be destroying “We don’t think the battle is lost yet, but including length of time they lived in natural sand dunes and desert wilderness.

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murder was in the first-degree He said the multiple stab wounds, the “robbery factor” and Blackman’s particularly slow and bloody death were other pieces of evidence that suggest the murder was premeditated. Tuesday’s hearing came eleven months after the Durham Police Department arrested Pitt, then 22, inside a Wal-Mart located at Oxford Commons. Pitt worked at a nearby Burger King. Duke University Police officers found Blackman’s body in his Hilton Street apartment May 20 after coworkers reported he had not been to work in two days. Officers discovered Blackman’s body face-down on his bedroom floor, blindfolded and gagged, with his wrists and ankles tied up. Attorneys from both sides acknowledged Blackman and Pitt knew each other before the murder but did not discuss the nature of their relationship. Hudson kept the case on “first setting” pending the results of lab reports. While on first setting, plea bargains and bail negotiations are allowed. The case will keep this status until at least the next hearing, which is scheduled for June. 6. Pitt’s court-appointed attorney Mark Edwards said he and his co-counselor are waiting for prosecutors to turn over all the evidence, including crime scene photos. Blackman served as the coordinator for graduate recruitment and minority programs at Duke. He had hoped to enter graduate school at Northwestern University last fall.

Saddam will be tried before the Iraqi Special Tribunal established in late 2003. The tribunal has given no official dates for starting trials. As U.S. officials have slowly begun to return control of the troubled nation to Iraqi security and government officials, insurgents are targeting Iraqis along with U.S. troops. In one tape posted Tuesday by al Qaeda in Iraq, a man in his 20s, identified as Iraqi soldier Jassim Mohammed Hussein Mahdi, was beheaded for working with the U.S.allied government The authenticity of the tape, posted on a militant Web site that carries most al-Qaida in Iraq statements, could not immediately be verified. The man was shown squatting on the ground in an empty room, wearing full military gear with his hands tied behind his back. “God’s verdict against this renegade, who was tempted by dollars, has been carried out,” said a statement on the tape. “Let everyone who sold his religion and joined this unit know that he will have the same fate.”

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The video later showed the man lying blindfolded on the ground before two masked men appeared. One held the victim’s legs while the other severed his head with a knife as shouts of “God is great!” were heard off-camera. A1 Qaeda in Iraq has claimed responsibility for beheading numerous Western hostages and members of the Iraqi security forces. “Their strategy hasn’t really changed; their strategy has been one to kill as many innocent people as they possibly can in the hopes that it shakes our confidence and shakes our will and, equally importandy, shakes the will and confidence of those brave souls who are helping lead... this new democracy,” Bush said Tuesday. A second video posted on the same website by another group, Ansar al-Sunnah Army, showed a man who said he worked as an informer for police in the northern city ofMosul. The man, who identified himself as Hussein Taha Qassim and said he was born in 1968, told an interrogator he informed the police about the hideouts of four insurgents. He said the police killed three of the insurgents while the fourth escaped.

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The city of Durham has agreed to contribute $75,000, Orange County has pledged $125,000 and Chapel Hill has promised $lOO,OOO toward the purchase. Additional funds could also come from the Erwin Area Neighborhood Group, which has received about $140,000 in pledges to help preserve the property and hopes to find an additional $60,000. The Triangle Land Conservancy has also agreed to contribute $25,000. “We are very eager to move forward to connect Duke Forest with Jordan Lake [and create]... a greenway that will benefit all citizens in the region,” said Kevin Brice, executive director of TLC. Members ofEANG, several of whom are Duke graduates, also said a housing development would threaten New Hope Creek Corridor, a walking trail between Duke Forest and Jordan Lake. Community groups have met opposition from Durham City Council members like Howard Clement, Thomas Stith and John Best, who all dissented in Monday’s vote. The three argued that the project is not a current priority for the Council. “I’m here to do what’s best for the city of Durham,” Best said, “and $75,000 versus $93,000 worth of [potential tax] revenue every year doesn’t work for me.” Jim Anderson, vice president of property development in Crosland Properties’ Raleigh office, attended Monday’s City Council meeting and urged local leaders to oppose the purchase. “We are disappointed about how we are received,” he said. “Even neighborhood groups who are supposed to be environmentally friendly were able to say nice things about the plan.” Wade and Carolyn Penny, whose property borders the region, have promised to sell their 25 acres of land to the governments at a discount rate. If the governments buy the Duke land, they can also acquire the Pennys’ land, making for a much larger recreational park for the public.

VAPORIZER from page 4 adds another hitch to its potential popularity. A typical vaporizer runs anywhere from $l5O to $BOO, depending on its design. “Maybe the cost would affect whether somebody would want to put money toward [a vaporizer],” Kulley admitted. “Sixty-five percent of [Duke] students have either never smoked pot or only once in their lives. I don’t think someone who doesn’t smoke it regularly would invest that much money into a vaporizer.” 1

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INSURANCE from page 3 should have to pay for families, but of course Duke is so big on diversity that it seems to me that they should want families to be here,” she said. “They want more minority groups; they want people from the lower class and middle class instead of just the rich kids, and students with families are another kind of diversity.” Gibbons was also upset with plans announced last month from Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina, the provider of Duke’s student insurance, to increase costs again for next year. She said the University needs to take more of a role in combatting the rising costs and growing inequalities by helping to subsidize insurance.

Bridging the gap To address these concerns, the Graduate Student and Professional Council sponsored a survey in March focusing on different ways to allocate insurance premiums among single students and students with families. Student responses to the survey were mixed on questions ranging from a responsibility to help families to additional options for family coverage. “Some people were very frustrated and wanted the single-student premiums to stay as low as possible, and others felt that there should be a shift from students to families,” said Rob Saunders, community affairs coordinator for GPSC. GPSC also sponsored focus groups with students from both perspectives debating the issue. Although students maintained dis-

parate views, users of both plans wanted to see GPSC take a greater role in the debate. “I really think it’s a balance,” said GPSC President Heather Dean. “On one hand, you have single students who are going deeply into debt, and on the other hand, you have students with families who can’t afford the thousands of dollars it takes to

provide family coverage.” The bigger picture

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married with three children, spent three years on the family plan and is well aware of its challenges. “The big picture of the matter is that we’re mostly people who are just getting by financially,” Coolman said, “and health insurance is something that is not a luxury— it’s a necessity. “It’s difficult to parse these things out and figure out where the University should step in, but this is something that is central to a bigger-picture well-being for students.” Rising health-care premiums have only added to the frustration. Premiums on Duke’s Blue Cross/Blue Shield program rose 10.8 percent in 2002, 17.9 percent in 2003 and 23.3 percent in 2004, with a 21.9percent hike on the way next year. To combat the increases, changes in the new plan include decreased drug benefits and an increase in deductibles. “The fact of the matter is that Duke students^—and Americans —are using insurance a lot more than they ever have, and it’s driving the cost up,” said Dan Hill, founder of Hill, Chesson and Woody —the firm that brokers insurance for Duke.

A national problem Several factors have led to rate increases, including greater utilization of medical insurance and rising costs ofmedical

Although reducing student claims can help lower premiums, several other factors

affect costs. For the company to break even, Blue Cross/Blue Shield charges about a 20 perprocedures. At Duke, there has been a 30-percent cent administrative fee, meaning that, idealincrease in emergency room claims over ly, 80 cents of every dollar paid by student just the past year. In addition, emergency premiums is used to cover insurance claims. The problem claims room with breaking were 26 percent even, Hill exhigher at Duke “On one hand you have single than at the Uniplained, is that it does not always of North students who going are versity deeply Carolina at happen. In the into debt, and on the other past year, Blue Chapel Hill and North Carolina Cross/Blue hand, you have student with Shield paid alState; all three families who can’t afford the most $1.4 milschools use the lion more in inBlue Cross/Blue thousands of dollars it takes to surance claims Shield plan than it did the “One of the provide family coverage.” year. big challenges previous Heather Dean Even under ideal to halt rising circumstances, healthcare costs is for the stumedical inflation dents to become more effective and effiplays a role in determining premium costs. Since 2000, health insurance costs have cient consumers of medical care,” Hill said. Hill explained that too often students risen nationally at a rate of about 14 perwere choosing to forego the Student cent each year, which can be attributed to Health Center in lieu of receiving outside both rising costs and usage. care, either through private specialists or Although the increases in basic expenses stem from a variety of factors, Hill cited visits to the emergency room. To curb costs, Saunders suggested sevrising medication costs and increased soeral changes, including an added $lOO dephistication of diagnostic equipment as ductible for emergency room visits and exprinciple causes. tended operating hours at Student Health. “We know a lot more about the condi“The problem is that there are tradeoffs tions that we have, and we have wonderful inherent in this—when you say you want to healthcare,” Hill said. “What we’re trying to figure out as a country is how we’re cut costs, you’re also cutting the utility of the insurance plan to students,” Saunders said. going to pay for it.”

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department—which occupies much of the building’s first floor—must temporarily move. Officials considered several options of where to temporarily place the department, but Epworth emerged as the leading venue. Because of the dorm’s small size—only 52 people live there—the building could be completely converted into office space. Other East Campus residence halls hold about 100 people, and the University would need to continue housing freshmen in some of the rooms, creating

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“I don’t know that having the building split up like that would be the best possible community for the hall,” said Chris Ellis, residence coordinator for Epworth. “Also, I don’t know that it would be the best possible community for the department either.” Splitting a building between academic and dormitory use would also create security problems. Residence halls limit access by using card swipes, but most office space is open access. “It just wouldn’t be a secure space—mosdy for the residents,” Ellis said. Current Epworth residents learned of the University’s likely plans Monday night at a house meeting when students began to ask questions about the dorm’s future. Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of Residence Life and Housing Services, will meet with residents tonight to answer further questions. Officials are unsure whether Epworth would be used as a dorm again after the literature department moves into its newly renovated space. “The plan is that it’s going to be a residence hall again, but I don’t know when that would be decided for sure,” Gonzalez said. “There would probably be discussions that need to occur when the literature department is ready to leave about whether that is what is appropriate for the building.” Epworth, one of the oldest dorms on East, needs extensive infrastructure upgrades, such as new plumbing. McLendon said the University might have a need for permanent academic swing space, and Epworth would serve that need well. So far, however, RLHS has planned for Epworth to continue as a dormitory. Bell Tower was built large enough to allow RLHS some “wiggle room” when assigning housing, Gonzalez said. But the size assumed the 52 beds in Epworth would still exist. RLHS also recognized the notoriously tight community that Epworth creates, and Gonzalez said any changes would stem from University needs rather than a desire to eliminate Epworth. “It seems to work very well as a residence hall because the community that has been forming there has been great,” he said.

DSG from page 1 be disqualified, not redistributed. Ferguson and Longoria will thus retain their original totals—29 and 37 percent, respectively. Because the margin between the two remaining candidates is less than 10 percent, DSG bylaws state that there must be a runoff. Aviki said Tuesday night she does not agree with the decision but will not file an appeal. “It is an embarrassment to DSG and the next DSG president to continue to add to what has become a very poorly run election,” Aviki said. “If anyone has been let down in this election, it is the student body.” She added that student support for her campaign was encouraging and she plans to continue to serve as a leader on campus. Ferguson cited the nature of the election’s discrepancies as “procedural, not personal,” and he said he hopes all three candidates will remain friendly. He added that he hopes students will focus on the issues when they vote today, though he expects turnout in the runoff to be “much lower” than it was in the initial election. Longoria could not be reached for comment Tues-

day night. Voting will proceed as it did March 31. The DSG voting website will be accessible from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Ladner is sending e-mails containing a live link to all undergraduates. Additional voting stations will be set up in the Marketplace and the Great Hall and on the Bryan Center walkway.

Black smoke signals no decision has been made after a

papal ballot, while white smoke means a pope has been elected. The smoke is from the burning of the secret paper ballots, and chemicals are added to heighten the color. “This time we plan to ring the bells to make the election of the pope clearer,” Marini said, recalling wrong calls in

past elections. “This way even journalists will know,” an ac-

knowledgment of the Vatican’s interest in using the media

its message across to a worldwideaudience. At least 1 million people have flocked to St. Peter’s Square since the pope’s death. An estimated 600,000 mourners streamed past John Paul’s crimson-robed body in St. Peter’s Basilica during the first 24 hours of viewing, city authorities said. Millions are expected in Rome for Friday’s 10 a.m. funeral (4 a.m. EDT), including an estimated 2 million Poles hoping to pay last respects to their native son. Italy called extra police to Rome and planned to seal to get

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off much of the Eternal City to protect a VIP contingent that will include President George W. Bush, former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as well as the presidents ofSyria and Iran. Vatican spokesperson Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the cardinals had yet to decide on a date for their conclave to choose a new pope. According to church law, it must start 15 to 20 days after a pope dies. The next pope is likely to follow John Paul’s conservative bent closely. The late pontiff appointed all but three of the 117 cardinals who can vote in a conclave. Brazilian Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo told Italian state radio Tuesday that he thought a new pope would be chosen quickly. “I don’t think it will be a long conclave,” he said, adding that cardinals have had time to reflect beforehand and already should have “clear ideas” when they begin the balloting. As the cardinals met, buses unloaded groups ofstudents, pilgrims and clergy who joined a line stretching for miles along the avenue leading to St. Peter’s Square and through the streets of the neighborhood around the Vatican.

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KICKBALL from page 3 and Wiffle ball because they were played during our childhoods,” Director of Intramurals Mike Forbes said. “I went to a Catholic school, so the nuns used to play [kickball] with us. It’s a simple sport; you don’t need a lot of equipment or an official, and it’s relatively safe.” Wiffle ball was not chosen as an IM sport this year, however, due to a lack of field space. The matchup between The Deuce and Dogs in a Battle, a team composed of 12 undergraduate students, was declared unofficialbecause there were not enough players present. “Ideally we have 12 members total,” said junior Dan Morris, captain of Dogs in a Battle. “Most of them are out doing other things besides playing kickball.”

Nevertheless, energy and excitement filled players on both teams as the game pressed on. The younger members of Dogs in a Battle were more laid back throughout the game. While The Deuce was adequately dressed in gym shorts and sneakers, several members of Dogs in a Battle had to play barefoot because they wore sandals and flip-flops. Although they could not kick as far their feet became red from the impact of the ball—the team still offered a good challenge for The Deuce. Morris and his team played their first game ofkickball last week. “It was tiring because we’re all out of shape and alcoholics,” he said jokingly. “The other team didn’t show up, so we basically just drank and played kickball. But we didn’t actually drink on East, because that’s illegal.” —

As different as they may seem, both participated in dodgeball last season. In fact, Tran said his team is playing kickball in order to stay in shape for teams also

dodgeball. Triggs, however, was part of the World Adults Kickball Association and shares a different view on the sport. “I come from Washington, D.C., where kickball is really big,” he said. “People have decided to play it here because of the popularity there.” While some members of The Deuce joined for the love of the game or as a form of exercise, others joined to relive their youth. “This is a sport that everyone played in elementary and junior high schools,” said Jeff Lieberman, another member of the team. “[lt] is a simple game: you roll the ball, you kick the ball. And you try to not get kicked in the balls.”

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INDIANAPOLIS Baylor now has a basketball team it can celebrate. And oh, what a celebration it was. The Lady Bears hugged, flopped on the floor in giddy BAYLOR 84 delight and emtheir MSU 62 braced coach as a rainbow of neon-colored confetti rained down on the RCA dome. All they had wanted was to be a shining light for a university stained by scandal. One dazzling national championship

the tournament that included three victories over No. 1 seeds; North Carolina, LSU and finally the Spartans. Both teams were playing in the finals for the first time. The margin was the second-largest in a championship game, falling one point short of the record set in 1987 when Tennessee beat Louisiana Tech 67-44. When the hom sounded Tuesday night, the players jumped in unison amid the streamers and screamed, “We won! We SEE BAYLOR ON PAGE 13

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The Blue Devils just can’t win After dropping three straight one-run games to Wake Forest, Duke has fallen to 9-23 and sits at the very bottom of the ACC with a 1-11 conference record. The Blue Devils have lost seven of their last

eight games.

Roy Williams took over the UNC program two seasons agoafter it won just eight gamesthe year before.

school’s first NCAA, title by a women’s team. “What a team I get to coach!” coach Kim Mulkey-Robertson said. “It wasn’t the coaching, it’s these guys taking me for a tremendous ride.” And it was a fast one. Five years after Mulkey-Robertson took over a team that went 7-20 and was last in the Big 12, the Lady Bears were pulling on

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ought to do. Sophia Young’s 26 points, Emily Niemann’s precise 3-point shooting and the brilliant, energetic play of the backcourt carried Baylor to an 84-62 victory over Michigan State on Tuesday night for the

The team has failed to grind out wins in many close contests, as Duke has been on the losing end of seven one-run games. “It’s definitely frustrating to lose onerun games,” junior Adam Murray said. “At times it is tough to handle.” The Blue Devils have had their share of difficult losses this season as late-inning heroics have come up short. A furious Duke rally in the ninth against Wake For-

est Friday mustered only six of the seven runs needed to tie the game. The Blue Devils have also self-distrusted after building early leads. In Duke’s most recent contest, the team squandered a two-run advantage as the Demon Deacons scored runs in the seventh and eighth to steal a 3-2 victory. And everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong for the Blue Devils this season. In its seven one-run losses, Duke has committed 14 errors. These miscues have proved the difference in many close contests, as they have led to at least one unearned run in five of those games. Duke’s defense has been the team’s most notable flaw this season. The team SEE baseball ON PAGE 16

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NCMMfmEANtS HIGH 7V MTHGS Monday's national championship matchup got a 16.0 rating and a 23 share.The rating is up 43 percent from last season's final. It is the highest-rated title game since Connecticut's victory over Duke in 1999, which garnered a rating of 16.9. TWO OBJURE )Oi DRAFT BJGfBOm Texas A&M juniorAntoine Wright and Pittsburgh sophomore Chris Taft announced that they would forego their remaining years of NCAA eligibility to enter the NBA Draft. Taft, who averaged 13.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game this season, is a likely lottery pick. Wright averaged 17.8 and six rebounds a game this season en route to earning first team All-Big 12 honors. He has not hired an agent and will have until June 21 to withdrawfrom the draft.

With CHAPEL HILL, N.C. thousands of Carolina blue-clad fans cheering in the Smith Center, Rashad McCants rested his left arm on the NCAA championship trophy and gave it a glance. The North Carolina junior then looked up at the crowd and smiled. He didn’t have to say a word. The Tar Heels returned home Tuesday to celebrate the program’s fourth national tide with about 15,000 frenzied fans —less than 24 hours after closing the season with a 75-70 win over Illinois in St. Louis. In a festive atmosphere that included the team serenading the crowd, coach Roy Williams and his players thanked the fans for their support and talked about how good it felt to win North Carolina’s first national title since 1993. It was a title made even sweeter by the program’s struggles in recent years, which included an 8-20 season in 2002 and an ugly coaching change a year later that brought Williams back to his alma mater. “It’s been a long journey, it really has,” said senior Jackie Manuel, a freshman on that eight-win team coached by Matt Doherty. “But I think the one thing I can say is we’re back. We’re No. 1.” Thousands of fans—many al-

Freshman Marvin Williams receives a raucous welcome from the 15,000Tar Heel faithful who packed the Dean Smith Center to celebrate the UNC's national title. ready wearing championship Tshirts—poured into the stands

and onto the arena floor before the team’s flight had even landed at nearby Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The fans waited and cheered as they watched season highlights on the video boards, located high above the scoreboards reading

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won!” as fans chanted “Mul-key! Mul-key!”— a tribute to a coach who has taken the program to heights never before imagined. “She doesn’t accept anything but the best from her players,” Baylor’s Steffanie Blackmon said. “She’s just hard on you, but it pays off, cuz hey, we’re here and we won the big thing right now.” They did it with unforgiving defense that disrupted almost everything Michigan State tried and by poking enough holes in the Spartans’ matchup zone to stay comfortably ahead after zooming to a 19-point lead in the first half. Niemann keyed the early surge and finished the first half With 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting from behind the 3-point line; she finished with 19 points. “I think [Niemann] was the whole key to this game,” Michigan State coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “If you take 51 off the floor, it was a different game. She was definitely the X-factor.” Not that the Lady Bears were resting easy after that. Knowing that Michigan State had rallied from 16 down to beat Tennessee two nights before, Baylor kept attacking, making steals and scrambling for loose balls. Their killer instinct was a perfect reflection of their feisty coach, who practically glowed in a bold aqua-blue pant suit as she stormed back and forth in front of the bench, calling plays, pleading for calls from the officials and cajoling her players to keep pressing—even with a 20point lead.

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basketball before that, was named the most outstanding player of the Final Four. “Well, all those moments all just paid off right now,” Young said. “This is what I came here for and I’m living my dream.” Young went 10-for-19 from the field, grabbed nine rebounds and had four assists. Blackmon helped out with 14 points in the second half to finish with 22. The victory completed an unprecedented double for Mulkey-Robertson, who became the first in the women’s game to play for a national championship team and then coach one. She was the starting point guard when Louisiana Tech won the first NCAA title in 1982, and later became an assistant coach at Tech, spending 15 years there before taking the Baylor job in 2000. The Lady Bears (33-3) finished the season with 20 straight victories and helped erase an ugly stain on the university, which was rocked two years ago by a scandal in the men’s basketball program uncovered after a former player was accused ofkilling a teammate. “Look up at these fans,” MulkeyRobertson said. “That’s how we changed the Waco community. We’re a positive in Waco and at Baylor University. There’s a lot of good there, there’s great programs, great coaches, and this is one of many more to come.” Michigan State (334) had reached the tide game with unselfish play that epitomized team basketball. But guards Krisdn Haynie and Lindsay Bowen had to do it almost by themselves in this one —and that was asking too much. Bowen scored 20 points and Haynie 17, but Baylor negated Michigan State’s two powerful inside players. Kelli Roehrig scored only 8 points and Liz Shimek had 7. Baylor also owned the boards, outrebounding Michigan State 45-22.

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beginning of the season. The result was an eight win, 20 loss debacle that first called into question Doherty’s credentials as a head coach. Doherty did manage to recruit McCants, Felton and May during this “lost” year and the team showed early signs of greatness by winning the 2002-2003 Preseason NIT. In a late December game against lona, however, May broke his left foot and missed the entire ACC regular season. Despite late-season wins over Duke and Maryland, the Tar Heels failed to qualify for the* NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season. This, coupled with player unrest with Doherty, led the North Carolina athletic department to fire Doherty before the start of the 2003 Final Four. Since then, Doherty’s legacy has unsurprisingly been tainted in Chapel Hill, and he has surprisingly been unable to find a new head coaching position. In general, most discredit Doherty’s first-season success because he did not recruit any of the players. Almost the same can be said of Williams this year, but he is regarded as a hero. Carolina fans cannot have it both ways. If Doherty’s 2001 record can be discounted by this logic, he should also receive some credit for this year’s national championship. Even North Carolina fans who do appreciate Doherty’s recruiting will tellyou he was a terrible strategist and could not do much with the talent he had accumulated. This is just not true. May missed all but 11 games in his only season under Doherty, and Williams’ first season with the rambunctious group found only mild success. After compiling a 19-11 record and a No. 6 seed, the Tar Heels were eliminated in the second round of last year’s NCAA Tournament.

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lapsed multiple times over the course of the season and holds a 7.55 ERA. Hillier’s approach, however, does not appear to be working. The staff sports an 8.64 ERA in conference play—Burke’s 7.71 conference ERA is the lowest on a starting rotation that does not have a single ACC victory. The Blue Devils’ hittmg rounds out their troubles this season—it simply has not been good-enough to counteract all of the other problems. Despite five everyday players hitting above .300 in ACC play, Duke is being outhit by conference opponents .347 to .258. The Blue Devil offense has come in spurts, and Duke has yet to combine time-

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Rice’s poke hand been to this play before. It always starts an Lebanese. In Egypt, it’s not clear whether the upcoming presidential elections will be like the coming-out season for debutantes in Palm Beach, and it always ends free—with anyone who wants to run able around a smoky poker table at Binions casino to —or fair—with international observers. And in Israel-Palestine, Ariel Sharon’s new in Las Vegas. That is, every new secretary of state gets settlement binge near Jerusalem underhis or her moment on the world stage, where scores how difficult it will be to maintain moeveryone “oohs” and “ahs” about how smart mentum there. The common theme in all four areas is they are and what a “dream team” staff they that the key parties are doing the right things As the first of have put together. secretary for the wrong reasons. Democratization is state to ever wear stiletto heels while revieweveryone’s second choice. First, the Kurds ing troops, Condoleezza Rice has had a comand Shiites want to consolidate their own second to none. ing-out season The savvy secretaries don’t take any of this power inside Iraq; the Lebanese opposition seriously. They know that eventually every wants to get rid of the Syrians; the Egyptians secretary gets dealt a poker hand—and you want to get U.S. pressure off their backs; and never know when it’ll come or what sort of the Israelis want to get rid of Gaza’s huge cards it’ll contain: the 1973 Arab-Israeli War Palestinian population. In history, a lot of good has (Henry Kissinger), the rise of started with people doing the Mikhail Gorbachev (George reaShultz), the fall of the Berlin ttlOlTiaS friedmail right thing for the wronghave sons. But you will only Wall (James Baker), Kosovo guest commentary self. sustaining democratic(Madeleine Albright), Iraq tion in the Middle East if peo(Colin Powell). And this poker hand is no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em. How ple start to do the right thing for the right reasons —if the different sects in Iraq and well you play this high-stakes hand usually deLebanon really do hammer out a shared vitermines your legacy as secretary of state. Rice may get dealt other big hands, but sion and set ofrules for their two countries. If there is one already waiting for her on the Egypt recognizes it can’t thrive without libertable. It is the four fragile democratizations alizing its economy and political institutions. unfolding in the Middle East: Iraq, Lebanon, If Israelis and Palestinians really do come to Egypt and Palestine-Israel. Whether any of terms with each other’s nationalism. Otherthese come to fruition will certainly form a wise, you’ll have constant backsliding. Trying to make any one of these democracy crucial part of the Rice legacy. For the last month or so, the Bush team projects self-sustaining—and that is the test has been doing a victory lap, taking credit for would be a career. Rice’s challenge is to do all the outbreak of democracy in the Arab world. four at once. The burden is not hers alone. While I disagree with many Bush policies, I The parties themselves must carry the lion’s think the president does deserve credit for share. But her responsibility is undeniable. Does she have the toughness to deal with unleashing something very important in the Ariel Sharon? She has not shown it up to now. moribund Arab of the East. Many politically the Bush team lets Sharon trade Gaza for If elements for democratization are necessary now in place in Iraq (free and fair elections), the West Bank, the whole U.S. democratizain Lebanon (a Syrian withdrawal from tion agenda in the region will be set back. Does she have the moxie to restrain the Beirut), in Egypt (President Mubarak’s comKurds and Shiites from overreaching in Iraq? mitment to multicandidate presidential elecThe steel to deal with the Syrians? tions) and in Gaza (an Israeli commitment to The will to move the Egyptians? withdraw and Palestinian elections). Too soon to say. But this is the early poker But while the necessary conditions may hand she has been dealt, and how she plays it be the sufficient conditions for in place, now democratization are still not present in any will determine, in part, whether the Bush of these arenas. The Iraqi election was Jan. team has uncorked democratization in the 30 and the Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis have Middle East (I hope so) or set loose a new deadlock. (I hope not.) still not agreed on a government, and the insurgency is still going strong. In Lebanon, the Cedar Revolution is now bogged down in Thomas Friedman is a syndicated columnistfor The New York Times. a standoff between pro-Syrian and anti-Syri-

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a statement to The Chronicle last week, an associate And there are many reasons to go to UNC for a class. dean for judicial affairs allegedly claimed that under It’s a good way to gain access to many courses that Duke the “relaxed” university rules for sexual assault prosedoes not offer—particularly in the areas of applied classes cution, the Undergraduate Judicial Board has to be and languages, to name but a few. Making new friends and “roughly” 75-percent sure that a non-consensual sex act getting a new perspective on the college experience might occurred in order to punish a student. Mere days ago it not be a bad thing, either. seemed inconceivable that any dean could out-crazy the These days, getting to Chapel Hill has never been one who wrote an essay about how God helped tsunami easier: a bus leaves every 30 minutes and drops you off victims drown, but now someone has pulled it off. on campus about twenty minutes later. This translates Let’s think about this for a second. If the Judicial Board into forty minutes of studying per class day on the bus. decides to discipline four students for sexual misconduct How often otherwise is it so easy to incorporate work and is 75 percent sure about their guilt in into the day? each case, then with that kind of confiAlthough it is something of a pain not dence there will be an erroneous convicto be able to get a break on tuition for tion in roughly one of the cases. taking a class at UNC, the school —in a It seems that destroying one innocent number ofareas—is better than our own. person’s reputation —and future employa(There certainly are no Business Administration or Celtic departments in Trinibility—in order to convict three guilty persons is an acceptable state of affairs here at ty). From the kinds of courses taught to Duke University. the diversity of disciplines available, matt gillum Luckily, with class registration upon us, heading over to our neighbor for a class you can vote with your feet and run from veritas could be a great deal of fun, particularly if you can get a group of people together away from these maniacs. Imagine spendand all do it. ing part of next semester luxuriating at a first-rate research institution packed with real Southern Nevertheless, you will have to take the balance ofyour Culture (not the ersatz Duke variety—the cultural lovesemester courses here, and that means you will rub elbows child ofNew Jersey and Maryland). Imagine taking classes with administrators who are trying to stop sexual assault by with chivalrous Southern Gendemen and Carolina Girls crushing civil rights under their manicured thumbs. This is illegal and immoral. Winning the battle against with voices as sweet as Georgia tea and bosoms tenderer than Magnolia Grill pork chops. Imagine having a nationsexual assault depends on focusing efforts on controlling al basketball championship. Imagine slathering molasses substance abuse and-somehow-on curbing impulses evolved during the Pleistocene. Inventing a policy where on those pork chops. Thanks to an underwhelmingly publicized agreement the definition of“clear and convincing” evidence means a between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke, you can. Few know 75-percent confidence of guilt is not good enough. There it, but the Inter-Institutional program between us allows is a reason why the American legal system demands “beyou to take one class a semester at UNC and transfer the yond a reasonable doubt” and unanimous jury votes in grade directly into your Duke GPA, provided that the order to find someone guilty; it enshrines the principle (though often fails to uphold it in practice) that no one course is not offered simultaneously at Duke. If you really want to, however, it is possible to take anything you want should be knowingly convicted for crimes they did not whenever you want by staggering the course sequence by commit. Duke, apparently, is satisfied with getting it right a semester, e.g. taking the first part of a course in the three quarters of die time—a solid “F” in my book. spring and the second part in the fall. (UNC is so big that Matt Gillum is a Trinity senior. His column appears it offers both parts in both semesters while Duke oftenWednesdays. times does not.)

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living in the age of the liberal copycat. A1 vatism is always shifting. Once, Republicans were isolationFranken tries to create a liberal version of Rush. ists. Now most Republicans, according to a New York A1 Gore announced his TV network on Monday. Times poll, believe the United States should try to change Many Democrats have tried to create a liberal Heritage dictatorships into democracies when it can. Meanwhile, 78 percent of Democrats believe the United States should Foundation. not try to democratize authoritarian regimes. The theory is that liberals must create their own verMoreover, it’s not only feuding that has been the key to Conservatives have sion of the conservative pyramid. formed their foundations, think tanks and media oudets conservative success—it’s also what the feuding’s about. When modem conservatism became aware of itself, coninto a ruthlessly efficient message maservatives were so far out ofpower it wasn’t have chine. Liberals, on the other hand, even worth thinking about policy prescripbeen losing because they are too fractious, david brooks tions. They argued about the order of the too nuanced and, well, too freethinking. commentary universe and how the social order should guest the left Much as I admire my friends on reflect the moral order. Different factions for ingeniously explaining their recent defeats without really considering the possibility that maybe looked back to different philosophers —Burke, Aquinas, the substance of their ideas is the problem, I have to say Hayek, Hamilton, Jefferson—to define what a just society that this explanation for conservative success and liberal should look like. Conservatives fell into the habit of being acutely confailure is at odds with reality. scious of their intellectual forebears and had big debates because have they Conservatives have not triumphed about public philosophy. That turned out to be imporbuilt a disciplined and efficient message machine. Contant: Nobody joins a movement because of admiration for servatives have thrived because they are split into feudentitlement reform plan. People join up because they its these factions ing factions that squabble incessantly. As think that movement’s views about human nature and sohave multiplied, more people have come to call themselves conservatives because they’ve found one faction to ciety are true. Liberals have not had a comparable public philosophy agree with. debate. A year ago, I called the head of a prominent liberthe senReview, National of many the of In early days think tank to ask him who his favorite philosopher was. al ior editors didn’t even speak to each other. Whittaker I’d asked about health care, he could have given me If Rand, of a hero Chambers declared that the writings Ayn of the more libertarian right, reeked of fascism and the four hours of brilliant conversation, but on this subject he did. gas chambers. Rand called National Review “the worst and stumbled and said he’d call me back. He never conscious of beLiberals are less public philosophy most dangerous magazine in America.” modem liberalism was formed in government, not cause with arguing like that ever since—neocons It’s been away from it. In addition, liberal theorists are more influtheocons, the old right with the new right, internationalenced by post-modernism, multiculturalism, relativism, conservaversus fiscal ists versus isolationists, supply siders value pluralism, and all the other influences that dissuade Weekly magazines—The tives. The major conservative one from relying heavily on dead white guys. Standard, National Review, Reason, The American Conon agree servative, The National Interest, Commentary David Brooks is a syndicated columnist for The New York almost nothing. Times. conserThis feuding has meant that the meaning of

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Good laptop! In

the computer training workshops I run for OIT, people are always asking, “Mike, how do I train my computer to stop crashing?” So I thought I’d share

some tips. The first thing to realize is that computers are part of an intricate dominance hierarchy—a pecking order, if you will—with Apples at the top and discount Dell clones near the bottom. Subordinate machines are continually acting up, testing the social order and jockeying for position, while Alpha computers are secure in their status. This is why Macs hardly ever crash. As a computer owner, your laptop sees you as part of this hierarchy, whether you realize it or not. It will test you, to see who backs down first. If you blink enough times, the computer will eventually assume it is the boss. I’ve seen users cowed into submission by their computers, even frightened of them. You’re the alpha brain! You have far more synapses, even if you can’t add as fast! The key to computer obedience is winning these dominance challenges. When a computer freezes, you should of course immediately slap the desk and say “No!” loudly. Almost everybody seems to know this much. Do not berate the machine though, or swear j|(e dickisOH at it. Voice recognition is a modest proposal quite poor in computers, -

and they are extremely

literal—you’ll probably only confuse it. (The older technique of squirting it with water has been completely discredited.) Use a firm but not loud voice. Make steady eye contact with the screen and try not to blink. Give the command once and once only—repeating yourself shows the computer that you won’t follow through on a threat. Never slap the keyboard or strike the screen; this can traumatize it. (Do not back down and restart. If you do, the machine thinks it has won. It will freeze more and more frequently, eventually becoming uncontrollable.) If you persevere, the computer will back down and display classic submissive behavior (usually, the screen saver). This can take a while; most people do not realize how stubborn a badly-trained computer can be, particularly if it is used to getting its way. Be patient. If it still refuses, ‘time out’ is a dark room usually does the trick. Computer training is always better in groups. In my workshops all the participants line up, place their laptops on the floor, turn them on and step back, maintaining eye contact during startup. The first machine ready is picked up, praised and rewarded in front of the others. Computers are very social, and often take their cues from their peers. This is why the well-socialized machines in Duke’s clusters hardly ever crash, while problem laptops are usually the only computer in the house. Computer training can transform your companion machine. A problem computer is sluggish, lousy with spyware, continually crashes and uses the Blue Screen ofDeath to get its way like a child holding its breath. An obedient computer will burn CDs faster, Google more accurately and pick up less spam. It’s important to catch computers early, while they are still malleable laptops by the time they’ve grown into desktops, most are far too sedentary and set in their ways to be easily trained. Dominance is the theory behind computer training, but the secret weapon is appropriate rewarding. Contrary to what most people think, praise and physical contact are not powerful incentives for laptops. What they really crave is of course electricity. If a computer refuses to back down in a challenge, you should withhold power, even if it whines and complains about a “low battery” (usually an act—they aren’t in any real distress). Plugging it in should only be a reward for good work. Needless to say, indiscriminately recharging your laptop will quickly create a pampered problem computer. Many participants in my workshops have gone on to apply these techniques to other companion machines, and you can too. Next time your car develops an annoying rattle, don’tback down—it’s testing you. Keep driving, and don’t give it gas until it behaves. Remember, you’re the boss. —

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