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UNC president to retire by 2006 by

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CHAPEL HILL University ofNorth Carolina President Molly Broad, an outsider hired from California eight years ago to lead the system, announced Wednesday she intends to leave her jobby the end of the next school year.

The 64-year-old economist will leave after presiding over one of the most dynamic periods in the history of the state’s 16campus public system.

Broad helped push passage of $2.5 billion in voter-approved bond money now being poured into campus capital improve-

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UNC President Molly Broad will retire by the end of the next academic year.

pansion of distance education programs and a rise in the state’s college-going rate. System enrollment has grown in her tenure by 30,000 students, to 190,000.

“Serving the people of North Carolina and their remarkable university will always be the greatest privilege of my professional life and an honor beyond any I might have imagined,” Broad said in a letter announcing her decision to the UNC Board of Governors. “I thank you, humbly, for this rare opportunity to lead the men and women who comprise the oldest and finest public university in America.”

Broad was executive -vice, chancellor and chief operating officer of the California State University System forfour years before coming to North Carolina. She was the third system president, the first woman and the first non-North Carolina native to hold the position.

Broad said she researched the state’s culture, history and food to help her connect with lawmakers and others, but acknowledged that not being SEE UNC ON PAGE 5

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Powerful. Vivid. Engaging Ambitious.

These are just a few of the words critics have used to describe author Khaled Hosseini’s popular de T novel The K Runner, whu the Univers announce Thursday a; the summe

Winding up

The Durham Bulls opened their season Thursday Toledo Mud Hens. The score was tied at the top of the against the 10th when rain forced officials to postpone the finish until today.

for the Class An epic story of friendship and political turmoil that spans more than 40 years, Hosseini’s book chronicles the intertwined lives of Amir, the son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Hassan, the son of a servant. The childhood companions are separated when Amir and his father flee Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion of 1979. Years later, Amir SEE READING ON PAGE 5

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Students file into a party in a neighborhood near East Campus, whereresidents have complained about noise.

After years of battling noise, litter and other alcohol-related problems, distressed residents around East Campus have decided it is time to develop new responses to the ongoing disruptions.

Members of Trinity Park, Trinity Heights and other local communities met at Asbury Methodist Church March 31 to suggest the creation of a new organization, Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health, that would focus on solving problems created by disruptive Duke students. Using the strength of a more organized coalition, MATCH’S aims are more ambitious than the neighbors’ previous solutions and include pushing for legislative change at the city level and using media advocacy to win support for their cause.

“We have the right to live in a safe and healthy environment—the same as

everyone else,” said Trinity Park resident Christina Headrick, who helped coordinate some of her community’s recent

proposals.

One of the overall goals of MATCH will be “to minimize dangerous behavior,” said Christopher McLaughlin, assistant dean for student affairs at the School ofLaw and a Trinity Heights resident.

Headrick said the group would function partially as a Durham-based counterpart to BIueSPARC, a campus-community coalition established at Duke earlier this academic year to address similar issues.

Claire Feldman-Riordan, BIueSPARC’s director, explained the group was created to address alcohol-related issues. It encompasses topics such as onand off-campus social life and relationships with the Durham community.

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BAGHDAD Cementing Iraq’s first democratic government in 50 years, one of Saddam Hussein’s most implacable enemies took his oath as president Thursday and quickly named another longtime foe of the ousted dictator to the powerful post of prime minister.

The new government’s main task will be to draft a permanent constitution and lay the groundwork for elections in December, although some worry that the two months of political wrangling taken up in forming the leadership hasn’t left enough time.

The swearing-in ceremony came just two days short of the second anniversary of Baghdad’s fall to U.S.-led forces and underlined the growing power and cooperation of the Shiite Arab majority and Kurdish minority —groups that were long oppressed by Saddam’s regime.

There were stumbles, though.

After his inaugural speech, interim President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, walked off the stage, and members of the National Assembly and onlookers began to disperse and television feeds were cut.

Talabani came back about 10 minutes laterand had to shout to a dwindling crowd that the President’s Council—Talabani and

his two vice presidents —had, as expected, selected Shiite Arab leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari as interim prime minister.

Senior Kurdish official Barham Saleh blamed the misstep on miscommunication, saying lawmakers did not realize the ceremony had not ended with Talabani’s

speech.

Some Shiite lawmakers felt snubbed “We hope that they forgot,” said Abbas Hassan Mousa al-Bayati, a top member of al-Jafaari’s Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance. “This happened because of bad

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Education MOUNT VERNON, Va. Secretary Margaret Spellings came into her job promising to deal with horror stories from states about the No ChildLeft Behind law. Now state leaders say she appears to be delivering on the promise—with a catch.

Spellings pledged Thursday to take a more sensible approach to enforcing the law, starting with allowing many more children with disabilities to be held to different academic standards. The flexibility isn’t open to all states, only to those that prove they are committed to President

George W. Bush’s education law, mainly by raising test scores.

“States that understand this new way of doing things will be gratified,” Spellings told state school chiefs and other education leaders invited to hear her announcement.

“It makes sense, plain and simple,” she said. “Others looking for loopholes to simply take the federal funds, ignore the intent of the law and have minimalresults to show for their millions of dollars in federal funds will think otherwise and be disappointed.”

Spellings arranged the gathering at George Washington’s estate in Virginia as a

symbolic reminder of a meeting there

three years ago, when the state school chiefs celebrated Bush’s new education law. This time, they came to hear the new education secretary oudine her prove-itfirst terms for cooperation, first reported

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She will favor states that don’t challenge principal points of the law—yearly testing of students in reading and math in grades three to eight, and public reporting of scores for all major groups of students. She wants proof that states are

The painkiller Bextra was yanked off the market Thursday, and the government ordered that 19 other popular prescription competitors from Celebrex to Mobic to high-dose naproxen carry tough new warnings that they may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

N.C. House approves lottery In a 61-59 vote the North Carolina House approved a lottery bill Wednesday. The proposal now goes to the Senate, where historical evidence suggests it will pass. Money from a lottery would be used for education.

Senate mulls Social Security

Senate Republican leaders are considering whether to seek Democratic support for Social Security legislation without the personal accounts sought by President George W. Bush. They would aim to restore them later, officials said Thursday.

Pope considered resigning

Pope John Paul 11, weighed down by illness and age, considered resigning as he turned 80 in 2000, according to his last will and testament published Thursday. The pope also wrote of tormented times for himself and the church and left instructions for his notes to be burned.

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The step show was a highlight of Black StudentAlliance Invitational weekend, which aims to lure already admitted students to Duke.

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While attending Black Student Alliance Invitational weekend, prospective freshman Kandace Jones was introduced to the wealth of opportunities Duke offers minority students.

“I didn’t realize how big the school was before I got here, but I felt welcomed and got a sense of community,” the Virginia Beach, Va., native said of the minority recruitment weekend.

“Having programs mostly for blacks and more attention focused on you is nice—l think it makes it more personal.”

Jones and many other of the

170 students who attended BSAI or Latino Student Recruitment Weekend said they find events specially tailored to their cultural and ethnic interests vital to recruitment efforts.

Yet, there are questions surrounding the future of minority recruitment weekends, particularly under the leadership of President Richard Brodhead. In the past, Brodhead has said he prefers a more racially unified approach to recruiting prospective students.

“Shouldn’t your weekend at a school give you a sense of what it would actually be like to live at that school?” Brodhead said.

“And so my own instinct would be the more you can have everyone together, the more it gives you a flavor of the college you’re attending. But of course I recognize that you would want to be able to give people answers to questions about how someone like them would experience the school.”

Duke is not alone in offering minority recruitment weekends.

Cornell University and Stanford University, for example, also offer similar experiences to their prospective minority students.

Brodhead, however, was in;

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Your RC is coming. Are you afraid?

Campus Council thinks you shouldn’t have to be. And at its meeting Thursday night, members discussed the feasibility of creating a student advisory board to communicate with residence coordinators about their current disciplinary procedures.

“People need to feel free when they see their RC, not scared like when you see cops in your rearview mirror,” said sophomore Jay Ganatra, Campus Council president.

Many Duke students only get to know their RCs if they serve on Quad Council or if they have been cited for a disciplinary infraction, members said.

“We want to make sure there’s an increased focus on being an adviser first and a disciplinarian second,” said sophomore Ben Rubinfeld, Campus Council vice president.

Council members said they also hope to increase RC involvement in quad programs and events through the prospective advisory board.

Strengthening the “comment phase” of disciplinary action by increasing RC communication with students about their behavior without resorting to formal write-ups may benefit students, council members said.

Such changes to disciplinary procedure may not be feasible, however, given pre-existing Uni-

versity policies.

‘You have to appease the administration on this one,” said junior Alejandro Torres Hernandez, Central Campus representa-

live. ‘You’re not going to have the administration getting lax in their rules as far as how students should behave on this campus.”

Few Quad representative Katherine Robinson, a senior, suggested that students serving on an advisory board should go through the RC training process in order to give their opinions greater credibility with the administration.

Council members proposed a comparison of the number of formal citations filed by RCs in each quad on a monthly or bimonthly basis. They also discussed a survey of students who live in each quad and of members of each Quad Council.

Since each RC is responsible for 350 to 565 students, feedback on RCs could lose some degree of accuracy if not all students provide their opinions, said Edens Quad RC David Mon tag.

“Student perception is student reality, but that does not necessarily mean it’s the true reality of the situation,” he said.

Council members subsequently discussed appropriate questions to ask students in surveys, such as what the write-up process was like, whether students have communicated well with their RCs in the past and whether students believe their level of communication with their RCs are adequate. The organization plans to request feedback from Quad Council executive boards before the end of the academic year and create a campus-wide survey next year.

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MINORITY from page 3 strumental in ending a minority-based preorientation program at Yale University, where he oversaw undergraduate education before taking Duke’s helm. “I don’t have any desire to imitate what was done elsewhere, but only for people to get together and figure out what’s the most effective way,” he said. “I’m not about to announce some big decision about this nor will I necessarily be the decider, but it’s likely to be an ongoing conversation.”

In years past, BSAI weekend and LSRW have been held at separate times, but this year scheduling constraints forced the admissions office to hold both events on the same weekend. Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag estimated that about 105 students attended BSAI and 65 attended LSRW. Although Brodhead favors a different recruitment approach, Guttentag said he sees the value in organizing recruitment weekends especially geared towards accommodating prospective black and Latino students. “Without it we wouldn’t be as successful as we are,” Guttentag said. “[BSAI weekend and LSRW] are critical

IRAQ from page 2 Al-Jaafari did not seem upset, telling reporters afterward: “This day represents a democratic process and a step forward.”

“I’m faced with a big responsibility, and I pray to God that everyone will work hand-in-hand and that their efforts will lead to progress and development,” he added.

COUNCIL from page 3 accomplish anything,” Rubinfeld said Council members made clear that they hope to improve students’ relationships with their RCs, not dictate RCs’ jobs or develop adversarial relationships with them.

“If we’re going to have people love their quads, they’ve got to love the people in charge of the quads as well,” Ganatra said. to

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components to a multi-pronged effort to get black and Latino students to attend.”

Although Guttentag noted that a more racially unified approach to recruiting students would seem less divisive and would foster self-segregation less, he said minority recruitment weekends can still have a significant impact. “Virtually anyone, when they come to Duke, are a part of multiple communities. For many African American and Latino students, they are a part of at least two communities: the Duke community and the black or Latino community,” he said. “Those communities are not homogenous, and we don’t want people to think 50.... We want to make sure that black and Latino students who are looking for a welcoming and supportive community know they can find one here.”

Junior Tomas Lopez, co-president of Mi Gente—the Latino student organization that helps organize LSRW—believes having minority recruitment weekends benefits the student groups responsible for organizing the events as well as the prospective students. “Recruitment is important because they are rallying points for people in the communities,” Lopez said.

“Having prospectives here gives current students a lot of energy.”

Some Iraqis have expressed concern about al-Jaafari’s close ties to the Islamic government in Iran and his work for the conservative Islamic Dawa Party, which has called for the implementation of Islamic law. But lawmakers did not express any reservations Thursday.

Al-Jaafari said women will play a bigger role in his government, and he promised to fight the violence of the insurgency.

In other business: Per Campus Council’s request, Durham County will repair potholes on Central Campus. Streets on Central will not be repaved, because it poses a financial difficulty for the county.

The council also finalized the budget for its April 22 Old Duke party.

Campus Council will no longer accept funding requests from student groups for the remainder of the year. The council’s funds for this academic year have been “tapped dry,” Ganatra said.

Although many students, administrafaculty praise the minority recruit-

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ment weekend efforts, the programs are not without critics. Some claim the recruitment weekends falsely portray the student

communities as more cohesive and inclusive than they actually are.

Lopez acknowledged the cause for such a concern but disagreed with the reasoning behind it. “Of course the University is not dominated by the African American and Latino communities the way they may seem to be during recruitment weekends,” he said. “It is our job to say, ‘Here is what the Latino community is all about,’ as well as to showcase the whole Duke community. The last thing we want to do is put on a show.”

Sophomore Phillip Olaleye, BSAI CoChair, said he disagreed with BSAI and LSRW critics completely.

“If they believe that, then they don’t know everything that goes into BSAI. They see the fashion shows and parties, but not the black faculty mixers and other panels,” he said. “They see it as a weekend when black people come out to throw step shows, but really the sole purpose of BSAI is to show p-frosh what Duke has to offer academically, socially and in all other aspects.”

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raising achievement.

And she’s inclined to work with states that do even more than the law requires, including the yearly high school testing that Bush wants in federal law but Congress hasn’t endorsed.

Overall, Spellings is out to garner support from state leaders who have grown restless over Bush’s education law, yet do it without eroding high expectations for all children.

State leaders contend the law sets unreasonable and rigid standards for many children. Connecticut plans to file a federal suit over the law, Utah is poised to pass a bill giving priority to its own education goals, and other states are clamoring for change.

Spellings has shown she has heard those concerns, said David Driscoll, education commissioner in Massachusetts and president of the Council of Chief

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Despite criticism, BSAI and LSRW organizers say minority recruitment weekends are important.

State School Officers “The chiefs are very pleased,” Driscoll said after the speech. “She’s not backing off the standards, but she’s willing to listen and provide flexibility where it makes sense.”

The Utah education commissioner, Patti Harrington, said she was encouraged

by Spellings’ respect for local school control and support of alternate testing for more disabled students.

Harrington said Utah lawmakers are still likely to pass a bill giving priority to their own school goals unless federal officials approve Utah’s new request for more flexibility.

The relationship between the state and federal leaders is important because it affects everything from teaching to testing, influencing the daily education of millions of students.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, whose state plans to sue on grounds the federal law is vasdy underfunded, said Spellings’ announcement does not fix that concern.

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the rule of the Taliban—seeking Hassan and redemption for his own past.

Assistant Dean of Students Ryan Lombardi, chair of the summer reading committee, said the 12-person committee—comprised of administrators, faculty, Student Affairs staff and students—selected the book because of its cultural perspective, depiction of ethical struggles and focus on defining personal identity.

“It was particularly relevant because of, obviously, the situation in the Middle East and the things that have been going on with U.S. relations,” Lombardi said. “There is also a moral dialogue that occurs in the book that I think is good for anyone to ponder and question and consider.”

Though Hosseini’s book is a work of fiction, much of the story’s context is based on the author’s personal experiences. Born in Kabul in 1965, Hosseini left Afghanistan with his family in 1976 but returned to the war-ravaged country four years later. His family was given asylum in the United States and settled inCalifornia, where Hosseini attended college and medical school.

Director of Counseling and Psychological Services Jim Clack, who nominated The Kite Runner to the selection committee, said he pondered whether Hosseini was one of the two main characters when he first read the book. Clack added that he hopes students will consider a number of issues when they read the book, including the nature of loyalty and how class structure and conflict affect friendships.

“It’s also a story of human fallibility, of how we fail each other and what that invokes in us,” he said.

Clack said Hosseini’s book is an ideal choice for the summer reading assignment because of its “multicultural flavor” and depiction of “the misery of living in third world countries.”

Echoing Clack, Lombardi said the committee hopes the book will offer incoming freshmen a global perspective similar to last year’s summer reading selection, Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, which tells the story of global health activist and Duke graduate Paul Farmer. [ The Kite Runner] makes us continue to think beyond our own borders, which is good,” Lombardi said.

From a pool of 92 nominated books, the summer reading committee chose four finalists before officially selecting Hosseini’s book this week. The other finalists were Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson, A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind and Dead Man Walkingby Sister Helen Prejean. Hosseini’s book emerged as the clear choice after the committee members sat down to discuss reading it, Lombardi explained.

“Everyone on the committee burned through it,” Lombardi said. “It was one of these ‘couldn’t-put-down’ books, which is the X-factor when considering books.”

Lombardi added that he has been in touch with Hosseini’s agent and plans to invite the author to speak at Duke in the fall.

Duke’s summer reading assignment has been in place for four years. The program was created to provide all freshmen students with a shared learning experience and an introduction to the University’s intellectual environment outside of the classroom. Previous reading selections include Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities (2003) and Ethan Canin’s “The Palace Thief’ (2002). “

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But at a news conference in Chapel Hill, Broad said she saw bountiful evidence of state residents’ deep and abiding passion for education as head of the system.

“I think I knew in a factual way that the citizens of North Carolina believed in their university and supported it, but I don’t think I could have fully appreciated the depth,” she said.

Broad plans to take a one-year paid research leave after she steps down and then join the faculty of the School of Government at UNC at Chapel Hill. She signed a five-year contract last year that calls for her to be paid 60 percent of her $312,504 salary. She and her husband plan to build a house in Chapel Hill near one of their two sons and his family.

“I have 100 years of experience on the front line, and it is just wonderful to think about how you can take that to the classroom,” Broad said. “I don’t think I’ll ever make teacher of the year, but you can’t blame me for trying.”

Broad will leave before the end of the 2005-2006 school year if a successor is hired before then. Her predecessors C.D. Spangler and William Friday—both retired at 65, but there is no mandatory retirement age for UNC system heads and Broad said her age didn’t play a part in her decision.

James Woodward, who is stepping down this summer after 16 years as chancellor at UNC at Charlotte, said Broad carried forward the legacy of Spangler and Friday.

“We have been blessed with superb leadership,” he said. “Molly upheld the legacy of Jim and Dick, and has been one —

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of the best system CEOs in the country.”

The university is stable and Broad expects to fill the only vacant chancellor’s position by the summer. The bond program that has redrawn the landscape of the state’s campuses is nearing its end, she said.

“The university is in strong and healthy shape,” she said. “It’s just a wonderful institution. It’s been a joy everyday, successes and failures alike.”

Former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles of Charlotte has already won the endorsement of 21 Republicans in the state Senate who want him to succeed Broad.

They signed a letter distributed Monday saying Bowles “has the stature and business acumen to properly manage the complex financial requirements of this important institution to assure academic excellence in the future.”

Bowles, who ran unsuccessfully as his party’s U.S. Senate nominee in 2002 and 2004, was a White House chief of staff in former President Bill Clinton’s administration and led the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Broad declined Wednesday to discuss Bowles or any other possible successor.

“The responsibility for selecting the president is a responsibility the Legislature wisely assigned to the Board of Governors,” Broad said.

In addition to its 16 universities, the UNC system includes the 11-station UNC Center for Public Television, the UNC Health Care System, the N.C. Arboretum and the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics.

Broad said she intends to keep working on university initiatives during the next year to improve affordable access to the university, increase enrollment and help the university’s biotechnology problems thrive.

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For years, residents have complained about noise and litter from parties.

Josh Parker, a resident of Gregson Street, also emphasized this need for cooperation and understanding.

“The students want social options and the residents want a relatively quiet neighborhood. I think we can get to both of those but we must work together and the Duke administration is going to have to play a key role.”

Headrick and other residents proposed a variety of legislative initiatives at the meeting, ranging from changes in house rental licensing laws to mechanisms for holding keg purchasers responsible when they distribute alcohol to minors. Residents showed the most support, however, for a plan that advocated alterations in Durham’s “noisy assembly” laws, largely because they saw it as the most viable option currently.

“Based on the discussion at the first meeting, the city noise ordinance could be strengthened by increasing en-

forcement, raising fines or changing the terms of the ordinance altogether,” Feldman-Riordan said.

Senior Pasha Majdi, outgoing Duke Student Government president, sophomore Joel Kliksberg, outgoing DSG vice president of community interaction and junior Logan Leinster, Kliksberg’s successor, represented students at the meeting.

Kliksberg, along with a handful of residents, remained skeptical about the noise ordinance proposal.

“I think the neighbors seem to be pursuing some options that are excellent, however, I was disappointed by those suggested at the meeting,” he said. “To raise fines on noise violations... not only would it be ineffective but it is not a positive way of.addressing the actual problem.”

Kliksberg added that such a broad approach is premature for an incident isolated to only “about six” houses referring to the residences, many of them occupied by members of fraternities, that police and neighbors have pinpointed as problem.

In response, many of the residents still emphasize this option is being approached because so many others have failed.

“Calling it premature ignores the fact that these same problems have existed for decades,” McLaughlin said. “We’ve seen the same type of behavior and same kind of problems. They're not unique to this generation of college students.... I’m not sure what more we need to wait for.”

McLaughlin also added that the neighborhoods near East Campus are shifting from student houses to family residences.

“I think the changing nature of these neighborhoods makes these efforts more important, and quite frankly, more likely to succeed,” he said.

Despite the continuing tensions, residents and students alike have noted some recent improvement.

“Over the past couple of months that I’ve been involved with the issue, I’ve seen some amazing, very friendly attempts from neighbors to work with Duke students,” Kliksberg said.

If nothing else, several residents said, the communication that has slowlybegun to develop between the University, its students and the surrounding Durham communities is progress.

“If we foster that [communication] and use it as a tool to solve problems, we might find solutions that are not only mutually beneficial, but actually solve the problem,” Parker said.

While both Duke and the community pledge continuing dedication to addressing the issue, they acknowledge that a solution will not come quickly.

“We are not going to see results over any short period of time,” Headrick said. “It will probably take an effort over several years to create a safer environment in our —

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Blue Jays, who last week beat then-No. 2 Virginia. For the Blue Devils, however, the game will mean a little bit more.

A win against JHU—8-2 alltime against Duke—would be only the second win against a No. 1 team in the Blue Devils’ history.

The Blue Devils would become the No. 1 team in the country for the first time ever, extend their record undefeated streak and likely guarantee themselves a bye in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

“It’s the biggest regular season game in the history of our program,” Duke head coach Mike Pressler said. “We will just leave it at that.”

Perhaps most important for Pressler is the exposure his team will get just by showing up at Homewood Field.

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each other in Baltimore, Md. That’s all that matters—at least that is what the No. 2 Blue Devils (11-0) would like to believe.

They will ignore the national television audience and the thousands of fans that will pack Homewood Field. They will not care that Johns Hopkins is the only other remaining undefeated team in the nation. They will refuse to be intimidated by one of the greatest programs in collegiate lacrosse—one that has won 31 straight home games.

Sound crazy? It probably is, but it is the only mindset Duke can have if it expects to beat the No. 1 Blue Jays (7-0).

“I don’t think anyone’s overthinking about this game,” sophomore Nick O’Hara maintained.

“It’s just another game for us. If we win, we’ll be happy, but it’s not the biggest game of the year.

There are better games to come.”

Judging from the expected size of tonight’s crowd, however, this will be unlike any game this team has played, especially for the freshmen and sophomores who have never played at Homewood.

“The unfortunate thing is that there’s another game Friday night—Maryland against Navy which is a big local rivalry,” said Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala, a member of the NationalLacrosse Hall of Fame. “But I think with all the success that Duke has had, and us having a good season, there’s going to be an awfully nice crowd here. We can expect anywhere from 7,000 to 10,000 people.”

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Bulls’ opener ends in delay ninth-inning baserunners, as Jonny Gomes lined out and Earl Thursday was Opening Day at Snyder grounded into a fieldDurham Bulls Athletic Park. er’s choice.

The rain came as extra innings Today will be, too, as the game was suspended at the start of the 10th were set to begin, and 54 minutes , inning later the game was called.

MUD HENS I 5 “Hopefully this isn’t a sign of because to come,” Toledo managthings of rain 5 BULLS er Larry Parrish said, “rain delay and will and extra innings all in the same 6 continue at p.m.

With two outs in the top of day.”

The teams nearly avoided the ninth and Toledo trailing by frames and the delay, as Thames extra Mud Marcus one, Hen held a one-run lead enthe Bulls 5-for-5 day a perfect capped the ninth. Manager Bill with a dramatic home run to tie tering career saves Durham’s Bulls Evers sent five.

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ing his first game with the Bulls since 2003 to the mound to attempt his 63rd save. After striking out leadoff hitter Curtis Granderson and forcing a weak groundout by Ryan Raburn, the Bulls seemed to have the game in hand.

But Thames had a different idea. He launched a towering home run on a 1-1 pitch over the leftfield wall to even the game at five.

“Thames swung it great; he’s a proven player,” Evers said. “[Gardner] has done it before, SEE BULLS ON PAGE 10

A ninth-inning home run by Mud Hen Marcus Thames forced Thursday's Opening Day into extra innings, but the gamewas suspended at the top of the 10th due to rain.

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Pair of ACC unbeatens, top-5 teams match up From staff reports The No. 5 men’s tennis team takes on the ACCs only other undefeated team today, third-ranked Virginia, at 1 p.m. in Ambler Tennis Stadium. With only a handful of conference matchups remaining, the winner will be the favorite to win the regular season title.

“We will definitely be fired up because we are both undefeated and there is a litde more on the line,” junior Jonathan Stokke said. “We really talked at the beginning of the year that we would come out with the same intensity and play every match like we are playing a top-five team.

So this shouldn’t be much different.”

Most of the Cavaliers (18-2, 6-0 in the ACC) are solid baseliners, and Stokke described them as “mentally tough.”

The Blue Devils (15-2, 5-0) are riding a 10-game winning streak but the team’s ace, national No. 3 Ludovic Walter, lost both his singles and doubles match in the team’s last outing.

Walter will likely play No. 11 Doug Stewart, and Stokke expects to be matched up against No. 11 Somdev Devvarman. Stokke watched Dewarman, a freshman, play Duke teammate Peter Rodrigues in the fall, which should give Stokke an advantage today.

The Blue Devils have not lost since falling to top-ranked Baylor at National Team Indoors Feb. 11, but they have not faced a team as strong or as highly ranked as Virginia since then.

After playing the Cavaliers Friday, the Blue Devils head south to take on Miami (10-8, 1-6) Sunday. The Hurricanes top player is ranked only 95th in the latest ITA rankings.

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More than 2,000 runners, jumpers and throwers will gather this weekend in Wallace Wade Stadium for the largest Duke Invitational in the track meet’s 17year history.

The quality of competition is expected to be top notch as athletes from 78 schools and a host of unattached professional athletes compete.

“Certainly some of the big teams will be here,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “We have a record number of entries, plus the quality of the entrants is

Nevermind that Wednesday’s loss to Wake Forest was Duke’s first conference road loss since 1989.

Forget that it was the second time that Duke had been blown out in the last two weeks.

The Demon Deacons’ 6-1 domination showed the No. 12 Blue Devils (12-6, 3-2 in the ACC) that they need to put more effort into their matches.

“We are not a talented enough team to just show up and win a match,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said.

Duke will host Virginia (5-10, 1-4) Saturday and Maryland (7-9, 1-4) Sunday looking for victories to get its season back on track. Katie Blaszak and Saras Arasu will be honored on Senior Day before

Sunday’s contest.

After a blistering 10-3 start in the

spring, the Blue Devils have cooled off, going just .500 over their last six matches. The two ACC losses over this period have likely taken them out of regular

very high too.”

Duke’s Shannon Rowbury will face off against three of the nations top 1,500meter runners Friday evening. Rowbury, who placed second in the mile at the NCAA. Indoor Championships, will run against the third, fourth and fifth-place finishers from the same race. With the talented competition and a top-seeded time of 4:15, the race has the potential to topple the current meet record of 4:15.01, which was set in 1996 by professional runner Kate Fonshell.

season title contention. With five conference tilts remaining, Duke can still manage a first-place finish, but only if league leader Miami falters in both of its final ACC contests and the Blue Devils win all of theirs.

Lack ofenergy has been a problem in Duke’s recent losses. The team has had a tendency to come out flat and to drop the doubles point. Now Duke must face two more conference foes who will be looking to capitalize on that weakness.

“This team has to get used to playing with a target on its back,” Ashworth said.

“No matter who we play, people want to beat us.”

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beating a Hopkins team in overtime in the

quarterfinals. From 1997 to 2002, Duke went to six straight NCAA tournaments and won two ACC championships. played against in the regular season.

And although Pressler would never say In addition, in that time Duke’s faciliit, it would mean a whole lot for his team ties, including its weight room, practice to post a good showing—against Johns field and Koskinen Stadium were renovatHopkins, the most storied program in the ed and improved. In addition, the adminiscountry, on the most hallowed field in the tration fully funded the team, bringing the cradle of the lacrosse world, Baltimore. number of team scholarships to 12.6, the “Like I said to the guys, it’s two teams number the rest of the ACC teams have having great regular seasons to date,” given for years, Pressler said.

Presser said. “Our goal was never to be No. “For all those years, we were behind,” Pressler said. “The Marylands, Hopkins, Vir1 in the poll. Just like it was never to be undefeated. Certainly we are going to have ginias had more. Now we are dead even.... fun with the game.

I’ve seen them all. Nobody has a betterfacil“Hopkins certainly has its own pressure. ity and a better situation than us now.

“We can get to the point now that we Their home-game streak [is] on the line.”

The buzz, which has surrounded can recruit to the very best players.”

Pressler and his team in 2005, was certainThe recruits who Pressler has built the team around are the sophomore and junly not present in 2002 and 2003.

Pressler watched the two best players ior classes, who make up all but two of from his 2002 squad transfer after the seathe team’s starters. Quicker and better stick handlers, they are a different kind son and heard the criticisms of his coaching and his program that accompanied the of players than the Blue Devils of the departures. The following year’s team was 19905, who were known more for their the first Pressler squad to not make the size than speed.

In 2005 Matt Danowski, Duke’s best atNCAA’s since 1996.

Last year’s team went 5-8, the worst tackman, is listed at 5-foot-9, 190 pounds. record of any Pressler-coached Duke Starting defenseman Casey Carroll goes 6ever.

One of those transfers, attackman Matt Rekowski, now starts for the Blue Jays.

Tonight he may run into Duke midfielder Kyle Dowd, who is in his first year with the Blue Devils since transferring from Hopkins.

The program Rekowski and Matt Monfett, who now plays at Loyola, left behind was a nationally established one, albeit not a serious contender for the national championship year in and year out.

Under the direction of Pressler, the Blue Devils have been a consistent top-10 team. They made the Final Four in 1997, team

foot-2, 175 pounds.

By comparison, Terrence Keaney, a midfielder who graduated in 2002, went 6foot-5, 220 pounds.

“They used to look like the Green Bay Packers,” said Virginia coach Dom Starsia, whose team faces Duke next weekend. “[The Blue Devils are] not quite as big as they used to be. I certainly think it’s one of the faster, quicker Duke teams I’ve seen in a long time.

‘You would have to ask Coach Pressler if that was a willful transformation or a process of recruiting.”

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we hoped he’d do it again, but he just hung a curve.”

Durham was fortunate to have the lead going to the ninth. The Bulls took the lead in the bottom of the eighth on Snyder’s second double of the day, scoring Steve Cox from first. They had erased a 4-2 deficit in the three innings earlier with two Damon Hollins RBIs. The Mud Hens took the lead early in the game mainly because of shoddy defense; Durham’s infield made five errors and allowed two unearned runs. Bulls starting catcher Pete LaForest overthrew a teammate in an attempt to throw out a basestealer twice. Shortstop phenom BJ. Upton, second baseman Luis Ordaz and first baseman Eric Munson each recorded errors during the first six innings.

“They helped us out a little bit,” Parrish said. “They think they shouldn’tbe playing, and we wish we weren’t.”

After Snyder scored on a wild pitch to start Durham’s scoring in the second, Gomes launched a fourth-inning

home run that drilled the oversized bull atop the leftfield wall, winning him a steak, according to Durham legend.

The Mud Hens jumped on the board quickly, scoring two runs in the second inning. Catcher Sandy Martinez added a third run on LaForest’s overthrow in the third inning, and Thames followed with an RBI single in the fifth that extended the lead to 4-2.

Durham’s starting pitcher, Brian Sweeney, struggled, giving up five hits and walking two in four innings. The middle relief held the Mud Hens in check, giving up one run over the next four innings.

“Our pitchers really batded to keep us in the game,” Evers said. “I hope the defense gets better, let’s Justput it that way.”

The pregame ceremonies had all of the requisite pomp and circumstance of an Opening Day. While the sun was still shining, North Carolina basketball player and Durham native David Noel threw out the opening pitch, and soldiers unfurled a gigantic American flag in right-center field in front of an afternoon crowd of 5,047.

Thursday’s game will be finished today an hour before the scheduled game between the two teams.

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“What really impresses me about them are two things,” Pietramala said. “One, they’re playing with great energy. They play with great effort and energy, they fly around the ball, they hustle to the hole and they hustle to the loose ball.

“The other thing is that I think they’ve done a very good job of creating scramble situations on transition.

They’re very good off the ground. Their transition game is one of the better ones out there.”

For the Blue Devils the key to the game will be controlling Johns Hopkins’ midfield.

[Kyle] Harrison, [Paul] Rahil and Greg Peyser are the three leading is very unusual,” Pressler said. “We’ve got our haridf full with that first midfield—that is by far their strength?’

It was unanimous where the game will be most likely be decided tomorrow: “I would say the FaceoffX,” O’Hara said.

“A lot depends on the performance at the Faceoff X for each team,” Pietramala said.

“It’s very obvious for us,” Pressler said. “We have to get 50 percent of the faceoffs. We win our share of faceoffs, I truly believe we’re going to get some good opportunities to score. Hopkins is by far the best faceoff team we’ll face all year. That’s the key to victory for us.”

Duke faceoff men Brad Ross and Dan Oppedisano will have their work cut out for them. The Blue Jays have lost the battle in the faceoff circle only once this season.

Much remains a mystery when it comes to predicting how the Blue Devils will perform tonight. Even Pressler admits that he does not know how his relatively young team will react.

“Number one, you look at our track record this year: we’ve won three big games, all on the road,” he said.

“Our guys have great confidence about playing well on the road. Number two, Hopkins has certainly been in these environments a little more than us. A No. 1 vs. No. 2 in Baltimore at Hopkins on national TV. With all the hype, if we’re not mature about all that, that could work against us.” “

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W. TENNIS from page 8 Fortunately for the Blue Devils, both Virginia and Maryland enter the weekend struggling. Virginia is 15 over its last six matches with its only win coming against a weak Virginia Tech squad. Maryland is riding a five-match losing streak of its own, which will likely become six when the Terrapins meet 14th-ranked North Carolina Saturday.

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who has been sidelined with an injury, the Blue Devils have a depth advantage over Maryland and Virginia.

Both opponents have only one player ranked in the top 125 and each also lost badly to No. 34 Florida State, which Duke beat earlier in the season.

Ashworth may attempt to use the team’s lineup to get a mental edge as well, indicating that he might make changes to give his team an early boost.

“We have to do something to shake up what we’re doing, and lineup changes are a definite possibility,” he said.

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“I’m going to approach the race like any other,” Rowbury said of the possibility of setting the meet record. “I definitely think that I’m in good enough shape to run that fast, and if the conditions are good and the race goes well, then I think it is feasible.”

Men’s distance runners Nick Schneider and Chris Spooner are among the favorites in the 1,500 and 3,000m runs, Ogilvie said. Schneider set the meet record in the three-kilometer race last year with a time of 8:16 but faces stiffer competition this year with several professional runners who have previously broken the eightminute mark at the distance. Dan Wilson, a former Connecticut sub-four-minute miler, is the clear favorite in the event.

“Nick is hoping to run faster [than last year],” Ogilvie said. “That could be the best men’s race of the weekend.”

The meet begins at noon Friday with the start of the field events. Duke’s Debra Vento will try to defend her high jump title from last year. Two weeks ago Vento tied her personal best with a jump of 1.83 meters, and now the sophomore will set her sights on the meet record of 1.84 meters, which will be an attainable goal if the conditions are good.

Former Olympic trialists Jason Smoots and Chris Lukezic will compete in the 100-meter dash and the 800-meter run, respectively. Smoots is a former North Carolina Central University sprinter who specializes in the 60-meter dash, and Lukezic is a junior at Georgetown and primarily runs the 1,500-meters. Laura Gerraughty, a 2004 Olympian in the shot put, will compete in the hammer throw.

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Subsidy necessary evil the current healthcare that have significantly higher average insurance plans available to claims. If the family premiums were graduate students through the raised much higher, however, it is likeUniversity, single students are subsi- ly that the graduate students with famdizing those with family plans. Al- dies would be unable to afford health insurance. This would though this is not St3lT6Clltori3l leave children withideal, and health inout healthcare opsurance across the board needs to be evaluated and tions, which is unacceptable.

The large issue at hand, however, is made more affordable, it is necessary for graduate students with families to the overall state of health insurance at be able to provide healthcare for their the University. Rising healthcare costs children. In lieu of a better system, is a national problem, which can be felt having singles subsidize families is a here at Duke. Having single plans subsidize the more expensive family plans necessary evil. is not a long-term solution, as in the fuLast year, single students’ health insurance premiums were $1,063 with an ture both types of plans will become average claim of $757 per person. The unaffordable for students with low inexcess helped to cover the claims made comes. Healthcare is a necessity, not a by families, which averaged $4,773. luxury, and the University must do Families paid $2,282 in premiums. everything in its power to make sure that all of its students have access to afthat their are Many singles upset premiums are paying for the families fordable health insurance.

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Peter Lange’s arts subsidy —a program that used discretionary funds to provide $5 tickets for students to most performances on campus—has proven to be a success, and it should continue next year.

Since the program began, attendance at campus performances has increased by 300 percent. This means that almost 3,000 tickets to events have been purchased by undergraduate and graduate students.

This boost in attendance is magnificent and is a real tribute to the health of the arts on campus.

In the past, Duke has lacked a strong cultural scene with few students attending the plays and con-

certs brought to campus by the Duke University Union and Duke Performances. Perhaps the root of the problem was the high ticket prices for many of those events.

Now, since tickets are only $5, more students are finding time to attend these cultural events. Since a cultural element on campus is something the University is striving for, it makes sense to continue subsidizing tickets next year.

The majority of the increase, however, has come from graduate students. The next goal of the University should be promoting these events among undergraduate students who can also benefit from the ticket subsidy.

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The listening Are you listening???

Are you listening?

I don’t like being elitist about music. What The other day I was sitting in my Central Campus apartment taking a break to let my you like is what you like, and in art, there are mind rest from work. I flipped to BET where no “right” or “wrong” messages. Being “mainI saw an image of rapper 50 Cent, looking stream” doesn’t necessarily make you a bad jacked up on steroids, entering what was es- rapper and being “underground” doesn’t sentially a brothel, from what I could tell. As mean you are a good one. I hear many hipI heard the words coming out of his mouth, I hop fans (usually complete with the typical became even more frustrated than I had Che Guevara shirt and dreadlocks) talk about been while attempting to do my paper with a how they like “conscious” hip-hop (music with severe case of writer’s block. “I’ll break it a political message) and not “commercial” hipdown for you now, baby it’s simple/ If you be hop, but, while I am an Immortal Technique a nympho, I’ll be a nympho...lsn’t it ironic fanatic at the moment, “real” hip-hop isn’t nechow erotic it is to watch ‘em in thongs?” essarily about who can give the most detailed analysis of foreign policy. “Real” hip hop music Break this down for me 50; how is that ironic?? And FYI, nympho and nympho don’t can be serious, silly, sad, fun, whatever you want it to be, but creativity is the only necessary inrhyme; they’re just the sawtfword. My frustragredient. I have nothing tion wasn’t an issue of the objectiagainst 50 Cent; he’s fication of the female body, or the proven he has some talent portrayal of the delinquent black with lines like “I hate a liar male, or the commodification of more than I hate a thief/ A hip-hop culture, or any of those thiefis only after my salary/ intelligent sounding concepts you debate about in CulAnth or A liar is after my reality.”

What I am against is the reAfrican-American Studies. My duced, re-used and recycled frustration was due to the fact that concepts, the song was simply unoriginal, Herbert rhyme schemes amelia that I hear in and stories typical, in a word, wack. . . calmer than you are In case no one has noticed rap music time and time again. And sometimes it from the Public Enemy reference in the title of my bi-weekly column, I frustrates me that we continue to let it play in the background without noticing. am a pretty big fan of hip-hop, and beyond Are you listening? that I’m pretty passionate about music in On their debut album “The Listening,” general. However, I’ve become increasingly baffled trying to understand how some of Little Brother, frustrated like me, has the the music on the radio and television beguts to ask their audience this question.

They don’t claim to be “conscious” MCs, recomes popular. Here’s a Cliff’s Notes version of a typical hip-hop song that gets stricting their music to discussion of the war in Iraq or the revolution. And they don’t deplayed on the radio a million times a day: (Hypnotic beat comes on, placing you in bate about their authenticity or how “una trance under which you will not notice derground” they are. Big Pooh, Phonte and that there are actual words being said in the 9th Wonder just make innovative, refreshing, good music—about whatever they want. next 3:30 minutes—and that you are The beats are unique, the rhymes will make singing them.)

Rapper mentions dark past (real or you get acquainted with your rewind button imagined) of hustling to get by, usually again and they can hold their own in a rhyming the words “rock” and “block” at three-hour live performance without bringleast once. ing all the other members of their label and Describes weapon of choice followed by a random R&B group.

Phonte told the writers ofThe Chronicle’s detailed description of the luxury car he’s section, “Back in the day, people used it Recess hiding in.

Drops name of new clothing line ever so to buy records, go home and take off the wrapping, read the credits and just sit and lisslyly (read: extremely obviously).

Mentions sexual prowess with the oppoten....Now, people are just making one song site sex (in the most unsexy and grotesque and that’s it. Listening to music used to be an event. The art of actually listening to an way possible). the best since album is dying these days. We’re trying to get Claims to be Biggie that back with our record.” and/or Tupac died.

For me and other fans, Little Brother has Sings ridiculously simplistic hook at least 10 times before fading out (just to make definitely accomplished that mission, and sure that even if you hate the song with a done so without making it an issue of political “consciousness” or of selling out versus passion, you’ll continue singing it uncon“real” hip-hop—just an issue of music. sciously anyway.)

I’m all for a good beat, but where is the If you’re a die-hard fan of hip-hop, or if creativity? When did artistic quality go out you have eclectic tastes, or even if you just don’t have anything to do at 7 p.m. tomorof style? row, you should come out to Central CamAre you listening??

It seems a lot of people don’t take an acpus. Participate in the art of listening to tive part in choosing their music these days, music again. Don’t let the radio or the telebut wait for the radio to give them a playlist. vision decide for you.

Yo, I bought a brand new album today Most people wouldn’t let a stranger pick out Decided to take it home kick off my shoes relax their clothes, their food, their shoes, so I find it hard to understand why many are so and play And spin it for the whole joint cause I like to comfortable letting a stranger choose their music. Case in point: when singer John Leg- get the whole point end opened for Kanye West’s set at the Last Music is everything to me and I refuse to rock Day of Classes concert last year, many did the peace Cquse you ’re my favorite emcee not stop to actually listen but booed instead, because he was a nobody who hadn’t “blown All I want is what you would ask of me; Hi up” yet. However, now that John Legend is Kwelity And some Definition officially hot, meaning MTV and Hot 97 told Wonder why we bootleg like it’s prohibition us so, many of the same people I saw booing are riding around playing his album in their As difficult as this mission, cars. Listening to music should be an active I got suspicions that your ears to the streets process, not a passive one. Why do we need where we’re whispering “Are you listening?” the approval of a major label or network to —Little Brother tell us what music is worth listening to?

Why don’t we check out local acts or ranAmelia Herbert is a Trinity senior. Her column dom artists we’ve heard about from friends?

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Duke senior Camilo Caceres ever wanted was to serve in an elite unit of the Israeli Defense Forces.

That, and play Dungeons & Dragons. In an even remotelyjust world, that shouldn’t have been a problem: occupying the West Bank by day, rolling a D-20 by night. But for most of us, “remotelyjust” remains a fantasy, if you will.

Last month, the IDF announced that it was denying high security clearances to D&D-playing recruits; and Caceres, who had been planning on a June enlistment, saw his dreams bulldozed.

On Wednesday night, Caceres and his role-playing partners graciously interrupt a seven-hour session to answer a few questions. “I’ve been playing officially for five years,” he tells me over a mug of Hawaiian Punch. “Before that, it was just me and a D&D player’s guide, thinking how cool it would be to be a Sorcerer. Sometimes I wished I could summon a girlfriend.”

consequences.

“If a soldier answers in the affirmative,” says the Israeli of-

somehow involved.

Caceres refuses to consider the possibility, simply reiterating his desire to fight ores and his ability to cast Fireball. But his friend Jason Ziglar, a longtime Dungeonmaster, is more adamant. “I was willing to let Operation Defensive Shield slide, but this is an absolute outrage,” says Ziglar. “It’s worse than don’t-ask-don’t-tell.

The IDF is trying to control our thoughts—you fantasize you’re with a supermodel; I fantasize I’m with a dragon; there’s no difgiggle. ference. They’ve just decided that some fan“Oh my God!” says Lynnsie Bowles, a tasies are worse than others. So where will level-20 Druid. ‘Your laugh sounds just like they stop, huh? What’s next on the list? You Kefka from Final Fantasy VII!” people think we’re a bunch of geeks, but goodman rob Caceres, Colombian-bom with dual U.S. you just wait. First they came for Camilo citizenship, has difficulty articulating his de- lobster sticks to magnet next, they’re coming for you.” sire to immigrate to the Holy Land. “I hear Powerful words from a powerful Dunthere’s ores in Israel,” he offers. Regardless, the Israeli army geonmaster—but words that are unlikely to sway die State of should be jumping at the chance to enlist such an eager reIsrael. Caceres is trapped as surely as a Wizard in a labyrinth, cruit. But the powers-that-be remain insistent, choosing intrapped by the invisible forces of politics and paranoia, but stead to slander a defenseless minority: “These people,” an trapped all the more rudely. And so, sometime before his unnamed military official told Israel’s Ynet News, “have a graduation in May, he must choose whether to throw away tendency to be influenced by external factors which could his dreams or his dice—or, like the dreidel-spinning Jews of old, to roll his D-20 in secrecy. cloud their judgment.

“I can cast Fireball,” Caceres says.

They may be detached from reality or have a weak And as he is reduced to an entirely understandableflood personality—elements which lower a person’s security clearance, allowing them to serve in the army, but not in of tears, I turn to Paladin Anna Levina for a closing thought: sensitive positions.”

“I think it’s absolutely disgusting that the filthy Israelis would Caceres can’t help but express his dismay when I tell him say my good friend Camilo can’t be a commando, he knows what he’s doing and can run very fast and one time he killed just what the Israelis think of his hobby. He grips a handpainted pewter figurine until his knuckles whiten, and then three Ogres by casting the abjuration spell ofDimensional releases it with a whimper. “It’s just that they’re attacking my Anchor which really upset Jozan the Evil Cleric but got him honor,” he says. “If they took the time to know me, they’d 25 gold pieces, a large crossbow and a portable battering find out that I didn’t have a weak personality. I just want to ram which will really help him in the army and he knows more spells than anyone but especially, Fireball which is esfight terrorism. I can cast Fireball.”

Fireball or no, Caceres will soon be faced with an impospecially useful against Evil Chaotic Half-Elves—and how sible decision. When the recruiting officer leans across his dare you say I’m detached from reality?”

Tel Aviv desk and asks him, “Do you engage in, or have you Rob Goodman is a Trinity senior. His column appears every ever engaged in, role-playing activities?” Caceres can salvage his commando dream—but only by denying who he Friday.

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Exacdy what goes on in “evaluation” is classified, though D&D message boards are abuzz with the possibility that repeated viewings ofthe Lord of the Rings animated series are

was the day the Pope died, and I felt like a hungry wolf dinner. Then another one in a Toyota Solara, same car my as I left my dorm room. I needed some things, some dad drives, pulling on through, getting his hands on some. soap and toothpaste and something to eat. But it was They’re like the “honkies” of Harlem, well-to-do white dudes who rolled up and honked their horns at the black raining, so I figured I’d go to The Loop, get some fried mozwalkwomen they wanted to, you know, engage sexually] zarella sticks and figure stuff out. I diverted. I started look down at my fries. I’m almost done with them. to would drive and the necI I somewhere, car. eat get ing my But there’s one at the bottom, coal black, ruined. Not essary toilet articles.

I like Wendy’s better than any other fast food. I really going to eat it. A byproduct of the Grandiose Greatest Good for the Greatest Number French don’t eat any of the other stuff except for Fry Philosophy of the United States of some of the various chain chicken specialty America. So what if one fry gets ruined? establishments. So Wendy’s. be.

The rest sure are beautiful. I look up. An Number 2. Double cheeseburger combo ambulance is passing and I think, for meal, no onions, diet Coke®. There were a some reason, that the Pope may be infew people in there. An older dude in shorts side. But he’s not. And all I know is that if and loafers, eating alone. A young girl, I was out on that road, I probably wouldmaybe my age, also eating alone. A scattern’t know what to do if that ambulance got ing of employees talking. I don’t think they me, especially if I was in the left aaron kirschenfeld behind had to do. really anything lane. done eating.

I’m Another young guy walks in. He’s about so far, so good I pull my car out of the parking lot and my age, too, but we don’t look anything go to finish my shopping trip. Stop at the alike. He has on a big white T-shirt, some baggy jean shorts, a straight-brimmed baseball cap and an grocery store to pick up the goods. Mien I’m in the aisle, I Asian character tattooed into his neck. I look like something see some AXE® body spray. You’ve got to be kidding me. off the Sergeant Pepper’s album cover. Long hair, beard, There’s one scent called “Tsunami.” I can’t resist. What’s an Dutch military officer coat, dark jeans and black sneakers. I extra three bucks or so to smell like the greatest natural disrealize the threat of this guy. He’s dangerous. In the 19205, aster of my lifetime?

The line from a poem I have on my wall leaps into my he would have worn a Zoot Suit or some permutation thereof. He would have sniffed heroin probably. At least that’s head. It’s For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell. The line is: “The ditch is nearer.” It makes perfect sense. Lowell’s ditch what I’m thinking. is one where the deadfrom an all-black Union regiment got of little ketchup So I get my meal, my two paper cups and I go sit by the windows so I can look out at the road. I dumped. For me, the ditch is a little different. It’s out there, thinkabout not wanting to have my back to the door, which in the world, all over. It’s in my head, connecting to books I do, but I ignore it. I’m going to enjoy my meal of sin and and lectures and the concurrent realization ofand detachI am going to watch the world go by outside. It is a sin, this ment from the outside world I feel I’ve picked up here.

Guess I’ve learned a lot. Truth. Justice. And the meal. All of us know fast food will kill you. I, by virtue ofmy at American Way. Amen. have been eating level, should upbringing and education Whole Foods Wellspring Cafe instead of in a hamburger Aaron Kirschenfeld is a Trinity sophomore. His column usujoint like this. [I watch a nice dressed dude in a new, light ally appears every third Monday. his to disreputable blue VW pull through the drive-thru get

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ty good blowing that bubble but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my own mortality. —Mitch Hedberg ,

Look, it’s not my fault that I didn’t write a column this week. I planned on it. But Monday I was too disgusted to write anything. I had never really hated Carolina before. I’m not sure that I do now. But I did Monday.

It would have to wait until Tuesday, then. But things come up, and before I knew it, Tuesday was gone and Wednesday afternoon had rolled around and it was finally nice outside and Duke students were back in their pastels and seersucker and everythingjust seemed right in the universe.

And then before I knew it the deadline had passed and I don’t even know what they’re going to put in my spot. An editorial cartoon? A syndicated columnist? I hear that George Will writes good stuff If you had a friend who was a tightrope walkrnmm er, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be com-

pletely unacceptable.

Where will my column H Top of the page?

Bottom? Will it not be eric vivier That’s marginalized? where I usually end up. calmer than you are That’s the third-rate position. The top is the first column people read. The bottom comes next. And then most people throw the paper away because they only picked it up to do the crossword or to see if “The Boondocks” has come back.

It isn’t that I didn’t try to write a column. I practically begged for ideas on Instant Messenger via ray away message. But few buddies seemed to take it seriously.

Several suggested that I write about how awesome they are. Someone wanted me to write something about trying to keep dogs in a bathtub. My roommate asked me to say a few words about Michael Jackson.

A few responses were moderately insulting. I was told to write something that in a roundabout way shows that Bush is a terrible person, because apparently I have done that before. I was also told to write something about how English majors quote lengthy passages from literature in their away messages to try and make themselves feel smart. But I refused to tolerate their insolence.

The best idea, by far, was to give a brief lecture on proper techniques for NBA Jam. It would have been beautifully ironic, as I am quite possibly the worst video game player of all time. I would have said that the Orlando Magic can be beaten. And defense is crucial.

When people hand you flyers it’s like, here, you throw this out.

I think part of the problem this week was that there has been nothing in the news except the passing of the pontiff. Apparently nothing else has happened in the world. While I respect John Paul II for honorably guiding the Church into the 21st century, it is not in my place to write a proper biography or to comment on the future of Catholicism.

And apparendy nothing is happening in the world this entire year aside from famous people dying. Johnny Carson died. Johnny Cochran died. Terri Schiavo was in the news because she hadn’t died, but then she did. Authors have not fared well: Hunter S. Thompson, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Jack Chalkner and Andre Norton are gone. Max Schmeling, Prince Rainier Grimaldi and Shirley Chisholm have passed on. Barney Martin —Jerry’s dad on Seinfeld—died.

But I didn’t write a column because I was too busy raising my glass in homage to Mitch Hedberg, who was found dead in his hotel room in New Jersey last week.

He was absurd. He took drugs. He mumbled one-liners.

But he was unique in his observations of the world. And his humor was brilliant.

A friend came up to me and said, “You know what I like ?

Mashed potatoes. And it’s like Dude, you have to give me time to guess. Ifyou’re going to quiz me, you have to insert a pause. not be?

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Eric Vivier is a Trinity senior. His column appears every other Friday.

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