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VATICAN CITY With unusual speed and little surCardinal prise, Joseph Ratzinger of Germany became Pope Benedict XVI Tuesday, a 78-year-old transitional leader who promises to enforce strictly conservative policies for the world’s Roman Catholics.

Appearing on St. Peter’s Basilica balcony as dusk fell, a red cape over his new white robes, the white-haired Ratzinger called himself “a simple, humble worker.”

The crowd responded to the 265th pope by waving flags and chanting “Benedict!

Benedict!”

From Notre Dame in Paris to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, cathedral bells tolled and prayers were offered. Millions watched live television broadcasts of St. Peter’s bells pealing at 6:04 p.m. and white smoke pouring from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney—signs a successor to John Paul II had been chosen.

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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who served as John Paul ll's hard-line defender ofchurch doctrine, was electedpope Tuesday.

Duke Catholic students react to choice by

Steve Veres

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After the curtains parted and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was named Pope Benedict XVI, mixed reactions spread among the Catholic students at Duke University. While most were hopeful Monday afternoon about the future of the church, some expressed disappointment

the steadfast orthodox views of the new pontiff.

As the head of the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith under Pope John Paul 11, Ratzinger has been described by critics of the church as conservative and uncompromising in his classic Christian faith.

Hours before the conclave first met, Ratzinger spoke against at

any change in traditional Catholic teaching Father Joe Vetter, director of the Newman Catholic Student Center at Duke, said this stance could be problematic for college students exploring and learning about their faith.

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Emily Rotberg THE CHRONICLE

Local cab driver Hasan Kafi was arrested late Monday night following charges of sexual battery and second-degree kidnapping.

Kafi, the first person many Duke students called when they needed a cab, was arrested in his cab on Ninth Street. He is currently being held in Durham County Jail under $75,000 secured bond.

The arrest is the result of a blind, or anonymous, report to the Durham Police Department.

The Chronicle has learned the charges originated from a female Duke student, who confirmed that she initially made her complaint through University and Duke University Police Department channels. The Chronicle does not identify victims of sexual assault.

The student stepped forward after a negative incident with Kafi after midnight April 2.

She had been at a party at George’s Garage and wanted to leave early to get some sleep before an event the next morning.

None of her friends wanted to leave, so she called Durham’s Best

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Faculty salary reports also analyzed salary distribution according to gender. At commuFor the first time in eight nity colleges, the report found years, faculty salaries did not salaries are about equal. At docrise in comparison to the rate of toral institutions,- however, women only earn 80 percent of inflation, a study by the American Association of University what their male counterparts Professors recently reported. earn on average.

In order to limit unequal While salaries grew 2.8 percent salary distributions at Duke, the this year—up from the 2.1 perFaculty Compensation Commitcent increase the year before the rate of inflation reached 3.3 tee, in conjunction with the Ofpercent, resulting in a real fice of the Provost, issues an equity report every other year, salary decrease. analyzing the salary differences At Duke, associate professors experienced the greatest by race and gender. According salary increase, 4.8 percent, to the 2004-2005 equity report, in general there is no evidence while full professors were grantof significant disparities. ed a 2 percent increase and asA substantial difference exrose sistant professors’ salaries ists at the level of assistant pro1.2 percent. fessors in Arts and Sciences, The AAUP report, which surveyed 1,416 institutions of higher however. “Male assistant professors in Arts and Sciences seem education —including Duke by

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to earn statistically significantly more than their female counterparts ($66,557, compared to female assistant professors $60,734),” the report stated.

This variance can be largely attributed to differences in male and female earnings in social sciences, where, on average, male assistant professors earn $70,487 and female assistant professors earn $60,633, according to the equity report.

Despite these statistics, Duke officials are confident there is no significant difference in men’s and women’s salaries after taking into consideradon rank, department and length of service.

“The averages are meaningless since they vary so much by department,” Provost Peter Lange said.

Michael Lavine, chair of the SEE SALARIES ON PAGE 10

Open to all

Decked in Duke stone carved to match the surrounding buildings’ facades, the $22 million, 53,000 squarefoot Divinity School addition opens its doors to students today. Goodson Chapel, pictured above, will host the school’s ceremonious convocation this morning.

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WASHINGTON —John Bolton’s nomination as U.N. ambassador suffered an unexpected setback Tuesday when a Republican-controlled Senate committee scrapped plans for a vote in favor of a fresh look at allegations of unbecoming conduct.

The delay throws President George W. Bush’s provocative choice for the U.N. job into limbo. Despite his history of hostility to the United Nations and a reputation for blunt talk and a hard head, Bolton had appeared on his way to confirmation.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee set no new date for a vote, but a delay

on ambassador

of at least two weeks seems likely while the committee looks into new allegations, including those of a Dallas businesswoman who says an irate Bolton chased her through a hotel and threw things at her at an international conference a decade ago.

White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Bush stood by Bolton unequivocally. “John Bolton is exacdy the person we need at the United Nations at this time,” he said.

The decision to postpone a vote closed a rancorous session in which some Democrats bluntly questioned Bolton’s veracity and repeatedly appealed for more time to investigate Bolton.

“We’ll all have to trust each other,” said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., the committee chair, in sealing the unanimous agreement.

Republicans hold a 10-8 majority on the panel, and Lugar had sounded confident early in the session that he had the votes to prevail. He pushed hard for an immediate vote, over loud objection from Democrats.

“Shocking,” muttered Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as Lugar tried to hustle the process along.

The tide turned when Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich spoke for the first time. He did not attend Bolton’s two-day confirmation hearing last week but had been presumed to be a supporter.

CDC: Obesity threat exaggerated Carla Johnson

The new analysis found that obesity—THE ASSOCIATED PRESS being extremely overweight—is indisCHICAGO Being overweight - is putably lethal. But like several recent smallnowhere near as big a killer as the governer studies, it found that people who are ment thought, ranking No. 7 instead of modesdy overweight actually have a lower No. 2 among the nation’s leading preventrisk of death than those of normal weight. able causes of death, according to a starBiostatistician Mary Grace Kovar, a consultant for the University of Chicago’s Natling new calculation from the CDC. Researchers at the Centers for Disease tional Opinion Research Center in WashingControl and Prevention reported that ton, said “normal” may be set too low for packing on too many pounds accounts today’s population. Also, Americans classifor 25,814 deaths a year in the United fied as overweight are eating better, exercisStates. As recently as January, the CDC ing more and managing their blood prescame up with an estimate 14 times highsure better than they used to, she said. er: 365,000 deaths.

The study—an analysis of mortality by

and body-mass index, or BMI—was published in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.

Last year, a CDC study listed the leading causes of preventable death in order as tobacco; poor diet and inactivity, leading to excess weight; alcohol; germs; toxins and pollutants; car crashes; guns; risky sexual behavior; and illicit drugs.

Using the new estimate, excess weight would drop behind car crashes and guns to seventh place—a ranking the CDC is unwilling to make official, underscoring the controversy inside the agency over how to calculate the health effects of obesity. rates

newsinbrief Detainee accuses U.S. military Seventeen Afghans came home Tuesday in '

one ofthe biggest known releases from the U.S.jail at Guantanamo Bay, and one quickly accused the U.S. military of abusing him despite warnings from a senior Afghan official to keep quiet about any complaints.

Paris hotel fire ignited by tryst A night watchman's girlfriend who placed candles on the floor to set the scene for a romantic tryst but then left in a rage over his drunken state may have accidentally caused last week's hotel fire that killed 24 people, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Israelis debate Gaza pullout Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will decide by week's end whether to delay Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, after a stormy meeting of government ministers ended without a decision.

Mourners remember victims Children who lost their parents in the Oklahoma City bombing recited the names of the dead, and mourners gently laid bouquets on empty chairs symbolizing each victim Tuesday as they observed the 10th anniversary of the nation's worst act of domestic terrorism.

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Dan Englander THE CHRONICLE

Although many students anticipated a new array of delivery options after spring break, Dale’s Indian Cuisine, Mad Hatter’s Cafe and Bakery Shop, The Q Shack and Chai’s Noodle Bar and Bistro have yet to join Duke’s Merchants on Points program.

Gourmet Dining and Bakery, LLC.— the student-run company trying to allow students to order from the restaurants through Duke’s Blackboard Learning System—is still working out the kinks of its new online delivery service, which has delayed the eateries’ addition to the MOP program.

Sophomore Peter Williams, chief operating officer for GDB, said the company wanted to use this semester as a trial period and officially launch next fall. “We did not know exactly how long this would take,” he said. “We are still on our official timeline.”

One restaurant however, revealed the proposed start date of the agreement to The Chronicle, which informed students the new dining options would start this spring, Williams said.

“We never stated a date. The biggest problem was there was a date thrown out a long time ago. The restaurants broke their contractual agreements and decided to release dates in The Chronicle,” he said. “We didn’t want to get the hopes up of the students.”

Williams said the company has an unPETER GEBHARD/THE CHRONICLE derstanding with the University that the started, Because of the has students must stillorder take-out at Chai's. delivery program not yet program will start next fall.

Bean, Garrett of president Junior GDB, and managers at the four restaulot more difficult than the student compaauthenticate personal student identificarants confirmed they are still working to ny expected,” he said. “They were being tion so that we follow University and govget the restaurants on points before the very optimistic.” ernment regulations.” end of the semester.

Williams said this semester’s trial periMany students anticipated the addition Junior David Gastwirth, co-chair of the od has been delayed because the technol- of the restaurants to the MOP lineup and Duke University Student Dining Advisory ogy is new, and collaboration among were annoyed to hear the agreement had Committee, said the company underestiGDB, Duke, Blackboard and the restaubeen delayed. mated the amount of work needed to inrants is often difficult.

“I have food to eat without ordering troduce restaurants to MOP successfully.

“It’s not an organizational problem on from them, obviously,” said sophomore “The huge undertaking of linking the Duke’s end. It’s a new system and a new Laura Fuhrman. “I am more disappointed Blackboard system with the Merchants on technology,” he said. “I’d say the biggest Points system for the online ordering was a problem we’ve been dealing with is how to SEE MOP ON PAGE 9

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Mechina, a documentary by senior Maital Guttman, will premiere tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Griffith Film Theater. Her powerful film, a culmination of nearly a year of production, explores the issues Israeli teens face as they prepare to begin their required army service.

Shot primarily over the summer of 2004, Mechina tells the story of six youths: Amitai, Ayelet, Vered, Yoav, Benji and Shaked. These six Israeli high school graduates deferred their mandatory military service for one year as part of a new program that incorporates work, study and volunteerism. The goal of this mechina, or preparation, is to focus on readying themselves for the service and reflecting on what that duty means.

Guttman develops tension within the film by delving into the differences between American and Israeli ideas about becoming an adult. Guttman, raised in Israel until the age of seven, puts herself in front of the camera and confronts the reality that she would have shared her subjects’ experience had her family not immigrated to the United States. Through this intra- and interpersonal exploration she is able to raise questions of duty, responsibility and mortality.

The film succeeds primarily because of the openness of its subjects. Guttman’s camerawork and interview style allow audiences to connect with these teens as they are: mature, confident, vivacious and scared. These are young adults much like those one might meet at Duke or on any college campus, but the issues they face run much deeper than choosing a major SEE FILM ON PAGE 9

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health&science Tenn. citizens face outbreak Unable to find the source of a hepatitis A outbreak in eastern Tennessee, health officials moved Tuesday to inoculate almost 5,000 people who ate in a restaurant where an infected food server worked. Regional health office director Dr. Paul Erwin said the infected employee of a Waffle House in Clinton appears to be the result, not the cause of the outbreak as originally thought.

CDC: Drink a day not preventive The government warned Tuesday a few drinks a day may not protect against strokes and heart attacks after all. Some studies in recent years have touted the health benefits of moderate drinking. But researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found non-drinkers had many more risks for heart disease than the moderate drinkers.

Traffic signals found inefficient A new survey being released Wednesday by the Federal Highway Administration, says the nation's traffic signal operations are largely inefficient, leading to frustration and unnecessary delays for motorists, wasted fuel and more air pollution as vehicles constantly stop and go.

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Holley Horrell THE CHRONICLE

Spring is in the air—and with it, an influx of pollen.

The layer of yellow coating the ground and swimming in puddles is a visible indication of the high pollen counts that have, since the beginning of March, already caused the Student Health Center to diagnose more than 80 students with allergies.

Senior Amadi Jordan-Walker said she predicted the onslaught ofher allergies in the first week of April based on the greenery. “I could smell it and see it,” she said.

The primary source of Durham’s perpetual yellow dust during the spring are trees, including pine, sweet gum, birch, mulberry, sycamore and the largest contributor, oak, said James Hildebrand, allergy lab supervisor at Duke University Medical Center.

The sheer volume of pollen will not cause the average person to suffer from allergy symptoms—the reaction occurs under two conditions. “People who go on to develop allergies have a genetic predisposition to developing abnormal immune responses to things that are not harmful in and of themselves,” said Dr. John Sundy, rheumatologist and assistant professor of internal medicine. “They also have to have the environmental exposure.”

During an allergic reaction, the body detects what it thinks are dangerous microorganisms and goes into defense mode by producing an allergic antibody called IgE. IgE coats special cells called mast cells

and basophils that monitor the body’s environment. When the cells encounter a stimulus—an allergen such as pollen—they get “switched on” and produce inflammatory chemicals and proteins like histamines, said Sundy.

The chemicals that the body releases can cause swelling of tissues, production of mucus, and inflammation of the nasal tissue, lungs or skin—irritations that translate into general symptoms such as the sneezing, runny nose and itchiness that plague allergy sufferers.

“My eyes water a lot and my whole face and eyes and throat become very itchy,” senior Casey Donahoe said. “Occasionally I’ll have a few days where I just can’t stop sneezing.”

Allergic symptoms continue as long as the person is exposed to the combination of allergens to which he is sensitive. The longterm duration of symptoms is what distinguishes them from the similar side effects of the common cold.

“I think one of the things that makes it a little more challenging is that allergies can just go on and on and on and on,” said Jean Hanson, assistant director of Student Health. ‘You think, it’s time for this to go away.”

Symptoms may diminish with the help of three main types of treatment: antihistamines, nasal spray and vaccines or immunotherapy. An antihistamine, sold over the counter or prescribed by a doctor, blocks the inflammatory chemicals produced by mast cells and basophils, while a nasal spray kills the cells.

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The pollen manyflowers and trees, most notably the oak tree, produce trigger the productionof an allergic antibody. This reaction leads to the common symptoms of allergies.

lergy Clinic on a regular basis to get injections of their doctor-prescribed vaccines, a treatment that can become quite expensive.

“It can cost $3O to $4O to go to see a doctor,” Hanson said of the injections. “We think that’s kind of ridiculous, so we cover it under the student health fee.”

Many students, however, do

Vaccines redirect the immune system to produce a normal response to the allergens it has been mistaking for dangerous substances. Doctors still are not sure why the immune system makes the mistake, although they know that it is genetic, Sundy said.

All three treatments can be found at the Student Health Center. In addition, she said, approximately 125 students go to the Ai-

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Student pleads guilty to federal charges After being indicted January 31 in Greensboro, N.C., junior Michael Ruth pled guilty Monday to federal charges of making and selling fake driver’s licenses.

He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in late June.

According to a summary compiled by federal prosecutors, Ruth began making false IDs in his apartment on McQueen Drive in February 2004. He charged between $BO and $l2O for reproductions of licenses from several states, most notably New York and Texas.

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Durham police initially found Ruth’s computer and several partially completed ID cards in his apartment July 19, 2004.

The U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Postal Inspector also became involved in the investigation in July. After investigating further, the government officially charged Ruth in January with felony counts ofpossessing the equipment to make fake IDs as well as complete or unfinished cards.

In addition to breaking federal law, Ruth violated Duke’s honor code and has been referred to the University’s Judicial Board.

Ruth could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

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Police in Chapel Hill said the first two attacks occurred March 11. The first victim said the man sexually assaulted her after she got in a car widi him around midnight. A second victim was forced into the same car on Fayetteville Road in Durham at 2:40 a.m. that same night.

The last attack occurred in Chapel Hill at 5:30 a.m. The woman said the attacker let

her out of his car after she fought back when he tried to assault her.

Police said the attacker’s car is white, a mid-1990s model and American-made. It has gray cloth interior and taillights across the back.

Anyone with information about the case is being urged to call Chapel Hill Police at 919-968-2760 or Chapel Hill/UNC Crime stoppers at 919-942-7515. Callers do not have to reveal their identity nor appear in court.

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In a photo taken in January, Hasan Kafi patrols Durham picking up customers. one of her friends. As a result of this al-

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leged behavior, “It was assumed that I

would never be alone with him in a cab my friends didn’t want that,” she said.

She said she then asked to be taken back to her dorm. Instead, Kafi drove to a gas station where the student went inside to buy a drink. She said she realized at this point the gas station was out of the way, not having noticed that Kafi had already passed West Campus.

“My reaction time was slow. IfI had been sober, things would have clicked a lot sooner. I wasn’t aware.... I’m sure he knew that.”

Back in the cab, Kafi allegedly offered her marijuana. She said she repeatedly —

Cab Company for a ride take her home.

The student said she climbed into the front seat of Kafi’s cab when he arrived at to

George’s.

“That was my first mistake,” she said.

She had ridden with Kafi, 43, on at least five different occasions. She said Kafi had offered her and her friends marijuana and alcohol on previous rides, and that the students were rarely, if ever, charged cab fare.

One of those dmes, she said, he made an inappropriate comment about her to

the same symptoms of distress as a person who has suffered through rape.

Sexual battery is a misdemeanor charge defined as “sexual contact with another person... by force and against the will of the other person” in Chapter 14 of the North Carolina General Statutes.

Second-degree kidnapping, a felony charge, is distinguished from first-degree kidnapping in that the kidnapped person was released in a safe space by the defendant.

After a January Chronicle article about Kafi, a Durham resident approached The Chronicle alleging that she had been sexually assaulted by Kafi. The woman, currently a student at Riverside High School, said Kafi assaulted her when she was in seventh grade. The woman said charges were filed and the case is pending. These charges precede allegations brought by the" Duke student.

Kafi drives for and is a partial owner of Durham’s Best Cab Company. In an interview preceding the arrest, Adel, a chair of Durham’s Best who only offered his first name, explained that the company handles complaints of misconduct directly to hang out. afraid the customer. The company didn’t want to as or as through “I appear emotional as I was,” she said. “I knew that takes action after discussing any comto show how afraid I was would be to show plaint with the driver. “We can suspend a driver,” he said. “If we need, we can terweakness.” a Kafi allegedly turned the cab around minate a driver.”

Durham’s Best has fired drivers in the and took the student back to Duke only after she vomited multiple times. past. “Some drivers do some kind of misof sexual conduct with a customer,” Adel said.

Leonard, coordinator asJean He refused to comment on Kafi’s arrest sault support services at Duke, said the imafternoon.

Tuesday of sexual assault incident is not rea pact Officer A. Pettiway, speaking from lated to the extent of the assault.

“For most people, the point of trauma is Durham County Jail, said Kafi was booked not the moment of completion,” she said. on the two charges at 1 a.m. Tuesday. A clerk at the jail reported that Kafi waived “Normally, the point of trauma is when people feel and really believe that they are very his right to a public defender in a first likely to be victimized.” Even if the situation court appearance later Tuesday morning. changes and the person gets away, Leonard He and his private attorney will likely apsaid the individual may experience many of pear in court again today.

told him she needed to go home because she was tired and had a meeting in the morning. He asked her, “Why aren’t we hanging out? How come we never hang out?” to which she responded, “We are hanging out, until you take me back to West Campus.”

She started sending text messages to her ex-boyfriend at 2:15 a.m. The first message, “Please, I need u,” was followed by a message at 2:26 a.m. that said, “omg, ok help I can’t get back.” The messages continued throughout the ride. She said she thinks Kafi may have asked who she was text messaging.

At this point, Kafi allegedly began to massage her neck and back as he continued to drive. She said she slid over as far as possible toward the door. “That’s when I really started to panic,” she said.

The student said that after repeatedly ignoring her wishes to return to West Campus, Kafi parked in a poorly-lit parking lot of what looked to be an old motel. She asked him if they were picking someone up; he reportedly told her they were there

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than anything else.” She also predicted the new restaurants would be popular because they offer extensive menus and not because of GDB’s online delivery system.

Managers from each of the four restaurants also expected the program to start earlier in the semester but were optimistic it,would take off in the next week.

Bean confirmed the managers’ timetables are in line with his own.

It was supposed to happen pretty soon after spring break and it still has not happened,” said Chris Pick, a manager at Chai s. He added that his restaurant is not worried about losing money because of the delay, as Chai’s is still serving plenty of customers. ■ Jason Balius, owner of Mad Hatter’s, hopes the new program can begin as soon as possible.

“We’ve been ready to go for quite a long time,” Balius said. “We are ready to feed some students.”

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or finding a Friday night party.

When Shaked talks of the implications of simply choosing whether or not to ride a bus, for fear of a bombing, his uncompromising sincerity sustains the moment.

And when Benji, the barrel-chested emergency medical responder, speaks of providing aid to injured Israelis and Palestinians, his jovial smile reminds the audience that he is still a child at heart, through all that he has seen.

After staying through the end of the group’s mechina, Guttman returns to Israel again in January, this time with the film’s editor and co-producer, senior Madeleine

seek medical aid, choosing to simply suffer through their symptoms until the season changes.

“I never bothered,” sophomore lan Wong said. “I’ve had allergies since I was really little, and it’s not going to change any dme soon.”

People presently experiencing allergies in Durham will have to wait until the third or fourth week of May before the group of trees now producing most of the pollen starts slowing down production, Hildebrand said.

Of course, by then, grass will have picked up its production, and once autumn arrives, weeds will become the primary producers. Allergies will continue to plague students year round, affecting individuals depending on what particular combination of allergens provokes their immune system.

“Here at Duke,” Hanson said, “one season is just as bad as the other.” not

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Sackler. They were able to capture Amitai’s departure, his final moments as a child. The scene brings together all that the film stands for, because as he climbs onto his bus, it is painfully clear by his demeanor and new haircut that his trip will transform him.

Mechina, through Guttman’s intimate, probing style, provides audiences with a view of a life most will never have to face.

Perhaps no place is the film’s power more palpable than in a moment in Amitai’s room. As loud cracks and pops can be heard in the distance, Guttman asks how he knows they are fireworks and not gunshots. Jokingly, but with a touch of undeniable truth, he replies, “Only a child of conflict could know the difference.”

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The committees include the University Priorities Committee and President’s Committee on Black Affairs, as well as Trustee committees on Buildings and Grounds, Academic Affairs, Business and Finance and Student Affairs.

Applications are available at www.dsg.duke.edu. They are due Friday, April 22 at 5 p.m. in the DSC office in the Bryan Center. Students with questions should contact junior Russ Ferguson at trf3@duke.edu

Students to collect clothing for charity Maxwell House is sponsoring a campuswide clothing drive Saturday, April 23. Volunteers will be traveling room to room on campus between 12 and 5 p.m. collecting clothing. There will also be drop-off locations within each quadrangle and dormitory on East and West campuses.

The volunteers will provide trash bags to donors to hold the clothing. They will also pick up any clothing left outside dorm rooms.

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faith,” he said. “The pope sort of sets the bar for orthodoxy. If that [bar] is too far to the right or left, it makes it difficultfor someone trying to hold that community together.”

Vetter added, however, that the students he spoke with seemed to favor another conservative pope, much like John Paul 11. As Cardinal, Ratzinger worked closely with John Paul II and, Vetter said, will probably have similar values. But Benedict XVTs ability to inspire collegeaged students has yet to be tested.

“In some ways, the pope is a symbolic figure that represents continuity of tradition and stability. In a rapidly changing world, young people are looking for something to be grounded in,” Vetter said. “The pope becomes a symbol of security in a shaky world.”

Students said their reactions stemmed from fond memories of John Paul II and a lack of familiarity with the new pontiff.

Some students were happy about the cardinals’ decision, while others were hesitant to embrace the new leadership.

“I hoped for a fresh holy spirit who would revitalize the way the Vatican oper-

SALARIES from page 1 Faculty Compensation Committee, also

stressed the importance of evaluating distinct academic fields when determining salary disparities. “Men and women tend to be in different departments,” he said.

“There is no statistical evidence of significant salary differences for people in the same rank and department. differences could’ve been by chance; they could’ve been random,” added Lavine, an associate professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, was surprised by this inequality. “How much of it is gender and how much ofit is field, I just don’t know,” he said. “But it highlights something many of us are quite concerned about. Even with us working to remedy this, historically women

are underrepresented in some of the most quantitative disciplines—and some of those fields tend to be more highly compensated.”

But McLendon also noted that in contrast, women may receive a higher salary in certain areas. “There might be a very slight bias in favor of female recruits because they were in slightly higher demand,” he said, pointing specifically to the economics and mathematics departments.

The AAUP report, however, did not turn to differences in disciplines and highest degree earned to explain why female professors may have lower salaries. “Such an ‘explanation’... really begs further questions,” the report stated. “Why is it that the disciplines in which women faculty predominate tend to be lower paid?”

In addition to analyzing the potential role of gender, the Duke equity report analyzed differences based on race but did not find statistical differences. According to the University report, “Over-

all, there is no significant difference in annual earnings between Caucasian and minority professors at each rank level across all divisions.”

In comparing salaries, however, both the AAUP and Duke reports warn of overgeneralization, pointing to major salary differences depending on the school’s rank. Specifically, professors in the Fuqua School of Business and the School of Law receive the highest salaries, followed by professors In medicine, engineering and social sciences. Divinity and humanities professors earn the lowest salaries.

Nationally, AAUP found the average salary for all professors to be $68,505. At Duke, the average salary for a full professor is $131,200. The average salaries for an associate professor and assistant professors are $89,500 and $75,500, respectively, according to the national AAUP Faculty Salary Survey.

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Paula Rote, prayer and devotion coordinator for the NCSC. She added that the ideal pope would be able to connect well with youths like the previous pontiff. “I think John Paul II has been sick for so long that things have been able to stagnate. I wanted a young pope that could shake off the dust a little bit.”

Rote also wanted a new pope who would incite a passion for Christ in non-Catholic youth. She was cautiously optimistic about Benedict XVTs ability to do this.

Junior Michelle Nathan expressed her pleasure at the new pope’s traditional views, with hopes that Benedict XVTs beliefs would help individuals connect with the Catholic faith.

“This is at a very crucial age. This is an age where a lot of students are learning their faith,” she said. “I think we need a pope that can guide the young people so we don’t have a dying Catholic faith.”

Craig Kocher, acting dean of the Duke Chapel and director of religious life, warned against predicting the new pontiff’s future actions from his past practices.

“One of the things historically is that popes often lead, differently than how they are expected to lead so we don’t really know how Ratzinger will choose to use the power of his office,” Kocher said. “I guess we will just have to wait and see.”

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Not everyone was happy, however.

Silvano, a 40-year-old travel agent from Brazil, called Ratzinger “the right pope for the cardinals, but not for the people. We were hoping for a South American, a Brazilian, a pope who would work for the neediest and the rights of women and children.”

Hendrich, 40, of Hamburg, Germany, jumped up and down at the prospect of a new pope—but then gave only three halfhearted claps when he learned who it was.

“I am not happy about this at all,” he said. “Ratzinger will put the brakes on all the progressive movements in the church that I support.”

But Cardinal Walter Kasper of Germany said Ratzinger’s communication skills were a factor in his selection.

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Athletic funding concerns Brand, NCAA by

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CHAPEL HILL The most pressing problem in intercollegiate athletics, according to a panel of assorted sports figures who spoke Tuesday at the University of North Carolina, is the increasing size of athletic budgets at Division I-A institutions.

NCAA President Myles Brand, along with ACC Commissioner John Swofford and North Carolina administrators, cited the “arms race” among upper-echelon schools as the biggest dilemma confronting the NCAA’s fu-

12 absurd sports moments After four years as a sports reporter and two-and-a-halfyears as a columnist for The Chronicle, this will be my final sports column.

Over that time span, I scoured the Internet, watched coundess hours of ESPN and traveled everywhere from West Lafayette, Ind., to Albuquerque, N.M., in search of the best story possible. Based on my researching and reporting, I have compiled a list of the 12 most ridiculous moments in the sporting world over the past four years.

12) The Charlotte Bobcats.

After the Hornets left for New Orleans, Charlotte named its new NBA team the Bobcats. Why? Because the owner’s name was Bob. 11) Latrell SprewelTs contract extension. In the last year of a fiveyear, $62 million contract, Sprewell was offended by the Minnesota Timberwolves’ contract extension offer that would be worth between $27 and $3O million over three years. “I’ve got my family to feed,” Sprewell said in Nov. 2004.

10) Shaquille O’Neal. In the week before a highly anticipated, Lakers-Rockets game in January 2003, O’Neal quipped to a reporter about Houston’s Chinese center Yao Ming, “TellYao Ming, ‘

ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh. ’

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9) The Cleveland Browns’ fans and management. The Browns were driving down the field in the waning moments of the fourth quarter, trailing 15-10 to the Jacksonville Jaguars Dec. 16, 2001.

Fighting for a playoff spot, Cleveland converted a fourth down and then spiked the ball on the subsequent play with 48 seconds remaining. Officials proceeded to review the fourth-down play, rule the catch incomplete and give the ball back to the Jaguars. Cleveland fans became so enraged by the call that they began throwing beer bottles, bobble-head dolls and anything else they could find in the “Dawg Pound” onto the field.

The post-game quotes made the situation even more bizarre: “I don’t think this is an example of life and limb being at risk,” Cleveland General Manager Carmen Policy said. “I like the fact that our fans care.... The bottles are plastic. They don’t SEE RIDICULOUS ON PAGE 13

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NCAA President Myles Brand predicted Tuesday at the University ofNorth Carolina that rising athletic budgets could POSE the biggest threat to the future of the NCAA.

“This spiraling of success demanding even more success has good people ofnoble intentions chasing both the carrot and their tails,” Brand said during the keynote speech celebrating the first anniversary of the Carolina Leadership Academy at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

He spoke for more than 30 minutes about the welfare of student-athletes, including academic concerns and personal development, before he and the panel fielded questions. The former president of Indiana University focused on the financial ramifications of competitive intercollegiate sports.

Skyrocketing costs have not yet harmed many programs, but once corporate advertising and

revenue growth rates slow, institutions will be in serious financial trouble, Brand explained.

He commented on a 2003 NCAA-funded study by the Brookings Institute that found that increased athletic spending does not necessarily lead to increases in winning percentages or net operating revenue. These results were specifically noted within men’s basketball and football programs—typically the two most prominent programs for universities.

“The ‘spend to increase wins and win to generate new revenue’ spiral that has resulted for some schools in a no-holds-barred approach to recruiting and scandalous behavior is based, ironically, on an unsupportable assumption,” Brand said. “The popular theory is that you have to increase spending to increase wins and have to increase wins to increase revenues.”

Schools are spending more on their athletic departments to stay on par with the expenditures, pf peer institutions.. Administrators mistakenly believe that in order to compete, they must outspend their rivals, Brand concluded.

Almost two years after the August 2003 study was released, Brand noted that the spending spiral has not changed and athSEE BRAND ON PAGE 13

Studies link steroid withdrawal, suicide by

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When he swallowed two bottles of over-the-counter pain medication and a fifth of 151proof rum in Fall 2002, former Duke baseball player Aaron Kempster was precariously close to joining Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, Efrain Marrero and others in a fraternity that no athlete ever wants to join.

Anabolic steroid withdrawal has been a topic of interest among scientists studying the effects of steroid abuse ever since the drugs were first used illegally in the 19705. Withdrawal-induced depression earned even more-notoriety last month during Congressional hearings investigating steroids in Major League Baseball.

At the hearings, Hooton’s and Garibaldi’s parents spoke of their sons’ steroid withdrawals and subsequent suicides. Drug addiction experts, including leading steroid withdrawal expert Dr. Kirk Brower, an addiction-treatment specialist at the

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University of Michigan, shed light on the mechanism by which anabolic steroids affect the brain and on scientific studies performed to investigate

steroid withdrawal, Kempster attempted suicide about three months after he stopped using the anabolic steroids Equipoise and Win-

strol during the summer of 2002. Kempster said he does not know whether steroid withdrawal was a factor in his suicide attempt. When asked about Kempster’s case specifically, Brower said it seemed consistent with steroid-induced depression.

The anecdotal evidence from parents and the scientific data from doctors have led to the same conclusion, that in general steroid withdrawal-induced depression is real, and it can be a causal factor for suicide.

“I am convinced that Taylor’s secret use of anabolic steroids played a significant role in causing the severe depression thatresulted in his suicide,” Taylor Hooton’s father, Donald, told the Congressional Committee on Government Reform. “I have learned that what

happened to Taylor—the events leading up to and including his suicide—are right out of the medical textbook on steroids.”

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Last season, Duke won its first-ever regular-season ACC title, but neither Caline McHenry or Lane Fogarty could contribute on the field to the accomplishment because of injuries that forced them to sit out the entire season.

A year later, the defenders have returned to bolster a Blue Devil squad that could capture its second straight regularseason league championship with a victory over Virginia Tech Friday.

“They both have tons of experience that we lacked last year on defense,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Having them back there makes us stronger.”

Through 14 games this season, Duke has done a better job shutting down its opponents than a year ago. The Blue Devils’ 7.85 goals against average is .76 better than in 2004, and they have already surpassed the number of caused turnovers from a year ago.

The two seniors have played no small part in that turnaround.

McHenry missed the 2004 campaign with a right foot injury she suffered in a game against Georgetown in 2003. Although her recovery was longer than the four-to-six months originally expected, McHenry never doubted she would return to the field.

But when Kimel informed her that she was named one of the 18 nominees for the 2005 Tewaaraton Trophy—the player of the year award in women’s lacrosse—the red-shirt senior was surprised.

“It’s very flattering,” McHenry said of

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Caline McHenry is a 2005 Tewaaraton Trophy nominee after missing all oflast season with a right foot injury. the individual honor. “But I came back for a chance at a national championship.”

Her 23 caused turnovers place her second in the ACC behind teammate Rachel Sanford. Kimel called McHenry Duke’s best “shut-down defender” and said McHenry’s return has been crucial to the team’s defensive success, because she has the ability to clamp down on the nation’s best attackers.

Although Lane plays a different role within the defense, her return has made a similar impact.

After tearing her right anterior cruciate ligament during her sophomore season, Lane expected the recovery to take

about three months. The initial surgery failed, however, and an MRI revealed two other tom ligaments last fall. The second stint of rehabilitation took nearly a year.

The senior has made an effective comeback and has played in every game this season, starting 11 of them.

Even with the two seniors strengthening the defense, Kimel said that the unit’s performance has been sub-par in recent games. Any trip to Annapolis, Md.—the site of this year’s Final Four —will begin with defense, said Kimel.

“Defense has been our backbone,” Kimel said. “We need to renew focus and get back to basics.”

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Meier hired at Miami Former Duke basketball player Katie Meier was named head coach at University of Miami (Fla.) Monday.

Meier, who graduated from Duke in 1990, served as UNC-Charlotte head coach for the previous four seasons.

Meier led the 49ers to one NCAATournament appearance and two WNIT appearances, earning a 7645 record overall.

“I feel that this is the perfect fit for me,” Meier said. “With the strong emphasis on academics, along with the already strong background in athletics, the University ofMiami has all the potential to become one of the nation’s elite programs.”

Meier was a four-year letterwinner for the Blue Devils and holds the third alltime spot in scoring average, steals and free throws made.

Wrestler named All-American Senior grappler Frank Comely earned All-America status, finishing sixth at the United States Freestyle Nationals in the 185-pound division.

Comely recorded five victories before losing to Missouri’s two-time NCAA finalist Ben Askren. Askren won in three periods to send Comely to the consolation bracket.

Also competing for the Blue Devils, freshman Konrad Dudziak placed 12th, wresding at 211.5 pounds.

April 30 tennis match cancelled The Duke women’s tennis match against South Florida scheduled for Saturday, April 30 has been cancelled. The No. 15 Blue Devils will face N.C. State Thursday at 12 p.m. in the first round of the ACC Tournament in Cary, N.C.

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“It wasn’t World War III,” Browns owner A1 Lerner stated.

“I thought I was starring in Saving Private Ryan for a minute,” Jacksonville wide receiver Jimmy Smith said.

8) The Carl Franks-Robert Samuel interviews. Every one of the exchanges I had with the bumbling but affable former Duke football coach was a memorable event. The most notable of our conversations occurred in Fall 2002. After oversleeping and arriving 15 minutes late for a scheduled interview, I sprinted onto the practice field, tape recorder in hand. I noticed Franks was staring at my shirt. In my haste, I had forgotten that I was wearing a wrinkled Hooters Tshirt that was signed by Hooters girls. I thought at once the interview was over.

‘You know, I know the guys who started Hooters,” Franks said instead. “Those guys are loaded now.” Franks discussed Hooters with me for five minutes.

7) Scott Reed’s unorthodox coaching techniques. In March 2005, the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Committee investigated Reed, a coach at Central Linn High School, for allegedly licking the wound of a female athlete. Reed had allegedly given a pep talk to his players about a coach licking and healing the wounds of his athletes. Reed then allegedly demonstrated on one of his athletes.

The school district placed Reed on probation and required him to enroll in a bloodbom pathogens course.

6) Bob Ryan’s comments about Joumana Kidd. During the 2003 NetsCeltics Eastern Conference Semifinals matchup, Boston Globe columnist Ryan had the following things to say about New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd’s wife: “I got

theories with this woman, this Joumana Kidd, who wants to be a star, wants to be a

TV star. She wants face time on camera.

The great way to get face time is to bring the cute, precocious kid [to Nets games].

Oh, great. I’d like to smack her.”

In 2001, Jason Kidd had been arrested on domestic abuse charges against his wife.

5) Kevin Garnett’s and Kellen Winslow Jr.’s respective war speeches. After a 10-6 loss to Tennessee Nov. 18, 2003, University of Miami tight end Winslow lashed out to the media, “It’s war. They’re out there to kill you, so I’m out there to kill them.

We don’t care about anybody but this U[niversity]. They’re going after my legs.

I’m going to come right back at them. I’m a f—ing soldier.”

Similarly, before game seven of the NBA’s 2004 Western Conference Finals, Garnett calmly and cryptically equated his situation with combat, “It’s for all the marbles. I’m sitting in the house loading up the pump, I’m loading up the Uzis, I’ve got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I’m ready for war.”

Both later apologized to U.S. soldiers fighting insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

4) Carmelo Anthony’s DVD. In December 2004, police confiscated an underground DVD entitled “Stop Snitching.”

The video featured known drug dealers in Anthony’s hometown of Baltimore, Md., discussing how to deal with members of the community who talked to police. Denver Nuggets star Anthony was seen in the video standing next to one suspected dealer who said he would take care of snitches by “putting a hole in their head.” Anthony also claimed in the DVD to have thrown his Olympic bronze medal in a lake.

3) Michael Vick, a.k.a. Ron Mexico.

The NFL’s highest-paid player allegedly used the alias “Ron Mexico” for purposes of herpes testing. This information became available to the public after a Georgia woman sued Vick for allegedly spreading the STD. 2) Gary Barnett’s response to rape charges against members of his team. When Katie Hnida, the only female to try out for the University of Colorado’s football team, claimed Colorado players raped her, Barnett had the following comments about the situation in Feb. 2004: “It was obvious Katie was not very good. She was awful. You know what guys do? They respect your ability. You can be 90 years old, but if you can go out and play, they’ll respect you. Katie was not only a girl, she was terrible, okay? There’s no other way to say it.”

1) The resignation oflowa State men’s basketball coach Larry Eustachy. The more time that passes since the events leading up to this resignation, the harder it is for me to believe these actions took place. Eustachy, the highest paid state employee in lowa, resigned in 2003 after photographs showed him at a party at the University of Missouri, following a Big 12 contest between the Cyclones and the Tigers. The coach was seen drinking alcoholic beverages with his arm around various coeds. The Des Moines Register discovered that students at Kansas State had a similar story about Eustachy.

Eustachy began his press conference about the pictures with an admission.

“I am an alcoholic,” he said. He went through counseling programs and now is the head coach at Southern Mississippi.

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From a conference perspective, Swofford agreed but emphasized that fiscal matters are gaining importance among athletic departments because the NCAA has already instituted reforms that address academic concerns, including graduation rates and preferential treatment for athletes.

Dealing with financial concerns is more difficult for the NCAA because of a larger economic context, Swofford said.

“It is much more challenging and difficult to address [financial concerns] at the legislative level because of antitrust issues and marketplace issues,” Swofford said.

UNC Chancellor James Moeser said he believed the same thing, but feared that a solution will be difficult to find. He also stressed that the problem extends far beyond the realm ofathletics.

“I don’t really see away to control the spiraling costs because of the need to be competitive,” Moeser said. “I don’t want to say that it is confined to the athletic arena, because it is not. But it is very, very real in the athletic arena and it concerns me.... Short of anti-trust legislation in Congress to give the NCAA power it doesn’t currently have, I don’t know how we address that issue.”

Brand noted that the financial troubles of institutions lead to a decreased emphasis on academics and integrity and a stronger focus on profitability. This problem opens up a whole new set of concerns, according to Swofford.

“That line between professional sports and major college intercollegiate athletics is being blurred more and more from an entertainment standpoint,” Swofford said.

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indicate that the usage of anabolic steroids in these amounts can be addictive and can produce withdrawal symptoms, including depression and suicide.

Brower told the Congressional committee that at least 165 cases of dependence on anabolic steroids have been documented.

A study cited by Brower during the hearings stated that 3.9 percent of 77 illicit anabolic steroid users followed by doctors attempted suicide during the withdrawal period.

“We think of depression within the first three months of that withdrawal period,” Brower said.

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“They may depress their own testicle so much that it does not recover,” Klaiber said.

“I have seen young men who use steroids when they are 16, and I see them a year later, and they still have very low levels.”

Brower said in his testimony before Congress that depressive symptoms associated with steroid withdrawal are correlated with lowered levels of testosterone, a natural anti-depressant. He added that wellcontrolled experiments have indicated that decreasing testosterone levels in the body can lead to depression.

Jake Poses contributed to this story.

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Stretching into Singapore officials from Duke Uni- but officials will need to keep an eye versity Medical Center on the new program and provide the signed an agreement with resources and institutional infrastructhe National University of Singapore ture necessary for its success, Duke’s schools have already hit and officially established the couninternational one try’s second medical St3tT6dltori3l snag—the joint deschool, they did gree program bemore than increase opportunities for medical education tween Fuqua and Frankfurt University’s Goethe Business School that in that island country.

They extended the University’s became a dual degree last fall, when reach into Asia, advanced its stated officials decided that pursuing full goal of intemationalizadon and fur- University approval posed significant challenges and should be postther distinguished between the University’s dual missions of education poned. Another similar setback could severely hamper Duke’s efforts and treatment.

For DUMC’s first foray into Asia, overseas and would not reflect well Singapore is a logical place to start. on the institution.

One of the most interesting asThe country is economically and politically stable, so Duke’s ventures pects of this latest deal is that although DUMC officials signed off on will be safe. Furthermore, Singait, the actual partnership is with the sciences pore’s efforts in biomedical research and industry are on the School of Medicine, with Sanders rise. In 2000, Singapore began its Williams, dean of the medical school, biomedical sciences push, with the acting as dean of the new school in goal of doubling the industry’s $6 Singapore. Global health and interbillion output in five years. By 2004 nationalization are priorities across the country had already more than the University and Duke University surpassed that goal, reaching $15.8 Health System, but this partnership billion in manufacturing output. As shows that individual schools can make strides in those areas, too. GlobAsia continues to open up to Westal health frequently focuses first on ern medicine, Duke has the opportunity to become an influential voice treatment and access to care, while the establishment of this new school in that area of the world.

Although this agreement has been in Singapore signals an effort on in the works for years, DUMC and the Duke’s part to focus on education.

If this venture is successful, then School of Medicine must still take care to avoid the mistakes the Fuqua both Duke’s international reputation School of Business made when it and the medical education available in Asia will benefit. Duke is still playstarted its attempts at internationaling catch-up as it builds its name ization a few years ago. The Singapore deal was in progress for long worldwide, and we are optimistic that enough that it seems many of the this venture will set DUMC on the kinks have already been worked out, right track for years to come.

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Duke should discuss grad unionization This week, graduate workers at Columbia and Yale are striking for the right to bargain collectively for fair wages, affordable health care, and decent working conditions. Graduate teaching assistants at Duke have also raised the issue of unionization this year, in editorials, discussions with President Richard Brodhead, and conversations in our workplaces. Last summer, the National Labor Relations Board ruled along partisan lines that teaching assistants are apprentices not workers, and thus don’t have a federally protected right to unionize. President Brodhead has agreed, arguing that “the analogy of a laborer who works for a wage and a graduate student, who through teaching and scholarship is being molded into a scholar, does not fit.” The NLRB also reasons that unionization might harm the educational relationships graduates form with faculty and undergraduates.

The Duke community will benefit from questioning the assumptions behind the NLRB ruling. To begin, the distinction drawn between teaching assistants and laborers is not self-evident, as evinced by the partisan ruling and its narrow application to private

(not public) universities. The dichotomy also undervalues wage labor on campus: Duke should create opportunities for all workers to form meaningful relationships in the workplace and benefit from intellectual and human development. To reserve this opportunity for graduates is shortsighted, even as it forgets that we too are held accountable by our paychecks —on which we too pay taxes.

Finally, unionization should not be equated with antagonism. It is quite possible for graduates to value deeply both our relationships with faculty and undergraduates and our rights to freer and fairer labor conditions.

This is a call to the broader Duke community to begin a dialogue about the roles of graduate students in helping the university function effectively and enriching the quality of academic life. This conversation ought to be part of broader efforts at Duke and beyond to secure livable working conditions for all workers—graduate workers included.

Laura Grattan Graduate student, Political Science Dave Mclvor Graduate student, Political Science

Columnist’s argument illogical Nathan Carleton’s latest column reads like a poor man’s Monday, Monday: though marginally more amusing, it is significantly more intellectually offensive. A full account of the logical errors and fallacies that riddle his column is beyond the scope of this letter, but I will attempt to highlight the more salient points.

I will start with Carleton’s rhetorical question; “What kind of people risk scorn, suffering and death to trick future generations into believing a false ideology, especially when they have nothing to gain financially?”

History shows that most proponents of false ideologies do. By his “logic,” al Qaeda, and other radical Islamic fundamentalist groups are either correct, or at the very least primarily committed to financial gain. Charles Mansons are common in our history: delusion and charisma often go hand in hand.

More broadly, Carleton’s argument is so general as to “logically” demonstrate the validity of all organized religions’ and sects’ belief, in spite of logical contradictions.

This is primarily because of some basic assumptions that are clearly false. First, he says that the Bible must either be “the word of God” or “propaganda.” His first logical assumption, then, is that the Truth was revealed to early proponents of Christianity, and that they then consciously decided either to spread or conceal that Truth. He

makes no allowance for error. I think few argue that all Christians are liars: most atheists, such as myself, just think they’re wrong.

The next assumption is that existence implies correctness: the fact that James says that “Jesus was called the Christ” in no way implies that James knew that Jesus was the Christ. When I say that women in Salem were called witches, it does not mean that I know that these women had supernatural powers.

Finally, there are two arguments proposed in this article that are so bizarre that I do not know how to go about refuting them.

First, Carleton states that Tacitus described Nero’s persecution of Christians in 115 A.D. Does this mean that all persecuted peoples believe in the true faith? It would then seem clear that, because of the Spanish Civil War, Judaism and Islam are both correct (and therefore equivalent), and that Christianity is incorrect. Moreover, Carleton argues that the inclusion of “paradoxical aspects of Christianity” is a sign of its truth. I fear a world in which logical inconsistency points to the truth.

This is, perhaps, where Carleton and I diverge: I believe that logical statements should be logically coherent.

David Rademeyer Trinity ’OB

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undergraduate. All you learn at college is how ly does your laundry. How are you supposed to mature drink, have sex and memorize trivia. In a few and discover yourself during four years ofarrested develyears, nobody will care which university you went opment? Tune in, turn on, drop out. to, what your grades were, or what you studied. All that OK, those ofyou still reading. This is the real reason to knowledge you’re trying to cram into your head will have be here. Ready? University is your one chance to devote evaporated, except for random snippets that emerge on yourself singlemindedly to getdng an education. quiz night at the local bar. Your college texts will sit on your (What, you already knew that? Most undergraduates shelf, and you’ll never open them again. When you turn 30 I’ve met act like they never heard it.) you’ll throw them out. What a colossal waste of time and Never again will you have so much time and so many remoney it will seem. How bleak. So why are you here? sources just for educating yourself. Sure, college has plenty Ifyou really want an education you can get it anywhere, of distractions, but it’s not about becoming “well-rounded,” even the crappiest agricultural college in and neither is life. “Well-rounded” was how the poorest state; those professors got you padded your resume in high school. If mm their Ph.D.s at Yale too. Anyway, high-powyou’re missing classes because you’re “busy” ered faculty at research universities like with such time-wasting nonsense as social Duke can’t necessarily teach. (Perhaps dance, fraternity theme mixers, student you’ve noticed.) Their careers depend on politics, hangovers, weed, lacrosse, or writdoing research, getting grants, and avoiding Chronicle columns, you’re not ready ing you. So drop out. for an education yet and shouldn’tbe here.

You could go to a state college for less So drop out. I’m serious. than a fifth of the cost, so why are you at As a teenager you’re probably far too Duke? It doesn’t have the social cachet of immature to appreciate this amazing opa modest proposal Harvard or Yale, yet is somehow still stagportunity; I sure was. I had a B- average, geringly expensive. You’re paying around dropped out, worked for seven years, $lOO per lecture—do you really feel you’re getting your went back and got straight As, graduated, and... well, money’s worth? Is one Duke lecture worth five at UNC? went to grad school, but don’t let me dissuade you. At No. You’re being ripped off. Drop out. least get a job for a few years. (News flash; in the real A college education is basically free in every industrialworld, when you drink until dawn and have multiple ized country except America. Hdre, graduates wind up sleazy hookups, nobody nags you.) I recommend you get with tens of thousands of dollars of debt for a decade or far away from your high school friends and parents, more. Rather an expensive way to goof off for four years, preferably to another continent, and see how the rest of isn’t it? But that psych degree’s an investment in your cathe world lives. Learn a couple more languages, live reer, right? Nope, you’d have been financially better off cheap, and save up enough to travel as much as you can. getting a job fresh out of high school. Duke’s snob value Open your eyes. doesn’t outweigh the student loan and four-year handiIf after at least five years in the real world you still want cap, especially for you unfortunate Humanities majors. So an education, by all means come back to school, but be make like Bill Gates, and drop out already. warned: it will seem a very different place. You’ll work hard without complaint, and only study what you’re pasMaybe, though, this is just a stepping stone to a professional qualification. But what makes you so sure you want sionate about. You won’t care about grades, but will be at to be a doctor? You like helping people? Get real. Most of the top of your class. Some of those professors and grad us aren’t equipped to choose a lifelong career at age 18— students will actually become your friends for life. Just try not to get too irritated at the vacuousness of the whining usually it’s just: (a) Mom and Dad would be so proud. Coincidentally, cosseted undergrads that surroundyou, and restrain yourselffrom interrupting all the time during lectures to point they’re doctors/lawyers too! (b) Your in-depth knowledge of what the job entails out why the professor’s wrong. comes entirely from TV. But remember—you don’t need to go to school to get (c) You want to make a lot ofmoney. (Does this mean an education. If you really want to, you can learn anywhere with a library. Spend that tuition money on travel, you’re shallow and self-centered? I’m afraid so.)

Don’t add to the plague of lawyers defacing the USA. theaterand language classes. Read a newspaper a day and a book a week. For under a thousand bucks you could asDrop out now.

Every spring the graduating Chronicle columnists semble a library of philosophy, literature, science, history whine about how they have no idea what comes next. If and poetry that would educate you for the rest ofyour life.

You’re sleepwalking; wake up. You’re babied; grow up. they had no goal in mind, why did they come to college in the first place? The last place you’ll stumble upon your voStop frittering away your youth and cash in this four-year cation is in academia, which couldn’t be more divorced summer camp. Get a life. Get out. Drop out now. from the real world. This is especially true in America, MikeDickison is a graduate student in Zoology. He’s finally where you’re infantilized in cozy dorms by a university in loco parentis that feeds you, cleans up after you—practical- finishing his dissertation. to

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see the febrile young teens in their skintight

spaghetti strap tank tops with their acres of exposed

pelvic skin. You hear 50 Cent’s ode to oral sex, “Candy

Shop,” throbbing from their iPods. You open the college newspapers and see the bawdy sex columns; at William and Mary last week I read a playful discussion of how to fondle

testicles and find G spots.

You could get the impression that America’s young people are leading lives of Caligulan hedonism. You could give credence to all those parental scare stories about oral sex parties at bar mitzvahs and junior high school dances. You could worry about hookups, friends with benefits, and the rampant spread of casual, transactional sexuality.

But it turns out you’d be wrong.

The fact is, sex is more explicit everywhere—on Desperate Housewives, on booty-quaking music videos, on the Internet—except in real life. As the entertainment media have become more sex-saturated, American teenagers have become more sexually abstemious. Teenage pregnancy rates have declined by about a (6 past 15 years. third over kthr david brooks Teenage birth and abortion rates have dropped guest commentary just as much Young people are waiting longer to have sex. The percentage of 15-year-olds who have had sex has dropped significandy. Among 13-year-olds, the percentage has dropped even more.

They are also having fewer partners. The number of high schoolers who even report having four or more sexual partners during their lives has declined by about a quarter. Half of all high school boys now say they are virgins, up from 39 percent in 1990.

Reports of an epidemic of teenage oral sex are also greatly exaggerated. There’s very little evidence to suggest it is really happening. Meanwhile, teenagers’ attitudes about sex are turning more conservative. There’s been a distinct rise in the number of teenagers who think casual sex is wrong.

There’s an increase in the share of kids who think teenagers should wait until adulthood before getting skin to skin.

When you actually look at the intimate life ofAmerica’s youth, you find this heterodoxical pattern; People can seem raunchy on the surface but are wholesome within. There are Ivy League sex columnists who don’t want anybody to think they are loose. There are foul-mouthed Maxim readers terrified they will someday divorce, like their parents.

Eminem hardly seems like a paragon of traditional morality, but what he’s really angry about is that he comes from a broken home, and what he longs for is enough suburban bliss to raise his daughter.

In other words, American pop culture may look trashy, but America’s social fabric is in the middle of an amazing moment of improvement and repair.

The first lesson in all this is we shouldn’t overestimate the importance of the media. People like 50 Cent may produce hit after pornographic hit, but that doesn’t mean his fans want to lead the lives he raps about. It’s make-believe.

What matters is reality. The reality is that we have a generation of kids who have seen the ravages of divorce, who are more likely to respect and listen to their parents and their ministers, who are worried about sexually transmitted diseases and who don’t want to mess up their careers.

Second, it’s becoming clear that we are seeing the denouement of one of the longest and increasingly boring plays on Broadway, the culture war.

Since the 1830s, we’ve witnessed the same struggle. One camp poses as the party of responsibility, lamenting the decadence of culture and the loss of traditional morality. The other side poses as the army of liberation, lamenting Puritanism, repression and the menace of the religious right.

No doubt some people will continue these stale kabuki battles on into their graves: the ’sos against the ’6os, the same trumped-up outrage, the same self-congratulatory righteousness, the same fund-raising-friendly arguments again and again.

But today’s young people appear not to have taken a side in this war; they’ve just left it behind! For them, the personal is not political. Sex isn’t a battleground in a clash of moralities. They seem happy with the frankness of the left and the wholesomeness of the right. You may not like the growing influence of religion in public life, but the lives of young people have improved. You may not like the growing acceptance of homosexuality, but as it has happened heterosexual families have grown healthier.

Just lie back and enjoy the optimism.

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David Brooks is a syndicated columnistfor The New York Times.

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