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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 141

Peak past at Career Center as year ends by

Grad School apps up from 'O4

Meg Bourdillon THE CHRONICLE

With less than three weeks until graduation, most of the visitors to the Career Center are looking for Baccalaureate tickets, notjobs. Things are winding down as the academic year draws to a

close, and the center’s only major upcoming

event

is a sym-

posium Friday for science and engineering Ph.D. candidates. An oversized wall.calendar in the Page Building office does not even extend past April 24. “We stay busy pretty much through the majority of the school year, when students are here,” said Kara Lombardi, associate director of counseling and programs. She noted that most students are spending their time studying, not looking for career advice, in the

lead-up to exams. Tuesday afternoon, the resource room closed its doors SEE CAREER ON PAGE 11

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Last Ddy of Classes

In preparation for tonight’s Last Day ofClasses performances, featuring Collective Soul and Weekend Excursion, a stage was erected Tuesday on the Main West Campus Quadrangle. Another stage near Clocktower Quad will showcase student bands.

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In what Graduate School Dean Lewis Siegel called “the second-largest year ever,” applications to the Graduate School increased to nearly 7,400 for the 2005-2006 academic year, up from 7,080 last year. Graduate School officials said it is unlikely that applications in the next few years will eclipse the record 7,900 it received two years ago. For the first time in several years, the Graduate School received more domestic applications —4,174 —than it did foreign applications, Siegel said. Foreign applications rose to 3,220, up from 3,092 last year. “The market for other professions is not as good as it was a few years ago,” Siegel said, adding that an increasing number of college graduates are pursuing Ph.D.s rather than

professional degrees.

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Humanities alumni LeFew seeks student activism struggle to find jobs BY Orcun Unlu THE CHRONICLE

Julie

Stolberg THE CHRONICLE

After four years of college, 10 years of graduate education and the investment of a small fortune in studying the larger questions of the humanities, how are the job prospects? Dismal. Anne Whisnant, project manager for programs funded through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, said she is concerned by the dearth of positions in academia for Ph.D. recipients in the humanities, especially in light of the trend of replacing tenure-track positions with adjunct or professor of the practice positions. Whisnant has found that while the gates of academia seem to be

closing more rapidly than graduate school entrants ever anticipated, there is a market for humanities Ph.D. holders outside of the ivory tower. But the external market, Whisnant explained, may not be the answer to all of the problems humanities Ph.D. recipients encounter in a society that financially rewards the sciences more than the humanities. “The social value placed on the humanities, just in the crassest market terms, is low. I mean even [for] people who go outside [academia],” Whisnant said. “It’s really a problem that goes beyond the University to, what does our society value financially?

William LeFew, recentlyelected president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, isn’t afraid to admit he uses buzzwords. “Evolving” and “mentoring” are at the top of his list, as he aims to move GPSC forward by engaging students and increasing their interaction with administrators. He believes that GPSC has come a long way over the last five years, but it still has a long way to go. “It’s not that we are doing something wrong, it is just that we want to do new good things,” said LeFew, a third-year applied mathematics doctoral student “We had a lot of strong leaders who opened a lot of doors with the administration,” he

SEE PH.D. ON PAGE 8

SEE GPSC ON PAGE 10

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William LeFew, the new GPSC president, discusses his plans to bring positive changes to the organization and graduate and professional studentlife next year.

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Last Syrian soldier leaves Lebanon by

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MASNAA, Lebanon Syria’s last soldier in Lebanon walked across the border Tuesday, welcomed home with cheers and flowers after a modest farewell from the Lebanese, in a quiet end to a once-indomitable, 29-year military presence that was the key to Damascus’ control of its neighbor. With the Syrians gone, Lebanese now look ahead to an election that should prove freer of Syrian influence but still runs the risk of sinking into violence. Lebanon’s anti-Syrian opposition is hoping to defeat Damascus’ political allies at the ballot box.

The withdrawal would have been unthinkable only a few months ago. But amid series of strategic blunders by Syrian President Bashar Assad, Damascus came under relentless international pressure that intensified after the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The United States in particular is keeping up demands for an end to Syria’s influence. After weeks of Syrians’ vacating their posts —with celebrations by Lebanese elated to see them go—Lebanon's pro-Syrian leadership was eager to give a dignified finish to the pullout. Top military brass from both sides exchanged medals in an hourlong ceremony at an

air base near their shared border, and they emphasized the nations’ close ties will continue. A Syrian commander told Lebanese troops at the ceremony: “Brothers in arms, ‘til we meet again.” The Lebanese replied, ‘“Til we meet again” —using the Arabic phrase “ila liqaa,” a breezier goodbye than the more formal “farewell.” “Brothers in arms, thank you for your sacrifices,” a Lebanese commander then told the Syrians. Lebanese army commander Michel Suleiman pledged continued cooperation and credited the Syrian army with ending SEE LEBANON ON PAGE 9

Survivor pulled from crash in Japan Mari Yamaguchi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

At least he was AMAGASAKI, Japan alive. Hours after Japan’s worst train crash in decades, rescue teams found Hiroki Hayashi in an open space in the wreckage, still conscious but with his legs badly hurt. Workers, however, faced a major hurdle: they couldn’t get the 19-year-old college student out. Rescuers could pass him water and put him on an intravenous drip, but he was pinned down by slabs of metal and the bodies of victims. Firefighters feared sparks from an electric drill would ignite spilled fuel.

“We had to use hydraulic-equipped machines to pry open a space,” said Hideki Maeda of the Amagasaki Fire Department. Early Tuesday, rescuers finally freed Hayashi from the wreckage 22 hours after the crash in Amagasaki in western Japan. He was the final survivor pulled from the shattered train. The death toll increased by nine to 90 Wednesday as more bodies were recovered, the Kyodo news agency said. At least 456 people were injured. Kyodo estimated that at least 52 people were missing, while the NHK broadcaster said there were more bodies still inside and that the death toll would likely rise.

Workers Tuesday also discovered a body seated at the front of the train believed to be that of the 23-year-old train driver, Ryujiro Takami, but they had not confirmed whether he was dead, Kyodo said. Takami got his train operator’s license in May 2004. One month later, he overran a station and was issued a warning for his mistake, railway officials and police said. Investigators said the driver may have been shaken after overrunning the station by 130 feet just before the crash and falling 90 seconds behind schedule. Speculation was high that the driver may have been rushing to make up lost time.

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President George W. Bush prodded Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah on Monday to help curb skyrocketing oil prices, and the White House expressed hope that the kingdom's plans would ease U.S, gasoline prices, which have shot above $2.20 a gallon.

Frist rejects deal on filibusters Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.,on Tuesday rejected compromise offers that would allow minority Democrats to continue to block judicial nominees, saying all of President George W. Bush's past and future court choices deserve confirmation votes.

Mother delivers quintuplets A surrogate mother carrying quintuplets for a childless couple walked into the delivery room on her own Tuesday and gave birth to five boys. Teresa Anderson, 25, delivered the quintuplets by Caesarean section. One of the babies was born with a de-

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Angry Apple removes books Apple Computer, Inc. has retaliated against the publisher of an upcoming unauthorized biography about chief executive Steve Jobs by removing dozens of other technology books sold by the publisher from Apple stores around the world News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Students caught in IR crunch by

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Team 770's unique plan to improve highway traffic flow won the "outstanding" designation at the annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling.

Team receives 'outstanding' designation by

also publish their 50-page answer in an we’re using are built up from calculus academic journal. and probability but nothing tremendousThe “outstanding” designation comes ly out there.” as the latest in a string of victories for the In the same MCM contest, three math department, which also produced a other Duke groups received a “meritorithird-place team in the vaunted William ous” designation: a team of junior Matt Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition Fischer and sophomores Nikifor Blizand a number of other distinguished indinashki and Brandon Levin; a second vidual performances. team of junior Abhijit Mehta and sophoTeam 770’s report offers three models mores Benjamin Mickle and Ibraheem of highway traffic flow, one analyzing flow Mohammed; and a third team comprised on a car-by-car basis; the second “clumpof senior Oaz Nir, junior Rahul Satija ing” cars together to compare traffic to and sophomore James Zou. blood flow; and the third likening it to celThe team of junior Qinzheng Tian, lular automata. who is also a photographer for The Chronicle, sophomore Vyacheslav KunChandler said his group’s simple decision to quantify time loss in terms of gurtsev and freshman Aaron Wise remoney may have set their paper apart ceived a designation of “honorable menfrom the rest. tion” in the Interdisciplinary Contest in “We use a little bit of this and a little Modeling. bit of that,” he said. “It’s not like we’re SEE CONTESTS ON PAGE 12 doing graduate math. The kind of tools

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The next time you’re stuck in rush hour traffic, you might want to give a call to the Duke math department. Three mathematics majors—-Juniors Pradeep Baliga, Adam Chandler and Matt Mian, who formed Team 770—tackled the problem of optimizing toll booth numbers as a function of highway lanes for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, which took place in February. Their work has won them one of seven coveted “outstanding” designations from the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications, which sponsors the annual contest. The Mathematical Association of America, meanwhile, has invited Baliga, Chandler and Mian to speak at the MathFest conference in Albuquerque, N.M., this August. Baliga said the MAA may

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Many political science majors with a concentration in international relations woke up to register for classes a few weeks ago and received an unpleasant early-morning shock. They found themselves in a mad scramble for spots in the classes they need to graduate. Students majoring in political science are required to take a 200-level course in their concentration. When ACES opened three weeks ago, only two IR concentration graduate-level courses were listed for the fall. “Two weeks ago, we were looking at not enough classes, which is just unacceptable,”said Michael Munger, chair of the political science department. “Because of the e-mails from students, we’ve added two more 200-level courses.” Nonetheless, the political science department is still offering fewer IR concentration classes in the fall than the nine it offered this semester. Munger said that although there are now enough spots open for students who need the classes to graduate, the courses available may not focus on topics students are interested in studying. “Now the situation is just bad instead of terrible,” Munger said. “It’s the capstone of their major, and they have to take whatever is offered rather than what they’re interested in.” Many professors who specialize in international relations will be gone next year, which lowers the number of IR courses the department is able to offer. According to the political science department’s website, five of the 12 professors who specialize in IR will not be here to teach in the fall. “It’s a temporary absence of a bunch of faculty,” said Peter Feaver, professor of SEE IR COURSES ON PAGE 12

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THAT'S HOT! The core temperature of the sun can reach 22.5 million degrees.

IMWIWIIHi Students risk health to bask in sun Kansas to reconsider evolution The battle over the teaching of evolution could heat up over the coming weeks, as Kansas' State Board of Education is expected to revise its science standards in June. In 1999, the Board deleted most references to evolution in the standards, drawing international ridicule. Elections the following year made the Board less conservative, resulting in the current standards, which describe evolution as a key concept for students to learn.

Merck fights high-stake lawsuit Lawyers for Merck Co. asked a Judge Tuesday to throw out a wrongful death lawsuit that claims the pain reliever Vioxx contributed to the death of a 42-year-old man. The stakes for Merck are high: Analysts estimate lawsuits could cost the company up to $lB billion if verdicts go against it. &

N.C unveils new "Red Flag" plan Three state agencies and North Carolina retailers unveiled a new voluntary campaign Tuesday to reduce cigarette sales to minors by regularly checking the driver's licenses of patrons. The "Red Flag" campaign is designed to encourage store clerks to check for a red border around the license photo of each person attempting to buy cigarettes.

Young girls adopt steroid use An alarming number of American girls, some as young as 9, are using bodybuilding steroids—not necessarily to get an edge on the playing field, but to get the toned, sculpted look of models and movie stars, experts say. Youngsters generally get illegal anabolic steroids on the black market from relatives or friends or from the local gym.

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Duke students love their sun As Durham heats up in late spring, benches become convenient sunning spots, and students strip down to tan and play sports on the grassy quads across campus. “People definitely look better with a tan,” said Eric Vance, a third-year graduate student in statistics. Even when the weather is not so hot, people still make an effort to enjoy the sun. “It’s 60 degrees and we’re laying out, so we’re pretty hardcore about this,” said freshman Rebecca Arnold as she tanned on the East Campus Quadrangle with Boyu Hu, also a freshman. Both students felt that it was healthy to spend at least a little time in the sun. “I think people who are too pale look like they’re dying,” Hu said. While too much sun has been associated with skin cancer, the benefits of moderate sun exposure have been body contested. Ultraviolet light triggers vitamin D production in the skin—which is important for maintaining the blood’s calcium levels—but the risks of tanning are still thought to outweigh the benefits. Because UVA and UVB rays are the primary agents of tanning, slightly bronzed skin is actually a sign of sun damage. Overall, the benefits of spending time outside fail to negate the consequences of overexposure, specialists say. “Of people born today, one in

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Although some students think tanning produces a healthier appearance, the darker hue indicates skin damage from the sun. 65 will develop a melanoma,” said Dr. Andrew Kaplan, a clinical dermatologist at Duke. “It’s a growing concern and can kill people in the prime of their lives. Even though it’s not the most common skin cancer, it’s the one we worry about the most.” Melanoma is of greater concern than other skin cancers because it is the form of the disease most likely to metastasize—or

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spread throughout the body. Once a cancerous mole is found, it will typically be biopsied or removed immediately. But sometimes, preventative actions are not taken until it is too late. The incidence ofmelanoma is rising and has become twenty times as common over the past 60 years. In 2004, more than 55,000 new cases of invasive melanoma

were diagnosed in the United States. People with fair skin are especially at risk. Since the onset of the disease usually occurs later in life, however, most students are less than vigilant about sun protection. “The doctor said that my skin is really prone to cancer, so I should wear [sunscreen], but it’s SEE TANNING ON PAGE 13

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IZA WOJCIECHOWSKA THE CHRONICLE

Begun this semester in an attempt to address the personnel needs of the history department, the introduction of undergraduate discussion section leaders has elicited mixed feelings from students. Five seniors oversaw different discussion groups for Gerald Wilson’s “American Dreams/American Realities” course. Wilson, an adjunct professor in the Department of History and a senior associate dean of Trinity College, said the project was an experiment that will now undergo student and administrative appraisal to determine whether it will become a perma-

nent feature of the course. As of now, its

continuation is uncertain. ‘lt’s really up in the air. I think what we re going to do is get all the components

together, hear what the students have to say and make some evaluations,” Wilson said. “If we can learn from this experiment, it definitely has potential.” Wilson chose to allocate the discussion section responsibilities to undergraduates because there was a shortage of graduate TAs in the department. He also wanted to explore unconventional educational possibilities with such a large class of students. Students taking the course agreed it was beneficial having discussion section leaders

who were more in tune with undergraduate life and had taken the course before. “[The discussion leader] was really good—she knew the material really well and could relate to us a lot better than the graduate students, and she wasn’t arrogant,” freshman Kenneth Greenleaf said. Undergraduate discussion leaders also helped make the classroom environment more enjoyable, students said. “They have a better idea of where we’re coming from and what we’re going through and are more sympathetic,” freshman Allie Johnson said. Wilson stressed that the undergraduates are discussion group leaders, not

teaching assistants. Undergraduates were responsible solely for facilitating discussions and assigning participation grades, while graduate students still graded exams and papers. This became the primary glitch in the system and a problem for many of the students. The graduate students were present at neither lectures nor discussion sections, and undergraduates felt the graders were too removed from the class to give fair evaluations. “It was just hard because you weren’t establishing a personal relationship with them, and you SEE UNDERGRADS ON PAGE 13

Bush defends Delay at joint appearance in Texas by

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President George W. Bush GALVESTON, Texas praised House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Tuesday and gave him an Air Force One ride back to Washington as the administration worked to cool grumbling about the

embatded Texas congressman. The White House denied that DeLay’s appearance with Bush at a Social Security event here was away for the president to give the House leader a political boost. But while the president has steadfastly backed DeLay, Tuesday’s appearance took Bush’s public show of support to a new level. “I appreciate the leadership of Congressman Tom DeLay in working on important issues that matter to the country,” Bush said before he began plugging for Social Security overhaul. DeLay, an influential conservative on Capitol Hill, is facing questions about money used to pay for some ofhis foreign trips, about political fundraising for Texas elec-

dons and about his ties to a lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, who is under federal criminal investigation. DeLay, who rode with the president in his limousine, on his Marine One helicopter and then on Air Force One for the return flight to Washington, has said he is willing to defend himself before the House ethics committee. The panel, though, is essentially shut down because of a deadlock over new rules imposed by Republicans. Upon landing, and after a goodbye handshake at the bottom of the Air Force One steps, DeLay said the president's very public show of support for him Tuesday “felt very good.” “The president was very gracious,” he said. “We feel very humbled by that kind of support.” DeLay said he did not know that tickets for at least one overseas flight were apparently charged to Abramoffs credit card—which would be a violation of ethics rules—saying, “I’ve always believed” it was paid for properly by a nonprofit group. “I didn’t know that that went on,” he said.

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APPLICATIONS from page 1 Siegel noted that the number of foreign applications is low despite the fact that “large visa delays seemed to be smoothed out.” The timetable for receiving a visa recently, Siegel explained, dropped from between two and three months to two and three weeks. China yielded 1,103 applications, the most from a foreign nation and 100 more than the country produced last year. This year’s increase, however, leaves the number of Chinese applicants considerably lower than two years ago, when the Graduate School received a record number of approximately 2,000 applications. Siegel said it does not appear that the number of Chinese applicants will return to the 2,000 range in the near future. “There are increasingly alternative outlets outside of the U. 5.,” he said, citing Chinese doctoral programs that are growing “by leaps and bounds.” Siegel also said the number of Chinese applicants to U.S. graduate programs may have diminished because schools in Australia and Canada are increasingly seeking international students. Korea and India yielded the second and third largest numbers of foreign applicants —369 and 319, respectively. Graduate School admissions officials also said that although many departments did not see large differences from last year in the numbers of applications submitted, there were some notable fluctuations. The number of applicadons to the computer science program dropped from 291 to 220, a decrease of 24.4 percent from last year. The number of applications to the electrical and computer engineering program, on the other hand, rose from 239 to 310, an increase of 29.7 percent. Siegel suggested that the change in the numbers of applications to the two departments may be related. Officials in both departments pointed to reasons other than what seems like a trade-off for the fluctuations. “We have seen some decline at the undergraduate level as well; it’s all happened since the Internet stock crash in 2001,” said Jeffrey Chase, director of graduate studies in the computer science department. Chase said since 2001, undergraduate

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computer science majors have sharply declined nationwide and graduate school programs are now starting to see the effects of this decrease in popularity. “People’s view of the economic benefit of doing work in this field has somewhat declined,” Chase said. Another reason for the declining numbers of computer science applicants and increase in electrical and computer engineering applicants was Duke’s allocation of funds, Chase added. “Duke has not invested in computer science at the level that other schools have. Other programs have been benefiting from substantial investments,” he said, referring to the University’s recent focus on engineering. Chase also said his department has seen fewer applications from China and India, their top recruiting hotbeds, noting that about half of the students in the computer science department are either Chinese or Indian.

“We’ve only been admitting students from the top schools in India and China,” he said, implying that students who are not from the top schools in China and India may have felt discouraged from applying. Jeff Krolik, director of graduate studies in the electrical and computer engineering program, also said he thinks that the increase in applicants to his department and decrease in the number of computer science applicants does not reflect a trade-off. “In our department, there is a number of new faculty that have significant national and international presence,” he said. Krolik added that a number of the highest-quality applicants to the electrical and computer engineering program indicated they were interested in working with* the newly-hired faculty. “The growth of faculty is attracting a new pool of students,” he said. One of the areas of the department that has added faculty recendy is computer engineering, Krolik said. He said he did not

know how much overlap exists between the computer science program and the computer engineering area of the electrical and computer engineering program. The departments that received the largest numbers of applications were economics, with 519 applicants; business, with 496 and psychology, with 439. Of the three areas of concentration within the psychology department, Siegel said clinical psychology again received the largest number of applicants, as it has in the past. Three departments that saw a decline in the number of applications last year—cell and molecular biology, civil engineering and chemistry—all saw significant increases this year. Applications to three programs rose 15 percent, 35.5 percent and 43.1 percent, respectively.

Siegel also noted that the department of romance studies, which he had placed on probation a few years ago due to its low numbers of applicants, received 22 applications this year, up from last year’s 13.

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A difficultroad William Pannapacker, a 1999 Duke graduate and professor at Hope College in Holland, Mich., said he estimated only one out of five humanities Ph.D. holders will make it in academia. “There is very little distinction with those who end up with fine positions and those who end up with adjunct positions,” he said. Adjunct positions are based on temporary contracts and can be either part or full time. Tenured and assistant professors enjoy salaries and job stability far superior to adjuncts’. They are essentially guaranteed permanent employment under the American Association of University Professor’s 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, which was enacted to ensure both job stability and free expression for professors. Recently, universities have been cutting back on the number of tenure-track positions that they offer in the humanities. Gregson Davis, Duke’s dean of the humanities, acknowledged the trend of replacing tenure-track positions with parttime positions and the difficulty of finding tenure-track positions in the humanities because there are more applicants than open positions. “It’s generally the case these days that there are fewer jobs available,” Davis said. “The economic reality is such that we are unable to expand the faculty at the rate that we were able to.” Adjunct professors, who are usually paid on a course-by-course basis, are cheaper to employ than permanent professors. According to an AAUP study, part-time professors earn approximately 64 percent less per hour than full-time, tenure-track profes-

sors. For the number of hours they work, adjunct professors are paid less than minimum wage, Pannapacker said. In addition, positions many humanities Ph.D. holders expected to open up are have remained occupied by tenured professors for longer periods of time. This stems from the dissolution of mandatory retirement, which previously ensured more regular vacancies. Pannapacker also said that after they are vacated, many tenure-track positions are replaced by adjunct positions. According to Pannapacker, two-thirds of courses in academia are not taught by tenured faculty.

A different route Although Alexandra Lord, a 1995 history Ph.D. from the University ofWisconsin-Madison, was one of the few among her peers who found a tenure-track position at a state college, she felt dissatisfied with her options in academia. Lord was not happy about the isolated, rural environment of the college where she received her appointment, nor was she pleased by the academic atmosphere. “It’s an incredibly solitary profession, Lord said. “I found it extraordinarily hierarchical. I didn’t like this very hierarchical structure in the workplace. I wanted something much more, where you’re working with colleagues and you’re part of a team.” Lord is not alone in her dissatisfaction with the current options for humanities Ph.D. holders. Frustrated, she and others have turned to alternative professional fields, such as government and the pri”

vate sector.

Lord, who designed a website called BeyondAcademe.com—which provides infor-

mation about alternatives to academia—is now working as the acting historian for the United States Public Health Service. She believes her government position makes use

of her training in a more fulfilling manner than her professorship did a few years ago. “I think that history has value, and I didn’t think that academia rewarded or encouraged historians to speak broadly to a wider audience. That was pretty frustrating to me,” Lord said. Lord added that she was not sure of her options outside ofacademia when she left school because no one in her graduate experience informed her of opportunities outside of the academic community. She said she ended up working with the federal government mosdy because she wanted to live in Washington, D.C., but has found that her federal job allows her more time for research and rewards her advanced degree with three times the salary she made as a professor. Others have had less success finding positions. Kent Lehnhof, who earned a Ph.D. in English literature at Duke in 2002, searched for a job for four years before finding his current position as an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. Though he found the services of the Career Center helpful, Lehnhof said he felt discouraged by die seeming randomness of the job search process. “There was just this growing frustration there wasn’t very much I could do,” he said. “I’m the same person now. It’s just such a highly whimsical process based on you as a round peg finding a round hole.” Lehnhof was able to continue his protracted education and job search, but he said he would not have been able to discriminate as much among possible positions in his search without his wife’s income. While he was in the job search process, Lehnhof taught as an adjunct professor. He was paid on a course-bycourse basis and did not always receive benefits, including health care. -

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Lehnhof noted that his adjunct position allowed him more time to do research, which he hoped would increase his success in finding a job. “The belief is that if you just have one more ardcle or just one more thing to make you stand out, then that would be the difference between last year’s unsuccessful search and this year’s successful one,” Lehnhof said. Craig DeAlmeida, a 2004 music composition Ph.D. from Duke, is working part time at a warehouse that sells comic and sci-fi books and teaching a summer math course to support himself while he searches for an academic job. Like Lehnhof, he is bolstered by his wife’s income. DeAlmeida, who also attended Duke as an undergraduate, said he knew the job search was riot going to be easyfrom conversations he had with graduate students. “I was more frustrated at the prospect of [the job search]” than the experience of it, DeAlmeida said. “For the most part, I’ve kind ofmade peace with the process.”

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their expectations of the job search and their work habits. He said the key to a successful job hunt is protecting one’s mental health. “Graduate students live in a kind of soup of paranoia. The situation is bleak but it is not hopeless,” Pannapacker said. Pannapacker also believes graduate students can benefit from instituting a nine-to-five discipline in their lives. “There’s a culture, a feeling that you can hang out at coffee shops and read and then produce at the last minute,” he said. “The romantic geniuses tend to bum out, and because they’re erratic, people don’t depend on them.” He also suggested that recent graduates entering the job search need to remain flexible about which positions they are willing to accept. Graduate students are often disappointed when the only offers they receive come from small liberal arts schools in rural areas, Pannapacker explained, because they want a position at a large research university. Pannapacker advised job seekers not too hold out too

undesirable location, they should not necessarily perceive it as permanent but as a “first job rather than a lifelong position,” Pannapacker said. In addition, some smaller liberal arts colleges offer unique options for graduates interested in finding positions in academia. Swarthmore College Provost Connie Hungerford noted in an e-mail that Swarthmore is not replacing its tenuretrack positions with adjunct professors. She said adjunct appointments are usually temporary, lasting until a search is conducted for a full-time or tenure-track replacement. Hungerford also explained that Swarthmore has maintained a fairly even distribution of tenure-track professors across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering departments. Given the intensely competitive and often random job market that is academia, Pannapacker also stressed the importance of networking with other graduate students. “In the final rounds of job searches it is always some invisible unarticulated variable that makes the decision,” Pannapacker said.

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the 1975-90 civil war and rebuilding Lebanese forces. “Together we shall always remain brothers in arms in the face of the Israeli enemy,” Suleiman said. The two dozen or so Lebanese who stood at the border were less charitable as they watched the departure of the last 250 Syrians —remnants of a one-time mighty force of 40,000 that ran the country virtually unchallenged since arriving as peacekeepers in 1976. “I feel like someone who was suffocated and jailed and has finally emerged from jail,” said Shaaban al-Ajami, mayor of the Lebanese border village of Majdal Anjar. “We don’t want to say goodbye. We are happy to see them leave,” said Hussein Mansour, 27, who stood at the border holding the lone Lebanese flag. Opposition leader Walid Jumblatt was delighted. “The Syrian tutelage is over,” Jumblatt said. “If they had implemented Taif before we wouldn't have seen this insulting, humiliating scene for the Arab Syrian army.” he told LBC television.

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GPSC from page 1 added. Now he wants to bring graduate and professional students through those doors and into administrators’ offices to lobby more effectively for their constituents. LeFew’s focus will be building an internal network that mimics the hierarchical organization of the administration—dividing GPSC into branches such as student affairs, alumni affairs, dining and parking. This network will open GPSC to more graduate and professional students and allow it to present a more unified graduate community voice. “I want everyone to be able to get involved with the administration,” he said. “When you have a group of people working with a different administrator on similar tasks, it creates mutual accountability.” Lefew added that GPSC will be more accessible and more accountable to its members and to the administration. One of the main goals of the new GPSC president is to increase representatives’ involvement and responsibility. “The executive board used to do every single thing,” he said. LeFew thinks he is “well-placed” within the organization’s history because it has had strong leadership for the past two years under past President Rob Saunders and current President Heather Dean. He said the organization is ready for a structural change as well. “Heather has done a lot of good things, and it has given us the opportunity to move on with the organization,” LeFew said. He wants to set up a structure that empowers and stimulates the General Assembly so that all the work does not fall on the executive board. LeFew said GPSC’s structure should eqable the organization to succeed even in times of poor leadership.

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To increase GPSC's effectiveness and interaction with the administration, new President William LeFew plans to reorganize thecouncil into various branches. He said his leadership style is to use the “special characteristics” and “special abilities” of the people he works with to get each job done. “I’m definitely more of an administrator or a manager, rather than a flagwaver,” LeFew said. One of GPSC’s top priorities is increasing graduate and professional students’ interaction with the rest of the Duke community, and LeFew said he sees “a bunch of opportunities,” including the expansion of Central Campus and undergraduate mentoring.

With the new developments on Central Campus, graduate and professional students will have the opportunity to interact with undergraduate seniors, especially because they will live closer together than they do now. “They are very close in age groups and very close in aspirations,” LeFew said. LeFew plans to change GPSC’s website to include ways for students to provide feedback to the University administration and for representatives to communicate with their constituents. He also wants to incorporate the professional schools’ stu-

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in before picking up their tickets for the graduation weekend Baccalaureate Sendee in die Duke Chapel. “We get a pretty good response rate,” Lombardi said of the survey. “That information is very helpful to us.” For now, all she could say with certainty is that while many seniors have already made their plans for next year, there are also plenty who have not. “Every student’s job search is different,” Lombardi said. Even now, career advisors are still hearing about and informing students of positions opening up this summer. In some fields, Lombardi explained, recruiting takes place eight months in advance. Many industries, however, do not advertise job opportunities until much later, a practice she called “just-intime hiring.” Lombardi also reported a “growing trend” of students who choose to do oneor two-year programs—Teach for America or lab research, for example—before deciding on graduate school or more longterm career plans. Some seniors have also been putting off the job search until after classes end, when they hope they will have more time to devote to the process. Those seniors looking for work after graduation will still have access to the center’s resources. “We will see students throughout the

Most of theseniors visitingthe CareerCenter this week have come to fill out surveys for Baccalaureate tickets.

CAREER from page 1 an hour ahead of schedule after only a few people came to drop-in advising hours, which end after today’s 2to 5 p.m. session. From then on, advice will be available by appointment only. “They’re asking about getting help with their cover letters, resumes, internships,” said Terryl Mills, assistant director and career advisor for government, law, politics

and nonprofit. “They may have job negotiation questions. They may have choices to make about jobs.” Mills described a myriad of reasons both seniors and underclassmen seek out help this time of year. “It could be just about anything,” she said, Precise data on how many seniors are still hunting for jobs are hard to find. To collect numbers, the Career Center must rely on an exit survey seniors are strongly encouraged —but not required —to hand

summer if they need assistance or help,” Lombardi said, emphasizing that the Career Center will continue to aid alumni until they retire. Lombardi noted that the center is “typically not very crowded” over the summer, and appointments with advisors are easy to get. Phone appointments are also available for students who are no longer in Durham. During this busy time of year, however, visitors to the center are often just finalizing plans or paperwork. “I was dropping off a final reflection essay for the HCIP [Health Careers Internship Program],” said sophomore Sarah Stephens, who added that she had had little other contact with the Career Center. Seniors who have rarely visited the center over their four years at the University do not seem to be starting now. “I don’t know much about the Career Center,” said Laura de Marchena, a senior who will be attending graduate school next year. “I went by once to have them help me with my resume.” Although there are no hordes of panicked seniors pounding on the center’s door, Lombardi did have a few words ofadvice for those who are still worried. “I think that it’s important for them to work with a career counselor... [and] to leverage all their resources, and then to network,” she said.

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political science. ‘You don’t need many of them to be gone before you get down to the numbers we’re seeing.” Feaver will be on sabbatical for the entirety of next year to work for President George W. Bush’s administration. Albert Eldridge, Emerson Niou and Ole Holsti, also professors in the IR concentration, will be joining Feaver on sabbatical. Additionally, Professor Robert Keohane, a star of the University’s political science department, has left Duke permanently. After spending a year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, Calif., Keohane will become a professor ofinternationalrelations at Princeton University next year. “The shortage in professors happens every semester. It’s a sign that we have prominent faculty that work with both research and policy,” Munger said. He cited Niou, who will be working at a university in Hong Kong next year, and Feaver as examples of faculty whose experiences away from the University will benefit their students upon their return. In addition to the departure of professors, Munger also pointed to a spike in the number of students majoring in political science as a reason for competition for seats in IR classes.

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Duke also had great success in the 2004 Putnam, which is considered the most prestigious mathematics contest in the nation. A six-hour marathon set of 12 problems, the Putnam had 3,733 participants this year. Less than half of them received a single point out of a possible 120, said math professor David Kraines. Bliznashki, Nir and freshman Lingren Zhang comprised the University’s team, coming in third place, for which the math department will receive $15,000 from the AMA. Duke has won third place every year since 2000, when the University came in first place. MIT won the Putnam for the second year in a row. Princeton—coached by Melanie Wood ’O3, now a doctoral student there—came in second. Individually, Duke students also placed well. Freshmen Kshipra Bhawalkar and Tirasan Khandhawit placed among the top 100, and Levin and Zou came in the top 200. Mehta, juniorJason Shapiro and sophomore Morgan Brown all received commendation for their strong performances in the competition.

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“Our enrollments in poli sci have doubled since 1998,and we’ve had no increase in faculty. There’s just been a huge increase because of the war [in Iraq], impeachment, 9/11,” he said. “Hiring tenuretrack faculty is expensive, and it makes no sense for us to adjust for temporary interest by hiring tenure-track faculty.” To compensate for the shortage offaculty, the department has had to hire adjunct professors to teach higher-level classes. “Every year we end up hiring eight or 10 adjuncts like this.” Munger said. “They’re really going to help us cover the fact that we’ll be missing some good faculty.” Munger added that the department uses graduate students to teach classes only as a last resort.

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didn’t know their expectations,” Johnson said Many students echoed Johnson’s qualms, complaining about the lack of communication and seemingly arbitrary distribution of grades. “The graduate TAs graded our papers, and [the grading] was absolutely horrendous,” Greenleaf said. “[The undergraduate leader] was just as appalled at the grading as we were.” Wilson acknowledged this problem and said if the program continues he aims to change certain aspects of it. “If we redo it, what we would all do is work more closely together—there’s no question about that,” he said. He added he hopes to foster more interaction between the graders, discussion leaders and students. “There were definitely some bumps in the road in figuring out how to divide the responsibilities between the undergraduates and the graduates,” senior Scott Lemmon said, but he added that his overall experience as a discussion section leader was a success. “I thought it was a great way to get experience for an undergraduate student in the social sciences department, because most social science and humanities courses don’t have undergraduate students in any capacity like that.” The discussion leaders were chosen from a pool of Wilson’s former students who had performed well in the class. He was pleased with the results and said they did an “absolutely outstanding job” heading the discussion groups. Despite the effort required, the leaders also enjoyed the experience, saying that working with their peers fostered a laidback but productive atmosphere. “I feel like students are comfortable interacting with undergraduates during a discussion, and therefore I think I had an exceptional experience working with the students I did,” senior Aneil Lala said. The experiment was not implemented on a department-wide scale. It was devised solely for Wilson’s large course. Next semester, Wilson will teach the class as a seminar while evaluations are looked over to determine the future of the project. Though Wilson deemed undergraduate-led discussion sections successful, the role of graduate students still remains a problem to be solved. “Are the undergraduate TAs very knowledgeable and qualified? Yeah. Could they be grading? Possibly. But if you’re going to be separating like that, it’s not a good thing to do,” freshman lan Long said.

just too much trouble, and I always forget,” Arnold said. For those who want faster results, tanning booths may hasten the process, but they also pose heightened health risks. “When people are frequenting tanning salons, they’re getting a lot ofUVA and purposely injuring their skin to get that bronze appearance,” Kaplan said. One of his young patients, upon her diagnosis with melanoma, said she had no plans to change her behavior. “Her question was how this might interfere with her visits to the tanning booth,” he said. Nevertheless, not all students are fans of the tanning booth. “If you’re too lazy to tan outside, then I don’t

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think you deserve a tan at all,” Hu said. Hu also mentioned that the social pressures associated with being tan can be difficult to ignore. “It’s always tall, dark and handsome,” he said. The popularity of tanning may not only reflect the concern Duke students place on physical appearance but also fuel another general trend. “When they’re getting themselves tanned to try to improve their appearance, the cumulative effects of exposure to ultraviolet rays over time are such that you age prematurely,” Kaplan said. “Those are the folks that will end up coming in for cosmetic procedures later on in life.” Still, these measures cannot fully reverse the effects of aging. Despite treatments such as chemical peels, botox and laser therapy, the damage has already been done.

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games fail to excite Please believe me when I say I tried really hard. I really did. I just can’t do it. I just can’t watch the NBA playoffs without falling asleep. Frankly, I find that my hourlong Freecell marathons provide more thrills than the NBA. I’m sure that the playoffs will excite the handful of you who religiously follow a team, but for the casual observer, watching the NBA is more painful than being dead last in The Chronicle Fantasy Baseball League. |, A sport has to provide of four things if it wants to pique my interest for more than five minutes. 1. Mind games. These can take place between teams, like in football, or between individuals, like a batter versus a pitcher. Both kinds of intellectual battles encourage the viewer to anticipate what comes next, thereby keeping him involved in the game. The NBA is not a very complicated game. Sure there are set plays and strategies involved, but in the end, execution is a much more important factor than genius, and most of the time, the real chess match doesn’t begin until the very end. Very rarely do you find yourself watching a basketball game in the second quarter thinking, “If George Karl was really smart he would set up a double-backdoor cut for Carmelo Anthony and have him take the baseline

jumper.” 2. Violence, violence, violence.

Unfortunately, Ron Artest can’t play in every single NBA game. Although plenty of bodies get jostled, bumped and knocked down over the course of 48 minutes, it just seems as if all this contact lacks the malicious intent a good hockey or football hit provides. 3. Rivalries. The NBA used to have great rivalries—Celtics vs. Lakers, Pistons vs. Everybody, Michael Jordan vs. the Knicks, Reggie Miller vs. the Knicks, Jeff Van SEE NBA ON PAGE 19

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After the best regular season in team history, Duke begins the postseason this weekend at the ACC Championships in Baltimore, Md. The Blue Devils (13-1, 3-0 in the ACC) are the tournament’s top seed and will face North Carolina (5-8, 0-3 in the ACC) Friday night at 6 p.m. Duke is looking for its first ACC Championship since winning back-to-back titles in 2001 and 2002. The Blue Devils face a rejuvenated North Carolina team, which won its last three games. Duke won their last meeting 1210 in Chapel Hill-March 19. “Of course we expect a great game,” Duke freshman Zack Greer said. “They are rivals from a few miles away.” In UNC, Duke will play a team many predicted would make the Final Four in preseason polls. UNC lurched to a 2-7 start thanks to the hardest schedule in Division I but enters the weekend play-

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ing the best lacrosse of its season. The Tar Heels must win Friday and Sunday in order to be mathematically eligible for the NCAA Tournament. “We know they are in a desperate situation,” head coach Mike Pressler said. “We were

there a year ago.” With its only loss in 2005 coming in double overtime to No. 1 Johns Hopkins, Duke is the hottest it has ever been in Pressler’s 15-year career in Durham. In their last two games the Blue Devils beat No. 3 Virginia and No. 7 Army by a combined 36-11 margin. They have occupied the No. 2 spot in the USILA poll since March 21. Those accomplishments have all but erased the stain left by the team’s disappointing 2004 record of 5-8. Wins in the ACC and NCAA tournaments would complete the set of lofty goals the team set forth at the beginning of the season, Pressler said. The first was winning the ACC regular-season title, which Duke secured with its blowout win over Virginia April 16. This weekend will mark the first time the tournament will be played in Baltimore, lacrosse’s traditional hotbed. SEE M. LAX ON PAGE 19

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Duke basketball fans got the news they wanted Monday. One month after the Blue Devils’ Sweet 16 loss to Michigan State March 25, Shelden Williams indicated dial he would not enter his name in the June 28 NBA draft and would return to Durham for his senior year. “The biggest thing for me is that I have unfinished business here on the college scene,” Williams said at a press conference Tuesday. “I want to take care of that before I move on to the next level.” In his junior season, Williams set the Duke single-season record for blocked shots with 122, was selected for the All-ACC and third-team All-American squads, was named the ACC Defensive Player of the Year and earned NABC National Defensive Player of the Year honors. Williams, a probable first-round pick had he entered the draft, said he is returning for one more season in large part to add “NCAA Champion” to his resume. Williams will be returning to a team that will boast three more McDonald’s All-Americans: Josh Mcßoberts, Greg Paulus and Eric Boateng; and senior Daniel Ewing will be the SEE WILLIAMS ON PAGE 21

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Shelden Williams will return to Duke for his senior season and try to help the Blue Devils earn their fourth NCAA title.

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NCAA to consider expanded schedule the change would place on student-athletes. The proposal comes at a time when many colCollege football could be sayto the week. lege presidents are opposing a ing goodbye bye The NCAA Division I Board of playoff system in college footbalj Directors will meet at its annual because of the additional academic burdens it could incur. conference in Indianapolis ThursThe Knight Commission, a day to discuss and decide on a number of proposals that will privately-funded group that promotes reform in college sports, have an immediate effect on college athletics. Although the board sent a memo to the NCAA last week urging the Board of Direcwill debate several policies affecting non-revenue sports, most de- tors to oppose the 12th-game bate entering the meeting has proposal. The commission cited centered on adding a 12th reguacademic concerns as the main lar-season game in football. reason for opposing the proposition and encouraged the Board Despite the ACC’s lone disto wait until the impact of the senting vote, the Division I ManNCAA’s recent academic reagement Council passed the proposal allowing schools to play 12 forms is evaluated. “The 12-game schedule elimigames at its April 11 meeting. “I think it provides an option nates a period toward the middle for those schools and conferences of the season where student aththat choose to have the extra letes can catch up both physically and academically,” said R. Gergame, but at the same time it doesTurner, n’t require anyone to do so,” said ald president of board member Dr. Sidney Southern Methodist University McPhee of the change, which and co-vice chair of the Knight would begin in 2006. “If you look Commission. “With the new acaat the football season with the basdemic standards, which are defiketball or soccer seasons, it is not a nitely tougher, and this being very long season in comparison, so the first class to come in under I don’t think it keeps our athletes them, we ought to see how the out of the classroom for too long.” students do before we allow for Currently, schools can only this kind of schedule.” Another proposal, which would schedule 12 football games if 14 Saturdays fall between the NCAA’s require an average of 15,000 fans opening and ending dates for the at home football games for Diviregular season—a scenario that sion I-A membership, is also exoccurred in 2002 and 2003 but will pected to be debated hotly at the not happen again until 2008. meetings. McPhee said there are Duke elected to play 12 games in other ways to judge public support both 2002 and 2003. besides actual attendance and that Although the Management the board is likely to adopt an alterCouncil passed the legislation by native policy. His school, Middle Tennessee State University, avera wide margin, the ACC representatives and some coaches around aged just over 13,000 fans last year, the country have questioned both the physical and academic strain SEE NCAA ON PAGE 22 by

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Freshman Caroline Cryer has scored 16 goals for theBlue Devils, who enter this weekend's ACC Championship as the top seed.

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Head coach Kerstin Kimel threw on a practice jersey, put in a mouthpiece and assumed a defensive stance. In her only rep, she stole the ball from sophomore Kristen Waagbo, drawing cheers from the onlooking freshmen during Tuesday’s

practice. Although captain Stefanie Sparks said the play lightened the mood at practice the week before the ACC Championship, Kimel had a greater motive.

“I came to practice today kind of prepared to help,” Kimel said. “I feel like some of the stuff our defense has struggled with are things as a coach you can get in there and help facilitate some of the communication and directiveness.” Winners of seven of their last eight ACC tournaments, the No. 3 Blue Devils (12-3, 3-1 in the ACC) head to Baltimore, Md., this weekend as the top seed for the second year in a row. Last year they lost 17-7 in the finals to Virginia, which eventually won

the NCAA Championship. “WeTe looking to make history,” Sparks said. “We’ve never won the ACCs before, and I think we have a better chance this year than any other year.” Duke will face the winner of Thursday’s play-in game between North Carolina (12-4, 22) and Virginia Tech (5-9, 0-4) Friday at 3:30 p.m. Both the men’s and women’s tournaments will be held at M & T Bank Stadium, the home of the SEE W. LAX ON PAGE 20

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After eking out a 9-8 victory against Davidson April 20 in Durham, the baseball team may have a chance to win its first road game of the season tonight in Davidson, N.C. The Blue Devils will then take on conference newcomer and bottom-dweller Virginia Tech in a three-game series at Jack Coombs Field this weekend. On the mound, Duke (12-30, 3-18 in the ACC) will likely employ a pitcher-bycommittee strategy against its in-state rival as it did in the teams’ previous meeting this season. During that game, eight Blue Devils took the mound, none of whom pitched more than two full innings. “We need to show Davidson a new arm every inning or two,” pitcher Sean O’Brien said. “They’re probably only going to see the pitcher one time, and so they can’t get used to him.” Duke had one of its more impressive offensive games against the Wildcats, recording 16 hits. Even though Davidson tied the game in the eighth inning, Bryan Smith’s ninth-inning single knocked in the winning run. “Another team effort is again whatwe’re looking for,” junior Adam Murray said of today’s game. “It’s important to have good at bats and try to get the bats swinging again to keep us in the ballgame.” Davidson’s pitching staff has been far from stellar this season, as none of its pitchers has an ERA lower than 4.08. That is not to say that Duke’s throwers are posting figures much better. Ryan Sember, who has pitched just 18 innings, is the only Blue Devil pitcher with an ERA below 5.0.

This weekend the Blue Devils will take on the Hokies (15-18, 2-12), who have also struggled in the ACC this year. Currendy sitting in last place, just a game behind Duke, Virginia Tech has taken one game each from Maryland and N.C. State. The upcoming conference series, therefore, may determine the 11th and final seed for the ACC Championship. “We don’t want to finish last in the conference,” Murray said. “Nobody does, and nobody thought the season was going to turn out as it has. So getting a couple victories here would really help us out.” At the plate, the Blue Devils most recently ran into trouble against No. 7 North Carolina, which boasts one of the strongest pitching staffs in the country, Murray said. Quieted by the Tar Heels, Duke has seen the team batting average drop to .267. Freshman Brett Bartles, who continues to lead the team with 29 RBIs, went a mere 1for-11 last weekend. “It’s definitely going to be important for us to play better than we did this weekend,” Murray said. “We ran into a really good North Carolina team—they’re like in the top three in the country in pitching.” Against Virginia Tech, a team with a comparable record, the Blue Devils seem to have more confidence. “Virginia Tech is a team that I think we can play well against,” Murray said. “It’s going to be important trying to compete against the team right behind us in the standings.” With three more conference series after this weekend’s, the regular season is far from over for the Blue Devils. This weekend, however, will likely be decisive for Duke.

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was Mourning much, much more for the Heat, who took a 2-0 lead in their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with the New Jersey Nets. Mourning, who wanted out ofNew Jersey earlier this season because he didn’t consider the Nets a championship contender, scored 21 points and grabbed nine rebounds in 16 minutes —helping the Heat to a 104-87 win. “It’s important that each and every one of us stay ready,” said Mourning, whose high in 19 games in his late-season return to the Heat was only 11 points. “And when an opportunity like this presents itself, you’ve got to take advantage.” Dwyane Wade had 17 points and 10 assists for Miami. O’Neal, Eddie Jones and Damon Jones each finished with 14 points for the Heat, which moved to 38-5 at home this season. “The Hulk carried Superman today,” O’Neal said. NenadKrstic had 27 points for New Jersey, which got 21 points from Vince Carter, 14 from Richard Jefferson and 10 from Jason Kidd. “We’re still confident. We’re still focused,” Carter said. “And we still believe we can make this a contest.” The series shifts Thursday to New Jer-

Detroit takes 2-0 series lead

Center Alonzo Mourning scored a season-high 21 points in Miami's 104-87 victory over his former team. sey, where the Nets have won 10 of their last 13 playoff games. “They held serve,” Nets head coach Lawrence Frank said. “Now we’ve got to go back to Jersey and respond.” Once again, the Nets found away to hold O’Neal in check. And regardless it

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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. Rasheed Wallace untucked his jersey and flailed his arms at the officials, picking up the 228th technical foul of his notorious career. Then, as he INDIANA often has this DETROIT 99 season, he took over the game. Wallace scored 11 of his 15 points in the third quarter to lift the Detroit Pistons to a 99-84 victory over Philadelphia on Tuesday, and a 2-0 lead in their firstround series. “That definitely amps him up. He lives for that,” teammate Chauncey Billups said. “He doesn’t try to get those technicals on purpose, but it’s kind of funny that when he gets them, he gets a little more energy and a little more motivation. “We don’t like when he gets those technicals, but we like what happens afterward.” Allen Iverson scored 19 points on 7-of-24 shooting and Chris Webber had 15 for the 76ers, but their scoring wasn’t enough to keep the game close against the defending NBA champions. Trailing by 20 midway through the fourth quarter, Philadelphia coach Jim SEE PISTONS ON PAGE 24

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Pressler said attendance will likely hit 10,000fans for Friday’s game at the M&T Bank Stadium, where the Baltimore Ravens play. “I don’t think the crowd will have that much of an effect on us,” said Greer, whose 43 goals rank first on the team. “It’s not going to affect how we play and hopefully we can take home a couple wins.” When the Blue Devils traveled to Baltimore earlier this year for their contest against the Blue Jays, there were 7,136 people in attendance. Nearly 50,000 fans came to the Ravens’ stadium to watch last year’s NCAA Final Four. Although a crowd that large is not expected for Sunday’s 3:30 p.m. championship game, the women’s tournament will also be played at the M&T Bank Stadium, making for a great

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Obviously I’m a little nostalgic for the glory days of New York, but stay with me here. The only true rivalry left in the NBA is Shaq vs. Kobe, and that only

comes twice a year. College sports has the nation’s greatest rivalries—not because the teams hate each other, but because the fans hate each other. Whether it’s Ohio State playing Michigan, Texas playing Oklahoma, Harvard playing Yale or Anchorage Tech playing Juneau A&M, I’m watching. Why? Because I know how good it feels to have Chris Duhon dribble the length of the court, sink a reverse layup and make your rival look silly on national television.

4. A Dynasty. Dynasties are good for sports because America loves to see champions fail. Anyone who has ever rooted against the Yan-

atmosphere. Friday’s other semifinal between Virginia (9-2, 2-1) and Maryland (6-5, 1-2) will begin at 8:30 p.m. Virginia won the two teams’ previous meeting April 2,10-2.

kees, Lakers, Bulls, Michael Schumacher, or Duke knows how good it feels to see the almighty get taken off its throne. Who wasn’t rooting against Illinois when it went on its unbeaten streak this season? Did you see the way those Ohio State kids went crazy after they beat

In last year’s tournament, the Blue Devils lost 10-7 to Maryland in the semifinals and did not receive an NCAA Tournament bid.

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Players like formerBlue Devil ChrisDuhon feed team rivalries that are shared by fans. them? That’s because THEY were the ones who had finally stuck it to The Man. So what about the NBA’s tremendous feats of individual athletic prowess, you might ask? Isn’t that enough to merit your attention? I don’t think so. Competitive tree climbers perform tremendous feats, that

doesn’t mean I’m going to watch them. Plus I can count on SportsCenter to give me a tidy 60-minute program that is chockfull of these accomplishments. Until the NBA can offer me a more compelling product, I won’t be watching. Unless, that is, the Knicks get better. But that might take a while.

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tival-like atmosphere. “It’s great that they have it in such a venue for the sport,” Sparks said. “I feel like it’s going to be packed. I think it’s really exciting that we get to see the guys’ team too; it adds a little bit of school spir-

it. But I think being in that hot-bed area is the most exciting.” Duke has excelled on the road this year. Only one of its three losses has come at an opponent’s field, and that was against topranked Northwestern. “We’ve thrived under those circumstances,” goalie Megan Huether said. “We played at Maryland in front of a huge crowd, and I think we showed everyone up there what Duke lacrosse is all about.” The Blue Devils are entering this year’s tournament with a much different mindset from a year ago. Maryland and Virginia had traditionally dominated the ACC, and so when Duke advanced to the championship game it was satisfied. But by earning the No. 1 seed for the second consecutive year, the Blue Devils have their sights on taking home the trophy this time. The task will not be easy, however, considering that all but the

Hokies are among the top nine teams in the nation. “It’s a whole weekend,” Kimel said. “It’s two games—it’s a grind, but it’s nothing different than what we’ve already seen this season because of the schedule that we play. So I think that we’re really well prepared to play two really tough games in three days.” If the Tar Heels advance past Virginia Tech Thursday, Duke will have a chance to avenge its only ACC loss this year, a 12-11 defeat March 12. The Blue Devils beat the Hokies 20-7 Friday. Huether said North Carolina’s offensive transition took advantage of some Blue Devil breakdowns in the first meeting, but-she said Duke can prevent that if it slows down the tempo early in the game. With the high level of competition in the ACC Championship this weekend, the Blue Devils recognize that there are NCAA seeding implications at stake and that the tournament can help prepare them for their ultimate goal—winning a national title. “It’s nice that you have a tournament warmup,” Sparks said. “It’s the whole mentality of You win, you stay in. You lose, you’re out.’ It’s a great practice for NCAAs.” Sunday’s championship game will begin at 1 p.m. and the men’s final will follow at 3:30.

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Krzyzewski and his parents. Williams said the decision was very challenging for him personally, but that Krzyzewski and his parents gave him their blessings regardless of his ultimate choice to return to Duke for his senior year or enter the NBA draft.

“I kind of toggled with it back and forth for the past few weeks. I was 50-50, weighing the pros and cons between going and staying,” he said. “It came down to late Sunday night where I was like, ‘I really want to come back and finish what I started.’” Williams, will combine with five other seniors to form one of the most experienced teams in the country. He said he, JJ. Redick, Sean Dockery, Randolph, Lee Melchionni and Patrick Johnson have formed a very tight relationship doing their years playing together and that his bond with his teammates also influenced his decision to return for one last go-around. DAN RYAN/THE CHRONICLE “Hopefully we do well in the league, then go on from there and try to win a national championship,” Williams Junior Shelden Williams averaged 15.5 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3.7 said. “We have the chance to do something really special.” blocks per game last season. The latter two were Duke team highs.

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BCS conferences last year, it does not have to fear losing its I-A status even if the measure passes. The Board of Directors will also discuss two scholarship proposals passed by the Management Council. In the first, women’s volleyball, gymnastics, track and field and soccer teams will be allowed increased scholarships because of a growth in the number of participants. The other would end the current practice of counting academic or needbased scholarships against a program’s scholarship limit. The Management Council opposed two proposals that would increase basketball coaches’ access to recruits, but the Board of Directors can still overrule the council and implement these measures Thursday.

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The lawns need love undergraduates will trash our peers at schools in the Northeast the grass on the Main West are still in winter coats. The University Quadrangle as they celebrate should encourage students to be outthe Last Day of Classes. But it won't side and active, especially in informal matter, because the grass is already in ways like playing pick-up games on the quad. Games of whifpretty sorry shape. StattedltOrial fie ball, soccer, footBut the administraball and Frisbee tion can't blame the damage on students. The culprits: should be a much more common sight on West Campus than they are now. tents, and the administration itself. The University put down sod on Tents for Alumni Weekend start to go up two full weeks in advance, so it the Krzyzewskiville quads in the fall, is no surprise that when they come but it has not paid similar attention to the Main West quads. True, the Kdown there are large, perfectly geoville grass takes more abuse than the metric rectangles of dead grass turning our quads into a patchwork of rest of campus, but given the attengreen and yellow. Alumni do not see tion the central quads draw and the what the tents are doing to the grass, number of students who use them, but after they leave, we are faced with keeping the grass green should not be an afterthought. an unsightly mess. Whether it is seeding the grass Maintaining the grass, especially on the West Campus quads, should more frequendy or putting down sod, be a much higher priority for the Duke should take better care of its University than it is right now. The quads, especially when it is regularly Main Quad is one of the first views putting up tents that damage the of campus visitors see, and right now grass. If the tents are a permanent fixwe do not make a particularly good ture of Alumni Weekend—and it seems they are—then repairing the impression. grass should be factored into the Furthermore, the quads in general and the main quad in particular Alumni Weekend budget. At the University of North Caroliare the best central gathering space s available to the Duke community. na at Chapel Hill, the grass is in much When they are not pretty, students better condition than it is here. Alhave less incentive to grab a spot on though “the grass is always greener the quad to read or chat with friends. on the other side,” perhaps UNC unChance encounters are less likely derstands better than Duke the imwhen fewer people are spending portance keeping quads healthy plays time outside. Better outdoor space in building community, facilitating and green, healthy grass can actually chance interactions and impressing visitors. Maintaining the grass should facilitate community. We all appreciate the temperate be a major grounds priority for the North Carolina climate and the fact University so that we can foster pride that we can spend time outside when in our quads and our campus.

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Sustaining idealism Every generation needs a legacy. A verse to ability to do anything, lives are lost and real human suffering is the ultimate outcome. contribute to human history. Sustainable idealism has to be our legacy. The World War II generation probably had the century’s most clear-cut legacy. Theirs was a And it could be a truly great one. Take service learning. When I arrived at time ofintense poverty followed by intense naDuke, I was its biggest skeptic. My first objectional exertion, when inspiring national leadtion was that it detracts from valuable class ers rose effortlessly to the forefront of Ameriand when evil had time. Given that an abysmally can politics low number of students emerge a name and a face. from Duke having read the semBut in a time when evil has and search within inal texts of Western thought, I no face, we found it difficult to justifyspendourselves for its source, clearing class time discussing tutorcut legacies are harder to come by. Our parents’ genering experiences. My second obation perhaps best demonjection was that I didn’t see it making much of a difference in strates this point. The counthasvold Durham. The students who are er-culture movement was a sensor column passionate enough to impact shining star in our century, the community will do so anybut why did it fade so quickly? Maybe it was because there was no Hider. In way, so why make it an academic issue? But I missed the underlying point. Service the 1960s flying in the face of evil pitted crusaders against their own government, friends, learning teaches all students that they are family and selves. It was an all-or-nothing game, being educated for a reason. We learn from and for the contingent that wasn’t willing to a collective body of knowledge so grand, surrender house and home there was no going humbling and immense that it requires a half-way. So after the decade of protests most of community of thinkers to produce; to absorb them buckled down, went to professional that knowledge and not understand what it school and became moderate Democrats (or, means to be part of a community is an inherent contradiction. gasp, even Republicans). Our generation is in a similar situation. To We desperately need civic-minded gradube true idealists we end up crucifying ourselves. ates, no matter what their field. InstitutionalizOur patterns of consumption, our academic ing idealism through service learning and priorities and even our conduct in personal re- other mechanisms trains us to think of ways in lationships.... If the source of the problem is which we can contribute to and enhance our truly in all of us, how do we fight it? Do we try community, be it local or global, in whatever to completely renounce all the norms to which niche we find ourselves. I attended Duke on a scholarship endowed we’ve been socialized? Or do we recognize the futility of such an effort and accept the fact that by a man who made his fortune in investment and saw a need for more community service we have been lucky enough to be bom into reland cross-cultural understanding. You don’t ative privilege and conclude that there’s nothhave to join the Peace Corps to be an idealist. ing we can do about it? Do we forget ourselves, or retract wholly It’s possible that you may do more to change the world if you stay out of the non-profit secinto ourselves? This is a false dichotomy. To be sure, some tor altogether. You don’t have to be a Republipeople will devote every atom of their being to can, and you don’t have to be a Democrat. The fighting injustice and inequality, and these peo- problems our world is facing have a claim on ple are heroes. But this population is so small everyone’s morality, regardless of profession or that we have to allowfor other options. Most of political party. us need balance. We want to save the world Change the world in whatever way you can. But find away, even if it seems inconsequential. from 9 to 5 and go home to caring communities to which we have developed strong ties. We Sustainable idealism might be an unromantic want to be able to provide adequately for our legacy, but this is an issue in which outcome families. We want a sense of security. outweighs style. The crux is that we throw in the towel on idealism the moment we think we’ve “comproJen Hasuold is a Trinity senior andformer City & mised.” While we waste time feeling overStateEditorfor The Chronicle. She would like to thank whelmed by the world’s problems and our in- Julian and josieRobertson for theirgenerous support. *

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er, Jay Williams, Mike Dunleavy, Carlos Boozer, Lute Olson, That’s how many places The Chronicle sent me to write a Gary Williams, Roy Williams, Alana Beard, Iciss Tillis, Gale measly 750 words or so about sporting events that most of you Goestenkors, Dick Vitale, Andy Katz, Bobby Bowden, Ted saw on television or read about first from another source. Roof, Nan Keohane and Richard Brodhead, and probably a Those trips were the only monetary compensation I ever rehalf dozen other notables that have currendy slipped my years ago last Wednesday my friends and I sat in a Litceived from The Chronicle for my efforts, which included a 40- mind. Seeing how these dominant personalities manipulate deton, Colo., Taco Bell eating Chalupas. Sometime behours-a-week position as Sports Managing Editor as a junior others, for better or worse, to shape their world to their vision tween Chalupa tres and Chalupa cuatro, a woman burst and pretty sizable fractions of that time commitment as an asis something I doubt I could have experienced any where else into the restaurant. “There’s been a bombing at sociate editor my sophomore year and Features Editor this year. as an undergraduate. Columbine,” she said. Contrary to what many of you think, The I also saw some unbelievable things in my We giggled. Who was this schizophrenic soccer mom? A Chronicle does not pay its writers and editravels as a sports reporter. My flight to the /mute-bourgeois, Abercrombie-loving high school in the subtors anything for anything. All The Chroni2003 men’s NCAA Tournament in Salt Lake urbs, Columbine would be the last place anything like that cle does for its editors is lower most of their City, Utah, took off almost simultaneously could ever happen. Then we saw a police car pass. And anGPAs by at least half a point, require their with the beginning of the “shock-and-awe” other. Five more. The SWAT team. girlfriends to stay up until 2 a.m. just to say campaign that started the war in Iraq. After After the tragedy—which claimed 15 lives—Representahello, create sleep deprivation problems the anxiety of the flight, I arrived in Utah to tive Tom DeLay of Texas read a letter expressing his opinand force a dependence on caffeine that see war protesters. Within minutes, however, ion about the cause of the attack: cannot be healthy. obese man with the sign “NUKE IRAQ” in an It couldn’t have been because our school systems teach the chilsamuel Robert But I don’t regret a minute I spent in 301 his hand had far more supporters around dren that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized Flowers drawing the pages of the sports secsenior column him. After observing that, the results of the out of some primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution as fact tion or the hours consumed at press confer2004 election weren’t so surprising. and by handing out condoms as ifthey were candy. It couldn’t have ences at theYoh Football Center. There’s just a difference beIn addition to the time commitment, The Chronicle can been because we teach our children that there are no laws ofmoraltween those who decided to devote their lives to put out a force other compromises. Editors are not supposed to involve ity that transcend us, that everything is relative and that actions daily newspaper and those that decided to focus more on acthemselves in political groups or show any opinion in writing. don't have consequences. ademics and other activities. I’ve learned more from my expeBut one can easily get around this, as this year I served as the What the heck, -the president rience as an editor for this newspaper than I ever could have secretary of the Duke Conservative Union, lashed out at John gets away with it. Nah, it must from any classroom. Kerry at “One Sweet Vote’s” debate between College Republihave been the guns. Being a student journalist forces you to engage with issues cans and Duke Democrats, and participated in a controversial Here we’re taught exyou know nothing about, and then share what you’ve learned humor column published on Mondays in this newspaper. actly these things about to an audience of 60,000 or more by the next day. There’s also All in all, The Chronicle defined my experience at Duke. human origins. And—no camaraderie at The Chronicle that can be seen in few other Though working for the paper literally almost killed me —I matter how much conserplaces at Duke, aside from some of the closer athletic teams. was almost kidnapped by cab drivers on a trip to Purdue Univatives may try to deny matt gillum I’m not close friends with anyone at the paper, but there is a versity (see my Nov. 19, 2003 column) —I am happy I stuck it—they are probably veritas special bond between Chronicle staffers that few could under- around through all the adverse moments and I am proud of true. Good evidence su stand. Dealing with the pressure to put out a quality paper the more than 200 times my byline made it in these pages. gests that humans really everyday at a reasonable time, dealing with the constantback- The Chronicle was not perfect to me and I was not perfect to did evolve from self-replicating molecules and occupy lash to the editorials, and on top of that dealing with the rigit, but in the end I don’t how I would have wasted all my time no more privileged a place in the Universe than a dolors of Duke academics creates a sense of understanding and ifI did not have The Chronicle to go to. phin or a lemur. togetherness that I doubt I will find again in the workplace. But the vast majority of Americans—and Duke stuRobert Samuel is a Trinity senior and a former Sports Managing dents—resist this well-supported conclusion. How funny, Interacting with the fame and ego ofothers was also an invaluable experience. At The Chronicle I have interviewed or EditorandFeatures Editorfor The Chronicle. He is also the former Deand scary, is it to see a friend of mine write a piece in The conversed with Leßron James, Mike Krzyzewski, Shane Battipartments Editorfor Towerview Magazine. Chronicle affirming the “Truth” of Christianity when much jgnjsdo oj 3ioffi ub 'f£m aoy if =)ldi<£oq of the Bible—like other ancient religious texts—is so rife with factual errors that, taken with marijuana and gin, made for ceaseless entertainment in Catholic school. He is a person of intelligence, drive and integrity who will someday asan inaccurate portrait. We are entirely capable of engaging in cend to a position of political power and pound nails into of the most pervasive cliches regarding this instituthe palms of scientific progress. tion is the “work hard, play hard” stereotype. This stimulating conversations with our professors and our peers; Unfortunately, we can’t go anywhere as a society—except phrase has attracted many high school seniors to Duke many of us simply choose not to actively pursue these experiby dumb luck—if our beliefs about the world are wrong. who desire a balance between academicsand leisurely pursuits ences. The lack of our ability to embrace intellectualism rein college. Although the theory behind this idea has merit, it flects a greater problem endemic in the student body—we This, maybe more than anything else, is what is holding us lack the ability to recognize our self-worth. On the surface, this back. How can we improve our global community—or even seems to be but a pipe dream, difficult to implement accordthe Duke community—if our understanding of that coming to its spirit. Whether or not we were intellectual prior to link seems tenuous; however, this characteristic drives how we to ourselves and our values others. the comand its historical roots is irredeemably whacked? Despite munity cultivate our present college, we applied to Duke with the aspiration to In science, it is uncon troversial to think ofhuman behavmonality inherent in our motivation to attend Duke, we forget intellect. Somewhere between deciding to matriculate and atthe importance of intellectualism in our matiors as evolved products of a process designed to maximize tending freshman orientation, we make the deciRather, uration our conscious process. gene replication and transmission to the next generation, to decision, consciously or unconsciously, reto conceal our intellectual potential sion it much easier—than it is for a Christian—to exmaking We to reinvent ourour seem priorities. align leads us to cast a role for ourselves. By relinplain things like jealousy, aggression, competitiveness, male selves, projecting ourselves as fun-loving stuquishing our love for learning, we implicitly nipples and that despicable yet certain pleasure you feel dents first and intellectual students second, surrender our motivation for attending this when your friends fail. rather than valuing these two aspects of our Somehow, though, you—elite members of the next geninstitution. Furthermore, by imputing the stacollegiate career equally. This is in response to tus to the of purpose of a ateration of politicians—make it through hundreds of public administrastepping-stone the image of the Duke student the tending university, such a conception thus policy memos without necessarily getting a sense of this. tion promotes to us—although the University malavika prabhu subverts its intellectual mission. And this is the reason I have applied my low abilities as a values intellectualism, it mistakenly believes the which we desire Ultimately, degree to writer in The Chronicle for so long: to emphasize this realcolumn that we have already internalized this princisenior intellectual stimulation is a deciistic view oflife. Properly understood, it couldn’t be farther personal the intellectuand thus fails to pie emphasize sion, but this desire, whether dormant or acremoved from the nihilistic atheism of the Columbine al component at this institution; furthermore, shooters. With each passing day, neuroscience further clariit fails to demonstrate how to synthesize working hard with tive, exists in the core of each Duke student. It is the path of hard, least resistance into the notion that “work fies the requirements and behaviors necessary for the greatplay buy to do view intellectualism as a Thus, hard. neither we playing daily part of the Duke experience, nor do we see in practice hard,” in its intended spirit, cannot be accomplished. Over est possible human happiness and cooperation. All of our values, whose attainment gives us pleasure and what “work hard, play hard” implicitly embodies—the love for the past four years, my interactions with my peers and profesand unrevealed that active desire for allows us to thrive, evolved byway of natural selection and knowledge sors have an the hard and hard. Without understanding working playing passion with which we need to embrace both of these ideals, derstanding can be sustained, thus belying the above portrait are therefore discoverable through research. The most essential moral law evolved independently in Greece, China we find it difficult to adopt these values simultaneously; thus, as the only Duke experience possible. Yet too great a burden to pursue alone what is inherently the student and Israel. It is the Golden Rule, to treat others as you youris on placed ideals. shift reflect the we our priorities to prevailing foster. Until the selfwould like to be treated. The cultural project of our and University recogthe mission to University’s Although the institution itself seems not to recognize, or motto of the of the future will be to extend this transcendent moral nizes the misinterpretation generations of repercussions intervene against, the self-perpetuating interpretation principle to include all humans. “work hard, play hard,” my criticism is not wholly targeted at and rebalances our love for working hard and playing hard, as a student body, we will continue to hide our intellectual poEither way, we have about 2.2 billion heart beats to go the University. Duke does offer the opportunity for intellectuthus its until death do us and this life part. Depending on our diet stunting tential, growth. but, al development for those students who uphold this value, and of course, but this is about right. Each of us has genes, of our eduthe the responsibility University places ultimately, Health Science Malavika Prabhu is a seniorand the Trinity capacity to leave the world better, or worse. In calling former cation in our hands. While this rationale may be sound, the Chronicle. these and bethis column Veritas, I tried to express a commitment to In spite perhaps realizations, Editor The for of burden it places on students has unintended consequences, a them, truth, the have been as rewhich is all that is worth a damn in the end. Things fulfilling years incredibly cause past Defour the allows to of propagate. University given the environment and herfriendships. In particular, she may not be pretty, and beauty may not be truth, but for all sult her intellectual experiences and accomplished, wish be considered of our to intelligent spite the trouble, the world is still out there. And, by God, is it would like to thank JCF, CLK, HA], SAI, ELN, MLC, for being true few of us embrace the connotation that intellectual achieveher love for ever funny. and lifelong encouraging friends; hopefully EJT, for ment would cast upon us. Instead, we strive to exhibit confriends learning CAY, AJG, KSR, MVB, for The Chronicle; and MET, for formity of thought. Matt Gillum is a Trinity senior. her best friend. being to To characterize Duke as anti-intellectual would be paint

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