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Duke University Medical Center officials announced June 3 that a May 26 security breach allowed an intruder to ac5,500 users’ cess approximately passwords and nearly 9,000 fragments of Social Security numbers belonging to medical school alumni, medical center staff, faculty and trainees. Officials with the Medical Center’s information technology department said there is no threat of identity theft.

Once officials discovered the breakin, they shut down' the websites in order to prevent any further loss of data and reset the passwords the hacker found so that the codes could no longer be used to access information. DUMC administrators notified users of the intrusion June 3 and advised them to change their passwords if they were using them for other websites.

“There is no reason to suspect malicious activity with the information taken,” said Asif Ahmad, vice president and chief information officer for Duke University Health System. “The nature of the information compromised was partial—parts of Social Security numbers, no addresses, no usernames.”

All password-protected information is safe from being stolen, Ahmad said.

Though officials estimated there was a 12-hour timespan between the break-in and their knowledge of it, Ahmad said the intruder would have needed more time to gain additional SEE SECURITY ON PAGE 7

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As part of a new DUPD policy, officers must fill out contact formsfor the individuals they stop or question.

DUPD implements new contact by

reporting policy

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The Duke University Police Departhas adopted a policy earlier this month requiring all officers to fill out a “Contact Report” form that provides biographical information—but not the names—of people they stop or question while on patrol.

The policy aims to determine if DUPD officers target people in a biased pattern.

In 1999, North Carolina became the first state to pass a law mandating that all state highway patrols and municipal police agenment

cies collect statistical data in an attempt to prevent racial or other bias-based profiling.

Leanora Minai, senior public relations specialist for DUPD, said bias-based profiling is the selection of individuals substantiated solely on the perceived common trait of a group. DUPD, Minai added, has no record of allegations of bias-based profiling.

“The contact form is based on a larger policy not to discriminate based on race, age, sex or sexual orientation,” she said.

The University will not immediately seek a new police chief when current Chief Clarence Birkhead steps down June 30, officials said Wednesday. Instead they have begun a search to fill the newly-created position of associate vice president for campus safety and security under the division of campus services.

Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, said the new seniorlevel position is an “enhanced role” with broader responsibilities than those of chief of Duke University Police Department. The individual who assumes the role, Dawkins explained, would be in charge of the police department as well as external consultants and contract staff to ensure “a more integrated response” to safety and security challenges.

Although the role of a head of DUPD will not be eliminated, Dawkins said it has not yet been determined whether the University will hire someone who holds the title of police chief.

A search—if any—for someone to assume the title would not start until SEE SEARCH ON PAGE 6

SEE CONTACT ON PAGE 7

Duke names Student Health director by

Steve Veres

THE CHRONICLE

Duke spent 18 months searching nationwide for its first executive director of student health, but it turned out its future head was working by their side all along.

Duke administrators named Dr. Bill Purdy as the executive director for Student Health Monday. Purdy, the former interim medical director for Student Health, will assume his new role July 1.

“Dr. Purdy will be an excellent director, and I’m thoroughly satisfied,” Larry Moneta, vice president for Student Affairs, wrote in an e-mail. “Watch for exciting developments.”

Student Health is a division of the department of Student Affairs and reports to the Department of Family and Community

Medicine in the Duke University Medical Center. The search process for a new executive director began soon after Dr. Bill Christmas, the former director for Student Health, announced his retirement in early 2004.

The leadership and organization of Student Health was restructured after Christmas’ departure. During the search, a trio of interim directors—Jean Hanson, administrative director, Franca Alphin, the direc-

tor of health

promotions, and Purdy—each partially fulfilled the vacant position of executive director.

The University hired an outside firm to feed potential candidates to the Duke search committee. Purdy did not apply at that time.

In January, the committee chose several applicants to visit the campus and offered the position to the only suitable candidate, Hanson said. She added that the initial pool was “thin,” and none of the other candidates had the proper qualifications to fulfill the needs of the position.

The selected candidate, who first accepted the job, later declined the offer after she received a raise and an expanded SEE DIRECTOR ON PAGE 7

Duke officials have begun a national search for a new associate VP for campus safety and security.

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Senate ends debate, confirms judge by

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WASHINGTON The Senate confirmed California judge Janice Rogers Brown for the federal appeals court Wednesday, ending a two-year batde filled with accusations of racism and sexism and shadowed by a dispute over Democratic blocking tactics.

Senators quickly followed by ending another long-term filibuster, clearing the way for a vote Thursday on former Alabama Attorney GeneralWilliam Pryor. The vote followed an agreement last month that averted a showdown that could have brought Senate action to a halt.

After giving Pryor a final vote and confor the District of Columbia and 67-32 to firming two Michigan nominees to other end the filibuster of Pryor’s nomination to appeals court posts, senators plan to leave the 11thU.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals—the President George W. Bush’s other controlast of the three nominees Democrats versial nominees dangling, moving on to agreed to clear in exchange for Republiother matters after devoting a month to cans’ promise to not ban judicial filibusters. historic but exhausting debate over judges.

As a bonus, the Senate will confirm Bush commended the Senate for voting Thursday Michigan nominees David McKto confirm Brown. “During her tenure on eague and Richard Griffin, who were nomthe California Supreme Court and Califorinated to the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati, nia Court of Appeal, Justice Brown has dissaid Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. tinguished herself as a brilliant and fairThough the two nominees were not minded juristwho is committed to the rule part of the deal to avoid a fight over judiof law,” Bush said in a statement. cial filibusters, Democrats withdrew their The Senate voted 56-43 to confirm objections to their confirmation during Brown to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the back-and-forth negotiations.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq’s president publicly praised Shiite and Kurdish militias Wednesday in a statement that could further antagonize Sunni Arabs and fuel fears of sectarian strife.

The divide between Iraq’s Sunni and Shiite Arabs widened when Sunni Arab leaders threatened to boycott a constitutional committed—a move which could hamper the Shiite-led government’s efforts to include them in the political process.

Attacks killed at least nine Iraqis as the

Sunni-dominated insurgency pressed on with its campaign against the Shiite-led government. The bodies of six others were also found.

Four U.S. soldiers were killed in three separate attacks north of Baghdad, the military said Wednesday.

One was killed in a roadside bombing Wednesday near Adwar, 10 miles south of Tikrit.

Two died in an indirect fire attack on their base in Tikrit late Tuesday; another was fatally wounded in another bomb attack north of the capital.

At least 1,680 U.S. military members

have died since the war began in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

At least 10 insurgents were also killed Wednesday during an offensive by U.S. and Iraqi troops that began the day before in the northern town of Tal Afar, near the Syrian border, police captain Amjad Hashim said.

A wave of violence broke out after the April 28 announcement of Iraq’s new Shiite- and Kurdish-dominated government, killing at least 889 people.

The dead include more than 10 Sunni and Shiite clerics, killed in apparent retaliatory slayings that raised fears the country was on the verge of civil war.

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Investigation ends in 2 arrests An insurgency investigation in Lodi, Calif., has led to the arrests of Hamid Hayat and his father, who said Hayat trained at an al Qaeda camp in Pakistan and planned to attack U.S, hospitals and supermarkets, authorities said.

Bush considers closing camp President George W. Bush left the possibility open Wednesday that the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be shut down as a potential way to protect the country. But Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he knows of no one in the administration planning to close the camp.

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In an ongoing process for NCAA certification that

began last fall, the University has finished its preliminary draft of the Division I Athletics Certification Self-

Study report.

“It was great. SAE turned out to be a big thing now,” said John Goodfellow, the team’s faculty adviser and senior instrument maker for the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences. “It’s like NASCAR.... It was packed.”

The Duke team spent about eight months and $lO,OOO designing and constructing its vehicle, said senior Julien Finlay, the team’s coordinator.

“We had such a good car this year,” he said. “Just having [the car] tested and all the problems worked out is an accomplishment for any school.”

He noted until this year, the team’s performance was declining. Dver the last three years, the team placed in the 70s and 90s before failing to attend last year because they lacked needed funds.

“We hope to use this place to build up our budget,” Finlay said, adding that the team receives grants from General Motors and Ford Motor Company.

The team members agreed that two of the most difficult competitions were the skidpad event, in which racers were timed while navigating a figure-eight-shaped track,

Certification, which is mandated every 10 years by the NCAA and determines a school’s eligibility to compete in NCAA athletics, will follow the self-study pending satisfactory evaluations from an outside peer review team in November and the NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification Jan. 2006.

More than 30 members of the Duke community—including faculty, students and administrators—participated in the evaluation of Duke athletics. The examining body was divided into a steering committee and three subcommittees: Equity and Student-Athlete Welfare, Governance and Commitment to Rules Compliance and Academic Integrity.

The self-study’s primary stated goal was “to affirm that the policies and actual practices of the Duke University Department of Athletics in governance, academics, and commitment to equity and student-athlete welfare are in accord with the operating principles of the NCAA.” As many officials expected, the study revealed no major problems, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said.

“There are no surprises. We have an outstanding athletic program,” said Moneta, who serves as chair of the steering committee. “The process revealed that we run a very clean program and is much above the [NCAA] standards.”

Compiled into a 99-page report, the self-study provides an in-depth examination of virtually every aspect of Duke athletics—from the administrative chain of command to the admission processes for athletes.

The report documents the progress Duke has made since its initial certification in 1998. This includes diversifying the coaching staff, improving facilities for Tier 2 “Olympic” sports and annually evaluating equity at all levels within the program. The report can be accessed online at the University’s NCAA certification website.

Upon the completion of early drafts, Moneta presented the document to several campus groups, includ-

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Sophomore Hardy Shen competed in his firstFormula SAE Competitionlast month with the Duke Motorsports team, which placed 31 st.

Motorsports team driven to win Weeks before the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers Competition, the members of the Duke Motorsports team were tweaking their newly-built car and racing it around the parking lot of the Gross Chemistry building. The team hoped to at least finish all of the competition’s events, a feat it had not accomplished in the previous two years.

Up against teams from 140 other universities—most with better funding and professional support—Duke’s team exceeded their expectations.

The team, comprised mosdy of students from the Pratt School of Engineering, placed 31st in the Formula SAE Competition, a five-day event in mid-May. Held annually in Pontiac, Michigan, the competition requires each team to design and build a race car with its available funds. Tested in six different trials, teams are scored on performance ability, design and marketing skills.

Its 2005 finish marked the Duke team’s best performance to date. The team’s car beat out those built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology and Clemson University, among other schools.

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Among the seniors who graduated in May was the usual crop of medical school admittees, future lawyers and Wall Street hopefuls. But the graduating Robertson Scholars set a precedent as members of the first class of a scholarship program that mixes Blue Devils with their rival Tar Heels.

The Robertson Scholars Program was established by former President Nan Keohane and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser in 2001 to forge connections between their two universities.

Chosen from the applicant pools at Duke and UNC, the 27 Robertson Scholars enroll at one school but live and study at the other during the spring semester of their sophomore year. In addition to full

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scholarships, they are granted opportunities for national and international community service.

“I would say it’s been a wonderful adventure, and it was very gratifying to be able t0... look at the diversity of paths that the first class of Robertson Scholars has chosen for the next step in their lives,” said Eric Mlyn, director of the program.

Many scholars credit the unique program with helping them discover their passions. UNC scholar and sociology major Brittain Peck, who recently graduated, came to college with no concrete career goals. But the future began to take shape for him after he forged friendships with other scholars and spent time at Duke and in Cuba with the Robertson program.

“I wasn’t thinking of school in terms of grades or in terms of parties, but all of a sudden this just started to be real to me,” he said.

The Robertson Scholars Program enabled Peck to work with teenagers on animation techniques in Los Angeles and Philadelphia last summer. Peck is now planning to reapply to an in-state college to study art or art education to earn another undergraduate degree. He hopes to teach middle school students to express themselves through art and to challenge their minds with questions not normally addressed in school.

“Here I am going back to college right after leaving... but after doing what I’ve

been doing for the last four years, I feel like I’m going back to school to do exactly what I want to do,” he said.

Other scholars also credit the program with exposing them to potential interests through the interaction with the program’s diverse members.

“I went to South Africa with a bunch of Robertsons from UNC and Duke, and if I went alone it would have been one thing, but it was just enhanced by the presence of other students—other people who had similar yet different interests,” said Randall Drain, Trinity ’O5.

Drain will spend two years working in Baltimore for a finance and banking firm, but he ultimately hopes to have a career in photography. “[The Robertson Program] helped me discover that I liked photography, and I got a chance to go to Cuba last summer just stricdy to do it,” he said. “If I had my wish, I would be doing photography eventually.”

Though scholars like Peck and Drain attest to the program’s benefits, neither the students nor the administrative committee knew what to expect when the program began four years ago. Program officials “didn’t have much of an idea of what they were doing” and would often ask for the scholars’ input and advice, Peck said, adding this allowed the scholars to actively

shape the program.

“I think our class threw up a lot of to the program.... We started to realize that a lot of this was up to us, too,” he said.

Peck also said moving to a new school in the middle ofhis sophomore year required ironing out various transitionalissues.

“Every time you wanted to do something at the other school you would always have to re-explain the entire program—Just little things like paying a parking ticket or getting a permission number for a class or how to check out movies,” he said.

Though no major changes have been made to the program since its inception, the graduation of the Class of 2005 prompted plans to hire an assistant director for student development to facilitate scholars’ career exploration.

Other members of the first class of scholars are now working with AIDS prevention and treatment initiatives in Africa and India, planning to join the Peace Corps, pursuing doctorate degrees at Yale University, attending law school and working as consultants.

“As different as everybody was, it was just a really good environment for all these different people to even be together and influence each other,” Peck said of the program.

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After a one-semester trial period, the spring semester FOCUS program will continue to be an option for students for at least another year.

FOCUS expanded to the spring semester for the first time last year with Exploring the Mind 2, an offshoot of the original Exploring the Mind program offered in the fall.

“One of the reasons we decided to offer our spring offering is that we have a large number of students who would like to take FOCUS and are not able to because we’re not able to place them,” FOCUS Program Coordinator Amy Feistel said.

Although Exploring the Mind 2 will not be offered in Spring 2006, a new FOCUS program—Global Health: Disease in Time and Space —will take its place.

Committees will explore options for future spring FOCUS programs. The programs will be implemented in accordance with demand, popularity and individual curriculum decisions.

“At this point, it’s a program-by-program basis, so each year we’ll evaluate what programs we have available and what programs would like to be offered in the spring,” Feistel said.

The new spring FOCUS was developed by officials in the University’s Global Health Initiative in order to expose undergraduates to global health issues and teach them how to address related problems.

“It seems that developing a FOCUS program would create the type of learning community that best shows students the necessary linkages between academic disciplines, as well as the team approach that is required for most successful health research,” said Sherryl Broverman, assistant professor of the practice of biology who SEE FOCUS ON PAGE 8

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“We haven’t made a decision yet on how we will ultimately staff and organize the entire department,” Dawkins said.

The new position is one of three vice president positions Dawkins recently created. The other two are in the areas of facilities and auxiliary services.

“I had been looking at campus services in the various organizations that report to me more broadly for some period of time,” he said. “It’s my notion that given the complexity of the issues before me and before Duke, that it would be very helpful to have a number of additional senior administrators to help me shape the course of all those organizations.”

Dawkins estimated the search for a vice president for campus safety and security will take three to four months. The University has hired an external firm to help narrow down the candidates produced in a nationwide search to find someone to fill the role.

“It’s my intention to look across the entire nation to make sure we get the best possible person for this position,” Dawkins said. “Of course, I anticipate there will be internal candidates for this position as well.”

Dawkins will also be forming a committee of Duke community members who will help make the final decision.

He said the qualifications the committee will be looking for include a bachelor’s degree, at least 10 years of experience in law enforcement —including five years in management and administration —a familiarity in special and ongoing joint law enforcement operations involving civilians.

Additionally, the committee will be looking for someone with dedication to internal communications, employee involvement and campus participation.

In the interim, retired Duke Police Major Robert Dean has been appointed as acting police chief of DUPD, the University announced Wednesday. Dawkins said he selected Dean after considering several other individuals and talking with Birkhead.

“I picked [Dean] based on his long experience and service to Duke and Duke police and the Durham community,” Dawkins said.

In a memo sent to members of DUPD Tuesday, however, Dawkins said in picking Dean he was also “conscious of not wanting to appoint anyone to serve as acting chief who might apply to succeed Chief Birkhead permanently.”

Dean joined DUPD in 1973 and held various positions, including commander of criminal investigations and manager of

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community affairs and public information, before retiring in 2003.

He said he will hold the position of interim chief until a permanent replacement for Birkhead is found.

“I’m honored to return to Duke for this opportunity to work alongside the police department to ensure a safe campus and medical center,” he said. “I worked with Chief Birkhead for many years and have respect for the men and women of the department.”

Dean said he intends to maintain the

department’s course by keeping the campus community safe and secure during the transitional period.

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An employee told police Tuesday she discovered the money missing from a file cabinet in the Duke fitness office.

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The intruder took the information from a peripheral website and not a core transactional website, Ahmad said. The core websites operate under much tighter security because it grants users access to more information.

Ahmad added that although the Duke Health Technology Systems staff regularly moderates all of the known vulnerabilities to DUMC’s web applications, nobody on his staff anticipated the recent security breach.

“What we want to do is create awareness —stuff like this happens way too often,” Ahmad said, noting Microsoft’s recent security breach on its South Korean website. Password-stealing software had been available for days before Microsoft found out about the incident and remedied the problem. “In our case, we were able to diagnose quickly and remedy it immediately,” he said.

Officials declined to comment on how the intruder was able to hack into the system, saying that making it public would pose a security threat.

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Purdy submitted his application when the University restarted the search process.

“I didn’t join the search the first time because I hadn’t had experience doing the job,” Purdy said. “I also met most of the people that came through, and I realized I had some of the same skills. I figured, ‘Why not try it.’”

Caroline Nisbet, chair of the search committee and director of resource ad-

Ahmad added that DHTS has no leads as to whom the intruder may have been.

“These events on the Internet are very hard to be certain where they came from.

There are no international laws protecting against this,” he said. “It’s harder to protect people when Internet laws are not there.”

Information technology officials affiliated both with DUMC and the University noted the stakes of the breach could have been much higher if not for a system-wide shift last year. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask called for the discontinuation of using full Social Security numbers as identifiers and verification methods on web applications.

Trask said there were “concerns about the wrong people getting access to information.”

As a result of the shift, the University and DUMC also discontinued the collection of Social Security numbers except when there were “legitimate and legally mandated requirements, [such as] financial aid, payroll, tax reporting...” Trask wrote in a Fall 2003 memo.

Rob Adams, director of information technology for DHTS, said DHTS was the “first to comply with those rules, which is why the Social Security numbers were

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only partial.”

“It’s away to be proactive and stop issues before they start.”

Other schools in the state, such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, adopted the policy soon after the state mandated the use of contact forms.

As a private institution, Duke is not required by state law to collect data, but DUPD Chief Clarence Birkhead—who is stepping down June 30—decided to adhere to the state standards.

“It really lays out our philosophical stance as it relates to racial profiling.

We’re absolutely against it and will not tolerate it,” he said. “[With the new policy] we’ll be able to determine if we’re heavy on one side or the other, as to who we’re stopping and why we’re stopping them, what got the officer’s attention and what the disposition was.”

The new contact form contains identifying characteristics —such as the race, age and sex—of individuals the police come into contact with during field operations. The form also requires officers to note where the contact was stopped, the purpose for stopping the individual and whether or not a search was conducted.

Other questions on the form include whether the use offorce was involved and whether there were any injuries.

The form, however, does not include the name of the contact or the officer and does not delineate whether the contact was a student.

Birkhead said he expects the data, which must be turned in by the end of each officer’s shift, will be reviewed at least quarterly in the first year.

Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus services—the umbrella under which DUPD falls—praised the new initiative.

“I view it as a tool to better manage and understand the Duke police force,” he said.

Interim DUPD Chief Robert Dean, who will take over Birkhead’s role in July, also said he is supportive of the policy, noting that his main goal is to uphold the policies currendy in place under Birkhead.

Minai said she fully expects officers to fill out the forms truthfully for each person they interact with.

“There is no concern about [lying].

Why would they lie? If the administration or DUPD found out people weren’t using integrity, they would be dealt with swiftly,” she said. “When you take the oath as a police officer you swear that you’ll uphold the law.”

ministration for Student Affairs, said Purdy is an ideal for the choice for the job because of his experience working at Duke.

“Had Purdy decided early, it would have been a shorter process,” she said.

Nisbet added that the search was difficult because Duke has an “interesting” departmental structure, a large graduate student base and a growing health promotion and prevention unit. “There were many areas of expertise we were looking for,” she said.

Purdy said there will be no major shifts in the structure of Student Health immediately, but he added that changes will be made.

He noted that a search will soon start to fill the vacated medical director position.

Purdy and Hanson said the leadership will take the next few months to evaluate the program in a process similar to the one they would follow if an outsider were appointed. “We are intent it is not going to be status quo,” Hanson said.

She added that the former leadership trio did not act on many of their ideas because they did not want their work to be undone if an outside director was appointed.

Purdy said one of his main foci will be diminishing the rate of rising insurance pre-

miums for students. Premiums rose 21.4 percent to a record $1,589 for next year’s plan; the rate hike was slightly lower than the increase the previous year.

Graduate students in particular are affected by the increase, as they compose almost 78 percent of Duke’s health care subscribers.

Purdy said he has contacted several individuals in the health system to see if they can come up with a better program than the current insurance plan. He noted, however, that all health centers are facing this problem across the country.

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ing the athletic and academic councils and the Board ofTrustees. The general reception was positive, Moneta said, and many appreciated the comprehensiveness of the report.

According to the study, however, there are still areas where Duke can improve its athletics program.

The Academic Integrity subcommittee addressed the question of admission standards for athletes compared to the student body at-large. Although the University’s admission standards for athletes have not changed, the improving quality of Duke applicants overall has led to a widening academic gap between admitted student-athletes and students at-large, Moneta said.

He also stressed the importance of giving student-athletes the same academic opportunities offered to the general student body, like studying abroad.

“We need to continue to make sure that the support services improve and that students maintain their academic standing,” said Kathleen Smith, professor of biology and faculty athletics representadve.

Senior Jesse Longoria, Duke Student Government president and DSG representative in the certification process, hopes members of the community will use the self-study to gain a better understanding of the athletics program.

“What’s important and what was really good was that we could have a better understanding of where the athletic program stands,” Longoria said. “We want to involve students, faculty members and student-athletes, and we want to make the community aware of the document.”

The University will submit the final draft of the self-study to the NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification July 15.

and the 22-kilometer endurance event Even as a spectator, sophomore Hardy Shen said the endurance competidon was nerve-wracking.

“It was such a relief to see the car cross the finish line,” he said.

Shen noted that the event hooked him on Duke Motorsports. He will lead the body and drivetrain design and construction process next year. “[Participating] was the best experience—seeing the garage all stripped down at first and then watching everything come together,” he said.

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The spring FOCUS will be structured

similarly to the fall programs—30 students will choose two topical seminars, participating in an interdisciplinary, small-group learning environment.

Like Exploring the Mind 2, participation in the Global Health: Disease in Time and Space program will not require students to take a specific writing class or live in the same dormitory.

Students will take only two FOCUS program classes, allowing them to enroll in two elective classes.

“I’m glad it was only two classes instead of three, because then I could get some requirements out of the way and take FOCUS,” said sophomore Beena Imam, who was in the Exploring the Mind 2 program as a freshman.

Feistel said the lack of common housing did not pose a significant problem

Duke placed 25th in the skidpad event, propelling the team to a high ranking. The team also scored points in the acceleration

Senior Kristen Hill, the only woman on the team, led Duke in the event.

“I’ve been interested in cars for a while, and I was told I knew a lot about cars for a girl,” she said. “People have since dropped the suffix ‘for a girl.’ You have to prove yourself though.”

The car, which has an 80 horsepower engine, can go from zero to sixty miles per hour in approximately three seconds, Hill said.

Hill, who is currently in her second summer as an intern with Harley-Davidson Motor Company, hopes to pursue a test.

last year. “The benefit is that they get to take FOCUS when they might not have had an opportunity previously, so they saw that as overshadowing any personal disadvantages,” she said.

Junior Kyung-Wha Kim, another Exploring the Mind 2 participant, said though the students did not live together, taking two classes with each other fostered some community. Students already have an established group of friends by their second semester, so forging a community through FOCUS was not as necessary as it is in the fall, she added.

Officials plan for the Global Health: Disease in Time and Space to be moved into the fall semester after its Spring 2006 debut. It will regain the two traditional aspects of FOCUS when offered in Fall 2006.

“FOCUS is such an amazing program because [students] get the full package, and we want to take advantage of all the community-building structures,” Broverman said.

career designing vehicles. She said the Motorsports experience was invaluable.

“It is a really great experience for a young engineer to not only apply the skills you get in the classroom, but also you learn things like how to work as a team, how to [think] about cost and manufacturing of a product and how to deliver a finished product on a deadline,” she said.

The team’s car, which will stay intact so drivers can practice year-round, will undergo a thorough evaluation. Finlay said next year’s car will be even better than the one built this year.

“The car drives so well,” Hill said. “Essentially nothing has broken. It sounds so simple, but it’s about all you can ask for.”

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OWINGS MILL, Md. Duke finished the NCAA tournament Saturday in an eighth-place tie, the team’s best championship performance since head coach Rod Myers’ arrival in 1974 and best overall finish since 1962.

“If you had asked me at the beginning of the year if I would take a top-10 finish at the NCAA., I think I would have said, ‘definitely yes,’” Myers said. “I thought we did a nice job.”

With all five of its players finishing within the top 21, Georgia ran away with the championship, which was held at the Caves Valley Golf Club. The Bulldogs led after each round and finished at 15-over par, 11 strokes ahead of runner-up Georgia Tech. Washington’s James Lepp won the individual title after shooting a final-round 63—the tournament’s best round by three strokes—forced a playoff with Pepperdine’s Michael Putnam.

Lepp was crowned champion after Putnam three-putted on the third playoff hole.

LUCIE STONE/THE CHRONICLE Entering the tournament, Duke had relied on its two junior Freshman Michael Schachner's second-round 68 was the Blue Devils' lowest score at stars for the bulk of the season, the NCAA Championship, but Duke still notched its best finish since 1962. but neither broke par in any of his four rounds. No. 10 Junior secutive holes, including one on final-day 73 was his best score, Ryan Blaum, the ACC Player of which he drove a 219-yard par 3 one day after he shot a teamthe Year, paced the Blue Devils to within 10 inches of the hole—- worst 79. He ended the tournawith a 10-over-par 290 for the a shot he called one of the best ment in a tie for 61st of 81 playfour rounds and finished in a disshots ofhis life. ers who made the cut.

Fellow junior Nathan Smith, “I think we needed more out appointing tie for 27th. His best round came on day one, when he who has been the team’s secondof Nate and I this week,” Blaum fired an even-par 70. best scorer behind Blaum during said. “I think that’s why we weren’t At one point during his final the season, struggled throughout round, Blaum birdied three con- the four-day tournament. His SEE M. GOLF ON PAGE 12

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Shavlik Randolph’s flirtation with an early exit from Duke seems to be nearing a conclusion.

The forward, who May 13 declared himself eligible for the NBA Draft, said Monday that he would likely return for his senior season with the Blue Devils.

“My intentions are to come back to Duke because I think we’ll have a chance to do something special next year,” Randolph told the Associated Press following a workout with the Charlotte Bobcats. “I don’t want to rule out any options, but that’s been my intentionall along.”

Though he has worked out for several professional teams, Randolph was not invited to attend the pre-draft camp in Chicago, which began June 7, and he has not hired an agent.

The Raleigh native put his name into consideration for the June 28 draft following his least productive offensive year as a Blue Devil. Randolph averaged 4.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game during the 2004-2005 season and missed four games while suffering from mononucleosis.

Though heralded as a recruit, Randolph has not lived up to expectations due to struggles with injur)' and illness throughout his Duke career, including major hip surgery following his freshman season.

“I feel as good as I’ve felt since

before I could drive,” the 21-yearold told the News & Observer.

Teams have told Randolph that he needs to improve his lower body strength and lateral movement, according to the N&O. “When I am not working out, I am back in Raleigh and back in Durham and still in communication with all the coaches and players,” Randolph told the AP. Randolph must withdraw from the draft prior to June 21 to retain college eligibility next season. He told the AP that he would probably wait until that date to announce his final decision.

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Former Blue Devil Luol Deng sat in the Theater at Madison Square Garden June 24, 2004 wearing a glamorous suit and sporting a diamond-studded watch, waiting for NBA commissioner David Stern to announce his name. As a 19-year old, he had already cashed in some of his forthcoming basketball fortune, but his decision to turn pro and hire an agent was one to which he had given serious thought.

Although his Cameron Indoor Stadium playing days were behind him, Deng received a lot of guidance and mentoring for that decision from Duke’s Student-Athlete Counseling Committee, which helped prepare him to interview potential agents and understand what life would be like with millions of dollars at his disposal.

“What we’re doing is helping Duke student-athletes to understand what they’re facing, to understand the critical questions and the way in which you structure

your relations and conduct yourself,” said Paul Haagen, a law professor and the chair of the committee.

“What we’re hoping to do is to help them in the first stage of becoming sort of full adults.”

Since its reconstitution in 1990, the president-appointed committee has consisted of Haagen, Chris Kennedy—senior associate athletic director—and usually a rotating professor from the Fuqua School of Business. Its primary goal is to serve as a resource, offer advice and prepare members of any of Duke’s athletic teams who are considering a career in professional sports, to hire legal representation.

The committee has assisted former men’s and women’s basketball players, football players, soccer players and women’s golfers —a list which includes NBA players like Grant Hill, Shane Battier and Jay Williams. “[The committee helps them in] figuring out how SEE HAAGEN ON PAGE 10

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to approach a world in which they will suddenly become, in some cases, hard workers

in a career that is transitional, where they won’t make a lot of money,” Haagen said.

“In other cases...they will become extraordinarily wealthy and need to figure out how to respond to that well in a mature and responsible way, so they optimize their life opportunities.”

Duke’s committee has served as a model for other universities nationwide.

Although most schools provide some service to their student-athletes, it often entails simply providing a database of registered agents, Haagen said. But at Duke, he added, committee members make a greater effort to counsel the athletes, while leaving all the decisions up to the studentathletes and their families.

“Most other schools don’t do it at all.

There is either no assistance or it’s something that’s done by the coaches,” Haagen said. “The places that do have committees tend not to be as full-service, to provide as much assistance.”

The agent selection process GenerallyKennedy informs athletes early in their college careers that the committee’s services are available to them if they choose to seek them out. Haagen said some players like Battier came to see him as many as 20 times, and others made appointments and never showed up.

For those who request help, the committee will sit down with the student-athletes, their parents, and anyone else they want to be involved with the process. Haagen educates them about how the agent selection process works, explains some of the contractual details and answers questions.

“What I ideally like to do is to prepare the student-athlete to run the agent selection meetings themselves,” Haagen said.

“Basically training the person to interview, talking about the kinds of questions that might be relevant, and making whoever it is claiming to want to represent them respond to the Duke student.”

The overall involvement of the committee in the selection process is up to the student-athlete though. Haagen and Kennedy are happy to sit in on agent interviews and offer feedback, but they do not and will not

After junior Katie Chrest accepted the Tewaaraton Trophy, the top individual honor in women’s collegiate lacrosse, at a banquet in Washington D.C. June 2, the first thing she told head coach Kerstin Kimel upon returning to her seat was “We’re going to win it all next year.”

“There was something missing and that was a national championship,” Chrest said.

“My teammates weren’t there, and so there was no one to share it with.”

Less than three weeks after their loss to Virginia in the national semifinal, the Blue Devils are already itching to get back on the field, Kimel said. Next year’s team will build on the foundation created by this season’s 17-win squad, which graduates five seniors, four of whom were part of Duke’s eighth-ranked scoring defense.

The Blue Devils will enter next season as a serious national title contender, particularly considering that the attack unit is completely intact. Chrest, who averaged 3.33 goals per contest, will lead the way, but Kimel expects members of the rising sophomore class to become more inmake decisions for the players.

“The committee gives the player the chance to see the prospective agent in what I call a ‘difficult situation,’” said Janet Hill, the mother of former Blue Devil standout Grant Hill, who utilized the committee’s services. “They’re not just surrounded by a 20-year old athlete, but they’ve got bona fide adults in the room.

They’re going to ask a different question than a college graduate or undergraduate.

It really puts [the agents] to the test.”

Most of the committee’s work pertains to members of the men’s basketball team, many of whom are lured by ruthless agents from the moment they step onto campus, if not before.

In 1996, an NCAA study revealed 90 percent of collegiate athletes who were expected to be drafted in the first round of their respective professional leagues had had some illegal contact with agents or their runners—people hired by agents to influence players and their families.

“The whole business of agent representation is a large, unregulated industry,” Janet Hill said. “You’ve got some agents that recruit like the devil, but then they don’t do anything, and the reason is because they sign a guaranteed contract.”

But Duke players are not immune to this type of behavior from agents. Grant Hill had to change his unlisted telephone number three times during his senior year because he was hounded by potential representatives, Kennedy said. Similarly, Kennedy had heard a friend of Williams had been offered $50,000 by an agent to try to convince the former Player of the Year to sign with him.

“There are all these agents or agencies that are looking for profit and aren’t very scrupulous about how they can get to somebody’s money,” Kennedy said.

“Agents may present themselves as your buddies, or confidants, or your friends, but they wouldn’t be interested with you if there weren’t profit involved.”

As a result, part of the committee’s job is to monitor student-athletes, both to protect the interest of the players and to prevent the institution from any NCAA violations.

Duke requires all agents to register and fill out questionnaires before allowing them to speak to players on campus. Because the committee has existed in some form since 1986, a large database of agent

volved in the offense following productive freshman campaigns.

During last year’s off-season, the coaching staff instituted a new motion offense, and although Kimel does not anticipate any major overhauls, she expects to continue to tweak it.

“I think the biggest problem our attack had sometimes this year was a lack of discipline, and with the players we have, we don’t have to start over with anyone,” Chrest said.

The biggest challenge facing Duke, then, will be rebuilding its defense. After the Blue Devils’ loss to Northwestern April 10 they did not lose another game until the Final Four. Following the defeat to the Wildcats, the eventual national champions, Kimel was particularly critical of the way the defense had performed. The unit made steady improvements throughout the remainder of the season, including a notable performance against Virginia in the ACC Championship game. In that contest, Duke kept the Cavaliers’ three leading scorers from netting a single goal.

Fortunately, Megan Huether, who received the IWLCA Goalie of the Year

award, will be back to provide leadership for an inexperienced defense.

To replace the talent lost on the defensive unit, next year’s incoming class includes a number of women with speed and sound defensive skills, Kimel said.

“Any time you get to start with somewhat of a blank slate it’s exciting,” she said. “I think that this defensive unit is going to be really athletic. It will allow us some flexibility to run a number of defenses we haven’t necessarily been able to run in the past.”

For now, Kimel is encouraging all her players to take some time off before beginning their preparation for next season, and Chrest said there is room for improvement before the team can reach its ultimate goal.

“I think a year ago looking ahead to this season I kind of was like, T think we need to win an ACC Championship first before we win it all,’ —that happened.”

Chrest said. “I just think we climbed so many hurdles and proved so many people wrong about our program, and that we really are here to compete for the championship.”

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Grant Hill utilized the student-athleteadvisory committee's services when he was choosing an agent. information has been generated, and Kennedy continually updates it with feedback from players and their families. Some

agents have been restricted from campus because of their past histories.

Times are changing Planning for when to begin to counsel athletes on the selection process has become more difficultbecause of the increasing number of players who leave early for the NBA. Since 1999, six Blue Devils have left school for the NBA draft before graduating, not including Shavlik Randolph, who declared himself eligible for this year’s draft but is expected to return to Duke.

“We were successful for a long time in getting them to use the committee because they could see that it was effective in the days before there was this cacophony of other voices telling them different stuff than we might be telling them,” Kennedy said. “It’s evolved more and more recently into getting them to understand our perspective, what an agent can and can’t do, and then they tend to go off with their family and other people.”

When players are weighing their options between leaving for the pros and staying at college, much of the information they re-

ceive from outside sources is not necessarily true. Haagen said he has developed a number of NBA contacts whom he trusts and can generally predict the range in which a player is expected to be selected. His information, however, often conflicts with what players have heard.

“When you’re dealing with contradictory claims, the kid wants to believe he’s going to go in the top eight,” Kennedy said. “And to feel that you’re close to that revenue, and that glamour and that Rolex, you’re naturally inclined to want to hear the best. That puts us in a tough situation.”

The fact that the committee is comprised of professionals outside the basketball program—a feature not replicated by many other advisory committees around the country—adds credibility to Haagen’s advice.

“I think there is an increased level offamily mistrust that we might be the same thing as the basketball team, and that we might give advice that’s the same as what’s in the best interest of Duke basketball,” Haagen said of the changes in perception toward the committee. But the coaching staff views the committee as “a terrifically valuable thing.”

Assistant men’s basketball coach Johnny SEE HAAGEN ON PAGE 12

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Sophomore Jake Grodzinsky hit the ball solidly all tournament, but poor putting plagued him as hefinished in a tiefor 42nd at theNCAAs.

M. GOLF from page 9 up there competing for the win. But all-in-all it was a solid performance for our program.”

The only two Blue Devils to break par in any round were freshman Michael Schachner and sophomore Jake Grodzinsky. Schachner shot a 70 and a 68 in his first rounds and was in a tie for fifth place entering day three.

But two straight rounds of 77 left him in a tie for 40th at 12 over. Conditions were difficult during his final two days, as he dealt with torrential downpour and wind in the third round, and then placed in a threesome that included the two previous NCAA champions, Ryan Moore ofUNLV and Alejandro Canizares ofArizona State.

“There was a lot of pressure on Schachner today to play with two NCAA champions,” Myers said. “I know he’s disappointed with this final round, but I think he’ll really grow from this experience.”

Grodzinsky played consistently in his first three rounds, notching two 74s and a 76, before firing a one-under-par 69 on the final day. He birdied his first two holes and finished strong, shooting two under through his last five holes. He felt as though he’d played well all week, but had finally started making putts “I’ve been hitting the ball good, really the whole tournament. Today Jake Grodzinsky just made a few more putts,” Grodzinsky said, referring to himself in the third person. “He’s always right there ready to score. Today he really just put everything together.”

Michael Quagliano did not break par, but he did play Duke’s best golf over the final three rounds. He struggled on day one, carding a 76, but recovered on day two to notch a one-over 71. He shot 74 and 72 on the final two days, respectively, to finish in a tie for 42nd.

“I think the best part is that all these guys are coming back,” Myers said. “Hopefully they can feed off of this experience. You don’t necessarily get better at this game, but I’d like to think we will. Our freshman did a really good job this week.”

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“The reason why the players who have used it have really enjoyed it is because it is non-biased.” Dawkins said.

“They may be hearing differing opinions, but they know the people here had their best interest [at heart].”

Duke first introduced a student-athlete counseling committee in the early 1980s and at the time, it was advising primarily football players. But a controversy over screening the players’ incoming mail from agents led to the resignation ofits members, which included school chancellors, the vice president, and high-ranking officials in the law school.

When it was reconstituted, the school asked the recently-hired Haagen to become involved because he was teaching contracts at the law school, had a little bit of experience representing athletes and had no direct connection with the athletic department. Since then Haagen has been reappointed by the president as the committee’s chair every year and has served coundess athletes to prepare them for professional athletic careers.

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been two weeks now since sev- leged racism in Durham’s schools has eral cross burnings took place in dominated local headlines. IncreasDurham. In th.e wake of this ingly, the racial tensions in this city iconographic symbol ofracial hatred, where every Duke student lives are inthe community has come together at eluding a Hispanic faction as well, The point, perhaps, is unity rallies and vigils that have drawn up to Staffed itOrial not that someone burned crosses, a symbol that be700 people. In fact, this event has peaked public discussion longs in many ways to an older generabout racially charged issues in ation. The point is not even that Durham, the city’s crime rates and Durham is a community where that race relations in general. But still, FBI symbol would inspire a particular reacspecial agent Lou Velasco, who is in- tion. The point is that racial hatred volved in the investigation of the and discrimination occur all the time, cross burnings, said Wednesday that And it should not take a cross burning no new developments have occurred to make a community discuss that fact, in the case. Rewards for information In the classrooms of this Universithat could lead to a conviction in the ty, students and professors alike spend case are now up to more than a lot of time studying and considering $22,000. But the horror of the crime hatreds of the past and analyzing should be motivation enough for problems of the present. Often the situations take place decades ago or people to come forward.

But perhaps the investigation does- thousands of miles away. But these are n’t even matter as much as it would at issues that, whether we realize it or first seem. Racial issues plague not, exist right here in Durham.

The events of two weeks ago are Durham and this country in general—Duke is no exception. In Durham horrific, but they have served as a focal debates about zoning issues, construe- point for serious public analysis of the tion priorities and infrastructure im- way race factors into events and conprovements often break along black- cerns of this community. Although it is white racial lines. For the past year, an unfortunate starting point, at least fighting on the school board about al- the discussions are starting.

long months after the that he did not feel qualified for the search began, the Student position when the first search took Health Center announced this place, but by the time the position was week that it has chosen a new execu- re-advertised, he realized that he had live director. Dr. Bill Purdy will offi- plenty of experience, Duke’s major goal for dally take over the helm of the health center July staffedstorsaS Student Health right now is to change both its func1. But it won’t exactly be his first day on the job. Purdy has been tion and its image from a drop-in center for sick people to a learning and a physician at Duke since 1998. A favorite doctor of many students, he has teaching facility about nutrition, health and wellness. To accomplish been interim medical director at Student Health and has experience with this, the health center will need to the medicine, the education and the step up its outreach efforts and coninsurance concerns that are particular nect better with students outside of its to a university population. sterile facilities. Much of this work has The people who run the Division of already begun, and Purdy has been involved in the process, allowing for a Student Affairs, which assumed oversight of Student Health a year ago, say quick transition of leadership after the they are thrilled that Purdy will serve as long delay. the first executive director. As adminisIf Purdy is the best person to take Student Health in this direction, the trators coo with each new appointUniversity conducted its first search ment, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the search poorly. It should have better explained yielded “the best possible fit.” If that’s the position to current employees so that all qualified internal candidates, true, why did the search take a year and half to choose an internal candidate? such as Purdy, could come forward. If In fact, the University has searched Duke did properly advertise the job to its employees, then perhaps the Univerfor an executive director in two phases. The first candidate rejected Duke’s sity, anxious to end a seemingly endless offer, and the University decided to search, is just settling on the candidate who is good enough for now. start over. Purdy told The Chronicle

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1973 as a freshman at Duke, I remember being How appropriate, I thought, since I am a radiologist and see everything in a wide variety of shades of starded to see a sign above a billboard in Smithgray on my teleradiology workstation. If I had to rely field, N.C., stating “This is KKK country.” However, I don’t remember hearing mention of any local on black and white alone, I could make only the crudest of diagnoses and would completely miss the Klan activities during my four years of college. subdeties that reveal the more comlived Durham since rein Having plex problems. turning to this area in 1993, I was His comparison brings to mind shocked to learn of the three cross the on 25 polarizing words of Darth Vader May burnings accompanied by KKK pamphlets. One was near my in Star Wars 3: The Revenge of the Sith, house, ironically, or perhaps inten“If you are not with me, you’re my at a site Martin enemy.” Obi-Wan’s reply seems pertionally, overlooking Luther King, Jr. Parkway. fecdy crafted by George Lucas for the current political times, “Only a Sith The next evening I went to a thinks in absolutes.” larry there attended a diburk prayer vigil by verse, multicultural group of about So, our options are to align with guest commentary 200 concerned Durham citizens the Dark Side, which is defined by Ashes from the burnt wood made a the absolute absence of light, or visible stain on the sidewalk, offering a powerful op- join the Jedi in exploring the full spectrum of the portunity to reflect on the meaning of the event for rainbow. Examples of such limiting or liberating choices can be found in newspapers right here in our community and the nation.

Although Durham school board racial tensions North Carolina. offer a possible motive, one of the other cross burnIn Rutherford County, at Danieltown Baptist ings occurred near St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Church, Rev. Creighton Lovelace posted a sign statwhich had recently been picketed by the God Hates ing “The Koran needs to be flushed” because “we Fags group from the Westboro Baptist Church of stand on the Bible, God’s word, and any other book that teaches away to God that is not scripture is Topeka, Kan. They were in town protesting the performance of The Laramie Project at the Durham false.” In District 3, on the Crystal Coast, Walter School of the Arts.

Jones, the Republican Congressman who voted for the Iraq war and was the initiator of the “Freedom In a countrywide survey of hate crimes, the National Coalition ofAnti-Violence Programs reported fries” name change in the Capitol cafeteria, had a that the incidence of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transchange of heart recently, declaring that we are in a gender hate crimes increased 8 percent in 2004, war “with no justification.” which was attributed to the anti-gay rhetoric of the It is ironic that true conservative Christians like Religious Right in the recent presidential campaign. Pope John Paul II were adamantly against starting Their so-called “conservative” alliance with the Neothe Iraq war, and true political conservatives would cons of the George W. Bush administration has done never support the expansion of government powmuch to promote an increasing atmosphere ofintolers orchestrated by the Bush empire builders with erance in our nation. the naive collaboration of the Religious Right.

Last fall, on a plane flight from Texas, I had a Their actions, aligned with the military-industrial cordial but alarming conversation with an evangelcomplex, can best be classified to the right of conical pastor traveling to North Carolina to consult servative toward the fascism parodied so effectively with numerous churches around the state regardin Star Wars.

Black and white or shades of gray? What pering the application of business marketing principles to congregation building. spective will you choose and how will it affect the After discussing gay rights, abortion and the ones you love, your country and the world for fuIraq war with me for an hour, he commented that ture generations? the difference between our perspectives was that he saw the moral issues in black and white, and I Larry Burk, M.D., graduated from Trinity College in saw them in shades of gray.

1977. He lives in Durham.

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Upon winning, the 13 year old from San Diego, Calif., was speechless. He undoubtedly felt the swell in the back ofhis throat and fought back the tears of joy as cameras were thrust in his face to begin his 15 minutes offame. I wouldbet there is no greater feeling for “an avid reader and straight-A student.” Heck, I would bet there is no greater feeling for any 13-year old.

The National Spelling Bee has become the P-I-N-N-A-C-L-E of youth competition. It is a nationally televised and advertised contest with not one, but two commentators. It has been the subject of an award-winning documentary, Spellbound, which was released in 2002. And it defines pressure.

Unlike some of the other major youth competitions, like the Little League World Series, each speller must rely on only himself and trust that his coundess hours of training will be enough to carry him to the end. When a contestant is eliminatedfrom the competition, he goes to the “comfort room,” I kid you not, where therapists and parents begin the healing process.

‘You’re still a lot smarter than me,” they probably say sympathetically. A tearyeyed child looks up and probably replies, “A lot smarter than 7.”

There really is nothing quite like it.

The greatest aspect of the spelling bee is that one cannot over-prepare. Compare it to science and math Olympiads or the National Geographic Bee, and the spelling bee blows them out of the water. Think about it. How many countries and natural landmarks exist in the world? Now, how many words are in the English language?

The fundamental concept of the game is painfully simple. Word said, and then word spelled. Granted, that has changed over the years, as more and more sixthgraders know what etymology, E-T-Y-M-OL-O-GY, means and its significance. But by and large, the spelling bee has remained pure, even if a kid asks whether the chickens have large talons and land on SportsCenter.

To be honest, I once aspired to be on top of the pre-adolescent world, to be hailed as the best speller in the country even though the kids that competed never struck me as wildly interesting or cool. But it goes beyond that; it’s because winning the national spelling bee is the greatest achievement a sixth-to-eighth-grader can attain. And who doesn’t want that?

Since I have passed the age, I just compete silently on my couch and pretend that I would know the spelling of sphygmomanometer, omithorhynchous or agio if it hadn’t appeared at the bottom of the screen. I guess you could call me somewhat P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C.

Not available costs too much. Of course we are getting a world class education, and it costs that much at the Ivies, right? Wrong. Duke University is apparendy intent that a Duke education cost as much as possible —or at least as much as the Ivies. So rather than sitting around

ner was crowned.

It took 19 rounds to dwindle the pool of 273 pre-pubescent spellers to one —the ultimate

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thomaS StOITS charming and waitquest commentary mg until Duke is old enough to start growing ivy, I suggest we tighten our Bible belt and put Duke on diet. Here are ways in which the University should cut some costs and, in doing so, change the modern American concept of the elite private university: Every purchase made with food points includes what amounts to about a 21.95percent tip to Duke University, since they take 18 percent of each dollar each student converts in to food points. I want a job at that restaurant! Costs to students would be significantly reduced if there were no required minimum amount of food points per semester on campus. The University undoubtedly trusts and believes in the ability of students to think.

This would lead the University to lower its extortionary tax on food consumption.

Quality would undoubtedly improve at on- and off-campus eateries alike when accountability is added to the equation.

Now I bring my argument to housing.

Make it competitive. One can easily imagine the housing folks feverishly writing out their next “Five-Year Plan” trying to engineer the Duke housing market. The University must say nyet to the current system. Allow students to live off-campus after their freshman year, and see what they do. Duke will be forced to lower the cost of on-campus housing once its current three-year monopoly on housing is broken. Presumably, once polished and shined at this preparatory car wash of life, students will have to make their own housing decisions (on friends’ couches in Durham or with my parents), why not let them get an early start?

Back to food. Last semester my resident adviser entertained two charming evenings of dessert fondue, bless her heart. She had to spend the money somewhere; it is her job after all. The University can cut costs significantly by reducing all of this activities nonsense. Students are smart, inventive, and do not need to be coddled with fun things to do. The hundreds of free-food giveaways and the overeducated and underworked residence coordinators could be eliminated at a significant savings, and no one would really notice.

Duke justifies its grotesque yearly rise in real costs by saying its in line with its peer institutions. Well, the Ivies didn’t want me, and I don’t want them. If Duke truly wants to be a different sort of University, we must bring fiscal accountability to the Allen Building. A reduction in costs would open Duke’s doors a little wider to socioeconomically disadvantaged applicants and turn Duke from the playground of the progeny of the rich and famous into the playground of soon-to-be rich and famous. We came to Duke for an education and in eliminating superfluous costs, we can truly educate ourselves on real-world decision making. If Mommy and Daddy Duke will leave us alone then they can do what they do best: teach.

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After a year at Duke, quitting the A-Team

It’s

Sunday, and my heels are sinking present the year before—it was nice, I relike golf tees into a front lawn not yet call. I remember it being much more refried by the summer heat. In my left spectful than the assembly “silences” I’d hand I am holding a cup of lawn-party experienced during high school. Even primordial soup—ice cubes, lemon slices when our school district superintendent came to speak to the senand San Pellegrino are ior class (she was sobbing mixing at will. In my right hand is the tanned elbow through an apology for her DUI charge a weekbeof a dear friend, fading fore —um, yeah), somefast from both a massive one was still singing hangover and the swelterUsher’s ‘Yeah” aloud in ing June humidity. And the back row. direcdy in front of me are scattered clumps of chatty But I very clearly digress; the glories of a pubSarah ball people, standing under lic school education are blue and white balloons at guest commentary for another column. I this Washington-area mention the ’O9 sendoff send-off picnic for Duke’s Class of 2009. My friend and I, jaded because it made me realize that I’ve really and world-weary rising sophomores that changed in a year. The slighdy sad part is that said changes may not all be good. I’m we are, are charged with answering questions and generally discussing the Unicertainly less athletic than I was a year ago versity with parents and p-frosh alike. (unfortunately, I look it). I’m not as inSort of funny, the more I thought about volved in community service, less apt to reit—especially considering that only one turn family members’ phone calls, about short year before we’d been asking the six times messier and four times more likely to be late. Now here I am, blabbing questions, not answering them. aboutKatie Holmes and Tom Cruise while As is ever the case, being somewhat removed from the situation —i.e., not Dean Sue discusses this year’s summer being a new freshman myself—allowed reading on Afghan refugees. Sad, because me to make a few new observations about I had it all under control in high school. the assembled crowd. My friend moves I’m not sure when I quit the A-Team and herself to the barbeque buffet table, joined the Has-Beens.

So I found myself looking at the fresh using a linen-covered corner to prop herself up while simultaneously forking her faces turned to Dean Sue in rapt attencoleslaw mouthwards. Her own high tion. These are kids who don’t yet have their monologues on effortless perfecheels, as vastly inappropriate for an outtion memorized, who think Black Tentdoor picnic as mine are, are now removed. “God, I feel awful,” she says, dising sounds like a great idea, and who will rupting the deferential silence and Dean never know what the BC walkway used to Sue’s speech. “Well, you look cute, and look like. They’re part of Duke’s biggest that’s all that matters,” I joke in an Elle class yet and will be the first class to live in the Bell Tower.

Woods voice. We begin our back-andBut they’re also still a group ofdevoted, forth teasing, catching up and joking about the year’s memories. Joking, that successful, talented high school seniors—is, until a balding man in cargo shorts kids who are still coasting on the crest of the success wave, making positive contributurns around to glare at us. Apparendy our loudly whispered story —I recall it tions to their community and finally accepting the elusive reward. I only hope having something to do with the Cookout drive-up line and a bunch of sketchy that they remain as diligent and excellent guys —was not appreciated during this in their pursuits as they age—that they important moment in Baldie, Jr.’s life. keep giving even in the face of inevitable college lethargy. It’s a long fall from the We silence ourselves with pulled pork.

The thing is, I totally understand. I pedestal, and attempting to climb back is harder than staying up there. At least for wouldn’t have been thrilled if two loudmouthed, impractically dressed girls me, see, because since I’ve stopped rowing yakked their way through my first I’m-A- I’ve lost all my upper body strength...

Real-Duke-Student event. The same hush Sarah Ball is a Trinity sophomore and edithat was now setded over the Class of 2009 torial page managing editor of The Chronicle. and its bill-footers had definitely been

Thomas Storrs is a Trinity junior.

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