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The University’s financial aid coffers received a shot of support Monday—to the tune of $75 million. Donated by the Duke Endowment—a private, non-profit entity separate from the University—the sum is the largest single gift ever received by Duke and the largest ever given by the Endowment. The gift is the third major, publicly announced contribution in Duke’s Financial Aid Initiative, which is officially set to begin in December. The Initiative is an effort to increase the percentage of

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Duke’s financial aid that is endowed rather than funded by the University’s operating budget. It will benefit undergraduate, graduate and professional students as well as fund athletic scholarships. Russell Robinson, chair of the Duke Endowment, formally announced the gift at a ceremony Monday morning. Students, faculty and staff joined the University’s top brass in celebrating the gift, which will be paid over three years. “We unanimously and joyously approved a challenge gift to help initiate the campaign,” Robinson said. Brodhead thanked the Duke

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Endowment for helping the University take steps toward providing aid for all students in need. “I thank you today for giving us the ability to build not the superstructure but the real foundation on which a great university is founded,” he said. “I have not been here long, but there’s not a week that goes by without some fabulous new thing happening.... I can’t imagine a more deeply fulfilling moment in my career.” The $75-million donation will be used as a matching fund—meaning it will be utilized to encourage other organizations and individuals to contribute to the Fi-

nancial Aid Initiative “This is the gift that keeps on giving,” President Richard Brodhead said. Robinson noted that the Duke Endowment’s gift falls directly in line Duke Endowment and University founder James B. Duke’s vision for the institution. has University] “[The achieved his dream of attaining a place of real leadership in the educational world,” Robinson said in a press release. “An essential part of that dream is providing financial aid so that the SEE AID GIFT ON PAGE 6

Tabling to move to Med school honors anniversary main West Campus by

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At the urging of student leaders, administrators announced a new tabling policy Wednesday that will allow groups to set up

shop along the sidewalk in front of the West Union Building. Since the Bryan Center walkway was closed off on the first day of classes to accommodate for construction of the West Campus student plaza, student groups have been lacking a high-traffic space where they can advertise, sell tickets or publicize events. Tabling will now be permitted in the mulch area in front ofMain West Quadrangle running from the comer ofWest Union to Kilgo Quadrangle, Deb Lo Biondo, assistant dean for residence life, wrote in an e-mail. Administrators have set a cap of 10 tables to ensitfe that stu-

dents will not be overwhelmed along one of the campus’ most frequendy traveled paths. “As long as students don’t feel as though they’re being overly bombarded by student groups trying to advertise then I think it’s a good idea,” said senior Wintta Woldemariam, president of Black Student Alliance. Lo Biondo’s e-mail also said an Event Manager from RLHS will check on the groups on the quad to make sure that those present have registered with the Office of Student Affairs and Facilities. Organizers say that the solution is a temporary one but will likely be in place until the construction is completed. “If everything goes well and people follow all the rules and don’t damage the tables or any-

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Celebrating its75th anniversary, theSchool ofMedicine held a convocation ceremony Monday afternoon at the Searle Center. by

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Major figures in the history of medicine mingled with current residents and students at a cele-

Once a popular place to advertise, the walkway entrance to the Bryan Center was closed earlier this semester, forcing administrators to relocate tabling to the main quadrangle.

bration of the intersection of education and health care at Duke Monday. The School ofMedicine celebrated its 75th anniversary in a convocation held at the Searle Center—an event that included speeches by health system and medical school administrators and honored former faculty who helped establish its unique curriculum and desegregate the school. “There is a kind of magic in the brief history of only 75 years that created this magnificent institution,” said Dr. Sandy Williams, dean of the medical school. Nick Viens, Trinity ’O3 and third-year medical student, noted that the opportunity to learn about the medical school’s history drew him to the event

“Duke’s med school is pretty well known for its unique curriculum, and there have been a lot of big names in American medicine that have come through here,” Viens said. “A lot of them will be here today.” The doctors who initiated Duke’s “New Curriculum”—including Dr. David Sabiston, who performed the first cardiac bypass surgery, and Dr. James Wyngaarden, current National Institutes of Health director—were honored with the presentation of a display that recognized their contributions. Chancellor Emeritus Dr. William Anlyan, former Department of Biochemistry Chair Dr. Philip Handler, former Associate Provost Dr. Thomas Kinney and former Department of Medicine chair Dr. Eugene Stead were also recognized for their contribution to the curriculum. SEE ANNIVERSARY ON PAGE 8

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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush nominatedWhite House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court Monday, turning to a lawyer who has never been a judge to replace Sandra Day O’Connor and help reshape the nation’s judiciary. “She has devoted her life to the rule of law and the cause of justice,” Bush said as his first Supreme Court pick, Chiefjustice John Roberts, took the bench for the first time just a few blocks from the White House. If confirmed by the Republican-con-: trolled Senate, Miers, 60, wouldjoin Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second woman on the nation’s highest court and the third to serve there. Miers was the first woman to serve as president of the Texas State Bar and the Dallas Bar Association. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist outlined a timetable calling for confirmation by Thanksgiving —a tight timetable by recent standards that allowed less than eight weeks for lawmakers to review her record, hold hearings and vote. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made no commitment, saying he wanted a thorough confirmation proceeding. O’Connor has been the court’s majority maker in dozens of controversial cases in recent years, casting deciding votes that upheld the 1973 ruling that established the constitutional right to an abortion, sustaining affirmative action pro-

A tour boat that capsized on a New York lake, killing 20 people, did not have the required number of crew members aboard, leading state regulators to suspend licenses for all five vessels belonging to the company that operated the tour.

Asia on alert after Bali blasts Investigators hunted for the two suspected masterminds of suicide bombings on Bali as Indonesia,Thailand, the Philippines, Australia and other nations went on high alert to protect their beaches from a repeat of the weekend attacks.

Historic EU-Turkey talks begin The European Union opened membership talks with Turkey early Tuesday—*a historic first step that would transform the bloc by taking in a predominantly Muslim nation and expanding its borders to Asia and the Middle East.

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Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers meets with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. grams and limiting the application of the death penalty. Within hours of Bush’s announcement in the Oval Office, Miers travelled to the Capitol to begin courtesy calls on the senators who will vote on her nomination. Frist, R-Tenn., was first on the list. His welcome was a statement in praise. “With this selection, the president has chosen another outstanding nominee to sit on our

nation’s highest court,” it said. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid was complimentary, issuing a statement that said he likes Miers. At the same time, he said he looked forward to the “process which will help the American people learn more about Harriet Miers, and help the Senate determine whether she deserves a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court.”

Dozens of disgruntled Palestinian police officers stormed the parliament building Monday, complaining of insufficient firepower to confront Hamas, and legislators upset over the growing chaos demanded that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas reshuffle the Cabinet and fire his security chief. News briefs compiled from wire reports "The best way out is always through." RobertFrost

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working, and it was convenient to provide the FLEX card.” Wulforst noted that ARAMARK has the “ability to be full-blown operators of Starbucks stores.” After acquiring the ATC location, the next question became whether to allow people to use DukeCards to buy products at the store, Wulforst added. Because between 1,200 and 1,300 Duke employees work in the ATC, officials said it was convenient to make coffee purchases on FLEX accounts available. “That’s not a Duke student community initiative; it’s miles from Duke’s campus,” Wulforst noted. Duke first introduced Starbucks beans on campus in 1996, when the University purchased a limited Starbucks license for

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After almost a decade of enjoying Starbucks coffee on campus, Duke students and employees can now purchase the coveted java off campus at the Starbucks in the American Tobacco Complex —and they can use their DukeCards. The Starbucks in downtown Durham opened Sept. 12 and is accepting FLEX points. The University owns a license to the Starbucks retail store franchise, but ARAMARK Corporation —which operates several campus dining facilities—runs the ATC location. “We actually don’t own it. The lease agreement is with ARAMARK,” said Jim Wulforst, director of dining services. “ARAMARK is responsible for managing it, paying the bills. It happens to be in an area where there are Duke employees that are

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The University ofNorth Carolina system handed its presidency Monday to Erskine Bowles, a successful Charlotte businessman and politician with no prior experience in higher education. He will take office Jan. 1. The UNC Board of Governors confirmed him unanimously as a replacement for Molly Broad, who is retiring after eight and a half years in the top job. As president, the 60-year-old Bowles will be expected to oversee the oldest public university system in America. The UNC system boasts a $5 billion annual budget and employs 37,000 people across its 16 branches. More than 195,000 students are enrolled across the state, including about 30,000 at North Carolina State University and 25,000 at the flagship campus in Chapel Hill. J. Bradley Wilson, chair of the Board, formally endorsed Bowles for the position Mon-

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The UNC Board of Governors announced Monday that Erskine Bowles will lead the 16-school system.

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day. As he acknowledged that the search committee had interviewed five applicants, Wilson added that Bowles had “aced the exam.” “The president’s job takes a unique blend of skill, character and passion. We searched for a president who possesses all three, and no one possesses that blend more than Erskine Bowles,” Wilson said in a statement. Bowles earned a bachelor’s degree from the Chapel Hill campus in 1967. Following the vote, he assured the Board that its confidence was not in vain. “I promise you that I will be prepared to accept this public trust, and I thankyou for entrusting me with the opportunity to serve this great University,” he said. A multimillionaire, Bowles has pledged to donate $125,000 of his $425,000 annual salary toward student financial aid. Although Bowles has no professional experience in academia, many believe he possesses an understanding of leadership.

A co-founder of the private equity firm Carousel Capital, he was also White House chief of staff under former President Bill Clinton from 1996-1998. Braxton Fonville, UNC ’O9, said he hopes Bowles looks past partisanship in his new job. “I would be expect him to be able to put aside his political beliefs,” Fonville said. After a stint as a general partner in a New York private equity firm, Bowles returned home to North Carolina in 2001 to run for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat. He lost campaigns in 2002 and 2004 to current senators Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr, respectively. Bowles is the second high-profile North Carolina Democrat to recently accept a position in the state’s public university system. John Edwards, U.S. vicepresidential candidate in 2004, is the director of the new UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.

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tors such as Duke or the Research Triangle Park and what is going on downtown.” Downtown economic progress and govContinuing, he said that the downernmental transparency dominated the town area has just one hotel, with 200 Durham City Council meeting Monday rooms, a number insufficient for many night. Duke-Durham integration was also meetings and conventions. raised by council advisors as away to proHunden also recommended fixing mote economic growth in the city. downtown’s “food and fun deficit” by atAfter the general body sang “Happy tracting more groups to the area and said Birthday” to Mayor Pro-Tempore Cora a perceived lack of public safety detracts Cole-McFadden, the council heard a pres- from business and prosperity. entation on the One economic asset Durham economic prospects could better use, for the Durham “There seems to be a line Civic Center—a Hunden said, was between west downtown Duke University. convention center located near the “There seems and Duke.” Marriott Hotel. Deto be a line,” he livered by Vice Pressaid, “between Rob Hunden, vice president ident Rob Hunden west downtown of Johnson ConsultJohnson Consulting and Duke.” He added ing, the presentathat it would be tion summarized a detailed analysis on economic plans for beneficial if the city and University were both the Civic Center and downtown in better integrated, much like other college towns. general. Hunden spoke of a new phase in the Hunden concluded his presentation with specific recommendations regarding development of the Civic Center. He acknowledged a shift in leadership that he the renovation of the Civic Center and hoped would inject “new blood into the the surrounding area. He said that the Civic Center Authority” and refocus attencost of implementing these recommendation on implementing the Civic Center’s tions could be $55-$5B million but said “business plan for the future.” that the developments could generate $l3 million annually and become a “hub Although he recognized Durham’s economic strength and potential, Hunden for downtown.” The council then shifted its attention said the two did not always transfer to tangible benefits downtown. He lamented the “disconnect between area business generaSEE CITY COUNCIL ON PAGE 8 by

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newsbriefs Duke selected to help determine therapy effectiveness The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has selected Duke University Medical Center to conduct studies designed" to promote better patient outcomes by testing which treatments work best for particular health conditions. The agency named 13 centers as part of its new Effective Health Care Program. Centers will use data available through insurers, health plans and other partner organizations to answer questions about the benefits and risks of therapies. The 115-million AHRQ program will support the development of new scientific information through research on the outcomes of health care services and therapies, including drugs.

NIH presents Duke neurobiologist with Pioneer Award Duke University Medical Center neurobiologist Dr. Erich Jarvis has been selected as a recipient of a 2005 National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award. The award will provide an unrestricted grant of $500,000 per year for five years to the doctor. Book explores insights into how the brain functions In a new book Perceiving Geometry: GeometricElusions Explained by Natural Scene Statistics, Dr. Dale Purves, chair of the Department of Neurobiology, provides insights about why the brain does not see the world according to the measurements provided by rulers, protractors or photometers—suggesting that vision operates in way very different from what most neuroscientists imagine.

crimebriefs “Easy Go” goes easily A golf cart was reported stolen Monday from the Keith and Brenda Brodie Recreation Center. The Easy Go golf cart, worth $5,000, was last seen in front of the gym Sept. 21. Cartier watch pilfered A student reported her Cartier wrist watch stolen Monday. The student told police the gold and silver watch was last seen Saturday. The watch, worth $3,000, has a rectangular face and Roman numerals.

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“We hope it will be the place employees will check in on a regular basis to find the University news and what they need to know for their work life,” Mock said. He added that Duke Today will provide a basis for University discussions and establish a sense of community within Duke. Officials at the Dialogue acknowledge that not all Duke Employees have Internet access, yet they view the transition as a positive. The monthly print publication will allow readers to recap the most essential news, as well as provide information about upcoming events. Jarmul said the supplement will focus on relaying information about arts and commu-

Readers of the Duke Dialogue should be prepared for some big changes in the next few months. The weekly publication will cease printing in January and will be replaced immediately by a daily online version titled Duke Today. The website will be supplemented by a monthly print publication and an improved online calendar of events. It will be available via the new Duke website, which is currently under construction. This is just one of several changes implemented by a Duke committee concerned about the school’s internal communication. “The Internet is just becoming more important all the nity-based events. time. If you want to reach people beyond the campus, obAfter more than a year of contemplating and organizviously a paper publication is not going to do that as efing the switch to an Internet forum, the staff of the Diafectively,” said David Jarmul, associate vice president for logue and the Office of News and Communications at news and communication. “We’ve found that many peoDuke is excited about its future direction. ple' at Duke feel simultaneously overwhelmed with infor“I think we’ll be able to deliver a product that will be mation yet uninformed about what is going on.” just as worth reading,” Mock said. He said Duke Today is an ideal solution to the problem. He is confident that the transition from a weekly to a The goal of the online publication will remain the daily publication will be smooth. “With all the things same as that of the newspaper, which was established going on at Duke, we have a lot of ma20 years ago. terial to choose from,” “We aim to be a University-wide paper that tells the he said. most interesting stories about the people at Duke,” «U|» Oui,, said Geoffrey Mock, editor of the Dialogue. The paper is geared toward faculty and staff in order to bridge a gap between the University and Duke University Medical Center. The Dialogue hopes its new online publication will curtail time and expenses, and use its re*ft *O. sources more wisely and effectively, Mock wrote Maki in an e-mail. The web-based forum will allow writers to imof hu plement current techniques, such as video reas***** tellu*3bo ports, and will make it easier to relay original research that reporters often find difficult to translate to written word, Mock said. zr**X£r *S? Duke Today will also provide information for Duke employees about parking, childcare fear*. and technology. '* «

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student body can be the best available within a wide range of backgrounds and talents, without any limitation of financial constraints.” Robinson also identified Brodhead as a man “continuing the march of Mr. Duke’s dream.” “We have done this with the sure and certain knowledge that it would please Mr. Duke,” Robinson said of the gift. Since arriving at Duke last year, Brodhead has made boosting the University’s financial aid endowment one of his top priorities. ‘You can have a great university without a world-class museum at the center of it. You can have a great university that doesn’t have the multiplicity of chapels that this one soon will,” Brodhead said at the ceremony. “But you cannot have a great university without having world-class students whom one could attract to that place.” Brodhead added that years ago, factors such as gender and race kept students from being able to attend certain colleges. He stressed that economic challenges should not bar talented students from receiving an

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education at certain institutions today. “It’s a moral commitment—a social commitment to justice,” he said. Brodhead said several University figures received financial aid in college, including “Reynolds Price, the great author; Stanley Hauerwas, the great theologian; Dr. Nancy Allen, the great doctor-rheumatologist; John Hope Franklin, the founding figure in African-American history; and Mike Krzyzewski, the patron saint of American

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“We want such people to enter now and keep entering great universities of America... so we can get the good of them delivered in the fullest measure,” Brodhead said. Officials with the Office of University Development, which is directly involved in coordinating the overall Initiative, said the campaign is currendy in its “quiet phase.” Every donation given since Jan. 1 for the Initiative is counted towards the ultimate fundraising total, but officials will not formally announce any other gifts until December. The University, however, expects to receive more money before the public campaign begins, said Susan Ross, director of fi-

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nancial aid development. Although administrators have previously given estimates as to how much money they hope to raise for the initiative, Ross said the development office is not ready to announce—nor would it confirm—a specific dollar amount as its goal. She added that determining a goal amount to be raised would require “balancing need with feasibility.” Ross said the Duke Endowment’s donation will increase the minimum amount of money the development office hopes to raise. “This is by far the largest gift given to the effort,” she said. “It makes it possible to look toward a goal that is much larger than what we thought was possible.” Although the Initiative as a whole will seek to increase the percentage of endowed financial aid provided to students at all levels of the University, the Duke Endowment’s gift is specifically geared toward undergraduate, graduate and professional students and not the athletic department. “It’s just not their thing,”. Ross said. “Our job as fundraisers is to match the right people with causes they care about.” To aid in their fundraising efforts, the development office has recruited 20 students to be on the Financial Aid Initiative Student Advisory Council. The students on the committee will be in direct contact with donors, “not as solicitors but as part of the team,” Ross said. FAISAC was formed in an effort to encourage student interaction with donors; recruiting more students to be a part of the committee is possible, Ross added. The University received two other major gifts for the Financial Aid Initiative this year. William Gross, Trinity ’66, and his wife Sue gave a $2O-million gift earmarked for financial aid in January. Also, part of the $2-million gift given by former

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President Richard Brodhead spoke at the announcement of the $75 million gift for financial aid Monday. Duke athletes Christian Laettner and Brian Davis this summer will contribute to the total money raised for the campaign. The Duke Endowment’s donation brings the fundraising total to approximately $lOO million so far. This year, Duke budgeted $55 million for undergraduate financial aid. Established in 1924, the Duke Endowment is a charitable trust based in Charlotte that gives funds to health care, children’s education, spiritual life and four institutions of higher learning—including Duke —in North and South Carolina. It is the University’s largest benefactor.

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thing it’s most likely something that will be in place until the plaza opens,” said Tony Bumphus, associate director for buildings and facility services. However, if there are complaints about the policy, student leaders and administrators will revisit and revise it if necessary, he added. “If a couple weeks from now people are complaining about the policy, and RLHS and OSAF say it’s no longer feasible for them, we’ll look at it,” said senior Logan Leinster, vice president for community interaction for Duke Student Government. “At this point I’m really pleased with how much RLHS and OSAF were willing to step on board.”

The new policy also stipulates that student groups must continue using tables and chairs that are stored in the OSAF offices in the Bryan Center. Because of the detour, students will have to go up and down stairs around the Chapel to move this equipment to the designated area. There is no place closer to the new tabling area to store them, Leinster said. “We feel like if people are that excited about tabling on the Main Quad then they’ll do whatever it takes for them to take the tables from the OSAF office to that location,” Bumphus said. The problem of advertising for events has been compounded by the strict enforcement this year of tabling policies in the East Union Building, which does not allow tabling on the first floor or main patio of the building.

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Because the area where tabling used to occur isclosed for construction, groups must now table on mainWest.

DowntownDurham boasts a Starbucks that accepts DukeCards.The coffee store opened in early September.

STARBUCKS from page 3 Durham “At the time, our student dining advising committee wanted to have a brand name like Starbucks,” Wulforst said. As soon as Duke purchased the license, Trinity Cafe on East Campus stopped serving Cup of Joe’s coffee and replaced it with the nationally popular Starbucks label. It became the first location on campus to brew Starbucks. At the time only three or four Starbucks locations existed in North Carolina, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. “I like Starbucks—l spent 10 years in Seatde,” he added. Like Trinity Cafe, the Blue Devil Beanery started serving Starbucks coffee when it opened in McClendon Tower in 2002. Last December, Twinnie’s in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Mathematics and Applied Sci-

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ences also started serving Starbucks Since that time, other locations around campus —including Chik-fil-A—have also started brewing Starbucks. All sites are “we proudly brew’Mocations, but they are not full Starbucks stores.

Although the locadon in ATC is a full Starbucks store, Trask said the University is not seeking to make a business venture out of it. “We’re not going to make any money,” Trask said Although officials decided to make FLEX a payment option at the Starbucks in the ATC largely with employees in mind, students also said the convenience suits their tastes. “I think that would be a good thing for me, since I am addicted to their Venti Shaken Black Iced Tea,” seniorKatie Adkins said. “I wouldn’t feel so guilty spending $2.09 every time I went in there [because] it would be my parents’ money,” she added.

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ANNIVERSARY fro.page! The “New Curriculum,” which was established in 1966, was at the time an innovative departure from the traditional medical school curriculum. At most medical schools, the first two years are spent learning basic sciences, and the last two years are spent in clinical rounds. Duke’s curriculum is unique in that students complete all basic science training during their first year, which enables students to start clinical rounds in their second year. The third year is spent conducting research through the Medical Scientist Training Program. Dr. Colleen Grochowski, assistant dean for curriculum development for the medical school, noted that Duke is special because of the curriculum’s emphasis on independent learning and commitment to teaching scientific medicine—key components of the school’s teaching mission. Future medical school initiatives include transnational research, prospective health care and the globalization of health care and medicine, Grochowski said. Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke

University Health System, further emphasized the school’s focus on international health care. Dzau notedThat the recent collaboration with medical facilities in Singapore is a major step forward in the University’s Global Health Initiative. “Like those who came before us, we continue to think big,” he said. “We will continue to develop service delivery programs to provide care to those who are underserved.” Dr. William Lynn, a former faculty member in the School of Medicine, was also honored with a display in recognition ofhis efforts and ultimate success in desegregating the medical school. Dr. Scott Levin, associate professor and chief of the division of plastic, reconstructive and oral surgery, noted that Lynn repeatedly removed signs with the words ‘colored’ and ‘white’ within the Bell Building. “The civil rights battle in the U.S. was fought in many small battles,” Levin said. The convocation was simultaneously a celebration of the medical school’s achievements and a reflection on its present, past and future. “I know that we will continue to innovate and improve the quality of health care here and around the world for the next 75 years,” Dzau said. “Duke’s greatest adventures are still ahead.”

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CITY COUNCIL from page 4 to Interim Assistant City Manager Julie Brenman. Brenman proposed establishing a Capital Program Advisory Committee to provide citizen oversight of cityfunded projects. Brenman explained that if the “8 Bonds for a Better Durham” passed on Nov. 8, government transparency in funding issues would be more important than ever. She said the committee, as originally envisioned, would have seven appointed members—four with technical expertise and three from the community at-large—and meet quarterly. Council Member Howard Clement lauded government transparency as a

“wonderful objective” and suggested increasing the frequency of the committee’s meetings from the proposed four times a year to six. Cole-McFadden, echoing his enthusiasm, said there should be five atlarge members instead of three to maximize citizen input. The council seemed receptive to the proposal, but before the plan could be approved, Council Member John Best raised the issue of potential conflicts of interest for committee members. He did not want, he said, people to advise on or oversee projects in which they had personal or economic involvement. After further discussion, the council referred the matter to City Attorney Henry Blinder and decided to address the issue Thursday at the next council work session.

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STRAIBHTSET WINNER Jonathan Stokke advanced to the round of 64 in the qualifying portion of the All-American Tennis Championships with a 6-4,6-4 win Monday.

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Life is good as a college poker star “Hey Dave,” I whispered into my cell. “I need you for a second.” It was just then that I realized what an interesting turn of events my life had taken after I made an innocent deposit of $5O into a PartyPoker.com account two years earlier, while living in my Blackwell dorm room. I was seated in a mafia-owned card room in downtown New York City. My hands were glossed over with grease from a filthy, wom-down table and poker chips that had probably been in use for fifteen years without being washed. The other four players at the table were all down significant sums of money, and it was all because on this night I couldn’t miss. Everything was just'working. Every time I bluffed, they folded. When I was dealt big hands, I got paid off. They were all not happy, and I was beginning to feel uncomfortable and a little scared. I had an army of chips in front of me that spanned from elbow to elbow. I was beginning to worry about actually turning my near-semester-sized-tuition win into cash. I mean, my future kids need food, clothing, and shelter, right? “Just come down to the room,” I said to Dave. “I’ll buy you food.” I hung up. It was almost lunch break for normal people, and I had been there since 11 the night before. I turned back to the table, threw my phone in my pocket, and looked at my next Texas Hold’em hand which was a pretty pair of black kings. The tired, irritated owner of the club, who was down far more than anyone else, raised to $4O from the small blind before I made it $3OO from the big blind. He called me right away which was nothing unusual. He was, and still is, the worst player I have ever played with at these stakes. The flop came down with a king, a nine and an eight, all with different suits. To my astonishment he stood up, pounded his fist on the tableand said one of the most horrifying things I have ever heard. ‘You little [expletive],” he bellowed in his eastem-European accent. ‘You always beat me, but I’m not letting you [expletive] kid beat me again.” He then shoved his chips all-in for just over $2,500 and began to stare at me. I paused for a few seconds and carefully weighed my options knowing that I had the best hand. Then I folded. “I’ve had enough tonight guys,” I said cautiously. Thankfully, Dave arrived shortly and SEE POKER ON PAGE

basketball player reflects on experience by

Michael Moore THE CHRONICLE

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in 1967,basketball player C.B. Claiborne became thefirst African American varsity athlete in Duke history.

C.B. Claiborne tells the story with the coolness that comes with 40 years of separation. With his calm, matter-of-fact delivery, one would never suspect he is speaking of an incident that embodied the racism he endured as an agent of change. In 1965, four years after Duke became racially integrated, Claiborne came to Durham as the first black athlete in the school’s history. Per NCAA rules at the time, he spent his first year on the freshman team before joining the varsity squad as a sophomore. The 1965-66 freshman team traveled to Salemburg, N.C., to take on Southwood College, which then featured an LSUbound Pete Maravich. Claiborne said while he was guarding the future Hall-of-Famer “Pistol” Pete, a stocky forward on the opposing team continually threw elbows to Claiborne’s face and neck when he was setting screens. “For the whole first half, I told the refs, ‘The guy is setting illegal picks, he is turning and hitting me,’” Claiborne said. “The ref wouldn’t call anything, and it happened repeatedly. And so in the second half when this started to happen I kind of lost it and when he hit me, I turnedaround and swung at him and hit him.” Both teams’ benches cleared and many fans left the stands to join in the melee that broke out. Claiborne said the game was stopped for fear of all the players’ safety. “I think that was a case of an individual SEE CLAIBORNE ON PAGE 10

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Duke not only lost to Navy Saturday, but the lastminute defeat also left four more top offensive players with injuries. With senior wideout Ronnie Elliot—the Blue Devils’ second leading receiver—already out with an injury, Duke (1-4, 0-2 in the ACC) could also be without its top three running backs and its top receiver heading into Saturday’s matchup at No. 9 Miami. “It seems like that’s how it goes, the injuries can’t be spread out over different positions,” head coach Ted Roof said. “When the injury-bug bites, it’s all at the same spot. But at the same time, that’s part of the deal playing running back at this level.” Justin Boyle, Cedric Dargan and Re’quan Boyette—Duke’s top three tailbacks—all were injured in the 28-21 loss to the Midshipmen and are listed as either questionable or doubtful for this week’s game. In addition, Jomar Wright, who leads the team in receiving yards this season with 155, suffered a severe knee injury and will likely miss the remainder of SEE

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Sophomore Jomar Wright (81), who leads Duke in receiving yards with 155,suffered a knee injury in Saturday's loss to Navy and will likely miss theremainder of the season.

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The women’s volleyball team will face ACC-rival Wake Forest tonight at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium, where the Blue Devils are a perfect 5-0 this season. Duke (9-3, 3-1 in the ACC) is riding a threegame winning streak and will try to make it four against the Demon Deacons (8-5, 1-3), who rfPp* are coming off their first ACC victory. “We play every ACC match like it’s the same big game,” libero Jenny Shull TONIGHT, 7 p.m. said. “We just have to keep Cameron Indoor this going because every match really does count.” The Blue Devils have had the upper hand in the matchup, sweeping the season series against Wake Forest last year and holding a 35-11 all-time record against their conference rival. Both teams, however, are coming off 3-0 wins over N.C. State and have not yet played each other in the 2005 season. The Demon Deacons have struggled in a number of facets of the game this season, ranking 11th in the ACC in both kills ‘

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C.B. Claiborne was often verbally abused when the Blue Devils would play games on the road.

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player going beyond his role, motivated by something else... because I was the only black player, and there were no other black people even in the arena,” said Claiborne, who now teaches marketing at Texas Southern University in Houston. “Also, the referees had an opportunity to step in and call it, but they weren’t calling it. So there were times, some more hostile than others, when I think some liberties were taken because I was a black player or some means were not exercised because I was a black player.” Breaking Boundaries Although Claiborne was a solid contributor his junior and senior seasons, the future professor was never a star for Duke. In his final year, he came off the bench to average 6.3 points and 2.3 rebounds per game on a team laden with talented sophomores that started over many of the seniors. Claiborne said cultural differences sometimes strained his relationship with head coach Vic Bubas—the coach benched Claiborne for several games during his junior year for refusing to cut his hair—but the Danville, Va. native, said his '

and assists, and last in digs. During its current winning streak, Duke knocked off Georgia Tech in Atlanta and also snapped its 10-match losing skid against archrival North Carolina. In the five-game victory over the Tar Heels, Shull recorded 37 digs. The total was a career best for the sophomore and also the second-highest match total in Duke history. “The individual stats are cool,” Shull said. “But it’s reallyjust all about the team.” The Blue Devils opened their ACC season with a closely-contested 3-1 loss at Clemson and have since put an increased emphasis on finishing off their opponents. Head coach Jolene Nagel has also stressed that her team not underestimate its opponents during their string of recent success. “I think we learned our lesson out of the gate,” Nagel said. “We didn’t play badly, but we didn’t play our absolute best, and we came up short. That’s still very fresh in our team’s mind.” After the home match against Wake Forest, Duke will play four straight contests on the road, where they have struggled to a 4-3 record this season. Brett Aresco contributed to this story. respect for his coach never wavered. “He was put in a very difficult situation because all of the things that I had to deal with, he had to deal with,” Claiborne said. “I’m sure he was getting much more pressure from alumni and some of the more iconoclastic parts of the community than I was. He acted as kind of a buffer... I had a lot of respect for Coach Bubas because of his role as coach but also because of who he was and how he tried to deal with those situations.” Claiborne played on Duke’s freshman squad during the first year of the ACC’s integration. Billy Jones, a Maryland transfer, is credited for being the first African-American player in the ACC, having been listed on the varsity roster during the 1965-66 season. Claiborne said, however, that Jones’ playing time was limited, and that he and Maryland freshman Julius Johnson were the first players to actually compete in many ACC venues. “I was the first person to walk out on the court and play in many of those arenas,” Claiborne said. “I’m not trying to take anything away from [Jones], but in one sense he didn’t get some of the pressure that we were facing because we were the first ones to walk out on the court in front of the crowd and have to play.” Although the Duke community was supportive of him, Claiborne said he was frequendy subjected to verbal abuse from fans on road trips, particularly when the Blue Devils travelled to eastern North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama. In addition to the hostile treatment, Claiborne said he put a lot of pressure on himself to represent his hometown and the black race. Despite these weighty burdens, Fred Lind, who played alongside Claiborne for four years and roomed with him on roadtrips, said Claiborne maintained a steely veneer. “Nothing really got him down, or at least he didn’t show it, but I’m sure there was a lot of pressure,” Lind said. “Maybe he just didn’t want to let on, but I always thought he was pretty rock solid considering the circumstances.”

Insider’s Perspective Claiborne’s experience gave him an interesting perspective on the integration movement. He looks back on his accom-

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The volleyball team will try to improve its all-time record against Wake Forest to 36-11 tonight.

plishment with mixed feelings about its immediate impact —he noted that it took

are thesekinds of standards, and people believe in this idea of the student-athlete.”

four years for a second black basketball Head of the class player to graduate from Duke. “There is a time for things to happen, In 1980, Claiborne’s academic pursuits and what I take from this is perhaps we were eventually led him to North Carolina A&T pushing the envelope a little too much,” as an assistant professor. He managed to Claiborne said. “I stay involved with mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm built a house a few developing sports, the marketing plan years ago, a timbergot frame house, and for the school’s athletic program. one of the sayings is, or at least ‘move no beam beHe later taught at he didn’t show but fore its time,’ beVirginia Tech, where he earned his Ph.D. in cause if you move it sure there was a now and it’s not Marketing, after havtime, you are going lot of ing already earned a to have to move it Masters in EngineerFred Lind, teammate ing from Dartmouth again later. So part of that experience at and an MBA from Duke was: OK this Washington University was a great thing to do, but maybe it hapin St. Louis. The father offour went on to teach at James Madison and California State pened a little too soon.” Claiborne said he believes Duke did not University Channel Islands before taking his have the same success as other ACC current post at Texas Southern this year. schools in rapidly attracting black athletes “I come from a family of teachers, and in part because of the academic standards. actually I had said most of my life that the Claiborne himself was a National Achievelast thing I wanted to be was a teacher,” ment Scholar, and academically, he said he Claiborne said. “It happened in an effort favored North Carolina A&T because of its to try something different, sort of get my architecture program. In the end, Claifeet under me and figure out what I was borne chose to attend Duke because of the going to do. It’s been over 20 years now.” opportunity to play basketball. A profile written during his tenure at Lind said Claiborne, an engineering James Madison sums up Claiborne’s teachmajor, was one of the most academicallying philosophy: “He urges his students to minded players on the basketball team. question authority, to question conventions, “The attitude was, ‘you get no breaks beto break the mold ofhow things should be, cause you were an athlete,’” Claiborne said. to create a new world of their own.” “So why was [the progress] slower at Duke? It’s not surprising he expects these lofty A lot of reasons, but it’s wrapped up in what actions from his students—he has accommakes Duke a good place as well—there plished them himself.

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INJURIES from page 9 his sophomore season. Boyle leads the Blue Devils with five touchdowns and 55.4 yards per game on the ground. Dargan led the 2004 Duke team with 462 yards and Boyette has seen action in all five games as a true-freshman. The injuries come at an inopportune time for Duke, with games against the Hurricanes, No. 4 Florida State and No. 24 Georgia Tech next on the schedule. Sophomore receiver/running back Ronnie Drummer, who generally handles kickoff return duties, will play more snaps in the backfield Saturday, and true-freshman Clifford Harris will get some carries as well, Roof said. “Everybody has to pick up a little slack in the rope,” Roof said. “With our situation this week [Drummer] is going to have to play running back.” With Drummer moving away from the receiving corps this weekend, the Blue Devil quarterbacks will be without three of their five favorite targets on the season. Junior Deon Adams, who caught four passes for 48 yards against Navy, and true-freshmen Eron Riley, Ryan Wood and Raphael

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Scrutinizing study abroad Study

abroad has become doesn’t mean they aren’t popular learning anything. They are pursuing different kinds of amongst Duke’s undergraduates, but the opportuni- knowledge, and having new ty for cultural immersion is and exciting learning experiences: improvsurely not the sole driving force StaffeditOiiai ing their foreign

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nomenon Students are well aware of the good study abroad can do for their GPAs. In abroad programs, students can still take classes toward fulfilling their major or graduation requirements. But compared to their counterparts who choose to stay at Duke, they’ll do less work, get better grades and then use all the free time they have to check out Venice, Geneva, Prague and Budapest. Who wouldn’t turn that down? But just because study abroad students aren’t being

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truly understanding foreign cultures, and constructing new frames of reference they will carry into their adult lives. These beneficial aspects of study abroad cannot be discounted, and if study abroad programs were as academically rigorous as classes taught at Duke, students would likely find it more difficult to achieve cultural immersion. Duke students shouldn’t be breezing through their abroad classes. Administrators of study abroad programs must strike a careful balance. They can’t overwhelm their stu-

ontherecord I have not been here long, but there’s not a week that goes by without some fabulous new thing happening.... I cant imagine a more deeply fulfilling moment in my career. President Richard Brodhead on the Duke

Endowment’s $75-million gift to financial aid, which was announced Monday. See story page 1.

dents with academic responsibilities, because students will need time to explore their new surroundings. But at the same time, they shouldn’t make the classes so easy that they cheapen the value of a Duke education. Grade inflation is bad enough as it is, and the last thing we need is for abroad programs to contribute to the problem. Academic administrators should undertake a review of all of the Duke study abroad programs to make sure they are striking the right balance between academic rigor and cultural experience. They also might want to consider making it more difficult for students to pursue non-Duke study abroad programs that are notorious for their lack of academic stringency, such as NYU-Florence.

Administrators should to make an effort to improve also take note of the fact that their summer offerings, more the popularity of study students would surely jump at abroad is profoundly affectthose opportunities, and ing cohesion in the Duke un- RLHS would have an easier dergraduate community. If a time reaching its community substantial part of the junior development goals. class is absent every year, how That so many Duke stuwill the Quad Model ever dents pursue study abroad is a come to fruition? wonderful thing. Our peer inCohesion on campus could stitutions—places like Harbe maintained if students were vard, Yale and Princeton offered more study abroad opdon’t send anywhere near as portunities during the summany students abroad as Duke mer months. Compared to does. But as study abroad bewhat is offered during the Fall comes more and more popuand Spring semesters, the lar, the University has a resummer study abroad prosponsibility to ensure two grams are lacking. The prothings: that the programs ofgrams are shorter, typically fered strike an adequate balance between cultural immerlasting only six weeks, so students can’t take as many classsion and academic rigor; and es, and the variety of classes ofthat cohesion in the underfered is generally not as good graduate community is not either. But if administrators of compromised as a result of study abroad programs were study abroad. —

Will real judicial activists please stand up?

With

another Supreme which simply banned slavery, to Court battle looming, bar private discrimination this time over Harriet against blacks. It was a worthy outcome, Miers, let’s acknowledge something up front: Republicans are achieved by torturing the Constiright to complain about judicial tution. Don’t ret me activism. One of the Wr ng: 1 agree ifho| a krktof n MIUIOI« ItMslUl most fundamenwith S pj r j t Gf tal mistakes that the Warren Court guest commentary >era mai as iecisions, an after World War a kid I worshiped II was, time after time, to seek William Douglas the way my social progress through the friends worshiped Hank Aaron. (I was an insufferable child.) courts rather than through the I saw how court rulings could political process. It started well, with the Warren affect our lives: My high school Court’s unanimous decision in in rural Oregon prohibited Brown v. Board of Education to teachers and students from havforce the desegregation of ing facial hair, until the ACLU schools. That decision was so took up the case—and the manifesdy right—and alternative school caved. So, granted, the courts were routes to justice so manifestly broken—that court rulings then beoften the most efficient way to adcame the liberal template for vance a liberal agenda, and cases achieving a more humane society. like Roe v. Wade now deserve reThe left went to the Supreme spect as precedents. But there Court to achieve a range of victowere two problems with the activist approach. ries it could never have managed The first was that these rulthrough the political process: barring school prayer, protecting ings alienated ordinary Ameriprotesters who used four-letter cans who just could not see how words, guaranteeing lawyers for the Constitution banned school criminal defendants, and securprayers but protected obscenities. Frustration still seethes at ing a right to privacy that protected contraception and abortion. liberals who try to impose their It’s almost taken for granted values on the heartland, and one on the left that if you support consequence has been the rise abortion rights, you must have of the religious right. The second objection is that agreed with Roe v. Wade, or if you support gay rights, you must conservatives can play the same favor court rulings endorsing game of judicial activism to advance a social agenda. Alas, they gay marriage. But court rulings can constialready are. tute fine justice and bad law. “Judicial activism” is usually asArchibald Cox, the great consociated with liberals, but Paul stitutional lawyer, yearned for soGewirtz of Yale Law School has cial progress but was troubled by shown that lately conservatives constitutional stretching. For exhave been far more likely to strike ample, when other avenues were down laws passed by Congress. unavailable, the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas voted to invaliused the 13th Amendment, date 65 percent of the laws that °

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came before him in cases, while those least likely to do so were Ruth Bader Ginsburg and

Stephen Breyer. Indeed, Breyer has written a thoughtful new book, Active Liberty, which calls for judicial restraint and suggests that the best arena for resolving crucial national questions is legislatures rather than courts. A growing number on the left are questioning the traditional idea of using courts to achieve a more liberal society. Ginsburg, in her Senate hearings, even criticized the scope of Roe v. Wade for short-circuiting the legislative process: “My view is that if Roe had been less sweeping, people would have accepted it more readily, would have expressed themselves in the political arena in an enduring way on this question.” In the magazine of the DemoCouncil, cratic Leadership William Galston warned: “We must acknowledge that as a party, we have opened ourselves to charges of elitism. We cannot be an effective party if we substitute litigation for mobilization. We cannot be a democratic party if we do not trust the people.” That doesn’t mean blindly trusting Miers or any other Supreme Court nominee. But it does mean that the main mode for seeking a more liberal agenda, such as permitting gay marriage or barring public displays of the Ten Commandments, should be the democratic process, not the undemocratic courts. And it also suggests that the Republicans are dead right to fret about judicial activism—and we should hold them to their word.

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waste to, say, the entire population of Maryland. Phew, hokay... anyNew York University abroad proway,... When did we all gram. The only reason this is important start going to colis because I’m taklege? Well, it was in those great years foling a class here called “The Cultural lowing the great vicHistory of the City tory in our last dein Central Europe: aaron kirschenfeld clared war when all the Gls came home Prague, Budapest, so far, so good from killing Nazis Vienna and Berlin.” and Japanese peoDuring our Sept. 26 class we discussed green spaces, pie and then went to school to get degrees and settle the and, in particular, the role of juniper bushes in Viennese gardens. suburbs and drive big cars with tail These are the first lines ofmy notes fins and have wives who put their heads in ovens and 2.2 kids and barfrom that day. “Comments on Landscape in Vibeques and you get the picture. enna—A lot about gardens, how he Now about halfof us go to college. That’s right. We’re the big miligathered information, Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, not unique tary winners of the 20th century. And now that Jews, Roma, disabled or temporary, identifiable functions (could have many) this is repeople and homosexuals aren’t ally just entertainment education being shipped to concentration (modern) as entertainment, like, camps and armies aren’t mobilizing who the f*** gets to care about a for a cataclysmic global conflict, we (meaning the young, healthy, somejuniper bush?” Ah, yes, good, we’re into it now. what wealthy people) get to go to The year is 2005 and the Cold War school to study stuff like the meanhas been over for nearly 15 years. ing of time and space and of cities This is a good thing because now and gardens and hip-hop and farmworkers. I have done these things. I the Russians or the Americans probhave taken three documentary studably will not kill the world’s population 10 times over. For that reason, ies courses at Duke, one cultural anit’s good that Capitalism won and thropology, a linguistics, three sethat the Soviet Union dissolved. It’s mesters of Portuguese and a good to live in a time of relative handful of history. I have been enpeace and security. I mean, now couraged to take whatever courses I wanted to take, to learn, to write, to we’ve got the pesky terrorist problem or the possibility of some whack be circumspect. Making my last documentary job getting a nuke or an anthrax film, interviewing an old Turkish bomb or some other kind of horriman who was at one point in his life ble creation and vaporizing, elimi-

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a high-ranking soldier, this guy asks me what I’m doing. I say I’m taking a film class at Duke, and he looks straight into the camera and with the most serious expression says, “That’s good.” And it is good. It’s good to have the luxury of education for a purpose not directly tied to employment, to social control or to warfare. It’s good for people to talk about parks andjuniper bushes and “all the considerations of meaning, like time, identity, and event” even if it sounds like bull, or even if it is bull. Then my question is thus. Is my Duke education, or even yours, merely entertainment? Should it be? Should it be a pat on the back to the people before me who lived through extreme violence, strife and the such—a way of saying, “Thanks for the opportunity, guys. Now I’m going to study fun stuff!” Or would they want me to educate myself into a better, more informed, more thoughtful person? A more helpful person? If that’s even possible in our world? So here I am in Prague, Czech Republic, where about 35 years ago Soviet tanks rolled through the city and silenced dissenters, artists, writers and students who realized what the world could be like in the absence of overt violence. And here I am with my military in Iraq, torturing people I don’t know but whom I also don’t think about too hard.

I’m studying parks. That is, until the next big war, least!

Aaron Kirschenfeld is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

powers of the University shall be vested in a Board of Trustees consisting of thirty-six elected members and the President of the University, ex officio,” state the bylaws of Duke University. There can be no clearer statement as to just what body has the ultimate authority over Duke’s affairs. And that entity met this past weekend to decide issues of critical importance to Duke, including the direction that elliott wolf we will take and the prioritransparency ties that we will embrace next over the several years. But, like every other meeting of the Board ofTrustees in recent memory, that so crucial and influential gathering was held behind closed doors under a veil of secrecy. No public comment was solicited, no explicit agenda was published and those present at the meeting (including a number of administrators and students present for certain portions) were prohibited from publicly disclosing the specifics of what occurred. Anthony Vitarelli, Trinity ’O5, the Board’s most recently elected Young Trustee, simply scoffed “the meetings are strictly confidential” after being asked if he could discuss anything. Duke Student Government President Jesse Longoria, a senior who spoke to the Board briefly as an undergraduate representative and answered questions, said he was required to sign a confidentiality agreement. The only information that the Duke community receives about the meetings comes from several short press releases and a single press conference where The Chronicle is only allowed to send one reporter. Press releases are handed out and reporters from multiple news organizations vie to get as much information as possible in a limited amount of time with several Duke officials and the chairman of the Board. And so, why should we care? Why not simply trust the Board of Trustees (and the administration, for that matter) to appropriately conduct its business behind closed doors and assume it’s in the best interests of the University? Regardless of the fact that the Board does have our best interests at heart, the Duke community deserves to understand the motives and deliberations that go into deciding matters ofcritical importance to the University. The only way that can happen is if the public is privy to the meetings, even if we’re not given the opportunity to actively participate. And considering all of the notions of academic freedom and the importance of open public discussion in a democratic society often espoused by President Richard Brodhead, it is difficult to grasp any explanation for keeping the meetings confidential. But recent events have also shown that there is a clear need for even the most rudimentary levels of fiscal and institutional transparency at private educational institutions. The president of American University, Benjamin Ladner, is about to be forced out after an anonymous source tipped off the AU Trustees and the media about his improper use of university funds. According to documents provided to The Washington Post, Ladner and his wife used AU funds for, among other things, a “family engagement party that cost hundreds of dollars per person, ‘professional development’ trips for the couple’s personal chef to Paris, London and Rome, and a lunch of more than $5,000 hosted by [Ladner’s wife] for a garden club,” Ladner was able to hide behind AU’s confidentiality rules, which appear very similar to those of Duke, for a full three years while he improperly spent an estimated $500,000 on personal expenses. The only reason that anyone knows about his actions is because someone in his office and someone on the AU Board of Trustees was good enough to release information to the press, putting their own positions in peril for the benefit of the public and the school. Not to suggest that anything even remotely similar is happening at Duke, but AU’s current troubles underscore the need for accountability and disclosure. While Duke is not legally obliged to disclose anything beyond what it already does, the effective and far more transparent operations of public universities demonstrate that such levels ofconfidentiality are not necessary to the operations of a university. I am one of the tens of thousands of Duke students who have benefited immeasurably from the generosity of past and present donors (many of whom are current or former trustees). But I must now ask for one more thing—the simple right to know what it is that the University’s ultimate governing body is considering and why it is considering it. Elliott Wolf is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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