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Journalists JudyWoodruff,Trinity '6B (above), and her husband Al Hunt spoke to fellow Duke parents Saturday.

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A crowd of about 100 Duke parents and students filled the von der Heyden Pavilion Saturday morning to hear journalists Judy Woodruff, Trinity ’6B, and AI Hunt speak about politics and the media. The presentation, entitled “How Well Do They Mix? The Press, Politics and Public Policy,” was part of a series of inaugural events to celebrate the recent

openings of the von der Heyden Pavilion and Bostock Library. Robert Byrd, director of the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, welcomed parents and explained that every year the library invites new Duke parents to speak about issues relevant to their work—a Parents’ Weekend tradition called “The Library Presents Duke Moms and Dads.” Woodruff, a former Duke trustee who is married to Hunt, is

a TV newscaster who recendy left CNN to pursue other projects in documentary film and study as a visiting fellow at Harvard University. During her thirty-year career in daily news, Woodruffworked as a White House correspondent for NBC, hosted Frontline for PBS, anchored the nighdy news for CNN and hosted Inside Politics for CNN. Hunt is currently the Washington editor of Bloomberg SEE

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Duke professors, researchers and administrators contributed nearly four times as much money to Democratic candidates and affiliated organizations than they did to Republican equivalents between 1990 and 2004, The Chronicle has found. As the debate about academic freedom continues, the data seem to quantify the notion that professors at Duke are on the whole more liberal than conservative. “There are no conservatives at Duke,” said Michael Munger, chair of the political science department. “Even the conservatives are liberal—there are no conservatives in academia in the sense of straight-up Republicans.” According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Duke administrators and faculty accounted for 1,564 separate political donations of $2OO or more—totaling $843,895—during this period. About 74 percent of those donations, or 1,157, went to groups formally affiliated with Democrats. Fifteen percent, or 229 donations, went to Republicans. Eleven percent of the contributions, or 178, went to independent and third-party groups. The majority of these groups consider themselves left-leaning. Breaking the funds down by cash amount, Duke professors and administrators provided

$605,875 to Democratic causes; $152,330 to Republican causes; and $85,690 to independent and unaffdiated groups. Only 73 professors and administrators made a donation to a Republican cause, compared with 251 who contributed to a Democratic group or candidate. Fifteen individuals donated to both parties, yielding 58 Republican-only contributors and 236 Democrat-only contributors. Contributions to Democratic causes steadily outnumbered donations to Republican ones in both frequency and cash amount. But the ratio between dollars given to Democratic groups and dollars given to Republican ones fluctuated. This ratio is the most meaningful criterion for determining political trends, said Department of Economics Chair Thomas Nechyba, because it accounts for an increasing faculty size and compares total dollar amounts rather than frequencies of contribution. Excepting 2002, this ratio has SEE DONATIONS ON PAGE 8

This article is the first in a two-part series. Tomorrow The Chronicle will take a look at the top ten donors between 1990 and 2004 and the extent of their ability to maintain a politically neutral classroom.

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For the last five years, officials for Wake County public schools have coordinated a program which integrates students by income. Some like it; some don’t. But one things is clear: Since the plan’s implementation, students’ test scores have risen significantly. Supporters have called the economic integration concept an ambitious program that will help low-income students get quality education by equalling the playing field in the classroom. Critics say they do not like the way some students are reassigned and bused to schools miles away from their neighborhoods. Regardless of current disputes, the success or failure of Wake’s program will likely affect the possibility of the plan being implemented in Durham County or other districts nationwide.

Durham Public Schools have not implemented a districting program like Wake County's, which integrate studentsby income.

The plan Five years ago the Wake County School Board SEE EDUCATION ON PAGE 10

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newsinbrief Looting breaks out in Mexico Mexicans and stranded tourists, hungry and frustrated after a two-day beating by Hurricane Wilma, stood in line to buy supplies Sunday. Others simply raided grocery and furniture stores, dragging goods out from shops ripped open by the storm.

Fla. prepares for Wilma's landfall by David Royse THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rain pounded Key KEY WEST, Fla. West late Sunday as Hurricane Wilma accelerated toward storm-weary Florida, threatening residents with 115-mph winds, tornadoesand a surgeof seawater that couldflood the Keys and the state’s southwest coast. After moving slowly through the Caribbean and along the Mexico coast, Wilma picked up speed and strength Sunday, shooting toward the U.S. mainland as a Category 3 storm. Wilma was expected to make landfall before dawn Monday in the state’s southwest corner.

The southern half of the state was under a hurricane warning, and an estimated 160,000 residents were told to evacuate, although many in the low-lying Keys island chain stayed. At least three tornadoes were confirmed in the state, near Fort Drum, Kenansville and Cocoa Beach, and a large waterspout was spotted off Key West. “I cannot emphasize enough to the folks that live in the Florida Keys: A hurricane is coming,” Gov. Jeb Bush said. “Perhaps people are saying, Tm going to hunker down.’ They shouldn’t do that. They should evacuate, and there’s very little time left to do so.”

Forecasters warned of flooding from a

storm surge of up to 17 feet on the southwest coast and 8 feet in the Keys, where streets were already running with water

117 die in Lagos plane crash A Nigerian passenger plane carrying 117 people crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday after leaving Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria. Officials said Sunday that all aboard were feared dead.

Sunday night. Because the storm was expected to move so swiftly across Florida, residents of Adantic coast cities were also likely to face hurricane-force winds nearly as strong as those on the Gulf Coast, forecasters said. Despite the repeated warnings, fewer than 10 percent of the Keys’ 78,000 residents evacuated, Monroe County Sheriff Richard Roth said.

Strain of bird flu identified The British government said Sunday that a strain of bird flu that killed a parrot in quarantine is the deadly HSNI strain that has plagued Asia and recently spread to Europe. Scientists determined that the parrot died of the strain of avian flu that has devastated poultry stocks and killed 61 people in Asia the past two years.

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Insurgent attacks leave at least 20 dead byLeeKeath THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An insurgent’s car BAGHDAD, Iraq exploded in a suicide attack in a Baghdad square Sunday, killing four people in the first significant suicide bombing in the capital in weeks. More than 20 Iraqis died in a swell ofviolence, including a bomb that killed a police colonel and four children. Still, with the toll among American service members in the Iraq war approaching 2,000 dead, the U.S. military said it has hampered insurgents’ ability to unleash more devastating suicide

bombings with a series of offensives in disrupted militant

western towns that

operations. “We have interrupted the flow of the suicide missions into the large urban areas. Certainly, we have had success denying free movement of car bombs into Baghdad,” Brig. Gen. Donald Alston told reporters in the capital. “It is also a function of Iraqi citizens who have come forward and with their support we have found car bomb factories,” he said. “We have found a series of large weapon caches.” In Sunday’s attack, the attacker drove

his explosives-laden car into two police vehicles in downtown Tahrir Square at 11:30 a.m., killing two police officers and two civilians. U.S. troops rushing to the scene in Humvees found bystanders tending to 11 wounded. In the past, Baghdad has been heavily battered by deadly suicide attacks, with a string of them killing nearly 700 people from April 1 to early September. But amid the intensified security clampdown, suicide car bombings have been gready reduced in recent weeks across the country, and those that have occurred have caused fewer casualties.

National gas prices decrease Retail gas prices across the nation fell an average of 25 cents in the past two weeks as refineries in the Gulf Coast steadily resumed production, according to a survey released Sunday. Still, prices remained slightly higher than pre-Hurricane Katrina levels. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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DSG to aid communication with town hall discussions by

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In the last few days, a number of Duke Student Government executive officials and senators acknowledged that communication has been a problem for this year’s administration. As DSG kicks off the first in its series of town hall meetings tonight, members of the executive committee hope to improve communication with both students and administrators. Tonight’s town hall meeting, called Duke 24, will be the first in a number of initiatives to better connect DSG with students, DSG leaders said. “I don’t think we have the lines of communication to the point we need to have them,” said DSG President Jesse Longoria, a senior. “But the [town hall meeting] is a great first step.” Communication problems have posed

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DSG President Jesse Longoria, a senior, is aiming to boost communication with town hall meetings.

a challenge to DSG for years, but some contend the problem is more pronounced this year. Late elections for freshmen and atlarge senators and more stringent e-mail regulations have made publicity difficult for DSG, said Executive Vice President Brandon Goodwin, a senior. Communication shortcomings have affected both internal and external processes. Several senators said they were unclear as to the objectives of the executive committee. “I know their general ideas,” said junior Matt Hoekstra, a second-year senator who serves on the Athletics and Campus Services committee this year. “But I don’t really know their approach to those ideas.” DSG leaders also solicited and interviewed students for a task force to which student members had already been appointed. On campus, many students said they were unaware of or apathetic toward DSG’s role—a sentiment that is not new but suggests a lack ofcommunication. Sophomore Jonathan Schwartz said DSG was a “non-factor” in his everyday life. “I don’t really hear about what goes on in student government. I don’t really hear anything,” he added. Despite the communication problem, Longoria —who ran on a platform of increased communication last year—said DSG participation is up on the whole. The increase was evidenced by the high turnout for Student Organization Finance Committee and senator elections in September, he added. Other campus leaders agreed that communication on the whole is more difficult this year. Senior Brittany Greenfield, chair of Campus Council’s Facilities and Services SEE DSG ON PAGE

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Peter Agre, DUMC vice chancellorfor science and technology, spoke in the GrossChemistry building Saturday.

Nobel Prize winner recalls youth, chemistry research by

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The Nobel laureate had the crowd in stitches. The 150 people who showed up at the Gross Chemistry building Friday to hear Dr. Peter Agre, vice chancellor for science and technology at Duke University Medical Center, may not have expected the co-discoverer of aquaporins—channels in cell membranes that allow the passage of water—to pepper his speech with self-deprecating jokes told in a Minnesota deadpan. The winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Chemistry attributed his professional success to the intelligence of his colleagues and his inclination to consult “a lot of smart people” when working on a problem. “Ordinary people get struck by lightning, they get kicked to death by hogs—in North Carolina anyway—and some of them win Nobel Prizes,” he said. “I think to make more of it than that is probably a mistake.”

The speech, entitled “From Lake Wobegon to Stockholm: Personal Reflections,” combined elements of a biochemistry lecture with anecdotes from Agre’s medical career and childhood in Northfield, Minn. Agre spent his formative years in Northfield, a place he described as “an idyllic village set up there in the farmland." His father Courdand Agre was a professor of chemistry at St. Olaf College, and the family lived in a neighborhood Agre said was entirely Norwegian. “Every year the king SEE ACRE ON PAGE 9

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Sponsored by the: President’s Office, Provost’s Office; Dean’s Office; Social Sciences; Duke Athletics; Institute for Critical U.S. Studies; Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies; Pratt School of Engineering; Duke Law School; University Libraries; Program in Women’s Studies; Baldwin Scholars Program; Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life; Duke Divinity School; Duke Women’s Center; Master of Arts in Liberal Studies; Department of History; Multicultural Center; Center for Race Relations; and Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library.

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Google Scholar offers mtvU hosts auditions research alternative on campus for sitcom that Google Scholar can be easier for lessexperienced researchers to use. to the “It allow for a user-friendly interface the continual reshape In process and doesn’t necessarily require students to landscape ofresearch and information access, the Google enterprise has extended know how to use databases,” she said. Linda Martinez, librarian at the Vesic into the academic world with Google Library for Engineering, Mathematics and Scholar, an innovation that is rapidly gainPhysics, said some FOCUS classes have reing play on Duke’s campus. ceived instruction on how to use Google Scholar an provides all-purGoogle Scholar for their first research experiences pose search engine for scholarly publications to help researchers of all levels on campus. Like the original Google search en“stand on the shoulders of giants,” as its gine, Google Scholar offers students the homepage touts. Over the years, Google has gained a most useful references at the top of the reputation as the general stop-and-go site page, but it also considers an article’s author, the publication in which the article for anyone needing to find basic informaScholar tion on countless topics. Google appeared and the number of previous citalaunched last year to give students and tions in scholarly literature. scholars alike a more straightforward way Despite recognizable benefits, some Duke librarians cast doubt on the organito do academic research. Duke library officials, optimistic about zational strength of Google Scholar, “With our proprietary databases, I can the development, named Google Scholar in its online listing of popular databases, tell you exactly which journals are availalongside LexisNexis Academic and Ency- able, but with [Google Scholar] you have no indication of what scholarly resources clopaedia Brittanica Online. Emily Werrell, Perkins Library coordi- are being covered,” Martinez said, Werrell explained that Google does nator for instruction and outreach, said students should keep in mind that they not disclose its criteria for choosing can still use InterLibrary Loan to obtain searchable journals, There is no systemized approach for documents electronically, but she noted -*g. publishers to renew their intF formation on Google Schol1 Jr ,:VV I ar, librarians said. In addij^f"%^ /' tion, major publications such m m 1 m 1 I1m 1 as Elsevier and the Journal of by

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Fliers and e-mails circulating around campus last week asked students: “Ready for your 15 minutes?” As it turned out, only six students were ready to show up Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. to audition for a situation comedy airing on the cable network mtvU. Students auditioned for a small speaking role as a “waiter/waitress” on an upcoming sitcom produced by students at Boston University. The show, called “Roller Palace,” is slated to begin shooting in November and air this spring on mtvU, a division of MTV that is shown primarily on college campuses. Tiffany Locus and Willene Hare, both juniors working for mtvU, set up the auditions Saturday in a Keohane Quadrangle commons room and waited patiently for students to arrive. “I was expecting a little more turnout,” Hare said. “But it is 9:00 a.m., and Parents Weekend.” Actors who did show up were also surprised at the low turnout. “I think if this was [the University of Southern California], there would be a line outside the door,” sophomore Kimberly Jerdan said. The auditions were run on several college campuses across the country by students who workfor mtvU as localrepresentatives, conducting marketing campaigns and other events for mtvU on campus. Actors at each site spoke their lines via

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Six students came to aKeohane Quadrangle commons room Saturday to audition for mtvU representatives. webcam to the director—a student at Boston University. At Duke, however, there were delays setting up the webcam connection, and the auditions did not begin until 45 minutes after the announced starting time. “We were waiting since 9:00 a.m.,” freshman Sarah Sham said. SEE MTVU ON PAGE 9

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Stanford offers podcasts of classes, games Stanford University unveiled an arrangement with Apple Computer on Thursday that makes hundreds of Stanford podcasts available free to anyone through the company’s popular iTunes Music Store. The podcasts include lectures by the university’s professors, music from its students, and play-by-play descriptions of its football games. Though several professors at other institutions have posted individual lectures to iTunes’ directory of podcasts over the past few months, Stanford is the first university to make an institutional commitment to offering podcasts through the Apple music hub. Apple officials say they are also working with other colleges that want to use iTunes as a repository for both academic and extracurricular materials.

Spielberg to relocate Holocaust foundation

Renowned director Steven Spielberg, who started a foundation that has collected 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and liberators, said Thursday that moving the collection to the University of Southern California would help fulfill his vision of the archive as a worldwide tool for teaching about injustice and the need for tolerance. Survivors “needed to tell their story,” Spielberg said, speaking to a packed audience of students and university officials at a ceremony marking the move. Now, Spielberg said, the university can

play a role in preserving those stories and in “disseminating the 52,000 voices that will never be silent, because we will pro-

tect them.”

DTH files grievance against elections board The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper for the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, filed a formal complaint against the UNC Board of Elections for allegedly violating UNC’s Student Code. The Daily Tar Heel claims the election board breached the Code by not announcing the results of a special election to fill vacancies in the Student Congress, and by scheduling re-elections two weeks after the original special election. The elections board denied it had violated the code. Yale graduate students issue complaint A group of Chinese graduate students at Yale University filed a grievance with the dean of the graduate school there on Thursday, asserting that some Yale professors and administrators routinely treat Chinese students unfairly. “We’re being singled out unfairly to defend our academic standing again and again in order to keep our student standing, to keep our visa,” said Xuemei Han, a Ph.D. student in the university’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology. The grievance was sponsored by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization and signed by about 300 people.

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Mlers faces little support in confirmation process not seen “anything coming from the White House that says that they’re going WASHINGTON Harriet Miers to pull this nomination.” Brownback has been skeptical of does hot have the votes now in the GOP-controlled Senate to be confirmed Miers and has not announced how he for the Supreme Court, and confirmawill vote. “They’re doing everything they tion hearings “will be make or break... can to prepare Harriet Miers for the in away they haven’t been for any other hearings right now,” he said. nominee,” a leading Democratic senaMiers, a longtime Bush confidante who has never been a judge, was nomitor said Sunday. While Democrats pressed the White nated to replace retiring Justice Sandra House to provide documents from Day O’Connor. The nomination has troubled a numMiers’ work as the president’s counsel, ber of conserRepublicans ives who sa' said the it was a risky nomination “I think there is maybe one or two choice because that has Miers was a riled conseron the Judiciary Committee who blank slate on vatives is not have said they’d support her as issues such as in trouble or abortion and in danger of of right now.” gay withrights. being Democrats, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N. Y. drawn. too, have exSen. pressed conCharles about cerns Schumer, a current White House counwhether that the member of the committee plans confirmation hearings beginning Nov. sel could sever her close ties to Bush and 7, said lawmakers from both parties are rule independendy if she were chosen to concerned about Miers’ qualifications, sit on the bench. Presidential spokesperson Christie independence and judicial philosophy. “I think, if you were to hold the vote Parell said Sunday that the White House looks forward to the hearings and is contoday, she would not get a majority, either in the Judiciary Committee or on fident that Miers will be confirmed. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, one of the floor,” said Schumer, D-N.Y. “I think there is maybe one or two on Miers’ strongest-supporters and a memthe Judiciary Committee who have said ber of the committee, criticized they’d support her as of right now,” Schumer for trying to predict how senators would vote. Schumer said. “This really represents a radical deBut the chair of the committee reparture from the sort of civil and dignijected the notion that Miers’ nomination was shaky. fied process that we set up” during the Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said most hearings to confirm Chief Justice John Roberts, Cornyn said in an interview senators are waiting for the hearings betheir mind. over the telephone. “To prejudge the fore making up nominee before she’s even had a “There are no votes one way or another,” Specter said on CBS’ “Face the chance to participate in the hearingjust strikes me as unfair.” Nation.” Another committee Republican, Sen. Republicans hold a 10-8 majority in the committee. Sam Brownback of Kansas, said he has by

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Dr. McKinnon specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma and cataract. His areas of expertise include open and closed angle glaucomas, neovascular and other secondary glaucomas, and inherited juvenile glaucomas. He is experienced in all forms of anterior segment procedures including laser therapy and filtering surgeries for glaucoma, as well as cataract surgery His research activities include NIH-sponsored research exploring the basic mechanisms of retinal cell death in glaucoma. His other research areas include neuroprotective glaucoma therapies, non-invasive imaging of glaucoma damage, and relationships between glaucoma and other chronic neurodegenerations such as Alzheimer’s disease. He will also be integrally involved in the teaching of medical students, residents, and fellows.

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risen slightly over the past seven years: in 1998, it was 4.42—meaning for every dollar a Duke professor or administrator contributed to a Republican candidate or organization, $4.42 went to a Democratic

equivalent

In 2000, the ratio rose to 4.62; it fell in 2002 to 2.67—largely due to Associate Professor of Cardiology Robert Waugh’s $6,500 contribution to the Republican Party of Florida campaign account. In 2004, however, the ratio rose again, reaching 4.76. “It could be the changing impression on where parties stand, or it could be an ideological change in the faculty,” Nechyba said, adding that the increase in faculty size alone cannot account for a change in the ratio The faculty increased from 1,620 in 1990 to 2,477 in 2004, according to data from the University archives. Whether this growth of faculty explains the increased number of Democradc contributions rather than a broad political shift further to the left—remains unclear. “My sense is that there is no ideological change in the faculty,” saidjoel Fleishman, a professor of law and public policy and an expert in campaign finance. Fleishman contends that the correlation between liberalism and the widening contribution gap is imperfect. “I diink it’s cyclical, not a straight-line trend,” said Fleishman, adding that even if relatively more funds went to Democrats, it does not mean the trend will continue. “It depends on who the candidates are. If we were to have the Republicans and Democrats nominate candidates who are not as controversial as George Bush and Bill Clinton, you’d see a downswing in die report that’s the determinant.” Prior to 1998, the ratio of Democratic dollars to Republican dollars had fluctuated wildly. In 1990, that ratio was 23.75. The relatively high number likely stemmed from a dearth of worthwhile Republican candidates in local elections, said John Aldrich, a professor of political science. Eighty-one Democratic contributions totaled $30,285 that year, far outgunning the two Republican contributions which produced $1,275. In 1992 and 1994, the rado decreased —

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substantially, reaching levels of 1.43 and 1.96, respectively. Fleishman said these years corroborate the impact of former Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich’s conservative “revolution.” Gingrich set forth a galvanizing “Contract with America” in those years, likely accounting for the updck in Republican contributions from Duke, Fleishman said. When Republicans won both houses of Congress in 1994, Democrats responded with increased givings, Fleishman said. At Duke, the difference was staggering: The $9,775 that Duke faculty donated to Democratic causes in 1994 skyrocketed to $101,248 in 1996. Compared to those giving to Republicans, faculty and administrators supporting Democrats tended to give less money per donation but made more contributions between 1990 and 2004. Republican backers averaged $669 per donation, while the fig-

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ure was $484 for Democratic supporters. Only in 1996 and 1998—in the wake of the Gingrich revolution—did Democratic dollars per contribution exceed the Republican amount. Fleishman said this finding is consistent with the traditional notion that Democrats draw upon a larger but less affluent funding base. Contributions to unaffiliated and thirdparty organizations grew steadily throughout the 14 years. In 1990,radiation oncology professorLeonard Prosnitz made a single $3OO donation to the political action committee Independent Action. Last year, Duke faculty and administrators made 88 separate donations to unaffiliated groups, including MoveOn.org, America Coming Together, Environment 2004 and a number of professional medical organizations. Several professors said the role of these political action groups has mushroomed in large part because of the Internet.

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But Munger said that growth may also from the McCainFeingold Bill, also known as the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002. By the terms of the act, individuals can now contribute up to $2,000 per candidate, -$25,000 per national party committee and $lO,OOO per state and local party committees each election. The bill also oudawed the contribution of unlimited soft money to national parties. Political action groups like MoveOn.org, however, have sprung up as a kind of middleman, effecting the same transaction between a contributor and a party that the McCain-Feingold Bill was supposed to oudaw. “It’s a disaster,” said Munger, who testified before the Senate against the bill. “They have no accountability. I have no idea what they’re for. Parties are at least responsible because they have candidates.” trace back to fallout

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Even though they were playing each other in Saturday’s annual Blue-White Scrimmage, the Blue Devils didn’t skimp on intensity. With three minutes left in the second period, senior Sean Dockery, the point guard for the trailing Blue team, squatted down and slapped the floor of Coach K court. Freshmen Jamal Boykin and Martynas Pocius immediately followed the senior’s lead, slapping the floor at Cameron. And even Eric Boateng, who was guarding Shelden Williams under the basket, bent down to hit the floor—even if just with one hand. “I thought all the kids were excited to play, and it’s good to see, especially the freshmen, in front of a crowd,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. Saturday’s game provided many of the Cameron Crazies and their families a first glimpse at the 2005-2006 men’s basketball team, which was unanimously selected Sunday at the league’s annual media luncheon as the favorite to win this season’s ACC title. Showcasing their veteran talent and youthful promise, the Blue Devils split into two squads—Duke’s projected starters and everyone else —for the first of the two 15minute periods. A senior-heavy White team, consisting of Dockery, unanimous preseason All-ACC team members JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams, sophomore DeMarcus Nelson and freshman Josh Mcßoberts, took down the Blue Team 4724 in a 15-minute contest. Addressing the crowd at halftime, Krzyzewski said the teams would be mixed up and the score reset for the second scrimmage. “It’s my game. I can do what I want,” Krzyzewski said

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right) had a combined six steals in Senior JJ. Redick (top) was the leading scorer on Saturday with 27 points, while freshman Greg Paulus (above captain Saturday. the Devils fourth was named Blue left) the two games. Senior Lee Melchionni (bottom,

The second-game White team, with Patrick Johnson, Lee Melchionni, Redick, Williams, Nelson and freshman Greg Paulus, won again 38-30. The Blue Devil seniors, efficient with their minutes on the court, shined during the two short scrimmages. Dockery went 10-for-13, scoring 22 points, and newly-named captain Melchionni added 20. Other captains Redick and Williams scored 27 and 12 points, respectively. Complementing the experienced upperclassmen, many of the freshmen will add fresh legs to Duke, which lacked depth last season. With strong players coming off the bench, the Blue Devils will be able to press more on defense and move the ball down the court quicker, Krzyzewski said. The first Blue team, which included Melchionni, Boateng, Boykin, Paulus, Pocius and Johnson, scored first. Pocius found Melchionni inside for an easy layup, and then on the next possession, Paulus fired a pass to Pocius, who was fouled. He made the two free throws to give the Blue team the early 4-0 lead. There were, however, plenty of misdirected passes that fell either out of bounds or into the hands of the other team. Paulus threw a blind, over-the-head pass in the general direction of the basket for one of his five turnovers. But Paulus was also one of the best passers on the court Saturday, finding open teammates from the point. “He’s got great vision,” Krzyzewski said. “He’ll do really well in the future. It’s just a matter of getting comfortable.”

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Duke’s team volleyball stretched its home win streak this season to eight games with a 3-1 victory over Miami Friday. The Blue Devils (13-6, 7-4 in the ACC) MIAMI J_ split the DUKE 3 first two games of the match but sophomore setter Ali Hausfeld recorded her third career triple-double to help Duke take the final two games. After falling in the second game by the margin of 30-19, the Blue Devils went to their locker room to regroup before the pivotal third game. “We just talked about our defense a little bit after that game, and also our blocking, because we were not too disciplined on it in the first game and even less disciplined on it in the second,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. Duke came out strong following the adjustments, but Miami (10-9, 5-6) won seven straight points to take a 24-22 lead late in the third game. The Blue Devils attempted to slow the Hurricanes’ momentum with two timeouts during the run, and came back to force a tie at 25. Duke closed out the crucial third game with a 4-0 run in which Ali Hausfeld tallied 3 assists and the final kill to

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Both coaches and players were glad to be back in Cameron for the second of four straight ACC home matches, following a 1-3 road swing the previous two weeks. “I really think that it helps playing at Cameron, it gives us a lot of energy,” Hausfeld said.

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pass from forward Mike Grella. Less than a minute after that, Camp found Danny Kramer open on the left side of the net. Kramer put a shot past Gonzalez and into the opposite corner of the goal, and the rout was on. No. 16 Duke (9-3-1, 3-2-1 in the ACC) beat No. 14 N.C. State (9-5-1, 3-3-1), 6-0, Friday at Koskinen Stadium, recording the team’s highest goal, total of the season. The shutout was the Blue Devils’ fifth of the year. ‘You never expect to win a game in this league by more than JESSICA SCHREIBER/THE CHRONICLE one goal,” Duke head coach Freshman forward Mike Greila assisted Rennie said. “To score as John Duke's first and last goals as the Blue many goals, and some really, really good goals, as we did in the Devils roiled over No. 14 N.C. State.

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JuniorDarby Kroyer scored Duke's lone goal less than nine minutes into thesecond half Sunday.

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With fatigue setting in as Sunday’s game against Florida State reached the 105th minute mark, Seminole Mami Yamaguchi fought off a leg cramp and netted a shot to the back post to lift Florida State to a 2-1 victory over Duke. The game-winDUKE ning goal came FSU 2 during the second overtime at the Seminole Soccer Complex in Tallahassee, Fla., as the Blue Devils lost for the second consecutive contest. “It was two very, very high level teams playing,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “This was really, a really good game from the opening minute all the way through the 104th minute.” The first half was a defensive batde, as the suffocating Blue Devil defense allowed No. 9 FSU a season-low one shot. Likewise, the Seminoles held Duke (11-4-1, 5-4 in the ACC) to three shots going into a scoreless halftime. The game was not scoreless for long, however. Florida State (14-2, 7-2) quickly took the lead 10 seconds into the second half with a hard, 25-yard shot to the low, left corner. The sixth-ranked Blue Devils countered a few minutes later to knot the score at one with their own long-range shot from junior midfielder Darby Kroyer. “We came right back, and Darby Kroyer

scored a great, great goal for us about 20 to 25 yards out,” Church said. “She just hit a bomb, and it just found the upper part of the net.” The Duke offense never backed down, almost taking the lead in the final minutes of the game. A potential game-winning shot from Kate Seibert hit the crossbar in the 88th minute of regulation. Duke outshot the Seminoles 8-7 in regulation, but in the overtime periods Florida State held a 4-1 shot advantage. “It was definitely an evenly-matched game,” Church said. “The match was a back and forth game. They were two top-10 teams playing. They just happened to score the goal late.” The Blue Devil defense allowed the Seminoles two goals, which is the most it have given up in a match all season. In 16 games, Duke has only allowed a total of eight goals, while netting 23 of its own. Sunday’s 2-1 victory gives FSU its sixth straight win in conference play. Duke, on the other hand, was coming off a tough 1-0 loss to Clemson Oct. 20. Sunday’s loss to the Seminoles leaves Duke in fifth place in the ACC going into the final game of the regular season against Miami Friday Oct. 28. “We’ve proven to ourselves that we can play with anyone in the country,” Church said. “I think, if anything, these two tough losses are going to make us more determined as we finish up our season with Miami and get ready to go to the ACC tournament.”

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UNC 7- VIRGINIA 5 North Carolina's players swore they were better than how they played in a humiliating loss at Louisville two weeks ago, They certainly proved it Saturday. Ronnie McGill ran for 118 yards while Cedrick Holt had a key interception late to cap a stellar defensive effort to help the Tar Heels hold off No. 23 Virginia 7-5, Matt Baker connected with Rikki Cook for the game's only touchdown in the first quarter, which ultimately proved to be all the Tar Heels would need to bounce back from that 69-14 loss to the Cardinals heading into an off week. (AP)

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The Blue Devils won the battle on the ground, but lost the war in the air against a superior Seminole team. No. 11 Florida State (6-1, 4-1 in the ACC) overwhelmed Duke with 539 yards of total offense on its way to a 55-24 victory over the Blue Devils (1-7, 0-5) Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium. Duke could not find away to halt a balanced Seminole offense that threw four touchdowns and rushed for three others. “We had Duke out-personelled tonight, and I thought that [head coach Ted] Roof got about everything out of his kids you could get,” Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden said. “It’s just that they got tired—they got tired, and we played so many people.” The Blue Devil offense scored more points Saturday than it had in any other ACC contest this season. Freshman Re’quan Boyette’s 78-yard touchdown run at the start of the fourth quarter capped a strong day for Duke’s rushing attack. Boyette ran for 123 yards on 10 carries in his return to the lineup after sitting out the last two weeks with a knee injury. Duke’s trio of tailbacks—Boyette, and sophomores Ronnie Drummer and Justin Boyle—ran for a combined 220 yards and three touchdowns, while the Seminoles’ top three running backs Antone Smith, Leon Washington and Lorenzo Booker scored three touchdowns on 105 yards on the ground. Florida State entered the game with the nation’s 10th best run defense, allowing an average of only 93.2 yards per game. “There are a lot of bright spots there,” Roof said. “But at the same time in no way, shape, fashion or form are we happy that we lost, or satisfied or pleased because we play this game to win, and we didn’t do that today.” The Blue Devils may have matched Florida State’s running game, but Seminole quarterbacks Drew Weatherford and Xavier Lee completed passes at will, throwing for 376 yards, four touchdowns and one interception. Duke’s quarterbacks, however, continued to struggle. Zack Asack completed 9-of-18 passes for a paltry 52 yards and no touchdowns. Junior Curt Dukes’ only pass attempt was

intercepted.

On the opening drive of the game, the Seminoles marched 93 yards down the field on a 16-play drive that ended with a 23-yard touchdown pass from Weatherford to Chris Davis. Marcus Jones fumbled on the Duke 17yard line one minute later, giving Florida State the ball right back. After a 12-yard touchdown pass from Weatherford to wide receiver Greg Carr, the Blue Devils trailed 14-0 with 3:44 to go in the first quarter. Carr, who had six receptions for 95 yards and three touchdowns, and fellow true freshman Smith, who rushed for 76 yards and two touchdowns on seven carries, scored five of the Seminoles’ seven touchdowns. “Carr has been doing it all year,” Bowden said. “An tone, [this is] the first time he’s got any significant playing time in an ACC ball game, and he showed you why we signed him last year.” Duke would get on the board in the second quarter, when Boyle pushed through the pile at the goal line for a oneyard touchdown run. The Seminoles, however, would immediately answer with an 11-play, 80-yard

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Eron Riley (top) drew three penalties on the FSU secondary, whileAndreas Platt (above) had 4.5 tackles. touchdown drive that pushed the lead back to 14. Every time the Blue Devils scored, Florida State had an answer. The Seminoles responded with a touchdown in the series direcdy following each of Duke’s four scores. “We haven’t been able to do that in five years, I don’t think, to be able to come back and answer every time the other team scores,” Bowden said. “Every time Duke would grab momentum, we would grab it

right back with our offense.” Roof commented that he was encourto give up but stressed that there are no moral victories. “I was proud of their effort and proud of their fight, but I also think that’s expected, that is what we do,” Roof said. “We are going to continue to coach aggressively and coach to win, and I expect our players to play to win.”

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Facing a Florida State team that has run its inferior opponents off the field with big plays early on, Duke had a simple game plan: Don’t give up the deep ball. Often rushing only three or four down lineaame men, the Blue Devils BO3IySIS were able to doublecover nifiny deep routes and forced Florida State to move the ball methodically down the field using its rushing and short-passing options. The Seminoles, in turn, showed that they are indeed one of the top teams in the nation, committing only one turnover while engineering six sustained drives of more than 60 yards. Florida State’s two redshirt freshmen quarterbacks took what the Duke defense gave them, completing nearly 70 percent of their combined passes. Despite the Seminoles’ offensive success, Roofs defensive strategy allowed the Blue Devils, who showed as much spirit as they

had all year, to hang close with a much more talentedand athletic team. Duke only gave up three plays of more than 25 yards—two of which came late in the fourth quarter after the game had been decided—and trailed by only 10 points as late as the fourminute mark of the third quarter. “[l’m] proud of our fight, proud of our effort, not happy with the results, not satisfied with that,” head coach Ted Roof said. “I thought we had our chances, the final score may not indicate that. I was proud of the way we fought back in there, we just didn’t get it done.” For the Blue Devils’ “bend but don’t break” strategy to be successful, the defense had to be able to make big stops on third downs and in the red zone. But Duke’s failure to do so kept the Blue Devils from a legitimate shot at a huge upset. The Seminoles scored on all six of their trips into the red zone and converted over half of their third downs, keeping Duke’s defense on the field for more than 36 minutes. The resulting fatigue was apparent in the fourth quarter, as the Blue

Devils missed several tackles and failed to pressure the FSU quarterbacks. “When you have a chance to get off the field and you don’t, a lot of times it comes back to bite you, and it did,” Roof said. “Part of that is Florida State is pretty talented, and they did a nice job.” Though Duke’s offense was able to score on a number of big plays, the unit struggled with maintaining long drives that would have allowed the defense to rest. The offense was an abysmal l-for-10 on third-down conversions and led only one drive lasting more than three minutes. Duke further hurt its own cause with a couple of questionable calls by the coaching staff. In the first quarter, Roof decided to insert Curt Dukes at quarterback in an attempt to run the option against the quick FSU defense. After two failed option runs, Dukes, who has struggled throwing the ball all season, lofted a 24yard pass that was easily intercepted by safety Pat Watkins. Duke later sealed its fate while trailing by 17 late in the third quarter. Facing

fourth-and-nine, the Blue Devils attempted a fake punt from their own 27-yard line. The play never had a prayer as punter Chris Sprague was quickly brought down behind the line while trying to run for the first down. Roof refused to apologize for taking chances. “All week long I had been telling the players to play to win, that I was going to coach to win, and we took some gambles out there,” Roof said. “Unfortunately, that one didn’t work and put our defense in a bad position, but we make the decisions that we think are the best at the time.” Despite their mistakes, the Blue Devils played with an admirable energy and grit, never backing down from the heavily-favored Seminoles. Roof said the team hopes to carry over this mindset into their final three games of the season. “We took some steps and we are going to build on those and correct the negatives,” Roof said. “I have confidence and that may sound nuts—but on the sidelines I thought our kids believed. That’s a good start.” —

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The top-ranked Blue Devils cruised to a 27-stroke victory at the Stanford Intercollegiate over the weekend and made their mark on the record books. The tournament win was the 92nd of head coach Dan Brooks’ 22-year Duke career, and he now stands alone as the winningest coach in Division I history. “When I reflect on it, I am most excited about the great student-athletes that I’ve been associated with,” Brooks said. “I am blessed to be associated with an excellent school to coach at and with the student-athletes that choose to come and play for us.” Duke also set the school record for the lowest 54-hole and single-round scores, and senior Liz Janangelo set the mark for the best individual three-day tournament score. The Blue Devils notched a school-record 271 Sunday to finish the tournament with an 18-under-par 834, and Janan-

gelo fired a 202 over the three-day event. All three records had been set at the ACC Championships in

2004 when former Duke golfer Brittany Lang shot a 204, and the Blue Devils closed out the tournament with a 273 to finish with a three-day total of 838. “It was a great thing that we were able to travel all the way across the country and play so well,” Brooks said. “Had we been allowed to play longer, we would have kept going further under par.” The Blue Devils knocked off five top-ten and twelve top-thirty opponents in Palo Alto, Calif., including No. 2 UCLA, which finished runner-up to Duke at the NCAA Championships last season and opened up the 2005 fall campaign ranked No. 1 in the country. The Bruins finished nine shots off Duke’s pace this weekend. Janangelo sat in first place individually after the first two rounds and pulled away from the competition Sunday by shooting

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Senior Liz Janangelo shot all -under 202 to win theStanford Intercollegiate by seven strokes and set an school record for lowest individual three-round score.

a six-under 65. Janangelo started her Duke career with six tournament victories during her freshman and sophomore years, but the senior failed to capture an individual tide during last year’s run to the national champi-

onship.

“It felt great to get this win,” Janangelo said. “Everything just

clicked this weekend. I’ve been working really hard to get my game back to this level, and it was nice to get the weight of winning a tournament off my shoulders.” Freshman Amanda Blumenherst and Junior Anna Grzebien also turned in excellent tournaments and finished in a tie for second place at 4-under par. Grzebien caught fire at the end of last season, winning the ACC Championship and NCAA individual tides, but the junior had to sit out during the summer to rest an ailing wrist. In the team’s first three tournaments, Grzebien has had no trouble riding last year’s momentum—the junior has notched a seventh-place finish to go with her two runner-up performances. With three rounds at-orbelow par at the Stanford Intercollegiate, Blumenherst has completed her first nine rounds and first three tournaments with no above-par rounds. “It’s very exciting, I’m playing really solid golf,” Blumenherst said. “I’ve just-been taking it one shot and one hole at a time and staying with my game.” While not finding quite as much success as her classmate, freshman Jennie Lee finished in 16th place and carded two consecutive rounds at even-par 71 after shooting 4-over in the tournament’s opening round. “She’s been playing great for us,” Brooks said. “She had to take a lot of putts over the weekend, had a few more fallen in, she easily could have shot in the 605.”

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Senior Jonathan Stokke’s out-

standing play continued this weekend as he reached the finals of the 2005 ITA Mideast Regional Championships. But his teammate and the tournament’s top seed, Ludovic Walter could not replicate the same success, as he fell in the quarterfinals. The fifth-seeded Stokke dropped only one set in six matches en route to reaching the finals along with 17th seed Martin Sayer ofRadford. The two opponents agreed not to play the final match because both players had already qualified for the ITA National Indoors in November by reaching the final match. Stokke enjoyed similar success with his doubles partner, junior JoeyAtas. Seeded second, the duo reached the finals before losing to the sixth-seeded pair of Rylan Rizza and Darrin Cohen of Virginia. Duke’s other doubles team of Walter and junior Peter Ro-

drigues, which was seeded third, lost in the quarterfinals. Neither of the Blue Devils’ double teams advanced to the ITA Indoors. This weekend’s performance continued a rash of disappointing results for Walter, who began the season ranked second nationally. Walter has faltered early in each of his tournament appearances this season, losing in the third round of the Southern Intercollegiate

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Sept. 24 and falling in the second round of the All-America Tennis Championships Oct. 6 to an unseeded freshman. “When you’re highly seeded, everyone’s gunning for you,” head coach Jay Lapidus said. “Guys are going to come with their best stuff. He’s got nothing to be ashamed of.” Despite failing to defend his ITA regional title, teammates said Walter, who should still receive an at-large bid to the ITA Nationals, is playing fine and will only improve as he moves toward spring play.

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The eighth-ranked men’s golf team began play Sunday at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational, held at Isleworth Coun-

try Club in Windermere, Fla., and sit in seventh place after the first two rounds. The 54-hole event was initially supposed to be played over three days, but the presence of Hurricane Wilma forced a schedule change—the teams played 36 holes on Sunday and will play the final 18 Tuesday. After the first two rounds of the tournament, the Blue Devils are 15-over par. No. 23 Wake Forest is in first at 7-under par, followed by top-ranked Georgia at six-under. The tournament includes nine of the top 25 teams in the country. Senior Ryan Blaum, ranked 25th nationally, led the way for the Blue Devils, firing rounds of 70 and 73 and sits in a tie for

sixth place at 1-under par. Ninth-ranked junior Jake Grodzinsky opened with a 1-under-par 71 and followed it with a 73 and is currently tied for ninth at even par. “This is one of the most demanding courses we will play all year,” head coach Rod Myers said. “One mental lapse can lead to a missed shot, and while most places that would only lead to a bogey, here it leads to a double or a triple.” The rest of the team discovered just how hard the course is, struggling throughout much of the day. After posting an 8-over-par 80 in his opening round, sophomore Michael Schachner recovered to shoot a second-round 73 and finished the day tied for 58th overall at 9-over. Freshman Clark Klaasen, who is making his first start, is also tied at 58th after rounds of 78 and 75.

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Braving clouds, drizzle and 40-degree temperatures, the women’s rowing team took to the Charles River Sunday for the 41st Head of the Charles Regatta. The Varsity Eight finished 16th out of 47 entries in highly competitive Women’s Championship Eights Race. The two-day competition, held annually in Cambridge, Mass., is the largest of its kind in the world—college and high school teams travel from as far away as England and Germany, and Duke’s competition included the Canadian National Team. Along the approximately three-mile course, the 47 entries raced each other and the clock, starting at 15 second intervals. Duke took the 11th starting position, allowing them a relatively clear path along the course.

“It was nice because we had the Canadian National Team in front of us and Texas right behind us,” coxswain Sarah Shapiro said. “Canada pulled away from us and Texas fell back so we had a clear path” The Blue Devils came out strong, finishing the first segment of the race in 4:08, then slowed a bit through the next section, before pushing through the final segment. With a final time of 17:48, Duke finished just 7.45 percent off the winning boat, the US Rowing team from the Princeton Training Center. The Blue Devil boat consisted of Shapiro, Michelle Lancto, Emma Darling, Virginia Kane, Lia Hart, Emily Herrington, Alissa Van Amam, Leah Frank-Finney and Krista Harryman. Duke will try to carry its momentum into the Class Day Races in Bahama, N.C., Oct. 29.

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Duke women’s swimming and diving (31) edged out both UNC Wilmington and Richmond by scores of 136-107 and 141101,respectively, after falling to both teams last season. The men’s team (1-2), meanwhile , lost 151-90 to UNC Wilmington at the Taishoff Aquatic Pavilicin Saturday in Duke’s second home match of the year. “We knew having lost last year that it was going to be close today,” head coach Dan Colella said. “We were excited to come off our last meet and put in a really great week of training. We are making progress not only in our racing, but also in the energy we are showing on the sideline.” The Blue Devil women were led by seniorKatie Ness, who secured titles in the 200 IM and the 200 backstroke, and juniorJackie Rodriguez, who won the 200 breaststroke title and secured two second place finishes in freestyle events. The women’s 400 medley team also took first place for the second straight match, providing an opening lead that Duke would not relinquish. Senior Andy Storm and sophomores Matt Rinehart and Scott Champagne all claimed individual titles for the men’s team, which failed to secure first in either of the two relays in its second team loss of the year. The 500 freestyle was the most successful event for the Blue Devils who took each of the top three spots.

Freshman Lauren Gonzalez took her first collegiate title in the one-meter dive to lead the diving team. Between the men’s and women’s teams, seven Blue Devils placed in the top three of their respective competitions. “We did exactly what we needed to do today to come away with a win,” diving coach Andy Scott said.

M. SOCCER from page 2 shot to the right side as Gonzalez dove left—for his team-leading ninth goal of the season. In the 21st minute, Kramer put in a rebound off his own shot after fighting through four N.C. State defenders. “I think we came out real intense,” Kramer said. “I’m not saying that they didn’t, but I think we took it to them.We came out flying, we didn’t sit back, and I thought maybe they were sitting back a little bit and letting us attack them. “The main difference is just that we scored goals and we put them away.... Like coach says if you don’t score you’re not going to win.” The Blue Devil defense held star Wolfpack forward Aaron King —who was tied for the ACC lead with 13 tallies—to five shots, but none were on net. Duke goalie Justin Papadakis had to make just one save. After consecutive conference losses to Maryland Oct. 7 and Virginia Oct. 16, the Blue Devils said this match gave them a much-needed boost ofconfidence. “I think it was good to prove to ourselves we can put the ball in the back of the net, if we play our game we can beat anyone,” Kramer said. “We only won one game, so it’s not really going to affect what happens with UNO and Stony Brook.”

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Junior Danny Miller and the Blue Devil defense allowed N.C. State just one shot on goal Friday. Reserve forward Pavelid Castaneda, a freshman, was one player who certainly gained confidence from the game. Castaneda scored his first career goal in the 35th minute on a diving header. “Once I start scoring, forget it, that’s when the trouble comes for the rest of the ACC,” Casteneda said with a laugh. John Taddei contributed to this story.

The men's diving team failed to capture a firstplace finish in the two diving events Saturday.

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ACRE from page 3 of Norway would come to visit,” he said. “He would be motored up to the college in the back of the only Cadillac in town, owned by Mr. Sven Miller, the plumber.” Agre spent a short time in Berkeley, Calif., while his father Courtland was a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. “Leaving Northfield for Berkeley was a little bit like leaving Lake Wobegon for Sodom and Gomorrah,” he said. While teaching in California, Agre’s father befriended a number of well-known chemists, including Nobel laureates Glenn Seaborg and Linus Pauling. “As a child, these people would be at our house,” Agre said. ‘You know, Linus Pauling at the breakfast table eating cornflakes.” Later the Agre family moved back to Minnesota, where the future vice chancellor described himself as an indifferent but sociable student. Agre dropped out of high school in 12th grade; at the time he

WILMA from page 2 “They’re tired of leaving because of the limited damage they sustained during the last three hurricanes,” Roth said. Wilma is Florida’s eighth hurricane since August 2004 and the fourth evacuation of the Keys this year. It has already proved its damaging potential, battering the Mexican coastline with howling winds and torrential rains and killing at least three people there. Thirteen others died in Jamaica and Haiti, and four bodies were found off Cozumel, though it wasn’t clear if they were killed by the storm. By Sunday evening, the hurricane’s

was earning a D in chemistry. He attended Minneapolis’ Augsburg College, and after graduating began medical school at Johns Hopkins University.

Following graduation, Agre practiced internal medicine in Cleveland. He said his patients were “skid row punks who liked me a lot.” They called Agre their “jive doctor” because he had longer hair than anyone else at the hospital. Finding research more interesting than hospital practice, Agre moved to Chapel Hill, where he worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wellcome Labs. Agre worked closely with Duke scientists during his years in the Triangle. Tve always loved Duke,” Agre said. “Fve maintained close ties to my friends and colleagues here.” His daughter Claire graduated from the University in 2002. Agre returned to Baltimore and the cell biology department at JHU after three years in Chapel Hill. It was there, while trying to isolate the blood antigen Rh, he made what he calls a “serendipitous observation.” outer bands were lashing coastal areas in Wilma’s path. It was markedly different than conditions Sunday morning in the Keys, when sunshine beckoned boaters onto the water and many residents went about their normal routines. “We were born and raised with storms, so we never leave,” Ann Ferguson said from her front porch in Key West. “What happens, happens. If you believe in the Lord, you don’t have no fear.” Some 100Key West parishioners attended Mass at a Catholic church where a grotto built in the 1920 is said to provide protection from dangerous storms. Ray Price took his usual stroll down Duval Street to check out the ocean. “Another day in paradise,” Price said

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Agre and his team inadvertendy found an abundant protein known as 28 kDa. The unknown protein had a concentration of 200.000 per cell. “Imagine driving in western North Carolina and finding a city of 200.000 that wasn’t on the map,” Agre said. He was perplexed by die protein, which had no clear function within the cell. Only when a friend suggested that Agre may have discovered the long-sought key to membrane water permeability did he realize the potential significance ofhis mystery protein. Spinal fluid, saliva, and bile “are all examples of water crossing biological barriers,” Agre said. “How the fluids are orchestrated was a long-standing question.” His protein was the answer. The discovery of aquaporins changed scientists’ understanding of how water travels through cell membranes in all forms of life. Agre made light of his role in the discovery, his subsequent feme and his Nobel Prize. “Aiter I won, die QHU] president came right over,” Agre said. “I had no idea we were such good friends!”

MTVU from page 4 When Locus and Hare eventually got the webcam to work, the microphone malfunctioned. Actors had to speak into a cell phone so that the director could hear. “We had two computers to make sure everything went alright; I wasn’t expecting it at all,” Locus said. “But it was a minor problem and everything else went alright. I think it’s cool that students can

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Nobel Prize winner Peter Agre discussed his childhood, education and discoveries at a speech Saturday. come in and talk with the director.” Some of the actors, however, were not comfortable with the setup. “It’s hard to convey your emotions to a webcam and a cell phone,” sophomore Keith Nimene said. Despite all the difficulties, the students remained positive about the opportunity to audition for a television show that will be broadcast nationwide. “I’m very excited,” Sham said. “Opportunities like this don’t come very often here.”

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EDUCATION from page 1 initiated a plan to ensure that no school in its district has more than 40 percent of lowincome students. The low-income students were defined as students who are eligible for free or reduced price lunches. Since then, the standardized test results of the county’s poorest children have improved dramatically. More than 90 percent of students in Wake County in grades three through eight scored at grade level in the spring; ten years ago, it was 79 percent. “In Wake County you have 63.7 percent of students who passed the end-ofcourse exams,” said Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a public policy research group. Kahlenberg said that compared to Mecklenburg and Guilford Counties, which have similar income percentages, Wake’s results are much better—because of the plan’s redistribution. Experts said studies have found that low-income students achieve at high levels when they have a chance to attend middleclass schools. “What they are doing in Wake County makes a lot of sense,” Kahlenberg said. “When low-income students are concentrated in schools, their education suffers from that.” He noted the need to think of students as being citizens of their states rather than just their local districts. David Brady, assistant professor of sociology at Duke, said he is wary of the plan but hopeful about its potential effects. “It is an effective strategy to equalize the resources going to each student,” he said. Brady noted, however, that test scores don’t tell everything. “I don’t know if it’s one hundred percent convincing, but it is encouraging that if you

redistribute kids based on class, you’re integration and added that she has spoken to some parents of bused children going to see some equalizing of their perclassroom,” he said. who hated the plan. formance in the She argued that because children atBrady also touched upon the racial tend schools far away from their homes consequences of the project. “When you reorganize a school district they suffer disadvantages, such as not based on class in the South, you are effecbeing able to participate in after-school tively reorganizing it based on race,” he activities. Brady, however, said busing is necessary said. “So we’re getting towards racial to address the massive social inequality equality through the back door.” Cynthia Matson, president and founder among neighborhoods. “Even if it is a little harsh that they have of Assignment by Choice —an organization created by parents to oppose the plan—- to take a long bus ride, even if some white claimed that parents are probably vocal about the the achievethat their kids ment was not “When you reorganize a school idea have to go somedue to the inwhere out of their district based on class in the tegration by neighborhood, income plan. South, you are effectively reorthat might be the “It is getwe have to the credit price ting ganizing it based on race.” pay to have a more for some of David Brady the equal set of opporsuccess tunities,” Brady that Wake said. County experienced without the merit,” she said Some individuals maintain that busing Matson argued that the numbers do allows low-income students to have a not reflect the number of people who are chance to attend schools where they have successful peers, devoted parents and leaving the public school system or dropout from their schools. “We’re not more qualified teachers. ping Poston argued that his county’s plan comparing apples to apples,” she said. provides for high-quality teachers by re“Price we have to pay” lieving them of the burden of instructing a class full ofless successful students, notOf the 120,000 children in Wake County, more than 97 percent go either to a ing the relationship between income and local school or a school of their choice. success. More than 85 percent of students attend a “Teaching poor kids is challenging,” school within five miles of home. Poston said. “If all your students were Some children, however, have to take heading to Duke, your life [as a teacher] would be easy; it’s highly unlikely that they hour-long rides. Bill Poston, a spokesperson for Wake would have an opportunity to go to Duke.” Brady noted that teachers are paid insufCounty schools, said the county buses ficiendy in North Carolina. “Teacher salaries 3,000 students to achieve the target distribution pattern. in North Carolina are so abysmally low that Matson said students are forced into it’s not surprising to me that they have a

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shortage of good quality teachers,” he said. Brady added that the state government does not put money in education the way it should. This gives the impression, Jie argued, that “we don’t care about our children and investing in the future.” Bringing the plan to Durham?

Kahlenberg suggested applying the Wake County plan throughout the country with modifications to local needs. He said it also makes sense to apply this plan in Durham, where there is some concentrated poverty. Durham Public Schools Superintendent Ann Denlinger, however, is not as optimistic about the plan. Denlinger said she does not think the citizens of Durham County will support such a program. She added that she would not propose integration by income to her board. “If the citizens want a similar plan, my staff and myself will be happy to develop it,” she added. School officials in Durham and across the nation will continue to watch Wake County closely to see if it can sustain its successful performance. Although not everyone agrees that integration by income is thebest option available, most point out that something has to be done about inequality in public education. “Is it fair that those kids could possibly grow up in a neighborhood that is completely isolated from middle-class and working-class kids?” Brady said. “Is it fair that these kids have so much social disadvantage that they are facing in life because of growing up poor or growing up in a black neighborhood? I don’t think any of that is fair. Is this an effective strategy to overcome a bigger unfairness? I think that’s hard to say, but it’s probably better than having these kids live in isolated ghettos where they have no chance of educational success.”

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“He did it quite well on a public relations sense,” Hunt said, referring to Bush’s reaction to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Hunt criticized the President’s response to Katrina. “He’s been awkward for two months, and I think he’ll continue to be awkward,” Hunt said. Hunt then appealed to basketball fans by breaking potential 2008 presidential candidates into tournament brackets and analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of various contenders. Woodruff and Hunt ended the presentation by answering questions together and conducting an informal mock election among audience members, in which Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was the decisive winner. Fellow Duke parents praised the journalists’ presentation. “I thought it was very informative and enjoyed it,” said Terry Henner, parent of freshman Jordan Hosmer-Henner. “It’s refreshing to hear journalists speak off the cuff in a more informal setting.” George Fosque, father of freshman Max Fosque, agreed. He noted that while he had seen Woodruffs work on CNN, he was previously unfamiliar with Hunt. “I’m reading the guy’s column every day if I can,” he said. “He made a big fan of me.” Duke senior Heather Jarrow brought her mother Gail Jarrow to the event with friends because the topic corresponded to her public policy class “Watchdogs and Muckrakers.” “It was a good feel for what’s going on in Washington,” the elder Jarrow said. “Everything really fit what they’re talking about in class.”

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Committee, said e-mail restrictions have hindered the ability of all student groups to communicate effectively. She said she believes, however, that DSG can improve its communication with students. “DSG got a later start this year, so obviously they haven’t had as many chances to communicate,” Greenfield said. “As a student, I feel I have no idea what is going on in DSG.” Goodwin admitted that there has been a “lack of substance” in some DSG initiatives this year. Along with other members of the executive committee, Goodwin believes the town hall meeting will open internal and external lines of communication. Student conveniences will be the focus of the first town hall meeting, which will bring students and members of the administration together. The informal meeting is designed to serve as a sounding board for student ideas. Issues of extended gym and library hours, expanded meal plans and academic flexibility will also be discussed. Several “heavy policies” will emerge from Duke 24, Goodwin said. In addition to helping DSG better understand campus needs, Goodwinand other executive committee members believe Duke 24 will encourage administrators to listen more closely to students. “It will put pressure on administrators to get things done, because they will see a face behind the request,” said senior Paige Sparkman, vice president of student affairs. Internally, the organization of Duke 24 has already proven beneficial, Goodwin said. “It’s been a good chance for senators to see what DSG will be like for the rest of the year,” he said. In the past, fireside chats and town hall meeting have been used to establish bonds between Duke’s governments and students.. Former DSG President Hardy Vieux, Trinity ’93, held a series of fireside chats that were deemed effective by many students. The chats were held just after Vieux dissolved the former student government and established DSG in 1993. More recently, DSG President Pasha Majdi, Trinity ’O5, initiated a series of town hall meetings. The open discussions were not well-attended—a factDSG hopes to change this year. Other means of improving communication are currently in the works, Goodwin said. Given the recent e-mail restrictions placed on student organizations by members of the administration, DSG hopes to utilize online surveys and release bi-weekly newsletters. In addition, they have considered implementing podcasts, which students download onto their iPods. Duke 24 will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Bryan Center, Von Canon A.

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search engine. Taking into account that Duke is paying millions of dollars to maintain studentaccess to over 300 databasesofabout 38,000 current journal titles, Google Scholar represents a thin slice of the digitizedresearch realm. “Faculty are concerned that students are using only Google,” Martinez cautioned. “Fast food’s good, but we’ve got steak.” Library officials acknowledged, however, that Google Scholar is still growing and is in no way complete or exhaustive. If its limitations are understood, however, it can serve as a valuable tool in the beginning stages of scholastic inquiry. “It’s hard to make [all] students aware of an innovation like this, but librarians do a very good job of passing on information,” said Jean O’Barr, professor of the practice in women’s studies. The search engine has been well-received by students at the University. “I like Google Scholar better than LexisNexis and most of the Duke databases because it includes government documents,” senior Mimi Zhang said. “I feel it’s a better search engine because the more relevant results appear first.” Freshman James Tager noted that the renewed sense of remote research is ushering in a new class of “Google scholars.” “Google has been pulling ahead of the pack because of its effectiveness,” he said. “If Google Scholar makes research more efficacious, that can’t be bad for students.”

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Now TTA is struggling to tinker with its plans to make the ridership forecasts meet standards from the Federal Transit Administration. TTA had P|anned “°P erat e with low-to-medmm etraf-f fic; the FTA wants medium traffic. And the FTA’s approval matters because that is where the money willl come from. If the proposed regional rail does go forward, 60 percent of the costs will come from the federal government, 20 percent from North Carolina and 20 percent from TTA. A rail system is long overdue for the Triangle. This is one of the top-five fastest growing areas in the United States. Traffic congestion is already

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people right from the start. It takes a lot to make people give up their Suburbans and SUVs, and only a rail system that makes transportation immediately easy will ever draw riders. But the real reason this rail system seems perpetually doomed to the imaginary realm is that the people orchestrating it are unable to navigate the politics of the project. When asked, the leaders of TTA have a difficult time explaining how they arrive at their ridership projections. They have repeatedly caved to demands and ill-advised suggestions from lobbyists and politicians. If this railway has a future, it will need a new incarnation. If it continues on this track, it will always be off in the distance. tract

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letterstotheeditor should be accountable for any actions they take that Fancy bathrooms leave much to be desired The shimmering Bostock Library has attracted perpetuate a culture of sexual assault on campus. the masses since its opening following Fall Break. This includes everything from committing sexual asStudents study while seeing and being seen, perhaps sault to the less directly related propensity for callmaking reading cool again. All this attention to ing Duke women “girls” (though I admittedly strugbooks and academic fortitude is great. Yet Bostock’s gle to come up with a female equivalent to “guy”) and the blatandy misogynistic tides of nearly all the early magnetism has revealed a conspicuous shortparties on this campus. coming in one area: the men’s bathrooms. Hadziosmanovic asks a good question; “Why Mad-scientists gone too far have invented waterdoesn’t she scream, or push him off, or hit him?” He free urinals! The environmentally conscientious library-planners must have been drawn to such a de- also provides an interesting answer for it. However, sign, as the water free function of the urinals some questions Hadziosmanovic has yet to address probably saves gallons and gallons of water a year. are these: “Why did he choose to not listen? Why did However, open the door of these new restrooms, he choose to ignore? Why did he choose to assault?” The answer is complex, and it’s not something a and the smell takes you back to another infamous campus-stinker; the single men’s bathroom on the single Chronicle column can fully address. Every first floor outside of the old Perkins Library. man on this campus should ask himself why some That bathroom’s stench always mystified me men choose to commit sexual assault and rape. (among other feelings), but I chalked its vile odor Every man has the responsibility to communicate up to age and to the potential weirdo-factor; since and be sensitive to what a potential partner wants, is comfortable with and is able to give consent for. that bathroom is open all-night, every night, anyWhile it may seem awkward at first, like anything, it thing can happen. But for Bostock’s shiny new restrooms, I can gets easier with practice. make no similar excuses. Simply put, the bathrooms stink because the urinals stink. And why? Maybe the GeoffLorenz Trinity ’O6 new library has decided to forgo maintenance. More likely, however, these “state-of-the-art” devices are wildly, unforgivably flawed. Please Bostock, clean up LDOC Committee seeks members The Duke Last Day ofClasses Committee is lookthis situation. ing for motivated students to plan and execute the To summarize: Bostock is great, but the bathrooms don’t rate. The smell leaves me nonplussed, largest Duke social event of the year. In the past, the LDOC Committee has brought Kanye West, Collecbecause of the urinals non-flushed. tive Soul, Better than Ezra and The Roots to celelan Crouch brate the end of the school year. This year, we are excited about bringing another Trinity ’O6 big-name band, committee members are involved in handling a budget in the tens of thousands of dolFinding ways to prevent sexual assault lars, selecting a major band and planning social In his column, “No!,” Emin Hadziosmanovic provides an interesting look at the problem ofsexual asevents surrounding the concert. This is the biggest sault and makes several good points about the role and most fun social event of the entire year, and that stereotypes, gender roles and alcohol play in being on the LDOC Committee will allow you to be the perpetuation of sexual assault (Oct. 18, 2005). I a major part of it. would like to propose a next step for HadziosmanIf you are interested in applying to be on the ovic and any other man or woman on this campus committee, please email LDOC Chair Mark Midwho finds themselves thinking about this issue in a daugh at mbmll@duke.edu expressing your interest and leaving him your name, e-mail address and similar way. Hadziosmanovic says that “to place blame on eiphone number. The committee will be finalized by ther gender would oversimplify a complex issue,” the beginning of next week, so please e-mail Mark and he is right. However, no one at Sexual Assault soon. I encourage you to be a part of this great Duke tradition and awesome event. Support Services, Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention peer educators or the student group Men Mark Middaugh Acting for Change is making the assertion that all ChairLDOC men are rapists or are to blame for sexual assault. Trinity ’O6 We do believe that all men, and really all people,

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But somehow, Italian bakery employees seem mystified by my desire for small pieces of focaccia, moving the emily rotberg knife over while common language t» E_ I m not looking until I end up with almost the whole loaf. This particular bakery is a true Mom and Pop establishment, with all the basics: There are long slabs of pizza, baskets of biscotti and fresh fruit tortes. Pop stands behind the counter, ready to mete out thick slices of unsalted Tuscan bread; Mom sits doing a crossword behind the cash register. I succeed in getting a simple piece of focaccia and head to the till. Mom puts down her word game and waits for me to hand over my small change. Problem is, my wallet is all the way at the bottom of my bag. Earlier that day, you see, my New Jersey roommate had received a gigantic package from her doting Italian-American mother. The fact that I kindly agreed to help her bring some of the package contents home had nothing to do with the tin of homemade peanut butter chocolate chip cookies that were also in the package. My wallet, of course, had sunk below her precious cargo. I rummage around a little bit, but resign myself to taking everything out and doing a thorough search. Out come the plastic container of designer deli breadcrumbs and the bottle of ITALIAN salad dressing. A DVD case, a box of mac-n’-cheese and a carton ofherbal tea join the growing pile on the counter as the bakery lady looks on with growing irritation and bemusement. There, at the bottom of the bag, lays my crushed, close-to-empty wallet. I fish it out, poke around to find the right change, and look up with a smile. But the woman seems far more interested in the items on the counter than in taking my money. She dangles the mac-n’-cheese gingerly between two fingertips, examining it as if I’d just produced a box offreeze-dried crickets. The following conversation takes place in Italian. “What this is?” “Macaroni and cheese-I mean, pasta and cheese.” “Food for cat?” “No, for people.” “For who?” “My roommate.” “N0000... what this is?” “Food from America.” “No, is for animal, for cat-miao miao!” “No, is for people...” Only then do I notice that this brand of organic mac-n-cheese has chosen a rabbit as its symbol. I let my hands drop to my side and stop trying to explain, knowing that it would be easier to go along with her assumption than resist with my feeble Italian©. Maybe then she would unhand my roommate’s food and give me my bread. ‘Yes, is for animals.” She shakes her head and looks on with confused disgust as I gather the detritus of my simple bakery trip and walk out the door. “There you have it,” she must have thought. “Americans are so crazy, they even eat freeze-dried cat food. What will they think of next?” (This from a woman who probably had tripe for _

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Of course an Italian wouldn’t understand why pasta would come in a box—it’s like an instant version of a food item that’s already instant! At least I got a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie when I got home.

Emily Rotberg is a Trinity senior studying abroad in Florence, Italy. Her column runs every other Monday.

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