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Experts debate Supreme Court shifts Students bemoan IR crunch by

Pali Sci to hire profs, revise curriculum by

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It’s been a difficult semester for the

political science department. A shortage of international relations professors and concerns about the curriculum have led to fervent criticisms from undergraduates. Students have complained that desirable professors are on leave, there are too few new hires and the undergraduate major is not as structured as they would expect. Michael Munger, chair of the department, acknowledged students’ concerns and said plans are in the works to provide solutions, including more faculty hires and a revision of the curriculum. “They’re absolutely right,” he said of the criticisms. He told The Chronicle earlier this year that the number of undergraduate majors in the department has doubled since 1998, but there has been no corresponding increase in faculty. Of the 34 newly hired faculty in Arts and Sciences this year, three are within the political science department, said Carla St. John, staff assistant to the chair SEE POLISCI ON PAGE

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Professor ofLaw Erwin Chemerinsky sounded off on Supreme Court nominations in a panel discussion Tuesday.

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More than 50 undergraduate, graduate and professional students flocked to Sanford Institute of Public Policy to hear four professors weigh in on recent Supreme Court nominations. Professors touched on the difference between political and judicial ideologies, discussed the liberal-conservative balance of the court and offered their opinions on the recent Supreme Court nominees. When Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her resignation from the court July 1, speculation raged about who President George W. Bush would choose to replace her. He first nominated John Roberts, an appeals court judge who found himself in line instead for the Chief Justice seat after former Chief Justice William Rehnquist died Sept. 3. Bush then tapped White House Counsel Harriet Miers, who withdrew her nomination last week after many liberals worried that she would let a rightwing bias seep into her judicial decisions and many Republicans questioned if she would be a reliable conservative. When Bush nominated appeals court judge Samuel Alito to fill O’Connor’s seat Monday, his judicial ideologies were already well known. Conservatives have applauded the choice and some Democratic senators are threatening to filibuster the nomination. Professors of Law Erwin Chemerinsky and Jefferson Powell sat on the panel along with Assistant Professors of Law SEE PANEL ON PAGE 9

Pre-orientation offerings to expand by

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With several professors taking sabbaticals and an increased student interest in the discipline, the political science department has had to make changes.

They’re in your halls, they’re in your classes, they sit next to you on the bus. Every year, about 10 percent of all incoming freshmen come to campus a weekbefore their classmates to take part in Project WILD’s mountain trip or Project BUILD’s community service program. But with the freshman class larger than ever before, administrators and students acknowledge the limited size of Duke’s preorientation programs has become a significant problem. “Last year, Project BUILD had to turn away over 50 students,” said Ryan Lombardi, assistant dean of students and director of orientation. To keep from rejecting interested students from the programs, the University plans to increase its pre-orientation options with two additional offerings: an expanded version of Project CHILD, which places students as tutors in Durham public schools, and a completely new program situated on the North Carolina coast. The coastal program, tentatively known as Coastal Waters Initiative Learning at Duke, or CWILD, would begin about one week before freshman orientation, Lombardi said. “It’s kind of a hybrid offspring of Project WILD and the programs on the coast,” Lombardi explained. “We’re looking into setting it up at our facilities at Beaufort, but the final location SEE ORIENTATION ON PAGE 7

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Project WILD is one ofthe few undergraduate pre-orientation programs offered to incoming freshmen.The University plans to expand on options for students.

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Senate emerges from closed session by

Liz Sidoti

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WASHINGTON In a day of political drama, Democrats forced the Republican-

controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, questioning intelligence that President George W. Bush used in the run-up to the war in Iraq and accusing Republicans of ignoring the issue. “They have repeatedly chosen to protect the Republican administration rather than get to the bottom of what happened and why,” Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said. The afternoon halt in Senate business let Democrats steer the spotlight to the war

in Iraq, an issue on which the president is doing badly in public opinion polls. Taken by surprise, Republicans derided the move as a political stunt but agreed two hours later to a bipartisan review of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into prewar intelligence. “The United States Senate has been hijacked by the Democratic leadership,” said Majority Leader Bill Frist, R.-Tenn. The Republican leader also said President Bush’s decision to nominate Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court had “set the Democrats back on their heels. This may just be a reaction to that.” Democrats sought assurances that Intel-

ligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., would complete the second phase of an investigation of the administration’s prewar intelligence. A six-member task force—three members from each party was appointed to review the Intelligence Committee’s work and report to their respective leaders by Nov. 14. Roberts’ committee produced a 511page report in 2004 on flaws in an Iraq intelligence estimate assembled by the country’s top analysts in October 2002, and he promised a second phase would look at issues that couldn’t be finished in the first —

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Deals made for Gaza-Egypt border by

Karin Laub

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Israel’s Security Cabithis Tuesday approved the deployment of European inspectors on the Gaza-Egypt border, a breakthrough that would grant the Palestinians some freedom of movement without Israeli controls for the first time in decades and boost the economy of the impoverished Gaza Strip. Several disputes still need to be setded before the border reopens and Palestinians can reap the first benefits of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in September. Palestinian negotiators complained Tuesday

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that Israel is stalling on other key issues linked to the pullout, including creating a passage between the West Bank and Gaza and speeding up the movement of cargo and workers from Gaza to Israel. In Gaza, Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a car, killing two top fugitives, one from Hamas and one from the Ai Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Israeli and Palestinian security officials said. Nine bystanders were wounded in the strike in the Jebaliya refugee camp. One of the dead was identified as Hassan Madhoun of AJ Aqsa, mastermind of a bombing in Israel’s Ashdod port thatkilled 10 Israelis in 2004.

The armed groups threatened revenge. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Israel was sabotaging Palestinian efforts to shore up a truce by carrying out the airstrike. The foreign inspectors would be posted at the Rafah terminal on the Gaza-Egypt border, the Gazans’ main gate to the world, which was run by Israel from the time it captured the coastal strip in 1967 until the pullout. The emerging deal comes after several weeks of slow-moving talks between Israel, SEE ISRAEL ON PAGE 8

A man once considered a top al Qaeda operative escaped from a U.S.-run detention facility in Afghanistan and cannot testify against the soldier who allegedly mistreated him, a defense lawyer involved in a prison abuse case said Tuesday.

Judge removed for donations In a courtroom victory for Rep. Tom Delay, the judge in the campaign-finance case against the former House Republican leader was removed Tuesday because of his donations to Democratic candidates

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Experts say leevees had flaws The engineers who designed the floodwalls that collapsed during HurricaneKatrina did not fully consider the porousness of the Louisiana soil or make other calculations that would have pointed to the need for stronger levees with deeper pilings and wider bases, researchers say.

Senator calls Alito mainstream Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is "clearly within the mainstream" and shouldn't be filibustered, declared a Republican who helped fashion a plan limiting parliamentary roadblocks for judicial nominees. News briefs compiled

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Graduate students lament parking shortage by

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For Elaine Ho, parking her vehicle is a dangerous experience. “Everyone is all hurrying to find a parking space, and no one really looks,” the second-year law student said, adding that she does not think there is enough parking for graduate students. “I nearly get killed there every week. Last week was a Ford, this week a Honda.” Ho is among a large number of graduate and professional students who have become increasingly critical about the state of parking at Duke. Because of the lack of convenient parking and few options, students are pushing for parking

policy changes.

The Graduate and Professional Student Council recendy formed an internal committee in response to students’ concerns. “The main focus should be ensuring there are actual parking slots available,” said Hrisavgi Kondilis, a memberof the committee and graduate student in immunology. Cathy Reeve, director of Parking and Transportation Services, is trying to alleviate students’ concerns, but she said she faces infrastructure limitations. “We have a finite number of parking spaces,” Reeve said. “We’re a growing campus, which affects parking. Parking spaces can’t always be restored after being taken away.” Student parking is not the only concern for Parking and Transportation Services. “We monitor the number of permits assigned to different groups,” Reeve said. “When renewing permits, we try to maintain the same balance between students, faculty and employees.” Parking and Transportation Services must fund new parking spaces from its revenue, which comes from permit fees, among other sources. Because of its limited budget, it is unable to add significant numbers of parking spaces. “Convenient parking is probably not going to be as probable on this campus as it has been historically,” Reeve added. The department is working to alleviate the cramming of parking lots by encourag-

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The Graduateand ProfessionalStudent Council is lobbying for better parking policies on campus, lamenting thelack of convenient options for commuters.

ing students to carpool, Reeve said. Students who carpool enjoy reduced fees and receive better parking spots. Students said carpooling is not always an easy option. Lewis Cook, a first-year student at the Fuqua School of Business, found that carpooling only works if students have similar schedules. The department is also trying to incorporate other creative innovations to solve parking issues. For example, it sells hybrid permits to Fuqua students, Reeve said. Students with a hybrid permit can park at the closer lot on N.C. Highway 751 on

particular days of the week and at the Green Zone on other days. This gives more students the opportunity to have convenient parking sporadically, Reeve added. “My friend was offered the hybrid permit instead of a 751 permit, and of course, she took it,” Cook said. “It’s almost as good as the 751, but it’s only offered to a small group of students.” As a 751 permit holder, Cook does not have to schedule his day around parking like he did when he had a Green Zone permit. The Green Zone lots are filled quickly, so if he had a later class he had to either

come early so he could park or risk not having a spot, he said. “Many students have to plan their day around parking. They come early just to park and have to stay at school for a few hours, when they can use the time more efficiently,” said Cook, noting that if students come later in the day they might not find a space in their designated lot. Other students voiced concerns for other forms of transportation. “I hate driving,” said Elizabeth Sasser, first-year public policy studies student. “If there’s a better way to get to school, I would use it.”

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White House prepares plan for flu outbreaks Lauran Neergaard THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush outlined a $7.1 billion strategy' Tuesday to prepare for a possible worldwide super-flu outbreak, aiming to overhaul the vaccine industry so eventually every .American could be inoculated within six months of a pandemic’s beginning. Such a huge change would take years to implement—Bush’s goal is 2010 —and his plan drew immediate fire from critics who said it wouldn’t provide enough protection in the meantime. States, too, got an unpleasant surprise, ordered to purchase millions of doses of an anti-flu drug with their own money. The long-awaited strategy also stresses expanded attempts to detect and contain the next superflu before it reaches the United States, with particular attention to parts of.Asia that are influenza incubators—a global focus that flu specialists have insisted the government adopt. “Early detection is our first line of defense,” Bush said in a speech at the National Institutes of Health. He called on other countries to admit when super-flu strains occur within their borders. “No nation can afford to ignore this threat,” he said. At the same time, Bush sought to reassure a public jittery over the spread of bird flu, called HSNI, which has killed at least 62 people in- Asia since 2003 and caused the death or destruction of tens of millions ofbirds. There is no evidence that a

human pandemic, of HSNI or any other super-strain, is about to start, Bush said repeatedly. Still, there have been three flu pandemics in the last century and the world is overdue for another. Concern is growing that the bird flu could provide the spark if it one day mutates so that it can spread easily from person to person. “Our country has been given fair warning of this danger to our homeland, and time to prepare,” Bush said. Topping Bush’s strategy $1.2 billion to stockpile enough vaccine against the current HSNI flu strain to protect 20 million Americans, the estimated number of health workers and other first-responders involved in a pandemic. $1 billion for the drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, which can treat and, in some cases, prevent flu infection. Enough to treat 44 million people and prevent infection in 6 million others is headed for the federal stockpile. States were told to buy 31 million treatment courses, but Bush is funding only a quarter of the states’ anticipated bill. $2.8 billion to speed production of pandemic vaccines—better-matched including strains—by learning to manufacture them in easier-to-handle cell cultures, instead of today’s slow method that relies on millions of chicken eggs. $251 million for international preparations, including improving early-warning systems to spot human infections with

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unlike shots against the regular winter flu would be experimental, largely untested. Bush’s announcement came after his administration was battered by criticism over its lethargic response to Hurricane Katrina. Public health specialists, briefed on the strategy but SEE FLU ON PAGE 9

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colle eroundu California school outlaws racy shows The University of San Diego student council voted last week to place a ban on sexually explicit programming on the student-run closed circuit television station. The decision was spurred by a vigorous debate on the issue after the station ran a student-made pornography series several times during the past few months. The show in question, “Koala TV,” featured episodes of a male student and an adult actress engaging in sexual acts. NYU grad students fight top brass Graduate students at New York University voted Monday to go on strike Nov. 9 to protest the University’s recent decision to withdraw its recognition of the

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students’ union Susan Valentine, a union spokesperson, said the union was prepared to stay on strike until the University administrators “agree to negotiate with us in good faith.” Until that decision, NYU was the only private university in the United States to have a collective-bargaining agreement with a union ofits graduate students—the fruit of a landmark 2000 case in which the National Labor Relations Board ruled that teaching assistants at NYU had bargaining rights as outlined in the National Labor Relations Act. Senate to investigate American University American University and its Board of Trustees are under investigation by the

Senate Finance Committee over the severance pay and compensation paid to the institution’s former president, Benjamin Ladner. Ladner resigned as president ofAmerican last Monday after an audit commissioned earlier by the board found that he had improperly charged $125,000 in personal and travel expenses to the university during the past three years. The audit also found that $398,000 in other charges he made had to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service as part of his taxable income. Upon his departure, Ladner accepted a severance package that included a pretax sum of $950,000 and $2,750,000 in benefits earned during his 11-year tenure.

Fraternity brothers sentenced to jail Four California State University at Chico fraternity members pled guilty in the death of a college student who was forced to drink

large amounts of water during an initiation rite. All four men will serve time in prison. Prosecutors said Matthew Carrington, 21, died of heart failure caused by water intoxication last February after he and another pledge were ordered to drink water from five-gallon jugs and douse themselves as fans blasted them with cold air in the basement of the now-defunct Chi Tau fraternity. CSUC had already cut its ties to Chi Tau in 2002 for alcohol violations. Carrington’s death led to a push for an alcohol ban for all fraternities and sororities on campus.

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New FDIC chair to oversee Gulf recovery by

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WASHINGTON The chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was assigned by the President George W. Bush administration Tuesday to oversee the federal government’s disaster recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast. Donald Powell, 64, a wealthy contributor to President Bush’s campaign, will be in charge of coordinating long-term plans to rebuild the states hit by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in late summer. The sluggish federal response to Katrina has been widely criticized.

Powell will be the administration's point man for dealing with Congress, state and local governments, and private businesses on relief efforts. He has worked on economic development and housing issues—two central matters in hurricane rebuilding efforts—as a Texas bank executive, university administrator and chamber of commerce official, officials said. “Don has the leadership, ideas and optimism that the residents of the Gulf Coast region deserve,” said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. SEE RECOVERY ON PAGE 10

Company seeks to build nuclear reactors in Carolinas by

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CHARLOTTE Progress Energy Inc. intends to seek licenses to build up to four nuclear reactors at two locations—most likely in the Carolinas and Florida, the company told federal regulators Tuesday. “We add about 30,000 new customers in North Carolina and Florida per year and we need significant [power] generation,” Progress Energy spokesperson Keith Poston said. “We think nuclear power may be the best option for us and that’s why we are moving aggressively with our plans.” Progress Energy, which serves 2.9 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida, unveiled its plans during a public meeting with the Nuclear Regulatory

Commission in Rockville, Md., Poston said. Last week, Charlotte-based Duke Power Co. said it plans to ask federal regulators for a license to build and operate a nuclear plant in the Carolinas, but Progress Energy’s plans are the most ambitious of any utility to date. At least four other utilities have notified regulators of their intentions to apply for licenses. “I don’t believe there is another licensee who has indicated it plans to build more than one [plant],” said NRC spokesperson Roger Hannah, who is based in Atlanta. Jim Warren, executive director of the anti-nuclear group North Carolina Waste Awareness Reduction Network, worried about Progress Energy and Duke Power targeting the Carolinas for nuclear plants.

“I’m concerned that we can’t lead the nation in this,” he said. “We feel the Carolinas have the opportunity to be the model for smart energy or become the nation’s nuclear chumps.” Poston said the announcement was just the start of a long process. “There will be a lot of public input and a lot of interest about where we decide to site these two plants,” he said during a telephone interview. The company’s intention is to build one plant in the Carolinas and the other in Florida, Poston said. Progress Energy said it would submit applications to the NRC by 2008, begin construction two years later and begin operating the first reactors as early as 2015.

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ORIENTATION hasn’t been decided yet.” The first investigations into the idea of a coastal program came from a group of former PWILD students tasked with assessing the merits of a marine environment as the site of a PWILD sister project. Although the project has been under discussion for the past few months, details have yet to be finalized, said junior Matt Hoffman, a member of the group. “It’s basically much more of an experiential program than what’s going on in Beaufort during the year,” he said. “It’s more about getting out there and interacting with the animals and the community than sitting in a lab and being lectured.” In its final form, CWILD could provide students not only with a chance to bond, but also sailing, hiking, kayaking,

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surfing and deep-sea fishing, among other activities. Although planners hope to set up CWILD as early as next summer, incoming freshmen hoping for an earlier Project CHILD will have to wait.

“It’s kind of a hybrid offspring of Project WILD and the programs on the coast.” Ryan Lombardi “We’re hoping to launch it not this upcoming summer, but the next one,” said junior Tamara Gayle, a member of the Pro-

ject CHILD’S executive council. Currendy, Project CHILD functions as

an extended orientation program, with participants working two hours each week throughout the year with students at Durham schools. The pre-orientation CHILD would last between four and five days, during which time students would get to know both the city in which they will be working and other CHILD volunteers. Obstacles to the pre-orientation CHILD are primarily logistical, with planners facing basic issues like providing food and housing to participants. Yet while financial and administrative support will ultimately come from the University, students are firmly behind the wheel of the new programs. “It’s very important to us that these processes are student-driven,” Lombardi said. “While these groups would fall under my advisement, the final decisions really have to be made by the students.”

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ISRAEL from page 2 the Palestinians, Egypt and international mediators. In brokering the Rafah arrangements, U.S. mediator James Wolfensohn was trying to give the Palestinians freedom of movement, while addressing Israeli concerns about a possible influx of weapons and militants into Gaza. “We think that these agreements reached with the Palestinians and the Egyptians are a good balance and provide a good framework, a win-win situation,” said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mark Regev. “The third party will be on the Palestinian side of the frontier, and will be there to help beef up the Palestinian security presence.” Israel Radio said Vice Premier Shimon Peres would begin talks with the European Union on the details of the deployment. Israel and the Palestinians still disagree on the authority of the inspectors. Only Palestinians and foreigners with special status—VIPs, business people, aid workers—will pass through Rafah for now. Israel wants to be able to monitor Rafah traffic via closed-circuit TV, a demand the Palestinians reject. “The third party is diere for a reason, to monitor fliat we carry out our obligations,” Erekat said. “The Israelis have left. There should be no camera linkage to Israel.” Israel would operate an alternate crossing, Kerem Shalom, several miles away at the junction point between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. The crossing would handle goods and foreign tourists entering Gaza. Palestinians say outgoing goods should move through Rafah, not Kerem Shalom—another point of dispute. Israel insists that all goods go through

Kerem Shalom The Security Cabinet, a group of select ministers, approved the outlines of the deal, and gave negotiators the goahead to continue. Another round of Israeli-Palestinian talks was set for later

Tuesday. A breakthrough came last week when

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said after a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that he accepts the deployment of foreign inspectors in principle. Mofaz spoke several days after Wolfensohn complained to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that Israel was dragging its feet in the negotiations. Without dramatic progress soon, a rare chance to revive Gaza’s shattered economy will be lost, Wolfensohn said. Israel closed the Rafah crossing on security grounds before withdrawing from Gaza. After the pullout, thousands of Palestinians and Egyptians crossed in both directions for several days before Egypt and the Palestinians restored order. Since then, the Palestinians have briefly reopened Rafah for limited periods for hardship cases, such as Gazans seeking medical treatment. Erekat said he hopes Rafah will reopen as early as mid-November. A reopening of the border could give Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas a badly needed boost as he heads into Jan. 25 parliamentary elections. His main political rival, Hamas, is expected to pose a strong challenge, and until now, Gazans have seen no real benefits from the Israeli departure. Since the pullout, Israel has closed two Gaza crossings into the country for extended periods because of security alerts, leaving the coastal strip virtually cut off from the world.

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SENATE from page 2 year of work The committee worked on the second phase of the review, Roberts said, but it has not finished. He blamed Democrats for the delays and said his staff had informed Democratic counterparts this Monday that the committee hoped to complete the second phase next week. stunt 24 hours “Now we have this after their staff was informed that we were moving to closure next week,” a clearly angry Roberts told reporters. “If that’s not politics, I’m not standing here.” In mid-afternoon Tuesday, Reid demanded the Senate go into closed session. The public was ordered out of the chamber, lights were dimmed, and doors were closed. ...

No vote is required in such circumstances Reid’s move refocused attention on the continuing controversy over prewar intelligence. Despite administration claims, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, and some Democrats have accused the White House of twisting the intelligence to exaggerate the threat posed by Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was indicted last Friday in an investigation that touched on the war—the leak of the identity of a CIA official married to a critic of the administration’s Iraq policy. “The Libby indictment provides a window into what this is really all about, how this administration manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to sell the war in Iraq,” Reid said.

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“Abusive Translation” takes as its subject the problem of translation using examples from film and television and the case study of the speaker’s own recent English subtitling of the Japanese in a Sato Makoto documentary.

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awaiting details, called it a good start. “Clearly this is the No. 1 public health issue on the radar screen,” said Michael Osterholm of the University ofMinnesota, who advises the government on infectious disease threats. But it’s not strong enough, said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who helped lead Senate passage of $8 billion in emergency funding for pandemic preparations last month. “Stockpiles alone aren’t enough without the capacity to make use of them,” he said, calling for steps to help states, cities and hospitals prepare for a flood of panicked patients. “There is a gaping hole” in the plan, added Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y, who said the nation should stockpile enough Tamiflu for half the population, not the quarter that would be covered if the states added their share under Bush’s plan. The states’ contribution will be difficult, said Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, chairman of the National Governors Association. “They expect us to pay 75 cents on a dollar for flu medicine—that’s going to be a tough pill to swallow,” he said through a spokeswoman. The states’ collective tab would reach $5lO million, said Kim Elliott, deputy director of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health. She worried that some wouldn’t buy any, and that others wouldn’t share their Tamiflu stash if a pandemic struck in a part of the country that ran out. “It depends on where you live and the state of your state’s budget as to whether or not you might receive a treatment drug,” she said.

They discussed at length possible political ramifications of the ideology of the next justice. Siegel, who recently completed a clerkship with Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said Alito would move the court significantly to the right on manycontroversial issues, such as abortion and campaign finance reform. “If you are a conservative, you should be thrilled. If you’re on the other side of the street, this is about as bad as it gets,” said Chemerinsky, who has argued two cases before the Supreme Court. Siegel argued that Alito would not be as conservative as other justices on the court, such as Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. “From the liberal or moderate perspective, there were people on the short list who were much worse,” Siegel said. “The idea that this is another Scalia is vastly

oversimplified.” The panelists also discussed the influence of politics in decision-making. They debated whether the judgesrely on political ideology or constitutional interpretation. Chemerinsky said it is not clear which method Alito would employ if he ends up on the court. Some of the uncertainty about his decision-making process may stem from the difficulty in gathering that type of information in Court of Appeals decisions. He added that Alito does not have an originalist philosophy, like Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. The panelists also responded to Bush’s decision not to nominate another woman to replace O’Connor. “I think having women, minorities and those with low socioeconomic status on the

A panel of professors addressed questions concerning constitutionallaw and the Supreme Court Tuesday. court is very important,” Chemerinsky said.

Siegel argued, however, that other issues outweigh the desire to have a minori-

ty on the court. “I do think that these issues do matter to a lot of people,” Siegel said. “At most, conservatives were arguing that yes, this stuff matters, but other stuff matters

more.” Panelists also fielded a question about how effective Senate confirmation hearings were for nominees. “I think the Senate should say, ‘Answer the questions or we won’t confirm you,’” Chemerinsky said. “We don’t make somebody impartial by pretending they don’t have views.” Panelists also answered questions about the political ramifications of nominating a strong conservative. Chemerinsky

said the political controversy surrounding Clarence Thomas’ nomination in 1991 hurt the Republicans in the 1992 national elections. Some students weighed in with their own opinions after the panel. Junior Daniel Bowes, president of the American Civil Liberties Union at Duke, said he was disappointed in student reaction to the nominations. “They’re not acting the way they should be,” he said. “This is what could be a turning point in this country’s judicial philosophy. After the panel discussion, it made the future of civil liberties in the U.S. look pretty bleak. I can only hope for a filibuster or a scandal.” The event was sponsored by the Duke Political Union, the ACLU at Duke and the Duke Conservative Union.

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RECOVERY from page 6 The top federal official overseeing day-to-day Katrina recovery efforts, Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen, will leave that post by year’s end. President Bush also created a special White House council to develop and review administration plans to help rebuild the region. Headed by National Economic Council Chairman A1 Hubbard, it will be made up of Cabinet secretaries and other administration officials. Lawmakers from Gulf Coast states had pleaded for a federal official to oversee reconstruction projects —in part to safeguard against improprieties in awarding lucrative government contracts. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who pushed the White House to create the post, said he was pleased the president named “a single, focused federal coordinator for the hurricane recovery effort.” Louisiana’s other senator, Democrat Mary L. Landrieu, said she welcomed “anything that can reduce the red tape, streamline operations and ensure accountability.” But Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., said state and local governments need more support from Washington to rebuild communities instead of “adding another layer of bureaucracy.” And Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., called Powell’s appointment “business as usual” for the administration because the longtime banker “has no disaster recovery experience.” “I find this terribly troubling—especially given the tragic missteps of Michael Brown,” said Kennedy. He was referring to the former FEMA director who resigned in Katrina’s wake amid questions about his experience to handle disasters. Qualifications for federal response officials have been fiercely scrutinized since Katrina.

Administration officials pointed to Powell’s three decades in the financial services industry, including work as president and CEO of the First National Bank of Amarillo, Texas; chairperson of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce; and chairperson of the Texas A&M University System’s Board of Regents. One of the “Pioneers” who raised at least $lOO,OOO for Bush’s presidential campaign, Powell has great personal wealth. He was praised by the banking industry when Bush appointed him to chair the FDIC in August 2001. Powell traveled in early September to areas in Louisiana and Mississippi struck by Katrina to inspect damage to banking operations and services. Recendy, he was considered to be an overseer of the private-donation fund for Katrina headed by former presidents George HW Bush and Bill Clinton. In a message to FDIC employees Tuesday, Powell said he was honored to lead the rebuilding effort though sad to leave the federal agency. “I can look back with pride on our many accomplishments in each of our three major priority areas: stability, sound policy and stewardship,” he wrote. FDIC Vice Chairman Martin Gruenberg is to take over Powell’s job until a permanent successor is named. Congress has so far provided $62 billion for Gulf Coast hurricane recovery efforts, of which about $4O billion has yet to be spent. Katrina, which hit Aug. 29, flooded New Orleans and devastated much of the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts. Hurricane Rita arrived two weeks later, damaging parts of coastal Texas and Louisiana. Meanwhile, two House Democrats accused Chertoff of failing to ensure that Homeland Security completed detailed catastrophic incident response plans before Katrina hit.

POLISCI from page 1 of the department. St. John said the three hires are “junior tenure track professors,” two of whom specialize in international relations. Department officials identified the departure of star political science professor Robert Keohane and the fact that other key faculty, including professor Peter Feaver, are away this semester as reasons for the additional hires. Peter Fish, director of undergraduate studies for the department, said the number of students concentrating in international relations is growing. He identified the low number of faculty specializing in the area as problematic. “We’re short in IR,” he said. “More regular faculty will come back in the spring.” Fish said there is currently no data available for the precise number of students concentrating in international relations. Although Munger also confirmed that there is a definite need for senior-level faculty specializing in international relations, the department is currently conducting a search for an Americanist. Munger said that the department has already offered a position to an international relations professor, who decided to defer the job for a year. “The IR person came first, but everything in academics takes time,” he explained. Senior Jonathan Ross said some students are being neglected because the number of students concentrating in international relations has increased within the past few years and the number of faculty has not grown. “A lot of advisers have so manyadvisees thatit’s hard to get attention,” he said, adding that the problem is exacerbated by the requirement that all seniors participate in an upper-level seminar within their concentration. “I don’t think they have enough resources.” The problem in international relations is unique—in addition to the increase in students focusing in the area, several key faculty are on leave this semester. According to the Department of Political Science website, six of the 11 professors specializing in the area—Albert Eldridge, Feaver, Ole Holsti, Judith Kelley, Frederick Mayer and Emerson Niou—are not teaching a course at Duke this fall. “The visiting professors are not up to the quality that the Duke professors are,” said senior Kate Abramson, a political science minor and public policy studies major. She added that she was deterred from majoring in political science partly because of the lack of professors. Fish recognized many of these complaints. He added that the problem of a “crunch” on faculty is made worse by other University demands. Due to certain stipulations, several professors are involved in FOCUS programs, first-year seminars and the graduate program, thus taking them away from undergraduate majors, he said. “Hence the need to rely on part-time faculty,” Fish said. Students also said they did not like the comparatively loose structure of the curriculum, which requires majors to take at least five courses in their concentration plus one in each of the others. Some undergraduates favored more structured and well-balanced curriculums that require students to take several core classes before allowing them to progress through the major, such as those in economics and public policy studies. “If you’re on top of things you can make it work out, otherwise it’s kind of a mess,” Ross said of the political science curriculum. Others said a more varied curriculum would expose majors to a more defined core and a wider breadth of ideas. “I don’t learn anything breathtakingly new,” said James Chiang, a senior. Some students acknowledged that the University has made strides in other departments and said the same must be donefor one of the most popular areas of study at Duke. Recent revisions to the public policy major have included curriculum pathways and core prerequisite courses meant to create a notion of progress through the field for students. Economics department officials also recently announced plans to enhance and retool the major. Munger said department officials are planning on revising the curriculum, but it is unlikely that any changes will take until next year. Under the proposed revisions, Munger said he hopes to institute prerequisite courses for the major and develop a set of core classes for each concentration. Some students, however, like senior Justin Browder, said they are generally satisfied with the department. “You can really get into it if you find a professor that piques your interest,” he said, adding that he has had hide trouble finding adequate professors within his comparative politics concentration and he likes the flexibility the current curriculum allows.

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All aboard 'The Big Blue Train' I was walking behind Cameron when I saw it. I saw Wojo greasing the axles. I saw Collins working on the engine. I saw Dawkins making sure the whistle would sound. And I saw a team of managers polishing the entire thing until they could see their own reflections in the royal blue paint. It was a train. A big, blue train with a white Blue Devil on the front. I asked Wojo where the train was headed. He told me it was making 39 stops and that the last two would be in Indianapolis—for the Final Four. Then I knew. This was no normal train. This was The Train. The National Championship Train. Wojo asked ifI wanted to get on, so I did. Now I’m making plans to be in Indianapolis in early April. I checked the weather in the Farmer’s Almanac, so I know what to pack. I’m going to visit the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. I’ve got a reservation to go on a Historic Indiana Ghost Walk & Tour. I’m deciding whether I want to go to Oldfields-Lilly House and Gardens or The Flower Barn. SEE TRAIN ON PAGE 14

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The fourth-seeded Blue Devils will square off with fifth-seeded Boston College at 8 p.m. TONIGHT. 8 p.m. in the first round of the Cary, N.C. ACC Championships at the SAS Soccer Complex in Cary, N.C. No. 12 Duke lost to the No. 13 Eagles, 1-0, in the two teams’ first meeting Sept. 30. Boston College scored the lone goal of the game early in the second half, as the two teams combined for just eight total shots on goal. “We have to have more urgency this time around,” said junior midfielder Darby Kroyer, who was named to the All-ACC Second Team Tuesday. “We didn’t pick it up until 20 minutes into the second half and

from there, we were all over them. It needs to start right from the beginning.” The Blue Devils, who feature the ACC’s Defensive Player of the Year Carolyn Ford, finished the season with the league’s stingiest defense, allowing just nine goals in their 17 games. But Boston College boasts a back line nearly as good. Under the leadership of junior defender Laura Georges, a member of the ACC’s first team, the Eagles recorded a conference-best 12 shutouts. “There is not going to be a lot of scoring in this game,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. ‘You’ve got two of the stingiest defenses in our conference this year. We are not going to have many scoring opportunities, but we will have scoring opportunities, and we need to take advantage of them when they come.” The Blue Devils enter the game coming off a 5-1 win over Miami Oct. 28. They posted 28 shots in the game, which was their highest output of the season. “It was a good performance and you want to go into the ACC tournament on a positive note and mindset,” Church said. SEE ACC TOURNEY ON PAGE 14

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Before Eron Riley had an official reception, head coach Ted Roof saw big things coming from his freshman wide receiver. After starting wideout Jomar Wright’s season-ending injury during the Oct. 1 loss to Navy, Roof said he expected Riley to step up to fill the playmaking role vacated by Wright. At that time, Riley’s only career reception did not even count toward his personal statistics—it was a catch for a twopoint conversion during the Navy game from fellow freshman Zack Asack. Since then Riley has proven his coach’s forecast to be correct as he has broken out as a deep threat and has be-, come one bright spot in an increasingly dismal offensive season for Duke. In Saturday’s loss to* Wake Forest, Riley led the team in receiving with two catches for 56 yards and corralled his first career touchdown. On the season Riley has five receptions for 104 yards—the 20.8 yards per catch is highest on the team. “I’ve been real pleased with him,” Roof said. “I have a lot of confidence in Eron, and I think he is going to be a really, really good football player in this league. I’m excited about his development.” The progress was slow at first, though. Riley began the season buried on the depth chart. He did not see action in the season opener at East Carolina and only played briefly the next week at home versus Virginia Tech. Riley found himself in Roof s doghouse the week after when he was suspended for the Virginia Military Institute game for a violation of team rules. Riley finally got his chance during the Navy game when Asack led a 66-yard drive down the field early in the fourth quarter. Asack’s six-yard touchdown SEE RILEY ON PAGE 16

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Then the Spurs came out flat. “We were a little antsy to play the game, SAN ANTONIO Michael Finley but at the same time you want to do too gave the San Antonio Spurs the instant many things in the first minutes,” said offense they coveted when they signed Manu Ginobili, who finished with 10 him in the offseason. points on 2-for-9 shooting. Finley scored 11 of his 16 points durDuring the ring ceremony, Finley saw four- clearly why he wanted to come to San Aning a PENVfcR 91 minute span of tonio. “I was like a kid again when one ofyour SAN ANTONIO 102 the fourth quarter Tuesday to friends on the block has something and steady the struggling Spurs (1-0) and you told your mom, ‘I want one of those,’” help them to a 102-91 win over Denver (0- he said of the jewelry that has so far elud1) in their first game defending the ed him during his career. “It was a little bit emotional for me, so I played like that was championship they won in June. “A lot has changed in the last year, what I was playing for.” but the game of basketball has remained San Antonio trailed most of the second the same,” said Finley, who played the half until Finley hit a 19-footer to put the past eight years in Dallas. “I put myself Spurs up 79-78 with about nine minutes rein a position where I’m very happy, very maining in the game. He then hit another comfortable. I’m just going out there jumper, followed by a 3-pointer. and playing.” “He’s a professional,” Spurs coach Tony Parker scored 14 of his 26 points Gregg Popovich said. “He’s not going to in the fourth, making all seven ofhis shots shy away from a jump shot.” for San Antonio, which trailed by five early With about seven minutes left, Finley in the quarter. The Spurs missed only three made his play of the night. of their 16 attempts in the period. He missed a corner jumper that was re“There’s a reason the Spurs are the debounded by Tim Duncan, and he cut to fending champions,” said Scott Brooks, the basket for a pass and dunked it with enDenver’s acting coach while George Karl thusiasm to make it 86-81. sits out a two-game suspension. “They realDuncan had 19 points and 10rebounds ly execute down the stretch. They just for the Spurs, who won their 11th straight don’t make many errors, and if you do, regular-season home game. Carmelo Anthony led Denver with 23 they really punish you.” Before the game, San Antonio unpoints, while Kenyon Martin added 19. veiled its third championship banner in Eduardo Najera scored 14 and Earl the rafters of the SBC Center, and NBA Boykins 13. commissioner David Stern was there to “I though we played well but it really shake hands with the players who received comes down to making plays late in the their white gold-and-diamond tide rings. game,” Martin said. “They did it, we didn’t.”

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TRAIN from page 11 Of course, all this mid-continent fun comes after the Blue Devils steamroll their way through a weakened ACC. A Chris Paul-less Wake Forest? More like Fake Forest. Boston College? How about Boston Public’s girl’s team. Maryland? Try Fairyland. Carolina? Please. The only way the Blue Devils don’t win the national title this season is if gravity stops acting on both JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams and they fall off the face of the Earth, never to be seen again. And even then Duke will still make the Final Four. Duke’s fourth men’s basketball championship is a forgone conclusion. The only questions are questions of history. Could the Blue Devils be the first team to finish the season undefeated since Indiana in 1976? Could they be the best college basketball team ever? Uh, yeah. Alex, you’ve got to slow down. Duke hasn’t even played a game yet—much less won one and you’re ready to call them the best team of all time. Aren’tyou worried you might jinx them'?Is the Athletic Department paying you to be over—

whelmingly positive? No and no. Someone’s got to be on The Train first. And when you get a personal invitationfrom Wojo, you’ve got to hop on. Duke’s got the best big man in the country. They’ve got the best guard. They’ve got the best freshman—who is 6foot-10 and has thrown down a throughthe-legs dunk. They have athletic wings, plenty of big men to throw at other schools’ best forwards and four major senior contributors. No teams have four important seniors anymore. Some NBA teams don’t even have four senior-age contributors on their roster (seriously, check out the Atlanta Hawks).

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Senior Shelden Williams, the 2005 Defensive Player of the Year, will be key to Duke's success this season. And they have Lee Melchionni Yeah, Coach K is going to do his doomand-gloom thing. He’ll build up every opponent the Blue Devils play and insist on answering any question about Duke’s chance to win the National Championship with a, “we have a chance to be very good this year.” But very good is an understatement. The Blue Devils have a chance to be the best Duke team ever, and they know it. “I have a lot of unfinished business here at Duke University,” Williams said. “I want to win a National Championship and that is one of the things that motivated me to come back.” “I do expect us to be the best team in America,” Redick said. Hop on The Train, baby. Choo, choo

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Virginia.

The Cavaliers won the championship game on penalty kicks against North Carolina, which had won 16 of the previous 17 ACC Championships. Last year, Duke lost in the semifinals

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Georgia Tech Oct. 15. The catch was part of a long drive that put Duke ahead going into halftime that game. On the play, Riley the Yellow Jacket cornerback out-jumped Blue Devils within scamper brought the two points, and Roof called for a two-point to reel in the ball. “What he does so well is he judges the conversion. On the ensuing play, Asack rolled right and lobbed a pass to Riley into ball, the deep ball especially, and he comthe back-right corner of the end zone. The petes for it,” Roof said. “I think that he 6-foot-3 freshman came down with the ball and Zack Asack have some good chemistry. That’s good because we have them and tied the game up for Duke. both for three more years after this.” Since then he has built on his momenAnd ever since, Asack has been looking tum and his rapport with Asack. The two connected on a 38-yard bomb late in the for Riley as a primary opdon down the second quarter two weeks later against field. Riley said he has become more comfortable on the field, and it has allowed him to relax and make big plays. “The game is starting to slow down a little bit for me,” he said. “Now, I can play the way I’ve always played. Instead of just being out there, I now can try to make plays to help my team the best I can.” Part of the reason for the relatively slow adjustment was because Riley’s athletic ability had spread him too thin in high school, Roof said. The wideout played forward for his high school basketball team and ran the 100 meter in track and field. Before now, he never fully focused on football—he is just now learning to be precise in his route-running. Both Riley and Roof said devoting all of Riley’s attention to football will help the wide receiver reach his full potential. He needs to put time in the weight room and continue to develop his hands and speed, Roof said. “When I was playing other sports, I could never really concentrate on football like I would have liked to,” Riley said. “Coming here and only playing one sport is going to allow me to concentrate on football during the offseason and ARMANDO HUARINGA/THE CHRONICLE dedicate my time to football and acaEton Riley rips the ballaway fromWake Forest's Riley demics. I really think this offseason will Swanson and pulls it in for a 37-yard gain. help me out a lot.”

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dean for undergraduate admissions last week. The switch was heralded as a promotion in the press release that announced it, but the promodon is not so much Guttentag’s as the whole arena of undergraduate admissions. Guttentag said his job will stay exactly the same. For 13 years, he has overseen . the process of evaluating applications and choosing a class of freshmen (and a handful of transfer students). But until last week, he did this as a director. Now he does it as a dean. “Dean” is a code term at Duke, and at most universities in general. It means “related missions

academics.” Director, on the other hand, sometimes deals with academic issues and sometimes indicates a high position related to parking or some other mundane task. In a community that by definition privileges learning above all other pursuits, being named a dean is the rough equivalent of being knighted: it rarely changes anything, but it sure elevates the importance of the work. In this case, this is an indication that the University thinks choosing an incoming class is fundamentally related to how the intellectual climate of the school is shaped. Raising the status of the department to whatever goes under to

“dean” affirms what Duke has always said about choosing whole applicants based on a variety of factors including grades, life experiences and other talents. This move admits proudly that undergraduate admissions is a subjective process. For several years, admissions has been under the domain of Provost Peter Lange, and this connection between academics and a new class has been tacitly acknowledged. This move, however, institutionalizes that connection. This switch may be just a name, but that name—just like most names at Duke—means something. It just needs to be noticed.

Poor blind baby the issue. But I also couldn’t help but be reminded of how much of an inequitable patchwork quilt of aged my aparta healthcare system we have in ment building the United States. had placed a noIt’s a patchtice on my apartwork quilt because ment door. some of us have informed It access to affordme that a oneable healthcare, year-old baby boy but some of us do was suffering preeti aroon not. Some workers from an eye disease that had get health insuraim for the stars ance through robbed him of his their employers, vision This sighdess one year old was but some do not. The elderly and some of the poor can obtain govthe son of one of the maintenance workers employed by the ernment-subsidized healthcare through Medicare and Medicaid, company that managed my apartment building. His only hope of but the rest of us cannot. At Duke, ever seeing again was eye surgery. qualified Ph.D. students will now The notice said the surgery would get a health insurance subsidy, but undoubtedly place a financial master’s and professional degree hardship on the baby’s family. students will not. And some blind babies are Could we, the apartment dwellers, make any donations? lucky enough to have parents My sympathy for this baby was who have access to affordable accompanied by anger—anger at healthcare, but some blind babies “the system.” are not so lucky. Living in the bubble of the I live less than a mile from Gothic Wonderland, most Duke the Duke University Eye Center, affiliated with a Department of students are sheltered from the Ophthalmology ranked eighth danger of being one accident or in the country by U.S. News & one illness away from financial World Report. Yet, for this baby ruin. We all have health insurto access the type of services ofance—Duke requires it. fered at such a medical facility, Many undergraduates are covhis family had to go broke and ered by their parents’ policies. beg for money. This one year old Many Ph.D. students will soon be was so close, yet so far, from the covered through Duke’s subsidy. That doesn’t mean, however, that help he needed. I couldn’t help but remember all students’ health insurance this blind baby when Bill LeFew, woes are over. Master’s degree president of the Graduate and and professional students still Professional Student Council, have to foot the bill for their inannounced at the Oct. 24 GPSC surance, which is $1,589 anually for Duke’s plan. Of greater conmeeting that next year the Graduate School would subsidize cern are the graduate and profeshealth insurance for doctoral sional students who have families. students who receive stipends It currently costs an additional $3,392 to insure a family under from Duke. Duke’s student health insurance I was excited about this develwhich was due to in plan. That makes the total cost of opment, part GPSC’s commendable work on health insurance for a Duke stu-

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economics to $20,000 for research assistants in mechanical engineering, according to a compilation of select departments that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. And what happens to us once we graduate? If we don’t immediately have jobs that provides health insurance, we can try applying for a private plan. Forget about paying a reasonable monthly premium, or even being accepted into a plan at all though, if you have anything in your medical history that might make you a financial risk, such as having hay fever, being treated for anxiety or injuring an knee during your college years. Students on their parents’ plans can often stay on that plan for up to 18 months by paying premiums out of pocket, which were around $3lO monthly for me when I graduated from college in 2002. There’s always the option of going uninsured. Last year I had a physical. The bills from my doctor and the lab that performed my blood tests totaled $562. I paid $92. My insurance company paid a “negotiated rate” of $B6. If I hadn’t had insurance, I would have been out nearly $600! (Is it any wonder why people forgo preventative healthcare?) Clearly, the American healthcare system is dysfunctional. I’d suggest some solutions, but most are politically unfeasible until a critical mass of Americans goes bankrupt from medical debt. Meanwhile, we’ll continue to have poor blind babies. Preeti Aroon is a graduate student in public policy. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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here in Europe a while now with a big group of nice, well-adjusted youth who complain about school work and try to save money. The youth, they travel a lot and they take the digital cameras with them. Supposed to take pictures ofstuff, people, etc. and send them IF—back home. My favorite is the picture of “me with these really cool people I (circle one) ‘came to Europe with’ or ‘met in a hostel’ (circle one) ‘eating dinner in a pizzeria’ aaron or ‘drinking at a nightclub’ in [insert European so far, so good City].” I know this picture and maybe you do, too. In it, bright-eyed young people with straight teeth and their arms around each other smile at you from a u-shaped semicircle behind a table. They look flm My folks got me a digital camera before I left for Europe. We figured I ought to have one after various extended road trips, two Brazilian adventures and one screwed up summer in Albuquerque. Thinking was that I ought to have taken more pictures of these things... gotta remember them, etc. Youth in an album. Well, I just uploaded about 30 pictures to the Internet. “Shared” them with mom, dad, uncle and friends, too. You’ve been “invited to view someone’s photos” before, right? What a half-assed crock of manure. Looking at someone else’s photos online is more or less meaningless. There isn’t any hour-long story session to go with. This makes the other person’s pictures make about as much sense as any of the other images out there in the world; that amount of sense, my friends and relatives, is nil. Snapshot, picture, icon, sound bite, clip, truism, saying, quote. Our world is mosdy constructed from these things. This isn’t a new idea, nor even mine... ask a lit major... heh. Anyway, you look at a photo entitled “Prague.” Wow. Prague. Beautiful. Incomprehensible. Not even slighdy comprehensible. Next. Photo in the newspaper. With caption. Wow. Something is happening. A picture is worth a thousand words. A picture is just the tip ofthe iceberg. Five words. The tip of the iceberg. This is a saying that implies there is more hidden in something than is revealed. This is a saying that comes from the physical structure of an iceberg. Increasingly we rely on this visual and oral iconography. There is always more to the story. So this concept of picture taking. Vitiiat about it? My father points out there’s a difference between photography and pictures, and he’s right. A photograph is a piece of art. A picture is an exploitable image that is used in accord with or even in place of more information. A picture is worth a thousand words, but what’s the story worth? Went to Little Bighorn this summer, the battlefield from Custer’s Last Stand. I noticed something in the museum. The U.S. Army used to take pictures of all the Indian chiefs they captured. The chiefs wear their headdresses. It meant something greater for these enemies to be caught on daguerreotype, as well. It eliminated the story and the myth—the Indian menace was reducible to a picture for public consumption and placation. In a similar way, I feel that my membership in the Army of Digital Camera Carriers Abroad does much the same thing. Prague is now conquerable and intelligible. It’s comprehensible to people not here. Likewise, my social situation, when taking the u-shaped, semicircle photo, can be reduced to the word “fun.” Orwell. 1984. In it, he said that words would be reduced by simplification and combination of meaning. Well, take it a step further. Instead of “Newspeak” we formed a common picture-language (progress from Hieroglyphics? hmm...) and a collective verbiage of non-nuanced phrasing/sloganeering. We must be “resolute,” can’t give in, have to go for it, and mustn’t count chickens before they hatch. We have buzzwords, talking points and PowerPoint lectures to limit our understandings of complex things by simplifying them to such a great degree. Well, I always fall asleep during those lectures and sortof half browse people’s online pics. I speak in quotes and truisms but wonder about them, and maybe you do, too. We’re Big Picture people, after all. We stand around the table and smile.

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letterstotheeditor SAF working to prevent profs’ rants Elizabeth Rudisill’s recent column attacking Students for Academic Freedom and its president (“All becomes clear” Oct. 31) was both disappointing and disheartening. What my “very liberal” peer fails to recognize is that SAF, rather than “simply [providing] a forum for conservative students to whine about their grades,” is actually seeking to broaden the definition of tolerance on Duke’s diverse campus. Somehow it’s become perfecdy acceptable for some professors to alienate and deride an entire sect of the Duke student population. In the same classroom where speech critical of, for instance, different sexual orientations or cultural customs is intolerable, professors seem to have no problem going on rants about the war in Iraq and engaging in crude ad hominem attack against my president. SAF is simply asking that professors respect their students whether or not they share their beliefs and that we try and foster the diversity of ideas once deemed so central to a university education. While it is quite obviously the job of columnists to persuade the general public of their convictions, it is the professors’ job to present the material necessary for understanding their subject and to try and open the minds of their students. If Rudisill would remove her “very liberal” glasses and read the facts, she would find that SAF wants nothing more than intellectual tolerance and diversity. Garrett Wood Pratt ’OB Column fails to contest SAF pledge Elizabeth Rudisill’s column used every means possible to bash the Students for Academic Freedom pledge except actually dispute the pledge’s arguments. She spends 90 percent of the article detailing the “disturbing” and “sinister” way SAF was accepted into Duke Student Government and mentions the horrifying fact that SAP’s leader, Stephen Miller, did not support allowing the Palestine Solidarity Movement conference to Duke last year! Her points are completely irrelevant as to whether the Academic Freedom pledge should be accepted by professors. The pledge wants professors to be tolerant of opposing views in the classroom and not to advance their own ideological agendas. The only time she actually refers to the contents of the pledge is when she claims many professors do allow opposing viewpoints to be heard. If this is true, then what harm is there in a pledge that merely reaffirms what professors are already doing? Trying to link random conservative views with a nonpartisan pledge advocating diversity of opinion in classrooms makes her argument irrelevant.

Greg Bobrinskoy Trinity ’OB

Aaron Kirschenfeld is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday. He wishes his official byline could read “Orbit Kirschenfeld.

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Econ BA offers alternate thinking Last week, The Chronicle’s staff

editorial (“Calculating econ’s fuscheduled to become fixed at 6.8 ture” Oct. 25) voiced its strong suppercent and 7.9 percent for stuport of the economics department’s dents and parents, respectively, in decision to eliminate its Bachelor of July 2006. Arts degree. In particular, it foThe resolution would cancel cused on the lack of an econometthis change and implement new rics requirement in the BA proformulas that could increase rates gram as the primary reason for its to as high as 8.25 percent and 9.0 weakness, and said, “the University percent for students and parents, should not be in the practice of respectively. Another devastating handing out degrees that suggest a aspect, among others, of HR 609 specialization when only the facade would be its proposal to cap Pell of that mastery is present.” It also grants at $6,000 per student until claimed that the elimination of 2013. While this is an increase such phoney degrees “signals a slow from the current cap at $5,800, but steady strengthening of the fixing it over the next eight years Duke education.” overlooks inflation. While the provisions of HR 609 I find this narrow definition of what constitutes “true” economic reduce federal spending and almastery to be troubling. It signals a legedly contribute to “saving” the bias on the part of both the departfederal government $33.5 billion, with every “saving” comes a cost. ment and the larger student body to glorify mathematics and formal Realizing the cost of HR 609 as a modeling over many other more in- country already subject to pricey tuitive approaches to what, in the tuitions that limit the opportuniend, is a social science. ties to higher education is simply When you require students to unacceptable. In fact, the federal adhere to one set of beliefs about government should refinance to how the economic world works and spend more on loans and grants the tools you must use to describe and help resolve the unavoidable it, you exclude a large number of problem that HR 609 threatens to alternative views that are themexacerbate. selves no less valid and would in fact provide a much fuller range of Mike Palmer perspectives that, at this point, are Trinity ’OB still being neglected in the ecoDuke Democrats Press Chair nomic field. The truth is that very few people Respectful debate benefits all believe that economic modeling Martin Luther King, Jr. once said can describe a significant portion that “our lives begin to end the day of their behavior, but if those who we become silent about things that do believe it are the only ones almatter.” As members of an academic lowed to pursue economics, then community, we are encouraged to economics as a discipline will conexplore and learn about what matters to us, what matters to others and tinue to find itself extremely limited in the types of human behavior what ought to matter to us all. It is it can describe. both our privilege and responsibility to engage in meaningful social disAllana Strong course that allows for the free exTrinity ’O7 pression of all viewpoints. The articulation of particular viewpoints need not silence others. Congress threatens to cut aid The Center for Race Relations In a country that cherishes equal opportunity, we face an un- promotes sharing and listening avoidable problem in the great among members of the Duke comnumber of qualified individuals unmunity as a means of deepening the able to afford higher education. well from which we draw the knowlAcross the nation universities, espeedge and understanding that incially state universities, have in- forms our own beliefs. Because we creased tuition (some by as much advocate honest dialogue as necesas 40 percent), As a result, more sary to achieve respect and underthan 400,000 students of low- and standing, we seek to foster a safe moderate-income families have not space in which people on both ends had the opportunity to pursue of the spectrum and in between are higher level education. So, many able to voice their beliefs without believe the government should infear of repercussions. We invite all members of the crease spending for student loans and grants. Duke community to join us for a faMany congressmen, however, cilitated town hall discussion on don’t recognize this unavoidable William Bennett’s comments and problem. A questionable resolution the issues raised by Stephen Miller to “amend and extend” the Higher and respondents to his recent colEducation Act of 1965, the staple umn in The Chronicle (“Tricky exlegislation for higher education trapolations” Oct. 26). The discussion will take place this Thursday, loan and grant programs, has already passed through the House Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. in the fifth floor of McClendon Tower. Education and Workforce Committee and is ready for the full House’s Let us ask ourselves, “If not here, where? If not now, when?” vote by the end of this month. If ultimately passed, the resolution (HR 609) would cut $9 billion Felix Li from student lending programs and Trinity ’O7 increase students’ loan debts. It imHalien Reischer plements new formulas for interest Trinity ’O6 Co-Presidents, rates on loans. Currently, the Stafford and parent loans are Centerfor Race Relations

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