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The Career Center is open to all students, and the Diversity Liaison Team is there to remind visitors of that fact.

The Diversity Liaison Team, a group created last spring, was developed to spread the word about programs and opportunities available to minority students. The team is comprised of three students of color.

DLT was created in response to the lack of minority students

seeking job opportunities through the Career Center.

“One of the things that we found was that students of color were not using the Career Center as much as white students,” said Sheila Curran, executive director of the Career Center.

“We felt that minority students were not aware of the opportunities available here.”

The purpose of DLT is to link the Career Center with campus cultural groups, such as the Asian Students Association, Black Student Alliance, Diya SEE DIVERSITY ON PAGE 5

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Many Duke students who are bored with labs, lectures and recitations instead choose to register for courses in which they can put their studies to use.

Service learning, an active model of teaching based on the philosophy of combining academic knowledge and realworld issues, is available to Duke undergraduates in a wide variety of disciplines.

“The general idea is that it should provide people with a more complete understanding of how to be actual professionals,” said senior Dan Dwyer, a member of a house course on the history and importance of service learning at Duke.

Service learning courses are also opportunities to put “knowledge in the service of society,” a goal President Richard Brodhead has pushed since his arrival at Duke last year.

And the opportunities to combine schoolwork and service are growing.

Students in a new spring course on community involvement, called “Rebuilding from Ruins,” will examine the lifecycle of natural disasters.

The course was developed following last year’s Engineers Without Borders trip to Indonesia, said David Schaad, adjunct SEE SERVICE ON PAGE 6

Tour guides offer glimpse ofDuke to visitors by

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Tour guides like junior Matt Levy regularly guide prospective studentsand parents around campus.

The band of prospective students and their parents express amazement as they approach West Campus. They follow their tour guide up Chapel Drive, as Duke’s major landmark emerges in the sky.

“I can see why people like coming here,” one mother whispers as the Chapel comes into view. “I love the architecture.”

The sight of Duke’s grand Gothic structures on a sunny autumn afternoon provides a strong initial impact on a group, but it is the task of a group’s backwards-striding tour guide to keep interest high.

“Tours really make the first impression of a school,” tour guide and junior Allana Strong said. “We want to put the Duke we know and love out there.”

For tour guides like Strong, making such an impression is an art form.

While leading their weekly sessions, the guides are able to skillfully cram information

about almost every positive aspect of Duke into a mere hour-and-fifteen-minute time slot.

“It’s important that we really put Duke in a positive light,” Strong said.

To achieve this goal, the tour guides share some common strategies as they wind through West Campus.

The latest of these strategies is to focus on the abundance of new structures dotting the University’s grounds.

Tour guide Jackie August, a sophomore, said she emphasizes fundraising efforts on her tours and wants to show prospective students where the money goes. “By the time you get here, most ofit will be completed,” she says of the current construction.

After stopping on the Main West Quadrangle to describe the basics of Duke academics, each tour guide beelines to the walkway between three of the school’s latest additions: Bostock Library, von der Heyden SEE TOURS ON PAGE

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George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, sternly warned professors Thursday at the Faculty of Arts and Science Council meeting that they must improve access to teacher evaluations soon or face potentially unwanted competition from student groups.

About 10 percent of professors who taught in Spring 2005 have chosen to make their course evaluations available to students so far, said Director of Assessments Matt Serra, an adjunct assistant professor of psychology.

The statistic provoked several comments from faculty members, including Lee Baker, chair of the Arts and Sciences Council and associate professor in the Department ofCultural Anthropology.

Baker said this will be an issue the Council will meet “head on” in the next few meetings.

“This is not normative nor sustainable for a university of our type,” McLendon said. “If the faculty does not choose some different version, I am certain DSGwill create a parallel process.”

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people Thursday at a Baghdad restaurant favored by police and an army recruiting center to the north, while Iraqi troops

along the Iranian border found 27 decomposing bodies, unidentified victims of the grisly violence plaguing the country.

In the deadliest bombing in Baghdad since Sept. 19, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant about 9:45 a.m., when officers usually stop in for breakfast. Police Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi said 35 officers and civilians died and 25 were wounded.

A1 Qaeda in Iraq claimed in an Internet posting that it staged the attack in retaliation for U.S. and Iraqi operations near the Syrian border. Earlier, it claimed responsibility for Wednesday night’s deadly hotel bombings in neighboring Jordan, linking

those blasts to the conflict in Iraq.

Samiya Mohammed, who lives near the restaurant, said she rushed out when she heard the explosion.

“There were bodies, mostly civilians, and blood everywhere inside the place.

This is a criminal act that only targeted and hurt innocent people having their breakfast,” she said.

There were no Americans in the area,

she said. “I do not understand why most of the time it is the Iraqis who are killed,” she added.

The blast was the most deadly since a car bomb ripped through a market in a poor Shiite Muslim neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, killing at least 30 people and wounding 38, Sept. 19.

Police first reported two bombers struck the restaurant because some witnesses heard two blasts. Later, al-Mohammedawi said the suicide attacker carried a bomb in a satchel and also wore an explosives belt and the two detonated independendy.

Thursday’s other big attack came in the town of Tikrit, 80 miles north of the capital.

China, Kuwait detect bird flu China reported two new bird flu outbreaks in poultry Thursday and quarantined 116 people, while Kuwait confirmed the first known cases in the Persian Gulf, in an imported peacock and a wild flamingo. A case in China two weeks ago prompted officials to destroy more than 6 million birds.

Alito denies ethical conflict Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said Thursday he was "unduly restrictive" in promising in. 1990 to avoid appeals cases involving two investment firms and said he has not made any rulings in which he had a "legal or ethical obligation"to step aside.

Trade deficit hits record $66 billion Martin Crutsinger THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The trade deficit

surged to a record in September as oil imports hit an all-time high, driven up by hurricane-related shutdowns of Gulf Coast production.

The deficit with China also hit a record as that country shipped a flood of televisions, toys and clothing to the United States, triggering demands that President Bush take a hard line on what Democrats in Congress called China’s unfair

trading practices.

The Commerce Department reported

Thursday that September’s trade deficit was a record $66.1 billion, 11.4 percent

higher than August and much worse than economists had been forecasting.

Analysts blamed much of the rise on hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which shut down production at Gulf Coast refineries and pushed oil prices to record highs.

The trade deficit so far this year is running at a record annual rate of $706 billion, putting it on track to far surpass the old record of $617.6 billion set last year.

Critics say the deficit is the result of the President George W. Bush administration pushing free trade agreements that reduce

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In other economic news, the government reported that the number of Americans who have lost their jobs because of the hurricanes rose to 542,000 last week. Last week’s increase included 15,000 applications for jobless benefits related to Katrina and Rita and 6,000 attributed to Hurricane Wilma, which struck Florida in October.

On Wall Street, stocks rallied with the Dow Jones industrial average climbing 93.89 points to close at 10,640.10.

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Seniors Jesse Longoria of DSG and Chris Kallmeyer of the Union along with junior Jay Ganatra of Campus Council have boosted communication among their respective student organizations this year.

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Thanks to the efforts of their leaders, Duke Student Government, Campus Council and the Duke University Union are working more closely together than in past years, students and members of the administration reported.

“I had certainly noticed that their level of communication and collaboration has increased dramatically from recent past years,” said Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students. “It’s quite refreshing to work with student leaders who have the respect for each other that this year’s group has.”

By improving internal dialogue, the leaders said they are better able to represent student needs. In recent years, stu-

dent organizations have been criticized for what some have called a competitive relationship, Wasiolek said.

After the first Intercommunity Council meeting of the year, Campus Council presidentJay Ganatra, a junior, Union president Chris Kallmeyer, a senior, and DSG president Jesse Longoria, a senior, have met at 6 p.m. every Thursday night in order to improve what they consider to be necessary lines of communication.

During their meetings, the leaders discuss initiatives and concerns of their respective groups—a necessary step, they said, in trulyrepresenting the voice of the students.

“I e-mailed Chris and Jesse after the meeting and asked them if they would be SEE DIALOGUE ON PAGE 6

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Approximately 40 students, faculty and community members gathered Thursday evening to discuss the issue of genocide.

In recognition of the 67th anniversary of the Kristallnacht massacre, a panel of experts and activists met in the Levine Science Research Center to talk about contemporary international human rights violations, such as the current situations ih Darfur and the Congo. They also discussed the Rwandan and Bosnian conflicts of the 19905.

The Kristallnacht massacre of 1938 marked what many consider the beginning of the Holocaust.

The panel consisted oflain Levine, program director of Human Rights Watch; William Parsons, chief of staff of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; and David Scheffer, former U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes issues. Public policy and political science professor Bruce Jentleson moderated the discussion.

Jentleson opened the event by noting that genocide is a recurring international reality despite the existence of such documents as the United Nations Genocide Convention. All three panelists emphasized the frustrating persistence of genocide.

As the first panelist speaker, Scheffer focused on recent political strategies taken

by U.S. policymakers toward preventing and responding to ethnic cleansing and “atrocity crimes.”

Scheffer said his experiences as a U.N. advisor to former President Bill Clinton’s administration and leader of the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group illustrate the various obstacles leaders face when attempting to avert violence abroad.

“Unfortunately it’s not a phenomenon that’s going to end,” Scheffer said. ‘You’re always failing in atrocities work.”

Parsons’ frustration was even more palpable as he denounced the global apathy

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Several panelists discussed examples of genocide throughout history at a Thursday evening forum.

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At its Thursday meeting, Campus Council worked to finalize surveys designed to investigate residents’ relationships with residence coordinators.

Although Council members were receptive to the survey draft, they discussed ways to shorten its length and expand its scope to cover RCs’ effects on neighborhood dynamics.

Council Vice President Ben Rubinfeld, a junior, presented a draft of the survey, which will be administered online next semester.

“It’s supposed to be a tool for the RCs—and us as a Council—to see what’s going on in the relationships between residents and RCs,” Rubinfeld said.

Members were generally pleased with the survey, but some complained that students would be unlikely to complete it because of its length.

“We do want to keep it as short as possible but still get as much out of it as possible,” said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a junior.

The draft features 15 general

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questions asking about residents’ personal interaction with RCs and any experiences with disciplinary actions.

Despite the number of questions, Rubinfeld said the survey will appear much shorter when finished.

“Once it’s converted from this form, the whole thing will be no longer than a single web page,” Rubinfeld said.

In addition to general questions, members of selective living groups and house and quad councils will be asked to answer short supplementary sections about their RCs’ involvement with their groups and activities.

Some Council representatives expressed concern about the narrow scope of the surveys.

“I wish it addressed the RCs’ effect on the quad community more, rather than personal interaction,” said junior Ross Katz, attending the meeting as a proxy for Wannamaker representative Spencer Cargill, a sophomore.

Katz’s sentiment was echoed by several other Council members.

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Visiting an active volcano, dancing the merengue and ex-

ploring South America may not sound like typical summer experiences. But for Avery Capone, Pratt ‘O5, these experiences were all in a day’s work.

Capone was one of five Duke students who participated in the Engineering World Health Summer Institute. Through the program, student engineers work to improve local hospital facilities in impoverished countries.

“The program is very challenging for our students,” EWH director Bob Malkin wrote in an email. “They have to work, live, eat, study engineering in a for-

eign language from day one. And all that in the developing world.”

Malkin, who founded EWH, is a Duke alumnus. He brought the program to the University when he became a biomedical engineering professor in 2004.

This summer’s volunteers repaired over 200 pieces of equipment in South American hospitals—the equivalent of buying $1 million worth of new equipment, Malkin wrote.

The Duke volunteers were joined by 12 students from 11 other universities. Program participants are typically junior or senior engineering, physics and science majors. The students traveled first to San Jose, Costa Rica for training before being dis-

patched to repair equipment and train personnel at various hospitals throughout the continent.

During their time in South America, students had to face obstacles ranging from linguistic differences to hygienic challenges. Malkin noted that the conditions are very different in developing countries and that purchasing supplies and contacting family at home in the United States can be difficult.

“This level of intensity and

personal challenge creates tensions throughout the program,” he wrote. “Balancing those tensions with the educational experience and the hospitals’ needs is a real challenge.”

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infant cardiac monitors, defibrillators, electrocardiograms and pulse oximeters, noted in an e-mail that his Duke education left him wellprepared for his experiences.

“The Pratt education instilled a confidence that proved invaluable,” Capone wrote. “Without this courage, I would have never been able to dive into uncertainty and crack open exotic pieces of complicated medical equipment. In addition, my engineering background offered a resilient sense of independence that sustained me both in and out of the hospital.”

Other Duke participants included senior Lucy He, senior Johannah Sanchez-Adams, sophomore Cameron Smith and

management student Aditi Misra.

In the future EWH hopes to expand its programming. It will include Africa in its 2006 Summer Institute.

In an effort to expand its “Cycle of Caring” focus, EWH will also offer new types of volunteer opportunities.

Malkin said he was proud of the contributions his students have made to the developing world through EWH’s programs.

“Almost every student tells me when they return that this program has changed their lives forever,” he wrote. “It’s an educator’s dream to teach a class that changes students’ lives, and I get to do that every year.” engineering

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DIVERSITY™ page, and Mi Gente, said Racquel Williams, DLT advisor and assistant director of the Career Development Center.

The team includes senior Danielle Cunningham, liaison to African-American groups; sophomore Tadina Ross, liaison to Latino organizations; and junior Jennifer Yang, liaison to Asian Organizations.

Cunningham, Ross and Yang were members of the Black Student Alliance, Mi Gente, and the Asian Student Alliance, respectively, before they were recruited to join the DLT. “We chose team members from ASA, BSA and Mi Gente because they represented the largest minority groups in the student body,” Williams said.

Of domestic undergraduate students at the University in the 2004-2005 academic year, 31 percent were minority students. Thirteen percent of students were Asian, 11 were percent African-American and seven percent were Latino.

The DLT students work six to eight hours a week and are paid an hourly wage. The program is funded by a diversity initiative through the Goldman Sachs Financial Services Company.

Although this is their first year of operation, members of DLT are already busy creating new ways to attract minority interest in Career Center services.

Initiatives include the annual Career Week, the Diversity Dinner, panels on minority summer internships and, most recendy, the Multicultural Resume Book.

The Multicultural Resume Book is one of DLT’s biggest projects. The book will be composed of resumes from minority students around campus.

It will be distributed to companies during Career Week in January.

In an e-mail sent to members of cultural groups on campus last week, DLT invited minority students to send pictures, resumes and personal information for submission to the Multicultural Resume Book.

Yang, who is compiling the submissions, said the book will be a good way for minority students to interact with

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“Every company is looking for a diverse group of job candidates, and most companies have diversity initia-

tives,” Yang said. “We are hoping the multicultural resume book will advertise our students to companies.”

Senior Tomas Lopez, president of Mi Gente, plans to submit his information to the resume book.

“The resume book will showcase the talents and cultural diversity of our students and will give our minority students a great chance to connect with employers,” Lopez said.

Curran said she believes minority students on campus are beginning to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Career Center, thanks to DLT. “It’s been a very successful program in involving the minority community,” she said. “We wanted to get our students involved with career-related issues before it becomes too late, and we think that it is working.”

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Duke Center for International Development presents

Dr. Bernard Avishai Visiting Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy and Fuqua School ofBusiness

“Why the Israeli Economy Really Needs What Peace, or Entrepreneurial Businesses Really Need from Government.” ,

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:00 PM-7:30 PM Sanford Room 04 Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy A discussion willfollow a short presentation.

Light refreshments will be served.

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down for getting dinner once a week and getting on the same page,” Ganatra said.

“We are able to bounce ideas off each other. We are able to give each other different perspectives.”

One idea that has come about as a result of the collaboration is that Campus Council will work with senior Paige Sparkman, DSG vice president of student affairs, when they survey students about Central Campus later this year.

DSG advisor Deborah Hackney said she has noticed increased communication in past weeks. She said the collaboration is a “huge step from the past.”

All three student leaders said they were aware of a rivalry between the three student groups in previous years.

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develop a program called Scholarship with also gain an understanding of the problems a Civic Mission, which strives to expose stuSpanish-speaking individuals may encounter dents to service-learning opportunities. when seeking health services.

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assistant professor of civil engineering, who teaches the class.

“I hope [students] understand that education extends way beyond the classroom,” Schaad said.

Class members will be required to travel over Spring Break to an area affected by natural disaster. There they will use their classroom knowledge to develop response activities for recovery and reconstruction.

Many students in the Program in Education also take advantage of service-learning opportunities. These include the orientation program Project Child, as well as the recently developed Partners for Success. Both programs allow students to tutor children in Durham’s public schools.

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a mindset that there is a competition: that when we pursued a project it was to one up the other groups,” Longoria explained. “When all three organizations pursue a policy together, it’s going to be a lot more effective than one group going it alone.”

As a result of their weekly dinners together, the three leaders were able to push a new mass e-mail policy through the Office of Student Affairs. The policy, which was approved Thursday, will grant student leaders more flexibility with broadcast emails, Longoria said.

When collaborating, Wasiolek said it is important for organizations to keep their individual identities.

She said student leaders have done a good job of doing so this year.

Ganatra, Longoria and Kallmeyer said they hope to set a precedent forfuture student leaders.

complement and broaden their understanding of the discussions we have in class.”

Many students agreed with Clifford, noting that their experiences are useful and rewarding.

“I had to fulfill a Spanish requirement, and I’m pre-med so I thought this would be a good class to take,” sophomore Mathew Wooster said.

Many Duke students and administrators feel that service-learning is extremely important, particularly because some people are unaware of the value of service as a pedagogical tool.

“I had never really considered how academic departments or even faculty members in particular would try to make a link between service and their curriculum,” Dwyer said of his experience prior to taking the house course. “I had always perceived service as something that was just giving back.”

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and amnesia he sees with respect to genocide. “Each generation comes along and makes great accomplishments, but, boy, we are in the stone age when it comes to stopping killing and genocide,” he said.

Parsons noted that the education system and the media are often blamed for public ignorance and detachment, but he argued that the real problem was individual motivation.

“It’s not a matter of learning what to do. It’s really about having the will to do it,” he said.

Levine spoke about how activists are currently wrestling with many human rights violations throughout the world.

“We seek to shine a spodight both on abusers and the abused,” he said of his work with Human Rights Watch.

“Our whole model of work is predicated on shaming perpetrators and exposing them to international opinion.”

Levine reiterated the types of legal and political restraints that inhibit progress. Like Parsons, he noted that individual will is underestimated as an impetus for change.

“Public opinion really matters,” he said. “Using the media is critically important.”

The panelists encouraged students to help raise awareness of genocide, even ifjust by writing letters to politicians and encouraging others to do the same.

Audience members raised questions about the possibility of timely military response to atrocities, the over-politicization of complex human conflicts and the importance of recognizing progress in an oftendisappointing field.

Overall, audience members were impressed by the expertise and passion of the panelists, if somewhat depressed by the subject matter.

“I thought they did an excellent job of getting informed people,” said John Finan, a fourth-year graduate student in biomedical engineering. “I really think that the community is learning and that should be celebrated and expanded and not ignored.”

Sophomore Dan Friedman, who organized the event with juniorJeffrey Katz, was happy with the outcome.

“This is an important discussion to have and this was the right night to have it,” he said.

Pavilion and the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences.

The prospective students and their parents can admire the new buildings as the guide describes the recently completed Nasher Museum of Art, Rubenstein Hall and Bell Tower Dormitory and notes projects currently underway, such as the West Campus student plaza and the renovations to Perkins Library.

“We are constantly progressing,” boasts Strong as her group observes students bustling in and out of the newly opened Mad Hatters Cafe and Bake Shop. “Duke’s doing just a terrific job keeping its facilities modern.”

Even as they are flooded with positive facts about Duke, visitors—especially parents —raise difficult questions.

“The parents are really inquisitive,” August said. “The parents ask more questions than the kids do.”

When questions are directed toward some of Duke’s weaker points, the tour guides must remain on their toes.

Strong said concerned parents frequently asked her about safety on campus. Her tactic of choice is to draw attention to the improvements Duke has made in this area by pointing out the existence of Safe Rides and blue

light phones.

In addition, the well-versed tour guides are able to detract from what many deem as the school’s less palatable features by putting a positive spin on their statements.

Strong, for example, jokes that the difficulty of parking on West Campus is a small price to pay for living among beautiful old trees.

August has also mastered the art of diverting attention from flaws while still being honest.

“Obviously, you have to tell the truth,” she said When presenting what many students agree is a lessthan-ideal meal plan for freshmen, August admits the Marketplace is not the most popular on-campus eatery.

“Because it’s all-you-can-eat, it’s obviously not gourmet,” she confesses before quickly switching to a more pleasant feature of the dining plan: Merchants on Points.

Tour guides say, however, that they approach their sessions with more than just deflection in mind. They also strive to expand upon the plethora of cliched facts rattled off during tours at every college by presenting the experience of real Duke student through their own personal stories.

“No two tours are going to be the same,” August said.

“You take the facts, and then you personalize, giving your own opinions.”

Meg Eckman, a high school junior from Virginia, recently participated in a campus tour. She said that while her basic questions about dorm rooms, classes and studying abroad were answered, the most memorable part of the tour was her guide’s anecdote about constructing benches and burning them after basketball games.

“It’s made me want to have a closer look at Duke,” Eckman said of the tour.

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The current default option for professors is not to reveal their evaluations.

Professors must indicate that they specifically want the data revealed for it to be released publically.

“How do we get data back to students so they can make informed decision, rather than, T heard about a course from some friend of mine’s roommates’?”

McLendon said. “That’s probably not the most statistically valid way of doing this.”

Although students have complained about lack of information when choosing classes, many faculty members have resisted changing the process.

An initiative to make the process “optout”—instead of the “opt-in” system now in place—failed by one vote at a Dec. 9, 2005 Council meeting.

“Students are certain to have their own system of which we will have no say whatsoever if we try to stonewall them,”

said Victor Strandberg, a professor in the

English department.

He encouraged Council members to share the low opt-in statistic with others in their departments. _

The issue was raised when Serra presented a more streamlined website for faculty to view their evaluations and change their preferences.

Professors had previously complained about the “clunkiness” of the system and generally approved of the changes.

Michael Lavine, professor of statistics and decision sciences, also presented a salary and promotion equity report.

Although the findings were inconclusive, Lavine showed that there was no significant statistical difference in salaries of men and women or Caucasians and minorities.

The results, however, showed that women associate professors are promoted at about half the rate of their male coworkers, while minorities were promoted two times faster than their Caucasian

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CC from page 4 Despite the length of the debate, no final decisions were made about modifications or combinations of questions on the survey.

Rubinfeld also asked for volunteers to sit on a committee to examine survey responses. He said he hopes the survey will reveal trends and areas for improvement in RC-resident relationships.

Council members will then meet withAssociate Dean for Residence Life Joe Gonzalez and RCs to discuss the results.

In other business: Senior Brenna Benson, Council communications coordinator, reported on planning for the Council’s Sausage Fest, scheduled for Nov. 30, and a brain bowl tournament. The Sausage Fest will fea-

ture hot dogs and a raffle.

Ganatraannounced that Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, agreed Thursday to a new plan regulating Council e-mails to the entire student body.

The Council will be allowed one email per month, one annual e-mail about elections and two emergency e-mails each semester.

Ganatra also reported progress on a pilot program for unlocking bathrooms in halls on which residents vote to do so.

“Facilities will be coming up with a proposed policyj as will [Residence Life and Housing Services], so we’ll be working up a nice little compromise to bring the change to fruition,” he said.

A second pilot program will place educational magazines in commons rooms in an effort to enhance campus intellectual climate. Council members are working with Gonzalez to develop the program.

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FIELD HOCKEY

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had convinced her to join the field hockey team. Although reluctant at first, Grant had athletic abilities that made her excel on the field.

“She’s been pretty naturally gifted as an athlete,” her mother said. “Speed has been her greatest asset in hockey over the years. She has the drive to be better. She loves the game.’’Ten years later, Grant has become a star in the collegiate sport as one of the nation’s most prolific scorers for the No. 4 Blue Devils.

She garnered the 2005 Offensive Player of the Year award for the ACC, the nation’s toughest conference with four teams ranked in the nation’s top five. And

When the third-seeded field hockey travels to Princeton Saturday for the first round of the NCAA. Tournament, head coach Beth Bozman will not be unfamiliar with the territory. who was the Tigers’ head coach for 15 years prior to her arVS. rival at Duke in 2003, will face her former team for the first time since her departure SATURDAY, 11 a.m. from the program.

At Princeton, BozPrinceton, N.J. man led the Tigers to eight NCAA Tournament appearances, two of which ended in championship game losses. In her two full years with the Blue Devils so far, Bozman has also guided Duke to two championship games without titles.

“Obviously I have a really strong loyalty to Princeton but I’m not the ex-coach of Princeton, I’m the Duke coach,” Bozman said. “I feel very strongly about that.

This is my team.”

Duke assistant coach Kelly Baril also has Princeton ties. She played four seasons for the Tigers under Bozman from 1999-2002.

Despite Bozman’s substantial influence on both programs, which includes coaching the Tigers’ current senior class, Princeton head coach Kristen HolmesWinn downplayed the effect that Bozman’s return to New Jersey will have on the game.

“I think both teams are just very focused on playing their best hockey,” Holmes-Winn said. “Bozman only coached them for just a season so I don’t think that’s really going to be a factor.”

Holmes-Winn said the particular style of play found in the highly competitive ACC conference and embodied by the Blue Devils (15-4), will pose a challenge for the Tigers (9-8).

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In a game that featured five Blue Devil freshmen on the court at the same time, it was sophomore DeMarcus Nelson who brought the house down with his high-flying acrobatics and improved scoring ability against N.C. Central.

With 15:32remaining in the second half, Nelson slashed NCCU down the right side DUKE 102 of the lane and dunked a perfectly-executed, two-handed alley-oop from senior Sean Dockery, bringing the crowd to a roar. The play emphatically ended an 18-2 Blue Devil run to start the period and widened the Duke lead to 63-29. Duke would roll from there on to a 102-42 victory at Cameron Indoor Thursday night in its final exhibition game before beginning the season 'Nov. 14 against Boston University.

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The first time Katie Grant ever picked up a field hockey stick was at a local clinic when she was in the sixth grade.

Having never enjoyed playing sports consistently when she was younger, Grant viewed field hockey in the same manner—it was the “least fun sport” she had ever played, her mother, Peggy recalled Katie saying.

“It was really hot the first time I ever really played a sport and was not the most fun thing,” Grant said. “It was a lot of running and kind of miserable. I had to learn a lot of new rules.”

But by the time she began seventh grade, friends at her new public school

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It’s payback time for the Blue Devils,

Taking on first-seeded Maryland in the ACC Championship semifinal game, the men’s soccer team hopes to avenge its Oct. 7 loss to the Terrapins tonight at the SAS Complex in Cary, N.C. “Maryland’s a very good team,” goalkeeper Justin Papadakis said. “They have yj a lot of talent. And since we played them a couple weeks ago, we’re expecting a battie, to be honest.”

The 3-1 loss to Maryland was a turning TONIGHT, 5:30 p.m. point in the team’s season, Papadakis said.

Cary, N.C. Since then, the Blue Devils have turned their focus to team defense, emphasizing the importance for all players to concentrate on regaining possession.

“Everyone from our forwards back to our defenders—-

everyone has to be pitching in,” said Papadakis, a sophomore who has started each of the Blue Devils’ 17 games this season. “At their end and our end, everyone has to contribute to the defensive effort.”

Although Duke has done well defensively in the first half of games—the team has allowed only two goals before the break—its opponents have outscored them in the second period, 16-18.

Last year’s team, which began the season with seven shutouts, boasted a .91 goals against average. This season, however, Duke ranks seventh in the conference allowing 1.09 goals per game.

The difference, however, may the growing strength of the ACC rather than the Blue Devils’ defense. Head coach John Rennie has said that all but one team in the conference will likely make the NCAAs. No. 9 Duke is expected SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 12

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Justin Papadakis is allowing an average of 1.09 goals per game,which ranks seventh in the ACC.

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With only seven conference games remaining in a year with no ACC postseason, the volleyball team will host a pair of pivotal games this weekend when it takes on No. 24 Maryland Friday and Boston College Saturday.

Duke (16-7,10-5 in the ACC) may need a marquee win over the Terrapins (24-1, 15-1) to bolster VS. its postseason hopes.

The Blue Devils were in a very similar situation last season at 16-7 and FRIDAY, 7 p.m.

Cameron Indoor near the top of the ACC standings. Despite winning three of its last four regular-season games and reaching the semifinals of the ACC ChampiVS. onships, however, the team did not receive a bid to the NCAA TournaSATURDAY, 7 p.m. ment.

Cameron Indoor The conference

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TheBlue Devils will put their undefeated home record on the line tonight against No. 24 Maryland.

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earned two NCAA bids in 2004 and the Blue Devils were left out.

Duke has a similar resume so far this year but hopes to benefit from an improved conference.

“We’re really hoping they will take three this time,” sophomore setter Ali Hausfeld said. “They added more teams [to the ACC], plus Maryland is ranked in the top 25 right now, so I think there is a lot more respect for the conference this year.”

The Blue Devils lost to the Terrapins, 30, in College Park Oct. 16. Despite not taking a game, Duke pushed the ACC’s firstplace team to the limit, losing each of the

to

Maryland by a slim two-

Friday’s matchup could prove to be even closer, as the road contest against the Terps was the fourth match of a road trip head coach Jolene Nagel described as “hellacious.”

“I think it is completely different now going into a match where we are going to have them at home,” Nagel said.

The Terrapins have steamrolled through the ACC en route to a 15-1 conference record. Maryland has won 10 straight matches since losing to Georgia Tech Oct. 7, and have dropped a total of only eight games during the streak. The Terps are led by their star middle blockers, Rachel Wagener and Stephanie Smith, who each rank in the ACC’s top three in both blocks and hitdng percentage.

“They are definitely a beatable team,” Hausfeld said. “They are a really big team, but I think we can exploit their ball control. They have a lot of great hitters, but if we can serve tough and just keep digging balls, we’ll be able to stay with them.”

Duke will have only a single day to turn around from its critical matchup with Maryland. Although Boston College (7-18, 2-14) owns the second-worst conference record, the Blue Devils’ first matchup with the Eagles was remarkably tight —each of the four games was decided by just two points. With that in mind, Nagel said even if Duke gets by the Terrapins, her players cannot look ahead to the NCAAs. “They know that anybody on any given day in the ACC can beat each other,” Nagel said. “We’ll be trying to make sure that [a letdown] doesn’t happen, but I think my team already understands that it is a fact that we can’t let that happen.”

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Although the influx of freshman tal-

After finishing fourth in the ACC in 2005, the wrestling team is preparing for its 2006 campaign without five of its key contributors from a year ago.

Duke will rely primarily on its strong recruiting class and a number of underclassseason men, as each of the five preview Blue Devils who finished in the top three at last year’s ACC Championships have since .

graduated.

“On paper we are very young and kind of thin at three or four different weights,” head coach Clar Anderson said. “Last year we lost five ACC placers, and we have none returning this year.”

Although they are training with the squad, a number of the Blue Devils’ upperclassmen will not compete for Duke until next semester, leaving the team lacking depth. It will, however, allow the freshman class to gain significant collegiate experience.

“This is definitely the youngest team that I have ever coached,” Anderson said.

“However, we have a great recruiting class, and a strong redshirt freshman class, with a couple upperclassmen to anchor us.”

This year’s recruiting class includes two state champions and three state runnerups, and sophomore Konrad Dudziak is the Poland Under-21 national champion and the European U-21 runner-up. This combination of potential will provide Anderson with a bevy of fresh talent.

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Members of the wrestling team will be competing at two different tournaments this weekend.

The young wrestlers have already made some noise at the collegiate level, when they competed at the Citadel Open—a tournament that features over 100 true and redshirt freshmen from

schools around the region—last weekend. Michael Degi Obizzi placed first in the 133-pound weight class, and seven other Duke wrestlers finished within the top five.

crux

of Duke’s reth 6 building process, the team is not entirely without experience.'

Senior Levi Craig, an ACC Champion as a sophomore, spent his summer training in New York with Princeton’s former two-time NCAA All-American Greg Parker and other elite wresders.

“Being around some of the best guys in the country really built my confidence tremendously,” said Craig, who earned a 24-14 record last season. “My biggest improvement from last year to this year is that mentally, I can take it to the next level.”

Anderson is relying on Craig and the team’s other veteran wresders to help the freshmen adjust to collegiate wresding, particularly in the ACC. “The ACC is known for the push, bang, beat-you-up style of teams, rather than the slick and finesse teams,” Anderson said. “I am pushing our guys to be much more physical to handle the brute nature of the ACC.” But competing in the league will not be an easy task. Virginia Tech brought in the No. 1 recruiting class in the country, and N.C. State and Maryland have a number of top-ranked recruits in their respective weight classes.

North Carolina, which won the the conference title a year ago, retained all of its starters this season.

“It looks like an up-hill batde, but I am real excited about the guys,” Anderson said. “The potential is great, and I hope to compete within the ACC.” ent will make up

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sportsbriefs Quest for College Cup begins

The women’s soccer team (13-5-1,64 in the ACC) begins NCAA Tournament play this afternoon at 4 p.m. against Fairfield in New Haven, Conn.

The third-seeded and No. 10 Blue Devils were disappointed when seedings were announced Monday evening because they were placed in a pod with three teams from Connecticut. Even though Duke is the highest seed in the bracket, it was required to make the trek up north to ease travel overall.

Fairfield (10-6-3, 4-3-2 in the MAAC), received an automatic bid by making a surprising run through the MAAC conference tournament.

The winner of Friday’s game plays the winner of Yale and Central Connecticut Sunday at 1 p.m. Duke defeated Yale, 1-0, Sept. 2 in the Blue Devils’ only meeting with any of the team’s in its opening rounds draw.

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Third-seeded Duke will travel to New Haven, Conn, for the opening rounds ofthe NCAA Tournament.

BOZMAN from page 9 “They play at such a high tempo,” Holmes-Winn said. “Every single player can really pass, handle and shoot—they have great fundamentals. We certainly have our work cut out for us.”

Duke defeated the teams’ one shared opponent this season, Harvard, by a significantly higher margin than Princeton.

The Blue Devils dished out a 6-0 win to the Crimson Oct. 2, while Princeton was only able to pull out a 2-1 overtime victory Oct. 22.

“They are just strong in every position,” Holmes-Winn said of Duke. “We’re just

GRANT from page 9 Oct. 28, Grant became Duke’s all-time points leader, passing Melissa Panasci, who had held the record since 1997.

“I think every year she’s kind of grown as a player and as a person,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “She’s really matured. This year more than any other, she’s just kind of taken her game to a whole new level.”

When Grant arrived at Duke in 2002, the Blue Devils were coming off of a 9-9 season and had not made an NCAA Tournament since 1999. But she and high school teammate Christy Morgan, now a senior, shared a similar vision of their collegiate futures, and both decided to attend Duke.

“We wanted to go to a team that was average and had a goal to make the team better and turn it into a National Champi-

from staff reports Wojo’s back keeps him off bench Assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski injured his lower back during a pickup game Tuesday and was at home resting, while the Blue Devils took on N.C. Central in their final exhibition contest.

The 1998 National Defensive Player of the Year said there is no timetable for his return, but that as soon as doctors clear him to return to the sidelines he will.

Wojciechowski serves as Duke’s bigman coach.

Jacobs accepts Evansville offer

Men’s soccer assistant coach Mike Ja-

cobs will become the Purple Aces’ head coach after the Blue Devils finish their season Jacobs served as an assistant at Evansville in 2000 and 2001 before coming to Duke, where he helped the Blue Devils reach the College Cup last season. He is widely-regarded as one of the nation’s best recruiters.

Blue Devils boast three All-Americans J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams were named to the preseason All-American team earlier this week, and Monique Currie received the same honor for the women’s team.

Redick and Williams were the two highest vote-getters in Tuesday’s selection and are the fifth pair of teammates to appear on the list since its inception prior to the 1986-1987 season.

Both garnered individual awards a year ago, as Redick won the Rupp Award for national player of the year and Williams was selected the National Defensive Player of the Year.

Currie, the reigning ACC Player of the Year and a first-team All-American last season, received 36 votes and is the only ACC player on the first team.

Both the men and women’s squads will begin the season as the No. 1 team.

NCCU from page 9 excited about the way he’s playing,” Dockery said ofNelson. “He’s a great player and you’ll see that through the whole year.”

The spurt came after a disappointing first half, in which the heavily overmatched Division II Eagles outscored the preseason No. 1 Blue Devils, 8-2, over the last 1:42 of the period. N.C. Central also had twice as many offensive rebounds as Duke over the first 20 minutes.

Nelson, who averaged just 6.2 points per game last season, ended the night with a team-high 22 points on 7-for-9 shooting from both the field and the freethrow line. The sophomore has worked hard to improve his shot since last season, when as a freshman he hit only 40 percent of his shots from the field and 53.2 percent from the line.

“I think that he’s stronger in his head,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“He understands who he is, and he has a mental toughness right now. He’s just a much more mature basketball player, and I thought he played really well.”

Nelson was not the only underclassman to dazzle the crowd against N.C. Central, as seniors J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams each played fewer than 23 minutes.

Point guard Greg Paulus, who struggled in the first half ofDuke’s preseason opener against Concordia Nov. 3, showed great poise and leadership when he stepped on the floor Thursday.

At the 14:35 mark of the first half, less than a minute after entering the game, Paulus drove to the baseline and dished a quick pass to Redick for a three. On the team’s next possession the freshman threaded a bounce pass down the right side of the lane to Williams for an easy layup. Paulus ended the night with five assists and zero turnovers.

“The best stat for Greg is he had no turnovers,” Krzyzewski said. “There has not been a time we’ve gone out on the court

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Less than 30 seconds after Paulus’ pass to Williams, fellow freshman Josh Mcßoberts wowed the Cameron Crazies with an alley-oop from senior Lee Melchionni off an inbound play. Mcßoberts broke down the right side of the court as Melchionni deftly lobbed a perfect pass for the two-handed slam.

Near the end of the second half, Duke had all five ofits scholarship freshmen on the floor at the same time.

In the short period that the class of 2009 ruled the court, the Blue Devils outscored N.C. Central, 5-2.

“We felt like they played pretty good tonight,” Nelson said of the freshmen.

“They are definitely progressing. But, just like any freshmen, it’s going to take time for them to play at the Duke level.”

going to try to neutralize some of their key players.”

Coming off a 4-3 loss to Maryland in the semifinals of the ACC Championships Nov. 4, Duke is looking for away to get

back on the winning track.

“We juggled our lineup a little bit but we have been tweaking that all along,” Bozman said. “We’ve just been focusing on lapses that we felt we had in that game and working on that this week.”

The winner of the 11 a.m. game will advance to the second round and play the winner of the afternoon matchup between No. 13 Boston College (13-6) and No. 10 Connecticut (16-5). That quarterfinal game will be played Sunday at 2 p.m.

onship winning team,” Grant said. “That’s what’s motivated me the past four years.

We’ve been so close to winning a national tide, the biggest motivation ofall.”

The Blue Devils advanced to the NCAA finals in Grant’s sophomore and junior seasons, losing to Wake Forest both times.

In her time at Duke, Grant has become one of the program’s best players and strongest leaders. She has scored at least 20 goals in each of the past two seasons and has already netted 21 scores this season, despite missing four games while representing the United States at the Junior World Cup in September.

“Coming down here and adjusting to the college environment, having a group of girls so close—that just makes it so much easier to play because we play for each other,” Grant said. “It makes it all worthwhile.”

Zach Pope has scored four goals and assisted on four others to help Duke to its 11-4-2 record this season.

M. SOCCER from page 9 bunch, but tonight’s game against the Terps could help determine seeding for the tournament.

“A win against Maryland will give us the confidence and help us in the tournament,” Papadakis said. “It might put us high in the rankings.... It’ll be a milestone for the program.” to be in the

First-seeded Maryland (14-3-1) holds the lead in the overall series with Duke (10-4-2), but in the the ACC Championships the Blue Devils hold a 2-1 record, last beating the Terrapins in 2000. That

game marked the most recent time Duke advanced to the second round of the

championships.

The Blue Devils’ scoring offense, ranked 12th nationally, is led by junior Chris Loftus, senior Blake Camp and sophomore Spencer Wadsworth. Together, the trio has scored more than half of the team’s goals.

Maryland, however, has the conference’s best offense, scoring nearly three goals per contest. The team’s offense is led by senior Jason Garey and sophomore Stephen King. On the other end of the field, the Terps’ defense has allowed only 13 goals this season, shutting out nine opponents.

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of the campaign has not yet been announced, the money is already starting to come in.

Most notably, the Duke Endowment, an independent non-profit ormost political StaffedltOlial ganization, gave the University a processes of a University. It involves personal $75-million gift toward fmanphone calls, schmoozing din- cial aid.

But figuring out exactly ners, careful gauging offmancial states and a willingness to what “financial aid” means is a give. Most donations require a challenge in itself, “Financial aid” is a loose pitch, and if the fundraisers are good, that pitch gets tai- category that could include lored to every donor. everything from merit scholarSo as the University em- ships to graduate stipends to barks on a school-wide cam- University-issued loans and paign to increase donations to grants. In short, any money financial aid, the behind-the- that helps any kind of student scenes schmoozers at Duke pay for school can be considare already at work honing ered financial aid. While their game. major donors likely sure of While the ultimate target what kind offinancial aid they

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scale fundraising quickly becomes a game of trade offs when targets are announced. Raising thousands or millions of dollars is one of the

Obviously, you have to tell the truth.

Campus tour guide Jackie August, a sophomore, on what to do when parents or prospective students ask difficult questions. See story, page 1.

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After six years of contributing to MSTP, the Duke Endowment will no longer fund the six students it has in the recent past. A normal MSTP grant runs about three years, but with the recently announced $75-million grant, onlookers have speculated that this is a trade off.

In actuality, who knows if this was a trade off? Fundraising works better when some decisions are made behind closed doors. This particular instance was probably a simple coincidence. Six years is a long time for the Duke Endowment, which concentrates primarily on single-issue gifts to fund a program.

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ty is prepared to “shuffle money, why does it matter?

The net result of the Duke Endowment grants is still a great deal of money for the University. It would be an abandonment of priorities if Duke allowed MSTP to lose its funding total, but if the school is willing to find the capital to keep financing the program, then why would it really matter what the source is?

One of the primary truths of fundraising is that it builds upon itself. The more money Duke is able to raise for financial aid endowment, the more money it will be able to continue to raise. As long as the University keeps supporting all its important programs, then let any donor shift its money to financial aid.

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That means that it may look like donations of other kinds are disappearing. If Duke is playing the fund raising game, right, though, that won’t be the case.

The first, and most visible, example of this phenomenon is the expiration of the Duke Endowment’s funds for the Med-

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Facebook legitimate tool for RAs In the staffeditorial “Facebookbased citations violate trust” (Nov. 9, 2005) The Chronicle claims that University employees (which is what RAs are) should not use facebook.com to detect underage drinkers. Their arguments are flawed for several reasons.

First is the notion that using photographs from facebook.com as evidence is a violation of privacy and trust. Facebook.com is a site available to millions of people; it is absurd to think that photographs posted on it will remain private. These students were caught on film violating N.C. State policy and breaking the law.

If an RA —whose Job it is to report underage drinking—were to see those photos and not report them to his superior, that RA be encouraging students to break the law and flaunt it on a website.

Second is the idea that underage drinking is a “low-level ‘everyone does it’ violation.” The severity of an offense is not measured by how hiany people commit it.

The fact is, regardless of how anyone may feel about the minimum age rule, it is both a law and a university regulation. It is not the place of an RA to determine which rules are worth enforcing.

If one does this, it leads down a slippery slope: Should facebook evidence of drug use, drunk driving or underage binge drinking (all of which can be fatal) be used to punish students?

University employees found publicly available evidence of a violation of university policy. They acted swiftly to report the violators. Students wishing to avoid similar fates should refrain from being photographed while breaking the law.

JeffAckermann Trinity ‘O6

Wilson poor venue for speech Colin Powell’s speech on campus Nov. 4 was advertised in the newspaper and on the radio as

“free and open to the public.” As a member of the public who stood in line for an hour before hearing that no one had a chance ofgetting in, I think an apology from Sandra Peters, Bruce Jentleson and others responsible for planning this event, would be appropriate.

I find it hard to believe that anyone thought the venue of the Wilson Center would be adequate to hold the number of interested people. If that was the only space available, perhaps the event should not have been advertised to the public. Additionally, it was clear long before the scheduled start time of 4 p.m. that the hundreds of people standing in line (many of whom were elderly) would not get inside. Yet no one informed the crowd of this; someone standing near me finally went to ask the security guard at the door what the situation was and was told that people would find out what was going on when they came up to ask.

From conversations with others in line, I know that many of us were inconvenienced in order to attend, whether from taking off work, driving in from out of town or having to find childcare. The handling of this event certainly did nothing to improve Duke University’s image and relationship with the broader community. An apology for the poor planning might be a small step toward repairing both.

Heather Moffitt Durham resident Freedom of expression crucial I find Serge Reshetnikov’s guest commentary, “Making it Safe to Dissent” (Nov. 7, 2005) interesting but a bit ironic. While decrying the absence of opportunity for conservative students to voice their opinions in class, Mr. Reshetnikov fails to realize that this is precisely what the present conservative administration he champions is doing to all who oppose it. While dissent has long

been one of the key components of a functioning democracy, anyone questioning the motives and methods of our current administration is told disapprovingly: “That’s unpatriotic and un-American.” And yet Mr. Reshetnikov would have you believe it’s the conservatives who don’t get to voice their dissent fairly.

Ironic as Mr. Reshetnikov’s article is, he’s right —sort of. Yes, as Americans, we all deserve the freedom to speak our minds without fear of reprisal. Unequivocally.

That’s, “all.” Not just liberals in the classroom and not just conservatives everywhere else. Just because Republicans control the White House and Congress doesn’t mean they get to throw the Bill of Rights out the window and start leaking the names of CIA operatives every time someone says something they don’t like. Similarly, professors need to uphold their academic integrity and credentials and respect conservative student’s viewpoints by not lowering their grades. To do otherwise in either situation reflects an unacceptable level of immaturity, from two institutions that must be held to higher standards.

I strongly disagree that professors need to teach a balanced ideological curriculum. Academia, although a part of democracy, is not a democracy in and of itself.

In the classroom, professors have earned the right to choose what is taught in their classroom and shouldn’t be expected to change their pedagogy to cater to a churlish right. To continue the analogy, conservatives certainly don’t expect the George W. Bush Administration to suddenly change their platform to pass laws that will placate liberals, now do they? Sorry Mr. Reshetnikov, but you don’t get it both ways. That is, you get to complain about how you’re treated in one situation yet turn around and tell the rest of us that our dissent is unacceptable. lan Ostroff Stuffier

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Marc Schachter Assistant Professor of Romance Studies Political mainstream worse than bias In some ways, the debate regarding the sanctity ofacademic or political freedoms here at Duke could be construed as positive steps toward a more perfect university. Students and professors from disparate ideological viewpoints have converged upon this issue, bringing it into the consciousness of a university that some would say is politically “limp” at times. I concur with Serge Reshetnikov’s recognition of a problematic classroom situation where students feel compelled to relay modes of thinking that is contradictory to those which they hold to be evident.

Conservative students often cite the ghastly 18-1 ratio of registered Democratic professors to their Republican counterparts. Isn’t the grandest testament to the lack of Academic plurality at Duke University the realization that nearly all Duke professors align themselves as Democrats or Republicans, the two mainstream political parties whose querulous and quarrelsome debating in Washington has created a generation of politi-

cally apathetic 20-somethings?

How many professors are registered International Workers Party supporters who protest unjust capitalist procedures, or Libertarian boosters

who think Pat Buchannan has productive foreign policy ideas?

Where are the truly academically and politically independent professors who transcend the binary political environment of placing themselves into merely the red or blue camp?

I think that all students could describe both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party with a plethora of different adjectives depending on their political sensibilities, but “peripheral” doesn’t come to mind.

Resigning to one of the “lesser of two evils”, which

both professors and students succumb to, is perhaps the most scholastically testament to our

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situation.

Is our world that concerned with centrality that we have lost our ability to construct political debates in anything but a “left/right” dichotomy? In my estimation, the greatest problem with the ‘lack of academic freedoms’ that so many incendiary and outraged students seem to deplore is our collective (students and professors) lack of creative political thinking.

Instead of deferring to our moderating sensibilities, I’d prefer some discourse concerned with upsetting the political (dis) equilibrium that arrests this University.

Dylan Fagan Trinity ‘O6 Punishment rarely serves as deterrent I found Stephen Miller’s column “Justice” (Nov. 8, 2005) to be very well meaning however flawed. As a woman, yes, I feel rapists and pedophiles should be subjected to a punishment proportionate to their crimes and the average sentence is not enough.

I myself would be in favor of just dropping those offenders in the general population with a sign around their necks describing their crimes and leave their fate up to their fellow inmates (with so many pedophiles in protective custody it proves just how unpopular they are with their fellow inmates) .

But the almost mandatory death sentence for someone who takes the life of a police officer has not made police officers less vulnerable. Harshening the punishment will not work as a deterrent.

I’ll say again that I am for executing rapists and especially those who select children as their victims, but what does that solve? I believe that is justice, and I believe many victims alike will call that justice, but how does that lead to prevention?

We need to understand the

problem.

Instead ofkilling these men or locking them up and throwing away the key let us study them and understand what led them to violent tendencies. If someone is capable of such a heinous act as raping a child, increasing the sentence from five years to 10 is not going to stop him.

We need to work on prevention. Justice will not take away the pain of what has been done to these victims; prevention will stop other people from going through the same thing.

Ellie Morris Trinity ‘O6

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Dropping the A-Bomb

letterstotheeditor Academic pledge is nationally connected For those interested in expanding their frame of reference for understanding the significance of the “Academic Freedom Pledge” proposed by the local branch ofStudents for Academic Freedom beyond Duke, may I suggest using that greatest of contemporary research tools: Google.

Particularly edifying is a search combining “Students for Academic Freedom” and “David Horowitz.” As I understand it, Horowitz was involved in founding the organization, and he maintains close ties to it.

His politics and methods are most illuminating.

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landmark Roe v. Wade three decades after the Roe v. case has been the automatWade decision.

And although capitalizing on ic go-to political litmus test national political uncertainty for the public approval of political and Judicial confirmations wouldn’t normally bother me, too many stupid, spineless people ever since 1973. are jumping onto the A-Bomb Since then, the overly sensationalist Ameribandwagon and can mass media accomplishing little else save for and the always ti daft American the total inhibition of comprepublic have develhensive and inteloped an insatiable propensity ligent dialogue to assess the merabout Alito.

The implicaits of Supreme cote Court tions of Roe v.

Justice the naked truth Wade are inhernominees—and ently politicized, politicians in general—entirely through their partisan and polarizing —but stances on abortion. dropping the A-Bomb is a surefire diversionary tactic aimed at Unlike almost every other political agenda, abortion is one of demonizing or glorifying Justicethose pesky social divides that few wannabes and those who nomipublic individuals can safely tip- nate them. Moreover, it seems that people don’t care about anytoe around or approach moderately. The A-Bomb is just one of thing but abortion platforms and whether or not their side is “winthose explosive, divisive ideoloning.” gies that’ll clearly land someone For example, turn to the Femsquarely on one side of the fence inist or the other.

Majority Foundation, Public and political figures are Planned Parenthood, the Nationin an especially tricky position al Council of Women’s Organizawhere they can’t qualify, modify tions or even to numerous Demoor moderate their stances on cratic female Senators and you’ll abortion—they either support it hear nothing but inflammatory or they don’t, and there tends to dissent against that damned “radbe no bargaining room with the ical” conservative Right.

Feminist Majority President American public on this issue.

And as of late, the lethality of Eleanor Smeal scathingly came the A-Bomb is—unless you’ve down against George W. Bush in been living under a rock—oh-so the wake of the Alito nomination. nauseatingly apparent in the judi- Bush, she sensationalizes, “has cial nomination of Judge Samuel slammed the door in the face of Alito to the United States women and minorities” by appointing a man who “would turn Supreme Court. back the clock on women’s rights In a nation known for its othand civil rights.” erwise politically apathetic pubBut now look at the other end lic, Alito’s nomination, an ABomb in its own right, has of the political gamut and you’ll sparked an unprecedented level find the always cognizant Ann Coulter and her Republican minof defensive, backstabbing squabions hailing Bush’s nomination bling among threatened and impassioned American politicians the way they usually do: by dishand talking heads—groups that ing out disparaging quips directhaven’t stopped grappling with ed squarely at proponents of the the limits of a woman’s constituopposing view, or as Coulter calls tional right to choose more than them “the usual nuts.”

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The recent judicial nominations have given way to a petty name-calling firestorm that is more infantile than informative.

When, I ask you, did the bipartisan American political system turn into a playground brawl where cliques launch meaningless insults and the occasional milk box back and forth at each other during recess?

The vast majority of the American population can’t even name all nine justices, let alone take a wild stab in the dark at what the justices personally believe or how they would professionally rule.

I can guarantee most Americans won’t care about the judicial nominations at all come February.

They’ll probably even forget the name Sam Alito and the names of his other eight cronies as well. In fact, I’d bet you infinity bajillion dollars that Americans can list more of Santa’s reindeer than they can name Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I would love to believe that the American people actually care about who sits on the highest court of the nation. But the mass media and the American public have done nothing in past weeks to suggest that interest in the Supreme Court can or will extend past temporal temper-flaring. At least, not until another Roe-esque case pops up. Then, you can expect the talking heads to start spewing caustic personal attacks all over again, and the American public will jump on yet another bandwagon ofacrid partisan rhetoric.

Oh well. I guess I’m just going to have to accept that indiscriminately launching cheap A-Bomb insults are about as American as fast cars, fast women and your mom’s apple pie. I just wish it didn’t have to be so bitter. (The insults, that is.

The pie was spectacular).

Boston Cote is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every Friday.

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