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Duke was outshot and outrebounded by Boston University Monday night, but it still emerged with a 17-point victory and moved into the second round of the NTT Season Tip-Off. In their season opener, the No. 1 Blue Devils BOSTON U. 47 (i_o) defeatDUKE 54 ed the Terriers (0-1), 6447, despite an inconsistent offense and no three pointers from All-American shooting guard JJ. Redick. “I think our guys sometimes put too much pressure on themselves that they have to be perfect because of what people predict them to be,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They just need to play ball. I thought Boston University played outstanding defense, and offensively, we were putting too much pressure on ourselves. There wasn’t that flow.” Duke will face Seton Hall at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Cameron Indoor Stadium for the second round of the preseason tournament. The Pirates were 66-52 victors over Manhattan Monday night. The Blue Devils missed nineconsecutive field goal attempts to open the game before freshman Josh Mcßoberts, who did not start and had come off the bench just 13

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Duke Health Raleigh’s emergency department has undergone a major reshuffle, ending with Duke University Health System administrators recently terminating a long-standing relationship with DHR’s private emergency physician group. Seven of the 10 former members of the now disbanded group Capital Emergency Physicians have left DHR’s ED after a failed renegotiation of their contract. Capital Emergency Physicians was an independent organization of doctors contracted to staff DHR’s emergency room. Citing the increased cost of malpractice insurance, lack of financial security and greater responsibilities resulting from other factors, Capital Emergency Physicians began lobbying in August for more benefits while still retaining their independence from DUHS. The doctors’ financial concerns were exacerbated by increased competition from the new WakeMed emergency facili-

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ShekfenWilliams racked up 17 points and seven rebounds against Boston UniversiSEE NIT ON PAGE 12 ty, and Josh Mcßoberts led Duke with 10 rebounds in hisfirst regular-season game.

ty in North Raleigh, which opened in August and pulled some patients away from Duke’s

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DUHS administrators determined that the best way to settle Capital Emergency Physicians was to offer the them direct employment —a policy which effectively disbanded the group and resulted in several doctors leaving Duke. “We reached a point where the hospital decided that it was in everyone’s best interest to become employed physicians under DUHS,” said DHR’s Chief Operating Officer Tom Hanenberg. While Duke Hospital directly employs its ED physicians, a private contractor still staffs the ED at Durham Regional Hospital. Both Duke Hospital and Durham Regional are a part of DUHS. “It’s very common for hospitals to contract with a private group to provide services,” said Carla Parker Hollis, vice president for marketing and public SEE DHR ON PAGE 6

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Talk of Duke Student Government election reforms moved from the executive table to an open forum Monday night, when 15 DSG members met to discuss potential revisions to the organization’s election policy for the upcoming year. DSG Attorney General Bryce Walker, a senior, said he hoped the discussion would address concerns raised, after last year’s controversial DSG presidential elections, which entailed campaign violations, bickering candidates and multiple runoffs. “I think the reason why deliberations last year were so long for that process was because a lot of the debate was how to interpret the bylaws,” Walker said. “If you SEE DSG ON PAGE

When sophomore Jessica Nasser arrived at Duke last fall, she dreamed of one day having a career in medicine that would combine the best of two worlds. “I thought it would be good to help people,” Nasser said. “I also liked the idea of money and prestige, to be honest.” But like many of peers, Nasser ly decided medinot for her. inrolling in an intry course, Nasser to question her dans. She said she not only found the class challenging but ilso considered it irrelevant to her once idealjob. “I detested

chemistry,” she said. ‘You just had to stay

there watching chemicals for an hour. It just didn’t have to do with real life.” This realization led Nasser to reassess her plans before scheduling classes for the next semester. Now, after taking sociology courses and an economics class, Nasser finds business school far more attractive than eight years of studying science. Nasser is one of many students who begin college on $ pre-med path but suddenly find alternative career routes more appealing because of difficult prerequisite classes or evolving interests. Kay Singer, associate dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and director of the Health Professions Advising Center, tracks students interested in medicine. She finds them by examining the Freshman Picture Book and the annual Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey conducted by the provost’s office. SEE PRE-MED ON PAGE 6

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After taking general chemistry last year, sophomore Kevin Wong decided medical school was not for him.

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Application shows Alito's abortion views “I think that it is more reason to quesdocument saying his work in the solicitor general’s office had included helping “to tion him closely at the hearing,” said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who will run Alito’s WASHINGTON Supreme Court advance legal positions in which I personnominee Samuel Alito boasted about his ally believe very strongly.” Jan. 9 hearings as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I am particularly proud ofmy contribuwork arguing that “the Constitution does Specter, an abortion rights moderate, not protect a right to an abortion” while tions in recent cases in which the governattorthat racial and ethnic said a lot of people have shifted their views quotas to assistant ment argued become a deputy trying about abortion over the years and that he ney general in the Reagan administration, should not be allowed and that the Constihas found Alito to have “a very heavy comtution does not protect a right to an aboraccording to documents released Monday. tion,” he wrote. mitment to legal interpretation which Alito, a federal appellate judge nomiThat sentence provides one of the first might differ from his own personal views.” nated by President George W. Bush to the Bush picked Alito after White House nation’s highest court, was a young lawyer clear-cut statements attributed to Alito which be of the counsel Harriet Miers withdrew her nomwill abortion, office about one in for the solicitor general’s working 1985 when he applied for the position main topics of his January confirmation ination when confronted by withering under Attorney General Edwin Meese. hearing as retiring Justice Sandra Day SEE ALITO ON PAGE 7 As part of his application, Alito sent a O’Connor’s replacement. by

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ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska President George W. Bush escalated the bitter debate over the Iraq war Monday, hurling back at Democratic critics the worries they once expressed that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat to the world. “They spoke the truth then and they’re speaking politics now,” Bush charged. Bush went on the attack after Democrats accused the president of manipulating and withholding some pre-war intelligence and misleading Americans about the rationale for war.

“Some Democrats who voted to authorize the use of force are now rewriting the past,” Bush said. “They’re playing politics with this issue and they are sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy. That is irresponsible.” The president spoke to cheering troops at this military base at a refueling stop for Air Force One on the first leg of an eightday journey to Japan, South Korea, China and Mongolia. During the stopover, he also met privately with families of four slain service members. After a Latin American trip with meager results earlier this month,

the administration kept expectations low for Asia. “I don’t think you’re going to see headline breakthroughs,” National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said on Air Force One. He dashed any prospect thatjapan would lift its ban on American beef imports during Bush’s visit and said a dispute with China over trade and currency would remain an issue after the president returns home. Sunday, Hadley acknowledged “we were wrong” about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, but insisted in a CNN interview that the president did not manipulate intelligence or mislead the American people.

A strong earthquake shook northern Japan early Tuesday, triggering a small tsunami that struck coastal towns about 200 miles from the epicenter. There were no immediate reports of damage. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, hit at 6:39 a.m.

Panel assesses Sept. 11 action Reviewing action on recommendations it made last year, the 9/11 Commission criticized the Bush administration Monday for not adopting standards for treatment of captured terror suspects. The administration was given a mixed review.

U.S. releases bomb suspect The U.S. military announced Monday it arrested and later released an Iraqi whose name matches that of one of the Amman hotel suicide bombers, saying there was no "compelling evidence" that he posed a security threat.

Chirac speaks about rioting President Jacques Chirac said Monday that neighborhoods of France is the sign of a "profound malaise" the entire nation must work to heal through job-training and employment opportunities for troubled youths. unrest in the poor

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Legal scholar offers views on High Court by

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In a Monday speech that touched on legal scholar William Van Alstyne spoke about the Supreme Court’s obligation to interpret the Concurrent events,

stitution fairly. His lecture, entitled “Clashing Visions of a Living Constitution,” took place at

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Panelists Carmen Harris, Brandon Hudson and Enyioma Onuoha discuss issues stemming from HurricaneKatrina.

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A forum Monday night predicated on the effects of Hurricane Katrina as they relate to race turned into a discussion about taking agency in the future of the black community. Approximately 60 students called for intercollegiate collaboration in finding solutions to aid black victims of Hurricane Katrina and help rebuild New Orleans—a city predominantly constituted ofblacks. “Our community was attacked, and at that point we had to make it a race issue,” said Christina Lee, a senior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “There are ways for us to be involved here and make differences.” The event—sponsored by Duke’s African American Collegiate Unity Coalition and Black Student Alliance as well as the Black Student Movement of UNC—was open to students from Triangle-area universities.

The discussion included a panel of three students, but the conversation often involved audience members. Although some expressed reservations about excluding other racial groups from their efforts, others said that the goal of any uplift effort is equality, not integration or assimilation. “The Civil Rights Movement was more about access to resources—you want the same opportunity to live as everyone else,” senior Brandon Hudson said. “It wasn’t about being able to socialize and play with other people.” Some questioned the “community” of the assembled group in light of the oftenperceived unity of blacks during the Civil Rights Movement of the 19605, but others said notions of past movements are often romanticized. “When you don’t see people being SEE PANEL ON PAGE 6

the Duke School ofLaw. Van Alstyne, who was a professor at the law school between 1974 and 2004, is a world-renowned constitutional scholar. He was ranked in a 1987 New York Law Journal poll of federal judges, lawyers and law professors as one of the “ten most qualified” individuals to serve on the Supreme Court, and he offered his expertise on the High Court in his hourlong lecture. Van Alstyne primarily discussed the difference between “obligationists” and

courts would interpret the simple amendment in a radical way. “Some were worried that the passage of this amendment would result in unisex bathrooms and women on the front lines of the Army, which may explain its narrow rejection,” he said, drawing laughs from the crowd. Many of those who attended the lecture took notes while Van Alstyne spoke. Members of the audience continued discussing SEE

“opportunists.” “Obligationists are those who adhere to the wording of the Constitution” whether or not they agree with it, he explained. “Opportunists,” on the other hand, are individuals who want the Constitution interpreted in ways which

would benefit them. Van Alstyne discussed opportunists on both the left and the right sides of the political spectrum. “Opportunists on the right look to free trade and private property laws, while opportunists on the left look at equality laws,” he said. Van Alstyne also discussed how Constitutional amendments could be misinterpreted by the Supreme Court and the subsequent public distrust of the amendments. He used the rejected Equal Rights Amendment as an example. The amendment was meant to ensure the “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged... on account of sex.” But Van Alstyne said many people worried that the

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Library director of development named Thomas B. Hadzor has been appointed

who find themselves in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service can receive legal director of development for the Duke Unihelp at Duke Law School. The newly established Low-Income versity Libraries, effective Jan. 3, 2006. As a member of the library’s senior Taxpayer Clinic involves law students, management team, Hadzor will lead all under faculty supervision, representing the library’s advancement efforts, which clients in tax matters pending before the include fund raising for the continuation IRS, including collection actions, audits, administrative appeals and representaof the Perkins Library renovation and extion in the United States Tax Court. A pansion project. The first milestone of the project was grant from the IRS helped launch the the completion of the Bostock Library clinic, which is currently accepting cases and the von der Heyden Pavilion, both of and will welcome its inaugural staff of which were dedicated Nov. 11. students in January 2006. Since 2003 Hadzor has been associate Lecturing Fellow Alan Weinberg, who dean for alumni and development at the has almost 40 years of tax law experience, Duke School of Law, where he oversaw the including 29 with the IRS, will direct the conclusion of a successful $67 million clinic. From 1981 until 1995, he was the comprehensive campaign and led a build- district counsel for the IRS in Greensboro, after which he spent 10 years handling tax ing campaign with a goal of $l5 million. Hadzor served from 1996-2003 as assoactions for Ernst & Young LLP. ciate director and executive director of de“Nobody should go to an IRS audit velopment and communications for the without representation,” Weinberg said. Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dur“We will be giving our students the skill-set ing the Campaign for Duke, he led the to effectively represent clients before the Service, which starts with an effective cancer center’s fundraising of $llO million and more than doubled the number client interview, gathering all the facts and documentation and performing thorough of annual gifts. research of the law.” New online grading tool in place Duke has launched “Online Grading,” Pratt professor wins Washington Award Henry Petroski, a professor ofcivil engia web-based tool that allows faculty to submit students’ grades with an online form. neering, has been selected to receive the “There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm 2006 Washington Award. The award is conabout online grading,” saidKatharine Pfeifferred annually upon an engineer “whose fer, assistant vice provost and director of professional attainments have preeminentStudent Information Services and Systems. ly advanced the welfare of human kind," With the new Online Grading interaccording to the web site of the Western face, faculty members are able to add Society of Engineers, which administers midterm or final grades to the system and the award. submit them to the registrar online. Among Petroski's accomplishments The system also provides away for facthat the award commission considered in choosing to recognize him were his "reulty to upload grades and permits a partial list of grades for a class to be to be search and writings on the human aspects submitted, a convenient function for subof engineering" and his "worldwide reputation on the history of engineering, intenmitting midterm grades and spring semester grades for graduating students. tion and manufacturing." Previous to the implementation ofOnline The Washington Award is among the nation's oldest and most prestigious engiGrading, all faculty members were required to manually submit a paper grade neering awards. Its first recipient was sheet to the registrar. Herbert Hoover. Subsequent recipients have included Orville Wright, Henry Ford, Hyman Kickover, David Packard, Clinic set up for low-income taxpayers Low-income taxpayers in the Triangle and Neil Armstrong.

Bike burglar nabbed again A Durham man who was arrested late last month on bike theft charges was arrested Monday after police said he returned to campus and attempted to steal a bike. Isaac Barbee, 31, was charged Monday with larceny and trespassing. Investigators said a student called Duke Police Monday to report a suspicious man walking with a bike without a tire near Edens residence hall. Officers responded to the scene to interview the student and saw Barbee walk by with a bike tire, investigators said. Barbee was unable to be reached for comment. Clarendon conflict ends without injury Durham city police are investigating an attempted burglary Thursday on Clarendon Street. According to a police report, a man entered the unlocked home ofDuke graduate students at 1 a.m. in the 800 block of Clarendon Street. The man walked to a front bedroom, where he was confronted by a student. The student struggled with the man, and the

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Explorer stolen from Green zone A 1994 Ford Explorer was reported stolen Monday from the green zone parking lot near the traffic circle on Towerview Drive. A student told police he last saw the vehicle at 7 p.m. Sunday. Two more bikes burglarized Two bikes were reported stolen Friday from East and Central campuses. The first bike was reported stolen at 10:03 a.m. from outside an apartment On Yearby Street. A student told police someone made off with her $3OO red mountain bike, leaving the front wheel attached to a bike rack. The other bike was reported stolen at 9:05 p.m. from Wilson residence hall. A student told police his blue Schwinn was secured to a rack with a chain lock and a U-shaped lock.

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the topics after his lecture ended and agreed it was a valuable experience. “He was terrific,” said Vincent Asaro, a second-year law student. “[Van Alstyne] presented a perspective that is often missing from discussions about

constitutional law.” The lecture was especially fitting in light of the United States’ recent political scene. President George W. Bush appointed conservative Samuel Alito to replace moderate Justice Sandra O’Connor on the Supreme Court, which has elicited hostile reactions from Congressional Democrats. They have been vocal about their concerns that Alito will use what Van Alstyne termed the “opportunist” school of thought. Van Alstyne’s lecture was part of the 39th annual Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture series. The series honors Currie, who was a Duke law professor and leading law review author during the late 19505.

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Law students gathered to listen to William Van Alstyne lecture on Constitutional interpretation.

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Singer’s records indicate that 280 members of the Class of 2005 identified themselves as pre-med in the Freshman Picture Book. The actual number may have been even higher. Singer’s calculation did not include those students who listed engineering, general sciences or even humanities as preferred areas of studies despite their intentions of becoming physicians. It also did not count students who did not submit information to the book. By the time they were seniors, only 118 members of the Class of 2005 applied to medical school. Some officials, like Singer, attribute this disparity between the number of students who enter on a pre-med track and those who graduate on the track to individuals’ exposure to new fields of study in college. But many students and their professors said other factors contribute to students’ decision to drop pre-med studies. Sophomore Kevin Wong studied general chemistry as a freshman. After noting the intense effort required to succeed in the course, he determined that medical school was not for him. “I knew it would be a lot ofwork if I continued doing it,” Wong said. “I didn’t want to sacrifice everything I’d have to sacrifice for working.” Science professors expressed awareness of the impact their classes have on potential pre-med students. “This sort ofbecomes the event that brings the whole issue to a head,” Professor Eric Toone said ofhis experience teaching organic chemistry. ‘We talk to students who are having a hard time with the course and who are now questioning whether or not they are going to continue on the pre-med track.” Some students said their initial attraction to medicine arose from a general interest in science in high school and a lack of exposure to alternative options. “To be honest, I didn’t know what else I would do,” Nasser said. Despite abandoning their initial career aspirations, students like Wong have found the same interests that originally drew them to medicine are applicable in other fields. Wong said if he had become a physician, he would have majored in psychology and become a pediatrician. He has decided to stick with psychology, but he plans on becoming an elementary school teacher —fulfilling his ambition of working with children. Some students also said changing their pre-med plans gave them a sense of freedom. “It was so liberating,” said sophomore Lili Costa, who switched from the pre-med path to a business and marketing oriented track in the spring of her freshman year. “While my friends suffer in orgo, my classes rock.” Despite the decline in the number of students on the pre-med track over a four-year span, Singer said the number of individuals applying for medical school at graduation might also be misleading. “There’s a growing trend in medicine for people to wait a year, or more to apply to medical school,” she said. Singer said she has monitored alumni from the Class of 2000 to examine this trend. In the Freshman Picture Book, 317 matriculating freshmen from the class labeled themselves as pre-med. Only 121 applied to medical school as seniors, but 231 students from the class of 2000 had applied by 2005. Indeed, although a portion of self-labeled future doctors end up re-evaluating their aspirations, many choose to suffer demanding requirements to make their goals a reality. “I definitely think there’s a lot of red tape in the science classes,” said Andra Fee, a senior who hopes to attend medical school next year. “I just realized that it’s not all that I’m going to be doing for the rest of my life.”

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After ending its relationship with a private group, Duke Health Raleigh has temporary doctors in the ER.

DHR from page 1 relations for DHR. “We have those relationships. But the emergency medical group was seeking a different kind of re-

lationship.”

Although all 10 members of Capital Emergency Physicians were offered Duke employment, only three of the original

accepted. Hanenberg emphasized that this was not the re-negotiation’s intended result. team

“We don’t like to see turnover,” he said. Despite the present staff shortfall, Hollis said she is optimistic about the department’s future. “We’re actively recruiting, so it shouldn’t take more than a few months to get back to our full strength,” she said. Until a permanent staff is hired, the

emergency room’s vacant positions will be filled by a locum tenens, or medical temp agency. Hollis added that DHR’s new emergency room situation is not unique. “This is a national trend, with physicians transitioning to this kind of different relationship,” she said. According to the American College of Emergency Physicians website, approximately 40 percent of American hospitals use independent contractors to staff their EDs. The new arrangement will ease many patients’ insurance situations, as the physicians and the hospital will now fall under the same contracts with insurance agencies. “They won’t have to worry about the [emergency] group being out of network and paying out-of-pocket expenses,” Hanenberg noted.

mon goal. Others emphasized the need for college students to be proactive in preventing future catastrophes of similar magnitude and not just relying on the established black leadership. “We’re climbing. We need to lift other people as we climb,” said UNC senior Nimasheena Burns. “Sitting in rooms and having forums, that’s great, but it’s all about what you do.” Many students suggested bolstering the education system, supporting core family values and investing in blackowned businesses. “Why did our great-grandfathers own businesses in the 1920 s and 19305, but we don’t own anything now?” Burns asked, adding that patronage of black businesses will help give people a sense of ownership. “We have to stop participating in our own oppression.” Junior Josh Hopkins emphasized the importance of not subscribing to negative stereotypes. “We need to be more careful and not be as apathetic as we have been,” Hopkins said, noting that progress cannot occur until black people stop “homogenizing” themselves. Chandra Guinn, director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, suggested supporting efforts to rebuild along the Gulf Coast by donating used textbooks to historically black colleges and universi-

ties devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Along with Hudson, Guinn also encouraged the group to call their Congressional representatives and urge them to support HR-4197—a Hurricane Katrina recovery bill that has been endorsed by the Congressional Black Caucus. Throughout the forum, many individuals commented on how pleased they were to establish a sense of solidarity within the inter-collegiate black community. “It takes the large things like Katrina to get the small things across,” said Carmen Harris, a senior from UNC.

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Nimasheena Burns, a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill, participates in the panel discussion Monday.

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Several DSG members discuss potential changes to the election policy at an open forum meeting Monday.

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can write the bylaws more effectively, you won’t have that problem.” During the meeting, DSG members discussed the possibility of a president-executive vice president ticket and candidate use of the Internet in campaigns. Walker said the discussion will be incorporated into revised legislation, which he plans to present at the DSG meeting

Wednesday. The ticket system has been discussed for several years, said Executive Vice President Brandon Goodwin, a senior. If implemented, the president and executive vice president would enter office with a cohesive agenda and likely work better together, Goodwin said. As a result, the DSG administration would be more productive, he added. “Our freshman year we had a president and an EVP who blatantly fought with each other in public,” Goodwin said. “It made the organization look terrible.” On the other hand, a ticket system might heighten the role of the president and “marginalize” the position of EVP, Goodwin said. The change would necessitate modifications to the voting system, increase hype around elections and place greater emphasis on publicity, he noted. “If you go into a ticket process, you have to assume that the entire election system is altered,” Walker said.

AUTO from page 2 criticism by some conservatives. “This may explain why the right wing expressed such enthusiastic support for Judge Alito after campaigning against Harriet Miers,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, DMass., one of several senators who will meet with Alito privately Tuesday. “When he comes before the Senate, Judge Alito faces a heavy burden of demonstrating that he no longer holds these extremely troubling views and would bring an open mind and a real commitment to fundamental rights and freedoms.” O’Connor has been a crucial swing vote on abortion on the Supreme Court, and Alito’s opponents fear that he and recently confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts would swing the Supreme Court to the right and lead to the overturning of the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision establishing abortion rights. Alito, 55, has told senators in his two weeks of private meetings that he has “great respect” for Roe v. Wade as a precedent, but he did not commit to upholding it. Alito “joins a long list of jurists who

Chief of Staff Russ Ferguson, a senior who was involved in the heated election process last year, said it might be a good idea to create a new position for a person who would run meetings and work with senators—one of the duties now held by EVP. Discussion then turned to the use of America Online Instant Messenger and facebook.com in elections —two campaign tools that have led to some controversy in past years. “Currently the argument in our bylaws against [AOL use] is extraordinarily weak,” Walker said. “I think doing this is effectively just limiting your ability to contact students.” A majority of those present at the meeting agreed that candidates should be able to use AOL but said the facebook.com should not be used. “Speaking from experience, the facebook sucks to deal with during elections, to be quite blunt,” said DSG President Jesse Longoria, a senior. Walker hopes to implement the ideas discussed at the meeting when he formulates revised bylaws. Although fine-tuning legislation is an ongoing process, he said concrete changes will be made by the end of the semester. In addition, a new online voting system will be created and implemented for the upcoming elections. “The major problem is that there is a disconnect between the students and the election bylaws,” Walker said. have written that Roe was wrongly decided, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she was confirmed to the court,” said Sen. John Comyn, R-Texas, a member of the Judiciary Committee. “The question is whether he will put his personal, views aside as any judge should and base his rulings on what the Constitution says. His long track record as a federal appeals court judge shows that he has indeed put his personal views on abortion aside, and I have every confidence he will continue to do so.” The document was included in more than 100 pages of material about Alito released by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Monday. Some abortion rights groups already have come out against Alito because of his work as a federal appellate judge, including his dissent on an appeals court decision striking down a law that required women seeking abortions to notify their spouses. But White House spokesperson Steven Schmidt said Alito’s 15 years as a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shows “a clear pattern of modesty, respect for precedent and judicial restraint”

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confidence Is it blasphemy to say something bad about Mike Krzyzewski? Yeah, it usually is, but I’ve got something on my mind. Even the greatest coach of his generation, one who also wears the hats of respected family man, charity man, American Express pitch man and University front man, needs to be criticized on occasion. Coach K, you need to be more confident in this year’s team. You said this team is good enough to compete for a national championship, but this year’s team is better than good enough to compete. That was last year’s team that was merely contending, simply hoping. Please listen, Coach K, to what you said after the final exhibition game Nov. 10.: “We are not a great basketball team. We are a good basketball team that needs to

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JJ. Redick didn’t make a three-pointer in Duke’s season-opener Monday night. In fact, he only attempted three. But there’s no reason for alarm in Durham. The preseason All-American still led the Blue Devils n scor^ng with 19 rsamp points and exhibited the poise that head analysis coach Mike Krzyzewski has come to expect of his senior leaders. After a junior year in which Redick became a more complete player than he had been in his first two seasons at Duke, the senior showed yet another look last night as he began his final campaign. Rather than spotting up for three-pointers, Redick rolled off curls, used an improved pump-fake and created shots for himself with the dribble. “Just the way the game was going, I just didn’t get many three looks,” Redick said. “It’s not where I’m going to take a bad three just to try to hit one. Give Boston University credit. The Terriers did an admirable job closing out on Redick around the perimeter and holding the Blue Devils’ best shooter without a three for just the fifth time in his career. But the way in which Redick adapted to the defensive pressure was very impressive. He was assertive with the ball and was an efficient 7-for-14 from the field. With the shot clock ticking down and less than three minutes remaining in a 17point game, Redick rolled to the top of the key and received a pass. But instead of hoisting a three like he *

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Head coach Mike Krzyzewski has played down the expectations ofthis year's Duke team.

For the men’s soccer team, it is hard to celebrate an underdog ACC Championship when there is still so much to be done. Fresh off its first ACC title in six years, Duke now has a bigger batde ahead ofit—the NCAA Tournament. The bracket for the 48team field was announced Monday, with Duke (12-4-3) receiving the sixth overall seed. The high seed gives the team a first-round bye and a home game to kick off its run for a national tide. The winner of Creighton (12-4-3) and Lafayette (13-4-2) will travel to Koskinen Stadium Nov. 22 to face the rolling Blue Devils. After playing three difficult games in just five days to win the ACC, Duke considers itselffortunate for the time off before it begins the NCAAs. “I was very happy we get a bye because we need the rest,” head coach John Rennie said. “I am also glad we get to play at home.” Coming off three upset victories over top-ten teams en route to its ACC Championship, Duke has drastically improved its standing as one of the country’s best teams. It has increased the Blue Devils’ morale for the tournament ahead. “Beating the consensus No.l [Maryland] and UNC, it gives us an element of confidence,” goalkeeper Justin Papadakis said. “But still, we know we have three hard games ahead of us [to reach the College Cup].” Despite surviving the arduous trek on its way to the ACC SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 10

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a pretty sweet combination. Someone to shoot the three? You have maybe the best to ever do it at the college level, the reigninstitution a few miles away? They won ing ACC Player of the Year, senior JJ. because they oozed confidence, and you Redick. A frontcourt with size, athleticism can bet the arrogance head coach Roy and skill? You have the returning National Williams wears on his baby-blue sleeve Defensive Player of the Year, senior had something to do with it. No one Shelden Williams, a freakishly talented freshman in Josh Mcßoberts and the one wants our players to strut around like Terrell Owens post-touchdown, but this is that’s waiting to explode, super-sophothe year for the Blue Devils to shoot, pass, more DeMarcus Nelson. And what about that component, the rebound and dunk with the conviction that they are the best group of players in thing that everyone and his mother talks the country. about come March—senior leadership? This team has it all. Guys to handle the Did I mention Williams, Redick and Dockball? You have steady senior Sean Dockery ery, and does anyone incorporate this into and playmaking quarterback Greg Paulus, his game more than Lee Melchionni? While you may not yet expect to win a fourth crown, Coach K, I can guarantee you that a large contingent of students expects to see that net draped loosely around your neck come tournament time. “When your program is the face of college basketball, you deserve to expect the team to win a National Championship once every four or five years,” Ike Mbanefo, a senior, said. “We have the caliber of players and the depth to do it this year, so I don’t see why we should expect anything less.” I asked about two dozen other students around campus this week, and almost all echoed Mbanefo’s comments. In one way or another, they said we should expect a

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championship. I realize it’s not an easy thing for you to do, Coach K We understand that part of your job is public relations and making bold declarationsabout student athletes is tough. But for this team to reach its full potential, you need to boost its confidence a little. I have one question left for you, Coach K. Are you going to lead our team to that ALYSSA KAHWTHE CHRONICLE

DeMarcus Nelson is one of the reasons to be confidentabout the Blue Devils' chances this year.

championship? Well, one more Are you going to cancel classes the next day?

Darrius Barnes and Duke are hoping to build on the momentum gained from their ACC Championship.

M. SOCCER from page 9 Championship, Duke will not have it any

easier in its quest for its second NCAA crown. If the Blue Devils, who were bounced from the College Cup in the semifinals last year, advance past the second round, they are projected to meet a formidable llth-seeded Penn State team (12-6-2). The Nittany Lions recendy upset the two-time defending national champion Indiana to take the Big Ten title. A win over Penn State would send the Blue Devils further into the heart of the Midwest with a projected matchup against thirdseeded Indiana (13-2-6). Duke hopes to ride its momentum from the ACC Championship but knows it will have to continue at a high level of intensity the whole way through the tour#

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shooting an uncharacteristic 3-for-16 from behind the arc and just 40 percent from the field. “It was the first game and first game jitters, maybe we were a little bit nervous,” senior Lee Melchionni said. “I don’t want to take anything away from them, but I think we did piiss a lot of open shots, and hopefully they’ll drop for us in the games to come.” The Terriers took an early lead and were ahead of the nation’s top-ranked team until the 12th minute of play. After missing his first three field-goal attempts, Redick drew the Blue Devils within one when he connected on a jump shot from just inside the extended three-point line, which has been set seven inches back to the international distance for the NIT Season Tip-Off. The Terriers turned the ball over moments later, and Redick was fouled and converted both his free throws to put the Blue Devils ahead, 20-19. Although Duke never managed to extend its lead beyond 20 points as it had in its two blowout exhibition wins, the team never relinquished its lead as it advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament. “Overall, I thought it was a great game for us,” Krzyzewski said. “I’m not saying we played great, but when the other team plays their butts off, you’re probably not going to look great.” With the offense struggling to score consistendy all night, the Blue Devils maintained their lead by stifling Boston University on the defensive end. The Blue Devils grabbed six fewer rebounds and shot almost nine percent worse than the Terriers. But with 15 steals and 26 forced turnovers,

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GregPaulus was one of three freshmen to play Monday along with Josh Mcßoberts and Martynas Pocius. Duke easily overcame its offensive woes. Sophomore DeMarcus Nelson, who shot just l-for-8 from the field, recorded seven steals, five of which came in the second half when Duke outscored the over matched Terriers by only three points. “I think DeMarcus is the perfect example that you can have a good game and really not do much of anything on the offensive end,” Krzyzewski said. “He struggled on the offensive end, but it didn’t affect him on the defensive end.” The Blue Devils have won the Preseason NIT twice before, in 1985 and 2000. After winning the tournament in 2000, Duke went on to clinch its third national title later that season. “Overall, I was pleased with the outcome. I thought it was a really good game

for us to play,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s a great lesson for our team to learn is that you can win against a good team by playing defense when the other team is playing gdbd defense.” NOTES: Redick passed Jason Williams for second on Duke’s all-time list for three point attempts. With 799, the senior is three shy of Trajan Langdon’s record...With 10 boards, Mcßoberts is the second player in Blue Devil history to notch double-digit rebounds in his debut. In his first game against Stanford Nov. 11, 1999, Jason Williams also tallied 10 boards...Nelson’s seven steals were the most the sophomore has recorded in a single game and ties him for the fourth-best game in Duke history.

was prone to do at times in years past, the guard faked out his defender, switched the ball to his left hand and drove to the basket. As he came down the lane, Redick deked another Terrier with a pass fake to the corner and came to a jump-stop before laying the ball in with his left hand. Redick looked confident putting the ball on the floor and took it aggressively to the basket on a number of occasions. Although he finished with just two assists, the defensive attention he drew freed up looks for his teammates—Duke’s shots just wouldn’t fall Monday. “There were a couple of times toward the end of the game where we were running L.A. [an offensive set] toward the end of the shot clock, and I could’ve forced one up there, but DeMarcus [Nelson] was open so I hit him,” Redick said. Before the season, Krzyzewski said he wanted Redick to learn to call his own plays in the flow of the game; Krzyzewski didn’t want to call 20 plays designed for Redick and have the rest of the Blue Devils stand around on offense, he added. Rarely did Redick run off double- or

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off curls and use an elaborate array of his own moves to create opportunities for himselfand his teammates. The Redick of old—the one that made 121 threes last year—will shine again this season. But the captain seems to have just retooled his game again, adding yet another dimension to an offensive repertoire that was already one of the nation’s most deadly. “JJ’s a scorer, he’s going to do anything to score,” Sean Dockery said. “Anything JJ. does it seems like it’s going to be effective. If he’s driving and getting it done, than why not keep going with what you’re successful.”

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There’s a box score for Iraq too, but it isn’t nearNixon actually campaigned in 1968 that he had a secret plan to win the Vietnam ly detailed enough, and there’s no running score. War. Times are changing now, and I don’t It’s the box that tells you two or three American solthink even a secret plan, not even one cooked up by diers were killed in a roadside bomb attack, or RPG the infamous not-crook himself, could help the U.S. attack, some kind of horrible fire-death. Maybe it effort in Iraq. You can talk all your military business, doesn’t even tell you that much—just their rank, hometown and age, most times. We your supply lines, your conflicting have no intelligible way to quantify Sunni Muslim, Shi’a Muslim, Kurds, insurgents, terrorists ofall shapes and progress in Iraq, no separate statissizes, radical clerics, civilian targets, tic to point to, like, say, a sack, to roadside bombs and what have you, prove our defensive strategy is but I don’t think that’s the entire or working well. I think this is a major failure of our military and civilian even most important problem. I think it’s that we just can’t conceptuleadership in its communication of alize the Big Win. the war effort and its aims. aaron kirschenfeld Yeah, yeah, it’s been said before, What kind of respect is there for the reason we can’t win in Iraq is that families of soldiers when we’ve got so far, so good we don’t have a definition for “winno quantifiable, communicable ning.” The American public is so stuway of proving or achieving decipid, so beat up and cannot stand for too long this sive victory? I don’t give a crap about no Scooter and that about making Iraq safe for democracy, Libby—l know that powerful men are corrupt and about having a constitution, milestones, baby steps. mislead the public—l want to know how we’re It’s not what we like hearing —that’s the official war going to win the war, whatever that could possibly hawk word, anyway. Americans like to win decisively mean, and I want to know right now! I don’t care and cannot grasp the complexities of the situation, about the Watergate, the tapes, the leaks, Dick Chthose smart folks in charge say, which is close, but eney, White Men (in caps) or any of that crap. I care about effective military operations, responsisadly undeserving of the metaphorical cigar. Richard Nixon was a big sports fan. The man rebility, definable statistics and a Big Win —decisive, ally liked his football. Well, what’s football? Football proper, promised; saving lives. Show me a new box is two front lines, two military formations lined up score with the positives and negatives—lraqis killed, economic figures, growth of civil society, I face to face, whereby through grace, size and athletic ability, one of the two sides scores decisive victory don’t know, just show me something other than two over the other in an average 6-second operation. or three soldiers a day being killed and this pie-inThen they all take a break, go to a huddle and then the sky crap about constitutions. I want some conline up again, over and over, until one side ultimatetext, something I can understand aboutWhere This ly scores more points than the other and wins the Whole Thing Is Going. I want some stats from the battlefield to prove it. game. While this is happening a whole bevy of gendemen and ladies stand upon the sideline or in the Yeah, I’m tired (and polls say most other Ameripress box recording statistical information about cans are, too) but it’s not from a lack of depth or unevery player on the field—even the linemen. derstanding of the complexities of Iraq. We’re tired It’s this focus on statistics, the reliable numbers because there are no statistics to give; there is no charting football wars, ending up in box scores in strategy to win and therefore no means of commumorning paper, cup of coffee, fried egg or two, nicating it. And I think even a secret plan would do watching my cholesterol... hey, did you see that better than that. Trotter got three sacks? In a box score the game is broken down into numbers, into meaningful eviAaron Kirschenfeld is a Trinity junior. His column dence of human movements. runs every other Tuesday.

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title such as the “Summary of Unrestricted Unallowhich are free at many other universities. RLHS was the second biggest moneymaker, with a FY cated Budgeted Funds” may conjure an image of an abstract and unintelligible financial statement. This 2003 surplus of $2.0 million (it peaked in FY 2002 at $3.7 document is the last on a long list of documents (many of million). This is especially striking because, in the RLHS which have equally cryptic tiles) buried on the Duke Finanbudget, the single biggest expense is debt repayment. cial Services website. Although it contains information that This amounts to about a third ofall housing revenue, acilluminates so much, given its form and location, I would cording to Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Monbe surprised if more than a dozen students eta. Has the cumulative $17.6 million of have ever taken a look at it. housing revenue marked as “surplus” over the last 10 years been diverted from But until this year, this annually released and (formerly) very detailed document RLHS? Could students be footing less of the bill for Keohane Quad, Bell Tower oudined all of the major expenditures and and other construction projects? sources of income that are part of Duke’s I Ik In addition, (as I reported last year) a operating budget over a 10 year period. confidential FY 2000 budget shows that The summary oudined the operating surhousing was, after repaying debt and genpluses and deficits of all non-academic deelliott wolf erating surplus, putting $4.2 million into partments, including Residence Life and “reserve” accounts. Considering all this, Housing Services, Duke Dining, Tele-Video transparency maybe it’s not necessary to charge $7,600 (which sells cable TV and telephone service to students) and many others. per year for a single room. Other major FY 2003 moneymakers included the Who cares? Well, up until this year, this report outlined just how much the University was “making” off of Duke Stores (SI.IM) and the renting out of Fuqua’s exeach major non-academic division—how much Duke was ecutive conference center (SI.OM) . So, where does this money go? It isn’t directly diverted sapping us for money and in what ways —and then gave some idea as to how that money was used. anywhere specific, but there are a number of departThe newly released version for Fiscal Year 2004, howevments that require significant subsidies from the general er, now contains almost no useful information and most of “pool” created by the surpluses. The single biggest leech the full page sections have been collapsed into single lines. is athletics, which in FY 2003 required $5.7 million in supAdministrators said the report was changed (and the port. The sports that, for the most part, no one cares about, require support to the tune of almost $l,OOO per older, more detailed reports were removed from the Internet) because of the hiring of a new vice president of fi- undergraduate per year. Far smaller subsidies were given to the Duke Press nance, a new financial reporting system and changes in ($651,000), University parking ($240,000—imagine “generally accepted accounting principles.” Vice President ofFinance Hof Milam said that given the changes in that!), auxiliary services administration ($156,000) and GAAP and Duke’s new system, continuing to report the Dining Services ($130,000). data “cannot be cost justified.” Interpreting this information is a matter of opinion, So, instead of making some futile plea for Duke to but having the detail lets us see through statements such maintain its already paltry level offiscal transparency, I’m as the one John Bumess, senior vice president for governgoing to go through just what information was previously ment affairs and public relations, made earlier this year. reported in the hopes that people might take notice. He said correcdy: “Duke’s ‘auxiliary services,’ which include dining, housing, parking and many other functions Here’s what used to be available: that support students, had a surplus ofless than $1 million The biggest non-academic moneymaker for the University was Tele-Video Communications. Selling cable TV on a budget ofabout $124 million.” But with athletics and and phone service to students netted the University a full other divisions counted as auxiliaries, as these financial re$3.3 million in FY 2003 (it peaked in FY 2001 at $3.9 milports indicate, the picture is much more complex. Both the old and new versions of this document are lion). As the only telecommunications provider for the three-quarters of undergraduates required to live on posted at: http://elliott.dorm.duke.edu/Chronicle/ campus, Duke is raking it in by charging inflated rates for Elliott Wolf is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every telephone service and $3OO to $4OO per academic year for access to anything beyond public access TV—services other Tuesday.

the nation prepares to make the leap to digital television, Congress is trying to decide how many billions of dollars it’s going to spend to make sure no TV viewer gets left behind. Unbeknownst to most Americans, TV stations across America currendy broadcast shows in both digital and analog formats. Roughly three years from now, Congress intends to shut off the analog signals and complete the transition to digital TV, which offers the potential for much sharper pictures, more programming options and interactive services. £ut not everyone is bruce mohl ready to make the jump. Americans own an estiguest column mated 70 million TV sets that rely on free over-theair analog signals. Without converter boxes that are expected to cost $6O apiece, those sets will go dark when the analog signals are shut off. Those converter boxes will add up. So here’s the billion-dollar question: Is this government-mandated transition to digital TV the equivalent of an eminent domain taking? By shutting off the analog signals, is the government required to pay for the converter boxes that will allow analog TVs to keep working? The House has proposed paying a portion of the cost, setting aside $B3O million to subsidize the purchase of converter boxes, plus another $l6O million to administer the subsidy program. The Senate is willing to go further, budgeting nearly $3 billion for subsidies and administrative expenses. The branches are trying to reconcile their numbers. Representative Steve Buyer, R-Ind., says the subsidies are wasteful, particularly at a time when Congress is grappling with a deficit and more pressing spending priorities. Representative Edward Markey, D-Mass., said Congress should pay the full cost of converter boxes for every analog TV in America, a bill that could run as high as $4 billion. His amendment to do that was defeated 27-24. “The government turns your TV off and then tells you to go buy a new set-top box so you can still use it,” Markey said. “That’s a level ofarrogance that is breathtaking. People are going to be furious.” While Congress debates, consumers are pretty much in the dark about the transition to digital TV. Shoppers are still buying analog TV sets, which tend to be $4OO to $5OO cheaper than comparable-size and quality digital TVs. According to the Consumer Electronics Association, nearly 31 million TV sets will be sold this year, with analog sets slightly outselling' digital TVs. Next year, digital sets are expected to take the lead. By March 1, 2007, all sets sold in the United States must be capable ofreceiving a digital signal. Under current law, TV stations were supposed to give up their analog spectrum by the end of next year. The House has proposed pushing that date back to Dec. 31, 2008, while the Senate has selected April 7, 2009. The turnoff of the analog signals will only affect those TV viewers who grab an over-the-air analog signal with an antenna or rabbit ears. For those customers who have cable or satellite service, the expectation is that their provider will offer them equipment so any type of TV can be used. In a study released earlier this year, the General Accounting Office estimated 21 million households, or about 19 percent of the total, depend exclusively on analog over-the-air TV signals. The study said nearly half of those households earned less than $30,000. The GAO study estimated thatabout 70 million TV sets rely on overthe-air analog TV signals. More than 30 million of those are backup sets owned by cable or satellite subscribers and are probably used sparingly. The House has proposed offering up to two $4O coupons per household for converter boxes on a firstcome, first-served basis with no income restrictions on applicants. The Senate’s bill leaves details of the subsidy program to the Commerce Department. Jeannine Kenney, senior policy analyst for Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, said the $B3O million House proposal would fund only 21 million coupons and require each recipient to pay a portion of the cost. She said there is no guarantee that those households who depend exclusively on over-the-air analog signals would be the ones to receive coupons. “It’s a really poor program that at the end of the day is going to create a consumer nightmare,” Kenney said. Bruce Mohl is a syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe.

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11/17 Exhibition, Openin Reception. “FIELDWORK: Unearthing Stories ofNorth Agriculture.” Photos & stories that cast light on the often invisible steps in bringing food from the ground to the table. 4-6pm. Faculty Commons. .

Exhibition. “Burden of Proof.” Photos by Nate Larson. Thru Nov. 30. Louise Brown Gallery, Bryan Center.

Visiting Exhibition. “The Legacy of Sebastian Virdung: The Frederick R. Selch Collection of Rare Books on Musical Instruments.” Mon.&Wed. 2-spm, Tues.&Thurs. Wam-lpm. Thru Dec. 3. Biddle Music Bldg. Free. 11/16 Screen/Society THE HUNDRED STEPS. Bpm. Richard White Aud. Free. -

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11/17 Screen/Society TANGLED WEB: The Making of Kiss of the Spider Woman. NC Latin American Film Festival. U.S. Premiere of documentary by producer ofKiss of the Spider Woman! Introduced by Sharon Mujica. 7pm. Richard White Aud. Free. 11/19 & 11/20 Screen/Society THE ISLAND. Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson discover they are clones meant to serve as spare parts and mount a bold escape. Sat. 7 & 10pm; Sun. Bpm. Griffith Film Theater. $2 General, $1 Employee, Free for Duke Students.

11/20 Screen/Society THE EMBALMER. (L’lmbalsamatore) Macabre and fiendishly entertaining tale of lust, unrequited love and the art of taxidermy. Bpm. East Duke, 2048. Free. 11/28 Screen/Society JOURNEY OF MAN & Panel Discussion. PBS documentary narrating how all humans descended from one African man 60,000 years ago. Followed by discussion w/ faculty working in fields associated with genomics. 7pm. Griffith Film Theater. Free. -

11/17 Exhibition, Opening & Reception. “Historical Sounding Gallery.” A collaborationbetween Keith Piper, Tina Campt, and Nicola Laure al Sam, s:3opm. Exhibit thru Dec. 24. JHFC Gallery. Lunch Conversation w/ Keith Piper; Nov. 17, 12pm. JHF Center, Room 240. 11/17 FILM at the NASHER MUSEUM: THE FOREST The first feature-length film made in the Central African Republic follows Frencheducated Gonaba upon his return home as he ironically touts both Rousseau and the superiority of Western knowledge. Films to complement the exhibition, The Forest: Politics, Poetics, and Practice. 7pm. $3 or free w/paid admission; Free to Duke students w/ valid ID. 11/17 Exhibition, Opening & Reception. “Daido 80: Vintage photographs from the 80s by Daido Moriyama.” Curated by Diego Cortez. Nov. 17, s:3opm. Exhibit thru Jan. 31. JHFC Gallery. 11/17 International William Byrd Conference. Thru Nov. 19. Nelson Music Room. Free. Keynote address by Joseph Kerman: Nov. 18; 4:45pm. Nelson Music Room. Free

11/28-30 Benenson Lectures: “Space of Politics.” Talks by Rafi Segal & Eyal Weizman, Israeli architects and editors of “A Civilian Occupation.” All lectures at 4pm. Nasher Museum. Free and Open to the Public. 11/28 “A Civilian Occupation.” Segal & Weizman. Reception following. 11/29 “Builders and Warriors.” Weizman discusses his current research. 11/30“Politics into Art.” Segal. Exhibiting Territories exhibitions & installations by Segal & Weizman, -

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17 THURSDAY FIRST COURSE; THE CIOMPI QUARTET. Preview Saturday’s performance of String Quartet No. 4 by Lee Hyla, with commentary by the composer. s:3opm. Doris Duke Center, Duke Gardens. $5 General (No advance tickets), Free for Duke students.

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THE CIOMPi QUARTET. Program: Mozart, Lee Hyla, & Beethoven. Bpm. Nelson Music Room, $l5 General, $8 Students/Youth, Free to Duke students. NOVEMBER DANCES 2005. Duke Dance faculty with special guests and Duke Dance Alumni provide a vibrant, varied program of modern, ballet and African dance. Nov. 19, Bpm & Nov. 20, 3pm. Reynolds Theater. $l5 General, $5 Students. With the purchase of an adult ticket, one childlyoung adult 16 or under will be admitted free of charge.

20 SUNDAY SING-ALONG: HANDEL'S MESSIAH.

Rodney Wynkoop, conductor. David Arcus, organist. Student soloists. Everyone is invited to sing the choruses. Scores provided. 7pm. Duke Chapel. Free.

THE TROJAN WOMEN. This modern adaptation of an ancient drama by Euripides, translated by Alan Shapiro with Peter Burian and directed by Ellen Hemphill, explores contemporary views of war in a dark circus setting. Thurs.Sat. Bpm; Sun. 2pm; Nov. 17-20. Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. $lO General; $7 Students/Sr. Citizens. DUKE JAZZ COMBOS. John Brown, director. Bpm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

FACULTY RECITAL. Elizabeth Linnartz, soprano; Deborah Hollis, piano. 4pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

29 TUESDAY CHRISTMAS CONCERT. Duke Chorale. Rodney Wynkoop, conductor. Offers music for all ages with opportunities to sing favorite carols and hear readings for the season. Organ and carillon music start at 6:3opm. 7pm. Duke Chapel. Admission: one non-perishable food item for the needy of Durham.

30 WEDNESDAY LIVE JAZZ NITE at the MARY LOU. (See Nov. 16)

18 FRIDAY THE BOBS: “RHAPSODY IN BOB.” Legendary, Grammy-nominated a cappella quartet presents an unforgettable evening of vocal acrobatics, lyrical hijinks and spontaneous hilarity. Bpm. Page Aud. $2O General, $5 Duke students. CONCERT. International William Byrd Conference. Davitt Moroney, harpsichord. 6:3opm. Nelson Music Room. Free

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