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Committee drums up financial aid support by

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Students’ e-mail inboxes, normally diluted with facebook.com invitations and advertisements for low mortgage rates, have recendy included requests of a different sort.

An e-mail signed by Johnny Dawkins, assistant head coach for men’s basketball, was sent to all students encouraging support for the Duke Financial Aid Initiative via online petition.

The Nov. 23 request was followed by a second e-mail six days later.

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The petition was sponsored by the Financial Aid Initiative Student Advisory Council, a newly formed group of 22 undergraduates that was organized this semester. much-heralded A new fundraising project, the Financial Aid Initiative is the first largescale fundraising campaign President Richard Brodhead has undertaken since coming to Duke in July 2004.

“The idea is to make sure Duke never has to close its doors to students with talent bemse of family circumstances,” redhead told The Chronicle September.

FAISAC Co-Chair Mary rvin, a junior, said the petion is meant to act as a mesige to the administration that e Council is willing to help in ly way it can.

“We just want to show the •nors that the student body really ipports this Initiative,” she said.

Susan Ross, director offmanal aid development, said the petition is part of a larger effort

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. When Indiana capped off an 110 run with Marco Killingsworth’s thunderous dunk that gave the No. 17 Hoosiers (3-1) a 59-58 lead—their first of the game— Assembly Hall was sent into a frenzy, and momentum was squarely on Indiana’s side.

The No. 1 Blue Devils (6-0), however, got a combined nine points from their two All-Americans during a three-minute stretch that put them back in control, and Duke shook off the raucous crowd to escape with a 75-67 win over Indiana.

“I think during that time period a lot of teams would just lose,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I’m very proud of my team because you cannot simulate that type of a situation.”

Senior captain JJ. Redick led Duke with 29 points, including

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Divinity weighs Packed classes frustrate students new doctorate

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Computer screens around campus have been glowing with the familiar ACES course registration page—and the übiquitous red boxes of waiting list numbers.

Although there are more classes offeredfor the upcoming Spring 2006 semester than in previous terms, waiting lists are still high for some undergraduate classes in the Trinity College ofArts and Sciences.

Departments create their own schedules, but the University enforces a system that evenly spreads class times across the entire week, said University Registrar Bruce Cunningham. “We try to keep an eye on things to adjust the schedules,” he said.

Many departments communicate in order to avoid scheduling conflicts, Cunningham said. There are also departments, such as chemistry, that create new sections in order to accommodate student demands after registration windows open.

Even with accommodations, certain time periods fill up quickly, especially for required classes or those with

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The Divinity School may soon implement a new doctoral program for its students in hopes of giving students the opportunity to study religion and theology with more

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Students in the program would be able to obtain the docdegree in four to five years and pursue fields such as worship, preaching and evangelism —fields often

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Before the Th.D. program can be implemented, however, it must be approved by the Academic Council, the

University’s Board of Trustees and the Association of Theological Schools.

If the proposal is approved without delays, officials hope to begin accepting students into the program in Fall 2006.

The Academic Council will vote on the program proposal at its meeting Thursday afternoon.

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Alito's abortion views revealed As a young government lawyer opposed to abortion rights, Samuel Alito argued for a strategy of chipping away at the landmark Supreme Court 1973 ruling legalizing abortion rather than mounting an all-out assault likely to harm the Reagan administration.

Justices ponder parent notification by

Gina Holland

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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with a New Hampshire law that requires a parent to be told before a daughter ends her pregnancy, with no hint the justices were ready for a dramatic retreat on abortion rights under their new chief.

The court is dealing with its first abortion case in five years, as well a§ the first in the brief tenure ofChiefjustice John Roberts.

The case does not challenge the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that declared abortion a fundamental constitutional right, and the justices seemed to be seeking a compromise

that would avoid breaking new ground Several said the law was flawed, because it requires that a parent be informed 48 hours before a minor child has an abortion but makes no exception for a medical emergency that threatens the youth’s health.

At the same time, the court appeared unhappy with lower court decisions that blocked the law from being enforced at all.

“This case doesn’t involve an emergency situation,” Roberts said.

The stakes are significant since the ruling could signal where the high court is headed under Roberts and after the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Abortion was a prominent subject in

Roberts’ confirmation hearings and has emerged as a major issue in President Bush’s nomination of appeals court Judge Samuel Alito to replace O’Connor, who has been the swing vote in support ofabortion rights.

Protesters demonstrated outside singing, chanting and praying—and the argument inside the court was at times contentious, too, with justices talking over each other and over the lawyers.

New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte struggled to field sharp questions on why state lawmakers had made an exception to allow abortions when a young mother’s life—but not her health—was in danger.

U.S.-lraq sweeps insurgents 500 Iraqi troops joined 2,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors for a joint operation in an area west of Baghdad used to rig car bombs, while American soldiers rounded up 33 suspected insurgents in a sweep of southern parts of the Iraqi capital.

ISA focuses on explosives The Transportation Security Administration's decision to allow airline passengers to carry small scissors is part of a broader shift in airport security, focusing more on keeping explosives off planes and less on stopping another 9/11-type attack.

Bush rejects timetable for leaving Iraq by

Deb Riechmann

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. President George W. Bush gave an unflinching defense ofhis war strategy Wednesday, refusing to set a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawals and asserting that once-shaky Iraqi troops are proving increasingly capable. Democrats dismissed his words as a stay-the-course speech with no real strategy for success.

Bush recalled that some Iraqi security forces once ran from battle, and he said their performance “is still uneven in some parts.” But he also said improvements have been made in training and Iraqi units are

growing more independent and controlling more territory.

“This will take time and patience,” said Bush, who is under intense political pressure as U.S. military deaths in the war rise beyond 2,100 and his popularity sits at the lowest point of his presidency.

Bush’s speech at the U.S. Naval Academy, the first of at least three he’ll give between now and the Dec. 15 Iraqi elections, did not outline a new strategy for the nearly three-year-old war. Rather, it was intended as a comprehensive answer to mounting criticism and questions. Billed as a major address, it brought together in a single

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package the administration’s arguments for the war and assertions of progress on military, economic and political tracks.

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lease of a White House document tided “Our National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” —a report that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed as “35 pages of rhetoric on old sound bites.” Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., called Bush’s speech “lipstick” on a failed Iraqi strategy.

“If things on the ground in Iraq are as rosy as the picture the president painted today, then we should be able to begin to bring our troops home in 2006,” he said.

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Generation HIV President Chelsea Friauf-Evans, a senior, agreed AIDS is a difficult issue to address.

“It’s hard to get people engaged here with HIV,” Friauf-Evans said. “Students at Duke don’t believe that AIDS can really affect them. But it’s important that they get this information, especially with the hook-up culture here.”

Quintana grew up in a conservative home in Idaho and attended a Baptist school. He said he was heavily active in his church and was a standout student.

“I went to church three, maybe four times a week,” Quintana said, adding that he was president of his student body and lettered in several sports. “I went to college and minored in Christian studies because I wanted to be a youth pastor. I [tested HIV positive] and just thought, ‘I

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Twenty-six-year-old Duane Quintana engaged an audience in Griffith Auditorium Wednesday night with a candid nar-

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He has been on tour as a representative for Hope’s Voice for the past year, trying to increase awareness and communication about HIV-AIDS among America’s youth.

“People really need to start talking about this, about AIDS,” Quintana explained. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there, because AIDS isn’t something that’s discussed, and that needs to change.”

Duke’s Generation HIV organization helped bring Quintana to Duke as a main speaker for HIV/AIDS Awareness Week.

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DUMC could reap SBM in royalties from drug by

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A drug nearing approval by the Food and Drug Administration could soon bring Duke University Medical Center up to $8 million a year in royalties.

Myozyme would be the first treatment available for Pompe disease, which causes the body to be unable to break down carbohydrates, resulting in muscle deterioration. It is a rare, inherited glycogen-storage disorder that is lethal for infants and debilitating in adults.

“Rarely do you get an opportunity to do something this dramatic,” said Vice Chancellor for Corporate and Venture Development Dr. Bob Taber. “It’s the first drug we’ve had where the drug is actually in people, and we’re getting royalties.”

Twelve years ago, Dr. Yuan-Tsong Chen, chief of the division of medical genetics in the department of pediatrics, pioneered the development of enzyme replacement therapy as a treatment for the disease.

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After licensing the cell line developed by Duke and Synpac, Genzyme ultimately decided to use its own line taken from the cells of Chinese hamsters. The University could gamer between $1 million and $8 million a year through royalties, Taber said. The new funds may be small change when compared to Duke’s operating budget of several billion dollars a year, but it will significantly increase the annual $4 million that the University currently receives through licensing deals.

The advent of Myozyme could provide

health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, is a member of its board of directors, “Genzyme has been working to develop a treatment for Pompe disease for about seven years, and we’ve invested approximately $5OO million

Chen and his team spent more than five years developing his idea into a viable enzyme-production method. The University, however, lacked the facilities to develop the treatment fully and test it on humans. Consequently, Duke partnered with Synpac (North Carolina) Inc., a

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Rep. David Price, D-N.C, spoke at the medical center Wednesday about contemporary health care and politics.

U.S. rep offers perspective on health care issues, policy by

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Rep. David Price, D-N.C., urged universities to demand increased funding for medical research and criticized the Bush administration’s health care policy in a speech at the Searle Center at the Duke University Medical Center Wednesday.

He also addressed the major challenge of rising health care costs and the plight of those nationwide without health coverage.

Following an introduction from chemistry professor and Nobel Laureate Peter Agre, Price devoted 40 minutes to his speech, entitled “Current Legislative Issues in Health Policy.” He then fielded several questions from an audience composed primarily of medical students.

Price, who has served as the Durham and Chapel Hill area’s representative since 1987, called the rising cost of health care the biggest problem currently facing the country.

His constituents in North Carolina’s 4th

district feel the same, as they ranked health care the “greatest moral issue” in a questionnaire last spring, he said.

Significant reduction in health care expenses and expansion ofhealth care coverage, Price said, may not soon be forthcoming. He noted that people are reluctant to accept major reforms because they fear losing their existing coverage.

“The day may be coming when people get so fed up and disillusioned that there’s a market for sweeping changes—but not now,” said Price.

Moving from the more general problem of soaring health care expenses to specific legislative issues, Price denounced the recendy passed prescription drug benefit.

Noting that the plan’s use of private insurance companies to provide drug benefits costs 25 percent more than a Medicare-based drug benefit would, Price called it “one sorry benefit” and SEE PRICE ON PAGE 7

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Talks about policy and programming were the foci of Duke Student Government’s meetingWednesday night.

Election by-law changes and an update on the Student Organization Finance Committee highlighted the meeting. Debate hit the senate floor when the DSG legislative body voted not to recognize the student group Estacion Libre.

“Tonight was a structurally oriented night,” said DSG President Jesse Longoria, a senior.

DSG Attorney General Bryce Walker, a senior, read two revisions to the existing Election by-laws. Walker said the changes will streamline the election process by placing fewer restrictions on candidates and by increasing by-law readability.

“We want candidates to reach out and contact as many voters as possible, and we don’t want to hinder that in any way,” Walker said. “The ideal situation is not only increasing candidate visibility but also increasing interaction between candidates, their platforms and the student body.”

This year, the annual review process responded to a series of miscommunications and misinterpretations that occurred in last year’s presidential race.

After a second reading of revisions initially proposed at the Nov. 17 DSG meeting, the legislative body passed the changes by a unanimous vote. These included a number of minor alterations to the wording and to the runoff system—one of the major sources of trouble for last year’s elections.

The changes proposed at Wednesday’s meeting include making candidatessubmit the contentforall campaign materials to the Election Commission and providing campaign fund records to the DSG treasurer.

Walker also proposed removing a number of unnecessary and archaic clauses from the existing by-laws. These changes will be voted on at the next meeting.

Although minimal, the corrections were necessary given the implementation of new technology in next semester’s elections.

“I think these are just minor changes to ensure that the structure is in place for the new election software,” Longoria said.

“Those changes need to be made now.”

SOFC Chair Jeff Federspiel, a junior, spent most of the meeting at the podium.

He presented an update on the organization, which funds a number of student groups on campus.

Among other things, Federspiel outlined the progress made by SOFC this year, the status of funding and the changes that will be made to the organization’s bylaws in the near future.

This year, SOFC has worked to create a more useful website and improve what some called a rocky relationship with the SEE DSG ON PAGE 8

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section that will fit with her spring semester schedule. “I’m a public policy major, and I wanted to do my internship this summer,” she said. “I needed to take two core classes “When I got there, there were 13 peoon the list for the section in order for the intemship'to count.” ple waiting good When the PPS department revised the already,” Madan-Mohan said.

Administrators said the long waiting undergraduate major last February, faculty lists most likely are not products of the voted to make its introductory class a prenumber of courses offered. requisite for two other core requirements.

“I know for a fact that it’s not because This resulted in an increase in the number of a shortage of classes,” said Judith Rudof students from all grades trying to enroll erman, vice provost for academic and adin the introductory class. ministrative services and chair of the UniThe course is currently full at 122 stuCommittee.

“There dents, and 58 are on the waiting list. versity’s Scheduling Public policy electives are also popular are more courses offered this spring.”

Some officials speculated that growing among undergraduates. The department waiting lists can be attributed to studentrecently received approval to hire two additional faculty this year and two more created trends. “It looks as if there is a patthe following year. tern that students are avoiding the Friday classes,” said Ruth Baker, staff assistant to Other departments with classes that have a high dethe director of man undergradureceived addiate studies for “We wish we could have tional funding. psychological more people available to teach.

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We’re just faced with don’t have a is example, to scarce resources. choice faced with finanlimitations move the class—Jerry Reiter cial in trying to meet es to this time because the the demands of students.

University has “We wish we could have more people a policy.”

Administrators have also noticed available to teach,” Reiter explained. trends in the popularity of certain cours“We’re just faced with scarce resources.”

Baker voiced a similar concern for the es as a result of recent changes in majors and the Trinity College requirements. psychology department. “Opening up Although 170 new seats were added to other sections means money, which we classes within the statistics department, don’t have,” she said.

Structured schedules for Pratt School of more than 100 students are still waiting to enroll, said Jerry Reiter, the director of Engineering majors have helped minimize undergraduate studies for the Institute waiting lists. Administrators often add seats of Statistics & Decision Sciences. in classes to accommodate demand so stu“I can speculate that some ofit could be dents do not fall behind in their schedules. the new Quantitative [Studies] Require“Most people have been able to get ment kicking in,” Reiter said, referring to a into the classes that they need,” said recently revised curriculum stipulation. Linda Franzoni, associate dean for stu“Some of it may be students wanting to dent affairs for Pratt. take these courses earlier in their careers The few exceptions of Pratt students due to advice from various departments.” who have scheduling problems are those Undergraduates who major in public who are ahead of the typical schedule for policy studies, one of the most popular the four Pratt majors, Franzoni said. concentrations among undergraduates, “We do try tojuggle and offer multiple are required to take a course in statistics sessions at all times of the day,” she said.

“We have labs every day of the week, and along with the core major requirements.

Sophomore Rachael Massell is fourth most of our students are taking a full on the waiting list for the only Statistics 101 Monday through Friday schedule.”

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Duane Quintana, who contracted HIV sixyears ago, spoke about his personal experiences Wednesday.

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QUINTANA from page 3 go to church.... I can’t have AIDS!’” Quintana said he has dated his contraction of HIV to nine months before his 20th birthday, when he got drunk with a group of his friends from school and ended up having unprotected sex with one of them.

Quintana emphasized to the audience that he had such a normal upbringing, a healthy family life and was never one to engage in risky behavior until then.

“As far as I was concerned, I was immune to AIDS,” Quintana said. “Growing up in rural Idaho, we never really heard about things like this. But AIDS doesn’t discriminate.... I made one mistake, and that was it. This is why communication and education about it is so important.”

After finding out he had HIV, Quintana quit his acting and modeling career in Los Angeles and focused his attention on AIDS awareness education. Quintana also recently married.

“I’m proud to say that my wife is HIV negative,” Quintana said. “That is the most important thing to me.”

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education within the family.

“People need information to protect themselves before they start to engage in risky behavior,” Quintana said. “Education about sex, STDs and AIDS needs to start when kids are young... mainly in families. We get all caught up in moral issues and just say, ‘don’t have sex’, instead of giving kids information that will enable them to make wise decisions for themselves in the future.”

Quintana said about 50 percent of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States are among people ages 25 or younger, and about 50 percent of those cases are among people 22 or younger.

Quintana cited lack of information and poor communication as main factors in the spread of AIDS in America today.

“AIDS isn’t something that’s talked about. People are afraid of it. They believe they’re immune,” Quintana said.

“My story is just one story—I believe that by young people hearing this, by talking about AIDS, we will begin to have more success in preventing it.”

The event was sponsored by Generation HIV, Healthy Devils, Duke Red Cross and DeltaAIDS, a philanthropy project of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

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to increase the campus visibility of financial aid, both from the perspectives of students and potential donors. The petition will be presented to President Richard Brodhead tonight, at a gala dinner that will officially launch the Initiative, she said.

Called “A Celebration of Duke Scholarships,” the evening will be moderated by former CNN anchor Judy Woodruff, Trinity ‘6B, and attended by some 330 Board of Trustees’ members, potential donors and current students.

Even with the pair of e-mails and the Council’s production ofbuttons to promote its cause, less than halfof the undergraduate student body has signed the petition.

Ervin said many students still may not know enough about it to feel comfortable signing.

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higher-level education. “The main thing is that this program is designed to prepare people at the doctoral level for work that is focused on ministries and practices of Christian communities,” said Richard Hays, chair of the Th.D. proposal committee and professor of biblical studies at the Divinity School.

This year, 235 students applied for the current doctoral program’s 10 fellowships.

Officials hope the Th.D. program will attract a strong pool of applicants as well.

Administrators are aiming to admit 12 to 15 students to the new program annually.

The Th.D. would not replace the Ujiiversity’s Ph.D. in religion—a degree offered jointly by the Divinity School and the religion department of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences. Instead, it would boast the rigor of a Ph.D. program but retain the curricular content of the master’s degree in religion, which focuses on future ministry careers.

“We’re committed to doing it in away that won’t be competitive in away with the Ph.D.,” Hays said. “We see it as simply strengthening the overall offerings in the general area of theology and religion.”

The new degree program would give

the Council will be tabling outside the West Union Building for the remainder of the week to raise awareness.

Ross has been working on the Initiative since January 1.

“We’ve been delighted by the response,” she said, although she declined to reveal specific monetary goals in advance of tonight’s launch.

Ross said undergraduate financial aid represents the fastest growing part of the

operating budget.

The University spent $48.6 million on

it last year alone, and “resources have been strained by the increased need,” she added.

All money from the Initiative will be invested as “permanent endowment,” she said, and only earnings from the principal will be spent.

Ross noted that less than 10 percent of funds from the “Campaign for Duke”— which raised almost $2.4 billion—went toward financial aid.

“In the past we have not pushed as hard exclusively for financial aid,” she said.

students the option of taking seminars offered by the Ph.D. program, but they could also do interdisciplinary coursework that would go beyond the traditional areas of concentration. Students would also write doctoral dissertation.

Hays said Divinity School officials are still figuring out more ways in which the Th.D. could be integrated with the Ph.D. program.

The degree was not implemented earlier at Duke because of economic constraints and the broadening scope ofthe Ph.D. program, which consumed resources and made it difficult to train faculty to teach Th. D.-level courses.

“Some people might say it’s long overdue—that we should have done this 20 years ago,” Hays said.

The faculty of the Divinity School has expanded by several members within the past three years, making the Th.D. program possible. But officials expect to hire two or three more professors to accommodate the program’s needs.

Apart from being able to admit students interested in the alternate degree, the new program would also allow for a larger number of doctoral students to teach lecture classes and work as research assistants.

Officials also said the program could be a central point for some of the school’s fundraising initiatives.

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He said a simple expansion ofMedicare to include a prescription drug benefit would have worked better, but the Republicans insisted on a privatized plan. “This plan is exhibit A in the perils of an ideological approach to politics,” said Price.

His criticism of current policies extended to fiscal policy and the strain it places on health care spending. He noted that domestic discretionary spending —on Medicaid, food stamps, or research, for example —are often the first items cut when budgets are tight.

Defense spending and tax cuts, Price said, are among the sources of the country’s fiscal difficulties. “We’re not going broke in this country because we’re spending too much on Medicaid,” said Price, drawing a few laughs from the crowd.

Before proceeding to the question and answer period, Price turned to the issue of research funding. He said finding sufficient money for research was an “ongoing challenge,” and he cited the doubling of the National Institutes of Health budget one notable success. during the 1990 To achieve increased research funding, Price explained, research and higher education institutions must be more proactive in pressuring Congress. “Universities obviously have an important role in getting research funding,” Price said. “But they need to have more bite and not be so afraid of offending people.”

Many audience members responded positively to Price’s stand on the issue. “I really liked what he said about increased

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research funding,” said first-year medical student Rich Everson. “To me, that’s really important.”

The Duke Medical Student Chapter of the American Medical Association sponsored and organized Price’s appearance.

First-year medical student Don Lucas, the group’s policy co-chair, was enthusiastic about the event.

“Price really cares about the issues of the AMA, like expanding health care coverage and increasing research funding,” said Lucas, who also noted that Price’s views on liability reform do not exacdy coincide with those of the organization.

Lucas first contacted Price after hearing that the congressman had made frequent speeches at Duke. Price, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, taught public policy and political science at Duke before running for Congress. His last Duke appearance was in an April 2005 panel on health policy.

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SOFC decided by a vote of nine to one, with one voter abstaining, that the organiSenate in past years. zation did not fulfill a unique niche on “Last year I know there was a sense that campus and lacked a durable organizait was the senate versus SOFC,” Federspiel tional structure. said. “That’s really not how it should be.”

“It’s a question ofwhether the resources So far this year, SOFC has spent that could be spent on this club would be $23,795.46 ofits programming fund, putmore concentrated and better spent on a few organizations,” Federspiel added. ting the organization ahead ofits projected budget.

Two representatives from Estacion Libre said they have members from all years and In past years, Federspiel said the organization would have spent an additional attracted more than 150 students to an $lO,OOO by this time. Longoria added that event the group helped to sponsor earlier the budget ran out around March last year. in the semester.

Most of this year’s funds went to leftGente Aprendiendo por Nuevos Oporleaning organizations, Federspiel said. tunidades, Duke Smart House and the He added that SOFC hopes to maintain Duke Journal of Public Affairs were all diversity by appealing to more conserva- chartered by unanimous vote. Duke Dontive organizations on campus in the folAid was also recognized.

In addition, SOFC allocated $3,000 for lowing months.

A few changes will likely be made to Alpha Phi Alpha’s “Alpha Night at Nasher” SOFC by-laws early next semester, Federbanquet and $570 for the DSG Stress-Free spiel said. One change includes making the Zone, which will provide food and masDSG treasurer a voting member ofSOFC. sages for students before final exams begin.

Federspiel also presented five groups Longoria said he was pleased by the that sought charter or recognition by number of organizations that showed up at DSG. Debate ensued when SOFC suggestthe meeting seeking recognition and funds. ed that DSG not recognize or charter “That’s the biggest thing we do each Estacion Libre, a political organization week, in my opinion, because that’s how for students of color that focuses on inwe support students,” Longoria said.

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new hope to families affected by Pompe disease. The drug would be used to treat the infantile form of the disease and may also be used to treat the juvenile and adult forms, Taber said. It would be administered to patients intravenously once every two weeks, and those afflicted with the disease would receive treatments for the rest of their lives.

Administrators are optimistic about Myozyme and other drugs that may be developed by Duke researchers in the future.

“We would like to do more things in-house, and we’re thinking about ways to do that.

But inevitably you have to put it out in the commercial world because we’re a university,” Taber said.

Piela said Genzyme had yet to specify a price for the drug, which is expected to be on the market by early 2006. But the cost may seem a small price to pay for a second chance at life. ‘You have to see these children. When they come in they’re almost flaccid—they can’t move, they can’t roll over,” Taber said. “Then you see a child who’s been treated who seems normal. The transformation is Just remarkable. These are kids who would have died.”

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Thirty-six years ol rocking the Cradle

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King’s X brings old-school rock to the legendary stage of the Cat’s Cradle

by David Graham clubs—famous for booking bands like something in the air around here that’s recess Nirvana before they were big —the Cra- really electric.”

Sure, we all like to bash that school die has been rocking since 1969. It has Heath speaks self-effacingly with a down the road—yeah, the one with the survived legal disputes, hostility from folksy drawl, a somewhat fatigued tone powder blue—but let’s face it: the local government, unkind landlords of voice and with both sincerity and a Chapel Hill area has a lot more going and several moves, and it’s stronger relaxed nonchalance. For a music enon than Durham. We have Ninth than ever today. Now located in Car- thusiast, he rarely gets excited, even Street; they have Franklin Street. They rboro, N.C., the club continues to book while talking about his personal idols, have James Taylor of the Squirrel Nut some of the best names in music today the most exciting shows he’s ever seen, Zippers (okay, they’re from Efland), and also promotes shows at other local or the roller coaster ride that being a club owner can be.

Ben Folds, Polvo and Superchunk; we venues in addition to the home club, have J.D. Loudermilk, Grady Tate Heath bought the club with a friend “I guess what keeps me interested is and... uh... the Pulsar Triyo. We have that it’s a different world because every in 1986, after the previous owner decidthe James Joyce and the ‘Dillo, and they band brings out a different crowd,” said ed to move on. The club had gone have Local 506 and, most notably, the the Cat’s Cradle’s unassuming owner bankrupt in 1983, and continued to Frank Heath. “It’s really an honor to be struggle until the 24-year-old UNC grad legendary Cat’s Cradle.

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The Duke Wind Symphony will host its annual Viennese Ball—a 31-yearold tradition—Friday at the Durham Armory. The Viennese Ball originated on Duke’s campus thanks to a tour that the Wind Symphony took to Vienna, Austria. Symphony members brought back the traditional Viennese waltz—a dizzying display of elegant steps and fast-paced spins.

Open to the public, the Ball will feature a student-led polka band and waltz orchestra, as well as free dance lessons given by Chris Imershein of Triangle Vintage Dance. Special events during the dance include open dancing, demonstrations by members of the Duke Ballroom Dance Club and Triangle by

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A former Blue Devil is set to star as this season’s sizzlin’ new Bachelor on ABC’s hit reality franchise.

Travis Stork, the Bth bachelor to woo the ladies, graduated magna cum laude from Duke University in 1994. He majored in economics and received his AB from the Trinity School of Arts and Sciences.

Stork joins the ranks of other Duke grads that have entered the entertainment arena, including Survivor 111 star, Kelly Goldsmith, who received her ABfrom Duke in 2001.

Stork will continue the Bachelor legacy, as he looks for love among 25 ladies beginning Jan. 9.

Stork received his MD from the University of Virginia. He is currently on leave from being an emergency room doctor in his first year of residency at Vanderbilt Medical Center. Since the show is still filming, Stork could not be reached for comment.

An ABC casting director looking for female contestants in Tennessee discovered Stork by chance. The network executives were thrilled to have found not only a strikingly handsome man, but a strikingly handsome man who also happened to be a doctor.

“Even if he had been something lame like an event planner, we would have cast him...

But when we found out he was a doctor, we were like holy sh-!” said Executive Producer Mike Fleiss to the New York Daily News.

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I love Law & Order. True, I’m not as bad as the friend who orders all of the season DVDs online or those people who actually watch the 70-hour USA Network marathons, but I’m pretty much a fiend. Come Tuesday night, if I don’t get my SVU fix, the rest of the week is a countdown till the Sunday replay.

Truth be told, I used to like L&O original flavor best, but Dennis Farina’s tan trenchcoat just doesn’t do it.for me. What’s wrong with black? That color worked just fine for Benjamin Bratt and Chris Noth, my personal L&O faves,

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Since SVU has been my of-late L&O of choice, imagine my disappointwhen this season of SVU took a sharp right turn into a political minefield... or six.

It started with an episode three weeks ago with teaser scenes promising a sexy undercover Olivia trying to suss out a rapist who met victims via speed dating. A zippy premise, to be sure, but all of a sudden the episode ambushed us unsuspecting viewers with a debate over whether the now-convicted rapist had the legal right to pull the life support plug on his new wife, who had landed in a permanent vegetative state thanks to her bulimia-meets-alcoholism lifestyle. Confused? Me too. Terry Schiavo is so last season. This episode was supposed to be about undercover policework!

The bait-and-switch occurred again on this Tuesday’s episode, when a classic SVU child molestor/kidnapping storyline turned into a Hurricane Katrina-based anthrax scare and —are you ready?—arguments over journalistic privilege, with the final scene featuring a dogged reporter sitting in jail, as Olivia wrestles with whether to reveal herself as his source.

“Ripped from the headlines” has always been an L&O standby, but piling on current events issues like they’re accessories just detracts from what we really watch the show for; the steamy chemistry between Olivia and the oh-so-mysterious Elliot.

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whole new world... What can recess say. about him that hasn’t already been said in a restraining order? Former dollar-DVD-bin heartthrob Colin Farrell has Oscar in his sights with a performance in The New World—AXA. the real-life Pocahontas redux.

His performance is more reminiscent of a young Jamie Foxx, not an older Hilary Duff, and that can only be a good thing.

Spy mama drama. We finally have to end our love affair, Jennifer Garner. Come May, recess can’t see you anymore. You (or your fantabulous espionage drama Alias) can’t make us “Lala” anymore. This is where recess feels abandoned and sobs uncontrollably.

The next Aristocrat. If you’re looking for quality liquor, consult blingin’ people with bad hair. That’s the lesson to be learned with Donald Trump’s upcoming line of premium vodka. Next up is Don King’s coconut rum, Richard Simmons’ Triple Sec, and Dick Cheney’s vermouth.

This is how a heart beats. Formerly the Lindsay Lohan/Olsen Twins also-ran, Hilary Duff has—along with her current beau, Good Charlotte’s lead singer—penned one of the year’s hottest pop songs with “Beat of My Heart.” Move over, Madge. is how a heart breaks. This one’s for Jessica Simpson: “He take my money when I’m in need/yea he’ a triflin’ friend indeed/oh he’s a golddigger over town.”

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It has been 17 years since the last Dragon Quest game was released in America as Dragon Warrior 111. Not much has changed.

Dragon Quest VIII, the latest installment in Japan’s bestselling role-playing game series stands as a remembrance of things past of an earlier era in video gaming, when sublimelysimple plots sufficed to frame solid, fun and addictive game play. Everything about Dragon Quest is classic. Its story is derivative: a young warrior must save his kingdom from a curse and destroy the evil wizard. The combat system resembles most other RPGs and boasts nothing so much as its streamlined effectiveness.

The graphics are the work ofAkira Toriyama, the creator of the Dragon Ball series. They are spectacular cartoons reminiscent of that series and uphold the fantastic tone of the Dragon Quest world —

through cel-shading.

There is no brilliant innovation evident in Dragon Quest VIII. Instead, it is a perfectly executed and always challenging display of the classic RPG formula. It is refreshing in its confident conservatism and adherence to its legacy.

As a bonus, Dragon Quest VIII includes a free demo of FinalFantasy XII. The demo displays radically new game mechanics which play more like an awkwardly executed Baulder’s Gate rip-off than a classic Final Fantasy game. The demo displays a complete departure from an ageless formula, and it provides a fitting juxtaposition for Dragon Quest’s timelessness.

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Never Eat Alone And other secrets to success, one relationship at a time Business books are the new diet books. There is a new one on the shelf every week and everyone is convinced it’s got the tactic that will finally work for you. Unfortunately, they rarely do. After all, not everyone can be skinny and not everyone can be rich.

Nonetheless, people flock to the cash register, hoping that the secret to success is a Barnes & Noble away. Author and business guru Keith Ferrazzi clearly knows the power of a good pedigree and a catchy title when it comes to securing a spot on the bookshelves ofbusiness enthusiasts for his new release Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One ||vk Relationship at a Time.

As with any strategy or advice book, much of Never Eat Alone's credibility rests on the achievements of the author.

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Ferrazzi is all about networking, yet he detests the structured networking opportunities available in the business world. He claims to have neverparticipated in a networking event. Maybe Ferrazzi did not follow the formulaic road to business power. This does not mean, as Ferrazzi seems to suggest,; that everyone who attends networking events will not make connections.

No one is denying that Ferrazzi is a powerful personality and masterful relationship builder. But will reading his book make the average corporate Joe one, too? Because Ferrazzi never convinces his readers that his special brand of winning friends and influencing people is teachable, his bragging about the number of contacts he has and the dinner parties he throws seems more belittling than inspiring.

Despite his achievemerits, or perhaps because of them, much of the book functions as a roadmap to Ferrazzi’s life. Certainly his evolution from his poof country youth to his cuttingbusiness edge lifestyle is impressive. However, the “here’s what I did” format works better with a big name honcho like Jack Welch than a self-declared guru like Fenrazzi.

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You’re talking a lot more about your dad and in your songs now. Is there any par tic-

outdo each other and come up beats and different subject mattf creativity ends when they start tal ice on their neck and the ways thi lines. But that’s as far as it goes rages me, I just get annoyed. cause it’s therapeutic. Sh- it’s better about it that much, and I don’t to therapy. You talk about something that much energy into anythii bothering you for years; you get it off Nothing in hip-hop pisses me o and instead of telling one person, slighdy perturbs me sometimes.

What would you like to see in to the world. It’s humbling as f—. to ture? making approach changed your I want the same thing as every ely. When I first started cutting success and happiness. But I’m r I didn’t have a conscious approach to ested in having a hundred cars a them. Now, I have to sit down and think and girls. As long as my rap can about a song, think about the beats and the needs and my wants happy, then lyrics and start small. If I come up with an idea And my music is constantly chang and it sits, it’s kind of a Big Bang sort of thing long as I can keep doing my th keep enjoying myself, I’ll be hapj from there. If I don’t like it, I throw it away. Bestudio, the throw How do you see your music ch would walk into just fore, I I’m not going to even blow i down some lyrics and then get the hell out of there. Now, it’s a long and complex process, but there, I’m not telling anyone sh new music. They’ll just have to v is infinitely better.

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You’re going to be hitting th Eminem dissed in his albums. Do you still hold Cradle on Dec. 6th. What can we a grudge?

I don’t address that sh- anymore at all. The from your live show?

It depends. If the crowd is f dude’s a millionaire—what does that have to do with my life? It has nothing to do with me or my ing out and loving me when I j music; I just don’t care anymore and don’t give around, I’ll give them one hell show. I love to get riled up a it the time of day. scream in people’s faces and j think could ever move over to the you Do you crazy, and to have a personal cor mainstream rap world?

No, I’m not interested in mainstream rap at nection with the audience. all. It’s total sh- I don’t listen to it, I’m not a supperform only for the kids in it’s it’s the front row and screaming, just about; of what it is or what not porter not for the punks in the hack me at all. who are just observing the Why don’t you like it?

I guess what pisses me off is just the fact that show. If you’re just going to f—it’s sounded exacdy the same for about a decade nothing, you’re not going to g( now. It used to be that people used to try to from me.

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Cage; I was getting tired of reliving and repeating the same f-ed up behavior in my life that I was trying to get away from. I wanted to be done with the drugs and the violence and just shocking people for the sake of shocking them, took some time to look With Hell’s Winter, at myself some more, and it felt a lot better, Speakmg of your lyrics, they’ve definitely moved from shocking to introspective. Talk to me about your shift in lyrical content, I’m pretty much done with all the lying in my raps and lying in my,life and I’m sick of trying to to talk about therapy, Eminem at the Cat’s Cradle on Dec. 6.

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After a downward spiral of a life, including being expelled from school and spending many years in jail for his own hard drug abuse, Cage began to write lyrics for rap songs. Following many years of failed attempts and albums, Cage met up with the underground rap legend EI-P, who quickly signed him to his underground mainstay label Definitive Jux. Finally, Cage’s newest record, Hell’s Winter, has garnered wide-

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Jimbo Mathus, formerly of the Sc pers (Sunday); the hilarious Soi And it just wouldn’t be rock and roll without on the Skids, a band that started more drama. City Hall discussed closing the (Dec. 10); Hot Tuna (Dec. 15);! club after a near-riot in July 1991, and in May (Jan. 24); Electric 6 (Feb. 19); ai 1993, Heath was forced to close the club after Club (Feb. 22). C Motorcycle losing his lease. While searching for a new locaRodeo, the Crad!

Disco & Observer he wanted Raleigh’s told The News tion, Heath ent alt-country icons Son Volt, le to stay in Chapel Hill. “Nothing against Carformer co-leader, with Wilco rboro, but the Cradle is a Chapel Hill thing,” he Tweedy, ofUncle Tupelo. after find a suitsaid at the dme. But failing to Still, it’s a long way down 15 able and affordable location, the club reopened live music. Why should Joe some in Carrboro eight months later. the trouble to go all the way to sort become more a “Carrboro of started to show?

Hill terms of how Hill in of Chapel Chapel part “I’m not much of a rah-rah [ and UNC view it,” he said. Besides, the Cradle’s “I don’t go to other clubs ei gins. favorable rent and current location has extremely but there’s a certain sound and c allows for greater capacity than Heath could ever makes most everybody’s experii afford on Franklin Street, his ideal location. “The shows here really good. It seems people here have been really helpful.” the band is playing well and pe( club maintains ties to the strong Nowadays a good time.” both the Chapel Hill and Carrboro communiHe thinks for a second, thei ties. Heath and his longtime manager Derek with as much enthusiasm ever, Powers make an effort to showcase local bands keep something new and in along with the national acts they book. The Friday at Cat’s Cradle every night.” bands for Little two shows the play Jump Children will weeldy Sunday Showcase offers eight

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Ileath’s tenure has naturally included plenty of big-name acts as well. He mentions an exciting two-night stand by Let’s Active two months after buying the club, an acoustic Smashing Pumpkins shoyy, Elliot Smith (“I wish I could say I was into him when he came here, but I only got into him later on”), Public Enemy (“That was probably the most exciting show in terms of the crowd”), the Pixies and Warren Zevon (“He was tied with Dylan and Lennon for my idols, and since we couldn’t get them ...” ).

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Shakira Joins the obnoxi°us P°P‘ m usic it-girl ranks ■ ■■ ■ with her new album Oral FiV 7 xation, Vol. 2, released Nov. 29. On past albums she has managed to differentiate herself by writing music that IB appealed to a Latin audience as well as a mainstream |Hp American one, but this album aims solely to capture the American market. Vol. 2 is the English-language m counterpart to the Spanish Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1, which came out earlier this year and is not nearly as good. ®i|| All of the songs on Vol. 2 take on the same anonymous but overdone background production you’ve BBklL heard from Britney and Ashlee, and Shakira’s voice, on ty unu lue quality, sounds awkward in English Wm (and French, oddly enough, on “Something”). Vol. 2is mostly comprised of dismissible pop-rock like “Animal City,” “Don’t Bother” and “Costume Makes p|L the Clown.” The album is clumsy and puzzling as well as musically benign, with a Gregorian chant of the Lord’s Prayer, discussion of commuI nism and a song devoted to how much she loves |m her best friend.

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And honesdy, it’s going to take a lot more than a pan-flute intro followed by the sound of coke being snorted to even think about approaching “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Future singles “Hazel Eyes” and “Is It Just Me?” might be catchy but are nothing but disguised derivatives of mid-1970s prog rock and early ’Bos metal. Just compare “Girlfriend” to Permission to Land’s “Friday Night” and it’s painful how similar yet creatively stunted their latest attempt has turned out. The new Darkness is just less Darkness, and the grandiose production fails to hide it; for example, not one of the new tracks can out-crazy the older “Stuck in a Rut.” I blame it all on the ousting of bassist/Swedish mercenary Frankie Poullain. This is what happens when you cross the Moustache.

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Simply put, Michael Ruble sings like a stud. He proves his vocal abiliyet again on a new live release, Caught in the Act. If you’ve never heard him before, he’s the closest thing that we’re ever going to get to another Sinatra. On Caught, Ruble croons, backed by a full string and brass ensemble to songs like his original hit “Home” as well as old jazz standards like “Summer And.” While his musical style isn’t new, Ruble is taking a unique approach to modem jazz, at least compared to his contemporaries. Next to other popular jazzy acts like Rrad Mehldau, Radiohead and Jamie Cullum, Ruble is re-

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I love Scott Stapp. I want to drag him by the collar and slam him against the barnyard wall, beating my fists over his sculpted chest while cryout, “I wish I could quit you!” It was Scott’s specter that I envisioned all night during last year’s LDOC, when I had a 102-degree fever and Collective Soul’s boarbelching was the only thing preventing me from the sweet ecstasy of unconsciousness. All those curmudgeony critics probably had a field day when Creed got sued for their poor showing in Chicago, or when Fred Durst personally questioned Stapp’s manhood, or when all Creed’s bandmembers abandoned him to start Alter Bridge... but Scott showed them all up by returning stronger than ever.

All those moved like me by his earlier work will be happy to know that nothing has changed. Nothing at all.

He maintains his biting originality—copping nothing off Pearl Jam’s Ten and the profundity of his lyrics remains unparalleled. Taking some cues from William Wallace, with whom he watched a private screening of ThePassion of the Christ, Stapp donned body armor and face paint for his own Fight Song; “I’m still healing / No I’m not reeling / Yes I’m feeling / This is my fight song.” On his sixth song, “Surround Me”, he pleads: “I’m down on my knees / Begging you to rescue me / Please stop me.” Fortunately for all of us, nothing’s going to stop Stapp; nothing except, well, the mutiny of his latest band.

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The bright, shining star of the album is the song “It’s in the Rain,” a song that obviously strains Enya’s voice box, as she create noises more like singing than breathing, and the end result is a chamber-sounding song in a minor key that is beyond amazing (and soothing!). And it turns out she’s actually pretty good at singing.

Unfortunately, no other song in the album comes close to the greatness of“It’s in the Rain;” however, altogether the album is solid and another great release.

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quist’s frequently changing menu feaorganic produce from several local vendors. The market-driven cuisine includes both Southern and Mediterranean influences that yield straightforward but enjoyable flavor combinations. At a given meal, one may sampie house-smoked meat and fish plates, European cheeses and an epicurean grilled cheese sandwich, all washed down with a selection of organic wines.

Particular standouts on the concise but eclectic menu include the cheese plate and the shrimp and grits plate. The cheese plate at the Cafe is thoughtfully composed with a variety of cheeses, artisanal bread and a rich roasted tomato spread. Unlike many other restaurants, the Cafe’s cheese selections are not merely superficial status symbols but rather constitute a true menu item, with every bit as much attention as tures

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Occasional disorganization aside, the Cafe fills an important niche in on-campus dining options. Nowhere else can students swipe their DukeCards and be waited on while enjoying fine food and wine without trekking over to the WaDuke.

The Cafe is open for brunch and lunch Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday brunch is offered from 12 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. Hours are extended until 8:30 p.m. for dinner service Thursday. Take-out is also available.

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Chrismakwanzaakah is upon us. Now is the time for giving, receiv// Nr ../V ing and gloating over your amassed haul.

But while ringing in another gloriously RC. holiday season can mean a lot to the collegiate set, most of us are just looking to buy i / gifts on the cheap.

Unless you’re making finger-painted abstract expressionist ; for you and yours, art gifts are not cheap. Though perposters 1 ceived as thoughtful and impossibly chic gifts, paintings or framed | | photographs at even the more modest Durham galleries will set you back quite a bit.

Below are the solutions to that problem. When the recess arts staff collaborated to compile a list of art-y holiday gifts, we went to the biggest art-y gift Duke has ever received—the Nasher Museum; in particular, its gift shop. The best bets, in order of descending price: 5. Alexis Bittar jewelry. The New Yorkbased jeweler has a tiny, well-lit boutique in SoHo that epitomizes his signature quirk. But his ethereal designs, featured in Vogue, W. and m* InStyle and seen on the stars, are now available at the Nasher. Though a tad steeper than the m Nasher paperweight, the dangling earrings will woo any fashion-conscious femme, 4. Coffee table books. Every cozy home and apartment has an ample supply of these glossy tomes. Start off a friend’s collection with a book on pop art or the Florentine Renaissance. Our choice? The book on Nasher itself adds a personal touch.

3.White mugs and plates. Edgier than a Duke Store “I’m A Duke Mom” coffee cup, the ceramics at the Nasher shop are exquisite and well-crafted. We particularly liked the crumply, angular mugs—like the matching plates, they’re delicately hand-thrown and gleaming white. The imperfect edges make these kitchen standards works of art themselves.

2. Tote bag or t-shirtBoth black, these more typical gifts are appropriate for siblings or friends. Each is emblazoned with the Nasher’s logo—a series of squares, interlocking in a circular pattern. Add dark-framed glasses for a hip, minimalist brand of cool.

1. A tour. As a Duke student, you are granted free admission to the Nasher—or, as you can choose to look at it, free and unlimited time to enjoy Duchamp sculptures, Warhol prints / and Cezanne landscapes. What better gift than oneon-one time with the art world’s greats—all for the low, low cost 0f... nothing? For an art afficionado, there isn’t one. Throw in a cappuccino at the excellent Nasher Cafe (see review) if you need to thwart accusations of being cheap, —Sarah Ball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. In the loudcollege basketball arenas in the country, there is a specific noise that no coach wants to hear on his home court. It happens when a roaring crowd is silenced by a big shot from an opposin g PlaYer- There is a qame sudden intake of breath, analysis the sound level drops, and then 17,343 people murmur all at once.

JJ. Redick lives for that moment. And against Indiana Wednesday night, the sharpshooter silenced the raucous Hoosier crowd over and over in Duke’s 75-67 win.

“It’s the best feeling in the world,” Redick said. “When I hit that three coming off the screen and when I got that three-point play, or I had a couple passes inside to Shelden that quieted the crowd down—it felt great.”

All four of those plays came during a span of 5:17 that decided the game. With 7:37 to play, the Blue Devil offense had stagnated. Duke had not scored in more than four minutes, and an 11-0 Hoosier run had given the home team a 59-58 lead.

The sold-out Assembly Hall crowd was ecstatic and boisterous through the ensuing media timeout—“Hoosier Hysteria” was in full force. Cheerleaders carrying flags spelling out “Indiana” and “Hoosiers” whirled around Duke’s players as they stood on the court; Redick and forward Shelden Williams stood still in the sea of cream and crimson.

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JJ. Redick scored 29points and answered every Indiana spurt with a big shot to lift Duke to victory.

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Just before play resumed, Redickjogged upcourt and in the midst of the din, glanced at the Blue Devil bench and nodded slightly, letting them know he would take care ofbusiness.

Redick received the first pass of the next Duke set, which eventually ended with a layup by Williams. Two possessions later, Redick drove to the basket, feeding Williams for an easy layup. Indiana called timeout.

The Hoosierfaithful were almost silent.

After the timeout, Duke’s All-American guard again fed Williams for a layup.

Redick’s three-pointer off a screen on the next possession pushed the Blue Devil lead to four, and his old-fashioned three-point play two and a halfminutes later put Duke in command, 70-65 with 2:20 to play. The once roaring Indiana crowd had been reduced to a murmur.

“That’s what makes him a true champion,” Indiana guard AJ. Radiff said about Redick. “He was screaming at the players on the court, ‘Give me the ball! Give me the ball!’ We face-guarded him at one point, and he still hit the shot. last three when we were down one—that was like the worst dagger you could probably get when you’re beating the No. 1 team. That’s what makes him a great player, because he wants the ball in those situations.”

But Redick—who played all 40 minutes and scored 29 points—did not just make big plays in the second half.

With fewer than four minutes to play in SEE REDICK ON PAGE 10

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY

Seniors guide Duke to ‘best season’ in history by

Horowitz won Duke’s opening meet and was the first Blue Devil to cross the finish line at the NCAA Championships.

Fellow seniors Natasha Roetter, Sally Meyerhoff and cocaptains Laura Stanley and Liz Wort were joined by freshman Whitney Anderson to round out Duke’s core runners and NCAA Championship competitors. Next year’s squad, however, will be without at least three of those seven— Rowbury, Meyerhoff and Wort will no longer be eligible to compete next season.

“For me I’m really glad I have another season, but it’s been really hard because it’s the end of our senior class all together,” Stanley said. “It’s definitely bittersweet. There’s no question that we still have the potential to be a very

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Although their final season together did not end in a national championship, the six seniors on the women’s cross country team have little else about which to be disappointed.

Prior to Duke’s third place finish at the NCAA Championships Nov. 21 in Terre Haute, Ind., the top-ranked Blue Devils won every meet they participated in by scoring 33 points or less in each race. Their victolies included defending tides at both the SeaSOll NCAA Southeast Regional meet Nov. 12 wrap-up and the ACC Championships Oct. 31.

Duke’s season was also filled with record-setting performances. The Blue Devils had a conference-best seven All-ACC performers and won the ACC Championships by setting all-time records in both margin ofvictory and lowest point total. Soon after the meet, head coach Kevin Jermyn was named the ACC Coach of the Year for the second straight time.

“Obviously this season we accomplished a lot,” Jermyn said. “I would say this was our best season in Duke history.

The real big step was our consistency of our top girls in their performances.”

Seniors Shannon Rowbury and Clara Horowitz led the Blue Devils by together placing first and second in every race but their last The pair also earned numerous athlete of the week honors from both the University and the conference.

Rowbury secured four individual titles this season, including the ACC and NCAA Southeast Regional crowns.

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Jermyn said Duke will draw from its pool of talented freshmen and redshirt athletes to fill in the gaps the three seniors’ departures will create.

“Obviously it will be a little bit of a different team dynamic because there will be different girls, but our goals will still be the same,” said Jermyn, who is still in search of the program’s first national title.

Duke has started training for the upcoming spring track season, but the team has slightly relaxed its workouts from the level of intensity the harriers had sustained all season in preparation for the NCAA Championships.

“We took last week and this week as a chance to give our bodies a rest with some light running and mileage,” Stanley SEE WOMEN’S XC ON PAGE 12

Shannon Rowbury (far left)and Clara Horowitz (right) took the top two places in every race they competed in except theNCAA Championships.

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Redick calmly received the ball on the wing, faked a many Blue Devil wins likely will this season. It was Redick shot to draw his defender into the air and then drew the who called for the ball, Redick who took and hit the big foul. His two free throws ignited an 8-3 Duke run to close shots and Redick who tossed the ball to the referee as the game’s final seconds ticked off. the half that put the Blue Devils back up by nine.

“It’s something we talk about,” Redick said. “As an older The Blue Devils’ four senior captains—Redick, Williams, Lee Melchionni and Sean Dockery—led the player and as one of the team leaders, you’ve got to say in the huddle, ‘Get me the ball the next time down the court; team through a hostile situation in Bloomington.

Melchionni found his stroke, hitting 5-of-8 shots, inplay off me.’”

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said. “Basically we’ve been training really hard since July without a break. Our bodies need a physical break. We need to regenerate both our bodies and emotions.”

Duke did not slip from its No. 1 ranking after it secured the top spot in the first regular season poll, Sept.

21. The squad was the favorite entering the NCAA Championships and was expected to best its 2004 runner-up

2:20 remaining.

“J J. just refuses to lose,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s one of the amazing players to play at Duke, and if he’s one of them, he’s one of the most amazing players to play [college basketball]. That kid is just really, really tough.”

The Blue Devils looked in total Control to start the game, scoring the game’s first 10 points and exploding to a 16-2 lead just four minutes into the game. Duke hit nine of its first 10 shots as both teams started sloppy the two squads combined for seven turnovers before the first media timeout.

The Hoosiers chipped away, however, and cut Duke’s advantage to four late in the first half behind the strong play of Killingsworth, who scored 16 points in the period.

The Blue Devils had no answer for Killingsworth, who scored at will down low. The senior sank 15-of-20 shots from the field for a career-high 34 points.

“I was trying to face-guard him, trying to get around him a little bit,"said forward Shelden Williams, who guarded Killingsworth for the majority of the game. “A lot of times in the first half, when I was cutting off one way, he would spin the other way, and the guards did a good job of getting him the ball in the right spot.”

Despite Killingsworth’s dominance in the post, Duke held a Hoosiers squad that was averaging 14 threes per game to just 2-for-10 from behind the arc.

“We were playing a good team, and when you play a team at this level you have to pick your poison,” Redick said. “We chose to stop their three-point attack and its pretty incredible that they’ve been averaging 14 makes a game, and they only attempted 10 tonight. Killingsworth got his points, he hit some tough shots, but his buckets were worth two.”

Beyond the strong play of Redick, Krzyzewski commented that he was impressed with the play of freshman Greg Paulus, who ran the point and played all but one minute. Paulus directed the Duke offense for the majority of the game while senior Sean Dockery played largely off the ball, and the freshman contributed 13 points and six assists.

“Thirty-five plus minutes—for a freshman point guard in his first road game—we know we can count on that guy,” Redick said. “He’s put together five straight halves where he’s been really good, and we can count on him.”

Paulus’ strong play took the attention away from fellow freshman Josh Mcßoberts, an Indiana native, who was playing in his first game in his home state since high school. Mcßoberts immediately quieted jeers from Hoosier fans by scoring the first basket of the game and helped seal the win for the Blue Devils with a key block in the final minute.

“They weren’t too bad,” Mcßoberts said of the Indiana faithful. “I expected a little worse, and I was ready for it.”

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“It was not the end we were all hoping for,” Wort said of a group of seniors that helped elevate the program to one of the nation’s best. “It’s a hard way to end your career, feeling like you could have done more. If we had run at our potential we probably could have won without any problem.”

Last year’s finish was the Blue Devils’ highest in program history and came in the same year that Duke won its first ACC Championship.

“We’ve really sort of set the standard for the program,” Stanley said. “That’s huge. In the years to come, eventually one of our teams is going to win a national championship. Duke cross country is sort of on the map now.

The standard has been raised.”

Shelden Williams was double-teamed nearly every time he touchedthe ball, limiting him to 13 points and forcing him to commit six turnovers.

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More than Zen initial images of the Oasis, a gathering place for education on life new Zen-like space crafted by management, it will be well worth the student health, are pretty. But time and money put into its decorating. Student Health Services has long that’s about all. offered a variety of information and The Oasis opened to students Monsuggestions about how to live healthday as a de-stressing center where stuily, but there has been no ideal, dents can relax location for this informaand study. It is central staffeditoHal and PsychologiCounseling tion. being run by the Student Health Center’s Office of cal Services has also fostered a variety Health Promotion, which aims to pro- of programs aimed at general mental calmness and life management, but mote healthy lifestyles.

From the posters and promodons, in too many cases the stigma of enterhowever, the Oasis appears little more ing the CAPS office has deterred stuthan a well decorated study space, dents from these programs.

With the advent of a new non-cliniWhile it is certainly nice to have a room with water features and neutral color cal, non-antiseptic space for wellness programs, their potential usefulness tones, it is hardly a necessity.

But beneath the publicity images, it can grow. As coping and preventative appears that the space will become a programs begin to take root on Duke’s home base for Student Health’s well- campus, the Oasis will make increasness programs. Information on stress ingly more sense, Until that happens, however, the management and health lifestyles will available the space really isn’t more than a study center, be constandy at and daily programs on choices about space with a name. On the current sexual lifestyles and physical fitness will fliers, the Oasis looks more like a decorative page of an admissions brochure begin next semester.

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While Student Health has still not found a proven way of delivering lifestyle information on a mass scale, the Oasis seems like a viable start. But if this relaxation space is ever to fulfill its potential as a hub of life management skills, the advertising campaign will need to highlight the availability of health information. Right now, the Oasis is trying to bill itself as a spot removed from the pressures of the University. And really, that image is nothing more than a mirage.

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Discussion of pay gap lacks facts Stephen Miller’s [Nov. 22] column is utterly without statistical basis, but he has received a thorough tongue-lashing elsewhere, so I will leave him alone.

His critics, however, are dramatically over the line.

For Levenberg and Johnson to accuse Miller of wanting women “barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen” is a maudlin straw-man of Miller’s argument, which—however false it may be—is simply that women are probabilistcally less likely to seek high-paying employment for a variety of reasons. He certainly says nothing about shoes, contraceptives or culinary aptitude.

Some women, it is hard to doubt, feel socially (or at least maritally) pressured to stay at home and raise children without external work. Some women, whom his critics seem to conveniently ignore, feel pressured to go to work despite their desires to devote themselves full-time to their families (see Boston Cote’s offensively normalizing Sept. 30 reaction to a recent Yale article).

Just as Miller should not assume all women who stay at home do so out of their own desires, we also cannot conclude that all women who stay at home do so out of laziness or conformity to Miller’s nonns. To do so is blatandy false and, worse, steps beyond the boundaries of available evidence.

In the absence of evidence, Miller should stay quiet; his critics should do likewise. I will do the same. Women—and men!—ought to be allowed to pursue their career and family goals however they see fit without punishment either via prejudicially lower wages or extremist haranguing.

Mike Lee Trinity ’O6

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Basketball season is this Sunday in Cameron versus the Virginia Tech Hokies.

Tip-off is set for 8 p.m..

Game admission will follow the walk-up line policy. Students may begin lining up for the basketball game on the sidewalk in front ofCard Gymnasium at any time, but adherence to the walk-up line policy will be expected by all groups at all hours of the day.

Each walk-up line group can have a maximum of six people. At least 50 percent of the group must be present at the time it is registered and until 6 p.m. Sunday when the entire group must be present.

Line checks will be called randomly, and groups that do not have 50 percent present will be sent to the back of the walk-up line. New group members can be added at any time prior to 6 p.m. on game day, at which time the group rosters will be frozen and no more groups will be registered.

Students can continue to join the end of the line after 6 p.m. until tip-off.

No matter when you arrive, join the back of the main line, which will follow the sidewalk in front of Card and Wilson Recreation Center, cross in front of Sheffield, then if necessary wrap around the tennis courts and along the Cameron parking lot toward Towerview Drive.

If you have questions about the admission policy for the Virginia Tech game or any other K-ville policy, please visit the K-ville website at www.dsg.duke.edu/kville.html or IM the line monitor staff at HLMLauren or DukeßlueDevin.

This is the first conference game of the 20052006 season, and we hope to see the sixth man out in full force Sunday night. Plenty of seats will be available so come out whenever you can to see your No. 1 team in action.

Go Duke!

Lauren Troyer, Trinity ’O6 Head Krzyzewskiville Line Monitor

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without a male companion. Such customs, he says, are specific to the region’s culture—and as outsiders, and our Indian take-out.

Lippman girls argues that it’s not exactly fair for us to use “It’s like my Bible,” another friend told me. “I carry our own moral creed to judge them. it with me. Every girl Fair enough. I’d wish, Pollyanna style, for a universal code of gender equality. I’d also like to think the shouldread it.”

The title in quesoozing of modernity into both Saudi Arabian and U.S. tion was “He’s Just Not society would cause us to leave some of the more conThat Into You,” a datfining characteristics of femininity behind. So I can vote. I can also wear whatever I want, short of nothing. ing book describing the courses of action I go to the Great Hall without an escort. But according that men take when to at least one No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, I can’t ask someone out. they’re just not intersarah ball ested in dating you.

Why do we cling to the familiar, even when progresball to the wail sive change is possible and very real? First of all, it’s Sample chapter titles: “He’s Just Not That what we know. And if the spin doctors behind “He’s IntoYou If He’s Not Asking You Out” or “He’s Just Not Just Not That Into You” have anything to say about it, That Into You If You’re Not Having Sex.” it’s what works. I might not see June Cleaver on televiSeem obvious? Maybe not. Apparently women can sion anymore—”Beav, I’m really not intellectually be so irrational when infatuated with male-kind, that equipped to make that important decision. Ask your they fail to pick up on blatant, public displays of un-af- father.”—but is the Botoxed cast of “Desperate Housefection. “Men find it very satisfying to get what they wives” really that much better? want—particularly after a day of running the world,” I’m not hating the player here, however, because I’m one of them. I might bristle at the book’s point, one of the authors, a male, writes in the first chapter.

“If we want you, we will find you.” The negation of that but I certainly can’t deny that it is based in truth. How statement is also true: If a guy is not actively seeking a many girls feel comfortable asking a guy out, or, in tergirl out, then he don’t like you, boo. minology befitting our “hook-up culture,” making the first clumsy move? I know I don’t.

In many ways, and for many women, this is refreshIt’s the game, then, that deserves criticism. So you ing—especially given that, in the book’s terms, there are no exceptions to the rule. He’s not shy. He’s not might send out “signals,” or use bodylanguage conveytoo busy. He Just not biting. Simple. ing your interest. You can share your juice box (beer?)

But there is a recurring theme underlying every or allow yourself to be chased at recess (in section?), chapter: Women should refrain from asking men out. because the dynamics of flirting haven’t changed since It messes with the natural order, the authors say; second grade. Even the luscious Elizabeth Bennett, there’s a reason why such traditions are in places. Jane Austen’s female personification of confidence, inWomen asking men out not only thwarts this sacred telligence and witty defiance in “Pride and Prejudice,” tradition, but it also renders a woman desperate and had to wait for Mr. Darcy to ask her out—twice. A guy needy. Ifyou’re “fabulous” enough, the men will flock. friend told me that in a recent course he took on the In the meantime, Miss Fabulous, have a cocktail!

18th-century novel, he learned that all women characPerhaps such a thesis is to be expected from the ters who initiated contact with men were eitherkilled pair of authors, both of whom moonlighted as writers or castigated to the convent. This is our history, so refor the now-defunct HBO series “Sex and the City.” ally, we’re just being traditional. No judgment!

The characters on the show never wanted for a date, Hence why I laugh when I hear a girl tell her friend and despite their status as four independent, well-off, to “just put yourself out there,” as if her guy-related educated, professional women of the millennium, they woes will then disappear. If it’s gauche to go chase down a crush—just typing that makes me cringe with rarely asked men out.

Last week, I heard former Washington Post foreign theoretical embarrassment—what exactly does “putcorrespondent Thomas Lippman speak in Sanford ting yourself out there” entail? Changing your relaabout the United States’ complicated relationship with tionship status on facebook? Or getting juuuuust Saudi Arabia. But Lippman didn’t just stump about oil drunk enough to overcome your lack of confidence? politicking. In the lecture, he described Saudi Arabia Lippman will tell you there’s a world of difference as having covered a lot of evolutionary ground in a relbetween American and Saudi Arabian culture, even if atively short time. Just 70 years ago, he said, the counRiyahd now “looks just like downtown Phoenix.” But if was one the earth. women in both places are huffing indignant sighs, of most on “primitive” try Despite these rapid strides toward modernity and steaming the glass ceiling of an unevolving gender urbanization, Lippman describes Saudi Arabians—in role, are we really that different?

In the meantime, uh, anyone want to be my date to particular, women—as still clinging to their very conservative, religious traditions of the past. “Inside of formal? their heads, they still live in the old village,” he said.

Sarah Ball is a Trinity sophomore and editorialpage managWomen still prefer to assume subordinate roles, to wear burkhas, to not walk around open-air markets ing editor for The Chronicle. Her column runs every Thursday.

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If we are to devise a viable immigration policy, let’s put the issue into perspective. First, we have the “dirty work” argument.

We’ve all heard it. Illegal immigrants are critical to this country’s economy because they are willing to take the low-wage service and agricultural jobs Americans snub. The argument is emotionally popular because it conjures up images of fat greedy Americans enjoying this country’s great wealth on the backs of people working overtime for less than minimumwage.

The real issue, however, is not how much less illegal immigrants are willing to work for, but how much less employers can pay undocumented aliens. Liberals have a tough time with this argument. On the one hand, mainstream leftist thought is that illegal aliens should be legalized and brought “out of the shadows,” making it easier to enforce minimum wage laws. Yet at the same time, many on the Left oppose cracking down on illegal residents, arguing that doing so would drive average wages up and lead to inflation.

We can’t have it both ways, and therein lies a crucial problem with the Bush plan. Granting tacit amnesty to the 9.2 million illegal aliens in this country essentially means paying a large proportion of them minimum wage or above. I’m all for paying minimum wage. In fact, Congress should raise the federal minimum wage immediately and tie it permanently to inflation. But that’s not the point here.

If you were an employer and you had the option of hiring a relatively more educated, English-speaking American who has some knowledge of business practices or a Spanish-speaking Mexican, who would you choose? The American penchant for altruism aside, businesses aren’t hiring illegal aliens today out of the kindness of their hearts.

This brings me to a variation on the “illegal immigration: we need it” theme. The argument that illegal immigrants take the jobs ordinary Americans disdain—and therefore constitute a net gain for the economy—only tells half the story. Perhaps if immigration slowed during times ofrecession and high unemployment, it wouldn’t be such a problem. But Mexicans mulling a border run aren’t sitting in front of their laptops analyzing U.S. unemployment trends.

The rate of illegal immigration has increased steadily over the last decade, up more than 25 percent since 2000. During the course of the 2001 recession, immigration—both legal and illegal—rose so fast that the immigrant population assumed a disproportionate share of newjobs while their unemployment numbers also rose disproportionately more than other demographics.

This all means that states rapidly expanding at the hands of immigration are becoming overpopulated and simultaneously assuming unreasonable obligations. We have a socially responsible policy of not turning away anyone at the emergency room, paying for incarceration and sending kids to our schools. But this also means the border states shell out tens of millions in tax-payer dollars each year to pay for immigrants’ ER visits, their share of the space in the countyjail and to send theirkids to school.

Fixing immigration won’t come with vigilantes scouting our borders or a shoddy amnesty deal that undermines its own goals. Ultimately we must repair our trade policy, specifically with regards to NAFTA. Since 1994, NAFTA has driven tens of thousands ofsmall Mexican farmers off their land due to cheap U.S. imports. The growing pool of impoverished Mexicans helps explain the increased exodus to the border. It’s a longterm plan, but finding fair trade solutions to raise the overall standard of living for our southern neighbor is a much better solution than a farcical border-control/guest-worker plan.

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