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Student Health has recently introduced a number of new initiatives aimed at increasing student awareness of the resources available on campus. One of Purdy’s newest initiatives to date has been the creation of The Oasis—a stress-reduction room located in East Campus’ Bell Tower Dormitory. “The number one concern indicated by students [in a

Though University officials are moving to increase faculty awareness about making their course evaluations available online, no changes to the current policy will take place during the last weeks of the semester. The directors of undergraduate studies for each department in the Trinity College ofArts and Sciences, however, are being asked to contact all their faculty members individually and explain to them the process of opting-in. An opt-in evaluation system, by default, does not show ratings on ACES unless professors authorize their release. Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College and vice provost for undergraduate education, said the results of the DUS-faculty member contact will not result in any change to the process by which evaluations are made available online. A simple “yes” vote to posting evaluations online will not result in their being posted. Professors must still go through the process of authorizing their release electronically.

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Of the various activities and

scholarships pursued by profes-

sors who opt to take an leave of absence from the University, few are currently in the national spotlight regarding policy with the war in

Iraq. Peter Feaver, Alexander

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Dr.Bill Purdy was appointed executive director of Student Health in Juneand has already planned several student initiatives.

Purdy settles in at Student Health

public policy, is currently servas a ing National Security Council advisor to the Bush administration. Feaver was tapped for the Council in June after he and fellow colleagues Christopher Gelpi, an associate professor in political science, and Jason Reifler, who was a graduate student in the political science department at Duke SEE FEAVER ON PAGE 5

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Under the new leadership of Dr. Bill Purdy, Duke’s Student Health Center is working to bring student care to a whole new level. The executive director of Student Health is looking outside the clinic to expand services and treatment options to meet student needs. Purdy, the former interim medical director for Student

Health, was appointed six months ago by University officials after an 18-month nationwide search. Peer education, collaboration and publicity will top his list of priorities in the upcoming months, Purdy said. “There’s lots of misperceptions among peers with the student body,” Purdy said. “For instance, students need to know that lots of males don’t drink every weekend.”

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Duke faces obstacles in attracting Chinese students by

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Xing Zong had a clear goal when he lived in China. Zong, a second-year physics graduate student at Duke, wanted to attend school in the United States where he could explore a new culture and gain an expansive global perspective. “I spent one month in Seattle, and that really broadened my horizons,” he said. “I thought I should definitely go back for higher education.” Zong is only one of the thousands of students from China who come to the U.S. with similar ambitions. Last year, more than 200 graduate and undergraduates from China matriculated to the University, according to statistics from the International House at Duke. But despite the number of students from China;, many citizens of the Asian giant are unfamiliar with Duke. “When I was in China, the most famous U.S. universities I heard about were Harvard and Stanford,” Zong said. “I did not hear too much about Duke.” Administrators are currentiy exploring ways to develop a “China strategy” that outlines specific steps to

improve Duke’s reputation in China. Gilbert Merkx, vice provost for international affairs, said raising the University’s profile will involve preparing more information about Duke in the Chinese language, sending representatives to more Chinese recruitment fairs and finding ways to attract better media coverage. “We are getting better known,” Merkx said. “At this stage, we are just letting ourreputation grow gradually from overseas activities and our growing prestige in the U.S.”

Coming to America Chinese enrollment has increased dramatically at the University over the last few decades. Including undergraduate and graduate students, interSEE CHINA ON PAGE 6

This is the second in a three-part series about Duke's relationship with the People's Republic of China. The final installment will appear tomorrow.

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Graduate student Xing Zong said he decided to come to Duke in order to broadenhis academic horizons.

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dows in several of the upper floors. Panicked residents fled the building. Police held back a crowd of thousands, many of them screaming and weeping that they had to find friends or loved ones who were in the building. Scuffles broke out and police beat back onlookers and those trying to reach the building to keep the way open for emergency vehicles. Several hours after the crash, the building still was smoldering, with black smoke hanging in the air. “It was like an earthquake,” said Reza Sadeqi, a 25-year-old merchant who saw the plane hit the building. He said he was

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TEHRAN, Iran A military plane loaded with Iranian journalists crashed into a 10-story apartment building Tuesday as the pilot attempted an emergency landing after developing engine trouble. At least 115 people died, the Tehran police chief said. The C-130, a four-engine turboprop, crashed in the Azari suburb of Tehran, site of the Towhid apartment complex that is home to air force personnel and near Tehran’s Mehrabad airport. Before firefighters' extinguished the blaze, flames roared from the roof and win-

Iranian plane crash kills at least 115

thrown about nine feet inside his shop by the force of the crash. “I felt the heat of the fire caused by the crash. It was like being in hell,” he said. Witnesses initially said the plane hit the top of the building. But officials, including Police Chief Mortaza Talaei, said one wing of the transport plane hit the second floor as the fuselage crashed to ground, gouging out a huge crater and causing a fire that spread through the structure. Everyone on the plane —84 passengers and a crew of 10—was killed. Most were Iranian radio and television journalists heading to cover military maneuvers in southern Iran.

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of eight of the 17 counts against him, including a key charge of conspiring to maim and murder people overseas. The jurors deadlocked on the others, including charges he aided insurgents. Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida computer engineering professor, wept after the verdicts, and his attorney, Linda Moreno hugged him. He will return to jail until prosecutors decide whether to retry him on the deadlocked charges. Two co-defendants, Sameeh Hammoudeh and Ghassan Zayed Ballut, were acquitted of all charges. A third, Hatem Naji Fariz, was found not guilty on 25 counts, and

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TAMPA, Fla. In a stinging defeat for federal prosecutors, a former Florida professor accused of helping lead a insurgent group that has carried out suicide bombings against Israel was acquitted on nearly half the charges against him Tuesday. The jury deadlocked on the rest. The case against Sami Al-Arian, 47, had beer) seen as one of the biggest courtroom tests to date of the Patriot Act’s expanded search-and-surveillance powers. After a five-month trial and 13 days of deliberadons, the jury acquitted Al-Arian

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Two suicide bombers detonated explosives inside Baghdad's main police academy Tuesday, killing at least 43 people and wounding more than 70, police said. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack, the capital's deadliest in months.

jurors deadlocked on the remaining eight. “While we respect the jury’s verdict, we stand by the evidence we presented in

court,” Justice Department spokesperson

Tasia Scolinos said. “I’m ecstatic,” said Nahla, Al-Arian’s wife. “My husband is an outspoken Palestinian activist who loved this country, believed in the system, and the system did not fail him.” Moreno said she hoped prosecutors would take into account the “overwhelming number of not-guilty verdicts” against the defendants in deciding whether to try Al-Arian again.

Scandal ousts Spokane mayor Mayor James E. West was recalled from office Tuesday in a special election over allegations he offered jobs and perks to young men he met in a gay Internet chat room. West, 54, became the city's first elected chief executive to be ousted before his term expired.

South Korea fines Microsoft Antitrust regulators in South Korea ruled Wednesday that Microsoft Corp. abused its market dominance, fined it $33 billion, won $32 million and ordered the software giant to offer alternative versions ofWindows.

Anniversary to be observed Survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will join sailors, community leaders and guests on Wednesday for the 64th anniversary of the assault. A U.S. Navy ship will honor the USS Arizona, which lies submerged in Pearl Harbor with the bodies of hundreds of sailors still aboard. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Sausage Fest 2K5 saw the crowning of a new hot dog-eating champion Tuesday night in the Great Hall. A new champion was crowned when senior Tom Eberly walked away with the trophy and the title. Eberly ate 15 hot dogs in just four minutes and 21 seconds. “I was going to do it last year, but I slept through the sign-ups,” said Eberly. “I always eat a lot. Always have.” The senior attributed the win to a healthy appetite and special technique. Last year’s champ, junior Dayo Adeniran, joined 13 other contestants as they vied for the title. The participants attempted to eat 15 Pauly dogs as quickly as possible. Despite a rain delay, Duke’s second an-

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SeniorTom Eberly gobbled up 15 hot dogs in fewer thanfive minutes to win theSausage Fest 2K5 crown.

nual hot dog-eating contest saw no shortage of excitement among competitors or onlookers. The event was sponsored by Campus Council. Eberly admitted that his method came from Takeru Kobayashi, the hot dog-eating world champion. The senior broke each hot dog into two pieces and soaked each bun in water before eating it. Contestants prepared in a number of different ways. While some ate normally on the day of the contest, others preferred to compete on empty stomachs. “I haven’t eaten food in a day and a half,” said freshman Greg Tipton. Motivations for entering the contest were also varied. Some competitors had tried their hand at other eating contests and had come back for more. “I’m undefeated in the other eating contests. I’ve done watermelon and buffalo wings,” said senior Curtis Gardner. “I’m pretty much 2 and 0.” Confidence among contestants was high as a crowd gathered in front of the stage. “I’m a competitive person,” said junior Ebony Harvey, one of only three female competitors. “The Lord be with me, I’m going to win.” Once the contest started, however, Eberly became the clear favorite. He took an early lead and retained it until the very last bite. Although “official puke buckets” lined the tables, Eberly devoured his dogs with ease. “I’m happy about it,” admitted a humble Eberly about his triumph. However, other contestants were stunned by his gorging ability. “I was just blown away,” marveled Gardner, who sat next to Eberly during the contest. “It was like watching a fastforward movie.” Even last year’s winner had nothing but positive comments regarding Eberly’s performance. “That was amazing,” Adeniran said, grateful that she only had to finish 11 dogs. “I can’t eat anymore. I’m done.”

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Surgeons plug in their iPods and other music devices to fill the silence in many of their operating rooms.

Operating rooms livened with the sound of music by

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It may have been early in the morning on a rainy November day, but “White Christmas” could clearly be heard emanating from an operating room in Duke University Hospital North. A bit further down the hall, there was a change of tune. Country music was escaping out from behind a steel door marked with the words DO NOT ENTER. But behind closed doors—ironically, the name of the song playing on a nondescript white iPod—Dr. Chad Hughes and his surgical team were all business. Hughes, a thoracic surgeon, is one of many doctors who plays music while in the operating room. “I would say over 30 percent of our sur-

geons have some type of music during surgery, ranging from Christian to rock and roll to country,” said Yvette West, DUH clinical operations director. The music selection is typically made by the surgeon, and several doctors at DUH routinely plug their iPods into the operating room’s stereo system. Rachael Knoll, a clinical nurse in Hughes’ operating room, said she usually enjoys the music but noted that some doctors can have eccentric and wide-rang-

ing tastes. “We have one surgeon who brought in ‘Weird AT Yankovic,” Knoll said. “One minute it can be some opera, and the next minute you’re listening to some ’6os. SEE MUSIC ON PAGE 7

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Many students easily recognize fried foods, pizza and vending machine snacks as common nutritional vices. But what about those caffeine concoctions that come complete with whipped cream or that seemingly innocuous fruit drink? Surprise —a significant portion of the calories students consume in a day come in liquid form Anna Lutz, dietician and clinician for Student Health, said she urges students to be wary of the empty calories in various drinks and to rely instead on more balanced meals of protein, carbohydrates and some fat. Lutz’s first piece ofnutritional advice is to ask what purpose a food is serving, she said. “If it is a treat, then go ahead and indulge a little,” Lutz said. “But if you’re drinking coffee because you need sleep or are just really tired, ask yourself if there are other ways you can cope.” At this time ofyear, when it is freezing outside and the end of the semester is upon us, coffee drinks are especially popular. Lutz said she understands what students face and strongly recommends they take care of themselves. “Sleep. Eat small, frequent meals. Try to squeeze in some physical activity. Aim for balance. Don’t immediately go for a caffeinated drink,” she said. “Carbohydrates provide immediate energy, while protein and fat give long-lasting fuel,”

she explained. Lutz pointed out that a Starbucks grande coffee contains 550 milligrams of caffeine which, she noted, “is a lot of caffeine for a day.” On the other hand, she stated, an equal amount of regular coffee contains 270 milligrams. She warned that although coffee typically gives an immediate boost, the student will feel more tired later and may even experience headaches or gastrointestinal problems. Junior Lexie Lemus noted that although she usually drinks one small cup of java daily, she once drank ten cups in a period. “I stayed awake, but my body was not too happy after that,” Lemus said. Lemus also added she splurges once a week, yet still manages her calories with a “sugar free vanilla soy latte.” Lutz commented that lattes have redeeming qualities in the milk, protein and smaller caffeine content. As for cold liquids, Lutz warned fruit drinks, though seemingly healthy, are largely full of empty calories. Many students, such as junior Chris Leithe, opt for smoothies because they are portable. “I like smoothies because I can get protein, vitamins and even a booster on the go,” he said. Lutz said she recognizes that smoothies do provide fruit and protein but cautioned they can be large and may contain just as many calories as a full meal. Alcoholic drinks, unlike

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Beverages, such as smoothies, can contain as many calories as a full meal, experts say. smoothies and lattes, do not have much redeeming nutritional value, Lutz said. Aside from the obvious immediate effects of alcohol, it is also high in empty calories. “Twelve ounces of Miller Light, for example, has 97 calories,” Lutz said. “With mixed drinks on top of the calories from the alcohol, you add even more when you add mixer, which really is just a lot of sugar.” Lutz also warned against drinking on an empty stomach for two reasons. Alcohol is absorbed faster into the bloodstream, which can make you feel sick and can be dangerous. “Secondly, on an empty stomach, as one’s blood alcohol level increases rapidly, we lose our inhibitions and often drink and eat

more throughout the evening,” she added. “By eating a regular meal before drinking in moderation, safety-wise and nutritionally you are better off.” Lutz stressed the bottom line is that none of these drinks are “good or bad” and students should always aim for moderation. For the most health benefit, students should strive to consume solid, nutrient-dense and well-balanced meals regularly. Lutz’s advice for students who feel that their energy is low is to “stop what you are doing and eat a balanced meal or snack.” An ideal snack, according to nutritionists, would be half a sandwich, yogurt and fruit, or some trail mix4anything that is a good combination of carbohydrates, protein and fat.

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for strategies on how to win approval of the American public. According to a recent Newsweek poll, and now teaches at Loyola University 65 percent of people interviewed were dissatisfied with the Bush administraChicago, presented their research on public opinion with regard to the war to the tion’s handling of the war. Bush administration last year. Though the New York Times reportSince that time, Feaver has been a ed that Bush’s Nov. 30 address, “Our Namajor player in shaping the way President tional Strategy for Victory in Iraq,” used George W. Bush communicates his strate- the word “victory” 15 times, and attributed the speech’s theme to Feaver’s gy for the war to the public. “It is not uncommon that someone at presence in the administration, Gelpi Duke is in the public eye,” said John Bursaid he doubted Feaver would have ness, senior vice president for public and equated “success,” the research’s congovernment relations. “He’s doing imporclusion, with “victory.” tant work for the “I know that’s country.” not how he in[Feaver] ’s doing important Burness added our terprets work,” he said, that Feaver, who work for the declined to be inadding that he terviewed, told Burness has not communicated with him a few months Feaver in the ago that he was fascinated with and greatly enjoyed his past few months. new job. Despite the critics of the research Feaver, Gelpi and Reifler’s research who argue that as casualties mount, supfound that Americans will tolerate inport ofany war will decline regardless of creasing casualties in the war so long as the end result, Gelpi explained that there exists the “perception that the records of polling from the Vietnam, mission will succeed,” Gelpi said. Korean and Iraq war eras indicate that He added that their findings were also .the conclusion is false. “The record of public support shows “warmly received” by the John Kerry presidential campaign and other Democratic that sometimes casualties are tolerated,” and Republican leaders. he said. Gelpi explained that the survey used Gelpi said that he hopes the national by the researchers found that a majority attention the research is receiving reflects of Americans will deem the war in Iraq well on the reputation of the University. successful if a stable democratic governBut he admitted that the way in which ment is established, Iraqis are able to people interpret or use the findings is out live “normal daily lives” and Iraqis proofhis hands. vide for their own security. “It can be a tricky thing to have re“There are certain aspects of the search go so public because when you put ‘Strategies for Victory’ document and an idea in the public debate you lose control of that idea,” he said. “I can’t control speech [Bush gave to the Naval Academy Nov. 30] that are consistent with our that, but I’m pleased to have the work be research,” Gelpi said, citing Bush’s logic part of that debate.” from page 1

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PURDY from page 1 2004 survey] was stress management,” Purdy said. “The Oasis was built as one of many programs targeting this issue.” The Oasis, which opened Nov. 28 under Student Health’s Office of Health Promotion, offers nighdy workshops on everything from credit card debt to cooking. Purdy and officials said they eventually hope to develop similar ventures on West and Central campuses. Purdy is working to tap into new resources that will assist in treating less obvious needs, such as sleep disorders. He has already begun talking with doctors who work at the Duke University Medical Center about potential sleep studies in-

volving undergraduates.

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people thought of us as a band-aid center on the edge of campus,” he said, adding that DUMC needs to change this misperception. Purdy wants to gain feedback and input from the larger Duke community by developing a “working relationship” with different facets of the University. He said he hopes to increase communications with Counseling and Psychological Services to help target the mental health needs of students. “It’s a win-win situation. Many people need us, and we need them,” he said. Purdy said he also wants to solicit student feedback about the potential role of Student Health, mainly through surveys. Since its integration into the Office of Student Affairs in 2004, Student Health has become more involved in the day-today campus life, Purdy said. Prior to his appointment, Purdy was part of a trio of Student Health officials leading the organization. Jean Hanson, administrative director

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StudentHealth has undergone various changes in the past few months, including the opening ofThe Oasis. of Student Health, said Purdy was performing admirably in his new role as executive director. She added that Purdy’s efforts to foster more collaborations will open up new avenues for reaching out to all students. “We’ve also done various things to make sure students are well aware of our presence and new developments,” Hanson said. “We hired a graphic designer, and students seem to be catching on to our Student Health’s signature logo.” Purdy said he has encountered active participation among graduate students but added that this is not the case among undergraduate students. “Efforts in the past brought [Student Health] to one plateau,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for Student Affairs. “Purdy is already doing a great job of taking us to another.”

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CHINA from page 1 national matriculation from China has grown from 15 in Fall 1983 to a record high of 345 in Fall 2003. Although Chinese students still make up the greatest percentage of international students at Duke, the total number has been generally declining over the past five years for a variety of reasons, officials said. Duke graduate schools received approximately 2,000 Chinese applications in 2003. In 2004 the applications declined to only 967. University officials primarily cite visa constraints as the cause for the drop. Also, schools in more nations are offering international studies programs to Chinese students, increasing competition for U.S. universities. “That was a national phenomenon that had to do with visa issues and general feeling of the welcoming of this country [of] internationals,” said Lewis Siegel, dean of the graduate school. He added that the major drop, which occurred sometime before the Class of 2004 arrived, also occurred when the State Department was struggling to handle new visa regulations. Zong, who applied for his visa in 2003, said he waited a month while his visa background was checked. “I was very calm during that period. I believed I was not a terrorist so I was not worried,” he said. “But my father lost 15 pounds during that month.” Denied access One setback in the University’s recent push for stronger Duke-China relations came in 2003, when the Chinese government blocked access to Duke’s website. Although administrators are still unable to pinpoint the causes for the block or its removal in January 2004, some see it as a symbol of the sometimes challenging relationship with the Asian country. “We don’t know for sure why it got blocked, and we also don’t know how it got unblocked,” Merkx explained in a January 2004 interview. Some administrators said the immediate result of the block was a drop in the number of applications from Chinese students. For example, as of Jan. 5, 2004, the Graduate School had received 900 appli-

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Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag expects the number of applications from China to rise. cations from China for the upcoming fall semester—a 53-percent decrease from the 1,934 applications it received by the same day in 2003. Because manyinternationalstudents cannot travel to the U.S. to visit Duke, they depend on the Internet as a primary means of learning about the University. Other officials dispute if the block was to blame for the decrease of applications. “We have no evidence that it seriously impacted applications to Duke from Chinese students, since the large drop in applicants that year was about the same as at other institutions that did not experience the block,” Siegel said. He added that applications from China in 2005 did increase and still appear to be recovering. “I don’tknow what we might do if such a block occurs again other than to work with the national organization of graduate schools in D.C. to get the State Department to work on our behalf to get it lifted,” Siegel said. Other roadblocks Although officials have been working to make the University more accessible to students in China, several obstacles remain. “In the past, private universities have not attracted very many undergraduate students from China,” said Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions.

“I expect that that will change over the next five to 10 years.” In recent years, Duke has attempted to' reach out more through university fairs. It sends several Chinese faculty, who have ties to the country, to market Duke to students at their home schools, Siegel said. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions sent representatives to mainland China to high schools in Beijing and Shanghai in April 2004. ‘We’ve only had international financial aid available in the last four years,” said Phyllis Supple, an undergraduate admissions officer. ‘We’ve only been recruiting internationally in a real planned way since 1991.” Chinese students often battle financial problems in order to come to the U.S. Many require some sort of financial aid package to attend the University. Officials said the University meets the full demonstrated financial need ofits students once they are accepted to Duke. Tong Ren, a third-year electrical engineering graduate student from China, said many of her peers’ decisions to come to the U.S. depend on financial costs that are beyond Duke’s scope. “I have a friend who decided not to come to the U.S. because her family was poor,” Ren said. “They could not even support her $lOO visa application fee.”

dent to attend Trinity College in TBBl, was successful at most everything he attempted. Although he struggled at mastering the English language, he successfully boarded the Schuyler Colfax as a stowaway traveling from China to America, made money as a Bible salesman and, along with his children, shaped the future of China. His three daughters married prominent figures in modern Chinese history: Sun Yat-sen, founding father of the Republic of China; Chiang Kai-shek; president ofthe Republic of China; and H. H. Kung, China's former finance minister. He gained admission to Trinity with the help of Julian Carr, the textile and tobacco magnate of "Bull Durham" fame, and Trinity President Braxton Craven "[Soong] attracted a great deal of attention from the faculty, the students, and the people of the village because of his racial contrast to the Caucasian and because of his exceptional sprightliness," Jerome Dowd wrote in his 1939 book, The Life of Braxon Craven. He noted his stature, short

brownish-yellow and complexion dark brown eyes. Dowd added that the boys would tease him and play pranks on him, but that Soong was amiable. "Because of his imperfect understanding and use of English language he did not make much headway with his studies, and I think none ofthe students regarded him as endowed with superior ability or as animated by any ambition," Dowd wrote. But SOong did not last long at Trinity—he left after about two years and completed his degree at Vanderbilt University. University lore holds that Soong would have graduated from Trinity but was caught in a relationship with Carr's nieces and sent away from Durham. "None of us imagined that anything serious was going on in his mind or that [he was] destined to be a leader in transforming the lives of five hundred million people," Dowd wrote. —,by Steve Veres

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Any changes to the process must first be approved by the Arts and Sciences Council, he said. Currendy, only 10 percent of professors have made their evaluation data accessible to students. “What we are certain of is that it’s not that only 10 percent wish to have those data available—it’s that only 10 percent have figured out how to navigate the database to make that data available,” said George McLendon, dean of the faculty ofArts and Sciences. The Engineering Faculty Council recently passed an opt-out policy—which, by default, allows evaluations to be displayed online—but McLendon said that decision will have no effect on Trinity’s actions. Trinity officials expect more faculty members’ preferences to be elucidated with the conscious effort to make them more aware of the possibilities. They hope the oneon-one contact will prove more fruitful than the current approach of sending departmental e-mails asking professors to opt-in. “At the same time that we’re improving the interface,

we’re trying to improve the communication,” he said. McLendon added that the DUS’ polls will aim to determine if professors really are opposed to the system of opting-in and whether they believe the current system ofevaluations, which was implemented to assess the establishment of Curriculum 2000, is still an adequate means of rating their courses and quality of instruction. The effort to increase communication, however, may not be as effective as administrators hope, especially in large departments in which the DUS is expected to contact a very long list of people, said Peter Fish, professor and DUS for the Department of Political Science. “I don’t see why the directors of undergraduate studies should be put in the position of having to separate the sheep and the goats among the faculty,” Fish said. “The simple answer is for the Arts and Sciences [Council] to reconsider their decision and determine that the opt-out system is the most effective and the most efficient way.” The opt-out system was rejected by a margin of one vote in an Arts and Sciences Council meeting Dec. 9, 2004. Lee Baker, chair of the Arts and Sciences Council and associate professor in the Department ofCultural Anthropology, said repealing the vote would be “a fairly large undertaking.”

He added that the current awareness campaign must be

undergone first to determine what the faculty really want. Though the opt-in issue still has been a central point of debate among the Arts and Sciences Council recently, McLendon said it will probably not be on the agenda for the Council’s meeting Thursday. It will be reassessed next semester, however, after the data from professors have been collected and analyzed. “The Arts and Sciences Council is committed to increase the numbers... and I think that’s something we can do through education,” Baker said. “We’ll revisit this next year and see where we’re at with the numbers.” McLendon said that hypothetically, if a large number of faculty were to show interest in making their evaluations available, the issue may be brought back to the Council for reconsideration. Duke Student Government has been pushing for its own course evaluations website, but McLendon—though in support of such an endeavor—said the statistical quality of students’ voluntary, online ratings would not be able to reach the University’s 96-percent return rate of mandatory in-class evaluations. Tiffany Webber contributed to this story.

MUSIC from page 3 In past years, musical selections were largely relegated

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song, noted that the advent of mp 3 players has revolutionized the use of operating room music. “We used to have big boom boxes,” West said.

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But not all of Duke’s surgeons approve of the practice. “I think that the operating room should be an environment where everybody’s attention is directed towards the care of the patient,” said Chief of the Division ofPlastic Surgery Dr. Scott Levin. Dr. Thomas D’Amico, a thoracic surgeon, described operating room music as distracting. “When all attention needs to be focused on the patient in surgery, we keep distractions to a minimum,” West said, noting that if any staff member has a problem with the music, it is immediately turned off. “But some surgeons find their music soothing, and it helps them concentrate.” Although many surgeons are flexible, West said, sometimes staff members have to “grin and bear it” if they don’t like the musical selection. But Knoll doesn’t mind. “It’s a lot better than having it be really quiet in here,” she said. “It’s just nicer when you have music.”

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Duke Magic keeps The Train rollin’ True story. About five minutes before Duke tipped off against Virginia Tech Dec. 3, I had this feeling. Some might call it a premonition. Whatever. Anyway, I turned to my friend and said, “This game is going to be closer than expected and Sean Dockery is going to hit a game-winning shot.” Over two hours later, after the Hokies’ Coleman Collins tipped in Zabian Dowdell’s missed shot, I was trying to write the beginning of this column in my head. Should I pretend the Virginia Tech game never happened? Should I call it a bump in the road, a penny on the tracks, a blip on the radar, a slip on the trail to immomlity? Should I use some other cliche to explain away Duke’s loss? Or should I tell it like it is—apologize for getting everyone’s hopes up and bring The Train to a grinding halt just seven stops into the season? Should I throw everyone off, tell them the show’s over, come back next year (maybe)? Do I write a eulogy for The Train? Oh Train we hardly knew ye, but now you’re gone forever? Something like that? Oh me of little faith. And ye of little faith, too, if you don’t realize the significance of this season’s first seven games. SEE THE TRAIN ON PAGE 11

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Sophomore guard Laura Kurz led theBlue Devils with 15 points in Duke's 40-point victoryTuesday.

FORT WORTH, Texas It took Laura Kurz’s inspired play and Lindsey Harding’s best Sean Dockery impersonation to pull No. 2 Duke out of a 19-minute first-half fiink and past TCU (2-5) Tuesday, 92-52. With the Blue Devils (7-0) leading by just one with less than DUKE 92 a minute left in the TCU 52 first half, Kurz hit an open three-pointer from the top of the key. On the following play, Kurz poked the ball away from TCU guard Adrianne Ross. Wanisha Smith picked up the loose ball and fed a breaking Kurz for an uncontested layup. Then it was Lindsey Harding’s turn to step up. The junior point guard drew a charge with three seconds remaining, giving Duke one last shot to increase its sixpoint lead heading into halftime. Harding took the inbounds pass, crossed over a defender at halfcourt and heaved a running 35-footer that banked in at the buzzer. “I think when Lindsay hit that shot, in particular, at the buzzer, it got the emotions going for us,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “It really got the adrenaline flowing. I felt like we were pretty flat for most of the first half, and so I think we had some good energy going into halftime, and it carried over.” The Blue Devils used the positive momentum to put the game out of the Horned Frogs’ reach, scoring on eight of their first nine possessions to extend their lead to 19 only 4:18 into the second half. Duke would not look back, as it rolled to a 40-point victory. The large final margin, however, masked the Blue Devils’ sloppy play in the first half. Duke was less aggressive than the SEE TCU ON PAGE 11

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The No. 1 Blue Devils have yet to play like the nation’s top team. While they have notched impressive victories over Indiana and Memphis, both top-25 teams, they have struggled against weaker opponents. Before facing off against No. 2 Texas this Saturday, Duke (7-0) will take on Pennsylvania (3-2) at 7 p.m. tonight at vs.

Cameron Indoor Stadium. “There’s something missing, and I Jttrsm think part of it is, you win the NIT, you beat a really good Memphis team, and TONIGHT, 7 p.m. jjjat game at Indiana, which is a . Cameron Indoor {. high-level game, and you ffall into the trap of thinking you’re home, and we always win here,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after Sunday’s two-point victory over Virginia Tech. “I couldn’t reverse that feeling.” In their five games against unranked opponents this season, the Blue Devils’ only easy victory came against an overmatched Seton Hall squad, and Duke trailed both PETER GEBHARD/THE CHRONICLE Drexel and the Hokies in the second half. Senior guard Sean Dockery had a career-high 19 points and drained the In both games, the Blue Devils were forced to rely on incredible performances to escape with a win. JJ. game-winning shot against Virginia Tech Sunday night. °

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Redick’s 31-point performance kept Duke unbeaten against Drexel, and Sean Dockery’s improbable buzzerbeater kept the Blue Devils from notching one in the loss column after his team squandered an 11-point lead against Virginia Tech—a team picked to finish eighth in the ACC during the preseason “We got that lead, and then we missed shots—we missed real good shots,” Krzyzewski said. “They made big shots. They never quit, and they were certainly deserving to win. You’d like to win where you feel like you’re the most deserving, and I’m not sure that we were.” Before Dockery’s heroics Sunday night, Redick and Shelden Williams had taken turns bailing Duke out of sloppy performances all season. When the Blue Devils topped No. 7 Memphis in the finals of the NIT Season Tip-Off Nov. 25, Williams played 39 minutes and tied a career high with 30 point, including a last-minute tip-in to seal Duke’s narrow three-point victory. Just five days later against the No. 16 Hoosiers, Williams was dominated inside by Marco Killingsworth, while Redick lit up Indiana for 29 points. Freshman Josh Mcßoberts, expected to help Williams out on the post, could not match SEE PENN ON PAGE 10

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Freshman point guard Greg Paulus leads the Blue Devils with 4.1 assists per game this season.

PENN from page 9 Killingsworth’s physical play and has not yet been the presence defensively Krzyzewski had hoped for from his forward. “We need more from our second big position,” Krzyzewski said. “Josh needs to do more. He just has to do more.” Mcßoberts should have a good chance impress his coach when the Quakers arrive in Durham for their first road game of the season. Pennsylvania has been outrebounded by a 7.2 margin and has lacked a solid post presence. to

Most of Pennsylvania’s scoring comes from the perimeter, and the Quakers are led by junior guard Ibrahim Jaaber who is averaging 20.4 points per game on 59 percent shooting. Although Duke has allowed a combined 59 points from its last two opponents’ top interior threats, the Blue Devils have allowed only five three-pointers in the two games. “Penn is one of the best teams in their league, and it’s important for us to take them very seriously,” assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “They are well coached and have a number of capable shooters from behind the three-point line.”

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later, Duke beat Temple by 25 in Philadelphia. After Sunday night’s game, Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg was stunned. “That’s not a shot I think anyone expected to go in,” he said. Seth, I predicted it before the game, buddy. I expected it to go in. I knew it was going in. It’s the great truth of Duke Basketball. It’s why the Cameron Crazies raise their hands before a three-point shot goes up and not after. It’s why the win Sunday night seemed pre-ordained from the moment the ball left Dockery’s hands. The big shot is always, always, always going to fall. It’s Duke Magic. This team—especially Sean Dockery—has the Magic in bunches; its narrow escapes this season demonstrate that much. They have it just like the 1991 team, the 1992 team and the 2001 team. And they’re going to ride it all the way

THE TRAIN f„ m page 9 What significance, Alex? The Blue Devils have looked very good at times this season, but they’ve looked awful at others. Never have they looked like the best team in the country exceptfor when they five minutes at the beginning of the Indianagame and trampled Seton Hall. They only retained theirNo. 1 ranking this week because their uniforms say “Duke, and no voter in his right mind is going to drop Duke in the rankings after a win. That’s all true. I freely admit it. But I’ve got three words to share, and, no, I don’t think it’s too early to break them out. Team. Of. Destiny. Great Duke teams find ways to win. It’s Blue Devil Magic. The 1992 champions had Hill-to-Laettner. The 1991 champions had Christian Laettner’s less-celebrated offensive rebound and two free throws with 12 seconds to play to beat then-undefeated UNLV in the Final Four. The 2001 champions rallied back from big deficits twice to beat an outstanding Maryland team—the second time in the Final Four. Of course, those victories were against the best teams in the country. It doesn’t say much about Duke when it needs a last second 40-foot heave to beat an unranked team that had already lost to Bowling Green this season, does it? I think it’s time for a history lesson. That 2001 championship squad played in the Preseason NIT. In the finals, they barely knocked off Temple, 63-61. The Owls were good, but it’s not like they were world-beaters. A week ”

Indianapolis. But why trust my predictive powers?

I am, after all, just the same guy that wrote in my Nov. 16 column that by the end of the season, “Sean Dockery... [will] have made more big shots than anyone else on the Blue Devil roster.” And all he did was hit Duke’s most improbable gamewinning shot since Hill-to-Laettner. Seven down, 32 to go. Choo, choo, baby. The Train’s running on the power of Duke Magic.

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Horned Frogs and managed to turn the ball over 17 times with many of the miscues coming on failed post entries. The Blue Devils’ saving grace was that TCU was nearly as careless—committing 12 turnovers of its own and missed many close shots. “I didn’tfeel like we were really focused, as was evident with all the turnovers,” Goestenkors said. “We just need to do a better job of coming out of the gate stronger.” The Blue Devils tightened up their play on both ends of the floor in the second half, shooting 57 percent while holding the Homed Frogs to just 5-of-27 from the floor. Duke had only six turnovers following halftime and outrebounded TCU 30-10. Kurz provided a bright spot for Duke in the first half, scoring 13 points on 5-for-8 shooting in the period. The 6-foot-l sophomore has made a transition to playing more in the post this season and said she is starting to get comfortable with the change. The Blue Devils appeared ready to take control when Lindsey Harding recorded an easy steal and broke away for an uncontested layup to put her team on top, 24-19, with five minutes remaining in the first period. Duke, however, could not extend the lead, and TCU had a chance to tie the game at 28 with one minute left. Forward Jenna Lohse beat the Blue Devil defenders down the court and was fouled while making her layup. Lohse missed the free throw, setting up Duke’s 8-0 closing run that was capped by Harding’s buzzer-beater. “I think the entire Duke program should be out of halfcourt shots after this week,” TCU head coach Jeff Mittie said. —

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days. That is how long undergraduate students have this year for reading period. According to the University calendar, reading period begins Saturday morning and lasts until Monday night. That is not a sufficient reading period designed for intensive review; it’s StaffedltOrial a weekend. Such a truncated time for end-of-the-semester reflection does not match the rigor of Duke’s classroom experience. At multiple other schools, the time before finals is known as “reading week.” While a full week might be an excessive length of time for Duke, less than three days is surely insufficient. Reading period is the only time during the year when extracurricular activities are paused and schoolwork becomes many students’ only focus. That time is valuable to evaluate, review and synthesize a full course’s worth of information. Even for students who have worked diligendy all semester, that time can be essential for knowledge to condense. As students come off of the last week of classes, a moment to pause and reset for the week(s) of work ahead is especially valuable. With classes scheduled all day Friday, that moment ofrelaxation is more dif-

ficult for many students to steal. Relaxation is more difficult for many students to steal. The fact that both reading days are on the weekend is also problematic. Part of the value of reading period is an empty schedule to allow time for review sessions and study groups. Weekend days, when instructors’ schedules can be full of family obligations, are considerably more difficult to navigate. For classes with substantial paper writing, reading period is necessary for the concentrated research and writing attention that serious collegelevel work demands. In many classes, it takes most of the semester to develop a sufficient foundation to even begin research, and the classes are necessarily back-loaded. When students take several of these classes, reading period is invaluable as uninterrupted hours in the library or in front of a computer. By this time in the semester, few professors are still covering new material. Students’ and instructors’ brains are partially fried with end-of-the-semester work. A few days of devoted study time would benefit the quality of finals’ work produced during this crunch time.

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Proud Powe parent I was surprised to find myself and my children ignored in the recent Chronicle article about Duke faculty and Durham (“Professors send children to private, Chapel Hill schools", Dec 6, 2005). Both of my children have spent their entire' elementary school careers at E. K Powe. Both have enjoyed excellent educations, good teachers and enthusiastic administrators. Of course, some years have been better than others, and some of their classmates have struggled more than others, but all in all we’ve been pleased and proud to have our kids at E.K Powe. I was also surprised that the article was lacking a serious analysis of why a school like E.K Powe underperforms in comparison to other schools, particularly in Chapel Hill. For example, the Chapel Hill public school system is separate from the Orange County system. The high cost of housing and impact ofUNC in Chapel Hill results in a very different student demographic than the integrated Durham public school system. The magnet and charter school initiatives in Durham also encourages segregation within the school system, with incentives for parents of means to pull their children out of the district schools like E.K Powe. Some of these considerations are just the realities of urban living. Others are soluble problems that need attention from the school system and the greater Durham community. But the experience of Duke faculty with the Durham public schools cannot be reduced to the simple-minded formula, "Durham schools bad", implied in the article. Indeed, for this faculty member and his family the experience has been a good one indeed. Ron Grunwald Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Biology Dept. =

Duke-China relations could benefit from hoops I strongly believe it is for the benefit of China, the prospective students and all the Chinese students and scholars here, as well as Duke University, to enhance Duke’s connection with China. However, I’d like to point out a few small things regarding some historical facts. First, Chiang Kai-Shek was the President of the Republic of China, not to be confused with People’s Republic of China. Chiang vehemendy opposed the idea of Taiwan’s independence, though he was the ruler of the island for almost three decades. During his time, advocates of Taiwanese independence were prosecuted as severely as the Communists. Not until Chiang’s death in 1975 did Taiwan start to end the military dictatorship and begin the journey toward democracy. So Chiang wouldn’t have liked to be called as “leader of Tai-

wan,” as the Chronicle article called him If the above is more about opinion, the second mistake is about fact. Sun Yat-Sun was the founder of Republic of China, which was established in 1912. His regime was driven out ofmainland China to the island of Taiwan in 1949 by the Communists, who started the People’s Republic of China. Those are just small mistakes. But given the sensitive situation across Taiwan Straight, it is important to get the facts right—both to have a better understanding of the situation, and to have a more effective communication with people from East Asia. This is particularly true while we are talking about establishing the China connection. When I was admitted to graduate school in 1996, none of my friends or family even heard of Duke—except for my younger brother, an NBA fan who worshiped Grant Hill. Duke is more popular now, but it’s still safe to bet that more Chinese knew about other schools such as Ohio State University and—gasp! —UNC than about Duke. Basketball is very popular in China, and NBA games are followed by millions ofyoung people. So while I am all for increasing the academic and educational exchange with China, I also think Duke should use its strong basketball program to maximize its visibility. With Coach K being the leader ofTeam USA and the 2008 Olympics happening in Beijing, Duke could become a household name in China. Weihua Fan, Ph.D Post-doctoralResearch Associate, Dept, ofMolecular Genetics and Microbiology Men’s team to square off with Quakers The undefeated Duke men’s basketball team will tip-off against the UPenn Quakers at 7 p.m. Wednesday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Admission to the game will follow the walk-up line polity Remember that 50 percent of each walk-up group must be present at all times and that all group members must be present at 5 p.m. No backpacks will be allowed into Cameron so please make sure that they are removed from K-ville prior to 5 p.m. The doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Each group may have a maximum of six people. Students can continue to join the back of the line in K-ville at any time. With exams just around the comer, this is a busy time for everyone, but this game will be the perfect study break. If Sean can shoot it from 45 feet, I know that all ofyou can walk 450 feet to see him play. If you have any questions about the walk-up line or K-ville policies, please visit the K-ville website at www.dsg.duke.edu/kville.html or IM the line monitor staff at HLMLauren or DukeßlueDevin. Go Duke! Lauren Troyer, Trinity 'O6 HeadLine Monitor

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fall your president has los Bagley, a Duke football player been on the receiving end and Duke med grad who is comof gifts exceeding $lOO milpleting his residency in neurolion. Since I’ve spent most of my surgery at Johns Hopkins. Going life as a teacher, taking in such to Duke didn’t make such people what they became. sums has not been an everyday ocThey had to have it in them to do currence for me, what they later and in case you m did. But if they wonder, I will tell started with a gift, you: This work is let schooling hugely fun! But them deliver the what really desocial payoff of lights me is that richard brodhead their gift. these gifts were guest column When people made for what I can afford good regard as the best of causes, to support financial education, they ought to pay for aid. Let me explain why securing it, for there’s nothing of greater permanent support for aid is so value in our world. But we need critical for Duke right now. many more people to get the benEducation is only partly about efit of education than those whose families can pay the bill. As the transmission of knowledge and skills. At bottom, it’s a you know, inequality of educaprocess of enablement: It’s about tional opportunity is a profound giving the young the exposures, problem in America, and in tolerstimulations, hard trials and chalating this fact this country pays lenges and encouragements that far too little heed to its social cost; allow them to realize their powers the losses we incur through the and build the most capable vertalent we’re failing to develop. sion of themselves. No university has the power We get the good of education to solve the whole of this probwhen people are able to live up to lem, but just for that reason, we their potential and deliver on have an obligation to do what we their promise. I have fresh in my can. When Duke makes outmind some Duke graduates I standing education available to heard from this weekend: people talented students without regard like Judy Woodruff, one of this to their family’s financial circumstances, we’re doing our nation’s most trusted news correspondents; or John Mack, the part to assure that the promise of today will be able to deliver its leader of Morgan Stanley; or Car-

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my brown eyes not good enough? can’t look at the movie poster for I the upcoming Dec. 23 release of Memoirs of a Geishawithout resentment. Finally, when I am given the opportunity to see an American film in which the actors and actresses ofmy race are presented in roles other than martial arts experts or bookworms, I am left

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universities. Twenty years ago, federal funds supported 20 percent of Duke’s need-based aid; the number is 8 percent now. In addidon, our costs have grown through increased benefits Duke offers to students on aid—for instance, the grants now available in lieu of summer earnings so students can take advantage of summer opportunities—and through the introduction ofaid to international undergraduates, in amounts I’m eager to expand. Duke is pledged to meeting all these costs. But to meet mounting obligations we need new sources of funding, and we need to put this cost on a more reliable foundation. At Duke’s strongest rivals, as much as 80 to 90 percent of the financial aid budget is supported by endowments dedicated to this purpose. At Duke, a much younger school, less than 20 percent of annual need-based aid costs are thrown off from endowment gifts made for this cause. What this means is that Duke meets most of its aid commitments out of operating funds that support everything else, including academic programs. And what this means is that as Duke’s aid budget continues to grow, our commitment to aid increasingly competes with our need to fund the programs that make top students and faculty want to come here in the first place.

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a baby blue color is downright insulting. The poster brings to the forefront what American readers missed when they applauded Golden’s novel as a personal look into the geisha world, allowing Golden (and now director Rob Marshall) to profit from their blatant distorting of Japanese culture. The fact that Golden chose Sayuri’s mark of beauty to be her unusual grey-blue eyes is questionable to begin with, but the poster makes everything clear. There can be no other explanation that the blueness was enhanced for the movie poster other than to Westernize Zhang’s image, so that she is left to be marketed as a woman that is even more mysterious and strange. I am offended that a movie not based on Western culture has to be another victim ofit. Of course, this detail seems so trivial to the majority, the individuals who aren’t represented in this movie (welcome to my world), but I frankly don’t need any more American men marketing East Asian women as exotic. It’s bad enough that I’ve lost count ofhow manyDuke men have described me as such. The poster is only a visible representation of the other inherent problems with the movie itself, like Marshall’s decision to have three non-Japanese actresses play the leading geishas, including Sayuri, even though former director Steven Spielberg had cast ajapanese actress for Zhang’s part when he was originally slotted to direct the film. While Ziyi Zhang is undeniably China’s most popular actress, I question

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once again, and discere vtvendo this time, before the movie is even released. My main complaint is with the movie poster itself. The poster is simple in concept but dramatic in effect. An up-close headshot of the leading actress, Ziyi Zhang, is stunning but not because of her traditional geisha make-up of white powder and red lipstick. Instead, what is most striking of this portrait is her blue eyes. That’s right, her blue eyes. Once again I am reminded by American pop culture that my eyes, and the eyes of all other Japanese people, are unattractive shades of brown and grey. While I recognize that a movie based on the bestselling (in America, not Japan) novel of Arthur Golden does not have to follow Golden’s exact storyline, the decision to market the movie with a poster that enhances Sayuri’s, the main character’s, greyblue eye color, as depicted in the novel, to

benefits to the world tomorrow. The three people I mentioned were all able to attend Duke thanks to financial aid. Last year Duke spent $129 million on financial aid: $59 million for undergraduates, $5O million for graduate students and $2O million for other professional students. About 45 percent of all Duke undergraduates received aid from the University, with the average need-based grant running in excess of $21,000 per student per year. Since we’re able to afford these hefty contributions, it may seem that Duke is well positioned to meet this need, and in significant measure, we are. But the underlying facts are sources of concern. Duke’s financial aid costs have been growing rapidly in recent years, far faster than revenues that might offset them. Duke’s budget for need-based undergraduate aid rose nearly 75 percent between 1999 and 2005 while tuition and fees rose 26 percent. The reasons for this increase are various and they will continue to be felt. Duke’s costs have been driven up by the increased financial need of our students’ families, including middle-class families who find it increasingly difficult to meet college costs. Over time, the declining share of federal co-investment has raised the share thatfalls to colleges and

whether Zhang’s ability to act as a geisha was far superior to all the Japanese actresses who auditioned. Or, if Marshall assumed (like the rest of Hollywood) that no difference exists between Japanese and Chinese people. We all look same, no? Wrong. You see, while Memoirs of a Geisha is already stirring up Oscar conversations of a “Best Picture” nomination on this side of the Pacific, Japanese and Chinese web forums and blogs are exploding with rage, ranging from some Japanese people infuriated that they are misrepresented once again in an American film (Lost in Translation, anyone?) to some Chinese people decrying Zhang as a traitor. Aside from the fact that Zhang doesn’t look Japanese and speaks English differently as a Chinese actress than a native Japanese actress due to intonation differences between the two languages, Marshall ignores the historical context of the geisha as it relates to the current woes of the ever-worsening China-Japan

relationship. While I am not as angered by the choice of Zhang for Sayuri as some of my Japanese friends, I hate the poster. I am sick and tired of seeing movie after movie ofEast Asian cultures be grossly distorted under the name of “art,” rather than “insensitiveness” or “bigotry.” And frankly, Marshall’s desire to

I want to keep Duke accessible to talented students, and I want to prevent future collisions between two fundamental imperatives, our obligations to social openness and to academic excellence. Let’s be clear: Students benefit from both, and students will have the most to lose if we ever have to sacrifice either good to the other. In seeking $3OO million to endow financial aid in all schools, the Initiative aims to give permanent support to our most fundamental missions. Last week, I was presented with a petition signed by nearly 3,000 of you in support of this good cause. It means a lot to me that Duke students want to be active partners, not just passive recipients of University aid. It also delights me that you recognize that aid benefits not just the students who receive it, but every student at Duke. In truth, this school gives a better education to everyone who comes here when we bring together the most intelligent, most dedicated, most high-spirited and most thoughtful students we can find, irrespective of family economic circumstance. I thank everyone who will be working for this cause—and everyone who understands why it matters. Richard Brodhead is president Duke University.

geisha create mystery or uniqueness for the movie with a poster of a baby blue-eyed geisha leaves me with no mystery to figure out. I will not be seeing it.

Miho Kubagawa is a Trinity junior. She would like to thank everyone for reading her column this semester.

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