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Chi Psi and Delta Tau Delta fraternities will both receive housing sections in Edens

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A barge burst through a levee in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, causingflooding thatforced Xavier University to close.

Xavier picks up pieces in Big Easy Bourbon Street, past the “welcome back” billboards and Like more down the once-flooded 1-10 NEW ORLEANS than 400 other Xavier University East, was one of the schools hit students, sophomore Amanda hardest by the hurricane in late Amoateng watched Hurricane August. Three-quarters of Xavier stuKatrina descend upon the city of New Orleans through her dorm dents returned to campus this past weekend, including four sturoom window. dents who were housed at Duke The historically black college, which is a quick drive from last semester. by

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President Jay Ganatra and the two fraternities’ presidents confirmed Tuesday. The addition of the fraternities to the 13 already residing on campus signals an end to the housing moratorium put in place by Residence Life and Housing Services in 2004. No groups have been granted housing since that time. Under the moratorium, no more than 50 percent of the residents in a quadrangle could belong to selective living groups. With the addition of two new fraternities to Edens Quad, more than half of the residents will belong to selective living groups. “We talked about the moratorium, and basically the housing assignment people said, ‘lf we are going to add more selective living groups, we are going to have over 50 percent in a quad,’” Ganatra

Fraternities Chi Psi and DTD will have housing in Edens Quadrangle in the fall.

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Campus Council was looking at as a whole,” he added. Ganatra also noted that Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, had been in talks with DTD about giving the group a section. The two fraternities were notified about the strong possibility of receiving new sections during

Semifinalists named ALE issues 7 citations in 'Dillo for Young Trustee by

The Elite 8 Russ Ferguson

Brandon Goodwin Katie Jandl

Chris Kallmeyer Jesse Longoria

Jay McKenna Darren Rivas

Hirsh Sandesara

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The Young Trustee will serve a three-year term on the University’s Board of Trustees. After the first year, the selected student will be a voting member of

It has been almost five months since “ALE” became part of the Duke lexicon. North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement agents are continuing to make sure students are complying with drinking laws—and now they are citing people on Main West Campus. ALE Agent Keith Patterson issued seven citations at the Armadillo Grill Friday evening. The bartender working at the time was cited for giving malt beverages to persons who are younger than 21 years old, and six students were cited with possession or consumption of a malt beverage or a mixed beverage by a underage person, Patterson said. Under North Carolina law, ALE agents can visit ABC-licensed

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Eight seniors were chosen as Young Trustee semifinalists at an Intercommunity Council meeting Tuesday night, announced ICC Chair Logan Leinster, a senior. Russ Ferguson, Brandon Goodwin, Katie Jandl, Chris Kallmeyer, Jesse Longoria, Jay McKenna, Darren Rivas and Hirsh Sandesara received the nod from the ICC committee, which is comprised of representatives from various leading campus organizations.

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Students over 21 (above)often drink at the Armadillo Grill, one ofthe venues that serves alcohol at Duke. Alcohol Law Enforcement doled out seven citations thereFriday night

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Insurgents killed in U.S. strike

House leaders plan to limit favors by

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WASHINGTON House Speaker Dennis Hastert urged new restrictions on gifts from lobbyists Tuesday, responding to a scandal that already has claimed two Republican leaders and raised GOP fears about this year’s elections. Hastert, confronting a political crisis spawned by the Jack Abramoff scandal, promoted legislation that would end the practices of lobbyists footing the bill for lunches or arranging lavish “fact-finding” trips for members of Congress to warmweather resorts. Lawmakers-turned-lobbyists would be

banned from the House gym and from access to the House floor, where they have been known to make deals in hopes of

changing votes.

House Rules Committee Chairperson David Dreier, R-Calif., who is spearheading the lobbying overhaul effort for Hastert, said the goal was to pass legislation by the end of February. He said it would include the forfeiture of congressional pensions for members convicted of a felony related to official duties. “The problems we have been reading about stem from violation of existing rules,” Hasten, R-111., said in apparent reference to Abramoff, who sought to influ-

ence lawmakers through donations, meals his high-priced restaurant, golfing trips and skybox seats-. Abramoff has pleaded guilty to corruption-related charges and is cooperating with prosecutors. Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay, RTexas, who had stepped down from his post after being indicted on campaign finance charges in Texas, decided against trying to regain his job after the guilty plea of Abramoff, with whom he had long had ties. And Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, another recipient of benefits from Abramoffs clients, has temporarily given up his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. at

American hostage appears on tape by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Hostage American reporter Jill Carroll appeared in a silent 20second video aired Tuesday by Al-Jazeera television, which said her abductors gave the United States 72 hours to free female prisoners in Iraq or she would be killed. The tape showed the 28-year-old reporter sitdng in front of a white background and speaking, but her voice could not be heard. On the tape, Carroll is pale and appears tired, and her long, straight, brown hair is parted in the middle and pulled back from her face.

Press how it received the tape, but the station issued its own statement calling for Carroll’s release. An Al-Jazeera producer said no militant group’s name was attached to the message that was sent to the station with the silent tape Tuesday. However, a still photograph of Carroll from the videotape that later appeared on the Al-Jazeera website carried a logo in the bottom right corner that read “The Revenge Brigade.” The group was not known from previous claims of responsibility of violence in Iraq. Carroll was a freelance reporter for The

Pakistani provincial authorities said Tuesday four or five foreign insurgents were killed in the purported U.S. missile strike that has severely strained relations with this Muslim nation, a key ally in President George W. Bush's war on terror.

Christian Science Monitor, and the newspaper released a statement from her family pleading with her captors to set herfree. “Jill is an innocent journalist and we respectfully ask that you please show her mercy and allow her to return home to her mother, sister and family,” the statement said. “Jill is a friend and sister to many Iraqis and has been dedicated to bringing the truth of the Iraq war to the world. We appeal for the speedy and safe return of our beloved daughter and sister,” In its own statement appealing for Carroll’s release, the newspaper said she began filing stories for the Monitor early last year.

Groups sue spying program Two lawsuits were filed Tuesday in federal court seeking to end President George W. Bush's electronic eavesdropping program, saying it is illegal and exceeds his constitutional powers.The lawsuits say the program bypasses safeguards in a 1978 law requiring court approval of electronic monitoring.

Court ends girl's life support Massachusetts's highest court ruled Tuesday that an 11-year-old girl who was allegedly kicked and beaten with a baseball bat could be taken offlife supportThe move could lead to murder charges against her stepfather.

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Lowering murder rate tops mayor's priorities by

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Mayor Bill Bell praised Martin Luther King, Jr. in his annual State of the City address Tuesday evening, calling upon Durham citizens to take the activist’s mes—sage to heart. Highlighting the year’s accomplishments, Bell declared, “Good to great things happened in our city.” Tuesday’s speech marks Bell’s fourth since taking office in 2001. After praising King, Bell turned to what he sees as the main challenge for the city—crime, and in particular violent crime. On the issue of increasing security, Bell stressed the importance ofcollaboration, including shared efforts between community leaders, educators, business owners and youth. Durham has to come

together as a community, Bell said. “The power of partnerships is driving Durham’s future,” he noted. Bell outlined statistics illustrating that during the past year there was a 6-percent decrease in violent crime in the city. Yet, he said he was disappointed to announce that there was a 1 increase in homicides—this past year 37 murders were committed in the city of Durham, five more than in 2004. Bell voiced his concern about this increase and stressed the importance of making it a priority to improve safety and reduce crime. “We are all stakeholders for reducing crime in our city,” he said. Seventy-eight percent of the homicides committed last year are suspected to have SEE bell ON PAGE 11

Mayor Bill Bell tookthe floor at the City Council meeting Tuesday to give his State of the City address.

Speakers celebrate nursing school’s 75th year by Evelyn Ku THE CHRONICLE

The value of nursing and advances in clinical practice were at the heart of speeches during the School of Nursing's 75th anniversaryTuesday.

When James B. Duke allotted money in 1927 for the creation of what he thought would be The Nurses Home, he may never dreamed it would someday become its own school, much less celebrate its 75th anniversary. But that is exactly what happened Tuesday. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Duke School of Nursing, an event highlighted Tuesday by the annual Harriet Cook Carter Lecture, delivered by Marita Tiller, clinical professor and director of research, quality and outcomes management at the University of lowa. Several shorter speeches were also made by various administrators, including Dean of the School of Nursing and Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs Catherine Gilliss, President Richard Brodhead and Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and President and CEO for Duke University Health System. The ceremony, which was attended by nurses, doctors and students, was followed by a reception and cake-cutting at the Searle Center. Emphasis on patients prevailed throughout the speeches made at the celebratory event. Dzau, speaking as a cardiologist, stressed the important role that nurses play

in the lives of those they serve. “Because nurses spend more face-to-face time with patients and family they are also the ones that develop the greatest rapport,” Dzau said. “Nursing is a fundamental component ofany health system.” The event was only the first in a series celebrating the 75th anniversary of the School of Nursing that will take place throughout the year. The school will not be alone in its celebrations, however, as Duke Hospital, which opened its doors in 1930, is also celebrating its 75th year. Tiller’s lecture, “Achieving Excellence in Patient Care through Collaboration; An Evidence-Based Practice Approach,” served as the marquee event, which kicked off the year-long anniversary celebration. She began by stressing her “great passion for improving patient care,” followed by introducing evidence-based practice —a model that focuses on questioning the efficiency of common medical procedures. If all goes as Tiller plans, more people will become acquainted with her system of EBP. “Why listen to bowel sounds?” Tillerasked the audience, SEE NURSING ON PAGE 8

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ABE YOU INSURED? 23 percent of the uninsured have reported changing their way of life significantly in order to pay medical bills.

HIHSWMBi 2 juniors named Bernstein Scholars Court upholds assisted suicide The Supreme Court upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law Tuesday,rejecting the Bush administration's attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die. Justices, on a 6-3 vote in which Chief Justice John Roberts was on the losing side, said the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people trumped federal authority to regulate doctors. That means the administration improperly tried to use a federal drug law to prosecute Oregon doctors who prescribe overdoses.

Rescue workers suffer ill health Thousands of people who either worked at or lived near Ground Zero have reported ailments such as 'Trade Center cough" since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but some say that only now are the consequences of working at the site becoming heartbreakingly clear. "I think that there are several people who died that day and didn'trealize that they died that day," said Donald Faeth,an emergency medical technician and officer in a union with two of the ground zero workers who died last year. Doctors running different health screening programs say it will take decades to get a clear picture of the long-term health effects of working at ground zero. NASA probe will travel to Pluto A piano-sized space probe neared the end of its countdown Tuesday for a mission to study Pluto, the solar system's last unexplored planet, and a mysterious zone of icy objects at the outer edges of the planetary system. The distance involved, however, means scientists will not be able to receive data on Pluto until at least July 2015.

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For 1.3 million North Carolina citizens, even a slight accident could easily become a financial catastrophe. In an effort to assist the uninsured, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of North Carolina is teaming up with the Duke University Center for Health Policy to create a new

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Over the next four years, the foundation will provide $300,000 to the recently created Jim Bernstein Health Policy Scholars Program. Each year, two Duke juniors and one master’s degree candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health will receive the

scholarship. This year’s scholars are There-

sa Poulos and Vijay Brihmadesam of Duke and April Clark, a UNC graduate student. Bernstein Scholars will study health policy issues for two years, with the goal of improved access to health care. Each will receive a $lO,OOO stipend over two years for their research. Christopher Conover, assistant research professor in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the initiative’s creator, said the students ultimately present an honors thesis aimed at providing workable solutions that will increase health care coverage. “There’s a whole network of resources, but it’s a little uneven,” Conover said. “The idea is we want to beef up the state safety net.”

In order to achieve this goal, the Duke University Center for Health Policy and the Bernstein Scholars will be working closely with the North Carolina Institute of Medicine. Poulos and other researchers have also been working with the North Carolina Office of Research, Demonstrations, and Rural Health Development, which provides technical assistance to communities building free care clinics in rural areas. As a child of two doctors, Poulos grew up aware of the problems associated with uninsured patients. “Health is the most valued thing you could ever have. It’s everything,” Poulos said. Brihmadesam said he is more interested in how factors other than financial troubles can bar some citizens from seeking health insurance. “For example, an illegal alien in this country might not want to get health insurance because he’s afraid he will be caught,” he said. If the initiative is successful, it may be expanded to other states, Conover said. “Our problem isn’t much different than it is across the rest of the country,” Conover said. “It’s mostly a problem of affordability as opposed to people thinking, ‘We don’t want health care. We don’t need health care.’” Future plans include expanded educational resources expected to help citizens better understand their insurance options. The Duke University Center for Health Policy is using part of

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JuniorTheresa Poulos is one of two Bernstein Scholars fromDuke. Along with theother scholar, she will receive money to study healthypolicy issues over the next two years. the Blue Cross Blue Shield grant to create a website with informa-

tion about North Carolina health

policies, which Poulos has been helping to create. Also in the works is an online state health directory aimed at assisting doctors and other care

providers.

Conover hopes the honors theses and findings of the Bernstein Scholars will demonstrate to potential donors that the new

initiative is valuable and should be continued. “We don’t have any illusions of completely solving the problem. What we are trying to do here is focus our efforts on finding the best practices and disseminating information about those practices,” Conover said. “Eighteen thousand people die as a result of a lack of coverage every year. We could and should have a more rational system.”

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Prof testifies in Alito hearings by

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The first week of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito ended Saturday. This concluded five days of intense debate by the Senate Judiciary Committee over President Bush’s nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor. Duke University Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science Erwin Chemerinsky appeared Friday before the Committee as a Democratic witness offering testimony on issues pertinent to Alito’s nomination. In his testimony, Chemerinsky addressed the potentialJOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS ity ofadverse effects on the Supreme Court if Alito is confirmed to replace O’Connor. Professor Erwin Chemerinsky (second from left) appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testifyagainst Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation. He focused primarily on central questions surrounding assertions of executive power and raised objections to Alito’s confirmation based on his past behavior trends concerning the matter. “I have carefully read the writings, the speeches and the decisions of Samuel Alito in [the area of executive power], and they all point in one direction: a very troubling pattern of great deference to executive authority,” Chemerinsky said in his testimony. He noted that the issue of how Alito might perform duties as a Supreme Court justice relating to matters of executive authority is one Senate Democrats regard with great concern. “The issue of executive power was key—l could have talked about a number of other issues, but Democrats asked me to focus on executive power,” Chemerinsky said. “I felt very comfortable doing this.” In his testimony, Chemerinsky addressed Alito’s support of absolute immunity for the attorney general in wiretapping cases during his time in the Solicitor General’s office. He also addressed Alito’s support of the “unitary executive” theory, under which Alito had asserted in selected speeches that presidential powers would be greatly expanded. “Over and again he comes down on the side of law enforcement,” Chemerinsky told the Committee, highlighting Alito’s deference to law enforcement in the case involving the strip search of a 10-year-old girl. “Any police officer, any judge should know that strip searching a 10-year-old girl, who was suspected of nothing, violated the Constitution,” he added. “Senators, this is one of so many cases where Judge Alito deferred to law enforcement.” SEE CHEMERINSKY ON PAGE 11

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Durham considers ban on roadside solicitation

Filibuster on the quad

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Sophomore Megan Moskop and several other members of the Duke Democrats performed a mock filibuster ofSupreme Courtnominee Judge Samuel Alito on the Main West QuadrangleTuesday.The group is hoping raise awareness about the nominee's pending confirmation, which will be decidedJan. 30.

Few were surprised when County Commissioner Lewis Cheek resurrected his proposal for a ban on all road solicitation in a meeting of County Commissioners and City Council members last Tuesday. The joint meeting was just one of Cheek’s numerous attempts to persuade the City Council to put Durham’s roadside solicitors and panhandlers out of business by making the practice illegal. Despite support for the proposal among county commissioners, it will have to garner more backing from City Council to have any effect. Many of the roadside vendors, who often sell newspapers, would be affected by the ban. Most of the soliciting Cheek referred to takes place within city limits and thus falls under the City Council’s jurisdiction. “We could bring forth a ban or prohibition, but unless the city endorses it, it will have minimal effect,” Count Commissioner Becky Heron said. Roadside solicitors pose several problems, Cheek said. First and foremost, he noted, they endanger drivers as well as themselves, as they often position themselves in busy intersections to maximize their business. Cheek added that he is also concerned for the well-being of the solicitors. “Many of the people who are engaged in this solicitation are in some addiction or homeless. Giving them money doesn’t help deal with the root causes of their

problems in any way,” Cheek said. “In essence what we’re doing is causing more harm than good.” Cheek’s final concern is for the image of Durham. “This provides the wrong message to folks about our community that we don’t have opportunities available to get our people off the streets,” he explained. SEE SOLICITATION ON PAGE 8

A county commissioner hopes to make panhandling and roadside soliciting illegal per a new policy.

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SEMIFINALISTS,™ page, the board. “They are all very passionate and dedicated to Duke,” Leinster said. “It’s a big h0n0r.... It’s a very impressive list of people.” Thirteen students submitted applications for the position Jan. 13. ICC will reconvene Jan. 30 to interview the semifinalists and narrow the field down to three finalists. The finalists will speak before Duke Student Government committees and will be presented to the DSG legislative body in mid-February. The DSG Senate will vote on the finalists. “The interview process is very thorough,” Leinster said. “It really takes understanding Duke on a depth that is very

impressive.”

Leinster said the semifinalists have been involved in a number of different organizations on campus and show a

Each year, Duke Student Government selects one Young Trustee to serve a three-year term on the Board of Trustees. In the upcoming weeks, eight semifinalists will be whittled down to three finalists who will undergo a strenuous interview process. One Young Trustee will be named by the DSG voting body in mid-February. The position is considered to be one of the highest honors an undergraduate can receive. A graduate Young Trustee is also named each year.

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breadth of knowledge about the University. This year’s list includes one woman and two engineers. The Young Trustee is able to bring a fresh perspective to the Board of Trustees, Leinster added. Semifinalists can only bask in the honor for a short time before they must begin the lengthy process of interviews. Goodwin said he will take the next few days to learn more about the University and to prepare for the second round of interviews. “I know the competition will be very competitive,” saidjandl, the only woman left in the race to the boardroom. “I think it’s very important that there is a female running.” The idea of taking responsibility of the position was initially daunting to some of the current semifinalists. “It took a while for me to decide that I did want to apply for the Young Trustee. I wanted to make sure I had the right motives,” Kallmeyer said. In the end, Kallmeyer threw his hat in the ring because he believes the position is the most rewarding leadership experience Duke has to offer —a sentiment shared by McKenna. “I’m really thankful I’m able to go through this process,” said McKenna, president of the Interfratemity Council. “As a culminating experience for my senior year, this is unbelievable.” Last year’s Young Trustee, Anthony Vitarelli, Trinity ’O5, said he congratulates the semifinalists and wishes them best of luck for the strenuous road ahead. “It’s been a remarkable learning experience,” Vitarelli said of his first year as a trustee. “Until you sit in that room it is difficult to realize the depth and complexity of the University’s operation.” Steve Veres contributed to this story.

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NURSING from page 3 then explaining that the common post-abdominal surgery practice for measuring patient activity is unreliable. “Listening to bowel sounds for return of GI motility is based on tradition,” she noted. By questioning this tradition, Tiller reformed the treatment of patients that underwent abdominal surgery. Some of those present admitted that they were already familiar with the model, and many noted the impact Tiller’s practice has had on the field. “She really has had a huge influence on nursing practices,” said Kathleen Williams, an associate professor at the Jefferson College of Health and Sciences in Roanoke, Va. Mary Ann Fuchs, chief nursing and patient care services officer for DUHS, spoke after Tiller. She explained that collaboration among the various sectors of DUHS

helps the system move toward the “ultimate goal of improving care for our patients.” Fuchs did not limit herself to reflecting on past accomplishments of the School of Nursing and the progress it has made, looking also to the future ofDuke nursing. “We still have a lot of work to do,” she

said. “It’s been a great 75 years, and we’ve come a long way, but there are still challenges ahead. We’re ready, and we’re excited to meet them.” Amid the scheduled speakers for the event, there was one who did not appear on the agenda. Former Dean of the School of Nursing Ruby Wilson interrupted current Dean Gilliss from the audience to say a few words on “innovation,” which she described as “one of the things Duke University School of Nursing is rightfully proud for,” and the importance of being bold, as she demonstrated by her

unexpected speech. The audience met her interruption with laughter and applause.

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Several speakers offered thoughts on the importance of nurses at the nursing school's anniversary event.

SOLICITATION *.*.6 The issue of a ban was last addressed in 2003 when Cheek served on the City Council. At the time, progress on the issue was limited to compromise regulations requiring solicitors to wear orange vests and . display identification. Also in 2003, all solicitors were ordered to obtain a permit from the city to continue working on the sides of roads. The regulations are not enough for Cheek. “People are still able to do the same things as before,” he said. “They have orange vests on, but the regulations don’t address anything else. I don’t see any significant change.” Cheek said the regulation requiring solicitors to obtain a permit was initially intended to deter solicitors who could not pay the fee for a permit. The $25 that was required for a permit, he said, did not accomplish this goal—necessitating a full ban. City Council member Howard-Clement said he is not in support of the proposal. “I do not believe in the complete ban of panhandlers,” Clement said. Clement explained that although he is concerned about the safety issues Cheek has raised, there are other legal considerations in placing a complete ban on the practice. Though some opponents of the proposal claim that the ban would take the jobs of people who are at least attempting ~

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He and Heron cited the many resources and training facilities in Durham available for anyone seeking help or skills to obtain a different job. “These folks are panhandling,” Heron said. “We have so many resources to help them and opportunities to make a better life for themselves. We want for them to not have to stand on a street comer and beg.”

Panhandling laws instituted a few yearsago require solicitors to wear orange vests on the sides ofroads.

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“It’s not really going to change our goals as a group. It just provides us with another opportunity to have a

winter break, Chi Psi had been lobbying RLHS for housing since the spring of 2003, said senior Mark Dunlap, vice president of the fraternity. Chi Psi will receive 35 beds on the second and third floors of Edens 2A. DTD President Reed Shaffner, a senior, said his fraternity will have 47 beds in Edens 2C, including 20 doubles and seven singles. He added that next year’s sophomores will fill about 25 of the beds. Juniors and seniors will claim the rest. DTD has about 88 current members, Shaffner said. The two fraternities will live in a quad in which many selective living groups already reside. Fraternities Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc., Delta Sigma Phi and Sigma Phi Epsilon, the Arts Theme House and Student Housing for Academic and Residential Experimentation all have sections in Edens. Dunlap said receiving housing will not affect the rush process that is currently underway. TOM

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stronger group,” Dunlap explained. Shaffner said he hopes DTD’s new section will be another selling point to freshmen currently rushing the

fraternity. “Every year we say we hope we’ll have a section,” he said. “We are very excited for this opportunity. It won’t change what our fraternity tries to do, but it will certainly increase the opportunities available to us. I think housing is an integral part of fraternity life.” “Everybody’s really excited,” senior and Chi Psi President Jake Cook added. DTD has been a colony for about two and half years and became an official fraternity chapter last spring. Shaffner said the fraternity has been giving presentations to the administration about community service and academics in hopes of being granted housing. He cited the success of the presentations and his fraternity’s ability to fill a housing section as reasons for the new Edens block. Hull could not be reached for comment.

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Six students and a bartender were cited at the Armadillo Grill, an oncampus bar, by Alcohol Law Enforcement agents Friday evening.

ALE from page 1 establishments—such as the Armadillo Grill—unannounced to determine if alcohol laws are being followed. Duke University Police Department officers assisted Patterson by blocking off the exits to the bar area, bartender Taz Blackley said. No citations, however, were issued by DUPD. Patterson added that he would report the violations to the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, the organization responsible for controlling the sale, purchase, transportation, manufacture, consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages in the state. Blackley, who was tending the bar when he and the students were cited, said he checked the DukeCards and driver’s licenses ofeveryone that was drinking in the establishment that night. Patterson and Blackley both reported that the cited students failed to produce identification when Patterson asked for it. Blackley speculated that if students had fake IDs, they might have been reluctant to give them up. He said it is hard to control the use of fake IDs at a bar on a college campus, especially on a busy Friday night. “It sucks saying as a bartender, ‘lt’s my ass. I can’t serve you,’” he said. He also said he understood the importance of the laws and did not want the Armadillo Grill to develop the stereotype of being lenient on ID checks. “People might think it is easy to come down here and drink, and that can’t happen,” Blackley said. ALE had visited Duke prior to Friday night. Agents were present at the Rolling Stones concert in Wallace Wade Stadium in October, but ALE officials said they could not remember the last time the organization issued citations on Main West Campus. Patterson has been part of other alcohol enforcement operations involving Duke students, including last August’s infamous “back-to-school” campaign targeting house parties and ABC-licensed stores, restaurants and bars near Duke’s campus.

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XAVIER from page 1 and administrators were positive during move-in. During orientation, administrators said the campus was 90 percent ready for classes. “I don’t think Xavier will be the same as it was before, but I don’t think that that’s necessarily a bad thing,” Amoateng said. “It might take some time, but I think the city will be okay.”

A storm-torn campus As janitors mopped the University Center’s dimly lit halls in preparation for the start ofclasses Tuesday, Amoateng recalled her last experiences on campus before she relocated to Duke last fall with friend Christina Roberts, also a sophomore. Despite a weekend of severe weather warnings, Xavier was not providing any means of transportation off campus, and Amoateng decided to try her luck and wait out the storm at school. Hurricanes are nothing new to the Bayou, and about 50 percent of Xavier students are from Louisiana. Amoateng said emotions were mixed as administrators and students watched the storm move overhead, the levee break and floodwaters cover the campus. “The school was flooded, but it wasn’t that bad, so a lot of us thought it would take a week or so before the school is up and running,” she said. Although Xavier was not able to offer transportation for many students, Roberts evacuated to Houston. “I’m from South Carolina, and I know what hurricanes can do,” she said. As she watched the news from Texas, Roberts was unsure where Amoateng and many other schoolmates were. “We were trying to get in contact with them, but of course that was impossible,” Roberts said. “I was just praying they were all right.” Back on campus, the remaining members of the Xavier community headed up to their rooms after watching the initial days of the storm pass. But things devolved quickly. “We woke up the next morning, and we saw that the levees had broken and that the water was rising higher and higher,” Amoateng said.

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Xavier University sophomore Amanda Amoateng (above left) returned to a storm-ravaged New Orleans (top, above right) for the spring semester. Three days later, police came by boat and told students that they had 10 minutes to pack up and leave. Amoateng packed a change of clothes in her bag, left her computer on her desk and crossed the waters of the now-submerged 1-10 with other students. For the first time since Katrina hit, Amoateng looked out on the flooded city ofNew Orleans. Return to school There was a palpable excitement on campus as students gathered outside a now-dry St. Katharine Drexel Hall Sun-

day night. Although Amoateng was allowed to see

her dorm room Dec. 9, she had been worried in the month since that her possessions would be destroyed or missing. “I pretty much left anything,” she said. “I heard from other people that there were some pipe leaks, so I wasn’t sure what the state of my room was.” As they returned to Xavier, both Amoateng and Roberts were relieved to find their rooms in good condition. The echoes of a nearby orientation program on volunteering in New Orleans could be heard through the Student Center’s dimly lit corridors Sunday. Like most schools in the Big Easy, Xavier will place added emphasis on community outreach this semester.

Many returning students said they felt a closer connection with New Orleans. “Although it’s not up and running 100 percent, there are more people back than I expected,” Amoateng said. In the distance, camouflage-clad officers patrolled the Hummer-lined streets in the French Quarter. Music floated through the broken windows and charred skeletons of Common Street bars. “It’s not as bad as it could be. We don’t have everything that we need, but we do have enough to make it,” Roberts said of her school. “People are ready to pick up where we left off. We can’t let this one thing stop us.”

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been committed by African Americans, Bell said. “We, as a race, are committing murders far out of proportion as compared to our overall population,” he added. He suggested that environmental factors and race relations could potentially play a large role in this correlation, but he emphasized that these factors should not be used as excuses. In addition to race, Bell highlighted the extent to which teenagers are involved in crime. Forty-one percent of the homicide suspects are under the age of 19, Bell said. In particular, he pointed to the extent to which youth are victims of gun violence and are suspected of being involved in gun violence. Bell also outlined ways to help treat the issue, including increasing parental involvement; reducing access to firearms; implementing aggressive drug intervention and increasing the number of treatment centers; and decreasing unemployment. Children need responsible adults as role models, Bell emphasized, suggesting that parents are not alone in raising their children and should not be embarrassed to ask the community for help. He praised educators and after-school programs and called for more community mentors. Bell also pointed to the extent to which guns are used to commit crimes. Seventyeight percent of homicides this past year were committed with guns, Bell said. “When a young person can get access to guns, something is wrong,” Bell said, adding that Project Safe Neighborhoods, an initiative to reduce crime in Durham, has not yet reached its goal. The entire community must come together to help increase safety, he stressed. Bell suggested that the city may want to bring in expert consultants to help give

Chemerinsky also underscored to the Committee the role and importance of the governmental separation of powers and wondered if Alito, should he be confirmed, would act according to that standard. “A key question for this committee is whether Samuel Alito will continue this tradition of enforcing checks and balances, or whether he’ll be a rubber for presidential power.” stamp Chemerinsky said to the Senate. In his closing statement before the Committee, Chemerinsky made plain his disapproval of Alito as a Supreme Court nominee. “I believe that at this point in time, it’s too dangerous to have a person like Samuel Alito, with his writings and records on executive power, on the United States Supreme Court,” Chemerinsky said in his testimony. Chemerinsky was casual when acknowledging the impact his testimony might have made on the Judiciary Committee. “I felt I was able to deliver the message that was most important,” he said. “However, I have no illusions that I changed anyone’s mind.” Chemerinsky cited the high probability of Alito’s confirmation by the Senate Judiciary Committee, barring extreme action by the Democrats. “At this stage I feel it very likely [Alito] will be confirmed, unless there is a filibuster, which I believe is possible but not likely,” he explained. Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court will be voted on by the Senate Judiciary Committee Jan. 24.

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He stated, however, that this does not imply inadequacy on the part of the Durham Police Department. Rather, it would provide another outlet to increase the community’s chance of success. Bell acknowledged the prevalence of drugs and their influence on crime. He Called for a combination of tough drug intervention and an increase in the number of treatment centers. Treating issues of unemployment is another way to reduce crime, Bell suggested. “We must seek solutions to remove barriers that ex-offenders have in finding jobs.” In his concluding remarks, Bell further complimented and thanked community leaders who have continuously helped improve the city’s safety, economy

and overall appearance. “The state of our city is strong,” he said, reiterating his pride in Durham’s secure financial footing, great customer service and outstanding citizen involvement. “The people of Durham have been and will be heard.” Several times in his address, Bell acknowledged Duke’s assistance throughout the Durham community and thanked University leaders, including Senior Vice President for Public and Government Relations John Bumess, for attending the address. The'audience demonstrated its support for Bell and his address with a standing ovation. Council member Howard Clement also praised the Durham organizations for their Martin Luther King Jr. activities this past weekend. “I’m sure he was smiling down from heaven... for what Durham did.”

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Between 1932 and 2004, the men’s basketball teams of Duke and N.C. State played at least two games against, each other every year. For the second straight season, the No. 1 Blue Devils and No. 14 Wolfpack will compete in only one regular-season contest, set for tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadiyg um. Upping the ante further, the game is for first place in the ACC. Il ’ s different because TONIGHT, 7 p.m. Cameron Indoor Y ou kind of have a bra g‘ ging right on the line when you play a team one time, so it makes it more competitive,” senior Sean Dockery said. At 16-0 (4-0 in the ACC), the Blue Devils are tied for the second-best start in team history, trailing only the 1991-92 NCAA

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Championship squad that began its season 17-0. With questions surfacing about the possibility of an undefeated season, head coach Mike Krzyzewski was quick to reject the likelihood of such a historic season. “I’m not the kind of guy who even thinks about streaks,” Krzyzewski said. “I’ve coached 31 years and I’ve never had an undefeated team. So when I say that we will lose a couple of games, for the last 30 years or so I’ve always been right.” The red-hot Blue Devils will face possibly SEE M. BBALL ON PAGE 20

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to N.C. State Tuesday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke freshman Michael Degli Obizzi won the meet’s N.C. STATE “P first match by DUKE 7 major decision over Garrett Cummings, 13-5, in the 133-pound weight class to give the Blue Devils a 4-0 lead. The Wolfpack (7-3, 1-1 in the ACC), however, answered with a six-match winning streak to put them ahead by a score of 20-4. Duke (0-5, 0-1) earned its second and final win in the seventh match when sophomore Konrad Dudziak defeated Mark Jahad, 9-5, in the 197-pound weight class. N.C. State put a stamp on its victory with wins in the meet’s last two matches. “We’re very disappointed,” head coach Clar Anderson said. “We felt we would win this one. We needed to win our close matches. We apparendy didn’t win our close matches.” The Blue Devils lost five of their 10 matches by three points or less. Anderson said he was surprised to see that Duke’s physical fitness level—a deciding factor in the Blue Devils’ close matches—was not on par with the demands of the Wolfpack competition. “We need to improve our conditioning,” Anderson said. “We need to go back to basics.” Senior Levi Craig returned to the Duke lineup after suffering a knee injury earlier in the season. In the fifth match,

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Craig was defeated by Rick Brownlee, 5-2, in the 174-pound weight class. Anderson said that his^return to competition may have come too soon. Fielding a young team—seven of the 10 Duke grapplers who wrestled last night

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and got to the free-throw line seven times. “He played like a veteran tonight,” head coach Jay Wright said. “He’s the most consistent guy we have. That’s what we count on him for.” He also had two big blocked shots that deflated Seton Hall’s offense. Nearly unstoppable while building a 13-point firsthalf lead,, the Pirates (9-6, 1-3) came crashing back and shot only 31 percent in the second half. “For some reason in the first half, it was like our feet were frozen,” Wright said. “I’ve got to watch the film to understand it.” After committing only three turnovers in the first half, Seton Hall made seven in the opening 10 minutes of the second and it missed 4-of-ll shots to let Villanova grab a 55-51 lead. The Pirates scored only two baskets in a 15-minute stretch in the second half and could do little defensively as Foye bounced back from a 3-for-15 effort against Texas. He hit a three-pointer late in the game that gave the Wildcats a 61-54 lead and sank one free throw after they forced a turnover. Sheridan then had one of the plays of the game, coming out of nowhere for a follow on a three-point miss that made it 6454. Sheridan finished with three blocks and seven rebounds. Wright said his veteran players realized at halftime they weren’t bringing the defensive pressure and taking the smart shots they did when they opened the season with 10 straight wins. When he walked into the locker room at halftime and already heard Ray and Foye addressing the team, Wright realized the Wildcats would be just fine.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Mike Davis wasn’t even sure Marco Killingsworth could play Tuesday night. Fortunately for Indiana, Killingsworth’s back proved strong enough to carry the Hoosiers. Killingsworth overcame pregame back spasms to dominate the middle in the second half, and Roderick Wilmont added 17 points as the 13th-ranked ILLINOIS Hr Hoosiers upset No. 7 Illinois, 62-60. “I didn’t even think he could INDIANA 62 go,” Davis said. “But he fought through it and played a great second half.” The Fighting Illini (16-2, 2-2 in the Big Ten) had no answer for the Hoosiers’ tandem. Wilmont provided the spark in the first half after Indiana fell into an early 11-point hole. Killingsworth scored JOE ROBBINS/US PRESSWIRE 20 of his 23 points in the second half and added 12 rebounds, one assist and four blocks. Despite suffering from back spasms earlier in the day, Marco Killingsworth (5) scored 20 second-halfpoints to lead Indiana to a win. But Wilmont was every bit as impressive. He tied a season high with 17 points, matched his career-high with nine rebounds and sparked an 18-0 first-half run that gave Indiana the momentum it needed. After the game, Hoosiers fans poured onto the court, setting off a celebration that even Killingsworth joined. “I jumped right in there because I ain’t used to seeing that,” said Killingsworth, a fifth-year senior who transferred to Indiana from Auburn. “So I jumped in there with them.” For Illinois, it was a rare bad night. The Illini entered Tuesday with 55 wins in their last 57 regular-season games. They’d beaten Indiana (11-3, 3-1) five straight times and have now lost to only four Big Ten teams since Jan. 24, 2004—lowa, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Indiana. Shaun Pruitt led the Illini with a career-high 17 points. Brian Randle added 15 and James Augustine had 11. Dee Brown, Illinois’ top player, was limited to five points but had 11 assists before fouling out. And Illinois has now lost two of its last three, while Indiana has won 11 straight conference games at home. “Marco’s a good player and sooner or later he’s going to get some things,” Illinois coach Bruce Weber said. “In the first half we did a good job fighting him, but it’s tough. He’s just good.” Killingsworth needed more than solid play to produce against Illinois, though. He asked to be taken out just 59 seconds into the game, then struggled to get going when he returned. When he did post up, shots weren’t falling. And without their big man, the Hoosiers looked out of sync. Just eight minutes into the game, Indiana had committed seven turnovers and already trailed 14-3. That’s when Wilmont provided the spark. He hit two straight 3-pointers to get the Hoosiers righted, then used his energy to start an improbable 18-0 spurt that Indiana used to turn a 19-9 deficit into a 27-19 lead. Illinois went nearly 6 1/2 minutes without a point, and Brown’s three-pointer at the end of the half managed to get the Illini within 28-24. Killingsworth was l-of-5 from the field, l-of-3 from the free-throw line and had an ailing back.

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ahead of Duke in your Associated Press college basketball poll ballot, the only voter in either major poll to do so. Somehow, after ranking Duke No. 1 just one week before, you were sufficiently convinced that the Gators were the best team in the nation after seeing them beat 11-5 Mississippi State and 8-6 Auburn at home. That, or Duke’s home win over No. 23 Maryland and road victory over 134 Clemson just weren’t impressive enough for you. Huh? “I like Florida a lot and I thought about it over the weekend after I saw quite a bit of the Duke-Clemson game,” Kaltefleiter told the AP. “I know the game was in Clemson and Duke won by 10 points, but Clemson gave them fits in some areas. I’ve seen Florida a lot and it is something totally different from last year as far as chemistry is concerned.” Guess what, Johnny. I like hamburgers a lot and I thought about that over the weekend, after I had a filet mignon. I know I got the filet mignon from The Cracker Barrel and it was the best thing I’ve ever had there, but, you know, the filet mignon just wasn’t as good I’m used to. I’ve had a lot of hamburgers before, but this hamburger was one of the best I’ve ever had I think maybe I’ll rank hamburgers ahead of filet mignon in my AP meat poll this week. You just don’t do that. Just like you wouldn’t judge filet mignon from the piece of meat they serve at The Cracker Barrel, you shouldn’t judge an ACC team by its performance on the road. Because Duke is the filet mignon to Florida’s hamburger. Duke is the Jessica Simpson to Florida’s Ashlee Simpson. Duke is the Elvis Presley to Florida’s Elvis Costello. Duke is the Double Stuf Oreo to Florida’s, um, regular Oreo. Alex, don’t you think you ’re being a little harsh on Florida ? They do have the same 16-0 record Duke does. They have been one ofcollege basketball’s best stories all season, rising to No. 2 in the rankings after starting the year unranked. But look who they’ve beaten to do it. Wake Forest, Providence, Florida State, Miami and Georgia are all big names, but none of them have exacdy looked great this season. The Gators have played exactly one team in the Ratings Percentage Index top-50, No. 21 Syracuse, who they barely beat in mid-November. Their strength of schedule is 99th-best in the nation. Duke has played and beaten six teams in the RPI top-50, including No. 2 Memphis and No. 13 Texas. They have played —get this, critics of Coach K’s scheduling philosophy—the nation’s hardest schedule. Now I don’t pretend to understand how the RPI is calculated; it probably involves more math than I can handle (especially if said math has both letters and numbers in the equations). But since the NCAA Tournament committee uses RPI to determine tournament seedings, then it’s good enough for me and it’s good enough for The Train. And I ask you, Johnny, why isn’t it good enough for you? Here’s what The Train thinks you should do, Johnny. When Florida loses at Tennessee Jan. 21, leave them in the top spot in your ballot. You like them, don’t you? They’re the best team in the nation, right? See how much The Train cares. The Train will leave you and the rest of the haters behind. Choo, choo, John Kalteflciter.

questions about the emergence of modes of global governance, flexible capital, and new technologies, and how these inform ideas about underdevelopment, civil society, and the third world under neoliberalism. Instructor: Anne-Maria Makhulu Th 3:05-5:35 PM AAAS 2995.05 "Cultural (con)Fusions: Asians and Africans in Diasporas" Focuses primarily on the interactions between descendants

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belong to sophomore DeMarcus Nelson, who Krzyzewski described as doubtful for Wednesdays game with a bone bruise in his right foot. The biggest strength for N.C. State since conference play began has been the team’s ability to hit three-pointers. The squad has shot over 52 percent from behind the arc in those four games, but Duke’s success defending the three is like-

ly to disrupt sharpshooting guards Engin Atsur, Tony Bethel and forward Ilian Evtimov. The Blue Devils have held their oppo 26.2 percent from downtown, the best in the ACC. The low post will feature an exciting matchup between a decorated veteran and a steadily-improving sophomore —Duke’s Shelden Williams and N.C. State’s Cedric Simmons. The respective centers rank onetwo in the ACC in blocked shots and average 18.6 and 12.2 points per game. “[Simmons has] made a huge improvement in the player he’s become,” Krzyzewski said. “Offensively he’s a definite low-post threat, and with their three-point shooting, nents to

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he’s usually isolated there one-on-one. With his length and width he has the chance to score really well, and he has.” The most difficult task for the Wolfpack, as it has been for all of the Blue Devils’ opponents, will be containingJJ. Redick. The Duke senior has put on an even greater offensive display since conference play began, averaging 27.8 points per game against ACC foes.

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Blue Devils win, 84-68 —Compiled by Matthew Ik5 “He’s able to command so much attention that his total point number isn’t just what he puts through the basket but the opportunities he creates for his teammates,” Sendek said. N.C. State will have another obstacle to overcome if it is to triumph in Wednesday’s game-history. When the teams tip off at 7 p.m., it will be 11 years to the day since the last time the Wolfpack won in Cameron.

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Wright has big role to fill Jo Rae Wright distant internal hire. Years has her work cut out for ago, the medical school operher. Starting in July, ated as an independent entity Wright will take over the that had minimal contact with the rest of the University. Colhelm of the Graduate School laboration beand suddenly StaffCClltOrial tween the School fmd herself in of Medicine and charge of Duke’s most amorphous and sprawl- the Graduate School has ining school. She is, of course, creased dramatically. Appointing Wright is a symbolic indiup to the challenge. As current vice dean for cation of how much the basic sciences in the medical relationship between the two school, Wright is already en- schools has expanded, Her appointment also furmeshed in the Duke system. She has worked with the thers that collaboration, graduate school leaders and When Wright moves across faculty, and she is acquainted campus to the Graduate with the University’s plan- School, she will bring her web ning process. From day one, of connections with her, as she will be ready to take an well as her understanding of active role in plotting out the the medical school. Wright’s strategic plan that will guide background may engender more opportunities for the priorities—and spending for at least the next five years. School of Medicine to work Coming from the School of with other graduate programs. The real issue Wright will Medicine, however, Wright is a

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upper-level administrative position. Moreover, she is a natural scientist. Wright’s science background is in line with Duke’s professed priorities. The recent focus of many of Duke’s facilities improvements has been the natural sciences, and some professors in the humanities and social sciences are wondering about the University’s commitment to their areas. While most administrators claim that educational specialization has little influence on their decisions, Wright’s background . nonetheless demonstrates Duke’s attention to the sciences. The dean of the Graduate School and the dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences now both hail from the natural sciences—and these are the two people who have the greatest

direct contact with the faculty and the most influence in setting departmental academic priorities. Wfight’s greatest chance to make a difference may lie in her science background. When Kristina Johnson took over the Pratt School for Engineering, she transformed Duke’s school into one of the most

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schools for women. She drastically increased female professors in a field in which they are still greatly underrepresented and improved the retention rate for women at every stage of education. Wright might be poised to do the same thing for women in the natural sciences. This kind of example-setting leadership has worked for Duke before. Let’s hope it can work again.

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face in her new role, however, has little to do with interdisciplinary collaboration. She will immediately find herself challenged by the limited budget of the Graduate School. With oversight over most doctoral students at Duke, the school juggles a complex budget that is perpetually balancing its financial limitations against its desire to admit qualified students. The school has grown substantially over the past decade and now is charged with supporting an expansive student body scattered across every department of the University, as well as handling an ever-burgeoning student affairs entity. This year’s promise to offer health insurance to every Ph.D. student will only make the budget more challenging. Most notably at the moment, however, Wright is a

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after MLK, Jr.’s death, a “sepamentality—or worse—still prevails in American society. This time, however, I am not referring to race relations but rather to the deteriorating rate but equal”

lions of gay Americans in this country. Specifically, I am referencing civil unions, which do nothing but needlessly degrade gay partners,

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them as secondclass citizens much in the same way as Southern schoolhouses did to African Americans in the 19505. As King wrote from a Birmingham jail cell, “Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.” One day, gay marriage will become as accepted as interracial marriage now is. The American bigot, having finally lost the race war, however, has turned his attention to the battleground of gay rights, where even support of civil unions comes as a surprise. No issue has rallied conservatives, however, like that of gay marriage, with Texas being the most recent state to amend its constitution against it. While only a small portion of mainstream America would admit to despising gays, the majority of people have an indelible problem with gay marriage. I believe this country’s hostility towards gay marriage stems directly from fear, prejudice and ignorance, because none of the right’s tiresome arguments for legalized discrimination holds water. They claim homosexuality is unnatural, yet it has a clear genetic foundation. They claim marriage must ensure procreation, yet old or infertile couples are allowed to marry. They claim a mom and dad are prerequisites of a healthy family, yet single-parent families abound. They claim children reared by gays will in turn be gay, yet research shows there is no increased likelihood of this, and straight couples already have gay children. They claim gays are unfit parents, yet prostitutes, felons, drug-dealers and television evangelists are allowed to raise kids. They ignore the fact that 50 percent of straight marriages end in divorce, because when, say, Britney Spears has a 55-hour marriage, it is more acceptable than two longtime gay partners getting married.

They claim gay marriage is dangerous to society, yet they constantly promote gun ownership. Once one realizes these objections to gay marriage are nothing but red herrings, the issue boils down to immorality. Unfortunately, holding that gay marriage is wrong is nothing but an arbitrary religious belief—as such, it seems immune to logic. I believe that gay rights activists have suffered for too long at the hands of the right’s monopoly on immorality. Their banter about traditional values has cloaked the fact that their traditions are discriminatory and bigoted—and discrimination and bigotry, my friends, is where the real immorality lies. Any citizen has the right to hate gay marriage and homosexuals if he or she so chooses, but this should not be the way of our laws and governments. Gay marriage is a freedom protected by our federal government’s guarantee to the pursuit of happiness. You would argue the same thing if you were legally forbidden to marry the person you love. Separation of church and state has guided our country for centuries: freedom ofreligion and from religion. And don’t forget the religions in this country that condone gay marriage—don’t they count anymore?

Now is the time to fight the tyranny of the majority and bolster the rights of the vulnerable. When a same-sex marriage ban appears on North Carolina’s ballot in 2006, please remember the other American traditions: a value of diversity, a celebration of differences between us, an elevation of liberty and freedom before any other convictions. Remember that the Constitution was created to guarantee rights, never to take them away. And finally, remember what even Dick Cheney said in a rare moment of clarity: “My general view is freedom means freedom for everyone People ought to be free to enter into any kind ofrelationship they want to.” In retrospect, perhaps there is one way gay marriage actually does threaten “normal” marriage. With increased acceptance of gay rights, perhaps some secretly unhappy “normal” marriages will end. Just revisit the 2005 case of Spokane’s “straight” Mayor James West, who was caught in gay online chats, all the while spouting his typical anti-gay rhetoric. The silver lining? The homosexual men of Spokane who did not get a good time at his expense at least got a good laugh.

Jeremy Marshall is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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you’re like me, you spend most of your Friday and Saturday nights instant-messaging your friends from back home to tell them you’re about to go out and get wasted and then spending the rest of the night looking at pictures on face-F book.com, totally burning kids in Internet anime chat rooms and crying

On one such night recently, I came upon a phenomenon that has apparently become a popular topic of con-

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versation among many bootylicious Duke students. I am of course referring to the “Duke’s Top 25 Hottest Girls” group on facebook. The group, which was formed by one “John Doe” (no, not that John Doe, ladies), describes itself as “Duke’s most exclusive facebook group,” and claims to rank the 25 most attractive girls at Duke in descending order based solely on the young lady’s facebook picture. The rankings are updated weekly by the anonymous creator(s) of this group; mysteriously, however, it seems as though you never actually see any new names on the list. After discovering this list and discussing it with some of my lady friends (aka, eavesdropping in Alpine), I decided this would be a great topic for my first column. I mean, not only is the whole list morally reprehensible and chauvinistic, but it’s also a known fact that nobody really likes pretty girls. So I figured the column would practically write itself (not to mention that it would be a great opportunity to get back at all the pretty girls for the years of rejection and restraining orders). However, writing about this group proved to be much more difficult than I expected. I mean, I’m really not in any position to critique the actual rankings since A: I obviously don’t actually know any of the girls on the list personally, and B: I’ve seen some of the girls in real life, and they have been stumbling around with smeared lipstick and one shoe (God only knows what they’re like outside of class). In other words, they weren’t looking their best. I can’t really criticize the creator of the group because, like just about every male college student in the world, I too have been guilty of lusting over drunken bimbos in my time, and the last thing I wanted to come off as in my first column was a bimbo-hating hypocrite. So I decided to just put my commentary on the backburner for a while and do some research on the group in order to possibly help some of the aspiring hot girls out there reach this true pinnacle of hotness. After all, you know what they always say: Opinions are like facebook profiles—everybody has one. I decided to take a week offof classes to do some serious research, checking out the girls’ profiles and the endless webshots accompanying them (apparendy most of them have hired photographers to follow them around). And I think I’ve figured out just what it takes to break into that top 25, because, as we all know here at Duke, it’s not how good you look—it’s how much recognition you get for it that really counts. The first thing you need to do if you want to be in Duke’s most elite facebook group is to join a sorority if you’re not in one already. The vast majority of the top 25 girls are in sororities. To be the hottest, it seems that your political views should be conservative—but whatever you do, don’t let your clothing choice reflect that. In fact, it may help if you took every article of clothing you own and cut about four inches of material off the bottom. I suspect that when you’re as hot as these girls, wearing too much clothing can seriously inhibit the cooling process and could end up being fatal. The last piece ofadvice I’ll give you is simple, but can’t be underestimated—drink. Drink and drink and drink until your voice turns raspy, your eyes become glazed over and you actually believe that being drunk is sexy. In closing, I must give one general warning. Although racial profiling may have been abolished at airports, it’s still alive and well on the facebook. Minorities rarely seem to be welcome among the hottest of the hot. Isn’t facebook great?

Jake Grodzinsky is a Trinity junior. His column normally runs every other Tuesday.

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tired of having no money,” a classmate of mine complained last week. I normally would have felt a pang of sympathy for this fellow college student. But this time, I didn’t. Instead, I couldn’t help but feel a bit irked by this student’s narrow perspective. I had just returned from a twoweek trip to India. I always feel this way (SP* after returning from preeti aroon India, my parents’ counof visits try origin. My aim for the stars there have indelibly shaped my worldview by compelling me to appreciate the privileges I enjoy as a U.S. citizen. Here, refrigerated orange juice and Ziploc bags are mundane; there they are luxuries. Here, I live sheltered from extreme poverty, contaminated water and a heavily patriarchal social structure. There, I see toddlers sleeping on the medians of overcrowded streets, skinny men working too hard for too litde and talented young adults who can only dream offulfilling their true potentials. Thus, each visit to India is a jolt awakening me from complacency. Each visit widens my frame of reference and reminds me of how myopically I had been viewing the world. In the United States, I see so many college students calling themselves “poor” and complaining about being short on money. Yet, they have cable television, laptops, iPods and name-brand apparel. They can afford to go out on the weekends and drink until they’re inebriated. Even if it’s all financed with student loans and charge cards, they are fortunate to have access to credit in away that most other people of the world do not. As an American, I’ve also had my definition of poverty challenged when visiting India. A few years ago while there I was riding through a remote village. The children standing by the roadside were barefoot and unkempt. They lived in thatched huts with no electricity or running water. Their parents were probably illiterate. By American standards, they were hopelessly poor. Nevertheless, these adequately nourished children of

peasant farmers were happy and playful; they cheerfully waved to my family and me as we passed through their village. They had food, housing that was satisfactory by the community’s standards and families that loved them. “Are they truly poor?” I asked myself. Just what constitutes poverty? Here in the United States, the people we consider poor have far more materially than most who are considered middle class in developing countries and those who were middle class in this country a hundred years ago. For example, public housing projects here have a constant 24-hour supply of electricity and running water (including hot water). I can’t say the same for middle-class homes in India or homes a century ago in the United States. Clearly, the “poor” in American are not poor when looked at from a global or historical perspective. In trying to determine just what constitutes poverty, I find myself trying to avoid two dangerous outcomes. First, I don’t want to become indifferent to the suffering of poor people in the United States, though their plight is less extreme than what I’ve witnessed in India. Secondly, I don’t want to overly romanticize bucolic village life. Rural farmers may be happy in their day-today lives, but that doesn’t mean that we should ignore high infant mortality rates and fatal infectious diseases. I suppose, ultimately, each society should define poverty on its own terms. Naturally then, the threshold between being poor and not being poor will vary from

society to society. Given these thoughts on poverty, I often wonder to myself, “Where do I fit in? What’s my role in this world?” Because of my life experiences, I have never been able to relegate the problems o( poverty and social injustice to the far recesses of my mind. I cannot turn my back to the serious challenges that confront our world. I am an empowered individual living in a country with vast resources, and I stand in the position of being able to improve others’ lives. Consequently, I have not only a desire, but also a responsibility to take action. That’s a large part of the reason why I’m here at Duke, getting a master’s degree in public policy. From a global perspective, we are living in paradise. Let’s not forget that. Preeti Aroon is a graduate student in public policy. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

letterstotheeditor Lack of discussion disparaging I’m all for spirited debate on issues of the day, but occasionally,

what should be a civil exchange of ideas boils over into fine mess of in-

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Answer this: How does one argue with Harry Belafonte? It’s damned near impossible, and not because he’s correct. How sad that a day set aside by what should be a very thankful nation to honor a man who should be considered a modern day founding father, features a keynote “address” by a man who’s radical fanatacism borders on lunacy. King could debate with civility. He preached it. He spoke about it. He wrote about it. He embodied it. Belafonte has none of it. I’m not bothered by the fact that he spoke at Duke. I’m not bothered by the fact that people went to see and hear him. I am bothered by the

fact that people cheered him because there can be no meaningful exchange of ideas, in a civil context, when one participant knows nothing of civility. Judging Belafonte by the color of his skin would, of course, be wrong. The content ofhis “character,” however..... Cannon C. Alsobrook Trinity ’9O

DCU misses the point During Dr. Martin Luther King’s lifetime, white conservatives repeatedly tried to discredit him by labeling him a “communist sympathizer”, a “notorious liar” and a “left-wing radical”, among other things. I suppose it is with the same intent that the Duke Conservative Union plastered campus with flyers denouncing Harry Belafonte, Duke’s MLK Day speaker, as a “supporter of communist thugs,” a sup-

porter of “America’s enemies,” and a “vocal racist.” By now, it should be clear to everyone that Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement were squarely on the correct side ofjustice. Apparently, this fact has been lost on DCU. It should have given them serious pause before they adopted a slanderous mode reminiscent of the white conservatives who so violently opposed the Civil Rights Movement fifty years ago. What this says to me is that the MLK Day Committee should be commended for having chosen a speaker capable and courageous enough to draw out for all to see those who would rather slander the discussants than engage them in an honest search for racial reconciliation. Sam Hummel Environmental Sustainability Coordinator Trinity ’O3

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