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ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, ISSUE 98

Guster set to rock Goodwin wins Young Trustee Executive VP campus on LDOC DSG hopes to stress by

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Blue Devils will rock out to “Demons,” to celebrate the Last Day ofClasses this year. Alternative rock group Guster will be headlining the LDOC concert April 26, the band confirmed on their website. “We’re very excited about having Guster play the show for the last day of classes,” said senior Mark Middaugh, chair of the LDOC committee. “[lt was] definitely, definitely the, committee’s first choice. We think they’re great live—everyone who has heard them in concert at other college campuses has said they’re great.” Guster, which co-headlined 2001’s LDOC concert with RunDMC, will be bringing its own opening band as part of the tour, Middaugh said, noting that which band will be coming is still being worked out. He added that the LDOC committee was also looking into hiring a second opening band. The band’s stop at Duke comes as part of its “Campus Consciousness Tour,” which starts in late March and will stop at nearly 20 colleges and univer-

sities nationwide. Guster will be on the road for about a month and a half, just before the June 13 release of Ganging Up on the Sun, its first studio album in three years. In addition to playing a full set scheduled for 7 p.m. on

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Guster will play on campus April 26 for the Last Day ofClasses festivities.

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Brandon Goodwin stepped away from the podium and into the position of Young Trustee at a Duke Student Government meeting Wednesday night. The senior, who beat out fellow seniors Chris Kallmeyer and Hirsh Sandesara, will serve a three-year term on the Board ofTrustees. For the latter two years, he will have the voting privileges of a trustee. During his speech to DSG and Intercommunity Council members, Goodwin emphasized die importance of leadership, communication and accountability in a person who holds the position of Young Trustee. “Above all else, the role of the Young Trustee must be approachable —somebody who’s willing to take risks,” Goodwin said after the meeting. “Tonight, I really wanted to show that I am an approachable person. I am comfortable serving as an effective communicator between students and trustees.” SEE trustee ON PAGE 8

Coaches warn teams to follow new drug poll cy by

Andrew Davis

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In response to Duke’s new drug policy, which the University unveiled last week, coaches and student-athletes are taking every precaution necessary to ensure that nothing the athletes ingest yields a positive test. With all the attention being paid to drug testing, the Athletic Department is taking the opportunity to increase awareness of what over-the-counter supplements or energy analysis drinks could trigger a positive test that would result in repercussions from either Duke or the NCAA. “It’s a great policy,” swimming and diving head coach Don Colella said. “It’s making sure that we are all playing on an even playing field in this day and age where, unfortunately, it seems that winning at all costs is paramount. It is just nice to see an institution like Duke take the initiative to set a policy like they have.”

The Athletic Department’s new policy differentiates between anabolic steroids and street drugs—which include marijuana, cocaine and other recreational drugs—in its penalty structure. The policy states that an athlete who tests positive for steroids, blood doping or masking agents will now face a one-year suspension; a second offense will result in a permanent loss of eligibility. Previously an initial positive test of any kind received only counseling and only after the third positive test did an athlete lose full eligibility. Coaches and student-athletes agree that the policy is a definite step in the right direction. “We are going to abide by [the policy] to the letter of the law,” men’s lacrosse head coach Mike Pressler said. “Our players fully understand what they have to do and what they can’t do, and if they fail and don’t do the right thing, there are repercussions.” In the past, Duke has conducted tests SEE DRUG POLICY ON PAGE 10

Senior Brandon Goodwin (left) is congratulated by senior Logan Leinster after being selected as the undergraduate Young Trustee at the DSG meeting Wednesday night.

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Cheney takes full blame for shot by

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Vice President Dick Cheney took full blame Wednesday for shooting a hunting companion, calling it “one ofthe worst days ofmy life,” but he was defiantly unapologetic about not publicly disclosing the accident until the next day. ‘You can’t blame anybody else,” Cheney told Fox News Channel in his first public comments since the accident on a private Texas ranch Saturday. “I’m the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend.” Cheney said he had had a beer at lunch that day but nobody was drinking when they went back out to hunt a couple hours

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later. Law enforcement officials have ruled out alcohol as a factor. The vice president has been under intense political pressure to speak out about the accident, which has become a public relations embarrassment and potential political liability for the White House. Senior advisers to President George W. Bush worried that Cheney’s silence had suggested a possible cover-up, and Cheney acknowledged that he delayed an announcement over the advice of Bush’s press advisers. “We really didn’t know until Sunday morning that Harry was probably going to be okay, that it looked like there hadn’t

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been any serious damage to any vital organ,” he said. “And that’s when we began the process of notifying the press.” Cheney was soft-spoken and appeared shaken as he described seeing 78-year-old Harry Whittington drop to the ground after he pulled the trigger on his 28-gauge shotgun while aiming at a covey of quail. “The image of him falling is something I’ll never ever be able to get out of my mind,” Cheney told Fox’s Brit Hume. “I fired, and there’s Harry falling. It was, I’d have to say, one of the worst days ofmy life at that moment.” SEE CHENEY ON PAGE 7

.dqiw network aired preAustralian television An viously unpublished video and photographs Wednesday of what it said was the abuse of Iraqis in U.S. military custody at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003, including a man beating his head against a cell door.

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Rice criticized for Mideast policy By Anne Gearan THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush’s administration will “walk a fine line” in seeking punitive international sanctions against Iran's Islamic government over its disputed nuclear program, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday. The Bush administration’s top diplomat detailed a two-track approach to Iran concerted international pressure to deter Tehran from building a bomb, and a newly robust attempt to seed democratic change inside the country with $75 million for broadcasts and aid to dissidents. —

Even so, Rice ran into tough questions from lawmakers of both parties on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over Iran, Iraq and the Palestinians, underscoring congressional worries about administration policies throughout the Middle East. “I don’t see, Madame Secretary, how things are getting better. I think things are getting worse. I think they’re getting worse in Iraq. I think they’re getting worse in Iran,” said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. “Opportunities missed,” said moderate GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee ofRhode Island, referring to the slow-moving Mideast peace

process and the recent Palestinian election triumph of Hamas, the militant group.

“Now we have a very, very disastrous situation of a terrorist organization winning elections.” Rice said she agrees it’s a difficult moment for the peace process but added, “I don’t think the United States of America is responsible for the election ofHamas.” On Iraq, the panel’s top Democrat countered Rice’s optimism about political unity among Iraq’s squabbling ethnic groups. “I’m not hopeful,” Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., told Rice. “The policy seems not to be succeeding.”

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Prof discusses taking over White House Theater dept, Jackie

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Few people spend much time thinking about the transition period between presidential terms. Terry Sullivan, however, has made it his life’s work. Sullivan, associate professor in the political science department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the associate director of the White House Transitional Project—an academic group that provides useful information to presidential campaigns about the realities of the first few weeks in office. Sullivan spoke at Duke Wednesday night about the adjustment period for new presidents. When presidential hopefuls announce their campaigns, one of the first actions they take is to consult with experts like Sullivan on a strategy for running the country immediately after inauguration. Sullivan noted that for the 2008 presidential election, transition planning for potential candidates will begin with his organization in August 2006. Sullivan noted that during President George W. Bush’s first term, the idea of transitional government was not approached with as much gravity as it necessarily deserved. He quoted an unnamed White House staff member as saying, “Texas ain’t Kansas. Here in Texas, we play in the big leagues. That makes us ready for the White House.” Sullivan compared the respective government sizes of Texas and the United States using a similar baseball metaphor. “If Texas is a Triple-A farm club, then the presidency is in the galactic league playing for the Milky Way against rival galaxies far far away,” Sullivan said. He then talked about the heightened public scrutiny a new president experiences.“The president is always the story,” Sullivan said. He recounted a prank played on the freshly inaugurated Bush by the Clinton White House in 2001. Democratic staff members removed the W’s from every keyboard in the building.

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Lately, new drama has surrounded the Department ofTheater Studies. The small department’s future now seems more secure than ever, but last week rumors circulated that the department might be reorganized as a program. Programs are interdisciplinary collaborations among members of several departments, whereas independent departments can make their own tenure-track

faculty appointments. George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, allayed professors’ concerns at last Thursday’s meeting of the

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Terry Sullivan talks Wednesday about his experiences helping new presidents move into the White House. “It was

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strating that Democratic frat guys can be just as dumb as Republican frat guys,” Sullivan said. The Bush administration alerted the media of the prank, attempting to paint a sympathetic picture. The media, however, chose to focus on Bush’s possible incompetence rather than vilify the outgoing administration, Sullivan said. Time management is also key in transitional governments, Sullivan added, pointing out that the president should never be allowed to set his own daily schedule.

“The more the president controls his time, the more his time is wasted,” Sullivan said. He also addressed crisis management during a transitional presidency. He explained the concept of “strategery”—a term borrowed by Bush’s advisors from a Saturday Night Live sketch—which is the process of planning the president’s schedule far in advance. “Presidential difficulties are driven mosdy by agents beyond their control, like Katrina, and the nature of the policies they SEE SULLIVAN ON PAGE 5

Arts and Sciences Council. “It was gossip,” said Lee Baker, chair of the Arts and Sciences Council and associate professor ofcultural anthropology. He said that after hearing the rumors, he asked McLendon about them and was pleased with the directness of the dean’s response. McLendon has since said the question of theater studies’ departmental status is not really “an acdve dialogue.” He emphasized the subject’s interdisciplinary nature and said theater studies’ best interest would determine its future organization. The rumors were thought to have come from the Office of the President or that of the Provost. Provost Peter Lange had no comment on the rumors but noted that, “theater studies is an important component of the arts at Duke.” Administrators were concerned by the debate that the rumors engendered, but John Clum, chair of the theater studies department, said he saw a positive side. “It made it clear in a very touching way how much faculty support we have for who we are and what we’re doing,” Clum said. SEE THEATER STUDIES ON PAGE 7

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Changing lives: Junior offers ill children hope by

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Carolyn’s Compassionate Children is a non-profit organization with a unique origin: It was founded by a 13-year-old. Carolyn Rubenstein, now a junior at

JuniorCarolyn Rubenstein runs "Carolyn's Compassionate Children," a charity for terminally ill children.

Duke, created CCC to connect children who are battling life-threatening illnesses, such as cancer, with healthy peers. The two-part organization is comprised of pen pal and scholarship programs. The program pairs sick and healthy children, giving those with illnesses the opportunity to escape any alienation they might feel and to talk about other aspects of life, such as love interests and school, Rubenstein said. “And the healthy kids learn about courage,” she noted in the organization’s pamphlet. Rubenstein got the idea for CCC after

a week-long visit to Camp Sunshine, a camp for ill children in Maine. “It was pretty much my first encounter with children who weren’t ‘normal,’” she said. “It

completely changed me.” After Camp Sunshine, Rubenstein to the ill children she had met. She soon began contacting middle school and high school principals and administrators in children’s hospitals all around the country and implemented the pen pal program. The pen pal aspect of CCC began in 1999 and now has approximately 1,000 participants in the United States, Canada and London. But Rubenstein soon decided that the pen pal network was not enough. Wanting to do more, she developed the scholarship program three years ago.

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Un dergrads try hand at grad-level academics by

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While many undergraduates struggle in their introductory courses, a few ambitious students seek knowledge beyond what the usual 90- and 100-level courses of study offer them. Every year a handful of undergraduates explore higher-level learning by taking courses in one of Duke’s eight graduate schools. According to the Duke University Bulletin of Undergraduate Instruction for 2005-2006, courses at the 200 level are deemed appropriate for juniors and seniors as well as graduate students. But 300-level courses are reserved specifically for graduates. “When we move to 300-level courses, the Grad School sets certain guidelines,” said Mary Nijhout, associate dean of Trinity College ofArts and Sciences. “It is rare for undergraduates to take 300-level classes.” Undergraduates who want to make the leap to 300level classes have to get proper permission from their instructors and academic deans. Due to the stringent guidelines that students must follow to obtain admission for graduate-level classes, few students seek to take advantage of this opportunity.

Juniors and seniors may gain entry to 300-level courses only with signed permission from four separate parties—the instructor of the course, the director of graduate studies, their academic dean and the dean of the Graduate School. Associate Dean of the Graduate School David Bell often signs the permission forms for undergraduates hoping to take graduate-level classes. “I’ve seen something like a half-dozen a semester,” he said, adding that the majority of these students are interested in science or math. Junior Nikifor Bliznashki is currendy enrolled in Math 358, Algebraic Number Theory, in the Graduate School’s Department of Mathematics. “I know the professor... and I love the field. I had all the prerequisites, and the course is related to the research I’m currently doing,” Bliznashki said. “All of these factors combined, as well as my lack of respect for, or fear of, high course numbers made me decide to try to take it.” Although the permission procedure is tedious, qualified upperclassmen like Bliznashki said they generally SEE CLASSES ON PAGE 6

Junior Nikifor Bliznashki is currently enrolled in Math 358, Algebraic Number Theroy, a course usually reserved for graduate students.

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UNC paper runs caricature of Muhammad The Muslim Students Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Friday asked the campus’ student newspaper to apologize for publishing an original cartoon depicting the

Prophet Muhammad.

“The intention of bigotry was clear,” the association wrote in a letter to The Daily Tar Heel. “One must question the DTH’s ethics in advancing a widely protested issue to cause a riot of their own. The MSA not only found this cartoon derogatory but is also shocked at the editor’s allowance of its publication—one that incites hate in the current political and social context.” Caricatures of Muhammad, including one that shows the prophet with a bombshaped turban, were published first in a Danish paper in September, then reprinted in European papers in recent weeks in the name of press freedom. Their publication has sparked violent protests in the Middle East and elsewhere. Islam is interpreted to forbid any illustrations of Muhammad for fear they could lead to idolatry. Daily Tar Heel editor Ryan Tuck said the newspaper wanted to challenge fellow students to think about the issue. He said while he has apologized personally to individuals who told him the cartoon offended, the newspaper will not apologize. “The point of any cartoon in any newspaper is to challenge belief systems,” Tuck said. “We knew it would offend, but that doesn’t make it the explicit goal of the cartoon.” University officials said they hope that the Daily Tar Heel would use restraint around a topic such as this one, which is

hurtful-and offensive to members of the campus community, said Margaret Jablonski, vice chancellor for student affairs at UNC-CH. “Many of our national media outlets chose not to publish the original pictures or cartoons and we believe our student paper should have used the same editorial judgement,” Jablonski said. Virginia officials ok plans for new college Virginia’s House of Delegates gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill that would create a new public college in the

state’s economically troubled Southside. The bill would establish the “New College Institute” in Martinsville or Henry County, a region that has seen textile and furniture jobs dry up in recent years. Former Gov. Mark Warner included $4.5 million for the New College Planning Commission’s efforts in his two-year budget plan, and Gov. Timothy Kaine has said he strongly supports a new school. The bill, sponsored by Del. Ward Armstrong, D-Henry County, is scheduled for a final House vote Tuesday. WSSU student found guilty of murder A former Winston-Salem State University student was found guilty Friday in the kidnap and murder of a teenager in 2003. A Forsyth County Superior Court jury deliberatedabout two hours before finding Jeremy Dushane Murrell guilty of first-degree murder, robbery and kidnapping in the death of Lawrence Matthew Harding, 19, in August 2003. Detectives in Richmond, Va., found Harding’s remains in a car trunk more than eight days after he was shot. Harding was kidnapped after he left his job at a restaurant.

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Officials from the Duke Political Union, which sponsored the event, said they were excited to have Sullivan speak. “We were very interested in kind of hearing the behind-the-scenes view of the White House and Washington politics, especially considering the fact that, by all accounts, campaigns will be starting up in the next couple months,” said sophomore Gil Stevens, vice president of speakers for DPU. Students’ reactions to Sullivan’s speech were generally positive. “It was really interesting,” freshman Jessica Wirth said. “I didn’t really think that that much planning went into making a smooth transition from presidency to presidency, but there’s actually a lot for them to think about.”

support, like reforming social security,” Sullivan said. Following the speech, Sullivan entertained questions from the audience. Queries included which potential candidates have approached the White House Transitional Program for the 2008 election. Sullivan declined to give specific names. Another student asked if Sen. John Kerry, presidential candidate for the Democrats in the 2004 election, had consulted with Sullivan’s organization. “Kerry did the same thing all Democrats do—wait until the last minute,” Sullivan replied.

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Each year, the organization awards scholarships to between 10 and 15 cancer survivors to help pay for college. Each recipient receives approximately $1,500. CCC has given out approximately 30 scholarships in 20 states to college-bound students who have survived severe diseases, such as cancer. Funds for these scholarships are mostly collected from individual donors. This year, CCC has received a record amount of donations and Rubenstein hopes to increase scholarship amounts. “They’re fighting for their lives,” she said of the program’s beneficiaries. “And they’ve gotten through [their diseases], but they pretty much can’t go on to college because the don’t have the money or resources.” CCC has a 10-person scholarship advisory board composed mainly of pediatric psychologists throughout the country. The board examines each application and awards scholarships based on the applicants’ experiences, financial needs and future goals. Finalists are then interviewed before award decisions are made. This year, Rubenstein has already received 150 applications —and the deadline is not until May. Rubenstein is also in the process of writing a book about the stories of various cancer survivors. She will donate all proceeds from the book to her organization. She said she hopes to manage CCC for

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special projects assistant, In the middle of medical school, he left Duke to pursue a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School. While a student of both institutions, Klein was named a finalist last year for Duke’s Young Trustee competition. Despite frequent trips between Durham and Cambridge, Klein said he felt disconnected at the time from graduate and professional student issues after spending three years away from Duke. “I realized I was really passionate about making a difference at Duke and that I could do it, but that I needed to recommit myself to graduate and professional students and get back into the stream,” he said. Klein has since renewed his connection with graduate and professional student life at Duke. He currently serves as the Graduate and Professional Student Council representative to the Board of Trustee’s Medical Center Affairs Committee. He also sits on the Strategic Planning Committee.

the rest of her life and to contribute more the organization with each passing year. “This is who I am,” she said. “[Working with] these children is my day-to-day life.... It’s my passion.” Her efforts have not gone unnoticed. Rubenstein, a native of Boca Raton, Fla., has been profiled in several Florida newspapers and on various television stations. She was also named the CosmoGIRL! of the month in April 2002. And the children she has touched will never forget her efforts. Rubenstein receives daily e-mails from people expressing gratitude for what she has done. “Carolyn’s Compassionate Children is proof that one person can make a difference and touch lives across America,” Lindsay W., a cancer survivor, wrote in an e-mail. Colleen C., another cancer survivor, shared her appreciation. “CCC has provided me with an important opportunity: getting my story out there to spread hope and raise awareness to others about life-altering situations,” she wrote Rubenstein. Although Rubenstein is constantly reminded of how she has positively affected others’ lives, she is quick to admit ways in which she has benefitted from those she has helped. While participating in a “Children and Experience of Illness” documentary studies class at Duke, Rubenstein met a young girl who was receiving a stem cell transplant. Rubenstein described the girl as having a permanent impact on her life. “[She was] the most courageous person I’ve ever seen,” Rubenstein said. to

Klein noted that it is important for the Young Trustee to bring wisdom and knowledge about the University community to the Board. “[The Young Trustee must] ground the Board’s perspective on Duke in the values of its students, ofits employees, of its faculty, of all the constituents of the institution,” Klein said As Young Trustee, Klein said he would focus on expand-

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JuniorCarolyn Rubenstein has been linking terminally ill children with pen pals since she was 13. “Her strength really got me through what I was going through. I think about her all the time.” Rubenstein added that her experience with CCC has taught her to appreciate health and happiness. “Don’t sweat the small things. You know the beauty of a day,” Rubenstein said. Rubenstein, a psychology major who

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law, the environment and ecology,” he said. He also noted the “invisible wall” that exists between DUMC and the University. He said that when he was an undergraduate, DUMC seemed an inaccessible “black box.” an “I don’t see myself as One suggestion Klein has Young Trustee. I for breaking would not go there as a lobbyist for down this wall is the creation of a programs and resources.” website informKlein ing students about research

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specific ing interdisciplinary studies and improving the exchange of information between DUMC and the University. If selected, he plans to work to enact a University-wide initiative on improving its energy policy, which he views as an economic, social and political issue. Klein added that he believes Duke can be a major world leader in energy policy in the future.

would like to become a clinical child psy-

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DUMC, much like President Richard Brodhead’s servicelearning website. “I don’t see myself as being an agendafocused Young Trustee,” Klein added. “I would not go there as a lobbyist for specific programs and resources, because I think we have student representatives to the Board who can do those things effectively.”

CLASSES from page 4 have few other difficulties enrolling. “I didn’t have any trouble getting permission, although the procedure was rather long,” Bliznashki said. “I was encouraged by my advisor to do it and had no problem getting the letter signed.” Bell said it is generally the prerogative of the instructor that is the most important factor in determining whether or not the student is qualified to enroll in a high-level course. “If the professor agrees that the student’s background is proper, I’m going to sign off on it,” Bell explained. The overlap between Duke’s undergraduate and graduate schools is not unidirectional. Graduate students often take

spects Klein’s consistent desire to tackle difficult issues. “There are few people who know as much about the Medical Center as he does, including administrators,” Few said. “He is easily one of the top-ten most

knowledgeable people.”

Klein has worked to develop a strategy for covering the costs of graduate and professional student health insurance, an issue that has topped GPSC’s agenda this year. He said he plans to present the strategy, which he developed in collaboration with a team of other students, to graduate and professional school officials next week. Klein would also like to see the Board’s discussion of the “student experience” better encompass graduate students, in addition to undergraduates. After graduation, Klein plans to pursue the intersection of health and technology in venture capitalism, where he can utilize both his law and medical degrees. “What is important to me is the opportunity to maintain strong contacts with Duke, both in the University and the Medical Center,” he said.

undergraduate classes “It’s much more common,” Bell said. “In some instances, they need more foundational courses —for instance, students in the humanities who need a better language background.” But while graduate students can generally expect lower levels of difficulty in

undergraduate courses, undergraduates in 300-level classes face a more challeng-

ing curriculum. “This class is certainly more advanced than any undergraduate course you can possibly take in the math department.” Bliznashki said of his graduate-level course. He insisted, however, that he is happy that he went through the process. “It was absolutely worth it, and I am really enjoying the course now,” he said.

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Theater studies has only been a department since Soring 5 F 2001. “There had been an interest in the program of drama becoming a department for a long time,” said Richard Riddell, professor of the practice of theatre studies, who was chair of the program when it sought to become a de-

Cheney defended his decision not to publicly disclose what happened until the next day, when he agreed to the suggestion of ranch owner Katharine Armstrong to have her announce it to a local newspaper. “I thought that was the right call. I still do,” the vice president said. Armstrong has suggested that Whittington was at fault in the shooting because, she said, he failed to announce himself as he returned to the hunting line after breaking off to retrieve a downed bird. But Cheney, who has been hunting for at least 12 years, said in no uncertain terms that Whittington was not at fault. ‘You can talk about all of the other conditions that exist at the time, but that’s the bottom line and —it was not Harry’s fault,” he said. Texas officials said the shooting was an accident, and no charges have been brought. Cheney said the accident happened after Whittington stepped out of the hunting party to retrieve a downed bird in deep cover. Cheney said he and a third hunter

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Departmental status was necessary, he explained, to hire tenure-track faculty in theory and history. Clum said that being a department gives theater studies, at least symbolically, more clout and respect in the University community. But theater studies is inherently interdisciplinary, and the department’s number of faculty has diminished slightly in the past four years—potential reasons behind the idea of reformulating the department as a program. “The smaller you are, the more vulnerable you get,” Clum said. He noted, however, that the number of undergraduates taking classes and majoring in the subject has remained stable. “Our courses are full. We have over 300 students a term,” he added. Clum said the department wishes to seek more interdisciplinarity in the future within the departmental framework, perhaps through more secondary appointments. He also spoke of a potential graduate certificate but said the department is unlikely to admit its own graduate students because it might take attention away from the undergraduate program. Clum said theater studies provides familiarity with professional theater production, which he described as a vital contribution to arts at the University. He said guest performing artists brought in by Duke Performances, while important, are not unique to the university setting. “I would like to see that the Strategic Plan privilege the creation of art over the consumption of art,” Clum said. Discussion about the University’s arts programs, as well as the vitality of faculty governance, came to the forefront as a result of the debate about theater studies’ status. Officials said Arts and Sciences faculty now know they will have a say about such decisions in the future. “The final say? Maybe not. A say? Definitely,” Baker said. Tiffany Webber and Saidi Chen contributed to this story.

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walked about 100 yards away to where another covey had been spotted. He said immediately after he shot at a bird flying to his right, he saw Whittington in his line of fire. He said Whittington was dressed properly in orange and the upper part of his body was visible, but he was standing in a gully with the sun behind him, which affected his view. “I saw him fall, basically. It had happened so fast,” Cheney said. “He was struck in the right side of his face, his neck and his upper torso on the right side of his body.” He said Whittington was conscious and breathing but stunned silent. “I ran over to him,” Cheney said. “He was laying there on his back, obviously, bleeding. You could see where the shot struck him.” Cheney said he had no idea if he hit a bird because he was focused on Whittington. “I said, ‘Harry, I had no idea you were there.’ He didn’t respond,” Cheney said. Whittington was in stable condition Wednesday at a Texas hospital, a day after doctors said one of the pellets traveled to his heart and he had “a mild heart attack.”

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had been planning to make in a few days “That’s hot,” senior Dan Ferris said, adding that he likes Ouster’s music better Main West Quadrangle, members of than Collective Soul’s. “They just have Ouster will also be participating in a more songs.” good roundtable discussion during the day with Other students who have seen the band play live before were excited experts about environmental issues. The “eco-friendly” tour is a project of about the opportunity to witness Ouster Reverb, a non-profit organization started in action again. “That’s incredible,” said junior Eric by guitarist Adam Gardner and his wife, Oberstein, who camped out for front-row Lauren Sullivan, to promote environmental awareness. seats to a November 2002 concert. “They’re The tour’s sponsors will set up a “Conjust a great, live band. That makes me insciousness Pavilion” where students will credibly happy that they were chosen.” have the opportunity to learn about renewThough some expressed disappointable sources ofenergy, enter a raffle for an ment that a more well-known artist is not autographed guitar and win a “meet and being brought to campus, many were greet” with the band. hopeful for a rousing live show. “Ouster is awesome,”junior Julia Middaugh would not confirm the cost of bringing Ouster to campus, citing legal Zhang said, noting that although she restrictions. However, he said the total cost would have preferred Jay-Z, any band that for this year’s LDOC is approximately performs well in concert will be fun to $71,000 —a budget that will go toward watch. “Kanye’s show was amazing. I’ve funding food vendors, programming and heard Ouster is really good too.” other events of the day. The “Campus Consciousness Tour” will Last year, LDOC planners said the cost kick off at the House ofBlues in San Diego of bringing headliner Collective Soul cost and will make stops at Amherst College, between $25,000 and $35,000. the University of Connecticut and MichiStudents expressed excitement about the gan State University. Steve Veres contributed to this story. announcement, which committee members

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and “eternity” in Arabic and “Da Arabian MCs” in English “We chose DAM because it’s an international word,” he said. “Together, it means that even if you use blood or violence, Da Arabian MCs will last forever.” Musically, DAM is on par with the best of rap groups. Were they an American group, they might be at the top of the charts, with the MC’s quick-paced lyrics mixed over hard-hitting beats and melodies that often incorporate strings and synthesizers. But their living situation and radically leaning lyrics have stopped them from even securing a record deal. Nafer refuses to shy away from political issues, sometimes promoting his beliefs ahead of his music. In 2001, Nafer gave a television interview saying he understood the mentality of a suicide bomber after an attack at an Israeli nightclub. Shortly thereafter, DAM recorded a song called “Meen Erhabe” (“Who’s the terrorist”), which SEE DAM ON PAGE 4

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DAM performs classic rap in Arabic with a political twist. attacked the Israeli government, including calling them Nazis, with the lyrics (translated from Arabic): “Who’s the terroristP/I’m the terrorist?/How am I the terrorist when you’ve taken my land?/Who’s the terrorist?/You’re the terrorist!/You’ve taken everything I own while I’m living in my homeland./You’re killing us like you’ve killed our ancestors./You want me to go to the law?/What for?” Although the lyrics seem to suggest otherwise, Nafer said the song’s inspiration spawns more from frustration than hate. “Our situation is like getting stuck in the middle,” he said. “It’s being a non-Jew in the land of the Jews that don’t like Arabs, and it’s being Israeli among the Arab countries who don’t like Israel.” Nina Robinson, the Northeast Regional Director of USD/Hagshama, the student division of the World Zionist Organization, said she understands this kind of frustration of being caught in the middle but thinks DAM’s summation of the situation is unfair. “I don’t think that Israel can be equated with terrorism, so I obviously disagree with DAM there,” she said. “To me, terrorism is an act which brings fear into the hearts of people. It’s true that the Israeli government has rules and regulations regarding the Palestinian population, and it would be wrong of me to say that Israel hasn’t done anything wrong in its time, but I don’t think that you can equate that with terrorism.” Robinson also said that while Palestinians like Nafer may not find their situation ideal, it’s far from complete oppression. “Within Israel, Israeli Arabs have equal rights, and that goes for Palestinians living in Israel, too,” she said. “That’s not to say that there is total social equality within Israel in terms of Arabs, but for the most part, Arabs choose to stay in Israel because they have a lot more freedom than they would elsewhere.” Although Robinson takes issue with DAM’s lyrics as a whole, she said that she would rather have them rapping about their frustrations than taking them out violently. And while DAM has been called radical, militant antiIsraeli rappers, Nafer said that they too seek peace. “DAM is pro-peace and we all want that peace so badly. However, we are realistic people,” he said. “We won’t accept peace at any means, and we will fight until we get our rights. Only then will we have peace.” And radicalism, Nafer added, is in the eye of the be-

holder. “A lot of people don’t see that we live in a radical environment,” he said. Nafer added that he believes that both the Israelis and Palestinians are going abut the peace process the wrong way. “The only way to solve the problem with Israel and Palestine is to give everyone equality, not to use Zionism,” he said. But the solution he calls for is what many pro-Israelis say will lead to anything but jusdce. “Equality will bring peace, and then we’ll have one state for everyone. Some people call that radical. I call that real,” Nafer said. Many are unconvinced that this message is one of peace. “Palestinian nationalism is predicated on the wholesale rejection of Israel's existence,” wrote Ari Ruben of the Jewish Defense League in an e-mail. “They are obviously not interested in building a state but are instead committed to the destruction of Israel. Until truth is accepted over cherished hate propaganda, Arabs will remain in conflict with the Jewish state.” Robinson said that while she understands Nafer’s stance on the issue of equality, he should focus on the present rather than the past. “Israel is looking to make peace now,” she said. “With the new party in control, they’re looking for a peace agreement with the Palestinians. There have been many wrongs on both sides of the conflict, but I think that Israel really does want peace. There are so many internal problems—almost one-quarter of the population lives below the poverty line, and education isn’t nearly what it could be, so it seems to me that war and violence is the last thing that Israel wants.” Nafer said that he can’t see Israel making attempts to bring peace to the Arab world. He said he attempts to explain the feeling of trying to be peaceful in the wake of frustration and resentment in the song “Born Here.” Nafer said DAM performs the song in both Hebrew and Arabic to try to reach a greater audience. In the song, Nafer raps that he feels like “a dove trying to survive under the hawk’s regime.” He goes on to say, “I was bom here/my grandparents were also born here/you will not sever me/from my roots understand, even if/I have faith in this ‘if you wish it is not a legend’ regime/you still haven’t allowed me to build a porch to stand on and express it.” Nafer said DAM has found themselves stuck in the middle in the rap world as well as in their personal lives. He said Israeli labels refuse to sign them because of their lyrical content and the limited market for Arabic rap, and Arabic labels won’t sign them because they see Palestinians living in Israel as traitors. Far from the glamorous American rap life, Nafer said order to pay the bills he works as an insurance telemarin keter. “We are in an impossible situation,” he said. Nafer said DAM could be signed to an Israeli label if they changed their lyrics, but he would consider this a breach of integrity. “It’s not about getting rich,” he said. “It’s about keeping it real.” Nafer also said the band strives for consistency between their music and their values. “We say political stuff on the mic, and we back it up in our daily life,” he said. “We don’t just rap against demonstrations; we create lectures and demonstrations.We don’t rap against America’s imperialism; we boycott Coca-Cola

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vocal harmonies and even recorders. Pelt’s treatment of “Sunflower River Blues” stands out from the crowd. The trio’s plucky banjo and deeply bowed bass elegantly complement the Fahey-like guitar picking. Likewise, Immergliick, Kaphan, Krummenacher and Hanes’ jazzy version of “Joe Kirby Blues” weaves Fahey’s melody into a mysterious sonic tapestry. Many of the tracks, however, fail to tastefully adapt Fahey’s solo acoustic guitar compositions into multi-instrumental arrangements. Calexico, Currituck Co. and Grandaddy—who usually rely on vocals to cany their melodies—sound incomplete and repetitive trying to turn Fahey’s solo guitar works into full ensemble efforts. In addition, M. Ward’s rendering of “Bean Vine Blues #2” sounds like your little brother’s battle of the bands demo tape—the one that got rejected. The album as a whole can’t quite capture the forceful and virtuosic playing that gave Fahey his cult following. Instead, the album is a passable but not astounding compilation of capable but not exceptional musicians paying tribute to an innovative but not earth-shattering guitarist. —Eric Bishop

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Just Another Product of Society? P.O.S. can’t easily be placed in a genre—his music ranges from hip-hop to punk to straight-out rock and roll. Despite the lack of classification, his albums have sold incredibly well since he was discovered by indie hip-hop mainstay Slug (of Atmosphere). P.O.S. is currently embarking on a tour to support his most recent album, Audition (Rhymesayers Entertainment, 1/31). Music Editor Matt Dearborn talked with P.O.S. about punk, the mainstream and being nationally distributed in preparation for the self-proclaimed hip-hop MC’s show at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro Feb. 8. recess; What does P.O.S. stand for? P.O.S: Well, it depends on my mood. Sometimes it stands for “Promise of Skill.” Other times it’s “Product of Society.” Sometimes it’s “Piece of S—People used to call me P.O.S. as in “Product of Society,” and I hated it. But it stuck, and here I am today, You used to be in a punk band. Why did you switch to hip-hop? I never switched. I’m still in a punk band. People have just found rny hip-hop music first. I still listen to rap and hardcore punk and love both equally. They’re similar in more ways than you’d think. Your hip-hop music incorporates a lot of punk and rock influences. How would you characterize those songs? In the end, it’s aggressive hip-hop. I don’t see myself as a punk rapper or as a rock rapper. I’m a hip-hop MC. I’m an MC’s MC. I make my music primarily for other rappers to appreciate, but if you’re not a rapper and you still like it, then I’m excited. But I’m not in it to be different; I want my records to be sold in the hip-hop section of music stores.

How did you know Slug? We met because we had a friend in common, and we just hit it off one day when we were hanging out with that friend. The rest is history. Did you change your musical approach when recording Audition} This is the only time I’ve ever had a nationally distributed record, and I knew that it was going to be distributed by Rhymesayers when I was going into the studio. So I wanted to push my own limits and experiment with my own abilities. I’ve had a lot of complaints that the record is too SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE scatterbrained and all over the place, and that it’s too P.O.S. is set to bring his unique style of hip-hop to the Triangle with a Cat's Cradle show this February. abrasive. But to me, it makes sense as a record. It’s not a bunch of songs put together. It’s anything like that would ever come up. I grew up listening to independent music, and so it would have to be an amazan experience as a whole. And that’swhat I wanted. ing situation for me to go mainstream. Would you ever go mainstream? What do you see in your future? life for it. I’m in don’t think that there’s room in my I I’m just enjoying what I’m doing right now. I don’t a punk band. I’m a part ofDoomtree [Records]. So even know if I’ll have the chance to make another nationally think I’d take it unless it if the opportunity arose, I don’t record, or even another record at all. I have a distributed mainstream, were IfI go to opportunity. was a really good I’d need complete artistic control over my work, and I’d lot ofcool ideas which I’m going to pursue after the tour, want to take chances and risks musically. So I doubt that but I’m just taking each day when it comes.

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Isaac Julien walks off the beaten cinematic path gious Turner Award, was one of many shown when the artist visited Duke last week to participate in a retrospective ofhis most prominent work. Despite its cultural relevance, Long Road represents quite a departure for an artist best known for his work in black cultural theory. “I wanted to do a piece of work that was not indexically linked to me in terms of its ethnicity,” Julien said. “I wanted to secondguess my audiences. That was quite deliberate.” Julien has made a career of defying the norm, consciously avoiding the world of mainstream film. “I basically turned my back on Hollywood when I [turned down] an offer to do a picture in 1992,” he said. “The problem with the Hollywood studio model is that you have to fit into that model.” Instead, Julien has turned his attention to smaller narrative films and experimental video installations. “I think Julien has built a career on making films outside the Hollywood model.

Caitlin Donnelly recess Long before Ang Lee and his gay cowboys ever visited Brokeback Mountain, there was Isaac Julien’s Long Road to Mazatlan. In 1999, Julien, in collaboration with Venezuelan dancer and choreographer Javier De Frutos, produced the 20-minute, three-screen video installation, which follows two Latino lovers as they struggle with sexual identity in the American Southwest. The project, nominated for the prestiby

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The retrospective highlighted the variety of subjects and styles that have intrigued Julien throughout the years—from toying with the idea of genre conventions in Baltimore (2003) to examining the validity of a genre in Baadasssss Cinema (2002), a documentary on Blaxploitation films that evolved from a course he taught at Harvard University. While his films are often politically engaged, they often transcend his personal experiences. “I think the politics and intentionality of what the person is making is just as important as or more important than their ethnicity or gender,” said Julien. But politics alone do not guide Julien’s work. “I really see myself as an artist, and I’m working in moving images, and I’m specialized in film,” said Julien. “There’s quite a lot of work that’s conceptually interesting but it’s maybe not visually interesting.” He said his work distinguishes itself because it addresses both these concerns Perhaps that’s why Julien is able Isaac Julien participated in a retrospective ofhis work on camto co-exist within the art community pus last week.

Disney sure has toughened up in its newest tale of animal survival against impossible odds. Fans ofHomeward Bound’s chatty pets and slow motionreunions may need to a few extra tissues to this doggy flick. Though the film still offers plenty of A �� classic heartwarming, clap-your-hands moments, there’s certainly a few shockers to go with them (read: at one point, a vicious dinosaur-like leopard seal lunges out of a dead killer whale carcass). Audiences will either appreciate this unexpectedly credible film, or run home to their dogs muttering about how they would have gone back for Old Jack and the team. Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) is the “go-to guy” forAntarctic expeditions in rough terrain. For geologist David McLaren (Bruce Greenwood), Shepard and his team of eight beautiful dogs, or as he calls them, “the kids,” represent his only hope in getting to a supposed meteor rock on a distant mountain surrounded by thin ice and unstable glaciers. Walker is surprisingly charismatic as the able sled driver, though that’s probably because his lines are restricted to a couple dramatic “Hikes!” every time McLaren topples off the ice and has to be dragged to safety by the valiant dogs. Hypothermia and forecasts of a severe storm force Walker and the human team to fly to the nearest military base, and of course, the dogs must be left behind. With the humans blown north and out of the picture for large stretches of time, it’s this adorable group of blue-eyed huskies and fuzzy malamutes who really steal the show. Forget Walker’s golden boy charms and Jason Bigg’s neurotic sidekick character Cooper; it’s Truman, Shorty, Shadow, Old Jack, Max, Dewey, Buck and Maya that exhibit some superb acting. They don’t talk, but they exhibit more facial expressions than Walker and Biggs combined (plus, they gesture with their paws—cuuuute). Whether it’s wise team leader Maya staring intently at disobedient pup Max, or the wonder on each dogs’ faces as an aurora borealis sweeps across the Antarctic sky, these incredible canines are more than enough to make up for the occasional plot lapse. Did someone say...Dog Oscars? —Janet Wu

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and the film industry. His work is frequently shown in galleries and museums, yet he has also been featured at the Cannes Film Festival, and in 1992, he served as a jury member for the documentary division at the Sundance Film Festival. “Really, I live in three worlds,” said Julien—in academics, art and film. While he may never be a household name, that doesn’t seem like too bad of a place to be.

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Now in its seventh year of hosting Nevermore, the Carolina estimates it will sell 2,500 tickets this weekend for its slate of 10 full-length features and eight shorts. Several directors, including those behind the films Within, Dark Remains, and SIGMA will be floating around—a few are scheduled to give their films’ introductions and hold infonnal Q&A sessions with audiences. But the beauty of the festival, despite its limitation to one genre, is in the heterogenity of its selections. “We get an idea of how many good films we can include, and then we cut titles,” said Jim Carl, senior director of the theater. “You don’t want too many ghost stories, too many Asian horror stories, too many slasher films. Not everything should be so brooding and self-serious.” Carl’s logic, along that of fellow programmer and Cinema Operations Manager Phil Seib, is the reason why a movie like Death Trance, a strung-together series of martial arts fight scenes, can coexist with a film like SIGMA—a head-scratching thriller shot entirely from the perspective of surveillance cameras. And like so much of horror, often viewed as a commentary on what’s scary in society, Nevermore’s showing tells us what’s creepiest in the minds of writers and directors from Nigeria to Los Angeles. Hooper, for one, pinpoints small-town America—there’s nothing more frightening than über-conservative law enforcement, teen pregnancy and drug-addled kids. .You’re almost glad to see the zombies wipe ’em out. Meanwhile, director Dave Gebroe, the mastermind behind noir-humored Zombie Honeymoon, said having one-half of a pair of vegetarian newlyweds suffer the bite of a zombie—and the ensuing marital strife as the husband craves human flesh —is scary as hell. Put that scene to Tammy Wynette’s country classic “Stand By Your Man,” and the tongue resting in Gebroe’s cheek is a little more evident. “This is drama—how would you really react if your loved one became a zombie?” Carl said. “It’s In the Bedmom—except with zombies.” Our take?

I’ve always made the films I’ve wanted to make,” Julien said. “Some of them have been better than others, but what can I

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Black Panther history chronicled at CDS The Center for Documentary Studies is currendy playing host to Stephen Shames’ evocative photography exhibition entided “The Black Panther Party: Making Sense of History.” Through his photos, Shames

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Jillian Smith recess Huge charcoal drawings cover the entire room. But this isn’t a museum or gallery; rather, it’s the apartment of varsity field hockey player and senior Kirsten Bostrom. A visual arts major with a minor in economics and a markets and management certificate, Bostrom is currendy completing her senior distinction project; a series of life-size charcoal drawings inspired by strangers in Manhattan’s Central Park. “I love looking at people—seeing people interact, express themselves, escaping in their own ways,” Bostrom said. She connects with people through these shared emotions. “Kirsten is really challenging herself on multiple levels,” said Merrill Shatzman,associate professor of the practice in the art history department, Bostrom’s advisor on the distinction project. “She pairs the pictorial element with the expressive element of her drawing. She makes choices that are new to her.” Bostrom said she has always had a passion for drawing. As a child, she was first inspired by her grandfather’s paintings. She pursued art classes in high school and within her community. However, Bostrom’s mix of talents forced her to make difficult choices. Attending art school would have meant giving up her other passion, field hockey. She ultimately chose Duke, deciding to balance her interests. When Bostrom first arrived on campus, she said she felt pressured to become pre-med or an economics major, like so many Duke students. But she couldn’t ignore her interest in art—an interest that has taken forms other than drawing. Bostrom has also explored painting, silk screening and recendy by

gives the viewer a fresh look into the controversial party. Shames’ exhibition started out as a photography class project while he was an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley during the late 19605. Shames set out to photograph the on-the-riseBlack Panther Party and ended up documenting history in the making. His photographs capture a wide variety of events and happenings and give the party a more multi-dimensional representation. At the time, the media portrayed a gun-toting, black beret and leather jacket-wearing, divisive militant group. The exhibition, however, also includes photographs that give the viewer a more personal look into the lives of the party members. There are pictures taken inside Panther homes that show intimate scenes, such as Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton listening shirtless to Bob Dylan or kissing party member Elaine Brown. Shames contends that the Black Panthers stood not for division but rather for a strong black community that could control its own destiny. They turned the angry youth of the day into disciplined, respectful community members. “The media missed this,” Shames lamented in a statement on the CDS website. “They couldn’t see beyond the guns.” —Lauren Fischetti Shames will be at the Center for Documentary Studies Thursday, Feb. 16for a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. and will speak at Ip.m.

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Bostrom’s passion for photography blossomed after participating in the Studio Arts Center International in Florence during a summer abroad. “I want to carry my camera around all day,” she said. “It’s like a part of me.” Bostrom said she is trying for her first-ever publication with a book of photographs of the Duke Chapel And while some Duke artists find careers entirely separate from their creative pursuits, Bostrom has found away to merge her artistic and career goals. Following graduation, Bostrom will participate in fashion icon Ralph Lauren’s year-long Executive Training Program in New York City. She then hopes to continue working in a creative industry.

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Archive Festival set to light up literature meaning is not that simple. “I want the title to have several layers of meaning,” Doty said. Caitlin Donnelly recess “One is how art teaches us how to be human, how we’re changed by the experience of The Archive Literary Festival, the student-run series formerly known as the Blackburn living... the idea of schooling and being schooled.” The idea of schooling must be particularly important for Doty, who moonlights as a Literary Festival, kicks off its 47th year Tuesday with a reading from the award-winning professor at the University of Houston. This semester Doty is teaching a graduate crepoet Mark Doty. It may have a new name but the purpose is still the same. ative writing seminar. “We live in a culture that’s very stratified in terms of age,” Doty Doty first came to notice in 1993 with My Alexandria, a selection of poetry that chronicled Doty’s personal experiences with the AIDS epidemic, a disease to which he lost his said. He continues to forge these relationships with the younger generation. “I’ve met people who have become irreplaceable to me through teaching.” partner of 12 years in 1994. “I think it will always be part of It’s this same connection that keeps Doty traveling around the country my work in that it changed my life very dramatically,” and world. “Writing is something you do yourself,” -he said. “It’s a solitary seems more said of this ofhis life. “Life now Doty period and I don’t want to live like that all the time. I like making conexchange fragile and tentative.” tact with audiences.” memoirs and a Since then, Doty has penned three Establishing that degree of contact—between the writer and the averhost of poems, both dealing with and departing from his age Duke student—is exactly what the Archive Literary Festival was intendearlier work. Yet critics continue to classify him based on ed to do. “The festival is meant to cultivate a love ofliterature and one way ‘AIDs poet, his sexuality. “Some people think of me as an to do that is to expose students to masters of the literary arts,” said Festito be [both],” Doty and I’m happy some as a ‘gay poet,’ val Chair Margo Hoyler, a sophomore. To that end, writers will now particsaid. “But I want to be something other than that too. Ponot only in a reading but also a master class. “This year we really tried ipate etry is larger than just the subject matter.” to increase the interaction between students and the literary writers.” with “concerned be specifically Tuesday’s reading will love, time, desire and change —the things that poets are Mark Doty will be reading selections from his poetry Tuesday, February 21 at 8 always concerned with,” he said. Topics range from AIDS p.m. in theEast Duke Parlors. The event is free and open to the public and will be to Arden, his aging golden retriever. Of particular notice followed by a reception and book signing. His master class will be held Wedneday, will be selections from Doty’s most recent volume, the Feb. 22 at 10 a.m. in the Allen Building. Limited space is still available. The festitle of the book critically acclaimed School of the Arts. The tival will continue Mar. 31 with an appearance by Joe Ashby Porter and conclude old big housed a in of school comes from the name a 13 with a reading by Ann Beattie. For more information visit theArchive LitApr. barn” located down the street from Doty’s former resioff the 47th Archive Literary Festival. kick Festival website at http://www.duke.edu/web/litfest. will Doty erary like most its poetry, dence in Providencetown, Mass. But, by

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Coming off a series victory against Seton Hall, the Blue Devils could not keep their momentum rolling Wednesday. Plagued by a four-run breakout inning, Duke suffered a 9-3 loss to Elon in its first road game of the DUKE ear yesterday afELON 9 ternoon at Latham Park. Trailing 3-0 after the third inning, Duke senior Javier Socorro was hit by a pitch and advanced to third on errors. Socorro scored on a wild pitch to put the Blue Devils (2-3) on the board, cutting Elon’s lead to two in the top of the fourth. The Phoenix (2-2), however, immediately responded in the bottom of the inning with a two-out, four-run rally to break open the game. “I give a lot of credit to Elon,” Duke head coach Sean McNally said. “I thought they played well, played hard. The game got away from us a little in the fourth inning. A 3-1 game got stretched out to 7-1.” The Phoenix was efficient, scoring four runs on five hits. Elon’s Ryan Addison started the rally with a two-out single and stole second to place himself in scoring position. The inning was highlighted by an RBI double roped down the rightfield line by first baseman Chris Vasami to cap the scoring at six. Vasami finished the game going 3-for-3 at the plate, as well as scoring and batting in a run. The Blue Devils, however, did not give up and came back in the top of the sixth. Shortstop Brett Bardes reached first on a Phoenix throwing error and advanced on a single by designated hitter Jimmy Gallagher

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Bonus points? For that thing? America’s love affair with Adam Morrison has gone too far. It’s time for the rest of the nation to admit what those of us on The Train (U.S. Patent No. 83946006 Pending) have known all year; Morrison’s game is not nearly as impressive as Redick’s, and his mustache is not nearly as impressive as Sean Dockery’s. (Seriously. If you want to see the best mustache in college basketball, check out Dockery. It’s perfectly pencil-thin and coats his upper lip nicely. You’ve got to appreciate a man with a good solid mustache.) Anyway, Morrison is no JJ. Redick— Coach K even says so. “What he is doing is remarkable,” Krzyzewski said ofRedick. “What Adam is doing is remarkable too, but we are in the ACC.... There is a differential between the leading scorer and the next leading scorer [in the ACC] of like nine

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In the Paulus household, playing sports was never a job. It was just away of life. “That’s pretty much what we did all the time,” Greg Paulus said. “We were always hanging out, always playing. It’s just something that has grown a part of us.” In a family of six boys, Greg and his younger brother Mike were never lacking for competition when they were growing up. Sports came naturally to the family, and a passion to succeed was instilled in the two youngest boys early on. They traveled the country to play some of the best kids their age and often older in a variety of sports, and an indelible friendship was formed. “It’s a very close relationship,” Dave Paulus said ofhis sons. “They have spent a lot of time together either playing on teams together or just in overlapping friends. There was a bond that really devolved and continues to grow.”

Now that Greg is the freshman point guard at Duke—nearly 500 miles from his Syracuse, N.Y. home—the two are still just as close. They have replaced W their daily car rides to and from their 9HpP Christian Brothers Academy high school with almost nightly phone conversations. While Greg elected to make hasketball his top priority, Mike’s passion is football. Like his older brother did, Mike, a high school junior, has garnered interest from many D sion I college football programs as 01 the nation’s top quarterback prospeci In the fall of 2001, as a 15-yeai freshman, Greg led his high school ball team to the state semifinalsbefor ing his first career game. The feeling rare one for the four-time all-state quart back as he lost only twice more be^ SEE PAULUS ON PAG:

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The Duke women’s swimming and diving team had a record-setting day at the ACC Championships yesterday, but still failed to place in either of their two events and finished the first day of the four day event in tie for seventh place at the University of Maryland. Senior Katie Ness followed up her strong performance in the 800-yard freestyle relay when she teamed up with fellow seniors Nora Stupp and Julia Lewis and sophomore Danielle Spearman to set a Duke record in the 200-yard medley relay. It was the second year in a row that the Blue Devils had set a school record in that event at the ACC championships. “We just had some great splits in that relay,” head coach Dan Colella said. “It was a very exciting way to finish up the evening.” Ness swam a career-best time in the race to help her squad finish second in their heat and eighth overall. In the first event of the competition—the 800-yard freestyle relay—the Blue Devils smashed their season-best time by three seconds, finishing in 7:33.68. Ness, swimming anchor for Duke, gave the Georgia Tech foursome a run for its money but finished .43 seconds behind, in ninth place overall. Despite their season-best performance, however, Colella was not satisfied with his freestyle swimmers’ efforts. “The 800 relay was a little disappointing,” Colella said. “We got off to a shaky start—perhaps some first-swim jitters, a little anxiety.” Duke currently ranks in seventh place

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in an 11-team field after the first two of the meet. The championship continues tomorrow with the 500 freestyle, 200 Individual Medley, 50 freestyle and one-meter diving events in which Duke will attempt to better its ninth-place finish from a year ago. events

“We are looking good, relaxed, confident and are in for some good swimming,” Colella said. “We have the potential. It’s in the hands of the young ladies to step it up and swim. We’ve got to be ready to go. Tomorrow should be a good day.”

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Greg Pauius' relationship with football coach Ted Roof may lead his brother—a star quarterback—to Duke.

graduation. With the nation’s scouts drooling at every glimpse they had of him and top colleges throwing scholarships his way, Greg won a state championship his senior year and shattered several New York high school quarterback records. “I’ve never seen a quarterback like Greg Paulus,” Mike said. “I’ve never seen a leader like him. There will never be another quarterback better in high school than him. He’s the complete package.” Despite his gaudy statistics and immense talent, Greg maintained his commitment to play basketball at Duke. Waiting in the wings, however, was Greg’s best friend, brother and an outstanding quarterback prospect in his own right. This year, his first as a starter, Mike also led his team to the state semifinals before being knocked off. His first losing experience was a bit different than Greg’s though, as he had to watch it from the sideline with a broken ankle. Nevertheless, in one year of play, Mike has already been contacted by the likes of Notre Dame, Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin and Michigan. Mike knows it was not easy getting to this level of success, and he said he is grateful for the lessons passed down to him by his older brothers. “It was probably the best thing for me,” Mike said about being the youngest. “They were probably the best competition in the central New York area. Learning from them, whether it was moves or dropbacks, it teaches you to be so tough, not only physically but mentally.” His father fondly remembers the days when Mike was the runt of the group and struggled to keep up. Now he is the biggest of the six Paulus sons, standing at 6-foot-5

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on the next play. Socorro then ripped a double to right-centerfield that drove in two runs and reduced the lead to 7-3. Elon scored a run in both the sixth and seventh innings to bring the final tally to

9-3. “I was really proud of our effort,” McNally said. “We cut the game to 7-3 in the sixth. We had a chance to add on and really get back in the game, but I thought Elon’s bullpen did a really good job. They brought in Chad Tilley, who struck out four or five hitters and I thought that was critical.” The Blue Devils’ bats struggled against the Phoenix pitchers, going 6-for-34 at the plate. Phoenix starter Ryan Basham was awarded the win, allowing six hits in five and one-third innings. Relievers Tilley, Justin Bors, Kory Radford and Tom Porter combined to allow no hits and close out the game. The Blue Devils also used five pitchers, including four who took the mound for the first time this season. It was another opportunity for the Blue Devil pitchers to gain valuable game experience. “We got a chance to look at five guys on the mound, including four guys who had not pitched at this point,” McNally said. “We got strong performances from Jim Perry and Ryan Perry.” Southpaw starter Gallagher, who struck out two, gave up three hits in three innings in the loss. Pitcher Russell Durfee took the mound in the fourth, allowing five hits and four runs in one inning. Daniel Palmer and Jim Perry gave up a hit and a run apiece, while Ryan Perry finished the game with two strikeouts. “We’ve got some chances to practice for the next week or so,” McNally said. “We’re off until next Tuesday, that gives us another chance to evaluate things.” and weighing over 200 pounds. His large frame makes it easy to see why scouts are raving about his strong throwing arm. Yet despite his physical skills, Greg believes it is his brother’s intangibles that set him apart. “Off the field, Mike’s really easy to get along with,” Greg said. “He’s kind of just one of the guys, and for a quarterback to be that, and then on the field step up and be a leader, it’s a good thing to have for a team.” And if Mike decides to join his brother at Duke, he could be a program-builder for the struggling Blue Devil football team. With the allure of a beautiful campus, an excellent education and his best friend, the blue-chip recruit is considering coming to Duke. Though Greg chose to display his talents on the hardwood rather than the gridiron, he maintains a strong relationship with Duke head football coach Ted Roof and might be able to entice his brother to suit up for the program. With all the success the two stars have had in football and basketball, Paulus became a household name in New York. If Mike joins his brother at Duke in a little over a year, Durham—and the rest of the nation—will get a full serving of Paulus. “I think most people would refer to us as the Paulus Duo,” Mike said. “Probably draw a lot of attention, start some whispers. It would just increase the experience and make it even better.” No matter how close they are, the brothers maintain a high level of competitiveness. A brotherly rivalry still rages on between Mike and Greg. Asked who is the family’s best quarterback, their most avid observer was eager to share his thoughts. “Knowing them, I think Greg will say he’s the best and Mike will say he’s the best,” Dave Paulus said. “I’ll just continue to tell them they both need to improve.”

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Rather, Red Bull contains large quantities of caffeine, which is banned by the NCAA in high doses. Hawes said that one Red Bull would not put a student-athlete over that with 25 to 30 stufive or six times a year, limit. However, drinking many energy drinks dent-athletes being tested on each occacaffeine. sion. The NCAA also administers its own could yield a positive drug test for to stay best Hawes added the way football teams and at least drug testing of with NCAA regone other varsity squad on every campus. healthy and in compliance and eat In addition, the league also reserves the ulations is to drink sport-drinks food rather than drink caffeinated beverright to screen student-athletes at champiages and use supplements. There is no way each have The two bodies events. onship to test positive for an illegal substance if their own penalty structures for the varithose basic guidelines. following ous banned substances. “We are responsible for our bodies,” freshman wresder Wade Van Sickle said. Duke increases awareness “I’m glad [the athletic department] is talkBull and Creatine are on the Both Red ing to us about the NCAA’s list of prodrisks. If we do take ucts that are imperwe supplements missible for athletic “We want to make sure is that know there disto departments our athletes and the world chance that we will tribute, but athletes test positive.” to are allowed purknows that Duke is very Many women’s chase the products for teams have disserious about competing themselves. cussed the new poliathletic Duke head on a fair ground.” cy as well. Lacrosse trainer Dave Engelhead coach Kerstin hard! said the Athletic Clar Anderson, TOM MENDEL/THE CHRONICLE Kimel told her team has Department wrestling head coach about the risks that Lacrosse coach Mike Pressler said his team would abide by the new steroid policy"to the letter of the law." warned student-athcome with taking letes against using cause it would be too logistically difficult and marijuana or cocaine in a person’s system. supplements over-the-counter nuto coordinate. test for Now that a positive masking drinking energy drinks. tritional supplements. than results a harsher penalty in agents “We are a women’s sport,” sophomore Creatine and some other supplements for recreational drugs, there is a disincenWidespread support are not regulated by the Food and Drug defenseman Yani Newton said. “No one is Overall, there are positive sentiments and risk a oneAdministration, meaning that a package of really Juicing and stuff like that. For us, it’s tive to use such cover-ups the new drug policy. The policoncerning that there penalty. year be cautious of the fact more to a certain supplement may not contain exSeveral coaches said they do not expect cy promotes fairness at a time when the are supplements that are not approved by actly what it claims. a spike in positive tests for recreational world of sports is under tremendous scruti“Basically, I told them that when it comes the FDA that are laced with other things ny to rid itself of steroids and other perhowever. drugs, test, that come on a will up positive drug to supplements they have to be real careathletes formance enhancing substances. don’t sense that from the if “I just and to be aware that are just you gone it ful,” Colella said. “Even if you’re getting “There is definitely no one in our adin our community,” Pressler said. from a GNC or whatever. What it may say any of that happens. that wants to endanger an athfrom the former ministration Another change policy not drink Red Bull. “I certainly will I on the label is not necessarily true and the lete’s career due to a false positive,” was shocked when I heard that could is that the Athletic Department no longer best policy is to just have a great diet.” tests when head coach Clar Anderson said. has the to conduct stuwrestling right Engelhardt said athletes have also been come up as a positive drug test. It is such make sure our athletes and the “We want to campus during dents are from away used so It’s upper. just prevadiscouraged from drinking energy drinks, a commonly the world knows that Duke is very serious summer. Although Duke had never inlent, it’s sold everywhere on campus. Peosuch as Red Bull, because they are stimuits exisabout on a fair ground and not voked that the competing past, privilege in lants and could possibly trigger a positive ple drink it left and right. People love it. I enhancement tence served deterrentfrom drugs.” any but defas a potential using sports don’t drink it on a basis I regular test administered by the NCAA. Duke, Duke’s place as a premiere academic over the summer—considered exams. drugs I using drank it during certainly initely test for caffeine however, does not specifito take performand athletic institution leaves the school cally, but wants its student-athletes to be in will not be doing that this semester. I a peak time for athletes substances. open to widespread criticism but also alance-enhancing in would never ever team or myself put my compliance with both policies at all times, lows the university to help mold what diThis time over the summer testing-free lose a to eligibility.” Athletic Director Chris position Senior Associate who choose take rection allows student-athletes to college athletics as a whole is Kennedy said. window which their in moving. steroids a short be effective? Kay Hawes, media relations manager Will the policy “The whole policy is put in place so athOne of the most significant components chances of getting caught are much slimfor the National Center For Drug Free return letes don’t gain an advantage over everyin mer. the time to By they campus Sport, the NCAA’s official administrator of the new policy is the manner in which it else,” men’s lacrosse goalie Rob substances would be one the the illegal —used to dilute August, for drug testing programs, says that there is treats masking agents Schroeder said. “If athletes need to cheat cleansed their system. substances urine from in concentrations of illegal about Red Bull and other a misconception Despite this loop-hole, Pressler and to win then they shouldn’t be able to play. so they are undetectable on drug tests. Most energy-drinks. to athletic administrators do not believe I think the policy is fine and the conseare used “Consuming Red Bull will not cause a commonly, masking agents testing is a feasible option bequences are just.” of street like summer drugs the up presence test,” Hawes said. cover false positive drug

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points or whatever it is—that’s incredible.” Let’s put Redick’s season in perspective. Name the last ACC player to lead the na-

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tion in scoring. Antawn Jamison? No. Christian Laettner? Nope. Jason Williams? No way Jose. Len Bias, Michael Jordan, David Thompson? No, no, no. It was a trick question—if the season ended today, Redick would be the first ACC player since 1948 when the NCAA started keeping track of this stuff to lead the nation in scoring. Even if Morrison passes him and he doesn’t win the scoring title, Redick would still become the first ACC player since Buzz Wilkinson in 1955 to finish in the top two. And his 28.9 points per game would be more than any ACC player since Len Chappel averaged 30.1 in 1962. So when Coach K says what Redick’s doing is remarkable, he means virtually unprecedented (at least by a guy wearing shorts longer than mid-thigh-length). The second reason is that Redick has dealt with far more pressure this year than Morrison. He’s chasing the ACC’s all-time scoring record. He’s currently challenging

Laettner for Most-Hated-College-Basketball-Player-Ever status. And he’s still scoring almost 29 points per game. Is yourJ.J. Redick love-jest ever going to end ? Seriously, you praised him yesterday and then you come back today with more? Why don’t you ask him to be your Valentine? Is there anything your boy J.J. isn’t the best at? Sure. The pressure Redick faces pales in comparison to the stress The Train is under (even if J.J. has a much better jumper, plays to larger audiences and has many more women chasing after him). The Train has to help save New Orleans. Two weeks ago, Evy Kory and Alexis Vaughan —seniors in a social activism class—sent me an e-mail saying they wanted to sell The Train-themed t-shirts to benefit Common Ground Relief, a charity helping survivors ofHurricane Katrina. I said yes, so they made the shirts. But now I’m feeling the heat. IfI write a bad column, everyone will get off The Train. And if no one is on The Train, no one will buy the shirts. And if no one buys the shirts, the two students won’t be able raise money to help save New Orleans. Forget the Comcast Center, that’s real

pressure. Choo, choo. (Gulp.)

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Responsible living students will no who occupy most of the 55 longer be allowed to units in the complex have be squatters at Erwin maintained a tradition ofpassSquare apartments. Manage- ing down, as well as subletting, to apartments ment recently friends and notified tenants staffed itOlia I younger members leUKUlldl that it will begin enforcing its policy against of their fraternities and sororpassing down and subletting ities. The official policy against passing down and subapartments. Henceforth, tenants will letting wasn’t initially enhave to remove all their fumi- forced because only a few students violated it, but now ture and other belongings when they leave their apart- virtually all students break the rule, and the situation has gotments at the end of their leases, This will afford apartment ten out of hand, Management’s decision to maintenance people an opporstart enforcing the policy is tunity to inspect for damage and make any needed repairs, entirely reasonable. MainteMoreover, students who want nance people need to be able apartments must submit formal to enter apartments to assess applications and be placed on a damages and charge them to the appropriate people. Othwaitlist as necessary'. For years, Duke students— erwise, damages accumulate

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the prohibitions against passing down and subletting apartments demonstrate, when students have wild, raucous parties, the possible consequences go beyond getting arrested or suffering some other sort of punishment at the individual level. Rather, reckless student behavior sullies the image that apartment managers have of all Duke students, particularly

undergraduates. The reputation of Duke students could potentially come to be viewed so negatively that it could compromise Duke students’ ability to live off campus. Already, some apartment complexes do not permit tenants under age 22.

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apartments. It’s time for them to assume some personal responsibility. They need to realize that the consequences of being a destructive tenant aren’t limited to just the tenant. Future generations of Duke students are hurt by the negative reputation that their predecessors created of them. The bottom line is that Duke students owe it to themselves and future Dukies to be well behaved members of the local community. The enforcement of the

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over the years, and no one is held responsible for them. Through the enforcement of the policy, maintenance people will now be able to enter apartments, inspect for damage, charge the right tenant for the damages, and fix anything that needs repairing. Indeed, we also appreciate Erwin Square’s efforts to make their apartments clean and habitable. There is also an important yet basic lesson to be learned from tougher enforcement: Students have a responsibility to be well behaved members of the community. The problems with passing down and subletting apartments stemmed from students’ careless behavior and the damages they caused. As the toughened enforcement of

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last four years have seen student activism converge with administrative support to transform Duke into a greener university. From the Environmental Alliance’s biodiesel campaign to the University’s current Green Dining Initiative, Duke has finally made an jared fish effort to join its peer pro progress institutions as a leader in environmental sustainability. At a time of unprecedented growth, however, students and administrators cannot afford to rest on their laurels for hard-fought—though somewhat isolated—gains. The next logical step in promoting a progressive environmentalframework at Duke is to institutionalize sustainability campuswide. It will be up to students to pressure Executive Vice President Tailman Trask, Vice President of Campus Services Kernel Dawkins and President Brodhead to make such an ambitious—and critical—initiative a reality. An easy place to start is with E-print. Unlike our peer institutions, such as UNC, Duke’s OFT computer clusters print single-sided as the default setting. When OFT introduced E-print in 2003, it was heralded as a means ofreducing paper waste. Jen Vizas, manager of Academic Technology Services, said at the time that paper consumption grew by only 9 percent after On introduced the new system. To say that E-print has fulfilled its potential by reducing a rise in consumption, however, is a bit like saying we can reverse global warming if the U.S. slows its annual growth of greenhouse gas emissions. EA is currently petitioning Off to make doublesided printing the defaultsetting in all OIT computer clusters, a common-sense initiative that would make a real difference in reducing Duke students’ voracious paper consumption. So far, the campaign has received overwhelming student support—many students have even expressed frustration with OlT’s failure to provide information on how to duplex print with the current system. Aside from its obvious environmental benefits, duplex printing would also save the University money. Duke’s OIT clusters plowed through 3,000,000 sheets of paper in 2003, which cost the University $12,000. Most importantly this year, Duke’s commitment to sustainability will be severely tested by its decision of whether to renew ARAMARK, Corp.’s food service contract. Over the past year, students, faculty, food contractors and administrators have worked together

through the Green Dining Committee, EA and the Duke University Greening Initiative to bring fresh, local and sustainable dining options to campus. The Refectory, Nasher Cafe and Mad Hatter’s are manifestations of growing campus-wide pressure to both improve the .quality of food offered to Duke students and faculty and to support ingredients that are environmentally friendly. This means, for example, eating beef from free-range, grass-fed cows at Maple ViewFarms served at The Refectory, rather than the reprocessed steak from God-knows-what factory farm at ARAMARK’s Marketplace or Great Hall. As residents of Duke, we have a right to demand that our merchants purchase products that are fresh and local and that we know where they come from. Other universities, such as Yale, Harvard and Middlebury, have already taken the lead in promoting higher-quality foods at competitive prices. Yale’s sustainable dining program features meals made from local, seasonal and sustainably grown food. Not coincidentally, the colleges (Yale’s version of dorms or quads) with these offerings are the most popular dining locations among students. Duke’s new Green Dining Initiative—which seeks to reduce waste, promote more locally grown foods and encourage conservation in a variety of ways—has great leadership with head of Duke Dining, Jim Wulforst, Barbara Stokes, Sam Hummel and the entire Green Dining Committee. But the program will only be a success if Duke chooses vendors with a similar commitment to quality and sustainability. An incredible opportunity is before Duke to replace ARAMARK with a vendor less concerned with corporate profits and more attuned to environmentally responsible dining. If Trask and Dawkins are truly committed to promoting environmental sustainability, they will pro-actively push for a new merchant that puts food quality, students’ demands and the environment before politics and corporate largesse. Incidentally, the former three criteria are complementary. Most importantly, as Duke students, we must realize that the future of sustainability at Duke is in our hands. If we want to reduce paper consumption and bring better food to campus, it is up to us to push for it. We are fortunate to have administrators like Wulforst who consistently open their ears to student feedback and ideas. We just need to give them something to listen to.

Jared Fish is a Trinity senior and a member of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, the Environmental Alliance and the Green Dining Committee. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Dialogue open to all As a Center, we have decided to begin to take a strong public stance on issues that are integral to our mission and core values. We are an ally for individuals who are discriminated and against marginalized, and therefore feel compelled to respond to this week’s “Monday, Monday” column, “A Sex Tape Nobody Wants to See” (Feb. 13). In the column, the author refers to females’ romantic prospects with engineering students at Duke by saying that, “Most of these men turn out to be either emotionally unavailable, boring, overworked, taken or Asian.” How does this sound to you? For many students, it may have been easy to overlook and accept the use of the term “Asian” in a string of negatively charged traits. However, the labeling of Asian men as undesirable partners is a form of racism that should not be tolerated. We do not intend to censor dialogue to only “politically correct” forms on this campus, but rather we seek to open dialogue on the underlying assumptions behind such hurtful statements. Thus, we urge you to join us tonight from 7;00-8;30p.m in the MultiCultural Center (bottom level of the Bryan Center) to discuss the implications of these words. The Executive Board of th£ Center for Race Relations

lation is a male, “Asian or Pacific Islander” engineer, as per 2003 statistics obtained from Pratt’s website. Within Pratt alone, only 7 percent of students, male or female, are classified as “Asian or Pacific Islander.” Yet jokes wouldn’t be funny, and controversy wouldn’t ensue, without a tinge of truth, right? I’ve already admitted to noticing the prevalence of interracial relationships on this campus involving more Asian women than Asian men. Is this because of anti-miscegenation laws of the late 1800 forbidding white female/Asian male partnerships? Is this because 1940 s laws allowed tens of thousands ofAsian women to bypass longstanding anti-Asian immigration laws and enter the country as war brides ofUS military men? Is this because Asian men simply have no game? Is this because the media has portrayed Asian women as

love-you-long-time fetishes, and the only Asian men people remember are Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles, martial arts stars who never even kiss

the leading lady and William Hung? I don’t know, but I urge

people

always question

and always challenge the norm. It’s hard, I know. But if “Asian” were replaced with “black,” “Jewish,” “Latino,” “Native American,” “white,” “Muslim,” “Russian,” “short,” “skinny” or “gay,” what would the reaction have been? Kevin Fang Trinity 'O7

Stereotypes For the second consecutive semester, the “Monday, Monday” column has made a casually racist comRacial comments intolerable On this campus, when a ment about Asians. Forget whether such stereotypes Chronicle column makes an insensitive comment are “positive” or cognitively useful. In the grand about African Americans, scheme of things, they get or Jewish Americans, for exus nowhere and only serve ample, all hell would break to perpetuate the racism loose. But hey, we can make deeply ingrained in U.S. fun of Asians all we want, right? People say, “They're society. To the author (s) of the not really a minority group. They’re not discriminated column, I ask, what commake such a to against. Besides, they’re too pelled you comment? Why is it passive to rise up and raise funny? To the students their voice against this kind who may have thought of thing.” With disgust, many nothing of the statement, what compelled you to acAsian Americans have dealt with this double stancept such a derogatory depiction of almost one-fifth dard ofracism their entire lives. The United States of the undergraduate population? I’m sorry, half has historically treated that, because we’re only Asian immigrants as fortalking about men, right? eigners no matter what the It’s normative to date circumstances. Sadly, this Asian women, but not type of attitude towards those [insert adjective of Asians still exists in this soconnotation] ciety, and it is the most unnegative fortunate when such Asian men. If you were curious, not racism occurs in the newseven 1 percent of the unpaper column of such a dergraduate student popu- prestigious institution as

Duke University. I am furious at the notion that this kind of racism may go unnoticed at Duke, especially in such a visible medium as a Chronicle column. Sam Lee Trinity ’O7 ASA decries column After seeing a beautiful photograph of ASA’s Lunar New Year show on the cover of Monday’s Chronicle, the Asian Students Association was surprised to find a racial attack on Asians in the “Monday, Monday” column. JACK BAUER’S BIDET wrote a particularly painful-to-read tirade, and for the purpose of humor, he included numerous careless and offensive stereotypes of Asian males when writing of engineers and dating by stating, “most of these men turn out to be either emotional-

that the author of JACK BAUER’S BIDET give a formal public apology to the Asian and greater Duke Community for his offensive comments. Douglas Kim, Trinity ’O6 Caroline Shou, Trinity ’O6 Asian Students Association

Gileskids not to blame As a resident of Giles who, like many others, was asleep when the vandalism occurred, I do not appreciate being told in a recent staff editorial (“Group punishment could deter vandals,” Feb. 15) that we as residents should “be more vigilant in enforcing standards of behavior.” The vast majority of Giles residents were not in any way connected to the vandalism in question, and it has not been proven that the perpetrators were residents of Giles. This belief is based on the fact that the ly unavailable, boring, destruction happened after overworked, taken or 2 a.m. and only Giles resiAsian.” Since when is it acdents were allowed to enter ceptable to present any the building at that time. The problem with this ethnicity as a negative trait? Does the columnist logic is that the perpetrabelieve that Asians will retors could have entered the main silent and that this building prior to 2 a.m. or sort of “humor” is tolera“tailgated” in on another ble at Duke?—because we person’s swipe. However, even if it were proven that highly doubt he would hazard to report that a dating the culprits were residents pool was bleak because it of Giles, it is still unfair to was “black,” “Jewish” or blame the group for the ac“Latino.” tions of a few. If a flatAlthough this statement screen TV was stolen from might be perceived as a Bell Tower dormitory at 4 harmless joke, JACK a.m., would all Bell Tower BAUER’S BIDET goes residents be assessed a fee for its replacement? even further as he concludes by portraying an inThe vandalism situation vented Asian male with is no different; students should not be held responpoor English and offensible for events they had sively punning on his Chinese last name. With these no control over and did remarks, the author of not witness. If the RA on JACK BAUER’S BIDET call is not being penalized makes a direct attack on for going to sleep at a reaAsians by furthering negasonable hour and not seeing the destruction occur tive stereotypes and remarking that engineers are (in fact, none of the RAs unattractive because they are being assessed a moneare Asian. He has antary penalty), why should nounced that the student residents be punished for body is “us” and Asians are doing the same thing? Perhaps the strongest ev“them” and has offended at least one-tenth of the idence that the group punishment policy doesn’t work student body. An anonymous humor is that it hasn’t achieved its column certainly does not intended goal: revealing the give its author carte vandals’ identity. blanche to write racist reIt is unfortunate that marks for the sake of being blame cannot be placed funny. In blatandy doing upon the perpetrators, but that doesn’t make it right so, it is clear that the author of JACK BAUER’S to blame an entire group, BIDET represents the very many of whom were not even awake while the vanignorance that undermines respect for diversity dalism was happening. I can’t speak for my fellow at Duke. residents, but I know I of humor is This type won’t be staying up all most certainly not acceptnight, vigilantly patrolling able, and the Asian community will not tolerate the halls, and I doubt anyeven the most casual forms one else will. Matt Johnson of racism. The Asian Studemands Trinity ’O9 Association dents

A safer Ninth Street

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of the joys ofEast Campus is its close proximity to Ninth Street. Last year, as a freshman, I found almost whatever I needed just a short

walk awa Yet, far more than mere convenience, the <Jsk %***>*■■ area also has unique people and an intriguing culture surrounding its diverse group of shops. Although I frequently poke fun at the jamie deal left-wing nature of that culture—the outrastrategery geous bumper stickers and the slanted selection at the Regulator Bookshop—it nonetheless affected my life in a positive way last year by adding another dimension to my college experience. It is exactly because Ninth Street gave me so much last year that I am deeply troubled by its susceptibility to crime. The Duke community was reminded of the dangers of Ninth Street by two incidents involving students. In November, four men robbed a student as he was walking out of Cosmic Cantina, and just last month two 18year-olds were mugged at gunpoint on Perry Street. These two events, however, are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Ninth Street crime. Much like an aerial photo of the Florida coast shows the prevalence of sharks among swimmers in the surf, the Durham Police Department’s online “Crime Mapper” reveals the widespread crime around Ninth Street. Within one-quarter mile from the intersection of Perry and Iredell Streets, 128 crimes including motor vehicle theft, simple assault, robbery and rape were recorded last year. For more specific numbers from 2005, this area had three simple assaults, three burglaries, 16 thefts from motor vehicles, five thefts of motor vehicles, seven thefts of motor vehicle parts, nine robberies and—this is the most disturbing of all—two forcible rapes. I could add shoplifting and all other larceny, too, but I do not believe students are too concerned about that sort of crime. While these numbers may shock readers, they do not surprise me in the least. Anyone who has walked down Perry Street for a late-night Cosmic Cantina run, or even gone down that street in the early evening, has probably felt a little uneasy doing so because he or she knows just how dangerous it is. The city ofDurham has not done enough to help rid Ninth Street of its crime. There are some basic improvements that could go a long way in preventing it and improving the area in general. For starters, Perry Street needs better lighting. There are only a few street lamps there, and they are dim ones at that. Because there are alleys, a church parking lot sheltered by trees and a sketchy gravel parking lot across from Cosmic Cantina, criminals have many places in which to hide. Because of the poor lighting one feels completely vulnerable whenever walking down Perry Street—and with good reason. Last year my friends and I often saw suspicious figures lurking in the shadows and alleys. Simply put, better lighting would reduce the risk of crime and alleviate students’ fears. In addition, both Durham and Duke Police should patrol Perry Street on a more regular basis. Having officers on foot or bicycle patrolling Perry and Ninth Streets at all hours of the night would certainly deter crime better than the occasional police cruiser flying by. Police should also work on their response time. When those two young students were robbed outside Cosmic Cantina last month, it took the Durham Police more than an hour to arrive after they were notified, much to the irritation of the victims. Whether we like it or not, crime surrounds East Campus. With better lighting and more frequent police patrols, the Ninth Street area will continue to flourish, adding another positive aspect of the Duke experience.

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Jamie Deal is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

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