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Student leaders from Duke and North Carolina Central University met over dinner to discuss potential collaboration between the two schools at Monday’s InterCommun i t y Council meeting. Last semester, stu-

dents from both universities Jordan Giordano met to talk about relations following the lacrosse scandal, but now the students are looking beyond a relationship forged by crisis, hoping to foster a sense of community between the two Durham schools, leaders from both schools said. “Now we’re taking the next

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step,” said ICC President Jordan Giordano, a sophomore. “We’re looking at how our stu-

dent groups can work together and collaborate to have the best possible relationship.” About 50 leaders—including representatives from student governments, fraternities, sororities and other time organizations—spent talking to each other in small roundtable discussions to establish ideas for working together in the future. No such organized meeting had been held at Duke up to this point, but students from both schools were pleased with the outcbme and enthusiastic about, the schools’ prospective interaction. “We’re bringing our student leaders together, and I don’t think that’s ever been done before,” said NCCU senior SEE DUKE-NCCU ON PAGE 8

Research Drive fire yields little damage Adam Eaglin THE CHRONICLE

A fire of unknown origin scorched a laboratory on the second floor of the Nanaline H. Duke Building Monday morning, causing students and workers to evacuate, University officials confirmed. No one was injured in the blaze, but both the building and Research Drive—where the facility is located—were closed off for much of the day.

The fire, which started at about 6:17 a.m., took between one and two hours to contain, but never expanded beyond the structure’s second floor, said Leanora Minai, senior communications strategist for the Office of Communication Services. “My understanding is that the fire was limited to the lab, or just that one floor,” Minai SEE FIRE ON PAGE 6

There was a fire early Monday morning at the Nanaline H.Duke Building on Research Dr.

Durham firefighters look on as the American flag is presented at Monday's Sept. 11 commemoration on the West Campus Plaza.

Students, firefighters honor 9/11 anniversary by

Katherine Macllwaine THE CHRONICLE

Members of the Duke community joined mourners across the country Monday by commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at two on-campus memorial services. President Richard Brodhead and Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells spoke to approximately 70 alumni, faculty and students at a ceremony at the Keohane Quad Memorial Grove, where six trees were planted in 2002 to honor the six Duke alumni killed by the attacks. “Peaceable people going about their daily lives can be the objects of atrocious violence and organized malice,” Brodhead said at the service, which was sponsored by the Duke Alumni Association.

Brodhead also shared his personal memories of the terrorist attacks. He reflected on the crystal sky and bright sunshine of the fateful morning, emphasizing that he ironically spent the early hours of Sept. 11 thinking it was “a great day to be alive.” Brodhead finished by reading the names of the six alumni vic-

Tims and placing a wreath on the memorial’s plaque. The University continued its remembrances at an evening service organized by the Duke Student 9/11 Memorial Commission. Senior Stephen Miller created the commission—which includes 11 student groups—in August. “I was so grateful for the opportunity for all of us to come together and pay tribute to our noble and selfless heroes and to honor and remember those many lives that were tragically taken,” said Miller, the commission’s chair and a Chronicle Columnist. The ceremony featured memorial bells and drums and a performance of the national anthem by the Duke Chorale. SEE

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Bomberkills 6 at Afghan funeral

Hamas, Fatah strike coalition deal BY DIAA Haded THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GAZA CITY Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas struck a deal Monday to share power with the militant Islamic Hamas, an accord that could restore international aid and could lead to contacts with Israel. The breakthrough compromise falls short of international demands that Hamas fully renounce violence, but Israeli officials still voiced cautious support for the accord. The West and Israel reacted by cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, accusing Hamas of being a terrorist

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Initially, Palestinians held the West and

Israel to blame for their misfortune, but in directed that critiTens of thousands of civil servants launched a strike this month to protest the government’s failure to pay their salaries. A two-month Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip—begun after Hamas-linked militants infiltrated Israel and captured a soldier—has added to the Palestinians’ misery. After months of on-and-off talks, Abbas, the moderate Fatah leader, and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas announced the accord Monday.

recent weeks, they have cism at the government.

“The continuous efforts to form a national unity government have ended successfully with the announcement of a political program for this government,” Abbas told Palestinian television. “Efforts in the next few days will continue to complete the formation of the national unity government,” he added. Abbas aide Nabil Abu Rdeneh said the president would dissolve the Hamas-led government within 48 hours to clear the way for the formation of a coalition. Haniyeh, who said earlier that he would retain his post in the new government, confirmed the two parties planned to rule together.

Al Qaeda video warns of new targets by

Lee Keath

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CAIRO, Egypt AI Qaeda’s No. 2 condemned U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon as enemies of Islam and warned the terror group will strike the Persian Gulf and Israel, suggesting new fronts in its war against the West in a video Monday marking the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The video of Ayman al-Zawahri was one of three videos al Qaeda released for the anniversary, showing increasingly sophisticated techniques as the group tries to demonstrate that it remains a powerful, confident force five years into the

U.S. war on terror. One video showed images of the planes striking the World Trade Center, lionizing the 19 suicide hijackers as men “who

changed history.”

Another was a 91-minute documentarystyle video in which Osama bin Laden is seen smiling and chatting with the planners of the Sept. 11 attacks in an Afghan mountain camp. Al-Zawahri spoke in the third and longest video, warning Americans of more attacks to come. ‘We have repeatedly warned you and offered a truce with you. Now we have all the

legal and rational justification to continue to fight you untilyour power is destroyed or you give in and surrender,” he said. “The days are

pregnant and giving birth to new events.” He also called on his followers to attack the United States in response to its jailing of a prominent Muslim cleric. “I call on every Muslim to make use of every opportunity afforded him to take revenge on America for its imprisonment of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman,” he said. Abdel-Rahman, a blind cleric from Egypt, was convicted in the United States of seditious conspiracy for his role in a 1995 plot involving five New York City landmarks.

In a further assault on the embattled Afghan government, a suicide bomber killed six people in Kandahar Monday at the funeral of a provincial governor who was assassinated by the Taliban. Four senior Cabinet ministers escaped injury.

Bush urges unity in terror war Five years after the worst terror attack in U.S. history, President George W. Bush said Monday night the war against terrorism is "the calling of our generation" and urged Americans to put aside differences and fight to victory.

Florence dimsBermuda lights Hurricane Florence blew out windows, peeled away several roofs and knocked out power to thousands in Bermuda on Monday before churning past the island chain and heading out over open ocean.

Harvard ends Early Admission Harvard University will eliminate its earlyadmissions program because it puts poor and minority students at a disadvantage, school officials planned to announce Tuesday. Under the surprise move, the Ivy League school will discontinue its "early action" round of admissions, in which high school seniors can apply by Nov. 1 and receive a decision by Dec. 15. News briefs compiled from wirereports

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Fuqua rated PPS 55 fills up, policy changes Bth best for Hispanics BY

VIKRAM SRINTVASAN THE CHRONICLE

Lucius Walker THE CHRONICLE

The Fuqua School of Business placed eighth in Hispanic Business Magazine’s

2006 list of the top-10 MBA programs for

Hispanics. Although Fuqua dropped from its sixth-place position last year, the maga-

zine still described the business school as an institution recognized for its diversity as well as for its active pursuit of increasing that diversity. “It’s nice that the rankings have acknowledged diversity,” said Liz Riley Hargrove, assistant dean of the Daytime MBA program and the director of admissions at Fuqua. “Fuqua is diverse because it chooses to be—we host a workshop every year for Hispanic students, designed to give them a feel of what the MBA program is like at Fuqua,” she added. According to the magazine, 4 percent of Fuqua’s 2006 graduate enrollment was Hispanic, and five percent of MBAs earned in that year were by Hispanics. “The Fuqua School of Business is committed to building and sustaining an environment conducive to capitalizing on the diversity within the community as a source of intellectual, personal and professional growth and innovation,” the magazine stated. Fuqua has implemented several programs to recruit and retain Hispanic MBA SEE FUQUA ON PAGE 5

CORRECTION The Chronicle's Sept. 8 article about the AKPsi business fraternity should have stated the fraternity is geared primarily toward undergraduate students.

In past semesters, the mention of Public Policy 55, “Introduction to Policy Analysis,” has brought to mind memories of profuse late-night memo-writing and hours of number-crunching. But last spring, in a temporary suspension of department policy, about 30 prospective sophomore majors were allowed to delay the course for the current semester and skip on to PPS 114, “Political Analysis for Public Policy.” The department voted to implement a number of changes to the public policy major in 2005. Among those changes, PPS 55 became a prerequisite for many higherlevel courses, and the new requirement resulted in an over-enrollment that has peaked this semester. “[PPS 55 is] structured so that it’s the entry-level course,” said Bruce Kuniholm, director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. “It makes no sense to take higherlevel courses for which it’s a very useful introduction and then go back and take the SEE PPS ON PAGE 5

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Students locked out of PPS 55, taught at Sanford Institute, were allowed to take PPSII4 this semester.

Students protest facebook changes Qinyun Wang THE CHRONICLE

While users were busy checking friends’ profiles and pictures, Facebook.com silently prepped and readied itself for a facelift. And when the results were unexpectedly unveiled Sept. 5, the volume of response was overwhelming. Many students across the country and on Duke’s campus expressed shock and anger when the changes were made. Although individual opinions varied, the general sentiment was quite clear—an “I Hate the New Facebook” group search turns up more than 500 global results. Two new features introduced Sept. s—News Feed and Mini-Feed—caused the commotion. “News Feed is a news aggregator of a

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Natalia Antonova, Trinity ’O6, said the News Feed design was crowded and confusing. She said she was concerned about privacy. “I don’t like to advertise my FaceSEE FACEBOOK ON PAGE 8

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Former QB Shuler runs for House by

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Heath Shuler, a former quarterback for the Washington Redskins, is hoping to return to the nation’s capital this fall. This time, however, he won’t be on the football field. Shuler is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in North Carolina’s 11th District, challenging Rep. Charles Taylor, R-N.C., who is currently serving his eighth term in office. Taylor, who is chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee, has put down challenges from moderate and liberal opponents in the past, but Shuler presents a different challenge. “Heath is a Democrat of a more conservative nature,” said Andrew Whalen, spokesperson for Shuler’s campaign. “He’s not running to represent a party; he’s running to represent the people of this district.” With election day fast approaching, Taylor’s lead is smaller than usual. Shuler has led in the few public polls released, and the non-partisan Cook Political Report lists the race as a “toss-up.” SEE SHULER ON PAGE 8

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Four female graduate school students host a panel and discuss some ofthe challenges women face.

Women give advice about graduate life by

Anne Llewellyn THE CHRONICLE

About 60 graduate and professional school students gathered in the Bryan Center Monday night to hear a fiveperson panel discuss and offer advice on the Duke experience for female graduate students. The informal discussion, dubbed “If I Knew Then What I Know Now,” was created to provide new graduate students with an opportunity to network with women in other schools and programs and to hear helpful tips from returning students. The Graduate and Professional Women’s Network and the Women in Science and Engineering organizations co-sponsored the event. The panel consisted of graduate students Mel Baars of the Divinity School; Lindsey Becker, of the Fuqua School of Business; Audrey Ellerbee,

of the Biomedical Engineering Department; Laura Kavanaugh, of the Program in Genedcs and Genomics; and Ariana Sutton-Grier of - the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. The women discussed everything from the challenges facing female students at the University to the opportunities at Duke for free food. While most on the panel said they had not been the subject of direct gender discrimination, they expressed concerns about lower faculty representation for women in many

departments. This means fewer role models to look up to for examples of female success in a given field and fewer female advisors, some panel members explained. Sutton-Grier suggested that

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Two Israeli soldiers spoke to Jewish community leaders about their service in the war in Lebanon at the Office ofStudentActivities and Facilities Monday afternoon. During the event, organized by Rabbi Zalman Bluming of the Chabad of Duke, Danny Saks and Shmulik Israel—both members of the Israeli Defense Force reserve —discussed what it was like to see the war in person. “By sharing your own story, it is easier to understand what’s going on,” said Israel, a medic from outside Haifa. Both men recounted how they were called up to serve in the conflict. Israel spoke about receiving a text message to report and parting from his parents. Saks, who immigrated from Australia to Israel, said he got a call at 1:30 a.m. telling him to report to his local base the following morning. He said upon arriving he felt “an amazing feeling.” “All around the streets were normal people, except in army uniforms,” he said. “I was on the beach Friday, and on Sunday we were fighting in a war.” Saks’ unit was assigned to destroy Hezbollah rocket launchers on the Israel-Lebanon border. Showing pictures of the scene, he told the audience how it looked and felt like a war zone from the moment he got off an army bus, with bombs hitting the ground around him. Saks said he was shocked at the scope of the destruction. Israel was stationed deep in Lebanon, completely out of contact with home. To avoid detection by Hezbollah fighters, he was not allowed to bring a cell phone into the war zone, leading him to feel very isolated. “I missed my friends, I missed my famiSEE ISRAELIS ON PAGE 6

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PPS from page 3 introduction after you’ve taken the [elective] courses.” Students have to take PPS 55 before they go can take PPS 114, 116 and most other electives in the major or pursue the required internship. Administrators explained that overcrowding was the inevitable consequence of a number of factors. ‘You have juniors and seniors deciding, ‘I can’t put off PPS 55, so I need to take that class.’ And you have freshmen and sophomores saying, ‘I really need to take PPS 55 so I can take 114 and 116,’” said Jay Hamilton, director of undergraduate studies at Sanford. As a delayed consequence of the decision, the class is predominantly filled with sophomores and seniors, said Public Policy Profes-

sor Elizabeth Vigdor, who teaches the course Of the approximately 90 students in PPS 114, 30 have never taken the public policy To help alleviate the stress of both upperclassmen and underclassmen signing introductory course. Hamilton, who teaches the course, has modified the curriculum up for PPS 55, Hamilton said he and Kuniholm implementfor this semester ed “safety valves.” “I’m putting a They increased “It makes no sense to take the number of stronger emphasis sections of the courses... and on memo-writing class from 10 to capabilities so that then go back and take 13, accommodatthe students who didn’t have 55 are ing 36 more peothe introduction.” not disadvanple from the waitBruce Kuniholm list of 75, and taged,” he said. Deallowed the respite the current Director, Sanford Institute troubles, maining balance public of students on the policy officials said waidist the option of temporarily skipping they do not expect overcrowding to be an PPS 55 for PPS 114. These students, howevissue in the future. “It’s justa one-time effect until we get the er, will still be required to take PPS 55 before they graduate. upperclassmen out of the system, and then

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it’ll be back to the status quo,” Vigdor said. Sophomores who still need to take PPS 55 will be able to in the spring, and Hamilton said that the course should be able to accommodate a large number offreshmen as well. “Our goal is for this year’s freshman class to be able to take 55 within their first three semesters at Duke,” he said. “And we’re on target to do that.” PPS 55 has long been anticipated by entering students with caution. Some students, however, said that after taking upper-level classes, they look forward to studying the basics offered in PPS 55. “I really wanted to take a public policy course,” said freshman Chelsey Amelkin. “The only one I found that didn’t have any prerequisites was an upper-level course, so I’m in it and I’m the only freshman that I know of. I would’ve liked to take an easier course to kind of condition me for it.

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The Fuqua School ofBusiness was ranked as the eighth-best business schoolfor Hispanic students.

FUQUA from page 3 students, and also offers a number ofLatino organizations for students to join, including the Latin American StudentAssociation and the Black and Latino Student Association.

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She added that a 4-percent enrollof Hispanic students at Fuqua was actually a very high percentage for business schools. Hispanic Business Magazine’s rankings are compiled using questionnaires sent to each institution. Using a points system, each school is ranked in a number of categories, including Hispanic enrollment, Hispanic faculty, Hispanic student services, retention rate and reputation. Unlike other categories, the reputation category is based solely on the business schools’ rankings in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools. In those rankings, Fuqua is currently listed 11. The rankings are compiled every year, but it is not Hispanic Business Magazine’s policy to release their exact methodology, said Cynthia Marquez, a senior research assistant at the publication. ment

support the advancement of minority business students within the finance industry are matched by Fuqua. Duke placed eighth behind the business schools at Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Dartmouth College, University of Texas at Austin, New York University, Yale University and the University of Miami, respectively. The ninth and tenth spots were occupied by Columbia University and Florida International University. Hargrove noted that it is “really very difficult to recruit Hispanic students.”

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been impacted. The two freezers did contain some samples that had radioactive isotopes at very low frequencies, [but clean-up personnel] transferred those samples,” Thomann added. Thomann added, however, that OESO would continue to monitor the building. The Durham Fire Department is continuing to investigate the cause of the fire, although officials have officially designated the incident as accidental in nature. Although the fire-damaged laboratory will require renovations, the rest of the building should be back to general functioning capacity Tuesday, Thomann said. In the last decade, the Nanaline H. Duke Building has been the site ofrepeated blazes. In 1996, an electrical fire began in the basement of the structure, and the third floor of the building caught fire in an unrelated incident in 1998. More recently, a three-alarm fire blazed on the roof of the Research Dr. building in 2000 when construction equipment erupted in flames.

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said. “But there’s some damage to neighboring rooms.” Addidonally, the first floor suffered minimal water

damage. The building remained closed until normal operation was scheduled to resume Tuesday morning, Minai explained. The biggest concern for fire crews was a handful of

freezers that contained samples of low-level radioactive compounds. Although the freezers were damaged by the fire, the materials they contained were not affected, and the environment was determined to be safe, said Wayne Thomann, director of the Occupational and Environmental Safety Office. “We had people on site and we were doing continuous monitoring,” he said. “There was no evidence that anything in the lab had

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mines. While in Lebanon, his unit often had to enter houses under attack from rockets, grenades and Hezbollah gunmen. During quiet moments, the soldiers said they found innovative ways to pass the time, such as playing chess with pieces made from bullets and candy. The talk occurred in the context of the five-year anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Saks commented on the tragic nature of terrorism around the world.

“I missed my friends, I missed my family, but for the first time I missed Israel.... I thought, This may be the last time I’m in Israel.’” Danny Saks Israeli soldier Saks and Israel began the presentation with a brief summary of the war, explaining how two IDF humvees were attacked by Hezbollah terrorists who killed four Israeli soldiers and kidnapped two others. This prompted Israel to invade Lebanon in order to attack Hezbollah and retrieve the kidnapped soldiers. Saks concluded by asking the audience to spread awareness about the situation in Israel. Bluming said he wanted to give the community a chance to witness a first-hand account of the war and its repercussions. Audience member Yehudis Bluming said the event had a big effect on her, and said hearing the account humanized an otherwise-distant political issue. “It brought it to life,” said Rabbi Pinchas Herman, who was in Israel during the war. “It was tremendous. [ln Israel,] I heard about it but didn’t see it. It hits home how misunderstood Israel is,” he added.

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Service award taken from desk An employee reported that she placed a five-year service award in an unlocked desk drawer in her unsecure cubicle in the Page Building Aug. 28. When she went to present the award Sept. 1, she found that the award—a bronze ornamental pin—was stolen from the box. Student vanishes in Gardens after assault Two student resident assistants were attempting to help a student who was intoxicated and reported Sept. 2 that he had a head injury by the West Campus bus stop. The intoxicated student assaulted one of the RAs before running into the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. The student could not be physically located after an extensive search. The roommate of the student reported to police that he called the student, and the student refused to meet with police or to seek treatment. Cash reported missing from dorm room A student reported Sept. 4 that she left 50 $lOO bills ($5,000) in an unsecure desk drawer in her dormitory room in Keohane Quadrangle. She said she last saw the money Sept. 1. During the weekend she had at least two visitors to her room, who were left unattended, and she left her door unlocked on at least two different occasions when she was not there. She noticed the money missing Sept. 4 at 9:00 a.m. Unattended laptop stolen in Bostock A student reported that she left a

bookbag containing a blue, flexible Dell Inspiron laptop, computer mouse and power cord on a table in Bostock Library at 1:40 p.m. Sept. 3. She covered the bag with her sweat shirt and left the area until 2:40 p.m. She noticed her bag had been moved and the items above were missing. Another student reported seeing a suspicious man in the area, but did not call police.

iPod pilfered from car on Central A student reported that he parked his car in the gravel parking lot on Oregon Street at 2:00 p.m. Sept. 3. He said he had left his car unlocked and left his iPod in the car. When he returned at 5:00 p.m., the iPod was missing

Watch stolen in hospital bathroom A woman reported that she left her silver Rolex watch at a sink after she washed her hands on the fifth floor of Duke Hospital around 2:30 p.m. Sept. 4. The watch was left unattended for about 15 minutes. When the woman returned for it, her watch was missing.

Computer taken from Trent storage room An employee reported that a Dell lap-

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Students rise during the national anthem Monday night on the Plaza as part of the 9/11 memorial.

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“It was an evening of much solemnity, reflection and sadness, but also so much hope, strength and inspiration,” Miller added. Speakers included Durham City Councilman Mike Woodard, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Durham Fire Department Captain Sean Boon and Jim Goins, the North Carolina state commander ofVeterans ofForeign Wars. Wells concluded the service by noting that the three terms most commonly associated with the terrorist attacks are sacrifice, tragedy and suffering. He encouraged the audience to make the most of an inevitably sorrowful day. “If it can’t be happy, make it beautiful,” Wells said.

Miller estimated that 1,000 people were present at the evening memorial. Attendees included students, faculty and local community members who felt close ties to the events offive years ago. “I saw them go up, and I saw them go down,” said Siler City resident and New York native Lynn O’Connor, who was visiting Staten Island the morning the Twin Towers came crashing to the ground. O’Connor added that she was personally connected to the tragedy because she lost a high school friend in the attacks, and her son spent a year at war in Iraq. Junior Adam Zell, vice chair of the commission, said the crowd expressed gratitude to those who planned the event. “They said this is one of the most touching memorials they had ever been to,” Zell said. “That’s what makes it worthwhile.”

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DUKE-NCCU from page 1 Mukhtar Raqib, Student GovernmentAssociation president. “It’s monumental.” Although conversations between the two universities’ student leaders are just beginning, they have already begun to formulate plans for bringing the two student bodies together. Student leaders intend to hold Unity Fest Oct. 15 at the American Tobacco Complex to allow students at Duke and NCCU to come together and mingle with each other. “I’m very, very excited about this upcoming school year and working with Duke," said NCCU sophomore Kent Williams, SGA speaker pro tempore and senator. “We want this to continue not just with one meeting, but that we continue having events on each other’s campuses,” he added. Both groups of students said they hope informal meetings will continue and relationships will flourish,

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both on a university level and on a more personal level. “We’d really like it to also be more of an individual thing,” Giordano said. “Sorority with sorority, fraternity with fraternity—that’s really where this is going.” Those in attendance also hoped to form personal friendships rather than just working relationships. “This isn’tjust a group discussion,” saidjunior Elliott Wolf, Duke Student Government president. “It’s about people meeting each other and exchanging information with the hope that they’ll continue their relationship,” he added. All leaders said they hope student groups can take initiative to work with their counterparts at the other school. “We want people at Duke and people at Central who essentially do the same things on each campus to collaborate,” Wolf said. “The whole idea is that we want tangible things to come out of our relationship.” Dining Services paid for Monday’s meeting to be catered by Q-Shack.

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book activities,” Antonova said. “It’s kind of weird and

voyeuristic.” Senior Ashley Gray likened News Feed to US Weekly. “Everyone’s activities are in a synthesized list for everyone else to read,” she said, adding that she has stopped using Facebook as often as she used to because it became overwhelming. Other students said they would have liked to be asked for input before the changes were implemented.

Hints about the advent of News Feed and Mini-Feed were sprinkled throughout the site before their debut. A few days before the facelift, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post on the site, “Change can be disorienting, but we do it because we’re sure it makes ' the site better.” Some students, however, said they preferred to look on the brighter side. “I like the new look of the profile itself,” freshman Lizzy Do said. Despite the large number of new groups against Facebook, several others—such as “Facebook Gets More Awesome Every Day” and “Facebook Doesn’t Stalk People, People Stalk People”—are embracing the changes. These students, however, are in the minority. Nearly 745,000 users are currendy members of the official “StudentsAgainst Facebook News Feed” group. Zuckerberg addressed this issue in hisopen letter. “We really messed this one up,” Zuckerberg wrote. “When we launched News Feed and Mini-Feed... we did a bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them.... We didn’t build in the proper privacy controls right away.” As of Sept. 8, News Feed and Mini-Feed can be controlled by a new set of privacy control settings, which allow users to withhold information including those walls they post on, how many pictures they have added and those whom they are no longer dating. Still, the Facebook staff remains optimistic. “Users rely on Facebook to understand the world around them,” the site said in a statement. “News Feed and Mini-Feed will provide them with recent and relevant information about the people they care about in an efficient and effective way.”

SHULER from page 4 The two candidates are running on similar platforms regarding social issues, opposing same-sex marriages and agreeing on Second Amendment rights, veterans’ rights and a closed-border approach to immigration. The 11th District is “very socially conservative,” said Bill Sabo, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, noting that President George W. Bush received 57 percent of the district’s votes in 2004. A Swain County native, Shuler has emphasized his “mountain family values” and membership in the National Rifle Association throughout his campaign. Through the committee, Taylor has returned taxpayer’s money to the district through various civic works like securing broadband Internet access in the mountains and building a veterans’ hospital. “The chairmanship is in large part based on seniority,” Peaslee said. “[Taylor] has influence in the U.S. House, and it would be a shame for the people of western North Carolina to abandon that leadership.” For years before Taylor’s run in office, the 11thDistrict was a “swing district,” Sabo said. Taylor has since stabilized the voting population, consistently winning reelection

with vote totals in the 54 to 58 percent range. “Taylor’s been a figure for a while now,” Sabo said. “He’s cultivated the district, he spends his time here and he has loyal supporters.” Still, Shuler has garnered support, leading the fundraising race by $lOO,OOO, though Taylor has made up the difference in past elections from his own pocket. Sabo, who has taught in the 11th District since 1979, said there are relatively few “hardcore liberal democrats” in the district, and Shuler’s more conservative social stance may attract more former Taylor voters than previous democratic challengers. Sabo also recognized a number of “Reagan Democrats” —those who voted for President Ronald Reagan on social questions and now “feel alienated from the Democratic Party on a national level”—as potential Shuler voters. Sabo explained that advertisements produced by the Taylor campaign linking Shuler to the Democratic Party aim to keep moderate voters on Taylor’s side. Sabo said the race ultimately will be decided on the public’s perception ofShuler. “Can Shuler establish his identity as a democratwith conservative values?” Sabo asked. “Or, can Taylor convince voters that [Shuler is] just another liberal democrat?” i *4 \\\V-.V.VW/////.l i'i ’I!lTf. i ;»\'< . J»

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Coming off a huge ACC season-opening win over No. 5 Wake Forest Friday, the ninth-ranked Blue Devils hope to carry that momentum and continue their undefeated run in a contest against No. 16 Virginia Tech at 7 p.m. tonight at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils and Hokies have a tumultous history, tying 2-2 at Virginia Tech in double overtime last %jHf September before Duke eliminated the Hokies from the ACC tournament quarterfinals, 2-0, in November. JKmP “I’m sure they have a 6 li^ °f a chip on their TONIGHT, 7 p.m. Koskinen Stadium shoulder,” Duke senior Chris Loftus said. “We’re going to have to match their intensity and go one above it.” This season, the Blue Devils (5-0, 1-0 in the ACC) are focused on containing Virginia Tech’s (4-1, 0-1) main star, sophomore Patrick Nyarko, who leads his team with 10 points. “We’re just very aware of his speed,” Loftus said. “He’s a very, very, very quick player, so we want to make sure he doesn’t get behind us too much.” Last season, Nyarko was selected ACC Freshman of the Year and scored in his team’s tie against Duke. “Whenever he’s close to the goal, you really want to double-team him, whether he’s on the left or right,” Duke head coach John Rennie said. “We just need to have two guys on him whenever he’s in

Just about a week ago, I was standing on the field behind Wade Stadium as the football team wrapped up practice. As practice was ending, Ted Roof started hollering, “Three points to win the game, three points to win the game!” At the time, I thought he was nuts. Three points to win the game? This is just practice. Not a game, practice. Plus, this is Duke Football: “Win the game?” Yeah, ri §ht a lex The field goal unit lined up, probably from about 40 yards away. The defense fined up across from them. Joe Surgan stepped up, Casey Hales snapped the ball, and Surgan boomed it through the uprights. From the sidelines, the whole team swarmed onto the field and mobbed the kicker like they actually won the game. Fast forward 100 hours or so. Joe Surgan’s fining up again, this time from only 28 yards. There are six seconds on the clock, and Duke’s losing by just a point. I’ll bet that Roof was even yelling “Three points to win the game!” somewhere on the sidelines.

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Oy. And The Anti-Train keeps rolling. The night before the game, I was at Chai’s (also known as The Anti-Train’s dining car). My friend decided he was going to take the Chai’s Challenge, by eating 12 criminally spicy chicken wings. (These wings are spicy enough that I looked at the sauce and decided I couldn’t handle it. I licked some of the sauce SEE FANAROFF ON PAGE 12

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Senior captain Chris Loftus was part of theDuke team that beat Virginia Tech in the 2005 ACC tournament.

JJ. Redick pleaded guilty Monday to drunken driving charges stemming from his June 13 arrest near Duke’s campus. The ACC and Duke’s all-time leading scorer received a one-year sentence of unsupervised probation, and he will be required to complete 24 hours of community service within the next 90 days. “I am relieved that this process is over,” Redick wrote in an e-mail. “I made a mistake and I take responsibility for it. I learned a valuable lesson from this incident.” Court documents made public Aug. 30 indicated that Redick had planned to enter the guilty plea. At the time, Redick would not comment on the legal situation, but he said he was looking forward to the ongoing situation being over soon. Redick was accompanied to his ap-

pearance in traffic court by his lawyer, Donald Beskind, who wrote the Aug. 30 letter saying Redick would plead guilty. Redick was pulled over in the wee hours of June 13 after making an illegal U-turn before a license checkpoint at the comer of LaSalle Street and Kangaroo Drive. Police detained Redick in the parking lot of the Belmont Apartments. The 22-year-old registered a .11 blood alcohol level, above North Carolina’s .08 limit. Redick had “very glassy eyes” and a “strong odor of alcohol coming from his breath,” according to the police report. Just over two weeks after the incident, the Orlando Magic took Redick with the 11th pick in the June 28 NBA Draft in New York City. District Court Judge Richard Chaney will allow Redick to complete his community service requirement in Florida as he begins his career with the Magic.

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Lewis growing into role as starting QB games, the signal caller, who is sporting a 138.13 quarterback efGood athletes are defined by ficiency rating, has not thrown an their technique and form. Great interception in 56 attempts. “He has an ability to read the athletes separate themselves with something that cannot be coverage, even being a freshman,” Wright said. “In high coached—the intangibles. Although it may be too early to school, they don’t really throw call true freshman quarterback too many different coverages at ThaddeusLewis a great player, he you. But coming into college, exhibited traits in Saturday’s 14- they know that you’re a freshman, 13 loss to Wake Forest that transo they’re going to throw the scend a coach’s teachings. book at you, basically. That’s what “The intangibles of playing Wake Forest did, but he stepped quarterback—l think Thaddeus up and hit the open guy, and we has those,” head coach Ted Roof made plays for him.” said. “Of course, we’re talking Wright also said Lewis is keenabout one game now and a true ly accurate and has a knack for freshman, so he’s got a lot of implacing the ball where only the reproving to do and a lot of growing ceiver can catch it. to do. But I think he’s got the caAlthough Lewis, a Florida napability within himself to do that.” tive, has adjusted well to his new Lewis accounted for the majorihome in Durham and is turning into a key offensive threat for the ty of Duke’s offensive output Saturday, passing for 305 of the team’s Blue Devils, there still remains 367 total yards. Because of his perroom for improvement. formance, the young quarterback “The thing that we’ve got to has already begun to win the confiwork on with him is... [that he is] dence of his teammates. not harnessing his confidence “He’s got something about and his ability to see things and him,” junior wideout Jomar make plays,” Roof said. ‘You don’t want to take a kid like that and Wright said. ‘You really can’t explain it—it’s just that ‘it’ factor make him a robot. But at the you want to have in your quartersame time you don’t want a wild back, and he’s definitely got it.” horse rider out there.” In his first two collegiate The biggest test of Lewis’ by

tuesday morningquarterback Looking back at the block Sophomore kicker Joe Surgan missed both of his field goal attempts against Richmond in week one, and he made only two of his four tries against Wake Forest. Surgan's final kick Saturday was too low, allowing Wake's Chip Vaughn to block the ball as time expired. "If you looked on the tape, the kid puts one hand up," head coach Ted Roof said Monday. "It was heading right down the middle of the goalposts, but it was more of a driving kick that would've been good, but the kid made a great play on it.... We have some kids behind him that have worked hard and do a good job, but right now, Joe Surgan's our kicker."

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Thaddeus Lewis has more passing yards (453) than any other true freshman in the nation.

blossoming career so far will come against No. 14 Virginia

Tech this weekend in Blacksburg, Va. The Hokies intercepted North Carolina four times Saturday, so Lewis will have to be careful with his throws. “Thaddeus is a great young

quarterback that we have,” Wright said. “He’s Just done an excellent job of taking the gameplan that the coaches have prepared for him and leading this team. This weekend he played great, and I don’t expect anything less against Virginia Tech.”

Backfield injury update Starting halfback Justin Boyle and "Devil" back Ronnie Drummer were both doubtful going into the contest against Wake. Boyle was cleared by team doctors close to game time, but he played only a limited amount before reinjuring his leg. Duke's rushing attack was limited to two first-half yards and 62 overall in the game. Both players are doubtful for the Virginia Tech game, Roof said. Duke defense denies Deacons Wake Forest piled up 245 rushing yards against Syracuse in week one but managed just 57 Saturday against Duke. Matthew lies

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the continuing team but also to take steps to sur- improve the discipline of the controversy school’s athletes in general, athletics rounding and student-athAlthough this editorial pressure is inbehavior, lete deed warranted, the athletic dea formal code of decided not to creating inpartment conduct for all athletes is unstitute a formal code of conduct for members of necessary at this moment in University sports teams as a the University’s life. In the wake of its scandal, collective. Instead, the student athletic handbook has the lacrosse team has created been revised to emphasize a a specific code of conduct for its own players. It establishes new set of “values” and a revised procedure for reporta set of rules and proscribes penalties for each violation. ing infractions. This action affords the At the beginning of the sumopportunity to praise Joe Al- mer, Alieva, following an inieva’s decision making. Since vestigative committee’s reclast spring’s lacrosse scandal ommendation, announced there has been pressure on he would work on creating a similar code thatwould apply Alieva and other administrato all athletes. tors not only to address the Over the course of the problems of the lacrosse

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The new proposed standards became less specific with time. Many coaches supported a policy that gave coaches more leeway in disciplining their players. The new revisions to the athletic handbook distributed to all athletes at the beginning of the year strike the right balance between increased accountability and fair The adjudication. biggest change is that student athletes who break campus rules are now required to notify their coaches before Student Affairs does. This is a definite departure from what was pro-

posed a few months ago but is a much better policy. A

to conduct ourselves by the rules of our community. Creating a code of conduct strictly for athletes would almost invalidate that authority of the Duke Community Standard. It is this type of special treatment that we need the least. We cannot let the media or critics dictate our policies. Alieva’s decision proves that we are not the type of school that treats non-athletes as second-class students or athletes as suspects. We should preserve the fact that we are Duke students, regardless of the teams, organizations or groups of which we are a part. All members of our community need to play by the same set of rules.

code of conduct as strict as the one initially considered is unfair to student athletes. As the athletic department seems to understand, discipline shouldn’t be black and white; minor mistakes can sometimes be forgiven just as some offenses must be dealt with harshly. The proposed overarching athletic code would have removed the flexibility from the disciplinary process. Most importantly, the University should not create a two-tiered system for their students. Yes, athletes may be the most visible members of our community but we all represent Duke. We all need

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son. (On a serious note: I have heard from multiple unrelated sources that ESPN reporter Bonny “B Squared” Bernstein had relations with a pair offormer Blue Devils. No joke.) Unfortunately, our JV sports aren’t fairing as well. JV football lost a heartbreaker to Wake Forest on Saturday on a missed last second field goal. It is yet to be reported when the Varsity team will make its debut in Wallace Wade.

drop/add ends and going to class almost becomes necessary the school year is officially underway. So, now is as good a time as any for a litde what’s hot and what’s not around campus:

Hot: Freshman Girls Earlier this semester, I discussed my excitement for this freshman class, and I have not been let down so far. It’s these blonde southem girls that kill me I’m from New York, and I haven’t built up the immunity to them yet Their voices are intoxicating. All the “y’alls” and constant excitement suffocate me. tllGSdsy, tllGSddy Damn, I love to butter these hot biscuits. the morning wood

Not Hot; Ex-Duke B-Ballers Shane Battier and Elton Brand embarrass the United States yet again bylosing to Greece under the guidance of Coach K JJ. Redick embarrasses himself and the school with his DUI earlier this year. And Shavlick Randolph embarrasses me by appearing at two separate parties that I was at in the same night. Honestly, he is in the NBA. He is two years out ofcollege. He should be going to much sweeter parties than late night at Erwin, no?

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Not Hot' Not Hot; Section Parties/Being Icy I finally made it out ofEdens the other night into other areas ofWest. I’ve been off campus plenty this year, but had yet to attend the section ofanother frat on West. They suck. If you aren’t a freshman, it’s just pretty awkward. You go through these tiny, overcrowded hallways to have some guy pour a peppermint shot into your mouth. That’s pretty weird. I always understood that these parties were just excuses for freshmen to get free drinks and get wild. Thus, I thought I’d enjoy myself. However, until recently I hadn’t realized the other aspect of these parties. Early recruitment. It’s not all that fun to be at a ffat when none of the brothers will get off the jocks of the freshmen guys. Just my thoughts. Also not hot: being Icy. Iced Out got iced out by a fire marshal? there’s irony in there somewhere. Apparently not even leaving Durham can stop ALE from getting Duke students. And believe me, no one is more pissed than I am. I shopped all day for that outfit I held my hand in the freezer for 30 minutes during pregame. I was icy. But alas, the fire marshal pulled the fire alarm twice, and just like that the biggest party so far this year was over. The most absurd part about it was that an actual fire truck showed up. They honestly have nothing better to dowith the fire truck than show up to block traffic outside of a party? The whole situation seemed a little fishy to me, frankly. The whole fire alarm thing. Call me crazy, but I think this had something to do with tailgate.... Damn you, Larry Moneta! You did it again!

Regrettable Hookups How quickly we forget. The summer always brings out the best girls. After just three months away from Durham, I’d already forgotten what a gross hookup was. It didn’t take long before a quick reminder slapped me in the face (among other strange places). What is it about Shooters that completely blinds me? Perhaps the rush ofrubbing off the X’s on my hands mixed with the sight of a cute freshman girl puking by the stairs induces me into a drunken state where I believe that the chick rubbing up against me really likes me, when in reality she’s just so ugly that she needs to work hard for guys. This doesn’t happen during the summer. It’s hard to be prepared for it, and when it’s bad, it’s bad. HotDuke Varsity Sports Led by Vido and Studley, men’s soccer is cruising. The women only have two losses. Women’s field hockey is continuing their recent domination, and have only lost one game to Wake so far. The Varsity Cameron Crazie team is in fine preparation for the year. Those Juniors and seniors who still tent aggressively. In the mean time, they are busy studying up for the season. Where did Greg Paulus go to preschool, what shade of black does Krzyzewski color his hair, who was the last woman Roy Williams nailed before he met his wife—the Crazies need to know all this. Even if the real team doesn’t show up in March, God knows the Crazies will. Even the Duke bookies need to be preparing the spreads for the year. I already know my two guaranteed bets. Fifty bucks saying Duke blows a No. 1 seed before the Final Four, and one hundred saying Bonnie Bernstein hooks up with a guard, most likely Demarcus Nel-

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country would be great—except for the lot of them,” said the old white man, pointing to a crowd of young black artists at the opening for a Zulu art show in Durban, South Africa. “Well Africa wouldn’t be much of a continent without the Africans, would it?” I thought. I didn’t say it, though, because as much as I hated the deep racism in his comments, I knew what he meant. Stereosome circumtypes—in stances—have at least some basis in fact. Just days ago, two young black men tried to mug me in Cape Town. In Johannesburg, shades of blue two more young black men grabbed my bags, pulled me into a taxi, demanded a ridiculous sum of money and then dropped me on the street in the middle of nowhere. Try as I might, I couldn’t help but be afraid of the group responsible for the vast majority of South Africa’s incredibly high crime rate —young black men. And though it is only a few young black men who are instigating the problem, their actions have generated a culture offear in South Africa that damages tourism, hurts new business opportunities and still limits racial integration. When Rolling Stone anxiously reported that Duke was a hotbed of sex, drunkenness and debauchery, most Dukies responded with righteous indignation. The magazine didn’t know the true story. That wasn’t our Duke. We didn’t do those things. But we did—the collective “we” was guilty. Most individuals don’t have rampant sex or curse at Durhamites in the street, but there certainly are Duke students who engage in the activities that even The New York Times lambastes in its articles. As unfair as it may be, the result is that the rest of us don’t have a lot of ground to stand on when we protest. And of course, stereotypes are much easier to create than they are to destroy. Most of the people I met in South Africa went out of their way to help me and talk with me as much as they could. When I was lost in Johannesburg’s notorious Soweto township, complete strangers walked kilometers with me, regaling me with local history and legend. I was invited into people’s homes and eagerly welcomed every day. Still, nothing seemed to shake my impulse to cross the street when I saw young black men approaching. Shortly after the lacrosse incident last year, I wrote a column called The Real Face of Duke University. I shared just a few of the thousands of stories of Duke undergraduate volunteer work in Durham. I hoped these stories would be a reminder that one out-of-control party did not in any way represent the majority of Duke students. I was wrong. As I drove across the country in the summer, people all over the country asked me about the terrible kids at Duke. I don’t think anything I said about “the truth” ever swayed anyone’s belief. I was angry at what I thought was the ignorance of those I met to not be able to separate the actions of a few from the majority. It wasn’t until this last week of traveling that I really understood that it has nothing to do with logically separating the problem from the whole. I knew thatyoung African males were not bad people, but the problem is always going to stand out and become the defining memory. Stereotypes are not goinganywhere unless the entire group can demonstrate with certainty that a charge is false. The demonstrations can’t be with statistics orrhetoric or even newspaper columns. It may take years of providing evidence to the contrary to gradually change perceptions. In South Africa, there is already a great deal of excitement for hosting the World Cup in 2010. If the thousands of spectators experience a crime and violence-free visit, perhaps the world will stop associating South Africa with rampant crime and danger. On the other hand, even a few violent attacks during the competition will leave the country’s image will be permanently tarnished Duke does not get a showcase two-week exhibition to the world. Our demonstration will be much more difficult. It will require years withoutstories of parties gone afoul and students arrested, raped or hospitalized. I watched many South Africans cringe every time national headlines reported another violent crime. Similarly, each slipup at Duke will further cement the conclusions of our sensationalized national media. Just like South Africa, we have a long journey ahead and what most of us do does not count.

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David Fiocco is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other week.

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Phillips or Panasonic will $1,700.

But why, out of all your options, should you choose these two TVs? Because they come marked with the tacit seal of approval from a large and well-respected institution: Duke University. There are three Panasonics hanging in the seating area of McDonald’s and another three Philipses in various locations around the Bryan Center. Typically the Panasonics are Dfl3n KItIQIG airing reruns of Friends or That ’7os Show on ad astra mute. One of the Philips hangs on the wall of the Bryan Center’s TV room and is usually tuned to some sporting event; the remaining two are used as large electronic posters, displaying slide shows of pictures of the campus and events announcements written in small, unintelligible print. Assuming the University bought the TVs for retail price, it would have paid nearly $lO,OOO to achieve the noble goal of bringing the student body crisp, high-resolution images ofMatthew Perry’s face. These aren’t the only plasma screens on campus; from the Marketplace to the lobby ofBostock, newly-installed sets pop up in any number of incongruous places. All are, to varying degrees, useless. What’s going on here? Why is the University so eager to spend tens of thousands on pointless high-end consumer electronics? I’m not quite cynical enough to believe that this overabundance of plasma screens is a completely mercenary move on the part of the administration, just another way to appear “hip” and “wired” in marketing materials and recruitment brochures. Believe it or not, I think the administration had honest, even legitimate, motives for installing so many plasma screens around campus. It seems these motives, however, haven’t been translated into results. To expand, allow me to discuss another massive University investment in questionable electronics: the Duke Digital Initiative. Or, as it’s also known: the Amazing Free iPod Circus of 2004-2006. Despite the fact that thousands of iPods have been distributed to students free of charge over the past two years, at the cost of an astonishing half a million dollars per year, I have never heard a satisfactory account of why the program exists at all. In a memo to faculty dating from about this time last year, Provost Peter Lange wrote that the Initiative was intended “to encourage innovative .

thinking and support compelling proposals across a range of technology uses.” Perhaps this statement was intentionally vague, so that “listening to R. Kelly songs on the East-West bus” could be considered a “creative use of digital technology.” Both formal program evaluations and informal ones have indicated that students use iPods primarily for listening to music, occasionally for recording lectures and very rarely for other academic functions (partly because the iPod doesn’t have many academic functions). In most of the iPod classes I’ve taken, we hardly used the device at all; in none of them did it significandy impact my education. If fostering a new synthesis between education and emerging technologies was the real goal of the giveaway, then it was an unmitigated failure. Despite all this, I don’t believe that the iPod circus was just a glitzy marketing scheme, as many others have

suggested. The actors behind the Initiative recognized the huge potential in the digital tools they were trying to encourage and disseminate. In an economy, society and academic realm increasingly obsessed with the creation and transfer of information, the resources to control and manipulate this information are very potent indeed. This includes iPods and other audio and video storage devices. It also includes the peripheries that surround the iPod: Podcasts, downloadable content, file exchange and all the rest. It even includes plasma screens. What the administration is trying to give us, perhaps without realizing, is power: Access to cutting-edge hardware and software that will become incredibly important in the near future. Unfortunately, we’ve been granted this access in such a disorganized, unsupported way that I fear it’s done far more harm than good. Without any kind of guidance in the classroom, iPod giveaways and plasma screens in McDonald’s haven’t really made us more savvy navigators of the information age. They’ve only made us more likely to be consumers ofiPods and plasma screens. If the University is seriously committed to experimenting with emerging technologies, its time and money would be better spent expanding Information Sciences Information Studies. Currently a certificate program, ISIS focuses on exactly the kind ofcreative exploration of digital technology the Digital Initiative was supposed to foster, but in a much more structured and academically rigorous manner. The administration should also let the iPod program go. Subsidizing them was a start; the next step is to kill it entirely. It’s long been time for that particular circus to leave town. +

Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Tuesday.

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