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The management of The Belmont apartment complex has made a number of changes in response to a reported assault on a female student who lives in the residence Monday.

An unidentified man entered the student’s apartment through an unlocked front- door and attempted to strangle her, she said. He fled before police arrived on scene.

“We want you to know what we are doing to help keep Belmont residents safe and what you can do to prevent crime,” Community Manager Margaret Carroll wrote in a letter distributed to residents

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Carroll declined to speak to The Chronicle.

In her letter, Carroll said Belmont management is working to repair front and back entrance gates, hire additional security guards and plan a special safety meeting with local law enforcement.

“The gate to leave was always broken,” said Belmont resident Rebecca Stiffness, a senior. “They fixed the gate yesterday, which is not a coincidence.”

Senior Elise Watson said the gated na-

The Belmont management has taken a numberof steps to ensure resident safety at the apartment complex. ture of the Belmont—which is located just a few blocks from West Campus—contributed to her decision to live there this year, “I was a little worried that they didn’t keep the gate closed,” she said. “But you don’t really think about it until some-

“Secret codes” that many residents used to enter the complex’s front gate have been disabled, Carroll added.

“Please do not share your pass code to the gate,” she wrote. “We want to make sure that to the best of our ability others

thing happens.”

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With many of the recommendations fulfilled from the Women’s Initiative—completed in 2003 under former University President Nan Keohane—a new phase is set to begin this year in the realm of women’s issues on campus.

Led by President Richard Brodhead and Donna Lisker, director of the Women’s Center, a newly created group aims to continue the momentum begun

by Keohane’s project and address the problems that remain to be solved.

“I want to have a group together to be talking about what are the most important areas to be focusing on now,” Brodhead said. “We just want to make sure we have the wherewithal to keep pressing forward.”

In Fall 2003, the President’s Commission on the Status ofWomen was executed to ensure the proposals of the Women’s Initiative were implemented effectively.

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Character took center stage at the Arts and Sciences Council’s meeting Thursday afternoon—its first this academic year.

In his annual address to the council, George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, spoke about the University’s essence—its heart, mind and physical frame. Faculty also discussed Duke’s moral character, reflecting on the results of the 2005-2006 academic integrity survey.

McLendon’s talk featured three areas he portrayed as both current strengths and targets for continued improvement: financial aid, faculty and facilities. McLendon called commitment to community service and SEE A&S COUNCIL ON PAGE 7

Christian Kunkel has a moustache It’s famous—at least in the world of beerpong. Kunkel, Trinity ’O6, is the co-founder of the American Beerpong Association of America, the first and only national organization devoted to promoting the “sport.”

His moustache is so famous that a team at Wednesday night’s ABAA tournament at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill called itself “Christian’s Moustache.”

“It’s kind oflike the Samson curls of the tour,” Kunkel explained. “It’s our good-luck charm.”

Christian’s Moustache, the team, doesn’t have the same sort of luck. Its two members lose in the first round to “Psycho T”—as in UNC basketball player Tyler Hansbrough.

Kunkel graduated from Duke with an economics degree, but he and longtime friend Kyle Lininger —a Vanderbilt ’O6 graduate—have been planning to work in the beerpong market for a year and a half.

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WASHINGTON A rebellious Senate committee defied President George W. Bush Thursday and approved terror-detainee legislation he has vowed to block, deepening Republican conflict over terrorism and national security in the middle of the election season.

Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia, normally a Bush supporter, pushed the measure through his Armed Services Committee by a 15-9 vote, with Warner and three other GOP lawmakers joining Democrats. The vote set the stage for a showdown on the Senate floor as early as next week.

In an embarrassment to the White House, Colin Powell—Bush’s first secretary of state—announced his opposition to his old boss’ plan, saying it would hurt the country. Powell’s successor, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, jumped to the president’s defense in a letter of her own.

All this played out after Bush started his day by journeying to the Capitol to try nailing down support for his own version of the legislation—and by issuing a threat to the maverick Republicans.

“I will resist any bill that does not enable this program to go forward with legal clarity,” Bush said at the White House.

The president’s measure would go fur-

ther than the Senate package in allowing classified evidence to be withheld from defendants in terror trials, using coerced testimony and protecting CIA and other U.S. interrogators against prosecution for using methods that may violate the Geneva Conventions.

“The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism,” Powell, a retired general who is also a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in his letter.

Powell said Bush’s bill, by redefining the kind of treatment the Geneva Conventions allow, “would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk.”

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PARIS Al Qaeda has for the first time announced a union with an Algerian insurgent group that has designated France as an enemy, saying they will act together against French and American interests.

Current and former French officials specializing in terrorism said Thursday that an al Qaeda alliance with the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known by its French initials GSPC, was cause for concern.

“We tafee these threats very seriously,” Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said, adding in an interview on France-2 televi-

sion that the threat to France was “high” and “permanent,” and that “absolute vigilance” was required.

Al Qaeda’s No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, announced the “blessed union” in a video posted this week on the Internet to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.

French leaders have repeatedly warned that the decision not to join the war in Iraq would not shield the country from Islamic terrorism. French participation in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon could give extremists another reason to strike.

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ficials have long regarded the GSPC as one of the main terror threats facing France.

French experts agreed, but also noted the group has been severely weakened by internal divisions, security crackdowns and defections in Algeria, a former French territory still working to put down an Islamic insurgency that reached its most murderous heights in the 19905.

“The GSPC is losing speed and has suffered very significant losses in recent months,” said Louis Caprioli, former assistant director of France’s DST counterterrorism and counterintelligence agency.

Ford Motor Co. will offer buyout and early retirement plans to all of its hourly U.S. employees—more than 75,000 of them—as part of a broad restructuring plan aimed at cutting costs in light of slumping sales.

Packages are worth $35,000 to $140,000.

All Segways recalled for glitch Segway Inc. is recalling all 23,500 of the selfbalancing scooters it has shipped to date because of a software glitch that can make its wheels unexpectedly reverse direction, causing riders to fall off. The scooters first went on the market in 2002.

Famed bounty hunter collared Reality TV star and bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman was arrested in Honolulu Thursday morning by U.S. Marshals. Chapman was arrested for extradition to Mexico on a warrant issued for his alleged kidnapping of serial rapist Andrew Luster.

Pope subject of Muslim criticism Pope Benedict XVI did not intend to offend Muslims with remarks about holy war, theVatican said Thursday, scrambling to defend the pontiff as anger built in the

Islamic world over his comments during a trip to Germany.

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Hot on the heels of new, controversial features, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the popular networking site will open to the general public.

The new accessibility opens the site to all users, who will be categorized into about 500 geographic regional networks.

Currendy, membership is limited to students, alumni and employees of select corporations and institutions.

The launch date for the newly expanded Facebook has not yet been determined.

“A lot of people have friends who don’t have a .edu address, but they still want them on the site,” Zuckerberg wrote in an online news conference today.

“Since our goal is to help people get a sense of what’s going on with their friends, we want these people to be able to get on the site too.”

Zuckerberg said creating the regional feature was challenging because e-mail addresses are not regionally based. But he said new users will choose a region when they register, which they can change only every few months, so as to avoid network-hopping.

He denied that the expansion was a reaction to MySpace, a rival networking site with more members thanFacebook.

“It makes [Facebook] a lot more like MySpace, a bit more sketchy,” said Duncan Martin, a first-year graduate student in the Divinity School. “It’s a Catch-22 for Facebook—they want to expand their market, but they become just like MySpace.”

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Erwin Chemerinsky, Alston and Bird professor of law and professor of political science, was recendy named Duke’s

Despite teaching a full course load, advising two journals in the law school and frequendy writing, Chemerinsky has recently argued several cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Children in Contemporary Society and Arts Management and Cultural Policy certificates will enable students to expand and integrate their academic experiences.

“One of the things that I think is a unique aspect about Duke is that we’ve developed this vehicle called certificate programs, which allow students to observe an interdisciplinary perspective on a theme,” said Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College.

The Arts and Sciences Council approved four new certificate programs at a meeting last April, all of which are geared toward cultivating multidisciplinarity in the classmom.

Children in Contemporary Society will focus on the societal forces that shape the lives of children and tackles issues that affect entire generations.

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“I love teaching as much as I did 2006 “University Scholar/Teacher of when I started teaching 26 years ago,” the Year” by a faculty committee. he said. “I love to write, I love being a Chemerinsky is nationally recognized as an appellate advocate, author, lawyer and handling cases.”

Among other cases, Chemerinsky is professor and scholar of constitutional federal currently representing former Central law and the courts.

He joined the Duke faculty in July Intelligence Agency operative Valerie 2004 after teaching at the School ofLaw Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, in a lawsuit as a visiting professor in 2002.

Prior to coming to the University, against members of the current Bush Chemerinsky served on the faculty of administration.

The case alleges Vice President Dick the University of Southern California Law School for 21 years as a professor Cheney, White House deputy chief of of public interest law, legal ethics and staffKarl Rove, former Vice Presidential Chiefof Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby and political science.

Although he had not planned to 10 unidentified co-defendants violated leave USC, Chemerinsky said he fell in Flame’s and Wilson’s constitutional love with Duke. “It’s been wonderful to rights by leaking Flame’s identity. me, my scholarship and my handling of cases,” he said.

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During the meeting, Moneta asked council members whether or not they think there is a dominant culture in Duke undergraduate social life.

“I hope tonight is only the start of the conversation and I hope you take it back with you to your friends and fellow students,” Moneta said.

Junior Hasnain Zaidi, council facilities and service chair, said the most viable and visible social culture on campus is formed by a “significant minority” of students.

“We need to bring something of great social worth on campus for the students,” Zaidi said. “Building on what we have and

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For many seniors seeking the nation’s most prestigious employment opportunities, graduating with a promising job offer is a top priority.

Because of a new partnership JPMorgan Chase and Teach For America, some lucky students may be able to accept not just one—but two—attractive job offers.

The financial services firm and the educational provider for low-income students have teamed up to allow applicants accepted to both organizations to defer their start date at JPMorgan while spending two years working for TFA. “JPMorgan is trying to find ways to allow die top candidates to have the best of both worlds,” said Debbi Korb, who runs the North American campus market for JPMorgan’s investment bank.

In addition, the new employees will receive their signing bonuses from JPMorgan before they begin working for TFA and will benefit from mentorship and summer externship opportunities.

Korb said the partnership will let students who are interested in programs like TFA but are financially attracted to corporate jobs—to fulfill both ambitions. She added that it may also spark interest in investment among teaching-oriented students who had

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Sophomore Victor Zhu, an at-large council member, said there needs to be more communication in order to allow students to become aware of new activities.

Many members of the group also criticized the social barriers at Duke formed by fraternities and selective living groups.

“It is much more difficult for sophomore males to be independents than affiliated,-” said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, who added that living off-campus senior year has made his social life much easier.

Zaidi said more attention should be placed on the sophomore class.

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Senior Ashley Gray, council treasurer, said students are under a lot of pressure to find a central group.

“It was good freshman year, [the dorms were] more of a home base for us,” she said. “There isn’t the same sense of community on West.” Members brainstormed ways to solve the restraints on groupbonding caused by the setup of quadrangles.

Some suggested to eliminate the community of a quadrangle and instead form smaller groups within each house and host more mandatory activities to make students interact with others outside a circle of their closest friends.

Moneta said although it is a good idea, .

it would be difficult to manage 54 houses on West Campus.

“Maybe what we need is further division within the quads,” he said.

Some said students experience segregation as early as orientation week.

“Many girls jumped into cliques right away and I felt like I would never be in a group,” said junior Fiona O’Sullivan, council communications coordinator.

“The first week of school is very important.

It is the incoming freshman class that will change the campus culture,” she added.

Ganatra said it was a very successful first meeting and that the group had a “solid” discussion. “It’s a complex issue to think about,” he added.

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Housekeeper hlChbegan Monday Many University administrators attended a luncheon Wednesday in Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory to celebrate the dorm’s

Sophomore Stephen Smith recalled that Don Jeffries— a member of the housekeeping staff in Alspaugh Dormitory—introduced himself during the first week of school last year. They have been friends ever since, he added, “It was just always nice to see him when I’m in the dorm and S ed

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“Don gave a perspective ofDuke outBrenda Felton, who has been a house- side of the student’s view, which was realkeeper at Duke for seven years, said ally a nice break,” he said, though her job can be demanding, she Although it is only three weeks into still enjoys it. the academic year, Jeffries has already -“I get to meet new people and make struck up a friendship with freshman new friends every year,” Felton said. “A Zach Lloyd. lot of them come back from West [Cam“He is very friendly and outgoing,” pus] to visit me.”

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In U.S. News & World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” feature, Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill both ranked among the top 10 best-value national universities.

But a recent study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education left North Carolina colleges with little to brag about.

The study, Measuring Up; The National Report Card on Higher Education, gave North Carolina colleges an “F” in af-

fordability.

According to the study, the percentage of average family income required to pay for college—community, state or private—has significandy increased since 1992. Even when financial aid is taken into account, the study claimed that families that paid 52 percent of their income in 1992 now pay 73

percent to send a student to a four-year private college in North Carolina.

“If these trends are not addressed, they could undermine North Carolina’s access to an educated, competitive workforce and weaken its economy over time,” the study stated.

But North Carolina is not alone in its alleged failure to make education affordable. Forty-three states received an “F” in this category, five received a “D,” and California and Utah both received a “C,” the highest grade awarded in the study.

“The study seems to be horribly flawed,” said Steve Brooks, executive director of the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority. “If you were sitting in a class with 50 people in it, and 40 of them got an ‘F,’ would you think that professor was doing a good job of grading you?”

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to women in the faculty ranks and to remove those in every way we can,” Brodhead said.

Additionally, Lisker said there are notable problems in the undergraduate community—particularly in the social and extracurricular spheres—that ate worthy

leaders felt the University had achieved its short-term goals, including the development of the Baldwin Scholars Program and the expansion of childcare services.

“What we came to realize last “What is it about our culture spring and that [campus organizations] over the summer, m are directing women away?” many ways, Donna Lisker was that the group had Director, Women’s Center

plished its mission,” Lisker said “We certainly started discussing this past spring and summer about, ‘Where do we go now?’”

Brodhead explained that'the newly formed council will meet a few times each semester to discuss relevant issues and formulate goals. In the coming months, officials will choose a diverse group of faculty, administrators and students to attend these meetings.

Lisker said Brodhead is currently expected to chair the committee, and she will serve as vice chair.

Although there is not yet an agenda for the commission, Brodhead and Lisker cited a number of problem areas that still deserve attention, such as mentoring for female students and diversity in faculty hiring.

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“What is it about our culture that [campus organizations] are directing women away?”

The new phase of the Women’s Initiative has drawn optimistic reactions from many community members, largely because of the reported success of recent projects.

The Baldwin Scholars Program was created in 2004 in response to studies showing that female students suffer from decreased self-esteem after arriving at Duke.

Combining residential, educational and social aspects, the program has received praise from members for fostering leadership and community among undergraduate women.

“It’s definitely succeeded in its goals,” said Baldwin Scholar Aubrey Bonhivert, a sophomore.

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need-blind admissions the “heart” of the University.

Noting that one out of every two undergraduates could not attend Duke withoutfinancial support, which annually averages about $25,000 per student, McLendon reaffirmed his support for the Financial Aid Initiative.

“It will be the highest priority ofArts and Sciences to see that initiative to its conclusion,” he said. . Terming the faculty the “mind” of the University, McLendon said the new strategic plan will incorporate more “cluster hires”—new professors in interdisciplinary fields, such as visual culture.

He also said the University would explore how best to recognize professors’ service activities, undergraduate teaching and mentoring, possibly through the establishment of research funding linked to such contributions.

Finally, McLendon reflected on recent construction projects and the future Central Campus.

“We have a really unique opportunity at Duke to reimagine de nova what academic spaces should look like on a newly created campus,” McLendon said. “This is viewed [by other universities] with mixed envy and in-

do not enter our community by ‘piggy backing’ when you enter.”

Approximately halfof die complex’s 312 apartments are occupied by Duke undergraduates, Carroll said last year.

Carroll also detailed replacements being made to lighting fixtures around the apartments.

Poor lighting in the complex delayed Durham Police officers’ arrival on scene, said Shawn Stone, the first DPD officer to respond. He arrived at the apartment 15 to 20 minutes after the student called 911, the student said.

“My roommate and I have always locked our door and we’re really careful,” Watson said. “I don’t think we’re any less safe [at the Belmont] than anywhere else in Durham.”

Other Belmont residents took extra security precautions.

“My roommate and I had an alarm installed at the be-

comprehension.”

Judith Ruderman, vice provost for academic and administrative services, presented the results of last year’s academic integrity survey alongside seniors Jimmy Soni, former chair of the Honor Council, and Joe Fore, Duke Student Government executive vice president and former DSC vice president for academic affairs.

Ruderman said the survey, conducted nationwide and at Duke every five years since 1990, revealed improvements following the 2003 introduction of the Community Standard. “We saw a decline in almost all the forms of academic dishonesty that had been most prevalent in the year 2000,” Ruderman said.

The report also highlighted a few areas of concern.

More than 40 percent of upperclassmen overall—and an even greater fraction of engineering students—consider falsifying lab data “trivial cheating.”

“Students at Duke seem to falsify lab data at the same rate as at schools with no honor code at all,” Fore said.

Soni, Fore and Ruderman asked council members to encourage instructors to make their expectations clear and promote student honesty. They said instructors should report all infractions and structure assignments in a meaningful way, so that students do not see them as

busywork.

“What we’re really looking for from you is just a small

amount of time at the beginning of the course and throughout the semester, as students have questions,” Soni

said.

In other business:

The council unanimously approved a new policy presented by Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College, on excluding disruptive students from a course.

The policy establishes a resolution process involving the student, instructor and academic dean. The instructor will award a permanently excluded student a grade indicating initial course performance and withdrawal, either WP or WF.

HOUSEKEEPING from page 5 welcoming nature helped Smith transition more easily into college life, he said.

“He rhade it feel more like home,” Smith added.

The housekeepers and students from other dorms also used their time together to get to know each other.

Sophomore Brett Aresco —who lived in GA last year formed a close friendship with housekeeper Olivia Vaughan, or “Miss O,” as residents call her.

Aresco said Miss O was very attentive to details, keeping tabs on things from their academic work to laundry.

“She knew this kid had to do laundry whenever he wore this pair of khakis because he was running out of things to wear,” he said.

Vaughan said she introduces herself to all the new students in GA and is currently in the process of getting to know the new residents. • “I meet no strangers,” Vaughan said. ‘I want to be longlasting friends with these students.”

Aresco said Vaughan was a memorable presence in his freshman dorm life.

“She really was almost like that cool mother that you imagine in movies,” Aresco said.

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ginning, before any of this happened, so we feel pretty safe in general,” said senior Francesca Polvere. “But I’ve definitely seen a big effort from the management here to beef up security and to make sure all the locks are functioning on the doors.”

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, sent an e-mail to the entire student body Wednesday evening informing students of the incident and urging them to be aware of safety issues.

The egregious nature and timing of the crime warranted the mass mailing, Moneta said.

“It’s early in the year and I just thought, ‘Gee, this is an opportunity to sort offorewarn everyone,” he explained.

Moneta said he first learned about the break-in and assault in Wednesday’s Chronicle and that the Duke University Police Department did not learn of the incident until later that day.

“As far as I know, Durham Police did not share the information,” he said.

Both Moneta and Carroll urged students to lock their doors and be aware of strangers or suspicious behavior.

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Zuckerberg defended the decision to add the feeds in Thursday’s news conference, adding that the features would not be removed.

“Some people have said they think the feeds are too much, but I think they just surface information that was already there in an easier way," he said. “We’ve received a lot offeedback from people that they learned things about their friends that they would have otherwise missed.”

Zuckerberg said, however, that the change should have been preceded by the creation of better privacy controls.

Sophomore Deepika Ravi said she didn’t think the new controls helped reach the site’s mission, as stated in a message from Zuckerberg to members Tuesday, which

was “to help people understand what was going on in their world a little better.”

“If that’s their goal, I think they need to try something a little different,” she said. “People are going to be less comfortable with the privacy controls.”

Other students said they have closed their profiles to avoid monitoring by school administrators or potential employers. In the past, students have been reprimanded based on information posted on theirFacebook profiles.

Last November, nine North Carolina State University students were cited by a resident assistant who saw photographs posted on the site.

“I just closed my profile to everyone but my friends,” said freshman Jesse McKevitt. “I was at a job interview and I heard people talking about printing up Facebook profiles for people.”

Facebook spokesperson Chris Hughes said individuals must decide what privacy setting is most comfortable for them.

“It’s not really about whether we’re comfortable with [employers using the site] or not,” he said. “It’s up to our individual users. Nothing is being forced on you.”

CERTIFICATES from page 3 way to address the interests that were before spread throughout many departments in the University,” said Christina Gibson-Davis, assistant professor of public policy.

“There are a whole host of [issues] —everything from education to healthcare and juvenile justice. It’s hard to name a top-10 list.”

The certificate has been well received by many on campus, Gibson-Davis said.

“We’ve gotten very positive feedback from the administration, the faculty and the students,” she added..

Students wishing to enroll in the introductory course the in spring do not have to commit to fulfilling the certificate requirements.

“The cornerstone course will be open to all students, even those who aren’t currently anticipating pursuing this certificate,” Gibson-Davis said.

The Arts Management and Cultural Policy certificate will become available in the spring and administrators said they hope the program will enable students to look at the arts from a number of angles.

Zannie Voss, associate professor of theater studies and faculty director of the certificate, said the courses offered by the program are “all electives looking at different vantage points of the economic and cultural impact of the arts.”

“There are many aspects of engaging in the arts,” Voss said. “You can do it as an artist, as a creator, but the arts have a much larger place in society.”

Thompson said administrators plan to inform students about the new programs during the upcoming months.

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BEERPONG from page 1 Kunkel said. “But tables have to be cheap and they have to withstand college life... It just wasn’t feasible, but we had to capture the demand somehow.”

Instead, Kunkel and the ABAA plan to tour campus-

Wenger asked. No, he’s from Pennsylvania. I thought all Duke kids were from Newjersey.”

Wenger and Lunsmann played the firstround s longest match, before emerging victorious. I was a little nervous out there,” Lunsmann admitted. The tables are packed tight, the lights are hanging low and ping-

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Twenty

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made it out to La Residence. At 10 tournaments. bucks per team, They’ll be Kunkel and his boys at Shooters II walk with away Friday night. enough cash to Last year, Founder, American Beer Pong Assoc, ofAmerica maybe cover a tank Kunkel, of gas and a few Lini n g e r meals. But they’re and Kunkel’s optimistic. boyhood friend Tom Piontkowski sent a “We want it to be something where peosurvey to 250 universities and several thouple walk by and say, ‘What’s going on here sand students. tonight?”’ Kunkel said. “Shooters should “People play the game with so many be big on Friday.” variations of the rules, that we just com“Psycho T” lost their second round piled the results and the most common match, wins a couple in the loser’s bracket, rules, we adopted,” Kunkel said. and finished in the middle of the pack.

Kunkel, Lininger and Piontkowski went They have a fun night. to Hawaii for two months this summer to “I’ve definitely never seen this much finalize plans for the ABAA tour. Anthony beerpong,” Lunsmann said. Wenger is less Pakingan, a recent University of Hawaii impressed, “There’s lots of places in the graduate, met the boys and was easily conarea that host tournaments... I don’t know vinced to join the.team as the tour’s offiif it will ever catch on.” cial videographer. After returning home, Around midnight, Kunkel is working hard on the tournament brackets. He isn’t they bought an RV and hit the road.

“I had never even been in an RV until drinking anything. Every once in a while, we bought one,” Kunkel said. he broke into a big grin that has the oppoThey set up in the back of La Resi- site effect of the moustache: it makes him dence—a restaurant and bar on W. Roselook like a little kid.

But then it’s back to business. Running mary Street in Chapel Hill. It was raining and they were anxious. financial analyses, examining markets, “The rain might keep them away,” making “cold calls” to university area venLininger said. “People are gonna have to ues. “Legitimizing” the whole thing, as he make a serious effort to come out.” put it.

And they did. Nobody seemed to ques“We want to make it last the whole tion the fact that four recent college gradschool year,” Kunkel said. Lininger maps uates were driving around the country in out the route verbally. Kunkel reflects. “We a used RV that smelled like D.O.G.—their just want to bring beerpong to the maintour dog—hosting beerpong tournastream—bring it to the people. We’ve studments with assuredness, as though it had ied it, and we just want people to enjoy it been done before, as though it would acin a safe, fun environment.” Enthusiasticalwork. no grin, no laugh—just raw ambition in ly, tually “Psycho T” is made up ofUNC seniors its plainest sense. They seem to have it all Anthony Lunsmann and Austin Wenger. figured out.

Kunkel grew a moustache as a joke last They’ve heard that the co-founder went to Duke. “Is he from New Jersey?” year, for “the hilarity ofit.” He still has it.

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In addition, he teaches an undergraduate course on constitutional law in the department of political science.

Chemerinsky is regarded as one of the most popular professors among students and faculty.

“He’s respected across political points of view for his fairness as a teacher and his clarity, enthusiasm and quality ofhis presentation,” said Katharine Bartlett, dean of the School of Law. Chemerinsky is one of the highest performing law professors in terms of hours taught, accessibility to students and taking his share of the committee load, she added.

Senior Rachel Wald, a political science major, said Chemerinsky’s constitutional law class has been her favorite course “What a lot of professors do is hit and miss on making lectures interesting, en-

tertaining, accessible and understandable,” she said. “He never missed.”

Wald said she was particularly impressed by how approachable and downto-earth she found Chemerinsky to be.

“He’ll definitely throw in those occasional stories about the Supreme Court, but it’s just a reminder that this guy is a big deal, in the top of his field and that you’re lucky to be in his class,” Wald said.

Kimberly Kisabeth, a third-year law student who has worked with Chemerinsky as a research assistant for two years, said she admires his humility, brilliance, respect for students and service to the community.

“He has a very good heart,” she said.

“He’s exactly what every Duke student, every law student, should aspire to.”

Chemerinsky, who declined the deanship of the law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last year, said he looks forward to a long future at Duke.

“I’m 53 years old, so I hope to be a professor at Duke for 25 more years,” he said. “As long as I can stand up and talk, I hope to be doing this.”

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The study implied that school costs have grown faster than financial aid, but Brooks said he doubts the accuracy of that evaluation. He said families with the bottom 40 percent of income who applied for aid at Chapel Hill received an average annual grant of $2,700 in 2003, but in 2005 that number had

jumped to $6,000 “They’re just dead wrong,” Brooks said. “This study misrepresents efforts

that have been used to increase needbased aid.... I want to tell our story with accurate statistics.”

Jim Belvin, director of financial aid at Duke, also said he doubts the credibility of the study.

“I don’t dispute that there is much to be done, but I’m a bit suspicious if ‘F’ is a consistent grade,” he said. “If most states get ‘F’s, the scale might be optimistic rather than realistic. It might reflect the way [the pollsters] think education

should be than the way it actually works.”

He added that Duke’s financial aid office works to counter the idea that a college education is becoming less attainable for certain income groups.

“Our goal is to makeDuke accessible to those who can’t reasonably be able to support the cost of attendance,” Belvin said.

For the 2006-2007 academic year, the total cost of attending the University was about $46,050, and the average student loan was $21,592.

John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government reladons, said the University hopes to raise even more money for loans and grants through efforts such as the Financial Aid Initiative, which aims to raise $3OO million in three years.

“We want to make sure that Duke is affordable for anyone who wants to come here,” Burness said. “Students should not have to decide to go to college based on financial circumstances.”

Although the study ranked North Carolina’s affordability poorly, the state fared better in other categories.

North Carolina received a “B+” in college preparation and a “B-” in college

participation.

The state also earned a “B+” in completion, for its 58 percent of college students who earn a bachelor’s degree within six years of matriculating. It received a “B” for the benefits it has experienced due to its educated populations.

But among these acceptable grades, Brooks said the stain of an “F” in affordability still stands out.

“When low-income students read these kinds of articles they think they can’t go to college,” he said, adding that some colleges, like Duke, meet all UNC-Chapel Hill was ranked as one of the 10 best proven need. “That’s the real shame of value colleges by U.S. News andWorld Report in 2006. these studies.”

sets to JPMorgan. “It’s really quite different from a traditional teacher training program. When people have gone through this, they’re really strong candidates for all not previously considered other professions sorts of things,” Bordoli said. “The candiSenior Patrick Erker, who has already applied to both organizations, said he has been dates that come to them after two years in the classroom will actually be stronger than attracted to TFA’s mission of eradicating educational inequity since he first heard about when they were first out of school.”

In turn, an imthe program, but portant part of the noted that finanorganization’s miscial security has ‘You can’t Jjust say ‘Oh, I’m sion is to spread the also influenced going to get a really sweet job message of educahis ambitions. is a “Money at JPMorgan just because I’m big issue,” Erker TFA said. “You can representaa teacher.”’ lives said. i ■p' do a lot more Patrick Erker “We nee( j our good in life with to go on to ■—alumni more money.” the other sectors as Erker added that he does not expect his interest in both well as stay in the classroom,” Hull said. In organizations to increase his chances of addition, graduates with skills in math and science have gravitated to corporate jobs employment at either.

‘You have to really impress both of in the past and TFA is likely to also benefit them,” he said. ‘You can’t just say ‘Oh, I’m from an increased pool of teachers in going to get a really sweet job at JPMorgan those fields, Korb said.

Yolander Albert, associate director for just because I’m a teacher.’” the Career Center, added that students inFrom the Duke Class of 2006, JPMorgan conducted 78 interviews, made 14 job terested in both organizations are atypical. offers and hired six students as of May. “Usually folks who apply to the banks TFA conducted 43 interviews, made 19 of- kind ofknow that is what they want to do,” Albert said. “If they don’t get a job at one fers and hired 10 students.

“It’s not going to help your admissions of the banks, they do some other things. I don’t know if Teach For America is one of on either end,” said Caroline Hull, recruitdirector for North Carolina. those other things.”

TFA in ment Erker, however, said he is one student “It’s hard. It’s selective. It’s a really intense who is attracted to both organizations and experience.” Representatives from JPMorconsiders the partnership an alluring gan and TFA emphasized that the partnership will provide many benefits not only to prospect. “I see it as a three-way partnership job applicants but also to both institutions. between JPMorgan, Teach For America and Rachel Bordoli, managing director of individuals like myself,” Erker said. “As someone who wants to run a business somerecruitment for TFA, distinguished the organization’s leadership-based training day but also wants to give back and at the from traditional approaches and said TFA same time secure my future, it’s hard to employees will adopt skills that will be as- imagine a better five-year plan.”

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teams —and the success that Virginia Tech has had—is a defining Every coach preaches the im- characteristic of Beamer’s teams, portance of special teams, but which have been to 13 straight perhaps no one embodies this be- bowl games. lief more than Virginia Tech head “We put a lot of emphasis on coach Frank Beamer. [special teams] too,” Roof said.

“Beamerßall” has become a “The thing that they do is that household phrase among college SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 14 football fans, especially those who have watched the Hokies terrorize Big East and ACC teams in recent years. Since 2000, No. 14 Virginia Tech (2-0, 1-0 in the ACC) has blocked 35 kicks—the third most of any team during that period.

The Hokies’ strength on special teams could spell trouble for Duke, as the Blue Devils (0-2, 0-1 in the ACC) have struggled in that area of the game so far this season.

“It’s certainly a challenge,” head coach Ted Roof said.

“They’ve got great special teams.

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Joe Surgan, who has had two kicks blocked this season, and Duke's special teams face a staunch test against Virginia Tech Saturday.

blocked a punt in both games and set up a lot of scoring opportunity for their offense.”

Although most teams have a CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO position coach for special teams, Beamer doubles as the coach in Branden Ore and Virginia Tech ran over that department for the Hokies. Duke in Wallace Wade Stadium in 2005, The added emphasis on special winning the game 45-0.

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As the Blue Devils prepare for their 2006-2007 season, they look to do something no Duke team has done before—three-peat.

Already tabbed as the No. 1 team in the country by Golf World and Golf Digest, Duke will play for its third consecutive national championship this year. : The team will begin its championship drive this weekend in Nashville, Tenn. at the Mason Rudolph Championship—a tournament then-freshman Amanda Blumenherst won last year.

“I feel like we’re ranked fairly and that we should be where we are,” Blumenherst said. “Definitely we have a great team this year, so I think we’re going to do amazing

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Lee finished second in last year’s NCAA Championship, Amanda Blumenherst, who won National Player of the Year honors in SEE W. GOLF ON PAGE 16 2006, returns to a Duke squad that lost one player from last season.

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Fresh of a weekend in which it lost to No. 1 Wake Forbut bounced back to beat Boston University, Duke has another chance to take down a top-three iHB opponent this weekend.

The fifth-ranked Blue Devils (5-1) play unranked Appalachian State (0-5) Saturys day at 1 p.m. before tangling with No. 3 Old Dominion (5-1) Sunday at 1 p.m.

“This game is a very important regionOld Dominion is a great baromSUNDAY, 1-p.m.

Williams Field eter for the season. They are superbly coached, and they are a tough, competitive squad,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “To win, we have to play with more passion and urgency then we did est

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Blue Devils rely on seniors' experience by

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.After a strong ACC run this past April that carried them into the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament, the Blue Devils are hoping to build on that success this year.

Duke commences its fall season at the Gator Invitational this weekend in Gainesville, season Fla., where it will face opPreview ponents from Florida, Miami and South Florida “We have a great opportunity in front of us,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “The next couple of weeks of the fall season will prove what they can do and where they can fit in for the spring.”

Last year, the Blue Devils posted a 9-2 record in the ACC en route to a cumulative 20-8 record in dual matches before their season came to a halt, as they fell to No. 1 Stanford at the NCAAs in Palo Alto, Calif.

With the return of eight of its 10 players from last year—including five seniors— Duke’s experience should be an advantage this season.

“It will factor into making us more successful in the fall,” senior Kristin Cargill said. “There are a lot of us on the team who have experience on the college level.”

Replacing departed seniors Jackie Carleton and Lauren Archer on this year’s roster are freshmen Amanda Granson and Elizabeth Plotkin. Ashworth said he expects both to have big roles with plenty of available playing time.

Despite their strength and experience, the Blue Devils will have to remain healthy, an issue that plagued the team at times last season. Cargill missed part of the spring season, and fellow senior Tory Zawacki missed the entire campaign.

Their absences from the lineup hindered Duke’s doubles game, which the team emphasized last year. Ashworth said the injuries in the spring forced him to switch his lineup. With this year’s squad healthy, the team will be able to compete better in practice—efforts that will pay dividends in matches, Ashworth said.

“The best teams are the teams that have competed the best in practice,” Ashworth said.

Senior Daniela Bercek reinforced her coach’s message, emphasizing the “high competition” that will help with Duke’s matches against both Miami and Florida this weekend. Along with the Blue Devils, the Hurricanes and Gators reached the NCAA quarterfinals in May. Duke begins play at 2:30 p.m. today at the Gator Invitational, which Ashworth called, “the toughest fall tournament we’ve ever played.”

The tough competition, however, could prove to be essential for the Blue Devils as they use the fall to prepare for the spring’s ACC season, in which Duke’s toughest competition could come from Miami.

“We match up pretty well with them,” Bercek said. “It’s good for us because we have to play them in the ACC.”

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Senior Kristin Cargill leads an experienced Blue Devil squad that reached last year's NCAA quarterfinals.

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trips are taxing mentally—there’s no escape. We’re all glad to be

home in front of our fans, on our field, in our comfort zone.”

Away from home these last two weekends, the Blue Devils won both their Friday games but dropped both Sunday matches.

Duke’s goal differential in Friday games is plus-seven, in contrast to a minus-one total in Sunday contests. In order to win its host tournament, Duke must maintain its level of play throughout the entire weekend.

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, “Wejust have to concentrate the whole game, come out with a lot of intensity and just get better every time,” senior Darby Kroyer said The Blue Devils hope playing in front of a home crowd at Koskinen will help reverse the recent trend of weekend splits, “I think that we feel a sense of pride in defending our turf,” McCabe said. “It makes a difference in games on Sunday. Maybe we would have had a little more bite if we were defending our own turf. We’ll have that as an added bonus this weekend.”

In its tournament, Duke will

face two teams that began the season ranked in the top-25 but have since dropped out. The Gators last

played Sunday, beating Jacksonville, 7-0.

“Florida is a very athletic team, but they can also play,” head coach Robbie Church said. “They’ve got a lot of technical players. It’s going to be a great challenge for us.”

Marquette is another squad capable of an upset, playing a scrappy style that could test the Blue Devils.

Last year, the Golden Eagles advanced to the third round of the NCAA tournament before losing to eventual runner-up UCLA. “Marquette is one of the hardest working teams that we’ll see,” Church said. ‘You always have to be ready to work hard when Marquette comes to town. They’re going to try to outwork us, and we can’t let them do that.”

After giving up three goals in the second half of its 4-3 loss to Kansas last Sunday, Duke will counter by making some positional changes this weekend. Sophomore Christie McDonald will move from forward to center back on defense, freshman Jane Alukonis will move from center back to a midfield spot and freshman Elisabeth Redmond will play forward instead of midfield.

Duke hopes the changes will bolster the defense without affecting its attack.

“Our offensive unit has just been connecting really well,” Mc, Sophomore Christie McDonald will switch Cabe said. “I think that we’re realSYLVIA QU/THE CHRONICLE positions this weekend, helping Duke ly trying to play together. So far, it’s strengthen its defensive back line. been working.”

Senior Sarah McCabe and Duke have lost two straight Sunday afternoon games.

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Duke faces former star at Harvard In recent years, the Duke-Harvard rivalhas extended out of the classroom—and on to the soccer field.

The last time the No. 5 Blue Devils (5-01) faced Harvard in 2003, they were upset by the Crimson, 3-2, at Koskinen Stadium.

That game was a homecoming for HarVS. vard head coach John Kerr, who played at Duke f under head coach John SATURDAY, 1 p.m. Rennie, was National Cambridge, Mass. Player of the Year on the 1986 Championship team and served as Duke’s top assistant in 1992.

Now, Duke will travel to Boston to take on Kerr’s Crimson (4-1) in a much-anticipated rematch, Sat. at 1 p.m.

“First and foremost, they’re a very good team,” Kerr said of Duke. “We don’t get an opportunity to play a really good team as often as we want—and being my alma mater as well—it’s a special, special day.”

Kerr has also coached Duke junior Michael Videira on the U-18 Boston Bolts.

“I certainly know Mike Videira very well.

I coached him for 3 or 4 years. He’s a toplevel player in this country and has a big future. So, he’s going to be a tough opponent to contain,” Kerr said.

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FOOTBALL from page 11 they just keep the pressure on you. They have so much speed and athleticism, and they’re very aggressive in what they do.

We’ve got to be ready to answer the call.”

This season, Duke has struggled in the kicking game. Sophomore kicker Joe Surgan has failed in four of his six field goal attempts—two of which were blocked—including last Saturday’s miss as time expired at Wake Forest.

Punter Alex Feinberg is averaging 33.9 yards per punt, and he has only pinned the opponent inside the 20 yard-line three times. The Blue Devils have also struggled returning punts, gaining a total of eight yards on four returns.

“I think our coverage through the first two weeks has improved, and now we’ve got to continue to improve at the punter and kicker position,” Roof said.

Although the term “Beamerßall” is usually used in reference to Virginia Tech’s special teams, it also applies to the team’s focus on defense.

In 2005, the Hokies led the nation in total defense and finished second in scoring defense, allowing only 12.9 points per game.

In its 35-10 victory over North Carolina last Saturday, Virginia Tech blocked a punt and intercepted four passes, including one that was returned for a score.

Saturday, the Hokie defense will look to put the pressure on Duke’s offensive line and freshman quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, who is makingjust his second collegiate start.

“It’ll be a big challenge for us,” Roof said. “The thing that we have to understand is that it’s not just our offensive line, but it’s LAUREN PRATS/THE CHRONICLE our tight ends and running backs. It’s their Duke punter Alex Feinberg, whois averaging 33.9 yards per punt thisyear,faces a challenge against the Hokies. responsibility to protect our quarterback.”

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and Grzebien was the 2005 NCAA individual champion.

“We’ve got so much talent on this team,” head coach Dan Brooks said.

“Everybody on this team is going to be working hard and have great attitudes. I have very high expectations for them.”

Along with the four upperclassmen, Brooks added three freshmen—Rebecca Kim, Yo Young Lee, and Alison Whitaker—to the mix. These additions give the Blue Devils seven players on their roster —two more than either of the last two Seasons.

With only five players able to compete in most tournaments, a larger roster, offers this year’s team more flexibility and intrasquad competition relative to years past.

Brooks said he will decide which players tee off on a tournament-by-toumament basis by conducting team qualifiers in the week prior to competition.

This year’s crop of freshmen is sure to compete for the limited spots. Kim was three times the Oregon 4A Girls State Individual Champion. Lee recorded a ninehole stroke average of 36.0 as a senior at Phillips High School in Orlando, Fla. And Whitaker, who hails from Melbourne, Australia, lost in the semifinals of last summer’s U.S. Women’s Amateur, defeating Blumenherst in the round of 32.

“They’re a positive group and a hardworking group—these three,” Brooks said. “They’re a mature group for a group offreshmen coming in. It’s Just great. It’s a class that I’m very excited about.”

Kim acknowledged that it was overwhelming at first joining the top program in the country, but she said that she has since found her comfort zone with the team.

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In order to beat Old Dominion, the Blue Devils must avoid the mistakes they made against Wake Forest and communicate better on the field, Bozman said.

The loss to Wake Forest has not been forgotten, but the team rebounded well against BU one day later and feels optimistic about its chances this weekend.

“The win against BU really enhanced our confidence,” junior goalkeeper Caitlin Williams said. “We came back very strong after the Wake Forest loss and are really preparing hard for this weekend.”

Duke will have its hands full with an excellent defensive team, as the Monarchs have recorded two shutouts in their last two wins—both against teams that were ranked at the time. Old Dominion’s only loss this season was to top-ranked Maryland, 1-0, Sept. 4 in College Park, Md. The two teams split their season series in 2005 with the Blue Devils falling to ODU, 52, at home Sept. 18 and then upsetting the

Monarchs on the road, 3-2, Oct. 16—and breaking ODU’s then 8-game win streak.

Before Duke gets its chance for revenge, however, it plays Appalachian State. Although the game Sunday has bigger implications, the Blue Devils are staying focused on both opponents.

“We are going to play the same way against both teams,” Bozman said. “Appalachian State offers a great opportunity to prepare to play well on Sunday.”

Bozman’s sentiments were echoed by sophomore Marian Dickinson, who has scored four goals this season.

“By preparing for Old Dominion, we are going to be prepared for Appalachian State,” she said.

Duke’s weekend set comes in the midst of six straight games at home. Bozman said the Blue Devils struggled at home last year, but this year has been a different story. In their three- games at home this season, Duke has outscored its opponents 11-2.

“We’d love to have a home crowd,” Bozman said. “With two top teams, it will be a fun game to watch.”

I’ve seen them on TV.’ But I can actually talk to them now, so it’s pretty cool.”

Duke’s upperclassmen each return to campus after impressive summer performances. Blumenherst finished tied for 10th at the U.S. Women’s Open in July and Jennie Lee lasted until the quarterfinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur. Both women helped the U.S. to victory in the Curtis Cup. “This year I’ll have that extra little confidence boost on the first tee,” Blumenherst said. “I just remember last year I was so nervous.”

Grzebien finished her summer by winning the Massachusetts Women’s Open

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Here’s what the numbers say. From the end of World War II until 1973, when the first oil crisis brought an end to the postwar boom, the U S. economy delivered a huge, broad-based rise in living standards; family income adjusted for inflation roughly doubled for the poor, the middle class and the elite alike. Nobody debated whether families were better off than they had been a generation ago; it was obvious that they were, by any measure.

Since 1973, however, the picture has been mixed. Real median household income—the income of the household in the middle of the income distribution, adjusted for inflation—rose a modest 16 percent between 1973 and 2005. But even this small rise didn’t reflect clear gains across the board.

The typical full-time male worker saw his wages, adjusted for inflation, actually fall; the typical household’s real income was up only because women’s wages rose (although by far less than everyone’s wages rose during the postwar boom) and because more women were working.

The debate over the state of the middle class, for the most part, is about whether these numbers understate or overstate the true progress achieved by typical families. The optimists point to technological advances that, they argue, are not reflected in official estimates of the standard of living. In 1973, you couldn’t chat on a cell phone, watch a video or surf the Internet; many medical conditions that are now easily managed with drugs were untreatable; and so on.

The pessimists point to ways in which life has deteriorated, things that also aren’t counted by the official statistics. Traffic has gotten far worse and com-

mutes have gotten

longer. The economic riskiness of life has increased: Year-to-year fluctuations in family income have grown much larger.

The rat race has intensified, as families, no longer confident in the quality of public education, stretch to buy houses in good school districts—and often go bankrupt when misfortune strikes in the form of a layoff for either spouse or high medical bills.

Does the good outweigh the bad? Never mind.

As I said, the ambiguity is the message.

Consider this: The U.S. economy is far richer and more productive than it was a generation ago.

Statistics on economic growth aside, think of all the technological advances that have made workers more productive over the past generation. In 1973, there were no personal computers and no Internet. Even fax machines were rare, expensive items, and there were no bar-code scanners at checkout counters. Freight containerization was still uncommon. The list goes on and on.

Yet in spite of all this technological progress, which has allowed the average American worker to produce much more, we’re not sure whether there was any rise in the typical worker’s pay. Only those at the upper end of the income distribution saw clear gains—gains that were enormous for the lucky few at the very top.

That’s why the debate over whether the middle class is a bit better off or a bit worse off now than a generation ago misses the point. What we should be debating is why technological and economic progress has done so little for most Americans, and what changes in government policies would spread the benefits of progress more widely.

An effort to shore up middle-class health insurance, paid for by a rollback of recent tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans—something like the plan proposed by John Kerry two years ago but more ambitious—would be a good place to start.

Instead, the people running our government are fixated on cutting tax rates for the wealthy even further. And their solution to Americans’justified economic anxiety is a public relations campaign, an effort to convince middle-class families that their problems are a figment of their imagination.

Paul Krugman is a regular columnist for The New York Times.

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what’s the going rate for a spot at dents entering in the Fall of 2000] would Texas area—for wealthy applicants. Beatty tribute to the athletic prowess or racial diDuke? At least $250,000 and often not have been admitted without connecworked with high school guidance counversity of this institution, and they are not seven figures,” according to Pulitzer tions to the Office of Development or the selors to spread the word that University legacies, who supposedly foster instituPrize winner Daniel GoldAthletic Department.” The officials were looking for so-called developtional loyalty and memory. Rather, these en’s The Price of Admission: , report goes on to say that ment admits. kids had the good fortune to be born How America’s Ruling Class these students are “less well The precipitous rise in the value of our rich, and this University further rewards Buys Its Way into Elite Colprepared academically and endowment—we’ve gone from 25th them for it. leges —And Who Gets Left at personally to contribute to among all universities in 1980 to 16th in Cissy Bunn, who is the mother of the Gates. the intellectual atmosphere 2005—is largely connected to a flood of Maude Bunn, Trinity ’O5, offered the folGolden says the mechanat Duke,” and it concludes by contributions from non-alumni; indeed, lowing observation: “Did my normal child ics of this policy are as folDuke “has led all universities nationwide” take the place of somebody who could rerecommending that Duke relows: Each year, the Admisduce <the number of admisin this area. Consider that, in 2002, the ally make a difference in the world? Sure, krktin hntlor w»un Dimer sions Office decides sions spots influenced by the alumni giving rate was only 35 percent, yes, to an extent. But there are so many independendy which stu- with ail deliberate speed Office of Development by whereas 52 percent of the Class of 2003’s things you can lose sleep over. I’m happy dents it will take from our one-third and the number of parents managed to donate funds in addi- for me and my child.” very large applicant pool, don to their tuition payments.

Caroline Diemar, Trinity ’O3, noted that spots affected by the Athletic which numbered nearly 19,400 in 2006. Sep- Department by one-tenth.” “everyone has something that got them Regardless of how much cash is generarately, the University Development Office Indeed, the number of so-called devel- ated, development preferences offend our into Duke. I didn’t have athletics, I didn’t compiles a list of “likely applicants with rich opment admits has fallen from 99 in 2000 most basic notions of equality and fairness. have race, I wasn’t the artistic person, I didor powerful parents who are not alumni”; at to 58 in 2003—the only years statistics were Indeed, these students have enjoyed every n’t play an instrument, I wasn’t in student the height of former President Nan Keo- released. Nevertheless, on Sept. 5, 2006, advantage, from access to the best prep government.... Networking is how you go bane’s Campaign for Duke, this list included Guttentag confirmed to Inside Higher Edschools to personal SAT tutors and beabout everything.” as many as 500 names. Eventually, the Devel- ucation magazine that development prefYes, Caroline, you’re absolutely right; yond. Why, then, should what former adopment Office’s list was narrowed to 160 erences remain institutional policy, saying, missions officer Rachel Toor described as Each and every one of us is here because “must-have” candidates under Keohane, al- “When there is a significant financial inter“the weakest part of our applicant pool” be an admissions officer saw that special though only 30 to 40 of them were admitted est in the University, we take that into aegiven “places that could easily have been “something” in our file. Of course, I was count” for “a small number of students.” on merit. filled by regular kids?” Truly, this is the under the impression that this “somePresident Terry Sanford initiated efforts most anti-egalitarian and anti-meritocratic thing” was related to intellectual achieveFor the 120 or so who did not make the cut, Director of Undergraduate Admissions to transform this University from a regionpolicy I have ever encountered in all my ment, creative talent or perhaps a personal Christoph Guttentag and then-Vice Presi- al standout into a national powerhouse. time at Duke. accomplishment. Now I know better. NevConsider, also, former President Keoertheless, the task before this University is Golden asserts that Sanford, leveraging his dent for Developmentjohn Piva met to “debate [each] family’s likely contribution political connections as a former North hane’s acknowledgment that developclear: we must find away to reconcile our against [each student’s] academic short- Carolina governor, flagged approximately ment preferences are “disproportionately need for donations with our meritocratic comings.” By the end of the meeting, most 200 students per year for “special consider- favorable to white students.” Some have values. The first step is to stop pandering to the rich and their children. of the rejections had been overridden. ation.” Sanford even went so far as to apeven dubbed the practice “white affirmapoint a special envoy, Groom Beatty, to tive action,” since it reinforces the power As recently as 2001, The Chronicle obKristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her coltained a report from the Board of scour the nation’s most prestigious schools of a largely white, Anglo-Saxon plutocraTrustees stating that, “one in five [stu- and zip codes—particularly the Dallas, cy. Most of these students do not conumn runs every Friday. _

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know this sounds really crazy, but a girl came up to me in front of the Chapel and said, “Persuade me in a 500word, well organized, cited argument, oral or written, to believe your point of view.”

My immediate reaction was to let her have it—‘it’ ■ m having the form of physical violence—but I was reA strained by a mysterious, Job-like feeling that some- SShWIfl DllirUd one was watching me. aimless sameness Later, pondering, breathing heavily, I realized the challenge twinkling in this muse’s otherwise nondescript eyes. Only then did I discover what a muse meant. In the macrocosm that is Duke University (not a typo —read explanation below), what do I have to do to be heard? How many times do I have to say “hello” before someone tells me to stop? At least then I know someone is listening.

“Hello, hello, hello”—point taken.

Or was it?

“Hello, hello”—ok, stop.

Maybe, then, I should followmy instinct. Malcolm Gladwell, in his popular book Blink, says that due to extensive experience, we can develop an instinctfor a certain type of decision-making, making die right decision instantaneously. Interesting. I have a lot of experience judging how to best convey my intent to people propositioning my persuasive intellect on the quad. Indeed, I should follow my instantaneous instinct, forget my irrelevant inhibitions and

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attack the instigator with physical violence.

The voice of my fist bellows with the explosive rhetoric of the roaring masses. And after all, actions speak louder than words. Can a cohesive, eloquendy delivered argument match up to that?

Think about it. Then get off that train of thought and board the one going my way. The seats are more comfy and the air is smug.

An arguably so-so man arguably named Che Guevera once said to his executioner, “Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.” Courageous, isn’t it? Inspiring, motivational, maybe even a slight bit poetic—those words could move mountains, couldn’t they?

But what you don’t know is that moments later, that reaper of souls did shoot Che, and our favorite revolutionary subsequendy ceased to live. Now what do you think was more powerful, an incendiary invitation inciting imminent injury, 0r... bullets? If Che’s famous last words couldn’t move the guy pointing a gun at him, I doubt they could move the Rockies.

(Keep searching for an explanation —it’s like a wordy Where’s Waldo?)

If I really want to be listened to, to be followed—l want people to hear my prophetic wisdom. Is a well organized, 500-word essay going to embed itself in the minds of my audience like a latent, well-intentioned virus? I could probably expand it to 1,000 words, change it to outline format, add an animated paper clip to .assuage their confusion on the complicated bits; no one cares.

Did the colonials write a strongly worded letter to their representatives when the tea tax became too

much? No, they stuck it to the British with a tea party and a war. (Note: the tea party was more intense and action-oriented than it sounds.) Did Mount Everest write a pleading editorial in its local newspaper demanding respect and admiration? No, instead it became the tallest mountain in the world, and even killed some people; now everyone respects it.

Now that some relative nobodies say Pluto isn’t a planet, is Pluto going to publish a volume of poetry passionately chronicling its long bout with depression and occasional drug use? I don’t think so. If I know Pluto, it will throw some meteors our way in a blind yet amazingly accurate rage; they seem tiny from far away, but meteors are spirited.

If all this is true, the whole series of paragraphs I’m writing here seems to be a bit of a... they call them paradoxes, I think. I’m telling you through writing that verbal expression is ineffective, am I not? Shouldn’t you just disregard all this nonsense and go get a sandwich instead?

Perhaps.

But I’m gambling on the fact that I’m full of myself.

I’m betting that, as you read this, you’re thinking something along the lines of “Damn, I haven’t seen grammar that good since the Frasier series finale.” I’m hoping that you haven’t felt the exhilaration of a left-right hook combo, and this is enough.

Otherwise, I’m going to have to start working out.

(Don’t give up—Waldo’s wearing a red-and-white striped hat.)

Ashwin Bhirud is a Trinity senior. His column runs every otherFriday.

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