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Tiny rooms, Plaza carts cause controversy Business complications no AC haunt cost Duke time, money Edens quad Rob Copeland THE CHRONICLE

The $lOO,OOO worth of dining carts planned for the West Campus Plaza have been delayed by production complications

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and conflict between the University and the manufacturer, Mobile Solutions Foodservice Inc. of Littleton, Colo., sources close to the situation confirmed. University lawyers are now working to either recover the school’s investment or arrange the delivery of the carts, Wulforst said. A bestcase scenario would have the carts arriving on campus in October, two months late. The costs to Duke have been enormous, Wulforst said. He estimated that he has spent 50 hours trying to resolve the issues and now lawyers are working on the University’s behalf from both Durham and Denver. Mobile Solutions owner Bruce Robertson, who was arrested last week in an unrelated incident for larceny, declined to comment Tuesday. Wulforst said Robertson lied repeatedly about the status of the carts, which were supposed to be delivered Aug. 15. “When they didn’t arrive [Aug. 17], I called him and he told me there was a problem with the doors,” Wulforst recalled, adding that Robertson said the

One week into the school year, some residents ofEdens Quadrangle had their air conditioning shut down, losing one advantage of living in the quad. Edens houses roughly 20 percent of West Campus residents, who often corn-116 WS plain about living there, citinB isolation anaiucic f distance and small room size as disadvantages of the location. According to data compiled by The Chronicle from floor plans on the Residence Life and Housing Services website, the average room size of an Edens double room is about 170 square feet. In comparison, an average double in Crowell or Keohane Quadrangles has about 220 square feet of floor space. Sophomore Dan Shankle, an Edens resident, currently lives in one of the smallest doubles on West, with a floor size slightly larger than 150 square feet: “How am I supposed to bring a girl back to my room if my bed is touching my roommate’s?” Shankle said, adding that he cannot fit a decent-sized beerpong table in his room. The size of Shankle’s double combined with the 101-square-footsingle across the >

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The West Campus Plaza was supposed to feature student-run carts (inset), but complications have arisen.

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the Bulletin of Information and RegulaChanges tions regarding judicial policies have sparked concern among a number of student leaders this year. Leaders said they are questioning, among other modifications, a provision that prohibits students from hiring exotic dancers to perform at events. The University makes additions and alterations to the bulletin every year. Like the other changes, the rule regarding exotic dancers is effective this academic year. In Chapter 5 of the bulletin, “Event Guidelines and Registration,” the new rule states “strippers may not be invited or paid to perform at events sponsored by individual students, residential living groups or cohesive units.” Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director ofjudicial affairs, said the change was not an addition but rather the inclusion of an accidentally removed policy. to

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Abdullah al-Amiri—the chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial —was replaced Tuesday amid complaints from Shiite and Kurdish officials that he was too easy on the deposed Iraqi leader. The new chief judge—-Mohammed al-Uraibiy—is a Shiite Arab, as is al-Amiri.

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night and without firing a shot, Thailand’s military overthrew popularly elected Prime

Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday amid mounting criticism that he had undermined democracy. The sudden, well-orchestrated coup the first in 15 years and a throwback to an unsettled era in Thailand—was likely to spark both enthusiasm and criticism at home and abroad. Thailand’s military said it would soon return power to a democratic government but did not say when. Striking when Thaksin was in New York at the U.N. General Assembly, army commander Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin sent tanks and troops into the drizzly, nighttime streets of Bangkok. The military ringed Thaksin’s offices, seized control of television stations and declared a provisional authority loyal to the king. The coup leaders declared martial law, revoked the constitution and ordered all troops not to leave duty stations without permission from their commanders. The stock exchange was to be closed Wednesday, along with schools, banks and government offices.

The U.S. military is likely to maintain and may even increase its force of more than 140,000 troops in Iraq through next spring, the top American commander in the region said Tuesday in one ofthe gloomiest assessments yet of when troops may come home.

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Bangkok’s normally bustling streets emptied out early Wednesday, from shopping stalls to red light districts, as Thais

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Tanks surrounded the prime minister's offices in an attempt to take over the country by military coup. Across the capital, Thais who trickled

ping pictures of the armored vehicles with his cell phone. The U.S. State Department said in a

out onto barren streets welcomed the surprise turn of events as a necessary climax

months of demands for Thaksin to resign amid allegations of corruption, electoral skullduggery and a worsening Muslim insurgency. Many people were surprised, but few in Bangkok seemed disappointed. A few dozen people raced over to the prime minister’s office to take pictures of tanks surrounding the area. “This is exciting. Someone had to do this. It’s the right thing,” said Somboon Sukheviriya, 45, software developer snap-

statement that it was uneasy about the mil-

itary takeover and hopes political differences can be resolved through democratic principles.

Chinese doctors say they successfully, transplanted a penis on a 44-year-old man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.

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concern,” the statement said. “We continue to hope that the Thai people will resolve their political differences in accord with democratic principles and the rule of law.”

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave a $21.3-million grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last week to develop drugs for two diseases that plague parts of the developing world. Dr. Richard Tidwell, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at UNO’s Schools ofMedicine and Pharmacy, will lead an international team of researchers in an effort to create the inexpensive drugs. The team will work to create treatments for the late stages of trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, and leishmaniasis. “The latest funding by the Gates Foundation provides us a unique opportunity to bring about substantial and lasting therapies for these deadly neglected diseases,” Tidwell said in a statement. This is not the first grant the Gates

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One month after the University launched Duke Dining Durham Dollars an initiative designed to promote off-campus eating for first-year students—freshmen and local proprietors are still determining the program’s success. During orientation week, each member of the Class of 2010 received a $5O- gift card to spend at 19 different eateries located near East Campus. The program aimed to promote the exploration of Ninth Street and the surrounding Durham community. “The $5O-dollar gift card has been one of the best ideas ever,” freshman Loren Krueger said. “It has completely allowed me to familiarize myself with —

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Ninth Street.” The Duke Dining card has also given freshmen a chance to opt out of the repetition of Marketplace food and some students agreed that the free money has allowed them to be more daring with their dinner selections. “I really like the ability it gives students to try out new places. I wouldn’t have neo certain

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Harris Cooper, Duke professor of psychology and education, has set academia on its head by suggesting that homework may be an ineffectual tool to promote learning. Nationally recognized as the forerunner in homework research synthesis, Cooper published his most recent findings in the Spring 2006 issue of the Review of Educational Research. His work suggested that there is little, if any, positive correlation between time spent on homework and increased test scores, reigniting a national debate that has been a topic of great interest and strong opinions among educators, parents and students. “Piling on homework won’t lead to success,” Cooper said. He added that instead, homework can lead to academic burnout and negate its intended results when the volume exceeds reasonable time allotments, especially for students in lower grades. Having worked on homework research for more than 20 years, Cooper said his reasons for entering the field were two-fold. “I was working with a new technique for combining the statistical results of separate studies,” he said. “My first child was two years old at the time, and I wanted to know as much as I could about homework before he started bringing it home.” Some researchers, such as Alfie Kohn, author of “The Homework Myth,” cite Cooper’s work in claiming that homework should either be dramatically changed or eliminated. “I haven’t read the book,” Cooper said. “[But] homework is far from a waste of time.” Rather than supporting extremes, Cooper said he advocates “everything in moderation.” Although many students across grade SEE HOMEWORK ON PAGE 9

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across North Carolina removed thousands of bags of spinach from shelves Friday after the Food and Drug Administration linked tainted leaves to a multistate E. coli outbreak that left one person dead and sickened nearly 100 others.

Obese kid licks stick of butter PONTIAC, Mich. A mother is trying to raise at least $12,000 to send her obese 11-year-old son to a special boarding school in North Carolina that is geared toward overweight adolescents. Caris Pearson is 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 306 pounds and has had a weight problem since he was 3, his mother Nikki Pearson said. "At that time, I noticed he was sitting in front of the TV licking a stick of butter," she said. "He's healthier than a horse, but he eats too much."

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As the November elections loom closer, Noah Pickus, associate director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, offered his ideas on immigration Tuesday at the inaugural lecture of the Engaging Faculty Series. In his speech, entitled “Beyond Legal and Illegal: Untangling Immigration Issues,” Pickus addressed a topic that has been at the forefront of the political landscape. Pickus spoke to a packed audience made up of both Duke students and residents of Durham in Perkins Library’s Rare Book and Manuscript Room. He drew on research completed for a book published last year entitled “True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism.” In it, Pickus addresses what he sees as the three main causes of immigration problems in the United States—economics, laws

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Public Policy Professor Noah Pickus details his thoughts on immigration reform Tuesday night.

Price runs for Congress again on issues such as funding for scientific endeavors and the war in Iraq. With midterm elections less than two “I helped formulate an alternative months away, U.S. Rep. David Price, D- measure that would have required [PresN.C. for Dist. 4, has been campaigning ident George W. Bush] to pursue a across the Triangle region in hopes of peaceful resolution to the conflict and to come back to Congress if he wished to serving a tenth term in Congress. Price, a former Duke professor undertake a unilateral invasion,” Price said in a statement on his of public policy and political sciwebsite. ence, has taken a stance on issues November’s midterm electhat he says will face most Triangle e|ection2oo6 tion, Price will be competing residents—from student loan rates against Republican candidate to the ongoing war in Iraq. “Education is a key issue with Steven Acuff. Acuff said he feels that if voters him,” said Paul Cox, Price’s press secretary. “One of the congressman’s are unhappy about the liberal bias in Disgoals for the upcoming term is to pro- trict 4, they should vote for a change, “I think we can do better,” Acuff said, vide [failing elementary schools] with “I consider my opponent to be part of the more funding.” Price has publicly disagreed with the problem instead of part of the solution policies of the current administration, and his platform highlights a liberal SEE PRICE ON PAGE 8 by

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Twelve new offices for newly hired faculty of the Department ofEconomics were added to the second floor of the Social Sciences Building this summer. The renovations, which cost approximately $1 million, began in early June and were completed just before classes began. In order to support the growing needs of the economics department, a four-year hiring plan was implemented. The new offices will help to accommodate the eight new faculty members that were hired last year as well as plans for more additions to the department. The facilities will also be used by the new director for the Triangle Census Research Data Center and visiting professors. “In hiring new faculty, it became clear we had to expand,” said Thomas Nechyba, chair of the economics department. Due to the renovations and the closing of an entire hallway on the second floor, many professors could not access their offices this summer. “It really wasn’t a big deal. I didn’t need to be in the office,” said Professor of Economics Craig Burnside. Many professors were relocated temporarily to the third floor or simply chose to work from home, but did not find the construction an inconvenience. In addition to a new administrative suite and a new graduate student area, the renovations also included converting classrooms to offices. “You can hardly recognize the building now. All the offices are really nice,” said Daniel Graham, professor of economics and law. “It is unam-

biguously a good thing.” This year’s construction marks the

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CARTS from page 1 were otherwise completed. Wulforst said he spoke on the phone a few weeks later with Robertson and Chuck Courier, who was introduced as the company’s director of operations. The pair assured Wulforst the carts would be delivered no later than Sept. 8. “I had e-mails back and forth saying, ‘The carts look beautiful, they are complete,”’ Wulforst said. In reality, Courier said production had halted weeks earlier and there were no plans to start up again. “I really think Jim Wulforst trusted somebody in good faith and got taken,” he said. Courier added that he owns his own company, Team 20, and was acting as a contractor for Mobile Solutions—not an employee. The design problem with the doors—which Robertson offered as an excuse in the middle of August—were worked out in late July, Courier explained. Team 20 was re-assigned to another project with Duke’s carts only 50 percent complete, and it soon became obvi-

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ous that something was awry, Courier said. “Mobile Solutions tried to use me to go along with them in some things that I didn’t think were true,”

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“I really think Jim Wulforst trusted somebody in good faith and got taken.” Chuck Courter contractor, Team 20

Courter said. “Mobile Solutions did not follow through with payment to me.” Robertson told Courter that the University had not paid yet. Wulforst said that he learned after hiring the company that a number of other organizations encountered difficulties with Mobile Solutions.

Ball State University is still waiting for delivery on $70,000 of custom-countertops—an order placed in January through a third party, said Jon Lewis, director of din-

ing at Ball State. “We were supposed to get delivery Aug. 15 and we have yet to see it,” Lewis said, adding that at this point he is not expecting anything. Duke’s carts are too far along toward completion to give up, Wulforst said. They may be delivered in October if the University can make a deal with Courter, who has possession of them. “Financially I could care less whether or not I do it,” Courter said. “I think after all Duke has been through I want to see them with their carts.” Until then, students can expect to see more of the “carnival carts” that have been selling food on the plaza temporarily for the past few weeks, Wulforst said. Those have seen limited success, he added, noting that the Domino’s Pizza cart had only $96 of sales last Monday. “It’s not the look I want—I wanted first-class, professional,” Wulforst said. “I promised a uniform look and that was not delivered,” he added.

THAILAND from page 2 Australia used stronger language, saying it was concerned to see democracy “destroyed.” “We deeply regret the fact that such a coup has taken place; obviously to see democracy destroyed in that way is a matter for grave concern to us,” Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio by telephone from New York. Thaksin recently alienated a segment of the military by claiming senior officers had tried to assassinate him in a failed bombing attempt. He also attempted to remove officers loyal to Sondhi from key positions. Sondhi, who is known to be close to Thailand’s revered constitutional monarch, will serve as acting prime minister, army spokesman Col. Akarat Chitroj said. Sondhi, well-regarded within the military, is a Muslim in this Buddhist-dominated nation. Sondhi, 59, was selected last year to head the army partly because it was felt he could better deal with the Muslim insurgency in southern Thailand, where 1,700 people have been killed since 2004. Recently, Sondhi urged negotiations with the separatists in contrast to Thaksin’s hard-fisted approach. Many analysts have said that with Thaksin in power, peace in the south was unlikely. In New York, Thaksin declared a state of emergency in an audio statement via a government-owned TV station in Bangkok—a vain attempt to stave off the coup. He later canceled a scheduled address to the U.N. General Assembly. A Foreign Ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said Thaksin tentatively planned to return to Thailand quickly. The official said he could not comment on the possibility of his being arrested if he returned. Government spokesman Surapong Suebwonglee, who was with Thaksin, said the coup leaders “cannot succeed” and was confident they would fail “because democracy in Thailand has developed to some... measure of maturity.” However, Sondhi’s troops appeared to be in full control and clearly enjoyed the support of the monarch. Former Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, a member of the opposition Democrat Party, reflected an ambivalence that is likely to surface in coming days. “As politicians, we do not support any kind of coup, but during the past five years the government ofThaksin created several conditions that forced the military to stage the coup. Thaksin has caused the crisis in the country,” he told The Associated Press. Thaksin, a telecommunications tycoon turned politician, handily won three general elections since coming to power in 2001 and garnered great support among the rural poor for his populist policies. But he alienated the urban middle class, intellectuals and pro-democracy activists. They began mass street demonstrationslate last year, charging Thaksin with abuse of power, corruption and emasculation of the country’s democratic institutions, including what was once one of Asia’s freest presses. Some ofThaksin’s critics wanted to jettison his policies promoting privatization, free trade agreements and CEOstyle administration. “I don’t agree with the coup, but now that they’ve done it, I support it because Thaksin has refused to resign from his position,” said Sasiprapha Chantawong, a university student. “Allowing Thaksin to carry on will ruin the country more than this. The reputation of the country may be somewhat damaged, but it’s better than letting Thaksin stay in power.”

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hall still results in a smaller total size than some double rooms on West. In Few Quadrangle, one of the biggest double rooms on West measures roughly 280 square feet. “I guess that’s why they call it a lottery —everyone pays and somebody gets screwed,” Shankle said. And everybody does pay. RLHS officials confirmed that every student in a double room with air conditioning on West pays the same annual cost of $5,950. Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, said RLHS identifies rooms that can comfortably fit two people and then charges a flat rate, instead of charging by square footage. “If we [charged per room size] we would have so many different rates that it would be unmanageable,” Hull said. “In a perfect world every room would be the same size, but that isn’t the case.” Edens is also farther away from key campus locations such as the Bryan Center and academic buildings. It takes about five minutes to walk from Edens 1C to the West Campus bus stop, which can be reached in about two or three minutes from Crowell, Few, Kilgo and Craven Quadrangles. Despite the widespread complaints from people who get “stuck” living in Edens, however, some students find advantages to living there. “I really like Edens,” sophomore Sandeep Bhave said. “It’s out of the way, there’s not really the noise of classes and main campus—it’s peaceful.” He admitted, however, that the distance can be inconvenient. Hull said he discounts the complaint that Edens is too isolated and distant from the rest ofcampus. [Edens] is not far away, it is just farther “

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during her junioryear. “Edens was separated enough from Main West that I could separate home from school,” she said. Hull said Edens is unique and is the greenest environment on West, describing the quad as the most “park-like” area. He noted that Edens is surrounded by trees and has picnic tables and a stream running through the center. “If I was a student, [Edens] is where I would choose to live,” Hull said. The seven buildings that comprise Edens are home to 503 students, Jen Frank, assignments coordinator for RLHS, wrote in an e-mail. This makes Edens the most populous quad on West, and it is also home to the sections of five University-affiliated fraternities and two selective living groups. Many students agree the large number of people and organizations offers many venues for social events. “There’s a lot of stuff to do,” said Bhave, who is a member ofSigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. “Edens is where everyone is—l have tons of friends who live throughout it.” Sophomore Jared Haftel, Edens Quad president, said he hopes to positively impact the quad’s social life. In mid-October the Edens Quad Council plans on sponsoring a “Garden of Edens” party featuring music, free barbecue and kegs. “We want to create a situation where people in selective living groups and nonaffiliated people can start meeting each other and can have a good time together,” Haftel said, adding that he believes being in a relatively isolated community together allows students to become more familiar with each other.

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PRICE from page 5 Cox, however, said that Price feels voters should look past the labels of liberalism and conservatism. “This campaign should be, as it always has been, about the issues,” Cox said. “And Congressman Price has had a strong past record on theise issues.” Despite his job in Washington, D.C., Price remains active in the Duke community. In April, Price toured the Duke Center for Human Genetics and held a townhall-style meeting afterwards, and in February, he spoke to Duke students on the changing presidential nomination system. “[Price] has maintained his affiliation with Duke while serving in Congress,” Cox said. “And he is concerned with issues that directly affect Duke students.” Cox added that there are a number of things that need to be done on the federal level for higher education, including counteracting the recent increase in student loan rates. “The raise in loan rates... is a result of the policy of the current administration and Congressman Price fought to turn around these detrimental policies,” he said.

Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) (far right) visits a power plant on a recent trip to Iraq. He is running for re-election in North Carolina's 4th district.

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A clause regarding exotic dancers originally existed in the bulletin until the 2003-2004 academic year but was inadvertently omitted in 2004 when fire safety guidelines for themed parties were expanded, he explained. This year, the provision was reinstated following an exotic dancer’s accusations that members of the men’s lacrosse team raped her at an off-campus party in March. Since then, Duke Student Government leaders have criticized the wording of die clause as unclear, questioning whether the jurisdiction extends to off-campus functions. Bryan, however, emphasized that the statute only applies to registered on-campus events, which he defined as being advertised, held in public areas and generally accessible to undergraduates. Students hiring strippers to perform in individual dorm rooms or at off-campus houses would not violate University policy, he added. Senior Maggie McGannon, DSG vice president of student affairs, questioned the reasoning behind the provision because unlike other forbidden activities —such as underage drinking—stripping is not illegal. “It seems a little bit paternalistic, a little moralistic,” McGannon said. “I don’t even know if I care if a student hires a stripper unless they’re doing something bad.” McGannon said her observations have led her to investigate broader student concerns about this year’s changes to the Universityjudicial policies. She is currently working with other members of DSG to compile a report ofrules that students have called into question. “There are some changes that different people find objectionable,” McGannon said. “We’re not really sure exacdy what student input was put into this.” Bryan said each year alterations to the bulletin stem from a general pool of concerns he collects from students, faculty and staff. “The changes come about from experiences in the prior year,” he said. “Any time there is a significant policy change, there is usually a lot of discussion in the campus community.” Although individual students are encouraged to approach the Office ofJudicial Affairs, most communication with undergraduates is filtered through DSG, he added. DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, said, however, students were not sufficiently aware of the judicial policies. In August, Wolf sent a memorandum to Bryan aslung him to circulate recent policy changes among students. “If you’re not going to tell students about what rules you’re going to change, you should at least tell them about the rules,” Wolf said. “As soon as we drew attention to the fact that this wasn’t publicized, they started publicizing it.” Bryan said changes to the regulations —which are not available online—are accessible to students in many ways.All freshmen received a hard copy of the bulletin during orientation. Over the summer, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, sent an e-mail to all upperclassmen with a link to the Judicial Affairs website—where another link to this year’s changes was posted. Bryan said students contractually agree to Duke’s judicial policies when they accept their admission to the University. He added, however, that many students make no effort to study the guidelines because most do not disobey them. “No one really reads this information until there is a reason for it to come under one’s radar,” Bryan said. Wolf noted, however, that students have expressed concern about judicial matters to him before.

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GATES from page 3 Foundation has awarded to UNC to study the two diseases. In 2000 the university received $l5 million to begin researching sleeping sickness and another $22.6 million in 2006 to test a drug that treats early stages of the illness. This drug was the first in almost 50 years to be developed to fight sleeping sickness and is the first oral drug created for the disease, Tidwell said. He added that he believes the Gates Foundation chose to give UNC its newest grant because of the university’s prior success with the early-stage drug. The first drug for sleeping sickness is effective and is now in the third of the four stages of clinical trials. Those ill with later-stage trypanosomiasis, however, have no effective and inexpensive treatment option as of now, Tidwell said. “The drug is not optimal,” he told The Chronicle. “We need something to treat the late stage of the disease—we will be doing essentially what a drug company does, but these diseases are well below their profit radar. It would be

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a charitable endeavor on the part of drug companies to develop a cure.” Sleeping sickness infects more than 300,000 people every year in sub-Saharan Africa, and leishmaniasis infects

“We will be doing essentially what a drug company does, but these diseases are well below their profit radar.” Dr. Richard Tidwell, Professor. UNC med and pharmacy more than 500,000 people every year, mosdy in South Asia and Brazil. Both diseases are caused by parasites spread by insect bites. “Many of the world’s most debilitating illnesses are vir-

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tually unheard of in the rich world, but they’re a fact of life for millions of people in poor countries,” said Tachi Yamada, president of the global health program at the Gates Foundation, in a Sept. 14 news release. “We hope our investment in solutions for these problems will spur other donors, governments and researchers to take action, so that we can see the day when ‘neglected’ no longer applies to these diseases.” Symptoms of sleeping sickness begin with headaches, joint pains and fever. Once the parasites cross the blood-brain barrier into the brain, the disease affects the sleeping cycle and other mental functions. If untreated, the disease can result in death. Leishmaniasis first manifests itself in the form of skin sores that erupt anywhere from a few months to years after infection. The disease can then progress to damage the liver and spleen and cause anemia. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest charitable organization in the world. The foundation primarily focuses on world health issues and education.

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ly existences, Cooper said he feels some homework can aid older students but that too much homework can have a negative impact. The amount of homework assigned is likely greatest during high school—when many students spend hours working in efforts to gain admission to selective universities—but more parents are now starting to look to highly competitive middle and even elementary schools to give their children a leg up. At Clemmons Elementary School in Winston-Salem, N.C., one father pressured principal Ron Montaquila to give him his son’s class rank, Newsweek reported Sept. 11. “It’s ridiculous,” Montaquila told The Chronicle. “I don’t believe [elementary school] is on the standard transcript.” This kind of parental attitude leads many top researchers to question homework’s value, especially when it causes children undue stress, Cooper said. When homework leads to boredom, involves too much parental interference and denies access to playtime, its negative effects on very young students are most obvious. Cooper, however, cautioned against broadly applying his studies to all ages. “College is a whole different game,” he said. “Once you get in college, because you were doing homework, you know how to be a good autonomous learner.” Cooper said he advocates utilizing the formula of the National Parent Teacher Association and the National Education Association found in “Helping your Student Get the Most Out of Homework.” It suggests that for homework to be beneficial, no more than 10 minutes multiplied by the grade level should be spent on it per night. Ken Hazen, a Duke graduate and Advanced Placement calculus teacher at Charlotte Catholic High School in Charlotte, N.C., said there are inherent flaws in the way homework is assigned. “Busywork is definitely a problem that needs to be fixed,” he said, adding that teaching more challenging subject matter is also problematic. “I do not think I have enough class time to let students practice as much as they need to become proficient.” Hazen added that just because students may spend a great deal of time doing work does not make that work necessarily worthwhile. “I think a basketball coach who is quite well-known on campus is a firm believer that the quality of the practice is much more important than the quantity,” he said.

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ECON from page 5 been made to the building. “There are now substantially fewer classrooms in the building than four years ago,” Nechyba wrote in an email.

More changes are planned for the next few years so that all of the destroyed classrooms will be reconstructed, making the total classroom space the same as it was four years ago. The cultural anthropology department, which currently occupies the first floor of the Social Sciences Building, will move to East Campus next year and the economics department will use the space that is vacated. The final phase of the renovations of Social Sciences is scheduled to take place after Fall 2007.

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hospital food—the easiest way to get food is to go to Hardee’s,” Devisetty said. “That’s not to say fast food doesn’t have its place, but at the same time, the Children’s Hospital will hopefully provide for the well-being of children.” Christopher DiFrancesco, a spokesperson for the Duke tJniversity Medical Center, said the hospital tries to accommodate both the preferences and nutritional needs of its dining patrons. “It’s very important to offer a variety of healthy food choices. We offer wonderful salad bars, fresh fruits and vegetables, and healthy entrees,” DiFrancesco wrote in an e-mail. “But we understand that sometimes people want options like pizza or a hamburger, and it would be difficult to eliminate those choices entirely,” he added. Some Hospital food consumers did not think hospitals needed to provide only healthy food, but lamented the lack of choices available. Douglas Hadeen, a senior pulmonary fellow at the Hospital who is a Hardee’s patron, said individuals besides patients eat at the cafeteria and need their own food choices. “It’s fine to offer [fast food] as long as there’s an alternative—it should reflect what’s available in the community,” he said. “There ought to be healthy options besides the salad bar, but there aren’t realto eat

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ing a green card or having been born in th? country, Pickus said. It is about having a set of ideals and “of being a part of the

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and human rights. Pickus explained that economics deals with the necessary role in society that many illegal immigrants fill; law, with the enforceability of protecting the borders; and human rights, with the right of a country to deport residents that have lived there for many years and consider it home. Even after the government addresses these problems, however, problems may still exist at a deeper level, Pickus said. “We could solve the ‘illegal immigration problem’ on the surface... and all of the deeper issues would still remain,” he said. Being an American is more than hav-

‘here’ and the ‘we’” to which American citizens belong. Pickus said immigration issues are especially pertinent in North Carolina. “North Carolina has gone through rapid demographic change in the past few years,” he said. “There has been a 400percent increase in the Hispanic population in North Carolina. The state has an opportunity to deal with immigration better than the rest of the country.” In the question and answer section following the speech, an audience member asked Pickus why illegal immigration was viewed more leniently than other crimes. As an example, the attendee to illegal imcompared

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ly enough healthy options.” Devisetty noted that despite the continued presence of fast-food options like Hardee’s, the Hospital has been making positive changes, including adding more variety and putting healthier options in vending machines. “They certainly have improved choices,” he said.

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Katrina Henderson said. ‘You can’t eat at The Marketplace every day.” In addition to affording freshmen a chance to experiment, the dining card has proven profitable for a number oflocal businesses. Management at George’s Garage and Mad Hatter’s Cafe and Bake Shop both said they have seen an increase in profits since the introduction of the Dining Dollars card. Jason Balius, owner of Mad Hatter’s, said he originally opposed the program believing it would only amount to a “two-day spike in profits.” He said he has been surprised, however, to see a continuous flow of freshmen entering his restaurant each day. “The best thing about the program is that you can immediately identify a freshman and begin to build a relationship that will last the next four years,” Balius said. ‘You can ask them how they like college, Durham and ultimately make a connection.”

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The Blue Zone is home to a graveyard for the Rigsbees—a wealthy family that once owned the land on which Duke now sits.

But not all students or businesses have formed bonds by using the gift card. A month after the card was issued there are still freshmen who have yet to use their free dining money. Freshmen also said free food is not as valuable as gifts that previous classes received. “It isn’t nearly as good as a free iPod,” freshman Alex Whiting said. “The card has been okay but I’d take an iPod or a Duke gift card over free food anytime.” At Elmo’s Diner, owner Cammie Brantley said she wasn’t certain that the card has had any impact on business at all. Jim Wulforst, director of dining services, acknowledged that the cards have only achieved their goals to a certain extent.

“I know merchants appreciate it and it was good to introduce the class to the vendors,” Wulforst said. He said he is surprised, however, that the card had not been generating more of a buzz among the freshman class. Whether the program will be launched for future freshmen classes remains to be seen, Wulforst said.

GRAVEYARD from page 1 For those who do notice it, however, the cemetery lingers on—a curious reminder that the West Campus students know wasn’t always the home of towering academic buildings and bustling students, but was once the home of one ofDurham’s most prosperous families. The Rigsbee estate, graveyard included, stretched across 600 acres of forest and fertile farm land at the height of the family’s prominence. The primary Rigsbee home stood on the left side of the current Blue Zone and Jesse Rigsbee later built a log cabin on the present-day site ofDuke Hospital. According to family lore, the family’s hogs once slopped on the spot where Duke football now competes. The Rigsbees raised sweet potatoes. Four of them fought in the Civil War, and one, Henry Rigsbee, is referred to on his grave marker as the “benefactor ofDurham’s first free school.” Before Thomas J. Rigsbee, Jr., died in 1924, legend has it neighbor James B. Duke sat with him on the wall of the graveyard and told him his vision for the University. Duke wanted to expand the campus, which at that time was was limited to today’s East Campus. The original expansion site—just north ofEast—would have been pricey, said Associate University Archivist Tom Harkins. Land speculators had been snatching up property there in anticipation of the University’s growth. Instead, Duke sought the Rigsbee estate for additional land. When Rigsbee’s heirs sold the property to Duke for $l,OOO in 1925,West Campus was born. There was, however, one important condition—the quarter-acre family cemetery had to be preserved. “The Rigsbee family shall have the right of ingress, egress and regress over such part of said land as may be reasonably necessary for burying their dead and for maintaining, repairing and otherwise providing for the upkeep of side burying ground,” the deed reads. To this day, the Rigsbees still visit the burial sites of their ancestors. Several of them have card access to the Blue Zone, said 78-year-old Jackie Smith, great-granddaughter of the cemetery’s namesake. Family members mow the lawn periodically, and they’ve even started a family fund to pay for maintaining the property. “You just feel like you’re absorbing a little history,” Smith said. “We’re happy with it just the way it is, as long as it doesn’t bother Duke and Duke doesn’t bother it.” Some, however, say that the graveyard does bother Duke. Sophomore Amaris Whitaker recalled reading in Carpe Noctem, Duke’s humor magazine, that the graveyard’s ghosts haunt Duke’s unsuccessful football team. For some, the graveyard is simply a quaint spot on campus on which time seems to have little effect. For others, including Whitaker, it’s spooky. “I just hope they aren’t building over it, cause it’d be kind of creepy to be walking over dead bodies,” she said.

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Lets make a deal Here’s a question for every Duke fan there: Would you trade five wins for the basketball team to get five wins for the football team in return? Even though this will never happen, if some sporting god made me the offer, I would take it in a heartbeat. Although many Blue Devil faithful probably think such a patrlck hypothetical question s blasphemous, the 1 I deal would make sports exciting year-round in Durham. For starters, there would be another team vying for postseason glory. With five wins being donated to the sorry football team Duke has now, it could have records like 6-5 or 7-4 every season. That won’t get the Blue Devils into the ACC Championship or the BCS bowls, but it would put them in good position for playing in a bowl game come winter. Last year’s basketball team was 27-3 in the regular season. If Coach K’s squad were to lose five more games, it won’t have its traditional No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. But it will still be playing in March and providing memorable moments in Cameron all season long. Whatever small loss there might be in the magic of Cameron would be more than made up for with Wallace Wade being the place to be on crisp fall Saturday afternoons. With the football team no longer fighting for the top spot in ESPN.com’s “The Bottom 10,” every game would be crucial

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With just one second left on the clock, No. 4 Duke trailed unranked UNC-Wilmington, 1-0. The Blue Devils’ Zach Pope set up the ball in the left corner of the field to take a free kick after the Seahawks’ Chris Murray received a yellow card. The Duke junior midfielder lofted UNC-W J_ the ball into the DUKE 0 box, where every member of both teams—including Blue Devil goalie Justin Papadakis—stood poised and waiting. As the ball dropped into the crowd, it was knocked back and forth. Duke finally put the ball in the back of the net, but the final whistle had blown and it was too late. The Blue Devils (6-1-1) fell to UNC-W (5-11), ending their undefeated run with a game in which Duke’s offense could not convert on its opportunities. “You can’t win if you don’t score goals,” Duke head coach John Rennie said. “It’s as simple as that.” The game remained scoreless for the entire first half, with the Blue Devils and Seahawks battling back and forth in the midfield. UNC-W had five shots in the first period to Duke’s seven, but neither team was able to finish. The matchup remained even on the defensive side, as each goalkeeper, Papadakis and the Seahawks’ Brad Knighton, recorded two saves. Fifteen minutes into the second half, the stalemate was broken when UNC-W’s Cameron Turney took the ball down

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David Goulet was not in New Orleans to see Hurricane Katrina—he watched it on television from his home in Montreal—but he, along with countless others, certainly felt its destructive effects. The would-be senior at Tulane, now on Duke’s men’s tennis team, sat helpless as Katrina decimated the Big Easy, closed his school’s campus and left his future as a student and athlete uncertain. “There was a hurricane that was supposed to come to New Orleans I think my sophomore year, and I remember my roommate telling me that if it happened and really hit close to New Orleans they would cancel the whole semester probably,” Goulet said. “That’s exacdy what happened.” “As soon as it happened, I started thinking, ‘Should I transfer now or should I wait to see what happens?’” A week later, the stand-out tennis player found out the Green Wave would spend its ALYSSA KAHN/THE CHRONICLE

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CBE announces tournament field From staff reports The College Basketball Experience Classic in which Duke will compete this November announced its complete 16-field team Monday. Duke, Marquette, Stanford and Texas Tech will each host three other teams in preliminary regional rounds, with the winner of each regional advancing to the semifinals in Kansas City, Mo. Nov. 20. The finals will be held in Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium the following night. The Blue Devils’ regional will consist of Columbia, UC-Davis and Georgia Southern. Duke takes on Columbia at home Nov. 12, and the winners of the two games play in Cameron Indoor Stadium Nov. 13. If the Blue Devils advance to the semifinals, they will face the winner of Stanford’s regional, while the victorious teams from the Marquette and Texas Tech regionals will square off on the other side of the bracket. The setup means that for Mike Duke head coach to face off against Krzyzewski mentor and Texas Tech head coach Bobby Knight, both teams would have to reach the finals of the tournament.

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GOULET from page 13 fall semester at Texas A&M, and so he followed his team of two years, ready to continue his impressive career. After becoming Conference USA Freshman of the Year in 2004, Goulet returned home to reach the finals of the Canadian Under-18 Championship and win the doubles event in the same tournament. In his sophomore season, Goulet led the Green Wave with 17 singles victories and was a first-team All-Conference selection. None of that mattered, though, when on Dec. 8,2005 Tulane announced it would suspend eight of its 16varsity teams forfive years in an effort to rehabilitate its athletics department. Tennis at Tulane was over. “It was a little unexpected,”

Goulet said. “Everyone thought we would just be going back to Tulane again, and only the night before they told us they were having a meeting about seeing which programs they were cutting and stuff like that. But it never really crossed my mind until then.” The NCAA and C-USAboth gave Tulane special permission to remain below the minimum number of required teams and still remain a Division-I program. The NCAA also gave Tulane’s displaced athletes an extra year of eligibility to pursue opportunities with new schools. Goulet quickly began searching for a new university to which he could take his talents, and he sent Duke head coach Jay Lapidus an e-mail expressing interest. “Right away we looked at the top tennis programs in the country and the same academically,” Goulet said. “Duke was the first

thing that really came out.” When he found out further credits from Tulane would not transfer to Duke, Goulet left school for the spring semester, making him a junior at Duke both academically and athletically. With Goulet’s impressive resume coupled with Duke’s loss of five seniors last season, Lapidus and Goulet quickly realized they could mutually benefit from Goulet’s transfer. “That’s when we really became interested, when we found out he was a good kid and had a lot of potential,” Lapidus said. “He’s going to be a major player for us.” Goulet’s impact has already been apparent. He brings a wealth of talent and experience to a team that boasts just two seniors currendy. He has the potential to be an impact player for the Blue Devils in both singles and doubles competition.

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The NCAA and Conference USA allowed athletes such as David Gouletto transferand not lose any collegiate eligibility because of thecircumstances created by Katrina. Last weekend, Goulet was one of two Duke players to earn a victory at the Virginia Fall Invitational. Paired with senior Joey Atas, Goulet also reached the finals of the Southern Intercollegiate Doubles Championship Sept. 11. “He’s very talented,” Lapidus said. “He’s a good attacking player. He brings a good attacking aspect to our lineup both in singles and doubles, which is nice to have.”

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Even after attending three schools in the last year and having his former team disbanded, Goulet said he is happy with the way things have turned out. “I never really considered transferring until the hurricane,” Goulet said. “But I guess it’s actually a good thing in a way that I’m going to a better academic school and a better tennis program. So in away, it kind of turned out more positive than negative.”

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M. SOCCER from page 13 Duke’s right sideline into the corner and knocked a low cross into the Blue Devils’ box. Papadakis dove for the skidding ball but missed, and it skipped right to the Seahawks’ Will Friesinger, who slammed the ball up and into the net off the crossbar. “Just one unlucky chance ended up being their goal,” junior Michael Videira said. “On the attacking end, we just needed to get guys in the box more. It was just unlucky we didn’t get the goals. Two goals today and it wouldn’t have been a problem.” Duke started the second half well, out-shooting UNC-W, 15-5, in the period. Still, the Blue Devils could not finish their opportunities. Just before the Seahawks’ goal, sophomore Mike Grella, who led the team with seven shots—three on net—had a chance to score. With 33 minutes left to play, the forward flicked a pass to junior Joe Germanese in the right corner of the UNC-W defensive end. Germanese took the ball into the corner past his defenderbefore returning it to Grellaright in front of the net, but the shot soared high. “Grella had a great chance right in front of goal, and he hit it over, and they came down on us,” Rennie said. “We made a mistake on that play, and they punished us for itand got a goal.” Duke had eight corner kicks to the Seahawks’ two, and overall the team outshot UNC-W 22-10. But the Blue Devils were unable to put the ball in the back of the net when it mattered. “We were more unlucky than anything else. The effort was there, we were just unlucky,” Grella said. “Teams kind of have a target on us, but we shouldn’t lose games like this.” As the clock wound down, Rennie substituted Chris Loftus and Paul Dudley for Spencer Wadsworth and Graham Dugoni. Dudley had two shots and Loftus had one, but neither was able to convert. Going into Tuesday’s game, Duke was undefeated in its past 27 contests against unranked opponents, a streak dating back to Oct. 5, 2003, but the Blue Devils were unable to push a goal across against the Seahawks’ defense. “At the end, you know they’re going to pack it in all the way back,” Rennie said of the Seahawks’ defensive strategy. “We got all the LAUREN PRATS/THE CHRONICLE chances we needed, all the chances we wanted. We just didn’t get one in.” Mike Greila (top) had threeshots on goal and seven overall but could not connect. JoeGermanese (left) and MichaelVideira (right) also could not score in Duke's 1-0 loss.

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PITTSBURGH Police charged two men Tuesday with shooting five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance last Sunday, and they accused a 19year-old sophomore of helping six men into the dance deSTACEY GAULT/DUQUESNE DUKE spite knowing some were armed. Brandon Baynes, 18, faced arraignment on charges of Duquesne basketball player Kieron Achara (center) is comforted by members of the women's soccer team after a shooting on campus Sunday. aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, carrying an unlicensed firearm and criminal conspiracy. Police were still hunting Tuesday for William Holmes, also 18 and wanted on the same charges. Three players remained hospitalized following Sunday’s shootings after the dance. The most seriously wounded, junior forward Sam Ashaolu, 23, was in critical condition with bullet fragments in his head. Brittany Jones, accused of helping get some young men with guns into the party, was arrested Monday on charges ofreckless endangerment, carrying a firearm without a license and criminal conspiracy. She was arraigned and posted bond Tuesday morning. According to the criminal complaint, Jones—who is active with the Black Student Union, which sponsored the dance—got a call from a man asking whether he and his brother could attend. They arrived with four others about midnight. * While walking to the party, Jones told police, she became � * aware that several of the men had guns, authorities said. They asked Jones if they were going to be “patted down” before entering, officials said. The doorman re* portedly told Jones partygoers weren’t being searched, and the men went into the dance, police said. � It wasn’t immediately clear whether Baynes and Holmes were part of the group. Police Cmdr. Thomas � Stangrecki did not take questions at a news conference announcing the charges against the men. In interviews Monday with The Associated Press, several players said the shooter was a non-student unhappy that the woman he accompanied to the dance had talked with a player. The shooter and at least one other man followed the players when they left the dance to walk to their dormitory, they said. Jones’ attorney, James Ecker, would not confirm Tuesday whether she was cooperating with authorities and would not comment on reports that authorities may drop charges if she provides information to the police. “I can say she’s spent a lot of time with police in the last couple of days,” Ecker said. “Until this case goes to a hearing or trial, she’s presumed innocent.” University president Charles Dougherty said he was grateful to police for the “swift arrest of the individual who may have been the shooter in the vicious attacks on Duquesne University students.” Besides Ashaolu, the other injured players were junior guard Kojo Mensah, 21; 6-foot-7 forward Stuard BaldonaGraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate students welcome do, 21; junior center Shawn James, 23; and Aaron Jackson, 20, a guard who is one of only two returning players from Duquesne’s 3-2J team last season. Ashaolu remained in critical condition Tuesday with a bullet, shattered into three pieces, in his head. Baldonado was in fair condition Tuesday with arm and back injuries; he likely won’t play this season because his back injury will require two to three months ofrehabilitation. He was expected to be released from the hospital by the end of the week. Mensah, shot in an arm and shoulder, was kept at a hospital to receive additional injections of antibiotics but was expected to be discharged later Tuesday. In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Wood dropped to Jackson said he and teammate Stephen Mensah, Baldonado and the ground when shots rang out. Advisory Ashaolu were the first players hit in the attack. James was Sponsored by wounded on the foot but escaped by running across the football field.

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Uconn safetey arrested again Connecticut starting safety Marvin Taylor has been arrested for the second time in just over a year, charged with larceny relating to an illegal use of a credit card, campus police said. Taylor, a 6-foot junior, turned himself in Friday after learning there was a warrant for his arrest. Police accused Taylor of obtaining a credit card number and using it for several purchases without the owner's consent. He was charged with sixth-degree larceny and illegal use of a credit card. Stoops still angry over officiating A phone call from Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti was nice, but it did absolutely nothing to soothe Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops over an incorrect officials’

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cost his team a victory over the Ducks. “He just apologized and said that it’s unfortunate that the two of us have got to be in the middle of it,” Stoops said Tuesday at his weekly news conference. “I said, ‘Well, you didn’t do anything wrong but play hard, and that’s the same thing we were trying to do.” Stoops still was speaking out after Saturday night’s 3433 loss in Eugene, Ore., a game in which a blown call on an onside kick led to Oregon’s winning touchdown in the final minute. The Pacific-10 Conference admitted Monday the onside kick was touched by an Oregon player before it traveled the required 10 yards, and, therefore, possession should have been awarded to Oklahoma. The league suspended the officials responsible for one game, and commissioner Tom Hansen apologized for the mistake.

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Attendance at WallaceWade Stadium is consistently the lowest of any school in the ACC. Duke drew 27,456 in its week one loss to Richmond.

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come out today.) Instead of being an excuse to get drunk at 8:00 a.m., tailgate would have an atmosphere like the last night in K-Ville where everyone is drinking but in the spirit of getting ready to go crazy at the upcoming game. People dressed up like it’s Halloween—with no intention of going to the game—would be replaced by fans in Duke garb eagerly awaiting kickoff. Instead of, as was the case last year, being forced to leave tailgate and either go home or go to into the stadium once it was game time, students would voluntarily pack the stands for the opening kick and key-jingling would become the second coolest thing on campus next to jumping on the Cameron bleachers at tipoff until the building shakes. In the few times I’ve been lucky enough to go to college games at schools that field competitive teams and have rabid fans occupying every seat in the house, the atmosphere made me jealous because my school’s team is the doormat of its conference and plays in a half-full stadium that often has more fans rooting for the opposing team. Admitting that I’m a UConn fan might cost me all credibility in the eyes of Duke fans, but I will say that going to the Motor City Bowl in 2004 to see the Huskies was one of the best sporting experiences I’ve ever had. Days before the game started, Detroit was filling up with masses of people sporting Toledo and Connecticut apparel. Restaurants near Ford Field became venues where fans from each school attempted to out-cheer each other. That energy carried through until UConn blew the Rockets away and I got to celebrate the win with total strangers in a foreign city. March Madness cannot be beaten, but adding a bowl game to the Duke experience would gready enhance the overall intensity and enjoyment for Blue Devil fans. I can, however, easily understand why people would reject an offer to save the football team at the expense of the basketball team, since Duke is—and probably always will be—a basketball school that would rather have one No. 1 team than two in the top 25. But while I agree that I’d hate to see Duke lose its dominance in basketball, the thought of having both an exciting football season and basketball season every year would be too appealing for me to turn down

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a pressing need, look no further than the most recent assault at the Belmont Apartments. Students and police need an amiable and trusting relationship, and both parties lose when an air of misgivings arises. Clearly, not all police officers are involved in the overuse of force against students. Similarly, not all stories told about police brutality should be believed at face value. Yet these reasons underscore the need for a more thorough review of police tactics and past actions in order to discredit untruthful rumors and restore faith in the admirable job that many officers perform every day.

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—Duke student Dan Shankle on the size of his Edens’ dorm room. See story page 1.

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both Durham and Duke Uniof Duke students by versity police departments to local police, paint a troubling these concerns. While terminating the emportrait of over-the-line police actions. Yet, with the noployment of two officers that table exception of the recent have been officially charged of simple assault seems promfiring of the two Durham officers, few if any actions have ising, more must be done to been taken to redress the assure the integrity of local growing concern from the law enforcement. Duke community. Unwanted consequences This inaction seemingly could arise from inappropriate incidents going unpunsuggests to the student community a lack of concern from ished, including, but surely police about the incidents of not limited to, a loss of trust in impropriety. Using excessive police by students and accusaforce or other unseemly tions of intimidation volleyed strategies raise important against police departments. questions of what constitutes If anyone in the police intimidation and abuse of force or student body needs a reminder as to why a working power—questions that remain unanswered given the relationship between school, relatively meager response of students and police remains ment

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the world is yours J gave me a long look and headed directly my way. I began thinking that my hair must be working for me or that she was strangely aroused by guys with L.L. Bean backpacks. Stopping directly in front of me, the girl looked down and spoke. “Can I have your seat?” I haven’t had many life-altering experiences, but I assure you this was one of them. As a freshman or sophomore, I would have Jumped out of my seat before the girl could have even finished her sentence. Today, however, I felt something different. I had just turned 21 that weekend, and I now pos sessed a newfound sense of confidence and worldly wisdom. This situation, I told myself, was not to be taken lightly. I sat back in my seat and considered the options. It occurred to me that because she was a girl, standing up was the polite and, gentlemanly thing to do. However, I couldn’t help but think that this was exactly what women have been fighting against for years. It was as if she was saying that she was too feeble to stand for even five minutes. I, on the other hand, possessed the strength to stand for hours, even days. I would actually be doing her a favor by denying her request. She would learn that she was capable of doing things beyond her wildest imagination. By keeping my seat, I was remaining comfortable while at-the same time transforming her into a pioneer, perhaps even a revolutionary. Everybody wins. Next, I examined my potential benefits. This girl was by no means gorgeous, but she possessed the certain appealing charm of being alive and in close proximity to me. Perhaps she would be flattered by my willingness to make her comfortable. Once she saw I would do anything for her, she bound to respect me. I thought back to all of those gir}s-that must have fallen madly in love with :

me when I held the door for them on the way to

Alpine. If I played my cards right, I would be assured a relationship somewhere along the lines of

indentured servitude with benefits. However, if I’ve learned anything from rap music and living with my roommate for two years, it’s that women, or “womans,” are full of evil trickery. Sure, she’d smile and thank me now. But I was wise to her little ruse. I knew what I had to do. I took a deep breath and looked up at the girl. She was impatiently tapping her fingernails against the handlebar and chewing her gum loudly. This had gone beyond a simple bus seat, I thought. I was about to do something monumentally important, not just for me, but for men and women everywhere. I looked her in the eye and calmly, yet sternly, gave her my answer. “No.” Ten of the longest seconds of my life passed and nothing happened. Neither of us spoke or even moved. I’ve never been more proud of myself and so utterly afraid for my life at the same time. She was staring intensely at me, and I came to a pair of conclusions: She was either incredibly turned on by my assertiveness or she was trying to explode my internal organs with her mind. Covered in sweat but determined to remain composed, I pretended to be rooting through my backpack for some index cards but was in actuality looking for something sharp to poke her with in case things turned violent. Someone pulled the cord and I got off the bus even though it was nowhere close to my stop. I avoided looking at the girl even though I knew she was still staring at me. As I headed back to my apartment, I couldn’t help but walk a little taller. If only everyone could be like me, I thought, the world would be a much better place. She doesn’t understand it now, but I helped the girl see the light on that ride. The next time we meet together on the bus, I wouldn’t be surprised if she gives me her seat and stands contentedly. She’ll smile pleasantly at me, and I’ll smile back as I calmly root through my backpack, just to be on the safe side. Steve Brown is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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Friday was the application deadline for aspiring presidential committee student representatives, including those seeking to fill two undergraduate vacancies on the President’s Council on Black Affairs. Here is the charge of this particular committee, as listed on the DSG website “Help insure that the University pursues its goals of increasing diversity of faculty and student body, building a more inclusive com-

munity.”

jane chong I felt pretty excluded at that point. the short shot Because last I checked the list, my only opportunities ranged somewhere between “Duke Forest Committee” and “Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility.” Which actually brings me to a point of praise: The administration is and has been pushing for student input on a host of wide-ranging issues. And a problem: To what extent is everything we’re convening and creating and merely continuing an elaborate but direct and limited response to everything that happened last spring? To be fair, a limited response is exactly what the administration has spoken out against. A quick recap: In his April 5 letter to the Duke community, President Brodhead outlined a five-step response to the lacrosse incident. Steps one, two and three were understandably investigatory: Inquiries into the men’s lacrosse team in general, the administration’s response and the student judicial process, all of which were undergoing heavy media scrutiny at the time. Step four, the Campus Culture Initiative, became the catchphrase for all offi-

cial lacrosse-related introspection. Step five we’ve heard somewhat less about, that is, the creation of the Presidential Council. The noble intent behind steps four and five is clear. What’s not so self-evident is whether the Campus Culture Initiative and the Presidential Council will successfully address latent problems and tensions brought to the surface by that spring explosion termed Duke Lacrosse. It hasn’t been obvious to the Duke community what changes are being brought about by the new Presidential Council. It’s not even certain that an attempt is being made to examine the roles and limitations of preexisting councils and committees. In the case of these committees must we be pushed to convene separate councils dedicated to black, white, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American affairs? While the President’s Council on Black Affairs must be lauded for its contributions pre- and post-Lacrosse, perhaps a Presidential Committee on (fill in the blank) Affairs needs consideration as well. A suggestion for a title: Perhaps one that reflects the diversity of the students and faculty on a presidential committee charged with increasing diversity. Whereas the roles and limitations of the new Presidential Council have been shrouded in some mystery, the Campus Culture Initiative appears to be very actively covering all of its bases, in a good way. As recently as Sept. 8, CCI co-chair Robert Thompson, Dean of Trinity College ofArts and Sciences, sent out updates both outlining the Steering Committee’s timeline and progress and including descriptions of the four committee subgroups on race, alcohol, gender/sexuality and athletics. The simple CCI website is user-friendly and encourages students to leave comments and sign up for small group discussions taking place over the course of the next few months. In addition, DSC President Elliot Wolf, a junior, recently sent out a mass e-mail encouraging undergradu-

get involved in the Campus Culture Initiative, in any and all possible ways. In short, it was an e-mail asking us to care. Yes, involved administrators and faculty members are getting down and dirty. But who is to say whether they’re on the right track? We are. The Steering Committee is actively seeking voices, and its members can’t dig deep and wide all alone. The Committee can research, discuss, report and suggest, but for any change to take place, the students will have to provide manpower. For lack of a better term. And manpower is key, if only to avoid an impossible choice between digging deep and digging wide. We would hope that an examination of racial intolerance on campus, for example, would naturally lead us to question whether tolerance at Duke extends to those of all shapes, sizes, socioeconomic backgrounds and sexual orientations. But it’s not enough to hope. Instead, attempt action. Or be annoying like me; ponder what feels wrong about the Presidential Committees, and share. If, after you’ve posted a comment, added a question or made a suggestion on the CCI site, you feel nothing of value has been left unsaid, consider what lies beneath the surface. If, heaven forbid, there is a “next time,” and a crime is committed in such away as to fuel another “perfect storm,” will there be that desperate and palpable need to excavate our roots again? If Channel 5 returns to set up house in front of the Chapel, and that blinding media spotlight comes to a rest on our faces again, may it find us determined to root out the source of injustice, but may we have no need to dig so deep. ates to

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Effortless mediocrity There

are a lot of things at this great institution of being accepted in the most elite social circles. The more a learning that confuse me. I’m confused by the girl marginalizes herself by acting dumb and lewdly displaying her body, the more popular she tends to become. labyrinthine design of the Edens dorms. I’m conThere’s a reason that the most drug use and eating disorfused by the Great Hall’s decision to open when everybody ders seem to occur in the goes to class and close when they get out. I’m confused sorom about how this campus has managed to breed squirrels For a long time, I that seem to be completely fearless. couldn’t understand But of all the things at this school that truly baffle me, without a doubt it’s the girls that confuse me most. Five or why girls were socially rewarded for swapping six years ago when I first arrived here for my freshman their individuality and year, I was shocked to find how much the girls here conconfidence for designer tradicted my expectations of them. jeans and cockiness. Coming into Duke, I figured that the girls (and guys i couldn’t under for that matter) who were accepted into this University grodzinsky stand whyy the brilliant the well-rounded and smartest, most were among promisbigger than jesus , who gjr was obvious| y the in young country. people ing smarter and more giftSubsequently I expected to find girls who were confied than ever be was three hours a day at I will spending and unaffected adodent, independent, freethinking by the gym and then skipping dinner. But mainly, I couldn’t lescent peer-pressure and societal expectations. To my surprise and dismay, however, many of the Duke understand why I kept getting “blocked number” messages when I’d try to call them. girls I encountered during my first year tended to downHowever, as I kept noticing it at Duke and among other play their intelligence and other unique attributes especially in social situations, opting instead to play the part of girls from our generation, it started to make sense to me the trendy, shallow, mildly mindless girls who we all grew (except for the phone thing—that’s just weird). Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think all the girls at Duke up watching on MTV and in the movies. who perpetuate this trend are bad people (well —maybe And to make things even worse, many of the girls who a few of them). just and attitudes came into Duke that year with optimistic If you think about it, it’s really no wonder that girls are confidence slowly began to change. Throughout their freshman years, being at Duke had feeling insecure despite their intelligence and countless taken away their genuine confidence and replaced it with other attributes. Take a moment and ask yourself what our society values insecurities and inferiority complexes. today. women The thing that makes all of this even more disturbing in When look at all the female pop icons that we are you rewarded for to me is to see how these girls are actually constantly being barraged with images of, what trait do all their insecurity. Girls with so much self-doubt that they acquire eating these women have in common? I’ll give you a hint—it’s not literacy. disorders and even resort to plastic surgery find themselves

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In order for a woman to be famous and widely celebrated today, talent and brains are optional but looks are mandatory. Sure it helps to have some talent as well, but go watch MTV for an hour and tell me what you see more of—plain looking women with talent and brains, or good looking (a.k.a. skinny) women with, well, with not much else? Is it any wonder that girls today are often insecure about the way the look and dress? Every time they turn on the TV they are shown images of completely unrealistic-looking women. Next time you open a Cosmopolitan magazine notice how many of the articles are concerned with looking better, versus how many are about feeling better. Where are our generation’s Janis Joplins and Aretha Franklins? Where are the women who are famous simply because of their talent and not because ofhow they look on a magazine cover? Who’s the only softball player you know of? Can you name an overweight actress under 30? Why in the name of God is Paris Hilton famous? The result of all this is that women view themselves through the eyes of men. Instead of behaving in away that demands respect, we see girls making out with each other in bars just for the sake of the guys watching. We see women trying to transform their bodies into the bodies of girls in order to fit into a pedophilic society. All of women’s self-worth is being acquired outside of themselves. Our moms rejected the expectations of their parents so we could have a society in which girls could demand respect. Let’s just hope our kids are able to do the same to us

Jake

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Gather Resources The ideal situation is to be able to get all the facts before you take action or to consult with an expert on the problem or issue. But sometimes that’s not possible. You should gather as many resources as you can before you must take action, but don’t delay making a necessary decision solely because you don’t have time to track down every single fact.

Develop a Plan Developing a plan of action is another way of saying “making a decision.” Once you have analyzed the problem or issue, looked at it from many different sides and considered your options, decide how you will carry out your decision. Test the Plan Sometimes it may be impossible to anticipate the outcome of a particular decision, so decision-making involves a certain amount of risk. You can, however, test your plan by visualizing the potential outcome of the decision. Don’t be afraid to rely on your intuition. If your decision doesn’t feel right to you, it probably isn’t. Take Action Doing decision-making exercises is not the same as making decisions. So now that you have made a decision, you might want to implement that decision. The background work you’ve done will help you know that you’re doing the right thing for you and you’ll be able to maintain your confidence as you put your plan into action.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES CHILD CARE Resource and Referral Agencies These agencies provide information on availability, affordability, and quality of child care as well as current listings of registered day care home providers, licensed day care centers, preschools, afterschools, summer programs and child sitters. Child Care Services Child Care Services Association of Durham County Child Care Services Association of Orange County Child Care Services Association ofWake County Chatham County Child Care Networks

403-6950 967-3272 799-2220 542-6644

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3707 Garrett Rd. Durham, NC 27707 www.cressetchristian.org 919-489-2655

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Information and Support Phone Line 1-800-TLC-0042 Family Information Network (Information and materials for parents of children with special needs.) Child and Parent Support Services (CAPSS) (Crisis Line) 683-1595 1-800-367-2229 NC Family Health Resource Line

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Infolinc (formerly FirstCall) 1-800-831-1754 Infolinc Chatham, Durham, and resources in (Information Orange and Wake Counties) Information and referral relating to the growth, health and safety ofyoung children.

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ELDER CARE

Resource and Referral Agencies Elder Care Consultation Service (Duke) Triangle J Area Agency on Aging Council for Senior Citizens Orange County Department on Aging Resources for Seniors (Wake County) Information and Referral Phone Line National Elder Care Information

660-7510 549-0551 688-8247 245-2000 872-7933 1-800-677-1116

Support Groups Daughters Concerned for Aging Relatives Open to daughters/daughtersin-law concerned about issues regarding aging relatives. For more information call the Duke Family Support Program at 660-7510. -

Parent and Caregiver Support Group for Memory Disorders information call 668-2836.

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Alzheimer's Support Group For more information call the Duke Family Support Program at 660-7510. -

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