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ALE cracks down in weekend sting At least 13 students cited at onand off-campus bars, restaurants BY

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Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse (right) shakes hands with Victor Dzau, president and CEO of DUHS, (left) Monday.

Nobel laureates highlight 2-day DukeMed symposium by

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Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse spoke Monday afternoon to an overflowing audience at the Searle Center lecture hall at the kick-off to Duke Medicine’s 75th Anniversary Science Symposium.

The two-day symposium, which concludes Tuesday, cele-

brates Duke Medicine’s achievements by bringing together some of the leading minds in science to share their thoughts on what they believe will be the next big ideas in science and how these discoveries will impact the future of medicine.

In addition to Nurse, the symposium will feature two

other Nobel Prize winners and ten leading scientists.

Dr. Sandy Williams, dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, said a major focus of the symposium is students and how they can—and are —impacting science. In keeping with SEE SYMPOSIUM ON PAGE 10

Alcohol Law Enforcement officials cited at least 13 students last Thursday and Friday, Duke University Police Department confirmed.

In the first significant ALE sweep of the year, officers were present at the G Loft, Shooters 11, the Armadillo Grill and Devine’s Restaurant and Sports Bar, said Lt. Sara-Jane Raines, DUPD administrative services executive officer.

They cited students for underage possession, distribution and use offake identification.

“This is the first time that I know that they’ve had a number of ALE agents in the area [this academic year],” Raines said.

Students were cautioned at the beginning of the year that ALE officers could be present at various off-campus locations. The warnings came in light of a mass ALE operation last fall in which nearly 200 students were cited during orientation week.

But five weeks into the

school year, no major incidents had occurred and many underage students continued to go out and drink.

A sophomore who was cited last weekend for using a fake ID at the G Loft said she will keep attending SEE ALE ON PAGE 7

Two studentsand a bartender were cited at theArmadillo Grill'sbar lastThursday.

Athletic, academic plan DSG gets new image receives mixed reviews by

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If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, then consider professor Paul Haagen quite flattered by a recent parody of his

to improve the relationship between athand letics academics.

At the AcadeCouncil mic last meeting Thursday, Haagen, a Duke Law professor who chairs the council, introduced Paul Haagen the “Faculty Athletics Associates Program,” which calls for faculty representatives to be assigned to each of Duke’s 22 varsity teams.

“I was hoping to increase the connection and depth of understanding be-

proposal

tween faculty and coaches,” Haagen said.

“The purpose is to have better interaction in terms of each side understanding the other.”

The Academic Council’s Executive Committee approved the plan, and 80 faculty members have already offered their services to become part of the program, Haagen said.

But some faculty members are not on board with Haagen’s proposal, and a version mocking it has circulated among some within the University.

Co-written by Fred Nijhout and Richard Hain, professors of biology and math, respectively, the imitation is entitled “Coaches Academic Associates Program.” The parody statement closely mirrors Haagen’s original, but coaches are assigned to academic departments instead of faculty members assigned to varsity teams.

“The purpose of the program is to SEE ATHLETICS ON PAGE

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Who’s afraid of Elliott Wolf?

Well, most. Wolf looks like a man who could build you a deck—a barrel-chested 6’4” guy with a craggy face and a piercing

blue-eyed stare.

But something about the Duke Student Government president —the can of V-8

he’s the hugging, perspectives padded, mid-thighlength bicycle shorts he sometimes wears, the fact that he’s a math major—puts you right at ease.

Maybe that ease is ill-founded. The fact that Wolf is systematically transforming Duke’s student government from what many deemed a good old boys’ playground into an efficient lobbying firm—while probably a good thing—is a little unsetding.

What will students complain about?

“Last year’s senate didn’t even meet .before fall break,” Wolf said in his office, eyebrows arched.

Those were bleak times, he added. Wolf refererices an era when DSG senators were tomato juice

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Junior Elliott Wolf, president of DSC, has worked to change theway DSG presents itselfto thestudentbody.

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Pope reassures Muslim envoys

British kill top terrorist in Basra raid by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq British forces reported they had killed Omar al-Farouq, a top militant leader, identified by Iraqi officials as an al Qaeda leader who had escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan and returned to Iraq.

Al-Farouq was killed in a raid against his home in Basra, 340 miles south of Baghdad, when he opened fire on British soldiers entering the building, British forces spokesperson Maj. Charlie Burbridge said.

“We had information that a terrorist of considerable significance was hiding in Basra. As a result of that information we

conducted an operation in an attempt to him,” Burbridge told the AP from southern Iraq.

“During the attempted arrest Omar Farouq was killed, which is regrettable, because we wanted to arrest him,” he added.

When asked if it was Omar al-Farouq, a top leader of al Qaeda in Southeast Asia who escaped last year from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan, he said he could not elaborate, citing British policy.

A Basra police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, said it was the same man and that al-Farouq was known to be an expert in bomb-making. The officer said al-Farouq was going by arrest

the name Mahmoud Ahmed while living in Basra and added that he entered Iraq three months ago.

Earlier, Basra police Lt. Col. Kareem alZubaidi identified the man killed as Mahmoud Ahmed, saying he returned two weeks ago after reportedly fighdng U.S. troops in Afghanistan. There was no explanation for the differing accounts on the date ofhis arrival.

In Baghdad, Iraq’s feuding ethnic and sectarian groups moved ahead Monday with forming a committee to consider amending the constitution after their leaders agreed to SEE RAID ON PAGE 10

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WASHINGTON The government is partially lifting its ban against carrying liquids and gels onto airliners, instituted after a plot to bomb jets flying into the United States was foiled, officials said Monday.

'We now know enough to say that a total ban is no longer needed from a security point of view," said Kip Hawley, head of the Transportation Security Administration, at a news conference at Reagan National Airport.

He called the new procedures a "com-

mon sense" approach that would maintain a high level of security at airports but ease conditions for passengers.

That means that after passengers go

through airport security checkpoints, they can purchase liquids at airport stores and take them onto their planes. The new procedures go into effect on Tuesday, Hawley said.

Tougher airport screening procedures were put in place in August after British police broke up a terrorist plot to assemble and detonate bombs using liquid explosives on airliners crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Britain to the U.S.

New procedures also were announced for toiletriesand products like lip gloss and hand lotion that passengers bring to the airport. Previously, those liquids have been confiscated at security checkpoints. Now, these products will be limited to 3-ounce sizes and must fit in a clear, 1-quart size plastic bag. The bags will be screened and returned if they are cleared.

"Obviously, there's been a lot of unhappiness," said Richard Marchi, senior adviser to the Airports Council International, an airport trade group. "They're right to find away to ease the burden and maintain a reasonable level of security.'^

Seeking to end anger in the Islamic world over his remarks on holy war, Pope Benedict XVI told Muslim envoys Monday their two faiths must overcome historic enmities and together reject violence, saying the future of humanity is at stake.

Lacrosse witness sentenced Kim Roberts, the exotic dancer who performed with the woman who accused members of the Duke men's lacrosse team of raping her, was sentenced to 120 days of house arrest for an unrelated probation violation.

Marines charged with murder Three Marines from Camp Pendleton will face courts-martial on murder charges in the death of an Iraqi man in Hamdaniajraq, the Marine Corps said Monday, Gen. James Mattis,the commanding general in the case, said he would not seek the death penalty.

Saints return to Superdome Thousandsof people poured into the streets of New Orleans Monday night, hoping to forget about Hurricane Katrina during a Mardi Gras-like celebration of the Saints' first home football game since the storm.

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Freshmen running for Duke Student Government senator positions have to wait two more days to see ifthey will be elected.

The vote, already postponed once, have been pushed again—from Tuesday to Thursday, DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, confirmed. The problem stems from a malfunction of the Office of Information Technology’s web authorization log-in service.

“Despite our constant pleadings and their assurances, it hasn’t been up,” added Executive Vice President Joe Fore, a senior. “From a technical end, we’ve been sort of short-changed.”

Wolf and Fore have been in collaboration with senior George Fleming, chair of the election committee, and sophomore Joe Meyerowitz, DSG web manager, in an effort to ensure the system will work by Thursday.

The group has several contingency plans in place in the event that the problem is not ameliorated, including facilitating voting from the DSG web page or using paper ballots.

OIT switched DSG to a new student group server over the summer. Technicians promised the web authorization software would be installed by Sep. 19—the original date of the elections, Fore said.

Fore said the 25 freshmen nominees running for eight senator positions will benefit from the postponement.

“I think it just gives them two more days to campaign, which I don’t think any of them would see as a bad thing,” Fore said.

“It’s just two more days to put fliers up, two more days to talk to people, two more days to get the word out.”

Many of the freshmen candidates agreed with Fore.

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‘Year of Study Abroad” and launched an effort to inform campuses about the benefits of studying abroad. The rising number of abroad students at Duke reflects the national push for enhancing cultural awareness, administrators said.

“Everything global is of great importance to our students,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs.

“There is a greater interest in experiencing other countries.”

The peak in participation during the fall semester follows a common trend.

On average, about 54 percent of Duke students go abroad in the fall, compared to about 12 percent in the spring.

Senior Toby Kraus, president of the Duke University Student Study Abroad Committee, said basketball season persuasively compels most students to stay on campus during the spring.

“If you’re around for fall semester, all

The University of Virginia will drop its early-admission policy for the 2007 admissions cycle, UVa officials announced Monday.

Earlier this month, Harvard University announced that it will abandon its nonbinding early-action policy in Fall 2007 in order to alleviate economic disparity among applicants. Soon after, Princeton University followed suit, stating that it will also eliminate its binding early-decision program in 2007.

UVa, however, is the first top-tier public university to follow suit.

“This action is an effort to remove an identified barrier to qualified low-income students and their families who have long believed that top-tier universities were not within their reach,” said UVa President John Casteen in a statement.

UVa’s binding early-admissions policy has been in place since the 19605. Each year, about 30 percent of incoming students are admitted early.

John Blackburn, dean of admissions at UVa, said in a statement that administrators have considered eliminating or changing the policy in the past.

Monday’s move was spurred in part by the enactment of AccessUVa —a financial aid program introduced three years ago to make UVa more affordable and to reduce student debt, he added.

“While our staff had discussed the pros and cons of eliminating early decision or moving to an early-action plan that is not binding, the reality ofhow few low-income

SEE ABROAD ON PAGE 9

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Duke juniorJeffrey Blickman sits on a wall in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic during his study abroad.

Record-setting 475 opt to study abroad by

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A record number of undergraduate students left campus this year to study abroad for the fall semester.

The 475 students—the most ever studying abroad in a single semester are scattered across six continents in more than 60 different programs.

In past years, students have overwhelmingly chosen the fall semester to go abroad—46B in 2004 and 448 in 2005—but the unprecedented proportion of absent students has created a void on campus, especially among the junior class.

Constant encouragement from administrators will keep the demand for foreign study high, said Margaret Riley, associate dean for study abroad.

“It’s something that is supported from the top down to the bottom up,” she said.

“It’s an initiative that is broadly supported at Duke and seen as a positive thing.”

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Senior wins $442K in Duke study: nicotine online poker tourney may reduce depression by

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Although scientists have long bemoaned the health risks of tobacco, researchers at the Duke Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research recently found that nicotine may reduce symptoms of depression in nonsmokers and non-addicted smokers.

In a study released in the September issue of the journal Psychopharmacology, the researchers suggested it may be possible to reduce symptoms of depression by manipulating nicotine’s effects in order to create similar compounds lacking in the stimulant’s harmful addictive property.

“The hope is that our research on nicotine will spur the development of new treatments for depression, which is a huge public health problem,” said Dr. Joseph McClernon, an assistant research Jason Strasser, a Duke senior, has won more than $600,000 in major poker tournaments this year.

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In less than 13 hours, senior Jason Strasser won enough money to pay his Duke tuition for this year.

And spot nine friends.

Strasser landed $442,440 early Monday morning when he placed first among nearly 2,400 players in the 2006 World Championship ofOnline Poker.

“It was a marathon tournament,” he said. “But this was a huge win for me.”

Strasser said the rush of competing for large sums of money kept him awake for the tournament’s duration, from 4:30 p.m. to 5:18 a.m., but confessed that he did miss his Monday classes.

“When you’re playing for that much money, you don’t need an incentive to stay up,” he said. “I’m a 21-year-old guy. I can stay up all night if I need to.”

Strasser spent the summer living in Las Vegas and playing on the World Series of

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Poker tour, earning about $200,000, but said this was by far the greatest amount of money he has won in a single tournament.

“I have no idea what I’m going to do with the money.... I’m just going to put it away for a rainy day,” he said, before adding that he may buy a pool table for his apartment offEast Campus.

Strasser declined to comment about his to-date overall winnings, but said he is conservative with his money and has invested and saved most ofit.

He also said he has more experience playing poker online than in live tournaments.

“It’s more recognizing patterns and courses of action versus how people are looking at their cards,” he explained.

“There’s less information available.”

His post-Duke plans are not cemented, but winning the WCOOP has assured Strasser of one possible future.

“It’s definitely a good option for me if none of this job stuff works out,” he said.

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professor of medical psychiatry and lead study investigator, in a statement.

The team aimed to explore links between nicotine and depression through the study.

Nicotine-like drugs are already being developed to remedy various diseases, including schizophrenia, attention deficient hyperactivity disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.

Nonsmokers experiencing symptoms of depression were randomly assigned either a nicotine patch or a placebo patch.

Those who wore the nicotine patch for at least eight days experienced a significant decline in depression symptoms.

“Smokers may be more prone to depression than nonsmokers,” said Dr. Edward Levin, associate professor of biological psychiatry and a senior investigator SEE NICOTINE ON PAGE 8

Macaulay voted head of national Circle K by

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One month into his tenure as the president ofCircle K International, senior Alec Macaulay juggles the responsibilities of a full schedule, meetings around the country and the demands of leading the largest collegiate service organization in the world.

In August, representatives of Circle K International—the college version of Kiwanis International—selected Macaulay as the 2006-2007 international president.

The organization, with 13,000 members in 17 countries, works primarily to better the lives of children around the world.

“I’m so passionate about Circle K because I have seen the lives that are

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touched by people that volunteer their time,” Macaulay said.

A former president of Circle K’s chapter at Duke, Macaulay is the first from the University to be selected for the international position. Before serving as head of the organization, Macaulay was governor of the Carolina region chapters.

Macaulay said he has spent the first month of school performing a balancing SEE CIRCLE K ON PAGE 7

SMOKERS WANTED Regular cigarette smokers ages 21-65 are needed to participate in a research study at Duke University Medical Center. This study will evaluate the effects of an oral rinse on cigarette smoke taste.

Participants will be required to complete one screening visit and two morning laboratory visits, and may earn up to $2OO. For more information, call 681-2595.

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The State Court of overturn the murder conviction of novelist Michael Peterson, who was accused of bludgeoning his wife to death in their Durham home in December 2001.

A three-judge panel, with one judge dissenting, rejected Peterson’s arguments that his trial was filled with inflammatory, irrelevant evidence and judicial mistakes that prevented him from getting a fair trial.

The novelist, newspaper columnist and one-time mayoral candidate was convicted of first-degree murder in the death ofNortel Networks executive Kathleen Peterson.

She was found Dec. 9, 2001, in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase in the couple’s home. Peterson, now serving a life sentence in prison, insists that she died in an accidental fall.

His appellate lawyer, Thomas Maher, argued in an April hearing before the appeals court that Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson repeatedly erred by allowing evidence that had no clear connection to the case.

In particular, Maher cited testimony regarding Peterson’s bisexuality and evidence comparing Kathleen Peterson’s death to that in 1985 of Elizabeth Ratliff, a friend of Peterson and his first wife, who like Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the foot of a staircase.

Prosecutors implied that Peterson was

Appeals refused Tuesday to

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Members ofthe PrattSchool of Engineering have designed a SmartHouse, in which 10 undergraduates will live. by

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For most students, the time when Central Campus apartments will automatically recognize and turn on residents’ favorite tunes with one swipe of the DukecCard seems a long way away.

But —as Tom Rose, head of Duke SmartHouse project team, will explain at the Optics East 2006 convention in two weeks—the future could be closer than those students think.

The SmartHouse is a 4,500-sq. ft. live-in research laboratory, designed by a number of Pratt School of Engineering students, that will eventually serve as a dormitory for 10 undergraduates, Rose said.

Some of the Smart House’s most interesting medical technologies will be presented by Rose at the Optics East 2006 convention Oct. 4 to Oct. 6 in Boston.

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Rose said he will focus on specific aspects of the SmartHouse and emphasized the technology’s affordability and accessibility to the public.

Optics East 2006 is a convention in which researchers and scientists come together and share various breakthroughs in fields such as nanotechnology, telecommunications and environmental science.

The Optics East 2006 convention specifically focuses on photonics—the study and use of light for the transmission of information. But Rose said the conference “has become more of a renaissance convention” that brings together people working in all different areas of technology.

Rose said he intends to highlight the SEE SMARTHOUSE ON PAGE 8

guilty of killing Ratliff, though he was never accused of doing so, and that Kathleen Peterson was killed during an argument after she found e-mail correspondence between her husband and a male prostitute, though they presented no proof she had seen the messages.

Peterson’s team also complained that the court allowed speculative testimony about Kathleen Peterson’s job security and finances as prosecutors tried to show a motive; that police used excessively vague grounds to get the search warrant that allowed them to examine computers found at the house; and that the judge allowed prosecutors to make prejudicial SEE PETERSON ON PAGE 8

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known not for legislation, but for online shopping during meetings and yawning

through parliamentary procedure.

“We’re still just students—but we’re united in getting s done,” Wolf said. done” has become And “getting s somewhat of a de facto slogan for Wolf and the rest of his executive board, a hodge-podge group that looks like it was handpicked by an omnipotent force with a sense ofhumor.

Dashing Executive Vice President Joe Fore, senior and runner-up in political blog Wonkette’s summer “[Capitol] Hill Intern Hotties” contest, is a DSG lifer more typical of administrations past —he has served in the organization since his freshman year, and it shows.

Wolf and Chief of Staff Paul Slattery, a junior, call Fore “indispensible” and rely on him for institutional knowledge, constituentfriendly social skills and political smarts.

Past presidents have often brought in friends to serve in appointed and “application only” positions. But in the years before Wolf, those people were more likely to be found handing out beer at a fraternity section party or leading cheers in K-ville than digitally programming a campus-wide media server.

“I think previous DSG administrations have had an established culture—there was a perception that only certain people could participate and it was based on social circles,” Slattery said.

Now there’s sophomore Kevin Troy, the body’s public relations director, a 17-yearold extemporaneous debate champion who Wolf describes as his “wunderkind.”

And there’s senior Daniel Bowes, a bleeding heart civil liberties activist and Wolf-appointee as DSG community liaison.

“Seeing Elliott win as a DSG outsider, —

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and seeing that he already had the ear of the administrators, made me think my efforts would not be wasted,” said Slattery, another unlikely student government hack, who, like Wolf and Troy, is an Angier B. Duke scholar. “I knew my invested time would show returns.” .And there are obvious returns. Reams of University documents litter the floors of the DSG office, an expansive, white-boarded aerie of imagined power and privilege.

DSG has its hand in everything—from alcohol policy to off-campus crime.

“That’s our super-secret list of stuff we’re working on right now,” Wolf said, pointing to jumbled words written in chubby green dry-erase marker.

It wasn’t always this way.

“When we got here, it was like a movie set of a student government office,” Slattery said from a recliner near Wolfs desk.

“The phone cords weren’t plugged in.

The computers didn’t work. We thought, ‘We should call somebody to come fix the phones.’ But then we were like, ‘Wait, the f—ing phones don’twork.’ We thought we could e-mail someone. Nnn-ope.”

“There were, like, 3,000 empty hanging folders in all the file cabinets,” Slattery added, laughing.

Now, there are working phones, working computers —and many, many DSG documents.

“We actually have stuff printed on paper this year,” Slattery said. “Lots of it.”

‘Yeah, and stationery,” Wolf said, for the fourth time pointing out his executive stationery with a University seal at the top.

The part you know, even if you didn’t vote for him, is that Wolf was on the wrong side of the law before he became the law.

Before memos to administrators and getting all giddy about Board of Trustees meetings, Wolf ran a massively popular file-sharing website that just about every undergraduate—nearly 4,000 people in

The Bryan Center office of Duke Student Government has undergone several changes in the last year. total, including some in administration offices—used to watch movies, sitcoms and an impressive collection of PBS and BBC documentaries for free.

He also wrote a weekly column for The Chronicle, in which he routinely lambasted the University for various fiscal transgressions.

When those gigs went under, Wolf ran for president (naturally) —and won joining the establishment he for so long criticized.

But Wolf scoffed at the idea that his newfound prestige has served to moderate his aims.

“Pssh,” he said The more articulate Slattery cut him off.

“Elliott’s appreciation for rabble-rousing has by no means been mitigated by this position,” he said.

It has cut into social life.

“I could have gone to Iced Out, but instead I had to do differential equations,” Wolf said. “I have no time for anything.”

Slattery, again, jumped in to help a brother out.

“Well, off the record, you have no idea what you’re sitting on on that couch,” he said.

Wolf, plagued again by his body-wracking, shoulder-shuddering laugh, waved him off.

“No, no, keep that on the record,” he said.

Troy laughed nervously from his seat nearby, looldng at both men and squeezing a stress ball.

During the next few minutes, a guffawing, back-slapping conversation between Troy, Slattery and Wolf ensued about couches and sex and politics.

“T did not have sexual relations on that couch,’” offered up Troy, a glib statement from the master of the DSG quote machine. “Or, T did not have sexual relations with that couch.’”

There was more laughter between the AB scholars, the only three left in the office after Sunday’s Executive Board meeting.

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ALE from page 1 such events but will not use the ID “Going out to bars and going out to offcampus houses, I’m going to be extra careful,” said the student, who did not want to be identified. She and other cited students said they intend to get lawyers to handle their cases.

A bartender was cited at the Armadillo Grill Thursday for selling a drink to an underage student. The student was cited for underage possession.

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his various obligations.

“I missed six of the first eight days of class,” Macaulay said. “I will only be at Duke two weekends until Thanksgiving.”

As president, he acts as both the public image and the internal leader of the group.

“I serve as the face and the voice of Circle K,” he said.

Macaulay said that his professors have been extremely accommodating with his unique schedule—one that requires him to travel often.

“They were really encouraged that there was strong student leadership outside the Duke campus,” he said.

Macaulay added, however, that the demanding schedule is always worth the commitment.

“Serving as president never seems like a burden,” he said. “It is a privilege to serve the organization and be a Duke student at the same time.”

Over his year-long term, Macaulay said he hopes to add an additional 1,000 members and complete a collective 525,600

pended July 1 for alcohol violations and reinstated in mid-August.

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said he met Monday with ALE Raleigh district supervisor Jeff Lasater to determine whether the Armadillo Grill will have its license suspended or revoked.

“When you have a situation like that you run the risk of losing a liquor license,” Wulforst said. “We’re still waiting to find out what the outcome is going to be.”

Armadillo Grill Manager Vincent Torrence declined to comment.

A student also received an ALE citation at the BP gas station on the corner of Erwin Road and Main Street for purchasing alcohol underage and with a fake ID. hours of service “There are 525,600 minutes in a year,” he said. “If we complete that many hours of service this year that means we will have done 60 years of service to the world.”

Macaulay continues to volunteer with Duke’s chapter of Circle Kwhen he is not busy with his duties as president. He still accompanies the chapter at their service projects with Habitat for Humanity, the Ronald McDonald Houses and the Boys and Girls Clubs ofAmerica.

“As president I am required to maintain an active membership with my home club,” Macaulay said. “When you lose sight of what your home club is doing, you lose sight of what is really going on with the organization.”

Duke Circle K had around 50 members last year and is shooting for more than 75 this year. Macaulay said it is the only service organization on campus that is not under the umbrella of the Community Service Center.

“Alec’s role as president can only have wonderful effects on Duke Circle K,” said sophomore Ami Saheba, president of Duke’s chapter of Circle K. “The fact that we have his leadership is amazing.”

G-Unit outfit among items stolen from truck An employee reported Thursday that he parked his car at 4:15 p.m in Parking Garage 2 near the medical center. When he returned, he found his window smashed and his trunk open.

Missing was a Dell computer, black iPod, grey Blackberry, a Sony CD changer, a black XM radio and a G-Unit outfit.

Student reported stolen laptop A student left his laptop computer unattended and unsecured in a lab in the Nanaline Duke Building around 2:00 p.m. Thursday.

At approximately 9:00 a.m. another student using the lab noticed the laptop was missing.

CD player taken from car A man reported Sunday that he parked his Honda Accord in Parking Garage 2 in the medical center at 1:04 pm the day before. When he returned to the garage, he said he found that someone had forced open his window enough to gain access and steal his Sony CD player and Bazooka speaker.

Fight breaks out in hospital lobby Witnesses reported that they observed a fight in progress Sunday around 8:00 p.m. in the lobby of Duke Hospital.

A Duke University Police Department officer found a woman who said she was assaulted by a teenager after she accidentally bumped into her. The teenager was with two other women, one of whom the victim said she knew. The suspects were not located.

Man cited in hospital for trespassing An employee reported a suspicious

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man on a patient unit around 9:48 a.m.

Sunday on the fourth floor of Duke Hospital. DUPD officers found the man and discovered that the man had previously been banned from campus.

The man was cited for 2nd Degree Trespass and received an Oct. 20 court date.

Wallet reported missing from Allen An employee reported Thursday that she last saw her wallet Sept. 18 at noon in the Allen Building.

She noticed it missing Sept. 20 at 9:15 a.m. She said she is not sure when the wallet was taken.

Employee mistakenly harassed An employee reported Thursday that she had been receiving harassing phone calls intended for another employee on the sixth floor of Duke Hospital.

The reporting DUPD officer spoke to the caller and stopped the calls.

Cassette player pilfered from DUMC An employee reported Friday morning that someone had taken his radio cassette player from a locked office area overnight at the North Pavilion in the medical center.

Parking permit taken from car A medical center employee reported Thursday that she last saw her parking permit in her car at 7:15 a.m. Sept. 20 when she parked in the Upper Yearby lot. She left her doors unlocked when she parked.

She noticed the permit missing the next morning at 6:30 a.m. She is not sure whether the permit was taken at work or at home.

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NICOTINE from page 4 in the study.

“People with depression may be self-medicating by smoking, albeit in a deadly way,” he added.

Nicotine stimulates the release of neurotransmitters, including serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine, which are strongly associated with depression.

Scientists have established that people prone to depression are twice as likely to be smokers, and are less likely to succeed in quitting smoking after taking up the habit, McClernon added.

The Duke study explored the theories behind the higher smoking rates.

Researchers were quick to point out, however, that nicotine in its pure should never be used to treat de-

pression.

“I certainly recommend that people don't smoke,” Levin added. "If you do smoke, quit."

SMARTHOUSE from page 5 medical benefits of the house “Healthcare is quickly entering the home,” he said.

“This joins healthcare with the way people live in their day-to-day lives.”

One example Rose gave of SmartHouse healthcare technology in the home was a wireless electrocardiogram, or EGG. Senior Ara Kardashian, a member of the SmartHouse group working on wireless EGG technology, said the EGG measures a person’s heart rate.

Kardashian said the EGG is hooked up to a person’s body and then the signal is wirelessly transmitted to a computer, which displays the information.

The wireless EGG would allow people to monitor their heart rates without leaving home, he added.

The EGG, however, is not the only SmartHouse project being presented at the convention.

Rose said the SmartHouse

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ger-vein recognition technology, which allows a scanner to examine the unique vein pattern in a person’s finger in order to identify that person.

Sophomore Mark Gu, student president of the SmartHouse project, said the health technology being pre-

sented at the convention is not the main focus of the SmartHouse.

“Most of our projects deal with identification and security systems,” he said.

Gu added that a project called the “Wisdom Doorway” will be able to identify a person and meet their specific needs—it could even automatically turn on their favorite music.

Rose said he foresees a number ofbenefits coming out of Optics East 2006.

“It is an opportunity for everybody who is working in this field to share their ideas in one place and at one time,” he said.

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“My friend and I started getting out campaign stuff on started late so I don’t think it’s that big a deal,” said freshman Jenni Wei. She added that she sent a mass message on to notify her friends of the change.

Fellow candidate Steve Allan, also a freshman, said he did not think the change would affect voter turnout.

“I don’t think it’ll have a big outcome, because I think the people who are going to vote will vote anyway, whether it’s Tuesday or Thursday,” he said.

The at-large senatorial process remains unchanged, with nominations due Friday and interviews Sunday.

The delay comes after the elections were pushed back a week due to the rescheduling of the annual activities fair, which was initially slated for Sept. 1,but was rescheduled due to inclement weather.

The fair was eventually held Sept. 9.

The election packets were due Sept. 8, but DSG changed the deadline to accommodate the activities fair.

“It is frustrating when you devote so much energy to planning things out and having a timetable,” Fore said.

“But we do plan, we are organized—we are organized to the extent that when things don’t go as planned we are able to develop contingencies to work around that.”

PETERSON from page 5 statements in

closing arguments.

The appeals ruling, written by Judge Rick Elmore, said the evidence about Peterson’s sexuality, Kathleen Peterson’s finances and Ratliff was fairly admitted.

It also agreed that the search warrant was “constitutionally deficient” but had no ill effect on his defense because the material it produced simply corroborated evidence obtained by proper means.

The court also disagreed that the closing remarks were improper.

Judge Jim Wynn dissented, saying three of the issues presented to the appeals court—the warrant, the Ratliff evidence and the closing arguments —should be reviewed by the state Supreme Court.

Wynn said the evidence obtained under the flawed warrant was not all corroborated elsewhere, and its admission was enough reason to give Peterson a new trial.

He also noted dissimilarities between Ratliffs death and Katherine Peterson's, including the relationship of Michael Peterson with each woman and the fact that the contemporary investigation of Ratliffs death ruled it was due to natural causes. “[TJhere were not sufficient similarities between the deaths of Elizabeth Ratliff and Ms. Peterson that a jury could make a ‘reasonable inference’ that Mr. Peterson committed the prior murder—or that Ms. Ratliff s death was even a murder,” Wynn wrote.

Maher said he would appeal to the state Supreme Court, but he did not have a timetable. He said Tuesday morning that he had not yet had an opportunity to tell Peterson of the ruling.

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ABROAD from page 3 your friends are going to be gone,” Kraus said. “So you might as well be gone too.”

Although the curriculum of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences offers more freedom in choosing classes, some students in the Pratt School of Engineering are able to clear up their schedules to study abroad.

Still, only 24 percent of Pratt’s Class of 2005 chose to study abroad, while 46 percent of Trinity students did.

Pratt junior Laura Moore is studying this semester at Queen Mary, University of London, England by signing up for creditfulfilling classes that she could complete while overseas.

But even though she is taking required classes, Moore said she worried that there will be high demand for certain courses when students return next semester.

“There will be clamoring next spring in the engineering department for BME 154,” she said. “Everyone [in Pratt] has to take it this spring in order to take some of the senior year courses and it gets screwy.

So it will be a major issue.”

A member of the varsity baseball team, Trinity junior Jeffrey Blickman is sacrificing months of fall training in order to travel to Prague, but still decided to pursue the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

“I’m pretty sure it’s rare for a varsity athlete to leave for an entire semester,” he wrote in an e-mail. [Baseball coach Sean] McNally has always emphasized the fact that academics are a priority for our team; we’re students before we’re athletes. Since I felt that this semester was a necessary element in my college academic experience, I had his full support, no questions asked.”

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Junior Dan Belzer, pictured in Granada, Spain, is one of 475 Duke students studying abroad this semester. and cultural experience that a language class on campus could never provide.

“My Spanish was pretty strong before getting here, but my speaking and listening have dramatically improved in the four weeks I have been here,” junior Daniel Belzer, who is studying in Madrid, Spain, wrote in an e-mail.

With 42 percent of its students studying abroad each year, Duke trails comparable schools such as Dartmouth College and Georgetown University, which sent 55 and 50 percent of their students abroad last year, respectively.

Trinity junior Andrea Rush, currently studying in Florence, Italy, said her attachment to Duke tempted her to stay, but students often leave Durham for more vibrant and exotic cities.

“There is only so much that most people

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can take of a small, southern city like Durham before boredom sets in, especially if there is an opportunity to be instead in Madrid or London,” she wrote in an e-mail.

Kraus said students go abroad to gain an integral part of a Duke experience, not to flee from a negative impression of Durham and other areas near campus.

“No one goes abroad because they don’t like Duke,” he said. “If you’re tired ofDuke or don’t like Durham, you transfer.”

Even with all Duke has to offer, Blickman said students who decide not to study abroad will miss out on an entirely new world of language and culture.

“I don’t think the lack of diversions at Duke is the issue,” Blickman said. “But then again, last time I looked out my dorm room window in Craven, I didn’t see an 800-year-old palace lit up at night.” ~

students apply for any early plans really was compelling for me,” Blackburn said.

Only one student who qualified for the maximumfinancial aid package available under AccessUVa last year was an early applicant, Blackburn added. Fewer than 20 of the 947 students accepted under the early-decision plan last December applied for financial aid, he said.

“I have been involved in recent months with a national task force on lowincome students, and there is little doubt that early-admission programs put low-income students at a significant disadvantage in the process,” Blackburn said.

“This runs counter to our goal of increasing the diversity of our student body.”

Duke Dean ofAdmissions Christoph Guttentag said UVa’s decision is noteworthy because it moved the early admission issue into the sphere of public universities.

“It’s another indicator that schools are taking seriously their commitment to making sure that they provide equitable access and that the balance they strike among various groups of applicants are appropriate,” he said.

UVa is one of the few top public universities to offer early admissions, Guttentag added. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers a non-binding early-action policy, and the University of Michigan has rolling admissions.

Duke has offered early admission for at least 20 years. Earlier this month, Guttentag told The Chronicle that although admissions officers have discussed the University’s early-admission policies several times, there is no immediate plan to change them.

Iza Wojciechowska contributed to this story.

Department of Religion Lecture

An African Empire in the Americas: Transnational Yoruba Religion and the TWilight of Andersonian Teleology

J. Lorand Matory

Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:30 p.m.

Breedlove Room, Perkins Library

The committee invites students to assist in the planning of the University-wide events. Come learn how you can be involved in a dialogue with King by shaping this year's celebration.

Professor Matory studies the diversity of African, African American, and Latin American culture, with an emphasis on how differently various peoples understand identity. He is also interested in Haitian “Vodu,” Brazilian Candomble, and Cuban Santeria, which, although rooted in Africa, have deeply penetrated our urban landscape in the wake of immigration from the Caribbean to the United States. These fields inform his lecturing and writing on the poetics and politics of daily language in the United States, which explores such topics as how culturally idiosyncratic metaphors of lightness, darkness, time, money, size, and direction often guide and misguide our thinking about the world.

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delay any division of the country into autonomous states until 2008.

Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish political leaders in parliament formed the constitutional committee, which will take about a year to review any changes and get them approved.

A separate Shiite-sponsored federalism bill will be read to the legislature Tuesday and then debatedfor two days before parliament breaks for the Iraqi weekend.

The legislation would be read again Oct. 1 widi any changes made by legislators.

A vote would come four days after the second reading, with the bill needing a simple majority for passage.

If approved, it would be implemented 18 months later—in 2008—according to the deal made by the parties.

The deal was a victory for Sunni Arabs, who had been fighting the federalism bill proposed by Shiite cleric Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the United Iraqi Al-

liance. They fear that if not amended, it will splinter the country and deny them a share of Iraq’s oil, which is found in the predominandy Kurdish north and the heavily Shiite south.

They agreed to break a two-week deadlock after all parties accepted a Sunni demand that the parliamentary committee be set up discuss amending the constitution.

Sunni Arabs hope to win an amendment that would make it more difficult to establish autonomous regions.

Although the deal was struck and endorsed by Adnan al-Dulaimi’s Sunni Arab Accordance Front, which has 44 seats in the 275-member parliament, it was rejected by the hard-liners.

“We reject any attempt to promote the regions legislation or federalism because it will pave the way for the partitioning of Iraq,” Hamid al-Mudaq, a senior official in the Sunni Arab National Dialogue Front, told The Associated Press.

He added that his bloc, which has 11 seats in parliament and is run by Saleh al-Mutlaq, was distressed that other groups such as the Accordance Front either helped strike the deal or supported it.

All students and other members of the Duke and Durham Communities are cordially invited to the

Founders’ Day Convocation A Reflection on Duke University's Heritage

With an Address by

Paula Phillips Burger M.A.’74 '67,

Recognition of the achievements of employees, students, faculty, staff, and alumni with the awarding of

The Distinguished Alumni Award Sally Dalton Robinson ’55 and Russell M. Robinson II ’54, J.D. ’56

The University Scholar/ Teacher of the Year Award Erwin Chemerinsky, J.D.

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4:00 P.M.

Duke University Chapel

Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse spoke at theSearle Center Monday at the beginning of the two-day symposium celebrating DukeMed's 75th year.

SYMPOSIUM from page 1 the symposium’s philosophy, 12 medical students were awarded various honors for outstanding contributions to the medical field.

“The theme of today and tomorrow are the next great ideas in science,” Williams said, addressing the students in the audience. “My hope is that from some ofyou truly the next great ideas will spring.”

Williams, who introduced Nurse, praised the Nobel laureate for his work in cell research and urged the audience to watch Nurse’s Nobel acceptance speech online, which he said would convince viewers that scientists, and even science, can be funny.

Nurse’s sense of humor was evident throughout the talk, as he made cracks about the objectivity of experiments and the tendency of 18th-century scientists to take themselves .too seriously—he even picked on the French.

While discussing the four “great ideas” in history that he said will be key to supporting new ideas in biology, Nurse referred to the late 18th-century French chemist Antoine Lavoisier’s studies of chemical reactions in wine.

“He turned his thoughts to fermentation as the French are likely to do,” he quipped.

Nurse focused on four concepts; the idea ofcells as the simplest form ofall life, genes as a unit of heredity, life as chemistry and evolution by natural selection.

Nurse then tied these ideas together, explaining why they are key to understanding “the modem great idea of biological organization”—or the interactions and functions of “living machines” such as cells.

“We have to think about the purpose of what is happening within the cell,” Nurse said. “In the case of a radio, it’s how a radio works. In the case of a cell, it’s how a cell works.”

Nurse emphasized the importance of understanding cell function over mapping the intricate composition of the cell itself.

“Beauty is not in that structure but in what that structure means for inheritance,” said Nurse, referring to the double helix model of DNA. Nurse added that a new model was needed for the study of biology, although even he admitted he was not sure what that new model should look like.

He likened such a shift to the transition from Newtonian physics to relativity theory or quantum mechanics: a paradigm with its own rules, a different focus—and even a new vocabulary.

“Once you have a language you move from ‘yes/no’ to the works of Shakespeare,” Nurse said. “I do think it’s going to be quite difficult though.”

Although Nurse’s lecture marked only the beginning of the symposium, which has several other prominent speakers remaining on the schedule, many audience members left Nurse’s speech impressed and excited. “It’s just incredible to be in the presence of someone who has done such great science,” said Mollie Miniear, a student in the University Program for Genetics and Genomics. “How often do you get to hear a Nobel Prize winner speak in your life?”

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Duke dominated the final round of the Fighting Illini Invitational Monday, topping some of the nation’s best teams on its way to winning its first title of the season.

The ninth-ranked Blue Devils fired a collective 6-over-par and shot 24-over par 864 for the tournament—six shots ahead of second-place Stanford and 12 shots in front of No. 1 Oklahoma State, which finished in fifth.

“We’re very excited,” head coach Rod Myers said. “This was a huge win for us. The guys did an excellent job today to come out and beat the best team in the country.”

Perhaps even more exciting was the play of freshman Adam Long, who finished in second—only one stroke behind Arizona St.’s Niklas Lemke —in the first tournament of his college career.

Long shot a 2-over 212 over 56 holes, carding seven birdies, 40 pars and nothing higher than a bogey for the entire

perdome opened Monday night.

For Duke running back Clifford Harris, it was a welcome sight.

Harris grew up across the Mississippi

River from New Orleans in Marrero—just a five-minute drive away from the —^— city. Without gamea ex day traffic, it takes 15 minutes to get from Marrero to the Superdome, taking US-90 across the river.

When he was in high school, Harris’ family had season tickets to Saints games, and they used to make the drive over to the Superdome for just about every home game.

The Dome was a place for celebrating Saints scores and suffering through losses.

But on the days after Aug. 29, 2005, suffering at the Superdome would never be understood in the same way. For a Saints fan like Harris, it was strange to see the team’s home turned into a refuge.

“It was shocking to me because before Katrina people went there to enjoy themselves,” Harris said. “But after Katrina the people were there just to live. It was shocking to see the Superdome used that way because it was never used that way before.”

It’s possible—even likely—that no number of Saints games or Saints wins will ever erase the enduring images ofKatrina victims in the Superdome. But Monday night might have been a start.

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“You would have thought he was a senior out there. He handled himself with a lot of poise and confidence. He was just going right after it,” Myers said. “[Adam] told me these are the situations he feels the best in—on difficult courses when the pressure is the highest.”

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Senior Jake Grodzinsky bounced back from two tough rounds with a 1 -under-par 69 Monday afternoon.

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For Marian Dickinson, it seemed quite ordinary.

The sophomore has been on the go nearly all her life. Born in Waratah, Australia, Dickinson’s family criss-crossed the continent in her early childhood, living in Newcasde, Canberra and Perth. It was in the Land Down Under where Dickinson discovered her passion for field hockey.

When Dickinson, who still carries a strong trace of an Australian accent, was 10, her family moved to Hong Kong. During her freshmanyear ofhigh school, Dickinson’s family moved again, this time to Alberta.

“We don’t do small moves,” said Dickinson with a laugh.

Throughout her nomadic adolescence, Dickinson always found an outlet in field hockey, playing for her middle and high schools, as well as junior national teams in Hong Kong and Canada.

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Sophomore Marian Dickinson has moved around her entire life, but she is fitting in just see Dickinson on page 12 fine at Duke.The midfieldernetted hat tricks in two consecutive games this season.

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ortsbriefs Hausfeld takes home honor Duke junior Ali Hausfeld was named ACC Volleyball Player of the Week after leading the Blue Devils to victories over two conference opponents this weekend In Friday’s 3-0 sweep of Clemson, Hausfeld netted eight digs, three blocks and one service ace in addition to four kills and no attack errors. Her match-high 38 as- Ali Hausfeld sists passed Susan Wilson for third place on Duke’s all-time list, with 3,449. Saturday, Hausfeld added another 54 assists, along with 10 digs, eight kills, three blocks and two service aces, in a 3-1 win over Georgia Tech.

This is Hausfeld’s second career Player of the Week award, also winning in October of 2005.

Three ACC teams ranked With Boston College’s loss to NC State dropping the Eagles out of the Associated Press Top 25, the ACC is now represented

by Virginia Tech, Clemson and Florida State in the national rankings.

Boston College’s fall from the top 25 in Week 5 follows Miami’s in Week 4 and furthers a trend of the ACC’s devolving presence in national polls. Undefeated and unranked Wake Forest received 12 votes in the recent poll while Clemson toggled positions with traditional powerhouse Florida State.

Virginia Tech is ranked 11th, Clemson 18th and Florida State 19th in the latest poll.

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Dickinson’s traveling experiences helped smooth an often difficult transition.

“It definitely made it easier,” Dickinson said. “I’ve lived in a number of places that have had completely different social ways of life and cultures, so coming down here wasn’t a huge deal.”

Dickinson exploded onto the scene, notching a hat trick in her first collegiate game. She finished her freshman season fourth on the team in points, and head coach Beth Bozman said she fit in with a senior-laden squad that featured Katie Grant and Nicole Dudek, two ofDuke’s top four all-time leading scorers.

“She’s a very smart player, she really knows the game, and that makes her easy to play with,” Bozman said. “She really knows where to move and how to score, and I think the seniors appreciated that.”

Despite her initial success on the field, Dickinson said she did have difficulty balancing her athletics with her pursuit of an engineering degree. As one of just two players in Pratt, she often has to rush from labs to practice. But she said she has become more comfortable with the situation this year.

“In terms of academics, social, field hockey—the whole deal—sophomore year is eight times better than freshman year,” NENA SANDERSON/THE CHRONICLE she said.

The change has been most obvious on After recording six goals in two games Sept. 16 and 17,Marian Dickinson won ACC Player of theWeek. the field, where Dickinson has excelled in around as a child and the opportunities it leading the Blue Devils’ now-young front take her game to another level.” line. The sophomore has 11 goals through Dickinson truly reached a new level afforded her. Still, she had trouble adjustjust nine games and leads the ACC in both when she recorded back-to-back hat tricks ing to the move from Hong Kong and said against Appalachian State and Old Do- would like to eventually return to Australia, points and goals per game.

“What really helped her was training minion Sept. 16 and 17. It was her first “I need to find out where home is, so with the Canadian national team this sumsuch accomplishment at any level.

I want to go there and see if that’s it,” New experiences, however, are noth- she said, mer,” Bozman said. “That gave her a lot of confidence, and just getting a full year ing new for Dickinson.

For now, Dickinson is just enjoying her under her belt at the college level helped Dickinson said she appreciated moving time creating a home at Duke.

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ATHLETICS from page 1 increase understanding among the coaches of academic life at Duke,” Nijhout and Hain wrote.

“The hope is to establish a mechanism for meaningful interaction among the faculty, coaches and student scholars, to insure that there will be some coaches with an informed understanding of the experience of student scholars at Duke.

“The program is open to all members of the coaching staff of the University, although it is hoped that most of the participating coaches will come from among those who coach preprofessional athletes and winning teams.”

Nijhout declined to comment, saying the parody speaks for itself.

At the Academic Council meeting Thursday, Haagen acknowledged the imitation document, joking that he was “considered worthy of a parody.”

Haagen dismissed the criticism, saying even he is unsure of how successful the program will end up being, but it is worth a shot.

“It is nothing other than an experiment,” Haagen said. “But did 80 people say they were interested enough to try? Yes.” Some have not been so quick to laugh off the parody. Kerstin Kimel, head coach of the women’s lacrosse team, said the parody was a “step backwards” in the relationship between athletics and academics.

“Given the circumstances under which we are all examining ourselves, to me, this kind of banter is childish and completely unproductive and totally disrespectful,” Kimel said. “From a coach’s standpoint, we really want to extend the olive branch to

help improve.”

Haagen’s involvement in the program began in the spring, when questions were raised about the role of athletics at

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Duke in response to the controversy surrounding the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team.

Haagen, who teaches sports law and works extensively with the Department of Athletics, became aware of a program at Princeton where faculty members are assigned to teams. He thought a similar plan could work at Duke, with some adjustments to adapt to the “different conditions.”

Working with members of the Athletics Department—including Director of Athletics Joe Alieva, Senior Associate Athletic Director Chris Kennedy, Associate Athletic Director Jackie Silar and Kimel— Haagen drafted the proposal.

Duke’s plan calls for faculty members to serve as liaisons for no more than three-year periods and to interact with the team without being required to monitor or report.

“Dealing with a variety of people this spring, I started to get a fairly clear sense that some coaches at Duke were relatively isolated from the faculty,” Haagen said. “The coaches are very clear they’re part of Duke as a centrally educational university, but they were not linked to people and relationships.”

The proposal was met with strong support from the athletics department, Haagen said.

“They believe they have a good story to tell and would like to expose more people to it,” Haagen said.

Kimel said discussions about such a program had already begun before the tumultuous events of last spring, as similar programs have been successful at other schools such as Princeton, Trinity College and Middlebury.

“I think it will facilitate better understanding of what we do on the athletics side of campus,” Kimel said. “There is a propensity to not see the real-world value of participating in athletics at this level.”

Meg Bourdillon contributed to this story.

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for the cookout with his don’t want to talk about inneighbors. “I surance. I don’t want to talk about anything but kicking Falcon butt.”

Even with its gleaming new cover, the Superdome remained a symbol of Katrina’s misery. Tens of thousands of storm victims suffered there in withering heat after last summer’s hurricane filled the city with stinking floodwaters.

The Saints have not played a regularseason home game since 2004. They last played in the Superdome in a 2005 preseason game a few days beforeKatrina.

After the storm, the Saints became the NFL’s traveling show, establishing a base in San Antonio and playing every game on the road amid speculation that owner Tom Benson might not bring them back to New Orleans.

Now, a high-rise hotel, an office tower and an upscale shopping center stand empty just a few hundred feet from the stadium, with white boards covering blownout windows.

A few miles away, entire neighborhoods are wastelands of decaying houses.

Tanyha Brown of Metairie said her husband was leaving work early so they could attend the festivities outside the Superdome. With no tickets to the game, they planned to watch from a nearby bar.

“This is the best holiday since Mardi Gras,” Brown said. grocer)' store

As rock bands blasted and tailgate parties served up barbecue and brew, thousands of people poured into the streets Monday night, hoping to forget about Hurricane Katrina FALCONS during a Mardi 23 Gras-like celebraSAINTS tion of the Saints’ first home game since the storm.

Crowds swamped the area around the Louisiana Superdome in a human sea, creating a huge traffic jam for the team’s emotional return and the reopening of the stadium, which underwent $lB5 million in repairs to erase damage done during and after Katrina.

“This is exactly what the city needs,” said Saints season ticket holder Clara Donate, 58, who lost her home and all her possessions to Katrina’s floodwaters. “We all need something else to think about.”

The Saints wrapped up a 23-3 victory over the Atlanta Falcons. Each had been undefeated at 2-0, and the game received Super Bowl buildup. The Goo Goo Dolls played to the crowd outside the dome, while Green Day and U2 performed for the crowd of more than 68,000 inside.

Harold Johnson couldn’t get into the Superdome, but he planned to sit with his neighbors outside his government-issue trailerand watch the game on television.

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fan is that the games mean so much to us until something like Katrina happens. And we’re confronted with disaster, with human suffering and death and disease, and we realize that the games don’t mean much of anything at all.

Then after a while, we crave the normalcy of going to the game on a Sunday afternoon. And the game comes back, and we cheer for scores and we bemoan losses, but it’s not quite the same anymore.

Winning and losing isn’t as important as just being able to have a normal Saints Sunday (or Monday) —especially after last season’s rumors that New Orleans would never be able to support the Saints again.

“I was kind of doubting that it would be back,” Harris said. “But watching this game makes me think that hopefully everything will be back to normal. Bringing football is a small step to bringing the whole city back.”

Somewhere in the sold-out Superdome, helping to make all of the ear-splitting, boy-are-we-happy-to-be-here racket was Harris’ sister, Felicia Griffin, a season-ticket holder. Harris called her before the game, and the sib-

lings talked about how nice it was to have the Saints back.

“I could barely hear her because it was so loud,” Harris said. “She was just happy to be there.”

It’s times like last night that remind all of us why we love sports.

We love them because they help us forget for four hours, and we love them because they help us remember. We love them because of the fans’ genuine smiles before kick-off at the Superdome and the eruption of cheers when Curtis DeLoatch returned a punt for a touchdown less than two minutes into the game.

We love them because they give us something to cheer about, even when the situation seems most dire.

We love them because they give us normalcy.

We love them because for one night, they allowed us all to root for New Orleans—and we knew New Orleans finally had a chance to win.

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MichaelSchachner finished in a tie for third place at the lllini Invitational after shooting a 1-over-par71 in the tournament's final round Monday.

M.GOLF from page 11 From the marks on his scorecard to his lack of regard for the leaderboard, it seemed as if the freshman didn’t feel any pressure at all.

“I honesdy never looked at the leaderboard very much—l just knew how I was doing from what my dad was telling me,” Long said. “I had no idea how many shots I was behind. I was just out there trying to do my best. I didn’t want to play poorly for the team’s sake, I just wanted to play well and do my part.”

Long also had a lot of help from his teammates.

Junior Michael Schachner, an Illinois native, has been the most consistent Blue Devil this season and he maintained his level of solid play this weekend in front of friends and family.

Schachner went lover par in each of his three rounds and parred 15 out of the last 18 holes of the tournament to finish in a four-way tie for third place.

“He has really stepped up for us,” Myers said. “We look for that kind of leadership as much as anything in golf leadership by example on the course. He really ground it out out there. That’s what this golf course demanded—to stay focused and work for every par.”

Finding leadership on the links was a preseason concern for Duke, which lost its most accomplished player in its program’s history, Ryan Blaum, to graduation last year.

Yet, Schachner is becoming increasingly more comfortable in taking on that role.

“There’s times when I look around, and it’s hard for me to believe I’m a junior,” Schachner said. “I felt like last year I went out and played just to contribute to the team. Now, I feel like I’m going out and trying to set the tone for the other guys—I like it.”

Schachner wasn’t the only veteran Blue Devil who came through Monday. Senior Jake Grodzinsky was also crucial to the Duke team victory. After going 14-over in the first two rounds, Grodzinsky fired a 1-under-par 69 to finish tied for 28th place, moving 22 spots up the leaderboard on the final day. He was one of only three players to break 70 over the final 18 holes.

“There are a lot of things you can point to, but Jake’s round today was huge,” Myers said.

And if Schachner is the leader on the course, Grodzinsky is the leader off it.Long attributes much of his comfort both with the team and on the course to Grodzinsky, saying the senior is always joking and keeping him loose.

“I had a lot of fun, from the time we left campus to sitting in the airport waiting to go back,” Long said.

But the trip from Durham to Chicago and back probably can’t compare to Monday’s trip from the first hole to the last for the freshman phenom.

“He got out there and birdied the first hole and then just played terrifically all the way through. You can’t say enough about Adam Long,” Myers said. “He comes out here and plays his first tournament and the only guy who beat him had to shoot a 66 to do it.”

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ACES and list all professors and graduate instructors—for all classes prior to the start of a new semester’s enrollment.

In addition, there should be a streamlined advisory board that oversees all graduate instructors and evaluates them at various points throughout the semester.

After all, end-of-course evaluations only help at the end of the semester, and students pay a pretty penny for each class they take at this University.

This kind of constant and constructive feedback will, in the end, bolster this place as a research institution and, in the words of Thompson, create a system that is “mutually rewarding for both graduates and undergraduates.”

Really, it would make for the best ofboth campuses.

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Parking highlights University identity crisis During my first couple of weeks back at Duke, noticed almost daily front-page articles in The I

Chronicle bemoaning the fact that Duke had dropped another few places in this or that national ranking. During these same weeks, I got my first taste of life on West—specifically, parking in the Blue Zone.

I was forced to move my car out of the spot for which I’d paid, first for a football game, then so graduate students could camp out for basketball tickets. These two things seem unrelated, but they are symptoms of Duke’s identity crisis; the University cannot decide whether to be a toplevel academic, or top-level athletic university.

Weekend after weekend, students, the people who came to Duke for its academics are forced to evacuate the spots they paid for to make room for athletic events.

Now, I’m not saying moving a car ever

dropped anyone’s GPA, and I wouldn’t trade the experience of being a Cameron Crazie for anything, but this is just one small example of

how Duke is trying for the best of both worlds... and then acting surprised when it drops from the top five colleges, or fails again to make it to the Final Four. So what’s to be done? Well, there’s no easy answer, as both academic excellence and athletic superiority are key parts of what makes up Duke. Something needs to change, however, or Duke will always fail to live up to its potential in these fields. It’s a question that deserves some serious thought. And while we’re thinking, it would help if we didn’t have to get up to move our cars.

Sam Regenbogen Trinity ’O9

E-mail: letters@chronicle.duke.edu

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the romance studies department. Compare that to Duke’s 33.

And, yes, there are certainly plenty of great graduate instructors who will doubtlessly go on to be great professors at great universides because of their learning experiences at Duke. Indeed, some undergraduates have said they prefer more intimate and less intimidating classes taught by graduate instructors.

But the minimum requirements for graduate instructors must be raised and a number of checks should be placed on graduate instructors in order to make sure that undergraduates are receiving the education for which they paid.

Among other things, Duke should clearly label who teaches what courses on

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under their belts and one week of training to lead undergraduate classes. Since grants don’t always cover all of their expenses, The Chronicle also learned that many graduate students feel financially obligated to teach classes by their third year.

The result: more grads pick up the chalk and undergrads in some concentrations can complete 50 percent of their major requirements without taking a single class with a fulltime faculty member.

Duke could find a blueprint in other schools. Graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are unable to teach classes that count for major requirements. North Carolina State University has a total of four graduate instructors in

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Questions from Uganda KAMPALA,

Uganda It was rush hour the As always, I was stuck, city. in crammed into an overcrowded, dilapidated minibus taxi in a hopeless gridlock near a sprawling market. The übiquitous red dust caking the city swirled from the road, while the acrid smell of burning trash assailed my nostrils.

I am here for a semes-

of emotions. We listened to intense lectures from politicians, professors and staffers from local and international non-government organizations.

I am excited by innovative government policies, but I was frustrated to learn that policies on paper are so far from reality that they resemble fantasy.

I am inspired by the work of local self-help “Development ter-long Studies” program with 15 groups working in dreadful urban slums, but I am deother Americans, explorculpressed to realize how their ing Uganda’s history, David fiocco efforts can only reach a tiny ture and politics while fraction of the dispossessed. shades of blue studying development theSometimes, I am just sad. ory and fieldwork.

In the city’s malnutrition To begin our experiunit, I watched emaciated children writhe in ence, we had to learn exactly what chalbeen A little girl moaned as skin peeled off agony. is have never lenges Uganda facing. I so overwhelmed, and Duke’s idyllic Gothic her bloated body.

I feel a lot of anger, but I am not sure Wonderland has never seemed so far away.

There is no question that in today’s where it should be directed. Certainly, easy globalized world, we in the United States targets are the Ugandan government and President Yoweri Museveni, who argue have a role to play in African developabout funding their new vehicles while raw continue to the ment. If we ignore problems of the developing world, problems sewage spills out among children playing in such as HIV, terrorism, environmental cities all over the country. The corruption is incredible—huge portions ofaid budgets destruction and a collapsed global econgo directly to line officials’ pockets, and it await us. omy Uganda was granted independence seems that most officials are for sale.

For all his shortcomings, though, Mufrom England in 1962. Since then billions of dollars of foreign aid have poured in for sevini has rebuilt the country from the total chaos and destruction he inherited after “development.” Every day I admire Kamthe horrendous cruelty ofIdi Amin’s dictabut as look I pala’s throbbing energy, torship in the 19705. Perhaps, then, it is around at the largely broken or nonexistmore appropriate to blame the internationent infrastructure, it is obvious that someal community for Uganda’s problems. thing is not working.

In the early 19905, the World Bank Our first two weeks were roller coasters

hailed Uganda as a great success story with skyrocketing GDPs. Look a bit closer, however, and the story is dramatically different.

With aid from the United States and other big donors came requirements for indus-

“The question is what should our role in America be to facilitate growth and change? As Duke graduates and future leaders in the new millennium, we must find an answer.

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tries to privatize. State resources were sold international companies who promptly sent profits home, out of Uganda. A tiny wealthy elite got richer while the number of people living in abject poverty climbed.

Today about 40 percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day.

At the same time, well-meaning donors—both charities and governments—poured (and continue to pour) dollars into the country for projects that Western “experts” consider priorities. But these donors often to not bother to ask locals for their opinions. Most projects prove unsustainable, creating dependency and apathy among the disenfranchised poor.

Almost half of the government’s budget is funded by foreign aid. And the aid to

has so many strings attached that the government becomes responsible to its donors —not its poor citizens who can easily be subdued by force.

Since independence, not one of Uganda’s presidents has ever peacefully transferred power to a new ruler. In the last election, the opposition candidate was forced to run his campaign from jail.

Further complicating the situation, the country has five very different ethnic groups, united only by arbitrary British border determination. Legislating national unity has yet to succeed, and rivalries, suspicion and hostility among groups abound.

In Northern Uganda, the Lord’s Republican Army has been fighting for 20 years, but they do so by brainwashing children and chopping off limbs and tongues of innocent bystanders. In the meantime, there are refugees in the country from all over East and Central Africa.

Last week the World Bank declared Uganda the most politically unstable country in its region. Every day there are new reports of political kidnappings, acid burning, torture, violence and corruption.

Unrest is growing; it is very real and very scary.

The question is what should our role in America be to facilitate growth and change? As Duke graduates and future leaders in the new millennium, we must find an answer.

So now what?

David Fiocco is a Trinity junior studying abroad in Uganda this semester. His column runs every other Tuesday.

case for violence I am supposed to do about sexual assault? Why do all the of Justice still estimates that 61 percent of rapes go comsolutions offered to me—signing vows never to harm pletely unreported. It only gets worse on college campuswomen, protesting the use of sexist language —seem so es, with surveys indicating that one in five college-aged women will be raped or sexually assaulted. impotent and lacking?

I know women who were assaulted here at Duke. for desire for physAnd of is there a my most all, place the vention Week, ical confrontation with the perpetrators of these crimes? Is You probably do as well. None of them reported it to speak-out is a remarkthere a case to be made for violent physical retaliation in the police. Their attackers suffered no, or very little, K able event: Participants punishment. dealing with sexual assault at Duke? step up to a microreaction Call me bloodthirsty, but I can’t help believing that if decades, and it seems like my Go back a few phone and share their there were implicit, socially recogwas well within the norm. Men were expersonal experiences nized consequences for sexual asviolent to channel their impulses pected with rape and sexual assault and harassment of women on to the defense of the women in their sault, one after another, this campus, beyond chastisement, lives. In our grandparents’ generation As a man, what I am for hours verbal disapproval, assault beyond kindle or as19605, Brian until the raping and up Some stories are to do about supposed and rape would be far less common. saulting a woman meant facing the very ad astra decades old, others are When so many rapists are never down and real threat of being hunted sexual assault? Why do incredibly fresh, many trial, there needs to be to brought her male relatives. killed by beaten or are being revealed for mechanism for keeping all the solutions ofanother the first time ever on that night. It’s harrowing, raw and Although I can’t and won’t advocate this their behavior check.

To me, in it would fered to me—signing exhausting, but for many of its participants and those in kind of response, I also imagine be violent, retaliaone answer may disincentive for a enormous the audience, speaking out seems to be genuinely healing. be an tion on the part of the men of this vows never to harm would-be rapist.

Over the course of the evening, several men came forUniversity. this of period I don’t want to idealize ward to air tales of friends or family that had been sexualwomen, protesting the I know that right now many of American history any more than it alefforts end to their for to assaulted, or pledge support ly you are cringing in horror at these use of sexist lansexual assault. Although I was impressed by their show of ready has been; I know it had its own proposals, and to be honest I’m not I’m certainly solidarity, I wound up feeling that something was lacking, massive problems, and —seem so not in love with them myself. But at impoguage to Revfor a return a pre-Sexual arguing that the male contribution to the speak-out was more nothe very least, these ideas—the role olution set of cultural mores. tent and lacking? table for what had not been said than what had. of men as the defenders of women, Tor better or worse, we no longer The majority of rapes and assaults brought up in the extra-legal consequences for those women, defend American men to speak-out were never reported to the police, but none of raise commit rape, the use of physithat and we no longer expect them to intethe men who spoke expressed a desire to find those recal violence against perpetrators of grate violence into their lives construcsponsible and hurt them severely. None of the men dis—need to enter our sexual assault when faWe’re the days way past played the kind of blind rage at the perpetrators that I tively. a'ssault and sexual on this about rape thers taught their sons the proper way to throw a punch, ongoing dialogue was feeling at the time. None of them spoke of a willingcampus that’s a huge improvement. ness to defend his female friends and family with more and in most ways, We need to do a better job of constructing a meaningBut it still leaves me, arid, I suspect, much of Duke’s than his words. ful male response to sexual assault at Duke if we ever plan feeling pretty useless in the face of a This is no slight on the men who participated in that male population on ending it. Until then, I’ll be left with two clenched fists tremendous and persistent problem. speak-out; not at all. To be honest, that evening was proband the no one to use them on. in incidents of rape 2004, 94,635 there were In ably neither the time nor the place for such sentiments. numbers have conwhole, and the a although as But in talking about sexual assault on Duke’s campus, country Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Tuesday. in the 1980s, the Department it’s a conversation we never seem to have. As a man, what sistendy fallen since peaking

spring I attended the annual Take Back the Night speak-out on the Chapel Quadrangle. The last stop on the Night’s march between East and West Campuses, and the capstone for Sexual Assault Pre-

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