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With the arrival of today’s final deadline for voting registration, Duke Students for an Ethical Durham have done their part to register as many students as possible. From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, members of the organization and players on the men’s lacrosse team threw a barbecue on the West Campus Plaza to spread awareness about the registration process. Later in the evening, the student group collected proceeds at an informal event held at Shooters 11. “We’ve had such a positive response, not only wanting to vote, but also getting people excited about really actively participating in the political arena,” said junior Christiane Regelbrugge, who worked with other students to coordinate the barbecue. At both events, tables were set up to encourage students to take part in Durham elections by registering to vote. “I really am pleased with how many students we’ve gotten registered, we really met our initial goal,” Regelbrugge said. “The goal of the barbecue is kind of one last push.” In addition to the food, refreshments

Registration for Durham elections closes today. The Chronicle breaks down 2 of the major local races.

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All three members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team who are charged with raping an exotic dancer last spring are speaking publicly for the first time since their indictments on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. According to a statement from CBS News, David Evans, Trinity ’O6, Collin Finnerty and Reade SUNDAY, 7 p.m Seligmann maintain their CBS.Ch. 27 innocence in interviews with correspondent Ed Bradley. All three were charged with first-degree SEE ‘6O MINUTES’ ON PAGE 6

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Members of the Duke lacrosse team barbecue at a get-out-the-vote rally on the plaza Thursday. “What we have is the American wayand music provided at Thursday’s barbecue, Lewis Cheek, a candidate for district the ballot box,” he said, Cheek said he hoped and expected attorney, spoke to the several dozen stuthat the governor would appoint a comdents present. Cheek explained to listeners that al- parable replacement if Cheek were to win though he would not accept the position and reject the position if he were elected, a vote for him was not SEE BARBECUE ON PAGE 8 a lost vote

David Evans, Trinity 'O6, talks to Ed Bradley of'6O Minutes'for an episode that will air this Sunday.

Arts Council discusses culture Pratt takes CCI preliminary report finds ‘culture of divides'exists on campus strategic steps for top rank by

Meg Bourdillon THE CHRONICLE

Administrators at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting Thursday invited dialogue on issues at the heart of the University’s future: the Campus Culture Initiative and plans for .Central Campus. For council members, this was their first official update on the progress of the Campus Culture Initiative since it began in April. An interim report is due in December, and the committee expects to finish work in February 2007, earlier than the May deadline initially set by President Richard

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Robert Thompson, chair of the Campus Culture Initiative, briefed the Arts and Sciences Council Thursday on the initiative's progress.

“This was a process that was going to go on for a while,” said Robert Thompson, chair of the initiative and dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, adding that it encompasses many, varied aspects of campus culture. “That’s really a broad charge, and we began our work in April, just at the time when the spring semester would be coming to a close.” Although the initiative’s 25-member steering SEE A&S COUNCIL ON PAGE 6

Katherine Macllwaine THE CHRONICLE

When U.S. News and World Report releases its list of the nation’s best colleges and universities each year, prospective students are not the only readers paying attention The Pratt School of Engineering —which fell from 22nd to 25th for the 2007 year—has taken the numbers into c eration in its current strategic plan The plan explicitly' aims to pi Pratt’s undergraduate and gradua programs among the top 15 schools in the nation in the next five years. De spite this goal, Pratt administrators tioned how much emphasis should be placed on climbing to the top of the ranks. SEE PRATT ON PAGE

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NC lotto official convicted of fraud Gary Robertson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RALEIGH Former state lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings, charged with failing to disclose his work for a leading supplier of scratch-off tickets and lottery systems, was convicted Thursday of federal mail fraud charges. The guilty verdicts capped a threeweek trial, during which the successful public relations and political campaign consultant told jurors he didn't believe he needed to report his past dealings with Scientific Games Corp. to the state Board of Ethics. The prosecution also focused more unwanted attention on

House Speaker Jim Black, who picked Geddings for the panel. “What the whole case about was the fact that public officials sene the public,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Duffy. “People are sick of public officials serving their own interest and the interests of their friends especially.” After more than six hours of deliberations, jurors found the 42-year-old Geddings guilty of five counts of honest services mail fraud and not guilty on a single count of wire fraud. A judge earlier dismissed three other counts of fraud included in the original indictment. Geddings faces thousands of dollars in

fines and up to 20 years in prison on each count, although prosecutors have said it’s unlikely his ultimate sentence will be that long. A sentencing hearing was scheduled for Feb. 5, and Geddings will remain free until then. Geddings and his lawyer left the courthouse without speaking to reporters and did not immediately return telephone calls. Geddings hugged his wife, Kris, at the defense table after court adjourned. The couple moved from Charlotte to Florida after Geddings’ indictment, and he has worked at a radio station in St. Augustine owned by his wife.

Warner drops out of the race Mark Warner's decision to bow out of the early presidential race leaves a field still crowded with Democrats competing to be the most attractive alternative to front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. Warner is a former governor of Virginia.

Al Qaeda leader pleads guilty

A British man identified by U.S. officials as a senior al Qaeda figure pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to murder in a plot to bomb high-profile targets in the United States including the New York Stock Exchange.

China and Russia resist sanctions by

Edith Lederer

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Russia and UNITED NATIONS China on Thursday opposed tough sanctions the United States wants to impose against North Korea this week for its claimed nuclear test, saying they want time to work out a more moderate response to Pyongyang’s nuclear brinkmanship. After several hours of closed-door negotiations late in the day, Russia and China—the two Security Council nations closest to Pyongyang —reported good progress. The U.S. envoy was even more upbeat

after the meeting of the five permanent council ambassadors—the United States, China, Russia, Britain and France—and the Japanese ambassador, who is this month’s council president. “We have made very substantial progress,” U.S. Ambassador John Bolton told reporters. “I don’t want to say we’ve reached agreement yet, but many, many of the significant differences have been closed, very much to our satisfaction,” he said. Bolton said a revised text would be sent to capitals Thursday night so ministers can examine the changes before a full Security Council meeting on Friday.

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The changes were not immediately disclosed. Bolton said the United States wants a vote on Friday but Japan’s U.N. ambassador, Kenzo Oshima, said it would “most likely” take place Saturday. China opposes any mention of the U.N. Charter’s Chapter 7, which authorizes punishments including economic sanctions, naval blockades 'and military actions. China and Russia want to see sanctions focus primarily on reining in North Korea’s nuclear and weapons programs.

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie took custody of a motherless 1-year-old boy from Malawi on Thursday after filing adoption papers and receiving a judge's interim approval. The boy's father said he was happy for his son, named David. News briefs compiled from wire reports "When the rich wage war it is the poor Jean-Paul Sartre who die."

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Duke, NCCU students plan Sunday fest

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Prior to the night of March 13,2006and the ensuing lacrosse scandal, Duke and North Carolina Central University shared the same locale but seemed to inhabit two distinct worlds. Duke, a private university known for its academics and athletics, existed parallel to NCCU, North Carolina’s second-largest historically black college. But after three members of Duke’s 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team were accused of raping an exotic dancer from NCCU, the two schools were pushed together in the public eye. This Sunday, students from the two schools will have the opportunity to come together to close the perceived divide at the Duke-NCCU Community Festival at the American Tobacco Complex. The festival was conceived over the summer during meetings between Duke Student Government President Elliott Wolf, a junior; Duke-Durham Community Liaison Daniel Bowes, a senior; NCCU ofSEE DUKE-NCCU ON PAGE

The leaders ofboth Duke and NCCU have contributed to Sunday's community festival between the two schools.

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Durham voters have say in 2 major races BY SHREYA RAO THE CHRONICLE

manager of information technology at OIT, but wireless access should be available there by Tuesday. The gothic architecture complicated the installation process, Menzies said. “The biggest challenge in the older stone buildings is installing piping and trying to hide the wireless access points,” he said; Edens, Keohane and Kilgo Quadrangles and McClendon Tower all had wireless capabilities by May 2006, according to the OIT website. The project was initiated by Campus Council and Residence Life and Housing Services. “All of the commons rooms on East [Campus] had wireless, but a lot of the commons space on West didn’t have that,” said junior Hasnain Zaidi, Campus Council facilities and service chair. “So about a

As election day nears and the voter registration window comes to a close, candidates and students alike are preparing for an election season that has attracted national attention Ballots in Durham will feature the hotly contested race for district attorney as well as a congressional race with the potential to affect party majorities in Congress. Student groups—inDA candidate cluding Duke Student Government, Duke Democrats and Duke Students for an Ethical Durham—are encouraging students to register election2oo6 tlfc and participate in the elections, which will be Fit held Nov. 7. DSG’s initiative included placing voter registration forms in popular campus eateries and in November they will be running buses to polling stations off campus Voters must be U.S. citizens over the age of 18 David Price and residents of Durham c county for at least 30 days before the election. In addition, voter registration applications must be postmarked by 5 p.m. today.

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Students working in almostall West Campus commons rooms will have wireless access startingtoday.

RLHS to supplement dorm wireless access

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Students living on West Campus can now plug into the Internet—without plugging into the wall. By the end of today, most commons and study rooms on West will have wireless Internet access. With the activation of the network, the project, which began in the spring of 2005, will be nearly finished. “Completion of this phase of wireless should be finished by [Friday],” said David Menzies, news and information manager for the Office of Information

Technology. Commons and study rooms in Craven, Crowell, Few and most of Wannamaker Quadrangles will have wireless capabilities, he said. Installation crews from Network Services and TELCOM Operations encountered some problems in Wannamaker AA and Few FF, said Kevin Miller, senior

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Campus Council members discussed merits of extending the faculty-in-residence program to West Campus at the Council’s general body meeting Thursday night. Issues debated ranged from the the

by Lysa Chen THE CHRONICLE

Since it started last semester, Partners for

Learning has given students a unique opportunity to volunteer to tutor Duke housekeeping and Marketplace employees. “[The goals are]

purpose and success of the program to the potential location of the faculty apartments. Currently, all East Campus dormitories and two quadrangles on West—Few and Edens—have live-in faculty. Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, said many feel the programming is successful on East, but he is unsure how it will translate to West. Members said the success of the program depends, in large part, on the faculty member. “It’s a special type of interaction with students,” said junior Hasnain Zaidi, Council facilities and sendee chair. “[The faculty selected] must be interested in the program and willing to engage with students.” The underlying goal of the program is to promote an academic atmosphere in residential areas, Ganatra said. Faculty members could help nurture a more academic environment by being another resource for students, said freshman Divya Yerramilli, an East Campus Council representative. Council Vice President Chris Hopper, a junior, said advising is more important on West than on East because more students have decided, or soon

expand general literacy among employees and to form a partnership and bond between students and employees,” said sophomore Lauren Lee-Houghton, the organization’s student administrator. Lee-Houghton The organization is divided into separate sections for native and non-native English speakers. Tutors for native English speakers help employees with computer and writing skills, said sophomore Jenny Terrell, who is in charge of the native-English-speakers branch of the program. Employees participating in the program for English as a second language focus on basic topics in English as well as on health and safety, said sophomore Allison Bell, head of Partners for Learning’s ESL section. “The goal ofESL specifically is to help employees gain proficiency in English to SEE TUTORING ON PAGE 9

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Campus Council discusses the feasibility and value of the faculty-in-residence program Thursday.

will decide, on a major. “There is a higher level of academic interest [for faculty in residence] on West than on East,” Hopper said. “Even if it’s in a different quad, students will still go to ask for help.” Another issue members discussed is where the faculty should be placed within a quad to maximize their accessibility. “The only people with significant contact with the faculty member are those that live around them,” said sophomore Victor Zhu, an at-large representative of the Council who lives in Few. Senior Shaunte Henry, a Central Campus representative, said that because of the structure of the quads there is no ideal

place that would ensure equal accessibility. The disciplinary role, if any, faculty in residence would play on West—which is not a dry campus—was also brought to

members’ attention. “They should have no disciplinary roles,” Henry said. Members said the best location for the faculty apartments are on Main West, where no selective living groups are located, reducing possible conflicts between the two. “The faculty chosen have to be tolerant towards student lives,” Yerramilli said. “Students won’t be willing to bring down the party scene to accommodate something that was brought in to benefit them.”

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Safety comes first. Recent pedestrian accidents and neighborhood complaints, however, have spurred Duke and Durham officials to stress the importance of pedestrian safety and convenience. The Duke University Pedestrian Plan, aimed at improving sidewalk infrastructure on campus, was brought in front of the Review Board earlier this month, but it was deferred. “Currently, revisions are being made and we are in a fine-tuning process,” said Michael Palmer, vice president and director of community affairs. North Carolina law states that where sidewalks are not provided, “pedestrians shall yield the right of way to approaching traffic.” But this creates a problem when no sidewalk is available, such as in several locations around East Campus. Community members have reacted strongly to Duke’s Pedestrian Plan, saying Duke is not currently doing enough to correct the inferior pedestrian facilities. The worn jogging paths around East Campus are not as functional as conventional sidewalks, and the stone wall surrounding the paths makes them inaccessible from Markham Avenue, according to a statement issued by Durham’s Department of Transportation. “Most of the community feedback consists of individuals with agendas,” Palmer said. “There are a solid amount of people who use the running paths and are happy with what exists.” Some East Campus residents, however, said they are wary of the sidewalk and

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After a flurry of accidents involving pedestrians, both Duke and Durham are working to improve the sidewalks and crosswalks surrounding East Campus. crosswalk situation “At night crossing to get to Ben and Jerry’s can be kind of hazardous,” said freshman Yana Skakun. ‘You have to wait for a while to make sure the way is clear since cars never stop and there’s no real crosswalk.” But other freshmen said they are content with the current setup. “I think the running paths are fine just as they are,” freshman Anthony Marzocca said. “They provide a good environment for students to exercise.” Duke students are not the only ones concerned with the sidewalks, however.

The DurhamWalks! Pedestrian Plan was Durham spent $300,000 on cuttingput together to serve the Durham commuedge technology to fulfill the project’s nity, where the percentage of households three major goals of building more sidewith no available vehicle is higher than walks, repairing old sidewalks and repairstate and national averages. ing gaps in missing sidewalks. The DukeWalks Plan has been ap“Our main assistance was increasing public outreach in this plan,” said Jennifer proved by the Durham City Council, and Lewis, a consultant for The Louis Berger the implementation of the plan is currentGroup, which established the plan. “At ly underway. Though Palmer said Duke does not yet public meetings, we created a stakeholder committee. It consisted of city employees, “have a drop-dead time table” for comengineers, traffic planners and community pleting the Duke Pedestrian plan, he said representatives. People from all different he hopes that it will be done sooner rather than later. walks of life were able to give input.”

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on gender and sexuality have examined how the community values diversity, and the subcommittee on athletics has excommittee is not “representational,” it inplored how the University can continue to cludes leading members of the faculty, run both athletic and academic programs staff and student communities, Thompson successfully, Thompson said. said. They have worked in subcommittees “Is this an institution with great acaon the issues of gender and sexuality, alcodemics and great athletics? Are they hol, race and athletics. equal? Should they stay equal?” he asked Thompson noted that four broad the faculty. themes have emerged so far from the comFinally, Thompson reminded the counmittee’s work: the University’s “culture of cil of the important role of faculty culture, divides,” administrative separation into noting that the University needs sugges“silos,” lack of engagement with diversity tions for increasing interaction among facand failure to articulate its core values. ulty and students without placing unrealisThe alcohol subcommittee has already tic burdens on professors. He invited submitted its report to the steering comcontinued input at a town meeting Oct. 24 mittee. Thompson said the report discussgeared toward faculty' members. es prioritizing administrative efforts Lee Baker, chair of the Arts and Sciamong three alcohol-related problems: ences Council, said the CGl’s work was of underage drinking, drunken behavior and vital interest to the council. “Central Camdangerous behavior. pus is important, but these [issues], I “There’s a clear consensus that there think, are eternal,” he said. needs to be alternative activities that stuEarlier in the meeting, Provost Peter dents embrace,” he said. Lange discussed the amended plans for So far, the subcommittees on race and Central Campus that the Board ofTrustees approved in September. Lange said he is confident the plans will receive approval from the City Council, despite a negative vote by the Durham Planning Commission earlier this week. Lange added, however, “There’ll be some things where, we probably never will

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Provost Peter Lange tells the Arts and Sciences Council Thursday about amended Central plans.

Faculty members wanted to know how the redevelopment affect current buildings, including Trent Hall and the Bryan Center. Lange responded that Trent would remain in use as a “swing space” throughout Phase I of the redevelopment and that a graduate student center would take the place of services relocated from the Bryan Center to Central Campus. “I guarantee you, we will rapidly find uses for any empty space,” Lange said.

Reade Seligmann (left) and Collin Finnerty (right) will speak publicly Sunday on national television.

'6O MINUTES' frompagel rape, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree assault after an off-campus party last spring. “It’s a national story we began working on six months ago,” said Kevin Tedesco, a “60 Minutes” spokesperson. “A ‘6O Minutes’ story on an event can often refocus attention on it and in this case... you will be hearing from [all of] the accused for the first time.” Bradley also interviewed Kim Roberts, the other dancer at the party, who refuted the alleged victim’s account of the

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The press release said Bradley asked Evans whether he thinks about the impending trial and a possible jail term. “Thirty years—I could go to jail for something that never happened,” Evans

responded. Bradley made multiple visits to Durham and conducted interviews with many people—including administrators and family of the defendants—for the double-length segment which will make up two-thirds of the program, Tedesco said. “This is a long and complicated story,” he explained. “I wouldn’t call [doublelength segments] rare, but it’s unusual.”

According to the release, Roberts denied a number of events that the alleged victim described in her statements to the Durham Police Department. These include Roberts holding on to the alleged victim as three lacrosse players grabbed her, and helping one of the perpetrators dress her after the alleged rape. “She obviously wasn’t hurt... because she was fine,” Roberts is quoted saying in response to a question about whether the alleged victim had given any indication that a rape had occurred. “She’s just taking this opportunity to tell the truth and it’s up to people who watch Sunday night whether they believe her or not—but this is her story,” Tedesco said. Senior Matt Danowski, a captain of the men’s lacrosse team, said he had not been contacted by CBS for the piece, and did not know ofany teammates or coaches who had. “[‘6o Minutes’] is definitely going into a lot more in-depth levels in order to get people to realize what’s going on,” he said. The University was previously featured in a double-length “60 Minutes” segment in 2002 when Bradley followed three patients at the Duke Brain Tumor Center as they underwent aggressive experimental treatments.

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WIRELESS from page 3 yearand a half ago RLHS got together with OIT and decided that that was something we wanted to see on the campus because we’re moving into the era of technology.” Zaidi said that he did not know of any student complaints about the lack of wireless, but he added that RLHS wanted to open up the commons rooms to more people by eliminating competition for ethernet outlets. “There’s a certain convenience associated with wireless Internet access,” Zaidi said. “If you have your laptop running on a battery, why would you want to be tied down with Internet cords?” The project of putting wireless in the other dorms began in early August and cost about $50,000, Miller said. Paid by RLHS, the cost of the project was part of the reason that the dorms are only now going wireless. “When we originally approached the project it was a matter of getting an estimate,” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life. “It took more than one budget year to pay for the project, [so] it took a little

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Part of the new Pratt School of Engineering Strategic Plan calls for the school to get itselfinto the top 15of the U.S. News engineering ranking.

PRATT from page 1 “It’s a bit of a Catch-22,” said Tod Laursen, Pratt’s senior associate dean for education. “Like any other school, wfe take rankings on the one hand with a certain skepticism, but at the same time realize they’re very important.” Although rankings are not the only necessary criteria forjudging the quality of a university, undergraduate and graduate students consider the numbers when selecting which institution to attend, said Pratt’s Associate Dean of Research Robert Clark. “A university is defined by the quality of students we attract,” Clark said. “We want to do everything possible to attract the top students globally.” Provost Peter Lange has repeatedly said, however, that rankings are not a valuable tool for assessing a school’s caliber. “It’s not a metric I would put a great deal of emphasis on,” Lange said. “I don’t believe those rankings are really reflective of the qualities and issues we’re looking for.” Clark and Laursen also emphasized that the numbers offered by U.S. News may not adequately represent Pratt because some of the ranking criteria—particularly for graduate schools—give an unfair advantage to larger colleges and universities. Although graduate school rankings are heavily influenced by numerical factors like the annual number of Ph.D. recipients and the amount of research funding, undergraduate rankings are much more reputation-based, Laursen said. He noted that within departments, Pratt’s undergraduate rankings tend to exceed the graduate school counterparts by approximately 10 spots. “The undergraduate rankings don’t exist in isolation from the graduate ones—they definitely influence each other, particularly with regard to reputation,” Laursen said. “We definitely have a reputation for doing things well.” Laursen said drawing attention to Pratt’s distinctive strengths—such as interdisciplinarity—will attract high-profile faculty, one of the strategic plan’s primary initiatives. Other goals include improving infrastructure to increase research opportunities, enriching the undergraduate curriculum and expanding the size of the graduate program, and Laursen noted that accomplishing such goals should raise Pratt’s rankings regardless of explicit intention. ‘You do these things because you think they’re right, and if you do the right things, the rankings will follow, Laursen said. Clark added that Pratt will focus on making progress in areas that would warrant improvement regardless of U.S. News criteria—such as increasing the percentage of faculty who merit membership in the National Academy of Engineers. “It’s an objective you would set independent ofU.S. News and World Report,” Clark said. “We can’t focus on that and shouldn’t focus on that—that would be inconsistent with the level of educational experience we want to offer.” Meg Bourdillon contributed to this story.

bit longer to initiate.” Some students in commons rooms Wednesday night said they had heard about the wireless project. “So I was walking through and I saw a bunch of workers, sitting watching TV,” sophomore Sam Iglesias said. “They told me they were installing wireless networks. They said it should be up in the next few days. I’m sure they were on break or something.” Other students had not heard about the project but said they wished their dorms had wireless. “It would be great if there could be wireless everywhere,” sophomore James Wong said. “Especially in the dorm rooms where you have a desk that’s not close to the plug, you have to have a wire that goes across the floor.” While the current project’s aim was to install wireless in the commons rooms, some of the coverage will likely bleed into student rooms, Menzies said. “We hope that [the wireless is] something that students take advantage of, and we also hope that we’re not done,” Gonzalez said. “We hope that at some point wireless capabilities will be expanded even further, but that’s still on down the road.”

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TUTORING from page 4 help them succeed in any career or personal goals that they might have,” Bell said. “We also try to include subjects that will help them in their workplace, things that they can use on a daily basis.” Although the employees reap the program’s benefits directly, Lee-Houghton said students can gain from the experience as well. “The program has a lot of positive effects for the students—they learn that Duke employees are real people,” she said. “Through Partners for Learning, they get to know individual personalities.” Terrell, who helped start the organization, said the aspect of mutual learning was one of the program’s original goals. “It was about bridging the divide between students and employees,” she said. “We wanted to create a program that

would let students and employees become friends and equals. The tutoring program provides interaction outside the daily stu-

dent-housekeeper relationship.”

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tors and tutees have had positive experi-

ences with the program so far. Since the

program s inception, it has grown

to include 10 tutors and 14 tutees. Employees have been “very grateful and accepting” of the program, LeeHoughton said. Terrell said that some students become discouraged when they realize the tutees are adults, but that those who stay find the experience very rewarding. “That is the best part of the program,” she said. “You can relate to people on an equal level and get to know someone you can actually sit down with and talk to.” Lee-Houghton said the program hopes to expand to employees at the Washington Duke Inn next semester.

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The American Tobacco HistoricDistrict will play host to the Duke-NCCU CommunityFestival this weekend.

DUKE-NCCU from page 3 ficials and the Durham Human Relations Commission. “This particular event was kind of a consensus among the group that said we need kind of a celebration that’s not a culmination of our efforts, but instead a notice that everything’s happening,” Bowes said. Organizers from Duke said that although the impetus for the collaboration was the lacrosse incident, the two schools have long lacked interaction. “The Duke bubble was very much in effect, and I think the flaws of that mentality were laid bare in March and the aftermath” said sophomore Kevin Troy, DSG’s public relations director. “I think there simply hasn’t been enough contact between the schools.” Kent Williams, a sophomore at NCCU and speaker pro tempore for its student government association, said he also felt the relationship between the two schools was minimal prior to last March. But both Bowes and Troy said their efforts in planning the festival go beyond a short-term public relations fix. “I think the important distinction is that this isn’t so much a response to lacrosse as it is a need that was made apparent by the lacrosse situation,” Troy said. The two said the media frenzy that followed the incident pointed out a need for greater recognition and celebration of the community of Duke, NCCU and Durham—calling celebrations a necessity within any community. ‘This is not penance for lacrosse,” Troy said. “This is a positive endeavor to address problems that were exposed by lacrosse.” The festival was conceived by students,

but it was also a collaborative effort among faculty at both schools and the larger Durham community, Troy said, calling the event “a testament to the ability ofall these groups to work together.” President Richard Brodhead donated approximately $3,000 to cover various expenses and NCCU Chancellor James Ammons helped reserve American Tobacco for the event. The festival will include performances by NCCU’s step team and various campus musical groups, including Out of the Blue a capella, the NCCU marching band and jazz ensembles from both schools. In addition, raffles will include memorabilia signed by the Duke men’s basketball team, along with a number of other prizes. Troy said he was unsure how many students planned to attend, but noted the event will provide food for 1,500 people and buses from East and West campuses. However, he said he anticipates a large turnout from Durham residents. Bowes and Troy said they have high hopes for the event, but it is only one step in a whole process of encouraging further interaction between the two schools and the larger Durham community. Although there are no current plans to make the festival an annual event, Troy said it is something they will consider in the future. “We’re looking at it long term... ideally, this will continue over years and just happen regularly and not be anything special,” Bowes said. Troy said he hopes the event will spark more informal interactions between students from the schools. “There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be doing things together since we’re right down the street,” Williams said.

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ELECTIONS from page 3 Voters registered in another location can register in Durham by visiting the Durham County Board of Elections. In May, District Attorney Mike Nifong secured 45 percent of the vote in die Democratic primary, defeating opponents Freda Black and Keith Bishop and securing his position on November’s ballot. Because no Republican candidate placed his name on the ballot, the race appeared to end with Nifong’s primary

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Mike Nifong, who has become a household name this year,faces an election challenge this November.

victory. Due to growing discontent with Nifong, however, two candidates—Durham County Commissioner Lewis Cheek and Steve Monks, Durham County Republican Party chairman —petitioned in June to add their names to the ballot. Cheek secured nearly 10,000 signatures

and was added to the ballot, but Monks fell short of the required 6,“303 votes. Though Cheek’s name will appear on the ballot Nov. 7, he said he will decline the position regardless of the outcome of the election. If Monks is elected, Governor Mike Easley will select Durham’s next district attorney. “What Durham wants is someone who’ll be fair, appropriate and will do the right thing,” Cheek told students gathered on the West Campus Plaza Thursday evening. “If I get more votes than anybody else, that’s a message to the governor about what the people want.” Monks is running as an official write-in candidate. Much national hype has also been focused on Congress’s upcoming midterm elections Democratic Rep. David Price, a former Duke professor of public policy and politi-

cal science, faces opposition from Steve Acuff, a Raleigh businessman and Air Force veteran, in North Carolina’s 4th District. “Price is part of the problem of what is wrong with Washington,” Acuff said. Acuff, who will represent the Republican Party, said he differs with Price on most issues including the War on Terror, immigration, tax cuts and same-sex marriage. “Many of the democrats have core conservative beliefs and that is what I’m appealing to,” he said, adding that he identifies with conservatives and democrats alike. Paul Cox, press secretary for Price, said that in Price’s 16 years in office, he has never lost sight of the interests of his constituents. “He has always gone to Washington and kept in heart the issues all Triangle residents care about,” Cox said. “He wants to see reform and a government more responsive to what the people want.”

SANCTIONS from page 2 Beijing and Moscow also object to the wide scope of financial sanctions and a provision authorizing the inspection of cargo going in and out of North Korea, council diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because talks are private. There is concern among some diplomats that boarding NorthKorean ships could lead to a military response from the North. The measures to which Russia and China object were in an earlier revised U.S. draft resolution. The United States circulated the draft late Wednesday, formally introduced it in the Security Council on Thursday. Britain, France, Japan and Slovakia signed on as co-sponsors to the revised draft, a softer version of the original American

proposal-circulated Monday.

“We’re certainly in favor of keeping all the diplomatic channels open, but we also want swift action, and we to be an shouldn’t allow meetings, and more meetings excuse for inaction,” Bolton said earlier Thursday. But Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the United States should wait for the results of more diplomacy. China’s U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya agreed, saying Beijing would welcome more talks so the Security Council can send a united and forceful message to Pyongyang condemning its claimed nuclear test. Churkin said “the international community will easily understand if on the matter of this gravity and importance, the Security Council will take a few more days to have a reasoned and united response to the challenge we face from this explosion in NorthKorea.” ...

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Duke not only took Maryland down in three straight games but continued its streak as the only undefeated team in the ACC Thursday night. The Blue Devils (15-2, 8-0 in the ACC) continued to play up to the expectations of a preseason pick to MARYLAND 0 win the league DUKE when they swept the match at Cameron Indoor Stadium and setded an old score with the Terrapins (8-9,1-7). “We’re really excited to be able to have the start that we’ve had in the ACC and want to work very hard to continue it,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We talked how we certainly wanted to have a good start, a fast start, so [Maryland] knew we meant business.” Last season, Duke was also the preseason pick to win the ACC but finished one win shy of a three-way tie for first place as Maryland and North Carolina earned the top spot. In the 2004 ACC tournament, the seventhseeded Terrapins knocked thirdseeded Duke out in the semifinals with a win in five games. Duke’s victory over Maryland—combined with the away sweep of North Carolina Sept. 30 Was especially satisfying. This season, the Blue Devils have defeated both of last year’s champions to remain in first place and perfect in the ACC. “We definitely wanted revenge

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until, at 9-8, DeMange slammed home a commanding kill to shift the momentum in the Blue Devils’ favor. In game two, Duke went on a late 14-8 run after an early back-and-forth battle to SEE VOLLEYBALL ON PAGE

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For the first time this season, the Blue Devils showed signs of life in the backfield in a loss at Alabama last weekend. Duke will again need a producrunning game if it hopes to upset Florida State (3-2, 1-2 in VS. the ACC), which the Blue Devils (0-3, 0-5) play at SATURDAY, 1 p.m. 1 pm. at Wallace Wallace Wade Wade Stadium Stadium Saturday. “Regardless of what style of offense you run, you have to be effective running the football at some point in the game,” head coach Ted Roof said. “Whether it’s at the end to run out the clock or some other point in the game, if you can’t run the football, it makes it tough to win.” After posting totals of 58 and negative-21 yards rushing in consecutive shutout losses to Virginia Tech and Virginia, respectively, the Blue Devils broke out last week for 201 yards rushing in a 30-14 loss to Alabama. With 158 of those yards coming in the first half, Duke established a 14-10 lead heading into halftime. The running game, however, stalled in the second half, as the Blue Devils managed only one-third of their first-half production.

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Brian Davis and former Duke teammate Christian Laettner made headlines last week when it was announced that the two were leading a group of investors who agreed to buy a majority stake in the

Memphis Grizzlies. Although Davis made his first aggresteam—sive attempt to purchase an NBA four years ago, his the Miami Heat—only when the began businessman growth as a was in colplayer Duke basketball former 90s. and early lege in the late 1980s al“I grew up in Atlantic City, and I’ve he for Monopoly,” had a fascination ways said. “I knew ultimately that I’d be involved with buying stuff.” ,

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Former Blue Devil Brian Davis recently reached an agreement to purchase the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies.

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Without an effective secondhalf rushing attack, Duke could not - control the clock or wear down the Crimson Tide defense. “We’re not satisfied,” said running back Re’quan Boyette, who led Duke with 97 yards against Alabama. “We came out and gave them a hell of a game, but we didn’t win. So, we need to carry that motivation into Florida State on

Saturday.”

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The ninth-ranked Duke men’s soccer team, flying high after two consecutive wins, will travel to Raleigh to take on N.C. State Sunday at 2 p.m. The matchup pits the Blue Devils—who have the fewest losses in the ACC following No. 2 Maryland’s 3-0 defeat to No. 4 Virginia Wednesday—against the last place Wolfpack (4-7-1, VS. in the ACC). “It will feel good for a couple of days until we SUNDAY, 2 p.m. play another ACC game,” head coach John Rennie Raleigh, N.C. said about being in the ACC lead. “Then it doesn’t matter, but it’s enjoyable for the moment.” Duke (9-2-1, 3-1-1), led by midfielder Michael Videira and defender Tim Jepson, enters Sunday’s game after a successful week that featured a 2-1 upset against Virginia Friday and a 3-1 win over Davidson Wednesday. Goals by Graham Dugoni, Chris Loftus and Zach Pope secured the victory against the Wildcats. After recovering from an early-season ankle injury, captain Kyle Helton was injured during Wednesday’s game when the defender was struck in the mouth in the first half. “[Kyle] has some loose teeth,” Rennie said after the Davidson contest. “He’ll probably have to wear a mouthpiece or

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something like that on Sunday, but we don’t really know at this point.” Rennie could reach a milestone during

Sunday’s game, as he is just one win shy of

tying the all-time record for conference wins. Rennie has 89 ACC wins in his 28 years at Duke and trails former Clemson coach I.M. Ibrahim by just one. N.C. State, meanwhile, has had a season to forget. Coached by George Tarantini, in his 20th season at the school, the Wolfpack defeated rival North Carolina early in the season, but are 0-3-1 in the conference in their last four games. “Against N.C. State you don’t really know what to expect,” Rennie said. “They went over to [then top-ranked] UNC and beat them decisively, 3-1. That was the first game of the ACC season, and they haven’t won since.” The Wolfpack is an extremely young team—15 players are either freshmen or sophomores. Rennie identified two key men on the N.C. State roster, junior forward El Hadj Cisse and freshman midfielder Alan Sanchez, as dangerous players that the Duke defense must keep in check. Sanchez, a Miami, Fla. native, leads the team in goals and points, with six and 13, respectively. Cisse is the only other player on the roster with more than one goal. While Rennie does not believe his team will look past the Wolfpack, he warned the Blue Devils not to take them too lighdy. “We beat them 6-0 last season, and they haven’t forgotten,” Rennie said.

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Sophomore Graham Dugoni scored Duke's first goal—and the first ofhis career—Wednesday night.

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When No. 3 Old Dominion came to Durham Sept. 17, the Monarchs battled, the No. 4 Blue Devils for over 90 minutes and emerged with a 4-3, double-overtime victory. This weekend, Duke travels to Norfolk, Va. and will have the chance to JbOp upend Old Dominion, taking down the top-five opponent that knocked the Blue VS. Devils off almost a month earlier. Duke (11-3) faces Old Dominion (131) Sunday at 1 p.m. in the second of its two games this weekend. In their other SUNDAY, 1 p.m. matchup, the Blue Devils will play No. 19 Norfolk, Va. William & Mary (8-5) Saturday at 2 p.m. at Old Dominion’s Foreman Field. Although the game against Old Dominion will be a rematch of a hard-fought batde, the team does not think revenge will be a major factor. “We’re not really focused so much on revenge as playing up to our potential and how we know how to play and coming out with the win,” junior goalkeeper Caitlin Williams said. “We’re fairly confident in our abilities.” Coming off of three victories over the long weekend Duke defeated top-ranked Maryland Oct. 7, No. 16 Villanova Oct. 9 and unranked Drexel Oct. 10—the team has plenty of confidence heading into this match, head coach Beth Bozman said. “Our motive is to play the best teams and beat the best teams,” Bozman said. “I think we’re where we want to be at this stage in the season. [The long weekend was] a critical factor, and it was a huge confidence booster for us.” To continue to beat the best teams, the Blue Devils

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Sophomore Marian Dickinson has recorded three hat tricks so far this season, including one Tuesday in Duke's 5-1 win over Drexel. need to have strong performances in both halves of the game. In the Blue Devils’ earlier matchup with the Monarchs, Duke lost its lead in the second half and allowed Old Dominion to score two goals, sending the game into overtime. The Monarchs continued their streak in a second extra period to win the game. “Our goal is to play full halves—it’s not rocket science,” Bozman said. “We came out hard last time and then let up.” Duke took several measures to ensure it would not be tired heading into this weekend’s match. Bozman gave the players a day off from practice Wednesday and worked Thursday in practice to ready the team to enter the weekend with an aggressive attack, sophomore Marian Dickinson said. “We’ve really been working on our pressure system a lot to contain them,” Dickinson said. “If we can get an immediate turnover we’re in our attack already.”

For this strategy to work effectively, though, the Blue Devils must come out strong, something they did not do well in their three-game stretch last weekend. “We come out flat a lot and then we have to try and pick it up second half,” Williams said. “But if we can come out strong, we will be awfully tough to stop.” On the other side, Old Dominion has a tough slate on its hands this weekend. The Monarchs play Maryland—the only team to have beaten Old Dominion so far this season-just one day before their match with the Blue Devils. Duke, however, does not expect the tough opening game to faze Old Dominion. Taking on the No. 3 team in the country, Duke hopes to confirm its status as a team capable of competing for a national title. Right now, Bozman is confident that the Blue Devils are in that elite group. “Absolutely,” Bozman said.

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DAVIS from page 11 polishing their basketball skills, Davis spent his time off working on Wall Street for companies such as Morgan Stanley. In 1989, while working for Senator Terry Sanford, the former Duke president and North Carolina governor, Davis began to contemplate ways to develop real estate in Durham. Davis was inspired by Sanford’s son, Terry Jr., who owned the development firm Montrose Capital and was responsible for the creation of Erwin Square and teammates spent their summers

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Christian Laettner's 1992 Naismith Award (top row, second from left) is on display at the apartment he shares with former teammate Brian Davis.

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Since that time, Davis has achieved his dream, spending his energy as a real-estate entrepreneur. He first developed property in Durham, and no>v has plans to expand his growing business portfolio to four other cities on the East Coast. “Me and Christian decided thatwhen we couldn’t find a place to live close to campus, that we would create very cool apartments like they have in [Washington] D.C. and New York,” Davis said. The players’ vision became what is now the West Village apartments, located in downtown Durham and within walking distance ofDuke’s East Campus. Davis and his community development company, Blue Devil Ventures, LLC, in which Laettner is also a principal, was responsible for West Village’s construction. The neighborhood was completed in 2000 and includes 241 loft-style apartments and 36,000 square feet retail space. Currently the West Village community

is undergoing a major expansion

“The goal is to do something that will push the envelope, where people say you re crazy. Brian Davis,

former Duke basketball captain

that will result in an additional 375 apartments and over 200,000 more square feet in office and retail space. In addition, Davis and business partners have purchased real estate in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and in parts of Newjersey, with similar intentions of com-

munity re-development. Included in his Washington plans is the purchase of the Major League Soccer franchise D.C. United. Davis said he and other investors are close to purchasing the team and already have a plan for a new stadium and residential and commercial developments around it. “The goal is to do something that will push the envelope, where people say ‘you’re crazy’, but at the same time I know that... it excites me,” Davis said. “I want to inspire people to do incredible things.” Davis and Laettner, along with other unnamed investors, agreed last week to put up $4O million of the total $360 million price tag to purchase a 70 percent stake in the Grizzlies. Davis said he intends to be a very hands-on owner in Memphis, with plans to give his team direction. “You can’t evaluate if you’re not there,” he said. “The [owners] who are around—their teams tend to win. Dallas didn’t win many games until [Mark] Cuban came to town. Sacramento [didn’t win] until the Maloof brothers came around. When your players know that you’re supporting them at a high level and you enjoy being around them, then they want to perform for you.” The former Duke basketball player said despite reports suggesting the opposite, he has no intention of getting rid of President of Basketball Operations Jerry West. “I offered Jerry a lifetime contract and I told him that I really want to learn from him,” Davis said. “I think his basketball mind is brilliant.” Davis also indicated that Laettner will not be suiting up for the Grizzlies in the near future. “He got excited about the process, and it’s something that we don’t want to address until way down the road,” Davis said. “It’s probably something that will never happen.” Since their time at Duke, Davis and Laettner’s friendship remains strong. Although they no longer play together on the court, the lessons they both learned from Duke head coach Mike. Krzyzewski and their success as Blue Devils will have a great impact on their new roles as owners of the Grizzlies. “After playing for Coach K, my expectations are very high—we have to win a championship,” Davis said. “I won’t settle.... We won’t be one of those franchises who just sell tickets. If we don’t win a championship, it’ll be a

huge disappointment.”

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earn a 30-20 victory. The Terrapins could not stop the Blue Devils from pulling and staying—ahead. Halfway through game three, Duke gave some ofits starters a rest on the way to a 3021 game and match win. On the Duke offense, freshman Rachael Moss overpowered Maryland with a matchhigh 14 kills and two aces, while adding 18 digs on the defensive end. Tealle Hunkus and DeMange contributed with 12 kills apiece off ofAli Hausfeld’s 41 assists. Libero Jenny Shull served for two aces along with anchoring the defense with 21 digs. With Thursday’s win, the Blue Devils are four games into a grueling stretch of the schedule in which the team plays five ACC games in eight days. Except for Tuesday’s foray into Demon Deacon territory, —

Duke plays the rest of the stretch at Cameron Indoor Stadium—a significant advantage since the Blue Devils went undefeated at home last season and have yet to drop a match at home this year. “Our team feels like Cameron is home sweet home—that’s for sure,” Nagel said. “We’ve had a lot of matches in the last few days, and I think the team is doing a great job of mentally being where they need to be at the time of the competition.” The Blue Devils’ maturity and veteran experience have been important in keeping their focus and to the team’s subsequent success. Duke hopes to keep the momentum going into tonight’s match against Boston College to round out the five-game stretch. “We’re going on a 8-0 streak right now so hopefully we can continue that,” DeMange said. “With five games,you just have to play. That’s what the ACC’s all about.”

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The Blue Devils continued their undefeated run in the ACC with a three-game win over Maryland Thursday.

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arm of Thaddeus Lewis. But as opposing teams have focused on stopping the passing game since Lewis’s 305yard performance against Wake Forest, the air attack has been shaky at times, making an effective running game that much more crucial. “It’s so important for us to be able to run the ball,” Boyette said. “It controls the clock, and it opens up the passing game. We have some really good wide receivers that we need to get it to.” In the Seminoles’ last game, N.C. State receivers burned a decimated Florida State defensive backfield for three touchdown receptions in a 24-20 Wolfpack win. N.C. State was able to thrash the Seminoles through the air in part because Florida State was forced to respect its ground attack. Before the Seminoles’ loss, they had only allowed an average of 72.5 yards rushing per game. But N.C. State more than doubled that total with 150 yards rushing. A similar performance by Duke could force Florida State to concentrate more on the running attack and give Lewis more opportunities to make big plays. So far this season, the Blue Devils have rotated numerous running backs in the backfield, sometimes due to injuries and other times in order to give players rest. The rotation has given all the runners plenty of experience and has benefited Duke’s depth. In addition to the rotation, the Blue Devils implemented the option last Saturday, led by running back-turnedquarterback Clifford Harris. The experience and different running schemes allow Duke to be versatile against the Seminoles’ front line. “We have confidence in all the guys behind us,” center Matt Rumsey said. “And we have so many of them. And they are all fantastic players. It’s good to have the rotation. We love blocking for all them.” In one play last season in the game against the Seminoles, the Blue Devil offensive line opened up a hole that Boyette broke through for a 78-yard touchdown scamper. Duke will be looking for more runs like that one in order to pick up the Blue Devils’ first win of the season at home Saturday. “We have a home game this weekend, and we need to defend our home territory,” Rumsey said. “We haven’t done a very good job of doing that this year. And that is the only thing we are worried about right now.”

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Get the Central ball rolling campus of the future Schelp, president of the Old continues to live up to West Durham Neighborhood its name. Four years Association, calls the decision 1 ago, Tallman Trask unveiled “a victory for common sense,” to it has more do with political the original plan for a new, reposturing than vitalized Central editorial good judgment, Campus. Since The University that time, the to many critics’ has agreed for Duke’s enorblueprint mous, looming project has terms: cutting down retail gone through a trying series of space to 50,000 sq. ft., protectdiscussions, revisions, road ing and preserving local bumps and criticisms. The streams and providing reasonable buffer spaces and buildDurham Planning Commising height restrictions. sion’s recent vote to deny CenUltimately, residents have tral's rezoning plan represents a right to be concerned yet another potential setback. about any large-scale conThe planning commisstruction in their community. sion’s primary concerns cenNevertheless, the decision to ter on issues like retail space, building height and spacing allow a rezoning of Central Campus should be fairly between campus and neighboring areas. Obviously, these straightforward. The Durham Zoning Ordiissues influence local Durham residents. Yet, although John nance describes university-col-

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ties by permitting the development of dormitories, stadia, enclosed arenas, auditoriums and museums. In addition, the zoning ordinance specifically limits retail and dining facilities such as university-related bookstores and dining facilities, to the extent that they are designed to serve the on-campus population of the University and not to attract additional traffic to the campus. Although the University’s status as a non-profit would allow for potentially unfair retail venues, the university-college ordinance explicidy addresses this concern. If retail and dining venues only serve the on-campus population, Ninth Street stores and

We think they’re completely innocent and we’ve been wanting to help them out, in any which way we can.... We’re behind them 100 percent. —Kim Cates, owner and manager of Shooters 11, on helping Duke Students for an Ethical Durham and men’s lacrosse players register Duke students to vote. See story page 1.

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Campus Culture Initiative, in its ardent search to find the cause of Duke’s cultural cancer, is missing one very important point that Duke students don’t want things to change. have an invested interest to keep Duke Shooters II popular, Parizades open, and Tailgate alive; and despite the findings of the Campus Culture Initiative, my bets are on the fact that Duke students won’t change their party, drinking or hook-up habits. Duke stuc ents ill Shadee OISIdKIOU who recognize a problem in camguest column pus culture are the anomaly. For the most part, Duke students like things the way that they are. They enjoy dressing up, getting drunk and going home with strangers. Not only do we like it, but as Duke students, we demand it... and we miss it when we leave. Homecoming weekend, and the debauchery that ensued, proves that Duke students who graduate and enter the supposedly better “real world” miss the campus culture, and that they come back in hordes to re-experience it, even if just for a few days. During the span of Homecoming, these students become drinking and sex fiends, reminding us of our glory days as wide-eyed and horny freshmen, eager to booze-up and hook-up. People don’t come back to Duke to see their friends, they come back to see the party. Even those living in big cities like New York or Washington, D.C., say that there is no place in the world like Duke... not for its professors, academic resources or interdisciplinary community, but for its party scene—for Shooters 11, for the foam parties and for the kind of “sex and scandal” that has made Duke so notorious. What’s more disturbing to me, as a students recendy back from abroad, is not that Duke’s culture is hurtful to its participants, but that these participants base their happiness and their livelihood on this culture. They don’t believe that Duke’s campus culture is detrimental, and they don’t seem to understand what the huff and puff is all about. As a senior, I’ve huffed and puffed for quite a while... and there have been others, too. For years, Chronicle columnists and student activists have expressed concern over campus culture. Believe it or not, we’ve been making the same declarations of concern that Newsweek, CNN and even Rolling Stone magazine have made in the days since the Lacrosse scandal. But our concerns were never met with any support —or “initiative”—and especially not from the administration. What makes Rolling Stone a more legitimate commentator on Duke’s campus culture than Duke stu—

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worry about. Ultimately, the universitycollege ordinance was specifically designed to deal with locations like Central Campus. Despite this, the City Council will certainly take the Durham Planning Commission’s dissent into account when it makes the final decision on Central’s rezoning, it should realize that much of the criticisms may be overblown; the revitalization of Central will most-assuredly be a net-positive endeavor for both Duke and Durham. Arguing over too many details of the proposed plan in the earliest stages has delayed a project that promises to improve the University as well as the surrounding community. Additionally, it’s important

to remember that university-

college zoning would not give

Duke total autonomy; the concerns ofresidents can easily be addressed throughout later stages of development. Now that the Durham Planning Commission has voted against the rezoning, the City Council has a chance to review the latest plans and either support it or send Duke back to the drawing board once again. We are all going to have to wait until November or December to see what the City Council decides but one thing is certain: Today’s students—who have heard rumors in the past of one day living on Central—no longer have a chance of seeing the new campus come to life while they are still undergraduates.

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dents? I can’t help but think that the shame and embarrassment our campus has undergone in the past year could have been easily avoided... if only Dick. Brodhead and company had paid attention to what was being said by the students, themselves. The question this initiative should be asking is not “Why do Duke students party the way that they do,” but rather, “What kinds of students is Duke University attracting?” and “Why is it that these students don’t want the campus party culture to change?” As freshmen, we are. quickly initiated into the Duke scene and all that it entails. We don’t question the Duke way of life, we question ourselves. Most freshmen observe the Duke social scene uncritically, and change to fit in. Take a walk along East Campus and you will see an abundance of Duke freshmen sporting “Duke Lacrosse” wristbands and t-shirts. It’s a month into school, and these freshmen have already accepted the fact that Duke students have done nothing wrong—that we are not guilty... not of rape, not of racism and most definitely not of a harmful campus culture. Not only do upperclassmen revel in Duke’s campus culture, but they teach freshmen to revel in it,

Duke University and its students do not need a report on what’s wrong on campus, and we most certainly do not need a savior. What we need is a change in mindset. too. Freshmen quickly learn that Shooters II is the “it” hotspot; that DTD and Sigma Nu are more popular than ATO or AEPi; that rushed, rough, and often unsatisfying one-night-stands are the norm; and that, as Duke students, we like it that way. The Campus Culture Initiative has a very important task at hand, although probably not the task that Campus Culture Initiative chair, Bob Thompson, and his committee members initially signed up for. Duke University and its students do not need a report on what’s wrong on campus, and we most certainly do not need a savior. What we need is a change in mindset; and although an administration-instigated study into campus culture is not the best way to go about making changes, if you’re going to do it anyway, Bob, do it well.

Shadee Malaklou is a Trinity senior.

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lettertotheeditor Administrators should not discourage protest The first time I ever registered to vote was in 1996 when I was a Duke sophomore. I did so with the help of a fellow student at a table on the Bryan Center walkway primarily to vote against Republican Senator Jesse Helms. Student political activism has an important place iathis nation’s history. This is why I was proud to read about the voter registration efforts of the group Duke Students for an Ethical Durham. It is also why I was incredibly disturbed to read reports that DSED, as well as other students, were forced by campus administrators and security officers to stop distributing voter registration materials in a parking lot outside the homecoming football game Sept. 30. The explanations for this interference have ranged from the students’ alleged failure to give prior notice (even though such notice was apparently given two weeks in advance and resulted in a number of conversations about logistics) to objections to the "bias" of the participants. The most disturbing explanation is

that objections were raised because of a public relations concern that the students involved were motivated by support for the men’s lacrosse team. To date, Duke faculty and administrators

have taken a very passive approach to the questionable course of the lacrosse investigation. Whereas a large group of faculty members thanked protesters for making themselves heard in response to the allegations, no similar support has been expressed for students raising questions about the conduct ofDurham authorities. This policy of passivity, right or wrong, should not be extended to students by force. It is certainly not a justification to stop voter registration activities. I applaud the efforts of DSED and other students getting involved during this difficult and controversial moment. The courage and concern of these students should be supported by the University, not suppressed. GregKidder Trinity ’99

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pitcher Cory Lidle? Again, Kim Jong 11. He has everyone looking to Team bin Laden for another attack, but those guys don’t even have the magical powers of airplane control inherent to a demigod of Kim’s stature. Yankees owner Steinbrenner has a vendetta against the communist Mets fan who uses murder like extrastrength steroids. Pinkie: Hello, how does an Apex chemical plant just burst into flames? Kim Jong 11, that’s how. He’s right in our backyard, and Bush could care less about my petunias. That chemical release is toxic propaganda seeping into your skin went and did it (and my petunias), the result of Kim’s powers of ashw'lll bhirUQ again North remote spontaneous combustion. Korea conaimless sameness Kim reserves his middle finger for flicking a nuc Bush off when he’s not looking, as in the better test and we have high expectations for our de facto part of the last five years. So how can anyone, including the one actualspokesperson to react courageously, righteously, decisions, say Kim hasn’t already gone ly making accordingly. High expectations. crossed the “T” of his own sentence, too far? Kim he diplomacy. Diplomacy. Instead, proposes Diplomacy? What does that even mean? I’ve said “Time to die.” An astute observer would notice the word “diplomacy” aloud repeatedly for an that removing his middle name and shortening his family name reveals ‘K. If, and this cannot hour and have determined that it has no meaning whatsoever. I believe it may be French or possibly be a coincidence. Diplomacy? something similarly uncourageous. sample letter: A and has however, Bush, the time again, In past, drawn a line for NorthKKoreaa—a real color-inside-the-lines challenge for Dear Leader Kim and posted a sign warning “Cross for Retaliation.” Where you at, Mr President? Now we know Kim cannot color inside How can one ignore the acthe lines. His red marker repeatedly strays abroad. Now he has hurdled over the line tions of aggression taken withon his nuclear horse, and instead of rein our own soil? sponding in kind, President Bush is being too kind. In my book—the dictionary—a nuclear test is effectively an insult to one’s mother. Dear Leader Bush, Mother Earth. Please don’t confuse yourself with lines and Where you at, Mr. President? and diplomatic metaphors, but instead, crosses than The line has been crossed more times billions of dollars to atBush says “diplomacy” while practicing his petition Congress to use Don’t fear the gaping shortNorth Korea. tack speech in front of the mirror. How can one igmake a Teenybopper instead, but of age troops, our nore the actions of aggression taken within viciously identical ISand elite own soil? Kim’s hand extends so far that his wiry Corps of viciously want to listen to If they über-soldiers. old yr fingers are actually pretty gross to look at: the nuclear free from Index: Heard about a certain shooting in Lindsey Lohan music to sacrifice an arm or a have should Amish country? Blame Kim Jong 11. The act threat, they no? future, their for leg was perpetrated by none other than Kim unSigned, derling Charles Carl Roberts, whose name is conscientious objector to peace. A He Korean. easily an Anglicization from I hate to be a warmonger, but sometimes PS. claimed to be guilty of molestation, a doubtful monged. self-accusation, especially because molestation war has to be is just code word for communist anyway. Isn t Ashwin Bhirud is a Trinity senior. His column that the bigger crime? other.Friday. Ring; How about the flying death of Yankees runs every

extremely. disillusioned with the president of the country of the United States of America. Am I allowed to say that? Am I allowed to be extremely disillusioned with him? I mean, I don’t want to go out on a limb here and risk being ostracized by the bletter part of ‘ the liberal pop/'/ ulation. The reason is that Bush

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was dealt a setback—or a “hiccup,” to be precise—this week when the Durham Planning Commission voted against changing Central Campus’ zoning designation from “residential” to the more flexible “university-college.” In fact, Duke’s plan was torpedoed by a coalition ofactivists and businesspeople who wantto prevent a “private retail Shangri La” on the new Central Campus. Given their interests, it’s easy to see why these local merchants and neighbors might be opposed: In 2005, our 12,085 total students spent an estimated $92.5 million off campus, and visitors chipped in an additional $325 milkristin butler lion to the local economy. Clearly, an with all deliberate speed on-campus retail operation threatens their Duke-guaranteed profit margins, which accounted for fully 30 percent of municipal Durham’s total 2004-2005 retail sales. But what’s surprising (and disheartening) is community members’ deeply flawed argument against the Central redevelopment: They primarily object to Duke “taking unfair and perhaps illegal advantage of their tax-exempt status” to construct a retail operation. Along these lines, another Durham resident notes, “the fact that [Duke doesn’t] pay taxes has a big effect on the tax bill of those of us who do. What would Durham’s budget be like —meaning how low would taxes be... if the biggest landowner and employer in the county paid taxes like other companies?” Like this Durhamite, I wanted to know. So I started with the $7.4 million Duke actually paid Durham in property taxes for fiscal year 2004-2005. As it turns out, we shoulder a hefty tax bill for University-owned properties not used primarily for educational purposes, and we lease fully 27 percent of the office space in Durham. Of course, $7.4 million hardly offsets the fact that we’re sitting on 8,709 acres of tax-exempt heaven (also known as the Duke Forest). But the situation becomes less alarming when you consider the $57 million we donated to the community in 2004-2005, including $46 million in uncompensated medical care, which primarily benefits Durham County residents. Add to this the $l6 million that we spend annually to maintain municipal-type services like bus routes, roads, water, sewer operations and our Police Department. Then throw in the $842 million in wages and benefits paid to employees for 2004-2005 (which are subject to state and local income tax rates between 6 and 8.25 percent), and it’s suddenly hard to tell who’s freeriding whom. Is it Duke, since we’re supposedly taking advantage of our non-profit status to build a lucrative strip-mall on campus? Or could it be Durham residents, who benefit handsomely from the University’s economic engine even as they lodge Internet-based protests against our plans to build “three restaurants, an on-campus bookstore with a coffee shop, a performing arts center, a 99-room hotel, a Duke apparel store and a bowling alley?” To be fair, this conflict is not specific to Duke and Durham: Yale made news this month when it chose to commit $470 million “in lieu of taxes” to New Haven, Conn, over the next 50 years. Indeed, the Yale Herald called the University’s 2006 contribution, which totaled $4.2 million, the “largest payment by a non-profit to any city in the country.” Clearly, Yale’s commitment offers an innovative way to bridge the town-gown divide. And considering the Durham community’s apparent dissatisfaction with existing agreements between Duke and the city, we, too, might consider offering even more explicit support for Durham municipal services. But it’s also clear that Duke’s so-called advantage as a tax-exempt institution is less significant than some would have us believe; by the time we’ve finished donating free medical services and dispensed assorted other acts of charity (not the least of which is the SF2-million DukeDurham Neighborhood Partnership), we offer the Durham community much more than we take. That’s why I hope that we will not allow a small (if nonetheless vocal) group of community acdvists to condnue skewing the debate over Central Campus; These business owners have 92.5 million good reasons to condnue lobbying Duke and Durham officials. When they do, I certainly hope that students’ needs—which are best served by more on-campus development—will not get lost in the fray. And let’s be clear: We’re only talking about building 50,000 sq. ft. of retail space, with no single store exceeding 20,000 square feet—approximately the size of an Eckerd’s. This hardly consdtutes a “retail cocoon for students and faculty and staff.” Indeed, we need only drive 10 minutes to behold a real student-centered business district. It’s called Franklin Street.

Kristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every Friday

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