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Four new faculty-in-residence apartwill be added in Craven, Crowell, Keohane and Kilgo quadrangles during the summer to promote faculty-student interaction outside the classroom, confirmed Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, Tuesday “The commitment is to have the faculty in residence in residence starting at the beginning of next school year,” Hull said. There are currently two faculty in residence living in Few and Edens quadrangles on West Campus. All East Campus dormitories except Aycock and Jarvis house faculty in residence. Hull noted that with this change there will be a faculty in residence for every quad on West because Crowell and Wannamaker are administratively regarded as one quad. “I’ve been hoping for this to happen ever since I came here,” Hull said. “It wasn’t a question of if it’s going to happen, but when.” Michele Rasmussen, assistant dean of Trinity College and director of the Pre-Major ments

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CHAPEL HILL Mischief was afoot last night as costumed coeds poured into Chapel Hill’s Franklin Street, engaging in bacchanalian carousing, lubricated with a liberal deluge of drinks. Captain Jack Sparrow escorted an inebriated nun while a group dressed as the Duke lacrosse team, accompanied by scantily-clad girls, headed inside frat houses. These costumed revelers were joined by as many as 75,000 Hal-

loween partygoers in Chapel Hill while policemen —the real kind —looked for signs of trouble. The October festivities, dubbed the “biggest party in the state,” have grown larger every year since their inception in the 1980s. Though the event has some merchants smacking their lips in werewolf-like anticipation, others bray and complain about post-party costs and repairs. And with a crowd this size, a few policemen had to SEE FRANKLIN ST. ON PAGE 9

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Duke’s S2M deal Chinese diplomat visits Duke Zhou says denuclearization raises eyebrows ofNorth Korea ‘clear’ choice on City Council by

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Zhou Wenzhong, the People’s Republic of China’s ambassador to the United States, presented a lecture on “U.S. and China Relations” Tuesday evening at the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences. President Richard Brodhead introduced the talk, saying thatrelations between the United States and China were once “defined by a refusal to interact,” but have come far in the area of diplomatic relations since then. In his lecture, Zhou discussed the nuclear armament of North Korea, questions regarding human rights in China, China’s policy on environmental issues, the economic exchange between the two countries and U.S.-China relations regarding Taiwan. He oudined China’s policy on the nuclear testing in North Korea, saying China is hilly opposed to the testing.

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Local concern over Duke’s donation of $2 million to the city for control of a portion ofAnderson Street has recendy sprung up. Durham City Council is scheduled to vote on the Anderson proposal Nov. 6, just weeks before it has to finalize funding for the new $44-million downtown

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A number of City Council members have raised objections over the “quid pro quo” nature of the gift and the timing of the donation, which also comes before the council’s vote on SEE ARTS CENTER ON PAGE 10

Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the U.S., delivers a speech Tuesday night at CIEMASabout American-Chinese relations.

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In a surprise turnabout, North Korea agreed Tuesday to return to six-nation disarmament talks just three weeks after rattling the world by conducting an atomic bomb test. The breakthrough came after pressure from China and a U.S. offer to discuss financial penalties already in place. President George W. Bush cautiously welcomed the deal and thanked the Chinese for brokering it. But he said the agreement would not sidetrack U.S. efforts to enforce sanctions adopted by the U.N. Security Council to punish Pyongyang for its

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Oct. 9 nuclear test. He said there was still “a lot of work to do” and the U.S. would send teams to the region “to make sure that the current United Nations Security Council resolution is enforced.” The ultimate goal is “a North Korea that abandons her nuclear weapons programs and her nuclear weapons in a verifiable fashion in return for a better way forward for her people,” the president said. The unexpected agreement to restart the talks—before year’s end, U.S. officials said—was announced after envoys from North Korea, the United States and China met in Beijing, at China’s invitation.

In a statement about the decision, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said the North decided to return to the talks to resolve financial restrictions the U.S. had imposed on its international banking activities. The North’s recent nuclear test received scant mention, with the Foreign Ministry referring only to a “self-defensive countermeasure” it had taken against the nuclear threat and financial sanctions from the U.S. The move represented a step back from the nuclear crisis and was widely applauded, if with some reservations. North Korea has a history of walking away from the six-nation talks, only to rejoin them, then to bolt again.

China, believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than all other nations combined, took a step toward human rights Tuesday by enacting legislation that requires approval from the country's highest court before putting anyone to death.

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P.W. CAPE TOWN, South Africa Botha, the apartheid-era president who led South Africa through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation, died Tuesday. He was 90. Botha died at his home on the southern Cape coast at 8 p.m., according to the South African Press Association. “Botha died at home, peacefully,” said Capt. Frikkie Lucas. The African National Congress issued a statement expressing condolences and wishing his family “strength and comfort at

this difficult time.” Nicknamed the “Old Crocodile” for his feared temper and sometimes ruthless manner, Botha served as head of the white racist government from 1978 to 1989. Throughout his leadership he resisted mounting pressure to free South Africa’s most famous political prisoner, Nelson Mandela. Mandela was released by Botha’s successor, F.W. de Klerk in 1990. Botha liked to depict himself as the first South African leader to pursue race reform, but he tenaciously defended the framework of apartheid, sharply restricting the activities ofblack political organizations

and detaining more than 30,000 people. Through a series of liberalizing moves, Botha sought support among the Asian and mixed-race communities by creating separate parliamentary chambers. He lifted restrictions on interracial sex and marriage. He met with Mandela during his last year as president. But after each step forward, there was a backlash, resulting in the 1986 state of emergency declaration and the worst reprisals of more than four decades of

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District Attorney candidate Lewis Cheek has seen his name on ballots before, but this time is a little different. A longtime Durham lawyer and Durham County Commissioner, Cheek has said he will decline the office if elected district attorney, compelling Gov. Mike Easley to appoint a replacement. “What happened was some people came to me in June and asked me to consider the possibility of running,” Cheek said. He accepted at first, but had concerns about the impact his absence would have on his law firm, Hedrick, Murray & Cheek. “My sudden exit could make problems for the law firm and the people who work there,”

Cheek explained. Cheek said his supporters Dan Hill, Jackie Brown, Ed Pope and Roland Leary then asked him to authorize a petition to put his name on the ballot after the May primaries.

“[The petition] was successful, but three weeks later, it became clear to me I just really wouldn’t be able to accept the position, and I made an announcement that I would not campaign,” Cheek said. Cheek is a veteran of both law and politics in Durham. A city native, Cheek spent his undergraduate years at Wake Forest and received his law degree there in 1976. He returned to Durham, where he has practiced law—primarily civil trial law —since 1976. SEE CHEEK ON PAGE 7

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As a write-in candidate in one of the most closely watched elections in North Carolina, Steve Monks is by no means a typical politician Monks will face off Nov. 7 against controversial Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, who has been criticized for his handling of the Duke lacrosse rape case, and Durham County Commissioner Lewis Cheek, a Democrat, who has said he will not serve if elected. If Cheek wins, the appointment decision would be left to Gov. Mike Easley. Although he is chair of the Durham County Republican Party, Monks said he had not previously thought about running for elected office. “It never really occurred to me,” he said. “I was just too busy.” Monks said he was discouraged by Nifong’s performance and the lack ofalternative candidates to replace him. Because of this, Monks decided to throw his hat into the ring and give voters another option. “There are some mistakes that you can’t recover from,” SEE MONKS ON PAGE 6

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Political polls—like the one published last week by die Raleigh News and Observer—have the ability to capture a picture of what voters are thinking at a particular time. It is still difficult to fICWS ■ determine, however, the extent to which aalalySlS the recent poll conducted by the N&O refleets actual voter sentiment and how it will influence voters’ decisions come Nov. 7, especially with regards to the district attorney race. According to die poll, which surveyed a random sample of 600 likely voters in Durham County, showed current Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong leading the race with 46 percent of die vote, followed by Lewis Cheek at 28 percent and Steve Monks at 2 percent. “All polls are not equal—their accuracy depends on the methodology used and the size of the sample,” Rob Christensen, a political writer for the N&O, wrote in an e-mail. “The size of the •

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Although researchers celebrated the results of a lung cancer study released Oct. 26 that demonstrated that early CT scans could prevent thousands of deaths per year, Duke researcher Edward Patz said it is

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their study died within several weeks of surgery. They almost assuredly would not have died in that period of time if they had never been in the screening trial.” Patz is developing an alternative diagnostic blood test that would detect characteristics of select proteins in lung cancer patients. Despite his own research, Patz said he was not opposed to the use of CT to how the study was conducted. “The study raises an awareness of lung cancer and how this is a significant public health issue,” he said. “We’re delighted that it’s getting the attention it deserves. But the article unfortunately has a glaring paucity of data to really make any meaningful conclusion.”

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“Violence is NOT a Duke value,” reads a pin advertising Sexual Assault Support Services as part of Dating Violence Awareness Week. The week, which began Monday, includes a number of events designed to promote camunderpus standing. The like to program

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Nursing students at Duke might soon be stepping up their role in the University’s commitment to cross-cultural exchange. Two faculty members from Duke’s School of Nursing recently returned from an exploratory trip to Central America and the Caribbean, which aimed to gather data about the region’s medical infrastructure. Dr. Dorothy Powell, director of the Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives and a clinical professor of nursing, and Dr. Susan Denman, assistant professor of nursing, spent 25 days meeting healthcare leaders in seven nations. Powell said the trip was part of a larger goal of her office—to become a World

Health Organization collaborating center. Attaining such a designation entails working with developing nations to improve the quality of their healthcare institutions. Powell said working in Central America was a natural choice. The University has a graduate residency program in Ecuador and the nursing school had contacts at the University of Panama prior to the trip, she said. Powell said Central American and Caribbean health agencies appreciated the University’s interest in future cooperation. “I was really impressed with the kind of response that we got,” Powell said. “There SEE GLOBAL HEALTH ON PAGE 8

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MONKS from page 3 Monks said about Nifong’s performance. “I appreciate his attempts at apology. If he coupled that with his withdrawal from the case, it would have acknowledged publicly that he knows he blew it.” Monks has drawn much of his support in the community from dissatisfaction with the handling of the lacrosse case “In this context, what makes [Monks] an appealing candidate is that he is willing to serve in this office, and capable if elected,” said Cliff Brandt, senior campaign advisor for the Steve Monks Campaign for Durham District Attorney. “And his candidacy has guaranteed a full, fair and dispassionate review of what has come to be known as the Duke rape lacrosse scandal,” Brandt added. “It seems very obvious to me that there needs to be new leadership in that position,” Monks said. “It needs to be done and I can do it.... [Voters] want someone who will serve and they don’t want to rely on the governor.” So far, few things in Monks’ campaign for the district attorney’s office has been conventional. In early July, Monks led an unsuccess-

DA POLL from page 3 sample determines the margin of error.” With only a 4-percent margin of error, the poll proved to have a high level ofprecision, said lan McDonald, a graduate student in political science who studies elections and voting trends. “It was a random digit poll. Any registered voter had an equal chance to be contacted by us, including 18-to-29 year olds. The myth about the inaccuracy of polls is laughable,” said Del Ali, president of Research 2000, die nonpartisan polling company that conducted the poll. The poll was carried out by telephone interviews in which interviewees were asked how often they voted and if they were likely to vote in the upcoming election. Registered voters were broken down

ful bid to collect the required 6,303 signatures needed to get his name on the ballot. He is now running as an unaffiliated write-in candidate. In addition, a recent poll published in the Raleigh News and Observer gave Monks just 2 percent of the vote. Monks,

“At the end of the day, if Mike Nifong is returned to office, [Cheek’s campaign has] no one to blame but themselves.”

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however, said he attributes little significance to the finding. “That poll was done at such a time that its almost irrelevant,” he said. “I had not yet begun to send out my personal campaign materials to the 27,000 Republicans in the area. “I had not begun my television campaign, which starts tomorrow,” Monks added. Monks, nevertheless, said he acknowledges the difficulties in the days ahead. He held a press conference last

by race and party and were required to go through a series of screeners to determine their eligibility as a “likely” voter. They were then asked for which of the three candidates they intended to vote. David Rohde, professor of political science, said that assuming the poll is credible, it is indicative of the electoral outcome. “Nifong’s lead is substantial and reliable. The chances of substantial deviation from the results is not very likely—only one in 20,” he said. “These types of polls provide some information to other voters, but by now most people decided if they are going to vote and who for.” McDonald noted that although polls do have the ability to affect voter opinion, Nifong’s lead in this case is too great for it to change the election’s outcome. “Poll results absolutely have the power to influence voter choice. Lopsided polls

Friday in which he asserted that it is unlikely that either he or Cheek will win if both stay in the race, and he encouraged Cheek to withdraw. “I’m a long shot. I accept that,” Monks said. “But Cheek is an impossibility. He can’t win.” Monks argued that if he were to withdraw, his supporters would be split between Nifong and Cheek, but if Cheek were to withdraw, his supporters would shift overwhelming to Monks. This, along with support from the Republican base, would allow Monks to take the election, he added. “At the end of the day, if Mike Nifong is returned to office, [Cheek’s campaign has] no one to blame but themselves,” Monks said. Despite the odds against them, Monks’ supporters and officials in his campaign said they remain hopeful that their candidate will prevail. “I’ve know this man for a long time and I know him to be what he represents himself to be—someone who is honorable, who has integrity and who would dole out equal justice to all,” said Charlotte Woods, co-chair of the Committee to Elect Steve Monks. “Our only M.O. is to throw out Mike Nifong. Their M.O. is to retain Democratic control, as they have for the last 150 years,” Woods added.

keep people away,” McDonald said. “An election with one person leading in the polls by 16 points will be headed for a landslide 999 out of 1,000 times unless something changes dramatically.” A dramatic change is exactly what the Cheek and Monks campaigns are striving for. Both campaigns hold out hope that the poll results may influence their supporters to go out and vote in large groups, said Beth Brewer, spokesperson for the Cheek campaign. “The poll has had a mobilizing effect on our voters,” Brewer said. “Our attempt over the rest of the campaign will be to get those 24 percent undecided voters to choose our candidate.” Monks said that although the poll results were personally disappointing, they have renewed his supporters’ and campaign’s efforts to get “seriously aggressive.”

Belongings stolen from Kilgo parking lot A student reported thatshe left her wallet containing ID, debit and credit cards and her ring of keys under her vehicle in the Kilgo fire lane Sunday while she went to jog at 1:30 p.m. When she returned, her property was gone. It could’ve been someone else An employee reported at about 5:37 p.m. Sunday that someone broke out the glass of a vending machine in the Fuqua School of Business and perhaps stole some of the products. Car damaged, driver criticized in DUMC lot A woman reported Sunday that someone had damaged her car in Parking Garage No. 2 in the Medical Center. The person had also left a note on the car sometime between 11:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. complaining about the woman’s abil-

ity to park. Wallet stolen during 8-hour stretch A woman reported that she inadvertently left her wallet unattended in an unsecured area in the Duke Clinics Sunday at 1 p.m. When she returned at 9 p.m., the wallet and its contents were gone. Bath salts cleaned out An employee reported Oct. 24 that she last saw her botdes of bath salts Oct. 19 at the Erwin Mill Building. When she came to work the following Monday she noticed some were gone. She then did an inventory and discovered that 21 botdes of bath salts were

missing. Man arrested for striking car A man struck a vehicle being driven by a Duke security officer at 6:25 a.m. near the Eye Center Oct. 20. He left the scene without making contact with anyone. He was located by Duke University Police Department officers at a nearby business and was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident and displaying a fictitious registration plate on his vehicle. He received a $l,OOO bond and his court date is set for Nov. 16.

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CHEEK from page 3 He was elected to City Council in 1999 and served until 2003. Cheek decided not to run for a second term because he was organizing the law firm with which he currently works. In 2004, Cheek was asked to run for the Durham Board of County Commissioners. “At the time, there was tension among various members of the board and a lot of folks thought it was creating distractions, preventing the county from doing business as it should. A lot of bickering was going on,” Cheek said about why he agreed to reenter politics. As one offive county commissioners, Cheek oversees a variety of county services, including funding for schools and, to a smaller extent, social services. Although Cheek will not serve as district attorney if elected, his supporters are still pushing for a victory with the “Recall Nifong-Vote Cheek” campaign. Hill, who served on City Council with Cheek, strongly supports him over incumbent District Attorney Mike Nifong. “I voted for Nifong in early May in the primary because I thought he had some evidence I had not yet seen that he would be coming forth with, but the evidence turned in after the election appeared to prove rape did not occur,” said Hill, referring to the current rape charges against three members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team. “[Nifong’s] statements in the first eight days of the Duke lacrosse scandal really generated a local problem —a local issue became national entertainment,” Hill said. Cheek’s other opponent is Steve Monks, who is running as a write-in candidate. Hill said Monks’ candidacy would have a negative effect on Cheek’s chances. “Monks cannot win. He cannot win as a write-in candidate,” Hill said.

“Our objective is very clear—the denuclearization of North Korea,” Zhou said, adding that China has a commitment to reasoning with the country diplomatically. Zhou also discussed human rights, saying that the United States and China have different views on the issue because of their varying cultural backgrounds. He added that both countries must “seek common ground while resolving differences.” Environmental protection has also become an important issue for both countries and the world, Zhou said. “[China] cannot do this in isolation, and must do this in cooperation with other countries,” Zhou said, adding that he is dedicated to striking a balance between development and the environment. Zhou also discussed the two countries’ mutually beneficial economic interaction, which brings tangible benefits to both China and the United States. “The China and U.S. relationship should and can become a fine example of relationships between coun-

tries,” he said Zhou acknowledged there are still problems between the two countries, but said it is natural for them to existand hopes the countries will work toward eliminating them. In a question-and-answer session following the talk, Zhou urged Chinese students in the United States to do well and encouraged American students to study abroad. “We hope there will be more Americans going to study in China and work in China,” he said. Sophomore Nicholas Kurtzman said he was glad that Zhou did not try to avoid any touchy subjects regarding U.S.-China relations but wished the speaker had spent more time addressing certain issues. “He seemed to shy away from societal issues, but otherwise I thought he did very well,” freshman Daniel Neff said. Both Neff and Kurtzman said Zhou’s speech at Duke would help to encourage cooperation between the University and Chinese universities. “I think the fact that we are communicating with some of dieir top leaders will help us to think more about what we can do to better relationships with universities in China and possibly even cooperate with them,” Kurtzman said.

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GLOBAL HEALTH from page 5 was really an embracing of our visit.” She attributed this to Duke’s name recognition and a genuine desire for collaboration on the part of local governments. Powell identified a number of issues in the region, but said the two most critical were care of the elderly and nurse migration. “In every country that we went... the major concern was over geriatrics,” Powell said, citing a trend of shifting work patterns that increasingly force an aging population in the region from the care of family members into hospitals. Nurse migration was of particular concern in the English-speaking Caribbean, Powell said. She noted that many nurses are attracted by better working conditions and higher wages in American hospitals. Although the data from the trip is still being analyzed, a number of responses are already being discussed. “[Many Central American officials] had wonderful concrete suggestions for projects both large and small,”

in an e-mail Students from Duke’s School of Nursing will have greater exposure to hands-on experience, while Central American and Caribbean nations will gain assistance in their efforts to expand healthcare education. “[We need to] concentrate on projects that can be shared between [the nursing school] and multiple Latin American countries, that build on all of our respective strengths to meet the most pressing needs,” Denman said. Despite the current emphasis on mutually beneficial exchanges, Powell emphasized that the ultimate goal is to foster self-reliance among the developing nations. “You don’t want to create dependency,” Powell said. “You want to do things that are going to foster self-development and self-growth.” Dr. Catherine Gilliss, dean of the School of Nursing, said the trip was part of a larger effort by the University. “Finding significant projects likely to succeed and have a positive impact is a big job,” Gilliss wrote in an email. ‘You will soon find other academic units identifying leaders to work closely with the newly established Global Health Initiative.” Denman wrote

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Advising Center, said there is a definite need for more faculty in residence on West, which currendy houses more students and fewer faculty than East. “We don’t want to just throw more faculty on West Campus, we have to look at what we want to do with the program,” Rasmussen saidA task force composed of 10faculty members, Residence Life and Housing Services representatives, faculty in residence and students has been formed to critically examine the program. Hull and Rasmussen will co-chair the group. “The task force will critically evaluate what the faculty in residence is suppose to do,” Rasmussen said. Members of the task force will be answering questions such as what roles the faculty in residence should play, an appropriate reward system to attract more participants and how faculty and residential staff should interact. “We’re going to sort through these questions quite aggressively,” Hull said, adding that the group has been asked to respond by the end of December. One of the challenges of expanding the program to West is the architectural and geographic setup of the campus, Rasmussen said. “East is a more centralized place, there is only one point of entrance,” she said. “This will require some creative thinking about how faculty and students get together.” Rasmussen added that careful design of the new apartments may help solve some of the problems. Both Rasmussen and Hull said they do not foresee additional disciplinary problems on West, because unlike East it is not a dry campus. Like those on East, faculty in residence on West will not play any disciplinary role, Hull added. Carol Apollonio Flath, associate professor of the practice in Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Wilson Dormitory faculty in residence, said, to her, the ability to break down classroom boundaries between students and professors is the most important aspect of the program. “Faculty and student interaction is very limited and in a structured fashion, that is our classroom,” she said. “Now we can merge intellectual curiosity with daily life.” Rasmussen, who moved in as the faculty in residence for Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory this fall, said the program benefits both faculty and students. “It gives me a better understanding ofhow students spend their time. Before I kind of knew they did lots of stuff, now I see it,” she said. “I also got to know some of the parents this weekend.” Stephen Chapman, assistant professor of the Old Testament in the Divinity School and Brown Dormitory faculty in residence, said the presence of faculty in the dorm alters its atmosphere. “Something really changes when you put faculty in the dorm, it automatically makes it less like a dorm and more like a miniuniversity,” he said. “That’s a great benefit to the students. Rasmussen said the experience has been “eye-opening” and is optimistic about the expansion.

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are not for everyone, but on Halloween, it at least feels like everyone is there. I came because all my friends were coming and I heard it was fun,” freshman Sterling Cross said. “It’s crowded, but it isn t as crazy as everyone says it is.” With the exception of a few minor scuffles and an assortment of confiscated tridents, beer bongs and shepherds’ staffs, the holiday on Franklin seemed to go off without a hitch. And although some opted for a more low-key Halloween in their dorms or at George’s Garage, dozens of cabs full of Dukies pulled up to the University’s rival school. Hoping to engage in a devilish free-for-all, many were pleased by their

take to their horses to keep some semblance of peace. Some undergraduates also complained that bars, like Spanky’s, were too strict in enforcing drinking age laws. A throng of pirates cried, “Where’s the mm?” but most students seemed to find their entertainment just fine, and with Alcohol Law Enforcement agents noticeably absent, it was a celebration largely without fear of fielding questions about drinking. For Duke students who had heard urban legends about “Chapel Thrill,” the traditional Halloween sweet tooth was satiated by ample eye candy and the off-campus experience. University of North Carolina at Chapel “Going to C-Hill is probably the Hill’s hospitable frat row. most ballinest thing you can do for Hal“I really wanted to come because it’s loween,” freshman Corbin Page said. my first year here and they say you have In the morning, the masks will to come at least once,” freshman Emily come off, the crowds will thin and the Robertson said. “It’s still early in the costumed party-goers who bring forth night, but it definitely looks like it will their inner monsters will tuck their dislive up to it’s reputation.” guises away. The Franklin Street experience is But perhaps as those who went to an education in drifting with the Franklin Street last night climb aboard crowd and following friends and packed C-ls, they’ll be reminded of rumor, haunting Chapel Hill until the roaming the streets of Chapel Hill wee hours. with werewolves, fairies and drunken Its crowds, its bawdiness and its scene nurses.

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something like that,” Gao said. She added that it is impossible to change dating behavior without changing

the environment at Duke. But Hendricks said he does not think programs on dating violence have a large impact, simply because they come too late. “I honesdy think it just needs to be earlier—maybe high school, maybe junior high,” he said. “Especially once you’re 20 or 21 years old [and] you’re a senior or junior, you’ve kind of established how you treat relationships a lot of dmes.”

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the University’s Central Campus rezoning proposal —slated for November or December. Duke has offered to give an initial $500,000 for timely consideration on any proposal regarding Anderson. The remaining $1.5 million would be donated after the University assumes control over the street. The Anderson Street issue has nothing to do with the arts center plans, said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. “Duke believes there is some value to that street and we are willing to put some money on the table,” Burness said. “How the city spends that money is up to them.” Durham Mayor Bill Bell has said the money will go to the new performing arts center. The University has already pledged $5.5 million to the new facilities. According to Eugene Brown, a City Council member, Duke would take over the maintenance, design and traffic patterns of the portion of Anderson Street that runs through the school. Under the current plans for Central, Anderson will serve as the primary avenue between the new development and East and West campuses. “I can understand the concern articulated about the quid pro quo,” Brown said. “I will try to look at these two issues separately, based upon their individual merit.” City Council member Mike Woodard said the city has not yet made a decision on the Anderson Street proposal. “So far, no money has exchanged hands,” he said. Woodard and Brown, along with City Council members Thomas Stith and Diane Catotti, have also expressed concerns over the link between the Anderson Street proposal and the pending council vote that would allow Central

Campus to be rezoned from residential to university-college classification. They have suggested that if the Anderson Street proposal passes, it might force the Council’s hand into approving the rezoning.

Woodard told the Durham HeraldSun that he has asked City Manager Patrick Baker’s staff whether the Anderson Street vote can be postponed without affecting planning for the arts center. The council could then vote on the rezoning plans without worrying about obligations to the University for its donation, he said. The rezoning proposal has ignited concerns from local business owners and community members, who dispute Duke’s proposed retail and restaurant space allotments. Since the Oct. 10 Joint City Planning Committee’s 7-4 vote against the Central Campus proposal, talks between Duke and its neighbors have stalled. Provost Peter Lange previously met several times with community representatives regarding the Central Campus redevelopment, and Burness said he is confident differences will be worked out. “By the time it comes to a vote in the City Council, I think it will all be sorted out,” he said. A meeting between the University and the community is scheduled for Nov. 7. “Speaking genetically, the City Council strongly feels that it’s important that Duke and the surrounding communities talk and reach compromise,” Brown said. Woodard pledged that the council will look at the Central Campus rezoning as a separate issue. “Regardless of when the rezoning matter comes forward, I will look at it very carefully,” Woodard said. “Anything with this much impact deserves a lot of consideration.”

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It’s basketball season, boys and girls. You know it must be official when a zealous freshman has already created a facebook event, “DUKE MENS BASKETBALL vs shaw university.” Apparendy, Coach K is hosting. Punctuation and capitalization rules be damned—it’s on. But as excitement builds for what should be an epic battle between Duke and its nral from RaleighN.C. State, what? I m talking about Shaw, obviously—l think it’s time to step back, breathe and take a moment to think about the season ahead. Here are seven things you should know about the 2006-2007 Blue Devils: 7. Thanks to parity and a great name, Duke will enter its season with the No. 11 ranking. I mean, this team has already beaten the Blue Devils, a perennial powerhouse, so I guess no one should be concerned at all that there is not one scholarship senior oh the roster and only one junior. 6. It’s possible Duke won’t face a quality opponent for another month, when it takes on Georgetown Dec. 2. Compound that with the fact 13 of the team’s first 16 games will be played at Cameron Indoor Stadium—and it might be difficult to tell how good this team can really be until after New Year’s. Columbia? Davidson? Kent State? I only wonder if we would be better off in March if we got early experience against teams better known for shooting guards than for shootings in the ’7os.

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After an outstanding regular season that included wins over ranked opponents , South Florida, Virginia and arch-rival North Carolina, No. 9 Duke enters the ACC tournament as the top seed in the nation’s toughest conference. But the Blue Devils know that nothing is guaranteed as they attempt to defend their 2005 ACC Championship. “In these kind of things, it’s whoever gets hot when the tournament starts that you want to avoid, and you tftSjlJ never know who that’s going to be in this league,” head coach John Rennie said. WED, 2:30 p.m. tournament, The Maryland SoccerPlex held in Germantown, Germantown, Md. Md. and hosted by Maryland, kicked off yesterday. Duke won the 2005 title in a shootout victory over North Carolina for the Blue Devils’ fourth ACC Championship. This year’s nine-team tournament boasts an astounding five squads among the top 10 in the nation. The Blue Devils (13-3-1) clinched the No. 1 seed for the event despite their loss to Clemson last Saturday night. Duke finished tied with Wake Forest for first place in the conference but recieved the higher seed thanks to the team’s 4-3 victory in Winston-Salem Sept. 8. The bracket pits the Blue Devils against N.C. State (6-9-1) —which lost to Duke, 4-1, Oct. 15—in the first round. The Wolfpack is seeded ninth, and defeated a pesky Virginia Tech team 4-3 Tuesday for the right

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When the Blue Devils last played then-No. 5 Florida State Oct. 22, they dominated the second half, posting three goals to erase a 1-0 halftime deficit. Given Duke’s second half perin that game, the seventhseeded Blue Devils like their chances tonight in the first round of the ACC Vs tournament against the second-seedSeminoles at 5:30 p.m. in Cary, N.C. “We did play the best we did all WED, 5:30 p.m. senior Sarah McSAS Soccer Park year against them, Cabe said. “We can say, ‘Hey, it must Cary, N.C. be something about them that brought that out in us.’” Duke’s last matchup against No. 7 Florida State

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M. SOCCER from page 11 face Duke today at 2:30 p.m. Should the Blue Devils advance, they could take on the Maryland Terrapins, who are seeded fourth and would benefit from a strong home crowd. Maryland defeated Duke, 1-0, in Germantown in the teams’ only meeting this year. “We’re going to prepare for it like an away game,” goalkeeper Justin Papadakis said about the potential semifinal matchup with the fifth-ranked Terrapins. “I’m sure to

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Senior Chris Loftus scored a first-half goal in the Blue Devils' 4-1 victory over N.C.State Oct. 15.

they will have a great following. But after last year’s losing to Creighton [in the NCAA Tournament], we don’t take games for granted, and you have to win one to get to the next.” The other side of the bracket appears even more daunting, with Clemson and Virginia, both ranked in the top six nationally, playing in the first round. The other quarterfinal matches Wake Forest —which assumed the top ranking in the nation this week—and UNC, which currently sits at 19th in the polls. “Every team in the ACC tournament is a quality team, so we are really going to have to bring our best effort in all the games,” Papadakis said. Despite the abundance of talented teams, Duke will look to continue its recent winning ways. The Blue Devils had won six straight games in October before that streak came to a halt against Clemson. “We didn’t have a great game at Clemson on the one hand,” Rennie said. “On the other hand, they are a very good team. They beat Maryland at home and UNC at home, and they are a top-10 team.” Before the Clemson game, the Blue Devils had been dominant, outscoring their opponents 19-4 during the six-game stretch. Duke’s defense was especially solid during the second halfof the year, holding opponents to one goal or fewer in the last 12 contests. “Our defense has been consistent since about the second game of the season, so that’s going to be the key to the ACC and NCAA tournaments,” Papadakis said. “The other teams are too good to be giving up a lot of goals, so I think that if we can keep them to a shutout or one goal, that’s going to be necessary to do well.”

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effectively turned the team’s season around. Tonight’s game has greater implications—with a win, the Blue Devils can almost guarantee themselves a spot in the 64-team NCAA tournament field. “We really need to get this win to make sure that there’s absolutely no way for them to say that we don’t have the qualifications to get in the NCAA tournament,” McCabe said. Despite Florida State’s ranking and successful ACC season, Duke has reason to be confident. As the Blue Devils proved, Florida State is vulnerable to their high-pressure offense. Part of Duke’s success was the element of surprise—the Seminoles were cruising at halftime but struggled when the Blue Devils became the aggressors in the second period. Florida State will expect the frenzied attack tonight, but that does not mean Duke’s game plan will change. “It will be similar, but at different times,

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we’re going to have to pick and choose,” head coach Robbie Church said. Duke enters tonight’s game coming off an up-and-down weekend. The Blue Devils beat Miami 3-0 in Coral Gables, Fla., giving them a chance to finish second in the ACC. On Sunday, however, they lost a 1-0 decision to Wake Forest, dropping them down to seventh in the conference standings. One of Duke’s season-long strengths, though, has been its resiliency—the Blue Devils figure that the ACC tournament provides an ideal time to bounce back. “We’re aware that we had been playing really great, and we had one game that wasn’t so great,” McCabe said. “That doesn’t mean that we’re not still capable of playing

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Duke, which currently sits at 9-7-2, may need to win today to assure itself a spot in the NCAA tournament.

great.” The hectic travel weekend forced Church to adjust his team’s practice preparations. Instead of heavy', physical workouts, the Blue Devils practiced penalty kicks Monday and worked on their mental approach Tuesday. Both days allowed Duke to sufficiendy rest for the tournament. This ACC tournament marks the nine Duke seniors’ last conference tournament.

It also provides them an opportunity to ing tonight without an NCAA tournament continue a streak—Duke has advanced to berth, the Blue Devils enter the game with the semifinals in the last four years. a do-or-die approach. “I think that it’s going to be a positive “Every game from now on, you either go home or make it on to the next round,” pressure,” McCabe said. “These aren’t regsenior Darby Kroyer said. “We have to have ular season games anymore that we can the attitude that this could be our last make up for with a win next weekend. That little bit of urgency will bring out the killer game ever.” With the possibility of their season end- instinct in us.”

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SHINER from page 11 5. Jamal Boykin says he will be less demonstrably excited when he gets into games this year. Hopefully some of Boykin’s enthusiasm for Duke from last year will be picked up by Josh Mcßoberts (see No. 1). I know I, personally, will miss the trademark floor slap when Duke is up 25. 4. ESPN will (hopefully) have another on-air-talent-modeled mascot race during its Full Circle coverage of the Duke/UNC game Feb. 7 like it did this week on Monday Night Football. The Dick Vitale mascot will repeatedly tell the crowd that his SAT scores would not have been high enough to get into Duke, despite the size of his giant head; the Rick Majems mascot will collapse before reaching the finish line, and the dude in the Jay Bilas costume will pick Rameses the ram over the Blue Devil. All

will lose to the Digger mascot, however, who will take out the field Randall Simonstyle with a giant prop highlighter. 3. After freshman Brian Zoubek’s stellar 27-point performance in the BlueWhite game, the Crazies seem ready to ride the ‘Bek Bus all the way to Atlanta. How can you go wrong ifyou’re over seven feet tall? Even Gheorghe Muresan got to star in a Billy Crystal movie. But while this might be only the first of many memorable Zoubek performances, keep in mind that in the 2002 Blue-White game, freshman JJ. Redick went l-for-8 with two points while fellow freshman Shavlik Randolph had 16 points, shooting 6-for-l 1 from the floor. Gosh, it’s good to see Shav’s jersey in the rafters...wait, no. 2. Greg Paulus has to be healthy for this team to succeed. Period. Nothing says competence in your backcourt like a true freshman point guard who isn’t a true

point guard. No knock on Scheyer—I think he has a great future ahead of him—but I just like him better off the ball and shooting. I’m pretty sure he likes himself better that way, too. 1. Josh Mcßoberts needs to want to be at Duke—and I’m not talking about for the 2007-2008 season. The sophomore, who will most likely leave Durham after this season, must adopt a better attitude and embrace his last year here instead of just waiting around for David Stern to call his name. The Blue Devils need Mcßoberts to be strong, to create his own shots and not just wait around for those pretty alley-oops. So, freshmen, start making your tenting groups, because there’s only 98 days until the UNC game—and if you don’t have a tent by the time you’ve finished reading this column, you might as well just go back home and wait ‘til next year.

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2005-2006 men’s lacrosse raped an exotic dancer “the most trying dme” he’s had at Duke. “I don’t like the remarks that attack athletics,” he said, “not just at Duke but anywhere and I think that the people that do that are very narrow-minded in the total scope of what a university or college does.” At both the press conference and the Blue-White scrimmage, Coach K said that coaches are teachers and that students learn both in the classroom and on the court, pitch and field. He stressed that the lessons student-athletes gain from athletics are an integral part of their educations at Duke. The press conference was a very public arena, but Satur-

the thunderous men’s basketball program is dunks and crisp new especially cognizant of the imuniforms on display in portance of academics and Cameron Indoor Stadium does not hang up the banners recognizing Saturday, men’s basketball head editorial championships coach Mike or No. 1 rankings Krzyzewski made a strong until the entire senior class statement in the athletics-acfrom that year graduates. He ademics debate. also stressed that the people He took the opportunity are the best part about Duke. Though these comments during halftime of the BlueWhite scrimmage to make are not at all shocking—no these remarks while recognizone expects a high-profde ing the 20th anniversary of college basketball coach to the record-setting 1986 team. say athletics do not belong Coach K, not surprisingly, at universities—the choice stated that both academics of venue for these comand athletics have a place at ments is important. Duke, and that Duke’s excelCoach K made similar lence in both endeavors is comments at a June 20 press what makes the University conference. Then, he called the fallout from allegations great and unique. He mentioned that the that three members of the

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Charles KrauthamDfldlirGGn dOWd mer wrote that, dethe new times spite Senator Barack Obama’s charms, he could notwin in ’08: “The reason is Sept. 11,2001.The country will simply not elect a novice in wartime.” But if there’s one thing W.’s reign proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is this: Experience, like affectations, can be dangerous. They will fill up history books with all the myopic misjudgments made by a war council with a couple of centuries of experience, blunders that undermined America’s security and integrity, wrecked Iraq, loosed Osama and made the world more dangerous. multaneously. Those on the president’s “dream team” of forWhen Sonny, as Colin Powell called him, aneign policy advisers were haunted, not strengthnounced his candidacy in 1999,1 asked him if it was ened, by their years of past service in top jobs. scary to run for president knowing so little about When they got the chance to run the country again foreign affairs. under W., all they wanted to do was finish unfin“There will be moments when situations, inciished business, misapplying old ideas to new crises, dents will flare up,” he replied, blissfully unaware of like those who sabotage new romances with bagthe conflagration to come. He said he could lean gage from old relationships. into his dad’s advisers, and trust his gut about which On his initial tour as defense secretary, for Gerones to trust and which to “kiss off.” ald Ford, Rummy felt that Vietnam, Watergate and Yesterday, Senator Obama, asked about his short then Jimmy Carter robbed him ofhis opportunity to resume, made the same claim that judgment is rein in the military brass, who were always impudent more important than experience. But he acknowlenough to have opinions about the military. Deteredged that President Bush has given learning-onmined to banish America’s post-Vietnam fears about the-job a bad name. using force, he ended up creating another Vietnam “I mean,.Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld that spurred more fears about using force. have an awful lot of experience, and yet have engiAs Bush 4Ts defense secretary, Mr. Cheney preneered what I think is one of the biggest foreign pared the ’92 Defense Planning Guidance draft with policy failures in our recent history,” he told The his aides Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby. It called Times’s Anne Kornblut. “So I would say the two for swaggering world domination in the wake of the most important things are judgment and vision. cold war, asserting that America should intervene to Well, judgment, vision and passion for the Ameristop any countries—allies or foes—from challengcan people, and what their hopes and dreams are.” ing its supremacy. Those who declaim on the need for Senator A decade later, with a more jejune Bush as presiObama to have more experience must forget who’s dent and a more jittery post-9/11 America, Cheney running the country. It often seems that the most in& Co. brought back the loony plan and renamed it experienced person alive is George W. Bush even the Bush doctrine; after six years in office. Vice and Rummy corroded the Constitution by using the terrorist attacks as a pretext to correct the Maureen Dowd is a regular columnist for The New past: as Ford administration big shots, they felt emasYork Times. This column was previously printed there. £

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Maximizing your ACES potential One

of my favorite distractions from doing homework is intricately planning the next few years of my life. Since freshman year, I’ve spent countless hours on ACES writing down every class that I want to take during my entire career at Duke. I’ve explored majors, minors, certificates, independent studies, leaves of

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The hardest part is that the world is yours every option seems great in theory. A quadruple major? That would look awesome when I apply to Law/Grad/Business/Film/Joumalism school. But am I actually going to be able to complete multiple majors, let alone one, when it’s two in the morning and I’ve only finished the outline of my introduction? The worst thing is that my roommate is the exact same way. When one of us even thinks about beginning homework, the other bursts into the room with a detailed itinerary of studying abroad in Istanbul or a printout of courses that are cross listed under English, philosophy and economics, so that means only three philosophy classes senior year instead of four. Only three philosophy classes?! That means I can take that Vietnam War class and get a minor in history and I won’t have to take econ during the summer which means I can get an internship that might give me course credits so I can graduate a semester early and travel around Europe! We get so riled up sometimes that I imagine us shouting primal chants around a bonfire. Papers fly through, the air and pens scribble furiously. As the excitement reaches a fever pitch, we start to sound like a Howard Dean tirade; “Yeah, we could take that film class in the fa 11... oh, cool, it counts for the film certificate... and I already have TWO of the requirements already... and if we study abroad in Oxford I could make a documentary ABOUT OUR EXPERIENCES THERE... and then I can submit it to a FILM SCHOOL AFTER I GRADUATE FROM DUKE WITH HONORS... AND MOVE TO HOLLYWOOD WHERE I’LL MAKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND I CAN FINALLY LEARN HOW TO SURF! BYAWWW!!!!” The irony of the whole situation is that the time I spend preparing for the future is the time I should be spending on the present in order to have a future. In the period that I spent figuring out what grades I need in every class for the next two semesters in order to get my GPA above 3.0,1 could have just been doing my homework and getting good grades the old-fashioned way. The A- that I’m planning on getting in Italian could be the key to my entire future, as my research has indicated, but it’s tough when I’m using my workbook as scratch paper for the distance and travel time between Prague and Helsinki by train. So far in my tenure at Duke, I’ve majored in English, religion, political science, public policy and philosophy, although some only for one night. It’s impossible to stay committed to one thing when there are just so many options out there. My mind does tend to change a little too quickly sometimes. I’ll tell my friends the plan I cooked up around dawn last night that would allow me to get two majors and three minors, while at the same time training for the marathon and learning karate. Most of the time they look at my crazy, bloodshot eyes and say, “Dude, there’s no way you’re ever going to do that.” They think that they’re bringing me back to reality, but all they’re doing is encouraging me. “They’re right!” I say to myself, and off I go to my room like a mad scientist and attempt to bring even wilder creations to life. I guess the point is that you can lose yourself in the future very easily without realizing that you have responsibilities in the present. There’s nothing wrong with having dreams or making plans, just as long as you keep your imagination in check. I mean, I have a paper for my Shakespeare class due tomorrow. I shouldn’twaste my time trying to find a class for my English major that also fulfills my research requirement. Wait, there is one? Okay, this might sound crazy, but bear with me; First, I study abroad in Ghana... Steve Brown is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other

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Lacrosse: a case in crisis The

change in choice catchphrase from “the perfect storm” to “the turning tide” neatly sums up the trajectory of public sentiment regarding the lacrosse affair. The tide refers mosdy to the detritus of the storm, the shattered sense of justice shoved first in one direction and now the other by equal and opposite forces of apoplectic anger. Apoplexies leave little room for introspection; they tend to seize the body and kill it. Once upon a time, when lacrosse was just a sport, an appeal for seeing beyond black and white, innocent and guilty, victim and perpetrator incontrovertibly held high ground in an intellectual community. Now such an appeal for perceiving complexity falls on deaf, and defensive, ears. After being burned by the so-called complexity that rendered the lacrosse faceless players jane chong white entities, many the short shot understandably find reason to rebuff that familiar call for seeing in layers—reason to hold that there is no cause for creating complexity where there is none, and reason to believe the crisis indeed boils down to a battle between truth and lies, right and wrong, good and evil. This deadlocked, dead-end debate marks a clearcut failure to differentiate between the lacrosse case, which centers on the futures of three indicted individuals and whether they should be tried in a court of law, and the lacrosse crisis, the implications of which will rock the University and play out in the court of public opinion long after the acquittal of three young men. I say acquittal because legal evidence and common sense suggest this case was over before it began. The crisis, on the other hand, rages on like a forest fire and continues to be treated as such, as if it will bum itself out and leave the soil richer in its wake. If only the flying finger were really that productive By crisis, I mean those conditions that allowed for the spark of an accusation to become a raging social inferno on a national scale. The crisis encompasses not only the hasty initial reactions, but perhaps more disturbingly, the ongoing reactions to those reactions, which return in kind the abusive generalizations and negation of people as first and foremost individuals. The crisis is embodied by the self-righteous finger-pointing that threatens to tear at the fabric of parent, student, alumni, faculty, staff and administrative relations. The crisis extends beyond Duke’s low stone wall, for image is not a superficial concern for an institution that aims to attract and educate the next generation of world leaders, the best and the brightest whose knowledge of Duke comprises blogs and media reports of a university eating itself from -

the inside The word that best describes the complex, cannibalistic crisis at hand: ironic. We claim to be a community oflearners and have been thrown the biggest curveball in our institutional history, but we have failed to come away with the ability to recognize our neighbors as potential learners, rather than primary transgressors to be “tarred and feathered.” There must be a few pots-and-pans bangers out there who regret participating in that particular fight for rape victim rights. Ifyou’re wondering what they were thinking when they presumed guilt over innocence, perhaps they thought no further than their personal experiences with the cyclical violence of rape, and later considered their protest vindicated by Nifong’s damning commentary—but have now learned some things and regretted some things, like all of us, in retrospect. Some are calling for President Brodhead’s head, and declaring the administration has utterly failed its students. President Brodhead is not perfect, though I say this not with specific imperfections to cite, but with the knowledge that he is human. Like us, bestial though our bloodlust may be. Imperfections he may have, but outrageous are contentions that he lacked thought. President Brodhead is nothing if not a man who thinks. Cite “60 Minutes’” unflattering cutting and pasting if you’d like, but as a bewildered freshman, I most clearly remember anxiously watching that first press conference, as he implored that we withhold judgment above all else. The administration is a swarming mass of humans, which makes for greater problems in the perfection department. But when the lacrosse crisis broke, they had a duty not only to the players, but a commitment to protecting an entire community. It’s easy to forget that. They fumbled in an unprecedented situation and, in some senses, they failed but to a lesser degree, some would argue, than the lacrosse captains who personally hosted the out-ofcontrol party that, by their own admission, compromised their teammates, school and their own roles as leaders, not in a Division I sport, but of a team and community, period. Round and round the finger revolves. We know we’re in dangerous straits, devolving as a community of learners, when after one muldlayered crisis, a large flock finds it acceptable to call for our professors, minds respected for real reason in the international community, to “stick to the classroom” and “just teach.” That’s not the Duke I signed up for. No tide, no matter how strong, should be slamming us this far off the course. Crisis or no crisis, it just has no case. —

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Dasani Water

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Planters Peanuts

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M&M Mars tingle Candy Bars

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Purina Dog Chow 17.6-22

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