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Senate too close to call, Mont, Va. results up in air by

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Democrats won control of the House

early Wednesday after a dozen years ofRepublican rule in a resounding repudiation of a war, a president and a

scandal-scarred Congress. “From sea to shining sea, the American voted for people change,” declared Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the hardcharging California Democrat in line to become the nation’s first female House speaker. The White House made plans for President Bush to call the speaker-in-waiting first thing in the morning; he will enter his final two years in office with at least half of Congress in the opposition party’s hands. “It’s been kind of tough out there,” conceded House Speaker Dennis Hasten, R-111., who won a 11th term. Presidential spokesman Tony Snow observed, “It’s not like a slap on the forehead kind of shock.” By press time early Wednesday, Democrats had won 227 seats, enough for control, and were leading for another 6, which would give them 233. Republicans, who hold 229 seats in the current House, SEE DEM. VICTORY ON PAGE

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DurhamDistrict Attorney Mike Nifong looks on as hehears results about his DA victory. He beat challengers Lewis Cheek and Steve Monks but did not get a majority.

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Mike Nifong was re-elected as Durham District Attorney Tuesday night, capping off a race that attracted national attention in the wake of the lacrosse scandal. Nifong, a Democrat, received just less than half of the approximately 53,000 votes cast, garnering 49.1 percent of the vote. Lewis Cheek, an unaffiliatedcandidate, received 39.3 percent. Write-in candidate Steve Monks, a Republican, received the remaining 11.6 percent. “I’m relieved to have it over,” Nifong said after viewing the results. “It’s only fair to say that winning is not an unmitigated blessing because I have the hardest job in Durham for the next four years.” He said he viewed the results as an af-

firmation ofhis work as district attorney. “As far as I’m concerned, I’m doing the job the right way,” he said. Although Nifong declined to comment direcdy on the lacrosse scandal, some ofhis supporters endorsed his handling of the case. “He made a human response to a terrible thing that came to light,” said Douglas Nydick, a Durham resident and former prosecutor in Brooklyn. Cheek was subdued as the results came in, standing mere feet from Nifong as the vote totals were announced at the Old Durham Courthouse in the heart of downtown. “This election was never about me, it SEE NIFONG ON PAGE 10

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dampened by rain Price wins 10th term in House by

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Despite steady rain showers Tuesday, turnout at the polling station serving West Campus was the highest it

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had been in years, election officials said. W.I. Patterson Recreation Center, the polling station for Precinct 5, was abuzz all day as students and Durham residents braved the weather to cast their ballots. “We’re double the average we usually have—we’re getting up to 500 [at 5:30 p.m.], and usually we have about 125 all day,” said Douglas Register, who has been an election judge at the site for four years. “It’s been a steady stream throughout the day.” Although foul weather usually depresses voter turnout, in a heated race its effects are harder to predict, said Kristin Goss, assistant professor of political science and public policy. “Whatever negative effects are more than offset by SEE VOTING ON PAGE 8

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Rep. David Price, D-Dist. 4, was re-elected Tuesday night to his 10th term in the U.S. House of Representatives, defeat-

ing Republican challenger Steve Acuff. With all precincts reporting, Price won with about 65 percent of the vote. The Price campaign could not be reached for comment A Duke professor of political science and public policy, Price has been on leave to perform his duties in Washington. Acuff is a retired Air Force colonel and Raleigh businessman. “I feel very much SEE PRICE ON PAGE 7

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Panama wins Sec. Council seat

Voting 'tricks' arise in several states Deborah Hastings THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Election Day was tainted by complaints of dirty tricks that led to FBI investigations in at least two states, with some voters reporting intimidating phone calls, misleading sample ballots and even an armed man outside a polling place. In Virginia, the FBI was looking at complaints of an apparently orchestrated series of phone calls in the hard-fought U.S. Senate race between Rep. George Allen and Dem. Jim Webb. Some voters reported they got calls telling them to stay home on Election Day, or face criminal charges. In Indiana, the FBI was investigating al-

legations that a Democratic volunteer at a town of Bloomington was found with absentee ballots after counting had begun. The liberal voter group MoveOn offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for voter interference, which is a federal crime. Other states reported similar problems In Arizona, three men, one of them armed, stopped Hispanic voters and questioned them outside a Tucson polling place, said voting monitors, who photographed the incidents and reported them to the FBI. In Maryland, sample ballots suggesting Rep. Gov. Robert Ehrlich and Sen. candidate Michael Steele were Democrats were

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handed out by people bused in from out of state. Democrats outnumber Republicans in Maryland by nearly two-to-one. Across the country, Democrats accused Republicans of sponsoring automated “robo-calls” that have infuriated voters. The recorded calls, which reached a fever pitch in the days leading up to the election, automatically dial and redial, promoting or trashing a candidate. Republicans have denied responsibility. Some voters have reported being awakened in the middle of the night by such calls, and said that after they hung up, the phone rang again. Federal rules bar election phone solicitations after 9 p.m.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Shiites and Sunnis traded mortar attacks Tuesday on Baghdad neighborhoods across the Tigris, killing 21 as police found the bodies of 15 torture victims in the river south of the capital. The violence persisted despite a move by the Interior Ministry to charge 57 members of the Shiite-dominated Iraqi police force, including a general, in the alleged torture of hundreds of detainees at a prison in east Baghdad. Saddam Hussein, whose government favored the Sunni minority, called on

“forgive, reconcile and shake hands” as he returned to court Tuesday for his Kurdish genocide trial two days after being sentenced to hang in a sepa-

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case. The ousted dictator’s former second in command, the fugitive Izzat Ibrahim alDouri, has ordered bosses in Saddam’s Baath party still in Iraq to cease attacks, according to government and parliamentary officials who claimed knowledge of the developments. Former Baathists are thought to be a major component of Sunni resistance to the Shiite-led Iraqi government and forrate

eign forces, but not the only component. Even if they halt their attacks, fighting could continue to rage in insurgent areas because there are many other groups attacking United States and Iraqi forces as well as Shiite Muslim civilians and militias. In the latest round of sectarian attacks, police said two mortar shells slammed into a coffee shop in a Shiite neighborhood in north Baghdad late Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 16. The attack appeared to have been in response to mortar fire on a Sunni neighborhood across the Tigris earlier in the day that killed seven people and wounded 25.

One of the longest battles for a seat on the powerful U.N. Security Council endedTuesday with victory for Panama after U.S.backed Guatemala and leftist Venezuela led by anti-American President Hugo Chavez withdrew to end a deadlock.

Australia's Senate removes ban Australia's Senate voted to end the country's four-year ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research, ruling Tuesday that the potential for medical breakthroughs outweighed moral doubts. The measure now goes to Australia's House of Representatives.

Israel pulls troops out of Gaza Israeli forces ended a weeklong offensive, killing 10 Palestinians,Tuesday aimed at halting rocket attacks from northern Gaza town, leaving behind wrecked homes and sewagecovered streets.But hours after the pullback, the Palestinian rocket fire resumed.

Britney Spears files for divorce Britney Spears filed for divorce Tuesday from her husband Kevin Federline, former backup dancer.The Los Angeles County Superior Court filing cites "irreconcilable differences." Spears asks for custody of their children, with visitation rights for Federline. News briefs compiled from wire reports "The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past," —William Faulkner

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Steve Monks might not have been on the ballot for district attorney, but he did not go out without a fight Tuesday night. Standing in the rain at Southwest Elementary School, Monks, who did not garner enough signatures to be on the perspectlve H P ballot, urged voters to write his name in as an alternative to incumbent Democrat Mike Nifong and the unaffiliated candidate, Lewis Cheek. Monks, who is the chairman of the Durham County Republican Party, said the lack of a unified opposition to Nifong strengthened the incumbent’s chances. “We Republicans can only blame ourselves for this, but it is a chicken and the egg,” Monks said, before the election results had been tallied. “If the Republican

Party would have gotten together more, there would have been a candidate to go against Nifong. [The Republicans] could have won this election easily, but as it is, it’s a coin toss and I don’t like that.” Even with Nifong obtaining about 49 percent of the vote and Cheek getting approximately 40 percent, Monks, with about 11 percent, insisted that he was not the spoiler in the race. “My votes would have not gone exclusively to Cheek,” Monks said. “The Cheek camp were the spoilers. Their agenda was for anyone but Nifong. My agenda was as a qualified candidate.” If Cheek had been elected, he would not have taken office and Gov. Mike Easley would have taken over the process of choosing the next district attorney, Monks said. “If you don’t think that demonstrates SAM HILL/THE CHRONICLE

DA write-in candidate Steve Monks got 11.6% of the vote Tuesday, coming in third place to Mike Nifong.

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What is the price of a beautiful mind? Universities working to woo top scholars in a competitive academic environment are discovering the advantage of the faculty two-for-one. In addition to playing up a school’s prestige and repute, partner accommodation—university hiring of the spouses and significant others along with its faculty and administration—is a commonplace practice, administrators said. “Spousal hiring and partner accommodation is a helpful mechanism,” said George McLendon, dean of the faculty ofArts and Sciences, who spoke about the practice as an effective recruiting tool. “Often we’re in a situation where we wouldn’t be able to bring a [faculty member] to Duke that we’re actively trying to bring, if we didn’t offer an intellectual opportunity for their partner.”

Many female part-time faculty hires at the University are a result of partner accommodation, McLendon added. A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that a national faculty survey found 35 percent of male professors and 40 percent of female faculty members had partners who were also academics. The high number of inter-faculty couples may be a reason university partner accommodation is so prevalent, said Bruce Kuniholm, director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and a professor of public policy and history. “Generally, smart people marry other smart people,” Kuniholm said. “In the past two years, I’m familiar with five or six cases in which Duke University hiring involved a spouse. Many times when you’re trying to hire someone, they’re coming as a team —

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AIDS CRISIS Nearly 40 million people around the world are living with HIV today. Half of them are women.

*E™E* Merson takes Global Health Institute helm WASHINGTON Scientists around the country are logging the emotional and physical effects of negative political ads. Mostly, researchers found that negative ads tend to polarize and make it less likely that supporters of an attacked candidate will vote.

Red wine ages obese mice well WASHINGTON Huge amounts of a red wine extract seemed to help obese mice eat a high-fat diet and still live a long and healthy life, suggests a new study that some experts are calling "landmark" research. The study by

the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Aging shows that heavy doses of red wine extract lower the rate of diabetes, liver problems and other fat-related ill effects in obese mice.

Fire-fighting foam fights fowl WASHINGTON The government has approved the use offirefighting foam to quickly kill chickens if there is an outbreakof deadly bird flu in commercial poultry, an idea researched by animal health officials in North Carolina and Delaware. The Agriculture Department says water-based foam can be an alternative to carbon dioxide.

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Buried in the bowels of Trent Drive Hall, amid scaffolding and buckets of paint, lies the start of Duke’s 330-million Global Health Institute. Although the beginning may not be glamorous—with only three staff members and a handwritten paper sign scotch-taped to the wall bearing its name director newly appointed Michael Merson has grand ambitions for the institute, both in Durham and across the globe. The GHI launched in April and arose out of the University’s refocused approach to global health disparities, which President Richard Brodhead identified at the beginning of the 2005 academic year. Merson began his term as the GHl’s director Nov. 1. According to a report drafted by a University steering committee on global health programs at Duke, the GHI will plan and implement educational programs for students, coordinate existing global health programs and devel—

op and promote the overall vision of the global health research, learning and service initiative. Abroad, the institute plans to organize the development and management of University-affiliated sites in developing countries. Merson, who plans to use the report to guide the institute’s progress, said some of these objectives will take time. “I’m trying to meet as many people as I can and then have meetings with the committee I’m sure they’ll help guide the strategic planning process,” he said. “I’m giving myself six months to define what the major thrust will be of the institute.” Merson said he also hopes to implement other aspects of the institute’s mission, including expanding global health internship opportunities and eventually making the undergraduate program into a major. In addition to specifically outlining the institute’s mission, Merson said his first year will also focus on faculty hiring and fundraising. Merson has an extensive background in global health issues— —

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Chem dept, readies for move to French by

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As the fall semester nears its close, the Department of Chemistry is preparing to move its facilities out of the Gross Chemistry

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Students complain about soy milk, organic options by

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When Compass Group took over food services this past summer, students hoped their dining experience would improve. Well into the semester, however, some students have said the absence of certain foods has left them dissatisfied. Organic options are currendy limited and soy milk is unavailable in the Great Hall, presenting challenges for the lactose-intolerant and environmentally conscious. Compass Group representatives said they are working to improve ecofriendly food offerings. “I love-soy milk, and it’s upsetting that it’s not here,” sophomore Chelsea Echenique said. Many—including Director of Dining

Services Jim Wulforst—said they have not noticed the semester-long absence of soy milk. ‘Tm not able to get there every day, so I didn’t know, but basic products are supposed to be offered,” Wulforst said. “There should definitely be soy milk —there are supposed to be products for lactose-intolerant individuals.” Marcia Austero, area vice president for the Compass Group, said she hopes soy products will soon become available but said finding suitable containersizes has been a problem. “We just don’t think it would be successful to offer quarts of Silk [Soymilk] in the Great Hall,” Austero said. Although the all-you-can-eat style of SEE SOY MILK ON PAGE 9

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will move materials to French Science during Winter Break to begin teaching courses at the start of the spring semester, said James Bonk, director of undergraduate studies for the chemistry de-

“There are far better laboratories than we had in the old building.... It will help us attract the absolutely best faculty to Duke.” Peter Lange

and into the newly constructed $ 11 5-m i 1lion French Family Science Center, where professors will hold classes during the spring semester.

Initially funded by $3O million of a $35-million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, French Science—named for MelindaFrench Gates, Trinity ‘B6 and Fuqua ‘B7—is set to open this December, four years after the Board of Trustees approved the new building in May 2002. The state-of-the-art facilities at French Science will help increase the prominence of the Department of Chemistry and its faculty, Provost Peter Lange said. “There are far better laboratories than we had in the old building,” Lange said. “It will help us attract the absolutely best faculty to Duke.” Department of Chemistry professors

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tempts to transport the bulk of its lab equipment in the short amount of time allotted for Provost, Duke the move. “We have all of our equipment, which is operated here [at Gross Chemistry],” he said. “We have to take it down, take it over there, set it up and recalibrate it to get it running.” Lange said planning and preparation will contribute to an efficient relocation process during Winter Break. “Anytime you move there will be potential for difficulty, but we’re working very hard to make it as smooth as possible,” he said. Even though the facility will be ready to house chemistry classes after Winter Break, the research facilities within the department will not relocate until sometime between January and March, Bonk said.

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Dem. Shuler wins N.C. seat Top”—the fight song of the University of Tennessee, where Shuler starred as a quarterback. With 51 percent of precincts reporting in western ASHEVILLE, N.C. Former NFL quarterback and political newcomer Heath Shuler ousted incumbent North Carolina’s 11th District, Shuler led Taylor with 53 percent of the vote to 47 percent for the eight-term ReRep. Charles Taylor Tuesday. With votes still being counted and no winner depublican. But most of the uncounted votes were in clared, Taylor made a surprise concesAsheville, where Democrats run strong. Shuler gave Taylor his toughest challenge in more than sion speech on local television, admitting his defeat shordy after 10:30 p.m. a decade. Both poured millions into a nasty batde of attack ads and got extensive support from their national parties. “I have sent my opponent a mesTaylor’s policies have long divided residents of this sage conceding this race,” Taylor said. by

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“I don’t think we can overcome the large deficit we have right now.” At a ballroom in a downtown Asheville hotel, Shuler supporters cheered wildly and chanted, “Heath, Heath, Heath” and clapped along as a Shuler aide played and sang “Rocky

mountainous district, which includes the liberal enclave ofAsheville and rugged counties at the state’s western tip, where voters are known for conservative views on social issues. Shuler’s moderate positions on issues such as abortion—which he opposes—and gun rights —which he supports —appeared to pull enough conservative Democrats and independents to his side to secure the victory.

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SPOUSES from page 3 when this is the case, you clearly try to find a framework for the spouse.” Jill Rickershauser, a lecturer in the political science department, met her husband at Duke when they were both pursuing graduate degrees. Universities’ increasing use of partner accommodation helps early-career academics stay near their spouses, she said. “The job market is really tough, so there’s a likelihood we won’t live together for the first year or two,” Rickershauser wrote in an e-mail. “The good news is that universities are starting to recognize this problem.” Stanley Fish, former chair of Duke’s English department and current Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Law at Florida International University, said in the Chronicle of Higher Education article that he used the strategy of keeping couples together during his tenure at Duke. “It’s such a natural,” Fish said in the article. “People who are apart, bearing both the emotional and financial drain, are going to listen to you when you call them up and say, ‘How would you like to be together?”’ An area of contention raised by the Chronicle of Higher Education article is whether or not hiring partners without a national search establishes an imprudent form of affirmative action that disadvantages people not married to other academics. Kuhiholm firmly denied that such a practice has been implemented at Duke. “If the question is ‘Have we tried to accommodate someone who is unqualified,’ the answer is ‘no,’” he said. “We’ve never hired anyone who we felt was un-

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Kuniholm added that the high standards within academic departments don’t allow for any bending of the rules. “Whomever is hired has to pass muster,” he said. “No matter how much a department wants somebody, the standards are universal standards.” Provost Peter Lange said partner accommodations are by no means limited to the academic setting, and spouses of many potential faculty members are interested in non-teaching positions within the University. “This is a pervasive issue,” Lange said. “It is probably the case in over half the searches that we have [that the spouses] are not academics. Very often we find that it’s much less how excellent the spouses are than how they fit [in the University.]” Despite potential drawbacks, partner accommodation is a practice that has greatly helped Duke, McLendon said. “Often, as a university, we have needs.... We have needs for excellent faculty to teach courses. However, we simply don’t have enough,” McLendon said. “But [through partner accommodation] we can offer all the courses that we do by offering these new part-time faculty members the opportunity to teach them—and the students benefit because they can take these courses,” he added. Adam Eaglin contributed to this article.

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GLOBAL HEALTH from page 4 decided to adopt a more stationary lifestyle and became dean of Yale University’s School of Public Health. Both of the positions gave Merson valuable experience that will help him tackle the challenges that lie ahead for his directorship, he said. Merson explained that despite the gargantuan task that sits before him, there were many reasons he was attracted to the position—such as the GHFs unique position among other academic institutions. Schools including Johns Hopkins University and Vanderbilt University have global health programs, but none have the dual focus of research and outreach that Duke has, Merson said. He also pointed to the centralized geography of Duke’s campus, which allows for easy interdisciplinary cooperation and Duke’s prioritization of global health issues. “I was also attracted by the theme of health disparities,” Merson said. “The world can no longer be allowed to exist half-health and half-sick—the only way we’re going to change that is if we deal seriously with health disparities.” Although Merson will probably find himself revisiting his old home aboard “Swiss-Air 16-B” as he works to expand Duke’s global health efforts, he said working within Durham will be a priority as well. “I would hope what this institute would do is to be a partner in efforts that Duke already has underway to improve the health of the population of Durham and the surroundings,” Merson said. “We need to find our role and our niche and where we can make a difference,” he added.

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MONKS from page 3 that we are totally inept, that we can’t select our own district attorney, then, well, goodbye to any other thoughts that we could do anything right in Durham,” Monks said. Presumably, Monks added, since Easley is a Democrat, he would have appointed someone from his own party. “Cheek should not have allowed his name to be used,” Monks said. “He isn’t the ‘A’ material: he’s not a prosecutor and he never did any significant criminal defense work.” Monks said he was optimistic about Durham’s future, but he expressed concern about the outcome of the election. “Personally, I think it is great—if we could control our crime rate, then we could really turn this bad boy around and do some things,” Monks said. “If we keep giving in to the political elite and allow them to tell us what to do—a la the Cheek campaign—

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then we will never get it turned around.” Greeting voters alongside Monks was Lee Lipscomb, assistant district attorney in Nifong’s office. “I think that Steve Monks is a character and he is just so funny,” Lipscomb said. “I think Nifong has a really good chance because he has a direct and

straightforward campaign platform.” Although Nifong was elected, Monks said

he believed that this election would be one of the most storied in the history ofDuke. “Duke students are motivated to vote in ways more than presidential elections,” Monks said. Whether Republican, Democrat or Duke student, Monks said he did not know of anyone who disagreed Nifong was not the right man for the district attorney’s job. “Democrats so wanted to keep a Republican from serving that they split the vote and they wouldn’t elect a qualified candidate,” Monks said. “If that doesn’t show you the problem with Durham, then I don’t know what does.”

Price has held the District 4 seat since 1986, with the exception of a loss in the 1994 election. District 4 encompasses all ofDurham and Orange counties, which include both Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As in past years, Price was strongly favored to win the seat for District 4, which is predominantly occupied by Democrats. In the 2004 election, he defeated Republican Todd Batchelor with 64 percent of the vote. By the end of this year’s campaign, Price had accrued a considerable financial advantage over his opponent. The Center for Responsive Politics reported that Price raised more than 10 times the amount ofmoney Acuff raised. Bom in Erwin, Tenn., Price received his undergraduate degree from UNC before going on to receive two post-graduate degrees from Yale University. After graduating, Price returned to academia as a professor at Duke. Price was briefly removed from Congress in 1994by Republican Fred Heinemen as part of a national surge by Republican candidates. Price is one of the highest-ranking Democrats in Congress and serves on one of its most powerful bodies, the House Appropriations Committee, which handles federal government

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Within that body, Price serves on two ofits subcommittees, Homeland Security and Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs. YousefAbuGharbieh contributed to this

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Voter turnout at the polling precinct for West Campus residents was higher this year than it has been in years past despite Tuesday's rain.

the intense interest in the district attorney race in Durham,” she said. Outside the voting station, members of the group Students for an Ethical Durham promoted Lewis Cheek, the district attorney contender who challenged incumbent Mike Nifong. Nifong has come under national and local scrutiny for his handling ofrape charges against three members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team. During election day, a number of students, including some members of this year’s men’s lacrosse team, were at several sites around the city during the day, wearing antiNifong T-shirts over their raincoats and asking passers-by to vote for Cheek. “We really just wanted to make sure people got the message to vote for Cheek and not Monks,” said Nick O’Hara, a senior on the team. “Basically we feel that a vote for Monks is a vote for Nifong.” Except for an hour during which he was at class, O’Hara said he had been at the station since 11 a.m. and would stay there until the polls closed. Lines inside the recreation center varied throughout the day, but several Durham residents also noted that turnout was higher than usual at the station. “In all the years I’ve voted here, there’s never been anyone else here but me,” said David Brewer, a primate technician at the Duke Lemur Center. “Usually I just walk in and have the place to myself.” Many students voting inside the recreation center said they hoped for a Nifong defeat. “I’m not really sure about the chances [for Cheek] but I’m optimistic that we’re taking a step in the right direction by getting a lot of students out to the polls,” said senior Stephanie Reedy. Although they were not on campus when the lacrosse scandal broke, freshmen also felt strongly about the election. “I was inspired by getting Nifong out of office pretty much since I was visiting the school, and that idea had been reinforced in the last couple of months,” said freshman Brent Beckert on a shuttle returning from voting at George Watts Elementary School. Despite the relatively high student turnout, few said they had taken free shutties provided by Duke Student Government and Students for an Ethical Durham. “I was kind of thinking we were going to fill up,” said shutde driver Jaime Cruz. “We’ve never filled up and have only had one or two people per ride.” Cruz added that from between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. he drove only 16riders. On the East Campus shutde, students returning from voting at Watts said election officials were not checking identification and jested that they were considering going back to the polls with friends’ IDs. Rob Copeland and Steve Veres contributed to this story.

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DEM. VICTORY frontage, won 186 and were leading in another 16, which would give them 202. Democrats had captured 26 Republican-controlled seats, and no Democratic incumbent had lost by early Wednesday. Races were too close to call in more than a dozen seats, making it impossible to know how large the Democratic margin would be. Casualties of a Democratic call for change, three GOP congressmen lost in Indiana, three more in Pennsylvania, two in New Hampshire, one in North Carolina, one in Kansas, one in lowa and more elsewhere. Democrats won open seats, that

SOY MILK from page 5 the East Campus Marketplace offers soy milk in quarts, she said the a la carte partitioning of food in the Great Hall makes this idea unwieldy. “We are currendy working with a company, Unify United Naturals, to get theseretail packs for milk, but they’ve just been slower getting started than we expected,” she said. She added that the dining program is also looking at other Unify offerings, including increased organic options. ‘You might see more things like are offered at Whole Foods,” Austero said. Junior Vanessa Bamett-Loro, president of the Environmental Alliance, wrote in an e-mail that despite the stall in Compass’ efforts, the University was making progress in adding organic foods to its dining program. “In terms of eco-friendly dining options on campus... they’re getting better,” she said. “EA and other groups—like the Duke University Greening Initiative—have been working hard with Dining Services to improve them.”

were held by Republicans, in New York, Ohio, Florida, Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin, lowa and Texas. Scandals that have dogged Republicans appeared to hurt GOP incumbents even more than Bush’s unpopularity and the nearly four-year-old war in Iraq. In the Senate, the GOP’s fate appears murkier. As of press time early Wednesday, 49 seats have been called for each party, with races too close to call in Virginia and Montana. Democrats picked up hotly contested seats in Missouri, with Claire McCaskill knocking off Sen. Jim Talent, and Maryland, where Ben Cardin beat Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.

Although Barnett-Loro said the most eco-friendly places to eat on campus are the Refectory, the Faculty Commons and the Nasher Museum Cafe, Wulforst said he hopes the Compass-commissioned eateries will soon be counted among them. “Compass is not where it needs to be, but they are very anxious to implement programs that are more local and organic,” Wulforst said. The higher cost of organic foods, however, makes their widespread use difficult, according to a 2004 study by Greg Andeck, Nicholas ’O5, on the extent of eco-friendly practices in eateries on campus. “Of the 23 eateries on campus, only the upscale Washington Duke Inn regularly uses organic ingredients, other than coffee, Andeck wrote in the paper. “Eatery managers described cost premiums as the primary obstacle to the use of organic products.” Wulforst said economic concerns factored into dining decisions. “Many things we do in dining go unnoticed. We try to implement new programs, but when no one buys them, we have to stop,” Wulforst said. ’’

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and it’s hard to march under one banner when you’re spread out around campus.” Before the school moves into Gross Chemistry, the building will be renovated, but no schedule has been set. “It’s only in prospect,” Lange said. “It will place the Nicholas Institute in excellent space that will help us attract the best faculty and students. I hope to [develop plans] in the spring.” Schlesinger said the renovation plans will improve facilities within the Nicholas School once a timetable is set for construction. “What is currently Gross Chemistry will be consumed in a building built around it,” he said. “[Faculty members] think if it truly does enlarge on Gross Chemistry so it isn’t inheriting on someone else’s second-hand goods, then people will be really excited about it.”

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that he was a legitimate candidate, “If this had been a difference of one or two points, then I would have been a spoiler,” Monks said. Karshner said she took some solace in the outcome. “In my opinion, Mike Nifong did notwin tonight,” she said. “More people in Durham did not want Nifong than did.”

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was about the things I was saying,” Cheek said. “A lot of it has to do with a rush to judgment—-an inappropriate rush tojudgment.” Senior Tony McDevitt, a defenseman on the men’s lacrosse team, said the players are keeping their spirits high despite

Nifong’s victory. The lacrosse team helped lead the campus to the polls in recent months by passing out voter registration forms and encouraging students to follow through

Tuesday. “This was away to possibly slow down Nifong or end [the case] earlier, but by no means are we destroyed,” McDevitt said in a telephone interview. One positive outcome was the sheer number of students who went to the polls, he said. More than 400 Duke students have registered to vote in Durham during the past few weeks. “This is setting a precedent for future elections—it’s great to have the young population participating,” McDevitt said. “In no way, shape or form are we negative or walking around with our heads down.” Many of Cheek’s supporters blamed Monks for the loss, noting that if the write-in candidate had dropped out—as he was reported to have been considering in recent weeks—Cheek likely would have won. “If we had Monks’ votes, we’d be celebrating a victory now,” said K. C. Karshner, a Cheek supporter and Durham resident. Monks said his performance proves

After the results The scene at the courthouse was of a divided room. When the final vote totals were confirmed, there was an immediate cheer from the yellow-clad Nifong supporters clustered on one side. Shanieka Rhinehart, an assistant district attorney, started a chant of “Let’s go Nifong” and others supporters exchanged hugs and high-fives. “This goes to show that justice can’t be bought by a bunch of rich white boys from New York,” said Harris Johnson, a former state Democratic party official and Durham resident for 56 years. “Duke has a habit of sweeping things under the carpet. I guess this goes to show that no matter how much money you have, Durham is owned by its citizens,” he added. Across the aisle, the members of Recall Nifong-Vote Cheek sat quietly—some crying—and two Duke lacrosse players stood stoically in the back. “I think it went really well, seeing how Lewis Cheek didn’t campaign,” said Mary Beth Brewer, a sophomore at Durham Technical Community College. Johnson said the results have national

implications.

“If Nifong had lost, every woman in America would have been at risk,” he said, adding that it is Nifong’s opponents who have been unethical, not the district attorney himself. Johnson worked Tuesday at a precinct near North Carolina Central University and said students there turned out in droves, playing a major role in Nifong’s victory. “I know they were in favor of Mr. Nifong,” Johnson said. “They feel very strongly that this case has to go to court.”

Lewis Cheek garnered nearly 40 percent of the vote but could not overcome the incumbent, Mike Nifong.

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District Attorney Mike Nifong celebrates his victoryTuesday at a rally at the Old Durham Courthouse. the lacrosse case. “I have never thought that the election should be about a single case,” he said. When asked what his greatest challenge had been this campaign season, Nifong was silent for a few moments. ‘You know, it really hasn’t been that hard on me,” he said. “I am mosdy just tired and ready for this to be over.” He said he is more worried about the media spotlight's impact on his family than anything else. Cy Gurney, Nifong’s wife, was by his side for much of the evening. She said she is looking to the future and beyond the lacrosse case. “Over time, those emotions will be more calmed and maybe become more rational. That’s my biggest hope,” she said. Nifong said that in spite of the tensions the lacrosse case has wrought between Duke and Durham, he hopes differences can be put aside, too. “I can’t do it by myself,” he said, noting that there are strong opinions on both sides. “We are going to have to move together.” The Duke campus responds From the Bryan Center to scattered commons rooms, many students said they were not surprised by the outcome.

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Every student interviewed by The Chronicle Tuesday said they voted for Cheek. “The only result I wanted to see was Nifong not getting re-elected,” said junior Maura Styczynski, describing the district attorney as “awful.” “He made his name well-known in Durham, and a well-known name gets you far—even it’s for the wrong reasons,” Styczynski said. Sophomore Jill Garrison expressed a similar sentiment. “I can’t believe Nifong won such a high percentage of the vote afterall the stuff that has come out about him,” Garrison said. “People are just rooting against Duke and don’t want to admit that they’re wrong.” Other students, like junior Adam Chopko, said they couldn’t vote in Durham even though they felt strongly about the case. “I didn’t vote, but it’s because I didn’t want to lose my voting privileges in my home state,” Chopko said. For freshman Katie Rief, though, there was no choice other than a vote against Nifong and in support of the lacrosse team. “For me, it’s on principle,” she said. “I needed to know I did my part.” Josh Chapin, Katherine Macllwaine, Shreya Rao, Victoria Ward and ha Wojciechowska contributed to this story.

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Basketball season starts Sunday, and it won’t be long until Krzyzewskiville springs to life outside Cameron Indoor Stadium. I’m personally a big fan ofK-Ville, but it’s time to give it a facelift and install artificial turf to replace the natural grass that is annually destroyed in the winter. Yes, K-Ville needs to continue to be a test of will and determination against rival tents and the elements, but the mud pit that forms just days into the tenting season is simply disgusting and unsanitary. The wind and cold are great. If you want to see the biggest rivalry in college basketball in the sport’s most storied venue, you should have to endure some reasonable hardships. You should have patrick to endure frozen hlfPflAC UyV 1169 hands while playing Beer Pong and shots that start off looking good but wind up three feet from the table. You should have to endure the miserable task of getting out ofyour warm sleeping bag when the temperature hovers around freezing. You should have to endure standing out in the cold while the line monitors check every resident’s Duke Card at the nightly tent checks. But I don’t see the point in having to watch every step to avoid mud puddles while already negotiating through the maze of ropes that hold up the tents and seem to come out of nowhere when the sun goes down. Coach K always maintains that the Cameron Crazies are the team’s sixth man. Do you really think Coach K would want one of the other players on his team,

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With the score tied at 34 in a grueling, back-and-forth battle, the Blue Devils rose above Wake Forest with two clutch kills to notch the decisive second-game win in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke’s game-two victory was indicative of its overall performance Tuesday night, as the Blue Devils WAKE (22-3, 15-1 in the DUKE 3 ACC) took control and shut out the Demon Deacons (13-12, 9-7) in three games for the match win. With the victory, Duke extends its home win streak to 29 and continues to hold on to its top spot in the conference. “That was a key thing for us to get that [second] game,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We’re really excited to get one more win in the ACC for sure.... The team did a great job of executing tonight and playing together.” The Blue Devils started the night out strong, blowing out Wake Forest with a 30-14 win. Leading the Demon Deacons 23-14 in game one, Duke went on a 7-0 run to finish up the scoring and secure the victory. The second game, however, proved to be more of a challenge. After trading point for point the entire game, a Wake Forest kill at 29-28 notched the score and ruined Duke’s chance to end the game at 30. Instead, both teams refused to back down, trading timely kills to avoid defeat. Neither Duke nor Wake Forest managed to string together two uninterrupted

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Senior Tealle Hunkus led theBlue Devils in their sweep of Wake Forest with a match-high 18 kills.

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Ansley Cargill and Kelly McCain are not typical college seniors. They entered Duke as members of the varsity tennis team, left to join the professional circuit and have since returned to complete their degrees. Both are now volunteer assistant coaches for Duke’s team. At a time when many in the University are re-examining the role of collegiate sports, Cargill and McCain —initially members of the Classes of 2004 and 2005, respectively said they first came to Duke because of its reputation as both a high-caliber academic institution and a perennial tennis power. , McCain said she felt prepared to make the leap to professional tennis after her sophomore year at Duke. “College tennis allows you to get to a certain point, and it’s a really good stepping point to go pro,” she said. Cargill’s experience was slightly different. As an amateur tennis player in high school, she was able to play in a few professional tournaments. She was already ranked 220th in the world, and she hoped to at least maintain the ranking while at Duke. “Tennis is very one-dimensional—that’s all you do,” PETE KIEHART/THE CHRONICLE Cargill said. “I felt going to school helped me see what I After taking time off to pursue professional tennis careers, Ansley Cargill (left) and SEE TENNIS ON PAGE 14 Kelly McCain (right) have returned to Duke to complete undergraduate degrees. —

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For most teams, playing a game at home entails the usual benefits of sleeping at home and compedng in front of their fans. But for a Duke team that has been touched by tragedy, it means much, much more. Still mourning the loss of assistant coach Maria Whitehead, who passed away Nov. 1, the No. 4 Blue Devils (14-5) were excited, to learn they will be hosting first and second round games of the NCAA Field Hockey Championship,.which begins Nov. 11. “With everything that has happened this past week, the field has a pretty symbolic meaning for us,” senior forward Liz Floyd said. “It’s going to be an emotional weekend, but we are just so grateful to be able to play on it one more time.” Beyond the emotional aspects that playing at home will involve, the Blue Devils are excited to finally get the opportunity to host a tournament match. Despite being ranked No. 4 at the season’s end in each of the past two years, Duke has been sent to other campus sites to begin tournament

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In 2004, the Blue Devils travelled to Chapel Hill, where they upset top-ranked North Carolina in the second round. Last season, Duke opened the NCAA Tournament at Princeton, where the team won two straight double-overtime games over Princeton and Connecticut. This year, the Blue Devils are looking forward to playing on a field where they have lost only two games this season. “Last year, we were not very good at home, but this year we have played well at

home,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “We are excited to be here, and we hope to have a great crowd pushing us on.” By virtue of its seeding, Duke will also avoid playing the three top-ranked teams—Maryland, Wake Forest and Old Dominion—until the national semifinals. Led by a senior class that has played in the NCAA title game in each of its three seasons, the Blue Devils will face off against No. 17 James Madison (14-7), which earned the Colonial Athletic Association’s automatic bid with a 1-0 win over No. 3 Old Dominion. Old Dominion defeated the Duke twice this season, so the Blue Devils know they will face a tough opponent in their first-round game. “We need to come out from the start and make a statement,” Floyd said. “James Madison will come out pretty confident coming off that win, but we’re obviously capable of beating them. We just need to come out and play the game like we caji.” If the Blue Devils win their first game, they will play the winner of No. 5 Ohio State and No. 13 California, which Duke defeated earlier this season. All games will be played at Williams Field. Although this year’s tournament selection marks the eighth time in school history the Blue Devils will play in the NCAA Championships and the second time they have hosted preliminary rounds, the tragedy of last week stands to make this

year’s tournament particularly special.

“I think that Maria will be with us for a long time, and this is a really good way to keep her with us,” Bozman said. “We are going to work real hard this weekend.”

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Despite being ranked first overall in ESPN.com’s “The Bottom 10,” the Blue Devils may be on their way to their thirdstraight top-40 recruiting class. In the two years before head coach Ted Roof took over, Duke pulled in freshman classes ranked No. 76 and No. 65, according to scout.com. Since the Roof era has began, he and his staff have been able to inflate those rankings substantially to No. 31 last year and No. 36 this year. “Right now, recruiting is as good as anyone could hope for, given where Duke has been for most of the last 40 years,” said John Watson, local recruiting analyst for scout.com. “Next year, he’ll have three years worth of players he recruited. At that point, there will have to be some kind of tangible results. That talent level, as high as it’s been, at some point a light has to go on and things must start to click.” For the class of 2007, the Blue Devils have secured 12 high school commitments so far, and are pursuing several key prospects. Currendy, Duke’s recruiting class is ranked last in the ACC, according to rivals.com. The Blue Devils hope the quality of the class will be improved between now and Feb. 6, National Signing Day. Of the 12 committed recruits, only two are rated as three-star prospects. Last year, the Blue Devils signed two four-star players and nine three-star prospects. So far, the offense has grabbed a number of solid position players, but the Blue Devils need to shore up their offensive line, Watson said. Currendy, Duke has just two commitments across the lineman positions, compared to five skill players. Three-star tight end Danny Parker is Duke’s most recent commitment. Although he only played one year of high school ball, Parker received offers from Rutgers, Virginia, and South Carolina, and is ranked No. 44 at his position. Josh Trezvant and Austin Kelly—threeand two-star prospects, respectively—are key additions to a wide receiving corps that has

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Danny Parker, a three-star tight endfrom Wheaton, Md., committed to theBlue Devils in September. seen more balls thrown its way this season. Trezvant is a 4.0 student who accumulated 2,021 total yards and 20 touchdowns during his junior year at wideout and running back. ■ The Blue Devils are targeting several other highly-touted recruits to bolster the talent level of their 2007 class. Eight more three-star players and two four-star running backs—Armando Allen and Savion Frazier—list Duke as one of their considerations. Lightning quick Allen, who runs a 4.35 40-yard dash, would pair well with a 6-foot, 225-pound bruiser like Frazier, and both have had official visits at Duke. Watson said considering the fact that they have also received offers from schools like Florida, Notre Dame and Auburn—as well as Duke’s 17-game losing streak—an official visit is all the Blue Devils can ask for right now. Although Duke’s high admissions standards prevent the coaching staff from pursuing certain top recruits, Watson said the school’s academic reputation has been

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used as a strong incentive for prospects. “Players know that the odds of playing on Sunday aren’t overly high—no matter who you are,” Watson said. “And the opportunity to have a Duke degree has put [it] over the top in a number of cases in the last two seasons.” While the Blue Devils have been able to dramatically improve their recruiting program in recent seasons, they also have a chance to go winless this year for the fourth time in 11 seasons. The lack of results on the gridiron in the last few years has made it difficult at times for Duke to convince talented prep stars to suit up and play their home games in Wallace Wade Stadium. “The answer is hard work,” Watson said. “I know there have been weeks where [Duke’s coaches] have flown up and down the coast and were home for a few hours at the most. Plus, when recruits talk to Coach Roof oneon-one, they get a chance to really listen to his passion for getting the job done at Duke.”

Recruiting breakdown Offensive Needs; Offensive line—Duke is trying to establish a redshirting foundation in order to compete with the other teams in the league that have such practices in place. The team’s offensive line this year is young, starting three sophomores and two juniors. While this means the team should have the entire line returning, in order to have a consistent redshirt practice, the program needs a steady stream of talented linemen. “Duke is fighting to keep redshirts on everyone this year,” Watson said. “For guys like offensive line and defensive line, they need that year to prepare their bodies in the weight room. They need to be in a college conditioning program. Commitments: Two-star tackle John Needham and two-star tackle Kyle Hill Prospects: Three-star tackle Anthony Grosso and one-star guard Bryan Morgan Defensive Needs: Defensive back—With the departure of John Talley, Duke’s all-time career interception leader, and Deonto McCormick, the cornerback position is in need of much bolstering. The duo has started every game each of the last two years. This will be one of the only positions where incoming freshmen might not be able to redshirt because of team needs, although redshirt freshman Matt Pridemore is expected to contribute immediately next year. Starting safeties Adrian Aye-Darko and Chris Davis should be back next season to mentor the young corners. Commitments: Two-star corneTony Jackson Prospects: Two-star Michael Rainey-Wiles —Compiled by Matthew lies

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wanted to do in a better light. [Pro tennis] is a really big commitment, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do that.” After a year at Duke, she decided to play professional tennis full-time. Life as pros Cargill and McCain soon discovered there is a vast difference between professional and collegiate athletics. ‘You go from a team atmosphere to very individualistic,” McCain said. “It’s an everybody-for-themselves mentality.” McCain said she often travelled three weeks a month. Cargill similarly described playing around 32 weeks in the year, in addition to planning her schedule, balancing finances and making travel arrangements. “It’s basically like running your own business,” she said. Both players found some success on the

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Cargill competed against Venus Williams during the round of 64 at the 2003 Australian Open, but her favorite moment was her 2002 defeat of Patty Schneider, who was ranked eighth in the world at the time. McCain played in four Grand Slam events and qualified for the French Open. “It’s really self-satisfying,” McCain said of her accomplishments, noting that she remembers seeing about 20 American fans in the stands during her qualifying match. “It’s just really amazing how wherever you go there’s someone there who knows you,” she added. “A lot of them had followed me in college, and keep in contact with me through e-mail.”

Deciding to return McCain said she had a tough realization in the pros when she discovered that winning did not make her happy. “I feel like sometimes out there when you’re winning, it kind of covers up how you feel about things, and when you’re losing, everything gets a lot worse,” she said. She decided she was tired of the “really hard lifestyle,” and after two years as a professional, she returned last fall to complete her degree. Cargill, who spent three years away from school, said she was mentally burned out and needed to reassess her goals. She had already accomplished all she had initially set out to do and said she wanted to return to a “normal life.” Back at Duke Both players said the transition back to being full-time students was not easy. For Cargill, who had officially with-

drawn from school, it involved working with the administration and re-applying to the University. Director of Athletics Joe Alieva said returning professional athletes value a Duke diploma, and he supports their decisions. “It brings them back for the primary reason they selected Duke in the first place the life-long benefits of the educational experience at Duke University,” he said. Cargill said it was hard to re-adjust to

don’tknow how good you have it until it’s gone, and I have heard many students who have left Duke for a period of time say that about their Duke experience,” Wasiolek wrote in an e-mail.

What’s next? Cargill and McCain are both slated to graduate in May and plan to pursue careers outside of tennis. McCain wants to start a graphic design not competing regularly. company with her brother, also a former “Even though sometimes I might not standout college tennis player. love the hotel room, the airplane rides Cargill was hired by Morgan Stanley, but once you have achieved a certain level of she said she is still unsure as to what degree she will remain involved in tennis. success and made friends in the professionShe is now one of the 15th-highest al world, it’s very hard to not have that with times,” at all she said. ranked American female tennis players, as you Cargill said registering for classes she has continued to play in tournaments after her return to Duke. through ACES and re-orienting to a camthat had dramatic “I think it’ll always be in my life,” Cargill undergone physical pus changes was a challenge, and she doubted said. “For some reason if I don’t enjoy my her decision for the first few months. For job or it’s not for me, I’ll always have tennis McCain, it was hard to re-establish social to fall back on.” relationships. But both players said that despite the difficulties, they are happy they returned to school. “It might not be bad if you always want to play tennis, but if you want to do something else, it’s very hard without an education,” Cargill said. Now that they are back at school, the two players realized that their experiences as professional athletes have proven to be —

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VOLLEYBALL points—until freshman Rachael Moss finally slammed home two kills for the 3634 victory. In what was the turning point of the match, the Blue Devils gained the energy' and 2-0 lead they needed to finish up the Demon Deacons with the hard-

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like Josh Mcßoberts, sleeping in the mud? For the record, Coach K said at a press conference last spring that the school should make better drainage in K-Ville a priority. He also did not dismiss a reporter’s suggestion of installing AstroTurf. With artificial turf and a new drainage system, there would be no mud, no puddles and no need for the groundskeepers to repair the whole lawn every year. And I’m not talking cheap, uncomfortable carpet like Williams Field on East Campus. My vision has the soft FieldTurf like on the West Campus fields. It would certainly be extremely expensive to install, but the cost of yearly maintenance would be lowered dramatically, and I don’t think it would be all that difficult to find a rich person willing to pay for naming rights. Just think of the possibilities: “The Dick Vitale Grounds at Krzyzewskiville.” While it’s possible that turf would take away from the spirit of tenting, it’s not as if K-Ville is a truly natural camping experi-

ence anyway. I don’t consider myself to be “roughing it” when I can get a pizza deliv-

ered to my tent, and I can go use the bathroom at Wilson Gym. So who really cares if there’s ersatz grass? K-Ville should be all about getting pumped for Duke basketball —with reasonable challenges—and not be about cleaning out the mud that gets tracked into your tent. There is the potential problem of staking down the tents in the artificial turf, although I’m sure Duke students are clever enough to figure something out. And if not, it’s hilarious watching a tent get destroyed by the wind with its owners trying in vain to save it. But seriously, it seems anchors could be installed in the turf or cinder blocks could be used in lieu of die ground. Obviously, it’s too close to the start of K-Ville to get the artificial turf in for the upcoming season. But if Duke can place an order with FieldTurf—the primary company that uses new technology that looks like real grass and not the original green-carpet like AstroTurf—it would be very nice to be free of mud and filth in

Krzyzewskiville in 2008.

fought victory. “We had to come out intense, and we did,” senior Tealle Hunkus said. “It’s definitely a momentum shift, and especially a game 36-34—any game like that—is energy going into the locker room between games two and three, so it’s a key game.” The Blue Devils kept the momentum rolling and never trailed in the third game. Changing up the rotation, several Duke reserves took to the court as the Blue Devils bested Wake Forest 30-23 to seal the match. Hunkus led the Blue Devils with a match-high 18 kills, while Moss and junior Carrie DeMange added another 15 and 11 kills, respectively. Hausfeld set up the offense with a match-high 51 assists while adding five kills of her own on the way to the victory. On defense, the Bine Devils had to make some adjustments to battle a Wake Forest attack that kept floating softly-hit tips over the hands of Duke blockers. Anchoring the defense with a match-high 31 digs, junior Jenny Shull said she adapted to the Demon Deacon

‘We’re talking on the next one, we’re both going, then we’ll call each other off.”’ The home win over Wake Forest is an important victory, as Duke travels to Maryland and Boston College this weekend to start a stretch of two consecutive weekends on the road. Duke’s only conference loss of the season was on the road against Georgia Tech Oct. 27. “We’re just happy to get one because the league is tough,” Nagel said. “It’s a long season and now we’re hitting the road, so we’re happy to be sent off with a win.”

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‘You just have to make the extra effort talk to your teammate and both go for it,” Shull said. “It comes a lot with communication, because [the tips] are in between two people, and when that happens, you look to your teammate and say, to

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Highlights: -Informal talk by professor Guo-Juin Hong about the exhibition Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China -Live entertainmentand student-led tours -Opportunity to mix with Duke students from a variety of schools -Free hors d'oeuvres and cash bar (sorry, no credit cards or Flex) Hosted by the Nasher Student Advisory Board, co-sponsored by the Fuqua MBA Association, the Engineering Graduate Student Council, and the Duke Bar Association, with additional thanks to the Duke Student Nursing Association

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Facing the reality of Nifong Although

yesterday’s voters voted against him, but their political disapproval of midterm elections featured an all-out battle Nifong was split by overamfor control over the House of bitious challengers Steve Representatives and Senate, Monks and Lewis Cheek. it was a local race It was their that took center editorial refusal to back down and unite stage in Durham. After months of allegathe vote against Nifong that tions, scandal, investigation, caused his victory, not an controversy and debate, overwhelming show of apDuke now faces the reality proval for Nifong’s tactics that Durham District Attor- or history. Nifong avoided defeat by ney Mike Nifong will continue to serve, and, as he has the skin of his teeth and he promised, prosecute the must now acknowledge that Duke lacrosse case. many in Durham are dissatWith less than a majority, isfied with his performance Nifong can hardly consider as district attorney. He cannot construe this narrow vichis electoral victory an overwhelming mandate from the tory as approval for his conDurham community to controversial pursuit of the tinue the lacrosse case. Nifong must prosecuting lacrosse case as he has done consider his return to office in the past. The majority of for what it is: a strategic fail,

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majority. Support for anti-Nifong candidates like Cheek has never been about dropping the charges against the three players. It is about making sure that justice is served. Nifong says that he wants to do “the right thing,” and with the pressure of politics no longer weighing upon him, he should do exactly that. His job can shift from rallying voters to serving them. He should come off this election with a renewed commitment to prosecute the lacrosse case with unbiased justice. Nifong’s experience and relatively deep roots in Durham returned him to office, but his prosecutorial

conduct is still questionable. He has the opportunity now to restore credibility to his office through proper judicial procedures in prosecution. The lacrosse case is not the only one at stake here. After all, Nifong is the district attorney of Durham, not the head of the Committee of Public Safety of Duke, as some seem to have charged. His purview includes more than just prosecuting “a bunch of hooligans” whose “daddies could buy them expensive lawyers”—to say so would be to oversimplify. Rather, he is in charge of prosecutions for a county with plenty of crime. Whether or not he chooses to bring lacrosse to trial, we ask Nifong to make his de-

cision out of justice and respect for his own office, not out of political ambition or media pressures. We could blame Monks for Nifong’s reelection, as many have, but that would not change the reality of the situation. The lacrosse scandal would not have disappeared with any election result; those who believed in the guilt of the three Duke students would not have had their minds swayed if Cheek or Monks had dropped the case. We remind Nifong that this narrow victory is by no means a mandate to continue his controversial approach to prosecuting the lacrosse case; it is a slap on the wrist to remind Nifong who he really serves.

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the digital revolution, we now exist as two entities. There is the “digital” self, who writes with the swiftness of the Internet and the anonymity of an IP address, and the “real” self, who walks and talks. With every medium and context, of course, we must adapt to a new protocol—whether it be communicating without body language over the phone, or choosing to curb one’s tongue before calling home But more and more, that digital persona is less a supplement to our “real” self than an equal counterpart. andrew gerst A phone call lasts a few mincourage utes. But Duke students and professors are online almost constantly now, spending several hours a day writing emails, doing research, checking Facebook and the like. As The Chronicle found last year, only a handful of students come to Duke without a personal computer now; for many of us, it’s unthinkable. And when you’re talking to someone on AOL Instant Messenger for two hours who you don’t even say hi to in the hall, you’ve got to wonder: Who’s really on the other end? A growing number of Duke professors have legitimized this schizophrenia—the breaking down of students into “digital” and “real” selves—by using computer technology in away that doesn’t make sense. Blackboard, in particular, has become a force of alienation. In theory, Blackboard offers students and professors a chance to collaborate outside the classroom. But, in practice, all that seems to result—in my experience at least—is a two-faced discourse. Students and professors engage each other as their “digital selves” at night, then pretend it never happened, going back to lecture as usual in the day. We get more busywork to do, in the form of silly chat room discussions, paragraph responses and constant, excessive feedback—but what’s the value of it? Tools like Blackboard are perfect for uniting people across otherwise insurmountable distances. If students from across the globe were taking Writing 20, perhaps an online forum for meeting would make sense—but since we all gather in a physical classroom every week anyway, it doesn’t. On the contrary, it gives us the false impression that our shared time in the classroom is expendable, equivalent to the isolated hours of typing alone on a computer. The reason students pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to come here is to spend time in the presence ofothers who value learning and scholarship; Blackboard seems to say it’s a waste. Even if Blackboard were to succeed—by influencing classroom discourse with the highlights from online discussion—I am unconvinced that we would want it to. This mixing of two worlds violates a false, but fundamental, tenet of the Internet: that our real self cannot be held accountable for the sins of the “digital” self. Duke students who have landed in hot water for incriminating photos on Facebook have learned this lesson the hard way. The same holds, I imagine, for people whose classmates have discovered their Livejournals, old web sites, or ill-advised blog posts. How many drunken e-mails, taken out of context, have thwarted a friendship? For real learning to happen, students need the security and privacy of a classroom—a place where even the most farfetched comments are treated as explorations, not liabilities. “When you screw up now, it’s Google-able,” said Christopher Buckley, editor of Forbes FYI and a former writer for the Yale Daily News, in a piece for Slate last November. “In the old days, you just had to wait three days and no one would remember.” Everyone says things he regrets. Even ifBlackboard-boundprofessors were to ignore off-topic comments and focus on good ones, do we really want to be under scrutiny 24 hours a day? We can only pray that Duke students—who, aided by the growing features of Facebook and Myspace, are parsing themselves into “digital” and “real” selves more and more —do not go too far. One of the beauties of a university is an opportunity for trial and error in a supportive environment. Being able to meet thousands of wonderful people by walking down the hall, rather than on a website, is another one. The computer, and our increasing academic reliance on it, threatens both of those hallmarks. After graduation, you’ll have a much harder time meeting people your age—and in terms of responsibility, you’ll almost always be given enough rope to hang yourself. Don’t ask for it too soon. Andrew Gerst, formermanaging editor of Towerview, graduatedfrom Trinity in 2006 and now lives and works in Washington, D. C. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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2006 119

Not a Penn problem

America’s

elite universities are taking turns melting down under the intense media-scandal spotlight. For reasons founded and entirely unfounded (the distinction is rarely attempted), mass hysteria has slapped each school with its own crisp crime tag. So. Duke rapes minorities. Columbia assaults speakers. Brown funds orgies. Harvard plagiarizes chick-lit,

columns, admits

cartoons. Yale

terrorists. jane chong And Penn takes the short shot •ictures. The pithy sentence shocker fails. But that’s okay; they’ve got visual. Last year a two-tiered scandal unfolded when the university charged a student with sexual harassment, for snapping and posting pictures of two students presumably having sex in front of their full-length highrise window. Now another Penn picture is under the media microscope, and again the student in question is just a side dish. Penn President Amy Gutmann came under attack last Thursday for smiling for the camera with a student dressed as a suicide bomber at her annual Halloween party. Controversy broke out after senior Saad Saadi uploaded the picture onto his Facebook profile, which was linked to his personal website. He has since removed the picture and offered condolences to those upset by the costume. But the picture is still circulating. The international publicity bubble has officially popped, and it’s not Saadi, but Gutmann stuck mopping up the residual mess. According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, she released an official statement shortly after the buzz began, explaining that she had not realized what Saadi was dressed as when the picture was taken. She has reiterated her position in a guest opinion in the newspaper, where she apologized to those offended. The party held annually in Gutmann’s home is evidently something of a Penn tradition, as the paper describes it, during which students crowd the president for individual photo-ops. But the rest of the world is affording Gutmann little understanding about the factors that played into the picture take. Officials are scrambling as outraged alumni and outsiders (and not current students, as the DP notes) make the shallow depths of their inflated fury known. For a brief sample of the depraved threats that have been made with paradoxically patriotic flavor, check out the hundreds of online comments posted on the DP’s front page Friday. I guarantee it will make you queasy. The denunciations grow monotonous, but the absurdity linking them together remains impressive. One jewel from a letter to the DP editor: “If Muslims [sic] students demand we not insult their

prophet despite the ‘free speech’ right, they should apply the same standard to the way in which they behave and not abuse the privilege of free speech.” In an interview, Saadi reveals he is Christian, though that’s beside the point. Clearly categorical generalizations are being made, nonexistent links wrought and unrelated parties censured. In more ways that one. Critics have not only conflated dressing as a terrorist with glorifying terrorists, but accused Gutmann of being guilty of far worse. Generally praised for the force of her leadership and personality in her brief tenure as Penn president, Gutmann is suddenly facing intense criticism and even scattered calls for her resignation. The hoopla suggests her lifetime of achievement and amiability constitutes a minute detail, rather than the appropriate context in which to interpret the situation. We are not what we do, or what we say, but how we (ostensibly) mess up. The hastily snapped picture has taken on the force of a visual soundbite; and in America, that bodes very badly. Just ask Kerry. It presumes to speak a thousand words, and ten thousand acts. The outpouring of anger and the refusal to withhold judgment in the recent Penn case invokes images of bloodhounds pouncing on raw meat. Now that’s demoralizing. Sound familiar? The more details you learn about the situation, the more ludicrous the agenda-driven hyperboles become. One misconstrued event is being cut out and framed as representative of the racist, bigoted, violent, elitist University at Large. Is there an echo in the room? This is not a Penn thing, and apparendy it’s not a Duke thing. It’s not even a name-brand university thing. Scandals everywhere are short and snappy. Unless a harsh new angle is introduced. It’s what prevents them from being logically deconstructed, turned into explainable events. The news vans don’t stay long enough to exonerate or forgive. The pictures are only snapped once, and the resulting images forever frozen in the public eye. We could cridcize the offenders, but concise as we tend to be, we’d most likely fall victim to perpetuating the cycle. Sounds familiar. Soundbites are sexy. They’re easy on the ears and eyes, whatever form they takes. Bloggers, reporters, so-called analysts and schmoes have a great time ripping them to shreds, and the people underneath. There’s something seductive about dismantling reality, jabbing low, playing dirty, swiping at straw-men. Destroying people. With a sentence or two. With a picture in hand, and interpretations already in mind. It’s a different kind of terrorism. So go ahead; sum yourself up, in three words or less. Or with an “incriminating” Facebook picture. Beat someone else to it

Jane Chong is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every Wednesday.

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