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Shades of blue and only 10 miles separate the campuses of Duke and the University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill.

According to a draft of the 20062007 Krzyzewskiville policy, however, this difference will be enough to ban UNC Robertson Scholars from partic-

Council members call for voice in Culture talk

ipating in the time-honored Duke tenting tradition this spring when the two schools’ basketball teams go to blows in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The new policy will be submitted to the Duke Student Government today for approval, said Head Line Monitor Mara Schultz, a senior.

The policy explicitly bans any students who were full-time students at UNC during the Fall 2006 semester from this year’s tenting for Duke-UNC men’s basketball game.

Schultz said that though the rule is stated in this year’s policy, it is not

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necessarily new.

“A lot are rules that we wanted to

bring people’s attention to,” she said, referring to the regulations listed in

the draft.

Schultz said that because the UNC Robertson Scholars—who live and take classes at Duke for one semester—are not full-time students, they are not eligible for the privileges enjoyed by other Duke students.

Some UNC Robertson Scholars, however, said the ban is a violation of the spirit of the Robertson Scholars program.

“I was a little frustrated and angered by it,” said Alex Snider, a junior UNC Robertson Scholar, noting that he tented last year. [Scholars] should be treated like members of the community, like normal Duke students and not outcasts.” “

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Robertson Scholars cheer on the Tar Heels amid the Cameron Crazies at the March 4 Duke-UNC game lastyear.

Snider added that the policy may have been drafted in response to problems created last year when some UNC Robertson Scholars tented and attended the game wearing UNC apparel and cheering against Duke—in the middle of the Duke students’ section.

“I know a lot of Duke tenters weren’t a big fan [of the UNC Robertson Schol-

ar tenters] last year,” Schultz said. “If there are people who are concerned, I need to look more at depth at the purpose of the Robertson program and the rights of the students.”

The website for the Robertson Scholars Program states that, “although all SEE ROBERTSONS ON PAGE 11

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Members of the Graduate and Professional Student Council encouraged Campus Council Initiative leaders to broaden their considerations beyond the undergraduate community at GPSC’s meeting Tuesday night.

CCI Chair Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for undergraduate education, said the 25-member committee was formed last April in response to controversy surrounding rape allegations against three members of the men’s lacrosse team.

Although the primary focus of the initiative’s analysis is undergraduate culture, the committee is made up of faculty, staff and both undergraduate and graduate and professional students, he said.

“Given how hard it is just to focus on undergraduates, if we do this well, I’m going to be happy with that,” Thompson said. “At the same time, there are other areas that need attention that our committee can’t do—but we have to call attention to them.”

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As part of a program tosupport U.S. troops, DCU created a 5-by-l 3 ftbanner to fill with signatures of support.

Food or FLEX—it’s not just a choice for dinner anymore. It is also an option for donating money for care packages for soldiers, sailors and Marines on aclive duty.

Duke Conservative Union launched a drive Tuesday that will include fundraising for the packages and gathering signatures on a five-by-13-foot banner to be displayed at a Marine base in North Carolina. DCU Executive Director Stephen Miller, a senior and Chronicle columnist, said the endeavor is away to show support for the armed forces.

“We’ve reached a time when the American college campus is, as it was in the ’6os and 70s, a haven for anti-military sentim6nt,” he said. “This is an opportunity for the silent majority—not a political group, but the vast majority of Americans —whobelieve in the nobility of the men and women in uniform to show that.”

Miller made a special arrangement with Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee to allow the donation of food points on the condition that they be used to pay for food. He said the money will help to provide holiday treats for servicepeople in SEE VETERANS FLAG ON PAGE 10

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Gay ministry policy approved

Many kidnapped by gunmen in Iraq by

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BAGHDAD, Iraq Suspected Shiite militiamen dressed as Interior Ministry commandos stormed a Higher Education Ministry office Tuesday and kidnapped dozens of people after clearing the area under the guise of providing security for what they claimed would be a visit by the U.S. ambassador.

Witnesses and authorities said the gunmen raced through all four stories of the building, forced men and women into separate rooms, handcuffed the men and loaded them aboard about 20 pickup trucks.

Shortly afterward, authorities arrested

six senior police officers in connection with the abductions—the police chief and five top subordinates in the Karradah district, the central Baghdad region where the kidnappers struck, Interior Ministry spokesperson Maj. Gen. Jalil Khalaf said.

There were varying estimates of the number of people kidnapped, but it appeared that at least 50 were seized—one of the largest mass abductions in Iraq. Authorities said as many as 20 were later released, but said a broadcast report that most hostages were freed appeared to be false. The assault came on a day that saw at least 117 people die in the mounting disorder and violence gripping the country.

The abductions in broad daylight raised further questions about Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s commitment to wiping out the heavily armed Shiite militias of his prime political backers: the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq—or SCIRI and the Sadrist Movement of radical, antiAmerican Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

AI-Maliki faces intense pressure from the United States to disband and disarm the militias and their death squads, which are deeply involved in the country’s sectarian slaughter and are believed to have thoroughly infiltrated the police —

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Senate Democrats choose leaders by

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WASHINGTON Democrats voted to keep the leaders who guided their takeover of the Senate last week but were sharply divided over whether to give Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi the majority leader she wants in the House.

Former Republican Majority Leader Trent Lott opened a bid to return to the Senate’s Republican leadership after being ousted in 2002.

“Yes, I am,” Lott said Tuesday when asked if he was challenging Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander to become minor-

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ity whip in the newly elected Congress next year.

Senate Democrats voted Tuesday to make Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada majority leader and Dick Durbin of Illinois No. 2 in the party hierarchy. Both have held the same positions but with “minority” instead of majority in their titles since the 2004 election.

In the House, a bitter battle was under way after Pelosi said she would prefer Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania to be majority leader over her current lieutenant, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland. Grides accused Pelosi of backpedaling on a pledge to

scrub the House of corruption.

Both Murtha and Hoyer claim to have commitments from a majority of Democrats, but the balloting Thursday will be secret and commitments often change.

Murtha, a decorated Vietnam veteran who favors an immediate drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq, has fought charges for years of using his senior status on the defense appropriations subcommittee to award favors to campaign contributors.

He voted against a Democratic package of ethics reforms earlier this year and was touched by but never charged in the Abscam bribery scandal a quarter-century ago.

The United States' Roman Catholic bishops adopted new guidelines for gay outreach Tuesday that are meant to be welcoming, while also telling gays to be celibate since the church considers their sexuality "disordered."

Poll shows Iraq as top priority More Americans rank Iraq as the top priority of the new Democratic-controlled Congress, but nearly three out of five say the party does not have a plan to deal with the war, according to the latest Associated Press-lpsos poll.

New traces of elements found New traces of plutonium and enriched uranium-potential material for atomic warheads—have been found in a nuclear waste facility in Iran,Tuesday as the Iranian president boasted his country's nuclear fuel program will soon be completed.

Bush speaks with auto leaders President George W. Bush told Detroit's auto industry leaders Tuesday he knows they are making "tough choices" to shore up their companies in foreign competition and promised continuing dialogue as they seek help on trade and health care issues.

News briefs compiled from wire reports "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." Henry Ford

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Controversial N.C. housespeaker race still in limbo

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The results of the race between North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black, a Democrat, and Republican newcomer Hal Jordan have been thrown into further doubt after election officials announced Tuesday that 446 ballots were cast by individuals not in Black’s district.

Election officials said the mix-up was a result of the fact that two state House districts shared Precinct 106 at McClintock Middle School. Due to this confusion, precinct officials accidentally gave some voters the wrong ballots.

Of the ballots in the precinct, Black received 142 and Jordan received 380, the North Carolina Board, of Elections said.

The miscast votes have formed a new twist in an already hotly contested race.

Black, who faced federal and state investigations this year, previously held a seven-vote lead in the Nov. 7 race against Jordan. Updated results including votes by provisional ballots, which will be released Nov. 17, were supposed to help decide the race.

The state Board of Elections is meeting to address the miscast ballots Nov. 28, said Gary Bartlett, the Board’s executive director.

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Last year at LDOC, Guster headlined the night. Guitarist Matt Costa and rapper Rahzel opened the show.

After Duke, alums gain

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Duke students are known to take on ambitious projects after receiving their diplomas.

But some recent graduates are pursuing their interests beyond America’s borders—studying experimental protein physics in Russia, teaching elementary school in Argentina or researching sex education in the Dominican Republic.

Graduate school or immediate entry into an office job are no longer the only options for recent graduates, many alumni said. According to numbers gathered from senior surveys conducted by the Career Center, approximately 20 to 40 graduates choose to pursue work or service opportunities abroad each year.

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classes for students, it’s also for the teachers—they should have fun too.”

The committee also hopes to strengthen the event with daytime programming for the students, Higgins said.

“We want to try and have a lot more out in central areas where people can come and hang out,” Higgins said. “We’re in college, we want to have fun, we don’t want to grow up yet.”

She noted that because of the rain during last year’s LDOC, the daytime programs were cancelled. The committee is working on a better rain plan this year, Higgins said.

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As newly appointed 2007 LDOC committee chair, Higgins, a senior, said she has a lot planned for the event that will be held at the end of the spring semester.

“I’m so excited about it,” she said. “I hope it’s going to be just as good as last year, if not better.”

In addition to the annual concert, the LDOC committee—consisting of 15 students—aims to add programs in which students will be interested that do not necessarily involve alcohol, thanks to the increased emphasis on the Campus Culture Initiative this year, Higgins said.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to bring an event that not only makes the students

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HIV medicines triple survival rate ATLANTA An American diagnosed with the AIDS virus can expect to live for about 24 years on average—more than three times a 1993 life expectancy estimate—a study that appeared in the November edition of the peer-reviewed journal Medical Care found. The paper also cited that the average health-care cost for HIV over those two-plus decades has risen dramatically. The study could influence how much state and federal governments appropriate for HIV and AIDS care and prevention in the future, some HIV policy experts said.

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Researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute released a study this week that examined skewed mortality rates in blacks and whites suffering from severe coronary artery disease in the Duke University Medical Center.

The study, funded in part by the Association of Black Cardiologists, found

providers.

Thomas said further research examines more complex factors such as a patient’s recovery environment.

“When patients return to their home environment, they face many challenges and barriers to following their doctor’s advice and maintaining a healthy lifestyle,” he said. “Patients may unexplained “What are the other factors benot fill their preracial disparities scriptions, or if they in treatment ophind this void and why do they do, they may not tions presented to exist?

This an amazingtake the medication presents patients over the long term.

Researchers ly Often, patients may examined coursKevin Thomas revert to bad habits es of treatment in terms of diet and from the first 30 fellow, Duke Clinical Research Institute kine. These obdays following stacles may disprocardiac catheteriportionately affect zation and found that whites were 12 percent more likely minority populations.”

Thomas said researchers examining race than blacks to receive coronary bypass suroften turn to data collected in the 1980 s and gery —known to contribute to higher surfrom small groups of patients today. vival rates.

“Healthcare disparities complicate the “What are the other factors behind this void and why do they exist? This presents an meaning of equal treatment for all patients,” amazingly complex question,” said Kevin said Mary Ann Black, associate vice president for community affairs for the Duke University Thomas, a cardiology fellow at the Duke ClinHealth System. “Duke aims to take major ical Research Institute.

21,054 strides here and beyond the Duke community Researchers analyzed data from patients with severe coronary heart disease from to address the issue.”

Black said efforts to work with community 1986 to 2004. The same period saw a 36 persurvival rate black as leaders among may help reverse the trend of cent patients opposed to a 46 percent survival rate among health-care inequalities. those who were white, Thomas said.

“Getting information out is key,” Black said, after data account for existing adding that blacks need better resources Even to racial discrepancies —such as higher rates of for understanding treatment options.

Duke’s efforts to address potential factors diabetes in blacks—was adjusted, 8 percent of the 10 percent gap in mortality rates could behind disparities have reached far beyond the confines of the University. still not be accounted for, researchers said.

The study cited other potential factors Recently, the Duke University Medical behind the survival gap such as a mistrust of Center voiced a recommitment to improving healthcare efforts, unintentional racism access to health care within the Durham com-

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Dr. Kevin Thomas, a cardiology fellow, hasresearched racial disparities in the performance of certain heart surgeries. munity, particularly among minorities “What we’ve started to do is focus on the Lincoln Community Health clinic, where Duke has given |6 million for improvements,” Thomas said.

“About 80 percent of patients are AfricanAmericans, while 10 percent are Hispanics this has a great potential for exploring the impact of change,” he added.

Thomas explained that race is often overlooked as a factor in medical outcomes and must be examined more closely.

He added that cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans regardless of race.

“Right now, we’re starting to find the existence of disparities in healthcare,” he said.

“Understanding and fixing them in the future will entail all [of us] working together.”'

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All patients want a hospital with cutting-edge technology, capable intensive care staff, experience in high-risk treatments and a culture of innovation.

Duke University Medical Center patients will be happy to hear that DUMC was honored by the Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety as one of the 50 safest hospitals in America, based on those four criteria.

Mary Ann Fuchs, clinical associate and chief operating officer of hospital administration, said the rating is an appropriate honor for DUMC. “Getting honored by Leapfrog just shows our organization is dedicated to assuring quality and providing high standards of care,” Fuchs said.

According to the group’s website, the Leapfrog Group rates hospitals that respond to a voluntary survey.

The final safety ranking is based on four criteria: computerized physician order entry, or CPOE, which evaluates the use of computers for communication; the experience of intensive care staff; the hospital’s competency with high-risk procedures; and compliance with 27 specific safety initiatives.

Michael Russell, the associate chief information officer for DUMC and an associate professor of medicine, said the medical center’s advanced CPOE system was a major reason for the rating.

In the past, doctors wrote out orders on pieces of paper, which could cause confusion when they were routed to other departments and the handwriting or wording was unclear.

“This process [of handwritten orders]

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In less than two years, the publicly managed Dorothea Dix Mental Hospital in Raleigh will close its doors to move into a new facility in Butner, N.C. The move, however, leaves a number of concerns with some administrators of local hospitals who say they will not have the facilities or financial backing to handle the new increase in psychiatric patients, said Marvin Swartz, head of social and community psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center.

Swartz added that the opening of the new hospital will leave the Triangle area without a central psychiatric facility for the mentally ill.

The shift will affect the five regional hospitals in the Triangle area, including DUMC, which is currently involved in clinical care and clinical research at John Umstead Hospital in Butner, Swartz said.

Dix and Umstead will merge into a new facility, Central Regional Hospital, on Umstead’s existing campus thirty minutes outside ofDurham.

“We’ve had pretty extensive conversations about how to merge the operations between Dix and Umstead,” Swartz said.

“We are working to build a collaborative relationship at the new facility.”

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Duke University Medical Center was named one of the top 50 hospitals nationally in patient safety. is just wrought with error,” Russell said, adding that the CPOE system standardizes the process. “[CPOE] is something that Leapfrog has put forward as a goal for hospitals, and that Duke has decided in part for its own purposes to pursue,” Russell said. “The Leapfrog folks have been very impressed.”

A 2003 organ transplant mix-up at DUMC caused the death of a patient, and the following year hydraulic fluid was ac-

cidentally used in place of detergent to clean surgical instruments. After these mix-ups, DUMC instituted a number of reforms to prevent future errors.

Kat Song, director of communications for The Leapfrog Group, wrote in an e-mail that these events did not affect the hospital’s rating, because none of the survey questions pertained to

specific events.

Song added that DUMC performed quite well on all of the survey measures.

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contest was a major focus this sefor the Pitchforks, and the group practiced a few days each week leading up to the event, Bryant said.

“Pretty much all we did this semester was prepare for this competition,” he said.

Pate added that the group also worked on song arrangements and mastery of pieces on their recently released CD. “It was a good opportunity for [the four freshmen in the group] to see what the more rigorous rehearsals were like,” he said.

Despite all the preparation, however, group members said they were there for the experience and to enjoy themselves.

“For us the competidon was a lot less about winning, but a lot more about having the opportunity to focus in on some of the music we were working on,” Pate said.

Bryant said the group performed songs byjohn Legend, Muse and 2gether.

“We had some awesome, awesome choreography to go with [2gether]..„ It was pretty great,” he said.

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Last Friday, members of the Pitchforks, one of Duke’s best known a capella groups, were declared the winners of the Sojam regional a capella compedtion.

“It’s a pretty big compedtion,” said junior Chris Bryant, president of the Pitchforks.

This is the second year that the Pitchforks competed in Sojam. Last year, the group came in second.

“Personally I wanted to go back just to have that opportunity to win,” said sophomore Jason Pate, business manager and member of the group.

The winners could choose from among three prizes, and the Pitchforks selected three days ofrecording and studio-editing time and a professional photo shoot.

Bryant said that in order to qualify for the competition, which was held in Cary, N.C., groups were required to submit a DVD of a performance. About 30 colleges attended the event, but only seven were chosen for the competition.

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On a campus where most students own personal computers and it seems like a crisis when ePrint stations run out of paper, it can be hard to believe that only a few blocks away, some Durham elementary schools lack the most basic school supplies.

Crayons2Calculators, a new non-profit organization run by students from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is trying to remedy the situation by providing a variety of school supplies to Durham students.

The group aims to establish a warehouse that teachers can visit certain days each month to select the items they need for their classes.

As a parent of students in the Durham Public School system and vice chair of the Durham School Board of Education, Steve Schewel first pitched the idea to Duke students because he saw a real need for basic

classroom materials fundraising efforts “We have many, many students in C2C is focusing on finding warehouse Durham who come to school without the space this year and hopes to give away necessary supplies because they are so poor,” $20,000 worth of supplies, targeting alumsaid Schewel, who is also a visiting professor ni and other grant programs for funds, The in public policy group and an advisor also hopes to to C2C. “I have eventually service “We have many, many students seen so many all Durham Pubi i m Durham who come to school teachers take lic schools, said money out of C2C President without the necessary supplies their own pockMatt Hameroff, a because they are SO poor. ets for supplies, sophomore, so we are trying “Last year we Steye Schewd to lighten their served one vice chair, Durham School Board school,” Schewel load.”

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Ihis year we’d like to serve group’s first event last April, teachers from E.K Powe five or 10. If we keep expanding at this Elementary School received about $1,300 rate, we’ll be serving all ofDurham soon.” of supplies, funded through donations C2C was started last year by four senfrom Duke University Stores, a grant from iors in public policy professor Tony the Hart Leadership Program and other Brown’s “Leadership, Development and ,

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Brown allows members of the Durham community to submit service project proposals and Schewel brought the idea of C2C to the class’ attention.

Schewel said he was familiar with the success of similar classroom supply warehouses in other parts of the country.

“Like all good ideas, it was an idea that came from my mother,” he said, referring to a program that his mother works for in Lynchburg, Va. After last year’s program organizers graduated, Hameroff and UNC sophomore Nick Anderson—a Robertson scholar have taken over C2C’s leadership positions.

“We’re planning another event at Lakewood [Elementary School] at the beginning of December,” Anderson said. “Hopefully we’ll open up a long-term warehouse —

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Robert Thompson, chair of the Campus Culture Initiative, speaks at the weekly GPSC meeting Tuesday.

“What we really need to do is create space for more of an affirmation and embracing of difference, such that it’s not He said graduate and professional stupossible just to reside in one’s comfort dent bodies and Duke’s interaction with level,” Thompson said. the Durham community are two such He added that students should learn diconsiderations. versity appreciation as part of their “It’s a matter of scope and time, not a four-year education at Duke along with matter of not being important,” Thompanalytical and social skills. son said.

“I represent diversity, and unfortuGPSC Presinately I agree dent that Duke is not Audrey Ellerbee, a working so well “This committee, like several for me,” said fifth-year biomedical engiShannon Hickhas been slow to others, recogneering student ey, a doctoral who sits on the nize that graduate and professtudent in reliCCI committee, gion.

Hickey sional students are an imporsaid she had to encouraged the CCI to consider petition tant part of campus culture.”

Thompson to religious diverAudrey Ellerbee sity in addition include graduate and profesto other catepresident, GPSC sional students gones The commitin the steering tee process. plans to “It’s a continual oversight,” she said. make its recommendations in a public “This committee, like several others, has report to President Richard Brodhead by been slow to recognize that graduate and the end of the academic year, Thompson professional students are an important said.

The committee’s initiatives have also part of campus culture.”

The group worked through the sumled to more immediate changes, such as an mer to identify and understand campus undergraduate leadership group to faciliculture problems. Subcommittees focused tate communication between academic thematically on athletics, gender and sexu- and staff parties, as well as modifications to freshman orientation and to residential ality, race and alcohol, Thompson said.

He said despite increased diversity on life on West Campus, said Larry Moneta, campus, findings illuminated the divisions vice president for student affairs. underlying the community.

“The reactions to the events were filIn other business: tered, perceived and responded to through Working with Associate Athletics Direca lens of difference,” Thompson said. tor Mitch Moser, GPSC altered the seating In addition, a pervasive sense of conarrangements in the graduate and profesformity makes alternative members of the sional student section of Cameron Indoor Stadium to solve the visibility problem. community feel less welcomed, he said.

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The availability of international pro“In the past few years, [working abroad] grams that afford students the opportunity is an increasing trend for students who to go abroad has made the practice more want to do short-term international proj- popular, Vargas said, ects,” said Abby Vargas, career specialist at Julia Reiger, Trinity ’O6, is volunteering at an orphanthe Career Center.

Alumni in a vaage in Salriety vador, Brazil of fields .1 j T i 3 neW 1 loVed Settm g cited work experithrough a procalled ence, traveling gram with a UCW culture, Struggling and finding pracCross-Cultural i i language and making new ticai applications solutions.

“Brazil is for classroom lesfriends.” amazing besons as the main benefits to pursuReiger cause it [is] °f friendly ing international Volunteer in Brazil Trinity ’O6, and people opportunities. natural beau“I recommend a year abroad to ty.... I loved all driven Duke students in order to degetting to know a new culture, struggling compress for a year before entering the with a new language and making new highly competitive world of Wall Street, friends,” she wrote in an e-mail.

Time abroad after graduation also prograduate school, etc.,” Adam Yoffie, Trinity ’O6 and a Fulbright scholar currently workvides an opportunity to put the skills learned in the classroom at Duke into ing in Israel, wrote in an e-mail.

Laurel Redding, Trinity ’O6, said taking practice, recent graduates said. a year to work in a laboratory in Jhunan, Danielle Reifsnyder, Trinity ’O6, is a FulTaiwan provides her with experience in a bright scholar currently working in the Labnew environment before graduate school. oratory ofProtein Physics at a research insti“I chose Taiwan kind of randomly—- tute at the Russian Academy of Sciences. never had really done Asia before, wanted “I decided to apply for the Fulbright beto try a new and exciting place and I knew cause it would provide an experience that a fair amount of people in Taiwan,” Redwould be the culmination of my double ding wrote in an e-mail. She will be coming major in chemistry and Russian at Duke,” back to the United States next year to at- Reifsnyder wrote in an e-mail. tend the School of Veterinary Medicine at Her time spent abroad has provided the University of Pennsylvania. her with a new outlook.

Working abroad is not without its perils, “Working in a foreign environment... is however, graduates said. able to give perspective on the work I do “I have been robbed, given counterfeit that I couldn’t get in my native country money, assaulted and gotten extremely and culture,” Reifsnyder said. “Everyday, I lost, but after a while I got used to every- see differences and similarities in how peothing and had a wonderful time,” Magdaleple go about their work that make me na Fernandez, Trinity ’O4, wrote in an e- question how I do mine.”

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array of attendees.

“I really want it to be an event that everyone finds something good about—a lot of diversity of things for people to do,” she said.

Higgins is conducting surveys to gain student input before deciding on activities.

“I would love to hear what students have to say,” she said. “I don’t want to plan this event and have no idea what people want.”

Currently the committee has a total budget of SI 10,000—$90,000 from the increase in the student activities fee and $20,000 from Campus Council.

Additional funding from the Duke University Union is still pending.

“We have a strong relationship with the Union,” Higgins said. “If we need the extra funding, I’m confident they’ll be there to help us with it.”

She added that in coming weeks, the LDOC committee will be presenting a proposed budget to the University Union Board to receive approval for the funds.

The UUB —consisting of administrators, staff and students—reviews and approves all of the Union’s financial decisions along with the Union’s executive board.

“Increased funding will allow us to have a much safer and more fun event, and not feel restricted in what we can do and who we can get [for the concert],” Higgins said.

She added that the committee is also looking to other sources for additional funding and hopes the final budget will be set by Winter Break.

“Right now, it’s all Just hopes and dreams about what we'd like to do,” she said, adding that final decisions should be announced around February.

Higgins was selected for the position from five candidates by Campus Council and Union members.

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, said Higgins was chosen due in part to her previous experience working on last year’s LDOC committee and on a similar event at DePaul University before transferring to Duke.

“Beth was the most qualified candidate that we had,” Ganatra said. “And she has good ideas on how to get extra funding.”

Higgins said her previous experiences under different environments taught her to be flexible.

“I learned that there are hoops to jump through, so many things to take into account,” she said! “I’ve become more well rounded as far as event planning goes.”

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This year’s organizers are also turning

new sources of fundraising.

“We’re using Duke’s resources,” Hameroff said. “We’re sending letters to Duke alumni involved in corporations that might have supplies, like Bic or Crayola, who have the potential to support us through their status and corporation.”

C2C is also applying for additional grant money through the University and other national programs.

“It’s a hard goal, but it’s possible,” Hameroff said. “We want to build relationships with businesses for longer periods of time where they continuously give us supplies.”

The program is also strengthening to

town-gown relations, he said.

“One thing I like is the relationship between Durham and Duke,” Hameroff said. “We’ve met teachers and principals and gotten in firsthand contact with Durham.”

Despite its successes thus far, critics have called the program materialisdc, Anderson said.

“I guess that they think we could be focusing on tutoring kids or whatever, but it’s not as if we’re providing an excess of materials,” he said. “We’re just bringing them up to where they should be—Durham schools are very, very under-provided for.

They have the bare minimum.”

Hameroff and Anderson are not letting their detractors limit their vision of the program’s future.

“We aim to change the face of education in Durham,” Anderson said.

IRAQ from page 2 and security forces U.S. Central Command Chief Gen. John Abizaid sternly warned al-Maliki face-to-face Monday that he must disband the militias and give the United States proof that they have been disarmed, according to senior Iraqi government officials with knowledge of what the men discussed.

So far, the prime minister has said the militias should not act illegally but has taken no tough action against them.

Al-Maliki, who leads a Shiite-dominated Iraqi government, appeared to minimize the importance of Tuesday’s kidnappings.

The abductions were believed to be the work of the Mahdi Army, the heavily

armed al-Sadr militia which controls the Karradah district.

“What is happening is not terrorism, but the result of disagreements and conflict between militias belonging to this side or that,” al-Maliki said in televised remarks during a meeting with President Jalal Talabani.

That response was likely to prompt deeper concerns among the U.S. military and the Bush administration.

The Americans have struggled for 44 months to put in place a democratic and multi-sectarian and multiethnic government that would embrace the Sunni and Kurdish minorities, even if dominated by die Shiite majority.

Since taking office in May, al-Maliki has essentially refused to reach out to the Sunnis, who ran the country for decades under Saddam Hussein.

VETERANS FLAG Iraq and other war zones.

“The troops overseas have to buy luxury foods on their own dollar—anything that’s not on ration,” Miller said.

“If you’re serving in the Green Zone in Iraq, there’s not a lot of opportunity to buy gingerbread cookies.”

An exception also had to be made that will allow DCU to set up their banner on the first floor of the East Union Building Wednesday. Unlike in past years, new rules mandate that student organizations can only table on the bottom floor of the building. Miller said the administration was helpful and accommodating.

The idea for the drive, hatched early in the year, comes to fruition in the wake of Veterans’ Day, which was celebrated Saturday. Millersaid many people have the impression that today’s youth does not recognize the sacrifices made by the troops—an impression he hopes DCU’s effort can dispel.

“As far as I know, there has never been anything like this in the history of Duke University or any other major American university,” Miller said. “I see this as the beginning of a trend of younger people taking time to show their support for the military.”

When the banner is filled with signatures, DCU representatives will deliver it to Camp Lejeune, a Marine base near Jacksonville in southeastern North Carolina.

Students gathered to sign the banner at the Bryan Center Tuesday night. Sophomore Sara Quick was one passer-by who stopped to add her signature. For her, the cause hits close to home.

“One of my really good friends served in Afghanistan and is going to Iraq in June,” she said. “I believe we should really support the troops regardless of our political beliefs.”

Her friend Celia Glass, also a sophomore, admitted her own views did not align with those of the DCU members present but signed it anyway —again because of a personal connection to servicepeople.

“I did struggle with the fact that it said ‘Duke Conservative Union’ on it, but I have friends of a friend who are there, and it’s not their fault,” she said.

Miller said although the project is sponsored by DCU, he sees it as an opportunity for students to bridge ideological and political divides. Most people support the U.S. armed forces regardless of their political stance, he said, but sometimes that is lost in the furor of partisan politics.

‘You cannot underestimate the importance of average citizens showing the soldiers that we care,” Miller said. “They are the ones who are keeping us safe—we’re here enjoying all these great luxuries stateside at Duke University, but these men and women are facing down evil overseas.”

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UNC Robertson Scholar Schultz said unified atlUOSshe has not rephere where ceived any complaints regarding the policy, everyone is cheering for one team.”

Still, for some scholars, the game is Nonetheless, Suitts said he hopes line about more than a rivalry. Snider said tent- monitors and scholars can reach a happy ing formed an integral part of his overall medium—even if that means banning his Duke experience.

Carolina blue T-shirt for the game.

“It’s hard to experience Duke without “Banning the Robertsons is against the the basketball,” he said. “I want future spirit of the program, but I also think to a Robertsons to have this experience.... It’s degree what we did last year was against not too much to ask.” the spirit of the program,” he said.

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DIX HOSPITAL from page 5 Faculty, medical students and psychiatric residents at both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke will work at the new hospital, Swartz said.

Currently, the public psychiatric system includes four hospitals: Dix in Raleigh, Umstead in Butner, Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro, N.C., and Broughton in Morgantown, N.C. The opening of Central Regional will shift the majority of clinical care for the mentally ill to the major private hospitals in the greater Raleigh area.

Swartz said Duke is concerned that patients coming from the previous catchment area of Dorothea Dix will have a longer commute to get care.

“Dix is the only psychiatric hospital in

Raleigh; no other hospital around here admits Medicare, Medicaid or indigent pa-

patients,” said Carla Parker Hollis, vice president of public relations and market-

ing at Duke Health tients,” said Raleigh Hospital.

Swartz. “The “Often they have concern is, other health issues, where will “Dix is the only psychiatric hospiwhich we take care those patients tal in Raleigh; no other hospital of in our general now go?” facilities.”

In response around here admits Medicare, Wake County to these conMedicaid or indigent patients.” of the department cerns, human services has Wake County Swartz Marvin been holding condepartment of community head social and psych, DUMC of versations with rehuman services has eargional hospitals to build a 60-bed psymarked funds for local emergency rooms to take on the chiatric facility somewhere in the region, said Heather Moonachie, a media relaoverflow of psychiatric patients, according to a statement. tions specialist at WakeMed. Hollis said Duke Health Raleigh has not “We see mentally ill patients coming into the hospital all the time as general in- been contacted by Wake County, but the

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to creating a solution for the future lack of local facilities.

WakeMed, however, has been involved in discussions with Wake County to build a psychiatric wing on its Raleigh campus, Moonachie said.

“Right now there is no solution, but we have been in lots of meetings trying to find a suitable one,” she said.

Meanwhile, the private hospitals think that they can temporarily manage the influx in mentally ill patients after Dix closes, Moonachie added.

“We’ll work with other hospitals in the area, such as Umstead and Holly Hill to provide long-term care,” Hollis said.

“While we don’t have the facilities to handle whatever new patients we’ll get after Dix closes, our emergency room is handling the mentally ill patients we receive now,” Hollis added.

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Hal Jordan, Black's Republican challenger, campaigned against Black by targeting his alleged corruption and his ties to Rep. Michael Decker.

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Julie Robinson, a spokesperson for Black, said the speaker is urging the Board of Elections to allow the 105 eligible

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the affected district to recast their ballots.

Robinson said that since it is impossible to tell which ballots are valid, a new election would allow these individuals to ensure that their votes are counted.

If a new election is called, Robinson said Black would maintain his lead in the race.

“There is no way right now for Hal Jordan to mathematically overcome Speaker Jim Black,” she said. “It is just a matter of making sure that every ballot is cast, counting every vote and seeing what the final margin is.”

Jordan and representatives from his campaign could not be immediately reached for comment.

But even if Black wins the election, some have said his reputation has already suffered from federal and state investigations this year. Although Black has not been charged with any crime, four others connected to the speaker have pleaded guilty to and have been convicted offraud, conspiracy or lobbying violations.

Black himself was recently named a co-conspirator by former state Rep. Michael Decker in a case involving extortion, money laundering and mail fraud.

Decker admitted to accepting $50,000 and a legislative job for his son for switching parties, a move that allowed Black to remain speaker in 2003.

Jordan used these allegations in his own campaign against Black, reported The Charlotte Observer.

Black also suffered financially due to investigations, spending more than $915,000 on legal fees sinceJuly, The Charlotte Observer reported earlier this month.

Despite negative publicity and cuts in his campaign funds, Black seems to have reclaimed his district seat, Robinson said.

Prior to the discovery of the miscast ballots, Jordan told The Charlotte Observer that he would likely call for a recount. In an interview yesterday with the newspaper he said he will wait to see what happens.

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The highlight of the opening of Duke’s basketball season earlier this week was not Gerald Henderson’s Swat-HeardRound-the-World (though don’t forget to give Jon Scheyer credit for breaking up that fast break in the first place) or even DeMarcus Nelson’s super slam.

No, the best part about the opening rounds of the CBE Classic was more subtle than that—though maybe equally, if not more, audible—and had nothing to do with the action on the court.

After a brief twogame suspension, the Cameron Crazies JPwere right back where they belong breathing down the meredith necks of the slovenly ■ sports writers.

For those who missed it, in the first two exhibition games no students were allowed to stand on the floor behind press row—where the Crazies I have traditionally situated themselves for years—because die Durham Fire Marshall declared it a violation of the fire code.

And although some may wish to thank the Duke Student Government for the return of the Crazies to press row, I would like to also thank the most influential person on this campus: men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Bringing national championships to Durham is in Coach K’s job description, being a champion for the Duke student body isn’t. But it’s a role he has taken on anyway, particularly at a time when it seems like a lot of administrators haven’t In a press conference Nov. 4 after a victory over N.C. Central, Krzyzewski was asked to give his thoughts about the —

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“It reallyjust doesn’t seem real,” Sutton said. “It doesn’t hit you. Every once in a while—once a week, once a month—you just step back, and you realize what’s

would be a tryout Sept. 14. going on.”

With six players from last year’s squad Though they have taken different paths to their place on head coach Mike having graduated—including walk-ons Patrick Johnson and Ross Perkins Krzyzewski’s team, both Johnson and Sutton have one thing in common —they Duke’s coaching staff was open to the idea made it, and they get to suit up each game of having a tiyout session this fall for the first time in seven years. in front of thousands of screaming fans.

After taking a post-graduate year at The On Oct. 15, 1999, the Blue Devils were also looking to replace a number of deLawerenceville School in N.J., Sutton who scored seven points per game as the parted players, including Elton Brand, fourth scoring option at Lawerenceville last Trajon Langdon, William Avery and Corey season—worked out all summer in the Maggette. That night, after the varsity team scrimmaged for the crowd, around hopes of getting a tryout with the Blue Devils. He got in contact with Mike Schrage, di30 potential walk-ons played against one rector of operations for the men’s basketanother as part of Duke’s Midnight Madball team, who informedSutton and the 15 SEE WALK-ONS ON PAGE 17 or so others who had inquired that there —

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Last year, then-freshman Mike Grella scored a game-winner that secured the ACG Championship for Duke, leading the Blue Devils to a first-round bye in the NCAA Men’s College Cup and a nine-day hiatus prior to hosting Creighton Uniat home.

This year, a Grella golden-goal brought the ACC hardware back to Durham, giving No. 2 vs.

Duke (16-3-1) an NCAA first-round bye and 10 days off before tonight’s 7 p.m. matchup against Brown (11-4-3) at Koskinen Stadium.

Duke fell to Creighton, 2-1, in 2005, but as TONIGHT, 7 p.m. f ar this y ear s glue Devil squad is concerned, Koskinen Stadium comp ar isons to last season can stop there.

“I’m sure it’s fresh on everybody’s minds,” Grella said. “But I don’t think we’re going to let ourselves down this year.”

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LUBBOCK, Texas Texas Tech head coach Bob Knight says there were times he was wrong when his hot temper got the best of him on a basketball court. Not this time, however.

This time, everyone from the player he confronted to the player’s mother and school officials say what Knight did was no big deal.

It all started Monday night when Knight went after Michael Prince, forcefully pushing his chin upward and telling him to lools him in the eye, during a timeout late in the Red Raiders’ 86-74 victory over Gardner-Webb.

Athletic Director Gerald Myers defended Knight Tuesday, saying he did nothing wrong when he “quickly lifted” Prince’s chin. The president of the school’s faculty senate, James H. Smith, said Knight’s action was not “physical abuse or violence.”

SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Knight, with a history of chair-throwing, referee baiting and run-ins with school ofTexas Tech head coach Bob Knight pushed Michael Prince's chin up during a timeout in Monday night's game. ficials, was not available for comment to the Associated Press before Tuesday night’s Journal after Monday’s game that what think this episode should be an issue. home game against Arkansas-Little Rock.

“We talked with Michael, and he had happened with the coach “was nothing.”

“I’m sure there were some cases where I “He was trying to teach me and I had my just committed two fouls in a row,” she have been wrong, but [Monday] wasn’t head down, so he raised my chin up,” said said. “He told us that Coach Knight was cyie of them,” Knight told ESPN.com. “I Prince, who was seen moving his jaw asking him if he’s ready to play. He said was trying to help a kid, and I think I did. around as he sat on the bench after the they needed him ready to play.”

“I flipped his chin up and told him to confrontation. “He was telling me to go out She said she didn’t think Knight should look me right in the eye so he could do the there and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. be reprimanded, and the school made no job we want. I said, ‘Can you?’ And he said, He said I was being too hard on myself.” reference to disciplinary action against ‘Yes,’ and I said, ‘OK, sit down and let’s go.’

Prince’s mother, Suzette Prince, told Knight.

If that’s an issue, then I’m living in the the Avalanche-Journal that she was sitting “Coach Knight did not slap Michael,” with her husband, Mike, across from the Myers said in a statement. “Michael came wrong country.”

Prince told the Lubbock Avalanche- Texas Tech bench. She said she didn’t off the court with his head down, and coach

Knight quickly lifted Michael’s chin and said, ‘Hold your head up and don’t worry about your mistakes. Just play the game.’”

Knight gave a brief statement at the post-game news conference Monday, then answered one question before exiting the room. He did not address what happened with Prince.

It was win No. 871 for Knight, who is five shy of tying Adolph Rupp for second place on the men’s career list. He needs nine more victories to surpass Dean Smith for the most victories in men’s Division I history.

Knight’s career has featured three national championships, all at Indiana, but plenty of outbursts.

In 1992, Knight kicked a chair on the bench while son Pat, then a player for him at Indiana and now his assistant and successor-to-be at Texas Tech, was sitting in it.

When fans behind the team bench booed, Knight turned and responded with an obscenity.

He was accused of grabbing a player by the throat during a practice in 1997, an incident that was caught on videotape and created the whirlwind that eventually led to his firing from Indiana in September 2000.

Knight was fired for what Indiana officials called a violation of a zero-tolerance behavior policy shordy after he grabbed the arm of a student who greeted him on campus by saying, “Hey, what’s up, Knight?”

His most infamous moment came in a game against Purdue in 1985, when he threw a chair across the court after being given a technical foul.

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other guys,” Williams said. “Ty is going to be fine. He adds an extra dimension that others don’t have with that speed, but he hasn’t learned as quickly as the others.”

Sacred Heart hit 6-of-13 three-pointers in the first half, including Tavio Hobson’s three at the buzzer, to cut North Carolina’s Tuesday night.

Hansbrough scored 29 points and No. 2 lead to 42-37 even though Hansbrough was North Carolina 8-for-8 from the field.

S» HEART 181 pulled away in the Shubik’s three to start the second half cut UNC 103 second half to the deficit to two and Sacred Heart, in its beat pesky Sacred sixth season in Division I, was thinking big.

Heart, 103-81, in the opening round of the “Coach always tells us the impossible NIT Season Tip-Off. happens every day. You can’t believe this team beat that team,” Shubik said. “It got Hansbrough hit 11-of-14 shots and routinely scored over double teams for the Tar the team pumped up, but...”

Shubik’s voice trailed off because UNC Heels (1-0), who advanced to play Wednesday against Winthrop, which beat lona, 57- responded with a 19-5 run to take control 38, in the late game. by dumping the ball inside to Hansbrough. his The 6-foot-9 sophomore kept muscling scored all 18 of Reyshawn Terry points in the second half, while freshmen his way through multiple defenders, and Brandan Wright, Wayne Ellington and Ty when he wasn’t scoring he was getting Lawson scored 10 points apiece for North fouled, where he made 7-of-12 free throws.

Carolina, which shot 59 percent to imAfter one made basket that resulted in a prove to 85-12 in season openers. three-point play, Sacred Heart’s Liam PotLuke Granato scored 24 points, and ter was left holding his arms up in disbelief.

Terry then made three straight baskets—Drew Shubik added 13 for the Pioneers (02), who stayed with the Tar Heels for a half the last two thunderous dunks—to get the pro-North Carolina crowd on its feet and Sadespite being undermanned down low.

North Carolina opened the season with cred Heart’s upset chances were over.

“I think it’s hard on the players. Losing high expectations as it returned four starters from last year’s 23-win team but also had one doesn’t help you,” said Pioneers head coach Dave Bike, who lost starting forward of the top recruiting classes in the nation.

Two ofNorth Carolina’s McDonald’s All- Ryon Howard to a knee injury. “The best thing it probably does is if we’re fortunate American trio, Ellington and Wright, started and the third, Lawson saw significant enough to improve and make the NCAA time backing up point guard Bobby Frasor. Tournament, we’ve already played an “I think Brandan and Wayne have really NCAA Tournament team.”

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. For months, Florida State fans have clamored for the ouster of offensive coordinator Jeff Bowden. blaming him for the team’s woes.

Tuesday, Bowden ended the debate, resigning just three days after the Seminoles were shut out for the first time in 233 games.

His resignation will take effect at season’s end, athletic director David Hart Jr. said.

Then, Bowden, the youngest son of Seminoles head coach Bobby Bowden, will be reassigned outside the athletic department until his contract expires in August 2007.

“I believe in my heart that for Bobby Bowden this is the decision that I need to make,” Jeff Bowden said. “I could not be happier that I had this opportunity. But it’s just time for me to move on.”

Hart said Bowden, 46, came to him Monday and an agreement was worked out. Details are pending and will be released Wednesday, Hart said.

“Jeff thought he wanted to give his father, give the staff and give recruiting the best possible opportunity to unfold in a positive manner,” said Hart, adding all assistant coaches would be thoroughly evaluated after the season.

The Seminoles won national championships in 1993 and 1999 but have struggled since the younger Bowden replaced now-Georgia head coach Mark Richt as the offensive coordinator in 2001.

This season marked a new low point.

Florida State must win one of its last two games—against Western [Michigan Saturday or Florida Nov. 25—to become bowl eligible.

The Seminoles (5-5, 3-5 in the ACC) lost at home, 30-0, Saturday to Wake Forest. It was the first time Florida State had been shut out in Tallahassee in Bobby Bowden’s 31 seasons as coach.

Bobby Bowden has stood by his son’s performance as offensive coordinator, despite a notable decline in scoring and yardage gained in the past half-dozen seasons.

“I am disappointed in Jeff s decision,” the elder Bowden said in a university release. “This is a big loss to me personally.

His decision is an emotional one for me.”

In Richt’s final season, the Seminoles averaged 42.4 points and 549yards a game on their way to a national title game against Oklahoma —totals never approached during JeffBowden’s six years as coordinator.

In the last three seasons, Florida State has averaged fewer than 30 points a game for the first time since the 1981 season.

Fans have been reluctant to criticize the elder Bowden—major college football’s wins leader with 364 victories—focusing instead on his son. A website calling for Jeff Bowden’s removal had gathered 2,975 signatures as of Tuesday.

Florida State President TK. Wetherell, who has received hundreds of e-mails urging that the younger Bowden be fired, had no comment on the resignation.

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Former FSU offensive coordinator JeffBowden, head coach Bobby Bowden's son,resigned from his post Tuesday.

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WALK-ONS from page 13 ness festivities. None, however, made the final roster.

“We never know year to year what the walk-on situation may be —it’s kind of a wait-and-see approach to evaluate needs,” Schrage said. “We have a tryout just to see what’s out there. There wasn’t necessarily an expectation to add

anybody.”

Because of the unique roster situation this year, Duke’s coaching staff invited all 15 interested men to take physicals and show up ready to play on that September afternoon.

One player who had not shown as much initial interest was Johnson. He had scored 19 points per game for Cheyenne Mountain High School on his way to making allstate second team in Colorado his senior year, but he only received recruiting interest from Division 111 schools in basketball. At the same time, several Division I schools —including Duke—recruited the 6-foot-5 highjumper to comJIANGHAI HO/THE CHRONICLE pete for their track and field teams. He took Duke’s offer and began working out with the track team this fall.

Before making the basketball team as a walk-on in September, freshmanSteve Johnson came to Duke as a member of thetrack andfield team.

On the first day of the walk-on tryouts —of which Sutton actually informed him—Johnson ducked out from track practice to make it over to Cameron Indoor Stadium. There, the potential walk-ons ran through drills and scrimmaged for a couple of hours.

Johnson and Sutton were among the five who were invited back to continue working out with team, and after several weeks of workouts with the team and conditioning, the field was narrowed to two. Both the coaching staff and Duke’s players liked Johnson’s athleticism and attitude and Sutton’s commitment to husde and defense.

With the decision made, associate head coach Johnny Dawkins called Johnson and Sutton into his office in the Schwartz-Butters building for individual meetings.

“He’s a very solemn guy—very direct,” Sutton said of the meeting with Dawkins. “He was like, ‘Congratulations, Friday, November 17, 2006 you’ve made our walk-on team.’ So I thought it was like a 12 noon 5:00 PM, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240 different team that played separately. Then he was like, ‘So Free and open to the Public how doyou feel?’ I said, ‘Well actually I’m kind ofconfused right now. Did I make the real team?’ And he said yes.

Buffet Lunch 12 noon “That’s when it hit me.” read Dawkins’ a little more message clearly.

Johnson 12:30 PM Welcome “[Dawkins] shook my hand and said ‘congratulations,’” Johnson said. “He asked how I felt. I just started smiling— 12:45 -1:45 PM Susannah Sirkin I didn’t know what to say.”

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Of the other three finalists, two accepted positions as 2:00 3:00 PM Robert Cook-Deegan S team managers and the third, a senior, returned to his potml (New Speaker) Director, Center for Genome, sition on the women’s practice squad. Since then, JohnEthics, Law & Policy son’s and Sutton’s lives have transformed measurably. JohnDuke University t son has left the track team, though he said he would like to Human Rights and Health: Trends, Consequences, return in the spring, and Sutton is just enjoying the ride. and Bringing It Home to Duke “The second we made the team, our lives changed,” Sutton said. “This experience in being under such great 3:15 4:15 PM Matthew Sparke coaches and great players, it really is amazing. If we didn’t Professor of Geography and | make the team we’d be doing something completely difinternational Studies jjk ferent every single day. Every single part of our daily life University of Washington *JH has been changed.

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“Our role is to make the team better in practice —beMedicine, convened by Duke faculty members Timi hind the scenes,” Sutton said. “So we’re just going to do Priscilla Wald, and hosted by the Franklin Humaniti whatever we can, husde our ass off, do whatever little This project is things that will make the team better.” made possible by a The walk-on process is evaluated on a year-to-year basis, generous grant from the but Schrage said the program would not invite a walk-on to Andrew W. Mellon Foundation join the team simply for a one-year commitment.

Even though their role might be somewhat different Human from their recruited teammates, Johnson and Sutton are Human enjoying the ride and fitting in just fine with the team. Just like the rest of the Blue Devils, they have their nameplates Human «ic »cuitu i Study Cutture above a locker in the men’s basketball locker room in welfare Science and Medkdne Cameron. And just like the rest of the team, they have a www.jhfc.duke.edu/fhi/sawyer/index.php number of jerseys and pairs and pairs of shoes stuffing their lockers.

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“See, my thing is, move the press,” Coach Ksaid in a room of reporters. “Put the press in the end-zone. I mean, nothing against the press, but...l think we should accommodate our students in the best possible manner all the time.”

When Krzyzewski found out why the Crazies had been pushed back, he asked where the Fire Marshall had been for the past 50 years, what Duke had suddenly done wrong and how the problem could be fixed without hurting students.

“I know I’m going to get letters,” Krzyzewski said. “My brother is the captain of the fire department. I do not believe in fires. Just take care of the students as well as possible.”

Just to reiterate, so I don’t get letters; Coach K does not believe that fires are desirable but does believe students “are on the team, too,” and deserve to be as close to the court as possible.

Within days, it was decided that the Crazies would be put back in their rightful place, and don’t tell me Coach K’s

did not carry significant weight in that choice.

I mean, hypothetically speaking, if Coach Kwere to tell people to apply for American Express cards and then use them to buy brand new Chevys, they would do it, right?

Even President Brodhead has been rumored to drive up to the WaDuke for dinner in a Duke-blue ’9B Impala and then flash his AmEx Black Card to tip the valet.

When Coach K says that average students make up Duke’s sixth man, it’s more than a little cliche—but, as Georgia Southern learned Monday, it’s also a little bit true The Blue Devils benefitted from the Cameron Crazies being at full force when the crowd started counting down the shot clock early as the Eagles were on offense.

Georgia Southern forced up a desperation shot with several seconds still left on the clock—twice.

So although having students close to the court may not be as important as, say, Greg Paulus getting healthy, it does play a role in creating the atmosphere Cameron Indoor Stadium has become famous for.

For the students’ sakes—and for his team’s—it’s good to know Coach K gets that. comments

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Sophomore Mike Grella scored an overtime golden goal in Duke's ACC Championshipgame to earn the Blue Devils a No. 1 seed in theCollege Cup.

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Championship Nov. 5, Duke was awarded the No. 1 overall seed in the College-Cup. But as last year’s disappointing defeat shows, no victory comes easy in mid-November.

“The first game of any tournament is very difficult,” head coach John Rennie said.

During the opening round of this year’s ACC tournament, heavily-favored Duke found itself locked in a 1-1 tie with N.C. State. Duke prevailed in the match, but made the victory much more difficult than it should have been.

“We should not have been tied,” Rennie said. “We gave up a goal due to lack of concentration.”

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“Mentally, we probably wanted to play the game a little earlier than this,” Rennie said. “But physically, we needed rest.”

For the seniors, the one-and-done College Cup is the final stage for several successful careers. The Blue DevilT roster features six seniors, but the team has been led by its youth —defender Kyle Helton is the only senior who has started more than half of Duke’s games this season.

“For a lot of us, we know that any day could be our last,” Helton said. “We have nothing to save up for now. We put everything out on the field.”

Brown defeated Adelphi (11-7-1), 4-1, in Providence, R.I. during the first round of this year’s College Cup Nov. 11. The last time the Blue Devils faced the Bears was in the 2000 NCAA tournament, when Duke fell, 1-0. Helton said the team has not done anything particularly different in preparation for the tournament.

“We’ve been playing well all season,” he said. “We’re not going to change anything now.”

This season, the two teams have shared two opponents, Harvard and Boston College. Duke emerged victorious over both teams, but Brown split the decisions, losing, 6-2, to Harvard and beating the Eagles, 2-1.

The No. 1 seed gives Duke home-field advantage through the quarterfinal round at Koskinen Stadium.

Should the team advance to the semifinal round in St. Louis Dec. 1, it would be its second appearance in three years.

A well-rested, healthy Duke squad can’t help but remember what happened last year when they were in a position so similar to the one they’re in now. But recent history seems to suggest that if this team prevails tonight, they’re in it for the long run.

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study abroad strangers as roommates, It may be the price we pay students return this of for paradise abroad, but comspring, many them will face ing back to Duke should not be a a living situaeditorial tion that is far punishment.

With one of the largest profrom ideal due to poorly planned RLHS policies for grams in the nation, Duke enstudents returning to campus. courages students to go Approximately one-third of abroad but doesn’t have a restudents studying abroad who turn strategy to match its exrequested on-campus doubles cellent program.

Granted, some unhappy for next semester received notification recently that they may students are always the result not be paired with their reofevery large-scale administrative undertaking like that of quested roommates. the study abroad program, but Desperate and under inthis recurring debacle with tense time pressure, some students returning from RLHS and study abroad stuabroad may find themselves dents is particularly notable. It in no position to comparison is absurd that RLHS does not shop. They will be left with have an efficient way of dealing hefty housing bills, undesir- with returning students. able locations or complete A lot of the problem has to

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ontherecord Banning the [Robertson Scholars] is against the spirit the of program, hut I also think to a degree [wearing Carolina blue at the Duke-UNC game in Cameron Indoor Stadium] last year was against the spirit of the program.

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do with communication and timing. There is a lack of communication between RLHS and study abroad students.

Returning juniors had no idea that there would be such a rush to find housing upon their return —or even before they get back. Because they were told not to get a lease off campus before they left Duke, the students who requested to be on campus are facing the reality of dwindling beds and the possibility of unfavorable roommate pairings on campus.

The three-year on-campus residency requirement is frustrating for returning students who perceive it as a clever RLHS tactic to fill housing quotas. Many returning study abroad students feel they are forced onto Central Campus

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for revenue, not “community.”

It seems almost self-serving for RLHS to fill the highest number of beds to make each one as profitable as possible.

Although study abroad students are understandably frustrated, RLHS needs funds from Central Campus housing to repair a West Campus that is falling apart. We cannot criticize RLHS for filling up West and Central, but they need to provide enough alternatives by allowing students to live off campus if the on-campus housing situation offers few beds and splits up roommates.

RLHS should have enough communication with the study abroad office in advance to anticipate the large influx of students in the spring.

RLHS can also conduct

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I’m sure you’ve already noticed from my picture, I’m not so tough on the eyes. Hell, I might as well just come out and say it: I’m devastatingly attractive—there’s just no way around it.

Now one thing that has always bothered me about being this good looking is that people tend to assume that my looks are responsible for me

being the most popular kid at Duke.

The fact is that while ■<* my looks definitely don’t hurt (especially with the ladies), my coolness is a rejake grodzinsky sult of a lot more bigger than Jesus than just chiseled features and a sculpted, hairless body.

I like to think that my popularity is the result of a number of random traits that came together within me to form a sort of “perfect storm” of coolness. People are always coming up to me and saying things like, “Jake, it seems as though you are the embodiment of everything I’ve ever wanted to be. How can I be more like you?” Although I usually don’t have an answer for them, I think that a lot of times just looking at me tends to help.

There’s no denying it—I know cool, because lam cool. Through my explorations of coolness during the last few years, I have come to the conclusion that many kids at Duke are not reaching their true potential for coolness because they are too self-conscious.

Self-consciousness is something that afflicts all of us on some level. It stops us from doing things we all want to do like dancing in Alpine or volunteering at magic shows or saying something when it’s obvious the bus driver has been drinking. Basically, it keeps us form reaching our true potential Tor coolness.

One of the best lessons that I have learned at Duke had to do with self-consciousness and it came from a truly great professor named Jay O’Berski, or as he prefers to be called, “Uncle Jay Bird.”

I was lucky enough to take “Intro to Performance” with Uncle Jay Bird my freshman year. For those of you who are not familiar with Theater Studies 995, the course involves a lot of sitting in circles and a big part of your grade is based on your proficiency at musical chairs (I believe it was cross listed as BME).

the housing lottery before students leave to study abroad so that it can have ample time to determine how to handle housing. If students are told to notify RLHS of their study abroad intentions by spring the year before, RLHS will have a general idea of how to allocate beds.

The burden of housing needs to be placed on RLHS, not the returning students, who are too far away to arrange for adequate housing for themselves.

The housing rush for study abroad students creates a stressful and nervewracking environment that certainly does not promote the study abroad culture on which Duke prides itself.

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Anyways, during one of the first few classes we were participating in an activity in which each student was supposed to pretend to be some sort of animal, and then have interactions with the other animals in the class. As we were all hopping and crawling around on the floor, giggling and blushing out of embarrassment, Uncle Jay Bird told us to stop.

He then told us something that has stuck with me ever since. He said, “I know you feel like you look really stupid right now, and believe me, you do. But the good news is that everybody else is much too busy worrying about how stupid they look to care in the slightest about you.”

Since taking his class, I have found this piece of advice to be extremely valuable. It really is freeing to realize that nobody cares about you. Every time I do something that I think makes me look stupid (believe me, it doesn’t happen too often) or am worried about saying something out of fear of sounding dumb, I try to remind myself that everybody else is much too concerned with how they look to care at all about me.

The truth is that embarrassment is simply self-flattery. As you walk around campus some time, try to remember Uncle Jay Bird’s advice. You’ll start to notice that regardless of how worried you are about being judged, the fact is that we are all generally much too self-involved to worry about what other people are doing.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying that becoming less self conscious will make you as cool as me. I just think that there’s a good chance it will make you enjoy yourself a little more, and possibly improve your college experience.

It’s hard not to worry about being inadequate these days, especially when there are people like myself out there showing you just how inadequate you actually are, but I think if we make an effort to keep Uncle Jay Bird’s advice in mind, we’ll all be a lot happier and cooler as a result.

And until everybody is able to become as cool, popular and good looking as me, I will continue to stay modest and try not to focus on my copious attributes.

Because when you think about it, if I were to focus on my attributes, I really wouldn’t be able to focus on anything else—I just don’t have that much focus.

Jake Grodzinsky is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

CORRECTION The Nov, 7 guest column "Play around" was written by Haley Hoffman and Rachel Weeks, both seniors.

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I’m pretty sure he wasn’t serious.

The bottom line, however, is that just those few confused words got me where I needed to go.

In away, it’s sad that all the French I used in didn’t understand.

Paris was stuff that I learned in my first year of “I look big art building,” she said again It took me a while to figure out that she was looking study. Sure, I could read Les Miserables by the time for the Nasher Museum ofArt. I gave her directions, and I graduated high school, but it came of no use to she nodded and me when I was telling waitresses that we needed went on her way. “big water on table and more of bowl with bread.”

I, like the Chinese woman looking for the museThe encounter um, didn’t need to use a bunch of flashy preposime thinking got that this woman, tions or even complete sentences. We threw away all of those distractions and focused solely on the who had trouble white meat. a putting together I agree with the Duke administration’s requirement sentence in Engthat students in Trinity study a foreign language. But I lish, still managed sieve brown would much rather take introductory courses in three to communicate the world is yours different languages than have to stick with the same with me and, hopelanguage for three semesters. Iff have to go all the way fully, reached her destination. She didn’t need to worry about indirect to Paris to screw up the six years of French that I know, object agreement or the difference between the past then why will it be different with any other language?

Besides, imagine being able to ask “Where is the and imperfect tenses that we learn in our foreign lanmilk?” in three different languages. It’s guaranteed to classes. guage impress people at parties when you’re 40, which is pretShe knew the bare essentials of the English lanty much the best reason to do anything. Plus, it would guage,and it served her just fine. enhance the basics all need. your ability to communicate with a variety of are really we Maybe I took six years ofFrench in high school, so I had a people when you travel.

Three years of Spanish takes care of a good lot of confidence when I went to Paris last year. Howevchunk of the world, but it probably won’t get you took about four seconds the airer, it me standing in too far in Romania or Iceland. And with just one sethousands ofnative to realize that among speakers port an A in French class in Wilmington, Delaware is worth mester of Swedish you could walk around the streets of Stockholm armed with a road map, 75 about a D+ in France.

“Thank you drive for we to hotel,” I told the taxi kronor and the phrase, “Me need hospital, me sick” driver. “I from States United. France are big and in case of emergencies.

I really like studying foreign languages, but I think friendly.”

One time I got lost while running along the Seine. people have far too high expectations for the payoff.

(Apparendy, even a giant river to my left wasn’t Things that seem under control in the classroom spin enough of a landmark to keep me on track.) After a out of control when you throw yourself into the lion’s half-hour of wandering, I finally decided that I had den of a native-speaking country. So instead ofreachno choice but to use my French. I came across a man ing into the back of my mind for reflexive verbs and smoking a cigarette and wearing a tight black shirt jumbled information on the French political system in a 100-level class, I’d much rather shrug my shouland leather pants.

“I not know where is here. Want metro, where ders and tell the professor, “I understands never when you talk.” metro?” I asked.

Then holding my head high, I would continue on He looked me up and down, put out his cigarette, my way to Aramaic I class. and said, “Yer lookin’ fer the metro?”

It turned out the guy was from Tennessee and had Steve Brown is a Trinity junior. His column runs every just moved to Paris a year earlier. He gave me perfect directions and even complimented my French, but other Wednesday.

Chinese woman came up to me at the bus stop the other day and said, “I look big art building.” After a long silence, I told her I

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bother reading on. Go away. Preferably to another country. Instead of plodding through my quibbles and quotes, spend the next two minutes learning about the genocide spreading to Chad, or the double suicide bombs ripping through the streets of Iraq. Watch a New YorkTimes clip of a dying Cameroon mother, abandoned on a dingy cot by a jaded doctor who pockets money from her family and promptly goes home for the night. Try YouTube; type “Darfur Genocide” into the search bar. You won’t have time to click on every hit. So try one.

Trade my weekly chat for something more substantial.

We’re busy people; I understand you can spare time for just one thing or the other. So in the spirit of (my limited of) self-sacrifice, I conception the short shot implore you to spend your next few minutes reading and watching things that will shake you up, between bites of your bagel and sips of your bubbly soda. I don’t think I’m up to the

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In case you’re still here, wondering why I’m writing a copout column in the most literal sense, copping out and effectively asking you to cop out with me, I confess the horizons I offer are limited. This particular truth hit me in all its nakedness back in fourth grade, when I spelled “affliction” with one “f’ in the school spelling bee. True story. I remembered whatit meant, but I couldn’t recall what it looked like. I’ve been reminded of the metaphoric disconnect over the years, but my memory is occasionally violently refreshed. Like last week.

Last week was The New York Times Free Access week. Op-eds and video clips normally accessible only by Times Select subscribers were open to the unsubscribed public. In case this sounds less exciting than it was, let me make clear that as a college student in touch with my own frugality, I doubly love free stuff. So I Times Select-surfed.

Eventually the exploration became self-reflexive. I pondered what brought me to my computer screen, as I sat skimming the columns and blogs, almost as horrifying as the accompanying pictures. I was there firstiy because I was concerned, and ultimately because it was free. Because there were no forms to fill out, no credit card numbers to punch into my unreliable web browser, no upcoming tests squeezing my brain into singular submission. This particular influx of information held no charge or trade off.

The images and sounds flooded my system, overpowering my senses and rewiring my nerve endings, and the question governing my newfound interest in Darfur and Chad was not “why?” but “why not?” Because after all, the knowledge—gut-wrenching, heart-breaking, mind-blowing stuff—was free.

Free stuff is always good, but truly free stuff is extremely rare, since on a college campus, time is harder than money to come by.

Every event and activity costs you. It gets to the point where you find yourself doing a cost-benefit analysis as you make your weekend plans; watching a “free” show means two hours ofyour life perhaps “better” spent on a lab or a midnight rendezvous. Sure you gain, but you inevitably lose—since you’re stuck doing the weighing in advance and not in retrospect The safe route: Zero in on four or five tasks into which you can pour your semester’s lifeblood; sadly, tunnel vision is not a malady, but the only way to get things done.

It’s come to the point where flyers mean very little to me. The speaker may be interesting, but I usually never find out, because the “Human Crisis in North Korea” is not on my checklist this semester; the “Refugees Forced to Turn Back” are not on my list to save.

But peering through a little window, glimpsing (free of charge) the reality of a suffering world, the whispers come to haunt me at night. The priorities, the special interests, the areas of expertise seem as invaluable as ever; these will equip us with the means for effecting real world change. But in the spare time we didn’t know we had, in our “free” time between bites and sips, in the time it takes to pick up a column and develop a tender fondness for the face pasted next to it—we can share in the pain of that other, other world, one not our own and not already scribbled in our planners. Maybe it will make a difference.

Today my column runs 100 words shorter than my last. That frees up 15 seconds ofyour time. Go away.

Jane

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