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we tried to run,” UNC-G head coach Mike Dement said. “We’re a little more of a team that likes to run sets and get good shots, and they took us out of all that. We didn’t get good shots.” The Blue Devils held the Spartans to just six field goals and 20 points in the first half en route to a 25-point lead at intermission. Dave McClure led the defensive charge with seven steals in the game to go along with his 11 points and nine rebounds. SEE M. BBALL ON PAGE 12

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seniors from passing down apartments to friends and forcing all potential tenants to join a waitlist. Erwin Square apartments—one of the most popular off-campus housing sites with 119 student occupants—began enforcing its policy against subletting last February as current seniors applied for their residences. Under the revised system, juniors had the option of securing a spot on the waitlist as early as Aug. 1. Property Manager Sandra Masters said she informed senior tenants via e-mail of the required waitlist process, explaining that they would no longer be able to simply hand their apartment over to friends. “We sent a mass e-mail to students saying ‘the waitlist starts Aug. 1 and tell all your friends,’” Masters said. “We let them know right up front. We don’t have to do that but I thought I would give them the

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After trailing Georgia Southern for much of the first half in its last game, Duke jumped out to a 9-0 lead and never looked back in its 75-48 victory over UNC Greensboro Thursday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils (3-0) used full-court pressure to force the Spartans out of their offensive rhythm early on. UNC-G (0-3) turned the ball over 15 times in the first half alone. “They took us out of everything that

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Studying abroad is not just for undergraduates. At the Academic Council’s meeting Thursday, members heard about four proposed joint and dual professional degree programs, on which they will vote Nov. 30. The School ofLaw, the School ofMedicine and the Fuqua School of Business developed three of the programs in partnership with universities in Paris, Singapore and Seoul, South Korea. Elizabeth Gustafson, assistant dean for academic affairs at the law school, said the proposed programs would build on existing strengths in interdisciplinarity. “The law school considers itself a leader in interdisciplinary education,” Gustafson said. “There’s one area in which we are currently not ahead of the curve, and that is in dual-degree programs with foreign educational institutions.” One of the law school’s proposed degrees is a joint Juris Doctor/Diplome d’etudes superieures specialises in global business law. Students would spend two years studying at Duke and a third year taking classes at the University of Paris I and Sciences Po. Other American institutions that already participate in the Global Business Program include the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Gustafson also presented a proposed joint program with the Pratt School of Engineering that would allow students to earn both a doctor of law and master’s in engineering management degrees in three years.

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Eight administrators addressed racial discrimination on campus —focusing on the experience of black students—before a packed White Lecture Hall Thursday night. Hosted by the Black Student Alliance, the event, entitled “Black Like Me: Race and Academic Excellence,” included panel members Provost Peter Lange, Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson and Benjamin Reese, vice president for institutional equity. Panelists discussed and answered questions from audience members about the results of the Campus Life and Learning report, which extensively examined members of the classes of 2005 and 2006 throughout their undergraduate careers. One section of the study found that black students JEONGIN LEE/THE

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Apanel of eight addresses racial tension on campus,among other things,Thursday night.

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Professor Edward Buckley discusses Duke's association with a medical school in Singapore Thursday.

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RIEGELWOOD, N.C. A tornado shredded trees and cars, ripped flipped mobile homes to pieces in this little riverside community early Thursday, killing at least eight people, authorities said. The disaster brought the two-day death toll from a devastating line of thunderstorms that swept across the South to 12. Kip Godwin, chairman of the Columbus County Commission, said authorities had nearly concluded their search of the area where all the deaths occurred—a cluster of trailers and an adjacent neighborhood of brick homes—and had accounted for everyone.

Hospital officials said four children

in cridcal condition. The storms that began Wednesday unleashed tornadoes and straight-line winds that overturned mobile homes and tractortrailers, uprooted trees and knocked down power lines across the South. In Louisiana, a man died Wednesday when a tornado struck his home. In South Carolina, a utility worker checking power lines Thursday during the storm was electrocuted. In North Carolina, two people died in car crashes as heavy rain pounded the state, dropping as much as five inches in were

some areas. Off the coast, a Coast Guard helicopter

lowered a pump to a fishing boat that was taking on water in 15-foot seas about 50 miles from Charleston. One crewman was aboard the 34-foot boat, which the Coast Guard escorted back to land. The tornado that struck Riegelwood situated on the Cape Fear River about 20 miles west of Wilmington—hit shordy after 6:30 a.m. “There was no warning. There was no time,” said Cissy Kennedy, a radiologist’s assistant who lives in the area. “It just came out from nowhere.” As many as 40 mobile homes were damaged before the tornado crossed a highway and leveled three brick homes. Some of the dead were believed to be children. —

Senate approves India trading bill by

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The Senate ThursWASHINGTON day overwhelmingly endorsed a plan allowing the United States to ship civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India, handing President Bush an important victory on one of his top foreign policy initiatives. Senior lawmakers from both political parties championed, the proposal, which reverses decades of U.S. anti-proliferation policy, saying it strengthens a key relationship with a friendly Asian power that has long maintained what the United States

considers a responsible nuclear program. The vote was 85-12. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., called the plan “a lasting incentive” for India to shun future nuclear weapons tests and “to cooperate closely with the United States in stopping proliferation.” Bush, in a statement issued during a trip to Asia, praised the Senate for endorsing his plan, saying it will “bring India into the international nuclear nonproliferation mainstream and will increase the transparency of India’s entire civilian nuclear program.” His remarks were echoed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Vietnam with the

president for a meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders. “This really does open up an extraordi-

nary new era, both in U.S.-Indian relations, but also I think for the many interests that will be served, from the economic point of view, from an energy point ofview and from a nonproliferation point of view,” she said. Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware said the endorsement pushes America “a giant step closer” to a “major shift in U.S.-Indian relations. “If we are right, this shift will increase the prospect for stability and progress in South Asia and in the world at large,” he said.

Democrats embraced Rep. Nancy Pelosi as the first woman House speaker in history Thursday, then quickly snubbed her, selecting Steny Hoyer of Maryland as majority leader over her preferred canidate, Rep. John Murtha.

Gl sentenced to life in prison A soldier was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with the possibility of parole for conspiring to rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl

and kill her and her family. The soldier pled guilty Wednesday and agreed to testify against the others to avoid the death penalty.

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Provost Peter Lange presented a synopsis of Duke’s new strategic plan “Making a Difference” to a group of faculty, staff and University employees Thursday. The event, billed as “Primetime with the Provost,” was one in a series of quarterly conversational meetings between high-level administrators and University employees. Approximately 350 to 400 people were in attendance, said Geoffrey Mock, manager of internal communicadon at the Office ofNews and Communications. [The event] is part of a larger effort to enhance internal communication,” said Paul Grantham, director of the Office of Communication Services. “We really want to create connections between employees and senior leaders.” Lange began his presentation by observ“

SeniorAdair Hill has worked to expand NASA's reach and help Duke improve NativeAmerican recruitment.

staff study abstract, highly specialized probGlobalization, lems. Lange said, is forcing universities to be more practical and adapt in order to compete for minds and influence. “We need to assure that students and faculty can deal with the comPeter Lange plexity of the world,” Lange said. “There must be a re-balancing, and we feel that Duke is uniquely capable of being that rebalanced university.” Society is more critical of universities than ever before, Lange said. Today, people expect moral leadership, as well

NativeAmerican students look for place on campus Professor delves into legacy of Che Guevara by

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It’s a long way from the Navajo reservation in Ganado, Ariz. to Durham. It’s almost 2,000 miles by car —and perhaps even farther culturally. But freshman Latisha Yazzie, a member of the Blackfeet and Navajo tribes, made that journey.Yazzie is one of a handful of Native American students at Duke. As the Native American Student Association holds events this week in honor of American Indian Heritage Month, she and others say it is difficult and daunting to be a Native American on campus. Less than one-quarter of one percent ofYazzie’s class identifies as Native American. The five-year high, the Class of 2009, was .58 percent Native American, but only .01 percent of juniors identified as Native Americans. “Duke is culturally diverse, but it’s also segregated,” Yazzie said. “People have

their groups —the black group, the Asian group, the Hispanic group—and we have our group. But there are so few of us.” NASA has expanded about fourfold this year, said President Adair Hill, a senior and member of the North Carolina-based Lumbee tribe. The increase has allowed the organization to hold more events, including a screening and question-and-answer session with leading Native American film director Chris Eyre. Hill’s group will also host a festival with song, dance and a fashion show on the West Campus Plaza this afternoon from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., and hopes to hold more events in December and in the spring. NASA is working with the University to increase recruitment of Native Americans—both in the Southwest and in North Carolina, which has the largest Native American population east of the SEE NASA ON PAGE

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If Che Guevara could witness his

large-scale commercial presence in popular culture, he would no doubt be turning in his grave, said Paul Dosal, history professor at the University of South Florida

Thursday night. Dosal spoke to Duke students about the lasting influences of the famously rebellious figure in a presentation entitled “The Controversial Life, Death and Resurrection of Che Guevara.” Dosal, who is also the author of the biography “Commandante Che,” said knowledge of the serious, human side ofChe behind the popular myth is rare. “Today, Che is just a symbol of some SEE Guevara ON PAGE 8

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Paul Dosal, a professor at Southern Florida, discusses the life of Che Guevara in a speech Thursday night.

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Mississippi River. She added thatNASA is also lobbying for the hiring of faculty to teach classes about Native Americans. She said Native American populations are often overlooked not only by students, but in the classroom. Freshman Sadie In The Woods, a Lakota Sioux from the Cheyenne River Tribe, said isolation has been a major problem for her in her first months at the University. In The Woods, a club basketball player, said she came to Duke because of the women’s basketball team. She said when she visited during Blue Devil Days in the spring, she was placed with Yazzie and told there were other Native Americans on campus. Since arriving, they have found that statement to be only nominally true and In The Woods said she has been unhappy. “At this point, I don’t have much to go on beside prayer,” In The Woods said. • But even that is problematic. She said she has a difficult time finding a place to express her spirituality and has no one to practice it with. “At home, that’s what it’s all about, being together,” she said. There is only one other Lakota on campus, she added. Despite her unhappiness, In The Woods will not leave Duke. Her home on the Sioux reservation is in one of the poorest counties in the nation, and she said she hopes to return home and help to improve people’s lives after graduating. “I’m here—I can’t go home,” she said. “The whole reservation would beat me up.” Besides isolation, Native American students suffer from the insensitivity of others on campus. In some cases, it comes through blatant jokes about Pocahontas, tepees and casinos, but often the problem is sheer ignorance. “I tend not to really blame the individual people for that—l blame the American school system,” Hill said. “That’s the whole reason I do what I do.” Many students also make jokes about how the Native American students are only here because of affirmative action. “People are so concerned with people outside ofAmerica, but they don’t focus on people inside,” Yazzie said. “It’s like going to someone’s house and not getting to know them—and then kicking them out!”

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Campus Council members listened to a

presentation about housing for juniors returning from study abroad at the Council’s general body meeting Thursday night.

Jen Frank, program coordinator for Residential Life and Housing Services, said that because four to five times more students study abroad in the fall semester than in the spring, it is always more difficult to accommodate students who wish to live on campus when they return in the spring. “It’s usually the other way around on other campuses—we think it’s a basketball effect,” she said. Frank said students going abroad in the fall should be aware that they forfeit their ability to control their housing situation because all spaces remaining on campus are those considered “undesirable.” Juniors who have lived on campus for five semesters, including those who spent a semester abroad, are eligible to participate in an off-campus lottery, which may release them from their six-semester oncampus housing requirement. The number of juniors released depends on the number ofbeds available on campus, as all spaces must be filled before students can be released, Frank said. Facilities and Services Chair Hasnain Zaidi, a junior, asked why RLHS cannot hold separate lotteries to allow at least some students to know their spring housing situations earlier in the semester, when RLHS makes a conservative estimate of the number of students who will not be able to be housed on campus. Under the current policy, juniors participating in the lottery do not find out whether they may live off campus until early November. “From previous feedback we found that people would be more angry if they find out later than others,” Frank said. “It would be more fair for all to find out together.” She added that the current notification time does not make it more difficult for students to find off-campus housing because many students already have apart-

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Jen Frank speaksThursday about the logistics behind the return of475 juniors to campus after study abroad.

tentatively selected and are only waiting to sign the lease. Because available bed space is affected by a number offactors that RLHS cannot control—such as how many students go abroad in the spring—the number of juniors allowed to be released cannot be determined earlier, Frank said. This year a second round of the off-campus housing lottery was offered last Friday to juniors currendy abroad because of a lack of space to accommodate ments

preferred roommate pairs next semester. A total of 117 preferred roommate pairs requested on-campus housing, but only 75 pairs can be housed. Twenty-four pairs were chosen

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off campus, and those wishing to live on campus may be split into single rooms if double rooms cannot be found. “We felt that it was better to let them choose to live together but offcampus or to stay on campus but maybe separated,” Frank said. Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, proposed to consolidate current doubles only occupied by one resident to create more spaces for returning juniors. “Theoretically we can do that,” Frank said. “But we’re probably not going to because it won’t be wellreceived by students.” She added it would not be fair to those residents if RLHS just volunteered them to accommodate a random roommate.

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“I got on the waitlist at Erwin this sum-

courtesy of knowing.” Some juniors, however, said they were unaware of growing waidists as a result of the revised guidelines undl recendy and are now rushing to secure a spot in line. “I didn’t have any idea it was going to be that competitive to be able to get an apartment,” junior Kristin Alves said. “None of us think that far in the future that we’re worrying about apartment arrangements for senior year.” Junior John Bailey plans to live in the Lofts at Lakeview apartment complex but has not yet secured his arrangements. He said many students either have not acted on their tentative residency plans or have not thought about it at all. “It’s about half-and-half,” Bailey said. “Half the people don’t know what the hell they’re doing and half are on some waidist.” Other students their planned senior-year living situationswell in advance and completed the application process during the summer. Junior Michael Auld and his fraternity brothers in Eta Prime called to secure their living arrangements as a group.

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mer,” Auld said. “We were the first group to call. Most ofmy friends have some plan.” The new leasing policy at Erwin Square apartments also states that departing tenants

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must clear all furniture from their units to allow for a thorough cleaning, Masters said. “It sort of got out of hand,” Masters said. “The students could recommend other students for the apartments but [the recommended students] would have to go through the waidist. I don’t know of any community that allows a student to hand down apartments.” Masters said that apart from a few irked residents, the initial response to the regulation of apartment subletting was overwhelmingly positive. “The new students coming in were much happier,” Masters said. “The only negative is that the current students had to take out all their stuff.” Maggie Carroll, community manager for the Belmont apartment complex, said the complex does allow graduating seniors to hand down apartments to underclassmen as long as they complete the regular application paperwork. “We do have a willed apartment procedure,” Carroll said. “They don’t have to go on the waitlist, they would go directly to that apartment. We probably have about 30 applicants that have their apartments handed down.” The Belmont apartment complex which is looking to house more than 250 students for the 2007-2008 academic year—has only 25 people on its waitlist, but Carroll said she expects the available rooms to fill up by the end of March. The waitlist for Erwin Apartments has accumulated about 125 applications since the process began in August, but juniors currently seeking an apartment in the complex could still receive housing, Masters said. “There’s still a good chance if you call,” Masters added. —

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eration with Seoul National University. The medical school’s proposed partof Mitchell said students in SNU’s one-year with the National University nership Global MBA Singapore would program be good for both could apply to universities, said “For us, it’s a chance to partner continue their Edward Buckley, with an up-and-coming institustudies by also of professor a getting and opthamology tion, to expand our influence into Duke MMS. pediatrics “This is an “For us, it’s a the [South-East Asian] region.” chance to partner approach that Edward Buckley will complewith an up-andment the MBA professor, Opthamology and Pediatrics coming institudegrees that we tion, to expand already offer our influence into the [South-East Asian] region,” and not compete with them,” he said. In other business: Buckley said. He noted that the program, which Following the suggestion of an exterwould allow students to earn a doctor of nal review, the African and African-Amermedicine jointly awarded by both instituican Studies Program has asked to become a department. Provost Peter Lange tions, will entail the full- or part-time presence in Singapore of about 35 faculty with said the program already makes primary Duke appointments. faculty appointments, so the change would be in name only. This should help to maintain high stanLange and Executive Vice President Taildards, he said. “The measures of success in [the NUS man Trask also presented the latest plans for students’] endeavors will be the exact Central Campus. They reassured the council same as those applied to our students that the campus would have sufficient parkhere,” Buckley added. ing and that the cost of Phase I of the redeWilliam Mitchell, deputy dean at Fuqua, velopment would not exceed $5OO million.

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Lange emphasized that Duke’s interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and research allows the University to propose solutions to social problems in unique, innovative ways. For interdisciplinarity to truly take root, however, employees in all of the University’s schools and institutes need to cooperate. “We need to have lots of cooperation across the University... especially below the faculty level,” Lange said. Two of the plan’s six specific goals deal with facilitating faculty cooperation and engagement with real world issues. Other goals include attracting superior graduate students, improving the arts scene at Duke, promoting undergraduate interaction with the Durham community through service projects and increasing student and faculty access to scholarly resources.

as intellectual leadership, from leading universities. Making a Difference is Duke’s response to these

higher public expectations. The plan, which is projected to cost $1.3 billion, outlined six general continued commitments and six specific, policy-oriented goals for the future. Of the six continued commitments, Lange identified interdisciplinarity and knowledge in the service of society as the most important. These areas, traditional Duke strengths, will be the key to the strategic plan and Duke’s global role as a leading moral and intellectual institution, he said. “We don’t just want to be great,” Lange said. “We want do it our way.”

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Developing Central Campus is a fundamental part of the strategic plan, Lange said, adding that he hopes Central Campus will be the locus of a vibrant art scene in the future. The exact plan for the new campus, however, was not presented at Thursday’s meeting. “There’s more than we could get to about Central Campus in this conversation,” Grantham said, adding that Central Campus will likely be the focus of the next quarterly meeting. Many in the audience seemed optimistic about the strategic plan. “I thought it was interesting overview, but I’m not sure how it’ll be implemented,” said Eve Marion, a first-year graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. “I know the big picture now, but I need more details.”

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A large crowd filled Richard White Lecture Hall Thursday night to listen to a panel of 8 administrators discuss issues of race at Duke.

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reported being subject to racial discrimination in the classroom at higher rates than students of other races. Lange said racial tensions stem from an unwillingness by students to interact outside of a “comfort zone.”

‘You have to become part of Duke’s fundamental culture, to push yourself to move beyond your comfort zone, and what we see in the report is that black students—for whatever reason —have to do that,” he said. “But we have to teach our other students that they have to do it as well.” Lange noted that part of the solution lies in attracting more students who appreciate diversity. “Our problem is not who we’re admitting, it’s who’s applying,” Lange said. “[We want to] change the perception of the school itself, and that’s going to take time.” Thompson said he was enthusiastic about the forum because it gave him the opportunity to talk to students directly about these issues. “My reaction to the report was one of pride—that we had the ability and commitment to address this issue” Thompson said. “For me, having this type of really comprehensive, really rigorous discussion, provides data to complement all of the reports we receive.” After opening statements, the panel was open to questions from the audience. “I’ve yet to see a black faculty—l’ve actually looked for them—but I haven’t found any in the science departments. What is being done to make sure that this changes?” asked senior Shaunte Henry, a biology major, whose question was followed by applause. Lange’s response that there is a black faculty member in biology who teaches was met with laughter. “You’re just going to have to believe me,” he said. The University is actively seeking to diversify the faculty, but a “leaky pipe” effect, wherein many black students fail to continue their education to the professorial level, leads to fierce competition among institutions for minority faculty, Lange said. Thompson acknowledged a “particular vulnerability in science courses,” referring to the low number of black professors, and assured the audience that measures are being taken. Reese said it was difficult to talk to professors about discrimination in the classroom. “Much ofwhat is described as discrimination is real, but subde,” he said. “To approach a group of esteemed faculty members who are at the top of their game in their area and to engage them in a conversation about the possibility of some unintentional bias is sometimes a hard conversation.” Although the forum was extended for half an hour to accommodate more questions, students had mixed opinions about the success of the discussion. “Many good things were said, but it was like preaching to the choir,” said sophomore Grant Bond. “I think we can’t see if it was productive unless action comes out ofit.” Senior David Brown said he was dissatisfied with the discussion. “I thought they ran in circles,” he said. “The purpose was to get to the heart of the issue, but that didn’t happen.” Senior Jeremy Fuller expressed a similar sentiment. “I believe that Peter Lange has been preaching the same speech for as long as I’ve been at Duke—talk but no change,” Fuller said.

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Andrea Mitchell is the ChiefForeign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News, a position she has held since November 1994. She reports on evolving foreign policy issues in the United States and abroad for all NBC News broadcasts, including “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” “Today” and on both CNBC and MSNBC.

In addition to reporting on a variety of foreign affairs issues in 2004, Mitchell also

covered the 2004 presidential campaign for NBC News and was a regular panelist on MSNBC’s “Hardball.” She was the first reporter to break the story that democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry had chosen Sen. John Edwards as his vice presidential running mate.

In 2005, Mitchell received the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and in 2004, the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) honored Mitchellwith the Leonard Zeidenberg Award for her contribution to the protection of First Amendment Freedoms.

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u u tt. in December 2003. 1hroughout 2002 and 2003, Mitchell covered the United Nations debate leading up to the I ra q war an d provided detailed reports on the questions surrounding pre-war intelligence and weapons of mass destruction. As a longtimeanalyst of the intelligence community, Mitchell has reported on Osama Bin Ladin and his A1 Qaeda network for “Nightly News with Tom Brokaw” since 1996. Her past assignments for NBC have included traveling to North Korea, Afghanistan, the Middle East, Bosnia, Kosovo, Pakistan and Haiti. a one-hour documentary on Cuba that aired ~

As one ofNBC News’ top political correspondents, Mitchell also hosted MSNBC’s “The Mitchell Report,” NBC News’ election year broadcast of record, throughout the Decision 2000 campaign. On her program, Mitchell interviewed newsmakers both in Washington D.C. and on the campaign trail. In addition, Mitchell was the lead NBC News correspondent covering Hillary Rodham Clinton’s race for the Senate in 2000. Prior to being named ChiefForeign Affairs Correspondent, Mitchell had been NBC News’ ChiefWhite House Correspondent, a position she assumed after covering Bill Clinton from the New Hampshire primary through the entire 1992 presidential campaign.

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Paul Dosal said Thursday thatthere is little ofChe Guevara left in Latin American revolutionary movements.

kind of rebellious statement somebody wants to make,” Dosal said. He added that many people simply think Che “makes for a good shirt,” referring to the overuse of Che’s iconic portrait on such commercial products as shirts, souvenirs, socks and even underwear. “Mike Tyson, the great Marxist intellectual!” Dosal joked, pointing to a photo of present-day boxer Tyson sporting a large Che tattoo. Dosal said he believes Che would oppose the sort of materialism that has propelled his image into casual everyday use. “It is ironic that the great opponent of capitalism has become its great proponent,” Dosal said of the profit that is made from Che products in both Cuba and the United States at the expense of his ideas.

Bringing this lecture to Duke was the combined effort of studepj/groups Mi Gente and the Cuban-American Student Association. Senior Ana Martinez, poetical affairs chair of Mi Gente, said Dosal was chosen in order to give an objective vie#;.of Che so that students can make up their own minds based on the facts. “We want people to know what they believe in and what they don’t believe in,” Martinez said. The presentation focused on what Dosal referred to as the two different careers of Che: the intellectual military strategist and the revolutionary martyr and myth. Dosal said he has been attacked by both supporters and opponents of Che for his moderate views. “I’ve been yelled at many times, and that was when they were agreeing with me,” he Joked.

But Dosal added that he hopes people can learn to understand %oth identities of Che Guevark before passing judgment. Sophomore James Tager said he is glad Dosal’s presentation examined all sides of the revolutionary’s life. “With Che being a complex and almost mythical figure, you need a clear lecture like this to lay out the facts and still leave room for opinion,” Tager said. Dosal said he studies Che above all to leam more about himself and to analyze his own views. “It is important to study his life and ask the question not what you would die for, but whatyou would kill for,” he said. Dosal concluded with commentary on the current state of revolutionary movements in Latin America, pointing out that much has changed since Che’s death. “The revolution is dead,” he said. “I don’t think there’s much of Che left anywhere—it’s all bark and no bite.”

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DUKE CAPTURES ACC TITLE The Blue Devils (18-1) beat second-place Virginia Thursday night (14-5), 3-0, to clinch the ACC title and the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The league title is Duke's first since 1994.

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After a commanding 2-0 victory over Brown Wednesday, the Blue Devils look to continue their charge through the College Cup with a win this Sunday. Top-seeded Duke (17-3-1) takes on sixteenth-seeded Lehigh (16-1-2) at 1 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium in a third-round yg matchup. The winner advance to the NCAA quarterfinals. The Blue Devils have flllin u rOT so far * at the>' Koskinen Stadium P can dominate in the postseason and hope to continue their winning ways against the Mountain Hawks. Lehigh, however, is not a team to be taken lightly. The Mountain Hawks lead the NCAA in save and shutout percentage, as well as in goals-against average with 0.32 goals allowed per game. “It will be a good test for our team,” junior goalkeeper Justin Papadakis said. “But we’re just going to focus on us, and do what we do best. We’ve come this far. We’re confident in the system.” Even though Duke eased past Brown in the first round of the tournament Wednesday, some of the Blue Devils were disappointed in the way the team performed, especially in the early part of the game. “I was really unsatisfied with our attitude in the first half,” sophomore midfielder Pavelid Castaneda said. “Coming off 10 days of rest, we didn’t come out as strong as we needed to.” Head coach John Rennie also said that staying fresh was of paramount importance

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First-seeded Duke scored two goals Wednesday night in its second-round game against Brown.

A familiar foe stands between Duke and a fourth consecutive appearance in the NCAA title game. The No. 4 Blue Devils (16-5) will take on top-ranked Wake Forest (21-1) in the semifinals Friday at 5 p.m. in Winston-Salem—marking the fourth time in as many years that the teams VS. met in the final four. After losing to the Demon Deacons in the tide game in 2003 and TODAY, 5 p.m. Winston-Salem 2004, Duke finally came out on top in last year’s semifinals, 3-2, only to finish as runner-lip to Maryland. \c“The last four years Wake, Maryland and Duke have been in the final four—it’s just the fourth team that’s changed,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “We’ve all got to get through each other.” That all three teams are in the ACC only intensifies the rivalry, but the Blue Devils are not losing sight ofwhat is at stake. “Playing against Wake is a great rivalry, but the importance of this game is that it’s the semifinals of the NCAA tournament,” senior co-captain Amy Stopford said. “No matter who our opponent is, we come out with the same intensity.” Such intensity was not evident in Duke’s regular season loss to Wake Forest in Winston-Salem. In the fifth game of the season—and the first career conference game for many ofDuke’s freshmen—the Demon Deacons shutout the Blue Devils, 3-0. “I just remember it being a frantic game,” senior co-captain Hilary Linton

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Duke did a lot of things right Thursday night against UNC Greensboro, especially on the defensive end. That’s undeniable. But the Blue Devils are a young team, and, at times, they looked it. Still, head €l3lllO coach Mike Krzyzewski analysis wasn’t going to focus on the negatives. “I want to let my kids grow instead of nitpicking about everything and having that be the headline—‘We struggled,”’ Kr2yzewski said. “We won by 30 points. We played our butts off. We have a good young team—give them some credit. Let them grow. Enjoy them.” Okay, here are the positives: Duke came out with a lot more energy than it did against Georgia Southern; the team played fantastic defense, especially in the first half; the Blue Devils got out and ran early, effectively turning their offense into defense; and forward Dave McClure had maybe the best game of his career. But when Duke couldn’t get out and run the fast break, the offense stagnated in the half-court. The Blue Devils turned the ball over 21 times for the game and went scoreless for nearly five minutes in the second half. The half-court offense did look much better in the last 13 minutes of the second half. From the 13:02 mark of the period 9:28 remained, the Blue Devils either scored or got to the line on six of seven possessions. None of-these trips up the court was a fast break. The fact remains, however, that Duke is a young team, with a slightly new offensive system and no established star player. It is only natural that the team will struggle at times.

And playing three games in five days doesn’t allow for much time to work out the offensive kinks. “The tough thing about playing so many games in a short period of time is you don’t get to have hard practices where you can really run your offense and get into your offensive sets,” freshman center Brian Zoubek said. “That was one of the things—we were just rusty. We haven’t run it in a while. We haven’t worked on it. One of the other things was that we were playing such hard defense that by the time we got to offense, we were a little fatigued.” Junior guard DeMarcus Nelson said some struggles should be expected as they get used to the new offensive system. He said the offense’s schemes and concepts have changed, and the Blue Devils put in several new plays. The new offense is more pro-style than last year, and floor spacing is more important. It is designed to create a lot of opportunities for Duke’s young perimeter players to penetrate into the lane before either scoring or kicking the ball out for a three-point shot. To the young team’s credit, its guards were able to get into the lane frequendy, and freshman guard Jon Scheyer knocked down a couple of open three-pointers when they dished the ball out. For all his coach’s talk about focusing on the positive, Scheyer said he expected to work on the half-court offense at practice in the next few days. “We feel like our offense is going to come around a little slower because it takes time, takes rhythm, takes players continuing to know each other,” Nelson said. “There’s room for improvement.” For now, they’re looking good enough —Duke fans can enjoy watching them get better.

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If you can’t play at home, the best option might to be play someone from home. That is the situation that the Blue Devils’ sen,w ior point guard Lindsey Harding faces this weekVS. end, as No. 5 Duke (1-0) will host Houston (0TONIGHT, 7 p.m. Sunday at 2 Cameron Indoor Marist (1 0) r Stadium will also pay a visit to Cameron Indoor Stadium this weekend, playing the Blue Devils tonight at 7 p.m. Harding, who played at Houston’s CY-Fair High School in the northwest part of the city, said that she is excited to be playing her hometown team. “I would have loved to play next

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Houston in Houston, but I guess it is kind offamiliar territory,” Harding said. “In general, it’s just kind of fun to play a team from home.” Harding will miss out on an opportunity to play at home by one year, as Duke will travel to Houston next season for the second leg of a home-and-home series. Harding will also miss out on the opportunity this weekend to play an old AAU teammate, Houston’s Wooden Award nominee Tye Jackson. The 5-foot-10 guard, who averaged a team-high 17.7 points per game last season, suffered a leg injury in the Cougars’ final exhibition game and is not listed on the team’s travelling roster for this weekend. Jackson transferred to Houston from Purdue, where she played against Duke in 2004. “We’ve played on the same AAU team for years,” Harding said. “I have definitely been following her, and she has been doing great at Houston.” Despite the absence of Jackson, the Blue Devils—who won their first game 102-49 against Northeastern—expect to be challenged by the Cougars, who are buoyed by a number of experienced junior college transfers. The Cougars have seven of them on their roster, in addition to two players who transferred from other Division-I programs. “They are very, very athletic,”

head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “They are young in that they have a lot of new faces, but they’re juniors, so they’ve already played two years of college basketball.” The Blue Devils will also face a challenging opponent in Marist, which won both the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament tides last year. The Red Foxes run a Princeton-style motion offense that Duke may be unfamiliar with. “They run a five-out motion, so they run a little bit different style of play than we see,” Goestenkors said. “Their post players can shoot the three, so it’s going to be good for us because it’s a different style.” Goestenkors said a top team from a smaller conference like Marist could be indicative of the type of opponent that the Blue Devils would face in the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament. “They understand what the NCAATournament is all about,” Goestenkors said. “We will face a team like that in the tournament, so it really is beneficial for us to play them.” Duke also hopes to perform well this weekend, as they host a recruit, class of 2009 guard-forward Kelly Paris. The 5-foot-10 Indiana native is also a standout volleyball player who was named the MYP of the 2006 USA Junior Olympic Championships.

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M. BBALL from page 1 “McClure was special tonight,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He played very well. We’re going to need that.” The defense let up a little at the start of the second half, allowing UNC-G to go on a 16-5 run. Duke responded, however, to hold the Spartans to just five points in the final eight minutes of the game. The Blue Devils have held all three of their opponents to fewer than 50 points this season. Offensively, Duke again exhibited balance, with four players scoring in double figures. Brian Zoubek used his size down low to score a team-high 17 points in 20 minutes.

Gerald Henderson and DeMarcus Nelson scored 12 and 11 points, respectively, and each threw down a highlight-reel dunk in the contest. The Blue Devils, however, did stall at the start of the second half, going nearly five minutes without scoring to allow the Spartans to close the gap to 14.

“What happens sometimes with our team—we’re playing so hard defensively that when we get a turnover or a rebound, we force some action that isn’t there,” Krzyzewski said. “At times, our offense sputters or we make a mistake.” Duke’s struggles in the half-court offense come as Greg Paulus continues to return to game shape after a suffering a foot injury in the pre-season. The sophomore point guard—who came off the bench to play 20 minutes and had three of Duke’s 21 turnovers —is still trying to find his rhythm offensively. “The game today was better than the other two games for Greg,” Krzyzewski said. “He has a lot of catching up to do. It’s just going to take a little bit of time, but he’ll be there.” With Paulus coming off the bench, Josh Mcßoberts has been playing more on the perimeter. Although the forward dished out seven assists, he scored only six points on three shots. “Josh is such a good passer, but we need to get him more shots,” Krzyzewski said. “That transition with helping bring the ball up—it has to evolve a little bit more.”

M.SOCCER from page 9 the team’s postseason success. “We need to get our touches sharper, but that’s natural after 10 days off,” Rennie said. “Right now, we are just trying to get our legs back, but of course we will be working on sharpness, working on fitness.” If the Blue Devils can stay sharp, they will further cement their status as the team to beat in the College Cup especially with the second round upset of third-seeded and top-ranked Southern Methodist. But Duke is not feeling any extra heat. “We’ve been on top all year, so there really isn’t any added pressure,” Castaneda said. “Being in the ACC, we play good teams all year.” One thing that likely will affect the team’s performance is playing at home again—an advantage that is sure to give the Blue Devils a boost in the match. “Playing at home, we’ve had some great crowds,” Papadakis said, referring especially to the packed stands during the team’s matchup against North Carolina. “If we had the same level of support on Sunday, that would be invaluable.” Although Duke put the game away well before the closing seconds against Brown, a home crowd will play a more crucial role if the game remains close until the end. “Especially late in the game, when the team is tired and looking for support, the crowd is fantastic,” said Rennie. “We’re looking forward to a good crowd on Sunday.” to

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different mindset towards him,” cornerback Deonto McCormick said. “He’s not their only deep threat, but he’s their playmaker and he can change the game very easily.” Duke has not had great success defending elite receivers this season. On Oct. 28, Vanderbilt’s Earl Bennet the nation’s leading receiver—torched the Blue Devils for 184 yards and a touchdown. The team also ranks dead last in the ACC in pass defense, allowing 222.7 yards per game. It’s no secret that GeorgiaTech will be looking to throw the ball to Johnson on numerous occasions Saturday. When the two teams line up against each other, the numbers are certainly in the Yellow Jackets’ favor. “When it gets down to certain situations where you have a short field and you know you’re going to get the fade—somehow, some way we have to find away to get up there and make a play on him,” Roof said. Cornerback John Talley has been able to make those types of plays for the Blue Devils his entire career. The senior leads the ACC with six interceptions this season and is Duke’s all-time leader—tied for second in ACC history with 17 career picks. “Some more people need to step up and make plays,” safety Chris Davis said. “Somebody other than John Talley has to make some interceptions.... We’ve been in position this year to do that, and it hasn’t happened. We just need to take it upon ourselves to make things happen.” —

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1, Michael Merson are visibly connected to Duke became the first direc- on a number of levels, Global health is an issue tor of the newly formed Global Health Insti- that few would condemn as a University prioritute, a year after ty. In a world a University editorial to prestruggling steering committee recommended the in- vent and treat a variety of diseases—as well as social strucsititute’s formation. the last few years, tures that contribute to the During Duke has made global health spread of many of these disinto a top University concern, eases —universities play an important role in funding, reand has done a commendable job branding itself as a search and service. So everyone knows Duke is school committed to this rapfield. Created on board. What now? idly expanding As the Institute has an last April, the Global Health Institute currently has a eye for the global communi$3O-million endowment. In ty—and the Durham one—it should make sure that stuthe recent $1.3-billion strategic plan, “Making a Differ- dents here on campus have ence,” global health was menample opportunities to tioned as a major priority. help. The next logical step is Around the world, programs to get students excited _

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abroad in hopes of incorporating global health into their educational experiences. Encouraging students to travel to places like Botswana, Haiti, Russia or India requires much more support and preparation, a service that the study abroad office currently just does not meet. Another way in which Duke can increase student participation is by making global health classes and vol-

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potential undergrads as the premier university for those looking toward a future in global health, as Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service is for students interested in diplomacy. We understand these measures will take time to implement; Merson has said so himself. However, the global health program at Duke has enormous potential and is on the verge of becoming a major force here. Merson should recognize students as valuable assets to help the Global Health Institute realize its goals. Lots of students are ready, willing and able to help. It’s just a matter of offering them the right opportunities and support.

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are many, many reasons to be depressed about last week’s election. But one, in particular, stands out: not many of us voted. According to preliminary data from the Board of Elections, turnout in Durham’s precinct s—which students serves from West and Central campuses—was the second lowest in the county, with just 18 percent of registered voters casting ballots. In precinct 2, which encom krist'lll butler passes East Campus, w,t a deliberate speed the turnout was only 23 percent. Just as surprisingly, the lowest turnout of all was in the precinct serving NCCU’s campus, where only 182 of2,028 registered voters—that’s just9 percent! —cast their ballots. For perspective, consider that Durham County’s average turnout was 38.55 percent, and it went as high as 51 percent in precinct 39. In the interest offull disclosure, I should add that these statistics do not yet include early, absentee or provisional ballots, and they don’t account for students who cast ballots in their hometowns, leaving out hundreds of Duke voters. Still, the message is plenty clear: We students are not participating in Durham’s political determinations. Which begs the question; why the hell not? We certainly weren’t disenfranchised: Groups like Duke Students for an Ethical Durham successfully encouraged more than 1,000 of us to register to vote locally this fall. Add to that the fact that 1,362 East and West campus residents were already registered, and it seemed like nearly half of Duke undergraduates were poised to cast their votes Nov. 7. And what a proud moment that would have been. In one of the most controversial—and significant elections in Durham’s recent history, a large student turnout would have signaled our commitment to this community’s political process. More than that, Election Day was a singular opportunity for us to oppose Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong’s disgraceful conduct while pursuing felony indictments against three of our classmates. So I’ll ask again; What more incentive could Duke students possibly need to vote? This was our best chance yet to demand fairness and equal treatment under the law, and I just can’t understand why more eligible, registered students couldn’t spare 30 minutes toward these imperatives. Of course, this problem is not unique to our campus, but rather endemic to our age group: Nationally, only 24 percent of eligible voters under age 30 cast —

ballots last week. And although we make up approximately 21 percent of the “voting eligible” population, we only cast 13 percent of the votes. In this election, we now know that higher student turnout would not have been enough to overcome the nearly 6,000-vote differential between Nifong and opposing candidateLewis Cheek. Still, these votes would have been anything but futile: Many of these students would have joined 51 percent (the majority) of Durham voters in rejecting Nifong’s outrageous behavior. They also would have gained the opportunity to choose which judges, congressmen and assorted other elected officials will govern this community. And although our numbers were not sufficient to change the result of the Nov. 7 election, Nifong relied in part on abysmal student turnout in the May primaries to defeat opponent Freda Black by only 883 votes. If more of us had taken the time to vote in that election, Durham would have been spared all of the controversy that has followed Mike Nifong’s handling of the lacrosse case. We would have also gained an eminendy qualified candidate for district attorney, one whose experience and conduct make her worthy of the office. In other words, although there are more than 140,000 registered voters in Durham, the 11,206 of them who voted for Mike Nifong in last May’s primary were enough to define the terms of the general election. If a small minority of Durham’s voters is going to continue choosing our political representatives in primary elections, then it behooves Duke students to see that they are included among this minority in the future. And yes, I acknowledge that the act of voting is inconvenient and sometimes infuriating. Last Tuesday, it was raining and it was cold, and precinct s’s facilities at the W.I. Patterson recreation center could barely accommodate the voters waiting at 5 p.m. The ballots can be confusing, and my felt-tip marker was dry. But in the scheme of things, these justaren’t valid excuses for Duke students’ failure to vote; idealism and civic responsibility aside, the events of this spring have shown how important it is that we participate in choosing Durham’s elected officials. I confess that if concern for our classmates and the integrity of Durham’s legal system weren’t enough to get more of us to the polls last week, then I don’t know what would be. What I do know is this: We should be ashamed of our historically low level of engagement in Durham elections, and we should all hope that the hard lessons of the past eight months will disabuse us of that habit in the future. Kristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every Friday.

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players: Head Line Monitor Mara Schultz; Vice President for Athletics and Campus Services David Snider; Vice President for Academic Affairs Jimmy Soni; Chief of Staff Paul Slattery; Senator Anthony Marzocca; and senior David Earley. The game: approval of the 2006-2007 K-ville policy, Wednesday’s Duke Student Government meeting began quite differendy than most others I have witnessed. In the Public Forum portion of the meeting, an area usually empty and glossed over in the agenda, senior David Earley stood his ground in front of the allie vergotz DSG senate denouncing the down and dirty with dsg K-ville policy to be discussed later in the meeting. His complaint: Keeping the UNC Robertson Scholars out of Kville. “To affirm this policy is to affirm an abuse of the head line monitor’s power,” he said. The new policy does not allow UNC Robertson Scholars to tent in response to a situation that occurred last year involving about a dozen Robertson Carolina fans who ruined the DukeUNC experience for many Duke fans. The students who hid Carolina blue under two layers of Duke clothing in order to get into Cameron safely not only cheered for Carolina amid Duke students in Cameron’s student section, but they also caused disruptions in K-ville while tenting. Following other DSC business items, Schultz calmly explained this year’s men’s basketball game policies before leading into the always touchy topic of tenting. The first concern about the policy focused on the fact that only one game has been deemed a tenting game. Schultz explained that “tenting for a game just for the sake of tenting for a game doesn’t prove to be in the campus’ best interest.” Then the real fun started. Freshman Senator Marzocca questioned the policy regarding UNC Robertson students and why it came about. Snider explained that there was a “precipitating incident” leading to this year’s policy change. When the policy came to vote, Marzocca objected, leading to a period of debate. Here, Slattery took the floor announcing that “K-ville belongs to the student body” and “probably 95 percent of the students at the University think it is ‘our house.’” Slattery also addressed Carolina’s lottery system, which gives preference to seniors and makes it very difficult for other UNC students and especially Duke Robertson Scholars to gain access to the Duke-UNC game on Tar Heel turf, stating that Carolina should give up some of their student section for the Dukies. “Otherwise, go to hell, Carolina, go to hell,” he said. Slattery’s comments were followed by applause and Soni’s remark that sitting near the Carolina fans at last year’s game was the worst basketball experience of his life. “The Robertsons broke a Gentlemen’s Agreement,” he said. “And for that they will be punished.” Executive Vice President Joe Fore clarified that the new policy does not forbid the Robertsons from attending the game, only from tenting. President Elliott Wolf also noted that “there’s not an inherent right for every single Duke student to attend.” Based on the events of last year, Schultz and the entire line monitor committee approved this policy. As the debate wrapped up, Marzocca requested that the new policy not “go down in the books,” and Schultz assured him the policy is reconsidered by the line monitors and presented before the DSG senate every year. Much to my relief, the new policy was approved with most senators voting in favor, a few against and one abstention. Wolf and Slattery followed this result with chants of “Our house! Our house!” As a freshman who has been planning my tenting group since arriving at Duke, I was thrilled, and I have little doubt the majority of the student body would agree. Although there are a few people on campus who could not care less about K-ville and basketball (shocking, I know), there is no question that being a Crazie, being in K-ville and being recognized as the team’s “sixth man” is a unifying, uplifting force on campus. Allowing Carolina fans into our student section is just not right. Anyone at the Duke-Columbia game Sunday might remember the lone Columbia fan in the student section (halfcourt, about two rows back, TV side). He was hardly well received, and Columbia definitely is not our greatest rivalry. I’m sorry for you Carolina fans who have to suffer through that lottery system you have, but that’s no excuse for you to taint K-ville. Go to hell, Carolina: Cameron is our house. Allie Vergplz is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every otherFriday.

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lettertotheeditor Let Robertsons tent I read with great interest your Nov. 14 article “Robertsons irked by tenting policy.” Yes, I know there are a lot of important issues going on at both of our campuses, so I even hesitate to write this letter. But I do want to urge the Duke Student Government to reconsider its proposed policy banning any students who were full-time students at UNC during the Fall 2006 semester from tenting for the Duke-UNC game. This is not only contrary to the spirit of the Robertson Scholars Program, where students of both Duke and UNC are supposed to be treated as students of the sister campus, but also, I think, contrary to a spirit of openness, diversity and just plain fun. How can Robertson Scholars truly experience Duke

if they are prevented from participating in one of its signature rituals? I live in a divided home: My daughter loves the Tar Heels, and my son is a die-hard Blue Devils fan. Their split allegiances make these games interesting and fun for my family, and I hope that DSG will see diversity of opinion at Cameron in the same way. Lighten up, Cameron Crazies. You are known as the best fans in the country. Certainly the presence of a few light blue comrades from down the road won’t diminish your spirit. Let’s remember that this is supposed to be fun. Eric Mlyn Director, Robertson Scholars Program

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many representatives are there in Congress? In what year was the Constitution written ? Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner? I found these questions on my naturalization test this spring. Waiting anxiously in the hallway were about 25 other immigrants, many of whom spoke only a smattering of English. Had they failed to give two of the following—435, 1787 and Francis Scott Key —then they may not be able to moc James ZOU join the ranks of Americans. Among hello, world other potential obstacles: seven questions on the color and meaning of the flag. Between 2000 and 2003, 2.3 million immigrants became U.S. citizens, more than 25,000 in North Carolina. They are playing an increasingly significant role in both local and national politics, accounting for more than half ofall new registered voters. The citizenship test is laden with patriotic trivia arcane facts that are useless in determining someone’s true qualification and value to this country. Monday, the federal government announced that it will change the test so that it would rely less on trivia and more on values —specifically the immigrant’s grasp of the “meaning of democracy.” The revised test will be given to all applicants for naturalization beginning in 2006. Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative think tank, praises the changes. “It's also good for the people who are already here,” he said. “Because there will be fewer problems and fewer friction if we all understand what America is all about.” In practice, the changes will bring about few ramifications. If someone can memorize a chapter out of AP -

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