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Nicholas School dean to step down Schlesinger will be 3rd dean to depart in 2007 by

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Several Duke administratorsfound fault in DSG's policy that prevents UNC Robertsons from tenting for the Duke-UNC game.

Administrators object to new DSG K-ville policy by

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Some University administrasaid Monday that they oppose the new Duke Student Government policy excluding Robertson Scholars based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from tenting. Administrators said, however, that they are unlikely to take direct action to ensure that the scholars be allowed to participate. Instead, they encouraged greater dialogue and said DSG should re-evaluate the policy. DSG enacted the new tenting tors

statute after a group ofRobertson Scholars who tented last spring removed Duke outerwear to display UNC gear and cheered for UNC during the Duke-UNC men’s basketball game in Cameron Indoor Stadium. “They are fully Duke students,” Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said of the UNC Robertson Scholars. “To just simply prohibit their participation isn’t the best response.” He added, however, that “it’s fundamentally a student decision and a student outcome.”

Soon after the decision was announced, Duke administrators who serve on the Robertson Scholars Program’s Universities Coordinating Committee began to correspond by e-mail about their opposition to the new policy, members of the committee confirmed. “We all feel the same way... that it was an unfortunate overreaction,” said Judith Ruderman, vice provost for academic and administrative services. The Duke-affiliated members SEE ROBERTSONS ON PAGE 5

The dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences will be stepping down June 1, 2007, administrators announced Monday. William Schlesinger, who has been at the University since 1980 and dean since 2001, will become president of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y. “This was just an opportunity that could not be passed up. This is a great, well funded think tank that has a wonderful, although not hugely long, history of ecological research, and I have enough wanderlust left in me that it couldn’t be overlooked,” Schlesinger said. The decision to leave Duke was a difficult one, he said. “All the people, places, experiences that we’ve had in Durham, North Carolina, at Duke, it’s hard to just sort of leave that behind so casually—so that was a huge draw to stay,” Schlesinger said. “Duke and the provost made some very generous offers to try to keep me here... but I decided that a move might be fun and challenging on my end of things.” In a statement, Provost Peter Lange praised Schlesinger for growing and improving the Nicholas School’s student population and bringing “a far higher de-

gree of integration around a common vision to the school’s units.” “I’m unhappy that he’s leaving but he’s got a great opportunity and I think it’s something that will carry him probably to the point that he finishes his career,” Lange told The Chronicle. Schlesinger said he has accomplished many of his goals as dean, citing the expansion of the Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort, N.C., and the newly opened Washington, D.C., office of the Nicholas Institute for SEE NICH SCHOOL ON PAGE 6

William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School, will step down June 1,2007,to accept a position at an institute in upstate N.Y.

RLHS holds GM develops ‘Blue Devil’ Corvette 60 in spring living limbo by

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ral Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, Trin5, said the future is bright for the latt version of the classic American sports car. “We have a terrific team of engineers, and they always have good ideas,” he said. Speculation abounds online as to the origin of the label, which the oiiSEE CORVETTE ON PAGE 7

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ResidentialLife and Housing Services released spring semester housing assignments last Wednesday, with about 100 roommate pairs receiving assignments on campus and 24 pairs opting for off-campus housing, officials confirmed Monday. For approximately 60 students, however, assignments are still up in the air, said Marijean Williams, director of housing assignments and communications. Williams said all students requesting SEE HOUSING ON PAGE 6

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Mayor calls force 'excessive'

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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reached out to the Palestinians on Monday in one of his most conciliatory speeches yet, saying he- was prepared to grant them a state, release desperately needed funds and free prisoners if they choose the path of peace. Olmert’s remarks sealed a dramatic policy shift and built on a day-old truce meant to end five months of violence in the Gaza Strip. But new rocket attacks by Palestinian militants threatened the latest rapprochement. “I hold out my hand in peace to our Palestinian neighbors in the hope that it

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won’t be returned empty,” Olmert said. “We cannot change the past and we will not be able to bring back the victims on both sides of the borders,” he said. “All that we can do today is stop additional tragedies.” Olmert appealed to the Palestinians to form a new, moderate Cabinet committed to carrying out a U.S.-backed peace plan and securing the release of a captured Israeli soldier. Once such a government was set up, Olmert said, he would call for an immediate meeting with the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, “to have a real, open, honest, serious dialogue between us.” Palestinian legislator Saeb Erekat, a top Abbas aide, said the Palestinians were

Israeli leader urges peace, dialogue ready to negotiate a final peace deal.

“I believe Mr. Olmert knows he has a partner, and that is President Abbas. He knows that to achieve peace and security for all, we need to shoot for the end game,” Erekat said. But the Palestinian Cabinet, led by Hamas militants who reject Israel’s right to exist, accused Olmert of posturing. “This is a conspiracy. This is a new maneuver. Olmert is speaking about the Palestinian state without giving details about the borders,” said Ghazi Hamad, a government

spokesperson.

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WASHINGTON The Justice Department has begun an internal investigation into its handling of information gathered in the government’s domestic spying program. However, Democrats criticized the review as not going far enough to determine whether the program violates federal law. The inquiry by Glenn Fine, the department’s inspector general, will focus on the role ofjustice prosecutors and agents in carrying out the warrandess surveillance program run by the National Security Agency. Fine’s investigation is not expected to

address whether the controversial program is an unconstitutional expansion of presidential power, as its critics and a federal judge in Detroit have charged. “After conducting initial inquiries into the program, we have decided to open a program review that will examine the department’s controls and use ofinformation related to the program,” Fine wrote in a letter dated Monday to House and Senate leaders on judiciary, intelligence and appropriations committees. The review also will look at “the department’s compliance with legal requirements governing the program,” according to the

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Jet crashes in Iraq oil facility Mortarrounds crashed into an oil processing facility near the northern city of Kirkuk Monday, igniting a huge blaze, and a U.S.Air Force jet with one pilot crashed while supporting American soldiers fighting in Anbar province, a hotbed of Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgency.

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Study aims to use genetics to enhance medications Eugene Wang THE CHRONICLE

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The Jaume Plensa statue,"Tattoo," was supposed to be featured on the Plaza but is instead at Nasher.

The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy recently initiated a study called GENErations to explore the potential application of genetic research and to advance the field of pharmacogenetics. The study, done in collaboration with the Department of Community and Family Medicine, aims to use DNA testing in a clinical environment to improve the efficacy of medications for common diseases such as hypertension, asthma and high cholesterol, GENErations research associate Iris Grossman said. “This study is to understand how genetic variation influences how people respond to commonly used medications,” said Geoffrey Ginsburg, director of the IGSP Center for Genomic Medicine. “[We hope] to use the information from the study to design clinically relevant algorithms to optimize

the medication’s benefits.” GENErations, which admitted its first patient Nov. 9, will be conducted in two phases. In the first phase researchers will gather genetic data about the patients at the clinic and will use the data to personalize medicine according to each individual’s unique genotype in the second phase. “On the clinical side of things, [GENErations] develops a unique framework for developing drugs in a real-world setting,” Ginsburg said. “On a more social level, it allows us to begin to understand the attitudes and perspectives of Durham

Artist requests Nasher, not Plaza, for sculpture 3 Duldes named fellows of U.S. scientific group Maya Salwen THE CHRONICLE

Although it may seem fitting that a statue with phrases such as “What is a lake?” and ‘Where is the sun at noon?” embedded on it should be displayed outside, a recent change of plans has placed the much-anticipated new statue “Tattoo” inside the Nasher Museum ofArt. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, along with a committee at the Nasher, had plans to install the statue, which was created by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, on the new West Campus Plaza. But original expectations for the sculpture have been foiled by the artist’s request. “Tattoo” was installed Nov. 6—not on the West Campus Plaza, but into the Nasher. “While the sculpture has been outside before and we hoped to keep it outside, there were logistical challenges to the original site,” said Wendy Livingston,

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manager of marketing and communications at the Nasher. Plensa visited Duke Oct. 29, both to give a lecture, “Human Nature,” at the Nasher and to examine the proposed space for “Tattoo” on the Plaza. Kimerly Rorschach, Mary D.B.T and James H. Semans Director of the Nasher, said after seeing the site, the artist was concerned because the Plaza was not a high-security environment. Although the statue looks sturdy, it is made out of polyester resin and stainless steel, which can be easily damaged by any hard blow—such as with a hammer—Livingston said. And because the statue is made from one piece of material, any damage done to it is almost irreparable. The statue is a kneeling human figure with glowing colors and words “tattooed”

Two professors and a retired sciencewriter administrator have been elected as fellows in the American Association for the Advancement ofScience. Recognized for their contributions were: Elwyn Simons, James B. Duke professor of biological anthropology and anatomy and head of the division of fossil primates; Dennis Thiele, George Barth Geller Distinguished professor of pharmacology and cancer biology; and Dennis Meredith, former assistant vice president and director of research communications at the Office of News and Communications, who retired earlier this year.

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Elwyn Simons, James B. Duke professor of biological anthropology, was elected a fellow of theAAAS.

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Scalding scolding A citizen reported Nov. 18 that he found two juveniles who had created a bonfire in the the Duke Forest near Gate 21. He scolded the two and told them to put the fire out. He called the Duke Police Department, which extinguished the fire.

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The Redefine Travel campaign attempts to promote the use of local buses to help preserve theenvironment.

Student group promotes alternative transportation BY

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A year ago, a group of students universities in the Triangle area started a campaign to encourage their peers to use alternative transportation. Though the Redefine Travel campaign has met with success in places like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Triangle Transit Authority officials say they are continuing to promote the use of buses, carpools and bicycles at Duke, where students have been less than enthusiastic about the initiative. “It’s really important for university students to learn to use alternative transportation,” said Amy Armbruster, TTA transdemand portation management coordinator and founder of the campaign. “I would love for Duke students to feel really confident and comfortable riding the [city] buses and to know the destination they can get to using the bus.” Redefine Travel provides information to students at six local universities about popular destinations around and beyond at

campus, including maps, directions and bus stops and schedules. Through brochures, advertisements and an elaborate website, the campaign also provides tips for how to ride a bus, find carpool partners, participate in cycling activities and establish travel plans. “There are over 80,000 students in the Triangle, and universities are often particularly situated for transit,” Armbruster said. “This website is supposed to give [students] that peace of mind and teach them what they need to know.” She added that the initiative has been successful since its inception, and TTA has been able to track the numbers of students using public transportation at UNCand N.C. State due to the schools’ UPass system that allows them to ride local buses for free. “Duke doesn’t have a UPass system, so students have to pay the full price for tickets,” Armbruster said. “I think more , people would use it if it were free.” She added that UNC is currently the only destination Duke students can travSEE TRAVEL ON PAGE 5

East Campus is a dry campus A student was found passed out around 2:22 a.m. outside Randolph Dormitory Nov. 19. Once the intoxicated studentwas brought inside, he created a disturbance causing other students to call the police. The police officers were eventually able to identify the student and release him into a sober person’s custody.

Seeing double? An employee reported Nov. 17 that she saw a suspicious man in the nurses’ break room on the fourth floor of Duke Hospital. The man appeared to be*going through a nurse’s bag. Police were called but were unable to locate him. Another suspicious man matching the same description was reportedly seen on the ninth floor about 30 minutes later. The man may have been wearing an employee uniform but was not an employee in either area. Hide and seek A security officer noticed a suspicious man who seemed to be trying to hide

GENES from page 3 residents about research.” Ginsburg added that GENErations is a first-of-its-kind study undertaken to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice and integrate genedcs into everyday medicine. “We’d like to find out how frequendy some of the genetic variations occur in a clinic population, and whether there is any association between genetic variation and medications,” Lloyd Michener, professor and chairman of the Department of Community and Family Medicine,

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from him Nov. 22 in Bostock Library. A police officer located the man and discovered that he had previously been banned from campus. The man was told to leave.

Employee absconds with drugs, maybe An employee reported Nov. 16 that another employee on the fifth floor ofDuke Hospital may have stolen some drugs. Emergency contact A Duke Hospital employee reported Nov. 22 that he was confronted by another employee on the second floor of the hospital while he was doing his job. After a brief argument, the second employee allegedly grabbed the. first employee by the wrist. No warrants have been issued at this time. Student’s jewelryreported stolen A student reported Nov. 18 that she was missing some jewelry from her Central Campus room on Alexander Street. She provided police with the name of a suspect. Car vandalized near Medical Center An employee reported Nov. 22 that she parked her car at 8:00 a.m. on Elder Street. When she returned to her car at noon, she found that someone had broken a vent window using a rock and stolen some loose change from her center console.

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Although genetic profiling is still a novel technique, Michener said he anticipates that routine genetic testing will come sooner rather than later. He added that GENErations hopes to show patients and doctors the purpose and benefits of genetic testing. With Durham residents as the study’s subjects, a secondary goal ofGENErations is to gauge public opinion on clinical research and die field of pharmacogenetics. “It is important for us to try and engage people in the community and get them to participate in the study and help us raise awareness,” Grossman said.

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of the joint Duke-UNC committee are Moneta, Ruderman, Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College and vice provost for undergraduate education, and Melissa Malouf, director of the Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows. “It is annoying to me when people for the opposing team are sitting anywhere near me,” said Ruderman, who noted that she has had men’s basketball tickets since 1976. “That said, I have never considered that my section or my ‘house’... should be closed off to any fans of the opposing team.” Eric Mlyn, executive director of the Robertson Scholars Program, said he had spoken with students, DSG officials and University administrators about the issue. He noted that he had heard nothing about DSG’s proposed policy until after it passed, “In the scheme of things... this is small,” Mlyn said. “But as a symbol, I think it’s the wrong symbol for DSG to be sending to UNC Robertson Scholars.” Mlyn called for further dialogue and for DSG to reconsider its decision. DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, said a vote overturning the new tenting policy—which a large majority of senators approved —is unlikely. He noted, however,

Members of the Robertson program studying at Duke last spring stir controversy at the Duke-UNC game. that any DSG senator can propose an amendment to any piece of legislation. “Our main feeling, though, is that we work for Duke students,” Wolf said. “The feeling was, ‘They did that because they’re UNC students.’”

Wolf added that he would be willing to talk to anyone about DSG’s actions. David Suitts, a UNC sophomore who captained the scholars’ tent last year, said he had spoken informally with Wolf and Head Line Monitor Mara Schultz, a senior.

He said they both explained their positions and agreed on the need for further discussion. Ruderman said she also supports continuing dialogue. She said excluding the scholars ignores the many benefits the scholarship program brings to Duke, but direct administrative action would probably generate a negative response. “There’s an exacerbated divide between Duke undergraduates and administrators,” Ruderman explained. “I don’t think there can be a heavy hand here.” Moneta noted that administrators’ authority might be limited. DSG-appointed line monitors have governed access to the student section of Cameron Indoor Stadium since the 1991-1992 basketball season. “I don’t know what authority we could or would even choose to exercise,” Moneta said. “For there to be more resentment wouldn’t be helpful.” Wolf said direct administrative action is unlikely, but he added that one administrator had implied it is a possibility. “The interest the University might have in supporting the Robertson Scholars’ entry into the UNC game is outweighed by the interest the University has in supporting K-ville,” Wolf said. “DSG doesn’t have direct control over much, but we do run K-ville.”

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on it. Although it is large, at nine feet high, “Tattoo” weighs in at only 100 pounds —part of the reason Plensa felt it could be easily damaged. “It would have been an exciting piece to launch the presence of art on the Plaza,” Moneta said. Rorschach noted, however, that there was never a guarantee the statue would be placed on the Plaza. “We suggested that it would be exciting to put ‘Tattoo’ on the Plaza, but the original offer was to the museum,” she said. The piece is on loan to the University from Paula Crown, a University

el to for free using the Robertson express bus. Duke was not involved in the initial founding of Redefine Travel but was included later, she said, adding that student groups on campus have not yet gotten involved in the campaign. Nonetheless, Redefine Travel is making an impression on college students in the area, and a slew of new campaign material is being distributed to attract more students. “They’re making a really good effort at trying to design something that will be attractive to students,” said Cathy Reeve, director of Duke’s Parking and Transportation Services. She added that Duke students and Durham residents are environmentally conscious and can be affected by alternative transportation options if they are aware of them. “There’s support from the bicycling community and pedestrian advisories in Durham,” she said. “Maybe a year from now we can have data that we can start measuring and get feedback.” In addition to Duke, UNC and N.C. State, Redefine Travel also encompasses Meredith College, North Carolina Central University and Shaw University.

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The Jaume Plensa sculpture "Tattoo"is on loan to the University from Paula Crown, a University trustee.

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Now the statue is positioned at one of the entrances to Pavilion Three in the Nasher, against the door to the outdoor terrace. It is the closest “Tattoo” will get to being exhibited outside during its stay at the University, which will last until May 2007, when Crown reclaims the statue. In the meantime, Moneta is on the lookout for art to fill the plaza space. “I very much would like the Plaza to be a home for student art,” he said. “It will be displayed everywhere and anywhere—wherever we can hang it, stand it or fly it.”

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GlennFine will lead the Department of Justice's internal investigation of domestic spying practices.

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next year, Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y, questioned that Fine’s investigation “is only coming now after the election as an

gram that monitors phone calls and emails between people in the United States and abroad when a link to terrorism is suspected. Fine’s letter outiining his review was welcomed by congressional Democrats. At the same time, they said it falls short of examining issues at the heart of the debate—how the spying program evolved, and whether its creation violated any laws. “A full investigation into the program as a whole, not just the DOJ’s involvement, will be necessary,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. The review could include whether the spying program complies with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires judicial authorization for electronic surveillance and physical searches of people suspected of espionage or international terrorism on behalf of a foreign power. The Justice Department requests surveillance approval from the FISA court. Democrats also questioned the timing of the review. Fine’s letter noted that his office asked the White House on Oct. 20 for additional security clearances that were approved just last week—following the Nov. 7 elections that gave Democrats control of Congress. Noting Democrats’ renewed power to subpoena Bush administration officials

attempt to appease Democrats” who have been critical of the NSA program. The letter was sent to House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and the panel’s top Democrat and incoming chairman, Rep. John Conyers, DMich. Sensenbrenner had no comment. Conyers called the review “a long overdue investigation of a highly controversial program.” The Justice Department has called the program a necessary tool in the fight against terrorism, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pushing congressional Republicans to authorize it by law before they cede power at the year’s end —a prospect with at best a slim shot of approval. Former Reagan administration national security official Robert F. Turner, now associate director at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia, said congressional demands for sensitive information about the program put them at odds with long-standing presidential powers over the collection of foreign intelligence. “It’s good that the executive branch, on its own, is making sure that someone’s not abusing this power,” Turner said. “But when Congress usurps power vested in the president by the people through the Constitution, then it becomes the lawbreaker.”

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speech Monday signaled a final break

Olmert’s speech raised the diplomatic stakes ahead of President George W. Bush’s scheduled trip to neighboringjordan this week for talks with Iraqi leaders. Erekat said it was possible Abbas would meet with Bush there, but Israeli officials denied that Abbas and Olmert might meet on die sidelines of the Bush visit. Olmert was elected in March promising to set Israel’s final borders with the Palestinians by uprooting isolated communities dotted all over the West Bank while holding on to major setdement blocs. Israel, Olmert said, would act unilaterally without a Palestinian peace partner—something it appeared inclined to conclude because of Hamas’ violendy anti-Israel ideology. But a summer war with Lebanese guerrillas left Israelis cool to ceding more territory, and Olmert shelved that plan. His

with that program —and an attempt to entice the Palestinians back to the negotiating table by oudining likely Israeli concessions under a future peace deal. “We, the state of Israel, will agree to the evacuation of many territories and the setdements that we built there. This is extremely difficult for us, like the splitting of the Red Sea. We will do it for real peace,” he said. Israel would pull out of West Bank land and uproot setdements under a peace deal, Olmert said. In return for a serious Palestinian push for peace, he said, Israel would be prepared to reduce checkpoints that have severely restricted movement in the West Bank; release hundreds of millions of dollars in funds frozen after Hamas took power in March; and free some of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners Israel holds if Hamas-linked militants release—alive and healthy—an Israeli soldier they captured in June.

on-campus housing would be found assignments by the end of December, but students’ preferences may not be accommodated. She said the delay in deciding the assignments came largely as a result of current on-campus students who were finalizing their spring housing plans. “I could wait [for an assignment] until the very end of December when there may be a slightly better chance of living with my preferred roommate, but there is no guarantee of either roommate or location,” junior Elissa Lerner said in an online correspondence from Copenhagen, Denmark. Of the 60 students without assignments, less than half have preferred roommates, Williams added. From that pool of students, RLHS intends to accommodate at least some of the preferred roommate pairs. In addition to the 24 newly determined off-campus pairs, more than 170 students were also given permission to live off campus earlier this month. Originally, RLHS announced that of the 117 roommate pairs requesting oncampus housing, only 75 would be accommodated, leaving the remaining 42 to find off-campus housing or be split up on campus. Williams said the number of accommodated roommate pairs rose to 100 because it included students who requested a roommate who was already living on campus. For the group of students who received an assignment on West Campus, the Nov. 22 announcements were a relief.

“I was very surprised,” junior Laura Dickey, who received a room on main West, said in an online correspondence from Paris. “I was expecting the.worst.” But students who remained in housing limbo said they were frustrated by their

continued lack of assignment. Many students said their biggest worry with the system was the prospect of being assigned a random roommate they did not know. “I didn’t want to be assigned in a room with a ‘rando,’ so I registered for a vacancy in a double with a girl I knew would be a compatible roommate,” junior Anne Knox Morton said in an online correspondence from Paris. Junior Katie Lee, who had planned to be in a triple with Lerner before RLHS informed her that a triple would not be available, said she wpuld have preferred that RLHS had given more detailed information about housing availability. “I split off and became a single person seeking a random roommate, and I. still don’t have housing,” Lee said in an online correspondence from Madrid, Spain. “I just can’t believe that nothing out ofmy 10 [preferred] choices is available.” Although students said they would have preferred to have more information about housing availability earlier in the process, many said they did not know how RLHS could have prevented the problem. “I think the process is nerve-wracking no matter what, but this year it was particularly so, given the housing shortage,” Dickey said. “I think that’s a big problem, but I’m not sure RLHS could have done anything differently except perhaps warn people earlier so they could look for other options,” Dickey added.

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had many qualified candidates,” said Lori Quillen, lES public information specialist. “We are thrilled to have him on Environmental Policy Solutions. board. His leadership strengths, includ“I’ve either got a lot of it done or I got ing a commitment to outreach, will be an things in place where it should happen and asset to the institution.” unfold with somebody else,” he said. Schlesinger added thathe is eager to re“Frankly, I think it would take a real effort turn to focusing on research, specifically for somebody to break that momentum looking into New England forests, water and I hope they would not want to do that.” and air pollution issues and environmental A nationwide search for a new dean will health issues. begin almost immediately, Lange said, “This think tank is all research, all the adding that he hopes a replacement will time. It has a smaller, number of people be found by the time Schlesinger departs but, essentially, the vast majority of its activfor his new job. ity is primary scholarship to understand lES, which Schlesinger will lead starthow ecosystems function,” he said. “To ing in June, is one of the largest ecologisome extent it’s a little bit of a return to cal research organizations in the world. being a professor rather than being dean.” It “is dedicated to the creation, disseminaSchlesinger, who first arrived at Duke in tion and application of knowledge about 1980 as a professor of botany, is the third ecological systems,” according to the insti- graduate or professional school dean who tute’s mission statement. At EES, Schlesinger has announced he will be relinquishing his will be taking over the role of Gene Likens, post next June. Both Katharine Bardett, founding director of the institute. dean of the School of Law, and Douglas “Dr. Schlesinger’s selection is the culBreeden, dean of the Fuqua School ofBusimination of an international search that ness, will be stepping down June 30, 2007.

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They are among the 449 fellows who were elected this year, and join 45 other Duke faculty and staff members as AAAS fellows. “The AAAS is one of the largest, if not the largest organization, aimed

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named a fellow is a great honor,” Thiele said AAAS is an international non-profit organization that aims to advance science around the world through its programs, projects and publications, including the journal Science. Fellows can be nominated each year by the steering groups of the association’s 24 sections, AAAS’ chief executive officer or any three fellows who are AAAS members. “I’m very honored, given that the AAAS is the foremost scientific society in the country,” Meredith said. “One of my heroes, Elwyn Simons at Duke, became a fellow at the same time so that makes it all the better.” The new class offellows will be honored at the association’s annual meeting next February in San Francisco. Fellows are recognized for significant contributions in their fields and hold the tides for life, said Lonnie Shekhtman,

“I suspect that it’s due to long-term sustained contributions to scientific discovery and to the dissemination of scientific information,” he said.

Although many AAAS fellows are researchers and scientists, those who help explain and interpret scientific information for the public are also important, Shekhtman added. “Communicating science to the public or important issues in science to the public—like the evolution debate and stem cell research and climate change —is also extremely important,” she said. Meredith was recognized “for exemplary leadership in university communications” and “important contributions to the theory and practice of research communications,” according to a Duke statement. Being a research communicator is quite different from being a researcher, Meredith said, adding that he is honored to be in great company. Simons was recognized for “outstanding contributions to paleoprimatology” through field research in Wyoming, Egypt, India and Madagascar, according to the release, but was not available for comment.

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Rick Wagoner, Trinity 75 and CEO of General Motors, said he didn't name the new Blue Devil Corvette. what we are going to do next,” he said of future plans for the sports car. And whether or not the name is deline forum AutoWeek said may only be a rived from Duke’s mascot, the car will be a devil of a competitor in the sportscar marworking name. ket: AutoWeek reported the revamped Spy photos revealing a sleek blue prototype running laps around test tracks Corvette is rumored to push 650 horsemay evoke the image of a Blue Devil, but power—nearly 150 more than the previThe Car Connection and other auto enous ZOO model. thusiast web sites have attributed the “This is an American-developed, -dename instead to Wagoner’s alma mater. signed and -manufactured car that has the potential to compete with exotic “I had nothing to do with the naming,” Wagoner said. “I would attribute the name cars,” Wagoner said. to the creative efforts of the design team.” He added that GM’s ability to produce such a competitive car at a relatively low He added, however, that he acknowledged the connection between the car price—rumored to be near $lOO,OO0 says a lot about the company’s commitand the University mascot. took of the name and ment to both value and quality. admit note “I I chuckled,” he said. “Our employees take pride in our cars,” he said. Wagoner said the Corvette model is esThe car will likely not be released until sentially a racecar derivative and that the company still pursues this idea in its more 2008 or 2009, so Dukies will have to wait until then to see if the Blue Devil nickrecent designs. name sticks. He also added that he takes special interest in the Corvette sector of General Although Wagoner could not specify many details of the new model, he said he Motors and that the company is committed to further improvements of the model. was optimistic about the future of the Corvette. “Stay tuned,” he said. “Let’s “The Corvette product has always interested me and I’m always interested in see what happens.”

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"Great programs' home courts are supposed to be tough to win on. We've all seen hundreds of games at Duke. How many times have you seen the home team lose?"

Setter Ali Hausfeld took home her third ACC Player of the Week award Monday. In two games last week, she racked up 75 assists for 25th-ranked Duke, which begins NCAA tournament play Friday.

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Note: Before this season, current Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson was the head man at Oklahoma. From 2000-2004, members of Sampson’s staff made 577 extra phone calls to recruits. Sampson himself made 233 of those calls. As a result, he jP| was banned from making any phone calls to recruits or reex off-campus ——

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Just about everything is different for Indiana this year—even the practice shorts. As a result, the ACC-Big Ten challenge game between No. 10 Duke (5-1) and the Hoosiers (3-1) tonight at 9 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium will feature a very different game than last year’s classic in Bloomington, Ind. Indiana lost its top three scorers— Marco Killingsworth, Marshall Strickland and Robert Vaden—from last year’s game, in which Killingsworth scored 34 before Duke pulled away for a 75-67 victory. But the Hoosiers have gained a new, and somewhat controversial, head coach in Kelvin Sampson, who went 279-109 in 12 seasons at Oklahoma. Before leaving Norman Sampson incurred penalties for a series of recruiting infractions, but that has not distracted him from imposing his coaching style on the Hoosiers. Sampson has doneall he can to implant the word “Intensity” on his players’ minds—even plastering the word on the back of their new practice shorts. The word, however, is not just a tired-out cliche. Sampson has drilled his mantra into the players’ lives with 5 a.m. wakeup calls, 6 a.m. weightlifting sessions and an offseason conditioning program that included what he called “ultimate suicides.” “For me, it’s about establishing work habits and work ethic,” Sampson said. “Before you can be a good road team, you have to have a foundation ofhow it is you

Greg Pauius racked up 13 points and sixassists in Duke's win over Indiana in last year's ACC-Big Ten Challenge.

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Throughout the season—and especially during theACC and NCAA tournaments—coaches like women's soccer's Robbie Church are forced to make difficult choices to accommodate players' academic schedules.

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After losing to Kansas in Birmingham, Ala. Sunday, Sept. 10, women’s soccer head coach Robbie Church and his players caught a plane to Atlanta and prepared to depart for Durham on a connecting flight. The only problem: they missed the last plane out from Atlanta that night. With several ofDuke’s student-athletesfacing 8:45 a.m. classes the next day, Church and his assistants made a drastic, but necessary, move. One of the team’s assistants drove the six hours and 380 miles to Durham in order to get the Blue Devils to their classes the next morning. Church’s action reflected the words that are spelled out in bold letters in the 2006 Student-Athlete Handbook: “Go to Class.” But given the amount of traveling that many of Duke’s varsity teams face, especially in the ACC and

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NCAA tournaments, many student-athletes have found that following this direction has become extremely difficult. And although the academics-athletics debate has been stimulated by the men’s lacrosse scandal over the past eight months, it has been Duke’s fall athletes who have most recently felt the crunch. Even though student-athletes are allowed official excuses to miss class when their teams travel, with all the ACC’s fall championships now complete and most of the NCAA tourtiaments well underway, many of Duke’s athletes have found that it is difficult to fully contribute to the classroom atmosphere and get their work done. This has caused hardship some student-athletes and their professors. “It’s stressful having to miss class,” said Hilary Linton, field hockey captain and an Academic All-

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ed for Winston-Salem for the final four on from page 9 a Wednesday night and did not return until Friday evening following its semifinal ACC selection. “It’s even more stressful loss to Wake Forest. The amount of missed class time has a when you have teachers who aren’t uneffect on student-athletes, some significant derstanding.” of whom said during the playoffs, the focus does not necessarily lie on schoolwork. The extensive nature of travel “It’s always When junior volleystressful to have ball player Ali Hausfeld to miss class,” signed to play at Duke, field hockey na“They want to win a she knew that she would freshman player class and miss travel tional championship, but Brooke Pattertime. She probably did son said before not expect, however, to they also want to get the leaving for the to three different travel Final Four in best degree possible.” states in one week this mid-November, season, which happened Beth Bozman, adding that she Blue Devils when the hockey head coach would miss five played Maryland, Boston classes and a quiz College and Virginia in over the two six days in the span of a school days the November. for the NCAAs. “But team be gone would “We travel a lot,” Hausfeld said. “It was focus on my athletics there is a lot more in, had more time than I thought coming than academics because [the Final Four] is and it is hard to travel. It is a lot of time.” such a big deal.” Being on the road like this is not unwhich team, the common for volleyball played away games at every ACC school as Searching for a solution Those displeased with the high a result of a double round-robin scheddoes amount of travel—especially professors NCAA ule—and the Championship have proposed ideas to help reduce the not even start for Duke until this weekend. The playoffs, however, are already over burden on student-athletes and keep the in some sports like field hockey and men’s focus on academics. One very controversial idea, which and women’s soccer. Generally, these teams are not heavily affected by traveling some have championed in recent months due to weekend road games during the in the wake of the men’s lacrosse controversy, is to de-emphasize athletics despite regular season. But during the ACC tournament, the the immense success of Duke’s program. If Duke were to compete in Division 111, the men’s soccer team drove up to GermanThanks to University would have to do away with all Tuesday Md. on a night. town, their success—the Blue Devils won the athletic scholarships and withdraw from the ACC. The result would mean shorter ACC Championship off a Mike Grella goldseasons and less travel, resulting in a in —the team stayed overtime en goal in greater emphasis on academics. Maryland until Sunday afternoon. Orin Starn, a professor of cultural anLikewise, the field hocke’ team depart-

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M.BBALL from page 9 play. That’s the thing that we’re still searching for.” Indiana’s starting lineup features all juniors and seniors, a stark contrast from Duke’s youth. The Hoosiers’ two primary scoring options—junior forwards DJ. White and Lance Stemler, who stand 6-foot-9 and 6-foot-8, respectively —present unique matchup problems for the Blue Devils. “It’s very hard to pick your poison,” want to

Duke assistant coach Chris Collins said. “They give you a tough matchup because they have a great inside threat in White, and yet, their second big man is their best three-point shooter in Stermer.” Even with all the upperclassmen and threats that the Hoosiers possess, Sampson still knows where his team stands right now. “There’s not an area that I can say is our right now,” Sampson said. “Our point guard play has to be more confident. We can’t worry about turning the ball over.” The Blue Devils will look for continued improvement from their own guards in extending their dominance in the ACC-Big 10 challenge. Duke has never lost in the seven-year history of the challenge —the only team in both conferences to do so and much of the success in last year’s game could be attributed to the play of GregPaulus. The sophomore point guard broke out last year against Indiana, scoring 13 points and distributing six assists while playing all but one minute. With Paulus coming off one of his best games of the year against Davidson, it appears that Duke’s only true point guard is emerging at the right moment for the Blue Devils despite his preseason foot injury. “When he’s on the court, he gives us someone who’s in control,” Collins said. “Certainly when he’s at his best our team becomes dangerous.” With the season still young and both coaches still tinkering with their lineups, the game will give Duke a chance to measure itself against a quality opponent at home. “By no means are we a finished product,” Collins said. “As we continue to play these games early in the year, we’ll learn, more guys will continue to improve and will gel into a cohesive unit.” —

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FANAROFF from page 9 plus, now i’m down with the facebook or

the myspace or whatever you kids call it. i’m communicating with my wife and kids exclusively dirough text messages, too. i even threw away my office phone... never know when you might slip up and accidentally make 200 impermissible phone calls to recruits.... 0:-) Me; Yeah, whatever you say, man. So how exactly did you go about making 233 illegal phone calls and completely overlooking another 344 by your assistants? Kelvin: so i made a few phone calls: shoot me. it’s not like i paid my players or anything. Me: Well, I just thought it was funny that you were president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches and

presided over the required “Ethics Sum-

mit” in 2003 while you were making all those phone calls. Especially since improper calls were identified as a serious issue at that very summit. I bet the next NABC meeting’s going to be pretty awkward, huh? Kelvin: next question... Me: Okay, okay. They say that being the head coach at Indiana was your dream job. How has it been so far? Kelvin: grB! bloomington’s got a lot going for it, even though its in the middle of nowhere (and i cant exactly name anything it has going for it), and those famously racially-tolerant Hoosier fans have really been behind me all the way. i think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Me; I’m glad you’ve reached such a good place in your life. But aren’t you >:<

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Duke is a perfect 7-0 in ACC-Big Ten Challenge play. The ACC has won each of the seven challenges. The ACC has won 40 of 64 total games played in the Challenge. Since the challenge's inception in 1999, an ACC or Big Ten team has won the National Championship four times (Michigan State in 2000, Duke in 2001, Maryland in 2002 and North Carolina in 2005). 34 of 64 total challenge games have featured at least one ranked team. UNC is 2-5 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge In 2005 the Challenge was increased from nine to 11 games to accommodate the addition of Boston College, Virginia Tech and Miami to the ACC. The Hokies and Hurricanes lost their first matchups, and BC plays its first Challenge game Wednesday. Wake Forest will not play in the Challenge this year, as the Big Ten has only 11 teams.

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have a dynamite idea for a new horror flick. Get this: The movie opens with a panning shot of an eerily deserted outdoor shopping mall, an especially nice mall done up to look like a Disneyfied version of the archetypal American Main Street. Sliding over Apple Stores and Aveda Salons, the camera comes to rest on two bronze statues of little girls frolicking gleefully in a when fountain, slowly, horribly, u Mr i| A bfian Kindle one of the statues ad astra begins to move. Leaping off its podium, its face frozen in an expression of appalling childhood delight, it stalks an unwary shopper through the shadows, inching closer, closer, closer. Right before the inevitable murderous pounce, cut to black and a bloodcurdling scream. Roll title credits on 'The Children of Southpoint.” You’ve probably noticed those bizarre sculptures ofkids at play if you’ve ever ventured out to Durham’s premier shopping center. For whatever reason, they’ve always struck me as intensely creepy, even without being spiced up by horror-movie cliches. They’re disturbing enough on their own, throwing balls to terriers and doing dangerous things on bicycles, with their grubby, androgynous faces and lunatic grins leering at you from every corner. Spend enough time at the mall, however, and you might begin to feel that these statues capture its spirit perfectly. Southpoint makes every effort to cultivate an identity of innocuous nostalgia, fun and comfort. Examine it too closely, though, and like the statues the entire place ends up seeming deeply, deeply sinister. From its completion in 2002, Southpoint has been a rising star in the world of shopping centers, garnering praise from USA Today and rapidly earning the reputation of a “super-regional” mall by drawing regular customers from as far as 100 miles away. When it first opened, the Herald-Sun reported that eager customers in Charlotte organized charter bus trips to Durham for the privilege of browsing Southpoint’s 1.4 million sq. ft. of retail space. Of course, the mall’s developers (Urban Retail Properties of Chicago) have always aggressively courted this kind of family-friendly, “destination” image, and admittedly they’ve done a great job of it. Southpoint doesn’t look like a mall. Outdoors -„

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their duties this year, which shows in every aspect of DSG’s actions. The new brand of advocacy that Wolf brought to DSG was evident from the start, stressing the student voice to the administration and deemphasizing the policy side of DSG. Additionally, the administration has been especially sensitive to student concerns in the wake of the lacrosse scandal, meaning they may be more responsive to DSG’s focus on student life and the social scene. DSG has with these new strategic goals the ideological underpinnings of a longrange plan. This year, DSG has had a successful first semester and will most likely continue its excellent work in the spring. But DSG must ensure that the themes and

goals it set for itself this year do not fade away ortce this executive board has moved on. The themes of the unofficial strategic plan should become official; some permanent change needs to be made withinDSG. Since senators are unable to do much within DSG, new members of the executive board come in with litde knowledge about their duties, besides a bare-bones legalese outline in the constitution. This year’s vice presidents should write a guide for future vice presidents: what to do and how to do it. DSG should incorporate its four themes, which have so far been effective, into the constitution, or establish a longrange plan for itself. They need to ensure that this year is the beginning of a new DSG, and not just an aberration.

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and indoors, it’s done up in red brick and pleasing architecture. Its fake “Main Street” nails the charming details, from street lamps to wrought-iron benches to painted wall murals advertising fresh milk and “Russ’s Used Cars.” It presents, very self-consciously, someone’s utopian take on downtown Durham, down to the faux smokestack jutting out of the side of the movie theater. As a Southpoint press release states, the mall recreates “an atmosphere reminiscent of a bustling city street. The energy is vibrant, the spirit is familiar.” Cruising the mall, the marketing tells us, is just like taking a lovely stroll through town. Except there’s no town. There are no parks in Southpoint, no city government, no arts centers. Besides the movie theater, there’s no real entertainment. No one lives on Main Street. All that’s there, in the simplest terms, is a bunch of nice stufffor you to buy, and people to sell it to you. That’s precisely what makes Southpoint such a scary place. It’s just a retail oudet, but it sells itself, very convincingly, as so much more: as a destination, a place for family fun, a city street, a surrogate Durham. At its core, it sells the idea that commercial spaces can uproot and replace all the other spaces where social interaction normally takes place. Southpoint tells us that we don’t needreal towns, real streets; we don’t even need real children, with all their attendant messiness. We don’t need to interact with our society as citizens, or in any way at all, really. A pleasant, neat experience has been created for us. All we have to do is buy it. And we Duke students are buying it in droves. For many of us, Southpoint is the go-to option on those slow weekend nights, one of the only places in Durham where we shop and dine with any regularity. Maggiano’s and Cheesecake Factory are perennial favorites among the student body, and I know many of my peers who plan on doing all their Christmas shopping on Main Street. “So what?” you might ask. “Is it wrong to enjoy a nice shopping center with some good restaurants?” No, it’s not. But is it wrong to support an institution that substitutes reality for a consumption-driven fantasyland, and openly parasitizes off of downtown Durham for its own economic benefit? Make up your own mind, of course, but if you ask me, the answer’s a resounding “yes.” I’m not asking the student body to swear off Southpoint. But if you do, you’ll have the distinct pleasure of never having to see those damn statues again. Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs every

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should occur] whether it happened or not. It would be justice for things that happened in the past.” —NCCU Student GovernmentSenator Chan Hall, Newsweek “I do know the following items about the case that would lead one to hesitate before throwing out the case.... The Duke lacrosse players were not angels—they had a previously established history of rowdiness tarnished with racial comments, and one of the accused had previously been arrested for anti-gay comments while drunk, —Duke Geology Professor Thomas Crowley, the Herald-Sun david kleban “Much of this emphasis on ‘inleather-bound books nocence’ has ignored the gender the March and racial prejudice of 13 party.... A rape may not have occurred on March 13, but as a woman on Duke’s campus, as a Women’s Studies major, and as an activist for survivors of sexual assault, I assure [defense attorney Joseph] Cheshire that these men are not innocent, nor are they upstanding citizens ofDuke or Durham 1aw.... Nifong might not be in the right, legally, but that doesn’t mean he’s not doing the right thing.” —Duke senior Shadee Malaklou, the Herald-Sun What’s a more frightening concept: being railroaded by an overzealous, obstinate, politically ambitious district attorney; or having members of your own community applaud him despite overwhelming evidence of both his malfeasance and your innocence? It’s hard for me to imagine either of these scenarios, but for lacrosse players Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans, they have been a part of daily life for months. These three are being condemned by professors and other students, not based on factual evidence or even individual character, but on nebulous accounts of an entire team’s history of being less than “angels.” They have become the scapegoats of a radical segment of academia that believes, as English Professor Karla Holloway wrote, that, “The appropriate presumption ofinnocence that follows the players, however the legal case is determined, is neither the critical social indicator of the event, nor the final measure of its cultural facts.” These “cultural facts” represent the altar at which some seek to sacrifice three men, regardless of their factual—in the real sense—actions. That doing so implies a perversion of traditional and constitutional methods of administering justice is a secondary concern, Judging from Malaklou’s quip about the legality of Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong’s actions Such voices do more than express an understandable level of schadenfreude at seeing misfortune befall formerly preeminent members of Duke’s elitist (and, depending on whom you ask, sexist and racist) ethos. They indicate a malicious and irrational desire to get even with an entire class of white male oppressors through three individuals who may be “innocent” (quotations, I gather, are used to represent the apparent irrelevance of the term). Nifong seems to adhere to this interpretation of our legal system’s function, musing that to dismiss the case would “[do] nothing to address the underlying divisions that have been revealed. My personal feeling is the first step to addressing those divisions is addressing this case.... The future of Durham’s in the balance.” This might explain why 49 percent of voters in the recent election voiced approval of Nifong’s record. But I doubt it provides any comfort to the three men whose lives have been placed on hold in order to “address” the resentment of Durham residents for Duke students. More important than identifying the motivesofone groupof professors and students—those who cling to the notion that a faulty prosecution could possibly lead to justice—is for the rest ofus to realize thatit is a minority and dismiss such thinking. Thankfully, I’d guess that from the evidence made public in the case, a majority of the Duke community believes in the innocence of the indicted three—maybe not in a sense of the word that would convince Malaklou, but one that will hopefully satisfy a jury—and is quietly waiting for justice to take its course. Although others on this page have rightly chided us for allowing Nifong’s reelection through such complacency. But an even greater proportion would shudder (and I hope the quotes that begin this column make them do so) at the idea of seeing anyone punished for something they didn’t do in order to serve the agenda of a vocal, radical minority. ”

David Kleban is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday. He would like to thank the Durham-in-Wonderland” and Liestoppers” blogs for their aggregation of literature on the lacrosse case, from which the included quotations were drawn. u

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Kitchen sinks and term papers college women across the country, it is a dirty little secret. Because we are educated and, as a gender, have such fantastic potential for success, it is viewed as a betrayal of the female sex, a backward and archaic attraction. At Duke, today, saying “I’d really just like to get married and forget the career after college,” is like saying, “In the near future, I’d like to be subjugated, enslaved and treated like less than a human being.” In 2005, a questionnaire of 138 undergraduate women at Yale University revealed that 60 percent thought they would stop working after having chilanxiously checking |jn dsay1 white dren and might take up part-time work once their the oven Umer and children started school. The resulting outcry from biweekly S3SS male eyeing any across the country was astounding. No one, especialmember of my family who offered their help with a mix of suspicion and ly those who had lived through the struggle and push for women’s equality in education and the fear. I even wore an apron. And I loved it. Right now, sitting down at my computer, I am work place, wanted to hear that some female stuthinking about the term papers I’m going to have dents might not take advantage of all the possibilities presented to them. The fact that this was mere to write in the next two weeks, the years of educaspeculation on the part of Yale women didn’t mattion to go and the “career” I will eventually pursue. And there’s a little voice, way in the back of ter: It was the very thought that hurt, that seemed to my mind, saying, I’d rather be a housewife. Granted betray the world of empowered women. Yes, graduating Duke only to get married and keep it’s the same tiny voice that wonders if absinthe might be fun. But the voice is there nonetheless. house does seem like a staggering waste of an educaBut let’s just keep that between me and everyone tion. But, currently, the median age of marriage for women is 25, which suggests that many are getting reading this column. Because I’m really, really not supposed to be married pretty soon after graduation. And, while thinking these things. I should be whining about most of these women are probably pursuing a career at the time of their marriage, there are statistics that how I spent my Thanksgiving and the gender imbalance that is so pronounced when it comes to show that, generally, life isn't as great when both major cooking endeavors in my household. After spouses are working. Social Forces, a UNC sociology all, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan raised hell journal, recently published a study that suggests marso that I wouldn’t have to peel potatoes or get riages suffer when the wife has a career and that chocolate butter cream splattered all over my face women are, in fact, happier when their husband is the primary earner for the household. It's food for by a Cuisinart. As a student at Duke University, I am one among thought. Going on studies like this, it might be easier on your happiness and future marriage if you forgot many women given a spectacular opportunity for education and independence. Not so long ago, most the career. (I am aware that, reading these words, a women didn’t even dare to dream of this. The idea feminist, somewhere, just died inside.) Even knowing this, I’m not going to fudge my that a woman can be educated and have a career just term papers and go husband-hunting. I think it’s like a man is reasonably new in the context ofhistoour responsibility, being presented with this educary. The idea that she should pursue these achievetion, to do justice to it. But it is important to realize ments in lieu of, or before, she marries and has a to that just because so many women are choosing to go is even newer. There is still be progress family, made in terms of respect and wage gaps, but these one way, all women do no have to follow suit. Part of the beauty of the choices we have been given is the chances at success, chances which my grandmothability to turn the other way, while recognizing and er’s generation did not have, are wonderful. I wouldappreciating these choices. One day, I’d like to stop n’t have it any other way. working and take care of a house and a family. By The problem is, with equality of status and opabout saying this, I haven’t single-handedly undone a hunportunity, also comes a single-mindedness what a woman can and should do with her life. dred years of progress. Here, if a female student has inclinations toward Lindsay White is a Trinity sophomore. Her column marrying young, toward staying home and having a family, she keeps it to herself. For Duke and other runs every other Tuesday.

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