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When Robert Steel, chair of Duke’s Board of Trustees, was sworn in as undersecretary of the treasury for domestic finance Oct. 10, he accepted one of the highest-ranking financial positions in Washington. Since his appointment, however, a number of Washington commentators have begun to raise concerns about the potential conflict of interest in Steel’s roles at Duke and in the capital—concerns that Steel and other University officials said Saturday are not a major issue. Steel, Trinity ’73, reiterated that he would remove himselffrom any of the Board’s financial proceedings that potentially could cause a conflict of interest with his new government position. “I resigned and recused myself from everything involving [Duke University Management Company],” he said. “I have agreed to not be involved in anything connected to fundraising.” Both Steel and President Richard Brodhead said when Steel received the nomination from President George W. Bush Sept. 6, Steel made it clear to all relevant officials—including personnel at the White House, the Treasury, the Office of Government Ethics and the Senate Finance Committee —

The process of appointing new deans for the Fuqua School of Business and the School of Law is on track as committees at both schools near the end of their national searches, officials confirmed Monday. “I’m really pleased with the progress on those searches,” Provost Peter Lange said. Dean search committee officials from the schools confirmed that they would nominate three candidates each to Lange and President Richard Brodhead by mid-December. The provost and the president will then make a final decision using the recommendations from each committee. Officials declined to comment, however, on specific candidates who are under consideration. In addition to the searches un-

derway at Fuqua and the law school, Lange said a search committee will be formed later this month to fill the vacancy left by William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, who announced his decision to step down Nov. 27. The departures of Schlesinger, Law School Dean Katherine Bardett and Fuqua Dean Douglas Breeden will be effective June

2007. The law school’s search committee has currently winnowed down its number of possible candidates to “under half a dozen,” said James Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law and chair of the law school dean search committee. Christine Moorman, T. Austin Finch Senior Professor of SEE DEAN SEARCHES ON PAGE 6

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Robert Steel, chair of the Board, recently was appointed to a Treasury Dept. post. that he would only accept the nomination if he could keep his role at Duke. “When Mr. Steel first mentioned to me that this was a possibility, the first thing that he told me was that he had told everyone, along every step of

the way, that he intended to continue his commitment here,” Brodhead said. “And if that was incompatible with the appointment, they should simply let him know and he would SEE STEEL ON PAGE 4

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Students in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences will soon have a new opportunity to gain insight into the world of

engineering. A new design studio—opening in January in Southgate Dormitory—is

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fostering collaboration between students in the Pratt School of Engineering and those in Trinity, as well as providing space for a new Pratt curricular requirement.

“The new design studio is a terrific project and should help introduce all students to the joy of making things,” Pratt dean Kristina Johnson wrote in an e-mail. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said he initially approached Pratt administrators last summer to build a new workspace that will bridge the academic gap between engineering and the arts and sciences. “I suggested that Pratt consider an East Campus presence to showcase the school and enable non-engineers to get a sense of engineer lifestyle,” Moneta wrote in an e-mail. “I wanted to bring the science of engineering out of the boundaries of SEE PRATT STUDIO ON PAGE 6

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Media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner spoke Monday about issues ranging from die United Nations to his private bison herd in a lighthearted atmosphere at the Fuqua School of Business. Turner, the founder of CNN and former owner of the Adanta Braves, discussed his investment in sustainable-development projects as well as the necessity of personal responsibility in solving problems. “[This generation] needs to focus on doing the smart things and not doing the dumb things. If we do that, we’ve got it covered,” Turner said. “We make it together or we go down together, it is that simple.” On the issue of the environment, Turner SEE TURNER ON PAGE 8

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Media giant TedTurner spoke Monday about topics ranging from his personal bison herd to the U.N.

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WASHINGTON —John Bolton never had much job security. President George W. Bush sent him to the United Nations without confirmation, an end run around the Senate that could only last so long. On Monday, the U.N. ambassador opted for his own graceful exit. Bolton handed in his resignation letter to Bush, knowing he didn’t have enough support to secure a full confirmation vote. His term will end when the lame-duck Congress goes home, possibly as early as this week. “I’m not happy about it,” Bush said bluntly in the Oval Office. “I think he de-

served to be confirmed. And the reason why I think he deserved to be confirmed is because I know he did a fabulous job for the country.” Democrats opposed Bolton, viewing him as a brusque, ill-suited diplomat for the nation. Some Republicans helped scuttle his nomination, including moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island. The White House saw a man who built consensus and pushed to make the United Nations more relevant, but Bolton’s critics saw him as uncompromising and hotheaded—a symbol of a dismissive administration. He handed in a resignation letter that did not mention the political fight behind

it. It said simply: “I have concluded that my service in your administration should end when the current recess appointment

expires.”

The setback for the White House seemed to put a hold on the postelection talk of bipartisanship. The president had stinging words for senators who blocked an up-or-down vote on Bolton. “They chose to obstruct his confirmation, even though he enjoys majority support in the Senate, and even though their tactics will disrupt our diplomatic work at a sensitive and important time,” Bush said in a statement. “This stubborn obstructionism ill serves our country.”

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CARACAS, Venezuela Emboldened by a resounding re-election, President Hugo Chavez pledged to shake up Venezuela with a more radical version of socialism and forge a wider front against the United States in Latin America. Opposition contender Manuel Rosales accepted defeat Sunday night, but promised to continue countering a leaderwhom he accuses of becoming increasingly authoritarian. Touting his victory in a speech to thousands, Chavez said Venezuelans should expect an “expansion of the revolution”

aimed at redistributing the country’s oil, wealth among the poor. “Long live the revolution!” Chavez shouted from the balcony of the presidential palace. “Venezuela is demonstrating that a new and better world is possible, and we are building it.” With 78 percent of voting stations reporting, Chavez had 61 percent of the vote, to 38 percent for Rosales. Chavez has won a loyal following among the poor through multibillion-dollarsocial programs including subsidized food, free university education and cash benefits for single mothers.

Chavez, who says he sees Fidel Castro as a father figure, dedicated his victory to the ailing 80-year-old Cuban leader and called it a blow against President George W. Bush. “It’s another defeat for the devil, who tries to dominate the world,” Chavez told the crowd of red-shirted supporters, who listened to him under pouring rain. “Down with imperialism. We need a new world.” Even before polls closed, Chavez supporters celebrated in the streets, setting off fireworks and cruising Caracas honking horns and shouting “Chavez isn’t

Unveiling the agency's bold plan for a return to the moon, NASA said it will establish an international base camp on one of the moon's poles, permanently staffing it by 2024, four years after astronauts land there.

Suspected terrorists arrested Police in Egypt have arrested an American, 11 Europeans and several others from Arab countries for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in Middle Eastern countries including Iraq, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

Typhoon kills approx. 1000 Officials could only apologize Monday when asked about the prospects of finding survivors in the towns and villages swamped by mudslides from devastating Typhoon Durian, which has killed an estimated 1,000 people in the Philippines.

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Science results for the 2005 Trial Urban District Assessment, a branch of the National Assessment of Education Progress, were released Nov. 15, assessing performance of fourth- and eighth-graders in 10 districts nationwide in mathematics, reading, writing and science. Although NAEP—the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America’s students know and can do in various subject areas—has been in place since 1969, TUDA was implemented in 2002 to give each district a snapshot of its progress and national comparison. Charlotte, one of the 10 districts sampled, performed better in science than most of the other districts, said Marcie Hickman, the NAEP state coordinator for North Carolina. But closer to home, only 11 out of 46 public schools in Durham are making adequate annual progress, according to measurements taken last year through No Child Left Behind, a federal law also enacted in 2002 that requires schools to improve student achievement yearly. However, standards set by NCLB, which assesses everything from the performance ofminority groups to graduation rates and attendance, are hard to interpret because they change from year to year, said Lorraine Tuck, coordinator of research and development for Durham Public Schools. “The bugaboo with NCLB is they set arbitrary levels of progress,” Tuck said, adding that it is problematic to compare Durham Public Schools to schools in other districts because they are often composed

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Though The Loop’s burgers are not as delicious as White Castle’s, Kumar still paid Duke a visit. Kal Penn, who portrayed the character in “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” spoke to students in Page Auditorium Monday about the role ofethnicity in the film industry. Penn framed the lecture, entided “Deconstructing Harold and Kumar,” largely as a response to criticism leveled by the South Asian Sisters, a political group dedicated to resisting the oppression ofAsian women. The group claimed “Harold and Kumar” perpetuated negative stereotypes of both women and minorities. “I definitely recognized a specific vaidity to everything that they were seePenn said. He added, however, that the criti-

cisms ignored the film’s context, “The whole film is a satire,” he said. “I think that’s clear from the beginning.” He added that the film was actually “groundbreaking, in terms of smashing down some Hollywood stereotypes.” Penn stressed that “Harold and Kumar” could work with characters of any race. “Some people end up arbitrarily attaching ethnicity to character traits, traits that would otherwise be independent,” he said. He contrasted this with “Seinfeld.” “You can’t have a show taking place in New York City with all white characters and one female character and not see it as intentional racism,” Penn said. The actor said he first discovered problems involving ethnicity and the film industry when he started his acting career. “It wasn’t until I started acting that I was confronted with these issues of race

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What do the Center for Race Relations, Rival Magazine, Healing Expressions and Duke DonAid have in common? They were all created by students in Enterprising Leadership—a class taught by Tony Brown, professor of the practice of public policy. In Public Policy Studies 1445, Brown asks that students come up with a compelling plan for a project that will benefit Duke or Durham, but students are not required to implement their proposals. Brown said, however, that many students launch successful student groups from the plans created in class, and those groups have had a strong impact on campus and in the community. In fact, 20 percent of service-related student organizations listed on the Office of Student Activities and Facilities website originated in his class, Brown added. “The purpose of my classes and the Enterprising Leadership Initiative is to help students become social change agents. I believe students truly respond to experiential learning,” Brown said. “These projects also enable students to make their own education at Duke.” Examples of organizations that arose from the class include Camp Kesem, a free weeklong overnight camp for children in families affected by cancer, and Duke Don Aid, which seeks to foster a SEE LEADERSHIP ON PAGE 8

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Community members spilled into the aisles and lined up along the walls at Monday’s Durham City Council meeting, waiting for a chance to speak. Residents of Walltown, a neighborhood less than two blocks away from East Campus, clapped and cheered in support of an amendment that could accelerate the design of a new Park Recreation Center for Walltown by more than six months. The amendment, which passed 6-1, proposed keeping the project’s original contractor—G. H. Williams Collaborative, a firm headed by council member Howard Clement’s brother-in-law George Williams—in order to proceed immediately to later stages of design and planning. The project, which has been in the works for three years, is currendy in the stage of schematic design—a rough outline that represents less than 30 percent of the final design. “We have been very patient, but no more,” said one resident. Walltown residents and six city council members said the time was right to move forward. “We have come before the council [for] several years now,” said another resident, adding that the current council was the first to acknowledge that Walltown’s children need a nearby place to play. But the project could potentially cost the city more than $lO million, said council member Euguene Brown, who was the lone voice of dissent. “I cannot sit here in all good conscience and support this project for your community—[or] any community,” Brown said, adding that the decision should

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discontinue the process.” Despite the care that Steel has taken throughout the process, special interest groups have raised concerns that conflicting interests —or even the perceptions of such—could hinder Steel in his government role. “There certainly is the appearance of a conflict of interest, if not an outright conflict,” said Tom Fitton, president ofJudicial Watch, a government watchdog organization. “There are very real concerns about a

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MayorBill Bell and City Manager PatrickBaker listen in on Monday's City Council meeting. be made for economic and not political reasons. Brown noted that the current cost estimate for the center’s design and construction is $8.7 million—without a swimming pool. Council member Diane Catotti said she is concerned because the design proposes gutting the old center but keeping its walls for historic purposes—a plan that will cost more than demolition. Catotti proposed three motions to check the cost of the project and keep G.H. Williams on schedule.

In other business: Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse was voted the exclusive developer of the Durham Athletic Park, a multiple-use venue for the Durham community. The park’s construction could potentially provide jobs for Durham residents. Durham Mayor Bill Bell said regardless of how proficient and qualified Struever Bros, is to execute the project, the company will still be held under close scrutiny. “We expect certain things to happen,” Bell added.

a good deal of time working for an outside entity, especially an outside interest with the reach and influence of Duke.” Although Fitton said he gready respects Steel, who he said is likely a “financial and economic genius,” Fitton added that unavoidable financial conflicts could arise if Steel became privy to information that could benefit the University. “Any diligent person is going to be tom because of the dual roles he plays,” Fitton said. Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America, said she felt confident Steel would never knowingly make an unethical decision but added that even the appearance of a conflictofinterest was a problem. “As a public servant, you have an obligation to avoid not just the reality but the appearance of conflict of interest,” she said. Roper said Steel’s new financial knowledge at the Treasury posed the most immediate potential conflict as it relates to the University’s investments. “He is privy to information thatwould impact, say, the bond market with regard to budget numbers, trade deficit numbers,” she said. “That would put him in a position to perhaps know whether an investment

would have to make a decision as whether to provide Duke with that information.” Roper said Steel could also find himself having a conflict of interest if Duke were to solicit funds from an entity that was simultaneously doing business with the government through the Treasury. The issue has also garnered the attention of members of the Senate. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-lowa, told The Washington Post in a Dec. 1 article that he intended to personally monitor the situation. “I also want to make sure that serving as Duke’s Board chairman doesn’t take time away from Treasury duties,” said Grassley, who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. “I’ve learned from my review of nonprofit organizations that serving on a board can be very time-consuming if the board takes its re-

sponsibilities seriously.”

Steel is not the first Duke Trustee chair to find himself having a potential conflict ofinterest. In the 19905, John Koskinen served as both chair of the Board and deputy director for management of the White House budget office. Steel said Koskinen’s role had more potential for conflicting interests than his own. “When John Koskinen was the head of the Board, this University took very ambitious projects,” Brodhead said. John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, added that Koskinen, Trinity ’6l, was praised in his role as chair and that the duality ofhis professional life didn’t hinder eitherrole. “You can go down a long list of people who hold government jobs in one form or another who serve on the board of trustees at colleges,” Bumess said. Ryan McCartney contributed to this story.

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PRATT STUDIO from page 1 Pratt and into the residences.” Pratt administrators worked with Moneta to plan the new space. “There will be computer-aided design support, as well as some bench-top tools and assembly areas,” Tod Laursen, Pratt’s senior associate dean for education, wrote in an e-mail. The new design studio will primarily serve as the home for Engineering 20 “Engineering Innovation,” a required first-year design course that was added two years ago. Laursen said the center is designed to introduce all first-year students to engineering and the design process in particular. “The design studio will function as an additional resource for hands-on learning in Pratt, so we felt locating the studio on East Campus was an opportunity too good to pass up,” he said. Another goal of the studio is offer learning experiences in which both Pratt and Trinity students can en-

gage, such as open houses and public design competitions, Laursen said. “We are hopeful that in the future, not only more Pratt courses, but possibly courses offered jointiy between Pratt and Trinity might be supported by the facility,” he said. “We intend also to make this space serve as an East Campus window into design and curricular opportunities in Pratt.” Many students said they are also excited about the new space. “Right now there aren’t many opportunities for Trinity kids to integrate with Pratt curriculum. It would be great if there was some way to find a middle ground,” said freshman Myles Recny, a Trinity student. “If this is a first step, I’m all for it.” Recny said it is easier for Pratt students to take arts and sciences classes than for Trinity students to get involved in engineering. “I think it is great that Pratt is finally putting some workspace on East Campus,” said freshman Will Patrick, a Pratt student. “Some really cool things happen in the engineering school, and everybody should have the opportunity to get involved.”

DEAN SEARCHES from page 1 Marketing and chair of the Fuqua dean search committee, said the committee has three candidates remaining and is in the process of evaluating each of them. Since the summer, each committee has been condensing a list of possible nominees while simultaneously conducting an extensive screening process of those candidates, Moorman and Cox said. The national search for the dean replacements has involved both internal and external nominees, but no preference is being given to either group, Lange said. Cox noted that the previous two deans at the law school were internal nominees, but he added that this did not mean the newest dean would be from Duke. “Maybe it’s time for change, but there’s no strong leaning one way or another,” he said. Since the Fuqua committee has already arrived at a tentative list of three candidates, Moorman said the committee was in the process of bringing nominees to campus prior to the submission of the short list to the provost and the president. “They go through a two-day intensive experience, [including] a public address, meeting with students, with staff members, with various members of the Duke community,” she said. Moorman added that one candidate was on campus Monday meeting with community members and administration, although she declined to release the name of the particular nominee. Cox said he expects Lange and Brodhead to make a prompt decision after the law school nomination committee delivers its short list, although he said he was unaware of a specific timetable. “I would hope this would be a wonderful Christmas present for the faculty, or a wonderful Hanukkah present,” he said. Like Cox, Moorman said she expects the administration to move quickly in its decision to be competitive with other business schools conducting searches for new deans, including the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We’ve been out early in the process, we think we’re sort ofahead of the game,” Moorman said. “So my guess is that [Lange and Brodhead] will attempt to retain that time advantage.”

PUB. SCHOOL from page 3 of different percentages of minority groups. Often, subgroups play an integral part in assessing whether or not a school has improved, Tuck said. If at least 95 percent of a single subgroup—including African-American, Hispanic and English-as-a-Second-Language students—do not show up to take a standardized test, the school fails, said Richard Webber, principal ofCharles E. Jordan High School in Durham. To make Adequate Yearly Progress, a school’s test results must meet targets set annually by each state’s board of education. Overall test results are taken into account along with individual subgroup performance. Jordan, which did not meet AYP in the 2004-2005 school year, nevertheless ranked high in many areas of standardized testing used to measure academic performance in North Carolina. “The real issue is the window of opportunity,” Webber said, adding that he wished he was given a week to conduct the test instead of a few days because it might have increased attendance. If a school does not make AYP two years in a row, it must give students the opportunity to transfer schools. Although schools in Durham have not encountered problems with retention because of this sanction, their reputations are nevertheless on the line if they are reported as failing schools. “It gives us a negative impact in the community that’s the biggest issue,” Webber said, noting that AYP classifies a school as either successful in all areas or not at all. Like any national assessment of educational progress, NCLB is a complex piece of legislation that is open to interpretation, said Doris Walker, principal ofBethesda Elementary School. Although schools that receive federal Title I funding for students from low-income families risk losing the funds if they do not make AYP, they can still receive funding for tutoring, as in Bethesda’s case. Walker said she makes an effort to understand NCLB because it is the law, but also to make sure her students are not hurt by it in any way. “I think all standardized testing has bias,” she said. —

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TURNER from page 1 said he is investing in renewable energy and encouraging everyone to use less. “If we destroy the environment, we’re going to become extinct sooner rather than later,” Turner said. “We have to change the way we’re doing things and we can’t keep drawing down on our environmental capital.” He said environmental problems could be solved if only people would “stop doing the dumb things and start doing smart things.” He pointed to his current investment in solar and wind energy as “smart things.” “I drive a hybrid, I turn off the lights at night and when I walk down the street I pick up some of the trash,” Turner said. “If we have more people picking up trash than are throwing it in the street then we’ll have a better world.” Regarding the United Nations, Turner said he supports U.N. activities and that his $ 1-billion donation to the organization was a “great investment.” “I think the U.N., considering everything, is doing a remarkable job,” Turner said. “Right now', the U.N. is

against the war in Iraq, the U.S. is for it and our policies are not as good as the U.N. as far as international relations are concerned.” Many of Turner’s responses evoked laughter and cheering from the audience. When asked about the efficacy of hemp as an alternative fuel source, Turner said, “If alcohol is legal, why shouldn’t marijuana be? That makes sense to me.” Turner also offered advice to the younger generation, adding that the best way to be successful as a young entrepreneur is to be “early to bed, early to rise, to work like hell and advertise.” Although some audience members responded positively to Turner’s speech, others said they were less appreciative. “I was a little disappointed and I don’t think he has a lot to offer personally. It’s really easy to get up there and say do the right things and don’t do the wrong things and not have anything to back them up,” said Fuqua student Chris Pine. Gaston Arevalo, also a Fuqua student, said he found Turner’s speech relevant and interesting. “He made a great comment about how to be a leader of the future and what we need to think, being an institution like Duke,” Arevalo said.

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sense of philanthropy in college students. Curious about the organizations started by his students, Brown said he analyzed all projects that came from his class in recent years. “In the past four years, 47 projects were planned, 63 percent of them were implemented and 80 percent were still active as ofNovember 2006,” he said. Although Brown doesn’t require that students implement class proposals, many students said they took the PPS 144 S knowing they wanted to start a student group. “From the outset, [creating Rival Magazine] was something we wanted to do,” junior Brint Markle said. “It wasn’t just something we wanted to make a plan for. The plan was simply a means of achieving our goal.” Rival Magazine is a joint publication between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Senior Emily Znamierowski, who co-founded the publication with Markle and junior Chris Hopper, said she shared similarviews. “We were really passionate about the idea and the potential impact it could have,” Znamierowski said. “We went into the class knowing we would go through with it. That wasn’t even a question.” Students said the class provided tools to students who already had the motivation and creativity to start new organizations “Tony’s class really helped us leverage a lot of resources,” Markle said. Sophomore Alex Crable, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, said the class is a reflection of how innovative Duke students really are. “I would say as a general bunch, they are enterprising. It’s in part fostered by [Duke’s] environment,” he said. “A lot of students do identify needs and come up with ideas to try to fix them. SOFC sees that based on the continuous submission of new student organization ideas.” Znamierowski also said Duke students are enterprising. “I think a lot of Duke students have an entrepreneuring spirit, whether they’re starting organizations or not,” she said. “It’s a common type-A characteristic we all have.” OSAF Program Coordinator Marissa Weiss said OSAF has noticed a trend toward the creation of more specialized groups. “People no longer seem to want to work under large organizations,” she said. “They prefer to start something new.” Although Weiss praised students’ motivation, she said she was concerned by student entrepreneurs who don’t take advantage of existing organizations. “Duke is a great university with a ton of resources, and part of the problem is that people aren’t aware of what is already happening,” she said. “So many people have such wonderful ideas, and this is why we have as many clubs as we do. Our main issue is how many clubs can we have.”

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and gender,” he said. “I thought it was so ridiculous. I refused to believe that people actually care about this stuff.” Penn said financial circumstances caused him to take roles that were disagreeably stereotypical, such as Taj in “Van Wilder.” But he explained that these were important to establish his career. “If you’re a pretty boy from lowa, you’ll be on the WB,” Penn said. “And if you’re not, you’ll be in teen comedies, and that’s how you get your foot in the door.” The actor had the audience in stitches on a number of occasions. When an audience member asked how Penn felt he differed from Kumar, he hesitated. “I’m pretty different from Kumar... in a number of ways,” he started. “I don’t really like fast food. I haven’t really gotten the chance to ride a cheetah in real life.” He then paused, toying with the audience. “And I don’t smoke weed,” he added, to great laughter. The reaction from the audience was positive overall. “I walked in expecting it to be stereotypical and stupid... but I was actually pretty impressed,” said freshman Anant Agarwalla. “I liked what he talked about... whenever someone is of a certain race, that always plays a bigger part of their role than any other factor.” Freshman Adam Barron said he agreed. “As a fellow actor, I can definitely respect a lot ofhis earlier decisions,” he said. “He had to play Taj and very stereotypical roles... that’s a problem that any striving actor has in Hollywood.” But freshman Divya Yerramilli had mixed feelings. “I respected what he had to say about Indian actors having to break out of that stereotype,” she said. “But at the same time, I felt like he had almost anti-pride.”

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average margin of victory and holding each opponent under 30 percent shooting. After cruising during that six-game span, the fifth-ranked Blue Devils thought they would be seriously challenged for the first time this season Monday night against No. 19 Rutgers (2-3) in the 2006 Jimmy V Classic. They passed the test with unexpected

gifts.

(Yes, I know this is my second “holiday gimmick” column in three weeks. But hey, it’s the holiday season. And I know you’d rather see this than The Train II.) Even Coach K got into the giving mood. I don’tknow if I’ve ever seen Krzyzewski get as pumped for a non-conference win as he did at the end of that game. He seems re-inAt. vigorated this year maybe because he gets to trumpet his TO 11 team’s abilities instead of playing them down, like he had to do last year. After the Georgetown game, he flat-out said, “I really love my team.” As the game ended, he was waving his hands and pumping up the crowd—if I hadn’tknown better, I would’ve thought Lee Melchionni kidnapped his old coach, put on a Coach K mask and started working the sidelines. Speaking of Melchionni, some of you may have been missing his trademark —

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ease. Led by stellar backcourt play by Abby Waner and Lindsey Harding—who each posted season-highs with 21 and 19 points, respectively—and another strong defensive performance, the Blue Devils (7-0) crushed the Scarlet Knights, 85-45, in the Rutgers Athletic Center. Duke seemed to ignore the fact that it was playing just its second road game of the year in a traditionally-raucous environment against the first nationally-ranked team on its schedule. If anything, it inspired the Blue Devils. “We were excited,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “We really want to test ourselves—we’re a young team and we’re finding out who we are.” The Blue Devils’ exhilaration was evident from the very start of the game,

Sophomore guard Abby Waner led Duke Monday night with a season-high 21 points in Duke's victory.

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Remembering Maria Whitehead Evenas her life reached its tragic conclusion a month ago, Maria Whitehead’s presence never left those whom she touched by

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Maria Whitehead, second from the left on the bottom row, with the Duke team before the 2006 season.

Field hockey had been her primary does it take to be somepassion ever since her parents bribed one’s hero? Maria Whitehead graced this earth for her into taking up the sport in the just 25 years, but she was more than a eighth grade, fearing that she would get hurt in co-ed soccer. few people’s hero. “She really wanted this coat, and we In Whitehead’s case, a hero can be 5said we would buy it for her if she foot-3 on a good day. A hero can be a lithe goofy and can swear with the best of would try field hockey,” said her father, them. Most of all, a hero is unfailingly Bill Whitehead. “That was the best inpositive and approaches everything with vestment we ever made, that coat.” She had an innate ability for field a passion you just don’t see everyday. Whitehead, who many friends just hockey, and her enthusiasm for the called “Re,” brought that positivity and sport—and for life—was contagious. A small girl in a physical game, passion to field hockey, to her personal life—and to her batde with cancer. Whitehead was always underestimated She lost that bathe Nov. 1 after but used her grit and skill to constantly fighting through a year of treatment at surpass expectations. the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor A two-time All-ACC selection, Center at the Duke Medical Center, Whitehead led Wake Forest to its first during which time she served as an as- national championship as a senior capsistant coach for Duke’s field hockey tain in 2002. Then, two months after graduating, she achieved the goal she program. Right up until the final weekend of her life, Whitehead was with SEE her girls, doing what she loved. ON PAGE 10

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her cancer treatment, “She tackled the problem like she would tackle anything in sports,” said Friedman, who grew so close to Whitehead had held since high school and became the that he called her every night to check on youngest head coach in the nation at St. her. “She was going to compete and do rebuild that Louis, helping to a program anything to win, and she was the ideal pahad posted a 2-18 record the previous year. tient in that sense.” She even surpassed expectations in conFaced with metastatic melanoma, which live. tinuing to has a normal life expectancy of two to six Whitehead had been through three surmonths, Whitehead was willing to take geries to remove melanoma from her body. risks with her medication in order to give She survived 12 months longer than some herself a chance. With her doctors, she dedoctors had anticipated. She had been cided to try medications normally reserved through countless bouts of chemotherapy for patients with primary brain tumors, and radiation treatment. rather than her case, in which the cancer .And yet, when the overachiever finally had spread from other areas. succumbed last month to the cancer that “She was willing to think outside the bundle of energy, Whitehead always had spread from her back to her brain, box of therapy in order to get the best had to be active, and she could lungs and liver, no one who knew her chance to live,” Friedman said. “She wasn’t and did—turn anything and everycould believe it. “She was our hero, and you don’t think thing into a competition. She challenged going to accept the routine gospel of of your hero as beatable, so we were sure players and friends to dancing contests, ‘You’re going to die.’” Whitehead had brain surgery in Septemshe would beat it,” said Angela Lombardo, basketball-dribbling competitions and ber of 2005 and surgery on her lungs in of or Scrabble. She who played under Whitehead at St. Louis. Ping-Pong games The shock came in part from the strong would make small bets on anything, even if June 2006. She suffered through deterioratface Whitehead put on around everyone. it was what would happen in a TV show. As ed eyesight due to radiation and the conEven as she went through more than a year long as it was something that could be won, stantly weakened state that comes from chemotherapy. Her parents consistently of intensive treatment, coaches and players Maria was on board. made extended trips from their home in all little fan and never heard complaints. Her doctors and “She had these games, West Chester, Pa., to to the much betthey were the ones see were so only truly parents be by her side, weak moments that every cancer patient ter because she would which said surprised no goes through. get really into it,” “She never held back. one, since they had “She was always so positive that she Kristin Lueders, who tricked us into thinking it wasn’t as bad as played for Whitehead She just pushed through it traveled to most games she played or it was,” Duke senior Amy Stopford said. at St. Louis. and never let her cancer coached in, driving Like the fighter she was, Whitehead didLueders and Whiteand flying for years n’t even think about defeat. head had their own traslow her down.” to Winston-Salem, said ditional competition. “I don’t think she ever accepted it,” Marcie Louis and Boyer, St. Friedman, director of After the two deputy practices, Dr. Henry Durham. the Tisch Center. “I think she died thinkwould fire shots at the St. Louis field hockey head coach In early October ing she was going to win.” cage to see who could 2006, she was acr Her death also seemed so sudden because hit th..e tw/omc. h r wiIde cepted into a new of how active she remained—she attended crossbar first. Whitetreatment Dr. Steven Rosenlost, did, well, Duke’s head but she those program by if regular-season games. rarely every one of On Oct. 28, only a couple weeks after close to her knew they were probably better berg in Washington, D.C. that offered new hope. But the melanoma in her liver finding out that her liver was riddled with off not talking to her for a while. did not allow her to survive to make it into cells and four before Whitehead detested so she just days cancerous losing, she passed away, Whitehead showed up to would avoid it at all costs. Bozman would the program. watch the Blue Devil seniors in their final often remind Re that when she played, she was first diagnosed with home game. She was so weak that at the was “the dirtiest player in the ACC.” melanoma, a serious form of skin end of the game, she had to be helped Friedman once took Whitehead with cancer that 50,000 Americans are across the field to Duke’s bench. him to a Duke women’s basketball game, with each year, when doctors behind the diagnosed each of the Duke emwhere he sits the front row in There, players braced her, but she looked so frail, the girls basket and has a contest with the people in found a spot on her back in February 2005. his row as to who can catch the most loose She had caught it early, and with surgery to were scared to hug her too tight. “It’s hard to fathom the strength she balls that come out of bounds. Friedman remove the tumor in April, she thought she had eliminated the threat. must have had to come watch us play,” decided to let Whitehead play, not thinkBut while still head coach at St. Louis in Stopford said. “Those were the last few ing the 5-foot-2 dervish would get many days of her life. It’s amazing to think how balls. He realized just how wrong he was early September of 2005, Whitehead nomuch we must have meant to her for her when Whitehead nearly knocked him over ticed a small lump on her back the size of to do that.” to get the first ball that came their way. a pea. On Sept. 16, just as she and her fa“I thought we’d let her catch a ball ther were about to sit down for dinner, But her girls were playing, and going through the effort to make it to their game every now and then,” he said. “She won Whitehead found out the cancer had rewas just like Whitehead. She was the type of [the contest] that year. Nobody was going turned to her back and had also spread to person who never met a stranger and often to get close to her because they didn’t want a spot on her brain. “We were absolutely numb,” Patti went out of her way to make sure someone an elbow to the face.” was acknowledged—several friends said the Whitehead’s competitive, whatever-itWhitehead, Maria’s mother, said. “We hardest part of the illness for Whitehead was takes mentality quickly translated over to couldn’t believe it.” The devastating news would have laid most people up in a bed for days. But her girls were playing at Miami of Ohio, and she wasn’t going to miss that game. She and her father jumped in her car the next day and even got a speeding ticket trying to shorten the five-and-a-half hour drive. Whitehead got to the game at halftime and saw her team fall to Miami. After the contest, Whitehead gathered the players in her hotel room. She sat on a table while the girls, so many just a few years younger than her, sprawled out across the room in nervous anticipation. The players knew something was up. Re didn’t miss practices, let alone games. The previous April, two days after her first surgery, she was out on the field, coaching and demonstrating in spring practice, clearly against doctors’ orders. And Maria paid for it—she tore open her fresh stitches. “She never let cancer hold her back from who she was,” said Marcie Boyer, who SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE was an assistant under Whitehead that Center, at theDuke Medical Whitehead Beth University joined While undergoing treatment Bozman's staff. spring. “She was going to still be out on the

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that everyone was always worrying about her. “She always wanted to leave something with you through her personality and her spirit,” Lombardo said. “Even if it was just an e-mail or a thank-you note or a comment, you could tell she noticed who you were.” Although, she made it to every game while going through treatment, Whitehead was still not satisfied with her contribution to the Duke team. Whitehead even asked Duke head coach Beth Bozman if Bozman regretted bringing her on as a full assistant for die season. “It really kind of broke my heart,” Bozman said. “With all that she did for us, she was still wishing she could do more.”

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Whitehead refused to leave the sport she loved, even as she underwentdifficult cancer treatment. field. It probably wasn’t the best thing for her, but she never held back. She just pushed through it and never let her cancer slow her down.” Sitting in that hotel room, Whitehead was direct, while still trying not to let on how serious her situation had become. “She told them, ‘My cancer’s back and it’s in my brain now. So basically they’re going to have crack my head open, go in there and cut it out and sew it back together, and I’ll be good to go,”’ Katie Kanara, then an assistant at St. Louis, recalled. But the players could see beyond the tough talk to their young coach’s fear. Whitehead finally broke down as she saw all the tears in her players’ eyes. ‘You work with these kids every day, and you see them all over emotionally, but we saw the look of them being scared for her, and that’s not something we’re used to,” Kanara said. “We get the pissed-off, the tired look, but not that. And the hard part for her was seeing the girls’ reactions.” The next day, Whitehead coached her final game at St. Louis, a win over Davidson, before leaving to search for a hospital where she could receive treatment. Bozman reached out to the Tisch Center on her behalf, and the center made a fairly rare exception to treat her, even though she did not have a primary brain tumor. “Once we met her, it was impossible not to want to work with her,” Friedman said. Whitehead moved to Durham last fall and volunteered to help out with the Duke field hockey team in whatever way she could. Many of the players already knew her from national teams and summer camps, and it was only a matter of days before Whitehead was a full part of the team. But her other girls were playing, and she flew back to St. Louis to surprise them on Oct. 30—Senior Day. As the team emerged from the locker room, there, standing on their way to the field, was Whitehead, wearing a hat to cover her now-bald scalp. Tears flowed as the players saw their coach for the first time in more than a month, but Re wouldn’t let things get too emotional. “Get over it guys,” Whitehead told them with a smile. “I flew all the way here to watch a win.” Whitehead didn’t get to see a victory, but after the game, she challenged Lueders to a round of their crossbar competition. “She said, You knowwhat we’ve got to do.’ So I went and got the bucket of balls, and we played like we always did,” Lueders said. Well, it wasn’t exactly like old times. Whitehead was physically weak and the girl who could amaze on the hockey field had lost some ofher touch. But she was as lively and competitive as ever, laughing with her girls and firing shots at the crossbar. What does it take to be someone’s hero? Sometimes, it’s just about being there, no matter what.

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passed its first true test of the season Monday night, dismantling No. 18 Rutgers with high-pressure defense in an 8545 road victory. Using a 1-3-1 half-court trap early in the game, the Blue Devils exploited Rutgers’ shaky point guard play. With Matee Ajavon —the aame Scarlet Knights’ regular analysis point guard—limited to 23 minutes in her first game back from knee surgery, Essence Carson was forced to be Rutgers’ primary ballhandler. Duke’s trap—spearheaded by Lindsey Harding—pushed Carson into the corners of the court, preventing the Scarlet Knights from finding any rhythm in their half-court offense. “We ran a press and changed things up and looked to trap whenever we could.” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “We understand Essence is a great player, but she’s learning that point guard posidon. So we wanted to try to take advantage of that by really putting pressure on them. We just wanted them to be a little uncomfortable. We knew that if they could run their sets, they’re really, really good.” When complemented by the Blue Devils’ 2-3 zone, the trap limited the Scarlet Knights to an abysmal 6-for-29 shoodng half en route to a Duke 39-18 halfdme lead. Rutgers shot only 27.3 percent for the game, meaning the Blue Devils have now held all seven of their opponents to 30 percent shoodng or worse from the field this season. The Blue Devils have yet to give up more than 50 points in a contest this year. Rutgers center Kia Vaughn, who entered the game averaging 14 points per game, was stifled by Alison Bales inside. Vaughn managed just five points and went 0-for-9 from the field. “I rushed a little bit, a little too much,” the Rutgers sophomore said. “[Bales] altered my shot a little bit, and I knew what I had to do, but I just rushed a little bit.” The Blue Devils’ zone defense did not prevent them from hitting the boards, as Carrem Gay and Bales notched 10 and eight rebounds, respectively. Duke was able to outlet the ball quickly from the post, leading to fast-break opportunities and easy baskets. “As soon as they got the rebound, they

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passed it out to me or my other teammates, and we just took off running,” Harding said. “That’s a strong part of our game, and we knew that they only played eight or nine players and that we can just run and run and run.” Duke used its defense to jump out to a 7-0 lead less than two minutes into the game—a gap that increased to 16 by the midway point of the first half. After the Scarlet Knights cut the margin to 10, Duke responded by forcing three Rutgers turnovers in an 11-1 spurt that put the game out of reach. “Playing here with the magnitude of that game, I was hoping that we would settle down,” Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer said. “But the truth of the matter is that it was a bit much. This team

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is not capable of handling that. It’s like taking a graduate class and you haven’t gone to college yet. Coming out of high school is one thing, but to play the No. 5 team in the country and deal with the various patterns that they’re working with is a bit much.” The game marked the first of a weeklong stretch in which Duke will play three ranked teams. No. 12 Vanderbilt and No. 22 Texas visit Cameron Indoor Stadium later in the week. Following this blowout, the Blue Devils feel they are prepared to take on anyone. “Our defense is really good, and we’re starting to shoot the ball better,” Goestenkors said. “We’ve got a good team —we’re still finding ourselves as well, but we do take great pride in our defense.”

blocked seven shots and stole nine passes. The strength of Duke’s defense was the frontcourt, where Bales, Gay and a mix of when they raced out to a 7-0 lead in the other players limited Rutgers center Kia first two minutes, prompting Rutgers Vaughn to five points—all from the free head coach C. Vivian Stringer to call a throw line. Duke’s defensive performance timeout. Even the stoppage of play could was even more impressive considering Rutnot stop Duke’s momentum. gers star guard Matee Ajavon—who had yet After that timeout, Waner banked in a to play this season due to injury—suited up three-pointer and Harding added two in an unexpected game-time decision. threes of her own to give Duke a 20-5 lead Yet in a game that even Goestenkors just more than eight minutes into the game. admitted she could not imagine winning From then on, the lead would only increase, by such a wide margin, the most promisballooning to 40 points by game’s end. ing aspect ofDuke’s game was its ability to With a 39-18 halftime lead, Duke combine effective play on both ends of quelled any ideas of a Rutgers second-half the court in a big-game atmosphere. Duke comeback by scoring the first 11 points in will certainly have to remember such inthe second period. Once again, Harding tangibles when it faces No. 12 Vanderbilt was in the middle of the action, nailing Thursday night and No. 22 Texas Sunday, three mid-range jumpers. both in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Similar to Duke’s previous performanc“We’re confident—l think we’ve been es throughout the year, the offense would confident,” Goestenkors said. “This is a not have thrived without a dominant deteam—specifically with the seniors—fensive effort. The Blue Devils featured a they’ve been in the biggest games you can trapping zone defense that caused possibly play in. I think they have confiturnovers, which led to transition buckets dence going wherever we go, playing whofor Harding and Waner. They also ever it is happens to be on the schedule.”

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hustle and fist-pumping ability. If you did, Marty Pocius has a gift for you. Against Georgetown, he looked like Lee 2.0. He came off the bench when Duke was struggling to score in the first half and knocked down two open threepointers. That was basically the Melchionni Special. He even punctuated the second trey with a huge fist pump that, honestly, put even Melchionni’s best celebrations to shame. On the defensive end, he flexed his muscles and dove all over the floor. Some devotees of the Church of Lee-Lee-Lee might think this is blasphemous, but Pocius has the potential to be a better goofy celebrator than Melchionni himself was. I know I’ll be • watching this closely as the season continues. (And don’t try to tell me that Pocius is a better dunker than Melchionni. I won’t argue this point.) At the very least, a gaping hole in Duke’s emotional lineup seems to have been filled. DeMarcus Nelson has settled into the Daniel Ewing-esque role of talented, athletic and reliable guard that everyone seems to forget about, and Brian Zoubek is doing a great job at “Big Guy on the Bench Who Waves His Arms and Always Looks Really Excited.” Zoubek has a ways to go, however, before he becomes Nick Horvath’s equal in that regard. (Though, to be fair, Horvath spent five years developing into the role, and Zoubek has only been a Blue Devil for eight games.) Now they just need to find “The White Guy Opposing Fans Love to Hate” (in the tradition ofChristian Laettner and J.J. Redick). The way Greg Paulus played against Georgetown, he just may be the winner. But the best gift was the demise of those hideous new jerseys. Some of the less sartorially-minded among you might not have noticed the little stripes that came off Duke’s collars at a 45 degree angle for the first part of this season. Some of you might not have cared. But against Georgetown, the stripes were gone, and the jerseys looked like last year’s model. It was the captains’ choice which jerseys the team would wear, and apparently they were tired of the stupid stripes. For the first half, I was worried Duke would lose, and they would decide the stripe-less model was bad luck. Honestly, I think the Blue Devils might have played just a little bit harder because they didn’t want to wear those jerseys anymore. Maybe that’s why Coach K was so excited that they won. Finally, the last gift doesn’t really have anything to do with the Georgetown game. Instead, it’s a gift from me to you. Just imagine you could watch a highlight video of current assistant coach Chris Collins from when he was a senior in high school. Now imagine the video features Collins and his basketball teammates dancing to the MC Hammer song “2 Legit 2 Quit.” Now imagine that they make the “2 Legit 2 Quit” hand motions, moonwalk and do this weird dance where they twitch their “behinds” and look kind of like

they’re ice-skating. If I told you this video actually existed, is that something you might be interested in? Would you say that you’d immediately stop what you’re doing to watch this video? Then stop what you’re doing, go to YouTube.com and search for “GBN Chris Collins.” The video is the only result. Do it right now and you can thank me later. Happy Chrismahanakwanzah.

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Look at what seems to have happened to the Iraq Study Group, whose mission statement says that it would provide an “independent assessment.” If press reports are correct, the group did nothing of the sort. Instead, it watered down its conclusions and recommendations, trying to come up with something Bush wouldn’t reject out of hand. In particular, says Newsweek, the report “will set no timetables or call for any troop reductions.” All it will do is “suggest that the president could, not should, begin to withdraw forces in the vaguely defined future.” And all this self-abasement is for naught Senior Bush aides, Newsweek tells us, are “dismissive, even condescending” toward James Baker, the Bush family consigliere who is the dominant force in the study group, and the report Of course they are. That’s how bullies always treat their hangers-on. Even now, it seems, the wise men of Washington can’t bring themselves to face up to two glaringly obvious truths. The first is that Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq for no reason. It’s true that terrible things will happen when U.S. forces withdraw. Bush was attacking a straw man when he mocked those who think we can make a “graceful exit” from Iraq. Everyone I know realizes that the civil war will get even

worse after we’re gone, and that there will probably be a bloody bout of ethnic cleansing that effectively partitions the country into hostile segments. But nobody—not even Donald Rumsfeld, it turns out—thinks we’re making progress in Iraq. So the same terrible things that would happen if we withdrew soon will still happen if we delay thatwithdrawal for two, three or more years. The only difference is that we’ll sacrifice many more American lives along the way. The second truth is that the war will go on all the same, unless something or someone forces Mr. Bush to

change course. During his recent trip to Vietnam, Bush was

asked whether there were any lessons from that conflict for Iraq. His response: “We’ll succeed unless we quit.” It was a bizarre answer given both the history of the Vietnam War and the facts on the ground in Iraq, but it makes perfect sense given what we know about Bush’s character. He has never been willing to own up to mistakes, however trivial. If he were to accept the failure of his adventure in Iraq, he would be admitting, at least implicidy, to having made the mother ofall mistakes.

Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq for no reason. So Bush will keep sending other men’s children off to fight his war. And he’ll always insist that Iraq would have been a great victory if only his successors had shared his steely determination. Does this mean that we’re doomed to at least two more years of bloody futility? Not necessarily. Last month the public delivered a huge vote of no confidence in Bush and his war. He’s still the commander in chief, but the new majority in Congress can put a lot of pressure on him to at least begin a withdrawal. I’m worried, however, that Democrats may have counted on the Iraq Study Group to provide them with political cover. Now that the study group has apparently wimped out, will the Democrats do the same? Well, here’s a question for those who might be tempted, yet again, to shy away from a confrontation with Bush over Iraq: How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a bully’s ego? Paul Krugman is a regular columnist for The New York Times. This column was previously printed there.

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the 19905, we became more aware of the importance not only of IQ to success but also of “EQ”—“emotional intelligence quotient.” Authors like Daniel Goleman explained EQ in part as an ability to assess, adjust to and influence the emotions of others. These days, as we grope for a new policy in Iraq, we desperately need that kind of nicholas kristof emotional inthe new york times telligence, :

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toward overseas nationalism. Insensitivity to nationalism may be the biggest foreign policy mistake the U.S. and Europe alike have made in the last half-century—from Vietnam to Suez, Mexico to Algeria—and we’ve been repeating it in Iraq. One of the essential paradoxes is that even well-meaning efforts to stabilize Iraq with our military presence inflame Iraqi nationalism and bolster nationalist extremists. Inadvertently, because we’re not sensitive enough to how our actions are perceived in the Iraqi cauldron, we end up empowering extremists who destabilize the country. Exhibit A is the shadowy man who has won a reputation as perhaps the single most brutal mass murderer there, Abu Deraa. He is a Shiite who in the late Saddam years was apparently just a petty forger, according to Terrorism Monitor, a publication of the Jamestown Foundation. Abu Deraa won renown as a “patriot” who attacked U.S. armored vehicles. Then he diversified into criminal kidnapping, which generated cash to make him a player and finance his band of gangsters. The whispers about Abu Deraa and his torture of the Sunnis he captures —he specializes in using electric drills on their skulls—have won him increasingly mythic status. Some of the biggest and boldest attacks in Iraq are attributed to him, and he brings creativity and economies of scale to his murder enterprise. An Australian news account described how he once drove a fleet ofambulances into a Sunni neighborhood and used loudspeakers to call on young men to donate blood to help fellow Sunnis injured by Shiites. Dozens of young men came forward—and were executed. Abu Deraa told Time magazine, in an interview through an intermediary, that his fight is against “occupiers, their supporters” and Sunni insurgents, and he painted himself as a pious

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Muslim driven by a “sense of holy duty” to attack American forces. Those arguments resonate among some Shiites, who see him as a hero and protect him, even as he helps tear his country apart. At bottom, Abu Deraa is a psychopathic thug who terrorizes fellow Iraqis. But he has been able to use his attacks on American forces to win political cover to foment civil war. So as we Americans plan our own strategy for Iraq, let’s show more emotional intelligence. The Iraqi Study Group is right about needing to consult with neighbors like Syria and Iran, but that doesn’t resolve another central problem in Iraq: Our open-ended military presence, perceived by Iraqis as a grab for Iraqi oil and bases, ends up legitimizing extremists like Abu Deraa and aggravating civil war. Our military presence risks expanding the civil war in another way. As we side more openly with the Shiite government in its struggle against Sunni insurgents, Saudi Arabia—already nervous about the rise of.Shiites—is hinting that it may help the Sunnis defend themselves. We could end up with a war in which Iran and Iraqi Shiites battle against Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraqi Sunni Arabs. (That’s when gas prices reach $5 a gallon.) So let’s raise our EQ and take account of Iraqi emotions and nationalist sensitivities, particularly alarm about American bases on Iraqi soil. For starters, we can (as Don Rumsfeld noted in his leaked memo) quickly give back up to 50 of our 55 military bases in Iraq. We should also state clearly that we will not keep any permanent military bases in Iraq. That’s not going to persuade the extremist insurgents, but polls suggest that such an announcement would reduce the support that extremists get from ordinary Iraqis. That’s a simple step that would save American and Iraqi lives. The same logic argues for a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, ending by November 2007. Granted, there is a real risk that the bloodbath will worsen significandy when we leave. But Iraqis themselves say overwhelmingly in polls that our presence is inflaming the violence rather than reducing it, and a timetable would be a useful signal that we really are going to pull out and that Iraqi factions need to conciliate and address their own problems. We needn’t cut and run. But let’s post a schedule, and then cut and walk. Nicholas Kristof is a regular columnistfor The New York Times. This column was previously printed there.

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it was SAT scores, then AP scores, then the twisted mania built around getting into a good college. After admittance to Duke, there was a brief instant when I foolishly thought it might be over; but no, almost immediately after freshman orientation it was back with a vengeance. Career pathways, leveraging your network, resume-building experiences. I’m not sure where this mad chasing of the external indicators of success ends (presumably with a really nice funeral, some good flowers and a top-notch casket), but it’s definitely not here and not yet. brian kindle Almost by definition, the vast majoriad astra ty of students here have become highly skilled at compiling a lifelong checklist of achievements that look good on paper and mean essentially nothing two or three years later. It’s what’s earned us the self-inflicted title of overachievers, which frankly I’ve always found to be a load of garbage. Come on, people, we all have some days when our only “achievements” per se are “getting some laundry done” and “completing one-half of the Sudoku before quitting in frustration,” and by some days I mean “many, many days.” It’s also what makes us very unwilling to question the continued pursuit of these achievement benchmarks; we’ve already invested enormous time and energy into high test scores, impressive extracurriculars and good grades. So when the next expected achievement rolls down the pike, most of us go after it without too much thought and even less complaint. There is one such attainment, however, that ought to make you at least a little uneasy. If it hasn’t happened already, chances are very good that before you graduate, a teacher, parent, administrator or peer will either require or strongly recommend that you work full or part time for a matter

The vast majority of students here have become highly skilled at compiling a lifelong checklist of achievements that look good on paper and mean essentially nothing two or three years later. of months, with little or no compensation. I’m talking about the bizarre phenomenon of the unpaid internship. According to the Career Center, 89 percent of the class of 2005 had worked at least one internship, the majority of which were unpaid. Nationwide, the figures are similar: In a national survey, the career information website Vault.com found that 84 percent of college students intended to complete one or more internships before graduation, and that half of all internships are unpaid. In the fields of politics, finance, journalism and (of course) the non-profit sector, paid internships are a rarity. The unpaid internship has grown hugely in popularity during the past 10 years, with in an increasing number of universities making completion of an internship mandatory for students (at Duke, only the Public Policy major requires an internship). We’re told that these internships are a great opportunity, an excellent preparation for the world ofreal employment. And really, many of them are. It’s just that this opportunity doesn’t come cheap. I worked an unpaid internship this summer in New York City and lost about a thousand dollars in the deal, and that’s without factoring in my lost wages and the housing costs most students have to pay (I lived with family). Ultimately, someone is paying pretty heavily for it, if not us, then our parents. If you’re one of the two-thirds of students using loans to pay for college, the increasing commonality of these internships ought to make you uncomfortable. There’s a significant subset of students, even at Duke, that simply don’t have a couple thousand dollars to drop on a “wonderful introduction to your chosen career.” It’s an opportunity not all of us can afford. That, to me, is the biggest problem of unpaid internships. Their buy-in cost is simply prohibitive for many students. Those without deep pockets or the willingness to go into debt need not apply. Unfortunately, as college students, there doesn’t seem to be much we can do about it. As the unpaid internship enters more and more into the currency of employment, students are increasingly forced to accept these positions just to stay competitive come job-hunting time. Still, if you can find a paid internship, I urge you to take it. If you can’t, and like me you have to undergo the strange experience of spending large chunks of cash for nine weeks of employment, there’s no need to feel too happy about it, even if it does look great on your resume. Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Tuesday.

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Exhibition: “Travis Lester: Storms Spell Trouble for Marin,” Thru Dec. 9. John Hope Franklin Ctr. Basement Gallery.

Christmas Concert. Bach’s Magnificat & German Carols. Choral Society of Durham. Rodney Wynkoop, conductor. Bpm Saturday, 4pm Sunday. Duke Chapel. $l5 Gen.; Duke Students Free.

Exhibition: “Close to Home: Photographs by Margaret Sartor.” Thru Dec. 12. Special Collections Gallery, Perkins Library. Exhibition: “Youth Document Durham; A Five-Year Retrospective, 2000-2004.” Thru Jan. 7. Center for Documentary Studies.

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Exhibition: “Synergy.” An exhibition of the Triangle Arts Guild including photography, sculpture, watercolor, & pottery from such artists as Chris Boerner, Carson Boone, Leona Kathryn Cauley, Ferris Chandler, & many more. Thru Jan. 12. Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Bryan Center. Note: A reception will be held on Dec. 5 from 6-Bpm in the gallery.

Duke Chorale Christmas Concert. Rodney Wynkoop, dir. Christmas concert w/ seasonal music on the carillon & for organ at 6:3opm. 7pm. Duke Chapel Admission: one non-perishable food item for needy families in Durham.

Exhibition: “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China.” Thru Feb. 18. Nasher Museum of Art.

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Exhibition: “Miao Xiaochun: Recent Works.” Thru Feb. 23. John Hope Franklin Ctr. Gallery. Exhibition: “Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from ALL MY BABIES.** Thru April 1. Center for Documentary Studies.

North Carolina Boys Choir. Performing in their annual Christmas concert. 7:3opm. Duke Chapel For tickets, visit www. ncboyschoir. org.

Duke Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, music dir. w/ Eric Pritchard, violin & Jonathan Bagg, viola. Mozart, Adagio and Fugue in C minor for Strings & Sinfonia

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Jazz Master Louie Bellson, drummer. Bpm. Baldwin And. $lO Gen.; $5 Students!Seniors.

Rare Music: The Four Voices of the String

12/8 Duke Student Film Showcase. The best of the current crop of student films produced at Duke this semester! Details at: www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety/Fall2oo6Schedule.html. 5-11pm. Richard White Auditorium, East Campus. Free.

13 SATURDAY

ANUAR

Trio con Brio Copenhagen. Winners of the 2005 Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award, the ensemble Trio con Brio Copenhagen is making its first U.S. tour this season. Their program will include Haydns Trio in CMajor, Shostakovich’s Trio in E minor, & Brahms’ Trio in B Major. Bpm. Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center. $25 Gen.; $l5 Youth; $5 Duke Students ,

8 FRIDAY

12/9 Passionate Citizens. Premiere of Passionate Citizens, a documentary audio & photography exploration of civic engagement in Durham by Youth Noise Network, a Center for Documentary Studies audio program for middle- & highschool students. 10:30am. Center for Documentary Studies.

18 MONDAY

Quartet

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14SUNDAY Faculty Recital. Eric Pritchard, violin. 4 pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. Free.

Quartet. The Rare Music Series is sponsored by DUMIC (Duke University Musical Instrument Collections) & Duke University Libraries. 4pm. Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Free.

TICKETS:

Call 919-684-4444 or order online: www.tickets.duke.edu Screen Society info: www.duke.edu/web/fiim/screeris

Free.

9 SATURDAY

12/15 Doc Studies Student Presentations. Final projects for completion of the Certificate in Documentary Studies offered by the Center for Documentary Studies in conjunction w/ Duke Continuing Studies. 7pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Reception afterward.

Duke String School. Dorothy Kitchen, dir.

Holiday Festival. 3pm: Beginning Ensemble & Intermediate I. 4pm: Chamber Music Groups. 7pm: Intermediate II & the Duke Youth Symphony Chamber Ensemble. 3, 4 & 7pm. Baldwin Aud. Free. ,

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Arts Around Duke coordinated by

Dukfllrformances 919-660-3356