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posters around campus provides some circumstantial information.

On Central Campus, flyers trumpet Delta Sigma Theta, Sigma Gamma Rho, Zeta Phi Beta and the NAACP. Boards on West Campus advertise Chi Psi, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Delta Tau Delta.

The first four: a black advocacy group and three members of the traditionally black NationalPanhellenic Council. The last three: Interfraternity Council members.

And although campus leaders said they hesitate to make conclusive statements, they acknowledged that conventional Duke wisdom holds that West Campus is predominantly white and Central is mostly black and Asian.

“There’s a perception,” said Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior.

“It’s definitely something I’ve heard before,” said senior Kevin Fang, president of the Asian Students Association.

“The perception is reinforced in that it’s traditional,” said senior Malik Burnett, president of the Black Student Alliance.

Hull said although RLHS does not have exact figures, it is concerned about ensuring a diverse representation of students across the entire campus.

“We always talk about self-seg-

perception that CentralCampushas a larger percentage of blackand Asian students.

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As the Campus Culture Initiative and echoes of last spring’s lacrosse scandal place race relations at the University under a microscope, some campus leaders have said the diof resiversity npWc dential arrangebears ments analysis re-examination.

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, said Residential Life and Housing Services does not keep statistics on ethnic background for residents.

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Andrew Young(right) speaks as Rev. Jesse Jackson weeps during the groundbreaking for Martin Luther King's memorial inWashington.

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Officials announced Tuesday the selection of civil rights leader Andrew Young as the keynote speaker at the 18th annual commemoration ofMartin Luther King Jr. Jan. 14.

Young was both the first black ambassador to the United Nations and the first black Georgia congressman since the Reconstruction.

A close friend and ally of King, Young’s relationship with King and his work with civil rights made him a clear choice as the keynote speaker, committee members said.

“He is not only a close confidant and colleague of Dr. King, he really exemplifies some of the values and tenets of Dr. King,” said committee co-chair Ben Reese, vice president of the Office for Institutional Equity.

“He has been working for social justice and equity for so long, he just really stands out as a model for so many of us on campus.”

Young is also one of the most notable and still-prominent figures from the civil rights era, added committee member Myma Adams, an independent consultant to the University.

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really gather student input that would help drive a lot of decisions that are going to be made in the coming months and years about the direction of the University,” Fore said.

Although the Campus Culture Initiative is also investigating Duke’s social scene, its main concern is to examine what already exists on campus and to to

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“We as students have an idea what makes students tick, but we want to get as broad a perspective as possible,” said DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior.

DSG Executive Vice President Joe Fore, a senior, is at the helm of the Duke Story Project, currently in draft-proposal form.

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Iraq opens talkwith neighbors Iraq's prime minister reversed course Tuesday and said his envoys will talk with Iraq's neighbors about the possibility of a regional conference on quelling the violence here, despite opposition to the plan by some key political allies.

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WASHINGTON Robert Gates, seemingly clinching confirmation as the new secretary of defense, said Tuesday the United States is not winning in Iraq and he is confident President George W. Bush will listen to his ideas about forging a new war strategy.

He won speedy and unanimous approval from the Senate Armed Services Committee after five hours of testimony, a bipartisan show of support that suggested how eager many lawmakers are to replace Donald Rumsfeld. The full Senate could seal Gates’ confirmation as early as Wednesday.

“In my view, all options are on the table,

in terms ofhow we address this problem in Iraq,” Gates told the committee.

But he also acknowledged the complexity of the challenge.

“There are no new ideas on Iraq,” he said during a discussion of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which previewed its

findings and recommendations to Bush Tuesday and will release them Wednesday.

Gates was a member of the group until Bush announced his nomination for the Pentagon job last month.

The senators voted 24-0 to support the nomination to replace Rumsfeld.

“I voted yes because in both the substance of his answers and the tone of his

answers, he seemed open to course correction,” said Carl Levin, D-Mich., who will be

Talks on Iran resolution stall

the committee’s chairman when Democ-

rats take control of the Senate next month.

During his appearance, Gates would not commit to any specific new course of ac-

Six world powers made "substantive progress" but failed to reach an accord on a United Nations resolution to punish Iran for defying U.N. demands to halt its nuclear program, the French Foreign Ministry said after talks in Paris Tuesday.

tion in the conflict. He said he would consult first with commanders and others.

Asked directly by Levin whether the U.S. is winning in Iraq, Gates replied, “No, sir.” That response appeared to contradict Bush, who said at an Oct. 25 news conference, “Absolutely, we’re winning.”

Gates later said he believes the United States is neither winning nor losing, “at this point.”

Trans fats banned in NewYork New York on Tuesday became the first city in the nation to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants, leading the charge to limit consumption of an ingredient linked to heart disease and used in everything from french fries to pizza dough to pancake mix.

Military overthrows Fiji government by

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SUVA, Fiji Fiji’s military overthrew the elected government Tuesday after weeks of threats, locking down the capital and putting the prime minister under house arrest in the fourth coup in the South Pacific country in 19 years.

Commodore Frank Bainimarama, the armed forces chief credited with resolving Fiji’s last coup, announced in a nationally broadcast statement that, “As of 6 o’clock this evening, the military has taken over the government, has executive authority and the running of this country.”

The takeover, like the previous three coups, has its roots in the ethnic divide between the descendants of ancient Melanesian warrior tribes and those of Indian laborers brought by former colonial power Britain to work in sugar plantations.

In his declaration, Bainimarama justified seizing power to prevent legislation that favored indigenous Fijians, contending the measures “would undermine the constitution and deny many citizens their rights.”

Bainimarama said he had assumed some powers of the president and was using them to dismiss Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, who he hand picked in the 2000 coup to

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lead an interim government he set up.

Baiijimarama named Dr. Jona Senilagakali, a military medic with no political experience, as caretaker prime minister and said a full interim government would be appointed next week to see the country through elections that would restore democracy sometime in the future.

Qarase’s leadership has gained the legitimacy of two elections, but Bainimarama grew increasingly frustrated with his nationalist leanings, in particular legislation that offered pardons to the 2000 coup plotters and handed coastal land rights —lucrative to the tourist industry—to indigenous Fijians.

Iran has blocked access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube.com, and a press rights group warned Tuesday that Internet censorship is on the rise. Users who tried to use the site saw the same message that appears on many Web sites that the government blocks.

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Writing 20 class tutors students, helps parents Casey Dean THE CHRONICLE

ing moments at the dinner. Freshman Danielle Johns recalled a little boy whose After a semester of tutoring elementary face lit up when he learned to say the word school students, the Global Americas “square,” and freshman Marie Lawrence, Focus cluster celebrated the program’s who also spent time providing childcare in achievements Tuesday night. the evenings, said she found meeting parThe curriculum for the cluster’s Writing ents of her students rewarding.

20 class, Reproducing Nation; Idealizing -Although the evening was dedicated to America’s Children, included 20 hours of celebrating, several people pointed out the tutoring at E. K, Powe Elementary School ongoing need for engaged community members to have in Durham.

In response a presence in to Durham schools, increasing “The big idea is to look at what Marko said immigration in i-i i a d s like to be a child in America North Carolina that though her and the lanStudents had a today and tO be a child in Latin guage barrier positive impact, that more stuAmerica today. M this is a tense dents are fac «h°ol year at E. Snead Williams K Powe, and sevJJenny 7 mg, most of the sr. program coordinator, Latino/a Studies Duke freshmen eral final papers assisted teachaddressed these issues, ers with inAs a result of the No Child Left Behind structing English as a Second Language.

Participants also dedicated time to transAct, E. K. Powe is facing its fourth year of lating for parents and providing childcare review; if students fail to meet benchwhile parents attended ESL classes. marks, the school may face punitive reperTuesday night, the 24 tutors gathered in cussions. This is part of the reason Marko E. K Powe’s cafeteria with teachers, Focus agreed to incorporate the service learning members and family members for Latin into her class.

American food, presentations and the opLuis Rojas, whose daughter Jazmin was tutored by a Duke student in her preportunity to meet their students’ parents.

“The big idea is to look at what it’s like kindergarten class, said he was not surto be a child in America today and to be a prised at Duke’s involvement. He was surchild in Latin America today,” Jenny prised, however, at the small number of Snead Williams, senior program coordinainvolved parents. tor for Duke Latino/a Studies said of the “I haven’t seen much commitment of project. She also led the Focus cluster’s parents,” he said. He said events like Tuesweekly discussion group. day night’s are “a good place to start.”

The research learning component was Several Duke students expressed an introduced to the Writing 20 class because interest in continuing to tutor in the the experiences of the tutors are more spring, and Marko will be teaching a simmeaningful when written about academical- ilar class next fall.

Alice Anne Kern, ESL Coordinator and ly, said Writing 20 professor Tamera Marko.

Focus students’ abbreviated final pateacher at E. K Powe, oversaw the efforts pers for Marko’s class were on display for of Duke students at the school and looks attendees Tuesday night and most stuforward to Duke’s continued involvement. dents made reference to their tutoring ex“[The tutoring program] really is extremely successful... and it would be hard periences at E. K Powe in their work.

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The headquarters ofprivate software companySAS Institute are located in Cary, N.C,just 25 minutes fromDuke.

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CARY, N.C. The SAS Institute is not an average high-flying software company.

Many employees at publicly traded tech firms bum the midnight oil in exchange for lucrative stock options, but the 4,000 workers at privately owned SAS’s headquarters in Cary enjoy a 35hour work week, subsidized daycare and a 58,000-sq. ft. gym complex.

“The recreation center, fitness and health care all fits in with making an environment that’s easy to work in,” said Lisa Buckner, a human resources manager at SAS. SAS’s perks have earned the company recognition on “60 Minutes,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and in FORTUNE Magazine as one of the best companies to work for in America.

The corporate generosity has paid off by increasing employee retention and the number of job applicants.

Employee turnover rates at SAS hover around 5 percent per year, compared to an industry average of 20 percent, and

roughly 225 applicants vie for each job opening, Buckner said.

“Year-to-date, we have received almost 34,000 applications, so by the end of the year we’ll be looking at 36,000 for applications [l6o] positions,” Buckner said.

Diicitiacc Jeffrey Pfeffer, a DU5111655 professor at the Stananrl ford Graduate School of Business, told “60 Minutes” in 2003 that SAS’s high retention rates save the company up to $BO million annually in training and hiring costs.

SAS’s corporate culture has been shaped by the company’s co-founder and CEO James Goodnight, whose $4.5 billion ofSAS holdings makes him the wealthiest man in North Carolina and placed him in 52nd place on this year’s Forbes 400 Richest Americans list.

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PANTS ON FIRE More than 71% of people believe liars make less eye contact than truth tellers.

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I'.WMMjWI Study denies cancer-cell phone link WASHINGTON A comprehensive study from Denmark offers the latest reassurance that cell phones don't trigger cancer. Scientists tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users, including 52,000 who had gabbed on the gadgets for 10 years or more, and some who started using them 21 years ago. They matched phone

records to the famed Danish Cancer Registry that records every citizen who gets the disease—and reported Tuesday that cell-phone callers are no more likely than anyone else to suffer a range of cancer types.

MySpace to block sex offenders

NEW YORK —The popular online hangout MySpace said Tuesday it

will develop technologies to help block convicted sex offenders, the site's latest attempt to address complaints about sexual predators and other dangers to teens. MySpace is partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to build and deploy within 30 days a database that will contain the names and physical descriptions of convicted sex offenders in the United States. An automated system will search for matches between the database and MySpace user profiles.

Employees will then delete any profiles that match.

Pediatricians chide unhealthy ads CHICAGO Inappropriate advertising contributes to many kids' ills, from obesity to anorexia, to drinking booze and having sex too soon, and Congress should crack down on it, the American Academy of Pediatrics says. Advertising examples cited in the statement include TV commercials for sugary breakfast cereals, high calorie snacks shown during children's programs, fastfood ads on educational TV shown in schools and magazine ads with stick-thin models.

Look that way: women follow others'gazes by

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Women who argue that men are clueless may finally have some scientific evidence to back up dieirclaim—aldiough perhaps the better assertion would be dial men are “cue-less.”

Michael Platt, associate professor of neu-

robiology, Stephen Shepherd, graduate stu-

dent In neurobiology, and Robert Deaner, assistant professor of psychology at Grand Valley State University, published Nov. 28 their study about gaze cuing—the tendency to turn in the direction of where other people are looking—in the online version of tjae journal Biology Letters. Shepherd said the print version would likely be published January 2007.

He said he and his colleagues found that familiarity accentuates gaze cuing in women but not in men. “[The Platt] lab conducted a behavioral study of familiarity and gender’s effect on gaze cuing, which is strikingly novel and interesting,” said Marty Woldorff, associate professor of psychiatry and psychological and brain sciences, who is also studying gaze cuing.

The study is important because it may one day help to explain the causes of autism, Platt said.

“People with the neurological disorder autism show very weak to no gazing at all and some argue the contributing factor is increased testosterone,” Platt said. “We can now investigate the effect of testosterone on gaze perception and following.”

Autism affects four times more males then females.

Future studies into the level of testosterone in autistic patients and gaze cuing could help explain this phenomenon, Platt said.

According to the study published in Biology Letters, Platt’s group had 32 subjects, half male and half female between the ages of 18 to 39, sit in front of a computer monitor that flashed different images across its screen. Half

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An image of a face whose eyes were looking either left, right or straight ahead appeared on the screen for less than a second, followed by a picture of a box. The subjects then had to press a button indicating whether the box appeared on the left or right of the screen, Shepherd said.

“Females did better when the face [looked in the direction of the box], and this tended to be true only when the faces were offamiliar individuals,” Platt said. “The amount of attention shift was double in women when they were looking at familiar faces than when they

were looking at unfamiliar ones.”

Platt adtjed that there was no significant effect of familiarity on gaze cuing in men.

Shepherd said that the team designed this experiment because previous studies only addressed the effects of expressive faces and dominance on gaze cuing and therefore studied visual cues as opposed to social ones.

The group does not have definite explanations for why gaze cuing is different in men and women, but suggested that it may have to do with how their brains differ—for example, women may connect social memory with the visual processing of social stimuli better than men, Shepherd wrote in an e-mail.

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Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and largest academic honor society, was founded on December 5, 1776 by five students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Since then, it has evolved to become the nation’s leading advocate for arts and sciences at the undergraduate level. Phi Beta Kappa elects over 15,000 new members a year from 270 prestigious chapters across the United States. The Society’s distinctive emblem, a gold key (with the Greek character Phi along with B and K as the initials of the name of the society), is widely recognized as a symbol of academic achievement.

The Duke Chapter, Beta of North Carolina, was formed in 1920 at Trinity College. We are delighted to receive into membership the following: Daniel Leon Abravanel

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YOUNG from page 1

Turner said. “Andrew Young has reached out the hand of fellowship, invested his energy, put his life on the line and cried Young currently is chairman of the out for Justice for more than 40 years.”

GoodWorks International consulting firm Young served as executive vice presand co-chair of ident of the the Washington, Southern D.C., Martin Christian Luther King, Jr. “Andrew Young has reached Leadership National MemoConference out the hand of fellowship, inrial the Project during Foundation civil rights vested his energy, put his life when “I’m really era on the line and cried out for happy that he King was the conference’s is the keynote justice for more than 40 years.” president. speaker and William Turner “He’ll I’m excited to hear what he insight bring associate professor, Divinity school has to say,” said into the dream senior Malik of King,” BurBurnett, presinett said. dent of the Black Student Alliance and Members of the committee also said a member of the King Commemoration Young’s experiences will provide the auCommittee. dience with different perspectives.

The theme for the 2007 commemora[Young will] not only speak to his pertion service is “Come to the Table,” which sonal work, but also speak to visions of Dr. Reese said speaks to King’s lifetime hope King and wavs it can apply to the kinds of for reconciliation between people with challenges we face on campus, in the counradically different viewpoints. try and throughout the world,” Reese said.

“We think it’s so timely in the world This is not the first time Young has we live in for us to step back and think been contacted by Duke. about Dr. King’s visions ofreconciliation The University l awarded Young an and applicability to the challenges we honorary' degree in 2000 and invited him face now,” Reese added. to speak at the commemoration five Co-chair William Turner, associate years ago, but he could not attend. professor of the practice of homiletics at “We’re pleased that we were able to the Divinity School, said in a statement [get Young to speak] this year,” Adams that Young’s experiences are fitting for said, noting that Young is “squeezing in” the theme of the event. the Sunday commemoration in between “Who could be better to call us once engagements on the previous Saturday again to ‘come to the table in 2007?’” and the following Monday. “

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develop recommendations for administrators, Fore said.

Student submissions will be in the form of stories or personal narratives, but may also include photographs, poetry or song lyrics, he added.

“The idea is to get actual stories of the day in the life of a Duke student, and from those draw conclusions about what things students would like to see and what contributes to certain aspects of our culture that we would like to change,” Wolf said.

He added that DSP differs from the CCI since it will not collect empirical data and will focus instead on overarching themes, rather than definitive solutions.

DSG hopes student responses will paint the picture of an ideal Duke environment—where they would live, how they would interact with classmates and faculty and what types of entertainment and extracurricular activities they would enjoy.

Submissions will be accepted throughout January and in early February. DSG representatives will then collect and review the stories, deducing commonalities and underlying themes.

Fore said DSP will culminate in a final report —released at the end of the spring semester, around the same time as the CCFs recommendations—examining the submissions and giving the administration recommendations that would address the desires of the student body.

“These two reports could essentially be taken together and could provide a real

clear road map, with the Duke Story Pro-

ject giving the overall themes of where the

students would like to see Duke going and the CCI providing concrete suggestions,” Fore said.

Senior David Snider, DSGvice president for athletics and campus services, said the report will be a valuable resource for administrators.

“There’s always a desire, especially from the Trustees and top administrators, to have something that clearly articulates, broadly speaking, what students want from their experience,” he said.

The submissions will be included as an appendix to the DSP report.

A draft-proposal memo for the project was sent to members of the DSG Executive Board prior to Thanksgiving break, and a proposed timeline includes a presentation before the DSG General Body at its weekly meeting Jan. 17 and advertisements throughout that month.

Response from the Executive Board has been positive so far.

“A lot of the stuff that DSG works on from day-to-day is very specific projects,” Snider said. “Joe’s intention and what we all got excited about is the ability to more broadly engage in the dialogue of the CGI and the Strategic Plan in what overall goals should be to enhance the Duke

experience.”

Fore said the project will be beneficial in allowing DSG to convey students’ ideal Duke environment.

“I think we are given a tremendous responsibility to inform those decisions as best we can and helping the University to become how we want it and what we hope it can be,” Fore said.

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“We have two artists-in-residence [in Cary],” Buckner said. “In our regional offices, we look for regional artists in those communities.”

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live at SAS, said the company uses a generous profit-sharing plan to make up the difference.

The company also invests 24 percent of its revenues in research and development, which Buckner said enables SAS to maintain an edge over its competitors.

SAS’s business intelligence software helps companies and government organizations sift through reams of information.

The company has licensed software to customers ranging from the United States Census Bureau to Publishers Clearing House, which uses a SAS analytics program to select winners out of its millions of sweepstakes entrants, Buckner said.

Lennox added that department stores use the company’s software to analyze how well products sell in different cities.

“They use our technology to decide which shirts in which colors and sizes should be stocked in which stores, and also where they should be displayed on the store floor,” Lennox said.

Buckner said a few Duke alumni work at SAS, but estimated that there are more graduates from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who work at the company.

“Historically when we do our hiring we try to stay in the area,” she said.

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magna cum laude graduate and a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and still had time to date.

“I couldn’t keep up with [all the women he dated],” said his father, U.S. Rep. Roy Baldwin, R-Penn. “We would always meet the girls over the phone, on holidays sometimes.”

Baldwin’s family members said they support his participation in the show.

“He still comes to me a lot for advice,” said his sister Susie, a junior at Cornell University.

And the Baldwins said they are not worried about watching the sequence of their son’s romantic advances.

“You know, that’s okay,” his mother Cindy said of watching her son woo the 25 women. “It’s pretty natural. I don’t have my head in the sand. He’s 29. I’m no prude.”

His father, however, had other concerns, “We wanted to make sure he knew what he’s getting into, and that he’s not taking it too seriously,” he said. “There are two reasons he’s doing it—for the whole atmosphere, and he’s looking to get married.”

Cass said these are the very objectives producers aim for in selecting their candidates before the six weeks of shooting, which many fans of “The Bachelor” specu-

late will be in Hawaii, “Ultimately of course we want there to be a love connection,” Cass said. “We definitely want the women to be people Andy will be attracted to, and the other way around—we want Andy to be their type of guy, too.”

In a 2005 interview, Baldwin told Cosmopolitan about his ideal girl for the magazine’s “Bachelor Blowout.”

“I’m looking for someone who is witty, athletic, kind and humble,” he said. “She’s driven by her own goals and doesn’t take life too seriously.”

His father said this accurately portrayed his son’s interests, adding that Andy likes to see his own personality characteristics—fit, good-natured and vicarious—in girls he dates.

“He definitely used to date a particular type—more the athletic, exotic type,” he said.

Baldwin also told Cosmo that he’d prefer a more physical variation on the oft-romanticized long walk on the beach.

He said his ideal date might include an end-of-the-day jog down the beach and dip in the ocean.“Andy loves medicine, the outdoors and obviously women,” his father said. “He’s great.”

He added that it’s not too late for women to sign up to date his son on the show. “They still have casting calls,” he said. “And online applications.”

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RESIDENTIAL from page 1 regation,” Ganatra said. “If we have the majority of black and Asian students living on

Central and white students on West, and you’re supposed to be hanging out with the people who live around you, you’re going to get institutionalized self-segregation.”

Ganatra, Fang and Burnett all pointed to the lower cost of living on Central and the presence of fraternities, which are mostly white, on West as reasons for the divide.

“We’re at 30-some-odd percent of housing [on West] being taken up by fraternities and selective groups,” Ganatra said. “With frats being 95-plus-percent white, that’s a big factor. Already a third of your beds are allocated to groups that are majority white.”

He added that the system may have become self-propagating, as minority students

may choose to live on Central because of an already-thriving community.

Fang said he lived on Central as a junior because as an unafFiliated student, he was unable to get a double on West.

Burnett, a Central resident, said it would be a stretch to suggest that the campus ghettoizes minority students.

Hull also cautioned against making judgments about why the situation exists.

“The temptation to suggest that it’s happening because of a causal factor is a dangerous one,” Hull said. “I would be concerned whenever people are making assumptions... I thinkit’s better to examine why people make the choices that they make.”

RLHS has considered and rejected plans to institute a flat rate for all housing in the past because of disparities between dormitories, Hull said. The office has worked to bring rates for non-air-conditioned dormitories on West and Central

housing closer, he said. It is not yet clear old, said Associate Professor of History how the renovation and reconstruction of Janet Ewald, who came to Duke in 1983.

When her spouse was a faculty-in-resiCentral will affect rates.

The system of response to complaints in dence in Trent Hall about five years ago, the absence ofresident assistants on Central she said her impression was that the makehas been a flashpoint for concern. Without up of the dorm was disproportionately RAs, the Duke University Police Department male, minority and unaffiliated.

“I don’t think there was any process by is usually the first responder to any complaint. Burnett said many black students which they were clustering by choice,” she viewed unequal responses to disturbances said. “If men chose not to pledge a fraternity and not to live off-campus, then the on West and Central as a problem. of choices were relatively limited.”

Last year, RLHS instituted a program Ewald added that before East Campus who form an interassistants, community mediate line of response. Hull said he is became all-freshmen in 1995, it was known as a haven for unaffiliated and non-mainpleased with progress, but Burnett said disstream upperclass students. satisfaction still lingers.

“I was one of the ones who didn’t like “I don’t think that has by-and-large had the idea of making East a first-year campus any effect,” Burnett said of the program.

“Students don’t necessarily feel that DUPD because I thought it was a refuge for counis listening to their concerns. I’d venture to terculture types,” she said. “But I was wrong, I think the campus climate is much say that students have become jaded.”

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success The calendar says it’s only December, but this past weekend in Cameron Indoor Stadium, it felt a lot later than that.

And although it may seem early to make any long-term judgments on this very young Duke team, one thing seems abundantly clear—the Blue Devils are only going as far as Josh Mcßoberts will take them.

Mcßoberts led Duke in points, rebounds and assists Saturday night in a 61-52 win over Georgetown, a performance that infcfcJi spired head coach Mike Krzyzewski to meredith say that “Josh played like a star.” ql% a p y But despite these statistics, the 6-foot-l 1 sophomore still has a lot to prove, particularly if he wants to be an NBA lottery pick come June.

Even Dick Vitale—who is so anti-Duke that his grandchildren paraded into Cameron Saturday donning old-school JJ. jerseys—said during Tuesday night’s ESPN telecast of the Blue Devils’ game against Indiana that Mcßoberts needs to “want the rock,” and that there was “no reason for him to be averaging only 11 or 12 points per game.”

In that very moment, in a game in which Mcßoberts went 2-for-8 from the floor and 0-for-2 from beyond the arc, good ole’ Dicky V said something mildly critical about a Duke player, something that actually pertained to what was happening on the floor. And I agreed with SEE SHINER ON PAGE 12

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Duke and Holy Cross are 688 miles apart, but for some players the distance seems much closer.

Blue Devil redshirt sophomore David McClure and Crusader senior Torey Thomas began playing basketball together as children the in Catholic Youth Organization league. When McClure chose to attend Trinity Catholic high VS. school in Connecticut, he said Thomas was a strong nCe hU deCisi n infl TONIGHT, 7 p.m. knew he was a solid 1 Cameron Indoor player, and I knew he was Stadium a winner,” McClure said.

“I knew if I was on his team, we’d be successful.”

The duo racked up a 74-7 record and two state championships during their three years together. After graduating, they are still good friends, and even worked together at a YMCA children’s basketball camp last summer. Ever since then, the two players have been looking forward to tonight’s

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matchup.

“We talked a couple months ago about who was coming down and which of our old teammates and coaches were going to be in the crowd for the game,” McClure said. “Basically, we were just talking about who was going to have people rooting for them.”

After coming off two big wins over Indiana and Georgetown though, there is no question who the rest of Cameron Indoor Stadium will be cheering on. No. 7 Duke (7-1) hopes to extend its non-conference home winning steak to 47 games, but it is SEE M. BBALL ON PAGE 10

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Sophomore Josh Mcßoberts has averaged 11.3 points per game on just 45 percent shooting.

While a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to San Diego ended the Blue Devils run in the NCAA tournament last Saturday, the defeat is by no means indicative of Duke’s overall success in the 2006 season.

The No. 22 Blue Devils (29-4) wrapped up their season in the second round of the NCAA tournament with a year that yielded the team’s first ACC title since 1994 and first under the of head coach Jolene Nagel, who was leadership season named ACC Coach of the Year “I just couldn’t be more proud of the team,” WfHpUp Nagel said. “This team has really made a mark for itselfand really set a great standard for future teams to follow and live up to. The individuals that were part of this team always kept the team first” For the second year in a row, the Blue Devils started off the season picked as the top contender for the ACC championship. Unlike last season, however, when Duke finished one win shy of a three-way tie for first place, the Blue Devils left little doubt about the validity of their projected top spot in the league this year.

Duke dominated the ACC —posting a 21-1 conference record—en SARA GUERRERO/THE CHRONICLE route to the league tide, which earned the Blue Devils the conference’s Junior Ali Hausfeid was named the ACC Player of the Year after notching SEE VOLLEYBALL ON PAGE 12 1/480 assists and 139 kills. She is currently second in assists in Duke history.

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M. BBALL from page 9 wary of the threat a team like Holy Cross (6-2) can pose.

“Especially in college basketball, any night you can be beat no matter who you’re playing against,” junior guard DeMarcus Nelson said. “Other teams really play their best against Duke —no matter who it is. So, we have to be that much better.”

Thomas and fellow senior guard Keith Simmons were named to the preseason All-Patriot League team, and the two are the team’s leading scorers, recording 12.4 and 17.5 points per game, respectively. Be-

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Greg Paulus had his best game of the season Saturday, scoring 13 points in 35 minutes.

hind the veteran backcourt, the Crusaders were picked to finish second in the conference, just behind Bucknell, which has won two NCAA Tournament games in the past two seasons.

Earlier this season, Holy Cross exhibited its own potential to be a giant killer in a 72-64 loss to then-No. 15 Syracuse. The Crusaders closed the gap to four points with less than a minute to play, but Syracuse shot perfecdy from the foul line during the closing moments of the game and was able to hold off the upset bid.

Considering Duke’s young squad, the team leaders have emphasized that maturity is the most important thing for getting past pesky teams like Holy Cross.

“I stress the fact that we can be beat,” Nelson said. “Sometimes you can take it for granted that you’re just going to step out on the court and win.”

The Blue Devils have been struggling to put together a complete game offensively this year, and head coach Mike Krzyzewski has said the team is still trying to learn about itself. After a strong second half performance in Saturday’s win over Georgetown, in which Duke scored 34 points on 56 percent shooting from the floor, some players believe the offense is finally starting to mesh.

“We started really playing Duke basketball,” McClure said. “We’ve been trying to make some adjustments on the offensive end and just waiting for that one game where it will all click.”

That click is an elusive feeling though, McClure said, but one he and the rest of the Blue Devils hope to find tonight against Holy Cross.

“I think all the pieces are there,” he said. “Everything’s there for us—it’s just a matter of it happening. You don’t really know what it feels like until it happens....

We’re just trying to hit that on-switch.”

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The Blue Devils posted a 21-1 ACC record this season to capture Duke's first conference titlesince 1994and were the only ACC team to earn an NCAA bid.

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“It was a successful season in a variety of ways because automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Duke was also the of the people that were involved,” Nagel said. “They were all an integral part of this team. If we played well, that was only ACC team make the tournament. took down Dec. the first round a team effort. It was an “all us” mentality that we had.”

1 in Duke Tennessee Several Blue Devils ended the season with major contriwith a resounding 3-1 victory in Knoxville, but fell to sixteenth-seeded San Diego in the second round in a match butions. Junior Carrie DeMange finished as team kill leader with 459, while freshman Rachael Moss ended her that was decided by a 15-12 nail-biter fifth game.

Nagel said that the Blue Devils maturity and consistent Duke debut second on the team with 374. Setter Ali Haushigh level of play were integral parts of the team’s success feld set up the offense with 1,480 assists. Libero Jenny this year. Duke’s experience allowed the Blue Devils to Shull anchored the defense with 604 digs, while at the net have a mental edge that was not present last season.

Jourdan Norman finished with 132 blocks.

Hausfeld and Moss were also named ACC Player of the “It takes some maturity mentally to get to that point to be able to understand the significance of being ready Year and ACC Rookie of the Year, respectively. night in and night out to bring your ‘A’ game,” Nagel said.

Despite outstanding statistics from individuals, Nagel “We had gone through some difficult losses in the past that said that the players focused on the team as a whole which our older kids could look back 0n.... This year, they didn’t was one of its biggest strengths. miss a beat as far as being prepared mentally.”

“It was a very special group that we had,” Nagel said.

From the start, Duke adopted a team-firstattitude that “Their sacrifices and selflessness and then also their high set the tone for the season. Nagel said the Blue Devils expectations of themselves were some of the reasons we stressed the importance of every member of the team, re- were able to be so successful.”

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Plus, just think about it, the possibilities for McDonald’s-themed nicknames and cheers would be endless. Don’t tell me the Big Double Cheeseburger wouldn’t be in the top-10 greatest nicknames of all time, right below, the Round Mound of Rebound.

A second look at the stat sheet from Saturday night reveals another story about Mcßoberts’ performance.

He shot 4-for-12, or 33 percent, from the field.

The sophomore is only converting on 45 percent of his shots on the season, which speaks more to his shot selection, or the shots he is being told to take, than to his talent level. In basketball, big men are only as big as they make themselves. By failing to establish his presence down low, Mcßoberts is selling himself short.

Instead of taking 10-, 15- or 19.75-footers (he has more airballs than makes from there this year), Mcßoberts could use a shot fake and his superior ballhandling ability for a post player to beat more uncoordinated, slower big men on the drive. Or he could even post-up occasionally and take easier shots.

The biggest problem with Mcßoberts not playing inside, however, doesn’t show in his line. It shows in everyone else’s.

Name one team in the country right now —one team with a legitimate talent-level—who would doubleteam Mcßoberts.

Now, try to think of any team thatwouldn’t put at least two defenders on Mcßoberts’ counterpart down Tobacco Road, who is averaging 18.7 points and 8.7 rebounds per game.

Traditional centers, like Georgetown’s Roy Hibbert, aren’t going to come out and defend a 6-foot-ll power forward on the three-point line, nor should they.

By spending too much time on the perimeter—by not drawing a second defender, or sometimes even a first —Mcßoberts isn’t letting the floor open up for shooters like Joft Scheyer or DeMarcus Nelson.

The talented sophomore doesn’t need to be the Landlord, but he does need to be a captain.

He needs to command respect from opposing teams by becoming a more physically dominating threat, because if he doesn’t dominate on the interior, I’m afraid Duke won’t dominate in March.

And it will be a shame, because Mcßoberts could leave Duke without having reached the extraordinary heights he could have in Cameron, without knowing the feeling of carrying a team on his back further than anyone thought he could.

If there is one thing columnists hate, it is to be wrong in their predictions. But in this case, I hope I get a letter postmarked April 5 from Atlanta, which includes a hard-copy of the stat sheet from the National Championship game signed by Tournament MVP, Josh Mcßoberts.

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But before jumping to these groups makes blocking extremely difficult for criticize the current system, one must take into account many junior and senior

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upon the return of juniors studying abroad. As The Chronicle reported, the vast majority of study-abroad students have been white in recent years.

This year, with Asian and black students representing a of very small portion

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and 330 white students choosing to study overseas, it is no wonder that the juniors and seniors who populate Central Campus see a larger-than-average minority population.

In addition, just like the many students who choose dormitories in Edens Quadrangle because of its reputation as a “social quad,” Central’s reputation as a minority-dominated

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We always talk about self-segregation.... If we have the majority of black and Asian students living on Central and white students on West, and you re supposed to be hanging out with the people who live around you, you’re going to get institutionalized self-segregation.

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dorm-type setting.

With easier access to campus than most apartment complexes, more accessible parking than West Campus and the ability block with friends, Central offers many students the exact living situation they seek—an independent community, free from the paternalism of typical dormitory life.

Regardless of its cause, Central’s unique population will be altered drastically

campus may make its characterization as such self-fulfilling.

Ultimately, while the thousands of dollars saved in housing and dining costs may be a factor in some individuals’ decisions to call Central Campus home, it is not the deciding factor for most.

People want to live with who they want to live with, and that often supercedes housing quality and location. With the remodeled Central Campus looming on the horizon, the University and RLHS may want to consider some of the real reasons students choose Central Campus life.

It would be a shame to see Central Campus become a bastion for Greeks or a private luxury community for the University’s rich and

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In addition to the increased ease of blocking, Central Campus offers residents more affordable housing, less expensive food plans, individual kitchens and the ability to live in an apartment rather than a

a selfish, sinful side. Freudians used to emphasize the divisions between the ego, the superego and the id. But lately some brain researchers have another way to conceptualize the divided self. They distinguish between the conscious, intentional parts of the mind and the backstage automatic parts.

The best metaphor for this last division comes from Jonathan Haidt’s wise book “The Happiness Hypothesis.” Imagine, he writes, a boy riding an elephant. The boy is the conscious mind, the prefrontal cortex and such. The boy can plan ahead. The elephant is the unconscious part of the brain, the amygdala and other regions. It produces emotions and visceral reactions. It processes information and forms intuitions.

These days, scientists are spending a lot of time trying to understand the elephant, and journalists are popularizing their results. In “Blink,” Malcolm Gladwell describes how the elephant can pick up and process information, and even draw instant conclusions before the boy is aware of what he is seeing.

In “Social Intelligence,” Daniel Goleman describes how elephants talk to each other while scarcely letting the boys in on the conversation. Fear, laughter and other emotions can sweep through crowds before the individuals in the crowds understand what’s going on.

The elephant is the repository of tacit knowledge.

As Robert Sternberg ofYale notes, tacit knowledge is procedural. It’s knowing how, not knowing what. It’s knowing how to listen, how to see and organize what you see.

A child bom into a home where people use a lot of words develops a sophisticated ability to use language, without even having to sit down and consciously develop this skill. A child bom into a home where actions have predictable consequences learns to restrain impulses and practice self-control.

The elephant doesn’t acquire its knowledge from self-conscious study. The elephant absorbs information from the environment. The neural architecture of the brain is shaped by experiences and habits, often during the sensitive periods early in life. side and

This way of dividing the self is beginning to have a powerful influence on education policy and urban policy, and across a whole range of other practical

spheres For example, last Sunday Paul Tough had an out-

standing article in The New York Times Magazine about how to improve urban schools. In one scene, Tough was standing in front of a music class at a KIPP Academy. The teacher was explaining Tough’s presence to the class, when he suddenly pointed to Tough and asked, “Do you notice what he’s doing right now?”

The class called out, “Nodding!”

The teacher was using Tough’s unconscious nodding to reinforce a lesson: that when you listen to a person you should look at the person, and you should actively listen. Later in the class the teacher told the students to adopt the “normal school” pose. The kids slouched low in their chairs and gazed off into space. Then the kids snapped back to the KIPP-approved posture: upright, every head swiveling toward whoever was

speaking.

In short, KIPP is taking skills that middle-class kids pick up unconsciously, and it is rigorously drilling them into students from less fortunate backgrounds. KIPP Academies, like many of the best schools these days, don’t Just cram information into brains. They educate the elephant. They surround students with a total environment, a holistic set of habits and messages, and they dominate students’ lives for many hours a day.

A generation ago, the gods of education fashion ordained that children should be liberated from desks-in-a-row pedagogy to follow their “natural” inclinations. In those days, human beings were commonly divided between their natural selves, assumed to be free and wonderful, and their socially constructed selves, assumed to be inhibited and re-

pressed.

But now, thanks to bitter experience and scientific research, we know that the best environments don’t liberate students. We know, or have rediscovered, that the most nurturing environments are highly structured. Children flourish in homes that are organized, in families where attachments are stable, among people who plan for the future and within cultures that celebrate work.

Many of today’s most effective anti-poverty institutions are incredibly intrusive, even authoritarian.

Up to a point, elephants seem to like it that way.

David Brooks is a regular columnist for the New York Times. This column was previously printed there.

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The death of knowledge?

On the face of it, Wikipedia—the free Internet encyclopedia—serves a noble purpose: bringing an incredible depth of knowledge to greater audiences than ever before Unleashing the power of the Internet, poor schoolchildren in Ghana can learn about AIDS; professors can re-transmit research otherwise lost in dense academic journals; and perhaps most imporandrew gerst tandy, harried journalists courage at The Chronicle can get background information in a flash. For the most part these uses are productive, offering society a net of information that trawls both wider and deeper.

But for Duke students and the rest of the academic world, the site is a double-edged sword. With such a powerful information repository available, it seems students are beginning to ask: “Why bother remembering anything at all?”

Need to know how many quarts are in a gallon?

Wikipedia. Where is the capital of China? Wikipedia. We are becoming lazierand lazier, and if all that matters at Duke is remembering some facts for a few hours before a midterm, it makes sense why.

The late psychologist Raymond Cattell posited that humans have two kinds of smarts: crystal intelligence, which (roughly) measures our ability to memorize rote tasks and facts, and liquid intelligence, which measures our capacity to draw connections. The former is learned; the latter is innate. So Wikipedia—which can only augment our crystal knowledge, not the liquid kind—isn’t any more of a crutch for intelligence than any other book might be, the story goes.

But Wikipedia, frankly, is convenient to a degree we’ve never seen before. Before the Internet, people looking for facts had two options: they could rely on humans, including themselves, or they could sift through a mountain of books.

If the fact was trivial enough, it just wasn’t worthwhile to look it up. Today, with Wikipedia competing against the brain, it doesn’t save very much time to memorize. Add to that the possibility that someone may have misremembered a fact, and students aren’t willing to even try anymore.

The problem here is that if one is to make use of liquid intelligence—the force of genius that brings about innovation—one must have crystal intelligence to inspire it. That is, before we can draw interesting conclusions, we have to understand our premises. Because Wikipedia is so convenient, it encourages us to remember basic, boring facts for as short a time as possible. As a result, we have fewer hours to mull things over: there is no great soup of facts to boil while we sleep, learn, talk and think. It is in those moments, undoubtedly, that real innovation occurs.

Because we forget things so quickly, in fact, Wikipedia does not actually build up our crystal intelligence at all. It merely teases us, giving us facts for a few days rather than encouraging us to leam how to remember for good.

Cynics at Duke love to insist that all knowledge is trivia, mere cocktail-party fodder for the upper class. But there is so much more to memorization. Imagine declaring a discovery in the lab without mixing any chemicals. Or think about trying to invent a new kind ofcircuit without being able to recall Maxwell’s equations. How could we conclude anything about Shakespeare’s era without knowing his plays?

We’ve got to face it: Duke undergraduates have a Wikipedia addiction. It’s a dependence that reduces the real—if fleeting—joy ofbook learning into a mindless regurgitation of facts. It is difficult to overcome. The best thing professors can do is to continue challenging students to think in the “liquid” sense, writing exams that necessitate drawing original conclusions. This habit would encourage two virtues: first, by demanding originality—rather than the same endless compare/contrast papers—professors would force students to think critically. And second, to draw those conclusions, students would have to actually know theirfacts.

In the world of schoolwork, we’re all tempted to take the escalator. But sometimes it’s worth it to climb the mountain.

Our society depends on it.

Andrew Gerst, former managing editor of Towerview, graduated from Duke in 2006 and now lives and works in Washington, D.C. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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concepts behind elite colleges are somewhat paradoxical —the most notable message being that

you will benefit from exposure to a diverse body of students, all of whom are in possession of the skill set required for a solid SAT score.

But most universities would probably dismiss this claim on the grounds that a fairly intuitive distinction can be made bethe short shot tween good and bad :

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For example, someone with a lengthy criminal record would have unique—and perhaps hands-on experiences to share with the homogenously resume-genic Duke collective. But universities clearly regard this as an example of bad diversity.

In fact, most Americans seem to buy into the diversity distinction on some moral or practical plane. Just recall the outraged public reaction last spring, when Yale bestowed the honor ofadmission upon former Taliban envoy Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi. True to elite standards, he was indeed an ambassador, not a run-of-the-mill Taliban type.

Good diversity entails specific constraints (“qualifications”) and we have conveniently developed the technical means for optimizing diversity subject to these constraints. The Chosen must be intelligent (SAT, GPA), talented (extracurriculars), passionate (essays), personable (teacher recommendations) and in other ways deserving (race, socioeconomic status). Granted, there is some overlap (intelligence and talent, talent and passion), and a few parenthetical variables (namely, socioeconomics) remain missing from the formula.

But at any rate, this model is deemed functional by the people who matter—the people pouring through applications as we speak in the admissions office.

Try slicing a pie into five pieces. Someone is bound to get fat at someone else’s expense.

Where should the emphasis go? Who should decide and how? The number system in place at most schools is by no means the last word in the admissions process—which makes it a crusty copout of an answer.

Our responses to these questions say a great deal about how we view the university’s private objectives and social obligations. An example that hits closer to home; Is it truly wrong for schools to specifically seek out athletes for a particular end (diversity, glory)?

Those who disapprove of this admissions practice can be more accurately described as critics of die goals behind it. Expectations and exceptions carefully built into the standard university admissions system are a reflection ofits highly specific aims.

This connection between practice and purpose seems obvious enough, but too often we ignore a major corol—

lary—taking a credible stance on current admissions policy requires that we first step back and examine the current and ideal roles and responsibilities ofthe university.

What role does Duke take on during the admissions process? Is it rewarding the deserving? Is it correcting educational inequities? Is it capitalizing on the talents of those most likely to succeed and reaping reputation and future financial windfall? Is it about conflating the ends with the means, and constructing the best possible environment for those accepted by making “the most diverse student body possible” the environment? Ifconveniently, politicallyspeaking, itis a hazy combinationof these, what shouldconstitute the biggest piece of(yet another) pie?

Of course, no university will admit to roles or goals less than politically correct, unless civilized camouflage is an option. Complicating matters, most universities claim the same magnanimous mission statement, carefully worded and brimming with lofty abstractions. So if you are interested in stripping honeyed words down to practical intent, observe how a school like Duke chooses to sell itself.

First there are the predictable generalities. The Ivies market themselves as the makers of the leaders of tomorrow. DeVry claims to provide students with career-oriented education. Clearly different schools have different objectives depending on the applicants in mind.

Slightly less obvious are the distinctions to be made between Penn and Duke, Harvard and Stanford, Case Western and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These schools may share overarching themes, but like it or not, they also have different goals—for an example, look at the types of scholarships they offer.

The question is: When is that okay? And should these goals take on total transparency, or are they clear enough when we take the time to trace admissions practices back to their hard-boiled principles?

Affirmative action—like development cases and athletic recruitment—has its vocal critics. But the university’s target objectives may not paint a perfectly pretty picture either. Or though defensible, perhaps they could be more appropriately pursued through policy adjustments. Before we hash out policy, we’d be well advised to identify these objectives and determinehow appropriate they are as they stand.

A projected goal: It’s probably safe to say that at the end of the day, all higher-level educational institutions will blandly declare (good) diversity a primary objective.

A policy suggestion: Throw out outdated notions of the singular importance of ethnic diversity, and throw socioeconomics into the mix—income, wealth, neighborhood, parents’ education, whatever helps fill in the holes on how comfortably each student sleeps at night.

If we’re going to do “good diversity,” let’s do it right—renouncing our obsessive love-hate relationship with policy and getting to the crux of the problem with renewed purpose.

Jane Chong is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every

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