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Career Center officials said they hope a move to Central Campus will allow them to expand their offerings.

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Job hunting at Duke is a mixed bag.

Despite small interview rooms and limited resources, the Duke Career Center staff offers support for students who wish to hone resumes, work on interview skills and find career opportunities that fit their talents and interests. In addition to expanding the range of job opportunities outside the investment banking and consulting industries, the Career Center may soon see revitalized facilities, said Sheila Curran, Fannie Mitchell executive director of the Career Center.

The newly planned Central Campus will include an updated home for the Career Center, making it a more attractive place both for students and their potential employers, Curran said. Durham City Council approved the

University’s rebuilding plans for Central in January, but ground breaking has not yet I been scheduled. “The space complaints are justifiable,” said senior

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Rapper Common spoke out against members of the men's lacrosse team at a show at Emory last spring.

Durham Police Department officials arrested a suspect Monday in connection with allegations that a Duke student was sexually assaulted at an off-campus party Feb. 11. Michael Jermaine Burch, 21, was charged with second-degree rape and is currently being held at Durham County Jail on $50,000 bond The arrest of Burch—who is not a Duke student—follows reports by the 18-year-old student that she was forcibly raped around 3 a.m. at 405 Gattis St., where a party was being hosted by members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc Police reports state that approximately 50 people were at the party at which the alleged incident occurred. Police have released no information about whether Burch was invited or if he knew anyone in attendance. Marijuana, cocaine and Oxycontin were found in the house, according to a Durham Police Department report. Neighbors told The Chronicle Feb. 11 that police officers also found a gun in the house, but police have not reported that a gun was present. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, confirmed Monday that the SEE ARREST ON PAGE 9

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Common will remain a headlinerfor the Last Day of Classes concert, LDOC Chair Beth Higgins confirmed Sunday night. The rapper’s slated April 25 performance at Duke was called into question last week when it was brought to light that he had denounced the men’s lacrosse team while freestyling at a concert at Emory University April 19, 2006. “We obviously do not condone or endorse anything he said at the time, but we did book him and sign a contract that is legally binding on the basis of his talent and student appeal,” said Higgins, a senior. She added that the LDOC committee has spoken with Common’s agent, who assured committee members that any statements made in the past would not affect the performance. “The agent said it would not be a problem with Common to play here,” Higgins said. “He made these statements two days after the lacrosse case went public.... He’s still a really great artist and willing to play at Duke.” Higgins added that she is still working to get a formal statement from Common’s agent. His agent did not return requests for comment from The Chronicle. Higgins said that at the time the committee booked Common for the LDOC concert, she was not aware of the statements he had made.

Eleven months after rape allegations thrust the Duke men’s lacrosse team into the national spotlight, several of the team’s supporters have undertaken major fundraising efforts to help members of the 2005-2006 team finance their legal expenses. The Association for Truth and Fairness, a Delawarebased nonprofit organization, has raised $750,000 toward this cause, said Sherman “Tiger” Joyce, a founding member of ATAF. Joyce estimated that legal bills for the three players accused of kidnapping and sexual assault have already reached a total of $3 million. ATAF organizers intend to raise $5 million, using excess funds to advocate against abuses in the criminal justice system, he added.

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“Our goal is to prevent somethi this from happening again,” he said Rae Evans, mother of indicted David Evans, Trinity ’O6, told The Cl that she has appreciated ATAF’s outreach to her family and all the Duke lacrosse families. The Evans family has also received widespread support, ranging from cookies left on their doorstep to hundreds of letters sent from both friends and strangers. “It lets us know that other people believe in these young men’s SEE FUNDRAISING ON PAGE

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XM Satellite Radio NEW YORK Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., rivals in the fledgling satellite radio industry, have agreed to combine in a deal that investors hope will result in lower costs, assuming it overcomes significant regulatory' hurdles. The companies billed the deal announced Monday as a merger of equals, with shareholders of both companies owning approximately 50 percent of the combined entity.- However, Sirius will be giving $4.57 billion of its stock to XM shareholders, a substantial premium to

the value of their shares. Sirius’ Chief Executive Mel Karmazin will lead the combined company, and XM’s CEO Hugh Panero will stay on only until the deal is closed. XM Chairman Gan,- Parsons will remain in that role. The deal faces substantial obstacles in Washington, including a Federal Communications Commission provision that specifically forbids the two companies to combine. Analysts have noted that the FCC could change die rule, but in a statement late Monday FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said that the “hurdle” would be “high” to prove that the deal would be in the public interest.

“The companies would need to demonstrate that consumers would clearly be better off with both more choice and afford-

able prices,” Martin said. A combination would also have to meet antitrust approval from the Department of are expected to Justice. The companiesnot that only with each they compete argue other but also with traditional radio and a growing base of digital audio sources such as iPods, mobile phones and non-satellite digital radio. The XM shareholders will receive 4.6 shares of Sirius stock for every share they SEE

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JERUSALEM A Mideast peace summit designed to open a new chapter for Israelis and Palestinians fed up with violence concluded Monday with no new agreements and a pledge to keep talking. The United States, which had pushed for the session, said it was an accomplishment merely to hold such a get-together for the first time in six years. After two hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stood alone in a

bare-bones hotel function room to call the session “useful and productive.” The prospect of any immediate success here essentially was hijacked by Abbas’ surprise announcement last week that he will govern hand-in-hand with the militant group Hamas. The United States and Israel list Hamas as a terrorist group and refuse all dealings with the group. Speaking to reporters, Rice said the meeting was particularly valuable, however, in light of the lingering uncertainties over Abbas’ pact with Hamas. “I think the real value here is that they sat down to talk with each other pretty

early in this process,” Rice said.

“I could have made the decision that, well, I’ll just wait until this all sorts out,” Rice said. She added that could have created new obstacles. “We thought it would be best to go ahead,” the secretary added. Neither Rice nor other U.S. officials would describe the content of the session, although Israeli and Palestinian officials offered some details. Olmert said he and Abbas agreed to maintain an open channel of communication, focused both on improving the lives of Palestinians and stopping terrorism.

McCain said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one ofthe worst in history. He made the comments at a stop near Hilton Head, S.C.

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Two women who fell off a ledge while climbing Oregon's Mount Hood may have had their lives saved by their black lab who provided heat for them during the night. One of the two women was hospitalized.

Militants strike U.S.base in Iraq

Insurgents staged a bold daylight assault against a U.S. combat post north of the capital Monday—first striking with a suicide car bombing, then firing on soldiers pinned down in a former Iraqi police station. Two soldiers were killed and 17 were wounded.

Primates decry gay unions Anglican leaders demanded Monday that the U.S. Episcopal Church unequivocally bar official prayers for gay couples and the consecration of more gay bishops to undo the damage that North Americans have caused the Anglican family. News briefs compiled from wire reports "It is impossible to say just what I mean!" TS Eliot

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USA Today tabs 3 seniors for all-academic team “It felt great to know that my paying back to Duke extended beyond the Duke comThree students were placed on USA munity and into national news.” Today’s 2007 All-USA College Academic Longenecker conducted research in a teams, a merit-based recognition for out- laboratory at Pratt and Whitney Space standing undergraduates. Propulsion in West Palm Beach, Florida, Seniors Chloe Chien and Andrew Lon- on upper-stage rocket engines. He worked genecker were placed on the Second on these engine types to improve design flaws in the cornTeam, and senier Joseph Babbustion chamber. 1,1 cock was “We don’t want 20 quarterbacks or received A named to the word a month or 20 defensive ends. We want... an Third Team. two ago that the Duke ha j new all-star team. The students should probablySlgbe Wlll u had malways eluded in the be Universally outstanding.” strong participants, with stuconstruction of T A7 Bnggs new rocket en Tracey Wong dents doing well in the colprogram coordinator, USA Today acad. team gines, or at least lege program, experimental and it seems testing engines, like every year at least one or two from the which I am really excited about,” Longehigh school [recognition] program go to necker said. Duke,” program coordinator Tracey Wong Chien, a native of Myanmar, is a biology major and serves as editor-in-chief of Briggs said. The program, which was launched in Saturday Night, a publication which 1987, evaluates students based on tran- anonymously recounts tales of sexual assault on campus. script excellence, academic honors, cam“Saturday Night should be a tool in edpus and community involvement and summer activities. This year’s panel of ucating the Duke community and bejudges selected three teams of 20 students yond,” she said. “It’s very helpful to other from a pool of just under 600 applicants, readers. People can realize that what hapBriggs said. pened to them was not right and it’s very The All-USA College Academic teams empowering.” As an international student, Chien said create an opportunity to honor those who have extended their skills beyond the classUSA Today’s program was one of the few room, she added. awards for-which she was eligible to apply. “When it gets down to the final round, “Even though being on the Second it’s very tough,” she said. “We don’t want Team doesn’t mean I get any money, I’m 20 quarterbacks or 20 defensive ends. We glad I got it because the people who evaluated the application acknowledged my want a variety, an all-star team. The students should be universally outstanding.” work,” Chien said. “It’s really motivated me and the volunteers that I work with.” Longenecker, who is majoring in meBabcock, who is majoring in chemistry chanical engineering, biomedical engiand biology, is active on campus as co-edneering and economics, has taken on a variety of leadership roles, including serving itor-iri-chief of Vertices, a science and as president of Engineering Student Govtechnology journal, and editor-in-chiefof ernment and co-founding and serving as The Blind Spot, Duke’s literary magazine for science fiction, fantasy and speculapresident of the Duke Entrepreneur. “I was absolutely thrilled to represent tive fiction. both Pratt and Duke in a national publicaFor a year and half, Babcock has tion like USA Today,” Longenecker said. worked with Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, by

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professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, Nicole Kwiek, a post-doctoral fellow in the field, and others in developing an elective course in biology for science-oriented high schools in North Carolina, which will be piloted in Durham classrooms next year. “I feel as if I’ve been able to take some of the science I’ve learned as a Duke student and share it with a new field ofpotential researchers,” Babcock said. The course, “Infectious Diseases: Super-

bugs, Science and Society,” 4s meant to integrate math and science with history, politics, literature and ethics, “In my mind, it kind of goes beyond the civic engagement piece that everyone has been talking about,” Schwartz-Bloom said, “It’s doing everything from the beginning stages of development to accessing effectiveness and of course involving the community in the process. [Babcock] is a gogetter. He’s the perfect person to be doing this. We’ve been just thrilled.”

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found in nature, allow it to redirect the waves around itself and have them appear behind it relatively undisturbed. “As far as any observer would be able to determine, there is nothing in this space,” Cummer said, pointing to the circular device. .As long as the watcher was observing at microwave frequency, anyway. The team has yet to achieve the same effect at visible wavelengths, so the comparison to “Star Trek” is not entirely accurate, even though the science used in both instances is the same, Smith said. “In ‘Star Trek,’ you have light coming from [the back of the ship that] resurfaces on the other side, so whatever is behind the ship is what you see,” he said. “That’s exacdy how our cloak works—the difference is ‘Star Trek’ imagines the waves bent in space somehow, and we require an actual structure to have that effect.” The last segment of the show drew parallels between the holodeck and virtual reality environments such as the DiVE. The DiVE is composed of a series of projectors and six walls in the shape of a cube and allows users with special glasses to travel through ancient Greece or cut apart a diseased human brain. Even the high-tech DiVE, however, is not nearly up to Enterprise standards, Brady said. “For one, the holodeck is able to make things—materials you are free to pick up, Brady said. “[Also, there is the] size of the facility—we can’t do something much larger than a 10-foot-by-10-foot room, not

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Ever dreamt of teleporting to your class on Science Drive when you miss the C-3 bus, walking invisibly into Cameron Indoor Stadium without waiting in line or escaping to a different reality after a night of drunken revelry goes embarrassingly wrong? Even though some of these opportunities may stay firmly in the realm of science fiction, others are already becoming reality—as scientists boldly go where no researcher has gone before. Three Duke scientists featured some such inventions on the History Channel’s “Modern Marvels” show Monday night. Rachael Brady, director of the Visualization Technolog)' Group, is the inventor of the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment. Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor David Smith and Associate Professor Steve Cummer were responsible for the creation of the award-winning “invisibility cloak” last year. The hour-long episode, entitled “Star Trek Tech,” compared technologies such as the DiVE and the invisibility cloak to various “Star Trek” inventions, including the holodeck—a virtual reality environment on the show—and the Starship Enterprise’s cloaking device. One segment featured Smith and Cummer in their laboratory next to a computer monitor that demonstrated the effects of the cloak on microwaves. The cloak’s “metamalerials,” which have unique electromagnetic properties

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cloaks and making much larger ones. After all, as one of the invisibility cloak’s other inventors, Dave Schurig, said on the show, the tiny cloak could not be much use to the starship now. “If the Enterprise were to be cloaked by this it would have to fit into this hole,” he said, pointing to a space about an inch in diameter.

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Gov. Mike Easley asked Monday night to provide

more college grants to middle and low-income students and use technology to expand his successful early-college program so all high school students can get a twoyear degree. In what is likely to be his final State of the State address, Easley focused largely on education, the centerpiece of his previous six years in office. He told a joint session of the General Assembly that his forthcoming budget would give children who participate in the state’s Learn and Earn program the opportunity to earn a four-year degree debt free. “Today, it is the duty of every citizen to learn as much as they can so that they can compete in the world economy,” Easley said during his 35-minute speech. “And it is our duty to offer that opportunity.” The two-term Democrat also proposed eliminating the state income tax for 600,000 residents and cutting that tax in half for another 600,000—a move he said would be affordable and just. “The principle behind it is simple. People in poverty should not pay income tax in this state,” he said. Easley made no direct reference to former House Speaker Jim Black, who pleaded guilty in federal court last week to taking thousands of dollars from three chiropractors while backing their legislative agenda. Black resigned from office the

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modern [North Carolina] history was mentioned by the chief executive of this state,” House Minority Leader Skip Stam, R-Wake, said after the speech. “I would hope [Easley] would consider that really important to this body if nothing else except than advise the members to obey the laws.” Easley, who is barred by state law from seeking a third successive term next year, praised the General Assembly for working with him since his election in 2001, when a recession created a budget shortfall that ultimately reached $1.6 billion. Today, he said, “our state is much stronger. We have taken the toughest blows that a national recession and federal trade policies could deliver, and we are not only surviving in this new world economy, we are thriving in it.” He also mentioned the state’s continued military presence overseas, calling it North Carolina’s largest deployment of soldiers since World War 11. Sitting in the audience was 9-year-old Breanna Bodden of Spring Lake, whose parents and stepfather are deployed in Iraq. Easley said all three were watching the address overseas Monday night, so he asked Breanna to look into the camera and blow them a kiss. Easley said his education initiatives follow other state commitments to early childhood and pre-kindergarten programs, along the state’s efforts to lower class sizes and boost teacher pay. not

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Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life hero portrayed in the movie Hotel Rwanda, was working as a hotel manager in Kigali when the Rwanda genocide began in 1994. Over the course of 100 days, almost one million people were killed in conflicts between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes. At great personal risk, Rusesabagina sheltered more than a thousand refugees, saving them from certain death. Since then he has traveled the world with his message of hope, peace and “never again.” He founded the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, which provides assistance to children orphaned by, and women abused during, the genocide in Rwanda. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award and the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award. His autobiography, A.n Ordinary Alan, was published in 2006.

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Some students have said they are unhappy about rapper Common performing for the LDOC concert this April.

COMMON from page 1 During a freestyle section of his performance at Emory, Common rapped, ‘You know I never get lost, yo f— them damn n—s from Duke lacrosse,” according to a video recording of the concert. Common mentioned Duke again approximately 40 minutes later in his performance, said students who attended the concert. talking over the music and says something like, You know I’ve talked about this before, but I really believe in my heart that those boys at Duke lacrosse did it—that they raped a black princess,’” said Tal Hirshberg, Trinity ’O4 and a third-year law student at Emory. Some students have expressed disappointment with the statements Common made last year and his imminent visit to

Duke’s campus. “It’s not like I’m going to not go to LDOC because Common’s coming. I’m not going to make a sign. I’m not going to go protest actively. But that doesn’t mean that I think he was right in what he was saying,” said sophomore Drew Keaton, who created the Facebook group “Keep Common out of LDOC,” which had 129 members as of Monday evening. Sophomore Moses Lee said that though Common’s statements in April came at a time when many people assumed the guilt of the lacrosse players, he should acknowledge the comments when he performs at LDOC. “I’m pretty sure a lot of Duke students thought they were guilty at the time,” Lee said. “[But] he should definitely make some kind of statement to the student body.” Eric Bishop contributed to this article.

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Car with stolen plates impounded An employee reported seeing his license plate, which he had reported stolen in Raleigh, on another vehicle parked in a lot on Circuit Drive Feb. 14. The license tag was checked and verified as reported stolen. Officers made Contact with the owner of the vehicle, who was employed by a contractor. He was issued a citation for Possession of Stolen Property. The license plate was confiscated and the vehicle was impounded. Vehicle broken into, robbed A student reported that she parked her vehicle Feb. 16 on W. Pettigrew Street near the bridge at about 9:30 a.m. and went to class. When she returned at 11:10 a.m., she discovered that her vehicle had a broken window and had been broken into. A jacket was missing. Items stolen from dorm room A student left his room in House HH in Few Quadrangle unsecured at about 10:20 p.m Feb. 17. When he returned at 11:10 p.m., he discovered that his iPod and a debit card had been taken.

Extinguisher discharged in East dorm A student reported finding a dis-

charged fire extinguisher on the first floorofBassett Dormitory Feb. 17 at 3:13 a.m. The fire alarm was not activated. Discharging a fire extinguisher is a misdemeanor in North Carolina. Earrings taken in Bell Tower restroom A student reported that sheleft a pair of diamond earrings unattended on a window sill in the women’s restroom in Bell Tower Dormitory while showering at about 10:00 p.m Feb. 17. When she went back to get them at 2:07 a.m., they were gone. Pizza man gets confused, robbed A pizza delivery employee reported the theft of two pies from his vehicle Feb. 17 on Erwin Road. He also delivered a pie to the wrong student apartment and the occupant signed for it acting as if she had called the order in. Cushion vandalized in DUMC building An employee reported vandalism to a couch cushion located in the women’s restroom in the Searle Center Feb. 14. Books stolen from hospital locker An employee reported a theft of his bookbag and the books inside Feb. 14 at Duke Hospital. He left it unattended in the OR locker room at 6:20 a.m. and when he returned at 1 p.m., it was no longer there Student busted on day of love Duke Police cited a student for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia outside Craven Quadrangle in the early morning hours of Valentine’s Day.

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FUNDRAISING have caused a great injustice,” she said. “Innocence is a great foundation on which to build a base of support.” ATAF has received donations from hundreds of people, Joyce said. “We continue to get donations through the website, and we’re getting contributions from all over the country,” he said. “It’s very rewarding to think that our message is getting out. The case clearly resonates with the public.” ATAF’s funds go toward financing the team of defense attorneys, who have spent hundreds of hours working on the case and have hired private investigators, pollsters and experts on DNA and forensics, Joyce said. He added that ATAF’s board of directors reviews payment requests from the parents of the indicted players —Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann. The association subsequently decides what funding can be made available for the families. If financially possible, the board members also intend to address the legal expenses that many of the unindicted lacrosse players incurred before Durham* District Attorney Mike Nifong charged anyone last spring, Joyce said. Nifong recused himself from the case Jan. 12, and the case was turned over to two special prosecutors in the state Attorney General’s office. William Wolcott, Trinity ’O6 and a member of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team, said he and many of his fellow seniors from last year’s team have worked together to raise money for ATAF. “The idea is not only to support Collin, Reade and Dave and defray their legal costs—it is to ensure that this never happens to anyone ever again, regardless

of race or socio-economic status,” Wolcott said. He added that he and his former teammates met this weekend to send 30 to 40 letters each, asking close friends and family to support ATAF’s cause by offering donations. “As you can imagine, these three families have been taxed to their emotional and financial limits,” the players wrote in the letter. “Your support will convey to these families that you stand by them in their fight for truth and justice.” The former teammates are also sending 50 wristbands with the slogan, “Duke Lacrosse 2006 INNOCENT! #6 #l3 #45” to more than 30 top collegiate lacrosse programs to promote a sense of camaraderie among members of the lacrosse community. The jersey numbers identified on the wristband were worn by Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann, respectively. “We want to spread the word further and also encourage those guys to talk to their parents and alumni and encourage them to support the association,” Wolcott said. Since March 2006, the team members have remained a tight-knit group and have attempted to rally around the families of the indicted players to express both their emotional and financial support for them, he said. “We really stuck together, held onto the truth and loved each other,” he said. “It’s a testament to our friendship and our loyalty to one another that we are still friends after living through such an emotional, tragic and difficult experience together.” Jason Trumpbour, Trinity ’B9 and Law ’9l, helped establish the Friends of Duke University blog. in response to the lacrosse case. FODU has a medley of members with

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The site is intended to serve as a hub for supporters of the accused to communicate and organize projects, such as a letterwriting campaign to members of the socalled “Group of 88”—the faculty who published an advertisement in The Chronicle emphasizing issues of sexism and racism in light of the lacrosse case—asking them to join FODU. FODU posted a link to ATAF’s website to promote the organization’s mission, Trumpbour said. His website also endorses other groups with analogous objectives, such as one selling Duke lacrosse wristbands to raise money for ATAF. “They’re trying to get the word out and we’re going to do what we can to raise attention to the Association for Truth and Fairness and help them raise money,” he said. “We know each other, we work together and it’s kind of remarkable the de-

gree of single-mindedness among the different groups.” Though many of the lacrosse supporters are Duke alumni, like Wolcott and Trumpbour, many others are not. Joyce, president of the American Tort Reform Association, is an Evans family friend, but said he has no affiliation with Duke. He sits on the Board ofTrustees at the Landon School in Bethesda, Md., a popular feeder school for the Duke lacrosse program and Evans’ alma mater. In establishing ATAF, Joyce collaborated with two former lacrosse players Carter Hertzberg, Trinity ’93, who played lacrosse at Duke, and Russell Hewit, who played lacrosse at Washington and Lee University. Joyce said that of the three indicted players, he knows only Evans outside of the case. “He lives close to where I live,” Joyce said. “I offer him words of encouragement and tell him that we’re thinking about them.” —

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rimebriefs Items missing after studio break-in The Freewater Production/Small Town Records studio was broken into Feb. 17, and an Apple Laptop, an external hard drive and two sets of headphones were reported stolen. A fire extinguisher was also found that had been used to spray the entire room.

Some students have said they are unhappy about rapper Common performing for the LDOC concert this April.

COMMON from page 1 During a freestyle section of his performance at Emory, Common rapped, “You know I never get lost, yo f— diem damn n—s from Duke lacrosse,” according to a video recording of the concert. Common mentioned Duke again approximately 40 minutes later in his performance, said students who attended the concert. talking over the music and says something like, ‘You know I’ve talked about this before, but I really believe in my heart that those boys at Duke lacrosse did it—that they raped a black princess,”’ said Tal Hirshberg, Trinity ’O4 and a third-year law student at Emory. Some students have expressed disappointment with the statements Common made last year and his imminent visit to X\'X

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Car with stolen plates impounded An employee reported seeing his license plate, which he had reported stolen in Raleigh, on another vehicle parked in a lot on Circuit Drive Feb. 14. The license tag was checked and verified as reported stolen. Officers made contact with the owner of the vehicle, who was employed by a contractor. He was issued a citation for Possession of Stolen Property. The license plate was confiscated and the vehicle was impounded. Vehicle broken into, robbed A student reported that she parked her vehicle Feb. 16 on W. Pettigrew Street near the bridge at about 9:30 a.m. and went to class. When she returned at 11:10 a.m., she discovered that her vehicle had a broken window and had been broken into. A jacket was missing. Items stolen from dorm room A student left his room in House HH in Few Quadrangle unsecured at about 10:20 p.m Feb. 17. When he returned at 11:10 p.m., he discovered that his iPod and a debit card had been taken.

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charged fire extinguisher on the first floor ofBassett Dormitory Feb. 17 at 3:13 a.m. The fire alarm was not activated. Discharging a fire extinguisher is a misdemeanor in North Carolina. Earrings taken in Bell Tower restroom A student reported that she left a pair of diamond earrings unattended on a window sill in the women’s restroom in Bell Tower Dormitory while showering at about 10:00 p.m Feb. 17. When she went back to get them at 2:07 a.m., they were gone. Pizza man gets confused, robbed A pizza delivery employee reported the theftof two pies from his vehicle Feb. 17 on Erwin Road. He also delivered a pie to the wrong student apartment and the occupant signed for it acting as if she had called the order in. Cushion vandalized in DUMC building An employee reported vandalism to a couch cushion located in the women’s restroom in the Searle Center Feb. 14. Books stolen from hospital locker An employee reported a theft of his bookbag and the books inside Feb. 14 at Duke Hospital. He left it unattended in the OR locker room at 6:20 a.m. and when he returned at 1 p.m., it was no longer there. Student busted on day of love Duke Police cited a student for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia outside Craven Quadrangle in the early morning hours ofValentine’s Day.

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have caused a great injustice,” she said. “Innocence is a great foundation on which to build a base of support.” ATAF has received donations from hundreds of people, Joyce said. “We continue to get donations through the website, and we’re getting contributions from all over the country,” he said. “It’s very rewarding to think that our message is getting out. The case clearly resonates with the public.” ATAF’s funds go toward financing the team of defense attorneys, who have spent hundreds of hours working on the case and have hired private investigators, pollsters and experts on DNA and forensics, Joyce said. He added that ATAF’s board of directors reviews payment requests from the parents of the indicted players —Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann. The association subsequently decides what funding can be made available for the families. If financially possible, the board members also intend to address the legal expenses that many of the unindicted lacrosse players incurred before Durham' District Attorney Mike Nifong charged anyone last spring, Joyce said. Nifong recused himself from the case Jan. 12, and the case was turned over to two special prosecutors in the state Attorney General’s office. William Wolcott, Trinity ’O6 and a member of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team, said he and many of his fellow seniors from last year’s team have worked together to raise money for ATAF. “The idea is not only to support Collin, Reade and Dave and defray their legal costs—it is to ensure that this never happens to anyone ever again, regardless

of race or socio-economic status,” Wolcott said. He added-that he and his former teammates met this weekend to send 30 to 40 letters each, asking close friends and family to support ATAF’s cause by offering donations. “As you can imagine, these three families have been taxed to their emotional and financial limits,” the players wrote in the letter. “Your support will convey to these families that you stand by them in their fight for truth and justice.” The former teammates are also sending 50 wristbands with the slogan, “Duke Lacrosse 2006 INNOCENT! #6 #l3 #45” to more than 30 top collegiate lacrosse programs to promote a sense of camaraderie among members of the lacrosse community. The jersey numbers identified on the wristband were worn by Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann, respectively. “We want to spread the word further and also encourage those guys to talk to their parents and alumni and encourage them to support the association,” Wolcott said. Since March 2006, the team members have remained a tight-knit group and have attempted to rally around the families of the indicted players to express both their emotional and financial support for them, he said. “We really stuck together, held onto the truth and loved each other,” he said. “It’s a testament to our friendship and our loyalty to one another that we are still friends after living through such an emotional, tragic and difficult experience together.” Jason Trumpbour, Trinity ’B9 and Law ’9l, helped establish the Friends of Duke University blog. in response to the lacrosse case. FODU has a medley of members with

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Earlier this month, a group held a fundraising walkfrom Koskinen Stadium to the Durham CountyCourthouse. Duke connections, from alumni, to parents of current undergraduates, to a sole faculty member, said Trumpbour, the blog’s spokesperson. The site is intended to serve as a hub for supporters of the accused to communicate and organize projects, such as a letterwriting campaign to members of the socalled “Group of 88”—the faculty who published an advertisement in The Chronicle emphasizing issues of sexism and racism in light of the lacrosse case —asking them to join FODU. FODU posted a link to ATAF’s website to promote the organization’s mission, Trumpbour said. His website also endorses other groups with analogous objectives, such as one selling Duke lacrosse wristbands to raise money for ATAF. “They’re trying to get the word out and we’re going to do what we can to raise attention to the Association for Truth and Fairness and help them raise money,” he said. “We know each other, we work together and it’s kind of remarkable the de-

gree of single-mindedness among the different groups.” Though many of the lacrosse supporters are Duke alumni, like Wolcott and Trumpbour, many others are not. Joyce, president of the American Tort Reform Association, is an Evans family friend, but said he has no affiliation with Duke. He sits on the Board of Trustees at the Landon School in Bethesda, Md., a popular feeder school for the Duke lacrosse program and Evans’ alma mater. In establishing ATAF, Joyce collaborated with two former lacrosse players Carter Hertzberg, Trinity ’93, who played lacrosse at Duke, iand Russell Hewit, who played lacrosse at Washington and Lee University. Joyce said that of the three indicted players, he knows only Evans outside of the case. “He lives close to where I live,” Joyce said. “I offer him words of encouragement and tell him that we’re thinking about them.” —

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Patrick Erker, who interviewed with several investment banking and consulting firms before deciding on Teach for .America, an organization that places a select group of individuals into educationstarved communities. “It’s hard to blame the Career Center for this, and a lot of employers have been able to work around it. Yet the temperature, stuffiness and dreariness of the room definitely affected how I could answer some of the questions —it was hard enough to be sitting across (he room from someone who is probably making a million dollars a year.” Student and employer complaints about the facilities are legitimate, Curran said. The Career Center, located in the basement of the Page Building, offers firms small interview rooms where the interviewer might sit only several feet from a potential employee. Duke Student Government passed a resolution in January 2004 to construct a new building to house the Career Center, a location change that had already been scheduled for several years. At the time, Curran predicted the new facility would be in use within two to three years. “If we want to be one of the top universities, we can’t have the interview rooms in a basement,” she told The Chronicle in 2004. In addition to space concerns, Curran added that the Career Center has placed too much focus on the investment banking and consulting industries. “A large number of Duke students want banking and consulting jobs, which perceived as high-prestige and pay good entry-level salaries,” said Curran, who writes a regular column for

Career Center Director Sheila Curran said only the largest companies have the budget to recruit on campus. BusinessWeek.com As a result, Curran established the Fannie Mitchell Career Conference Week in 2004 to expand the variety of companies that participate in on-campus recruiting. According to statistics from the 2005 Fall Career Fair, 11 of the 21 new employers in attendance were from industries outside the banking and consulting sectors. “The majority of students are interested in the types of employers who will never come to any campus because they don’t have the human resources, staff or budgets to recruit on campus,” Curran said. “We must offset the fact that large consulting companies have the money to put ads in The Chronicle. We do everything we can to address the needs of these students.” Curran added, however, that some companies that have previously recruited at Duke do not return, not because of the poor facilities, but because they are going through downsizing or a change in their recruiting tactics. A senior, who asked to remain anony-

mous, said her primary complaint was that

last year’s Career Fair emphasized civil rather than mechanical engineering, which is not only her major, but is also a more popular field in the Pratt School of Engineering. She added that the Career Center’s mock interview did not leave her feeling prepared for her two interviews with the General Electric Company. She said she worked with two Pratt counselors, unaffiliated with the Career Center, who helped her decide whether she should attend graduate school or enter the job market. She added that they were more helpful than the Career Center advisors. “I know that helping with graduate school might not be their goal. But it seems there is a very narrow focus [at the Career Center],” she said. “I also know the majority of students are interested in investment banking and consulting. It’s just frustrating that there aren’t more options.” Erker said the Career Center’s banking and consulting specialist helped him a great deal in making his decision. He

students’ needs. “I don’t want to come across as blaming the Career Center,” Erker said. “I know they have those problems. Space is one thing, but the most important thing is how they deal with people. The staff they have working there is very smart and capable.” Curran said she and her staff book 4,500 appointments annually for undergraduates and approximately 400 for alumni. Her goal is to provide three hours of counseling to 75 percent of the student body while they are enrolled at Duke—2s percent of whom will move on to graduate school. Curran said she believes the Career Center is making great strides to improve its service. One sign that students are seeking employment other than investment banking and consulting jobs is that Teach for America was the University’s No. 1 employer in 2005, according to Duke Magazine. Erker said he chose Teach forAmerica over an investment banking offer because it was an opportunity for him to step in and immediately make a difference. In March, Duke will be hosting a career summit, away for Curran and her staff to discover how best to prepare students for the real world. “I love recruiting at Duke and have nothing but positives about the Career Center,” said Caroline Hull, recruitment director for Teach for America. “They help us publicize our application deadlines, among other things. It seems to me as if Duke’s Career Center has a lot of great resources.” Representatives from investment banking and consulting firms declined to comment for this article.

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the circumstances,” Moneta said. “She was pleased that the police were able to bring the suspect forward.” Moneta added that the University will continue to support the alleged victim and other students. The Duke University Policy Department has remained independent from the investigation, which has fallen under DPD jurisdiction, but University officials said DUPD and DPD were cooperating in the case. Burch, who does not have a criminal record, is scheduled to appear in court today.

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It has often been said that being point guard at Duke is like being quarterback at Notre Dame. Each is the premier position in its respective sport, and each is also among the most scrutinized. Earlier this season Greg Paulus was feeling the wrath of that scrutiny. The media was chopping the sophomore down, criticizing him or his S notebook turnovers and calling him a failure. His assist-to-turnover ratio was hovering around one, he lost his starting spot against Davidson and Indiana in November and was battling several minor

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population, about 1,200—a new city has sprung up. They call it Goestenkorsopolis. Striking a blow on behalfof feminists

and women’s basketball fans, 16 dedicated fans have decided to brave cold weather, a lack of running water, the fact that their only nearby means of sustenance is Quencher’s —^— and the curious looks a ex from their peers—all so that they can be first in line when Duke’s women play North Carolina Sunday. Well, actually a few of the 16 are in the band, and one of them actually won’t be in town this weekend, but still—roughly a dozen or so dedicated women’s basketball fans have decided to brave all that stuff so that they can be first. They have a group on Facebook (Women’s Basketball Tent #1 2007; description; “Our Waners are in your face”), and forward Carrem Gay is a member. After the Blue Devils beat Maryland in College Park Sunday night, the citizens of Goestenkorsopolis affixed a note to their blue, white, black and yellow tent: “Dear Coach G and team, We waited until 12:30 AM. We called grace for the night. Great win tonight! Love, Tent #l, Goestenkorsopolis” You heard right: The tenters are taking

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Some even suggested that Paulus should leave Duke and take up the offer Notre Dame had extended him before college to become its quarterback. Things hit rock-bottom for Paulus in the Blue Devils’ ACC opener against Virginia Tech. Held scoreless for the only time this season, Paulus finished with a stat line of one assist, six turnovers and two fouls in 18 minutes ofaction. His head coach, however, never lost faith. Former point guard Bobby Hurley, the NCAA’s all-time assists leader, called Mike Krzyzewski to remind his coach of some of the struggles that he had endured as an underclassman at Duke. Having forgotten that Hurley had fought through similar issues, Krzyzewski appreciated the reminder. He SEE PAULUS ON PAGE 16

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In Sean McNally’s first year as Duke’s head coach, the 15-40 and finished second to last in the ACC. One year later, McNally’s Blue Devils are 6-0 and crushing the competition. The players are performing better in all facets of the game, and they said McNally is largely responsible for the remarkable turn-around as Duke takes on Albany vs. at 3 p.m. today at Jack Coombs Field. “Coach has definitely prepared us,” pitcher Jonathan Foreman said. “We’ve gone through every situation. We’re fundamentally sound, fundamentally TODAY, 3 p.m. team went

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Lindsey Harding and the No. 1 Blue Devils can finish the regular season perfect with a win over UNCSunday.

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ACC STANDINGS ACC Overall UNC 23-4 9-3 9-3 18-7 Virginia 18-8 BC 9-4 8-4 18-8 Va. Tech 20-7 7-6 Duke 6-6 20-7 Maryland 19-7 Clemson 5-7 5-7 17-9 Ga. Tech 17-10 FSU 5-8 4-8 14-11 NC State Wake Forest 4-9 13-13 3-9 10-16 Miami

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For much of its 53-year basketball history, the ACC has been defined by an eight-mile stretch on Tobacco Road. Duke and North Carolina have dominated the conference from its inception in 1954, combining to win or share 40 of the 53 regular season championships. In addition, the Blue Devils or Tar Heels have won nine of the last 10 ACC Tour- V nament titles. At this time last year, Duke was 120 and had a three-game lead on the rest of the pack. This season was expected to be more of the same, with UNC and Duke picked to finish 1-2 during the preseason. But with two weeks remaining in the conference season, the ACC is as open as ever. Four teams—North Carolina, Virginia, Boston College and Virginia Tech—all stand within one game offirst place at the top of the standings. Although the presence of the Tar Heels at the top of the standings comes as no surprise, few thought they would have as much company. “From top to bottom, the league is as strong as I’ve ever known it,” North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said. “There’s some teams that are struggling, yet you better be ready to play when you play them. The addition of the other schools in the league has made the grind longer. The imbalanced schedule really puts a greater sense of urgency on some games.” North Carolina played two of those recently added schools in the past week—losing at home to Virginia Tech and winning at Boston College. The split was symbolic of another chaotic week at the top of the ACC. After stunning UNC to complete a sweep of the Tar Heels, the Hokies were routed at N.C. State Sunday. “If you’re in a good league, you’re going to play good teams,” Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg said. ‘You’re going to have good wins, you’re going to have tough losses. As disappointed as I am

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[after the N.C. State loss], I’ve also got to be human and understand that our team right now should feel good about what they’ve accomplished to this point in the season. A lot of teams in our league would like to be 84.” The Hokies will try to leapfrog 94 Boston College in the standings to move into third place when they host the Eagles on Wednesday night. Boston College is coming off back-to-back home losses to Duke and North Carolina that dropped it from the top spot in the standings. “College athletics has proven that there’s going to be some parity—I think we’ve proven that this year in this league,” Eagles’ head coach A1 Skinner said. “We’re all trying to achieve the same goal, and our guys are working real hard to do it.” The biggest surprise at the top is Virginia, picked eighth at the start of the season. The Cavaliers entered the season with all the focus on their new arena instead of their old guards. But junior Sean Singletary and senior J.R. Reynolds have shot Virginia into a firstplace tie with UNC. “To finish at the top realis ly an accomplishment because you have so many difficult games and you’re doing it over a couple of months,” Cavaliers’ head coach Dave Leitao said. “Particularly in this league because it’s always belonged to traditionally one of two teams. We’re in a unique position to take a shot at it.” With the top four teams earning byes in the ACC Tournament, the quartet at the top of the standings feels comfortable heading into the hard homestretch. “They’ve got to compete and be intense, but they’ve also got to enjoy it,” Greenberg said ofhis team. “They’ve earned it. They’ve done some great things, and they should feel good about themselves.”

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sportsbriefs Cryer honored for weekend play Women’s lacrosse forward Caroline Cryer was named as the ACC’s first Player of the Week for 2007. The junior scored seven goals in Duke’s season-opening game Friday at Denver, tying the school’s all-time record for scoring in one game. Sunday at Stanford, Cryer tacked on five more goals to bring her total to 12 on the year. Men’s tennis falls in consolation No. 11 Duke fell to. No. 14 Oklahoma State 4-2 late Sunday night in the consolation bracket of the National Team Indoor

Championship. The Blue Devils (4-4) got out to a fast start, picking up the doubles point after

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Caroline Cryer tied a Dukerecord with seven goals in Duke's season-opening win over Denver Friday.

Duke freshman Dylan Arnould was the only Blue Devil to win in singles, dispatching of Oklahoma State’s Nathan Byrnes in two sets at 6-3, 6-2. The Blue Devils do not play again undl March 7, when they face off against Elon at 2 p.m. at Ambler Stadium.

—from staff reports Women’s tennis demolishes Hokies Duke tucked another win under its belt Saturday as the No. 11 Blue Devils (3-1, 1-0 in the ACC) overpowered 66th-ranked Virginia Tech 6-1 at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. “It was our first ACC match of the year,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We talked about the importance ofestablishing ourselves early in the conference.” Duke blew by the Hokies on a 3-0 doubles run to clinch the doubles point. The duo of sophomore Jessi Robinson and freshman Elizabeth Plotkin snagged a match from Jessica Long and Abbey Walker 8-4 after senior Daniela Bercek and sophomore Melissa Mang took down Inga Beermann and JJ. Larson 8-5. Also in doubles, senior Tory Zawacki and freshman Amanda Granson put up an 8-6 win over Ashley James and Jessica Brouwer. “We’ve been switching around on doubles a little, so we’re just getting used to playing together,” Mang said. “Every match we get a little more confident and play a little better together. We’ve all been working really hard, and it’s coming together so it’s really good to see.” Mang also heated things up for Duke quickly in singles play, taking apart James 6-0. Her teammates Plotkin and senior Clelia Deltour followed her lead, with Plotkin posting a win over Karina Porushkevich 6-4, 6-1, and Deltour stopping Walker 6-2, 6-2. Duke racked up two more victories as Zawacki defeated Larson 6-4, 6-3, and Granson took down Long 6-3, 6-4. The Blue Devils will travel to Gainesville Saturday for a tough match against No. 4 Florida. Diana Ni

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The Great Danes finished 20-32 last year and 12-10 in the American East. Albany opens the season trying to replace ace pitcher Mark Suchowiecki, who graduated last year as the team’s only starter with a winning record. He finished 6-4 with a 3.21 ERA, far better than the team’s 6.09 combined ERA of its returning pitchers. The Great Danes will return some of last year’s firepower, however, as catcher Tom Hill looks to improve on his impressive sophomore season. He blasted 11 homers and knocked in 46 RBI, more than any Duke player last year. The Albany team from snow-covered New York will take to the field for the first time this season against a Duke team already in the swing of things. The Blue Devils have a .429 team batting average and are scoring more than 12 runs per game. Their 74 runs this season are already one-fourth

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this completely seriously, even though no one is behind them in line (and they don’t think anyone will be until maybe Saturday night). They’re following White Tenting rules, and they decided to give themselves grace Sunday night because the temperature dropped below 20 degrees. As for the line monitors, they’re sitting Goestenkorsopolis out, preferring to focus on important things like altering their kilts, dry cleaning their super-cool jackets and generally taking Duke Basketball entirely too seriously. They sent an e-mail to the organizers of the tent, basically saying that they were going to pretend that there wasn’t a tent set up outside ofCameron Indoor Stadium. The e-mail said that the line monitors won’t automatically let the tenters into the UNC game first, but they also won’t force them to pack up their tent and leave. (When did the line monitors become so powerful? They can actually force a group of people to vacate the grassy area in front of Cameron just by saying so? Really? I feel like I’m in a police-run state. When’s my military- tribunal on charges of making fun of the line monitors scheduled? Will I be shot at sunrise? Do I get a phone call? An attorney? How about a last meal?) (And if they are so powerful, can’t they kick Krzyzew’s Chefs out of Cameron or at least stop letting them bring in pots and pans? Actually, I shouldn’t say that. The Chefs and I buried the hatchet during the Duke-Carolina men’s game. They chanted “We love Alex!” before the game, and I told them I loved them too. Of course, they might have been sarcastic. But if they were sarcastic, then I was sarcastic, and I’m continuing to be sarcastic right now. No way I’m letting a group of personal-

Although tenting is a tradition that has been historically reserved for men's games, a groupof students has already begun tenting for Sunday's women's game.

ized-apron-wearing loser grad students get the best of me. Actually, that might have been sarcastic, too.) Anyway, I went over to Goestenkorsopolis Monday to see what these kids were thinking, and I ran into Mike Sod, a Trinity junior who is one of the leaders of the group. He told me that they were doing it for three reasons —to show the women some support, to have a little fun and to get into the game. “I thought it might be a cool thing to do and a couple other friends of mine were thinking about it also,” said Sori, who added that he first got interested in the

women’s team after its run to the national championship game last spring. “We found each other, and we just put it together.”

I went over to talk to the tenters thinking that this column would be a total joke and that I would make fun of them for camping out for a week in a cold swamp when they could just show up the day before the game and get the same exact seats. I still don’t really understand why they’re doing it, but I (surprisingly) don’t want to make fun of them. What they’re doing is actually pretty close to the original Krzyzewskiville back in the ’Bos. They don’t have a four-page

policy, or line monitors telling them when and where they can use the bathroom. There’s no campus-wide party before the game, and Dick Vitale isn’t going to talk about how these kids with the 1548 SAT scores have slept outside for a week. (Maybe Doris Burke will, you never know.) They’re not doing it because everyone does it; they’re doing it because they care about the team and want to support them. And I can respect that. But there’s a better chance of Tim Hardaway and John Amaechi going out on a date than there is of me joining them.

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changed his approach to dealing with Paulus and convinced him that his play did not have to be perfect.

And now, as Duke heads down the final stretch of the regular season and toward the ACC and NCAA Tournaments, it is starting to become apparent exactly why Krzyzewski maintained his trust. Paulus scored 15 points Sunday against Georgia Tech for his sixth straight game in double digits and 10th over the past 11 contests. Even during Duke’s losing streak, Paulus remained as one of the Blue Devils’ most consistent players, nearly guiding them to a victory over Florida State single-handedly with a career-high 23 points. He is shooting a team-best 43 percent from long range this season and seems to have developed a knack for knocking down big shots in clutch situations. In the second half of Sunday’s contest with Duke ahead 53-43, Paulus pulled up and hit a 15-foot midrange jumper from the left side. After the Blue Devils surrendered back-to-back baskets to the Yellow Jackets to close the gap to eight, Paulus once again stepped up. DeMarcus Nelson found a wide-open Paulus in the left corner for a three-pointer that increased the lead back to double digits. “I’m confident in my shot and making those kinds of plays,” Paulus said. His teammates recognize the value in having a point guard who can knock down shots. Paulus is hitting nearly 10 percent more of his three-point tries this year than he did lastyear, whenJJ. Redick was the Blue Devils’ primary long-range threat. With his more accurate touch, Paulus and sharp-shooting freshman Jon Scheyer have each assumed that role at various points. “Greg and Jon both, they keep the court spread so that’ll open up lanes for DeMarcus and Gerald to drive and also spread the court for offensive rebounds,” sophomore Dave McClure said. “What it opens up for us is countiess things.” His shooting is not the only thing the sophomore has improved upon as the season has progressed. He has also become a much more reliable ball-handler and has helped guide the resurgence of Duke’s transition game. Over the past 11 games his assist-to-turnover ratio has been just less than two. “Greg’s making sure he comes to the ball and leads us in the break, and everyone runs their lanes and Just gets easy points like that,” Lance Thomas said. Duke’s postseason success will be contingent upon how well Paulus guides the Blue Devils. One thing is certain, however. Krzyzewski is not about to lose faith in him —and Paulus is Duke’s starting point guard, not Notre Dame’s quarterback.

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Kennedy for grad Young Trustee the ballots are versations that take place both cast today and the in boardroom meetings and votes have been talduring informal conversations afterward. lied, one graduate and profesSenior Ben sional student Abram has this will step into the CdltOrldl perspective, and role of Young got the nod for the underTrustee. graduate Young Trustee seat As the University continues to look for pragmatic last week. We are confident he means of achieving several will do a fantastic job. The three finalists this year big-picture themes outlined the graduate and profesmost for strategic its recent in plan, choosing the “right” sional Young Trustee are Young Trustee plays a crucial strong as well. They are charisrole in giving abstract plans matic, ambitious and generalreal teeth in years to come. ly informed about Duke. There are, however, no than ever This year, more before, it is crucial for the clear standouts among the Board of Trustees —a body graduate and professional filled to the brim with top candidates for the Young Trustee role this year. InCEOs and brilliant consultdeed, the pool appears to ants—to have a Young Trustee who can truly bring a unique, lack someone who can truly combine unique interdiscigritty perspective to the con-

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dates that have long assumed the prestigious ranks of the Board ofTrustees. And while Kennedy may lack the gritty knowledge of the University preferable at this time in particular, he does possess the confidence and poise that will make him the type of person, we believe, members of the Board will really listen to. His voice is passionate, clear and succinct. Kennedy demonstrates the propensity to view the University from the outside in and also possesses the knowledge to look from the inside out, and that viewpoint makes him the best man for the job. Bill Lefew, who has served as the Graduate and Professional Student Council president, has a tremendous breadth of experience in various organizations

on campus, and really thinks like a GPSC president. Although he has certainly done a lot for the Duke community, the concern is that Lefew may be too focused on the minutia. Joe Volpe has taken the road less traveled at Duke as a founding member of the in-

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That process is not especially representative, either; in fact, the Methodist Church elects 24 of the board’s 36 seats, with 12 apportioned to the church’s Eastern Conference and another 12 reserved for the West. Duke’s alumni are nominally responsible for electing 12 more trustees, although alumni leaders and not alumni in general—are tasked with selecting these candidates. This clandestine selection process may well respect the delicate political and financial considerations that go into selecting a trustee, but it also guarantees a board that is largely unknown—and unaccountable—to the Duke community. By excluding the press from nearly all the Board’s deliberations and shielding its records from the public, the Board completes a cycle of clandestine decision making that leaves it accountable to no one. Considering that Duke’s bylaws vest “all powers of the University... in a Board of Trustees,” including responsibility for everything from overseeing the University’s financial well-being to choosing a president, that level of secrecy separates community members from nearly every important decision this University must make. If this seems remarkably anti-democratic to you, well, it is; the Board’s closed-door policy—which was reinstituted in 1996—was blasted by The Chronicle in an October 2000 editorial as an “unbending... refusal to resume an appropriate level of communication, making scrutiny difficultand removing all accountability.” The editorial continued, saying this policy ensures the Board’s “decisions will go essentially unscrutinized and its discussions will go virtually unquestioned and the distance between the board and the community it serves will grow disturbingly wider.” As the board’s Feb. 23-24 retreat at the Washington Duke Inn approaches, it’s worth asking when our trustees—as the University’s top decision makers——

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that 2007’s hotly contested undergraduate Young Trustee race has concluded, it’s worth asking: When was the last time you heard a “regular” member of the Board of Trustees publicly define his platform the way Ben Abram, Jimmy Soni, Chrissie Gorman and David Snider were required to? The answer is probably never. Aside from annual Young Trustee elections, the process for selecting the Board’s remaining 36 members is, according to a January 1996 Chronicle article, “entirely confidential” due to “potentially serious krist'lll butler political and financial speed c repercussions for the with ail deliberate p

plan to break their silence and publicly address the scandals embroiling our community. A particularly appropriate place to start would be

to address the major conflict ofinterest Chairman of

the Board Robert Steel faces with his appointment as undersecretary of the treasury for domestic finance. This new role has forced the Board’s prized “financial and economic genius” to “not be involved in anything connected to fundraising,” a task that should otherwise define his job. In fact, this prohibition is so restrictive that it’s not even clear if Steel can function as ex-officio chair of the Board’s executive committee, which oversees “operations and investment process” for billions of dollars of the University’s endowment. Indeed, if this board is really to make decisions that “cost people’s jobs, refine their benefit packages, reshape their educations and change the dynamics of their city,” the hypocrisy of overseeing University-wide priorities while the Board refuses to police itself deserves our input. Equally important is that the board offer decisive leadership in the aftermath of the lacrosse scandal, which is increasingly pitting constituencies within the University—faculty, students, administrators and alumni—opposite each other. Just this year, Professor Kim Curtis has been accused of tampering with students’ grades, while many ofher colleagues have reported receiving racist and abusive e-mails and phone calls. Students and alumni are now openly signing online petitions that demand apologies from these same professors, with some of them going so far as to withhold financial support for the University. Compare that to President Brodhead’s defiance last month thathe would handle the lacrosse scandal no differently knowing what he knows today—pressuring the coach to resign, suspending the team’s season, sending not only the defendants butalso Ryan McFadyen home. This level of administrative denial, coupled with the rising intensity of our internal conflicts and the threat of more lawsuits to come puts the board’s erstwhile silence to shame. Although Duke’s warring factions may be united in their fierce love for the University, the conflicts appear to be growing more acrimonious, not less, and a decisive, public response from the University’s senior governing body is long past due. After all, it was chairman Steel who defended the lacsosse season’s suspension, saying, “We had to stop those pictures. It doesn’t mean that it’s fair, but we had to stop it.” Perhaps it’s time that Steel took his own advice and publicly addressed these issues at our University. It won’t be pleasant, but it is vitally important if the board wishes to be considered a representative and responsible steward for our community-wide priorities. Kristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every Tuesday.

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A bold brand of peace

a polarized civilization, it’s easy to prescribe peace. It’s much harder to become the actual medicine for an ailing world. There are many schools of thought about the best way to practice peacemaking. Some people believe that peace exists only through authoritarian rule, others seek peace within a socialist framework, and still others believe that true peace can only be achieved through compromise between two freely consenting parties

Elias Chacour, recently elected Archbishop of the .w Melkite Catholic Diocese of Akka, Haifa, Nazareth and all 5 of Galilee in Israel, has been boldly practicing peace for more than 40 years. He will be addressing emily thomey the Duke community in et religio early March: he will speak on behalf of the Center for Reconciliation at the Freeman Center, interact with local church communities, and even preach in the Duke Chapel on Sunday. His brand ofpeace is a special blend of compromise, word backed by action, and unorthodox methods of bringing people together. As a young priest, he literally locked his congregation inside their church, forcing them to face the differences that were keeping them from becoming an effective community. We ourselves are a polarized community, divided from within and without. We are pulled in opposing directions by the Group of 88, interfaith dialogue, social status, economic burdens and the age-old tensions between humanities and the natural sciences. Our divisions have become more of a weakness than a strength. Our dialogue is becoming disruptive and vengeful. Free speech no longer leads to open communication—it lies as an obstacle in our path toward progress. Remembering Chacour’s motto, “Blessed are the Peacemakers,” and studying his life, I see another theme emerge. He sees no alternative to peace. There is not another path to be considered. When people in his church community tried to force him out during his first months on the job, he stubbornly paid them weekly visits, boldly building relationships with people of different religious backgrounds. He crosses the social lines people draw. Chacour’s peace-practicing mission has led him down several paths throughout his life. He never shies away from the front lines, and led a march into Jerusalem in 1970, petitioning Golda Meir to meet and discuss peace between Israel and the Palestinian people. He helped build community centers throughout Palestine, a secondary school in Jish, and eight libraries. Archbishop Chacour, nominatedfor the Nobel Peace Prize three times, is a dose of actual medicine for our polarized society. In his book, Blood Brothers, he explains himself, “the way of a peacemaker was difficult—it required deep forgiveness, risking the friendship ofyour enemies, begging for peace on your knees and in the streets.” Even in recent years, Chacour has not let celebrity or status distract him from working on important peace missions. In 1998, he was appointed Parish Priest of Nazareth, but gave up the prestigious position after only nine months in order to focus his efforts on the development of his interfaith secondary school, the Mar Elias Educational Institutions. The most effective leaders are those who serve the community as firm proponents of peace. Here at Duke, we are people fighting for our identities and beliefs. These fights do not manifest themselves through car bombings and street violence, so they may seem less significant, but they still hinder our full involvement in addressing the greater ills of society. As long as we fight amongst ourselves, our ranks are useless against the enemies that threaten our advancement. Archbishop Chacour’s bold, activist approach to peacemaking has proven effective in Israel. People try to solve their disagreements through long debates; others try to be heard through flowery speeches; some even try to make their opinions known through acts of terrorism. Perhaps in Durham in 2007, we should give Elias Chacour’s brand of problem-solving a try. &

Emily Thomey is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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letterstotheeditor Time to address the real classroom issue

Along with most of my departmental colleagues, I

recently received a request to approve the letter written by my friend Professor E. Roy Weintraub and signed by many of the faculty in economics. I’ll do that, without much enthusiasm. Some expression of faculty support is appropriate for the students who have been victims of —at the least—outrageous prosecutorial behavior. But the real Duke issue is not being addressed, at least not publicly. It is not the ad from the Gang of 88, which mainly represents a missed opportunity to keep one’s mouth shut—hardly unusual for academics. What matters is what went on in the classrooms during the weeks after the story broke. I know for a fact that some faculty immediately wanted the whole lacrosse team expelled; if that opinion was kept privately it did little harm. However one hears stories, many with the ring of truth, about classroom discussions and even instructor’s lectures on the subject that clearly assumed the worst and suggested retribution against the players. There is even a case in which retribution may have been taken in terms of grades. It is these things that ought to be brought into the open and discussed, because if true they outweigh in importance to Duke anything that seems to have happened at the Party From Hell. There must be students (other than the players,

who are reasonably keeping quiet) who know about these things. They should open up about them. Lawrence Evans

Professor Emeritus of Physics Guest column misrepresents professor’s words The Chronicle recently reprinted a column from The Daily Princetonian by Brandon McGinley (“Faculty should stand by its students,” Feb. 16) that misrepresents and distorts what I actually wrote and said. By so doing The Chronicle continues misrepresenting my language while hiding behind someone else’s actual lies. McGinley quotes two word from my writing and then surrounds those with lies. The piece from which he quotes is actually my criticism of a reading of the lacrosse team players as perfect offenders and my criticism of a reading of the accuser as a perfect victim. Please refer to the following link to the actual essay so that The Chronicle and its readers can then see for themselves what a distortion McGinley has written.

<http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_arch ive.htmb WahneemaLubiano Associate Professor ofAfrican and African-American Studies

First A —hole Problem

Surely no one other than the First A—hole would have don’t think it’d be out ofline to say that anyone studying public policy, economics or political science (so the temerity to upset the initially idyllic study area. Workroughly 87 percent of Trinity) has encountered the ing in such an area imputes—in most people —a set of norms against leaving trash or unkempt chairs. But once concept of a collective action problem. I’m sure you’re familiar with it—“prisoner’s dilemma” and “tragedy of the the First A—hole has had his way with it, everyone who witcommons” and all that. nesses his handiwork feels a subconscious license to transsmart gress. After all, once the first chair is left askew, it seems also remember a scene which the I in vaguely rather pointless to insist on the others being straight. guy in A Beautiful Mind Thus, it becomes rational to be all like, “Oh well most employed the concept to of the chairs are pushed in, but if they all aren’t, then it chicks—and that pick up doesn’t matter if mine isn’t, too.” this was somehow signifiConsider next an encounter with a urinal. A rationcant to the “beauty” of al actor, upon noting the presence of chamber lye on his “mind.” Then there the floor in front of him, will naturally step back from was the period right bethe urinal to avoid it (especially if he has an untied fore MIY stopped runYet doing so increases the possibility that shoelace*). shows that aren't ning daVe jdebail he will contribute to the spread of chamber lye, forcabout 17 year-old moleather-bound books ing his successor to step even further back—and exacrons, when Kennedy hosted a game show in erbating a vicious circle. Had it not been for the First A—hole to spill chamwhich contestants (25-30 year-old morons) faced a collective action dilemma regarding how to divvy up winnings ber lye, actors (assuming they are rational) would have no reason not to stand close enough to ensure that they with their teammates. not spill their own chamber lye. Game theory—which addresses matters like maxiThe First A—hole is a mizing utility in a game stealthy actor. In all my reofchicken and who wins search on the topic, I’ve when the president veThe First A—hole is a stealthy actor. In never witnessed one in actoes a bill (aside; did tion. We do know, however, you know that in years all my research on the topic, I’ve never that he must strike at times past, the power could be witnessed one in action. We do know, immediately after a locaused for more than just tion has been cleaned and preventing promising however, that he must strike at times imthat he may work in conmedical research?) —is cert with one or several of mediately after a location has been employed to underhis “boys.” stand situations like cleaned and that he may work in concert Understanding the mothese. But I find it uttertivation of the First A—hole with one or several of his “boys.” ly inadequate in exis a question for psychology plaining another- class (First A—hole studies is a of interactions, for multidisciplinary, albeit which I propose a corolburgeoning field), though I will attempt to hazard a guess. lary social science concept: the First A—hole Problem Perhaps the First A—hole is so taken by his own poThink of it as a, subclass of the “tragedy of the commons” (brief review: a bunch of cows are chewing their cud tentia (that’s what online says is Latin for “power” —acain one commonly owned field, then eventually there’s not demics like to use Latin sometimes because it helps us enough cud for them to chew—or if that doesn’t make make you understand our points better) that he feels compelled to exercise it and witness the wake of destrucsense, enough grass to eat or field to graze, or whatever). is Under the First A—hole scenario, tragedy triggered tion he can leave. Clearly the topic calls for further research, but underby one actor (rational or irrational, but rotten to his core) who, by being first to transgress upon the sanctity standing the phenomenon of the First A—hole may be a first step towards litter-less study tables and chamber lyeof the commons, validates every further violation by fuless washroom floors. ture rational actors *See, e.g., J. Seinfeld 1997. “The Butter Shave.” SeFor instance, the chairs in Perkins’ first floor study area infeld 9(1). begin the day pushed in and rigidly aligned. By the end of the evening they are strewn about, scattered among tables Dave Kleban is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other covered in spiral-ruled paper shavings and eraser detritus. But how do we get to this point? Tuesday. '

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