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Duke ranks No. 9 in alum donations

Strohbehn, former Duke provost, dies by

University receives recordhigh $342M in contributions

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John Strohbehn,

who served as provost 1994 to 1999 and was a driving force behind improvements to Duke’s science and engineering curricula, passed away Thursday at the age of 70. Strohbehn acted as the University’s chief academic officer during a time of change and progress. An electrical engineer by training, he was responsible for hiring Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering. Strohbehn is also credited for increasing minority faculty and student enrollment. Former University President Nan Keohane, under whom Strohbehn served, wrote in an e-mail that Strohbehn successfully immersed himself in the Duke community after working more than three decades at Dartmouth College. “He enjoyed being with students and other faculty members and found the

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provost’s job a great opportunity to get to know people across the University,”

Keohane said. “During his term in office, he laid the groundwork for many of the good things that have happened in the University since he stepped down. We will miss him.” Johnson said she will remember Strohbehn not only for his frankness and his laugh, but also especially for authoring “Duke at the Millennium,” a document in which he laid out the case for enlarging the faculty—and by extension the student SEE STROHBEHN ON PAGE 5

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Several students participate in a panel thatkicked off "Celebrating Our Bodies Week" Monday night.

Panel weighs in on body image at Duke by

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Ever since Duke’s 2003 Women’s Initiative report cpined the term “effortless perfection” to describe pressures faced by female students at the University, body image has been a hot topic on campus. To kick off “Celebrating Our Bodies Week,” ESTEEM peer educators hosted a panel Monday entitled “Culture and Body Image” to address current feelings among students on the issue of body consciousness.

In particular, the panel discussed how various cultural factors play into perceptions about physical attractiveness and self-image. “One of the things we want to focus on is having a more cultural perspective,” said senior Dawn Eichen, president of ESTEEM peer educators, a student group that aims to eliminate eating misconceptions among students. The panel was made up of four students—three females and one male

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Duke ranked ninth in the country in alumni donations raised during the 20052006 academic year, according to the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey released last week by the Council for Aid to Education The University received a record-setting $341.9 million in charitable gifts between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 95,614 2006 from donors, according to a press release. The CAE survey, however, reported Duke’s donations at $332 million Officials said Duke’s ranking saw an increase from the previous year. “The fact that alumni giving set records last year speaks volumes,” John Burness, SEE ALUMNI ON PAGE 6

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UNC activism mag to come to Duke by

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Undergraduates will have another opportunity to team up with rivals down the road via Patchwork Magazine, a social justice publication.

Former Provost John Strohbehn, who served from 1994-1999,passed away Thursday at the age of 70.

Patchwork, founded at die University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by senior Marissa Heyl in 2004, will expand to Duke with its next issue released at the end of the semester. “The collaboration would contribute a lot to both universities’ goals to bring diversity and internationalization to campus,” said Heyl, who is also co-editor-inchief of the magazine. Patchwork, publishes two issues each semester, with a total circulation of 2,000 copies, and Heyl said she hopes to expand production to 5,000 to 6,000 copies per semester after the collaboration.

In the effort to promote awareness and activism among college students, each issue of the magazine focuses on a specific theme such as women’s rights or global health. The next issue on student social entrepreneurship will feature students from the Fuqua School of Business, Heyl said. She added that the resources available at Duke will enhance the content of the magazine, and that the long-term goal is to create a chapter of the publication at Duke to match the one already in existence at UNC. “I would like to form a longstanding partnership with Duke that would allow both schools to get involved in a collaborative effort to work for positive change *

SEE PATCHWORK ON PAGE 5

Patchwork, a social justice publication from UNC students, will be distributed at Duke starting in May.

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Iraq OKs oil-wealth distribution law lively hand the country’s major natural resources over to foreign oil companies. SupBAGHDAD, Iraq The Iraqi Cabinet porters maintain that oil giants have the bilapproved a draft law Monday to manage lions of dollars needed to upgrade the the country’s vast oil industry and distribute country’s decrepit wells, pipelines and port. its wealth among the population—a major “I very much hope the main political breakthrough in U.S. efforts to press the groups will rise to the occasion” and apcountry’s Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish groups prove the bill in parliament, Deputy Prime to reach agreements to achieve stability. Minister Barham Saleh, a Kurd, told The Parliament will take up the measure .Associated Press. when it reconvenes early next month after Iraq has some of the largest petroleum rea recess. With all major parties endorsing serves. and supporters hope die legislation the bill, approval is likely—although some will encourage major oil companies to invest politicians predicted a vigorous debate on billions—if die security situation improves. some of the details. The bill, however, had been bogged Many Iraqis fear the neasure will effec- down for months in infighting between by

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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-led government and the self-ruled Kurdish administration of northern Iraq over who had the final say in negotiating contracts and managing the revenues. Under the oil legislation, regional administrations will be empowered to negotiate contracts with international oil companies. The contracts will be reviewed by a central government committee in Baghdad headed by the prime minister. Under the measure, revenues will be distributed to all 18 provinces based on population size—a concession to the SEE

IRAQ ON PAGE 6

Bush urges govs to back tax reform pie, overwhelmingly children, as well as the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS hopes of many governors in tackling the WASHINGTON President George W. larger-challenge of die uninsured. All govBush encouraged governors Monday to ernors rely on the State Children’s Health support his call for changing die tax code Insurance Program, intended to aid uninto help more people buy private healthsured working families. care insurance, but did not address their Bush, welcoming the governors after pleas to increase funding for a healthcare they met privately with several administraprogram that insures millions of children tion officials, did not offer any comments of the working poor. about the children’s health program, talkStill, governors said they heard words of ing rather about his larger proposals. at least partial compromise from the ad“I’m looking forward to working with ministration on a budget dispute that domCongress on healthcare. I firmly believe... inated private governor discussions Sunday. that states are often dmes the best place to At stake |s coverage for six million peoreform systems and work on programs that by

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needs,” he said. But officials “made it clear that the administration will work with Congress as far as” short-term shortfalls, said North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven, a Republican. Governors say 14 states could run out of cash before October. The governors want two things: enough money—estimated $745 million—to keep the program afloat through October and changes to Bush’s budget. The long-term shortfall is put at $lO billion to $l5 billion over the next five years. meet

Iraq's Shiite Vice President Adel AbdulMahdi narrowly escaped assassination Monday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by U.S. teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed.

Cheney seeks Pakistani help Underscoring growing alarm in the West at how militants have regained ground in

Afghanistan and Pakistan, Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday sought Pakistani aid to help counter al-Qaida's efforts to regroup, officials said.

Sharpton demands DNA test Rev. Al Sharpton said he wants a DNA test to see if he is related to former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond through his greatgrandfather, a slave owned by an ancestor of the senator. "I can't find out anything more shocking than I've already learned," he said.

Four jailed police murdered Gunmen stormed a Guatemalan prison and shot to death four jailed police officers in a mafia hit aimed at stopping investigators from finding out who ordered the slayings of three politicians from neighboring El Salvador, Guatemala's leader said Monday. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Local high school class hears anti-Islam lecture PowerPoint presentation relating violent scenes of terrorist attacks on Islam and the Muslim community, Kaszycki said. A local high school drew sharp critiThe Council on American-Islamic Recism and scrutiny last week for allowing a lations, a national advocacy group, Christian evangelist to speak and distriblearned of the incident from a parent of ute anti-Islamic literature to students. Kamil Solomon, a Raleigh-based evanan Enloe student, CAIR Communications Director gelist, spoke Ibrahim last Friday to ooper sai Robert Es“It is unconcamilla’s social “So far we’ve heard. that the scionable for a studies classes teacher is maintaining his positeacher at any at Enloe High public school School —a tion and saying that this falls to abuse his or Wake County under free speech.” her position of school magnet trust by forcing for talented Ibrahim Hooper such hateand gifted stucommunications director, CAIR filled, inaccudents —about rate and intolwhat he said erant materials were the danstudents,” Iftikhar, nawrote Arsalan of Islam. on gers “It was... quite shocking because tional legal director for CAIR, in a letter Enloe is usually the kind of school where to Adelphos Bums, superintendent of the everything is accepted and no one belief Wake County Public School System is held above another,” Alyssa Kaszycki, a Wednesday. CAIR called for an apology from the freshman in Escamilla’s class, wrote in an e-mail. “The whole presentation went school, disciplinary action against Esagainst everything Enloe stands for and camilla and a review of the school’s policy allowing outside speakers to come into tries to teach.” the classroom. his Solomon presentation, During “We’re going to take the accusations also distributed pamphlets outlining alseriously,” WCPSS spokesperson Michael leged falsehoods in the religion and advising girls to avoid forming relationships Evans told The Raleigh News and Observer. “It is part of our ongoing investiwith Muslim men. gation. We need to ascertain what hap[A Muslim man] may be especially atlooks, because of his dark tractive good pened and what comments were made.” Escamilla and Enloe principal Beth education, financial means and the interCochran declined to comment. est he shows in you,” one pamphlet enti“So far we’ve heard... that the teacher tled “Do Not Marry a Muslim Man, Part is maintaining his position and saying I” stated. “But do not be fooled and bethat this falls under free speech,” Hoopcome a victim of his religion; Islam, which has very oppressive rules regarding er said. Other Muslim advocacy organizawomen’s status and rights.” Another pamphlet called “Jesus Not tions as well as outside observers have Muhammad” labeled the Islamic Prophet joined in reprimanding the school for its actions. “a criminal,” “demon-possessed” and “inspired by Satan.” SEE EVANGELIST ON PAGE 8 Solomon then proceeded to show a by

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A lecturerfrom the University ofRabat in Morocco speaks Monday on the difference between Islam and Jihad.

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Taieb Belghazi, a professor at the University of Rabat in Morocco, spoke Monday about Jihad, just war and Western misconceptions in the first talk in the Gorter Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series sponsored by the Duke Islamic Stud-

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ies Center. In his talk, Belghazi compared Islam and Jihad, saying that the two “share no common denominator and cannot be translated from one into another.” Though Islam is religious, Jihad has become political in modem times, he said. Belghazi criticized extremists’ use of Jihad as a means of furthering their political goals.

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ther of the fight against oppression or of freedom and democracy, respectively. Belghazi compared the claim that Jihad is a holy, justified war to the way the United States deals with some conflicts in the Middle East. “[The United States] baptized a number of its endeavors in the Middle East starting with enduring freedom... freedom operating as some kind ofform of license, as a series of capabilities and powers which enable one to act without constraints.” SEE ISLAM ON PAGE 8

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N.C. native makes 4,000-mile trek For $2.48, man buys Dec. of Ind. by

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Many students would

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walking the few miles between East and West Campus—imagine running the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days across Africa’s Sahara Desert.

Charlie Engle, 44, who lives in Greensboro, N. C., and his teammates Ray Zahab of Canada and Kevin Lin of Taiwan did just that—setting off Nov. 2, 2006. They finished running the 4,000 miles across the Sahara Feb. 20. “I hope that people see and hear about something as crazy as running across the Sahara Desert and realize that nothing is impossible,” Engle said. Engle and his teammates were the first modern runners ever to accomplish the feat of crossing the Sahara on foot. In addition to setting a record, Engle said he undertook the expedition in order to support a non-govemmental organization called H2O Africa that he helped to create. The objective of the non-govemmental organization is to provide permanent sustainable long-term water solutions to .Africa. “We ran through two of the most impoverished countries in the world—Mali and Niger—where it is very common for people over hundreds of square miles to have no access to clean drinking water,” Engle said. The three teammates, their entourage and H2O Africa worked closely with the United Nations Development Programme and the ONE campaign—which strives to eradicate world poverty —to promote clean drinking water in Africa. A film grew followed the runners throughout their expedition, making a documentary called “Running the Sahara” that will further the cause. Engle stressed that H2O Africa’s mission is to make Saharan communities selfsufficient “These people are not looking for us to do everything for them,” Engle said. “They are just looking to have clean water, and if they can have water, that will allow them to grow food, to water their animals and to keep their families alive,” he said. Whitney Anderson, a sophomore on the track and field team, said she was im-

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Michael Sparks had no idea that $2.48 could be so well spent. It was just a typical Friday afternoon when Sparks walked into the Music City Thrift Shop in Nashville, N.C., and purchased one of the original 200 copies of the Declaration of Independence for $2.48 last March. “I’m a junk-store junkie,” said Sparks. He said he found the document laying on a table and was instandy attracted by its large size and the inscription on the top, dated July 4, 1823. “I knew it was supposed to be 1776 and that just intrigued me, so I looked at it,” Sparks added. After questioning various book dealers and the state museum, Sparks finally confirmed the authenticity of the document following a friend’s Google search and a visit to Etherington Conservation Services in Greensboro, N.C. ‘You never know when these things will turn up,” said Tom Harkins, Duke’s associate university archivist for research services. “People find things like this

quite frequently.”

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A Greensboro man finished a run across the Sahara DesertFeb. 20. His group was the first to complete the tasl

pressed by the runners’ feat. “It really takes a special—almost zeal-

ous —person to do that,” she said. “People usually have trouble running one marathon and they take two weeks off,” said sophomore Nick Trombold, also a member of the track and field team. “To do two marathons in a day and to keep doing it is pretty amazing.”

Engle said he hoped the expedition would raise awareness for the water problem in Africa and increase support for H2O Africa, “Forty-five hundred children die a day in Africa just from lack of clean water, and it would be a phenomenal legacy if we can reduce that number at all,” he said.

Raynors’ Historical Collectible Auctions in Burlington, N.C. Ethan Raynor, vice president of operations at the auction house, said he expects the selling price to be between $250,000 and $350,000. “I’m a lucky guy,” said Sparks, who said he plans to buy a new car, and possibly a guitar, with the money. He does not, however, foresee any major lifestyle changes. “It’s not like winning the million-dollar lottery,” he said. “It’s a couple hundredthousand dollars. My wife and I go to work SEE DEC. OF IND. ON PAGE 8

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PATCHWORK SIM donated for climate-change research

MeadWestvaco Corp., a global packaging firm, pledged $1 million last week to support a collaboration with Duke to develop policies that address the problems of global climate change, administrators announced Feb. 19. The company’s gift will go specifically toward research and policy analysis relating to the impact of climate change on forest resources. Last year, a four-year initiative known as the Climate Change Policy Partnership was launched by Duke and Duke Energy in order to pool the resources of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and the Center on Global Change, along with other corporate and academic organizations. “The partnership seeks to provide unbiased data and analyses on climate change to government, corporate and environmental leaders,” President Richard Brodhead said in a statement. “We welcome MeadWestvaco’s support of this effort, which exemplifies Duke’s larger mission of generating and sharing knowledge to serve society.”

Pratt selects new department chair Leslie Collins, associate professor for electrical engineering and computer engineering, has been selected to be chair of that department, Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, announced this week. Collins’ position will be effective July 1. She will succeed Hisham Massoud as department chair. Collins came to Duke in 1995 as an assistant professor and was promoted to as-

sociate professor in 2002. Her research interests include physics-based statistical signal processing, subsurface sensing, auditory prostheses and pattern recognition. Duke named LGBT-ffiendly company Q-Notes, a news source for the gay/lesbian community in the Carolinas, cited Duke as one of the best companies for providing domestic partnership benefits and sexual orientation non-discrimination policies. The report commended Duke for itsTecruitment of diverse students and its generous non-discrimination policies. Local wins Duke-funded journalism award Eric Ferreri, a reporter for the Durham Herald-Sun, was named the winner of the Green-Rossiter Award for his work in newspaper coverage of higher education in North Carolina. Duke has sponsored the North Carolina award since the 19705. Judges are selected from journalists who live outside of the state.

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body and facilities—of Pratt. “It’s had an enormous impact and it will have an even bigger impact on the University as a whole,” she said. “I owe him a debt of gratitude.” Former colleagues spoke of Strohbehn as a warm, friendly co-worker and an excellent provost. . “I was very fond of him as a human being as well as my boss as well as chief academic officer of Duke University,” said Judith Ruderman, vice provost for academic and administrative services. “He was a very kind and decent man who worked tireless-

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in the world,” Heyl said. “There are wonderful resources at both universities and it’s about expanding the discussion.” UNC senior Peter Cvelich, co-editorin-chief of Patchwork, said Duke students have a strong background in global issues that would complement the technical training UNC students receive at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. laborating.” “I think we [at UNC] have the opportuPatchwork will be the second publicanity to focus on aspects of publication, tion to be staffed by students from both writing and layout,” he said. “But Duke has Duke and UNC and to circulate on both a very strong international program, and campuses. The first was Rival Magazine, they have a lot of students who are internawhich highlights the local connection and tionally minded.” rivalry between the two schools. The publications, however, are not likeHeyl said Patchwork is also looking to collaborate with Passport Magazine, a ly to have problems competing for readers, Duke publication that focuses primarily on Rival staff members said. “The two magazines cover similar but internationally themed issues, including social justice and study abroad experiences. different areas and specific topics,” said “Since there’s already an organizaUNC sophomore Susie Baker, co-editortion in place that focuses on internain-chief of Rival. “I don’t think competitional topics, we can pull some of their tion is a problem.”

tary schools than those in middle school based on discipline and test scores, according to a study conducted by researchers at Duke and the University of California at Berkeley. The study—which assessed students’ scores on end-of-grade exams—looked at more than 44,000 sixth graders in North Carolina, attending both 6-8 middle schools and K-6 elementary schools. The researchers said their findings may cast doubt on the historic nationwide shift to the 6-8 middle school model.

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writers,” she added Junior Christina Patsiokas, editor-inchief of Passport and a former Chronicle staff member, said Patchwork would be a well-received addition to the University’s globally themed publications, adding that Patchwork is differendated by its focus on social justice. “I think it will have a lot of support from people who are interested in international issues,” she said. “Both magazines could probably benefit a lot by col-

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got sick very young and died much too young, and I’m very sad about that.” Current Provost Peter Lange, who served as vice provost for academic and international affairs before succeeding Strohbehn in 1999, said his former boss will be remembered for his vision in the sciences. Strohbehn retired from his position as professor emeritus of electrical and biomedical engineering in 2003. A triple-graduate of Stanford University, he began his teaching career at Dartmouth in 1963, serving as provost from 1987 to 1993. A memorial service will be held at Dartmouth in April.

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Sunnis whose central and western homeland has relatively few proven reserves. Most of Iraq’s oil is in the Kurdish north and Shiite south, and many Sunnis fear they would be cut out of a fair share. Al-Maliki announced the decision after the Kurds accepted the draft oil bill over the weekend—nearly two months after the gawemment’s own deadline for enacting a new oil law. The prime minister said the measures would be “another foundation stone" in building a new Iraq, which relies on oil revenues for about 90 percent of its national budget. The George W. Bush administration, facing growing pressure to end the Iraq conflict, has been urging the Iraqis to finish the new oil law—one of the benchmarks that al-Maliki’s government had pledged to meet by the end oflast year. In Washington, White House spokesperson Tony Snow called the new oil law the “key linchpin” in Iraq’s recovery because it gives “everybody a shared economic interest in

senior vice president for public affairs and government relations said. “Alums love this place. They know what a difference it madfe in their lives, and

working together.” “That being done, dien the Iraqis can turn lo other things, such as constitutional reform, election reform” and allowing many Sunnis to return to public life, Snow said. The haggling over oil went to the heart of the Iraqi crisis—the failure of religious and ethnic parties to compromise in the interestof saving the nation. Without such compromises, U.S. commanders doubt that military crackdowns and the current ITS. and Iraqi security operation can produce long-term stability. The Iraqis also* missed a year-end deadline to establish provincial elections, reverse regulations that exclude many Sunnis from government posts, and grant limited political amnesty to some insurgents.

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According to the CAE report, there is a national trend for increasing donations and a decreasing number of donors. Nationwide alumni participation fell to 11.8 in percent 2006 from 12.4 percent “The opinion is that it’s such a in 2005, the good idea... that it’s likely to bring report stated. “There has in more donations.” been some Peter Vaughn concern that alumni parexecutive director, alumni development

make that much of a difference for the current students Though the amount of charitable gifts increased, the number of donors decreased slightly, said Peter Vaughn, executive director of alumni and development communications. “Total number of donors is [typically] around 100,000 so we’re talking about small numbers of change within that bigger figure,” he said. Vaughn added that it was hard to speculate what caused the increase in donations, but said the Financial Aid Initiative launched last year may have had an effect. “It goes up and down every year, there’s a fairly wide range,” he said, adding that the lacrosse case did not have an adverse effect on giving, as “conventional wisdom” may have predicted. The University is aiming to receive a total of $354 million this academic year, administrators said. “We’re slightly ahead of last year’s number right now, but it’s hard to tell because a good deal of giving takes place in the last six months of the year,” Vaughn said. He noted that the Duke Engage service learning initiative already brought in $3O million at its launch earlier this month. “The opinion is that it’s such a good idea and favored by so many people out ”

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declining, but in spite of that trend, which is real, alumni continue to be a driving force in the charitable support of higher education institutions,” Anne Kaplan, director of the survey, said in a statement. The report noted that alumni giving continues to increase because those contributing are giving more than before. Donations are used in a variety of areas at Duke, including financial aid, faculty support, endowment and general campus upkeep, Vaughn said. Duke’s previous record was set in the 1999-2000 academic year with a total of $302.6 million, he noted. “Duke continues to raise money year in and year out,” he said. “We will no matter what the conditions are.” According to the report, national charitable contributions reached a total of $2B billion in 2006, an increase of 9.4 percent. A little more than half of total giving came from individuals, 30 percent ofwhich were alumni—an increase of 18.3 percent Stanford University was ranked first in the survey with a total of $911.2 million raised in the previous academic year, setting the record for an amount collected by a single university.

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who represented various regions of the country, social groups at Duke and cultural backgrounds. The panelists described how these factors affect their own views on

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budget promised illusory savings. “You end up paying for this in other ways—uncompensated care, emergency

body image.

“Skin color is a really big deal in Indian culture—to be very fair skinned,” said panelist Christine James, a senior and president of the peer education group Healthy Devils. “There is actually a cream called Fair and Lovely that Indian women use to make their skin lighter.” The conversation centered mainly on issues of weight and fitness and how these characteristics seem to be at the forefront of campus culture. “Growing up in Hong Kong, it seemed like nobody dieted, so it was new to me when I came to the United States,” said panelist Janice Wilson, a senior who is half Chinese. “I think at Duke, Asian Americans face the same pressures as white kids.” Senior Zach Bencan, the only male on the panel, said he noticed that body image pressures seemed to correlate with the high academic and social expectations that students face at the University. “I think what makes it uniquely Duke is that not only do you have to be in good shape, but you also have to be very intelligent and go out two or three nights a week,” Bencan said. In addition to the Duke students who attended the panel, a number of students from North Carolina Central University also came to hear about body image pressures at Duke and offer experiences from their own-campus. NCCU junior Sheree Boykin said during the discussion that in the AfricanAmerican community, which makes up a large proportion of NCCU’s student body,

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Senior Zach Bencan was the only male student on a panel discussing body issues Monday evening.

people can feel beautiful no

matter what size they are. She added that concerns about obesity are generally more healthrelated in her culture. “It seems to me that there’s a big difference between body image at Duke and NCCU,” Boykin said.

Audience member Celia Glass, a sophomore at Duke, said she found the event interesting and was glad to see such a good turnout but added that she was surprised by the content of the discussion. “I expected people to be more critical of the Duke environment,” Glass said.

rooms,” Corzine said. “This is pay me now or pay me later.” Corzine said he still wanted more clarity from administration officials on support for the short-term funding, but said Leavitt had offered words of compromise. But the long-term issues over the program remained in dispute, governors said. The program, approved in 1997, covers uninsured children whose families earn too much to fall under Medicaid, the joint statefederal healthcare service for the poor. More than a dozen states have expanded SCHIP, with consent of the federal government, to cover adults in those families. The program now insures an estimated 639,000 adults among its six million. Many governors said the administration’s efforts to scale back the program would undermine state efforts to craft universal health care plans. Many of these have started with a target of insuring all children. California, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have developed some of the most ambitious proposals to try to get to universal healthcare coverage. Most states have just tried to strengthen their health care system to cover more people. At their private session Sunday, governors said there was bipartisan support for help on the immediate needs and a longterm commitment to the current program. Leavitt said Sunday that there is enough money among states to cover short-term shortfalls, if states with surpluses would share with those with deficits, an idea that has little support among governors.

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He also touched on the continual antagonism between Western democracy and Eastern Islam, saving that the West sometimes misperceives Islam as irrational and undemocratic.“Speculation on peace in the Middle East centers on an embarrassingly racist question —are Islam and democracy compatible?” Belghazi said. “When a Westerner asks such a ques-

tion he automatically assigns rationality democracy and irrationality to Islam,” he added. Audience members said they attended the talk because they were interested in Islam and the Middle East. “I would argue however, with some of the ways [Belghazi].equated Jihad to just war on the basis of taking the moral high ground, because of the way we see Jihad is actually manifested,” sophomore Joel Ribnick said.

been found are individually owned. The others are housed across the nation in varies libraries aftd university collections. everyday and we’ve been working our Sparks said he hopes the document whole lives.” will end up in a The docmuseum where umen he can visit it. one of the Raynor, however, “It’s not like winning the mil200 copies said he predicts lion-dollar lottery.... It’s a couple commisthe buyer will be sioned in an agent who will hundred-thousand dollars. My 1820 by Secplace the docuof wife and I go to work everyday.” retary ment the in State John hands of a larger Michael Sparks collector or instiQuincy discoverer, Dec. of Independence copy Adams from tution. William P'eopie ole relate 1 Stone, who more to the Deccreated the first official copies of the laration than they do to the Constituoriginal document. Copies were given tion or Bill of Rights, said Sparks, who out as gifts to the surviving signers of the has now become an avid history buff. Declaration among others. He also noted that the document draws “Of these 200 copies made in the early a crowd whenever he brings it out. 1820s, only one-eighth of them have been “I am not a document appraiser, but recovered,” said Peter Wood, a professor I’m sure these early copies are worth of history at Duke. “I have no doubt there quite a bit, given the booming market in are many more out there, stashed in attics rare collectibles and patriotic relics,” or hiding in thrift shops.” Wood said. “How much are the words Fifteen of the 36 copies that have themselves worth? Priceless.” •

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Filmmakers and reNEW YORK searchers on Monday unveiled two ancient stone boxes they said may have once contained the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, but several scholars derided the claims made in a new documentary as unfounded and contradictory to basic Christian beliefs. “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” produced by Oscar-winning director James Cameron and scheduled to air March 4 on the Discovery Channel, argues that 10 small caskets, called ossuaries, discovered in 1980 in a Jerusalem suburb may have held the bones of Jesus and his family. One of the caskets even bears die tide, “Judah, son of Jesus,” hinting that Jesus may have had a son, according to the film. The claim that Jesus even had an ossuary contradicts the Christian belief that he was resurrected and ascended to heaven. A panel of scholars that joined the filmmakers Monday at the New York Public Library addressed that criticism and others. James Tabor, a professor of religious studies at the University' of North Carolina at Charlotte, said that while literal interpreters of the Bible say Jesus’ physical body rose from the dead, “one might affirm resurrection in a more spiritual way in which the husk of the body is left behind.” But .Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said Christianity' “has always understood the physical resurrection ofChrist to be at the very' center of the faith.” Cameron, who won an Academy Award for directing “Titanic,” said he was excited to be associated with the Jesus film, which was directed by Toronto filmmaker Sim-

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ing Corp. aired a short documentary on the same subject, archaeologists challenged the claims. Amos Kloner, the first archaeologist to examine the site, said the idea fails to hold up by archaeological standards but makes for profitable television. “They just want to get money for it,” Kloner said. The film’s claims have raised the ire of Christian leaders in the Holy Land. Stephen Pfann, a biblical scholar at the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem who was interviewed in the documentary, said the film’s hypothesis holds little weight. “I don’t think that Christians are going to buy into this,” Pfann said. “But skeptics, in general, would like to see something that pokes holes into the story that so many people hold dear.” Jacobovici said the ossuaries did not initially seem extraordinary because the names on them were all common. But the filmmakers had statisticians calculate the likelihood that any other family in first-century Jerusalem would have had that cluster of names. “The numbers range from 1 in 100 to 1 in 1,000 that there is some other family,” said Audrey Feuerverger, a professor of mathematics at the University ofToronto. Osnat Goaz, a spokeswoman for the Israeli government agency responsible for archaeology, said the Antiquities Authority agreed to send two ossuaries to New York, where they were displayed at Monday’s news conference, “but it doesn’t mean that we agree with” the filmmakers. The ossuaries do not contain any bones. The bones were reburied after their discovery, as is standard practice with archaeological finds in Israel.

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Martin Renzhofer has officially passed you as the dumbest basketball pollster ever. Some ofyou might remember who John Kaltefleiter is. If you don’t, here’s a refresher: He was the only guy that didn’t have Duke ranked No. 1 on his AP poll ballot last December. It was the era ofThe Train (U.S. Patent No. 83946006) and, I’ll admit it, it made me just a little bit angry. I wrote a whole cola j ex ak° ut it> basically 1111111 £ ££ idfldTOTT saying that Kaltefleiter didn’t deserve an AP vote because he couldn’t tell the difference between filet mignon and hamburger. Don’t worry—it totally made sense at the time. As it turned out, Kaltefleiter was right (he had Florida No. 1), and I was wrong, but that’s totally beside the point. Anyway, guess who Martin Renzhofer of the Salt Lake Tribune had in the top slot of his women’s poll ballot this week. Go ahead, guess. I should tell you it’s not the only undefeated team in the nation, nor is it the group that has beaten the No. 2 team in the country on the road, nor is it the team that has knocked off the fourth- and sixthranked squads in the country twice each. No, Renzhofer didn’t have 29-0 Duke ranked No. 1. He had 27-2 Tennessee, a team Duke beat Jan. 22 in Knoxville. Oh by the way, Renzhofer had Duke No. 1 last week, before they became the first-ever ACC team to finish a season undefeated.

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its stride. The Blue Devils have quickly ascended the polls in the last two wee riding their cur notebook rent four-game winning streak to No. 14 in both the Associated Press and Coaches Polls, which were released Monday. Despite losing four tough ACC games in a row and falling to 5-6 in the conference, head coach Mike Krzyzewski never felt his team was playing losing basketball, aside from the first 10 minutes of the team’s 72GO loss at Maryland. “When we lost four games in a row, it’s not like we played four losing performances that were worthy of a loss,” he said. “Everyone says you’re way down, but you shouldn’t respond to what people say no matter if you’ve won four in a row or lost four in a row. You should respond to what is actually happening.” Since the loss at Maryland, the team has played nothing short of winning basketball. Three out of the four most recent victories were on the road, and the other was against a team, Georgia Tech, that had already beaten the Blue Devils earlier in the season. And while Madison Square Garden was not exactly rocking Sunday against Big East foe St. John’s, it is never easy to beat a nonconference team on the road. “We’re definitely feeling a lot better this time in the season,” junior DeMarcus Nelson said. “We are finding out who we are at the most important part of our season, going into the last week of our conference play and the conference tournament.”

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Shiner elected 2006-07 sports editor The Chronicle’s sports staff elected

sophomore Meredith Shiner to serve as the newspaper’s sports editor for its

Alison Bales and the Blue Devils have not lost a game, but they are not unanimously No. 1 in the AP poll.

103rd volume. At a meeting Monday, Shiner—currently an associate editor and sports columnist—was selected to head up production of The Chronicle’s daily sports section and lead a staff of more than 30 writers and editors. With her election, Shiner becomes The Chronicle’s first female sports editor since 1996. A Northfield, 111. native, she will replace junior Greg Beaton for a oneyear term beginning May 13. “I couldn’t be happier,” Shiner said Monday. “This is one of the best opportunities of my life, and I can’t wait to get started.” In her speech Monday, Shiner emphasized the need for better writer retention and the desire for a more visually appeal-

ing section with graphics that add analysis to The Chronicle’s daily sports coverage. “I hope next year we can continue to improve and exceed the expectations of our readers,” Shiner said. “Sports are very important to many people on this campus. We have to continue to be the best at what we do, to reflect the Duke teams on the field or on the court that are the best at what they do.” As a freshman, Shiner covered the women’s basketball team, as well as the men’s golf team. This year, in addition to her bi-weekly sports column, Shiner has covered both the women’s and men’s basketball teams. Shiner graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, 111. in 2005. She intends to double major in English and Political Science.

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Sophomore Meredith Shiner will begin her one-year term as sports editor May 13.

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ACC STANDINGS ACC 10-4 10-4 Virginia 10-4 BC 10-5 Duke 8-6 Maryland 8-6 Ga. Tech 6-8 FSU 6-9 Clemson 5-9 NC State 4-10 Wake Forest 4-10 Miami 4-10 UNC Va. Tech

Overall 24-5 20-8 19-8 19-9 22-7 22-7 18-10 18-11 19-9 14-13 13-14 11-17

LEAGUE LEADERS POINTS 1. Jared Dudley (BC) 2. Al Thornton (FSU) 3. Tyler Hansbrough (NC) 4. Sean Singletary (VA) 4. J.R. Reynolds {VA}

19.6 19.2 18.7 18.6 18.5

REBOUNDS 1. Jared Dudley (BC) 2. Josh Mcßoberts (DU) 3. Brandon Costner (ST) 4. Ekene Ibekwe (MD) 5. Tyler Hansbrough (NC)

ASSISTS 1. Ishmael Smith (WF) 2. Tyrese Rice (BC)

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With the regular season drawing to a close and Selection Sunday less than two weeks away, the pressure is on Clemson, Florida State and Georgia Tech to make their cases for a trip to the Big Dance. Since the start of the season, head coaches around the ACC have been publically lobbying the NCAA’s Tournament Selection Committee to take an unprecedented nine teams from the 12 school conference. With 10 conference wins each. No. 8 North Carolina, No. 21 Virginia Tech, Virginia and Boston College appear to have locked up bids. Additionally, No. 14 Duke and No. 25 Maryland, especially after its win Sunday over UNC, are considered to be guaranteed tournament bids That leaves the Tig noles and the Yellow J: three teams that enter th week unsure of what thei tures hold Of the three, Clemson was expected to have the best chance to receive an at-large bid when regula: season play began in Jan ary. Since starting the sea; with an NCAA-best 17-0, ever, the Tigers have lapsed down the stretch wi 2-9 record in their la: games. Furthermore, Cl is 0-7 against the six ACC pected to make the toun does not have any notabl ference victories to pad its The team closes out i son campaign at horn against Miami before Blacksburg, Va. on Sun' surprising Hokies. “We need, a win in the head coach Oliver Purne Florida State (18-11, 6-; late-season struggles of i then-No.lo Duke in Came Feb. 4, the Seminoles dropped five straight before crushing N.C. State, 78-52, Feb. 25. With a solid

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strength of schedule rating of 14 and out-of-conference wins against then-No. 4 Florida and Providence, Leonard Hamilton’s squad could make a case for tournament inclusion with a win at Miami on Saturday. “We are at the point now where we need to worry' about the things we can control,” Hamilton said. “We have to now focus on playing well.” Still, Hamilton fears that the Seminoles will be unfairly snubbed by the tournament committee for the second straight year. He pointed out that many of the team’s recent woes have come after an injury to guard Toney Douglas, who has missed the team’s last five games and is not expected back until next week’s ACC Tournament. “I have been really confused as to the criteria and the emphasis [that the selection committee have tried to tune out ess, because last year I nted in the fact that I arned the right to go. ;aid, what I’ve tried to is just concentrate on our team.” the Arguably longest shot to make die tournament are the ;llow Jackets (18-10, 6who will need to win ough home games to inference play. Georgia off against both UNC allege this week, giving inity to play into the despite an RPI of 51 th of schedule of 46. move into this last the schedule, it’s a is opportunity for us igainst some very good Georgia Tech head Paul Hewitt said. “I t know if we’re going make it into the tourament... but this team playing very well, nd if we do enough to Tggk get into the tournament I’m very confident we will be successful.”

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Last week, a Marketplace employee ribbed a couple Duke baseball players—telling them that North Carolina, which lost in the College World Series last year and is 7-0 this season, is the best team in the nation. After learning of Duke’s record, though, he admitted he was proud of the Blue Devils. While Duke may not be a championship-caliber team yet, it is showing vs. that the gap between the Blue Devils and their Tobacco Road rivals may not be as wide as in previous TODAY Join Jack Coombs Field Y ears - Duke has raced out to a 9-1 start this season, after finishing last year 15-40. After losing their first game Sunday, the Blue Devils look to return to their winning ways this afternoon at 3 p.m. against North Carolina A&T (1-3) at Jack Coombs Field. “We certainly believed it was possible,” head coach Sean McNally said of starting the 2007 campaign with nine wins in 10 games. “We have to play a single day at a time.” The Blue Devils have been playing with a lot of energy, McNally said—and the box scores show it. Duke is hitting .370, 100 points better than last season. The team ERA has fallen from 7.04 in 2006 to 3.24 through the first 10 games of 2007. And the Blue Devils are playing better defensively, with their fielding percentage rising from .959 to .969. Duke has also improved in categories

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win. “We always knew we had it within us [to play, like this]pitcher Andrew Wolcott said. “We just had to put the pieces together.” Those pieces fell apart somewhat Sunday, as Duke endured its first loss of the season to East Carolina. The consistent defense and strong pitching of the first nine games were absent, and Duke lost 11-4 to a solid Pirate team. “We need to get back on track,” Wolcott said. “We have to play within ourselves.” Against North Carolina A&T, Duke will need to implement the strategies that have been so successful this season—playing good defense and throwing strikes. Freshman pitcher Michael Ness will get the first start ofhis career against a potentially troublesome Aggies squad. North Carolina A&T has played some “really good games,” McNally said. The Aggies hung in with N.C. State (8-1), falling 53 in the season opener. They are coming off of a three-game series in which they took one game from Cincinnati (3-5). “We’re looking to play good defense and swing the bats,” McNally said. “It’ll be good to be back in the friendly confines of Jack Coombs Field, and hopefully we’ll get a win.”

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Blue Devils win regular-season awards Fifty-five media members of the Atlantic Coast Sports MediaAssociation voted Alison Bales and Lindsey Harding to the 2007 first-team All-ACC women’s basketball team Monday. Sophomore Abby Waner was named to the second-team, while Wanisha Smith earned an honorable mention nod. Both Harding and Waner garnered the highest number of votes for the first and second teams respectively. This season is the seventh straight that at least three Duke players have been named to the teams to continue the longest streak in the ACC. Also on Monday, Alison Bales was named ACC women’s basketball Player of the Week after leading the Blue Devils to victory over the No. 4 Tar Heels Sunday night. The senior recorded a double-double performance in the game against UNC, as well as a team-leading 16 points. Bales also moved into fourth place on the all-time NCAA blocked shots list with 414, and helped Duke conclude the regular season with an overall record of 29-0, and a record of 14-0 in-conference Men’s Lacrosse moves up in poll After their two victories this weekend over Dartmouth and Denver, the Blue Devils advanced three spots to place them at third in the most recent Inside Lacrosse Media Poll Monday. The poll shows the fluidity of the college lacrosse scene, with a new team, Princeton, taking hold of the top spot for the third consecutive week. Georgetown sits between the top-ranked Tigers and Duke. The Blue Devils next face Maryland in College Park, Md. Friday at 7:30 p.m.

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M. BBALL from page 11 Duke certainly has a lot to play for in its next two games as it tries to position itself for a top-four seed in the ACC Tournament. No team has ever won four straight games to claim the conference crown—something that Duke would have to do if it does not finish in the top four. The Blue Devils cannot finish higher than fourth in the conference. In order to ensure itself of the No. 4 seed and a bye in the first round, Duke must hope Boston College loses its final game against Georgia Tech. The Blue Devils must also defeat both Maryland and North Carolina—in

the Dean Dome, no less If Duke slips up in the final week of ACC play, the Blue Devils may fall all the way to seventh. Nonetheless, the team is not taking a different approach to the game against the Terrapins Wednesday. “We’re going to try and have the same feeling that we have for every game that we play, and that is to have the utmost respect for our opponent, to play hard and then try and put ourselves in a position to win,” Krzyzewski said. “Maryland is playing as good basketball as, anybody in our conference and has been for the last couple weeks.... [Terrapin head coach] Gary [Williams] and his kids have done a terrific job.”

“I understand Duke didn’t lose, but the teams that Tennessee beat and the way they won, I just feel they’re coming on,” Renzhofer told the AP. Perhaps Renzhofer will prove prescient just like Mr. Kaltefleiter did one year ago, but even if he does, he’s still a moron. The whole reason they have these polls is to provide a snapshot of which teams are best when the polls come out. Even if he’s right in April, he’s wrong now. Duke is undefeated; Tennessee has lost twice. Tennessee may have beaten .Arkansas, No. 11 Louisiana State and No. 13 Vanderbilt last week, but Duke beat No. 4 UNC on Senior Night with the pressure of closing out an undefeated regular season on them. And, more importandy, Duke’s women won me over last week. I’ll admit it: I had never been a women’s basketball fan. Three years ago, when Jessica Foley hit that three-pointer at the buzzer to beat UConn, I just shrugged. Last year, when Monique Currie carried Duke to a heart-breaking loss in the National Championship game, I didn’t really care. I wasn’t going to burn the benches if they won, and I sure wasn’t all that upset that they lost. If all of this means that I’m a chauvinist, then I apologize. I’m just being real with you right now. So because I’m not a women’s basketball fan, I decided that I would drive from my house in Washington, D.C., back to school while Duke was playing Carolina Sunday. As I was driving, I got the following series of text messages from an old friend who also happens to be an avowed women’s basketball fan. “This is easily the best ball game to be played in Cameron in the past year, maybe two... it’s like [Steve] Nash, [Allen] Iverson and [Patrick] Ewing on one court.”

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“Well, Lindsey [Harding] ’s not quite Nash, but I’d give her Gary Payton with a little Tony Parker.” Anyway, I was driving back through the snow storm that hit the East Coast this weekend. There was a lot of traffic, and I couldn’t really see through the snow and mist. It was definitely one of those times that I should’ve been paying attention to the road. But I found myself using the Internet on my cell phone to check the score of the Duke-Carolina game as I drove. I was probably risking my life doing this, but I actually cared. I wanted to know if Alison Bales and Lindsey Harding could beat UNC and finish undefeated. So maybe the Blue Devils are not No. 1 in Martin Renzhofer’s book, but I risked my life to find out whether or not they won. And I definitely would not do that for Tennessee, even if some dude from the Salt Lake Tribune thinks they’re “com-

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the directory can, but those who want greater privacy can also choose to limit access to their information. Indeed, in order to delete the contact information now, this late in the semester, students would have to fill out a form for the Registrar. While some, like the men’s basketball team, have been removed from the directory, many student leaders still have their personal contact information prominently displayed. This poses a privacy risk to numerous students, especially at this time in Duke’s history. .Although the director)' is certainly convenient for students looking for classmates to get lecture notes, students can also contact one another on Facebook while keeping their personal information as

private as they want to. With Facebook, students can easily adjust their privacy settings so that only their friends can see their contact information, while on the Duke directory site, anyone with access to the Internet can find students’ private phone numbers, email addresses—and even embarrassing middle names. Duke administrators seem to be constantly reminding students of privacy perils on the Internet, but the Duke directory is hardly conductive to the secure campus they are trying to promote. It is certainly important for the University to have students’ cell phone numbers for emergencies or reference purposes, but for a public directory, e-mail addresses suffice. Listing e-mail addresses

in the directory provides a convenient way to contact students and faculty but does not intrude upon their personal lives the way that cell phone calls do. Limiting the directory to those with NetlDs could also ensure that only Duke community members have access to students’ contact information. They can do this by taking the directory off of duke.edu and limit it only to those logged in with their NetlDs on DukePass. Although the intentions of the directory are clearly to improve campus life, the security and privacy concerns that the directory poses outweigh its convenience. The records policy should be changed to allow greater privacy for students.

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was more than a rivalry. It was a deepseeded hatred that spanned the generations. Everyone from my high school in Kent, Ohio, hated anyone from the neighboring city’s high school to the north... Hudson. Truth be told, however, being Hudson’s rival was one of the

“Let ’em play Sloppy.” Everyone’s head turned to see where the voice came from. It was the gray-haired, partially senile course manager, old-man Baker. “Sloppy” was the affectionate name given to the 18th hole that was caution-taped off because it had served as the city’s

septic tank for the last three years. And so it was settled. Battling the limited remaining sunlight, as well as biggest compliments the stench of the city’s waste coming up to our ankles, our school had ever we stepped over the caution tape and trudged on for gotten. Their teams one more deciding hole. Being well-acquainted with were better than ours these playing conditions, I would have a definite adin almost every way. It was my match to win or lose. vantage. Even their mascot put nick alexander But then it happened. As I lined up for my first ours to shame. They were the Bulldogs. We stay hungry, stay foolish shot, I caught a wave of nausea in my backswing. The ball went soaring to the left and into a pile of muck were lamn about six to seven feet deep. My next shot looked to be Muskrats one of the few shots in golf that would require the use Everyone from Kent hated Hudson. Everyone, exa snorkel and possibly a chemical suit. of cept for me. As I went over to retrieve my ball, something It was junior year and our golf team was playing Hudson at the annual match play tournament hosted reached out of the swamp, grabbed my arm and started to pull me by our home in. It was a geneticourse—the Mighty mutated Muskrat Hill My next shot looked to be one of the few cally muskrat about five Course and Pub. shots in golf that would require the use of a feet tall with a musThe competition tache thicker than would span 17 gruesnorkel and possibly a chemical suit. Dick Brodhead’s. I holes some at reached for a club Ke:jnt's tinest golfing fe Mi. to beat the fiend off venue (the 18th hole was closed due to a sewage backup in the fairof me, but my rusty ball retrieval tool was clearly way). No one from our school had beaten anyone outmatched. Out of the clear blue, Jimmy started to rain blows from Hudson in recent memory, and that streak didn’t look to be in any jeopardy this year. upon the beast while double-wielding a pitching On the first hole I was matched up to go against wedge and a 6 iron. The muskrat quickly retreated Hudson’s Jimmy Schlesinger. I remember 4t like it was into his swamp to avoid the relendess beating. My life yesterday. Jimmy was wearing a bright orange sweater had been spared. vest with plaid knickers. He looked like a failed attempt Amid all the emotions of a bitter rivalry, all the by the Queer Eye Squad. He had a full set of shiny golf pressures to come out on top and all the crap on that clubs resting in his fancy bag. I didn’tneed a bag. I had 18th hole, Jimmy still found room for sportsmanship. three clubs: a putter, an iron and a long pole with a His small, gratuitous act of kindness was enough to scoop on the end that functioned both as a ball retrieval completely change my perspective of Hudson and tool and as a utility club around the green. prove to me that being rivals and still showing courOver the course of the next 17 holes, however, tesy are two things that are not mutually exclusive. there was magic in the air. I was smashing drives My fight with the muskrat was so traumatizing that and holing putts left and right. Jimmy’s normally I overpowered my next shot 35 feet over the green, smug face had turned to an expression of worry. hitting Rami Mikati square between the eyes. After Word had spread around town that I was holding that, he completely forgot his multiplication tables. Even though I lost that day on the golf course, I still my own against Jimmy, and a moderately sized crowd had begun to form around the clubhouse. felt surprisingly satisfied. As we finished the last hole, we were tied. Nick Alexander is a Pratt sophomore. His column runs Nobody knew how to break the tie. No one from Kent had ever come this close to winning a match. every other Tuesday.

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am a math and literature double major, with a minor in Chinese. I don’t think my education lacks breadth. But this isn’t the story told by curricular codes. They have become the bane of my existence. When I realized that a course on human rights and the state of exception, consisting of readings from contemporary political philosophers, didn’tcarry an Ethical Inquiry code, and that, consequently, I was missing one, I signed up for a course on the rise of literary formalism in French poetry, consisting of close readings of symbolist poets. This made sense to someone,

apparently. The current system is dependent on the professor or Director of Undergraduate Studies, either of whom can ■«v/ apply for codes. This means david rademever t^at CO(*e ava^abiiity varies wildly from department to department, and from professor to professor. The setup is the only explanation I can find for my El difficulties. This may also be why students in “Historical/Philosophical Perspectives on Science” will get ALP and CZ codes if they take the course as Philosophy 2415, but only CZ if they take it as Cultural Anthropology, Literature or Women’s Studies 2415. Moreover, the Modes of Inquiry are not all modes- of inquiry. They are often codes intended to force students to engage with the content the curriculum framers saw fit to mandate. The most absurd is STS, whose name doesn’t even try to sound like a mode of inquiry. This may be why the T-Reqs website describes Modes of Inquiry as “important cross-cutting themes that transcend individual disciplines and may be approached from Vinous disciplinary perspectives.” Duke’s desire to direct students toward themes it thinks are important is truly a violation of students’ academic freedom, which is first and foremost the freedom to determine which subjects are fit areas of study and research. Duke attempts to mask this effort by calling this theme a Mode of Inquiry, but no one should be fooled. The scientific method is a mode of inquiry (one, which, incidentally, a student could easily graduate without learning); “Science, Technology and Society” is a topic of study. Which brings us to one of the recommendations made in die Campus Culture Initiative report due to be released today. According to a draft of the “Curriculum and Experiential Learning” section, the report will call on the University to “refine the Cross Cultural Inquiry requirements to address differences of importance in the United States, and specifically, differences associated with race, ethnicity, class, religious, gender, and/or sexual preference.” According to this report, “The intent of [the CCI requirement] was to ensure that Duke students develop the cross-cultural competencies to address the difference that confront us on a daily basis in this country.” The proposal reveals the deceit at the heart ofModes of Inquiry: While they masquerade as attempts to give students many ways of approaching problems, they are really attempts to make us better people. The attempts might make sense ifthey were effective. However, as the author of an incisive critique of the neoconservative conspiracy at the heartofSouthpoint mall, and someone who has completed his CCI with both an American and an international focus, I can testify to the fact one can tick the boxes, and yet be completely unreformed. What’s more, though this theme may well be interdisciplinary, it corresponds to a specific field: Critical U.S. Studies. I fully support the effort to develop Critical U.S. Studies at Duke, through the new Institute and undergraduate certificate. I do object to the CCI using the curriculum to force us all into these studies, and, worse, to force professors to teach more courses in them.After all, the report’s stated reason for the change is that “opportunities to engage cultural differences in an international context are more prevalent than those within a national context.” The objective is not even to encourage students to study a field the committee approves of, but to increase the number of courses in this field, which the committee clearly feels is underdeveloped. We must stand up to this. The curriculum is no place for professors to force students to study their disciplines. Every discipline would then have a claim to a requirement, as they are all, presumably, valuable. Finally, the Campus Culture Initiative is no place for professors to push for the development of their disciplines. When the report is released today, let us hope the administration does the right thing, and just says “No.” *

David Rademeyer is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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letterstotheed itor Libraries thrilled to host Duke Plays party It was a great pleasure for Duke University Libraries to host DukePlays: The Party! Friday night. It was the Duke community at its best: a diverse crowd (and it was a crowd!) of undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, faculty, staff, administrators and trustees, meeting, talking, laughing, learning and reminiscing about Duke history as they studied the exhibits of images from the University archives, having a great time together. This memorable evening confirmed that the library, the intellectual center for Duke students, can also be a social focus. Students spend countless hours in Perkins/Bostock/von der Heyden studying; why not party there once in a while? I would like to thank seniors Rachel Weeks and Haley Hoffman, who sparked the idea for The Party and raised the funds that made it happen. Their contagious enthusiasm spread rapidly. Ilene Nelson, the Libraries’ Director of Communications, deserves special mention too, for her hard work from the inception of the idea all the way into the early hours of Feb. 24. Our thanks also go out to all the volunteers, whose help was key in making the event such a success. And I would like to acknowledge the encouragement ofProfessor Bob Korstad, chair of the faculty Library Council, who understands very well the multifaceted role the Libraries play at Duke. Deborah Jaknbs University Librarian, Vice Provost for Library Affairs Line policy for Maryland game Feb. 28 The men’s basketball team will play Maryland Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 9 p.m. The game will operate under wristband policy. Wristbands will be distributed from 12 a.m. to 2 a.m. the night before the game (Tuesday night/Wednesday morning). Wristbands are distributed on an individual, first-come, first-serve basis. Students must be in line in their wristband color group on gameday by 7 p.m. Students will be let in 90 minutes before tipoff. Mara Schultz Trinity ’O7 Head Line Monitor Pratt students enjoy engineering and humanities I enjoyed Stacy Chudwin’s column in last Friday’s Chronicle (“ATrini-tard in Pratdand,” Feb. 23). But, then, Fm an engineer. If Chudwin had thought about why engineering majors applied to (and were accepted by) Pratt, rather than M.1.T., Rensselaer and Cal Tech, she might not have been so surprised that Pratt students were cute and clever (both genders presumably). My experience (more than 40 years on the Duke engineering faculty) is that Pratt attracts students who are not only challenged by the demands and joys of creating new and useful materials, devices and processes, but who also are accomplished artists, writers, athletes and politicians, even before they arrive at Duke. Thirty or so years ago, one of our mechanical engineering majors, Terry Krauss, successfully petitioned my department to convert a small conference room into an ersatz coffee lounge on weekday mornings, where students and faculty would get together for coffee, informal discussion and relaxation. If Chudwin had been here then, she would have discovered both engineers and Trinity students solving crossword puzzles, discussing philosophical and political issues, and helping to clean the coffee pot for the following day. She might even have encountered an engineering major, giving her grief for being an English major and using the expression, “...were smarter than me.” George Pearsall

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Leaving the comfort zone In preparing to share our frustrations with the prevailing campus mindset, we cringe when we think about the backlash that will follow. The often deplorable and baseless—and often anonymous—comments made against specific Duke faculty are tokens of shame for our community and our institution. It is with hope for better possibilities that we challenge all Duke community members to join us in thinking critically about this moment and working toward positive change. What are the roles of colleges and universities? Universities do far more than funnel students into future job opportunities. Universities have a responsibility—to

students, to communities, to societies—to ask difficult questions about the social world and our role in it. The ability to question, to continue to question and then question some more, is not something to be afraid, but can be a tool to embrace. A myriad of social forces, historical legacies and enduring inequalities—only some of which were implicated in the “Lacrosse Party”—helped make the ground ripe for a “social disaster.” If we, as a community, refuse to engage in critical self-examination—if we work to silence the uncomfortable questions and if we force all debate into a “with us or against us” mentality—we help propagate “human disasters” from this social disaster. It is a human disaster when professors’ lives are threatened. It is a human disaster when women are objectified and taunted with racial epithets. It is a human disaster when members of our community are made to feel uncomfortable on campus. It is a human disaster when an institution so full of talented minds and resources remains silent and fails to ask the “tough” questions. We can turn these “disasters” into possibilities. Every one of us has a responsibility to be challenged, to leave our comfort zone and offer thoughtful answers to the tough questions. It is a privilege to ignore. We have a responsibility to help our institution and community grow.

Michelle Christian Katelin Isaacs Nathan Martin Jillian Powers Serena Sebring Julius Wilder GraduateStudents in the Department ofSociology Miller’s view of last spring’s events is too narrow I find it ironic that Stephen Miller called his review of recent events a “history,” as if to suggest that all one needs to know to judge the response to these two incidents begins circa 2006 (“Racial hypocrisy,” Feb. 26). If after four years of a world-class education Miller cannot comprehend why reasonable people would respond differendy, and why race continues to matter, then I cannot help him. But as a member of the paranoid racial left that Miller rants against, and because it appears that he has not actually spoken to anyone who did demonstrate last spring about why they are not now, I would like to explain that for me, last spring was not just about race. I demonstrated because I was angry about student-onstudent sexual assault, and angry at the University for not acting more quickly to mitigate the damage done to Duke’s good name. There is also a difference between an organized team activity that was alleged to have erupted into gang rape, followed by the University’s silence, versus the alleged actions of an individual who happened to be present at a party thrown by a fraternity. I suspect that if the latter became the standard by which all fraternity parties were judged, then there would be very few fraternities in existence. This isn’t to say that the fraternity shouldn’t be punished if evidence of collective wrongdoing is found—it should. And we as a university community should support the victim and redouble our efforts to make sure that victims feel safe in seeking justice; even better, that sexual assault ceases to be epidemic on university campuses. Sexual Assault Awareness Week is March 27 to March 29 this year. Alex Cho Fuqua ’O7 Clinical Research Training Program ’O7 Column headline inexcusable

Upon opening The Chronicle Friday, I was shocked to find the headline reading “A Trini-tard in Prattland” (Feb. 23). I have no problem with the content of the column, and have myself jokingly referred to my college as the “Trinity College ofArts and Crafts.” However, the repeated use of the term “Trini-tard” is both extremely inappropriate and surprising. As someone with a sibling with learning disabilities, I was truly offended by the writer’s promotion, not to mention The Chronicle’s support, of the use of that term. As socially adept Duke students, I thought we were above the use of such base language, especially in a professional newspaper column. Apparently I was wrong. Samantha Fahrbach Trinity ’O9

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