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The University has already begun preparation for its December 2009 reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

All colleges and universities within SACS’ 11-state domain must be reaccredited every 10 years according to requirements set.forth by the organization’s Commission on Colleges. “It’s a very long, detailed and rigorous self-scrutiny—a means of quality control,” said Judith Ruderman, accreditation director and vice provost for academic and administrative services. “The process takes about two and a half years, that’s why we’re already working on it.... We want to do a good job.” Ruderman, who was also in charge of the University’s most recent reaffirmation, said the process will cover all undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. She added that SACS divides the process into two parts—a Compliance Certification document and a Quality Enhancement Plan. Three committees—a leadership team, a compliance certification team and an assessment working group—have been formed to work on the reaccreditation. Committee members include administrators, staff and undergraduate and SEE ACCREDIT ON PAGE 5

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Students filling out their housing applications last week may have encountered a number of technical problems. That is, if they remembered to register at all. Approximately 200 rising sophomores and between 130 and 150 rising seniors have yet to complete their housing applications, Marijean Williams, director of housing assignments and communications, wrote in an e-mail. Although some students have complained that they were not aware of when their housing application window opened, Williams said information was distributed among all students. She attributed the relatively high number of incomplete applications to technical difficulties. Residence Life and Housing Services was aware of three technical problems last week—including a “not eligible for housing for the upcoming year” message —in addition to individual issues related to caches and pop-ups, Williams said. “The housing application did not go as smoothly as we would have liked,” she added. “We will be evaluating the process with our IT support staff and making the necessary programming changes for next year.” Although changes to the electronic system will be reviewed, Williams said she thought that publicity for Room Fix ’O7 was adequate. Resident Assistants on East and West SEE ROOM FIX ON PAGE 5

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AIDS researchers at Merck & Co. and Pfizer announced last week the addition of two new weapons in the arsenal of HIV drugs. jttk The two drugs, Pfizer’s maraviroc and Merck’s raltegravir, will be used in combination with other drugs, a practice called highly active antiretroviral therapy, in which patients take a consistent regimen of multiple drugs, according to The New York Times. Clinical trials ofmaraviroc have dramatically reduced levels of the virus in patients after 24 weeks. The two new drugs aim to help people who have already

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WASHINGTON Substandard living conditions found at the Army’s flagship veterans hospital likely exist throughout the military healthcare system, the head of a House panel investigating Walter Reed Army Medical Center said Monday. “We need a sustained focus here, and much more needs to be done,” Rep. John Tierney said of a scandal enveloping Walter Reed. Charges of bureaucratic delays and poor treatment there have produced calls in Congress for quick reform. Tierney, D-Mass., said he is afraid

“these problems go well beyond the walls of Walter Reed,” adding that “as we send more and more troops into Iraq and Afghanistan, these problems are only going to get worse, not better.” A House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing Monday at the hospital brought a wide range of apologies from top-level Army officers and the Army’s No. 2 civilian. “We have let some soldiers down,” said Peter Geren, the undersecretary of the Army. Tierney, chairman of the panel, questioned whether problems at the facility are “just another horrific consequence” of inadequate planning that went into the war

in Iraq; a problem created by contracting out work there to- private business, or some other cause. “This is absolutely the wrong way to treat our troops, and serious reforms need to happen... immediately,” he said. Geren, who will become acting Army secretary later this week, told the panel that the revelations of poor conditions at Walter Reed had hurt the Army. Defense Secretary Robert Gates forced Army Secretary Francis Harvey to resign last week, and he leaves his post Friday. Two former commanders at the facility said they accepted responsibility for the failures.

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A suicide car BAGHDAD, Iraq bomber turned a venerable book market into a deadly inferno, and gunmen targeted Shiite pilgrims Monday as suspected Sunni insurgents brought major bloodshed back into the lap of their main Shiite rivals. At least 38 people died, seven pilgrims were killed and 105 were injured, said Raad Jabar, a Health Ministry official. But the final count may not be clear until Tuesday. Fire crews still battled the blazes more than 12 hours after the attack, said civil

defense Maj. Gen. Abdul Rasoul al-Zaidi. The violence—after a three-day relative lull in Baghdad—was seen as another salvo in the Sunni extremist campaign to provoke a sectarian civil war that could tear apart the Shiite-led government and erase Washington’s plans for Iraq. The Shiite Mahdi Army militia has so far resisted full-scale retaliation through a combination of self-interest and intense government pressure. But the militia’s leader, the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, is now being cornered in new ways that have put him on the defensive.

An expected Cabinet reshuffle could take a serious bite out of al-Sadr’s voice in government —a move strongly encouraged

by Washington.

Al-Sadr also opened the door for U.S. and Iraqi troops to enter the Mahdi stronghold in Baghdad—under a painstaking deal with authorities—but his loyalists are still being hunted outside the capital. “Al-Sadr and his forces could be feeling under siege,” said Alireza Nourizadeh, chief researcher at the London-based Center for Arab-Iranian Studies. “That makes them less predictable. That means they are more dangerous.”

Doctors discovered a blood clot in Vice President Dick Cheney's left leg Monday, a condition that could be fatal if left untreated. Cheney, 66, who has a history of heart problems, will be treated with blood-thinning medicationfor several months.

Privacy board OKs program A White House privacy board is giving its stamp of approval to two of the George W. Bush administration's controversial surveillance programs—-electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking—and says they do not violate citizens'civil liberties.

Child obesity surgery triples The number of U.S. children having obesity surgery has tripled in recent years at a pace’ that could mean more than 1,000 operations this year, research suggests. While the procedure is still far more common in adults, it appears to be slightly less risky in teens.

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As part of an ongoing investigation, a Christian evangelist’s appearance at a local high school has now sparked reaction

from the American Civil Liberties Union. During his Feb. 15 appearance at Enloe High School, Kamil Solomon denounced Islam and distributed pamphlets tided “Do Not Marry A Muslim Man, Part I” and “Jesus Not Muhammad, Part I” to teacher Robert Escamilla’s social studies classes. Escamilla, suspended with pay last week, awaits an internal review of the matter by the Wake County Public School System. The case attracted the attention of the ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation when the father of an Enloe student filed a complaint against the high school. The ACLU said it believes the incident is a violation of the Establishment Clause of die First Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids any government action that advances any one set of religious beliefs over another. In a Feb. 22 letter to Enloe principal Beth Cochran, Azadeh Shahshahani, Muslim/Middle Eastern community outreach coordinator for the ACLU-NCLF, outlined the constitutional basis for the

complaint. “I am writing to ask that you provide

us with a written assurance that such speakers engaging in unconstitutional conduct will never be invited again to Enloe High School,” Shahshahani wrote. In a brief response the next day, Adelphos Burns, superintendent of the WCPSS, wrote “appropriate actions” would be taken following a review of the incident. “We are deeply disappointed by the manner in which the school has thus far handled these serious allegations,” said

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executive director of the ACLU-NCLF, in a Feb. 27 press release. “In the face of overwhelming evidence that proselytizing took place in this public school, school officials have insisted on miscasting this as a free speech issue.” The ACLU-NCLF has not received any written assurance to date. “We need to assess what if any procedures were followed and/or violated, and we’ll make the judgment afterwards,” said WCPSS spokesperson Michael Evans. “Obviously this is a controversial subject, but we need to have a full understanding of the facts before we can make a decision.” Cochran has also said that the concerns of the public were being taken seriously. “Guest speakers can provide a wonderful enrichment opportunity for our students,” she wrote in a letter to Enloe parents Wednesday. “However, there is an expectation that the presentation is... also relevant to the class unit and appropriate in tone and topic for high school students in a public school setting.” Cochran said the guidelines for bringing guest speakers into the classroom were under review, but stopped short of offering an apology. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim advocacy group that received complaints following Solomon’s appearance, said it was not satisfied with the school district’s response, especially after allegations that proselytization has occurred at Enloe before. “Now we’re hearing this wasn’t an isolated incident and that this teacher has been involved in controversies before,” said Ibrahim Hooper, communications director of CAIR. “This kind of hate-filled bigotry demands a strong

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Dormer, a Durham resident for 20 years, said the intended message behind the shirts is to encourage people to work toward improving the community for posterity’s sake. “It’s not going to change the world, it’s not rocket science, it’s just a T-shirt, but it really does bring people together,” she said. “People tend to get behind movements like this, and it does change things a little bit.” The city has acquired a reputation for having urban problems and racial politics because the population is almost equally divided between whites and blacks, said author Tim Tyson, a senior scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies and a visiting professor in the Divinity School. Outsiders sometimes think of Durham

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Durham—love yourself. Four years ago, two vintage store owners realized that many potential customers were hesitant to venture into Durham. In response, former business partners Jennifer Donner and Michelle Lee decided to sell T-shirts bearing the slogan, “Durham, Love Yourself,” to improve the city’s public image. “Durham had gotten the rap of being a really blue-collar town and dangerous,” said Donner, who has sold more than 1,000 T-shirts at Dolly’s, her vintage boutique in Brighdeaf Square. “We wanted to do something to show that we loved our town. With each T-shirt I sell, somebody has a story —of moving to Durham and how much they love it.”

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Sophomores Matt Brandt and Jay Schulhof have spent two months starting the official Duke Blackjack Team. that, then it’s not an issue.” Schulhof and Brandt said they hope to teach potential members of the group three main strategies for increasing a player’s odds against a casino dealer, including “counting,” mathematically exploiting the fact that a player knows

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volves cutting the dealer’s deck in an optimal place. “[Blackjack] has a history, so probability is not always the same in terms of what cards you’re going to get,” Brandt said.

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Sophomores Matt Brandt and Jay Schulhof know how to make money playing blackjack. But when the two start the official Duke Blackjack Team, Brandt said they hope the group will be more about having fun, learning new strategies and statistical odds and helping out local charities than making money. “We really are looking to develop big, team-based strategy,” he said. “[But] I think we can make it whatever we want to make it.” The group, two months in the making, has encountered obstacles because blackjack can be classified as a game involving gambling, Brandt said. “They’re a special case,” said Marissa Weiss, program coordinator for the Office of Student Activities and Facilities. If the Duke Blackjack Team becomes official, it will be representing the University and its procedures, which prohibit gambling, she added. University policy states that people or organizations are guilty of gambling if they operate, play or bet at any game of chance at which any money, property or other thing of value is wagered, Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of judicial affairs, wrote in an e-mail. But Schulhof and Brandt said the organization would consist of weekly meetings and mock blackjack games utilizing strategies the two would teach members not actual gambling. “We wouldn’t be playing for money, obviously, on campus,” Brandt said. “As long as we’re not giving out prizes for money-bought chips or something like

“That’s why the game is actually beatable.” The team founders said practically applying these strategies could potentially net members a significant amount of money, but that the organization is more about having fun. ‘You just have to make ’em love you and just think you’re just some dumb gambler [who] thinks they can beat [the odds] just like everyone else,” Schulhof said. Brandt added that most of the fun of blackjack comes from being able to pull off a strategy and simultaneously pretend you’re not a Duke student with an engineering degree. “It’s just so much more involved than other table games,” Brandt said. “It’s like completely exhilarating to be able to play at that level.” If the team is approved, Schulhof and Brandt plan to host a “casino night” to raise money for local charities and provide another venue in which Duke and the Durham community can come together for a good cause. At the event, players would not have to pay to participate in games of blackjack. Corporate and local businesses would donate prizes for the winner of each game, Schulhof said. “Everyone who would come would be allowed to play and would be allowed to try to earn the prizes,” he said, adding that the team would collect donations for local charities on the side. Brandt said casino nights are traditionally “ridiculously successful,” and that the event could raise a significant amount of money for Durham charities. “If you come and play, you’ll probably want to donate,” he said. “If it’s on FLEX, it’s not even your money.”

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graduate and professional students. The leadership team will facilitate the entire reaffirmation, including both the Compliance Certification document and the Quality Enhancement Plan, said Provost Peter Lange, a member of the committee. “We have a broad oversight role in the process—help identify the big themes for Duke and how we can best use the reaccreditation to advance the broad strategic goals and ambitions,” he said. The compliance certification team’s function is to demonstrate how the University meets SACS’ requirements for reaccreditation, said Ruderman, who also chairs the committee. Duke’s Compliance Certification document—which outlines how the University fulfills the 75 requirements, standards and federal regulations set forth by SACS —must be submitted to an off-site review committee by Dec. 10, 2008, approximately six months before the scheduled reaffirmation visit, Ruderman said. “I know it seems like a long time, but it takes a very long time

demonstrate compliance across the University,” she said. The assessment working group will help demonstrate how the compliance requirements are fulfilled, said group co-convener David Jamieson-Drake, director of the Office of Institutional Research. He added that assessment and accountability are closely linked together. U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings’ commission has contributed to the need for assessment and accountability of universities on a national level, Ruderman said. “The commission wants institutions to be more accountable to the public,” Jamieson-Drake said. “Assessment is what enables you to be publically accountable, if you assess how well you’re doing then you can tell everybody about it.” Jamieson-Drake said the assessment working group will work closely with not only the Compliance Certification document but also the Quality Enhancement Plan —a self-study topic of choice that deals with student learning. The group will develop an assessment that can determine if the goal of the Quality Enhancement Plan is reached. The Quality Enhancement Plan is due approximately three to

months after the Compliance Certification document and will be examined by an on-site committee, Ruderman said. Potential topics of study proposed by administrators, staff and students are currendy being gathered and considered, Ruderman said. Appropriate committees will be formed once the topic of study is identified, she added. “We want to pick a topic that will advance us as past self-studies have,” she said. “Not a make-work topic but one that stems from our mission and our strategic planning, and furthers the ambitions and goals of Duke University, making us a better place.” In the last two reaccreditation processes, the topics of self study were “balance of roles of the research university” and “crossing boundaries,” Ruderman said. “It’s an important time and it’s bound for our benefit,” said team member leadership Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and provost of undergraduate education. “We should take advantage of the self study so it’s not just sitting on the shelf but has implications for the future.”

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Several students have reported problems with the online Room Fix process that was launched this year.

campuses each received two posters for their dormitories and distributed door hangers with information to each room, she said. Junior Fiona O’Sullivan, an RA for Craven Quadrangle, said she did not hear about the door hangers until Sunday, however—days after the regular application windows were closed. “At our weekly meeting, our [Residence Coordinator] told me that he was going to put them in our boxes,” O’Sullivan said. “I haven’t hung them up yet.” Williams said e-mail reminders were also sent to students via an automatic emailing system, but added that the system did not work at first. “Our office sent e-mail last reminders to the rising juniors and sophomores as soon as we learned of this e-mail issue,” she said Several other technical difficulties plagued the application process last week. Freshman Leigh Soares said she had to complete her application on a computer at Lilly Library after having trouble with her own computer.

“When I logged in, the biographical information wasn’t mine and I couldn’t log out,” she said. “I tried everything from restarting my computer to logging in and out of DukePass.” Soares said she eventually called RLHS and was able to complete her application. “They said this happened to a lot of people,” she added. Sophomore Jim Hill, however, said he did not have any trouble filling out his application. “It wasn’t bad, but it was a little redundant,” he said, adding that a friend told him about his application window. “I didn’t really expect it,” he said. “I don’t remember seeing anything. Last year, it was advertised a lot.” Williams emphasized that any problems that occurred during the application process were not tied to the new online system. “The application process is something that has been in place for over six years,” she said. “It was rewritten this year in an attempt to avoid problems that students had in the past.” She added that it is too early to tell what changes may be made for next year’s Room Fix process.

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tremendously exciting,” he said. “It is an example for graduate students and undergraduates at Duke and Penn and everywhere that AIDS is one disease that when good questions were asked and research was conducted well, that there is real potential to get a therapeutic handle on HIV, and that is exciting to everybody.” Broverman, who teaches a biology class on AIDS and other emerging diseases, said the drugs may help patients at Duke’s AIDS Research and Treatment Center manage their viral loads. There is always the question, however, ofhow these crucial medicines will be distributed to people in developing countries, she said. “It is great to have new drugs out there for those who can afford them,” said Broverman, who spent last summer doing research in Kenya. “Anyone who has access to top-of-the-line drugs is going to benefit from them. The question is; Who gets topof-the-line drugs?” Sophomore Katie Mikush conducted research at a rural community school in Kenya last summer. While the drugs are exciting, she said they are only half the batde. Mikush added that great poverty and the high price of drugs prevent widespread distribution of antiretrovirals. “There are so many barriers for the poorest people in the world to access the drugs,” Mikush said. “In areas with high HIV rates, it is unrealistic to say that once they come out with a new drug the problem will be solved.” Following in Mikush’s footsteps is sophomore Jason Pate, who is participating in a program this summer in Kenya sponsored by Coca-Cola to aid antiretroviral distribution in rural cities. He said Coke’s distribution infrastructure will improve access to the drugs. “As a consequence of the inequalities in

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As a result of the widespread interest, Cornwell said, he has fielded calls from about 100 to 150 people who are interested in owning a beer-launching fridge of their own.

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own site, www.beerlauncher.com, but Cornwell said the invention gained a surge in popularity when it was posted on Digg, a website that rates online news, videos and

podcasts. “It’s only been a week, and it already has more than half a million views on just one site,” he said. Although Cornwell has invented a number ofother electronic products in his spare time—including a tennis ball launcher that shoots balls at up to 500 miles per hour—he said the fridge has been his most popular creation. And the beer-tossing machine has sparked particular attention on Duke’s campus, where the video of it in action has been e-mailed through fraternity listservs and shared between students. “I just heard about it from a friend who was watching it during class,” said sophomore Jordan Hosmer-Hemmer. “I thought it epitomized the mix at Duke between skill and technical endeavors and just wanting to have fun.”

“The most rewarding feeling I have is when I’m watching a Duke basketball game and I actually use it for its intended use.” —John Cornwell inventor, beer-launching refrigerator

“I’m thinking about selling them for around $1,500 each but only with a limited supply of about 10 to 15,” he said.

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Although the fridge works perfecdy in its online video, the machine is not without its kinks. In particular, the movement of the launching arm may cause significant pressure to the carbonated liquid in the can. “About 50 percent of the people Fve talked to are concerned about that,” Cornwell said. “It does shake the beer up, but if you catch it with soft hands, it’s not going to foam. It totally depends on who’s catching it” Despite its flaws, however, the popularity of the fridge has caused Cornwell to receive attention from both the entertainment and brewing industries. “I have been contacted by a late-night TV show and Miller Brewing Company,” he said. “Obviously, my dream would be to have it in a commercial, but that’s still a long shot.” No matter how well the fridge fares in the commercial marketplace, however, Cornwell still appreciates how well it performs the task it was originally intended for—launching beers. “The most rewarding feeling I have is when I’m watching a Duke basketball game and I actually use it for its intended use,” he said.

T-SHIRTS from page 3 as dangerous, threatening or problematic, but it is doing better than most post-industrial American cities, Tyson said. Rather than sounding like a Chamber of Commerce promotional brochure or an infomercial, residents address the city’s problems, he added. “I see other communities that sweep everything under the rug and pretend they’re just a shining city on a hill,” Tyson said. “But Durham deals with it. That’s why Durham is a great city.” Tyson added that he thinks of the city as self-critical, ambitious and always striving to improve. “Rest assured, beyond the tidy, gated communities of the mind, where nervous people tend to think their tidy, gated, little thoughts, Durham does love itself,” he said. “But the real, big-hearted city of Durham loves itself in the way your sister loves you —she loves you unconditionally, with all her heart, but she knows you’re not perfect.” Cordelia Biddle, a sophomore from Philadelphia with family ties to Durham, said the Bull City has a worse reputation than other urban areas with similar crime rates. “It’s more the perception that Durham seems to be one big, bad neighborhood,” said Biddle, who is a advertising representative for The Chronicle. “Whereas other cities have good neighborhoods to balance the bad ones, crime and poverty seem to run rampant throughout all of Durham.” John Schelp, a 14-year Durham resident and president of the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association, said outsiders perceive Durham as a place where activists in local neighborhoods can effect city-wide change, such as preventing a cement plant from going into a poor neighborhood or gaining concessions from Duke about plans to reconstruct Central Campus. “I’d go back to the, ‘Durham, Love Yourself—it’s one part melancholy, one part urging, one part activism and several parts pride,” Schelp said. “That’s what the message captures... how [people] feel about their town.” Carol Anderson, a 30-year Durham resident and the owner of Vaguely Reminiscent, a vintage store on Ninth Street, attributed many misconceptions about the city to the media attention surrounding the Duke lacrosse case. “The dirtylaundry is all out for everybody to see,” she said. “People around the country and around the world have a questioning and curious view of Durham.... We know that we’ve got something real special here, but there lingers, because of the manufacturing history in Durham, the image of blue collar.” Donner said she hopes to donate bumper stickers bearing the motto to the city to give to new Durham residents. She added that the slogan, which also appears on sweatshirts, has opened up a community dialogue by connecting people in a new way. “That’s exactly what the T-shirts mean to me—if our community can get together and work together with all of the resources we have and all the awesome people we have... Durham will be one of the best places ever,” Donner said. “We really have to like our city before anyone else is going to.”

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media and Duke haters everywhere spent two days kicking dirt on the poor T3 fl3 kid while he was down, I might have to break out my shovel to dig him out.

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Said ESPN.com’s Pat Forde: “It gets no worse than being bad and being dirty.” Said the guy on the Tar Heel Radio Network as it was happening: “[Hansbrough] got punched with a balled up fist in the face.” First of all, let’s get the facts straight. One, Henderson was not looking at Hansbrough as he hit him with his forearm. Not his fist and not his elbow, his forearm. Henderson’s hand wasn’t even balled up—it was open like he was trying to block a shot. Two, Blue Devil walk-on

Steve Johnson had knocked the ball out of Hansbrough’s hands, forcing Henderson to react while he was in the air. A lot of people have said that Hansbrough—who suffered a broken nose on the play and will probably wear a mask during the ACC Tournament—probably should not have been in the game. Coach K himself even hinted at it (rather cryptically: “That’s unfortunate... that those people were in the game in that play”). With 15 seconds left in a game that

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One of the keys to Duke’s turnaround this season has been its increased offensive output —the Blue Devils have scored 9.2 runs per game this year, compared to 5.1 in 2006. Duke (13-1) will look to continue its production at the plate this afternoon at 3 p.m. at Jack Coombs Field as it takes on Temple (27), which enters the game VS. with a 9.95 team ERA. “We’ll attack them the same way we attack everybody,” head coach Sean TODAY, 3 p.m. McNally said. “Just go up Jack Coombs Field there and be ready to hit and just concentrate on having good, quality at-bats, making the pitcher throw strikes, getting goodpitches to hit and be ready to take advantage.” Temple has been outscored 20-1 in its last two games against Kent State and East

Attackman Matt Oanowski earnedACC Flayer of theWeek honors Monday for his six goalsagainst Maryland.

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After impressively disposing of ACCrival Maryland in an emotional road game Friday, the Blue Devils are gearing up again for a contest against winless St. Joseph’s (0-3) today at 3 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium. With head coach John Danowski at the helm, the No. 1 Blue Devils (3-0) —who ascended to the top spot in the polls Monday—have VS. had no problem getting pumped up for games this year, no matter who the competition is. TODAY, 7 p.m. Koskinen Stadium “For us, it’s easy because we didn’t get to play last year,” captain Matt Danowski said. “Every game means a lot to us. So we go play with the mentality that we’re out

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had already been decided, the Tar Heel star probably shouldn’t have been in. What if he rolled an ankle or tweaked his back or tore an ACL? (Or broke his nose?) But that’s kind ofbeside the point. What is relevant is that Hansbrough had no reason to attempt the shot he attempted. I’ll give him a pass for grabbing the rebound, because if hadn’t bounced offof Johnson’s hands, it never would have come to the Tar Heel

to prove ourselves.”

Although playing against No. 6 Navy, No. 10 Delaware and No. 17 Drexel may make St. Joe’s appear better than its 0-3 record indicates, the Hawks have been outscored a combined 44-12 over those three contests. “Coach always tells us not to overlook anybody,” goalie Dan Loftus said. “If you look at the scores from this year, with some of the perennial powerhouses losing early on, it’s actually tough to look past anyone.” As Duke heads into its first game in school history as the top-ranked team in the nation, the players said they will keep improving as long as they continue to follow John Danowski’s lead. “We’re learning a new system,” Loftus said. “We’re trying to buy in to what SEE M. LACROSSE ON PAGE 12

All it took for Amanda Blumenherst and Duke to rediscover their places at the top of the leaderboard was nice weather and good greens. The Blue Devils found the sunny skies and acceptable conditions of the Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Fla. as a welcome respite from the North Carolina cold and the choppy putting surface they faced last week in Arizona. As a result, the team shot 3-under par Monday for a 21-shot lead over the nearest competitor in the UCF Challenge. Blumenherst, the reigning National Player of the Year, continued her streak of solid play with a torrid 9-under-par 135, highlighted by a 65 in her second round. She currently leads the field by 10 strokes. “Amanda was playing very confident today,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “She couldn’t wait to hit the next shot, because she was feeling if. She was enjoying it. She was loving it. And that’s the most wonderful thing as an athlete you can have.” Blumenherst, a sophomore, shot a 2under-par 70 in her first 18 holes. She pulled away from the pack in the first nine holes ofher second round, when she posted five birdies and four pars. Brooks attributed Blumenherst’s success to the well-kept greens, which were in better condition than they were in Tuscon last week. “Good players are not used to missing, so when they’re on rough greens, the putts just don’t go in and you get frustrated,” he said. “It’s one thing to know you’re putting a good stroke on it, but it’s another thing to see that ball go in the hole.” Blumenherst was complemented by sophomore Jennie Lee and freshman Alison Whitaker, who both shot 1-over-par 145 for the two rounds. The Duke duo is tied for second place with five other golfers. The Blue Devils will play 18 holes Tuesday at 8 a.m. when they continue the quest for their first win of the spring season.

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ACC STANDINGS ACC UNC 11-5 115 Virginia Va. Tech 106 BC 10-6 Maryland 10-6 Ga. Tech 8-8 Duke 8-8 Clemson 7-9 FSU 7-9 NC State 5-11 Wake Forest 5-11 Miami 4-12

Overall 25-6 20-9 20-10 19-10 24-7 20-10 22-9 21-9 19-11 15-14 14-15 11-19

POINTS 1. Al Thornton (FSU) 2. Jared Dudley (BC) 3. Tyler Hansbrough (NC) 4. Sean Singletary (VA) 5. Zabian Dowdell (VT)

20.1 19.3 18.8 18.8 18.3

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

ASSISTS 1. Ishmael Smith (WF) 2. Javaris Crittenton (GT) 3. Tyrese Rice (BC) 4. Ty Lawson (NC) 5. Greivis Vasquez

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It’s every ACC fan’s favorite stretch of the season—ll games packed into four adventurous and emotional days. The ACC Tournament has garnered a reputation as one of the most exciting in college basketball—but it has never been known for its un-

predictability.

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Duke and North Carolina have dominated the ACC Tournament over the last decade, winning nine of the last 10 titles. Even though the Tar Heels are the top seed heading into 2007’s Tournament, the field is decidedly more open than usual. “If it is a reflect* petitively, it has the ever,” ACC Commi don’t know if we’ 1 league as we are th about it going in is that genuinely fe( they have a chance North Carolina beating Duke 86-' Blue Devils to the play a Thursday gam ment for the first head coach Mike lined with a back Blue Devils strug last-place finish conference. Virginia, Virgi Tech and Boston lege join UNC byes into Friday’s terfmals. The C shared the regular while the Hokies, E land all finished a 1 has ever won four ACC Tournament. “Obviously, the f tremendous advantage couple, on Sunday team if they’re pla three games to that point,” Clemson head coach Oliver Purnell said. “But all you have to do is S'* look at the last two to three weeks of the season, and it’s obvious those same teams played / each other and beat up on each other.”

Perhaps the two most dangerous teams in the field are Maryland and Georgia Tech, seeded fifth and sixth, respectively. The Terrapins have won seven straight since a 3-6 start to the conference season, while the Yellowjackets have won seven of nine, including victories over North Carolina and Boston College in the last week. Maryland, however, has to get by No. 12 Miami, which beat the Terrapins in College Park earlier in the season. The Yellow Jackets have to get by Wake Forest—the Demon Deacons beat Virginia Saturday—before a potential meeting with Virginia Tech. “I think it’s open this year,” Maryland head id. “Whether it’s 'ears —ifyou look in, you’d say yes 'enly packed. But

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The ACC announced a number of its postseason awards Monday: All-ACC first team Boston College’s Jared Dudley, North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough, Florida State’s A1 Thornton, Virginia’s Sean Singletary and Virginia Tech’s Zabian Dowdell. All-ACC second team UVa’s J.R. Reynolds, Maryland’s DJ. Strawberry, B.C.’s Tyrese Rice, Duke’s Josh Mcßoberts and UNC’s Brandan Wright. All-ACC third team Wake Forest’s Kyle Visser, Georgia Tech’s Javaris Crittenton, N.C. State’s Brandon Costner, Va. Tech’s Jamon Gordon and Miami’s Jack McClinton. Crittenton, Wright, All-ACC freshman team Costner, UNC’s Ty Lawson and Duke’s Jon Scheyer. •

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that in mind.” Heading into Thursday, however, one thing is clear. “It’s tournament time,” Miami head coach Frank Haith said. “And anything can happen.”

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GAME OF THE WEEK: ACC Tournament title game, Sunday, March 11 One of the most tumultuous seasons in the league’s history will finally end Sunday when the ACC crowns its champion, who also receives the league’s automatic NCAAbid With seven ACC teams appearing to have locked up bids, can one of th bottom five make a run to win four in a row and get to the Big Dance?

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which the players are able to escape the lingering drama that ended last year’s season. Following a year of accusations and scrutiny, the Blue Devils said they are grateful for a coach who makes lacrosse fun again. “[The players] were so wound up because they hadn’t played in so long,” Matt Danowski said. “Now we just have fun with it, but at the same time respect and appreciate that we get to be out here and represent Duke University. The atmosphere is pretty relaxed, but we know how lucky we are to be out here.” The Blue Devils said they will grow stronger as the players and coaches continue to come together. As Duke attempts to live up to its top-ranked billing for the remainder of the year, the players said they look no further than their coach for guidance. “(John Danowski] tells us, ‘Guys, if you want to be what I know you can to be, just buy in to what I’m telling you,’” Loftus said. “He’s not going to lead us in the wrong direction. I don’t think guys are just playing for the team, they’re playing for him.”

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Coach is saying. Coach is telling us that individually we’re all playing fine, but if we came together and played more cohesively, that we’d do much better.” Loftus said the team mentality was largely responsible for the Blue Devils’ improved performance against thenNo. 6 Maryland. The Terrapins limited previous co-ACC Player of the Week Zack Greer—who came in averaging four goals per game—to just one score. But the offense showcased its versatility as Matt Danowski took the reigns and notched six goals ofhis own, earning him this week’s ACC Player of the Week honor. “We playreally unselfishly,” Matt Danowski said. “It’sjust the way our team is. We have a lot of players out there, and whoever steps out on the field is expected to make plays.” Among all of John Danowski’s philosophies, one of the most important is his relaxed style of coaching. His demeanor lends itself to a loose team atmosphere in

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Tennessee State. The Owls have surrendered as many as 23 runs in a game, with New Mexico State hanging that lopsided score on the Owls in an 18-run victory Feb. 25. “We’re certainly not going to overlook them,” Jim Gallagher said. “WeTe going to have the same approach.” The Owls have managed just one run and 11 hits in their last two games, but Temple showed its ability to pull out quality wins by defeating Winthrop (10-7) 54 in extra in-

nings Friday. In using 10 different pitchers in theirweekend sweep of Holy Cross, the Blue Devils’ pitching staff could be a bit tired. Freshman pitcher Michael Ness, who went 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA last week, won ACC Pitcher of the Week honors Monday. The team took Monday off to rest, but it will need a strong performance from starting pitcher Jeremy Gould (0-1,6.52 ERA) if Duke is to win its fourth game in four days. “We expect Jeremy to come out and throw well,” Gallagher said. “We’ll have all our relief pitchers ready, but we’d love to have him come out and throw six innings, and we know he’s capable of that.” Backed by a powerful offense, steady pitching and a consistent defense, the Blue Devils have cruised through their pre-ACC slate to this point. With a home series against Boston College looming this weekend, Duke is looking to finish strong in its next two non-conference games against Temple and Xavier. “We really want to finish this pre-ACC period strong,” McNally said. “Our focus will be directly on these next two games in these next two days, and then we’ll get into the ACC on the weekend.”

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big man. But with a 12-point lead and 15 seconds to play, what was Hansbrough thinking when he went to shoot? Tyler, buddy. Kick it out to the perimeter. Punt it into the upper deck. Pass it to Dewey Burke and let him dribble the game out. It’s Senior Night. He deserves it. Do anything. Just don’t try to run up the score right over four frustrated Dukies in front of the basket. A team or player with any amount of pride or self-respect isn’t just going to let a hated rival run up the score. If Henderson had stood back and allowed Hansbrough to score, that truly would have been wrong. He had to foul Hansbrough to prevent him from scoring, and to send the message; ‘You may have beat me today, but I will not lay down and let you embarrass me.” From that perspective, the only thing Henderson did wrong was hit Hansbrough in the nose and make him bleed like something out of a Quentin Tarantino movie. Seriously, has anyone ever bled like that? He looked like he had a blood water fountain welded onto his face. I’m not totally sure he didn’t have one of the blood capsules that professional wrestlers use. And if Hansbrough hadn’t gotten up off the floor looking like he dipped his face in a trough of ketchup, there’s no way Henderson would’ve been ejected. In this case, the referees reacted to what Hansbrough looked like when he got up off the floor. Ever hear of “no blood, no foul?” In this case it was “lots of blood, flagrant foul.” Quite honestly, that doesn’t make sense. Henderson was suspended for what referees Les Jones, Karl Hess and Jamie Luckie called “a combative and confrontational action... a fight.” I don’t know about you, but no fight I’ve ever seen involved one guy attempting to put an orange ball through an orange cylinder and the other guy accidentally hitting him in the nose with his forearm. Henderson got the exact same suspension—one game in the ACC Tournament—that Wake Forest guard Chris Paul got two years ago for deliberately punching N.C. State’s Julius Hodge below the belt. That was deliberate. That was a fight. This was nothing more than a hard foul that happened to catch a guy who looks like he must have a blood-clotting problem in the right (or wrong) spot. Nothing more than that. So lay off Henderson and lay off Duke’s team. The only thing that was dirty was Hansbrough’s jersey.

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it comes at a significant cost. By raising the low end of admissions standards, this University would lose some of its best athletes, some of its richest donors and some of its most loyal supporters. The three groups named in the report, though they get preferential treatment in the admissions process, are a large part of what makes Duke great in the long run. Many students and alumni love Duke because it is thought of as on par with the Ivy League academically but on a whole other level when it comes to athletics and social life. Although we could recruit a “smarter” class every year, we should recognize that students admitted on the low end ofadmissions often serve irreplaceable roles on campus. Another of the committee

recommendations suggests the addition of an application essay question about “engagement and experiences with difference.” This recommendation, although interesting, should not become policy. The underlying goal of this question seems to be to attract students who have already engaged difference before coming to Duke. We would suggest trying to determine the students who have the most potential to grow in a diverse intellectual setting, rather than hand-picking students who have met a certain threshold of difference engagement. Duke should focus its efforts to promote engagement once students actually get to campus. This is the second in a series of editorials about the recommendations in the recently released Campus CultureInitiative Report.

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you are uninsured and forced to seek medical bankruptcy if necessary. To better understand the care at the Duke University Health System, beware. human cost of such actions, I reviewed 26 civil lawsuits Because like thousands ofother North Carolinians, filed by DUHS within the past six months. On average, the health system sought to recover you will fall victim to what a 2005 class-action lawsuit $33,858.34 per defendant. But in one recent case, a against DUHS called “an unconscionable and predawoman returned home from her father’s deathbed to tory two-tierscheme” that bills uninsured patients “several multiples over rates charged to patients covered find that she was liable for $132,589.16 of her husby health insurance.” In other words, Duke charges band’s medical bills, even though the couple had been the poorest patients estranged since 2003. In another particularly tragic case, a 57-year-old the highest prices. Durham woman was treated for three days by the How high? AccordDuke University Health System for heart disease ing to a 2004 Califorand diabetes. It took the woman just 96 hours to acnia Nurses Association m cumulate a bill totaling $57,843.40, which she is unstudy, America’s top-40 able to pay. hospitals Duke In a handwritten letter “To the Plaintiff,” the among them—regularwoman explained why: “My life has been turned uply mark up medical side down.... I lost my husband and daughter within supplies by as much as with ail deliberate speed three years apart and I have been in and out of the 9,593 percent, dm hospital every [sic] since.” She elaborates, “it is a strugby as much as 6,739 gle to get up every morning to help get my grandpercent and operating rooms by as much as 1,950 perdaughter [who she is now raising by herself] to school, cent. That means that hospitals bill patients as much as $9,693 for a supply for which the institution paid and myself to go to work part time.” Indeed, after having one heart attack, two angiojust $lOO. And although those figures represent the and a mild stroke, on top of pre-existing diaend of the the found that the plasties extreme spectrum, study average markup for all charges at America’s top-100 betes and an inflammatory disease she’s had since her twenties, this woman emphasizes that she wants to do hospitals hovered at 673 percent. better but can’t. She concludes, “I really truly don’t Large insurance companies and government programs never pay these inflated rates. Instead, they use know what am [sic] going to do. I am trying to pay their financial and legislative clout to negotiate deep Duke fifty dollar [sic] a month, but it’s hard. I feel so discounts for subscribers, who can expect to pay only bad at times I don’t think I going [sic] to make it. But a fraction of the original “sticker” prices. But for the I go on with a smile on my face... please work someminority of patients who pay out of pocket, DUHS as- thing out with me.” I wonder what this woman would say if she knew sesses the original, inflated prices, effectively forcing the uninsured to “subsidize the patient care provided that nearly every charge on her bill—from the stent doctors used to keep her arteries open to the personto other patients.” nel, room and even laboratory services she required Herein lies the injustice: for our hospital system which took in $1.5 billion in 2004 and realized a profis many times higher than what you or I would pay. it well in excess of $76.5 million—to pad its profit marHas anyone told her that if she had suffered that gins by intentionally exploiting the working poor is, to same heart attack in another area—New York City is a good example—there are voluntary programs that quote one victim’s attorney, “improper, unconscionable and unfair.” would allow her to pay what Medicare does, thus reducing her bill by up to 80 percent? In a place like Unsurprisingly, Duke University Health System officials beg to differ. Responding to that 2005 class-acMaryland, where hospital markups are tightly contion suit, administrators maintained that the lower trolledby law, this woman wouldn’t have been charged such outrageous prices in the first place—regulations prices afforded patients with insurance are “discounts” in keeping with “an industry-wide practice of there limit markups there to an average of 28 percent. accepting less than... full charges as payment from And according to CBS, these price controls haven’t forced a single hospital out ofbusiness in that state. certain health insurance companies.” These pracBut back here in Durham, struggling patients like tices, officials say, “control health care costs, making health care more affordable for the greatest number her are left to make handwritten pleas to Duke adminof people,” and support the “entire system of manistrators for relief. It is beneath the dignity of this hospital—and this University—to go on victimizing peoaged care in this country.” But what about those left behind? The truth is that ple whose Only crime was needing medical care, and DUHS aggressively pursues the minority of patients coming here to get it. who cannot pay their bills, retaining collection agenKristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every cies and attorneys to garnish wages, seize bank accounts, liquidate assets and even drive debtors into Tuesday.

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Breaking boxes Out of many (sections), wasn’t a simple matter of biology for ancient Greeks and Romans. They created an entire science—called physiognomy —to ascertain a person’s sex. Gender was a continuum for them; the most “manly” men resided at the top of the ladder with more effeminate men filling in the middle rungs. Women, who could likewise be more or less manly, took up the bottom of the gender hierarchy. People weren’t put in simple “male” and “female” boxes in late antiquity —there was no way to truly tell whether someone was a man or a woman. Gender encompassed much more complicated and nuanced markers than elementary biology. Women were sly, mentally weak and tended to sneeze (according to Kleanthes, a man who made his

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living judging peoples’ true gender). Men, on the other hand, possessed a certain gait, exhibited particular

rhetorical skills and were always very hairy. Instead of taking people et religio at face value, the ancients distrusted the obvious indicould of Since one not easily ascertain anothcators gender. er’s sex, these people were always actively looking below the surface of a person’s title, searching for extra clues in order to understand them. Spirituality wasn’t a case of simple titles either. It was understood that a person’s religious practices did not necessarily reflect their personal beliefs. Outward signs of religious devotion were often forced by the government or encouraged strongly by culture, with little concern for a person’s belief in the given deity. The obsession with appearances despiritualized the symbols of piety and gave individuals a relative spiritual freedom. The difference between spirituality and religion was also more pronounced. Religion carried with it many cultural connotations that others generally understood did not define a person’s spirituality, but only reflected their geographical or political circumstances. Personal spiritualityrepresented a private attachment to the deity independent of sacrifices or rituals. A person’s beliefs about the benevolence, scope or judgment of God couldn’t be confined to a specific religious tide. Today’s religious freedom has created boxes. Because we can choose any title we would like, we are limited by the confines of those socially defined boxes. Stereotypes control the informal conversation of religion; people judge each other based upon one strongly charged word—“Atheist,” “Christian” or “Muslim.” Assumptions are immediately made as to that person’s political affiliation, attitude toward science and sexual ethics. But what are the specific beliefs of the person behind the title? If you take the time to get to know them in spite of their loaded title, you usually find that the stereotypes don’t exactly fit. Sure, massive groups of extremists can do a lot of damage, but individuals who happen to personally identify with the same belief system shouldn’t be condemned for the actions of a few fanatics. Even if adjectives such as “fundamentalist” or “extremist” describe the specific religious title, moderate adherents to that faith find themselves subject to the subconscious prejudices of their peers. For terrorists who declare themselves “true” followers of Muhammad, there are millions of Muslims who are committed to peacefully practicing their faith. For every person who bombs abortion clinics in the name of Jesus, there are millions of Christians who prefer interfaith dialogue to explosives. And for every nihilist who declares that “God is dead” and condemns the religious for their ignorance, there are millions who respect the faith necessitated by a spiritual commitment to a religion. In the last week, there has been much discussion about modem Islam on campus. The story ofKamil Solomon’s address to high schoolers in Wake County garnered a heated community response, and the Terrorism Awareness Project has fueled tensions between moderate Western Muslims and their peers. The misrepresentation of a religion harms the peaceful majority and adds kindling to destructive stereotypes. Romans and Greeks assumed a misrepresentation on a person’s surface. They distrusted biological gender cues because they realized that people were more complex than chromosomes. All humanity couldn’t be filed rieady into “men” and women” boxes. There were many more factors to consider. Today religion begs the same understanding. There are boxes, but they should only be the opening negotiation in a continual pursuit to understand another’s personal spirituality.

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the Campus .Culture Initiative has been criticized appropriately in certain ways, the Steering Committee managed to identify what has become the elephant in the residence hall. In its bold and controversial report, the committee listed among its recommendations “[discontinuing] the practice of assigning housing to selective living groups and social/affinity/interest groups.” of Representatives thr 'ited iese groups were quoi in a Chronicle article last Friday. Maxwell House president Blake Byers, a senior, expressed one concern: that selective living groups are “one of the main social drivers on Dave kleban campus.” He’s right, of course —and that’s probaleather-bound books bly an understatement. But he has also put his finger on the problem with the current residential model Though it may seem foreign to Duke students, it is in fact possible to imagine a campus social atmosphere not dominated by exclusive, “selective” groups that alienate a bulk of the community. Changing the residential policy is the most important step toward realizing it. The physical space of West Campus, through prominent signs on quads, communicates a message of exclusion. Those who opt not to join a group that has made a literal “mark” on a section of campus could understandably feel as if they have a less legitimate claim to its culture. Meanwhile, only a few months into freshman year, incoming students are pressured to select—or rather, be selected by—the groups that will dominate their residential and social experiences. This interrupts the natural, organic process of developing real friendships in a context outside of judgmental rush events—a process that needs support from the residential framework for longer than one year. That said, eliminating selective living groups is not the proper solution; modifying their claim to residential space is. In response to such thinking, Interfratemity Council President David Melton, a junior, said, “I would be hardpressed to argue that 200 or 300 people living in a quad are going to be more unified than people who rushed a selective living group based on who they got along with and who they saw value in.” But I would be hard-pressed to argue that a university adequately prepares its students for the real world by encouraging them, only a half year into their college career, to begin to insulate themselves from people they don’t “see value in” during rush. Providing sections for groups that are racially, geographically and socioeconomically homogenous (compared to Duke’s overall population) encourages dramatic self-segregation when rush and the move to sections occur so early in the college experience. It also does a disservice to the groups themselves. Rather

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than joining a house because they feel entirely comfortable in it, many students might join because of a primary desire to be part of any group. Considering the emphasis placed on the rush process freshman year, and on selective groups in general, this would be understandable. For these reasons, we should take the CCI Report’s suggestion that residential space for selective houses be disbanded and transform it into two rational policy decisions: first, delay rush until the fall or spring of sophomore year and second, alter die method by which West Campus housing for sophomores is assigned. I think the most logical model would be a direct, universal link between the East Campus houses and respective “sections” or quads on West. Other schools have found value in a “residential college” model that fosters development of non-selective communities within a class. Having a section or quad ofWest devoted to Randolph, for instance, would encourage students of that dorm to bond more deeply with each other before “selecting” themselves into more exclusive communities (which can still occur a year later). The way things stand, diverse communities lack a real chance to form for more than a semester before they are fractured by die exodus into “selecdve” mini-communities. As for the fate of selective living groups, they should definitely have a place at Duke. They are known to be solid bases for friendships and valuable social networks. Ask representatives, and they will be happy to tell you their GPAs are higher than average and they do community service. But at the same time, the rush process has been welldocumented for superficiality and the emotional toll it takes (especially, but not only, on girls). Delaying the rush process would give students more time to first become comfortable at Duke and then to evaluate the range of organizations available to them. All I’m asking is that the residential space of West provide an extension of the broad-based, arbitrary (in a good way), inclusive communities created on East. Delay the frenzied, largely superficial rush process until less divisive forms of community have arisen naturally. Meanwhile, the renovated Central Campus could be a good place for junior and senior members of selective living groups to have designated residential space, which would also increase the range of social options available to everyone. In face of defenses of the status quo, the administration should recognize that selective living groups occupy space on campus at the pleasure of the wider community. Just as President Richard Brodhead said there is nothing “magic” about the current policy of assigning living space, there is nothing magic about selective groups’ claims to sections With so many factors that contribute to the cohesiveness of the larger Duke community, it is time to recognize the elephant on the quad that currently detracts from it. Dave Kleban is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other

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needs clarification column, Samson Mesele fails to clearly distinguish between supporting the efforts of the Campus Culture Initiative and granting the committee carte blanche to formulate its recommendations (“Pro-CCI, Pro-Duke,” March 1). Unequivocally, every student has an interest in making Duke a better place. Thus, it is hard to argue that anyone could be against that overreaching goal of the CCI. However, there are many valid arguments against the methods undertaken by the committee and its ultimate conclusions. In terms of the process, consider the recent statement by Dean Robert Thompson, chair of the committee, in which he succinctly said that he does not expect any changes to be made. That mindset is not one that will be conducive to the kind of conversation that Brodhead envisioned. Furthermore, at least once a member sent an e-mail out to the committee listing his concerns about the report —the primary one being the dearth of student involvement in the process Rather than taking advantage of this opportunity to amend the statements based on student input In his

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thereby ensuring some semblance of consensus —the members steamed ahead. Then, one must consider the recommendations. There are some valid critiques of the status quo and laudable suggestions for improvement within the report. Yet, the committee often draws conclusions about students’ views although they did not listen to them. To my knowledge, no greek or SLG was invited to speak about the value of housing or the possible consequences of taking it away—either for the campus community or the organization itself. Through its recommendations, though, the report effectively seeks to bar any current or future organization from obtaining a dedicated space on campus. Without any tangible knowledge of the situation, how can such a broad proposal be made? Therefore, now is not the time to position oneself holistically as pro-CGI or anti-CCI, whatever that means. Instead, we must engage each of its points separately, and doing so involves thinking critically. Let us not lose sight of that. David Melton Trinity ’OB

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