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1 year later, Students, Provost discuss CCI findings address student ‘disaster ad’ Admins concerns about proposals still hot topic by

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Addressing questions raised in the Duke community in the aftermath of the lacrosse case, students and professors explored the question “Is This a Social Disaster?” at an open discussion Tuesday.

The dialogue, which was sponsored by the Center for Race Relations, made reference to a controversial advertisement placed in The Chronicle last April entitled “What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?,” along with the Facebook group, “The Real Social Disaster,” which formed in response.

Michael Gustafson, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, began the conversation by questioning both the administration’s response to the lacrosse scandal and the attacks on the “Group of 88” professors who signed the ad.

The administration should have done more to protect the rights of its students, Gustafson said, pointing to the warrantless search of a dormitory room by Durham police that occurred in the wake of the lacrosse allegations.

He also cautioned the audience against oversimplifying discussion of the lacrosse scandal and issues ofcampus culture.

We can have conversations about this,” he said.

Gustafson ended with his own version of a well known statement from the ad.

“No one is really talking about how to keep [indicted lacrosse players] Collin [Finnerty], [David Evans, Trinity ’o6] and Reade [Seligmann] central to this SEE DISASTER? ON PAGE 6

A number of students voiced their

opinions to Duke administrators Tuesday night about controversial recommendations oudined in the recendy released Campus Culture Initiative Report.

The CCI town hall meeting, organized by Duke Student Government and held in Reynolds Theater, was part of a series of meetings hosted by the Office of the Provost to gather student input regarding some of the report’s widely scrutinized suggestions for undergraduate student life at the University.

“We’ve already started meeting with a variety of leadership groups on campus to get a sense of forward momentum,” Provost Peter Lange said. “It’s time... for a conversation to start up.”

Lange, John Simon, vice provost for academic affairs, and Susan Roth, vice provost for interdisciplinary studies, answered questions and offered clarification to address concerns raised by students.

Of the six areas of improvement outlined in the report, the CGl’s recommendations about social life and dining and residential life sparked the most discussion.

One hot-button issue at the meeting was the CCFs recommendations regarding alcohol, which seek to make drinking less central to social life on campus and enforce regulations con-

sistently.

“Our liquor laws have made every college campus in the U.S. like a brothel during Prohibition,” Lange said. “It is one of the great dilemmas ofAmerican

Provost Peter Lange (right) speaks on the findings of theCampus Culture Initiative's Steering Committee.

He lauded recent events on campus, however, in which he said alcohol was present but not central to success, such as Nasher Noir and DukePlays: The Party! Lange contrasted these to more “destructive” activities such as tailgate.

Several students said administrators should regulate alcohol distribution rather than attempt to eliminate drinking all together.

“We have one of the most gorgeous quads known to American college campuses that could fit the entire Duke community,” one student said. “I just find it a tragedy

college campuses.”

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pus and across the nation.

The change is part of President George W. Bush’s 2005 Energy Policy Act, which he called a first step toward a more affordable and reliable energy future for U.S. citizens.

Bush said he hopes that moving DST will save energy, but Tom Welch, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Energy, said there is no evidence that the change will increase energy efficiency.

Welch added that a report completed last fall found the potential for energy conservation to be

fairly negligible

“Consider this an experiment that Congress thinks is worthy of making,” Welch said. “We’ll find out after the fact whether it was a wise move.” ’mergy aside, changing the dates of DST could have other effects on the nation.

“For most people and for a lot ofcompanies the effect of this will be forgetting to change the clock,” said Dave Thewlis, executive director of the national Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium.

Computers and other technology are programmed to make the time change automatically—a quandary that has earned the DST change the nickname “mini Y2K” “There are industries where the implications of mismatched time would be more sigSEE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ON PAGE 7

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Airplane ignites in Indonesia

Libby found guilty in CIA leak trial by

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WASHINGTON Once the closest adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing a leak investigation that shook the top levels of the Bush

administration.

Four guilty verdicts ended a seven-week CIA leak trial that focused new attention on the George W. Bush administration’s much-criticized handling of intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war.

In the end, jurors said they did not believe Libby’s main defense; that he hadn’t

lied but merely had a bad memory.

Their decisions made Libby the highestranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since National Security Adviser John Poindexter in the IranContra affair two decades ago.

The case cost Cheney his most trusted adviser, and the trial revealed Cheney’s personal obsession with criticism of the war’s justification.

Trial testimony made clear that PresidentBush secretly declassified a portion of the prewar intelligence estimate that Cheney quietly sent Libby to leak to Judith Miller of The New York Times in 2003 to rebut criticism by ex-ambassador Joseph

Wilson. Bush, Cheney and Libby were the only three people in the government aware of the effort.

More top reporters were ordered into court—including Miller after 85 days of resistance in Jail—to testify about their confidential sources among the nation’s highest-ranking officials than in any other trial in recent memory.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said the verdict closed the nearly four-year investigation into how the name of Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, and her classified job at the CIA were leaked to reporters in SEE LIBBY ON PAGE 6

Bombers massacre Shiite pilgrims

by Brian Murphy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD, Iraq Two suicide bombers turned a procession of Shiite pilgrims into a blood-drenched stampede Tuesday, killing scores with a first blast and then claiming more lives among fleeing crowds. At least 106 were killed amid a wave of deadly strikes against Shiites heading for a solemn religious ritual.

Hours after the attack in Hillah, in the Shiite heardand south of Baghdad, boys used long-handled squeegees to push pools ofblood off the road.The vicdms’ shoes and sandals were gathered in haphazard piles.

“In an instant, bodies were set ablaze, people were running and the ground was

mixed with teapots, ketdes and other supplies for pilgrims,” said Mahdi Kadim, one of the survivors.

But there was also a louder message in the carnage that left at least 130 pilgrims dead throughout Iraq; United Statesbacked audiorides remain virtually powerless to stop suspected Sunni insurgents trying to push Iraq toward a sectarian civil war.

U.S. forces, too, continue to tally losses at the hands of extremists despite signs of more successful raids against bases and weapon stockpiles. The military said nine

soldiers were killed Monday in two sepabombings north of Baghdad, making it the deadliest day for U.S. troops in Iraq in nearly a month.

“A brutal massacre against people who are only practicing theirfaith” was how Shiite lawmaker Sami al-Askari described the Hillah attacks, which wounded at least 151 rate roadside

A commercial Jetliner carrying more than 100 people caught fire as it landed at an airport on Indonesia's Java island on Wednesday, an airline official and witnesses said. At least 8 people were killed, an airport official said.

Airport screeners to unionize

The Senate voted Tuesday to give 45,000 airport screeners the same union rights as other public safety officers, despite vigorous opposition by Republicans and a veto threat from the White House. Republicans pledged to eliminate the union provision.

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Students in the Fuqua School of Business have spoken out against a new policy that allows “diversity flags” to fly beside the 80 international flags currently hanging in

the Fuqua mallway.

After months of discussions with Fuqua Pride—a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender alliance at the business school— Fuqua administrators agreed to hang a rainbow flag, a symbol of gay pride, in the mallway last month. Prior to the decision, the only flags flown in the foyer were those of geographic nationalities represented in the student body.

Fuqua Dean Douglas Breeden said raising the rainbow flag supports the same principles celebrated in the diversity of the country flags.

“The current Duke University policy on equal opportunity prohibits discrimination based on ‘race, color, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or preference, sex or age,’” he wrote in an e-mail. “The country of origin flags that currently hang in the mallway certainly help reinforce this policy and are therefore consistent with our fundamental principle; so, too, are the rainbow flag, religious flags, ethnic flags and other flags consistent with Duke’s diversity policy.”

Taylor West, a second-year student in Fuqua, has encouraged fellow students and faculty to write to the Fuqua administration in order to oppose the revised flag policy.

After penning a letter of complaint and urging others to take initiative themselves, West said many students have joined him in his initiative.

“A number of students and administration officials have applauded the salient arguments and the respectful tone of the letter,” West wrote in an e-mail. “Most students on campus seem to agree that a diversity flag section is a mistake, a distraction and a politicized fiasco.”

Josh Fischer, a Fuqua second-year student and co-president of Fuqua Pride, said the administration displayed consistent support for his idea to raise the gay pride flag.

“It wasn’t exactly a battle, it was more of figuring out how we wanted to go about

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Kristen Davis

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Bill Boulding, associate dean for the daytime MBA program and professor of business administration, said the current placement of the rainbow flag is temporary. Boulding wrote in an e-mail to Fuqua administrators Feb. 23 that the new policy will sequester an area in the mallway for diversity flags separate from the row of country of origin flags.

“Long term, when we finish construe-

Being “special” may no longer be special.

College students today are more selfcentered than previous generations, according to a study by five psychologists that compares students’ scores on Narcissistic Personality Inventory evaluations.

“We need to stop endlessly repeating, ‘You’re special,’ and having children repeat that back,” said Jean Twenge, associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University and lead author of the study, in a report printed by the AssociatEd Press Feb. 27.

Duke students enrolled in Economics 51 Jean Twenge with Lori Leachman, professor of the practice in economics, got the message loud and clear last semester when they received an e-mail from Leachman discouraging them from submitting their exams for regrades. “[At Duke] because everyone is special, no one is special,” Leachman said.

Leachman said she stopped accepting regrades after she heard that students were using them as an opportunity to cheat on exams. The e-mail she sent was in response to repeated requests for regrades even after she had set a policy without exceptions, she said.

Leachman said the students who requested regrades were requesting special treatment that she was not willing to give them.

Twenge’s study indicated a nationwide trend in today’s college students toward a belief that they deserve special considerations.

The study was based on data gathered

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A rainbow flag thathasbeen hung in Fuqua next to more than 80 international flags has sparked controversy.

doing it,” he said. “We never encountered any direct resistance from the administration or other groups.”

Pam Brown, director of student services at Fuqua and a member of the LGBT task force, said the new diversity flag policy will allow a variety of groups to gain representation in the mallway.

“I’m so proud of the Fuqua administration I could burst,” she said. “They not only heard what the students had to say but they took it further. The effect is not only that our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students have a flag, but the Native Americans and other flags we ordered will. The rainbow flag was the first to go up, but it’s not the last to go up.”

The proposal was approved in October, but the process of revamping the

mallway flag policy delayed the actual hanging until last month, Fischer said.

“We didn’t know what the delay was,” he said. “They wanted to determine where they would hang the flag and what the protocol for hanging flags in the future would be.”

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An estimated 80 million to 160 million people take antioxidants in North America and Europe, about 10 to 20 percent of adults, the study's authors said.

N.C. "pirate" ship to be excavated RALEIGH, N.C.—A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years after a decade of research, officials working on the project said Friday.

Several officials said historical data and coral-covered artifacts recovered from the site-including 25 cannons, which experts said was a large number for the area in the early 18th century—remove any doubt the wreckage belonged to Blackboard.

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Athletes keep eyes, minds on success by

Joe Clark

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Before a big race, while her doing stretches and running laps, Shannon Rowbury, a member of the women’s track team, is imagining three secret words that could be the key to a win.

Rowbury, a first-year graduate student in the humanities, is among a growing number of athletes —including members of the Duke football, golf and lacrosse teams—using sports psychology techniques to improve their performances.

“Before running, I break the race up into three major parts and focus on a specific keyword for each part,” Rowbury explained. “It makes me react the way I want to so I don’t have a lot of extra thinking going on.”

By taking time before a race or game to focus on what is ahead of them, athletes can train themselves so that their minds do not get in the way of their bodies, said Greg Dale, a sports psychologist and associate professor at Duke.

‘Your mind should be an asset to you when you’re competing, not a hindrance,” he said.

One of the major hurdles that athletes at the collegiate level must overcome is a sense of anxiety and a critical attitude toward their own performance, Dale said.

“I recommend that athletes talk to themselves about a mistake just as they would talk to a teammate,” he said. “Oftentimes, athletes are their own worst critics.... When you’re thinking negateammates are

tively, you’re playing negatively.”

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Through his work with Duke athletics, Dale said many sports players mention that performing well is 80 percent about your mentality and how you perceive

yourself.

“What [athletes] don’t realize is that if that much of your game depends on training your mind, then they need to spend time more considerably strengthening this aspect of their program,” he added.

Techniques for training the mind have been used for more than two decades in sports and utilized at Duke in the past several years.

Jessie Bowen, a physical education instructor at Duke and a founder ofhis own company that helps to mentally train athletes, works with many Duke sports teams in what he calls his “sports

hypnosis program.”

“When players use this program, they’re actually able to see

their positive outcome and then work better to reach that goal,” he said. “The training not only influences their performance, but also improves their life skills.”

Some athletes are able to do this naturally, but most benefit from the extra help of sports psychologists, Bowen said, noting that he used sports hypnosis with the 2001 Duke men’s basketball champions.

“Everyone has the ability to train their mind,” he said. “They just have to find away that they can relate to sports hypnosis and improve their game.”

And as the field of sports psychology grows, new research has

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training.

Studies show that there are similar benefits to exercising a muscle andjust mentally focusing on exercising that muscle, said Richard Keefe, associate professor of medical psychiatry and author of a book on sports psychology and brain research.

“It’s pretty clear that focusing on doing well in an activity actually improves your performance,” he said. “When you do mental practice, you’re laying down the neural tracks for performance.”

Scientists have conducted brain scans on professional athletes that also indicate that the

brain plays a large part in the success of sports players. “When athletes are in the zone, the areas that are responsible for playing well are in the posterior region of the brain,” Keefe said.

“The anterior region of the brain is responsible for thinking about thinking, and that’s not what you want to use while play-

ing sports.”

Although mental training is commonly used in sports, it can be helpful in all aspects of life, Keefe said. “Even when going to an interview or a big test, by creating an image of doing well and succeeding, you’re more likely achieve your goals,” he said.

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Hookah habit catches by

With the warm weather of spring fast

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are once again relax in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, play ultimate frisbee and smoke hookah on the quad.

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the organization’s first “Play-In” event on the Duke Chapel Quadrangle this past fall.

“We’re trying to make a statement about social scenes.” Weeks said. “It’s a cool, chill activity, and I thought it would add something to the event.”

Hookah can also be found at campus events even when it is not part of a

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hookah has seen a recent surge in popularity among many students on campus.

“I’m not exactly sure how hookah culture became so big here,” senior Leonardo Moore said. “During my freshman year, more and more people started buying them and using them. I’d tried it before, but I didn’t really start using it until Duke.”

And hookah has become a central focus for events such as Hookah in the Sukkah, hosted by Jewish Life at Duke, and Sheesha on the Plaza, hosted by the International Association.

“Hookah in the Sukkah is one of our better-attended events of the year,” said sophomore Joel Ribnick, student board treasurer of Jewish Life at Duke who is in charge of programming the event. “Between 50 and 75 people showed. Everyone likes the atmosphere. It creates a relaxed, chilled-out kind of calm evening where people can have fun.”

Sheesha on the Plaza events are held several times a year at a variety of locations.

“We have the events on East Campus when the freshmen first come to Duke and we also have a couple events on the Plaza on West,” said Sally Ong, a senior and former president of the International Association. “We just started having hookah in Kville as well.”

Senior Rachel Weeks, co-founder of

planned agenda.

Senior Jay Ganatra, president of Campus Council, said he has seen people smoke hookah at campus events like Last Day of Classes. “I remember when we had our March Madness event two years ago, there were many people out on the quad smoking hookah,” Ganatra said.

“At large events, people get together and smoke.”

Many students said hookah is most prevalent among small groups offriends.

“I think it’s probably more often used as an individual thing,” Ribnick said. “No one I know would set it up by themselves, but in small groups of 2 or 3 or 4 people. I see a lot of people that sit outside of their sections late at night and smoke.”

Moore said he created the Facebook group “Hookah aficionados” as away of announcing relevant information to Duke’s network of hookah users.

“If it’s a nice day and we want to get a bunch of people together to smoke hookah in the gardens, or if people have questions about hookah use, they sometimes post it on the group,” Moore said.

Many students obtain their coals, tobacco and mouthpieces from International Delights, a Middle Eastern restaurant in Durham.

“We have students and regular customers,” manager Mohammed Ali said.

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International Delights, a popular restaurant on Ninth Street, is a popular destination for hookah smokers.

“Hookah is becoming a popular thing.

People come in and eat the food and smoke after.”

Some students, however, said they are disappointed by local options and look to outlets beyond Durham to meet their hookah needs.

“I’m really surprised that there isn’t a hookah bar in Durham,” Weeks said. “I feel like Duke alone could probably support one. International Delights does not necessarily have a hookah bar atmosphere.”

Aladdin’s and Hazmat’s are two hookah bars in Chapel Hill that are often frequented by Duke students.

“I see everybody,” Hazmat’s owner Killion said. “We market primarily from age 18 to 118. When school is in, we see a lot more students.”

From house parties to appearances at George’s Garage, Weeks said hookah has become a great addition to the Duke social

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“If you’re in a section party and everybody’s standing and shoving, it doesn’t really say, ‘chill atmosphere.’ And I just think that when you add hookah, it invites four or five people to sit down and enjoy it and talk,” Weeks said. “It’s a wonderful experience.”

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conversation, how to keep their humanity before us,” he said. “They don’t seem to be visible in this—not for the University, not for us.”

Charlie Piot, associate professor of cultural anthropology and African and African-American studies continued the conversation by noting that, after returning to campus from West Africa in the wake of the scandal, he was shocked by some of the caricatures the media and bloggers had made of his fellow faculty members.

Piot said faculty from the Group of 88 had been unfairly characterized as antistudent and anti-student-athlete, and that although the lacrosse incident certainly was a trigger for “What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?,” the ad had been intentionally misread.

“It was not an ad about the guilt or innocence of the lacrosse players,” he said.

Piot said he did not like the term “Social Disaster” but that he still agreed with the issues the ad addressed.

It is indisputable that the Duke campus culture has problems with a racial caste system, is anti-intellectual and suffers from problems of excessive drinking, Piot added.

Tariq Mohideen, a sophomore who spoke as part of the discussion, said he found the ad initially unconstructive.

“My first reaction was, ‘why?’” he said.

Mohideen added that the advertisement led to a “shouting match” between

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the Group of 88 and a vocal minority of the student body. He also said he was angry with the administration for not defending the lacrosse players or at least establishing a forum for debate.

“I did not have a place to speak,” he said Mohideen added that the dialogue over the lacrosse case quickly became overly polarized, pointing to the discussion itself as an improvement to the problem. “I really want something like this, and

I know many people around here do too,” he said.

Danielle Plattenburg, a senior, concluded the presentation, noting that although she disagreed with the term “Social Disaster,” she agreed with the decision of the Group of 88 to speak out about cultural issues on campus.

Plattenburg said it would have been irresponsible for professors not to use the campus as a text in the classroom, adding

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from tests of 16, 475 college students across the country. A comparison of student scores from 1982 to 2006 demonstrated a 3 percent increase in NPI scores, according to the report.

Mark Leary, professor and director of the social psy-

that although racism, sexism and class divisions are not exclusively Duke issues, they exist on campus and need to be actively addressed.

Plattenburg said the concerns brought forward by the ad had existed on campus for quite some time and that the lacrosse incident simply brought them back to the forefront.

“I think that nothing really changed in March,” she said.

dren as they get older,” Leachman said.

She said such methods may not have equipped children well enough to deal with conflict on their own. “[There is] so much global conflict that needs to be solved,” Leachman said. “I am concerned that young people won’t have the full tool kit to deal with it in the most

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2003—-just days after Wilson publicly accused the administration of doctoring prewar intelligence. No one will be charged with the leak itself, which the trial confinned came first from then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

“The results are actually sad,” Fitzgerald told reporters after the verdict. “It’s sad that we had a situation where a high-level official person who worked in the office of the vice president obstructed justice and lied under oath. We wish that it had not happened, but it did.”

One juror, former Washington Post reporter Denis Collins, said the jury did not believe Libby’s main defense: that he never lied but just had a faulty memory.

Juror Jeff Comer agreed.

Collins said the jurors spent a week charting the testimony and evidence on 34

poster-size pages. “There were good managerial type people on this jury who took everything apart and put it in the right place,” Collins said. “After that, it wasn’t a matter of opinion. It was just there.”

Libby, not only Cheney’s chiefofstaffbut also an assistant to Bush, was expressionless as the verdict was announced on the 10th day of deliberations. In the front row, his wife, Harriet Grant, choked out a sob and her head sank.

Libby could face up to 25 years in prison when sentenced June 5, but federal sentencing guidelines will probably prescribe far less, perhaps one to three years. Defense attorneys said they would ask for a retrial and if that fails, appeal the conviction.

“We have every confidence Mr. Libby ultimately will be vindicated,” defense attorney Theodore Wells told reporters. He said that Libby was “totally innocent and that he did not do anything wrong.”

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said the study misidentified Duke students’ he is not an motivations. on expert “Narcissism narcissism, can be confused he has conwith an inner ducted relatMark Leary sense to achieve ed studies on and accomplish director, Duke social psychology program self-esteem senior goals,” and self-comZach Bencan said. passion.

“Self-esteem scores and other indicaSenior Justin Murray said he has wittors of positive self-feelings have innessed an above-average level of conficreased notably over the past several dence in his fellow students. decades,” Leary wrote in an e-mail. “We “[We] would have to have [a high can debate the reasons why this increase level of confidence] to get into Duke,” has occurred, but [Twenge’s] concluMurray said. The study’s researchers also sions seem on target.” said technology has helped to fuel the inLeary said narcissistic people behave crease in narcissism. in a self-centered way, viewing each situa“By its very name, MySpace encourtion in terms of “what’s in it for me.” as does ages attention-seeking, “They think they are better than other YouTube,” Twenge said.

Bencan, however, said that although people, have more correct views of things and ought to be deferred to by technology gives college students a sense others,” Leary said. “They expect to get of empowerment, he is unsure whether their way, to have others acknowledge or not it contributes to narcissism. how special they are and become angry “If everybody has material on Facebook when these things don’t happen.” or YouTube, it’s hard for anyone to feel The researchers attribute the apparparticularly special about it,” Leary said. ent upward trend in narcissism to the Still, Leachman said students will have “self-esteem movement” that began in the to change the way they approach problems 1980s, and said confidence building has as they transition out of a university setting. gone too far.

“Every year, I am impressed with the Leachman said the desire to emphatalent and experiences that Duke stusize the exceptionality of children is a dents display,” Leachman said. “They are characteristic of many modem parents, an impressive lot individually, but collecincluding herself. tively there is some dynamic [having to “We wanted our children to be more do with being] at the top of the class [besecure in themselves and wanted to have a fore coming to Duke], and now not more friendly relationship with our chil- everybody can be.”

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He added that if the change does not proceed smoothly,

tion of the addition to our current space, we will create a separate space for ‘non-country of origin’ diversity flags,” Boulding wrote that e-mail. “In other words, the current mallway space will consist entirely of country-of-origin flags, while the non-country diversity flags will be placed within the new wing of the mallway.”

West said he worries that the small amount of space allotted for diversity flags will push out some groups as it makes room for others.

“The Assistant Dean of Fuqua Will Mitchell stated in an e-mail regarding diversity flags that, ‘We will sometimes need to make choices, based either on space or on the message that a particular emblem might signify,’” West said. “I find it appalling and offensive that the school would take subjective discretion in determining which cultural values they feel are important to promote and which they feel are unworthy.”

Fischer said that although there are only five openly gay students enrolled at Fuqua, the rainbow flag in the

airlines may find their timetables off, and financial sectors may have difficulties successfully completing transactions such as international fund transfers.

Welch said there may be other downsides as well.

Some children might have to go to school in the dark, there may be more traffic accidents or there could be an increase in crime, he said.

Spokespeople from both Microsoft and Apple said the problem in computers will be remedied through an automatic update system or, for customers with older systems, through a downloadable patch that will perform the same function as an automatic update.

Other than worrying about their own personal computers, officials at Duke’s Office of Information Technology said students should have no concerns about the DST change affecting the University.

“By and large we’ve completed the process,” said Kevin Miller, senior manager of information technologies for OIT. “For the network side, all our patches are applied. We’ve been planning these changes for a few months at least.”

Miller added, however, that many universities and companies he has spoken with only recendy realized the changes were coming.

And many students on campus may not know about the change in the first place.

“It just sounds like a huge pain in the ass,” said sophomore Marion McMillan, who added that he had no idea the change was being implemented.

Tom O’Brian, a spokesperson for the National Institute of Standards and Technology said that this is a relatively easy switch.

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Regardless of the number of students at Fuqua involved in the LGBT community, Breeden said successful business school graduates must recognize alternative lifestyles on their way to facing ongoing social issues.

“We want our students to make a positive difference in a world that is complex and multi-cultural,” he said. “If our graduates are to flourish in this global arena, what better way to prepare them than to openly discuss the meaning and value of diversity within our own community.”

West said creating clubs celebrating the social identities represented in the Fuqua studentbody would allow diversity to flourish without the administration excluding groups.

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that we can’t have kegs on that quad.”

Lange emphasized that the recommendations were a work in progress that would have to be discussed and adjusted before they could be put into effect.

“We don’t take it for granted that all the ideas captured in the report are good ideas,” he said. “The point is to get them out on the table.”

Many students were strongly opposed to the discontinuation of selective living groups, as proposed by the report, citing the sense of community and the social opportunities they foster on campus.

Students suggested that their elimination would not automatically translate to unity and interaction on West Campus, given the campus’ inherently disconnected structure.

A panel of studentsand administrators, including Provost Peter Lange, discusses the Campus CultureInitiative report Tuesday night in the Bryan Center.

“Physical space matters a great deal for the way communities can build,” Lange said. “But it is also true that we do have selective living groups that manage to do well when they come with pre-existing resources.”

Others said they agreed that selective living groups have an inequitable control of the real estate on West.

“As someone who has just finished rushing, I totally agree with getting rid of selective living groups altogether,” said freshman Priyanka Chaurasia, a member of Brownstone selective living group. “We have two options—to expand selective living or get rid of it all together.”

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This weekend, huge crowds of Shiite worshippers will gather for rites marking the end of a 40-day mourning period for the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Hussein died near Karbala in a 7th-century battle.

In Hillah, southeast of Karbala, a long line of pilgrims marched toward a bridge checkpoint on the edge of the city. Food and cool drinks were distributed at nearby tents.

The first suicide bomber killed dozens and touched off a mad dash away from the bridge, said witness Salim Mohammed Ali Abbas.

As the fleeing crowd grew thicker, another suicide bomber among them blew himself apart. An Associated Press cameraman at the scene said ambulances and Iraqi police swarmed the area.

A police commander, Brig. Gen. Othman al-Ghanemi, said the attackers joined the procession outside Hillah and waited until it reached the checkpoint botdeneck to try to maximize the damage.

“The government bears some responsibility for this,” complained a Shiite parliament member, Bahaa al-Araji. “It has not provided enough security to protect the pilgrims.”

In the past two years, the powerful Mahdi Army militia watched over pilgrimages to Karbala.

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Starting in 1975, the NCAA changed its rules to allow teams that did not win their conference tournaments to still earn berths to the NCAA Tournament. At first they limited all conferences to a maximum of just two teams, but as the tournament expanded over the next decade they eliminated that rule to allow conferences to send as many teams as were qualified to the Big Dance.

The rule changes helped improve the quality of March Mad■ ness by ensuring all of peit the nation’s best teams were included.

But it de-emphasized the importance of conference tournaments, which are deep in history and tradition in their own right.

No longer did teams’ chances to compete for a national championship rest solely on winning their conference tournaments.

Although no sensible college coach in America would admit that conference tournaments are meaningless, it seems as if many coaches in the power conferences are secretly changing their philosophies. Some would probably rather rest up for the NCAA Tournament than play three games in as many days—risking injury and exhaustion just to capture a league championship.

Clearly, Mike Krzyzewski doesn’t subscribe to this philosophy as his Blue Devil teams have reached the championship game for nine straight years, playing their way to a No. 1 seed two years ago by winning an ACC championship.

One might wonder, though, whether

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Senior Matt Danowski scored three goals and handed out four assists in Tuesday afternoon's game.

The atmosphere Tuesday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium for the matchup between No. 1 Duke and St. Joseph’s was nothing like the emotional one in the stadium last weekend.

In the end, it did not matter.

Led by Zack Greer’s seven goals, the Blue Devils took an early lead and then used a second-half spurt to close out an emphatic 18-4 victory.

The Hawks (04) entered the game coming off three 4_ losses to top-25 ST. JOE'S 18 teams, and Duke DUKE (4-0) put on an inspired performance against a team it was supposed to beat.

“In this day of internet and knowing people’s records and statistics, the guys can look and say, ‘Geez, they are 0-3 and we are 3-0, and this is what the outcome should be,”’ head coach John Danowski said. “But something that every team has to realize is that you earn your stripes. [St. Joe’s] just doesn’t have the experience, but it’s a great winning lesson for our team.”

Matt Danowski opened the scoring early on after the Blue Devils had killed off a power play, and midfielders Brad Ross and Greer notched goals to make the score 3-0 in the first 15 minutes. But Duke struggled to extend its lead in the second quarter, and the teams went into the locker room with the Blue Devils leading 6-2.

Duke came out in the second half looking like a much more composed, passionate side, though, and the final score reflected it.

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The winner of this week’s UCF Challenge at the Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Fla. received an exemption to the LPGA’s Sybase Classic.

That might have been motivation forAmanda Blumenherst if she had even remembered the perk associated with winning.

Blumenherst fired a career-best 11-under-par 205 to win the tournament, beating her nearest competitor by 12 strokes. The sophomore’s performance helped propel the Blue Devils to their first team title of the spring season, as they throttled a strong field. Third-ranked Duke ended up 26 shots in front of the second-place finisher, No. 2 Georgia.

The exemption to the LPGA event, however, slipped Blumenherst’s mind during her three rounds Monday and Tuesday.

“I was kind of surprised,” Blumenherst said. “I can’t believe I had forgotten about it.... It’s a great honor to be given an exemption, but right now college golf comes first.”

Duke head coach Dan Brooks and Blumenherst —the reigning National Player of the Year—both acknowledged, however, that she might not play in the tournament, given its timing. The Sybase Classic, schedule for May 14-20, is sandwiched between the NCAA —

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game-winning run.

After getting off to a quick start Tuesday afternoon and pushing a run across the plate in the first inning, the red-hot Blue Devils ran into serious trouble in the second against Temple.

The Owls opened the frame with a pair of base hits and advanced both runners into scoring posiTEMPLE tion with a sacribunt. Temple fice DUKE 7 then exploded for three more hits and a pair of walks to bring the score to 4-1 and knock starter Jeremy Gould out of the game.

Duke head coach Sean McNally went to his bullpen and brought in freshman Will Currier to try to keep the Blue Devils in the game. Not only did Currier get out of the jam, but he went on to throw five scoreless innings to earn his first win as Duke (14-1) rallied from behind to top Temple (2-8) 74 at Jack Coombs Stadium.

“Getting my first collegiate win was great,” Currier said. “I just came in there and was trying to get the ball over the plate. I have to give a lot of credit to my team, they played great defense behind me and it made it really easy to go out there and get the win. I tried to keep the ball down, throw strikes, and the guys put it in play and my team made plays behind me.”

With the score knotted at 4-4 in the sixth inning and a man on first with one out, sophomore Kyle Butler—who entered the game after starting shortstop Gabriel Saade made a base-running mistake in the second —ripped a double to left field to put two runners in scoring position.

McNally called for a suicide squeeze on the next pitch and freshman Jonathan Foreman laid down a perfect bunt to bring

“It was a second and third situation with a tie ballgame, and I had a lot of confidence Jon Foreman would get the bunt down,” McNally said. “I just felt that it would be a good opportunity. They threw it in the zone, and Jon did a great job getting it down. I just really wanted to get out of that inning getting at least one run and that 5-4 cushion.”

Duke tacked on two more runs in the seventh inning when Temple fell apart onewalk and then scored all the way from first when Owl right fielder Sean Barksdale misplayed a Nate Freiman base hit.

Freiman then came across the plate to make the score 7-4 when Gould—who moved to designated hitter after being lifted from the mound—hit a routine ground ball to second base with two outs that went right through the legs ofMatt Heltz.

In the top of the eighth, freshman Michael Seander entered the game and pitched two shutout innings to earn his team-leading fourth save of the season.

“Mike’s getting more and more comfortable at the end of games,” McNally said. “I know he wants the ball, and he’s continuing to pitch better and better at that time of the game. It’s very encouraging.”

The Blue Devils will take the field again today, matching up against Xavier at 3 p.m.

With a win, Duke will equal its win total of 15 from last season.

“We have one game left before we start ACC play, and we feel good about the way we’re playing,” McNally said. “We can play better though, and we’re going to keep getting better. We’re going to come out [Wednesday] and continue to play hard.”

Duke starter Jeremy Gouldwas knocked out of thegame before thesecond inning, but Duke rallied to win.

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yet to reach the ACC championship game Now this could clearly be a result ofhis team having an off day or losing to a better-prepared squad, but maybe not.

His final two Kansas squads—the 2002 and 2003 teams—failed to make the Big 12 championship game either, despite decisively winning the league’s regular season title in both seasons. It’s impossible to say whether Williams is deliberately tanking, but his recent history in conference tournaments does raise some questions.

Looking ahead to this weekend’s ACC Tournament, then, which teams really have a lot to gain from winning the title?

After losing three of their final six games, North Carolina may have to win the crown Sunday to earn a No. 1 seed

later that night. But even if they exit early, the Tar Heels will still earn the highest seed of any ACC team and will still probably be no lower than a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. This UNC team’s legacy has nothing to do with an ACC championship, and everything to do with the Big Dance.

With a strong showing in Tampa, Duke could quiet season-long criticism of not living up to preseason expectations —the Blue Devils were picked second in the conference, but stumbled to a seventh place finish. For such a young team, an ACC title would be a major accomplishment. Plus, with their difficult strength of schedule and high RPI ranking, Duke could still potentially earn a No. 3 seed

this tiring run does more harm then help as teams head into the only postseason tournament that really matters.

Last year at the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, there was a lot of chatter in the media room among the reporters that for some teams, losing early to gain more time to rest might be better for their longterm NCAA Tournament chances. And Roy Williams’ name was heavily involved in the conversations.

Since arriving at UNC three years ago, he has posted a 2-3 record in the ACC Tournament including a semifinal exit by his 2005 national title team—and has

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For the ACC’s other five NCAA Tournament

locks—Virginia, Virginia Tech,

Boston College, Maryland and Georgia Tech—their seeding will be affected, but it is unlikely that any would capture even a No. 3 seed, let alone anything higher.

And anything short of cutting down the nets on Sunday will probably not be enough for Clemson or Florida State to punch a ticket to the NCAA Tournament.

So the question is: how relevant is the ACC Tournament at this point? The winor-go-home mentality really doesn’t begin for another week. For now, some teams might be better off going home so that they have fresher legs to win when it

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“We threw the ball away a lot in the first half, but in the second half we settled down a little bit and were able to work the ball a little better,” Greer said. “They were physical and worked hard, and we knew they would play that way, but we just had to get back to our game in the second half and that worked for us,” While Greer provided the bulk of the scoring, several other players recorded at least one goal. These came mostly in the fourth quarter, when Matt Danowski and Greer sat out while other players got a chance to contribute.

“I wasn’t at all surprised that so many different players scored,” John Danowski said. “One of the things we preach right from the beginning here is that everybody can make a play and everyone is capable.

We want to be really unselfish and able to move the ball, and that’s one of the things we’re trying to do.”

Duke came into the game averagingjust less than 15 goals a game and exceeded that number Tuesday, but its defense and goalkeeping were more impressive against the Hawks.

“That has really been a focus for us,” Danowski said about keeping the ball out of goalie Dan Loftus’s net. “We’ve been trying to work on the defensive end and play better defensively. [Loftus] only played eight games as a starter last year so he is still feeling his way, and he gets better every time out.”

The Blue Devils will next take on Loyola at the First 4 Tournament in San Diego this weekend, and they will enter the competition in a confident mood.

“This was a great mid-week game where we probably would have been practicing, but instead we got to work and get better for the rest of the season,” Greer said.

Regionals and the NCAA Championships.

“I trust her judgment completely as I trust the judgment of most of my players,” Brooks said. “I know she’ll make a good choice based on whether it’s good preparation for nationals for her. She really is a team player, so she’ll do it for the good of the team.”

Blumenherst, the current No. 1 golfer in the country, was not the only contributing factor to Duke’s collective triumph—she had plenty of help from her teammates.

Sophomore Jennie Lee, the nation’s third-ranked golfer, finished in fourth place with a 3-over-par 219. In addition, freshman Alison Whitaker placed fifth at 4over par, and junior Jennifer Pandolfi shot 5-over, good for seventh place.

Brooks, however, was especially impressed with the third-round effort of

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Anna Grzebien. The senior shot a 2-underpar 70—the second-lowest score of the day—after struggling through two rounds of 78 and 79 Monday.

“I was particularly proud of Anna to come in with that round after a couple of rounds that weren’t quite as solid,” Brooks said. “She showed a lot of determination to come in with a score like that.”

The team championship is Duke’s first of the spring campaign, but Brooks was not necessarily surprised by the dominant performance—especially after the Blue Devils placed second in the Wildcat Invitational in Arizona last week despite their battle with tough greens.

“We didn’t play exceptionally better golf tee-to-green, but the ball just started dropping, and that gives you momentum,” Brooks said.

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ition and fees, paying for food with so-called “Moeateries and pus ©QltOrial nopoly money,” -14 Merchantsstudents have been on-Points. The Campus Culture Initiative Re- conditioned to pick up packport, however, suggests a bold aged food, hand over their change in priorities for Duke DukeCard and eat elsewhere.

If most of the dining opDining Services.

In its current form, dining is tions on campus, however, viewed as a business that needs were like those praised in the CCI Report—the Refectory, to make a profit. It stresses “speed, variety and cost effec- Twinnie’s Cafe and Saladelia tiveness.” The CCI points out at the von der Heyden Pavilthat facilities have suffered as a ion—students would have a result and suggests that “the very different dining experience. More and better seatuniversity should acknowledge that subsidizing dining repre- ing, slower service and real sents an important mechanism plates and silverware all enfor creating the infrastructure courage people to come to—of a positive campus climate” and stay at—eateries, The locations of these esthat encourages interaction.

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the CCI Steering Committee.

The von der Heyden Pavilion is in the center of the academic life of the humanities; Twinnie’s, of engineering; the Refectory, of religion.

The new addition to the School ofLaw would be the perfect location for an eatery to bring together law, business, public policy and science students, faculty and staff. The French Science Center also provides the opportunity for a unique dining experience, since undergraduates, graduate students and faculty all use the facility.

The Marketplace and Great Hall, however, do not need the facilities overhauls called for in the report. Small changes, such as more live music and TV screens recently seen in the Great Hall, would encourage diners to stay longer. The Great Hall could

also use better seating, with round tables, which are always better for conversation.

The recently proposed change to the freshman meal plan goes against the principles of the CCI, charging students in the Class of 2011 more money and forcing them to eat more meals at the Marketplace because the food quality rose this year. Duke should absorb the change in price in favor of promoting this improved dining option.

In its effort to invest “in the social environment of the community,” the University should also enhance outdoor dining establishments. Picnic tables on the quads could promote quad unity and provide people with places to enjoy their meals together on a nice day.

Despite this necessary change of focus, there is still a need for the fast-paced, grab-

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and-go eateries. Currently, however, these get-and-go options overwhelm other choices. The balance needs to tipped toward slower dining experiences.

On-campus dining must be a priority in any effort to improve undergraduate life at Duke.

Eighty-five percent of Duke students live on campus, and there is no nearby city street full of restaurants to provide easily accessible alternatives.

Subsidizing dining and making students, not money, the top priority would allow Duke to make the changes in atmosphere and infrastructure called for in the CCI. It would also allow the University to offer lower prices and better, healthier food.

This is the third in a series of editorials about the recommendations in the recently released Campus Culture Initiative Report.

Unprecedented opportunity As a member of the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee, I spent the last several months (literally) banging my head against a wall. Having strongly conveyed my concerns about the CGl’s process and recommendations to the committee, it is both troubling and reassuring to hear them now expressed with the public release of the Report.

To begin, the Reguest column port probably wouldn’t have mustered a grade higher than a “C” in any course at Duke. Only two sources were directly cited in the entire document, one being Rolling Stone magazine. The most salient and controversial recommendation—the proposal to eliminate selective living groups—was justified in a mere halfpage that did not cite any supporting data or weigh any alternative solutions.

And to top it all off, the Report contains sentences like this: “The University must work to recognize and empower those whose conduct of the conversation has been most enhancing for the community and those in whose lives and work the conversation has borne most fruit, and to identify and alter behaviors and habits that inhibit or devalue the conversation to which Duke aspires.”

What?

In some respects, this is a good sign for those of us (myself included) who take issue with the proposed elimination of selective living groups, heightened enforcement of the alcohol policy and some of the other more controversial recommendations. The unfortunate thing, however, is that the CGI had the potential to be die most influential catalyst for change at Duke in easily the last decade. The 10,000-volt electric shock that was the “lacrosse incident” vaporized institutional barriers to addressing long-standing deficiencies in our campus culture and represents an unprecedented opportunity. But the CGI failed to grasp that opportunity.

The Report’s triteness notwithstanding, changes to everything from residential life to dining services to faculty/student interaction still are desperately needed. “Changes” don’t necessarily constitute the wholesale elimination of social outlets or selective living groups, a tightening of the alcohol or any other policy, or the excision of any portion of our community through changes in admissions.

“Changes” mean recognition by the University that students’ experiences outside the classroom are just as important as those inside the classroom and should be prioritized accordingly. And at a place like Duke, institutional priorities are ultimately reflected in one thing: the allocation of funding.

elliott wolf

Consider the following: Amid hundreds of millions of dollars of new construction on campus, we still lack a viable social venue on West Campus that would allow groups without housing sections to easily host events. Constructing such a venue would allow for a more diverse set of student groups to influence the social scene, facilitate the responsible, legal consumption of alcohol and generally improve the lives of students living on West Campus. Students and administrators agree that this would be an extremely positive development, and some progress has been made with proposed renovations to the West Union. But we’re still not there yet.

Even when venues are available, inclusive, safe and popular, events such as DukePlays and Nasher Noir are few and far between, largely because they are prohibitively expensive within the existing funding structures that currently facilitate student programming.

What would the social scene look like if 1,000students partied (with faculty and others) in the Bostock Library or the Nasher at least once every weekend?

Beyond the social scene, day-to-day interactions could be significantly improved as well. The transition from ARAMARK, Corp. to Bon Appetit in the Marketplace on East Campus resulted in the majority of freshmen eating there on a regular basis, bringing diverse interactions and a sense of community. Additional support for Dining Services could have a similarly significant impact on upperclassmen, yet just last week DSG was involved with a significant conflict with administrators over whether or not the existing subsidy to Dining Services would continue.

The CCI didn’t completely miss the boat on these and other means of improving our campus culture. Unfortunately, however, the Report and its recommendations were framed in such away as to focus discussions on more controversial, intractable proposals. Had the CCI given other, more positive elements due consideration, the imperative for greater institutional support for undergraduate education and undergraduate social life would have been that much stronger.

Several months ago I asked in an e-mail to all undergraduate students, “So, what do you want Duke to be?” Despite the shortcomings of the CCI and some of the controversial questions at hand, that question is still on the table. What do you want Duke to be?

Provost Peter Lange is heading the effort to determine which and to what extent each of the CCTs recommendations should be and will be soliciting significant student input. As we engage in this conversation over the course of the semester, just be sure to fight not only against what you disagree with, but also for whatyou agree with.

Elliott Wolf is a Trinity junior, president ofDuke Student Government and a member of the CCI Steering Committee.

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usually hate get-rich-quick schemes and the sketchy mountebanks who promote them, but this week I was somewhere in the middle of my interminable thesis when I came up with the best money-making idea ever. I was typing away about emotion and decision making when I suddenly realized that at least four people on page 40 had “found” something. With my extensive training in English (I do actually have an English degree), I decided thatI would be remiss to allow everyone in my thesis to “find” things. Some of them were going to have to “determine” or “ascertain” their jacqui detwiler things. I began to flip back through the earlier pages, please hire, desperate. wondering how many scienlists I had in there “establishing” or “contending” various theorems. It was then that I had an epiphany. Why the hell hasn’t anyone created a special thesaurus for scientists that has 4,000 synonyms of the words “find” and “argue” already in past tense and passive voice for quick reference?

Let me explain why this is a good idea. The other day a friend of mine laughingly pointed out a paragraph in a paper from the 1950s that she was reading for her cognitive psychology class that contained the phrase, “My conception, which does not really explain anything....”

Why should that be funny? Well, in today’s science world of total objectivism, language like this would absolutely not ever be allowed into a peer-reviewed journal. It is our job as scientists to take ourselves completely out of our research, usually by using passive voice and third person, and writing generally awkward, unnatural sentences. While this is perfectly reasonable and likely even an absolute requirement for the continued advancement of science, it is time-consuming to write in away you would never speak. Thus, many a great scientist has done great research, but gotten bogged down in the particulars of writing a manuscript.

I mean seriously, how ridiculous would it be if people walked around referring to themselves and their friends by their last names and speaking entirely in the passive voice?

Actually, perhaps I forgot to mention, but this weekend Detwiler, Wong, et al. proposed an experiment in which Duke graduate students were offered ethanol in a novel environment. It was hypothesized that a significant number of subjects would be found to consume increased quantities of cream puffs and brownies upon completion ofethanol treatment. This occurred. In addition, several participants were found to be on the couch during the next light cycle.

So, back to this thesaurus. Undoubtedly many scientists are at this very moment banging their heads against desks in agony that there aren’t more synonyms for the word “examine,” or more punctuation marks that can be used in place of commas. Do you, the intelligent, entrepreneurial student body of Duke, want to let this go on?

And it’s not like you have to totally rely on the English language. You can even make up some words, like assertifind, or replicatify. You’ll be like Shakespeare, only more scientific.

And ifyou’re really gonna go for it, you might also want to provide some tips on how to refer to one’s own research in a paper without sounding annoyingly like Terrell Owens.

And yes, I know that in theory, one should be able to use a regular thesaurus for this kind of thing, but I and my scientist brothers and sisters have more important things to do than hang out on thesaurus.com all day... like calculate p-values.

So how about you get on that, and then while I and the rest of my scientist friends are busy writing theses and manuscripts and consulting your illustrious tome, you can be writing your name on hundred-dollarbills before using them to wipe Cristal offyour 40 bitches. Detwiler is a genius (2007).

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on the color of his skin—a truth that has no place for

Jane Chong asserts that because people have their solipsistic racial categorization.

own experiences, we should tolerate their “reality”— a reality based on group identity (“Flipping the race card,” Feb. 29). Identity politics, though, is solipsism; it allows people to—in the name of personal experience—categorize themselves. Chong says, “[the minority] does not sit up at night, thinking up ways to twist history to fit his life.” Because, Chong says, “He has history enough of his own.” But isn’t that history to fit his own life right there? His own history, we assume, fits his life. Could we call history that does not fit our life our own? No, of course not. Indeed, this person has no need to twist history to fit his life because it already does. Whatever his perception of his own history is—his “reality”—it already fits his life.

This is the philosophical question, then; is there a reality of a single person independent of that single person’s assessment of it? In other words, is an individual’s history, as he perceives it, not his actual history? I would say that the nature of memory and time—that the former is incomplete and that the latter forces the human to always be in the present necessarily obfuscates reality—even of our own history. In light of individual failure I argue for universal standards that proscribe solipsism. An individual’s perception of his/her own reality serves no purpose for society. Therefore, we need another reality—a collectively shared one to serve in its place. The most salubrious collective reality in terms of an effect on society is one based on universal truths. What are those universal truths? I offer one: that a man be judged by the content of his character rather than —

Wheeler Frost Trinity 'lO Cloak coverage draws poor parallels to Star Trek The Chronicle’s recent comparison of the “invisibility cloak” to the “Starship Enterprise’s cloaking device” suffers from yet another case of inaccurate reporting in the media-fueled hype of the so far benign research project (“Duke scientists work to imitate ‘Star Trek,”’ Feb. 20). It would be more appropriate to attribute the cloaking device to the Romulans or any of the other races that used cloaking technology regularly; while some of the various incarnations of the Enterprise have used a cloaking device on isolated occasions as a temporary measure (Most notably the original Enterprise in “The Enterprise Incident”), no Enterprise was permanently outfitted with one aside from the alternate future “Enterprise-D” in “All Good Things...”. (Of course, in the canonical timeline the Enterprise-D was destroyed in “Star Trek: Generations” years before the events of “All Good Things...’”s alternate future take place.) Moreover, the Federation was not bound to develop or implement cloaking technology under the Treaty of Algeron, the terms of which span three ofthe five TV series. Associating the cloaking device primarily with the Enterprise is misleading and a disservice to both the continuity of the Star Trek universe and the United Federation of Planets.

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a retired sex kitten, I understand the appeal: The I’d like to think that most of the time, a woman initiecho of a pounding beat in a dimly lit room, the triates sex because she really, truly is aroused and because umph of a dry hump, the print ofrosy lipstick on a that sexual encounter is going to somehow scratch the ffat guy’s cigarette and the sound and fury of college life, itch. But as this column (past and present) has attempted to show, this isn’t always the case. As prevalent as the a la OldSchool and Animal House. It’s almost irrediscussion on hookup culture has been during my time sistible... until about midas an undergraduate, the women of my generation still don’t want sex for sex. way through college When it comes to sex, To quote another friend; “I’m not sure I’ve ever had Duke women don’t have sex like a man. Regardless of what the context is, having much of a choice. It’s eisex is still letting someone be really, really close to you. ther hookup or bust.

It takes a connection that’s more than just physical atDuke is not a sexually shadee malaklou traction. I don’t want to have sex with a stranger.”

It is important for us to ask, in the aftermath of “sex predatory campus, but va-va-voom and scandal” at Duke, what does sexual agency at Duke the words of Donna in look like? Is sexual agency the sound of clanking heels Lisker, director of the and the work of sorority women post-jungle Juice? Is it Women’s Center, men set Duke’s social rules Although the hookup culture is painted as full of the confused ramblings of a sex activist who dances on sexual agency, it’s not. Women are free to participate tables? Is it both? Or is it neither? Does sexual agency even exist? Or is it a long-lost dream we once had? in the culture but not to make any demands—or to atFour years into the to it. change tempt The Campus Culhookup culture, I’m still ture Initiative finda woman who loves her It is important for us to ask, in the afterstiletto heels and at least last published ings, week, had little to say math of “sex and scandal” at Duke, what the notion of sexual liberation. I’m just not conabout the infamous does sexual agency at Duke look like? vinced it works. And I’m sex lives ofDuke’s unnot convinced that, upon dergraduate women, or the heralded congraduation, I will be able that I’ve had sexual experiences or many fulfilling of female sexual This column to will attempt cept agency. say to delineate what the CCI left out that my sexual agency was as strong as I claimed it to be.

The problem with the hookup culture is two-fold: At Duke, there seems to be a fine line between being liberated and sexually used, and many Duke Duke to themselves about what sexually Many women are lying they really want out of a hookup; and furthermore, women —myself included—do not know how to maneuver that line. Forget emotional satisfaction; the sex itself many of them are not having satisfying sexual experiwith Duke isn’t good. Most sexual encounters at Duke, despite the ences men. great opportunity for female sexual agency, still end up Despite the fact that sex culture on college campuses—and at Duke especially—now supports the idea that being about the man and about male pleasure. We a woman can have sex like a man, women themselves still dance in foam. We wresde in KYJelly. We ride the Shooters’ mechanical bull. And we do it all for the voyeuristic feel alienated from their libidos.

In a popular Sex and the City episode, Carrie posits pleasure of Duke men. that having sex like a man implies having sex and then As women, we might not be as sexually liberated as we feeling nothing afterward. Although as women, we claim think. Our sexual mantras may be strong, but our sexuto be taking our sexuality by the horns and running with al experiences are not; and what we really want out of a at the end of the sexual do feel hookup still remains unexpressed. Until our experiit, encounter, we really nothing? Or are we constandy convincing ourselves that ences and desires catch up with our heavy words, it’s a man’s hookup world. We’re just living in it. we should be feeling nothing?

To quote a friend: “Why should women want to Shadee Malaklou is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every have sex like a guy? I tried it for about a year and reother Wednesday. alized I was just fooling myself.”

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