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TAMPA, Fla. It had been 12 years since Duke played on a Thursday in the ACC Tournament—and it showed. Coming in off two straight losses to end the regular season, the seventhseeded Blue Devils (22-10) bowed out of the ACC DUKE Tournament 85 before the fl nals for the first time in nine years, losing an overtime battle to No. 10 seed N.C. State. Duke could not stop the Wolfpack’s offense in the second half or in the extra period, allowing N.C. State (1614) to overcome a five-point halftime deficit and win 85-80 in the St. Pete Times Forum. “It really hurts a lot,” junior DeMarcus Nelson said. “I’ve been here for two years, and in those two years we’ve won this tournament. Not being able to have that opportunity this year really hurts.” After seeing its small halftime lead evaporate, Duke forced overtime with a last-minute flurry. Down two with just under two minutes to go, Marty Pocius—who earned extra playing time due to the suspension of Gerald Henderson—finished a three-point play to give the

Several Seattle media oudets have recently reported that Duke benefactor Aubrey McClendon, Trinity ’Bl, donated more than a million dollars to an anti-gay marriage group in 2004 and 2005. McClendon and his partner at Chesapeake Energy, Tom Ward, contributed approximately $l.l million to Americans United to Preserve Marriage. McClendon and Ward also share

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principal ownership of two Seattle basketball franchises, the NBA Supersonics and the WNBA Storm—a circumstance that has brought the donations under scrutiny. The Storm is a Aubrey McClendon ma jor lesbian attrao tion in left-leaning Seattle, according to The Seatde Times, but the NBA also banned former star Tim Hardaway from the league’s All-Star Weekend for making homophobic remarks in February. “I am for the concept that a marriage should be between a man and a woman; on the other hand, I am for civil unions for gay couples,” McClendon told The Chronicle Wednesday. “In my opinion, that does not make me anti-gay at all. Instead, it makes me pro-the traditional concept of marriage, and I do not believe the biblical sacrament should be between anyone other than a man and a woman.” Junior Katharine Eggleston, president of a gay advocacy group Duke Allies, said SEE MCCLENDON ON PAGE 7

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Self-image haunts many Duke diets Rebecca Wu

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Duke alums Aubrey and Katie McClendon donated $6 million in 2005 to the West Campus Plaza.

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term “effortless perfection” was coined in Duke’s 2003 Women’s Initiative report, but four years later, issues of body image, eating disorders and disordered eating are still prevalent on campus. Although students take pride in the fact that they go to an elite university, several health administrators and students said Duke’s competitive environment may be the driving force behind struggles with disordered eating. “Being in a close-knit, competitive, high-achieving environment definitely makes us look at ourselves differently,” said Franca Alphin, director of health promotions for the Duke Student Health Center. ‘We ask ourselves, ‘What can I do to make myself stand out?’ and food and weight often come into question.” Alphin said few cases of eating disorders are diagnosed on campus because only a small percent-

age of students meet all of the strict clinical criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia, the most common eating disorders. She added, however, that disordered eating includes an unhealthy preoccupation w food, such as counting calories ai cessively worrying about weight. “Many people go through bouts of dered eating during their time at co! Alphin said. Several students added the problem was prevalent on campt “There’s this pressure to h salad, and you think that if the? chicken in it, then it’s a good me: junior Alison Price said. “A lot of pet pie think salad is a good choice, ani SEE EATING ON P

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Latin Americans protest Bush

Democrats unveil Iraq pullout plan by David Espo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON

In a direct challenge

to President George W. Bush, House Democrats unveiled legislation Thursday re-

quiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of next year. The White House said Bush would

veto it,

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the deadline would be added to legislation providing nearly $lOO billion the Bush administration has requested for fighting in Iraq and

Afghanistan.

She told reporters the measure would mark the first time the new Democratic-

controlled Congress has established a “date certain” for the end of U.S. combat in the four-year-old war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,100 U.S. troops. Senior White House adviser Dan Bartlett, accompanying Bush on a flight to Latin America, told reporters, “It’s safe to say it’s a nonstarter for the president.” Within an hour of Pelosi’s news conference, House Republican Leader John Boehner attacked the measure. He said Democrats were proposing legislation that amounted to “establishing and telegraphing to our enemy a timetable” that would result in failure of the U.S. military mission in Iraq.

“Gen. [David] Petraeus should be the one making the decisions on what happens on the ground in Iraq, not Nancy Pelosi or John Murtha,” the Ohio Republican added. Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, has been heavily involved in crafting legislation designed to end U.S. participation in the war. According to an explanation of the measure distributed by Democratic aides, the timetable for withdrawal would be accelerated if the government ofPrime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not meet goals for providing for Iraq’s security. SEE PULLOUT ON PAGE 4

Iran stays unfazed by U.N. pressures by

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VIENNA, Austria Iran on Thursday shrugged off the latest punitive U.N. action —suspension of nearly two dozen nuclear aid programs —and showed no signs it was cowed by the possibility of even tougher penalties in the form of new Security Council sanctions. The decision by the 35 board nations of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency to deprive Tehran of 22 technical aid projects was symbolically important. Only North Korea and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had been subject to such action previously.

Still, none of the programs directly applied to the Islamic republic’s developing

uranium enrichment program —which Tehran refuses to mothball despite nearly three months of Security Council sanctions and the possibility that those punitive measures may be tightened. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, Iran’s chief delegate to the lAEA, said as much after the board agreed by consensus to suspend the

programs.

“None of these projects are related to enrichment,” he said of the suspensions.

lAEA technical aid projects are meant to bolster the peaceful use ofnuclear energy in medicine, agriculture, waste management, management training or power generation. The technical aid is provided to dozens of countries, most of them developing nations—but none suspected of possibly trying to develop nuclear weapons, like Iran. Enrichment, by contrast, has both peaceful and military applications. Iran says it wants to develop its enrichment program only to generate nuclear power, and enrichment is not prohibited

“The enrichment program will continue as planned.”

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Gingrich admits he had affair Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against former President Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he said in an interview with the founder of Focus on the Family to be aired today.

Insurgents captured in Iraq U.S.and Iraqi troops captured eight suspected insurgents Thursday in raids north of Baghdad as part of a campaign to prevent insurgents from regrouping outside the city during the ongoing security crackdown.

Elephant birth a first in Asia Veterinarians in Bangkok, Thailand announced Thursday that an artificially Inseminated elephant has given birth to a healthy male—a first in Asia that could be a crucial step in conserving the endangered species. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Brazilians protested a visit by President George W. Bush and his push for an ethanol energy alliance with Brazil. Protesters also lobbed rocks and homemade explosives at riot police in Bogota, Colombia, whereBush is scheduled to visit Sunday as part of his five-nation tour of Latin America.

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Campus Council passes activity fee adjustment studying abroad or living off campus. As a result, many juniors and sen-

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Campus Council passed two resolutions concerning funding and student programming fees at its meeting Thursday night. The first resolution proposed using the Student Activity Fee to fund class council programming instead of the Residential Programming Fee. The second resolution will allow individual students to apply for event funding without support from student groups. Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, said the junior and senior class councils get less funding for programming than the sophomore class council due to students

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Duke faculty talked about the the effect Duke Engage will have on Duke's study abroad program Thursday.

A&S looks to faculty for input on DukeEngage Eugene Wang THE CHRONICLE

The Arts and Sciences Council discussed integrating DukeEngage into the curriculum and how the new initiative will affect Duke’s study abroad program in the future at its meeting Thursday. Eric Mlyn, the outgoing director of the Robertson Scholars Program, and Sherryl Broverman, associate professor of the practice of biology, spoke to the council about Duke Engage and its role in undergraduate life at Duke. Mlyn, who will serve as the director of the new Duke Center for Civic Engagement, said he hopes Duke Engage will become an “essential part of the Duke experience.” “In five years we will look back on this initiative and it will either be an appendage, kind of a barnacle on a ship... or it will be something even more,” Mlyn said. “It will be something integral to the Duke

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra said some class councils suffer under current funding mechanisms.

iors do not pay residential fees that would otherwise go to fund the councils, he said. “[The junior and senior] class councils never have enough money to do events,” Ganatra said. “So this is going to kind of help fix that so that their money now isn’t based off residential fees.” Ganatra added that the new policy will not be implemented until the 20082009 school year. “It will basically just level the revenues so each class council has the same amount of money,” he said. The shift in class council funding from the Residential Programming Fee to the Student Activity Fee will not affect East Campus Council, which will continue to relieve funds from the Residential Programming Fee. The second resolution advocates the creation of a few permanent fund codes for individuals to finance approved activities. A fund code allows student funding bodies like Duke Student Government and Campus Council to transfer money into student group accounts, sophomore Victor Zhu said. “In the past, the only way we could fund [individual student programming] was via [students’] bursar [accounts]. So they would have to pay via their bursar and then we would have to reimburse them through the bursar,” Zhu said. “That’s a really complex way to do it [and] it takes a lot of time.” Zhu said the main issue with these fund codes will be security. “If it’s a fund code being transferred from person to person, there is a chance that somebody who has used this fund code before [could] discreedy [use] it again later for purposes that are not approved,” he said. But Zhu added that there are measures being taken to prevent unapproved use ofindividual student fund codes.

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experience the way people talk about the [Focus program].” Mlyn added that the success of Duke Engage depends on the level of faculty involvement. The student body and commu-

nity is already on board, but the key is to get faculty excited, he said. “What we need to do is think about how we do [DukeEngage] in away that supports what [faculty] are doing and also makes for the best experience for undergraduates,” Mlyn said. Broverman, who will serve as vice chair of the program’s faculty advisory board, stressed the need to “think creatively” about how community service can be connected to the intellectual objectives of Duke. “We have to think very broadly and that is a discussion we’re going to have, what is a community partner and what is service SEE A&S ON PAGE 5

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colie eroundu USC prof pleads guilty to investment scam Barry Landreth, a former professor at the University of Southern California business school, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of conning students into committing wire fraud unaware. Landreth had recruited students to be “project managers” to sell real estate investments, which students said they did not realize were fake. USC authorities said Landreth scammed investors—including the students’ parents—out of $1.5 million. Harvard, MIT receive SIOOM for research The Broad Institute—a research center of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—announced a $ 100-million gift Wednesday for research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This is the largest gift ever made designated for psychiatric disease research, which will involve work on genomics and chemical biology. The gift was made by the Stanley Medical Research Institute.

Pilfered Nobel Prize medal recovered A Nobel Prize medal stolen from a science building at the University of California at Berkeley last week was recovered Wednesday. The student who stole the medal—a senior who was employed in the building—was arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft. The 23-karat gold medal, valued at $4,200, was awarded to professor Ernest

PULLOUT from page 2 Democrats won control ofCongress last fall in midterm elections shadowed by public opposition to the war, and have vowed since taking power to challenge Bush’s

policies.

Pelosi made her announcement as Senreviewed a different approach—a measure that would set a goal of a troop withdrawal by March of 2008. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada called a closed-door meeting of the rank-and-file to consider the measure. In the House, Pelosi and the leadership have struggled in recent days to come up with an approach on the war that would satisfy liberals reluctant to vote for continued funding without driving away more moderate Democrats unwilling to be seen as tying the hands of military commanders. The decision to impose conditions on ate Democrats

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Lawrence in 1939 for his discoveries in physics. UC Berkeley officials said the medal’s value to the university is “immeasurable.” The medal will remain secured until it is placed in a new and more secure location in May as part of a 40th-anniversary commemoration of the science building. Student vomit necessitates vaccines for staff Housekeeping staff members at one of Cambridge University’s colleges have been vaccinated against Hepatitis B, due to the potential for exposure to the virus when cleaning up vomit. College officials said vomit as a result of student binge-drinking has increased, and measures are being taken to decrease the prevalence of drinking games on campus. Hepatitis B is the most common liver infection in the world and thought to be the leading cause of liver cancer. It can be transferred through blood and other bodily fluids. Columbia student gets illegible death threat Four students at Columbia University are under investigation after freshman class president Mark Modesitt received a death threat left on his door in permanent marker last week. The threat read “Mark is racist, I’ll kill you,” although some sources said the threat actually read “Mark is a rapist,” the Columbia Spectator reported. The students being investigated deny any involvement with the death threat. the war risks a major confrontation with the Bush administration and its Republican allies in Congress. But without a unified party, the Democratic leadership faced the possibility of a highly embarrassing defeat when the spending legislation reaches a vote, likely later this month, establishing a deadline for troop withdrawals. Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Bartlett called it “a political compromise in the Democratic caucus of the House aimed at bringing comity to their internal politics, not reflective of the conditions on the ground in Iraq.” “It would unnecessarily handcuff our generals on the ground,” he said. “Obviously, the administration would vehementiy oppose and ultimately veto any legislation that looks like what was described today.” To make the overall measure more attractive politically, Democrats also intend to add $1.2 billion to Bush’s request for

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A Dynamic Earth class'timelineof the earth's geological history was on display across campus Thursday.

military operations in Afghanistan, where the Taliban is expected to mount a spring offensive. The bill also would add $3.5 billion to Bush’s request for veterans’ health care and medical programs for active duty troops at facilities such as the scandal-scarred Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington. Democrats also proposed $735 million for a health care program for low-income children. The program is popular among governors of both political parties, but the administration has not signaled its acquiescence to the additional money. As described by Democrats, the legislation will require Bush to certify by July 1, and again by Oct. 1, whether the Iraqi government is making progress toward providing for the country’s security, allocating its oil revenues and creating a fair system for amending its constitution. They said if Bush certified the Iraqis were meeting these so-called benchmarks,

U.S. combat troops would have to begin withdrawing by March 1, 2008, and complete the redeployment by Sept. 1. Otherwise, the deadlines would move up. If Bush cannot make the required certification by July 1, troops must begin a sixmonth withdrawal immediately. If Bush cannot make the second certification, the same six-month timetable would apply. The legislation also requires the Pentagon to adhere to its existing standards for equipping and training U.S. troops sent overseas and for providing time at home between tours of combat. Pelosi said the provision was designed to make sure the government would “not be sending our troops into batde without the proper training, die proper equipment.” Yet it also permits Bush to issue waivers of these standards. Democrats described the waiver provision as an attempt to embarrass the president into adhering to the standards.

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and how can that connect to the intellectual activity at Duke,” she said. DukeEngage has the potential to spur intellectual growth and add innovation to the curriculum, Broverman said. “There is the hope that this will lead to honors theses, this will lead to more independent studies,” she said. Broverman added that she hopes increased faculty-student interaction results from Duke Engage. ‘You get a very different relationship with a student when you’re involved with them in a research project, when you’re mentoring them in perhaps another community or another culture, than you get in the classroom,” she said. Another key component to DukeEngage will be full immersion in a new culture, Broverman said. “How do we balance service versus immersion is something we’re going to still talk about,” she said. “There might be really good service projects that have less immersion and really good immersion projects that have less service involved. There’s a continuum there we have to define.” Following Mlyn and Broverman’s speech, Margaret Riley, associate dean for study abroad and director of the Office of Study Abroad, spoke on the role of study abroad at the University. “I am happy to think of study abroad as a pillar of the Trinity experience,” Riley said. She added that Duke does not have to “sell study abroad” to its students. She pointed to a survey that showed 10 percent of students nationwide study abroad during their college career while 43 to 46 percent ofDuke students study abroad. “[Students] come here planning on [studying abroad] and knowing that it gets

underthe Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. But Tehran’s secretive nuclear ways it hid sensitive activities from the world for nearly two decades until revelations four years ago of a covert enrichment project—led the Security Council to impose sanctions Dec. 23 because offears its nuclear activities were a cover for a weapons program. Still, there is little evidence the sanctions are working, beyond generating some domestic criticism of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who last month compared Tehran’s enrichment program to an unstoppable train withoutbrakes. And the sanctions themselves are milder than what their chief proponent, Washington, would like. Instead of choking off Iran economically and politically, they only commit all U.N. member countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs and to freeze assets of 10 key Iranian companies and 12 individuals related to those programs. Russian and Chinese opposition to tougher action blunted Washington’s sanctions drive—and there was evidence of the same in attempts to keep Security Council unity on new sanctions meant to punish Iran for ignoring last month’s deadline on suspending enrichment. Council diplomats on Wednesday said the five permanent Council members were again struggling, with U.S., Britain and France pushing for tougher measures than Russia and China will accept. The impasse led to Security Council ambassadors sending the problem back to high level discussions among their capitals. —

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Sherryl Broverman fielded questions from faculty about OukeEngage and service programs Thursday. the wonderful support that it does here,” Riley said. “So they earn credit towards their degree, they experiment horizons, they learn a lot about themselves.” Riley described the process of approving new study abroad programs as well as methods of assessing the success of current programs. She added that an online evaluation form has been implemented to solicit student feedback on study abroad programs. Riley said DukeEngage will be a critical partner for the Office of Study Abroad in the future. She added that there will be “natural linkages” that will

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evolve from the partnership. “It may mean some shifts in the traditional paradigms that we in the Office of Study Abroad have operated under,” Riley said. “But we’re flexible, we’re excited and we’re definitely willing to engage with DukeEngage and see how this links to and complements the great work that we’ve done in study abroad.”

In other business: The council announced that it will discuss the Campus Culture Initiative at its April meeting.

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EATING from page 1 in some cases, it is. But in a lot of cases, it’s just not enough food for somebody.” Alphin said the number of undergraduates Student Health sees for nutrition has been on the rise in the past couple ofyears. “There’s an increased consciousness [among students] and concern with what they’re eadng, and they’re seeking out the resources available,” she said. Many students said they feel women on campus are particularly pressured to look a certain way. “We’re a strong academic school, and we have a large greek scene,” junior Elizabeth Metzler said. “Girls especially do have that desire that they have to be perfect—they have to be the skinny girl, the hot girl.” Senior Shasha Xu referred to the idea of “effortless perfection,” which she said was a major topic during her freshman year. “Girls feel like they need to be pretty and skinny and get good grades without really studying,” Xu said. “When people ask you if you’re studying, you go ‘Oh, a little bit,’ but you’re actually killing yourself to study and keep up this outer image that you’re going out.” “Duke guys put a lot of pressure on girls, and girls themselves put pressure on each other,” she added. One senior, who wished to remain anonymous, remembered how her sorority advisor—who had spent time at several other colleges—reacted after coming down to Duke for recruitment weekend and observing the apparent thinness of many Duke girls. “Wow, you guys really have a problem here, don’t you?,” she recalled the advisor saying. The factors causing disordered eating and eating disorders fall into three main categories: thinking styles, interpersonal experiences and people’s ability to relate to their emotions, said Gary Glass, Counseling and Psychological Services senior coordinator for outreach and developmental programming. “There’s a lot of talk about Duke’s social atmosphere, and I don’t know that there is one social atmosphere,” Glass said. “Folks who struggle perceive that atmosphere as being one where you can’t show any weakness. When you think that’s how campus life is, a person may struggle with a lack of confidence in how they compare to others.” Female students who dealt with eating disorders and disordered eating met during Celebrating Our Bodies Week last Friday in a forum called Unheard Voices to talk about their thoughts on both topics. “It’s sad how easy it is to create our own realities and go, ‘Oh, I’m so fat,’ when

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are the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa adapted from the Fourth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Diagnostic Criteria for Anorexia Nervosa: Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for one's •

age and height Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming overweight, even though a patient is underweight Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight Amenorrhea (i.e. the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles) •

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Diagnostic Criteria for Bulimia Nervosa: Recurrent episodes of binge eating (i.e.' eating an amount of food that is larger than •

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Duke females saidthe pressure to achieve the image of "effortless perfection"has affected their eating habits. that’s completely not true,” one student said at the discussion. Another student said she was always going to hold herself to a standard that doesn’t exist. “I think that it’s just sort of set up as this standard at Duke that people are very thin and attractive and it’s self-perpetuating,” senior Kelly Welch said. Several other students brought up Duke students’ exercise mentality. “I think people have developed complexes where if they don’t go to the gym, they feel guilty, and feel as if they shouldn’t eat,” Price said. Xu said a lot of people may also be conscious of their bodies because a visible portion ofDuke’s population are athletes. “About 10 percent of the student population are athletes, so a lot of people are already in shape,” she said. Student Health Nutritionist Anna Lutz said disordered eating and eating disorders are often a coping mechanism for people going through all the changes of entering college.

“Another problem is because of Duke’s social scene, whatever that is,” Price said. “Freshmen may drink too much, and in the beginning ifyou’re worried aboutcalories, it’s not alcohol people are willing to sacrifice—it’s food.” Glass also said more male students have been seeking help for disordered eating and eating disorders than in the past. “Something we’ll never know is if they’ve been struggling all along and just seeking more help now, or if there’s an actual increase in disordered eating and eating disorders in men,” he said. Health Education Specialist Lindsey Bickers Bock said Student Health has had to think of new ways to deal with many of the same issues for men because men still perceive disordered eating as a woman’s issue. “Whether you’re a guy or a girl, ifyou’re not feeling that great about yourself, you think, ‘Let me change the way I look and I’ll feel better about myself,”’ Alphin said. Welch said it would be hard to change the Duke mentality in an effort to help the problem, but it’s really the small com-

what most people would eat under similar circumstances and a sense of a lack of control over eating during the episode) Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior in order to prevent weight gain Binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors both occur, on average, at least twice a week for three months Self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight Disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of anorexia nervosa •

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people make about themselves and others that can make a huge difference. “[Eating disorders and disordered eating] are jaded topics, and that’s unfortunate,” Price said. “Because it’s so prevalent, people don’t really want to talk about it in any real sort of way. There’s still an image to uphold unless someone is obviously sick. As a student body, we’re taking the right steps toward helping the situation, but there’s a lot more work to be done.” ments

Fed. prosecutor firings prompt rules change by

Laurie Kellman

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WASHINGTON The George W. Bush administration, bowing to an uproar over its firing of eight federal prosecutors, agreed Thursday to tightening the law for replacing U.S. attorneys and letting Congress hear from senior officials widi roles in the ousters. “The attorney general told us the administration would not oppose our legislation requiring Senate confirmation for all U.S. attorneys,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after a private meeting with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He and other senators said Gonzales also agreed to let five of his top aides involved in the firings talk widi the committee, rather than wait for the panel to au-

thorize subpoenas. Six of the eight ousted prosecutors told House and Senate committees Tuesday they were dismissed without explanation. Some said the dismissals followed calls from members of Congress—Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson, New Mexico Republicans—concerning sensitive political corruption investigations. Others said they feared the Justice Department would retaliate against them for talking with reporters and giving lawmakers information about their dismissals. The meeting with Gonzales occurred a few hours after Sen. Aden Specter, ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, dealt Gonzales and his department a public lashing for the controversy. Specter said the attorney general wrong-

ly besmirched the fired U.S. attorneys by saying most of them had been dismissed for poor performance and calling the uproar an “overblown personnel matter” Thursday in a column Gonzales wrote in USA Today. “I hardly think that its a personnel matter,” Specter, Philadelphia’s former federal prosecutor, said. “And I hardly think that it’s been overblown.” He also suggested Gonzales might suffer a similar professional fate as the fired prosecutors. “One day there will be a new attorney general, maybe sooner rather than later,” Specter said. The message apparendy hadn’t reached the White House. “My view is this is unfortunately a very big attempt by some in the Congress to

make a political stink about it,” presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday told a crowd of more than 700 at an event hosted by the University of Arkansas Clinton School ofPublic Service. Still unclear is whether Gonzales will allow his aides to speak with the Senate panel in private or at a public hearing. Thursday, The House Judiciary Committee also demanded to speak with the officials. They are: Michael Elston, Kyle Sampson, Monica Goodling, Bill Mercer and Mike Batde. Sampson is Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ chief of staff, Elston is staff chief to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and Mercer is associate attorney general. SEE ATTORNEYS ON PAGE 7

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MCCLENDON from page 1 McClendon’s gift seems to be largely a non-issue for members of the University’s gay and lesbian community. “There are gay people who don’t support changing the law to allow marriage,” she said. “I don’t really know what the implications should be for Duke. He gives money to them, he gives money to us and they don’t affect each other.” McClendon and Ward made donations of $250,000 to AUPM—which is led by former Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer—Sept. 9, 2004, the day after the group was formed. McClendon also gave a quarter-million dollars to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that opposed Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential candidacy. “There were several gay marriage ballot initiatives in states like Missouri and Ohio in 2004,” McClendon said. “I felt like I wanted to support those ballot initiatives, which would be in battleground states for the 2004 elections, and I was hoping there would be some advantage to increasing Republican turnout in states like that.” Donations to the University made by McClendon and his wife Katie, Trinity ’Bo—which have included money to build McClendon Tower and the West Campus Plaza and to refurbish one of Duke Chapel’s organs—have exceeded $l6 million. McClendon said he considers his political activism separate from his philanthropic endeavors. “Mr. McClendon has been very generous in supporting Duke’s priorities,” John Bumess, senior vice president for public and government relations, wrote in an e-mail. “It is not our general practice to inquire into the political preferences of our donors any more than it is of our students or faculty.” And McClendon said applying a person’s or group’s moral code to screen donations would stand in contrast to the University’s historical context. “Certainly Duke wouldn’t exist without Mr. Duke donating his tobacco money,” he said. “[People] need to be careful not to pitch too small a tent, my belief is that everyone should pitch a pretty big tent to accommodate different points of view, I do on most issues, but I do draw the line on gay marriage. Iza Wojciechowska contributed to this story.

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ATTORNEYS from page 6 Goodling is Gonzales’ senior counsel and White House liaison, and Battle is the departing director of the office that oversees the 93 U.S. attorneys. The developments came two days after the fired prosecutors told their stories during eight hours of hearings by die Senate panel and the House Judiciary Committee. The proceedings turned into a display of mudslinging that several Republicans said made them cringe. The fired prosecutors insisted they had stellar records and didn’t deserve the Justice Department saying most of them were replaced for poor performance. Reversing the Justice Department’s previously-stated policy of not commenting publicly on personnel matters, William Moschella, a deputy attorney general, then recited before TV cameras the shortcomings of each of the ousted U.S. attorneys. In private Thursday, Specter offered Gonzales some stiff advice: Acknowledge that the matter is serious. “And that he take the next step and realize that there is a significant blemish on the records of these individuals,” Specter told reporters, referring to the prosecutors. Further, “That he acknowledge that the problem arose because he failed to state the reasons why these people were asked to resign.”

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TAMPA, Fla. With about 10 minutes during pre-game warmups, N.C. State point guard Engin Atsur calmly stroked three-pointer after three-pointer on the basket in front of the Blue Devils bench. At the same time, Duke freshman Gerald Henderson calmly took his seat directly behind that same bench in the first row of the Blue Devils’ family and friends section. *l -jfwo Even though the game had yet to begin, the picture best captured the story of Duke’s loss. Throughout the game, Henderson’s absense and the presence of Atsur, who sat out Duke’s Jan. 20 blowout victory ofN.C. State in Raleigh with an injury, proved critical. “[Henderson] gives them the athleticism, he gives them rebounds, he gives them another guy that can score the ball and defend,” N.C. State head coach Sidney Lowe said. “Any time you miss a player like that it’s going to affect your ball club, as we did when we didn’t have [Atsur] the first game we played them.” With so much focus on the fairness of his one-game penalty, Henderson’s emergence on the court in recent games has been overlooked. Even though he had not led Duke in scoring, the freshman was Duke’s most effective offensive option in the team’s losses to Maryland and North Carolina, putting up career-highs in both contests. Without Henderson’s ability to create off the bounce, the Blue Devils relied heavily on their outside shooting in the first half. Marty Pocius played the game of his college career stepping into Henderson’s role, but even his two three-point plays in the final minutes of regulation and overtime were not enough for Duke. Where head coach Mike Krzyzewski and to go

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Duke does not need to examine complicated offensive and defensive schemes to avoid losing its second straight game. When the fourth-ranked Blue Devils (4-1) clash with No. 9 Princeton (1-0) Sunday at 1 p.m., they need to improve one f major aspect of their game—their intensity. VS. “Maryland just came in and outplayed us in the heart and hustle catSUNDAY, 1 p.m. egories,” senior attacker Koskinen Stadium Leigh Jester said. In Sunday’s 19-18 loss, Duke came out flat, and the Terrapins immediately took advantage to race out to a 4-0 lead. The Blue Devils did come back near the end of the second half, but playing from behind for most of the game was too much to overcome. Although the result of Sunday’s game will officially go down as a loss on Duke’s schedule, the Blue Devils believe that the experience will be beneficial in the long run. “I think first and foremost, you have to try to draw positives,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We played poorly and we were still in a position to win. We were down considerable margins, so I told the offense to chip away, and they did that

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The Blue Devils are 4-0, No.l in the nation and have defeated No. 4 Maryland easily at College Park And the scary part is, head coach John Danowski said he does not even fully understand his team yet. “My gut tells me I’m not going to know a lot about this team until we’re down by two goals, Jp maybe in the third quarter,” Danowski said. “As the season goes and we grow together, we’re vs. going to learn a lot more about each other.” With a trip to California this weekend, JBtlm Danowski certainly expects the team to grow to§ether 35 the Y toke on Loyola (1-2) Saturday at saturday 9*30 am. an o* eg° 38 Part °f SAN DIEGO Calif 9 30 P m First Four showdown. “It’s a business trip certainly,” Danowski said. “[But] it is a chance to relax and get together as a team for a weekend.” With the team already having gone through so much off the field, it can be hard to predict how its chemistry will translate to success on the field ;

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Duke missed Henderson the most was on defense. With Josh Mcßoberts in foul trouble and Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek on the bench for their ineffective play, Krzyzewski was forced to play a smaller lineup for most of the second half. When DeMarcus Nelson and Dave McClure got in foul trouble trying to defend the inside tandem of Brandon Costner and Ben McCauley, Duke had nowhere to turn. “We definitely missed him out there on the court,” Nelson said. “[N.C. State] created some mismatch problems, and we had a really tough time defending them.” More obvious than Henderson’s presence as a spectator, however, was Atsur’s as a contributor on the court particularly in the second half. Atsur scored eight points, including two threes in the frame’s first three minutes. He finished with 21 on the game and was able to stretch the defense and prevent Duke from double-teaming inside. When N.C. State needed a bucket, it turned to its senior leader. With the score tied and 5:29 to go, Atsur cut to the lane, eceived a pass and finished an acrobatic and improbable scoop layup to give his team the lead. Trailing 68-67 with less than two minutes in regulation, Atsur hit a long three to all but assure the Wolfpack of at least sending the game into overtime. “He hit huge shots for them,” Krzyzewski said. “Big-time kids, not just big-time players, they do those things. And Engin did that. He played like a real senior.” —

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drive that the junior appeared to will into the basket more than shoot. N.C. State’s final attempt to win in regulation came up short when Courtney Fells missed an open baseline jumper long and the ensuing tip did not draw iron. In overtime, Duke’s defense could not stop N.C. State. After shooting 62.5 percent from the field in the second half, N.C. State scored on every one of its eight overtime possessions, and hit nine of their 13 free throws, to shut the door on Duke. All-ACC freshman forward Brandon Costner opened the extra period with a three-point play that also resulted in Josh Mcßoberts’ fourth foul of the game. Duke kept within one score until the final minute, but playing with a limited Mcßoberts and without Nelson and Dave McClure—both of whom fouled out in overtime—the Blue Devils’ offense could not overcome the team’s inability to defend. “We have not played well defensively for two weeks,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We’re just not going to win ball games if we don’t play defense.” Costner paced the Wolfpack’s offense throughout the game. With Josh Mcßoberts limited to 11 first-half minutes due to two fouls in the first four minutes of the game, Costner tore up the Blue Devils’ interior defense. With his team down 34-29 coming out of the intermission, Atsur came alive after a scoreless first halfand made Duke pay for focusing on Costner down low. Costner finished with an efficient 30 points on 10-for-

So far, however, Duke has had increasing success on the defensive end, as the goals allowed per game have decreased with each opponent. In their season opener, the Blue Devils gave up 11 goals, which tied the highest amount they had given up in the eight games last year and in 2005—the year Duke lost in the national championship game to Johns Hopkins. Danowski, however, attributed the high number of goals to the unique circumstances surrounding that game. Starting the very next day, the Blue Devils’ defense improved dramatically. They gave up nine goals to then-No. 12 Denver, and the following weekend, Duke stunned Maryland by allowing only seven goals despite the Terrapins unique inverted offense. The stinginess on defense continued against St. Joseph’s, which only managed four goals. But Danowski still sees a lot of room for improvement. “We’d like to have better technique on the ball,” Danowski said. “Everybody’s trying to get upheld too fast as opposed to

Josh Mcßoberts had 17 points and six rebounds in 36 minutes of Duke's loss to the Wolfpack Thursday. 17 shooting, and Atsur added 21, including 4-for-7 from beyond the arc. Unable to stop the Wolfpack, the Blue Devils were sent back to North Carolina with their third straight loss and searching for answers before the NCAA Tournament.. With a high RPI and strength-ofschedule ratings Duke is still a lock to make the Big Dance, but their seed could be as low as it has been in a decade.

In eight of the past nine seasons prior to this one, the Blue Devils had entered the NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed. “We know that we’re not a great basketball team and have never been a great basketball team,” Krzyzewski said. “But we’ve been a really good basketball team for most of the year. Obviously, we’re not playing that way right now. We just have to use the time that we have right now and try to correct that.”

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for the Tewaaraton Trophy—given to the top collegiate women’s lacrosse player in the country —after scoring 38 goals last season. And unlike Duke, Princeton enters Sunday’s game on a winning note—the Tigers defeated No. 11 Johns Hopkins 11-10 in a thrilling overtime game March 3. For the Blue Devils, the magnitude of Sunday’s game makes it all the more important to come out ready to play. “The loss was a real wake-up call for us,” Kimel said. “Having this whole week to prepare is really valuable for us.” Solving these mental difficulties, however, is going to be a work in progress for Duke. Although the Blue Devils have seven senior leaders on their roster, these players have been thrust into an unfamiliar role. “It’s goirjg to take some time to work things out,” Jester said. “We’re nowhere near where we want to be. We learned that we can’t play without heart.”

season. Unfortunately, the Blue Devils were plagued Sunday by their inability to make defensive stops—the 19 goals Maryland scored were the most allowed in school history. Duke attributed the defensive lapses to a lack offocus. “We made mistakes that allowed Maryland to score easy goals,” Kimel said. “Our midfielders and defenders were sucked into ball-watching. We’ll definitely watch film.” The Blue Devils will need to be mentally tough on offense and defense when Princeton enters Koskinen Stadium Sun-

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Caroline Cryer has 19 goals in five gamesthis season, thanks in large part to her 57.6 shooting percentage.

staying in the base by the goal and just checking sticks when the ball gets near the goal, just checking to see that the goalie has possession of the ball. We need to get better at some of those things.” Duke will get the chance to improve against a Loyola team that Danowski said is much better than its record. So far, the Greyhounds have lost to nationally ranked Notre Dame by two, Towson by one,'and have beaten Penn State by one. “Early in the year, so many games can go either way,” Danowski said. “They’re going to be well-prepared, they’re going to be emotional, and it’s going to be a heck of a game.” The teams have played each other every year in the First Four challenge, and for the past two years the games have gone down to the wire, with the Blue Devils winning 9-7 last year and 6-5 in 2005. No matter what the score, the Blue Devils will use the trip as a strong bonding experience that will benefit them for the whole season. “We’re getting used to playing with each other,” senior Tony McDevitt said. “As the year goes on, you should get better.”

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his protein shake. His shirt, if you can call it that, hangs in shreds as his chest and shoulders bust from the seams. This guy lives for the weight room. Tai Chi on the Quad guy; Hundreds of people pass him on their way to class, campus tours walk by and squirrels are primed to attack at any time. Yet he is unfazed. He remains in the zone, refuses to break concentration and swirls his arms around in a meditative state amid the noise and bustle ofMain West. He doesn’t care if there are more private places on campus for his practice; he’s at one with himself right now. Constandy tanning girl: Technically, it’s still winter. This doesn’t matter to constandy tanning girl. The 60-degree mark is the temperature thresholdfor her. If it’s sunny, she will be out and ready to absorb as many rays as possible

the wake of Britney that there are certain people Spears’ rehab mania, Paris everyone knows. They’re those people you see Hilton’s reign over Us time, for better or worse, all the and the of Weekly onslaught Maybe they just other celeb goseditorial happen to always sip, we feel the be at the right need to illuminate overexposure —in the place at the right time and end up in The Chronicle. For inDuke context. stance, some have posited a First, a definition. Chronicle photo conspiracy that Over-exposure [oh-verik-spoh-zher] noun; person, involves senior Zach Bencan. You ask yourself, “Seriousplace or thing on campus that ly, how many times have I (1) can be identified by a critical mass of students based on seen that person in the last description; (2) has been the week? He/she is EVERYsubject of excessive mention WHERE.” Sometimes, it’s not or photographing by The even a person —it’s just a thing. Point being, overexpoChronicle; (3) we are otherwise pretty sick of hearing, sure is rampant at Duke. Don’t tell us you don’t seeing or talking about. know what we’re talking about Something unique a campus of Duke’s size—- about when we point 0ut.... Meatheadweighdifter; Lift. bigger than your average hippie liberal arts school, Arrrrrggghhh. He grimaces smaller than a certain safety and shakes. Clink, Craaash. He school down the road—is drops the bar and reaches for

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it or not, I’m actually typing this column while sitting in the back of one ofmy classes. I won’t tell you which class, because that could threaten my participation grade, which I sorely need. This will be our little secret. Right now I am sketchily hunched over my laptop, peering around to make sure my fellow classmates don’t realize what’s going on. I fear that they, along with the professor, will discover that I am not actually a digital hipster student of IB the 21st century tak5Ni ing notes on the computer, but rather someone who just doesn’t want to pay ats taCV Chudwjtl tention during her IgaiiS � last lecture class before Spring Break. As I defensively glance around the room, I realize that I am not alone in pulling off this brilliant ruse. Even the students without laptops are either doodling in their notebooks or awkwardly flipping through a copy of The Chronicle balanced between their knees and the desk. And it occurred to me: Why are we here? Why are our parents paying $45,000 so we can do the Sudoku while a high-strung Ph.D. student talks at us for 75 minutes? Because the fact is, we just aren’t listening anymore. So many of us Dukies spend the first weeks of each semester precisely calculating the minimum work that can be put into a class to get the maximum grade. We figure out which readings we can skip, whether we have to study for weekly quizzes and whether we even have to attend the class. We have gotten just plain lazy. After four long years of high school, we are finally at an institution where we attend class for a maximum of about four hours a day, choose our own curriculum to include courses such as “The Hip Hop Aesthetic” and are surrounded by some of the most brilliant students and faculty in the world. But some of us can barely even scrounge up the motivation to crawl out of bed for our 10:20 a.m. class. Our only class of the day. Granted, there are a large number of Duke students who are still very passionate about academics, but for many, classwork is just something to be trudged through on the way to the weekend. We obviously are all intelligent, motivated, intellectually curious individuals; we wouldn’t be here if we weren’t. So what happened? Where has the love of learning gone? I have a couple of crackpot theories about the ac.

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while incurring a minimal number of tan lines. In the middle of the quad. Obvi. Tattoo; The statue is the new butt of campus jokes. It even has a Facebook group devoted to it (or radier, hating it). And it is literally overexposed—you can see the dam thing from Towerview, glowing like an over-sized Christmastree bulb. We just hope that diis Tattoo isn’t permanent. “Group of 88”: Usually when someone says something controversial or otherwise unpopular in The Chronicle, they can expect about a week of outrage and a surge in discussion. The “Group of 88,” however, takes the cake; their “What does a social disaster sound like?” ad continues to receive mention at least once a week. Or once a minute, if you check some blogs. Ahvays-in-the-Chronicle kid:

In the days ofyore, it was Anthony Vitarelli or Pasha Majdi. Today, we have a new generation—a new select group ofcampusfaces who end up as the final person quoted in every meeting story, or who conspicuously show up in front-page photos, or who for some reason manage to get a reference in a column. We just have one question: Do you save the clippings? ’Cause if you do, we bet they cover a whole wall. And you KNOW who you are. We can all agree that some things receive undue attention and others wear out their welcome, because they just won’t go away. For whatever reason, though, they capture our attention, make us talk—or gawk—and ultimately prove that even at Duke, you

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ademic apathy that afflicts so many college students 1) Burnout Theory This theory mostly applies to freshmen. After four long years of academic competition, grubbing for extracurriculars and anxiously poring over the U.S. News and World Report rankings, they finally got into the college of their dreams. And now they just want to relax for once. Why overload on courses when they just got here, and when major declarations and the real world seem so far away? Hell, why even go to class at all? They’re tired, man. 2) Ring of Gyges Theory The Ring of Gyges is a legend told by Plato in The Republic about a man who finds a ring that can make him invisible (I guess Tolkien wasn’t so original after all). As a result, he goes on a spree of theft, adultery and even murder. The same applies in college, though hopefully to a lesser extent. In high school, there were major repercussions for missing class. There were phone calls home, detentions and the obviousness of being gone from a much smaller class. At Duke, however, Mommy and Daddy have no idea that you always skip your Friday morning class because you are too hungover from the night before. Hardly any teacher cares enough to inquire ,about your absence. In a lecture of 200 students, you might as well be wearing the Ring of Gyges, you are that invisible. Less accountability for your actions in college unfortunately contributes to some less honorable behavior, with skipping class being the least ofit. It’s just too easy. 3) Separation of Work and Home Theory In high school, school and home existed in two separate spheres. You got up and went to school all day, and then came home where you could relax and hang out once homework was done. In college, academics, friends, extracurriculars and jobs all come together in an amorphous blob oflife. Here we are forced to prioritize, because time and geography no longer separate our lives into neat, distinct categories. And all too often, classwork falls behind in importance to more pressing things, like chatting on AIM for two hours, or playing frisbee on the quad. Class tends to take a backseat to life. So what is to be done to shock us out of our academic laziness? The first step is awareness. Realize that you only get as much out of your time here as you put into it. And remember a time, way back when, when it was still exciting and enjoyable to learn new things. So, dear readers, if you happen to be reading this in class right now, put it down and pay attention!

Stacy Chudwin is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.

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I have to admit. when you first suggested New Hampshire for Spring Break, I was skeptical I know! Isn’t global warming great?

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you’re among the roughly 20 remaining people in security personnel is sparse. this country who have not appeared on television at Currendy, most cameras aren’t actively monitored; some point during their lives, and you’re just aching instead their footage is usually only accessed if it’s needto rectify this situation, I may be able to help. ed. Likewise, any expanded system would be mostly pasYou’ll need a laptop with wireless connectivity (or an sive, although Graves does mention in a Chronicle reextremely long Ethernet cable), but once you’ve got port on the subject that certain “hot spots” would be your hands on that, the actively watched, without naming the hot spots. rest is simple: Position Really, it all sounds pretty innocuous, right? Like most people’s reaction to this kind of news, my anyourself five to 10 yards from the Bryan Center swer is an uneasy “yeah, but..,” a deep discomfort with the idea of being watched without great reasons to back it up. entrance on the Plaza m and log on to the Office Electronic surveillance of one kind or another is so pervaof Student Activities and sive at this point in our society (witness the Plaza Cam) that it almost seems like a moot point to object to it Facilities website. Voila! You should be seeing With an estimated 300,000 security cameras currendy use in in the United States (according to the Electronic crisp digital footage of Brian kindle Privacy Information Center), any notions we once might yourself, streaming out ad astra have had about privacy in public or semi-public areas across the Internet via OSAF’s webcam (or have pretty much been demolished, and only a few rabble-rousers seem very upset about it. Plaza Cam, to be proper). Feel free to wave at the Internet. In Europe, surveillance by camera is even more comSure, it’s a far cry from the glory of being a TV permon, especially as a traffic and law enforcement tool. So sonality, but there are worse places to get your 15 sec- far, the dire warnings of 1984 fanatics have failed to maonds of fame than the PlazaCam. It’s an alarmingly terialize. Is there any real reason to oppose this trend? Sure there is. For one, it’s not particularly effective at sharp-looking and uninterrupted live feed, nothing like the comically glitchy webcams I remember growing up improving safety. Studies conducted in the UK, possibly with, where everything looked like it was taking place in the most camera-happy place in the world, suggest that a poorly filmed disco. security cameras produce a short-term, minor dip in crime rates but have no long-term effects. On top of Besides, ifyou’re not satisfied with being on one camera, by my count there are at least five others surroundthat, other studies both in the UK and in New York indicate that camera operators typically lose focus or stop ing the Plaza; two above the entrance to the Bryan Center, two on the archway opening to the Main Quad and paying attention entirely after 20 minutes and that nearone at the bottom of the metal staircase leading to the ly 10 percent of all cameras in New York City are being back ofKilgo. Just by setting foot on the Plaza, you’ve beused for the operator’s amusement, i.e. to spy on apartcome a star ofclosed-circuit television. ments across the street or follow attractive women. It’s tough to get hard figures on exactly how many seBig Brother may be watching, but he’s inept, inattentive and lecherous. Even Graves seems to acknowledge curity cameras are installed on this campus, largely bethis, at least implicidy. In several ofhis statements about cause the system is so decentralized. Cameras are overthe camera issue he’s made it clear that Duke doesn’t seen by the Duke University Police Department, Parking and Transportation Services and the Medical Center, have a serious problem with crime, that it’s largely a among other departments. Still, what’s acknowledged is question of perception and that adding security cameras that the number creeps steadily upward every year—and would more than anything make students feel safer. The that the administration likes it that way. concrete benefits are far less clear. DUPD has long been planning to revamp the current A potential $l2 million is way too much to pay for the surveillance system, centralizing camera operations under illusion of safety. Besides, I don’t think it’s wrong to feel unone roof and the jurisdiction of one department. In addieasy about being watched; I think it’s the correct response. tion, Dean ofResidence Life and Housing Services Eddie Privacy is important, no matter how much it gets degradHull have been toying with the idea of installing cameras ed (or how much we give it away). A surveillance camera, at the entrance ofevery residence hall for at least a couple ultimately, is a threat and a pretty blunt and ominous one years now, although so far the prohibitive cost of such a sys- at that. It means someone thinks I’m a potential suspect, a tem (estimates of$l2 million based on the experiences of target that needs to be monitored and managed. similar schools) has precluded any action from taking No thanks. I’m as vain as the next guy, but there are place. Nonetheless, as recently as December Vice Presi- better ways to get on TV. dent for Campus Safety Aaron Graves mentioned that surveillance cameras were “great tool[s]” and that they could Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs every be used to fill in gaps where coverage by officers or other Friday.

listen up. I think I have some bad news. I recently read something that shook me to my very core. In studies on sexual selection in various species of birds, researchers have found that “if the mother is not present when the young are seeking mates... the bird may simply choose the closest match [to the mother] it can find.” I know, I know, this is a study on birds, not people. But can the findings be applied to human interaction as well? Here at college, where mothers are usually hundreds of miles away, we are continually presented with the opportunity of finding future mates. And just like these birds, as soon as we lose our mothers, we may spend our time trying to find an adequate replaceaxt

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gest that, at some level, I am bound to find a mate that I deem sufficiently similar to my mother. My whole romantic career is one pre-determined path ending at the girl who is most like the woman who gave birth to me. If that’s the case, I quit. Game over. It’s not worth trying anymore. Every guy naturally worries about finding a girl who reminds him too much of his mom. I knew a guy who dumped his girlfriend simply because she had the same name as his mom. If anything, most men seem to be actively trying to find a woman that is the opposite of their moms. Interfaith and interracial relationships are only becoming more and more popular. This desire for a mate that is dissimilar to one’s mother seems to be especially prevalent in Jewish men like myself, who all dream of one day capturing the perfect shiksa.

Every guy naturally worries about finding a girl who reminds him too much of his mom. I have known guys to dump girlfriends simply because they share the same name as their mom. Don’t get me wrong; I love my mom. I am convinced she cares about me more than any other person on this planet. That said, there are certain characteristics that my mother possesses that I am not really looking for in my future mate. My mom is over 50, under five feet tall, and can make Stalin look tolerant. She has mastered the cold shoulder and is the indisputable queen of the silent treatment. Furthermore, I have a hard time picturing myself with someone who promptly falls asleep every night at 9:15 p.m. Thinking about the implications of these findings, however, has led me to a drastic change ofheart. I was forced to ponder the dreaded question that every guy must face: Do I want a girlfriend or do I just want a younger, prettier mom? For birds at least, it seems obvious that they just want a new mother. And I have to wonder, as a deep shiver is sent up my spine, whether we are any different. Sure, a girlfriend is new and exciting, but I doubt anyone other than my mom likes me enough to do my laundry when I am too busy. Not surprisingly, she is also the only person in my life who volunteers to shave my neck for free. But, it’s not only that my mom is willing to do things for me that no one else would do. It goes the other way as well. For no one but my mom will I watch an entire romantic comedy or listen to the talking heads on NPR drone on and on and on. I have even been known to tolerate the occasional conversation about interior decorating for my mother. I now believe that it’s not that guys are hoping, subconsciously or otherwise, to create the identical relationship they have with their mother. Instead, they are only looking to find someone who they can form a similar bond with. Because, eventually, I think that guys (and birds) realize that they can do a whole lot worse than winding up with someone like their mothers.

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