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Freshmen returning from Spring Break may have noticed a few changes in the East Campus Union—and next year’s incoming class can expect to see even more.

Duke Dining Services plans to renovate the pizza station of the Marketplace during the summer to accommodate a latenight, New York-style pizzeria, said Jim Wulforst, director of dining services.

A juice bar—similar to Quenchers in Wilson Recreation Center—will also be added this summer to the Keith and Brenda Brodie Recreation Center.

The glass window of the current pizza station, which faces the left dining area of the Marketplace, will be converted into a counter at which students will be able to order pizza, pasta, sandwiches and salad, Wulforst said.

The eatery will be open from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., although Wulforst added that hours might be extended until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. if the pizzeria is popular.

He added that Duke Dining Services is also discussing changes to the salad bar and new furniture for the dining rooms.

Wulforst described his vision of the East Union as a “mini version of von der Heyden [Pavilion].”

“We are trying to create a living room atmosphere for first-years,” he said. “It SEE EAST CAMPUS ON PAGE 6

Admins look for student voices on CCI by

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RALEIGH On the opening tip Tuesday night at the RBC Center, players from both squads fell to the floor grabbing for the loose ball until a second jump ball had to be called.

From that point on, it was clear eighth-seeded Temple would give No. 1 Duke all it could handle.

In the end, however, the Blue Devils’ defense proved to be too much. Duke (32-1) held the Owls

62-52 win.

With the victory, the Blue Devils advance to their 10th straight Sweet 16,where they will face fourth-seeded Rutgers Saturday in Greensboro.

“We’re glad to be moving on,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “It was a very physical game and an excellent game for us to play. They make you play really ugly. I’ve seen teams build

Following the release of the Campus Culture Initiative report last month, administrators are now busy gauging student opinion before moving to address its suggestions.

During the past few weeks, Provost Peter Lange has led discussions with leaders from various student organizations including Duke Student Government, Intercommunity Council, Campus Council, Duke University Union and the four Greek governing bodies Lange —who was appointed by President Richard Brodhead to spearhead campus conversation about the CCI and establish a timetable for responding to its findings and recommendations—compared the sessions to “seminars” that offered students an overview of the report and allowed them to provide input on its specific components.

“They were informative, we learned a lot,” Lange said. “I thought the students were very engaged.”

Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, praised Lange and other administrators for remaining open to student ideas.

“They asked some really good questions, and I think they got a better sense of who these recommendations would

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Lindsey Harding led Duke with 18 points, going 8-f6r-16 from thefloor in 39 minutes of play Tuesday.

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Christian tradition.

Christianity at Duke encompasses a variety of reli——gious life groups, including organizations supported by both specific deReligion nominations and unaffiliated places @ ofChristian fellowship.

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“I didn’t come to Duke specifically looking to be inin a Christian group,” said junior Mike Bauer, iident of the Wesley Fellowship. “It sort ofsucks in, not in a bad way, but in a good way.”

The Catholic community comprises the jst percentage of Christian life, Kocher said.

Of the estimated 2,500 students who identify themselves as Catholic, 400 to 500 are regularly present at Sunday Mass, and 300 to 350 are involved to some degree in other Catholic activities in addition to celebrating Mass, said Father Joe Vetter, minister at the ;wman Catholic Student Center.

“We don’t expect any Catholic student to be tlved in all of the various opportunities,” Vetter .

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George W. Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides speak about the firings of federal prosecutors only privately and not under oath, or

risk a constitutional showdown from which he would not back down.

Democrats’ response was swift and firm: They said they would start authorizing subpoenas as soon as Wednesday for the White House aides “Testimony should be on the record and under oath. That’s the formula for true accountability,^’’said Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chair-

man ofthe Senate Judiciary Committee Bush, in a late-afternoon statement at the White House, said he would fight any subpoena effort in court.

“We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants,” the president said. “It will be regrettable if they choose to head down the partisan road of issuing subpoenas and demanding show trials when I have agreed to make key White House officials and documents available.”

He added that federal prosecutors work for him and it is natural to consider replacing them. While saying he disapproved of how the decisions were explained to Con-

gress, he insisted “there is no indication that anybody did anything improper.”

Bush gave his embattled attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, a boost during an early morning call and ended the day with a public statement repeating it. “He’s got support with me,” Bush said.

The Senate, meanwhile, voted to strip Gonzales ofhis authority to fill United States attorney vacancies without Senate confirmation. Democrats contend the Justice Department and White House purged eight federal prosecutors, some of whom were leading political corruption investigations, after a SEE ATTORNEYS ON PAGE 8

FBI could lose broad spying power by

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WASHINGTON Republicans and Democrats alike sternly warned the FBI on Tuesday that it risks losing its broad power to collect telephone, e-mail and financial records to hunt terrorists because of rampant abuses of the authority.

The threats were the latest blow to the embattled Justice Department and Attorney GeneralAlberto Gonzales, who is already on the defensive and fighting to keep his job over the firings of federal prosecutors.

The warnings came as the department’s chief watchdog, inspector general Glenn

A. Fine, told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI engaged in widespread and serious misuse of its authority to issue national security letters, which resulted in illegally collecting data from Americans and foreigners.

If the FBI doesn’t move swiftly to correct themistakes and problems revealed last week in Fine’s 130-page report, “you probably won’t have NSL authority,” said Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., a supporter of the power, referring to thedatarequests by theirinitials.

“I hope that this would be a lesson to the FBI that they can’t get away with this and expect to maintain public support for

the tools that they need to combat terrorism,” said Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., the former Judiciary chairman, who called the abuses “a gross overreach.”

Fine, who called the problems he uncovered inexcusable, said he did not believe they were intentional. Most involved information could have been legally obtained if proper procedures had been followed, he said.

“We believe the misusesand the problems we found generally were the product ofmistakes, carelessness, confusion, sloppiness, lack of training, lack of adequate guidance, and lack ofadequate oversight.” Fine said.

Indian leaders and a former astronaut stepped gingerly beyond the Grand Canyon's rim Tuesday, staring through the glass floor and into the 4,000-foot chasm below during the opening ceremony for a new observation deck.

Nuclear experts to leave Iran Russia is bringing home its technicians and engineers from Iran's unfinished nuclear reactor site at a time of growing international pressure on Tehran to curb its atomic ambitions, U.S. and European representatives said Tuesday.

Colombia seeks extraditions Colombia's chief prosecutor said Tuesday he will demand the extradition of eight people employed by Chiquita allegedly involved with the company's payments to right-wing paramilitaries and leftist rebels to protect its banana-growing operation.

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Choose your label. Sorostitute. Hick.

Jew. Enginerd. Prep.

Advertisements for a panel hosted by the Duke Honor Council Tuesday attempted to grab students’ attention with these all-too-familiar stereotypes.

Seniors Trisha Bailey, Malik Burnett, Rob Harris and Miho Kubagawa and junior Snapper Underwood led the panel discussion, which about 35 students attended.

“Labels, for being short little things like gay, black —they have a lot of meaning that goes along with them,” said Underwood, president of the Alliance of Queer Undergraduates at Duke.

Panelists agreed that although labels are prevalent in modern society, the Duke community could do more to downplay them.

“Sometimes I do feel like when I get theserandom e-mails from Student Affairs or from different organizations, it’s like, ‘Oh, they need an Asian,”’ Kubagawa said.

“I’m wondering if [these labels] don’t get reinforced by the University.”

Panelists also talked about the labels that come along with being a student at an elite university.

“The first thing that people would see and notice about me is that I’m black,” said Burnett, president of the Black Student Alliance. “So when I would go to the mall, people would be like... ‘Oh, so you go to Duke? What sport do you play?’

None. I play no sports whatsoever. I’m here on academics, and they’re like, ‘Oh, OK,’ like it’s like the last thing that somebody would think of me as a black person coming to Duke.”

Ifnothing else, however, labels can provide an opportunity to challenge someone’s preconceived notions, Bailey said.

“One of the most powerful things about labels or stereotypes is when people don’t necessarily fit the mold,” she said. “They’re given a label, and they defy what people view that to mean....

For some people it can be a very positive thing to show that stereotypes don’t always hold.”

One student said the event itself may

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A large audience gathered at the Nasher Museum of Art Tuesday night for a lecture on the connections between Eastern and Western cultures.

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, traced the development of what many call “Western” culture in a speech titled “West of What?”

Appiah said the diviAppiah sion between the West and the East is not as well defined as many claim.

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“I was walking by one of our posters for this event with my friends, and they were like, ‘Oh, you have the black guy, you’ve got the Asian, you’ve got whatever,”’ said sophomore Dan Haaren, a member of the Honor Council, which organized the panel discussion. “Just the fact that that’s the first thing that they see when they see those names, whereas

maybe if they were to come here and look at this, [they would] see five very intelligent, complex individuals.”

Overall, members of the Honor Council considered the event to be a success.

“I thought it worked wonderfully,” said senior Jonathan Schatz, president of the Honor Council. “This was just one small step —hopefully a produclive one.”

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He said regions viewed as birthplaces ofWestern civilization, such as Egypt and Carthage, are actually located in what are now considered non-Western areas.

After the Roman Empire fell, Appiah said Easterners and Westerners competed for what he terms the “golden nugget”— the intellectual and cultural traditions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. “[Eastern and Western] culture have always been intertwined, wherever you draw the imaginary boundary,” he said.

In addidon to the East-West divide, Appiah also discussed the effect of the concept of nation-states on people’s interpretations of culture.

He said that although many people identify themselves with their country of citizenship, a shared nationality often does not reflect a common language, religion or culture.

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In a survey taken earlier this ices,” she said. “Much larger semester, students expressed schools may have more providers overwhelming approval of the and space, but not necessarily clinic’s services, said Jean Han- more services.”

Services offered include nutrison, administrative director of tion conStudent sultations, Health health ed“On a take at Stujabs “People ucation five-point programs scale, dent Health and think and admost stuwe’re offering a lesser level vice and dents gave care for us four’s of care.” students and 4.5’5,” Devdutta Sangvai who study Hanson abroad or wrote in medical director, Student Health travel.

Several adding that 164 students responded out students said they were satisfied with the care they received and of the 735 surveyed.

Devdutta Sangvai, medical dithought it was of the same quality rector of Student Health, said they would get from other many people do not take student providers. health seriously, but it provides “I really think they care about the same services as any regular students,” senior Shaina Johnson said. “One time I was feeling realmedical clinic.

“People take jabs at Student ly sick and the nurses stayed with Health and thinkwe’re offering a me all night.” lesser level of care,” Sangvai said.

Junior Jakenna Gilbert said the offered at quality of care offered by StuHealth services Duke’s clinic are comparable to dent Health is probably the same those offered at other colleges as that offered by her family doctor, but noted a difference in the with prestigious medical cencomfort level. ters, including Stanford, Har“I’m more comfortable with vard, Emory and Vanderbilt, my family doctor at home,” she Hanson said.

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“If you don’t have an appointment and really want to come, you have to wait for a long time,” he said, adding that because the pharmacy does not accept his insurance, he has to go to off-campus pharmacies.

Some students also voiced concerns regarding accessibility to prescription drugs.

“The services are really good, but sometimes it’s frustrating,” Gilbert said. “I knew I had strep, but I had to make three or four trips before they would give me antibiotics and by then, my symptoms had gotten much worse.”

William Purdy, director ofStudent Health, said many students’ complaints are due to misconceptions regarding services.

“Students will sometimes come in and say, ‘Well, my doctor at home always gives me medication,”’ Purdy said. “We’ll see that that may not be true upon further investigation.”

Because there is so much information for patients and consumers, they often come in thinking they need a particular prescription, Sangvai said.

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A 12-year-old Boy McGRADY, N.C. Scout whose favorite book was about a youngster lost in the wilderness now has his own harrowing survival tale to tell after rescuers found him Tuesday, dehydrated and disoriented from four days in the wooded mountains ofNorth Carolina.

A rescue dog picked up Michael Auberry’s scent less than a mile from the campsite where he had wandered away from his troop Saturday. The boy’s father speculated that he was simply homesick and wanted to hitchhike home. The disappearance touched off an intensive search involving bloodhounds, heat-seeking helicopters and dozens of volunteers on foot.

“He saw the helicopters and heard people calling him, but he yelled back and they didn’t hear him,” said his father, Kent Auberry, of Greensboro. “He’s very tired.

He’s very dehydrated. But he came through this in unbelievable fashion.”

With tears in his eyes, Auberry added: “To have our son back is a tremendous blessing.”

It was not immediately clear exacdy how the boy was able to survive or whetherhe put any ofhis Scout wilderness training to use. A few hours after an emotional reunion, Kent Auberry said he still didn’t know much abouthis son’s ordeal, mosdybecause he decided not to ask too many questions.

“What he tells us is he was on the move,” Auberry said. “He slept in tree branches. He curled up under rocks.”

Michael had worn two jackets, one of them fleece, and was believed to have a mess kit and potato chips with him when he disappeared. He told the rescue team

he had been drinking water from streams, and lost his hat and glasses in the woods.

Searchers spotted Michael walking along a stream before he saw them.

“They called his name. He didn’t respond.... Once they said ‘We’re here to rescue you,’ the first thing he said is he wanted a helicopter ride out of there,” said Blue Ridge Parkway ranger David Bauer.

Aside from a few cuts and scratches, Michael was in good health and could walk and talk. Because he had been without food and water, he was carried on a stretcher to a nearby road and then taken to see his parents. “A lot of tears, a lot of hugs,” said Tina White, spokeswoman for the National Park Service.

Later, Michael went by ambulance to a medical center. Along the way, he received IV fluids to help him rehydrate and told his father he wanted to sleep, said ambulance driver Bud Lane.

Hours earlier, the boy’s father had talked about one of Michael’s favorite books when he was younger, a story tided “Hatchet” about a boy whose plane crashes in the wilderness, and how the boy survives on his own.

“I think he’s got some of that book in his mind,” said Kent Auberry, whose son had camped overnight several times.

“They do a great job in the Scouts of educating the kids of what to beware of and tips. I’m hopeful that Michael has taken those to heart.” Bauer said as many as 100 people searched for Auberry on Tuesday, including Misha Marshall, whose dog Gandalf picked up the boy’s scent.

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EAST CAMPUS from page 1 will be a place where students can sit in their pajamas, have something to eat and make effective use of that side of the building.”

Rashmi Bhat, a freshman who will live on East Campus next year as a Resident Assistant, said she supports the planned

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APPIAH from page 3 He added that powerful institutions teach children about a national identity that might not really exist.

“National history is a question of what we choose to remember,” he said.

Appiah—who was born in England but grew up in Ghana—closed by stressing the interconnectedness of the world’s cultures, saying that literature, music and media are all “transnational.”

“Everything that is nominally said to be American... is found elsewhere,” he said.

He added that although access to travel can provide an opportunity to under-

stand the world’s cultures, the ability to become “cosmopolitan” is not limited to the members of the more privileged classes Many people can become cultured simply by learning about people different than themselves, he said.

John Park, a second-year graduate student, said he saw several connections between the lecture and his coursework in

philosophy.

“The midnight snack idea is great,” Bhat said. “I know we complain a lot about not having anywhere to go late at night. I’ll definitely use it” Freshman Jamie Kaye-Phillips said he thought next year’s freshmen would appreciate having a juice bar.

“I love the idea of Quenchers at Brodie,” he said. “It’s ballin’. No more buying Powerbars to slip in my pocket.”

Freshman Amish Sheth, however, said he was indifferent to the changes.

“Marketplace food just isn’t that good—I wouldn’t go there for pizza,” Sheth said. “I’d rather go to Cosmic [Cantina] instead. It’s cheaper.”

Although next year’s renovations will not affect this year’s freshman class, some changes to the East Union have already begun.

The Office of Student Activities and Facilities recendy added an information desk to the lobby of the East Union and will begin running the desk March 26.

The desk will act as East Campus’ equivalent to the student-run OSAF desk in the Bryan Center, said Chris Roby, director of OSAF. It will distribute informax

tion and maps as well as coordinate tabling for student organizations.

“We’re trying to figure out what role OSAF should play on not only West Campus but on East Campus,” Roby said. “It’s a work in progress, but our hope is to talk with students and figure out what they’re looking for.”

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said the changes in the East Union are not a response to a specific event or request.

“It is part of our continuous improveprogram,” Moneta said. “We are alto be supportive of student seeking ways initiative and to make space available, attractive and functional.”

Other changes to the East Union will include updated rooms upstairs.

Conference tables have been added to the two smaller meeting rooms on the upper level of the East Union and the rooms will be painted and refinished during the summer, Roby said.

“We hope the space will be utilized more for meetings and social activities,” he added. “We want to think about ways to get more people involved on East ment

Campus.”

Although many students supported the changes planned for East Campus dining, they were more divided concerning the recent changes in the East Union lobby.

“The new lamps in the Marketplace are hideous,” freshman MinetteYao said.

Kaye-Phillips, however, disagreed.

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CHRISTIANITY from page 1 said. “How do we complement the education they receive at Duke so that the whole person is being developed? That’s really what we’re trying to do.”

Vetter added that the Newman Catholic Student Center contains a strong student-led undergraduate ministry with a peer ministry coordinator and five student directors who determine activities, including weekly dinners at the Falcone-Arena House, service mission trips and weekend retreats.

“We have beach weekend at the beginning of first semester—we do icebreakers and we get one-on-one time with an upperclassman to talk about anything,” freshman Carolyn Powell said. “I feel like it helped because I had a really strong connection with my church at home, so this helped transition from that church to the Catholic Student Center.”

Campus Crusade for Christ, known as CRU, is a non-denominational, studentrun group that offers Bible studies, service projects and retreats.

In addition to weekly Bible readings, CRU holds “large group” meetings every Wednesday, featuring a speaker and worship music.

“It’s not really about doctrine,” freshman Shannon Skinner said. “We’ll go through the Bible and read the scripture, but it’s not super-intense. It’s just general lessons. You make it what you want to be.”

Although historical and symbolic ties connect the Duke family to the United Methodist Church, the University and the Chapel have always been nonsectarian.

“The Chapel is a place of Christian expression that incorporates a breadth of Protestant tradition,” Kocher said.

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“To kind of draw a comparison to fraternities, they have this connection and bond that’s unspoken but understood,” said freshman Jesse Huddleston, praise and worship leader for the Impact Movement. “That’s the way I can try to describe it. I just don’t say I’m a Delta whatever whatever. I say I’m in Impact, and this is my big brother.”

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group places a major emphasis on Bible study and scripture, but also focuses on fun events like parties, game nights and movie nights.

“Some students come just for recreation and some just want a sense of community,” Lutheran Chaplain William Dahl said.

Many students said they join Christian groups because they provide a tolerant environment for students to forge their own Christian identities.

“I’ve had agnostics stay in the group because they liked the people,” said Chaplain Cheryl Henry, Westminster Fellowship campus minister. “No qualifications are required to become involved.”

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship provides a forum for students to explore a spiritual path that is more liberal, allowing them to figure out their own beliefs, said John Saxon, UU campus ministry coordinator.

“We encourage questions—we don’t pretend to have all of the answers,” Saxon said.

Despite the diversity in Christian life on campus, religious staff workers said they try to create a collaborative spirit between the groups by promoting various interfaith activities.

“There is an attempt, particularly under the current dean, to get beyond denominational boundaries,” Dahl said.

Duke’s unique position as an Ivy-caliber university in the South creates a moderating effect by bringing some northern secular values to a traditionally Christian region of the country, Kocher said.

“On a lot of campuses, there is a clear split between liberal and conservative Christian groups,” he said. “At Duke, we’ve not completely bridged that divide, but there’s much more collaboration and respect than at most other schools.”

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CCI from page 1 impact,” Ganatra said.

Lange said he has planned similar sessions to take place throughout the remainder of the semester with smaller groups such as the Black Student Alliance and Asian Student Association as well as specific fraternities, sororities and selective living groups.

He added, however, that the next round of conversations is unlikely to be more topic-specific and that particular changes would not be in place until the fall semester at the earliest.

Lange noted that although he does not intend to create new committees to address the report’s recommendations, certain aspects of the CCI will be addressed by committees that already exist at the University and others will require broader campus input. An advisory council may be created in the fall, and issues that can go through existing committees may be implemented sooner, he said.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said it was important to collect student input before rushing into action.

“None of us were looking for any immediate implementation of any of the recommendations—any effort to do so would diminish the value of the dialogue,” said Moneta, who was vice chair of the CGl’s drafting committee. “Most students have said to me that there’s an acknowledgement of the validity of the issues. I’m not sure we got the recommendations right just yet.”

Sophomore Jordan Giordano, DSG vice president for community interaction and president of ICC, said students are likely to continue providing valuable input. “[Lange’s] motto was that nothing was off the table,” Giordano said. “This is the opportunity when we can improve Duke.”

change in the Patriot Act gave Gonzales the new authority.

Several Democrats, including presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and John Edwards, have called for Gonzales’ ouster or resignation. So have a handful of Republican lawmakers.

“What happened in this case sends a signal really through intimidation by purge: ‘Don’t quarrel with us any longer,’” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.1., a former U.S. attorney who spent much of Monday evening paging through 3,000 documents released by the Justice Department.

Bush said his White House counsel, Fred Fielding, told lawmakers they could interview presidential counselor Karl Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and their deputies—but only on the president’s terms: in private, “without the need for an oath” and without a transcript.

The president cast the offer as virtually unprecedented and a reasonable way for Congress to get all the information it needs about the matter.

“If the Democrats truly do want to move forward and find the right information, they ought to accept what I proposed,” Bush said. “If scoring political points is the desire, then the rejection of this reasonable proposal will really be evident for the American people to see.”

The House Judiciary Committee was expected to authorize subpoenas for Rove, Miers and their deputies on Wednesday; the Senate Judiciary Committee was to follow suit a day later.

Bush said he worried that allowing testimony under oath would set a prece-

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Senators Schumer, Boxer, Leahy and Pryor address the media about the growing federal attorneys scandal. dent on the separation ofpowers thatwould harm the presidency as an institution.

“My choice is to make sure that I safeguard the ability for presidents to get good decisions,” he said. “If the staff of a president operated in constant fear of being hauled before various committees to discuss internal deliberations, the president would not receive candid advice and the

American people would be ill-served.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, who is leading the Senate probe into the firings, spoke dismissively of the deal offered by the White House: “It’s sort of giving us the opportunity to talk to them, but not giving us the opportunity to get to the bottom of what really happened here.”

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Trailing by a goal with 50 seconds remaining, attackman Matt Danowski had a

clean shot that could have tied the game.

The senior took aim from 10 yards out, but his shot glanced off the left pipe and sailed harmlessly out of bounds as No. 1 Cornell held on for a 7-6 victory, the Big Red’s second straight in Koskinen Stadium.

“We knew it was going to be a one goal game coming in and they got the best of us,” midfielder Sam Payton said. “Seeing them celebrate on CORNELL 7 our field last year g was pretty horriDUKE ble. It sucks to have them do it again.”

Duke’s loss to the Big Red (5-0) comes a year after Cornell defeated the Blue Devils in what was the last game of Duke’s shortened 2006 season.

Despite the apparent significance of the rematch, the No. 5 Blue Devils (5-2) downplayed the importance of the game in the context of this season and the events surrounding accusations against the team last year.

“A lot worse stuff happened last year than losing to Cornell,” Danowski said.

“This one just hurts because we had it and we gave it away.... It hurts just as much as Loyola did.”

The Blue Devils had struggled in the first half in their loss Loyola and comefrom-behind victory against North Carolina, finding themselves in 5-1 and 6-1 holes in each game, respectively.

But Duke looked more assertive out of the gate against Cornell, and the Blue Devils

Apparently, the apocalypse is upon us.

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cans—Kyle Singler, Nolan Smith and Taylor King—in its 2007 meredith ■ recruiting class, with a SVIIIIOI possibility of a fourth in Patrick Patterson.

But don’t forget the Blue Devils’ firstround loss in the ACC Tournament to N.C. State or their early bow-out to VCU in the first round of the Big Dance.

Trust me, even if you decide you do want to forget the 2006-2007 season of Duke Basketball, or its abrupt end, it seems everyone else isn’t going to let you—unless, that is, you believe former Chronicle sportswriter and national best-selling author, John Feinstein (Trinity ’77).

In a column published March 10 in the Washington Post, Feinstein wrote that the crowd in the St. Pete Times Forum was completely disinterested in Duke’s firstround loss to N.C. State in the ACCs that the outcome was expected and the silence telling.

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As is the custom, the Blue Devil came out Tues-

day evening with a taunt written on its forehead.

The sign read, “Temple Hoo?”—a play on words with Temple’s nickname, but also a reference to the fact that Temple did not receive much recognition during the season.

All throughout the year, the same could be said of Wanisha Smith, quite possibly the most overlooked player on the team because of the giant presence of the likes ofLindsey Harding, Abby

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Waner and Alison Bales.

In the second round of the NCAA Tournament, though, Bales managed just four points and Temple had essentially glued itself to sharp-shooter Waner, game holding her to just five field goal attempts.

Smith sprang into the spotlight and shook analysis Duke out of its mid-game rut, possibly saving the Blue Devils’ season in the process.

With 13:18 left in the second half, Temple had reduced Duke’s lead to a very uncomfortable five points and had all the momentum going for it thanks to a 12-6 run over the previous five minutes.

Over the last minute, Fatima Maddox had made both free throws after drawing Abby Waner’s third foul and Lady Comfort had added a layup. It was clear that some of the Blue Devil SEE ANALYSIS ON PAGE 13

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Wanisha Smith scored 15 points, including five second-half free throws, to help theBlue Devils escape with a win on a night when their offense was cold.

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leads against them, and they always come back.”

Although the Blue Devils led throughout the game, they could not pull away.

Temple’s resiliency became especially evident at the end of the first half. Duke appeared to be on its away to another easy victory after Allison Bales’ jump shot capped a 6-0 run to give Duke a 32-18 lead.

But the Owls answered with a run of their own. Lady Comfort’s basket with 19 seconds remaining in the first half concluded a 6-0 spurt that cut Duke’s lead to eight. Temple continued to hang tough in the second half, and Comfort’s jumper with 9:20 left in the second half whittled the Blue Devil advantage to five.

Comfort’s basket would be the Owls’ last basket until there was only 3:23 left in the game, and Duke answered with nine straight points, ending on Lindsey Harding’s three-pointer with 4:30 remaining.

The bucket gave the Blue Devils a 60-46 lead, and Duke held on for the victory.

“They were doing a goodjob getting the ball inside,” senior point guard Lindsey Harding said about the six-minute drought.

“We wanted to force them to take difficult shots. That turned the game around.”

Harding led the Blue Devils with 18 points and four assists. Wanisha Smith added 15 points, nearly six above her season average, and Carrem Gay recorded a double-double for Duke with 13 points and 10 rebounds.

“Carrem was extremely aggressive tonight,” Goestenkors said. “At times, she was at a different level than the rest of the team getting after loose balls and offensive rebounds.”

The increased offensive production from Gay and Smith allowed Duke to win

despite getting only four points from senior center Allison Bales and eight points from sophomore guard Abby Waner. Bales shot only 2-for-9 from the field and was frustrated by the Owls’ physical defense.

And after scoring 26 points in the win against Holy Cross, Waner was limited to just five shots from the field.

“They gave me some extra face guards and bumps,” Waner said. “It’s something I’m just going to have to work on.”

As a team, the Blue Devils’ 62 points was the second lowest total of the season.

Turnovers played a major role in Duke’s low offensive output—the Blue Devils turned the ball over 17 times, which Temple converted into 22 points. The turnovers were yet another byproduct of the Owls’ defense.

“They did a great job defensively,” Harding said. “We also rushed things of-

fensively.”

Duke’s ability to make stops when it mattered, however, overshadowed its subpar offensive night. Tuesday’s game demonstrated that the Blue Devils do not need to score 80 or 90 points a game—they can win ugly games too.

“They’re the most physical team that we’ve played all season,” Goestenkors said.

“We had to fight for what we wanted, and that’s how the NCAA Tournament is.”

NOTES:

Saturday’s matchup will be the second

of the season between Rutgers and Duke, with the Blue Devils dominating at Rutgers, 85-45.... Tuesday’s win was Duke’s 72nd consecutive against non-ranked opponents and the 35th in a row versus nonconference foes.... Gay’s 13 points marked the fifth time in seven games that the sophomore has scored in double figures....

Waner hit one three-pointer in the game, leaving her one away from tying Duke’s single season record.

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The dark blue mass of fans rose in sup-

port for the Blue Devils, hoping that their

amazing season would not end like their run in the ACC Tournament had.

Then, with the smooth, quick flick of the right wrist, Smith shattered the Owls’ hopes for a comeback, nailing a clutch three-pointer from the top of the key that put Duke ahead safely for good.

Smith’s timely shot was just one of several decisive plays that helped the Blue Devils when they needed it most.

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by Comfort, who was fouled by Joy Cheek on the shot. But Comfort missed the ensuing free throw, and on the very next play, Smith rebounded her own miss—eventually resulting in a jump shot by Carrem Gay and a lead that would never get smaller.

“I was just taking what was given to me,” Smith said. “As a team, we were moving the ball around, and the shots that I hit were open after five or six passes.”

While Lindsey Harding carried the load most of the first half, it was Smith’s relentless attacking that helped Duke stop Temple runs and draw crucial fouls as the game remained tense until late into the second

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from the field for the half, she more than made up for her missed shots by grabbing four offensive rebounds during the period. Most of the offensive rebounds resulted in her drawing fouls on the Owl

players.

As a result, Smith shot seven of the 10 second-half free throws for the Blue Devils, converting five of them.

“She did score, but I think her penetration really hurt us,” Temple head coach Dawn Staley said. “The heart of our defense really hurt because we had to help and she could kick it out.”

As the game concluded and the teams lined up to shake hands, Staley shook hands with all the players. Once Smith came up, she added an extra congratulatory pat on the back for the player whom she had not expected to play so well.

“She was one whom I didn’t think would be as aggressive offensively,” Staley said. “When Waner’s not getting her points, somebody else steps up for them and she was one of them.”

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Senior Lindsey Harding scored 18points but committed six turnovers in Duke's second-roundvictoryTuesday.

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M.LAX from page 11 struck first when Payton snapped off a shot as a Cornell defender knocked him to the ground, giving the home squad a 1-0 lead in the fourth minute.

Duke maintained its aggressiveness throughout the first half and tallied 20 shots to Cornell’s 10 while jumping out to a 4-2 lead at halftime.

“We played with discipline, and we came out more relaxed and more confident than we did the last couple times,” Danowski said. “The second half we kind of did the opposite of that.”

The Big Red stormed back after the break with three unanswered goals as midfielder Brian Clayton capped off the run with a deep shot past Duke goaltender Dan Loftus. The goal gave Cornell its first lead of the game at 5-4 with 4:02 left in the third quarter.

As the two teams traded goals to knot the game at 6-6 with 14:53 left in the fourth quarter, the Blue Devils struggled against Cornell’s stall offense, which resulted in just three shots for Duke in the period.

“A lot of teams sit on the ball because they don’t want us to have it,” Danowski said. “The little turnovers, we can’t have [those] anymore. Each possession is precious to us because we don’t get a lot of them anymore.”

The Big Red went up for good when attackman Eric Pittard took advantage of a Ryan McFadyen holding penalty, burying a shot in the back of the cage to give Cornell a 7-6 lead with 8:54 remaining.

Danowski’s shot off the crossbar was the closest Duke came to rescuing the game in the final moments, as the Blue Devils dropped their second contest in their past three tries.

Despite Duke’s recent struggles, head

“Duke isn’t Duke anymore.”

Really?

The ironic part of this column, and other articles of its ilk, is that if Duke truly isn’t Duke anymore, then why are there thousands of stories running across country addressing Duke Basketball losing its luster.

It’s a Catch-22. If Duke weren’t Duke, no one would waste an inch of space covering this team.

The intense media scrutiny is still there. The lofty expectations are still there. And the infamous hatred? Ask any Georgia Tech or Virginia fan who stormed the court after their teams beat the Blue Devils if they hate Duke. I’m pretty sure they do So if Duke is still Duke, then what’s

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Matt Danowski's shot in the final minute banged off the post and Cornell escaped with the victory. coach John Danowski said he is not concerned with the team’s performance and feels the Blue Devils have made sound progress toward tightening up its defense and running a more efficient attack.

“Sometimes lacrosse games in 60 minutes are as simple as hitting the pipe,” John Danowski said. “We’re still figuring out our way—the guys are still figuring out what we expect from them. It’s still a learning process.”

The answer is that college basketball has It’s a younger, faster game dominated by one-and-done stars like Carmelo Anthony or presumably Kevin Durant and Greg Oden.

Now, more than ever, college basketball is all about recruiting—if you don’t want to be one-and-done in the Tourney.

And a coach whose team plays nearly every game on national television and who dominates the commercial breaks during those games definitely gets an

advantage.

One of the most frequently resorted-to excuses —and perhaps the greatest fallacy —in justifying the relative failure of this year’s team, is that Duke has been recruiting the wrong kind ofAll-Americans.

There is no such thing as the wrong All-American.

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from the pool of players donning shorts with the golden arches their senior years?

Maybe none. But, I’m sure there are a lot willing to pay for them.

That being said, in light of the changing face of the collegiate game, the Duke coaching staff can’t be gun-shy in pursuing players who may not stay four years.

Yes, the Blue Devils have gotten burned by the likes of Luol Deng, who would have been a senior this year, but too many talents are out there—and there is too much parity in the game —to turn top prospects away just because they might not stay.

There’s a bitter taste in not being in the Sweet 16—particularly here in the Gothic Wonderland, where the Blue Devils’ Nike dancing shoes are practically glued to their feet.

But the end of a nine-year streak is not the end of a program.

In 1996, the last time Duke made such an early exit from the NCAA Tournament—to another basketball powerhouse, Eastern Michigan—the following ran in The Chronicle’s game story; “In the second half, the Eagles’ guards realized that the people in the Duke jerseys were not vintage Bobby Hurley and Grant Hill. In fact, they weren’t even vintage Collins, Capel and

Wojciechowski.”

Having a rich history is the doubleedged sword ofDuke Basketball. We relish in it, and we expect to repeat it.

And it weighs heavily on every player who puts on a Blue Devil jersey. Don’t tell me Greg Paulus didn’t feel it when teamJosh Mcßoberts had to pick him up off the floor in Buffalo.

And it’s why the country’s top players will still be drawn to Cameron.

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Commencement addressMotors, General in a time of es —especially Richard Wagoner, national turmoil and in the lot of a Trinity ’75, spends run-up to a presitime visiting elecdential and volunteereditorial rare tion —are a for Duke. ing He met his wife, Kathy opportunity to hear from naWagoner, Trinity ’77, right tional figures who may not here in Gothic Wonderland, otherwise visit campus. Midand two of the couple’s sons dlebury College has Bill Clinton this year, The Citadel have also attended Duke On top of his personal and reeled in Sen. John McCain family ties, Wagoner is a Trustee and Duke has... a corporate of the University, a member of CEO who also happens to be the Board of Visitors of the a Trustee.

Last year many students Fuqua School of Business and co-chair of Duke’s Financial were disappointed with the selection of James B. Duke ProAid Initiative.

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speak at commencement.

Let’s return to our tradition of asking truly international figures to speak—such as Madeliene Albright in 2004, or then-Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, Ph.D, ’66, in 2005.

We are also concerned that

President Brodhead’s priorities have been a larger factor in the selection of speakers than the desires of students.

Last year Brodhead asked Franklin to speak, even though he was not among the 20 candidates suggested by the commencement speaker nominating committee. This year the speaker is a member of Duke’s clubby board and the co-chair of the FAI, one of the president’s favorite projects.

The other possible explanation for the string of insider speakers is that students’ preferred speakers are saying “No,” and few non-connected dignitaries want to lecture at Duke.

Certainly North Carolina doesn’t have the political importance of other regions— Sen. Barack Obama has astutely chosen to speak at the

commencement of Southern

New Hampshire University—but that didn’t prevent Kofi Annan from agreeing to speak in 2003 or former President George H.W. Bush from ascending Duke’s dais nine years ago.

History has been made at commencement addresses in the past. President Bush introduced his doctrine ofpreemption at West Point’s 2002 gradand President uation, Kennedy drew international attention by calling for a nuclear test ban treaty at American University in 1963.

After a few low-key years, the administration must make a better effort to land a toprank speaker if Duke hopes to have commencement speakers worthy of the history books in the future.

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or directly involved in University governance to speak at commencement, and we are concerned that this could develop into a trend of looking inward for speakers.

People who are on campus as often as Franklin and Wagoner have plenty of other opportunities to address students. We hope these Blue Devil luminaries continue to share their perspectives at informal discussions or lectures during the year. However, Duke is making a mistake by repeatedly asking them to

Tuesday

at 8:07:26 p.m. (New York Time), Iranian Americans worldwide celebrated the 1,386th Persian New Year, also known as Norooz. The event is a cultural celebration and follows in the tradition of Zoroastrianism.

The Iran of Holocaust-questioning president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is not the country that Iranian expatriots know, love, cel•rate an nosi call home. For every American shaking his head at Iran’s nuclear development, there is an Iranian proudly claiming himself and his country as tolerant And it’s no wonshadee malaklou der why. va-va-voom As a first-generation Iranian American and someone who grew up in what has popularly been dubbed “Tehrangeles,” I know that the Iran ofmy culture—Persia—is not the Iran of current world politics.

Despite efforts from FOX News to convince the American people otherwise, Iranians are tolerant, and their history (past and present) proves it Iranians know themselves first and foremost as Persians, and it is perhaps for this reason that their pride has allowed Iran—now avidly called a part of the “Axis of Evil” or the hotbed of Hezbollah—to sully relations with America and the Western world. Arguably the newest and most prosperous modem empire, the Western world, its democratic ideologies and capitalist economies are viewed as contenders to the Iranians; though the Iranians, with their rich Persian history, are not given the same esteem by their Western adversaries.

Instead, Americans settle for the common, regurgitated stereotypes of Iranians: terrorists, towel heads, sand monkeys and camel jockeys.

The Persian Empire, which dates back to 550 BC, is renowned for its humble and tolerant leader, Cyrus the Great, who ardently believed in religious freedom. He was the first leader to free the Jews to return to Israel and is the only.Gentile referred to in the Bible as a messiah. Cyrus the Greatalso refused to enslave those people his empire accumulated through conquest, which was an anomaly.

Many present-day Iranian figureheads also espouse tolerant ideals, including human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shirin Ebadi and chief international correspondent for CNN Christiane Amanpour. Still, the Iran of today is known for violence and intolerance, a reputation that predates Sept. 11 and accusations of nuclear aggression.

In the months and years following the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the Iranian saying “Death to

America” became a popular scare tactic of the American government. As an American generation that remembers (even if not personally) the GulfWar, Bush senior and junior, the Iran hostage crisis and the current “War On Terror,” we are familiar with many Iranians’ anti-American mentality. But they do not possess this anti-Americanism because “they hate our freedom”; rather, it is the result of a disappointing relationship with the United States.

It’s a wonder that a country rich in a history of tolerance, especially toward the Jews, could espouse such anti-Semitic rhetoric or such militant aggression toward America.

Iran’s now-hostile relationship with the United States—and even the religious dogma of the Islamic Revolution—is a result ofyears of political betrayal and ignored promises, as well as economic exploitation and humanitarian neglect. It is not the result of an intrinsic Iranian savagery toward religious difference or the Western world. Iranian nationalists, though critical of the American government and its Middle East policies, are renowned for their warmth and hospitality toward non-militant Americans, and many American journalists, including Geraldine Brooks and Elaine Sciolino, have written books that provide testimony to this fact Sadly but surely, Americans have not afforded Iranians the same respect, and many Iranians living in the United States today do so as unwanted intruders.

For myself and many other Iranians, living in the United States means constantly proving oneself patriotic and “American.”

The United States rarely takes responsibility for its own role in devastating diplomatic relations between itself and countries it now calls enemies. Instead of understanding the historical foundation of severed relationships, the United States has misleadingly simplified these relations for the American people.

Again, Iranians are reduced to inhospitable people who “hate” our American ways—our American freedom—and not recognized as a worthwhile people with a remarkable Persian history.

It is my hope for the New Year that this misperception will change.

For the betterhalf of the 20th century and even into the 21st the Middle East has been considered an area in crisis and a problem that the United States has tried avidly to solve. But the problem of the Middle East, at least as it pertains to Iran, is very simple: The United States must take responsibility for its long line of international mistakes. Despite the recent hoopla, Iranians are tolerant, and even a fanatic president like Ahmadinejad can be easily influenced by a little sincerity.

After all, he too is a Persian.

Shadee Malaklou is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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Guilty as charged Ah, guilt. The workhorse of the emotions, guilt is the driving force behind innumerable belated birthday cards, XJLpre-vacation workathons and other sundry decencies that make us responsible human beings. Guilt can convince us to

call our moms and to get off the couch and write that paper that has been sitting on our desks for months.

But sometimes, like in Catholicism and graduate school, guilt gets a little out of control. I can’t even count the number of graduate students who have told me lately that they feel guilty anytime they go an entire weekend without thinking about school, or the minute they spend a dime of their hard-won fellowships on something frivolous, like, um, food. jacqui detwiler It seems appropriate in the week immediately followplease hire, desperate. ing Spring Break to talk a little bit about the balance between work and play, and the Puritan mentality of guilt that has tricked Americans into working more hours than the citizens of almost any other country on earth. Back when this country was founded, about the only thing you could do to distinguish yourself as a candidate for heaven, or a decent (hardworking) wife, was to spend most ofyour time laboring to allay the guilt of having been bom in the first place. Life was work and work was life and that was all there was.

Even though that’s hardly a common belief now, Americans still work more hours than any industrialized nation in the world, including Japan. We also get fewer vacation days and many people don’t even take their entire allotted vacations. And recent studies have shown that as our work hours are increasing, we are fatter and have fewer interpersonal relationships than ever.

But while the guilt-overwork phenomenon is pervasive, it has reached its zenith among the graduate student population. In fact, when I told my non-grad student roommate that I planned to write this week’s column about feeling guilty about not working on the weekends, he responded, ‘Yeah, that has never happened to me.” Although it’s hard for me to even believe at this stage, there are people who actually go home at 5 p.m. and become legitimate non-working people for entire evenings and even weekends!

And yes, a certain amount of respect for hard work is absolutely admirable. Duke’s graduate students have important jobs. The problem comes when we start feeling like we no longer deserve to relax just because there is much to be done.

We do deserve to relax, and not working continuously improves productivity, reduces stress and improves interpersonal relationships, if you want to get all empirical about it.

In short, there’s much to be said for the work-hard, partyhard lifestyle, even though some people rail against the idea of both being smart and taking the occasional Saturday off to do Irish car bombs or watch an entire America’s Next Top Model marathon. While no one’s saying you need to go out every weekend and binge drink to avoid feeling guilty about not working (in fact, I believe that’s actually in the definition of alcoholism), lam saying that working incessantly for the rest of your life is hardly the path to happiness. An unexamined life is not a life worth living, and it’s kinda hard to examine your life when you’re so busy examining spreadsheets you sometimes forget to eat So yes, there’s work to be done, and something makes me think that’s not going to change anytime soon. But it turns out they have stores now and if we don’t store enough food for the winter we can head on over to Target and pick up some trail mix. Besides, as has been said from the beginning of time, nobody on his deathbed ever wished he spent a few more weekends in the lab.

Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and neuroscience. Her column runs every Wednesday.

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yet another Spring Break gone, Duke students are once more left to wonder where the time went. For many if not most of us, one place it didn’t go was to performing volunteer work in the environmental field, even in a time when such work is desperately needed. As detailed in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, our planet stands on the precipice of an unprecedented natural experiment. Additionally, head-

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such as the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katri% na have served as blunt instruments to remind us of our reliance on a NIGL sometimes cruel, somea wider perspective times kindly Mother Nature. In spite or these facts, Duke students remain largely absent from the broader environmental community.

An informal survey ofnine local and statewide environmental organizations was conducted by the authors of this column to determine the number of Duke students that had volunteered with them over the past year and whether they thought Duke students were well represented in the local environmental community. Apart from hosting student interns supported by the Stanbeck Fellowship and other resume-building programs, all reported little to no interaction with the Duke student body.

For some students, this dearth of support may be driven by a lack of actual concern. Most of us, however, are simply shrouded in our cocoons of privilege and our mantras that to each and every problem there is a scientific solution.

In 1999, before most of us crossed paths at Duke, more than 6 billion people crossed with us into a new millennium; by the time Duke becomes but a very distant memory to most of us, another 3 billion humans will have joined our ranks. Our challenge will be to provide food, shelter, health and peace to this ever-growing human population, while at the same time maintaining the fabric of biodiversity that sustains all life on this planet. The Nicholas School stands at the pinnacle of Duke’s intellectual foray into environmental issues. It is designed to train environmental professionals —those who will work within the private and public sector to manage the environment and its portfolio of natural resources and those who will work within academic and other research institutions to understand the human impact on our planet.

More than 200 graduate students at any one time are focusing on issues ranging from the reproductive habits of bumblebees to the economic pitfalls to the environment

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inherent in the treadmill of production. In addition, the Nicholas School cooperates with Trinity College of Arts and Sciences in awarding four undergraduate degrees; the BA in Environmental Sciences and Policy, the BS in Environmental Sciences and the BA and BS in Earth and Ocean Sciences. Courses in these degree programs are taught by more than 60 Duke professors in 20 cooperating departments and schools.

Indeed the Nicholas School is the go-to place for learning environmental expertise. But where, one must ask, is the go-to place for learning practical, hands-on environmental stewardship?

The environmental movement in general has been losing momentum since its heyday of the early 19705, which saw the first observance of Earth Day, the passage of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Today, the relative lack of progress we are experiencing is not a product of lost hope or need.

Rather, it is due to the fact that younger generations, so full of the ideas and passion that brought us this far, are not participating in local environmental efforts.

Nowhere is this more evident than among students at Duke University. As we noted, last year, only a handful of Duke students volunteered their time and expertise to the area’s environmental community. Aside from this pioneering handful, few others from Duke, even those dedicated to environmental studies on an academic level, left the comfort of their ivory tower to walk among the masses and delve deep into the real world morass of environmental problems.

Learning is about more than just books and statistical packages. Similarly, environmental expertise is about more than biology, spatial analysis software and ecological economics. Both learning and environmental expertise are about trial and error, about spending intellectual capital in the pursuit of a better world. The Nicholas School and Duke University must more broadly extol not only the importance of scholarship to guide research but the experience to ground it. And as students, there is no better way to gain this experience than to volunteer.

There are ample opportunities to do so, with the Eno River Association, Appalachian Voices, Triangle Land Conservancy, Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society and Sierra Club, to. name a few. Take your pick, because the time is ripe to act.

This is the second in a series of columns this semester written and supported by members of several campus groups. The goal of the series is to raise awareness and to educate on a select group of issues related to sustainability, human rights and health care with a globalperspective. This column was authored by members of the Nicholas Institute GraduateLiasions.

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