April 11, 2007

Flash mobs

Pollen

Groups suddenly assemble at UNC-Chapel Hill, PAGE 3

Lacrosse duo

N.C, Duke see very high

Zack Greer and Matt Danowski are one of the country's top tandems, PAGE 11

levels of allergies, PAGE 4

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Lax families arrive, dismissals rumored BY

IZA WOJCIECHOWSKA THE CHRONICLE

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The families of the three former players accused in the lacrosse case are beginning to return to the Triangle area, as ABC News reports that the remaining charges will be dropped.

Reade Seligmann arrived at Raleigh-Durham International Airport Tuesday afternoon with his family.

Kevin Finnerty, father of accused former player Collin Finnerty, told reporters he would arrive in Raleigh Tuesday evening.

Parents of the players could not confirm details of the potential announcement, however.

Members of several national news organizations, including CBS News anchor Katie Couric, have come to the Triangle to cover this story, The Chronicle has learned.

Noelle Talley, a spokesperson for North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper’s office, said Tuesday afternoon that no announcement about the state’s decision in the case had yet been scheduled.

Two state prosecutors took over the case from Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong Jan. 12, when Nifong recused himself from the case. Prosecutors James Coman and Mary Winstead were appointed to review the case and meet with witnesses, defense attorneys and investigators.

“There is some hope that there might be an answer from

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A groupof students hopesaffixing GPStrackers to campus buses will improve the reliability and punctuality of the system.

Group aims to boost bus accountability with GPS

BY ZAK KAZZAZ THE CHRONICLE

After one too many, experiences running to a Duke bus stop only to see taillights fade away, one group of students has decided to work to improve bus accountability on campus.

The Network of Future Executives is now working to convince the University to install GPS trackers on all buses, allowing students to view a real-time map ofbuses on their routes.

Sophomore Elise Schmidt,

a co-chair of the project, said the GPS system would provide additional safety and save students time.

Schmidt is running the project with sophomore Jessica Lohrman and senior Haley Hoffman, the supervisor of the group. NFE began a Facebook group last week to promote bus accountability, which hundreds of students have since joined.

“We’re trying to get GPS tracking devices on each of

the Cl and C 2 buses,” Schmidt said. “We want to change the screens on Alpine to see where the buses are and to be able to log in on the Internet to see when the buses are at those

specific points.”

Schmidt says she

later

hopes to expand the system track C3, C 4 and C 5 buses.

to

North Carolina State Uni-

versity began the trend of tracking buses through GPS SEE BUSES ON PAGE 8

the attorney general this week at some point,” Wade Smith, Finnerty’s defense attorney, told The Associated Press Tuesday. “If that should happen, then we want to have them here.”

Finnerty, Seligmann and David Evans, Trinity ’O6, were indicted April 18, 2006 for rape, sexual offense and kidnapping of an exotic dancer hired to perform at an off-campus party thrown by the lacrosse team March 13.

Rape charges against the three players were dropped Dec. 22.

After stepping down from the case, Nifong has been brought before the North Carolina State Bar on charges of ethics violations that could cost him his law license. His next hearing is scheduled for April 13.

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Reade Seligmann, one of three former Duke lacrosse players charged, was seen at Raleigh-Durham airportTuesday evening.

N.C. Senate apologizes Duke puts renewed focus for slavery, Jim Crow laws on Hispanic health care by

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Donnie Allison THE CHRONICLE

The North Carolina Senate unanimously passed a joint resolution last week apologizing for the state’s past support of slavery and Jim Crow laws.

The resolution expressed “profound regret” for laws that “perpetuated the denial of basic human rights and dignity,” and called upon citizens “to eliminate racial prejudices, Harry Watson injustices and discrimination.”

Virginia offered the first formal apology of this kind in February and may soon be

followed by Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York and Vermont, in addition to North Carolina.

During the floor debate, many senators said they see such apologies as a good start in the batde to eliminate racial injustices.

“An apology, particularly of the form that includes not only slavery but the nearly century-long practices of Jim Crow, can only be a positive step,” William Darity, a professor of public policy studies, African and African American studies and economics, wrote in an e-mail.

Harry Watson, director of the Center for the Study of the American South and a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said it is SEE APOLOGY ON PAGE 10

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In response to a rapidly growing Hispanic population in the area, the University is currendy seeking to alleviate Hispanics’ health care problems with a

ing their lives here,” Paredes said.

The newly immigrated population, however, encounters difficulties benefit-

ting from health care because of cultural beliefs, lack of information, the language barrier and a differing perspective on health, Paredes added. service-learning class and the Local Access to Coordinated Health Colleen Blue, health prom Care program. gram director of El Centro During the past 10 Hispano, said the most years, Durham’s Hispanic problem His££NTRO HISPANO commonhave with the community has increased panics by 500 percent and is becoming more sta- health care system in Durham is accessible, said Liliana Paredes, assistant profes- ing specialty care, due to lack of health sor of the practice of Spanish. She added insurance. that more Hispanics are now buying El Centro is a grassroots downtownproperty and setding in Durham for a Durham organization that offers many services for its Hispanic clients. The group year or more.

“Durham is becoming more of a city SEE LATINO HEALTH ON PAGE 6 that is embracing Latinos who are mak-

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Fight over fired attorneys persists department to work through its concerns regarding the sensitive nature of some of these materials,” House Judiciary CommitWASHINGTON Democrats subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., for more documents Tuesday, escalating wrote Gonzales in a letter accompanying their fight with the Bush administration the subpoena. “Unfortunately, the department has not indicated any meaningful over the firings of eight United States atwillingness to find away to meet our legititorneys.

The subpoena, issued a week before mate needs.”

Gonzales was scheduled to testify before Conyers characterized the subpoena as a last resort after weeks of negotiations Congress about the dismissals, seeks hunby

Laurie Kellman

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with Justice over documents and e-mails the committee wants in its pursuit of whether any of the firings were improper.

Justice spokesperson Brian Roehrkasse stopped short of saying the department

dreds of documents either withheld or

heavily blacked out by his department. The subpoena sets a Monday deadline for Gonzales to produce the documents.

“We have been patient in allowing the

DNA shows Birkhead

is

The hearing was a pivotal moment in the battle over who gets custody of the girl, who could inherit a fortune from the estate of Smith’s late husband, J. Howard Marshall 11. Although Birkhead is the father, Stern’s name is on the birth certificate. Another custody hearing was scheduled for Friday.

Stern, who was Smith’s lawyer and later became her companion, said he wouldn’t fight for custody, but a lawyer for Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur, indicated she might.

The judge scheduled another hearing for Friday in the pink colonial courthouse to discuss who will raise the girl, who could inherit hundreds of millions of dollars.

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NASSAU, Bahamas DNA tests prove it: Larry Birkhead is the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s million-dollar baby.

“I told you so!” the late Playboy Playmate’s former boyfriend said Tuesday upon emerging from a closed court hearing. He added: “My baby’s going to be coming home pretty soon.”

Birkhead, a 34-year-old California photographer, then hugged his rival, Howard K. Stern, who has been caring for baby Dannielynn since Smith’s sudden death in February.

would fight the subpoena. But he said legal concerns about violating privacy rights of people mentioned in the documents have kept Justice from releasing them.

“Because there are individuals’ privacy interests implicated by publicly releasing this information, it is unfortunate that Congress would choose this option,” Roehrkasse said. “In light of these concerns, we will continue to work closely with congressional staff and we still hope and expect that we will be able to reach an accommodation with the Congress.”

Conyers’ counterpart, Senate Judiciary SEE GONZALES ON PAGE 9

baby's dad Stern said he loved the baby despite the DNA results and would support Birkhead.

“I’m obviously very disappointed, but my feelings for Dannielynn have not changed,” he said, adding of Birkhead: “I’m going to do whatever I can to make sure he gets sole custody.”

Birkhead had been fighting for custody of Dannielynn even before Smith’s death.

“Nothing’s been determined except parentage and I’m the father,” Birkhead said. “It’s been a long road and I’m just happy to have this behind me.”

A raging, daylong battle erupted in central Baghdad on Tuesday and four Iraqi soldiers were killed, 16 U.S. soldiers were wounded and a U.S. helicopter was hit by ground fire at the close of the second month of the massive security crackdown on the capital..

Bush,Dems discuss spending President Bush said Tuesday he wants to talk with Democrats about the standoff over war funding, but he made it clear he will not embrace any timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal. Democrats questioned the point of a meeting.

Tillman's death investigated A U.S. House committee announced Tuesday it would hold hearings on misleading military statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Iraq.

Warming to affect millions Rising global temperatures could melt Latin America's glaciers within 15 years, cause food shortages affecting 130 million people across Asia by 2050 and wipe out Africa's wheat crop, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

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Insider speaks on Voting Rights Act Flash mobs

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Julie Fernandes, a senior policy analyst and special counsel for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, spoke Tuesday afternoon about the Voting Rights Act and its relevance in the present political climate.

During her speech, which was held in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and attended by a large crowd of students, Fernandes recounted her experience pushing the current VRA through both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

“The Voting Rights Act is like apple pie,” she said. “It is something nobody can be against. Everybody has to be for it. But what is it?”

In order to determine the answer to this question, Fernandes said, she and her group had many detailed conversations about what the renewed bill should entail.

While working to get the act renewed, Fernandes said the group decided that if Congress attempted to amend the bill, then the group would pull it. She added, moreover, that the discussion at the time centered around issues such as whether voting ballots should be bilingual.

“We were having all these catfights behind the scenes, but on the outside we were saying ‘we’re inevitable,’” Fernandes said.

She added that the VRA has three important components that are particularly relevant today: the first prohibits voting discrimination, the second requires certain jurisdictions to get federal pre-approval before making changes to voting processes and the third necessitates that jurisdictions with large concentrations of non-English proficient citizens have translated materials on the voting ballot.

Although the first component is permanent, the last two sections are temporary and have to be renewed, Fernandes noted.

She said the decision to make these two parts renewable was a political compromise to appease states that did not approve of the initial VRA. “Imagine the powerful constituents against [the second component] at the time of the initial bill,” Fernandes said.

But in 2006, Republican congressmen

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Civil rights lawyer Julie Fernandes speaks about her work on the Voting Rights Act at Sanford Tuesday. asked for more time to consider the bill’s people to write pro-VRA articles for the renewal. Fernandes said these politicians local newspapers of congressmen who claimed they were concerned about the were opposed to the bill. “The House is a wild place. It’s like the Wild West,” she bill’s constitutionality. said. “But we found champions in places And because of the development, Ferbill never thought we would find them said she was worried the we nandes and the bill passed 98 to nothing.” would not pass without amendment.

Sophomore Brain Fitzpatrick, who atIn order to increase public support tended, the lecture and is a student in the bill, Fernandes said advocates for the New Perspectives on Civil Rights that searched for new angles in the campaign. For several months, for example, helped to sponsor the talk, said he her group shadowed academics in order thought the speech was fascinating.

“It gave practical insight to the to facilitate debate about the VRA. Fernandes said they also applied indithings we learn about [in class],” Fitzrect pressure by encouraging influential patrick said.

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Zombies attacked students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill April 4. They were not, however, Duke fans in disguise, but a group of UNC students participating in the university’s first flash mob.

A flash mob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public space to perform an unusual act for a brief period of time. The idea was created by Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harper’s Magazine, in May 2003 to mock people who slavishly follow the latest trends and fads.

The UNC flash mob—organized by freshmen Tarik Yassien and Adam Graetz using Facebook—took place at the stroke of noon, when 15 students, smeared with fake blood, pretended to rise from the dead and approached onlookers in the Pit, a brick courtyard in the middle of campus.

“It was a success in the fact that people came,” Yassien said. “It wasn’t a success in the fact that it didn’t break any records.”

Yassien planned the event hoping to top the record-breaking flash mob involving 1,200 students at the University of Califomia-Davis. He said he was nonetheless pleased with the results.

He noted that the growing popularity of Facebook and YouTube has been a main factor in the college flash-mob trend.

“I think it’s becoming more popular for universities,” he said. “Half the reason I think people do flash mobs is so that they can make a YouTube video now.”

The closest thing to flash-mob activity at Duke involves the group KAADATT Kids All About Dancing All The Time. It was started by Colin Crowe, Trinity ’O6, in the fall of 2005.

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GEZUNDHQT About 35 million Americans suffer from

N.C. sees record-high pollen counts

lilMl.ljKl Rising temp, poses hunger risk BANGKOK,Thailand Warming temperatures could result in food shortages for 130 million people across Asia by 2050, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

The report suggests that a 3.6degree increase in mean air temperature could decrease rain-fed rice yields by 5 percent to 12 percent in China.

The drops in yields, combined with rising populations, could put

close to 50 million extra people at risk of hunger by 2020 and 266 million by 2080, the report said.

Cold weather cripples N.C. crops N.C— HENDERSONVILLE, Lovers of fresh, homegrown fruit could end up paying more for apples and other produce because of

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Cars in the Blue Zone dusted with a yellow powder, people with itchy eyes and a student health clinic packed full of Dukies clamoring for antihistamine can only mean one thing pollen season is in full swing.

According to the rankings —

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1,500,” he said. “So far this year, we’ve already had two days that have been over 2,000 and seven days that have been over 1,000.”

April 2, pollen counts reached a staggering 2,957—not even this season’s peak, he added.

So why the preponderance of pollen?

“We did have a pretty mild winter, except for a lithas been one of the tle in Febru[seasons] since Fve

been here. My eyes have almost swollen shut.”

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“So we have a more comThe rankings, released yesterday, pressed season for flowering bewere calculated according to the cause we have trees blooming in city’s average pollen score, April, too,” he added.

Pollen counts can also be aggraamong other factors.

If this season’s pollen count is vated by warm, dry weather and can any indication, North Carolina stay until heavy rains come, Mary ratings may jump even higher Clark, a pollen measurer for the next year.

N.C. Division of Air Quality, told Pollen counts—which are The Raleigh News and Observer.

Whatever the reason for the measured by sampling how many grains are in the air per cubic pollen season, students have meter during a specific period of been flocking to Duke’s Student time—are the highest they have Health Clinic for relief, said Jean Hanson, administrative director been since 1999, said Tom MathofStudent Health. er, a spokesman for the N.C. Division of Air Quality.

In the three weeks since “In most years, widiin a one Spring Break, 122 students have week period, readings will get visited Student Health for the around 1,000, and usually peak at treatment of allergies—a number

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High pollen levels in the region this spring have many students suffering from allergies. that does not include those students who a completed Cold/Flu/Allergy form and got their medications directly from the pharmacy, Hanson said.

In the same period of time last year, the clinic saw 94 students.

“It’s important to give them something that won’t make them sleep—the main concern for students is that they want relief from allergies but don’t want to be drowsy,” Hanson said.

Many students who may not typically suffer from allergies are also visiting the clinic.

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“Fuqua Fridays” may be prime time for

students and faculty in the Fuqua School of Business to mingle and network, but representatives ofother graduate and pro-

fessional schools are not bitter about the lack of “Sanford Saturdays” or “Engineering Evenings.”

Fuqua boasts a social budget of more than $lOO,OOO, which comes from the student fees of Fuqua’s more-than-1,200 students and supports events like Fuqua Fridays, said Ben Kennedy, Trinity ’OO, second-year Fuqua student and outgoing president of Duke MBA Association.

“Fuqua students are willing to pay for it,” Kennedy said, adding that the social events are elemental to the goals of business students and for the name of the school and that the social culture attracts many students.

Students in other graduate and professional schools at the University said they were aware of Fuqua’s sizeable social budget but were satisfied with their own schools’ programming.

Kim Lake, second-year joint-degree student in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and the Terry

Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy, said the Sanford social committee has improved social planning this year.

“We don’t have something every week like Fuqua does,” said Lake, who chairs the social committee, adding that the organization has recently increased the number of social events for Sanford students.

She said the Masters in Public Policy program and Program for International Development Policy combined their social budgets of $2,300 each to establish the Sanford social committee to fund their events this year. The committee is funded by the Sanford Institute.

Sanford graduate students were invited to welcome-back parties, barbecues, a graduation ceremony and festivities for parents in the program, and Lake said the 'events are often tailored to the groups most likely to attend.

“Because our program is so intense, I don’t know if having a bigger budget would make people come out,” she said, adding that a social budget of $4,600 funds events for approximately 800 public policy students. “I feel like our budget is

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Hispanic immigrants also often have

difficulty navigating the U.S. health system

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NASA officials said Tuesday the launch ofthe space shuttle Atlantis will be delayed until no earlier than June 8.

Space shuttle launch delayed for repairs by

Mike Schneider

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

NASA has

pushed back the launch of space shuttle Atlantis until at least early June so that technicians can finish repairing its haildamaged fuel tank, officials said Tuesday.

The new launch date was set for no earlier than June B—a8 —a nearly threemonth delay for the first shuttle mission of the year.

NASA had been trying to decide whether to finish repairing the tank and use it for Atlantis’ mission or swap it out with another tank. But NASA managers said they were pleased with the progress of repairs that already have been made.

“We don’t see any show stoppers in front of us, but we understand there still is quite a bit of work to do on the tank,” said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations.

Golfball-sized hail left thousands of

dents on the foam insulation on Atlantis’ fuel tank as it sat on the launch pad in February. The space shuttle was rolled off the launch pad and sent back for repairs, forcing NASA to miss the original March 15 launch date.

During their 11-day mission, Atlantis’ crew will deliver a new pair of solar arrays to the space station and fold up an old pair of solar panels. Atlantis’ six astronauts were in “good spirits,” said Wayne Hale, space shuttle program manager.

“They’re happy to spend a little more time in training but they’re anxious to fly,” he said.

AJune launch ofAtlantis pushes back the flights of the three other shuttle missions that NASA still hopes to launch this year.

It also delays by more than a month the return of U.S. astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams, who is living at the internationSEE SHUTTLE ON PAGE 8

works together with LATCH, a program started by Duke University Medical Center that assists Hispanics in navigating the U.S. health system. LATCH employees help clients make doctors’ appointments and apply for health insurance.

Another way that Duke’s community engages with the Hispanic populace is through a class called Spanish for Health Professions offered by the Department of Romance Studies.

The class requires enrolled students to perform at least 20 hours of service in an organization in Durham that interacts with Spanish-speaking people in a health-related context The course was created in 2004 with a grant from DUMC because of a number of requests from pre-medicine students who wanted more Spanish experience.

In the classroom, the students not only practice the language but also leam about Hispanic culture in order to be prepared for real-world interactions at the service sites.

This semester, students have volunteered at the Lincoln Community Health Center, DUMC, Durham Crisis and Response Center, the Center for Child and Family Health and El Centro Hispano.

“The jobs vary from site to site according to the student’s level of Spanish,” said Bonnie McManus, the service coordinator for the course.

The class discusses how Hispanics perceive their own health, how Hispanic patients relate to their doctors and how health systems in most Hispanic countries function differently than in the United States.

“One of the most important lessons in class was discussing the variability of backgrounds that come from the Spanish-speaking world,” said Peter McCary, a senior in the class.

Paredes, who has taught the course in the past, said it strives to break down stereotypes of Hispanics by emphasizing the heterogeneity of tbe population in origin, access to resources and education.

For example, Paredes said, Hispanics who originate from rural areas in their native countries typically look for religious explanations for health and have less access to modem health care than

because Mexico, Guatemala'and many other Hispanic countries have social services for medical care, Paredes said. As a result, they are accustomed to having access to health care regardless offinancial status.

She added that Hispanic people usually maintain a more distant relationship with their doctors than Americans do.

Paredes said they do not ask many questions about their medical care, so they sometimes lack necessary information.

One of the stereotypes Paredes said the class tries to overcome is the idea that a large portion of Hispanics have alcohol problems of some sort. “People come here and don’t have a social support network, so they try to enhance the network they have through alcohol,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean that all Latinos’ families are drinking on the weekends.”

McCary, who shadowed a professional medical interpreter at DUMC, said he realized the importance of learning about culture in addition to the language.

“Language proficiency is not enough,” he said. “[Medical interpreters] have to have cultural proficiency as well as medical [vocabulary] proficiency.”

Because Spanish for Health Professions is a gateway service-learning course, students must propose a research question related to problems they witness in their service sites. They may or may not pursue their research question in a later course.

Shalini Dave, a senior, volunteered by handing out pamphlets about diabetes prevention at El Centro Hispano while enrolled in the course. She said she decided to pursue her research further with an independent study course the following summer by developing the pamphlets to better communicate the information.

“I began to use Hispanic foods in the food pyramid,” Dave said.

Blue said she appreciates Duke students’ efforts to promote healthy habits in Durham’s Hispanic population and thinks the community feels the same way. “[Duke students] are a tremendous help. It is wonderful to have university students supporting the Latino community, and the community feels very appreciative to have students from a respected university learning Spanish and participating in a grassroots organization,” she said.

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al space station 220 miles above Earth.

She is to return on Endeavour, the second shuttle mission of the year, whose launch was pushed back from the end of

two years ago, said Slade McCalip, assistant

director of planning and operations for N.C. State’s Transportation Department.

Since then, other universities—including Emory and Yale—have adopted similar

June to early August.

technology.

McCalip said that student influence and a need for safety inspired the system’s installation.

N.C. State junior Scott Klein said the tracking greatly improved the school’s prior transportation and saved him from waiting for buses that were out-of-service.

‘You can get a text message when the bus is coming, or if your cell phone is web enabled, you can get a real-time map,” McCalip said.

Students at Duke said buses often operate on unreliable schedules, particularly after drivers change shifts.

“The new [drivers] either come later, or the old ones leave early,” freshmen Gabriela Borges said. “Either way you find that there’s a lag time and that can really screw you up.”

Freshman Sara Kate Berg said that during certain times of the day, buses are hard to catch because of the hordes of freshmen returning to East Campus. “There are always the same number of people, and never that many buses,” she added.

Other students, however, said the money should be used for other ventures-r-citing easier solutions to bus accountability. “I haven’t had experiences with buses not showing up,” sophomore Rushabh Sadiwala said. “If you just went online, you could see a map and calculate the time the bus would come, you wouldn’t have an issue.”

Duke officials said the current system is proficient and does not call for immediate change.

Some students complain that it is difficult to catch a bus at the West Campusbus stop at certaintimesof day.

“I would disagree that there are a lot of complaints of the buses running on schedule,” said Peter Murphy, assistant director of transit. “We do a lot of spot checks—our on-time ratios are in the 98th percentile.”

Murphy said a GPS system would mainly benefit students taking evening buses.

Murphy added that he, has spoken to

several tracking companies but has not made any concrete plans with them.

Hoffman said she is very hopeful the project will take form by the spring semester’s end. “There’s so much freedom and creativity and the administration really appreciates so much initiative,” she said. “This is exacdy the kind of thing that Duke is about—students taking inidative to improve how Duke is.”

Williams, who has been living at the space station since December, is expected to break the U.S. record for continuous time in space.

Her current crew mate, Michael LopezAlegria, will set that record when he returns to Earth next week in a Russian Soyuz vehicle with 214 days in space. The longest stay in space was 437 days by Russian Valeri Polyakov.

“It doesn’t really matter. I have lots to do up here,” Williams told reporters Tuesday via satellite before NASA announced its launch decision. “For me, it won’t really change the way I operate here.”

Gerstenmaier said Williams could return on Atlantis if it looks like the launch of Endeavour is going to be delayed past August.

The shuttle’s foam insulation is used to prevent dangerous ice from building up on the tank during fueling on the launch pad.

The insulating foam is of special concern to NASA since a chunk of it flew off during space shuttle Columbia’s launch in 2003 and struck the orbiter. The damage allowed fiery gases to penetrate Columbia during re-entry, breaking up the craft and killing its seven astronauts.

NASA redesigned the external tank, removing large amounts of foam, before last year’s three successful shuttle missions.

The space agency plans another design change to the tank before the shuttle program ends in 2010.

With the extra time, NASA engineers also decided last week to inspect Atlantis’ propulsion lines to make sure a silicon rubber mold material wasn’t left in them.

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Morris, who is nicknamed the “Lawnmower Man” after his signature dance move—draws from a Facebook group of 64 Duke members.

Morris uses the Facebook group as a medium to organize spontaneous dances in public spaces like the bus stop and West Campus Plaza. The dances typically attract eight to 15 people for 45 minutes to an hour.

“Part of the idea is that I love the spontaneity of it,” he said. “Obviously it has to have some planning but it’s about just being able to dance in the middle of the day.”

Internet use on college campuses has

contributed to a trend of increasing numbers of flash mobs and spontaneous student activity of all kinds, Graetz said.

“Especially as the Internet culture is blossoming, there’s a lot of things bringing people together,” he said.

“Flash mobs are definitely grabbing people’s attention.”

A second UNC flash mob, planned by UNC senior Erin Watson, will take place April 20. The “Mix CD exchange” flash mob will involve students trading CDs to increase discussion of musical tastes, Watson said.

“It’s a combination of fun, showing people that free culture exists on our campus and also promoting the Internet as a means of bringing people together to talk about things,” she said.

have said Gonzales’ conflicting accounts of the firings, along with concerns about how the Justice Department is fighting the Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D- war on terrorism, have undermined their confidence in him. Democrats and some Vt., asked Gonzales in a letter for documents on the firings that have been reRepublicans, such as Sen. John Sununu of tained by the Justice Department. Such New Hampshire and possible GOP presiletters are sometimes preludes to a subdential candidate Newt Gingrich, have called for Gonzapoena, which les’ resignation.

Leahy’s comis exBush, meanmittee while, has stood “We still hope and expect that pected to authorize this

by Gonzales, a we will be able to reach an acweek. longtime friend from Texas.

Leahy’s commodation with “I think the committee the Congress.” also asked Justice DepartGonzales for ment has been Brian Roehrkasse very documents working spokesperson, Justice Dept. hard to be fully on a prosecution in responsive to the consin that request, as the was overturned by a federal appeals court president asked them to do,” White House for lack ofevidence. The defendant, state spokeswoman Dana Perino said Tuesday.

Officials said the House request includworker Georgia Thompson, had been aced the full text ofall documents that had cused of bid-rigging by favoring a company with ties to Democratic Gov. Jim been partially or completely blacked out in Doyle. Leahy and five other Democratic the Justice Department’s initialrelease of senators said they were concerned more than 3,000pages last month, includwhether politics played a role in the case. ing some U.S. attorney evaluations.

Together, the developments indicated Justice officials said the request included an unredacted list ranking the that Democrats would make life for Gonzales and the Bush administration no easperformance and standing of each of the ier in the week leading up to his testimo93 U.S. attorneys. Government officials have previously confirmed that Chicagony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on based prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was April 17.

Several lawmakers from both parties ranked as “not distinguished.”

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satisfactory for the size of our program.”

Kelly Moore, president of Duke Student Nursing Association and a student in the Advanced Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, said the intensity of the “fasttrack” ABSN program and schedules of students can limit social planning.

Moore said the 54 full-time students in the program share $l,OOO for the year’s events. In recent years, the program has operated with a $5OO social budget, but Moore said an additional $5OO was allotted to the program this year.

Moore said the nursing school differs from Fuqua because students must hold fundraisers to host social events.

“We operate well within the limits that we have. Being able to have a social event every Friday where we could invite people would be fantastic, but not realistic at this point,” she said.

Heather Wake, president of the Engineering Graduate Student Council, said the majority of the council’s budget is spent on social affairs. This year, $lO,OOO

was provided by the Pratt School of Engineering’s social and discretionary funds, and Wake estimated the budget to include another $2,000 from the graduate student association and $l,OOO from the Graduate and Professional Student Council.

Though Pratt cannot administer student activity fees on graduate students, EGSC can request funding from GPSC’s student fees.

Matthew Levy, treasurer of the student body of the School of Law, estimated the law school’s social budget to be approximately $25,000 per year for just less than 700 students. The school sponsors a cocktail party and a Halloween party in the fall and the Barrister’s Ball in the spring, but the majority of the social funds do not go to these festivities.

“Most is spent on programming, community service projects, mentor-mentee programs,” Levy said.

Lana BenDavid, program coordinator of Graduate Student Affairs, said all graduate schools and any officiallyrecognized graduate student groups can apply for funding from her organization or'from GPSC.

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still with us, particularly because the nation embraced legal segregation after the Civil War,” Darity said. “Desegregation did not become a significant reality throughout the South until the

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important for the state to take responsibility for its own role.

“Slavery was an institution by state early 19705.” law... North Carolina is definitely the Darity added that there is a significant agent here,” Watson said. “Therefore I danger of present day resegregation think it’s entirely appropriate that the through “racialized tracking or segregatstate take this first step.” ed curricula.”

Timothy Tyson, a senior research Although the resolution recognizes scholar of these ongoing ■“■ documentary problems, Daristudies and a ty said 11 d*>es It S never tOO late tO acknowlvisiting profesnot far go edge that our society has made enough. sor of American Christian!“An apology crucial mistakes.... Especially 1 and does not bring ty Southern cuisince we’re still making them.” closure—repaare neccure at the Dirations X jmoth Xyson essary tor clovmity School, professor, Divinity School sure,” Darity compared the ■■■ added. apology to a city allowing Tyson said free parking at night he agrees with the spirit of reparations “It’s nice and doesn’t cost much, but noted important practical difficulties. and the community benefits from it in “I am all but certain that I am blood small ways,” Tyson wrote in an e-mail. kin to human beings who were enslaved “But we should not kid ourselves into in North Carolina,” Tyson said. “If I can thinking this is something that will prove that, should I get a check from the change everything.” government, when my family has been Regardless of the resolution’s practical ‘white’ for generations?”

Watson said that “just writing a check” impact, professors said the substance of the policy remains relevant. is not likely to solve anything.

“It’s never too late to acknowledge “The best form of reparations is for us that our society has made crucial misto decide that being black... is no longer takes,” Tyson said. “Especially since we’re the disadvantage in society that it has been, and to make that real,” he said. still making them.”

He added that there are currendy Tyson said the issues raised by the more than 30 million slaves in the world apology are ones that affect us all.

“The essence of human evil, yesterday a number that dwarfs the 4 million freed and today, is to deny the humanity of others by the Emancipation Proclamation.

Darity said that the tertiary effects of and regard them as a means to our own ends,” Tyson said. “That is still happening all slavery are also a serious problem.

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SMITH from page 2 A crowd of about 250 people, many of them tourists, cheered from behind police barricades when Birkhead, clutching a piece of paper, announced the DNA test results. The court’s DNA expert, Dr. Michael Baird, confirmed it.

“Essentially, he’s the biological father,” Baird said.

This tropical capital has been transfixed by the Anna Nicole saga since she moved here last year. Smith gave birth to Dannielynn in September, only to see her 20year-old son Daniel die days laterat her bedside from a lethal combination of drugs.

Smith died in February at age 39 in Florida.

Many in the crowd took pictures of the

impromptu news conference with cameras and cell phones. One man in the crowd wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the handwritten message: “I’m the baby’s daddy.”

Arthur, who had been estranged from Smith for years, said she wanted to be present in her granddaughter’s life, but seemed appeased by the DNA results.

“I’m happy that Dannielynn will knpw who her real father is,” she said.

The baby, whose full name is Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stem, could inherit millions from Marshall’s estate.

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for next season

While it may be early to start projecting given that the deadline to declare for the NBA draft is still weeks away, Duke fans probably couldn’t be more anxious to put this past season behind them and look to the future After all, I know it wasn’t exactly the season I had in mind for my senior year. One four-game losing streak was hard enough to take. I didn’t need a second one and a first-round NCAA upset to cap off my run as a student fan.

But when it comes to Duke Basketball, mike I’m an optimist and figure this season was no It Vail pcil more of an aberration than a trend. So the way I see it, things can only get better.

If the campus reaction meant anything, Josh Mcßoberts’ early departure for the NBA was really a blessing. When your team’s most reliable presence down low is afraid to bang in the post and is rumored to be a locker-room cancer, it’s time for a change —even if that means Duke might be considerably undersized next season.

And it’s not like his departure leaves the Blue Devils with a dearth of talent. Replacing him, Duke has three, possibly four, McDonald’s All-Americans on the way, bringing our total number to at least eight. You would think that bringing together that much talent under the tutelage of one of the best coaches in the game’s history would place Duke among the favorites to win a National Championship. next season’s top 25

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SeniorMatt Oanowski (left) and juniorZack Greer comprise one of the nation's top scoring duos.The two have combined for 59 goals so far this season.

Attack tandem lights up Duke’s foes by

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Early in the third quarter of Duke’s 11-9 victory over Johns Hopkins Saturday, attackman Matt Danowski lofted a cross-field prayer to fellow forward Zach Greer that seemed to have little chance of being caught.

Even though he did not see the pass initially, Greer turned his head at the last moment, caught the ball and buried a shot in the back of the cage for his fifth goal and Danowski’s third assist of the game.

‘You could tell Zach didn’t even expect it coming,” midfielder Peter

Lamade said. “It was one of those things where we were like ‘Holy s—!’ We were sitting on the sidelines like, ‘Did that just happen?”’

Those types of plays have been a staple for Danowski and Greer throughout the three seasons they have played together, as the two have exhibited a unique chemistry since Greer first donned a Blue Devil uniform.

“It’s always been unspoken between us, but ever since he came... we just kind of clicked,” Danowski said. “I feel like when I’m going to a certain spot on the field I know where he’s going to be, so I don’t have to look half of the time. I

think [senior] Mike Ward said to me when we were sophomores, ‘You guys just know where each other are,’ and that’s just how it is.”

In his freshman season, Danowski scored just 23 goals and tallied 19 assists as the Blue Devils limped to a 5-8 record.

“Sometimes you could tell he was frustrated,” Lamade said of Danowski that season. “Sometimes he would throw balls to people who sometimes wouldn’t catch them.”

Greer’s arrival changed all of that.

The players’ styles complemented SEE M. LACROSSE ON PAGE 16

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Greg Paulus is one offour returning starters hoping to lead theBlue Devils back to the Sweet 16.

For the second consecutive week, Duke is coming off an upset of a highlyranked team—only to j. have to face one of the top offensive teams in the country. vs.

The Blue Devils (2213) knocked off thenNo. 1 Florida State TONIGHT, 7 p.m. March 31 behind a Jack Coombs Field strong performance from starting pitcher Tony Bajoczky and a six-run second inning. Three days later, they traveled to Davidson to take on the Wildcats. In its

highest-scoring affair of the season, Duke outslugged Davidson 17-12.

Bajoczky was back on the mound Saturday, this time guiding his team to a 139 upset of then-No. 3 Virginia.

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this time at Jack Coombs Field at 7 p.m.

Duke will be searching for its 20th nonconference win of the season.

Davidson enters the game scoring 7.7 runs per game, including 10.9 in its wins.

But the Wildcats have scored just five in their last two outings —both losses to SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE 13

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Over the past week, sophomore Nate Freiman has hit .438 with one home run and five runs batted in.

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For any typical freshman, the task of replacing a three-time All-American can seem daunting. Playing in his first collegiate tournament in Olympia Fields, 111., Adam Long was anything but typical.

Long’s fearless play earned him a second-place finish and propelled Duke to its lone victory so far this season.

Six months later, the momentremains ingrained in Long’s mind, as the tournament remains his most memorable of the year.

“I was nervous, excited and thrilled all at once,” Long said. “With it being my first tournament as a college player and having my family and a large crowd following me... you just can’t beat that.”

Afterformer ACC Player of theYear Ryan Blaum graduated, the Blue Devils found themselves having to replace the most decorated golfer in Duke history. Long quickly stepped into the vacant role and is now leading the team in stroke average.

Although he has not been able to match his finish at the Fighting Illini Invitational, Long has improved on the green, becom-. ing one of the strongest golfers for Duke.

Participating in every tournament other than the first this season, Long has led the Blue Devils in scoring four times this year.

In March, Long recorded the best round of his collegiate career with a 6under 65 at the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate. After struggling in the first two rounds of the tournament, Long shook off

his mistakes on his way to placing first for the day and 13th overall.

“During the practice and first two rounds, I really struggled and just didn’t feel confident with my swing,” Long said. “I just didn’t feel comfortable, but Once we got out there on the final day, I wanted to make a good number and get off to a good start. After the first few holes, I never looked back.”

While Long has had moments offrustration throughout the season, they have not hindered his overall performance. With each tournament, he has continued to mature as a player, learning from his mistakes.

After recording his highest round of the season and finishing in 70th place at the Puerto Rico Classic in late February, Long answered back two weeks later at the General Jim Hackler Championship, ending up in 13th to lead the Blue Devils.

“To date, he’s been our best player in terms of stroke average and other statistics,” interim head coach Brad Sparling said.

“He’s got a beautiful swing and hits the ball very consistently, but he continues to work on improving his putting outside of 20 feet.”

Before beginning his collegiate career, Long achieved a large amount of success, ranked as high as eighth in Golfweek’s Junior Golf rankings. Long, however, has never focused on his individual accomplishments, keeping the team’s success as his number one priority.

“I didn’t come here thinking that I needed to make a name for myself,” Long said. “I just wanted to come out here and

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Adam Long has led Duke in scoring four timesthis season, including a second place finish in his first tournament.

help the team out.”

When Long first began the season, he anticipated some tension from his teammates in regard to taking a spot on the tournament roster. Instead, he found the team to be completely supportive ofhis improvement from theirfirst team meeting onward.

“I felt like at the beginning of the year I was taking someone’s spot in away because I’m a freshman,” Long said. “But once we had our first meeting, I could tell we had a great bond, and we were all here for each other.”

Unlike the typical college freshman, Long had the luxury of having a core group of teammates to help him adapt to

the college environment once he arrived at Duke. From weekly dinners to watching movies together, the team has continued to bond throughout the year, becoming closer than in years past.

Retaining the same mindset since he became a Blue Devil, Long has avoided the trap of getting caught up in his own personal goals.

“I don’t get wrapped up in personal goals because you can’t control if someone beats you,” Long said. “We have high expectations and we want to finish off strong, and with four tournaments left, I don’t see why we can’t win them all.”

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Rutgers responds to Imus' remarks by

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NEW YORK In a media world where it’s quick and increasingly convenient to insult someone you don’t know, the 10 members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team who sat on a platform at their campus were a quietly eloquent reminder of how mindless words affect real people.

The women, called “nappy-headed hos” by radio host Don Imus, include a class valedictorian, a future lawyer and a musical prodigy who plays classical compositions on the piano without sheet music.

In their first comments about Imus’ remarks, the team talked Tuesday about how the insult stung. Some of the women wiped away tears as their coach, C. Vivian Stringer, criticized Imus for “racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable, abominable and unconscionable” the day after they reached the NCAA finals.

The young women, half of them freshmen and eight of them black, expressed incredulity at how someone they’ve never met could say such a thing about them.

“All of our accomplishments were 105 we were stripped of this moment by the degrading comments made by Mr. Imus,” sophomore forward Heather Zurich said.

The women agreed, however, to meet with Imus privately next Tuesday and hear his explanation. They held back from saying whether they’d accept Imus’ apologies or passing judgment on whether the twoweek suspension imposed by CBS Radio and MSNBC was sufficient.

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Rutgers'head coach C. Vivian Stringer responded to Don Imus'comments in a press conference Tuesday.

Rutgers’ athletic director, Robert E.

Mulcahy 111, thought a meeting with Imus would offer the team’s players a chance to

listen to him and hear what he has to say.

Several players said they wanted to ask the host why he would make such thoughdess statements.

“We all agreed the meeting with Mr. Imus will help,” said Essence Carson, a junior forward. “We do hope to get something accomplished during this meeting.”

Imus, who has made a career of

grumpy insults in the morning, said he hadn’t been thinking when making a joke that went “way too far.” He also said that those who called for his firing without knowing him, his philanthropic work or what his show was about would be making an “ill-informed” choice.

Stringer said her players “are the best this nation has to offer young ladies of class, distinction. They are articulate, they are gifted. They are God’s representatives in every sense of the word.” ...

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Western Carolina “That’s the crazy thing—you never know how a game is going to turn out,” head coach Sean McNally said. “We know that Davidson’s got a terrific offense. We feel good about our offense, and... at the end of the day, we want to score more than they do.”

The Blue Devils have reason to feel good about their offense.

They have shown signs of life in victories over the Wildcats and Cavaliers, totaling 30 runs on 36 hits in those two contests. In both games, Duke fought back from mid-game deficits to win.

Jimmy Gallagher has epitomized the Blue Devils' offensive turnaround. Gallagher hit .250 in the team’s first nine ACC games. In its last four games, however, he has hit .450 with a home run, six RBIs and six runs scored.

Nate Freiman has also been a force at the plate, hitting .438 with a home run and five RBIs since the last Davidson game.

Just like last week, the contest against the Wildcats falls between two highly-anticipated ACC series. A three-game set at third-ranked North Carolina looms this weekend.

“It’s a rare opportunity to play the one, two and three teams in the country in three successive weekends,” McNally said. “To have success against both Florida State and Virginia certainly is encouraging, and I think our guys will be ready to play North Carolina. We’ll go one day at a time—we’ll look at Davidson [tonight] first.”

For the pitching matchup tonight, Duke’s Will Currier (3-0, 3.63 ERA) will take the mound against Matt Knight (2-5, 8.15 ERA).

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each other immediately. Greer, a left-handed stick who had developed strong off-ball shooting while playing in Canada, eased the defensive pressure on Danowski—a righty slasher with the speed to dodge defenders and make pinpoint passes.

In their first season together, Greer, then a freshman, and Danowski, then a sophomore, led Duke to the 2005 national title game—scoring 57 and 50 goals, respectively, while Danowski’s assist total jumped to 42.

Their success has continued this season, as the tandem’s 59 goals ranks second in scoring behind Virginia attackmen Ben Rubeor and Danny Glading with 61.

“I don’t think any team so far has exactly figured out how to play the two of them,” Lamade said. “One guy will blow up one day with a lot of goals, Zach will blow up and then Dino will blow up, and I don’t think any team will figure out exactly how to stop them.”

Teams have certainly tried, throwing a wide range of defensive sets at the Blue Devil attack in an attempt to stem the scoring. Head coach John Danowski said some

teams try to put a short stick on Greer, as dodging defenders is not one of his strengths.

But the coach said that when teams have done that and not slid from Greer to double Matt Danowski, the senior co-captain has had big games, as was the case at

Maryland when the younger Danowski scored six goals.

Conversely, when teams have opted to slide a defender off Greer to slow Danowski, Greer has exploded for big games. In Saturday’s contest against Hopkins, the Blue Jay defense pushed out on Danowski and slid from Greer, a tactic that resulted in six goals for the junior.

“Teams have got to decide,” John Danowski said.

“They can beat you in a couple ways, and as our other players get better around them and get more experience and get more confidence...! think you’re going to see our production go up.”

But right now, Danowski and Greer are doing fine on their own, scoring 45 percent ofDuke’s goals and tallying 54 percent of the assists as Duke has posted a 9-2 record.

“I think Virginia has a great attack in different ways,” Lamade said. “But I think Zach and Dino, with their experience and their skills, [are] probably the best tandem in the country.”

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Or maybe not When ESPN’s Andy Katz released his. initial 2007-2008 top 25, he had Duke ranked 23rd. CBS Sportsline’s Gary Parrish has the Blue Devils a little bit higher at No. 16.

And Sports Illustrated’s Luke Winn only ranked the top 10, but Duke wasn’t among them and was listed 16th among his schools “On the Fringe.”

So what did I miss? Have Duke’s expectations fallen that far in just one year? Or have the so-called college basketball pundits just lost faith in the current crop of Blue Devils?

I believe there are several reasons that Duke is not getting the same respect it has had for the better part of the last 20 years.

1. The quartet ofFlorida juniors that elected to stay in college and were rewarded by capturing their second straight NCAA title proved that leaving early isn’t as fashionable as it was two years ago. The NBA’s age limit is forcing the top talent to experience campus life and some are finding out that they actually like it. While I don’t honesdy believe Greg Oden and Brandan Wright will spurn NBA millions for another go-round in college, it’s still a possibility (Kevin Durant has already decided to leave). Either way, there is a ton of talent in college basketball right now and most ofit is more experienced than the still-youthful Blue Devils.

2. Duke is suffering from the “What have you done for me lately?” factor. Duke has made it past the Sweet 16 just twice since their runner-up finish in 1999. While the Blue Devils had the longest active streak of Sweet 16 appearances entering this season, Just making it to that point doesn’t cut it for a program whose expectations have been elevated to almost unattainable heights. Regular season domination has not turned into NCAA Tournament results for the Blue Devils recently, which was highlighted even more by this year’s first-round loss.

3. There are certainly questions surrounding Duke’s lineup next season. If recruit Patrick Patterson elects to go elsewhere, Brian Zoubek will be the Blue Devils’ only true big man. Lance Thomas, Kyle Singler and Taylor King are all at least 6-foot-7, but none are dominant post presences. Some are still questioning Greg Paulus’ ability to run the point in Duke’s offense—whether that will be up-tempo like the glory days remains to be seen —and many people are wondering how Coach K will mesh the rest of the talent he has at his disposal.

One sub-par season has cracked Duke’s shield of invincibility, and it has put Duke fans in an unfamiliar and uncomfortable position. Before everyone overreacts, though, let’s keep things in perspective. Most college fans are in this situation nearly every year, and right now we probably deserve it.

Besides, won’t this “disrespect” make an ascent back to the top even sweeter?

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Since uttering his remarks, Don Imus made a reprehensible decision. On Imus has publicly apologized, his popular nationwide show and MSNBC has suspended for two him last Wednesday weeks. The Rutmorning, Imus editorial gers team has rereferred to the women’s sponded passionately—but Rutgers University constructively—and people basketball players as “nappyheaded hos.” The description across the country are shaking was shocking, but Imus didn’t their heads as they question, “How far is too far?” stop there. He used other antiIn this case, Imus unquesquated racial slurs to describe the predominantly black team. tionably went too far. His comThe situation was, in a word, ments leaped far beyond the deplorable—not to mention bounds of good judgment painful to hear unfold on the and those remarks protected by free speech norms into the airwaves.

Italso struck home for many realm of the cruel. Nonetheless, the situation underscores at Duke, as we have a high-prosuccessful women’s basketimportant concerns in the file, ball team and Imus’ remarks contemporary media world pointed to unfortunate stereo- namely how to go about defintypes held by some when it ing the boundaries of good, comes to women’s basketball fair and decent commentary.

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Consider coverage of the Duke lacrosse case; that situation, especially the national news coverage last spring, emphasizes how powerful soundbytes, live broadcasts and online commentary can be.

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istic norm, as media becomes more and more instantaneous, is to use one’s conscience and not simply to use one’s conscience, but also to

develop one’s conscience through experience.

Ethically, the best journalists —time and public opinion will show—are not those people who can flash the most charming smile or coddle the most information out of sources for the sake of reporting what is true or what is interesting. The best journalists are and will continue to be those who have the strongest sense of conscience—the combination of instinct and experience that leads to good cultural and contextual judgment.

The Imus situation highlights the power and flaws of the new media world. In doing so, it also highlights the need for conscience, more than any other rule, to become the championed quality of journalists around the world.

Song for the (sort of) imperiled less, he mentioned in class a few weeks ago that sometimes a sulfur odor is added to let people know they are being intoxicated so they can escape.

Incidentally, sulfur smells like rotting eggs.

There’s also the danger of spending late nights in basements of buildings on campus, most of which have an obligatory sinister hallway that is far too long and creepy to serve any possible purpose, but is just long and creepy enough to serve as the setting for a death scene in the next “The Ring.” Starring you.

Then there are the consequences of making no money. Such as, for instance, that eating nothing but free pizza, Chinese food and fried appetizers at random club functions might lead to obesity and heart disease. Or the more immediate danger of selling your reproductive materials, blood and sanity for dough or getting inoculated against herpes for $450 with a vaccine that may or may not eventually be determined to cause cancer, death, or even... herpes (The study’s at UNC in case you just ran out of food).

Also, being poor means you probably have a roommate you met since you got here, and sometimes new roommates are of questionable sanity.

Enough said.

Oh yeah, and stress is neuro toxic when on their game, and prevents the growth of new neuchemsave thousands of lives with a rons in the hipgrad appreciation week, I think it’s pocampus, which ical And think of how many you are most likely about time the lives would have been lost if no one had to need... while in dangerous reality grad school. In of being a graduwritten a dissertation on Freudian short, advanced deate student was grees are terrible revealed to socieism in Hamlet. I can think of at least for you in every asat ty large. major. one... pect of life except To begin, rethe impressing-yoursearch is perilous. parents, looking imOne might acciand cells, needle full of cancer one-day-making-money aspect. But you portant stab oneself with a dentally or slip and cut one’s wrist open on one’s Coke-botde probably already knew that Finally, amid downing copious amounts ofcoffee glasses. Not to mention the danger ofeternal damnaand having no time to buy fresh groceries, you may tion upon writing a thesis and coming to the conclusion that there is, in fact, no God. Also, I hear carpal not have had time to actually watch the news for weeks on end. Sometimes I think we could be in the tunnel syndrome is incredibly painful. midst of a catastrophic environmental crisis in of the on Many research-dedicated buildings campus are also fraught with peril. Take the LSRC. which the polar ice caps melt and life on earth dies, For months, my basement lab has been plagued by and I would have no idea. What’s that? We ARE? a mysterious swamp gas that smells like rotting Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and eggs. Although my neurotoxicology professor assures me that most harmful gases are actually scent- neuroscience. Her column runs every Wednesday.

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those of you who are living under rocks (or in a lab/the library) and aren’t aware, last week was graduate student appreciation week. The University shelled out for yoga classes, wine tastings, and reasonably funny Ph.D. comedian Jorge Cham.

Gee, University, that’s nice of you. But I say it’s not enough! Firefighters and doctors get the respect of millions, and for what? Saving a few measly little lives?

Graduate students, when on their game, save thousands of lives with a single chemical equation. And think of how many lives jacqui detwiler would have been lost if no one had written a please hire, desperate. dissertation on Freudian symbolism in Hamlet. I can think of at least English... major See? .We save lives! We face danger! Maybe not at, you know, exactly the same time, but we deserve a paean to our unsung valiances Just as much as else.

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I d rather squeeze Any positive comments I receive about my columns are delivered deftly in private. It often feels like And the vitriolic comments that do reach the editor are probably deemed unprintable for reasons more compelling than the lack ofan attributed author.

So imagine my pleasure a month ago, upon learning of a refreshingly forthright student letter written to the editor about my favorite subject: me. jane chong More specifically, a letthe short shot ter about how my views on race demonstrate that I embrace solipsism. I was ready to read and disagree with this reader’s thesis: (excerpt: “I would say that the nature of memoryand time—that the former is incomplete and that the latter forces the human to always be in the present necessarily obfuscates reality, even of our own history.”)

But upon getting muddled halfway down the page (it seems my brain and my columns are more perplexing subjects than I gave eithercredit for, but are unable to process themselves), I settled for rejecting the first sentence: ‘Jane Chong asserts that because people have their own experiences, we should tolerate their ‘reality’—a reality based on group identity.”

On second thought, I don’t understand the connection between my original assertion and this interpretation. So I will settle on disputing a word.

Tolerate.

I’m not a big fan of tolerating anything, least ofall anything important. But because you and I are reasonable sapiens, we will tolerate bad skin, bad service, bad breakups and unfortunate hair cuts. Minor bug infestations, moldy air vents, Room Fix and residential life post-Freshman Ex-*•

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perience. We tolerate losing the bathroom key, replacing it up for in condescension. One imagines a villainous chick-lit for the price of an illegal kidney and finding the original type, circa 1850s, sticking her nose in the air and deigning nestled in the hedges just outside our roommate’s window. to “tolerate” a filmy bit of skin on her chicken entree.

We tolerate being featured in student affairs brochures, I don’t want to tolerate other people’s realities. I’d the ones with unsuspecting students lined up like exotic rather be part of them. Which is why I find it interesting jellybeans: one white, one black, one red, one yellow. We that the headline for this particular letter (editor’s tolerate being called yellow. choice, I understand) reads CHONG EMBRACES SOLIPWe tolerate, we tolerate, and a sense ofhumor cultivate SISM, while the complaint is that I nettle readers to TOLOf course, as the ERATE OTHER PEOwriter of the letter sugPLE’S REALITIES. gests, we claim to tolerWell. Call me revia If you disagree, write letter to the editor. ate a host of other sionist, but I like to think things, Send me another e-mail; Facebook poke me, I TOLERATE SOLIPimportant things. Like human difSISM and EMBRACE with excessive force if you so wish. ferences, free speech, OTHER PEOPLE’S RE“obfuscated reality.”

ALITIES. By embrace, I my into solipsistic lapse personal pronoun And this is good, right? don’t mean love them, Like, isn’t toleration a usage 36 times in this column. live them or find anygood thing, especially thing redemptive about when pasted next to them. It’s really nothing other Significant Words, like “racial” and “religious” and fancy; I mean “embrace” in the primal way: I like to get real “Act of 1689”? close, put my arms around the thing and squeeze until I Indeed, the word “toleration” has a whole history and find myself making eye contact with the owner. convoluted controversy behind it, but I’m not interested in But if you disagree, write a letter to the editor. Send me exploring either. Really, language is a changing, living another e-mail; Facebook poke me, with excessive force if thing, which means I have no problem with a few deadyou so wish. Question my solipsistic lapse into personal proweight words, no problem with toleration in its noun form, noun usage 36 times in this column. Pull me aside at the wholly unassociated with me.

Beanery and share what gives you pause. I promise healthy But I won’t go so far as to personally advise that you toldebate over ice cream and a jumbo bag ofmalt balls. erate other people’s realities. That would sound like everyOr open up to this page at the same time finals week one who is not you is in need of serious clinical care. And and flick a lazy eye over all the ink. You don’t feel inclined if I believed that, I would find a more creative way to say it. to do much else? Yeah, that’s okay too.

Then again, the rather flat term in question takes pride Tolerate me. of place in our politically correct word bank precisely beIt’s just that I’d prefer the squeeze cause it seems so dully unobjectionable. And this is why I object. To its association. With me. The word “tolerate” is Jane Chong is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every abysmally cautious, and what it loses in pure nerve, it makes other Wednesday.

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Simple faith or simply faith?

"T” A Tith the year starting to wind down, and my days left l/l / at Duke numbered, I have a confession to make: I t � hate the phrase “simple faith.”

straightforward story. We don’t even have to ask whether scripture is truly the word of God to be able to see that making a judgment on the grounds that “it says so in the Bible” is no easy task; for every verse we find that makes

test, the more we study these disciplines, the more we realize how little we really know.

Rather, it seems to me that we are left with two options: I realize “hate” is a strong word; I am using it very simple faith or simply faith. consciously. It all started around 10 years ago when my an assertion such as murder is wrong, there are five Simple faith is knowing the clear and obvious plan of sister suggested that I more that illustrate God both condoning and taking God for our world. It is believing we are a part of a pure and start volunteering at the part in massacres. pristine institution called the church, which God has careMinneapolis Children’s My investigation into church history had a similar effect. fully guided through history to become what it is today. It We have all heard of the abominations committed in the assumes that we are somehow smarter than the thousands Hospital.

My childhood was name of faith—fighting of thinkers, philosoabout as comfortable and crusades, selling indulphers and theologians sheltered as it possibly gences, murdering who have studied relicould have been. Life was “witches”—but through Simple faith is knowing the clear and gion and not come out easy happy and secure. diving into the depths of |( stoltetlbem with our same answers. mar obvious plan of God for our world. It is 3 and I very much thought this dark past while conthe end, it is a trust in In beyond the bubble that anyone who felt life currentiy hearing fellow a part of a pure and we are ourselves to know and believing was anything less than that Catholics talk about the God. was simply too negative and needed to learn how to relax. pristine institution called the church which understand greatness of our tradifaith, on the Simply Hence, the night after I met Danny—a severely mentally tion, I was often left infuother hand, is an honest God has carefully guided through history to handicapped boy who was only three months younger than riated. acceptance of the inexI was—l found myself staring out my bedroom window feelBut still, it was that become what it is today. plicable nature of suffering lost, angry and confused. aggravating phrase so ing—that it cannot and That night I started a journal that I am still writing in often used by those of a should not be easily justoday. After a few weeks of aimlessly searching for an an“simple faith” that has tified or explained away. swer, I decided to bring my questions to my religious educaalways gotten to me the most: “It’s OK, it’s all a part of It is recognizing the faults ofone’s tradition and choosing tion classes. The answers I got ranged from the simply illogGod’s plan.” Sure, I can say that after I fail a test or don’t to trust that through its extremely contingent and fallible ical to the blatantly ignorant. For each Saturday that I get into a certain medical school, but say that to the face nature, God will still find away to work. It assumes that we would spend with Danny, the smugness of my religion of the young girl I met last semester who died at the abare limited in our ability to know God and thus are all fumteacher’s simple answers enraged me even more. surd age of 9 after an excruciatingly painful and drawnbling toward truth together. And, in the end, it is a trust in These experiences ultimately led me to come to Duke in out battle with cancer. Who in their right mind could God to know and understand us. order to learn what a more direct and secular study of relitell her parents that God somehow intended this—that The former still scares me more than ever, but my anger gion might provide. this was “God’s plan?” toward those that believe in it is finally starting to dissipate.

It only increased my frustrations.

Life is not simple. Our faith shouldn’tbe either.

Why? Simply, faith.

On studying the Bible more closely, it became glarDoes this mean that we all need to be expert historians, ingly obvious that it was far from a simple, clean and theologians and philosophers to live well as believers? I very Mark Slollenberg is a Trinity senior. His column runs every much doubt it. As my best and brightest professors often at- other Wednesday.

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