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Nancy Andrews, a physicianscientist and dean for basic sciences and graduate studies at Harvard Medical School, has been named dean of the Duke University School ofMedicine.

Andrews has ex“Nancy cepti o n a I achievements as a research scientist, she has experience administering a topflight medical school and she cares

passionately aboutmedical education,” President Richard Brodhead wrote in an e-mail. “In short, she is the whole package.”

Andrews is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist, the former director of the Harvard-MIT M.D./Ph.D. program and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. She will not only be the first female dean of Duke’s School of Medicine, but also the first woman to lead any of the nation’s top 10 medical schools, Tm proud forDuke to have that distinction, but I’d add that excellenceand diversity were completely complementary goals,” Brodhead said. “She quickly emerged at the top of a very strong field.”

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Beginning with a debut party Friday, students will be able to enjoy spirits, music and sports on a new outdoor patio at the Armadillo Grill.

Duke Dining Services has teamed with the Office of Student Affairs to add the approximately 100-squarefoot social space—complete with a 52-inch television, seating for 75 to 100 and beer on tap—outside the Bryan Center restaurant Electrical equipment has also been installed for the $400,000 project, which was funded as part of the strategic planning project, Wulforst said. It is another effort to give students a taste ofthe more physical and immediate changes stemming from the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee Report released in February.

“Part of its creation is a response to the CCI report to do more on campus to build community,” said Jim Wulforst, director of dining services. “The space has been there for years, but itjust was not a comfortable place to sit I think it’sall part of a bigger plan to keep students engaged in

Dr. Victor Dzau, president and CEO of Duke University Health System and chancellor for health affairs, said he has known Andrews for more than 10years, and added that she has very unique qualifications as a physician-scientist Dzau was previously chair of the Department of Medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, “She is a great fit [for Duke] because she is a physician-scientistand thatis whatDuke needs—someone who understands both the clinical and research aspects,” he said. “She is also passionate about her students, and her positions as director of the HarvardMIT. M.D.-Ph.D. program and the first woman dean of any of the top 10 medical schools make her a great role model.”

Andrews wrote in an e-mail that she was shocked to discover that none of the nation’s top medical schools has ever had a female dean.

“I think the fact that Duke is first is a good reflection of what I see in Duke —a university where tradition is valued, but innovation is a strong part of the culture,” she said, As dean, Andrews will be responsible for all the educational missions of the medical school, Dzau said, “Duke is already ranked among the top 10 medical SEE ANDREWS ON PAGE 5

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These students, many of whom are black, complain that DUPD has been unreasonably harsh in its treatment of minority cultural groups. In particular, they point to perceived differences in police activity at events thrown by black groups and those thrown by fraternities and se-

lective-living groups on West Campus.

“There is a general lack of universal police enforcement on campus,” said Malik Burnett, Trinity ’O7, former presidentofBlack Student Alliance and a firstyear medical student. “On West, there’s no real police presence at frat parties.

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New soft quota aims tocut ePrint by

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Free, unlimited ePrinting is gone forever, well, not exactly.

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Technology has added a soft quota to tfie numbe of pages each student can print per semester oj ePrint and set double-sided printing as the d* fault ePrint option.

The soft quota means students may apply fo free additional pages online if they need them any time.

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WASHINGTON Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ resignation Monday after months of draining controversy drew expressions of relief from Republicans and a vow from Democrats to pursue their investigation into fired federal prosecutors.

President George W. Bush, Gonzales’ most dogged defender, told reporters he had accepted the resignation reluctantly.

“His good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons,” Bush said.

The president named Paul Clement, the solicitor general, as a temporary replacement. With less dian 18 months remaining in office, there was no indication when Bush would name a successor—or how quickly or easily the Senate might confirm one.

Apart from the president, there were few Republican expressions of regret following the departure of the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general, a man once hailed as the SAUL LOEB/AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE embodiment of the American Dream.

Gonzalez his at the resignation today “Our country needs a credible, effective Attorney GeneralAlberto announces Department of Justice, a move that follows intense of his Democratic senators on several policy issues. scrutiny honesty by who can work with Conattorney general gress on critical issues,” said Sen. John Susaid Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who has prenunu of New Hampshire, who last March mitted any crimes, but he did make manwas the first GOP lawmaker to call on agement missteps and didn’t handle the sided over the investigation into the firings Gonzales to step down. “Alberto Gonzales’ spodight well when they were exposed.” of eight prosecutors whom Democrats say Democrats were less charitable were axed for political reasons. resignation will finally allow a new attorney Under Gonzales and Bush, “the DepartMajority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., general to take on this task.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-lowa, added, ment of Justice suffered a severe crisis of said the investigation would not end with “Even after all the scrutiny, it doesn’t apleadership that allowed our justice system SEE GONZALEZ ON PAGE 12 pear that Attorney General Gonzales com- to be corrupted by political influence,”

N.D. tornadokills 1, injures 18 A tornado destroyed two mobilehomeparks, killing one person, and blew out windows in homes and buildings across Northwood, N.D., officials said. At least 18 people were injured.The roof was torn off the town's school and classes were canceled for the week.

Greek villagers evacuated Firefighters rushed helicopters and buses Monday to evacuate more than two dozen villages threatened by towering walls of flames that had killed 63 people while ravaging swaths of forest and farmland in Greece's worst wildfire disaster in memory.

Idaho senator pleads guilty Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho pleaded guilty this month to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after being arrested at the Minneapolis airport.A Hennepin County court docket said the Republican senator paid $575 in fines and fees. He was put on unsupervised probation for a year.

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Some students spend countless hours in the gym, but a new study by Duke researchers suggests that moderate workouts are actually more benefical than more intense workouts.

Study: Less exercise may actually be better by

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minutes a few days a week, “On the surface, it seems to make sense that the harder we exercise, the better off we’ll be, and by some measures that’s true,” Gris Slentz, the study’s lead author and an exercise physiologist at DUMC, said in a July 31 press release* “But our studies show that a modest amount of moderately intense exercise is the best way to significandy lower the level of a key blood marker linked to higher risk of heart disease and diabetes. More intense exercise doesn’t seem to do that.”

Although the study may not be of utmost importance to college students—most of whom need not begin regularly watching cholesterollevels until age 30—the idea that more exercise is not necessarily better is important to keep in mind, said Kim McNally,

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Give yourself and the person waiting a break and get off the elliptical after the 30-minute limit.

Under certain conditions, moderate exercise is more beneficial than higher intensity workouts, according to a study released earlier this month by Duke University Medical Center.

The study examined the relationship between exercise frequency and intensity and cholesterol levels in 240 middle-aged adults who had been previously inactive.

Participants were divided into groups and assigned different exercise programs.

Additional activity improved cholesterol and triglyceride levels in all groups, but the study also found that these benefits lasted longer in the group assigned a more moderate exercise schedule, such as walking 30

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Approximately three years ago, 3,648 patients of Duke University hospitals were exposed to hydraulic fluid mistakenly used to clean surgical instruments. Today, some of these patients report health problems, debilitating infections, rapid weight loss and skin rashes.

A new Duke-funded study suggests, however, that patients exposed to the tainted surgical instruments did not suffer adverse

health problems as a result of the mix-up.

The study concluded that 10.5 percent of the patients involved reported new infections or hospitalizations. In addition, the 67 reported deaths among exposed patients is within the typical range expected given the age and previous health status of the affected padents, the study reported, Since news of the contamination of the instruments broke in 2005, Duke has continued to highlight the fact that the instruments washed with hydraulic fluid

were later sterilized as part of the standard supply company that may have been responsible for filling detergent containers cleaning process.

The incident occurred after an em- with hydraulic fluid, However, many patients may be hesiployee of a contractor drained hydraulic tant to file fluid into lawsuits drums labecause it beled as ‘You could make some guesses that podetergent tentially instruments didn’t get cleaned is difficult to prove a in Sepreinfection would be correlation tember and between 2005. an issue. But as for whether toxins exposure to Some hydraulic scientists, from the fluid are causing fluid and however, it would be much harder to serious illincludnesses, MarSteve ing This is not something that has been shall said.

Marshall, well-studied by scientists.”

“You an epicould demioloSteve Marshal, make some gist at the guesses University that potenof North Carolina at Chapel Hill, would have liked tially instruments didn’t get cleaned and to see more research put into the study. potentially reinfection would be an issue,” he said. “But as for whether toxins from “As a scientist, in order to make a conclusion that there is no effect on a patient, the fluid are causing problems, it would we would like to see a comparison group of be much harder to speculate. This is not patients who were not exposed,” Marshall something that has been well-studied by scientists.” said. “This study does not do that.”

Further problems with the study could Although Marshall said he would like to see more investigation into the effects also bias the conclusions made by the Uniof the hydraulic fluid mix up on patients, versity7 , he added.

“First, since the study was funded by he said that Duke has made a strong efDuke, some people feel reticent to return fort to research and fix the problem that to the place they believe made them ill,” it created.

“Duke is trying to be a good citizen,” he Marshall said. ‘You might even argue that these people who are hesitant to return said. “Many other hospitals would not have are those who were most severely affected had the money or put forth the effort to even do what Duke has done.” by the hydraulic fluid.”

DUHS officials were not available for Another potential problem with the inquiry' was the target group examined by comment.

PharmaLink, the independent group conducting the study, Marshall said. PharmaLink looked at patients with high and low exposure, whereas a more effective study might have focused solely on those most exposed to the fluid, he said.

The report was released just months before the statute oflimitations for filing lawsuits against the Duke University Health System expires. Thus far, only one patient has filed a lawsuit against Duke, but he later dropped it. Several other patients have sued the elevator company and medical

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Nouri al-Maliki speaks out against U.S. critics by

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But in a step toward implementing the deal, U.S. and Iraqi officials announced

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BAGHDAD Sunni politicians applauded goals set down in an agreement hammered out by the country’s top leaders under intense American pressure but expressed doubt Monday that the U.S.backed prime minister would actually see them through.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and four other senior leaders declared Sunday they had reached a consensus on a number of issues, including freeing detainees held without charge, easing the ban on former Saddam Hussein supporters in government posts, regulating the oil industry and holding provincial elections.

No details were released, and most measures require parliamentary approval.

that coalition forces would increase the number of detainees released during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins next month.

“Releases will start as early as this week and continue through die end of Ramadan,” the U.S. command said in a statement.

It did not say how many wouldbe freed.

President George W. Bush hailed the agreement, saying it “begins to establish new'

power-sharing agreements.”

ANDREWS from page 1 sachusetts Institute ofTechnology 1987: Received M.D. from Harvard Medical School 1993-2006: Howard Hughes investigator 1996-2003: Harvard-MIT M.D.Ph.D. program director 2007: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; named deanofthe School of Medicine

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After stints at Yale, Harvard and Nancy Andrews will arrive at Duke Med in October.

we would like to see it go up further,” he said.

“With her background, we want her to look at medical education, our M.D.-Ph.D. program, and how to further create programs to attract more great students.”

Andrews said she had been asked to consider deanships at many other schools, but Duke was the only one that stood out.

“I was particularly impressed by the fact that Duke has a long history of doing the kinds of things that other major medical schools are all talking about—for example, promoting interdisciplinary collaborations, strengthening clinical research and connecting science and policy,” she said.

“I have the impression that good ideas can quickly grow into new initiatives at Duke, and I find that very exciting.”

Andrews will take over the position in October.

“I’m thrilled to be joining the Duke community,” she said. “I really like the fact that the medical school is attached to the rest of the University and embedded in a larger area with outstanding academic and industry science nearby.”

With her experiences at Yale University—where she got her B.S. and MS. —Harvard and MIT, Andrews will bring new perspectives to Duke, Dzau said.

“She can synergize and complement what we already have,” he said. “Her perspectives from other institutions can help us look at what is the best practice and not just follow what we’ve been doing for the past few years. We’re so excited about her.

She’s delightful and has such a warm personality. I think everybody will take to her and we look forward to working with her to bring Duke to greater heights,” Shreya Rao contributed to this story.

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The OIT website states that each semester students will receive a free $36 starting balance in their ePrint accounts.

Each document sent to ePrint will deduct from the students’ accounts at the cost of two cents per page for single-sided and one cent per page for double-sided printing —translating to 3,600 free double-sided pages per semester.

If additional pages are needed, students can add more printing capacity in $lO increments at no cost to the student. Color laser ePrinting remains at 50 cents per page, which is directly charged to students’ FLEX accounts.

Both FLEX and ePrint account balances on be checked on the DukeCard website.

Crable said he has contacted IT Senior Manager Kevin Davis about clarifying the website’s explanation.

Last spring, OIT, DSG and Duke’Libraries studied Duke’s printing habits as compared to peer institutions’.

“That study showed that Duke’s printing was off the charts and that Duke had one of the most generous printing policies anywhere,” William Cannon, OIT senior communications strategist, wrote in an e-mail.

“All three parties realized that free, unlimited printing was unsustainable.”

He added that OIT first proposed a hard-cap quota in which students would not have the option of applying for more paper once they reached their limit.

DSG, however, negotiated with OIT to obtain the current soft cap instead, Crable said.

“We wanted to make sure there would be no hard cap [because] at a modern university, printing is a necessity for our education,” he said. “If we are paying for an education, we are paying for all of the supplies necessary for our education.”

As a student leader whose position requires him to print thousands of pages per semester, Crable said he had personal interest invested in ensuring a soft cap. The current quota will prevent those who are in similar situations from spending their money to serve the student population, he added.

Ninety-five percent of the student population, however, is unlikely to be affected by the changes because the quota is very generous, Cannon said.

Although the proposal was not developed by the Duke Environmental Alliance, EA President Vanessa Barnett-Loro, a senior who has been involved with the default duplex-printing proposal for two years, wrote in an e-mail that the organization fully endorses the new soft quota.

“I believe it’s an important and necessary measure that will hopefully raise student awareness about the economic and environmental impact of their behavior,” she said. “Those who are optimistic believe that even a soft quota will have an impact because it will force students to acknowledge on a regular basis the quantitative reality of the paper we’re using and the money we’re spending, even if it’s not money that’s explicitly coming out of our pockets.”

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The Refectory Cafe in the Divinity School will offer a la carte dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sundays.

Tommy's in McClendon Tower is now serving breakfast from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday.

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The installation comes after a monthslong struggle between administrators and Duke Student Government over putting a bar in Tommy’s in McClendon Tower—a resolution Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, vetoed in October 2006.

“Even in the Tommy’s situation, the argument was that the Bryan Center and the West Campus Union was the appropriate space for a bar on campus, not residential areas,” said senior Elliott Wolf, 2006-2007 DSC president and a Chronicle columnist.

Students said they thought the space would be useful, but weren’t sure whether it could compete with off-campus venues, which might be better equipped for such social interactions.

“I’d say it’s a cool idea, but not many seniors, who are probably the only people who are 21, live on West [Campus] and it’ll take

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Although the patio is currently accessible, it will not officially open until the end of the week, and Wulforst said even more change should be expected as final touches are added in the next month. He said he expects the area to be finished in mid-to-late September, when the canopy and a nine-by-12-foot projection screen are added. “[Friday’s] party is to introduce the community to the space, but until the second kick-off party, after the awning is installed, the area won’t have the feel it is supposed to have,” Wulforst said.

The Office ofStudentActivities and Facilities is working on scheduling live entertainment for Fridays, which Weiland speculated might not be enough to entice crowds.

“The bar that’s in the Dillo now is pretty underutilized,” Weiland said. “They’re going to have to come up with away to lure seniors back to campus, like drink specials.”

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Focuses on the insertion of Spain into the new global order by examining the links between culture, politics and the economy from 1975 to present. Literary works, movies, and essays that sometimes served, sometimes resisted the progressive globalization of Spain particularly in relation to the economic re-structuring of the country.

Spanish 1815.02 Literature and Underdevelopment Professor Claudia Milian TTH 2:50-4:05 BioSdo2B From so-called banana republics and coffee plantations to lawless regions perceived as being outside the realm of North American democratic principles, Central America is constructed as a cultural wasteland in the U.S. national imaginary.

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DUPD from page 1 required to pay for such police protection —a feet that made the undesired police presence doubly unfair, he said.

He added that metal detectors were also present at those parties.

Burnett said DUPD gave two alternate explanations at the time to explain why such extra security measures were necessary.

“The police said African-American groups advertise off campus, so they [claimed thatwe] brought in outside elements that couldn’t be accounted for. Just to make the assumption that we would always advertise off campus seems shaky at best,” Burnett said. “We asked why on the same campus there was different treatment for different groups.”

Later, members of BSA were told that it was the policy of those venues that all parties have metal detectors, Burnett said.

The presence of such detectors at events held by black cultural groups continues to be an issue. Metal detectors were used at last week’s BSA Hip-Hop Party, for example.

“The DUPD require metal detectorsfor parties that are advertised off campus and those that attract non-Duke people,” said seniorSimone Randolph, the current president of BSA. “This past Friday we had the Hip-Hop Party [sponsored by BSA as part of the University’s freshman orientation week] that was exclusive to Duke students and wasn’t advertisedoff campus, and there was a metal detectorthere.”

Because the incident happened just last week, BSA has not filed an official complaint with DUPD. “I don’t think anyone wants to point fingers or be accusatory,” Randolph said. “We just want to bring it to the administration’s attention.”

Burnett and Randolph also point to differences in police treatment of West Campus residents and Central residents—who are disproportionately minority students.

Specifically, they claim that parties hosted by black student groups are regularly shut down and that black students are sometimes hassled by DUPD. “People were asked for an ID while walking through Central. [They would say] Tm a student here, why am I being asked for my ID?’,” Randolph said.

DUPD officials said they do not treat residents on Central differently than those on West. Levels of police enforcement and activity are relatively equal between Cen-

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Biack Student Alliance leaders are upset about the use of metal detectors at parties such as the orientation week Hip-Hop Party for freshmen. tral and West Campus, said Capt. Sara-Jane Raines, administrative officer for DUPD. Burnett and Randolph said many of the grievances are related to Central’s 24-houra-day quiet policy, which prevents the sort ofloud partying common on West.

Bridging the communication gap

A few years ago, DUPD revived the Student-DUPD Committee, a council that was originally founded to give students both the opportunity to laud and lodge grievances with DUPD, under the guidance of then-administrative officerLeanora Minai. The committee consisted of several DUPD officers and student leaders from a cross-section of campus greek, political and cultural groups.

“Duke Police was interested in building trust and having a dialogue, no matter whatthe concern,” said Minai, now a seniorcommunications strategist for the University. ‘We wanted to have a productive dialogue, not just sit around and gripe. The bottom line is that it was all about mutual understanding and respect” The committee is now defunct.

It no longer exists because of a lack of

student interest and involvement, Raines said, adding that she is not certain why student interest waned.

Burnett and Randolph hold a different opinion. The BSA heads said the committee no longer exists because it did little to follow up on student grievances.

“Students got frustrated and stopped coming,” Burnett said. “There was little headway made.”

Few issues of substance were brought up, Randolph said.

“When it first started, people were really excited about the changes they could see.

But as the agenda was set, most of the issues seemed petty,” she said. “Harder issues were never addressed, and that caused people to take the committee less seriously.”

Raines said the sort of sentiments Burnett and Randolph expressed were never brought to her attention when she was heading the committee.

She added that DUPD takes the complaints it receives seriously, and that there are internal repercussions for misbehavior that the general public is unaware of.

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“We have a very solid internal investigations component to our department. We do a complete investigation, and then get back to the person who filed a complaint,” Raines said. “If it’s a more systemic complaint, it will go to the chief. If it’s a more specific complaint against an officer, we take that very seriously, but because of employment law we’re not allowed to disclose disciplinary actions taken against individual police officers.”

Raines added that all the members of the DUPD force participate in annual sensitivity and diversity training.

She also said she would like to see the committee exist again.

“We’dbe happy to revive the committee,” Raines said. ”If we’ve got students who have issues, we’d be happy to talk to them and try to resolve them the best way we can.”

Though Burnett and Randolph would like to see the committee reinstated, they said they are skeptical about its ability to solve deepseated issues of fairness and equity between DUPD and Duke’s black student population.

‘To my knowledge, I’ve never seen a metal detector at a non-black party,” Randolph said.

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EXERCISE from page 3 program coordinator in the health, physical education and recreation department.

“It’s more important for [students] to try to follow general recommendations in developing an exercise program,” she added.

Although cholesterol levels rarely cross students’ minds, fitness remains a high priority for many. Exercise routines vary' widely, and McNally stressed the importance of a plan customized to the individual’s

schedule and personal goals.

“We often come across the problem of students overexercising. Students may hear that 20 to 60 minutes of cardio is recommended, and assume they need to tend towards the high end of that range, or even longer, especially here where so many students strive for perfection,” McNally said. “A shorter duration of high-intensity cardio may actually be more effective in burning calories.”

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New to Wilson Recreation Center, the rock wall is one of the improvements to the

West Campus gym. five to six times a week on average to maintain strength and her competitive edge.

She said her workouts balance periods of high intensity with more moderate exercises, she said.

Junior David Liu takes time out two to three times a week for about an hour of moderate exercise—primarily weight lifting.

“My goal is basically just making sure I stay fit,” he said.

Despite different routines and goals, Gordon and Liu share a common source for information on fitness and exercise: the Internet. Liu said he looked for tips online,

and Gordon said she supplemented the workout schedule given to her by her coach with exercise ideas she found on Web sites.

“I find ab stretches and other exercises on the Internet, and I somedmes use those in my own workout,” Gordon said.

For students looking for information about fitness and suggestions for developing a personal exercise regimen, McNally pointed to the American College of Sports Medicine as an excellent source for tips and the latest scientific studies. The Web site offers advice for developing an individual exercise plan.

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10 arrested for killing of journalist Politkoyskaya by

Bagila Bukharbayeva THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW—Under pressure to solve the

contract-style killing of journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya, Russia’s chief prosecutor announced Monday the arrest of 10 suspects, including a Chechen crime boss and five law enforcement officers.

Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika refused to say who was suspected of ordering the Oct. 7 shooting of Politkovskaya, whose tireless chronicling of the killings, kidnappings and torture ofcivilians in war-scarred Chechnya had angered the Kremlin and the Moscow-backed Chechen leadership.

But he said that only someone living outside Russia would have an interest in killing Politkovskaya, with the aim of discrediting President Vladimir Putin and destabilizing the country ahead ofnational elections.

The prosecutor appeared to be referring to tycoon Boris Berezovsky, a former Kremlin insider who is one ofPutin’s fiercest critics and lives in Britain, where he has refugee status.

In implicating Russia’s enemies abroad, Chaika echoed statements by Putin shortly after Politkovskaya’s death that “people who are hiding from Russian law enforcement have been hatching plans to sacrifice someone and create an anti-Russian wave in the world.”

The Kremlin has pointed the finger at Berezovsky in this and other killings that have gained worldwide attention and blackened the reputation of Putin’s Russia.

Berezovsky said Monday the effort to link him to Politkovskaya’s death was a “hysterical reaction” to his criticism of Putin.

Chaika’s conclusion was met with some skepticism by .media rights organizations and editors at Politkovskaya’s newspaper, Novaya Gazeta.

“Contrary to what the prosecutor general says, there were people inside the country interested in silencing her, and the investigation should be looking into this,” Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.

Sergei Sokolov, deputy chief editor of Novaya Gazeta, welcomed the arrests but expressed concern the case would be used for political purposes ahead of December .

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Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of the Russian government, was murdered Oct. 7.

parliamentary elections and a presidential vote in March.

“Of course... we are concerned that in an election year, this crime may be used by different groups for their own aims,” Sokolov said. “That, unfortunately, is our Russian illness and the way things work here.”

Chaika said Politkovskaya’s slaying was set up by a Chechen native who led a Moscow organized crime ring that specialized in contract killings. He said that those arrested included a police major and a Federal Security Service officer, as well as three former police officers, who were accused of tracking Politkovskaya and providing her killers with information.

The suspected gunman was among those arrested, Chaika added.

The prosecutor said that people involved

in killing the 48-year-old Politkovskaya at her apartment building in Moscow may have also been involved in the 2004 shooting death of Paul Klebnikov, an American who was editor of Forbes magazine’s Russian edition.

“As for the motives for the killing, the results of the investigation lead us to the conclusion that only individuals located outside the territory of the Russian Federation could have had an interest in getting rid of Politkovskaya,” Chaika told a news conference.

“It is in the interest first of all of those people and structures that aim to destabilize the situation in the country, change the constitutional order [and] create a crisis in Russia,” he said, adding that such forces want to “discredit the leadership” and put foreign pressure on

the Kremlin They seek “a return to the former system of rule, under which money and oligarchs decided everything,” he said.

Chaika did not name those arrested. He said Politkovskaya knew the person who ordered the killing and had met with him.

The Federal Security Service identified its arrested officer as Lt. Col. Pavel Ryaguzov.

Among those arrested are three brothers from Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the lawyer for one of them. The lawyer expressed fears that “this could be another case with predetermined culprits,” the report said.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen president, said he had been informed of their arrest. “I think that law enforcement agencies should have dealtwith them long ago,” Interfax quoted him as saying while on a visit to Jordan.

Much speculation about Politkovskaya’s slaying has focused on Kadyrov, who was prime minister of Chechnya when she was killed and became president in March. He has denied involvement.

Politkovskaya had been a consistent critic of Kadyrov, accusing his security forces of kidnapping and torturing civilians. She also had reported on brutal treatment of civilians by Russian troops in Chechnya.

Politkovskaya’s killing came less than two months before the radiation poisoning death in London on Nov. 23 of Berezovsky associate and former KGB counterintelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, which further damaged the Russian leadership’s reputation abroad.

Litvinenko, who had been investigating Politkovskaya’s death, had said Putin was behind her slaying and also blamed the Russian leader for his own poisoning. The Kremlin has tried to shift the blame for Litvinenko’s death onto Berezovsky.

Chaika’s remarks were the first announcement of arrests in the killing, which Western governments have urged Russian authorities to solve.

Nancy Beck, a State Department press officer, said the United States was encouraged that Russia was taking action in the case. “We’ll wait and see what all the details are before commenting further.”

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IRAQ from page 5 que, N.M. “They recognize this is a process.

Yesterday’s agreement reflects their commitment to work together for the benefit ofall Iraqis to further the process.”

The deal, however, did not convince the main Sunni Arab political bloc to take back the government posts they abandoned this month over differences with al-Maliki, a Shiite.

The Sunni walkout has paralyzed the government ahead of a crucial report to Congress by Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus, which will likely determine the fate of the troubled U.S. military mission in Iraq.

Some key Sunni figures dismissed the agreement as a stalling tactic by al-Maliki to ease pressure from Washington.

“Our position is that this meeting represents a new phase of procrastination and does not honestly aim at solving the problems quickly,” said Khalaf al-Ilyan, a leader of the Sunni bloc, the Iraqi Accordance Front. “I think that no real or practical solution will come out of this.”

AnotherFront leader, Adnan al-Dulaimi, said the accord included “good decisions thatwould serve the whole Iraqi people.”

“But we doubt that they will be implemented,” he said. “All our experience with al-Maliki indicates that this is another new set of delaying measures. They give you a

glimmer of hope, but at the end of the day you get nothing but promises.”

With opposition to the war mounting in the United States, American diplomats have been pressing for the Iraqis to demonstrate political progress ahead of the Sept.

15 report to Congress.

U.S. officials are confident they can point to progress in curbing violence, but Crocker has expressed frustration over the lack of movement toward political reconciliation among the Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions.

On Monday, Crocker called Sunday’s accord an “important step forward for political progress, national reconciliation and development.”

An American official said the Sunday accord represents “a step in the right direction” but acknowledged the Iraqis remain far from wide-ranging power-sharing 0 agreements considered essential for lasting peace.

“This by no means seems to solve all the problems,” the U.S. official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions. “The issues remain very complex. There’s still tensions there.”

Among the complications are political differences within the Sunni bloc, with some factions little interested in taking part in discussions which might shore up the Shiite-dominated government.

The five leaders who signed the accord included the Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashemi, who held out for weeks before

agreeing to the Sunni walkout. He said the agreement represented “the beginning of relieffor the political process.”

Iraqi officials have in the past announced deals on contentious issues, only to have them fall apart over the details.

With the political system in disarray, violence has continued.

The U.S. military on Monday announced the deaths of four more American service members.

Two Marines were killed in Anbar province—one on Saturday and the other Sunday—while two soldiers died Sunday in a firefight in Samarra that saw a dozen insurgents killed, the military said.

Some 30 masked insurgents attacked a U.S. outpost Sunday, triggering the gunbattles that ended when a U.S. jet bombed a house where gunmen had taken refuge.

In addition to the dead, 14 insurgents were captured, the military said.

Iraqi officials said eight people were killed. Police and hospital officials identified the dead as Mohammed AbdulWahab, his mother, wife and five of his young children.

U.S. military spokesperson Lt. Col. Michael Donnelly told The Associated Press he had reports of two Chilian casualties, a male and a female who were in a taxi during the initial firelight.

“Any civilian casualties are truly regrettable, but it is important to understand that our forces are there to secure the

people ofSamarra and bring them peace, bring them harm like the insurgents

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did,” Donnelly said.

Also in Anbar, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt among worshippers at evening prayers in Fallujah, killing the mosque preacher and eight other people, police said. They said 10 people were wounded.

A sniper killed a Shiite pilgrim on a Baghdad bridge Monday while another was killed and a dozen wounded in other attacks as hundreds of thousands of Shiites made their way to the southern city of Karbala for a religious commemoradon.

Iraqi security forces have mounted a major security operation to protect the pilgrims. Sunni extremists, including al-Qaida in Iraq, have launched deadly attacks against pilgrims during past celebrations.

Despite the security measures, one pilgrim was shot on a bridge in Baghdad and men hiding in an orchard south of the capital opened fire, killing one pilgrim and wounding three.

Also Monday, pilgrims angry over strict security measures clashed with police in Karbala, setting fire to vehicles, officials said. Three people were killed and 13 wounded in the ensuing melee, hospital officials said.

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GONZALEZ from page 2 Gonzales’ leaving.

“Congress must get to the bottom of this mess and follow the facts where they lead, into the White House,” said the Nevada Democrat.

Gonzales also has struggled in recent months to explain his involvement in a 2004 meeting at the hospital bedside of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, who had refused to certify the legality ofBush’s no-warrant wiretapping program. Ashcroft was in intensive care at the time.

More broadly, the attorney general’s personal credibility has been a casualty of the multiple controversies.

So much so that Sen. Aden Specter, senior GOP member of the Judiciary Committee, told him at a hearing on the prosecutors that his testimony was “significantly if not totally at variance with the facts.”

The speculation about a successor began immediately, and included Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; Asa Hutchinson, former head of the Drug Enforce-

merit Administration; former soliticor general Ted Olson; and Larry Thompson, who was the second-ranking official at the Justice Department in Bush’s first term.

Gonzales made a brief appearance before reporters at the Justice Department to announce his resignation. “Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father’s best days,” said the son of migrants.

Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee as recentiy as July 24 that he had decided to stay in his post despite numerous calls for his resignation.

Several officials said the attorney general called Bush at his ranch last Friday to offerhis resignation. Bush did not attempt to dissuade him but accepted with reluctance, they said. The president then invited Gonzales and his wife to Sunday lunch.

Gonzales was one of the longest-serving members of a group of Texans who came to Washington with Bush more than six years ago at the dawn of a new administration.

Karl Rove, the president’s chief political strategist, announced his resignation last week. Presidential counselor Dan Bartlett and Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel who was forced to withdraw her nomination for

the Supreme Court, left earlier in the year.

Gonzales, too, was once considered for the high court, but conservatives never warmed to the idea and he was passed over.

His appointment as attorney general more than three years ago marked the latest in a series of increasingly highprofile positions that Bush entrusted him with.

A Harvard-educated lawyer, Gonzales signed on with Bush in the mid 19905. He served as general counsel and secretary of state when his patron was governor of Texas, then won an appointment to the state Supreme Court.

As counsel, Gonzales helped get Bush excused from jury duty in 1996, which kept him from having to disclose a drunken driving arrest in Maine in 1976. The episode became public in the final days of the 2000

presidential campaign.

Gonzales was White House counsel during the president’s first term, then replaced Ashcroft as attorney general soon after the beginning of the second.

Both jobs gave him key responsibilities in the administration’s global war on terror that followed the attacks of Sept. 11,2001.

In a legal memo in 2002, he contended that Bush had the right to waive anti-torture laws and international treaties that protected prisoners of war. The memo said some of the prisoner-of-war protections contained in the Geneva Conventions were “quaint” and that in any event, the treaty did not apply to enemy combatants in the war on terror.

Human rights groups later contended his memo led directly to the abuses exposed in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.

Of greater political concern was the Democratic majority that took office in Congress earlier this year. Leahy soon began investigating the firing offederal prosecutors.

Testifying on April 19 before the Judiciary Committee, Gonzales answered “I don’tknow” and “I can’t recall” scores of times when asked about events surrounding the firings.

His support among Republicans in Congress, already weak, eroded markedly, then suffered further with word of the bedside meeting in the intensive care unit of George Washington University Hospital three years earlier.

Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified that Ashcroft had refused to reauthorize the wiretapping program. Appearing before the Judiciary Committee, he described a confrontation in which Gonzales—White House counsel at the time—and White House Chief of Staff Andy Card had appealed to Ashcroft to overrule his deputy. The ill Ashcroft refiised, saying he had transferredpower to Comey.

Comey described the events as “an effort to take advantage of a very sick man who did not have the powers of the attorney general.”

Gonzales subsequently denied that the dispute was about the terrorist surveillance program, but his credibility was undercut when FBI Director Robert Mueller contradicted him.

Several Democrats called for a peijury investigation, but no further action has been taken.

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The 2007 baseball season saw the emergence of an ace—but the development of that star occurred months before.

In 2006, pitcher Tony Bajoczky went 2-8 while logging a 6.09 ERA. Last spring—the Blue Devils’ best year since 1998—he became the team’s best pitcher, winning nine gameswith a 3.22 ERA. The time in between those two seasons, however, was the key to Bajoczky’s emergence. The pitcher spent the summer of 2006 playing in the Coastal Plain League, where he logged 64 innings. Bajoczky cites his experience there as one of the primary reasons for his vast improvement.

Although Bajoczky is gone the Boston Red Sox drafted him in the 34th round of the 2007 Draft—his story demonstrates the importance of playing baseball during the summer.

“Summer is a really important part of the development process,” head coach Sean McNally said. “[The players’] challenge is to —

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come back better players than, they left at the end of the season, and summer ball’s critical to that.”

The opportunity to play every day in the summer can translate to very tangible results in the spring—which means Duke has a lot to look forward to in 2008.

Eighteen Blue Devils played baseball this summer, and six of them made the All-Star team in their respective leagues. One of those Duke players, Andrew Wolcott, made the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League All-Star team and hopes to follow a similar path as Bajoczky.

“It was a lot offun,” Wolcott said of pitching in the All-Star game.

“There were a lot of scouts out there just watching everybody play and just getting the nerves back of pitching in a big game.”

In his one inning of work, Wolcott struck out a batter while surrendering one run on two hits.

Wolcott was 3-0 with a 2.45 ERA in seven appearances this summer after going 4-3 with a 6.10 ERA last spring—just .01 higher than SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE 16

Junior pitcher Andrew Wolcott, who was 4-3 with a 6.10 ERA for the Blue Devils last season, looks to come back even stronger next spring after a productive stint in the GreatLakes Summer League.

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Duke assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski was a member of USA Basketball’s UlB and Ul9 teams from 1994 to 1995, but his most memorable moments might have come more recently from the bench.

Wojciechowski, along with Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski and assistants Johnny Dawkins and Chris Collins, is part of the coaching staffof the USA Men’s Senior National Team currently playing the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship in Las Vegas.

“This is the best experience I’ve ever had with USA Basketball,” Wojciechowski said. “Watching these NBA stars work, their approach to the game, their enthusiasm and their desire to restore USA Basketball to the highest level has been amazing.”

Wojciechowski, Dawkins and Collins have been with the team since its training camp opened August 15, helping out with drills and practice.

Though his job in Las Vegas is focused on coaching and teaching players, Dawkins himself has picked up plenty of expertise SEE TEAM USA ON PAGE 15

Duke headcoach Mike Krzyzewski and his staff led the U.S.to victory last night. Read more on page 20.

A little more than a year ago, I received an e-mail from a friend who jokingly asked what Joe Alieva had on Richard Brodhead that has kept the Director of Athletics at Duke.

The tone of the message was certainly rife with hyperbole and sarcasm. But BH th e thought behind it—that without such zjj e 9 an off-the-wall explanation, Alieva’s continued employment by Brodhead and his administration would not make sense—was one shared by a large contingent of the Duke community.

This was, of course, during the summer of2006, when the Duke lacrosse case was still a national controversy, and this school’s vaunted athletic department was under intense scrutiny. Despite the fact that we would learn over the course of the next year that the charges were false and the accused players were themselves victims, last summer was undoubtedly a low point for Duke Athletics.

Let’s review for a second what we

knew about Alieva then. After being appointed AD by Nan Keohane in 1998, Alieva guided Duke Athletics to some of its best achievements, including its highest-ever finish in the Director’s Cup and a continued record of outstanding academic achievement. Alieva raised $l3O million during Reohane’s Campaign for Duke—twice the original goal of $65 million—which bolstered Duke’s facilities and helped to endow more of the school’s athletics scholarships. All the while, most of Duke’s teams flourished in competition.

Not everything was so pretty, however.

In 2005, the department was accused of overlooking steroids and coaching abuse in the baseball program. Though the report may have been overblown, it was clear that Alieva had allowed the program to languish under the leadership of a man who Alieva had hired and watched coach his two sons.

In 2006, the charges against members of the lacrosse team were Mike Nifong’s fault, not Alieva’s or Brodhead’s, but SEE BEATON ON PAGE 17

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RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina State is staying put at quarterback.

First-year coach Tom O’Brien said Monday that junior Daniel Evans—who started nine games last year —will start the Wolfpack’s opener against Central Florida this weekend. Evans beat out Nebraska transfer Harrison Beck and redshirt freshman Justin Burke for the starting job, giving O’Brien what he hopes will be a stabilizing presence in a new offensive system.

“As I told him, it’s his job,” O’Brien said.

“He shouldn’tbe looking over his shoulder.”

Evans earned the starting job four games into last season, throwing for 1,843 yards with six touchdowns and 11 interceptions. He led the Wolfpack to a stunning rally against O’Brien’s Boston College team in his first start, throwing for the winning score in the final seconds, and led N.C. State to a comeback win against Florida State the following week.

His experience proved to be one of his best assets when compared to Beck and Burke. Beck played in two games late in the 2005 season with the Comhuskers, completing l-of-10 passes for 21 yards and an interception. Burke sat out last year behind Evans and Marcus Stone, who moved to tight end this season.

O’Brien said he discussed the quarterback position with offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Dana Bible for more than a day before telling Evans and

Beck of the decision Monday morning.

“I felt like I played well enough and performed well enough and executed the offense well enough throughout the spring and [preseason] camp, but there’s no use in trying to figure out what a coach could be thinking or trying to analyze what’s going on in their minds,” Evans said. “I guess I felt like I was good enough and I am good enough to go out there and win games for us on Saturday.”

Beck, who is listed as the backup quarterback on the depth chart, said Evans’ experiences from last year helped him in the race for the startingjob.

“I’m still ayoung quarterback,” Beck said.

“I still have a lot I can work on and improve and get better. It’s certainly not the end of the road for me. I’m going to continue to go out there and keep trying to progress.”

That will probably be the biggest challenge for Evans, whose performance tailed off significantly after his hot start in 2006. Evans threw his last touchdown pass against Virginia in October, then had five interceptions with no TD tosses in die final four games.

That was part of die Wolfpack’s sevengame slide to close the season, which resulted in the firing of Chuck Aiqato as head coach.

Evans is the son of former Wolfpack AllAmerican punterjohnny Evans, who also played quarterback. One of his quadruplet siblings, Andrew, is a reserve receiver for the Wolfpack.

“He’s playing with a lot of confidence,” O’Brien said, “and I think he gives us the best opportunity’ to win.”

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GREENVILLE, N.C. Skip Holtz’s biggest fear about East Carolina’s season opener at Virginia Tech has nothing to do with the Hokies’ tough defense or tenacious special teams.

“I’m scared to death we’re going to run out of the tunnel, and I’m going to have 80 guys with cameras strapped around their necks ready to take pictures of everything,” the East Carolina head coach said Monday.

Holtz knows what awaits at Lane Stadium this weekend when his Pirates play No. 9 Virginia Tech. It will be the Hokies’ first game since the campus rampage that left 3S dead and a community traumatized.

East Carolina is struggling to come to terms with its uncomfortable role in Virginia Tech’s comeback story.

“We are walking into an absolute hornets’ nest,” Holtz said. “We are trying to do everything we can to get our players ready. As the tragedy unfolded April 16, many Pirates players watched news reports in the locker room. They understood they would be Virginia Tech’s first opponent next season.

Holtz spent the summer preparing his team for what was in store. While his coaching staff couldn’t replicate the noise created byLane Stadium’s 66,233 screaming inhabitants, they could sharpen die players’ focus.

“I’m glad that we can be part of those ceremonies, but we still have to understand that we’re going up there to play a football game, and that’s what we have to get pre.

pared to get ready to do,” Holtz said. “We’ve tried to educate them up until this point with all types ofdistractions that they’ll have, and the challenge that we have to learn to balance all those things along with keeping our focus on what we have to do.”

This was not thekind ofattention die schools were counting a few years ago when they signed an agreement to resume their dormant series by playing nine timesfrom 2007-15.

“When you go through a tragedy like diat, right afterwards I thought Tech people wanted to be with Tech people to hug and comfort each other,” Hokies coach Frank Beamer has said. “I do think our people are looking forward to that time to be together.”

Even before the shootings, this was always going to be a formidable test for East Carolina.

The Pirates are taking on a top-10 team in one of the nation’s toughest stadiums.

What is more, East Carolina will be breaking in a new quarterback, a new top receiver and even a new punter. That is all the more troubling given the Hokies’ history of playing “Beamer Ball” on special teams while blocking kicks with regularity.

The new quarterback likely will be either Rob Kass or Brett Clay. Kass, however, was charged with driving while impaired after he was pulled over during a DWI checkpoint, police said Monday. It was unclear whether Kass will play.

“If you were going to write a script, you don’t want to baptize a quarterback there,” Holtz said. “It’s not where you want to break in a new punter as well.”

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TEAM USA from page 13 from his time at the tournament “I’ve had a learning experience at Duke, and to be able to continue that at a professional level with the players we are working with, that will only help further my experiences and understanding of the game,” Dawkins said.

Dawkins, Krzyzewski and company entered this August’s competition with the goal of bouncing back from USA Basketball’s disappointing performance at last year’s FIBA World Championship in Saitama, Japan, where the team fell 101-95 to Greece in the semifinals.

The loss led to a third place finish for the United States and meant that the team would have to wait until the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

If the team’s current performance is any indication, however, fans of the Red, White and Blue should have no worries about missing out on the Olympics. The U.S. Men have cruised through the preliminary rounds of the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship and appear to be in the pole position to clinch a bid to Beijing.

The Americans finished the first phase of the tournament with a perfect 4-0 record, winning those games by an average margin of 48.5 points.

Despite playing weaker competition and teams missing key players —like Canada and its star guard Steve Nash—the Americans’ success in part has also come from a change in team organization. Unlike the past, U.S. players now must commit to play

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three years with the team.

“What these guys are saying is they are willing to change their role from their current team to fit this mold,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s called being unselfish. Unselfish is not just not shooting all the dme, it’s accepting new things that may not make you look as good because you don’t do them 100 games a year.”

Learning the tendencies of teammates takes time, and with the new roster ap-

“What these guys are saying is they are willing to change their r01e...t0 fit this mold.”

Mike Krzyzewski proach in its second year, the coaches are finally seeing the progress and results they are looking for.

In his second year assisting with the Senior Men’s National Team, Wojciechowski, has already witnessed the benefits of this progress in Las Vegas this August.

“At the beginning of last year, it was a trial run for everyone,” Wojciechowski said.

“I feel like everyone who has come back for the second yearknows what to expect. Even the guys who have been added are experienced players at all levels of basketball.”

With a young team back in Durham that has four returning starters and a trio of heralded newcomers, Duke fans can only hope that a similar step forward will occur this season.

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Junior Nate Freiman played in the Cape Cod League, the most prestigious summer league in the country.

Wolcott improved his changeup and located his fastball more accurately, while also pitching inside more often—an adjustment that is made easier because summer leagues use wood bats, rather than aluminum. “[We’re] really looking forward to his growth and just getting him back on campus,” McNally said. “It looks like he’s making a leap. A lot of guys will make a leap after their sophomore year, and we’re hoping the same happens for Andrew.”

Just as Wolcott—a reliever and spot starter in 2007—will be fighting to get more innings next season, seniorJon Nicolla will be looking for more at bats. Nicolla served primarily as the designated hitter last year, hitting .321.

But he was unable to play his natural position at first base because of Nate Freiman’s great season. To try to increase his playing time, Nicolla has worked to become a more versatile player. And the ability to get more experience over the summer at various positions could prove to be personally lucrative come spring.

In his time in die New York Collegiate League, Nicolla played outfield, catcher and diirdbase in addition to first base.

“The more positions that I’m able to play and the more versatility I can bring

the team, I think, will help me get in the lineup more and more,” Nicolla said.

The senior finished with a .257 batting average, 19 RBIs and led his team with eight doubles.

“We’re really looking forward to his growth... It looks like he’s makiing a leap. A lot of guys will make a leap after their sophomore yeawr, and we’re hoping the same thing happens for Andrew.”

—Sean McNally In the Cape Cod League —the most competitve summer league in the coun-

try—Freiman had the best season of any Duke player. The Blue Devils’ top offensive player in 2007 hit .286 with two home runs and 28 RBIs. The junior was named the Coca-Cola Player of the Week for the week of Aug. 5.

In that span, he was 6-for-ll with a home run, four RBIs and three runs scored.

He also won the Manny Robello Award, which recognizes a player for his sendee both on and off the field.

If this summer is any indication—like last summer was for Bajoczky—Duke can expect good things in 2008.

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Alieva’s public comments failed to mitigate soon as this December. But when the comthe public relations disaster and at dines mittee reported back, Brodhead shocked even added to it. Take for example when almost everyone when he handed Alieva a he said it was just “boys being boys,” which five-year extension and lauded him for beas it turns out wasn’t so wrong, but at the ing “unwaveringly loyal” to Duke. time was ill-advised and added fuel to the Why did this happen? One theory is that Coach K put his foot down, like some have growing fire.

When the Coleman Report one of suggested he did with Keohane to get Alieva the most in-depth investigations into the the job in the first place. But given Krzyzelacrosse culture at Duke—was released in wski’s very public comments in defense of Pressler and his accusations directed at the May of last year, it largely exonerated former head coach Mike Pressler and passed administration’s failure to support the lasome of the blame onto Alieva for overcrosse players during the whole ordeal, it would not seem to make sense that Coach looking a pattern of behavioral issues.

Later in the summer of2006, Alieva and K played a large role this time around. one ofhis sons were involved in a boating What was it then? Was it the fact that accident. At the time, police said alcohol Alieva’s biggest donor, Harold Yoh, chaired was involved in the crash, and the details of the committee that reviewed the AD? Was the incident still seem murky at best. it simply Brodhead’s wish to keep the ship Despite the progress the department had steady after two years of turmoil?

It’s impossible to know for sure because seen in eight years under Alieva, that incidentseemed to be the icing on the cake —the the committee’s review' of Alieva, like those perfect opportunity to change leadership. ofevery Duke administrator, was not made Students, student-athletes, administrators public. Here’s my best guess as to what the and others concerned with Duke Athletics committee’s report said: Joe Alieva is a nice guy with good intentions, and he’s a capawhispered that it was time for Alieva to go.

Fast-forward a year: This summer, with ble leader going forward. What he’s not is only one year left on his second five-year a visionary who can fix major problems or contract, Alieva was up for review. Adding handle crises.

And that’s exacdy what Duke needs now. onto the list of problems that existed the It’s surprising then, that the president year before was the very public departure of Gail Goestenkors (which was caused at who wrote to the community last June least in part by comments Alieva made) that he came to Duke because of its “lack and the continued problems with the footof commitment to the status quo” would ball program (which has won exactly 12 make a decision in rehiring Alieva reafgames in eight years under the two coaches firming that same status quo.

Alieva hired).

In reappointing Alieva, Brodhead asked Once again, it looked like an opporhim to introduce a “strategic plan” within tunity to seek new leadership, and the the next year. Such a request did not seem whispers from the year before turned into unusual considering Brodhead’s primary expectations that Alieva would not be get- response to the lacrosse incident was to —

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Joe Alieva was reappointed as Director ofAthletics earlier this month by President Brodhead. form five “committees” (and then reject a number of their findings). And the athletics department’s answer to the football problem was a “summit” last year —not a new coach. All of these are fancy ways of generating discussion but not action.

On the same day he reinstated thelacrosse

program last summer, Brodhead also said, “The current crisis gives Duke an opportunity to‘step up’and take a leadership position on issues ofbroad concern in American education.”

Unless Alieva’s strategic plan bears fruit in the near future, this bold declaration will remain an empty promise as it relates to athletics.

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lering instructions at his players in another mostly empty Thomas & Mack Center, and gestured frequently during a lengthy dis-

cussion with a referee moments after Howdone yet against the United States. ard had knocked a pair ofMexican players Nolan Richardson’s Mexico team kept to the ground late in the first half. the game respectable into the second Richardson chatted with Krzyzewski and half before U.S. assistant Jim Boeheim, another NCAA MEXICO 100 the Americans champion, before the game. But it wasn’t long before Richardson had little to smile pulled away tor USA ,Z/ a 127-100 vic- about. tory Krzyzewski made a pair of changes to Monday night in the second round of the FIBA his starting lineup, going with Chauncey Americas tournament.

Billups over Jason Kidd and replacing Carmelo Anthony scored 28 points, tyHoward with Amare Stoudemire. It didn’t ing the American record in an Olympic affect the Americans at the start. qualifier. He had 16 in a sensational openAnthony’s dunk capped a 17-2 run that ing quarter, in which the Americans shot gave the Americans a 35-14 lead with a lit80 percent from the field. tle more than two and a half minutes left But the Mexicans, who snuck into the in the first quarter. The U.S. made 14 of second round through a three-team tieits first 16 shots before finishing at 16-forbreaker, outplayed their more talented -20, taking a 45-23 lead into the second.

However, Mexico outscored the United counterparts for much of the next two periods before the U.S. put them away for States 28-20 in the second to make it 65-51 good late in the third. at the break. The smallest U.S. halftime lead Kobe Bryant added 21 points, and Leßhad been 19 points Sunday against Brazil. ron James and Dwight Howard had 19 The Americans pulled ahead comfortapiece for the United States, which led by ably early in the third, but Mexico battled only 15 points midway through the third back again, pulling to 82-67 on Victor Mariscal’s 3-pointer with 4:45 remaining. quarter after beating its first four oppoThe Americans eventually broke away nents by 48.4 points per game. The Americans face Puerto Rico Tuesday night. for good, but the Mexicans still had one Mexico rarely showed the pressure defenlast highlight. Beck, who came in as the sive style that Richardson used at Arkansas, tournament’s No. 2 scorer with 22.8 but husded for offensive rebounds and shot points per game, had a four-point play 15-of-28 from 3-point range to hang around. late in the third after Bryant fouled him Romel Beck, who played for UNLV, on a 3-pointer. scored 20 points for Mexico, which plays Anthony, who set the U.S. record for a Brazil on Tuesday. world championships game last summer Richardson beat U.S. head coach Mike with 35 points against Italy, equaled DenKrzyzewski for the 1994 National Chamver Nuggets teammate Allen Iverson’s 28pionship when Arkansas edged Duke, but point night from the ‘O3 qualifier. had little hope of winning this matchup.

The Americans played without reserve Still, he didn’t coach any differently.

Tayshaun Prince, who sprained his ankle Richardson could easily be heard hoi- Sunday against Brazil.

WNBA PLAYOFFS

Two series come to close in thrillers Fever move on to Eastern Conference Finals INDIANAPOLIS Tamika Catchings had 30 points and 13 rebounds, and the Indiana Fever made the biggest comeback in WNBA playoff history to defeat the Connecticut Sun 93-88 in overtime and advance to the Eastern Conference finals.

The Fever overcame a 39-17, secondquarter deficit to win the series 2-1.

The previous biggest deficit overcome was 21 points, by Minnesota in a 74-72 win on Aug. 28, 2003, against Los Angeles.

Katie Douglas led Connecticut with 27 points and Lindsay Whalen and Asjha Jones both added 21. The Sun won their first five games against the Fever this season, but lost the two that mattered most.

Tamika Whitmore scored 24 points, and Anna DeForge added 18 for the Fever.

Connecticut led 64-48 in the fourth quarter when the Fever went on an 11-0 run. highlighted by five points from Sheri Sam, to cut dieir deficit to 64-59 with 6:40 to go.

Indiana chopped the lead to 66-64 on a 3-pointer by Whitmore with 3:05 left, then took the lead on a 3-point play by Whit-

more with 2:30 to go

Silver Stars clinch berth at the buzzer SAN ANTONIO Vickie Johnson scored an easy layup on a pass from Becky Hammon with half a second remaining and San Antonio Silver Stars held on to win the best-of-three Western Conference playoff series.

Although Sacramento overcame a 20point deficit and took a lead with just more than a minute remaining in the game, San Antonio won behind a franchise playoff-record 26 points from Sophia Young.

Hammon added 22 points and seven assists while Johnson scored 14 and also had seven assists.

Nicole Powell led the comeback with 10 fourth-quarter points. She led the Monwith 20 points.

Kara Lawson added 12 while Rebekkah Brunson and Yolanda Griffith each scored 10.

The Silver Stars will play the Phoenix Mercury on Thursday in the Western Conference finals.

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At first blush, the idea doesn’t seem half bad.

Even more substantial is the fact ability, staffed itoria I that Duke student health Bikes and campus community all marks the first in what should be a number of in one fell swoop?

Duke’s answer: Bikes, concrete programs created in response to the apparently.

This Thursday, the more-lofty and less-tanUniversity will roll out gible plans outlined by the Duke Bikes—a pilot proCampus Culture Initiative gram springing from the Steering Committee’s FebCampus Culture Initiative ruary report. that will allow students The connection between to swipe their DukeCards CCI and bikes may seem a and borrow 1-speed and bit tenuous (read; forced), 3-speed Trek Cruisers for but the Office of Student Affairs and Provost Peter Lange up to five days.

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Kudos, Duke. Your heart certainly seems to be in the right place. Let’sjust hope that every new idea, program or initiative that comes out of the Allen Building this semester isn’t thrown under the heading of the CCI just for thesake of, well, throwing them under the heading of the CCI. And let’s also hope that all the logistics for Duke Bikes have been hammered out in full. to

If not, a novel new idea could pose major liability issues. After all, at some point every school year there seems to be a rash of bike thefts. Even if this retro fleet of Trek Cruisers doesn’t have the curb-side appeal as other .bikes, stolen bikes could be an issue moving forward.

In addition, the sudden and for some unexpected—increase in bicyc-ular traffic between East and West campuses could lead to more accidents. Unlike some more airy college campuses like Stanford, Duke is particularly ill-suited to bikes.

Perhaps the biggest issue of all, however, is the monetary one. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, is quick to say that the cost of —

Duke Bikes is low relative to the program’s potential.

Although a price tag certainly can’t be placed on sustainability, health and community, this board wonders whether thefunds allocated to the initiative could have gone to other—potentially more fruitful—programs that flow more directly from the CCI and post-CCI discussions.

We hope, in short, this isn’t just another one ofStudent Affair’s pet projects that suck up unnecessary time and resources.

Regardless, the initiative is exciting, if not unexpected.

Here’s to hoping that its potential shortfalls do not arise and that this is one of many concrete programs that will begin to take form as we march into thefirst post-lacrosse year.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, revisited

When

I took my daughter on a college of Chapel Hill three years ago, I was seized by a feeling most parents get—the desire to turn back the clock 26 years and do it all again knowing what I know now.

And then I remembered the excruciating hormonal hegemony of those years when a certain 21 year old who shall remain nameless was infatuated with a professor to the degree that she found it difficult to concentrate in class so much so that once I even had to hide my trembling hands under the chrystal stefani table. I can’t speak change from within for the men, but ladies, your finest moments offeminine wisdom may not emerge until your third decade Now I’m certainly glad not to be back there again.

Now my daughter is 21. And as I watched her return to school for her fourth and final year I realize that she faces a world that appears much more complex than the one I knew. Whereas when I went to college Aretha sang about R-E-S-P-E-C-T, my daughter is much more likely to hear the word “bitch” come across the radio waves than I ever was. She lives in a more-affluent, alcohol-liberal, highly fashion-conscious, web-connected, fooddisordered era. She lives in the Facebook Age. In the ’7os, I was an active member of the National Organization for Women, organized for women’s rights and especially for pay equity through a new amendment to the Constitution, the ERA. A fun way we demonstrated our power was by releasing ourselves from tight underwear.

It’s a curious and grand irony for me that some women today express themselves by layering additional straps and padding. Hopefully this fad, like stiletto heels, will pass.

Women, lower your heels and breathe freely!

It’s more comfortable.

We deserve to wear what we want, heels and straps galore, if that works for us. Naomi Wolfe said it best during her visit to campus last year; Women today should be aware of their own power and understand that commercial forces feed on women never feeling beautiful enough. tour

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My daughter says she doesn’t feel affected by the Cosmo covers and the Barbie babe bods published on every newsstand in America. Yet many women are. According to a study from the Duke Eating Disorders Program by Dr. Nancy Zucker, 21 percent ofDuke women surveyed displayed abnormal eating habits. Even though biology and genetics also play a role, perhaps a significant role, in stimulating eating disorders, the influence of these pop-culture images plays a direct role as well.

Since I was an undergrad at Chapel Hill, however, there has been substantial progress toward rewriting the legal definition of rape and vast improvement in enforcing policies against sexual harassment.

According to Sheila Broderick, sexual assault support services coordinator at the Women’s Center, “rape is now defined as any sex act involving penetration of any body opening by any object, that is against your will, without your consent, or when you are unable to freely give consent.”

That definition constitutes significant progress. In North Carolina rape within the confines of a marriage did not legally exist until five years ago.

Awareness of dangers may be greater today, but most women still choose not to report sexual assaults, even though the laws are in place to give more protection than ever before.

Today, several departments at Duke adhere to equal rights for women faculty and staff. In the physics department, annual announcements remind everyone ofsexual harassment rules at Duke.

Mild sexual harassment on the job is no longer a “lesser evil” to be suffered in silence—at least not here at Duke, from my current perspective.

Sexual harassment can go both ways now, and we see examples in literature, such as Zadie Smith’s “On Beauty,” where the student stalks the professor. Though more open forums and discussions of assault and harassment help, pay equity reigns supreme as the best solution.

My daughter may not have learned much about the National Organization of Women yet. It’s not something that rests on the consciousness of many 21 year olds. But as time goes by and women claim more political power, we’ll all look back with gratitude at the gains we made in the 70s when we burned those bras.

Chrystal Stefani is assistant to the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics. Her col-

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Bye-bye,

Duke and Durham: One Love

Brodhead?

If

you’re like I used to be, then each fall, when the time

to return to school is fast encroaching on your freedom,

you dread returning to the Dirty D. Well, you aren’t the

If

you think exam week sucks, imagine how Dick Brodhead must feel about his upcoming performance review.

Until Dec. 31, a seven-member committee led by Board of Trustees Vice Chair Daniel Blue (a Duke law grad and former speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives) will assess Brodhead’s first three years in office. Given that Blue’s findings will almost certainly influence Trustees’ decision on whether or not to extend Brodhead’s five-year contract—up in 2009—our president may be in for a stressful semester.

Precedent largely dictates the structure of Brodhead’s review. To begin, kristin butler the committee will actively with ail deliberate speed solicit comments from those who work closely with Brodhead. Once finished, it will offer its findings to the full Board, which will take the findings under advisement and reach a decision about his future.

Long-standing personnel policies keep this process largely hidden from the Duke community. In other words, only Brodhead and the Trustees will ever see that report, and we are left to hope that such secrecy encourages a level of candor and thoughtfulness not otherwise possible. And although average Dukies cannot know the outcome of Blue’s inquiry, we still have a part to play: Members of the Duke community have a rare opportunity to submit our own comments for consideration. Given the stakes—the Trustees’ decision will have a lasting effect on the integrity of our alma mater—formulating a careful and considered comment for the committee should be at the top of everyBlue Devil’s priority list this fall.

Blue told Duke News he plans to post ads in The Chronicle and online at Duke Today, and thatall comments must be received by Nov. 1. My own comment will read as follows: PresidentBrodhead and I both joined the Duke communityin 2004. like most students, I quickly came to appreciate Brodhead’s irrepressible charisma and obvious warmthof spirit when interacting with students. For that and otherreasons, I delighted inBrodhead’s eariy successes—persuading Coach K to stay, successfully negotiating the Palestine Solidarity Movement controversy that followed soon after —which were impressive. But that faith was strained in April 2006 when our community trustedBrodhead to marshal the skill and delicacy thatdefined his previous conduct What we got instead was a series ofadministrative blunders one more scandalous than the next—that have done more longterm damage to our university than the media frenzy ever could have. As we continue to move forward, I wonder at Brodhead’s reluctance to acknowledge those missteps and leam from them.

Indeed, what does it say about our university that 12 months after credible accusations surfaced that Durham police officers were disproportionately targeting Duke students, no Brodhead administration official has reassured us we’re safe?

What are we to think when four months after the University settled former lacrosse player Kyle Dowd’s grade-retaliation suit, administrators have done nothing to address this serious breach of trust? And five months after the Campus Culture Initiative presented its fatally flawed report, what effort has been made to reinvigorate the once-strong student interest in confronting Duke’s deep social rifts?

Ultimately, the questions come down to this: Given Brodhead’s position on the firing of Mike Pressler— Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations Burness told reporters that although Pressler was an “excellent coach,” it was “essential for the team to have a change ofleadership” before it could “move forward”—why shouldn’t we apply that logic to the president himself?

Put differently, what about Brodhead’s recent conduct suggests he will ever be ready and willing to confront the lacrosse case’s lingering indignities? More importantly, what about his behavior suggests he would be better equipped to handle the next scandal appropriately? (Quite the opposite: Brodhead told The Chronicle last January that he would fire the blameless Coach Pressler again if he had it to do over.)

I don’t have a good answer, and I wonder how effectively Brodhead can continue asking alumni for their support or encouraging students to matriculatewithout one. Brodhead has been so beset at Duke that we have hardly had time to see why he was so beloved at Yale. That’s why I hope to find a reason why his departure isn’t “highly appropriate” in the very near future.

Those are my thoughts. You can direct yours to —

pres-review@duke.edu.

Kristin Butler is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every Monday.

only person who is disappointed with Durham.

I’ll never forget the time when during a free-forall conversation (the kind that liberal arts schools are famous for) in one of my seminar classes, one of my classmates went on a tirade about Durham—how she was sick of Durhamites, how there’s nothing to do here,

essentially

explaining

aria branch round three

how much of a drag she thought Durham was But then, the professor interjected, saying “Wait a second, don’t bash this city, I live here and I’m raising my family here.”

This was a particularly revealing moment for me because it made me really think—our professors, many of whom are in the elite class of academia, are members of the Durham community. And a lot of them are a part of the population, as small as it may be, who think Durham isn’t half bad.

If I’m honest with myself, I know that Durham really isn’t all bad—there are many unique aspects of Durham that I like. I sense that with a little eye-opening, we can all begin to take as much pride in our community as we do in our school or basketball team.

I have an interesting relationship with Durham.

Just about two decades ago, I was born in Durham Regional Hospital and spent the first five years of my life in the Bull City. My parents think of Durham nostalgically, speaking fondly of a family town covered in trees and rolling hills. I often tell them that Durham is different now—like a lot of Southern towns, it has changed from the beautiful, scenic city that they remember.

But after talking with them and some Durhamites, I realized that a lot remains the same between the Durham they knew and the city we constandy find fault with. Obviously, many of the same landmark are here, including Sam’s Quik Shop, which my parents tell me was popular when I was born.

More importantly, though, the same Southern, hospitable, small-town attitudes remain embedded in the city’s people and culture. Many restaurants and businesses here are still “mom and pop” owned and if you go often enough, the owners will know you by name.

Durham embodies old and new in the best of ways.

Although you can shop at a new mall like Southpoint, to get there, you’ll pass old laundromats and barbershops that reflect the cracks and flaws of old, Southern towns. These are the things you miss when you live in a big city.

For Duke students, one of the best things about Durham is that opportunities to volunteer and make a difference in the community abound. Also, Durham is small so you can easily see the impact programs like America Reads make. Real community service programs exist as partnerships between Duke and Durham and often, Duke students are able to positively impact the lives of young Durhamites.

Durham is also bubbling over with historical importance and, with its vibrantracial and ethnic communities, it’s an example of what many American cities are becoming. Durham has carved an important space in American history. Believe it or not, in 1701, explorer John Lawson said that Durham’s beauty made her the “flower of the Carolinas.”

Brightleaf tobacco, which was discovered by Washington Duke, produced one of the world’s largest corporations. And I’m sure John Edwards, the infamous “son of a mill worker” knows a thing or two about Durham, because the first mill to produce denim was discovered here.

If that’s not interesting enough for you, then you must know that in 1910,North Carolina Central University was established as the nation’s first publicly supported liberal arts college for African-Americans. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the largest and oldest African-American insurance company in the world, has called Durham its home since 1898.

When we first arrive in Durham as freshmen, it’s easy to belittle the town because it’s not exactly jumping with clubs and hang-out spots. In fact, most places close by 10, and well, we don’t have Franklin Street or anything close to it.

But with time, we must learn to appreciate and respect Durham for the city that she is. After all, in what other city in America is there a line to get into a club named Shooters? And, where else is a wild night out incomplete without a trip to Cook Out? From now on, I’ll beam with pride when a Durhamite tries to get my attention by yelling out “Ay bay bay!” when I’m walking down Ninth Street. And the next time I ride the bull at Shooters, I’ll cherish the moment. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m proud to be back in the D (For Round Three).

Aria Branch is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other

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