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Students now have a new option for resolving conflicts among themselves and University employees—the student om-

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In 1969, between 50 and 75 black students at Duke stormed the Allen Building, barricading the doors ofwhat they renamed the Malcolm X Liberation School, to demand an increase in enrollmentand financial aid for black students.

Today’s Duke students, however, say they are too busy with grades and preparing themselves for careers to invest time in the same level of student activism that defined the 1960 s and 19705.

Times have changed since theVietnam

War, when students burned draft cards and participated in anti-war marches in Washington, senior Pureum Kim said.

He said the world has become more competitive, forcing students to focus on their work at school to ensure financial success after college.

‘We’re trapped by this,” he said. “It’s not like the ’7os when we had ideologies and the world to save. We have more to lose.”

Tom Harkins, associate university archivist for research services, said student activism at Duke has decreased since the civil rights movement and the Vietnam

War, an era he described as unique.

“The cultural condition of the country was very different than it is now,” Harkins said. “Iliere are people disgusted with the Iraqi war, but back then, the whole American system of government was coming into question. I don’t think you find that now.”

Sophomore Michael Burakow described the present era as “a different time, a different age, a different mind-set.”

Many of his peers, Burakow said, have become apathetic toward politics and SEE ACTIVISM ON PAGE 5

organizations to act as an impartial go-between for parties in conflict.

The University approved the position earlier this summer. John Blackshear, the current clinical director of the Academic Resource Center, will be the first to fill the post.

Provost Peter Lange said he was excited about the program.

“We found the right man for the job,” he said.

As ombudsperson, Blackshear said he will deal with a wide variety of student issues, such as conflicts between students or those between a student and a University employee—staff, faculty or administrator.

“My commitment is [to] making a fair, impartial resource for students to discuss issues that might be important to them and also for them to receive guidance from someone that’s knowledgeable SEE BLACKSHEAR ON PAGE 5

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Freshman Kamerria Listenbee said she felt unexpectedly anxious last week when she thought she would miss an assignment because of her frustrations with Blackboard.

The Web site—which allows students to access course documents, communicate with professors and submit assignments—can be overwhelmed because students and professors use the page so much, Office of Information Technology officials said.

For the past two weeks, Blackboard has been experiencing technical difficulties caused by heavy use during prime hours—typically after 6 p.m., said William Cannon, OIT senior communications strategist.

Because of the large volume of traffic, it has hampered the diagnostic capabilities OIT normally uses to SEE OIT ON PAGE 6

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Twinnie's is the only location that serves Starbucks coffee on campus.

Don’t fall to your knees yet, coffee drinkers Administrators have confirmed that the process of bringing a Starbucks store to campus is well under way, but the actual date on which it will open remains unclear.

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst has said that several important hurdles to bringing a Starbucks to the campus have been cleared. At his invitation, a team toured the University last spring looking for what he calls a “highvolume traffic opportunity.” He said that the student traffic in the Bryan Center met their criteria, and he has a copy of a preliminary store design facing the West Campus Plaza.

“What we’re looking for is a full-blown Starbucks store like at American Tobacco, a regular Starbucks,” Wulforst said.

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask told The Chronicle in an e-mail in late August that the store is “ready to go if we can find the space.”

However, the space Starbucks representatives selected is currently occupied by the Office of Student Activities SEE STARBUCKS ON PAGE 6

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COLUMBIA, S.C. For nearly six years, Jason Viglione has avoided the memorials and gatherings held in honor of Sept. 11 victims.

But Monday, Viglione decided for the first time to publicly remember his uncle, a veteran New York City firefighter who died at the World Trade Center.

Viglione, 28, signed a 4-ton, 37-foot steel beam that will travel halfway across the country before becoming a piece of a national Sept. 11 memorial and museum at the World Trade Center.

“He was the soul of Ladder 13,” Viglione said of his uncle. “We thought he was just a blue-collar kind of guy, but it turns out he was called to this the way a priest is called to their

Osama bin Laden will appear for the second time in a week in a new video to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, presenting the last will and testament of one of the suicide hijackers, al-Qaida announced Monday.

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duty.”

Viglione decided to join the Air Force shortly after the attacks and is now at Shaw Air Force Base, about 30 miles east of Columbia.

He has served more than half of his six-year commitment.

“People were laying down their lives, and I decided it was time to do something a little bigger and better,” Viglione said, clutching a photograph of his uncle, Thomas Sabella, clad in firefighter gear.

Viglione signed the steel beam: “To Uncle Tommy, we love and miss you.”

The beam is the centerpiece of the traveling memorial, which is made up of photos and a minute-by-minute timeline of the disaster and will go to more than a dozen cities.

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It was made by a South Carolina company and will be used in the construction of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center. City and state officials signed the beam, and other victims’ family members wrote messages ofremembrance on the eve of the attacks’ sixth anniversary.

More than $3OO million has been raised privately and more than $250 million is committed by the federal government to build

the eight-acre memorial, which will set two waterfall-filled pools just above the twin towers’ footprints, surrounded by a glade ofoak and sweetgum trees. Visitors will descend underground to a Sept. 11 museum.

Columbia-based Owen Steel Co. was selected to fabricate thousands of tons of steel for the project. The city was a logical choice to kick off the tour, one military veteran said, because it’s home to Fort Jackson, the

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Ordering a panini from Cinelli’s Pizzeria and Restaurant or sesame chicken from Grace’s Cafe? Instead, hold the chips, ask for a salad and pass on the oil and MSG. The Duke Student Health Center has created a new Merchants on Points booklet to guide students on how they can eat healthier when they order food on points.

Student Health will also launch a new healthy snackprogram calledDevil’s Choice to provide students with a greater selection ofnutritious on-the-go food choices.

“At the end of every year, we evaluate what programs we’ve done in years past and what feedback we’ve gotten back from students,” Student Health Nutritionist Anna Lutz said. “Some students struggle with finding healthy snacks on campus and a lot of the time, that means

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they’re skipping meals and they end up very hungry in the evening, which leads to

overeating.”

Student Health will promote the healthy snacks already offered by The Lobby Shop in the Bryan Center to make it easier for students to just run in and grab the prepackaged items, Lutz said. A logo created

by Student Health will be attached to the healthy snack choices so students can easily identify them, she added.

Devil’s Choice was introduced in The Lobby Shop Sept. 10 and if it is well received, it may expand to East Campus, said Tom Craig, general manager of retail stores.

“It is a great program,” Craig said.

“Student Health had some great recommendations on items that [The Lobby Shop] can carry and we’re constantly working on sourcing new lines of healthy snacks.”

During the summer, threedietician interns at Student Health identified what snacks The Lobby Shop already had and created criteria to evaluate whether food items they carry can be considered healthy, Lutz said.

They also made a wish list of new items they thought students would like, which Student Health submitted to Duke University Stores, she added.

“The interns suggested more individually packaged foods—such as small cups of peanut butter as opposed to a whole jar of peanut butter —more available fruit cut-ups, individual servings

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Working her way through the salad bar, a student prepares a healthy meal in the Great Hall Monday night. of carrots and hummus and crackers,” Lutz said Craig said the efforts of Devil’s Choice will provide students with more individually packaged servings.

“Asa convenience store, we sometimes have trouble finding single-serving retail packaging,” Craig said. “A lot of wholesalers we deal with do not carry single-serving retail packages for some

of these healthy items.”

To get students to eat healthier, Student Health is also trying to bring a farmers market to East, but has received little response from local markets, Health Education Specialist Kevin Harrell said.

“We’re working on it, but I’m not 100 percent sure it’s going to happen,” Harrell said.

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The University is giving students free beer when they attend classes—well, some classes.

The Office ofStudent Activities and Facilities is offering free Crash Courses for Duke students, faculty and staff, startingWednesday.

The first of these courses, “The Art of Beer,” is scheduled to take place Wednesday.

“The Art of Beer’ was chosen in particular as a course that would inform the participants on how to appreciate the differences in beers,” Program Coordinator Kyle Fox said. “It’s just like wine tasting.”

The Crash Courses are usually offered at night, each lasting two to three hours. Students can sign up for the sessions on the OSAF Web site.

“OSAF wanted to be able to offer educational sessions that were also fun,” Fox wrote in an e-mail. “Thus, we chose fun topics such as sushi making, knitting and other subjects that we think students want to learn aboutand don’t have a current method of gaining that experience.”

A total of 10 courses will be available, the topics include “Kayaking and Self Rescue Clinic,” “Poker,” “Thelonious Monk” and “Pumpkin Carving,” among others.

The cost ofeach Crash Course for OSAF ranges from “practically

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OSAF will educate studentsaboutTheloniousMonk at"Crash Courses"Sept 19 and 26. free” to $5OO, Fox said. He noted that most of the cost comes from paying for materials and hiring instructors, who are either Duke faculty or local residents.

“We’ve worked pretty hard to ensure we are getting the ‘experts,’” Fox said. “For beertasting we have a brew master coming in from the Carolina

Brewery, for sushi we will have chefs teach the course. We want to make sure that each course offers quality instruction.”

The funding comes from OSAF administrative fees, OSAF Director Chris Roby said.

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ticed in a traditional Chinese education, said Zhizhong Li, current president ofDCSSA and a graduate student in molecular cancer biology.

The site, published in a combination of Chinese and English, is updated three times a week and has links to articles written by current Chinese international students about their experiences at Duke.

From DukeChina.org, students are able to access informationpertaining to the admissions process such as the University’s average

Buried in the depths of cyberspace, a site created by two Duke graduate students is a resource on everything Duke for students living in China.

Physics graduate students Xing Zong and Wei Chen—both of whom are Chinese international students—created DukeChina.org in 2005 to bring international Chinese students together within the Duke community and promote Duke to Chinese students seeking an education in the U.S. Initially used mainly as a source for students to share names of the best local restaurants and barber shops, DukeChina.org has since grown globally and received over 1.2 million hits since its debut.

Although the Web site targets mainly graduate students at Duke, undergraduate students and students from other universities access the site daily to learn about functions sponsored by the Duke Chinese Students and Scholars Association, the organization that now maintains Duke-

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about University policies and procedures,” Blackshear said. “I also hope I can help them brainstorm ways to effectively resolve a conflict.”

Though Ben Reese, vice president for institutional equity, pitched the ombudsperson position, the post will not be part of the Office for Institutional Equity.

An ombudsperson is supposed to be impartial, and as such, Blackshear will not be under direct OIE supervision, Lange said.

“I’m not set up in this role to protect the University or to convince students to act in any way,” Blackshear said. “I’m there to service them with my full attention, and I will not pass judgment.”

The creation of an ombudsperson position has been in the works for seven or eight months, Reese said.

The office will be a part-time, on-call position, Lange said.

Blackshear said he will be providing Lange with updates throughout the year on the number of students taking advantage ofhis services, but will not divulge any specifics due to the sensitive nature of the job.

Lange said he will take these updates into account when the program goes underreview next year.

“I’m pretty confident that it will be a success, although perhaps not in exacdy the form we’re starting with,” he said.

The ombudsperson position was created after administrators examined issues brought to light by the Campus Culture Initiative and the President’s Council on Black Affairs, Blackshear said.

“There were some expressions by students about whether or not their issues were being heard, if they had a source of support at the University that would be fair and impartial to them and feeling confident that someone was not delivering a party line to them,” he said.

Reese said he hopes the influence of the ombudsperson position will reach all students.

“It think it’s important to provide a model for everyone within the Duke community of respectful ways of differing and coming to a resolution with everyone feeling that they have been heard,” he said.

other issues surrounding them.

This apathy comes at a time when the United States and its war on terror are playing a prominent role in shaping the international dynamic. Although the war on terror is often compared to the Vietnam War in its unpopularity, Burakow said students are less involved in speaking against the war—even if they passionately oppose it.

Students will join Facebook groups that represent their beliefs but will not act on them, Burakow added, describing a trend of “If 1,000 join this group, 1’11...” groups.

“But there’s a problem with the Facebook group becoming the new sit-in,” he said. “They put it out there, say what they want to say, but is it really going to change anything?”

Although Burakow said the country’s cultural atmosphere has changed over the past few decades, junior Adam Jaffe said students are apathetic for a much simpler reason. “Not being drafted is definitely the main reason,” he said. “It’s not a change in attitude so much as a change in circumstance.”

Bruce Kuniholm, director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and professor of history, said a mandatory draft forced people to have a greater investment in govem-

ment policies. “When you don’t have one, policies have less

direct bearing on a person’s immediate life, and as a result, their reaction is diminished,” said Kuniholm, a Vietnam veteran whose son served in Iraq.

He added that there was a fundamental differencebetween student activism and reactions to government policies. Although the latter may have died down, student activism—in the form of public service—is alive and well, he said.

But sophomore Kiel Russell said students are indifferent to activism and are more likely to view those who do speak out as “weird,” if anything at all. Russell added that even if students were to join together to support a cause, they could not effect change. “We feel we’re too young, and because we’re young, no one will listen to us,” he said.

Russell said this attitude is far from the ideal. Ifone person were willing to speak out, he said, others would probably follow and, together, draw attention to certain issues. The problem, however, is that no one wants to be that person, he said.

Kim said the indifference of today’s youth is “very wrong, actually.” Students, he said, are afraid of singling themselves out and risking their reputations and GPAs. “It’s like a game of chicken,” he said. “Someone’s got to do it, but no one wants to.”

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STARBUCKS from page 1 and Facilities “It’s prime real estate, [with] a lot of students passing through the Plaza to the Bryan Center,” said OSAF Director Chris Roby.

“A retail operation makes good business sense.”

He said although relocating OSAF’s offices had been discussed at meetings on various levels, he knew of no plans to move the office in the near fu-

involved in any recent discussions of the matter.

Trask and Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, did not respond to requests for comment. Wulforst was in California and could not be reached Monday.

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Lately, students have experienced problems with the Blackboard Web site.

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OIT from page 1 assess the underlying technical issues, he added.

Cannon also said OIT has implemented a “data fix” supplied

by Blackboard to the Web site to counteract the problem.

OIT officials predict this amount of use at the start of each semester and during finals week. The glitches in the Blackboard program are not Dukespecific, Cannon said.

Students are advised to use Blackboard during low trafficking hours, between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., Cannon said.

When freshman Frini Makadia learned of OlT’s suggested hours of use, she said she was concerned it would conflict with cfass times.

“I understand that OIT wants us to access Blackboard during that time, but it is almost impossible to find time to sit down

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and print out our documents in between classes, meetings and everything else,” Makadia said.

Last week, Connel Fullenkamp, associate director of undergraduate studies for the economics department, said he could not post assignments for his students.

“Blackboard was so slow that I just gave up trying to post things and decided to waituntil Tuesday, when it was better,” he said.

Students also said they were inconvenienced by the Web site’s delays.

“The annoying thing is when an entire class is disrupted when the ‘file exchange’ feature on Blackboard is not working,” freshman Kathryn Hudak said.

“Students had to buddy up in order to share hard copies of the document. I guess you can say Blackboard is extremely convenient and helpful, but it can obviously fall through when everyone relies too heavily on it.”

currently occupied by the Go( Bookshop was also considered the storefront.

Larry Moneta, vice preside for student affairs, who shares risdiction over Bryan Center estate with the Office of Cam Services, said Monday that hi confident that a number of oth food venues can be accommor' ed in the Bryan Center.

“I’m totally in favor of [op ing a Starbucks] if the logis; could be maintained,” Moneta said, adding that he has not been

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to Moneta, but Dining Services is a division of Campus Services and reports to Dawkins.

Despite the space issue, Wulforst said that the administration is committed to bringing a Starbucks store to campus.

“I’ve done the preliminary legwork,” he said. “When I mention the possibility of a Starbucks... [to students,] their eyes light up, they want to know when we’re going to have them.”

In the meantime, students can visit Twinnie’s Cafe, which participates in the “We Proudly Brew Starbucks” program, or the Bella Union, Alpine Bagels & Brews, Alpine Atrium or Saladelia Cafe in von der Heyden Pavilion, all of which also serve coffee.

Although they do not offer what Wulforst terms “the trinkets and the bag coffees,” they do carry a range of beverages.

“I love Starbucks coffee and I would be a good customer,” said senior Jessica Nasser, adding that Twinnie’s is farther away than she is willing to travel for a cup of coffee.”

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reaction given the number of students who have enrolled,” Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, wrote in an e-mail. “I hope it expands substantially.”

Over 60 students have signed up for the 25 spots in the “Sushi Making” class, Fox said.

Roby added that “The Art of Beer” was filled within the first couple of hours.

Many students and employees, however, said they have never heard of or are confused about the Crash Courses.

“I really wanted to take one of them, but I didn’tknow when they were,”junior Moe Boggan said, Although freshman Weiping Zhang said he may be interested in the courses, but he said it is hard for him to fit them into his schedule.

TOEFL and ORE scores, expectations and requirements in an American college setting and activities hosted by DCSSA during Chinese festivals and holidays.

Located on Duke’s campus, the 17 members of DCSSA work independendy of the University’s official recruitment efforts, spreading Duke’s name in China.

Currendy at a peak, Duke’s international student population has grown over the past 10 years.

Today, Duke has an eight-percent international undergraduate student population, 164 of whom are in the class of 2011, said Samuel Carpenter, assistant director ofUndergraduate Admissions.

Since last year, the number of international Chinese graduate and undergraduate students has grown from 416 students to a current 425, said Carlisle Harvard, director of International House.

After the events at the Fuqua School ofBusiness earlier this year when 34 graduate students—many of them Asian—were accused of cheating on a take-home exam, views of Asian students have changed, Li said. He added that he hopes the Chinese Culture Week events planned for the end of this month will aid in bridging the communication gap between the Chinese international community and the rest of the Duke student body.

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OSAF will offer a lesson on "TheArt of Beer"Wedneday evening at the Armadillo Grill.

He added that thereare other activities available during that time.

“Shouldn’t people be off partying or something?” he asked.

Administrators said OSAF is very responsive to student feedbacks and interests.

“If there is overwhelming de-

mand, we will definitely run those

again,” Roby said of the classes already filled.

The inspiration for Crash Courses came from Wake Forest University, where “short courses” are being offered in a similar manner, Fox said.

land and I think I’m a pretty good Blue Devil,” Zong said.

“In terms of international outreach, Duke still has a lot of catching up [to do] compared to other universities, so in that case, I’m very glad that we can build this kind of bridge to help Duke build its reputation in China.”

Not everyone finds DukeChina.org entirely helpful, however.

“I do not think itis ofmuch help for [undergraduate] applicants,” said Yilin Ding, a sophomore from Beijing, “And it seems that the Web site is not intended for highschoolers in the first place. It’s just not its intended purpose.”

Still, Li said the site gets nearly 5,000 hits a day.

For internationalChinese students and families, Harvard, Yale and Stanford are the American universities, Li said. DukeChina. org attempts to broaden their horizons with the resources they have available.

“When I go back [to China] and people ask me where I go, I say ‘Duke’ and they say, ‘What’s that? Is it like a community college or something?’” Li said.

“So it’s very important to educate Chinese students and show them that Duke’s a very good university. Then we can educate the parents.”

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After the game, it’s easy to tell which players are freshmen. They’re the ones on the sidelines after every other Blue Devil has left, still busy collecting the pinnies, the soccer balls, the cones—the dirty work.

But when the game is on, those class distinctions are washed away. The guys who collect the pinnies are the same ones who suit up for the game, pushing their teammates from the sideline and challenging opponents in the box.

It’s normal for many freshman athletes to be allotted a substantial period of time to prepare for the new challenges of the game while adjusting to college life.

It’s also normal for other new players to come in with a cocky swagger because of heavily lauded high school careers, thinking that they are ready to play and take on any teammate for a starting position.

But Duke’s Doug Femer and Christian Ibeagha, both defenders in this year’s topranked recruiting class, have proven so far that their abilities and attitudes are anything but normal.

[They] came in wanting to be better, realizing that they weren’t going to walk in and own the world and that they had to work and fight, and that we have a good group who’s here already,” assistant coach Mike Jeffries said. “And they’ve both done a good job of learning from the older guys and putting themselves into training very hard.”

Since the injury to senior defender Tim Jepson in an exhibition game against Connecticut Aug. 25, Femer and Ibeagha have been called upon to replace the team captain and perform more like veterans than newcomers on a championship-level team and both have risen to the occasion. “

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“Coming in so early, they’ve showed a lot of confidence, a lot of poise back there,” Jepson said. “They’ve done a tremendous job jumping in and coming into big gameswhen we’ve needed them. I think they’ve showed a lot of maturity—it’s not easy coming in as a freshman and starting right off the bat.”

The adjustment to Duke soccer hasn’t been easy for either of them. Femer, who was ranked the best defensive recruit in the nation for 2007 by Rise Magazine, has had to fill a lesser role than he did before college.

“I’m happy that we can come in, get some playing time, help out, fill in for guys who are hurt,” he said. “All the seniors keep telling me to keep my head on my shoulders, to keep focused. Obviously I’m not playing [as much as] I’m used t0... but ‘patience will pay off, that’s what [the seniors] always say.”

Ibeagha, however, has not been forced to wait to get his chance. The standout has played 346 of 360 possible minutes of regulation and has started each of the Blue Devils’ four regular-season games.

“High school soccer is a lot slower than this, so coming up to a higher level, it comes down to every single play, you can’t take breaks on any play—if you take a break on any play you’ll get penalized at this level,” he said.

Despite the pressure of being a freshman on one of the nation’s top teams, Ibeagha said he has been encouraged by his teammates, who remind him that the game should be fun at any level.

When Jepson fully heals from his hamstring injury, the team leader will most likely reclaim his place as a starter in the back four, forcing the freshmen back to the bench. But that reality has not yet seemed to bother either Ferner or Ibeagha, who are learning to play the game with humility and for enjoyment.

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Freshman Christian Ibeagha and fellow first-year Doug Ferner have pushed the Duke defense to improve.

“The whole time I’ve been out here I’ve been having fun,” Ibeagha said. “I mean, we all have a role—everyone has a role. I picked up my role and just have fun with it.

Whether that role has been playing team maid or playing steel-curtain defense,

Ferner and Ibeagha have showed they can be counted on.

Throwing in my 2 cents In reappointing Joe Alieva to a fiveyear term as Duke’s athletics director this summer, President Richard Brodhead did so with one string attached: that in the next year, Alieva would craft a strategic plan mapping the future of

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Duke should make a concerted effort to better integrate athletes and non-athletes in campus culture.

It’s no secret around here that there is a significant divide between the undergraduate community at Duke and the subculture of varsity athletics. Sure we’ve all had classes or interacted with athletes (what senior can’t remember Chris Duhon’s legendary beer pong performance at Tailgate freshman year?). But by and large, athletes take differentclasses, live in different places, and operate in a different social environment than the majority of the Duke student body.

This is not to say that it’s the athletes’ fault—indeed, that’s far from the truth. Beginning freshman year, Duke SEE BEATON ON PAGE

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BEATON from page 9 systematically enables this self-segregation when it allows most varsity athletes to room together in Blackwell or Randolph, and when varsity coaches require that athletes spend so much time with their team that they’re hardly able to be flexible in their class choices or enjoy any type of outside social life.

It’s natural for people who work together in extra-curricular activities to be friends outside of that activity, especially people with a high level of shared interests like in athletics. But the extent to which this is true at Duke has polarized the student body, and athletes and non-athletes are not as understanding as they should be about the other group. This has bred contempt and jealousy from areas of the community and it certainly does nothing positive to boost attendance at games and support for teams.

There are a number of ways this could be addressed, but adding on a huge athletic-academic center within the Michael K. Krzyzewski Center for Athletic Excellence is not the right answer. Doing this will further isolate athletes from the rest of the student body. Instead, potential solutions could range from eliminating class preferences for athletes to requiring that there be athletic representation in student government.

What I propose is a simpler, if more uncomfortable, solution: make every recruited varsity athlete room with a non-athlete freshmen year. There might be some conflicts as athletes and non-athletes get used to each other’s schedules (I know I wouldn’t want a football player roommate waking me up at 6 a.m.), but that’s the point.

ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF DUKE ATHLETICS

Establishing an independent athletic-academic center in the new Center for Athletic Excellence might not alleviate the problems inherent in the dividebetween athletes and non-athletes on Duke's campus.

A bold move like this would foster greater understanding within the undergraduate population, and a side effect might be a boost in attendance for non-revenue sports. Perhaps Duke would even decide to finally air condition the main East quad dorms, which are currently inhumane to live in for the first month of the year.

Duke needs to do a better job of supporting non-revenue sports.

What if I told you that the women’s basketball team charters flights to destinations as close as Charlottesville (a three-hour bus

ride away)? And what if I told you that the track team has been known to drive as many as 12 hours to meets as far away as Boston?

That doesn’t seem fair, does it?

With the exception of men’s basketball, Duke’s varsity teams lose money. And if Duke believes in the spirit of intercollegiate athletics at the Division I level, that should be OK But it’s completely inexcusable the way the football and women’s basketball teams are pampered in comparison to the so-called “non-rev” teams, especially considering the football and women’s basket-

ball teams lost around two million dollars each last season.

Duke enables this attitude when it engages in the arms races associated with these two sports to the extent that it currendy does. This is evident on a day-to-day basis with the level of academic support they provide to revenue teams in comparison to non-revenue teams, and it was painfully obvious last spring when Duke was this close to caving to Coach G’s demands to do things like charter flights even more often than the team does currendy.

Duke needs to find more of a happy medium in terms of supporting the nonrevenue athletes who work just as hard as their “revenue” counterparts. This should include, but not be limited to, paying for all athletes to fly (commercial) to any venue more than five hours away; actively trying to recruit fans to games with similar efforts to the ones seen over the past year for women’s basketball and men’s lacrosse games; and fully funding scholarships in all sports (like men’s track and swimming and diving) so that Duke can have a chance to compete with its ACC rivals.

These initiatives would cost more money to be sure, but if Duke believes in its athletics programs, it should be willing to bear an operating loss on an annual basis if fundraising needs can’t be met.

These are just a couple ideas, but it’s time for Duke to start thinking more outside the box when it comes to athletics.

The problems facing the athletics department are not unique to Duke, but that does not mean Duke should not be a leader in creating change.

Here’s to starting the discussion for Duke’s strategic plan leading a new, progressive movement in intercollegiate athletics.

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ACC announces weekly awards Virginia tight end Tom Santi was named as the ACC Lineman of the Week Monday after the Cavaliers 24-13 victory over Duke last weekend.

Santi was the first Virginia tight end to catch two touchdown passes in a game since 2004. The senior racked up 58 all purpose yards and four of the his six receptions led to either touchdowns or first downs.

Additionally, Santi played a significant role in a blocking core that did not allow a single sack agains the Blue Devils.

Also winning honors for the week were Tar Heels linebacker Durrell Mapp and receiver Brandon Tate, who returned a punt 58 yards for a touchdown in a loss to East Carolina. Clemson quarterback Cullen Harper,

linebacker Jolonn Dunbar ofBoston College and Georgia Tech running back Jonathan Dwyer were also honored by the conference for their performances Saturday.

USC remains at top of new AP poll The Trojans remained at the top of the national ranks when the new college football standings were released Monday, receiving 40 first-place votes.

Louisiana State jumped to No, 2 in the land after its 48-7 rout of Virginia Tech Saturday night in Baton Rouge, earning 25 first place votes.

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This is not to undermine the impact of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 for all Americans, but as the date recedes into history its impact will be less universal and more individual.

America grieved together, but just as some were physically far from New York and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, later generations will only know the date like they know Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. It will become a distant historical event akin to Pearl Harbor, an incident analyzed for its catalyzing impact on American culture and foreign policy.

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our generation to have a vested memory in the events of Sept. 11, the emotional immediacy of that terrible day will always remain with us. Added each year to this pain, however, is an element of historical reflection. Although for others the events may be a relic of childhood, we know them as a defining moment that has and will continue to shape the future of our generation. We also believe that four years from now, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, some unifying resonance will remairj.

Politicized and historical references will give way, at least briefly, to remembrance, no matter how far removed we may be from Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.

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another cross to bear

like the Jena Six are not new. Ifyou’ve heard about it, you know it seems like something that would fly 60 years ago—but not today.

Most of us believe the overt racism on display in Jena doesn’t happen in 2007. It happens covertly behind closed doors, around kitchen tables, when you think no one else is listening.

To us, nooses are an element of the past. Even so, we certainly know there’s no humor behind hanging nooses from a tree.

Put simply, nooses in any context mean, “N—, I’m going to kill you.”

In Jena, La., the aria branch setting of a string of round three racially motivated altercations, nooses are nothing more than a high school prank.

When the Jena Six incidents began last fall, the mainstream media remained oblivious. During one of Jena High School’s first assemblies of the year, Kenneth Purvis, a black student, asked the vice principal if he could sit under an oak tree on campus. “You can sit anywhere you like,” the vice principal replied. Later, Purvis and some black friends went to talk with some of their white friends under the tree.

The day after Purvis and his friends hung out under the oak tree, three nooses were hung from its branches. According to the unspoken racial code at Jena High School, standing under that tree was a privilege reserved for “whites only.” The white students who hung the nooses were only suspended for a few days.

In Jena, it seems that nooses are funny, that they have no ties to racial violence in American history.

Barbara Murphy, the town librarian, said in a news report, “We don’t have a race problem. The nooses? I don’t even know why they were there... what they were supposed to mean. There’s pranks all the time of one type or another going on and it just didn’t seem to be racist to me.”

It’s as if all of the “whites only” signs from the Jim Crow era hadn’t been removed from Jena. Segregation has persisted in this town ofroughly 3,500 people—apparently bypassed by the civil rights movement The tree incident sparked a series ofracially motivated disputes in Jena—bringing all of the town’s racial problems to a head. Arson destroyed one wing of the school and a white student beat a black student with beer botdes after he tried to enter —

an all-white party. Finally, six black students were arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy for beating up Justin Barker, a white student and friend to one of the students who hung the nooses. The “deadly weapon” the six used was a tennis shoe, with which they beat Barker, who was already unconscious. Barker was in the hospital for a couple of hours and well enough to attend a class ring ceremony later that afternoon.

An all-white jury took fewer than two days to convict Mychal Bell, the first ofwhatwould be called the Jena Six to stand trial, of felony aggravated battery and conspiracy charges. He faces more than 22 years in prison. The rest of the six await trial.

The media paid the Jena Six case little attention until now. Until A1 Sharpton and Jesse Jackson jumped on the case, barely anyone knew about it I randomly asked Duke students if they’d heard about the Jena Six. Although many black students had, just one of the 10 white students I asked knew of it This story isn’t like the looting and violence stories that the media aired in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—it doesn’t display the black “coonery” they like to show. Instead, it conjures up images of slavery, the Jim Crow South and institutionalized racism that white America likes to forget about.

Needless to say, incidents like this one won’t let them.

Wild inequities in the justice system and other forms ofinstitutionalized racism are no less harmful than the overt racism they have replaced. The white student who beat up the black student was charged with battery and got off with probation.

For nearly the same crime, the black students were charged with attempted murder. The district attorney, Reed Walters, told the black students, “I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. With a stroke of my pen, I can make your lives disappear.” During Bell’s trial, his court-appointed lawyer did not call a single witness to defend him. Sadly, the boys may face bleak futures because of the outright racism embedded in the legal system.

Civil rights advocates and Jena Six supporters will stage a rally in Jena September 20, the day Mychal Bell could be sentenced to more than 22 years in prison. BSA, let’s hold an event at Duke that day.

What can you do to help? Join the Facebook group, sign the petition, and discuss what we can do to stop this from happening again.

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

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was a sensational week for lacrosse case followers. Among other things, Stuart Taylor andKC Johnson’s highlyanticipated book was released Tuesday, lacrosse players demanded that Durham pay $3O million to cover its misdeeds and former Durham DA Mike Nifong even didhis 24-hourstint in the pokey.

Now as someone who’s been inside the Durham County Detention Center (don’t worry I was taking a tour), I can perserially assure Chronicle readers that Nifong’s time there wasn’t pleasant I realized I was in trouble somewhere between the Latin Kings graffiti and the announcement that ARAMARK, Corp. feeds each inmate 3,200 calories Lrictin hi itlor uul,er bU per day for 89 cents. Students who were here when ARAMARK with ail deliberate speed still ran Duke’s dining service will understand just how troubling that is.

So although a Paris Hilton-sized sentence would have been preferable, the Nicole Richie option was better than nothing. That’s because Nifong’s (all-too-short) incarceration put “rogue prosecutors” across the country on notice that the Disciplinary Hearing Committee isn’t the worst that can befall a wayward attorney. Indeed, it would be fitting if others like Nifong—especially those who target less affluent defendants—begin to suffer his fate in large numbers.

As expected, Nifong’s contempt trial featured a litany of “only-in-Durham” moments. My personal favorite was when Durham’s self-described “chief asshole” suggested (under oath) that Crystal Mangum’s young son may have contributed some of the unidentified male DNA found on swabs taken from her panties, vagina and rectum. Also extraordinary was the testimony of local judges Ron Stephens and Marcia Morey, who both supported the disgraced DA during the sentencing phase of his trial. Stephens, who initially presided over the case in Spring 2006, praised Nifong for (of all things!) “enforefing] the rules” and being “a good lawyer, a real good lawyer” whose “word was his bond.”

Morey, by contrast, asserted that it was acceptable for prosecutors to willfully lie to the court during a pretrial hearing—a remarkable thing for a judge (who has presumably studied the law at some point in her career) to say. Morey was later seen marching with Nifong as he entered the Durham County Detention Center to serve his sentence, where she was joined by 20 supporters carrying signs that read “We believe in your integrity and goodness.” Durham resident GloriaParker stopped to tell reporters, “I know what he did. He did what he thought was right, and I support him 100 percent and I don’t care in Durham who knows... I respect him to the fullest.”

When I hear such things, I wonder how Durham officials expect us to have any confidence in this county’s justice system at all.

Over the past 18 months we’ve seen a succession of judges, assistant district attorneys, police officers, city council members and other high-ranking officials (like City Manager Patrick Baker and ChiefofPolice Steve Chalmers) lining up to support or cover for Nifong. Even newly appointed interim DA David Saacks—who is widely described as moderateand relatively untainted by the scandal—appeared on Nifong’s behalf at the contempt trial.

For these highly educated, ostensibly well-respected people to defend Nifong after everything he’s done—after all, the man was willing to send three young men to prison for 30 years to save his pension—is a disgrace, and one that reaffirms many Duke students’ deeply held mistrust of this county’s justice system. That’s why I hope settlement talks for Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann and Dave Evans will encourage the reforms that city officials have neglected. It was widely reported last week that the three are seeking $3O million from the city, and I hope they get every penny.

But the legal remedies they are pursuing are far more important. By demanding the creation of an ombudsman to review complaints about the conduct of district attorneys, calling for stricter police procedures to prevent tainted lineups and enlisting city officials to lobby the General Assembly for legislation requiring transcripts of grand jury proceedings, the three former players should be commended for thinking offuture defendants’ rights. With a $3O-million price tag, their actions aren’t quite selfless. They are, however, much appreciated.

Before I close, allow me to add one last bit of perspective. I’m originally from one of the most corrupt cities in the country, Youngstown, Ohio, (a.k.a. Murdertown, USA). Things there are so out of control that a local mob boss ordered a hit on the prosecutor when I was in the sixth grade. Former congressman Jim Traficant even got 15 percent of the vote while serving an eight-year prison sentence for taking bribes.

People there are horrified by the way we do things here in Durham. It doesn’t get much bleaker than that .

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

Terror in New York

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YORK I woke up the morning of Sept. ping open champagne bottles and celebrating the fact 11, 2001 giddy, albeit groggy, in anticipation that thousands of people were dead. More importantly, of my first day as an intern at Good Morning Manhattan was helpless —the hijacked planes had hit America in Times Square. At 5:08 a.m., I rolled out of the bulls-eye. bed and into the shower before my subway commute to The cameraman who had unselfishly driven me, ABC’s broadcast studio at 44th Street and Broadway in a complete stranger, away from the disaster had a Manhattan in a place referred to as the “crossroads of friend whose wife probably perished in the disaster.

America.” I had essentially grown up on Good MornSadly, his friend may have also perished when he de-

ing America, a show that was as much a part of my childhood daily routine S©pl. IA Jul as Cheerios and milk. guest Column Now, some twist of fate had given me the opportunity to work with live guests, countless celebrities and audience members on the show. Besides a near disaster with a swinging camera and getting locked out of the studio, the internship began smoothly. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was the special guest. I was going to meet royalty on my first day of work. It was unreal. And then ABC cut to a special report.

At 8:52 a.m., approximately 10 minutes before the show was supposed to go off the air, the GMA crew heard shouts from the control room that a plane had crashed into a tower of the World Trade Center. Instandy, the cameras switched from that segment to live coverage of the breaking news. Shordy afterward, the audience, anchors and crew watched on monitors as a second jet hit the second tower. Then more screams from the control room. As it began to sink in that a terrorist attack had commenced, I ran upstairs to another studio where Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson were reporting live to get my cell phone and call home. I couldn’t do anything but shake uncontrollably. It was horrific to watch as pedestrians on their way to work looked up on the jumbotron screen in Times Square and caught their first glimpse of the towers downtown. In the backs of our minds, we knew that we could be next.

I am one of the lucky few individuals who had a working cell phone in the city. At home in Michigan, my mother and grandmother were hysterical but relieved to hear my voice once we finally connected. “I love you” were our final words to each other before we hung up.

Shordy afterwards, my supervisor and I left the studios with a cameraman in his car with the intention of driving up to upper Manhattan and then out. We were petrified with the idea that another attack would occur on Times Square.

As the three of us headed uptown, we listened to various New York news radio stations to hear updates of the situation. Tower 2 had collapsed. We turned around at that moment to watch Tower 1 collapse with our own eyes. Tens of thousands of people worked in those buildings, and I had just watched those towers go up in smoke. Somewhere-far, far away-men were pop-

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cided to go downtown to find his spouse. My supervisor and I listened with tears in our eyes as he frantically dialed each of the three cell phones in the car to get word. Nothing.

While horror after horror unfolded, we spotted a woman who was screaming frantically on the side of the road, failing miserably in her attempt to hail a cab.

We stopped temporarily in traffic and discovered that she was an emergency room physician at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Without giving it a second thought, we opened the car door for her and drove her to the place she needed to go.

Once the Manhattan lockdown was announced on the radio, our trio drove around the upper east side aimlessly in search of a place to stay. We finally found a diner open at 89th Street and Second Avenue. The rest of the city had shut down completely-one of the eeriest sights one will ever see. For more than an hour, we picked at scrambled eggs and watched as people flooded north on foot with cell phones clasped to their ears.

About six hours after the initial disaster, we successfully maneuvered our way out of Manhattan via the Triboro Bridge into Queens with two more individuals, one of whom worked on the 78th floor ofWTC Tower 2. He had been late for work this morning.

Now, I am staying in Queens with GMA crew members until the time has come to safely re-enter Manhattan. To be honest, I doubt that I will ever feel “safe” entering the borough again. Just two nights ago, I stood on the promenade in Brooklyn, near the St. George residence where the Duke in New York students live, and watched the sun set over lower Manhattan, the East River and the Statue of Liberty. The sky faded from bright blue into yellows, pinks and deep red. In the distance, I watched as distant airliners made their final approach into Newark International Airport in neighboring Newjersey. And in the back ofmy mind, I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if one of those planes accidentally went off course and careened into a skyscraper. But things like that don’t happen in the United States. Or so I thought.

I encourage you to call your loved ones and friends to share your sentiments over the next few days. Whether we have a personal connection to the disaster or not, each of us has something to mourn.

Liz Prada, Trinity ‘Ol, was a senior when she wrote this column. It ran in this upper-right space Sept. 12, 2001.

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