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lishing an undergraduate culture ofresearch,” Thompson, dean ofTrinity College of Arts and Sciences, wrote in an email to George McLendon, dean of the faculty ofArts and Sciences.

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aged the creation of the Office of Undergraduate Research Support and served as co-chair of the Campus Culture Initiative Steering

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Robert Thompson, after an 11-year deanship, is returning to the classroom Aug. 1, 2008, University officials announced Thursday. “[I am] especially proud of our accomplishments in enhancing undergraduate

farther down highway 15-501 has a longterm construction project in the works as well, though it has a slightly differentfocus than the undergraduate experience. Over a span of 50 years, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill plans to create Carolina North, a new, sustainable mixed-use academic community focused mainly on providing space for small business start-ups and research facilities for UNC faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral students. “Carolina North will enable and enhance the university’s mission of education, research, public service and outreach and contribution to economic development,”

The University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill has plans to create a new space meant forresearch facilities.

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Although the official homecoming game is a week away, theBlue Devils return homefor thefirst time in overa month to take on Wake Forest, which defeated Duke by one, 14-13,in Winston-Salem last year when theBlue Devils missed a field goal at the end of the game.

Committee.When he steps down at the end of the summer, he will return to teaching. “In the most difficult of circumstances, Bob and his colleagues directed our attention to areas in which the Duke undergraduate experience could be further strengthened through changes in the classroom and beyond,” Provost Peter Lange said in a statement. “I anticipate and hope that we will be able to continue to draw on his experience and vision as we continue to grow the programs that he has initiated.” SEE THOMPSON ON PAGE 7

Commons notedforpoor service SLGs prepare for assessments by

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Come finals time this winter, students in selective living groups in Few Quadrangle will be preparing for more than just academic examinations—they will have residential assessments to worry about as well. When Few Quad undergoes renovations next Fall, the quadrangle’s five selective living groups—Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, Kappa Alpha Order fraternity, Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Prism and Roundtable—will have to relocate. Few Quad’s current selective living groups will get priority in choosing a location for the 2008-2009 academic year based on a score that will be assigned to them by the Residential Group Assessment Committee, Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a senior, wrote in an e-mail.

There is only one place on campus where a hungry student can fulfill a craving for mahi-mahi fish tacos or vegetable chimichangas: Upstairs@The Commons. Although such savory dishes lure students to the Commons every night, some have complained that the restaurant’s slow and inconsistent service is a damper on their meal. “The service is very on and off,” sophomore Jenni Wei said. “We’re going with them through their growing pains as they’re just getting started.” This year, the Commons expanded its hours to include dinners and weekend brunches that are open to students in response to requests for more sit-down style dining options on campus. Although students have enjoyed the restaurant’s atmosphere and menu—so much so that some have called it “the best food on campus”—many are less enthusiastic about the long waits and slower service

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RIAA wins judgment of $222K

Sen.Craig won'tresign despite court loss by

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Idaho Sen. Larry

Craig lost a bid Thursday to withdraw his guilty plea in a men’s room sex sting but defiantly vowed to finish his Senate term, prolonging a headache for Republican leaders already facing a tough political climate. Craig had announced plans to resign his seat by Sept. 30, but wavered when he went to court in hopes of withdrawing his plea. He issued a statement Thursday on staying in the Senate shortly after Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, R, relayed word that he had selected a replacement for Craig in the event of a

vacancy.

“I have seen that it is possible for me work here effectively,” Craig said in a written statement that disappointed fellow Republicans who have urged him to step down. Craig, 62, said he will not seek a fourth term in November 2008. “He is ready to act should we receive a letter of resignation,” said Jon Hanian, Otter’s spokesperson. Craig said in his statement: “I will continue my effort to clear my name in the Senate Ethics Committee—something that is not possible if I am not serving in the Senate.” The bipartisan ethics panel has already signaled it is reviewing details of Craig’s to

case, a step requested by Senate Republican leaders. His decision to stay and fight raises the strong possibility ofpublic hearings—almost certain to be televised—centered on the issue of gay sex.

Senate Republicans made clear they wish Craig would leave office and let them forget the episode that has fueled jokes on late-night television for weeks. Idaho is likely to remain in the GOP column after next year’s election, but Craig’s insistence on finishing his term was received frostily

by colleagues.

“Senator Craig gave us his word” that he SEE CRAIG ON PAGE

Plane crashes in Congo, at least 25 dead by Eddy Isango THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KINSHASA, Congo In a thunderous blast, a cargo plane slammed into an impoverished residential neighborhood in Congo’s capital seconds after takeoff Thursday, leaving at least 25 people dead in a smoky wreckage of concrete blocks and twisted debris. The fiery crash underscored the dangers of flying in Congo, which has experienced more fatal air crashes than any other African country since 1945, according to the Aviation Safety Network. The turbo-

prop belonged to the Congolese company Africa One, which has been barred from flying in the European Union because of safety concerns. Citing police reports, U.N. peacekeeping spokesperson Michel Bonnardeaux said 25 people were killed and two aboard the plane survived—a mechanic and a flight attendantwho was in critical condition. Police said that amid the wreckage, it was difficult to determine how many of the dead had been aboard the plane and how many were on the ground. Transport Minister Remy Kuseyo said at least three people

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on the ground died. The Russian Foreign Ministry said three Russians were among the dead: the pilot, the co-pilot and a flight engineer. Cargo planes in Congo are frequendy flown by pilots from former Soviet states. At least 22 people were injured, according to the Congolese Red Cross. It was not immediately known what caused the Antonov 26 to go down. But the Russian Foreign Ministry said one of the plane’s propellers somehow broke off during takeoff, and one of its wings was sheared off as it hit a bank of trees.

The Recording Industry Association of America won a key fight Thursday when a federal juryconvicted a Minnesota woman of illegally sharing copyrighted music online. It ordered JammieThomas, 30, to pay the six record companies that sued her $9,250for each of 24 songs they focused on in the case.

Contractors to face prosecution The House passed a bill Thursday that would make all private contractors working in Iraq and other combat zones subject to prosecution by U.S. courts. It was the first major legislation of its kind to pass since the deadlyBlackwater shooting last month.

Aimed car guardskilled in Philly Two armored car guards were shot and killed by a robber as they removed deposits from a bank ATM in a brazen daylight heist in Philadelphia Thursday, setting off a sweeping search for the killer that shut down a nearby mall and several schools.

Buttocks art teacher sues district Steven Murmer,a high school art teacher, is suing a Virginia school district after officials fired him over a YouTube video of Murmer wearing a swim thong and a mask, demonstrating how he applies paint to his backside, then presses it onto a canvas. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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New center joins biology, analytics Innovator details plan to fix poverty by

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The Center for Systems Biology will provide funding for projects in cellular biological dynamics and link it to analytical sciences, biology professorPhilip Benfey said. by

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Slightly more than a month after officially opening, faculty members at the Center for Systems Biology are working to bridge the gap between biology and analytical sciences. The center, one ofseven in the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, will fund projects that research biological dynamics within the cell using both experimental biology and computational mathematics, said Philip Benfey, director of CSB and a professor of biology. “Historically, there have been serious communication issues between scientists and mathematicians,” he said. “In systems biology, we are working hard to fix those.” The center has only been in operation since the beginning of the fall semester, but this field of biology has been in the works at Duke for several years, said Joshua Socolar, an associate professor of physics and a faculty member at the facility.

Funding for the center comes from a $14.5-million grant from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences announced in July. The faculty involved in the group half of whom are biologists and half of whom study computational analysis—said they developed their idea for CSB out of a series of informal seminars held at the University several years ago meant to educate scientists in different disciplines about their work. “When biologists presented their work in these seminars, they had to accept very naive questions from analysts like myself,” Socolar said. “Likewise, I had to be willing to explain the most basic [analytical] details to biologists in the audience.” Though the center mainly works with graduate students and researchers, faculty are working toward developing some undergraduate classes as well, Benfey said. “There will be an Introduction to Systems Biology course that will bring —

Stressed that youbombed your midterms? Nothing to worry about, said John Hatch, the so-called “father of village banking,” who spoke at the Fuqua School of Business Thursday evening regarding his path as a social entrepreneur and the role of students in the worldwide microfinancing movement. Hatch, the creator of the Foundation for International Community Assistance—a nonprofit organization often referred to as the “World Bank for the Poor”—said he took an unconventional path to discovering his calling. An alumnus of Johns Hopkins University, Hatch said he graduated with the lowest passable grade point average in SEE HATCH ON PAGE 7

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brought up to speed in a kinder, gender fashion than a regular biology course would,” he said. “They may never become really good at these sorts of things, but they really need to understand them.” The students in the Introduction to Systems Biology course will collaborate on projects with students in a computer science sister course, Benfey said, adding that this will encourage interdisciplinary study. “Working together within different disciplines is what we’re all about,” he said. Although CSB has been functional for a month now, scientists are still unsure of the future of the relatively new field. “Systems biology is an area of science that seems to have overlap with a number of different disciplines and over the next 10 years we may see it emerging as a field of its own,” Socolar said. “We’ve all put a lot of work into this center, and now, we are eager to see how the interdisciplinary approach works.”

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Use of‘N’word questioned Duke NAACP discussion spurredby national campaign Kevin Hwang THE CHRONICLE

Students met Thursday night to decide whether a cen-

The University ofNorthCarolina hopes construction ofCarolina North wi begin by eariy 2oo9. UNC has developed goals for a phase to be completed in the first 15 years of the project. A strong inJack Evans, executive director of ternal transit system, housing for Carolina North, wrote in an e-mail. faculty and graduate students and instructional space for graduate “These contributions will be ob-

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served in the local community, but in addition, much more broadly across the state and beyond.” The entire Triangle area, including Duke, may also be impacted by the project. “It will be beneficial [to Duke] by increasing the research intensiVeness of our region and creating new opportunities for research collaborations,” Provost Peter Lange wrote in an e-mail. Evans said in a media presentation Thursday that immediate plans for the project focus around the 85,000 sq. ft. Innovation Center. The planning committee has already engaged in talks with a private contractor and hopes to start construction in early 2009. The Innovation Center will provide rentable space for faculty members who have ideas for small businesses. Shared services, including access to computers, printers and other office supplies, as well as specific needs, such as wet labs for research, will be housed in the center, said Evans. He noted, however, that the complex will have no organizational connection to Research Triangle Park. “We want to provide an opportunity to get companies off die ground only 1.5 miles from campus,” Evans said, adding that the need for such space is an urgent need for UNC.

level courses are part of the eventual Carolina North plan. Creating restaurant and retail space should be underway six to 10 years into the project, Evans said. Including space for undergraduates is not currendy on the agenda. Evans said the academic structure of the university favors centrally-located classes and provides research opportunities across main campus, so moving departments to the new campus is undesirable. Evans added that UNC undergraduate students could potentially assist faculty and graduates with start-up companies or research at Carolina North. The current Innovation Center plans and the 15-year outlook were recently approved by UNC’s Board of Trustees. The start date of the first phase has not been determined and needs to be discussed with Chapel Hill’s Town Council. “It’s an unusual project [in relation to the projects a town typically deals with],” Evans said. “It’s a multi-year plan. We will [have to have] more complex discussions with the town.” Monthly community meetings have been held on UNC’s campus since March 2007, and the focus of die planning committee is now shifting to preparing for presentation to the Town Council.

turies-old word of hate should be laid to rest. “R.I.P. N-Word: A Dialogue on the History and Legacy of the Word,” was hosted by the Duke Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and attracted approximately 30 undergraduate students to the Mary Lou Williams Center. The discussion was part of the ongoing NAACP “STOP!” Campaign, which calls on communities to stop the use of racist and sexist language and images. “We get confused by the message and the messenger,” said a speaker in a Laney College documentary that was played to begin the discussion. “It’s not the words—it’s who uses them.... If words are offensive, we probably ought to define the words as offensive, more than we ought to be concerned who uttered those words.” Students at the discussion shared their own perceptions of the role of the word and its place in their lives. “I don’t use it to refer to friends,” junior Adya Baker said. “I don’t use it in that same sort of brotherly manner, but I do listen to songs that have it. I don’t necessarily confront every person I know that uses it. I guess in that way, in a passive manner, I condone it.” Many students said they believe that for some, the word has now become a symbol of collective triumph and brotherhood. Duke NAACP President Lera Covington, a senior, said despite the negativity of the word, the black community finds it powerful that they can reclaim a word that had previously been associated with oppression and

en that power back,” she said. Some students said they felt that the use of the word was indicative of larger issues within the black community. “I hear a lot about how it’s positive, but I still hear a lot of blacks referring to other blacks as inferior,” junior Marcus Parker said. “My feeling is that still, within that context... [we are seen as being] not as good, so the use of the word is symptomatic of that feeling.” Students at the discussion addressed the need for a dialogue about the word at the

University. “In regard to being a black student on this campus... I think it goes to the whole idea of having two consciences,” Baker said. “Living in one way in a black

“I think the problem comes in when they haven’t taken the power away, though. Ifyou get offended when people from other groups use that word... maybe we need to reflect if we’ve really tak-

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we’re trying to find ways to get everyone more involved,” Todd said in an interview after the meeting. Although Crowell Quadrangle was intended to be the next quad renovated, consultants identified mold readings in Few Quad to be significantly higher than they should have been, Hull said. “The current [air conditioning] system does not meet fire code,” he said. “We were able to do a temporary fix this summer, but in order to fix it, we have to do serious demolition within the dorm.” The necessary “tear down” of the quad presents the opportunity to fix other infrastructures, Hull added. Council members also addressed noise disturbance during construction. “Work is contained and inside,” Hull said, “We will manage noise so that it does not disturb student and faculty life.” The “ambitious” seven-month timeline will necessitate extended construction shifts and further efforts to control noise production, he added. “This is obviously a very time-sensitive issue,” said Treasurer Molly Bierman, a junior. “It is more sensitive than construction on the other quads.” To meet its goal of completion in January 2009, RLHS will consider adding bed space to select rooms during the 2008 fall semester, Hull said. “We are looking at a number of strategies to allow us to expand capacity,” he added.

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Campus Council members met with Eddie Hull, dean ofresidence life and executive director of housing services, to discuss the upcoming physical renovations ofFew Quadrangle at its general body meeting Thursday night. Hull said the final “infrastructure makeover” of the quadrangle will be approved in December or January, as Residence Life and Housing Services is still searching for a contractor. “This is not going to be a basic paint job, but it won’t be a Kilgo [Quadrangle] renovation, either,” he said, noting that the 2004 Kilgo Quad project cost $lO million more than what is allocated for Few Quad. The electrical capacity will be doubled room, and the air conditioning sysevery in tem will be overhauled, Hull said. “The electrical system was last upgraded before personal computers,” he added. Other renovations will include new furniture, paint and carpeting and window placement to allow ambient light to come through the hallway. The project will also allow for modest programmatic enhancements, Hull said. “Too often, we try to make the function follow the form,” he said. “We are redistributing rooms to allow the community to congeal in a different way than they already do.” Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a senior who has lived in Few Quad for two years, said the redistribution of common rooms and the relocation of the computer cluster to a bigger area will hopefully improve the general community. “RLHS is still taking student input and

gle to Wallace Wade Stadium. Although $130,000 to $140,000 are allocated to funding the entire event, many performers will not perform on a quad, Todd said. By using the stadium, the council could charge admission for Durham citizens and Duke faculty and staff for more funds, he added. Representatives also discussed the funding of Devil DVDs. The program is asking for a projected $4,000 a year in funding, $2,500 of which would come from the Duke Student Government and Campus Council. “It’s so democratic,” Bierman said. “It benefits the whole community.” Todd, however, expressed doubts about In other business: Members addressed the possibility of the allocation of funds, as movies could be moving the entertainment venue for the considered a luxury item unworthy of a piece of the Campus Council budget. Last Day of Classes event from a quadran-

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FEW from page 1 Before they are evaluated, the groups in Few Quad will rank their preferred living options for next year. The five housing alternatives are: to move its section elsewhere on West Campus; to have a sophomore section on West and upperclassmen section on Central Campus; to have a sophomore section on West and no section for upperclassmen; to have an upperclassmen section on Central but no sophomore section; or not to have a section at all, but still be recognized by the University, Campus Council Vice President Kevin Thompson, a junior, said. “We believe this is the fairest way of handling the relocation,” Deb Loßiondo, assistant dean for residence life on West, wrote in an e-mail. “It’s quite possible, based on how options are ranked, that all five groups will be satisfied with the outcome.” Students said they expect all the selective living groups to want the same thing in terms of a relocation. “I think it’s pretty much a given that everyone would rather keep their sections together and move somewhere else on West,” Prism President David Wynn, a senior, said. But even a good assessment score will not guarantee placement on West, Thompson said. “It will not be die case that if all groups do well, diey will all stay on West Campus because the selective/independent ratio has to be maintained on West Campus,” he said. “If we allowed all the selective groups to stay on West, dial would dramatically increase that proportion.” He added that if a large selective living group scores well and prefers to live on West, it might take up all the bed spaces that Residence Life and Housing Services has designated for the relocated groups. RLHS and Campus Council worked together to develop the evaluation process,

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, wrote in an e-mail. December will mark the first time that RGAC—comprised of representatives from Campus Council, Selective House Council and the Interfraternity Council—will evaluate the groups on campus, Thompson said. The committee will determine scores based on a community plan and a presentation put forward by each selective living group, he added. Members of RGAC have been serving as direct liaisons with representatives from selective living groups since Spring to help them draft their community plans, which highlight the course of action the groups plan to take for the upcoming year. “The main premise [of the assessment] is that residential groups have a section on campus [and that is] not a right but a privilege,” Thompson said. “They need to contribute back to the quads that they’re a part of.” Members of selective living groups in Few Quad said the process seemed fair. “I think it’s better than some of the other plans which were proposed before,” junior Jessica Ferreyra, co-president of Round Table, said. “There’s nothing we can do about it at this point, so we’re just working with it.” Some, however, expressed concerns about how the assessment would work. Phi Belt President Joshua Solano, a senior, said he knows that the committee will initially compare Phi Belt with other small groups in Few Quad, but he was not sure how it will rank them all in the end. Others said they were anxious about the evaluation itself. “I’m not sure if the five groups will be necessarily ready for [the assessment],” Wynn said. “None of us has ever received report cards before... but I trust that the selection process will turn out as it should.”

that have accompanied the upscale dining. Wei said she eats at the Commons almost every day and has experienced slow service, in terms of ordering and receiving the meal, on more than one occasion. “It’s not every time, but it has happened enough to cause us to doubt the place,” she said, adding that die last time she dined there her friends received dinner vouchers because the service was so slow. Junior Jackie Heffernan said she and her friends also received complimentary meals on her first visit to the restaurant because of the slow service. Heffernan said at the beginning of the year, the restaurant’s staff was still getting accustomed to its new hours and larger crowds and added that she had no complaints from her second visit last week. “I’m going to assume they streamlined their process,” she said. Representatives from Sage and Swift, the company that caters for the Commons, said the problem is due to an adjustment to the new hours. “The dinners are new to us and students at [the former] Faculty Commons, so [it has] been a challenge to staff the right amount of staff,” Lisa Vandiford, operations manager of Sage and Swift, wrote in an email. She added that the company is specifically working on not

CRAIG from page 2 would resign by Sept. 30 if he could not overturn the guilty plea, said Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., who chairs the GOP campaign committee overseeing next year’s Senate elections. “I wish he would stick to his word. “It’s embarrassing for the Senate, it’s embarrassing for his party,” Ensign said. Asked if Craig staying would be a distraction for the party, Ensign said: “it may be a personal distraction for me.” Senate

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overstaffing, a problem that has come to their attention because the restaurant receives varying numbers of customers each day. Some students said although they could not expect the Commons to operate like a fast-food restaurant, it certainly has room for improvement. “Part of the charm of the [former] Faculty Commons is that it’s a sit-down restaurant, so you shouldn’t really be looking for speedy service,” sophomore Peter Heisler said. “But at the same time, no matter what restaurant you’re going to, you’d like them to take your order within 10 or 15 minutes of getting there.” Wei said in addition to the sometimes slow service, the quality of the food at the Commons is inconsistent. “When it’s on, it’s really good, but when it’s off, it’s really wack,” she said.

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Students saidthey have experienced slow service at the Commons more than once.

the defendant’s motion to withdraw his

guilty plea is denied.” Craig’s lawyer, Billy Martin issued a statement saying his client was considering whether to appeal the ruling. “Senator Larry Craig maintains that

he is innocent and there is insufficient evidence to support a finding that he is guilty,” Martin said. “Thus, we renew our arguments that it is manifesdy unjust to deny Senator Craig’s request to withdraw his guilty plea. Senator Craig continues his steadfast denial that any inappropriate behavior took place at the air-

“Senator Larry Craig maintains port.” Craig, in his that he is innocent and there Kentucky—separate stateis insufficiet evidence to supment, said he was who called Craig’s actions port a finding that he is guilty.” disappointed in the ruling. “I am “unforgiveable” when they first Billy Martin, lawyer innocent of the

Leader Mitch McConnell of

pubbecame lie—had litde to say Thursday. “That whole matter is before the Senate Ethics Committee, and will be dealt with by Senator Craig and the ethics committee,” he told reporters. Craig was arrested June 11 in a men’s room in the Minneapolis airport by an undercover officer. The officer said Craig had exhibited behavior consistent with seeking a sexual encounter. Craig said he had panicked when arrested, and pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct because an Idaho newspaper had been aggressively investigating allegations that he was gay. Craig says he is not gay. His arrest and guilty plea were reported Aug. 27 by Roll Call. In his ruling Thursday, Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter wrote: “Because the defendant’s plea was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, andbecause the conviction is supported by the evidence

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me,” he said Craig, a conservative with close ties to gun rights groups, said that during five terms in the House and three in the Senate, “I have accumulated seniority and important committee assignments that are valuable to Idaho.” He did not mention that at the request of his party’s leaders, he relinquished the GOP leadership posts on his current committees. Craig says his actions in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport bathroom June 11 were misconstrued by the arresting officer. The officer said Craig had looked into his bathroom stall. After taking the adjacent stall, the office said, Craig tapped his foot and moved his hand under the divider in away that suggested he was looking for a sexual partner. During an interview with the officer, Craig denied that. But he pleaded guilty on Aug. 8, saying he hoped to keep the matter quiet.

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appointed as vice provost for undergraduate education. During his time at Duke, Thompson also served as director of the Undergraduate Program in Human Development and co-director of the Faculty Associates Program. “Bob has provided superb leadership in rethinking and remaking undergraduate education in Trinity College,” Lange said. “He has been a critical participant and often the leader in the most critical curricular innovations of the last decade. He has also not simply trusted that his education instincts were right, but has driven the process to assure that we assess, analyze and reshape our teaching undertakings based on strong data and careful thought.”

the history of the school. ‘You’ve got plenty of time to get yourself out of the free fall,” he said. “Amd a marketable degree isn’t necessarily what you need in this field.” Eventually, Hatch became one of the original pioneers of microfinancing—a system of extending loans to the poor and developed a model of microcredit that is now widely replicated by other institutions, With a bachelor’s in history, he served a tour of duty with the Peace Corps following graduation and was later a Fulbright Scholar who worked as a landless laborer in Bolivia. His first-hand experiences with poverty profoundly affected his outlook on the world and gave him direction, he said. “I grew to have a profound respect for poor people,” Hatch said. “We HEATHER GUO/THE CHRONICLE think what they do and how they live John Hatch, an economist and advocatefor the poor, is one of the originalpioneers of microfmancing. is primitive... but they are geniuses as survivors.” His address emphasized the successes alThere are, however, an estimated 100 Before founding FINGA, Hatch ready achieved by microfinancing ventures, million households that still do not have worked as a consultant with various deOver the last 15 years, 100 million of access to such opportunities, veloping governments and documented the world’s lowHatch dozens of foreign assistance failures that est-income famstressed the re“T’yp ffIVCH HID Oil IVC S lven U hurt rather than help their intended ilies—classified OVern5 OVern P on sFOVPrnsponsibility of beneficiaries. as those who merit as the only institution this generation “I’ve given up on government as the only makes less than . to take the initiai institution that’s supposed to take care of Si a day—have that s supposed to take care tivetoend world them[poverty],” Hatch said. “They’ve bungled pulled poverty, of [poverty] it, and we simply can’t trust them.” selves out of like to call T iT t t Frustrated with how government alsevere poverty Hatch, CCOTIOmiSt it the‘youth tsulocated resources to the poor, Hatch was thanks to micronami,’” Hatch struck with divine inspiration on a flight credit opportusaid. ‘You are nities, Hatch said. to Bolivia. the generation that 20 to 25 years from now “I was on my second bourbon when Given its current growth rate, the will occupy all the positions of power in this God decided to throw at me, or maybe world’s microcredit movement has the country. It will be you who are the ones who into my glass, the greatest idea: Why not potential to cut global poverty in half by must ensure that humanity finally solves this let the poor be their own bankers?” 2015 and end it by 2025, he added. millenium-old problem of [poverty].” —

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TOP RECRUIT COMES TO DUKE Nneka Ogwumike takes her official visit with the Blue Devils this weekend. The 6-foot-2 prep star is ranked 4th at her position by scout.com.

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and k was m,ssed mV heart dropped,” Williams said of the 14-13loss. “When that happened, you just think to yourself, ‘Not again.’ We were so close. Just a gut-wrenching feeling. It’s hard to shake it.” Despite the closeness of the Sept. 9,2006 contest, Duke and Wake Forest went in opposite directions after that. The Demon Deacons surged to an 11-3 season and the ACC tide, while the Blue Devils dropped their remaining 10 games en route to a perfecdy imperfect 0-12 season. One year removed from its close call with Wake Forest (2-2, 1-1 in the ACC), Duke (14, 0-2) returns to Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday for the first time in nearly a month, looking for its second win of the year. “I know you’re supposed to get over the

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N.C. State (313, 0-6), another individual record was broken. Senior Jenny Shull became the new Duke all-time digs leader. Needing only 18 more to overtake Ashley Wacholder, who completed her career in 1994 with 1,818 digs, the libero recorded 26 in Thursday’s game. She finished the night with 1,826, good enough for third-best on the all-time ACC list. Although the senior is excited to have a permanent place in Blue Devil history, the record was never her main concern during the match. “I didn’t change or do anything different,” Shull said. “Coach Nagel came up to me before the match and told me about being close, but I honesdy had no idea. I just went all-out for every game and hoped for as many digs as possible.” Duke was led by its overpowering offense, with four players reaching double-digit kills for the second straight match. Senior Ali Hausfeld recorded 59 assists and contributed in four of Duke’s eight blocks. The Blue Devils will not get much of a break this weekend, as they will face North Carolina on Sunday at 2 p.m. in Chapel Hill.

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Catching up with Shavlik Randolph The Chronicle’s Will Flaherty sat down with former Duke big man Shavlik Randolph at the end of Thursday’s Philadelphia 76ers practice in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Will Flaherty: What’s it like to be back? Shavlik Randolph: I don’t feel like I really went out of town. I feel like I came back home. That’s exacdy what I did. I’ve been getting to spend a lot of time with my family and my brother and just do things that I wouldn’t get to do once the NBA season starts. WF: What do you think of this year’s Duke team? SR: “They look really strong. The new guys coming in, the freshmen —Taylor [King], Nolan [Smith] and Kyle [Singler]—look really good and so do the returning guys. I’m expecting big things from them this year.” WF: You were injured pretty seriously last year. How tough has that been for you? SR: Physically, it’s the most painful thing I’ve ever had to go through... there’s nothing that compared to that. Once I got the x-ray and they diagnosed what I had—l had shattered my fibula and I had torn the ligaments on the inside of my ankle, which is bad, and takes a long time to recover from, but it’s not something that won’t heal. It was eight to nine months before I could even start to think about playing... I didn’t even step onto a court for three and a half or four months and, even now, it’s still not 100 percent They say it takes over a year to feel normal, and it’s been 10 months. WF: Is this the kind of thing that teaches you to deal with adversity? SR: Yes, it does, but I’ve always put my faith in God in everything that’s happened in my life and what I’m doing, to me, is bigger than basketball. I’m trying to carry out His will whether that includes basketball or not—and I’m pretty confident it does—I’m not too worried about that.

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I’m just going to go out and play and trust in Him. WF: Do you ever think about your choice to leave Duke? SR: It was a decision I had to make in my heart. I knew a lot of people—everybody was telling me not to do it and it wasn’t a smart decision—and it probably wasn’t a smart decision, but I just knew in my heart that this is what I had to do. I had to pursue a dream that I had been pursuing my whole life. And it was tough for me to leave these guys, especially not getting drafted and people not thinking I was going to do something. But I had to trust in myself, more importantly, I had to trust in God and just do what I had to do. WF: Would you eo back and make a different decision? SR: No. WF: What do you like most about life in the NBA? SR: The free time you get—not having to go to study hall after practice. And the least? Having to dress up real nice for games. I don’t dress up well.

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Peters prognosis After a close 24-14 loss to Miami last weekend, head football beat writer Matthew lies caught up with offensive coordinator Peter Vaas to discuss the team’s performance thus far and the upcoming tilt with Wake Forest Saturday. Matthew Des: What’s the scouting report on Wake Forest’s defense? Peter Vaas; They’re a good, solid defensive football team. When you watch them over the last few years and even as this season has unfolded, Wake has foimd away to win. Thatbecomes an important thing when you look at an opponent You understandwhattheirresolve is.Wake is the kind of team that we are going to have to beat They are not going to beat themselves. MI: What was something you learned from the loss to Miami? PV: We can’t beat ourselves. The thing that hurt us the most last week at Miami were the fumbles that we had, some bad execution at critical times. We’ve got to make sure that we don’t turn the football over and we don’t get ourselves into situations where we beat ourselves. MI: What were the positives you saw in your team despite the loss? PV: The one positive that you have to admire and respect is the competitive nature that [our team] possesses—the resolve that they have. When you’re down 10-0 at halftime and you’re playing a team in Miami, Fla. and you’re playing in hot weather and you’re not expected to win—with all those kinds of things—you can very easily fold and not surprise anybody. But the thing our football team does is continue to fight and battle and try to execute to the best of their ability each and every play. We have that kind of resolve and stick-to-itiveness. MI: How do you account for the seasonhigh nine sacks against Miami?

PV: There’s a lot of things that go into it. Bottom line is execution. One thing that is deceptive about sacks is that immediately everybody says, ‘Oh, the offensive line is bad.’ But it could be a lot of things. The second sack of the game, Thad trips and falls. There are other times when the receiver runs the wrong route, the quarterback holds the ball too long, sometimes a back misses a block and sometimes a lineman misses a block. So there’s a multitude of things that go into sacks. It’s not a reflection of our offensive line. It’s a reflection of our overall passing game. MI: What hasbeen the overall progress of the offense since the first game of the year? PV: I think it’s been steady. One of the things that we can take away fromeach and every game is that we seem to improve a little bit We’re not improving by leaps and bounds, which is what we’d all like to see, but we’re improving a little bit each and every week.As long as we continue to do that, eventually good things will happen. MI: Are you happy with the offense so far or were you expecting more from it at this point? PV: The only thing that makes you happy is

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Fresh off a weekend in which it defeated two ranked teams on the road, No. 12Duke gearing up for a showdown with a bitter rival. The Blue Devils (7-5, 1-2 in the ACC) take on VS. defending national champion No. 2 Maryland (120, 2-0) Saturday at 1 p.m. SATURDAY, 1 p.m. in their last home game Williams Field of the year. Duke knows that the game will be highly contested. “We’ve got to come out and play hard,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “We always have great games with Maryland. It’s going to be a battle.” The Blue Devils hope that their success in Boston this past weekend can help them improve their recent track record against the Terrapins. ROB GOODLATTE/THE CHRONICLE Including postseason play, Duke is 1-4 Reigning ACC Player of theWeek Marian Dickinson over the three Maryland against past years. In the Terrapins’ last visit to Williams Field, looks to lead Duke against rival Maryland Saturday. the Blue Devils were blanked 2-0. win streak, tying the most number of conDuke knows that in order to upset the secutive wins in the history of the program. defending champs this time around, it They are led by two-time All American semust maintain a high level of play. nior goalkeeper Kathryn Masson. “We’re really an inspired road team,” juThe Blue Devils are not daunted, hownior Laura Suchoski said. “We have to transever. The Terrapins’ talentis just one more late that intensity to home games now. It’s reason why Duke wants to win this game. a great set-up where we just went 2-0 on a “It adds a lot of fuel to the fire,” junior weekend for our biggest game of the year.” Marian Dickinson said. “We really don’t Maryland enters Saturday on a 12-game like Maryland as a team.”

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success is imperative to keeping his team fresh enough to pull out a victory. “When you look at the number of plays, we were playing about 20 more snaps of defense than we were on offense,” Roof said. “If you look at last week, the plays were about even—very close to being exact in the first halfand the second half.... That’s something we need to continue to work on.” But with their first home game in four weeks, Williams and his teammates simply want to make sure that they play well and stake claim to a home turf thathas seen virtually no action during the month of September. ‘We always go and talk about protecting our house, and when we’re on the road, we talk about going into their house and taking it over, making their field yours,” Williams said. ‘We’ve been on the road for so long that we basically want to go and make that field ours.”

games, but it just resonates in you,” Williams said. “We go into this game thinking about what happened last year, and how it affected Wake Forest, so we use that as motivation.” Another benefit of Duke’s narrow defeat a year ago was the emergence of quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, who threw for 305 yards and a touchdown in his first collegiate start. Lewis’ success this weekend is critical for the Blue Devils to challenge the Demon Deacons, and his development since that first start has been dramatic. “Thad’s gotten a lot more comfortable and has made us a lot more comfortable,” running back Re’quan Boyette said. “He’s our quarterback, and he’s leading us, so we’re going to lean on him.” Lewis, however, will be missing the services of slot widereceiver Raphael Chestnut Saturday. Chestnut suffered a non-contact knee injury during the second half of last week’s game at Miami and will be “out for a while,” head coach Ted Roof said. Roof also said that wideouts Sheldon Bell, Jeremy Ringfield and Ryan Wood need to pick up the slack for Chestnut, who has 12 receptions for 188 yards on the year. Chestnut was a major contributorfor both the punt coverage and return units, which means there is more than one void to fill. “Really you lose three starters, not just one,” Roof said. “The impact of that, especially on our punt team, to have he and Eron [Riley], that’s one of the reasons our punt coverage has improved.” With injury troubles at wideout, Duke needs to duplicate the success it found on the ground against Miami. When adjusted for negative rushing yards incurred on sacks, the Blue Devils ran for over 100 yards against the Hurricanes. For Duke to win Saturday, Roof knows that similar rushing WideoutEron Riley hopes torack up the yards Saturday. t*

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As you all know, Provost BC the way it feels right now. Peter Lange is in the process I don’t know, this feeling just of conducting meetings with rubs me the wrong way. I feel students in order to gather like it just doesn’t feel right.” Provost: input on the future I’m “Right, editorial of the Cama doing pus Culture Initiative. The great job of getting a feel for Chronicle has just obtained student opinion.” Student; “Provost Lange, a copy of the Provost’s notes from one such meeting, and can’tformer DSG President Elwe feel that it is our responliott Wolf run these meetings? He’s just sooo good looking. sibility to the University community to print excerpts from And isn’t he a spitting image our findings. of Babe Ruth? You know his The following are snipthighs look so good in those pets from student comments biker shorts!” Provost: “But there’s no interspersed with unspoken personal reflections that the way he’s as sexy as DSG PresiProvost recorded. dent Paul Slattery. And aren’t Student: “I feel like getting I sexy as well? Aren’t I?” Student; ‘Yeah, Paul is sexy, a Starbucks in the BC would feel good to the student body, too. Just like Elliot And speakbut I also feel like that body has ing of people who conspire tofelt happy with the feel of the gether, Dean of Undergradu-

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those glasses are so sassy.” Student; “I think that the main problem with campus culture is that the rights of real Fruitarians here are totally ignored. You do a good job of catering to my lactoovo-dacto-vegetarian friends. The other day I bit into a delicious Great Hall sandwich and distincdy tasted flesh. How can omnivorous administrators represent my views on this subject?” Provost: “Flesh? I need to tell Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst about this. But he’s so much taller than I am. But I’m much more nimble. I’m in a video on duke.edu riding a bike. I can Soulja boy up in ....” Student: “I’m just really upset about the Few Quad

renovations next year. I’m in a Few-based selective living group. If we have to move out of section next year, our rush will be severely compromised. We won’t get sweet kids. We won’t have sick parties. We’ll lose our table in Alpine. It won’t be, like, you know, as chill as it used to be.” Provost: “Pretty sweet point about the kids. And why is everybody coughing in here? Oh, right, we’re in Few.” Student: “I totally agree. I’m a cultural studies major, and I believe that, our education, such as at Duke should aid Duke diversely and dialogue for instance that discrimination in our future equally.” Student: “I believe that the work hard-play hard lifestyle is unsustainable. Myfriends and I read about 600 pages, manage

seven student organizations, chug 14 beers and watch four TV shows every day. I think everyone here does that.” Student: “I also think everyone wants you to engage the diversity of more discussion that engages open spaces. But Duke doesn’t make friends for you.” Provost: “I totally disagree. I would never say any of those words. 45 times. Every day. I need a drink. Which reminds me, I could really go for some of Rick’s deliciousness. Oh, wait. At least I’ll have a beer, then. Oh, wait. [Expletive] who takes away all these great food venues? Oh, wait.”

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was used. And I enjoyed it. I even learned a lot from it. Please allow me to clarify. Last week, in my psychology discussion section, my TA explained that we were going to review conditioning. For those of you unfamiliar with psychology, think Pavlov’s dogs; ring a bell and they allie vergotz salivate. We were diffocusing on a with a grain of salt ferent kind of conditioning, operant conditioning, in this class. Merriam-Webster defines this simply as “conditioning in which the desired behavior or increasingly closer approximations to it are followed by a rewarding or reinforcing stimulus.” My TA began by asking who would rate themself a 10 on a scale from one to 10 (one being “I’m on a diet and don’t like M&M’s anyway,” 10 being “They’re, like, the best candy ever”). My hand shot up. I happen to thoroughly enjoy plain M&M’s. So, I was sent out into the hall as my TA explained to the class the activity she had planned. Meanwhile, I wandered the halls of Soc-Psych trying to figure out how I could sell myself to science for $lO an hour by reading all the posted flyers, listening to the laughter emitting from the classroom. I was quite confident that I was about to be humiliated. I walked back into the room to find a classmate standing at the ready. “Would you like an M&M?” Well, yes, in fact, I would. My class was instructed to get me to perform some sort of behavior (I had no idea what) by rewarding me with M&M’s and cheers when I did something right, like travel in the correct direction, or discourage me with Jeers (and at one point, by even taking my M&M’s away) when I did something wrong. I had no idea what was going on. I walked backwards and forwards, left and right, I jumped, I spun, I sat, I stood. But when I moved in the correct

direction across the classroom, I received cheers and M&M’s; when I picked up the green dry-erase marker, I received more cheers and more M&M’s; and when I finally wrote “Allison” on the board (as was the goal), I received even more cheers and even more M&M’s. Basically, it was the best discussion section ever. I walked back home to Wannamaker with a smile on my face. But then I started thinking about what I’d just done. I, a rather shy young woman, just stood in front of a class of 25 people and jumped up and down for M&M’s. It gave new meaning to the “What would you do for a Klondike bar?” advertisements of old. And then I felt the need to turn this entire event into an extended metaphor for Duke life. So bear with me. What is your bag ofM&M’s? Is it grades, friends, significant others, job opportunities, graduate schools or medical schools? We’re all getting through our years here driven by something, whether it is the dream of living a successful life or the dream of never having to look at another problem set again. Something’s pushing us. We endure the jeers and criticisms, intended only to push us back on the right path, as we mess up along the way. And when we do something right, we get our cheers and M&M’s in the form of internships, first dates, whatever. A lot of the time, we don’t even know what it is that we’re trying to do. I could not have guessed that I was supposed to write my name on the board in green marker until I actually tried it. So maybe, just maybe, getting through Duke—and, by extension, life—is just one big example of operant conditioning. We’re blindly going about our daily lives, driven by what is important or rewarding to us. Sometimes, we’ll go that extra mile or take that extra risk (or spin in circles in front of a class) for something we deem worth it. And, maybe, that’s not altogether a bad thing Allie Vergotz is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every otherFriday.

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letterstotheeditor Lacrosse apologies already came I am disappointed in Professor Emeritus Ole Holsti’s letter to the editor, “More apologies necessary in lacrosse case,” in Thursday’s edition of The Chronicle suggesting that the Duke lacrosse players should apologize for their actions in March of 2006. The fact is the lacrosse players were the first to apologize and have done so on many occasions, both publicly and privately. On March 28, 2006, the following statement was released by the team captains: “The captains of the team met this morning with President [Richard] Brodhead, and expressed sincere regret over the lapse in judgment in having the party on March 13 which has caused so much anguish for the Duke community and shame to our families and ourselves.” “We also stated unequivocally that any allegation that a sexual assault or rape occurred is totally and transparently false...” the statement continues, “The team has cooperated with the police in their investigation. We have provided authorities with DNA samples. The understanding is that the results of the DNA testing will be available sometime next week. The DNA results will demonstrate that these allegations are absolutely false.... Because of the intense emotions surrounding these allegations, we feel it is in the best interest of the University, the community and our families that the team should not play competitively until the DNA results verify our unequivocal denial of these allegations.” The statement proved to be entirely prophetic. Perhaps Holsti, along with many others deceived by the “Wall ofSilence” propaganda being put forth by the former district attorney, missed the many sincere apologies by the players at the time. It is a shame that there are still those who believe the young men and their families have not been through enough.

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Associate Director ofAthletics for Communication Criticism of Brodhead, faculty disheartening We are impressed with President Richard Brodhead’s continued attempts to reach out to all members of the Duke community to promote healing and reconciliation in the wake of last year’s lacrosse incident, as evidenced by his recent remarks at the Duke School of Law. We are disheartened, however, by the continued drumbeat of destructive criticism of the administration and faculty by some within and outside the Duke community. More importantly, as chairs of two of the five committees that examined various issues brought to light by the lacrosse incident last spring, we take issue with the biasedand inaccurate rhetoric espoused by some of these critics. Firstly, we reject the characterization put forward by critics like Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson that the Lacrosse Committee report, that examined the past behavior of the lacrosse team, is a “stunning vindication” of the team (Washington Post, September 7, 2007). On the contrary, the report very carefully details a pattern of behavior that the committee characterized as “socially irresponsible” that should “have been a cause for alarm.” Dismissing this finding as trivial is a biased and unjustified misrepresentation of the facts. Secondly, there is a recurring theme advanced by critics like Taylor and Johnson that the faculty at Duke and at other universities are increasingly a bunch of ideologues who care less about the their students and more about promoting their own extremist agendas. Nothing could be further from the truth. Faculty at Duke, as at other universities and colleges, care deeply about students and are passionately committed to their personal and intellectual growth. Anyone who has the slightest knowledge of the daily life of a faculty member will quickly appreciate the time, effort and energy that faculty put into teaching, advising and mentoring students. To suggest otherwise, on the basis ofisolated and selective incidents that occur over the course of complex events and are taken out of context, is nothing more than a tragic rush to judgment

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“Lacrosse players” not a homogenous group I write to disagree with the view of my good friend and colleague, Professor Emeritus Ole Holsti, that the lacrosse players should now apologize. In his Oct. 4 letter to the editor, “More apologies necessary in lacrosse case,” Holsti criticizes “the parents of the lacrosse players.” The “lacrosse players” are not a homogeneous group; they are not equally blameworthy for the party. Some attended, some left in disgust and some were never there. Further, the organizers of the party have apologized, in several different forums. These heartfelt apologies came immediately after the events being apologized for. Whether the events at the party required an apology is moot; those responsible have apologized, and the entire team had its season cancelled. Surely that is enough—more than enough—apology and punishment.

Finally, I am not so sure that President Richard Brodhead’s apology went “beyond what was necessary,” as Holsti claimed. I do know that a lot of time passed between the events and the administration’s apology. Nonetheless, I would hope that the players, and their parents, accept Brodhead’s apology in the sincere spirit in which it was offered, and without qualification. Mike Munger Chair, Department of Political Science There is nothing wrong with sex Boring sex is the wellspring of human dignity, according to Justin Noia in his column, “Sex rules.” To separate ourselves from the animal kingdom, we should wait until marriage to have sex, and then only tolerate it for the sake of procreation. That, friends, is the human way: Lay back and think of England. I must disagree with Noia. We owe our uniqueness to the dynamism and creativity of the human mind; we owe nothing to our capacity to slurp vitality from theworldwith haughty moralizing or words like “circumlocutorily.” Yes, that mind gives us the power to reject biological imperatives. It also allows us to create new imperatives, “moral” demands that have little to do with right or wrong. Binding ourselves to Scripture or to childish conceptions of sexuality is not a glorification of the human mind or the unpredictability of will. It’s justreally boring. And I think Noia will find himself in boring company. Albert Einstein had multiple lovers; Alan Turing was gay. America’s cherished authors were largely booze-soaked sex-addicts. There is nothing wrong with sex. It makes people happy. For all its sheer power, its predictive abilities and pattern-recognition skills, you’d think the human mind wouldrealize that it’s okay to be happy. Mike Devlin Duke School ofLaw ’lO Noia column patronizes women I am horrified by Justin Noia’s column, “Sex rules,” although, I suppose, I shouldn’t be after reading last week’s column on reproductive rights. Although Noia is entirely entided to his opinion on sexual practice, I find the undertones of his column deeply misogynistic. By suggesting that men must act to “protect” women from their lust, Noia recalls the Victorian sensibility that women are merely objects to be lusted after, not fully sentient beings who can have desires of their own, and who can make decisions about whether or not to follow them. Noia suggests that we Duke women are constandy being coerced into sex, not making the decision to engage in consensual, mutually desired sexual situations. Noia’s column reeks with a patronizing voice that I find abhorrent. I am a Duke woman who is perfectly capable ofmaking her own decisions about having healthy, safe, mutually desired sex, or not. I do not need to be “protected” from the lusts of men, and I resent the implication that if I am not a virgin at marriage, I am “used goods” that no man would want. Noia tells women to “demand more of [men],” I will. I demand that you treat us as full people who have the same capability to make informed and healthy decisions based on caring and mutual desire, not as fragile dolls who must be protected to preserve our “virtue.” Caroline Griswold Trinity 'lO

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Chronicle, week after week it taunts me. It whispers to me like a drug dealer. “Just a little prick and your worries are over. $15,000. Egg Donors Needed.” Compared to graduate students in other universities, disciplines and cities, I

don’t do half badly for myself. I’ve never been unable to pay my rent, and, except for one ill-planned summer, I’ve never had to resort to peanut butter and jelly on tortillas, On paper, I really have no i i J acau H rJetw'ller reason to subject myselfto the pain and moral scru- pisaSG hire, desperate tiny of egg donation. But that’s on paper. I don’t know what I did to electronics, but I know what they’re doing to me. For every allowance afforded by my entirely reasonable stipend, my car, phone or computer (usually, all three simultaneously) have staged a counterattack. This unholy trinity, led by their grand pooh-bah, the Ford Escort, have taken it upon themselves to make my life miserable. In two years, I have replaced five tires, the brakes, the fuel injector, the spark plugs and the battery on the ringleader alone. Lately, the Escort has become so cocky it’s taken to creative pursuits, like refusing to track my speed. As of this week the horn has stopped working. The car’s right-hand man is my phone, which has been dysfunctional nine months out of the last 12. While text messaging through a small hole in the screen, I swear I can hear it laughing at me. Last, but certainly not least, my computer appears to have a psychic link that causes it to spontaneously overheat every time one of my tires explodes. Just three days ago, part of the power cord snapped off, damaging not only itself but also the $2OO part to which it was attached. And then when I come to school and open the paper, staring back at me is the opportunity to earn two thirds of my yearly income through the sheer viability of my reproductive system. “$15,000.” it whispers in italics. “Screw the trinity. Buy a Mac.” I have plenty of valid arguments against the idea. Sold eggs become sold children, who might understandably be upset that their mother traded them for a new computer and a Kia. Two weeks of fertility treatments would probably alienate anyone I might want to take for a ride in my new plastic car, not to mention my neighbors, parents and the entire psychology department. The SAT score and healthy lifestyle requirements border perilously on the reality of designer children. And I’m not so down with a creepy doctor with a needle getting all jabby without any medically necessary reason. “Ah, but what is getting jabbed in the ovaries when you are already taking it in the a from the Dell?” the ad says, “Just think of the poor infertile families you’ll be helping.” For a second I start to think maybe it’s not as horrible as I’m imagining. The families on the Web site look fairly sincere, infertility is a bad lot and, besides, it has the term “donation” right there in the title. Maybe it’s just like donating sperm... only involving less ’Bos pom. But I can never delude myself long enough to go through with it Between parents who would rather spend an exorbitant amount of money to “have their own children” than to adopt, college kids looking to bag several grand and the morally bankrupt middlemen, the whole process is fraught with selfish motives. Often, the ads offer for more compensation than is ever likely to become available. Besides, it looks like it hurts. I’m not sure there’s a right or wrong answer to egg donation in individual cases, but considering that Duke’s Institutional Review Board believes excessive financial compensation to be potentially coercive, I can’t help feeling a little pressured. Did I mention my microwave sounds like a dying cat 5 r

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