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Unless the state of North Carolina has a change of heart, Mike Nifong will be covering his own legal fees in the upcoming lacrosse civil suit. The former Durham district attorney’s request that the state pay his legal expenses in the suit filed earlier this month by former lacrosse players David Evans, Trin-

and Reade Seligmann has been formally denied. On Tuesday, the state w declared it was not responsible for covering SKSi Nifong’s legal tab beNlike Nifong cause his misconduct during the lacrosse case was outside of his prerogative as a state em-

ployee.

“The state must refuse to provide for such representation if the attorney general determines that the actions or omissions were not within the scope of the employee’s official duties: the acts or omissions involved fraud, corruption or malice; defense of the action would create a conflict of interest; or, defense of the action would not be in the best interests of the state,” Grayson Kelley, the state’s chief deputy attorney general, wrote in an Oct. 16 letter to Nifong and his attorney, James Craven.

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MichaelVideira and his fellow seniors will be honored tonight with retiring head coach John Rennie before the kickoff of the Blue Devils' match against the Demon Deacons atKoskinen Stadium.

Duke celebrates soccer legend, seniors by

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Before its game tonight against the No. 2 Demon Deacons, the Blue Devils will honor the 29-year career of John Rennie, the fifth-winningest head coach in Division-I history and the man who led Duke to its first national title in any sport. Fueled by the success of the veteran coach and a stacked senior class,

President Richard Brodhead shared his vision of the University as an international leader in education with members of the faculty in a crowded Divinity School lecture hall Thursday. Brodhead delivered the Annual Report of the President as part of the University Faculty meeting, an annual assembly offaculty members. The University Faculty meeting ended with an address given by Paula McClain, chair of the Academic Council and a professor of political science, before the council’s meeting convened in the same location. Brodhead said the goal of this year’s report was to examine the ways through which Duke can become a more vibrant SEE BRODHEAD ON PAGE

the No. 17 Blue Devils entered this season as the fourth-ranked team in the country and with high champion-

ship hopes.

So when Duke (7-4-0, 2-2 in the ACC) faces off against Wake Forest (100-2, 3-0-1) looking to end a two-game losing streak on senior night at 7 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium, it means a lot—for GLEN

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President Richard Brodhead delivers his Annual Report of the President Thursday evening.

Medicine helpedby the divine? Dean's departure marks an era'send by

Janie Lorber

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He has heard people call him “the miracle man” in low whispers and traveled to the Vatican to meet the pope. Now, almost seven years after his eyesight was inexplicably restored overnight, Phil McCord is responsible for the canonization of the eighth American saint and thought to be the only living American to experience a Vatican-approved miracle Not bad for a Baptist from Terre Haute, Ind., who

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McCord, the facilities manager at St. Mary-of-theWoods College in Indiana, was blind in one eye, and his doctor had just told him a cornea transplant was the only hope for regaining sight. Following organ music into the campus church, he prayed for the courage to SEE MIRACLES ON PAGE 9

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wandered into a Catholic church one January morning

Authors and researchers have devoted their studies and work to unlocking the mysterious connection between healing and religion.

Chelsea Allison

When Robert Thompson steps down as dean of Trinity College ofArts and Sciences Aug. 1, the search for his successor may present an opportunity for Duke to restructure its undergraduate administration. The announcement of his resignation comes just months after former Pratt School of Engineering dean Krisanalysis tina Johnson left in August and Steve Nowicki was appointed dean of undergraduate education in June. “There’s an interesting dynamic right now,” said Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery, a senior.

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Pakistan bomb attack kills at least 126 by

Bhutto flew home to lead her Pakistan

Matthew Pennington THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KARACHI, Pakistan —A suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming former prime minister Benazir Bhutto killed

least 126

people Thursday night, shattering her celebratory procession through Pakistan’s biggest city after eight years in exile. Two explosions went off near a truck carrying Bhutto, but police and officials of her party said she was not injured and was hurried to her house. Officials at six hospitals in Karachi reported 126 dead and 248 wounded. It Was believed to be the deadliest bomb attack in Pakistan’s history.

Authorities had urged Bhutto

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People’s Party in January parliamentary helicopter to reduce the risk ofattack amid elections, drawing cheers from supporters threats from extremists sympathetic to the masked in a sea of the party’s red, green and Taliban and al-Qaida, but she brushed off black flags. The police chief said 150,000 the concerns. “I am not scared. I am thinking of my were in the streets, while other onlookers estimated twice that. The throngs reflected Bhutto’s enduring political clout, but she has made enemies of Islamic militants by taking a pro-U.S. line and negotiating a possible political alliance with Pakistan’s military ruler, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. An estimated 20,000 security officers had been deployed to protect Bhutto and her cavalcade.

mission,” she had told reporters on the

plane from Dubai. “This is a movement for democracy because we are under threat from extremists and militants.” Last month, Bhutto told CNN she realized she was a target. Islamic militants, she said, “don’t believe in women governing nations, so they will try to plot against me, but these are risks that must be taken. I’m prepared to take them.”

Bush's child health bill veto upheld by David Espo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON The Democraticcon trolled House failed Thursday to override President George W. Bush’s veto of a politically popular children’s health bill, and the White House instandy called for compromise talks on a replacement. “As long as the bottom line is that 10 million children are covered. That’s non-

negotiable,” responded Speaker Nancy

Pelosi, D-Calif. She pledged that new legislation would be ready within two weeks, and within hours, key lawmakers met to

consider changes in the vetoed measure. The maneuvering followed a 273-156 vote that left supporters 13 short of the two-thirds majority needed to prevail in a bruising veto struggle between congressional Democrats and a politically weakened

Republican president. It was Bush’s third veto of the year. He has yet to be overridden, although Democrats say they will succeed in doing so on a water projects bill that soon will go to the White House. “We won this round,” said White House press secretary Dana Perino, despite an aggressive advertising campaign on the in-

surance bill by Democratic allies that was aimed at GOP lawmakers. Democrats cited public opinion polls that showed overwhelming support for a health care expansion and they predicted some Republicans would pay a heavy price at the polls for sticking with Bush. At a cost of $35 billion over five years, the vetoed measure would have added nearly four million uninsured children to the insurance program. It provides coverage for those who are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, but whose families cannot afford private health care.

An autistic hiker lost for four days without food or water in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest was found alive and reunited with his family Thursday. Jacob Allen, 18, disappeared Sunday afternoon when visiting the area with his parents.

Brownback to end prez run Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, the Kansas conservative who struggled to raise money and gain recognition in the 2008 presidential campaign, will drop out Friday, people close to him said Thursday.The primary rationale cited for Brownback's withdrawal is said to be financial difficulty.

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Durham police officers are investigating two robberies in off-campus apartments, officials announced Thursday. The first report was submitted by three males Wednesday night at 11:08 p.m. The men said they were at Duke Villa Apartments and were patted down by a man wearing a badge, who told them that they matched the descriptions of shooting suspects. The man took the victims’ wallets and fled in a dark-colored Honda Accord or Civic, where three to four additional suspects waited. Nearly two hours later, victims of the second robbery were approached by a vehicle in the parking lot of Duke Manor Apartments. They also described the suspect’s car as a dark-colored sedan, similar in appearance to a Honda Accord. According to reports, suspects in the second robbery put a green light on the top of their car and then removed it when they got back in the vehicle. Two men got out of the car and ordered the two victims to put their hands on the hood of the car so they could be patted down, officials reported. The men took items from the victims and fled with an accomplice who remained in the car. Victims said the car’s headlight were off as the suspects left the scene. Victims from the second robbery described their attackers as two black males. The first had shoulder-length cornrows, a white shirt and black pants and was 20 to 30 years old. Reports also describe him as being between 5 feet and 8 inches and 5 feet and 10 inches and weighing 165 to 175 pounds. The second suspect had shoulderlength hair. The suspect who stayed in the car was said to be wearing a dark-colored shirt similar to a security uniform.

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Jim Marksbury, who has lived in Durham for five years, said he has been sympathetic to the exonerated former lacrosse players since the beginning of the case. He added, however, that Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, Trinity ’O6, are essentially hurting many of their original supporters with the civil lawsuit they filed Oct. 5. “Many people in this city supported [the players], and now they are being asked to pay the damages,” Marksbury said. The lawsuit names the city of Durham as well as 13 individuals, including a group of police officers, former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong and those involved in the DNA laboratory that withheld exculpatory evidence in the case. It demands undetermined punitive and compensatory damages in addition to a 10year order and permanent injunction looking to reform the conduct ofthe Durham Police Department in criminal investigations. ■ In September, the players requested a $3O-million setdement with the city ofDurham, but no agreement was reached. The city currendy has $5-million in liability insurance, and would have to pay the remaining cost of the suit through other financial resources, including tax dollars. “I thought the case was being mishandled but if they are now going to sue the tax payers for $3O million, then that does not please me,” Marksbury said. “So essentially they are suing the people who were very sympathetic to them.” On the other hand, six-month Durham resident Elizabeth Dewey, whose husband attends the School of Medicine, said the players were wronged and are entided to pursue what they deem to be essential legal reforms and adequate compensation. “What the players want with the lawsuit is publicity and policy change,” she said. “I’m sure the city will want to setde without going to court, but the players are going to want whatever it is that will accomplish those goals.” Sounding a very different note, community activist Victoria Peterson, who has lived in Durham for more than 20 years and has followed the case closely, said the players

should be the ones making amends for the trouble they have caused. She said there should be no settlement because she does not see how the players have suffered damages. She added that one of the players is now working and the other two are attending other universities. “I think that those young men need to compensate this city,” she said. “They broke the law, and for [North Carolina Attorney General] Roy Cooper to drop the charges and proclaim them innocent is ridiculous without a jury trial, without people in the community knowing the facts.” In addition to the players, Peterson said Duke was responsible for the incident. “Because the University has covered things up over the years, they have allowed this mess to get out of control,” she said. “They have never really dealt with the behavior of their students, and so I feel that because of that, they need

to compensate this community. So if anybody should be getting money, it should be the city of Durham.” Duke law professor James Coleman said although he believes thatit was an egregious case, the players are requesting “extraordinary injunctive relief,” radical changes in the way DPD conducts investigations, which is not typically granted when only a single case of misconduct has been cited. “Normally, in order to get that kind of relief you have to show a pattern of conduct that has affected more than one person,” he said. “I don’t think there is much chance that the city is going to agree with thatkind of extraordinary relief.” Coleman noted that it is unclear whether or not new procedures need to be implemented or the current procedures need to be followed, as the police department ignored its own procedures for obtaining eyewitness identification and supervising investigations.

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Citizens ofDurham sit on both sidesof the fence regarding the civil suit filed by the threeformer lacrosse players.

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UNC system OKs higher academic standards by

Emmeline Zhao THE CHRONICLE

University of North Carolina system colleges may soon be making their way off high school seniors’ lists of safety schools. Last week the UNC Board of Governors announced a proposal that could mini-

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ston-SalemState University. Some of these universities have already taken action to raise minimum admissions requirements. The proposal developed from

goals to improve graduation rates

across the UNC system. Higher standards would result in fewer acceptances at UNC sys“We don’t have a minimum tem schools and greater GPA or SAT score, but enrollment clearly someone with a 2.3 in commu-

GPA and an 800 SAT would not be a student who is in our applicant pool.” Leonard Satterwhite, acting dean

would affect those seeking enrollment in the UNC system for Fall 2009. The plan proposes initiating higher standards over four years; a 2.3 grade point average and 750 SAT score for students hoping to enroll Fall 2011 and a 2.5 GPA and 800 SAT score for students planning to enroll Fall 2013. These new standards will primarily affect six of the 16 UNC campuses —the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, North Carolina Central University, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University and Win-

uate admissions, said he does not believe UNC-Chapel Hill admission standards will be analogous to those of Duke. “This past year, UNC Chapel Hill had 20,000 applicants and admitted 37.9 percent of their applicant pool,” Satterwhite said. “We don’t have a minimum GPA or SAT score, but clearly someone with a 2.3 GPA and an 800 SAT would not be a student who is in our applicant pool.” Duke freshman Alex Safrit,

tion between lower levels of success and students who do not meet the proposed minimum requirements. Those students also showed tendencies to leave college in debt and without a degree. Although standards still appear low, Kanoy stressed that the problem only affects a few of the campuses, with most of the campuses already above the proposed minimums. Even so, Leonard Satterwhite, Duke’s acting dean of undergrad-

who applied to UNC-Chapel Hill as a safety school last fall, said he has a different perspective. “I believe this would be harmful to [UNC’s] athletic program because halfof their basketball team would not have been admitted,” Safrit said. “Duke, on the other hand, has brilliant athletes.” The Board could vote on the proposed standards as early as January 2008. If passed, the requirements will first affect prospective students of the class of 2013.

nity colleg-

es. However, the proposal would also lead to fewer drop-outs and fewer students who take remedial courses in the universities, UNC President Erskine Bowles said. UNC officials studied the relationship between student retention on graduation rates and student levels of success in

college. Bobby Kanoy, senior associate vice president for academic and

student affairs within the UNC system, said each campus completed a year-long study and goal setting plan. The UNC system then created an advisory committee which comprised representatives from across the campuses. Study results showed a correla-

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A proposal by the UNC Board of Governors could set higher academic standardsthat will primarily affect six of the 16campuses.

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Earn prof works to bring minorities to Wall St. by

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help inform minority students about bank-

ing careers. Rasiel, who was an executive director in at Duke is new initiative introducing A interested and undecided minority students the London office of Goldman Sachs prior to her teaching career, said she was struck to the world of banking on Wall Street. The Careers in Finance Initiative was by a lack of minority employees—particustarted by Emma Rasiel, director of under- larly black and Hispanic ones—while workgraduate studies and associate professor of ing with banks on Wall Street on their rethe practice in the economics department, cruitment strategies. “When I was in New York over the sumin conjunction with the Career Center to THE CHRONICLE

The Careers in Finance Initiative will try to inroduce minority students to banking businesses across the nation.

mer talking to banks about this program, one of the things that kept coming up was that it’s very hard to recruit minorities into banking,” she said. Yolander Albert, associate director of the Career Center, said many minority students come to Duke with either a premed or prelaw focus but change focuses late in their Duke careers. The new program aims to market to freshmen so it will not be too late when they realize that they may not want a career in medicine or law, Rasiel said. She added that if freshmen spend time coming to the initiative’s events and doing their own research on banking, they could possibly make good candidates for internships no matter what their majors are. “My point is you don’t have to be an economics major to do this and to perform well in this environment,” Rasiel said. “But you do need to have learned something about banking and finance. My goal is to enable as many Duke Students as possible to do that through extracurriculars.” Adrienne Everett, a senior who interned with JPMorgan Chase over the summer, is working closely with Rasiel to recruit students and organize events for the initiative. She said the skills developed from a banking internship can help in a wide spectrum of careers. The exposure to markets, social networks and businesses is helpful in more than just banking careers, she added. So far, the initiative has hosted two events for students. The first event, held

in September, invited several minority upperclassmen who had done banking internships to talk about their experiences and attracted about 25 freshmen, Rasiel said. For the second event, Rasiel invited minority bankers from several companies to come speak and answer questions posed by students. Edwin Wright, a black freshman representative of die initiative, said the two events have already changed many of his views. “I was going to be an economics major just because I had to, it was more of a necessity,” he said. “But now I feel like, after hearing [the bankers’] stories, that you don’t have to major in economics to do business.” Another black freshman representative, Morgan Kirkland, said the events so far have helped her realize that financial careers aren’t just about numbers. She added that learning about job opportunities like traveling overseas made the internships seem more appealing to her. Future plans for the initiative include a reading group in the spring semester that features books about finance and others events still in the planning stages, Rasiel said. “We may incorporate visits to Wall Street firms and to trading floors for those who stick with the program and really show an interest in the industry,” Albert added. Rasiel said she also hopes to include more sophomores and juniors in the initiative by offering help in preparation for interviews with Wall Street banks.

Pratt center to integrate metamaterials work by

Hon Lung Chu THE CHRONICLE

The Pratt School of Engineering will launch a new center to further Duke’s study of the metamaterials for which the University has gained national attention, officials announced Monday. The Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics was established under the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics and will bring together researchers from across the Duke community to study materials not naturally found on earth with special properties such as in-

visibility. One of the goals of the newly formed

center is the creation ofmetamaterials that

will be invisible in the visible spectrum, said David Smith, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and the director of the new center. “The formation of [the center] was an-

nounced at the Annual Meeting of the FIP to capitalize on the presence ofmany leading scientists and program managers interested in metamaterials and plasmonics,” Robert Clark, interim dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, wrote in an e-mail to the Pratt community. In 2006, Duke researchers were able to create an invisible ring in the microwave spectrum from metamaterials, Smith said. That development led to the invention of the “invisibility cloak” by Duke researchers. “Professor Smith, who is a research program director at the FIP, has been an international leader in metamaterials research and has made important contributions to the field of plasmonics,” FIP Director Tuan Vo-Dinh, a professor of biomedical engineering, wrote in an e-mail. Vo-Dinh added that the center will focus on the use of structured media, including

metamaterials, for applications in photonics, imaging and sensing applications at visible wavelengths. “The materials are able to produce mag-

netic resonance that counters the magnetic radiation in the microwave frequencies so that the objects end up looking like the background,” Smith said. He added that this makes the material effectively invisible to microwave detection. Smith said the next step is to apply this technology to create materials with the same properties in the optical range. “With all the activity going on, we thought it would be good to umbrella them with this center,” he said. Vo-Dinh added that CMIP is the first center of its kind in the FIR “We’re really excited about the creation of the center,” Smith said. “We had a great meeting last week to kick it off.”

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Do you know the person that lives next to

you? Members ofCampus Council hope you do—butrealize that you probably do not. In response to Provost Peter Lange’s Interim Report on the Undergraduate Experience, President Ryan Todd, a senior, asked

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the council to discuss the meritsof and problems with the current quadrangle system. “The quad model isjust not meeting the standards that were set,” he said. “Administrators are perplexed... [they find it] mindboggling that [quad councils] haven’t created interesting programs... [or] a niche for independent students.” Members living on West Campus said they felt more of a sense of community on East Campus than they do now. “People on West have their own friends, their own group,” said sophomore Sean Puneky, an at-large representative. “It’s not like when they’re all freshmen. [There’s] never really going to be a reason for quads to be cohesive.” Others said they wish they knew their hall mates. At-large representative Alyssa Back, a sophomore, noted that she did not know her next door neighbor for a month and a half. Council members agreed that the change in student attitude from freshman year to sophomore year works against a sense of unity in quads. “I think it’s a valid point to say that West Campus etiquette is different than East Campus etiquette,” Todd said, adding that he believes after the first year, students no longer feel comfortable introducing themselves to people in their dormitories. Some members said this obstacle to a sense of community would be difficult to overcome. “There’s an extent to which we can change things, but there’s an extent to which people’s unwillingness to branch out after freshman year is not going to change,” said sophomore Charlie DePietro, a Craven

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time to build community on West, alluding to thefact that students often go abroad or move to Central Campus after sophomore year. “I think we have reached the conclusion that quads kind of suck,” said sophomore Divya Yerramilli, an at-large representative. Vice President Kevin Thompson, a junior, said the council will be releasing a response to the interim report. Members also shared their reactions to a Chronicle article about over representation of selective living group members on quad councils. “I agree that quad council is not representative [of the student body],” Facilities and Services Chair David Asher, a junior, said, adding that he wonders if independents would fill the positions if the number of affiliated representatives was capped. Yerramilli said she thinks a cap might encourage more independent students to run for quad council positions. But junior Owen Gehrett, a Keohane Quadrangle representative, said a cap will not “resolve the issue of group community.”

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BRODHEAD from page 1 and influential identity outside of the United States. “What is it Duke should be trying to accomplish in the international community?” he asked. He also stressed the importance of attracting strong international talent to the University and breaking down barriers between academia and the growing global community. “A person who can’t navigate outside his native world will not be equipped to deal with the contemporary world,” Brodhead said. Currently, no single country has a monopoly on significant researchers or intellectuals, he added. “We need to be where things are happening so we can grasp new realities,” Brodhead said. He added that the University already has many praiseworthy international endeavors, citing high participation in study-abroad programs and the DukeEngage pilot program last summer as examples of successful global education. Still, Brodhead saidDuke should create a unified plan to establish a more vibrant international community on campus. “We need international efforts to become more concerted and strategic,” he said. “The time comes to ask if these vibrant parts could make a greater whole.” Following the president’s report, McClain spoke about the council’s commitment to ensuring that the views of faculty membersremain consequential on campus. “Each of us is essential to Duke’s excellence,” she said McClain said recent events on campus have challenged the values of the faculty, and added that the academic community must work to rebuild a sense of unity. ‘“The time for healing of the wounds has come.... The time to rebuild is upon us.’” McClain said, quoting Nelson Mandela.

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“In the most difficult of circumstances, Bob and his colleagues directed our attention to areas in which the Duke undergraduate experience could be further strength“There’s a dean of undergraduate education, a dean of Trinity [College], a dean of ened through changes in the classroom Pratt and above all that, a provost.” and beyond,” Lange said in a statement. “I Slattery said finding a replacement anticipate and hope that we will be able to would be “contingent on what happens to continue to draw on his experience and viDean Thompson’s position,” noting it was sion as we continue to grow the programs possible that administrators would decide that he has initiated.” Also among these initiatives, Thompthat there should no longer be a separate dean of Trinity College. son was serving as cochair of the Campus “Bob has been a unique individual in the Culture Initiative Steering Committee, the reins of which have been passed to Nowicki energy, commitment, passion and knowlthat he to the dean’s office—he and Lange for implementation. brings edge After the CCI report drew criticism will be literally impossible to replace in his current form,” George McLendon, dean of from students for many of its proposals, the faculty ofArts and Sciences, wrote in an the Interim Report on the Undergraduate e-mail. “Thus, we Experience was released by Lange are examining a number of ways of “Bob has been a unique individSeptember, in which organizing Trinity ual in the energy, commitment, some ofcountered the CCI [College] to insure that the mo more passion and knowledge that he report’s controversial mentum Bob crebrings to the dean’s office—he findings, such as ated is sustained and advanced.” eliminating selecwill be literally impossible to Because of tive living groups. replace in his current form.” “Because of Nowicki’s appointthe the comway ment, Thompson’s George McLendon, dean mittee operated other position— under strict confivice provost for undergraduate eddentiality, the stuucation—will no longer exist, Provost Peter dent response wasn’t there,” former DSG president Elliot Wolf, a senior, told The Lange confirmed. Chronicle take into acin March after the CCI report “Alignments will certainly count the new opportunities afforded by was released. Dean Nowicki’s charter,” McLendon said. “A Nowicki emphasized that although search will begin soon for a successor who McLendon and other administrators may needs to embody Bob’s commitment to deep make changes to the undergraduate adeducational values and his passion for stuministration to achieve the optimal strucdents and learning—I do not expect that a ture, his own position was not to absorb existing roles. successor will have precisely the same skills.” “Bob’s departure is in no way an opportuDuring his tenure, Thompson focused on undergraduate learning and research and nity for me to do more stuff—it’s not just exspearheaded the implementation ofCurricu- isting responsibilities,” he said. “The question lum 2000, which reshaped Trinity College’s is what needs to be added to work better.” requirements to include the current system Thompson was dean of undergraduate ofmodes of inquiry and areas of knowledge. affairs for two years before he was appointed He also helped engage students in reas dean of Trinity College. His term would search with faculty mentors by encouraging have expired in July 2009, Thompson said. die creation of the Office of Undergradu“I had decided quite awhile ago that ate Research Support. two terms was what I was going to do,” he “We [thought we] should spend a period to said. “You know that’s ahead ofyou at some recast undergraduate education to take advanpoint, so you have to consider, how many years of professional life do you have and tage ofDuke as a research university,” Thompson said. “That’s somethingI can point to with what’s a reasonable retirement?” pride—creating a culture of undergraduate Thompson, who has served as Trinity research for students to do independent studCollege dean since 1999, will retain his apies and engage in honors theses.” pointments in the Department of PsycholAccording to statistics compiled by the ogy and Neuroscience, and said he plans to University, the percentage of Duke seniors focus on teaching and research, particularly who participated in such endeavors rose from in the assessment of teaching and learning. 15 percent in 2002 to 48 percent in 2006, and “It’s been an incredibly great privilege the proportion of students graduating with to serve as dean and make a difference in distinction in their major also increased, from our institution, and more importantly, the 13 percent in 2003 to 21 percent in 2007, durlives of students—that’s what’s been most ing Thompson’s two terms as dean. gratifying,” Thompson said. 1

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canonization, others have come forward with stories of healings they attribute to the new saint. “Many miracles happen, but they are go through with the risky procedure. “I went in to sit down and be quiet for not documented or they don’t have wita minute,” McCord said, recalling the first nesses,” McCord said, The Catholic Church sees a miracle as a time he prayed to the woman who founded the college in 1840. “It occurred to me that sign from God that an individual ought to Mother Theodore was watching over the be made a saint, said Father Joe Vetter, the place and I said, ‘lf you have any influence director of the Newman Catholic Student with God and you could exercise it on my Center at Duke. He added that a miracle is behalf, I’d be really appreciative. usually a healing and must be a measurable The next momphenomenon that occurs outside the ing something was iiOW OOQ answers prayers different. His eye natural course of thl gS n° longer drooped sometimes simply ? w r 1 transcends In March, Maand he felt better. Two weeks later, tie Simon-Pierre, any mechanistic causal his baffled sura French nun, anwp Can formulate that mat WC lOimUlate.... Thf> me nounced that she geon said he no longer needed the most ignorant you can do had been spontaneously cured of transplant. i i i i IS pretend they don t happen. It was not until severe Parkinson’s McCord told his disease ty Mitchell Krucoff, intercession of story to one of the sisters, however, CCLTdiologist Pope John Paul II that he considtwo months after ered the possibilhis death in 2005. ity that Mother Theodore Guerin may have Her claim has been chosen among many as interceded on his behalf from beyond the his first potential miracle and is now being assessed by a team of physicians and other grave. “To tell you the truth, I didn’t really think experts at the Vatican. anything about it,” McCord said. “I thought, Although the symptoms of Parkinson’s well, that was kind of a miracle to me.” disease, a degenerative disorder of the After a rigorous investigation, includcentral nervous system, can be treated, ing examinations by at least 12 physicians, recovering from the illness overnight is the Vatican determined there was no scienunheard of, said Burton Scott, associate tific explanation for McCord’s experience, clinical professor of neurology at Duke’s deeming it a miracle. The healing was at- School of Medicine. But, religion does provide Parkinson’s tributed to Guerin and considered the second of two posthumous miracles required patients—and others with long-term illfor canonization. nesses—with a sense of purpose and value Once virtually blind, McCord, now 60, even when they can no longer care for has had perfect vision ever since and is in themselves, said Harold Koenig, codirector the process of converting to Catholicism. of the Duke Center for Spirituality, TheolYet he is still open to other explanations ogy and Health. for his cured cornea. There is evidence that religious prac“I have no trouble thinking that it might be tices like prayer and meditation may actudivine, but who knows,” McCord said. “Maybe ally impact brain cells, slow the memory someday a doctor will come forward and say, loss that occurs in Alzheimer’s disease and You know, I know exacdy what happened.” delay the cognitive impairment that occurs Remarkable recoveries, however, are with aging, he said. not foreign to doctors. “We can’t study whether or not belief in “We see these totally unexplained enJohn Paul II did the healing,” Koenig said. tities in medicine all the time,” said Dr. “It’s impossible to prove that.” Mitchell Kmc off, a cardiologist at Duke Grappling with the crossroads between University Hospital. religious practices and medical science But, attaching a divine being to one of is also a challenge for Krucoff. His office, these incidents does not help in terms of lined with colorful icons representing relisystematic delivery of health care, said Krugions all over the world, is a sharp contrast coff, who is internationally known for his to the sterile hospital hallway outside. research on alternative medicine. Although medicine has repeatedly tak“How God answers prayers sometimes en cues from cultural healing practices, simply transcends any mechanistic causal literature on the relationship between logic that we can formulate,” he said. “The healing and prayer—one of the world’s most ignorant thing you can do is pretend most ancient therapies—is comparatively they don’t happen.” juvenile, he said. Since McCord’s healing and Guerin’s Krucoffs most recent study, which appage 1

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trionic and even more doctors are relucinto the realm of spiritual healing. The more religious doctors are, the more likely they are to support their patient’s spirituality and integrate it into their care, he added. Like any treatment, prayer can be toxic if patients are overexposed, said Krucoff, who has treated more than a dozen people whose hearts have stopped, defibrillated or have heart attacks during a church service. “In fact, throughout the Bible, there are repeated warnings that if you look too direcdy on the face of God and you are not prepared, you will be destroyed,” he said. Many Catholics choose to voice their prayers through saints instead of speaking directly to God for a similar reason, Vetter said. “Think about coming into the presence of God,” he said. “Maybe a saint is a little less threatening.” This was not the case for McCord, who said his life-changing prayer began as a “regular conversation with God” with a tagline for Mother Guerin. McCord said Providence was “probably the real reason” he spoke to Guerin in her church that morning. tant to venture

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he has been innovative and nomadic. With pit stops in the Canadian Football League and NFL Europe as well as at several colleges, Duke offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Peter Vaas has seen almost everything the football world has to offer, m But for a man who has coached everywhere from Berlin to South Bend, it’s hard to believe Vaas’ career started in a gym in Meadville, Pa.—with a mop. Fresh out Of college and looking for a job after being cut from the CFL only a month into his pro career, Vaas ran into his friend Sam Timer at a wedding. Timer, the head football coach at Allegheny College, said he would put in a good word for Vaas with the school’s athletic director. Soon enough, he had his first solid official job—Janitor of the Gym. Aside from his regular cleaning duties, Vaas assisted the football and basketball teams. Two years later, he was promoted to a position within the physical education department, where he taught badminton and bowling and racquetball. But it was his talent for coaching football that set Vaas apart. In 1979, he was hired as running backs coach at New Hampshire, where he was promoted to offensive coordinator after only four years. Vaas continued to rise through the ranks. After two brief stints with Allegheny again—this time as head coach—and at Notre Dame, he received a job offer he couldn’t refuse when his alma mater,

Holy Cross, offered him the head coaching position in 1992.

Twenty years earlier, Vaas had established himself as both a talented and risky quarterback, walking on his freshman year and starting by his sophomore campaign. In his three years as a starter with the Crusaders, he set nine school passing records including one that still shames him to this day—the most interceptions in a season, 23. “My ego was so strong I felt that I could throw it there,” he said. “As a quarterback, you have to be aggressive, but you have to be humble.” With the Holy Cross football field as a backdrop, Vaas’ transformation from a reckless player to a coach who demanded patience and perfection was dramatic. “The faculty members and the administrators at Holy Cross remembered me as a player—and one of those guys who probably didn’t do the things he was supposed to do right all the time,” Vaas said. “Now you come back and you’re wearing a coat and tie, and trying to be a role model for some young kids and trying to represent the institution.” Things didn’t go quite as Vaas planned, however. After compiling a 14-30 record with the Crusaders, Vaas left Holy Cross. In his 33-year career, that was the only time the coach has left a team with an overall losing record. So, he left a place he loved because, in the end, his team didn’t win enough games. “That’s the bottom line,” he said. “Find away to win. I’m not stuck on, ‘You have to run the ball 100 times,’ and I’m not SEE VAAS ON PAGE

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scoreline did nothing to suggest otherwise. The Blue Devils and the Demon Deacons played to a 1-1 draw after two overtime periods in a typical ACC batde as each team had its chances, but neither was able to finish the game off. Duke entered the game with high hopes ofcollecting a victory to create some space in a tight conference race with just four games remaining on the ACC schedule. Unfortunately, the team came out with very little energy in die first half, allowing Wake Forest to establish a rhythm and take control early. The Demon Deacons scored just one goal, but the margin could have been greater as they outshot the Blue Devils 6-1 in the opening period. Defender Christie McDonald noted that the overall team defense was weak, placing extra pressure on

die back line and ultimately resulting in the opposition’s goal. During the break, head coach Robbie Church emphasized the need to work harder and give a greater effort in order to get a result against a very strong team. “We challenged our girls at halftime to be able to turn this game around,” Church said. Needing a goal to tie the score, Duke changed its formation to a 3-4-3, a set-up that the team had not employed all season. The team responded impressively and played extremely well on both sides of the ball in the second half. “I diink everyone decided to pick up the pressure, which makes it easy on the back four,” McDonald said. “They weren’t getting back to our line as much so we were able to handle their forwards.” McDonald also contributed to the offensive effort in the second half, as she played up alongside the Duke forwards in the new formation. Forward Elisabeth Redmond said that it was helpful to have a tall player like McDonald up front to help hold WILLIAM LIEW/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO

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Sophomore CJ.Ludemann scoredthe Blue Devik only goalagainst Wake Forest Thursday night in Winston-Salem.

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VOLLEYBALL Duke travels to Delaware for 2 matches No. 10 Duke (8-6), coming off a big win against then-No. 10 Old Dominion (8-7) at Norfolk, Va., will travel north again this weekend when it faces off Saturday against Delaware (9-6) and Sunday against Penn (6-7). Both games will be held at Rullo Stadium in Newark, Del. Delaware goes into Saturday’s game on a irayor slump, having lost its last four games and six of its last eight contests. Included in that losing streak was its most recent game, against Maryland, in which it lost 7-0 to the defending national champions. The Blue Hens mustered only a single shot and the loss was the second-worst in Delaware’s history. Penn, meanwhile, comes into Sunday’s showdown with almost the exact opposite streak. Although they have lost their last two games, the Quakers fell in those contests by one goal each and have won six of their past nine contests. Penn features a balanced attack, as four ofits players have at least 11 points and three of those players tie for the team lead in goals with five. The Blue Devils beat the Blue Hens last year 5-1 in the second game of the season. In that game, Duke raced out to a 4-0 lead in just 27 minutesand cruised the rest of the way, taking 17 shots while holding Delaware to just six. Duke did not play Penn last year.

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The Blue Devils walk into Cameron Indoor Stadium tonight trying to do something they haven’t done since 2004 —rebound from an ACC home loss. After suffering its first conference loss of the season, No. 17 Duke (14-4, 9-1 in the ACC) will look to successfully finish VS. its four-game homestand with matches against Virginia Tech and Virginia. TONIGHT, 7 p.m. Following a strenuCameron Indoor ous schedule that saw the Blue Devils playing five games over a & 10-day span, rejuvenation is the team’s top VS. priority. “Getting rest was very significant for us this week,” head SATURDAY, 7 p.m. coach Jolene Nagel Cameron Indoor said. “After playing in two tough matches, we needed to deal with not only the physical demands, but the emotional ones as well.” Duke takes on Virginia Tech tonight at 7 p.m. in what might prove to be a batde of the defenses. While the Hokies have held opponents to a .152 hitting percentage, their biggest strength on the defensive side may be blocking. ACC blocks leader Felicia Willoughby is averaging 1.57 per game, which ranks her among the top-15 blockers in the country. To match up with the imposing Virginia Tech defense, libero Jenny Shull’s consistency will be key for the Blue Devils’ success. After a productive weekend in which the senior recorded over 34 digs

each match, she is within 100 digs of taking over the ACC’s all-time digs record. Junior Jourdan Norman will also be crucial at the net, as she averages a team-high 1.33 blocks per game. On Saturday, Duke will have to switch gears and prepare for a powerful Virginia offense. The Cavaliers are lead by threetime all-conference hitter Sarah Kirkwood, who is second in the ACC, averaging 3.17 blocks per game. The senior has recorded over 300 kills this season, matched only by the Blue Devils’ middle hitter Carrie DeMange. After coming up short against an impressive blocking team in Clemson, Duke focused on changing things up offensively, getting more creative on its attacks. The Blue Devils need their senior tandem of DeMange and Ali Hausfeld to step up once again and dominate the defense. Hausfeld continues to set the pace for setters around the nation, averaging 14.25 assists a game. DeMange leads the conference recording 5.13 kills per game, good enough to break top-10 in the nation. The Blue Devils hope to avoid falling into the habit of getting behind early in matches, with their last two games resulting in 0-2 starts. Nagel reaffirmed the importance of maintaining the momentum early rather than letting their opponents set the tempo. “Losing the first two games is never in the game plan for us,” Nagel said. “Our team is mature enough to understand that we can’t continue to do that and bail ourselves out. We need to get a great start this weekend. Every match is critical, but we’re going to focus on the first point of the first match.” Following the weekend at home, Duke heads back out on the road, traveling north to face Boston College Oct. 26 and Maryland Oct. 28.

in so far, winning the NCAA Fall Preview and the Tar Heel Invitational while finishing third at the Mason Rudolph Women’s Championship to start the season. In the past four years that Duke has participated in the tournament, the team has won it twice, in 2005 and in 2003. Last year, Vanderbilt claimed the tide as the Blue Devils placed seventh, finishing 27 strokes back. However, Amanda Blumenherst and Jennie Lee did not play last year. This year, Blumenherst and Lee will travel with the team, in addition to Alison Whitaker, Jennifer Pandolfi, Kim Donovan and Rebecca Kim, who will compete in the tournament as an individual.

Duke players successful in regional play Junior Jessi Robinson won two matches Thursday in the qualifying round of the ITA Southeast Regional Championships, defeating Adrianne Hodges of Wofford, 61, 6-1 and later beating Jo-Ann VanAerde of Louisville 6-1, 6-3. She joins six other Blue Devils in the main draw of the tournament Friday morning, as Melissa Mang, Amanda Granson, Reka Zsilinszka, Elizabeth Plotkin, Tory Zawacki and Ellah Nze will also play in the first round. So far, the only matchups known are Granson against Tennessee’s Rosalia Alda, Zsilinska versus Anja Gugger of Appalachian Blue Devils go west to take on nation’sbest State, Zawacki and Tennessee’s Samandia OrTop-ranked Duke will head across the lin and Nze with Kelsey Linville of Davidson. In addition to advancing seven Duke country to compete in the Stanford Inter6,092, at in singles play, the duos of Plotkin players October 19-21 the parcollegiate -71 Stanford Golf Course. Among the top and Zsilinszka, Granson and Mang, and Robinson and Nze all received first-round teams competing in the tournament are No. 2 UCLA, No. 4 Arizona State, No. 7 byes in doubles action. The 2007 ITA Southeast Regional ChamArizona and No. 9 Georgia. held at Cone-Kenfield Tennis Devils have won two out of pionships, The Blue the three tournaments they have played Center at UNC, will run from Oct. 17-22.

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and coach college football. But nothing made him budge until Notre Dame came calling. With a wife and two daughters living halfway around the world, Vaas said this job change was less about football and more about his family and the costs of living on two continents. Even after Fiesta and Sugar Bowl appearances in his first two years with the Fighting Irish, the nomadic coach was ready to move again. This time, though, the reasons for taking the offensive coordinator position at Duke seemed less clear than his previous choices. After all, the Blue Devils lost 95 games in the decade preceding Vaas’ arrival, almost 70-percent as many contests as he has ever lost as a coach. Having compiled a 207-136-4 lifetime record while working in cities like Montreal, Barcelona, Berlin and Cologne, why would he come to a school that has struggled so much recently? “I think one of the things that is extremely attractive about Duke is the fact that it’s a great opportunity for a football coach,” Vaas said. “It is the opportunity to see a program that hasn’t enjoyed as many

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wins as they would like start to enjoy many, many wins.” Although they have won only one game so far this season, the Blue Devils have already improved substantially, especially on offense. Lewis has established himself as the leader of one of the ACC’s premier aerial attacks, and the formerquarterback-turned-offensive coordinator has been a major influence in the sophomore’s marked growth. Vaas gives Lewis the advice he wishes he would have taken decades ago. Do not throw the ball under duress. If it’s not there, throw it out ofbounds. Tuck it and run it if you can get the five yards. “When you throw that interception, you never want to go back and face him,” Lewis said. “Because he told you not to do it.” Vaas commands respect from his players with his attitude, his confidence and, perhaps most importantly, his years of experience. But he also knows that success should be accompanied by humility, as the long road that brought him to Durham started long ago with him sweeping floors in a gym.

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off bigger defenders The Blue Devils had many more shots on goal in the second period and in the overtime sessions, outshooting the Demon Deacons 8-4 in that span, including a 7-0 edge in the last 37 minutes of the game. After midfielder CJ Ludemann netted the tying goal from 35 yards out with 12 minutes left, the team had a few opportunities to win the game but could not convert. “I think we definitely should have won that game,” Ludemann said. “We were attacking them left and right—we just couldn’t get a goal.” But the theme that resonatedfrom the team after the game was not its inability to score; it was its uninspired play in the first half. “It’s a little frustrating. We have spurts of great soccer, and we have spurts that are not so great,” McDonald said. “We have to perform for the entire game.” With only three weeks left before the ACC tournament and a tough road until then, Church similarly emphasized the importance of playing hard for the entire game. “We’re not going to win in this league not playing 90 minutes,” he said.

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Rennie, for the seniors and for the team’s postseason chances. The Blue Devil seniors, in particular, felt the gravity of their situation, meeting outside of normal practice hours to discuss their team’s recent struggles and to ensure that they were at their best coming into senior night —their game. “We discussed the losses, and I think we really came up with a good game plan for approaching this next stretch,” goalkeeper Justin Papadakis said. “One strength of this team is the amount of senior and upperclass leadership, so I think coming together as one and brainstorming, we were able to put up a united front to place the rest of the team on the right track despite the difficult circumstances we’ve had the last two games.” Duke’s last two losses have come to ACC opponents—a 4-2 loss against Boston College Oct. 5 and a double-overtime 1-0 defeat at North Carolina Oct. 11. Despite the outcome of those two contests, Duke is still ranked among the top-10 scoring offenses nationally and, with senior Tim Jepson back for his second start to bolster the defense, the team can expect to get back into a better rhythm with its veteran leader. “We haven’t gotten the results that we’ve wanted and this game is a great opportunity to play against a good team, a nice chance to measure ourselves,” assistant coach Mike Jeffries said. “There’s a little bit of frustration. We feel like we’re better than the results that have come our way—it’s a tough game on that end—and we want to put on a better show.” The Blue Devils, however, will have

their hands full with the Demon Deacons, one of the most well-rounded teams

in the nation. With an offense that is ranked third in the country and a defense ranked sixth, Wake Forest poses a huge challenge for Duke. Leading the powerful offense are freshman midfielder Corben Bone and sophomore forward Cody Arnoux, who have each averaged over 1.5 points per game. “They’re a very good team,” Jeffries said, “They move the ball really well, they have a lot of good technical players. They’ve been able to stay well enough organized defensively that they’ve kept games tight and then they’ve got enough creative guys to make a play to score a goal.” On top of that, Wake Forest has plenty of motivation. Last year, the Blue Devils had two wins by just a single goal against the Demon Deacons—one in the regular season and one in the ACC championship—and Duke expects this season’s game to be just as close. “It’s been a crazy game every year just one of those games, like the Carolina game in a sense, where it’s just one goal [that matters],” senior forward Spencer Wadsworth said. “But we’re not intimidated by any means. We know they’re a good team, and we have to respect them.” With the level of talent on this team and expectations it has for itself, the Blue Devils should not feel intimidated by any opponent, particularly on an evening celebrating all their accomplishments. Senior night ceremonies along with the celebration of Rennie’s career and retirement will start approximately 10 minutes before kickoff in Koskinen.

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In elections, keep eye on Durham crime

Duke settlesinto its roudents of the danger of robbery, tine every fell, scattered and the Duke University Police incidents of crime in Department added that armed and around Durham invariably robberies so close to campus make headlines, reminding the are rare. There was little elsefor the administration community to do and most stuthat the world GdltOflSl dents understood just outside the socalled campus bubble is not that there was no cause for any always as safe as we wouldwish. kind ofmass alarm. The University should also be commended This fall was no exception. During Fall Break, for swiftly informing students three students were mugged who live off campus about two in the parking lot in front of incidents at off-campus apartWhole Foods—within clear ments this week. Many urban colleges and sight of the low stone wall that surrounds East Campus. universities are in neighborIt was three in the morning, hoods with elevated risks of crime, and Duke has a largely and the trio—two male graduate students and a female effective private police force undergraduate—had few al- and security system. A feeling of safety on camternative walking routes. Vice President for Student pus does not, however, proAffairs Larry Moneta quickly mote a willingness to explore sent out an e-mail warning stubeyond Duke’s boundaries. A

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trip to Northgate Mall, for example, is considered by many students to be a risky endeavor, whether the perception is warranted or not As a result, most Duke students simply don’t go to the major Durham outlet. Monday, a young man was fatally stabbed inside the mall itself. Northgate has been trying to rebrand itself for quite some time. But renovating its movie theater simply isn’t enough to curb the current perception so many Duke students have of the mall. Indeed, as long as the Northgate remains unsafe, Duke students will be reluctant to visit it That’s true ofmuch of the rest ofDurham as well. It is, as we have seen, an unfortunate fact at present The slight risk might not keep us away ifwe really want

something, but it will deter many of us from spontaneously wandering into some

off-campus areas, especially

late at night. Durham loses our business and we lose yet another potential connection with the city around us. The solution to this evident problem is by no means ' clear cut. Brightleaf Square, however, stands one notable exception to what appears to be therule. Brightleaf is not as often viewed as dangerous or edgy, and many ofus visit freely and often. This is due in large part to the cocoon of police officers who blanket the area on weekends. Concentrating police officers in problematic areas is a simple and effective solution, used in many urban areas. The success of this tactic in Brightleaf suggests that

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drinkers, take note. Your anathema has a name. And it’s Jack Bauer. Well, actually, it’s Kiefer Sutherland, Emmy Award-winning star of the TV series “24” and the latest in the infamous line of Hollywood drunk drivers grantr Mly lenient ev 'd ab>surdly le^ I punishments. The wmm whole sordid affair of his recent DUI showcases inconsistent enforcement of laws among the rich and powerful. That in itself is nothing new. What please hire, desperate makes his case even more astonishing than those of contemporaries Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Ritchie is that after pleading no contest to charges, he was granted an individually-tailored 48-day jail sentence that he gets to serve in between shooting this season’s show. Thanks, law enforcement. I’m sure we’re all glad to hear that finding out whether Bauer saves the world from fictional terrorists is more important than saving, you know, actual humans. Fine, Sutherland is either an alcoholic or ajackass (probably both). Why does that make him the arch nemesis of potential underage drinkers? Think back to the last party you attended that was broken up by the cops. The neurotic door checking, the horror when you realized IDs were being requested, the final no-holds-barred sprint to a thick, leafy hiding spot. What if you’d been legally allowed to drink at 18? Wouldn’t that have made things a lot better? One of the most salient reasons for America’s high minimum drinking age is prevention of road deaths due to drunk driving. In the 19705, minimum drinking ages were lowered along with voting ages to 18, 19 or 20 in a number of states, but the lowered ages carried with them increases in the number of alcohol related accidents, causing advocacy groups to pressure lawmakers to officially raise the minimum age back to 21. This actually decreased DUI related mortality, and, because young Americans have shown few signs of responsible drinking around motor vehicles since, likely as a result of high profile instances of inconsistent punishment and American laws that only tenuously :

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it should be employed more widely in Durham. Current Durham Mayor Bill Bell and City Councilman Thomas Stith, both running for mayor, will visit Duke as they campaign. This will give us an ideal opportunity to make sure they know that we care about crime in our city. The crime problem in Durham has become one of the main focuses of both candidates’ campaigns. We can consider their insights and proposals, and then tell the candidates what we think Together, the Duke community forms a significant voting bloc, one too large for the candidates to overlook Let’s not waste our opportunity to add our collective weight toihe fight against crime in theBull City.

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connect conscientiousness to DUI, we’ve never had a chance to prove otherwise.

To begin, the law focuses more on circumstance than on individual decision-making. The severity of punishment for a DUI depends on whether an accident occurred or someone was injured, which is more a function of chance than of the autonomous decision to get behind the wheel and risk others’ lives. American laws also focus more on drinking itself than on reckless driving. In some European countries, young adults can drink practically as soon as they can see over the bar, but they can’t drive until they’re 18. This gives people time to become accustomed to drinking sensibly before they have the opportunity to endanger others. It also puts the emphasis back on driving responsibly rather than on abstinence, which is especially oppressive for American college kids and often leads to

binge drinking.

The extant laws and their dubious enforcement among celebrities combine to create a situation that breeds irresponsibility, thus con-

firming the hypothesis that young adults can’t handle their liquor and making you vulnerable for having a beer at a party. (You can Bauer now.) slap While none of us can reasonably expect to influence stars’ partying habits, or turn the gin-shy United States into the pleasantly sauced European Union, at the very least, we can try to convince others that drinking among teens and twenty-somethings doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing situation we can’t control, even if big stars are totally unwilling to get on the wagon. We can do this by focusing on the impact of a decision like Sutherland’s, like the guilt and pain that would have transpired had he actually injured someone or the selfishness implicit in choosing to drive under the influence rather than shell out a measly $2O for a cab. Which brings me to the most puzzling question of all-and the reason I’d most like to backhand this column’s namesake-why in hell doesn’t a twotime DUI veteran who makes $400,000 an episode have a freaking chauffeur? (In other news, I am on probation for flagrant punning on show titles. I’ll be serving time in between episodes of “24.”) to arrest

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is something almost sacred about the experience. Those present form an everlasting bond; they know what everyone else has gone through It is a brotherhood unlike any other. It’s a free Duke T-shirt

distribution Okay, so maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration (or a lot of an exaggeration), but it’s hard to argue that The Free T-Shirt is not important to your average Duke student. For the allie VerdOtZ reputation we have of bewith a gram of salt ing a little stuck-up and rich, we sure have a weakness for these costless cotton commodities And it’s a wonder to me that some people still haven’t caught on to this fact. Yes, Campus Council, I mean you. Now, don’t get angry and say we’re just a mad mob, totally uncontrollable and beyond hope. We already know that we are. That is why we are in need of some intense cattle-like wrangling. For those ofyou present at the Homecoming T-shirt distribution last Friday, you know what I’m talking about. We were at the mercy of those with the beloved brown boxes. It was one of three experiences in my time here at Duke during which I actually feared for my life—the first being the cursed LDOC T-shirt distribution last year and, the second, the goal post incident earlier this fall. Now, I’m not saying we should eliminate The Free Tshirt distribution. I fear that would lead to anarchy (although that was the same word I heard repeatedly to describe Friday). And I’m not saying I blame Campus Council all that much. I really don’t. After all, they were giving us the screen-printed shirts we adore —we just can’t control ourselves in any civil manner. So I’d like to propose some general guidelines for distribution of The Free T-Shirt. By no means are these hardand-fast rules, they are just thoughts gathered from my experiences collecting T-shirts in my time here. First and foremost, be prompt. If you advertise free T-shirts at 6:00 p.m. then you should begin dis.

August, I have eagerly anticipating what can only—in the words of boxing promoter Don King—be described as the most “fantabulously splendiferous” three-day period on the Duke calendar—Homecoming Weekend. I waited for Homecoming with the same anxiety that I waited for Patrick Patterson and Greg Monroe to commit to Duke, except this time, I was not scorned. Homerice coming would never I, me because just deny sexual chocolate in my meaningless majorless existence, am in a downward spiral toward mediocrity. This year, once again, Homecoming Weekend did not let me down. Well, kind of. I suppose Virginia Tech did destroy our football team and Piketoberfest was pretty low on alcohol, but, to be honest, the Homecoming Step Show was the only event I really looked forward to. For those of you unfamiliar with the step shows that the National Pan-Hellenic Council—the umbrella organization for historically black greek letter organizations—hosts at Duke during Homecoming Weekend and the Black Student Alliance Invitational Weekend, or stepping in general, think of the movie “Stomp the Yard,” with less flash and melodrama. If you have not seen “Stomp the Yard”—which you probably have not, considering it is, at best, a C-plus movie—then think of “Riverdance” with a bit more soul. With Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. taking the sorority title and the brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. figuratively and literally stepping over their competition (again), this year’s step show did not disappoint in terms of performance level. I got my two-and-a-half hour fix of stepping for the semester; I was content. I left Page Auditorium, choosing to forgo the after-party and its entry fee, and followed the friends that I had gone to the show with to a number of different section parties. As I made my way through a crowded hallway, I realized that I had just left what can be considered a “black event” for a white one. That night, I had passed through what essentially are two separate worlds at Duke*' I was unsettled. As I made my way through a sea of white people, I would never have known that I attended a university with the highest percentage of black students of the US News & World Report’s top 10 colleges. It appeared that there were separately thriving black and white social scenes divided by greek life at Duke. Yes, there is some overlap. Every now and then you run into a party at Shooters cohosted by one historically black fraternity or sorority and one unofficially historically white greek letter organization. Overall, however, there is an undeniable divide, and there is not much Duke—both students and administrators—has done to bridge the gap. The largest roadblock, aside from the obvious fact that black students tend to pledge historically black fraternities and sororities, is geographical separation. Not a single one of the NPHC fraternities has an official section, and black fraternities generally all block on Central Campus. This geographical segregation effectively segregates the Duke social scene. Black freshmen and sophomores tend to go to Central Campus while their white peers go to West for section parties. Many black students move to Central Campus after sophomore year, while proportionally fewer white students leave West Campus. All of this separation inhibits everything that college should be about. We do not experience the diversity that Duke offers. A historically black fraternity needs a section on West Campus. My only experiences with black greek life at Duke should not be limited to two step shows a year at Page Auditorium, no matter how much soul Phi Beta Sigma’s step team may have.

tributing them no later than 6:01 p.m. The longer you wait, the larger the mob. And we all know that doesn’t lead to a nice situation. Second, size matters. When I go for a free shirt, I know I want a small. I don’t want to fight the people bigger and taller than me who are hoping for an XL. I’m 4’11”, for crying out loud; that would not fare well for my health and safety. Separate the T-shirts by size, in a well-labeled manner, and put them on tables a good distance from each other. Dispelling the mob can only be an.improvement. Third, line us up. I don’t care if I’m patronized to the point where I feel like I’m in kindergarten again, following my peers to lunch in a single-file line along a piece of tape on the ground (OK, so maybe my elementary school wa& a bit excessive). -Make us line up ahead of time —and maintain the line. The LDOC T-shirt distribution last year got the first part down. We were all in a nice line extending from the Plaza onto Main West; we just didn’t stay that way once the distribution started. People must be there to preserve order. Fourth—and this is just more of a preference keep it on Main West Quadrangle. The West Campus Plaza is much too small to contain the enthusiasm and the crowd inherent to T-shirt distribution. As we all know from LDOC last year, those steps make for a dangerous situation, and based on my experience at the Homecoming T-shirt distribution this year, I fear falling over the plaza railing. In fact, there was one point where both of my feet were off the ground, and I was literally suspended within the crowd. Kind of scary so close to the edge. Finally, and most importantly, do not cop out on us. We’ve shown time and time again our dedication to the ritual of free T-shirt distribution. I’ve heard some people suggest just giving so many shirts to each dorm or equally lame proposals. We are Duke. We tent for basketball games. We deserve only that which we earn. Give the T-shirts to those who wait in line, who stand up in the face of great adversity, who understand the pride and courage needed to earn the right to say, “Yes, I got The Free T-Shirt.”

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Allie Vergotz is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.

Jordan Rice is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every otherFriday.

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