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Imagine seeing your family only once a year, packing for college with a two-suitcase limit and having to budget 150 minutes of cell phone use over the course of a week. These issues may never cross the mind of most other Duke students, but for junior Maria Daudji, hailing from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, these are just the facts of life. Daudji requested to be interviewed for this article in person because, with a limited cell-phone plan, a lengthy phone conversation could have been costly. “When I got a 'one freshman year, I did not know how es in the Unit'and I , calls using my cell phone and I got charged a really, really, really big bill,” she said, adding that she now uses a prepaid phone, email and text messages to stay in touch with family and friends. Daudji is one of 59 students who qualify for,financial al undergraduates at Duke, according to figures obtained from the Undergraduate Financial Aid Office and the International House. Although international students must adjust to the language, a new culture and other logistical challenges of working and studying in a foreign country, these problems are only compounded by the necessity to budget wisely for those who qualify for need-based aid. “[lnternational students’] expenses are way curtailed,” said Oindri Mitra, a junior from Jamshedpur, India. “Duke is a pretty expensive school, and I feel like a lot of times, our parents put pressure

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Tickets for the cancelled Joshua Radin show, which was originally scheduled for Feb. 18, will be refunded to all ticket holders, Duke University Union officials confirmed Monday. Radin’s agents said yesterday thatthe acoustic singer-songwriter could not reschedule to perform at Duke because of a busy agenda, said juniors Chamindra Goonewardene and Vincent Ling, co-chairs of DUU’s Major Attractions committee. Goonewardene, DUU’s presidentelect, said the committee decided to refund all tickets either Tuesday or Wednesday oflast week. .^As^-Monday-night, -tickethave not yet been notified by the Union that they had had the option to refund their tickets for almost a week. Several students with tickets to last Monday’s show said the committee should have informed ticket holders that refunding was an option as soon as it made its decision. “It’s definitely their responsibility [to keep us informed],” freshman Ghisly Echezuria said. “We bought the tickets —we should know what’s going on with them.” Goonewardene said the committee did not publicize the information because they wanted to confirm whether or not the show could be rescheduled. “We should have publicized it more, I agree,” he said. “I don’t think anyone was really put at a disadvantage by us not relaying that information.” Committee members are looking into subsidizing tickets to a show Radio will play at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, March 20, Ling said. The market price for tickets to the March show, at -

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Junior Maria Daudji, an international student from Tanzania on financial aid, said she is unable to bring many ofher belongings to Duke because she is limited to carrying two bags on an airplane. on us to save.” Daudji said she has worked since freshman year to help pay for room and board, and this year, she became a resident assistant in Gilbert-Addoms Residence Hall, a position that covers those expenses. Many international students also said they only go home over the summer, a common occurrence when long flights or expensive tickets pose problems. Daudji said packing for college with

only two suitcases—the standard baggage limit for international flights—is an added annoyance many face. “I just brought a lot of clothes and some of the basic stuff I needed, but then I had to get bedding and all of that stuff here,” she said. “I fit everything into two suitcases. It was fun. My mom helped me a lot.” In addition, international students encounter difficulties securing visas for SEE INTERNATIONAL ON PAGE 8

Survey says Duke crime among worst by

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The shooting at Northern Illinois University has prompted internal and external reviews of safety procedure at schools around thenation.

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In the past year, shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University have challenged the notion of an insulated college campus immune from danger. Reader’s Digest this month ranked U.S. colleges and universities based on the number ofcrimes reported on campus and on a survey conducted by the magazine of important on-campus safety measures. Sweet Briar College, located in Virginia, was at the top of the campus crime rankings, making it the safest school according to the survey. Duke, however, landed near the bottom of the survey’s list, placing 244th out of 285 schools. The magazine used data from a U.S. Department of Education compilation of Clery Reports, a report ofcrime statistic that universities are required to release each year by law. The crime rankings were based on the number ofcrimes reported per SEE SAFETY ON PAGE

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Iran planned nuclear program VIENNA, Austria The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency presented documents Monday that diplomats said indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003 the year that a U.S. intelligence report says such work stopped. Iran again denied ever trying to make such arms. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency, dismissed the information showcased by the body as "forgeries."

Turkey says 41 rebels killed CUKURCA,Turkey Turkey's military said Monday it had killed 41 more separatist Kurdish rebels in clashes in northern Iraq, raising the reported guerrilla death toll in its crossborder operation to 153. A statement posted on the military's Web site also said two more soldiers were killed in fighting, but gave no details,The deaths would drive the total Turkish military fatalities since the start of the incursion Thursday to 17.

U.S. NEWS BUSINESS AP Poll: Obama takes big leads Visa to raise large IPO WASHINGTON Barack Obama has taken clear leads over Hillary Rodham Clinton among white men, middle-income earners and liberals, allowing him to catch his faltering rival in their race for the Democratic presidential nomination, a national poll showed Monday. The Associated Press-lpsos survey highlights how the bottom is falling out among some supporters of Clinton, the New York senator, since the last survey was taken two weeks ago. Since that poll, Obama has gained momentum by winning 11 consecutive primaries and caucuses while taking a small lead among delegates to the party's convention this summer. The Illinois senator leads Clinton by 23 percentage points among white men and by 17 points among liberals groups that were evenly divided between the two in early February. He has a similar advantage among people earning $50,000 to $lOO,OOO annually whom she led earlier by 13 points. is low-income tuition 'ersity is eliminating tuition 'hose parents earn less than lecisions by fellow Ivy League :o bolster financial aid as their >nts grow. university, in Providence, iid on Saturday that it also med to substitute grants for ident loans in the financial aid ickages of students whose imilies earned less than <lOO,OOO a year.The new program cuts reliance on loans for all students regardless of family income, the university said in a statement posted on its Web site.

ENTERTAINMENT Worst ratings ever for Oscars NEW YORK —The Oscars are a ratings dud. Nielsen Media Research says preliminary ratings for the 80th annual Academy Awards telecast are 14 percent lower than the leastwatched ceremony ever. Nielsen said Monday that overnight ratings are also 21 percent lower than last year, when "The Departed" was named best picture. The least-watched Oscars ceremony ever was when there were 33 million viewers. 2003, in

SPORTS Edwards wins NASCAR race FONTANA, Calif. For Carl Edwards, it's a signal. At least one NASCAR Sprint Cup team is ready to take on Hendrick Motorsports. Edwards won the rain-delayed Auto Club 500 on Monday, finishing ahead of Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon. In a race that resumed with the 88th of 250 laps, Edwards assumed the lead for good with 13 laps left.

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Another university has fallen prey to the phishing attack that targeted Duke beginning in mid-January. James Madison University’s student newspaper, The Breeze, reported Monday the online hoax victimized the school. JMU Information Technology alerted students, faculty and staff Friday that a message appearing to come from the school’s help desk was sent to e-mail account users asking for personal information. At Duke, messages appearing to be from the Office of Information Technology threatened to cut users off from their e-mail accounts unless they responded to the e-mails with their passwords. Klara Jelinkova, OIT director of computing systems, said in a statement that the attack was difficult to halt because the phishers frequently changed the address from which they operated. Princeton University, Columbia University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame are a few of nearly one dozen schools targeted by the phishing scam, SecurityFocus, an Web site that tracks Internet security issues, reported Feb. 1. Phishers are very difficult to identify, and the Web site also reported that the Princeton Office ofInformationTechnology recendy blocked phishing activity from a computer belonging to a domain registered to Nigeria.

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Setting aside their preconceived notions of gender, 25 members of the Duke community gathered Monday afternoon in the Mary Lou Williams Center to dissect a “dirty” word: feminism. In an event sponsored by the Women’s Center, Shira Tarrant employed her book “Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power”—an anthology of essays submitted by men from around the country and the world—as a springboard for further discussions ofmale stereotypes and the apparent paradox of being a feminist man. “[Feminism] conjures images of whiny, bitchy women with sanctimonious complaints about men,” said Tarrant, an assistant professor of women’s studies at California State University, Long Beach. “And the men who call themselves ‘feminist?’ If they aren’t simply whipped, it’s a cheap ploy at getting laid. Or so the story goes.” She said it is important to redefine perceptions of feminism in order to curb violence against women and galvanize men to embrace new roles as women’s supporters. Jonathan Ravarino, a social worker with Counseling and Psychological Services and a contributor to the anthology, described himself as a women’s advocate and explained that he arrived at that identity from an upbringing rooted in conceptions of traditional masculinity. “I was raised to be strong and competitive and derive my worth out of doing well in school, doing well in sports, doing well with having intimate relationships, having sex,” he said. “I’d been socialized to speak first and listen second, but I moved into a

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Shira Tarrant, an assistant professor at California State University, Long Beach, reads excerpts from her book "Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Power and Sexuality" at a discussion Monday afternoon.

place of listening to women and through that, I was informed about a different way of being a man.” Ravarino described having a Y chromosome as a privilege and cautioned against underestimating men’s capacity to change, “Being a woman’s ally is the rent I pay for being a man,” he said. “Just when you think men can’t change, they change just a little bit.”

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Couple packs up family to treat mothers in Kenya by

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In America, it is unimaginable for a develop obstetric fistula. The condition is caused by prolonged labor and consists of a hole between her vagina and rectum or bladder, causing uncontrollable urine and bowel fluid leakage. It is often found in rural settings that lack adequate health care. And it’s one reason why Dr. Jeffrey Wilkinson and his wife, Dr. Sumera Hayat, are preparing to move their family to Eldoret, Kenya. The couple aims to expand the University’s involvement in maternal health issues in less wealthy communities around the world by partnering with Moi University, the America/sub-Saharan Africa Network for Training and Education in Medicine Consortium and the Academic Model for Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS program. Wilkinson, an assistant professor of urogynecology, completed his fellowSPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE ship concentrating in obstetric fistula. western He cited Dr. Jeffrey Wilkinson (left), an assistant professor at Duke, and his wife, Dr. Sumera Hayat, a clinical associate at Kenya as an epicenter of maternal health issues including the Duke University Medical Center, will move theirfamily to Kenya to treat maternal health issues. fistula, which can cause a woman to be ostracized by her community, putting Hayat, a clinical associate at the Duke needs of people living with HIV, which her life and the life of her child in even University Medical Center, said she and would be finding regular food, work and more danger. her husband have been waiting for the schooling for orphans,” she said. “They “You have women who are already maropportunity to do an overseas maternal highlighted these specific needs and realized with a little bit of input into these barginalized by their gender and the social health project, noting that when her famstructure,” said Wilkinson, who is also coriers they could change the lives of people ily last went to Kenya, they were immedidirector of the Center for Minimally Inately attracted to AMPATH’s impressive living with HIV. They’re trying to empower vasive Gynecologic Surgery. “Then when HIV/AIDS program, which provides a wide people to make their lives better.” you add in that they are unable to have range of services including home-based Hayat emphasized the importance of sex, they are unable to have children, testing, treatment, education and basic re- working with an existing organization and and they stink—they suffer unimaginable sources for people living with HIV/AIDS. building trust with the community. “We didn’t want to just start a clinic unconsequences.” “They’ve been able to figure out the woman to

less we were able to address the needs that the Kenyans have,” she said. Wilkinson, who said he has spent his career addressing the needs of women in underserved populations, said ASANTE recognized that its women’s reproductive health care was lacking and needed an academic institution to take the lead on the issues. More than 500,000 women around the world die each year during childbirth for a variety of reasons, including eclampsia, hemorrhage, infection, poor health care resources and obstetric fistula, according to the World Health Organization. But with the outbreak of violence in Kenya, causing population displacement and 1,000-plus deaths since the allegedly rigged presidential elections Dec. 27, Wilkinson and Hayat may or may not change the location of their project in order to best provide comfort for their children. No matter where the doctors and team choose to work, their vision of opening a clinic, reducing maternal mortality and training local African doctors, nurses and traditional birth attendants will remain the same, they said. “There is so much poverty, lack of resources, devastation going on from HIV/AIDS [and] gaps between the rich and the poor that it perpetuates this cycle where people with less power seem to always get the worse end of the stick and women and children bear the brunt of a lot of the suffering,” Hayat said. “The whole community here in North Carolina wants to find a partnership with another community in the world and to work with them to help empower the residents.”

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From free Class of 2008 iPods online lecture recordings, the technological aspeceof Duke academics is steadily expanding. Since the formation of the Duke Digital Initiative three years ago, the University has implemented a range of programs to integrate technology into the classroom and enhance the learning process. Tablet PCs, digital video equipment and podcasts —all by-products of the initiative —are now frequently incorporated in classes ranging from the Spanish department to the engineering quadrangle. With the new additions, several on-campus offices are working with staff members and professors to make classes more accessible via technology. “Our role is to meet with faculty and try to understand their needs so that we can direct them to the right technology... rather than just put technologies out there and expect that faculty will adopt them,” said Yvonne Belanger, head of program evaluation at the Center for Instructional Technology. She noted that some technologies have been more widely applicable than others. “It’s clear that Blackboard has to

been adopted by most classes that have a use for it,” Belanger said. According to the CIT Web site, 80 percent of arts and sciences faculty, excluding instructors such as graduate students and visiting professors, have activated at least one Blackboard course Web site in the past two years. Belanger said professors who choose not to use Blackboard often design their own course Web sites or teach courses with enrollments small enough to make communication via Blackboard unnecessary. Though Blackboard is the most widely-used tool, technologies such as Tablet PCs have enjoyed niche success. This semester, 17 faculty members received Tablet PC loans through the DDI, up from 15 last semester. Lisa Huettel, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been using Tablet PCs in her classes since Spring 2006. In a video posted on the CIT Web site she said the Tablet PCs helped to “bridge the gap” between classroom lectures and laboratory work. She added that the integration of Tablet PCs was “a great exercise in increasing student engagement.” Sophomore Emily Poplawski, a student in one of Huettel’s classes, wrote in an e-mail that the Tablet PC transformed the

class into a more personal interaction between students and the professor. The use of Tablet PCs has since spread to other disciplines, including several liberal arts departments. But not every class lends itself to technological enhancement. Thomas Spragens, professor ofpolitical science, said the usefulness of classroom technology varies by discipline. Although he has used Blackboard and assigned readings from the Internet, Spragens said there is not much technology that would add to his lectures on political theory. Technology, however, has found a place in some humanities classrooms. Erik Harms, a lecturing fellow in the University Writing Program, uses iPods in his Writing 20 classes as a tool for students performing ethnographic interviews. “[The iPod] is basically a glorified tape recorder,” Harms said. “But itjust so happened that... iPods were available and students could get them at a reduced price.” Harms noted that there are benefits unique to the iPod. “Students commented that because iPods are so omnipresent on campus... you can do a lot of impromptu interviewing that doesn’t interrupt the everyday flow of life,” he said.

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an attempt to integrate more technology into courses, the Duke Digital Initiative is developing and helping professors implement different types of technology to use in the classroom or for assignments. A breakdown of some of the more popular technologies that can be requested through the DDI Web site:

iPod Instructors who wish to use iPods in their courses can request a grant through the Center for Instructional Technology, which also provides training and consultation for the faculty. Tablet PCs As part of a pilot program, instructors can apply to investigate different uses of tablet PCs in the classroom. The program is most popular in engineering and language courses.

Digital Camcorders Students and faculty can rent video equipment for class projects and assignments Students must submit their application at least one week in advance.

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Countries put aside hostilities for concert “It would have been a great mistake not accept their invitation,” he said after PYONGYANG, North Korea—Swirling arriving at the Pyongyang airport aboard dancers and musicians beating traditional a chartered 747 jet from Beijing. A sternfaced border guard checked his passport drums welcomed the New York Philharupon exiting the plane before North Komonic to North Korea Monday for a historic cultural exchange between countries rean cultural officials greeted the orchestra that have been technically at war for more with handshakes and smiles. “I am a musician and not a politician. Muthan a half-century. a burst of musical sic has always traditionally been an arena, an In diplomacy notably devoid of propaganda glorifying leader Kim area where people make contact. It’s.neutral, it’s entertainment, it’s person-to-person,” Jong II or attacks on U.S. policy, North KoA rean dancers balanced water jars on their Maazel said. heads or twirled pink and green fans to He said if the music moves the audience, “we will have made whatever contribution entertain the celebrated American orcheswe can make to bringing our peoples just tra—which gave them a standing ovation. The Philharmonic is the first major one tiny step closer.” At the 500-seat Mansudae Art Theater, American cultural group to visit the isolated communist nation and the largest-ever North Korean performers welcomed the orchestra Monday by playing traditional delegation from the U.S. to visit its longinstruments such as the kayagum, a type time foe. As part of its 48-hour trip, the 106- of zither. member orchestra will play a concert Like all parts of society under the authoritarian North Korean regime, the arts today that will be broadcast on staterun radio and TV, where the U.S. is the are viewed as a means to instill loyalty and bolster Kim’s personality cult. target of daily condemnation. The naStill, only the last number was overtly tional anthems of both countries will be played, followed by a program featuring political: A woman dressed as a guerrilla Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E and brandishing a red scarf performed a Minor—popularly known as the “New dance dramatizing Korean resistance to World Symphony” and written while the Japan’s colonial occupation before World 19th-century Czech composer lived in War 11, which according to North Korean the United States—and George Gershofficial history was led by late founding win’s “An American in Paris.” ruler Kim II Sung, father of current leader Orchestra musicians will also give masKim Jong 11. Dancers in flowing white robes swept ter classes to North Korean students and play chamber music with members of the across the stage, symbolizing the harsh North’s State Symphony Orchestra. winters suffered by the fighters. At the Philharmonic music director Lorin triumphal end, of the performance, . '&•*/ Maazel said despite the trip’s political overV ii tones, it was the right decision to go. SEE NORTH KOREA ON PAGE 8 by

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student on the main campuses of these schools in 2004 and 2005. The study included information about murder, manslaughter, forcible and non-forcible sex offense, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, vehicle theft and arson. Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, noted that because some issues considered by the survey had more bearing than others, the rankings may be skewed. “The key issues are murder and sexual assault,” he said. “The more serious the offense, the more weight it received in the scoring process.” The magazine cautioned that rankings might not reflect how dangerous a campus is. In addition, the magazine noted that the rankings are most meaningful when schools with similar demographics are compared, since a school’s size, location, accessibility to the public, percentage of commuter students and presence of a capable police force can affect how well criminal allegations are identified. Graves said the number of sexual assault cases reported could also be misleading because the filing does not have to come from the victims themselves. For example, if a university official reports that a student said he or she was sexually assaulted, the university has to report that as a crime statistic. Nonetheless, Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki said Duke takes the problem of sexual assault seriously. “I don’t think the issue is, Do we have a huge amount of sexual violence?” he said. “I think if we have any sexual violence that is something we need to address.” Nowicki added that he met recendy with Panhellenic Association President Rachel Nordlinger, a junior, to discuss women’s safety on campus. Nowicki and a group of administrators plan to accompany Nordlinger and a few of her friends around West and Central campuses so that the students can point out elements they find disconcerting. “Safety off campus is more of a concern for us than safety on campus, at least [concerning] the physical safety of students,” Nowicki said. Apart from crime statistics, Graves said there are several other things to consider when assessing campus safety. “Whether Duke is safer or less safe is usually defined by the members of this community based on a number of factors,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Crime stats are part of this equation but most often it’s the fear of being a victim of a crime more so then actual occurrence of crime.” In the second survey, addressing campus safety measures, Reader’s Digest asked 291 colleges and universities to fill out a questionnaire addressing safety and security precautions. The 135 participating schools were ranked on how prepared they were to cope with safety and security matters based on 19 factors, including the percentage of students in dormitories with cameras and attendants, the number offull-time university police officers and the existence of a mass-emergency notification system. Graves said the University did not receive the questionnaire, and Duke was not included in the rankings. Several schools at the top of the campus safety survey employed creative measures in securing their campuses. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., which was ranked No. 1, uses a system of more than 150 “smart” closed-circuit television cameras with a computer algorithm that triggers an alert when suspicious behavior appears in the camera’s field of view. Dennis O’Shea, executive director of communications and public affairs at JHU, said a camera was once used to identify a suspect in a robbery after the individual appeared in an alley behind a residential hall. “When the person got to the end of the alley, that person got into a truck,” he said. “The monitor was quick enough to zoom in on the truck and get its license plate.” Last September, St John’sUniversity in NewYork City showed how text messaging could be an effective safety measure. Eight minutes after police apprehended a gunman on campus, Dominic Scianna, assistant vice president for media relations at St John’s, said the university sent out a text message telling students to stay inside the nearest building until it issued a “stay dear.” Graves said Duke can currently do “anything from e-mails to blow[ing] horns” to alert students of a security breach and islooking to add notification systems such as sirens and text messaging. In November, the administration unveiled a range of changes to Duke’s campus security system, including the launch of a Web site that will provide real-time updates and an informational phone line students can call for updates. Although Duke has surveillance cameras, Graves said they are used primarily for evidentiary purposes.

as a homosexual teen coming of age in a Southern Baptist community. “My identity as a man was spiraling down a dark hole,” he said. “Later, I would come to recognize that society had made up those rules about gender by which I was trying to live.” Also raised in the Baptist South, freshman Charles Saadeh said he grew more sympathetic to feminism after he learned of his family’s history of spousal abuse, and questioned how one approach could appeal to a large number of men when his own awakening was so personal. Sophomore Jesse Huddleston said men might not be the most effective champions of feminism simply because they are not women, noting that only a handful ofhis male peers were in attendance. “Some people say men can’t be feminist, but that assumes that feminism is a girl, that a movement has a gender,” Tarrant responded. “There are so many feminists who are unaware of the work that men are doing.”

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INTERNATIONAL,™^ work opportunities. “A number of consulting companies don’t accept international interns because they’re eventually looking to hire the students full time and then [the students] would need a specific work visa,” said David Thian, a junior from Singapore who is trying to land a consulting internship in the States. “Basically, it’s something that your employer has to do for you, so that’s more paperwork [for them], and I’m assuming it’s more costly too.” Mitra said international students confront the added stress of needing to figure out their plans in advance. ‘You need to apply for a visa authorization early and apply about three months early,” she said. “We need to figure things out so much sooner than American kids, and it’s a major pressure situation.” Lisa Giragosian, the interim director of the International House, said international students bring a much-needed diversity to the campus and praised a recent $2O-million gift for international aid from Trustee Bruce Karsh, Trinity

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on financial aid is substantially smaller than that of domestic students—according to Duke’s financial aid Web site, 41 percent of the Class of 2010 received need-

“We need to figure things out so much sooner than American kids, and it’s a major pressure situations.” —Oindri Mitra, junior '

based aid, as compared to 13.6 percent of all international students. “I do see [the low number of international students on aid] as a problem because there are some really bright students who couldn’t come to Duke because they couldn’t afford to be here,” Giragosian said. “It would benefit the campus to have more than 59 international students on

financial aid, and I’m hoping that number is going to increase in the future.” For the most part, international students said they are happy with their aid packages from the University, but added that more changes are needed before Duke can compete with peer institutions. “The [Karsh gift] was fantastic and it was a huge step forward for the University,” said senior Hasnain Zaidi, president of the International Council and a resident of the United Arab Emirates. “But there’s a select group of schools—like Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth—that are completely need-blindfor international students, and that’s not what Duke is yet Ifwe really want to be able to attract the best and the brightest to Duke, we need to be in the same ball game.” Many of the aided international students at Duke attend thanks to merit scholarships. Mitra, a University Scholar, said without her scholarship, she probably would not be here. She said Duke offered a better financial aid package than the otherAmerican schools to which she was

accepted.

“I would have never been able to come to the States [for school] if I hadn’t gotten this much aid,” she said.

NORTH KOREA from page 6 the backdrop picturing the Korean peninsula’s tallest peak, Mount Paektu, morphed into a stylized Pyongyang skyline where the windows of every building were fdled with light. Even the privileged residents of the North Korean capital suffer regular blackouts, but as the orchestra drove through the city, the streets were illuminated with neon propaganda slogans atop buildings, and five-pointed stars dangling from streetlights. One billboard showed a fist crushing an American soldier. However, some anti-American posters were torn down before the U.S. musicians arrived, a diplomat based in the North Korean capital told orchestra members. After tbe concert, Maazel presented the lead dancer with a bouquet and later praised the performers for their dedication. “Through our music, through our art, we will be able to express our friendly feelings to North Korean artists and the North Korean people,” he said in a toast at a lavish banquet in the People’s Palace of Culture that featured roast salmon, crab au gratin and pheasant ball soup accompanied by an assortment ofNorth Korean alcohol, from beer to ginseng liquor. Michelle Kim, the South Korean-bom assistant concertmaster of the Philharmonic, said the North Koreans’ performance featured traditionalelements familiar to all Koreans. “As I was listening to the concert, I didn’t think of it as North Korean or South Korean but just Koreans,” said Kim, a naturalized American citizen. “That’s our traditions, we’re the same people.” The North’s official news agency the country’s main voice to the outside world reported briefly Monday on the Philharmonic’s arrival. At the same time, the Korean Central News Agency also carried a separate piece highlighting the country’s own symphonic works, with titles such as “The Leader Is Always with Us” and “Victory in Great Anti-Japanese War.” The report said such works give “a profound symphonic rendition to the idea that socialist Korea centered on the popular masses is the best in the world.” For the Philharmonic’s visit, the North Korean government allowed a delegation of nearly 300 people, including musicians, staff and journalists. —

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RADIN from page 1 $l3, is the same as tickets were for the now-cancelled DUU show. “We’ve been trying to contact Cat’s Cradle, but haven’t had any luck,” Goonewardene said. “I don’t know whether we’ll end up going ahead with it or not.” He added that if the subsidies option is approved, he did not know whether it would also apply to the- tickets that students purchased prior to the announcement of the discount. Sophomore Whitney Woodhull, who bought tickets last week for the Cat’s Cradle show, said she might have waited to purchase her tickets if DUU had announced earlier that it was looking into discount options. The committee asked Radin to perform the day before or after the Cat’s Cradle show, but his agents said he was only available to play during the day of the concert, Ling said, adding that the committee turned down the offer because the show would fall in the middle of a weekday during classes.

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For a little more than a year from March 2006 to May 2007, nearly everything related to Duke Lacrosse was chronicled ad nauseam by most major news organizations across the country. Whenever Duke called a press conference, dozens of reporters and camera crews flocked to pepper administrators with questions. When the team returned to practice—we’re talking about practice!—in the fall of2006, a gaggle of jourtrekked out to the West Campus Turf Fields early in the morning just to observe 9 re 9 lacrosse drills. When the team played its first game returning from suspension last February, 70 media credentials were issued and ESPNU televised the game live. When the Blue Devils almost won the NCAA title last spring, throngs of media traveled to Baltimore hoping for a Hollywood ending to the Season of Redemption. And then the media disappeared just about as fast as they came. Unbeknownst to nearly everyone who did not attend the Duke vs. Bucknell season opener Feb. 16, the men’s lacrosse team began its 2008 season last week quietly —there was no smoke and tunnel entrance or packed Koskinen crowd as there was only a year ago. For the Bucknell game, just 15 media credentials were distributed, and exactly one news organization (this one) actively covered the event. It was a far cry from the feeding frenzy that ensued over the first year or so of the case. When the story first broke, major newspapers, magazines and TV news shows flew reporters into town to pursue the juiciest aspects of the story. Reporters

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Midway through the national semifinal game last year against Virginia, the Blue Devils were unstoppable. With less than 20 minutes remaining in the match and a 13-4 Duke lead, midfielder Carolyn Davis carried the ball down in a routine fastbreak. The official’s whistle blew again, but this time it wasn’t to mark another Blue Devil goal. Davis had fallen to the field in pain, clutching her left knee. As the then-sophomore was carted off the field to the sidelines, she could only watch helplessly as the Cavaliers scored 10 unanswered goals, pulling off the biggest comeback in Division-I history. “She felt like she was playing one of the games of her life,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We needed her energy. It was tough to lose her at that point in the game.” Although the heartbreaking loss was difficult for the players, Davis would feel the residual pain for the next several months. Because of the ACL tear, the midfielder underwent surgery soon after the game and began a grueling eight-month rehabilitation process. “I’ve never suffered a serious injury before,” Davis said. “At first, I wondered ifI would ever be able to walk again. You’re never sure what’s coming next. Once I walked, I couldn’t help thinking

in my the back of my head, ‘Am I going to be able to run again?’” Until three weeks ago, Davis found herself watching from the sidelines as Duke began preparing for the start of the season. When the doctors finally gave her clearance to play, however, the junior hit the ground running. Through the first four games of the year, Davis has led the Blue Devils in scoring with 13 goals and seven assists. Although Kimel worried about Davis getting back to game speed, her performances thus far have removed any doubt. “One game she told me, ‘I need to play more,’” Kimel said. “‘I need to be out on the field.’ Once she said that, I knew she was fine. She’s going to need a break here and there because she’s winded, but she’s picked up right where she left off.” But Davis came close to never realizing those accomplishments after nearly re-injuring her knee in November. As she began practicing with her teammates, the junior tore her scar tissue. Although the incident could have been much worse, it still delayed her recovery another month. “I went into a little bit of a panic mode,” Davis said. “I told myself it was just a speed bump, but it was frustrating to be set back again.” Because ofthe scare, Davis is conscious of playing smart on the field SEE DAVIS ON PAGE

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No. 1 Duke opened its spring season with a performance befitting its ranking, shooting a collective 4-over-par to finish one stroke out of first place after the first day of play at the Wildcat Invitational in Tuscon, Ariz. The Blue Devils find themselves in a four-team tie for second behind Arizona State—the lone leader and the team that beat Duke in its last competitive tournament. Duke shot a 2-over on the front nine holes and put up the same score on the back nine in its first round of tournament golf since the fall. “Everyone seems pretty pleased, even if we had some rough spots,” junior Amanda Blumenherst said. “[We’re] just getting used to the whole mindset of playing competitive golf again.” Blumenherst appeared to

Blue Devils, a 3-under 68. That score placed her atop the individual leaderboard for the first day. The two-time defending National Player of the Year also had Duke’s highlight of the day when her putt from the fringe on the second hole dropped in for an eagle. “It was just so exciting,” Blumenherst said. “It was great—a wonderful momentum builder and a great start of the season.” The rest of the Blue Devils followed Blumenhcrst’s lead, as the trio of Jennifer Pandolfi, Jennie Lee and Alison Whitaker all finished in the top 30. Pandolfi shot a 1-over to end the day tied for 14th, and Lee and Whitaker both recorded scores of 72. Freshman Kim Donovan played individually, but impressed head coach Dan SARA GUERRERO/CHRONICLE FILE PHOT?

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jumping out to a 12-0 record and a ranking as high as No. 19 in the AP poll. The Hurricanes floundered early in ACC play, though, dropping six of their first eight in conference play, and appeared to fall out of the NCAA Tournament picture.

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avoid reaggravating her injury. Although she is wary ofanother hit to her knee, the junior has not let the fact that her knee is now encased in a brace affect her on the field. “There are some things that you have to be smart about,” Davis said. “I was mostly worried about playing against a high level of competition while keeping my body controlled.” In addition to the months of rehabilitation, Davis switched positions from midfielder to attacker. The move gave her less responsibility on defense and more scorto

ing opportunities. Even though Davis had become a defensive presence for Duke last season, the change has allowed her to regain her endurance and mobility while still contributing to the team, Although Davis is happy to put the injury behind her, some positives have emerged from the painful situation. Along with a drive to achieve more than the final-four finish of last season, Davis credits the injury for helping her become a stronger athlete, “Before my injury I didn’t take the time to appreciate being out there on the field,” Davis said. “It really helps you to be stronger, physically and especially mentally. I’ve grown as a person because ofit.”

But now Miami is finishing furiously, and its four consecutive conference wins have made its midseason lull look merely like the eye of the storm. The Hurricanes upset then-No. 5 Duke 96-95 Feb. 20 in Coral Gables before blowing by fellow bubble team Maryland Saturday, 78-63. The victories have brought Miami back to .500 in ACC play at 6-6 and into NCAA Tournament consideration once again. “We have no bad losses, we have a good RPI and we have a good strength of schedule,” head coach Frank Haith said. “I don’t think there’s anything in terms of our resume that you can point to that would really hurt us. That’s what I’m thinking, and we’re hoping that’s the way it plays out. But we’ve got four games left. Let’s try to win all four.” Haith and the Hurricanes could put any doubts about their at-large candidacy to rest in their final four games of the season, starting at Clemson Wednesday night. Miami hosts Virginia and Boston College before traveling to Florida State the last Saturday of the season. The Hurricanes have generated a rare amount of excitement on campus, as spring football practice has taken a back seat to basketball. Miami’s game Saturday against the Cavaliers at the BankUnited Center has already sold out. That’s all due to the team’s current four-game winning streak, during which the Hurricanes have won three games by a total of five points. Miami’s excellent freethrow shooting—the team is 79-of-98 from the charity stripe during the stretch—has been a big factor in close wins over Virginia

Tech, GeorgiaTech and Duke. Saturday against Maryland, the Hurricanes had only six turnovers—a seasonlow—and Haith cited improved pointguard play as one of the keys to the team’s turnaround. Lance Hurdle and Eddie Rios have effectively handled the ball, allowing leading scorer Jack McClinton to slide over to shooting guard, Haith said. On the other end of the floor, Miami has forced 74 turnovers during the four-game stretch, including 23 by Duke Wednesday night. The Hurricanes’ 2-3 matchup zone befuddled the Blue Devils most of the game and prevented them from establishing an offensive rhythm until Duke’s late charge. “Our defensive pressure and intensity has picked up in terms of our activity,” Haith said. “We’re turning people over more and getting our hands on a lot of loose balls.” Miami will need to continue its solid play down the stretch of the season, as the Hurricanes have already learned the danger of growing complacent. “We don’t want to rest with where we’re at,” Haith said. “We know it’s not going to be easy. We know these last four ballgames, everybody is fighting to continue to play late in March. Every team we have left on our schedule is going to be a dogfight.” But now, with only two weeks left before the postseason, Miami can see the light at the end of the tunnel and a potential NCAA Tournament bid. The Hurricanes’ coach has not refrained from letting his team know where it stands in the

bigger picture.

“I do [talk about the Tournament] with my team. I figure that they better hear from me because they’re going to hear from somebody talking about the NCAA and what you have to do,” Haith said. “We talk about it all the time with our guys because that’s our goal; to play in the NCAA Tournament. That’s what helps keep them driven in your practices and understanding what this time ofyear is all about.”

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were cleared, it was the right thing to do to cover the team for the remainder of the year and how they bounced back from adversity.” Smith isn’t the only journalist feeling the Duke Lacrosse fatigue. I recently suggested to another reporter I know that there were still plenty of interesting stories about the team, especially the team dynamics with the return of the fifth-year seniors. He told me, perhaps only partially in jest, that he was looking for stories to cover besides Duke Lacrosse just for the sake ofhis own sanity. Another reporter who covered the case, ESPN The Magazine’s Jon Pessah, said: “The media attention in lacrosse had nothing to do with lacrosse, a sport most of the media—and certainly the nonsporting media—knew nothing about.... Nobody cared about lacrosse, then and especially now.” This has been especially evident recently, as Duke Lacrosse, on the precipice of a third run in four years at its first national title, is now more often spoken of in Roger Clemens’ legal defense than it is in common sports vernacular. From time to time, the ongoing legal case itself still makes headlines. Last Thursday, Duke Lacrosse was big news yet again around the country, not for the start of the season but for the new lawsuit filed by 38 of the unindicted players from the 2006 team. The resurfacing ofDuke Lacrosse in the national media is a reminder once again of what has been all too apparent for much of this story: that lacrosse only mattered to the media to the extent it could frame and raise the profile of an incident that was too complex to initially understand.

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prospect ofhaving another bonfire looked bleak following the impromptu bench-burning that followed the Feb. editorial 6 men s basketball victory over the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. That blaze—started without a permit—was eventually doused by the Durham Fire Department, and later raised concerns that future bonfires were unlikely due to the unsanctioned behavior. administrators But stuck their necks out to help secure a bonfire permit for the March 6 UNC men’s basketball game at home. We are very im-

pressed with the University’s efforts on behalf of its students—this board admincongratulates istrators on their pragmatic action, for students would surely have burnt benches in the event of a win, permit or none. But a drought-related statewide burn ban may yet derail the bonfire celebration that traditionally follows a home victory. If the burn ban is still in effect at the time of the UNC game, then administrators need to clearly outline the expectations for students following a victory. We await with interest the University’s promised alternate celebration plan.

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schools with higher endowthreaten to diminish the quality of our student body. Because of our relatively small endowment, we simply cannot keep up with our academic peers in financial aid spending. Instead, we need to attract top students with other assets —such as DukeEngage, which has made the University has a forerunner in social entrepreneurship —and our consistently impressive athletics program. As Dukies, the competition for top students may be somewhat disconcerting, but all in all, students will benefit, higher education will improve and we are truly privileged to witness these changes in the financial aid apparatus during our college careers. ments

was walking on Main West Quadrangle last week, still reeling a bit from having just been sweet-talked into buying a “Duke hearts Kenya” charity water-bottle for $lO, when I found myself in step just behind a visiting alumnus and his daughter. The daughter was small, blonde and probably a year or two shy of being a Duke student herself. The I2S father was a classic Duke alumnus, from his salt-andpepper hair to the Italian loafers. He was on a terrific nostalgia trip, and Stand lip his monologue was 9®* ensurprisingly grossing. “This is the quadrangle,” he said. “We used to hold demonstrations here all the time.” Then, almost as if he were trying to give me a lead for a column, he added, “I wonder why they don’t do that anymore.” When I first arrived at Duke, bright-eyed and eager, I might have asked the same kind of questions. Where are the megaphones and where are the crowds? Are we too busy or do we just not care? I like to think my generation isn’t as apathetic as we are accused of being, but then again, I’m not even really sure I could make a decent picket sign ifI tried. It hasn’t taken long to realize, however, that activism is far from dead. We may not subscribe to the paradigm of our parents’ generation—waving flags and chanting slogans hoping that somebody will listen—but we have far from given up. A couple of weeks ago the Duke Progressive Alliance hosted a “Progressive Party” in the Duke Coffeehouse on East Campus. It was intended to be both a “Who’s Who” of campus organizing and a mixer for students seeking volunteer placement, and in fact it was both of these things. In terms of content, this was one of the more empowering events I have experienced at Duke. But make no mistake, this is not your father’s coffee-shop revolution. Gone are the days of the corner tables surrounded by whispering young people in berets. While the baby-boomers were fuelled by a cocktail of disillusionmentand pure indignation, this is a distinctly different movement. That night in the Coffeehouse the lights were low. Next to a table of finger foods, a selection o|> beverages offered itself to those mingling about. The music was loud enough to be heard over the gentle hum of voices, but was drowned out every few' seconds by bursts of laughter. At one table a staunch Obama supporter was

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entertaining a smiling crowd by defending his candidate with wild gesticulations. At another, people were trading cell-phone numbers and making a date to talk about a youth empowerment group. Others were chatting animatedly, recruiting for

summer projects in this country or that—all expenses paid. A contingent had even gathered on the back steps, irreverently smoking cigarettes and talking smack about Dick Cheney. In short, this was a party. Its attendees were selfselected for passion, creativity and drive, and they had gathered there to meet, greet and get involved, but this was unmistakably a party. It is, after all, an occasion to celebrate when all of the underground activists at Duke gather in one room. These are the students who find time around their classes to organize and workfor change. They are the ones gathered around tables in von der Heyden Pavillion punctuating sentences with an index finger. They are the reason it is hard to find a New York Times on campus in the afternoon, the ones who are incommunicado for the summer months because their cell phones just don’t get reception in Cameroon. They are the ones who bear testimony to the fact that the revolutionary spirit of youth hasn’t dwindled, but rather evolved. As I would have liked to explain to the alumnus and his daughter, activism is far from dead. Instead, it has undergone what economists might call a division of labor and specialization. Instead of the same 1,500 all-purpose revolutionaries turning out on the quad to demonstrate against the war one weekend, in support of animal rights the next and in solidarity with genocide the following, they have each begun to pick their batdes. Instead of fighting for everything, we now each fight for one thing. We specialize, we use education to target our attacks and amplify our impact. It is intelligent activism. Pursuing a career in social entrepreneurship or human-rights law is, in point of fact, no less altruistic than getting arrested marching on the Washington Mall hoping Congress takes notice. These days the former is probably more helpful anyway. I don’t mean to say here that there isn’t still a place for old-fashioned righteous anger and heartpounding rhetoric. There are certainly situations in which the threatof mobjustice might be just the ticket. But I implore those ex-revolutionaries who would be quick to accuse my generation of apathy to look a little closer. We still care, but we do it in our own way. As a very old man once said, “The times they are a-changing.”

AndrewKindman is a Trinity sophomore. His column every other Tuesday.

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letterstotheeditor Georgia Tech/Senior Game line policy Seniors, tomorrow’s game versus Georgia Tech is our annual Senior Game. We will be handing out wristbands to seniors from 11 p.m. until 2 a.m. tonight, or until all 700 wristbands are gone. Please come to K-ville tonight and enjoy some hot chocolate and music with your fellow seniors. Tomorrow’s lining up process will be a bit different than other games. We will allow the first 100 non-seniors into the game, then all 700 seniors that received wristbands, then the rest of the walk-up line will be allowed in. If you have never been to a Duke men’s basketball game then this is your chance! Again, we will be handing out the wristbands tonight from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m., and doors will open tomorrow, Wednesday, for the game starting at 7:30 p.m. If you have any further questions please feel

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Be patient in waiting for nutrition facts on campus I found Adam Zell’s Feb. 20 column, “Nutrition facts,” interesting and relevant. I am personally trying to eat much more healthily in 2008, and having nutrition facts at my fingertips would definitely help me. As a member of theDuke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, I really do care about creating a flawless dining experience at Duke. So, why isn’t there away to find all that information right now? Consider the situation: We have upwards of 20 independent venders running about 30 locations on cam-

Froshlife For

the past few weeks, nine teams of freshman filmmakers have been trying to capture the essence of the first-year experience in a five-to-eight minute film. The process culminated with an awards ceremony Sunday night. All the films debuted eliza french on the big screen, and je m sa | s q UOi my cameo in Wilson Residence Hall’s film helped it win Best Picture. (At least, I’m pretty sure that’s what won the judges 0ver....) Sitting in the audience that night, I realized that all the movies had certain inevitable moments in common—the protagonist running in desperation after the C-l, UNC-bashing and shots of landmark buildings on East Campus, to name a few. At the start of each film, you know the inevitable moments are coming, but in a strange way, you anticipate them. You may cringe at the fifth reference to “Party Boy Chad,” but you still laugh because he’s that guy living on the third floor of your dorm. So humor this freshman, please, while I write about the only topic my column will address this semester on which I can claim to be somewhat of an expert. Whether you’re a senior in college or a senior citizen, you remember your freshman year of college. (Or maybe you don’t, depending on exactly how you spent your time during that first year of freedom.) You might remember it as the year you went out four nights a week, overindulged and met someone new every weekend. You might think ofit as that first rough adjustment to somewhere completely new and so far from home, with only one or two familiar faces. And you probably thought it was weird to spend every night in a cramped room sleeping mere feet away from a perfect stranger. Whether you studied or partied yourself into oblivion, we can all agree that at least the first month or so of first year is best characterized as a time of confusion. Along with the political theories of Locke and Hobbes and how to determine whether a series converges or diverges, you learned the implicit social codes of a society comprised entirely of 18- to 21-year-olds.

Then comes the inevitable. This runs a little deeper than taking the Robertson instead of the C-l. You take care of your friend after a rough night. You fail your first exam and realize you aren’t as smart in college as you were in high school. You’re tired of your 8:30 a.m. Writing 20 and trudging to the LSRC in the rain. You refuse to eat another plate of watery pasta at the Marketplace while listening to hip-hop hits of days past. The fog of confusion thickens. You don’t know exactly what you got yourself into. No one would call living in a building teeming with 18-year-olds recently charged with taking care of themselves—and one another—a luxury. That’s the catch, though. You cannot escape being around people every minute of every day. But the people you can’t escape, who are strangers at first, know you the best. They may not know anything about your life in high school, but they understand your life now in away your friends from home, your parents and your siblings can’t. For some people the confusion hovers a little longer than for others. But when it finally leaves, it generally goes the same way for everyone. One night, your friend takes care of you instead of the other way around. Or you resign yourself to the fact that professors with Ph.D.s expect slightly more from you than your high school teachers. Maybe it’s neither of these things, but it’s a begrudging change in you that comes to expect, if not quite appreciate, the people sprawled in the hallway outside your room at two in the morning. The oddities and frustrations of your life at college become slightly less odd and a little less frustrating. Spring Break is upon us, which means that the rest of the current freshmen and I can kiss freshman year a bittersweet goodbye in a few short months. We’ll have to move to Edens, declare majors and stop taking African and African American Studies or Slavic and Eurasian Studies on a whim. As the protagonist of the last film on the screen continues her futile attempt to catch the departing C-l, just like almost every other main character of the Froshlife films, I laughed along with the rest of the auditorium. Because earlier in the night, I walked out of Marketplace just as the 7:20 p.m. rolled away. Eliza French is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

pus. Collecting nutrition information from every one of them and making it available on- or offline is unfortunately very difficult. We have to verify the nutrition facts. And then the menus change, some as often as every day. But this is Duke, and we don’t take “very difficult” for an answer! Rest assured: we know there is a need for this information, but before we start posting this information around campus and/or online, we need to make sure there is an effective system in place for gathering, verifying, modifying, and updating the information. A project like this is very time-consuming, so all we ask of Zell (and ofothers who have similar wishes) is for some time and trust. Alex Klein Trinity 77 Member, Student Dining Advisory Committee

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months ago, The Chronicle’s editorial board had this to say about the Brodhead administration’s performance during the lacrosse case: “People should not forget

consultant, a Web site and a high-profile press conference. That pageantry is a far cry from the closed-door negotiations and confidential settlements that characterized Duke’s earlier dealto recognize ings with Reade Seligmann, Collin the adequacy Finnerty and David Evans, signalling of a ‘good’ a very different set of motives behind the Cooper suit. performance As former lacrosse parent Steven in the turbulent and Henkelman explained Thursday, his family joined Cooper’s action “becharged atcause no one in Duke’s leadership has mosphere of the last year. been willing to accept real responsi■ ■ knstm butler bility for their wrongful conduct. BeAnd in the end, history cause no one in Duke’s leadership has with all may very well deliberate speed taken any action against those at Duke the who violated the University’s own polijudge cies specifically designed to prevent University’s response as sensible and well executed the type of abuses and harassment inflicted on our sons. Because no one given the constraints and competing interests at stake.” in Duke’s leadership has had the inIt’s hard to imagine anyone offering tegrity to look these young men and their parents in the eye and personally that assessment today. Of the 2006 lacrosse team’s 47 playapologize.” ers, 44 (plus their former coach) have With litigants like the Henkelmans now sued or settled multi-million dollar pressing for “responsibility” and “acclaims against the University. Forty-one tion,” Duke could be in for a very inplayers’ lawsuits are still pending, and teresting discovery process as the year Duke has retained former U.S. Depprogresses. These 38 families have aluty Attorney General Jamie Gorelick ready turned down the University’s of(whose firm bills as high as $7OO per fers to fully compensate them for their hour) to mastermind the University’s expenses—legal and otherwise—durdefense strategy. ing the saga, lending credence to the If that’s a “good” performance, then assertion that their goals extend well I can hardly imagine what a “bad” one beyond money. would be. If that is indeed the case, then we Consider the most recent lawsuit, should view this suit as the logical which was filed last week by prominent result of administrators’ decision to Washington attorney Cooper shirk responsibility and stymie reform at every opportunity. From the newly on behalf of 38 lacrosse families. Cooechoes the Decemdisbanded Judicial Affairs Review claim largely per’s Committee to the Campus Culture ber 2007 suit brought by Durham atInitiative and beyond, Duke administorney Bob Ekstrand on behalf ofBreck Archer, Ryan McFadyen and Matthew trators have remained disconcertingly Wilson, documenting alleged collusion slow to learn from their mistakes,,. between Duke and Durham authorities which were legion. Don’t expect admins to acknowledge to frame the players. Particularly upsetting are Cooper’s that is was their unique combination of assertions that Brodhead and other ignorance, arrogance and denial that senior administrators committed brought us to this point. But the inconvenient and unavoid“constructive fraud through abuse of confidential relationship,” negliable truth now seems to be that in his gently failed to supervise employees haste to avoid the perception “that and failed “to protect students from a well-connected institution was imknown dangers.” properly attempting to influence the But unlike Ekstrand’s filing, which judicial process” back in March 2006, targets the case of three players who Brodhead created many more problems than he solved. say they were wrongly suspended, CooToo bad the whole University will get per’s complaint advocates for all the stuck with the bill. other team members who felt threatened and wronged despite not being indicted. Kristin Butler is a Trinity senior. Her colIt also comes complete with a PR umn runs every Tuesday. ....

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ART & TALK. Near the Cross: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta by Tom Rankin. 5:30-7:3opm. Special Collections Gallery, Perkins Library. Free. Thursday, February 28 ART & TALK. Exhibition Reception: Julia Scully and the Disfarmer Portraits. Writer/magazine editor Julia Scully will talk about her discovery and publishing of the work of Mike Disfarmer, an eccentric studio photographer who documents Arkansas farm families through the Depression and WWII. 7pm. Centerfor Documentary Studies. Free. -

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