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The 15-member committee responsible for examining Duke’s Judicial affairs policy was suspended in late January by Dean of Undergraduate EducationSteve Nowicki—a move several student leaders said may leave key issues of judicial reform unaddressed. Nowicki told committee members Jan. 29 that the task force, which began meeting news in November, would be analysis temporarily disbanded because of ongoing litigation against the University. He said he wanted to prevent the possibility that members of the committee would be deposed or cross-examined during the lawsuit the University was facing, filed in December by three unindicted members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team. In the interim, the practices DSG challenged in September remain unchanged.

Justifying the suspension University Counsel Pam Bernard called two pending lacrosse-related lawsuits both “misdirected” and “meritless,” but she advised Nowicki that it was still possible for members of the committee to become embroiled in the cases. But some student leaders have questioned her reasoning, saying members were not asked whether or not they would be willing to be called as witnesses should their committee involvement require it. “I think [the genuine reason] was that the committee was launching an empirical

investigation at a time when a lawsuit had alleged there were problems in our judicial practices,” said DSG President Paul Slattery, a senior. “The risk for the University, of course, was that the investigation would not only be discoverable [evidence for lawsuits] but could be massaged to support the legal allegations.” Nowicki said he was not pressured into making the decision to put the commiton hiatus. “My primary concern was for the students and the members of the committee. I understand the University and the legal counsel and I’m not insensitive to that,” he said. “My decision... wasn’t because of my concern for the University or things that might have come out of that [legal proceeding] . The University may have its concerns, but that’s not what I’m involved with.” In an e-mail sent two weeks before the committee’s suspension in January, Bernard commented on the potential consequences of DSG’s initial proposals for reform. “If Duke were to adopt the students’ position on important points in an effort to compromise, the result would be: 1. Undermining universities’ decade-built position, tee

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2. Duke would be seen as weak among its peers and out of step with the strong trend over the last decade to de-legalize student conduct processes,” she wrote in the e-mail, obtained by The Chronicle. Bernard also prepared a spreadsheet to provide legal analysis and potential SEE JUDICIAL AFFAIRS ON PAGE 6

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Laurence Lovette is charged with 25 crimes committed while on probation before an arrest for the murders of Eve Carson and Abhijit Mahato. He was placed on probation for breaking and entering and larceny charges.

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tions, repeat offenders are responsible for much of the nation’s crime, and most recently for the deaths of two local college students. Following the deaths of Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior Eve Carson, Durham Mayor Bill Bell called Monday night for a formal invesdgation into the January release from custody of a Durham teenager, Laurence Lovette, who has been charged in both murders. City Manager Patrick Baker will lead the investigation, and a report will be presented at the Durham County Courthouse April 8. “I want to know what the judge’s role was, what the district attorney’s role was, what the police department’s role was, what the bail was under which he was released,” Bell said. The murders garnered local and, in Carson’s case, national attention in recent weeks. Mahato, a 29 year old from India studying computational mechanics, was killed afterbeing shot point-blank in the head in his home in The Anderson Apartments Jan. 18. Carson, the 22-year-old student body president at UNC, was found dead a short distance from the school’s North Campus March 5 afterbeing shot in the head. With Lovette’s indictment Monday, many, including Bell, are questioning whether or not the murders could have been prevented.

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jail until January, when he pled guilty to a lesser crime. He then received a 24-month suspended sentence and was released. He is now being charged with murdering Mahato and Carson between his release and subsequent arrest for Carson’s murder. City Council member Eugene Brown said one reason for Lovette’s multiple releases from jail is a major miscommunication between the juvenile and adult court systems. “You’ve got judges there with juveniles before them for thefirst time and they don’tknow what’s the background on this kid,” he said. “The fact that both of these guys were on probation, that tells us something about how Durham should not operate. This system is not protecting the public,” Brown added in SEE OFFENDERS ON PAGE

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Paterson admits to past affairs ALBANY, N.Y. A day after his predecessor's sex scandal propelled him into office, Gov. David Paterson revealed Tuesday that he had affairs with a "number of women," including a state employee, but said that does not affect his ability to lead. Paterson had admitted one affair in a newspaper interview hours after taking office Monday, but gave a fuller accounting at a news conference with his wife at his side.

Obama speaks on racism, politics Barack Obama conPHILADELPHIA fronted the nation's racial divide head-on Tuesday, tackling both black grievance and white resentment in a bold effort to quiet a campaign uproar over race and his former pastor's incendiary statements. Standing before a row of eight American flags near the building where the Declaration of Independence was adopted, Obama urged the nation to break "a racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years.'"

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WORLD NEWS U.S., Russia no closer to agreement MOSCOW Russia had a short answer Tuesday for President Bush's top national security advisers who came to ask for detente in the simmering argument over a planned U.S. missile shield at Russia's doorstep."Nyet." Or maybe,"Not yet."

Iraq not ready for troop withdrawal BAGHDAD Iraq's foreign minister saidTuesday the risks of civil war have been averted after five years of "tears and blood." But he warned an abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops would wipe away the security gains and other achievements and have disastrous consequences. With the war entering its sixth year, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari acknowledged mistakes by all sides. But he insisted that Iraqis have made remarkable progress despite the violence that has killed tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4,000 U.S. troops. Zebari, a Kurd who spent years opposing Saddam Hussein in exile,said the Iraqis hadcautioned that overthrowing the dictator would be "the easiest part" but "the day after would be far more was some planning, some me real participation by the

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BLACKSBURG, Va. The New York Yankees made a silent pilgrimage Tuesday to the Virginia Tech memorial dedicated to the victims of last April's campus killings. As approximately 200 people looked on, the players stopped to view the 32 stone memorials dedicated to the April 16shooting victims.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who wrote "2001:A Space Odyssey"and won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday, an aide said. He was 90. Clarke, who had battled debilitating postpolio syndrome,died at 1:30 a.m.in his adopted home of Sri Lanka after suffering breathing problems,aide Rohan De Silva said. The 1968 story "2001: A Space Odyssey," written simultaneously as a novel and screenplay with director Stanley Kubrick, was a frightening prophesy of artificial intelligence run amok.

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Shooters emphasizes memberships Police look into death by

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Shooters has recently been pushing for its Duke patrons to sign up for free membership in order to maintain its status as a private club. A sign at the club’s entrance limiting access to members"has been up for 10 years, but Shooters manager Kim Cates said she has only recently felt pressure from Alcohol Law Enforcement officials to enforce the rule after an underage drinking incident about three weeks ago. The incident involved two non-members who were caught consuming alcohol in the club, after which ALE officials told Cates to initiate a mass membership drive, she said. Despite ALE’s prompt, Cates said she is encouraging rather than requiring students 18 and over to sign up for memberships. “You don’t have to sign up because you can come as a member’s guest, but I’m telling people they get something out of it,” she said. ‘You get a card with ‘Shooters’ on it.” Charged memberships are only required for Durham locals, with the intention to protect students, Cates said. With the new push for membership, Cates said she is encouraging students to apply, but will not be charging them. According to ALE, in order to serve liquor in North Carolina an establishment must be either a restaurant or a private club, said Jeff Lasater, the ALE supervisor in Raleigh. As a private club, Shooters must require that all attendants be members or guests ofmembers. Club memberships do not provide ALE with additional jurisdiction over

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Under N.C. law, Shooters must maintain its private-club status if it wishes to serve liquor to its patrons. alcohol consumption in clubs, but they must be enforced by law, said ALE Agent Philip Armstrong of the Durham area. He added that ALE does not track alcohol

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and logs. Several students said they have not been affected by the membership drive. “I haven’t seen them enforcing the rule so far,” sophomore Karan Advani said. “I didn’t even know this was happening. I haven’t felt the effects, but there doesn’t seem to be a purpose for the push for memberships because applying is free.”

Cates said, however, a number of students do hold Shooters memberships. Approximately 600 members passed through the doors of Shooters the weekend before Spring Break, she noted. Some students also said the push for membership would not deter students from drinking at the club. “I think it’s ridiculous because it’s not going to prevent underage drinking if people 18 and over can apply for memberships,” senior Marilyn Tycer said. “Legitimately, it does nothing. Legal drinking is what ALE should be enforcing, not some random rule.”

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Police are investigating a death that occurred Tuesday at the Lofts at Lakeview on Erwin Road.

CORRECTION DSG presidential candidate Kevin Troy is a member of the Class of 2009, not the 2008 as stated in Tuesday's paper.

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NOTICE OF A COMBINED CORRIDOR / DESIGN PUBUC HEARING FOR THE PROPOSED TRIANGLE PARKWAY FROM NC 540 TO 1-40 SUP Project No. U-47638

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The North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) will hold a Pre-Hearing Open House and a Combined Corridor / Design Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 25,2008 at the Sigma Xi auditorium located at 3106 East NC 54, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.

Representatives from both NCTA and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) will beavailable at the Pre-Hearing Open house between the hours of 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to answer questions and receive comments relative to the proposed project. The opportunity to submit written comments or questions will also be provided. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the above mentioned hours. A formal presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m. The presentation will consist of an explanation of the proposed corridor location, design features, the state federal relationship, and right of way and relocation requirements and procedures. The hearing will be open to those present for statements, questions and comments. The presentation and comments will be recorded and a transcript will be prepared. -

Those wishing to speak at the hearing are urged to register in advance with Ms, Jennifer Harris of the NCTA whose contact information is listed below. Speakers will be provided a three minute time limit to present their comments at the hearing. The NCTA proposes to construct a six-lane, median-divided freewayfacility on new location, known locally as the Triangle Parkway. The NCTA proposes to construct the Triangle Parkway as a tolled facility. The northboundand southbound lanes will be divided by a 46 foot grass median. Triangle Parkway is located in southern Durham County and western Wake County, predominately within Research Triangle Park. Triangle Parkway is proposed as a fullyaccess controlled roadway to extend about 3.4 miles in length from NC 540 to 1-40. New interchanges are proposed at Davis Drive and Hopson Road. The project includes about 1.7 milesof widening in the median of northbound NC 147 from WO to TW. Alexander Drive. As part of the Triangle Parkway project, the NCTA is also proposing to construct a two-lane bridge over the Triangle Parkway to re-connect Kit Creek Road between Davis Drive and Church Street. This project component isreferred to as the Kit Creek Road Connector. In addition, the outside laneof eastbound NC 540 from NC 55 to the Triangle parkway will be widened by one-laneand the two-lane flyover interchange ramp from eastbound NC 540 to northbound Triangle Parkway will be widened to three-lanes in the future when traffic demand requires these improvements. The purpose of the project is to improve commuter mobility, accessibility, and

connectivity to Research Triangle Park employment center; and reduce congestion on existing

north-south routes that serve the Triangle Region, primarily NC 55 and NC 54. Additional right of way and the relocation of homes will be required for this project.

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In an effort to emphasize that the Duke University Union is not a funding organization, the group adopted a new cosponsorship application at its weekly administration meeting Tuesday night. Members said they hope the revised form will both spread the Union’s presence on campus and encourage student groups to specify how DUU’s sponsorship will enhance future events. “We’re really trying to move toward a system of cosponsorship, and we don’t want people to just take our money and run,” said junior Bryant Moquist, incoming executive vice president. “One thing that we’ve had problems with in the past is that we’ve sponsored events but haven’t received the credit we’ve deserved.” In addition to financial support, the Union has the capability to provide campus-wide marketing, industry connections and logistical support, he said. DUU had the opportunity to practice its mentality as a cosponsor at the meeting, agreeing to support the March 29 Native American Student Alliance Powwow and spearhead its marketing campaign. Members voted to allocate $560 to help pay for some of the event’s food. A preliminary itinerary includes a grand entry, intertribal dancing and round dances on the Main West Quadrangle. The powwow will also feature vendors selling and demonstrating crafts such as traditional jewelry-making and weaving, said NASA Treasurer Spencer Eldred, who presented the sponsorship proposal at the meeting. Eldred, a sophomore, said he hoped DUU’s marketing would be able to draw large crowds for the event, noting that because NASA is a small campus organization, advertising was difficult to manage alone. The Union also pledged $240 to Small Town Records to help fund the purchase and installment of security cameras.

OUU approved a cosponsorship application seeking to combat an impression that OUU is a funding body.

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the Small Town Co-director Colin Tierney, a junior. Since then, items have continued to disappear, despite efforts to maintain an inventory list and time log for individuals who use the studio. “[The cameras] are a simple solution to a complicated problem,” Tierney said. “We’re managing a different band and scheduling different engineers every week. This way, all the equipment is constantly monitored, end of story.”

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OFFENDERS from page 1 an interview with The (Raleigh) News & Observer. Stephen Gates, 19, was also arrested Jan. 25 for Mahato’s murder, and Demario Atwater, 21, of Durham is being held in Carson’s death. Oates was convicted for breaking and entering in May 2007 and was on probation when he was arrested following the graduate student’s killing. He now faces a long list of charges for crimes committed between November and his

in January. Charges include 15 additional counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill while inflicting serious injury and nine other miscellaneous offenses, according to a Durham Police Department release. Lovette and Atwater were also on probation when they were arrested for murdering Carson. After being convicted of breaking and entering and larceny, Lovette was put on probation Jan. 16. During his probationary period, he was arrested and charged with nine different crimes, but was released each time. Atwater, originally convicted of breaking and entering in 2005, violated his probation in June when found guilty ofpossession of a firearm by a felon. But a clerical error postponed his hearing for the crime, scheduled March 3, two days before Carson’s death. Atwater could have been put back behind bars in the arrest

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“They slipped through the judicial court system, and they also slipped through the social net system,” Brown said ofLovette and Atwater.

Slowing the revolving door Brown said the problem with repeat offenders starts with the state and then filters down into the counties. “A lot of people don’t realize that [North Carolina has] one of the lowest funded criminal justice systems in the country,” he said. “For some reason itjust doesn’t seem to be a main priority in the state house, regardless of what party is in control. I don’t understand it—I’m flabbergasted by it.” Brown isn’t alone in his frustration with Durham’s handling of repeat offenders. “I suspect we have more repeat offenders than most com-

munities do,” said Barker French, chair ofDurham Roundtable, a dozen’s group that tracks violent offenders from their arrest to their court date and also examines repeat offenders in Durham. According to the largest and most recent study ofrecidivism by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 67.5 percent of prisoners released in 1994 were arrested again within three years. Statistics for Durham were not immediately available. French said one of the causes of Durham’s revolvingdoor problem is inappropriately low bonds, especially for violent crimes. “No one who lives here likes to have repeat violent offenders released onto the streets continuously because they are a threat to the community,” French said. “I was certainly personally not happy reading that the person who murdered [Mahato] was a repeat offender.” French said Durham County Pretrial Services, established in 2006, has helped judges set more appropriate bonds for criminals. “Since [Pretrial Services] has been in place, the jails have had more people in them, rather than fewer,” he said. “The presumption is that the judges are setting higher bonds for people than they were prior to Pretrial Services.” French added that new guidelines proposed by interim Durham District Attorney David Saacks to die district’s superior court justices may slow down the revolving door. Under his recommendations, any offense involving a gun would automatically induce a higher bond, and Saacks said he has also recommended higher bonds for violent crimes in general. “What we’re doing now is trying to recognize the fact that a firearm, specifically, is a more dangerous weapon out in the public than other types of deadly weapons,” Saacks said. “Therefore, there shouldbe an extra bond amount increase in there because you put extra people in the public at risk when you use a firearm.” Though Saacks said he hopes his proposal will help, he added that he doesn’t believe Durham has an unusually large problem with repeat offenders, as some have suggested. “I’m not sure Durham’s the only one with a revolvingdoor problem,” he said. “If you actually look at the numbers, the vast majority aren’t revolving-door people.” Saacks did note, however, that certain offenders commit the majority of the crimes. ‘You get more bang for your buck if you concentrate on repeat offenders,” he said. The new bond guidelines are not the only way Durham

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March 12,2008: arrested for the murder of UNC senior Eve Carson while on probation June 2007: violated probation and found guilty of possession of a firearm by a felon 2005: convicted of breaking and entering

March 13,2008: arrested for the murders ofCarson and Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato Jan. 18,2008 to March 5,2008: arrested and charged with numerous felonies including breaking and entering, burglary, car theft, larceny and resisting arrest

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is fighting back against repeat offenders. In 2000, DPD began Strategies to Abate and Reduce Senseless Violence, a program designed to reduce gun-related crime by identifying repeat violent offenders. Offenders are notified that if they continue to commit crimes, they may be transferred to the federal court system, where there is no plea bargaining and sentencing is generally more harsh.

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Slattery said he looked critically upon the University’s efforts to protect itself, which might bar it from affording students the legal protections they seek. “The University counsel appears to believe it is against the University’s interest to stipulate any procedural protections in disciplinary policy because these protections, when broached, may result in civil action against the University and, apparently, make the University look weak amongst its peers,” Slattery wrote in an e-mail. Bernard declined to comment on the matter, but she wrote in an e-mail that she had experience dealing with student judicial issues. She is noted for her contributions to “Navigating Past the ‘Spirit of Insubordination’: A TwentyFirst Century Model Student Conduct Code with a Model Hearing Script,” which is billed as a reference for judicial affairs administrators and university attorneys.

Committee goals The task force was formed in the Fall as an ad hoc addition to the Academic Integrity Council. Its creation stemmed from a memo Slattery sent to administrators and the Board of Trustees in September, saying current policy infringed on student rights. Alcohol Law Enforcement sweeps during the first two weekends back to school this year left 22 students facing charges related to underage drinking. Although the charges were thrown out in federal court, they were pursued by the University, a move Slattery said prompted DSG’s review. [The incident] was our foray into examiningJA policy—whether they use illegally obtained evidence. From there it sort ofmetastasized into this much larger critique,” he said. Slattery and others reviewed the judicial policies ofDuke in 1999-2000 and compared them to those in 2006-2007 and at peer institutions, including the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell and Harvard universities. The DSG review found that a numberof rights once included in Duke’s judicial poll“

cy were no longer afforded; others were never included. “The Office of Judicial Affairs... has systematically expunged procedural rights from its disciplinary policy since 1999-2000,” DSG’s report reads. “Numerically, Duke has transitioned from being an outlier in offering students rights to a more extreme outlier in denying students rights.... Unfortunately, the picture becomes more rather than less bleak with a deeper examination of the spreadsheet. The most important protections—the right to remain silent and evidentiary standards—have been removed. Other important protections, such as the right to first-round discovery, appear to have never been offered.” According to the document, there are several policies that most peer institutions have in place but Duke does not include. Eight of the peer institutions studied give students the right to know evidence collected by the university before they are required to make an official statement. Five of the peer institutions give the right to cross-examine witnesses, and five make students aware of their Miranda rights and the right to know the identity of panel members in advance. Duke also offered these three rights in 19992000, but they are no longer listed in current bulletins. Three universities provide that there is no off-campus jurisdiction—a stipulation never afforded by Duke. Initially, Director of Judicial Affairs Stephen Bryan said he would incorporate DSG’s report into previously scheduled external reviews, Slattery said. He added that he did not consider Bryan’s solution satisfactory, but was hopeful when Nowicki stepped in to take over the examination. “Steve took an important step in essentially circumventing Judicial Affairs, but it was undone by the University Counsel’s influence,” said 2006-2007 DSG president Elliott Wolf, a senior and Chronicle columnist. Nowicki charged the committee, comprised of students, faculty and staff, with appraising Duke’s judicial policies visa-vis several peer institutions. Before the task force was suspended, it planned to produce a report on its findings and recommendations for improvements by the end ofSpring. The evolution of Duke’s judicial policy The current Duke Community Standard, which provides the underpinning of the University’s judicial procedure, went into effect in Fall 2007. “The revisions [to the standard] came about as the result of a committee’s work charged by the provost to review it after the lacrosse matter unfolded,” Bryan wrote in an e-mail. Duke did not instate its first formal honor code until 1993, though it had variations of similar commitments before then. A letter to the University community in August 2006 cited ALE’s 2005 back-to-school campaign—which resulted in nearly 200 student citations—and the lacrosse case in raising questions about the undergraduate disciplinary system. “This uniform approach to off-campus behavior was a shift in University philosophy that recognized that students do not shed their affiliation with and representation ofDuke when they leave campus,” Bryan wrote in the letter. Members of DSG raised concerns over the state of judicial affairs following an April 2007 revision of the Duke Community Standard. Wolf, then president of DSG, sent a memo to several University officials questioning Judicial Affairs’ use of evidence collected by police that was ruled by a judge to have been obtained illegally. “No law prohibits the University from using whatever evidence it deems probative and relevant to student disciplinary proceedings,” Deputy General Counsel Kate Hendricks wrote last year in an e-mail obtained by The Chronicle. “While the prohibition of using illegally-obtained evidence in a criminal proceeding is a check on the criminal justice system and signifies that the act of collecting the evidence was flawed, it does not necessarily follow that the evidence itself is flawed or is invalid for other proceedings.” She noted, however, that the use ofevidence should be evaluated on an individual basis. Nowicki said he still hopes to implement changes by the end of the semester, despite the committee’s suspension. “I think the key difference here is we had a task force that reviewed things comprehensively and now I’ll be responsible for looking at things on sort of a case-by-case basis,” he said. He added that per Slattery’s request, he planned to prepare a document on the matter so the issue would not be lost due to DSG turnover. “I think it’s terribly unfortunate [that its work was suspended], because I think what would have come out of the committee would have been more substantial and farreaching than what will come from a piecemeal administrative approach,” Nowicki said. Chair Noah Pickus, director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and other members of the task force have deferred comment to Nowicki since the its work was suspended. •

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2008 George L. Maddox Lecturer, will address “Our Aging Society: Ethical and Policy Challenges.” As the baby boom cohort begins to join the ranks of old age, our society faces a number of challenges. In about 20 years from now the number of persons eligible for Social Security retirement benefits and Medicare will be double what it is today. What are the economic and political obstacles to assuring continued protection for older persons from the risks of inadequate income and sharply reduced access to health care? Will there be intergenerational political conflict, as some predirt? The costs of long-term care, already enormous both for individuals and society, will be far greater in the decades ahead. Wliat should be the division of public and private responsibility for these costs? New high-cost health care technologies and procedures will be developed continuously. Can society afford to pay the bills for older persons to benefit from all of these? Will health care of older persons be rationed? How

aggressively should medical treatment be for dementedelders?

You are cordially invited to attend a reception immediatelyfollowing the lecture. This lecture is supported by the George L. Maddox Lectureship Endowment of the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development in honor of the distinguished career of George L. Maddox, Jr., Ph.D. For additional information, please contact the Duke Aging Center at 919-660-7300 or email charlene.matte@duke.edu.

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DUKE DOMINATES The Blue Devils continued their hot start to the season by beating Hartford, 10-6, behind three hits and four RBI from Jonathan Nicolla. q

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On Tuesday against Colgate, No. 1 Duke was expected to dominate the game from the very beginning. Things didn’t play out exactly that way. Instead, it took the Blue COLGATE 7 Devils all of two DUKE 15 minutes and three seconds to exert control over an overmatched Raiders squad. Despite allowing the first goal of the game, Duke (8-0) cruised past Colgate (43) with a 15-7 win at Koskinen Stadium. “Tuesday games are tough, and they are tough coming off the Carolina game,” head coach John Danowski said. “I thought we were very workmanlike, and even though they scored the first goal, we came back and took a ton of shots.” The Raiders jumped out to an early lead Tuesday, winning the opening faceoff and scoring just 40 seconds into the game. It took the Blue Devils over a minute to even the score, as senior Brad Ross scored an unassisted goal at the 12:57 mark. From then on, it was all Duke. The Blue Devils used a patient attack to wear down their opponent, and the style of play resulted in a 7-2 lead at halftime. Duke fired a stunning 36 shots before the break while possessing the ball for long periods of time, and Colgate was able to take just nine shots of its own. “I said to the guys at halftime, ‘Listen,

Growing up in the New York City area, two of the strongest influences in my sports

upbringing were Mike Francesa and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, the afternoon drive-time hosts on the sports talk radio stationWFAN. Avid listeners of the “Mike and the Mad Dog” program know that there are certain shows that you have to tune in to —Super Bowl Trivia Week, Friday football picks, Monday TV ratings and the day after the galen inevitable heart-shat| a ’'WBJBBB**BB tering, season-ending New York Mets and Jets losses. One of my favorite days of the year is the Monday after Selection Sunday, when Mike and Chris always berate the head of the selection committee, even though they have seen a combined zero minutes of college basketball over the course of the season. It’s 20 minutes of terrific radio, as the two of them make often-ludicrous cases for teams they can’t name a single player on with the man in charge of handing out invitations to the dance. That’s like arguing with a five-star chef about the merits of Alpine Bagels. But I can’treally fault Mike and the Mad Dog since Fm pretty much the same way. Beyond Duke and the ACC, I know next to nothing about the larger college basketball landscape and base most of my picks on random facts like “The Drake is good.” The scary thing is that I usually manage to get between 13 and 14 of the Sweet 16 teams right each year, putting me in first place after the opening weekend. That’s pretty good for someone who went around saying that Memphis’ star freshman was named Derrick Love. Beyond the round of 16, however, I’m usually cooked. And I think I’ve finally figured out the reason: I always have Duke-winning it all. In at least two of the last three years, this

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Shelden Williams and the top-ranked Blue Devils were stunned in the Sweet 16 by LSU two seasons ago.

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SPRING FOOTBALL I PLAYERS'PERSPECTIVE, PART 2IN A 4-PARTSERIES

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Before the sun even rose this morning, Duke gathered together in Yoh Football Center and kicked off its first spring practice under new head coach David Cutcliffe. The Blue Devils have certainly been looking forward to strapping on their helmets, practicing their new schemes and scrimmaging offense versus defense. But more than that, the players are just excited to be one step closer to a new season, and a new Duke. “I’m very excited to throw on these pads and get to work. I’m very anxious as well,” outside linebacker Marcus Jones said. “We have been here for some while now, and we’ve been playing hard, but we just haven’t been coming up with many wins. This change of staff—with the motivation, the enthusiasm and the excitement they brought in—has everybody’s confidence up, and everybody ready to do big things.” A self-admitted man of many pet peeves, Cutcliffe said he refuses to field a team that takes plays off and cannot run. That did not bode well for a squad that Cutcliffe told The Sporting News was the worst-conditioned team he’s seen in his 32 years of coaching.

But in order to get in shape by next fall, his players have learned the hard way the value of an exhausting offseason. As a result, the Blue Devils will tell you that while they are glad to see spring practice come, they are just as happy to see winter workouts go. “They put us through hell pretty much,” running back Re’quan Boyette said. “They’ve been more demanding in the weight room as far as intensity and making sure we do all our reps and making sure that we finish. “That’s been a big word: finish. Whether we’re finishing runs, finishing reps in the weight room or finishing conditioning.... I use the word ‘intense.’ And I’ll use it as much as I can because that’s pretty much how it’s been.” And the Blue Devils don’t expect that to change. Instead of in cone drills and weight lifting, the coaches will demand 100 percent during position workouts, seven-on-seven skeletons and full-on scrimmages, breeding a highly-competitive atmosphere. Nobody has a starting spot and the depth chart is wide open as of right

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The Blue Devils are preparing for their April 19 spring game under new head coach David Cutcliffe.

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Nicolla powers Blue Devils past Hartford Twenty games into the baseball season, Duke has more wins than any other ACC team. The Blue Devils coasted to their 17th victory of the season, 10-6, over Hartford (2-4) at Jack Coombs Field Tuesday. Senior Jonathan Nicolla went 3-for-3 with a home run and four RBIs, continuing his standout

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over the last week. Since entering the lineup, Nicolla has a six-game hitting streak and a .450 average. Nicolla’s tworun homer helped Duke jump out to an 8-0 lead through seven innings. On the mound, Christopher Manno worked five shutout innings, allowing just three hits and striking out six. The Hawks scored five times in the eighth and had the bases loaded in the ninth before Michael Ness came in to pick up his first career save. The Blue Devils got on the board in the third when Kyle Kreick doubled in Matt Williams. Two batters later, Nicolla hit a scarifice fly to put Duke up two. The middle of the order propelled Duke again in the fifth. Jeremy Gould doubled ahead of a Kreick single to put runners on the corners with nobody out. Freshman Jake Lemmerman—the hero of Duke’s win Sunday over Virginia—drove in a run with a fielder’s choice groundout. Nicolla followed with his two-run bomb to left—the designated hitter’s second long-

ball of the season Nicolla started a two-out rally in the seventh by drawing a walk off Hartford reliever John Coury. John Bunder singled Nicolla to second before Coury walked Dennis O’Grady and Grant Monroe to force in a run. Alexander Hassan took advantage of Coury’s wildness, stroking a two-run double to give the Blue Devils an 8-0 lead. With the victory, Duke has yet to lose a midweek game this season. The Blue Devils will put that streak on the line when they complete their two-game set with Hartford Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Jack Coombs Field.

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The Blue Devils won their 17th gameTuesday by building an early lead and holding on over Hartford.

rzii e Committee on Gender invites all undergraduate students to participate in a dialogue about gender issues and University policy. Please attend the focus groups listed below: DUKE LIVING EXPERIENCE Wednesday, 3/19

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VAISMAN from page 9 has been a completely irrational decision. The 2005 team overachieved, the 2006 team should have won the title and last season never happened. But I always feel compelled to take Duke because I have a hard time betraying my school pride. As I see it, there are three ways to approach this conflict of interest between bracket and Blue Devils: One group of people will write/click Duke through to the “National Champion” line on the bracket because they can’t bring themselves to cheer against their school. This is the bracket equivalent of going all-in. If Duke wins, you have more than enough cash to celebrate the national championship by spraying Dom Perignon in celebration. If Duke loses, not only are you depressed, but also out of the pool. But you probably still have enough money to get drunk on Andre. These people’s brackets are tied to this annual ritual, regardless of any plausible reason to suspect Duke’s run might be cut short. Nothing will stand in the way, not even if every Duke starter was mortally wounded, and the draw would require Jordan Davidson to lead the team against UCLA, UNC, Kansas and the Monstar team from Space Jam. Your picks are then geared around predicting Duke’s path to immortality. The second group of people, the fencesitters, will have Duke losing in the title game. These people think they are outsmarting everyone by allowing themselves to root for Duke to go all the way through to the finals but hedging their bets in case Duke does lose before reaching the promised land. These are the same people who will order a risky entree and send it back if it doesn’t look good. The final group of people will have

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Eric Maynor's last-second jump shot eliminated the Blue Devilsfrom the NCAATournament last year. Duke off their bracket sometime before the national championship game. This is a slightly more justifiable strategy than the second one. If Duke loses early, you won’t ruin your bracket; if Duke wins, you get a national championship and a bonfire, which should be enough to distract you from kicking yourself for not picking your alma mater. As much as I try to go with group three, I’m stuck with my group one status. Whether this ruins my brackets for kingdom come remains to be seen, but I’ll trade 24 busted brackets for a national title. So withoutfurther ado, here’s my Sweet 16: East; UNC, Washington State, Oklahoma, Tennessee. Midwest: Kansas, Vandy, USC, Davidson. South: Memphis, Pitt, Marquette, Texas. West: UCLA, Drake, Xavier, Duke. And don’t worry. I have Duke winning it all.

Campus Services Review Committee Announcement Duke University conducts periodic administrative reviews for all university officers. Kernel Dawkins is in his fifth year as Vice President for Campus Services, and a review is underway. The review committee includes Professors Nancy Allen, Kerry Haynie, John Staddon and Warren Warren, and administrators MonteBrown and Tim Walsh. The committee invites all members of the Duke community to provide written comments regarding Kernel’s leadership effectiveness as well as insight into Campus Services operations which include construction & engineering, safety & security, dining, DukeCard and stores. Basic questions are as follows: •

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FOOTBALL from page 9 now, Jones said. Everyone has to earn it.

Although practicing that way results in tired bones and heavy eyelids come day’s end, Boyette said it’s easy to get up the next morning and do it all over again because he understands it makes the team better. ‘You look up and see your teammates still pushing, and that gives you the energy and the second wind to keep pushing,” Boyette said. “Maybe that rep you took offcould have been the rep whereyou missed a block or you missed a tackle in a game. So, you’re beat up, but at the same time, you’re happy and you’re proud, and you feel good because you know that you won that rep that day... [and] you know you’ve gotten better.” Since the first day CutclifFe met his players, and they laid on eyes on his massive national championship ring from his time with Tennessee, he’s been harping on the little things. Jones said that has been the biggest difference so far between last year’s squad and this year’s—attention to detail. “We were running sprints, and ifwe didn’tfinish through the line—not to the line, but through the line—no matter

if you were a starter or fifth-string, then we had to run another one,” Jones said. “If you didn’t do what they asked, the whole team suffered for it. And that’s how it is whenyou play a football game. There are 11 players on the field, and one guy doesn’t do his job, it can hurt the whole team.” Per NCAA regulations, the team can only hold 15 practices over the next 30 days. The final one will be the spring game, which Cutcliffe has been promoting heavily in an effort to get fans out to see his new squad in action April 19. The Blue Devils themselves are also looking forward to showing off, especially their new offense that aims to average at least 30 points a game next season. Cutcliffe turned a lot of heads when he so boldly envisioned a bowl-eligible team in his first year, but as spring practice kicks off and the new era approaches, his players are already confident in their coach’s lofty expectations. “We bought in on Day One,” Boyette said. “We took everything he said to heart. He told us he took the job because he sees Duke Football on the rise, and he has confidence in us. That only gives us the confidence to go out there and make plays and do the things necessary that will help bring Duke Football up.”

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we’ve taken [36] shots,’” Danowski said. I don’t know if I’ve ever coached a team that’s taken [36] shots at halftime, and that’s a phenomenal number.” After the intermission, Duke continued to pressure the Raiders’ midfielders, and the turnovers the Blue Devils were able to force led to easy goals the other way. Colgate took Just four shots in the third period compared to Duke’s 16, and the Blue Devils led 14-4 at the end of the quarter to put the game out ofreach. “It’s just the way we practice,” Ross said of the team’s intense pressure defense. “I don’t think we jog anywhere ever, so when [the opponents] step over the midfield line, we just go as fast as we can. It gives some teams trouble because they don’t practice like that.” Both Ross and Danowski also spoke of the contributions the team received from several different players Tuesday. Seniors Matt Danowski and Zack Greer got their points as they usually do, combining for six goals and four assists. Duke, however, also benefited from strong performances by Sam Payton, Nick O’Hara and many others. The team finished with an astonishing 58 shots in the game, including a dozen by Matt Danowski. “[Colgate] didn’t play Saturday so they were well prepared, and they did a really good job six-on-six, and I love the way we just kept playing and got contributions from a lot of people,” John Danowski said. The Blue Devils return to action Saturday, when they travel to Washington, D.C. to take on No. 10 Georgetown at 11 a.m. The Hoyas currently sit at 32 after defeating Hobart in dpuble overtime in their

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spent my final college spring break working full-time in Durham. Throughout the semester, I’ve worked as a student teacher in Duke’s Program in Education. Although I had gotten (somewhat) used to the early wake-ups, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t ready for a break. As Duke students left for home, I found that I enjoyed the stillness and serenity that kelley akhiemokhali

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should be imposed, especially in cases involving guns—along the lines of interim Durham District Attorney David Saacks’ recommendations. Durham Mayor Bill Bell has called for a formal investigation into some of these questions, with a commission to be led by City Manager Patrick Baker. Though this is a logical and necessary step, appointing an official who has botched other public safety issues, from a landfill fire to water-quality problems, is questionable at best. North Carolina as a state should also step in and contribute its resources in investigating and addressing recidivism. The issue is prevalent throughout the state and country, and definitely requires a long, hard look at long-term policy.

We praise the Durham and Chapel Hill police departments for their speedy arrests in both cases. And in the case of the CHPD, Chief Brian Curran’s frequent communication with the community has been commendable, and is something DPD Chief Jose Lopez should emulate. Deep problems still exist in Durham, as is clearly evident in both gang violence and high incarceration rates. The recent murders are symptomatic of an endemic problem that Durham needs to face comprehensively, as city officials have repeatedly noted. Even so, the bottom line is that failure to capitalize on any chance to prevent crime, especially if that action is merely getting paperwork in order, is absolutely senseless.

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Carson’s death make the issues highly significant. We may not know the legalese, but any and all flaws need to addressed in both the short and long term. miscommunication If between juvenile and adult courts is even partially to blame, as City Council member Eugene Brown says, the system should be reformed. If the criminal justice system is underfunded, then both state and local agencies need to find extra money to allocate to it. Not having enough adequately trained staff to properly process paperwork (as in Atwater’s case) should never enter the realm of factors that contribute to an innocent citizen’s death. And if bonds are inappropriately low, as some have argued, then higher minimums

me. More importantly, this spring break gave me time to reflect upon why I decided to go into education in the first place. Despite all of my idealistic rhetoric, was I simply going into education because I was afraid to do something else? It’s one thing to talk about ending educational inequality and quite another when a child is staring in your face and telling you that the lesson plan you spent two hours on sucks and is boring. I entered education because I saw it as social justice work. I got tired of hearing about how there were more African-American males in prison than there were in college. I got tired of hearing about the subtle—yet still significant—cultural differences between the predominantly white middle-class teaching force and its ever diversifying studentbody population. And my first official week of teaching, I quickly noticed the dearth of students of color in my advanced classes. I began to wonder if these students’ conversations could easily parallel the complaints I have heard from some students of color here on Duke’s campus. Would the tokenization in certain classes and/or the lack of minority teachers to serve as role models dominate discussions as they sometimes have within our own campus community? Naturally, I talked with a friend about the problem surrounding a lack of minority role models. I myself still find it hard to believe that after 19 years ofknowing that “I could do whatever I set my mind to,” I still never imagined myself becoming a university professor until I walked into the office of my African-American, female academic adviser and saw myself reflected in her. Duke’s diversity Web site—diversity.duke.edu—-

attempts to highlight its commitment to multiculturalism. There are diversity initiatives and statistics declaring that Duke is multicultural and,

therefore, open-minded.

There are forums about race and the everpresent question “Where are the others?” simmers below the surface. Where are the other professors of color to inspire a generation of students of color? As my friend said, there will not be any if we—undergraduates of color—do not pursue graduate work. I paused. Then I had to agree. The days of hoping that in our college career a proportionate amount of faculty of color will suddenly appear at the University are over. Yet this is not a source of sorrow for me. Rather, it’s a source of inspiration. Yes, we are lacking people of color in academia, but how many of us—the future generation—are thinking about becoming professors ourselves? That is to say, how many of us are willing to put our money where our mouths are? The tension is strong between doing for the race and doing for yourself. I’ll be the first to stand up and say that I’m not trying to be anyone’s martyr. If the education profession was not one of my interests, then I would not even consider becoming a professor. It is more a question of being able to reflect back on ourselves the same demands we ask of the

University. I would be doing a disservice ifI did not acknowl-

edge the obstacles concerning (sub) conscious discrimination that professors of color face in academia. Yet how will the discrimination end if there are not enough people acknowledging —or even noticing—it in the first place? I’m still conflicted about this entire issue myself. I quit my department’s thesis program at the beginning of senior year and I refused to take the GREs at my mother’s suggestion. I may not be able to write a thesis (a decision I do not regret), but I can still take the GREs. We want more professors of color! OK, so let’s start studying for those graduate examinations, because the road is long and hard. If you need a study buddy in the near future, you may just be able to give me a call. After all, we—undergraduates of color—are now in an interesting place. We are both the beneficiaries of a legacy and are now beginning to clear the path for others. For we are the ones, aren’t we?

Kelley Akhiemokhali is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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dorsement letters for the 2008 Duke Student Government elections. We will accept letters from any and all student organizations, so long as the groups adhere to the following guidelines, These guidelines are also accessible on our Web site, www.dukechronicle.cora.

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March 20, will bring the United States to a solemn and sobering milestone: the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. So it is only appropriate to take stock now of where we are, how we got here and what we should do now. The war, like Caesar’s Gaul, may be divided into three parts The first part was the campaign against Saddam Hussein’s regime, "

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the rationale for this campaign. We all remember the argument that Iraq had weapons of Oliver sherouse mass destruction. This was believed because Saddam had used you tell me them once before on Kurdish villages following the Gulf War, and because of his continual interference with U.N.-mandated inspections. It is now known that the international community at the very least overestimated the progress Iraq had made in the development and production of such weapons; however, the very fact that Hussein would bluff his way into certain destruction illustrates that his government was incapable of acting rationally. Moreover, many forget that Hussein’s Iraq had failed utterly to comply with the terms ofits 1991 surrender and was firing daily on U.S. and NATO aircraft enforcing the No-Fly Zone. And it is well established that Saddam was connected to the terrorist group Hamas (though not to Al-Qaeda), and that he had regularly paid large sums ofmoney to the families of suicide bombers. What we see, then, is an irrationalregime and committed enemy of the United States, openly attacking the troops ofAmerica and its allies, unwilling to comply with its commitments and doing all it could either to convince the world of its weapons capability or to hide it. The nation’s leaders had seen in the attacks of Sept. 11 the effects of leaving such volatile situations unresolved. They decided to act, and their decision was right. Unfortunately, few of the decisions that followed were also right. The failures in the aftermath of the invasion are wellknown: too few troops were sent, the Iraqi army was disbanded, the infrastructure was annihilated and the economy was wrecked. I could not justify these developments if I wanted to: I note them because they allowed for the second and third parts of the war. By “the second part” I refer to the campaign against foreign fighters, most notably the group Al-Qaeda in Iraq, formed in 2004. Although these groups are not responsible for the majority of the violence, they sparked and amplified the third front of the war—the insurgency and sectarian violence—by bombing holy sites such as the Al-Askari mosque. These groups have been diminished by improving U.S. strategy and native Iraqi rejection, but they are neither entirely defeated nor past the point of no return. I unite the insurgency and the sectarian violence because they largely come from the same groups. This combination is responsible for the vast majority of the violence in Iraq today, and the current pressing question is principally whether to defeat the insurgency and stop the violence, or just turn our backs and walk out. To answer that question, two more must be asked. First, is that goal even achievable? One year ago, many said no; however, the “surge” strategy adopted last year has made such progress that, according to a recent ABC poll, 55 percent of Iraqis are now content with their lives and 62 percent view local security positively. Both numbers are up hugely from only six months ago. So yes, the goal can be accomplished. Equally importantly, is it in our interests to stay? I’m not asking anybody to rally round the flag or endorse Bush’s neo-Wilsonianism. For me the only justification for staying is American security. Victory will come, if it comes, at great cost, but the costs of withdrawal will be far greater. If America flees the field at this decisive moment, all the hard-won progress that is only now becoming truly visible will be lost, and Iraq will fall into the same anarchy that Somalia did. Future generations of Iraqis will grow up in a world with no hope of improvement and only the United States to blame. Terrorists worldwide will have a victory to inspire them and a propaganda tool for years to come. Leaving Iraq will not make the problem go away, it will only intensify it. America must stay in Iraq. America must win in Iraq, We have no other choice. Oliver Sherouse is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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nizations with significant personal/professional attachments or associations with candidates will remove themselves from the endorsement process, 5, If an organization then wishes to endorse candidates in a Chronicle letter, the president of the organization must e-mail Editorial Page Editor Leslie Griffith (lagl l@duke.edu).The e-mail must include an attached endorsement letter and the following statement

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6. Letters will be published in the days leading up to the March 27 election. There is no guarantee that endorsement letters will be published, due to space and deadline constraints. The letters with the greatest likelihood of being published are those that arrive earliest and are concise. Letters may not exceed 325 words, If you have questionsregarding these guidelines, please contact Leslie Griffith via e-mail. We look forward

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Paul Slattery and before Elliott Wolf, there was almost Emily Aviki. The 2005 second-place finisher to eventual Duke Student Government President Jesse Longoria in a threecandidate race, Aviki’s name never made it into the final runoffballot. Citing.campaign violations, the DSG Election Commission disqualified Aviki in an election The Chronicle termed “embattled” and “marred by controversy.” Scandal? Sort of. Among the cam brand©!! CUfl paign crimes, Aviki s back ill braff staff allegedly hung a campaign mer on campus 20 minutes before the official start of campaigning. Reportedly, Aviki blamed the incident on a “fast dorm room alarm clock.” Sounds petty, doesn’t it? But it’s hard to fault DSG when the Aviki camp countered with such an embarrassingly juvenile explanation. I guess that blaming it on the alarm clock sounded better than, “The dog ate my sense of political ethics.” But the real nail in the Aviki coffin turned out to be the inclusion of a link to the DSG voting Web site on her AOL Instant Messenger profile. At the urging of the last-place finisher Russ Ferguson (think Ferguson from “Clarissa Explains It All” mixed with the political realism of Ralph Nader), Aviki was automatically disqualified for violating DSG bylaws. Yes, Aviki was disqualified for encouraging and making it convenient for her supporters to vote. Makes you proud to be a Duke student, doesn’t it? Richard Nixon and Ken Starr are still Duke alums, right? But about the same time Longoria was coasting to the DSG presidency on a 19.2-percent margin in the runoff against Ferg-Face, North Carolina State University was welcoming in The Pirate Captain Administration. Dressed in full pirate regalia and speaking only in the style of a pirate, N.C. State student Whil Piavis—known during the election exclusively as “The Pirate Captain”—ran for and defeated a much more traditionally “qualified” opponent in the student government elections. Rather than a platform, The Pirate Captain had a “plank” that included “holding meetin’s open to all yae landlubbers,” increasing football ticket availability “to support our men on the field o’ the pigskin” and returning the “celebration fire on the campus fer when we’ve laid waste another crew.”

But the truly ludicrous thing about that election was the voter turnout. Because ofThe Pirate Captain, a record 26.9 percent of the N.C. State student population came out to vote—an increase from the previous year’s 18.5 percent. And of those voters, a whopping 58 percent voted for The Pirate Captain in the runoff. While our voter turnout is historically much better than our Raleigh neighbor’s, it’s certainly nothing to write home about. Last year, student voter turnout reached a measly 40 percent. To speak for the student body, it’s not that we don’t care. It’s that we don’t think it matters. Four years ago, DSG President Pasha Majdi was carried to the presidency largely on the promise of a chicken in every pot and a stapler in every ePrint. Four years later, we have staplers. But we’re still waiting on the staples. Three years ago, we voted for Jesse Longoria on his promise 0f... well, no one really knows what Longoria promised. But Aviki was disqualified and darned if Longoria wasn’t one handsome fellow. And for the past two years (and possibly a third with Kevin Troy’s candidacy this year), Elliott Wolf and Paul Slattery have ridden the very successful coattails of elliott.dorm.duke.edu. (I’ll be honest, that’s why I voted for them.) We haven’t been given much reason to expect anything of DSG, so we Duke students have perennially tuned out. Perhaps if we had our own pirate captain to spike student interest, we could be given a reason to expect something and put an end to Emily Aviki-era politics, which failed to place the student interest at the forefront. Enter Lawrence Chen. DSG insiders certainly weren’t expecting Chen to run. But now that he is, I and Lawrence’s 1,296 Facebook photos like his chances. Unlike the other candidates, Chen—a fellow member of Duke University Improv in addition to Defining Movement—may provide the unique ability to bring out a diverse student body and jumpstart real interest in the fate of the 2008 DSG presidential elections. Unlike The Pirate Captain, Chen doesn’t wear a costume. But he does have some unique ideas. Among Chen’s one-of-a-kind proposals are new bus routes including a “C-7 bus from Edens to McDonald’s” and a “C-Food bus that would run from West Campus to the Red Lobster.” To the other DSG presidential candidates: Be afraid. Chen is the word. Brandon Curl is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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