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With an April 4 announcement that he would leave for Louisiana State University, Joe Alieva’s tenure as Duke’s director of athletics ended almost as abrupdy as it began.

Just more than 10 years ago, Alieva was watching his son play second base for theBlue Devils when he was informed of a statement announcing him as the replacement for the legendary Tom Butters.

At that moment, in the bleachers of Jack Coombs Field, Alieva could have analysis never imagined what the next decade would bring to Duke Athletics: from unprecedented fundraising to one of the most highly publicized scandals in the history of college sports.

Six national championships and $173 million later, Alieva left Durham for Baton Rouge on a Tuesday and had a new home on the bayou on a Friday. Now, ftiose who Alieva left behind after 32 years at Duke must process this formative decade and decipher what the future holds for one of the biggest brand names in college athletics.

‘The explosion of Duke Athletics’ In February 1998, a four-month national search ended when the top external candidate held a press conference to announce he was not taking the Duke position, opening the door for Alieva—an internal option—to ascend to the top of the athletic department Alieva faced the daunting task offollowing Butters-Mhe man who founded Iron Dukes, the department’s booster club, and hired Mike Krzyzewski, who has raised Duke Basketball to national prominence.

Women’s lacrosse head coach Kerstin Kimel, who came to Duke in 1996, said when Butters stepped down, one of the most pressing needs of the department was improving its facilities and that Alieva “paid immediate attention” to the demand.

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Imagine the uproar if Duke lost nearly one-third of its faculty in two years.

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After 32 years at Duke, JoeAlieva leftDurham to take the athletics directorposition atLouisiana State University.

Some of the most prominent athletic hubs on campus were erected in Alieva’s tenure —Yoh Football Center, Sheffield Tennis Center, Schwartz-Butters Athletic Center, Karcher-Ingram Golf Center, the Michael W. Krzyzewski Center for Athletic and Academic Excellence. In total, 10 new facilities were built under Alieva’s watch, and almost all other prominent facilities received upgrades. The Department of Athletics spent approximately $B5 million over the past decade to support the facility needs of nearly all of Duke’s 26 varsity sports.

In an interview with The Chronicle April 7, Alieva said he hoped his legacy would be

changing “the landscape ofDuke Athletics.”

But the landscape for athletics at Duke is not just a physical one.

Alieva knew that the stadiums and stateof-the-art film rooms were only the foundation in bringing in the kind of personnel and student-athletes who could elevate Duke to eight top-25 Director’s Cup finishes and 44 ACC championships.

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issues of crime and safety have never been more prominent,

some DUPD officers say no one Part 1 of 3 seems to care about the turmoil in the department.

“Something bad is going to happen,” predicted one officer. “We are surrounded by it, and if something doesn’t change we are talking about people getting hurt or killed.”

Some of DUPD’s most experienced officers have left because of alleged dissatisfaction with current departmental policy and with the leadership of top brass including Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, and Maj. Gloria Graham, DUPD’s operations commander.

Graves arrived in 2006 and since then at least 19 officers have left DUPD, more than double the previous rate of attrition. According to its Web site, DUPD has 67 commissioned officers.

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Working within the small physics department, senior Sepehr Sadighpour said he has had minimal encounters, at most, with peers cheating.

“It’s not really a problem there,” he said “I’ve never seen or heard of anyone cheating. It’s never even been

brought up.”

But Sadighpour, like many students interviewed for this article, said he usually only considers offenses like cheating on exams and plagiarism to be academic dishonesty.

Include less recognized infractions like collaborating on homework assignments, however, and the picture changes.

In thefall semester, new freshmen sign the Duke Community Standard, in which they pledge to uphold integrity in theiracademic work.

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Since Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, took his post in January 2006,19 officers have left DUPD.

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U.S. NEWS Iraq's free budget ride nears end

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WASHINGTON Iraq's financial free ride may be over Afterfive years, Republicans and Democrats seem to have found common ground on at least one aspect of the war. From the fiercest war foes to the most steadfast Bush supporters, they are looking at Iraq's surging oil income and saying Baghdad should start picking up the tab, particularly for rebuilding hospitals, roads, power lines and the rest of the shattered country.

AIRPORT CITY, Israel Former President Jimmy Carter defended his plan to meet with the top leader of the violently anti-Israel Hamas movement, saying Monday he hopes to become a conduit between the Islamic militant group and Washington and Israel.

Isolating Hamas is counterproductive, Carter said. Hamas rules the Gaza Strip but is ostracized by Israel, the U.S.and European Union as a terrorist group.

"I think it is absolutely crucial that in the final and dreamed-about and prayed-for peace agreement for this region that Hamas be involved and Syria will be involved," he told a business conference outside Tel Aviv.

Threats close Midwestern schools CHICAGO A message scrawled in a university bathroom—"Be prepared to die on 4/14"— left not justthe college's campus empty Monday, but also those of two adjoining high schools and a pair of nearby elementary schools.

After the precautions were taken at St. Xavier University on the city's southwest side, Malcolm X College evacuated students and canceled daytime classes Monday after a similar threat was found in a bathroom at the campus west of downtown. And Michigan's Oakland University was closed Monday because of threatening

Carter offers to meet with Hamas

Photographer released after 2 yrs BAGHDAD The US. military said Monday it will release Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein,more than two years after he was detained

by US. Marines on suspicions of links to insurgents.

The military said it has determined Hussein is not a threatand plans to free himWednesday.

In the past week, Iraqi judicial commit-11 allegations against Hussein release. The last allegations .unday—a day after Hussein nd full year in custody.

ESS erone boosts success? »HINGTON The hormone drives male aggression and lal interest also seems able to •ost short term success at fiance. But what seems to start ut well can turn bad, with elivated testosterone levels over ieveral days possibly leading to irrational risk-taking,according :o researchers at the University of Cambridge in England.

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Forecast: Big quake likely in Calif.

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California faces an al-

most certain risk of being rocked by a strong

earthquake by 2037' scientists said Monday in the first statewide temblor forecast.

New calculations reveal there is a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike in the next 30 years. The odds of such an event are higher in Southern California than Northern California, 97 percent versus 93 percent.

Physicist John Wheeler dies at 96 HIGHTSTOWN, NJ. Physicist John Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.

Wheeler, for many years a professor at Princeton University, died of pneumonia Sunday at his home in Hightstown, said his daughter, Alison Wheeler Lahnston.

Wheeler rubbed elbows with colossal figures in science such as Albert Einstein and Danish scientist Niels Bohr, with whom Wheeler worked in the 1930 s and '4os.

Users fight to save Windows XP Microsoft Corp.'s operating SEATTLE run most systems personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker. But you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system. Unless it's someone running Windows XP, a version Microsoft wants to retire.

Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have recently papered the Internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions. They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews.

Clouds will begin to dissipate during the day today, but cooler temperatures will remain.

As the week progresses, expect spring conditions to return to Duke with temperatures in the 70s by Thursday. Have a terrific Tuesday!

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Today U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East SanfordInstitute 04,7p.m.

Mohamed Alayyan, publisher and chairman of Al Ghad, Jordan's independent Arabic daily newspaper, discusses his role as a pioneer in new media and journalism in the Middle East.

Arabic Night at Duke Richard White Lecture Hall 107,6:15to 9 p.m.

Program includes play, poetry reading, Arab idol contest Middle Eastern music, dance and others.

Live Jubilee West Campus Plaza, 5 to 7 p.m.

A non-profit band that supports International Justice's mission to fightand end child prostitution and slavery will perform.

News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Service abroad trumps local options by

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With opportunities to serve against the backdrop of the rice paddies of Hanoi or the imperial palaces ofSt. Petersburg, some students may find the prospect of lending a helping hand in home, sweet Durham to be a bit ho-hum.

International service programs like DukeEngage and the Women’s Institute of Secondary Education and Research have debuted to the tune of millions of dollars in funding and avid student interest within the past two years. But these exotic opportunities may be stealing the spotlight from volunteer efforts in the Bull City. “[Serving abroad] is what’s hot right now,” said senior Hans Buder, student council co-director ofi the Community Service Center. “People see it as the sexier option.”

About 270 students will participate in DukeEngage programs abroad this summer, and about 75 more are working in the U.S. with WISER to promote women’s education in Muhuru Bay, Kenya.

As a part of DukeEngage in Bangladesh, freshman Robert Lehman will work with the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, a leader in microfinance and sustainable development, to gather first-person narratives about the program’s impact on client livelihood.

“I wanted to experience something completely differentand outside of my comfort zone,” he said. “I feel like I’m growing as a person and helping to develop a community that needs help.”

But Buder said there is no shortage of volunteer opportunities for service-minded students in Durham.

“There are a lot of people who have it

Students said they prefer doing community serviceabroad to experience something outsidetheircomfort zone.

pretty hard here,” he said. “You don’t have

Sub-Saharan Africa to help.”

Although Durham-centric service programs often fly under the radar, they have not been wanting for volunteers, Buder said. The number of students involved in community service in Durham increased this year: Of the 51 service groups registered with the Office ofStudent Affairs and Facilities, 31 focus on bettering Durham.

Gayle LeCroy, a fourth grade teacher at Hillandale Elementary School in Durham, said the long-term involvement of Duke volunteers has been a positive influence in the lives of her students. More than 50 to go to

members of Wayne Manor volunteer at the school each week, coaching a chess club, tutoring students in math and Spanish and offering administrative support.

“I don’tknow where I could find better role models for my students,” LeCroy said. “[The volunteers] are extremely important to me, the other teachers involved in our program, our administration, our [Parent-Teacher Association] and especially to the children who look up to them as ‘big brothers.’”

Sophomore Brianne Connolly is one student who bridges the Duke service SEE SERVICE ON PAGE 4

Franklin endorses Obama Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama received a vote of support Monday from a prominent Duke figure.

John Hope Franklin, namesake for Duke’s John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and a James B. Duke professor emeritus of history, lauded Obama’s commitment to uniting the country.

“Senator Obama is a truly exceptional leader who understands the struggles of people from all walks of life,” Franklin said in a statement. “As president, he'will be the voice of regular people—something that has been missing from the political landscape for so many years.

He has shown an ability to bridge the divides in our society and unite people behind his agenda for change.”

In a press release, Obama said he was honored to have Franklin’s support.

Munger winsLibertarian nomination Duke political science chair and economics professor Michael Munger won North Carolina’s Libertarian nomination for governor at the party’s state convention Monday.

“We’re not the third party in North Carolina,” Munger said at the convention.

“In many legislative districts we are the second party, since nearly half of the General Assembly seats are unopposed races.”

Munger’s platform includes establishing an education vouchers system, stopping corporate welfare and implementing a moratorium on capital punishment, according to a press release by the Libertarian party.

—from staffreports

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Survey: Duke ranks higher with parents than students by

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It might seem that for many students across America, Duke University would be a dream school.

But a study released by the Princeton Review last month seems to question this assumption about Duke’s spot in students’ hopes.

Among 10,000 high school seniors and their parents surveyed, Duke was-ranked seventh as a “dream” school on the parents’ list, but it did not appear in the top 10 on the students’ list.

Parents’ Top 10 Dream Colleges 1. Princeton 2. Stanford 3. Harvard 4. New York Univ.

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Students and parents ranked the schools according to where they would most like to receive acceptance letters from. The “College Hopes and Worries Survey” has been conducted by Princeton Review since 2003.

“Surveys like this get more attention than they deserve,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said.

“They pretend to tell us something, but they don’t. It’s fluff because of the methodology.”

Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki also noted flaws in the way the survey was conducted.

He said most parents from the southeastern U.S. probably automatically listed Duke as a dream school because of its proximity.

Parents may have been thinking more strategically about their children’s futures in ranking the colleges and saw the value of Duke’s proximity to first-rate professional schools as a major asset, he said.

Kathryn Cleaver, co-director of college counseling at Durham Academy, said the demographics of the study probably had a large influence on the results.

She noted that both the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles made the students’ list but not the parents’.

Cleaver added that perhaps many of the students who responded were from colder climates and therefore saw SEE DREAM SCHOOL ON PAGE 7

Mr. Alayyan’s lecture, “U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Perceptions from the Region” Date:

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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Mohamed Alayyan is die publisher and CEO of Al Ghad newspaper, Jordan’s most independent Arabic daily newspaper. Less than a year since its launch date, Al Ghad has captured the second largest readership market share and built die largest network of subscribers.

Al Ghad has asserted itself as a source of credible news and an innovator in die media market.

Mr. Alayyan is also a member of die International Advertising Association (lAA), the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), The Young Entrepreneurs Association (YEA), and the Young Arab Leaders (YAL). He serves on the Board of MicroMind for Women, Al Anian Fund for the Future of Orphans, Jordan Investment Board (JIB), and lira Board, the world’s leading association for newspaper and media publishing.

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The Duke Community Service Center offers students opportunities to volunteer in Durham.

SERVICE from page 3 divide. She will participate in DukeEngage in Peru this summer but said her experience mentoring a sixth grader at the Emily Krzyzewski Family Life Center may be more rewarding.

“Once you go back [to Duke], there’s a period where you’re changed by the experience, but then you get back in the Duke bubble and you just forget about it because you’re not there,” she said. “Going abroad for that short time, people feel more rewarded immediately. Unfortunately, I worry for a lot ofkids that once they do that, that’s it for them.”

Although DukeEngage’s mission is to fund student service at home and abroad, a member of the Duke Engage board noted that the program has resembled the Peace Corps more than the AmeriCorps in its early years, said Sam Miglarese, director of community engagement for the Office of

Federal Relations and Community Affairs.

Junior Jim Davy, former director of Project BUILD, said he applied only to Duke Engage in Durham to unite his service experiences during and between semesters at the University. He will be one of about 30 students participating in DukeEngage programs in Durham this summer. About 60 more students will volunteer domestically in Seattle, Wash., New Orleans, La. and Tucson, Ariz., Miglarese said.

Even global organizations are acting locally. WISER’s primary focus is to provide scholarships to 12 Kenyan girls, butWISER President Emily Matthews, a sophomore, said the group will also teach a house course in Chapel Hill to empower young women living in low-income neighborhoods.

“There’s great need abroad... but there’s great need here, too. Students need to recognize both,” she said. ‘We like theideaof being able to make a difference in the Triangle and then in the summer go to WISER and connect the two. I think that’s very powerful.”

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one veteran DUPD officer who wished to remain anonymous.

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Why such extreme turnover? Graves is at the heart of the problem, some officers say.

“The promotional system has completely become a joke,” one said. “Aaron Graves promoted his buddies.... There ought to be some loyalty to the people he has here.”

The duo of Graves and Graham may have faced similar issues just a few years ago at the University of Southern California, some former USC officers said.

Graham was a captain in USC’s Department of Public Safety, where Graves was chief. Although he has acknowledged that Graham was hired by DUPD over several internal candidates, Graves said she was the best candidate for the position.

Graham was hired in July 2007 but only started on the job in January. She spent six months in the process ofcertification to be an officer in North Carolina.

In an interview, Graham said bringing new leadership to a police department always causes tension with current officers, and Duke is no exception.

No conclusions should be drawn from the spike in officer departures since Graves’ arrival, she said.

“There is no correlation there,” Graham said.

There has been interest in filling the vacancies, but Graham said the department has yet to find the right people for the slots.

“We get a lot of interest in DUPD, but we just can’t hire everybody,” she said.

Graves declined repeated requests for an in-person interview or for specific responses to questions via e-mail, labeling many accusations as “sensational.”

Grappling with the loss of veterans This academic year has seen an increase in highly visible crime on and around campus. Incidents have occurred under the jurisdictions of both the Durham Police Department and DUPD. The two departments share responsibility for some areas directly adjacent to campus, such as the Ninth Street district, Trinity Park and popular apartment complexes off Erwin Road where many undergraduate and graduate students live.

DUPD does not patrol near where graduate student Abhijit Mahato was killed Jan.TB. Still, it’s hard not to wonder, some officers .

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said, if there might have been a difference in the recent spate of crimes had fewer veteran officers left DUPD in the past two years.

“The people leaving are those with the most experience,” said one officer. “You can’t replace that.”

In Graves’ first year, 11 officers left the department. A normal rate is two to four departures per year, DUPD officers and University administrators said.

Some divisions have been hit especially hard. One department, Investigations, has been slashed from three sergeants to one, one officer said.

All of this leads to fewer officers patrolling high-visibility off-campus routes or more cases of DPD being called in situations that could be under DUPD jurisdiction, officers said.

That can come at students’ expense, officers said.

“I think Durham police sometimes zeroes in on Duke students, while officers like myself are trying to educate students,” one officer said.

‘lnsulting and dangerous’

Officers interviewed for this article said the

department will need to fill vacancies—soon.

“We’re going to be in such a rush to hire people that we’re going to have to lower

our standards,” one officer said.

In reaction to the exodus from the department, Executive Vice President Tailman Trask has hired Sibson Consulting, an international human resources firm, to assess turnover, according to an internal DUPD memo dated Feb. 28.

Ultimately, responsibility for the department resides with Trask and Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus sendees and security.

Asked direedy if he was satisfied with current departmental leadership, Trask responded, “I wouldn’t go that far.”

Although issues of compensation and departmental philosophy may have been a factor in some of the departures, Trask conceded that leadership was a major concern of some recently departed DUPD officers.

Even with current leadership in place, some officers said morale might be improved if upper management showed more confidence in officers on the ground.

“There is a view by the second-floor administration that we are incompetent,” one officer said, referring to upper-level offices in DUPD’s headquarters. “It’s a level of micromanagement that is insulting and dangerous.”

Graves denied that officer morale has declined during his tenure and said retention involves difficult and complex questions.

“I’m prepared to address these issues but [The Chronicle] is not the forum for that,” he said in a brief telephone conversation.

Chelsea Allison contributed to this article.

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CHEATING from page 1

self-reported academic dishonesty at Duke.

The survey compared Duke to “code schools,” those with an honor code, and “non-code schools,” those How Duke stacks up without an honor code, in seven different categories of Last year, 26 cases of cheating were brought before academic dishonesty. In every category, code schools the Office of Judicial Affairs, 11 had lower rates of cheating of which were for plagiarism. than non-code schools.

“I don’t really consider workDuke performed similarly Of the total cases, only one was dropped. ing together on homework as to code schools in all but two categories. According to the Although it is the most frea form of cheating. I mean, study, Duke students reported quently reported, plagiarism is a 5 percent higher rate in unnot necessarily the most prevathe same you are not writing lent form of cheating, according authorized collaboration and things—you are just sharing nearly double the rate of falsito a report submitted by the Academic Integrity Council May 24, fying lab data. ideas.”

2006, titled “Academic Integrity Among surveyed students Karla Diaz Allyon, sophomore from the Pratt School of Engiin Undergraduate Life at Duke neering, 36 percent admitted University: A Report on the 20052006 Survey.” to falsifying lab data. But of the That dubious honor goes to unauthorized collaborastudents who had completed lab work in the Trinity tion, which—at 29 percent —is the most common form of College of Arts and Sciences only 26 percent admitted

the same breach

Approximately 40 percent of upperclassmen in both schools considered the act trivial cheating.

Sophomore Ashleigh Swingler said students might fabricate lab data because they are concerned that they will be assessed on the accuracy of their results.

“I definitely think people [make up lab data] in [chemistry] 22 and 23 because you know what your answers are supposed to be,” she said. “I don’t see it now in my [organic chemistry] lab because we aren’t graded on accuracy.”

Is it cheating?

Far fewer students, however, considered falsifying research data trivial cheating or not cheating.

Although only 3 percent of both Pratt and Trinity faculty considered falsifying lab and research data to be trivial cheating, the survey placed both types into the same category.

In the 2005-2006 survey, student opinion was split regarding the severity of unauthorized collaboration.

The faculty viewpoint closely matched that of the students, with Pratt faculty rating the violation as slightly less severe. “£ don’t really consider working together on homework as a form of cheating,” sophomore .Karla Diaz Ayllon said. “I mean, you are not writing the same things—you are just sharing ideas. But I guess it would be a form of cheating in that it would be something you are not allowed to do.”

Students also often collaborate because they are unaware of their professors’ expectations, said Honor Council Chair Bronwyn Lewis, a senior.

“If I don’t give clear guidelines of what is cheating then they would actually cheat,” said Krishnendu Chakrabarty, professor of electrical and computer engineering. “There is a misunderstanding among students. Even if it amounts to dishonest work, it’s just acceptable [to them].”

Though 45 percent of students at other code schools reported that professors specify academic guidelines, only 30 percent of Duke students reported such provisions.

“On some homework sets, some professors make it very clear that they want us to work individually, but that almost never happens,” Sadighpour said.

Associate Professor of Economics Connel Fullenkamp said he typically encourages students to work in groups and thus avoids issues of unauthorized collaboration.

“I don’t assign a lot of graded assignments where collaboration is particularly ruled out unless it’s an exam,” he said. “So whenever I assign something I usually say please collaborate.”

Signing the pledge Since 2000, Duke students have reported lower rates of academic dishonesty in every category but one; receiving substantial unpermitted help on an assignment.

In recent years, faculty members have placed greater emphasis on providing information about academic integrity on their syllabi.

As recently as 2003, Duke had a license with Turnitin. com, to which professors can submit students’ papers to a database and compare the work to others.

Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of judicial affairs, said the University recently concentrated its efforts on faculty to deter cheating by emphasizing the processes of policing, prevention and promotion.

“We’ve made a concerted effort to examine the Honor Code and to educate faculty,” he said. “A lot can be attributed to education and greater faculty investment in talking about [academic integrity] in their classrooms and generally increasing awareness.”

Although instructors have made some headway in promoting academic honesty, as of 2005 they had not made progress in other efforts, such as reminding students periodically about their obligations and discussing the importance of integrity.

“At the beginning of every semester, we write letters to professors [asking them to discuss] the Duke Community Standard but also to make clear the expectations of what students have to do so that students don’t collaborate or plagiarize just out of ignorance,” Lewis said.

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Pink added that students and parents participating in the survey probably tend to know more about colleges than most. southern California as a more favorable option weathBut a so-called “dream” school may not be the best fit er-wise. for every student, Cleaver noted.

Nowicki said the students’ “We are not looking for a prize or a dream, we’re looking for a rankings very likely could de“We all hate rankings, but pend on how the schools’ match,” she said. “A dream is not teams were and if sports we can’t help but pay atdoing, necessarily the best match.” the survey had been conducted Nowicki also said an importention to them. Duke is a in Marchf the NCAA Tournatant goal for prospective stument could have influenced dents is to feel comfortable in great school—you know it their environment. rankings and I know it.”

“We all hate rankings, but Jodi Pink, director of college but pay attention counseling at the Hewitt School we Steve Nowicki to can’t help in New York City, said the surthem,” he added. “Duke is a dean undergraduate education great school—you know it and I vey was invalid, adding that she wished people would not conknow it. Duke students are difsider rankings at all. ferent from Yale, Princeton and “Surveys like this have nothing much to say,” she Harvard students. said. “The Princeton Review already attracts a certain “Students we want to come to Duke are Duke students.” type of student and parent.” x

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DUKE GETS NO. 2 SEED The Blue Devils secured the second seed and a first-round bye in this weekend's ACC championships, conference officials announced Monday.

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Make it two in a row against ACC foes, No. 8 Duke topped unranked Virginia Tech, 18-11, Monday in Blacksburg, Va. in the Blue Devils’ (9-5, 3-2 in the ACC) last conference game of the season.

Despite the final score, the game did not start in Duke’s favor. The Hokies (4-12,0-4) jumped out to an DUKE T 8 early 3-0 lead in VATECH 11 the opening five minutes of the game, with the Blue Devils unable to find the cage for the first 12 minutes of play.

Instead of calling timeout to assess the team’s situation, however, head coach Kerstin Kimel left it up to her players to turn things around on their own.

“I really wanted the girls to have to feel like, ‘OK, we’re down, and we have to gather our composure and win the draw,”’ Kimel said. “I was proud of them that we didn’t have to call a timeout.”

The Blue Devils’ resurgence was spurred by a goal from midfielder Jess Adam after junior Carolyn Davis regained possession for Duke with a ground ball pickup. A little more than a minute and a half later, Sarah Bullard notched a goal to bring the score within one, and in the next minute, sophomore Lindsay Gilbride whipped a free position shot past Hokie goalkeeper Kari Morrison to knot the score at three apiece.

On the subsequent draw, Allie Johnson gained possession, one offive draw controls for the senior in the game. Again, Gilbride got the ball and zinged a shot into the back of the net with 15:51 to go in the half to give die Blue Devils their first lead of the game.

Although Virginia Tech tallied another

goal shortly thereafterto tie the game at four, the Blue Devils’ momentum was too much to be stopped. Duke added five more points to their lead before the Hokies could respond.

Johnson, sophomore Danielle Kachulis, and Adam each contributed a goal to the scoring outburst and junior Megan del Monte added two to solidify Duke’s edge at 9-4.

After a free position goal from Virginia Tech, the Blue Devils’ Jess Mcßride answered in kind with her own penalty shot for the last word of the period and a fivegoal Duke lead going into halftime.

“We just had to do the little things in the first half,” said Gilbride, who had four goals and an assist on the night. “Once we just got in our flow and had the lead back, we knew it wasn’t going to go the other way.”

The second half proved to be a bit closer, with the Hokies scoring first in the period and topping Duke in draw controls, 10-6. But the Blue Devils shut the door on Virginia Tech with three goals in a row, including two in nine seconds from Kachulis and Gilbride, respectively. Although the teams traded goals over a seven-minute span in the middle of the period, the Hokies could not overcome the Blue Devils’ dominant shooting—70 percent of shots on goal—and an .875 clear percentage.

“They turned the ball over more than we did,” Kimel said. “We took really good care of the ball, and Virginia Tech didn’t.

Our kids caused some really good turnovers, Kim [lmbesi] had some really good saves at key times, and we never really let them have any momentum going.”

With the 18-11 win, Duke is currently third in the ACC. The team faces Vanderbilt (10-4) Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. for its final regular-season game.

Taylor King is packing his bags for the City of Brotherly Love.

The 6-foot-6 sharpshooter announced Monday that he will be transferring to Villanova following the completion of the spring semester at Duke.

“Nothing against Duke, but it’s time for a change,” King told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “I needed to explore other places.

Villanova is a true family atmosphere where everyone’s got each other’s back.”

A 2007 McDonald’s All-American, King averaged 5.5 points and 2.0 rebounds per game as a freshman last season.

After scoring in double figures in six of his first 13 games—including a career-high 27 points against Eastern Kentucky Nov. 25—King saw his playing time diminish as the season wore on. He did not score in nine of the Blue Devils’ final 21 games and played less than one minute after halftime in Duke’s final three contests.

“I didn’t feel that at Duke I was in the right position to get to the next level,” King told the Philadelphia Inquirer. [Villanova] Coach [Jay] Wright will help me get to the next level. It’s not that [Mike Krzyzewski] wouldn’t, because he’s done it his whole career, but I think Villanova is where I fit the best.”

Per NCAA rules, King will sit out the 20082009 season. However, with forwards Dante Cunningham, Shane Clark and Dwayne Anderson entering their final seasons for the Wildcats, Villanova will have openings in its frontcourt when King is declared eligible for the 2009-2010 campaign. “

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Freshman TaylorKing decided totransfer toVillanova, where he will play under headcoach Jay Wright.

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ALIEVA from page Alieva also hired 10 of Duke’s 20 current head coaches, including field hockey head coach Beth Bozman, women’s soccer head coach Robbie Church, men’s lacrosse head coach John Danowski and men’s golf head coach O.D. Vincent.

“We were Hiking about how many people work here who weren’t hired by Joe. There’s not very many. I’m one of the few,” Interim Director ofAthletics Chris Kennedy said. “It’s a very, very strong staff. It’s as good a coaching staff as a group that we’ve ever had.”

“The man who led us through the explosion of Duke Athletics—and I mean that from a personnel standpoint,” Associate Director of Athletics for Communication Jon Jackson said ofhow Alieva should be remembered. “[Knowing] how much the environment in athletics was changing and how Duke had to adapt, given its uniqueness, given those changes—and that Joe steered us through that time.”

In particular, Alieva bolstered academic resources for student-athletes with new staff and facilities. As of 2007, the academic-support budget had grown tenfold since 1998, which translates into one of the nation’s best graduation rates, at 91 percent.

“In the last 10 years, we’ve won more ACC and NCAA championships than in any other comparable period in the history of the University,” Kennedy said of the department that increased its staff size by 40 percent in the same time span.

Underlying this growth was the continuation of Butters’ focus on fundraising, as Alieva brought in $173 million in revenue.

Some, though, question how much credit Alieva should receive for the record effort.

“To say Joe Alieva is a good fundraiser is to say that Steve Williams is a good caddy,” said Washington Post columnist John Feinstein, Trinity ‘77. “I could be a good caddy ifI were caddying for Tiger [Woods].

that the “team was under a microscope” and that players’ behavior needed to be modified. Pressler, however, denied that Alieva said the team was “out ofcontrol” or ever is‘Boulders in a flat plain’ Despite the progress made in the quality sued a strong warning. offacilities and personnel and the quantity When the case broke in 2006, Alieva was of fundraising, Alieva’s perceived legacy at criticized again for remarks made in the Duke may rest more on intermittent conschool’s first press conference March 28.

Sitting next to President Richard Brodhead, troversy than sustained success.

In Spring 2005, allegations about steroid Alieva said the incident was just an example use on the baseball team surfaced when two of “boys being boys,” a statement that caught former players toldThe Chronicle that thensignificant flak at the time. After Alieva’s inihead coach Bill Hillier had suggested that tial comments, administrators from the Allen players use performance-enhancing drugs. Building—and not from Cameron—became Although Hillier denied the accusations, he the University’s primary spokespeople.

“It will be part ofhis legacy,’’Jackson said. resigned in May and the University revised its drug policy to curb the damage that had “Any of us who touched that portion of our already been done. In addition, Alieva hired history, it’s going to be part ofall of our legaformer Blue Devil Sean McNally, Trinity ’94, cies. Whether that’s right or wrong, that’s reto replace Hillier, a coach he hired in 1999. ality. In the end, we did the best we could.

The attention generated by questions “There was no book to open up and say, lingering in the locker room, however, ‘OK, this happened, this is how we should would pale in comparison to those that respond.’ We were learning and trying to would surround a Spring Break party in an understand on the fly.”

Matters only got worse for Alieva, off-campus house on Buchanan Boulevard only a year later. though, in the months following the indictThree members of the 2005-2006 men’s laments. In June, he and his son J.D., Trinity ’O3, were involved in a boating accident. crosse team were indicted on counts ofrape, sexual assault and kidnapping. In the year it J.D., who had been driving the boat, was took to acquit them, die case was amplified temporarily jailed on DWI charges, and Alby the national media. In that 12-month ieva required 42 stitches to his head. stretch—perhaps the most defining ofAlieva’s Kennedy, however, suggested the scantime at Duke—there had never been more dals that marred Alieva’s tenure were “boulders in a flat plain,” outliers that seem scrutiny of the University, the athletic department or the lives ofDuke student-athletes. more prominent because of their rarity.

The Lacrosse Ad Hoc Review Commit“They are fewer of them, so they stand out,” tee released its report on lacrosse culture at he said. “Duke has been remarkably free of the kind of scandals or misbehavior or violations Duke April 5, 2006. One of the most striking elements of their evaluation was the lack that a lot of departments have suffered form.” of communication both between administrators in the Allen Building and those in Looking to the future Cameron and between Alieva and then-head Now, Brodhead is charged with the task coach Mike Pressler. The report revealed sevof finding a new athletic director for what eral inconsistencies in history and protocol, Alieva called “one of the greatest athletics including an account of a Fall 2004 meeting schools in the country.” between Alieva and Pressler. The director of As the Board of Trustees prepares to athletics said he warned the lacrosse coach vote on the final draft of the athletic stra-

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Burness said it is in Duke’s best interest to find a candidate who is visionary, making it “probable” that the new athletic director would have input on the strategic plan.

Duke has just begun its national search—which is being conducted by a committee chaired by Roy Bostock, Trinity ’62—and Brodhead held a meeting April 8 to discuss the expectations of the search with members of the athletic department.

One of the most important aspects of the search might be the future of Duke Basketball. Krzyzewski is 61 and likely will retire during the tenure of the new athletic director.

“The day that he retires, that will become the most important job that the athletic director has, bar none, is replacing him,” Alieva said. “There’s no question about it. Duke Basketball is what has made Duke Athletics special.”

While basketball continued to flourish under Alieva, Duke Football floundered. Alieva hired two coaches—Carl Franks and Ted Roof—who were unable to turn the program around. Alieva, who will inherit one of the nation’s most prominent football powerhouses at LSU, said his mishandling of the football program was one of his biggest disappointments at Duke but hopes that will change with his December hiring offormer Tennessee offensive coordinator David Cutcliffe.

“I’m hopeful that one of my best legacies at Duke will be the hiring of Coach Cutcliffe,” Alieva said.

Despite his miscues, Alieva leaves the athletic department in as good, if not better, shape than he received it. And although Alieva might not be regarded as highly as his predecessor, it’s clear that a high bar has been set for his successor.

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The Duke Chapter, Beta of North Carolina, was formed in 1920 at Trinity College. We are delighted to receive into membership the following: Bethany Heather Allen

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the DSG vice president for academic affairs a more powerful position. With an institutional link to the policy-making Arts and Sciences Council, the vice president of academic affairs—and, by extension, DSG and the student body as a whole—may be able to more effectively advocate student interests.

The crucial role that this new committee may play makes it is essential for students to take advantage of this opportunity to help create academic policy. The Arts and Sciences Council has not yet set a procedure for selection of student representatives and is currently discussing the matter with DSG. We hope that the council considers its options carefully

in its creation of a selection process.

This board feels strongly that the representatives from Trinity and Pratt should not be selected by DSG. The recent failures of DSG to provide transparent and open elections make us wary of entrusting the Committee on Academic Standards’ appointments to DSG. For the full potential of the committee to be realized, the three representatives must use a mix of the mandate of DSG with the experiences of the general student body.

The new committee needs to be well-publicized—healthy competition for the student seats will ensure strong representation. More-

over, the committee will only function well if students present issues to be addressed.

Such a valuable addition to the student advocacy arsenal must be employed whenever serious debates over academic policy arise.

With well-selected student representatives and the active participation of next year’s vice president for academic affairs, the new Committee on Academic Standards will have an opportunity to address long-overdue issues and move past the policy stalemate it was created to clear.

In the long term, facilitating communication between students and administrators will hopefully reduce the occurrence of such impasses

altogether.

The party’s crashing There

are certain unmistakable signs that you have overstayed your welcome.

At a house party, the food turns room temperature and empty bottles, cans and cups litter every available surface. You make a half-hearted offer to help clean up the damage, but your ever-gracious M host/hostess insists, “No, no. I’ll get it in the morning.”

You don’t need to be told twice.

■■:.7zvr. r, The signs that eliza french I have over-stayed welcome in my my je ne sass quoi charming—it worsefor-the wear—East Campus dorm room came more subdy than usual.

Besides acquiring way more stuff than was ever intended to fit in my room, I hadn’t encountered any real problems.

Then the wireless Internet started to work only in five-minute increments. The room seemed either too hot or too cold, regardless of the temperature outside and I could no longer ignore the gritty wooden floors.

I finally started to feel truly unwelcome when the toilet in the suite bathroom (thanks to low-flow technology) stopped effectively flushing. No matter what it had been used for, or how many times you flushed it, it belched up shreds of toilet paper that swam in a shallow pool of murky water.

I was willing to overlook all of this before one morning last week. (Warning for the faint ofheart: do not read on.)

I switched on my hairdryer and noticed a singing smell. Although this is not entirely uncommon when operating any appliance from the protruding bathroom outlet, upon investigation I discovered something at the nozzle of the hairdryer. I turned it over to pull out what I could only assume to be some stray strands of my brown hair.

That is when I realized the brown sticking out ofmy hairdryer was, in fact, a cockroach, dangling its legs as its last taunting revenge before it died of what I would imagine to be severe overheating.

I can’t be the only one taking these not-so-

us

subtle hints that Duke has had enough of us for one academic year. Some girls in my dorm have an ant infestation, and residents of Randolph and Blackwell are just as disgusted by the sight of their dismal cinder-block walls. Even the seniors must feel it a little bit, as reluctant as they are to leave.

If you’re a freshman, you’re frantically adding money to your food account in $lO increments so you can keep buying $l.lO Snapples from the vending machine. If you’re an upperclassman, you’re trying to think of a less cliched way to drop all of your extra food points than the WaDuke.

Your professors (or, realistically, your TAs) are waiting with pens poised to mercilessly grade those last few 10-page papers they managed to sneak in before May 2. You’re probably in a constandy sleep-deprived state finishing said papers, problem sets, exams, etc., and going out for a welldeserved celebration of finishing one assignment.

Only to be greeted by the next.

In a week or so, I’m guessing, I will probably be able to relive that old first-week-of school sensation of sweating my make-up off as I walk to class.

Everyone’s going to break out the fans they put away in September, only to pack them back up again in another two weeks.

We have the allure ofLDOC in the oh-so-near future, but after that stretches the abyss of exam week. And the only thing strong enough to get you through it is the promise of gradation, Myrtle Beach, whichever foreign country Duke is paying for you to go to or whatever else you have waiting for you outside of Durham, North Carolina.

Even though most of us think Duke is the best place in world, at this time of year, we can’t ignore the signs thafit’s time to move on. Life is handing us the proverbial cockroach-in-the-hairdryer. And I can tell you from experience, the only choice is to unplug it and throw it away with a disgusted look on your face.

With any luck, all of us will survive exam week and the worsening un-pleasantries of dorm living.

And after a long, hard summer of separation anxiety, I will see all of your smiling, if sweating, faces when we move into our hopefully pest-free dorms, ready to start it all over again.

Eliza French is a Trinity freshman. This is her final column of the semester.

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Erase racism, take 3

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January 2007,1 wrote a column about the racist covDuke once inserted into the deeds of faculty homes in the Duke Forest. Those clauses prohibited persons of “Negro blood” from owning (or even sleeping in) 232 houses.

Then in-March 2007, I followed up with an even angrier missive demanding corrective action from President Richard Brodhead and his senior kristin butler administrators Today, I write to review with alt the unsatisfactory halfdeliberate speed measures Brodhead has finally taken.

But first, some background: Racist covenants banning the sale ofhomes to blacks were declared unconstitutional in 1948. Nevertheless, Duke continued inserting them into faculty deeds until 1969, fully 21 years after they had been struck down. Though legally unenforceable, the presence of these racist covenants remains an outrage and I believe Duke has a moral responsibility to do everything it possibly can to erase this stain on our institutional history.

Unfortunately, the recent actions ofBrodhead and University Counsel Pam Bernard fall far below that threshold.

Brodhead did take an important first step forward when he directedBernard to file documents waiving Duke’s right to enforce the covenants last fall. As Brodhead explained in a press release, that filing revised “each deed to disavow symbolically the language that is a reminder of the segregation of a past era.”

But as former University counsel David Adcock noted enants

in 2004, a “judicial declaration” was what was needed to fully cleanse homeowners’ deeds of the racist language.

Bernard’s remedy, by contrast, is all symbol and no substance—and although I applaud the gesture, her actual filing is of extremely dubious merit.

With these legal documents, the University is effectively waiving enforcement rights itmaintains it doesn’thave. In fact, the University already reassured homeowners in both 1970 and 1989 “that Duke regrets the initial inclusion of the racially restrictive covenants, and will stipulate that it is not only legally impossible for the University to consider enforcing them, but that the university will not do so under any circumstances.”

Waiving the right to do something that is already “legally impossible” hardly takes much courage.

What does remain “legally possible,” however, is that one property owner could seek to enforce the restrictive covenant against other residents.

Because the University enabled this possibility when it issued the deeds, it now has a moral and ethical responsibility to address it. This would be a substantial undertak-* ing, since anyone who has ever owned one of these properties (and their descendants) technically retains some rights under America’s common law tradition. However, if Duke found the issue important enough to address with one legal filing, I cannot reconcile the University’s decision to abandon this next, more important step.

Moreover, the second, more opprobrious requirement of Duke’s covenants—which specifies that blacks cannot sleep on the property unless they are domestic workers—remains legally active within these homeowners’ deeds. Unlike more generic requirements that houses not be sold to blacks (which were common across the South during the 1930 and 19405), there appears to be no legal precedent for this Duke-Specific prohibition, thus providing ample reason why the covenants j

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Swinging Sledgehammers Something

big happened last Wednesday evening.

Advance word of a scheduled Tibetan solidarity vigil spread across the Internet. In response, the Chinese community from across the Triangle turned out on the Chapel Quadrangle by the hundreds to stage a counterprotest. They vastly outnumbered the small Duke Human Rights Coalition, and the two groups shouted, chanted and generally engaged in what The \mk Chronicle reported was a heavily policed, nonviolent “clash” in front of the Chapel.

The faiiout from andrew kitidman this confrontation rept „ stand „ resents one or the tundamental questions of political science.

“They’re violating our rights to free speech,” claimed Human Rights Coalition member Daniel Cordero, a junior, referring to the pro-China demonstrators.

Really? Do they not also have the right to free speech? Doesn’t the First Amendment guarantee that both groups can peaceably assemble? But what if they want to demonstrate on the same quad at the same time? Oh, this is complicated.

The Constitution promises us that “Congress shall make no law abridging” these rights. But it doesn’t tell us who wins if, by exercising his own rights, one person abridges the rights of another.

Think of it this way. I have often heard the concept of constitutionally protected rights explained using the metaphor of a sledgehammer. This is how it works: you have every right to swing a sledgehammer in wild circles, unless in doing so you hit me. Here we find that your right to swing a sledgehammer overlaps rather violently with my right not to be hit by a sledgehammer. At this the point your business becomes our business, and we have a problem.

Some real world examples: you can own a gun, but you can’t shoot me with it; you can write and say what you want, except for libel about me; you can practice whatever religion speaks to you, unless it involves sacrificing me.

The problem with the sledgehammer metaphor, as with the Constitution, is that it doesn’t address the conflict that arises at the point of impact. A concussive blow to the temple will.be the result if we both exercise our rights. The question is, should I have seen -——

you swinging the hammer and stopped walking toward you, or should you have seen me. walking toward you and stopped swinging the hammer? If we both continue to operate as if the other doesn’t exist, somebody is going to get hurt. The Constitution may not tell us how, but we can easily avoid this outcome. All we have to do is communicate.

Let’s bring the focus back to the “clash” on the quad.

The Human Rights Coalition had every right to demonstrate on the quad. The prodhina collective had every right to demonstrate on the quad. Like a hammer-swinger and a bystander, the integrity of each group would have been unquestioned in the absence of the other.

If we refuse to assign a moral prerogative to either the pro-Tibet or the Pro-China protesters, who has more of a right to demonstrate? We could simply say that the pro-Tibet group was there first, but that doesn’t seem fair; or that the pro-China group has more people, but that isn’t quite right either. The fact that seems to complicate the issue even further, but may in fact turn out to be the solution to the problem, is that each group is only there because of the other.

Stew for a moment in the tremendous irony of this situation. Cordero was able to make a statement about the suppression of his freedom of speech on Wednesday and see it on the front page on Thursday. Moreover, the presence of the very group responsible for the suppression was the only reason that a story about a vigil for Tibet attracted enough attention to make the front page.

Similarly, had the pro-Tibet group not been present, the pro-China demonstrators would not have gathered at all, and much of Duke would still be oblivious to the fact that people other than Chinese bureaucrats support China’s position in Tibet. In clashing on the quad, both groups did a great service to one another.

The Constitution tells both groups that they have a right to demonstrate but doesn’t say who has more of a right. It is honorable thatwhen the hammer-swinger and the bystander found themselves dangerously close together on the Chapel quad they chose to communicate with one another rather than pressing on and acting surprised when somebody got popped. True to form for Duke, the two sides communicated, agreeing to postpone the confrontation and parlay it into a regulated and civil panel discussion, to be held Wednesday evening in Griffith Film Theater.

Andrew Kindman is a Trinity sophomore. This is his final column of the semester.

should be stricken in their entirety.

How unfortunate, then, that the University’s attention to this matter was so cursory that Bernard did not contact a single affected homeowner in the course of her research.

Residents had to learn about this action and its impact on their property via local newspapers’ summaries of a University press release. This is not only poor communication; it is also shoddy legal work.

Just as troubling (for me at least) has been this entire community’s unwillingness to confront our racist past.

Hundreds of present and former faculty members live in these homes, and yet administrative cooperation has been extremely hard to come by: It took me three semesters of begging and pleading and clawing to get even this substandard response. An alumnus with whom I worked closely has been lobbying officials for nearly four decades.

Worse yet, I was shocked to discover that when given the opportunity to “rescind” these racist covenants in 1970, only two-thirds of faculty homeowners agreed to do so; the other one-third apparently preferred to keep the vile language. And in all my time spent researching this issue, only one current homeowner expressed any interest in the process.

That disturbs me, which is why I chose to revisit this issue in my second-to-last column.

Indeed, I think it important that Duke do the moral thing whenever possible, not because it’s in our financial interest or to our legal advantage but because it is the right tiling to do. I once thought that common purpose knitted our community together, transcending rank and discipline.

In a case as morally outrageous as this one, seeing our most senior administrators cast those principles aside grieves me deeply.

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

lettertotheeditor An open letter to the Duke community After last Wednesday’s high-profile protest on campus, a few subscribers to the mailing list china@duke.edu anonymously sent out messages verbally attacking one student using language we found troubling and heinous, as well as releasing this student’s private information.

This mailing list was set up mainly for the purpose of helping students exchange information such as secondhand car or apartment sublease. It is open to the public, not limited only to Chinese students and scholars at Duke, for subscription and currently has more than 900 registered users, and like many other mailing lists of this kind, we do not have a dedicated member to monitor it closely on a daily basis.

We, however, removed all the relevant messages once they were brought to our attention. And starting Saturday, April 12, we have imposed stricter filter rules for messages sent through the mailing list. Duke Chinese Students and Scholars Association hereby declares our unequivocal position that we strongly disagree with and condemn the behavior of these few anonymous subscribers.

However, we are very disappointed by the April 14 story “Student gets threats after China protest.” We feel regretful that this student considered it was DCSSA’s fault for releasing “all kinds ofinformation” about her, and several other student organizations on campus blamed DCSSA for actions taken by certain subscribers to our mailing list, which, for the reasons stated above, we have to disagree with. We are sympathetic to this student’s situation, and as the representatives of DCSSA, we will try to contact this student to resolve any misunderstandings.

As one of the largest student groups on campus, DCSSA is an organization dedicated to promoting diversity on Duke campus. We are always proud to bring the culture from China—our home country, which has a glorious history of more than 5,000 years—to the Gothic Wonderland that we also call home. We hope that by learning from each other, we can work towards an even brighter future. We appreciate the increasing attention on China recendy received from the Duke community. In light of the recent events on and off campus, we welcome your constructive comments and healthy reflections on a wide range of topics, including the impartiality of media, freedom of speech and effectiveness of cross-cultural communication. Please feel free to send your e-mails to dcssa2ooB@gmail.com.

Zhizhong Li, DCSSA president Weina Wang, DCSSA vice president Weiningßian, DCSSA vice president

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Thursday, April 17

THEATER. 2008 New Works Festival.

Plays written, directed, acted and produced by students, around the theme of “the thrill of fear.” Bpm. Brody Theater. Free.

Friday, April 18

TALK. Britten’s War Requiem Lecture Series: Britten and Pacifism. Philip Rup precht, Associate Professor of Music, Duke University. 4pm. Biddle Music Building, Room 10. Free.

MUSIC. Duke & Symphony (® Orchestra: \ Hanseland Gretel: A Fairytale Opera in 3 Acts. A semi-staged concert production sung in English with Teresa Buch holz, Timothy Culver, Brian Johnson, Jung Oh, Susan Williams, Cynthia Wohlschlager and the Durham Children’s Choir. Scott Hill, artistic director. 7:3opm. Baldwin Auditorium. $lO general/$5 students and sr. citizens/children under 12free.

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THEATER. 2008 New Works Festival.

(See April 17.) Bpm. Brody Theater. Free.

Saturday, April 19 TALK. Britten’s War Requiem Lecture Series: War and Reconciliation. Justin Welby, Dean of Liverpool Cathedral. 6pm.

Reynolds Lecture Hall (0016 Westbrook Bldg). Free.

DANCE. ChoreoLab 2008: Sunu by Ava LaVonne Vinesett. Sort of a Sestina and Quatrain Suite choreographed and performed

by Barbara Dickinson. Diablo Negro by Nina Wheeler. Bach to Basics by Tyler Walters and Julie Walters-. Ani’s Songs for Women by Duke senior Summer Robins. Bpm. Reynolds Theater. $l5 General' $5 Students.

THEATER. 2008 New Works Festival.

(See April 17.) Bpm. Brody Theater. Free.

MUSIC. Duke Chapel Choir: Benjamin

a new play by New York playwright Megan Mostyn-Brown, as part of the 2008 New Works Festival. 2pm. Sheafer Theater. Free.

DANCE. ChoreoLab 2008: Sunu by Ava LaVonne Vinesett. (See April 19.) 3pm. Reyn olds Theater. $l5 General, $5 Students.

MUSIC. Duke Symphony Orchestra: Hansel and Gretel. (see April 18). 3pm.

Baldwin Auditorium. $lO general/$5 students and sr. citizens/children under 12free.

THEATER. Three Movies and a Funeral A multi-media performance of the adaptation of short stories by prominent writers, as part of “A Sense of Place.” spm. NasherMuseum. Free with Duke ID. MUSIC. Duke Chapel Choir: Benjamin Britten’sr War Requiem. (See April 19.) 4pm.

Duke Chapel. $2O general/students free.

FAMILY. Andy Offutt Irwin. Offutt’s Environ Duke Garden’s Kirby Horton Hall. 11 am. $8 Saturday, April 26 MUSIC. Ying Quartet with Christopher Taylor.

Ravel, Lieberson & Dohnanyi. Among the world’s leading lights in chamber music, the Yings are joined by piano prodigy Christopher Taylor. Reynolds Industries Theater. 8 pm. $2B/ss*

Monday, April 21 THEATER. African American Theater Workshop Performance. Bpm. Brody Theater. Free.

Tuesday, April 22

MUSIC. Chamber Music Recital featuring *Duke Student Price

student groups. 7pm. Nelson Music Room.

Free.

THEATER. Musical Theater Workshop Performance. Bpm. Sheafer Theater. Free.

Friday, April 25

ART. Durham Get Together: Join artist Brett Cook for the unveiling of locally inspired large-scale documentary murals as part of the Face Up Project and the annual Lehman Brady presentation. Music, food, activities. 4-Bpm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

MUSIC. Duke Chorale: Chorale Celebration Rodney Wynkoop, dir. Bpm. Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Saturday, April 26

MUSIC. Duke String School: Spring Festival Dorothy Kitchen, dir. 3,4, fr 7pm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

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4/21 THE SILENCE BEFORE BACH. Music and Society series.

4/22 BLUEPRINT Love=Love: LGBTQ series.

4/23 GREAT WORLD OF SOUND. Music an 4/25 Duke Student Film Showcase. Best of the student films produced in Duke courses this semester. Student filmmakers appearing in person! (G) check website for time & schedulet Free.

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