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Sighs of relief and disappointment were heard round the world when study abroad students received their Spring housing assignments Monday evening.

With the finish line for Few Quadrangle construction finally in sight, Residence Life and Housing Services officials notified many students studying abroad that they will be living in the newly renovated residence hall in the Spring. But not all students overseas were granted their firstchoice living assignment.

Because the majority of returning students requested housing in Few Quad, RLHS was unable to accommodate demand for the 430 beds in the dorm and was forced to place some students elsewhere on campus, Assistant Director of Accommodations Jen Frank wrote in an e-mail.

Though the majority of students spending the Fall overseas received their preferred living assignment, study abroad always complicates housing assignments for RLHS, Frank said. RLHS determines Spring housing assignments by weighing the preferences of returning students with requests for reassignment from students already living on campus, and prioritizes requests from study abroad students. More than 500 applications for Spring housing were submitted to RLHS this year, including more than 100 requests for reassignment, Frank said.

The U.S. Senate will still include a Duke alum when it reconvenes in January.

Ted Kaufman, Engineering ’6O and a senior lecturing fellow in the School of Law, was appointed to fill the Senate seat to be left vacant by Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Delaware Gov. Ruth Minner announced Monday.

Sen. Elizabeth Dole, Woman’s College ’5B and R-N.C., is the only Duke alumnus in the current Senate, but she lost her bid for re-election to state Sen. Kay Hagan Nov. 4.

“He [will be] the sole member of the ‘Duke caucus’ in the United States Senate,” noted Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “We are very proud of him, and we look forward to supporting him.”

Kaufman has taught law courses on Congress as well as classes in the Fuqua School of Business and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Schoenfeld said it was unclear what Kaufman’s commitments to Duke would be while he serves in the Senate.

“I really have a very universal kind ofinterest in the issues of the Senate,” Kaufman told a reporter from The (Delaware) News Journal.

“I have been teaching thatfor a long time. I’m just so pleased to have this opportunity.”

Schoenfeld said he hoped Kaufman would continue sharing his wisdom and expertise with Duke students, perhaps by

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Duke's art institutions, like the Nasher Museum of Art, have not cut theirbudget in light of theeconomic downturn. However, the University may temper spending on the arts as donations are expected to slow.

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Despite the darkening financial horizon, University officials said the arts have not yet been yanked out of Duke’s programming spotlight.

The main arts players on campus Duke Performances and the Nasher Museum ofArt—will proceed with “business as cautiously usual,” said Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education.

Although no cuts have been ordered, the University has adopted the practice of moderate spending on the arts in anticipation of dips in funding from outside donors.

“I think everyone’s going to have to —

cut back ultimately,” said Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts. “So rather than spending a lot of money right off the bat, I’ve been trying to think strategically about how to use funding available....

Even if funds are reduced, it won’t affect my planning.”

The University’s strategic plan, “Making a Difference,” places an emphasis on improving Duke’s arts scene.

As a leading organization in the initiative, the Nasher will continue to provide a space for art on campus, Lindroth said.

“We’re no different than any other aspect of the University,” said Kim

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Juniors studying abroad received word of their Spring

housing assignments Monday. But not all returning students will live in the renovated Few Quadrangle.

A man charged with the second-degree rape of a then-freshman in February 2007 was arrested on the same charges Nov. 14.

Michael Burch, a Durham resident, is currently being held in Durham County Jail on $1.85 million bond, Durham Police Department clerks said.

Burch also faces charges offirst-degree sexual offense and felony aiding and abetting, for crimes which allegedly occurred June 21, said Candy Clark, an administrative assistant in the Durham County District Attorney’s Office. He is scheduled to appear in Criminal District Court Dec. 8 before a grand jury.

Burch, who is not a Duke student, was ar-

rested in February 2007 for allegedly raping a then-18-year-old freshman at around 3 a.m. Feb. 11, 2007 at an off-campus party at 405 Gattis St. The party was hosted by members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., and police had found marijuana, cocaine and Oxycontin in the house.

Burch was held on a $50,000 bond and released from jail the same day.

“The disparity between $50,000 and [the new bond of] $1.85 million is just so negligent in our minds,” the first victim’s father said Monday. “[My daughter] was validated, but unfortunately my question to the initial judges is, ‘How come my 18-year-old daughter knew better than you?”’

The victim’s father said he feels there was an injustice in the

CORRECTION A photo accompanying a Nov. 22 article, "Duke grad awarded Rhodes Scholarship," was incorrectly labelled. A former Duke tennis player was misidentified as Julia Parker Goyer,the only Duke graduate to have been awarded a 2009 Rhodes Scholarship. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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HONG KONG Bailout fatigue gripped Asian markets Monday with most regional benchmarks retreating despite a U.S. government lifeline for ailing banking giant Citigroup.

News late Sunday in the U.S. that Washington would take a $2O billion stake in Citigroup and guarantee hundreds of billons of dollars in risky assets helped several Asian markets pare early losses, but not by much.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was down 210.26points,or 1.6 percent, at 12,457.94, while Australia's key index recovered from morning losses to close 0.3 percent higher. ”

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There were only minor scuffles as protesters, who call themselves the People's Alliance for Democracy, successfully blockaded the Parliament building in their campaign to force the resignation of Prime MinisterSomchai Wongsawat.

Police, under strict orders to avoid the use of force, exercised restraint as demonstrators pushed past them, sometimes showering them with curses in an apparent effort to provoke a violent response that might discredit theauthorities.

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BAGHDAD A woman hiding a bomb under her long robe blew herself up Monday among Iraqis waiting to enter the U.S.-protected Green Zone, where lawmakers plan to vote this week on a pact that would let American forces stay in Iraq for up to three more years.

The morning attack in central Baghdad killed seven people, by an Iraqi count, and came about 45 minutes after a bomb destroyed a minibus carrying Trade Ministry employees in the eastern part of the capital. At least 13 people died in that blast, most of them women; some of the bodies were burned so badly that authorities could not immediately identify them.

Ahmed al-Sayyid, 23, said he was waiting in line with friends at an entrance to the Green Zone, hoping for a job interview with the Iraqi police. A woman in a black abaya, an enveloping cloak, approached the line without drawing the attention of guards, he said.

LOS ANGELES An Oregon man who was fatally shot as he wielded samurai swords and tried to attack guests at a landmark Scientology building was a former follower of the religion who had made at least a dozen previous threats against the church, officials said Monday.

Mario Majorski,4B, was shot once by a security guard as he tried to use the swords to attack guests Sunday at the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood, police said. Hundreds of people were eating brunch or doing otheractivities at the time, said Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis.

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WASHINGTON Rushing to rescue Citigroup,the government agreed to shoulder hundreds of billions of dollars in possible losses at the stricken bank and to plow a fresh $2O billion into the company.

Regulators hope the dramatic action will bolster badly shaken confidence in the once-mighty banking giant as well as the nation's financial system, a goal that so far has been elusive despite a flurry of government interventions.

Wall Street investors reacted enthusiastically. The Dow Jones industrials shot up about 300 points in morning trading. Stock markets in Britain and Germany also gained ground. Citigroup shares themselves climbed 61.3 percent to $6.08 in morning trading.

The action, announced late Sunday by the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., is aimed at shoring up a huge financial institution whose collapse would wreak havoc on the already fragile financial system and the U.S. economy.

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DETROIT—The second Detroit mayor in a row is facing questions about possible perjury.

An attorney for MayorKen Cockrel Jr.acknowledged Monday that his client met last week with state attorneys to discuss a document stating he didn't owe campaign fines in two previous city elections.

Cockrel has since paid $42,000 in fines. Lawyer Michael Hodge says Cockrel believed he didn't have to pay the fines because he was told they would be waived.

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Server woes hamper Webmail use for some by

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Individuals who have registered Webmail woes with the Office of Information Technology are not alone, as problems have followed the e-mail server throughout the semester and affected many netlDs. “It is a rare day when my Duke e-mail functions ‘normally’ throughout a business day,” John Thompson, professor of history and director of graduate studies for the history department wrote in an e-mail sent from his Gmail account. Thompson said his Webmail has been inaccessible for three 24-to-48 hour periods this semester, and he has experienced numerous other delays and problems since August this year.

Steve O’Donnell, senior communications strategist for OIT, wrote in an e-mail that problems developed in one of the University’s four e-mail servers on the evening of

Tuesday, Nov. 18.

“Beginning Tuesday evening, one of Duke’s four mail

servers encountered a bug which caused the system to restart repeatedly,” he said. “In this case, the issue was caused by a bug in the file system for the Solaris Operating System, which runs the mail servers.”

Sun Microsystems is the company that provides Duke’s Webmail servers. O’Donnell said the server affected was the one that houses accounts with NetlDs starting with letters “G” through “M.” Part of the cause of the intermittent problems may be the financial woes currently facing Sun Microsystems. The Silicon Valley-based telecommunications company plans to cut 5,000 to 6,000 workers—between 15 and 18 percent of its workforce—in one of the biggest layoffs in the industry, the San Jose Mercury News reported Nov. 14.

Janet Ewald, associate professor of history, said she has

experienced repeated difficulties with Webmail as well: in August, October and in the past week.

“My sense is that it has been the new server that has caused the difficulties,” she said.

O’Donnell said OIT, in conjunction with Sun Microsystems, manually shut down the system and was able to stabilize the Webmail servers in the most recent outage by last Thursday afternoon. The office received approximately 340 Webmail-related complaints problems during the outage.

He added that after the system was fixed, users accessing Webmail through an e-mail client such as Mozilla Thunderbird continued to have problems which OIT has worked to address. O’Donnell said no e-mails from any accounts were lost during this period.

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U.S. News puts Duke at 13 in first world ranking by

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us,” he said. “But if I’m wrong, we’ll know

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Duke has spent three years ranked as the

eighth best university in the nation —now

it’s listed as the 13th best in the world.

U.S. News and World Report named Duke the 13th-best college of 2008 in its first-annual World’s Best Colleges and Universities ranking last week, drawn from the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings.

Harvard University, Yale University and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom ranked as the top three universities internationally, respectively. Almost 60 of the reported top 200 universities in the world are from the United States.

“It’s a good company to be in, it’s a good place to be,” Provost Peter Lange said. “I don’t believe that these rankings mean much as point estimates, but they put us in the right tier—they put us with tihe universities that we should be considered with.”

Duke was also ranked 21 in the world in the “Top Arts and Humanities Universities” and “Top Life Sciences and Biomedicine Universities” categories.

Although many high school students and parents look to college rankings when deciding on where to apply for post-secondary education, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said U.S. News and World Report’s introduction of world rankings does not affect how current and potential students view the University.

He added that it may increase Duke’s visibility to international students paying attention to these standings, but will not change whether domestic students choose to

three months from now. It’s just that we haven’t seen much effect in student application or enrollment patterns based on what U.S. News has done for U.S. colleges, so I don’t think we’re going to see much on the basis of what they’re doing with col-

leges.”

International students also traditionally give more credence to rankings and have less information to base their decisions upon, Lange noted.

The rankings are determined from evaluations predominantly based on academic

“I don’t believe that these rankings mean much as point estimates, but they put us in the right tier.”

Peter Lange, provost peer reviews, student-tofaculty ratios and research performance. Other scored areas include proportion ofinternational faculty and students as well as responses to employer surveys.

The academic peer review comprises 40 percent of a university’s overall score. It is based on a global online survey, to which 6,354 academics responded over a period of three years. The THE-QS World University Rankings are produced in conjunction

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Tired of eating at the same restaurants every day? A change may soon be on the way.

Monday night, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee and some executive members of Duke Student Government heard a proposal by Food Factory to establish a new venue on campus. DUSDAC is a student body that meets weekly to discuss issues related to food at the University. In the past few weeks, it has been investigating various new restaurants to bring onto campus.

Food Factory serves New York-style sandwiches and offers a rich variety of menu options, such as the Chicken Breast Foccacia Sandwich, the Grilled

Greek Wrap, home-style potato salad and many dessert options—all of which meeting attendees had the opportunity to

sample Monday.

The quality and variety of the food was with positive reviews from DUSDAC and DSG members alike. DSG President Jordan Giordano, Executive Vice President Sunny Kantha, both seniors, and sophomore Mike Lefevre, vice president for athletics and campus services, joined DUSDAC’s meeting to give their input in the review of the restaurant.

“Compared to the other places we’ve looked at... none of the other places had this kind of menu,” junior Michael met

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Jayme Johnson, a third-year graduate student in genetics,currently receives federal veterans benefits. Her mom served in the Army for 20 years. by

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Nearly 70 years ago, the GI Bill sent millions of World

War II veterans from service to school.

Now, as veterans fresh out of combat confront a troubled economy, returning to school may seem a fanciful aim. But as of August 1, 2009, a new GI Bill will allow veterans who have served more than three years since 9/11 to seek support in their educational pursuits.

Proposed by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., the new GI Bill will provide veterans with several new benefits, including $l,OOO per year for supplies, a monthly housing stipend and money for tuition, according to the GI Bill 2008 Web site.

“I would like to emphasize that this is not simply an expansion of veterans’ educational benefits,” Webb said in a statement. “This is a new program, a deserved program. It has now been nearly seven years since 9/11 —seven years

Slow ticket sales have forced Duke Performances to offer free tickets to three events in the last two weeks.

Officials said an overbooked season, a preponderance of local options and competition from die presidential race were likely culprits in slow sales at the shows. But they added that overall sales numbers, as calculated by percentage of tickets sold, were not behind last year’s levels.

“I succumbed to the common affliction of programmers, which is that I programmed too much stuff,” Director Aaron Greenwald said. “It’s good stuff, but on a campus that is already busy and in a community that already has a ton of stuff, we can’t say, ‘No, this is what’s

really important.’”

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compiled, Greenwald offered free tickets, via e-mail request, to performances by David Dorfman Dance

since those who have been serving in our military began earning the right for a proper wartime GI Bill.”

Scott Silliman, director of Duke Law School’s Center for Law, Ethics and National Security, said the GI Bill is especially relevant in today’s economic climate.

“In the current troubled economy when many in the labor force are losing their jobs and new employment opportunities are hard to find, going back to school for a college degree may be the most prudent move for those separating from the armed forces,” he said.

Since the original GI Bill, Congress has developed other programs that benefit veterans and their children.

Jayme Johnson, a third-year graduate student in genetics, said such support is pivotal for students who rely on their parents for college tuition. As a full-time student

Nov. 13 and 14.

“Ticket sales are, to this point, [very] slow,” he wrote.

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In that message, Rumble suggested that “the global economic downturn is pinching everyone’s pockets and that different choices must be made as a consequence.” In an interview Monday, however, Rumble

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HOUSING from page 1 “We try to plant the seed that going abroad for Fall means that you may not get your ideal choice of space on campus when you return in the Spring,” Frank said. “We make the best match we can based on the rooms that are available as we are making the assignments.”

Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, could not be reachedibr comment.

After requesting a single in Few Quad, junior Grant Alport said he was disappointed to learn that he will be spending next semester in Wannamaker Residence Hall with a sophomore he does not know.

Although he noted that RLHS did not promise him housing in Few Quad, Alport said he expected to be assigned a single in another dormitory at worst.

“I am upset since I was looking for-

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Despite the emphasis placed on rankings, Guttentag said students consider numerous factors when applying to college, adding that the perception of the University is rarely affected by college standings.

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ward to being in Few [Quad] with all the people I have met abroad,” he wrote in an e-mail. “I received no warning that there wouldn’t be enough singles.... Obviously, my rooming situation is not ideal.”

The availability of housing in Few Quad was a relief for many students studying abroad who had feared that construction on the dormitory—a 10-month project condensed to a seven-month time frame—would not be completed by January.

“I wasn’t sure that they were going to pull it off,” said junior Mike Kotecki, who will be living in Few Quad with a block of his friends. “But I guess they did.”

But even with an assignment in his desired quad secured, junior Eric Chow said he is still a bit uneasy abouthis Spring living arrangement “I am relieved,” he said. “But Fm still a little concerned that they won’t finish on time.”

Emmeline Zhao contributed reporting to this story.

the list any more meaningful or useful, he said.

“Personally, I think that all rankings of this type are inherently misleading and intrinsically problematic —they’re reductionist and have nothing to do with the match between a student and institution,” Guttentag said. “The idea of taking these complex, large, fascinating institutions and reducing them to a rank order is like asking the parents of six children to rank order their kids—it just doesn’t make sense.”

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is keeping the seat warm for Joe Biden’s son—Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden—to be the Democratic candidate in a 2010 special election. Beau Biden announced last week that he would not accept a U.S. Senate appoint-

hiring some as interns. His appointment means more than just good publicity for Duke, said Christopher Schroeder, Charles S. Murphy professor of law and public policy.

“It means having a good friend in the Senate, somebody who has taught here for [more than] 15 years,” Schroeder said, noting that he worked with Kaufman on Biden’s Senate staff and has co-taught a law and public policy class with him.

Kaufman is a member of the Obama-Biden transition project and the co-chair of Biden’s transition team. He served as Biden’s chief of stafffor 19 years, and he has held senior positions in all of Biden’s national campaigns.

“Ted Kaufman meets every test I set for this appointment,” Minner said in a statement Monday. “His political views are close to Sen. Biden’s, and he doesn’t need any on-the-job training. He’ll be an effective senator for Delaware from day one.”

Kaufman, 69, said he would retire from the position in two years, causing media outlets to speculate that he

“[Ted Kaufman's] political views are close to Sen. Biden’s, and he doesn't need any on-the-job training.”

Ruth Ann Minner, governor ofDelaware deployed to Iraq by the Delaware Army National Guard.

“I don’t know about that speculation. Beau Biden would be a wonderful senator, but that’s two years down the road,” Schroeder said. “Ted’s not going to be a ‘seat warmer.’ He is going to work hard for the state of Delaware and the people of the United States while he is in the Senate.” ment after he was

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“The bill has helped me feel financially comfortable,” Johnson said.

After her mother’s diagnosis, Johnson recalled receiving the informational brochure describing the Veterans Affairs benefits in disbelief.

“This is unreal,” she remembered saying. “I don’t believe it.”

Silliman said he expects that the bill will boost enrollment at certain universities.

“My sense is that we will see an increase in veterans enrolling in state colleges and universities, and also in community colleges,” he said. “I’m not sure we will see a great increase in enrollment in more expensive schools such as Duke, but we should see some.”

University Registrar Bruce Cunningham said that although it is difficult to predict how the new bill will impact University enrollment, he is optimistic about its potential effects.

“Hopefully it will mean many more of our veterans will be able to take advantage of the aid provided to them as a result of this bill,” he said.

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For junior Katie Kimrey, the outage was no more than a minor nuisance.

“Thursday, [Webmail] was working slow but it still worked,” she said. “It never completely went out for me.”

Kimrey added that she has not had major problems over the semester, and has not had any more difficulties since the recent outage was remedied.

Others, however, said the problem has been mostly an inconvenience.

Thompson said the recent outage affected 11 out of 36 regular faculty members in the history department, preventing professors from receiving and responding to student e-mails, sending out electronic letters of recommendation, grading assignments and keeping up professional correspondence. Thompson added that he expects law school admissions officers to be suspicious or skeptical about letters of recommendation sent from the Gmail address he has switched to.

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associate clinical professor of medicine, wrote in an email that she has generally had trouble accessing her Webmail this semester.

“This ought to be straightforward, bread-and-butter e-mail system stuff,” she said. “Hasn’t our vendor organized a college e-mail system before?”

Humphreys added that she has also had problems with the advice she has received from OIT concerning how to solve her Webmail problems.

“Once when my access to the shared mailbox had disappeared, the OIT guy told me how to restore the prior setting and yes, I could get in,” she said. “What he didn’t tell me was that now the mailbox would not take new deliveries.”

Ewald said, however, that she has been consistently pleased with the service she has received from OIT personnel in the service department. But she said she has been unimpressed with communication from higherlevel OIT officers.

O’Donnell said OIT has worked not only to fix specific outages, but to ensure the security and effectiveness of the system in the future.

“We are in direct connection with people at the highest levels at Sun to ensure that their engineers are focused on our ongoing issues with the systems they have installed at Duke,” he said.

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Kramarz said Food Factory is competing with several other eateries for the spot expected to open on campus. DUSDAC members, however, said the restaurant was the group’s favorite.

“This is the place we thought was coolest,” said DUSDAC Co-Chair Jason Taylor, a junior. “I would be thrilled to see them here.”

Owned by Jimmy and Lisa Schmid, the restaurant opened in 2000 in Cary. It has been received well by the community there, voted the “Best Place for Lunch” by The Cary News reader’s poll back-to-back in 2004 and 2005.

“We always tell people it’s not brain surgery,” Lisa Schmid said about Food Factory’s philosophy. “We’re not making a souffle. It’s good ingredients. It’s fresh.”

Rorschach, the Mary D.B.T. and James

In other business: DUSDAC members also discussed implementing a Merchant Quality Review program. The MQR program calls for monthly review of Merchants on Points eateries by committee members as well as interested students. In exchange for a free meal—reimbursed by Dining Services—reviewers would complete a detailed evaluation of the food, service and overall experience of a Merchants on Points restaurant.

“With this program, students will be able to eat off campus for free,” Taylor said. “What Duke Dining wants to do is have it so that you get paid to eat a meal and then tell us what you think.”

DUSDAC hopes to launch this evaluation program Spring semester, as a supplement to data collection from online surveys.

H. Semans director of the Nasher. “We are always trying to do the most with the least, and so far our contributions are holding steady. We anticipate corporate support will be a downturn.”

Normally, halfof the museum’s funding comes from the University and the other half comes from outside fundraising, Rorschach added.

Duke Performances has not been slammed by the recession yet because funding comes primarily from the University, not individual donors, and the audiences—students, faculty and Durham community members—have been relatively unaffected by money woes. Greenwald said members of the organization hope to establish a fundraising arm in the future.

He noted, however, that he anticipates the financial crisis will eventually rub off on Duke Performances.

“I think that if the economic downturn continues, everything that is deemed not essential at Duke is going to suffer,” he said.

But Greenwald said he is optimistic about continuing to draw audiences from the community because Duke’s tickets are competitive with or less expensive than neighboring venues, such as the Carolina Theatre and Durham Performing Arts Center.

Contrary to Duke Performances, almost $1 million for the Nasher’s “El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III” exhibit was raised from outside University support, Rorschach said.

But the exhibit did not break even—with $462,000 from ticket sales, which does not include revenue from membership and museum store revenues, audio guide sales

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About $1 millionof thefunds for the Nasher Museum of Art's "El Greco to Velazquez" exhibit were donated.

The University typically funds halfof the Nasher's budget, with theother half coming from fundraising. and supportive contributions. But Rorschach said she still considers attendance at the exhibit a “tremendous success,” and she believes the Nasher will continue to bring visibility to the arts at Duke.

“Some projects take more of a chance because of the inherent importance of the project,” Lindroth said of the attendance for the El Greco exhibit. “You assume those kinds of things are going to happen, and everything will balance out in the end.”

Other universities, however, have already experienced visible ramifications of the slowing economy, and cuts have also played out on the Broadway stage.

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The New York Times reported that the popular Broadway musical Hairspray will close in January to head off dips in ticket sales. Spring Awakening and Spamalot are also closing in January, and Legally Blonde closed in October.

Duke’s relative financial security compared to many other colleges is the result of two primary factors, Nowicki said. University administrators have carefully planned Duke’s finances, and Duke does not rely on its endowment as much as peer institutions.

“Although we have a pretty good endowment, compared to other schools we have a smaller endowment than we’d like, so we haven’t counted on the endowment to fund day-to-day stuff as much as other schools,” Nowicki said.

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PERFORMANCES from page 4 and Greenwald said that claim might have been “hyperbolic.” They said there was no evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, to suggest the sputtering economy had affected sales. .After a schedule filled with big-name artists centered around two major themes, Duke Performances opted for a more diffuse season this year, booking more acts in more series but fewer marquee names.

“When you’re dealing with artists who are all obscure, it’s hard to know who’s truly obscure,” Greenwald said, explaining that he often did not know which ardsts would sell and which would not.

Duke Performances has given away tickets before, he added. During the last season, they offered complimentary entry using methods including neighborhood listservs. He said drumming up attendance was important for keeping appearances and relationships with artists Duke Performances has offered free ticketsfor three events in the past two weeks due to slow sales and increasing competition from local acts.

“When you’re dealing with artists who are all obscure, it’s hard to know who’s truly obscure.”

Aaron Greenwald, director ofDuke Performances he would like to bring back to campus.

“One thing that we are trying to do is, it’s really important to us that we have a good reputation with the performers,” he said.

One problem was that Duke Performances has stumbled in targeted marketing efforts in a few instances this season, Rumble said.For example, he said the show by Alberstein, an Israeli, could and should have been more directly sold to the local Jewish community. Rumble said he is already making plans to aggressively market shows that may otherwise underperform.

Greenwald also said Page Auditorium, a hall acknowledged to have subpar acoustics and facilities, was likely a net negative in attracting concertgoers.

The venue hosted the Alberstein/Brown and Hersch/ O’Riley shows.

Sales have been uneven this season, even as student ticket sales increased to 30 percent —up 5 percent from last year and 15 percent from 2006-2007.

Performances by singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, singer Milton Nascimento and saxophonist Branford Marsalis have packed patrons in. Compahia Flamenco Jose Porcel and tap dancer Savion Glover both performed to sold-out crowds. But others, such as jazz bassist Charlie Haden, played to partially filled houses.

Greenwald said the free offers had been warmly received. The Dorfman shows were about 65 and 80 percent full, and Duke Performances received about 700 requests for tickets to the Hersch/O’Riley show after the e-mail went out.

“It’s one of those opportunities we have to turn a negative into a positive,” Greenwald said. “Bring people out, show them a good show, and they are more likely then to take another look at your brochure.”

CRIME from page 1 difference between the bond amount for the three wrongly indicted members of the 2006 men’s lacrosse team and Burch’s bond in 2007.

“We feel eschewed because the Duke lacrosse players had to post $400,000 and this individual had to post $50,000,” he said. “From a racial aspect, on the outside looking in, [it seems they thought] ‘four white kids from the North let’s make it $400,000 and for a black guy let’s make it $50,000.’ A crime is a crime.”

Durham County Magistrate Joseph Payne issued Burch’s bond in 2007, and Magistrate J.E. Willard issued his current bond, court clerks said.

Burch was originally scheduled to appear in North Carolina Superior Court Nov. 10 for the alleged Gattis St. rape, but the court date was rescheduled to Jan. 20 at the victim’s request. Her father said they wished to delay the case so that it would not impede her school work.

The student left Duke after the incident to recuperate because she was scared that the suspect was on the streets, her father said.

Durham Assistant District Attorney Janice Paul, who is representing the student, was unavailable for comment.

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Heating up in Waggoner places in NCAAs Sophomore takes 135th 0f252;Duke wimlCAAs Saturday a losing chill CHICAGO

In my 21 years of life, I’m fairly certain I have never been colder than I was this past Saturday.

I had a ticket to see Illinois play at Northwestern for the right to the final Sweet Sioux Tomahawk, the trophy presented to the rivalry game’s winner for more than 60 years and the latest casualty to political correctness in college athletics.

The game-time temperature was slated at 30 degrees, but if there’s anything I’ve learned from growing up in Chicago, it’s that meteorologists, although well-meaning aR d generally good-natured -MM A : people, are liars, and 30 could very Meredith well mean 20 or 10 with wind chill.

Not even three layers of clothes, a scarf wrapped around my face or my Eskimo hood could shield me from the sheer misery of this game, from the pitiful play on the field to my paranoia that my toes would get frostbitten and consequently

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require amputation.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t shake the cold.

But I also couldn’t shake the memory of a warm autumn night in Durham, either.

In the rare moments of this mediocre 27-10 Wildcat victory when I wasn’t fixated on my own survival, my thoughts drifted to the Blue Devils—their past, present and future—and an early-season game that pitted them against the Big Ten team from my hometown.

Back in September, I covered Duke’s 24-20 loss to Northwestern at Wallace Wade Stadium. I firmly believed then, as I do now, that the Wildcats should not have left Durham with the victory. Duke looked dominant through four quarters of play and was a holding call away from the winning score, a 2-0 start and the confidence of beating a major conference opponent so early in the season.

And here was Northwestern, beating last year’s Big Ten SEE SHINER ON PAGE 10

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Sophomore Bo Waggoner capped off a historic weekend for the Blue Devils Monday, and Duke hopes it leads to even bigger accomplishments next year.

Waggoner finished 135th out of 252 runners in the NCAA cross country championships at Indiana State University, completing the 10k race in 31:09.3.

It was the sophomore’s first NCAA race, and the Blue Devils’ first appearance on the biggest stage since Nick Schneider raced in 2004.

“Bo turned in a solid effort today, especially for a sophomore,” Director of Track and Field Norm Ogilvie said.

“Bo’s experience at this race should pay big dividends next year, when he’s hopefully leading the entire Duke team at the NCAA championships.”

If this season’s IC4A championship is any indication, the Blue Devils may, indeed, be able to compete as a team at the 2009 NCAA championships.

Duke won the IC4A Saturday morning for the second time in the 100-year history of the race. The Blue Devils’ other IC4A title came in 2005.

Duke finished the five-mile course at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx with 14 wins and no losses. The Blue Devils’ 48 points were 39 better than second-place Duquesne, and their victory was due to the success of all of their runners.

The team’s top seven runners finished in the top 25, and they each earned all-East honors, topping Duke’s previous high offour all-East runners.

The Blue Devils’ top five runners finished within 13 seconds of each other—a consistency they’re hoping they can continue in 2009 on an even bigger stage, one which their teammate has already experienced.

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A team with already-tremendous camaraderie became even closer this season—even after welcoming six new players.

With most top squads in the country redshirting their first-year players, the Blue Devils (15-6) did just the opposite. After all, five of Duke’s key players in its season-ending 8-5 loss to eventual national champion Maryland Nov. 16 were freshmen.

“It’s rare to have a freshman in the lineup, and it’s unheard of to have multiple start,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “What they were able ScaSOll to accomplish is pretty phenomenal and Wrapup is a testament to the older players who embraced them and eased their transition to playing at the collegiate level.”

Each rookie developed a level of comfort with some of the upperclassmen and captains.

One freshman in particular, however, blossomed in the defensive backfield under the guidance of two of the team’s captains.

“Stefanie Fee became the player that she was because of Brooke Patterson and Lauren Miller,” Bozman said. “They grabbed hold ofher and really helped her develop her skills.”

Fee started all 21 games for the Blue Devils this season.

Initially, she found the college game a lot faster than what she had been accustomed to in the past.

But rather than allowing herself to feel intimidated, the

Duke's last-second touchdown was called back and theBlue Devils lost to Northwestern Sept. 6.The Wildcats have gone on to a 9-3 record.

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On Indoor Stadium Sept. top of Cameron the win, though, Duke has to get some help from its nemesis—the Blue Devils need North Carolina to lose to lowly N.C. State to surge ahead of their rival atop the ACC standings. The two teams are currently tied for first, but

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the Tar Heels hold the tiebreaker.

Beating Wake Forest (19-12, 10-9) will be challenging, but Duke is playing some of its best volleyball of the season right now.

The Blue Devils beat Virginia Tech Friday and Virginia Saturday, capping off a 10-2 run over the last six weekends.

Duke has won three in a row, starting its streak after losing 3-0 at North Carolina Nov. 13. Since then, though, head coach Jolene Nagel’s squad has been unbeatable.

Regardless of their final position in the ACC, the Blue Devils will almost definitely make the NGA\ tournament.

Duke will find out if it made its fourth straight appearance when the bracket is released Sunday at 10 p.m.

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Blue Devils have not advanced to the final four for two straight seasons after making it four years in a row. Still, Duke made plenty of progress this season.

Virginia native proved herself early on to her team with a strong passion on the field.

Fee’s development as a player, in accordance

with her strong worth ethic, resulted from the structure of the Blue Devils’ practices.

The team only has four defenders on its roster, so for Fee, the individual position portion of practice gave her an ample amount of one-on-one time with her captains to enhance her abilities and match up with two of the nation’s top players in Patterson and Miller. Not only did the juniors contribute to the improvement in Fee’s skills, but they also helped strengthen her general attitude on the field.

“Defensive practice usually got shafted on most of the drills, because there were only four of us and we had to go up against the rest of the team,”Fee said. “In some ways, practice got intimidating and tiring, but [Miller] just taught me never to give up and keep working hard.”

Miller, a first-team all American, not only helped lead her team to the national quarterfinals this season, but also initiated the process of welcoming Fee and the rest of her class to the program. Along with Patterson and senior captains laura Suchoski and

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Although Duke did not make thefinal four, it finished the season with four more wins than ithad last year.

Marian Dickinson, Miller felt that creating a close-knit atmosphere both on and off the field was important for the team’s success.

“All four of us made it a top priority to make the freshmen feel welcome and help them adjust so they knew what was going on at all times,” Miller said. “This helped build a strong team bond, and I feel as connected to the freshmen as I do to my own class.”

Known as the team’s communicator, Miller significantly improved her leadership skills this season due in large part to taking Fee under her wing and work-

Head coach David Cutcliffe has been thedifference betweenDuke's 1-11 record last yearand its current 4-7 mark.

ing with her closely throughout the year.

Although Miller solidified her position as a leader this season, she feels that this development would not have occurred without the influence of her coaches and co-captains. With the help of Suchoski, a first team All-American, and Dickinson, a third team All-American, it seemed almost inevitable that the heralded duo of seniors would pass its legacy into capable hands that could carry it over to next year.

And while the Blue Devils did not achieve the level of success that they anticipated, the

friendships and legacy of this season’s team has made monumental changes to the fu-

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The answer is simple: coaching.

Randy Walker and Gary Barnett, though it pains me to give any sort of credit to the latter, were solid football coaches. Walker led the Wildcats to a conference tide in 2000. Barnett led Northwestern to two conference tides in his tenure in Evanston.

These men did with their teams what Steve Spurrier did with the Blue Devils in 1989,when they won the ACC. It’s not impossible for Duke to win. It was just impossible for the most recent coaches at Duke to do so.

I don’t know whether David Cutcliffe can do what Spurrier did nearly 20 years ago. I don’t even know if he can do what Northwestern did this year.

All I know is that in September, Duke should have beaten Northwestern and that this year, there’s a possibility that Northwestern will be playing on New Year’s Day. There has to be something in that, right?

After that disappointing loss to the Wildcats in September, Cutcliffe was asked what his team needed to do to get better.

“We’ve got to just keep doin’ what we’re doin’,” he said. “Keep doin’ what we’re doin’.”

For the program’s sake, I hope he’s right, I don’t know how much longer I can stand the cold.

Rose Bowl representative right before my eyes—the same Northwestern that should have lost to the Blue Devils just more than two months ago.

In the bitter Chicago cold, I found a warm hope for Duke’s football future.

I saw what the Blue Devils could be Saturday afternoon at Ryan Field. I saw what I consider to be certain truths that make me think it might not be that long until Duke gets to emerge from the cool ACC cellar.

Because if Northwestern can do it, with its size and its level of academic excellence, why can’t Duke?

The Wildcats finished 9-3 this year, including five wins in a Big Ten that is much tougher than the ACC. Duke, meanwhile, has notched four wins while losing three games by two scores or fewer.

Even now, even with the Blue Devils still playing primarily with Ted Roofs recruits, the gap between the two teams is not so wide.

Sure, Northwestern went to five bowls between 1996 and 2005, including a Rose Bowl. And sure, Duke didn’t. But, when it comes down to it, what has been the real difference between these two programs over this stretch?

Bozman said.

Even in the eyes ofBozman, who has led four squads to the final four in her six seasons at Duke, the 2008 squad was unique.

“This year’s team changed our program forever,” Bozman said. “We’ve had teams go to the final before, but we have never had a team with such passion and fight... I think we are just going to go further and further now because of this team, since they laid such a firm foundation for us moving forward.” ture of the team,

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We should also give thanks to-do Post-Its. First and foremost, we are to the mysterious forces who thankful to the plasma gods guard us from the unhinged for letting us partake in their wrath of the e-Print machine horn of plenty. Students al revolution. The machines this University must never haw risen and. in their war take for granted the proagainst our papers, some of liferation of plasma screen our peers have fallen.. But yet we endure—our hands televisions.

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Our seniors speak of times when e-Print machines worked, when sometimes there were even staplers with staples and when buses had working displays and clocks in them. We hear their tales and dream of the day when our children will print with confidence and staple with enthusiasm. It is this totally unjustified hope that we are thankful for.

We are thankful, too, for Coach David Cutcliffe’s revitalized Blue Devils. Though we’re a bit unhappy that the football team missed its chance at a bowl game berth, at least we’ll be the first class of Dukies to revel in this new kind of disappointment.

We are thankful for free-

dom of the press and freedom of expression. We have lived under the tyranny of The Chronicle’s iron fist for too long. But this semester, we were gifted with some—not one, but two!—brave saviors of campus media. The DSC Bulletin and The Weedicle spell the dawn ofa new day for this campus. Really, we eagerly await second issues of both!

We are thankful that we are still able to receive lucrative banking jobs at Lehman Brothers, Bear Steams, Wa= Check & Go. We are thankful for the rats that have entered our Central Campus apartments.

These rats remind us to give back a little bit to rats for all the cool things they’ve done

for us lately.

We are thankful that starry-eyed dreams of a modern Central Campus are within the reach of our grandchildren. It’s reassuring to know that at least some of our bloodline will feast on the fruits of Steve Nowicki’s labor.

Lastly, we are thankful for this space, that gives us a forum, we who are just so thankful, to be thankful for being thankful. We hope the entire Duke community embraces this day of thanks with a heart filled with love, hope, change and the belief that every turkey has the right —nay, the duty—to live wherever it wants, whether that be on Central or in section.

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about the sovereign individual, about whatAmerica could and should be. Your rights don’t exist weigan if you don’t know you have them or small potatoes don t stand up tor them. Most Americans are docile and ignorant; the government has spent years perfecting its cleverly implicit tools of domination.

Much of what I heard I couldn’t really comprehend, but the passion, the revolutionary spirit, the conviction with which those words were spoken, touched me and kindled a fire inside of me. I, too, was upset that people get pushed around by the “law,” without realizing that they don’t have to bow down so meekly. A cop has no real authority over you. He’s just another person, and you don’t have to submit to his dictates. He can’t tell you what to do. The police took an oath as “public servants,” and they’re there to serve.

I do a lot of driving between Durham and Philadelphia. I admit. I’m an impatient, sometimes aggressive driver. If you’re slow, get out of the fast lane. If the speed limit is 70 then clearly you can go at least 80. Who drives at 65? In my bazillion trips up and down the East Coast, the fastest I’ve made it one way is less than six hours. That’s an hour less than what Google estimates. I even pulled off somewhere to get gas.

It angered me when I started noticing unmarked police cars on the highways. There would be these Mustangs, or Lincoln SUVs, driving nonchalantly behind you. Suddenly the lights would go on and you’d be like, that was a cop? Once I saw an ugly blue 90s station wagon with those flashing lights pulling over a green Beetle. It was kind of hilarious, actually, but it was also frightening. Cops can do that? Since when did surveillance become so openly secretive? I thought this was the land of the free. Instead every time I’m on the road my heart beats a little faster, because I’m just not very good at driving at 55 miles an hour through the entire stretch of the Delaware 95.

The last time I was driving back from Philly, my luck finally ran out I’ve learned that driving through the Virginia woods means going fast and then slow-

down. In my rearview mirror I saw him turn onto the

half-rehearsed what I would say when he came up to my window. I learned some things from those spirited patriots, and I was not going to let some cop boss me around. I was going to stand up for my rights.

“License and registration, please,” he said, the first words out of his mouth. “Can you tell me why I got pulled over?” I answered. My voice quavered.

“License and registration, please,” he repeated. “It’s my personal information, I don’t have to give it to you before you tell me why you want it.” We went on like this for five minutes. Finally the guy threatened to take me to jail. I wanted to rip off his stupid mustache and smash his glasses. He took my license and informed me that I was going 83 in a 70 zone. I denied it, stumbling over empty excuses.

He charged me with reckless driving and a defective brake light. Two tickets, a court date, $3OO. As he smugly handed me the detestable yellow carbon copies he said, oh-so-nicely, “Ma’am, we’re not here today to give out tickets. We’re here to keep the roads safe. I wasn’t even going to give you a ticket, if you hadn’t been so rude. Have a good day ma’am, and drive safely.”

I stayed on the side of the road for 20 minutes.

I cried. I’m an idiot. I wasn’t rude so much as indignant. My dad used to warn me about my angry “dark face.” Why did I feel like I had to “stand up” to the cop? Going 83 is not wrong. The county just got 300 bucks out of my nonexistent pocket. It’s like the outrageous Duke parking tickets. I’m stupid, stupid, stupid. The thoughts went on and on.

I’m naive. In the same way that “ignorant” Americans “unquestioningly obey” the authorities, I unquestioningly embraced the teachings of strangers. I was so taken up by their passionate idealism that I didn’t really become informed. I’m too complacent to do my own fact checking. I just liked the idea of being counter-culture, resisting hegemony. The irony is, one of those patriots over the summer had given me a lesson about cops and speeding. I asked him once, “How should I handle speeding tickets?” He answered, “Don’t get one.”

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Thanksgiving quickly approaches, I can’t help but think of how we learned about the Puritans every year in grade school at about this time. We would hear the stories of the hardworking Puritans and the generosity of the Native Americans, and how the bounty of their fall celebration became an everlasting American tradition.But did the Puritans leave other legacies as well? Compared to sexual attitudes in most other parts of the world, the U.S. still adheres to morals of Puritan chastity.

France has megna raksit its nude beaches. Amsterdam SCX and bull dty has its red light district. India wrote the Kama Sutra 2,000 years ago. America is obsessed with curbing sexuality. John Kellogg created corn flakes to help us resist the urge to masturbate, and the Rev. Sylvester Graham invented his crackers for the same reason. Though it’s highly unlikely that eating these foods in our childhood would affect our view of sexuality today, I think that even Duke students have a comparatively conservative view of sexuality.

We tend to act like sex belongs in a brown paper bag, even in my human sexuality seminar. Last class, during a presentation on pornography, we were treated with a short clip from “Pirates.” I was shocked—not so much about seeing the specific ins and outs magnified on a projection screen, but to see how many people counted this presentation as the first time they had seen sexually explicit material. There was embarrassed laughter and some even turned their backs to the screen.

It’s just sex, people.

The way in which we stigmatize sex as a base and dirty topic has a very real impact on the nature of our relationships. The divide between sex and love seems vast, as does the stereotypical needs of men and women and the difference between a physical and an emotional relationship. We consider sex and love to be separate entities ofblack and white, and the result is that relationships that begin on one side struggle to include the other. It’s arguably more difficult to resolve this conflict when the relationship begins with a passionate and impulsive hookup, because there often isn’t a foundation on which to build emotional commitment on. On the other hand, introducing sex into a sweetly traditional emotional relationship can be just as difficult, because it may seem to devalue the purity of the commitment But what if we consider sex as a physical expression of emotional intimacy? We would have to acknowledge that sex is not purely lust, and that love is not the casde in the sky we’ve built it up to be. There are beautiful shades of gray in between, where sex can introduce passion to love and love can introduce depth to sex. If we could reconcile the two, our relationships would be infinitely more balanced and satisfying.

How do we go about navigating this continuum between making love and being in love? Perhaps a return to the free love of the ’6os, or just an opening of the mind and conversation. In the end, I hope that my columns have sparked some discussion ofrelationships here at Duke, and, for this Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the opportunity to think out loud.

Megna Raksit is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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letterstotheeditor Respect smokers’ choice In response to Mike Cools’ Nov. 20 guest column “Tobacco’s turn,”I’d like to ask him what therights ofan individual are with regard to smoking. Certainly a person has the right to breath smoke-free air, but how for does this right extend? 100 feet?

The bans on smoking in buildings and on the medical campus make lots of sense to me: smoke accumulates in buildings and it seems counterintuitive to have medical patients and staff breathing carcinogenic vapors. The fact, however, is that some students and (if you can believe it) employees of this university smoke cigarettes. I myself have been known to indulge occasionally. Although I have seen students, maintenance workers, cleaning staff and professors smoking on campus, I don’t see this as a threat to nonsmokers’ health. Just take a look around on campus. Smokers are a small minority: There are no crowds of smooth-puffing freshmen at the East Campus bus stop, no clouds of smoke hanging over the entrance to Bostock. Does Cools honesdy believe that standing outside within 100 feet of a smoker is a serious risk to him? Why does he want to take away a student or employee’s right to sit on a bench and have a cigarette? Will there be a security guard in each are ofcampus with a tape measure, writing tickets as he measures perimeters?

The statistics that Cools mentions about the lethality of second hand smoke are well-known (at least at Duke), yet some students still choose to smoke. That’s the real issue here, choice.

I’m sure that Cools knows what is best for me, but I’d still like the option to choose. The University could certainly take Cools’ advice and institute prohibition so that we no longer “lag behind” other schools, but I wouldrather that we choose freedom over oppression and think for ourselves about this topic.

A bigger issue, though, is the fact that Sherouse seems to claim that although liberals may deem it “unthinkable” that 30 states currently have similar laws in effect, the fact that these laws were passed means their position is the correct one. I am a huge fan of democracy, the people have spoken (for now) and that is the unthinkable part, that so many people can vote against giving homosexuals rights that the rest of us currendy enjoy. It has been oft cited, but I will say it again; just decades ago, marriage between two black people was not recognized as a marriage. In our country today, homosexuals are being treated as second-class citizens. I understand the call for respect for your opponents, and with all due respect, Sherouse, you have once again lumped all liberals together in an ignorant, anti-religious, anti-democracy mass. Although a vocal few may truly believe the black vote influenced Prop 8, and a few may be vehemently denouncing all religious people as “evangelicals” and “fundamentalists” (Note: I do know what those words mean, having been a part of a religious community once myself), most liberals on this campus understand statistics—and understand the need for the separation ofchurch and state and equal rights for all.

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Laura Romanella Trinity ’O9 Intolerance is everyone’s problem Oliver Sherouse naively stated in his Nov. 21 column, “Defending the defenders,” about gay marriage that he does not “really have a dog in this fight.” It is this type of attitude that perpetuates intolerance in our society. Any American who believes in equal rights has a moral obligation to stand up whether he or she is part of the victimized group or not. Gay marriage will be a defining issue of our generation and it is our duty as America’s next leaders to make our voices heard when we believe injustice is occurring. Sherouse degrades Proposition 8 protester’s voices to “sanctimonious shrieking” even though they were simply exercising their freedom of speech in a peaceful and powerful manner. Our university should take a lesson from the tenacity and zeal of the Proposition 8 protesters in order to further political interest and development on campus. Standing up for equal rights in the face of intolerance is one of the most honorable and brave things someone can do.

Chip Franzen Trinity ’O9 Sherouse generalizes again

Although OliverSherouse’s argument in his Nov. 21 column, “Defending the defenders,” may be technically well thought out, he is still guilty of making the same sweeping generalizations about the left that he does in every column he writes. I am upset that Proposition 8 passed in California, but I did take the time to look at the statistics and knew that the blame shouldn’t be put on the black voters. I also don’t think that “standing on moral principle” makes a person an “ignorant theocratic bigot” I do, however, resent people forcing their moral principles on me when I don’t necessarily share them. Have your moral principles all you want, but don’t legislate them.

WillPasso Trinity ’ll

The 9 people you meet at Thanksgiving

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holiday season is upon us. I believe one of the great appeals of this time ofyear is its comforting predictability: We watch the same specials on TV, hear the same carols, see the same Christmas light displays, get sued by the same ACLU for displaying the same nativity scene on the same public property, and above all, visit the same relalives. It’s been a while since you’ve seen them last, though, so here’s a handy guide to what you can expect over the next few weeks First, there’s the Bandwagon Sports Fan. This year, he’ll be completely decked out in Philadelphia Phillies gear, the big ditz despite not being able to find Philadelphia on a map last year. He’s a huge Kansas basketball fan now, so you can at least bash Roy Williams together. Whatever you do, don’t ask him about what happened to his Patriots loyalty after the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl; after all, you want conversation with him to be more fun than conversation with the Stock Market Victim (formerly your rich stockbroker uncle).

For less enlightening conversation, you can always turn to the Conspiracy Theorist, the Jokester or the Do-Gooder. The Do-Gooder, most likely, is just back from spending a year in Kenya helping Aromatherapists Without Borders, conducting field research on the Malaysian Three-Toed Foul-Smelling Varmint or campaigning door-to-door in some obscure Michigan county for Obama. Her peppy enthusiasm is a nice contrast to the Conspiracy Theorist, who still has a Ron Paul bumper sticker on his car and is looking for someone to explain his theory about how China can destroy the world economy and enslave us all by buying up the national debt and investing it in Freemason-owned banks. Just remember, he’s urging you to buy a rifle and start hoarding food because he loves you. ~

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After that, you’ll be glad to stop in with the Jokester and hear the same joke he’s told you every year since you were six.

Then there’s your doppelganger, the Slacker. Growing up, he always out-achieved you. He became an Eagle Scout; you quit the Boy Scouts after getting poison sumac over 90 percent of your body at a campout. He was valedictorian ofhis high school class; you got a C in eleventh-grade woodshop. Now, the roles are reversed, as he dropped out of college after failing to wake up before two in the afternoon at any point his first semester. His future is too hazy for comfort, while the Fiancee’s future is too settled. She already has her husband picked out, and is busily dreaming of a wonderful future with him. The only problems are that her knight in shining armor couldn’t hold a job if it had handles and his only marketable skill is his ability to belch the Canadian national anthem. The rest of the family is already practicing their fake smiles for the wedding.

The two queens of Thanksgiving (and Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid al-Fitr, Boxing Day, etc.) are the Hostess and the Keeper of the Flame. The Hostess is in charge of the shindig, and her self-esteem is caught up in its success. Watch what you say around her; if you don’t absolutely love her cranberry sauce, she’ll cry herself to sleep every night between now and New Year’s Day. The Keeper of the Flame is elderly, usually female and was born in whatever small town or foreign country your family traces its roots to. She is conflicted when it comes to you; on the one hand, she wants you to get married ASAP (yesterday would be a good time), but on the other hand, she wants you to wait for a nice (insert your ethnic group here) boy/girl.

As another long semester winds down (and we are, of course, all still at Duke the Tuesday before Thanksgiving), it’s time for the annual facing of our extended families. I hope this guide comes in handy, and if you bring some extra pumpkin pie back with you, please remember to share it with your favorite columnist.

JeffDitder is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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