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Duke slipped two spots in the U.S. News and World Report rankings of American universities this year, managing to land just inside the top 10. At No. 10, the magazine’s latest rank of the University released Thursday, Duke was placed at its lowest in at least a decade. “We are so tightly bunched together by the formula that U.S. News uses that small changes at the top can produce seemingly large changes in the overall ranking,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations wrote in an e-mail. “Duke is just as good a university this year as it was last year, and I would argue even better in some ways.” The University has been ranked No. 8 for the past three years, tied in 2009 with the University of Chicago and Columbia University. Both institutions remained at the same spot this year, while Harvard and Princeton tied for the top spot. U.S. News calculates its rankings by giving each university a score based on seven measures; peer assessment, retention, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial SEE RANKINGS ON PAGE 8

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President Richard Brodhead speaks to the Class of 2013 during his convocation address Wednesday. Brodhead described freshman move-in day as "DOay without the hostile fire." His speech encouraged freshmanto take possesion of theireducation and use University resources to achieve their goals. by

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As freshmen converged on East Campus with their brand new sheets, lamps and clothes, President Richard Brodhead got something new, too. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag presented him with the Class of 2013. “Christoph, I love it. The new Dukies are just what I always wanted,” Brodhead said in his Aug. 19 convocation speech. Brodhead likened move-in day to

“D-Day, without the hostile fire,” and reminded freshmen that their mission was to take possession of Duke and their experience here. That task might not be too difficult for the freshman class, which was the most selective class yet with al7 percent acceptance rate. The Class of 2013 is the result of almost 24,000 applications to the University—3,500 more than last year—and is a class that is fluent in 66 languages besides English, Guttentag said in his speech

Guttentag said this year’s class ineludes the co-founder of a nonprofit organization, the Zimbabwean junior chess champion and the student representative to the Connecticut State Board of Education. Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, Brodhead and Duke Student GovernmentPresident Awa Nur all reminded freshmen in their remarks that there is no typical Duke student or model Duke experience SEE CONVOCATION ON PAGE 5

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Residents of Edens 2A were unable to move-in to theirdorm after mold was found in theair conditional ducts of the building.

Rachna Reddy THE CHRONICLE

As sophomore Mallory Contois prepared to return to Duke’s campus last week, she learned she couldn’t move into her Edens 2A room because something else had. Custodial staff reported a strange substance Aug. 13. The substance was later discovered to be a common mold in the heating, ventilating and air conditioning ducts of the 2A tower. Last week, the University worked to remove the mold, delaying student move-in until Saturday. “There was some particulate that came out of some of the diffusers,” said Wayne Thomann, director of the Occupational and Environmental Safety Office, whose office tested the substance. “When I saw it, I was pretty sure what it was based on the particulate... it was obviously a Cladosporium species.” Mold of the genus Cladosporium is very common and found both indoors and outdoors, Thomann said. It is an allergenic mold, but students should not worry about having a reaction to exposure in the dormitory, as the mold is commonly found outside. “It’s a small subset of the population that would respond to this at all—we are uniformly exposed,” he said Gary Thompson, director of facilities, planning and operations for Residence Life and Housing Services, described the mold as being a dry and crumbly material, “like

ontheRECORD "The brain, this thing up here, will do whatever you tell it to do. If you say to it 'get it...' it will get it. It can't say no."

—Renowned author Maya Angelou in her address to the Class of 2013. See story page 3

a moss, almost—you could pick up a few.” Mold has been a guest in Edens before. It was found in several towers in 2007 and as a precaution, the University had special coating installed on ventilation ducts to prevent mold from returning. Now, however, officials think some sections may have been missed, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of Residence Life and Housing Services. Thompson said this type of mold is prevalent in duct work, because the meeting of cold air inside the building and warm air outside the building create moisture that can foster fungal growth. He added that both OESO and a third party ran tests on the mold and surrounding air to determine when the dormitory was clean enough for students to return. In addition to cleaning the vents, the University is also taking precautions against mold returning to Edens in the future. “It’s being physically removed by technicians and the duct is being treated,” Thompson said. “We’re putting steps in place to do annual testing so we can keep up with

everything.” Originally, 89 students had planned

to live in Edens 2A this Fall. Although the mold was not considered a danger to students, Gonzalez said the University felt student pres-

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But Russian officials and health specialists also blame the government's failure to order supplies of key medicines last year, a blunder that could strengthen antibiotic-resistant forms ofTB and threaten wealthier countries that have all but eradicated the disease. Russia already has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. In parts of its Far East,the infection rate is three times higher than what the World Health Organization considers epidemic levels.

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President Obama has WASHINGTON approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key suspected terrorists, part of a broader effort to revamp U.S. policy on detention and interrogation, senior administration officials said Sunday. Obama signed off late last week on the new unit, named the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG. Composed of experts from several intelligence and law enforcement agencies,the interrogation unitwill be housed at the FBI but will be overseen by the National Security Council—shifting the center of gravityaway from the CIA and giving the White House direct oversight Seeking to signal a clean break from the Bush administration,Obama moved to overhaul interrogation and detention guidelines soon after taking office.

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Senior reflects on shooting incident As he walked home near East Campus with his girlfriend on Aug. 8, a Duke senior was robbed at gunpoint and then shot in the abdomen when he tried to resist the attacker. The late-night shooting on Watts Street-left the computer science major hospitalized for more than a week in Duke Hospital. The student underwent surgery to repair damage to his intestines and bladder. His girlfriend, an art student in Durham, was uninjured. The Durham Police Department is currently conducting an investigation into the incident. Six robberies have been reported near the intersection Watts Street and Trinity Avenue so far this year. The Chronicle's Zachary Tracer spoke to the senior about the attack on condition of anonymity to protect his privacy. The Chronicle: Do you still think about the night you were attacked? Duke Senior: Yeah. Just, I don’t know. Something will lead to it, and my pulse will quicken, and I’ll remember the moment when it started happening and I’ll start breathing really heavily. It takes a little while to calm down. TC: Why did you decide to try to take the man’s gun? DS: When he pulled out the gun, I saw that it was a really very small gun. He was holding it with three fingers, almost. It looked like a toy gun, a cap gun I used to have.... As he was rifling through my pockets...he couldn’t get my phone out,

and he brought his right hand [with the gun] around to try to get my phone out. I saw the opportunity, and I tried to take the gun away. TC: If you were able to go back to that night, do you think you would do any-

thing differently?

Angelou’s annual address imparts wisdom to freshmen by

Zachary Tracer THE CHRONICLE

Maya Angelou once walked out on a FOX executive who used a racial slur in her office, and then ended up hiding in the bushes outside because she forgot her car keys. A 1

DS: That’s what worries me. I keep imagining, like what if the gun had been

a more powerful one, would I have done the same thing? And I wish I could tell myself that I wouldn’t [have tried to take the attacker’s gun], but I don’t know. I mean, I hope I wouldn’t. I regretted it when I did it.... I’m still in a debate with myself over whether I should have done what I did or just let him take our stuff. But then, who’s to say that he wouldn’t have shot us after, you know?

TC: When you got control of the gun, to shoot down into the street and not at the attacker? DS: My whole mindset was just to make the gun not a threat. That was the whole thing. Like, I didn’t even think about doing any harm to him the whole time. All I wanted was just to take the gun away and either throw it far away, or since I couldn’t, I just shot out the bullets. Thinking back I should have done something to try to knock him unconscious or something, I don’t know. My real goal was just to make the gun not a threat.

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Famed poet andauthor Maya Angelou addressed the Class of2013 intheChapel Sunday. Angelou has spoken during freshmen orientationfor the past 20 years.

best known for her 1969 autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” told the story to emphasize the importance of courage in an address to the freshman class Sunday in the Chapel. But the story also had another moral. “If you are going to walk out, prepare yourself,” Angelou said as the Chapel filled with students’ laughter. The story came as Angelou made her most specific request to the freshmen—that they avoid racial slurs, as she does. But in a half-hour speech begun with Spanish and Hebrew songs and ended with some of her own poetry, Angelou emphasized the importance of recognizing all people as human beings. “Don’t be stymied by the achievements of anyone else,” she said. “They are no better than you and no worse than y0u.... Try to go into your classroom with that attitude.” Angelou called on the freshmen to be courageous as they “compose” their careers at the University and begin to shape their lives. “This brain, this thing up here, will do whatever you tell it to do,” she said. “If you say to it ‘get it...’ it will get it. It can’t say no.” Angelou said students need to have confidence in their academic abilities so that they can learn and help improve the world. “It was basically telling us that we are SEE ANGELOU ON PAGE 5

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CONVOCATION,™ page, What is typical of Dukies, however, is that throughhistory, they have not settled for what is easy, Brodhead said. When you chose Duke, you chose a place that’s made itself ever better by its willingness to dream bigger dreams and find ways to achieve them,” he said. “And when I welcome you to Duke, I welcome you to join this history and write its future chapters.” To be a typical Duke student, Brodhead said, is to be a student who is willing to be ambitious and use all the resources the University offers to achieve those goals, like so many who have come before. Although several students said they were not particularly inspired by the convocation ceremony, many freshmen said Brodhead’s speech lessened the overwhelming experience of their first days on campus. “It definitely gave me something to focus on and aim for because I did feel really lost,” freshman Ishita Chordia said. “It got me pumped.” For others, Brodhead and the convocation ceremony inspired them to seize all opportunities available at Duke. “It got me excited about going here,” freshman Michael Tringali said. “There wasn’t one specific thing I want to do, but now I’m going to do something. He definitely motivated me.” The freshmen will need that motivation, as Brodhead said Duke expects each student to use the University to become the “most deeply thoughtful, most broadly capable and most socially valuable person” he can become. “Class of 2013, we’ve been waiting for your onslaught,” he said. “Come take this place by storm.” out

SHOOTING from page 3 TC: Were you afraid as you were struggling with the attacker? DS: I didn’t really have time to worry about you know, being afraid. I was just single-mindedly focusing on making the gun not a threat. I mean, I’m sure I was afraid, but I wasjust determined to not let him have the gun anymore, with bullets in it. TC: Are there any questions that people often ask you about being shot and robbed? DS: “How does it feel to get shot?” And I always just say that it feels like someone punching you really hard in the stomach. TC: Do you have any thoughts about what you might get involved in or do to help improve safety in your neighborhood? DS: [My girlfriend and I] were thinking about that. If the community had a meeting again, [we would] go there and listen to what they were saying and try to help out in any way we could. I kind of just want to go back to normal. I don’t want to have to deal with this any more.

ANGELOU from page 3 the ones who are going to fix things,” said freshman Chapney Holloway. “Everyone tells us that, but she

made us realize it.” Angelou first spoke during freshman orientation in 1989. For the past 15 years, the Delta Gamma Dorothy Garrett Martin Lectureship in Values and Ethics has

sponsored Angelou’s speech.

Delta Gamma President Becki Feinglos, ajunior, said she first encountered Angelou’s work when she read “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” as a sixth grader. “The artistry of her words stuck with me throughout the years,” Feinglos said. “Her words, whether read in a well worn book or heard in the Duke Chapel, command the utmost respect.” Freshman Deborah Olaleye also appreciated the opportunity to listen to Angelou in person. “It was unreal to hear from her,” she said Angelou also offered students another chance to hear from her. She invited students to write to her at Wake Forest University where she is the Reynolds Professor of American Studies. She promised she would write back. “I am yours, and you are mine,” she said

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Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentagaddresses the Class of 2013 in the Chapel Wednesday. Guttentag praised thefreshmen class—the most selective ever in the University's history—for theirachievements and successes prior to their arrival at Duke.

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MOLD from page 1

sory counselor, was surprised when she arrived to check in and was told she could not move into her room yet.

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“I was confused and frustrated by the fact that they weren’t prepared for us to be there. RLHS was understanding, there just wasn’t a lot they could do for us.” Molly Himmelstein, sophomore

ment process.

In 2007, when mold was discovered, students remained in the dormitory, but the air-conditioning system was turned off. The problem was corrected during winter break. Gonzalez said because students had not moved in when mold was found Aug. 13, administrators felt it would be easier to simply delay opening the dorm until the mold was removed. Students were permitted to move into the dormitory 8 a.m. Saturday morning. “As soon as the problem was discovered, we contacted all the students and offered them the opportunity to move into other space,” Gonzalez said. Students were offered temporary assignments in the Swift Avenue Town House Apartments and allowed to store their belongings in their Edens 2A rooms. Gonzalez said few students chose to move into the apartments, opting instead to stay with friends until their rooms were ready. Molly Himmelstein, a sophomore and a first-year advi-

“I* was confused and frustrated by the fact that they weren’t prepared for us to be there,” she said. “RLHS was understanding, there just wasn’t a lot they could do for us.” Himmelstein said she chose not to temporarily stay in one of the Swift apartments because she felt unsafe living in the area alone. She added that the distance from West

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campus was inconvenient without buses running on a regular schedule. She and her roommate requested to be permanently switched to a room in a different dormitory. Before Himmelstein had moved into her new room, however, she had set up her bed in her Edens room and noted that her bedding now smells like mold. Still, Himmelsfein said she understands the difficult situation the University' was in. “Duke really did try to help us and they kept us up to date,” she said. “They had students’ best interests in mind.... It was an unfortunate situation and they handled it the best they could.” Sophomore Katie Noel arrived Wednesday and spent the week staying with friends on campus, keeping her belongings in her car. She received an e-mail prior to her arrival notifying her that she would not be able to move into the dormitory. “It wasn’t difficult but it was annoying,” she said. Noel said she chose not to accept a temporary assignment because she did not want to move in twice. Contois said she received an e-mail about the mold Thursday evening, the day before she was supposed to move in for FAC training, that said she could move her belongings in but could not actually reside in the room. In effect, Contois found it more convenient to stay with friends in a nearby dormitory instead of the Swift apartments, but said it was hectic not being allowed in her room. Tm very excited to sleep in my own bed tonight,” she said.

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A federal judge has ordered the government to allow attorneys for a detainee challenging his confinement at Guantanamo Bay to submit questions about his case to Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina was made public Thursday in a federal lawsuit brought by the detainee, Abdul Raheem Ghulam Rabbani, a Pakistani, who has been held at the U.S. military facility in Cuba since 2004. The government alleges that Rabbani was an al-Qaida member. But Rabbani’s attorneys say he was a menial household laborer for Mohammed and made $4O a week. Because the government produced no records of Mohammed talking about Rabbani, the attorneys asked Urbina to allow them to question the al-Qaida operative about their client’s work. Mohammed is also being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Under the. ruling, Rabbani’s attorneys may submit a narrow set of written questions through the government to Mohammed about Rabbani’s employment. The Justice Department will be permitted to redact any answers that touch on national security. “Testimony from KSM regarding the functions that [Rabbani] fulfilled under his employ could prove to be materially exculpatory,” Urbina wrote, referring to Mohammed by his initials. Agnieszka Fryszman, an attorney for Rabbani, said the ruling is “a good one for the truth and the court system.” “It’s responsible and narrow and will enable Mr. Rabbani to present accurate evidence about whether or not he was a household menial laborer who has been wrongly held,” she said. Dean Boyd, ajustice Department spokesperson, said

officials were reviewing the order but declined to comment further. The government “vehemently” fought the detainee’s request to question Mohammed, Urbina wrote. Justice Department attorneys argued that allowing such questioning might expose sensitive secrets. The government argued that Mohammed was detained as part of a CIA program to interrogate terrorist leaders and said the program was vital to national security. “It is impossible to know what he may reveal in his responses,” Justice Department attorneys wrote, according to Urbina. Urbina said that the government raised valid concerns but that he must balance Rabbani’s right to contest his confinement against national security interests. In the ruling, Urbina also ordered the government to provide Rabbani’s attorneys with information concerning the circumstances ofhis interrogations over the years. Rabbani has said he confessed to being an al-Qaida member and knowing Osama bin Laden only because he was beaten, deprived of food and exposed to extreme temperatures. After his capture in 2002, Rabbani says, he spent time in CIA prisons until being shipped to Guantanamo Bay in 2004. “These allegations detail an unbroken stream of harsh treatment, abuse and torture stretching from [Rabbani’s] capture in Pakistan to his more recent interrogations at Guantanamo Bay,” Urbina wrote. The ruling concerning access to Mohammed may signal trouble for the Justice Department, which is fighting scores of lawsuits filed by detainees under the centuries-old legal doctrine of habeas corpus. Judges, who have expressed increasing frustration with the quality of the government’s evidence, seem more willing to grant detainees access to information to help

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A vacuum cleaner was stolen from Edens 2A dormitory last Monday afternoon. Gross chem A male student was discovered lying on the floor of CIEMAS nude and intoxicated early Tuesday morning. He was sent to the Duke Hospital emergency department.

Upset patient A patient threatened a doctor over the phone in the Pickens building Tuesday afternoon because he was dissatisfied with his medical care.

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A Duke-owned golf cart was found irreparably burned at the Washington Duke Inn and golf club Wednesday morning. Short-circuited An employee’s catalytic converter was discovered missing from his truck, which was parked in the Circuit Drive Lot, Wednesday evening. Free Wi-Fi A student’s unattended Macbook laptop was stolen from an unsecured common room injarvis Residence Hall Thursday evening. It was the first student laptop theft of the academic year. Free roaming An unattended iPhone was reported stolen from the basketball courts in Wilson Recreation Center Friday night. Double trouble A male was arrested and charged with a DWI and driving without a license on North Buchanan Boulevard Saturday night. Seeing red A driver was caught making a left turn at a red light and was cited for driving with a revoked license on Main Street late Saturday night. Stolen laptop

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RANKINGS from page 1 resources, graduation rate performance

and the alumni giving rate. Chicago and Columbia were given a score of 91 points out of 100, edging out Duke with 90 points. Duke made it into the top 10 of U.S. News and World Report’s list ofBest Value colleges at No. 9. The ranking is a comparison of the academic quality of an institution versus its total cost of attendance. Duke was also commended for its first-year experience, study abroad, service learning, writing in the disciplines and undergraduate research/creative projects. “My parents are obsessed with the U.S. News rankings,” freshman Hannah Hayward said. She added that Duke was the highestranked university she applied to. “I’m from Florida and they wouldn’t let me apply to the University of Florida because it was ranked 50th,” Hayward said. While various publications market their annual college rankings as a valuable tool for prospective college freshmen, Schoenfeld noted that all rankings —from Forbes magazine to the Princeton Review—are trying to sell magazines and books. “No single ranking can adequately assess or evaluate all the programs and departments that a complex research university like Duke offers, and it is absurd to think that an arbitrary collection of subjective data can do anything more than create a very general hierarchy of quality,” Schoenfeld said. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag similarly said the

rankings were misleading “The criteria used is based on the ideas of the publications,” he said. “It implies differences between institutions that don’t exist. I have philosophical problems with the whole process” He added that the rankings do not have a large effect on recruiting and generally tend to reflect conventional wisdom. He noted that since 1999, when Duke was ranked 6th in the country, the number of applicants has risen by 50 percent. “I knew where I wanted to apply. The rankings were away to reaffirm that they were good schools,” freshman Nicole Kyle said. “Visiting Duke was what helped me decide that I wanted to come here.” In spite of the criticism directed at the rankings from administrators at Duke and others around the country, Schoenfeld said some lists can be useful to the University in assessing its relative strengths and weaknesses, comparing with peer institutions and seeing whether the University’s strategic focus is on the right track. U.S. News and World Report is not the only publication in which Duke lost ground. Forbes magazine ranked Duke No. 104 in its second annual list of the best colleges, down from No. 80 last year. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point topped the Forbes list. “If we can’t agree on the ranking of the best college football team every season, even when they actually play each other and there is a winner and loser, how can any list really measure the best university?” Schoenfeld said. “The best college is the one that’s right for each student.”

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them contest the allegations. The ruling could also be a preview of legal battles in federal criminal trials of detainees. In criminal cases, defense attorneys have far greater access to witnesses than in habeas hearings. The issues raised by Rabbani’s attorneys are similar to those in the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person involved in the Sept. 11 conspiracy who was tried in a U.S. courtroom. His attorneys had sought access to Mohammed and another top al-Qaida operative, Ramzi Binalshibh. The government refused, and an appeals court eventually ruled that the defense attorneys could not question the men. Instead, the court held that a federal judge must craft versions of statements the witnesses made to government interrogators. Those versions, known as substitutions, were to be presented to Moussaoui’s jury. Moussaoui eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.

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Seeking to ensure that President Barack Obama has a less than restful vacation, a group opposed to the White House’s health-care proposals is launching an ad campaign this week that will run locally during his stay at Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. Conservatives for Patients’ Rights says it plans to run a TV spot titled “Surfs Up” in the Martha’s Vineyard and Boston areas that implores the president to drop his pursuit of a public health insurance option. The ad is the latest salvo in a multimillion-dollar message war over the fate of health reform that has shown no sign

of abating, even during the normally quiet final weeks of summer. “The beach is nice this time of year,” the ad’s narrator begins. “But while President Obama vacations, concerns mount about his health-care plan. Why? Because his public-option health plan could lead to government-run health care, higher taxes on everything from paychecks to soda and add a trillion to the deficit. Mr. President, when you go back to D.C., drop your government-run public-option plan. Let’s get on with real reform to lower costs and protect patients’ rights.” SEE HEALTHCARE ON PAGE 13

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CAIRO Fighting in the mountains of northwestern Yemen intensified" Sunday as the government announced that it had killed more than 100 Shiite Muslim rebels and humanitarian organizations voiced alarm over an estimated 100,000 people who have fled their homes since the conflict flared almost two weeks ago. The rebels rejected a ceasefire offer from the Sunni Muslimdominated government at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan Friday. The region has since echoed with the fire of artillery, tanks and aircraft as Yemeni forces moved to crush a five-year rebellion led by Shiite militant Abdul Malik Houthi in Saada and Amran provinces. The fighting near the border with Saudi Arabia was another spasm across an increasingly unstable Yemen, a poor yet strategic country off the Gulf ofAden. U.S. officials are concerned that the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh is engulfed in conflicts that also include a separatist insurgency in the south and growing numbers of al-Qaida fighters using the nation as a base to

launch attacks across the Middle East. The Shiite revolt in the northwest is unfolding amid Yemen’s tricky mix of tribes and clans, and larger regional animosities between Iran’s Shiite-led government and its Sunni Arab neighbors. Yemen has intimated that Iran is funneling weapons and money to the rebels. Iran’s news media have alleged that Saudi forces have joined Yemeni troops in putting down the rebellion. The Saudis, who worry the unrest may seep across their border, have publicly acknowledged only that the kingdom is consulting with Yemen about the violence. Yemeni officials have denied any joint military operations with the Saudis. The Yemen News Agency reported Sunday that the Iranian stories had “no credibility, noting this puts Iran in a suspicious position that raises many questions about the possible ulterior motives it pursues in reporting such information.” In its cease-fire offer, the government demanded the rebels withdraw from mountain strongholds, return weapons seized from the army and provide details about the kidnapping of at least seven foreigners, including two Germans and a South Korean who

were found dead weeks ago. The rebels have denied involvement. Yemeni forces said they killed two rebel leaders identified as Saleh Jarman and Mohsen Hadi Qaoud. The deaths could not be independently confirmed. “There has been a discovery of 100 bodies belonging to Houthi rebels on the sides of the roads outside Haraf Sufyan,” according to a government statement released to the news media. “It seems these are members who had attempted to escape from the fierce fighting in Sufyan city and were chased down.” The Yemen News Agency reported that Education Minister Abdul-Salam Jawfi met with officials from UNICEFand the United Nations agency for refugees. The agency said international medical and humanitarian organizations have sent teams to “the restive province but worsening security there has limited their effectiveness. The fighting has shown no signs of letting up.” The U.N. is trying its “best to reach the most vulnerable children and women who have fled their homes empty-handed in a state of panic,” UNICEF representative Aboudou Karimou Adjibade said in a statement over the weekend.

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WASHINGTON—President Theodore Roosevelt campaigned as a trust-busting reformer, but was embarrassed by revelations that his 1904 campaign had received secret contributions from New York insurance companies. At his urging, Congress passed a law to keep corporate money out of political races. Now, that century-old ban stands in danger of being overturned by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, which has embraced an equally venerable principle: free speech in politics. The justices signaled the prospect of a profound shift in election law by scheduling an unusual special argument for Sept. 9. At issue will be whether to overturn two previous rulings that limit corporate spending in elections. In the first, the court in 1990 upheld a state law barring corporations from using their “immense aggregations of wealth” to buy ads to oppose or endorse a candidate. Justices Anthony

Kennedy and Antonin Scalia dissented. The second was the 2003 ruling upholding the McCain-Feingold Act by a 5-4 vote, including its ban on corporate or unionfunded broadcast ads that target a candidate in the month before an election. Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Clarence Thomas dissented, along with the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The two precedents are endangered by a new case growing out of last year’s presidential election and involving “Hillary: The Movie.” Between the earlier rulings and the latest case, however, the makeup of the court has changed. Three years ago, the majority flipped when Justice Sandra Day O’Connor retired and Justice Samuel Alito replaced her. With O’Connor, a narrow majority supported the campaign finance laws. Now, five of the nine justices are skeptics and have said government restrictions on political spending violate the First Amendment. Advocates of campaign fundSEE ELECTION LAW ON PAGE 15

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CAIRO Fighting in the mountains of northwestern Yemen intensified Sunday as the government announced that it had killed more than 100 Shiite Muslim rebels and humanitarian organizations voiced alarm over an estimated 100,000 people who have fled their homes since the conflict flared almost two weeks ago. The rebels rejected a ceasefire offer from the Sunni Muslimdominated government at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan Friday. The region has since echoed with the fire of artillery, tanks and aircraft as Yemeni forces moved to crush a five-year rebellion led by Shiite militant Abdul Malik Houthi in Saada and Amran provinces. The fighting near the border with Saudi Arabia was another spasm across an increasingly unstable Yemen, a poor yet strategic country off the GulfofAden. U.S. officials are concerned that the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh is engulfed in conflicts that also include a separatist insurgency in the south and growing numbers of al-Qaida fighters using the nation as a base to

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WASHINGTON—President Theodore camRoosevelt paigned as a trust-busting reformer, but was embarrassed by revelations that his 1904 campaign had received secret contributions from New York insurance companies. At his urging, Congress passed a law to keep corporate money out of political races. Now, that century-old ban stands in danger of being overturned by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, which has embraced an equally venerable principle: free speech in politics. The justices signaled the prospect of a profound shift in election law by scheduling an unusual special argument for Sept. 9. At issue will be whether to overturn two previous rulings that limit corporate spending in elections. In the first, the court in 1990 upheld a state law barring corporations from using their “immense aggregations of wealth” to buy ads to oppose or endorse a candidate, justices Anthony

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North Korean leader Kim Jong 11, said Blue House spokesman Lee Dong-kwan. A spokesman for Lee quoted him as saying during a photo session with Northern envoy Kim Ki Nam that “there is nothing that cannot be solved if South and North sort out their problems through communication and sincerity.” The meeting came amid a recent thaw in relations between the Koreas, started earlier this month when former president Bill Clinton traveled to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and secured the release of two U.S. television journalists held there. Following that visit, which many said displayed Kim Jong IPs willingness to engage with the U.S. and South Korea, Pyongyang released a South Korean worker it had held for almost 140 days. North Korea also has removed most of its travel restrictions enacted last year on South Korean businesses at ajointly run industrial parkjust north of

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SEOUL, South Korea As tens of thousands gathered here Sunday to mourn the death of former South Korea president Kim Dae-jung, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his bid to reconcile relations between his nation and North Korea, Seoul’s conservative government took a page from his diplomatic playbook, meeting face to face with envoys from its communist counterpart. In a rare half-hour sit-down, his first since taking office last year, President Lee Myung-bak discussed growing tensions on the Korean peninsula with a high-level delegation from the North on hand to pay respects to Kim, who died Tuesday at 85 after a long bout of pneumonia. Shordy before the state ceremony at the National Assembly on a humid afternoon, the delegation appeared at the Blue House with an undisclosed verbal message from

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the demilitarized zone The usually bellicose NorthKorean state-run media was low-key Sunday in its reporting of the day’s events, saying that its delegation had “visited Seoul to mourn the death ofex-President Kim Dae-jung.” The Korean Central News Agency acknowledged that the envoys met with Lee, saying that “issues of developing the relations between the North and the South were discussed.” A former secretary to the late South Korean leader called the meeting a fitting tribute to his efforts at NorthSouth reconciliation. “If there is a will left by Kim Dae-jung to Kim Jong II and Lee Myung-bak, it goes, ‘Don’t confront with each other. Reconcile via communication,’” said Chang Sung-min, author of a book on North Korea. SEE KOREAS ON PAGE 16

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HEALTHCARE from page? The group said it has laid out “more than $150,000” for the ad campaign, a relatively small amount given that more than $6O million has been spent on health-care ads this year, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group. But CPR hopes to make its dollars count by putting the ad on the air in front of Obama, his staff and the traveling White House press corps. The group made a point of buying time during next week’s series between the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox, Obama’s favorite baseball team. “While President Obama is vacationing in the surf at Martha’s Vineyard, Americans are growing increasingly anxious that the public option will raise costs, not

lower them,” said Rick Scott, a former hospital chief executive who chairs CPR. “He should drop the public-option plan and go back to the drawing board.” Asked at Friday’s briefing about the ad, White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs made reference to Scott’s past legal problems. “Well, I think... this is the same individual that we’ve talked about in here who’s the recipient of—just so we do this so everybody understands—of the largest health-care penalty ever issued by a federal government for fraud for a company he was the CEO of, right?” Gibbs said. Scott was pushed out from his post atop the Columbia/HCA health-care company during a fraud investigation in the 19905. The firm paid a record $1.7 billion in fines after pleading guilty to charges that it overbilled state and federal health plans.

While CPR focuses on Martha’s Vineyard, other groups in the health-care fight will spend the rest of August on the air nationally and in key congressional districts. The liberal group Americans United for Change will begin running an ad this week titled “Real Death Panels” nationally on MSNBC and CNN, as well as on Washington-area cable networks. The spot accuses conservatives such as Sarah Palin and talk-show host Glenn Beck of spreading “lies” about Democrats’ reform plans while insurance companies allegedly deny lifesaving care to patients. A group spokesperson said the campaign’s initial price tag was “in the low five figures.” On Thursday, the conservative group Club for Growth launched its third ad in a $1.2 million campaign, this one running in the home states of GOP Sens.

Charles Grassley of lowa, Olympia J. Snowe of Maine and Mike Enzi of Wyoming. The ad urges the three senators, all of whom are among the Finance Committee’s “Gang of Six” health-care negotiators, “not to cave in to the liberals” in reform talks. The conservative Independent Women’s Forum is also targeting key senators, running more than $2 million worth of anti-public-option ads in Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada and North Dakota. And the National Republican Congressional Committee is airing ads against Democratic Reps. Michael Arcuri of New York and Zack Space of Ohio, saying they are allying themselves with Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while they are “cooking up a risky experiment on health care.”

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Department of Theater Studies

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All undergraduates are invited to our open house, Monday, August 24, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm in Brody Theater, Branson Building, East Campus. Meet the Theater Studies Faculty and the Duke Players Council and reconnect with friends. Information about courses, auditions, backstage opportunities, and other news will be available. FREE FOOD!

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Auditions for The Lower D’s All Duke undergrads are invited to audition for the Theater Studies fall mainstage play, The Lower D’s on Aug. 29 from 11 am to 3 pm, with callbacks on Aug. 30. Auditions will be held in Room 127 Bryan Center. The director is looking for a diverse cast. Copies of the play on which The Lower D’s is based {The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky) are available in the Theater Studies office at 208 Bivins Bldg, on East Campus. Email jayoberski@yahoo.com to schedule an audition.

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ELECTION LAW from page,, ing laws are sounding the alarm. Striking down corpospending limits would be “a radical step” that would change the character of elections, said Fred Wertheimer, president of the nonprofit Democracy 21. “Banks like Citicorp, investment firms like Merrill Lynch and insurance companies like AIG would be free to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of their corporate wealth to directly support the election of federal officeholders who do their legislative bidding and to directly oppose [people] who refused to carry out their wishes,” Wertheimer said. “This could take us back to the era when people referred to the senator from Standard Oil,” agreed Washington lawyer Trevor Potter, who last year advised Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign. “If you have hundreds of millions of corporate dollars flowing into these races, it could drown out the speech of ordinary voters.” Skeptics of the campaign-finance laws are not convinced. “This would not be the end of democracy,” said Bradley Smith, a law professor at Capital University in Ohio and a former chairman of Federal Election Commission. About half the states, including California and Illinois, permit corporations to spend freely in state races, he said, and few corporations have chosen to invest large sums in those rate

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Others note that wealthy individuals—such as financier George Soros and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg—-

already spend vast sums of money to sway elections or to support their own candidacies. At issue before the court is whether to erase the legal distinction between corporations and individuals. “If dancing nude and burning the flag are protected by the First Amendment, why would it not protect robust speech about the people who are running for office?” said Washington lawyer Theodore Olson, who is leading the attack on the federal campaign law. Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general, represents Citizens United, the small nonprofit company that produced “Hillary; The Movie,” which derided the former first lady as ruthless and untrustworthy. Conservative activist David Bossie, who heads Citizens United, compared his anti-Clinton video to “Fahrenheit 9/11”—the commercially successful documentary by leftleaning film director Michael Moore that mocked President George W. Bush as he ran for re-election in 2004. Bossie intended his film for viewing last year, and possibly for broadcast on TV, in anticipation that Clinton would be running for president as the Democratic nominee. But the film got tied up in a legal battle over whether the federal laws regulating corporate-funded “electioneering communications” applied to new types of campaign videos produced by nonprofit corporations. The FEC decided “Hillary: The Movie” was covered by the law. This limited how it could be shown, and it meant Citizens United had to disclose its donors. A lower court upheld that determination, but the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal. When the case was argued in March, the justices did not focus on the details involving the video, but on whether the law itself was suspect. At one point, the lawyer defending the FEC was asked whether Congress could ban a corporate-funded book during an election year that attacked a candidate. Yes, although no such law exists, the FEC lawyer re-

plied.

“That’s pretty incredible,” Alito said. In June, rather than deciding whether the election laws applied to the anti-Hillary movie, the justices announced they would hear a special argument on whether to overturn its precedents that limit election spending by corporations. The outcome—whether a broad ruling on the law or a narrow one pertaining to the video—may well depend on Chief Justice John Roberts. So far, he has taken the free speech side, but only on narrow questions. Now he faces the question of whether to broadly overrule long-standing laws. The case will be first for Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She replaced Justice David Souter, who steadily supported campaign finance laws, and is expected to do the same. It also will be the first argument for Obama administration Solicitor General Elena Kagan. “Corporations are artificial persons endowed by the government with significant special advantages that no natural person possesses,” she wrote in her brief. They “do not age, retire or die, [but they] can amass great wealth.” Because they are state-created entities, the court should stick with its precedents and limit their role in American politics, she said.

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KOREAS from page 12 Most mourners Sunday focused on saying goodbye to Kim, a defender of democracy who survived three assassination attempts, one death sentence and six years in prison. Kim, who served as president from 1998 until 2003, had become known as South Korea’s most famous dissident. In 1985, when he returned from exile in the United States, arriving at Seoul’s airport flanked by U.S. congressmen, he was seized and placed under house arrest by the nation’s then-ruling military dictatorship. On June 13, 2000, then-President Kim Dae-jung traveled to Pyongyang for a historic summit with Kim Jong 11. The two leaders pledged to start a new era of peace on the embattled Korean peninsula. But

North Korea’s nuclear ambitions later weakened the South Korean leader’s “Sunshine Policy” of more liberal relations with the North. Today, South Koreans enjoy a thriving democracy that is making strides toward reconciling with North Korea. And many attribute that progress directly to Kim Daejung. “I came here to pay my tribute to Kim,” said Kang Sang-gon, a 64-year-old smallbusiness owner who attended the service. “He deserves countless respect from not only an individual but from the whole nation because of his thorough philosophy and strong belief about unification.” Kim’s service Sunday was attended by former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright, Stephen Bosworth, President Barack Obama’s envoy to North Korea and U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Kathleen Stevens.

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WASHINGTON One of the main battlegrounds in the fight against an expected resurgence of swine flu this fall will be the schoolyard, a place where the disease could, well, go viral. People between six months and 24 years old appear to be particularly vulnerable to the swine flu virus, known as HINT And there are several reasons to think that schools could be hotbeds of infection: Large groups of children and young adults? Check, In close proximity? Check. Lax sanitary standards? Check. And with schools expected to remain open unless the virus becomes more severe, there’s little standing in the way of HI NTs spread. At the same time, schools are likely to serve as centers for mass immunizations, which could sharply reduce HlNl’s reach, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local authorities. So far, the swine flu does not appear to be more dangerous than the typical seasonal flu. But medical authorities are concerned that it could infect many more people—thereby increasing the potential number of deaths—because so few people have immunity against it. The mass immunization program, likely to be the largest of its kind since the polio vaccine was given to about 100 million Americans in the 19605, will play out with some differences between states and local jurisdictions. For instance, still waiting to be resolved are questions about who gets the vaccine, whether schools are used as vaccination sites, whether parents are present when children are vaccinated and whether the vaccine is administered by injection or nasal spray. “There’s considerable interest out there from the local health departments and school districts to do it in the schools,” said Jim Farrell, director of the immunization division of the Virginia Department of Health. Elsewhere, officials suspect that schools will be used less. “Our school health system is not very well-funded,” said David Fleming, public health director and health officer for Seattle and King County, Wash. “We don’t have the staff in the schools to do it. There’s also the cumbersome process of getting parental permission. So doing it during school hours may not make a lot of sense.” In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, officials expect that schools will be used at nights and on weekends so parents can be present. “Parents are going to want to be there to support their kids for vaccination,” said Terry Allan, the county health commissioner. ...

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The swine flu vaccine will probably arrive after the seasonal vaccine and will target a milch larger group of students—everyone through 12th grade. Research shows that school-based vaccination can measurably reduce illness. A study published last summer compared school absentee rates in Carroll County, Md., where 44 percent of elementary students got flu vaccine in 2005, with the rates in neighboring Frederick County, Md., where there was no such program. Frederick absenteeism went up from 2 percent to almost four percent during flu season; In Carroll, it rose much less, from about 2.5 percent to three percent. A relatively small increase in absenteeism was also seen in high schools, although they held no immunization programs. That suggests, as does much other research, that young children are a major force in spreading flu. The ability of schools to track sick students might also prove crucial to understanding the spread of swine flu.

Health officials nationally are developing a questionnaire that would provide a useful snapshot without burdening local health departments. Information on the amount of illness in schools will be essential, said Jack Herrmann, a specialist in preparedness at the National Association of County and City Health Officials. “It is no secret that the school dismissal issue is foremost in the minds of everybody, from the White House on down,” Herrmann said. “Clearly, some idea of what is going on in schools is going to be of great interest.”

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N. Korea calls for better ties with S. Korea by

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TOKYO A North Korean delegation met Sunday in Seoul with South Korean PresidentLee Myung-bak and delivered a personal call for improved ties from leader Kim Jong 11, the first high-level meeting between the countries in nearly two years. The North Koreans had come to pay respects to former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung, who died last week and whose efforts to unite the Korean Peninsula won him the Nobel Peace Prize. Kim Dae-jung, who was tortured and imprisoned during his decades as an opposition leader, was a passionate advocate of Korean unification and participated in a summit with Kim Jong II in Pyongyang in 2000. Tens of thousands of mourners gathered outside parliament Sunday afternoon for his state funeral.

The atmospherics of the 30-minute meeting, which a spokesperson described as “very serious and gentle,” suggested that North Korea is retreating from a campaign of insults, threats and saber-rattling that it launched when Lee assumed the presidency 18 months ago. “Simply put, we can say that there has been a paradigm shift,” an official from Lee’s office told Yonhap, the South Korean news agency. That shift, with multiple indicators in recent weeks, has tamed the bellicose dynamics of an eight-month stretch of provocations by North Korea, which tested a nuclear bomb, launched missiles and repeatedly declared its readiness for “all-out war.” For reasons that are not well understood, the North embarked this month on something of a charm offensive. It has released two U.S. journalists, freed a South Korean worker, agreed to resume reunions of families divided by

the North-South borderand promised to restart cross-border businesses. North Korean diplomats also sought a meeting last week with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, who said the isolated country is “now prepared to have a dialogue with us.” At the meeting with Lee, the North Korean delegation conveyed its leader’s wishes for progress in relations with South Korea, said Lee Dong-kwan, a spokesperson

“Simply put, we can say that there has been a paradigm shift.” —official from office of S. Korean Pres. Lee Myung-bak, on relations in the Korean Pennisula for Lee In response, Lee called for a resumption of dialogue between the two countries and told the North Koreans that there is no issue that the two sides cannot resolve if they SEE NORTH KOREA ON PAGE 23

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Iran clerics, lawmakers oppose women for cabinet by

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women as Iran’s first female cabinet members since the 1979 Islamic revolution faced stiff criticism Saturday from clerics and lawmakers, as well as from women’s rights activists. Several prominent clerics said the move was counter to Islamic beliefs and urged parliament to reject the nominations. “If a woman becomes minister, then she must constantly stay in contact with men and deputies, so she could not carry out her religious duties to the full,” Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabaeinejad said during Friday prayers, according to the Khabaronline Web site. “We expect that the parliamentarians should keep their wits and prevent this heresy.” Women’s rights activists, most of whom are based in the capital, said they doubted the nominees would work to give Iranian women the same rights as men. “These women are just like him, only female,” said activist Parvin Ardalan, referring to Ahmadinejad. “This is just an act to gain legitimacy among women.” “The damage that such women can do to women’s rights issues is much more than any man can inflict,” said Nargess Mohammadi, deputy head of the Defenders ofHuman Rights Center, which is led by Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi. “These female candidates have a traditional mind-set. They will increase bias against women, since they believe the role of women is limited

families.” Iranian laws apply differently to women and men in such areas as divorce, child custody, inheritance and in court, where two female witnesses are counted as one witness. Iranian leaders say that in Islam, women and men are created differently but are equal in essence, and therefore their rights differ. Ahmadinejad introduced 21 candidates this week for his cabinet, including former generals, old hands and unknown figures. He has defended picking three women; Marzieh Vahid Dastgerdi, 50, a gynecologist, for health minister; Fatemeh Ajorlu, 43, a lawmaker, for minister of welfare and social security, and Susan Keshavars, 44, a high-ranking employee of the Ministry of Education, for that ministry. “Some may become unhappy as soon as they hear about women,” he said. “We do not want to draw a distinction between men and women. We see them as being complementary to one and other.” Parliament must give the nominees a vote of confidence, and some lawmakers have expressed reluctance to do so. “Because of the special Iranian culture, men will not obey women. This will create problems,” Salman Zaker, a lawmaker belonging to a clerical faction of parliament, said Saturday on Fardanews. The head of the faction, MohammadTaqi Rahbar, said that “there are religious uncertainties surrounding the limits of women’s abilities and their management, which the administration must pay attention to.” to

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When Lee came into office in early 2007, he infuriated North Korea by changing a decade-old policy of unconditional aid that had begun under Kim Dae-jung as part of his “sunshine policy” for reducing North-South tension. The South had provided North Korea with massive gifts of food and fertilizer, while asking no questions about where the aid went or who benefited from it. Lee has insisted that he would re-

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China frees activists after international criticism by

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BEIJING Chinese authorities, facing scathing criticism at home and abroad, on Sunday released from prison a celebrated legal scholar and two other activists. Xu Zhiyong, founder of the Beijing-based Open Constitution Initiative, was unexpectedly freed on bail after more than three weeks in prison on charges of tax evasion. A co-worker, Zhuang Lu, also was released. In a separate case, Ilham Tohti, an economics professor who had written about economic discrimination against the Uighur minority, was released after about six weeks in custody, according to a Uighur Web site. “This shows the legal system is still working in China, and I’m very happy about that,” said Yang Huiwen, a lawyer at Open Constitution Initiative, better known

by its Chinese name, Gongmeng. Although Xu might still have to answer the tax charges, Yang said, he will at least be at liberty to mount a proper defense. Xu, 36, was snatched from his Beijing apartment in the predawn hours July 29 in the midst of a dispute over whether his firm owed taxes on charitable donations from supporters, including Yale University Law School. Among other high-profile cases, the firm represented parents whose babies had been sickened last year by tainted infant formula. What made Xu’s arrest surprising was that he was considered a moderate, working within the mainstream to strengthen the legal system. “This was not somebody trying to overthrow the current political system, simply somebody trying to inform Chinese people of their rights,” U.S. Rep. Howard L.

Berman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said last week in Beijing. Berman said he was one of a number of U.S. officials who was taking up Xu’s case with the Chinese government. Xu’s colleague said it was unclear whether U.S. pressure had helped nudge Chinese authorities into releasing the lawyer. “He was just released. We’re not sure why,” Yang said. A new U.S. ambassador, Jon Huntsman Jr., the former Republican governor of Utah, took up residence in Beijing over the weekend and announced that President Barack Obama will visit in mid-November. The Chinese government has been tightening security in the capital in anticipation of a military parade and other festivities Oct. 1 to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

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Morning Sun (Carma Hinton, 2003) The film Morning Sun attempts in the space of a twohour documentary film to create an inner history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (c. 1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective view of a tumultuous period as seen through the eyes—and reflected in the hearts and minds—of members of the high-school generation that was bom around the time of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and that came of age in the 19605. Others join them in creating in the film’s conversation about the period and the psycho-emotional topography of high-Maoist China, as well as the enduring legacy of that period.

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Iraqi forces may have aided deadly bombings By Zaid Sabah THE WASHINGTON POST

BAGHDAD Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, said Saturday that the coordinated attack that killed more than 100 people, including dozens of his employees, in Baghdad on Wednesday may have been carried out with the complicity of Iraqi security forces. During a strikingly blunt news conference at the severely damaged Foreign Ministry, Zebari, a Kurd, accused Shiite Prime

Wednesday shordy before an enormous blast. Iraqi officials said the tanks were packed with fertilizer and artillery shells. “If you see the video, the vehicle was moving comfortably,” Zebari said. “How can a truck like this be allowed to pass near sensitive areas that include the Foreign Ministry, the Green Zone and the parliament?” Zebari said Maliki’s admin istradon got ahead of itself, focusing on luring foreign investors while the country remains far from able to handle security. “In all their statements, they call foreign companies to come and invest in Iraq,” he said. “So if people see ministries targeted and residents slaughtered in the streets, where is that security?” Maliki has blamed the attack on former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party and suggested that they may have conspired with the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaida in Iraq. On Thursday, his government detained 11 army and police commanders responsible for security in the targeted areas, accusing them of negligence. In Iraq, top ministry jobs are distributed to leaders of political parties under a complex power-sharing formula. Maliki has long had a strained relationship with Kurdish leaders, but even so, Zebari’s remarks Saturday were unchar-

Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government of acting with hubris in talking up its ability to protect citizens. “The operation was organized and planned for months,” Zebari said. “I don’t rule out that there was collaboration by the security forces.” Two massive bombings wrecked the Foreign and Finance ministries early Wednesday morning, marking the deadliest day since the June 30 withdrawal ofU.S. troops from cities and the most devastating attack on government facilities since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Zebari said that in recent weeks the government had grown overconfident in its ability to provide security, removing one line of concrete blast walls around the Foreign Ministry and a nearby checkpoint. “Regrettably, we accepted the orders to acteristically sharp. remove these walls,” he said, citing a “false Iraqi army officials said Friday they had general sense ofthe security situation.” Hefty arrested members of the bombing cell that concrete blocks were reinstalled Saturday. carried out the attacks but offered no proof Surveillance camera footage aired on or details. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. QasIraqi television showed a truck loaded with sim al-Moussawi said suicide bombers carred water tanks approaching the ministry ried out both attacks.

Instructor: Robert Bitwise Storytelling techniques of magazine journalism; historical and contemporary writing for magazines; and visual impact in print. Students develop experience in different kinds of magazine writing, collaborate on a magazine produced by the class, and contribute to campus publications. Consent of instructor required.

The Politics of Civic Engagement BSSSBBOI Instructor: Robert Korstad This course explores ethical issues related to civic engagement by college students, their reasons for participating, the goals of the university in sponsoring their summer experiences, and the impact they had on the people and organizations they worked with. Students will read books and articles from different political perspectives on the value and appropriateness of civic engagement. Required discussion sections will allow students to share the challenges of their own engagement. Instructor: Sandy Darity This course explores the origins and causes of differences in patterns of economic performance between ethnic and racial groups from a comparative perspective across the globe. A variety of accounts for wide disparities in the incidence of poverty and affluence across ascriptively differentiated groups will be considered. Particular attention will be drawn to economic problems in ethnically or racially plural societies and the use of various social policies to redress intergroup inequalities, including Malaysia's New Economic Policy, India's reservations system for the scheduled castes, and affirmative action in the USA and in South Africa. PPS 195.15;.. . Instructor: Sarah Cohen The course is focused on examining the full range of presidential powers used so far by the Obama administration to take control of the government and its bureaucracy. Selecting one policy area climate change, health care, or the military, for example students will study each lever of power a president has at his disposal to satisfy campaign promises, reverse previous policies and implement priorities. Most of the work will entail synthesizing the clues provided in the budget, signing statements, executive orders, regulatory reviews, appointments to high level offices, travel and communications. Sources will include official White House communications, the Compilation of Presidential Documents, campaign and transition material and other primary documents, including Freedom of Information Act requests. -

Introduction to Population, Health and Policy Instructor: Giovanna Merit This course covers the substantive findings and policies/policy debates around selected topics in the field of population and health in industrialized and developing societies. Demographic models are used to examine selected topics through framing, defining and evaluating key concepts. The first part of the course provides a treatment of alternative demographic models whereas the second utilizes these models to evaluate the nature of selected current population and health topics; the end of population growth; the relations between population, development and the environment; the health of populations; population aging; potentials for mortality increases; the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the resurgence of infectious diseases. Readings are drawn from the scientific literature and case studies from both developing and industrialized countries and span the disciplines of demography, sociology and public health

iJakfiWikiM Co Instructor:Alex Pfaff

Many have pushed for the inclusion in policy decision processes of representatives of affected groups. From the US ERA to the World Bank, at least officially, various decision processes are changing. The expected and the actual impact of such changes on outcomes deserve and require evaluation. Are participatory decisions better? Always? Even when technical details are involved? What does "participatory" mean in theory? And in practice? Whose definition of "better"? Empirical evidence on group decision processes that is relevant for these questions is growing in various forms and it is a focus of this course. Some evidence suggests powerful social sharing norms, although not universal, will constrain such group processes. Other evidence suggests that selfinterested strategies can dominate in these studies too (and may appear to be unselfish). We draw on many case studies, most within developing countries Water decisions (both quantity and quality issues) provide many examples Concepts of and behavior regarding equity are foci

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Challenges remain for GOP after healthcare battle Jr.

Perry Bacon THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON When Sen. Aden Specter, Pa., left the Republican Party in April to become a Democrat, the situation for the Grand Old Party was so dismal that even one of Washington’s most vocal Republican bashers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., declared that “our country needs a strong, diverse Republican Party.” But after looking as if they would drift into irrelevance, Republicans are showing signs of being energized. The party’s grassroots activists, at times moribund during last year’s presidential campaign, have mobilized against President Obama’s agenda, vastly outnumbering Democrats at some of this month’s health-care town hall meetings. After badly trailing the campaign of then-Sen. Barack Obama in raising money last year, the Republican National Committee has raised more than the Democratic National Committee this year, figures released last week show. Ahead of next year’s elections, several potentially strong GOP candidates, including popular Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, have decided to run for seats in the Senate. In this year’s gubernatorial races, polls show the GOP candidates ahead in both New Jersey and Virginia. What has emerged in the last few months is a more confident GOP. Republicans, who earlier this year thought they could not block a Democratic health-care reform bill and should focus on simply stopping one of its more liberal components—a government-run insurance option —have set their sights on forcing the president to dramatically scale back his proposal. Still, even leading Republicans offer their positive views with caveats, a recognition that the party badly lost the last two elections and this year found two of its potential 2012 presidential hopefuls, Sen. John Ensign, Nev., and Gov. Mark Sanford, S.C., embroiled in sex scandals. “Republicans are digging out of a pretty big hole and we’re not yet back to parity, but it’s headed in the right direction,” said Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a leading figure in the party who is considering a 2012 presidential run. “The mood of the grass roots has gone from one of discouragement and confusion in some cases after the last election cycle to one of concern about the direction of Obama to one of hope and optimism for a Republican comeback.” In an interview, RNC Chairman Michael S. Steele said, “We have a lot more to do,” but added that “we’ve stopped the hemorrhaging away from the party where our activists and candidates were saying, ‘I don’t know if I want to play.’” Democrats are dismissive of any GOP gains. “The president remains strong in public approval and people have more confidence in congressional Democrats” than Republicans, said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Md., chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “People have more questions about the health-care plan, but that has not translated into support for the Republicans.” Democrats cast the GOP as simply eager to block

things.

“I think early on a decision was made by the Republican leadership that said, ‘Look, let’s not give him a victory. Maybe we can have a replay of 1993-94 when Clinton came in, he failed on health care and then we won in the midterm elections and we got the majority,’” Obama said Thursday. “And I think there are some folks that are taking a page out of that playbook.” Strategists in both parties caution that increasing anxiety about Obama’s agenda has not translated into enthusiasm for Republicans. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released last week found only 49 percent of Americans express confidence that Obama will make the right decisions for the country, down from 60 percent at the 100-day mark of his presidency. But only 21 percent think congressional Republicans will make the right decisions, a number that has dropped eight points since January. At town hall meetings in states such as lowa, opposition to Obama animates the Republicans who are turning out far more than any demonstrative enthusiasm on display for their own party, a dynamic that GOP officials concede. The Republican “brand,” said RNC communications director Trevor Francis, remains

severely damaged. Steele acknowledged that the party’s national leaders, including himself, aren’t popular with voters,

though he said Republicans running for office out in the states have been embraced. “Some people may not like the messengers, but they like the message we’re putting out there,” he said. Other challenges also remain. Steele said the party must do more to expand its base to black and Latino voters to win elections. In addition, a moderate-vs.-conservative split remains unresolved in the party. Crist is facing a primary challenge from Marco Rubio, a young Florida conservative who has attacked him for supporting the economic stimulus plan Obama championed. In lowa, conservative activists have threatened to campaign against Sen. Charles E. Grassley, lowa—a reliable party-line vote—if he backs a bipartisan health-care bill. If the more conservative candidate wins either state’s GOP primary, he might struggle in the general election against a Democrat. Party strategists say Republicans still haven’t clearly defined their positive agenda, even as they rail against Democratic proposals. David Frum, a White House speechwriter in the administration of George W. Bush, criticized Republicans for essentially defending the “status quo” on health care. He said the GOP strategy

of attacking Obama for seeking to reduce the costs of Medicare puts the party in the position of defending a big and growing national program that it should be trying to reform. “Obama is helping [Republicans],” said Ron Bonjean, an adviser to then-House Speaker J. Dennis Hasten, R-111. “But by next year, it would be good to have an agenda of our own.” A few Republicans are declaring next year’s elections will be like those in 1994, when a completely out-of-power GOP won back control of the House and Senate. “I think the party has its greatest opportunity in the last 40 years,” said Jim Greer, chairman of the Florida Republican Party. Other Republicans are more cautious. “We’re still a long way away from the elections,” said Rep. Eric Cantor, Va., the No. 2 House Republican. “I don’t necessarily think that when you look at the governor’s races in our state and others, it’s a Republican wave or a Democrat wave.... It was a historic election, and the public was wrapped up in this notion of change, but now I think what people are beginning to see is that all change is not good change.”

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Orientation Sights A photo essay by Michael Naclerio, Glen Gu erson, Courtney Douglas and lan Soileau About 1,700 freshmen moved into the Gregorian East Campus and participated in the orientation week festivities last week. 1. A crowd of First-Year Advisory Counselors, Residential Assistants, parents and freshmen move into Wilson dorm Tuesday. 2,3 Freshmen crowd into the Chapel for their convocation Wednesday. 4. Freshmen mingle at the Taste of Duke event Tuesday evening. 5.

The Blue Devil entertains students and spectators of the Thursday Durham Bulls game. The University provides students with free tickets to the game as a part of the Night on the Town orientation event. 6. Freshmen gather on the Chapel Quad after their convocation to celebrate their official status as Duke students.

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The Program in Education offers a variety of undergraduate courses most of which include a service-learning experience. Students may complete a minor in Education and/or participate in a Teacher Preparation Program. The Teacher Preparation Programs lead to eligibility for a North Carolina teaching license at either the elementary or secondary school level.

Instructor: Bart Keeton This course is about media transformation. We will study the convergence of various media: video games, graphic novels, song covers/remixes, musicals, & movies. What meaningful changes result when a graphic novel is made into a video game? How do the ideological implications of the two texts differ? Does the status of “the original” matter anymore? Taking our cue from musical artists such as DJ Spooky & Girl Talk, we will focus on the aesthetics of the database, the sample, & the fragment as we follow information through different kinds of cultural networks. We will reflect analytically on adaptation as a textual, social & economic process. This course will therefore ask students to consider their own positions as readers, viewers, interpreters, producers, & consumers. We will analyze several remix/adaptations within their historical & cultural contexts. Integrated with this are the fundamental principles of copyright, intellectual property, the Fair Use Doctrine, & how these specifically apply to remixing music & video content. Since one hallmark of new media technologies is that consumers are also creators, students will exercise critical skills they develop throughout the course (including rotoscope animation and Final Cut Pro) in order to create their own “remixed” media content which will culminate in a final project. (ALP, R, W)

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Orientation Sights (continued) 7. A parent moves in a room in the Blackwell dormitory on East

Campus.S.Students watch the players warm up at the Durham Bull's game Thursday. 9. Freshmen mingle at the DUU sponsored garden party Wednesday evening. 10. Freshmen members of the Duke football team participate in their first walk from the Chapel to the Wallace Wade Stadium. The walk was a part of a pep rally to introduce new students to Duke athletics. 11. Members of the student a cappella group,"the Pitchforks," perform in Page Auditorium Sunday night. The performance was part of a larger concert intended to introduce freshmen to student-led performing arts groups on campus.

AMES 175 World of Korean Cinema

Exciting new courses for area

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The world of Korean cinema, broadly defined in terms of national, generic, theoretical boundaries, beyond conventional auteur, genre, one-way influence, and national cinema theories. Cinematic texts examined in local, regional, and global contexts and intersections, in conversation with global theories and histories of cinema, visual cultures, and other representational forms. Variable topics informed theoretically and politically by discourses on gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, global flows of people and cultures, popular and “high” culture crossovers, transnational co-productions, remakes, translations and retellings. No knowledge of Korean language/ culture presumed X-listed with Lit 112G, FVD lllG,Visualst 103 F and Culanth 161A Instructor: Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Thursday 4:23 7:25 Tuesday Night Screenings 7:15 -9:30 -

AMES 179 Melodrama East and West This course focuses on

AMES 161 Contemporary Israeli Cinema This class traces die forms and themes that have shaped Israeli cinema, in contradistinction to American and European cinemas. It asks how Israeli films represent the formation of a new state » and a new society and seeks to understand how the tensions and conflicts that cut through contemporary Israeli society—between Israelis and Palestinians, between Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, between religious and secular Jews—overlap, displace and resituate each other. X-listed with FVD 111H, Lit 112M, Culanth I6l,jewishst 140 andWomcnst 151. The class is jointly taught by Ram Loevy, one of Israel’s most distinguished filmmakers, and by Shai Ginsburg, Duke

melodrama,

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examined to test the flexibility and complexity of what the notion of the melodramatic may play in the cultural field. Gender construction, class consciousness, racial legibility, and moral recognition are some key areas of investigation. Close attention is paid to theorizing the melodramatic in different cultural and historical contexts. Using American and Chinese cinemas as its core subjects, this course provides a cross-cultural case study that situates an understanding of melodrama with the larger inquiries of culture and representation. X-listed with Womenst 179, Visualst 105E,ICS 170A and Lit 151J. Professor

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An introduction to the politics, cultures, and socio-economic concerns of the contemporary Middle East. What are the ideological, political, and cultural trajectories of future American and European relations with Turkey, Israel and the . Arab countries of the Middle East Students will be exposed to a wide variety of texts and films from Morocco to Iraq and the Gulf states. Guest speakers will present a spectrum of opinions about the histories and prospects of individual countries. This course will develop an understanding of the socio-political life of this volatile region: a region where the United States is a crucial player and broker of strategic agreements. Professor Abdul Jawad Sattar, former professor at Mustansiriya University of Baghdad, editorof Baghdad Mirror and currently a scholar at risk at Duke University.

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one of those moments made famous by YouTube, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., answered a

question with a much more on-target question. His questioner was a fairly young woman whose name and background and affiliations I don’t know—though her prized picture of President Obama manipulated to look like Hitler gave some evidence as to what her politics were not. The setting was a town hall in Dartmouth, Mass., and Frank connor southard had taken the podead poet dium to deliver his edition of the now nationally infamous, invective-filled town hall meetings on health care. The young woman stood formally before a microphone, brandished her picture and asked Frank just how he could support “a Nazi policy.” A jacketless, suitably combative-looking Frank—who didn’t quite have his sleeves rolled up but might as well have—leaned into the podium, hovering jocularlyjust above the buzzing crowd of constituents and television key-grips, and gave a pithy response. The tagline was this question: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” Zing! I admit to admiring Frank’s wit and rhetorical skill just then (if not always), and I genuinely laughed out loud when I first saw the clip. I especially admired Frank’s fiery quip not only for its daring-do and barroom informality, but because of the specific color of the wit he used. Frank didn’t call her an idiot; he just wanted an answer to an important question. His remark was sarcastic, biting as all get out, but more importantly, it was clever and even resonant. Though it is largely a matter of choice, Frank’s questioner tackles politics and probably quite a few things with a sensibility bred in a world cosmically distant from Frank’s. It’s not much of a stretch to think of the two as being separated by any number of intellectual, if not physical, light years. Of course, people have wildly different perspectives on all sorts of things. Granted, but how to deal with extraterrestrial encounters? My most recent close encounter took place, fittingly enough, in the grassy soccer field attached to my old elementary school. I was with a good friend from high school, butchering a Cristiano Ronaldo impersonation. Sometime during the passing and juggling, we got onto one of our fa-

vorite topics, the sublime cop epic “Training Day,” for which Denzel Washington famously won an Academy Award for best actor. No discussion of the film is complete without some quoting from dirty cop Alonzo’s (Washington) final soliloquy. The speech is a desperate last grasp at power by a complex lowlife, and it touches on the issues of power and morality that are at the center of the film’s dramatic energy. Not surprisingly, the monologue is bursting with florid profanity. Mid-rehearsal, my friend and I were taken sharply aback by an aggressive “Hey!” from across the street, followed by the injunction, “If you’re going to talk that way, I don’t want to hear it!” Bewildered, I shouted weakly to the glaring, late middle-aged man who had done the yelling that “Denzel Washington won an Oscar for that monologue.” I don’t think it meant much to him. He glared for a few moments more, and stalked off. My friend and I continued to mutter about “none ofhis business” and “how did he even hear us?” Eventually we got over the unpleasantness of the encounter. But there was something in the encounter that I just couldn’t shake. Someone had miraculously managed to overhear us, alone as we were, having a conversation about art that was ours and ours alone. Just the same, the man who shouted at us had caught us in much the same fix as the woman at the podium: He didn’t want to hear those words from our foul-mouthed world, and he got to say so. Depending on how you look at it, one of us may have been more or less in the right. That opinion, of course, will be native to your planet. For my part, I’ve decided that I just need to come to terms with the ambiguity. Barney Frank helped me stomach it. Although I doubt that either I, myfriend or that fellow in his yard would hold up a picture of a Hider-Obama hybrid, we were obviously from different planets, and on one of these planets “Training Day” was not in the canon and you just don’t talk that way. Unlike Frank, I don’t have the electoral privilege of sauntering above those from different planets, and rarely do I have the moral authority to tell off another for badly mixing her centuries and political categories. Frank didn’t want to hear it, and neither did the yelling man, and before you can answer “Who’s right?,” you have to ask a question that should somehow inform almost every conversation you have at Duke’s sometimes bewilderingly diverse campus: “On what planet do I spend most of my time?” ConnorSouthard is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Monday.

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a 2005 research project published in the Journal ofBehavioral Decision Making, Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and superstar Fuqua professor, analyzed the effects of arousal upon rational decision-making. The experiment asked male college students in “cold” states (non-aroused) a number of questions about which sexual practices would be acceptable or even appealing to them. Could they become aroused by a 12-year-old? Another man? A An animal? The tepid responses JF changed drastically, from mostly “no” to “possibly” and beyond, after the stu- monday monday dents were shown pomosra-1 O owi phy and asked to stimulate themselves into “hot” states. CnarlOtte Simmons They would reconsider after reaching what they self-reported as 75 percent arousal it would be “fun to get tied up by [my] sexual partner.” We know this male subject all too well. Pack several hundred of them into a darkened room or corridor, gradually mix in alcohol, and you have yourself a section party or the Saturday night Shooters dance floor. Bad decisions abound. Iterate the process over a number of weeks, and—voila!— that’s the hookup culture at Duke. Professor Ariely may have created a microcosm of the whole Duke experience. Of course, Duke isn’t the only university affected by oodles of men in heat. The men of Ariely’s Duke University are eerily similar to their counterparts at my alma mater, Dupont University. After casting aside my naivete through sexual escapades with lacrosse players, nerds, fratstars and godlike basketball players, I understand the broad strokes that color the undergraduate experience at even the most prestigious ofuniversities: all men are pigs, all women bimbos, everybody’s a budding alcoholic, the administration is at once bumbling and power-hungry and basketball is at least twice as important as the pursuit of knowledge. That’s why I’m coming here—first, to pursue a masters in French literature, and second, to write The Chronicle’s first column to make sweeping generalizations about the Zeitgeist of a generation using poor writing style and thinly developed characters. Groundbreaking, I know. Just think ofit as something out of a Tom Wolfe novel, only less wellresearched. What little research I did scrape together for this introductory piece I culled from the summer DukeNews headlines. Probably the best corroboration of Professor Ariely’s men-in-heat observation came from the house of Frank Lombard, a former associate director in Duke’s Center for Health Policy. Lombard was arrested on charges of attempting to induce someone to cross state lines to engage in a sexual offense. Translated from legalese, he asked a man who turned out to be an undercover police officer to come on down to Durham and have sex with his 5-year-old adopted child. He also described, in detail, previous sex acts he performed on the boy. Granted, as a homosexual pedophile Lombard likely would have answered two of those three questions posited by Ariely in the affirmative even before arousal. Still, Lord Almighty that is some God-awful heat of the moment decision-making on his part. Now, when you compare this case, in which a privileged white man repeatedly rapes a black child (and invites a stranger to do the same), to the lacrosse case, in which three privileged white men did not rape a black woman, you ought to expect more umbrage on the part of the Duke community, faculty and administration. I refer you back to my question now: Have you even heard ofFrank Lombard? If you did, how? Did Dick Brodhead issue a statement?Did Larry Moneta send you an e-mail? Did Nancy Grace wax idiotic about it? No, no and no. Maybe people like me and Tom Wolfe and the Group of 88 are suffering from a bad form of tunnel vision when we draw our ire from only a prescribed set of social norms that bother us. It’s not just the sweaty hook-up culture I ought to comically lament throughout the semester, nor is it even the whole race-conscious gender-troubled beer-addled classconflict topsy-turvy world of Duke. What you and I both should worry about are the cases where black-and-white problems are met with boldfaced lack of common sense. Rest assured, there will be at least one of these cases each week, and every Monday I’ll be here to remind you. Until then, feelfree to assume that Nancy Grace makes bad judgments on her reporting decisions because she’s 75 percent aroused. '

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to read the online version of this column, as directly below it will sit at least 20 insane and inane lacrosse-related comments.

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first day of school means a lotof differentthings to a lot of different people. To Duke students and college students around the country, it’s a pretty exciting time. The start of school means getting out of the house and taking courses ■J& that you’ve chosen to take for one reason or another (maybe intellectual curiosity, maybe a Mode of Inquiry or maybe it was the only class still available when the third registration bradford Colbert window opened). Other Side But do you remember to back when you used dread the end of summer and the start of school because it meant you would have to do work instead of playing all day? That’s what I faced this summer working as student teacher in a kindergarten classroom in St. Louis, Mississippi. I could talk for hours about the eye-opening experiences I had regarding the specificproblems ofstruggling inner-city schools, lower-income young-single-parent families or the effects of fading industry on Midwestern cities. But I want to start the year off with a more general life lesson. Right now, I want to talk about the crying. The kids in my class were absolutely adorable, of course, but a lot them didn’t want to be there. And when a 5-yearold is upset about something, you’re going to hear it We had mornings when students would come in crying mercilessly because they had to go to school while their neighbors or siblings got vacation. But even when the first-week jitters subsidedand they realized that school wouldn’t be that bad, Niagara Falls kept flowing freely all summer long. Whenever I saw a child in tears I asked them what was bothering them. Invariably it was something fairly inconsequential—he got a tiny cut on his elbow or the teacher didn’t give him a Laffy Taffy because he was being too loud. As I tried to solve the problem, correct the injustice and stop the crying, I did my best to empathize with these 5-yearolds and remember back to when I was thatage. I cried with the best of them. Any problem, big or small, can feel like the end of the world when you’re in kindergarten. .

It got me thinking about all the differentkinds of things that troubleyou as you grow up. By the time you reach middle school, you’ve learned not to sweat the small stuff, but there are still problems. At that point, my biggest problems were introductory Latin and whether or not the girl I had a crush on liked me back. Then I got to thinking about high school, when my biggest problems were getting into college, studying for exams and whether or not the girl I had a crush on liked me back (some problems just keep coming back). On the one hand, it’s easy now to laugh at all the small tilings that troubled me when I was younger. But at the same time, when midterms roll around and you’re waiting in line at Alpine complaining to your friendsabout how much work you have, engaging in an unspoken contest to prove that your life is harder than theirs, is that not the college student equivalent of crying over a scraped knee? You’re expressing your discomfort and hoping that somebody’s listening, and although it may not help make your problems go away it certainly makes you feel better to let it out. That analogy probably sounds a lot more negative or critical than I intended. I’m not trying to call anyone a whiny 5-year-old or belittle people who just need to vent sometimes. I’m trying to emphasize the power of perspective. You’re always going to face problems, but the degree to which you let them impact your happiness is up to you. As we get older, the problems we face get harder, with more severe consequences for mistakes and fewer easy answers; but with age comes the maturity to handle more complicated problems. This isall easy to say right now, as Camp Duke draws to a close and classes aren’t yet in full swing. Whether you’re a freshman moving to a new dorm or a senior with graduation approaching faster than you can say “recession,” most of our anxieties are coupled with a level ofexcitementfor what comes next But when the next big problem hits you, be it a clash with a roommate, a subpar midterm or the Sept. 26 LSAT, think about the perspective you now have on the crying 5-year-old, and try to have the same perspective on your current problems. Worrying isn’t worth it—just do what you need to do and move on.

Bradford Colbert is a Trinity senior. His column will run every other Monday.

The value of foreign languages As a person committed to the idea that language and communication are crucial to any efforts to confront the many local, national and international problems we face with any degree of success, I was most disheartened to read Nathan Freeman’s Aug. 17 column, which described Ingeborg Walther his lack ofinterest in learncommentary ing a foreign language and Buest8uest advocated for allowing students to bypass certain general education requirements. Unfortunately, there are always instances in which the values of the University, which are based on thoughtful deliberations by faculty, administrators and trustees, and informed by social, economic and human needs, appear to clash with the values of students, whose interests are often more narrowly defined. Freeman’s description of his experience taking Spanish this summer at Georgetown University is, as to his credit he readily admits, another example of the old adage that you only get out ofeducation whatyou put into it I am sorry that he was not motivated to read the stories or watch the mow ies that might have given him insight into other perspectives, other ways of seeing and understanding literature, film and human events. The point of the foreign language requirement is not simply to gain “fluency” for fluency’s sake, but to gain fluency in order to be able to read stories, see movies and communicate with people from other cultures and societies, and to do all this in order to get beyond the kind of mono-lingual, monocultural world view that has so often negatively affected or hindered our various Anglo-American engagements with the rest of the world. Certainly this kind of larger perspective and understanding cannot be gained in only a few semesters of foreign language study, but those few semesters, particularly if followed up with a study abroad or civic engagement experience in another part of the (non-English speaking) world, are essential first steps along the path. As facultymembers, we certainly have aresponsibility to consider carefully our curricula, course goals, content and materi,

als. We also have a responsibility to spark students’ interest and motivate them to engage with the materials in a meaningful, intellectually stimulating and educationally productive way. It is unfortunate that Freeman was not motivated in this way by his Spanish course at Georgetown summer school. But sometimes it is hard to motivate a student who has made up his or her mind thatthe class is worthlessfrom the start I hope thatDuke students might stop to consider the longer-term value of the education they are getting at Duke and the ultimate rewards (hat doing the workrequired by their courses might bring. As an example ofhow languages can reflect underlying value systems, I offer the German word Bildung, which is usually translated as “education” but encompasses much more. According to the European Association for Education of Adults, “Bildung” not only implies the dimension of teaching but also that of learning (‘sich bilden’), not only knowledge and skills, butalso values, ethos, personality, authenticity and humanity.” My late colleague Frank Borchardt loved to relate the story ofhow one ofhis former German 1 students, an economics major, got ajob at a prestigious bank in NewYork after being able to recite, in German, a famous German poem Borchardt had forced him (against his will) to leam. The poem had come up casually during the job interview, and the executive, who happened to be German, was impressed enough with the student’s apparent Bildung that he offered him the job on the spot Was the student interested in German or poetry as an undergraduate? No. Was knowledge of German or knowledge of poetry a requirement for the job? No again, but the executive preferred to have an employee who was “gebildet” over one that was not Such intercultural moments are important, not only for getting a job, but also for breaking down stereotypes, strengthening global bonds and, above all, expanding perspectives. Other people are learning our language, but that is no reason not to leam theirs. Our future depends on it

Ingeborg Waltheris an associate professor of Germaniclanguages and literature.

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This season, the Blue Devils hope to to the ACC, a conference often underestimated by the rest of the country. Although the ACC is known as a competitive sports conference in general, it doesn’t get the national acknowledgement in volleyball that Duke and other ACC teams believe they deserve. But with the addition of No. 1 Penn State to the Blue Devils’ early schedule, as well as a strong returning team that puts it at the top of the ACC preseason polls, Duke has an opportunity to gain respect for its conference. “It’s not that we aren’t respected now, it’s just that they’re not looking for us to get to the Final Four, and that’s what we are looking to do here at Duke,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “Our schedule allows us to develop our entire roster and play against the very best, and prepare us not only to really understand our team come ACC season, but also to give us a good feel of what we need to do to continue to be successful in the ACC and in the postseason, as well.” Penn State, the back-to-back national champion, is scheduled to play Duke Sept. 12, when it comes to Cameron Indoor Stadium to compete in the Duke Invitational. Nagel and Penn State head coach Russ Rose discussed the prospect of a match for years, and Rose agreed to bring the Nittany Lions to Durham in a match that will give the Blue Devils the challenge for which they have prepared

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Three returning sophomores, including two starters, have been suspended from the team for the year for failing to uphold the standard of conduct expected of a Duke student-athlete, head coach John Kerr announced last week. Forward Kyle Bethel, defender lan Kalis and midfielderJoseph Pakwill not participate in the 2009 season, but they have the option to return to the program the next year. Kalis and Bethel contributed as soon as they arrived in Durham last year. Kalis started all but one of the team’s games and cemented himself as the Blue Devils’ best left back. Bethel, a striker, started nine of Duke’s first 10 games, but suffered a season-ending broken arm Sept. 30. He still finished as the team’s third-leading scorer with four goals and two assists. Pak took longer to settle in, but quickly became one of Kerr’s favorite substitutes. He played in 16 of Duke’s 17 games and started in 11 of them. The Blue Devils finished 10-5-2 in 2008 and were eliminated in the first round of the NCAA tournament by UNCGreensboro. They kick off Kerr’s second season at the helm Sept. 1 against James Madison. Kerr declined to comment for this story, and would not elaborate on the reason for the players’ suspensions.

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Losing four senior leaders would decimate most teams, but the Blue Devils will face this adversity together—as a tougher and tighter unit. Despite the low expectations given to this Blue Devil team, expected to finish seventh in the ACC this year, the vibe among the players is optimistic. The voices of Darrius Barnes, Pavelid Castaneda, Brendan Fitzgerald and Mike Grella will no longer echo over the Duke team come game day. The leadership role now lies in the hands of captains Josh Bienenfeld, Christian Ibeagha and Nick Tsipis. Replacing players like Grella and Barnes, now playing professinally. is a necessity in rebuilding the style and flow of the team. “It’s hard to replace the talent and leadership they provide,” Tsipis said. “But this is a new team and it’s a new year. As a team together we hope to forge our own identity and we’re really excited about what we’re doing.” Last year’s team focused mainly upon All-American forward Mike Grella, now playing for Leeds United in England’s League One. In order to get the ball to Grella as often as possible the Blue Devil defenders often resorted to a kick-andrun style of play. The major problem with this apJunior Cole Grossman, who scored four goals last year, will serve as Duke's midfield anchor in 2009. proach is that it completely bypasses the midfielders, effectively taking them ing them control of the game’s tempo. sition with an uncustomary lack of expeout of the game. Opposing teams exSophomore forward Kyle Bethel will rience. Without a dominant force at the ploited this weakness and ultimately also miss the 2009 season after being susdominated possession in midfield, giv- pended last week, leaving the forward poSEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 9

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out there and playing schools that are so big in the nation is a huge challenge, and I think that challenge pushes you in practice. It’s a great goal to work towards.” Duke starts its season this Friday at the Inn Tower Invitational in Madison, Wis., where it will play Wisconsin, South Dakota and Ohio, and the Blue Devils plan to take advantage of the early games to grow as a team, junior Becci Burling said. In the future, it could be their preseason growth that leads the Blue Devils to the Final Four and elevates the ACC on the national stage.

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excited,” Nagel said. “It was a win-win for us to have great volleyball here at Duke, as well as to play a good opponent and know exactly where we stand.” Senior captain Rachael Moss echoed her coach’s enthusiasm for the early test. For Moss, it’s the matches against nationally ranked teams that bring a fiery intensity and committed focus in practice for the Blue Devils. “I love the challenge ofplaying the teams that are top 10 in the country,” Moss said.

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Some would say that the best offense is a good defense. But is the best defense a good offense? Duke certainly hopes so The Blue Devils enter the year with an injury-riddled back line. Four defenders will miss the season, including sophomore Ashley Rape, who was a standout defensive player last year before tearing her ACL in October. Redshirt sophomore Molly Lester and senior Sara Murphy will join Rape on the sidelines, along with freshman Kim DeCesare. The good news for Duke comes on the attack, where seniors Kay Anne Gummersall and Elisabeth Redmond will spearhead what could be the best attack the program has had in years. In 47 combined starts last season, the pair compiled 27 goals and 8 assists. “The thing that we knew that was coming back was attack and our offensive side of play,” head coach Robbie Church said. “We have two of our top goal scorers in the history of our program returning and they both have had an outstand-

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ing preseason.” With the returning firepower up front, look for the Blue Devil mindset to be focused solely on outscoring opponents. “I’m excited for it, and I know Elisabeth is too,” Gummersall said. “And that has always been one of our main goals: to score early and score often, so I don’t think anything is really changing from last year.” One thing that could haunt Duke is the offensive consistency that was lacking last

season. Sandwiched between a 6-0 win over Clemson and a 5-1 win over Radford late in the year was a three-game scoreless streak for the Blue Devils at the end of the ACC season. Duke’s seniors will look to avoid that kind of barren stretch this year as they try to give confidence to a young back line consisting of mostly freshmen. In a scrimmage against Tennessee, the Blue Devils started two freshmen on the back line and played with three for the majority of the game, a trend that Church says will continue through the non-ACC schedule. Duke did get a result in that game, beating the Volunteers, 5-2. “Our incoming freshmen have done a fantastic job,” he said. “We have had to replace a lot of players through graduation in our defensive backline, and they have done a really, really nice job.” Overall, the newcomers have impressed coaches and players alike. “I think that [the freshmen] have stepped into those positions where we have lost a lot of injured players, and they are really tough,” Redmond said. “That’s what I think we need.” Duke will relieve some of the pressure on the backline through the play of Redmond and Gummersall up front, hoping that its offense can also serve as a first line of defense. “It’s been a different preseason,” Church said, “We have had a ton of injuries pile up, but besides that we have been extremely, extremely impressed with what our young ladies have done and what we have accomplished over the two weeks.”

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Steve Wojciechowski served as scouting directors, while video coordinator Kevin Cullen assumed the same role with USA Basketball. Krzyzewski said he hasn’t made any decisions yet, but he expects them to retain similar positions.

Duke Baseball Trio Turning Heads On It’s official; Mike Krzyzewski is going for Cape, July 23 gold again. As was reported in earlyJuly, Krzyzewski Just as they do back home at Jack has agreed to try to lead Team USA to anCoombs Field, Duke’s Alex Hassan, Jeremy other gold medal at the 2010 World ChamGould and Michael Ness have been trotting pionships in Turkey and the 2012 Olympics out to take the field together this summer. in London. But this time, the name on the front of He guided the United States to gold in their jerseys doesn’t read Duke. Beijing, and after USA Basketball ManagHassan, Gouldand Ness are all teammates ing Director Jerry Colangelo offered him on the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod the chance to stay on for four more years, Baseball League, an invitation-only wood-bat Krzyzewski announced he would accept to- summer league reserved for some of the naday at a press conference in Las Vegas. tion’s top collegiate baseball players. “It was a huge honor to be selected as the “It’s been awesome having Jeremy and USA National Team coach the first time. It Alex up here,” Ness said. “It’s made it a lot is still a huge honor,” Krzyzewski said in a easier and more fun having guys up here statement. “The experience of being the that you know.” head coach of the USA National Team for While all three Duke representatives on three summers was the best experience I’ve the Firebirds aspire to eventually join the ever had in coaching. The upcoming three professional ranks Ness and Hassan both years will be a new experience and hopewere selected in last month’s MLB Amateur fully, it will be as rewarding.” Player Draft each has a different agenda The rest of Krzyzewski’s coaching staff when it comes to taking advantage of their from the last Olympic cycle—Jim Boeheim, summer experience. Mike D’Antoni and Nate McMillian—will In the case of Hassan, a right-handed join him on the sidelines again, while the pitcher and outfielder drafted in the 20th process of selecting the Olympic team beround of the MLB Draft by his hometown gins tomorrow. Boston Red Sox, this summer served as an Krzyzewski, about to begin his 30th year immediate springboard into his profesat Duke, brought his Duke assistants and sional career. Hassan signed a contract with some staff members with him to Beijing. the organization Aug. 2 that paid him a -

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$90,000 signing bonus. Hassan was hitting .298 when he put pen to paper to end his amateur career.

Meanwhile, pitcher Michael Ness—drafted in the 47th round by the San Francisco Giants—is using the summer to prepare for the spring season and improve his future draft stock. Ness has only pitched 8.2 innings for the Firebirds but has fared well in his limited time, boasting a 3.12 ERA. Also enjoying the atmosphere on the Cape is outfielder Gould, who capped off last year’s campaign with the Blue Devil by earning All-ACC second team honors. With a .178 batting average so far this summer, Gould hasn’t enjoyed

the same success on the field that he did in Durham. But some sort of dip can be expected for players in their rookie season on the Cape. While each of the three Blue Devilsturned-Firebirds has experienced varying degrees of success on the field, they all have taken away substantial lessons from their summer by the sea. Whether the next step is professional baseball in Hassan’s case, or a senior season back in Durham for Ness and Gould, their collective Cape experience this summer is bound to serve them well down the road. SEE SUMMER RECAP ON PAGE 8

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Two freshmen helped anchor the Blue Devil defense, but it was veteran leadership that carried Duke to victory in its season opener. Senior forward Kay Anne Gummersall scored two goals and senior midfielder Elisabeth Redmond added another as the No. 16 Blue Devils (1-0) defeated Gardner-Webb 3-0 Sunday night in Koskinen Stadium. “We expect at this stage of the year for our seniors to be ahead of some of the other players,” head coach Robbie Church said. “It’s going to take us a little while....Until we all continue to grow and get on the same page, we’re going to have to have those seniors. We’re very impressed with them, and that’s their job—to be leaders right now for us.” Redmond struck first in the 29th minute, latching onto a long ball from freshman goalkeeper Tara Campbell and chipping it over the head of Bulldogs’ goalkeeper Samantha Rupert from 15 yards out. Barely more than a minute later, Gummersall received a pass in the box from fellow senior Jane Alukonis, played a one-two with sophomore Cody Newman and drove the ball into a wide-open net after dribbling around the goalkeeper. But Gummersall—Duke’s leading scorer in 2008—was not finished yet. With 44 seconds remaining in the first half, she used her head to put the finishing touch on a stellar corner kick from Redmond, as the two players displayed the chemistry that the Blue Devils hope will create many more goals this season. The pair of seniors continue to leave their mark on Duke’s record books as well. Gummersall’s two tallies moved her into sixth place on the school’s all-time scoring list with 25 career goals. Redmond’s assist from the set piece was the 24th of her career, good for second place on the all-time assist list. The two captains helped mask an otherwise uneven first half for the Blue Devils offensively. Duke had difficulty establishing a rhythm in the opening period and was caught offsides eight times. “I think we played very, very poorly in the first half, and we were just not as tuned in as we needed to be,” said Church. “We’re still young, we’re still finding the right pieces. I think there was some really, really good play, and I think there was a lack of good decisions.” Nevertheless, the commanding play of Duke’s defense took the presure off the offense. The back line held the Bulldogs to four shots in the game—none in the second half—and allowed the Blue Devils to dominate possession and keep the ball in their opponent’s half of the field for the majority of the contest. Freshmen defenders Erin Koballa and Nicole Lipp clearly handled the pressure of their first start in a Duke uniform with poise. “Our freshmen have really stepped up and stepped into roles, and when we’re on the field beside them you would never know that they’re freshmen,” Alukonis said. “They play as well as everyone else on the field, if not better, and we’re really excited to have them.” In the second half, the Blue Devils played a cleaner game, spacing out the Gardner-Webb defense with more precise passing and pressing the Bulldogs (0-2) further into their own half of the field. Even though Duke could not capitalize on any of its 22 shots in the period, Church said he was pleased with the way the team improved its ball movement after halftime. Moreover, the defense continued to stifle GardnerWebb’s attack until the final whisde. Koballa and Lipp had strong games at the back, and fellow newcomers Libbyjandl and Maddy Haller saw some playing time on the back line as well, ensuring that the Blue Devil goalkeepers kept a clean sheet. “When you look at the score, 3-0, it’s great to get the three goals, but what we’re most proud of is the zero in the back,” Gummersall said. “I thought our back line really stepped up, and to get a quality shoutout our first game is something we’re definitely proud of. Our goal going into this game was to be 1-0, and we accomplished that, and to get the shutout just adds to that.”

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Senior KayAnne Gummersall's two first-half goals sparked theBlue Devils' 3-0win over Gardner-Webb Sunday night atKoskinen Stadium.

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