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City Council votes to askstate Legislature for taxTax on hotel and motel stays in Durham would

rise from 5 percent to 6 percentBy MATTATWOOD

The ChronicleSeeking the ability to fund a possible

theater downtown, the Durham CityCouncil voted Tuesday night to ask thestate Legislature for the authority toraise the hotel occupancy tax.

The council voted 10-3 to requestpermission to increase the tax on visi-tors staying in hotels or motels inDurham from 5 percent to 6 percent—-although members stressed that theywould not necessarily raise the tax evenif given the authority to do so.

The increase would generate an esti-mated $1.4 million each year. That num-ber weighs in at approximately half theannual debt payments of between $2.6million and $2.8 million on a proposed5,000-seat theater downtown.

Council members advocated the tax

as a source of funding for that theaterand other projects to revitalize down-town, such as a proposed redevelopmentofthe American Tobacco campus.

In related newsThe Durham City Council heard citizens’ argu-ments on a proposal that could create higher den-sity developments. See page 5

“I feel the occupancy tax is an excel-lent little mechanism to let us move clos-er to [revitalization],” council memberFloyd McKissick said.

He pointed out that the hotel occu-pancy tax is already at 6 percent inneighboring Wake County.

State Rep. Paul Luebke, D-Durhamand co-chair of the House FinanceCommittee, said after the meeting that

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opens fund1 programs� President Nan Keohane pro-vided $lOO,OOO of her discre-tionary fund. The money has yetto be distributed.

By MATT BRADLEYThe Chronicle

As a result of discussions last yearbetween cultural groups and adminis-trators, $lOO,OOO of University moneyhas been allocated to fund culturalevents. Officials hope this new fund willhelp improve the racial climate on cam-pus by providing more opportunities forcultural groups to plan activities.

The Office of Intercultural Affairsplans to administer the money in threerounds throughout the year to studentgroups that apply for funding. “It’sgoing to be managed through a varia-tion of the process that’s used to ad-minister the University fund,” said VicePresident for Student Affairs LarryMoneta. “We’re essentially leveraging apre-existing structure.”

Many student cultural leaders con-sidered the decision to be a temporarysolution that reflects the University’sgrowing concentration on minority is-sues. “Some of the events that the fundwill be going to, such as Diwali, attractover 4,000 students for one weekend,and the University is now acknowledg-ing that this is an important part of theDuke year and is starting to institution-alize it,” said senior Denise Pozzerle, co-

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THE NEW FOOTBALLBUILDING (TOP) is the latest of Duke’s new athletic buildings. In the past few years,the University has built the Schwartz-Butters Building (left) and the Wilson Recreation Center (right).

Recruitment competitionspurs facilities ‘arms race’

Group reports that universities willspend over $4 billion on athletic buildings

By KEVIN LEESThe Chronicle

At the start of every home game, thefootball team usually runs out onto thefield through the tunnel at WallaceWade Stadium.

This year, however, the team will berunning down the steps of the stands,because the University is in the midstof constructing a new $19.4 million foot-ball building.

It is part of what many athletic direc-tors, experts and the Knight Foundation’sCommission on Intercollegiate Athleticscall a growing facility “arms race.”

Chris Kennedy, senior associate ath-letic director at Duke, said the nation-wide boom in facility construction is notgood for college athletics, but is neces-sary to attract recruits and give ath-letes the tools necessary to succeed.

He said the construction will taper offover the next two years. The only re-maining plans at Duke include the reno-

vation of the Murray Building—whichnow houses the football program—for thelacrosse and soccer teams, and the instal-lation of permanent bleachers and a stur-dier press box at Koskinen Stadium.

The Knight commission reportedthat the building boom in college sportsfacilities will cost well over $4 billionnationally. “The test becomes who canbuild the biggest stadiums, the mostluxurious skyboxes,” the report reads.

Nationally, much ofthis facility armsrace is pushing athletic departmentbudgets toward staggering deficits.Duke, however, is staying afloat. Thecapital campaign for athletics doubledits goal last year from $65 million to$l3O million and has already raisedabout $lOO million.

The University has built or renovat-ed a number of facilities over the pastfive years:

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*I j ouke’s Master of Arts in Teaching program provides 16 Personal religious struggles may lead to increased risk of Kacie Wallace, Duke’s associate dean for judicialaffairs, willloiuc tQ 20 prospective teachers each year with a small-group mortality, according to a study published by Associate help Massachusetts Institute of Technology conduct an

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Report blasts Macedonian actionsA human rights group accused the nation of violence against citizens, torture

By lAN FISHERNew York Times News Service

LJUBOTEN, Macedonia In a de-tailed report released yesterday,Human Rights Watch accuses theoverwhelmingly Slav forces of Mace-donia’s government of summary exe-cution of civilians, arson and torture.A military operation several week-ends ago, the report says, “had no mil-itary justification and was carried outfor purposes of revenge.”

On Aug. 12, seven ethnic Albanianswere killed in the town of Ljuboten.But nearly a month later, no evidencehas emerged that these people, orthree others also killed in the village,were anything but civilians.

By the standards of a decade of

war in the Balkans, the number ofdead around Ljuboten was not high.But it was the worst single loss oflife in six months of low-level war-fare in Macedonia.

It was also the clearest and bloodi-est example yet ofthe cycle of revengethat prolonged other Balkan wars.NATO recently embarked on what isintended to be a one-month mission tocalm the Macedonian conflict.

In an interview, Boskovski, per-haps the most outspoken proponent ofa military solution to the insurgency,sought to distance himself from whathappened in Ljuboten. He said he ar-rived only at 4 p.m. that Sunday, afterthe military operation had ended andthat he did not direct the operation.

But he also maintained that it was“stupidity” to think that the ethnic Al-banian rebel force—which calls itselfthe National Liberation Army—wasnot in Ljuboten that weekend, eventhough he said he had no idea ifthosewho died were fighters or civilians. Healso attacked Human Rights Watch,calling it an “international mercenaryorganization.”

“They accuse me of being presentthere and watching when civilianswere murdered,” Boskovski said.“That is a monstrous accusation.”

“Who would bring a camera withhim if he wanted to do something likethat?” he added.

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Reno announces candidacy for governorBy KEN THOMASThe Associated Press

MIAMI Janet Reno launched her bid for governorTuesday, setting up a potential battle against the presi-dent’s brother that could be the most closely watched po-litical contest of 2002. Even some Democrats, though, sayReno faces an uphill fight.

The people ofFlorida want a governor “who’s not afraidto make the hard decision, to stand up for those decisions,”said Reno, who filed paperwork to open a campaign ac-count in a bid for the Democratic nomination.

The campaign seems likely to resurrect some of thecontroversy that marked Reno’s tenure as President BillClinton’s attorney general, from the cult disaster at Wacoto the seizure of Elian Gonzalez from the home of hisMiami relatives.

But the race will be in the national spotlight primarily

because of last year’s overtime election that deliveredFlorida—and the presidency—to George W. Bush, thebrother ofRepublican Gov. JebBush.

“I’ve spent the last three months talking to people allacross Florida, and I think they share my vision for Flori-da—building the best educational system in the country,preserving our environment, managing our growth andstanding up for our elders,” said Reno, speaking to re-porters outside her Miami-Dade County home.

Some Democrats wonder if the 63-year-old Reno canwin. Polls show her leading the crowded Democratic pri-mary field but losing to Bush in a general election.

Her backers say she could have the same populist ap-peal as former Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, who wona second term by beating Bush in 1994 in the closest gu-bernatorial race in state history.

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Duke offersI The Master of Arts in TeachingProgram persists, although theUniversity now focuses on researchrather than practical training.

By KEVIN LEESThe Chronicle

As high school kids get back in thehang ofthings this school year, ShayneCokerdem is getting the hang of beinga teacher.

Cokerdem, a graduate of Duke’s Mas-ter ofArts in Teaching Program, is begin-ning his first year at the Cannon Schoolin Concord, N.C.

Cokerdem heard about the Duke pro-gram from friends ofhis wife, who is alsoa teacher. He said he chose Duke becauseit offered a unique curricula.

“The strengths are that it’s usuallyjust 12 or 16 students every year,” Cok-erdem said. “Most education programsare much larger than that. The qualityof students is extremely selective. Thekind of people who get into it are seriousabout teaching.”

MAT is also unique at Duke in thatthe fall-year internship program is basedwithin the Graduate School. It begins inJune, with an intensive load of classesboth on education and the particular dis-ciplines the students intend to teach. Asthe year starts, however, students workas teachers in Durham Public Schools.

‘They kind ofhave this boot camp phi-losophy—get out there and do it,” Coker-dem said.

Rosemary Thome, the program’s di-rector, said instead of focusing on educa-tional theory, Duke’s program uses ex-perts from all of the disciplines to ensurepotential educators are well-versed intheir area ofexpertise. She said that theprogram’s students are equally diverse—-about a third ofMAT students come fromthe pool ofDuke undergraduates.

But, in general, Duke does not focusespecially heavily on teacher education.Although there is an undergraduate pro-gram in education, offering a certificate,there is no research being done on sec-ondary education or teaching at Duke.

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TEACHING ASSISTANT DAN GOLONKA is just one of many young teachers at the University. Duke strivesto train teachers as part of its core mission.

But Lewis Siegel, dean of the Gradu-ate School said even though Duke is a re-search university, teacher training wasone ofJames B. Duke’s founding goals forthe University. “The creation of teachersis an important role,” Siegel said. “Wehave a strong educational mission, and amission to society.”

Thome said MAT is designed for indi-vidual, hands-on education and that al-though the program is small, so are mostother Duke graduate departments. Theprogram is also very selective—MAT re-ceives around 60 application per year.

“There’s enough critical mass that stu-dents can exchange ideas and experi-ences, enough so thatall of them get tonsof individual attention,” she said.

There are no plans right now to ex-pand the program, although Siegel said

that he would like to see more sciencesrepresented in the program. Currently,MAT is English- and social science-ori-ented. “It is a very boutique program,”Siegel said.

Duke is currently celebrating its150th anniversary of teacher prepara-tion, but the MAT program was formedonly in 1988.

Siegel said that the teacher prepara-tion program was once the largest de-partment within the Graduate School asrecently as the 1970s and early 1980s,but as Duke morphed into an increasing-ly renowned research university, this pro-gram fell to the wayside.

There was no program for teacher ed-ucation in the Graduate School duringthe mid-1980s, until faculty memberscame together to form MAT, Siegel said.

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harassment case last spring.BY ANA MATE

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� The associate dean for judi-cial affairs will conduct a reviewof MlT’s treatment of a sexual

In response to the spring suicide ofJulia Carpenter, a Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology student, MIT haschosen Kacie Wallace, Duke’s associatedean for judicial, to conduct an inde-pendent review of the school’s inves-tigative process.

MIT Dean for Student Life LarryBenedict has said that outsiders havequestioned the school’s actions re-garding Carpenter’s complaints.

He also has said the school seeksan independent review of the proce-dures they employed in handling thecomplaints.

Carpenter, a sophomore in chemicalengineering, was found dead by herroommate in her dormitory April 30.Four months prior to her suicide, Car-penter had filed a harassment com-plaint with the dormitory’s judicialboard against dormmate and fellowstudent Charvak Karpe.

Ten days after the school punishedKarpe, Carpenter committed suicide bypoisoning herself with cyanide.

“The purpose of the investigationis to look at the support system with-in MIT and evaluate those systemsand make recommendations,” Wal-lace said.

Benedict said in a recent press re-lease that he hopes the review willhelp improve MlT’s future respon-siveness to students with concernssimilar to Carpenter’s.

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* Novel agent could treat heart diseaseDuke cardiologists have completed the first phase ofa trial testing an experimental anticoagulant that mayprovide a new treatment option for patients withcoronary artery disease. The drug prevents formation•of blood clots earlier in the coagulation process thanany other drugs currently available. Dr. ChristopherDyke, senior cardiology fellow at the Duke ClinicalResearch Institute, said the agent effectively inhibitsthe action of Factor Xa, the most important of theknown clotting factors, while being well-tolerated.Although the new anticoagulant has great potential intreating patients with heart disease, researchers havecautioned that enthusiasm should be reserved untilthe multi-center trials are completed.

• Drug may restore premature lung functionUsing a new antibody treatment, Medical Centerdoctors have demonstrated how to prevent severelung injury in newborn animals without subjectingthem to the potential side effects of available treat-ments. In a report published in the American Journalof Physiology, researchers describe a treatment test-ed in rats but designed to work in premature babies.The treatment may be tested with humans in as earlyas two years. Lead author Dr. Richard Auten,-assis-tant professor of pediatrics, said chronic lung dis-ease is the most important predictor of babies whomay grow up with learning disabilities and asthma.Doctors traditionally prescribe steroids to help theseproblems, but this treatment has been known to haveserious brain-damaging effects.

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* Applications to medical schools dropApplications to the nation's medical schools fell 3.7percent in 2000 in the fourth straight year of decline.Attractive jobs in dot-coms and information technol-ogy, along with the prospect of big medical schooldebts, may be among the reasons for the decline,said Barbara Barzansky, secretary of the AmericanMedical Association’s medical education council andauthor of the report. Add the increased paperwork,regulations and concerns that have come with man-aged care, and "it’s not as friendly an environment asit used to be.” The decline appears to be leveling off;it was 6percent in 1999. The applicant pool last yeartotaled 37,092. It included 17,274 women, a 0.9 per-cent drop from 1999, the report found, The numberof minorities climbed 2 percent to 4,266.

• Livestock epidemic hits grim milestoneBritain's foot-and-mouth epidemic reached 2,000confirmed cases since the livestock disease was firstdetected more than six months ago. The 2,000thcase was fittingly found in Cumbria, Britain’s worst-hit county, the Department for Environment, Foodand Rural Affairs said Monday. The epidemic hasproved a stubborn one, doubling back on severalareas that had been declared disease-free by thegovernment. But with the new case rate slowing toabout three per day, both the government and theNational Farmers’ Union believe the war against foot-and-mouth is in its final stages.

• Group advocates recognizing kids’ painsChildren feel pain as much as adults do, and doc-tors are needlessly letting them suffer, the nation'slargest group of pediatricians says. A new policystatement issued jointly by the American Academyof Pediatrics and the American Pain Society saysdoctors should do more to relieve youngsters' painfrom injuries, illnesses and medical procedures.While there is extensive literature describing how toevaluate and treat acute pain in children, doctorshave not done as much as they should to preventor relieve that discomfort for several reasons,including a misconception that youngsters don'tfeel pain as adults do.News briefs compiled from staff and wire reports.

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Religious stress may aggravate illnessBy MATT BRUMM

The Chronicle

Although scientists have alreadydiscovered a relationship between reli-gious involvement and longevity, a newstudy conducted at Duke suggests thatelderly patients suffering from a reli-gious struggle may be more likely todie from their illnesses.

Researchers found that patientsexperiencing religious struggles had a6 to 10 percent increased risk ofdying,while those who said God had desert-ed them or blamed the devil for theirailment had an even higher increasedrisk of death at 19 to 28 percent.

Dr. Harold Koenig, associate pro-fessor of psychiatry, said stress in-duced by a patient’s inability to rec-oncile his religious difficulties can besubstantial.

“When people are headed to the hos-pital or when they’re sick, they startthinking about... God and their life andwhat they’ve done in their life. If theycan turn to their religious faith, that pro-vides comfort,” Koenig said. “If they havestruggles with their religious faith, thatmay cause turmoil and stress, and thatcan affect their physiology.”

In light of past research, which hasemphasized the beneficial relation-ship between religion and health,Koenig said his findings were some-what surprising.

“When people become sick, they turnto religion for comfort and for hope....What we found was a little unexpected,”he said. “What we’d always found is thatreligion leads to better health.”

Koenig worked with KennethPargament, professor of psychology atBowling Green State University, toconduct interviews of 596 patients atDuke Hospital and at the Durham Vet-erans Affairs Medical Center. The in-terviews were designed to collect dataabout patients’ demographics, mentaland physical health and how they copewith sicknes. Koenig and Pargament’sreport appeared in the Aug. 27 editionof the Archives ofInternal Medicine.

DR. HAROLD KOENIG, associate professor of psychiatry, reported that patients with religious strug-gles may be at higher risk of dying from illness. These findings could compel physicians to recog-nize and address issues involving religion and its effect on patient health.

Several explanations have been of- would help forge a closer link between thefered for these statistics, including the health and religious communities,disruption of the normal bereavement “I think the important implicationprocess as one confronts death, the possi- is physicians need to be sensitive toble link between religious turmoil and the spiritual life of their patients,” hephysiological changes in the body and so- said, adding that sometimes it may bedal alienation issues. necessary for doctors to refer patients

Pargament added that struggles in to the hospital chaplain or to a localthe religious tradition are usually de- minister or pastor,picted as positive. More than halfofthe medical schools

“[The findings are] in some ways in- in the United States already offer class-consistent with the sacred literature,” he es focusing on religion, spirituality andsaid. “From Moses to Jesus to Buddha, we medicine. “I think that is very impor-have people going through wilderness pe- tant,”Koenig said,riods and strengthened in some ways.” William Willimon, dean of the

The researchers suggested that Chapel, said people near the end ofphysicians should be educated to un- their lives may face unfinished busi-derstand the impact ofreligion on pa- ness and could benefit from speakingtients’- health, but Koenig warned that with religious leaders,doctors and religious leaders play dis- “Sometimes reassurance is needed.... Iftinct roles, as physicians are not someone is very ill or near death, I hopetrained for spiritual counseling. that religion can provide some consola-

Pargament said he hoped this research tion to them in that time.”

Modified device could fight heart diseaseResearchers claim artery-widening tube will eliminate complications of current treatments

By EMMA ROSSThe Associated Press

STOCKHOLM, Sweden A metaltube that opens clogged arteries andkeeps them clear by releasing medica-tion was hailed by doctors Tuesday asa potential breakthrough in fightingheart disease.

Experts predict the device, an im-proved version of the conventional stentsalready used to keep arteries open, willeliminate the need for repeat angioplas-ties and could spare some patients thetrauma, risk and prolonged recovery as-sociated with heart bypass surgery.

A study of 238 patients in Europeand Latin America, presented at ameeting ofthe European Society ofCar-diology in Stockholm, found that whilethe arteries closed up again in 26 per-cent of patients who got a regular stent,there was no narrowing in any patientwho got the drug-coated device.

Also, 97 percent, of the patients whogot the new stent, called Cypher, had no

further heart trouble in the followingsix months, compared with 73 percentofthe others.

“We are probably witnessing a newera in the treatment of coronary dis-ease,” said the study’s lead investiga-tor, Dr. Marie-Claude Morice, head ofinterventional cardiology at theJacques Cartier Hospital Institute inMassy, France.

Among angioplasty doctors, enthusi-asm ran high.

Dr. Wimvan der Giessen, a Dutch car-diology professor who was not involved inthe study, predicted the new stent couldeventually be used in other blood vesselsand for bigger blockages. Those patientsare now treated with drugs or surgery.

“It’s very convincing. It’s a definitebreakthrough,” said Dr. Philip Urban ofLatour Hospital in Geneva, who also wasnot connected with the research.

Other experts were more cautiousabout the report. “You’re still dealingwith a systemic disease,” said Dr. Karl

Karsch, head of cardiology at BristolUniversity in England. “Atherosclero-sis is all over the body. You are just in-terferingat a lesion; you are not inter-fering with the disease.”

In most patients, angioplasty does notsave lives oravert heart attacks, he said.

“I’m impressed, but I’m always sus-picious when the complication rate iszero,” he said. “We have seen devicesbefore that were very promising atthis stage. Everybody was excited andit turned out that after two or threeyears there was a certain normaliza-tion [relapse].”

And Van der Giessen said the rarelyreported problem ofcontaminated stentsmay worsen because the drug coatinghampers the immune response.

More than one-third of heart dis-ease patients get angioplasty—about1 million people annually worldwide.Some patients need it repeatedly. Anadditional 700,000 people worldwidehave heart surgery every year.

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City Council delays rezoning votePostponement will allow council members to hear more feedback

By MEG LAWSONThe Chronicle

A vote on a super-high-density residential develop-ment zoning ordinance was delayed at the DurhamCity Council’s meeting Tuesday evening so that affect-ed residents would have more time to voice their con-cerns.

Representatives from two neighborhood organiza-tions spoke in support of the ordinance but raised con-cerns about certain details of it.

Wood Partners LLC has proposed building one ofthese super-high-density complexes on Main Streetnear Erwin Square. This development area wouldhave 380 apartment units on only 5.7 acres. The den-sity of this project would represent a 60 percent in-crease over the current maximum units per acre al-

lowed in the city. The zone—Residential Multifamily-Compact Neighborhood—being considered wouldallow up to 80 units per acre.

Members of the nearby Old West Durham Neigh-borhood Association attended the meeting to supportthe ordinance’s passage, with one request. PresidentJohn Schelp asked that the proposal require openspaces for community interaction.

“We want a place where people can interact,” saidSchelp, stressing the importance of these open spacesas areas for community building events such as pot-lucks.

Cramer Reeves, a member of the neighborhood as-sociation, said he saw open space as essential to the vi-tality of the community. “We feel that open space

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U.N. racism conference continues after U.S. withdrawalBy RACHEL SWARNS

New York Times News Service

DURBAN, South Africa As SouthAfrica and the European Union scram-bled Tuesday night to salvage a UN.conference on racism, the delegates whohad gathered from across the worldwere trying to figure out what wentwrong and how.

The South African government Tues-day night presented revised drafts oftheproposed conference declaration and ac-tion plan to a team of negotiators head-ed by Belgium.

The team is charged with removingthe criticisms of Israel that led U.S. andIsraeli officials to withdraw from theconference Monday.

Whether the negotiators will find anacceptable compromise remains to beseen. But some diplomats here said theconference was doomed from the start

because its organizers failed to resolvethe prickly issues before the meetingopened last week.

The issues were even a concern in theUnited States from the earliest days ofthe Bush administration. Four weeksago, Mary Robinson, the UN. commis-sioner for human rights, stood before acrowd of anxious diplomats in Genevaand reassured them that the meetingwas on track. The Arabs were compro-mising on conference language thatsharply criticized Israel, she said. TheAmericans were negotiating.

After days, the news was flashingaround the world. “Zionism ScrappedFrom Racism Summit Agenda,” theheadlines said. The meeting—whichwas intended to raise the world’s con-sciousness about intolerance of allforms—was going to be a success. Butsome diplomats left that meeting in

Geneva shaking their heads. They knewtrouble was looming.

A seven-page compromise plan pre-sented by the Arab League in August hadeliminated the word “Zionist” but keptreferences to “the racist practices of theOccupying Power.” Negotiators assignedto ease American and Israeli concernsoften lacked political clout. And as bombsexploded and tanks rolled in the MiddleEast, some Palestinians and Israelis dugin their heels and refused to bargain seri-ously even though time was running out.

Monday, the United States and Israelwalked out of the racism conference, de-nouncing “hateful language” in a pro-posed declaration that condemns Israel.Tuesday, as the Americans flew out ofthe city, officials from the United Na-tions and South Africa expressed shockand regret and moved quickly to consid-er new language.

But diplomats familiar with the ne-gotiations say Robinson, the conferencecoordinator, South African officials andothers have known for months thattrouble was brewing.

The Palestinians, supported by theSouth Africans and Arab nations, insist-ed that their suffering be included inany declaration about discrimination.Israel, supported by the United Statesand European countries, insisted that itshould not be the only country singledout for intolerance in a general docu-ment that condemns discriminationacross the world.

“We knew we had to face the problemin Geneva, but everybody avoided it,swept it under the carpet,” said a Euro-pean diplomat, who was involved in thisweek’s last-ditch negotiations to keepthe United States and Israel frompulling out.

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Reaction mixed oncomputer merger

By MATT RICHTELNew YorkTimes News Service

SAN FRANCISCO Executives from Hewlett-Packard, a company synonymous with printers, andCompaq, known for personal computers, defendedTuesday their plans to merge into the world’s largestcomputer maker on the ground that they would liketo increasingly be known not for selling hardware, butfor selling advice and service.

Reflecting a marked shift in the high-technologyindustry in recent years, executives said the com-bined entity, officially announced yesterday in NewYork, is designed to become a juggernaut in a grow-ing category called “services,” a potentially highlyprofitable business that entails assisting corpora-tions to set up, organize and maintain computer anddatanetworks.

But the companies’ explanation of their mergerplans far from silenced a growing chorus of critics. Asindustry experts and competitors digested the emerg-ing details of the plan, many said the new companywill not easily make inroads into the services market,cut costs or shift emphasis away from the suddenlyailing personal and business computer businessesthat forms its foundation.

Hewlett-Packard’s and Compaq’s “heritage is inthe computing business, but they’ve lost their com-petitive advantage, and they want to get it backthrough services,” said Daniel Kunstler, an analystwith J.P. Morgan H&Q. But for now, Kunstler said,that goal is “their pipedream.”

Kunstler, echoing sentiments from several other in-dustry analysts—and from investors, who sold the twocompanies stock Tuesday—said the proposed mergerpartners would be better off in the long run ifkept sep-arate. “In terms of creating better value” for sharehold-ers, he said, “They were better offnot doing this.”

But some analysts also said that if the two com-panies can manage to cut costs as sharply as theypropose, they would at least wind up with a com-puter powerhouse with a broad product line—ar-guably the world’s richest line of products for ahardware maker.

If the deal is approved by shareholders and regu-lators, Hewlett-Packard, based in Palo Alto, Calif.,would pay $25 billion in stock to acquire Houston-based Compaq. The companies’ combined revenues, ifbased on this year’s figures, would be about $B7 bil-lion, although company officials cautioned investorsthat revenue could drop as much as 5 percent duringthe first two years of a merger.

Carleton Fiorina, the chief executive at Hewlett-Packard who will retain the same title at the newcompany, and Michael Capellas, Compaq’s chief exec-utive who is to be president of the merged firm, for-mally unveiled the plan Tuesday morning, assertingtheirs is a marriage ofcompanies with shared visionsfor approaching the changing industry.

Fiorina said the plan would save the companies$2.5 billion a year by merging operations, noting thatthe businesses overlap in many respects. Both sheand Capellas said that the synergy was also personal,and that they realized they take similar approachesto customers and employees.

The pair said the merger talks grew out of a brief,and unrelated, discussion several months ago aboutlicensing. But Capellas said the conversationrevealedthat there were numerous levels on which the compa-nies could work together. After that, he said, in a sub-sequent conversation, “we got through the basics in20 minutes in a phone call.”

The companies Tuesday provided some detailsabout the structure of the proposed new company.They said it would have 135,000 employees, a figurethat includes 15,000 job cuts, in addition to 11,000previously announced cutbacks (5,000 at Compaq and6,000 at H-P) that have yet to take place. Companyexecutives said the firm would be divided into four di-visions; aroughly $2O billion imaging and printing di-vision; $29 billion access devices group; $23 billion in-formation technology infrastructure group, coveringservers, software and storage; and $l5 billion servic-es business.

From a strategic standpoint, Fiorina said the newcompany would be able to combine resources and ex-pertise to “leap frog” competitors in the markets forsoftware, network server computers and services.

Bush, Daschle discuss Social SecurityBy PHILIP SHENON

New York Times News ServiceWASHINGTON In an escalation of the budget-

ary parrying between President George W. Bush andCongress, the White House and the Senate Democrat-ic leader insisted Tuesday that they had agreed not totap the Social Security program to pay the govern-ment’s other bills—an agreement that economists sayis almost certain to be broken this year.

After meeting with the president at the WhiteHouse, the Democratic leader, Thomas Daschle ofSouth Dakota, said that he had pressed the presi-dent to pledge not to dip into the Social Security pro-gram to make ends meet elsewhere, and that Bushhad agreed.

“I was looking simply today for his assurance thatwe’re not going to do that, and he assured me of that,”Daschle said afterward. “We look forward to working

with him and seeking his guidance on how we avoidusing Social Security.”

The White House didnot dispute Daschle’s accountof the meeting, which was called to discuss progresson the 13 annual spending bills that Congress is re-quired to complete before the start of a new fiscal yearon Oct. 1. Claire Buchan, a White House spokesper-son, said that Bush “believes we can fund America’spriorities while protecting Social Security, and that iswhat the president has promised in his budget.”

Bush also said Tuesday that he was “open-minded”about a Republican proposal that supporters, saywould quickly raise money for the governmentthrough a cut in the capital-gains tax—but there is al-most no chance of passage of the plan in the Democ-ratically controlled Senate.

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Administrators say athletics construction will slowFACILITIES from page 1

$lO million, six-story project that in-cludes the Duke Sports Hall of Fame, anew student-athlete academic centerand locker rooms and offices for themen’s and women’s basketball teams.

• The Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center,a $4.4 million facility with offices andsix courts. Outdoor tennis court renova-tions are currently underway.

• Cameron Indoor Stadium receivedan air conditioning system last year,and ethernet connections were in-stalled two years ago outside CardGym for students tenting inKrzyzewskiville.

• The $16.5 million Wilson Recre-ation Center, available to all students,also opened two years ago.

• Koskinen Stadium, used by soccer

and lacrosse, received a $300,000facelift threeyears ago.

• The $19.4 million football buildingshould be finished before next season.

The Knight report bemoans the dis-parity between institutions thathave themoney to spend on facilities and thosethat do not, widening the gap betweenbig-time athletic schools and the rest.

Because of the tangible, immediateimpact of a new building, Director ofAth-letics Joe Alieva said it was much easierto raise money from donors for a buildingthan for anything else, including en-dowed scholarships. Alieva said thatwhen Florida State University enteredthe Atlantic Coast Conference in 1991,their football juggernaut made all theother ACC facilities obsolete—includingthe Murray Building, built in 1988.

“How do you compete? You’ve got toget better players. How do you get betterplayers? You build a nicer facility, sohopefully you’ll attract better players,”he said. “Our football facility was by farthe worst in the ACC,”

Steve Green, associate director ofathletics at Northwestern University,said that his school has recently resur-faced its football stadium and built bothan indoor tennis facility and an indoorpractice building. He said that in theBig Ten Conference, most stadiumswere built in the 1920s and needed ren-ovating over the past decade.

“It depends on each institution. Ourfacilities are old. They were in desperateneed,” Green said. “Every place is differ-ent. It’skind ofhard to compare school Ato school B. You get into a war game, an

arms race. We can’t afford to do that.”Yet the premier athletic schools per-

ceive the need to increasingly buildmore structures. As at Duke, where theSheffield Indoor Tennis Center has hadan immediate impact on recruiting, big-ger buildings show that athletic depart-ments are committed to the success oftheirprograms.

Some officials at the University donot think spending millions on a footballbuilding is the best use of that money.Kathleen Smith, professor of biologyand chair ofthe Athletic Council, said itmight not be the most pressing need foreither the University or for the Depart-ment ofAthletics, but that it was part ofa greater trend.

“We’re doing it because other schoolsare doing it,” she said.

Duke hopes to make funding more easily accessible> CULTURE MONEY from page 1president of Mi Gente. ‘The reason that they concededto develop this fund is because they realized the needfor more funding for cultural events.”

The money comes from President Nan Keohane’sdiscretionary fund and was dedicated following a rec-ommendation presented by minority groups at last No-vember’s Unity through Diversity luncheon. The fund-ing followed closely on the heels of campus-wide raceprotests led by the Duke Student Movement.

“I think that it was an outcome partially ofthe dis-cussions with the Duke Student Movement, but Ithink that it was a desire of the president to havemoney for cultural groups,” Moneta said. He addedthat the funding is part of a larger effort to providegreater minority support on campus in the forms of

campus space, resources and advising.Vice President ofInstitutional Equity Sally Dickson

said the fund was created not only to increase financingfor events, but also to make University money more ac-cessible to students. “When what we saw was thatmanyofthe student groups had to take time away fromwhat we thought was important—their studies—toraise money to put on various student cultural activi-ties, we had various concerns about that,” Dickson said.

The money does not, however, replace existing cul-tural funding. Currently, campus cultural groups areable to apply for grants from Duke Student Govern-ment, the Duke University Union, the UniversityFund, as well as money from individual offices andcampus quad councils. Establishing the fund is thefirst step in consolidating cultural event funding.

“There’s definitely a very rigid procedure in whichfunds are allocated for student groups,” said DSG Pres-ident C.J. Walsh, a senior. “Students frustrated withtheir allocation have run themselves ragged lookingfor other funding sources.”

While Moneta stopped short of saying that culturalevent funding is bureaucratic, he did say that the Uni-versity hopes to provide student groups with an easier,more centralized money source.

“I think there are too many distribution outlets thatcould be consolidated and streamlined. I hope that thisfund will support more programming opportunities forstudents,” Moneta said.

The timelines for allocations and submissions haveyet to be decided, but Moneta hopes the first fundingapplications will be due no later than Sept. 25.

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Hotel tax would help pay for proposed downtown theater� HOTEL TAX from page 1he would support giving Durham theauthority to levy the tax increase.

“My understanding is that there is agood plan recommended by the Conven-tion & Visitors Bureau that most peopleare in agreement with,” Luebke said.“[The increase is] a very marginal 1 per-cent, given that these are for the mostpart quality hotels.”

Leaders ofthe Durham Convention &

Visitors Bureau expressed support forthe measure.

“We hope that it will lead to the leg-islative authority to level the tax. Thatwill allow Durham to enter into seri-ous negotiations [to bring in the the-ater],” said Bill Kalkhof, president ofDowntown Durham, Inc., and a mem-ber of the DCVB board of directors.“There will be a 5,000-seat theater be-

tween Greensboro and Raleigh, and weneed to make sure it’s built here.”

But council member Thomas Stithpointed out that the hotel tax alone wouldnot be enough to pay for the theater.

“We’re going to have a gap in fund-ing,” Stith said. “I think we need to bevery up-front about that and how weplan to close that gap.”

Reyn Bowman, DCVB president andCEO, agreed that some other source ofrevenue would be necessary.

“The occupancy tax is a stopgapmeasure. It would barely pay for halfthe theater,” he said, but added that therequest for the increase was still useful.“I think it gets the ball rolling on [dis-cussions of other taxes].”

Bowman pointed to a 1percent tax onprepared food, which would generate anestimated $3 million per year, as a possi-

bility. Bowman said such a tax on mealswould distribute the cost more evenlythan the occupancy tax, which he saidwould put most ofthe burden on hotels.

The council asked the General As-sembly for the authority to impose themeals tax in January, but it has notwon sufficient support to pass the Leg-islature. Luebke, for instance, has crit-icized the prepared food tax as beingtoo regressive.

“My preference is a luxury mealstax if there is to be a meals tax,” Lue-bke said. But he added that that ques-tion should wait until the 2002 legisla-tive session.

At Tuesday night’s meeting, much ofthe debate centered on whether to reit-erate the council’s wish to levy a mealstax along with the request for the oc-cupancy tax.

The motion failed 6-7, since somecouncil members worried that the twomeasures would appear linked.

“If we tie them together, we may notget either one,” council member DanHill said.

The council also debated whether torequest the tax increase before it is cer-tain that either the 5,000-seat theateror theAmerican Tobacco project will ac-tually come to fruition. But because theGeneral Assembly is not in session year-round, council members worried thatfailing to make the request now couldmean a long delay.

“We can’t ask for legislative authori-ty when the Legislature isn’t in ses-sion,” council member Erick Larsonsaid. “Waiting two years is not a goodchoice,” he added.

Meg Lawson contributed to this story.

Reno could become firstfemale governor ofFlorida� RENO from page 2

“I kind ofsee her as a Lawton Chilesin a dress,” former state DemocraticParty Chair Charles Whitehead saidTuesday. “She’s a straight shooter.”

Her supporters say there is no ques-tion Reno is down to earth: She hasspent the last three months travelingthe state in her pickup truck, tellingpeople about her trips navigating thestate’s rivers and swamplands.

On her last day as attorney general,she made a surprise appearance onSaturday Night Live to utter the catchphrase the show created to parody heras a take-no-guff action hero: “It’sReno time!”

Many in the party’s old guard appearto support Pete Peterson, a one-timeVietnam prisoner of war and formerFlorida congressional representative.U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and Bob Grahampersuaded Peterson to leave his post asambassador in Hanoi to challenge Bush.

Although the two senators are offi-cially neutral, they visited with Renoabout polling data that indicate she’dhave a hard time defeatingBush,

Tallahassee attorney Dexter Dou-glass, one of Chiles’ most trusted advis-ers, tried to persuade Reno to stay outof the race. He said Republicans wouldspend millions to portray her as an out-of-touch liberal.

“When you get people telling youthat you’re wonderful and telling you

’l’ll support you,’ it’s hard not to thinkyou’d win,” Douglass said. “I’d imagineit’s like serving in combat: A lot ofdeadpeople never thought they’d get shot.”

Reno, a Miami native, was electedDade County’s state attorney fivetimes, but the race for governor will beher first statewide campaign. She wasdiagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in1995 but has said it would not preventher from serving as governor.

Florida has never elected a femalegovernor, but Reno has been a ground-breaker before—she was the first fe-male attorney general in U.S. historyand Florida’s first woman to serve as astate attorney.

Bush is trying to become the first Re-publican governor to win re-election inFlorida. He told reporters Tuesday thathe would continue to focus on improv-ing schools, lowering crime and enhanc-ing business.

“I’ve got a record to run on that I’mvery proud of,” he said.

Democrats, still seething over the2000 election, have vowed to defeat Gov.Bush as payback for the election andhis policies on education reform, affir-mative action and the environment.

“This is like ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ Twofamilies feuding, the Clintons and theBushes since 1992,” said Dario Moreno,a Florida International University po-litical scientist. “This is a continuationof that battle.”

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Civilian deaths prompt Human Rights Watch outcry& MACEDONIA from page 2the Hague, charged with investigatingalleged war crimes in all of the formerYugoslavia, has sent investigators toMacedonia to decide whether to launch afull investigation into what happened inLjuboten and who might be responsible.

“It’s important to understand that hedoesn’t have to witness the people beingkilled to have some responsibility forwhat happened,” said Peter Bouckaert, asenior researcher for Human RightsWatch who wrote the group’s report onLjuboten.

“It was done by troops under his au-thority in an action in which he was in-timately involved.”

Bouckaert said that the killing ofcivilians in Ljuboten could be a danger-ous precedent for Macedonia’s future.The peace deal signed on Aug. 13by theMacedonian and ethnic Albanian par-ties in Macedonia’s government accords

ethnic Albanians many of the greatercivic rights the rebels say they havesought. But nobody is sure that the dealwill hold, particularly, in Bouckaert’sview, if a government minister such asBoskovski is seen as condoning attackson civilians.

As in all guerrilla conflicts, the ques-tion of who is a civilian and who is afighter is a thorny one. Many rebelslive in Albanian villages, and govern-ment officials often argue that theirstatus as combatants is a matter ofputting on a uniform.

Ljuboten, home to about 3,000 ethnicAlbanians and a handful of Slavic Mace-donians, lies about five miles north ofthe capital, Skopje, and is surroundedon three sides by Macedonian villagesand to the northeast by the SkopskaCrna Gora mountain, where the rebelarmy is active.

It was on the mountain Friday

morning, Aug. 10, that the two anti-tank mines exploded a few miles fromLjuboten, killing eight Macedonian sol-diers. Two days earlier, 10 Macedoniansoldiers had been killed in another am-bush. Emotions were running highamong the nation’s police, its soldiersand reservists.

After the attack on Aug. 12, foreignjournalists went to Ljuboten, where thebodies oftwo men still lay, each shot re-peatedly, in the back and in the head.On a nearby ridge lay three more bodies.

The three had been shot, witnessessaid, fleeing a house that Macedonianforces had fired at with rocket-launchedgrenades.

Family members of the dead contendthat none ofthem belonged to the rebelarmy. None was armed, and none wore auniform or combat boots.

“It is significant that the governmenthas not presented any credible evidence

that there was an NLA presence inLjuboten, such as confiscated NLAweapons or uniforms,” the HumanRights Watch report says.

Guerrillas held positions in themountains outside Ljuboten in August,and had been in the village as recentlyas June, meeting with foreign reporters.One scenario put forward by outsidemonitors to explain what happened inLjuboten is that government forces sawfiring from the mountain and believed itcame from inside the village.

Boskovski, the Interior Minister, saidhe had no doubt that the rebels were inLjuboten, and that they had attackedMacedonian civilians, a contention thathas been widely reported in the Mace-donian press.

“It is the easiest thing to make accu-sations today and to put an equal signbetween the aggressor and the victim,”he said.

White House insists it will not tap Social SecurityI*l BUDGET from page 7and Daschle, prominent economists say that the gov-ernment will almost certainly be forced to dip into So-cial Security revenues later this year to cover short-falls created by the sinking economy and by the $1.3trillion tax-cut package that Bush pushed throughCongress this year.

Economic projections released last week by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office showed that atcurrent spending levels, $9 billion would need to betaken from Social Security this year, withbillions morediverted out of the retirement program over the nextseveral years.

The projections did not factor in tens of billions ofdollars in defenseand education spending that Bush isexpected to propose this year, which would suggestthat even more money would need to be taken from So-cial Security to pay the government’s bills.

Any move to tap Social Security would violate apromise made repeatedly by Bush and by congression-al leaders during last year’s campaign, and both theWhite House and congressional Democrats appearedto be maneuvering Tuesday to duck blame for a movethat is probably inevitable.

Although the use of Social Security revenues forother government programs would pose no threat tocurrent recipients of the government’s retirement sys-tem, it would be politically perilous and likely becomea divisive issue in next year’s congressional cam-paigns, especially in House districts where large num-bers of voters depend on Social Security checks.

The White House repeated that Bush had no inten-tion of tapping the Social Security surplus, which is ex-pected to total about $157 billion this year.

“Funding projects out of Social Security is some-thing the president said he wanted to avoid doing,and he pledged not to do,” said the White Housespokesperson, Ari Fleischer. He noted that the presi-dent had vowed to tap Social Security “only in thecase of war or recession.”

But later in the day, the president himselfappearedtesty when repeatedly questioned by reporters duringa photo opportunity over whether he would pledge toveto bills that would require the use of the Social Se-curity surplus elsewhere in the budget.

“I can say definitely every Social Security recipientis going to get their check, and that’s what the Ameri-can people need to understand,” he said, refusing to

answer the question directly. “I understand how poli-tics works up here. There’s always that scare tactic,trying to tell the American people that the budgetprocess is going to lead them to not get their Social Se-curity check. That’s justridiculous.”

Asked again ifhe would veto bills that required tap-ping Social Security, he said, “I addressed your question.”

Daschle has blamed Bush’s tax-cut package for thedisappearance of the government’s non-Social Securitysurplus, and he said Tuesday that Bush would be re-sponsible for finding away of balancing the budgetwithout dipping into Social Security.

“This is the president’s budget, and we’re looking tohim for his guidance on how we do that ” he said. “TheDemocrats are going to staywithin the budget we havebeen given. We didn’t agree to thatbudget, but we havelived within it so far.”

According to the economic projections released lastweek by the Congressional Budget Office, it would bevirtually impossible for Bush to preserve all of the So-cial Security surplus without abandoning his plans foran $lB billion jump in the Pentagon’s budget this year,or without proposing dramatic cuts in politically popu-lar domestic programs.

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THE OPEN LOT next to Erwin Square could serve as the site of a new super-high-density building complex if the Durham City Coun-cil chooses to approve the project in the future.

High-density development sparks debate� DELAY from page 5 The Triangle Transit Authority plans to implement

a rail system that runs to populous areas of the Tri-angle. Officials hope the system will alleviate conges-tion on already crowded local roadways. Many of thesuper-high-density developments—including theErwin Square project—are already being designednear these transit stations. The first phase of the railsystem is set to be completed in 2008,

Miller said an urban design plan is needed for thevicinity of every transit stop to ensure smart growthand decrease future problems around other stations.“It applies not only to our area of town but to everyarea thatwill have transit,” he said.

Council member Floyd McKissick requested thatthe TTA determine rail locations before the councilvotes on the zoning issue. The ordinance will again beconsidered at the next council meeting Sept. 17.

would help to continue the lifestyle that we’re accus-tomed to,” he said.

Charm brought Reeves and his wife to the neigh-borhood three years ago, and he said he supports thedevelopment as part of smart growth. “It’s part of lifein the city,” Reeves said.

The Watts Hospital-Hillandale Neighborhood Asso-ciation, another residential group located near theproposed development, supported the Old WestDurham group’s concerns, but they also stressed thathigh density developments must be accompanied bytransit rail stops.

Watts Hospital-Hillandale neighborhoodspokesperson Tom Miller warned that if transit raildoes not accompany high density development it will“contribute to the evil it’s meant to combat.”

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MIT work couldbenefit UniversityP- MIT from page 3

Robert Sales, an MIT spokesperson, said Wallace“was chosen because she is clearly qualified, has adeep background and was a former police officer,whichI would imagine would hone her the skills to re-view a situation like this.”

According to the MIT student newspaper, TheTech, Carpenter and Karpe became friends in fall2000. Karpe wanted to take their friendship to a ro-mantic level, but Carpenter refused.

Despite knowledge of Carpenter’s longtimeboyfriend, Karpe continued to pursue her. At one point,Carpenter said she began to find Karpe sleeping outsideher room. As a result of Carpenter’s harassmentcomplaints, Karpe was ordered to write an essayand go to three counseling sessions.

Karpe was given permission to reapply to the dor-mitory this semester.

Wallace said the appointment will be challengingand interesting. “I will certainly take the time to bethorough. There will be lots of information to gatherand research to do,” she said.

Wallace added that she was honored to be selectedand is certain that it will be a learning experience forher and for MIT. “It will not only help MIT with theircurrent practices, but also help Duke if similar situa-tions arise here and at other institutions where wecan offer students the best kind of support,” she said.

She said she has been given as much time as sheneeds to prepare a written report thatwill include herfindings and recommendations.

Carpenter was an active student; friends and fam-ily said her death was a surprise.

According to The Tech, Carpenter never men-tioned dissatisfaction with MlT’s disciplinaryprocess, but she expressed frustration regarding thespeed ofthe investigation.

Jim Clack, director of Counseling and Psychologi-cal Services at Duke, said the University has had sim-ilar situations of stalking and that its strategy is tostop situations from escalating. “We are usually earlyinterveners and help [students] get connected withthe proper organizations, like the on-campus police,Women’s Center and resident advisers,” Clack said.“We work with them in counseling and try to getrid oftheir anxiety.”

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in three easy gamesBy GABE GITHENS

The ChronicleThe Duke volleyballteam dominated theHigh Point Panthers

last night, playing nearly its entiresquad. In a 3-0 match the Blue Devilsplayed impressively, while improvingtheir unblemished record to 4-0.

Each game started close, but Dukesurged ahead with key defensive plays.Junior Jill Sonne, who had three killsand four blocks in one game,was satis-fied with the win.

“I think we really worked on keepingour focus throughout the match,” Sonnesaid. “We are trying out a bunch of differ-ent lineups, but I think we played well.”

After leading 17-12 in the first game,the Blue Devils put up a three-playerblock to stuffHigh Point’s hit to the floor.This caused the Panthers to take thefirst timeout of the match. Sophomoresetter Arielle Linderman, who finishedwith 27 assists and five digs, was tryingto smooth out the kinks in Duke’s offen-sive attack while cruising to the victory.

“We were trying to make [plays]faster and get more finesse on them, ”

saidLinderman.On the ensuing play after the time-

out, Sonne faked a set and crushed theball to the floor. She then blocked anoth-er hit to force High Point’s second time-out with the Blue Devils ahead 25-15.Freshman Cassidy Crum, who playedboth front and back row in two games,talked two kills and three digs.

‘We came out and played strong, amark of a good team, ” Crum said.

Sonne ended the first game with ablistering jump serve that hit the hard-wood before any player could touch it.Duke changed its lineup toward the endof the second game. Sonne was confidentabout her teammates’ abilities.

“Everyone came in and filled therolesthey were asked to play, ” Sonne said.

Senior Bryn Gallagher, who had ateam-high seven kills, came in to helpthe Blue Devils with two blocks in thesecond game. Linderman put the BlueDevils up 2-0 in the match with an ace atthe end of the game, similar to Sonne’sserve to end thefirst game.The 5-foot-11setter thought thekey to distributing theball to differentplayers in the match wastalking on the court.

“The biggest change you have iswith communication, because thingschange in the middle of the play, ”

Linderman said.In the third and final game, Crum

had two stellar kills to propel the BlueDevils to a 30-20 win. She was pleasedwith the outcome of the match and alsothe different lineups during the night.

“I don’t think our team has aset start-ing lineup yet,” Crum said. “Everybodyhas confidence in everybody else.”

When facing an opponent like HighPoint, Duke could easily look ahead tothis weekend’s Duke Classic, but Sonneknew the team could not do that.

“We go through the same thing beforeevery game and everyone chooses anindividual goal and then a team goal, ”

Sonne said. “A lot of goals today were tonot take the team lightly and focusing onour own game.”

Spicy quarterback controversy brews around Currywhich now has its own link on www.goheels. com, oneof the favorite sites for Tar Heels fans.

Some have questioned Curry’s competitivenessbecause of his quiet and unassuming nature. Yet,Bunting pointed out that Curry was elected captainby his teammates.

“He’s more of a laid-back guy and maybe morethan some people want from their quarterback orfrom an athlete,” the first-year coach said. “That’s hisway. I said to him before the season that with yourway, your personality, I expect you to lead this foot-ball team.”

Some worry UNC’s season is leading to disaster.They’re already 0-2, and games against No. 4

Texas, No. 6 Florida State, No. 10 Georgia Tech andNo. 20 Clemson loom on the Tar Heels’ schedule.

Curry was understandably dismal against nation-al champion Oklahoma in the season opener when hecompleted just five-of-14 passes for 74 yards.

However, the understanding appeared to vanishwhen he was six of 12-for-61 yards in last week’s 23-7 loss to Maryland.

Meanwhile, Durant came off the bench and com-pleted 22 of 40 attempts for 249 yards and two touch-downs in those games.

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By OLIN BUCHANANCox News Service

CHAPEL HILL Local columnists are askingquestions. Fans are expressing their opinions andfrustration on websites. And the coach is standing byhis man—at least, for now.

Who should start at quarterback? The incumbenton the verge of setting several school passing recordsor the hotshot newcomer?

Sound familiar?Yet unlike Texas’ Major Applewhite-or-Chris

Simms controversy of last season, the North Carolinaquarterback with all the national acclaim is the onein danger ofbeing exiled to the bench.

But not right away.On Tuesday, North Carolina coach John Bunting,

who admitted concern after last week’s 23-7 loss toMaryland, indicated Ronald Curry would again startin Saturday’s game against Texas.

“The quarterback situation is the same,” he said.In two games, Curry, who is within striking dis-

tance of six North Carolina career records, has com-pleted just 11 passes, which represents exactly halfthe total (22) of his backup, redshirt freshmanDarian Durant.

That statistic alone explains the current debate,

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RONALD CURRY has completed half as many passes as hisbackup, Darian Durant, has this year.

Terps’ lax coach retiresLongtime Maryland lacrossecoach Dick Edell retiredMonday for medical rea-sons. In his 29 years ofcoaching at the University ofBaltimore, Army andMaryland, he went 282-123.

Pedro announces injuryBoston Red Sox pitcherPedro Martinez saidTuesday that he has aminor tear in his rotatorcuff and and was upset withhis general manager forsaying he is healthy.

Green to retire after year \ Almonte’s dad chargedForty-one-year-old Darrell The father of ineligibleGreen will retire at the end Little Leaguer Dannyof the year. The defensive Almonte was charged withback has been the Redskins’ falsifying documents in hi;starting cornerback for 19 native Dominicanyears before moving to Republic. He will be arrestnickelback this year. Ed if he enters the country

American Leaguelite Sox 10, Tigers 1lians 8, Red Sox 5le Jays 14, Yankees 0mgers 6, Twins 5

National League•ates 5, Brewers 2its 5, Phillies 3

‘The Monster is out of the cage’ with a repaired kneemal entailed extreme pain, iced kneesand sleepless nights. But he is pleasedwith his knee’s progress.

“It feels better now than I thought itcould ever feel again,” he said.

Looking back at last season, with anational championship for the team andlots of ice for himself, Christensen hasthe tinge of just one regret.

“In retrospect, we should have donethe surgery a year earlier,” he said. “Wedidn’t know what [last season] wasgoing to be like. By the end of last year,I was really just cooked. I couldn’t go onanymore. I was missing practices[because] the knee was so swollen.”

Against Maryland in the second-to-last game ofthe regular season, CarlosBoozer broke his foot, leaving a gapinghole in the lineup. In the games that fol-lowed, Casey Sanders and Reggie Loveemerged as the new centers in a vastly-different Duke system.

“None of the rest of the big guys—-me, Casey [Sanders] and Reggie Love—-were in a position [to replace Boozer],”Christensen said. “It wasn’t like modu-lar architecture; you can’t hot-swapplayers. You couldn’t pull out [Boozer]and plug in any of us. The whole teamhad to change.”

The team did change, as coach MikeKrzyzewski developed a new plan capi-talizing on the team’s speed. The chal-lenge ofrebuilding the team in Marchbrought everyone closer and made theteam better.

“[Last year] we really did reach apoint that was almost like basketballnirvana, where everybody on the team...was working towards the same goal,”

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MATT CHRISTENSEN battles Clemson’s Dustin Braddick for the ball during last year’s Duke-Clem-son game in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

By TYLER ROSENThe Chronicle

After graduation, while his class-mates were starting summer jobs orgoing to the beach, Matt Christensenwas having his lawn mown.

The senior center on the men’s bas-ketball team had surgery at DukeMedical Center to remove whatChristensen described as grass-likestrands of cartilage peeling off thelesion in the right knee that has hin-dered his play the past two seasons.

So began a long summer ofrehabili-tation, which continues even today,undertaken in the hope that he can playthis season with much greater mobilityand much less pain.

When he was not working at hisinternship with Merrill Lynch,Christensen spent his time regainingstrength in his knee. Back on campus,he runs in the team’s lap pool and on aweightless treadmill, exercises on theMurray Center’s state-of-the-artmachines and shoots free throws forhours each day. Additionally he worksat the basketball team’s regular weight-training session in the morning.

Much ofhis exercise now is intendedto condition himself for the basketballseason, while placing minimal strain onhis knee.

“I think it’s a humongous tribute tothe training staff here that they’re cre-ative and innovative enough to develop a[conditioning] program for me,” he said.

It will be three weeks beforeChristensen can play in live action andhe believes it will be another couple ofweeks before he returns to prime play-ing condition—not normal, because nor-

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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2001

Carlyle Cup fails to interest anyone in its present formHere are some ideas to make the boring brainchild of the great minds at Sports Promotions just a little more interesting

If an award is handed out and no onecares, does that make it a Grammy?

This fall opens the second year ofCarlyle Cup competition. And if you arelike most Duke athletes, administratorsand students, you have absolutely noidea what the Carlyle Cup is, or whyyou should care.

To make a long story very short: Wehate North Carolina and North Carolinahates us. They think we are condescend-ing, and we think they are too stupid tounderstand why we dislike them.

Upon furtherreview

Kevin Lloyd

This is readily apparent every yeararound tenting time when we paint ourfaces, chase down every camera manlike he’s got the antidote and saythings to Tar Heel players that wouldhave your mother washing your mouthout with soap until the end oftime.

As we all know, hatred is good. So, inan effort to expand this malevolence to allDuke sports, someone came up with thenifty idea to have a competition betweenthe two schools that includes all 20 sportsin whichboth schools field teams.

Each sport is assigned a value.Almost all sports are worth three points.This includes basketball, which manypeople quite logically assume should beworth*more. Most of the sports you have

never considered attending are worthone point. Although, in arather puzzlingdecision, the powers that be have decid-ed that golf is inherently more valuablethan track. I wonder what UNC gradMarion Jones had to say about that?

Anyways, each sport is an all-or-noneaffair, with the school winning the seasonseries getting all three [or one] points.

At the end ofthe year, they add up thepoint totals and hand the Carlyle Cupout to the school with the most points.

And guess what? Last year Dukepulled offa 27-21 victory. I’m guessing youaren’t jumping up and down or chanting.

Don’t feel bad; it turns out most ofourathletes don’t care either. This may comeas a huge shock, but North Carolina isnot our biggest rival in a lot of sports.

Now, I could bash the award. But I’msure it took some bored people a lot oftime to come up with it. So it seemsmore useful to try to find ways to makethe award more interesting.

As everyone knows, the greatest ofall cups is the Stanley Cup [Holy Grailbe damned]. This has nothing to do withhockey. I’m a big a hockey fan. But theNHL knows what to do with an award.

You see, when your team wins theCup, you get to spend one day doingwhatever you want with it. You haveprobably seen the commercials if youwatch ESPN. This, of course, inevitablyleads to mis-adventures. Take forexample, the Blackhawks, who, rumorhas it, once left the Cup outside a barbecause they were drunk and the Cupwas too big to fit inside the cab.

And it’s not just hockey that sup-

ports drinking out oftrophies. It is con-sidered a moral imperative to getblitzed by drinking out of the ClaretJug when you win the British Open.David Duval alluded to this in his post-victory press conference.

Unfortunately, every Duke athletecouldn’t have the Cup for a day; wehave too many of them. But each teamcould get it for a week.

Picture, if you will, the field hockeyteam drinking the world’s largest longisland ice tea. Or maybe, the lacrosseteam wandering around campus chug-ging beer out of the Cup.

Sure, this doesn’t exactly fit withDuke’s “All fun is the devil”policy, but Ithink our athletes would care about thecompetition more if they got to drinkout of the prize.

This could be fun even without thebooze. You’d love to see D. Bryantdrinking coffee out of that enormousthing during a morning class, or thebaseball team using it in lieu of thestandard Gatorade container.

This policy would create interesting,disgusting and disturbing stories aboutthe award and make the competitioninfinitely more entertaining.

So there is what the athletes can dowith it.

But perhaps the most crucial aspectof any victory is the suffering of youropponent. Anyone who has gambledwith friends knows that there is noth-ing more enjoyable than a bet thathumiliates the loser.

Sticking with this “Embarrassing oth-ers is fun theory,” let’s discuss trophy

presentation. I don’t know about anyoneelse, but I think graduation would be alot more fun ifwe got to watch UNC ath-letic director Dick Baddour crawl in onhis hands and knees, kiss Joe Alieva’sshoes and present him with the spoils ofvictory. You know ESPN would sendsomeone to cover that.

Then, uponreceiving his or her diplo-ma, each student could hold the Cupover his or her head, chant “Go to hell,Carolina” and walk off stage. We mightas well take living vicariously throughour athletes one step further.

Additionally, something should bedone to make sure the losing campus iswell aware of their collective failure. Forexample, ifwe win, UNC should be forcedto fly Duke flags on top of every buildingfor a year. This could be extended to mak-ing the losing school’s band play the win-ning school’s fight song before everymajor event, and placing the Dukeemblem at halfcourt of the Dean Dome.

These measures would actuallyaccomplish the goal ofgenerating inter-est. If you are going to be rewarded orpunished depending on the outcome,you are probably a lot more likely to gosupport the wrestling team, rather thansay what great fans we are for sleepingoutside to get basketball tickets.

Of course, thepowers-that-be proba-bly decide that all we really need togenerate interest is to put up a chartwith the standings.

Yeah, that’ll be great.Kevin Lloyd is a Trinity senior who

tingles with excitement at the prospectof a repeat win in the Carlyle Cup.

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Serena Williams advances,faces Hingis in semifinals

Bv BUD COLLINSThe Boston Globe

NEW YORK With a roaring fore-hand crosscourt, little sister Serenakept the House of Williams in goodshape at the U.S. Open Tuesday night,gaining revenge for her defeat byLindsay Davenport a year ago.

It was a wild struggle, with theadvantage shifting back and forth.Williams coughed up a 3-0 lead in thedecisive third set, but rebounded to gaina 6-3, 6-7 (7-9), 7-5 verdict over 1998champ Davenport. The win kept alivethe title hopes of the Florida teenagerwho won in 1997.

A bold backhand winner on the side-line saved Davenport from defeat in thesecond set tiebreaker, and she reboundedin the third set to catch up at 4-4. Sheeven had a break point to lead 5-4, butmissed a backhand. Davenport opened thefinal game with her sixth double-fault, gotto 30-all, but faded to a pair of Williams’slugging winners. That puts Williams inthe semis against Martina Hingis, whilebig sister Venus is in the quarterfinalsWednesday against Kim Clijsters.

A parade of champions, from SerenaWilliams to Martina Navratilova, keptonlookers at the Open filled with excite-ment despite a pair of rain delays thatstalled Tuesday’s matinee.

The two players spoke the same lan-guage (Czech), but the 1997 champ,Hingis, kept 18-year-old Daja Bedanovatonglie-tied and out of breath as Hingispowered her way to the semifinals for asixth consecutive year, 6-2, 6-0.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov, the Russian pos-sessor of French and Australian titles,kept moving efficiently as he rid thetournament of a tough competitor,Frenchman Arnaud Clement, this year’sAustralian Open finalist with AndreAgassi and the conqueror ofAgassi herea year ago. Kafelnikov, who had played14 sets in four matches, was Clement’smaster on both sides of the first down-pour, winning comfortably, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

“I was trying to conserve myself inthose early matches, and I guess I didn’tpress hard enough,” Kafelnikov said,laughing. “But I know how to recover,and I’m in the quarterfinals.”

French Open victor Gustavo “Guga”Kuerten, still grinning about his phe-nomenal Sunday night-Monday morn-ing marathon victory over Max Mirnyi,allowed nothing to get away this time,ousting Albert Costa, 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (9-7). Kuerten was a skinny, mop-toppedgod playing amid the cacophony ofthousands of Brazilian Guga-philesattracted to their man and hundreds ofthousands of neutral bugs attracted tothe floodlights.

And for the memory lane travelers,there was Navratilova, still keeping herleft hand in as a doubles hopeful, along-side yet another champ, 29-year-oldArantxa Sanchez Vicario. Navratilova,last a finalist here (with Monica Seles) adecade ago, won the crown four times,most recently in 1987.

“I’m just having fun now,”Navratilova said, “and I thoughtArantxa and I could make the semis.”

Despite last week’s poor playCurry will start against Texasi CURRY from page 13 But there are other factorsFour years ago, the idea of questioningCurry’s ability would’ve seemed absurd.

He came out of Hampton, Va., as a6-foot-2, 200-pounder who was as elu-sive as he was decorated. He wasnamed Parade Magazine’s footballplayer of the year and McDonald’sbasketball player of the year andevery coach in the country—footballand basketball—coveted him.

First, Gary Tranquill is the thirdoffensive coordinator Curry hasplayed for at North Carolina. Also,Curry has complained of a sore ham-string this summer and the media cov-ering Carolina say Curry has not beenas elusive since he ruptured his rightAchilles’ tendon in 1999.

After losing so badly to Maryland,his confidence might be hurting mostofall.He originally committed to play

football at Virginia, but changed toNorth Carolina so he could also playbasketball. He was the starting pointguard on the Tar Heels’ 2000-2001ACC championship team.

Yet, some critics see basketball asthe reason he has not progressed infootball since he became the startingquarterback as a freshman.

Because of basketball, he did notparticipate in spring football until thisyear and some theorize that hinderedhis development as a quarterback.

“I think he’s fine,” said Bunting, whowas careful not to lay the blame forCarolina’s loss on Curry. “I met withhim and the others and they’re all dis-appointed with the way they played inthe fourth quarter. There’s no reason todwell on it.

“You can talk about it, but the otherthing to do is to do something about it.I’m anxious to see what they’re goingto do about it.”

Anxious Carolina fans might feelthe same way about Bunting.

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A work study position is open foranundergraduate student in aDrosophila molecular genetics lab-oratory in the Department ofGenetics. The main duties are totransfer fly strains and maintain thefly collection; to help with mediapreparation for flies; to set upcrosses in collaboration with gradu-ate students and postdocs; and toassist research assistant as need-Ed in preparation of experiments.The position will require 8 to 10hours per week. Specific days areflexible and can be arrangedaccording to class schedule.Please contact: Dr. Hubert Amrein(hoal@duke.edu), 681-1518,Caroline Chromey(C.chromey@duke.edu), 681-1517or Deborah Holifield(holifoo4@mc.duke.edu), 684-3290.

Healthy adults (18 to 50) who arenon-smokers are asked to partici-pate in an investigation of the effectof endotoxin on lung function. Twovisits required. Compensation.Contact Cheryl Yetsko (919) 668-3135.BARTENDERS

NEEDED!!!Earn $l5-30/hr. Job placementassistance is top priority.Raleigh’s Bartending School.Call now for info on back toschool tuition special. HAVEFUN! MAKE MONEY! MEETPEOPLE!!! (919)676-0774.www.cocktailmixer.com

Busy office setting needs ener-getic student (not work-study) todo general clerical plus specialprojects. Flexible hours.Openings available now. Call684-2960 to inquire.

CHEMISTRY TUTORSNEEDED

Tutors needed for GeneralChemistry (21L, 23L) andOrganic Chemistry (151 L).Undergraduates earn $9/hr andgraduate tutors earn $l3/hr.Pick up an application in thePeer Tutoring Office, 217Academic Advising Center, eastcampus, 684-8832 or the web-s i t eaaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/skills.

College grads needed as part-time math instructors for flexibleafternoon and Sat. morninginstruction. Requires enthusiasmfor teaching and working withkids. Fax resume and cover letterto 309-9766.

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Local Duke student run softwarecompany on Ninth St. is looking forgrad/undergrad students to helpwith marketing, software develop-ment, and strategy. Interested?Call 416-8865. SuperUpdate.com.

Positions available at AmericanSocial Health Association.Health CommunicationsSpecialist. National HerpesHotline - Will provide callers withemotional support and informationabout herpes. Part-time positionsavailable between 9am and 7pm,Monday-Friday. National HPV andCervical Cancer Prevention Hotline- Will provide callers with emotion-al support and information aboutthis virus. Part-time positionsavailable Monday-Friday from 2pmto 7pm. Full-time position availableMonday-Friday from 10am-7pm.Requirements include: the ability toretain and communicate relatedinformation, excellent interpersonaland listening skills. Previous expe-rience with hotlines, crisis centersor social work is desirable, but notrequired. Training is provided andstarting salary is $9.62 per hours.Send Resume and cover letter indi-cating position you are applying forto ASHA, P.O. Box 13827, RTP NC27709 or emailALIBA@ASHASTD.ORG or fax to919.361.8425 AA/EOE. Visit ourwebsite: www.ashastd.org

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First Baptist Church in Durhamneeds child care workers forWednesday nights from 5:45-9:30.If interested please call 688-7308and leave a message with yourname, address, and phone no.

Healthy, non-smokers (18-60) areasked to participate in an investiga-tion of inhaled irritants on lungfunction. Five visits required.Compensation. Contact CherylYetsko at (919) 668-3135.

HELP WANTEDEarth and Ocean Sciences.Students for office work (filing,typing, phones, errands, etc.).Hours flexible, $7.00/hour. Workstudy students preferred. SeeDebbie in room 103 Old Chem, orcall 684-5847.

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Impress your friends and familywith a job at the best bar inDurham. Satisfaction is looking fora few good people to be deliverydrivers and waiters. Apply in per-son or contact Saraßeth at 682-7397.

Needed Work-Study FundedStudent to do filing, copying,errands, data entry, etc., Hours:Flexible Rate: $7.00/hr. Contact:Karen Koenig at 684-3271.

Interested in marketing? Top firmlooking for energetic part-timers towork onsite/events, promotions atTriangle bars. Great pay. Call Erin.919-838-0402.

Like people and want money?CHECK OUT THIS JOB! Workin our front office for 1 1/2 to 2hours a day Mon-Fri. We needfriendly, discreet, and reliablestudent to greet people, answerthe phone, make appointmentsand to work on general officeprojects. We pay $8 per hour.It's a great job that still leavesyou time to study and play.Apply in 211 Academic AdvisingCenter, East Campus, 684-5917or send your inquiry todhall@duke.edu.

Needed Work-Study FundedStudent to do filing, copying,errands, data entry, etc. Hours flex-ible....Rate; $7.00/hr, Contact:Lynda Cox at 684-5267.

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Would you like to be PAID to goto class??!! If you take clear,organized notes, you couldmake $7.50-$9/hr (plus traveltime) taking notes for students.Flexible scheduling available.Call 684-5917 for more info.

Position available for work studystudent in the Department ofPharmacology & Cancer Biology.Schedule is flexible but approxi-mately 10 hours/week will beexpected. Please call 681-8097 or684-2221.

Work Study job in Neurobiology labfor responsible student. Pays well.8-10 hours a week. Lab and librarychores, etc. Very flexible schedule.Contact Jeff (681-6165,jfs4@duke.edu).

Positions are available for severalwork study students to assistresearch group in Psychiatrydepartment in the Medical Center.Duties may include assistance withdata management, entry and scan-ning. Rate of pay $6.80/hr. mini-mum. Contact Ron Garrison, 684-SI 30.

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Spring Break 2002 Jamaica,Cancun, Bahamas or Florida. JoinStudent Travel Services, Americas#1 Student Tour Operator.Promote trips at Duke and earncash and free trips.Information/Fteservations 1-200-648-4849 or www.ststravel.com

TEACHERS NEEDEDFor religious/and/or Hebrew schooland Community. Midrasha(Tuesdays 4-s:3bpm and/orSunday mornings) openings for2001-2002 school year. Goodwages. Call 489-7062.

TUTORS NEEDEDEarn money tutoring student ath-letes. Flexible schedule. Work asmuch or as little as your schedulepermits. Qualified tutors especiallyneeded in Public Policy Studies,Economics, Math, ComputerScience, and all Sciences. Applyonline at www.duke.edu/web/ath-letetutor/ or call 613-7567 for moreinformation.'

University Secretary’s Officeseeks work/study student to per-form general office tasks - typ-ing, research, copying, shred-ding, etc.. Flexible hours, con-venient west campus location.Professional demeanorrequired. Call Sara Faust at684-9206.

Wanted: One or two (Junior/Seniorpsychology major preferred) under-graduate research assistants towork on treatment outcome study.Up to 37 hr./sem,sB/hr. Emailozgur®mail.utexas.edu.

Work study position in BioSci. Dataentry, simple tasks in moleculargenetics lab for 6-8 hrs/wk, flexible.660-7365.

Spanish-English bilinguals neededto transcribe life history interviewsfor an on-campus psychology lab.We’re looking for responsible, inter-ested undergraduates to start rightaway. Flexible schedule plus a funworking environment for 10-20hours per week @ $6.75/hour.Email memlab@psych.duke.eduorcall Jennifer at 660-5639 today.

Research Assistant needed forproject on Teacher Quality andStudent Achievement. Dutiesinclude empirical work with largedata sets, plus miscellaneous relat-ed tasks. SAS required: STATAdesirable: social science back-ground desirable. 15-40hours/week. $ll-$l3/hour. HelenLadd (hladd@pps.duke.edu or613-7352)

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Student Assistant PositionAvailable at Asian/PacificStudies Institute. Web Pagemaintenance and update positionavailable for approx. 5 hours perweek at pleasant Campus Drivelocation. Requires good computerskills, including home page knowl-edge/experience. We will workwith your schedule. Choose 5FLEXIBLE day-time hours perweek between Monday and Friday.$lO.OO per hour. Federal CollegeWork/Study Program required(75%/25%). For more informationplease call 684-2604, e-mailddhunt@duke.edu, or come by ouroffice at Asian/Pacific StudiesInstitute, 2111 Campus Drive, DukeUniversity.

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OFFICE ASSISTANTNinth Street Bakery is looking forsomeone toopen up our retail take-out and wait on customers andthen shift into various duties in outoffice. The day starts at 7:00 andlasts till about 12:00-1:00, Monday-Friday. Start up pay is between$7.50 to $8.50 depending on yourexperience. Other benefits includefood discounts, medical insurance,and vacation/sick leave. Call at286-0303 or, preferably, faxresume to 667-0073.

STRUT YOUR STUFF!!!The Duke University StoresMarketing Department is in needof several AppearanceSpecialists. We offer flexiblehours and great pay. For moreinformation, contact AngelaBowling at 684-2065.

STUDENTINTERVIEWERINTERNSHIP

Interested in being a part ofundergraduate student recruit-ment efforts? The Duke Office ofUndergraduate Admissions hasseveral openings for paid stu-dent interviewer internships.Primary responsibilities includeconducting interviews ofprospective students and cam-pus tours. Applicants must beclass of 2002 or graduate stu-dents with excellent communi-cation skills, knowledgeableenthusiasm for Duke and con-siderable availability. To applysubmit a resume and cover let-ter to Steve Wilkins,Undergraduate Admissions, Box90586 or call 684-0159 bySeptember 15.

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1012 Norwood 4BR 2BA like new.3 min. Duke. 2888 sq. feet. Creditcheck. $9OO. 416-0393.

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U.S. men’s soccer team fightsto qualify for 2002 World Cup

By JOHN RICEThe Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica—ln the UnitedStates, American soccer fans are outnum-bered. The margin won’t be even closeWednesday night, when the U.S. teamplays Costa Rica in a World Cup qualifier.

Shocked by Honduras Saturday inWashington, the United States (4-2-1)trails Costa Rica (5-1-1) by three pointsin the six-nation finals of the North andCentral American and Caribbean region.

Upon his arrival last night, U.S. coachBruce Arena lavished praise on the CostaRican fans. While U.S. fans were outnum-bered by Honduran fans at RFK Stadiumlast weekend, the Costa Ricans will fillSaprissa Stadium on Wednesday night.

“Ifwe had a venue like that, or a pas-sion or support for the team, it would be areal plus for us,” he said. “That’s some-thing that one day we’ll probably have inthe U.S.”

The Americans probably need threepoints or possibly four to qualify for nextyear’s tournament—with an outsidechance they would need five if their goaldifference is overtaken by both Mexicoand Honduras. The United States is con-fident it can get those points, especiallywith a home game remaining againstJamaica (2-3-2) and a road match atTrinidad and Tobago (0-6-1).

Arena said a loss would put pressureon the Americans, saying it“would maybeput us in theposition where we had to getsix out of the last six” points to qualify.

The Americans practiced Tuesday inVirginia, then traveled to the Costa

Rican capital, which was drenched by atropical thunderstorm before theirarrival. More storms were forecast forWednesday night.

Costa Rica would clinch one of theregion’s three World Cup berths with avictory Wednesday night.

“We’ve almost got the ticket now,”Costa Rican coach Alexandre Guimaraessaid Monday. “Now we’re going for theother goal, which is to finish the round infirst place by beating on Wednesday theonly team we haven’t defeated in thisstage: the United States.”

The Americans are 0-4-1 in World Cupqualifiers in Costa Rica, losing 2-1 in lastyear’s semifinals on a late penalty kick.

But streaks haven’t counted for muchin World Cup qualifying lately.

Costa Rica stopped Mexico’s 20-yearhome unbeaten streak in June, Mexicoended Jamaica’s seven-year run at homeSunday and Honduras ended the UnitedStates’ 16-year, 19-game home unbeatenstreak in qualifying with a 3-2 win.

“Who would ever bet that the awayteams are winning as many games asthey are in this competition? That’s pret-ty strange,” Arena said.

Arena said he hoped to keep CostaRica from clinching, partly because itwould mean it has something to play forin its next game, against Mexico.

The US. team, which leadsHonduras (3-2-2) by two points andMexico (3-3-1) by three, had multipledefensive breakdowns at RFK Stadium.Arena promised “a couple of changes”but wouldn’t give specifics.

Christensen learns valuablelife lessons with Blue Devils

CHRISTENSEN from page 14Christensen said. “It was a situationwhere the whole was greater than thesum of its parts. In my experience, gen-erally speaking, the whole is actuallyless than the sum ofits parts.”

Christensen, who generally finds iteasier to talk about the concept ofteamthan about himself, hopes to contributemore rebounding and defense this sea-son on two healthy knees and realizesthat there will be the added burden ofbeing a leader.

“Since I am the only senior, I feel likethere is an expectation and a position ofleadership that I have and will do mybest to fill,” he said.

Looking beyond the upcoming seasonto graduation and life after Duke,Christensen would like to be able toplay professional basketball some-where. He realizes, however, that hisbody may stand in the way.

“Just looking at desire, there are fac-tors external to that that can affectplaying basketball,” he said. “It’s verypossible that there’s just not a lot oflifeleft in my knee.”

If basketball does not work out forChristensen, the civil engineering-eco-nomics double major’s future is still inexcellent shape. He is looking at a num-ber ofinvestment banking and consult-ing firms. Christensen believes that hisexperience with Duke basketball showsprospective employers his ability towork long hours, thrive on a teamwhere he makes others look better andunderstand the relationship between

hard work and results. But for himself,he believes he has taken more awayfrom his time on the team.

“The level of expectation inside Dukebasketball is at such a perfectionistlevel that it seeps into other aspects ofyour life,” he said. “Arrogant would bethe wrong word, but I’ve become and Ithink we all do become very exacting ofourselves and very uninclined to settlefor something thatwe know we’re capa-ble of a little more.”

This attitude ofperfectionism comesfrom the top at Duke: Krzyzewski.

“I think [Krzyzewski] sees no reasonwhy things shouldn’t be as good as theycan possibly be,” Christensen said. “It’sthe difference between being as good asyou can possibly be within humanbounds and reality [which] is kind oflaziness and excuses. He helps us recog-nize that and builds an atmosphere andculture that is geared towards evolvingand improving yourself until you doattain the caliber of excellence that heexpects. That’s one thing that will helpme the rest ofmy life.”

But before the rest of his life,Christensen will stand on a treadmill. Atight vest suspended from cables abovewill be strapped around his chest andwill hold much of his weight off thetreadmill. In this posture, he can run for20 minutes without putting muchweight on his knee. He will do this andthe rest of his regimen daily throughthe season.

“It’s really worth it,” he said wistfully.“Especially ifit could be like last year,”

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Community CalendarDuke University Museum of Art: Receptionand lecture by artist Rodolfo Abularach.Tickets are $3 for the public, $2 for stu-dents and free to Friends of DUMA. Call684-5135. 5:30 pm. DUMA, East Campus.

The Duke University’s Master of Arts inLiberal Studies Program (MALS) will beholding an information Session at EastDuke Parlor, East Duke Building at DukeUniversity in Durham, at 6:00 pm. TheMALS program offers both part-time andfull-time graduates study for adults inter-ested in specially-designed interdiscipli-nary course work. Scholarships and tuitionassistance available. Call 684-3222.

Freewater Rims: “Five Easy Pieces,” withJack Nicholson. Tickets are free to- Dukestudents, $4 for Duke employees, and $5for all others. For information, calf 684-2911. 7:00, 9:30 pm. Griffith Film Theater,Bryan Center, West Campus.

French and Francophone Film Series:“Faat Kine,” {Senegal, Wolof and Frenchwith English subtitles). Free. 8:00 pm,Richard White Auditorium.

Teer House: Cholesterol Update. JoycePrice. To register, call 416-3853 or 1-838-ASK-DUKE (275-3853). 7:00 pm. N. Rox-boro Road, Durham.

FridayJoin the 16th annual Friends of the LibraryBook Sale in Alamance County. At theColonial Mall on Huffman Mill Road inBurlington. Through September 15. Formore information call 336-229-3588.

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Institute of the Arts: Opening receptionfor artist John Taormina and the exhibit“Patterns." John Taormina is the Curatorof Visual Resources for the Duke Univer-sity Department of Art and Art History.The collection of color photographs onview reflects his interest in capturing ab-stractions and patterns from his travels tomany countries. For information, call660-3356. 4:00 pm. Bivins Building, EastCampus.

Freewater Films: “Jesus’ Son," with BillyCrudup. Tickets are free to Duke stu-dents, $4 for Duke employees, and $5forall others. For information, call 684-2911.7:00, 9:30 pm. Griffith Film Theater,Bryan Center, West Campus

SaturdayQuadrangle Pictures: “Blow,” with John-ny Depp. Tickets are $4 for Duke stu-dents and Duke employees (cash orflex), and $5 for the all others. For infor-mation, call 684-2911. 7:00, 10:00 pm.Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, WestCampus.

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The Duke University’s Master of Arts inLiberal Studies Program (MALS) will beholding an Information Session at QuailRidge Books, Ridgewood Shopping Cen-ter in Raleigh, at 6:00 pm. The MALS pro-gram offers both part-time and full-timegraduates study for adults interested inspecially-designed interdisciplinary coursework. Scholarships and tuition assistanceavailable. For more information call 684-3222.

ThursdayAmerican Red Cross: Open blood donorsite. By appointment (684-4799). 9:00 amto 2:00 pm. Duke Clinic.

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Bush’s wasteful plan to create a shield againstmissile launches jeopardizes diplomacy

President George W. Bush’s insistence on establishing a missiledefense shield is misguided. The creation ofthis highly-touted,but ill-conceived, system would be both politically disastrous

and financially untenable.The United States has been far too willing to make poor foreign

policy compromises in order to quell justified international oppositionto this system. Unwittingly, the Bush administration has refrainedfrom protesting China’s missile buildup in order to garner supportfor the plan. It is equally undesirable for the United States torestructure its foreign policy so that it can back out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

But the implications of a missile defense system run deeper. If theBush administration goes ahead with its current plan, it will likelyspur an international arms race. Proponents have said the defensesystem will only have the ability to down a very small number ofmissiles, and therefore should not threaten any rational or fair-deal-ing country; but no country will have any real assurance that theUnited States will not tweak the system to make the shield morepowerful. For their own security, in fact, countries must assume thatthe United States will be impermeable to their missiles.

It is a bad idea for the United States to put other nations, bothfriend and foe, in an inferior security position. Upon realizing thatthey will be less able to defend themselves effectively against a US,attack, they will have an incentive to build up their arsenals or tofind away around the missile defense shield. And if a country is evencontemplating an attack on the United States, it would be tempted todo so before the shield has been completed.

The principle ofmutually-assured destruction has served theUnited States well for 50 years. There is no good reason to abandon it.

Aside from the foreign policy costs, this system—which for allintents and purposes is the misguided child offormer presidentRonald Reagan’s failed Star Wars program—has cost American citi-zens’ billions ofdollars and has produced dodgy results at best.

Even if the United States were able to make the system function-al—something that has been technologically unfeasible since at leastthe early 1980s—it would not likely offer the type ofprotection theBush administration expects.

So-called rogue nations, the stated target of the system, are farless likely to develop or fire sophisticated long-range cruise missilesagainst the United States than more developed nations. It is muchcheaper and simpler for countries that intend to attack the UnitedStates to take covert terrorist action. A freight ship holding a con-tainer filled with nuclear explosives in the New York Harbor couldeasily go undetected.

In the midst of a slumping economy and a rapidly waning govern-ment surplus, there are many better ways for the United States tospend its money. It would do well to find alternative expenditures—-military or domestic—that are effective and do not involve the seri-ous negative impacts of a missile defense system.

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Letters to the editor

Editorial shows typical arrogance toward Dockeryis even considering Dockery,”that make people hate Duke.The bottom line is thatDockery will attend Duke,and if he can’t make it in theclassroom, he will end uplike former Duke basketballplayer Andre Sweet, Eitherway, I would much ratherroom with a student-athletefrom Julian like Dockerythan with one of theAbercrombie-and-Fitchclothes sporting clones, whocurrently populate the cam-pus, and he will probablyadd much more to theUniversity than a random1,400 SAT, 4.0 GPA whitemale from Rockville, Md.that The Chronicle wouldhave enter Duke next year.

Maybe Sean Dockery,rather than the admissionsoffice, should look harder atwho his classmates are goingto be in Durham next year.

I take exception to the torial, however, is the unmit-Sept. 4 staff editorial, igated attack on Sean“Straying from Academics.” Dockery. The sum total oftheFrom the title, I will assume argument was that he shouldthat the intent ofthe column not be allowed into Dukewas to shame Duke for the because of GPA and ACTattention that it lavishes on scores and that is garbage. Ifits men’s basketball pro- he attains the qualifyinggram. The writers hope to ACT score, then should hereform it with a healthy dose still be kept from attendingof intellectual panacea. Duke because he didn’t scoreIncluded in this editorial are as highly as Chronicle staffpersonal attacks on coach thought he should have?Mike Krzyzewski for his The bottom line is thatteam’s involvement with Duke regularly considersNike and on new basketball activities other than the fewrecruit Sean Dockery. hours you spent in some test

Attacks on Coach K and room or how many FridayDuke for their association nights you spent working aswith Nike may be somewhat editor of your high schooljustified, but there are proba- newspaper. Duke shouldbly more troublesome issues welcome anyone, not justthan basketball camps in basketball players, who havewhich players “feel intense the prowess to attend thepressure to attend the camp University from Dockery’sand play well.” If only the Julian High on Chicago’sstaff of The Chronicle felt south side. It is the intellec-“intense pressure” to write a tual snobbery of commentsdecent column. such as, “[lt] is sad that a James McGuire

My real beef with the edi- top-10 institution like Duke Trinity ’OOfor referenced editorial, see http:/ /www.chronicle.duke.edu!story.php?article_id=23279

U.S., Israel rightly withdrew from U.N. conferenceOn behalf ofDuke Friends

of Israel, we would like totions of Zionism provided achance for numerousRussian Jews to escape thepogroms ofRussia and live ina place where they would nolonger be persecuted becauseof who they were and whatthey believed in.

Following World War IIand the Holocaust, Zionismserved as a shelter and even-tually led to a homeland forthousands of European Jewswho had survived one of themost horrific periods of histo-ry. To denounce Zionism as apractice of racial discrimina-tion shows that racist senti-ments against Jews similar tothose during the Nazi regime

still exist in the world arena.The misbelief that Israel hasunjustly occupied their right-ful territory shows thataggression, rather thanpeace, is at the top of theagenda for some key U.N. del-egates. We hope that theother U.N. delegates followthe example set by the UnitedStates to create a desire forpeace in the Middle East.

show our support for theUnited States’ and Israel’swithdrawal from the WorldConference Against Racismin Durban, South Africa. Thevote that attempted toequate Zionism with racismwas shunned by Secretary ofState Colin Powell and mem-bers of Congress as a blatantattack against one nation:Israel. The main purpose ofthe . conference was toaddress global discrimina-tion, not wrongly accuse theJewish homeland andZionists of harboring racismand oppression. The founda-

David NefouseTrinity ’O2

Rachel GottesmanTrinity ’O3

The writers are the president andAmerican-Israel Public Affairs

Committee representative ofDPI.

On the recordThey kind of have this boot camp philosophy—get out there and do it

Shayne Cokerdem, a graduate ofDuke’s Master ofArts in Teaching Program, on how quickly studentsin the program begin their teaching internship (see story page three)

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Oak RoomThis interview, with new Vice President for Student

Affairs Larry Moneta, is the first in this year’s series ofOak Room Interviews, designed to shed light on the per-sonalities ofcampus figures in an informal setting. Theinterview was conducted by John Bush, editorial pageeditor of The Chronicle.

unique to Duke,JB: There’s a football displayed in your office—is it

signed by someone?LM: It’s signed by Don Shula.JB; Are you a Dolphins fan?IjIVL

; No, no—l’m from Boston. What happened isone of my responsibilities [at the University ofPennsylvania] was [to oversee] a couple of restaurants.And Don Shula opened up a whole chain of nationalrestaurants.... So, Don came up to the grand openingand brought pictures and a couple of footballs.

JB: So, how’s your day going?LM : Actually it’s lovely. Great weather. Everyone’s

got classes and seems to be excited about them. Thestaff and I had our first staff meeting this morning. Wewent around in a circle and talked about what wasgoing 0n....

JB: And there’s a basketball in your office also.LM: That’s a funny story. We had a faculty-staff

game against the students. [Duke Vice President forHuman Resources] Clint Davidson was on my team....I coached the team, and I also hit the winning three-pointer in overtime.

JB: What events have you gone to?LM: I toured through all of the opening weekend

events, including events on East and West, observingthat move-in process... talking to parents of Trinityand Pratt children. I was at the activities fair. I was atMaya Angelou and the health and cultural fair after. Iwent to a Freeman Center advisory board meeting.... JB: You have your own web page. Are you into

technology?JB: What surprises you most so far about this job?LM : I can’t really say that I’ve been surprised.

One, I think that the Duke folks who recruited mewere accurate in portraying both the challenge andthe opportunity. That was a pleasant surprise—lguess that there was some accuracy in that, oftentruth in advertising may not be necessary. Maybe theabsence of being surprised—l probably came inthinking that’s going to be what the reality of thething is. It’s obviously pretty close to the goods thatwere presented.

LM: I have an interest in playing with the web....Actually, my mother-in-law has an avid interest. I cre-ated the web page so that I could post family pictureson the Internet and my moth-er-in-law would have access tothem in Florida

JB : Is the environment much differentfrom whatit was at Penn?LM ; There is almost an inverse situation. Penn,

located right in the heart ofPhiladelphia, can use thecity in many ways as a support mechanism. Thelargest cab stands in the city of Philadelphia are linedup in front of the residence halls. The students reallydo jump in the cabs on weekends or any time to godowntown to dance clubs. That puts the university ina different role in terms of providing special recre-ational and cultural opportunities. Here, you got theinverse relationship—the bulk of the upper classesstill live on West.

It’s very interesting that the center of the campusis residential with a lot of the academics at theperimeter, which is different from many other cam-puses. There’s not much around this area—there’snot a college town for people to slip into. It’s a realburden—not a burden in a negative sense—but aburden in terms of cause to realize that we’ve got tocreate more cultural and recreational services hereon the campus. And that’s framing the way that Ithink about the Bryan Center and West Union andcampus renovations in thelong haul...,

JB: Problems like alcohol... The alcohol isSUC 15 d

schodsT similar between the national phenomenon. It’stake Unique tO Penn OT Duke.

ent shape because the frater- 1nities are off campus at Penn;here, they’re on campus. But I don’t say that assum-ing that fraternities are the infamy of alcohol, butPhiladelphia’s got bars all over the place, so studentswho drink can do that outside of the residences.Here, again, because of the absence of much of aplace to go, much more of it takes place on campus.But, the alcohol issue—l’m tired of talking about itas the alcohol problem—but the alcohol issue is anational phenomenon. It’s not unique to Penn orDuke,... So, when I got here, there were some pat-terns already established. You only need to look atthe commercials for most sporting events on TV tosee the pervasive impact, influencing how one thinkshe has to socialize. And while it may take a differentprocedural form because ofthe surroundings, it’s not

JB: Do you travel often?LM: I love traveling.... We’re looking into a trip to

Alaska....

JB: Growing up in Boston, were you a Red Sox fan?LM ; I am a desperate Red Sox fan. I have a lot of

Boston sports allegiances, probably first and foremostwith the Boston Celtics. I grew up with those years ofchampionships. The Red Sox are not far behind, andthe Patriots and Bruins are nominally there.

Where are you from?JB:Atlanta.LM: You know where [the Atlanta Braves are] orig-

inally from? If fact, I heard that in the revised inter-

league play, Atlanta and Boston will still play eachother even though the National and American Leagueteams will differ. Each team has been designated oneinterleague rival. Boston and Atlanta are because ofthat history. Atlanta will be in Boston, and every otheryear Boston will be in Atlanta. I think that I mightneed to go to Atlanta to see some games.

JB: Have you watched many or been to any Dukegames yet?

LM: Actually, I was at the NCAA tournament.... Asa Celtics fan, you root for those coaches [men’s bas-ketball coach Mike Krzyzewski] who have a lot of con-tinued success... not a lot of superstar teams—it’s areal team....

JB: What made you want to work on a college cam-pus in administration?

LM: I was a math major and had taken the LSATsto consider going to law 5ch001.... I was heavilyinvolved in student leadership but thought I couldn’tstay forever, and I realized that there were professionsthat did this sort of thing....

JB : What’s coming up for you in the next sever-al weeks?LM ; I’m looking forward to meeting with staff...

and the archivist, William King, is going to give me awalking tour of the campus.... I’ve been reading a lotof history about the campus. I’m also enjoying read-ing about the history ofDurham and learning aboutthe culture, heritage and the political issues that areinvolved here. I want to get out on occasional week-ends because I really don’t know North Carolina....I’m also learning about campus rituals—l’m a big

believer in them. I thinkabout maintaining them and

> 7 • 7 . .maybe even adding a few

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beenmarried?haVe UTOUTId',I needtO do 'l don’t wantlowalrte

LM: 28 years. Walking dTOUnd getting a feel part of my jolTl£WS the for what the crowds are...

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and faculty come together see-and came back early.... I tried what the graduate studentto get a date and she was there and as they say the rest ■ • A T , , n^e s are ‘ ?,u. can °! J• f• , J J sitting around; I need to do more walking around get--1 S ™

ting a feel for what the crowds are.... This is really a•TR mr •

. r r . r. i beautiful campusOU : there was a picture ot you in front of theGreatWall of China in The Chronicle last spring. Howlong ago was your trip?

JuiVi ; Last November. It was part of a conferenceon higher education. So, after the conference, my wifeand I stayed for another week or so and touredShanghai....

We were in Beijing just as China was gearing up forthe Olympics. And the other interesting thing is thatwe were there on the night of the presidential election.Of course, no one knew for a month after, but we hadcell phones, trying to call back. I don’t even want to tellyou how much I spent in phone charges calling back tofind out the result of the presidential election and real-izing how little difference it made to the Chinese. Wethink that everybody in the world is focused on theU.S. election.... And certainly there is Western influ-ence in China. We walked into the Forbidden City and

there was a Starbucks rightthere in the Forbidden City.And there are McDonald’severywhere. Not to criticizeMcDonald’s, but when you goto another country, you hope tosee the culture of that countryand not Kentucky FriedChicken everywhere

JB: Did you follow sports much at Penn?LM; Two years ago, the basketball team did a tour,

and one of my roles was that I was the Ivy Leaguerepresentative and also the academic eligibility offi-cer for the university, so I felt that in that capacity Ishould go to Italy with them.... That also happened tobe my 25th anniversary, so I surprised my wife withthe trip.... So it was one of those ideal romanceswhere I got great romance credit for taking my wifeto Italy for our anniversary, and I went to seven bas-ketball games. You couldn’t have planned it better ifyou had tried.

JB: If I recall correctly, Penn lost to Florida thatyear and then we lost to Florida.

LM: We could have beaten Florida. In the firsthalf, we were hitting three pointers from everywhereand I think thatwe were up on Florida by as many aseight points. Maybe someday Duke and Penn couldplay. It could happen. We played Princeton last year,didn’t we?

JB; What colors would you wear to the game?LM: I’d show up wearing blue—you can’t lose.

Penn’s colors are red and blue, and then Duke’s colorsare blue and white. Actually, the only reason that Imaintain an affinity to Penn is that both of my chil-dren went there.... I’m here now.

JB: Maybe we could play in football?LM: No, I think that Penn would get killed..

JB : Twenty years from now, what would you likepeople to say about your tenure as vice president forstudent affairs?LM : Maybe a combination of someone who real-

ly listened and cared about Duke... working with theenvironment. Actually, I’ll take perfect comfort inbeing the person who people say T remember thatguy. I don’t know what he did, but things seem to bepretty good.’

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