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County officials now say 6,000 votes may have been miscast—or not cast—in the May 2 Democratic primary. By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

New questions were raised but none were answered at Tuesday’s meeting of the Durham County Board of Elections, which was supposed to settle the fate of the embattled May 2 House District 23 Democratic primary. Instead, the decisive hearing was rescheduled for 6 p.m. next Tuesday. At the two-and-a-haif-hour meeting, the board’s attorney, Michael Crowell, spent nearly an hour explaining that the board may have underestimated the number of affected voters by about 4,500. He recommended that the hearing be delayed so the new numbers can be finalized; he only discovered the discrepancy Monday. The complaints, which cite problems acknowledged by the elections board, address two separate issues:

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New York investment banker Julian Robertson and his wife Josie donated $24 million dollars to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University to create a merit scholarship program shared between both schools, they announced Tuesday. The couple and administrators from both schools hope the gift will foster a stronger union between the rival institutions and strengthen opportunities for scholars to

become leaders. ‘This is really a great day, a great day for two outstanding universities.... The Robertson program is going to make both programs stronger,” said William McCoy, UNO’s interim chancellor. Tt will break down the barriers to thoughtful and intellectual collaboration.” Robertson, a 1955 UNC graduate, said he has been working on the idea for this program for close to four years, ever since a meeting with some friends of his son Spencer, who was an undergraduate at Duke at the time. “I had a son who graduated from Duke who had the most interesting group of friends. I was really impressed,” said Robertson. “I thought how sad it was that I missed out on these interesting people, and then I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if there was an in-

terplay between these two schools.’” Robertson is the founder and chair of Tiger Management Corporation, a hedge fund whose assets are estimated at $22 billion dollars. Many experts consider him to be one of the most in-

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JULIAN ROBERTSON announced his gilt to Duke and UNC at Durham's University Club Tuesday. The $24 million donation will endow 15 merit scholarships at each school.

fluential and successful managers in his field.

The $24 million dollar cash gift will allow 30 scholars—ls from each school—to take courses at both campuses throughout their undergraduate

careers. In addition, the schools will provide special seminars for freshman and senior scholars. Each of the scholars will be given a laptop computer and will live on the other institution’s See ROBERTSON on page 17

Officials call for gay rights at Pride Parade By JASON WAGNER The Chronicle

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About 3,000 people, including a number of public officials, converged on East Campus for the 15th annual North Carolina Pride march for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights last Saturday. Beginning on Campus Drive, the parade, which included a marching band, several church groups and family organizations continued down West Main Street, Broad Street, Ninth Street and Markham Avenue before returning to campus. Norman Mustafa said he was encouraged by the turnout in the Bull City, which last held the parade six years ago. “It’s probably the biggest parade we’ve had in Durham,” said Mustafa, co-chair of NC Pride 2000, the organization that sponsors the event. Before the parade, a steady flow of public officials and local activists, both gay and straight, came to the steps on the back of the East Duke Building to address the crowd. State representative Verla Insko, (D-Chatham, Orange) came to the podium with her three-year-old grandson Thomas in tow, and read a statement from Vice President A1 Gore, the likely Democratic presidential nominee. “We as a nation need to pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act.... The tragic hatred that led to Matthew Shephard’s death must end,” Gore said in the statement. “I know that the time has come to widen the circle of dignity to include our brothers, sisters and neighbors in the gay and lesbian community.” After reading the letter, Insko, who attended the Pride march

same-sex union ban

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Wednesday to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit it has battled for more than a year. The monetary settlement’s size was not disclosed. immediately Other details still need to be worked out. Some parts of Detroit remain in the dark In the steamy heat, Crews struggled for the second day Wednesday to restore power to Detroit city buildings, schools, police stations

and jails after the century-old municipal power system failed. Convicted murderer executed in Texas John Albert Burks, a murderer and twice-convicted burglar, was executed in Huntsville Tex Wednesday for killing a Waco tortilla shop owner during a 1989 robbery.

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George Trofimoff allegedly spied for the Soviet Union for over 25 years

the In country’s largest crackdown on securities fraud, More than 100 reputed mobsters, stock promoters and executives of Inter-

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A retired Army TAMPA, Fla. colonel was accused Wednesday of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for 25 years. He by German and American officials was arrested in a government sting for seven years. aimed at some unfinished business Trofimoff was arrested at a Tampa hotel after meeting with an from the Cold War. George Trofimoff, 73, allegedly FBI agent who was posing as a sold military secrets to the Soviets Russian operative delivering a paywhile he was a civilian employee ment. His wife, Jutta —who authorof the U.S. Army at an installation ities said was not involved—was Reserve

in West Germany where refugees and defectors from the Soviet bloc were interrogated. The charges could bring life in prison. Because of the position he achieved in the reserves, prosecu-

Airplane collides into airport wall The FAA is trying to determine what caused a Continental Airlines plane to lurch through the wall of a passenger terminal early Wednesday in Newark.

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longer serve as pastors. The statement of faith is not binding on congregations, and so the effect on the Southern Baptists’ 1,600 or so clergywomen—about 100 of whom are pastors leading congregations—is unclear. The statement includes a passage that reads: “While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.”

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and information relating to the national defense of the United States.” The indictment said the Russians paid Troflmoff and gave him an award for bravery. Frank Gallagher, the agent in charge of the FBl’s Tampa office, said Trofimoff was paid $250,000 over the course of his 25-year spy career. Trofimoff retired from his Army civilian job in 1995 after 35 years. He has been living on Patriot Drive in a gated community in Melbourne, Fla., and works as a parttime bagger at a supermarket. At a hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Pizzo ordered Trofimoff held without bail and gave See

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tors called him the highest-ranking U.S. military officer ever charged with espionage. U.S. Attorney Donna Bucella said Trofimoff has been under investigation

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net start-ups were accused Wednesday of strong-arming brokers. Mary Jo and Joey Buttafuoco split up Joey Buttafuoco and his wife, Mary Jo, who stood by him for eight years after she was shot by his teen aged lover, have separated after 23 years of marriage. The reason for the split was not disclosed.

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The revised Faith and Message statement was approved in a show of hands by the thousands of delegates at the denomination’s annual meeting.

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DSG officials prepare for fall semester Financial aid office to move � Although administrators will not name the new spot, they hope to relocate the cramped financial aid office by spring. By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

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JORDAN BAZINSKY, left, president of Duke Student Government, presides over Wednesday evening's DSG advisory panel meeting. The meetings are designed to help DSG officials gauge student opinion by facilitating roundtable discussion among student leaders working and studying at Duke over the summer. By AMBIKA KUMAR “[The meetings are] effective to the ter for off-campus residents, a plan for The Chronicle point that [you] know what you’re this year’s Intercommunity Council Two Duke Student Government of- going to be dealing with... when the and ideas to improve the race and genficials—President Jordan Bazinsky year comes along,” said DSG Director der climate on campus, and Vice President for Community In- of Student Services Mandrill Taylor. Other DSG officials are working teraction Sean Young—are spending “Spacing it out... makes sure that from home. Jason Bergsman, vice their summers at Duke, taking classes everyone’s somewhat on track.” president for academic affairs, said his and readying for a busy fall semester. Taylor, a Trinity junior, said he is priority is developing an online Bazinsky said that aside from two working to expand Safe Rides. “As of teacher-course evaluation system, classes and a part-time job, he has sev- now there’s limitations...,” he said. “It “We’re exploring some basic philosopheral items on his agenda; working on rides to and from Duke Manor, Chapel ical questions as to what our intended reports, meeting with administrators, Tower and Duke Villa apartments, but objectives are with the course evaluaholding weekly summer advisory it doesn’t pick up from [those places].” tion guide and its potential role in the meetings and preparing fall legislator Young, a Trinity junior, has set up a academic undergraduate academic life individual projects. “I’m hoping to cut web page detailing his plans for the of the school,” said Bergsman, a Trinithe lag time,” said Bazinsky ofthe pro- upcoming year. This summer, his pri- ty senior. He added that he is examinjects, which are required of every legis- mary plan is to create a bulletin board ing the possibility of having the evalulator. “We don’t want people spending a displaying upcoming activities in the ations play a role in the assessment of month finding a TJP” Durham area. “Its purpose is to make professors’ performance. Bazinsky, a Trinity senior, said he is He plans to work on reports dealing Durham more accessible to the stuwith the event policy, same-sex unions dent body... [and] to promote students hoping for a productive summer, and financial aid. He added that some going out into the Durham community “[We’re] preparing for the fa 11...” he of these issues would be discussed at more,” said Young, who added that for- said. “[But] that can be a bit of a misthe weekly meetings, which bring to- mer DSG Vice President Jeremy Huff, nomer, because we’re working now. gether administrators and student Trinity ’OO, proposed it two years ago. We’re working toward the future, and Young is also developing a newslet- we’re always working.” leaders who are here for the summer.

When parents move without leaving the University a forwarding address, it can make paying tuition difficult. Hopefully, the financial aid office’s plan to move to an as-yet undisclosed location will not cause similar problems. Although he refused to name a specific place, Vice Provost for Finance and Administration James Roberts said officials hope to consolidate the student loan and financial aid offices by the start of the spring 2001 semester. “We expect the new configuration will allow the offices to work together more closely, reduce student travel time and allow some decompression for the aid staff and more comfortable service areas for students and parents,” Roberts wrote in an e-mail. He added that the opening of the Franklin Center in the former Hanes Annex will create space for several other offices, which will in turn free up space for the financial aid staff. Currently, the undergraduate financial aid office occupies its own building at 2106 Campus Drive. The student loan office is located in the West Duke building. Students often complain that maneuvering between the two locations is inconvenient. “I think it will make it easier for students to conduct their business if they have to go between different offices in an

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Beating heart surgery leads to quicker recovery, lower costs

Surgery performed on a beating heart is becoming a viable option due to advances in stabilization instruments The decision on whether to

By MARKO DJURANOVIC

perform a beating versus still heart surgery will remain with individual surgeons. Some surgeons are comfortable performing on still hearts, while others would prefer to not expose their patients to the heart-lung machine if it is not necessary. A patient’s anatomy is another important factor in this decision. Patients with extensive coronary disease and those who have already had heart surgery

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Researchers at the Medical Center have discovered that patients whose hearts are left beating during heart surgery recover quicker than those whose hearts were stopped. This quicker recovery time leads to lowered costs because it reduces patients’ hospital stays. In a small study of heart patients, researchers found that

performing surgery on a beating heart can reduce intensive care unit stays and costs. In addition, the study found a significant decrease in the average cost of patients’ respiratory care services. Conventional heart surgery is performed by cooling down the patient, stopping the heart and re-routing the blood through a heart-lung machine. While most surgeons prefer to

operate on a still heart, there are downsides to the process. The blood’s exposure to the

heart-lung machine’s foreign surface can increase the risk of stroke and system-wide inflammatory responses. “Signficant advances in beating heart surgery have evolved in the past three years,” said Assistant Professor ofAnesthesiology Dr. Katherine Grichnik, noting that the development of

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heart operation. The study is a product of the researchers noticing that highrisk patients were doing remarkably well after beating heart surgeries. Although Grichnik acknowledged that the 62patient sample size of the experiment is small, she added that SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE this is only an initial study—the HEART STABILIZATION INSTRUMENTS are now enabling surgeons to operate on patients’ beating hearts without the aid question of beating heart of a heart-lung machine, decreasing the risk of stroke and inflammation during surgery. surgery stillrequires a larger inbetter stabilization instruments chine], if it can be done safely” have to work a little faster if vestigation. Grichnik is currenthas made it possible to operate saidAssociate Professor ofAnesthere is work needed on the side ly heading a 400-patient study without the heart-lung machine. thesiology Dr. Mark Newman, heart vessels,” he said. “As the that she believes will show a deDuring surgery with these adding that performing surgery heart comes out of the chest it crease in the length of hospital new devices, a portion of the on a beating heart puts a greater might not pump so well.” stay when beating heart surgery Newman explained that the is performed. heart’s surface roughly the size demands on the surgeon’s experof a half-dollar coin is kept still tise and skill. If work is needed study’s ultimate concern was to The initial study’s findings and operated upon while the rest on the side heart vessels, for exdetermine whether beating were presented last Friday at of the heart is still beating. ample, surgeons have to slowly heart surgery can provide better the annual meeting of the Inter“In theory, there is a benefit of lift and rotate their patient’s or equal results to still heart national Society for Minimally not going to the [heart-lung maheart. “There is a tendency to surgery, regardless of cost. Invasive Cardiac Surgery.

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Student organizes fun-in-the-sun summer activities

The senior’s plans include a trip to an amusement park, Tree-food Fridays' and an ultimate frisbee league By JESSICA CLOUGH The Chronicle It was was hot. Yet the area around Uncle Friday. It Harry’s grocery store and the Central Campus pool

was bustling with students. The gathering is one of many in a new set of initiatives designed to create a greater sense of student community during the summer session. “My priority is to make people have an opportunity to get together and realize that there is a social side to summer session,” said Trinity senior Liz Oakes, who the University hired to be the summer’s social programmer. So far, Oakes has organized events such as the inaugural cookout, which she said brought together about 300 summer school students. The cookout was the first of many “free-food Fridays” to come. This Friday, Oakes’ organized meal will be catered

by Bullock’s Barbecue. Trinity senior Monica Carlson said she enjoyed the first cookout and that it gave her a chance to “see who

here” over the summer. But free food is not the only service Oakes plans to provide. She said she is also looking into planning a beach retreat, bringing bands to the Hideaway, organizing an ultimate frisbee summer league and designing a trip to Carowinds amusement park in July. Oakes also has the keys to a “commons” apartment located at 1911 Yearby Avenue, apartment A. The three-bedroom apartment has a TV ready for student

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use. Oakes said students can request access via ewho said that communicating with all students during mail, ebo2@duke.edu. the summer is one of the most difficult aspects of Even though many students have made it to the building a summer community. ‘The biggest challenge is finding ways to let folks free-food Fridays and know about Oakes’ work, many do not. know what is happening in terms of extra-curricular opJessica Ebright, Trinity ’OO, said finding publicity portunities Gilbert said. “[The vision of a summer comabout the activities was like “Mission Impossible,” and munity! is most successful when it is providing and supthat she had only heard about the pizza and cookout porting activities that bring students together that then by word-of-mouth. become opportunities for new friendships to develop.” Even some students who managed to get around The Office of Continuing Education has provided to the events said they wished the events were betsocial options for summer school students since at ter publicized. least 1992, but many students still feel there are too few activities on campus. Oakes said she has tried to place flyers in high traffic areas like Uncles Harry’s and Southgate DormitoT can’t even imagine what it must be like to be here ry. But she agreed with Paula Gilbert, director of conduring the summer without a car,” said Trinity junior tinuing education and University summer programs, Patricia Castor. ”

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North Carolina death penalty reversals surpass average From staff and wire reports Seventy-one percent of death sentences imposed in North Carolina and later appealed between 1977 and 1995 were reversed at s^a^e or federiivWa al level, according t0 a re P°rt re ThlC AHi J TtCvli leased Monday.

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A study of U.S. death penalty convictions between 1973 and 1995 found that two-thirds of the the verdicts reviewed were reversed:

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Conservationists work to preserve railroad corridors By TREY DAVIS The Chronicle Following the deregulation of railroads in the mid-19705, many railroad companies gave up on failing routes and destroyed the tracks. Like many communities around the nation, the Triangle found itself left with abandoned railroad right-of-ways. Largely untouched for a century, these railroad corridors cut a swath of green through the heart of rapidly growing urban areas. Now, several groups are working to preserve these green spaces. On June 3, the first 3.5-mile segment of the American Tobacco Trail opened to the public. The 30-mile trail, which starts at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park and will eventually run into Wake County, used to serve the American Tobacco factory in downtown Durham. “These things were built 100 years ago and towns built up around them,” said Dan Arrasmith, the Western North Carolina project coordinator for N.C. Rails to Trails. Rails to Trails, a not-for-profit organization, helps communities identify and develop useful right-of-ways. A1 Capehart, Divinity ’64 and a member of NCRT’s board of directors, said the organization intends to keep these areas open for future generations. “I see the infrastructure that was built by our great-grandparents as something to preserve for our great-grandchildren,” Capehart said, adding that preserving rail corridors is away of protecting a sense of community that was “systematically destroyed” as automobiles replaced trains. Aside from preserving corridors for future transportation use, the Rails to Trails program also provides a convenient place for water, sewer, gas and fiber optic lines. Arrasmith explained that because of the easy access to former railroad sites, installation and maintenance of wiring is much cheaper. Since most towns developed around the railroads, the corridors are open all the way into otherwise crowded urban areas. “ConSee TRAIL

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Church affirms gay union stance By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

For 70 years, gay couples have been prohibited from getting married in the Chapel. And if the Chapel’s policy continues to follow that of the United Methodist Church, the ban will be in effect for at least four more. Last month, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church once again reiterated, by a twothirds majority, its opposition to same-sex unions. “Our church ought to have a more nuanced position on this subject,” said Dean of the Chapel Will Willimon. “I was part of a group that was seeking a compromise on this, basically saying.... ‘Let’s have this decided at the local conference level.’” Although the Chapel serves multiple denominations, Willimon cited Duke’s close ties with the Methodist church as one roadblock to allowing samesex unions. “We have a relationship with the Methodist church that we don’t have with other Christian traditions,” he said. He added, though, that Chapel officials are in ongoing discussions about the subject. Currently, Methodist policy on homosexuality is dictated by the Book of Discipline, the church’s book of laws, which can only be amended by the General Conference, a quadrennial gathering that brings together Methodist leaders from around the world. Therefore, the policy cannot be revised until 2004. Debate over same-sex unions at the University has risen again this year after the governing body of

Reform Judaism’s rabbis voted to allow each rabbi to decide whether to perform them. Willimon said that if the conference had reversed its stance, he would have asked Duke officials to reconsider the Chapel’s prohibition of same-sex marriages. “[But] we’ve still got a fracture running down the middle of the church, which ought to be a concern,” See

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JOHN SWEET, left, teaches a class about Microsoft Access to Duke employees. Part of last summer’s workplace culture initiative refocused efforts on job mobility training and communication between workers and their bosses.

Workplace culture evolves slowly By JAIME LEVY The Chronicle

A year after senior administrators announced a mission statement that pledged to suffuse Duke’s workplace culture with the values of trustworthiness, learning, teamwork, respect and diversity, several new training opportunities have sprouted. But as expected, a complete culture change is still years

down the road. Nevertheless, many officials and employees report some shifts in Duke’s work environment, especially through the handful of new, redesigned or long-existing sensitivity training sessions and

skills-enhancement programs. These programs, recently injected with the May 1999 statement’s five overarching themes, focus primarily on training for supervisory staff.

Also, officials are currently assessing training programs for lower-level staffers, finding ways to streamline the programs and make them available to a broader range of employees. While some workshops focus on brushing up skills for work in a specific department, others allow employees to learn the ins and outs of an entirely new, higher-paying profession. Currently, adminisSee WORKPLACE

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Durham Regional names CEO Spy relayed U.S. From staff reports Last Thursday, the Durham County Hospital Cor-

poration Board of Trustees confirmed Richard Liekweg as the new CEO of Durham Regional Hospital. Liekweg, who has served as Durham Regional’s chief operating officer since November, will take over when current CEO Richard Myers retires this month. The transition between senior administrators will take place immediately. Myers was appointed CEO in 1986. Duke Hospital CEO Michael Israel recommended Liekweg for the post. “Rich is an outstanding administrator ]y[ e( hospital who has tremendous energy and a commitment to patient care, Israel said in a statement. He could not be reached for further comment this week. Before taking the position of Durham Regional’s COO, Liekweg spent 12 years as an administrator within the Duke University Health System. “The CEO position will be an exciting challenge and special opportunity to expand beyond hospital operations,” Liekweg said in a statement. “There is a special relationship between the senior administrator ofthis hospital and the community.” Liekweg could not be reached for comment, as he is currently switching offices.

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him a court-appointed attorney. Trofimoff’s telephone number in Melbourne was unlisted. Trofimoff was born in Germany to Russian parents and became a U.S. citizen in 1951. He joined the Army in 1953, served for three years and in 1959 was hired to a civilian working in military intelligence. The indictment said he sold classified information he obtained while serving as a civilian chief of the U.S. Army element of the Nuremburg Joint Interrogation Center in Germany from 1969 to 1994. Prosecutors said Trofimoff used his unlimited ac-

Goldschmidt named cardiology chief; Dr.

Pascal J. Goldschmidt, of Ohio State University, has been named the chief of the division of cardiology at Duke University Medical Center. Currently the director of cardiology and the new Heart and Lung Institute at Ohio State, Goldschmidt will officiallyreplace Dr. Gary Stiles Aug. 1. Goldschmidt’s duties will include oversight of clinical enterprises and direction of the cardiology division’s research activities. Goldschmidt earned his medical degree in 1980 from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. He has completed fellowships and residencies in cardiology and cell biology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

cess to classified information at the center to tell the KGB what the United States knew about the Soviets and their allies. Trofimoff also knew of weaknesses in American intelligence-gathering and passed that information on to the KGB, the indictment said. Trofimoff also received the Order of the Red Banner, the Soviet award presented for bravery and selfsacrifice in the defense of the socialist homeland, prosecutors said. The Soviet Union broke apart in 1991. The indictment said Trofimoff was recruited into the KGB by a boyhood friend, Igor Susemihl, a Russian Orthodox priest who served as the Archbishop of Vienna and Austria and temporary Archbishop of Baden and Bavaria. Trofimoff allegedly took documents from his work and photographed them, passing the film on to

York to become HHMI investigator: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute selected John York, assistant professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, to be one of 48 HHMI investigators. York will receive funding from the institute to Hospital names new CFO: Michael Burke, a support his research, which focuses on a mysterious 42-year-old native of Rochester, N.Y. and a long-time signaling molecule known as inositol. health professional, has taken over as chief financial York and his colleagues are also exploring the Hospital. targets of lithium in treating manic of the Duke pharmacologic officer depression. Now the manager of the hospital’s day-to-day fisThe Maryland-based HHMI supports research in cal affairs, Burke had served as head of the health biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, division cell and life sciences performance improvement biology and computational biology. structural since 1995. Peat Marwick of KPMG

Susemihl and other KGB officers during meetings in Austria. The indictment also notes eight meetings between Trofimoff and KGB officers, naming the KGB agents in three instances. Trofimoffand Susemihl were arrested in Germany in 1994 on espionage charges, but were released when German officials could not prove their case within the five-year statute of limitations. Trofimoff told German authorities the funds he received from Susmihl were personal loans.

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Wells' The Time Machine and it's playing June 15-17 at Durham's Manbites Dog Theater. The show (which is free) features a bevy of current and former Duke students, including Recess' own Angela Fernandes. Call 682-4974.

Trisha Yearwood*Over the years, Country music veteran Trisha Yearwood has won "a ton" of Grammys and more industry awards than you can shake a stick at. This weekend, she brings her act to the Triangle, along with guest Kim Richey. They're performing at Alltel Pavilion this Saturday at 8 pm. Tickets range from $l5 to $35. Call (919) 834-4000. Hillsborough Hog Day»lt's in the Guiness Book of Records as America's largest one-day

barbecue festival. And if all that pork isn't enough to get you there, the Hog Day has been ranked one of the Southeast's Top 20 events for the last 11 years. It’s got the country's best Elvis impersonator. And admission is free (sandwiches are $3.00), The event takes place Saturday from 9 am to 7 pm in dowtown Hillsborough. Call (919) 732-8156.

by Mary Carmichael

Archie

Jones doesn't like to make decisions. He'd rather flip a coin, even if the choice is literally life or death. He's lovably chubby, balding and bumbling in short, he's an unlikely hero, especially for a 450-page epic novel that spans three countries and 142 years. Samad Iqbal isn't much more heroic, although he'd like to think he is. He has three great passions: a distorted alternative history that places his great-great-grandfather at the center of India's freedom fight; a methodical, fanatical devotion to religion; and Poppy Burt-Jones, his twin sons' fresh-off-the-farm high school music teacher. Simple, silly and strangely amusing: Archie and Samad are the heroes, and simultaneously the anti-heroes, of Zadie Smith's White Teeth. Over the years, they fall in love and then marry, or in Samad's case, marry and then fall in love, with totally inappropriate women. Then their children fall in love with philosophy. Then their children fall in love with each other. And for some reason, suddenly this most banal of family histories is more than a sad little soap opera—it's life. Smith weaves her story in and out of various settings— —

ed her craft. She does have an unfortunate tendency to wax philosophical when she doesn't need to; "Life" is always a person

Fete de la Musique Carrboro is transformed into a musical Mecca this Sunday for the town's annual festival. This year's show features such acts as Trophy Wife, Darwin's Letter and Triangle Spelmanslaq. The event runs all day at venues all over Carrboro. Visit www.carrboro.com for more information.

with a capital L. That's charming in the first chapter, but by the sixth, it's worn thin. # The tale's denouement is also a bit hard to swallow; it's sadly reminiscent of the final number in a bad Broadway musical. The plot makes sense, and then BAM! here comes the entire cast, wandering onto the stage of Chapter 20 with no motivation and little raison d'etre, into an artificial final scene that lets them each take a bow. But these are typical stumbling stones —most likely, age will mellow Smith's need for long-winded digressions and puzzle-piece endings. The result may just be one of the finest writers of our generation. At least, I hope so. I've read this book twice now, and I'm getting impatient waiting for her next.Q

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Bangladesh in the 1850s, Bulgaria during World Wa the slums of contemporary London. The story wande an oral history. You can al picture an old griot, plump and wise, bathed in firelight, ZADIE SMITH telling the tale in a low, lulling voice, it's captivating, and all the more so given that the 24year-old author started banging out first drafts during senior finals week at Cambridge University. White Teeth is good literature, 24-year-old phenom author or not, and it deserves every bit of buzz it's gotten. Smith has the dry wit of Douglas Adams and the stylistic flair of Virginia Woolf. Her voice is wise and warm; she treats her characters with dignity, despite their shortcomings—and they have plenty of those. Smith avoids the mistake that so many first-time authors make: She doesn't idolize her characters. Her heroes are real. Smith also wields an astonishing command of history and culture (education at Cambridge will do that to you.) 3t home in every setting, from a Jamaican shack to the house of a Jehovah's witness, from an immigrant pool room to the hills of India. That isn't to say Smith has perfect-

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Pilobolus Dance Theater continues the series of performances What do you get if you take the dancers out of the dance they began last week. This weekend the group presents festival? How about the ADF Musicians Concert? This annual event showcases the skills of the festival's instrumentalists and Program B and a special Children's Performance. The group is known for its outrageous, inventive moving composers. The concert blends everything from jazz to classical sculptures created from the bodies of its unbelievably athletic music to African drumming, performers. A festival favorite, Pilobolus will receive the 20th Anniversary Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival The ADF Musicians concert takes place in Page Auditorium at Award, increased this year from $25,000 to 7:3opm on June 19. ; nn rftm r ■■ $35,000. The award recognizes lifetime achieve'iVXPXTIS O-3 JCQXQJI fv ment in modern dance. The world of modern dance is physijuiie 21 in the cally unforgiving—performers come All of Pllobolus' shows are in Page Auditorium. and go faster than professional Program B takes place June athletes, and it is rare to dance with a company for as long as ten years. In this demanding world, Eiko and Koma have performed together for two decades. First dance partners and then lovers, they are now married with two boys, and the intimacy they have built during the years together is strikingly evident in their dance. The two Japanese dancer-choreographers movements are sensual, sometimes languid and always sculptural and pure. They are attuned not just to each other but to nature; they often mingle their performances with water or trees. Next week, the couple presents the premier of an eveninglength work, When Nights Were Dark, featuring music composed by Joseph Jennings performed by Institutional Radio Choir, a Gospel ensemble. .

Eiko and Koma perform June 20-21 in Reynolds Industries Theatre at 8 pm. A discussion will follow Tuesday night's performance.

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LIGHTS! CAMERA! MEANINGLESS AWARDS! MTV American Film and the

Though watching MTV typically makes me depressed or angry or both, the network's annual movie awards' tongue-in-cheek look at the year in film is a refreshim formal, conservative Os' isn't held down by stud : cumbersome categories Foreign Documentary G ( afford to reward the issi audiences care about, lii movies showed chicks i out, and can we get the onstage with as much skimpage as possible? celebration of the real ju, in pop culture, and while lot of these awards take backseat to the cleavagr least the show's two relatively short hours are entertaining. Several golden

popcorns went to movies that truly merit recognition, yet haven't seen many accolades: Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) got his

well-deserved best new filmmaker award (it's a shame that none of the other new filmmakers out this year were recognizable enough to make this a fully functional category), and South Park raked in a trophy for "Uncle Fucka," the best truly traditional musical song in film in years. Still, the lack of quality movies out there for

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MTV's demographic makes many of these categories trivial. 10 Things I Hate About You should never, ever be mentioned in m with an award i Stiles for ikthrough lale), unless it's

making Shake' mwatchable. T ilso no reason reward Adam S for the plague was Big Dadd Worst of all 1 I mind watchi. Michelle Cellar walk up and down a stage a lot—is Cruel Intentions, an entertaining Aversion at best that reared its ;e, inconsequential head in a opping five categories, and won o of them. course, the big winner was The ix, a film well-fitted for the M imographic—truly innovat moviemaking (contrastin' with that almighty "shoul —watch how uncomfoi Lucas looks among wha irget demographic and yo :y Episode I sucked). And then there was the moment whr Janet Jackson presented the award for Breast... errr, 1 mean Best Male Performance to Keanu Reeves. After all, there couldn't be a more appropriab slogan for MTV-watchers than "Woah. —By Greg Bloom —

At last, the water-cooler debates are over. Fargo (1996, #93) is funnier than Bull Durham (1988, #97). Beetlejuice (1988, #88) edges them both, but City Slickers (1991, #B6) even more laugh-inducing. Beverly Hills Cop (1984, #63) beats all four, and Big (1988, #42) is funnier still. Yep, the American Film Institute is at it again—and if you didn't like being told what the best movies of the century are, try having someone tell you which are the funniest. If you laughed harder at Robin Williams in Good Morning. Vietnam (1987) than at Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot (1959), then there's something wrong with you. In fact, there are 99 things wrong with you—one for each of the movies separating Monroe at #1 from Mork at #lOO. It was one thing to rate movies for quality—people are more than willing to concede that Citizen Kane is a better film than Starship Troopers, but the combination of shower scenes, explosions and giant insects has an allure that transcends filmmaking prowess. But it's harder to stomach host Drew Barrymore and a panel of showbiz professionals telling us who and what to laugh at. In fact, most folks lost interest in objective ratings of subjective things around the time CalTech earned the title of Best College in the United States. Lents of panache Airplane! Icome addition to the Top imething About Mary (1998, ;t film of the 19905? With 993, #34) in hot pursuit? Did :s? Pulp Fiction? South Park? Ips the biggest loser is John olta's latest epic, which issed the deadline by half a >ar. After all, the APl's ccolades are for the 'funniest films" and not the >est intentional comedies. —By Tim Millington '

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Voting

is the easiest way for someone to participate in a democracy—unless you live in Durham County. On May 2, the Durham County Board of Elections tried to do its biennial job of directing its share of the precincts for the statewide primary. For somewhere between 1,500 and 6,000 Durham residents, the House District 23 Democratic primary was an absolute mess, The problem starts with the failure of the Durham County elections director to inform thousands of the county’s residents that their polling precincts had been changed. This failure was in direct violation of state law, which states any precinct change must be made public 45 days in advance of the election, with notifications posted in many of different areas. The stealthy switch created a primary that was an abomination of democracy. The simplest give and take of democracy—casting a vote—was marred by blazing incompetence. Some voters were even turned away fnftn their correct polling stations and were asked to vote in the incorrect primary, while other non-district residents voted in the District 23 race. A board of elections’ first priority should be that voters have access to the polls. This board could not handle its most basic responsibility. Its actions here, or lack thereof, undermine the principles of democracy in a very serious way. This kind of failure discourages people to take part in the democratic process in the future. If this is the kind of incompetence that comes from political officials, then nationwide voter apathy suddenly becomes pretty understandable. The Durham County elections director has made a mistake in trying to brush aside complaints and defend some of her actions. Instead of trying to duck the well-deserved criticism, she promptly resign her position. Whether or not another election is held, the board has wasted the county’s time and money. This damage is in addition to the harm that the election officials have caused to the county —it is hard to place a dollar amount on a loss of public respect. Following this, the county has only one viable option to remedy this problem—hold another election. This needs to be done immediately. The people of Durham County have a right to be heard, even if the number of people who were denied their right to vote is smaller than the winning candidate’s margin of victory. Voting margins make an important statement about the inferred “mandate” that comes with a landslide victory, or lack of a mandate that accompanies a squeaker win. Voting is the most powerful way the public can speak its mind. When the voting process is compromised, it takes down the entire democratic process with it. With voting turnout so low across the countiy, an affront to the process risks running turnout into the ground. Durham, and the democratic system, cannot afford such a precipitous drop.

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Undergraduates deserve every basketball ticket I graduated from Duke in

1998, and I attended every home game that year. To my chagrin did I see the graduate association handed 100 extra seats. I’ve not seen whether or not attendance at home games has been low, but the action is preposterous regardless. It’s heinous enough that Cameron wastes student section seats at all on graduate students and the pep band. To reduce the already-limited number of seats for undergrads is lunacy. for referenced article,

Undergrads play on the

team. Undergrads deserve the seats. Graduate students go to the games as a substitute experience for what was

doubtlessly a sub-par undergraduate basketball team’s performance. When they’re in grad school for eight or nine years, what’s the deal with pushing back a few days some moldy thesis on Sartre and his cigarette abuse to go to a game? Undergrads at the game are what count; no one else.

As for the argument of “Why not fill the seats with boosters?”—they’ll fill the seats and fill your coffers. It is the same for recruiters or anybody else disconnected from the Duke undergraduate experience. Spend time getting undergrads in those seats rather than throwing in the towel and giving them away to the graduate student body with no warning. Juan Batlle Trinity ’9B

see http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/2000/06/08/olGradstudents.html

Affirmative action policies strand Asian* Americans The biggest injustice in in spite of tremendous odds country. This goes against admissions to the elite col- against them.The only quotas the basic tenets of our leges today is being placed that exist today are the exConstitution. on Asian Americans, not on elusionary (upper limits or We need admissions data whites and not on Jews, and caps) quotas for Asian Amerifrom these schools on all the most certainly not on non- cans and the inclusionary criteria and standards that Asian minorities (i.e!, (preferential treatment based they use, both academic and blacks, Latinos and Ameri- on race or ethnic background non-academic, to judge the can Indians) who benefit alone) quotas for non-Asian admissions process’ fairness. from their race or ethnic minorities, These institutions have been This exclusionary quota reluctant to open their files to background alone. The previous injustice against Jews is similar to the one imposed present this information volhistorically has been, by on Jews pre-WWII which untarily until they are faced and large, eliminated by the was eliminated by these with legal action from an abolition of their exclusion- elite colleges and the Ivy individual or a class action ary quotas after World War League. So, why should this suit charging them with II to the elite colleges. They exclusionary quota exist for reverse discrimination—parnow represent 10 (at Prince- Asian Americans in our preticularly against Asian ton) to 35 (at Penn) percent sent day and time? This is Americans. This course of of each of the eight Ivy the result of reverse dis- action must be seriously conLeague colleges’ and of the crimination, sidered now, since no one in other elite colleges’ student Of course, whites must power, i.e. politicians or unipopulations. Jews represent bear some of the “pain” to versity administrators, has 2.5 percent of the total Unit- make room for the nonaddressed this injustice. ed States population. Asian minorities in the Affirmative action based The whites are the major- zero-sum game of admison race alone creates more ity who make the policies sions, but not in any way problems and inequities and the Asian Americans are close to the extent that among the races and ethnic the ones who pay the biggest Asian Americans must bear groups than it solves and price by being excluded by because of the higher resolves. If affirmative action upper limit quotas for past admission standards, as policies are to be continued, injustices instituted on all compared to the whites’ they should be based on minorities by whites. admission standards, that socioeconomic class, not on Asian Americans were they have to meet in order race alone. These types of polialso victims of past racist ex- to gain entrance to these cies would transcend all races elusionary policies created by schools. Asian Americans and groups. Those who would whites and Asian Americans are not on a level playing benefit the most would be the have not asked for redress to field with whites because of non-Asian minorities, but not this past injustice. Yet, Asian these double standards and exclusively, because they are Americans must pay the they “have to be better” than the most represented in the penalty and bear the “pain” any other group, including lower economic classes and disproportionately as com- the white majority, to are truly disadvantaged. pared to whites for past poli- redress past injustices for Anyone, of any race or group, cies which they have no part which they were not responin the higher economic classes in creating, and they are pun- sible and, in many cases, of would not and should not gain ished simply because some which they were victims, an advantage. have succeeded in bettering This is ironic, totally themselves without the ad- unfair and, in my opinion, Dr. Ed Chin vantages of special programs contrary to the laws of this Shorthills, N.J. for referenced letter, see http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/2000/06/08/10Inherentdiscrimination.html

On the record [We re] preparing for the fa 11,... [But] that can be a bit of a misnomer, because were working now. Were working toward the future, and were always working. Duke Student GovernmentPresident Jordan Bazinsky discussing how the organization is planning for the 2000-01 academic year (see story, page three)

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Affirmative inaction Duke needs to spend less time worrying about diversity, and more time recruiting all top students last paragraph offered. But how many most talented students in the country with identifying and promoting the Guiliani’s Corner realize how ludicrous the first para- want in an undergraduate program. If most talented people, regardless of graph

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Kis not a racist. He recruits the best talent he can. I would bet that he does not think once about the race of the men he recruits. I would think he is too busy trying to determine whether they are talented basketball players and whether they can stand up to the pressure and challenges of playmg at a top Division I school. You cannot argue with his results: he consistently fields solid teams. He slips once in a while, but we can forgive a Greg Newton for every Grant Hill.

Dave Nigro Recently, The Chronicle brought the Duke community some exciting news: the Class of 2004 will be one of the most racially diverse classes in our short history. After spending tens of thousands of dollars recruiting minority students, especially blacks and Latinos, the University has finally drawn closer to its goal of making the University’s racial profile reflect the nation’s racial profile. The attainment of this “correct” racial profile is the University’s Holy Grail, even sparking a strong effort to increase the number of black faculty. However, there is one organization at the University, in fact it is the University’s most important group, that does not follow this prime directive. That organization is the men’s basketball team. Led by an apparent racist, the team’s racial profile does not even come close to matching that of either the University or the nation. To remedy this, I call upon Coach K to spend thousands of dollars on a recruiting trip across country. The team is in desperate need of Native Americans, Asians, Latinos, Pacific Islanders and whites in order to conform to the University-wide goal of creating the “perfect racial profile.” Such a racially unbalanced organization should not exist at a highly enlightened institution such as Duke. I am sure that just about all readers realize what a ludicrous idea the

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ating a better undergraduate class each year, then this is the area where it should use its money rather than spending it on recruiting weekends where only people of a certain skin color are welcome. Some may say that our reverse discrimination makes up for past wrongdoing. Two wrongs do not make a right, Rather than constantly examining and defining racial boundaries, the University should commit itself to making the institution what it was designed to be: a meritocracy,

So why does Christoph Guttentag, the Coach Kof academics, think dif- Academics should try to be the last ferently? Why does he hire a “diversi- “pure” place in the world, an Ivory fied staff and spend an obscene Tower isolated from the social probamount of money to recruit students lems of the outside, based on race and not merit? The goal This tower should only be concerned of the University admissions office should be to get the best young minds CL'KToft of the country and deliver them to East Campus. His job should not be to BeC/We he ue Dselect a class that must fit some KoT BeCfws£ H E '3 A PRo“ideal” racial profile. UFTAWT'Oft. Against stiff competition from other C)PU6-C>EAUS6, institutions, Guttentag has enough to C°M|At SIiAM/ai worry about. Guttentag has stated in The Chronicle that the University loses students who have been accepted to the “SHYRMP” schools at a rate of about four to one. The SHYRMP schools (Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Radcliffe, MIT, and Princeton) are the

race or gender. In order to build a better campus community, the University should revise its admissions policies to create a system, “where [applicants] will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” With solid intellectual a base, the University can improve the quality of thought in our free market of ideas, Our four-to-one ratio of talent loss to our competitors is the primary problem of the University when it comes to attracting undergraduates. Duke should focus on this real dilemma and not on creating a “perfect” racial profile that does nothing to enhance the academic quality ofits students

Dave Nigro is a Trinity senior.

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education that the University has tried, since its inception, to emulate. If I were Guttentag, that is the statistic that would keep me up at night. That ratio means that, as much as we would like to think otherwise, Duke just does not have what many of the

The other green party Off the record and on the QT Martin Bama Humor is intended to make you laugh. Political humor is intended to make you laugh and think at the same time. We can forgive a pundit if on occasion he or she is able to deliver one without the other. However, a, political humorist who provokes neither a chuckle nor a thought should leave us in anything but a forgiving mood. Thus, Michael Moore’s a “Ficus for Congress” stunt will receive no pardon here. This fall, a few Republican incumbents are running for reelection without real opposition—unless you count the libertarian party. I don’t. Twelve years ago, Michael Moore was another unemployed resident of Flint, Michigan. Then came Roger and Me, Moore’s smart and scathing critique of General Motors, which chronicled the fate of Flint and thousands of out of work autoworkers. I loved Roger and Me—my mother grew up in Flint and her parents worked for GM. GM handed Flint a pretty rotten deal and Moore did a nice job sticking it to the bigwigs who left a crippled city in their wake. I also enjoyed Moore’s second documentary, The Big One, which dealt with corporate downsizing. I read Moore’s book, watched his television show and, in my pre-journalism days, went to cheer him on at an on-campus lecture. I even have a picture of us shaking hands.

I was a Moore fan—until the ficus Michael, you lost me on this one. There is a difference between making a joke about something and making something into a joke. The idea of running a wave of ficus plants for congressional seats goes too far. Sure, the fact that 24 Republican members of Congress are going to cakewalk to victory this fall bothers me. Most of us would prefer that every district offered people a choice. But, you do that by getting grassroots support for a candidate—not grassroots support for a... grass. Moore frequently complains about the fact that the two parties have become gigantic accounting machines that simply take care of the rich and try to weasel votes out of the poor. Whether you agree with

There is a difference between making a joke about something and making something into a joke. his assessment or not, Moore’s latest gimmick is just that—a distraction that will leave the population no

better informed. This election is pivotal for the future of this country. Americans have choices to make from the top elected office in the land to the office of deputy county clerk. And we need to make these decisions in 2000 to get us out of a “perpetual state of election year.” Since 1997, Congress has been more concerned with posturing for the next election than it has been

about the business of the country. Can you name one bill that the 106th Congress has passed? This year, the White House, Senate and House could all change hands. This is not the time to focus on plants. It is time, however, to plant food for thought. Despite the fact that there is no opposition to challenge these 24 incumbents, there is still a presidential election that requires the American people’s attention. A1 Gore, George W. Bush, Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan are very different people, tied to different parties that represent different interests. Moore should spend more time encouraging the American people to take a good hard look at these four candidates, and less time urging people to come to the local “Ficus for Congress” rally (I am not making this up). By making a joke of the electoral process, Moore perpetuates indifference and apathy. Moore claims that a potted plant can do no harm, whereas a Congressman can cause all sorts of trouble. Well, Congress has done nothing for four years. The 2000 election should be a call to action for dissatisfied people like Moore. Certainly, Moore understands what is at stake in this election, but what has he done? Not much. Moore merely adds to the political disenfranchisement of the American people with a stunt like this. We need to make changes to the political process that will put the demos back in democracy. This is accomplished by pushing for change from within, and creating a concerted effort that topples the political establishment (See Minnesota, 1998). After all, we don’t live in a floracracy. Martin Barna is a Trinity junior and Editorial Page Editor of the Chronicle.

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Willimon said. He added that while state conferences such as North Carolina’s are adamantly opposed to legalizing same-sex unions, others, such as those of Nevada and California, feel the opposite way. Officials at the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church did not see the issue as gravely divisive. Director of Communications Bill Norton likened the issue to an argument within a family. “It doesn’t mean everyone in your family agrees with something,” he said. “[But] we certainly can debate, can discuss, can talk about the issues.” Two Methodist pastors and Duke Divinity School graduates, Jimmy Creech and Greg Dell, have been charged and found guilty of performing same-sex unions by the church. “The [conference] was the legislative version 0f... my trial,” said Creech, Divinity ’7O, who was at the May 2 to May 12 meeting in Lake Erie. “I experienced the same thing there—the church using its resources, overwhelmingly crushing the inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people.” Following his conviction last November, he was stripped of his license to practice and has since been traveling around the country speaking. Dell, also Divinity ’7O, said his experience at the University greatly influenced his beliefs on the subject of same-sex unions.

‘The context for Divinity School education was one where we were encouraged to see the connection between the Christian faith and the world of the 20th century... [and that Christianity] was a living faith.” he said. At his trial last March, Dell was suspended until July. The debate over homosexuality within the Methodist Church began in 1972, when the General Conference declared the practice “incompatible” with Christian teaching. Similar phrasing was approved this year in a 628 to 337 vote. By a similar margin, the 2000 delegates also restated their opposition to ordaining homosexuals.

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About 40 percent of undergraduates are on financial aid, but the office itself occupies 2,000 square feet—about two-and-a-half times the size of a Wannamaker Dormitory commons room. “Our waiting area is rather small and at busy times of the year, people are standing there almost shoulder to shoulder, which can’t be terribly comfortable,” said Director of Financial Aid Jim Belvin.

Belvin said he expects to add more waiting room space and a student resource room to the office. The new space, he said, will hopefully create a more welcoming atmosphere for prospective students and their parents. “I think the fact that we’ll have a student resource room and more space... is going to be quite a boon to the University and certainly to our office and our staff and ultimately to students,” he said.

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trail use. With the acquisition of the land, the group becomes responsible for developing the area into a trail. To create the American Tobacco Trail, the North Carolina Department of Transportation bought the right-of-way from the Norfolk Southern railroad. Because there is no governmental department dedicated to converting railroad corridors, organizations like NCRT and the Triangle Rails-Trails Conservancy coordinate these projects, volunteering to do anything from selecting sites to sending out mailings. Most of their work is done on a volunteer basis, said Capehart, adding that NCRT’s budget for last year was only $ll,OOO. ‘This [coordination] function should be somewhere in the state government,” Capehart said. Adding another dimension to the difficulties of converting rails to trails in North Carolina, over 95 percent of railroads in the state were built on land easement that allowed them to use the intersections. land for several years without owning it Once a railroad discontinues service outright. Under North Carolina law, the on an unprofitable line, government or land would revert to private owners non-profit groups can apply for interim after rail service was discontinued.

tinuous linear space is a rare commodity in a city,” he said. These linear spaces, at a minimum of 100 feet wide, are important for many reasons, said Bill Bussey, president of the Triangle Rails-Trails Conservancy. Hikers and cyclists are now able to use a 10- to 15-foot-wide portion of the American Tobacco Trail, while the rest of the corridor provides a safe space for plants and animals. “The whole thing came as a result of realizing that rail corridors are statewide, man-made natural resources,” Capehart said. The human portion ofthe trail will be paved north of Massey Chapel Road while other segments of the trail may be covered with some sort of crushed rock, said Bussey. All but one of the original railroad bridges remain in place, allowing for trail users to travel over roads and waterways without getting trapped in busy

fences to keep trail-goers off their property, but within a year, almost all of them had installed gates to allow for better trail access. Bussey said most complaints from property owners, who live as close as 150 feet to the trail, come before the trail is built. “Once the trail is managed, it is picked up, it is cared for,” Bussey said. He pointed out that before the American Tobacco Trail opened, people dumped trash on its incomplete sections. Now that it is open to the public, tect with Durham Parks and Recregates prevent vehicular traffic and illeation, said NCDOT contributed gal dumping. $2,936,000 to the first four phases of Although some people say that these the American Tobacco Trail. Another public areas encourage illegal activity, $934,000 came from general obligation Bussey said that reports of crime along funds form bonds in the city of completed trails are consistent with the Durham and $lOO,OOO came from the surrounding areas. And members of the NCRT and the city’s trail fees. Proponents say the benefits of these Triangle Rails-Trails Conservancy retrails go beyond having a corridor open main confident that the opening of the for future transportation alternatives, first segment of the American Tobacco like a light rail system. Trail will spur other localities to begin “Trails can promote a good sense of similar projects. “I’m convinced once we’ve got somecommunity,” Bussey said. He pointed out that after one trail thing on the ground other people will opened a few years ago, residents put up follow,” Capehart said.

But because the state offers conservation credits to landowners, trail-builders are able to keep the corridors intact. Along with the part of the American Tobacco Trail that opened earlier this month, a few segments of the trail have already been paved by local businesses such as Eckerd and Kroger, said Bussey. In addition to individual and corporate funds, local governments, along with the state and federal governments, provide funds for trail construction. Guillo Rodriguez, a landscape archi-

Gift will provide interschool buses I*-GIFT from page 1 campus for one semester. Recipients from UNC will receive money to cover full tuition and room and board, while Duke honorees will receive a scholarship that covers tuition only. Students will receive their degree from the school to which they were admitted, but will receive additional certification from

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Elections board postpones hearing until Tuesday i 1 ELECTION from page

I First, voters were not notified that their precincts had been changed within 45 days of the vote; second, some district residents were turned away from the election while some non-district residents were allowed to vote in the race. In the election, Paul Miller defeated long-time incumbent state representative George Miller by 1,342 votes. Originally, the commission estimated that 1,500 voters had been moved from one precinct to another and that about 600 votes had been illegally cast. But now, the threemember board thinks about 6,000 voters may have been moved, and this change could radically alter the terms of debate. Voters who should not have voted were allowed to do so in precincts 19, 52 and 53. Voters who should have voted in District 23 were turned away at precincts 29, 33 and 35. Crowell said the new data may be meaningless, conceding that the true number of affected voters cannot be calculated. He acknowledged that the lack of notification caused many voters to go to incorrect polling stations and not vote. Also, he said, word-of-mouth about voting trouble could have had an immeasurable chilling effect on the public. Since complaints started flowing in five weeks ago, some Durham residents and, most vocally, Elections Director Mary Booth argued that the election should be certified because the number of affected voters was not large enough to change the election’s outcome. But if the new numbers —to be presented Friday—prove to vastly outstrip the margin of victory, they could pull the teeth of this camp’s original arguments. Of the nearly 100 citizens and 13 official complainants at the hearing at River-

side High School Tuesday, none argued that the election should be upheld. Some citizens have attacked Booth directly for these mistakes, but Eugene Brown, a prominent figure in Durham politics who spoke on behalf of fellow complainants, said they would not ask for Booth’s resignation during these hearings. He, like most of the citizens who spoke at the meeting, appeared exasperated by the board’s refusal to overturn the elections immediately. “We have just spent over an hour discussing numbers,” he said. ‘This discussion epitomizes the confusion and the

chaos that surrounds this North Carolina House election. The numbers cannot determine the outcome of this hearing. Laws were violated and voters were denied their constitutional right to vote.” The complainants have argued all along that numbers do not matter. “If a wrong was done, and we know that, then it doesn’t matter if it was three, four, five, six or seven,” said Madison Whitfield, a Durham resident. “As Americans, we need to fix it and fix it now. If you want to see some apathy on voting, just keep on like this.” Board of Elections Chair Jane Ryan delivered a veiy brief prepared statement toward the meeting’s conclusion, but neither she nor the other two board members revealed how they will cast their votes. “No one cares more about the democratic process than I do,” she said. Paul Miller was the only candidate at the hearing and sat next to his attorney, who said he plans to call several witnesses during Tuesday’s hearing but did not reveal the argument he will present. Miller also remained reserved, saying only, “We’re GRI INANE CHRONICLE just going to look at the evidence and fol- BOARD CHAIR JANE RYAN, seated middle, listened intently as board attorney Michael Crowell exlow this process.” plained Tuesday that the board’s calculations for the House District 23 Democratic primary were wrong.

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Pride Parade starts on East, meets with no opposition 1 PRIDE PARADE

MARCHERS HOLD FLAGS during Saturday’s Pride Parade. About 3,000 marchers gathered on East Campus near the gazebo for a rally and then marched through Durham.

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for the first time this year, echoed Gore’s sentiments. “I think it’s really important for elected officials to provide leadership for the community and say that discrimination is not OK,” she said. “I would like to see a national expansion of our hate crimes laws and if we can’t do it on the national level we should do it on the state level.” Also speaking to the crowd was Clarence Birkhead, chief of the Duke University Police Department, who read a statement from President Nan Keohane. Birkhead rode in a car in the parade. “[I came] to show my support for the community at large as well as this segment of the population,” he said. “It was great.” Kerry Poynter, program coordinator for the University’s Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life said Birkhead’s support was appreciated. “One thing was true, this event couldn’t have happened if it weren’t for the support of Duke,” he said. Poynter noted the diversity of people participating in the march.

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“When people think of pride parades they think about drag queens and leathermen and they’re certainly part of the community and are here,” he said. “But the reality is that the gay community is very diverse.” Rev. Jimmy Creech of Raleigh, who recently made national headlines after he was removed from his position as a minister with the United Methodist Church, echoed those sentiments in his address to the crowd. “One thing I hope you’ll never do is lose your diversity,” he said. “Keep your diversity. It keeps you beautiful.” He reflected on his own experience uniting same-sex couples. “Love is a very holy reality,” he said. “It is a gift that comes from life itself that should not be bound by prejudice and bigotry.” Partners Kathy Waddle and Fran Harler came with their friend Sheelagh Anderson, all of Chapel Hill. Waddle no-

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Training sessions target job mobility, communication � WORKPLACE CULTURE from page 8 trators are trying to streamline these career mobility programs, eliminating overlap and making them more accessible to a broad group ofemployees. Julia Anderson, who works in dining services, took a nine-month mobility program in 1999 and is trying to land a clerical job somewhere else at Duke. “My son knew more about computers than I did.... I wanted to improve on typing skills, word processing,” she said. “[But] when you don’t publicize, who’s to know about it?” But these programs have only reached so far. Housekeeper Spencer Hicks has never heard about any workshops available to him, but he said he felt some of the trickle-down results from management training programs. “It seems like in our department we have a closer

bond in terms of communication..., getting things across, working as a team,” Hicks said. “It seems like lately in meetings it’s been more of an open forum.” In its attempt to create a culture change, the Duke community has much history to surmount. The transfer of the Duke family tobacco fortune to a university in Durham may have signified a shift from industry to education, but 75 years later, many employees believe that plantation traditions have not disappeared from the Duke legacy. Although employees do not indict Duke as a poor employer, some said they had encountered individual supervisors or managers who fit Duke’s plantation image—a description that many employees recognized as fairly common. Housekeeper Vincent Matthews estimated that about halfthe supervisors and managers with whom he has dealt could be characterized as “the dictatorial type.” “Sometimes I’ve met up with people who have a certain upper-class attitude toward certain people, but there are some who are just average people who want to be friendly,” Matthews said. Many University departments did not need administrative encouragement to recognize that they needed to take on these issues. The staff of Perkins Library, for example, has been working on diversity training since 1998. Through the Office of Institutional Equity, the library sponsored several workshops for its entire staff. Reference librarian Eric Smith said that although the program he attended was worthwhile, he has not recognized any cultural changes since training began. “I’m one of the people who had not noticed a problem but other people feel there is one,” he said. “Other than the good spirit that came out of the presentation... I have not noticed any changes in behavior—especially because I didn’t think our behavior was that bad before.” Administrators and employees acknowledge that creating a cultural overhaul is easier said than done.

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Jennifer Goldman and some of her colleagues took a course on customer service a few months ago but she said they may be lapsing into their old behavior already. “[My co-workers! try to be more in-patient and out-patient friendly,” said Goldman, appointments coordinator for the orthopedic appointment office. “It’s good to get the employees involved, but some things are going back to the same way—[like] how people forget to be customer friendly. They’re still learning.” Administrators realize that despite the inclusion of their five key values in training programs, orientation activities and literature about Duke’s employment philosophies, results will not be seen for a long time. “It’s an effort that will take a number of years before we’re able to clearly identify changes that may be clearly attributable to these efforts,” said personnel librarian Sharon Sullivan, who is coordinating Perkins’ staff development programs.

As they work to improve Duke’s workplace culture —as well as the perception of Duke as a plantation-type employer—officials acknowledge the history that came with the University’s namesake. “I don’t think it’s an accurate portrayal of Duke but it’s out there,” said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, one of the top administrators who signed the mission statement. “We have a lot of history to overcome. It probably goes back 75 years [since James B. Duke endowed the University!. If you look at a lot of the Dukes’ employment practices in the first half of the 20th century, I wouldn’t want to defend them.” Director of Communications for Human Resources Deborah Horvitz agreed, adding that an improved workplace environment will not appear overnight. “It’s basically by definition a culture change and that will take years and years,” she said. “You can’t just say, ‘We’re emphasizing respect this week.”’

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� U.S. basketball team may want more Booze With one cut remaining to see which players will compete at next month's world championship qualifying round in Brazil, Carlos Boozer is still in the running for a spot on the U.S. basketball team. Boozer is one of three freshman who have yet to be cut.

� McFlurry of power helps FSU advance Marshall McDougall hit two solo home runs and Jon McDonald tossed a complete game to propel the Seminoles past USD, 3-2, in the quarterfinals of the College World Series yesterday. FSU advances to play LSU in the semifinals. Clemson, on the other hand, was ousted from the double-elimination tournament by LouisianaLafayette in a 5-4 heartbreaker.

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� Tiger begins prowl through Pebble Beach The 100th U.S. Open Championships tee off today in sunny Pebble Beach, where 21 golfers took part in a "21-tee salute” to 1999 U.S. Open champion Payne Stewart, who died in a plane crash shortly after last year’s tournament. Tiger Woods is considered the early favorite this weekend, despite the fact he has never won in Pebble Beach.

� AL elite make pitch at Slammln’ Sammy As the Yankees and Red Sox battle for division supremacy, their owners are making an even bigger push for Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa. With trade talks swirling around Sosa, his close friends are saying he is interested in playing in either Boston or New York, which has added the Mets to the shortlist of possibilities.

� Six balls, no strikes for Rocker in return John Rocker rejoined the Braves yesterday in Pittsburgh after a week-long stay in the minors. Entering with an 8-4 lead in the eighth inning, Rocker threw six pitches without hitting the strike zone before he was pulled in favor of closer Kerry Ligtenberg.

QUOTE OF THE PAY “It’s his choice what happens. We can’t go out there and throw strikes for him.” Braves third baseman Chipper Jones, on the return of teammate John Rocker

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Kobe cans Pacers in Game 4 By CHRIS SHERIDAN Associated Press

Kobe 120 INDIANAPOLIS Lakers Bryant became a true super118 star last night, bum Pacers ankle and all Coming to his team’s rescue after Shaquille O’Neal fouled out in overtime, Bryant made three of the most clutch shots of his young career to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 120-118 victory over the Indiana Pacers and a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Superstars make great plays at big moments, and that’s what Bryant did three times in the extra session. He showed an uncanny calmness for a 21-year-old playing on a “throbbing” ankle that had kept him out of most of Game 2 and all of Game 3. Two of the shots were straightaway jumpers to restore three-point leads; the last was a reverse layup putback of a miss by Brian Shaw with 5.9 seconds left. The Pacers had a chance to win it, but Reggie Miller—after scoring 35 points—couldn’t get an open three-pointer to drop from the right elbow of the three-point line. Of all the stuff that makes Bryant a star—the slam dunk title, the numerous commercial endorsements, the girls who go gah-gah in his presence—the only thing missing was a heroic basketball story to make it all matter. And this was the night for it to happen as Bryant had 28 points in 47 minutes to give the Lakers the victory in what was easREGGIE MILLER soars for two of his team-high 35 ily the best game of the series. points. Miller missed a game-winning three in OT. See LAKERS on page 22 �

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Like a slowly gathering storm, the Gail Goestenkors switchboard gradually springs from a lone canned ring to a four-alarm communications fire. It’s not actually a switchboard, of course, but during the busiest part of the women’s basketball season it comes complete with a a series of rings and flashes that would make even Ma Bell blush. On those days, it simply fills the background with all the ambiance of a Manhattan traffic jam. Needless to say, Gail Goestenkors never has to wait for a phone call. Yet in the middle of it all, Goestenkors will be doing just that, sitting and waiting for one phone call—from Lauren Rice, the newest member of the college basketball coaching fraternity. Just 10 weeks after her basketball career had seemingly ended with Duke’s Sweet 16 loss to Louisiana State, Rice decided to continue her basketball career as an assistant coach at South Alabama State. And though it may be months away, Goestenkors knows that sometime in the early part of Rice’s first season, that phone call will be coming. She even knows exactly what she’ll say. Til tell her to be patient,” says Goestenkors, who got her coaching break as an assistant under Purdue’s legendary coach Lynne Dunn. “The one thing she has to remember is that the first year is always JENNIFER ANDERSON/THE CHRONICLE the toughest Although Rice was a team captain her LAUREN RICE will be hounding opponents from the sidelines next season for South Alabama when she See RICE on page 23 � debuts as an assistant cx)ach. ”

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Clemens vs. Pedro II lacks rocketpower Pacers foul Shaq out, still fall short in OT By JOSH DUBOW Associated Press

2 NEW YORK Yankees Pedro Neither Red Sox 1 Martinez nor Roger Clemens was' around when their rematch was decided yesterday. Seventeen days after their classic duel, Clemens left with an early injury and the Yankees

wore down Martinez in six innings before New York beat Boston 2-1 on Tino Martinez’s

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between the Red Sox current ace and their former one, ended early when Clemens was replaced to start the secRamiro inning by ond Mendoza because of a strained right groin. But Mendoza matched the defending Cy Young Award winner and kept the Yankees in the game until Tino Martinez won it with his sevA DEJECTED ROGER CLEMENS walks toward the Yankees dugout with a strained groin after enth homer. With two outs in the first inning. Both he and Pedro Martinez, not pictured, received no-decisions. the eighth, Martinez hit a 1-0 tied the game on a controversial home run by pitch from Tim Wakefield (2-5) into the upper deck in right field to give the Yankees Nomar Garciaparra. a 2-1 lead. Ricky Ledee nearly made a spectacular catch, Jason Grimsley (3-1) got four outs for the win and leaping into the stands. The ball hit his glove, but Mariano Rivera pitched the ninth for his 15th save the glove hit a fan, the ball popped out, hit the top of in 17 chances. the wall and ricocheted in front of the foul pole into Pedro Martinez, who pitched a four-hitter in foul territory for what should have been a groundBoston’s 2-0 win over Clemens and the Yankees on rule double. May 28, allowed one run and six hits in six innings Ledee landed and looked at his glove in disbelief and left after throwing 101 pitches. Martinez, who as third-base umpire Travis Katzenmeyer ruled the had gone at least seven innings in all 10 starts this ball a home run, generating cheers from the Red Sox season, walked two and struck out seven in his first fans at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees didn’t argue no-decision since Sept. 15,1999, at Cleveland. the call. With trade rumors about Sammy Sosa swirling The Yankees, who had not scored in their 21 and one day after owner George Steinbrenner innings against Martinez, broke through for a run in warned that “we better do something,” the Yankees the first. Chuck Knoblauch led off with a double and did, moving one game in front of Boston in the AL moved to third on Paul O’Neill’s one-out infield sinEast. Boston had won 8-of-9 regular season games gle—just the third hit this season off Martinez with runners in scoring position. against New York. Mendoza, bumped in the rotation by Clemens After Bernie Williams was hit by a pitch and after Monday’s rainout, pitched out of trouble much Martinez struck out, Jorge Posada forced in a run by of the game as Boston stranded 12 runners, but had walking on a 3-2 pitch. only two hits in 16 at-bats with runners on base. O’Neill had three hits, joining Jeter as the only With two outs in the seventh, the Red Sox finally batters this season to get three hits off Martinez.

LAKERS from page 21 “In our mind this was the championship so we came out with effort,” Bryant said. “We wanted to keep it close and then make a run.” O’Neal added 36 points and 21 rebounds and Robert Horry scored 17 off the bench for Los Angeles, which shot 52 percent from the field. “We let one get away so we came in with a conscious effort to get this one, and we did,” O’Neal said. Miller scored 19 ofhis points in the fourth quarter

and overtime, and Rik Smits added 24 and Jalen Rose had 14 for the Pacers. O’Neal had a chance to win it in regulation but missed an 8-foot jump hook at the buzzer after Travis Best had shot an airball on Indiana’s final possession of the fourth quarter. It went into overtime tied 104104, and the Lakers scored six of the next eight points. Miller then hit a fallaway three-pointer, O’Neal had a layup, and O’Neal then went over Smits’ back to pick up his sixth foul with 2:33 left. “I just relaxed like I was playing the back yard,” Bryant said ofhow he played after O’Neal fouled out.

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senior season and well-respected as an on-court leader, her decision to coach was somewhat of a surprise. Her father, Doug Rice, had built up a small business, Agra Placement, into a growing company and daughter Lauren was the heiress apparent. During her senior season, it was simply assumed that the path out ofWallace Wade Stadium at graduation would lead directly back to her hometown of Peru, Ind. So when she sat at the press table with a dull stare fixed nowhere in particular, it was simply assumed that when she spoke of the end of her Duke career, she spoke doubly of the end of her basketball career. “It was great,” she said at the time, “It was a great chapter in my life, but it’s over.” But what Lauren Rice was about to discover was that just because the story ended, it didn’t mean she had to stop writing. “[My parents] have always allowed me to be independent; the direction I take is up to me,” Rice says. “As for the business, I had a lot to learn anyway, everything was changing. Basketball was my passion.” So the soon-to-be assistant coach Rice met with the long-since assistant coach Goestenkors and the two began to discuss job openings. But it was a quirk of fate, not the best laid plains of coach and player that earned Rice an interview at South Alabama. A Hoosier by birth, Rice submitted her resume to Indiana while it was in the midst of a coaching change. But the resume didn’t wind up in the Bloomington filing

office, it wound up in the hands of Keila Whittington, an assistant with the Hoosier program who was leaving to join new head coach Rick Pietri at South Alabama. One week and one interview later, Rice was offered the third assistant position with the Jaguars. “She’s in a great situation,” Goestenkors says about Rice, who joins former teammate Shaeta Brown in Duke’s coaching family. “She gets to bring all her enthusiasm and dedication into a young program that is headed up.” Rice also brings an uncanny knowledge for the game on the floor, as she started at four different positions for the Blue Devils. But as much as she can bring to the Jaguars is as much as she has yet to learn on the job. Although the South Alabama job should prove a stepping stone in Rice’s career, the former Blue Devil has a lot to learn about the behind-the-scenes work of coaching, like the constant threat of injury—paper cuts. “Nobody mentioned all the paperwork,” Rice says with a laugh. “There a lot of things like that I have to learn, because I didn’t go the graduate assistant route. I want to take however long I’m there and leam everything.” Already, she’s found herself hosting recruits and working camps, and somewhere in the whirlwind of a month, she’s lived between Mobile, Ala. and Durham, she found time to speak to Goestenkors, though only briefly. “I congratulated her and told her she’ll do well,” Goestenkors says. But she stillknows that sometime during the busiest day of the season, there’ll be a call from a familiar voice. And that’s one call Gail Goestenkors will take.

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