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Oak Room undergoes extensive renovations ARAMARK plans menu changes By VICTORIA KAPLAN The Chronicle
After vast undergoing changes to both its design and menu, the Oak Room will reopen Oct. 1 under the management of ARAMARK Corp. and local restaurateur Maggie Radzwiller, Trinity ’77. The physical renovations, which include the installation of a wine bar in the restaurant’s waiting area, as well as new furniture, carpet and walls, are meant to create an “upscale atmosphere,” said senior Jason Freedman, co-chair of the Duke University Student Dining AdJESSICAWESTAHE CHRONICLE visory Committee. Dave Randolph, ARAWAYNE TISSOT helps renovate the Oak Room, which this summer was taken over by ARAMARK Corp. Officials plan MARK’s district manager for to add a wine bar to the restaurant and replace the furniture and carpeting.
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The Durham Board of County Commissioners unanimously agreed to ask the state Legislature for the authority to increase the hotel occupancy tax by 1 percent. The Durham Board of County Commissioners became the second local legislative body to request authority to increase the hotel occupancy tax by 1 percent Monday night, agreeing in spirit with a proposal from the City of Durham. The county commissioners voted 5-0 to ask the state Legislature for permission to increase the tax beginning in January to fund about half of the cost of a proposed 5,000-seat performing arts theater downtown. “We have a stake in the future of downtown Durham,” County Manager Mike Ruffin said. “This particular project, we believe, could be pivotal for the future of downtown Durham.” The commissioners agreed to divide the revenue roughly along lines proposed Monday afternoon by City Manager Marcia Conner. Under Conner’s plan, the city would use $1.4 million of the tax revenues annually for half of the estimated $2.8 million debt payments on the theater, beginning in July 2003. The remainder ofthe increased revenues, up to $500,000, would go to the county to pay for an existing debt on the Museum of Life and Science. But during the first year and a half of the tax increase, $700,000 would go to the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau to market the city. “It’s priming the pump,” Shelly Green, DCVB executive vice president for marketing, told the commissioners. “It’s taking that money to draw visitors to Durham who will spend money and stay in hotels.” The DCVB had long opposed the tax, favoring a pre-
Duke, described the Oak Room’s new look as “eclectic but in keeping with the traditional Oak Room style. It will have a much fresher look.” There will be fewer dishes on the menu, but all of them will be made from scratch, whereas in the past some dishes were pre-made, Randolph said. “We’re talking about producing completely fresh product,” Radzwiller said. “I’ve spoken with people in the Oak Room who wouldn’t ever eat there. Doing fewer items and making them all ‘a hit’ is where it’s at. Who wants
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years, the only shots Mark Pike ever took were as a player on his high school soccer team. But that hasn’t prevented the sophomore, a Wayne Manor resident, from being written up for alcohol violations twice. That’s because Pike, an extremely moderate drinker who abstained from alcohol for most of his freshman year, was twice caught sober in a room with boozing freshmen. “The first time, the dean just took me off the list of people being reprimanded,” recalled Pike. “But the second time, I had to go and talk with him so he could make sure I was a clean kid. People had to vouch for me, saying, ‘Mark Pike, he takes shots of water, not vodka.’” Pike, like a growing number of Duke students, didn’t drink .e does drink occasionally ke winning the Nation-luction into the world .en, I’d still call myself a non-drinker. I’m still very inexperienced.” Pike’s decision may be indicative of a national � trend. According to a 1999 study by the Harvard School of Public Health, which surveyed 14,000 students at over 100 colleges and universities, 19 percent abstain from alcohol. Only 15.4 percent said they abstained when the HSPH conducted a similar survey in 1993. Like many non-drinkers on can pus, Pike’s choice is not a religious one. “I’ve never really had an epiphany where I said to myself, ‘l’m not going to drink from now on.’ It was just a value I’ve always had.” See NON-DRINKERS on page 8 � *
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When David Jarmul assumes his position as assistant vice president for communications, he will also be responsible for coordinating the University’s websites. See page 4
Duke Student Government announced an election error late last night, admitting that one East Campus legislative candidate was improperly declared a loser. See page 4
The Graduate and Professional Student Council held its first meeting Monday night and began discussing the issue of social programming. See page 6
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Israel, Palestine plan talks on truce
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Japan’s government announced Monday it has found the country’s—and Asia’s —first suspected case of mad cow disease and blamed imported feed as the likely cause.
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Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the last remaining opposition to Afghanistan’s Taliban, survived a suicide bombing after remaining unconscious for more than a day. •
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Israel and the JERUSALEM Palestinians said they were willing to hold high-level truce talks Tuesday, despite a series of deadly weekend attacks by Arab militants, but remained at odds over where the meetings should take place. Throwing further uncertainty on the talks, Israeli tanks began shelling the West Bank town of Jenin and a
nearby refugee camp early Tuesday morning, knocking out electricity, witnesses said. Israel had said Jenin was used by attackers to plan a suicide bombing. Israel radio said tanks were apparently seeking to cut off all access to
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WASHINGTON The Senate’s top Republican suggested Monday that Congress consider coupling a reduction in the Social Security payroll tax with a cut in capital gains taxes to give the struggling economy a fresh infusion of cash. “There are people, at the entry level, who are hit very hard by the payroll tax,” Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott told reporters. “If you’re trying to get money into working people’s pockets quickly, that’s one option you could consider.” President George W. Bush left himself open to Lott’s proposal Monday even as aides, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said he was in no hurry to commit to it or any other GOP economic stimulus initiatives. They said Bush was determined to wait and see
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Dole to announce Senate candidacy By SCOTT MOONEYHAM The Associated Press RALEIGH Elizabeth Dole will announce today that she is entering the race for the US. Senate seat now held by Jesse Helms. Dole is expected to make the announcement in her hometown of Salisbury at a 1 p.m. news conference, a source told The Associated Press. “She is running. She’s going to let everyone know then,” said a Republican officeholder who had spoken to Dole earlier in the day. The source also said Dole, a Republican, planned to
embark on a tour ofthe state almost immediately. Dole called state GOP officials in advance of the announcement to let them know she was entering the race, another top Republican officeholder said. Dole was in Washington Monday and not immediately available for comment, spokesperson Jay Warshaw said. Dole, 65, has not lived in North Carolina in decades and had long been registered to vote in Kansas, the home state of her husband, former Sen. Bob Dole. But after Helms announced he would not seek reelection last month, Dole notified election officials that she was ending her voter registration in Kansas. She registered to vote in North Carolina last month. In Washington, she has served as secretaries ofthe U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Department of Labor. More recently, she served as head of the Red Cross. Former Charlotte Mayor Richard Vinroot, who lost the gubernatorial election to Gov. Mike Easley last fall, is the only Republican to have officially entered the race. Rep. Richard Burr ofWinston-Salem also has been mentioned as a potential GOP contender. Party leaders in Washington and North Carolina have been quietly courting Dole as a Senate candidate for weeks, arguing that her name recognition, popularity and experience would make her a strong candidate. Burr, though, is also a favorite of North Carolina party regulars. And Vinroot enjoys name recognition following two failed attempts to win the governor’s race. Also Monday, Democratic state Rep. Dan Blue, a former House speaker, said he plans to file paperwork to become a candidate as early as Wednesday.
He would face Secretary of State Elaine Marshall in a Democratic primary. Marshall was the first candidate to announce her candidacy for the race.
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OIT creates new group e-mail policy By HANNAH KARP The Chronicle
As the academic year begins, members of the Duke community might find their inboxes a little less cluttered, thanks to the Office of Information Technology’s new group e-mail policy. The new policy, which puts limits on mass e-mails and aims to protect community member privacy, was announced by letter July 17. Large-scale e-mail communications—defined as any electronic mailing sent to a group of more than 100 people at the University or more than 500 people at the Medical Center or in the Duke University Health Systems—now require some form of prior approval from the leader of that group. Official University e-mails, however, may be sent without approval to specific groups by the administrative office responsible for that community. “The intent was to reduce the clutter of unwanted spam e-mail while recognizing that e-mail is a
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DSG announces error, adds East Campus legislator become the 13thand final at-large legislator for DSG. “The end results are the exact same as if this glitch to an errorFive days after what initially appeared be free legislative election, Duke Student Government had not occurred,” DSG Executive Vice President Drew ruled last night that a reporting glitch resulted in only Ensign said. 11 legislators being elected from East Campus, instead Hauerwas, Krzyzewski named to best list: ofthe designated 12. Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of North Campus candidate and sophomore Clifford Theological Ethics at the Divinity School, was named Davison was listed in the official election certification as America’s best theologian by Time Magazine this having been elected on both East and North Campuses. week. A Yale Divinity School graduate, Hauerwas After The Chronicle prompted DSG officials of the taught at the University ofNotre Dame before coming error, the Election Commission, chaired by Attorney to Duke in 1984. General Elizabeth Kreul-Starr, determined that Davison Time also named men’s basketball coach Mike had been elected from North Campus, and only 11 legis- Krzyzewski as America’s best coach. lators had been elected from East. Los Alamos director to speak: John Browne, the The Election Commission then determined that freshman Liz Reaves received the 12th highest vote director of the national nuclear laboratory in Los count for East Campus in the Sept. 5 election. Reaves Alamos, N.M., will speak at 4 p.m. Sept. 12 in room 114 of the Physics Building on several topics, including had already been selected as one of the 13 at-large legiswas nuclear deterrence and non-proliferation. night, however, Last she named the lators Sunday. The event, sponsored by the Department of Physics, is 12th East Campus representative. Freshman Rachel Decker, the first alternate for any at-large openings, will open to the public. Browne received his doctorate from From staff reports
Duke in 1969 and taught at the University before going into government service. Middle Eastern trio continues tour: Three Middle Eastern women of different faiths —Christianity, Judaism and Islam—will speak about their hopes for Israeli-Palestinian peace at a Sept. 17 brown bag lunch at the Women’s Center. The three women have traveled the country as part of a tour sponsored by Partners for Peace, a U.N.-registered non-govemmental organization. Organizers hope the tour will help Americans better understand the reasons behind the violence and ways to resolve the conflict.
Extras needed for Dawson’s Creek: As the popular Warner Brothers show continues to film at Duke, Dawson’s Creek officials will hold a casting call for Duke students, faculty and staff Sept. 14 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge ofthe West Union Building. All interested applicants should bring Duke identification and a recent photograph ofthemselves. They may also have a picture taken for $2.
New vice president will coordinate Duke web pages By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle
With the announcement last week that David Jarmul would succeed the Assistant Vice President for Communications A1 Rossiter, the University gave Jarmul even more power as head of web pages, in addition to the responsibility of running Duke News Service.
John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said that with the hiring of the new associate vice president, Duke would be looking at new ways to make its web pages more coherent and informative. “The Web increasingly is the mode by which people are getting information,” he said. “We’ve known for a good while that the Web means you can go directly to the people and they can come directly to you for infor-
mation.” Bumess cited an external committee’s January review of Duke News Service that suggested the office view the Web not only as a place to post news, but also as a center for communication. That review also recommended that the next vice president be in charge of coordinating Duke web pages. Jarmul, who will begin in mid-October, is out of the country until the end of the month and was not available for comment. Bumess said that as the Web has grown, there have been more and more websites attached to the University’s main web page. He added that the administration has taken a “let 1,000 flowers bloom” approach to the web pages, but that there needs to be a more centralized approach. Many applicants to Duke, he said, look to the Web for information about the University and other schools.
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structure to be activated.” Vince Budnick, webmaster for the Office ofInformation Technology, said there were a number of ways Duke could make its websites more coherent. See WEB on page 6 �
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GPSC discusses social programming By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle
True to its goal of creating a better social environment for its constituents, the Graduate and Professional Student Council placed social issues at the top of its agenda at its first meeting of the year last night. The group discussed social venues and events that it thought would most ipterest
WEB from page 4 Budnick said that one idea was a content management system, in which there are templates for each department, information is sent to a central place, and individual departments, schools and groups will not have to deal with coding. He added, however, that it would be a long and tedious process. A pilot program is being design at OIT, but that it has not yet been imples
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school students. Possible use of the space that the Hideaway formerly occupied, which administrators offered GPSC priority in scheduling, generated conversation. Although the relatively low cost of the space and its location near the Bryan Center pleased some, most people argued against using the space. “As undergraduates, we went [to the Hideaway] for two reasons: First, it had a convenient location, and second, because we could drink underage. Otherwise, it was a dump,” said third-year medical student Michael Bernstein. “Now most of us live off-campus and all of us are of age, so I think our money could be better spent at a legitimate establishment.” GPSC President Elayne Heisler, a second-year sociology 7 student, said she would evaluate the condition of the vacated space and report her impressions to the group before it makes its decision at its next meeting. The group elected law student Tyler Gelbasch and graduate student Tobin Freid to lead these initiatives as the cochairs of the student life committee. “I’m running for this position because in the past few years I have often
GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT Elayne Heisler (left) and Vice President David Ferguson (right) speak at the group’s first meeting of the year. thought to myself, ‘I really wish this would happen or that would happen,’” Freid said in her candidacy speech. “I would like this position so I could make those things happen.” In order to plan social events, the student life committee is entrusted with more money than any other GPSC
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Oak Room adds new items to menu dents chose the 13 at-large representatives Sunday for this year’s Legislature. The students were chosen from among 27 applicants who applied for the positions. The selection is subject to the approval of the rest of the Legislature at its meeting Wednesday.
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lobster returning. Entrees will range in price from $7 to $23, with daily specials at both lunch and dinner. The Oak Room will also have extended hours, serving dinner on Saturday nights and brunch on the weekends. The staff will continue to include student waiters. In June 2000, Dining Services announced plans to privatize the 55-year-old Oak Room after a Duke Student Government-sponsored referendum garnered student support. But the decision was met with so many complaints from faculty and alumni that Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst retracted it. “We’re bringing [the Oak Room] to the level everyone’s wanted without having to privatize it,” Wulforst said.
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Originally, the Oak Room was scheduled to open yesterday, but since the University hired Radzwilier just last month, that deadline was pushed back. The restaurant has been closed since May. “ARAMARK has hired [Radzwiller] to bring the culinary expertise that she has to Duke’s campus,” Wulforst explained. “She needs extra time to work with the kitchen staff and students.” In Radzwiller’s 20 years of hospitality management and food service experience, she has been the designer and contractor for Pop’s, and most recently the owner and managing partner of Brightleaf 905. Radzwiller got her start in the food industry as an undergraduate by working in Duke’s dining halls to help pay for her education. Radzwiller and ARAMARK are also making improvements to the quality of food, service and presentation in the Faculty Commons.
ened complaints from students, faculty and staff. “As users began to rely on e-mail as a major communication vehicle, the receipt of unwanted spam e-mail became a nuisance to users,” said Ginny Cake, director of OIT customer service. Cake said that most institutions currently have limits on the number of users on one e-mail list to assist in managing mail traffic and also to address the spamming issues. OIT currently has the ability to detect and block “spam attacks,” large repeated e-mails from off-campus groups. There is no automatic detection mechanism in place, however, for intracommunity mass e-mails. Computing officials can detect and terminate largescale group e-mails at the network level only if those
e-mails are disrupting network traffic. Therefore, OIT will primarily rely on the community to report
policy violations. Wolpert, a professor of statistics, said that if someone inadvertently violates the policy, they will be sent a “gentle reminder.” Repeated violators, however, may face more serious consequences, although OIT officials have not yet decided what they will be. can policy The final be found at
http://www.oit.duke.edu/group-email/. Wolpert reported that response to the new policy has been positive. “The policy is largely educational,” he said. “Even people who were involved-in- formulating the policy were unaware of how disclosing the recipients in an e-mail threatens their privacy. They didn’t know they had a choice.”
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Students report different reasons for staying sober NON-DRINKERS from page 1 Despite the University’s reputation as a fraternity-dominated institution with a heavy drinking population, it is a value a significant minority of students share. After the success of the establishment of Epworth as a substance-free dormitory on East Campus in 1998, the University designated a substance-free dorm on West Campus this year. Freshman Dave Lewis decided he would opt for substance-free housing at Duke after an encounter with police in high school. “All the guys on my floor are awesome,” he said. “I think we feed off each other. I don’t drink, my roommate doesn’t drink, the guy down the hall doesn’t drink. Since no one else is doing it, we don’t feel pressure to do it.” Other students, such as freshman Kevin Krauth, decided to take advantage of substance-free housing for religious reasons. Krauth began drinking heavily in seventh grade, and eventually experimented with marijuana, codeine and Vicodin. “By sophomore year, everything had gotten old to me,” he said. “Marijuana wasn’t doing it, and alcohol was kind of passe in my mind. I got depressed all the time. There were times when I was like, ‘There’s got to be something more.’” &
tween drinkers and non-drinkers than actually exists in the social atmosphere. “Just for safety purposes,” said Pike, “it seems smart to encourage to have somebody sober around.” However, Associate Dean for Judicial Affairs Kacie Wallace noted that although resident advisors are asked to report nonneed [anything].” drinkers in the same room with underage fraternity a Krauth wants to pledge drinkers, it is not written policy. but is worried about his sobriety. “If I’m “It’s helpful to know who was in the I’ve regot to going to be in a fraternity, room and get the most accurate informahe said. am,” who I member can,” Wallace said. If students are tion we “But it will be a cool experience to a room in with underage drinkers and not what believe. I Evangeshare with others drinking, she said there would be no judilism is part of my religion. It would be a cial follow-up unless the non-drinking great opportunity, and a great test of my student is the host. faith, as well.” Senior Micah Rowland said he has no Sophomore Ethan Filip, a member of about his decision to abstain from regrets the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, has during his time at Duke. “I like to decision.” alcohol respect and he’s tasted other members their though never been drunk, Although most non-drinkers said hang out in small groups with my friends, alcohol, he’s basically a teetotaler. “I’ve brought a couple too many people to the they felt comfortable socializing with but I feel like I have a very close circle of friends, so [not drinking] hasn’t affected hospital because they were a little too friends who were drinking, some wormy social life.” drunk, and it’s just not something I feel ried about being disciplined because resHe hopes that underclassmen who do like I need to do,” said Filip, who works as idential advisors can write up sober studrink now will not start for the the as not in being dents for same room home. an EMT back wrong reasons. “Don’t drink just beHe noted that he has not felt pressured underage drinkers. Pike, who estimated that about half of cause you feel like it’s a ticket to a good to drink. “The [brothers] were supportive about the 19 newest Wayne Manor residents do social life,” he said. “I think the opportunity to build real friendships is lost it during rush. They said, ‘lf you don’t not drink, said he wonders if Duke’s polibewhen everyone’s drunk.” We cies have created more of a schism have drink, that’s not a problem. Eventually, at the urging of his parents, Krauth joined Young Life, a nondenominational, Christian organization for teens, and gave up drinking and drugs altogether. “I have so much more fun sober,” he said. “I have all of these friends who need to get drunk to dance. I don’t
members who don’t drink.’ It’s never been a big deal.” However, sophomore non-drinker Malika de Silva disagreed. “Last year, I didn’t go to a lot of parties because I didn’t know the people there, and they’re kind of pointless if you’re not drinking...,” she said. “As a freshman, parties on West are not so much fun if you don’t know people and aren’t drinking.” Interfraternity Council President Michael Wick, a senior, recognized in an email that “it can be difficult at times for non-drinkers when a lot of Duke’s social climate involves alcohol.” Still, Wick maintained that, at least in terms of greek life, non-drinkers are welcome. “I think every fraternity or sorority has a fair share of non-drinkers and that the
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try—to support what this tax is going to,” Martino said. pared-food tax instead, but its board of directors agreed “We as lodging operators do not see any substantial benlast month to support the occupancy tax when the food efit to it... in the sense of room-nights.” Ron Hunter, chair of the DCVB and general manager tax stalled in the Legislature. The commissioners will meet with the Durham City of the Radisson Governors Inn, reluctantly supported Council today to try to resolve any remaining differences the tax in his role as DCVB chair. But he said he would between the plans, such as whether any annual revenue have greatly preferred some other tax. “It’s not a good time for this tax,” he said. “I don’t above $1.9 million raised by the tax hike would be given think it’s a win-win situation, and I say that with my hoto the DCVB, or split between the city and the county. “I think that issue can in fact be worked out,” Conner telier hat on.” Hunter said he could not speak for the DCVB board said. “I don’t think that’s something we’re going to get as to whether it would drop its support for the tax when hung up on.” it next meets. He added that the DCVB supported the Hotel managers, who would bear the brunt of the octhe tax only as a stopgap measure until another tax that plan. are hesitant to support cupancy tax increase, would fimd the theater completely could be found. Mike Martino, general manager ofthe Sheraton Imperi“[The occupancy tax is] not the solution,” Hunter said. al Hotel, spoke against the tax at a joint meeting of com“It doesn’t have enough to do what they want to d0.... It members and legislators Council state missioners, City gets them to the table; it doesn’t solve the situation.” Monday morning. Conner said it was still not clear where the city “It’s singling out one industry—the lodging indusHOTEL TAX from page 1
could raise the remaining $1.4 million per year to pay for the theater. At the joint meeting Monday morning, the commissioners and City Council members made several different proposals as to how the revenues from the tax increase would be divided, causing the state legislators to hesitate to back the tax. “If the occupancy tax does pass, then someone will have to decide where the money will go,” Sen. Jeanne Lucas said. City and county leaders spent the afternoon in a series of meetings to work out a compromise. Sen. Wib Gulley said he would not support a plan that did not earmark significant funds for the DCVB. “The proposals that the city and county were floating [Monday morning] all almost completely cut out the Convention and Visitors Bureau folks,” he said. “The Convention and Visitors Bureau and that section ofthe local economy have been important players in this.”
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Franks: team improves despite loss Six-foot-nine forward joins Class of 2006
By FOZAIL ALVI The Chronicle
In the aftermath of a turnover-laden two-point loss to Rice Saturday, coach Carl Franks saw nothing but encouraging signs from his team’s play. “I felt like we had a chance to win that football game,” Franks reiterated Monday at the weekly football press conference. “We made a lot of mistakes. We made all those mistakes and still had an opportunity to win. That gives our team an indication of how good we can play if we can eliminate part of those mistakes. We’ve worked hard in the offseason. We have everything to give ourselves the opportunity to be successful. Now we just have to follow through with that during the football games.” Franks was especially pleased by the play of the special teams. A blocked extra point and two long kick returns all helped the Blue Devils stay in the game until the very end and are hopeful signs for the future. “We’re still very confident in our football team,” said Franks, whose total record at Duke is now at 3-21. “We still know that we are a better football team than we were last season. “The special teams played pretty good. The punting certainly improved quite a bit,” Franks said. Much of the attention at the press conference centered around sophomore See FOOTBALL on page 10 >i:v
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To the victors go the spoils. Only a few months after winning its third national championship, the men’s basketball program received a commitment from its fifth recruit for the Class of 2006 this weekend, which could ensure Duke’s continued dominance into the near future. Shelden Williams, a 6-foot-9 power forward from Midwest City, Okla. ranked among the top prospects in the country, verbally committed to the Blue Devils Sunday night after coach Mike Krzyzewski arrived at his home. After reports surfaced on the Internet that Williams had committed to Duke, Rodney Dinby, Williams’ coach at Midwest City High School, confirmed his pupil’s commitment Monday afternoon to The Chronicle. A press conference will be held tomorrow at Midwest City High School in which the 18-year-old phenom will make it official. “He plays very big for his size. He’s 6-8, he’s very athletic, and strong around the basket,” said See WILLIAMS on page 12 ¥■
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Michael Jordan strongly implies he will return to NBA By JIM LITRE
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comeback, a sly smile played on Michael Jordan’s lips. A moment later, he looked up and said, “I’m doing it for the love of the game. Nothing else. For the love of the game.” Michael Jordan is coming back. In a half-hour conversation on a curb outside his restaurant Monday afternoon, Jordan did everything but connect the final dot. So I’ll do it for him. The comeback with the Washington Wizards that Jordan began outlining five months ago is all but complete. He has worked out religiously. He’s tested himself and his game repeatedly against top-caliber NBA players, with league referees officiating. And he has found the only question remaining is whether the tendinitis in his right knee would limit his effectiveness. In a conversation, which included reporters from the Chicago Sun-Times and cnnsi.com, he confirmed that a news conference has been planned for Washington, D.C., in the next 10 days, to announce
his decision. For the first time since acknowledging in April that he was serious about coming back, Jordan dropped the conditional tense when talking about his basketball future. He didn’t put a limit on how long that future might last. “I want to play for years,” he said.
Hannemann out for fall Duke women’s golfer Candy Hannemann will miss the fall season after undergoing ankle surgery. Last year's NCAA individual national champion will have a ligament operated on today.
A half-mile to the west, a bronze statue of Jordan stood guard outside the United Center, an arena he practically built for Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf and where his jersey hangs in the rafters alongside the six championship banners he brought to Chicago. A hundred yards to the east was Hoops the Gym, where pickup games this summer against the likes of Penny Hardaway, Michael Finley, Antoine Walker, Juwan Howard and Charles Oakley convinced Jordan that he could still compete at the highest level. As some of those players filed out of the gym following the afternoon scrimmages, Jordan leaned back and took in the Chicago skyline. “I know there are a lot of naysayers out there,” Jordan said. But he made it clear he wasn’t coming back to fulfill any expectations but his own. “Winning isn’t always championships,” he said. “What’s wrong with helping kids find their way, teaching them the game.” During the next few minutes, the man who defined the term “champion” in the last decade admitted that he missed the game too much to stay away. The “competition problem” thathis father, the late James Jordan always talked about, has him in its grip once again. When his friend Mario Lemieux stepped out of the owner’s box and returned to play for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Jordan, who turns 39 next year, decided to find if he could put himself through the same challenge.
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Unortho dox route brings two tennis players to Duke Newcomers Julie Deßoo and Saras Arasu will bring talent, experience and depth to this year’s Blue Devils By CATHERINE SULLIVAN The Chronicle
Duke prides itself on having strong student-athletes, and the two most recent additions to the women’s tennis team, junior transfer Julie Deßoo and freshman Saras Arasu, certainly will not diminish this sense of pride. Deßoo, a native ofFrance who was ranked as high as seventh nationally in singles last spring, comes to Duke after two years as the top player at the
University of Mississippi. “Julie brings a lot of experience to our team,” Duke coach Jamie Ashworth said. “She had a winning record playing first singles and first doubles in the
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SEC, which is probably the strongest conference in the nation.” Because of the Rebels’ declining national ranking and a frustration with the degree programs offered at Ole Miss, Deßoo expressed interest as early as last April in transferring to Duke. However, the Blue Devils had already signed current freshmen Kelly McCain and Susie Abromeit and had no scholarships remaining for the talented French player. Deßoo appeared bound for UCLA or California until early this summer when, in a move that surprised Ashworth, last year’s freshman of the year Ansley Cargill announced that she was leaving Duke to turn professional. “I was a little surprised when Ansley left,” Ashworth said. “But when I found out that there was a scholarship available, the first thing that I did was call Julie’s father in France. Even though she wasn’t able to visit Duke at that point, she knew that she wanted a school where she could help win a championship.” Not only was the possibility of a national title appealing to Deßoo, she also relished the idea of earning a Duke degree. The likely Economics major plans to try some professional tournaments, but she has a realistic outlook on her future. “I want to stay in the United States after college and work here,” Deßoo said. “I think that a Duke education can help me a lot, and at the same time, I get to compete for an NCAA title. This was the perfect situation for me.” Deßoo will undoubtedly bolster the Blue Devils’ chance for their first national title and will likely compete with returning sophomore All-American Amanda Johnson and newcomer McCain near the top of the lineup. In addition to Deßoo, Duke’s squad was further strengthened with the somewhat surprising addition of another recruit, Florida native Saras Arasu. Like Deßoo, Arasu wanted a strong academic environment where she could continue to develop her tennis game.
Shavlik Randolph remains Duke target � WILLIAMS from page 9 recruiting analyst Kurt O’Neill, who first reported Williams’ commitment on his EliteHoopßecruits.com website. “He’s a great rebounder and a great offensive scorer. He’s kind of a similar style of player to Elton Brand.” Williams joins guards Sean Dockery and J.J.
Redick and post players Lee Melchionni and Michael Thompson in Duke’s recruiting class of 2002. He is rated the fifth-best prospect in the country by Prep Stars Recruiter’s Handbook, while The Sporting News lists Williams as the No. 1 power forward in his class. Many were surprised when Williams, who had stated publicly that Duke was his favorite, did not commit to Duke after visiting the campus two weekends ago for the Duke All-Star Charity basketball game. This speculation was further fueled Shelden Williams by the hiring of Williams’ former coach at Midwest City High, Terry Evans, by Oklahoma. In fact, after Evans joined coach Kelvin Sampson in Norman, Okla., Williams added the Sooners to his list of serious suitors and stated that he would make a number of official visits to other schools still in the running before making his ultimate choice.
“I was a little surprised because everybody thought he might commit when he visited Duke, but a lot of guys go through the whole process,” O’Neill said. However, after the Duke coaching staff visited Williams’ home Sunday evening, the 230-pound power forward decided that he wanted to play for the Blue Devils, whom he had favored all along. With the addition of Williams, Duke not only lays claim to one of the nation’s premier recruiting classes, but also boasts a formidable frontline with which its opponents must contend. Williams will be joined in the post by Thompson, whose stock has risen considerably after he impressed onlookers at the Nike All-America basketball camp last July in Indianapolis, Ind. Now, the Blue Devils have their sights set on consensus top-10 recruit Shavlik Randolph, a 6-10 post player from Raleigh’s Broughton High School. In talking to Williams and Randolph, O’Neill does not expect Randolph to be dissuaded from coming to Duke because the Blue Devils have already signed two people who play the same position as he. “I don’t think it affects [Randolph’s decision] at all,” O’Neill said. “Despite what people might say, [Duke has] been recruiting Shelden with the intention of both of them playing there. I think Shavlik and Shelden could definitely play together. Guys like Shavlik Randolph and Shelden Williams very rarely worry about who else is there because they know they’re good enough and they know they’re going to get their minutes.
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Ranked as high as second nationally in the United States Tennis Association’s 14-and-under age division, Arasu was not as heavily recruited as many of the nation’s top juniors because her ranking dropped in the subsequent USTA age divisions. Although she still played some tournaments, Arasu has spent the past several years focusing on her private high school’s rigorous academic curriculum. Arasu also originally planned to take a year off after high school to try the professional circuit but, given her commitment to academics, decided that college would be a better experience for her. “I thought that I would feel better coming to college first,” Arasu said. “I’ve trained with some members of the team in the past, so I thought that Duke would be a good place for me.” Because Arasu did not approach Ashworth until late last season about coming to Duke, there were no scholarships available for her. And, in contrast to Deßoo’s situation, none have opened up. Therefore, Arasu is technically considered a walk-on player because she is paying her own tuition this year. “I hope that a scholarship might open up at some point,” Arasu said. “But I really just wanted to come to Duke and now I’m focusing on working and training hard with my teammates.” Ashworth, for one, is thrilled with the added competition and intensity that both Arasu and Deßoo bring to the team. Even with four of 10 players being new and two new assistant coaches, the Blue Devils will once again be expected to compete for the national championship next spring. “Already I can tell that they both make practices better,” Ashworth said. “Julie brings a much more aggressive doubles mindset, which we needed last year, and Saras adds to our depth. “No one can slack off because everyone knows that they’re competing for positions with everyone else on the team. That competition in practice will only make us tougher in matches.”
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tailback Chris Douglas, who had careerhighs with 30 rushes and 112 yards. With the injury to backup running back Alex Wade, even more pressure will be put on the bulked-up shoulders ofDuke’s best kickoff returner and running back. “I don’t think I have [ever carried the ball 30 times in one gamel,” said Douglas, who gained 10 pounds of muscle this past offseason from weight-lifting and eating steaks. “Usually in high school, I got taken out before the end of the halfbecause we were beating people so bad. So this is my first time with that many carries. But I have to say, I kind of enjoyed it. “I found out on the plane from the stats. I looked at it, and I said Wow.’ I knew I had carried a lot, but I didn’t know I had carried that many times.” Douglas was questioned about the fatigue involved in carrying so many times. The running back, however, welcomed the chance at getting 30 or more touches a game, and Franks noted Douglas seemed to want to be in the game every play until the end. “He enjoys being out there,” Franks said. “The work he did in the offseason in the weight room and conditioning paid huge benefits for his durability.” The schedule does not get any easier for the Blue Devils as they travel to Death Valley Saturday to meet Clemson. Last year, in fact, it was the Clemson game in which Douglas scored his first-career touchdown and then tacked on another late in Duke’s 52-22 loss.
“We know the next few games are going to be very challenging games for us,” Franks said. “There aren’t a whole lot of people that expect us to win, so we can go out and play loose and not worry about making mistakes.” Franks also had high praise for Clemson’s quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Woodrow Dantzler, calling Dantzler the best quarterback Duke will face all season. Dantzler gave Duke fits last season with his elusive tackle-breaking ability, running for three touchdowns and springing into the national limelight. “The encouraging thing is we’re tackling a lot better than we did last season,” Franks said. “They’re going to spread the field out, and that creates a lot more room for [Dantzler] to run. He’s also a very effective passer.” The defense will have to find away to
counter Clemson’s spread offense installed by coach Tommy Bowden three seasons ago. The Tigers spend much of their offensive possession in the no-huddle, hurry-up offense with the multi-talented Dantzler in the shotgun. “We still aren’t close to how good as [the defense] can be,” said junior linebacker Jamyon Small, who leads the Blue Devil defense with 23 total tackles. “Something that helps us is that with Rice, Northwestern, Clemson, there is a little bit of carryover between their offenses. We have seen some ofthe stuff that they do, and everybody is a year older. It’s going to be a difficult task, but we will be prepared for it.”
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The Consortium for Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University announces the conference Crisis in the Andes, 9 am to 3:30 pm in Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC Campus. This conference is organized by the Consortium in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council, New York, with partial funding from the Ford Foundation and the William Wilson Brown, Jr. Endowment for Latin American Studies. It will bring together leading social scientists (anthropologists, economists, political scientists, and sociologists) from Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and the United States, to examine the multiple dimensions of the economic, social, and political crisis gripping the Andean region. The conference will explore distinct analytic approaches to understanding how these limited democracies have been dealing with neoliberal economic reforms and with domestic and international factors. For more information please call 601-3980 or email <ehuber@unc.edu>.
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Wednesday North American Studies at Duke University presents the 2001 Mexico Film Series. 7:00-10:00pm, John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240. "Santitos," Latin American Cinema Award, 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Based on the novel by Maria Amparo Escandon, Santitos is one of the most popular Mexican films of 1999. The death of her daughter plunges Esperanza into a deep depression. Magic and prayers reveal hope that her daughter is still alive. Guided by her devotion to saints, Esperanza undertakes a journey that will carry her to the most hidden holes of Tijuana and Los Angeles, confronted by the nature of sin and absolution, the pain of loss and the resurrection of desire. Director: Alejandro Springall, Produced by Springall Pictures, 1999.
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,s=is Affirmative action undermines minority success
Rights for all workers The North Carolina Legislature should grant state employees the right to collective bargaining and the power to strike year, North Carolina granted its public workers a 4.2 percent pay raise; this year, as lawmakers cope with the budget crisis, that amount may shrink to just 2 percent. At the same time, monthly health-insurance premiums for families are scheduled to
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rise 30 percent Oct. 1. Not surprisingly, state employees have • expressed dissatisfaction with their current situation. And sadly North Carolina has not permitted them the right to express that dissatisfaction constructively to improve their situation. But now the state Legislature has a chance to make up for past mistakes by listening to a call from the State Employees Association ofNorth Carolina, which voted Sept. 7 to request two key worker rights changes. First, the group agreed to push the state for collective bargaining rights; second, members voted to change their own bylaws to allow SEANC directors to call for strikes or work stoppages. Both changes make sense. All workers should have the right to band together and lobby for better policies when they feel they have been mistreated. Furthermore, collective bargaining rights must be accompanied by the right to strike; unless workers can threaten to stop working, their grievances will remain unheard. Lawmakers should realize that public debate over the issue may unnecessarily focus on potential strikes. Union opponents will argue that strikes are inefficient, unnecessary and bad for government business. However, possessing the right to strike does not guarantee that employees will actually exercise that right; rather, workers should have the leverage inherent in the right to strike. In any case, employees’ rights to have their voices heard should trump financial disadvantages. Opponents may argue further that some state employees—those
dubbed “essential,” such as state troopers —should not have the right to strike. But the state should treat these employees no different than any others. Each employee should have the right to withhold the services he provides for the state if he feels as though he has been severely mistreated. For far too long, workers in the state ofNorth Carolina have endured changes that affect them directly without having the ability to protest them. It is time that the state realize the unfairness ofthis policy and that these employees should have the legal right to stand up for themselves.
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Affirmative action serves not to elevate minorities but instead functions as a tool to undermine their accomplishments. To set the record straight, I was born and raised in Mexico City—l am not white. When I got into Duke I remember comments directed to me such as, “I bet affirmative action helped you get into Duke,” or “Duke needed to fulfill their
Hispanic quota.” Simply because I am Hispanic and affirmative action is practiced, the value of my accomplishments were lessened in the eyes ofmany. These people who attribute a minority’s success to affirmative action are partially justified in their beliefs. Any minority who for referenced letter,
succeeds in today’s academic society may have arrived at partially this success through affirmative action. One cannot know which minority got into a particular university on merit and which got in by riding on the back of affirmative action. This disunion of merit and
whining over disadvantages
and realize that overcoming hardships comprises the backbone of success. One who overcomes many disadvantages is better equipped for the inevitable hardships of Instead of the future. approaching life with an attitude of needing some sort of creates an atmoscompensation for hardships, success approach life trying to overphere of ambiguity surroundcome these hardships. If ing the reasons for a minoriminorities adopt this outlook ty’s achievement. Clearly, minorities should on life, the notion of “a sucfight against affirmative cessful minority because of action in an effort to reunite affirmative action,” can be their success with their replaced with “a successful minority despite disadvanmerit—destroying the current union of success with tages.” Which do you think affirmative action. Minorities sounds more impressive? do not need anyone to hold Trey Tepichin their hands and guide them Trinity ’O2 to their goals. Let’s stop the
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Duke needs resources The Chronicle’s Sept. 7 story about rankings of universities in US. News and World Report includes a comhas ment that Duke improved from a top-20 university two decades ago. This is folklore. Even in the late ’6os and early ’7os Duke boasted a top-10 status for undergraduate education. When the US. News rankings first came out 15 years
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The painful truth is that as Harvard University, Duke’s endowment and .Princeton University and financial resources fall signifYale University were still in icantly short in comparison the dark ages of educating with other top-10 competimale undergraduates only. tors. The University’s ability Duke regularly recruited to compete for top faculty and women with high SAT top students often comes scores, and its selectivity for down to basic issues of women students was among money. The development the highest in the country. Arguably, the extraordioffice has worked miracles in recent years, but Duke still narily high quality of women needs a major infusion of undergraduates served to resources to compete with the raise the academic stanbest universities on the list. dards and the overall quality Dukies today may have of the whole University. In forgotten or underestimated many ways it was the the University’s reputation Woman’s College, prior to its merger with Trinity College, for undergraduate education from the ’6os. At that that propelled the university time Duke recruited some of on a path to excellence. the best female undergraduRay Kiser ates in the country, simply because schools Trinity 73 such
ago the magazine rated Duke 6th overall. That would indicate that Duke had already enjoyed a top-10 status for some time and had not just landed there overnight. With the changes in its statistical categories and values, the magazine has actually dropped Duke’s ranking a couple of places in recent years. for referenced story, see http:! www.chronicle.duke.edu!story.php? article_id=233l9 /
Reading professional newspapers enhances learning I was saddened by the 6 report in The the Chronicle that
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of those making the news. For instance, in the past few weeks Times subscribers
have had the chance to read Vicente Fox’s ideas concerning the United States’ relaTimes, The Herald-Sun of tionship with Mexico, and Durham or The News & have also learned about Observer of Raleigh at no Stephen Jay Gould’s position direct cost. The discontinuaon stem cell research from tion of the newspaper proGould himself. The second reason to read gram is a loss for students, and I write to encourage a paper daily stems directly them to find other ways to from the first. By becoming obtain a major newspaper, informed, readers provide daily, during each of their themselves with the opportuundergraduate years. nity to become involved in the There are three reasons world’s events. School-based why students should read a education often focuses, newspaper daily. First, readappropriately, on the mastery ing a quality paper exposes of topics and issues which students to a range of imporhave already been thoroughly tant ideas and issues of studied. By contrast, the which they might "not otherevents reported in newspawise be aware. The Times, for pers are happening now, and example, is truly comprehenreaders have the opportunity sive and features excellent to shape those events. coverage of many topics. The third reason to read a Furthermore, readers often paper daily is simple: It’s get direct access to the ideas great exercise for the mind. University’s first-year students will no longer be able to subscribe to The New York
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By spending 45 minutes or so with the paper each day, I believe one builds a foundation for the intellectual work that accompanies a lifetime of participation in business, civic and scholarly pursuits. One might counter these points by saying that an
undergraduate education at Duke, by itself, is enough to ensure that a student is informed, connected, and disciplined. I know someone could say this because I said
so myself many times as a non-newspaper-reading Duke undergraduate. Now a committed paper reader, I realize how mistaken an undergraduate I was. A Duke education is wonderful, but it can be
significantly and beneficially augmented by a daily dose of current events from a good newspaper. Dan Dillon Graduate Student Department of Psychology
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Marko Djuranovic is a Trinity senior and former health & science editor of
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Lessons learned from Hollywood and ancient Rome
Last Friday night, my wife and I saw the film Gladiator. The movie was a spectacle, a “swords and sandals” Roman-era epic, but it was also replete with civic lessons for today. Gladiator was based on a true story the way, say, Titanic was. The historical setting is largely just to make for interesting visuals and to intensify the impact of the storyline. In essence, Titanic was just a tale of j -r t Edward star-crossed lovers. Gladiator, in Benson turn, was a simple tale of wellearned revenge.
In Gladiator, however, a host of other issues arise. For starters, the gruesome combat of the gladiatorial arena eventually engages the viewer—without wishing for it, you are drawn into those fights for survival, especially when the title character makes it into the coliseum in Rome. Indeed, the movie viewer is swept up in the intense action and conflict and is effectively reduced to the same emotional state as the cheering crowd of plebeians. So there are the first two civic lessons. Granted that we know we are just watching a movie and that no one—especially the animals—really gets killed, we nonetheless are engaged by gore now just as much as 2,000 years ago. Lesson one: The human animal’s needs, wants and tendencies have changed little in the course ofrecorded history. Further, the crowd so engaged in this film had arrived not just in beat-up old cars or modest sedans, but also in BMWs and Porsches, the vehicles of our modern patrician wannabes. So to the second lesson; The least common denominator really is common, literally in all of us, simply waiting to be tapped. Mob
entertainment and mob rule are not so different at their core: Both appeal to emotional states of mind, and both are thus intrinsically hard to resist, and
Praetorian Guard then literally auctioned off the imperial position, leading to great instability. Eventually, an army commander established a more dangerous. stable imperial claim, by forcibly installing himself as Various plot points in the film portray the film’s emperor and creating an entirely new personal guard straw men. These are the conniving leaders who easof troops loyal to him, and that guard in time began ily distract the mob and who are set up in contrast installing emperors themselves. with the noble army men’s simple “strength and So to third civic lesson: All the above simply honor.” These characterizations rather bluntly reveal proves yet again that power corrupts. There was the filmmakers’ reflection of two of our modern never an emperor—even the most philosophical—American convictions: Democracy is the answer to all who even considered devolving his authority back to of our social problems, and sympathy is our natural the senate, much less to the people. Those who were response to any situation with an underdog. But kings, stayed kings and made kings (usually the milthese two convictions are in fact emphasized by hisitary) repeatedly exercise that power; all of them torical reality. with self-interest foremost—hardly the best way to For behind the movie’s noble and villainous imperigovern a people. al characters were the real Marcus Aurelius, a true If we combine all three of the civic lessons noted, philosopher-king unable to achieve much due to we are left with the intractable challenge of how to relentless border wars, and the real Commodus, a protect the self-determination of citizens and prevent scheming, self-indulgent and disastrous Caesar whose the abuse of power by mob rule or by corrupt leaders reign lasted a brutal 19 years. While in reality neither in a democracy. of them ever appear to have intended to restore the Despite all our post-modern cynicism, the answers Roman Republic, their successor, Pertinax, was in fact are clear: Education of the populace can help to crea forthright reformer. But again in contrast to the ate an informed and continually self-informing elecfilm’s numerous supporters ofRoman democracy, even torate. Restrictions on any person or group in power, Pertinax did not attempt to deconstruct the imperial by a clear system of checks and balances, can reduce authority. the abuse of power. Only this two-track approach to Finally, again, unlike the movie, historical reality reigning in human faults can ensure the survival of shows that far from being noble and incorruptible, the a democracy. army was repeatedly the ally simply of those they For as Benjamin Franklin left the constitutional knew, or who paid them well. Unquestioning army loy- convention in Philadelphia, he was asked what sort of alty put the deranged Caligula on the throne, for one, government had been crafted. His response: “A repubbut Pertinax was killed by his own guard for believing lic, if you can keep it.” that soldiers simply should do their duty and failing to pay them bonuses upon his elevation. That same Edward Benson is a Durham resident.
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ENCOUNTERS WITH THE MUSIC OF OUR TIME presents Music by Cuban-American composer Tania Leon Saturday, September 15 8 pm in Nelson Music Room Free admission Talented CubanAmerican composer Tania Leon draws on the vital musical traditions of Latin America as well as contemporary'
American music. This concert will feature her music, along with compositions by Latin American composers Leo Brouwer and Roberto Sierra. Guest artist Terry Rhodes, soprano, will also be featured.
DUMA AFTER HOURS and FAMILY DAY “The Culinary Arts of Guatemala” Thursday, September 13 5:30-8 pm in DUMA-Duke University Museum ofArt $3 Public; $2 Students Another sumptions program including a cooking demonstration and reception by chef Nancy Kitterman, this one related to the current exhibition by Guatemalan artist Rodlofo Abularach.
“Kids Collect Art” Family Day at the Museum of Art
MARY LOU WILLIAMS CENTER FOR BLACK CULTURE Film Screening “Four Little Girls” :
Thursday, September 13 at 8 pm* 02 West Union Free admission -
The Mary Lou Williams Center presents a screening of Spike Lee’s powerful documentary film, “Four Little Girls,” which recounts the 1963 racially motivated bombing of a Black Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bombing took the lives of four girls and the incident sparked an upsurge in activity in the Civil Rights Movement. The film is being shown on September 13 in the Center to mark the 38th anniversary of the bombing and to remember its young victims.
_»aui I■ TJ lHr ■ ARTS EVENTS ON CAMPUS This Week: September 11-19, 2001 ON TAP! is coordinated by the Duke University Institute of the Arts in cooperation with participating campus arts departments and programs. For more information about performing arts events, call the Duke University Box Office, 684-4444 or view online at tickets.duke.edu. To inquire about this ad call 660-3356.
ART LECTURES The Department ofArt History presents
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David Craven, Professor of Art History, University of New Mexico “Revolving Definitions of Revolution in relation to Latin American Art” Wednesday, September 12 6 pm in 2048 East Duke Building
“21st Annual Benenson Lecture Series” this year featuring Svetlana Alpers, Prof. Emerita, UC-Berkeley and Vis. Prof., NYU on “Three Ways of Looking at Velasquez & The Spinners” September 19, 20 and 21 at 5:30 pm daily 2048 East Duke Building
Sunday, September 16 from 2:30-4:30 pm Free admission
First Annual
ARTS AT DUKE EXPO! Monday, September 17,11am-3pm Bryan Center, West Campus Stop by to get information on visual and performing arts events, activities, organizations... sign up for ushering opportunities, pick up schedules and ticket info. Duke Arts Organizations: To participate as an exhibitor, contact Beverly Meek at beverly.meek@duke.edu or phone 684-4687
ART EXHIBITIONS ON CAMPUS These exhibitions are on view this week at Duke. Free admission to all! Stop in at your convenience.
“Patterns: Color Photographs by John Taormina” continues through October 19 in the Institute of the Arts Gallery, 107 Bivins Bldg, East Campus Hours: 9am-spm Monday-Friday.
“Southern Gate: Seven African American Paintings from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,” continues through June 30 in DUMA. Hours: 10am-spm Tuesday-Friday. Saturdays llam-2pm, Sundays 2-spm.
Bring the kids to this free program geared to families with children ages 5 and up.
“Rodolfo Abularach: Quadrangle Films presents
BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY Saturday, September 15, 7pm and 10pm in Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center
$5 Public, $4 Students/Staff
Screen/Society presents KILLER OF SHEEP Sunday, September 16, 8 pm in Richard White Lecture Hall, East Campus Free admission
French/Francophone Series presents LES GLENEURS ET LA GLENEUSE (French with English subtitles) Wednesday, September 12, 8 pm in Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center Free admission
Apocalyptic
Landscapes,” contemporary Guatemalan painter, continues through October 28 in DUMA. Hours: 10am-spm Tuesday-Friday. Saturdays llam-2pm, Sundays 2-spm.
“Meta-Perceptions: Works by Aristides
Logothetis” continues through September 28 in the Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Bryan Center. Hours: 9am-spm Monday-Saturday.
tickets.duke.edu Convenient On-Line ticketing for ALL the Arts at Duke! University Box Office: 684-4444