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Following months of encouragement, students will head to the polls today to vote in local elections. Student groups and community organizations have spent the fall registering students to vote in Durham County. Since August, Students for an Ethical Durham has posted flyers in order to “get out the vote,” said co founder Emily Wygod, ajunior. “We have also www.dukechronicle.com tried to educate people as much as we can,” said junior Christiane Regelbrugge, who is also a co-founder of the organization. Duke Student Government joined the effort by distributing voter registration c orms in September and October. In addition, DSG is organizing shutdes for students from both East and West campuses to polling locations all day. Sophomore Jordan Giordano, vice president for community interaction, said DSG has tried to become more engaged in Durham affairs this year. “Durham residents want to see Duke students more involved with the Durham community,” he said. “Away to show that we care about Durham is by voting here.” Election officials explained the logistics of student participation. Mike Ashe, director of elections for Durham County, described two options for students who registered to vote using different addresses from their current places ofresidence but

Durham to receive SI.SM more if CouncilOKs Anderson St. plan by

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The Durham City Council unanimously accepted an agreement with Duke at its

meeting Monday that will lead to the construction of a new $44-million downtown performing arts center. Durham received a donation of $500,000 from the University as part of the agreement and will receive an additional $1.5 million for the arts center upon the city’s approval ofDuke’s proposed changes to Anderson Street. In recent weeks, some members of the city council have voiced concern over what they deem to be the “quid pro quo” nature of die University’s $2-million deal with the city to control a portion of Anderson Street. SEE ANDERSON ST. ON PAGE 4

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Further details about the alleged victim in the Duke lacrosse rape case have emerged during the past week. H. P. Thomas, a former security manager at The Platinum Club, a Hillsborough strip club, told the Raleigh News and Observer Nov. 4 that the alleged victim said she was going to get money from boys at a Duke party that didn’t pay her. He told the N&O that the conversation took place four days after the March 13 party at which the rape allegedly occurred “She basically said, ‘l’m going to get paid by the white SEE LAX CASE ON PAGE 6

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‘Group of 88’ hears criticism 7 months later, controversy still surrounds faculty ad by

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Politicians make final voting push by David Espo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON On the eve of midterm elections, Democrats criticized Republicans as stewards of a stale status quo while President George W. Bush declared, “we’re closing strong” in a final drive to preserve GOP control of Congress. “They can’t run anything right,” countered former President Bill Clinton, taunting Republicans about the war in Iraq, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and even the scandal involving the House page program that complicated GOP efforts to win two more years in power. Bush campaigned on Monday from

Florida to Arkansas and Texas. But the day brought one more reminder of his poor standing in the polls when Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist skipped the presidential rally in Pensacola, Fla., to make a speech of his own hundreds ofmiles away. Bush made no mention of the evident snub in public, but not so his aides. “Let’s see how many people show up in Palm Beach on 24 hours notice, versus 8,000 or 9,000 people” expected for the president’s speech, said Karl Rove, the White House’s top political strategist. Some late polls suggested momentum was swinging the Republicans’ way, and Ken

Mehlman, the party chairman, told allies the surveys summoned memories of 1998, when the GOP lost seats but held power. Democrats steadfasdy refused to say so in public, but some Republicans signaled privately they expected to lose more than 15 seats, and control of the House with them. Among GOP-held open seats, those in Arizona, Colorado, New York, Ohio and lowa seemed likeliest to fall. Republican Reps. John Hostetder, Chris Chocola and Mike Sodrel of Indiana; Charles Taylor of North Carolina; Curt Weldon, Don Sherwood and Melissa Hart of Pennsylvania; and Charles Bass ofNew Hampshire were in particularly difficult re-election struggles.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq A day after Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, the Shiitedominated government offered a major concession Monday to his Sunni backers that could see thousands of members of the ousted dictator’s Baath party reinstated in their jobs. With a tight curfew holding down violence after Saddam’s guilty verdict and death sentence, the government reached out to disaffected Sunnis in hopes of enticing them away from the insurgency, which has killed tens of thousands and is responsi-

ble for the vast majority ofU.S. casualties. The U.S. military announced the deaths offive more American troops, two in a helicopter crash north of Baghdad and three in fighting west of the capital. The deaths raised to 18 the number of U.S. forces killed in the first six days of November. Relentless sectarian killings also persisted despite the extraordinary security precautions. Fifty-nine bodies were discovered Sunday and Monday across Iraq, police said. But with no surge in violence, authorities were gradually lifting the restrictions in Baghdad and two restive Sunni provinces: Pedestrians were allowed back on the capital’s streets

late Monday afternoon, and the international airport was to reopen Tuesday morning. Around the country, jubilant Shiites celebrated the verdict while Sunnis held defiant counter-demonstrations. Iraq’s appeals court is expected to rule on an appeal by Saddam’s lawyers by the middle of January, the chief prosecutor said Monday, setting in motion a possible execution by mid-February. If the ruling is upheld, The Associated Press has learned that Iraq’s three-man presidential council is pledged to allow Saddam’s hanging to take place. The execution must be carried out within 30 days of the appeals court’s decision.

The legendary World War II aircraft carrier USS Intrepid got stuck in deep Hudson River mud Monday as powerful tugboats fought to pull it free and tow the floating museum down river for a $6O million overhaul.

Mercury passes across the sun

An infrequent astronomical sight—tiny Mercury inching across the surface of the sun—takes place Wednesday afternoon in North America. But you'll need the right kind of telescope to see it, because Mercury is only 1/194th the size of the sun.

Ortega leads presidential race Daniel Ortega, the revolutionary Marxist who battled a U.S.-backed Contra insurgency in the 1980s, is closing in on Nicaragua's presidency. Electoral officials had yet to release final results from Sunday's vote, but preliminary results gave Ortega about 40 percent of the vote.

Fla. fire damages tourist spot A fire early Monday destroyed a section of Gatorland, one of Florida's oldesttourist attractions, and killed as many as three pythons and crocodiles. The blaze badly damaged the gift shop, entrance and some

administrative offices. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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City of Durham adopts new ‘great’ slogan, logo by Lysa Chen THE CHRONICLE

Durham is not where mediocre things happen. It is not even where merely good

things happen. Durham is “where great things happen,” according to the

city’s new slogan, part of an overarching brand developed by

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Sue Wasiolek, known simply by the moniker"Dean Sue," is celebrating her 25th year as an administrator.

25 years later. Dean Sue still campus icon by

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During the past 25 years, Duke has seen a raise in the drinking age, the introduction of Krzyzewskiville and four different U.S. presidents. Amid all of these, one thing that has remained constant is the friendly presence ofSuzanne Wasiolek—known affectionately by students as “Dean Sue”—who celebrates her 25th anniversary working at Duke this year. Although she has been at the University for many years, Wasiolek said her job remains exciting. “I never know what my day might bring. Like most administrators, I attend meetings, meet with students, talk with parents, write reports, answer e-mails and respond to crises and incidents,” said Wasiolek, Trinity ’76 and Grad ’7B. “My days are interesting, challenging and just plain fun.” Except for nine months in 1994 when she took a leave of absence to practice law, Wasiolek has been at the University since she became associate dean of student life in 1981.

When she first started, Wasiolek told The Chronicle she planned to focus on integrating sororities and fraternities into the University and organizing programs in alcohol awareness and leader-

ship development. Today, she continues to focus on these areas and is in charge of overseeing orientation, the first-year advisory council

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Trinity ’O6 and former president of the Alpha Phi Omega a co-ed community service fraternity, said Wasiolek was an important part of APO. “She came to several different service projects every semester and made it a point to get to know all of our pledges,” he said. “She was almost like another brother.” Indeed, many have noted that Wasiolek’s smiling face is frequently seen around campus. “From football games to hamming it up in DUl’s Big Show, Dean Sue is [a] constant fixture on campus and always there for the SEE DEAN SUE ON PAGE 5

Bowman said this year’s lacrosse con-

troversy showed Durham why it needed a brand. “We hadn’t been out there educating external audiences,” he said. “People made a lot of mistakes and

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assumptions.” Where great things happen 1 the Durham ConvenBowman said tion and Visitors BuDurham did not lack a reau after a two-year, $64,000 process brand before. He explained that different The brand is away to define the perDurham groups were referring to the city sonality of a community and differentiate in different ways. it from others, said Reyn Bowman, presiDCVB was asked by local organizations dent and CEO of DCVB, adding that it is to create an “overarching” brand that important to establish a brand before oth- would redefine and encompass the differers make one for you. ent images of the city, he said. “If you’re not careful, your competitors “We had to get everyone on the same will create a brand for you, and they’re not always flattering or accurate,” he said. ‘You SEE DURHAM BRAND ON PAGE 6

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rely on word-of-mouth, which can be a dangerous thing.”

The Graduate and Professional Student Council recently announced plans to increase service ventures in the community by supporting Durham businesses and raising funds for a number of local causes. One prominent new ventures is the promotion of Xiloa, a new Ninth Street restaurant.

Gautham Pandiyan, a second-year graduate student in molecular cancer bi-

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As part of GPSCs community-service push, it has tried to get its members involved in Durham affairs.

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United Way teams up with Duke employees by

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unidentified,” he said. “We, as representatives of Duke, have a responsibility to contribute to the common good of the

This week, United Way representatives announced that Duke is well on its way to community.” Administrators said the United Way wrapping up another successful camDuke Partnership is a mutually beneficial paign year. As the 2006 United Way Duke Partnerrelationship. Duke is one of the top-10 contributors ship Campaign comes to a close, the University has had a 18-percent participation rate to the Triangle United Way. Duke shares this status with other major businesses in of eligible Duke employees and accumulated $923,051, said the Triangle Roger Loyd, 2006 IBM, Blue Cross cocampaign A large portion of involvement chair and direcBlue Shield, sevcomes from the medical center, eral hospitals tor of the Divinity and udlity comSchool Library. and clinics.” hospitals Although the panies such as Roger Loyd Duke Energy, official camThornton said paign concludcampaign chair, United Way Duke Partnership Duke particied Nov. 3, dona• pation is widetions will be and spread accepted until Feb. 28 draws from employees and faculty members from various sectors across the Uni“We are definitely within striking distance of our $ 1-million goal,” Loyd said. versity, he added. Administrators said they are proud of “A large portion of involvement comes the efforts by Duke employees and staff to from the medical center, hospitals and raise funds for the cause. clinics,” Loyd said. “This year was one of increased awarePublicity for the event was provided by ness and opportunity. We did a better job United Way representatives and Duke liwithin the University to raise awareness aisons who spread the word at faculty and and participation,” said Wayne Thomann, hospital staff meetings. Advertising strate2006 campaign co-chair and director of gies such as distributing information the Occupational and Environmental Safethrough mail, posters and videos were also used as recruitment tools. ty Office at Duke. Since its establishment in 1996, the Tri“We are constantly looking at ways to United has been involved with better communicate needs and increase angle Way the University through the partnership. the percentage of Duke employee activity,” “Duke had a special interest in various Thomann said. “After this year’s campaign non-profit organizations in the Triangle comes to a close, we will sit down to do area and we were able to accommodate some brainstorming and planning for next these interests,” said Jim Thornton, senior year. It is a continuing process.” Active members of the United Way vice president of resource development for the Triangle United Way. Duke Partnership said they look forward to Thomann said the United Way is an a long-lasting and rewarding relationship. ideal outlet for Duke to help improve the “When I see the results of our work out in the community, for example, through surrounding area. “We support the United Way primarily the Red Cross and Literacy Program, I because it sponsors directed community knew our efforts are well worth the time activity to groups that might otherwise go and money,” Loyd said.

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At its meeting Monday night, Durham City Council received a $500,000 donationfrom the University.

ANDERSON ST. from page 1 Duke’s donation comes weeks before the city will finalize plans for the arts center and approximately a month before the Council is slated to vote on the University’s Central Campus rezoning. Durham Mayor Bill Bell said city funds were too tight to be allocated toward the $44-million project. “The City Council, at this time, is not willing to put any more city dollars toward [this project],” Bell said. “Duke was willing to support this effort.” The mayor also responded to editorials in The Herald-Sun that cited the possible influence of the donation on the upcoming vote on Central Campus rezoning. “There is no quid pro quo agreement,” Bell said. “Anderson Street is a public street and will remain a public street.” Other City Council members such as Eugene Brown weighed in during the discussion. Brown said he would remain “unbiased and unbought.” “Regardless of what people have said in the past, this is not a carrot and a stick,” he said. Council member Thomas Stith, how-

ever, was less optimistic.

“If [this agreement] is not quid pro quo then I don’t know what is,” Stith said. “I am very concerned that the council would put itself in this position.” Mike Woodard, who was elected to the Council a year ago, said his vote on the letter of intent in no way reflected his attitude toward the University’s management ofAnderson Street. “It’s been disappointing that the University and the zoning committee have not been able to reach a conclusion,” Woodard said. “Let me be clear, I do not view this as giving Anderson Street to Duke.” Woodard added that his acceptance of the $500,000 donation does not reflect an approval of the rezoning ofCentral Campus. Council member Howard Clement also supported accepting the donation. “I don’t have to apologize,” Clement said. “I haven’t said a thing about Anderson Street. That is for a later decision.” In other business Durham City Council recognized the Duke’s men’s soccer team’s ACC Championship and North Carolina Central University’s undefeated football team.

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ed [to do] in the past,” he added GPSC also makes an effort to host events at area venues, including Devine’s Pandiyan said there is a trend ofbusiRestaurant and Sports Bar, Satisfaction nesses closing down on Ninth Street, Restaurant and Varsity Ale House. which inspired inspired him to support GPSC Community Service Coordithese restaurants. nator Julie Roy, a graduate student in “It’s nice for us when places like molecular and cellular biology, added that many students spearhead activi[Xiloa] pop up and do well,” he said. Through GPSC, Pandiyan purchased ties individually. 100 $5 gift cerIn an effort tificates from to coor [mate volunteers, owner and “This is obviously important to chef Anar RoGPSC has esu5.... We’ve had some truly tablished a driguez, which he advertised community wonderful community service GPSC’s in service listserv newsletter. and will host projects.” The publicity the Wine and Bill LeFew Cheese Social brought numerous stufor graduate GPSC, former GPSC president dents to 748 students and Ninth St. for administrators Indian tacos, natural juices and vegetariin order to promote awareness of stuan and vegan dining. dents’ projects. “It looks like there is a large population Roy said the council has a goal ofhostof graduate and professional students who ing several events each month, and are very interested and very invested in LeFew said he thought the goal has been met thus far this year. [projects like this],” Pandiyan said. Bill LeFew, GPSC Basketball Campout “We’ve had some truly wonderful Committee co-chair and a graduate stucommunity service projects,” LeFew said. dent in mathematics, added that, in addiUpcoming events welcome gradution to the involvement with Xiloa, GPSC ate and undergraduate volunteers, has made an effort this year to increase Roy added. interaction with the Raleigh-Durham This Saturday, the Harvest of Thanks will provide refugees with a Thanksgiving community. “It’s been enormous,” he said of the meal, which GPSC will help stock. “The great thing about this is it isn’t like organization’s increase in service. “This is obviously important to us.” a soup kitchen,” Roy said. The buffet-style LeFew said refocused efforts are in event will also feed volunteers, she added, in the hopes of enticing more students to part a result of the fact that Duke’s undergraduate Community Service Center offer their assistance. is not directed toward graduate and proTo raise money for Meals on Wheels, fessional students. students can also volunteer to gift-wrap in “We hadn’t nearly done what we want- December, Roy said.

Edens fraternity property damaged A student reported that she heard a loud bang in Edens Quadrangle IB around 2:11 a.m. Saturday and said she saw several students leaving the area. The reporting party was able to identify one of the students. In the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity commons room, two fraternity composite pictures were damaged, a ping pong table was destroyed and the suspects had urinated on about 600 flyers belonging to the fraternity. The suspects may be affiliated with another fraternity. Didn't Duke get rid of tailgate? Several people reported Nov. 4 that their cars in the Blue Zone parking lot were damaged during a large party that oc-

DEAN SUE from page 3 student[s],” University Archivist Tim Pyatt,

Trinity ’Bl, wrote in an e-mail. Wasiolek said that the students were her main reason for sticking around for the past quarter-century. “Having been here so long, I am now able to interact with the children ofmy classmates as well as the children of some of the students who lived in my residence hall when I was an RA,” she said. “It is incredible to be able to follow Duke alums in this way and to see how successful they have become.” Wasiolek was accepted into the Class of 1976 as a pre-med student, and latermoved on to complete a master’s degree in hospital administration in 1978. After working in health care briefly, Wasiolek said she found herself discontent in the job. “Some friends of minereminded me of

curred in the lot before, during and after Saturday's Duke-Navy football game.

Employee's vehicle vandalized An employee reported Nov. 3 that he parked a John Deere Gator at 4:23 p.m. Nov. 2 in the Beta parking lot near the Duke University Medical Center. When he returned to use it he found that the glass door was shattered and there was a broken bottle of Captain Morgan Rum and several beer cans on the ground next to it. Laptop reported missing from library A student reported Nov. 4 that he left his Sony Vaio laptop computer unattended in Lilly Library for about half an hour. When he returned, the laptop was gone. how much I loved being an RA in graduate school and [thought] perhaps I would enjoy a position in Student Affairs,” she wrote in an e-mail. “There was a job opening at Duke in Student Affairs at that time, and I was lucky enough to get the job as an administrative assistant for the dean for student life.” Wasiolek was selected to be dean of student life from a pool of 170 applicants after her predecessor left the position. Since taking the job, she has seen her title change a number of times, but she said the duties have remained the same. “The perks of the job are that I get to come every day to a beautiful place—a place that I love—and interact with the most interesting, ambitious and successful young people in the world,” Wasiolek said. “What I do now is a dream that I never knew I had. I thank Duke for allowing me to discover and live this dream.”

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LAX CASE from page 1 boys,’” Thomas said in his interview with

the N&O. “I said, ‘Whatever,’ because no one takes her seriously.” Wearing a hospital bracelet, the alleged victim discussed money but did not mention being hurt or injured during the March 17 conversation, he said. “The other girls would have known if something had happened,” Thomas said. “If another dancer had been beat up or raped by a bunch of white boys, there would have been a ruckus.” Thomas said he declined to come forward with the information earlier upon the advice ofhis lawyers. He added that he had little to gain by releasing the information because of a pending cocaine possession charge. Last month, a video surfaced showing the alleged victim dancing at the club early March 26, less than two weeks after the al-

leged rape occurred. “She was as regular as pie,” Thomas told the N&O. “She didn’t do anything different.” Victor Olatoye, the Platinum’s owner, told the N&O that club records reveal that the alleged victim danced March 23, 24, 25 and into the early hours of March 26—when the video was recorded. Olatoye added that all the information was given in a sworn statement to an investigator in Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong’s office last month. Olatoye said he has not seen the woman since March. It remains unclear whether defense lawyers had access to the information prior to Thomas’ Friday interview and if it will affect the case. Kirk Osborn, attorney for defendant Reade Seligmann, declined to comment. Wade Smith, attorney for Collin Finnerty, and Joe Cheshire, attorney for David Evans, Trinity ’O6, could not be reached for comment.

ELECTION DAY Students who plan to vote today have the option of taking DSG-sponsored shuttles to the polls. The shuttles will be departing from both East and West Campus bus stops every hour, beginning at 9 a.m. and lasting until the polls close at 7:30 p.m. East Campus residents should vote in Precinct 2 at George Watts School, located at 700 Watts St Residents of West and Central Campus should vote in Precinct 5 at W I. Patterson Recreation Center, located at 2000 Crest St. For students who registered while living on one campus but now live on another campus and didn’t notify the Board of Elections of their address changes, there are two options for voting. The first option, recommended by Mike Ashe, director of the Board of Elections, is for students to first visit their old precincts to fill out requests to change voting locations and then take these forms to their new polling places. Students may also go only to their new polling places, but then they must vote using a provisional ballot. Either way, Ashe said, students’ votes will count —Victoria Ward

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have not notified the Board ofElections Students may either go to their old precincts to get transfer forms and then vote at their new precincts, or they may vote using provisional ballots at their new precincts, he said. “Voting is one of our most important privileges, and if you have to do a little bit of extra driving, that shouldn’t be a problem,” Ashe added. Local campaign workers for the House of Representatives race have coordinated with student organizations to encourage undergraduates to vote. ‘We have been working with two Republican clubs, the one at [The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] and the one at Duke,” said Romney Biddulph, business manager for Republican Congressional candidateSteve Acuff. “The Republican club at Duke has helped us to distribute literature.” Supporters ofincumbent Congressman David Price, a Democrat, have been working with student Democratic organizations at Duke, UNC and North Carolina Central University, said Paul Cox, Price’s campaign press secretary., “We even registered Congressman Price with a facebook.com account, and he has quite a few friends on there,” he added.

The American Tobacco Complex (above) is part of the new face of Durham put forward by the DCVB.

DURHAM BRAND from page 3 page,” Bowman added. “We are all sharing the same DNA. We needed to be consistent.” In order to decide what aspects of the city the new brand should emphasize, DCVB conducted research across the country to gauge the national perception of Durham, Bowman said. He added that DCVB ran a series of individual interviews and workshops in Durham—including one workshop with Duke freshmen—to get input from different groups within the community. Common “personality characteristics” of Durham emerged from the research, Bowman said. Participants described Durham as community-spirited, culturally diverse and passionate. “We are not so pretentious as to say we are the only [people] who have these characteristics,” he said. “But we are the only place that manifests them like we do.” DCVB also worked with an advisory group, which consisted of individuals who represented the city’s different

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Beverly Meek, assistant director for marketing and audience development at Duke Performances, was a member of the advisory group. “I’ve lived in Durham for 20 years,” she said. “I felt I could bring a sense of how Durham was when I moved here, how it has changed and how it has grown.” Meek said it was important to consider “authenticity” when developing the new brand. “It must be real,” she said. “If it’s real, we will be able to use the brand [and] live up to it. We will be able to ask, ‘Are we doing the things we should?”’ The new brand is accompanied by a multi-colored star logo composed of seven smaller stars. The largest of these stars is outlined by people holding hands. But Bowman said the slogan and logp were the “most superficial elements” of the new brand. “It is the words that matter more,” he said. “We are trying to get to the community’s core, not just the bricks and mortar.”

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AD from page 1 quotes describing allegations of racism and sexism at Duke. Although many professors declined to comment for this article, some said they stand by their statement and believe the advertisement has been misconstrued. In a piece titled “Shame on Duke’s faculty for rush to blame,” published Oct. 22, The Arizona Republic columnist Doug MacEachern said the Group of 88 suffered from an “inflated sense of personal morality” in the wake of the scandal. “Whatever the ultimate judgement in this case, the Duke faculty has acted monstrously,” MacEachern wrote. “In service of their personal, hyperpolitical judgements about social oppression, the faculty members proclaimed their indifference to the real guilt or innocence of their own students.” Some professors said the statement reflected the opinion of those who signed it. “I stand by my right to express my opinion, other than that I don’t have anything to say. I think everyone should have the opportunity to express an opinion,” said Sherman James, professor of public policy, declining further comment. The advertisement’s content has been widely misinterpreted, said Alice Kaplan, professor of literature and Romance studies and director of graduate studies in literature. “That statement was about the climate on campus, it wasn’t taking a position on the case,” Kaplan said. “There’s nothing in the statement that says anyone is guilty or innocent.” Criticism has rained in from coast to coast.

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cle, Kurt Andersen unflatteringly compared one member of the Group of 88 to President George W. Bush. “The story appalled us good-hearted liberal metropolitans, but absolutely galvanized the loopy left at Duke,” Ander-

readings of the advertisement have attracted the most attention. “It was extraordinarily telling that these respondents displaced the actual content of the ad for the fiction of their own meagerly articulated agendas,” she wrote. sen wrote. She added that she would sign the petiFrom the other end of the political tion again “in a heartbeat.” Both Kaplan and Holloway said they have received hate mail from strangers. “The often vicious, frequently racist “That statement was about the and generally poorly composed responses I have received speak for themclimate on campus.... There’s selves,” Holloway said. nothing... that says anyone is “Those who cower under the cover of anonymous e-mail and who find guilty or innocent.” their life’s blood in producing unendAlice Kaplan ing streams of blogged nonsense are probably better left to these subaltern professor, Literature and Romance studies spaces,” she added. One of the bloggers following the case, KC Johnson, told The Chronicle spectrum, William Anderson, an assistant in October that he started writing in reacprofessor of economics at Frostburg State tion to the “inexplicable response” of the University, has written extensively online University’s faculty. about the lacrosse scandal and labeled In an Oct. 24 post, Johnson criticized the Group of 88 for remaining silent in the Group of 88 as Marxists and leftists. “These young men represented everylight of recent developments. A professor of history at Brooklyn thing these faculty members despised, and they were not going to permit something as College, he noted that some sponsors of bourgeois as truth stand in the way of their the advertisement have “meager credenattempt to remake Duke University in their tials” and he said that at least one has a own image,” Anderson wrote Oct. 14. pattern of “adopting ideologically exThe lacrosse case has exposed the treme positions that fail to stand the “fraud” of higher education, he said. test of time.” “The Duke affair presents the Purely “Since March 14, nearly 100 of Duke’s Political State of Being that the elite arts and sciences faculty engaged in academies want to impose on everyone rush-to-judgement denunciations of the else,” Anderson wrote. “Professors have lacrosse players,” Johnson wrote. Kaplan, though, rejected any postulacome to view their campuses as huge reeducation camps.” tions about her motives. “I signed the statement because I care One of the professors Anderson specifically mentioned was Karla Holloway, a about Duke and I care about the students and the experiences they’re havDuke professor of English. Holloway wrote in an e-mail that mis- ing,” she said.

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DEMON DEACONS COME TO TOWN The Blue Devils look to continue their run through the conference with a win tonight over Wake Forest. |Q

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After running through the ACC tournament by defeating N.C. State, fifthranked Maryland and top-ranked Wake Forest, Duke was rewarded by the NCAA selection committee Monday afternoon. The Blue Devils (16-3-1) are the top seed in the 48-team tournament and will host the winner of Adelphi and Brown at home Nov. 15. For the second straight year, Duke is guaranteed at least one home game in the, tournament. The trip to the tournament is the Blue Devils’ third straight and sixth in the last eight years. “It definitely makes a difference,” sophomore forward Mike Grella said. “It makes us more confident and more comfortable. Home field is a huge positive factor.” After the second round game, however, the Blue Devils could have a difficult road to the championship game. Duke could face No. 14 Lehigh in the third round. And if ninth-seeded Clemson, which was ranked in the top 10 in the country prior to the ACC tournament, wins its second and third round games, it could play Duke in the quarterfinals. The Tigers beat the Blue Devils, 1-0,Oct. 28 in the teams’ only clash this season. Also on Duke’s side of the bracket is fifth-seeded Maryland and fourth-seeded Virginia, both of which were also ranked in the top 10 heading into the ACC tournament. Although the Blue Devils beat the Terrapins, 1-0, in the semifinals of the ACC tournament, they also fell at Maryland by the same score earlier in the season. Duke beat the Cavaliers, 2-1, in the regular season match between the two squads. Looking ahead to these potentially difficult matchups is a mistake the Blue Devils cannot afford to repeat. Last year, Duke

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The Blue Devils learned they were the No. 1 overall Monday after capturing their second straight ACC title. was upset at home by 1 Ith-seeded Creighton in the second round of the tournament. “The players remember last year very well,” head coach John Rennie said. “It’s a part of everyone, and the memory is certainly still there. We’ll be ready this year.” In particular, the Blue Devils hope to get ready for the NCAA tournament after a taxing ACC tournament. The conference tournament exhausted Duke, much like it did last year. “The first game of the NCAA tourna-

ment is the hardest,” Rennie said. “We just played three games in five days, and we are totally drained.” Nevertheless, last year’s loss should motivate the Blue Devils to be extra sharp in the second round this year. Seeded even higher this year than last year, Duke believes it can go far in the College Cup, which concludes in St. Louis Dec. 3. “We’re a lot more united than we were last year,” Grella said. “We aren’t going to let each other down like we did last year.”

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All season long, Duke has felt it can beat anyone in the country —it just needed a chance. The Blue Devils were given that opportunity Monday when they earned an atlarge bid to the 64-team NCAA tournament field. Duke (9-8-2) will travel to Knoxville, Tenn. Friday night to play No. 22 Louisville (13-4-2). But when the Blue Devils gathered Monday afternoon at Devine’s to learn their fate, they were less concerned with their first-round matchup and more worried about simply getting into the tournament. “If we were playing [North] Carolina the first game, that would have been fine with me,” senior Darby Kroyer said. “We worked too hard to not make this tournament.” A collective cheer erupted within the restaurant when the bracket was revealed— SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

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With the Blue Devils in danger of finishing the season winless and morale low, team leaders are working hard to rally the troops to end the season on a high note over the final three weeks. Duke travels to face No. 22 Boston College and No. 19 Georgia Tech in its next two games meaning the Blue Devils’ best chance of securing their first win will most likely come at home against an equally hapless 1-8 North Carolina team in the season finale. “This is when it gets really hard,” linebacker Jeramy Edwards said. “It’s getting down to the last games, and we’re still trying to build this program up. This is when leadership steps in. This is when we have to keep our ship tight and keep everything going forward.” Throughout the majority of the season, the Blue Devils have struggled starting games strong. But the team experienced palpable improvement in near-comebacks against Miami and Vanderbilt Duke thought it had finally turned its luck around when it took a 6-0 lead against the Midshipmen but allowed 38 points before ever scoring again. “Certainly, there’s disappointment,” head coach Ted Roof said. “But right now, those are facts, and there’s nothing that we can —

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after sprinting their way through their schedule on a 10-3 run. The Blue Devils, however, realThe most potent pair in the ACC will face off against one of ize that Furlong is a tremendous force to be reckoned with. the league’s most powerful play“She does a tremendous job,” ers tonight. Duke (21-3, 14-1 in the ACC) Nagel said. “She’s a very powerful squares off against Wake Forest hitter in the ACC and she does a (13-11, 9-6) at 7 good job for [the Deacons].” For Duke, Hausfeld dishes out p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium assists on the vast majority of the just four days team’s points —so much so that VS. after defeating she has rapidly ascended to secNorth Carolina ond place on Duke’s career asin four games. sists list. Hausfeld has tallied a The showdown total of 4,048 assists during her TONIGHT, 7 p.m. Cameron Indoor is a rematch of tenure at Duke. threeDuke’s DeMange, meanwhile, has led the of the Deacons Oct. team in kills every year durgame sweep 10 in Winston-Salem. ing her career, with 344 this seaJuniors Cany DeMange and son. The team heavily relies on Ali Hausfeld, the former high the two thanks to their playing school teammates, have led the together for several years. Both Blue Devils to three straight wins were All-ACC selections as sophoafter Duke’s upset loss to Georgia mores and preseason All-ACC Tech Oct. 27. picks this year. Wake Forest, on the other “We just add a lot of stability hand, comes in looking to to the team because we play so reestablish itself as an ACC conwell together,” Hausfeid said. tender. Led by star sophomore “The team just relies on us beJessica Furlong, the Deacons cause we’ve been playing togethhave lost four of their past six er for so long.” by

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Senior JeramyEdwards approaches hisfinal threegames, hoping to pick up the season's first win so thatthe Blue Devils do not finish winlessfor the fourth time in 11 years. do about that other than use that to motivate us and learn from

our mistakes and move forward.” Roof said he stresses taking it one day at a time and insists the team focuses on “winning” each practice before moving onto the next. He said the Blue Devils have had successful practices throughout the season, but the stark difference on game day has taken its toll on the squad’s morale. “You question your abilities,

and you question your teammates’ abilities,” wideout Jomar Wright said. “With all the time and work we put in the off-season and during the regular season, you might as well keep fighting for [your teammates] because they’re fighting for you.” With the freshman class yet to win a collegiate contest and in need of veteran support, Eli SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 12

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Fighting League. Shawn Bradley vs. Jim Mcllvane would easily be worth $5O on pay-per-view to me, as long as Luke Schenscher-Wang Zhizhi and Eric Montross-Will Perdue were on the undercard, Pete Newell, big-man extraordinaire, could even be the referee and the aforementioned Bilas and Brown could do the television commentary. But anyway, beyond the unintentional comedy aspect of Mcßoberts-Zoubek, a fight between the two big men might be the best thing that could happen to Duke Basketball this season. I have no clue if Mcßoberts and Zoubek are friends off the court, but on the court, I want them to keep going after each other like Ali-Frazier. I want them to look like a couple of seven-foot dachshunds fighting over the last piece of bacon every single day. The main beneficiary is going to be Mcßoberts. Zoubek’s 27 points in the Blue-White game might have been im-

pressive, but the intensity and husde Mcßoberts showed is going to be what the Blue Devils really need this season. I’m not saying Mcßoberts didn’t play hard last season, but this year, he’s going to be the guy who sets the tone for the whole team. He has to play the hardest. Zoubek is the Rudy Ruettiger character in this whole equation (though that doesn’t do justice to his considerable talents) . If he’s scrapping every practice, Mcßoberts is going to have to scrap right back (like when they were matched up during the first halfof Blue-White) to avoid being embarrassed. And if captain Mcßoberts is scrapping, then everyone’s going to be scrapping. If you ask Coach K, he’ll tell you that his 1991 and 1992 teams had some of the roughest, most competitive practices he’s ever seen. If you ask me, it’s no coincidence that those teams won back-to-back

championships. So fight on Mcßoberts and Zoubek. At the very least, it’s great practice for the BMFL. (Coming soon to an arena, rollerskating rink or bam near you!)

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celebration, however, were sighs ofrelief. The Blue Devils had plenty of reasons to be nervous heading into the selection show. They ended their season with two losses—albeit against No. 18 Wake Forest and No. 6 Florida State—and finished seventh in the ACC standings. Apparentiy, though, the strengths of Duke’s resume were too significant for the selection committee to ignore. The team had three wins over ranked squads and played a tough schedule that was accentuated by its competitive ACC slate. The ACC and the Big East placed the most teams in the tournament as both received seven bids. “I felt we deserved to be in, but you never know until you see your name on

happen.”

After a quick celebration, Church turned his focus to Louisville, a Big East team that also earned an at-large selection. The Blue Devils and Cardinals played just one common opponent —Louisville lost to Marquette, 1-0, Oct. 15, and the Blue Devils tied the Golden Eagles, 1-1, Sept. 17. Despite a relatively tough first-round pairing with the Cardinals, Duke could not be more excited about kicking off Friday night, if only because it provides a chance for a fresh start. “If we play 90 minutes of aggressive, focused soccer, we can play with anyone in the country,” Church said. “This gives us an opportunity to show that we’re actually a better team than our regular season shows.”

FOOTBALL from page 10 Nichols, Casey Camero, Matt Rumsey and Edwards have been Duke’s biggest leaders and exhibited both an ability to lead vocally and by example, Roof said. “People can criticize a lot of things,” he said. “But the leadership within our football team, that’s one area that’s been fantastic. I’ve been very proud of them and expect that to continue.” A win may propel the team into the offseason with a sense of momentum, but Roof said the team is still focused on this year’s campaign, and a victory would help show all the hard work has been worth it. “It’s good for a reward, a return on your investment,” Roof said. “We’re desperate for a win.”

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Ease ACES frustrations the biannual ritual. The probthat time of the year, lent, however, lies in the lack November, hunEvery dreds of bleary eyed tin- of resources available to studergraduates make the dents who use ACES, Second-semorning rush mester seniors to ACES to editorial and incoming register for freshmen—and the many in spring-semester classes. And every year, students between—have noted their are greeted by the same frustrations with the unrelihandful of registration able nature of the system. Simply put, ACES does frustrations. not provide adequate and The process through which students are able to reliable information for sign up for classes at the those looking for good University has a number of classes that also fulfdl core perks. It is impressive, on a requirements. Too often, students are number of levels, that those in charge are able to greeted by a large number of coordinate and quickly courses with no synopses that process the 7 a.m. wave of are taught simply by “staff.” Some departments proregistrations. The system certainly isn’t vide very little background bad, especially for the veterans on things like the content who know the ins and outs of of a course, the quality of

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Last fall, University officials prodded faculty members to put course evaluations online. Under the current Trinity College policy, ratings for professors are numerical and are listed on ACES only if those professors have opted to have them posted. The result: there are even fewer resources for students. Since Duke Student Government and a number of other students first initiated discussion about the topic last year, it appears little headway has been made to make life easier for the many who fumble their way to find

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Have you been trying to ignore this election? Do you avoid talking politics with friends? Do you tune out right-wing talk shows and stay away from left-wing blogs? Do you change channels as soon as you hear the words “Pelosi,” “Foley,” “cut and run” or “macaca”? Then you owe it to your country to vote. It’s the rest of the us who should stay home. We’ve lost our bearings because we’ve followed the old advice to discuss this among ourselves Democracy, we’ve b;een to.Id is■' best tIGDIGy served when informed citizens dethe newyork times liberate the issues of the day, pooling their wisdom to reach a judicious consensus. But what really happens when people discuss politics? Consider an experiment last year, when groups of Coloradans convened separately in Boulder and Colorado Springs to discuss global warming, affirmative action and civil union for same-sex couples. Before the discussions, the people in Boulder were on average more liberal than the ones in Colorado Springs, but there were also moderates in both places whose opinions overlapped. After the group discussions, the people in Boulder moved to the left, and those in Colorado Springs moved to the right. The researchers —David Schkade, Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie—concluded that “the major effect of deliberation was to make group members more extreme than they were before they started to talk.” This effect hasn’t been studied much in politics, but it’s well documented in other arenas. When jurors deliberatehow much to award in damages, they often end up giving more than the average juror originally thought was fair —and sometimes more than anyone in the group originally favored. The more they talk, the more they reinforce one another’s indignation. Group polarization is less of a problem if the people start out with a wide range of opinions—even if they tend to shift in whatever direction the majority favors, they’ll at least be exposed to other views and become more tolerant. There’s even some evidence that if you purposely assemble a diverse group of discussants and systematically educate them about an issue, some of the people will moderate their opinions. But when people informally discuss politics, they often don’t hear a range of views. As in Boulder and Colorado Springs, they may be surrounded by .

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like-minded people in their neighborhoods, churches and offices. During local elections, they’re much more likely now than in the past to hear one-sided rhetoric because gerrymandering has produced so many onesided districts, making it impossible for moderate candidates to survive. Thanks to cable television, talk radio and the Internet, it’s easier than ever for people to hear their opinions ratified around the clock. As the media audiences segregate themselves ideologically, they get more extreme in their views—and more convinced than ever that they represent the sensible mainstream. When conservatives have their views reinforced daily on talk radio and Sundays at their churches, they start to believe the “mainstream media” is a bunch of wacko traitors. When liberals spend their days reading lefty blogs, or working on campuses surrounded by ideological soulmates, they start convincing themselves that most “corporate media” are right wing and that Fox News is pure propaganda. In fact, most journalists do try to be objective, but as a group they, too, can become polarized by spending most of their dme talking to fellow journalists and experts with similar views. One of the cleverest demonstrationsof this effect was a study published last year in Harvard’s Quarterly Journal of Economics. The researchers, Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo, devised a scale for measuring the slant of news reports by keeping track of which think tanks—liberal or conservative —were quoted most often. The researchers found that The Washington Times and Brit Hume’s evening newscast on Fox fell on the conservative side of the scale, while all the other news media outlets they studied fell oh the liberal side. The surprising result—to liberals, at least—was that Fox was closer to the ideological center than the Big Three evening newscasts as well as all the major newspapers and newsweeklies. Of course, these ideological divides are small compared with the ones in the blogosphere, which is one giant version of the Colorado experiment. You can always find a group online to affirm your brilliant opinions. It’s immensely satisfying, but it can also make Election Day a miserable experience. Tuesday night, you can’t help noticing how many ignorant people out there disagree with you.

John Tierney is a regular columnist for the New York Times. This column will also be printed there.

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in elementary school, when all we had were 50 minutes to make recess count, we did everything our little hearts desired. There were soccer players and jump-ropers, kids who colored and others who savored a peanut butter and jelly sandwich by the monkey bars. There were conversations about boys, somebody’s birthday party and the upcoming field trip to the zoo. Until the rachel weeks teacher called us back guest column to class or put an end to a roughneck game of dodgeball, everything we did counted as play. Today, the line between work and play is much hazier. There’s no teacher out there telling us right from wrong, there’s not a bell announcing recess or social studies—we’re the ones who separate work from play and right from wrong. But although we may have successfully revived the preschool art of napping, the art of recognizing “play” on this campus has been sadly neglected. We want to suggest that students should be the ones to redefine what the “play” is in “work hard, play hard,” and that all it might take is a trip down memory lane to remember just how expansive the playground might be. From section parties to house parties, chess tournaments to basketball tournaments, art exhibits to the music on your iPod, everything counts as play. Yet for some reason, when we begin to describe what it actually means to socialize on this campus, all the sundry cool things each of us does to entertain ourselves—and the good intentions behind all ofit—tend to

come third or fourth on the list. After what Nancy Grace,

Rolling Stone and frustrated Chronicle editorials say about how we play, we begin to forget standing room only at Inside Joke, Nasher Noir or photographing our

best friend in the gardens for a Doc Studies class. We forget our favorite parties and why we loved them. At the end of the day, “culture” is just about how grown-ups play, and if that’s the case, we have to make room on the playground for more than the kind of faceplanting, we-regret-it-in-the-moming “hard” living that’s being used against us. Perhaps what we really want is to play well; to be both playful and cultured, carefree and responsible, kids without a care and college students who are a lot more savvy to this place we inhabit than the media might have us believe. We know it’s a jungle (gym) out there. But every hour we spend entertaining ourselves and counting it as play is a step toward expanding the playground that, apparently, all eyes are on. In honor of recess, when whatever made you happy was a good way to spend those precious fifty minutes, we think the best way to quell the haters is to relish in the art of play. How we play not only matters for us, but for the Duke tradition of social life that’s something we should all be proud of. Of course, playgrounds don’t change overnight. But it can start with a field trip to the Chapel Quad, and declaring recess for yourself, this Friday from noon to five. Rachel Weeks is a Trinity senior.

Remembering reality UGANDA —

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ple around the world die each year because they

are too poor to stay alive. Our generation can choose to end that extreme poverty by the year 2025.” It sounds awfully ambitious, but this is what economist and former World Bank President Jeffrey Sachs claims. His basic premise is that with enough money, we can solve any development problems. In his visit to Duke and UNC this week, Sachs will promote the Millennium Village Prodavid fiOCCO ject, his new idea of shades of blues “sponsoring villages.” He claims that five years of financial giving and interventions from Western scientists can solve all ills in third-world villages. I deeply respect Sachs’s optimism, but when something sounds too good to be true, it likely is. The problems of African development run far deeper than a shortage of dollars. A capital injection is not the answer for sustainable development. Recent publicity has trumpeted the seemingly instant successes in test villages; in an interview with CNN, the Millennium Village Project coordinator in Ethiopia kept insisting, “It’s not difficult.” Decades of history tell us that she is wrong. Buying a truck for a village is great at first, but when the truck breaks down, what happens? Increasing farmers’ yields is super, but where will they sell the new produce? Building a health clinic is fabulous, but who then supplies the drugs and trained doctors after the construction project ends? A project may be ambitious enough to bring electricity to villages, but who then will pay for the power? The structural issues run even deeper. How will any of the changes stop the corrupt officials blocking the flow of money to villages? Whom do you pay so that women are not treated like property? How much does it cost to give the poorest of the poor a voice in local government, let alone national politics? Before we run in to give money, it is important to take time to find these structural roots to third-world problems. My fieldwork in Uganda this semester has been focused on the social networks of rural villagers. The first night I stayed in a tiny, poor, remote village near the Kenya-Uganda border, a pack of children gathered

with candles around my mat, peering to see how the white boy slept. I thought they were just as unusual. The father I stayed with had five wives and a whole horde of small, naked, dirty children. I cannot imagine being a woman in the village setting with almost no rights but limitless responsibilities. The village had no electricity, running water or even real roads, and the local clinic went weeks without drugs. As I spoke with the villagers, I heard a lot about problems, but whenever I asked what the solutions could be, the answers involved outsiders donating money. There was so little initiative from locals to think of their own solutions. They feel isolated and disempowered, forgotten by the national government and powerless to change their situation. The biggest problem with the Millennium Village idea is that it does so little to empower the local people. The project actually encourages the crippling dependency that plagues so many African villages, instilling the idea that only outsiders can solve problems. There is a lot of talk of villagers owning the projects, but allowing them to help plan how to spend outside money is a far cry from fostering the skills to solve problems internally. Five years down the road, they likely still will not have built the social capital to work together, stand up for their rights and pool resources with neighboring villages. The foreigners will leave, and the troubles will gradually reappear. In her CNN interview, the Millennium Village coordinator in Ethiopia assigned to “set out the priorities for the village” said, “It’s the core money that is needed to bring in all the pieces that will change their world.” This could not be further from the truth Outside money is still necessary to bring the clinics, schools and electricity, but money alone is not enough. Development will never happen unless we start at the very grassroots level, building and using the resources of the “poorest of the poor” and then empowering villages to find their own solutions to “change their world.” I am certainly not trying to say development is hopeless, and I do not even want to discourage donations to Sachs’s project; the awareness he has built is phenomenal. But a “five-year plan” will not magically cure centuries of isolation and disempowerment. If we are not realistic, we will do far more harm than good. David Fiocco is a Trinity juniorstudying abroad in Uganda this semester. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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forgiven if you didn’t notice, but the “war on terror” is over. It ended Friday, Feb. 3 of this year, when the Pentagon issued a report that outlined in broad terms America’s strategic defense plan for the next 20 years. In it, the old ambiguous standby phrase was dropped in favor of a simpler, more direct term. Welcome to the “Long War.” The “war on terror” now shapes and informs so much of our political decision-making, yet the assumptions that underlie it are almost never questioned, and certainly not by either candidate for the House in Durham’s 4th brian kindle District. ad astra Bear with me when I say something that’s been said before, and needs to be said again: The conflict this country is currendy engaged in is not now nor has ever been a war. The decimation of the World Trade Center five years ago was mass murder by organized radicals, not a declaration of war by any sovereign state. Terrorism is not a nation, a geographic area, a religion or a political orientation. It’s crime. For five years, our tactics have been as misguided as our terminology. For five years, we’ve been sending soldiers to do the work of spies, investigators and cops. And we’re suffering for it, in a huge variety of ways. Nothing obscures rational argument like the prospect of young Ajmericans in the line of fire, so let me assure you this is no critique or judgment on our armed forces, its rank-and file or its commanding officers. The U.S. military has performed admirably in the “war on terror,” and done precisely what militaries are intended to do: defeat the armies and unseat the ruling powers of other nations, in this case Iraq and Afghanistan. Not surprisingly, the military has had little success in capturing bin Laden, dismantling al Qaeda or replacing Islamic extremism and fascism with burgeoning democracy. This is not the purpose of the military. Nor is it ofwar. Fervent cries to “support our troops!” without examining the paradigms that brought our troops to war are worse than meaningless. I do support our troops. That is exactly why I don’t want to see them given mandates that they cannot and should not be expected to fulfill. We’ve already witnessed the ugly consequences of forcing soldiers into the roles of jailers and interrogators in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The Bush administration’s all-or-nothing posturing has left both parties, as well as the U.S. citizenry, with little alternative to this military-centric “war” approach to eliminating international terrorist organizations. Though obviously some military component has been and will continue to be necessary, the reality is that most of the real work is already taking place in law enforcement agencies worldwide. It’s telling that one of the very few publicized al Qaeda plots against the United States since Sept. 11, the conspiracy to destroy the Library Tower in Los Angeles, was foiled through not through military action but cooperation between police and federal agents in the United States and an unnamed South Asian nation. Organizations like the FBI and CIA already possess the training, resources and methodology for the kind of painstaking criminal investigation required to defuse terror conspiracies. On top of this, U.S. law enforcement agencies can count decades of experience combating the mafia and international drug cartels, organized crime operations that, despite the veneer ofKoranic verses and radical politics, share much in common with many al Qaeda outfits. These days, the Taliban is vastly more likely to be smuggling heroin than dirty bombs. Terrorist cells worldwide routinely engage in gun-running, armed robbery, for-profit kidnapping and other criminal activities. The stakes may be higher, but the game remains essen-

tially unchanged. What does all of this mean for you in the voting booth? To be

honest, I have no solid recommendations. As previously mentioned, neither candidate for the House of Representatives in Durham’s 4th District seems likely to consider a fundamental shift in the way this country prosecutes its struggle with terrorist organizations, although Rep. David Price, D-Dist. 4 does seem far more flexible on the issue than Steven Acuff, his challenger. All I ask is that you look into each candidate’s stance and past history, and bear this issue in mind when you vote. Treating terrorism as crime and its perpetrators as criminals is a crucial first step toward transforming the “war on terror” into a struggle that’s politically, economically and, most of all, morally sustainable. It’s been five years. We’ve been fighting the wrong war for far too long. Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Tuesday.

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