by Stephen FarverTHE CHRONICLE

Former White House Adviser Elliott Abrams discussed issues facing U.S. for-eign policy as it tries to democratize other nations, especially in the Middle East, in his speech Tuesday.

Abrams addressed a diverse, packed room of students and adults in the San-ford School of Public Policy in an event

titled “The Freedom Agenda and the Mid-dle East.” Sponsors of the event included the von der Heyden Fellows Program En-dowment Fund and the Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy.

Although the United States has tra-ditionally played an important role in spreading democracy to other nations, Abrams said it will need to toughen its en-gagement to bring substantial changes to

the Middle East.An adviser to both former presidents

Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, Abrams argued that democracy is nec-essary for nations to function. He refer-enced many countries, including those in the Middle East.

“No culture is resistant to democracy,”

DCCE looks to unify civic engagement

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Speaking at the Sanford School Tuesday, former White House advisor Elliot Abrams said the U.S. needs to renew efforts to spread democracy to oppressed states.

by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE

Civic engagement groups are begin-ning to face challenges as they try to meet the goals of civic engagement reform at the University.

Leaders of service organizations at Duke have begun to consider how their groups can work within the rec-ommendations of the Klein-Wells report, is-sued Jan. 15. The report

recommended centraliz-ing some aspects of civic engagement under the Duke Center for Civic En-gagement, which would be led by a professor.

“The challenge is, how do we make sure that Duke doesn’t simply have the biggest or splashiest

program, but the best,” said Noah Pickus, Nannerl O. Keohane director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics. “Students, faculty and community leaders [must be] attracted to a common vision.”

The DCCE’s main purpose will be to fos-ter a higher level of coordination of civic engagement opportunities campus-wide. It will be led by Leela Prasad, associate profes-sor of ethics and Indian religions.

“One of our main requests was that we somehow have more of an established net-work to share best practices so individual groups aren’t repeating requests from cam-pus departments or contacts,” said Joan Clifford, assistant director of the Spanish language program who is involved with Spanish Service Learning.

Leaders of civic engagement programs like Spanish Service Learning, the Hart Leadership Program and the Center for Documentary Studies contributed reports to the Klein-Wells committee when it con-vened in the Fall.

If executed correctly, DCCE has the po-tential to support existing engagement op-portunities, like a bilingual storytelling pro-gram in Durham Public Schools, Clifford said. DCCE should let organizations know what others are doing to prevent miscom-munication and allow organizations to best serve their communities.

“We need to know what the rest of the Duke community is doing so we don’t over-stress the community,” she said.

Civic engagement should not be too centralized, however, said Tom Rankin,

Noah Pickus

Inaugural United College Conference to feature former Costa Rican president

by Joanna LichterTHE CHRONICLE

This Thursday, Mi Gente will host the University’s first annual United College Conference.

In the first of the three part conference on Latin America, child rights expert Emilio Garcia Mendez will speak in Love Auditorium on child rights in Latin American democracies March 18. The confer-ence will end with former Costa Rican President Jose Maria Figueres’ address on climate change and sustainability April 22. The UCC se-cured Figueres’s visit with the help of junior Naima Ritter, his niece.

“The UCC was born as an initiative to bring leaders of Latin American countries to talk about current issues regarding de-mocracies,” said junior Luciano Romero, founder of UCC and co-chair of Mi Gente’s Political Affairs Committee. “Democracy in Latin American societies has become very disenchanted be-cause it hasn’t delivered promises.”

Mendez worked with the United Nations Children’s Fund from 1990-1999, including as regional adviser on children’s rights for the Latin American and Caribbean regions. He is currently president of Sur-Argentina Foundation, an organization dedicated to child rights. After the lecture, a free Cuban style dinner will be served.

At the second part of the conference April 2, the UCC will show “Treading on Sand,” a documentary film that tells the story

of Peru’s democratic successes obtained through the use of par-ticipatory budgeting. Following the screening, students will be able to discuss the film with its producers.

“We want to bring different perspectives from different areas of in-terest,” said sophomore Caroline Buck, co-chair of Mi Gente’s Politi-cal Affairs Committee. “We want to show... the progression each coun-try has made individually and the Latin American region as a whole.”

Although Buck and Romero look forward to the conference kick-off, they are most excited for the final segment of the UCC at the end of April.

“I’m excited to have Figueres come in,” said freshman Ashley Boaz, a member of the UCC committee. “It will be a good oppor-tunity for others to hear what he has to say and to have such a big speaker on campus.”

Despite initial setbacks, both Buck and Romero are confident that the conference will return in the coming years. Although the UCC began as part of Mi Gente, it functions as an independent branch of the organization. Students who are not members of Mi Gente are eligible to join the UCC committee. Buck noted, however, that the UCC is funded entirely by Mi Gente.

“Now that we have our foot in the door, because we’ve been planning for so long, we hope it’s easier because people are aware of what we’re trying to do and where we want to go,” Buck said. SEE dcce ON PAGE 8

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tiators made progress toward agreement on a nuclear-arms reduction treaty during talks in Ge-neva last week, a pentagon official said tuesday.

“the differences have narrowed substantially over the last week or so,” said James Miller, prin-cipal deputy undersecretary of defense for pol-icy. “i think it is realistic to think now about con-cluding a treaty within the next several weeks. it does not mean that that’s going to be done.”

president Barack obama and russian presi-dent Dmitry Medvedev spoke by telephone on March 13 in an attempt to resolve differences, the new York times reported. it was at least the third time the leaders talked personally as negotiators seek to reach an understand-ing on verification procedures and U.s. missile defense plans. Miller, testifying before a house armed services subcommittee in Washington tuesday, cited “a thousand catches” that have arisen in the negotiations in recent weeks.

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a part called a vehicle stability as-sist modulator should be modified on 344,000 odysseys and 68,000 element wagons from the 2007-2008 model years, said honda, Japan’s second-largest car-maker. the company is reviewing at least three reported crashes in which brakes were cited, none of which involved deaths, said Chris Martin, a spokesman.

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“once again we are delivering an urgent message to get ready,” John hayes, director of the national Weather service, said in a conference call tues-day. “the flood risk is above- average over one-third of the country.”

the flood potential is driven in part by el nino, a warming in the pacific ocean, which steered storms that have left the ground saturated from record rains and heavy snows. the area desig-nated for above-average risk stretches from new Mexico in the west to Maine in the east, federal maps show.

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MythBusters’ Adam Savage will speak April 7DUkE UNIvERSITY UNION

by Ray KohTHE CHRONICLE

Duke students will not have to tune into the Discovery Channel April 7 to see the MythBuster in action.

At their meeting Tuesday night, Duke University Union members announced a Major Speakers event featuring Adam Savage, co-host of Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters”—a documentary-style television show that tests popular science rumors and myths. The event will take place in Griffith Theater.

“He will be showing videos about some behind-the-scenes stuff from the MythBusters and talking about the job,” said Major Speakers Director Yi Zhang, a junior.

Before MythBusters, Savage, a New York City native, had several professions, including toy designer, animator and graphic designer. He designed three-dimensional graphics for the popular movies “The Matrix Reloaded” and “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.”

Zhang said tickets will be $3 and go on sale about two weeks before the show.

She noted that Savage’s show will likely be the final Ma-jor Speakers event this year.

In other business:DUU will host its first campus-wide NCAA Men’s Bas-

ketball Tournament Bracket Challenge starting today. A maximum of 800 participants can enter through the CBS Sports college bracket Web site. One winner will be select-ed before the Final Four games and receive front-row seats to Cameron Rocks and another—who will be determined after the National Championship game—will sit front row at the Adam Savage show.

“The purpose is to raise students’ interest for Duke’s up-coming basketball tournament and to build student pride,” said Executive Vice President Adam Hinnant, a senior.

Tickets for the Cameron Rocks concert are still on sale. DUU will be marketing the show in Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham to increase general public sales.

“As of 4 p.m. [Monday], there are only about 1,500 tick-ets left with slow and steady sales,” said Major Attractions

Director Liz Turner, a senior. Duke’s radio station WXDU and the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill’s WXYC, will host “The Prom” April 3 at 10 p.m. at the Duke Coffeehouse.

The annual event, which was canceled last year, facili-tates a relationship between the two stations and provides a fun, free event for students, said WXDU Station Manager Marc Loeffke, a junior.

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Major Speakers Director Yi Zhang (left), a junior, announced that Adam Savage of Discovery Channel’s MythBusters will speak at Duke April 7.

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by Dana MilbankTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An obscure parliamentary ma-neuver favored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., ignited Tuesday as the latest tinder in the year-long parti-san strife over reshaping the nation’s health-care system, triggering debate over the strategy’s legitimacy and politi-cal wisdom.

Republicans condemned Pelosi’s idea—in which House members would make a final decision on broad health-care changes without voting directly on the Senate version of the bill—as an abuse of the legislative process.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, called it “the ultimate in Washington power grabs.” Pelosi shot back: “I didn’t hear any of that ferocity when the Republi-cans used this, perhaps, hundreds of times.”

Off Capitol Hill, parliamentary experts of both parties said the tactic has been used with increasing frequency in

recent years by Democrats and Republicans alike. And po-litical analysts wrangled over whether the use of the “self-executing rule,” also known as a “deem and pass,” would further antagonize an electorate whose enthusiasm for Democrats has dimmed in the past year.

Legal scholars disagreed about whether it would be a constitutional way to pass the legislation. Yet even critics said they doubt that the procedure would put the measure at risk of being struck down by the courts.

“I feel pretty confident it is unconstitutional,” said Michael McConnell, director of Stanford Law School’s Constitutional Law Center and a former appellate judge appointed by President George W. Bush. “What a court would do about it is a murkier problem.”

The debate centers on a parliamentary technique that is a variant on the “rule” that the House adopts for every bill that comes to a floor vote. Rules define the ground rules for the vote, including amendments, length of the debate and

other terms. Under a self-executing rule, the House essen-tially agrees that a vote on one measure is tantamount to, or “deemed” as, deciding on something related.

In this instance, the self-executing rule would say that the Senate’s version of health-care legislation would be deemed approved if House members adopt a set of chang-es to that bill. The Senate then would have to approve the changes, but the original bill could go directly to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.

Pelosi has said the process would make it easier to se-cure the votes needed to push health-care changes across the legislative finish line. At a time when relations within Congress are frayed, it would enable House Democrats not to be on record directly as supporting the Senate measure. House Republicans are unified against the bill.

Although the speaker has embraced the idea, a deci-sion on whether to use a self-executing rule will not be made until the House Rules Committee convenes later this week, probably on Thursday.

Republicans sought to block Democrats’ path. Rep. Parker Griffith, R-Ala., who switched political parties in December, plans to introduce a resolution that would com-pel the Democrats to conduct a regular vote. Outside the Capitol, hundreds of conservative activists affiliated with the “tea party” movement gathered to protest the health-care legislation. They seized on the parliamentary method, with demonstrators shouting out “treason.”

At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs sidestepped the question of whether Obama supports the “deeming” approach. The president called on Congress last week to move forward with an “up-or-down vote” to redesign the health-care sys-tem. Gibbs told reporters Tuesday: “You’re going to know where people are on health-care reform, and where they are on the president’s proposal on health-care reform.”

Close watchers of the debate were divided about wheth-er the parliamentary strategy would influence public senti-ment about the legislation—or its Democratic sponsors.

Robert Laszewski, a consultant who follows the politics of health care, predicted the effect would be negligible, because Americans’ views on the subject have solidified. Democrats “are pushing through Obamacare,” he said. “You either like it or not.... There’s not a lot of subtlety. Either people really want this to happen or they think it’s incredible arrogance. I don’t think there’s anybody in the middle on this.”

On the other hand, Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan political analyst, said the current stage of the debate is a rare instance in which the public is focused on the process of legislating. “Voters are aware it’s been pulling teeth,” he said, adding that some Americans think Congress’s Demo-cratic leaders had “to give away the store to get even Demo-crats to pass it,” and, more recently, resorted to a “reconcil-iation” procedure that requires fewer Senate votes to pass.

“From there, we’ve leapt to a totally different planet with this deeming,” Rothenberg said. “I feel like I’ve fallen through the rabbit hole: `Oh, they are going to not pass the bill and just pretend they passed the bill.’ “

Parliamentary specialists said there is ample precedent for “self-executing” rules. Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution said that congressional leaders of both parties are using the procedure more frequently, with 36 instances under the last Republican-led House, in 2005-06, and 29 during the immediate past session, when Democrats were in control.

Donald Wolfensberger, a former Republican staff direc-tor of the House Rules Committee who now directs the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Schol-ars, said this use of such a rule would be unusual, though not unprecedented, because it would send part of what the House would be voting on—the bill already approved by the Senate—directly to the president.

Wolfensberger said that self-executing rules were often employed earlier in the legislative process, rather than for final passage of a bill. He said he knew of four instances when a measure that was deemed to have been passed went directly to the White House.

Stanford’s McConnell said that such a procedure would be unconstitutional because, in passing both the Senate legislation and the changes in the reconciliation package in a single stroke, “no one bill will then have been passed by both the House and the Senate” because the Senate still would have to approve the changes added by the House.

Charles Tiefer, a University of Baltimore law professor who is a former Democratic House counsel and has written extensively about House procedure, disagreed, saying: “This is so familiar a House procedure. ... I don’t know anything in the Constitution that prevents the House from holding one vote for two bills. ... Why would it make a difference?”

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by Juan ForeroTHE WASHINGTON POST

BOGOTA, Colombia — A new political party accused of having links to right-wing death squads gained important political ground in Colombia’s congressional elections Sunday, raising concerns that ties between corrupt poli-ticians and armed gangs remain strong, despite vigorous criminal investigations.

Since 2006, prosecutors have zeroed in on more than 80 lawmakers in Congress, charging half and placing the others under investigation for collaborating with death squad militias that killed thousands in this country’s shadowy war. Most of the those lawmakers were close allies of President Alvaro Uribe, Washington’s closest partner in the region and caretaker of billions in mili-tary and anti-drug aid.

Many of those implicated in crimes resigned from Congress, and election observers had hoped that voters would cast ballots against would-be successors with sus-pected criminal links. That would have helped purify a Congress badly tarnished by its collaboration with groups that trafficked cocaine, killed villagers and toppled small-town governments.

But Sunday, voters instead elected scores of political novices who are either under investigation or are relatives or associates of lawmakers implicated in a range of crimes. Political analysts say a third of the incoming lawmakers have questionable connections, as many as when prosecu-tors began leveling charges against members of Congress more than three years ago.

These lawmakers, prosecutors say, were an important component of a paramilitary movement that had two main objectives: erode support for Marxist rebels and smuggle cocaine into the United States. The movement’s gunmen liquidated opponents—from peasant farmers to journal-ists to leftist politicians—killing more than 24,000, say prosecutors still unraveling the crimes.

The violence made Colombia’s long conflict among the world’s bloodiest—but it also weakened the rebels and won support from some quarters more than willing to overlook the brutality.

On Sunday, three mainstream parties that support Uribe won seats with candidates questioned for having collaborated with armed bands. But the newly minted Party of National Integration, or PIN, attracted the most attention by winning eight of 102 Senate seats, giving it make-or-break influence over legislation. The PIN was also poised to carve a niche in the lower house, accord-ing to partial returns.

“It’s a scandal,” said Leon Valencia, director of New Rainbow, a policy group that is studying the relationships between lawmakers and armed groups. “This is very grave and shows that these armed groups still have influence

over the Congress.”Elisabeth Ungar, the Colombia director of Trans-

parency International, the anti-corruption group, said voters had been warned about candidates with shad-owy pasts. “The people knew, the authorities knew, the government knew, and nothing was done about this,” Ungar said.

PIN politicians elected to the Senate include Teresita Garcia—whose brother, Alvaro Garcia, is a former sena-tor who was recently condemned to 40 years in prison for helping plan a massacre—and Hector Julio Lopez, the son of a local power broker known as “The Cat,” who is on trial for murder.

Teresita Garcia could not be reached for comment. But the PIN’s legal representative, Alvaro Caicedo, said that her brother’s conviction is no reason to ban her from of-fice. “That would not be fair to those people,” Caicedo said of the PIN’s candidates, who he said were carefully vetted

by him and other PIN directors to ensure they had not committed crimes.

Caicedo, a councilman in Bogota, said voters sup-ported the PIN candidates because they offered better representation.

Though thousands of paramilitary members demobi-lized in a three-year process that ended in 2006, authori-ties say new paramilitary organizations steeped in drug trafficking and other crimes have sprouted up. The police estimate they contain at least 4,000 members, fighters that New York-based Human Rights Watch has said benefit from their links to corrupt politicians.

“There’s a real risk that Colombia will continue repeat-ing the same patterns—of violent groups maintaining a hold on political power and influence,” said Maria Mc-Farland, a Human Rights Watch researcher who recently completed a report on the new groups. “That undermines democracy and the rule of law.”

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JACMEL, Haiti — Behind the peeling facades and louvered shutters of its faded mansions and crumbling warehouses, this little beach town was a happening place before the earthquake—and if Haiti is to ever revive its shattered economy, plan-ners say, Jacmel needs to draw some tour-ists again.

“Tourism will not be the cure for all that ails Haiti,” said Eduardo Marques Almeida, head of the Haitian office of the Inter-American Development Bank, “but Haiti has a lot to offer a foreign visitor, and Jacmel is one of places where the country should put its resources.”

Three hours south over the mountains from Port-au-Prince, Jacmel was starting to revive after years of coups, violence, despair. A few foreigners were moving in, with money from places such as New York and Paris, investing in properties that look like a Haitian version of New Orleans, with high ceilings and wrought-iron balconies alongside the old wharf.

Jacmel was funky, with a bit of a bad-boy reputation as a drug-transshipment nexus, but mostly it was famous for its Carnival, the lively weekend beach scene and the vi-tality of its voodoo.

Here is Haiti’s only film school, a re-spected art institute and a movement to preserve the town’s historic Creole archi-tecture. It is the center of Haitian arts and especially handicrafts. But what hurricanes and years of neglect could not destroy, the earthquake tried to snatch away.

There is severe damage, especially in the downtown, which was short-listed as a possible Unesco World Heritage site.

Now the 19th-century Victorian struc-tures are tilting and cracked, the filigree detailing down in the rubble piles and wrought-iron railings bent and broken. Engineers from city hall swept through recently, tagging buildings with spray-painted circles and dots. Red for danger, for destroy. Gold for good, fix, repair. There is a lot of red.

“Our old buildings have big problems,” said Jean Ruid Senatus, manager of the Ho-tel Florita, an 1888 townhouse. Before the quake, there were 15 guests at the Florita, decent WiFi and beer so cold there was ice inside the bottles. Now Senatus and a crew are shoveling plaster out of stairwells and propping up the roof. He vowed to reopen next month.

Before the earthquake struck, the lo-cals say, the sea suddenly withdrew and the beach was covered with flopping fish. The French clock on the cathedral stopped at 5:37 p.m. when a big aftershock hit.

Dieusone Denejour is a fisherman who was knitting a net the other day in his yard. In the months before Carnival, Denejour, like many residents here, spent his days making the papier-mache masks that the town is known for. In a tin-roofed shed, he shows off his work—puffer fish, mermaids, sea horses.

“No Carnival, just three days of prayer,” he said, so no sales.

Richard Morse, proprietor of the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince and the leader of the voodoo rock band Ram, walked around Denejour’s neighborhood as resi-dents came out to greet him (“Papa Rich-ard!”) and kiss him on the cheek.

“That’s where I was initiated,” Morse said, pointing to the voodoo peristyle, or

temple, where he was formally brought into the religion. The place is now in ruins.

Morse bought a historic house in Jac-mel a few months ago and was relieved to see that it was still standing. When his friend the musician Jimmy Buffett visited Haiti a couple weeks ago, flying in his plane to deliver a load of tents, he said he was looking for a place to help and maybe invest in—and he thought that Jacmel, with its Key West Caribbean vibe, might be the town. “I like it,” Buffett said.

They need the help. At the empty Hotel la Jacmelienne, the guard dog is sad and won’t get up. The Samba Shop dance club is closed. The Sleep Late bar is shuttered. Giant pigs snuffle around on the beach.

In front of one of the handicraft gal-leries, Wilson Sanon was painting tap-tap buses onto wooden trays. Asked how it is going, Sanon said, “The tourists are not coming, and my home fell down.” Before the quake, “things were getting better for Jacmel. Now the city is not the same city.”

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Dieusone Denejour, a resident of Jacmel, Haiti, makes a puffer-fish papier-mache. Normally used in the town’s an-nual Carnival, Denejour’s creation will likely remain unsold after the Carnival was canceled due to the earthquake.

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Afghan women question nation’s progressby Karin Brulliard

THE WASHINGTON POST

LAGHMAN, Afghanistan — The head-to-toe burqas that made women a faceless symbol of the Taliban’s violently re-pressive rule are no longer required here. But many Afghan women said they still feel voiceless eight years into a war-torn democracy, and they pointed to government plans to forge peace with the Taliban as a prime example.

Gender activists said they have been pressing the ad-ministration of President Hamid Karzai for a part in any deal-making with Taliban fighters and leaders, which is scheduled to be finalized at a summit in April. Instead, they said, they have been met with a silence that they see as a dispiriting reminder of the limits of progress Afghan women have made since 2001.

“We have not been approached by the government—they never do,” said Samira Hamidi, country director of the Afghan Women’s Network, an umbrella group. “The belief is that women are not important,” she said, describing a mind-set that she said “has not been changed in the past eight years.”

The Taliban’s repressive treatment of women helped gal-

vanize international opposition in the 1990s, and by some measures democracy has revolutionized Afghan women’s lives. Their worry now is not about a Taliban takeover, Hami-di said, but that male leaders, behind closed doors and des-perate for peace, might not force Taliban leaders to accept, however grudgingly, that women’s roles have changed.

Those concerns share roots with the misgivings voiced by many observers, including some U.S. officials, about Af-ghan efforts to forge a settlement with the Taliban, whose leaders promote an Islamist ideology that seems wholly at odds with rights the Afghan constitution guarantees.

The unease about such a settlement stretches from Kabul to the mountain-ringed valleys of Laghman, a scrappy town in a province still stalked at night by Taliban fighters. As a young girl here, Malalay Jan studied in a private home, hidden from the Taliban regime that forbade her education. Four years ago, her girls’ school was torched in a rash of suspected Tali-ban attacks. Now, she said, she is sure of one thing: Afghan women should have a spot at the negotiating table.

“We don’t want them to stop us from getting an educa-tion or working in an office,” said Jan, 18, wearing a rhine-

stone-studded head scarf at her rebuilt school. Women, she said, should be “the first priority.”

Karzai, the Afghan president, has endorsed the idea of talking with all levels of the Taliban, and his aides insist that women need not worry about the equal rights the Af-ghan constitution guarantees them. But they also say they are performing a difficult balancing act, and suggest that making bold statements about the sanctity of such topics as women’s rights might kill talks before they start.

“We will act from a position of principle. And that prin-ciple is that half the public wants these rights to be pro-tected,” said Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, who is draft-ing Karzai’s reconciliation plan. “It is not the authority of a group of people in government or a group of people in the insurgency to decide the fate of a whole nation.”

In today’s Afghanistan, females make up one-quarter of parliament, fill one-third of the nation’s classrooms and even compete on “Afghan Idol.”

But violence against women remains “endemic,”

he said.Abrams said the Bush administration and President Ba-

rack Obama’s administration have not lived up to the role America should be playing in spreading democracy. By en-gaging in conferences with opposition leaders, the United States considers the opinions of heads of states more than the needs of “millions of people they are oppressing,” he said.

Abrams also noted that Obama’s approach to world pol-itics is often to “reach out to previously scorned regimes.” In doing so, however, the administration implicitly accepts some of the wrongdoings of those governments, he said.

“If that’s what we mean by engagement, I reject it,” Abrams said.

Calling Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak “Pharaoh” in jest, Abrams recounted that the foreign leader became

so upset with Bush administration policies that Mubarak canceled his annual spring visits to the United States until Bush left office.

When asked in the question and answer session about the future of nuclear weapons in Iran, Abrams replied that it “will be catastrophic.” Now that Iran has ignored U.S. and United Nations pleas not to build nuclear weapons, other countries can feel more confident in building their own without approval.

“I think the lesson of that to other countries is that the non-proliferation treaty is dead,” Abrams said. “No one is going to stop you.”

The foreign policy expert further expressed concern that America simply appeases foreign powers.

“Nothing good comes of being nice [to oppressing groups],” he said.

Only after weakening these groups should the U.S. give them a political way out which could lead them to embrace

a democratic system, Abrams said.Sophomore Danni Lin attended the event after taking

PS93: “Introduction to International Relations” with Peter Feaver, professor of political science and co-director of the American Grand Strategy program.

“[Abrams] made some really great points... on contro-versial topics,” Lin said.

Lin said she hopes to become more involved in Ameri-can Grand Strategy and plans to attend the next install-ment of the von der Heyden lecture series as well.

In the question and answer session, Abrams compared Britain 50 years ago to many Arab countries now. He noted that many of these countries outlaw criticism of their lead-ers but are developing along the right path. Abrams said, however, that with the proper influence the United States can continue to democratize Middle Eastern countries.

“No democracy in 2010—including ours—is perfect,” he said.

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according to the State Department. The percentage of female civil servants is steadily dropping. Just one of 25 cabinet members is a woman, and female lawmakers say their opinions are often ignored.

That point was underscored

in January, many observers said, when the women’s affairs minis-ter was not invited to an interna-tional conference in London on reconciliation and reintegration.

Bringing the Taliban into the government could make things worse, Hamidi said.

“They think women should stay at home,” she said. “And all of them have the same percep-

tion and same beliefs, from the lowest to the top level.”

The Taliban itself, led by Mo-hammad Omar, has tried to dispute that. As part of what analysts call a public relations campaign to soft-en the movement’s image, Omar, though still in hiding, released a statement last fall that said the Tali-ban did not oppose women’s rights and favored education for all.

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Although the female students at Haider khani girls’ school in Laghman, Afghanistan will show their faces inside the school, many will leave school in the head-to-toe burqas that made women a faceless symbol of the Taliban’s violently repressive rule.

director of the Center for Documentary Studies.

“Civic engagement comes in all shapes and colors,” Rankin said. “Value of civic engage-ment at Duke is wide range—communally, locally and be-yond. I do think a center for civic engagement is a great way for students to advocate speak-er series and solidify a lot of the pieces that are happening at Duke anyway.”

Most of the responsibility of developing the new role of the DCCE will fall to Prasad. Pickus said it is important for service organizations to maintain own-ership of their programs and for DCCE to act as a resource and not a controlling body.

“When you centralize [civic engagement], you kill it,” Pickus said. “You want different units to own it—the question is can the center make the whole greater than the sum of the parts? It all depends on what the director will set.”

Although Prasad does not of-ficially assume her position until July, she has already started dis-cussions with various civic en-gagement groups like the Duke Partnership for Service. She is also working with the adminis-tration to create a suite of civic engagement courses to connect service with the curriculum.

“Having a faculty member di-rector of DCCE will be a huge benefit for students,” said DPS

President Adam Nathan, a se-nior. “There is hardly anyone better for the job. From a stu-dent’s point of view, she is ex-tremely aware of the challenges of creating a cohesive relation-ship between civic engagement and academics.”

Hart Leadership Program Di-rector Alma Blount said that if the University wants to establish civic engagement with a unified, strong presence, its needs to be incorporated into coursework. The Hart Leadership Program at the Sanford School of Pub-lic Policy focuses on leadership through applied research, social entrepreneurship and service learning.

“Students tell me they’re hungry for a sense of integra-tion,” Blount said. “They want to see how what they’re learning in the summer integrates with a larger intellectual context.”

Tony Brown, director of the Robertson Scholars Program and professor of the practice at Sanford, will rejoin the Hart Leadership Program to teach a service-based capstone course, Blount said. This course reflects the objectives of the suite of ser-vice learning courses the admin-istration and Prasad are working to establish.

“I would like to see students go and work in a poor com-munity and come back hungry about causes of poverty, propos-als of solutions, etc.” Pickus said. “It needs to be analytical and it needs to be rigourous while still keeping the experiential.”

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With an all-time 11-0 record against Virginia Tech, in-cluding a 4-0 streak away from home, No. 6 Duke is look-ing to gain its fourth consecutive win and first ACC victory this season in a road contest against the Hokies.

After defeating two top-10 nonconference opponents last week, the Blue Devils (7-1, 0-1 in the ACC) are moving back to ACC play and setting their eyes on a win to-day at 4 p.m. in Blacksburg.

“It’s an ACC game, which means it’s a very important game, but the way we approach every game in the season is that the next game we play is the most important,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We’ll be on the road, and we al-

ways expect Virginia Tech’s very best.”Each team is coming to the match with one confer-

ence loss, and though the game will be in Hokie terri-tory, Duke knows the playing field well.

“We spent four or five days last year in Blacksburg for the ACC tournament, and our kids are very familiar with staying in the same hotel and playing on the same field where we played three of our best games last year,” Kimel said. “I’m not worried about it being an away game. We travel pretty well.”

The Blue Devils and the Hokies (2-5, 0-1) have lost many players to graduation, particularly their leading scorers and goalies from last season, and both schools are looking to rebuild momentum for the remainder for the year.

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A Duke squad reeling from consecutive losses to top-10 teams gets one more chance to pick up a signature win Wednesday when the Blue Devils host No. 3 Southern California.

Assuming the weather is good, the match will be held at the outdoor Am-bler Tennis Stadium begin-ning at 1:30 p.m.

The Blue Devils (5-5) have tumbled all the way down the national rankings to their cur-rent spot at No. 50 because of a lack of depth in the order. Freshman Henrique Cunha, the No. 9 player in the coun-

try, has won six straight singles matches, and he has done so impressively. In Duke’s loss to current No. 5 Texas 10 days ago, Cunha recorded the Blue Devils’ only singles win, a comprehensive 7-5, 6-1 against a player ranked seventh in the nation.

However, Duke went down 5-2 to the Long-

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Jon Scheyer’s 3-pointer late in the game against Georgia Tech came after a rough shooting night for the senior.

After Duke beat Georgia Tech for the ACC Tournament title Sunday afternoon, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said his team was better than it was the week before.

It sounds like typical coach speak. Of course a head coach is going to say his team is improving as it enters the NCAA Tournament. It doesn’t matter if the team won its conference title by playing three teams in the bottom half of the standings in a down year for the confer-

ence as a whole, or that the team looked as good as it did all season a week ear-lier, dismantling its archrival at home.

But Krzyzewski is right. The Blue Devils are better

than they were a week ago, and it’s not just because they managed to win three games in three days. And it’s not because Duke is shaking its label as a late-season underachiever—failing to collapse is not the same as improving.

No, the greatest benefit of the ACC Tournament was Duke’s positive experi-ences late in games. Particularly, it was the success of one player in those situa-tions: Jon Scheyer.

The senior guard’s 3-point dagger to sink Georgia Tech may be the most clutch shot any Duke player has made in the

past four years. (The only other candi-date: Gerald Henderson’s game-saving layup against No. 15 Belmont in the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Henderson leads in helping his team avoid historic embarrass-ment, but Scheyer has the edge in degree of difficulty, especially considering he was 4-for-12 from the field before that shot.)

Scheyer’s role in tight games is not a new development that emerged Sunday afternoon. One shot, after all, does not make a player clutch. (Sorry, Dave Mc-Clure.) Scheyer hit two big 3-pointers against the Tar Heels Feb. 10, and he was the force behind a game-changing 11-0 run Friday against Virginia.

After that win over the Cavaliers, Krzyze-wski compared him to a baseball player who knocks in the winning run after going 0-for-4. Lance Thomas kept his praise basketball-related after the championship game.

“I knew it was nothing but the bottom,” he said. “I didn’t even go for the rebound.”

That’s a huge compliment for a player who had struggled with his shot all week-end, and it indicates that Duke once again has a go-to scorer in late-game situations. The shot against Georgia Tech probably wasn’t necessary to prove that fact, but it leaves no doubt that Scheyer can come through in the clutch.

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minute, regardless of what happened earlier in the contest. In the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 seasons, Duke didn’t have that player. Last year, it was Gerald Henderson, but when he left for the NBA after his junior season, the Blue

Devils once again faced a void at the end of close games. The team had sev-eral capable candidates for a deciding shot going into this year—three, to be

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Duke hopes to establish it-self as a formidable opponent while moving further toward its goal of building team cohe-sion and growing together as a relatively young squad.

“We’re young in particular on the offensive side of the ball, and in every sense we’re trying to grow,” Kimel said. “To-morrow won’t be any different for us. Virginia Tech has some new faces, but we have some familiarity with them because they’ve done some things in the past, and I’m particularly looking forward to our defen-sive play because [some Blue Devil defenders] have played this group in the past.”

Duke’s defense ranks first in the nation in forced turnovers per game, and boasts three play-ers with 20-plus points on the season.

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Duke’s win against Georgia Tech was one of few to come down to the final moments.

horns as the rest of the squad struggled in singles play, and that defeat was the first of a three-match losing streak for the Blue Devils after an unsuccessful road trip through California.

Back on the East Coast, Duke welcomes the Trojans (13-1), who boast the best player in the coun-try in sophomore Steve Johnson. But Southern California has es-tablished itself as a national con-tender because of its balance—six Trojans are ranked among the top 120 players in the country.

Southern California suffered its only defeat to the same Texas team that beat Duke at home, but the Trojans bested the Blue Dev-ils against the teams’ only other common opponent, UCLA. Duke suffered a narrow 4-3 defeat to the Bruins while Southern California swept its biggest rival, 4-0.

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exact—but no clear-cut choice.But of the trio of Scheyer, Nolan

Smith and Kyle Singler, there’s no longer any doubt who that choice is. Scheyer saved Duke’s ACC cham-pionship if you believe Georgia Tech head coach Paul Hewitt.

“If he misses that, we’re win-ning the basketball game,” He-witt said after the championship. “We’re getting the rebound—it’s going to come out long—and we’re going to score.”

At some point in the next three weeks, that kind of clutch performance will be critical for the Blue Devils to advance. It wasn’t very common in the regu-lar season, mostly because there weren’t many opportunities.

Prior to the ACC Tournament, the Blue Devils had played surpris-ingly few contests that went down to the wire. By my count, there were four: road games at Wisconsin, Georgia Tech, Boston College and Maryland. Almost every game in Cameron Indoor Stadium was a blowout, and the ones that weren’t, such as contests against Wake Forest and Florida State, turned into com-fortable wins before the end.

In a single weekend, Duke al-

most doubled the number of close games it has played this season. You can argue that some of them should not have been as tight as they were, but that’s the danger as-sociated with playing teams fighting for their NCAA Tournament lives. In any case, it’s irrelevant whether the games should have come down to the final minutes. What matters is that they did, and that the Blue Devils came out on top.

That wasn’t always the case in the regular season. Of those four close regular season games, Duke only beat the Eagles. (Important note: This statistic depends on how you define whether a game goes down to the wire. If you include Duke’s wins at UNC and Miami—and I didn’t because they were both at least two-pos-session games for the final four minutes—the Blue Devils are a respectable 3-3 in tight games.)

One of the problems, especially in the early games, was that Duke did not have an established clutch player to take a critical last-minute shot. That’s no longer a problem with Scheyer, and it’s why I’m fairly confident in my pick that Duke will make it to Indianapolis.

Well, that weak South region doesn’t hurt, either.

Following this game, the Blue Devils will have five consecutive matches at home, two of which are

in conference play, before com-pleting their season in an away contest against North Carolina.

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In basketball, the parabola is paramountby Curt Suplee

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The annual nCaa basketball playoff spectacle in which millions of us, firmly docked in front of the TV screen, consume 1,000 calories an hour while watching young athletes burn 12 calories a minute—begins in earnest this week. if you’re plan-ning to participate in this national sit-in, you can drastically enhance the viewing ex-perience by pondering the parabola.

it’s the elegant arched trajectory natu-rally formed by any projectile, from an artil-lery round to a tomato, moving in a gravita-tional field. Parabolas have been extensively studied since people started throwing stuff at each other, and they shape the outcome of many ballistic sports, such as baseball, golf, football, shot put and more. But they reach their apex in basketball, where field goals and free throws demand precision control of parabolas.

But not just any parabola. success fa-vors a fairly high arch. The ball must pass through the hoop with a little room to spare, and that limits the possibilities. The hoop is 18 inches in diameter, and the men’s ball is about 9.5 inches wide—wom-en’s about 9.2. so if the men’s ball were thrown straight down from above—that is, at an angle of 90 degrees to the horizontal hoop rim, as in the classic Michael Jordan airborne dunk—there would be 4.25 inches of free space all around, a comfy margin.

But as the angle decreases and ap-proaches the horizontal, the free space for

a “nothing but net” shot gets much smaller. at 55 degrees, it’s about 2.5 inches. at 45 degrees, it’s down to 1.5 inches. and at 30 degrees, it’s basically impossible to get the ball straight into the basket, even with a full scholarship and more tattoos than a Hell’s angels convention.

not surprisingly, increasing the height at which the player launches the ball not only reduces the distance to the basket but raises the entry angle of the ball’s parabolic arch, allowing more free space. in a classic study in the 1980s, Peter Bran-cazio, then a physics professor at Brook-lyn College, determined that adding two feet to the height at which a shot leaves the player’s fingers increases the success rate by a whopping 17 percent. no won-der you see so many jump shots.

But is there a launch angle that gives the maximum probability of a perfect tele-genic swish?

Well, there are many different parabolas that will do the job, and the choice varies according to player height, personal pref-erence and position on the court. But one way to decide, Brancazio wrote 25 years ago in sport science: Physical Laws and optimum Performance, is to “consider the amount of force needed to launch the shot. it is to the shooter’s advantage to use as little force as possible,” he reasoned, be-cause the less the force, “the more quickly and effortlessly (the ball) can be released.”

okay, fine, but how do we know what takes the least force?

Here physics comes literally into play. We know from theory and experiment that you get the most distance with the least effort by firing a projectile at 45 de-grees, exactly midway between vertical and horizontal. and we can assume that least-effort shooting is really important for a player taking a jump shot, because he or she can’t push against the floor for power, especially in heavy defensive traf-fic. so the fastest and easiest angle would seem to be 45 degrees.

Except when it isn’t, which is a lot of the time. The reason is that 45 degrees is the ideal least-effort angle onLY if the ball is shot from the same height as the basket, which is 10 feet above the floor. so it’s per-fect for a 7-foot player whose arms reach two feet over his or her head and who jumps a foot off the floor to shoot. The rest of us will be launching the ball “uphill” (that is, as if we were firing a cannon at a target on a higher elevation). so we’ll need larger angles.

How much larger? again, science comes to the rescue.

Brancazio explains that you need 45 degrees plus half the angle formed by a straight line between the position of the ball at launch and the basket. Depending on your height and where you are on the court, that typically ranges from 7 to 14 de-grees. Thus, for a shot leaving your hands at eight feet above the floor from 18 feet out, you’ll want to launch the ball at a bit more than 48 degrees. For most players at

a distance of 10 to 25 feet, the least-effort angle ranges between 47 and 52 degrees.

Using that system, you can calculate the ideal free-throw angle. it’s 13.75 feet from the free-throw line to the center of the basket, and a 6-foot player launches the ball from about seven feet above the hardwood. That works out to a shooting angle of 51 degrees.

of course, Brancazio did his calcula-tions long before the advent of the modern computer. But a new state-of-the-art study gives basically the same result. Last novem-ber, engineers at north Carolina state Uni-versity published an analysis of hundreds of thousands of 3-D computer simulations of free throws. Their optimal angle: 52 de-grees. (Check it out during the playoffs. seen from the side, a 52-degree free-throw parabola has its highest point just about even with the top of the backboard.)

Free-throw success is also improved by adding a little backspin, which pushes the ball downward if it hits the back of the rim. The north Carolina state engineers calcu-lated the ideal rate of free-throw backspin at three cycles per second. That is, a shot that takes one second to reach the basket will make three full revolutions counter-clockwise as seen from the stands on the player’s right side. Watch for that, too.

and while you’re at it, take a moment to remember Menaechmus, the geometer who first described the parabola in the 4th century B.C.

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The DBAP is one of the premier minor league baseball parks in the coun-try and is an excellent venue for Duke Baseball’s big games. Fewer students might attend games played at the DBAP instead of the on-campus stadium, but

hosting games against high-profile opponents at this impressive facility has the potential to draw in crowds from the Durham commu-nity and boost excitement for the baseball program.

Playing a few home games off campus could actually be a positive step in building a strong baseball program. But relying on off-campus facilities because the home stadium is in a state of disre-pair is unacceptable.

Drainage and facilities problems at Jack Coombs Field are not a recent de-velopment. In its 2008 stra-tegic plan, the Athletics De-partment conceded that the field was “the worst baseball facility in the ACC” and far inferior to stadiums at peer institutions. As a result, the

plan called for immediate renovations to the facility.

When it came time to implement these renova-tions, though, the Athletics Department made a poor decision. Because North Carolina was in a drought and the problem was not pressing at the moment, athletics officials chose to construct an all-weather pitching and hitting facil-ity and upgrade the locker room instead of addressing the drainage problems at Jack Coombs Field.

Now, as a direct result of their jumbled priorities, Duke has a virtually unplayable baseball stadium and only a handful of home games will be played on campus.

These missteps come at a steep cost. Representatives

from the Athletics Depart-ment, DBAP and the USA Baseball complex have been tightlipped about the finan-cial arrangements at stake, but it is reasonable to assume that the University must pay to use outside facilities. This money—which should have been used for improvements to Duke’s own stadium—is now being wasted.

Beyond dollars and cents, the lack of a reliable on-cam-pus baseball facility hurts re-cruiting, takes away from our home field advantage and increases time that student-athletes spend away from campus.

All of this highlights one simple fact: when it comes to the management of Jack Coombs Field, Duke Athlet-ics has struck out.

First, I give my regards to the newly retired Zach White. This year’s Krzyzewskiville was smartly and sensibly run. Good work.

Because it was the ideal year to be a tenter, it would be a shame to let the memo-ry fade so soon. I imagine that, someday, I won’t remember a thing from college but basketball games and all the fanfare surrounding them. Or that’s the hope. A few weeks’ dis-tance from K-ville was necessary before I could write about it—you’ll note that George Orwell had to actually get done tramping around Eng-land with surly Irishmen before he could sit down to write Down and Out in Paris and London.

I always used to regard people who spent over-long amounts of time in line for things as idiots. Then—like many freshmen this year, last year and next year—I found myself not having been talked into spending over a month in a tent: I was actu-ally clamoring for the chance to do so. The game was going to be better than a Van Halen concert, though, or it better be since I was going to sit out in the cold for it.

Then the tent was made a mess of in any num-ber of ways, our merry band of freshmen discov-ered creative ways to repeatedly flake on one an-other and we lost the game. I swore I would never tent again.

An oath which didn’t last me long. This year, things turned out better, largely because we won.

Renewed faith in a victory—or even, given the festivities of March sixth, a triumphant pummel-ing—will no doubt lure me and other tenters back for more next year, and the year after that. But it’s not about the basketball.

No doubt you’ve heard the story that our “Blue Devil” mascot pays homage to a World War I French infantry unit that specialized in mountain warfare and was distinguished by the bravery of its members. The Chasseurs Alpins were everything it’s hard to be when wedded to a university campus: mobile men of action with a shot at making sub-stantive history at any given harrowing moment. According to our University archives, they didn’t make much military history, daring-do aside, but they became famous for looking good in their be-rets and capes and generally being dashing. They looked the part of a bunch of dudes you’d name a sports team in honor of, at least back when it was cool to wear a cape.

Tenting is in some ways all about looking good. K-ville is nationally famous for being a ritualistic display of fanaticism on the part of the group of devotees ESPN most likes to advertise: the Cameron Crazies. We look the part, not so much by dint of our face paint as by the nylon-skinned, fiberglass framed, muddy little village we insist on populating. If it weren’t there, to what cut scene would College Gameday roll ev-ery 15 minutes?

But it’s not just about appearances, either, whether in 1915 or two weeks ago.

The college narrative we’d most like to believe in is one of adventure: carefree youth, intellectual energy, playful triumphs and missteps, boisterous friendships and getting passionately, gloriously worked up over Oxbridge boat races or ACC bas-ketball games. It’s the same aesthetic of dashing, glamorous, purposeful activity—all undertaken in the company of one’s close fellows—that we so heroically evoke when we romanticize wartime military units. We’re willing to forget real blood-shed and replace it with a happier mythology of warfare, one that doesn’t necessarily include basketball, but is full of all the good things that college life is also supposed to be bursting with—fierce passion, devoted camaraderie, winsome adventure.

But we Diables Bleus are more likely to feel as though we’re beset on all sides with draining obligations and other reasons for angst. Far from feeling as though we’re comparable to righteous young warriors roaming the Alps, we too often feel like salarymen and women going gray before our time.

So, given the choice between staying locked up in our dorm rooms or Perkins and stealing away—irresponsibly, but for reasons of passion-ate fanhood—to a tent quagmire for a few weeks, some of us choose to muddy our shoes. It may not be the natural thing to do, per se, but it both looks good and has a tinge of the combatively ro-mantic about it: There’s a goal, but there’s also the simple joy of being out there against more mundane instincts.

On his return from fighting against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War, Orwell declared that no man would ever want to go to war if he could just once smell a trench—nothing romantic about un-treated sewage. On behalf of K-villers everywhere, I thank the IM Gym bathroom and its cleaning staff for ensuring that K-ville remains nothing worse than a relatively odorless, painless simulation of camping out in a bombed-out Belgian meadow.

Connor Southard is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Wednesday.

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Duke v. Harvard is not a basketball match-up that you are likely to see. Subconsciously comparing

the experiences at each school, however, is how I spent my spring break.

Instead of picking up The Chronicle every day, I read the Harvard Crimson, and instead of eating in our Great Hall, I ate in a Great Hall with half a dozen chandeliers, high ceilings, intricate arches and stained glass win-dows that looked as if it were taken straight out of Hogwarts. If you ever thought Duke, where each student who was considered the smart-est kid in high school becomes pitted against thousands of others who had the same reputation of being equally high achieving, is a weird place, I dare you to visit Harvard—a campus where every single student was not only consid-ered “the best” at his or her high school too, but is also conscious of the fact that he or she attends the most prestigious school in the world.

Whereas we proudly display our school spirit on T-shirts and with bumper stick-ers, Harvard students shy away from wear-ing anything that advertises their school. With the word “Harvard” written all over Cambridge, however, it is difficult not to see a student wearing a backpack and im-mediately have the impression “Oooh, someone goes to Hah-vahd.” In order to avoid attracting attention to themselves, students also try to refrain from acci-dentally dropping the “H-bomb,” which causes strangers either to love or hate them instantaneously for their pedigree.

My visit at Harvard has shown me that despite Duke’s issues with its administra-tion and social life, dissatisfactions in-evitably manifest itself in different ways at top tier schools, especially based on the organization of the campus and city. For example, as an island in the middle of Durham where students, if and when they go off campus, drive to Southpoint or Chapel Hill, Duke greatly contrasts from the layout of Harvard, which scat-ters its academic buildings and dorms throughout the city. Instead of taking buses, students never stop walking, usu-ally disregarding crosswalks. Cars always stop for them; apparently no one dares hit a Harvard student.

The most striking detail I noticed, however, was the contrast, or similarity (depending on how one looks at it), be-tween the dating scenes, or lack thereof, at both schools. Many students at Duke express frustration with the hook-up culture and the difficulty of finding rela-tionships on campus. I’ve heard stories from sorority members sick of frat guys who will wine and dine a girl and then dump her without explanation.

While visiting Pasadena City College, one of the few people I’ve known who has had a long-term relationship at Duke com-mented on how weird PCC was compared to her alma mater, although she could not put her finger on why. She later realized that it was because she saw couples kissing everywhere, something that she almost never saw at Duke. I myself admit to doing a double take whenever I see two people holding hands on campus. Couples are al-most a spectacle here.

It could, however, be a lot worse. The first flyer that caught my eye on Har-vard’s campus read: “Does dating even exist at Harvard?” During lecture later that day, the professor made a joke about “love at Harvard,” which caused him

and the students to burst out laughing. He could have been talking about uni-corns for all the difference it would have made. After class my friend explained to me that sadly, “people seem to care more about themselves here more than other people.”

The difference can be ex-plained in part by the vari-ation in the social and resi-dential organization of the two schools. Despite close affiliation to their residen-tial house where they are assigned to live for three years, Harvard students seem to lack a collective experience that students at Duke share. For exam-

ple, Duke students, whether they like it or not, have experienced the griminess of Shooters or pneumonia in Krzyzews-kiville. Harvard students, in contrast, are much more independent.

Although this lack of cohesiveness al-leviates much of the social pressure that may occur at Duke, some Harvard stu-dents complain about the effects of not having a common student experience and the lack of a party scene at their school. On the other hand, regardless of the structure of the student body, it is also possible that the absence of ro-mance is a fate in which schools with highly motivated students focused on their own futures must face.

No institution is perfect, but we can learn from the experiences of other col-leges that share similar characteristics to Duke. Despite Harvard’s reputation and the advantages it has to offer, I wouldn’t trade any amount of prestige or money for the unity of the Duke community and knowing that when I write the acro-nym GTHC GTH, I will feel an ineffable connection with a stranger who knows exactly what I’m talking about.

Sue Li is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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Despite all the recent hullabaloo regarding health care, there has been precious little discus-

sion regarding what I take to be the central philosophical question underlying the critiques and affir-mations of the various health plans proffered by the president and Congress: whether or not health care is a “right.”

To my knowledge, few media pundits, whether they be on cable news or newspaper journalists, have addressed what it philosophi-cally means to have a “right” in a lib-eral democratic society generally, and our American democracy specifically. Instead, the discussions about health care occurring in the media have cen-tered on the material benefits of these plans; does the proposed health plan reduce costs in the short-term? Does it reduce our long-term deficit? Do people stand to be healthier under the proposed plan?

Although these are all crucially important questions one must ask of the proposed plan, the philosophical element of whether or not health is a right has not been a central part of the public debate. Nevertheless, where you stand on this issue will often determine where you stand on the issue of health care, and perhaps other policy con-cerns as well. If you believe health care is a right, then the state must provide everyone with access to it. If you be-lieve health care is a benefit, than you may argue that increasing state power to provide citizens with access to it is philosophically unjustifiable.

One reason I believe that these phil-

osophical points have been largely ig-nored is that most people—including to a large degree myself—do not have the knowledge base or vocabulary to

discuss intelligently such concerns. Few people un-der 30, even in academia, have grappled with what it is that a government or state must provide to its citizenry. To a large de-gree, this is because the major rights battles of the 20th century, embodied by the Civil Rights Move-ment, are wrongly be-

lieved to be behind us. Not only that, but the major issue in

which rights talk has dominated—the issue of homosexuals’ “right” to mar-ry—is not really a discussion about a right. It is instead the attempt to deny a right that everyone understands must be free from state interference—the right of consenting adults of any eth-nicity, race or gender, to receive the legal benefits that every other mar-ried adult is allowed. The debate about gays’ right to marry is not a legitimate definitional battle, as the “right” is al-ready established in our culture and legal system. (Full disclosure: I think it is philosophically—not religiously—indefensible to deny individuals of any sexual orientation the same rights as others who are of different orienta-tion, and subsequently that the denial of homosexual’s rights to marry is a travesty.)

The discussion over health care, however, is such a definitional battle. That is to say, if health care reform is passed, the cultural and legal defini-tion of rights in the American will have been transformed. I think that this is a good thing, and that a liberal demo-cratic government of America’s means does have the duty to provide its citi-zens’ with access to health care. Others may legitimately disagree. Wherever one stands on this issue, however, is engendered by how one thinks about rights. But as I stated earlier, we—or at least I—do not have the ability to dis-cuss this issue astutely.

This may be my problem, of course, but in my defense I have gone to col-lege and am now in a Ph.D. program. At the very least, I am educated. Yet I lack the basic vocabulary with which to discuss the issue of rights in America. Institutions of higher education must create classes designed to teach Ameri-cans the ethical and moral vocabular-ies one needs to talk about not only rights, but other central philosophical problems that permeate our political and legal discourses. This point may initially appear reactionary, but it is not intended as such.

I hope that, in the future, these discussions regarding curricula will in-clude debates about mandatory “civics” courses of the type described above. If such courses are instituted, I maintain that our present public discourse will be elevated as individuals study the basic assumptions that underlay our democracy. These first principles, per-haps due to their fundamentality, are too often ignored.

Daniel Bessner is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in European history. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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