September 16, 2011 issue

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New EMC Center of Excellence to Senior dies bring hundreds of jobs to Durham in late-night

car accident

by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE

“This is a special milestone in EMC history as our [company’s presence] in North Carolina dates back to 1977,” Joseph Tucci, chairman, president and CEO of EMC, said at the event.

EMC has provided manufacturing, research development and sales-and-service facilities throughout the Research Triangle and in Greensboro and Charlotte. The new facility in Durham, however, is the first to include all those services under one roof, Tucci explained.

The new facility will house the company’s state-of-the-art center for cloud computing and includes 130,000 square feet

A car accident took the life of a Duke student early Thursday morning.

Senior Matthew Grape died in a single-car accident near the intersection of Academy Road and Duke University Road at 2:40 a.m. Thursday, according to a release from Durham Police Department. Grape was riding in the passenger seat of a Chevrolet Equinox when the car veered off Academy Road and struck a tree before rolling down an embankment and landing on its roof. Grape was pronounced dead on the scene. No other passengers Matthew Grape were in the car.

The car’s driver, senior Lee Royster, was taken to Duke University Hospital to be treated for minor injuries and was released later Thursday morning, Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta wrote in an email to The Chronicle Thursday.

“Those who knew Matt are overwhelmed with sadness,” Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said. “There are many students who are grieving. I understand that there are also some staff and faculty who are experiencing significant sadness.”

Durham Police were notified of the accident via the OnStar system in the car, DPD Public Information Officer Kammie Michael wrote in an email Thursday.

Investigators have cited Royster for driving while impaired, Michael said. Speed was also a factor. Royster

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Gov. Bev Perdue speaks at the grand opening of EMC Corporation’s new Center of Excellence.

by Kelly Scurry THE CHRONICLE

A Fortune 500 data storage company is expanding its network into Durham.

Thursday marked the grand opening of EMC Corporation’s first U.S.-based Center of Excellence—a conglomerate of the variety of services EMC provides—and Cloud Data Center in Durham. The 450,000 sq.-ft. facility will expand its cloud-computing capabilities for their customers. Cloud labs integrate hosting infrastructure with software development.

This addition to Durham’s business scene will greatly benefit the local economy, state officials noted. N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue and Durham Mayor Bill Bell spoke at the event.

ACADEMIC COUNCIL

MFA program Kunshan campus opening delayed debuts at Duke

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

by Marianna Jordan THE CHRONICLE

Although Duke’s Master of Fine Arts program is only a few weeks old, 15 new graduate students are already deeply invested in a new kind of visual studies.

The new Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts debuted this Fall as Duke’s first MFA program. The two-year program combines myriad practices, such as documentary production and experimental media, and is a joint venture by the department of art, art history and visual studies, the Center for Documentary Studies and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image.

MFA Director Tom Rankin said he is encouraged by the progress he has seen so far and plans to expand it to 30 students for the 2012-2013 academic year.

“There is no better way to energize the arts at a university

The opening of Duke Kunshan University has been delayed by a semester.

Duke’s campus in China will now open to students Spring 2013, Provost Peter Lange said at a meeting of the Academic Council Thursday. The delay is due to weather-related construction challenges. DKU had previously been scheduled to open in Fall 2012. “[DKU will open] in time for us to start with very small amounts of programs in 2013 and more fully in the summer and the Fall of 2013,” Lange said.

Financial projections for the project have changed very little despite construction delays, Lange added.

DKU will cost the University approximately $42.5 million during its first six years. University infrastructure funds will cover new construction oversight costs, which will be minimal, Lange said, noting that the University does not have an estimate of these additional costs.

DKU also received a $1 million gift from an anonymous

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Provost Peter Lange and President Richard Brodhead sit in on the Academic Council meeting held Thursday in the Divinity School.

ONTHERECORD

“...it’s going to be in every textbook, it’s going to change the way people teach paleoanthropology.”

—Professor Steven Churchill on Australopithecus sediba. See story page 4

Duke football travels to Boston College, Page 9

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Astronomers find Kepler 16B, planet with two suns

In 1977, filmmaker George Lucas imagined what astronomers have now discovered: A planet with twin suns.

In one of the most iconic images in “Star Wars,” hero Luke Skywalker broods as double suns set on the desert world Tatooine.

Anyone on the newly found planet Kepler 16B would enjoy a similar stunning sight.

“It’d be a weird cocktail hour,” said astronomer Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a member of the discovery team.“The sun would go down and you’d have a drink and then, a few hours later, the other sun would go down while you have another drink.”

The double-barreled sunrises, he added, would “wreak havoc with the roosters.”

Unlike Tatooine, though, Kepler 16B is unlikely to host any heroes. Roughly the size of Saturn, the planet has no real surface.

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

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State election law changed Anti-Israel march draws to prevent Democrat win few people in Jordan Looking to capitalize on their historic gains last year, Republican lawmakers in several states are rewriting their election laws in ways that could make it more difficult for Democrats to win.They have curbed early voting, rolled back voting rights for ex-felons and passed stricter voter ID laws.

AMMAN, Jordan — About 200 protesters ringed by scores of police officers demanded the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador here Thursday, but what was billed by organizers as a “million-man” march on the embassy drew a far smaller crowd.

Smith Warehouse Classroom B252, 2-3:30p.m.

The session offers a broad overview of DukeEngage and its application process.

Fab Friday Center for LGBT Life, 4-6p.m.

The center invites all students, faculty, and staff to relax, listen to music, hang out with old friends and meet new friends.

Chaos Manor Gray 229, 8-9:30p.m.

The York Room, the typical Jummah prayer location, will host the last two Iftars of Ramadan this year.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1776: Battle of Harlem Heights restores American confidence.

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Gannett is the CEO of CampusSplash, an online college guide. He and his interns represent a growing number of young entrepreneurs in colleges around the United States.

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CAPS STRESS MANAGEMENT SERIES This 3-session CAPS Workshop offers helpful information to help you understand stress and learn to manage it to your advantage.

Monday September 19 The Body of Stress: Understanding the Physiology and Psychology of Stress Monday September 26 I Think I’m Stressed: How Your Thinking Style Relates to Stress Monday October 3 Feeling Overwhelmed

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Travel to South Sudan restricted

by Aleisha Khan THE CHRONICLE

The Republic of South Sudan gained its independence in July, but members of the Duke community might not be able to gain access to the region for quite some time.

Duke’s International Travel Oversight Committee restricted travel to South Sudan starting Aug. 12. The restriction means undergraduates wishing to travel to the area must petition and obtain a waiver from the ITOC for permission to use University funds or participate in University programs in South Sudan. Graduate, professional and postdoctorate students, as well as University faculty and staff, will not be required to obtain a petition to waive the restriction but will, however, need to register their travel with the ITOC and complete a High Risk Travel waiver form releasing the University from liability.

“The decisions the [ITOC] make are based solely on whether or not Duke undergraduates would be safe were they to visit the destination in question,” Christy Michels, senior manager of global administrative policies and procedures, wrote in an email Tuesday.

The decision to restrict travel to South Sudan was the result of the reported instability surrounding the newly formed country, Michels said. The restrictions were put into place after reports of Sudanese instability from the University’s travel insurance provider—Internation-

al SOS—as well as government travel warnings and first-hand accounts from faculty who traveled to South Sudan during the summer.

The Second Sudanese Civil War, which began in 1983 and took roughly 2 million lives, concluded with a peace agreement in 2005. South Sudan seceded in early July, gaining its independence and ending the conflicts in Darfur.

Prior to the travel restriction, Duke had a small presence in the region—including projects by Divinity School graduate students. A DukeEngage program was also being considered for the South Sudan area, according to a Duke Today news release.

DukeEngage administrators had engaged in preliminary conversations about a South Sudan program, Executive Director of DukeEngage Eric Mlyn, wrote in an email Tuesday. Mlyn added, however, that there were no concrete plans yet for a program.

Travel restrictions, Michels noted, do not necessarily constitute a complete ban on the area—especially for University programs like DukeEngage or study abroad programs.

“Programs such as DukeEngage or the Global Education Office for Undergraduates... should base their plans on consideration of the [health and safety aspects of the] destination and the curricular goals, not on whether or

Experts explain role of green energy in national security

by Kotoe Oshima THE CHRONICLE

Being green is vital to the United States’ national security—at least according to some experts.

Local energy experts and national security leaders urged the nation to consider the relationship between clean energy and national security at a University panel Thursday. Approximately 200 people—including many local professionals involved in the alternative energy industry—attended the event in Love Auditorium called “Critical Links Between Clean Energy, National Security,” featured a panel discussion and presentations.

Nicholas Institute Director Tim Profeta began the discussion by stressing that the

dynamic between the economy, clean energy and national defense should be a priority and that the solution to the nation’s security concerns involves all three of these elements.

“The greatest imperative is to simply reduce the import of oil,” said Vikram Rao, a fellow panelist and executive director of the Research Triangle Energy Consortium.

By replacing conventional transport fuels with alternatives, new jobs will be created that could address both economic and environmental security, Rao added.

The event, which aimed to highlight the Department of Defense as a catalyst for energy innovation, was sponsored by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy SEE ENERGY ON PAGE 6

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Former U.S. Senator John Warner calls for government to take a stand on alternative energy.

Sunday, Sept.18th

InterFaith Food Shuttle A truck will be parked in front of Duke Chapel from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.

Support the BackPack Buddies Program, which sends a backpack full of food home with hungry children (6 balanced meals and 2 healthy snacks).

Please bring nonperishable food donations - “single serving” sized meats and stews, breakfast items, packaged noodles, canned vegetables and fruit, 100% juice boxes, shelf stable boxed unflavored milk, and healthy snacks.

Cash donations welcome! $30 provides a child a backpack filled with nutritious food each weekend for a month. Over 800 children are enrolled in BackPack Buddies at 24 sites in 7 counties, but over 100,000 children are eligible. You can even donate a new backpack. Your help will make a difference.

Please do not bring sugary cereals or snacks such as pop-tarts and cookies, Spam and Vienna sausages, candy, juice pouches, soft-top applesauce, fruit, Jello or fish.

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Fossils believed to be Interfaith conference earliest form of humanity emphasizes tolerance

by Jeffrey Cicurel THE CHRONICLE

After studying the remains of a nearly 2-million-year-old being, Duke researchers believe they have found the oldest link in humanity’s family tree—a discovery that could cause the entire field of paleoanthropology to shift greatly.

The fossils from both a juvenile boy and an adult female in the Australopithecus sediba species were discovered in South Africa in 2008. Recent papers published

by Steven Churchill, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology, have determined that this species is the base of the human genus. The remains include a foot, hand and parts of the pelvis and skulls.

According to their latest research published Sept. 8, Churchill and his team have determined that the sediba are 1.977 million years old—a time period that is virtually unknown to science.

The species, Churchill said, lies between the end of Australopithecus lineage and the beginning of human lineage.

“Suddenly it was real to me,” he said.

“I realized, wow, pretty soon everyone’s going to have a cast of this mandible in their laboratory, it’s going to be in every textbook, it’s going to change the way people teach paleoanthropology.”

Churchill first started working on the project when his colleague, paleoantrhopologist Lee Berger, found a fossil site in South Africa 17 years ago.

“Because I had a long working relationship with him, I was the first person

he called” Churchill said. “I was kind of in on it from the get-go.”

Excavations began on the site just after apartheid ended in 1994. The new species was announced in April 2010. The team has since been publishing information about the species continuously.

“We’re spoiled in the fact that we have two nearly complete individuals” senior Tawnee Sparling said, who is doing her senior thesis project on the sediba and has traveled with Churchill to see the fossils. “Often fossils are just half of a mandible, and they have to infer everything from just that.”

Not only has Sparling had the opportunity to work with the fossils, but so have many others in the Duke community.

“The Malapa Team is unprecedented in the way that they’re opening up everything to the scientific community,” senior Kelly Ostrofsky said, who is also doing her senior thesis project on the sediba and has been to the site.

The team’s findings, if they prove to be correct, would have monumental consequences for theory of evolution, Churchill said, adding that there will undoubtedly be some opposition to his theories about the sediba, and its role in the development of the modern human species.

“Probably the majority of the field doesn’t buy our argument, but that’s just the way science works” Churchill said.

“Whether our interpretation is right or not—this is an incredible find.”

by Arden Kreeger THE CHRONICLE

In the week following the 10th anniversary of 9/11, journalists and students convened at Duke to explore America’s complex relationship with Islam.

The Duke Islamic Studies Center hosted a one-day conference in the Bryan Center Thursday for members of the Religion Newswriters Association, titled “Muslims in America: The Next 10 Years.” More than 60 religion journalists from media outlets across the country attended the panels and roundtable discussions, which were open to all interested Duke students and faculty.

“One of the concerns we have is that stereotyping and hatred of Muslims just based on their religion will be very bad for the country in the long run,” said Gilbert Merkx, director of the Duke Center for Islamic Studies. “We have a long tradition of religious freedom in America, but if we start to stigmatize one religious group, it undercuts tolerance.”

In the keynote address, Eboo Patel, founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core, compared public perception of the media scandals associated with the Muslim-American and CatholicAmerican communities.

“The public’s view of Muslims and Catholics has actually been radically different even though [some] stories—the priest pedophilia scandal and Muslim extremism—are clearly terrible stories,” Patel said.

He attributed this difference in part to the greater presence of Catholicism in civic life, whereas many Americans had more limited contact with Islam in America before 9/11. Patel, however, was optimistic about the future of interfaith relations, citing changes in American Evangelical attitudes toward Catholicism since the election of former President John F. Kennedy in 1960.

In spite of the struggles faced by Muslim Americans, Patel said he sees current religious discourse as beneficial in the long run.

“American Catholics have gone through this; American Jews have gone through this; some say American gays have gone through this—they have gotten through it, and they have helped America become better,” he said. “One of the underlying premises of this talk is America changes.”

The second part of Patel’s speech addressed issues of religious understanding. “[Interfaith cooperation] is going to go from a niche to a norm,” he said.

“That means that pastors coming out of Duke Divinity School… are going to be asked in three, four, five years, ‘What experience do you have building bridges between different communities?’”

In his conclusions, Patel said interfaith understanding benefits all.

“I think that this country is about religion being an agent of cooperation and not a barrier of division or a bomb SEE MUSLIMS ON PAGE 6

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Fed boosts flow of dollars to European Central Bank

by Neil Irwin and Michael Birnbaum THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Worried that a mounting debt crisis in Europe could trip up the global economy, the Federal Reserve opened its vault Thursday to the central banks of other countries in an effort to head off a crippling shortage of dollars.

The main recipient of the Fed’s money is the European Central Bank, which will in turn extend dollar loans to banks in the countries that use the euro currency.

Those banks do significant business in dollars, such as making loans to customers who operate around the world, and have been finding it difficult to raise dollars from anxious investors.

The initiative, which entails temporarily swapping dollars for foreign currencies, also involves the central banks of Britain, Switzerland and Japan, underlining the extent of international concern about Europe's deteriorating financial system. By tapping the Fed for dollars, the other central banks are taking advantage of arrangements that were put in place at the outset of the global financial crisis four years ago to prevent bank lending from freezing up.

Global stock markets surged on the news of the coordinated response. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index in the United States rose 1.7 percent Thursday, and the German stock market closed up 3.2 percent. The value of the euro increased on greater optimism that the European debt crisis can be resolved.

At the heart of Europe’s financial prob-

lems are the hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of risky government bonds held by the banks. Those bonds were issued by cashstrapped countries such as Greece and Portugal, and if the governments default, the banks could face huge losses. As concerns turn to the health of the banks, investors are becoming wary of lending them money, at least at the previously low rates.

The Fed will make short-term dollar loans to the ECB and other central banks through “swap lines,” swapping dollars for an equivalent amount of euros, British pounds, Swiss francs and Japanese yen.

The ECB will, in turn, make those dollars available to euro-zone banks. The Bank of England will do the same for British banks, and so on, all in the form of three-month loans at a fixed interest rate.

Although these loans would not ease any losses the banks could suffer from a government default, the initiative lubricates the European financial system, preventing temporary shortages of cash from further weakening banks and choking growth.

This step comes at an especially delicate time for the banks as they prepare for their year-end reports. Before they disclose their financial positions, banks have traditionally shifted some of their assets into cash and away from riskier choices as a way of buffing their appearance. This year, however, cheap dollars are increasingly hard to come by.

European banks have often raised SEE FED ON PAGE 6

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GRAPE from page 1 did not pay a fine or spend time in police custody.

Royster’s blood alcohol content at the time of the accident is unknown, as results from Royster’s blood test are not yet available.

Moneta notified the student body of Grape’s death in an email sent at approximately 9:30 a.m. Thursday.

A remembrance for Grape held Thursday afternoon drew an overflow crowd, Wasiolek said. A campus memorial service has been discussed but definitive plans have not been set.

Members of Grape and Royster’s fraternity expressed their grief in a joint statement to The Chronicle.

“The brothers of Alpha Delta Phi deeply mourn the loss of our close friend and brother Matthew Grape. Matt was a bright, compassionate, incredibly loyal man and

SUDAN from page 3 not ITOC may or may not put a restriction in place,” Michels said.

Sophomore Nyuol Tong, a former South Sudanese refugee, wrote in an email Thursday that he has a different perspective about the travel restriction, given his belief that Duke students should be allowed to help those in need in the new country.

“Duke should allow its students to go there and help the people of South Sudan rebuild their country after many decades of civil war,” Tong said.

Tong returned to South Sudan this summer to celebrate its independence and to begin construction on a school. Tong said he was visited by his American friends,

MUSLIMS from page 4 of destruction,” he said. “It’s not about freedom for Muslims—it’s about freedom for everybody.”

After the keynote address, four Duke students participated in a panel that addressed issues of MuslimAmerican identity for the post-9/11 generation.

“The problem of religious bigotry against Muslims isn’t a new problem,” said sophomore Connor Cotton, who attended the conference as part of his role on the Duke Undergraduate Faith Council. “It’s a new phase of the problem of religious bigotry in general.”

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will be missed not only by us but by his many friends in the Duke community,” they said. “His death is a shocking tragedy, and we send our prayers and condolences to Matt’s family for their loss.”

Visitation for mourners will take place from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday at Doherty Funeral Home in Grape’s hometown of Wellesley, Mass., Wasiolek said. The funeral service has been scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Wellesley.

The circumstances leading to the accident remain unknown and a police report has not yet been issued, Michael noted. The section of Academy Road between Duke University Road and Cranford Road was closed Thursday while officers conducted an investigation of the area.

Royster is scheduled to appear in Durham County District Court Oct. 19, regarding the DWI charge, Michael said. ”Royster is facing additional pending charges,” she said. who faced no danger during their visit.

ITOC encourages students interested in traveling to South Sudan to submit a petition for individual consideration to the committee outlining travel plans and consideration to risk, Michels added.

The federal government has not yet issued an official travel warning for South Sudan, though it has cited dangers such as land mines, violent crime and continued threats of terrorism, according to the State Department’s website.

Although the Sudanese area is known for violent conflict, Tong said he believes it is now safe for travel.

“Since 2005—when the peace agreement was signed— there has been relative security and stability,” Tong said.

“I highly doubt that an American can be endangered in South Sudan.”

Sophomore panelist Noha Sherif, when discussing her freshman year, noted a general lack of understanding of Islam within the Duke community.

“More often than not, people would barge into my dorm room—men would barge into my dorm room to see my roommate—and I didn’t have my scarf on,” Sherif said. “I found myself watching my every move… trying to represent Islam in the best light I could.”

Sherif noted that the University provides opportunities to engage in conversation about religious issues.

“Luckily, we’re on Duke’s campus, where there is a dialogue 100 times a day, every single day, so if you want to talk about something, you can do that,” she said.

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ENERGY from page 3 Solutions and was organized by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate, among other groups. The Pew Project has held more than 100 similar forums nationwide.

North Carolina is a particularly suitable place for clean energy initiatives due to its diverse array of resources including military bases, universities, diverse landscapes, as well as vibrant research and development industries, said Ivan Urlaub, panelist and executive director of the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association.

“We already have a good track record in the Triangle,” Urlaub said. “If you create the industry, investors will show up.”

The presentations stressed the urgent need for the government and individuals to take action.

Navy Adm. John Nathman discussed how America’s oil dependency can undermine national security, whether jeopardizing military missions or crippling foreign policy.

“We have no resilience,” Nathman said. “Oil prices went up during the Libya uprising even though we don’t import from them.”

Nathman also noted the U.S.’s struggle to compete with growing international economies. ”We cannot control the world-wide demand for oil, so how do we compete with India and China?” he said. “We pay more.”

Nathman added that he hopes more individuals, especially the younger generation, spearhead clean energy initiatives in their own lives rather than just waiting for the government to act. He said, for example, that loading an SUV with as many people as possible is more effective and energy-efficient than driving a hybrid car.

“If you can find 1,000 friends on Facebook, why can’t you find more friends to put in your vehicle?” he said.

Former U.S. Senator John Warner, R-V.A., said the government needs to be pressured to take action. Warner served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974.

“We as a nation have got to adopt a comprehensive legislation, which should be preceded by historic debates in the Senate,” Warner said. “No organization in the world uses more energy than the Department of Defense, and they use it to defend you.”

ICF International Project Manager Jeff Patterson, who attended the forum, said he was surprised that more people do not recognize clean energy’s importance to national security. Patterson has more than 30 years of experience in the Department of Defense as a member of the Marines.

“This should already be on ordinary people’s minds,” Patterson said.

FED from page 3 dollars by borrowing from U.S. money-market funds.

But those funds have cut back, responding in part to their own investors’ anxiety.

U.S. officials view the action as a way to support Europe’s efforts to contain its crisis while incurring no real risks to the United States. It is the other central banks that are extending loans to ailing European banks.

“The major European banks are having trouble funding themselves in dollars,” said Brian Bethune, an economist at Amherst College. “This puts that fire out but doesn't solve the underlying problem of the financial institutions’ having large and unknown exposure to Greece and the other problematic countries like Portugal and Spain.”

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EMC from page 1 of labs to support the company’s global research and development initiatives.

“Cloud computing is about expanding [Intellectual Technology] capabilities,” Tucci said. “It consolidates a huge amount [of data] and allows someone to have massive access to computer service.”

Durham’s facility is the seventh global Center of Excellence. Other centers are located in India, China, Egypt, Israel, Ireland and Russia.

“The Centers of Excellence perform essential services for EMC business units, including engineering and research-and-development, customer service, translation services, IT and technical support and customer executive briefing,” according to a Sept. 15 EMC news release.

Although a government or a major company could set up its own cloud-computing system, EMC’s ultimate goal is to expand the service to small businesses and individuals, Tucci said.

After Tucci spoke, Perdue said the combination of North Carolina’s strong education system and business climate attracted the company to further invest in the state.

“We provide [EMC] with the talent needed for them to work,” Perdue said. “EMC had to be aware of the value of a job-ready market when it decided to open here.”

Tucci said the large number of universities in the Triangle area as well as the state’s past efforts in developing math and science programs in its schools were major factors in the company’s decision

to invest in Durham.

Perdue said N.C. and EMC share many of the same values, adding that if EMC did not like the state’s business climate, tax rates or workforce, then it would not have chosen Durham to expand its operations.

In his speech, Bell noted that the company’s presence in Durham is significant because the city does not have the resources to create jobs with the ease of a federal government. He added that the company has brought opportunities for future economic growth.

The Center of Excellence is expected to bring hundreds of jobs to the Durham community, something that is needed in the slow economy, Bell said.

“We expect at least 150 jobs on-site and hope that the company can bring in over $3 million in property tax for the city and county,” Bell said in an interview after the event.

According to the latest numbers from the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, the state experienced a 10.1 unemployment rate in July—the highest since Aug. 2010.

“Unemployment has been unusually high [in N.C.] because we had high structural unemployment going into the recession,” Perdue noted. “But the good thing is that North Carolina has been successful in attracting and creating new jobs.”

Tucci said the company hopes to match North Carolina’s innovation with its own.

“This has been a stubborn recovery,” Tucci said. “It is innovation that will get us out of this recession. We’re creating jobs in America, and we are going to continue to do that.”

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MFA from page 1 than an MFA program,” Rankin said, who is also the director of CDS. “It is not the be all and end all, but it will have a ripple effect on undergraduate life.”

The program engages students across several artistic mediums, including documentary work, film photography and visual arts.

“It is designed to be distinctive in the sense that it’s not divided up into particular mediums,” Rankin said. “The main focus deals with experimentation with traditional forms of documentary, but we really see it as much more of a hybrid where many mediums come together.”

As a terminal program, the MFA is the final degree an artist can earn. Duke’s program is the only MFA in the country that offers joint studies of experimental film, computational art production and documentary studies, according to the MFA website.

Although documentary and art have traditionally been thought of as separate mediums, Rankin said he hopes to merge the two in this program.

“Documentary has never been more popular and more accepted and more magnetic,” Rankin said. “We are trying to affirm the whole idea that documentary arts are where it’s at.”

A focus on the arts has frequently been included in long-term University strategic plans, Rankin said. He added that the program allows for a fresh appreciation of art-making and a deeper understanding of art education.

The MFA program is housed near Smith Warehouse in a two-story, tobacco-era former University carpentry shop. CDS is located in the historical Bridges House.

Pedro Lasch, assistant research professor of art, art history and visual studies—who now teaches in the MFA program—noted that the artists’ workshop is instrumental in the program’s success. “[The Carpentry Shop] is fantastic and really inspiring, and there’s nothing like it on campus,” Lasch said. “It reflects the history of Duke and the institution.

They get everything right, in my view, on what the artists need.”

The program generated interest through the already established CDS. Because CDS is well known among people interested in the field, Rankin said, students immediately responded to Duke’s announcement of the MFA program last year.

MFA graduate student Laura Doggett said she found the program’s collaborative environment between students and faculty especially appealing. Prior to enrolling in the program, she had done documentary work with teenagers for 12 years.

“I wanted to expand how I thought about working with young people and thinking about community art,” Doggett said.

She added that she was attracted to the program’s focus on establishing a meaningful and lasting relationship with the city of Durham.

“All of the students are doing projects in the community,” Doggett said. “One of the interesting things [about this program] is that our theses are not meant to be in a gallery space—they are meant to be in the community.”

Doggett has already communicated with a number of community-based organizations through the program.

“Art is meant to be accessible to people,” Doggett said. “The process of creation is not a one-sided process.”

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Additionally, the University is still waiting for the Chinese government to officially approve the project—a process that is preventing Duke from recruiting students for DKU academic programs, Lange said. The University’s proposal for DKU was submitted to the Jiangsu Province Education Bureau and the Chinese Ministry of Education in June. The proposal must get the Education Bureau and the MOE’s approval before the campus can open.

Duke has already received a positive review from the Education Bureau, Lange said, adding that he expects the MOE will allow DKU to begin recruitment before the proposal is passed.

The development of DKU’s academic programs is also taking longer than expected.

Duke faculty and administrators are still designing various initiatives, Lange said, noting a potential undergraduate program through the Duke Global Health Institute. The first degree program to be implemented at DKU will be a Master’s of Management Studies in Finance through the Fuqua School of Business, pending Fuqua faculty approval. Fuqua faculty members were supposed to vote on this program in June, but the vote has been postponed to October.

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volvement in DKU’s development since its Fall 2009 approval, said Academic Council Chair Susan Lozier, a professor of physical oceanography.

“Many faculty believe they have been brought in late in the game,” Lozier said before Lange’s presentation. “And yet there’s a campus rising in Kunshan, ready to open [next] year.... It’s like a rocket is being assembled before we know if there is rocket fuel available.”

She noted, though, that faculty members have a responsibility to be involved from this point forward even if they were left out of DKU discussions in its early stages.

In response, President Richard Brodhead said it is natural for faculty members to have concerns but added that it is time for faculty to get involved as this is the year in which DKU will make the most progress.

“It was really through no intention to deceive,” Brodhead said. “Until we had laid the foundation, we could not talk about the specifics [openly].”

New leadership Despite delays, Lange noted that DKU has seen significant progress, particularly in faculty and administrative leadership.

A new China Faculty Council is expected to meet for the first time later this month. The Council’s charge is to oversee and advise Duke leaders about all Chinese ventures—not just DKU, but initiatives such the Global Leader Scholarship and study abroad programs. Paul Haagen, professor of law and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Law, serves as chair of the council, leading volunteer faculty members from across the University.

Nora Bynum—who previously served as director of global strategy in the Office of Global Strategy and Programs— is now the associate vice provost and managing director for DKU and other initiatives in China.

Mingzheng Shi, who currently serves as the director of New York University-Shanghai, will become the executive director of the DKU initiative in China this Spring.

“These [new administrators] will relieve us from having to do so much work in Durham and relieve us of some of the opportunity cost,” Lange said.

Brodhead announced that William Kirby, T. M. Chang professor of China studies at Harvard University, has become Duke’s senior adviser on China. Kirby is currently writing a book on Chinese higher education and has been interested in DKU since it was introduced. “[Kirby] is almost universally recognized as one of the best U.S. specialists on China,” Brodhead said. “He has immense connections in China. Everywhere I go [in China], everyone knows him.”

Lange also noted two key administrative changes that took place earlier this year. In June, Dr. Michael Merson became the vice provost for the Office of Global Strategy and Programs, in addition to his role as the director of the DGHI. Blair Sheppard resigned from his post as Fuqua dean this summer to refocus his efforts on fundraising and development for DKU. In other business: Fuqua Dean William Boulding proposed another MMS-Finance program— this one to be conducted in the United Arab Emirates.

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“We think we can create value within the region by bringing a degree to the region which is of Duke quality,” Boulding said. “We aren’t just doing this for altruism. We think there is real value we can generate for the business school.”

He added that an unnamed person has agreed to cover any unanticipated financial losses to Fuqua.

“What makes this attractive is the financial risk is taken out of the picture,” he said.

The program will be conducted by Fuqua faculty members already in Dubai with no new hires in the near future, he added.

Several faculty members raised questions about social differences between the U.S. and the UAE—such as gender roles— that could potentially affect the program.

Boulding said, however, that Fuqua administrators chose the city of Dubai because it is more Western than other parts of the Middle East.

The council is expected to vote on the proposal for the UAE program at its October meeting.

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When most Duke students were hardly able to think about getting off campus for the summer, Nick McCrory was already in Ft. Lauderdale. While Perkins Library was filled with people busily preparing for finals, McCrory was getting ready for a test of a different sort.

McCrory missed finals week at Duke to compete in the USA Diving Grand Prix in Florida. He’ll miss two more finals weeks this upcoming year as he takes the year off in order to pursue his Olympic dreams.

The Grand Prix is the only international diving event of the year held in the U.S., but it was not yet time for McCrory to put his best foot forward. He finished fifth at the event, and third in synchronized with his partner David Boudia, but he was still exhausted from his recently-ended NCAA season and was “training through” the event. Rather than tapering his training off in preparation, he maintained a full practice load through the event in anticipation of more consequential competition to come later in the summer.

And more competition was not long in coming, as he and Boudia traveled to Tallahassee, Fla. just four days after the conclusion of the Grand Prix for the World Championships Synchro Trials, the U.S.only event whose champion would earn the right to represent the U.S. at the coming FINA World Aquatic Championships in Shanghai. McCrory and his partner took home the title, and secured themselves a journey to China.

Then, with Shanghai in sight, it was time to train. Two weeks at Duke by himself, two weeks at Duke with Boudia, then two

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Kelly Cobb and the Blue Devils wasted no time Thursday night finishing off their final nonconference opponent of the season, College of Charleston.

Less than five minutes into the 0 C of C contest, Cobb took Duke 3 a feed from Mollie Pathman inside the box and blasted a shot across the face of the goal and into the back of the net, giving Duke a 1-0 lead. From there, the No. 5 Blue Devils (8-1) maintained full control of the game, beating the Cougars (4-4) 3-0.

Solidifying her role as the team’s most dangerous offensive threat, Cobb’s score marked her team-high sixth goal of the season.

“Kelly has that knack to just score right when she gets in,” sophomore defender Kim DeCesare said.

The early goal served to inspire the rest of the team to play aggresively. Sophomore defender Natasha Anasi followed Cobb’s lead, scoring her first goal of the season only six minutes later. Anasi took back-toback header attempts off corner kicks and found the net on the second, assisted by midfielder Gilda Doria.

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Nick McCrory was honored during halftime last Saturday after winning the National Diving Championships.

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Last week, Stanford beat Duke 44-14, bringing back some not-sofond memories of the Alabama game in 2010.

While the Crimson Tide blew out the Blue Devils, 62-13, it was a game of an entirely different nature. Alabama was no fair match for Duke, scoring five touchdowns on its first six possessions.

The Cardinal, on the other hand, had its hands full for over half of the contest. The Stanford game was one of missed opportunities for the Blue Devils. Between the missed field goals, dropped passes and unfortunate injuries, Duke simply failed to execute.

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hopeful for their road game this Saturday against Boston College.

“We are not really down right now,” senior safety Lee Butler told the press after the Stanford game. “With a big game coming up, we just have to learn to actually make the plays.”

Not only is this Saturday’s game the ACC opener for Duke, but quarterback Sean Renfree acknowledged that he left last year’s 21-16 loss to the Eagles with a bitter taste in his mouth. On the game’s final drive, the Blue Devils held the ball on the Eagles’ fouryard line, but Renfree’s pass was batted away on fourth down.

This year, both Duke and Boston College are walking into this Saturday’s game with an 0-2 record, each hungry for its first conference win. The Eagles lost their

season opener to Northwestern, 27-14, and fell at Central Florida last week, 30-3.

After inconsistent starts from the two programs, both feel like they have something to prove.

“Boston College prides itself on tradition and [doing] the small things right, and this year we’re focusing more on doing the small things right.” Kevin PierreLouis, sophomore linebacker for the Eagles, said. “We’re making bigger and better plays.”

And the Blue Devils don’t feel much differently about this season either, especially after losing their first two home games.

Renfree noted to the press SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 11

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The Blue Devils may have had only one week of official practice, but they are more than ready to take the court on Friday.

This weekend, Duke will host the second annual Fab 4 Invitational in Cary.

This preseason tournament includes 18 schools—a mix of ACC, SEC, and other opponents—from across the country that will come armed with their top four singles players ready to compete for six possible championships in both the men’s and women’s draws. The Blue Devil men dominated last year, winning five of six titles, and the women added one. But, with the graduation of three seniors, including Reid Carleton,

who played in the top doubles spot with Henrique Cunha last season, and the addition of two strong freshmen, this is the opportune time to test out the team’s chemistry.

“We are mixing up our doubles teams,” men’s head coach Ramsey Smith said. “This is the kind of start we need to see how teams mesh with each other.”

The women are in a similar predicament with the loss of three seniors and the addition of four new freshmen to the roster.

This home tournament serves as a chance for Duke to gauge their strengths and weaknesses for the upcoming spring season.

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When the Blue Devils take the court on Friday for their ACC opener, last season’s gut-wrenching loss to the Demon Deacons will likely be on their minds.

After clinching the 2010 conference Wake championship, Duke Forest traveled down the vs. road to take on Wake No. 23 Forest in its last game Duke before entering the postseason. The Blue FRIDAY, 7 p.m.

Devils were swept in Reynolds Gym three straight sets, a memory that has HP or lingered throughout Charlotte the offseason. vs.

Head coach Jolene Nagel is conNo. 23 fident, however, that Duke her team is now excitSATURDAY, 2 p.m. ed to travel and face Reynolds Gym the Demon Deacons (2-5) Friday night at 7 p.m. in the first game of the Black and Gold Challenge. Duke will take on either Charlotte or High Point in its second game of the Challenge, Saturday at 2 p.m.

“The team has been working hard for so long,” Nagel said. “They have really made a commitment to be the best team we can be.”

The No. 23 Blue Devils (5-3) prepared for the tough ACC season with early nonconference matchups against then-No. 6 Stanford and then No. 19 San Diego. Having encountered talented competition early on, Na-

gel is confident her team is extremely well equipped for what competition lies ahead.

“By playing these strong opponents,” Nagel said, “we learned a lot about ourselves and about what we need to do better.”

Nagel also pointed out her team’s outstanding defensive effort in their win against Campbell on Tuesday night, a dominating performance that the coaching staff was looking for before conference play begins. She was proud that her team showed tenacity on the floor, recording 66 digs compared to the Fighting Camels’ 44. She was also excited about holding Campbell to only 20 kills, while her team knocked down 50. Nagel maintains that her team will continue to build off of the defensive prowess it showed on Tuesday, even though the competition is about to get much more challenging.

Ali McCurdy, who leads the ACC in digs, will look to spearhead the Duke defense throughout the weekend. Fellow defensive specialist Nailah Waterfield will complement her on the back line.

Duke cannot overlook Wake Forest, though the Demon Deacons are still adjusting to their new lineup after losing four starters to graduation. Senior Kadija Fornah leads Wake Forest in kills with 63, closely followed by classmate Carlin Salmon’s 57. Dani Thompson leads the squad with 73 digs.

Friday night’s game will be a challenge for the Blue Devils not only because of a tough Wake opponent, but also because they will have to rise above what Nagel called a “nice volleyball environment... [that is] not necessarily nice for the opponent.”

weeks at Purdue University, where Boudia dives. All under the watchful eye of Duke head coach Drew Johansen, who also happens to be the head coach for USA Diving. All in preparation for one of the world’s biggest stages.

McCrory was excited that the competition would be held outdoors in Shanghai, though he noted that not every diver was as positive about it.

“You depend on your visual references a lot in diving,” he said. “Being outdoors, obviously it’s a little bit different because you don’t have a ceiling. Blue sky, and you’re going into a blue pool.

Some people have trouble with that, but I’ve always loved diving outdoors.”

The world championships represented the first opportunity to qualify for the Olympics, and McCrory and Boudia each earned spots for the U.S., though they have yet to win the right to actually fill those spots. McCrory’s sixth-place finish was his highest ever in international competition, but Boudia outshined him in this meet with a second-place medal. “[McCrory] showed to be one of the most consistent divers in the world,” Johansen said. “That’s what earned Team USA their opportunity to compete at the Olympic Games. The next step for Nick is to let it fly in the finals, to take that 500-point list and move on to the next step, getting those dives out the 8.5 range and up into the 9.5-10 range. ” As a synchronized pair, McCrory and Boudia needed to finish in the top three in order to secure a place at the Olympics, but they came in fifth. McCrory blames himself for missing a dive that cost the duo its top-three standing, but the country’s top synchronized team will get a shot at redemption—and an Olympic berth—at the FINA Diving World Cup in February.

The top eight individual finishers at Shanghai receive invitations to participate in the FINA World Series, which held four international exhibitions last year in Russia, China, Great Britain and Mexico. McCrory has been invited before, but never been able to take off enough time from school and NCAA diving to attend more than one of the events each season. Now that he is not in school, he looks forward to the opportunity to enjoy the entire World Series tour while lengthening his international competition resume.

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Redshirt sophomore defender Kim DeCesare scored the third and final goal for the Blue Devils on Thursday.

said, “it really sets the tone for the rest of the game.”

Adding to the offensive attack, which mustered an impressive 32 shots, DeCesare scored her first goal of the season off a rebound with 9:21 left in the first half.

“We’re much better when we play collectively, and I thought we played collectively in the first half,” head coach Robbie Church said. “[We] moved the ball well, moved off the ball well, and played fairly quick.”

The first-half offensive firepower only tells part of the story, though. The Duke back line, anchored by Anasi, held the Cougars to just two shots for the entire game, neither of which challenged Blue Devil goalkeeper Tara Campbell.

In addition, Church took advantage of Duke’s large lead to give his substitutes opportunities to contribute. Ten players came off the bench during the first half and contributed to the Blue Devils’ dominance. Furthermore, a total of twelve reserves logged twenty five or more minutes for the game, gaining

After returning home from Shanghai, his work still wasn’t complete, however. Not only was there another big competition to get ready for, but Johansen also decided it was time for McCrory to add a new dive to his list. With just a week to prepare the new dive for the National Diving Championships in Los Angeles, McCrory nonetheless began training his back arm stand double with two and a half twists. Fortunately, McCrory and Johansen had experimented with the dive in the past, and it only involved adding another twist to an existing dive in McCrory’s program.

“Going into the world championships, he had one of the hardest lists in the world,” Johansen said. “This one extra dive, adding another twist to his arm stand, made it actually the hardest list in the world. I put it to him before we even left China that we needed to commit to this dive at this national championships to find out if it’s something we’ll be able to use next year.”

But why add the dive so soon before a major meet?

“Just because, why not?” he said. “It’s a dive that I’m going to need, and I figured that since I didn’t really feel as much pressure at these nationals, I just looked at it as a great opportunity to debut that dive…. I was a little reluctant at first, but Drew [Johansen] was just like, ‘You usually do things better when you’re forced to do them.’”

Despite fatigue and the uncertainty of a new dive, McCrory finished out his summer by bringing home the individual title at the national championships. He said that with world championships out of the way, he allowed himself more than usual to just relax and enjoy the meet, and it still resulted in a championship.

The national championship title rounds out his American accolades, which already include an NCAA title, but he still has his eyes set on an international victory.

The World Cup in February will be key as he and Boudia seek an Olympic berth in synchronized, and McCrory will seek to earn for himself one of the individual Olympic slots at the U.S. Olympic Trials in June. He is confident that his international finishes will only improve from his sixth-place showing at the World Championships.

“I could’ve really put some dives down for nines and tens, but I was consistently in the 8.5 range,” he said. “The point that I want to get to is where I’m no longer thinking so much about my consistency, and I’m just letting myself relax and do my dives like I do in training.” valuable experience. “[The substitutes] played collectively and moved the ball well,” Church said.

“They stayed within the game plan that we wanted to do. They attacked the spaces we wanted to.”

With the game in control, however, Duke did not come out in the second half with the same crisp play that distinguished their early effort.

“I wasn’t as happy in the second half, especially for the first group that played,” Church said. “I thought we didn’t have the same movement…. We thought we played a little bit too much individually.”

Still, the Blue Devils came away from their nonconference finale with great momentum and plenty to be excited about.

“We’re 8-1,” Church said. “It’s another win, another shutout. You’ve got to be extremely happy with that.”

The team now looks to bring this momentum into the ACC opener against third-ranked Florida State on Sunday.

“Our goal is to win the game and take them away with a shutout,” DeCesare said.

“They’re the only team that’s higher than us in the ACC right now, so we’re looking forward to a big win.”

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While both teams are entering Saturday’s contest with similar mindsets and records, Boston College has some key players in its arsenal that could crush Duke’s hope of finding its first win of the season.

The Blue Devil offense needs to be particularly wary of junior linebacker Luke Kuechly, who led the nation with 183 tackles—110 solo—was heavily-recruited by Duke head coach David Cutcliffe in 2008.

He was named the first ACC Linebacker of the Week for the 2011 season. Additionally, the Eagles’ game against Central Florida marks the 24th consecutive game in which Kuechly has posted 10 or more tackles.

On offense, Boston College has senior running back Montel Harris who is recovering from a knee injury. Harris is the active leader for rushing yards and carries in the ACC. On the national scale, Harris falls in at 10th for rushing yards and fourth for carries for his career, making him a serious offensive threat.

“I think we have one of the nation’s best rushers on the team,” Colin Larmond, junior wide receiver for the Eagles, said, “so we have to get him the ball,” Duke running backs Desmond Scott and Josh Snead have been declared out for Saturday’s matchup. Sophomore Juwan Thompson has effectively carried the rushing load so far, picking up 129 yards on 24 attempts. While Thompson was a little beat up after the Stanford game, he will be good to go Saturday.

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on Jeffrey Ijjas for field goal attempts.

And with sophomore quarterback Brandon Connette out with a shoulder injury, Cutcliffe may rely on Anthony Boone if there is a need to use rushing quarterbacks in short yardage situations. Boone has rushed for a touchdown in each of the Blue Devils’ contests this year.

FAB 4 from page 9 the sixth-ranked freshman nationally, and Jason Tahir. The departure of Carleton, though, has left Cunha, currently ranked fourth nationally in singles, without a partner.

“Cunha needs a doubles partner,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “We put him together with Reid for the first tournament his freshman year, and since then, they have essentially played every match together. So it’s really a great opportunity for the other guys on the team to play with one of the greatest players who has ever played here at Duke.”

Cunha will start off this season playing doubles with Chris Mengel, ranked fortyninth nationwide. Mengel and Cunha, without playing a single match together, are ranked fifteenth in the preseason polls.

Other Blue Devils playing for Duke this weekend are Fred Saba, Cale Hammond, Torsten Wietoska, and captain Luke Marchese, who missed out on last year’s inaugural tournament with a wrist injury.

On the women’s side, since last year’s fourth-ranked partnership of Nadine Fahoum and Reka Zsilinszka graduated, the Blue Devils will mix things up by splitting last year’s 39th-ranked doubles team of Mary Clayton and Monica Gorny.

“Obviously the returning players,

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In its second ACC match of the season, Duke heads to Historic Riggs Field to take on Clemson at 6 p.m. tonight. Both the Blue Devils and the Tigers will look to even their conference records, each having lost their opening ACC games.

Duke (1-4, 0-1 in the ACC) has been the victim of tight losses this season, with all four of them coming by one goal and two of them in overtime. Clemson’s struggles have mirrored those of the Blue Devils, with both losses coming by just one goal.

Duke’s defense and goalkeeper James Belshaw will have a strong opportunity to earn their second shutout of the season. Clemson (1-2, 0-1) has generated just two goals on 19 shots in their three games. With 24 saves, Belshaw currently leads the conference in that category.

This game has some added personal history for the two head coaches, Duke’s John Kerr and Clemson’s Mike Noonan.

They overlapped as coaches in the Ivy League from 1999-2007 with Kerr at Harvard and Noonan at Brown.

In the preseason poll of ACC coaches, Duke and Clemson were picked to finish fifth and seventh respectively.

The Blue Devils host conference rival Florida State in their first ACC game of the season Sunday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium.

No. 5 Duke (8-1, 0-0 in the ACC) enters the game on a four game winning streak, outscoring opponents 13-2 in that span. The No. 3 Seminoles (7-2, 0-1), on the other hand, will come having lost their first conference matchup of the season, a 2-0 upset against No. 13 Wake Forest on Thursday night.

Florida State has struggled mightily at Koskinen, going winless in their last eight games there. To earn the victory, its defense will have to return to its early season form. The Seminoles shut out their opponents in five of their first eight games, entering play against the Deamon Deacons on Thursday.

The Blue Devil defense has been similarly dominant, with goalie Tara Campbell already having notched six shutouts in the young season.

To earn the victory tomorrow night, however, Duke will have to overcome recent history. Florida State is 4-0-2 in their last six meetings against the Blue Devils.

some of them haven’t played a match in a month or two,” women’s head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “[This tournament will get] their feet wet again for the start of the season.”

Clayton will play with Ester Goldfeld, the eighth-best freshman in the nation, and both will compete individually and as a doubles pair. Gorny is set to play with sophomore Hanna Mar.

Other Blue Devils taking part in the tournament are freshman Annie Mulholland and sophomore Rachel Kahan, who will play doubles together.

Beatrice Capra, the top-ranked freshman in the nation, and classmate Monica Turewicz, will not play this weekend.

“This is an individual tournament,” Smith said, “it’s really the perfect way to jumpstart the season and see where everyone is.”

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University should clear up Potti haze The recent lawsuit filed Potti’s research and clinical against the University and trials. The University’s persisformer Duke researcher Dr. tent silence throughout the Anil Potti adds yet another course of the Potti saga—the twist to the researcher’s very quiet 4 months, for instance, public fall from grace. A 73- between the realization that page report Potti falsely was filed with claimed to editorial authorities be a Rhodes detailing, in part, the lack scholar and his eventual resof communication that the ignation—lends plausibility Duke University Health Sys- to this narrative of cover up. tem and Duke as a whole There is much to be said provided during the Potti on behalf of the University. controversy.

Its decision to suspend the Among the claims that clinical trial for three months the lawsuit makes, one after scientists raised constands out as particularly cerns about the research’s worrisome. The suit alleges viability is a sign of investigathat “top Duke administra- tive sincerity. And the orgators, deans and leadership nizational re-shuffling at the actively work[ed] to cover Institute of Genome Sciences up the flawed research” by and Policy—Potti’s former conducting a woefully in- employer—last Spring is a adequate internal review of step toward avoiding another

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But we are troubled by the administration’s silence since the plaintiffs filed suit, despite the fact that the personal injury firm HensonFuerst began investigating the Potti case last February.

The University has had ample time to plan its legal strategy. We hope its silence does not bespeak a lack of preparation and encourage the administration to communicate its position on the suit to the University community.

A clear statement now could go a long way toward clearing the fog that has surrounded the Potti scandal since the beginning.

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of innovative research. This controversy should have been at the forefront of DUHS’s public relations agenda from the first day that the allegations were raised. The ongoing discreditation of Potti’s research not only invalidates his own research, but it also undermined the accuracy of other researchers’ papers that cited Potti’s results.

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or over 50 years, sororities at Duke have been role we play as advocates for women on campus. denied their own space on campus, but a Getting individual space for sororities would new housing model—to be evaluated in Oc- provide a home for each Panhellenic chapter. tober—could provide a way to recOftentimes, Duke sorority women tify this. What Panhel is now asking sense that they are severely disadfor is 9 residential sections reserved vantaged compared to their male for sororities, just as fraternities curcounterparts since they do not have rently occupy 14. a common space where they could As I browsed my Twitter feed late convene. Common spaces are critiSunday night, I stumbled across the cal for women to elicit the support much-read tweets of @SororityProbof their sisters in activities ranging lem. Some of the tweets start with the leilani doktor from DSG elections to upcoming phrase “sorry I’m not sorry,” a jab at sports events. Fraternities have make her say the oft-stereotyped entitlement of long provided their members the sorority girls. This has actually beability to seek each other’s support come the motto of my week. Scrolling through with convenience, sometimes only requiring them my Twitter feed, I reflected on recent Panhel dis- to go just across the hall. Sororities could too encussions regarding the lack of female housing on joy these benefits if they were given their own incampus, and as a sorority member myself, tried fig- dividual space. It would eliminate the perpetual uring out how Panhel wants to address the issue. competition for chapter space, particularly during Then I thought that @SororityProblem—and her recruitment in January. unapologetically direct tweeting style—summed As a Baldwin Scholar, I have enjoyed the opup my feelings perfectly: “Sorry I’m not sorry” portunity to live in an all-women’s hall. The sense Duke Housing, Dining and Residential Life, but of community has been immensely comforting: I Panhellenic is not going to let this one slide. can depend on my fellow scholars to support my In years past, Panhellenic has been silent on endeavors, while respecting my privacy. I in no way issues of gender equality on campus. As the larg- feel limited by living in an all-female hall because est student organization on campus, Panhellenic we are still free to pursue our own lives away from is an enormous platform to enact change. Until the dorm. This is a great example of how having recently, we have not utilized it. our own space has empowered the women in the But with the recent establishment of the Greek program. Similarly, before Trinity College became Women’s Initiative, individual chapters have mo- co-ed, the women of this institution benefitted bilized against harmful traditions like progres- from the tightknit community and empowerment sives. The cooperation between the Panhellenic that came from having their own space. This is our chapters—which over 40 percent of Duke women generation’s chance to go back to the traditions of are affiliated with—has proven that it is not only female community, starting with a more genderpossible but also imperative for sororities to take equal housing system. a stand.

So I implore Panhellenic women to face adI would challenge Panhellenic to continue ministrators and demand equality in the new this progress and stand up as a stronger voice housing model. It’s time to set the bar high and on campus, just like it is currently doing with take a stand for women’s issues on campus. Now’s the housing issue. the time to tell everyone that in the sage words of In recent days of hashing out Panhellenic’s @SororityProblem, sorry we’re not sorry for takstance on housing, we have faced ambivalence ing a stand. from Duke’s administration. The women of Panhellenic have addressed the issues at hand with Leilani Doktor is a Trinity sophomore. Her column ferocity and in turn, I have seen great leaps in the runs every other Friday.

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ear Guy Who Took My Footrest, Not an instant went by before the glow of your laptop display blocked my view of the lower half of the chalkboard. I personally like to handwrite my notes, but we all have different styles. Wait, you’re opening ACES already? I know this travis smith class is still during savor the flavor the drop/add period but shouldn’t you at least let the class start before you drop it? Plus this class is required for the major. I feel like you’re just fantasizing about having a schedule that doesn’t look like a blind man tried his hand at the shooting range.

You’ve already flipped through about 150 of some innocent girl’s Facebook pictures. People might have noticed your excited clicking, had they not been de-tagging the same pictures you are currently viewing. I don’t think that girl would be impressed by someone who has to hastily delete emoticon-laden posts from his mother, anyway.

Why are you even in front of me? It’s not like they take attendance in big lectures. Are you the Goldilocks of classroom attendance, too cool to pay attention but not cool enough to skip class?

You are literally g-chatting someone across the room to ask for the notes from a class you are currently attending. I can’t even hear the professor over you “silently” clicking away at Sporcle. You could have done this all in your dorm room.

I’ve been watching you for longer than I’d like to admit, and your StumbleUpon has alternated between sports, girls and food for the last 10 minutes. I never thought I’d grow bored of models in bikinis, but I nearly cheered when a recipe for Nutella cupcakes finally popped up. You’re like an underwhelming online barbarian.

I do appreciate how you took some time out for sporadic note taking. You randomly click your open word document, stare expectantly at the board for a moment with that confused look on your face and then copy down whatever is on the PowerPoint at the time. Those are posted online you know.

The professor just went over page two of the syllabus and you missed it. Would you really rather check your fantasy football team now and teach this to yourself later? It’s only one game into the season and it already looks like you defaulted every round of the draft. Why are you putting in Ben Roethlisberger against the Ravens defense? What were you doing the last time these two teams faced off, studying?

Wait, you’re asking a question? What was so confusing about your internet session? Are you asking about the lectures being online so you can watch a semester’s worth of class for two straight days before taking the final? You asked about office hours? Like you’d actually.... Why is the professor now thanking you? Well played, sir. Well played.

You were the last person to arrive and the first to leave, but looking down now I realize I never even opened my backpack. Both of us took high school seriously enough to get into Duke, and now you spend class time playing minesweeper for half an hour while I watch. Just who is the clown here?

The nerds inside both of us are clutching at unopened textbooks and expired library cards.

At least you were upfront with the person that got you here, bringing a laptop full of distractions to his favorite party. I kept mine in the dark, letting him fill out flashcards I’ll never read. If neither of us are paying attention, then Duke is just one expensive Facebook update.

Travis Smith is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Friday.

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n The Chronicle on Aug. 26, Dean of Students Sue Wa- enjoyed the pastime responsibly. siolek was quoted as saying, “The word ‘Tailgate’ will Second, Moneta’s comments suggest something about never exist. We buried the term.” the way in which he views his own job. To Moneta, adminDean Sue and Company have buried Tailistrative paternalism is key. Students are an gate, eh? Well, in that case, I guess I’ll have to unruly, drunken mob that must be reined in; cart weiland dig it up like Yorick. Let’s have one last look their opinions regarding University social traguest column at what’s happened. ditions mean little, if anything. Subtle threats As a 2008 alumnus of Duke, I don’t have are appropriate (Aug. 26: “Violating [the adany idea what “Football Gameday” is or why the adminis- ministration’s] intent... is ‘not something [students] want to tration decided on four syllables instead of two for what is do.’” [inset quotations added]) because using them is the most certainly a substitute, an alternative, a new branding only way those children, the college students, will listen. of that grotesque T-word. But I do know that it pains me to Again, none of this is to say that the administration’s read commentary like Dean Sue’s in recent pages of The concerns were illegitimate or that all Tailgaters behaved reChronicle, for the words I see suggest one simple fact: The sponsibly. The point is simply that the discourse being used administration is out of touch. is troubling for those of us who so love our alma mater and Words are interesting things, and the way in which hate to see its students maligned. It is troubling because they’re employed often points to larger truths. Recent lan- when administrators mischaracterize (or in the case of Dean guage used by Wasiolek and Vice President for Student Af- Sue, refuse to even mention) what they have perceived to fairs Larry Moneta is no exception. be a problem, the possibility of a cohesive solution is lost.

Take, for example, this bit from Mr. Moneta: “Tailgate’s Students feel abandoned, and the divide between them and inclusivity was a fallacy. It was a corruption and hijacking of their administrators deepens. the football game to simulate a drunk-fest.” According to Duke administrators are adults. They, unlike students, Moneta, then, students that attended the old Tailgate are are the ones whose job it is to make decisions the rest of “corruptors” and/or “hijackers,” and students who said the the campus must accept. So administrators should act like experience was positive and inclusive are fallacious liars. At adults and refrain from using brazen language that indithe risk of belaboring the obvious, I will say that a promi- cates an utter disregard for the value many students placed nent Duke administrator vilifying his own students in this in Tailgate. The alcohol and the poor attendance at football manner is problematic for at least two reasons. games don’t erase positive aspects of the students’ experiFirst, Moneta is using insolent outliers to character- ence: the energy, the unity and the creative spirit. Adminize the majority of Tailgate attendees, who simply saw the istrators would be wise to listen to students, to learn from tradition as a fun way to spend a Saturday morning. Sure, them and to seek to recapture the tradition’s uniqueness a few kids routinely went overboard, drank too much and toward more positive ends. had to be sent to the hospital. Such conduct is repreWhen “Gameday” took the place of Tailgate last Saturhensible and steals the limelight from the football team, day, something was undeniably lost. Let’s just hope it wasn’t whose members work hard and, win or lose, deserve stu- Duke’s understanding of its own students. dents’ support. But to over-generalize to the degree that Moneta feels comfortable doing insults the students who Cart Weiland graduated from Duke in 2008. He is a third-year themselves work hard, treat others with respect and who student at Harvard Law School.

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