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Student opinion may soon bring LoYo even closer to home.

Local Yogurt, North Carolina’s popular frozen yogurt shop, is currently in the process to join the Merchants on Points program. The shop was recently approved at Duke as a mobile food truck and may become a MOP vendor beginning Fall 2012, pending student support.

“It is up to [Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee] to survey students and find out if [Local Yogurt is] popular enough to be recommended to be an MOP vendor,” Rick Johnson, assistant vice president for housing and dining, wrote in an email Monday.

Local Yogurt’s popularity among students caught the attention of campus administrators and DUSDAC members.

“Interest in LoYo is extremely high, especially on Central and East Campus,” said DUSDAC co-Chair Jane Moore, a senior. “If LoYo is approved for [MOP], it will have a niche of its own as a dessert option for students since it will not directly compete with stores such as Alpine Bagels or Alpine Atrium.”

Local Yogurt, which now operates a food truck with on-campus stops in addition to its permanent shops, may need to adjust its business strategy for MOP. “I think it will be interesting to see if LoYo

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Comedian Aziz Ansari, known best for his role in the TV series “Parks and Recreation,” performed Tuesday in front of a packed audience in Page Auditorium.

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A University effort to reduce indoor air pollution in India has gained national recognition.

The Duke Global Health Institute and two other organizations were awarded grants totaling $1.3 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development Oct. 18 to study different techniques aimed at reducing indoor air pollution.

The research is part of the Translating Research into Action project and is a sign that as Duke continues to build its global presence, it is carrying some of its research abroad.

Three Duke researchers will examine cook stove technology in India, including factors that contribute to how families use and purchase stoves, and will examine the circumstances that could lead to the adoption of new, healthier cook stove technologies. The two-year long research project— the Duke Cookstove Initiative—will begin Spring 2012 and will be led by Subhrendu Pattanayak, associate professor of public policy, environment, economics and global health. Pattanayak could not be reached for comment.

“Indoor air pollution is a serious problem in most parts of the developing world....

This research will be formative in bringing SEE DGHI ON PAGE 6

Div School group emphasizes vets’ ‘moral sacrifice’

by Alice Deguelle THE CHRONICLE

Duke should be a place where a student veteran feels safe to talk their about their wartime experiences, Duke student and Iraq War veteran Logan Mehl-Laituri said.

Several veterans and faculty members discussed the impact of war on soldiers’ lives and the issue of their reintegration into American society at an event titled “Narrating War at Duke,” Tuesday. The discussion was particularly timely given President Barack Obama’s announcement Friday that the U.S. will withdraw all of it forces in Iraq by the year’s end.

Two student veterans—Mehl-Laituri, who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 2006, and Andrew Bell, a first-year doctoral candidate in political science and former intelligence officer with the U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan—shared their struggles to interact and the silence that sometimes befalls soldiers returning from war.

“I could not share with people my experience of my six years in the Army,” said Mehl-Laituri, a

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second-year Master of Theological Studies candidate. “As much as military marks a difference, we should not make that a difference we cannot overcome. The task for the University, the church and the wider world is to create something like confession.”

The panel was hosted by Milites Christi, a student-run organization of the Duke Divinity School dedicated to engaging conversations between the armed forces, veterans and the church. Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe professor of theological ethics, and Dr. Warren Kinghorn, director of psychiatric emergency care at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center and consulting associate at the Duke University Medical Center, also contributed to the discussion.

“The experience of war is not just a job, it’s a particular kind of moral and personal education,” said Kinghorn, also assistant professor of psychiatry and pastoral and moral theology and Divinity ’11. “Soldiers are SEE WAR ON PAGE 7

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Duke student and Iraq war veteran Logan Mehl-Laituri spoke about his experience in the military and his spirituality.

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FBI sees personal Internet data more often in courts

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FBI is increasingly going to court to get personal email and Internet usage information as service providers balk at disclosing customer data without a judge’s orders.

Investigators once routinely used administrative subpoenas, called national security letters, seeking information about who sent and received email and what websites individuals visited. The letters can be issued by FBI field offices on their own authority, and they obligate the recipients to keep the requests secret.

Recently, service providers receiving national security letters have limited the information they give to customers’ names, addresses and phone billing records. Beginning in late 2009, certain electronic communications service providers no longer honored more expansive requests, FBI officials wrote in August, in response to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Syrian American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum will have a conversation with students.

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This interactive discussion will give students tips to polish their resume and communicate with prospective employers.

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ATHENS, Greece — European leaders remained frustrated Tuesday in their efforts to craft a response to the continent’s debt crisis one day before a self-imposed deadline, while a political stalemate in Italy over austerity measures further diminished hopes for a quick resolution.

Contrasting Approaches to Competition Law Law School, 4-5p.m.

Claude Mosseri-Marlio will give a lecture on the comparative analysis between the U.S. Supreme Court and the European Court.

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Douglas Lute, President Obama’s special assistant for Afghanistan and Pakistan, will discuss strategy for the region.

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Play explores sexism in DNA discovery

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More than 50 years ago, Rosalind Franklin made the invisible visible, but what happened next continues to trouble scientists and fuel artists.

A collaboration between the Department of Theater Studies and the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy culminated in a staged reading of Anna Ziegler’s recent play “Photograph 51,” Monday night.

The play dramatizes the race to discover the structure of DNA and exposes the barriers faced by Franklin, who as a Jewish woman fought against institutionalized sexism and anti-Semitism to gain acceptance in the scientific community.

Photograph 51, the image from which the play takes its name, is the best image Franklin produced through X-ray crystallography of DNA molecules. Without her consent, Franklin’s research partner Maurice Wilkins showed the image to James Watson, a rival researcher who raced back to his colleague Francis Crick and created the first correct double-helix model of DNA. The three won the Nobel Prize.

Franklin died of ovarian cancer and was thus ineligible.

Ziegler, who lives in Brooklyn, spent her day speaking to theatre studies classes, visiting with students in the Genomes in Our Lives Focus cluster, and touring Duke’s campus. It was, she said, a very busy day.

“It’s really fun to have your play on a syllabus next to [James Watson’s] ‘The Double Helix,’” she said. “The cross-departmental cooperation that made this happen is really phenomenal.”

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The Department of Theater Studies performed a staged reading of Anna Ziegler’s play “Photograph 51” about Rosalind Franklin’s work on the human genome.

Dan Kiehart, chair of the biology department, was in the audience to watch two of his students act—sophomore Sam Kebede and junior Garret Ruhland, as Watson and Crick respectively. He said the play gave a fair and largely accurate account of the obstacles facing women in science during Franklin’s time. “[Franklin] was presented as both a victim of her times and also, to a certain extent, a bit edgy,” he said. “Even if things weren’t as bad as the play suggests, [the field] was still ludicrously biased.”

He also said the play’s focus on relationships and betrayal between researchers speaks to larger truths about the scientific community.

“Science is a very intimate business where trust is so important,” he said. “When you fail to establish a really close trust, it’s a big loss.”

Heather Wiese, Trinity ’11, now a Secondary Teacher Preparation candidate, was a double major in math and theater.

She said the play was an excellent fusion of science and drama.

“You don’t have to understand the science behind what they are saying to appreciate the play, but if you do it’s the icing on the cake,” she said.

Jay O’Berski, assistant professor of the practice of theater studies, directed a small group of undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and visiting alumni in the staged reading. He said the day’s events, including the reading, resulted from the coordination and influence of Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan, director of the Duke Institute for Genome SEE PLAY ON PAGE 7

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Lecture promotes Jewish unity in US, Israel

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After more than a century since the founding of Zionism, the Jewish political movement continues to wrestle with the future of Israel, a leading scholar said.

Arnold Eisen, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, discussed his vision for Zionism in the 21st century and the importance of honest conversation between diaspora and Israeli Jews in a lecture Tuesday. The event was sponsored by the Rudnick Endowment, the Center of Jewish Studies and the department of religion at Duke.

“The Jewish people need new Zionist dreams,” Eisen said. “2011 is not 1896.”

Israeli Jews should consider diaspora Jews—those living outside Israel—as equally Jewish and not see them as a different group of people, Eisen noted.

“It is my responsibility as the chancellor of [the Jewish Theological Seminary] to narrow the gap between American and Israeli Jews,” he said.

Eisen attributed this divide between the two groups partly to the desire of American Jews to cling onto a myth of Israel, in which Israel is larger than life, he said. “[Israel] rose out of the ashes of the Holocaust,” he said. “It represents the message, ‘The Jews live.’”

Sixty percent of American Jews have not visited Israel, Eisen noted, which adds to the illusions perpetuated by the myth.

“Why mess up the myth with poverty, environmental pollution and debatable treatment of Arabs?” he said.

Eisen also noted the importance of creating a multicultural Jewish state.

“Israel has a problem thinking about gentiles because to the Israelis, gentiles are the Arabs, the enemy,” he said.

In addition to seeing diaspora Jews as equals, Eisen said future Zionists should develop a broader view of gentiles.

Eisen emphasized the importance of dialogue among Jews around the world. This dialogue is necessary because the fate of Israel affects Judaism as a whole, he said.

The social realities and political movements differ between the two countries.

“Zionism in America has never been the Zionism in Israel,” Eisen said.

There has been a campaign to allow Jews living outside Israel to gain voting rights in the country’s elections, Eisen noted. He added that he personally does not want to vote in the Israeli elections because he is not directly affected by them.

“I don’t want a voice through votes but honest dialogue,” he said.

Free of ongoing hostilities with surrounding countries, American Jews have the responsibility to develop ideas of a Jewish state with Jews and non-Jews, human rights for Arabs and even collective rights for Arab minorities, Eisen said.

Durham resident Mary Joan Mandel, an attendee of Jewish faith, noted the difference between the experience of American Jews and Israel Jewish realities.

“The Israelis are so saturated with Jewish culture, and they use Hebrew so constantly that newspapers don’t have vowels,” she said.

Mandel added that she supports greater conversation between Jews of all backgrounds.

“You can hold the myth in your heart for hope,” she said.

Eisen is the seventh chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, serving since 2007. He formally served as the Koshland professor of Jewish culture and religion and chair of the department of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

Among his degrees, Eisen holds a Ph.D. in the history of Jewish thought from Hebrew University and a bachelor’s degree in religious thought from the University of Pennsylvania.

Last May, Eisen also launched a blog titled “Conservative Judaism: A Community Conversation,” in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary. The blog features original works by Eisen as well as by leading scholars in the field of Jewish study.

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Arnold Eisen, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, implores Israeli Jews to consider diaspora Jews as equally Jewish, rather than see them as a different group of people.

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Wall Street merchants Candidates for GOP propose economic plans say protests throttle sales

By Karen Tumulty and Perry Bacon Jr. THE WASHINGTON POST

At a moment when the fragility of the economy ranks at the top of American concerns, sharp differences have begun to emerge in how the leading GOP contenders for president would aim to solve the problem, illuminating not only a diversity in approach, but a striking contrast in the governing philosophies of the candidates themselves.

The array of propositions range from those that are incremental, complex and possibly achievable, to slogans and ideological rallying cries that would have enormous difficulty becoming law.

The latest to put forward a blueprint is Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who gave a full embrace to a number of long-standing and far-reaching conservative goals.

“My plan does not trim around the edges,” Perry said, as he unveiled it Tuesday in South Carolina.

Its centerpiece is a proposal to give individuals the option of paying a 20 percent flat tax. Perry would also reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent; eliminate taxes on dividends and capital gains; make deep, unspecified cuts in federal spending, and establish individual retirement accounts outside the Social Security system.

Perry’s plan represented a sharp and intentional contrast to the less radical 59-point program put forward last month by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, one of the leading contenders for the Republican nomination.

Though Perry did not mention his rival by name, he spoke dismissively of those who “simply offer microwaved plans with warmed-over reforms based on current ingredients.”

Perry won strong praise from conservative economists and activists, who were pleased that he adopted many of their longheld goals. In doing so, Perry’s plan could help to reverse the slide his campaign suffered as the result of his weak performance so far in the presidential debates.

“I am impressed at the level of detail.

For someone who was supposed to be thin, there’s a lot there,” said Douglas HoltzEakin, who served as top economic adviser to 2008 GOP nominee John McCain’s campaign. “This is a very close cousin to some very serious plans that have been put forth historically.”

Added anti-tax activist Grover Norquist:

“This does not solve all the world’s problems at once, but it’s a huge step in that direction.”

The proposal would also be a boon to the wealthiest Americans, which is one reason that previous flat-tax proposals, though appealing in their simplicity, have never gone very far politically.

“The obvious winners are the rich,” said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. “How big, we don’t know yet.”

President Barack Obama’s campaign made a similar point.

Perry’s flat tax plan “radically restructures the tax system and shifts a greater tax burden onto the middle class,” its policy director James Kvaal wrote in a memo released shortly before Perry’s speech.

While the Republican candidates differ on the specifics of their plans, the frame of the argument against the current occupant of the White House is the same: Obama contends that the rich are not paying their fair share of taxes, the GOP contenders counter that wealthy Americans, along with everyone else, are paying too much. What’s bloated, they insist, is government.

Flat-tax proposals, which have been proposed by presidential candidates far back as Democrat Jerry Brown in 1992 and Republican Steve Forbes in 1996 and 2000, are enjoying a political resurgence.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a plan somewhat similar to Perry’s, in that it would give taxpayers an option of paying a 15 percent flat rate. And former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain’s signature “9-9-9” plan would combine a flat income tax with a new national sales levy and corporate taxes, all at 9 percent.

Though “9-9-9” was a catchy slogan that briefly propelled Cain to the top of the Republican field, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll indicates that it is now out of favor as voters have become more acquainted with its effects, which are heavily weighted toward the benefit of the wealthy.

In the poll, 56 percent of all respondents and about half of the most conservative Republicans and independents expressed unfavorable impressions of the 9-9-9 plan. By comparison, respondents were about evenly divided on the idea of a flat tax. Among conservative Republicans and independents, however, nearly threequarters said they view the idea positively.

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By Charles Mead and Esme E. Deprez THE WASHINGTON POST

NEW YORK — Occupy Wall Street protests assailing income inequality, joblessness and big banks may have some unintended consequences. They’re hurting nearby merchants as police barricades deter shoppers.

“If this doesn’t stop soon I will be out business,” said Marc Epstein, 53, president of Milk Street Cafe on Wall Street, less than a block from the New York Stock Exchange.

Sales have dropped about 20 percent since the protests began last month and the 103 jobs created by the cafe’s opening in June are now at risk, said Epstein, who’s not alone. Caroline Anderson, general manager of Boutique Tourbillon, a Wall Street jewelry store, said customer traffic is down about 20 percent, and Vincent Alessi, a managing partner at Bobby Van’s Steakhouse on Broad Street, said his lunch business has been cut in half.

The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York with about 1,000 people on Sept. 17 has spread to cities on four continents as demonstrators from London to Rome and Chicago to Sydney have pitched tents in public spaces. Police, whose displays of force also may be hurting business as they block access to tourist destinations, have arrested hundreds.

“These protesters don’t understand

the consequences of their actions,” Epstein said. “Who’s going to create the jobs they’re banging their drums for?”

As Wall Street banks reported earnings this month, financial executives made little or no mention of the protests’ impact on their business. Firms including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup have their main New York offices in Midtown, about three miles from the protest epicenter in Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park.

At Kenjo, a watch retailer adjacent to Milk Street Cafe, the barricades have killed the lunch-hour rush, Artice Jones, the manager, said as he looked around a store devoid of customers.

“If it stays this way for the rest of the month, it’s not going to look good going into November,” Jones said.

Sales have plunged 40 percent at Paternoster Chop House near the London Stock Exchange, said manager Gerhard Jacobs, whose waiters greet customers at the metal barricades and escort them through the square that police have cordoned off.

“Not only is it affecting my general trade, it’s also affecting my future business,” Jacobs said. “We’ve got inquiries for weddings and exclusive hirings who are now considering taking their business to other restaurants because of the uncertainty of how long this may carry on.”

Alessi, the steakhouse manager, said SEE OCCUPY ON PAGE 7

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LOYO from page 1 will deliver a $4 cup of yogurt or have a minimum order amount, which may mean that several students may have to order together to make a minimum,” Johnson said. “It would seem that the [Local Yogurt food] truck serving yogurt to order with no minimum and no tip expectation may be the better way to go.”

Since college students do not usually carry cash with them, adding the Local Yogurt truck to the DukeCard payment system is a top priority, said Kiya Ward, director of Local Yogurt’s marketing department.

Ward added that Local Yogurt’s Erwin Road location created a petition to allow students to use DukeCards to purchase frozen yogurt. The petition has accumulated more than 1,000 signatures, and Local Yo-

DGHI from page 1 attention to improved stove usage,” said Marc Jeuland, assistant professor of public policy and faculty affiliate of DGHI. The Duke team will collaborate with the SURYA project in Uttar Padesh, India.

Researchers with the SURYA project have piloted improved cook stoves and analyzed their effectiveness at reducing carbon emissions, Jeuland said. He will be working on the initiative with Pattanayak.

Half of the world’s population cooks with solid fuels—such as wood, animal dung or agricultural residues—on open fires or traditional cook stoves made of clay, mud and dirt. The emissions of poorly functioning cook stoves cause respiratory and cardiovascular problems that account for the deaths of nearly two million people each year, ac-

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gurt aims to reach 2,000 signatures.

Some Duke students said they were happy with the idea of having easier access to frozen yogurt.

“I’m really excited at the prospect of LoYo’s integration into Duke’s MOP,” freshman Job Ma said. “After all, frozen yogurt is such a healthy and delicious treat.”

In addition to its two locations in Durham and food truck, Local Yogurt already has a presence on campus.

The eatery offers catering for student groups and gives donations to organizations—such as the equestrian team and Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, Ward said.

“Becoming a vendor of [MOP] will allow us to give more options for Duke students,” Ward said. “The goal is to give our consumers as many venues as possible to enjoy our yogurt.”

Students enjoy a curbside taste of Local Yogurt on Main Quadrangle, though it currently accepts only cash or credit. The popular yogurt vendor hopes to join Duke’s MOP program.

cording to a DGHI release Oct. 18.

Additionally poorly-functioning stoves have harsh impacts on the environment.

The stoves’ have high fuel requirements, putting strain on forest ecosystems and producing black carbon emissions that result in a short-term, global warming effect.

The project is significant because it will lead to a better understanding of how to influence human behavior in order to encourage the adoption of improved stoves in rural settings, DGHI Deputy Director Randall Kramer said.

“This could not only improve the health of many people but also reduce [carbon dioxide] emissions, giving a double benefit,” Kramer wrote in an email Tuesday.

DGHI Associate in Research Jessica Lewis, who will also be working on the project, said that although indoor air pollution has not necessarily gained the attention some

other health issues have received, it is slowly being thrust into the global spotlight due to its detrimental effects. Lewis added that the research will better help address both health and environmental problems.

“It’s like hitting three birds with one stone,” Lewis said.

The research team has begun preparing for the project by studying existing research findings about the use of efficient cook stoves, Jeuland said. In India, researchers will first conduct baseline surveys in households to gather data about families’ current stove and fuel usages. After the information is collected, households will receive different types of treatments, such as financial incentives, social marketing or information about the health impacts of different stoves.

The research will provide information about the cost and effectiveness of different incentives, which will aid policy makers

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in encouraging the use of these different cooking technologies, Jeuland said, noting the project’s practical component.

“Talking to households about their experiences will lead to making better designs and technologies and ultimately, bettering and improving the lives of millions of people around the world,” he said.

Lewis noted that the project may have ground-breaking implications.

“Whatever we find, whichever of these treatments encourages adoption the most will be applied the most,” she said. “The research has a big potential for that kind of broad, global impact.”

The San Francisco-based group Impact Carbon and PATH, a Seattle nonprofit dedicated to creating sustainable solutions internationally, are the other two award recipients.

These groups and other DGHI researchers will work with partners in Uganda.

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WAR from page 1 trained not just to do a job but to become certain kinds of people.”

Kinghorn said veterans must speak out about the experience of war in places because such discussions push people out of their comfort zone, encouraging them to see a new perspective.

“The church and this divinity school need to listen openly to people in the military,” he said.

Hauerwas discussed the many mental sacrifices soldiers make while serving their country, especially in behaviors otherwise unnatural to many Christian soldiers.

“The greatest sacrifice we ask of people who go to war is the sacrifice of their normal unwillingness to kill,” Hauerwas said. “For most, it is the most decisive and transformative experience they’ll ever have, and it makes everything we do in the church seem trivial.”

Bell noted the toll of violence on his perception of humanity in Afghanistan.

“After a while, you stop seeing people as people and you start seeing them as targets, and you think of this whole thing as hunting—hunting for targets,” he said.

“Even though we were in this mode of wanting to kill our targets, we didn’t want to kill the wrong guys. There was this element of humanity.”

The church—especially its leaders—need to make an effort to include veterans and members of the military in their communities, Hauerwas said.

Also during the panel, Bell displayed some pictures of his friends and others that he met during his time in Afghanistan.

“These guys, they are 17, 18, 19-years-old, and they put their moral development in jeopardy, sacrificed their moral education for what the country had asked them to do,” he said. “They are straight out of high school, and they are going to do something that is going to influence all of their following life.”

Elizabeth Queen, a first-year Master of Divinity candidate, said she found this topic to be important, adding that she would like to see more discussions like this.

“It is interesting to talk about war—there are veterans all around us, and it is important to increase visibility,” Queen said.

Laura Levens, a fifth-year theology doctoral candidate, said she related very well to Tuesday’s panel because it evoked memories of her friends and family who are members of the military.

“The theme of moral trauma was very interesting,” Levens said. “We always think of physical and emotional sacrifice but never of the moral sacrifice.... This is just the tip of the iceberg, we haven’t started discussing the sacrifices of the families and everyone else in these soldiers’ lives.”

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Cook-Deegan’s first encounter with the play was a review published in the journal Nature, which he read on a flight to New York last October.

“I was giving a talk at Columbia, but I was able to snag a last-minute ticket to the show,” he said. “I ran across town after the talk, caught the show and really, really liked it.”

Having determined to bring the production to Duke, he turned to a former student, Alessa Colaianni, Trinity ’07, who played Franklin in the reading. Now a second year medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Colaianni was a double major in biology and philosophy at Duke, and paired independent study projects on the history of recombinant DNA with frequent work in improv theatre. CookDeegan said he immediately thought of Colaianni after seeing “Photograph 51.”

“I called Alessa and told her that I wanted to bring this play to Duke. She got in touch with Jay, I talked to my colleagues at the Institute, and we were able to make it happen,” he said.

Colaianni said she was excited to participate in the reading and happy to visit her former professors at Duke.

“Obviously, the role of women in science has changed a lot and for the better [since the early 1950s],” she said.

Ziegler said she is currently working on a screenplay adaptation of Photograph 51. The film will be produced by Darren Aronofsky and Rachel Weisz.

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Swiss Pianist Olivier Cave performed Tuesday in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Italian Unification.

OCCUPY from page 5 customers are “fed up” and are seeking out more convenient places to eat.

“We’re tired of being herded through barricades like cattle,” he said.

Paul Browne, a spokesman for the New York City Police Department, didn’t respond to emails inviting comment on how the barricades have hurt businesses in the area.

Beth Bogart, 55, a documentary filmmaker from New York’s West Village who’s volunteered at the Zuccotti Park press table for the past three weeks, said she has encouraged occupiers, visitors and journalists to help local businesses.

“It’s a fairness issue; this cart was here before we were here,” she said, pointing to the food and apparel vendors that line the park’s south border. “We have to make sure that since we are here he doesn’t go out of business. That would be an incredible injustice.”

Some businesses have benefited from the influx of protesters and curious tourists.

A teashop that faces about 100 tents pitched in front of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral has drawn lines of customers stretching to the door as people converged on the area to witness the protests, said waitress Zanete Cakane.

Some merchants near the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, where protesters have pitched about 80 tents, are benefiting from the movement.

“If anything, we are getting more business from the

demonstrators,” said Isabelle Baelly, 54, who runs a newsstand across from the ECB. “They are very peaceful and we have been letting them use our bathroom facilities and Internet.”

Sales are up as much as $1,000 a day at the Pret A Manger sandwich shop a block and a half north of Zuccotti Park, said Shamirah Dillard, a store manager.

“It’s been good, definitely,” she said in an interview.

Weekends and days with scheduled marches bring the greatest peaks in extra sales, especially for hot drinks, which more than cover the increased costs of toilet paper and maintenance to keep the two bathrooms clean, she said.

About four-in-10 Americans say they support the Occupy Wall Street movement, according to a Pew Research Center/Washington Post poll released yesterday.

Almost as many, 35 percent, say they oppose the protests. The telephone survey of 1,009 adults was conducted Oct. 20-23 and had an error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Amos Winbush III, a Wall Street resident, said he has stopped frequenting a local Thai restaurant and started ordering groceries for delivery.

“I’m super passionate about the movement, but the frustration is feeling like you’re in a war zone with barricades in front of my apartment and cops with big guns standing around,” Winbush, 28, said inside a Brooks Brothers store across the street from Zuccotti Park. “We were okay being a little uncomfortable for a couple of weeks, but after six weeks it gets to be a little much.”

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Author John Jeremiah Sullivan discusses his new book of essays at the Regulator Bookstore on Ninth Street.

economic proposals are about more than numbers and fine print. Voters also look to them for a sense of a candidate’s values and priorities.

“To me, the best economic plans are narratives,” said Columbia Business School dean Glenn Hubbard, who was a top economic adviser to President George W. Bush and who now supports Romney for president. “They tell the voters whether the candidate understands how the economy works, and how they would approach it.”

If the measure of a candidate’s boldness is the array of entrenched interests he is willing to battle, none arguably would top former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who would eliminate every tax credit and deduction and set a three-tiered tax system of 8 percent, 14 percent and 23 percent.

Libertarian Ron Paul is the most radical. He would scrap the income tax entirely and argues the government never had the right to impose it in the first place. He claims he could balance the federal books through excise taxes, limited tariffs and drastically shrinking government.

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who often cites her credentials as a former Internal Revenue Service attorney, also says she would “completely abolish the tax code” by replacing it with the flat and simple tax. However, she has not produced a detailed plan for doing so.

Against all of those proposals, Romney’s economic plan, released last month in a 160-page book, takes a more cautious approach.

Romney would make more incremental changes to the tax code, though he promises to ultimately simplify it and reduce rates. Romney’s plan also focuses more heavily than the other candidates’ on trade, including a threat to slap China with higher tariffs if it does not boost the value of its currency.

Romney would reduce the maximum corporate tax to 25 percent, five percentage points higher than Perry proposes. He would also eliminate taxes on interest, capital gains and dividends, but only for Americans making less than $200,000.

In its detail, Romney’s proposal reflects the management consultant he once was, said Alex Brill, a research fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

“It’s much more an action plan of what he expects to achieve and accomplish.”

Romney has argued that while a flat tax sounds good in principle, it is not politically realistic. Nor does he make any apology for the relative complexity of his plan.

During the Washington Post/Bloomberg debate at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire this month, Cain asked Romney whether he could actually name all 59 points of his plan.

“I have had the experience in my life of taking on some tough problems. And I must admit that simple answers are always very helpful, but oftentimes inadequate,” Romney retorted. “And in my view, to get this economy going again, we’re going to have to deal with more than just tax policy and just energy policy, even though both of those are part of my plan.”

At the same time, Perry sidestepped some of the political land mines that have doomed earlier flat-tax proposals.

Because it is optional, those most likely to be hurt by the flat tax, primarily lower-income Americans, could exercise the choice to stay within the current tax system. And the most popular middle-class deductions, such as those for state and local taxes, mortgage interest and charitable contributions, would remain intact for those making less than $500,000.

“He’s dodging a few bullets here,” said Mike Franc, vice president of government studies for the conservative Heritage Foundation. “My guess is that the distribution tables [measuring its relative impact on the rich and poor] will be less of a killing field” for the plan’s opponents.

But as a result of the flexibility that Perry has incorporated into his plan, Franc added, it will be difficult for analysts to accurately predict what its economic and fiscal impact will be.

“If you’re at the [congressional] Joint Tax Committee or the Office of Management and Budget trying to model this thing, good luck,” Franc added.

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Duke rebounds from back-to-back defeats

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Duke’s offense has been plagued by slow starts to games this season. Just over three minutes into last night’s contest, junior Andrew Wenger made sure that would not be a problem.

The Blue Devils cruised to a 3-0 victory against UNCUNCA 0 Asheville at KoskinStadium, led by DUKE 3 en Wenger’s early goal and two from senior Chris Tweed-Kent, who notched the first multi-goal goal game of his collegiate career.

The offense controlled possession from the beginning of the game, preventing the Bulldogs (3-10-3) from generating any dangerous chances. Wenger set the tone for this early, receiving a pass from Nick Palodichuk and taking the ball past a defender to put one home on the ground from 15 yards out.

After the goal the offense continued to rack up opportunities, with ten shots in the game’s first 25 minutes. Despite the abundance of chances, Duke (8-61) could not convert any of them and lacked the urgency to put the game out of reach quickly.

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Senior Christopher Tweed-Kent splits a pair of UNC Asheville defenders Tuesday night. He scored twice in the contest to record the first multi-goal effort of his career.

SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 10

MEN’S GOLF

NCAA must consider Devils go down to changing replay rules Georgia, disappoint When I went to Wallace Wade Stadium last Saturday, I didn’t go to listen to Top 40 music blare through the stadium P.A. system in a pathetic attempt to keep me amped up for football while the guys in black and white stripes stood with their hands on their hips staring up at the press box.

Yes, I understand, they were just doing their jobs as the NCAA rules instruct them to, waiting on one of their Jason colleagues in the press box to review the outcome of the previous play. As a spectator, I was frustrated by the extended delay, one of several that took place during Saturday’s game. I don’t stand alone in my opinion, however, that college football needs to scrap the instant replay system that it currently uses.

In fact, one of the people who agrees with me is a man whose sevenfigure salary depends in part on the calls of those officials. Though it might be construed as a disappointing sign of the lack of progress on the field in recent weeks, the last quarter of head

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Duke players spend too much time on the sidelines waiting for official replay reviews, Palmatary writes.

SEE PALMATARY ON PAGE 11

Julian Suri narrowly misses medalist spot

by Mike Schreiner THE CHRONICLE

Things went from bad to worse for the Blue Devils following their eighthplace showing at the United States Collegiate Championship, which concluded play Tuesday. After a largely disappointing team finish that included a near-miss of medalist honors by junior Julian Suri, the team encountered an unforeseen problem that compounded the frustration of the day.

“Our van broke down,” head coach Jamie Green, who was then forced to make an extra round-trip to Atlanta to pick up the team van after he opted to rent another van to bring his players back to Duke, said.

The transportation problems added to the already-bitter taste of a team performance that saw the Blue Devils finish 21 strokes behind UCLA’s winning total of 852 despite starting the second round one stroke off the lead. Suri, who led the team with a four-under par 212, SEE M. GOLF ON PAGE 12

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Junior Julian Suri nearly medaled over the weekend, but his team finished a disappointing eighth.

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M. SOCCER from page 9

2012 power forward recruit Parker to pay official visit

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Tony Parker, a star power forward at Miller Grove High School in Lithonia, Ga., will make his official visit to Duke this weekend.

By this time last year, head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils had already earned commitments from three of this year’s five freshmen. As the early signing period—which takes place from Nov. 9-16—draws near, Krzyzewski has just one recruit in the bag from the class of 2012. So the coaching staff will hope to impress one of their top 2012 targets this weekend when Miller Grove (Ga.) High School power forward Tony Parker makes his official visit to campus.

The graduation of Miles Plumlee and possible early departure of Mason Plumlee after this season make it a priority for the Duke coaching staff to find an immediate-impact post player from the 2012 class. At 6-foot-9 and 270 lbs., Parker would give Duke a much-needed wide-bodied presence in the paint. Parker has good hands and an ability to score on the low block with his back to the basket, a skill set Duke has lacked since legend Shelden Williams graduated in 2006.

Several recruiting services, including Scout.com and MaxPreps.com, rank him among the top 20 players in his class, which is loaded with quality big men. He scored 20 points yesterday for his AAU squad, the Playaz Club Seniors, in the title game of a national fall tournament.

Parker has already taken official visits to Ohio State, UCLA and Memphis. When Parker returned from his visit to UCLA, Krzyzewski was waiting for him at his home outside of Atlanta to reinforce Duke’s interest. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Parker cancelled an official visit to Georgetown that had been scheduled for last weekend. It is unknown at this point if he intends to reschedule it.

Parker has shown few signs of favoritism toward any school in his interviews, and Evan Daniels, national recruiting analyst for Scout.com, wrote Oct. 4 that Parker has the “best poker face in the 2012 class” and “has everyone guessing.”

His choice could potentially be impacted by yesterday’s commitment of fellow top power forward DaJuan Coleman, who chose his hometown Syracuse over Ohio State. This leaves the Buckeyes as an option for Parker, who would have been unlikely to commit to the same school as Coleman since they play the same position.

Parker is expected to sign a letter of intent during the upcoming early signing period, so his late visit to Duke could prove crucial in his decision.

“It’s important that we had a good start tonight,” head coach John Kerr said. “But we wanted to get another couple goals earlier, and it didn’t happen…. They take the foot off the accelerator and think it’s too easy.”

Chris Tweed-Kent eventually broke through, however, in the half’s 32nd minute, placing home a bobbled ball to increase the lead to two. Substitute Joseph Pak fed a well-placed cross in from the right edge of the field, giving freshman Nick Palodichuk the first chance at it. After his attempt missed, Tweed-Kent put home the bouncing ball.

The Blue Devils finished the half with 13 shots—nine of which were on goal—compared to just three for UNCAsheville. Twenty minutes of play elapsed in the second half by the time the Bulldogs registered their first and only shot on goal for the contest.

The second 45 minutes were largely similar to the first, with Duke controlling the ball and racking up shots in spite of sloppy offensive execution. Again, it was Tweed-Kent who found the back of the net, this time after receiving a pass in the box from Wenger. He then dribbled it past a defender and the goalie, placing it in from point-blank range.

“I was just itching to get on the scoreboard, and once you get one, you start feeling good and finally another came,” Tweed-Kent said. “But I think it’s a testament to the fact that we kept the ball a lot more [than previous games] and did a good job pinging the ball around.”

Although the Blue Devils came out victorious, the win was costly due to its physical nature. No injuries occurred, but Sebastien Ibeagha was one of three Duke players to receive a yellow card, garnering his fifth of the season.

According to NCAA rules, he must sit out the team’s next game, a conference match against Virginia Tech. “[It is] extremely frustrating,” Kerr said of Ibeagha’s suspension. “I’m not happy.”

Overall, five cards were given by the referee, who received loud criticism throughout the game from fans and both coaches. Tensions ran especially high when Ibeagha and midfielder Jonathan Aguirre’s were handed cards within 30 seconds of each other, giving UNCAsheville two quick free kicks.

The match was a big turnaround for a Blue Devil defense that had allowed six goals in the team’s recent two-game losing skid. Goalie James Belshaw needed to make only one save, a testament to the team’s defense against an opponent that Kerr said was better than its record indicates.

“They were up for it—Asheville had a good result early in the season when they took UNC to overtime,” Kerr said. “They weren’t here to just make up the numbers, they were here to play.”

—from staff reports

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Andrew Wenger had a goal and an assist in his team’s 3-0 victory Tuesday. The three points make him the nation’s leader in points.

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PALMATARY from page 9 coach David Cutcliffe’s weekly press conference Tuesday evolved into a discussion of instant replay and why the current system is inadequate.

“I’ve become less of a fan of replay,” Cutcliffe said.

“The stoppage is annoying and ruins the momentum of the game. Football doesn’t happen in slow motion. I hear too many analysts get too analytical—slowing everything down and telling a guy what he should have done.

It doesn’t work that way.”

Under the current framework, a replay assistant is tucked away in the press box of every stadium in front of a monitor, where he thoroughly reviews every play. He’s looking for several things.

First, he looks for reasonable evidence to believe an error was made in the initial on-field ruling. If there is, and the play is both reviewable and has a direct impact on the game, he pages the lead official to stop play for a second look.

While in theory it makes sense to do everything possible to get the call right, the pendulum has swung too far. Replay has created a crutch for officials, and now there is an expectation that every fumble, trapped pass or tightrope walk of the sideline will be reviewed.

This is a major issue because there are varying numbers of cameras at each game, depending on the level of television coverage. For instance, for the Duke-Richmond matchup, the replay official will have far fewer replay angles at his disposal than he would at a higherprofile matchup like Duke-North Carolina. In a game with diminished replay coverage, it shouldn’t be in the back of a referee’s mind that he has replay to bail him out, as the inferior footage may not produce indisputable evidence.

A perfect example of replay exerting its unwelcome and overbearing presence occurred when Duke wide receiver Jamison Crowder coughed the ball up on a return Saturday. He recovered his own fumble, making it irrelevant whether or not he had fumbled in the first place.

Still, the officials spent several painful minutes reviewing the play, interrupting the fluidity of the game and taking away from the spectators’ enjoyment and the players’ focus. As it is, the average college football

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game takes close to three and a half hours, which is already long enough.

“Let’s just play the game,” Cutcliffe said. “After the return, I would like to have the momentum to just go out and play rather than waiting around for something I knew wasn’t going to be overturned.”

Instant replay became a part of the college game after Michigan State’s upset of previously unbeaten Michigan in 2001. In that game, there was a controversial ending in which the timekeeper appeared to stop the clock early after a Spartan spike. The extra second of regulation allowed for a final play which resulted in the decisive touchdown.

Don’t get me wrong—NCAA football does need replay. They should, however, adopt the same policy that the NFL uses. Instead of having a booth official automatically review every play, coaches should have two challenges that they can strategically use at any point in the game.

This would make it risky to question a less significant play early in the game, since the coach would lose the opportunity to challenge a potentially gamechanging play later. Any rule change that would add more strategy to the game enhances viewing pleasure for fans. The integrity of the game’s ultimate outcome would be ensured by automatic replay during the last two minutes of each half and overtime.

College coaches do have the ability to challenge once per game—provided that they have a timeout, which will be taken away if the challenge fails—but Cutcliffe emphasized that such a challenge is effectively pointless because the replay official is already reviewing every play.

Cutcliffe’s issues with the replay rules do not have any bearing on his feelings about officials. He emphatically pointed out that the officials are very good and get the vast majority of calls right at live speed.

“I love our officials,” Cutcliffe said. “They’re great communicators. They are very efficient. I would rather them do their job than all of us have to worry about what’s going on with replay.”

If I had my way, we’d get the best of both worlds.

The flow of the game would be preserved, and human error would not be the difference between the win and loss column.

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David Cutcliffe praised college football officials at his weekly press luncheon Tuesday, but called for a change in the replay rules that they use.

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M. GOLF from page 9 finished in a tie for third after facing a legitimate chance of taking the individual title late in the final round.

“There [was] not a whole lot of rejoicing there,” Green said. “Obviously, Julian played a really fine tournament, but right after the round I know he was pretty upset because he certainly had a chance to win.”

Both Suri and Duke as a team got off to promising starts with strong first round scores. The team recorded a fiveunder par 283 on Sunday, including a 67 by the junior, leaving both the team and Suri in second place in the team and individual competitions.

Duke faltered on Monday though, shooting a 12-over par 300 and falling

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into a tie for eighth. Suri led the Blue Devils once again, this time carding a 74, and finished the day tied for eighth individually. Suri ran into trouble early in the second round, but it was the back nine of the Lakeside Course at the Golf Club of Georgia that tripped up the rest of the team.

On day three, behind a three-under 69 from sophomore Yaroslav Merkulov, the team rebounded with a two-over-par 290 and held on for an eighth-place finish. Suri started fast with three birdies in the first five holes to take a share of the overall lead, but wavered late with two three-putts over his final three holes, finishing two strokes behind the eventual winners.

“At the end of the week, when you add up 54 holes, he played really solid golf,” Green said. “He has played well, and that’s

probably why it stings for him. He knows he is playing well enough to win golf tournaments, so when he comes up short it’s a bitter pill to swallow.”

Duke also benefited from another consistent performance by senior Spencer Anderson, who finished tied for 22nd with a two-over-par total of 218.

“He is in a really good frame of mind,” Green said. “It’s fun to watch him play out there.”

Green attributed the higher scores on the second and third days to an increase in double bogeys carded by the team.

“A double bogey is just a killer,” Green said. “We unfortunately just had too many on the card. Some were due to poorly executed golf shots, and some were due to just not a very good break. I don’t like to say, ‘Ah, we got bad breaks,’ but the reality of it is sometimes it happens.”

Green also thought that the use of caddies in the tournament might have affected the players simply because they were not used to it. The U.S. Collegiate Championship is the only tournament on Duke’s schedule in which caddies are permitted.

“It kind of throws off the rhythm sometimes, but it’s not an excuse,” Green said. “It’s not a feeling they often get in a college event. From that perspective, it’s fun. All the players on all the teams look forward to it.”

The Blue Devils will look to limit their mistakes as they finish off their fall season this weekend at the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate tournament in Dallas, Tex. “The [team] will have to dig inside and find out where they lost some of those shots and where they can tighten things up before we leave town again,” Green said.

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Food Factory must evolve The Food Factory, a Cary, the restaurant, as of OcN.C. restaurant recently re- tober, is only open during located to Central Campus, dinner hours. Also troublemay shut down in the future some is the relatively slow due to poor business. This is service and lack of vegan not the first time a restaurant options. However, the bigon Central has gest obstacle editorial faced financial to the Food difficulties.

Factory’s sucLast year, the Food Factory’s cess remains unchangeable: predecessor, the Devil’s Bis- its location. tro, closed due to unprofitDining on Central is ability. something that Duke must The Food Factory made reckon with. The closing of smart moves by joining the the Devil’s Bistro and the imMerchants on Points pro- pending failure of the Food gram and maintaining its Factory prove that a radically late night hours. But, as is, new model is necessary. Histhe restaurant is not doing tory might suggest that there everything it can to ensure is little demand for a Central success. Its menu, consist- restaurant, but we disagree. ing mostly of sandwiches We believe that some restauand wraps, caters to a lunch rant concepts could be succrowd. This presents a de- cessful on Central. Especially mographic problem since in light of the upcoming

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house model, we hope Central residents will desire an open and communal space to both eat and socialize.

Indeed, such a dining space is crucial to fostering house spirit on Central.

We suggest two possible dining models for the Food Factory to adopt. First, we propose a contracted dining venue akin to the Great Hall.

Such a venue would offer comprehensive, quick and diverse eating options for Central residents. This dining hall model would partially correct the severe inequalities between Central and West dining. The drawback is that the plan is ambitious and expensive. The University would have to pick up the slack, possibly resulting in a larger dining deficit and

student dining fee. However, Central would gain a firstrate eating venue that would facilitate more communal dining in the house model.

Our second suggestion is a niche restaurant that will draw business despite its less than desirable location. The success of Grace’s Café, the only restaurant on Central besides the Food Factory, can be largely attributed to its narrow business model. Its unique and specialized menu attracts customers from East, West and Central. One idea for a niche venue could be a bar or coffeehouse. More elaborate than the East Campus Coffeehouse, this venue would serve drinks and food, stay open late into the night and offer social programming from concerts to game

watching parties. The success of the bar at Armadillo Grill suggests that a late-night alcohol-serving restaurant could also thrive on Central.

These two ideas are only a starting point. We hope the Food Factory can endure until the inauguration of the house model. At that point, we encourage the restaurant, in conjunction with the administration, to aggressively conduct surveys and focus groups to better understand the needs of Central residents, especially in light of the house model. If possible, we would like to see the Food Factory survive even as it is transformed. Central residents deserve both great food and great community, and their needs are still not being met.

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Of course, when you actually register, you have Bookbagging has started, and with it comes to go through ACES. You must click through a whole host of exciting revelations. Our ma- three pages in order to enroll in a course—which jors! Our futures! Our jobs! All dejust seems tedious. And even if cided by a single semester of four to you’re okay with that, there are six classes. other hoops to jump through.

It’s the cause of endless distracSomehow, even if you click the ention, procrastination and, well, draroll button just as the clock strikes ma. After all, the outcome of these 7:00 a.m., during the time it takes classes will determine whether we ACES to load your final schedule, live in a box in 10 years, or in a huge the classes you want fill up. We’re mansion with fountains and garall using the same Duke Wi-Fi conindu ramesh dens in Beverly Hills. It’s a big deal. nection—so what’s the problem?

Add to that an early second Clearly the system doesn’t work as hooked on crop of midterms and the eternal well as it should. information Halloween costume dilemma (I Now, let’s bring in the question might need to break out Indira of quality. The fact is, course evals Gandhi again, for the fourth time, just because are simply not effective. Plenty of bad classes it’s so easy), and you’ve got a whole lot of stress. have ratings above a four out of five, and plenty Even for a pre-med like myself, with essentially of great classes have ratings below a four out of their entire future planned out, times are getting five. Duke students are a diverse bunch, and an rough. Who knew that picking out a biology class average rating cannot represent our very qualitacould be so difficult? tive experiences in a course. Plus, isn’t there a In my multiple semesters of bookbagging, space to write comments on those forms? Why I’ve managed to find a solution, sort of. Book- can’t we access those? I trust that many of you bag everything! And by everything, I mean actu- painstakingly fill those out, and I would like to ally everything. Seriously. That way, when all the see your thoughts. Moreover, the system doesn’t classes you want are taken (as they invariably will show you the most relevant course evals: the ones be), you’ll still have an array of options, including from the previous semester the course was ofsome classes you would actually want to take. So fered. Wouldn’t that provide the most accurate you take those. Problem solved! It’s a breeze. assessment of a class? Simply put, course evals do Okay, fine—that’s not the real problem here. not tell us nearly enough.

I’ve bookbagged 20 biology classes before without CourseRank and ratemyprofessor solve these breaking a sweat. And I didn’t even end up taking problems, sort of. But they are far too underutia bio course that semester, other than an indepen- lized, and do not provide us an accurate gauge. dent study. Still, it was easy. Handy-dandy ACES Like I said before, Duke students are a diverse even alphabetized my selections for me! bunch, and I’ve seen too many teachers listed as I kid. ACES is actually not at all handy-dandy. “great” who actually prove to be insufferable and And neither are any of the other schedule-plan- unwilling to engage in discussion. Likewise, I’ve ning resources we have. We’re never properly in- seen too many teachers dismissed as “too hard” formed about the courses that play such a central who prove to be incredibly helpful and invested in role in shaping our futures and diversifying our students’ learning. The same goes for the courses liberal arts education. Perhaps that is why book- themselves. The fact remains that the people who bagging is so stressful. post on these sites document extreme experiencWe have essentially five resources to plan our es, both the great and the abysmal. As a result, we schedules and courseloads: ACES and Schedula- don’t get an accurate picture of the average Duke tor for logistics, as well as course evaluations, student’s experience.

CourseRank and ratemyprofessor.com for quality.

It boils down to this: Our registration sysAnd all of them have significant problems. tem needs some improvements and existing Take ACES. You can make schedules, but you resources need to be utilized by more students can’t save them. You have to continually refresh and faculty. Since we can’t take the process seyour bookbag to make novel combinations, while riously, it becomes difficult to take our courses somehow remembering what you had before. themselves seriously. And then our majors! And Schedulator solves this problem, at least sort of— our futures! it lets you bookbag, save multiple courses, easily browse through potential schedules and share Indu Ramesh is a Trinity junior. Her column runs your results. every other Wednesday.

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Please take your legislation off my body

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s a woman, a resident, a voter and a student the main ones below. in the state of North Carolina, House Bill 854, First, North Carolina’s new official position is that womwhich goes into effect today, infuriates me. en don’t know what they are getting themselves into when The North Carolina General Assemchoosing to terminate a fetus. Now, women bly does not believe that women have the will be forced to receive information withsamantha ability to make rational, informed deciout regard to their personal consideration lachman sions. As such, they passed the “Women’s of the decision. Imagine a woman seeing Right to Know Act.” The district judge an ultrasound image and saying, “Wow, I guest column Catherine Eagles has granted a prelimithought I was going to have a baby iguana, nary injunction to block parts of the bill but since this resembles a human being, I while the court considers the constitutional issues fur- can’t go through with this anymore!” Doctors are already ther, but it looks likely the bill will be defeated based on compelled by the standards of their practice to perform the First Amendment. ultrasounds before abortions, and women are always able The American Civil Liberties Union of North Caro- to request to see the image if they so desire. lina, Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina, Indeed, in her declaration as a plaintiff, Dr. GretchPlanned Parenthood Health Systems, the Center for Re- en Stuart, notes that she always offers her patients the productive Rights and numerous doctors in the state filed opportunity to view the ultrasound. She estimates that a lawsuit on Sept. 29 against Janice Huff, president of the 20 percent choose to do so, but she’s never had a paN.C. Medical Board and Roy Cooper, the state attorney tient who asked her to describe the image or who degeneral, along with numerous other state officials. cided not to have the abortion after viewing the image.

To summarize, the bill first demands that doctors Stuart writes that “forcing me to impose harms on my obtain informed consent from women who want to un- patients harms me and the practice of medicine.” dergo an abortion 24 hours before, in writing, certifying Second, this bill forces doctors to violate multiple printhat she had the opportunity to review state materials ciples of medical ethics. It disrespects patient autonomy; on the procedure. If she is “unable to read” the materi- it ignores the patient’s wishes; it potentially traumatizes als, a physician “shall read the materials” to her. Then, patients (for instance, victims of rape or incest); it imposbefore the procedure, the doctor or “qualified techni- es unnecessary delays on patients (who may have to take cian” must provide an obstetric real-time view of the time off work or pay for childcare); it doesn’t serve any unborn child to the pregnant woman “in order for the medical purpose; and it takes away a doctor’s discretion. It woman to make an informed decision,” with a detailed forces doctors to engage in medically unethical conduct. “explanation of what the display is depicting” and with Dr. James R. Dingfelder states in his plaintiff declara“medical descriptions of the images”—and provide the tion that the act “appears designed to induce shame and “opportunity to hear the fetal heart tone.” Physicians guilt in my patients. It is repugnant to think that I have who fail to comply with the bill’s requirements may be to play an active role in shaming my patients in this mansubject to disciplinary penalties by the state medical ner.” Dingfelder says the act “uses” him; indeed, doctors board, including possible loss of their medical license. are now mandated to act as tools of the state.

Though the bill states that “nothing shall be conThird, this bill violates numerous constitutional strued to prevent a pregnant woman from averting her rights. These include rights to due process, free speech, eyes from the ultrasound images required to be pro- privacy, liberty, bodily integrity and freedom from unvided to and reviewed with her,” I find it absurd that reasonable searches and seizure. a woman would feel comfortable covering her ears, Finally, this is yet another burden placed upon closing her eyes, and going “lalalala” as her physician women. We pay co-pays for birth control and undergo is compelled by the state to pass on an ideologically not-fun bodily cycles which men never have to subsidriven, value-based and agenda-laden message. dize or experience. Men can get physical and only have Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed the bill in June, stating that to worry about contracting STI’s; women have a whole “it is a dangerous intrusion into the confidential relation- host of other issues to consider. ship that exists between women and their doctors,” and I would appreciate being seen by the state of North that the provisions “are the most extreme in the nation Carolina as an individual who is not immoral, ignorant in terms of interfering with that relationship.” However, and incompetent. I am tired, as a woman, of being subthe N.C. Senate overrode Perdue’s veto in July. ject to religious values that are not my own. The plainIn a press release, Bebe Anderson, senior counsel for tiffs are arguing in a Greensboro courtroom for the the Center for Reproductive Rights, noted that federal law to be blocked: Let’s hope this bill constitutes only a judges in Oklahoma and Texas have already blocked brief moment in North Carolina’s history. enforcement of similar requirements. This bill is offensive and paternalistic for so many reasons, but I’ll detail Samantha Lachman, Trinity ’13

lettertotheeditor Occupy Duke banner an affront to reason The following quotation is taken from the Occupy Duke banner that is currently displayed on the Main Quad: “A democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth.”

Though many letters to the editor begin by asserting that particular claims by columnists or student groups are “misguided,” I would like to express that the above language is not misguided—it is exactly wrong.

To paraphrase the Declaration of Independence more accurately than the sign, the original founders of our government indeed intended for it to derive its just powers from the consent of the governed.

But, as the occupiers of Wall Street are doubtless aware, resultant derivatives are destined to look very different from the original source material on which their current form and value depend. It is because of this phenomenon that our government remains the only entity that may seize—or was it extract?—wealth and property from the earth and its people explicitly without consent. As the nation’s sole organization

with a legal military and police force (which means a legal monopoly on the use of physical violence), the government is the only entity capable of enforcing such actions as taxation, eminent domain, extraordinary rendition and many other acts a private citizen or company would be imprisoned for attempting.

Standing in complete contrast to our democratic government is the corporation, which survives solely on the principle of explicit consent. In dealing with private enterprise, the people have the power to exchange their dollars in whatever way they see fit. Every purchase is an act of consent, and without it a corporation ceases to exist. Try walking through a Walmart and not buying something; it’s an easy enough task. Now try browsing the selection of products that the government offers (schools, welfare, Domino’s commercials) and try not to pay for—or use—them. Now you’re in jail.

The point is that Duke’s Main Quad is now bedizened with a monstrously backward maxim that, as long as it stands, will remain an affront to the intellectual reputation of this school and its students.

Social action without action

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s part of the Duke bubble, it is refreshing to take a step back to look at the political and market structures of the world and to challenge the beliefs that most Americans hold as fact.

This greater picture was introduced to me when I took Sociology 166: Politics and Markets in the Global Economy last Spring with Professor David Brady. The class was interesting and thought provoking and I encourscott briggs age everyone to take it. Although capitalism might be as i see it the American way, Professor Brady’s class made me keenly aware of its imperfections. Capitalism perpetuates inequality and wide income gaps, issues that should concern everyone in our society. I must admit, however, that after a semester of hearing arguments both for and against various market structures, I came to the conclusion that capitalism, when regulated appropriately to counteract its undesirable effects, is better than its alternatives.

This doesn’t exactly constitute an epiphany of epic proportions when compared to the beliefs I held prior to this class. Nevertheless, I like to think that Sociology 166 made me more aware of my place in the global landscape and more realistic about how I can change that landscape.

Social activism can be very effective if properly executed.

The social media initiatives that sparked ongoing revolutions in Egypt and Libya are perfect examples of how collective action can lead to real, meaningful change.

When executed poorly, social activism tends to result in chuckles rather than real revolution. I’m looking at you, Occupy Duke.

Let us pretend for a second that the Occupy Wall Street movement had concrete, attainable goals and ignore that it is extremely unlikely for corporations to pay taxes and relax their political muscle. Even under these other worldly circumstances, the Occupy Duke demonstration would still be pointless. The point of participating in a social movement is to actively bring about the change you seek instead of passing off the burden of change to someone else. If you are participating in the Occupy Duke demonstrations, you fall into one of two categories: You are either the penitent 1 percent or the frustrated 99 percent. Either way, your time could be better spent elsewhere.

To the 1 percent: Some people might tell you that you have no place fighting against capitalism. I disagree. If you recognize your level of privilege and think it’s unfair to those who have less, kudos to you. That being said, you’d probably be more productive by calling your wealthy parents and convincing them to donate more to charity than by sitting in a lawn chair and drinking the proverbial KoolAid. Maybe while you’re at it, you could ask them to get you an internship with an NGO in South America over the summer. If you have connections to the enfranchised and are pretending to be disenfranchised, you’re being counterproductive.

To the 99 percent: You most likely are one of the students whose education is being paid for by donors who made their money through, you guessed it, capitalism.

Sitting around and complaining is counterproductive for you as well, especially when you are biting the hand that feeds you. Every student at Duke has been given an amazing educational gift and boundless resources. Use these resources to actually advance your cause. Every second spent sitting on the Main Quad is a second that could be put towards more fruitful ends, which would probably be much less frustrating to the white collar folks that endow this institution.

To put it bluntly, thinking that poverty is bad does not make you special. Everyone else does too. The difference is most of us aren’t craving attention by sleeping in a $300 tent on the Main Quad. The idea that Duke students can claim solace with the poorest of society by sleeping outside is about as patronizing and hypocritical as it gets. I can’t help smiling when I walk by the Occupy Duke camp and see James Buchanan Duke’s statue in the background. The irony is deafening.

Here’s how I see it: you must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Derek Speranza, Trinity ’12 Scott Briggs is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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