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Maintaining Duke’s ‘backyard’
Lovette pleads not guilty to Carson murder by Tiffany Lieu
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Duke has joined other universities nationwide in purchasing domain names in the Web’s new X-rated, red light district. The University recently purchased a handful of .xxx URLs in an effort to protect the University’s brand from use by potential pornography sites. The .xxx URLs are part of a new effort by the adult entertainment industry to differentiate porn websites from other websites on the Internet. “With the .xxx domain, we wanted to make sure we secured some of the major identifiers such as duke.xxx and dukeuniversity.xxx, to keep them, in a sense, off the market,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and government relations. Schoenfeld said he was not sure if Duke was only registering .xxx names related to existing trademarks of the University. He added that a number of people are involved in deciding which domain names to preventively register through the Office of Information Technology. “We have reserved a number of Dukerelated names, things that involve Duke, things that involve Blue Devils,” Schoenfeld said. “I don’t know precisely how many we settled on, but we’re looking at the most SEE DOMAINS ON PAGE 6
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The grass is always greener at Duke. In an effort to preserve the beauty of campus quadrangles, Duke Facilities Management is reevaluating its methods for maintaining the grassy landscapes, an important aspect of Duke’s image. The University must balance aesthetic quality with the quads’ original purpose—student recreation—in order to provide students with a “backyard,” said Deb LoBiondo,
assistant dean of Housing, Dining and Residence Life. “It is awesome to see student interaction, but it’s hard to maintain the turf as a result,” said LoBiondo, who often organizes quad events. “You can’t really in any reasonable way say, ‘Go play somewhere else.’” Facilities Management is implementing new lawn-keeping techniques, such as using compost to increase the grass’ fertility, working in larger sections, putting up SEE GRASS ON PAGE 5
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Little hope for homeless mired in flawed system by Caroline Fairchild THE CHRONICLE
Despite expansive efforts and good intentions, city officials are struggling to achieve measurable results in the fight to end homelessness in Durham. In 2010, city homeless service providers received close to $900,000 in funds from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Whether they successfully transitioned into self-sufficient housing or not, only 70 individuals exited Durham’s homeless services system that year. The total number of individuals served by federal funds is unknown. Lanea Foster, the former coordinator for homeless services in Durham, said as the system stands right now, there is no accountability to ensure that HUD funds are going toward the program’s ultimate goal—to end homelessness and encourage financial independence. CHRONICLE GRAPHIC BY MELISSA YEO Foster, whose consulting contract with the city Fewer homeless people exited Durham’s support system in 2010 compared to the previous two years. was not extended this year, continues to serve
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One of the alleged murderers of former UNC student body president Eve Carson has pleaded not guilty. Laurence Lovette—one of two men accused of kidnapping, robbing and fatally shooting Carson, a Morehead Scholar and then-student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in March 2008—pled not guilty to five charges in a court hearing Thursday. The charges include first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, armed robbery, felony larceny and felony possession of stolen goods, the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court for Orange County confirmed. Jury selection for Lovette’s trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 28. The case is expected to last through December, said Trish Wells, a victim and witness legal assistant at the Orange and Chatham County District Attorney’s Office. “I’m not sure [Lovette] expects to be found not guilty on all five charges,” said James Coleman, the John S. Bradway professor of law. “He probably is trying to avoid a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for the murder charge.”
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as a volunteer for Durham’s homeless service programs. “When you just look at the numbers and see how few individuals are actually exiting the system, that is a very expensive system,” Foster said. “Most people just need a down payment on their rent to get out of homelessness, not this serious long-term intervention.” A flawed system Durham’s main system to combat homelessness, the Continuum of Care, is a federal program that encourages coordinated efforts among local organizations to reduce homelessness. The CoC, along with the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, operates under a system of collaborative funding and planning to support various agencies who provide homeless services. The current system moves homeless individuals through a uniform, step-by-step process from SEE HOMELESS ON PAGE 4
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Budget and policy experts are braced for Washington to soon face the painful task of finding even more savings — and they anticipate that health spending, which makes up more than a fifth of the federal budget, will be a main target. Some health care leaders are already laying the groundwork to redirect a debate they are expecting in 2013, after the 2012 elections. They hope to prevent spending from simply being shifted from one part of the system to another. Jack Lewin, chief executive of the American College of Cardiology, argues that proposals to address the root causes of high health care costs have been largely ignored in Washington. ”We talk about them all the time, but there’s nothing that we’re doing in any of these proposals to get that done,” he said. “What we would like to get on the table that’s not there is a paradigm shift in thinking about how you control costs.”
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YouProve software protects media integrity Violent clashes in Egypt escalate by Katya Prosvirkina THE CHRONICLE
Researchers have developed a more comprehensive method of authenticating smartphone photos. Duke computer scientists recently designed and developed YouProve—a system of validating the authenticity of images and sound clips captured with smartphones. The technology detects changes and creates a report documenting alterations. YouProve was created by a team of students led by Landon Cox, assistant professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, who worked with researchers at Microsoft Research and Technicolor Research. “With citizen journalism, there are great opportunities to report on a lot of interesting events where there don’t happen to be [professional] journalists,” said Peter Gilbert, a second-year graduate student in computer science. “The authenticity for the integrity for these kind of reports from smartphones is already becoming a concern.” Media recorded on smartphones is integral in describing events as they happen, Gilbert said. He added that news outlets are continuously trying to find new ways to bring news to the masses, demonstrating a need to ensure that amateur media is accurate and unaltered. Increasingly, news organizations are relying on smartphone submissions to show a first person perspective of events. As such, organizations also run the risk of using doctored images, Gilbert said. “YouProve uses a combination of trusted hardware and operating system extensions to monitor how applications modify media captured on a mobile phone,” Cox wrote in a Nov. 15 email. He added that YouProve is not a web application because it requires access to a device’s hardware to monitor media files and manipulations in order to provide a text file report on the findings. The technology correctly identified altered portions of images and audio clips with 99 percent accuracy, producing the analyses in less than 70 seconds. The team considered several other factors while
designing the technology, including possible infringements on people’s privacy. “Our motivation was—how do you preserve the integrity of an image while not violating [a person’s] privacy?” said Kyungmin Lee, Trinity ’11. Gilbert noted that previous attempts at similar programs provided very general information, such as whether or not an image had been edited in any sort of way. “Sometimes you have to modify an image somehow,” Gilbert said. “Due to bandwidth constraints, you are probably not going to be able to upload this full, uncompressed... photo to a news website.” He added that there are many legitimate modifications to photos—including cropping, resizing or scaling a photo down. One of the other major concerns is the privacy of not only the sharer of the photo but of the people in it. “A photographer might want to crop out or blur the faces of the people in his [smartphone] photo,” Gilbert said. “Sometimes these images are taken in locations where the safety of the subjects could be compromised if their identity is revealed in the media.” YouProve takes such factors into consideration and allows contributors to have the freedom to crop and blur images, which will then be noted in the report generated by the program, Gilbert said. The report identifies finer areas of the photo that are changed in some way. YouProve is currently a system of extensions only for Android phones, because Android is available under free and open source software, Gilbert said. Researchers hope the methods of YouProve are general enough to be applied to the Apple iPhone in the future, but the source code for the iPhone’s operating system is needed first. YouProve relies on a special hardware component— Trusted Platform Module—that is not available on all smartphones today, but is on a majority of laptops. As soon as more TPM-inclusive smartphones are on the market, Gilbert and Cox noted that they would like to expand YouProve to additional platforms.
by Leila Fadel THE WASHINGTON POST
CAIRO — Egypt entered its third day of violence Monday, plunging into a deepening political crisis and raising questions about whether national elections can go forward seven days from now as scheduled. The Health Ministry announced that at least 22 people had been killed in 48 hours of pitched battles between armed security forces and rock-throwing demonstrators. But the death toll could be much higher. More than 30 bodies were in the Cairo morgue Monday, according to a morgue official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give out information. Pictures posted online showed dead bodies heaped on top of garbage in iconic Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 18-day revolt that forced out President Hosni Mubarak last winter. At least 1,700 people have been injured, including at least 80 members of the security forces. The Revolutionary Youth Coalition, a group of pro-democracy organizations that was launched from Tahrir Square during Egypt’s winter uprising, called for a “million-man” march Tuesday to revolt against a new foe—the military. The coalition is calling for the immediate resignation of the military-controlled caretaker government. Coalition representatives have asked the generals in charge to hand power to a national unity government led by Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. ElBaradei has been in talks with the military leadership, said Shady Ghazali Harb, a leading member of the coalition. “This million-man march will gain momentum, and we hope that the demands will be accomplished,” Harb said. Monday afternoon the military announced a new “treachery” law to stop former members of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party from running in the election scheduled for Nov. 28. But the law would apply only to those convicted of political corruption.
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HOMELESS from page 1 emergency to transitional to permanent housing subsidized in part by federal funds. This step-by-step process actually encourages longer stays with providers, said Kaaren Johanson, a member of the Durham Homeless Services Advisory Committee. “We ended up creating a system that fosters chronic homelessness,” Johanson said. “We did not build the right system to effectively deal with the issue.” There is no coordinated intake system that caters to the personal circumstances of homeless individuals. The current system is inefficient because it assumes that every homeless person needs the same services, which for many homeless individuals are unnecessarily drawn out, Foster said. Rather than assuming every homeless person faces the same struggle, Durham needs to push for the city and county to build a more nimble and responsive system, she said. “It’s like they are thinking that someone is sick without properly doing a diagnosis,” she said. “They automatically assume they know what the problems are without actually checking to make sure their assumptions are correct.” Without clear reporting mechanisms to monitor the use of funds or well-defined leadership roles within the governance of homeless services, Johanson said there is no way to solve the systematic problems preventing the CoC from ending chronic homelessness. Lack of accountability In 2010, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants volunteered to conduct a programmatic review of the current governance of the CoC and 10-Year Plan in Durham. After spending 100 hours over a period of 11 weeks, the team was un-
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able to find any standardized method of monitoring the use of federal, state and local funding. “What is lacking right now within this organization is accountability toward the plan,” said Victor Velazquez, senior vice president of people, strategy and enterprise management of the AICPA. “We were not able to find a rationalization of funding for what specific agencies were doing.” After money is distributed to local agencies, Foster said there is no unifying body that consolidates reports in order to demonstrate whether services are adequately addressing homelessness. Without oversight, Durham has funding “scattered all over the place” and is unable to see what it is actually paying for as various agencies are asked to report information at different times, she added. Given the transient nature of the homeless population, it is difficult to quantify the direct outcomes of Durham’s various homeless efforts, said Mayor Pro Tempore Cora Cole-McFadden, who is also a city council member and member of the steering committee to end homelessness. “Unless we have more reporting, people are going to get lost,” Cole-McFadden said. “You can’t follow these people under the current system.” No clear leader In June, under the leadership of ColeMcFadden, the city appointed the Durham Homeless Services Advisory Committee. With an emphasis on preventative services and a proper governance structure, ColeMcFadden envisions the advisory committee ultimately serving as an oversight committee for local agencies, such as Urban Ministries, Inc. and Genesis Home. “For the last year or so, we have had concerns about the direction that we are going,” Cole-McFadden said. “We needed
to make sure that we put in place some mechanism to ensure accountability from the folks who are getting the Continuum of Care grants.” Although HUD granted the advisory committee final oversight of CoC and 10-Year Plan funds, Stephen Hopkins, a member of the committee, said the city and county managers are not allowing the advisory committee to make decisions that could lead to a more efficient use of federal money. “We have been trying to make decisions, and every decision we have tried to make has been met with hostility from the city and the county staff,” Hopkins said. “We are just trying to figure out who has the total responsibility for the CoC and its success.” Andrew Cummings, assistant county manager for special projects, said the sentiments expressed by some of the members of the advisory committee do not necessarily reflect the view of the whole committee. Because it is a newly formed entity, the group is still in the “information gathering stage,” and there is a lack of consensus about what systematic changes are desirable at this point, he added. “I agree that the funding recommendations for the Continuum of Care grant decisions should probably stop with whatever the Continuum of Care local chosen leadership board is, which is the Homeless Services Advisory Committee,” Cummings said. “Sending their decisions then to City Council is not a necessary step.” Still, Cole-McFadden said there is a subcommittee currently in place to figure out the structural leadership for the CoC. ColeMcFadden said in the future agencies will be held more accountable for their performance, with established rules monitoring the use of CoC funds. “Citizens expect us to have something in place to track what is happening with
public funds, and that is not there right now,” she said. A need for communication Local agencies and government officials are working toward changing the CoC and 10-Year Plan to start improving the accountability and leadership of homeless prevention services in Durham. In an initial step toward this goal, all service providers adopted the Carolina Homeless Information Network in an effort to streamline reporting and create more information about the use of funds. Peter Donlon, director of programs at Urban Ministries of Durham—a local homeless shelter—said the agencies are also working toward implementing a unified intake system to ensure that individual needs are met more effectively. “There are several agencies in Durham that provide similar services or the same,” Donlon said. “We have clients come to us and get needs met or if not, they will go to the next partner, and then they will go to the next partner. So now we are trying to do a coordinated intake so we know where to refer them. We are trying to look at a more coordinated functioning that will help with reports, too.” Hopkins, a former homeless person himself, said city officials administering the CoC should meet with the homeless population before moving forward. The city should also support more programs that address the specific needs of each homeless individual. Ultimately, Cole-McFadden said the city needs more information about the people who are coming through the system to improve its efficiency. “We need to look at the root causes of what is happening,” she said. “I don’t know what is happening, I really don’t, but I would like to have more information.”
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GRASS from page 1 more ropes and signs and restricting the use of vehicles on the lawns. The latter two decisions are part of a pact between Facilities Management and HDRL to protect the turf, said Joseph Jackson, director of grounds, sanitation and recycling for Facilities Management. Restoration of the campus’ landscape is a continuous process that balances the agronomic requirements of grass and University activities held on the quad, Jackson said. Such restoration has been difficult because of the constant use of the quads—from K-ville camping and celebratory bonfires to fundraising activities and rallies. In order to work around the ongoing activity, Jackson said Facilities Management tries to take advantage of lulls between events to work on the grounds. Jackson said this policy, however, has not been entirely effective because his team is unable to keep track of every event that utilizes the quads. Jackson noted that some universities—including Southern Methodist University in Dallas, San Diego State University and Wake Forest University—are successful in keeping their lawns in pristine condition because they restrict people from even walking on the grass. That policy, though, is not an option at Duke, he added. LoBiondo said she did not know yet how the new policy of limiting vehicle use on quads would affect events that involve food trucks, such as Joe College Day, which features musical performances in the Fall. “We will, however, do our best to protect the turf and discourage trucks,” she said. “This may mean disallowing large trucks from driving on the lawn.” LoBiondo added that preserving the quads require a cultural shift among departments and student groups who currently use the grassy areas liberally. Working around events is not conducive to the seasonal requirements of the grass. Jackson said the University primarily uses two types of grass—Fescue and Bermuda, which are planted according to microclimatic conditions. The turf-type Fescue grass, which stays green even in colder weather, is planted on the residential quads on West Campus, where large trees and buildings create shade. Bermuda grass, on the other hand, is better suited to more open and warmer places, such as
East Campus and K-ville. “We are fortunate to be living where grass grows throughout the year,” Jackson said. Recent budget and water usage constraints also pose
“We are fortunate to be living where grass grows throughout the year.” — Joseph Jackson, director of grounds, sanitation and recycling for Facilities Management challenges to the maintenance staff. Jackson said his office’s budget was affected by the economic downturn in 2008, though he noted that it did not greatly impact the level of maintenance. Although less prominent areas on campus saw less maintenance, quad areas were not affected. The University also had to decrease the amount of water it used to maintain the grass in accordance with rules set by the city of Durham because of the ongoing drought in North Carolina. The current irrigation system is outdated, Jackson
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said. His department has attempted to update it, but the system still breaks down occasionally. One problem, he noted, is that sensors measuring the amount of water in the grass can fail, causing sprinklers to turn on even when it is raining. Jackson said he could not provide specific numbers about the current budget because the drought and economic downturn introduced particular variables that affected maintenance costs. Despite the extensive challenges, maintaining campus aesthetics is important for Duke’s image, said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag. “Keeping the campus looking attractive is a good thing and appealing to the students,” Guttentag said. “In the 20 years I’ve been here, I’ve spoken with scores, if not hundreds, of students who have mentioned the beauty of the campus as one aspect that made Duke appealing for them.” There have not been any official figures confirming this trend, but discussions with people on campus led him to realize the importance of the campus’ appearance, Guttentag said. Guttentag noted that prospective students expect Duke to be particularly lush compared to some other institutions—such as those located in cities—and thus they are more perceptive to subpar grounds. “If the campus doesn’t look nice, we hear about it,” he said.
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DOMAINS from page 1 common and most intuitive uses of Duke.” Other local universities have taken steps to secure their trademarks in the new .xxx top-level domain space. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has pre-emptively purchased the domains unc.xxx, universityofnorthcarolina.xxx and tarheels.xxx, Karen Moon, a spokeswoman for UNC-Chapel Hill, wrote in an email Monday. Mick Kulokowski, assistant director of North Carolina State University news services, said N.C. State has registered four .xxx domains: northcarolinastate.xxx, ncstate. xxx, ncsu.xxx and wolfpack.xxx. “In .xxx, we’re registering anything related to our trademark,” Kulokowski said. “I’m guessing everybody’s doing it.” ICM Registry, the company overseeing .xxx domain name registration, allowed trademark owners to secure .xxx domains for $200 before sales opened to the adult entertainment community. Sales open to the general
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public Dec. 6. A search at buy.xxx shows that coachk.xxx and bluedevils.xxx are already claimed, though dukeuniversitybluedevils.xxx and cameroncrazies.xxx are still available. “I find it interesting that it’s on someone’s radar—that they need to go and pre-emptively domain squat, that somebody has said, ‘Hey, we should buy these while we still can,’” said Owen Astrachan, director of undergraduate studies for the computer science department and professor of the practice. The University continually purchases URLs for new and current programs and sometimes purchases Dukerelated domain names to avoid possible confusion, Schoenfeld noted. Besides the University, other commercial and nonprofit entities use Duke in their names, so it would not be feasible for the University to pre-emptively purchase all Duke-related domains. “Securing domain names and securing URLs is a dynamic process,” Schoenfeld said. “It would be impossible for anyone to think of all the possible combinations, and it would not be a particularly wise investment. But if some-
body were to use some Duke-related URL or brand in the .xxx domain, we would pursue that pretty aggressively, as we do with every trademark violation.” The .com Internet suffixes allowed anyone to register a domain name on any topic, Astrachan noted. Astrachan said he owns the domain names dukevote. com and dukehookup.com, adding that he purchased the websites to use as a learning tool in the classes Computer Science 82 and Computer Science 182. If the University requested that he take down the sites, he said he would comply. Companies commonly register domains that could be associated with their brand, Astrachan added. “If it’s only $200 a pop, it seems like an easy call to make,” he said. “That makes complete sense, especially given how prevalent the Web is in people’s lives. You might as well do that so that there’s no confusion.” Curious students who type in duke.xxx wondering what creative plans the University may have in mind for its new website will be disappointed, Schoenfeld said. “We’re going to keep the sites dark,” he said. Head of Information Security Richard Biever directed questions to Schoenfeld. Chief Information Officer Tracy Futhey and Director of Trademark Licensing Jim Wilkerson could not be reached for comment.
LOVETTE from page 1 Lovette and his co-defendant Demario Atwater allegedly kidnapped Carson, hijacked her SUV and forced her to withdraw $1,400 from automated teller machines before fatally shooting her multiple times the morning of March 5, 2008. Atwater pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and the other four federal charges related to Carson’s death in 2010 in order to avoid the death penalty. Atwater was sentenced to life in prison without parole in September 2010. Lovette, who was 17-years-old at the time of Carson’s death, is ineligible for the death penalty. Coleman, who is not at all involved in Lovette’s case, said it is unlikely that Lovette will be pardoned on all five charges because there is photographic evidence of him using Carson’s debit card. Lovette’s not guilty plea does not indicate guilt or innocence, and is instead a routine part of criminal cases that can force the case to go before a jury, Coleman added. “The state has the burden of proof to show that he is guilty,” he said. “He does not have to do anything. I would be surprised if he testified.” Coleman noted that Lovette’s attorney will most likely challenge the state’s evidence by cross-examining the state’s witnesses rather than introduce their own. The trial will likely attract high media coverage and public interest, especially from the Chapel Hill community who still feels Carson’s absence, Coleman said, noting that although it should not be a factor, public opinion could influence the jury. “In a high-profile case like this there will be pressure on the jury to convict because it was such a heinous murder that received such large publicity,” Coleman said. “In the back of everyone’s mind the publicity will be a factor.” In an effort to minimize prejudice amongst potential jury members, Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour ruled that attorneys from both sides will question potential jury members individually during jury selection rather than as a group, the Herald-Sun reported Friday. Lovette was also arrested and charged with murder in the January 2008 death of Duke engineering graduate student Abhijit Mahato. The trial date for the Mahato case remains unknown. Mahato’s death triggered significantly less media coverage than Carson’s. “There was a discrepancy between the media coverage of the two cases,” Coleman said. “The case of the Duke graduate student was basically ignored while that of Carson became national news.” Lovette was on probation for burglary and felony theft charges at the time of Carson’s and Mahato’s death, which has raised questions about the integrity of the state’s probation system. “Probation basically is taking a chance that the person will not commit further crimes and gives the person the opportunity to turn his life around—in this case, it failed,” Coleman said. “The question is to what extent Durham and the state are able to identify the people who are likely to commit crimes again and those who have the chance of turning their lives around.”
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Junior Madeline Morgan, the only Duke runner at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., crossed the finish line Monday in 89th place to put Duke’s name on the results sheet for the last time this year. Villanova’s Sheila Reid successfully defended her individual title, beating out Oregon’s Jordon Hasay by just 0.6 seconds. Georgetown took home the team title. After her sixth-place finish at the NCAA Southeast Regional earned her an automatic bid into the national meet, Morgan had expressed excitement about the upcoming race in Terre Haute. The junior went
into the meet hoping for an All-American finish but, after battling the cold and rain, fell short of her goal. “It didn’t really end up quite the way I wanted it to,” Morgan said. “But it was definitely a good effort.” Morgan took off at an ambitious pace and found herself in about 60th place at the halfway point. She was unable to maintain that spot, though, fading during the race’s final kilometer. She was passed by numerous runners until she crossed the finish line with a time of 20:55.7. “She went out faster and more aggressively than she has all season and she kind of fell SEE MORGAN ON PAGE 8
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Duke heads down to Junkanoo Jam While most people will be enjoying Thanksgiving in the comfort of their own homes, the Blue Devils hope to be feasting on the competition in the Bahamas. No. 6 Duke (3-0) will travel to the warm weather islands for the Junkanoo Gardner Jam in Freeport, Grand Webb Bahama vs. Island, the No. 8 host city of Duke two fourteam tourFRIDAY, 7 p.m. St. George’s Gymnasium naments. A f t e r a close game against Brigham Young to start the year, the Blue Devils have dominated. In two convincing wins over Auburn and Western Kentucky, Duke won by a combined 49 points, due in most part to its tenacious defense. In those two games, the Blue Devils forced 23 more turnovers than they committed. On the offensive side of the ball, guards Chloe Wells and Chelsea Gray, each averaging double-digit point totals, will pace the Duke attack. Freshman Eliza-
beth Williams will look to bounce back from a quiet night Sunday to lead the team in the post. The Blue Devils will take on Gardner-Webb (0-3) in their first game Friday night. The Runnin’ Bulldogs are off to a slow start, losing three consecutive contests to start the season. The team is conducted by Catrina Green, who is averaging a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds per game. Green, however, is the only player that is averaging double digits in any category. If it wins, Duke will take on the victor of the game between No. 4 Notre Dame (3-1) and Southern California (1-2) the following night. The Fighting Irish sport one of the best backcourts in the country, highlighted by Skylar Diggins, who averages 21 points and six assists per game. Their lone loss of the season came at the hands of No. 1 Baylor. USC, losers of their last two, are led by Jacki Gemelos, who leads the team in rebounds and is second in points scored.
In order to advance to its second Final Four in program history, Duke will have to end Long Beach State’s Cinderella run—no easy task given that the 49ers have yet to concede a goal in tournament play. In a battle LBSU that features two of vs. the nation’s No. 3 top deDuke fenses, the Blue Devils’ FRIDAY, 7 p.m. set pieces, Koskinen Stadium including free- kick services from junior midfielder Nicole Lipp, may make the difference. Duke will appear in its third Elite Eight in five years at 7 p.m. Friday at Koskinen Stadium. In stark contrast, Long Beach State, the first member of the Big West conference to advance past the tournament’s third round, will be just three weeks removed from its firstever NCAA tournament victory.
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Junior Nicole Lipp serves as an important bridge between the offense and defense.
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UT 67 The Volunteers entered last night’s game against Duke having nailed 26 3-pointers in their opening two contests. Unfortunately for first-year head coach Cuonzo Martin, they were stifled on the outside by the Blue Devils’ perimeter defense in the opening game of the Maui Invitational. No. 6 Duke defeated Tennessee 77-67 Monday at the Lahaina Civic Center in Maui, Hawaii, keeping the Volunteers scoreless from behind the arc on its way to the winners’ side of the tournament bracket. Like many of their early season contests, the Blue Devils (50) came out of the gate slowly and were down by five midway through the first half. Although the Blue Devils finished the period with a 39-33 lead, they struggled to contain versatile forward Jeronne Maymon, who finished the half with eight points and six rebounds. Freshman Austin Rivers kept
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CORRECTION A November 21 article, “Freshmen spur lopsided pair of victories,” incorrectly stated the class year of women’s basketball player Tricia Liston. Liston is a sophomore. The Chronicle regrets the error.
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Mason Plumlee is averaging a double-double through five games.
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et, who had six catches for 45 yards and two touchdowns last weekend, will be a threat working the middle of the field. On the ground, however, it will be a much different story for the Blue Devils. North Carolina comes in giving up just 111 rushing yards per game, ranking third in the conference. Their front seven boasts two players, defensive end Quinton Coples and linebacker Zach Brown, receiving significant attention from NFL scouts. Running backs Desmond Scott and Juwan Thompson were not able to find much running room against Georgia Tech, but have been more productive as the season has progressed. When the Tar Heels have the ball, they utilize a balanced attack. Quarterback Bryn Renner has thrown for almost 2,500 yards and 20 touchdowns while also completing nearly 70 percent of his passes. He has struggled with turnovers, though, leading the conference with 11 interceptions. Tailback Giovani Bernard leads the rushing attack, having run for 1,057 yards and 12 touchdowns this year. Although Duke’s hopes of reaching a bowl game for the first time since head coach David Cutlcliffe arrived were dashed two weeks ago, it does have an opportunity to defeat its Tobacco Road rival and secure the Liberty Bell for the first time under Cutcliffe’s leadership.
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Lipp plays an essential role in helping Duke flow as a unit and transition from one end of the field to the other. “A lot of my job is to win balls in the midfield and prevent the other team from getting into the attack, but it’s also to keep possession, get the ball off the backline, and connect to the forwards and within the midfield,” Lipp said. She has also become the primary free kick taker for the Blue Devils in the offensive half of the field. “She can hit a ball with power, and she can make the ball dip and drop,” Church said. “She’s got great accuracy on her services, to make goalkeepers make a decision—do I come or do I stay?” Her knack for setting up teammates through her free-kick services provides Duke with an offensive weapon to complement their three high-scoring forwards. In Sunday’s third round game, Lipp assisted both goals by serving free kicks into the 18-yard box, first finding forward Kelly Cobb, then Kerr. “When you get this deep in the tournament, you’re looking for a certain edge,” Church said. “[Set plays are] something that maybe separates you from other teams, offensively and defensively.” After exiting in the first and third rounds in the last two years, Duke’s upperclassmen have plenty of reason to show the progress they’ve made through experience. Just as the 49ers will be seeking to keep their remarkable post-season run alive and continue to improve on past years, Duke too will be looking to capitalize on its chance to make program history. “Coming off of last year, getting to the Sweet Sixteen, we knew that we could do more,” Lipp said. “Ever since preseason, everyone’s just been focused on this one goal. And now that it’s tournament time, everyone’s ready for it.”
Nevertheless, that win—a 1-0 upset of third-seeded Pepperdine—serves as evidence that the 49ers certainly deserve their spot in the quarterfinals. And just as the Blue Devils have set their single-season win record with 20, Long Beach State has eclipsed its own program mark with 18. The 49ers have also set single-season school records in goals, assists and points. Additionally, Long Beach State brings a high level of determination to improve upon its most recent postseason. “We played Santa Clara last year in the NCAA tournament, and we played pretty much our best game of the year,” 49ers head coach Mauricio Ingrassia said. “We outshot them by a wide margin, and we couldn’t pull the result. We lost 1-0 in the last five minutes. So that didn’t sit well with us.” So far, Long Beach State has avoided disappointment by simply not letting their opponents find the back of the net. Through three rounds they have yet to concede a goal so far. The rolling Duke offense, fueled by midfielder Kaitlyn Kerr’s four goals in three games, may provide the 49ers with their toughest test of the season. “Kaitlyn’s a big-time player,” Blue Devil head coach Robbie Church said. “She plays well in big-time events, and that’s what the NCAA tournament is. She obviously had a fantastic regular season… but she’s even taken her game to another level right now.” On the other side of the pitch, the 49ers also face a daunting task in breaking through the Duke defense. “We’re more worried about the defensive end,” Ingrassia said. “They’ve only given up 11 goals all year. They’re just a fantastic team.” For the Blue Devils to advance, though, they will need to connect the backline with their offense. As a holding center midfielder,
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Duke eventually pulled away, however, on the backs of Rivers, Ryan Kelly, Seth Curry and Andre Dawkins who finished with 62 of the team’s 77 points. 21 of those points came on seven-of-18 shooting from downtown. While the Blue Devils outscored Tennessee on the outside, they were beaten near the basket. The Volunteers scored 40 in the paint, compared to 32 by Duke, which was led on the inside by Mason Plumlee, who registered a game-high 13 rebounds. With the victory, the Blue Devils advance to face a familiar opponent in Michigan, a team they just barely edged to advance to the Sweet 16 in last year’s NCAA tournament. The No. 15 Wolverines defeated No. 8 Memphis in their first round matchup, and will be looking for revenge after last season’s nail-biter loss. —from staff reports
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Duke will make the short trip to Chapel Hill this weekend to close out the season with its annual rivalry game against North Carolina. The Blue Devils will be looking to snap a six-game losing streak and pick up just their second conference win—with the other coming over two months ago in the ACC opener against Boston College. Duke The Tar Heels have experienced vs. similar struggles in conference play. UNC North Carolina (65, 2-5 in the ACC), SATURDAY, 3:30 p.m. Kenan Memorial Stadium though, is bowl eligible, and the season finale provides it an opportunity to finish the year with a winning season. Although the losses continue to pile up for Duke (3-8, 1-6), the team managed to remain competitive for four quarters in last week’s 38-31 home loss to Georgia Tech. In the end, however, it did not execute well enough in each of the game’s three phases to win. Quarterback Sean Renfree is coming off arguably his best performance of the season, having thrown for 250 yards and four touchdowns in the loss to the Yellow Jackets. The redshirt junior signal caller should again have opportunities to find his two standout wide receivers, Conner Vernon and Donovan Varner, as the Tar Heels’ pass defense comes in as the worst-ranked unit in the conference. Tight end Cooper Helf-
Duke in the game throughout that first period, scoring 11 of his career-high 18 points in the first twenty minutes, including draining two-of-three from long range. Tennessee (2-1) missed all six of its first-half 3-point attempts. The Volunteers were unable to regain their advantage in the second half, but refused to let the Blue Devils build a double-digit lead until the game’s waning moments. They kept the second half tight and even tied it once at 45 following a missed layup from Rivers and an answer on the ensuing fast break from Cameron Tatum. Their lone returning starter from last season, the 6-foot-7 senior displayed his veteran prowess with 10 points, five rebounds and four assists without a turnover.
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MASON PLUMLEE 11.4 ppg, 10.6 rpg RYAN KELLY 13.6 ppg, 4.8 rpg ANDRE DAWKINS 10.2 ppg, 44% 3FG AUSTIN RIVERS 14.2 ppg, 2.4 rpg SETH CURRY 16.0 ppg, 3.2 apg Mason Plumlee displayed his prowess in the paint in the tournament’s first game with 13 boards, and should have a chance to dominate a Wolverine frontcourt that does not feature anybody taller than 6-foot-9. The Duke backcourt will be challenged by Michigan’s starting three guards who are led by multi-dimensional threats in Tim Hardaway Jr. and Trey Burke. But, don’t forget about Zack Novak who nailed two threes against No. 8 Memphis yesterday. The Blue Devil bench had just seven points against Tennessee, making 3-of-8 shots and only 1-of-4 free throws. Michigan’s reserves are not much better, but have had more impact on the glass through the early season.
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ZACK NOVAK 6.5 ppg, 4.0 rpg JORDAN MORGAN 7.0 ppg, 4.3 rpg EVAN SMOTRYCZ 9.3 ppg, 4.3 rpg TREY BURKE 11.0 ppg, 2.8 apg TIM HARDAWAY JR. 16.0 ppg, 3.5 apg
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3PT%: FT%: RPG: APG: 14.0 BPG: 3.6 SPG: 9.8 17.2 TO/G: The Bottom Line Under head coach John Beilein, Michigan knocked off No. 8 Memphis in the first round of the Maui Invitational—though the Blue Devils are likely more focused on last season’s NCAA Tournament second-round squeaker. The Wolverines return all the major pieces from the 2010-11 squad, led by Tim Hardaway Jr., so this one should be must-see TV. OUR CALL: Duke wins, 76-73
MORGAN from page 7 off of the pace,” head coach Kevin Jermyn said. “She was a little disappointed she didn’t close out the race, but it was a very good effort considering that…[doing it] on her own was not something we had planned on.” Still, despite the fact that Morgan did not achieve everything she had hoped for, it was not a disappointing close to her season. Her presence at the meet was an accomplishment in itself, and her steady improvement throughout the year was the result of hard work and determination. “[Morgan] finished a lot better than she did last year,” Jermyn said. “She loves to run and she loves to race, so she was able to make the best of an imperfect situation. To see her better than ever when other things were imperfect around her… is a good test of her character.”
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Feast lacks transparency tables—is hardly broken. Why distribute table places differently now, in the wake of so much ill fortune? We have only just emerged from a great winter recession—the editorial work of Satan This year’s and the cause feast with the natives, orga- of so many school teachers’ nized by Vice President for pay freezes, tradesmen asPlymouth Affairs Lauren- sociations’ cutbacks and also cius Monetius, is a step in a deaths. Nevertheless, the colgoodly and just direction. By ony has maintained its most grace, it promises to engage fundamental commitments. the native community and For example, PuritanEngage distribute table places fairly. continues to distribute thick, But—by heaven we chart woolly blankets to our native thee, Laurencius!—this new comrades, despite the ill forfeast model was the product tunes of the program’s enneither of colony input nor dowment, bequeathed by the transparency from the Elect. Queen Anne and King George The colony’s current feast- foundation. But something is ing model—the quadrilateral yet rotten in Plymouth. model, which uses only square Just last year, the foul and In lieu of our traditional Thanksgiving editorial, the Editorial Board has decided to reprint an editorial from Nov. 24, 1621, one of the first editorials drafted by The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board.
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unnatural apothecarium of Anil von Potti falsely peddled herbal ointments and smelling salts of dubious efficacy. Many natives demand recompense for the fur pelts they traded with von Potti, and we expect much of the current harvest will go to their satisfaction. And why Gov. Bradfordhead insists on colonizing the native settlements with such rapacity escapes us. Already the natives have demanded many wampum of us, purportedly for longhouse construction fees. But, verily, we have seen them dancing round the maypole with libations and rifles in hand! We suspect even more insidious uses for our wampum, and hope Bradfordhead shows restraint in further coloniza-
tion. At least, as we are told, the bounty of the land lay just beyond that settlement. Verily, with the fruit of that spiceladen country, we will surpass Jamestown as the new world’s finest colony! These tribulations not withstanding, we doubt that the new feast model will promote temperance and good cheer. No doubt, the quadrilateral model had its brushes with the devil. Verily, the bachelor tradesmen associations used the choicest seats to take many liberties with wine, women and—damndest of all—song and dance. Vis, the new feast model has pushed many godly folk to Plymouth’s central swamp, where the diphtheria will surely take them. And we are deeply wor-
ried by the entrance of many groups who wish to be seated by... profession. If farriers sup only with farriers and coopers only with coopers, segregation will ensue. How can we rich intellectual exchange—completely within the confines of orthodox Puritanism—if we’re sitting across the table from one another? Nevertheless, casting die for housing lots is the only fair way to determine who sits next to whom. It is the belief of this Editorial Board that Laurencius’ model deserves to be treated with much more respect than that which we grant to our treaties with the natives. In case you couldn’t tell, this editorial is a joke. The Editorial Board wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving!
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n Islam, being thankful and grateful to God is al- because he couldn’t be comfortable around womways discussed in the context of your ability to be en with hijab (Muslim head scarf), men with long grateful and thankful to others. The prophet of beards or if a foreign language was spoken around Islam in his famous hadith says, “For him. I witnessed personally several those who are not thankful to their times how he was physically shaken fellow human beings can never be and filled with anxiety and fear when thankful to their Lord.” In this season in any of those circumstances. Our of Thanksgiving and gratitude, I wantlong conversations, readings that I ed to bring a special group of people have suggested and his gradual expoto our attention—a group that desure to the local Muslim community serves so much of our individual and by attending various Muslim gathercollective gratitude: our war veterans. ings helped him a great deal. Thank Last week we celebrated Veterans abdullah antepli God he is in a much better spot than Day, and there have been numerous the land of delights where he was. He then introduced events, celebrations and talks about me to many of his friends who go and wonders our veterans throughout that week. through similar struggles and those I don’t know what you have done friends introduced me to their own about this important issue, but I sent hundreds of friends. I couldn’t be happier or prouder to be the thank you and apology notes to the veterans that I conversation partner of these young souls who had know. I thanked them for the obvious, and we can- the courage to reach out. I try my very best to meet not be thankful and grateful enough to these brave with them personally if they are in my area. If not, women and men for what they have done for us. I I make sure to put them in touch with the Muslim thanked them from the bottom of my heart for risk- communities where they are. ing their lives, giving their time and energy and makIt didn’t take too long, however, for me to see ing a commitment, often over many years, to protect that their issues with Islam and Muslims were only a this country and more. few of the many struggles that veterans go through But I sincerely believe they deserve a huge apol- after they return from combat missions overseas. ogy from our government and from our society as Many of them come back with wounded and well. I apologized to them for dragging them to un- scarred souls as a result of their traumatic experijust and unjustified wars, often against their will and ences, and they are once more forced to fight difbased on problematic information. I apologized to ferent kinds of wars here at home as they struggle them for forcing them to lose a significant part of to heal their internal and external wounds. Where their youth, their innocence and, more important- shall I start! Their struggles range from waiting ly, their dreams through these wars. I apologized for long months to receive their benefits, having for not taking care of their needs while they were to jump through so many hoops to get them, bethere at war for us. More strongly, I apologized for ing told to “prove” their PTSD or various other not taking care of their needs when they came back mental challenges, being instructed to go only to a home. I sincerely apologized for the high unem- specific hospital—often really far away from where ployment and homelessness rates among veterans. they live—to get certain medical help.... The list More importantly, I profusely apologized for not goes on. Many of these heroes struggle to initiate creating a nurturing and compassionate environ- and sustain any real relationships, often feeling ment for them to heal their internal and external judged, misunderstood and alienated. This is simwounds. I apologized for veterans’ issues being dis- ply wrong and shameful on many different fronts. cussed often as if they are burden to us. We should be able to embrace our daughters and Let me unpack my thanks and apologies after sons after asking them to put up with so much sacproviding a brief history of my personal involvement rifice for us as a nation. with veterans in the United States. The issues of the Referring to the saying of Prophet Muhammad veterans were brought to my attention, in a real above, our inability to be thankful and grateful to sense, soon after I arrived to the Duke campus as the our veterans reveals a worrisome condition for us as University’s first Muslim chaplain. A young veteran a nation. I salute all of these brave women and men who fought both in Afghanistan and Iraq recently with respect and humility. May the source of all blessreached out to me to deal with the “monstrous im- ings and healing provide you all abundantly what age of Islam and Muslims” in his mind. He was going your nation falls embarrassingly short of providing. through serious post-traumatic stress disorder issues, and some of them were closely related to outwardly Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an Muslim images and some of the teachings of Islam adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs evas he perceives them. He asked me to help him ery other Tuesday.
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magine what a nightmare it would be their identifying label increases the quality to vote for elected officials on a ballot of those officials placed in office. without any form of ideological idenParty identification is also completely tification. How would you optional, and candidates choose a candidate? Would who wish to participate you really know what he in government outside of or she stood for? Since the party labels are welcome 2004 elections, North Caroto do so. Many great inlinians have been subject to dependents have become this guessing-game when important elected officials voting for state judiciaries. and have represented their Currently, state ballots do william reach constituents admirably. A not reveal judicial candipartisan system of nominahead-to-head dates’ party affiliation, retion still accommodates republican flecting a nearly decade-old those who do not wish to be aberration from traditional nominated without deprivballot formats. But a new ing candidates and voters bill intends to place party identification of their ability to identify with particular back where it belongs—next to the names beliefs through party identification. of candidates running for judicial office. By banning partisan judicial elections, The argument against partisan judicial lawmakers have made it easier for candielections is that political affiliations ought dates to falsely sell themselves to constitunot to interfere with judicial selection ents. Without party accountability, they are on the grounds that the judicial branch free to misrepresent their qualifications, should be as politics-free as possible. But integrity and even ideology. For example, I this argument misrepresents both the na- believe that on the whole Americans tend ture and intent of political affiliation on to like conservative justices—the type of the ballot. Voters elect civil servants who civil servants who would be tough on crime will best represent their particular views and keep criminals behind bars. I believe of justice and uphold the law. Often, the that Independents and citizens with weak easiest way for voters to determine this in- affiliations to the Democratic Party are formation is through clear party identifica- more willing to cross party lines and vote tion. It is only natural for citizens to choose for Republican judicial candidates based candidates who feel the same way about on the assumption that Republicans enthe nature of law and hold it in the same force the laws more strictly. This creates a regard that they do. significant problem for Democratic candiIt is abundantly clear that judges should dates vying for judicial positions, since votnever be involved in the political horse- ers commonly reject the values that would trading regularly conducted on the floor of take with them to the bench. the state house or senate. That particular The removal of parties from the nomibehavior is unbecoming of their station as nation process has made it easier for leftimpartial determiners of the law and how leaning would-be judges to style themit should be applied. Party identification selves as conservatives. Individuals who simply allows voters to make assumptions would have not have received a Republiabout the candidate’s attitude towards ad- can nomination are able to take a greater ministering the law. percentage of Republican votes through Furthermore, parties foster ideologi- misrepresentation of their beliefs. Such cal accountability among candidates. In behavior is reprehensible and reflects the order to win a party nomination, judicial type of politicization of the judiciary that candidates must prove themselves worthy non-partisan elections have failed to comof bearing their party label. Not only must bat. candidates reflect a thorough knowledge Partisan identification is an important of the law, but they must also hold similar measure by which parties can make sure beliefs about its application as their fellow judges accurately convey their beliefs to members. Candidates are often selected the electorate. We, as voters, are entitled because they have a history with the par- to make our decisions based on the best ty—another safeguard against poor deci- information available. I sincerely hope sion-making. Time spent in party involve- both North Carolina’s General Assembly ment allows a candidate’s fellow citizens and governor will support this important and party members to gauge their level of bill and allow party identifications back on commitment to a particular judicial view the ballot. over a long period of time. The self-interest of a political party to nominate qualiWilliam Reach is a Trinity junior. His colfied individuals who will positively reflect umn runs every other Tuesday.
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eciding the Elena-Botella-slate-card far to the right. Let’s ask ourselves: Do we for each election is one of the most want judges to be subjected to this process exciting and challenging parts of or do we want a system that favors putting living in a democracy. Most centrists on the bench? choices end up being pretty It may surprise some simple; in both the North readers, but, especially in Carolina General Assembly local and state elections, and in the U.S. Congress, I North Carolinians tend to know Republicans tend to vote Democratic. 2010 was vote as a uniform bloc with the first year since Reconincredible discipline against struction, e.g. since the almost every policy I hope 1800s, that both houses elena botella for, and in favor of almost evof the North Carolina head-to-head ery policy that gives me the General Assembly have democrat heebie-jeebies. North Carobeen controlled by Relina has a lot of non-partipublicans, and registered san elections (including all Democrats outnumber of the municipal elections in Durham) registered Republicans by 750,000 peoand judicial elections—these all require ple. 2010 was an ugly year politically for a more careful selection of candidates. Ju- our state (if anyone remembers running dicial elections, I’ll admit, are among the into me on the day after election night, I most challenging to select my preferred apologize for my despondency), but mucandidate for, in part because I sometimes nicipal elections throughout N.C. in 2011 worry whether or not I have the expertise demonstrated that North Carolina is still necessary to select good judges. To come trending blue. to an informed decision, I read their canWhat does this mean? More Democrats didate questionnaires to hear from the ju- would probably be elected to judicial ofdicial candidates in their own words, and fice than would Republicans if House supplement that information with the en- Bill 64 were passed. Despite that, I think dorsements published by groups that gen- House Bill 64 would result in judges of erally tend to align with my own views (the poorer quality. Why? I would rather have Democratic Party, IndyWeek and Durham centrist judges all of the time, then have People’s Alliance). very liberal judges 60 percent of the time N.C. House Bill 64 (Senate Bill 47), and very conservative judges 40 percent which is currently in the House Commit- of the time. I love it when non-partisan tee on Elections, would considerably sim- races force voters to step beyond their plify the Elena-Botella-judicial-candidate- party paradigms, ushering in candidates selection-proccess—but not in a good with political opinions, belief sets and way. It would return judicial elections to platform planks that aren’t strictly red or a partisan basis, with candidates selected strictly blue. They both allow and force by party primaries and where their affilia- candidates to reach across party lines. tions are listed on the ballot. This process Judges stand on their merits, rather than would cause North Carolina to push out on their ideological accountability, bringmany moderate judges altogether, and ing some immensely qualified judicial while it would be easy for me to mostly thinkers to the bench. choose judges with a big “D” next to their After the primaries, what happens on name, the quality of judges would decline election day itself? Will mentions that canoverall. In this column, I’ll be compar- didates with a party history might exercise ing partisan judicial elections explicitly better judgement, and that party affiliato non-partisan judicial elections, as op- tion provides useful information; in the posed to other forms of judicial selection status-quo, parties can and do endorse. like appointment or by a non-partisan Those wondering what opinions the commission. To understand why partisan political parties have on the candidates election of judges is so pernicious, we can easily access these endorsements. In have to think about the process in two many cases, both the Republican and steps: what happens during the primary, Democratic parties will endorse the same and what happens during the general judges. Listing party affiliation on the balelection. lot doesn’t provide even semi-informed A major reason people are dissatisfied voters any additional information about with the current political system is that it’s party ties—it only facilitates straight-tick“missing the middle.” The voters in party et voting, and gives a tiny nugget of inforprimaries tend to be quite liberal or quite mation to voters who know nothing else conservative, and they pick candidates dur- about the judges. In the absence of the ing the primaries that lean far to the left or “D” or “R,” data shows that uninformed voters recuse themselves from races they know nothing about. In our last columns about the Durham City Council elections, Will condemned straight-party voting, urging Duke students to vote for a candidate if, and only if, they had carefully researched his or her positions. If straight-ticket voting is so problematic, why should we facilitate it? Will and I agree upon more than it would seem—often times, we reject column ideas that one of us suggests upon realizing that we agree. I love debate, but I aspire for a third way, for a political system based on cooperation, rather than conflict. House Bill 64 is a step in the wrong direction. Elena Botella is a Trinity junior and the copresident of Duke Democrats. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
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