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New initiative aims to unite energy efforts by Shucao Mo THE CHRONICLE
Duke is launching a new Energy Initiative to bring students, faculty and alumni together to investigate the current world energy system and to develop alternative solutions to world energy problems. The Duke University Energy Initiative will increase University course offerings that focus on energy, hire more faculty members with a specialty in energy and promote innovative technology through additional research projects. The initiative also aims to invite more speakers to contribute to new energy-related seminars in order to engage students in interactions with policymakers on energy issues. Using energy as a focal point, the project, which the University announced Nov. 16, aims to solve critical political and social problems in three different areas—the economy, environment and security challenges. “[We have to understand] how we are going to meet the energy demand in production and usage of energy and as a strategic commodity, how energy influences international and domestic relationships,” said Richard Newell, director of the Energy Initiative and Gendell associate professor of energy and environmental economics at the Nicholas School of the Environment. The University-wide effort spans six schools— Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Fuqua School
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Blue Devils advance to College Cup by Nicholas Schwartz THE CHRONICLE
Head coach Robbie Church was calm in the locker room at halftime of Duke’s quarterfinal matchup against Long Beach State. His Blue Devils had played uninspired soccer in the first 45 minutes in front of a raucous home crowd and needed to score in order to reach what would be their second NCAA semifinal in program history, and first since 1992. Ordering his players to simply play the same brand of dominant soccer they have all year, Church rallied his team to two second half goals, and No. 1 seed Duke cruised past the 49ers with a 2-0 victory. “We’ve been a second-half team,” Church said. “[In] the second half, something clicks with this group. I think they felt like we were the better team. SEE W. SOCCER ON SW 8
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Zakaria to communicate optimism, Blue Devils opportunity in globalized ‘new world’ sweep at Maui by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE
More than two years following his first visit to Duke, renowned journalist and author Fareed Zakaria will return to encourage Duke’s graduating seniors in an interconnected world. As a fellow of the Yale Corporation, the governing board and policymaking body for the university, Zakaria came to Duke in September 2009 for one of Yale Corp.’s five annual meetings at a peer institution. Zakaria said that he found the visit energizing and exciting, but also a little nerve-wracking as Yale Corp. discovered it could learn a lot from Duke’s dynamic initiatives. Zakaria, host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria’s GPS,” editor-at-large at Time magazine and columnist at The Washington Post, was announced as this year’s commencement speaker Nov. 11. “Upon the [Yale Corp.] visit, there was a feeling that Duke was willing to experiment more and do thing in
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ways that were perhaps a little bit less traditional, especially with its international efforts,” Zakaria said. Duke’s strategy in Singapore, with the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, was particularly striking to the Yale group, Zakaria said. Yale officially launched its own partnership with the National University of Singapore—Yale-NUS College—in April 2011. “Duke realizes that the world we are entering into is profoundly different and is committing time and resources and energy in that way,” Zakaria said. It is this global sentiment that Zakaria said he hopes to communicate to the Class of 2012 during Duke’s commencement ceremony in May. “What I think I would like to do is to convey [and] to sketch out just what this new world is going to look like as best as I can,” he said. Although Zakaria wants to give students a sense of
Invitational by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE
Three days, three games and three wins. And for the fifth time, the Blue Devils can call themselves the champions of Maui. Despite being down at halftime of the final game of the Maui Invitational, Duke outscored Kansas by 11 points in the second period to defeat the No. 14 Jayhawks 68-61 at the Lahaina Civic Center in Lahaina, Hawaii. Before beating Kansas on Wednesday for the title, the Blue Devils beat Tennessee 77-67 in the quarterfinals and No. 15 Michigan 82-75 in the semifinals. For Duke, a recurring theme throughout the three-day tournament was its emerging perimeter defense. Entering
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“The weather was beautiful, so there were a lot of families around with their kids, playing in the gardens.” —Junior Anthony Lin on Thanksgiving at Duke. See soundoff page 3
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HOUSTON — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said he will file an emergency stay with the U.S. Supreme Court to block the use of election districts drawn by judges and contested by the state. “At issue is whether the interim maps imposed by a three-judge redistricting panel violate the U.S. Constitution and federal law, and exceeds the proper role of the judiciary,” Abbott said Saturday in a statement. Abbott said he would push for a quick ruling “so candidates will not needlessly file for office” based on “legally flawed” maps released last week by the federal court in San Antonio overseeing the state’s redistricting fight. Candidates may begin registering for Texas’s March 6 party primary elections Monday. The San Antonio judges refused Gov. Rick Perry’s request Friday to delay use of the interim maps the court created for state legislative races.
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Hidden biodiversity in cryptic species: Lessons from Madagascar’s mouse lemurs French Science 2231, 1-2p.m. Professor of Biology Anne Yoder will present the seminar.
Democrats receive more UN climate talks discuss funds than Republicans Kyoto Protocol relevancy WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democratic leaders raising money to be spent on the most competitive House races in next year’s elections are doing something remarkable: outraising their Republican counterparts, despite a historic drubbing a year ago that left Democrats in the minority.
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Thanksgivingsoundoff Although many students fled home to enjoy the Thanksgiving break with their families, an assortment of athletes, international students and others remained at Duke. There were several events for the few who stayed on campus, such as Thanksgiving dinner at the Refectory Cafe at the Divinity School and a bus trip to Southpoint mall on Black Friday. Still, the campus was practically silent since the break began Tuesday—some called it eerie, and others said it was a welcome respite from the University’s typically rushed atmosphere. The Chronicle’s Lauren Carroll spoke with students about their experiences at an almost-empty Duke. “[My friend and I] went to Lilly Library and rented all the movies we wanted to see before break started, and we watched them.... There wasn’t much [food] on campus, I was too lazy to get myself a real meal, so I ate a lot of snacks and a lot of cereal bars. Whenever I was feeling up to it I would take a walk to Main Street.” —freshman Dan Altman, who did not want to take a bus all the way to his home in Connecticut “The Refectory had a Thanksgiving lunch, so that was somewhat like home.... To a certain extent, I wish I could have seen my family, but I got a bunch of work done that I probably wouldn’t have if I had stayed home.” —sophomore Zayd Ahmed, who stayed in order to get caught up on coursework “It was nice to be able to meet up with students who also stayed here over Thanksgiving, but at the pizza and movie night at Southgate, there wasn’t enough food for
the students.... The Thanksgiving lunch was very nice. They had a lot of turkey but started to run out of the vegetables and the other sides that went with it. I think they underestimated how many students would go to the events.” —freshman Meaghan Li, from New Zealand It was slightly inconvenient because the buses didn’t run Thursday or Friday, but it was nice to walk through the [Sarah P. Duke] Gardens because I have more time to do that stuff. And the dorm was clean for once because they housecleaning staff cleaned it before break, and no one was there to make a mess.” —junior Ming Jiu Li, who is from Singapore and a Resident Assistant on East Campus “I went to football related activities, practice, meetings, watching films. Since we’re here for that reason, it made sense.... I went to one of my teammate’s house for Thanksgiving dinner with his family, so I didn’t lose the family aspect.” —junior Anthony Pecoraro, who stayed on campus with the Duke football team “I did a lot of reading, I just got a new book. Did some job searching to get the ball rolling before we get into finals.... And the pool table in the Bryan Center was empty, so I got some time in on that, and that’s usually hard to do.” —senior Sam Schack, from Portland, Maine “It’s too far to go home. It would take the whole break for me to go home and go back—I won’t be going home for Christmas
break either.... It was quite lonely on campus, there was no one there. It was so quiet. On Wednesday, I got kind of scared because there was no one in my dorm.” —freshman Laxmi Rajak, from Nepal “Almost none of the on-campus eateries are open, so we wanted to provide food to the students. Every year we have a certain budgets for programs happening during Thanksgiving, and this year it was a little more formal than in years past.... A lot of people went to the [catered Thanksgiving] dinner, and I received numerous texts from students about the Southpoint trip, so I think that went well.” —Kelly Cohen-Mazurowski, program coordinator for Housing, Dining and Residential Life who planned several East Campus events “It was really relaxing. I actually slept a lot—more than I have in past weeks. I got to do a lot of things I haven’t been able to do. I read a few books and skyped with family and friends.... I also went to a couple of the activities. I went to the Thanksgiving dinner and the shopping trip.” —freshman Andrea Tan, who decided that winter break is too soon to warrant going home this past week “The weather was beautiful, so there were a lot of families around with their kids, playing in the gardens. It was a good time. I had a lot of friends staying as well, so it didn’t feel lonely.... Every break that I stay here is a little bit of relaxing and catching up. The campus slows down so it gives you time to catch your breath.” —junior Anthony Lin, from Portland, Oregon
Health care case sparks disagreement by Robert Barnes THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Just a little more than an hour after some House Democrats recently demanded an inquiry into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ ethics, Senate Republicans stepped up the pressure on Justice Elena Kagan to take herself out of the court’s decision on the health-care reform act. The process repeated itself a few days later. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, called for the release of more documents about Kagan’s role as President Barack Obama’s solicitor general; the liberal group People for the American Way came out with another broadside against Thomas. Accusations about both justices, from the left and the right, show no signs of dissipating now that the Supreme Court has said it will review the constitutionality of Obama’s signature domestic achievement, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Justices decide for themselves whether they have a conflict serious enough to warrant recusal from a specific case, and neither Kagan nor Thomas appears to be considering sitting out the biggest
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ZAKARIA from page 1 the challenges of an increasingly globalized world, he moreover will emphasize the vast opportunities now available given the world’s shrinking size and rise of other nations. America is not a sole superpower in a time where other nations are rising politically and economically— something to which society must adjust, Zakaria said. “Americans are right now going through a phase of being very apprehensive about this new world, as some think it is fundamentally un-American [to think of America as one of many powerful nations],” he said. “I think we should be excited. You cannot stop China from growing. You can’t stop India from growing. What we can do is ask how do we stop and take fullest advantage of this new world.” Zakaria said the rise of technology, new media and ease of travel are just a few of the factors working simultaneously to grow this new world, acting as “global accelerators.” “You’re in this strange time when things are moving at such warp speed, and in many senses... expanding the world but connecting it at the same time,” he added. This message is particularly relevant to graduating seniors, given that globalization will characterize the workforce and the society that students will enter upon graduation. “A huge percentage of graduating seniors have studied abroad and participated in DukeEngage, and many have plans to pursue their interests abroad after graduation, so I think that Dr. Zakaria’s remarks on engaging in an increasingly globalized world will be very applicable,” senior Christina Lieu, a member of the student advisory group that helps choose the commencement speaker wrote in an email Sunday. “Dr. Zakaria’s expertise in international issues was certainly something that captured our interest in the selection committee.” Acknowledging that he is speaking to students during a difficult time, Zakaria described his charge as commencement speaker as providing some guidance and outlining a map for young people entering the society. “There is not only the anxiety of leaving a very hap-
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py four years and entering this wider and wider world, but also doing so at a time when the economy is in bad shape, when the world is changing [and] when there are many apprehensions about America’s place in the world and whether we will be able to sustain the kind of standing we’ve had,” Zakaria said. When Zakaria spoke at Duke in November 2009,
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Author and journalist Fareed Zakaria will speak to the Class of 2012 during Duke’s commencement ceremony in May.
the journalist discussed the world’s changing political and economic landscape. Two years later, the rise of other nations joining America at the top is undeniable. Zakaria noted that after enduring the financial crisis, people have a clearer sense of the reality of this new world. Despite the challenges of a new world hierarchy, students should approach the future with optimism, Zakaria said. “Optimism is a kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy,” he said. “If you see things from an entirely negative perspective, you will only see the problems. If you look at the world asking what can be done... ultimately that’s what produces solutions.... As a result, those problems don’t end up being as bad as they seemed.” In the past, Zakaria has delivered the commencement remarks at Brown, Johns Hopkins and Yale universities, though he noted that this type of speech is one of the hardest to give. “You’re all that stands between students and their degrees—that makes it quite challenging,” he said. “You have to be smart, profound and you have to be a little bit funny all in 15 minutes.” Among the University’s desire to be on the cutting edge and its willingness to try new things, Zakaria noted the energy and intellectual curiosity of Duke students. Zakaria said he considers the opportunity to deliver Duke’s commencement remarks this year a “huge honor” and an “enormous pleasure,” calling Duke students “first class.” President Richard Brodhead said Zakaria’s outlook on international relations, and his experiences as a foreign relations correspondent and adviser, makes him a timely speaker. The correspondent will also speak at Harvard University’s graduation ceremony May 24. Zakaria told The Crimson Oct. 14 that he also plans to “sketch the new world” for its graduates. Fareed said the speeches will be different, though noted that there could be overlap given their similar themes. “I am very excited,” Zakaria said. “I’ve really had wonderful experiences at Duke and to be able to do this for such an important time is very exciting and is really an honor.”
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MEN’S BASKETBALL: MOVES TO 15-0 IN MAUI • WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: NARROW LOSS TO NO. 4 IRISH
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Williams not enough against No. 4 Notre Dame by Shiva Kothari THE CHRONICLE
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A last-second bank shot was all that separated Duke from its biggest win of the early season. Playing against No. 4 Notre Dame (5-1), the No. 7 Blue Devils (4-1) lost a heartbreaker Saturday in the finals of the Junkanoo Jam when Notre Dame senior guard Natalie Novosel—who shot just 6-for-20 on the night—made a jumper from the foul line with less than a second Gard 31 left, giving the Fighting Irish a 56-54 in Freeport, Bahamas. Duke 97 victory In order to reach the championship, the Blue Devils dismantled an 56 overmatched Gardner-Webb team ND Duke 54 97-31 in the semifinals. “I thought we were very businesslike in the Gardner-Webb game,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We were focused, we attacked for 40 minutes regardless of the score and the strength of the opponent.” Unlike the matchup with Gardner-Webb (0-6), the finals featured plenty of drama leading up to the improbable final shot. With Duke leading 54-51 with 1:35 to go, preseason AllAmerican Skylar Diggins missed a 3-point attempt. She rebounded her own errant shot, but teammate Kayla McBride missed her subsequent attempt before Diggins missed another chance from beyond the arc. McBride was fouled while rebounding Diggins’ second miss, but made only one of two free throws to pull her team within two points. Duke guard Chelsea Gray proceeded to miss a shot on the other end, and Diggins came back to tie the game at 54 with the last of her game-high 18 points. Following Diggins’ basket, the Blue Devils’ Shay Selby missed a layup with nine seconds left, setting up the game’s decisive basket. The tense final minutes were not indicative of the big runs that defined the rest of the game, though. The first half belonged to Duke, as it jumped out to a 15-6 lead while Notre Dame missed 13 of its first 14 shots. The Blue Devils
Elizabeth Williams had 16 points, 13 rebounds and seven blocks Saturday in a losing effort against the Fighting Irish.
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Tar Heels keep stranglehold on Victory Bell by Chris Cusack THE CHRONICLE
The Victory Bell rings from Chapel Hill yet again. The Blue Devils (3-9, 1-7 in the ACC) fell to North Carolina for the 19th time in their last 20 meetings, excluding the 2008 and 2009 Tar Heel victories which were vacated in the wake of NCAA violations. With the 37-21 loss, Duke extended its losing streak to seven games, the longest under head coach David Duke 21 Cutcliffe. “We knew ex37 UNC actly what we had to do coming in, and we really did none of those things,� Cutcliffe said. North Carolina (7-5, 3-5) was the superior team from the start, scoring on four of its first five possessions to open a 20-7 lead. Running back Giovani Bernard accounted for 127 of the Tar Heels’ 156 yards on their first-half scoring drives. Bernard set a school record for freshmen with 222 total yards, catching four passes for 57 yards and rushing 30 times for 173 yards. “We knew coming in he was a great running back,� said senior safety Matt Daniels, who finished with a career-high 18 tackles. “They were going to put the ball in his hands and try to ‘big boy’ us. The first half he got after it pretty good.�
Despite only gaining three first downs and 11 rushing yards in the first half, Duke stayed in the game behind a pair of big passes by quarterback Sean Renfree. On the first play of the Blue Devils’ second drive, the redshirt junior found Juwan Thompson down the left sideline for a 70-yard score. Then, just before halftime, the signal caller found Jamison Crowder across the middle, and the freshman danced his way past two tacklers into the end zone for a 45-yard touchdown, the first of his career. The score brought Duke back within seven with 1:22 remaining in the half. On the play, though, North Carolina linebacker Zach Brown laid out Renfree with a vicious helmet-to-helmet hit that left the Duke quarterback without feeling in his throwing hand. Renfree played two offensive series after halftime, but was hit hard by defensive end Quinton Coples, fumbling deep in Blue Devil territory. Coples wreaked havoc in the backfield throughout the game, accumulating two sacks, three tackles for loss, a quarterback hurry, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 7
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Anthony Boone throws a touchdown pass on his first drive of the game after Sean Renfree left with an injury.
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Matt Daniels had a game-high 18 tackles against the Tar Heels in his final collegiate game.
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77-67 over Tennessee Austin Rivers, Ryan Kelly and Seth Curry combined for 52 points as the Blue Devils pulled away from the Volunteers in the second half. Jeronne Maymon had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Tennessee, leading his team in both categories.
82-75 over Michigan Duke shot 11-of-21 from beyond the arc to hold off a Wolverine team that surged back from a 16-point deficit in the second half. Austin Rivers led the Blue Devils with a career-high 20 points on 6-of-14 shooting.
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M. BASKETBALL from news page 1 its opening-round matchup against the Blue Devils, the Volunteers had nailed 26 threes in their first two games, in which they went 2-0. Against Duke, however, they did not hit one shot from beyond the arc. In the championship game against the Jayhawks, the Blue Devils allowed just two threes, while sophomore Tyler Thornton hit two of his own in the last 70 seconds to secure the victory. Tenacious backcourt defense forced Kansas guard Tyshawn Taylor to commit 11 turnovers, and the last of those led to the Thornton 3-pointer that put Duke up 66-61. Although Thornton’s heroics stole the headlines, the perimeter players realize the tight win against Kansas would not have come without execution in less glamorous areas. “[People] look at Tyler’s shot as the reason we won, but there were plays before [it] that won the game,” freshman guard Austin Rivers said, “Whether it was Tyler getting a rebound, or somebody boxing out [Kansas forward Thomas] Robinson, or someone getting a steal or Seth [Curry] getting a charge.” Rivers was one of two Duke players to be named to the all-tournament team, alongside tournament MVP Ryan Kelly. The junior forward was a paragon of consistency, scoring 17 points in each of the three games. Rivers, on the other hand, showed flashes of brilliance even if he did not produce them regularly. He put home a game-high 20 points against the Wolverines, but was not on the court for much of the second half against the Jayhawks as he yielded minutes to the more defensiveminded Thornton. Kelly and Rivers, along with fellow starters Curry, Mason Plumlee and Andre Dawkins had their fitness put to the test with no days of rest between the games and head coach Mike Krzyzewski using his bench less as the tournament progressed. Against Tennessee the bench played a total of 41 minutes, but the bench earned just 30 minutes of action in each of the next two contests. With the increased burden on the starters, the only bench players to re-
ceive significant minutes throughout the course of the tournament were Thornton and Miles Plumlee, while forward Josh Hairston and guard Quinn Cook saw brief stints on the court. “This is still early in the season, and especially when you have something like Maui where you can have three games in three days, people figure out themselves more in the system,” Mason Plumlee said. “You get more comfortable with each other so you realize what a guy like Ryan can do, what Seth can do. Playing with them in back-toback-to-back games, you learn that.” Plumlee showed growth throughout the set of games, averaging 10.3 points and 10 rebounds, but had his best performance against the Jayhawks, scoring 17 points and grabbing 12 boards while battling against
an elite talent in Robinson. Although Robinson notched 15 points of his own, they came on 6-of-15 shooting and only six of them came in the second half. The forwards showed growth from half to half, outrebounding the Jayhawks in the second period after pulling down seven fewer misses than their opponents in the first 20 minutes. Facing top competition like Robinson should help prepare the Blue Devil frontcourt for a Tuesday matchup against Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger, one of the nation’s premier forwards. “You’ve got to keep [Sullinger] off the glass, and that was the case in the Kansas game too,” Plumlee said. “We got outrebounded heavily in the first half. Whenever you play teams with good bigs, one of the biggest things is winning the boards.”
68-61 over Kansas Tyler Thornton had just one point before making two 3-pointers in the final 1:10 to help the Blue Devils past the Jayhalks. Ryan Kelly earned tournament MVP honors after scoring 17 points in the game.
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Duke exhibits scoring depth in quarterfinal Top three scorers held without a goal against Long Beach by Tim Visutipol THE CHRONICLE
Many teams do not have the depth to compete when their top three scorers are held to a total of zero points. That is exactly what happened to Duke Friday night, but the Blue Devils’ depth more than made up for the fact that Kaitlyn Kerr, Kelly Cobb and Laura Weinberg were held scoreless. Duke displayed its strength in numbers, as sophomores Kim DeCesare and Gilda Doria netted a goal Game apiece to put the Blue Devils in their NCAA Tournament semifinal Analysis first since 1992. “We’ve had some huge goals from players that come off the bench all year long,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “Kimmy [DeCesare]—you’ve got to call her a super-sub. When you put her in something usually happens. When you’re making a run like this, you have to have [many scoring threats] because they’re covering up on [the top scorers].” Long Beach State utilized two defensive midfielders in a 4-5-1 formation to neutralize Kerr, who had previously scored in each round of the tournament. The formation also negated the effectiveness of Duke’s Nicole Lipp, as the crowded midfield meant her passing game was constantly challenged. Lipp was removed from the game because her defensive skills were not needed against the 49ers’ lone striker. Even with Lipp on the bench for a third of the game, Long Beach State attempted just three
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Mollie Pathman [bottom] connected with Kim DeCesare [top] for Duke’s first goal Friday against Long Beach State.
shots, none of which were on goal. DeCesare, who replaced Lipp, is the tallest outfield player on the team at 5-foot-10. Her stature and powerful runs into the box gave fellow sophomore Mollie Pathman an easy target in the middle. Pathman had difficulty beating Long Beach State’s right back in the first half, but tireless her running paid off in the second period. “Some of her services were unbelievable.... She can serve on a dime,” Church said. “[Long Beach State’s right back] was one of their better players and Mollie just turned her around a couple of times.” In the 66th minute, she took the ball down the left wing, left her defender on the grass with a fake, and picked out an oncoming attacker. DeCesare headed the ball into the net, registering the first goal that the 49ers had conceded since October. “When we inserted [DeCesare] in the second half we started winning balls off of their goal kicks, off of their punts. We started winning second balls too,” Church said. “And obviously she got to the back post and scored a huge goal for us.” The performance of this tandem may be vital if Duke is to go any further in the tournament. DeCesare and Pathman can provide an extra dimension if opponents counter the dangerous Blue Devil offense with unusual formations. Wake Forest, Duke’s next opponent, effectively changed formations when it defeated the Blue Devils in the semifinal of the ACC tournament, and may choose to do the same this weekend in the national semifinal. Doria, who capped the win with a great goal from the edge of the penalty area, also becomes a player other teams cannot leave out of their tactical plan. Her first career goal sends a message that she is another weapon in the Duke midfield that cannot be taken lightly. If DeCesare and Doria remain threats to score, the Blue Devils have an edge on any team remaining in the tournament.
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The Blue Devils will travel to Kennesaw, Ga. this weekend to take on ACC foe Wake Forest for the third time this season in the NCAA seminfinals.
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Duke draws Vols in NCAA Tourney opener ACC record seventh straight NCAA app. for Blue Devils Duke won the last four matches of its season, including an upset victory over Florida State, and their strong play has earned the Blue Devils (21-8) an opportunity to keep their winning streak going into December. Head coach Jolene Nagel and her team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament Sunday night, and they will face 14th-seeded Tennessee (27-3) in a first-round game Thursday at 7 p.m. As a seeded team, the Volunteers will host the first two rounds at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn. This will be an ACC record seventh straight postseason appearance for the Blue Devils, and the tenth in Nagel’s 13-year tenure. The team will look to add to the program’s total of 16 NCAA tournament wins, also an ACC record. Duke is led by sophomore libero Ali McCurdy, who was named ACC defensive player of the year last week. She is joined on the conference first team by Blue Devils Kellie Catanach and Christiana Gray. They will face a formidable opponent, however, as the Volunteers won their last 12 regular-season matches and emerged as conference champions from the SEC. Duke last faced Tennessee in a similar setting two years ago, in the first round of the 2009 postseason, a 3-1 Volunteer win. If the Blue Devils defeat Tennessee, they will take on the winner of Ohio State and Middle Tennessee State in the second round Friday. Duke’s quarter of the bracket also includes No. 3 seed Illinois, No. 6 seed Northern Iowa and No. 11 seed Stanford. The field of 64 teams includes three other ACC teams—13th seed Florida State, Miami and North Carolina. KEVIN SHAMIEH/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO
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“We don’t have an answer for Coples, obviously,” Cutcliffe said. The Tar Heels were held to just eight yards on their ensuing series, but started deep enough in Duke’s half to still add a field goal to their total. Anthony Boone took over under center on the Blue Devils’ next drive, leading them on an 11-play touchdown drive in which the redshirt freshman accounted for all 75 yards—throwing for 33, rushing for 21 and catching a flea-flicker from Crowder for 21. Boone completed 12-of-20 passes for 111 yards and also ran for 42 of Duke’s 48 total rushing yards. Donovan Varner’s 11-yard touchdown reception capped the drive. The senior finished with eight receptions, making him the first player in ACC history to reach the 60-catch milestone in three seasons. North Carolina responded with a methodical five-play, 70-yard drive that ended with a Bryn Renner pass to Dwight Jones in the back of the end zone, one of Jones’ three touchdown receptions on the day. On Duke’s next drive, Boone marched the Blue Devils to the Tar Heel 41-yard line before an underthrown pass intended for Brandon Braxton was intercepted by Gene Robinson. “There were a couple lessons [Boone] got in there,” Cutcliffe said. “He didn’t know the coverage pre-snap [on the interception], and you’ve gotta know.... The play before that, if he’d known the coverage pre-snap he would’ve had an easy touchdown, but he didn’t see it.” North Carolina’s ensuing 12-play, 91yard touchdown drive cemented the win. “I know we’ve closed the gap across the board,” Cutcliffe said. “We just have miles to go.”
were led by freshman Elizabeth Williams, who played tight defense, rebounded aggressively and scored timely baskets in the first half. She finished the game with 16 points, 13 rebounds and seven blocked shots. At halftime, the Blue Devils had a commanding 36-20 advantage. “In the first half we executed and had more patience and poise,” McCallie said. “We had the basketball longer, we made them defend us more and we made better choices.” In the second half, though, after Duke forward Haley Peters made a put-back to stretch the lead to 18, Notre Dame dominated the next 10 minutes. The Blue Devils missed 14 consecutive shots, while Notre Dame went on a 21-3 run to tie the score at 41. Diggins scored six points during the run and led the up-tempo transition attack. In the final 12:56 of the game, however, neither team was able to gain more than a four-point advantage. “I think where [the game] turned was the transition defense relative to Skylar Diggins,” McCallie said. “We took some quick shots after we were up 18 and we got outside of what we had been doing. Because we took quick shots, that fostered their fast break and we did not defend well.” Despite the second-half troubles, McCallie thought the tournament was a quality learning experience for her young squad, which features three sophomores and a freshman in the starting lineup, and was encouraged by her team’s play. “A lot of good lessons were learned as a team,” McCallie said. “Sixty minutes were very businesslike, aggressive minutes. Sixty out of the 80 were outstanding and approaching more of what we want to do as a team.”
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W. SOCCER from news page 1 We had to finish things.” With the win, the Blue Devils advance to the national semifinals in Kennesaw, Ga., to take on ACC rival Wake Forest Friday. Duke overcame yet another sluggish first half that saw few legitimate scoring opportunities, though freshman striker Kelly Cobb missed a golden chance to put the Blue Devils ahead after 23 minutes of play. With Long Beach State’s back line playing precariously far up the field in an attempt to catch Duke’s forwards offsides, sophomore Mollie Pathman lofted a perfectly measured ball over the top of the defense to Cobb, who took one touch from 12 yards and rifled a shot off the underside of the crossbar. The chance was one of few first half defensive lapses from the 49ers, who came into Friday’s matchup without having conceded a goal in their last five matches. With a clear strategy to soak up whatever pressure the Blue Devils could muster and hope for a goal on a set-piece play, Long Beach State possessed the ball for a small percentage of the game and managed only three shots—none of which troubled junior goalkeeper Tara Campbell. Still, 49er head coach Mauricio Ingrassia’s plan and his players’ resolute defending caused problems for the Blue Devils, who had scored 10 goals in their three previous NCAA tournament games. Right back Jenny Soza’s tireless work to stop Pathman from providing service from the wing and Long Beach State’s group effort on Duke midfielder Kaitlyn Kerr helped to stall the Blue Devils for the opening 45 minutes. Without much depth on their bench, however, the 49ers could not keep up with Duke’s frenzied defense for long, and the Blue Devils created a flurry of goal-scoring opportunities in the second period. Holding the ball in the offensive third for nearly the entirety of the second half, the Blue Devils finally broke through in the 67th minute when a Kim DeCesare header found the back of the
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The Blue Devils scored two goals against the 49ers Friday, marking the first time in four tournament games Long Beach State had conceded a goal. net after a long string of passes. Pathman found the space on the field that had not been allowed to her in the first half, and left her defender on the turf with a quick feint before providing an inchperfect cross to the back post. DeCesare, who had only just been substituted into the game, rose above her defender and directed the ball past 49er goalkeeper Kaitlyn Gustaves. Just seven minutes later, Gilda Doria gave Duke the insurance it needed. The sophomore, who limped through part of the second half after suffering an ankle injury, drove a left-footed strike from the top of the 18-yard box, and Gustaves was late in reacting. Doria’s clinical fin-
ish with just 16 minutes remaining gave the midfielder her first career goal, and sealed Church’s first career trip to the NCAA semifinals. For Pathman and the rest of the sophomore class that has been so integral to the Blue Devils’ revival, the triumphant moment was one foreseen by Church years ago, when the veteran coach was building the team that would eventually become a powerhouse in the nation’s toughest conference. “I remember on my recruiting visit, Robbie walked around the field showing me the Final Four [banner] and said, ‘This is want we want you for. This is what we’re going for.’ Now [we’re] here and
going for a national championship,” Pathman said. Although Duke has now clinched two of Church’s season goals—winning the ACC regular-season title and advancing to the NCAA semifinals—the Blue Devils still have one more prize left to claim. Joining two other ACC teams in Georgia next weekend, Duke is now two wins away from capturing the first national title in program history. “We set goals at the beginning of the year that we wanted to go to the Final Four, and we’re going,” Doria said. “I think we’re still going to remain focused because we still have two more games and we’re chasing that national championship.”
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Dark times for the ivory tower Solidarity is good medicine ments on college campuses for dark times. When, in 1970, across the United States. the Ohio National Guard But these movements, even killed four student protestors at their most unintelligible, at Kent State University, the have something to offer. For response from college stu- instance, for its supposed indents across the determinacy, editorial country sent a the Occupy powerful mesmovement insage. In what became known creasingly highlights the high as the Student Strike of 1970, cost of attending college and more than four million stu- the weight of student debt. dents brought hundreds of The right response to educational institutions to a these movements is never halt with their protests. A stu- violence. But violence is exdent at New York University actly what has happened. hung one telling sign during From coast to coast, univerthe protests: “They Can’t Kill sity officials and police forces Us All.” have forcibly shut down inStudents today, too, live terrogative student voices, in troubled times. It may misguidedly focusing their be that student frustration anger on people and not on sometimes expresses itself problems. We offer a brief in nebulous and inarticulate chronology of this condemforms, like the Occupy move- nable violence:
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Nov. 9, police officers at the University of California at Berkeley used batons and riot gear to disperse a group of non-violent student protestors. In later protests at Berkeley, police did not even spare Robert Hass, the former United States poet laureate, the business end of the baton. Nov. 21, public safety officers at the City University of New York used batons, muscle and handcuffs to end a student protest against planned tuition increases for the 2012-2013 academic year. Fifteen student protestors were arrested, and several were reportedly knocked down or left bleeding by the public safety officers. And Nov. 18, in what has become the paradigmatic
example of violence against students, police officers at the University of California at Davis treated submissive and defenseless student protesters to liberal blasts of pepper spray. Videos of this incident have gone viral, and they are disturbing. At least two victims were hospitalized, and one student reportedly coughed blood for 45 minutes after having pepper spray forced into his throat. Even more chillingly, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who ordered the police to remove the students, defended the police’s actions. We echo students and commentators before us in calling for her swift resignation. Who can blame students for being frustrated about rising tuition costs? The annual
cost of attending college has risen three times faster than inflation since the late 1970s; more than $600 billion in college debt floats around on balance books in the United States. What’s worse, is that there seems to be no end in sight. Even at Duke—which has raised its tuition a steady 4 percent for the last several years—talk about controlling tuition rates is more rhetorical smoke than proposal for systematic change. By using force to quell protests which are, fundamentally, discursive, university administrators have only fanned the flames of a narrative of administrative neglect. The right response to student frustration is not to punch up students—it is to address their frustrations.
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ake your favorite Cultural Figure and drop him/her at the front of your classroom. Imagine that, on the first day of class, he/ she hands you a cranky syllabus—the kind that reels off threats and promises like someone’s manipulative parent. This isn’t just a thought experiment. The Revered David Foster Wallace left behind some syllabi from his days as an English prof. You could plausibly call these syllabi “cranky.” DFW was, when he lived, the Hippest Writer of All. After his death, he connor southard joined the pantheon of competitors dead poet for Hippest Writer of All Time—Rimbaud better watch his back. Few actually finish reading DFW’s cinderblock-opus, “Infinite Jest,” but quite a few cool people claim to have read it and even more are planning to pick it up soon. You might expect a chill syllabus from a guy who wore a lot of bandanas and was at his most painstaking when writing about drugs. But DFW’s syllabi would be downright schoolmarmy if they weren’t softened by wit. If he’s revealing a teaching philosophy, he’s doing it by laying out a catechism’s worth of rules. DFW on doing your homework: “You must read every assignment twice before class and come ready to participate.” He wants you to read “Carrie” twice. Yes, Stephen King’s “Carrie”—DFW liked to assign beach-reads as well as novels by Nobel Prize winners. DFW on what happens to anyone who groans or rolls eyes or otherwise reacts to an in-class question with derision: the offender will be “warned once in private and on the second offense will be kicked out of class and flunked, no matter what week it is. If the offender is male, I am also apt to find him off-campus and beat him up.” David Foster Wallace, valiant defender of the kid who wants to know, “Why are we analyzing it—it’s just a story?” There’s plenty more where the above quotes came from—check out http://www.hrc.utexas.edu or http://www.alasophia.blogspot. com. And in case you’re wondering whether DFW lived up to his syllabi, there’s a short essay at http://www.nplusonemag.com by former student Jared Roscoe stating that DFW was as good as his word. In earlier drafts of this column, I tried out various ways of concluding that there was something enlightened—even noble—in Wallace’s teaching style. Since a recently beatified writer turns out to have had a quasi-militaristic approach to teaching literature, isn’t that proof that universities should drill all students in the humanities? Or something. But all we actually have in DFW’s syllabi is a reminder of the crude rules that undergird higher education. DFW knew that, even if he wrote ambitious syllabi, he was still working within a rigid framework. One of DFW’s many wry nods to the orthodoxies of higher education: “In class, you are invited (more like urged) to disagree with each other and with me.… In other words, English 102 is not just a Find-OutWhat-The-Teacher-Thinks-And-Regurgitate-It-Back-At-Him course.” DFW could try to create whatever kind of classroom he liked, but he still had to arbitrate a transaction. We know that students are supposed to learn something by reading books and writing papers about them, but we’re skeptical that this process works unless a third party authority claims to be verifying it. DFW played the same game as most, and maybe all, teachers: He defined education as if it were a packaged item with meticulous and exhaustive rules governing its distribution. Education was a commodity, and a class was supposed to be a regime of effective commodity-distribution of which he was the commissar. DFW could joke about the damage this dynamic could do to imagination and free thinking, but he couldn’t escape it. Maybe no teacher can. Duke students have never failed to notice that education can be treated like a commodity and/or a product. We already know intuitively that an argument about whether it’s more practical to know about economic theory than to know about Greek drama is a debate about the value of a product—education, which can be very expensive indeed. The money involved adds a thick layer to the educationas-commodity problem. The best thing about DFW’s syllabi, cranky or not, is that they’re the work of a writer-prof who understood the status quo well enough to be able to pick it apart. If he couldn’t repair everything, he could at least analyze—and occasionally over-analyze—everything. Being obsessively analytic and critical isn’t a bad place to start if you’re trying to teach someone something. Crankiness can make for good teaching, even if it can’t fix what’s wrong with education. Connor Southard is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday.
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ne major staple of former President Bush’s more serious on an international scale. Consider foreign policy was the notion that all hu- that half of Egyptians support the (democratiman beings long for freedom, and that cally elected) terrorist group Hamas. The most such longings are best achieved by— recent Pew poll, taken after Mubaand instantiated in—democracy. As rak’s ousting, reveals that over half is well known, this noble principle of Egyptians support the repeal of stood as at least partial justification Egypt’s long-standing peace agreefor the Iraq War. Though the war ment with Israel, a key to regional itself became overwhelmingly unstability. Tensions between Israel popular, most critics focused on the and Egypt remain high after a Sept. absence of “WMDs,” some version 10 incident in which thousands of of neo-isolationism or conspiratodarren beattie “freedom” protestors decided to pay rial sloganeering about oil, leaving a visit to the Israeli embassy. In violalast man standing tion of the most basic expectations President Bush’s political anthropology largely unscathed and unof diplomacy, the Egyptian governquestioned. Indeed, when the democracy question ment stood silent as the mob took a battering ram was raised at all, critics voiced their objection to to the embassy wall, while as shouting the obligatothe imposition of democracy though “the barrel of ry anti-Jewish chants and burning flags on the sidea gun,” and were thus largely concerned with the lines. A Muslim Brotherhood rally at a major Cairo method of delivery rather than the sufficiency or mosque last Friday drew a crowd of approximately universal appropriateness of democracy as such. 5,000 people who chanted “Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, JudgIt is perhaps in light of this accepted sanctity of ment Day has come,” and vowing to “one day kill democracy that we can best understand the opti- all the Jews.” The Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist mism (albeit cautious) with which the Western group, enjoys the “very favorable” opinion of 37 media has treated the Arab Spring phenomenon. percent of Egyptians (according to Pew) and the Here we have various Middle Eastern nations from “somewhat favorable” opinion of an additional 38 Morocco to Syria challenging their oppressive gov- percent. They have already outmaneuvered many ernments with minimal to no U.S. involvement. of the more secular activist groups and expect conThe uprisings have completely toppled the dicta- siderable success in the coming elections. torial leaders of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. As the The prospects don’t look so great for the unofficial motto of the movement clearly stipu- Copts, the Arab world’s largest non-Muslim milates, “the people want to bring down the regime.” nority, either. Since the beginning of the year, Considering that most such regimes are oppressive several Coptic churches have been burned and and dictatorial, to bring them down seems like a looted, including St. Mina’s, Church of the Virgin great idea on paper, but realistically we must con- Mary, St. Mary and St. Abinob. In keeping with the sider not just what is taken down, but also what is practice under Mubarak, the Egyptian authorities built in its place. The sanguine assumption is that have barely acknowledged these attacks, let alone the method of replacement will be democratic and have they taken steps to punish the perpetrators. the substance of replacement more liberal, but a In what is now called the Maspero massacre, the closer attention to the history and circumstances Egyptian government murdered dozens of Copts of the region gives us pause. and wounded hundreds more. Video and eyewitIran, currently the Middle East’s most trouble- ness evidence shows tanks chasing after and runsome and dangerous theocracy, serves as a cau- ning over unarmed civilians. Many others were tionary case of comparison. The deposed shah, shot. Our incomparable President Obama relike Egypt’s Mubarak, was as much of an ally as sorted to the typical absurd equivalencies, urging the United States could expect from the region. both sides to exercise restraint. Bush was simply Both leaders brought their people a sea of trouble not smart enough to reach Obama’s heights of against which they could justifiably take arms, and stupidity. in both cases a tentative alliance among secularIn short, if the growing unrest concerning the ists, socialists/leftists and religious fundamentalists collapse of global financial system calls into queswas formed. The fundamentalists, not surprisingly, tion certain assumptions about capitalism’s conproved the tougher force in the end, and the rest, nection to democracy, the so-called “Arab Spring,” as they say, is history. particularly in Egypt, may very well demand an Why should we suspect a similar outcome for analogous re-evaluation of the supposed connecEgypt? In a June 2010 Pew opinion survey, 59 per- tion between democracy and freedom. Though cent of Egyptians said they backed Islamists, as com- the coming election may in fact bring good tidpared to 27 percent who favored modernization. Ac- ings, we might do well to recall Machiavelli’s sober cording to the same survey, 82 percent of Egyptians advice that a city, corrupted after generations of support the death penalty by stoning for convicted despotism, will find it next to impossible to live in adulterers, and another 84 percent support execut- freedom, even if the offending princes and all of ing those who convert from Islam to another faith. their descendants are destroyed. If such figures point to the possibility of a domestic nightmare, the implications of an Egyptian Darren Beattie is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in poregime change and democratic elections are still litical science. His column runs every other Monday.
lettertotheeditor Response to arts editorial Thank you for Monday’s thoughtful editorial calling for more collaboration among arts institutions at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. We could not agree more. We want to connect the Nasher Museum with the wonderfully rich art scene in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Indeed, our mission statement compels us to promote “engagement with the visual arts among a broad community including Duke students, faculty and staff, the greater Durham community, the Triangle region and the national and international art community.” We love collaborations with friends and colleagues at institutions of performing and visual arts. Our upcoming Calder exhibition, for ex-
ample, has inspired an original ballet by Carolina Ballet. The Nasher Museum has recently co-organized exhibitions with the Ackland Art Museum of Andy Warhol’s Polaroids and of paintings by Felrath Hines. The Daily Tar Heel routinely writes about our exhibitions. No doubt, Carolina students would enjoy the high-caliber programs offered by Duke Performances. We are lucky to have so many excellent artistic experiences available to us, and the Nasher Museum is proud to be part of a maturing arts scene in the Research Triangle region. Kimberly Rorschach, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director of the Nasher Museum of Art
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HEALTH CARE from page 3 case of the term. Federal law requires judges, including those on the Supreme Court, to disqualify themselves when their “impartiality might be reasonably questioned,” as well as for specific reasons such as a financial interest or the involvement of a family member in the litigation. In addition, it calls for recusal when the judge has served in the government and “participated as counsel, adviser or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case or controversy.” The charges against Kagan arise from her work as solicitor general, the government’s top appellate lawyer. If she were still in the job, Kagan would be defending the health-care law at the Supreme Court rather than deciding whether it is constitutional. Kagan was notified by the White House in March 2010—just before the law was passed—that she was un-
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der consideration to be named to the high court. She said during her confirmation hearings that she played no role in preparing for the inevitable legal challenges that were to come. “I attended at least one meeting where the existence of the litigation was briefly mentioned, but none where any substantive discussion of the litigation occurred,” Kagan said in a written response to questions from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She said she had never been asked her opinion about the underlying constitutional and legal issues in the lawsuit or reviewed government documents filed in the case. Similarly, Attorney General Eric Holder said lawyers went out of their way to keep from involving Kagan in the discussions. But congressional Republicans say emails released to conservative groups under public records requests raise questions about the White House’s contention she had been “walled off” from discussions about the health-care act. One email from then-Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal says Kagan wanted to make sure her office was in-
volved in strategy decisions, although Katyal said he took the lead and Kagan was not involved. Another email seemed to indicate enthusiasm for the bill. In response to a message at the time of the vote from Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, then working at the Justice Department, Kagan wrote: “I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing.” Smith, the Judiciary Committee chairman, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have pressed Holder for more information, which his department has been reluctant to provide. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich said the lawmakers’ requests on an issue that Kagan testified about at her confirmation hearings were “unseemly.” Submitting to Republicans’ requests for more documents and testimony would be equivalent to a congressional probe on “whether a Supreme Court justice should participate in a case pending before the court,” he said. Holder is scheduled to testify before Smith’s committee Dec. 8. Asked whether he was questioning whether Kagan told the truth in her testimony, Smith in a statement did not respond directly. He said the Obama administration has a responsibility to respond to requests from Congress to “clarify any confusion or inconsistencies regarding to what extent Solicitor General Kagan may have been involved in discussions regarding health care legislation and litigation.” Liberal groups say that Thomas’s conflict comes from the political involvement of his wife, Virginia Lamp Thomas, who has been active in conservative causes since before they were married. Virginia Thomas has worked for former House Majority Leader Richard Armey, R-Texas, and for the conservative Heritage Foundation. In 2009, she created a group called Liberty Central to advance some of the same political causes as Tea Party activists, including the belief that Congress and the federal government have strayed beyond the limits of the Constitution. She has since left the organization. Liberal groups and some Democrats have said her outspoken role creates a dilemma for the justice. They have called for investigations into Thomas’s failure to list his wife’s employers for 13 years, as is required on the justices’ financial disclosure documents. Virginia Thomas’s employment was well known; Thomas said the information was “inadvertently omitted.”
ENERGY from page 1 of Business, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke School of Law, Sanford School of Public Policy and the Nicholas School. The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the Duke Global Health Institute are also involved. George Truskey, chair of the biomedical engineering department and senior associate dean for research as well as the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson professor of biomedical engineering, said the Energy Initiative will create an ever-expanding cycle for energy research development at Duke. “Our hope is to increase Duke’s visibility so that it will recruit more students interested in research and to gain national recognition for the research we are working on,” Truskey said. The Energy Initiative grew out of students’ growing interest in the last five years regarding energy issues and demand to learn more about energy-related topics, Newell noted. In 2010, this demand culminated in administrators’ decision to prioritize energy as a key element of the University’s strategic vision, Newell said. The Energy Hub opened Fall 2010 in Gross Chemistry Building as a central space for energy activity. This space will now serve as a base for meetings, seminars and programming for the Energy Initiative. The Energy Hub provides a physical home for the Initiative, but Newell said he envisions further interactions occurring virtually. “The Initiative website is a living organism—faculty members can find other faculty members to work with [and] students can find course offerings and events [focused on energy],” Newell said. “It will improve and maintain connections between students and alumni who are dedicated to energy issues.” Provost Peter Lange noted that the results of the Initiative remain to be seen but said that the initial hiring of faculty looks promising. The Energy Initiative currently has an executive advisory committee and a faculty advisory committee to help coordinate and implement the program’s efforts. “The initial priority is to help develop the curriculum,” Newell said. “The Initiative also helps coordinate different projects and leverage the limited resources we have.” Newell also noted that Duke’s interdisciplinary strength, practical orientation and strong alumni dedication to energy put it ahead of other schools with similar programs. “Whenever people think of energy, we want them to think of Duke,” he said.