T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y
The Chronicle
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2011
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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