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Melinda Gates to speak at commencement

by Kristie Kim THE CHRONICLE

Melinda Gates, an entrepreneur, philanthropist and wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, will return to her alma mater to address the Class of 2013 in May. Gates, Trinity ’86 and Fuqua ’87, is co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and helped developed many of Microsoft’s multimedia products. She also served on Duke’s Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2003.

“I am very excited and honored

about the opportunity to deliver the commencement address at Duke University,” Gates said in a press release Tuesday. “The education I received at Duke has always inspired and motivated my philanthropic work, and I hope to share that sense of optimism and the rigor needed to pursue ambitious goals with this generation of students.”

Named one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year, along with her husband Bill and U2 vocalist Bono, in 2005 and one of the top 100 Foreign Policy Magazine’s “Global

Thinkers,” Gates retired from her position at Microsoft in 1996 to devote more time to her family and philanthropy. She co-founded the Gates foundation in January 2000 with her husband. Since its inception, the organization has contributed more than $26 billion to support grants from more than 100 countries.

“I can’t think of a more inspiring way to send our students forth to their careers than to have Melinda Gates speak at our commencement,” President Richard Brodhead

said in a press release Tuesday. “A double Duke graduate, she gives us a shining example of the difference a compassionate advocate can make in the world.”

Brodhead invited Gates to speak at commencement several years ago, and she agreed to speak earlier this year. For that reason, there was not a formal committee established to recommend a commencement speaker to Brodhead.

The Gates Foundation, the SEE GATES ON PAGE 4

Melinda Gates

ACC files lawsuit against Maryland

by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE

The Big Ten/ACC Challenge got a little spicier this week.

The ACC filed a lawsuit against Maryland in North Carolina state court after the Terrapins announced last week their intentions to join the Big Ten conference. The case was filed in the Greensboro courthouse Monday, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Chronicle.

The lawsuit concerns the payment of the $52 million required to leave the ACC. The exit fee was raised to that figure Sept. 11, 2012 prior to the addition of Notre Dame

to the conference as a partial member. Maryland and Florida State were the only two schools to vote against the increase.

“We continue to extend our best wishes to the University of Maryland; however, there is the expectation that Maryland will fulfill its exit fee obligation,“ ACC Commissioner John Swofford said in a statement.

“On Friday, the ACC Council of Presidents made the unanimous decision to file legal action to ensure the enforcement of this obligation.”

The unanimous decision means that Florida State, the other school to vote against the fee’s increase, SEE LAWSUIT ON PAGE 12

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This blueprint outlines changes to the Bryan Center, the first major renovations since the center was built in 1982. These renovations are expected to be completed by Fall 2013.

RTP strategizes for Architects intend to make future expansion BC more open, appealing

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Renovations to the Bryan Center are intended to create a more attractive space that is more conducive to student collaboration by the start of the 2013-2014 academic year.

Ted Van Dyk, Trinity ’83 and principal and founder of the architecture firm, Raleigh-based New City Design Group, displayed detailed floor plans at an open house Tuesday afternoon.

Notable changes will include improved accessibility for disabled members of the Duke community and the unification of the University Bookstore, Gothic Bookshop and Lobby Shop into one complex. Funding for the project is coming from the $80 million that the Charlotte-based

Duke Endowment gave to Duke in March 2011.

“We’re upgrading and updating some of the spaces that have been here for 30 years,” said Van Dyk, noting that this will be the first time any major work has been done to the building’s infrastructure since its construction in 1982.

The plaza entrance to the Bryan Center will be completely remodeled, with glass walls replacing the current stone ones in an effort to create a more welcoming environment. Toward the same goal, the space currently occupied by Joe Van Gogh will be replaced by an outdoor patio.

“The glass will really soften up the building and modernize it,” Van Dyk said.

Another change to the entrance will be the exchange of the current doors for sliding ones to improve accessibility in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. “One of the things that we’re doing overall to the whole center is making ADA improvements,” Van Dyk added.

Rails will be placed on the building’s ramps, and handicapped accessible bathrooms will be built in more central locations.

The building’s top floor will be home to the new Center for LGBT Life and the Office of Student Affairs. These spaces will occupy what are presently the UCAE offices.

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Leaders of Research Triangle Park recently unveiled their master plan to attract younger generations of entrepreneurs and develop a more sustainable park.

The plan aims to refocus development to accommodate new companies and adapt to the changing needs of its present research and technology companies. The Research Triangle Foundation, which manages the research park, will create a small city within the park by building office space, shopping centers and residential developments, among other facilities. The urban centers will exist in three different locations throughout RTP and account for more than 12.5 million square feet of new development.

RTP was established in 1959 to leverage the research capacity at the surrounding universities—Duke, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—to create an attractive location for research-oriented companies. The public-private partnership has grown to house more than 170 companies and 22.5 million square feet of development, playing a significant role in the economic growth of the Triangle region.

“Research Triangle Park is 50 years old and needs to adapt to the changing needs of the industry,” Bob Geolas, president and CEO of Research Triangle Foundation, wrote in an email Tuesday. “These new urban SEE RTP ON PAGE 3

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Endangered red wolf Web initiative’s push for killings continue in NC privacy hits virtual wall

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Four red wolves have been killed in Hyde County, N.C. since the start of this year’s hunting season, a blow to the critically endangered species.

by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE

The fourth killing of a critically endangered red wolf since September in Hyde County, N.C., raises alarm for those part of the revitalization effort.

The red wolf species nearly faced extinction three decades ago and has recovered slowly through captive breeding efforts, but the recent attacks threaten the small population now living in the wild in North Carolina. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has offered a reward up to $2,500 to anyone with information about the red wolf death that occurred Nov. 14 as a result of a suspected

gunshot wound.

“There are a certain number of people who do mistakenly shoot these animals, but there are also a good number of people who know they are shooting red wolves,” said Frank Simms, National Wildlife Refuge System law enforcement officer. “In both circumstances they are investigated equally, regardless.”

The original red wolf population size was in the tens of thousands and spanned across the country from central Texas to Pennsylvania, said Robert Wayne, North Carolina Wildlife Resources commission SEE WOLVES ON PAGE 5

WASHINGTON — The two-year-old drive to give consumers a simple way to block companies from tracking their behavior as they move across the Internet has faltered, say participants in the process who are struggling to reconcile privacy concerns with an advertising model that pays for many free Internet services.

The friction puts in peril the “Do Not Track” initiative that appeared to have widespread support at a White House event in February, when industry officials endorsed it in concept. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz, who also embraced the idea as central to the independent agency’s push for protecting personal data privacy, had predicted a deal by the end of the year.

But meetings of a key working committee have turned acrimonious in recent months, and a co-chairwoman of the effort plans to step down Wednesday. Participants now say a deal remains months away, and some say it may take federal action to limit Internet tracking.

“This thing has stalled, and there has been deliberate obstructionism by some segments of the advertising industry, and there is great frustration because of this,” said John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, one of several privacy advocates working on the issue.

The idea for a Do Not Track system was inspired by the popular “do not call” lists that have curtailed telemarketing calls, but there have been sharp disagreements about how to build a system that limits tracking without un-

dermining the advertising revenue that pays for many free Internet services.

Industry groups voluntarily adopted a version last year giving consumers the ability to block advertising based on their Web browsing history. Officials from the Digital Advertising Alliance, which organized the effort, said that nearly 20 million users have visited the site at youradchoices.com and that more than 1 million have chosen to opt out of ad tracking.

But privacy advocates have called this system hard to use and too permissive in the information it allows marketers to collect. The two sides have clashed repeatedly in meetings of a working committee of the World Wide Web Consortium, a group that was charged with negotiating policies on how to implement a Do Not Track system. The consortium sets industry standards for the Web but has struggled to handle this issue.

“That process has not gone particularly well,” said Stuart Ingis, a Washington-based lawyer representing the Digital Advertising Alliance. He welcomed Wednesday’s planned resignation of co-chairwoman Aleecia McDonald, a Stanford University privacy researcher, as an opportunity to jump-start the process.

McDonald, who will remain a member of the 97-person committee, said she favored new leadership overseeing a process that has become “very contentious” in recent months but has developed renewed energy since President Barack Obama’s re-election. “We’ve seen a resurgence of interest,” she said, adding, “We’re not going to get it done by January 1.”

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Satellites show rocket activity in N. Korea

by Chico harlan THE WASHINGTON POST

SEOUL — With fresh satellite images showing increasing activity at its launch site, North Korea could be ready to fire a long-range rocket within several weeks, South Korean officials said Tuesday.

“There is a high possibility” of a launch between December and January, a senior military official told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

The assessment followed the release of an image Monday by DigitalGlobe, which provides satellite imagery to the U.S. government. The image showed people, trucks and fuel tanks at the Sohae launch site, in North Korea’s northwestern corner. The activity, DigitalGlobe said on its website, is consistent with preparations in the weeks before Pyongyang’s long-range blast in April.

The family-run police state has said nothing about imminent plans for a launch, and security analysts cautioned that Pyongyang might not go through with a move that would rile its lone benefactor, China, whose Communist Party is breaking in new leadership.

But a North Korean delegate told a U.N. General Assembly meeting two weeks ago that the North would expand its space development program and “go through with launches of working satellites of all kinds essential for the economic development of the country.”

North Korea has claimed that previous rocket launches were used to place satellites into orbit. Washington and its allies in East Asia, though, say that such launches are de facto long-range missile tests, because they rely on the same technology. The North is banned under U.N. security resolutions from using “ballistic missile technology.”

If the North does proceed with a launch, timing will be crucial—The blast could either prove a factor in South Korea’s Dec. 19 presidential election or become the first major test for the new leader.

For now, North Korea lags far behind the economy as a top concern for South Korean voters. Although both presidential contenders favor a softer approach to the North, liberal candidate Moon Jae-in wants SEE KOREA ON PAGE 16

RTP from page 1 centers will provide the kind of amenities and destinations that will draw people into Research Triangle Park to live and to visit.”

The design also includes plans for reducing carbon emissions via efficient energy usage.

Most new construction will attempt to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold Certification—the second highest rating awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council for sustainable construction— and will incorporate some form of geothermal or solar energy.

Light rail and commuter rail— a form of urban rail public transportation—could also be included in RTP’s new design as transportation alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles.

For the past 50 years, RTP has grown and developed by selling land to major companies. Now, only 9 percent of the Park’s 7,000 acres remain undeveloped.

Research Triangle Park currently accommodates approximately 38,000 employees, said HR&A Advisors Chairman John Alschuler Jr., whose firm consulted for the master plan, in a presentation on Nov. 9. Under current rules and regulations, RTP can house 45,000 employees. With the implementation of this master plan, however, capacity may more than triple to over 150,000 employees.

Such large expansions in capacity may translate to higher

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This artist rendering depicts plans for a reconfigured Research Triangle Park, geared toward younger generations of entrepreneurs and developers. economic revenue across North Carolina and increase job opportunities for entrepreneurs emerging from Duke. “[This] new plan is very much about how we continue to support our mission—work with the universities, create jobs and improve the quality of life for all the people [in] North Carolina,” said Geolas. “We would very much like to work with our universities to create new models of support for students, faculty and research programs.”

On Nov. 13, RTF leaders kicked off a three-week statewide

bus tour to spread awareness about the new plan in communities outside of the Raleigh-Durham area. They are currently discussing with citizens and policy makers about how to bring greater value to North Carolina, Geolas said.

“We have a mission to improve quality of life across the state,” said Geolas. “We want to make Research Triangle Park an inspiring place that represents the innovations and advancements made in RTP and North Carolina and make the place special and authentic.”

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Yes, you read that right: March 9, 2013. The same night that the Blue Devils take on the Tarheels in basketball, you’ll be taking on the entire UNC senior class. Help us bring home a win—and bragging rights—by making your Senior Gift today.

Just go to http://bit.ly/beatunc to make a gift to the Annual Fund with your credit card or FLEX account. We encourage a gift of $20.13, but any size gift counts!

This challenge is brought to you by the Class of 2013 Senior Gift Committee and is just one way that you can contribute to the Senior Gift Campaign before June 30, 2013!

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world’s largest private organization with an endowment of $36.2 billion, has played a major role in the development and success of various University endeavors. A Gates’ gift created the University Scholars Program in 1998. In 2007, in conjunction with the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment, it established a $30 million gift to launch DukeEngage, which has become one of the University’s most popular programs. The program provides opportunities for undergraduate students to volunteer in individual and group projects in the United States and other countries.

Senior Class President Elysia Pan said Gates is a good fit for the Class of 2013 as the graduating class has been particularly active and passionate about DukeEngage.

“She is one of the quintessential Duke alums we look up to,” Pan said. “We’re so excited to hear more about her life after Duke. It will be a really electrifying moment.”

The foundation has also supported Duke’s burgeoning focus on science and research, donating $35 million in 2002 for the construction of the French Family Science Center.

In the Gates family’s namesake, the 280,000-sq. ft. building is home to research

PRIVACY from page 2 She is likely to be replaced by Peter Swire, an Ohio State University law professor who was a chief counselor for privacy in the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration, say people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the decision was yet to be finalized.

Most browsers already have settings allowing users to request that advertisers not track them, but the practical impact of such systems has been small. Microsoft announced in May

laboratories for chemistry and biology.

The foundation has also contributed $10 million toward financial aid for undergraduates and business school students.

Some students noted that the University’s selection is a step forward for women on campus.

“As a female at Duke, it’s encouraging to have a woman commencement speaker, and it shows that we are going in the right direction,” Senior Libby Hase said. “It makes sense she was selected given that she is so connected to Duke and cares so much about this community.”

Sophomore Ariana Qayumi noted that, given the recent photo campaign by the Women’s Housing Option about the female body image, Gates will be an important voice for women on campus.

“I could see, though, how some people might see [Gates] as a cop out because of her connection to DukeEngage and the French Family Science Center,” sophomore Ray Liu noted. “But, I think that she is a great person to connect the graduating class to society, specifically on the civic engagement level. She is an example of one who is attuned to what you learn in college and is able to use that to bring about greater change.” that it was shipping its latest generation of its Internet Explorer browser with the Do Not Track setting on as a default, angering the advertising industry, which favors a system in which consumers must personally choose to block ads.

The controversy highlighted how little agreement there is on the issue. The various groups negotiating the terms of Do Not Track have not definitively settled on exactly what the term means, what kind of data collection should be prohibited, or even how the consumer preference should be communicated to advertising networks.

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WOLVES from page 2 officer. An excess amount of hunting, however, throughout the 19th and 20th century dwindled the population size to 17 wolves in the Southeast.

When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service saw the wolves nearing complete extinction, the Red Wolf Recovery Program was created—a mass effort that rounded up the remaining red wolves and put them in captivity for breeding in the 1970s. As a result, the wolves were officially declared as extinct in 1980 since no species remained in the wild. Because wolves had to be purebred in order to partake in the program, only 14 wolves served as the founders of the initiative.

A small population of around 100 wolves now live in five northeastern counties of North Carolina as a result of the program’s efforts. The recent death, however, alarms those who have seen an increase in the deaths by hunting of the already devastated species in the past couple of years.

The red wolf is protected under the Endangered Species Act, which provides conservation for ecosystems that fish, wildlife and plants depend on and penalizes anyone who breaks the provisions of the act.

A person charged with the unlawful taking of a red wolf faces up to one year imprisonment and $100,000 in fines. “A lot of these typically go unsolved and the ones that go unsolved would be the ones who know what they’re shooting,� Simms said. “We are constantly finding animals where the collar was cut off or the animal was found with no collar, which leads me to believe that someone knew what they were doing and tried to hide the evidence.�

The collar allows members of the Recovery Program to track the wolves’ where-

abouts as well as alert hunters that these are endangered animals, Simms said. He added that people who usually shoot the animals by accident typically call to say they have shot the animal since there is a collar on it.

Wayne said there has been an increase in gunshot mortality in the past seven years.

Previously, only an average of two animals each year died as a result of gunshot wounds since the program began. In the last seven years, however, around six to eight red wolves were killed due to hunting. “When hunting season is in full swing, when there are more hunters in the field, it’s going to cause more animals to be shot,� Simms said. “There’s no evidence suggesting it’s the same person.�

Wayne, however, believes there are many factors contributing to the increase in deaths, one of which is a desire to kill wolves because they are perceived as bad creatures who do not serve a purpose— a sentiment that extends back into the 1800s. “Initially the hunting was this fear of top level predators—that the wolf is a big bad creature that is going to steal your babies,�

Wayne said. “That same mentality has been brought over—they don’t serve a purpose, therefore they must be eliminated.�

He added that people also enjoy hunting the animals for sport since wolves are strong and tough, making them difficult to take down.

Simms said sometimes hunters will kill red wolves, mistaking them for coyotes, which are often viewed as “pest species.�

Coyotes are not an endangered species. “You’ve got people who are out to kill red wolves because it’s a symbol of toughness, people who want to eradicate them because they fear [them]...and then people who honestly mistake them as a pest species,�

Wayne said. “It’s a new problem now.�

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Buckling down for the Buckeyes Duke to continue DUKE vs. Ohio State domination

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The last time Duke faced a team coached by first-year Michigan head coach Kim Barnes Arico, the Blue Devils overpowered St. John’s 74-67 in the Sweet 16 of the 2012 NCAA Tournament. Partially attributing the loss to the Red Storm’s failure to manage the pressure put on by Duke, Arico cites handling pressure as the Wolverines’ key focus going into their matchup against the Blue Devils.

Fresh off blowout wins against Valparaiso and Xavier this past weekend, No. 4 Duke No. 4 hopes to continue its Duke dominating streak vs. against Michigan Mich.

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“One of the things we really struggle with is pressure and handling pressure,” Arico said. “At St. John’s we had a team that handled pressure extremely well, and we played Duke and did not handle pressure extremely well. I know going in that’s going to be a significant challenge for us.”

Wolverine senior Rachel Sheffer, who leads the team in scoring with an average of 16.0 points per game, noted that the squad has been preparing for that challenge, with emphases on full-court pressure and double and triple team situations.

Although an unranked Michigan team is the underdog in the contest, the Blue Devils are not overlooking the Wolverines.

Duke turned its attention in practice this week to weaknesses highlighted in the Xavier game.

“There are a lot of things against Xavier that we didn’t do well and weren’t happy about,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We’re working on being more explosive defensively, really rebounding the basketball more aggressively and also contesting some really good shooters.”

Against Michigan—the ninth most efficient three-point shooting team in the country with a three-point field-goal percentage of 41.8 percent—contesting sharp shooters will be critical.

“We have girls that can score off the bench,” Sheffer said. “What makes our team so strong is that we have so many shooters.”

Even more potent from long-range, Duke boasts the highest three-point fieldgoal percentage in the country, shooting 48.8 percent from behind the arc. The Blue Devils have been paced by their offense this year, which ranks third in the country in scoring. Duke has outscored its opponents by an average of 44 points, good for second in the nation.

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Typically, college basketball teams are not battle-tested until they finish the heart of their conference schedule. The No. 2 Blue Devils (6-0)—who already own hard-fought wins over No. 8 Kentucky, No. 21 Minnesota, VCU and No. 5 Louisville—are well ahead of the curve though in the opening month of the 2012-13 season.

With limited rest following the team’s firstplace finish last week at the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament, the schedule does not lighten up. Duke’s final test of its November gauntlet takes place Wednesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium against No. 4 Ohio State (4-0) in the ACC-Big 10 Challenge.

“To me it’s easy to get up for these games,” Duke senior co-captain Mason Plumlee said.

“And I think that this is a team that loves these kind of games, judging by how we’ve played so far this season.”

The Blue Devils will need that added energy—something they lacked against Ohio State last year—as they attempt to beat a third 2012 Final Four squad. After winning the Maui Invitational last November and making the crosscountry trek there and back, Duke had short turnaround time for its trip to Columbus, Ohio on the following Tuesday. Consequently, fatigue played a significant role in the Blue Devils’ 85-63 dismantling at the hands of the Buckeyes.

“We got blown out,” Plumlee said. “We didn’t compete and we didn’t even play hard.

It set us back.”

In this year’s rematch, the element of revenge, to some degree, will serve as added motivation for Duke.

“To be frank, yes. I think so,” Duke senior power forward Ryan Kelly said, with regards to there being extra fire for this game. “It’s hard not to have some bad memories. Everyday we have got to have something to prove. We’ve had an unbelievable schedule. We’ve been put in a position where we have to compete every single day with the teams we are playing against.”

MASON PLUMLEE 19.7 PPG, 10.0 RPG RYAN KELLY 11.8 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 2.3 BPG RASHEED SULAIMON 12.0 PPG, 4.3 RPG SETH CURRY 17.0 PPG, 90.1 FT% Quinn Cook 10.7 PPG, 5.5 APG, 1.2 SPG

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EVAN RAVENEL 5.5 PPG, 4.0 RPG SAM THOMPSON 5.8 PPG, 4.3 RPG, 1.5 BPG DESHAUN THOMAS 24.0 PPG, 7.3 RPG LENZELLE SMITH JR. 11.5 PPG, 5.3 RPG AARON CRAFT 14.3 PPG, 5.3 APG

(Projected lineups, statistics from 2012-13 season) Duke has been outrebounded DUKE OSU in its last three games but 79.8 PPG: 78.2 should have the advantage 57.2 PPG DEF: 65.0 FG%: over Ravenel and Thompson, 47.4 52.1 3PT%: who don’t pose the same 37.3 47.8 FT%: threat as prevoius bigs the 79.1 67.8 RPG: 35.0 33.0 team has faced.

APG: 15.2 15.5 With one of the nation’s top 5.0 BPG: 5.7 point guards, Craft, and arSPG: 6.8 7.2 guably the most dangerous 13.0 9.5 TO/G: scorer on the wing in the naThe breakdown tion with Thomas, the BuckWith three wins in three days, including one eyes will be tough to defend against then-No. 2 Louisville, Duke has proven iton the perimeter. self early in this season. And with a return to the Duke’s bench is talented, but friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium, it has received sparse minthe team should be able to shake off the fatigue utes early in this season. Ohio and grind out a close one against the Buckeyes, State, on the other hand, has who have yet to face a top-notch opponent. two key scorers off the bench in Shannon Scott and LaQuinton Ross.

Despite the advantages of playing at home, the limited recovery period will again be a factor this year, especially for Duke senior shooting guard Seth Curry, who continues to play through a lingering lower leg injury but is forced to miss practices on a weekly basis.

“I don’t think [my leg] is all the way back,” Curry said. “It definitely feels better [than it did

OUR CALL: Duke wins, 79-78 during the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament].”

Unlike Duke, the Buckeyes come to Cameron Indoor Stadium without having been pushed yet this year. A 77-66 victory over a middle-of-the-road Washington team from a suspect Pac-12 conference is SEE M. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 12

Senior Day marks uncertain future Duke’s senior class has burst out of the tunnel at Wallace Wade for the last time.

Senior Day has come and gone, and with a lackluster shootout loss to Miami, the 2012 regular season is no more. With four weeks to go before the Blue Devils’ first postseason appearance in 18 years, the attention now shifts to the team’s seniors, Daniel who have a rare opportunity to play their final game in Duke blue after the pomp and circumstance of Senior Day has ended.

The Blue Devils’ elder statesmen are an eclectic bunch, representative of the rag-tag group of underdogs that many of college football’s national pundits consider characteristic of this bowl-eligible Duke team. At first glance, they aren’t terribly imposing. With

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just 13 seniors on scholarship this season, including Kenny Anunike, who will return for a sixth year of eligibility, the Blue Devils were tied for 13th in the FBS for fewest scholarship seniors on their roster.

But don’t let their size fool you—strength in numbers can often be deceiving. Although Duke’s seniors are few, their impacts on the field this season have been enormous.

With the departure of Sean Renfree, one of the most successful quarterbacks in program history, and Conner Vernon, the most statistically accomplished wide receiver in ACC history, the Blue Devils will have Shaquille O’Neal-sized shoes to fill when it comes to offensive production next year.

On the defensive side of the football, the team will have to carry on without its top two tacklers, safeties Walt Canty and Jordon Byas.

Cornerback Lee Butler was one of the team’s starting cornerbacks, in addition to being the team’s leading kick returner. When the dust

settles this May, the Blue Devils will have lost their starting quarterback, one of their three primary running backs, two of their top three wide receivers, two starting safeties and two of their top three cornerbacks.

Holes in the depth chart, however, will account for the smallest loss this team will incur the next time its senior class walks into Wallace Wade Stadium—this time for their commencement ceremonies. More importantly, Duke will lose its most fearless leaders. Renfree, Vernon and Canty were three of the team’s four co-captains this season. Byas, wide receiver Desmond Scott and center Brian Moore were three of the team’s emotional leaders as well.

Sharing a unified leadership style, this group is hardly a vocal bunch—they lead by example, and the example they have set this season is a large part of why this SEE CARP ON PAGE 12

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When Greg Paulus played at Duke, Kevin Cullen was tasked with mopping his sweat off the floor as one of the team’s managers. But Cullen’s job also required working extensively on Duke’s film preparation because the team did not have a full-time video coordinator prior to his graduation in 2007.

Now Paulus returns to Cameron Indoor Stadium in his second season as video coordinator for Ohio State, and Cullen has held that same role with Duke since 2008.

Their jobs are to outscout the other team, but this time it has personal ties. “We’ve still got some preparation before I can get into reflection. It’ll be a really good test,� Paulus said of his return to Duke. “[Cullen] is really good at what he does, and he’s an even better person.�

The video and scouting departments work differently at each school, but it is grueling everywhere. At Duke, Cullen runs the operation from a computer-filled room in the team’s practice facility, the Krzyzewski Center for Athletic Excellence. There he can cut the film from games or practices—with a joystick at his desk, he can angle cameras inside both the K Center and Cameron Indoor Stadium for filming. He works with the current managers who aid him in the process. “I didn’t get very good grades in school because I was here doing film. It’s a tradeoff. I loved every minute of it,� he said. “I suppose I could have been out filandering and drinking and all those other things that people at Duke do, but I chose to be here watching film at 2 a.m.�

The Blue Devils’ three assistant coaches—Chris Collins, Steve Wojciechowski and Jeff Capel—rotate as the lead scout for each game, working with Cullen.

Ohio State is Collins’ turn in the rotation, which meant that as soon as the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas finished, he was working with Cullen for Wednesday’s action.

And that preparation begins immedi-

ately—once the game and the press conferences are done, eight members of the staff assemble to rewatch the game in its entirety. Even after Sunday’s finale in the Bahamas finished near midnight, head coach Mike Krzyzewski assembled his small council: Capel, Collins, Cullen, special assistant Nate James, basketball operations assistant Casey Stevenson, director of basketball operations Pat Thompson and Wojciechowski. “Coach K is going to have the remote.

He’s going to watch the game anyways,�

Cullen said. “There’s a lot of head coaches that after a game are going to go to sleep and come in at noon the next day and leave a video coordinator up working until 3 a.m‌. But when you’ve got everybody invested and up at 3 a.m. working with you, it’s really easy to do what you do.â€?

After watching the previous game’s footage, the group then defers to the lead scout for the next game—in this case Collins— who gives the group a primer on the next team with footage he has already worked on with Cullen. Krzyzewski does not watch footage of the teams except for the immediate opponent, Cullen said, so the postgame session is his first in-depth look at that next squad. “The assistant coaches drive most of the scouting,� Cullen said. “You may as well have the voices you trust and the voices you want to listen to who are on your staff be present with you while you’re trying to formulate your opinions.�

Another one of those top-notch coaches is Ohio State’s Thad Matta, who hired Paulus last year after he spent a year as an assistant coach at Navy. Even though Paulus worked extensively in film preparation in his role with the Midshipmen, the role of a video coordinator is quite different. NCAA rules limit teams from having more than four total coaches, so other personnel, such as video coordinators, are not allowed to work directly with the players on the court during both practices and games.

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W. BASKETBALL from page 11 “We are going to have a tough time matching up with their size, strength and athleticism,� Arico said. “It’s going to be a really difficult matchup for us, but hopefully we can take care of the ball and have our home-court advantage.�

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The Blue Devils hope to make a comeback Wednesday after a 85-63 loss to Ohio State last November.

VIDEO from page 12 “I think it does [give me a different perspective]. It’s an opportunity to learn the game, watch our team, analyze and get insights,” Paulus said.

Paulus credited his four years at Duke with Krzyzewski, from 2005-2009, with teaching him a great deal, but he also said that working with Matta has been influential. The scouting process works differently in Columbus, Ohio—Cullen noted that while the assistants divide the games at Duke, the Ohio State assistants prepare together for each game, all taking a different aspect of the opposing team.

That does not mean one way is right or wrong, though Krzyzewski has made his system the American way after coaching the U.S. Olympic basketball teams to gold in 2008 and 2012. Cullen served as the video

CARP from page 6 team has overcome significant adversity to become bowl eligible.

After a season in which this program made monumental strides toward national relevancy for the first time this century, Duke may face a bit of an identity crisis as it heads toward the offseason. Luckily, head coach David Cutcliffe, who earned the ACC’s Coach of the Year award Tuesday, helped to establish a piece of this identity when he signed on to coach the Blue Devils through 2019. But Cutcliffe certainly has his work cut out for him to fill some of these crucial holes.

Primarily, Cutcliffe will need to select a new quarterback, whether that is Anthony Boone, Brandon Connette or newcomer Thomas Sirk, who redshirted this season.

After this selection is made, he will need to decide whether or not a different style of quarterback may warrant a different structure

coordinator for the 2012 team, traveling to London, and said the scouting process worked similarly there as he worked with both Collins and Wojciechowski, who served as two of Krzyzewski’s assistants.

“Coach K has done a really good job at bringing the Duke culture to the Olympic team,” Cullen said. “[Collins, Wojciechowski and myself] do scouting the same way we do here at Duke.”

And as Paulus gears up to return to his former home court to try and beat Duke for a second straight season, there is only one guarantee for him and Cullen: after the game, which starts at 9:30 p.m., it’s on to the next one.

“We’ll all be there until two, three in the morning, whatever it is. The later the game, the later we’re watching stuff,” Cullen said. “Coach [Krzyzewski] will go home at 5 a.m. He’ll watch more film.” to the Blue Devils’ offensive scheme.

It is unclear where Duke will turn to fill the voids of its lost leaders as well. Redshirt junior cornerback Ross Cockrell is the team’s lone returning captain and the Blue Devils’ junior class does not contain a high number of the team’s starters. Dave Harding and Perry Simmons will be responsible for stabilizing Duke’s offensive line in Moore’s absence, but it will be interesting to see how the Blue Devils move forward from here.

Having an age gap among Duke’s primary contributors is not always the worst thing.

Duke is fortunate to be stocked with young talents who have been able to contribute early in their careers. But as the team moves forward from its most successful season in 18 years, the question remains—how do the Blue Devils replace so much leadership and talent, particularly at the skill positions?

Let’s just leave it to Cutcliffe to answer that question. After all, he just took a giant pay day to be the man for that job.

Ohio State’s best victory to date.

The nucleus of head coach Thad Matta’s squad is a bit different from last year. Forward William Buford and All-American big man Jared Sullinger—who combined to average 32 points per contest last season—are gone. In their absence, forward Deshaun Thomas has filled much of the void offensively this year.

Easily the team’s most potent offensive weapon, the 6-foot-7 inside-outside threat is off to a remarkably hot start in his junior campaign, averaging 24.0 points per game—the sixthbest scoring average in the country—and 7.3 rebounds per game.

Coming off the best three-game stretch of his career and an MVP performance in the Bahamas, Duke sophomore point guard Quinn Cook will face one of his toughest matchups of the year—Ohio State floor general Aaron Craft. Improving his scoring capabilities since last year, the 6-foot-2 junior point guard is the catalyst of the Buckeyes’ offense—averaging 14.3 points per game and 5.3 assists—and is one of the peskiest on-ball defenders in the country. “[Craft] is definitely a great defensive player,” Duke junior guard Tyler Thornton said. “He puts on a lot of ball pressure and plays passing lanes very well.

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The complaint seeks declaratory judgment requiring Maryland to pay the full ACC exit fee, which equals three times the ACC’s annual operating budget, according to a copy of the document obtained by The Chronicle. The 2012-2013 ACC operating budget is $17,422,114, according to the lawsuit.

“The Council of Presidents, following consideration of the types and amounts of financial and other harm that would potentially occur in the event of a member’s withdrawal, concluded the sum of three times the annual operating budget of the ACC was a fair and reasonable approximation of the potential financial and other harm resulting from withdrawal,” paragraph 21 of the complaint states.

The complaint alleges Maryland President Wallace Loh proposed raising the exit fee in 2011 before voting against the increase at the beginning of this fall.

The primary legal issue at hand is whether the exit fee is a liquidated damage or penalty. Penalty clauses are not en-

He controls his team very well.”

Netting 11.5 points per game as a starter, Ohio State’s Lenzelle Smith—a 6-foot-4 junior guard—has demonstrated an ability to score too. And lanky forward LaQuinton Ross—who is Duke sophomore Rodney Hood’s friend and former AAU teammate in high school— and guard Shannon Scott are both gifted athletes that are capable of tallying double-digit scoring outputs off the bench.

With the emergence of Cook as a competent distributor and lead guard, the Blue Devils enter the contest playing at a high level—all five starters are averaging double figures. The team has already seemingly established roles for each individual on the team too.

“I think we’re so balanced,” Plumlee said.

“There are times you’d grab the box score after the game, we’d have five guys in double figures, which is great. To me, those are always the hardest teams to defend.”

To beat a third top-10 foe for a third straight week, the Blue Devils cannot afford to be complacent with what they have accomplished in the early going.

“Obviously, we did some good things in the Bahamas, but that can’t be where it ends,” Kelly said. “We have to take the good things, drop any bad things and get better in the areas we need to get better in. And move on to the next thing, and our next step is Ohio State.” forceable while liquidated damages are— Maryland likely believes the fee, at least in part, is penalizing in nature, Paul Haagen, a Duke Law professor who specializes in sports contracts said.

“A liquidated damage is an attempt to estimate the harm, a good-faith attempt to estimate damage,” Haagen said. “A penalty is an effort to prevent somebody from engaging in a breach by discouraging you from breaching... that it’s well beyond any harm the league would suffer.”

Legal chess likely motivated the ACC to file the complaint, Haagen said, because by filing before Maryland, the conference was able to choose the location of the court, in this case their home district of Greensboro, North Carolina.

“You’re in the forum of your own lawyers, so it’s an advantage to [the ACC],” Haagen said.

[Greensboro] is in the heart of the AOCC, so there’s a greater sense of the importance of the viability of the ACC. You’re not going to have the same sensitivity in a Maryland jurisdiction. If you can get jurisdiction that’s to your advantage.”

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Expel drunk drivers Lee Royster’s sentencing pus, Duke’s administration is a culmination of a tragedy and society at large. that illustrates the need for A small portion of Duke’s an immediate shift in atti- student population contintudes toward drunk driving ues to treat drunk driving in society and especially on much too casually. This probDuke’s campus. lem may beOur thoughts coming more editorial remain with all pronounced those who were affected by at Duke than other campuslast September’s catastroph- es in part because of recent ic incident, particularly the shifts of the dominant social family of the late Matthew life off-campus and the close Grape. In one sense, we feel proximity of popular spots uncomfortable using a trag- off campus—students someedy of this nature as a plat- times dismiss the gravity of form to discuss the broader driving drunk across short issue of drunk driving, but distances. The reality, of the prevention of future course, is that blasé attitude tragedies is a crucially im- towards any kind of drunk portant higher motive. To driving are unacceptable this end, we continue to see and can result in death. It serious problems with the is incumbent upon anyone way drunk driving is per- who has driven drunk or ceived by students on cam- even tolerated drunk driv-

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ing in the past to reevaluate their attitudes now.

But these attitudes are no doubt driven by the Duke administration’s treatment of drunk driving, which is absurdly lenient. Driving under the influence is currently listed by Student Affairs only as one of several negative consequences resulting from alcohol consumption that also include litter and property damage.

The treatment of drunk driving as merely a subcategory of drinking policy needs to change dramatically. In fact, we advocate a zero-tolerance policy toward drunk driving: any Duke student caught drunk driving should be expelled.

This may strike some readers as an unfair punishment

for people caught driving only slightly over the BAC limit. But our view is that only the harshest penalty will compel students to reevaluate their current attitudes toward drunk driving. Anything else merely perpetrates the risk that Duke students continue to treat some instances of drunk driving—over short distances or after ‘only a few’ drinks—as acceptable.

This seemingly harmless attitude can be deadly. Simply put, students who do not disavow illegal drinking and driving in all forms should not be welcome in our community, and the administrative sanction should be serious enough to stop anyone considers drunk driving in their tracks.

We would like to see similar changes in our legal system. Driving drunk is not an accident—it is a deliberate decision that results in the death of others. Treating it as a misdemeanor, as many jurisdictions do, is not commensurate with the gravity of the potential consequences. We strongly encourage the relevant authorities to rethink the message they send to teenagers when they award minimal or no jail time for a crime that remains among the leading causes of death for teenagers in America.

For too long, our community’s attitude to drunk driving has facilitated the continued occurrence of unnecessary tragedies. We cannot correct it soon enough.

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hen I turn in my physics homework, I ern America. People can be cruel. The discrimihave to jump. The box is well above an nation that vertically challenged, high-school arm’s reach, and when I hold my arm boys face come prom time alone is enormous. straight up, problem set in hand, the top of my The nicer girls will of course say yes when a paper just reaches the mouth of the shorter guy asks. While other girls box. Every Monday I have the same go back and forth between shoe/ concern. Will I accidentally slip up dress/jewelry combinations, these this week and send my work sliding obliging girls are subject to weeks into a different class’s homework of surreptitiously trying to figure box? Will I have to track down my out just how short their heels (or TA and explain what happened, or even flats!) have to be. It’s always try and fish out the homework with a struggle, to try and slip in, “Now coat hanger and gum? The majorlydia thurman exactly how tall are you?” into a ity of my class will probably never normal conversation and often doubly a lie think twice, reaching up comfortit’s easier to say, “Sorry, but I hear ably from their lofty 5 feet 8 inches prom is more fun stag anyways!” or 6 feet 2 inches and then leaving the building It’s true that life isn’t fair, but the stigma vertiwithout looking back. But sometimes it sucks to cally challenged individuals deal with is all too be the little guy. arbitrary. What gives social pressure the right When it comes to relevant social concerns, to force the image of a couple with a taller guy there are obviously multitudes that any ethical on us? The nice girls who subscribe to the kneeand conscientious individual should consider. bending/slouching/flats-wearing prom expeThere’s AIDS and illiteracy and homelessness riences only perpetuate the belief that the girl and climate change. There’s animal testing to be must be shorter. Until the norm changes, until contested and un-fair trade coffee to be shirked. it’s acceptable for the prom picture on your parIt can be exhausting and empowering, trying ents’ mantle to boast a full foot height differento save the world, and often such an external tial in the girl’s favor, being short will retain a focus distracts from discriminatory issues that negative connotation among men. I personally face Duke students today. But for those students am holding out for the day that prom date opunlucky enough to be shorter than the average tions are judged not on their height, but on the American, there are very real issues of discrimi- content of their character. nation that deserve notice.

Perceptions can be an extremely difficult social In Starbucks last week, a barista did a double trend to change, and at this point I’m resigned take as I ordered coffee. “Aren’t you a little young to people entering my acquaintance with preconfor coffee?” he asked. Just because I’m the same ceptions based upon my height. Just like those height as the 12-year-olds ordering hot cocoas and who draw conclusions based upon my gender, frappe-mocha-cappu-chocolate-ccinos (hold the it’s hard to change the first impression associated coffee, of course!), doesn’t mean I’m the same with meeting someone who is 5 feet 2 inches. But age. There’s such a stigma, such a strong associa- there are real, tangible things we can change now tion of smallness with youngness. It’s a fair, bio- that would make the transition to a height-blind logical association to be sure; generally the small- society easier. For instance, look at the shelves in est people we interact with are the ones who are stores. The Lobby Shop and ABP both sell items five, four, three years old. But don’t assume that at a height that’s short enough to make you think because someone could apply for legal status as a any reasonable individual should be able to reach midget it means they aren’t old enough to vote. them sans stepping stool, but still tall enough that Or drink coffee. You wouldn’t assume the stu- some of us just can’t reach. Small changes that dent with glasses is any smarter than the one who make being short less of a physical hurdle will reopts for contacts or has 20-20 vision, yet I know move the association of shortness with inability to people make assumptions about me based on my do basic things (like turn in physics homework!). height every day. In restaurants waiters hand me Being short doesn’t have to mean you’ve drawn crayons and kids menus. On Election Day, I’m the short straw. I’m proud I never drank milk given a kid’s ballot. One of my friends offered to growing up, and I can only hope that some day, buy me a step stool. The stool incident probably our community, too, can value non-discriminatory demonstrates more mockery than unintentional acceptance of all shapes and sizes. assumption, but you get the gist.

On top of the trials and tribulations of life as Lydia Thurman is a Trinity sophomore. This is her a short girl, consider being a short guy in mod- final column of the semester.

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n recent years, a collection of million- the idea that high tax rates were the priaires has made appeals to the state to in- mary driver of growth in the postwar years. crease tax rates on high earners. Among Krugman cites the 1950s as some paragon these ostensible champions of the greater of both prosperity and progressive ideals, good, no voice has been louder, perhaps, and yet tax receipts as a percentage of GDP than that of celebrated financial guru and were the lowest they have ever been since World War II, at 14.4 percent, in 1950. For Washington insider Warren Buffett.

In his most recent contribution, Buf- almost the entire decade, they remained below average, and never fet argues—largely from a even made it as high as 20 position of anecdotal evipercent of GDP. It remains dence—that an increase in to be explained, then, how top tax rates for the wealthy the 90 percent tax rates that will not disincentivize inled to such historically unvestment. Although it is remarkable revenues could difficult to see how such a have been chiefly responsipolicy could possibly proble for the widespread prosmote investment, both Bufchris bassil perity of that era. fett and fellow New York human action To move—admittedly Times contributor Paul prematurely—beyond the Krugman have pointed to the boom years following World War II— loose facts of these arguments, it’s imporduring which top rates reached as high as tant to note as well that commentators 90 percent—as evidence that high taxes like Buffett and Krugman do a poor job can promote economic growth. “America of articulating the best arguments against in the 1950s made the rich pay their fair their position, and thus lapse into the share,” Krugman argues. “It gave workers sorts of straw man fallacies that are usuthe power to bargain for decent wages and ally emblematic of minds of lesser esteem. benefits; yet contrary to right-wing propa- The two, for instance, consistently ridicule ganda then and now, it prospered. And we the notion that the wealthy would pass up investment opportunities on account of can do that again.”

The problems with this reading of his- higher taxes. A collection of serious free tory are numerous, and there is nowhere market economists, however, is less connear space enough to list them here. It cerned with a lack of investment than the should suffice to point out, however, that fundamental restructuring of investment even if such a representation were entirely that such a policy of higher taxation might accurate, Buffett and Krugman would create. Any intervention into the volunstill be guilty of basing their arguments tary market—and especially a forcible bion “post hoc ergo propter hoc”—or, “af- nary intervention in the form of property ter this, therefore because of this”—logic. confiscation—serves in the final analysis to To put it more simply, the two make the redirect resources along paths they othersomewhat basic mistake of assuming that wise would not have followed. In the case correlation implies causation. If the two of increased taxation, this often has the of them really would enlist the help of the effect of diverting capital that would have state to forcibly confiscate the wealth of gone to uses valued highly by consumers others, then it must certainly be on them instead toward those—such as inherently to demonstrate the mechanism behind unworkable green energy boondoggles— the relationship between high taxes and that offer no return and, as a result, make economic growth that they are suggesting. the population poorer overall. It remains For them to merely assert that it is so is, to be seen how Buffett, Krugman and co. unfortunately, not enough. would move beyond their underinvestOn top of these shaky foundations of ment caricatures toward a successful refumisinterpreted historical evidence, the ar- tation of this more serious malinvestment guments of tax enthusiasts such as Buffett problem. often fail to convince due to their selective At the risk of lapsing into my own ad presentations of numbers and statistics. In hominem argument, I would like to point his most recent plea, for example, Buffett out a curious fact that holds true for many cites the average income of the super-rich of the wealthy advocates of increased taxaas $202 million before revealing that, in tion: These men and women, like Eliza2009, many of them paid tax rates below beth Warren—who, despite a net worth 20 percent. Of course, he neglects to men- of $14.5 million and a career established tion that, in nominal terms, this 20 percent on the principles of the progressive moverate works out to roughly $40 million for ment, has failed to pay the meager voleach of those individuals. More disturb- untary taxes offered in her home state ingly, Buffett complains that, last year, the of Massachusetts—almost always fail to government brought in only 15.5 percent freely contribute more to the state than of GDP in tax revenue, and implies that it demands in taxes from them. And Warthis is somehow the result of a lenient tax ren Buffett, for instance, allows his readpolicy on the part of the federal govern- ers to believe that when he advocates the ment. A quick look at data from both the abolition of carried interest, he is arguing Congressional Budget Office and the Of- against his own self-interest for the greater fice of Management and Budget, however, good—despite the fact that it is his comindicate that this anomalous total comes petitors in private equity, and not he, who on the heels of a plunge that occurred, primarily rely on such an arrangement to predictably, at the beginning of the re- capture profits. cent recession. In fact, not only does the In “A History of Money and Banking in data show that last year’s 15.5 percent total the United States,” American economist marked an increase over the 2010 total of Murray Rothbard warned that we must 15.1 percent, it also demonstrates that tax always respond to arguments for changes receipts have held relatively stable at an av- in policy by asking, “Cui bono,” or, “Who erage of 18.1 percent of GDP going all the benefits?” Those who consume and recycle way back to 1945. This means that, despite the views of men like Buffett and Krugman the wild swings in top marginal tax rates would do well to take that advice. we have seen over the past half-century, the government has collected roughly the Chris Bassil, Trinity ’12, is currently same amount in revenues—calculated as working for Dana Farber Cancer Institute a percentage of GDP—every year since in Boston, Mass. His column runs every World War II. To return to an earlier point, this pres- Wednesday. You can follow Chris on Twitter ents a problem for those who promote @HamsterdamEcon.

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The Socialites

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or the past year, my articles have have ranted against the ironic ambibeen devoted to the glorification ence of our generation. As someone of one thing: dorkiness. who lives her life like there should be Also the ’90s. And “Harry Potter.” air quotes around her at all times, this And accidental celibacy. resonates with me. I beBut admittedly, the came a sarcastic bastard first concept can unequivat the same age I realized ocally encompass the my boobs had stopped latter three. Dorkiness growing—11ish. So it’s casts a rather entertainno surprise to me when ing shadow over all my someone calls me a hipinterests and attributes, ster. Whether due to my so it consequentially perlindsay tomson high-waisted jeans or my colates my every satirical general disposition, I middle child soliloquy. admittedly appear to assyndrome I moralize awkwardsociate with this ironic ness and goofiness. Not archetype. only because they’re emblems of my And I know that true hipsters aren’t own routine behavior, but also because allowed to admit their hipsterdom, but heralding their significance makes me I don’t embrace the epithet because I distinctively self-deprecating. Distinct is have a purely flannel wardrobe or bethe key word here, because ultimately cause I read obscure anime comics just my goal has always been to be different. to be kitschy. In the purest sense, a hipCall me a freak any day of the week; I’d ster is just another evolution of those rather express nuttiness than normalcy. who dare and desire to be different. So “American Beauty,” a movie devoted gee, it feels good to be a hipster. to making young female moviegoers unEarlier I alluded to the fact that comfortably attracted to Kevin Spacey, wanting to be different can be coupled articulated it best. While getting groped with wanting to be impressive. Impresby the same wrinkly, sexual hands that sive and different are both stark conbeheaded Gwyneth Paltrow in “Seven,” trasts to ordinary, so it makes sense that Mena Suvari’s character says, “I don’t they are at least arbitrarily related. I’ve think there’s anything worse than being struggled with the insecurities of being ordinary.” Is that not the overarching unimpressive a lot since graduation. theme in all of our lives? Whether under- There are so many easy ways to seem statedly or very ferociously so, you have to impressive at Duke—through your soadmit that some part of you wants noth- cial clout, your grades or your extracuring more than to be above average. riculars. Out here, the labels are more That attitude manifests itself in a va- ambiguous. Obviously that’s a good riety of ways. And for me, there’s been a thing, but it can be a little disorienting developmental spectrum of how I dem- at the same time. I’m no longer LDOC onstrate my divergences from the main- co-chair, or a FAC board member or stream. In the early stages, I was just a DUU VP. And now I’m no longer writweird little girl who desperately wanted ing for The Chronicle. to act alternatively to the boy-crazy, gigThis is the last article I’ll be writing gly girls around her. So instead of flirt- for the Socialites. Being an anti-social ing during recess, I’d pretend that I Socialite wasn’t something that was was being possessed by Elizabethan-era necessarily impressive per se, but it was ghosts. This is the time of my life where something I was proud of. It was somemy teachers would misguidedly label me thing that challenged me creatively and as “imaginative” rather than “a lunatic.” intellectually, and now it’s coming to an Later on in high school, I embraced end. When you reach the end of somecynicism for the sake of cynicism. Even- thing, you feel obligated to exit with tually in my college years, I became an significance. That’s how senior year felt. overly involved overachiever. The path Like if every weekend wasn’t legendary, was a bit convoluted, but each juncture then I was doing it wrong. demonstrated the same desire to be difExpecting significance from myself ferent and, indirectly, impressive. distracts me from the unadulterated For as long as there has been pop cul- purity of momentary fun. In moving on ture, there has been pop counterculture from things like the Chronicle, I’m letflaunted by pockets of people rebelling ting go of things that I rely on too heavagainst the social norm. The beatniks, ily to make me feel impressive. the hippies, the goths—every decade Though I will always be a little bit has its own twist on oddity. Nowadays freaky and a little bit geeky, in some hipsters are a heavily contended subdi- other ways it’s time to grow up. vision of our sociological stratosphere, being as popular as they are unpopular.

Lindsay Tomson, Trinity ’12, is currently Society hates them and they hate them- applying her Duke-developed skills of sarcasm selves, an unusually reciprocal disdain. and awkwardness in the real world. This is Recently, several major publications her final column of the semester.

You still have time to apply to be a regular or Monday, Monday columnist for next semester. Applications are due this Friday. Email mfl5@duke.edu for more information.

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BC from page 1 A major change to the building’s upper level will be the unification of the University Store, Lobby Shop and Gothic Bookshop into one large shopping area.

Although there will be one main entrance and one set of cash registers, the stores will have individual sliding gates, allowing them to hold separate operating hours.

As part of the University Store system, the Computer Store will also be part of the shopping area. It is currently being remodeled into a “Technology Center” and is set to open within the next month—one of the first renovations that will be completed.

“It will really be an upscale space and will offer a much better display of the computers and laptops,” said Van Dyk. The Computer Store’s former location, on the building’s lower level, will now host the post office. The relocation of Duke’s 6,000 West Campus mailboxes from their current space on the intermediate level will occur over winter break.

Work will then begin on reconfiguring the intermediate level into a home for student activities, with space allocated to UCAE, the Black Student Alliance and Duke Student Government.

Glass walls will be used in this area as well, creating a more open and fluid environment, and there will meeting rooms and other spaces available for student use, Van Dyk noted.

He added that the intermediate level’s lounge area, with televisions and a pool table, will remain untouched.

In addition to the post office, the lower level will house the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life and the Duke Leadership Development and Social Action office. These offices will be located in what

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is currently Von Canon Hall.

Von Canon A will be renovated, but will remain a reservable meeting space.

Although Von Canon B and C will be filled by new offices, Van Dyk noted that there will be ample new meting space in the Events Pavilion, which is slated to be completed summer 2013 and will house dining operations during the West Union Building renovation.

The Center for Multicultural Affairs will retain its lower level location, but it will receive new carpet, lighting and air conditioning.

Students who were in attendance at the open house voiced their approval of the renovation plans.

“The presentation was really good,” said junior Neil Kondamuri, Duke Student Government vice president for

social culture. “It should be a pleasant surprise for the students coming back to school next year. It seems like a great way to make a relatively old space modern, with all the glass and open areas.”

Senior Chris Brown, a member of the The Chronicle’s independent editorial board, said he felt the renovations would add vitality to the building and encourage students to frequent the student center more often.

“We’ve seen a gradual progression of change in the Bryan Center, notably with Au Bon Pain, which is a significant addition and a good example of something that adds life and fosters a sense of community,” he said. “[With these renovations], we’re taking the steps necessary to make this change consistent through the building.”

KOREA from page 3 to restore the joint economic projects that were scrapped under the current president, Lee Myung-bak. Moon also has said he will seek summit talks next year.

North Korea has tried and failed three times to send a satellite into orbit, most recently on April 13, when the Unha-3 rocket fell apart shortly after launch. The blast had been intended as the showcase moment for a weekend celebrating the 100th birthday of deceased national founder Kim Il Sung.

The North is gearing up for another anniversary Dec. 17, which marks one year since the death of Kim Jong Il, who is Kim Il Sung’s son and the father of current supreme leader Kim Jong Eun.

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Ted Van Dyk, Trinity ’83 and principal and founder of architecture firm New City Design Group, displayed detailed floor plans of the Bryan Center renovations at an open house Tuesday afternoon.

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