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Complainant local options return to duke dining approved to sue University

by Kirby Wilson The Chronicle

Last week, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that a former Duke employee can go forward with his lawsuit against the University.

According to the Court, Brian Wilkerson—who worked as a parking attendant at Duke Medicine—is allowed to pursue his lawsuit againstDuke and the Duke University Police Department. The decision is a reversal of Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson’s 2012 dismissal of Wilkerson’s original litigation.

The lawsuit stems from a July 2008 incident in which Christopher Day, a former University police officer, confronted Wilkerson outside a University hospital parking lot. Wilkerson had been instructed to let only University Police officers into the lot in cases of emergency. Wilkerson refused to open the gate, which resulted in a physical altercation between him and Day. “He pointed at my face and asked me for my information, and then that’s when I asked him nicely to not point at my face,” Wilkerson said in a deposition.

“That’s when he pulled me and tried to grab me.”

Day then issued a notice of trespassing to Wilkerson, which prohibited from going onto Duke’s campus and ultimately lost him his job.

In the suit, Wilkerson pressed charges of false imprisonment, assault, battery and negligent supervision and retention against Day and the University. He is seeking compensatory and punitive damages.

Upon appeal, Wilkerson abandoned his original claims of public stigmatization and negligence.

DUPD Chief John Dailey declined to comment, redirecting comments to Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public relations and government affairs.

Schoenfeld also declined to comment on the case, citing the University’s policy to refrain from commentary on pending litigation.

Robert Ekstrand, the plaintiff’s lawyer, could not be reached for comment.

Day’s testimony from the deposition, however, does not match Wilkerson’s.

“I put my hand on [Wilkerson’s] chest and... stopped him from going around See lawsuit, page 12

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The Eat Local Challenge, an event organized by Bon Appetit, aims to promote local foods.

by Carleigh Steihm The Chronicle

Duke Dining is taking steps towards promoting student locavores.

The Eat Local Challenge is an event coordinated by Bon Appetit—the University’s food service provider. All food served Tuesday in the Penn Pavilion and Marketplace was sourced from within 150 miles of campus.

“This is one of many events Duke Dining does surrounding local initiatives,” Coffey wrote in an email Tues-

day. “Besides just serving local foods, this event is structured to educate and inform customers on the local agriculture and food.”

The annual event started in 2005.

In the Spring, Duke Dining announced that it was going to stop buying produce and meat from local vendors for the remainder of the academic year to assess purchasing needs and negotiate prices, Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of student affairs for housing, dining and residence life,

previously told The Chronicle.

Coffey noted that the transition back to supporting local produce has begun.

“We are working on getting all the updated bios from our local farmers and producers, so you will be seeing the products labeled along with information about the farmer and their farm,” Coffey wrote.

He added that Duke Dining is conSee local, page 2

Shooting at NCCU leaves gunman dead

by Georgia Parke The Chronicle

Police shot and killed a gunman at North Carolina Central University early Tuesday morning.

A statement released this morning

by NCCU Chancellor Debra SaundersWhite explained that a suspect of a criminal investigation fled to the campus’s vicinity and was pursued by NCCU and Durham Police at approximately 10:15 p.m. Monday. The campus was put on lockdown shortly after the po-

lice arrived.

Chief of NCCU Police Timothy Bellamy said that shots were fired at the intersection of Cecil and Lincoln Street near the School of Education building, and the suspect was pronounced dead on arrival. He said that three officers were present at the incident and none were injured.

The suspect was not a student, Bellamy said, and his identification is not yet known by NCCU police.

Saunders-White’s statement noted

the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is now responsible for managing the investigation, and classes and events in the School of Education building have been relocated.

After the lockdown was lifted, the NCCU Twitter account advised students to avoid areas around Cecil, Burlington Avenue, 55/Alston Avenue and Lincoln Street.

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Al Rossiter, Duke journalist dies at 77

by Elizabeth Djinis The ChroniCle

Journalist Al rossiter Jr. died Monday at the age of 77 in Washington, n.C., leaving behind a storied legacy as the former director of the Duke news Service and assistant vice president in the University’s office of Public Affairs. rossiter had battled with lung cancer for several years, though he was not a smoker. he had a strong impact on those who knew him and was known for both his talent and his kindness, said Keith lawrence, director of media relations.

“Al was a classic newsman: he loved his news [and] he knew it inside and out,” lawrence said. “he treated all his folks fairly, he was easy to work for, he had a good sense of humor, he took his work seriously but didn’t necessarily take himself seriously.” rossiter hired lawrence at Duke news in 1995, and the pair worked together for six years. lawrence had fond memories of that time, recalling how rossiter would stomp up the stairs with his heavy footfall and call “Meeting time!” to his staff. lawrence noted that rossiter carried this friendly manner into his work. “he was very interested in what everybody was working on,” lawrence said. “he expected us to match his own work ethic. he had pretty high standards for himself and...high standards for us, as well.”

As director of Duke news, rossiter helped to raise the University’s profile and increase their media programs. lawrence described him as a “strategic thinker.”

Prior to coming to Duke news, rossiter began his journalism career with wire service United Press international.

The job gave rossiter the opportunity to explore the intersection between science and journalism—reporting stories such as the Three Mile island nuclear

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power plant accident in 1979 and the first permanent artificial heart transplant in 1982. he eventually rose to the top of the organization, becoming its editor and executive vice president. lawrence added that rossiter was especially proud of his coverage of the space program, including a story he wrote about the first men to walk on the moon that made the front page of The new York herald Tribune. “he was one of the few who really, from a journalistic standpoint, knew the ins and outs of nASA and the space program,” lawrence said. “he was really on the frontline of history.” rossiter came to Duke in 1992 after more than 30 years with UPi. After retiring in 2001, he worked part-time for six years in the Pratt School of engineering, first as communications director and then as associate dean for public affairs—hearkening back to his days as a science writer. lawrence noted the loss the community is already feeling at rossiter’s passing.

“To me personally, Al is a friend and a mentor and just a heck of a newsman,” lawrence said. “We’re missing him already.” rossiter is survived by his wife of 53 years, Sylvia Vanlandingham rossiter, and their two grown children, Alec rossiter iii of Catonsville, Md., and Jill rossiter Kerns of Bristow, Va.; Jill’s husband, Karl, and their son, Woody; a sister, Martha rossiter Short of Charlotte, n.C.; and a brother, Thomas howell rossiter of lebanon, n.J..

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Every week The Chronicle collects premedical students’ most pressing questions and poses them to professionals in the field of medicine. This week, The Chronicle’s Juanita Hazel emailed Dr. Brenda Armstrong, associate dean of medical education and director of admissions for the School of Medicine, to find out what matters from an administrative perspective.

TC: Students have a lot of questions concerning acceptance to medical school. What’s your most honest advice?

BA: The process of preparing for medical school involves pushing your intellectual and academic limits, taking on subject matter that is challenging, on the cutting edge, and looking across disciplines—biology, chemistry, mathematics, physical science, social science, and psychology in increasingly complex course work.

TC: When choosing a medical school class, what is the most important factor you look for throughout the group?

BA: There is no single “important factor.” rigorous academic training without complementary life experience creating significant humanism (and vice-versa) is not acceptable. We look for students who are “capable of brilliant academic work,” who are inquisitive, creative and productive, and have demonstrated this in their undergraduate academic and extracurricular training. equally important is the development as individuals who are capable of and have already demonstrated leadership, self-understanding, maturity, reliability and resilience, the

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TC: Why have students said that they want to attend Duke above other medical school programs?

BA: Duke’s innovative curriculum has been ahead of the curve in its understanding of the pivotal relationship of research to the discovery of new science and practice when compared to its peer institutions. The early introduction of clinical interactions with patients in the first year of medical school and the integration of teaching involving patients alongside the introduction to biomedical science in the first years has been a defining feature of Duke’s curricular philosophy, going back more than 40 years. As the pace of new discovery in biomedical science has accelerated, as our understanding of the causes of disparities in health and the multiple factors in producing them has unfolded, the need for training physicians who are grounded in a research environment has made DukeMed a leader in medical education. The requirement of a year of research as part of the curriculum, either clinical or basic science, and/or through the opportunity to train in complementary areas, MPh, MPP, MBA, JD, Masters in global health, etc., have made DukeMed an increasingly sought-after place

to study medicine.

TC: Do you have any good stories/ experiences in dealing with applicants that have carried on through your time at Duke?

BA: There are hundreds of stories that describe the “journey to medicine.” We have been fortunate to ask the “right” questions that would elicit these “stories” of the “journey to medicine,” in many cases defined by significant “distance traveled” in overcoming academic and personal obstacles in the pursuit of medicine, of the brilliance that our students show us as they are willing to share life-defining experiences on the way to medical school. The key for medical school admissions is to ask “the right questions,” to allow both the capability of academic brilliance and the extraordinary personal competences that life experience teaches to be revealed. Whether it is in the academic and demographic inventory of the AMCAS application, coupled with the inquiry of a tough secondary application, or the detailed letters of recommendation that come forward through the faculty, Duke health Professions Advising office and others who provide first hand documentation of the non-academic qualities of the students and the “who they are” during the Multiple Mini interviews designed to bring out those lessons learned outside of the classroom, DukeMed has been fortunate to receive applications from students preparing for a career in medicine that make us hopeful for our future.

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Senate confirms highest-ranking openly gay judge in the U.S.

by Juliet Eilperin The Washington post

WASHINGTON — When the Senate voted 98-0 to confirm Justice Department attorney Todd Hughes for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday, it didn’t just put another one of President Obama’s judicial nominees on the federal bench: It seated the first openly gay federal circuit judge in history.

Hughes, who has served as deputy director of the commercial litigation branch of the Justice Department’s civil division since 2007, has specialized in the kinds of issues that come up before the bench on which he will soon sit. Unlike the other 12 Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Federal Circuit specializes in a handful of designated issues including international trade, government contracts, patents, trademarks, veterans’ benefits, and public safety officers’ benefits claims. Hughes could not be reached for a comment.

After the vote, White House counsel Kathryn Reummler published a blog post celebrating the confirmation as “yet another ‘first” among President Obama’s judges.”

“Like all of the President’s judicial nominees, Hughes has the intellect, experience, integrity, and temperament to be a successful judge. He is also gay,” she wrote, adding that under Obama Hispanics, African-Americans and Asian-Americans have also broken barriers in the federal judiciary. “We look forward to the ‘seconds’ and ‘thirds’ who will come after Todd Hughes and his fellow ‘firsts’ currently serving on our courts.”

Geovette Washington, who is the Office of Management and Budget’s general counsel and has been friends with Hughes since they attended law school together, described him as “a problem solver” who “can do very complicated constitutional issues,” but also brings a degree of pragmatism to cases.

“I have always been amazed by how intelligent he is, but also how practical he is,” she said, adding that Hughes is well prepared for the Federal Circuit because he’s appeared before it so many times. “He’s dug in and done the hard work on those issues.”

Washington, who bonded with Hughes during Duke basketball games, said he has always been open about his sexual orientation but has not been defined by it. “I wouldn’t call him an activist,” she said. “It’s part of who he is.”

Seven openly gay judges have already been confirmed to serve on district courts, which rank one level below the circuit courts. The first, Deborah Batts in the Southern District of New York, took senior status in April 2012, and the remaining six were all appointed by President Obama.

“Judge Hughes is an eminently qualified nominee who just happens to shatter a barrier as the first openly gay federal appellate court judge,” said Michael ColeSchwartz, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a gay-rights group. “It’s a testament to how far we have come as a country that his sexual orientation is irrelevant to his ability to serve on our nation’s courts.”

Hughes, a Delaware, Ohio native, received his A.B. from Harvard College and earned both a law degree and a master’s degree in English at Duke University. His nomination is not controversial, so the Senate is likely to vote in favor by a wide margin.

The Obama administration has managed to win Senate approval for six openly gay nominees so far this term, five of them on July 30. The group included four ambassadors -- Dan Baer as ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, John Berry as ambassador to Australia, Rufus Gifford as ambassador to Denmark and James Costos as ambassador to Spain -- along with Stuart Delery as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. The sixth was Elaine Kaplan, as a judge on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims The president has also appointed 13 openly gay officials this year who did not require Senate confirmation, according to the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, which has recommended a total of 195 candidates to the administration this term.

There are still 13 of the president’s judicial nominees pending on the Senate floor: two nominees for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and 11 district court nominees. The group of remaining nominees includes nine women and four African- Americans.

While Hughes nomination has not been a heavy lift, one of Obama’s other gay judicial nominees, Miami judge William Thomas, ran into trouble this week. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., withdrew his support for Thomas’s appointment to the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida, saying he had issues of two of his

“Judge Hughes is an eminently qualified nominee who just happens to shatter a barrier as the first openly gay federal appellate court.”

Washington said that while she was pleased about the prospect of Hughes’s confirmation she had just one concern: Hughes, who is unmarried and a talented cook, might have less time to devote to feeding his friends.

“I just hope his time on the bench won’t mean he doesn’t have time to cook meals for us,” she said.

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Cutcliffe cuts deep Duke head coach calls out former Tennesee star in pay-for-play debate

by Daniel Carp THE CHRONICLE

Week four around the NCAA was the first time since the 30-minute suspension of Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel that issues surrounding pay-forplay took center stage.

This time, the discussion hit a lot closer to home for Duke.

Shockwaves were sent through the college football community Friday when an interview clip featuring Houston Texans running back Arian Foster from the documentary “Schooled: The Price of College Sports” was obtained by Sports Illustrated. In the segment, Foster admitted that he had accepted side payments during his collegiate career at Tennessee.

Although the recent issues surrounding pay-for-play have concerned the NCAA’s use of players’ likenesses for merchandizing and sales purposes, Foster said his concerns were with paying for food and rent.

“I go to my dorm room, open my fridge and there’s nothing in my fridge,” Foster said in the interview. “Hold up,

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man. What just happened? Why don’t I have anything to show for what I just did? There was a point where we had no food, no money, so I called my coach, and I said, ‘Coach, we don’t have no food. We don’t have no money. We’re hungry. Either you give us some food, or I’m gonna go do something stupid.’

He came down and he brought like 50 tacos for like four or five of us, which is an NCAA violation. But then, the next day I walk up to the facility, and I see my coach pull up in a brand new Lexus.

Beautiful.”

Duke head coach David Cutcliffe served as Foster’s offensive coordinator at Tennessee during the running back’s sophomore and junior seasons.

At his weekly press conference Tuesday, Cutcliffe was quick to dismiss Foster’s claims, calling the Texans’ running back’s interview one of the worst he’d ever seen.

“Arian never looked hungry his entire career,” Cutcliffe said. “[His scholarship] pays food and rent, and on

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Duke comes from behind to avoid loss at home to Wright State

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Duke defender Sebastien Ibeagha sealed the Blue Devil’s come-from-behind victory with a goal in the 80th minute.

Seemingly refusing to play a game without late theatrics, the Blue Devils yet again found themselves in a contest that came down to the wire.

Off a corner kick from Duke junior Sean Davis, senior Sebastian Ibeagha WSU 1 buried a header in the back of the net DUKE 2 with 10 minutes remaining to propel Duke to a 2-1 victory against Wright State at Koskinen Stadium Tuesday night, marking the fourth straight game decided in the 75th minute or later.

“I made my run, saw the ball in the air, went up and just connected with it,” Ibeagha said.

Duke amassed 10 corner kicks in the second half, creating opportunity after opportunity for its high-powered offense.

“On Monday, all we did was practice our set pieces,” Ibeagha said. “This is what we’ve been working on.”

In their first-ever meeting with the Raiders (1-4-1), the Blue Devils (4-2-2)

Let’s start a rivalry Every year college football rivalry games take place across the nation. Although some of these contests are played purely for pride and bragging rights, a select handful also offer the victor a special reward—a rivalry trophy.

Some of these trophies have fairly dull names. For instance, Louisville claimed the Governor’s Cup with a 27-13 win against Kentucky September 14, one of the first trophy games to be played this year.

But some have trophies with names that are hard to forget.

Brigham Young and Utah State play for the Old Wagon Wheel. Notre Dame and Southern California introduced the Jeweled Shillelagh (What the heck is a Shillelagh?) in 1952 to commemorate an already decades-old rivalry. And Michigan and Minnesota fight over perhaps college football’s most uninspiring trophy, the Little Brown Jug, year after year.

The Bayou Bucket, the Beehive Boot, the Golden Egg, the Old Brass Spittoon, Paul Bunyan’s Ax—there is no end to the creativity behind some of these prized trophies.

Despite these absurd-sounding trophy names, their significance should not be understated. They represent the visceral, very real reward for some of college football’s most heated rivalry games. Teams tear each other apart for the honor to proudly display these awards on their respective campuses until next year’s game rolls around, and the battle begins again.

Take Duke’s rivalry game against North Carolina for instance. The Blue Devils and Tar Heels have played for the Victory Bell since 1948, after a cheerleader from each school teamed up to design the trophy and acquired the bell from an old railroad train.

Despite the trophy’s relatively simple design—just an old bell on a small platform—its importance as a symbol of pride is immense. When Duke upset North Carolina 33-30 in Durham last year, Blue Devil players ran to the Victory Bell and joyously took turns ringing it in front of fans—including me—who stormed the field. Duke had not beaten the Tar Heels and rung the Victory Bell since 2003.

With the importance of the Victory Bell and other rivalry trophies in mind, I wonder if the Blue Devils ever thought about establishing any of these other trophy games:

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got off to a rocky start, a common theme throughout the season. They conceded an early goal to Wright State senior forward Brett Elder, who took a through ball off the right wing and chipped it right over goalkeeper Alex Long’s head in a one-onone situation.

“We had to dig ourselves out of a hole to start the game,” head coach John Kerr said. “They really stepped up their game against us and caused us fits.”

In a very aggressive first half, Duke and Wright State combined for 22 fouls and 3 yellow cards. The Raiders have a reputation for physical play, registering 93 fouls in just six games.

In a scary moment for the Blue Devils, Duke freshman Brody Huitema collided heads with Wright State defender Jacob Stovall in the 24th minute. Stovall was able to walk away, but Huitema cringed on the ground for a few minutes while being examined by the training staff. Fortunately, a thick headband made from athletic tape and a clean jersey were the only treatments the freshman required, See M. SOCCER, page 7

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Give me a beat This past Sunday, future Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera was honored with a 50-minute pregame ceremony. Mo’s past teammates, friends and many more came to Yankee Stadium to see the Yankee legend have his jersey retired, but perhaps the most intriguing moment of the ceremony came during the introduction.

The heavy metal band Metallica played Rivera’s trademark walkout song, “Enter Sandman,” and the performance brought the house down.

Despite the fact that Metallica has been as irrelevant in the 21st century as the Cleveland Browns, the tribute got me thinking: are music and sports joined at the hip?

Rivera’s musical ritual is well known, but his theme song is hardly the first for a closer.

Trevor Hoffman, considered perhaps the second-best closer of all time, never stepped on the mound without walking out to AC/ DC’s “Hells Bells.” Eric Gagne, the Major League Baseball record holder for most consecutive saves, was escorted to the mound to the tune of “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses. Even Major League star Rick Vaughn trotted to the mound with “Wild Thing” echoing through the Cleveland Indians’ stadium.

For athletes, music often becomes a part of their legacy. Recently retired Baltimore Ravens legend Ray Lewis was a beast on the football field, but it was his patented squirrel dance that many will remember him for. After all of the other Ravens were introduced, M&T Bank Stadium would blast Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” and Ray would go to work. The dance wasn’t complicated, perhaps a little spastic, but may be one of the most famous jives an athlete has ever done.

Some athletes even decide to take their love for music to the next level by pursing musical careers. Who could forget the Shaquille O’Neal classic “What’s Up Doc? (Can We Rock)” featuring the highly influential Fu-Schnickens. The 1985 Chicago Bears boasted their championship success in the famous “Super Bowl Shuffle.” Former Olympian Carl Lewis didn’t write his own songs, but he did dazzle us with his singing

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of our national anthem in the 1990s. Seriously, it’s worth taking a minute of your time to search for this gem on YouTube.

Actors playing athletes can be revered as highly as real athletes. Look no further than one Sylvester Stallone, most famous for his leading role in Rocky, for justification of that claim. Stallone’s workout montages are the Hollywood standard, accompanied by the song “Gonna Fly Now,” the anthem of the Rocky movies.

And who could forget when the entire fictitious Washington Sentinels football team in The Replacements was thrown in jail for getting into a bar fight, only to come together by singing the disco classic “I Will Survive” in their jail cell?

Of course, we’d be remiss to forget about the true lifeblood behind any team—the fans. We feel humble after the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner,” or a sense of unbridled mix of joy and relief as “One Shining Moment” plays after an NCAA men’s basketball championship, but there are few moments in time that rival the lead up to a pivotal moment. Fourth down and one yard to go, the final timeout before a team attempts a buzzer beating 3-pointer, two outs in the bottom of the ninth, these are moments when nervous anticipation mixed with crowd noise and the ideal song create a perfect storm of sports serenity. It’s moments like these that have us crawling back for more—the adrenaline rush of possibly seeing greatness unfold right in front of our eyes. “Eye of the Tiger,” “Lose Yourself,” “Crazy Train,” “Jump Around,” they all have our hearts beating at 1,000 miles an hour, preparing us for the decisive play.

Yesterday, award-winning rapper Drake released his third studio album, “Nothing Was the Same,” but it was on his first album, “Thank Me Later,” that the Toronto native discussed the relationship between musicians and athletes. On the track “Thank Me Now,” he raps, “I swear sports and music are so synonymous, ‘cause we want to be them, and they want to be us.”

The direct connection between musicians and athletes is more of a recent trend, most notably between rappers and professional basketball players, but Drake is right: there’s an undeniable alignment between music and sports.

Rivera and the rest of the Yankee faithful saw that this past Sunday afternoon. So as Mo moves on to a well-deserved retirement, he knows better than anyone that Metallica will be there to take his hand, off to never, neverland.

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and he returned to the game at the end of the first half.

Huitema’s return would turn out to be pivotal for Duke. Creating a golden goal against Davidson together last week, the duo of Huitema and fellow freshman Seo-In Kim came up big again when Kim had a corner kick that resulted in a laser header from Hutiema to tie the game in the 69th minute.

“At times in the first half, we didn’t take

advantage of some spots that we could have exploited,” Kerr said. “We did a lot better in the second half, creating what felt like 50 corners.”

Despite letting up the 11th-minute goal, the Blue Devils controlled possession throughout the game. In fact, Duke didn’t even allow Wright State a single shot between the 27th and 64th minutes.

“We just stepped it up in terms of our speed of play, our attacking, going forward, and making openings for ourselves,” Kerr said.

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gameday when you go back to your dorm, you usually have $15 of meal money on you, which will buy 10 tacos.”

One of Cutcliffe’s team captains, redshirt senior cornerback Ross Cockrell, echoed his head coach’s sentiment when he said that his Duke scholarship helps him keep food on the table and a roof over his head.

“Here we have everything that’s covered. I don’t know what goes on at other programs,” Cockrell said. “I feel like at Duke we have a great situation. I’m happy about how we’re treated here.”

With Foster’s words echoing throughout college football stadiums throughout the country, several groups of players took to the field with protests Saturday.

Among these groups were several play-

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ers from Georgia Tech, including quarterback and Durham native Vad Lee and defensive end Jeremiah Attaochu. They wore armbands with the hashtag #APU, an acronym for “All Players United,” to support the National Collegiate Players Association, an advocacy group that supports NCAA reform.

The Yellow Jackets had taken the field Wallace Wade Stadium and defeated the Blue Devils 38-14 just one week before the protest.

Although Cutcliffe said he was unaware of the protests, which included players from Georgia and Northwestern as well, it appears the winds of change are sweeping back through the ACC. Before the start of the college football season, Clemson cornerback Darius Robinson was one of six current NCAA football players to join the class action lawsuit started by former UCLA basket-

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Houston Texans running back Arian Foster made national headlines last week when his comments about accepting side payments were released by Sports Illustrated.

ball player Ed O’Bannon, who is suing the NCAA, EA Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Company for profiting from players’ likenesses in college sports video games.

“As long as there’s the amount of media we have and the opportunity, you’re going to see these protests,” Cutcliffe said.

“I don’t see anybody getting abused.”

Even with the foreseeable end to conference realignment, college football is a sport that will continue to undergo significant changes in the coming year.

On the field, these changes are widely viewed to be positive ones, most notably the end of the BCS era and the inception of a long-awaited playoff system.

But off-field issues continue to hamper the sport. Even as Penn State presses on in the post-Jerry Sandusky era and Miami attempts to move past the Nevin Shapiro investigation, a budding scandal at Oklahoma State that encompasses everything from illegal payments to sex and drugs is keeping the dangers of mixing big money and college sports in the national spotlight.

Because NCAA scholarships are only allowed to cover tuition and fees, room and board and required course-related books, one of the proposed solutions is to amend college scholarships to reflect the full cost of attendance, which would provide athletes with a stipend of a few thousand dollars per year to help pay for expenditures not covered by their scholarships.

Such expenditures could include travel, clothing and laundry, but Cutcliffe added that the majority of these expenses could be covered by a need-based Pell Grant or the NCAA’s needy student assistance fund, which spent more than $53 million on 81,000 student-athletes in 2010-11.

As the debates surrounding pay-forplay continue to rage on, Cutcliffe urged players and coaches around the country

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Cornerback Russ Cockrell (6) backed up his head coach’s statement, attesting to how well players are supported. to take a step back and examine the broader perspective.

“Let’s be careful what we’re complaining about,” Cutcliffe said. “I keep hearing it’s so broken. Good gosh, look at the attendance. Look what’s going on every weekend. What is so broken?

Somebody said that it’s just not working.

When did it quit working? That’s my question.”

Although the idea of scholarships covering full cost of attendance is a popular one among players and pundits, Cutcliffe was quick to point out the potential negative effects such a system could have on college football.

“Let me tell you what it’s going to do.

All of that is going to make it so expensive to come to a college athletics event that then it will be broken,” Cutcliffe said. “I’m sorry to disagree with so many intelligent people who seem to think they understand the circumstance.”

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A large bronze bull statue sits in the middle of downtown. A smaller version of this statue would serve perfectly as the trophy for the Blue Devils’ rivalry game with the Eagles.

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this year for just the third time ever, there is something inherently rivalrous about two teams from the same city playing against each other. It doesn’t matter that the Eagles are in the FCS, essentially the minor leagues of college football. Crosstown rivals deserve a trophy to fight over, and I have just the thing—a bronze bull.

After all, Durham is the “Bull City.” Prior to the Duke-North Carolina Central matchups in 2012 and 2013, cross country runners from both schools began their race, the “Bull City Classic,” in Wallace Wade Stadium.

The Durham Bulls, the AAA affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, play underneath the watchful eye of a giant bull whose eyes turn red

The Golden Calculator Duke has played Georgia Tech 81 times since 1933, when the teams first met. The Blue Devils joined the ACC under its original charter in 1953, and the Yellow Jackets joined in 1978, so the two programs have spent more than three decades playing in the same conference. There is plenty of history here to warrant a rivalry trophy.

Since Duke and Georgia Tech are the premier engineering schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference, a trophy game could

also draw on the academic rivalry between these two schools. What better award for the winner of the rivalry game than the Golden Calculator? Whichever school wins the game would get to etch the name of its engineering school’s valedictorian on the back of the trophy so that it could be admired for years to come.

The Fight for I-40 North Carolina State, located in Raleigh, lies just 25 miles away from Durham down Interstate-40. Like Duke and Georgia Tech, the Blue Devils and Wolfpack have also met 81 times—only North Carolina and Wake Forest have faced off against Duke more.

Additionally, Durham is almost as close to the North Carolina State campus as it is to Chapel Hill, so a trophy game between the Blue Devils and the Wolfpack makes sense.

Since I-40 is the main link between the two schools, to the winner of the rivalry game would go the rights to naming a portion of the interstate until the teams’ next meeting. From big corporations to boy scout troops, anyone can ‘adopt a highway’ and have it named after them, so it shouldn’t be hard for two universities as large as Duke and North Carolina State to secure similar privileges.

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avid Petraeus is seated on stage, one leg over the other. The spotlight shines. A vase of flowers shimmers on the table. Sept. 11, 2013, Duke University. His first paid engagement since leaving the CIA in disgrace. A giant placard to his right reads “American Grand Strategy,” the title of the program that brought him here. Its logo features prominently. In it, the United States is lit up in white, a five-point star at its center. The rest of the planet is covered in darkness.

Somewhere in that darkness, worshippers are leaving a Shiite mosque after evening prayers. Ten years since the Americans came and changed things forever. Sept. 11, 2013, Baghdad. A car bomb explodes, and onlookers rush to help the injured. In the chaos, a suicide bomber detonates. 33 die in the blasts; many more are wounded. Police see a second man fumbling with his explosive belt and stop him, but they are no match for the furious mob. The failed bomber is stabbed to death on the spot. It has been a gruesome summer in Baghdad. The pogroms have reached sizes unseen since the “surge” of 2007-08. Under Petraeus’s guidance, the Americans backed the Shiite side in the civil war then. But the occupier is gone now. Past scores are being settled strictly in Iraqi blood.

In Durham, Petraeus speaks of policy mistakes and miscalculations made by allies.

I am reminded of the high British officials that strolled away from the flames of their divided South Asian colony in 1947, shrugging. A million people were slaughtered in religious riots along the new IndiaPakistan border that summer. “Lying like the garbage across the street and in its open gutters were bodies of the dead,” a few of them my relatives’. Here were infant governments hastily assembled by a foreign power, too weak to contain a violent ethnic hatred heightened in bids to divide and conquer. The script for empire— and the arc of its collapse—has hardly aged.

Just a slight nudge: That is the extent of our responsibility. We are not to blame for the slide into the abyss. A political animal has in the rhythm of its heartbeat the holy mantra “plausible deniability,” that gift from the Kennedy-era CIA. At any moment be prepared to demonstrate the cleanliness of your hands … and if they are not, lie. Petraeus unfortunately had to follow the second course when I stood in front of the microphone two weeks ago. After reading my last column on the ex-General, Duke’s Peter Feaver invited me hear him out. Give war a shot; maybe pose a question. I agreed.

I asked about the United States’ first strike in Yemen, the shelling of al-Majalah ordered by General Petraeus in 2009.

As the words started leaving my mouth, he averted his eyes. David Petraeus did not look at me again. I still wonder what memories came to his mind as he gazed out at a faraway point in the crowd.

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classification schemata for such strikes, secret as they are. It is an impressive chain of command, fastidiously followed. I learned that David Petraeus “cannot acknowledge” the attack he authorized, which incinerated 21 children and 14 women, whose cluster bombs still explode and kill visitors. I was curiously informed “no conversations took place” between him

Prashanth Kamalakanthan subalternatives and Yemen’s dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, about the ensuing cover-up and jailing of a journalist. To be fair, the claim is possible. He could have stayed silent when Saleh told him, “We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours,” in a meeting on Jan. 2, 2010. David Petraeus: war criminal probably, “warrior-intellectual” certainly. He can wave around his Princeton PhD, but the torture conducted by secret police under his watch —“breaking hands and legs … electric drills to pierce their bodies”— is a blurrier line to trace. When an Iraqi broadcaster began to show detainees after their ordeals, Petraeus’s office called in to tell them not to do that. The deniability has to be plausible. An impressive chain of command, fastidiously followed.

Students at the City University of New York recently faced pain for breaking the chain of command, nonviolently protesting Petraeus’s academic appointment outside Macaulay Honors College. They were punched in the head, shoved and slammed against vehicles by NYPD in response. A video of an immobile student face-down on the pavement, cops’ knees digging into his back as a plainclothes officer repeatedly punched his kidneys, went viral. Six students of color now face charges after being held for 20 hours. Just more people in uniform, carrying out Petraeus’s good works. Indignant faculty— represented by a 25,000-member union—have since unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the repression. More than 300 CUNY educators and graduate students have signed a growing petition demanding Petraeus’s termination. Investigative journalist Steve Horn describes it as a “watershed moment” in the university’s history.

But for now, David Petraeus is still seated, one leg over the other, watching the darkness creeping toward his lecturer’s podium, surrounding the car he takes to his Wall Street landing pad. Those of us in the shadows will not stay silent, even as the police batons rise. We cannot afford to. Conscience is all we have.

Prashanth Kamalakanthan is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday. Send Prashanth a message on Twitter @pkinbrief.

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Every college has its stereotypes. Harvard kids are snooty, Cornell kids are mean, people at Stanford are really good at competitive knot tying.

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Lillie Reed wumbology Collegiate ACB per month, Duke students have made a name for themselves: Dukebags. There are certain behaviors and ways of life that are just so painstakingly, undeniably DUKE. With that, I’d like to introduce a new segment I call “You might be a Dukebag if …”

One: Your dream job is telling others how to do their jobs.

If you had asked me what “consulting” was before college, I probably would have told you it was those medical checkups guys have to have where a doctor fingers their butthole. As far as I know, that could still be called consulting. However, I now know there is also an entire business called “consulting” built around being good at running businesses, staffed by college grads with little to no experience running businesses.

When asked why they are interested in consulting, Dukebags will likely first stare at you with a terrified look as if they have never thought of that question before. Then they’ll murmur something under their breath about intellectual challenges, diverse tasks or Mitt Romney. Realizing they have wet themselves, they will conclude that this conversation is in fact not a good investment (providing two or three succinct supporting facts) and will disappear faster than an Obama supporter asked to give an opinion about drones. My theory is that Dukebags react this way because they’re just so excited about the job. They’re exceptionally interested in consulting, of course, purely out of the goodness of their hearts. They get intrinsic, capitalist exuberance out of improving the economy. What else could it be?

Two: You just don’t know if you see this going anywhere.

If there is something Dukebags love, it’s hooking up. Hell, they love it so much they invented a whole culture for it. Duke recruits a specific niche of students who have no fear when confronting complex global problems or a lifetime of ridicule for attending a “douche” school, but are somehow terrified of the idea of romantic relationships. For us, Dukebags, meeting people when we have a BAC below .08 is kind of creepy.

We prefer the sensual sloppiness of two sweat-

laden bodies banging together in a way only eight shots of tequila could explain. If our inebriated intimacies repeat themselves, or if we bridge into the terrifying territory of sobriety, we, Dukebags, have our formulaic response ready. We like you, but we can’t right now. Our middle school relationship only ended ten years ago, and we’re just not sure we’re READY. The key is to downplay any feelings you might have and to make sure your slampiece (whatever his or her name is) leaves the conversation knowing you have the relational and emotional upper hand. Like everything, relationships are meaningless if you aren’t better at them than someone.

Three: You think you’re really pretty.

Before coming to Duke, I thought there were basically three social statuses: lower class people, upper class people and people related to John F. Kennedy. Yet after three years at Duke, I know that literally anything can be ranked. Not only do Dukebags constantly analyze their social clout; they also subconsciously rank anything they come into contact with, be they floors of the library, types of vegetables or their own nipples. Personally, I’m partial to the left.

Now, this is by no means an exhaustive list.

Other key Dukebag traits include: constantly dressing as if you’re going golfing on a boat, competitive Facebooking, pretending to care about social justice, awkward adoption of the term “y’all”, incapability of accepting personal faults, having an apparent superiority complex over instate public colleges, using the word “frat” as a verb and being from New Jersey.

Now I know what you’re thinking: How do I become one of these people? Well kids, good news.

You don’t have to try. Take it from my experience: You may just wake up and realize you’ve become one.

Yes, I’m a Dukebag. I’ve applied for a consulting job. I’ve been that terrible person who completely disregards the feelings of the other half of a relationship, and I’ve come to expect my feelings to be disregarded. I’ve felt that others are inaccessible to me due to social status, and I have pre-judged people based on their affiliations. And although I know I’ve gained so much from Duke— academically, socially and professionally—I also feel as if Duke’s culture has taken its toll on the person who I was before I came here.

From conversations with friends and strangers alike, I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. In fact, when discussed, every single person I’ve spoken to has agreed that this Dukebaggy culture—driven by competition and void of emotion and expressed vulnerability—cannot be good for Duke students, now or in the long run.

So, fellow reluctant Dukebags, I ask you this: What are we going to do about it?

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Lillie Reed is a Trinity senior. Her column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and runs every other Wednesday. Send Lillie a message on Twitter @ LillieReed.

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he clouds looked purplish green and ominous for a while, but the threat of war with Syria seems to have dissipated without a single drop of rain. The storm has passed. The clouds looked purplish green and ominous for a while, but the threat of war with Syria seems to have dissipated without a single drop of rain.

President Obama drew a line in the sand at the use of chemical weapons. Although the consequences of crossing that line initially seemed to promise military repercussions, in the end, diplomacy took the day, and CNN’s impressive graphic for the “Crisis in Syria” will suffer from underuse. The television news media has spent hours analyzing whether this peaceful resolution constitutes a loss or a win for the United States and President Obama. But the real question is why the line was drawn at the use of chemical weapons,

Joline Doedens wait a minute and why that was a promise the United States felt compelled to stand by. After the chemical warfare of the trenches of World War I, most countries stopped using chemical weapons, and militaries across the globe reallocated research time and money away from chemical weapon development. It was understood that “civilized” weapons should not include chemical weapon use. This understanding survived World War II, as the U.S. Department of State declared: “Chemical warfare should be abolished among nations, as abhorrent to civilization. It is a cruel, unfair and improper use of science. It is fraught with the gravest danger to noncombatants and demoralizes the better instincts of humanity.” Realistically, one would have expected Great Britain to use chemical weapons in World War II when doing so would have been strategically advantageous, but Great Britain stood by its “civilized” principles and stuck to less effective means. In fact, when, in a 1944 Memorandum to his service chiefs, Winston Churchill demanded military strategies be selected based on efficacy rather than always having “all the disadvantages of being the gentleman,” he was unsuccessful in convincing them to controvert the global norm against the use of chemical weapons.

Even the United States felt itself bound by the taboo. Despite public pressure to use chemical weapons against the Japanese during World War II and the significantly smaller risk of American casualties, the United States chose to forgo the use of chemical weapons.

Even more tellingly, the U.S. did choose to implement a far more destructive option in the form of the atomic bomb. Why have an international norm against the use of chemical weapons, but no prohibition on the use of nuclear weapons? If one assumes that states have a vested interest in their own survival, one would expect a nuclear weapons ban to be beneficial for everyone. On a basic level, why is the indiscriminate killing of one’s own civilians, as in Syria, insufficient grounds for humanitarian intervention, but the use of chemical weapons opens the door to military action? First, there’s an economic rationale for banning chemical weapons, but not nuclear weapons, and setting the bar for humanitarian intervention at the use of banned chemical weapons. Compared to nuclear weapons, chemical weapons are cheap to produce: A nuclear bomb can cost more than its weight in gold, and chemical weapons cost only $600 to produce mass casualties per square kilometer (according to data from the 1960s). Given the much lower cost of chemical weapon production, the technology is available to a wider array of countries and can, therefore pose a greater threat to powerful countries. In addition, the sheer physical cost of detonating a nuclear weapon means that those states that have nuclear weapon stockpiles can be more confident that their peers will not initiate nuclear weapon use without good reason. Unfortunately, while chemical weapons can produce horrific civilian casualties, they simply don’t present the same degree of apocalyptic threat that nuclear bombs do. The decision to deploy chemical weaponry is taken more lightly. Second, there’s a psychological rationale for the global taboo on chemical weapons. The United States, Great Britain and France, as the victors in World War I and II, have internalized the horrors that can be inflicted by chemical warfare. The image of a soldier’s skin bubbling off of his face, combined with the unimaginable horrors of the gas chambers at Auschwitz, have instilled in these states an enduring aversion to chemical warfare. This aversion does not manifest in a ban on nuclear weapons because of the power dynamic and perverse trust mentioned earlier. Further, a negative psychological reaction to the use of chemical weapons explains why their usage on one’s own citizens constitutes sufficient grounds for breaching a state’s sovereignty. Thus, although the storm has passed and there is no longer an imminent threat of war with Syria, the underlying ban on chemical weapons use is far from logical or rational and shouldn’t have been the American standard for intervention. Furthermore, Syria’s surrender and destruction of its chemical weapons stockpile doesn’t translate into the end of the crisis in Syria.

Joline Doedens is a second-year law student. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Send Joline a message @jydoedens.

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me and told him, again, that i needed his iD,” he said in the deposition. “he kept trying to go around me, and he told me to get my hands off of him.”

According to the lawsuit, job performance evaluations of Day reveal a history of angry behavior. Wilkerson is using these evaluations as evidence that the University was aware of Day’s behavior. one evaluation stated that Day came off as a “disgruntled employee who complains a lot.”

A more recent consideration in the lawsuit, however, described Day as “professional and courteous during interactions with the public.”

EAT LOCAL

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tinuing to look at options to maximize local options. “it’s very important to Duke Dining to offer local products to our customers and support our local community and especially the Duke Campus Farm where our compost we produce goes to the Farm to grow our products completing a full circle of sustainability,” Coffey wrote.

There are many students that expect the University to serve locally sourced food everyday, Coffey said, adding that Duke Dining is working to hold itself to the same standard. “i think Duke is doing the best job it can to offer alternative dining options on campus after the renovations closed a lot of eating locations on campus,” said sophomore lavanya Sunder, Duke Student government vice president for

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There are some potential challenges to meeting their goals of daily local options.

“Some of the seasonality of produce items does dictate variety, but our other offerings stay pretty consistent throughout the year,” he wrote.

Sunder added that the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee is working in conjunction with DSg and administrators to increase dining options on campus. She, however, has fielded more concerns for improved vegetarian and vegan choices than local options.

Coffey is very receptive to student feedback, Sunder said.

Duke Dining plans to endorse future events to promote sustainability for its consumers.

“There will be other events like ‘Meet the Farmer’ where we actually bring in our local farmers and growers to campus to allow our customers to meet them and hear about their farm and processes,” Coffey wrote.

NCCU

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active crime scene, though nCCU police are no longer involved in the investigation.

The officers involved in the incident are not currently on duty, Bellamy said, and will be on administrative duties later this week.

The statement by Saunders-White said that counseling services will be made available to students and a Town hall meeting will be held.

The statement said additional communication will be forthcoming.

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Duke red cross encouraged students to donate blood to save lives throughout the week.

Homecoming 2013 September 27-28

www.Homecoming.DukeAlumni.com FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m.

Duke Football vs. Troy: Homecoming Game 2013 [ Wallace Wade Stadium ] presented by Lowe’s – Never Stop Improving Be sure to arrive on time and cheer the Blue Devils to victory!

Grand Opening of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity [ Bryan Center ] Come see the new space, meet students and staff, and greet other alums! Refreshments will be served following a brief program.

8:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Graduate School Reception [ Scharf Hall, Michael W. Krzyzewski Center for Academic and Athletic Excellence ] 9:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.

President Brodhead’s Homecoming Dance [ Wilson Gym Basketball Courts & huge tent on K-ville Quad ] 9:30 p.m.

Momentum Dance Chinese Dance Troupe Dhamaka 11:00 p.m.

Sabrosura Duke Swing Defining Movement (DefMo)