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Kali Shulklapper University Editor After a months-long national search, Carl DePinto was selected as the new director for parking and transportation services.

DePinto, previous director of Parking for the New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, will replace interim director Melissa Harden—who has filled the role since April—beginning Oct. 16. During his 15year career in the parking business, DePinto has built and managed successful parking operations at large hospitals and has organized parking for major events. In his new role at Duke, DePinto will oversee several major projects which Duke PTS is currently working on.

“Carl has direct experience—especially in areas we are going to face,” Vice President of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh said.

DePinto will be responsible for parking Carl DePinto and transportation within both the University and the Health System.

Prior to his role as director of Parking for New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, DePinto served as the operations and parking consultant for the Hackensack University Medical Center and senior director of operations and development for Professional Parking LLC. His work with operations in the Tri-State Area involves services for major televised events including professional tennis tournaments and other large gatherings.

Cavanaugh said that DePinto’s prior work, as well as his experience with construction and renovation, will contribute to the success of major initiatives which Duke PTS is currently pursuing.

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Thu Nguyen | The Chronicle Although the majority of the University’s endowment is held in managed funds and direct investments in derivitives, the University has social responsibility guidelines for its direct investments in equities.

Emma Baccellieri News Editor A year after the Board of Trustees approved changes to Duke’s policies on socially responsible investing, the University continues to work on increasing transparency in its investment committee system.

The Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility—a group of faculty, trustees, alumni and students who assess the social impact of Duke’s investments—is finalizing the transition to a new structure intended to increase both internal regulation and external transparency. After being reorganized by the Board’s vote last October, the group is aiming to make information on socially responsible investing more accessible.

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The committee’s restructuring comes in the midst of several student-led movements for socially responsible investing—including the successful 2012 push to divest from conflict minerals, last year’s Duke Open campaign for endowment transparency and the current Divest Duke movement to divest from fossil fuel companies.

“We’re supposed to be more active, rather than just being reactive,” said ACIR Chair James Cox, the Brainerd Currie professor of law. “We’re supposed to have a way of surveilling events and getting ahead of the curve—or at least, not falling woefully behind the curve.”

Before the Board’s decision last Fall, ACIR met irregularly on an ad-hoc basis and was a secondary committee, only seeing investment issues after they had been presented to the President’s Special Committee on Investment

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Responsibility. The Board decided to dissolve the President’s Special Committee, making ACIR the principal adviser on socially responsible investments.

The group now has a regular meeting schedule—five to six times a year—and has expanded from 10 members to 14 so as to better reflect the University community, Cox said.

Cox noted that the transition to a larger group with regular meetings has gone smoothly, adding that ACIR is in the process of adopting internal bylaws to finalize the restructuring. The committee now turns its focus to more external action—increasing transparency and fine-tuning its guidelines as it considers the proposal by Divest Duke.

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Duke faculty take Capitol Hill to lobby for NIH funding Abigail Xie The Chronicle After significant decreases in National Institutes of Health funding, Duke professors are rallying for political support behind their research.

NIH funding has steadily decreased over the past several years, with especially steep cuts stemming from the 2013 sequester.

As researchers find themselves feeling the funding cuts more deeply, some are turning directly to Congress—including four Duke professors who met with lawmakers two weeks ago as part of the Annual Rally for Medical Research Hill Day, which brought representatives of the medical community to Washington, D.C. But this trip to Washington was only one step of what could be a long battle, researchers said, emphasizing the importance of federal funding for their work.

“We want to send a clear message that medical research is of enormous value to the health and economy of our nation,” said Steven Patierno, deputy director of the Duke Cancer Institute and one of the faculty members who went to Capitol Hill.

“Keeping people well allows them to be productive citizens, and research creates jobs. For every dollar invested into NIH research, there’s a minimum of a twofold return on investment.”

The NIH, which obtains its budget from Congress, has seen its funding slip since 2003—translating to a 20 percent loss of purchasing power, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.

But even if funding levels were restored to previous levels tomorrow, it would take the research community 20 years to recover from the past decade, Patierno said.

“We’re stuck in this budget battle where many of us are left hanging and waiting,” said Raphael Valdivia, vice dean for basic

John Lu | The Chronicle After significant decreases in National Institutes of Health funding, Duke professors took to Washington, D.C. to lobby for their research.

science and one of the lobbyists. “So we’re pushing for a more stable funding stream because our concern for the future is that we’re going to lose our competitive advantage.”

The four Duke professors were joined on Capitol Hill by faculty from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University to meet with North Carolina’s congressional delegation. The

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The faculty also wished to show the con“They’re looking at their mentors and gressmen how the funding cuts have been seeing what it’s like to struggle day after affecting the next generation of scientists. day, getting grant applications rejected With less money to go around, it has be- again and again,” he explained. “We’ve alcome increasingly difficult for graduate ready lost an entire generation of researchstudents and postdoctoral researchers to ers and we’re in danger of losing another.” receive adequate training and get their The decrease in funding has also resultown grants. ed in a significant drop in the numbers of “Large numbers of very productive se- grants awarded. Patierno said the financial nior faculty who have been [at Duke] for cutbacks have resulted in a lack of sustainyears are now losing their grants – in many See Health on Page 6 cases having to close up or scale down their

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As Senate race heats up, foreign DUSDAC contemplates pizza policy captures the spotlight vendor for Merchants-on-Points Maria Luisa Frasson The Chronicle Foreign affairs have taken center stage in North Carolina’s highly contentious U.S. Senate race—a shift from the social concerns that typically dominate senatorial elections.

In an Elon University poll released last month, voters overwhelmingly answered that the most important issue in the United States is related to international affairs or national defense. This is the first time since 2007 that foreign affairs was found to be the top issue for North Carolinians.

This response, however, was more prevalent among supporters of Republican Senate candidate and speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives Thom Tillis. U.S. Democratic Senator Kay Hagan supporters still largely saw education as the most pressing issue.

“It’s pretty unusual for foreign policy to matter in non-presidential races—that’s except for the very small number of highprofile people,” said John Aldrich, PfizerPratt University Professor of Political Science.

Last week, Tillis released two campaign ads attacking Hagan on her decisions concerning foreign policy crises in the Middle East.

The ads primarily highlight Hagan’s record of consistently voting with the Democratic party and failing to take Kay Hagan action against ISIS as it

continues to gain more power. The advertisements have brought foreign policy into the spotlight as a campaign issue, and have come at the same time as a shift in North Carolinians’ issue priorities as well.

International politics Thom Tillis are hardly ever hotly contested in domestic campaigns, so this North Carolina race makes a notable exception, Aldrich added.

“Most senatorial races don’t, and hardly any congressional races, so it’s pretty much absent until there happens to be a crisis,” he said.

Tillis’ campaign ads do cater to a specific crisis, as they revolve around the current situation in the Middle East rather than around long-term foreign policy strategies. This kind of discussion has also not expanded substantially into any other senatorial race in the United States this year.

Advertisement talking points “While ISIS grew, Obama kept waiting, and Kay Hagan kept quiet,” claims one of the Tillis ads. It also asserts that Hagan missed half of the hearings in the Armed Services Committee.

The other advertisement features the mother of a marine, herself a military veteran, who laments to the audience that President Barack Obama’s inability to resist the expansion of ISIS—and Hagan’s unwillingness to speak out against him—has endangered the lives of American soldiers.

Jesús Hildalgo | The Chronicle DUSDAC, pictured above, met with representatives from Rudino’s Pizzo and Grinders, which may be selected to offer its pizza, subs, pasta and salads as a Merchants-on-Points vendor.

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The search for replacement Merchantson-Points vendors continues as representatives from Rudino’s Pizza and Grinders enter a bid into the mix.

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other possible vendors at their Monday meeting. After The Pizzeria closed in September, there are two openings in the MOP program.

Rudino’s—a family-owned chain of sports bars in the Triangle area—offers a full menu of pizza, subs, pasta and salads. Delivery options would be available until 9 p.m.

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October 24 Lecture Series in Musicology. Benjamin Levy (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara). “Dissonance, Demonization, and Redemption: The Meaning of Twelve-Tone Music in Ligeti’s Hungarian-Period Works.” 4pm, Library Seminar Room, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

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launched a website this week to share its policies and facts on socially responsible investing. The group held a public forum Monday in Perkins Library, discussing ACIR’s role with the endowment and fielding questions on the logistics of divestment.

The road ahead regarding divestment, however, is more nuanced.

“Our committee has a range of things that we might do, and the nuclear option of that—really, I say nuclear—is divestment,” Cox said at the forum. “Because, as you can well imagine, that has some repercussions.”

Morality and ethics cannot be the only guiding principles in deciding where Duke should invest its endowment, said Associate University Counsel Ralph McCaughan, an ex officio member of ACIR. In order to justify divestment, DUMAC—the professional group which manages the University’s endowment—must be able to identify substitute investments that will yield equal returns with an equal risk, he said.

“It’s clear that under the law, the Board of Trustees is obligated to optimize the returns of the endowment,” McCaughan said. “They have certain parameters within which they have to operate. Doing the right thing from a moral standpoint is not necessarily the rule they have to follow.”

The process is further complicated by the fact that direct divestment does not mean complete divestment, Cox noted.

Even if the University were to divest from fossil fuels, for instance, there would likely still be companies in Duke’s portfolio that invest in fossil fuels themselves—raising questions of what it really means to divest, Cox said.

“It’s really a strange process,” he noted. “It’s kind of like whack-a-mole.”

This makes divestment largely a symbolic issue, Cox said.

But being rooted in the abstract rather than the practical does not make it less important, he said, adding that divesting from fossil fuels is a particularly interesting proposition as the University pushes toward becoming carbon neutral.

“If we’re talking about symbolism, this is symbolism with a capital ‘s,’ underscore, bold print,” Cox said.

Further contributing to the idea that divestment is more symbolic than functional is the fact that only a small portion of the University’s endowment falls under ACIR’s jurisdiction for socially responsible investment, Cox noted. The committee makes recommendations about the endowment’s direct investments in equities—a small fraction of the University’s holdings.

For the 2012-13 fiscal year, $28 million of the endowment’s $6 billion came from direct investments in equities.

Cox noted that although the majority of the endowment is not under ACIR’s purview, “it’s not hidden under the rug.” Just under $5 billion is handled by individual managers selected by DUMAC who invest in various funds—including venture capital funds and start-up funds—and the remaining $1 billion is directly invested in derivatives, which are higher-risk but allow for greater movement, Cox said.

Monday’s forum was sparsely attended, with fewer than 10 attendees who were not ACIR members. The few who came, however, were vocal.

Dr. Richard Frothingham, associate professor in the Department of Medicine’s Human Vaccine Institute, handed ACIR members packets of coal—as both a symbol of how far Duke has come with environmental initiatives and a push to move forward.

“May this coal serve as a reminder of the progress Duke has made toward energy sustainability and as an impetus for future progress,” said Dr. Richard Frothingham.

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continued from page 3 Hagan has responded to the ads by emphasizing her belief in taking decisive action against ISIS, including initiating targeted air strikes to destroy their training camps and command centers.

Chris Hayden, Hagan’s campaign press secretary, said that Tillis has been hesitant on issues of instability in Iraq and Syria.

“Speaker Tillis has said himself that he doesn’t know what we should do. He has no position,” Hayden said. “He has been completely indecisive and flailing at this. These attacks on Kay are really just desperate attacks to distract from his own record.”

North Carolina has a strong tradition of placing emphasis on supporting combat troops. Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C. is the largest U.S. Army base in terms of population, serving 52,280 active duty soldiers and housing nearly 240,000 total residents. Additionally, all mem-

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continued from page 3 most business during lunch and through catering jobs, the owners said that delivery order times would be from eleven in the morning to nine at night.

“Our primetime is really between 11 and 11:30 [a.m.], so that’s our busiest time and would probably be the only time that would be a conflict. Anything else we would be able to manage and pretty easily handle,” said Rudino’s owner Gary Rudd.

Despite there currently being three other pizza vendors on MOP, Rudino’s stands out with their higher quality subs and pastas, as well as vegetarian and vegan options, DUSDAC members noted.

Senior and DUSDAC co-chair Gregory Lahood said the location of Rudino’s in relation to Duke’s campus meant that Rudino’s would be able to deliver in a shorter time compared to current pizza vendors.

“I have noticed that the past few times I’ve ordered pizza from [other vendors], if you order around 6 [p.m.] or that time of day, they say that it will take longer to deliver due to traffic on Erwin Road,” Lahood said. “I believe that the 30-minute delivery time will be possible because of their location north of campus.”

The committee, however, noted that with the current number of pizza vendors, Rudino’s addition may detract from variety on the MOP menu, but suggested the possibility of adding Rudino’s to MOP in the Spring.

In other business: The committee also discussed the addition of a grocery delivery service or truck to the MOP program. Junior and DUSDAC co-chair Brian Taylor noted that with the current lack of on-campus dining options due to construction, a grocery delivery option could be very useful for students. A vendor such as Relay Foods would offer common grocery items, such as coffee, cereal and waffles to students who would like to have their groceries delivered to their doors.

Another restaurant that may be added as a MOP vendor is chicken wing restaurant Heavenly Buffaloes, located right next to East Campus. The restaurant offers gluten-free wings and vegan soy protein nuggets and is open until 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, making Heavenly Buffaloes another prospect for the MOP program. DUSDAC is considering issuing a survey to gauge student interest in the restaurant.

Besides these new choices for the MOP program, DUSDAC also announced the addition of a new pub being built in the West Union. The pub will be open late and will have a stage for performances, along with an outdoor patio and TVs for a sports bar-like atmosphere. The restaurant, which will serve alcohol, bar food, cheesesteaks and burgers, is currently unnamed. Duke Dining is hoping to have students suggest names, with the reward of having a permanently reserved chef’s table or a dish named after the student if their suggestion is chosen for the new pub.

“I think it’s pretty cool to be able to say ‘I named that place,’” Lahood said. “This is a great opportunity for students to move forward and realize that the end of construction is almost here.”

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bers of Congress who have held Senator Hagan’s current seat since 1973 have been members of a committee dealing with international relations, either in the Armed Services Committee or in the Foreign Relations Committee.

Foreign policy was also a major issue in a North Carolina Senate race in 1984, when incumbent Senator Jesse Helms was accused by opponent Jim Hunt of not sufficiently supporting the Israeli state. Helms went on to win re-election.

Waiting for Election Day Regardless of the issues at stake, Aldrich said, the state’s population remains generally divided over who to vote for.

“Very few people are very excited about either candidate, but don’t find the candidates unacceptable either,” Aldrich said. “Neither campaign has caught fire, and neither campaign is drowning.”

This trend goes beyond the 2014 Senate race. North Carolina has one Democratic senator and one Republican senator. Obama won the state in 2008 by a margin of 14,177 votes, but lost its 15 electoral votes to former Mas-

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sachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in 2012.

“Nothing is happening that could make a difference, and it’s just not exciting the electorate to even know it’s so close,” Aldrich said.

Aldrich said that the foreign policy element will not be decisive on Election Day. Instead, he expects people to make decisions more about the people and the political climate rather than a single issue. “[Voters] are going to explicitly say, ‘What is it that I like about Hagan? What is it that I like about Tillis?’” he explained. “In the background will be what they think about Obama and what they think about the world today.”

It is common for incumbents to be victorious when a race is too close to call, but it is unclear who will take the lead in the time leading up to Election Day. “If there’s no powerful push one way or the other, which seems like the case, you tend to go back to the incumbent,” Aldrich said. “Who can get the supporters turned out is something we can’t judge at this point, and that’s going to really make the difference.”

Hagan and Tillis are scheduled to face each other in debates twice this week.

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continued from page 2 ability of ongoing research, meaning many members of labs had to be laid off last year and a lot of projects had to be stalled.

“Excellent and outstanding grants aren’t even being funded anymore,” said Richard Brennan, professor of biochemistry and also among the four who went to Capitol Hill. “Younger faculty get their first grant now on average in their early 40s. In the long run we’re hurting our ability to do cutting edge research, while countries in Asia and Europe are quickly catching up to the U.S.” Congressmen—and citizens, in general—may see the costs of funding research and not recognize the longterm investment that it represents, Brennan noted. But scientists are trying to show their representatives that the cuts could have an impact far deeper than what lawmakers see on the surface.

“I think it’s a very powerful message that Duke and

UNC went together to the senators’ offices,” Patierno said. “If it’s possible for Duke and UNC to agree on something, then you guys can figure it out.”

The researchers hope that funding can eventually be restored to previous levels, which would be in the range of approximately $29 billion to $32 billion. At the least, the goal is a guarantee to match inflation in the upcoming years to minimize purchasing power losses, Brennan said.

“Everyone we met with is sympathetic towards us,” he added. “The battle doesn’t so much lie with their wanting to support us, so much as how they can actually do this as a divided Congress.”

Patierno noted that although there is still a long road ahead to get Congress to agree on a budget, faculty members agree that direct dialogue with local and state representatives is crucial to solving the problem.

Chronicle File Photo “We’re not just geeky scientists who stay in our labs holding pipettes,” Brennan said. “Biomedical research The department, under DePinto, intends on building a strategic approach to parking and transportations operations. should be a priority in the U.S. We have tools and technology now that didn’t exist years before—we can make great advances now, but we can’t be held back by these funding issues.” continued from page 1

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tions operations, Cavanaugh said, explaining that it is currently implementing new technologies to better serve the Duke community.

“It has a lot of history that needs to be addressed in terms of bringing more rational and efficient systems together,” he said.

There will be significant renovations to each of the existing garages and surface lots, Cavanaugh said. The department is also building a new garage on the corner of Science Dr. and 751, which will hold approximately 2,000 parking spots. DePinto will contribute largely to these projects as well as oversee what Cavanaugh labels “supply and demand” management, a system that focuses on customer service.

“It’s about ensuring that we’ve got the most efficient use of the inventory of spaces that we have and ensuring that this operation can be economically self-sufficient,” Cavanaugh said.

The department will also be looking at how the entire transportation system, including buses and shuttles, works together with systems connected both within the city and across the triangle. Services will look comprehensively at transportation across all of the Duke enterprises as well as individual communities from which graduate students and employees commute.

Prior to Harden’s term as interim director, Sam Veraldi filled the position for nearly four years. In the Spring, he accepted a position as a visiting associate professor in the markets and managements studies program.

“It’s a big job [DePinto] is stepping into,” Cavanaugh said.

“But he’s well-positioned and we are excited to have him join the Duke team.”

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Ali Wells Staff Writer Duke divided its roster in half Saturday, pitting Blue against White and giving the squad its first chance to race against friendly competition after tough preseason training. Sophomore Peter Kropp and the Blue Devils foreshadowed an impressive season, knocking down two pool records.

In the first event of the meet, Duke broke the men’s 200-yard medley relay pool record by a half-second.

“To do that in the first meet was incredible,” head coach Dan Colella said.

“It’s considerably faster than we have ever been this early in the season, and it’s a great indicator of things to come.”

Sophomore Bradley Cline led off with the backstroke leg, followed by Kropp swimming breastroke. Freshman Ryan Nicholson took the butterfly and sophomore James Peak brought home the freestyle, touching the wall in 1:29.45 and breaking the previous Taishoff Aquatic Pavilion record of 1:29.94.

Just a few events later, Kropp stepped back up on the block for the 100-yard breaststroke. Leading the pack from the start, Kropp touched the wall in 53.15 seconds, almost two-tenths of a second faster than his personal best of 53.34 seconds from last season’s ACC Championships.

“Obviously everyone was in awe of that,” Colella said. “We are expecting

record. Achieving a time that would have qualified him for the NCAA Championships last year, Kropp has shown that he is prepared to step up and fill his predecessor’s shoes.

The freshman class also gave an impressive performance Saturday, claiming nine individual event victories.

The class of 2018 will look to fill the Blue Devil roster for the 200-yard stroke

Yes, I understand that we are currently in the middle of football season—and a chaotic one at that—but it is never too early to talk a little basketball.

Countdown to Craziness is set for Saturday, Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. at Cameron, and in my four years at this beautiful institution, I don’t think I have been this excited for one. My freshman year brought the hype of Austin Rivers to campus, and boy did he deliver in one spectacular display of clutch-ness against the Tar Heels that made everyone on campus forget, just for a moment, that his ball-hogging ways would probably skewer the Blue Devils come tournament time.

The following season didn’t feature a huge recruit joining the squad, but instead centered around three seniors ready to make their final stand in Durham. The hype of the 2012-13 season focused on Mason Plumlee, Ryan Kelly and Seth Curry as they led the Blue Devils to the Elite Eight before being cut down by a Louisville team that would go on to win the title, even after losing Kevin Ware

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a lot of exciting things for him this season.”

Kropp’s new pool record shattered Hunter Knight’s previous pool best of 55.65 seconds. As a senior, Knight was the sole Blue Devil swimmer on the men’s side to reach the national championships, qualifying in the 100yard breaststroke with his swim at the ACC Championships—finishing in the same time as Kropp’s new pool

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Data Digging: Midterms for the Duke offense Nick Martin Sports Editor

Although the technical midway point comes after this Saturday’s Georgia Tech contest, with Duke students in the thick of midterms, now seems to be the perfect time to see where the Blue Devils stand so far this season.

After busting out of the gates with a convincing 4-0 record, Duke took its talents to South Beach and came home with its first loss of the season and a lot of questions to answer. Many would look to last season’s start for comfort, as the team dropped a pair of games to Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh before reeling off eight straight wins en route to a Coastal Division crown. After looking through the first five games of both seasons, the Blue Devils, though improved, certainly still have some areas to tighten up before finals come around.

In 2013, the Blue Devils faced N.C. Central, Memphis, Georgia Tech, Pittsburgh and Troy in their first five games and went 3-2, even after losing starting quarterback Anthony Boone to a broken collarbone in the first half against the Tigers. This year, the slate has consisted of Elon, Troy, Kansas, Tulane and Miami and Duke is 4-1 with a healthy Boone under center.

But this year’s early schedule—which, to be fair, is set years in advance—is unquestionably softer than that of 2013. Of the 2014 opponents, only two are in a Power Five conference, and Duke’s opponents sport a combined record of 7-19, compared to last year’s foes’ 12-13 mark at the same point.

The final scores seem to indicate that the Blue Devils are right on track, as they are averaging 36.8 points per game, up four points from last year’s 32.8. Even when looking at just Duke’s first five contests, this See Football on Page 12

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events and the distance freestyles. The rookies earned a win in all of these events on the women’s side.

Verity Abel claimed both the 1,000yard and 500-yard races, setting quick paces from the start in both events. In the 200-yard stroke events, Lizzie Devitt took first in the freestyle, Isabella Paez in the butterfly, Maria Sheridan in the backstroke and Catie Miller in the breastroke.

On the men’s side, freshman Matt Johnson also swept the distance freestyle events, and Nicholson won the 100-yard butterfly.

Colella was pleased with the freshmen’s progress through training and their energy in this preseason meet.

“You are always wondering how they will stand up and compete,” Colella said.

“The real test will be this coming weekend against [Pittsburgh]. It was great to see them compete at the level that they did, and we had a number of great results.”

Duke has opened the past two seasons with the All-North Carolina Invitational but because of the team’s recruiting and meet schedule, Colella decided to hold the first intrasquad meet since 2011.

“One of the things I am always concerned about coming out of the Blue and White meet is that we always have a competition shortly after, and I’m always nervous thinking about how much faster we have to swim,” Colella said. “This past weekend’s results were outstanding, especially after four or five weeks of training. I really couldn’t be happier with everyone’s performances.”

year’s squad has still upped the ante when compared to last year’s mark of 36.0 points.

But down the stretch, football is more about how you can score against quality conference opponents—like Miami—than it is about how many points you can hang on Elon and Kansas. The Hurricanes are the only squad the Blue Devils have played that is on pace to finish .500 and they dominated Duke in a 22-10 victory Sept. 27.

The letdown in Miami Gardens was due to an offensive performance that was one of the worst the Blue Devils have had in the past two years, as they picked up only 264 yards, committed three turnovers and converted just two of its 16 third down chances.

Although it’s unfair to say any one factor will decide a game, third down efficiency is an area Duke will have to correct if it hopes to bounce back from its first loss of the season.

Through five games last year, the Blue Devils converted 44.1 percent of their third downs.

It wasn’t a spectacular number and they would finish the year at 40 percent. This year, however, Duke is only converting 35.6 percent of its third down attempts, ranking 102nd in the FBS. Part of this can be attributed to the loss of All-ACC tight end Braxton Deaver, but with the emergence of Issac Blakeney and Max McCaffrey as dependable options, the dip seems unwarranted. Even with that duo and the always-dangerous Jamison Crowder split wide, the Blue Devils’ passing game has been another facet of the game to take a hit this year. Their completion percentage through five contests has dropped 9.7 percent— to 57.1 from 66.8 last year—and Duke is averaging only 220.4 yards per game through

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the air, down from 248.1. And those 2013 passing numbers come from three-and-a-half games in which backup Brandon Connette was taking the snaps.

Even with the setbacks in the passing game, one has to believe between the guidance of quarterback guru and head coach David Cutcliffe and first-year offensive coordinator Scottie Montgomery, things will improve even as the competition gets tougher in the thick of Coastal Division play.

If there is one area of marked improvement that defies all preseason predictions, it is Duke’s success running the ball. Shaun Wilson’s breakout game against Kansas the and consistent play of veterans Shaquille Powell and Josh Snead have allowed the Blue Devils to bowl through opponents for 225.8 yards per game thus far,

good enough to rank as the 25th-best ground attack in the nation. That’s up from the 193.0 yards per game they posted through the first five games last year and the season average of 178.0 yards per game. As Duke showed time after time last year, it was at its best when it varied its play-calling and kept the opposition guessing. That’s what led to signature wins against Miami and North Carolina and is what will lead the Blue Devils to success again this year.

With Georgia Tech on the slate for Saturday at 12:30 p.m., one has to believe that a win against the Yellow Jackets—a team Cutcliffe has yet to conquer in his time at Duke—would provide the Blue Devils with the needed momentum to ace this midterm and put them back in contention to return to the top in the Coastal.

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to a gruesome injury in the game against Duke (Google at your own risk).

And last year, as we all recall, the star power returned in the form of Jabari Parker. Parker teamed up with redshirt sophomore Rodney Hood—finally freed from the transfer restrictions of the NCAA—and Andre Dawkins, who returned after a season’s sabbatical to grieve the loss of his sister, Lacey. The Blue Devils were ranked No. 4 in the AP preseason poll, the highest Duke had been ranked preseason since it received the nod at No. 1 for the 2010-11 season—the year the Blue Devils entered as defending national champions. The season turned out to have its ups and downs but ended on a sour note with the second first-round exit for Duke since I came to campus (cue the world’s smallest violin).

But of my four years at Duke, this season offers me the most hope to burn a bench in April, the most hope for campus to look like this come the end of the season. The nation’s top recruiting class brings four new faces to campus, most if not all of which I’m sure you have heard about: shooting guard Grayson Allen, small forward Justise Winslow, point guard Tyus Jones and the No. 1 recruit of the Class of 2014, center Jahlil Okafor.

For now, the best I can offer you to exemplify the talents of each of these

Eric Lin | Chronicle File Photo This year’s edition of Countdown to Craziness will feature an array of new faces, as the Blue Devils will introduce the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation of Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, Grayson Allen and Justise Winslow.

incoming freshman are their senior mixtapes, but if you watch them closely enough—and on a loop as I may or may not have throughout the course of the summer—you can see the immense amount of talent that each of these players brings to the table and the amount of growth that each of them can experience under Coach K. Couple that with the abilities and leadership coming from captains Quinn Cook and Amile Jefferson along with returning pieces Rasheed Sulaimon, Matt Jones, Semi Ojeleye and Marshall Plumlee

and you have a team that is well deserving of a preseason No. 1 or No. 2 ranking.

Whether or not that happens remains to be seen.

But with all this excitement leading up to Countdown, I want you all to close your eyes, take a deep breath and realize that this team has a lot of talent, yes, but a lot of young talent. Maybe this team explodes out of the gates and knocks off Michigan State, Wisconsin and Connecticut before even reaching ACC play. Or maybe it takes a little while

for this team to gel and they drop a game or two before hitting the ground hard against Boston College in the ACC opener at Cameron.

Be excited. Be hyped for this season (I know I am). But also be patient. Just like every other season, this team will need the Crazies to step up and provide the energy and atmosphere that makes Cameron what it is. If there is a hiccup or two early on, don’t let that discourage you. This team is going to be a contender.

And it all starts Oct. 25 at 8 p.m.

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n yesterday’s editorial, “The paths not taken,” we discussed the prevailing culture of pre-professionalism and encouraged that it be pursued with caution. Today’s editorial assesses the social construction of value and begins to reconceptualize what “value” may mean for different individuals.

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Editorial raised, what you plan to do with a liberal arts degree. Increasingly, entering one of the “Big Four” professions—law, medicine, consulting and banking—is seen as the “correct” answer. Just as a liberal arts education is regarded as the logical next step after high school, the Big Four—or six, according to Andrew Yang, CEO of Venture for America—are presented as the most respected outcomes of college.

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by practical realities. Given the cost of a liberal arts education, these fields often seem like the only ones that will make a quarter-million dollar education “worth it.” Alternatively, they may be the only way to dig oneself out of debt. Yet, for most, these four paths are a sure promise of success and the addition of value to society. The prevailing culture asserts that you can contribute most to society by becoming a doctor, lawyer, consultant or banker—careers that lead to money and prestige.

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Perhaps an aid worker feels most fulfilled when she helps a community. The desire for money and prestige often overshadow other forms of compensation in a limiting way that creates a tiered system in which some professions are seen as better than others.

“Value” is a dynamic, multi-faceted idea that should be internally defined and introspectively determined for each individual.

At Duke, it is easy to be swept into this mode of

It is difficult to commit to an area without knowing anything about it, and so discouraging all those who aren’t already committed with the pre-requisites is a regrettable occurrence.

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rom the Princeton Mom to sometimes our own mothers, we are frequently reminded, too often even, about finding “the one.”

Marriage, children, the white picket fence and many other domestic ventures are supposed to be our collegiate goals. Procreation can be fun and whatnot but should that really be the main goal of these four years? Should we yearn for this singleminded goal, with no care for any other? Don’t get me wrong, I’m always on the prowl for a trust-fund baby that can make my trophy husband dream a reality (Mama ain’t raise no fool). However, that has always been a supplement to the present, an encore to a performance that hasn’t ended.

Truthfully, the what-ifs of life after college are always on my mind and I have always questioned why.

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right now it’s not the number one thing on my list.

It may sound silly but this weekend, I fell in love again. With the most amazing and astounding person in the world: Me! Every day when I look in the mirror (post brushing teeth, because dragon breath is real and dangerous), I remind myself that I’m awesome personified. That no matter what happens this day, I will be able and ready to handle it. You can’t rely on people to make you feel confident, you have to feel that yourself. Even if you have to lie, at the end of the day, it’s all for the greater good. You may be rocking a keg, but for today it’s a six-pack.

Being in tune with your star player means that you’re showing respect and love to your day one.

For those who don’t know, your day one is the one person who has been with you since day one, in

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thinking. The four paths are like conveyer belts— tried, proven, mechanized shuttles to success. You take that biology course, you apply for that extracurricular, you spend your summer doing that internship. Yet, simply following the beaten trail can often lead to internalizing values and perspectives that may not match your intrinsic aspirations. In this way, conveyor belts do not necessarily encourage the new production of knowledge. While they may afford external validation—especially given the competitiveness of these industries—they also encourage rigidity and formation with little room for individual creativity.

We are not glued to conveyor belts. Rather than blindly internalize societal pressures to assign value to certain forms of compensation or professions, jump off of the conveyor belt—even if for a second. Once you are off, explore and run around. Take different classes, join activities you never thought you would join, meet people and engage in questions that challenge and intrigue you. Create your own lens for “value” so that, even if you decide to enter these four paths again, you remain critical and reflective toward new conveyor belts that may present themselves in the future.

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It seems as if people expect me to skip the college years and jump feet first into domesticity. High school was all about getting into a good college, and now college is just a stepping-stone to finding the best career network for internships that would hopefully turn into jobs. It’s as if my life is already mapped out and I don’t have a say in it. Is college just preparation for the future or is there more?

This past weekend I did something crazy—instead of working nonstop I actually took some time out for myself. I stopped thinking about the future, about the six-figure salary and the two and a half kids, and started thinking about me. It was the most satisfying weekend this year. When things get hard or busy, we tend to forget about “bae”—before anyone else. Who is bae?

It’s not your significant other, spouse or girlfriend— it’s you. As comedian Katt Williams once said, “you are your own star player.” You are the Tom Brady of your star team, the MVP, the most important player on that field. So then, why do we so often put others’ needs before our own needs? Some may read this and think that I’m being selfish, that I should be concerned with humanity, goodwill and all that jazz. I am. However,

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other words, you. So take some time out of the busy Duke schedule and show some love to your day one and star player. This weekend for me included gorging on Netflix, reading sappy fan fiction and just bumming around. Thankfully, I didn’t have a midterm to study for, so I went pretty far into the depths of Netflix instant streaming, but now that it’s Monday and back to the study grind, I’m not nearly as stressed as I felt last week. I’m ready for this week and I’m super pumped for classes.

Enjoying what you do and being passionate about it can contribute so much to your inner Zen den. To those that think you can’t possibly take a break, even ten minutes of being young, wild and free is more than enough to energize you for that next round of midterms. Life isn’t easy and sometimes the words “Do not pass go, do not collect $200” may be a reality, but starting every day with a morning affirmation or taking 10 minutes out of your crazy schedule can be just enough to help you stay true to your star player.

Fedner Lauture is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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o those willing to listen, “A better life for us…” The phrase dangles from my lips. It has carried across generations, freshly-dewed cerros, ‘cross deserts, ‘cross nations. Inside an ivory tower, on the corner of success and cultural shock, I type these caffeinated words—two-stepping my past. Each thesis, each token-rant, is driven with meaning.

Being a Latino in America is one thing, being Latino in higher education is another, but being Latino in a prestigious elite institution, by this point we’ve crossed so many words that our return proves treacherous. Each step is to deal with a violent memory, an erasure of self. That sharp tongue that once reveled in hyphenated identity loses its cultural nurturing. In its place is a barrage of academic jargon, of –isms, of –zations. It is amassing an incredible vocabulary, but never forgetting that your family will never understand your imperialist

is “awkward” for you. Because “my speaking” jeopardizes the sanctuary of your ignorance. For if I…si yo, as a mestizo body exist only insofar as to smile on your brochures, if I exist only insofar as dorms need to be cleaned, for crops to be picked, for buildings to be constructed…if I must fight, to eat next to you in this house, then are we equal?

Sabes que, maybe you’re right, maybe I did get here because I am Mexican. But I refuse to let that belittle my hard work. So while you monetize this house, while you envision towering shelves of books furnishing its floors, as well-to-do kids and their parents flock its Quad , admiring the ornate décor, I will pull you aside to ask what self-respecting human being would ask, “Excuse me, but where do I stay? Where’s my place?”

This isn’t an intervention, por el amor de Dios, please don’t stop reading this to wallow in guilt. This isn’t me scaffolding a public humiliation ceremony,

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My computer and I

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ave you ever met a Duke student without a laptop? Neither have I. In fact, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a student in this country who doesn’t use a computer on a regular basis.

Computers have become a fundamental tool of daily life, like spoons or cars. You can get by without them, but it really sucks.

Of course we’ve all heard the rants from professors about the evils of technology and how it corrupts our minds and brainwashes us into thoughtless Facebook drones. But I think it’s important for us to recognize the position that our technology holds at a basic, unacknowledged level. It’s surprisingly easy to forget how often we use our computers to perform simple tasks.

I learned this lesson last year—the hard way. During reading period, three days before my first final, my computer crashed while I was working on a 12-page research paper. Shocked and desperate, I fled to the library. Finding the library packed, with not a single open computer in sight, I tearfully approached the grumpy residents of each study carrel, hoping for a chance to use a computer. Denied sympathy, I borrowed one of the library’s loanable laptops—which are pretty much

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language. But they love you, God how they love you.

Across your back are written their restless dreams.

You must understand that your success is premised on removal and your acceptance on alien-nation.

Therein lies the barrio experience, the innercity that is, for better or worse, your roots. How the richest zip code in America is one freeway exit away from the former highest murder-rate in America. You remember the cramped rooms, their scratched up floors, the resume-building teachers who rotated faster than spiffed blunts behind rotting portables. The slicked back hair, the long white T-shirt’s, the sagging pants, the inflated chisme, the pseudo-gang culture. The cardboard epitaphs tied against a ragged fence, the narrowstreets, tectonic sidewalks pressing against a rushed adolescence. And yet, these are my roots and I love them. But are they? Cultural customs agents interrogate from both sides, pressing for documentation. Less hazily, you remember manicured lawns, fake grass, pristine bathrooms, thinly veiled micro-aggressions, a rationalized white guilt ideology—its tragic logic. Adopting a village in Kenya, yet the people who picked your fruit at lunch are paid below minimum-wage, yet brothers’ corpses are written as “justifiable homicide.” To visit a third world country for three months, take a selfie next to oppression, and now you can check-off community service and traveling off your list. The dialectic of a marginalized blackand-brown populace grates against rationalized affluence, making for an identity that borders on the schizophrenic. Internal contradiction is not some esoteric principle reserved for Marxist circles—as an “educated” (because my people have no knowledge to impart) person of color, as a Latino, it is the root of your existence.

So to be Latino, in a university, is to be inspired, be angered, by this cultural poverty that surrounds material wealth and that no one mentions because it is supposedly awkward. Because “my existence”

with you as our pale-skinned special guest. This is an invitation to shaky but honest dialogue. This is an outcry of pent-up injustice, of the beautiful people that humbly confess to me, “Hechele ganas.” Give it your all. But what is ganas, what is desire? Ganas is to wake up at three in the morning, to hear your mother prepare her lunch for her job in the textile factory. Ganas is your aunt holding you in an intense embrace as you left the airport from Guadalajara, tears in her eyes, saying, “Don’t forget about us.”

Ganas is the custodial ladies, smiling as they see you, “Mira nomas,” they cry, “one of us is here!”

For better or worse, you are one of the delegates to an entire diaspora. Not by choice, but out of necessity. Regardless of your personal upbringing, you must fight for our people’s place, for your memory, while rusty, is rare. I don’t pretend to represent all Latinos.

However, I do believe there’s a profound commonality amongst our voices. If Isaac Newton stood on shoulders of giants, then we stand on mountains. Below lie straining spines, tipsy bachatas and the humble pride of knowing that we can never be broken.

But hold on, remember, this isn’t about you, this isn’t about feigning this “strong minority” archetype—it’s about who you, by default, represent.

There is solidarity to be created, allies to reach out towards and ojala, compel others to confront harbored prejudice, blinded by privilege. All of this isn’t mandatory, but with the implicit acceptance that if you don’t fight for our space, who will?

I am sure I could’ve said this better, no question. But my only regret with these words is that, in my three years inside the Gothic Wonderland, I didn’t say all this sooner.

Con esperanza, Tony Lopez

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unusable, by the way. I couldn’t even get mine to turn on—perhaps a result of my lack of tech-savvy or due to the fact that the library’s laptops are fossils from the ancient past.

And, at the worst possible time, I discovered my utter helplessness without the aid of the technology upon which I had become so dependent.

Could you find a book in the Perkins stacks without a computer?

Could you hand-write a research paper? I couldn’t! When I tried, I found that everything I needed was stuck, unretrieveable, in the husk of my lifeless computer. (This leads to a valuable lesson, my friends— back up your stuff). I had to start over from scratch, days away from final exams, and I found myself unable to study in the ways to which I had grown accustomed; and with a serious impairment in my ability to perform mundane tasks like answering my emails or paying my bills.

As you can imagine, I’m now much more prepared to deal without a laptop in the unlikely event it ever fails me--which actually happened when my computer gave out for good over the weekend. I back up my hard drive every week, and I keep copies of all my class notes online. But I’m also much more aware of the role that my computer plays in my life.

If you were to ask me what my most valuable possession is, I would say it’s my laptop. Not my car, which has more objective monetary value, but my laptop. This isn’t a vain attachment to technology or a miscalculation of economic value. My computer is my most valuable possession because it contains the most important thing I have—my coursework.

Think about it—we pay up to 60 grand a year to go to Duke. When people like me use our computers for our classes, the sum total of all our notes, essays, presentations and theses are stored within these little pieces of plastic and metal. Everything I accomplish—or could accomplish—at Duke is thanks to my computer, and I can tell you right now that I know for a fact that I wouldn’t make it a week at this school if I didn’t have one.

When professors ask us to go without computers in class, they’re asking us to put away a basic tool that has become an integral part of how we navigate the modern world. It’s almost like asking us not to use one of our limbs. As a result, students like me have to find ways to integrate our technology-free learning with the studying we do on our computers. For me, this can often lead to messy binders with printed notes in the wrong order and documents that get lost or forgotten.

The irony is that these professors also rely on technology in ways that they often don’t notice. Of the professors I’ve had at Duke who asked us to go technology free, every single one of them has communicated to their students via e-mail, assigned readings on Sakai or given presentations using their own computers. Even something as ubiquitous as a typed essay comes with its own implicit use of technology. Computers’ rule over our academic lives is inescapable, even if professors try to resist it.

Of course, it’s also common knowledge that computers do have a negative effect on our abilities to study. We’ve all had that class where the professor is lecturing to a room full of people reading “10 Cats that Will Make You LOLZ.” Somehow, computers have become the most effective way of doing work… and also the best way to be completely useless and do nothing for hours at a time. Although we rely on technology in order to do homework and get things done, it’s very effective at giving us ways to avoid doing the things we know we need to do.

It’s a double-edged sword. The computer plays a role in the millennial’s life that has never been experienced by the generations that came before us. We are in new, unexplored territory, and it’s up to us—not our professors—to find ways to use our technology in meaningful, innovative ways.

McKenna Ganz is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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