October 9, 2009 issue by Duke Chronicle

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Yunus to speak at graduation

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Cree, a pioneer producer of light-emitting diode products, announced the expansion of the company’s manufacturing capacity and the addition of several hundred jobs within the state at its corporate headquarters in Durham Thursday. Gov. Bev Perdue and Democratic state Sens. Floyd McKissick and Dan Blue were on hand at the event as Cree Chief Executive Officer Chuck Swoboda announced plans to add 275 jobs by the end of the year, as well as another 300 over the next three years. Swoboda said the company has already started to fill the new positions. Perdue spoke at the event, indicating her support for the proliferation of environmentally friendly technology and jobs, adding that the state would “do whatever it takes to build this green economy.” Swoboda, who along with seven other CEOs met with President Barack Obama July 2, said they discussed the importance of innovation and using energy efficiently. Swoboda added that the conventional light bulb is now “only appropriate for a museum,” and the highly regarded fluorescent light bulb is only a temporary solution, given the high levels of toxic mercury each

Microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus will deliver Duke’s 2010 commencement address, President Richard Brodhead announced Thursday. Yunus, a banker and economist, first experimented with the concept of microfinance, also termed microcredit, while serving as an economics professor in his native Bangladesh. Microfinance involves making small loans to the poor to help them break free Muhammad Yunus from a cycle of debt. “Everybody wants some big famous person, and I think we got that, but I think we got more than that,” Brodhead said at an afternoon meeting with 10 student leaders. In 1983, Yunus established the Grameen Bank as a collateral-free banking system based on microcredit. And in 2006, the Nobel Peace Prize was presented to Yunus and Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.” Grameen America launched its first branch in New York City last year. In August, President Barack Obama awarded Yunus with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s

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Duke hopes to break an unfortunate streak of 12 straight losses to N.C. State when the two teams, both in desperate need of a win, face off in Raleigh Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.

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Cleaning cuts draw complaints by Julia Simenauer THE CHRONICLE

If cleanliness is next to godliness, then Saturday has become the new day of rest at Duke University. In order to reduce the Residence Life and Housing Services budget, Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residential life, said administrators decided in early July to reduce the cleaning schedule from six to five days a week. The day removed from the schedule was Saturday. “Saturday was removed from

the schedule because it was always a reduced effort compared to cleaning on Monday through Friday,” Gonzalez said. “Removing Saturday cleaning took away a much smaller component of the cleaning program.” Although Gonzalez said removing Saturday from the schedule has helped to reduce the RLHS budget, he did not have specific numbers. The early retirement of several housekeepers over the summer led SEE CLEANING ON PAGE 9

Duke to partner with Durham on new bus route by Allison Schulhof THE CHRONICLE

Duke is partnering with the city of Durham to implement a new bus line, which would connect Duke to downtown Durham, said Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional affairs. Although still in developmental stages, the Duke-Durham connector is projected to start running in late Spring 2010. The proposed route, which is not yet finalized, includes both circulator and connector transportation functions. The bus would connect Duke to downtown Durham and stop at various locations in the city. The route would run roughly along West and East Main Street and would include stops near the Medical Center, the American Tobacco Campus and North Carolina Central University, Wynn said. “The feeling is we need to keep [the route] as linear as SEE BUS ON PAGE 6

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“We’re looking to go out there and win.... Winning cures all evils.” —Women’s soccer player Cody Newman. See story page 10.

New pass/fail policy? Arts and Sciences Council addresses possible changes to pass/fail, PAGE 3

Blue Devils face steep opposition, Page 12

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D.A. cracks down on Stabbing on UCLA campus medical marijuana clinics LOS ANGELES — Students in the University of California–Los Angeles, science lab described the horrifying moments Thursday when a male classmate slashed the throat of a female student, who was critically injured. One student who was inside the lab when the attack occurred shortly after noon told the Los Angeles Times that he looked up as the assailant appeared to repeatedly punch the victim. Then the man calmly turned and walked away as the victim lay bleeding profusely. Law enforcement sources said some type of verbal altercation occurred just before the attack, but the relationship, if any, between the assailant and the victim was unclear. Witnesses said they saw a woman staggering out of the sixth-floor Young Hall lab with a teacher’s assistant applying pressure to her bloody neck moments after the attack.

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arguments have found favor with some Republicans. GOP lawmakers have blocked two of Obama’s key nominations for Latin America, weakening his diplomatic team. In the past week, two Republican delegations have traveled to Honduras to meet with the de facto government, which is not recognized internationally. Those actions have complicated the strategy of the Obama administration, which has been seeking to impress a growing crop of leftist Latin American leaders with its pro-democracy credentials. The administration is pressing for a negotiated solution to the Honduran crisis and worries that the de facto government is trying to run out the clock until Nov. 29 presidential elections with the support of its allies in Washington.

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Students involved in fraternity and sorority life gathered in Armadillo Grill Thursday night to participate in the Greek Bowl Trivia Contest. The event was one of several celebrating Greek Week 2009.

Human Computation: reCAPTCHA, The ESP Game and GWAPs

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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley said Thursday that all the medical marijuana dispensaries in the county are operating illegally, and that “they are going to be prosecuted.” There are hundreds of dispensaries throughout the county, including as many as 800 in the city of Los Angeles, according to the city attorney’s office. They operate under a 1996 voter initiative that allowed marijuana to be used for medicinal purposes and a subsequent state law that provided for collective cultivation. Based on a state Supreme Court decision last year, Cooley and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich have concluded that over-the-counter sales are illegal. Most if not all of the dispensaries in the state operate on that basis.

WASHINGTON — In the three months since soldiers expelled Honduras’ leftist president, the Obama administration and the rest of the world have shunned the Central American country, cutting off aid and travel visas. But the isolated Honduran leadership has found one lifeline: Republicans on Capitol Hill. Within days of President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster June 28, powerful Hondurans launched a lobbying campaign in Washington, arguing that the leftist leader had been a menace to their country. The Honduran government and its allies have spent at least half a million dollars on public-relations experts and lobbyists from both parties—including Lanny Davis, a lawyer who worked in President Bill Clinton’s White House. Although the Hondurans have not succeeded in reversing U.S. policy, their

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Proposed changes to pass/fail policy elicit debate by Zachary Tracer THE CHRONICLE

Students may soon have a tougher time passing courses they choose to take pass/fail. A proposal under consideration by the Arts and Sciences Council would require students to earn at least a C- in a course to pass, an increase from the D- required under the current pass/fail policy. The terms for the grading options would change from “pass” and “fail” to “satisfactory” and “unsatisfactory” in order to reflect the higher threshold under the proposed policy. Students would also be allowed to take seminars and tutorials on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. The policy changes do not affect courses that can only be taken pass/ fail, such as physical education classes. “The goal of this effort was to encourage students to explore more, to take more risk when they’re picking courses,” said Peter Feaver, Alexander F. Hehmeyer professor of political science, who chaired the committee that considered changing the pass/fail policy. The new policy may allow freshmen—who cannot currently take courses pass/fail—to register on a satisfactory/ unsatisfactory basis. Additionally, individual departments may be allowed to permit students to count courses taken under the new policy toward major prerequisite and corequisite requirements. The Arts and Sciences Council will vote on these issues, as well as the grading change, at its November meeting. The council will also vote next month on the deadline for students who wish to declare that they are taking a course on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Discussion on the issue was contentious. Senior Chelsea Goldstein, a member of The Chronicle’s Editorial Board, said at the meeting that students should be allowed to choose to take a course on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis up to a month before the end of the semester, which is also the deadline to withdraw from a course. George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and dean of Trinity College, said he favored a different proposal, which would require students to choose to

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Peter Feaver, Alexander F. Hehmeyer professor of political science, discusses a proposal to alter the current policy on taking courses pass/fail, including increasing the passing grade from a D- to a C-, at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting Thursday. take a course on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis by the end of the third week of classes. Students who had chosen to take a class on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis could choose to revert to the normal grading system four weeks before the end of the semester. McClendon said this policy would help prevent students from taking courses on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis just to boost their grade point averages. But Goldstein,

who submitted a proposal to change the pass/fail policy last year as Duke Student Government vice president for academic affairs, said her policy would encourage students who might otherwise withdraw from a course to remain in it on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Feaver said his committee sought to maintain Duke’s academic reputation in the new policy by allowing students to take only four courses on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

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CAMPUS COUNCIL

Keohane review will seek student input by Trent Chiang THE CHRONICLE

Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, explained the school’s plan to add a new wing to Keohane Quadrangle—code named “K4”—at the Campus Council meeting Thursday. Nowicki said the feasibility study started Monday to determine whether the University could afford the addition, given the current state of its finances. The new building will run across the back side of the quad near Edens Quadrangle. The addition of the fourth building was originally the last phase of the New Campus development plan, but has been

moved due to New Campus’ delay. The new wing would be a prototype for New Campus, allowing students to get a sense of the experience and offer their input, Nowicki said. “The idea has a whole lot of potential,” said Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a junior. “Campus Council will be acting as the student voice throughout the process.” Campus Council may send student representatives to the planning committee as well, Temple said. Initial plans for K4 will allow more space for juniors and seniors living on West Campus to occupy suite-style housing as well as more single rooms, Nowicki said. “We are not going to be building a sin-

gle core or double-loaded set of double rooms in K4.... We’re looking for a new way of living that will facilitate the nature of social living groups here,” he said. “[The addition] would be like Keohane on the outside but its design would be quite different on the inside.” The addition of K4 could have an effect on the number of students eligible for the off-campus lottery, though the addition would not impact the student population, Nowicki noted. Nowicki said that if the feasibility study shows positive results and the Board of Trustees approves the project, he hopes to break ground as early as next Spring in order to finish by Fall 2011, which would

allow current sophomores the opportunity to live in the new residence hall. Members of Campus Council and Nowicki said they believed student input would be invaluable to the process. “I hope to see Campus Council and a wide variety of students involved in discussions about which living style are most amenable,” said Campus Council Vice President Alex Reese, a junior. In other business, Nowicki said the renovation of Central Campus, which was delayed by the discovery of termites in June, as well as the slow process of receiving approval from the city to begin construction, will be finalized in the first weeks of Spring 2010.

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Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, discusses the plan to add a fourth wing to Keohane Quadrangle with Campus Council Thursday night. Nowicki said he hopes to begin construction next Spring.

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BUS from page 1 we can, but at the same time hit as many stops as we can to make it as convenient as possible,” Wynn said. The city started planning a downtown circulator a year ago, said Dan Jewell, a member of Durham Area Designers. Jewell is a co-facilitator of the Downtown Durham Enhanced Transit Steering Committee, the group that is developing the bus system. “We thought maybe we could take some of the energy and funding that has been set aside for that and turn it into this east-west route, which we think will be more beneficial to more people in Durham,” he said. Duke has already provided $375,000 to match a $3 million federal grant, which allowed for the purchase of six hybrid diesel buses. The proposed line is a farefree system, which would run from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m., with wait times ideally less than 20 minutes. In its entirety, the route is expected to take no longer than 30 minutes, Wynn said. The buses will allow for the approximately 2,000 Duke employees who work downtown to easily commute to and from campus and their offices, Wynn said. Additionally, the buses will enable Duke students to take public transportation to downtown Durham. “We want the students to have the opportunity to fully enjoy and appreciate all of the cultural amenities that are now available in downtown Durham,” Wynn said. “This is a new, transformed downtown that we want to make sure all of our students are fully aware of.” The Duke-Durham connector will provide a number of other benefits, including decreased traffic congestion and reduced carbon emissions, Wynn said. Durham has taken a number of measures to cover the cost of the new bus line, Wynn said. The city will receive $338,000 in federal stimulus funds annually for two years

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A possible route for the Duke-Durham Connector is shown above. The proposed bus route will connect Duke to downtown Durham and NCCU. City planners expect the bus line to ease Duke employees’ commutes and allow students to easily and safely travel into downtown Durham. and add a $5 registration fee for motor vehicles, which is expected to accrue roughly $800,000 a year. Additionally, the city is planning to propose a referendum that would add half a cent to the sales tax. This referendum will most likely be delayed until Fall 2011, Wynn said. Since the bus line is still in the preliminary stages, Duke Park-

ing and Transportation declined to comment on its specifics. Jewell said the ultimate goal is to make this bus system convenient for everyone. “We want people to get more used to using public transit,” he said. “We want to let them know it can be fun, it can be frequent, it can be safe.”

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highest civilian honor. Yunus last came to the Triangle in February to explore the possibility of bringing a Grameen America branch to the region and to speak at North Carolina Central University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was also the 2009 commencement speaker for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. “There are two clear tasks in front of you—one, to end poverty in the world once for all, and two, to set the world in the right path to undo all the damage we have done to the environment by our ignorance and selfishness,” Yunus told graduates while speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s commencement in June 2008. “Your initiatives can produce big results, even lead you to achieving these goals. Then yours will be the most successful generation in human history.” Brodhead selected Yunus from a list of 10 potential speakers submitted by the commencement speaker student advisory committee last Spring. The committee, composed of 10 undergraduate and graduate students, was newly implemented this year, said Chris Collins, executive assistant to the University Secretary and the committee’s supervisor. She said student members were nominated by their academic deans and were encouraged to participate through an advertisement in The Chronicle. Committee members met and shared names as a group for more than a month before sending the final list of 10 names to Brodhead in May, Collins said. Brodhead contacted Yunus to offer him the speaking role and an honorary degree, and Yunus accepted almost immediately, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “He’s a great speaker and a genuinely nice and interesting person,” said Schoenfeld, noting that the University wanted a speaker who would deliver a unique address.

one contains. LED lighting, on the other hand, is much cleaner and more efficient, consuming half the energy and emitting half the carbon of fluorescent bulbs. “It’s a logical extension of technology advancing down the road,” Blue said. “This is much friendlier to the environment—couple that with the potential to create jobs of the future, and I feel encouraged.” Blue, current chair of the Duke Board of Trustees, said in an interview that the switch to LED lighting could be beneficial to the University, particularly in light of an initiative to reach carbon neutrality the Board approved at its meeting last weekend. The 50-year Climate Action Plan sets a goal for Duke to reach a level of “substantive neutrality” by 2024, Blue said in an interview Sunday. “This is a potential way for Duke to address climate issues, and we’ll see what in the sense of this Duke incorporates [in the effort to become carbon neutral],” he said. Blue added that LED chips—which cost more up front but last 50 times as long as conventional bulbs—pay for themselves, particularly when an institution has intensive and overnight lighting, as Duke does. He noted that savings in the electric bill from using LED lighting would free up additional power for other utilities.

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Gov. Bev Perdue spoke Thursday on the increase of environmentally friendly LED lightbulb production at the Durham manufacturer Cree.

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CLEANING from page 1 RLHS to eliminate seven housekeeping positions, and working hours had to be reduced to avoid extra overtime cost. Still, many students said they thought it was an unwise decision to leave remnants from section parties and concerts to sit for 48 hours, given the general increase in social activity across campus on weekend nights. The absence of Saturday cleaning has taken its toll on both East and West Campus residence halls. “Someone threw up in the water fountain on my hall, and it sat there from Friday night to Monday morning,” said Aubree Dinning, a freshman living in Gilbert-Addoms Dormitory. The new schedule has raised cleanliness and health issues. Gonzalez said a primary complaint has been concern regarding the H1N1 virus and its spread across campus. “Bathrooms are disgusting on the weekends,” said Tian Yuan, a sophomore living in Craven Quadrangle. “The shower drains get clogged so water rises, and toilet paper runs out all the time.”

Several housekeepers declined to comment on the change to the schedule and the impact it has had on the cleaning staff. Despite concerns, the elimination of Saturday cleaning was a carefully planned process. In light of these retirements, RHLS leaders had to weigh the benefits of reducing the budget with the impact of the new schedule, Gonzalez said. Some cleaning services are available on the weekends, said Alfred Raines, a housekeeper specialist. Students can contact RLHS if they have a specific need. In previous years, cleaning on Saturdays consisted only of the removal of trash and recycling from waste disposal units. The new cleaning policy is still under review and RLHS is open to feedback, Gonzalez said. He added that student input will affect the decision to re-evaluate or make permanent the change to the cleaning program. Gonzalez said students can contact RLHS with complaints or comments about the policy. “We are spending a lot of time evaluating the impact of this change so we can revisit the decision as needed,” he said.

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Senior Josh Bienenfeld and Duke return to ACC play against No. 18 N.C. State tonight at Koskinen Stadium.

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The story of Duke’s season has been about home cooking. It was last Friday at No. 18 home where the Blue NCSU Devils convincingly vs. defeated then-No. 2 No. 9 Maryland 2-0. HowDuke ever, Duke followed up that victory with a FRIDAY, 7 p.m. disappointing 4-1 road Koskinen Stadium loss to Davidson Tuesday. In their last six games, the Blue Devils have won all three home contests but

dropped their three away games. Duke (7-3-0, 2-2-0 in the ACC) hopes the comfort of Koskinen Stadium will help it bounce back against visiting N.C. State (7-2-1, 1-2-1) tonight at 7 p.m. . The ninth-ranked Blue Devils are looking to protect a proud unbeaten home record against a highly experienced Wolfpack team, which starts nine seniors. “It’s going to be a hard game for us,” head coach John Kerr said. “We know all about them, as well as they know all about us.” See M. Soccer on page 12

After a devastating 4-0 loss against Maryland, Duke hopes to step up its game against No. 5 Florida State after a week of rest. “Sunday was a big disappointment and we didn’t play like ourselves at all, but we had a week until this next game, so we’re refocused No. 5 FSU and excited to play against Florida State,” senior capvs. tain Jane Alukonis said. “We have a Duke lot to prove, and this would be a SUNDAY, 1 p.m. great team to do Koskinen Stadium that against.” The Blue Devils (4-5-3, 0-2-1 in the ACC) take on Florida State Sunday at 1 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium. The Seminoles (10-2-0, 3-1-0) were national finalists in 2007. “We’ll be playing a great team who, depending on the polls, is ranked third to fifth in the country,” head coach Robbie Church said. “This is a game we’re looking to win, and I think we can.” Duke’s last top-10 win came against Florida State in 2006, and the Blue Devils earned a 1-1 tie versus the Seminoles in 2007. Church is confident the team will still perform well, primarily because the Blue Devils benefit from playing Florida State’s up-tempo style. An up-and-down game could suit Duke. “We have a great mentality, and the seniors do great jobs of being leaders both on and off the field,” he said. “We expect

to be ready to play with enthusiasm and intensity and to compete hard.” Duke has had a difficult start to the ACC schedule, with a loss to No. 1 North Carolina, a tie with No. 9 Wake Forest and a loss to No. 22 Maryland in a span of 11 days, but hopes to regroup after having a break between back-toback matches. One thing the players felt they needed to work on was increasing their stamina to last longer in the game, especially with fewer players on the bench because of injuries. “We want to be able to play with a higher intensity for a longer time. Sometimes we have great soccer for 15 minutes, but soccer is a 90-minute game,” Alukonis said. “Hopefully we don’t ever play like we did against Maryland again.” Against the Terrapins, Duke fell into its pattern of developing a lot of scoring chances, but not converting them, something the Blue Devils hope to avoid Sunday. “We’re looking to go out there and win.... Winning cures all evils,” sophomore Cody Newman said. With more energy on the field, the team hopes to perform better than it has for the past three games and show that it is capable of battling with the best. “By doing our best and playing together, we can compete with the best teams in the country,” Alukonis said. “Florida State is a team respected by everyone in the country, and it would be great to come away from the game with a win.”

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Last season, a disappointing home loss to N.C. State all but quashed Duke’s chances at a bowl bid. This year, the showdown between the in-state rivals provides an opportunity for each team to overcome a slow start to the season. And while both squads enter Saturday’s 4 p.m. contest at Carter-Finley Stadium after tough losses, Duke (2-3, 0-1 in the ACC) feels it may be playing its best football of the season so far, especially on the offensive side of the ball. “I feel like we have an energy that we are more confident,” wide receiver Austin Kelly said.

“We have confidence in each other. We have confidence in our quarterback. We have confidence in our offensive line. Everybody knows that they are going to make a play when their number is called. That is the mindset you have to have to be successful.” The Blue Devils’ renewed confidence comes despite a 34-26 loss to then-No. 6 Virginia Tech last weekend. Even though it was more than a two-touchdown underdog to the Hokies, Duke remained within seven points of Virginia Tech for the majority of the game before giving up two late touchdown runs. Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis

had arguably his best performance of the year with 359 yards passing and two touchdowns, while freshman running back Desmond Scott provided a spark in the running game, averaging almost five yards per carry. N.C. State (3-2, 0-1), meanwhile, lost a 30-24 heartbreaker to Wake Forest in a game the Wolfpack were expected to win. Three turnovers and eight penalties stymied their normally high-powered attack. While sophomore quarterback Russell Wilson, who has already thrown for 1,244 yards and 14 touchdowns this season, has lived up to expectations, melissa yeo/The Chronicle

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the Wolfpack have yet to live up to the potential that led N.C. State to be a trendy preseason pick to win the conference. Still, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe knows playing an in-state rival at home could be just the impetus to wake the sleeping Wolfpack. “I know it is going to be a very intimidating atmosphere over at Carter-Finley,” Cutcliffe said. Furthermore, Lewis knows that the N.C. State secondary, which allowed Wake Forest quarterback Riley Skinner to throw for 361 yards and three touchdowns last week, will be ready for Duke’s own high-powered passing attack. “They can correct the things they did wrong last week and come out and play their best game in the secondary this week,” Lewis said. “We have to take what they give us on Saturday.” But if the Blue Devils are to take advantage of the Wolfpack’s questionable defense, a key cog will be the play of Kelly. After catching only 13 passes all of last season, the junior leads the team with 25 receptions and 299 yards receiving this year. The veteran’s leadership has helped to shepherd the improvement of younger receivers Donovan Varner, Conner Vernon, and Johnny Williams, all of whom have more than 245 yards receiving. Vernon has been one of the Blue Devils’ big play threats, averaging almost 17 yards per reception. “Conner, being a freshman coming in, it is a big transition,” Kelly said. “But when his number is called, he has it in his mind that he is going to make a play, and he has been doing that.” Cutcliffe, though, said Kelly’s own im-

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A strong passing game from Thaddeus Lewis against N.C. State could revive Duke’s faint bowl hopes. provement had been the driving force behind Duke’s aerial attack. “[Austin’s] plight, and he knew it, was his consistency and focus as a player was so average a year ago,” Cutcliffe said. “Austin got his conditioning level much better. When you do that, it seems like

your focus and then your consistency becomes an easier thing.” And for the Blue Devils to get back on the winning track Saturday in a hostile environment, consistency not only from Kelly, but from the entire offense, will be crucial.

Duke faces two stiff tests this weekend,when it hosts Miami and No. 19 Florida State at Cameron Indoor Stadium, with both matches slated to start at 7 p.m. The Blue Devils (15-2, 5-0 in the ACC) boast an undefeated record in conference play, while the Seminoles (13-2, 4-1) are just one game out of first place. Miami (9-6, 2-3) enters the weekend having lost three ACC contests, all in five sets. The Blue Devils are off to the secondbest start in school history and are 15-1 in their last 16 sets in conference play. They are on a seven-game winning streak, having just dispatched Virginia and Virginia Tech in their last two contests. In the ACC, Duke is hitting .270 while handcuffing its opponents to a meager .135 clip. Florida State, meanwhile, boasts the top offense in the league, led by senior middle blocker Brianna Barry. The Seminoles have five players on their roster with at least 100 kills, and were unblemished in conference play before falling to Georgia Tech in their last match. The Hurricanes have plenty of offense as well with reigning ACC Freshman of the Year Lane Carico on the roster. Duke has won 12 straight against Florida State, but struggled last year against Miami, as the Hurricanes swept the Blue Devils in both meetings. —from staff reports

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Blue Devils face nation’s best Last weekend’s trip up to Boston kept the Blue Devils winless in ACC play, but Duke gets a chance to change its fortunes when it hosts No. 1 Maryland (13-0, 3-0) and No. 2 North Carolina (110, 2-0) this weekend. Duke plays the No. 1 Terrapins Saturday at 1 p.m. and the UMD Tar Heels Sunday at the same time, vs. both at Williams Field. No. 14 Duke (6-5, 0-3 in the ACC) deDuke feated Maryland last season 3-2 when the Terrapins were also the SATURDAY, 1 p.m. top team in the country, but repeating the feat against the defending champions will be no easy task. No. 2 Maryland is led by a trio of doubleUNC digit goal scorers, including Katie vs. O’Donnell, who is second in the No. 14 country in points per game. Duke The No. 14 Blue Devils have lost their last three matches to North SUNDAY, 1 p.m. Carolina, including a 7-0 pasting Williams Field Sept. 26. Duke has rebounded since the loss to the Tar Heels with three positive performances that portend a more competitive showing this time around. Despite posting a 1-1 record over the past weekend, the Blue Devils played well in a narrow loss to then-No. 10 Boston College and a win over Boston University. Seniors Lauren Miller and Amie Survillawill play in their final home game Sunday against North Carolina. Miller dished out two assists last weekend while Survilla scored four goals—including a hat trick against the Terriers Sunday— to bring her team-leading total to 18. Survilla leads the nation with an average of 1.64 goals per game. —from staff reports

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Freshman forward Ryan Finley scored the game winner against Maryland Friday, but Duke followed that up with a 4-1 loss to Davidson Tuesday.

M. Soccer from page 10 While No. 18 N.C. State attempts to keep a threegame winning streak alive, Duke will be looking to shake off its sluggish effort against the Wildcats and recapture its mentality and effort against Maryland. “Our attitude and approach to the game has got to be more like the Maryland game,” Kerr said. “We’ll be a lot more prepared. You’ll see more of a resemblance to the Maryland game than the Davidson game for sure.” In its contest against the Wolfpack last year, Duke narrowly lost 2-1, with two goals from N.C. State’s Ronnie Bouemboue. Bouemboue is having a great senior campaign, having already scored five goals this season, while fellow senior Alan Sanchez has notched six assists.

The Blue Devils, however, boost their own offensive threat in freshman Ryan Finley, who also has a five-goal tally for the season. “We’re prepared,” senior captain Josh Bienenfeld said. “Everyone understands that after Tuesday night’s performance, we have to come out really strong.” Despite the need to regroup from the team’s first nonconference loss, Bienenfeld believes that this game will not be different from any other. “Every game is important. We try to approach every game the same way,” Bienenfeld said. “Expect what we’ve been giving this whole season, an extremely hard-working, passionate Duke team.” Kerr also believes his team is up for the occasion. “I won’t have to do much talking, believe it or not,” Kerr said. “The players are ready and focused, and we’re looking forward to [tonight’s] game.”

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‘Sexiling’ Solutions Students at Tufts Univer- plies when one roommate is sity looking to get lucky in forced to vacate their dorm their dorm room now have room to allow the other roommore to worry about than mate to pursue extracurricumaking sure that their sex is lar endeavors of the intimate safe and connature. One sensual. roommate gets editorial Effective this to have all the academic year, Tufts instated fun; the other is banished to a prohibition on sexual activ- the common room couches ity in dorm rooms when oth- or a friend’s futon. er roommates are present. Sexual activity can be a This policy raises an im- sensitive subject of discussion, portant and often unad- but its taboo nature does not dressed topic that can disrupt justify top-down regulation roommate relationships— from university officials. Colsex. But it is far too invasive lege students are adults, and and heavy-handed, dictating administrators—for better or solutions to a problem that for worse—should treat them should be settled organically as such. through dialogue and comIndividual choices about promise. sexual behavior should be At the heart of the matter a topic of conversation beis the act of “sexiling,” the tween roommates, and they commonplace term that ap- should be mature enough to

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formulate mutually agreeable expectations through their own efforts and dialogue. Moreover, it is hard to imagine how university residential life departments could actually enforce such a policy that restricts a private act. For many reasons, we are glad that Tuft’s mandate has not been replicated at Duke. That said, we do recognize the need for frank, open discussion about sexual practices, especially between randomly assigned first-year roommate pairs on East Campus. Students come to Duke with varying attitudes toward sex, and differing value systems are likely to cause friction. Nevertheless, the solution to these types of situ-

ations is one of basic interpersonal communication, rather than official University policy. The University, however, can take several steps to encourage dialogue about sexual behavior. For example, protocol for sexual activity would be a salient topic to include on the roommate agreement form filled out by students during move-in. Even if roommates do not develop concrete rules for their sexual activity, at least the topic will be discussed when it otherwise would not have been mentioned at all. Roommate discussion about sexual behavior could also be integrated into orientation programming, and resident assistants and first-year advisory counselors could be

trained to facilitate it. Learning how to communicate grievances and work through problems is crucial to instilling the basic conflict resolution skills that are a key takeaway from the college residential experience. Empowering student conversation about sex will foster student development while simultaneously reducing the occurrence of conflict over “sexiling.” At the end of the day, students are going be the ones making decisions about their individual sexual practices. As long as it is safe, consensual and respectful of the residential environment, leave control of sex in the hands of those between the sheets—and the odd roommate out.

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ast week, our campus was the site of the latest in a long and disgraceful string of homophobic attacks. By now, we all know the story, the tepid response from leading representatives of Duke Student Government and Chronicle columnists, and michael stauch the responses from brave and coura- spread the embers geous students on campus, both those that wrote letters to the editor expressing solidarity with queer folks on campus and those that—after documenting the incident fully and suggesting ways to respond to it—did their part to show that hate speech isn’t acceptable on campus. The latter sentiments are not unique. Duke has hardly gone a decade without being rocked by student protest, where similar sentiments burst forth brilliantly and forcefully from a subterranean fire simmering just below the surface, changing the repressive status quo in an instant. On Feb. 13, 1969, dozens of black students at Duke occupied the Allen Building, shining a harsh light on a university that had desegregated eight years before, but still felt the lingering effects of hundreds of years of racial oppression. Just more than 10 years later, a similarly militant student movement forced the University administration to divest from South African apartheid. Still another movement emerged a decade after that, demanding that the University take a stand against the inhumane use of sweatshop labor to produce athletic apparel, and won important concessions from the administration. Each of these movements produced its own breakthrough, and each deserves its place in the proud tradition of activism at Duke. But our gains are temporary, and if we do not defend them, they are slowly and painfully eroded over time. The Allen occupation went a long way toward combating lingering racist sentiments, but race remains a divisive issue on campus, as a superficial look at the online comments accompanying any article or editorial about race shows. An administration reluctantly forced to divest from South African apartheid now refuses to divest from the same (and worse) conditions for Palestinians in Israel, and will continue to refuse until forced by popular sentiment to do

otherwise. In response to the anti-sweatshop movement, the administration erected an almost impenetrable barrier of bureaucratic red tape to future financial stick-wielding, the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. In this case, an apparent victory has become an impediment to future success. The only thing that’s been able to breach ACIR’s walls since its inception has been divestment from Sudan, which suggests that your cause is unlikely to succeed unless it is both egregiously in violation of all standards of human decency and serves the interests of the U.S. State Department (i.e. restricting access to Sudan for a major economic and political competitor—China). It is with these movements in mind, both their successes and their failures, that we look at our own times and begin to formulate our mission. Enter California. In response to proposed budget cuts, students throughout the University of California system have recently taken to the timetested tactics of activists everywhere—leaflets, banners, bullhorns and their own bodies. The largest response came at the UC system’s flagship campus, Berkeley, where a call for a student strike brought 5,000 students out of their classes and into the streets in protest. Many of these students went on to participate in a popular assembly at which they sought to decide the fate not only of their movement, but of their school as well. They promised to meet again in a month for a statewide conference discussing coordinating actions throughout the UC system. Until then, they will be in the halls, on the buses and in the commons of the university, handing out leaflets, talking to fellow students about the issues facing their university and how they themselves can solve them. Realistically, we are far from such a movement at Duke. But we have the same subterranean fire that has nurtured these past outbursts of militant struggle for social justice. We have our own history and the present struggles of students just like us in California and elsewhere to guide us. We walk the same halls, ride the same buses and have some of the same old professors as the students we respect and remember from struggles past. It is time to claim this University as our own. Where do we begin? Coming Out Day @ Duke is today. Fly your flags. Michael Stauch is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in history. His column runs every other Friday.

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lettertotheeditor IFC’s Tailage letter misses the point I couldn’t help but laugh when I read the Interfraternity Council’s open letter to the Duke community in the Oct. 7 issue of The Chronicle. The problem with Tailgate is not can-throwing, nor is it standing on cars. The problem with Tailgate is Tailgate. The problem with Tailgate is that it is not, as IFC suggests, “an important part of the Duke football experience,” but rather, it is the Duke football experience. Every week it is truly disheartening, as am I sure it is to the players and alumni, to watch fel-

low students drunkenly stumble away from Wallace Wade Stadium as Tailgate ends, never having had any intention of going to the game. As long as Tailgate remotely resembles its current form, this will never change, “Party Monitors” or not. The IFC knows this, and their letter was nothing but a hollow save-face, the same-old smarmy do-good exterior that fraternities have always fronted. Tom Burr Trinity ’12

Lost, and (unfortunately) not found

t is a rainy Wednesday. I am at Nagoya City Hall, frustrated and soaked after a day of searching, wondering whether it’s even worth it to go to the police station. I wish I could say that an excitlisa du ing tale led me to such a predicamoshi moshi ment. Like if I had been caught jaywalking (no one, absolutely no one, jaywalks in Japan), or had been bold enough to walk around without my Alien Registration Card (which all foreigners must have on them at all times), and was on the verge of deep deep trouble. But unfortunately, life in Japan is not as bizarre as a Kill Bill movie every day. I’ll give you the disappointing truth: I am on a journey for a lost pair of shoes. At this moment in City Hall, I am pondering how much I want the shoes back, and if I want them enough to go for another round of broken-Japanese 101 (spoken by yours truly) at the police station. My story starts three Fridays ago, when I decided to be a normal college student and go out for a night on the town. In my intense vanity, I decided that four-inch platform heels would be the perfect addition to my night. Never mind that my feet were screaming bloody-murder at me after 10 minutes—or the fact that the average height in Japan is about 10 inches below that in America. Yet even in my idiocy, I decided to be smart, as I knew that sometime later I would regret wearing those heels. So I tucked my flip-flops into my handbag, and went off into the night. A few short hours later, I found myself coming to from the dizzying sensations that were my Friday night on the town. I was at the bus stop near my host family’s house, and realized I was in flip-flops with my heels nowhere in sight. When I woke up the next day, regret set in and I began to lament my lost pair of gorgeous, wonderful heels (despite the blisters on my feet). To my pleasant surprise, a simple Google search of “Japan lost and found” led me to a hidden treasure chest of information. Somehow, Japan’s 1,300 year-old code about how lost property should be handled has survived to modern times. In Japan today, this moral code translates into numerous lost-and-found centers all over Japan where items are constantly being turned in—and claimed. If the original owner doesn’t pick up the item within six months, the item can be re-

claimed by the person who found it; if not claimed at all, the item becomes the possession of the government after a year. For me, this was probably the most glorious news I could have possibly received. After more searching online led me to near-fantastical tales of people recovering lost iPhones and checkbooks, and kind souls returning millions of yen in cash to lost and found centers, I became pretty confident that my shoes were about to come floating back into my room in no time. No way they were lost—they were definitely sitting in the Transportation Bureau’s Lost and Found Office. Best of all, I found that the city of Nagoya offered an English-calling service for situations such as mine. I could explain my circumstances to an interpreter, and we would then conference call the Transportation Bureau about my shoes. After deciding on a simple explanation for my predicament (“I can’t remember if I misplaced my shoes in the station or the subway”), I dialed away. About five minutes into the phone conversation with my “interpreter,” I realized that her English abilities were about as questionable as my Japanese. As I sat and listened to her mistranslate “polka-dot” to “white” to the worker at the Transportation Bureau, I realized I wasn’t going to be satisfied with any answer she gave me. To my chagrin, the conversation ended with no shoes found, and instead the interpreter lady advised me to file a police report. After taking in the incredulity of her suggestion, I decided to simply go to the lost and found center at City Hall and look for myself. And so, there I was on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, talking to an elderly man behind a glass panel in a tiny corner of the second floor of City Hall. Behind him stood shelves piled high with purses, shopping bags, and other random items—and beyond the shelves were huge cardboard boxes, all precisely dated. The old man recorded the description of my shoe, and proceeded to dig through a cardboard box about nearly his size—only to come away empty-handed. My encounter ended with a recommendation from the old man to visit the police station, accompanied by meticulous directions on how to get there, right down to exactly how many meters I should walk. Although my adventure seemed useless by the end, I learned a lot of lessons along the way. Don’t go drinking in four-inch heels, don’t trust free interpreter services and don’t go to anybody but the Japanese police for the solution to your life problems. My solution? I went shopping the weekend after, and bought a new pair of flats. Lisa Du is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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Two ounces to freedom

ast Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the World Beer Festival, and was pleasantly surprised to find that if you take an open-minded approach to sampling brews of every variety, from all over the globe, without the reticence to turn one down, then yes—you can get exceedingly drunk off two-ounce cups of everyone’s favorite beverage. But you can drink any Saturday. An experience like this, however, doesn’t come around every week. For the 14th time since 1996, Durham played host to the festival, bringing the offerings of hundreds of breweries nathan freeman to local community residents good night, and under rows of big white tents good luck that seemed to stretch for miles. It was held at the historic Durham Athletic Park, on the field where Nuke LaLoosh and Crash Davis once played in “Bull Durham,” the greatest sports movie of all time. But baseball was far from the minds of the men and women who made the pilgrimage downtown that fateful October day—the things that mattered most were barley, hops and wheat. And the libations are just the beginning. The festival also offered beer seminars, for those who don’t know their porters from their pilsners or their hefeweizens from their bocks. There were also lectures by the editors of All About Beer magazine—the Durham-based brew-centric publication that puts on the extravaganza every year—with titles such as “Hop-Head or Malt Maven: Which Are You?” and “Beer and Chocolate.” There were guided tours for those who already know how they take their drink (or, if you’re adventurous, you can try the “You Put What In My Beer?” circuit). And there were tables upon tables of beer-brand swag, everything from shirts, hats (I picked up one emblazoned with the Pabst Blue Ribbon logo) and even condoms (classy pun, Magic Hat). For those not content with the sonorous hum of beer spilling from keg-taps into glasses, a bluegrass band jammed in the background, encouraging at least a few sloppy patrons to sing along with “The Weight.” And no one was drinking on an empty stomach, either: Restaurants such as Chubby’s, Sitar and even haute newcomer Revolution were among the vendors on hand to satisfy even the most debilitating drunk munchies. I didn’t shy away from some of the odder beers, even if I knew ahead of time that I probably wouldn’t warm to them. For example, the Audacious Apricot Ale from Pyramid Breweries was exactly that, and, in my opinion, this was a bad thing. Same goes for the River City Raspberry Wheat, from Wilmington’s Front Street Brewery. But despite my apprehension before trying out the very October-y Punkin Ale—from Delaware’s Dogfish Head, the craft brewery par excellence—it turned out to be one of my favorite beers of the night. I also couldn’t resist seeking out some of the beers that have made me so happy in the past. I hadn’t touched Imperial, the official beer of Costa Rica, since I subsisted on the stuff during my semester teaching English there. However, once it hit my lips, everything came back. I even had my first experience of drinking Sapporo unaccompanied by chanting, table-pounding and a shot-sized infusion of sake. And after a sip of the Battlefield Bock, I became doubly excited for tomorrow’s Red Oak beer garden on Main Quad. But what really elevates the World Beer Festival from just another Saturday night of drinking is the eye-popping smorgasbord of people it attracts: the flavor-hunting foodies, the stumbling drunks covered in free stickers from brewers and Durham residents donning garb that could only be acceptable at such an event. It’s sort of like Tailgate: Picture ironic T-shirts, beerfunnel helmets, necklaces with pretzels on them, etc., but with a much older crowd, and much better beer. Needless to say, I loved every second of it. As the banjo player in the bluegrass band plucked away into the night, the batter’s box where Kevin Costner once caught Tim Robbins’ pitches became newly draped in a blanket of dusk, and the refurbished old tobacco warehouses of downtown rose up in the distance, outlined in the day’s last bits of light. At that moment, I realized that a beer festival anywhere other than Durham simply wouldn’t have been as much fun. I had my doubts about staying in Durham last weekend, but after Saturday’s Beer Festival, I knew I had made the correct choice. So, everyone who went home for Fall Break—this is what you missed. Nathan Freeman is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Friday.

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