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Journalist reviews Obama’s policies H1N1 spray

provided at flu clinic

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As Duke students stress over their own midterm grades, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author Seymour Hersh issued a report card of his own in Page Auditorium Tuesday night.

Although a loosely structured lecture that covered a variety of topics, “A Report Card on Obama’s Foreign Policy” was Hersh’s discussion of President Barack Obama’s progress and the obstacles the president will face in the coming years of his term.

“It’s easy for me to stand here and pick on him­—it’s tougher to actually do it,” Hersh said.

Hersh is the kickoff speaker in the Provost’s Lecture Series titled “The Future of the Past, The Future of the Present: The Historical Record in the Digital Age.” The Washington, D.C.-based reporter currently writes for The New Yorker but is most famous for uncovering the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the U.S. military’s abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Baghdad.

Hersh lauded Obama for changing the United States’ position on Iran, deeming his work an “A+,” and for his assertive and direct approach to dealing with Russia.

Hersh remarked that the more problematic aspects of Obama’s foreign policy remain Iraq and a looming civil war that he predicted will break by 2010 as well as al Qaeda’s infiltration into Pakistan and the Turkish threat, if and when northern Iraq secedes. Hersh also said the view of America’s fallen image, a result of the administraSee hersh on page 6

FluMist only suitable for some, officials say

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Author and journalist Seymour Hersh presented “A Report Card on Obama’s Foreign Policy” in Page Auditorium Tuesday. Hersh gave the president an “A+” for his stance on Iran.

Forum to foster global awareness

by Sabrina Rubakovic The chronicle

Before Spring semester classes even begin, a select group of students will be tackling the economic issues facing global sustainability.

The University’s first annual Winter Forum, scheduled for Jan. 10 to 12, is a two-and-a-half day conference for undergraduates. Each forum in coming years will focus on an important global issue and will be led by a different University institute or school. This year’s forum, titled, “Making the Green Economy Work,” is run by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and will be held at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

“The Winter Forum is one piece of a project aimed toward creating a global experience for students,” said Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education. “The idea was to have a conference particularly interested in attracting students who haven’t had the opportunity to go abroad because of requirements of their schedules.”

About 75 students submitted applications, which were due Oct. 7, Lisker said. The program has about the same number of spaces available for participants, she added.

Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, said students selected will be part of a unique educational experience.

“The idea of these programs is to enhance the global perspec-

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tive of Duke,” Nowicki said. He added that the forum’s goal is to “create an on-campus experience that draws students from different backgrounds and perspectives together to discuss an issue of global significance.”

The free program consists of a speaker series, interactive discussion seminars and student reflections on ways to establish a green economy. According to the forum Web site, invited speakers include Joe Aldy, energy adviser for President Barack Obama, Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, and faculty from a wide array of Duke schools and institutes.

Lisker said the application process consisted of questions related to why students are interested in participating in the Winter Forum, whether they have prior experience with related issues and whether they have studied abroad or participated in DukeEngage.

“We are trying to get a sense of where students are starting from so that the faculty can target the content of the forum effectively,” Lisker said.

The idea for the Forum originated during the reaccreditation process the University goes through every 10 years. Part of this process requires performing a self-study of the University’s quality of education and creating a Quality Enhancement Plan proposing ideas for its improvement, Nowicki said.

The Winter Forum is one of three programs created through the QEP. The other programs are the Global Semester Abroad and

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Last Wednesday, 752 students sniffed their way out of swine flu at Student Health’s flu clinic.

FluMist, a nasal spray vaccine for the H1N1 strain of influenza, arrived at the Duke University Medical Center last week.

But DUMC received less than 1 percent of its requested shipment of more than 100,000 doses, a situation that was likely not different from other medical facilities, said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease physician at DUMC. Currently, about 500 students have displayed swine flu symptoms, said Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs. Student Health was given doses of FluMist to administer to at most 800 qualifying students who were also receiving the seasonal flu injection. The seasonal flu vaccine, which is separate from the H1N1 FluMist vaccine, was given to 1,500 students Wednesday.

“The FluMist is suitable for some patients and the injectable is suited for others,” Wolfe said.

The H1N1 FluMist is intended to treat healthy people aged 2 to 24, said Dr. Bill Purdy, executive director of Student Health.

It is a live vaccine—one that retains small components of the original virus—and is unsafe for patients with chronic health problems, weak immune systems or who See vaccine on page 5

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A student receives a FluMist nasal spray vaccine Tuesday at the Student Health Center. Duke received its first shipment of the vaccine last week.

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“It is not easy to live in an area surrounded by a wall that is 790 km long and winds its way like a snake...,”

­—Jala Basil Andoni on living in Palestine. See story page 4.

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United States urges passage of new Iraqi election law

New local policies to begin Supreme Court Justices to RALEIGH, N.C. — The Wake County review trial of Enron CEO

Sheriff’s Department is one of eight local law enforcement agencies in North Carolina and 66 across the nation authorized by the federal government to identify illegal immigrants and process them for possible deportation under a program known as 287(g). Virginia is the only other state with more participating agencies.

Immigrant advocates and some lawmakers have been highly critical of the program because of reports of racial profiling and civil rights violations. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has called for an end to the program.

Responding to concerns, the Obama administration announced in July that participating agencies would be subject to federal supervision and required to focus their efforts primarily on serious and violent criminals. Police agencies must sign new agreements by Wednesday.

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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a narrow field.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will review former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling’s conviction to see if he received a fair trial in the hothouse atmosphere of Houston following the collapse of the nation’s seventh largest company in 2001.

It will also consider whether federal prosecutors properly applied the “honest services” statute that led to Skilling’s conviction and 24-year prison sentence.

In granting the case, the justices put aside a request from the federal government that they at least delay a decision on Skilling until after the court had dealt with two other cases on their docket that challenge the honest services law.

The justices will hear those two cases in December, and Skilling’s case sometime after the first of the year.

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1926: Alan Alexander Milne releases his book, “Winnie-thePooh”

BAGHDAD — American officials in Baghdad urged Iraqi lawmakers Tuesday to pass an election law crucial for organizing a January vote that the Obama administration considers key to withdrawing U.S. combat troops.

In a statement, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill and Gen. Ray Odierno, the American military commander here, said they were concerned that parliament has not yet reached an agreement on the law. They urged lawmakers “to act expeditiously on this important legislation that will set the terms for successful, transparent political participation in this milestone event.” A day earlier, Ad Melkert, the U.N. representative in Iraq, voiced similar concerns.

Lawmakers have resumed negotiations over the legislation, which election officials said must be approved by Thurs-

day to give them enough time to organize the parliamentary vote.

But stark differences among politicians suggest the Iraqis might miss the deadline, and the statement from Hill and Odierno underlined U.S. concerns about the possible consequences. U.S. and Iraqi officials have warned that postponing the vote beyond January would lead to violating the constitution and throwing Iraq’s nascent political system into limbo.

So far, two key contentious issues have held up the legislation. The first is how the vote should be conducted in Kirkuk, a northern, oil-rich city that is contested by Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen.The results there could be deployed by parties to reinforce their claims over the city. The second issue is how to organize the ballot, whether voters will choose an electoral list, individual candidates or a mixture of both.

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Job woes keep grads in school Writer sees new media in politics

by Christopher Ross The chronicle

A weak job market has some seniors reassessing their post-graduation options.

While there are no numbers yet available, William Wright-Swadel, Fannie Mitchell executive director of career services, said he expects more Duke students to head straight to graduate or professional school after graduation.

“A pretty high percent of Duke students plan to go on to grad school,” he said.

“One of the things that’s always interesting is when they go.”

He added that last year’s class had an increase in the number of students who went straight to graduate or professional school, rather than deferring for a year or more. He noted that because this year’s seniors are aware of the difficult job market, they are more prepared for the challenges they face. This Fall’s Career Fair saw only 76 recruiters, down from 106 last year.

The Class of 2009 graduated with 31 percent of its members going to graduate or professional school, a 3 percent increase from the previous two classes. In addition, the number of Duke students with jobs upon graduation decreased from 39 percent for the Class of 2008 to 32 percent for 2009, Wright-Swadel said.

“Last year, it was a real surprise that the economy was bad,” he said. “But this year’s class has had a whole year to adjust to the fact that the market is difficult.”

The economic downturn took hold in Fall 2008 as the Class of 2009 was in the midst of applying for jobs.

Greg Adrouny, Trinity ’09, was one of the students caught in the downturn.

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two beforehand.

“It’s impossible to get a job with a large firm, and I didn’t want to go home and live with my parents,” he said. “I saw this new thing advertised to people like me.”

Wright-Swadel said he believes the senior class is not discouraged about the job

Read blogs? Your average demographic is a married, 45-year-old man making more than $90,000 a year.

That’s what new media and political consultant Soren Dayton told students Tuesday night. Duke Political Union, Connect2Politics and College Republicans brought Soren to Duke to speak about new media and its impacts on current political campaigning.

New media—using channels such as e-mail, blogging and Twitter—has dramatically transformed campaigning and the mechanics of politics, said Dayton, an online communications expert and blogger. Dayton had previously worked on the 2008 presidential campaign for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

“People can find out things in a way they couldn’t before,” Dayton said. “New media makes it where information can be spread all around and that’s why it’s so powerful.”

Because online access to information has grown substantially, people can find out how the world works and are not restricted to what their televisions or newspapers tell them.

Dayton said the explosion in new

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source: Duke Career Center, National association of colleges and employers

Adrouny enrolled in the Master of Management Studies: Foundations of Business program at the Fuqua School of Business, because he had difficulty finding a job and thought the program would make him more competitive in the future, he said. Adrouny said he originally planned to go to business school but wanted to work for a year or

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Tour sparks debate on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Researchers at Duke and UNC discovered that children are able to diminish chronic abdominal pain for prolonged time periods without the use of traditional pain medications by using mental imagery.

Children able to reduce pain with imagination

by Emily Stern The chronicle

Forget Pepto-Bismol. Children can now imagine going down an incredibly long slide or sitting on a cloud or a floating blanket to reduce abdominal pain.

A team of Duke and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers, led by Miranda van Tilburg, assistant professor of medicine at UNC, has created a guided imagery CD that targets children with chronic abdominal pain for which there is no identifiable medical cure. This treatment can be done in the privacy of the child’s own home.

“The CDs contain basically a story that children are asked to imagine,” van Tilburg said.

The children use the imagery to reduce their pain. One method involves the children imagining a special object in their hands that they melt and then put on their belly, she added.

“Using their imaginations gets them to experience their pain in a different way.

It gets them to push away the pain, changing their perception of what is occurring inside of them,” said Olafur Palsson, coSee children on page 12

A panel featuring two women from the Middle East became the site of a contentious dialogue over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Tuesday night.

“Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One shared Vision,” is a speaking tour sponsored by Partners for Peace, a nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C. committed to raising public awareness about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The campus event, which was attended by approximately 30 people, was co-sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke Human Rights Coalition, Center for Jewish Studies and the Duke University Center for International Studies.

Lauren Braun, the coordinator for the event, said in the past, discussions concerning the conflict in the Middle East have sparked debate within the Duke community.

“Getting the event to Duke was slightly controversial,” said Braun, who works as a staff specialist at the Duke Islamic Studies Center. “But we wanted to raise awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and show how these women have been through so much.”

The panel featured Jala Basil Andoni, a Christian Palestinian who lives east of Bethlehem, and Ruth El-Raz, an Israeli Jew who lives in Jerusalem. The third scheduled speaker, Hekmat Besisso-Naji, a Muslim Palestinian woman from Gaza,

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Ruth El-Raz (left) and Jala Basil Andoni, who live in Jerusalem, spoke on the current tension in Israel Tuesday in the Social Sciences Building. was unable to be a part of the panel because her visa was denied by the U.S. Department of State. Although the organizers hoped to connect to Besisso-Naji through the online communication program Skype, technical difficulties preSee jerusalem on page 12

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DUU reviews future programming events

by Christine Chen The chronicle

Duke University Union discussed a variety of programming events for the coming year at its weekly meeting Tuesday night.

DUU plans to hold its first annual Thanksgiving dinner in the Great Hall the week before Thanksgiving Break. It is meant to be an opportunity for students to mingle and interact with faculty members and the administration, said DUU Special Projects Director Christie Falco, a senior.

She added that the event will be “family

style and fun.”

Falco said DUU is also looking into hosting a possible rave or dance party on West Campus during the first week of the Spring semester. Members discussed the possibility of procuring a big-name DJ to attract students to the event. DUU also began the planning process for the Southern-themed Duke Royale, held annually at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. The event will take place April 2 this year.

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Duke University Union members discuss potential programing events Tuesday evening, including pregame festivities for the Blue-White scrimmage and a rave party on West Campus in the Spring.

vaccine from page 1 are pregnant. The vaccine is also unsuitable for patients with egg allergies.

If students were not able to receive the FluMist, it was likely because they have asthma and cannot safely inhale the nasal spray, Purdy said.

“The population we’re dealing with at school is pretty healthy,” he said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend health care employees to be among the first to be vaccinated. But DUMC has decided not to administer the FluMist to its staff, because there is a small chance that traces of the live vaccine could infect the patients vaccinated employees are caring for. Staff members, however, will be vaccinated with the injectable H1N1 vaccine when it arrives at Duke, Wolfe said.

“We sort of sat down and we thought of our patient demographic, and... we have a high percentage of patients that are immunosuppressant,” he said.

Immunosuppressant patients, those with weak immune systems, include transplant and HIV-infected patients. Hospitals with healthier populations may have different policies, Wolfe said.

Wolfe said the decision to distribute the nasal spray first, instead of the injectable, was made at the national level, likely due to the time it takes to manufacture each form of the vaccine.

The H1N1 vaccine is federally funded and produced by four manufacturers.

Wolfe said DUMC does not know when it will receive more shipments of the FluMist or when the injectable form of the H1N1 vaccine will arrive.

“I don’t hold any doubt that people who want the vaccine will be able to get it, but when they will receive it is not yet known,” Wolfe said.

Purdy said Student Health will know about a new H1N1 vaccine shipment 24 hours before it arrives.

Student Health learned they would receive the doses of FluMist the night of Oct.6, the day before the flu clinic was to offer the seasonal flu vaccine.

Jean Hanson, administrative director of Student Health, said Student Health did not want to advertise the vaccine because of the shipment’s small size—she did not want to have to turn people away. Instead, students already attending the flu clinic who met safety requirements for the vaccine were asked if they wished to receive it on a first-come, first-served basis.

“Our intent is that when they do have enough we can advertise,” Hanson said.

Although it is uncertain when more doses of the H1N1 vaccine will be available, Purdy and Wolfe advised that those who can safely receive the vaccine be treated.

“It not only reduces the chance of you getting sick, it reduces the chance of you spreading it to other people—it’s dually effective,” Wolfe said.

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graduates from page 3 process, but focused on figuring out what they want to do and where they want to work.

“In the past, at elite schools like Duke and many others, fields like investment and banking and consulting are so available— or at least they seem to be—that lots of [students] go through that whole process and when you really ask them why, they don’t have good explanations,” he said. “It’s just, ‘well, all my friends are in the recruiting program, so I am.’”

Dean Gerald Wilson, director of prelaw advising, said the weak job market has increased the number of law school applicants. Students who planned to take time off are now applying because they feel they will not be able to get jobs, and more alumni who were laid off are applying as well, he said. Wilson said alumni usually make up 40 percent of the people he advises.

Because more people are applying, getting into law school will be a lot more difficult than in years past, he added.

“Everybody is expecting a tremendous increase in law school applications here and elsewhere,” Wilson said.

Senior Yifan Wang, however, said she will still take a year off before going to law school.

Wang said she does not feel prepared to take the LSAT yet, and that competition will probably be stiff for law school admission this year. Wang said she thinks that by waiting a year, she will be able to get into a more prestigious law school.

“The economy has made a lot of people who were going to get jobs go to grad school instead and because law school doesn’t require any prerequisite courses in [undergraduate studies], I feel like a lot of

people are [applying to law school],” Wang said.

She added that her need to pay off the debt she has accumulated while at Duke will dictate her career path after law school, so she wants to take a year off before setting out on that path.

Wang said she is not worried about finding a job for the coming year because she is open to different kinds of work.

She said, however, that uncertainty about where she will live and what she will do is stressful.

Because applying to medical schools requires that students have taken a rigorous set of science courses, there has not yet been time for the down economy to affect their applicant pool. And while the economic situation might affect the number of students taking a year off before medical school, Dean Dan Scheirer, director of Health Professions Advising, said this is not the case.

More than 105 current seniors are taking at least a year off prior to medical school, which is on par with last year’s numbers, he said. About 165 seniors will go straight to medical school, he added.

He said some parents are concerned about the job market and are encouraging their children not to take a year off, but students, for the most part, are not as concerned.

Just as before the economic downturn, Wright-Swadel said the Career Center will encourage students to assess what they want to do, and have an alternative plan.

“Duke students are some of the most diversely-interested and diversely-able students in the world,” he said. “The ‘keep yourself open’ is a good strategy when you’re first beginning to assess what you want to do, but the object is to come to a series of relatively clear decisions.”

hersh from page 1 tion of former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney, will be difficult to rectify.

“Cheney-Bush are going to haunt us for the rest of our lives,” Hersh said, “We are in real trouble around the world, and Obama can’t fix that.”

Hersh also said Obama must start leading more assertively, citing the health care issue as an example. Hersh stressed the need for the president to take advantage of his political capital, adding that Obama should not dismiss the blessing of such a favorable majority in Congress.

“He’s just going to have to take charge,” Hersh said. “He’s frozen, and I don’t know why he’s frozen.”

He noted, however, that Obama’s toughest challenges are the result of infighting between the Pentagon and the White House. Hersh said racism and accusations of socialism, as well as continued military support for a neo-conservative philosophy, have hindered the Obama administration.

“A lot of people in the Pentagon would be happy to see [Obama] get into trouble,” Hersh said. “He can either let the Pentagon run him, or he can begin to

run the Pentagon.”

The last time Hersh spoke at Duke was before 9/11, in October 2000, on the ethics of journalism.

Provost Peter Lange said Hersh’s work is a valuable asset to not only journalism, but history as well.

“Mr. Hersh educates and challenges us with his writing, and his ability to access and confirm primary sources is an incredible contribution to the historical record of this digital age,” Lange said.

For the last 30 minutes of his lecture, Hersh opened the floor for questions. As audience members asked about Obama’s foreign policy on Iraq and Pakistan, Hersh continued to emphasize the need for Obama to take decisive action, as well as the need for Americans to be patient.

“He was really dealt a bad hand by [Bush]—Obama hasn’t got a case yet,” Hersh said. “I’m going to give him a year, and then let’s see where he is.”

Sophomore Chelsea Canepa was a member of the audience. She said she found the topic of Hersh’s discussion to be particularly illuminating.

“It was interesting, the interplay and the pressure between the military and the White House, especially when [Hersh] called Obama ‘boxed-in [by the armed forces],’” Canepa said.

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dayton from page 3 media—especially in blogging—in relation to politics could be summarized in three basic steps. First, people get valid and usable information about something. These people are then able to start passing this information around. Consequently, other people look at this new information as well, and the cycle continues.

Campaigns must now adjust and take advantage of new media to stay in the running or ahead of other opponents. New media was a big part of the 2008 presidential campaigns, Dayton said. He added that the Democratic Party’s use of new media recently increased dramatically, but the Republican Party’s use of new media is steadiSpecial to The Chronicle ly growing as well.

Dayton said that although e-mail is the Soren Dayton’s blog addresses political and corporate issues from a conservative viewpoint. He spoke at primary and most influential new media Duke Tuesday about the growing influence of new media, such as blogs and Twitter, on political campaigns. source, blogging has also become an important part of politics. as print and television media.

Dayton emphasized the importance of po“The whole media thing is collapsing,” litical figures getting involved in the blogging he said. world and reaching out to the technological Senior Chelsea Goldstein, Duke Student community. E-mails and blogging are the eas- Government senior policy adviser and DPU iest way to reach treasurer, said Dayton out to those who has a unique perspec“New media makes it are both intertive on elections and where information can be how new media has ested and potentially interested in revolutionized the way spread all around.” supporting a pocampaigns and politilitical candidate.

— Soren Dayton, cians work.

New media is also “Soren is at the online communications expert forefront cheaper than purof this type chasing television of innovation,” said advertising time Goldstein, a member and more efficient than postal mail. of The Chronicle’s Editorial Board.

“Politicians need to use new media to Liz Mair, who is also an online commuget their message out and gain support nications expert and blogger, was schedfrom the public,” Dayton said. uled to speak along with Dayton, but canDayton also talked about how new me- celed at the last minute because of a work dia is affecting other media sources, such emergency.

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The Duke Global Health Institute will host next year’s forum, which is aimed to be an engaging learning experience focused on problem-solving and group work, said Lisa Croucher, assistant director for education and training at DGHI. At this point in the planning process, a faculty committee is evaluating many proposed topics, ranging from global health and economics to emerging infectious diseases and disaster preparedness.

“The challenge is that we’ll have too many ideas and we’ll have to reign ourselves in,” Croucher said.

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Freshmen star in crucial win over Spartans

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After losing two straight games for the first time this season, the Blue Devils knew that they had to come out of Tuesday night’s game against UNC-Greensboro with a decisive win. No. 21 Duke (8-4) rose to the occasion with a 3-0 blowout of the Spartans (3-7-3), the team that eliminated the Blue Devils from the NCAA tournament last season.

The match was hardly a competition, as Duke outshot UNCGreensboro 26-9 and had nine corner kicks compared to the Spartans’ four. Clearly shown by this shutout, the 2009 Blue Devil team is at a different level than last year’s squad.

“We were well aware of what GreensUNCG 0 boro did to us last year and there was extra incentive to make sure it didn’t DUKE 3 happen again,” head coach John Kerr said. “We didn’t convert some of our opportunities, but we kept on them and kept moving the ball.

We made their life difficult tonight.”

Ironically enough, the only players who scored in the match didn’t even play in the tournament game last year.

Freshman defender Andrew Wenger opened the floodgates, and fellow freshman Ryan Finley tallied the final two scores. Goalkeeper James Belshaw, also a freshman, put up a three-save shutout to match his classmates’ showings in a night filled with outstanding first-year performances, .

The first score of the game didn’t come until the 27th minute, when Wenger’s diving header found the back of the net off a corner by junior forward Cole Grossman. It was his first goal of the season and of his college career.

“It’s been a long time coming—I wish it would have come earlier,” Wenger said. “But it’s nice to finally get it.”

In addition to his goal, Wenger anchored down the defense throughout the game with key clearances to stop the few Spartan counterattacks. Luckily the defense did not have much pressure to deal with since the Duke midfield completely controlled play.

Senior Ryan McDaniel was key to the midfield’s effort, winning 50-50 balls and distributing to his wingers. On the outside, sophomore Christopher Tweed-Kent routinely brought the ball up the field to the forward duo of Finley See M. Soccer on page 10

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Freshman defender Andrew Wenger kept UNC-Greensboro off the board and scored a goal of his own in a 3-0 win over the Spartans Tuesday.

The real Countdown I will not make many guarantees about the 2009-10 basketball season, but one thing is clear: It’s going to get off to a more exciting start than any season in recent memory.

The Blue Devils have finally scrapped a standalone Blue-White game, moving their season-opening scrimmage to Friday night and packaging it with a host of other festivities to give Duke a much-desired midnight madness (except, of course, for the fact that it isn’t actually at midnight).

Joe In honor of the Blue Devils’ seven decades in Cameron, here is a countdown of the seven things I want to see the most at Countdown to Craziness: 7. Everything except the scrimmage.

Face painting. Inflatable games. Music.

DUI. Contests. And to think that as of

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Senior Joe Drews is excited to see the 2009 ACC Tournament banner raised to the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

a year ago, all we had was a Saturday afternoon intrasquad scrimmage.

Sure, everybody in attendance will want to see the team in action for the first time this season. But if you have ever been to a Blue-White game, you’ve experienced that awkward who-do-Iroot-for, should-I-jump-or-cheer-forthe-offense feeling. Do you applaud a thunderous block or groan that the ball didn’t go in? And arguably the best part of the game, heckling the opposition, is out of the question because there is no opposition. Now there are other activities to complement the game, and they will make Countdown to Craziness different from previous years.

6. The 2009 ACC Championship banner. Lost amid the disappointing finale that was the 2009 NCAA Tournament is the fact that Duke had a very good season. The Blue Devils looked like they were headed for a serious season-ending swoon before Elliot See drews on page 10

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Drews from page 9 Williams joined the starting lineup Feb. 19 and gave Duke the jolt of energy it needed. The Blue Devils recovered to win 30 games, won the conference championship and advanced to the Sweet 16—a great year almost anywhere outside of Durham.

It may not be a Final Four banner, but it’s something.

And no current Duke student has seen one raised during his or her time in Durham.

5. A five-forward lineup. Just to see what would happen.

ESPN analyst Bob Knight gushed last season when the insertion of Williams into the starting lineup gave the Blue Devils five forwards on the floor at the same time. I don’t want to disagree with the winningest coach in Division I-A history, but even if you’re willing to count Williams and

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In Joe Drews’s ideal world, the departed duo of Marty Pocius and Gerald Henderson would participate in Friday night’s dunk contest.

Gerald Henderson as forwards, Jon Scheyer is a guard. He may not be a true point guard, but he’s not a forward.

This season, though, Duke could actually put five forwards on the floor at the same time. Wouldn’t you like to see what happens with a lineup of Lance Thomas, Kyle Singler, the Plumlees and Ryan Kelly? It could be disastrous, but when else can you try it? And for a team that has been so heightchallenged the past several years, I think it would be cathartic to trot out a squad where everyone is at least 6-foot-8.

4. A bad game from Andre Dawkins. You could throw the other freshmen in this category as well, but Dawkins is going to be especially critical for the Blue Devils. All that aforementioned height has its downside: Duke is low on guards, and Dawkins may be heavily relied upon this season.

Why does that mean he needs to have a bad game? Look at the statistics for other Blue Devils in their first Blue-White game: Shavlik Randolph (16 points), Brian Zoubek (27 points), Taylor King (19 points), Elliot Williams (5 points), Jon Scheyer (5 points), J.J. Redick (2 points). It’s counterintuitive, but I’m going with recent history on this one.

3. A commitment from a recruit. Kyrie Irving will be at Kentucky’s Midnight Madness this weekend, so it probably will not be him. But other recruits may be in attendance.

Duke famously lost Greg Monroe when he committed to Georgetown at the Hoyas’ 2007 Midnight Madness before he had even taken his official visit to Durham. The Blue Devils probably won’t get anyone that high-profile this weekend, but it would be nice to see some immediate dividends from Countdown to Craziness. A couple of high-profile recruits might make guest appearances Friday...

2. Gerald Henderson and Marty Pocius as the guest coaches. For no other reason than to get them to participate in the dunk contest, which is debuting one year too late. If these two were to participate—and don’t count on it, considering the Charlotte Bobcats play in Los Angeles the following night—I’d pick Pocius in a narrow victory over Henderson. As it is, the dunk contest should still be one of the best parts of the night.

As you may have noticed, these wishes are becoming increasingly more unlikely, which brings us to…

1. A musical performance from Coach K. If Roy Williams is willing to rap, Bo Ryan agrees to dance and Tom Izzo dresses like a hippie, why not Coach K? Because he went to West Point, is in the Hall of Fame and would never agree to do it? Crazier things have happened.

Maybe.

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Freshman Ryan Finley scored twice as Duke avenged last year’s NCAA tournament loss to UNC-Greensboro with a 3-0 win Tuesday.

m. soccer from page 9 and Grossman. On Duke’s final goal, Tweed-Kent slotted a pass back to the penalty stripe where Finley had a onetime strike to beat the keeper.

“We came out with the right energy and the right approach,” McDaniel said. “Our goal is to always come out with the fire and tenacity, especially in the middle of the field.”

The Blue Devils have the ability to be a top team, but they need to be consistent in their efforts. They need to bring the resolve that McDaniel speaks of to every game, no matter who the opponent is. With this timely win over UNC-Greensboro, Duke is on pace to finish off the season strong.

“It’s huge getting back on the right track and getting our confindence going again,” Kerr said.

Following this victory, the Blue Devils head into a fourgame homestand, two of which come against ACC teams.

Even with their brief top-10 stint, the Blue Devils aren’t overconfident, and treat each game as a must-win.

“The win over UNC-Greensboro was good, but we have to build on it,” Wenger said. “But if we lose next week, we’re right back to where we started.”

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Members also discussed logistics for this Friday’s performance by indie pop duo Matt and Kim and the success of DUU’s promotional video for the event on Facebook and Twitter. The free concert will begin at 9:30 p.m. in Krzyzewskiville, immediately following the Blue-White scrimmage.

The performance will be part of Countdown to Craziness, an event sponsored by the Duke Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. DUU will be filming this Friday’s Countdown to Craziness.

In addition, DUU has secured a number of speakers for the remainder of the semester. Christian Lauder, author of “Stuff White People Like,” will be speaking Oct. 2, relationships expert David Coleman is slated to speak Oct. 28 and Duke will host German politician Vera Langfeld Nov. 2.

Middle Eastern poet Dunya Mikhail, who was once on Saddam Hussein’s most wanted list, will be speaking in Von Canon in the Bryan Center Nov. 5.

In other business: DUU members also spoke of using new media to reach students—the student organization has established its own spaces on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.

The Web sites also help DUU keep better records and archives, members said. For example, Flickr’s unlimited storage will permit DUU to upload all the stock images from their events. DUU also recently launched a new Web site at duu.dukegroups.duke.edu.

The Marketing Committee also mentioned finalizing an online marketing Web site for DUU, which could be launched in the near future.

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Van Tilburg said the idea of the take-home CD and selfmanagement program for children developed because there are many limiting factors involved in treating children who experience abdominal pain.

Because North Carolina is not densely populated, children come from all parts of the state for treatment, making

it difficult to seek regular clinical treatment, van Tilburg added. She also noted that there are few therapists who know how to treat this pain.

Both van Tilburg and Palsson said the children enjoyed listening to the CD and complied—followed the treatment schedule—very well.

According to their study, published in the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics Oct. 12, the compliance rate was 98.5 percent.

Also according to the study, 63.1 percent of children in the guided imagery treatment group showed at least some signs of improvement. After the initial two-month period, those children receiving only standard medical care were given the option of receiving the guided imagery treatment as well. Of those children, 61.5 percent showed improvement.

“We found that kids who did receive the imagery and standard medical care were three times as likely to have reduced abdominal pain by at least 50 percent,”

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Further, van Tilburg added that 30 percent of the children were completely pain-free after the two-month period and that after a six-month period, two-thirds of the kids still remained at their previous levels, indicating long-term effectiveness of the treatment.

Hannah Benny, age 10, participated in the treatment when she was seven. Hannah’s mother, Sheila Benny, said her daughter would experience severe stomach pains three to four times a day, but the treatment reduced the frequency and severity of episodes.

“After the hypnotherapy experience, Hannah was able to participate more fully in regular family, social and school activities,” Sheila said. “This reduction in intensity of pain and frequency of pain ‘attacks’ lasted for the nine months.”

Although the treatment is done routinely, even when the children are pain-free, Palsson said the audio guide blends in suggestions of how to deal with future pain.

“Having seen the images so intensely in the mind makes it work even later when they are actually experiencing the pain,” he said.

Jerusalem from page 4 vented their efforts.

Andoni, who is an English teacher in the Bethlehem district, focused her remarks on how Palestinians were affected by the Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem.

“It is not easy to live in an area surrounded by a wall that is 790 km long and winds its way like a snake around Palestinian territory,” Andoni said, adding that Palestinians who build homes without a license from the Israeli government face having their homes demolished.

Andoni described the restrictions Israeli policies were placing on Palestinian life, including the establishment of checkpoints where Palestinians were required to show a permit to travel between certain places in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Andoni said there are more than 440 checkpoints in the West Bank, and Palestinians must stand in long queues to get their permits checked.

“I am here because I want to say that the occupation is no solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.”

— Ruth El-Raz, Israeli Jew who lives in Jerusalem “This kind of procedure made several of us lose our jobs, including me,” she said. “As an English supervisor in the school district, I found transportation to my job difficult and I was forced to retire.”

El-Raz, who works as a therapist in Jerusalem, called for the end of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem in the West Bank.

“I am here because I want to say that the occupation is no solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict,” she said.

El-Raz spoke of an organization she created called Checkpoint Watch, which monitors human rights violations by Israeli soldiers at checkpoints and another organization that rebuilds Palestinian homes that are demolished in East Jerusalem. El-Raz said she believes that racism is prevalent in the Israel-Palestine region, while acknowledging that the majority of Israelis near the Gaza border are not aware of it.

“There has been a slow and steady increase of violence in Gaza,” El-Raz said. “There is a belief among too many people that keeping our country safe justifies the use of violence on Palestinian settlements.”

Although the panel was well-received by the audience of Duke students and Durham area residents, a heated debate arose during the question-and-answer session over the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and the attacks by Hamas, a Palestinian paramilitary force.

“We are both sides of the divide. I am part of the Israeli side that you don’t normally hear,” El-Raz said in response to a comment pointing out that the panel did not evenly represent the views of both Israelis and Palestinians.

Still, some members of the audience felt that the panel was both informative and insightful.

“I felt like it was very useful to get a human perspective on these issues,” said Anne-Marie Angelo, a history graduate student. “One of the things that makes this issue difficult is misinformation.”

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A Wynn win The Duke bubble is about For several years, various to get a little smaller. stakeholders have advocated In the next year or so, a for improved public transnew fleet of hybrid diesel portation within the downbuses will connect Duke’s town Durham loop in orWest Campus der to reduce and the Duke traffic and editorial Medical Center improve naviwith key hubs in downtown gability. And with several Durham, such as the Ameri- University offices located off can Tobacco Campus. The campus, the more than 2,000 bus route will operate daily Duke employees who work in from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. free of downtown Durham require a charge to riders, thanks to means of commuting to and funding provided by the Uni- from West Campus. versity, the City of Durham Creating a bus route beand a federal grant. tween Duke and Durham, From many perspectives, then, cooperatively addresses this collaboration between mutual needs for both the town and gown makes sense, city and the University. Pooland it could play a large role ing resources saves money, in building community be- and creating more public tween Duke and Durham and transportation will improve spurring the economic reviv- traffic congestion and reduce al of the downtown core. carbon emissions.

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likey encourage increased interaction and improved relationships between the University and its surrounding community.

Although a Durham-Duke bus would be a significant and important addition to the area’s public transportation routes, it is important to recognize that large ridership may not come easily or quickly.

When launched, both Duke and Durham need to engage in a widespread publicity campaign to educate the public about the new route.

And while employees are likely to immediately begin to use the new fleet, students not accustomed to frequenting downtown Durham may not initially flock to the bus-

es. It will take time for the bus route to catch on, and administrators should be patient when evaluating student usage.

Overall, we applaud Vice President for Durham and Regional Affairs Phail Wynn for his efforts in this initiative.

He has leveraged his position within the community to create a tangible link between Duke and Durham that benefits employees, students and citizens alike. In the process, Wynn has demonstrated the merit and relevance of his relatively new position.

A bus route will not solve the Duke-Durham divide, but it could go a long way in bringing these communities together and addressing some of their more pressing needs.

What we’re really rallying around

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I don’t know why the Council says it doesn’t want to ostracize smokers or “dictate students’ choices when it comes to smoking.” That’s exactly what it should be doing.

Students, too, stand to benefit from the buses.

Downtown Durham boasts a number of arts venues and chic eateries in and around the Durham Performing Arts Center, the American Tobacco Campus and the Carolina Theater. Easier access would allow students—many of whom otherwise would stay on campus or in the Brightleaf Square area—to take advantage of these venues.

Improved transportation would broaden the scope of the Duke bubble, and students might even consider living in downtown apartments further away from campus than West Village.

It is important to note that this could translate into an economic boost for Durham and its businesses, and it will

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magine my relief when Sam Wells, dean of the Chapel, took the opportunity the Sunday after my last column to answer my question: “So what is it that we’re really rallying around?”

Exploring the bylaws of the University on Founder’s Day, Wells pointed to the first article, based on a hymn by Charles Wesley, three words of which were made famous in our motto: eruditio et religio. Our first article begins: “The aims of Duke emily leonardy University... are to duke it out assert a faith in the eternal union of knowledge and religion set forth in the teachings and character of Jesus Christ, the Son of God...”

Far from hiding these apparently faith-filled words in the pages of a dusty book in a library, our forebearers immortalized them in bronze in the middle of the Chapel Quad. Wells addressed the apparent tensions and misunderstandings surrounding our motto and how careful attention to its original meaning might challenge our University community to greater achievement and a more faithful end.

Wells’ four humble suggestions as “addenda” to the aims of the University have something significant in common: their ends are all hospitality. Hospitality is not just a Southern trait; communities are nourished by hospitality. It is providing food or a bed, of course, but the more foundational aspect of hospitality is opening and giving of your self— intellect, money, space, time—to others.

The first of the addenda is “acquiring knowledge and empowering others.” As students, our occupation is expressly to acquire knowledge. We have come to Duke to take courses and broaden our intellectual scope. In the process of learning, though, we also gain a burden to use the knowledge—how we use the knowledge we gain makes a world of difference.

There are few resources to help us make informed decisions about how to use our knowledge in a lifelong context. Those of us with liberal arts majors might wonder what on earth we can do, other than Teach for America, to help the world with the knowledge we’ve gained. Our seniors and recent graduates need help to understand how to use their acquired knowledge to empower others. Current career services are frighteningly limited and endlessly formulaic.

Hospitality is needed to help those in the Duke community who are discerning their career path.

The second addenda, “perceiving truth and growing in compassion” urges the Duke community to balance the expansion of our minds with the expansion of our hearts. Many students participate in the DukeDurham Neighborhood Partnership and in DukeEngage; our challenge is to truly know those with whom we interact and to continue to practice compassion, even when the truth is not pleasant. Hospitality does not depend on the worthiness of the recipient; it is an act of selflessness meant to shape the giver.

Thirdly, Wells suggests that we practice “knowing the world and knowing oneself.” The most productive learning is done not when you are gazing introspectively at the wall in your dorm room. You learn the most when you’re thrust into a new community—through studying abroad, getting a roommate you didn’t choose, committing to a greek chapter or selective living group. You learn about yourself by learning about the world. By experiencing new and uncomfortable situations, you engage hospitality by bringing your strengths to the group and opening yourself to receive hospitality from others.

The last addendum reads: “receiving life and entering eternal life.” Wells explains that we must continually ask ourselves “what is life, in the face of death?” It is easy to deduce that it is not our degrees or accolades and not the impressiveness of our jobs that is “life” when considering our legacy. Perhaps a bit of that “life” is the relationships we form as part of the Duke community.

What happens to the undergraduate community, though, in the middle of the semester? Phone calls go unanswered, social events are not attended— people disappear. It’s become expected, even socially acceptable, that Duke students don’t have to return phone calls or actually follow through on plans for lunch when the heat of the semester with its academic rigor is breathing down their necks.

By ignoring e-mails or forgetting phone calls, students are telling their friends—their community—that sitting with a book in a library is more important than building a relationship with them. If students make a choice to go out on Sunday night, they may cancel Monday night plans for dinner in order to finish a paper—going to a bar is more important than spending time with you.

We have developed a culture of excuses. Procrastination is practically a mark of honor—living in the library, pulling all-nighters to finish papers. Our community need not allow academics to supersede people. What kind of community are we if those are our priorities?

Emily Leonardy, Trinity ’08, is a first-year Divinity student. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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A necessary conversation: Part II

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reshman year, in more ways than one, is an opportunity to branch out and meet new people.

At the end of my last article, I commented on Harvard Professor Robert Putnam’s finding that people who live in diverse communities tend to trust people of all races less than people who live in more homogenous communities, and then asked what this finding means for Duke.

Given that Duke is highly diyousef verse in many ways, except ecabugharbieh onomically, it seems that our fast forward University would be a perfect example of the sort of racially balkanized community Putnam predicts. But are we?

In some ways we are not, the reason being a phenomenon that only really exists in the military and on college campuses: random interracial roommate pairings. But there is also evidence to suggest that we might be, because of our racially divided greek system.

Putnam analyzed communities in which people, given certain economic constraints, could choose where to live, and they often chose to live in fairly homogenous neighborhoods within larger, racially diverse metropolitan areas.

While people in these cities may interact with others of different races, they rarely live together.

At Duke, particularly during freshman year, the opposite is true. People of different races are often randomly assigned to live with one another. And living with a person of another race has substantially different effects than simply interacting with him or her.

Several studies have found that interracial roommate pairings can reduce prejudice and diversify friendships, according to an article written by New York Times educa-

tion reporter Tamar Lewin. Yet those same studies found that “such relationships are more stressful and more likely to break up than same-race pairings.” Lewin’s summary of the evidence suggests that living with a person of another race is a difficult but worthwhile experience.

Contrary to Putnam’s finding, it seems that contact theory—the idea that interacting with a person of a different race can reduce prejudice—is true when that contact is sustained and personal. But this sort of contact, common during freshman year, tends to diminish over time, according to the 2009 Duke study “Interracial Friendships in the Transition to College: Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together Once They Leave the Nest?”

The study corroborated the findings of earlier research that having a roommate of a different race diversifies friendships in ways that extracurricular activities and classroom interaction do not. Interestingly, people who lived in singles had more diverse friend groups than those who lived with same-race roommates, presumably because they lived in diverse dorms and had to forge their own friendships without relying on the social network of their same-race roommate.

The study, which used Duke as its data set, is all the more interesting because it statistically demonstrates that white freshman who join predominantly white fraternities and sororities have less diverse friend groups than their white peers who don’t go greek.

The researchers found that white students entered Duke with fewer friends of different racial backgrounds than Asian, black or Latino students, with only 10.6 percent of their precollege friends being of a different race. This is not necessarily surprising because white students matriculating to Duke come primarily from neighborhoods and high schools with high percentages of whites, on average. By the spring, the white students’ friend groups had diversified to include 16.2 percent of people of a different race, which the study partially attributes to random interracial roommate pairings.

Liberty and justice for all

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he only thing they’re going to be putting pressure on is the grass.” That was Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s response to Sunday’s LGBT rights march in Washington, D.C. Frank believes that such demonstrations really have no impact on securing civil rights for maltreated groups.

Frank must have either slept through his social studies course in grade school or he is out of touch with reality.

Local activist and legal efforts have so far pushed 13 states elad gross and the District of Columbia kitty babies to adopt laws prohibiting “discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing and public accommodations,” according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Of the rest, 16 states have some protections while 21 states have none. This might be an improvement over past practices, but the United States has a strong civil rights tradition—we don’t settle for partial rights.

And, in part, that’s why Americans organize marches.

Blacks had been given rights in this country before the Civil Rights Movement by the government, too. For the most part, blacks could vote and share in the democratic process.

But blacks weren’t really equal citizens in this country until after numerous marches and demonstrations. One hundred years of post-Civil War social and physical rebuilding couldn’t substitute for a Selma, or a Montgomery or a D.C. march.

And even 150 years later, we still have our problems.

Although we have yet to achieve the goal of racial equality in this country, the next great civil rights movement may very well center on the LGBT community. Why shouldn’t this new civil rights movement learn from the past? Civil rights movements require publicity, activism and emotion. We need to see suffering to appreciate it, as Americans did on television sets in the 1960s.

Today, homosexuals cannot openly serve in the military thanks to United States Code Title 10, Subtitle A, Part II, Chapter 37, Section 654, often misnamed as the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The law says nothing about asking or telling—homosexuals absolutely cannot serve in the military.

Point 15 under the findings section of the code states: “The presence in the armed forces of persons who demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of

morale, good order and discipline and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.”

Section 654 goes on to prohibit homosexuals from serving in the military, for the reasons cited above. Apparently, homosexuals are more likely to have sex with their fellow soldiers and are thus a liability to their unit. Heterosexuals who have engaged in homosexual activity, however, can still serve their country in the military if they can prove that the occurrence was “a departure from the member’s usual and customary behavior.” But homosexuals who have never had sex with another serviceperson are still excluded.

At a time when we’re sure in need of troops, our society’s discomfort with sexual preference reigns supreme over Taliban ambushes, the lack of Arabic translators and the cries of Afghani and Iraqi children who are growing up in an environment of seemingly unending violence. On the surface level, the prohibition of homosexuals from serving is job discrimination. At its very core, the policy is un-American.

Since when do Americans discourage each other from taking up the cause of liberty and justice for all?

Blacks were similarly excluded from military service before President Harry Truman desegregated the military by executive order. Opponents to integration argued that the inclusion of blacks in formerly all white units would lower morale and would position the military as an activist body, protesting American society’s support for segregation. How is the argument different than the one we hear today about homosexuals in the military?

The rules should simply apply to one and all. If military leaders don’t want soldiers having sex with each other, then sanction the practice for everyone. If officers are worried about the drag on morale because of the inclusion of homosexuals, maybe they should also weigh the hit their units’ morale takes when a soldier is killed because they were understaffed. Allowing homosexuals into the military won’t solve all the problems in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt.

Homosexuals already serve alongside the U.S. army in Afghanistan. They just happen to be from different countries. But the argument to include homosexuals doesn’t boil down to a need for the U.S. to conform to other countries’ standards. The argument comes down to our nation’s founding principles, that the sanctity of individual choice must be upheld, and that the U.S. will never surrender the battle to secure liberty and justice for all.

Elad Gross is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Wednesday.

In contrast, black students enter Duke with far more friends from different racial backgrounds—39.9 percent— but have fewer friends of different races, 31.1 percent at the year’s end. The authors of the study accredit this to the fact that many black students matriculate to Duke from schools without large black populations and arrive on campus interested in making more black friends.

Rates of interracial friendship for Asian and Latino students did not change substantially.

The study also found that, at the end of the first year, the primary indicator of the diversity of white freshmen’s friend groups is whether or not they joined a fraternity or sorority.

“White students who join fraternities and sororities experience no significant increase in the proportion of their interracial friendships, while those who do not ‘go greek’ significantly increase their proportion of their interracial friendships over the first year of college,” write the authors of the study.

Greek involvement for blacks did not have a significant impact on first-year friendships because historically black fraternities and sororities provide the option of rushing sophomore year.

What this study suggests, then, is a statistical basis for the idea that the greek system inhibits white students from making friends with people of different races. But this is not due to some nefarious desire of whites in Greek organizations to not make friends with minorities, but because there are few minorities in their social networks. Social environment, rather than racial preference, seems to drive how people make friends.

So, freshmen, if you are lucky enough to live with someone of a different race, seize the opportunity to get to know them well if you don’t already, because with every passing year it gets more difficult.

Yousef AbuGharbieh is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

lettertotheeditor Where is the love?

As an LGBT ally and the girlfriend of a male Duke student with a disability, I would like to express my feelings on the Love = Love T-shirts distributed on the West Campus Plaza on Coming Out Day at Duke last Friday, Oct. 9. Last year’s shirts, which pictured a heterosexual couple and homosexual couples of both genders effectively conveyed the message that equal love is felt between people in a relationship, regardless of sexual orientation. This year, in trying to be “inclusive” by depicting a student with disability dating an able-bodied person, the message was convoluted. In fact, the shirts make inaccurate and isolating assumptions about other peoples’ relationships, which is the exact attitude it’s trying to combat.

I have, and will continue to identify us as a heterosexual couple, not one that belongs in a special category just because one person has a disability. I am saddened that the latter assumption was made and portrayed on the shirts. Student organizations producing paraphernalia can show whatever they would like about their group, but it’s frustrating that other groups were included but not consulted on the design. This oversight has propagated false stereotypes, which is counterproductive to creating a unified campus which respects all people. While it is hurtful, my hope is that this situation can be turned into an eye-opening experience which promotes honest and open dialogue in the Duke community.

Lauren Blake Trinity ’12

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