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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009

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Envoy shares tales of Chile’s oppression

Professor assesses fear of ‘Eurabia’

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The Biddle Rare Book Room was filled with scenes of resistance, escape and political turmoil Thursday evening as Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations Heraldo Muñoz described his part in the fight against Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime.

Muñoz accepted the Washington Office on Latin America-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America for his political and personal memoir, “The Dictator’s Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet.” He said one of the messages he hopes his readers take from his book is the idea of humanity and values, which he tried to emulate by refusing to take the “easy road.”

“I could have done something very different with my life,” Muñoz said. “[Instead,] I tried to do what I could to remove the dictatorship.”

After accepting the award, Muñoz spoke about life under Pinochet, a dictator who ruled Chile with an iron fist for 17 years, during which thousands disappeared, were killed or were taken prisoner. Muñoz also discussed his writing process and read selected passages from his book.

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Cameron Crazies will be joining head coach Mike Krzyzewski Friday evening in Cameron Indoor Stadium for Countdown to Craziness, which kicks off the 70th season of basketball. The event will begin at 5:30 pm.

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Road repairs delayed by weak economy

by Ben Rakestraw The chronicle

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Deteroirating roads on Campus Drive have led to complaints from bus drivers and students, but administrators said the roads will not be repaired until major construction projects, such as the delayed Central renovations, are completed.

Students and staff may see some major improvements to Duke’s roads, but not anytime soon.

Several roads across campus, most notably Campus Drive, are in poor condition and are deteriorating, students and bus drivers said. The faltering economy, however, has delayed plans to repair most campus roads, Vice President for Campus Services Kemel Dawkins said.

He added that Duke does not want to overhaul roads in advance of major construction projects such as Central Campus renovations, because construction equipment could damage the roads.

“We don’t do major work in advance of capital projects,” Dawkins said.

Until the roads are repaired, drivers and bikers will continue to face the challenges of rough roads.

Bus driver Jose Valencia said he drives slowly and in the middle of the road to help ensure a smooth ride for his passengers.

Valencia, who has been driving Duke buses for three years, said the part of Campus Drive near the Chapel Drive traffic circle is in particularly poor shape.

“The roads have always been in the same bad condition,” he said, adding that many bus drivers change how they drive in re-

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“To me it was just amazing that non-primates could have such complex cooperative social behavior.”

­—UC Berkeley Researcher Allisa Carter on hyenas. See story page 5

See roads on page 7

Women’s Soccer: Perfect storm Blue Devils rout Miami 4-0 to capture their first ACC victory, PAGE 11

In the years since 9/11, Muslim immigration to Europe has drawn great attention, much of it negative.

Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College, spoke Thursday about the perception that Europe is being taken over by Muslims. In a lecture titled “Eurabia: Truth or Paranoia,” he said the commonly held fear of a Muslim-dominated Europe involves worries about a demographic change, a clash of moral values and crime.

“One common thread is to conflate all these different threats and say that these are all threats that make up Islamic fascism,” he told a small crowd in the Sanford School of Public Policy’s Fleishman Commons.

Buruma said that although the threat of a significant rise in the Muslim population of Europe is not a valid concern, the clash between orthodox Islam and the values of a “modern European liberal democracy” may be a real issue.

Violence, ranging from street crime to terrorism, could pose a big problem, Buruma added, particularly if young people become involved in sometimes misguided religious quests.

“The reason I think young people everywhere are vulnerable to these violent ideologies is they don’t feel they belong in the only society they know well,” he said. “Jihad gives them a sense of power, of belonging, of identity.”

Buruma said the lack of separation between Muslims in general and a small subgroup of extremists is the biggest obSee buruma on page 8

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Ian Buruma, a professor at Bard College, evaluates perceptions of the rising Muslim population in Europe at the Sanford School of Public Policy Thursday night.

Campus Council approves pilot program to allow pets on Central, Page 3

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U.C. officials halt new fees Millionaire waives insurance University of California officials have policy after paintings stolen decided to shelve, at least for now, a controversial proposal to charge undergraduate engineering and business students $900 more a year than those in other majors. The plan, which had been scheduled for discussion and a possible vote at next month’s regents meeting, has been postponed for further study, a university spokesman said Thursday.

UC administrators “felt they wanted to take more time to examine it,” spokesman Ricardo Vazquez said. But he said the idea was not dead and could be brought to the regents in a revised form at a later date.

Faculty leaders said they had urged the delay. Among the concerns about the plan was whether, as critics contend, the proposed surcharges would drive students away from engineering and business majors even if extra financial aid was provided.

UC President Mark G. Yudof had suggested the higher fees for upper division undergraduates in those two majors as part of a larger response to reduced state funding for the university. The regents next month are still scheduled to vote on a proposal to raise systemwide fees for all undergraduates by $2,514 by next autumn to about $10,300, not including room, board and campusbased extras. The engineering and business surcharges would have been on top of that.

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LOS ANGELES­— The owner of a multimillion-dollar collection of artwork allegedly stolen last month has unexpectedly waived the insurance policy he owns to protect the paintings, Los Angeles police detectives confirmed Thursday.

The art world was abuzz in early September with word that a series of original works by famed Pop Art icon Andy Warhol had been stolen from the walls of noted art collector Richard L. Weisman’s west side Los Angeles home.

In all, 11 brightly colored silk screen paintings were gone -- 10 are portraits of famous athletes and one is of Weisman, 69, who was friends with Warhol and commissioned the series in the late 1970s.

Each piece was estimated by some experts to be worth at least $1 million.

Detectives Donald Hrycyk and Mark Sommer, who make up the Los Angeles Police Department’s art theft detail, had few leads to follow. There was no sign of forced entry and no substantial witness accounts. Now, Weisman has said he is not going to pursue a payout from the company that insured the painting.

“It is curious,” Sommer said. “We’d like to talk to him about it.”

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MEXICO CITY — Union members and their political allies filled the streets of the Mexican capital Thursday night to condemn President Felipe Calderon’s recent liquidation of a state-run power utility, a surprise move seen by many as an assault on organized labor.

Declaring the state-owned company so poorly managed as to be “unsustainable,” Calderon on Saturday night authorized the seizure of Central Light and Power. He also deployed about 1,000 federal police officers in riot gear to enforce his decree; workers from another state-run power company swept in to take over the electric grid and keep the lights on.

For Mexico, the takeover marked a pivotal moment. The government has long allowed state enterprises and their powerful unions to operate at a loss, in order to boost employment and keep the peace between haves and havenots. But, at Central Light and Power, Calderon said the government could not continue to support staffing levels and salaries demanded by the powerful Mexican Electricians Union in the midst of a deep economic crisis. It did not help that the company has lost a third of its electricity to waste and theft.

Union members have reacted with outrage, sparking a widening political brawl over the new realities of the social contract in Mexico.

On Wednesday, Calderon, a member of the conservative, pro-business National Action Party, denied charges by the electricians and their political supporters that the liquidation of Light and Power was the first step in a coming campaign to dismantle other trade unions, such as guilds for teachers and oil workers, which play an outsize role in the economic and political life of Mexico.

But the president’s promises did little to calm the roiling political fight, as both right and left, business leaders and union chiefs, quickly took up opposing sides.

The leftist populist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost to Calderon by a tight margin in a contested election in 2006, charged that Calderon was seeking to destroy Mexico’s strong unions. Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard offered his support by ordering that an international book fair in the city’s main plaza be dismantled to allow the thousands of protesters to occupy the space.

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Alvin Alarcon rejoices upon his graduation from Second Chance in San Diego. At the end of two years, Second Chance, a program geared toward preparing former prisoners for employment, reported that 70 percent of its graduates have remained out of prison. The program continues to expand as California faces federal pressure to reduce the state’s prison population by 40,000 in the next two years.

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Dillo fiesta caps off Hispanic Heritage Month

by Ciaran O’Connor The chronicle

The Armadillo Grill was transformed into a salsa dance floor Thursday night About 40 students celebrated the end of Hispanic Heritage Month at the Mexican eatery in the Bryan Center with an evening of free food, music and dancing.

The event was planned by Mi Gente, Duke’s Latino Student Association. In addition to celebrating Hispanic traditions, Mi Gente also seeks to expose the entire Duke community to the culture through its programming.

Several members of Mi Gente expressed their desire to attract a wider swath of the Duke student body to their events.

“We’re spicing it up,” said sophomore Natalie Buck, social co-chair of Mi Gente.

Senior Catalina Blanco, co-president of Mi Gente, said the event showcased the direction Mi Gente is trying to move in.

“We’re trying to switch to the sort of event that caters to all of Duke, rather than just the Hispanic students,” Blanco said.

From the pounding beats of salsa, merengue and rhumba, to the free quesadillas and nachos, attendees of “A Night at the Dillo” were treated to a taste of Latino culture.

Students who crowded the dance floor were included members of Sabrosura, Duke’s Latin Dance Troupe.

“Since joining Sabrosura, I have the confidence to come to more and more events like this,” said freshman Courtney Liu. Salsa veterans were not the only ones partaking in the festivities. Freshman Eric Renkor found himself in the middle of the throng, taking salsa lessons from Liu.

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Students gather in the Armadillo Grill to celebrate the end of the Hispanic Heritage Month during an event hosted by Mi Gente. Members of Sabrosura, Duke’s Latin Dance Troupe, performed at the event.

“This was one of the most fun events I’ve been to, regardless of my dancing abilities,” Renkor said.

Sophomore Silvana Estefan, Mi Gente’s other social chair, deemed the party a huge success.

“From the music to the people to the spicy food, this event was on fire!” she said.

Officially recognized by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, Hispanic Heritage Month, which spans from Sept. 15 to

Oct. 15, celebrates Hispanic culture and recognizes the contributions of Hispanic Americans to the United States. Eight Latin-American countries celebrate their independence during this period.

Mi Gente kicked off the beginning of the monthlong period with an event on the plaza. The association also invited Guillermo Trejo Osorio, assistant professor of political science, to speak on Latin America’s racial gap Sept. 23.

Campus Council passed a resolution for a pilot program Thursday that would allow pets on Central Campus, said Vice President Alex Reese, a junior.

The program, designed to start next Fall, will allow 12 rooms on 205 Oregon Street to have a cat or a small caged animal. This week’s meeting took place in the Ubuntu common room on Central as part of a social gathering between Campus Council and Residence Life and Housing Services. The Chronicle did not attend the meeting.

Much of debate focused on whether the pilot program should also allow dogs that may be more problematic in terms of noise and damage control, Reese said.

Edens Quadrangle Representative TomSee pets on page 7

CORRECTION An Oct. 14 story, “DUU reviews future programming events,” incorrectly described an upcoming event. Christian Lander will speak Oct. 27 in Page Auditorium. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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Overtime pay questioned in DPD firing Antidote could A Durham Police officer accused of receiving excessive overtime pay was fired Wednesday, Durham city officials announced.

According to a report released by the the Audit Services Department, Alesha Robinson-Taylor, a secondary employment coordinator for the police department, received $62,583.13 in extra pay for reporting 1,837 overtime hours between September 2008 and August 2009.

Robinson-Taylor’s attorney, Butch Williams, said Robinson-Taylor will appeal her termination with the police department.

“She plans to vehemently defend against any and all allegations of wrongdoing,” Williams told the (Raleigh) News & Observer.

The audit, released Sept. 29, found that the time reported by Robinson-Taylor was excessive. In addi-

tion to requesting pay equivalent to working 15 hours per workday, Robinson-Taylor also claimed overtime pay for nine hours worked each day she was on paid leave and eight hours a day during weekends and holidays. Robinson-Taylor told investigators during an interview that she worked while on leave, according to the audit.

The report also noted that the police department failed to properly monitor the distribution of overtime pay.

Deputy Police Chief B.J. Council approved the majority of Robinson-Taylor’s overtime without any proper documentation. Council told investigators that she allowed Robinson-Taylor to claim the overtime because Robinson-Taylor was not allowed to work a second job, per the terms of her contract with the police department. ­—from staff reports

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Some medicines may soon have an undo button.

Researchers at Duke Translational Research Institute and Duke Clinical Research Institute have joined to develop a universal antidote for aptamer drugs—medications made of DNA or RNA that bind to the surface of harmful proteins and inhibit their function. Although the universal antidote—which is able to reverse effects of eight aptamer compounds—has not yet been tested in humans, an antidote tailored to counteract a blood-thinning drug has been successful in 200 clinical trials with human patients.

Bruce Sullenger, director of DTRI, was prompted to develop this antidote by cardiologists who wanted more control over the activity of blood-thinners used in heart surgery, which, like most drugs, can have dangerous side effects. “[Doctors] use the analogy that they feel like [it’s] when you send an e-mail that you hastily did... there’s no way to retrieve it, so you’re basically stuck,” Sullenger said. “[With the antidote you have] the ability to pull back that e-mail.”

For the millions of patients who require stints in their hearts each year, a blood thinning drug antidote may be a source of relief. Blood thinning drugs used in heart surgery cause excessive bleeding in 15 percent of patients, a problem usually corrected with blood transfusions that can decrease surgical success if administered while the patient is bleeding.

The antidote Sullenger’s team created counteracts an aptamer blood thinner still being tested in clinical trials, Sullenger said. It acts like a sponge to the drug, sopping it up and stopping its activity.

Heart surgery is not the only situation where a universal antidote could help.

“The universal antidote represents the next frontier of regulatable therapeutics,” said Dr. Richard Becker, professor of medicine and a DCRI scientist.

Sullenger said the antidote would make drugs safer, especially in situations where medications need to be rapidly controlled.

“We predict that this antidote technology will greatly expand the number of diseases that can be treated with safer medicines,” Sullenger wrote in an e-mail.

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Hyenas rival primates in cooperative skills, research finds

by Sonia Havele The chronicle

Newly published research suggests that spotted hyenas cooperate and solve problems better than primates.

Christine Drea, professor of evolutionary anthropology, began her research more than a decade ago at the Field Station for the Study of Behavior, Ecology and Reproduction at the University of California at Berkeley. Her findings were recently published online in the this month’s issue of Animal Behavior. The research presents “the first experimental evidence of cooperation in a social carnivore,” according to the paper. “[The research] shows that animals that evolved to be very efficient social hunters in nature… can transfer the general skill of cooperation to a task in captivity that doesn’t directly involve hunting but that taps into the underlying skill and tendencies to cooperate,” said Stephen Glickman, head of the Berkeley hyena project.

The paper, titled “Cooperative problem solving in a social carnivore,” describes three experiments that explore the behavior of eight captive hyenas paired in 13 different combinations. Unlike many primate species that do not possess a natural inclination for teamwork, the hunting behaviors of spotted hyenas demonstrate an innate aptitude for cooperation, according to the research findings.

“To me it was just amazing that non-primates could have such complex cooperative social behavior,” said Allisa Carter of the UC Berkeley, who co-authored the study.

It is only in the last several years that the science community has become more open to considering anything other than primates to study higher cognitive func-

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Duke researchers found that spotted hyenas possess complex cooperative behaviors that lead them to hunt in groups. In a rope pulling experiment, hyenas were able to work together like primates in order to obtain food. tions. Drea said the paper had previously been reviewed by Science and Nature, but was rejected for potential lack of “interest to the readership” rather than for experimental design.

“People started looking at different things in different species and finding that other species were doing things that were supposed to be specific to primates,” Drea said. “And they weren’t only doing them, but they were doing them better than primates.”

Spotted hyenas tailor the size of their hunting parties to match the type of prey they are going to chase, Drea said. Without being able to see or smell the prey, a group of spotted hyenas will form a zebra hunting party, for example, and consequently bypass any kind of other prey on their way because zebras require larger parties.

The apparatus Drea constructed was a modification of a design that had been done on chimpanzees in the 1930s. The study, by M.P. Crawford, was a rope pulling

experiment in which the chimpanzees had access to food, but both chimps had to tug the rope along the ground in order to obtain their fare.

Drea chose to make the rope pulling task vertical because hyenas pull prey from above. She also created a double apparatus paradigm which sought to target whether the spotted hyenas could coordinate in space and time. A pair of hyenas was given a choice between two identical platforms 10 feet above the ground, each with a rope dangling from below. When both ropes were pulled in unison, a trap door was opened, releasing a food reward for the animals.

“I was much more interested in testing the cognitive abilities of a task that is a more naturalistic task,” Drea said. “Chimps don’t really need someone to help them pick a leaf…. Social carnivores are defined by their need to hunt in groups.”

Not only has Drea’s research shown that hyenas can cooperate with each other, but also that they are more flexible in their behavior than previously thought.

Her experiments demonstrated that a dominant animal can change its role in a hunting setting. “[The spotted hyenas] recognized when another animal was inexperienced in a hunting task and changed their behavior to increase the possibility of achieving the success,” Carter said. “If you put dominant animals [together] they can be less successful because their dominance influences their ability to cooperate.”

With these new findings introduced to the scientific community, future cognitive research could be conducted and applied to similar species such as canines and wolves, Drea said.

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With a growing number of people taking multiple medications, the need to limit side effects has become greater, he added. A universal antidote could increase the safety of multiple drugs at once.

The side effects of aptamer drugs are no different than those of other drugs, Sullenger said “The problem is that we haven’t been able to control the side effects of any real class of drugs easily, so what we’re excited about... is that here’s a class of drugs that is amenable to control,” Sullenger said.

Dr. Robert Harrington, director of DCRI, said this research could result in new treatment approaches for patients.

Sullenger’s original idea was to create aptamer drugs and their antidotes in pairs, with a separate antidote for each drug. The blood thinner and its antidote were the first of these pairs.

Funding new drugs is costly, however, prompting Sullenger to develop the universal antidote.

There is only one aptamer drug— which blocks new blood vessel growth— currently on the market, but many more are in clinical development. Sullenger said he hopes the universal antidote will be ready for human clinical trials in two years.

Muñoz said he was initially reluctant to write the memoir, which chronicles the Pinochet era and his own experiences fighting against the dictatorship.

“This was a page of my life I had turned already, and I didn’t want to revisit aspects of my life that were painful,” Muñoz said.

As a member of the resistance movement against Pinochet’s government, Muñoz’s safety, as well that of his family, was in constant danger. Muñoz briefly referred to his time as a political prisoner and being tortured by the government.

Muñoz also described how he escaped arrest simply because the troops sent to imprison him accidentally went to the wrong house.

“I thought I was sorely outgunned and outnumbered and I could not resist, it would be suicide,” Muñoz said. “And if I escaped, what would happen to my wife?

What would happen to my family?”

Robin Kirk, executive director of the Duke Human Rights Center and one of the judges who selected Muñoz’s book as the recipient of the honor, explained the purpose of the award.

“The WOLA-Duke Book Award... in particular helps bring the message of human rights into communities and into our culture,” she said.

The award is sponsored by WOLA, the Archive for Human rights, the Duke Hu-

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Chile’s Ambassador to the United Nations Heraldo Muñoz discusses his role in opposing the reign of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet during a speech in the Biddle Rare Book Room Thursday night. man Rights Center and the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Muñoz’s book is the second recipient of the award, which was established in 2008.

Francisco Goldman’s “The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?” received the award last year.

Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies and a Chilean native, presented Muñoz with the award. Muñoz and

Dorfman have been close friends since their collaboration in the resistance movement.

Dorfman praised Muñoz as “somebody who’s a great militant for human rights and for democracy and against tyranny.”

In recent years, Muñoz has served as President of the U.N. Security Council and is currently chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry into the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

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pets from page 3 my O’Malley, a junior, said inclusion of dogs in the pilot program seemed appropriate.

“If we’re trying to create this environment on Central Campus, I felt that having dogs would be more of a community building feature than having only cats and small caged animals that would mostly be confined to the room,” he said.

Although the inclusion of dogs in the program is part of its ultimate goal, junior Elliot Johnson said dogs may present additional problems and risks to the pilot program.

“It would form a better foundation if we just get cats and small caged animals that are generally easier to maintain than dogs,” he said. “Dogs require a lot more attention and work and if something went wrong in one or two rooms with dogs it may endanger the entire

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program.”

Still, both O’Malley and Johnson agreed that the resolution is a positive initiative.

O’Malley added that despite his preference for inclusion of dogs, he is in support of the resolution.

“This is definitely something we can set as a precedent and work with in the future to add dogs,” O’Malley said.

“What we’ve done today is a great first step in augmenting residential life on Central Campus.”

President Stephen Temple, a junior, said that although he does not believe the pet initiative can single-handedly make Central as appealing as East and West campuses, it brings residents together.

“These types of initiatives forge a community around a common theme,” Temple said. “This resolution achieves two goals of making Central Campus increasingly appealing while fostering community at the same time.”

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Junior Alex Reese (left) said Campus Council approved a pilot program at its meeting Thursday night that will allow pets to live in select rooms on Central Campus. The program will be put in place next Fall.

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Many bus drivers say they change the way they drive due to the poor condition of roads on Duke’s campus. Students have also complained about car troubles and bike problems while using the roads, but Vice President for Campus Services Kemel Dawkins says the economy has stalled plans for repairs.

sponse to road conditions.

Valencia said he has not seen any specific damage to the buses caused by potholes, but he believes that there may be some impact.

“I imagine that there are some problems long term,” he said.

Students drivers have also been affected by potholes and cracks.

“My car has bottomed out because of the potholes,” sophomore Meredith Ragno said.

She said one of the worst stretches of road is the fire lane near Keohane Quadrangle.

Senior Jimmy DiMaiolo said Towerview Road near Erwin Road is the worst section of road he has seen on campus.

DiMaiolo has not had any problems with his own car, but said he knows students who have had flat tires after hitting bumps in the road.

But drivers are not the only ones impacted.

Freshman Laura Hubbard said she was recently riding a bicycle from East to West Campus when she almost lost control after running over a pothole.

“I almost flipped my bike,” she said.

The University has repaired some roads, Dawkins said.

Repair work on Science Drive was completed this summer, and there are several other small road-repair projects ongoing, including one on Circuit Drive, he noted.

Dawkins said an overhaul of Campus Drive will be tied to plans to renovate Central Campus. Another factor delaying work on Campus Drive is the ongoing construction at the East Campus steam plant.

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Google reports 27% profit surge in 3Q

By David Sarno Los Angeles Times

In another sign that the economy may be coming back online, Web search giant Google Inc. surprised Wall Street with a 27 percent jump in third-quarter profit, as Internet advertisers spent more on ads -- and buyers spent more time clicking on them.

Computer giant IBM also reported higher-than-expected profit Thursday, adding to hopes that the vitality of the technology sector might be a bellwether for a larger recovery.

“We believe the worst of the recession is behind us,” said Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt in a call with investors, pointing to strong performance in all of the company’s operations. “We now have the business confidence to invest heavily in the next phase of innovation.”

Google and IBM joined a growing parade of technology companies reporting better-than-expected results this month, including chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Amid signs of an improving economy, networking powerhouse Cisco Systems this week said it would pay $2.9 billion for a Massachusetts manufacturer of gear for

wireless carriers, Cisco’s second multibillion-dollar acquisition this month.

The Nasdaq stock exchange, loaded with technology companies, has risen 38 percent this year.

On Thursday, Google shares shot up more than 3 percent, or $17, to $547, in after-hours trading, surpassing the 52-week high it had reached earlier in the day. In regular trading, Google’s stock fell $5.41 to $529.91. The earnings report came after the market closed.

For Google, the number of paid clicks -- that is, how often shoppers clicked on online ads -- jumped 14 percent from the third quarter of last year, a sign that consumers may be increasingly logging on to search for bargains.

Similarly, Google’s results may also indicate that wary companies are beginning to increase their advertising budgets again.

But their first stop may be the Web, where electronic tools allow them to closely monitor the cost-effectiveness of their campaigns.

“Search is well-positioned in a poor economy,” said David Hallerman, an analyst with eMarketer, an Internet research firm. “There are a lot of companies that haven’t gone out of business. They still need to get customers.”

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Recruit Countdown to CrazinessBegins The Final Countdown duo set to visit today Men’s Basketball

by Taylor Doherty The chronicle

Class of 2010 pair Joshua Hairston and Tyler Thornton, both of whom have already verbally committed to the Blue Devils, will be taking their official visits to Duke’s campus today.

Hairston and Thornton are both from the Washington, D.C. area and play for the AAU team DC Assault, guard Nolan Smith’s former team. Miami Heat forward Michael Beasley also played for DC Assault in high school.

Hairston, a 6-foot-8 senior from Spotsylvania, Va., is the higher rated of the two players. Scout.com ranks him as the tenthbest power forward in his class and the fiftieth-best player in the Class of 2010.

According to ESPN.com, Hairston runs the floor well and can rebound and block shots effectively. He is also an athletic dribbler who can create his own shot in the paint.

Thornton is a 6-foot-2, 185-lb. guard from Washington, D.C. As a point guard, he could compete for playing time with fellow recruit Kyrie Irving if Irving chooses to play at Duke instead of Kentucky and several others.

Thornton is rated the 20th-best point guard in his class by Scout.com.

Harrison Barnes, a wing player from Iowa and the No. 3 player in the country according to Scout.com, is set to take his official visit to Duke next week. Barnes is also considering Kansas and North Carolina, among others.

—from staff reports

It’s finally basketball season at Duke.

Countdown to Craziness kicks off the 2009-2010 campaign in style tonight, with the traditional Blue-White scrimmage and a variety of other festivities to mark the occasion.

The doors of Cameron Indoor Stadium will open at 6:30 p.m., and the players will be introduced at 8 p.m. following entertainment from Duke University Improv and other campus groups. The night will also feature a dunk contest, an awards show and a concert in K-Ville fea-

turing indie pop duo Matt and Kim. The event is the Blue Devils’ attempt to build on the traditional BlueWhite scrimmage.

“We are really excited about the start of our season,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Tomorrow, our Countdown to Craziness, some people think that I may have already counted down to that, but it is a little bit new.”

When the event starts, the lights will dim and players will come out onto the floor to the song of their choice. Freshman Ryan Kelly said he would walk out to classic rock but declined to give any further details, and

transfer guard Seth Curry will come out to “A Star is Born” by rapper Jay-Z. “You can’t go wrong with Jay-Z,” Curry said.

Once all of the players take the court, Duke will play its Blue-White game featuring two 12-minute halves. The scrimmage will give fans a rare glimpse of Curry, who transferred last season from Liberty and must sit out the 2009-2010 season per NCAA transfer rules. As a freshman for the Flames, Curry averaged 20.2 points per game on 41.7 percent shooting.

See countdown on page 12

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by Tim Visutipol The chronicle

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Junior Becci Burling and Duke face North Carolina tonight before “Late Night with Roy” and take on the ACC’s worst team, N.C. State, Saturday.

After hosting two ACC opponents last weekend, the Blue Devils travel to Chapel Hill tonight and Raleigh Saturday to face local ACC rivals North Carolina and N.C. State. In yet another big weekend of action, Duke looks to secure muchneeded wins to advance its quest to stay at the pinnacle of the conference standings.

The Blue Devils (16-3, 6-1 in the ACC) have not lost against UNC unranked teams this season and vs. should be able to pick up two relatively easy wins against teams with Duke less successful records. However, playing two games on the road FRIDAY, 5 p.m. back to back can offer other obChapel Hill, N.C. stacles to the conference-leading Blue Devils.

The Blue Devils will be playing NCSU the Tar Heels (8-9, 4-2) in the Dean vs.

E. Smith Center at 5 p.m., prior to “Late Night with Roy,” North CarDuke olina basketball’s season tip-off.

According to head coach Jolene SATURDAY, 6 p.m.

Nagel, this means there will be a Raleigh, N.C. crowd of over 16,000 in attendance

all rooting for the Tar Heels. The match will also pit last year’s ACC co-champions against each other. “[It’s] a challenge to go to Chapel Hill,” Nagel said.

“It’ll definitely be a difficult environment to play in. We’d love any Duke people that could get there to be there.”

Nagel, however, believes her team will rise to the occasion.

“Our team enjoys playing in that kind of an environment...and has fun with it,” Nagel said.

Duke, coming off a loss against No. 17 Florida State in a tight five-set match Saturday, will be looking to return to its winning ways and quiet the large crowd.

“On the one hand it’s definitely a challenge, but on the other hand it’s probably one of our most memorable experiences,” Nagel said.

The Blue Devils will then make a quick turnaround and head to Raleigh to face N.C. State (7-14, 0-6), who will be looking to pick up its first ACC victory. Duke, on the other hand, will attempt to keep its unbeaten record away from home untarnished, but will again have to do so in the challenging environment of Reynolds Coliseum.

Nagel hopes the nature of the weekend will not take away from the performance of her players, and said her team will need to quickly turn its attention to the Wolfpack.

“We need to be our best, so that we can control our own destiny, and not worry about what other people do… because we just don’t know how it’ll fall out at the end.”

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Women’s Soccer

Blue Devils brave storm, defeat Hurricanes

by Nicholas Schwartz The chronicle

If defense wins championships, the Blue Devils may yet make noise in the final third of the season.

Duke (5-5-4, 1-2-2 in the ACC), led by a stellar young back line and a rejuvenated offense, won its first ACC contest Thursday night with a comprehensive 4-0 victory over Miami (7-7-0, 2-3-0).

A steady mist during the first half created slick pitch conditions, but the Blue Devils never missed a step against a strong Miami squad. The Hurricanes were never able to sustain possession MIAMI 0 against a ravenous Duke defense, the Blue Devils to push DUKE 4 allowing the ball forward and create scoring opportunities.

Duke had gone nearly a month Clemson without scoring a goal, but needed only 20 minutes against Mivs. ami to take the lead. A series of clinical passes from sophomore Duke Cody Newman and senior KayAnne Gummersall left Elisabeth SUNDAY, 2 p.m.

Redmond streaking down the left Clemson, S.C. wing. Redmond, with a defender on her back, sent a curling ball over Miami goalkeeper Vikki Alonso and into the upper right-hand corner of the goal.

With an early breakthrough, something head coach Robbie Church had stressed going into the game, the pressure was off of the Blue Devils, and the goals kept coming. Just a minute later, freshman defender Libby Jandl scored her first career goal off a Duke corner kick, blazing a ball through the legs of the Miami defense after a scramble in the penalty area.

“It was so important to score those early goals. It changes the game, and our offense really picked it up tonight,” Church said.

The Blue Devils would stay hot in the second half, stringing passes together to keep the ball in the offensive third.

“We’ve been working on our offense all week after the Florida State game, and it really paid off,” said Redmond, who tallied three assists to go along with her opening goal.

Junior Marybeth Kreger and Gummersall also scored

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Senior Elisabeth Redmond had a goal and three assists in Duke’s 4-0 win over Miami at Koskinen Stadium Thursday, the Blue Devils’ first ACC victory. for the Blue Devils, capping off a signature win.

The Duke defense pitched its seventh shutout of the season against the Hurricanes, and its third against ACC opponents.

“Defense was the area we were most focused on at the start of the year, and they’ve stepped up so much, especially the freshmen,” Redmond said.

With the switch to a 4-4-2 formation, Duke now starts a total of five freshman: Nicole Lipp, Maddy Haller, Erin Koballa, Tara Campbell and Jandl. However, what the Blue Devils lack in experience, they make up for with sheer hustle.

Winning 50-50 balls and sustaining possession in the mid-

field fuels the Duke attack, and with the defense firing on all cylinders, the Blue Devils look to continue scoring goals.

“If we keep the pressure up defensively, it allows our midfielders to connect passes together, and it gives us chances to score,” Church said.

The Blue Devils travel south this weekend to face the struggling Clemson Tigers (4-11-0, 0-6-0), losers of six straight conference games. Though the Tigers currently sit at the bottom of the league standings, Church knows every game on the ACC schedule is important.

“We’re going to keep on working, and we’re going to be ready for Clemson,” Church said.

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Team season tees off at Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate

by Jason Palmatary The chronicle

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Senior Adam Long will be Duke’s top seed this weekend as the Blue Devils begin their team season with the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate.

Duke is competing in its first team golf tournament this weekend, albeit a little bit later in the season than in years past.

The Blue Devils will be participating in the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate at The Ridges in Jonesborough, Tenn. Friday through Sunday.

While the fall season is shorter than the spring season in collegiate golf, typically Bank of Tenn. Duke would have played in Intercollegiate a couple of tournaments in September. However, head FRIDAY-SUNDAY coach Jamie Green took The Ridges G.C. a different approach and Jonesborough, Tenn. gave his players that month off to recover from their grueling summer schedules.

The later start to the season also offered the team’s four freshmen more of a chance to get settled into college and get accustomed with their new surroundings before representing their school on the links.

In fact, the freshmen all made their debuts last week at the Gordin-Myers Collegiate Classic on campus.

Rather than entering the tournament as a team, Green entered the freshmen as unaffiliated players, and the results were pleasing.

“We decided to just have the freshman participate in that event,” Green said. “We thought it would be a way to ease them into the program and build their confidence.”

Brinson Paolini, the most heralded member of the incoming class and a participant in the U.S. Amateur

over the summer, made a strong first impression. Paolini finished the event at 1-over par, which gave him a second-place finish, just one shot behind winner Kent Copeland of N.C. State.

“Brinson arrived on campus already having achieved a lot in junior and amateur golf,” Green said. “He is terrific from tee to green and just has an ability to make golf shots.”

While certainly impressed with his youngster’s performance, Green did note that Paolini would have won the tournament had he been sharper with his putting stroke. Playing alongside Paolini were Adam Sumrall, Julian Suri and Tim Gornik, who finished fifth, 17th and 22nd, respectively.

With the Collegiate Classic under their belts, the Blue Devils can turn their focus to The Ridges Golf and Country Club where the competition will be much stiffer. There are five other ACC teams playing in the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate as well as a host of other talented players and teams from different regions of the country.

Duke’s top five for this first team event will consist of senior Adam Long, Paolini, junior Wes Roach, sophomore Spencer Anderson and Suri. While Green emphasized that the order isn’t that significant, putting Paolini in the second spot speaks volumes of the rookie’s ability.

Considering that current professionals such as Lucas Glover, Luke Donald, Anthony Kim and Camillo Villegas all made appearances in Jonesborough during their collegiate days, the Blue Devils’ top five should get a good feel for where they stand against some of the country’s best talent.

“If you leave this golf course with hardware, you know you have made a significant accomplishment,” Green said.

“I’m excited to see how our guys stack up early on.”

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countdown from page 10 But for one night, Curry will get the chance to play on Cameron’s floor in front of a crowd.

“I’ll be just like one of the players, having a lot of fun out there and giving the crowd a show,” Curry said. “I’m just building great relationships with them...so I can play better with them on the court. I’m kind of like brothers with them off the court.”

After the game, one special feature for Countdown to Craziness will be a Crazies Choice Awards for the last 30 years, which will recognize the Best Duke Comeback, Greatest Duke Buzzer-Beater, Most Electric Cameron Chaos and Best Dynamic Duo. “They’re like the Oscars or the VMAs without Kanye West but, you know, Dukestyle and more prestigious,” said junior guard Nolan Smith.

The highlight of the night, though, just might be the dunk contest. To the chagrin of some fans, Gerald Henderson

and Marty Pocius have graduated. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some good dunkers on the roster. Junior Kyle Singler predicted freshman Mason Plumlee would win, but said Olek Czyz would surprise some people. It might be tough to upset Plumlee, however, who finished second in the McDonald’s All-American slam dunk contest during his senior year of high school.

Not all of the Blue Devils will compete in the contest. At the preseason press conference on Thursday, Krzyzewski had high praise for senior guard Jon Scheyer, but that didn’t stop him from making a joke at his captain’s expense.

“Scheyer will not be in it, for all of those Scheyer fans,” Krzyzewski said. “We decided not to let him embarrass himself and we didn’t allow trampolines or anything that would help him.”

Duke will follow with an open house on Oct. 17 where players will be available for autographs, plus take part in the traditional open practice.

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Junior Sarah Schoffstall and Duke look to avenge an overtime loss to Old Dominion Sunday in Norfolk, Va.

by Rachel Apostoles The chronicle

After falling to the top two teams in the nation last weekend, the Blue Devils look to bounce back when they travel to William and Mary (5-9) and No. 20 Old Dominion this weekend.

Though the scorebook counts two losses, head coach W&M Beth Bozman sees last vs. weekend’s games as a No. 15 turning point for the Duke team.

“They were emoSATURDAY, 1 p.m. tional losses, but they Williamsburg, Va. were emotional victories too because we felt No. 20 like we really turned a corner,” Bozman said.

ODU “We played an excepvs.

No. 15 tional game against UNC so we feel that if Duke we can carry this momentum, we will be in SUNDAY, 1 p.m.

Norfolk, Va. good shape.”

Despite the setbacks, the team is still ranked 15th in the country. With the NCAA tournament selection approaching, Bozman stressed the importance of every game.

“Every game is critical at this point of

the season,” Bozman said. “One game could make a difference.”

With this attitude in mind, Duke (6-7) will strive to maintain its level of play this weekend as it travels to the state of Virginia.

The Blue Devils already faced Old Dominion (6-8) earlier this season and came away with a 3-2 overtime loss at home, despite dominating play offensively.

Duke outshot the Monarchs 28-11 and led in penalty corners, 15-6. However, the Blue Devils were unable to finish, a problem that Bozman thinks the team is better equipped to handle at this point in the season.

“I think we are a much better team now then we were then. This time we hope to finish with a win,” Bozman said.

The Blue Devils’ leading scorer, Amie Survilla, has tallied 19 goals this season, and is second in the country in goals per game with nearly 1.5. Duke’s record, however, doesn’t reflect Survilla’s offensive statistics.

At this critical point in the season, the team is not taking any opponent lightly.

Bozman said the team’s mentality will be the same as last weekend—the only difference being that the Blue Devils will not be facing the top two teams in the nation.

“We think we are at a good place now as a team, so we are going to try to continue developing and playing at this level,” Bozman said.

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Panhel’s potential Following several years of ress, the group finally chose controversy, the Panhellenic to stop participating in the Association finally put its fundraiser altogether. foot down.

We applaud Panhel for rePanhel, which represents sponding to the complaints the nine Nafiled by their tional Panhelmembers and editorial lenic Council raising their sororities on campus, voted collective voice on this issue. unanimously last month to Charity fundraising is a noble pull out of Derby Days, Sig- endeavor, but when the terms ma Chi fraternity’s annual of participation are inflexible charity event. and demeaning to women, it The week-long fundraiser makes sense to speak out and has generated controversy in take action. recent years, despite efforts This incident, though, to tone down its infamous should be the beginning— Lip Sync contest by relocat- not the end—of Panhel’s ing it from Shooters II to the public advocacy.

West Campus Plaza. The reIn recent years, the powlocation was not enough to er of Panhel has been unproduce the changes Panhel tapped by its leaders. As the members felt were neces- largest student organization sary, and after several years on campus and one whose of discussion and little prog- all-female constituency is

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often underrepresented in student and administrative leadership roles, Panhel should be more willing to advocate for women and students in general.

The Women’s Initiative highlighted the challenges Duke women face, including the lack of space for sororities. Panhel has certainly been a strong advocate for space, which is undoubtedly important for empowering their members. Yet their focus on this singular issue may have caused them to place other equally important concerns on the backburner.

While Panhel is by no means representative of all Duke women, the organization is in a powerful position to add to the important conversation about the role of

gender at the University, and it should exercise leadership in this area.

From a practical perspective, too, all women stand to benefit from this consolidated group speaking out about the challenges and concerns that all women at Duke—including those in sororities—encounter on a regular basis.

Panhel, however, should not limit its public voice to issues concerning women specifically.

In the past, the organization has been relatively silent when it comes to broader campus issues. In the wake of the Campus Culture Initiative or the recent debate over Tailgate, Panhel has largely avoided controversy and declined to comment while

Interfraternity Council and male selective living groups have taken a highly public stance.

Along with IFC and male SLGs, Panhel should speak out about general topics of concern to students in order to offer a wider perspective of viewpoints and provide a more complete and balanced campus dialogue.

Logistical reasons and organizational structure may hinder increased activism, but proactive decisions like choosing to pull out of Derby Days should be the norm for Panhel rather than the exception.

As a large organization with a broad constituency, Panhel has an important voice. Now is the time for it to be heard.

Swimming upstream alone

t is hard to be the odd one out. It is even harder to be the odd one out in a place where you already stand out.

On a campus saturated by immersive service engagement opportunities, I’m surprised courtney han that acknowledgement of the ethical the good life? challenges independent students face have not resulted in a sustained, concrete outlet for support and discussion.

Last year, DukeEngage sent 350 students into hands-on service projects. Over four years time, this means about 23 percent of Duke undergraduates will have participated in a civic engagement program through DukeEngage alone. Since more than 40 percent of students also participate in some form of study abroad, and numerous campus departments, programs and institutes offer funding for individual service or research-oriented projects, it may be conservative to argue that at least half of Duke undergraduates will have had exposure to an immersive experience upon graduation.

These opportunities are wildly popular because many of us want intense first-hand engagement with cultures, customs and lifestyles different from our own.

Full engagement also implies, however, that volunteers must submit themselves to all aspects of the new community, including social, religious, cultural—and ethical—habits to fully engage with their surroundings.

Serving alone in a new environment is particularly difficult because the volunteer does not have a classmate or professor to rely on for guidance.

Although many discussions about ethics are riddled with subjective nuances, some are incontestable. When the difference between right and wrong is more black and white than grey, confronting the situation by oneself becomes much more complicated—and realistic.

In my independent service experiences, I encountered similar problems. I wondered whether it was best to adapt to my hosts or to bring my Western notions of right and wrong to the field. I questioned whether adopting cultural relativism was necessary to reach my project’s short-term goals.

As time went on, confronting and coming to terms with the knowledge that my co-workers were habitually sleeping with school-age girls for money, that my manager was offering free services to friends at the expense of the organization and that my housemate was stealing water from the neighbor next door became increasingly disorienting with-

out a familiar support system nearby.

When people in new environments witness or experience situations they disagree with, many choose to do nothing. Reasons for this inertia are fairly obvious: Building trust and acceptance with the local community is a top priority when volunteers are living, learning and in many ways, depending on their hosts. The volunteers become painfully sensitive to political, socioeconomic, safety and power considerations as an outsider. Maintaining good terms with the host can also be critical to achieving short-term project goals. Consequently, many volunteers naturally adapt or suspend their ethical frameworks to harmonize with what they perceive to be their host’s moral system.

Pre-departure dialogues and workshops are a good start to the discussion, but they do not serve adequately when the individual is fully immersed and isolated in ethical dilemmas. This is because for many people, ethics-related deliberation is relevant only when they are forced to choose between inaction and an active response. Driven by necessity, students move beyond visualization to recognition of the gap between “I would do” and “I will do” when they are in the field.

For these reasons, immersive service experiences are valuable to non-participants because they provide a broader range of moral questions than what we tend to encounter in an academic institution.

Confronting these dilemmas can be disillusioning and frustrating for the volunteer who is experiencing it alone. We should support our student volunteers by developing accessible online forums or hotlines that provide structure and guidance during the engagement. These resources can respond to volunteers’ ethical impulses as they experience them as well as empower volunteers when they feel morally compelled to act.

Building this type of informal ethics-related infrastructure can provide tangible long-term benefits for all students. Addressing moral issues from the field as they surface give volunteers a sense of competency and ownership. That faith and selfconfidence to act in disorienting environments is a critical leadership skill that they can choose to cultivate from their service experience.

Non-participants will also benefit from seeing how other students are confronting ethics-related situations to better prepare themselves for similar opportunities, or at the least, to live vicariously through them. We should continue to look for ways to maximize the impact University service programs have on all students, and support our independent volunteers during and after their engagements.

Courtney Han is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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lettertotheeditor Mourning the Lahore terrorist attack On behalf of Diya, Duke’s South Asian student association, I would like to convey my condolences regarding the recent terrorist attack in Pakistan. What occurred in Lahore was not only an attack on Pakistan, but an attack on peace, tolerance and freedom.

I hope that we recognize yesterday’s events not as an example of chaos in a broken world, but rather as a reminder that we are not alone

in our efforts to eradicate injustice. We, as Americans, should take this opportunity to recognize our common morality and our common aspirations, for today, we are all Pakistani.

We will be hosting a vigil to honor and remember the victims of the attack. Details will be released soon.

Vivek Upadhyay President of external affairs, Duke Diya Trinity ’10

Go to Tailgate

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efore I arrived at Duke for my freshman year, I received an issue of Towerview in the mail in which the cover story—entitled “The Fall of a Fall Tradition”— decried the death of Tailgate.

One month later, I was pleased to discover that it was anything but dead.

Let’s get this straight: others nathan freeman schools may have good night, and tailgates, but no one good luck else has Tailgate.

Tailgate can only be described as that four-hour early-morning ecstasy where problems melt away like a jello shot in a warm mouth; where your best friends wake you up with a Busch Light in bed and you all shotgun in the bathroom to the kachick! kachick! of snapped-open beer tabs echoing off the linoleum, and then you shotgun again; where you take out your predetermined outfit, put it on bleary-eyed and then walk, grinning with beer-in-hand, to the Blue Zone to witness the rumpus erupting; where there is a Technicolor mass of students decked out in costumes so gloriously audacious it’s like Halloween in the land of Oz; where the smell of meat grilling fills the air and everywhere lighters spark for cigarettes, and everyone has those ubiquitous neon-band sunglasses; where the maniacs take long pulls from handles of Aristocrat as if they were filled with water, not vodka; where your chem TA is dressed in a chicken suit and promptly pours beer on you but you get her back as cameras click pictures all around; where different songs from disparate speakers blend together, the sounds of pleasure-filled yells and music commingling and the minutes pass quickly like a few beautiful seconds and your drunkenness increases to the holiest of heights as “Shout” blasts from the nearest sound system and a keg’s worth of beer showers down upon you like a baptism and on the roof of the car the dance-floor of people slowly rises, repeating the mantra “a little bit louder now, a little bit louder now” and all of a sudden—BAM!—the party bursts to its feet howling with joy as the beer falls onto your lips and you realize, “this is the most fun I’ve ever had in my entire life.”

Unfortunately, there are people who do not

share this philosophy. I am OK with this. What I am not OK with is anti-Tailgate sentiment. If you don’t like Tailgate, stick to your Saturday-night checkers games in Brown, and stay away from the Blue Zone on game day. I realize that by writing this column I am contradicting myself, but hear me out: I am intending this to be the last word on Tailgate. Once this column runs, people will stop arguing about Tailgate, and simply enjoy the magic of it.

The problem began with a column written by “Charlotte Simmons” for “Monday, Monday” entitled “Failgate.” “Tailgate is an embarrassment to our institution,” the column read.

The column was then commented upon in a series of letters to the editor. “Though I may have been inebriated, I failed to see one person without a giant smile pasted on their beer-soaked faces throughout the four hours of revelry,” Al Samost wrote in his Sept. 9 response to “Failgate.”

IFC even ran a full-page ad Oct. 7 in which its members apologized for the raucous, awesome fun they had at Tailgate (“This is unacceptable,” it read). Even this commentary prompted two letters that ran on the back pages. The first was sent in Oct. 9 by Tom Burr, who wrote, “The problem with Tailgate is not can-throwing, nor is it standing on cars.

The problem with Tailgate is Tailgate.”

Then, in his response to both IFC and Tom Burr, David Mlaver took a more level-headed approach in his Oct. 12 letter: “How silly is it to apologize publicly for people sitting in the back of a truck as if it were some kind of sin?”

No, IFC, having fun at Tailgate is not something for which one should have to apologize. Rather, IFC should be an advocate for its beer-loving brethren, and fight against the ever-mounting regulation of our cherished tradition.

But more importantly, the debate over whether it’s OK to have fun before football games should stay off the editorial pages. If you don’t like Tailgate, fine, don’t go. But if that 300-word sentence up there means anything to you—if it made you feel the beer in your hair and rush to your iTunes to put on “Shout”—continue to go to Tailgate, even in the face of adversity on the edit pages. If you help keep Tailgate the way it is, it’s the best argument we’ve got.

Nathan Freeman is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Friday.

Lead me on

“T

ake me to your leader.”

If aliens were aliens to land tomorrow with a zeal for human eradication, how would they identify the leaders among us? Leadership is undeniably en vogue right now, though likely not for the thrill of beating back extraterrestrial world-conquerors. It’s more likely motivated by recruiters ranging from corporate profit hounds to Teach For America visionaries who go bonkers at the prospect of an applicant’s “leadership skills.” It seems as though everyone and their mothers occupy some sort of mike meers leader’s role; soon we will need mike check leaders so proficient at leading that they can lead other leaders.

But leadership is something of an enigmatic concept, and the Duke community seems to have a conflicted perception of what it entails at times.

Indeed, the selection of the Young Trustee, considered a barometer of campus leadership and arguably the most prestigious student distinction at Duke, lacks any consistent, written-down, year-to-year criteria upon which to base its choice. In recent efforts by the Duke Student Government to solicit input on Young Trustee selection reform, it has become clear that a consensus definition of what shows leadership is surprisingly elusive. But what is leadership worth if there is no universally understood concept of what, exactly, it is? Let’s consider some potential criteria.

Does holding a “presidential” position demonstrate leadership? Last year’s Young Trustee finalists consisted of the president and executive vice president of DSG and the chair of the Honor Council. The semantics of the word “president” do invoke a sense of reverence and automatic authority, a sort of a priori designation of the capacity for leadership. Unfortunately, because Duke has more than 400 organization “presidents” at any given time, the word “president” is thrown around on campus with almost laughable regularity, sufficiently delegitimizing all of them. That’s not to mention bureaucratic structures in the biggest social and governance organizations so bloated that they would put the Department of Motor Vehicles to shame.

Exhibit A: though I can only guess at the full responsibilities of a sorority’s “vice president for fraternity education,” I’ll wager that keen observation of male Shooters patrons achieves the same end without the need for an executive designation.

Are some campus leaders more important than others? If that is the case (and it is), we are then put in the uncomfortable position of arranging that hierarchy. It is no secret that recent Young Trustee finalists have been overwhelmingly composed of DSG and Inter-Community Council higher-ups. Although DSG can hang its hat on a gender-neutral constitution and socialized student legal counsel (hands off my attorney!), some would argue that it does little to significantly impact the daily lives of all students. On the other hand, it is tough to argue in favor of the Duke Bridge Club or the Russian Majors and Minors Association as pinnacles of leadership because of their universal “influence” on group members. Clearly, there is some difficulty in assigning importance to one group or leader with respect to others.

What about personal actions or attributes that can’t be adequately conveyed in resume form? Corporate clichés harp on the merits of “getting the most out of people” and forging an effective “team environment.” Star Trek’s Captain Kirk “boldly goes where no man has gone before,” with his obedient crew in tow. OSAF-organized LEAD week activities even suggest that “sustainable living within our community is a vital component of leadership.” Although “since when?” would be my initial response to someone who told me that something as innocuous as daily recycling makes you a leader, I’m inclined to chalk it up to the diversity of perceptions regarding the acts that potentially make one leader-worthy.

How is Duke as an institution supposed to regard leadership, then? Although a consensus through a forum such as Young Trustee selection would go a long way toward restoring the integrity of the word and the idea on campus, perhaps true leadership flouts that effort. By nature leadership is difficult to define, but easy to recognize. Whether one thinks of Gandhi leading the push for independence, King leading the march for equality or a single student taking action out of the ordinary for the sake of a personal cause, leadership is something you can’t define or predict until it actually happens. This fact does nothing for us within some petty system of ranking or worth, but in a strange reversal of intent it sheds some light on a deeper meaning of leadership that so eludes us: you don’t need to be called a leader now to be recognized as a leader in time.

Mike Meers is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Friday.

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