October 19, 2009 issue by Duke Chronicle

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Monday, October 19, 2009

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University gets B+ on sustainability

Dunk contest, Smith’s play highlight Countdown event by Taylor Doherty The chronicle

From the use of a Mike Posner tune in the introduction videos to the appearance of Duke greats Christian Laettner and Bobby Hurley, Friday night was all about celebrating Duke. The Countdown to Craziness event combined the Blue-White game with videos featuring players, a dunk contest, an awards show and even an outdoor concert, creating a lively start to the season. “It was amazing, a great atmosphere,” junior Nolan Smith said. “The team was very excited and the coaches [were too], and I think we went out and played a great game.” Following player introductions, the Blue Devils tipped off for the first time this season in front of a expectant crowd. The BlueWhite game had players divided among two teams that competed in two 12-minute halves. A brief halftime and the presentation of awards for past Duke moments during timeouts helped keep the scrimmage from dragging or slowing down the action. Smith stole much of the spotlight on the floor, showing off a visibly improved jump shot. The junior guard shot 10-of-14 from the floor—including 3-of-6 from 3-point range—en route to an efficient 25 points. In the first half, Jon Scheyer, Kyle Singler, Mason Plumlee and Miles Plumlee joined Smith in the starting lineup for the White team. That group of five would start

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Duke students may prefer As, but when it comes to the environment, their university is stuck in the B range. For the third time in as many years, Duke earned a B+ on the Sustainable Endowment Institute’s 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, released earlier this month. The University received As in seven of the report card’s nine categories, including green building, transportation, and climate change and energy. According to its report card, Duke did well in these categories in part because of its environmentally friendly buildings, carpooling and bike-sharing programs and commitment to carbon neutrality. “Obviously, we don’t like to get anything but As,” said Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment. “But when it comes to the tangible things, it’s clear we do A work.” For earning As in all six “campus categories,” SEI named Duke one of 80 Campus Sustainability Leaders. SEI has released College Sustainability Report Cards since 2007 and now evaluates more than 300 universities for their efforts emily eshman/The Chronicle

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Sophomore Olek Czyz’s performance in the dunk contest stole the show Friday at Countdown to Craziness.

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First shipment of H1N1 vaccine Budget concerns will be offered to pregnant women prompt Earth by Toni Wei

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Duke is offering a limited amount of injectable H1N1 vaccine to high-risk groups within the Duke community. Priority for the first doses of the vaccine will be given to pregnant University employees, students and hospital patients, in accordance with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the North Carolina State Health Department. An e-mail was sent to the Duke community Sunday afternoon informing recipients of the vaccine’s limited availability. Pregnant students and employees can receive the vaccine starting today through employee health or their Duke University Health System Ob/Gyn provider, according to the

e-mail. Unlike the inhalable FluMist, which is not recommended for pregnant women, the injection is projected to have a safety record similar to that of the seasonal flu vaccine. Dr. Bill Purdy, executive director of Duke Student Health, said Student Health will receive few doses to administer to students, but is unclear on the exact number. “We will get some, but we don’t expect a lot because we don’t really follow pregnant women,” he said. “But we’ll have some in case there are some [pregnant] students who haven’t signed up with an Ob/Gyn.” According to the CDC Web site, pregnant women are at a higher risk for serious illness and death from contracting H1N1, commonly known as swine flu.

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Purdy said any additional vaccine would be distributed to other high risk groups—such as frontline health care providers and people under 25—according to CDC guidelines. “I think there should be enough [to cover pregnant women],” he said. “We’ll hopefully get more within the next week or so, but nobody really knows—it’s a strange situation.” The e-mail sent to the Duke community stated more updates will follow as the University receives more shipments of the H1N1 vaccine. Student Health will be notified of additional shipments of the vaccine a day or two prior to their arrival, Purdy said. “We just have to make the best of it,” he said.

Men’s Golf: Long road ahead Roach, Long lead Blue Devils to fifth-place finish in Tennessee, PAGE 9

Jam cancellation by Jinny Cho The chroniclE

Students hoping to split geodes and glimpse marine animals at this year’s Earth Jam may will to wait at least another year. The free, interactive environmental festival that takes place annually in conjunction with the Majors Fair will not be held Tuesday due to recent economic strain, officials from the Nicholas School of the Environment announced. “Earth Jam has been a great success helping us raise awareness of our programs and reach thousands of students, staff and faculty members with key environmental messages,” said Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School. “In future years, we will definitely revisit the possibility of sponsoring it once again. This year, however, the most responsible decision was to cancel it.” Earth Jam introduces undergraduates to academic programs at See earth jam on page 5

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“Many of the delegates are simply stumbling around the drylands of their respective countries with blinders on.”

—Professor James Reynolds on a UN convention. See story page 3

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Pakistan goes further into Taliban, al Qaeda territory ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani army pushed further into a mountainous Taliban and al Qaeda haven Sunday, as civilians continued to flow out of an area that has become a full-fledged battleground. On the second day of a ground offensive in the restive border region of South Waziristan, the military said at least 60 militants and five soldiers had been killed. The Pakistani Taliban, which the government says has plotted a cascade of recent attacks on security forces from its base in the area, told

the Associated Press that its fighters had inflicted “heavy casualties” against the army. The fight in South Waziristan is a key test for Pakistan’s military, which is tasked with shattering a rising Islamist insurgency that has killed nearly 200 people in bombings and gunfights in the past two weeks. American officials, who have urged Pakistan to get tougher on militants operating on its soil, say the region is also a hub for militants who plan attacks on U.S.-led forces across the border in Afghanistan.

White House books time Police thwart visa scheme with impugned Fox News A West Covina, Calif., attorney and two business associates were arrested on suspicion of selling dozens of fake employment visas and then laundering the profits by buying vacant burial plots, authorities said. Kelly Giles, 46, the owner of a West Covina law practice was taken into custody last Thursday by customs agents at Los Angeles International Airport as he returned from a trip, authorities said. His two business associates, Joseph Wu, 50, and his wife, May Wu, 43, were arrested earlier in the day. All three were charged with visa fraud. Their arrests culminated a two-and-ahalf year investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

WASHINGTON — After impugning the objectivity of Fox News and saying that they would begin to treat the network as “an opponent,” White House officials said Sunday that they will book administration officials on the network. Last week, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said Fox News, which airs the shows of several conservative commentators, functions “almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.... We don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.” Her comments sparked a fresh battle between the White House and the network.

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Prof proposes rules for drylands crimebriefs Crazies on the quad A security guard saw a white vehicle run over several curbs and drive erratically on East Campus Quadrangle early Sunday morning. After the vehicle stopped near Lilly Library, the driver and passengers ran away. The vehicle was impounded. Hospital hijinks An intoxicated patient fought with staff in Duke Hospital North Friday and had to be restrained. Because once wasn’t enough A man who had been recently cited for trespassing returned to Duke Hospital Wednesday morning and was arrested. You can run... A driver hit a parked vehicle while backing up and left the scene of the collision at 215 Anderson Street Tuesday just before noon. The driver was later located and issued a citation. Creative commons

Professor James Reynolds presented a set of guidelines called the Drylands Desertification Paradigm to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertificaiton during its Sept. 21 to Oct. 2 conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina (above). The paradigm aims to evaluate desertification issues. by Christine Chen The chronicle

A Duke professor has proposed a set of international guidelines for assessing desertification. James Reynolds, professor of environmental science and biology, presented the Drylands Desertification Paradigm to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification at its Sept. 21 to Oct. 2 conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The paradigm is a set of guidelines to evaluate desertification that Reynolds, director of Phytotron at the Nicholas School of the Environment, helped create. More than 200 scientists representing 150 countries attended the conference. The DDP combines numerous perspectives, including those ecological and social, to evaluate and address existing desertification problems and future issues. Despite criticism from the scientific community that the UNCCD

lacks proper standards for effective action, the delegates did not pass the DDP at the conference. “Many of the delegates are simply stumbling around the drylands of their respective countries with blinders on, with little or no appreciation for the importance of a scientific framework to guide science and decision-making for the good of the people being impacted by land degradation,” Reynolds said. Although the DDP was not approved, Reynolds said he remains “cautiously optimistic,” adding that the DDP has resonated with several delegates. This was the first time Reynolds and other scientists were able to participate in UNCCD due to the Scientific Conference, a new component introduced this year by the Committee on Science and Technology. The Scientific See reynolds on page 5

Finders keepers A student’s laptop was stolen after the student left it unattended in a second-floor study room in Aycock Residence Hall Tuesday afternoon. Open sesame A Duke Hospital employee reported a master key ring missing Tuesday evening. Water wars A patient threw water onto an unauthorized visitor in Duke Hospital North after the visitor attempted to attack him with scissors last Monday afternoon, the patient said. The visitor was removed from the hospital. Kil-gone A student reported last Monday afternoon that someone entered her room in Kilgo Quadrangle and removed her property.

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sustainability from page 1 to become environmentally friendly. Institutions are graded in categories ranging from food and recycling to investment priorities on the basis of publicly available information and surveys SEI sends to each school. Duke received an A in investment priorities but fared worse in the other two categories related to financial practices. The University received an F in endowment transparency and a B in shareholder engagement. These lower grades are in part the result of long-standing University policies to keep endowment holdings secret to maximize investment returns, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. He noted that a majority of schools that participated in the survey also received failing grades in the endowment category and said Duke would not release more information about its endowment holdings. “I don’t see Duke or any of the other 60 percent of the schools that got an F making any changes,” he said. Still, an SEI representative said the financial criteria are important measures of an institution’s efforts to become sustainable. “Endowment decisions are expressions of commitment,” said SEI Communications Fellow Lea Lupkin. “If the endowment information isn’t transparent, there’s

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no way for us to evaluate [a university’s investments].” Duke was beat out by 26 institutions that each received an A- overall, including Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Brown University. No school received an A. “It’s a nice validation that the university is taking the right steps to limit its carbon dioxide emissions and become a sustainable campus,” said Richard Lewis, a physical sciences media specialist in Brown University’s Media Relations department. Even among schools that did well, though, there was some criticism of SEI’s methodology. F a h m i d a Ahmed, manager of sustainable programs at Stanford University, said SEI should be more inclusive of universities and other environmental organizations in creating its assessment criteria. “We have a very favorable impression of what the process brings,” she said. “But moving forward, the institute needs to work more closely with consortiums that are also evaluating benchmarks and have more transparent methodology.” Schoenfeld said the University should be proud of its grade but wary of attaching too much importance to it. “This confirms that Duke has been a leader in sustainability and environmental awareness on campus,” he said. “As far as the grade, it is what it is.”

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reynolds from page 3 Conference was created in reaction to criticism that the UNCCD lacked input from scientists, said Charles F. Hutchinson, professor and director of the Office of Arid Lands Studies at the University of Arizona. Scientific Conference attendees supported the DDP. Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, associate professor in the department of environmental engineering and natural resource management at the Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, has been involved in several workshops testing the DDP’s utility and effectiveness. She said she hopes the UNCCD delegates eventually adopt the paradigm. “It’s nothing novel and new, it’s just never been put so logically together to tackle desertification,” HuberSannwald said. “It’s the right time and the right place to use [the DDP] as a framework.” Reynolds said the concepts in the DDP are “common sense science, but underlying it is a very strong theoretical foundation that real scientists buy into.” The paradigm will also help the UNCCD confront multiple facets of the desertification issue, Hutchinson said. “The DDP allows you to address the social dimension, environmental dimension and climate dimension as one,” he said. Reynolds’ work on the paradigm was inspired 10 years ago when he was invited to the Center for Integrated Studies of Human Dimensions of Global Change at the National Science Foundation Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Reynolds said his experience at the NSF Center inspired him to bring the ecosystem and social groups together at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme—a research program that studies global change. The collaboration of perspectives later resulted in “Global Desertification,” a book that Reynolds called the “seeds that led to the paradigm.”

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Last year’s Earth Jam (above) featured hands-on activities, educational displays and giveaways in the Bryan Center. The event, which has taken place alongside the annual Majors Fair for the past two years, was canceled by the Nicholas School of the Environment this year for budgetary reasons.

earth jam from page 1 the Nicholas School and informs them about environmental opportunities and issues in the Durham community. The event, which typically features hands-on activities, educational displays and giveaways, has been held at the Bryan Center alongside the Majors Fair for the past two years. Tim Lucas, marketing manager for the Nicholas School, said undergraduates will still be able to stop by the Nicholas School table at the Majors Fair to learn about academic programs at the school. The school offers semester-long study abroad opportunities at the Marine Lab in Beaufort, N.C. as well as majors and minors offered in the school’s divisions of Environmental Sciences and Policy and Earth

and Ocean Sciences. Lucas said he hoped to prevent any surprise come Tuesday by making students aware of the cancellation. “We’ll still have a table and we’ll still have [free] shirts,” he said. “We just didn’t want students this year expecting to go down to Earth Jam.” Sophomores Mikael Owunna and Ben Soltoff, copresidents of Duke Environmental Alliance, said that although Earth Jam will be missed, they hope its absence is only temporary. “Earth Jam was exciting, and made students more enthusiastic about sustainability and other critical issues,” Owunna wrote in an e-mail. “For these reasons, it is regrettable that it was canceled, but I’m optimistic that it will return next year and remain as one of the hallmark environmental events of the Duke academic year.”

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Obama aides: Wall Street bonuses ‘offensive’ by Michael Fletcher and Zachary Goldfarb The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Top officials in President Barack Obama’s administration sharply criticized Wall Street firms planning to pay big bonuses, pointedly contrasting the soaring profits some financial companies have recorded in recent days with continuing high jobless rates across the country. The firms are benefiting from government efforts, some initiated by the Obama administration, to stabilize and restore confidence to the capital markets after a global financial crisis that began last year. With their fortunes rebounding, the Wall Street firms plan to pay tens of billions of dollars to executives. “The bonuses are offensive,” Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” adding that banks must do more to support lending across the country and should stop their lobbying efforts aimed at blocking the passage of new financial regulations that are being prepared in Congress. “They ought to think through what they are doing, and they ought to understand that a year ago a lot of these institutions

were teetering on the brink, and the United States government and taxpayers came to their defense,” Axelrod said. “They have responsibilities, and they ought to meet those responsibilities.” The Obama administration has defied popular opinion in backing huge government bailouts to try to rescue much of the nation’s auto industry and stabilize the financial system, steps it saw as critical to fostering an economic recovery. At the same time, it has attempted to tap into popular anger at corporate America with outspoken criticism of bonuses, perks and other practices that have long been staples of big business. Many banks and other firms have been enjoying fat profits this year in their trading and investment arms. But much of this success has come as a result of new government policies that have kept interest rates low — on debt and mortgages, for example. The White House has been taking an increasingly confrontational tone against Wall Street bonuses and lobbying efforts to prevent its broad plan for new financial regulations. Obama has given at least two high-profile speeches in recent weeks urging the financial industry to stop lobbying Congress not to pass laws that would,

among other things, create a new agency to police credit card and mortgage lending. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel chided Wall Street firms for neglecting their responsibilities “in the short period of time where they have a level of normalcy because of what the government did to help them.” “Not only do they come for a bailout ... they’re now back trying to fight a consumer office and the type of protections that will prevent another type of situation where the economy is taken over the cliff by the actions taken on Wall Street and financial market,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Recent news of a pay package for Bank of America’s outgoing chief executive, Kenneth Lewis, illustrates the challenge facing the White House and Treasury. The Treasury’s pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, persuaded Lewis not to take any compensation for his work this year after the bank received $45 billion in government aid. But because of Lewis’s contract with the bank, he is still on track to receive nearly $70 million in retirement money, something Feinberg can’t prevent from happening. The administration’s criticism of corporate bonuses highlights the quandary it

faces as the nation slowly emerges from the steepest economic downturn since the Great Depression. While Wall Street has regained some of its old swagger as profits have returned and other parts of the economy show signs of new life, unemployment continues to tick upward despite the huge economic stimulus plan enacted in February. With unemployment at 9.8 percent and projected to go higher, Obama is facing mounting political pressure to take further government action to create jobs, but at the same time he is confronted by a nearrecord budget deficit that cries out for fiscal austerity. Aides called joblessness a daily concern of Obama but added that the administration is constrained by the ballooning budget deficit, which hit a post-World War II record of $1.4 trillion in the fiscal year that ended in September. “There is this conundrum — you’ve got this huge national deficit; we’ve got to do what we can to bring that down. At the same time, it’s important to stimulate the economy, and the federal government has to do its part,” said senior adviser Valerie Jarrett on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “So let’s wait and see. Let the recovery bill do its job, and then we’ll see.”

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Blue Devils earn second ACC win at Clemson by Nicholas Schwartz The chronicle

Usually a trip to Clemson yields nothing but frustration for the Blue Devils, who had not won at Riggs Field since 1997. But with the help of another solid defensive performance Sunday, Duke notched its second straight conference victory with a 2-0 win over the Tigers (3-12-0, 0-7-0 in the ACC). “Clemson has historically had a good program, and it’s just always a tough place to play in,” DUKE 2 head coach Robbie Church said. “It CLEM 0 doesn’t matter what the other team’s record is, when you go on the road in the ACC, you’ve got to be ready for a fight.” A tired Blue Devil squad looked destined for another disappointing result at Clemson after the first half, in which the Tigers outshot Duke 6-5. “We were fortunate that the score was nothing-nothing at half. They had a few good opportunities to score goals and we weren’t able to do much,” Church said. The Blue Devils (6-5-4, 2-2-2 in the ACC), currently in the bottom half of the ACC standings, need to accumulate wins quickly if they want to play in the NCAA tournament—something Church reminded them of at halftime. “The coaches just challenged our players, we asked them how far they wanted to

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Junior Marybeth Kreger assisted on Duke’s second goal Sunday as the Blue Devils defeated Clemson 2-0. go this season,” Church said. Duke immediately responded in the second half. Just two minutes in, junior Kendall Bradley sent her first goal of the season past Clemson goalkeeper Paula Pritzen af-

ter beating two Tiger defenders. The goal was assisted by senior captain Elisabeth Redmond, giving her 10 assists on the year, the most in the ACC. “The girls made a collective commit-

ment to pick the pace up in the second half, and it really gave us some opportunities,” Church said. In the 70th minute, the Blue Devils ensured the win after junior Marybeth Kreger slotted a cross to the head of senior KayAnne Gummersall, who beat the Clemson goalkeeper from seven yards out. It was Gummersall’s team-leading eighth goal of the season. In addition to creating offensive opportunities, the Blue Devils defensively clamped down on Clemson star Maddy Elder, who has 10 goals on the season. Duke allowed Elder only two shots and harnessed the Tiger attack in the second half to keep the shutout. “Our defense did a great job of knowing where [Elder] was at all times, and it really limited her opportunities,” Church said. The shutout was Duke’s eighth of the season, and third straight against conference opponents. The Blue Devils’ second-half performance may prove a turning point for the season, propelling the young team into the NCAA tournament. After consecutive victories, Duke now will play two straight games at home, and will need to take points from both contests to make a strong argument for inclusion in the postseason. “We gave away a couple tough games earlier in the year, and we’ve got to win games now in order to get in,” Church said.

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Duke upset in Chapel Hill Nielsen, Ferger by Kyle Lambrecht The chronicle

A nearly unblemished conference DUKE 1 record and 3 a history UNC of recent success 3 DUKE against its NCSU 0 a r c h r i v a l weren’t

enough to get Duke a win in Chapel Hill Friday. The Blue Devils played at North Carolina Friday and at N.C. State Saturday, and Duke (17-4, 7-2 in the ACC) suffered a devastating 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Tar Heels (9-9, 5-2) in the first match of the weekend. “None of us expected this to happen,” head coach Jolene Nagel

said. “I feel like we were not quite in sync on Friday night. UNC was more aggressive and tenacious than us and we didn’t match them. It is a problem if you don’t match the aggressiveness and tenacity of your rival…or any team in the ACC for that matter. It results in a lower offensive production.” Duke did not have its best outing of the year. After falling in the first set 25-22, the Blue Devils rallied in the second set, winning 25-20 and tying the match at one. But the momentum in the Dean Dome shifted in North Carolina’s favor as the Tar Heels jumped out to a 15-6 lead after the break. Duke was never able to recover, falling 25-16 in the third and 2521 in the final set. Despite not playing to their full potential, the Blue Devils were statistically competitive with the Tar Heels. Duke posted only one less kill, one more block and one more assist. The Blue Devil offensive attack was led by junior middle blocker Becci Burling and sophomore outside hitter Sophia Dunworth. Dunworth posted 13 kills and Burling added 12, and the two combined for three

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Junior Becci Burling had 26 kills over the weekend as Duke split two ACC matches.

key 2 road wins by Alex Krinsky The chronicle

With the NCAA tournament in sight, the Blue Devils traveled to Virginia this past weekend and came away with two convincing wins over William and Mary and No. 20 Old Dominion. No. 15 Duke was determined to create scoring opportunities DUKE 4 for more players and succeeded as five different Blue Devils got on the scoresheet. W&M 1 “End-of-the-season performance is one of the criteria for the tournament, so it’s always DUKE 3 important,” head coach Beth Bozman said.

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Mary Nielsen (3, right) scored twice as Duke went 2-0 over the weekend in Virginia.

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In its first team tournament of the year, Duke managed to keep pace with some of the best teams in the country and finished in fifth place at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate in Jonesborough, Tenn. The Blue Devils finished the three-day event at 5-over par, eight strokes behind winner Tennessee. The ACC, well-represented at The Ridges Golf and Country Club, had teams finish third and fourth—Virginia and Virginia Tech ended up in those spots— along with Duke in the top five. Senior Adam Long and sophomore Wes Roach played the best golf of the weekend for the Blue Devils. Both finished the event tied for 16th on the individual leaderboard at even par. Long saved his best for last, shooting a 2-under 70 Sunday. Roach. meanwhile, opened up brightly Friday, carding a 4-under 68, but faltered Saturday with a 71 to fall off the individual pace. Roach was es-

pecially pleased with his play the first day. “Overall, I struck the ball really well and hit a lot of fairways and greens.” Roach said Friday. “The greens that I did miss I was able to get up and down to save par. Hopefully I can keep hitting the ball the way I did today and keep making some putts.” Freshmen Brinson Paolini and Julian Suri also did well in their first collegiate action. Suri played his best round Sunday with a score of 3-under, and Paolini finished at 3-over par for the tournament. Duke sat in fourth place at the end of Day One, but fell back to 11th after a tough stretch Saturday during the second round. The team recovered well on the final day of action, though, to vault back up the leaderboard to fifth. The Blue Devils hit the links this weekend in Greensboro, N.C. at the UNCG Brigestone Collegiate. Head coach Jamie Green was in charge at UNC-Greensboro before accepting the Duke job last year.

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Senior Adam Long shot even par as the Blue Devils finished fifth at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate.

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Nolan Smith entertained the crowd Friday with a retro outfit that featured Johnny Dawkins’s retired jersey.

Blue-White from page 1 if the season began this week, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Thursday. White dominated the Blue squad—which featured Andre Dawkins, Seth Curry, Ryan Kelly, Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek— on the way to a 40-17 victory. In the second half, White traded Smith, Miles Plumlee and Steve Johnson for Dawkins, Thomas and Kelly. Smith’s two free throws less than a second before time expired helped the guard secure a second victory on the night. “I was just being aggressive,” Smith said. “My teammates were looking for me and the coaches are looking for me to be aggressive, and I was being aggressive trying to get in the flow of the game. If you can get into a flow early then that gets you going for the rest of the game.” Following the scrimmage, Dawkins, Czyz, Smith and both Plumlees participated in a dunk contest, which was a real crowd pleaser. Fans participated by holding up pieces of papers with numbers between one and ten to rate the dunks and influnece the judges—Director of Athlet-

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ics Kevin White, women’s basketball head coach Joanne P. McCallie and former Duke great Jason Williams. The contest was narrated by Thomas and Scheyer from the sideline and gave competing players a chance to lighten up in front of the packed stadium. Smith made a playful tribute to former associate head coach Johnny Dawkins by wearing his number 24 jersey and a pair of thighlength shorts. But his antics weren’t quite enough to win the competition. A between-the-legs flush by Czyz— complete with an ingenious celebration in which the forward imitated revving the engine of a motorcycle—was enough for the Poland native to join Dawkins in the finals after two rounds. In the finals, a one-round, head-to-head matchup proved not to be enough when it resulted in a tie. When the two received perfect scores in sudden death, the judges declared the contest a tie. A number of Duke recruits attended the event, including Marshall Plumlee and verbal commits Joshua Hairston and Tyler Thornton. Marshall Plumlee is the youngest brother of Miles and Mason Plumlee.

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Libero Claire Smalzer had 25 digs against North Carolina, but the Blue Devils lost 3-1 to the Tar Heels Friday in Chapel Hill.

blocks. Junior libero Claire Smalzer led the Blue Devil defense, digging an impressive 25 balls. “They went all-out on defense,” Burling said. “They were digging our best shots and relentlessly pursuing our balls and it got frustrating not being able to get our kills. Plus we were playing in front of 16,000 people which definitely didn’t work to our advantage.” The Blue Devils rebounded Saturday night against NC State (716, 0-8), sweeping the Wolfpack 3-0. Duke was again led by Burling, who posted 13 kills with a hitting percentage of .400. Sophomore Kellie Catanach helped spread the

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“I think it’s important also from a psychological standpoint. We’ve known all season that we’re very young, but that we’re a talented team. We’ve come up short in a lot of games that could have gone either way, and I think what’s happening now is we’re really believing that we’re talented and we’ll win every game.” The Blue Devils’ confidence was evident Saturday against William and Mary (5-10) as they scored three goals in the first half. Junior Susan Ferger began the scoring with an unassisted goal after 11 minutes of play, while freshman Mary Nielsen notched the first of her two goals off a pass from senior Amie Survilla a few minutes later. Sophomore Jordan Miller tallied another score late in the first period and Nielsen added another goal in the second period. “We’ve been talking to people about a lot of the burden falling on Amie Survilla, and we really needed other people to step up and get more scoring opportunities,” Bozman said. “Today, Susan Ferger took more shots than Amie did and that was one of our goals. We can’t win these games with one attack player.” Duke (8-7) had a chance to avenge a loss earlier in the season against Old Dominion (6-10) Sunday. Once again the Blue Devils dominated every aspect of the game, outshooting the Lady Monarchs 16-4 and creating more penalty corners, one of which resulted in the first goal of the game from senior Lauren Miller. Ferger and Survilla each added another score later in the game. Ferger’s second goal of the weekend was her eighth score of the year, second on the team behind Survilla. “It shows the work ethic we have on the team. There’s not just one person who can come up and score every goal because not one person is going to be on every single game,” Miller said. Although Old Dominion sophomore Rachel Stream managed to score a goal late in the game, it wasn’t enough, as the Blue Devils won 3-1. “[Getting two wins] is always a good confidence builder and that’s something we’ve been needing since we haven’t had a 2-0 weekend since the first weekend,” Miller said.

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fromstaffreports Swimming and Diving defeats Seahawks Duke opened its season in the pool in style Saturday as both the men’s and women’s teams defeated UNC-Wilmington at Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion. The women won their meet easily, totaling 175 points to the Seahawks’ 120, while the men’s margin of victory was a bit smaller, 163-137. Two Blue Devil freshmen stood out on the men’s side: diver Nick McCrory and sprinter Ben Hwang. McRory set a new record in the 3-meter springboard competition, and Hwang won the 50 and 100 freestyle races. The women’s squad started slowly and fell behind the Seahawks early, but recovered for the comfortable victory. Diver Abby Johnson won the 1- and 3-meter competitions, and swimmer Ashley Twichell won two races to ensure the victory. “There was no question that I knew [UNCW’s] men would be really pumped and ready for this meet,” head coach Dan Colella said. “It’s been a good dual meet for the last several years and they definitely stepped it up from what we saw last year. They came to race today.” Women’s Cross Country wins again The Blue Devil women stayed undefeated on the season with a first-place finish at the Blue Ridge Open in Boone, N.C. Friday. On the men’s side, Duke finished fourth at the Panorama Farms Invitational hosted by No. 15 Virginia. The women’s squad took five of the top six spots in the the 5K in Boone to earn the team title. Carly Seymour won the race, Juliett Bottorff claimed second position and Mary Carleton Johnston took third.

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Keep the ‘Countdown’ coming Cameron Indoor Stadium organized a season kick-off was alive again Friday night event, although these efforts as Duke Athletics’ Count- have been inconsistent at best. down to Craziness started the In the past, Duke basketball 2009-2010 basketball season has hosted day-long festivals in with a bang. 1997 and 1999, editorial The event, “A.M. Mayhem” ostensibly modin 2003, and the eled as a response to Midnight “6th Man Night” in 2004. Madness at other Division Since then, however, the I-A basketball schools, was start of the season has been tailored to a Duke audience disappointingly quiet—until with a unique blend of both now. This time, we hope it’s sport and entertainment. In here for good. addition to the annual BlueEvents like Countdown to White Scrimmage, it also fea- Craziness serve several imtured a slam-dunk contest, portant functions. special guest appearances by In the past, Duke has Christian Laettner and Bobby lost top recruits like Greg Hurley and a live concert in Monroe to rival schools with Kryzyzewskiville. impressive season-opening This is not the first time programs. By no means will the Athletic Department has the event make or break a

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prospective player’s decision, but it does show off Duke’s team and school spirit, a factor that could play into their choice. Moreover, the publicity generated by such an event is positive exposure for the program and enticing to future recruits. Countdown to Craziness can also unite the student body and generate excitement for basketball. With a social scene that is fragmented, this type of event provides a fun and inclusive environment that caters to all segments of the student body. Performances by student groups like Duke University Improv, the Dancing Devils and DefMo along with a con-

cert organized in collaboration with the Duke University Union broadened the evening’s appeal. In doing so, Duke Basketball can reach out to students who would otherwise stay away from the games, and consequently expand their fan base. With student attendance at home games declining during the past five years, the evening has the potential to fill up the student section for games in the first half of the season—something that loosened tenting rules cannot accomplish. In addition, opening the event to the general public helps create enthusiasm for Duke Basketball in the Durham community and allows fans who

cannot afford the hefty regular season ticket price to get in on the action. On this note, however, it was disappointing to see seats in the upper levels of Cameron empty after undergraduates were turned away from a packed student section. In the future, the University should consider allowing students into these empty sections usually reserved for alumni in order to maximize attendance. All in all, Countdown to Craziness did an excellent job in conveying all that is unique and exciting about Duke Basketball—even before the first game of the season tipped off. For this reason, it should continue in years to come.

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t Mellow Mushroom in the American Tobacco Campus, half a deck of cards flies from the palm of a man’s hand to the inside of a card box across the table within a second. The cards inside are all the same color. At the Local 506 in Chapel Hill, a coin wrapped in a bundle of tissue sue li paper is lit on fire, outer spaces burning a hole through the deck of cards it is sitting on. The coin lands on the first in-tact card on the deck. It happens to be mine. At Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, I unwrap a new CD case to find a card stuck on the inside cover. My name is signed on it. Who knew that the Triangle was, literally, a magical place? When I first met Michael Casey, a magician from North Carolina, I was skeptical. A magician? I thought. Magic, like many other things from my childhood, like becoming a famous rock star or award-winning novelist, had died out and been replaced with prospects of the “real world,” of becoming the next big CEO or acing the LSAT. What I admire about Casey’s work, however, is that his performances are more than just slight of hand. As one of the most sought after magicians in the Triangle who has also performed at Duke, he makes people believe in magic again. I had the opportunity to interview Casey, who, as a local music aficionado that tours with his favorite bands, put me on the guest list for a show last weekend. He described magic as a way of breaking down people’s cynicism and defense mechanisms. His favorite people to put on a show for are the ones who don’t even like magic because of the opportunity to transform their paradigm of the world. “Your entire life since you were born you had a category to put everything in and if you didn’t, you made one,” he told me. “You have boxes and sub-boxes for everything. Magic happens when you show someone something that uses all their boxes. It gives you something you can’t put into a box.” Now, some of you may be thinking that

magic might be great and all, but so what? It’s not as prestigious as a profession as a doctor or a president—certainly not jobs that we go to Duke to get. A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate, Casey is the first person in his family to attend college. With a biology major, he works for a pharmaceutical research company by day and performs at night. Exerting as much confidence and influence as any executive of a major corporation, he turns the world of the vice president of PricewaterhouseCoopers, to whom he frequently presents his work, upside-down, even if it is for a few moments. His accomplishments prove success does not fit the form of the same box either. For seniors like me who are trying to figure out what to do with their lives, Casey’s story of how he decided to pursue magic reminds me that we must do what we love, which coincidentally, often is what we wanted to do when we were little. Even as a child, he had always loved magic but didn’t really trust his instincts until a major event changed his life. For the first time in his life, Casey was forced to fly on a plane, despite having a fear of flying and a horribly bad feeling about the trip. As the plane was about to land, instead of slowing down, the engines began to reverse and the plane shot up into the air at a 45-degree angle. Everyone in the plane was panicking, including Casey, who promised himself that from then on, he was going to trust his gut. “You know that song by Alanis Morrisette, ‘Ironic?’” he said. “I didn’t want myself to be a lyric in one of her songs.” (“He waited his whole damn life to take that flight/And as the plane crashed down he thought, ‘well, isn’t this nice.’”) Practicing hard in a little magic shop in Raleigh, Casey worked towards his goals. The owner of the shop had told him not to tell anyone that he had started just six months ago because he was already so good. Now supporting a family of his own, Casey is an example of a success story of someone who went after his dreams, however unconventional or farfetched they seemed. “It never dawned on me I could get paid to do this,” he told me. Casey inspires us to find what makes life magical for us and to pursue it. Sue Li is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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lettertotheeditor Peace panel misrepresented conflict In her Oct. 15 letter, “Peace panel presented both sides,” Joan Drake missed the point of my comment and the point of discourse in general. I was the “one member of the audience” who noted that while the panel claimed to be balanced because it had a Palestinian and an Israeli speaker, in reality it only presented one viewpoint. This was that the entire conflict is a result of Israeli occupation and that any Israeli grievances, such as with terrorism, are baseless. This panel was a disservice to the Duke community because it deprived us from an understanding of the complexity of the situation. Two people presenting the same opinion does not give you any greater understanding of an issue—even if they are from different places. It is the interaction of different ideas and opinions that makes discourse interesting, informative and productive. The panel’s model only stood in the way of the truth. For example, the Palestinian speaker said the Palestinian Liberation Organization was formed in 1967 and started carrying out terrorist attacks, such as hijackings, because no one would listen them. In fact, the PLO was formed in 1964, and the terrorist attacks started before any Israeli occupation. But there was no one on the panel from the other side to challenge her, and the audience would have lost this piece of knowledge if not for my questions. More significantly, the panel stood in the way of peace. I know that Palestinians have suffered a lot, but so have Israelis. Israel has faced terrorism from Palestinian groups since its inception, and continues

to today. Fundamentalist terrorist groups like Hamas are a major impediment to peace, but the panel never mentioned that. It would seem that if this panel truly wanted peace, they would acknowledge the very real hurt and concerns on both sides as valid, and seek to find reconciliation. Instead, they chose to tear down one side instead of building everybody up.

And, lest we forget, children, nonpartisan government officials can be ass-backwards, too. Like Keith Bardwell, the Louisiana Justice of the Peace who refused to marry an interracial couple last week, because he feared for the children. Don’t worry, though, he’s not a racist. And I quote: “I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell told the Associated Press. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom.” People just aren’t letting me think up my own material this week, children. They’re making inanity happen all alone. Even here at Dear Old Duke, jokes are writing themselves. A C-1 caught fire on East Campus, causing no injuries. According to Capt. Gary Paschall of the Durham Fire Department, “It happens every so often.” Actually, this is the second time a Duke bus has spontaneously combusted in three years, and based on the frequency with which I can find a bus when I desperately need one, I’d guess that’s two combustions for every five times a bus runs. Never afraid to chase a hot story, my compatriots at The Chronicle news office tweeted no less than nine times in about a half-hour after the fire erupted. This, in turn, forced commenters on the online version of The Chronicle to ask why staffers were wasting time on the fire instead of doing deeply investigative exposés about how evil Dick Brodhead is, and what their positions in the Brodhead administration were. Probing. Nathan Freeman finally ended the debate about Tailgate. Just thought you should know. And last, but certainly not least, the Duke University Medical Center, in all its glorious wisdom, increased the minimum age of visitors from 13 to 18. In keeping children away from their ailing parents, the Medical Center hopes to stem the spread of H1N1. I, for one, can’t see any flaw in the reasoning underpinning this policy. Teens are probably the only ones who can contract the swine flu, and they can’t conceivably spread it to someone who can get into the hospital. I’m sorry you can’t see your daddy in the hospital, children, but it’s just necessary. Charlotte Simmons thanks Nathan Freeman for ending the debate about Tailgate.

Connor Southard is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Monday.

Jeremy Siegel Trinity ’12 Enjoy Tailgate with less booze Nathan Freeman’s more than 300-word sentence describing Tailgate in his Oct. 16 column, “Go to Tailgate,” is telling of something everyone seems intent on ignoring. We should play hard—cathartic release is healthy, probably even necessary given the stress level of most students. The problem isn’t Tailgate. That aforementioned long sentence vividly describes a scene so utterly absurd it has to be fun. The problem is that we require alcohol to be that ridiculous, that free to live in the moment, that willing to do something without worrying what other people will think. The sad truth is that we Dukies are using booze as a crutch; too scared to put our sober selves out to be judged, we retreat into drunkenness to experience some semblance of freedom. Now that depressing fact has even me reaching for the bottle. Jeremy Walch Pratt ’11

From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department

hat did we learn from watching the news this week, children? Disney/Pixar’s “Up!” doesn’t work in real life! Well, yes, children. When a homemade UFO/ whatever-the-hell-thatthing-was took flight, it was not a heartwarming romp through the air. Rather, it was about half an hour of sheer terror as CNN held audiences in a zombie-like trance, under the false impresi am charlotte sion that a 6-year-old simmons named Falcon (you can’t monday, monday make this stuff up) was inside the darn thing, gliding 6,000 feet above the ground. He was actually hiding in his attic. But what else did we learn, children? Republicans refuse to stop being crazy! Now, now, children. It’s only the 30 out of 40 of them in the Senate who voted against Al Franken’s amendment to stop funding defense contractors who don’t let their employees sue the company if they’re raped by coworkers. Let me repeat: Thirty Republicans want rape victims, if they happen to work for a defense contractor, to be unable to sue their rapists. Anything to disagree with Al Franken, I guess. Let me put this in perspective for you, as Jon Stewart pointed out on “The Daily Show,” when ACORN gave seedy advice (Get it? Seedy? ACORN? Get it?) to two conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp, only six of the Senate’s 58 Democrats voted to allow continued funding of ACORN. Helping prostitutes = defunding. In their defense, it is the minority party’s job to say “No!” to everything. So, in that sense, it is petty politicking on the part of Sen. Franken to introduce an anti-rape amendment when Republicans are in the minority. And look what the majority party has done this week. The Alabama Democratic Party appointed Reynolds Smith to a local party panel, which wouldn’t normally be noteworthy, but Smith died almost a year ago. Just giving support to the right-wing claim that the American left is dying.

appily, it is difficult to generalize too widely about “Duke students”—all 6,000 or so undergraduates at this University are not somehow knowable as one blue-clad mass. But there is one thing that isn’t really up for debate: Around here, we tend to think a lot about grades Which is often talked about as if it were a problem. Is it a problem? And is it solvable? I may have this all wrong, but here are my thoughts. connor southard It seems that there are dead poet some relatively unimpressive reasons for our concern about our grades. In many cases, Blue Devils have grown up as prototypical achievers and competitors, hungrily seeking validation and definable success—I’ve been there. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with receiving plaudits from teachers, friends and parents, it would be a mistake to live one’s life devoted entirely to approval. I’m sure you already know this, but if you don’t, watch “The Good Shepherd”: It will be one of the few times you’ll be really happy not to be Matt Damon. But there’s also a damn good reason for caring about one’s grades: they can actually, you know, affect stuff. You may not like it but, by gum, you know it: the grades you receive here will help determine the sort of employment you can obtain after college, the graduate schools you can attend, even—as in the case of pre-medical students—what type of profession you’ll be able to pursue. If you want to be a Rhodes Scholar like William Jefferson Clinton or Kris Kristofferson (for real—Google it), you’ll need the grades to back up your big talk, bub. So, for any number of understandable (if occasionally immature) reasons, we often place grades at the top of our worry list. This prioritization may well be a bit of a problem, or at least it has the potential to be. Bah! “Potential”?, you say. Students place so much value on grades these days, and prioritize them so highly, that it’s nearly impossible to prevent concerns about grades from getting in the way of actual learning! We’ve got a grade-grubbing culture that rewards the hyperpragmatic pursuit of A’s. At a University with a strong liberal arts vein, we should be seeking to create erudite minds capable of thinking beyond the final letter that pops up on ACES when the semester ends. It’s a disaster! I don’t know who you are, but you make some compelling points, Mr. Straw Man. It is indeed possible for students to idolize grades to the point where anxiety about GPA becomes an obstacle to intellectual growth. As Mark Twain would have it, we risk making the mistake of letting “schooling” get in the way of education. Ok, full disclosure: At times, I have obsessed about grades. At such moments, I would have been willing to sacrifice not only learning but quite possibly my little finger to get an “A” in a class about which I was worried. Forgive me, Mark, for I have sinned. My mistake was, not surprisingly, one of immaturity. When those hazes have come over me, the fault has been my own: I just couldn’t let go of my immature need to be fully validated by… everyone and everything. It was a disaster, Mr. Straw Man, but it was a disaster of my own making. I was guilty of letting grades stop functioning as a tool—a means to an end. I failed to confidently set my own agenda. Instead, I foolishly let grades become an end unto themselves. That is to say, if I’ve made it my life-goal to be a Rhodes Scholar (I have not), then yeah, grades will be significant, and I should treat them as what they are: an important means towards my chosen end. Fine. But, if I want to work as a shepherd on an alpaca ranch (this sounds more like the real me), then that’s my prerogative, and grades are less an important means to getting there than, say, learning how to speak various Inca dialects. There’s a vast middle ground between scholar and rancher, but you get the idea. There is no commissar hovering over us demanding that we worry too much about grades, or that we allow them to be anything other than one part of our complex educational experience. Grades exist, they serve a purpose and they can be valuable. But, they can nefariously take hold in our minds as something more than what they are—an imperfect method of assessment that imperfectly attempts to describe some of our actions. And if we ascribe more significance to them than they deserve, then we lose. Happily, we can’t be beaten by anyone but ourselves.

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Discounts for Duke students and staff

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