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You may have read recently that Duke is the 27th most expensive college in the U.S. But what you read was probably inaccurate.

Every year, several publications release lists of the nation’s most expensive colleges to compare the costs of schools across the country. But these publications often have difficulty finding a common metric to use for their cost comparisons.

This year, CampusGrotto.com’s “100 Most Expensive Colleges” list shows flaws in its information as a result of neglected data.

The list, titled “Colleges with the Highest Total Cost 2009-10,” compiles its rankings by calculating each college’s total for tuition, room and board, according to the CampusGrotto Web site.

These calculations misrepresent schools that publicly report fees—such as health insurance and student services costs—as part of their tuition prices.

Currently, CampusGrotto reports Duke’s total cost as $50,250 annually. A note at the end of the rankings states that

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Duke travels to Charlottesville, Va. Saturday to face Virginia with a chance to improve to 3-1 in conference play. The Blue Devils defeated the Cavaliers 31-3 at Wallace Wade Stadium last season.

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This basketball season, securing a coveted spot at the Duke-UNC game may involve more than tenting in Krzyzewskiville.

Changes to tenting regulations and a range of other new proposals affecting Cameron Indoor Stadium’s student section—including the introduction of a “Greek Night”—have recently sparked debate among undergraduates.

In a town hall meeting Sunday, Head Line Monitor Zach White, a senior, considered various proposals to determine the best way to sequence tents in K-ville.

White said this year, University administrators will ban pre-blue tenting over Winter Break. Instead, White proposed that tent ordering could be based on a group’s performance in various competitions.

These events will vary widely, ranging from basketball trivia to designing creative signs and engaging in athletic contests.

In past years, Cameron Indoor Stadium’s craziest have pitched tents as early as Christmas to secure prime realty for the Spring game against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

At Sunday’s forum, several students raised concerns regarding the proposal’s See k-ville on page 6

UNC’s online Spanish courses mediate budget woes

by Matthew Chase The chronicle

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Students at a variety of schools, including UNC, are beginning to take online hybrid courses, which are a combination of Internet lectures and in-person office hours with the professor.

Every week, UNC freshman Zealan Hoover stares at his computer for one of his Spanish 101 sections.

He is not on Facebook. He is not on Twitter. In fact, he is doing what he is supposed to do, as Hoover’s Elementary Spanish 1 course is taught partially online. As part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s hybrid program for Spanish 101 students, every week, Hoover attends one Spanish lecture, a small group session and then conducts the rest of his Spanish coursework on his computer.

“The online aspect of it, I have to admit, leaves a lot to be desired,” Hoover said. “It’s a lot of tedious busywork.”

Next semester, many other Tar Heels will be doing the same—but even more often than Hoover. As part of a move to avoid larger class sizes, all of UNC’s beginning Spanish courses will be conducted entirely online.

Bruce Carney, UNC interim executive vice chancellor and provost, wrote in an e-mail that the decision to make the course online was largely because of class size limitations. Enrollment in UNC Spanish courses increased 9 percent from Fall 2008 to Fall 2009, he said.

The decision also comes partially because of UNC’s recent budget cuts, which have forced the university to cancel about 200 classes this year, The Daily Tar Heel reported Aug. 28.

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Larry King, chair and director of undergraduate studies of romance languages at UNC, wrote in an e-mail that the romance languages department is cutting its budget by 7 percent this year. He added that money saved from running the hybrid program­—the combination of online and classroom coursework that Hoover is taking—for the past three years has helped offset that cut.

Hosun Kim, director of the UNC Foreign Language Resource Center and a Spanish 101 professor, said students in the online program will watch instructional videos, complete online assignments and work with assigned partners to develop Spanish skills. The students will also attend mandatory weekly office hours with their professor to receive “tips about Spanish language and culture.”

As a part of the hybrid program, Hoover said he is required to complete 15 to 20 online exercises a week, which range from fill-in-the-blank questions to sentence prompts.

Hoover said the hybrid course is a good solution to some of the university’s space and budget issues, but his thoughts on the completely online course model differ.

“It’s kind of funny because the school is constantly

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi reveals Murder case comes to end $894B health care package LOS ANGELES — Travion Ford, a former usher at University of Southern California football games, was sentenced Thursday to 16 years to life in state prison for the fatal stabbing of a USC film student last year in a dispute sparked by the clang of a slammed gate at an apartment complex near the university.

The sentencing of Ford, 25, for seconddegree murder came after emotional statements from relatives and friends of victim Bryan Frost, 23, a West Point cadet from Idaho who had transferred to USC to study economics and then film.

Ford also spoke briefly in court in a voice barely above a whisper, insisting that he is not a murderer and did not start the brawl. “If I could have avoided it, I would have,” he said.

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WASHINGTON — After six months of dealmaking, Democratic leaders introduced Thursday a health care reform bill that would expand coverage to almost all Americans and overhaul the insurance industry, while asking the wealthiest taxpayers to pay much of the tab.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California announced the 10-year $894 billion package on the Capitol steps, surrounded

by Democrats from all factions of her diverse caucus. “Leaders of all political parties starting over a century ago with President Theodore Roosevelt, have called and fought for health care reform and health insurance reform,” Pelosi said. “Today we are about to deliver on the promise.”

The House bill is similar to its Senate counterpart, although a handful of key differences could make for protracted negotiations later this year.

WASHINGTON — Iran Thursday appeared to reject a key element of a U.N.backed proposal aimed at quickly reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium, offering an informal, oral counter-offer that diplomats said fell far short of a tentative deal reached earlier this month.

Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the Iranian ambassador to the U.N. agency that the Iranian counter-offer, as structured, would not be acceptable to Russia, France and the United States—the other parties to the arrangement—and urged him to get more clarification from his government.

Diplomats said they hope a formal, written answer from Iran will be delivered as early as Friday.

The long-awaited Iranian answer appeared to dash hopes that Iran would be

willing to quickly embrace engagement with the West on its nuclear program. Not only did Tehran appear to reject a central element of the proposed agreement, it also has refused to commit to another high-level diplomatic meeting to discuss the program.

President Barack Obama’s administration officials will now need to assess whether the engagement gambit has begun to run its course—and whether to shift toward pressing for tougher sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

In a statement, the IAEA said that ElBaradei “has received an initial response from the Iranian authorities” and that he “is engaged in consultations with the government of Iran as well as all relevant parties, with the hope that agreement on his proposal can be reached soon.” The agency provided no other details.

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Some of the hardest battles of Operation Iraqi Freedom were fought in Washington, D.C., Meghan O’Sullivan noted in her speech at the Sanford School of Public Policy Thursday night.

“I’m sitting in my little tin foil trailer getting shelled saying, ‘Thank God I’m not in Washington,’” the former deputy national security adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan said during her speech titled “The Future of Iraq and Afghanistan.”

The quote was made in reference to the high pressure politicians and policymakers in Washington, D.C. faced during the period of increased violence that followed the institution of the surge in Iraq. The Harvard University professor of international affairs drew on her experiences both working on the frontlines in Iraq and conducting a strategic policy review of the conflict to explain the policymaking process and extend the lessons learned from Iraq to the current battles in Afghanistan.

The lecture, part of Duke’s American Grand Strategy Program series, was widely attended by undergraduates in Peter Feaver’s PolSci 93D: International Relations. As part of the National Security Council, Feaver, Alexander F. Hehmeyer professor of political science, helped conduct the 2006 policy review with O’Sullivan. Graduate students, former foreign policy workers and citizens of Durham were also present.

O’Sullivan explained that members of the 2006 review assessed politicians’ assumptions about the conflict in Iraq and then attempted to revise the viewpoints to be in line with the political realities. She credited Feaver with helping bring about the decision to take this approach.

O’Sullivan noted that many believed when the review was conducted that political advances in Iraq would lead to sectarian gains. But the review demonstrated that below a certain level of security, people were unable to focus their energy on their political future. While trying to form the al-Maliki government in the spring of 2006, O’Sullivan and her colleagues wanted to discuss Iraq’s political future, but they could not get residents to stay on this topic for long.

“Every time we would get to a political issue, we would

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Meghan O’Sullivan, former deputy national security adviser, speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan in the Sanford School of Public Policy Thursday night. be interrupted—someone would run in, someone had been assassinated, there had been a bomb that had gone off,” she said. “There was always something in the security environment that would derail the political conversation.”

Another false perception in 2006 was that resistance to foreign occupation was the main security problem in Iraq.

The review board affirmed, however, that by 2006, the biggest issue was a sectarian war.

The final assumption O’Sullivan discussed was the idea that because it was their country, Iraqis would be able to institute new policies better than Americans. O’Sullivan said that because many Iraqi forces were involved in the See o’sullivan on page 7

A Duke police officer arrested this week on rape and sodomy charges in Dothan, Ala. was declared indigent Wednesday.

District Court Judge John Steensland appointed Dothan attorney Valerie Judah to represent Webster Simmons, the Dothan Eagle reported Wednesday.

Simmons, 37 and a patrol officer at the Duke University Police Department, was arrested Monday for allegedly assaulting a 34-year-old woman early Saturday morning after they left a night club together.

Simmons is on paid leave from DUPD and is being held in the Houston County jail in Alabama on $120,000 bond, but told Steensland he had been terminated and could not afford to hire an attorney, according to the Dothan Eagle.

“I received a letter from my employer that I was terminated,” Simmons told Steensland. “I have nothing. I own nothing, zero zilch.”

The woman and Simmons knew each other, Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes said Tuesday, adding that the woman may have been drugged.

Police say an attack took place while the woman was unconscious inside Simmons’ vehicle, where the woman woke up handcuffed and gagged during the alleged assault, but became unconscious again.

Samples of the woman’s blood and ties used in the alleged assault have been sent to labs to test for DNA evidence.

Chief John Dailey of the Duke University Police Department said Tuesday that although there is no evidence of misbehavior, DUPD will open a routine investigation into Simmons’ conduct at Duke.

—from staff reports

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Clinton lectures Pakistan on al Qaeda

by Paul Richter Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visiting Pakistan on a fence-mending tour, turned unusually blunt Thursday, accusing the government of failing to do all it could to track down al Qaeda.

Clinton told a group of journalists in Lahore that she found it “hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to.” Al Qaeda, she said, “has had a safe haven in Pakistan since 2002.”

Clinton’s three-day visit is her first to Pakistan since she became secretary of State, and its principal goal is to improve strained relations. On the first day of her visit, in Islamabad, she declared that she wanted to “turn a page” in the U.S.-Pakistani relationship.

But on the second day of her visit, frustrations seemed to surface as Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York, confronted longstanding strains between the two countries.

Discussing al Qaeda, she raised the issue of Pakistan’s powerful military intelligence arm, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, which has been accused of secretly supporting militant groups in Afghanistan.

“There are issues that, not just the U.S., but others have with your government and with your military security establishment,” she said.

Her comments came on a day when she took questions from students at Government College University in Lahore who made clear that they are deeply suspicious of U.S. intentions in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Speaking to a group of business executives, Clinton also criticized Pakistan for its low rate of tax collection, which reflects rampant tax evasion and, critics say, undermines the country’s efforts to address poverty.

“At the risk of sounding undiplomatic, Pakistan has to have internal investment in your public services and your business opportunities,” she told a group of businessmen. The U.S. government taxes “everything that moves and everything that doesn’t, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan.”

The U.S.-Pakistani relationship has recently been

under strain. Many Pakistanis believe U.S. drone strikes in the western tribal areas are an infringement of Pakistani sovereignty, and there has been an outcry over legislation providing $7.5 billion in new U.S. aid, which many Pakistanis believe represents American meddling in their government.

A U.S. official said Clinton’s comments about al Qaeda were not part of a prepared message that she had intended to deliver, but reflected her own heartfelt views.

“She has very deeply held views about al Qaeda,” said the official, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject. “You’ve got to remember, she was a senator from New York on 9/11.”

Daniel Markey, of the Council on Foreign Relations, said he was surprised that Clinton would raise issues of Pakistan’s efforts on al- Qaeda, given the current fragility of the civilian government.

“It seems like an odd time to come in and send this one across the bow,” said Markey, who is a former State Department official, and just returned from a trip to Pakistan. “It’s a little bit surprising.”

Clinton’s comments on al Qaeda may arouse sensitivities, since the Pakistani army is currently engaged in a ground offensive in the militant haven of South Waziristan, begun after strong urging of the United States.

A Pakistani official predicted that Clinton’s comments would make some people in Pakistan angry, “some perhaps violently so.” But he said that in his own view, Clinton’s candor was a sign that the relationship is maturing.

Clinton has earned a reputation for sometimes speaking with candor more closely associated with senators than chief diplomats.

On her first trip to Asia early this year, she upset human rights advocates by declaring that China’s intransigence on human rights should not impact the Washington-Beijing relationship on other issues.

Last spring, when insurgents invaded Pakistan’s Swat Valley and appeared headed for the capital of Islamabad, she bluntly warned the country’s leadership that they might be risking the country’s existence by failing to act against the insurgents.

ONLINE courses from page 1 talking about how they’re cutting costs, they’re saving money, but they’re not compromising academics,” Hoover said. “And this just seems to flatly contradict that, so it’s a little disappointing.”

But Kim said the Spanish department is focused on academics. He noted that the department started preparing for the online version of the course three years ago, when the university was not facing budget difficulties.

“We are not doing this just to save money,” Kim said.

“The most important concern that we have is student learning.”

He added that the hybrid program has been largely successful—hybrid students outperformed their peers in traditional courses in the reading and writing components, but there was a decrease in hybrid students’ oral scores.

Although traditional students’ oral scores averaged 83.5 percent, the students in the hybrid version averaged 81.1 percent.

Amy Wentworth, a lecturing fellow in Spanish at Duke, said she is “old-fashioned” and prefers face-to-face interactions between professors and students.

“If the students are just sitting there listening to the teacher or just sitting there watching the video, they’re not performing,” she said. “It is so important to actually do something, to perform, to take something on as one’s own, to claim it. Basically, even in Spanish 1, a student has to claim Spanish as their own.”

Duke junior Wes Norris, who is enrolled in Spanish 1, said taking beginner Spanish online would make the course appealing to students just looking to fill their schedules.

“I think that would be blatantly retarded,” Norris said.

“If you’re doing it entirely online, you’re going to have no interaction with people, and the entire purpose of language is to interact with people.”

The reasons for the creation of online courses go beyond mere budget cuts, but Hoover said that if UNC wants to save money, it can do so through other means. For example, UNC students are required to take a lifetime fitness course, which Hoover said could easily go online.

Duke plans to cut its operating budget by $125 million over the next three years, but administrators said the University has no plans to move any of its courses online.

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Campus Council is searching for common ground on the common area issue.

At their meeting Thursday night, members discussed how to define common area ownership. Various students presented their perspectives, but they could only agree that they needed to reach a compromise.

“There is a venue for members of selective groups or Greek organizations to voice complaints, but there isn’t one for independents,” said President Stephen Temple, a junior. “So it is important for Campus Council to take that into account, and we did a good job of that today.”

Sophomore Bowen Niu, a representative of Keohane Quadrangle, said defining common space ownership is difficult because there is no real solution.

“There is no way to make everyone happy,” he said. “There just isn’t enough space.”

Members considered different common area scenarios, including the possibility of separating adjacent common rooms into unaffiliated and affiliated areas and determining how to assign a common room that is adjacent to two different groups.

“I think that common rooms that are in affiliated sections are used more often than common rooms in independent sections,” said senior Tracy Gold, a Mirecourt representative who was invited to participate in the discussion.

Gold said that although independents have equal opportunities to use common rooms, selective living groups or fraternities are likely to use them for organized, large-scale events.

She added that this situation may cause independents to feel uncomfortable.

“It becomes a hard situation because you don’t want to disenfranchise the independents,” she said.

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“I think in the case where there is an independent on the border with a selective group, there is not a good case to be made for sole ownership by a selective group,” said senior Sean Puneky, Campus Council treasurer.

He added that it is difficult to judge the claim that selective groups make better use of common rooms.

“An independent has just as much right to study alone or watch TV in a room as a selective group has to have an event in a room,” Puneky said. “No one should have priority over another.”

Members also raised concerns about the voice of independents, which member Joshua Wohl, a senior, called the “silent majority.”

Some council members felt that this problem was a bigger campus culture issue tied to Greek life and selective living groups.

“As we’re looking at the shuffle, we need to look at having more groups that are not selective, whether they be random or assigned,” Gold said. “Having a sense of community is really important.”

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Many of Kryzyzewskiville’s policies have been updated and added for the upcoming tenting season, including a Greek Night, where fraternities and sororities will receive guaranteed seating. This has stirred debate among students.

effectiveness. “[K-ville] is the one spot on campus where we’re not competing with our brains,” junior Edwin Coleman said.

By adding intelligence contests to basketball season, tenting would become just another academic competition, he added.

Senior John Burton voiced similar objections to the program. He said it would be extremely difficult to distinguish “true crazies” from those who simply studied the night before. Inevitably, students who crammed a day in advance might outperform the more dedicated fans, whose knowledge grew naturally because of their growing commitment to the team, Burton added.

In response to such concerns, White suggested reverting to more traditional methods for sequencing tents.

Starting Jan. 24, groups who feel the need to secure the best spots at the Duke-UNC game may participate in a very difficult week of tenting. During “hell week,” White said all 12 members of a group may be required to sleep outside— without tents.

For the majority of students, however, tenting will begin Jan. 30.

Duke Student Government approved the new start date in a unanimous vote Wednesday night. The governing body also approved reducing the number of students required to sleep in a tent each night from eight to six. Additionally, tenters will see later hours for “curfew” Thursday through Saturday nights and an increase in the minimum temperature required for students to be freed from tenting duties—an increase from 20 to 25 degrees.

Tenting regulations aside, line monitors and basketball officials have discussed other ways to promote attendance, such as instituting theme nights.

Associate Head Basketball Coach Steve Wojciechowski said in an interview that the basketball program has discussed the proposal with a number of student groups.

“We want [Cameron] to be a place where everyone in the Duke community comes together, whatever their title or affiliation,” Wojciechowski said.

The first theme night, Greek Night, is slated to take place Nov. 13, which is a home game against UNCGreensboro. Like the current practice of Senior Night, Greek Night would involve giving priority seating to students in the themed group—in this case, a fraternity or sorority. After the first 300 “die-hard” fans enter, regardless of greek affiliation, White said greek students would be admitted to the stadium. Afterward, the remaining stadium seats would be filled by all other students.

Greek Night’s proposal for the first home game has proven especially controversial for some students.

Wojciechowski said he has met with several fraternities and noted that other members of the basketball program have spoken to sororities.

“Over the course of the school year and the season, we are going to meet with as many [groups] as we can,” he said.

Some students, however, said Greek Night actually deters independents, freshmen and other groups from attending the games.

“Why should [greeks] be guaranteed seating at the game?” said Kelvin Gu, a junior and an independent. “I don’t see why they are any different from anyone else.”

Sophomore Tom Burr, also an independent, voiced similar concerns about Greek Night.

“First of all, we need to call it what it really is—privileged white kid night,” he said. “Too many times you go to game nights and you see sorority girls asking who the players are and leaving at half time, so it doesn’t really matter whether Greek Night increases attendance or not.”

Sophomore Pete Schork, DSG vice president for athletics and campus services, said the basketball department is working in students’ best interest by attracting greeks. If done properly, Greek Night will not exclude independents because they will be allowed to enter the stadium before and after greek students, Schork added.

In addition, Schorck said the department is targeting groups that have been “almost excluded” from basketball season. He noted that rush and pledging directly coincide with basketball season, and students sometimes pass up tenting to honor these commitments.

On at least one proposal at Sunday’s forum, however, approval was unanimous. Line monitors and basketball officials discussed sponsoring a kick-off party Jan. 30 to signal the start of the tenting season. Following the day’s events, the celebration would take place in K-ville after dark.

“It’s going to be one epic night,” White said.

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campusgrotto from page 1 CampusGrotto did not include fees in its calculations.

If calculated without fees, Duke tuition is $37,485, according to Bursar statements. Duke’s financial aid Web site estimates a total of $11,170 for room and board, bringing the University’s total cost to $48,655. This would place Duke at No. 73 on CampusGrotto’s current list, not No. 27.

CampusGrotto is not the only publication that is inconsistent in tuition reporting.

Last year, BusinessWeek posted its “50 Most Expensive Colleges Slideshow,” which featured a list of colleges ranked in order of cost, calculated by adding tuition, selected fees and room and board for the 2008-2009 academic year. But BusinessWeek did not clarify which fees it included in each college’s total.

Alison Damast, a staff writer for BusinessWeek, said the information for the slideshow was gathered and put together by interns. Duke was not included in BusinessWeek’s slideshow.

“The data on fees was data we got from The Chronicle of Higher Education. We got the information from their Web site,” Damast said. “I don’t think we distinguished fees.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education gathered its data in a similar way.

“The College Board produced and controls [this] data,” said Jeffrey Brainard, manager of editorial research for The Chronicle of Higher Education. “The Chronicle provides [this] data in an online table.”

Despite the lists’ inconsistencies, Christoph Guttentag, dean of Duke’s undergraduate admissions, said the lists only play a small role in where students choose to apply.

“My take on this is that nobody thinks that the most selective private colleges and universities are cheap,” Guttentag said. “It irks me when the actual cost of an institution is misrepresented by this list. It’s either lazy or disingenuous on the part of the people putting together the list or it’s disingenuous on the part of the people providing the information.”

Regardless of its place on any list, Duke can take pride in its honesty, Guttentag added.

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“People play it really straight at Duke,” he said. “When we make information about admissions or cost public, we don’t try to present ourselves as something other than we are.”

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“In giving [the Iraqis] responsibility, we were fueling the problem as well,” O’Sullivan said.

The 2006 policy review of Iraq culminated in the surge strategy. O’Sullivan added that many questioned the decision to implement the surge. An audience member asked O’Sullivan how she can be sure that the surge was the best choice given that it is impossible to know how effective other options would have been.

O’Sullivan responded that she does not necessarily think a surge should be implemented in Afghanistan, but the practice of analyzing and reshaping assumptions should be upheld.

Applying lessons learned from Iraq to Afghanistan, O’Sullivan said the U.S. should consider strategy above resources and then revise strategy according to the resources available, rather than allowing resources to shape strategy.

She also stressed patience.

“I’m sitting in my little tin foil trailer getting shelled saying, ‘Thank God I’m not in Washington.’”

— Meghan O’Sullivan, former deputy national security adviser It is important for Duke students to participate in discussions surrounding Iraq and Afghanistan, O’Sullivan said, because professors such as herself and Feaver who have foreign policy experience “can help share what [they] learned in that environment with [students] at this stage in their development [to] hopefully make them more successful and more effective in their careers.”

As for sophomore Philippe Clary, a public policy major, O’Sullivan sold him on her approach.

“Ultimately, her explanations of why the surge was necessary, how it worked and the results of the surge made me more in favor of the surge,” Clary said.

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Thaddeus Lewis called this weekend’s matchup against Virginia at Scott Stadium a clash of the titans.

Vincent Rey said it will be a dogfight.

And head coach David Cutcliffe said it will be the most physical, hard-hitting game his team will play all season.

But it’s also a chance for Duke (4-3, 2-1 in the ACC) to grab one of the three victories it needs to play in a bowl game. And to do so, it must get past a Cavalier squad that has won three of its past four games employing a defense that likes to pummel its opponents.

“They are loaded for big hits,” Cutcliffe said. “They pushed us around last year and they bullied us pretty good.”

Virginia (3-4, 2-1) dominated Duke defensively last year, keeping the game tied 3-3 going into halftime. But the Blue Devils’ defense was even more suffocating, forcing four second-half turnovers en route to a 31-3 win and Duke’s first conference victory since 2004.

Lewis said a fast start would be crucial for Duke’s chances Saturday, as it could give the Blue Devils a mental edge over the Cavaliers.

“If we go in and make a statement early, that’ll bring memories back of, ‘This team did beat us last year,’” Lewis said. “It won’t be easy, but it is doable.”

But it is Virginia’s defense that will make that task so difficult. The Cavaliers employ a 3-4 defense that will cut off many of Lewis’ passing lanes and force the Blue Devils to run the ball to be successful. Further complicating the issue for Duke’s offense is senior nose tackle Nate Collins, whom Cutcliffe said has a future in the NFL. Collins won last week’s ACC CoDefensive Player of the Week award along with Rey for a 16-tackle performance against Georgia Tech.

Lewis said Virginia will drop back as many as eight defenders to flood the field and make it difficult to find passing lines. Cutcliffe said the Blue Devils have yet to see a defense like Virginia’s 3-4 scheme that relies heavily on zone blitzes.

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Although Duke’s offense has been hugely successful of late, Virginia’s physical defense and its unique scheme could give Thaddeus Lewis trouble.

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Duke hosts Hokies in ACC match

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No. 16 Duke got a pleasant break from its typically challenging ACC schedule Wednesday when it whipped overmatched Presbyterian Va Tech in a leisurely stroll of vs. a soccer game.

No. 16 Saturday, Virginia Duke Tech is sure to provide a tougher test than did SATURDAY, 7 p.m. the Blue Hose.

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Andrew Wenger and Duke could be tested by a feisty Hokie squad Saturday.

All it takes is a few minutes in Cameron Indoor Stadium to see that Duke is an offensive BC powerhouse. vs.

Play after play, the Blue DevDuke ils (19-4, 9-2 in the ACC) hit FRIDAY, 7 p.m. hard balls that rattle their opponents and get fans up on UMD their feet. vs.

What is often missed by Duke spectators is SATURDAY, 7 p.m. Duke’s strong defensive play Cameron Indoor Stadium and its unique

ability to consistently block opponents and dig balls from even the most uncomfortable positions.

Last weekend, Duke faced Clemson and Georgia Tech—the latter tied with Duke in the ACC standings—in away contests. The Tigers walked on to the court averaging a .259 hitting percentage but only eked out a mere .151 percentage against the Blue Devils. Duke had a combined 17 digs to match 17 team blocks provided by middle blockers Becci Burling, Christiana Gray and Amanda Robertson.

“The block is the first chance to play defense,” Gray said. “So I am out there trying to get touches on balls. But at the same time, See blocking on page 9

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blocking from page 8 I know that if I don’t get a touch, I’m confident that our back row will be able to pick something else.”

After defeating Clemson, Duke’s defense continued strong with Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets came into the match ranked among the top two teams in the ACC in kills and assists. Yet despite Georgia Tech’s previous hit success, it couldn’t stand up to a combined 30 digs from defensive specialist Nailah Waterfield and Claire Smalzer. Burling and Gray had five blocks each to take away a critical aspect of the Yellow Jackets’ game.

“The defense last weekend was definitely a communal effort,” Smalzer said. “Our block was setting up a strong front and helping out defense set up around it. It made it really easy for us when we took away the power shot just to let everyone dig around and I think that everyone did well with that.”

Smalzer plays libero for the Blue Devils.

The libero is a unique position and is reserved for a player who specializes in defensive skills.

The junior has proven to be an essential part of Duke’s defensive strategy and sits among the ACC’s best passers with 258 digs this season and 3.79 passes per game. Although Smalzer fills the position with a consistency that marks an experienced player, she came into the position fairly recently.

“Last year was my first year playing libero,” Smalzer said. “It was a big transition not hitting, but defense is equally as important as of-

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Freshman middle blocker Christiana Gray (left) and junior libero Claire Smalzer (right) have helped make Duke’s blocking unit one of the most effective in the ACC. fense. I think it’s more fun to take a big point away from the other team by digging up a hard hit ball versus hitting the ball yourself.

Smalzer and the Blue Devils have another opportunity to take big points away from opponents this weekend in two home contests against Boston College (11-11, 1-10) and Maryland (11-13, 3-8). Although

the Eagles and the Terrapins are ranked among the worst teams in the ACC, Duke knows that it must continue its high level of intensity and play.

“It’s important that we continue to take every team in the ACC seriously,” setter Alex Sall said. “It’s going to be another year where the first place team could have more

than one loss and it’s important that we always come in to play.”

The Blue Devils play Boston College Friday at 7 p.m. and face Maryland Saturday at the same time. Along with the many kills that are expected from some of the conference’s top hitters, Duke expects yet another showing for its strong defensive unit.

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m. soccer from page 8 the line. With three wins in conference, Duke (11-4-0, 3-3-0 in the ACC) has nine points, which puts the team in a three-way tie for fourth place. Virginia Tech comes in second from the bottom in the standings with just six points, but a Hokie win Saturday would put the two teams in a tie near the foot of the table, a situation Duke is eager to avoid.

Depending on goal differential, the Blue Devils could conceivably fall below the Hokies with just a single conference game remaining before the ACC tournament begins in Cary, N.C. in early November.

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Ryan Finley and the Blue Devil forward line hope to break through Saturday against Virginia Tech.

“If we don’t win the game on Saturday, they can leapfrog us in the ACC standings, and that’s something we don’t want to happen,” head coach John Kerr said. “If we do win, we have a chance to be in third place in the standings. It’s all very close, so we want to make sure we’re on the right side of the scoreline Saturday night.”

Virginia Tech (5-9-2, 2-4-0) has struggled this season both in and out of conference, but the Hokies enter the contest with Duke just as the Blue Devils do, having just beaten a low-level team comfortably. What Duke did Wednesday to Presbyterian, Virginia Tech did to Longwood in a 5-1 win the night before.

More interesting, though, is the Hokies’ 1-0 win over Davidson Oct. 20. Just days after beating then-No. 2 Maryland Oct. 2, Duke played the Wildcats on the road and got beaten badly, losing 4-1. Virginia Tech also beat N.C. State, which defeated Duke earlier this season.

Although the Blue Devil players aren’t thinking about this week’s game in terms of the loss to Davidson, they do realize its magnitude looking ahead to the postseason.

“We definitely need to win and that way stay high in the RPI,” freshman Andrew Wenger said Wednesday.

To continue its four-game winning streak, Duke will turn to a balanced scoring attack that it has relied on all year. Freshman Ryan Finley and junior Cole Grossman lead the team with a combined 16 goals, but nine other players have also scored.

The Blue Devil defense should be able to handle a Virginia Tech offense that has struggled this year, as no player on the team has scored even five goals.

But Duke has already lost to teams it thinks it should have beaten this year, and expects that streak to end on Halloween against the Hokies.

Danny Vinik contributed reporting to this story.

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Junior midfielder Cole Grossman leads the Blue Devils in points this season with seven goals and nine assists.

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In their last regular-season game of the year, the 13thranked Blue Devils travel to face No. 3 Virginia (15-2, 2-2 in the ACC) Saturday in Charlottesville, Va. The last time the two teams met was in the first round of last year’s ACC tournament, where Duke came away with a 5-2 loss. Head coach Beth Bozman, however, thinks that this year’s team is better prepared to secure a different outcome.

“I think we are playing a very differNo. 3 ent style of hockey than we played last Virginia year,” Bozman said. “We knew what vs. got us in trouble last year [against VirNo. 13 ginia], and we have addressed that.”

In last year’s game, the Blue Devils Duke (9-8, 0-4) struggled to offset the CavaSATURDAY, 1 p.m. liers’ offense led by Paige Selenski, Charlottesville, Va. last year’s ACC Freshman of the Year.

Selenski, ranked seventh nationally this year in goals per game, tallied one goal and two assists against the Blue Devils to ignite the Virginia attack.

Duke’s young defensive line has been an asset this season as the team has taken on the best teams in the ACC and in the nation, and the the defense has kept the Blue Devils in most of those games.

“I think our defense is very strong, and I have a lot of confidence in them in every aspect of the game,” Bozman said. “I think [Virginia is] going to see a different team than last year when Paige was so dangerous against us.”

Though its record does not reflect it, Bozman said that this year’s team is the best that the Duke program has produced in three years and that Saturday represents a chance to prove it.

“Statistically, we would be 15-2 [if the scores had reflected our dominance of games], but we are not because we have been unable to finish,” Bozman said.

Finishing was the team’s setback in last Saturday’s 2-1 loss against No. 15 Ohio State. Though Duke dominated in both shots on goal (12-4) and penalty corners (7-1), it

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Freshman Abby Hassinger and the Blue Devils other than leading scorer Amie Survilla need to score to help Duke defeat No. 3 Virginia Saturday. was unable to convert its offensive advantages into goals.

The Blue Devils have relied heavily on senior Amie Survilla, ranked eighth nationally in goals per game, for many of their scores this season, but she has been well defended recently. Freshman Abby Hassinger scored the Blue Devils’ lone tally last Saturday, providing an additional source of offense for Duke, but it was not enough against the Buckeyes.

“We need to have some other people carry a little of the burden on their shoulders, because other teams are mak-

ing it very difficult for Amie,” Bozman said.

As the Blue Devils approach postseason play, Bozman emphasized the importance of teamwork in determining the Blue Devils’ success. She said that the team’s challenging schedule has prepared it to take on the Cavaliers and other ACC opponents. Winning, Bozman said, is dependent upon the team’s ability to play together.

“As a team, we are very strong and very dangerous,” Bozman said. “We are not going to rely on individuals; we will win as a team.”

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fromstaffreports Duke in the top 10 yet again Despite losing Gerald Henderson and falling in the Sweet 16 last year, Duke is getting plenty of respect from the media again this year.

The Blue Devils were ranked ninth in the initial Associated Press poll released Thursday.

The top three are Kansas, Michigan State and Texas.

Three other ACC teams appear in the first poll of the year.

North Carolina is ranked sixth even with several high-profile departures, and Georgia Tech and Clemson are ranked 22nd and 24th, respectively.

Maryland is the team outside

of the top 25 with the most votes.

In the ESPN/USA Today coaches’ poll, Duke is ranked eighth and the Tar Heels fourth.

Singler named to award watch list Junior Kyle Singler, the ACC Preseason Player of the Year, has been named to the Naismith Award preseason watch list, one of nine ACC players to be included on the 50-man list.

Seven Duke players have won the Naismith Award as the nation’s best player, among them Johnny Dawkins, Christian Laettner, Jason Williams and J.J. Redick.

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Duke’s defense will need to keep the Blue Devils in the game Saturday in what is likely to be a low-scoring contest in Charlottesville.

football from page 8 head coach didn’t seem worried.

In fact, Cutcliffe spoke with certainty that his offense would continue to produce at a high level.

“We will find a way to throw the ball,” he said. “They can make it hard and make it a challenge, but that just changes our course of how we throw it.”

If the passing game can’t get going, the running game will need to pick up the slack, but it has yet to do that so far this year.

In its three ACC contests, Duke has averaged just 34.6 yards per game and 1.1 yards per carry.

But Cutcliffe sounded confident that his running backs would find a way to break out against the Cavaliers.

“We’re going to run the ball better,” said Cutcliffe, adding that his team has practiced the run well of late.

A win Saturday would give Duke a 5-3 record and allow it to play just .500 ball over its final four games to qualify for a bowl.

The Blue Devils were in a similar situation last year, but failed to find a way to win in the waning moments against Wake Forest, Virginia Tech or North Carolina, all games that could have

helped them get to a bowl.

Cutcliffe said his team actually played better in its 0-5 stretch than at the start of the year but simply didn’t get the bounces it needed.

If those bounces go Duke’s way, however, a bowl game becomes a much more realistic possibility.

Lewis said thoughts of a bowl game have crept into his and his teammates’ minds. He, Rey and Cutcliffe all emphasized one thing, though—those thoughts won’t matter if they can’t top Virginia for the second year in a row.

It’s a game they will have to brace themselves for—both metaphorically and physically.

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Although we can’t comUniversity of Illinois offi- pare the events at Illinois to cials were caught red-handed the admissions process at last May in an embarrassing Duke—U of I is a public instiadmissions tution, beholdscheme. A Chien to Illinois editorial cago Tribune intaxpayers— vestigation revealed that both given the larger conversation U of I Trustees and Illinois within the higher education politicians successfully pushed community, it is an appropriless-qualified students on a ate time to evaluate the merit “clout list” through the admis- of development admits at sions process. E-mail conversa- Duke. tions incriminated the U of I Accepting individuals president, chancellor and ad- because of their family’s fimissions officials, and all have nancial privilege is a bit unsince resigned. settling, but pursuing develBut what may be politics as opment admits is good for usual in Illinois has sparked a the University as a whole as national debate surrounding long as it is done in a prupreferential treatment in the dent, controlled manner. undergraduate admissions In 2006, The Wall Street process, specifically those Journal described Duke’s “winadmitted because of their ning strategy” of systematically

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This praise was merited, as contributions from these students’ families helped transform Duke from a homogenous southern college to a prestigious, international university. Without these development cases, our University would look a lot different today.

Development admits have served us well in the past, and although the number of such cases has likely declined since the University achieved its meteoric rise in the rankings, they still serve a purpose today.

For one, donations from wealthy families helped to fuel our recent financial aid initiative, allowing Duke to recruit hundreds of students from lower economic backgrounds and admit students on a need-blind basis.

In addition to making our endowment competitive among elite universities, money from development admits also goes directly to improving our facilities and developing University projects, two defining features of our institution.

And given our current financial situation, these donations could play a small role in helping Duke ride out budget shortfalls.

This practice of catering to the wealthy, however, does raise some concerns.

But for now, Duke has successfully managed attracting development admits without compromising the academic experience of the University. Moreover, Duke is not haphazard in admitting its students, and as far as we are

concerned, the admissions office has a very high standard for each individual they admit into the incoming class, development case or not.

At the end of the day, the admissions process at a highly selective university is not a zerosum game—one development admit cannot “take” a spot away from another prospective student. And with so many different factors contributing to each admissions decision, it is not unreasonable that the potential to contribute financially to the University should differentiate two well-qualified applicants.

As long as development cases continue to better—not challenge or change—the character of Duke, they are a useful tool to maintain and enhance our University’s prestige.

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n recent Sundays, The New York Times Book Review has included the following titles in its list of best-selling children’s book series, along with some helpful descriptions to explain what they are about: 6. VAMPIRE ACADEMY, by Richelle Mead. Undead boarding school.

5. HOUSE OF NIGHT, by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. Vampires in school.

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VAMPIRE DIARIES, by L. J. Smith. Vampires in school, with a nathan freeman love triangle.

And coming in good night, and at number one, for good luck the 112th week in the row....

1. THE TWILIGHT SAGA, by Stephenie Meyer.

Vampires and werewolves in school.

A novice in the field of undead cultural studies, I found myself a bit confounded by the apparent obsession young teens have with vampires (and, judging by the dry wit that permeates these ultra-brief descriptions, The New York Times editors share my confusion). So, full of an inordinate amount of Halloween spirit, I decided I would watch Twilight and then write about it. As the torrent was downloading, my friends and I threw “a couple” back, and soon enough we were in the right state of mind to take in the film’s opening line, an immense existential quandary mumbled ominously by Bella (Kristen Stewart): “I had never given much thought to how I would die.”

Although it took me quite a while to wrap my head around the precise elements that make the film so addictive to young teenage girls, the film’s atmosphere began to arrest me as well. In between Bella’s deadpan, monotonous non-expressions and Edward’s (Robert Pattinson) purse-lipped fire-eating stares (which, in sum, make up about 75 percent of the film), I started to see what it’s really all about: the implications of creating a teen-romance iteration of the pre-Christian Slavic ritualistic pagan folklore—where the traditional Eastern European ideas of metaphysical transmigration allow an unclean soul to occupy a physical body and remain “alive” but also not alive (and they can fly, apparently!) enacting their vengeance on the humans who forced them into this position

by subsisting on their blood and existing as Sibylline immortals, unable to die. All of this continues the tradition of re-imagining the original vampire myth, which is the story that has inspired one of the more enduring figures of horror in literature and pop culture.

OK, fine—so I’m not sure if those theories hold water, but I still don’t think it’s a coincidence that our lovebirds Bella and Edward enact their romance in the wettest place in the continental U.S. Edward and the rest of his undead clan of Cullens have evidently come to this rainy and coast-flanked dreary piece of land in the Pacific Northwest because the constantly overcast skies provide the perfect weather for pale, sun-fearing fellows. As the movie continues, Bella’s fascination with this century-old 17-year-old grows—she even seeks out a magical old Native American to get her a book on the mysticism of bloodsuckers. And suddenly, they’re in the forest à la Hester and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter, enacting their illicit romance in the moist, secluded environment.

That’s about the time I passed out. But after looking up the rest on Wikipedia, I think I get the general gist of it. Plot aside, I want to figure out why there’s a pandemic-level interest in this movie. And its sequel, “New Moon,” which will probably stay trending on Twitter for, oh, two months straight around the time of its Nov. 20 opening. I came up with a few reasons: first, Bella isn’t intimidatingly attractive, which allows delusional teenage girls to indulge in the fantasy wherein they could win Edward away from her; second, there’s got to be something going on with all that staring and breathing; third, Robert Pattinson’s hair actually looks pretty awesome (it’s like a punk-rock Flock of Seagulls, constantly defying gravity). Come to think of it, I’m going to go on record and say that, after some research, I think Robert Pattinson is actually a pretty legit guy: he smokes cigarettes, pops valium, apparently has a raging drinking problem and sports this pea coat during the movie that I would wear in a second.

But winter wear aside, the movie sort of sucked— it didn’t make much sense and most of the dialogue was laughably bad. That doesn’t matter if you’re in a theater where the wails and screams of swooning girls drown out the actual movie, but if you’re watching in an apartment, you might need something with which to wash it all down.

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

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Halloween on the Hill

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here is perhaps one thing that Duke students can unanimously enjoy about the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and we are now in danger of losing it: Halloween on Franklin Street.

The renowned festive night of creative costumery and mild-to-perilous drunkenness went local last year in an effort to cut down on the general anarchy and potential for lawlessness mike meers that, by all accounts, is what mike check makes the event so fun. This was met with much dismay from Duke students whose annual Halloween rituals centered around a trip to Franklin Street to enjoy an experience of the same indescribable variety as a good ol’ Tailgate.

So many Duke students traveled to Chapel Hill each October that the University had even sponsored charter buses there in the past. The slow death of a staple in college lore is unfortunate, not just for Duke students that attend annually, but for everyone who still loves a great, no-holds-barred block party in an age when wrist slapping and penny-pinching have become the norm.

Consider last year’s changes: barricaded streets, blockaded parking and a full-force police. Whereas the grand pilgrimage once generated bumper-to-bumper traffic flooding into town throughout the night, the formerly 80,000-strong townwide bash was diminished to a measly 35,000. With even tighter restrictions this year, Chapel Hill will practically be under martial law in response to a party whose worst

consequences tend to be 10 to 20 arrests and perhaps some rather creepy out-of-towners. And martial law is not cheap.

Though attendance at the event decreased well over 50 percent last year, total cost was only reduced by a measly 8 percent, which raises questions about how financially beneficial the changes actually are.

Predictably, alcohol was a point of emphasis; last year’s “Homegrown Halloween” implemented a mandatory $5 cover charge and 1:00 AM closing time for bars. By nature, the party is booze-fueled, and a simple nightlong ban on alcohol sales would likely stifle many of the problems raised by the residents of Chapel Hill against the celebration in its wildest form.

That being said, the problems are evident and valid: difficulty of crowd control, safety of participants, strain on a small police force and perhaps a general digression from the party’s original local roots. Be that as it may, Franklin Street Halloween should be seen for the sake of what it is in spirit: a good natured (albeit more-raucous-than-normal) celebration of creative spirits gathered from far and wide in a grand spectacle worthy of preservation. Unfortunately, Chapel Hill officials fail to look at their problems as the potential opportunities they could become, misguided by the bottom line and a need to avoid responsibility for outsiders.

Chapel Hill should treat the thousands of visitors not as a nuisance but as a boon for local businesses and eating establishments, not to mention an infusion of tax dollars during difficult times. Instead of complaining about footing the bill and the manpower in police presence, invoke the help of surrounding communities whose residents routinely partake in the festivities. Since the majority of individuals vomiting into Franklin Street gutters on Halloween night

Experiments in leadership

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hen it comes to student groups, I have no qualms about having more.

Why stymie new ideas from evolving into concrete plans? I’d be happy to chip in a bit extra on my tuition if it supports someone else’s dream. In my mind, purse string holders have a case to grumble over only when student groups fail to deliver.

Of course, if that’s the case, then quality becomes more important than ever.

Quality is hard to gauge courtney han in student groups at Duke the good life? because we don’t really have a metric of comparison, but it seems odd to me that helping student groups better achieve their goals is not a topic that is more widely discussed.

Duke student groups are, in many ways, tiny incubator organizations feeding off funds doled out by the University and falling prey to the same accountability and efficiency issues that dog their real world counterparts. Although these shortcomings are nearly universally recognized, we still seem content to chug along with a charter, listserve, funding and, sometimes, air-quoted members.

How often have I heard friends whine that very few people do the majority of their club’s work and that members skip out on events? Every day a group leader is lamenting the miraculous velocity at which an individual’s interests fizzle after losing an officer title.

There’s room for improvement, and the master key to unlocking student group efficacy must come from the leadership that sets direction and manages the club.

Such leaders, often driven by a cocktail of motivations, may be motivated by a need for self-affirmation, praise and prestige. Some jump into organizations and thrash around because that is what they did in high school. Some want to feel more involved and connected, while others are driven by certain goals and values. And many leaders push themselves to lead because leadership is what postgraduate employers want to see.

There’s nothing really wrong with these reasons, and many, if not all of these leaders are very gifted. They must be, because they were pre-selected by an admissions committee that sought students with leadership potential.

A predisposition to lead, successes in high school and a threshold of intelligence are not guarantors of aptitude, nor are they excuses to cast aside the practice of learning to lead.

Too often untamed leaders are prone to charge forward only to look back and see nothing but the dust they churned while elbowing others out of the way. They throw up their hands and hang up their thinking hats convinced that this is how Duke student groups have always been and always will be.

I hope no one actually believes that. As an old senior, I’ve been a part of my share of student organizations, and have seen them evolve over the years. It makes me sad to see groups rise and fall as leaders cycle out without training underclassmen, and the painstaking process leaders take to master the tricks of the trade right before they have to go.

For aspiring Duke leaders with temperance and optimism, several strategic moves can make the next two, three or four years more successful.

First, we need to banish the notion that lack of University recognition or funding will hold us back from our plans. If you want it bad and you are resourceful, you will find money to fund it.

Second, campus leaders must contemplate how to share ownership of the idea and organization with others. For example, the leader can become creative with the organization’s positions. Impressive leadership is resultsdriven, not accumulated by windfalls from a flashy title, but if a title hooks a member in, use it! Titles force members to be more accountable, helps them feel validated, legitimizes their commitment and creates a marketable job description. There’s no reason why a group cannot have more than its usual cadre of officers.

Traditional top-down meetings can also be subjected to re-interpretation and replaced with experimental committees, governing boards, internal cross-check mechanisms and individual initiatives. I’ve seen such creative reconstruction revive entire organizations within a year.

Duke might also benefit from a student-run consulting service that can collect management strategies and perform year-end or project assessments for specific clubs. As a neutral body, this group can objectively consult with student organizations to review their governance structure and offer suggestions to resolve internal inefficiencies.

This service could allow members to gain experience in business consulting as well as help its clients—other Duke student groups—to realign their goals and better match them to desired outcomes.

With a willingness to experiment, emerging campus leaders can improve their respective organizations if they build, not rely, upon their natural instincts to lead.

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

are likely UNC frat party patrons already, articulate and execute a townwide effort, inclusive of the University, to reduce alcohol consumption to reasonable levels.

On a night when the spirits are said to rise, the spirit of the party is descending back to the grave, falling prey to a prevailing culture of constant fear for potential future consequences. Where personal responsibility was once common sense, liability is now constantly an issue, for fear of being embroiled in the next big McDonald’s coffee lawsuit. Financially, fewer local officials are willing to shell out money for events that put their towns on the map, fearing retribution at the polls if taxes aren’t slashed or other programs are cut.

Though putting a damper on the party may seem trivial, it is symptomatic of a larger, disconcerting trend of self-protection at the expense of a little collective indulgence.

Though I am no apologist for demonstrably irresponsible behavior, it pains me to see a celebration of such free and spontaneous nature succumb to legislative red tape and hand-wringing. In the spirit of letting kids be kids, and acknowledging that everyone is indeed a kid on Halloween, it would be pleasing to see an effort to facilitate the celebration in its entirety on new terms.

At its heart, Halloween is a night for the gathering of free and creative souls, for the worship of the imagination in all its eerie, spooky and downright weird manifestations. And, until recently, Franklin Street was its grandest cathedral. Restoring it to that original form would go a long way toward proving that Chapel Hill is serious about flouting restrictive social norms in order to preserve an enjoyable pastime.

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

lettertotheeditor Brostoff owes readers an apology Ben Brostoff’s Oct. 27 column “You, Me and Kyrie” demonstrates a horrible understanding of Duke-Durham relations, race relations and basketball. It’s amazing that at a school with an illustrious basketball history such as Duke’s, a student could write a column with such poor knowledge of the game. To boot, Brostoff has the audacity to speak with conviction. He absolutely believes that Larry Bird was only popular in Indiana and Massachusetts. I laughed out loud at that part.

Brostoff’s assertion that guards are more skilled than other players on the court is ludicrous. Wilt Chamberlain holds more records than even Michael Jordan. Big men like Hakeen Olajuwon, Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan are incredibly skilled. Are guards more entertaining to watch? This depends on the individual, but I can assure you that it does not depend on race. Brostoff asserts that in order to be appealing to the fan base, African-American guards should be “athletic and aggressive.” This is tantamount to the people who argue that a black quarterback needs to be able to run the ball. It is racism, plain and simple.

Finally, the fact that the entire article has a slightly comedic tone to it makes it all the more atrocious. There is nothing funny about being racist. The only point of humor in the column was Brostoff’s knowledge of basketball. I believe he owes Duke employees, Duke basketball players and all of his readers an apology for such an offensive column.

Daniel Freedman Trinity ’08

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