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Duke’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration continued Tuesday with a performance showcase titled, “Chaos or Community: A Mosaic of Dr. King’s Living Dream,” which featured a monologue by the Rabbi Alysa Stanton as well as student performing groups.

Stanton, who became the first black female rabbi when she was ordained in June 2009, performed a monologue she wrote in 2008 titled “Layers of Healing, Layers of Hope.” The piece detailed her journey from her Pentecostal roots to Judaism and the challenges she has faced in her lifetime.

The showcase, held in Reynolds Auditorium, also included performances by In Motion, Bull City Slam Team, Purple, Center for Race Relations and United in Praise. After the showcase, an intimate reception was held in the Mary Lou Williams Center where students and members of the Duke community had the opportunity to ask Rabbi Stanton questions about her life and faith. ­—compiled by Cate Harding Q: You use your life story for teaching.

When you’re back at your congregation what part of that personal story do you reveal?

A: A lot of rabbis hide behind the book, behind intellectualism. And it’s one thing to hide behind robes, but it takes more energy to be real. As I walk through this journey in life there are things I’m struggling with—I’ve realized there are probably five people in the room going See stanton on page 6

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Rabbi Alysa Stanton delivered a monologue as part of Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration events in Reynolds Auditorium Tuesday night. Stanton became the first black female rabbi in June 2009.

Fifteen students applied to be Young Trustee, but one prominent student was not one of them—Duke Student Government President Awa Nur. Nur, a senior, told The Chronicle Monday that she decided not to apply for Young Trustee to instead focus on finishing her term leading DSG. “We have so much on our plates that I think it would be a disservice to not only the student body, it would be a disservice to my [Executive Board] and my Senate for me to take this personal time to campaign for another office while I am still in office,” Nur said.

Nur’s decision comes after lengthy efforts to reform the Young Trustee selection process.

Instead of members of DSG and the Intercommunity Council selecting the Young Trustee, the Young Trustee Nominating Committee will choose three finalists and the student body will elect one.

As in the past, the nominating committee will consist of DSG members and presidents of certain campus organizations. But it will also consist of six at-large students: See YT on page 5

Ubuntu faces Central’s ‘stigma’ in first recruitment

by Lisa Du

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Interested students attend a rush event for Ubuntu, a new selective living group focused on civic engagement which is running its first official recruitment this year.

As selective living groups on campus gear up for the routine of recruitment, one group will be experiencing rush for the first time.

Ubuntu, a selective living group based on civic engagement, is holding its first official recruitment on Central Campus this semester. The SLG was organized by a group of juniors when they were freshmen and approved last academic year.

“We’re very excited to be official at Duke this year, and rush has been a continuation of that,” said Ubuntu President Ryan Echternacht, a junior. “It’s been a tumultuous process, but we’ve enjoyed it.”

Ubuntu began with 16 sophomores last year, and had a small recruitment process during which it added four freshmen to its roster. Echternacht said the freshmen were recruited through prior connections.

That challenge of being a new SLG has continued into this year, as Ubuntu faces the difficulty of not having the “feel and branding” of other long-existent living groups on campus, Echternacht said.

“Other groups have been established for so long they know what to do for rush... they have traditional events, and I’m just making it up as I go,” said junior Elizabeth

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“People forget that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican.” ­—Senior Justin Robinette, Duke College Republicans chairman. See story page 3

KonKolics, an Ubuntu rush chair.

So far, the group has had an open house, a themed party on foreign cultures and a milk-and-cookies event.

Echternacht said the group is trying to add more of Ubuntu’s unique flavor into rush events—one will incorporate students from the Durham Nativity School, whom Ubuntu members mentor regularly as part of their commitment to civic engagement.

The focus on service has been an attractive factor for some freshmen rushing Ubuntu.

“Most other service groups remind me more of high school groups where there’s a required amount of service hours, [but] for Ubuntu it seems most of the members are involved because they want to be,” freshman David Watson said.

Freshman Don Tucker, who heard about Ubuntu through a friend, said he enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere of Ubuntu’s recruitment events.

“It’s more easygoing and not quite as intense, which appealed to me,” he said.

Although the number of interested freshmen has not been as high as expected, Ubuntu members said they are satisfied with the turnout.

“Central has a stigma attached to it, and I think that’s

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The 33 cents per share loss was smaller than the $17.3 billion ($3.40 per share) loss experienced during the fourth quarter of 2008.

For the whole year, Citigroup posted a loss of $1.6 billion (80 cents), compared to a loss of $27.7 billion ($5.61) in 2008, as losses on consumer loans overcame gains in the company’s investment banking division.

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NEW DELHI — Defense Secretary Robert Gates kicked off a two-day visit to India, holding talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on expanding military cooperation.

“He found both meetings very productive,” Pentagon spokesperson Geoff Morrell told reporters traveling with Gates, who arrived in New Delhi Tuesday.“So far, the visit is off to a very strong start.”

Gates told the Indian leaders the U.S. wants the two nations to share more defense-related information and undertake more joint projects, especially in the fields of cyberspace and space technology and in monitoring the high seas, a U.S. defense official said.

Gates is pursuing stronger U.S. ties with India, the world’s largest democracy, as both countries seek new ways to combat

terrorism and eye the rise of China’s economic and military influence. President Barack Obama has called India, the fastestgrowing economy after China, a “critical partner” on issues from climate change to combating terrorism.

In his meetings with Singh and Krishna, the two sides compared notes on issues including China, the U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Gates is due to meet with Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony Wednesday.

Both sides share concerns over China’s development of military capabilities and are looking for explanations, the official, who attended Gates’s meetings, told reporters in a briefing.

Obama administration officials have called for China to be more transparent about its intentions in developing military technology such as missiles.

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Fisher gives voice to black Republicans

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Dr. Ada Fisher, a Republican National Committee member, spoke Tuesday about issues that make the Republican party relevant to black citizens.

by Sony Rao

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Although many are familiar with Martin Luther King, Jr.’s background as a civil rights leader, fewer may know that he was a member of the Republican Party, Dr. Ada Fisher said Tuesday.

Fisher, a black member of the Republican National Committee and a lifelong member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reminded her audience of King’s political affiliation in a speech honoring his legacy in the Social Sciences building.

Senior Justin Robinette, chairman of Duke College Republicans, which sponsored the speech, introduced Fisher as a good representation of what it means to be a black

Republican.

“People forget that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican,” Robinette said. “It would be important for the student body to know that.”

The claim that King was a Republican is disputed by many and it has provoked controversy in recent months after being touted by black conservative groups. King’s niece, Alveda King, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution in July that her uncle “was not a Republican or Democrat.”

In her speech to about 20 people, Fisher emphasized that the Republican Party does address issues relevant to black students and citizens.

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With the start of the Spring semester and basketball season in full swing, Duke University Union is finalizing its plans to begin the new term.

At their meeting Tuesday, DUU members discussed the upcoming rXn Dance Party—the official blue tenting kick-off celebration. The festivities will be held Jan. 30 in Wilson Gym, said Special Projects Director Christie Falco, a senior. The party will start at 11 p.m. and continue until 4 a.m.

“There will be a DJ, lots of food and other fun stuff,” Falco said, adding that she is now focusing on marketing the event.

The event is co-sponsored by Duke men’s basketball and the line monitors.

This week DUU will also make offers to performers for the Cameron Show April 1. Past performers in Cameron include Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab for Cutie and rappers T.I. and Ludacris.

In other business: In contrast to previous semesters, the Major Speakers Committee plans to spend the majority of its budget on one speaker, said Major Speakers Director Yi Zhang, a junior. Additional speakers will be co-sponsored with academic departments. Ideas for speakers have not been finalized.

DUU will allocate each committee the same budget as last semester, with $150,000 in general funding, said Vice President of Communications Karen Chen, a junior.

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Digitization boosts access, collaboration, UCLA prof says

by Tullia Rushton The chronicle

Library catalogues soon may not be the only place to leaf through primary sources.

As a part of the Provost Lecture Series, Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history at the University of California, Los Angeles, gave a lecture Tuesday describing the digital revolution in the humanities.

“Digitization of primary sources has changed the landscape of teaching and learning” Hunt said.

Hunt defined the digital revolution as a process of digitizing primary sources, such as historical documents, in an attempt to make them easier and more accessible. She discussed both the positive and negative effects this revolution could have on the study of humanities as a whole.

Hunt said digitization makes documents more available to people than before­—documents that were only accessible to the most distinguished historical researchers are now available to a much larger population.

But digitization could also expand resources for resources, too.

An important product of digitization is “optical character recognition,” which functions like a search engine that uses key words to compile a list of sources with those words. As a result, scholarly projects are completed much faster than before, Hunt said. Not only does it speed up researching, it provides opportunities for historians to stumble upon something that they did not know before, thus starting a new chain of research.

She added that the online availability of historical documents helps to establish links between different researchers and historians and helps facilitate collaborations through online tools like blogs.

Hunt also emphasized the down side of a digitization revolution, specifically referring to the financial costs of necessary software.

“Better equipment and software is more expensive,” Hunt said.

Online historical archives, such as “The Valley of the Shadow,” have historical documents about two different

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Lynn Hunt, professor of modern European history at UCLA, noted that the digitization of primary sources increases their accessibility on the Internet and helps foster links between researchers. Hunt spoke as a part of the Provost Lecture Series Tuesday night. communities during the American Civil War, and thus cost millions of dollars to create.

The enormous cost of digitization leads to questions of wealth disparities among universities and students as well as the balance between the benefits and the costs.

Hunt also acknowledged the complications and difficulties of applying online technology to historical primary sources.

“Technology is demanding and always evolving. Ordinary folks will never catch up,” Hunt said.

But no matter the positives and negatives, Hunt said the online transfer of primary sources into the digital world is not going away.

“The digitization revolution is here to stay, and we need to refashion it in the humanities to serve us the best,” she said.

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ubuntu from page 1 universally accepted,” Echternacht said.

“We still see [the stigma] in rush, but we’re doing everything we can to combat that.”

The existence of Ubuntu and future groups, along with the imminent opening of a restaurant and Mill Village on Central, will be essential to fostering a more fulfilling residential experience there, said Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education.

“We’ve been pushing pretty hard within the envelope... to make Central Campus a more integrated part of the Duke campus,” Nowicki said. “It’s a holding position until we get to New Campus.”

Nowicki added that he hopes to meet the varying needs of different groups— such as Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Pi

Kappa Phi fraternity and Panhellenic Association groups—as they move to Central.

Most recently, Nowicki has arranged for an East-Central “ubu-bus” to run between East Campus and Central during the recruitment period. Despite the bus’s name, it is not limited to those attending Ubuntu events and can be used by all students, Nowicki said. He added that the bus can also be used by students attending rush events at SHARE, and it is a part of a larger plan to rethink the bus system in order to make Central more accessible.

KonKolics said the “ubu-bus” has been a huge help in the recruitment process, and has allowed freshmen to see that Central is good place to live.

“I think people are realizing [Central is] not what they think,” she said. “That it’s a really great spot, we love it. I don’t think we would move to West [Campus] if we were offered a spot.”

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DSG President Awa Nur, a senior, decided not to run for Young Trustee after a lengthy battle to reform its selection process. Fifteen students applied for the position and three finalists will be voted on by the student body.

YT from page 1 senior Austin Boehm, a former member of The Chronicle’s editorial board, juniors Maddie Pongor and Matthew Davis, a member of the Duke Student Publishing Company Board of Directors, sophomore Nana Asante and freshmen Alexandra Swain and Samantha Lachman. At the YTNC’s first meeting Tuesday night, the members elected sophomore Lauren Moxley, who served on the nominating committee last year, to chair the committee.

Moxley said the committee is being more stringent this year about blacking out information in the applications that could identify the applicants. Young Trustee applications have traditionally been anonymous, but this year, Executive Vice President Gregory Morrison, a junior, also blacked out information such as organizational involvement before the meeting, Moxley said.

Junior Amanda Turner, special secretary for the Young Trustee process and Black Student Alliance president, said the new procedure is partially an attempt to include people that were not involved in the process in previous years.

“I think that kind of moving from a more closed process to a process that is completely open, I think it’s a good decision on DSG’s part, it’s a good response to the criticism that they only want to elect the people like them—the criticism that DSG and ICC have received about that,” Turner said.

But others have criticized the new process, mostly because it helps applicants with

campaigning skills and name recognition.

At a meeting with the six DSG members of the nominating committee and other interested students Dec. 6, current Young Trustee Ryan Todd, Trinity ’08, said the new process favors the DSG president, if he or she were to run.

“If she or he could make it to the student body election, I don’t see how he or she could lose,” Todd said. “The DSG president has made it to the final round so many times. The process wasn’t perfect before and it might not be perfect now, but it is an improvement.”

Morrison said DSG presidents would make strong candidates because of their campaigning skills.

“If you say that being DSG president means that you are successful at winning elections… then it’s logical to say that if the DSG president or really any DSG person who is running is in the three finalists, then they will have an advantage merely because of their past successes in running elections,” he said.

Nur said she disagrees with the argument that the process favors the DSG president, adding that campaigning is not difficult.

“People are going to vote for you because you can tell them why they should vote for you, and with the new guidelines the Senate has set in, everyone has the ability to make that case,” Nur said. “It’s not name recognition, it’s the ability to draw voters out, and that depends on your record, that depends on what you’ve done for the school and that depends on the relationships you’ve built during your four years at the University.”

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stanton from page 1 through the same thing as me, and so I decided a long time ago to be myself.

Q: I have a lot of friends who are not mainstream Jewish, so what kind of critique or praise did you get from the black non-mainstream community? If there are other black female rabbis in those traditions, how do you justify being seen as the first black female rabbi?

A: When I first entered rabbinical school, I didn’t know I would be the first one. I would still be doing what I’m doing whether or not I was the first one. In one of the articles, I said I was a new face within the diversity of Judaism but it got cut to “she’s the new face of Judaism.” People were like, “What about us?” But in mainstream, I’m it. I decided I wasn’t going to hide this accomplishment, I earned it. I tried to fit in for awhile but I realized, I’m unique. I’m who God made me and so instead of squeezing myself into something I’m not, I accepted it.

Q: How did you go about telling your family about want-

ing to follow the Jewish path?

A: My family accepted from birth that I was a different breed. Age nine is when I thought there has to be something more. When I decided to convert to Judaism they

“A lot of rabbis hide behind the book, behind intellectualism. And it’s one thing to hide behind robes, but it takes more energy to be real.”

— Alysa Stanton, rabbi thought it was just another new phase. It took several years until they were like, “Okay, we’ll give you a Hannukah present for Christmas.” My family has always been supportive of me in whatever I do.

Q: Why North Carolina? It’s a tough place to be Jew-

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A: My faith is strong... who I was makes me what I am today. And so I take that with me. In Greenville, N.C. [where Stanton is now rabbi of Congregation Bayt Shalom], it’s tough but I’m supposed to be there. Part of the reason I’m there is because it’s on the Bible Belt, there are churches across the street and I invite pastors to Shabbat services and I’ve gone to churches. I believe truly if there is one God we’re going to worship in different ways. I am here to lower barriers—you can’t always break them but we can lower them and find common ground.

Q: How have you been received by the black community or black individuals?

A: This year I spoke at Temple Emanuel [in Denver, Colo.] and part of my address was on African-American, economic and social groups and how we judge each other by the way we talk or music we like, and lifestyles. What I’ve taught my daughter is that no one defines my blackness but me and my God and how I choose to live as an African-American woman. There are haters on all sides but I focus on those who have been good and supportive.”

fisher from page 3 Fisher described in particular the struggle black students have faced to receive an education, giving Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as examples of schools that did not initially admit black students.

Fisher discussed the contributions of the Republican Party toward the advancement of African Americans, noting that the GOP was originally formed against slavery and that many of the great leaders in North Carolina were Republicans.

“Most of the things that had to do with civil rights had to do with the Republican Party, and most people don’t realize that the Ku Klux Klan came out of the Democratic Party,” she said.

Fisher did commend President Barack Obama, a Democrat, for “putting race on the table” as a major issue on his agenda. She noted, however, that it was a gap that could not be closed by money, but exposure.

“As time goes on, things do change. But not as much as people think,” she said.

Fisher, who is running for U.S. House in North Carolina’s 12th congressional district, said her experiences growing up during the civil rights movement influenced her political views.

Fisher related her experiences seeing both King and Malcolm X in person, and admitted that she was a stronger supporter for the views of Malcolm X. “I tended to be more of a fan of Malcolm X than MLK. I was one of those butt-kickers who didn’t have the temperament not to fight back,” she said.

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Republican Brown wins Kennedy’s Senate seat

by Paul Kane and Karl Vick The washington post

BOSTON — Republican Scott Brown dealt a devastating blow to President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda Tuesday night by capturing the Senate seat of the late Edward Kennedy, the legendary Democrat who had made health care reform the cause of his political career.

Brown, a little known Massachusetts state senator 10 days ago, won the special election by running directly against the health care legislation Kennedy trumpeted before his August death and that Obama considers his most important legislative priority. Coming on the eve of the first anniversary of Obama’s historic inauguration, the stunning upset eliminated the Democrats’ filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and created an immediate roadblock to approving the health care plan and other Obama priorities.

The symbolism of the rejection was difficult to overstate: Kennedy served as a political mentor to Obama and was the patriarch of the Kennedy family’s political dynasty.

Even before the polls closed, Obama’s top advisers engaged in a public blame game with the campaign of state Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate, over who bore responsibility for the crippling setback to the party.

Brown’s late surge was fueled by voter anger about the high unemployment rate and his vow to block the president’s proposal for health care reform. He drew chants of “41!” during his acceptance speech Tuesday night, symbolic of his role as the 41st member of the Senate GOP caucus.

“This Senate seat belongs to no one person, to no political party.... This is the

people’s seat,” Brown said after an election that drew more than 2 million voters. It was the first U.S. Senate win for a Republican in Massachusetts since 1972.

Coakley’s campaign criticized the national Democratic establishment, saying that it did not do enough to help raise money and that it underestimated how sour the political environment had become even for Democrats in traditionally blue states.

“Money was the issue after the primary.

We just couldn’t get people’s attention,” state Senate President Therese Murray, D., one of Coakley’s leading supporters, said Monday at the candidate’s final campaign stop, an Irish pub just south of Boston.

Murray said the campaign held a “come-toJesus meeting” on Jan. 4, just as a public poll was released showing Brown closing in, and only then did the financial spigots begin to open up for Coakley.

Obama aides and leading party strategists rejected Coakley’s complaints as revisionist history, saying she was too late in alerting them to the perilous state of her campaign. By then, Brown’s campaign had taken off, as conservatives nationwide saw a chance to defeat Obama’s agenda and deposited more than $5 million into Brown’s coffers in the final 10 days of the race, according to estimates.

Eventually, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee poured more than $2 million into the state and dispatched a wave of party operatives, who essentially took over her effort. Obama traveled to Boston on Sunday afternoon to try to rally a liberal base that had been lulled into complacency by a campaign that appeared to take victory for granted after winning

the Dec. 8 primary.

“The White House did everything we were asked to do,” White House senior adviser David Axelrod said before the polls closed Tuesday. “I think if we had been asked earlier, we would have responded earlier.”

Crediting Brown with “a very clever campaign,” Axelrod added: “As a practitioner in politics, my hat’s off to him.”

After Coakley conceded Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement in which Obama congratulated Brown and said he “looks forward to working with him the urgent economic challenges facing Massachusetts families and struggling families across our nation.”

Brown’s victory immediately threw into chaos the delicate health care negotiations Obama oversaw last week at the White House, as Democratic congressional leaders inched closer to a final deal that could clear both chambers. That path was predicated on having a 60-member Democratic caucus in the Senate.

Democrats have several politically risky options in the aftermath of Brown’s victory, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had declined to endorse any of those choices.

After the results became clear, Pelosi convened a meeting of her leadership team late Tuesday to discuss next steps, aides said.

Republicans hailed Brown’s upstart campaign—which began with the longtime politician playing the role of everyman by driving his pickup truck across Massachusetts—as a signal that substantial gains could be coming for the GOP in the No-

vember midterm elections. Independent voters, who represent half of the state’s electorate and have long favored Democrats in Congress, appeared to break in Brown’s favor in the final days, according to public polls.

Brown, who will serve the remaining three years of Kennedy’s term and face reelection in 2012, won the votes of women such as Jaimee Vassallo, 52, a teacher who is registered as an independent. Entering her polling place in Wilmington, she grabbed the arm of a friend and staggered, half-comically, at the prospect.

“Oh, Mary, I’m switching over to the Republican side for the first time ever,” Vassallo said. “It’s a tough day.”

Republicans said Brown’s staunch opposition to the health care legislation could serve as a road map for other Republicans in the fall, arguing that Democrats had badly misread the electorate after their huge victories in 2006 and 2008. “The voters in Massachusetts, like Americans everywhere, have made it abundantly clear where they stand on health care. They don’t want this bill and want Washington to listen to them,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Ky., said in a statement.

Alex Vogel, a GOP strategist, said the White House was right in dismissing Coakley as a “bad candidate.”

“But that alone doesn’t explain losing Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat mere months after his death,” Vogel said. “President Obama won the state by 26 points, and the entire congressional delegation is Democratic. What the Brown success tells me is that the electorate did not leave the Bush years liberalized; they left angry with bad and ineffective government.”

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Democrats cut deal to form debt watchdog

by Lori Montgomery The washington post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Faced with growing alarm over the nation’s soaring debt, the White House and congressional Democrats tentatively agreed Tuesday to create an independent budget commission and to put its recommendations for fiscal solvency to a vote in Congress by the end of this year.

Under the agreement, President Barack Obama would issue an executive order to create an 18-member panel that would be granted broad authority to propose changes in the tax code and in the massive federal entitlement programs—including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security— that threaten to drive the nation’s debt to levels not seen since World War II. The accord comes a week before Obama is scheduled to deliver his first State of the Union address to a nation increasingly concerned about his stewardship of the economy and the federal budget. After a year in which he advocated spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a huge economic stimulus package and a far-reaching overhaul of the health-care system, Obama has pledged to redouble his effort to rein in record budget deficits even as he has come under withering Republican attack.

The commission would deliver its recommendations after this fall’s congressional elections, postponing potentially painful decisions about the nation’s fiscal future until after Democrats face the voters. But if the commission approves a deficit-reduction plan, Congress would have to act on it quickly under the agreement, forged late Tuesday in a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, White House budget director

Peter Orszag, and Democratic lawmakers led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who has long advocated creation of an independent budget panel, called the agreement an “understanding in concept” that holds the promise of at last addressing the nation’s most wrenching budget problems.

“This goes to the question of the country’s credibility with managing its own finances. This is essential for the nation,” Conrad said.

The commission is likely to form the centerpiece of Democrats’ efforts to reduce projected budget deficits, which have soared into record territory in the aftermath of the worst recession in a generation. Government spending to bail out the troubled financial sector and to stimulate economic activity have combined with sagging tax collections to push last year’s budget deficit to a record $1.4 trillion. The budget gap is projected to be just as large this year and to hover close to $1 trillion a year for much of the next decade.

Deficit spending, in turn, has caused the nation’s accumulated debt to swell to dangerous levels. Last month, Congress voted to increase the legal debt limit to $12.4 trillion, a record figure that the Treasury expects to exceed early this year. The deal on the budget commission clears the way for Congress to approve an even larger increase in the legal limit on borrowing, to well over $13 trillion, a figure that Democrats hope will see the Treasury through the rest of 2010.

The Senate is expected to open de-

bate Wednesday on the debt limit. Conrad and other Senate moderates had threatened to oppose a significant increase without a budget commission.

Conrad plans to meet Wednesday with the group of about a dozen senators to review the agreement.

The presidentially appointed commission would be a fallback if the Senate, as expected, does not vote to create a budget commission as part of the debt-limit legislation. House leaders are insisting, however, that they will not go along with the commission’s creation unless the Senate does approve stringent pay-as-you-go budget rules, an outcome that is far from certain. Such rules, which helped produce budget surpluses under President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s, bar lawmakers from approving legislation that increases the deficit.

For weeks, Biden has been moderating talks on the commission, but progress was stymied by the insistence of Conrad and like-minded lawmakers that a presidentially appointed commission would lack the authority to force action in Congress. The breakthrough Tuesday was an agreement

by House leaders to bring the commission’s recommendations to a vote, though Conrad said he is still waiting to see that commitment in writing.

House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt Jr., D-S.C., a participant in the talks, said the deal calls for both chambers to vote on any recommendations exactly as promulgated, though lawmakers could also vote to amend them.

Republican commission advocates remain skeptical that a presidentially appointed panel would have the clout to tackle the nation’s toughest fiscal prob-

lems. Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., a sponsor with Conrad of legislation to create a budget commission by law, called a presidentially appointed panel “a fraud” designed to do little more than give Democrats political cover.

“It’s a fraud among anyone interested in fiscal responsibility to claim an executive order could structure something that would actually lead to action,” Gregg said.

Some Democrats, particularly in the House, where leaders have long resisted relinquishing their authority over taxes and spending, are also less than optimistic. Under the agreement, the commission would have 18 members, including six lawmakers appointed by congressional Democrats and six lawmakers appointed by congressional Republicans. Obama would appoint six others, only four of whom could be Democrats.

Fourteen commission members would have to agree on any deficit-reduction plan, a prospect that skeptics called a recipe for gridlock because action would depend on the support of at least two Republicans for a plan that is sure to include tax increases. Meanwhile, many influential interest groups—including some unions and AARP—have lined up in opposition to giving an outside commission power to cut federal spending and are likely to pressure Democrats to resist sharp budget cuts.

The White House declined Tuesday to comment on the commission agreement, though Orszag spokesman Kenneth Baer acknowledged in a statement that “the administration has been discussing, with members of Congress and others, a range of ideas about how to put the nation back on a sustainable fiscal path.”

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For a team like Duke that has struggled away from home, a visit to the RBC Center in Raleigh could serve as the perfect antidote as it seeks to remedy its road woes.

The No. 7 Blue Devils (15-2, 3-1 in the ACC) looked impressive in its two ACC wins against Boston College and Wake Forest in Cameron Indoor Stadium last week. But they take on local rival N.C. State tonight at 9 p.m. in Raleigh, and Duke has yet to put together a complete performance in a true road environment.

The team has played outside of Cameron six times, yet four of those contests took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The other two, of course, represent Duke’s only losses of the season—at Wisconsin in early December and in Atlanta against Georgia Tech Jan. 9.

Fortunately for Duke, N.C. State has shown it can be beaten at home.

The Wolfpack (12-6, 1-3) has already dropped four games in the RBC Center.

ACC losses to Clemson and a high-flying Virginia team, along with an early-season defeat against Northwestern and a demoralizing buzzer-beater loss to Florida, have made N.C. State’s home court anything but a fortress. And Duke’s players feel like they have a point to prove against the Wolfpack, chase olivieri/Chronicle file photo

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Junior Kyle Singler scored 28 points in a loss to Wisconsin in Madison, one of Duke’s only two defeats. The Blue Devils have yet to win a true road game this season.

Tigers thrashed To win, attack the basket in season opener Women’s Tennis

by Andy Margius The chronicle

Tuesday night marked the beginning of Duke’s national title defense, and the Blue Devils dominated Memphis en route to a sweep at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

After coming out with a strong showing in the doubles point, No. 1 Duke (1-0) managed to one-up itself as it proceded to destroy the weaker Tigers (1-2) in singles play. The Blue Devils went up 4-0 in all six of the MEM 0 singles matches and won the first 28 games overall to jump out in front.

DUKE 7 Despite playing against such a leser opponent, Duke showed tremendous energy and intensity during its match.

“One of the things we talked about was to be more energetic and to create a better atmosphere amongst ourselves,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “They did that and it was good to see.”

The highlight of the night for Duke was the play of senior Elizabeth Plotkin and freshmen Jessica Stiles and Mary Clayton. For Plotkin, Tuesday’s duel match was her first spring season action in two years due to injury. For Stiles and Clayton, Tuesday was their first time in a Blue Devil uniform.

Plotkin came out impressively in her doubles match See w. tennis on page 11

If you ever watch ESPN, read the newspaper or talk to a college basketball fan, you already know the official word on the Duke basketball team: It’s capable of beating any team in the country as long as the players are hitting their shots. Of course, the natural corollary is that it’s near impossible for any team to hit its shots for six straight games to win the NCAA Tournament.

Just look at the lead from the Associated Press game story after Duke beat Boston College Jan. 13: “This time, Duke figured out a way to win without its trusty longrange shot.”

You read this, or you hear something like it, or you see Alex some ESPN analyst diagramming this fact with his telestrator, and you smile and nod because you agree with this little bit of received wisdom. Then you say a little prayer that the Blue Devils hit those shots in the NCAA Tournament because, truly, a deep Tournament run would be sweet. And then you stop thinking about it, because it’s kind of depressing that a deep Tournament run hinges on luck, and because you have a calculus test or something.

But if you continued to think about it, you’d realize how outrageously absurd it is that this is the analysis you get from professionals whose job it is to analyze basketball games.

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Nolan Smith has combined quality outside shooting with his ability to get to the basket in becoming one of Duke’s best scoring options.

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fanaroff from page 9 Of course Duke is capable of beating any team in the country as long as the players are hitting their shots. It’s called basketball.

The goal of the game is to put the ball in the basket. If one team is more successful at doing so then the other team, then it is probably going to win.

Obviously, the statistics back this up. According to kenpom.com, effective field goal percentage (we’ll skip the math, but basically eFG% is field goal percentage with a bonus for each 3-pointer made) has the strongest correlation with Duke’s offensive efficiency. Opponents’ eFG% is the factor most strongly correlated with Duke’s defensive efficiency. Stated simply, if Duke shoots well and its opponent shoots not as well, the Blue Devils will score more points and give up fewer points than they would otherwise.

But guess what? This is true for Texas, Kentucky, Villanova, Syracuse, Michigan State, Tennessee, Pittsburgh and Kansas State. For those scoring at home, that’s nine of ten teams in this week’s AP top 10. And I bet that if I had a team of research associates to keep going down the list, it would remain true for 90% of teams in the country.

But I don’t have a team of research assistants, and I certainly won’t continue going down the list because I would only reach this obvious conclusion: The two most important

things that any basketball team can do are put the ball in the basket and prevent their opponent from doing the same. I might as well tell you that the sky is blue, or that those videos they show in Cameron Indoor Stadium during timeouts featuring DeMarcus Nelson or Gerald Henderson yelling, “Let’s go Blue Devils” are awkward.

Now you’re probably saying, “Okay jerk, now that you’ve basically shot my pet Duke Basketball theory to ribbons, what do you think is the most important thing that the Blue Devils have to do to win?”

And since I’m in charge of what you say, I already have my answer ready: This Duke team is most effective when it gets the ball into the paint. In answer to your next question—“Haven’t you just replaced one basketball cliché with another?”—the answer is, yes, I have, but this cliché is much more descriptive and maybe even slightly counter-intuitive for a team whose three biggest stars play on the perimeter.

When the Blue Devils matriculate the ball into the painted area (Thanks, Bobby Knight!), they become the aggressor on that offensive possession. Their opponents shift to protect the basket— and this is true even when one of Duke’s less offensively gifted big men get the ball around the hoop—and are forced to adjust their positioning. Even if the ultimate outcome of the

possession is two or three more passes followed by a long jump shot, the shooter’s rhythm is better and the shot goes in more often. I can’t prove this, but anecdotally, it feels true.

When the ball isn’t going into the paint, Duke’s offense stagnates. The ball goes around the perimeter until the shot clock winds down and someone is forced to take a 3-pointer.

Usually, this shot misses. This is what happened all the time last year—never more glaringly than in the Sweet 16 loss to Villanova. The only way last year’s Blue Devils could get the ball into the paint was on a dribbledrive; when opponents shut down that dribble-drive game, Duke had to hit contested shots or it wouldn’t win. But this is a new year.

Take Duke’s comfortable win over Clemson Jan. 3. After the Blue Devils raced out to a 30-12 halftime advantage on the strength of a solid defensive effort, the Tigers went on an 11-0 run to start the second half. The Blue Devils shots during that run were all contested 3-pointers, and all were missed.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski called time out, and Duke came out of the break noticeably more aggressive—the guards were feeding the ball to post players or driving to the basket themselves.

The Blue Devils renewed interest in feeding the post—and especially the added wrinkle of feeding Mason Plumlee or Lance

Thomas at the high post—gives this year’s team another way to get the ball into the paint. And— wouldn’t you know it?—Duke’s shots are falling more frequently this year than last; its eFG% is 53.8% versus last year’s 50.5%.

So next time you’re watching the Blue Devils and “the shots just aren’t falling,” think a little harder. Why aren’t they falling? Is Duke attacking on offense? And

if you ask these questions and you answer them the same way I do, then you’ll probably also agree with this: Duke is capable of beating any team in the country—as long as it plays attacking, aggressive offensive basketball.

And given the right coaching, the right mindset, the right matchups and the right luck, it’s almost easy to envision a team doing that for six straight games.

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Jon Scheyer has been effective from the perimeter this year, but on off-nights, Duke can still compete with most teams by pounding the ball into its skilled post players.

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w. tennis from page 9 alongside Stiles, and the pair eased to an 8-2 victory. The senior followed that focused performance in singles as Duke’s top seed and won decisively.

“It feels amazing [to be back],” Plotkin said, “When I was watching the girls the last two seasons, at that point i would have done anything to get back on the court.... I still have that feeling inside me, but it feels so good to have the opportunity to do what i came here to do.”

Stiles also started out strong against Memphis’ sixth seed. Stiles managed to sweep the match 6-0, 6-0, and held complete control in her debut.

The night also went smoothly for fellow freshman Clayton in her Duke opener. She managed to take down Marjorie Ondeck, a Tiger senior, in easy fashion. Her 6-1, 6-0 performance was one of the better parts of the day for the Blue Devils.

And while some newer faces made their mark on the court, returning veterans from last year’s national championship squad also looked impressive for Duke. Senior Amanda Granson, junior Ellah Nze and sophomore Monica Gorny all won their matches in straight sets.

Junior Reka Zsilinszka, Duke’s top player, did not participate in Tuesday’s match so that the Blue Devils’ freshmen could pick up some playing experience.

Duke’s schedule remains relatively easy until its late February meeting with No. 8 Florida. Despite their easy slate in the near future, Plotkin emphasized that the intensity must be maintained.

“We know people will be gunning for us because we have this big bullseye on us,” Plotkin said. “But we’re so excited, and we know what it takes, and we’re willing to do that again.”

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N.C. State guard Julius Mays could not prevent his team’s 73-56 loss to Duke in last year’s installment of the rivalry.

m. bball from page 9 even though N.C. State sits near the bottom of the conference standings.

“It’s really easy not to [look ahead on the schedule] because people say we can’t win on the road,” senior guard Jon

Scheyer said after the 90-70 win against the Demon Deacons. “We’ve been looking forward to our next road game for a while now, so we will be ready to go Wednesday.”

Tonight’s contest should serve as a barometer for Duke’s ability to win in difficult venues, especially considering the

team’s next road trip—at Clemson in the intimidating Littlejohn Coliseum this Saturday. Nearly every member of this Blue Devil squad traveled to Clemson last year and experienced a humiliating 27-point whipping.

And a road win in advance of the test against the Tigers could give Duke a confidence boost.

The Blue Devils should also try to avoid a letdown after the win against Wake Forest, a bruising contest that head coach Mike Krzyzewski called the most physical game of the season. Krzyzewski was pleased with his team’s victory Sunday, but he and his players acknowledged that ACC wins never come easy.

Clemson coach Oliver Purnell, whose team stole a three-point win against N.C. State Saturday, understands how challenging the conference can be. His squad was beaten soundly by Duke in Cameron, but then responded by crushing North Carolina last week. Still, the Tigers were pushed to the brink by the Wolfpack in a 73-70 win Saturday.

“It’s just a tough thing [when] you have a big emotional win and then you’ve got to go on the road in the ACC, on Tobacco Road, and win,” Purnell said.

Duke can at least take some comfort in its dominance against the Wolfpack.

The Blue Devils have won 23 of the last 26 games in the series, including the last three on N.C. State’s home court. But the Wolfpack have been competitive nearly every night this season, and Duke can expect its rival’s best effort.

A loss Wednesday would mark another disappointing defeat outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium and leave the question of whether this Duke squad can win on the road unresolved. A victory, however, would allow the Blue Devils to begin to separate themselves as the class of the ACC.

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In short, the FFEL program allows private banks to make lucrative loans to students while the federal government absorbs the risk. According to the Congressional Budget Office, over the next ten years, this will amount to an estimated $87 million subsidy to private banks that loan to students. This is bad public policy.

Over the past several months, President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have made public statements advocating for the elimination of the FFEL program in favor of direct federal lending.

At the macro level, this would save the government money it now uses to subsidize private loans—money that could be used to reduce the deficit and re-invest in education.

Obama’s efforts to restructure the college loan in-

dustry are well-founded. Student loans are a public good, and the government should pursue any policy that will increase their affordability and efficient allocation. Moreover, the plan will retain private sector involvement and stem any job loss because private sector companies will be retained to service the loans and provide customer service.

Given the benefits associated with switching to direct federal loans and the widespread public support for such a move, Obama’s plan will likely be approved by Congress in the near future. Duke administrators were wise to preemptively switch to direct lending and tacitly lend their support to a program that will save money for students and taxpayers alike.

Death, legacy and your Facebook wall

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Once again I am disappointed to see Duke administrators taking a final stand against students-—assuming their guilt, before their cases have been heard in court.

and students will borrow from and pay back the same organization: the federal government.

This change in lending policy at Duke takes place amid the backdrop of a growing national debate over the government’s role in regulating the student loan industry.

Under the current Federal Family Education Loan program, the federal government issues its Stafford and PLUS loans to students through private banks. While the loan recipient is in school, the government pays the loan’s interest, and when the student graduates, the lending agency collects the loan. In the event that a student defaults, the Department of Education pays back the loan’s remaining balance and interest to the private lending agency.

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lost a good friend last week when she committed suicide. I found out about her death when people started writing posts on her Facebook wall like “Goodbye” and “I hope you’ve found the peace you were looking for.”

A slightly weird way to find out that my friend had passed away, I thought.

I was saddened and shocked, and daniel wong I still am, over her loving life, death. It’s painful to know that she’s loving lives gone—just like that. But I think a part of me felt shocked, too, because I was once again confronted with my own mortality. I was reminded that even though I’m in my 20s and I don’t have any health problems, I am one day going to die. If you were to ask anyone, “Do you think you’re going to live forever?” you will most likely get a reply that goes something like “Of course not—we’re human.”

But it is one thing to believe in your head that all humans eventually die, and it is another to have someone look you in the eye and say, “You are going to die. You are certainly going to die.”

I once read a psychology paper about people who try to evade death by engaging in death-defying activities like skydiving and bungee jumping. The paper argued that these activities are not “death-defying.” Rather, they are “death-denying.”

We all know that we are mere mortals, but we often acknowledge this fact without actually coming to terms with it. Thus, participating in “death-denying” activities provides us with an avenue to further convince ourselves—in the subconscious realm— that we can escape death.

Over the past two years I’ve gone white water rafting, hang gliding, paragliding, skydiving and bungee jumping. Every time I complete a skydiving or bungee jumping attempt, I feel a little bit more empowered, a little bit more fearless, a little bit more immortal. I understand why some people constantly pursue stunts or activities that are literally life-threatening. It’s not just about the adrenaline rush or the adventure; it’s primarily about the accompanying sense of immortality, the feeling that death does not have a hold on you. I now recognize this as a foolish pursuit founded on an escap-

ist mindset that leaves you with a sense of emptiness whenever you are not getting your quick fix of pseudo-immortality.

So when I learned of my friend’s death, I was reminded that there is no avoiding it. Because death is a reality for all of us, the question to ask ourselves is not “What can I do to make myself feel more immortal?”

Rather, we need to ask the question: “What do I want my life to count for?”

In “Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life,” authors Richard Leider and David Shapiro found that most people’s number one fear is having lived a meaningless life. We all want to leave behind a legacy that is unique and special. I don’t believe there is such a thing as a “perfect” legacy. Maybe you want to be remembered as a loving and generous person, or maybe you want to be remembered as a passionate person who helped to further a humanitarian cause, or maybe you want to be remembered as an intellectual who changed the way the world thinks about an issue.

But whatever it is that you want your legacy to be, you should be living every single day of your life building it. It’s a bit too late to start thinking about your legacy when you’re on your deathbed as it is not built in a day, but day by day.

On my deceased friend’s Facebook wall, there were many posts which described what a kind and warm person she was. Her legacy is her kindness and warmth—and I have no doubt that her life counted.

It feels kind of strange to say this, but I guess our legacies will be summed up by what people write on our Facebook walls when we pass away.

What would you like your friends and family to write on your Facebook wall?

For me, I’d like people to write posts describing me as a man who really loved life and who really loved lives. My friend’s sudden death has caused me to make a recommitment to building this legacy day by day. Moreover, I want to fully come to terms with my mortality, for I believe that it is only when you are fully ready to die that you are fully ready to live. Eventually I’m going to die. In the meantime, I want to build a life that counts. And I want to really, really live.

To my friend whose life of kindness and warmth burned out far too soon, I look forward to that day when we meet in heaven. Until then, your legacy will echo for eternity here on earth.

Daniel Wong is a Pratt junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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A heartbreaking work of staggering naivete

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he other day, I was telling a friend how much I wanted to write a good rush column. I’ve seen other efforts over the years, and I’ve of course had an amusing time watching rush in all its natural diversity—Panhel, IFC, SLG. Since I don’t write for the sports page, a column about the true grit of Mason Plumlee was more or less off the board. I was left with few options other than obliquely staring down, and then scribbling about, all the wonderful different varieties of rush.

But of course, I only connor southard ever rushed an SLG for dead poet all of fifteen minutes.

I lack the experience necessary to lend true journalistic insight to the conversation on our rushes. So, we’ll have to thank my dear friend for reminding me that, as a newspaper columnist, I’m not obligated to have any real insight about anything. Now isn’t that reassuring?

What follows is a collection of my outsider’s thoughts about various sorts of rush, all of which have been mulled over with the kind of intellectual rigor that Dino Gaudio seems to demand of his charming and gentlemanly players.

I’m a huge fan of sorority rush. Any time my fellow students can be persuaded to group up according to the kind of T-shirt they’re wearing, I’m there. It pains me a little to be necessarily excluded from this colorful ritual—the rest of us get to color-coordinate only on our way to Cameron. Among other things, Panhel rush means that more interesting boots are being worn on campus on certain days than ever graced the screen in “The Lord of the Rings.”

lettertotheeditor Thanks, Coach Cut As an alumnus of both Trinity and the School of Law, I just wanted to express my gratitude and thanks to head football coach David Cutcliffe for staying at Duke.

While I would have understood the pull and attraction of returning to Tennessee, I think it says so much about his character and devotion to the University that he decided to stay in Durham.

I look forward to good things to come for Duke football in the near future.

David Nefouse Trinity ’02 Law ‘05

This is the part of the column wherein I’m supposed to become a social critic and say things like, “Panhel is a cult of passive aggression! We must ban sororities and force everyone to be more individual, intellectual and less ambitiously booted!”

All of us columnists are, to a certain extent, fistshakers. We fist-shakers like to set up things to get impassioned about, so I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t tempted to join the grand tradition of playa-hating Panhel rush. But, damn it, I just can’t do it!

In a nutshell, Panhel rush strikes me as OK because it takes place in service of the idea of camaraderie. I’m willing to believe much of what I’m told, including the assurances of many of my Panhellenic acquaintances that, when the long muddle of rush is done, their organizations actually manage a kind of sisterhood. There’s just something charming about the idea that a process so much maligned—especially by those in the thick of it—can produce real fellowship. Much like “The Fellowship of the Ring,” in whose case a bunch of nazguls and orcs were no match for fabulous boots and a hardy sense of camaraderie.

When the conversation turns to Duke’s muchbeloved Bros, no one feels the need to justify their capacity for camaraderie and glorious, glorious bromance. It almost feels like our Bros invented the term, along with my personal favorite bit of bro-cabulary: brotocol.

But IFC (Bro) rush confuses me. It’s not that I don’t understand the basic concept: go to various events at which varying levels of drunkenness will be experienced, demonstrate your bro, er, bro-viability, see how things pan out. That’s all it should ever be, right?

I’d have next to nothing more to say about Bro rush if it weren’t for the feeling that, politically and emotionally, it’s as fraught a process as Panhel rush is usually accused of being. If what I’ve been told is true, one has to consider things such as (if you can believe it) the supposed “ranking” of one’s prospective frats. It’s hard enough to rank basketball teams, and they actually play against each other, so you have something to work with.

And that’s the thing! Bros are supposed to be headstrong, determined to have the best of times, loud and irreverent. Like Bluto from “Animal House,” right?

Would Bluto care about rankings? Were the Germans ranked when they bombed Pearl Harbor?!?

So, all that needs to be done to improve Bro rush is the same thing that might be done to improve many things for many people: everyone involved should just loosen up a little bit. Oh, and maybe y’all could color coordinate. Boots optional.

Which brings us to SLG rush. You guys are alright.

Keep doing what you do.

Oh, but can somebody please tell me what the hell Prism is supposed to be?

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

Time to leave

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’ve never wanted to see the future.

When I was 16, I met a glassy eyed man on an Indian street who measured my hand in his and told me I had already met the man I would marry. He informed me I would deliver my first child at 20 and bear only boys, delivering the news with a congratulatory pat on the back.

“Sounds plausible,” I said for the amusement of my mother’s reaction. I was tempted to ask him to take a closer look at my palm, but I julia love parted with a silver coin and a love story continued down the street.

I turned 20 last April, and the fate I was assigned four years ago is now impossible.

Rather, things have unfolded in a surprisingly predictable fashion, just as my 16-year-old self would have called it. I had my heart set on Duke, and I got in.

Since settling in Durham, I have done FOCUS, gained the freshman 15, tented, joined a sorority, survived Shooters patrons and a case of mono, declared and switched my major, lugged my belongings from East to West to Central.

I’ve mastered the peculiar Duke shuffle. Leaving it all to study abroad in Madrid this Spring is the first misstep I have made.

If there is ever a time to be at Duke, it is the Spring of your junior year. After two years, you have found your place, the people and things that make you happy. If you left in the Fall for the fresh air of the Alps or the condensation of a Parisian night club, you can return to those pleasures. And if you decided to stay in Durham, waiting, you can finally be reunited with those who make your experience complete.

Squinting at the streets of Madrid for the first time after a snow-logged flight with glazed, jet-lagged eyes, I have no trouble believing that I am here—only that I am here now.

When people learn that I am leaving just as half my classmates and some of my best friends are returning, I think some wonder whether it’s because I have not yet found my place. The truth is much the opposite.

My name is new to these pages, but not to this paper.

I have spent most of my time in college so far nestled beneath the slanted roofs of 301 Flowers. Issues boasting the University’s biggest headlines yellow beneath plates of glass, looming over me as I write a story that may live on for a few weeks, will probably become lost in the recycling, yet always feels meaningful in the moment. I prefer to work that way.

The news happens quickly, too quickly to process, and I am always left hanging.

Especially when I was university editor my sophomore year, I loved the office so much I didn’t usually feel the need to leave—and when I did, it could be jarring. I answered my cell phone, “The Chronicle, This is Julia!” with unsettling frequency.

When I would run into acquaintances who did not write for the paper for the first time in a long while, they would begin the conversation with a perfunctory, “How are you?!” followed by a more earnest, “How’s The Chronicle?”

I usually sidestepped the first query and launched into a breathless response to the second, recalling My Interview with The Bachelor or The Time I Met Robert Redford. I responded that way because it seemed to be what people wanted to hear. But I eventually realized it was also the part of my life I most enjoyed telling.

Sting lyrics and romantic comedies have taught me that the true sign of loving something is knowing when to leave it.

Although I am not fully committed to leaving Duke, I knew I can’t stay without being emphatic in my desire to be here. With time away, I know I will embrace every moment of the year that remains when I return. Limits are strangely beautiful to me.

Duke has made me happier than I could have ever hoped for, but it is a joy I know too well. When I set foot on West Campus for the first time with my father, it was bewitching—we had to squint to see past the golden filament that was falling from the trees. The pollen now makes me sneeze. I see the University—the turrets and the Gothic spires, the distinguished speakers and the students caked in blue paint—with undue clarity. After five semesters on campus, I can see what would have been the sixth unfolding in my mind’s eye; it’s a blurry picture, but it’s outlined by certain beloved yet immovable realities of my life that I would not change. I know that’s why I need to get away.

Julia Love is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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