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Campus Council

Panhel, frats to get space on Central

Kip Frey blazes his own trail

Hitting a high note

by Jeremy Ruch

by Nicole Kyle

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The Panhellenic Association, Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity have been granted space on Central Campus, Campus Council members announced at Thursday’s weekly meeting.

“We have confirmed that three groups will be joining Central Campus next year,” said Jen Frank, assistant director of accommodations for RLHS. Panhel was assigned units 201 and 202 on Alexander Ave. PiKapp has unit 220, and SAE has unit 1712 on Pace St. Panhel, PiKapp and SAE will join Ubuntu and SHARE, the only two selective living groups currently on Central.

The Panhel space on Central will be available to all nine sororities, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residential life.

“In their original proposal, the idea was that each sorority would have an equal number of beds or something,” he said.

“Each sorority will have to decide­—it’s up to them to fill the space.”

Panhel’s proposal was confirmed Friday of last week, after Campus Council approved it at last week’s meeting. On Friday,

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A cappella group The Blanks, which has appeared in the TV sitcom “Scrubs” for the past eight years, performs in Reynolds Theater in the Bryan Center Thursday evening.

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It’s not your average resume for an adjunct professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

From his escapades as a venture capitalist to becoming the Executive Vice President of World Championship Wrestling, Kip Frey, Law ‘85, has had a wild ride, playing parts in a diverse set of business enterprises.

In the latest twist, the local entrepreneur—who was named Southeast’s top entrepreneurial CEO by Digital South Magazine in 1999—announced plans in November to leave his current post at the Durham-based venture capital firm Intersouth Partners to become chief executive officer of Zenph Studios, a cutting-edge music remastering company and an Intersouth investment based in Research Triangle Park.

“The start-up companies that I’ve run have had a combination of technology that’s really interesting and a market opportunity that at the moment seemed opportunistic,” Frey said.

Before serving in his most recent role as partner at Intersouth, he served as President and CEO at OpenSite Technologies, an onSee frey on page 6

Academic Council

Athletics’ budget raises concerns

by Christina Peña The chronicle

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Academic Council Chair Craig Henriquez addresses concerns about the athletics department’s budget at the Academic Council meeting Thursday.

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Professors and administrators took part in at-times heated debate about the state of the athletics department budget Thursday afternoon at the Academic Council meeting.

Michael Gillespie, chair of the Athletic Council Committee and Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard professor of political science, presented a summary of the athletics budget, including a breakdown of the department’s revenues and losses. The University currently provides a subsidy of $14.6 million to the department, down from $15 million last year.

During the committee presentation, Gillespie mentioned plans for the creation of a new field house, which prompted mathematics professor Richard Hain to raise his objections.

“Why do we need a field house? We’re not in a place like Wisconsin where it is freezing outside,” Hain said. “There are a lot things people need that are central to the goals of the University and they’re not getting them. Various long-term employees are losing their jobs and Arts and Sciences are being asked to cut $100,000 in each department, yet the athletics department is growing at a staggering rate.”

Academic Council Chair Craig Henriquez, professor of comSee athletics on page 4

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“...There’s nothing on the market of this kind so far.”

­—Invetech director Andreas Knaack on radiation diagnostics devices.

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Kip Frey, Law ‘85, became CEO of Zenph Studios in November, marking the latest venture in his 25-year career as an entrepreneur.

iPhone app simplifies decision-making, Page 3

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Investors believe China’s GCMS surveys view of Islam bubble will soon burst WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of Americans have an unfavorable impression of Islam—alone among major religions—a new poll finds.

The survey by the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies found 53 percent of Americans view Islam unfavorably compared with 42 percent who view the religion favorably. Majorities view other major religions favorably: 91 percent for Christianity, 71 percent for Judaism and 58 percent for Buddhism.

The negativity comes even as 63 percent of Americans said they don’t know anything about Islam or know just a little bit about the religion.

Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup center, said that, while other religious extremists are portrayed as being outside the mainstream, Islamic terrorists are described as representatives of their religion.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Investors have turned bullish on the United States while tempering their enthusiasm for China as they worry about a market bubble there, according to a Bloomberg survey.

An overwhelming majority also see a government debt default on the horizon this year, according to a quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers. Greece is considered the riskiest government, followed

by Argentina, Russia, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Mexico.

Sentiment toward the U.S. investment climate has flipped in just three months.

Almost six of 10 respondents are now optimistic about the U.S. while a majority held a pessimistic outlook in an October poll. A nine-month rally in U.S. stocks has pushed up the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index 68 percent through Wednesday’s close.

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STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s recovery from its worst recession since World War II may be stronger than first estimated, as the export-reliant economy benefits from a resurgence in global trade, Finance Minister Anders Borg said.

“It may be that Sweden has coped better than feared,” Borg said at a meeting with journalists at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm Thursday, adding the country may be less affected than many other nations in Europe and that Sweden may be less hurt than in previous major crises that have hit the country.

Gross domestic product may grow 3 percent this year, with growth “slightly higher” than that in 2011 and 2012, Borg said. On Dec. 4, Borg announced that the Swedish government will need to raise its Nov. 9 forecast of 2 percent economic

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Sweden suffered Scandinavia’s severest economic decline last year after its biggest exporters adjusted to shrinking markets by cutting jobs. The country’s trade-reliance is now helping it rebound faster as growth returns to Europe and Asia. Manufacturing has expanded for seven consecutive months, consumer confidence has been positive for five months and the government expects unemployment to peak at a lower rate than first estimated.

“Unemployment may peak below 10 percent, perhaps down toward 9 percent,” Borg said.

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Professor awarded $3.7M to Ariely’s iPhone advance radiation diagnostics app helps users intended to be about the size of a desktop printer, approximately 30 minutes to deliver results.

The pandemonium following the detonation of a Chute said that in a crisis situation, knowing a person’s “dirty bomb” may be diminished by the work of Duke level of radiation exposure will be necessary to determine researchers. whether that person needs immediate treatment or can be The U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Devel- sent home. opment Authority awarded Dr. John Chute, associate proHe said the prototype will be tested in a large-scale clinifessor of medicine in the cellular therapy division, a $3.7 cal trial. In the trial, blood samples will be collected from million grant for the development of a diagnostic tool individuals who have been exposed to radiation for cancer that can rapidly determine an individual’s level of expo- treatment to verify that the test is accurate in predicting sure to radiation. radiation levels.

“There is substantial concern that radiological or nuThe project is scheduled to span five years, with up to clear materials may be used $43.6 million in funding posin the U.S. to cause harm, sible at the discretion of the “...There’s nothing on the market federal government. perhaps by terrorists,” Chute said. “If that were to happen The prototype is in a class of this kind so far.” in a city, there are likely to of molecular diagnostic plat— Andreas Knaack, forms known as sample-tobe thousands or tens of thousands of people who are exsaid Jim Healy, chief Invetech director answer, posed or worried that they’ve financial officer of DxTerbeen exposed [to radiation], ity Diagnostics, a California so the rapid triage of people company that will provide through some sort of medical evaluation will be critical to the detection technology for the gene signatures develthe management [of the situation].” oped by Chute. The sample-to-answer system allows for The tool will use a discovery recently made by a team complex biological samples, like blood, to be rapidly and led by Chute. The team found gene expression profiles in directly analyzed. blood that can determine with 95 percent accuracy whethIn addition to collaborating with DxTerity Diagnostics, er an individual has been exposed to radiation.

Chute will be working with the University of Arizona and “The purpose of this grant is to translate our research Invetech Corporation, which will both focus on instrument findings, which showed that a subset of genes can pre- development. dict radiation status, into the development of an assay “[The device] is both technically extremely significant that is rapid and applicable to a mass casualty scenario,” and will provide some technical breakthroughs, but also Chute said. there’s nothing on the market of this kind so far,” said The prototype will use an individual’s blood sample to Andreas Knaack, director of biomedical instruments and not only determine whether they have been exposed to devices at Invetech. “It will therefore in extreme situations radiation, but also to measure what level of radiation they provide solutions and diagnostic answers much faster and have been exposed to. It will take the prototype, which is much cheaper than what is currently possible.”

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At the touch of a fingertip, three iPhone applications created by Dan Ariely, James B. Duke professor of behavioral economics, and his research team will help users make better, more rational decisions.

Forecast to launch in the Apple iPhone app store next month, these applications will provide a channel for Ariely to study people’s behavior in real time as each person who purchases one of these applications can be a subject in one of his behavioral studies.

The three applications, tentatively named “Perspective,” “At A Boy,” and “Procrastination Buster” Dan Ariely will be a window into subjects’ lives, said Samuel Iglesias, a graduate student in the Fuqua School of Business and a member of Ariely’s research team.

“Perspective” lets a user choose 10 to 15 people he trusts and deem them his “Outside Perspective.”

When making a decision, users select a person from an “Outside Perspective” and is asked to imagine what that person would do in their position. “Perspective” can then send an e-mail to the chosen person, who responds with what he or she really would have done. This feedback creates an opportunity for long-term learning Ariely said.

“Simply by thinking about what other people would do… helps you make a more rational deciSee iphone app on page 5

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central from page 1 Residence Life and Housing Services, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, finalized the decision.

Panhellenic members said they are pleased with the outcome.

“Personally, I’m thrilled. This is something we haven’t had for decades, something we’ve been working on for decades, and to see it happen in the same year that we’ve been working on it is a huge step for sororities,” said Senior Alyssa Dack, recruitment vice president for Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Dack was not present at the meeting.

Dack, presented the original proposal with Senior Casey Miller, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, in December. Miller could not be reached for comment. “[The space] will be a huge asset, a way to give us the ability to work

together, learn from each other and have a working relationship between the nine chapters. We haven’t had the accomodations to do that before,” Dack said.

She also added that the space on Central will most likely be used by junior and senior members only, and it is Panhel’s hope that all nine sororities decide to participate in the space on Central.

In other business: Campus Council members also announced new programming events, including ice skating on the Main Quadrangle Friday, Feb. 5 from 6 to 10 p.m.

The Facilities and Service Committee also gave a presentation Thursday. Projects like laundry room online tracking, laundry room shelving, more campus furniture and improved handicapped access were presented to the Council. Other projects discussed were floor maps in Few Quad, new signs in the Blue Zone and milemarkers on East.

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At Campus Council’s meeting Thursday night, President Stephen Temple, a junior, discusses the addition of Panhel and two fraternities to Central Campus in the upcoming academic year.

athletics from page 1 puter science and co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering, said the athletic department makes the money it needs to operate, except for the University subsidy. He added that concerns are only raised in lean times, when the University is trying to cut its budget.

According to the Department of Athletics’ 2008 strategic plan, “Unrivaled Ambition,” however, expenses have exceeded revenue for the department for many years. Currently, the department is attempting to balance a $60.3 million budget, convening an Executive Budget Committee to rein in costs. As of November, they had been able to cut 5 percent of expenses.

“All units are struggling to make their budgets,” Henriquez said. “This isn’t specific to the athletic department. Part of it is that they are outside of academics, they’re visible and as a result, an easy target. There are a few in athletics making lots of money and so it’s one place people go after when they’re trying to decide what is good for the University.”

Still, Hain said the structure and role of the athletics department needs to be revisited.

“Some people see [the athletics department] as a big goose that lays golden eggs.

That’s not the way it works,” Hain said. “Coach [Mike Krzyzewski]’s salary has doubled in the last couple of years. I’m wondering how much retaining [head football coach David Cutcliffe] is going to cost us.”

Executive Vice President Tallman Trask responded that negotiations with Cutcliffe were still underway, but that it appeared keeping him at Duke was not going to cost more. Last week, Cutcliffe turned down the head coaching position at the University of Tennessee to keep coaching the Blue Devils. Coaching salaries, however, were still a controversial topic.

“There are contracts that the University gets only because we have Coach K,” Henriquez said.

“It’s because of Coach K that money flows into

the University that is then used to pay him....

Coaches have developed celebrity personas. 30 years ago we had a coach who made the equivalent of a faculty member and now we have one that make 10 times what the average faculty member makes.”

Hain noted that it was difficult to understand budgetary decisions the athletics department makes because the information is scarce and that he would like the information to be posted online or sent to members yearly. Trask responded that there was “no mystery here” and handed Hain a breakdown of the internal audit information.

“It’s a difficult thing to work through because this is our University,” Henriquez said. “We want this University to be highly-regarded and wellreceived so we don’t want to put information out there that is going to be incorrect or used against us, because it will be used against us, but at the same time we want to understand it.”

In addition to Gillespie’s presentation, chairs of the Faculty Athletic Associate program— created to facilitate communication between coaches and faculty members—presented an update and discussed their attempts to increase its effectiveness.

“This last year we tried to get a sense of what was working and what wasn’t working,” said coChair Suzanne Shanahan, an associate research professor in sociology. “In some instances there were good relationships formed between faculty and coaches, but that was more of the exception than the norm.”

In other business: Jeff Glass, senior associate dean for education for the Pratt School of Engineering, presented a proposal for a new Masters of Engineering program.

Some professors expressed concerns that the new degree would detract from the quality of students admitted and instead focus on acquiring more revenue. The proposal will be voted on at the Academic Council meeting next month.

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iphone app from page 3 sion,” Iglesias said.

People have a difficult time choosing between two things if they are very different but yield about equal amounts of utility or happiness, Ariely said. The “Procrastination Buster” app prevents users from prolonging decisions like this. A user enters a dilemma and sets a deadline for the decision. If users have not made a decision by the due date, the application will decide for them. If they do not like the outcome, they can choose the other option.

Ariely compared the “Procrastination Buster” to flipping a coin.

“When the coin is in the air, you often will know which side you want it to land on,” he said. In essence, the application does not make the decision for the user, but terminates the cycle of comparing one option over the other and sheds light on what she truly prefers.

The third application is not about decision-making. It is about happiness. “At A Boy” gives users random compliments on demand.

“At A Boy” was fueled by past studies that showed compliments, even from strangers, could better a person’s mood.

Users could turn to their phone and see Iglesias’ compliment: “You have the extra something that can take you to the next level.” Compliments can be rated and users can submit their own. The goal for Ariely’s team is to build a database of compliments and send out highly rated ones more often.

Iglesias and Nithim Varam, a research assistant from Ariely’s team, said they are confident these applications will be popular among iPhone users.

“I see great value in apps,” Varam wrote in an e-mail. “When I have discussions with friends to get their feedback on the features of the apps, I can clearly see that they are excited and would be interested in using them.”

If users buy the new applications, Ariely’s team will profit in more than just dollars and cents.

“We will find out what people are contemplating,” Ariely said. “Each application gives insight to the small detail of how they are making each decision.”

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Gitmo panel backs indefinite detention

by Peter Finn

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — A Justice Departmentled task force has concluded that nearly 50 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be held indefinitely without trial under the laws of war, according to Obama administration officials.

The task force’s findings represent the first time that the Obama administration has clarified how many detainees it considers too dangerous to release but unprosecutable because officials fear trials could compromise intelligence-gathering and because detainees could challenge evidence obtained through coercion.

Human rights advocates have bemoaned the administration’s failure to fulfill President Obama’s promise last January to close the Guantanamo Bay facility within a year as well as its reliance on indefinite detention, a mechanism devised during George W. Bush’s administration that they deem unconstitutional.

“There is no statutory regime in America that allows us to hold people without charge or trial indefinitely,” said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

But the efforts of the task force, which this week completed its case-by-case review of the 196 detainees still being held at Guantanamo, allows the Obama administration to claim at least a small measure of progress toward closing the facility.

“We’re still moving forward and in a much more deliberate and less haphazard manner than was the case before,” said an administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the recommendations have not been made public. “All policies encounter reality, and it’s painful, but this one holds up better than most.”

The task force has recommended that Guantanamo detainees be divided into three main groups: about 35 who should be prosecuted in federal or military courts; at least 110 who can be released, either immediately or eventually; and the nearly 50 who must be detained without trial.

Administration officials argue that detaining terrorism suspects under Congress’s authorization of the use of force

against al-Qaeda and the Taliban is legal and that each detainee has the right to challenge his incarceration in habeas corpus proceedings in federal court.

In a May speech, Obama said detention policies “cannot be unbounded” and promised to reshape standards. “We must have a thorough process of periodic review, so that any prolonged detention is carefully evaluated and justified,” he said.

The group of at least 110 detainees cleared for release includes two categories. The task force deemed approximately 80 detainees, including about 30 Yemenis, eligible for immediate repatriation or resettlement in a third country. Roughly 30 other Yemenis were placed in a category of their own, with their release contingent upon dramatically stabilized conditions in their home country, where the government has been battling a branch of alQaeda and fighting a civil war.

Obama suspended the transfer of any Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen in the wake of an attempted Christmas Day airliner attack, a plot that officials said originated in Yemen. Effectively, all Yemenis now held at Guantanamo have little prospect of being released anytime soon.

“The task force recommendations are based on all of the known information about each detainee, but there are variables that could change a detainee’s status, such as being ordered released by the courts or a changed security situation in a proposed transfer state,” an administration official said.

Moving a significant number of detainees to the United States remains key to the administration’s now-delayed plan to empty the military facility. The federal government plans to acquire a state prison in Thomson, Ill., to house Guantanamo detainees, but the plan faces major hurdles.

Congress has barred the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States except for prosecution. And a coalition of Republicans opposed to any transfers and some Democrats critical of detention without trial could yet derail the possibility of using the Thomson facility for anything other than military commissions, according to congressional staffers.

The task force comprised officials from the departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security and Justice, as well as agencies such as the CIA and the FBI. Officials said that the process of assessing the detainees was extremely challenging and occasionally contentious, but that consensus was reached on each case in the end.

Some European officials, who would like to see Guantanamo Bay closed without instituting indefinite detention, are advocating the creation of an internationally funded rehabilitation center for terrorism suspects in Yemen and possibly Afghanistan. They say such a facility would gradually allow the transfer of all detainees from those countries back to their homelands, according to two sources familiar with the plan.

A clear majority of the detainees slated for prolonged detention are either Yemeni or Afghan, and European officials think the others could eventually be resettled under close supervision.

European officials hope to raise the issue at an international conference in London next week that will address the situations in Yemen and Afghanistan.

“We are running out of options, and the administration needs to seriously consider this,” said Sarah Mendelson, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the author of a report on closing Guantanamo Bay. “There is lots of really good expertise on rehabilitation, and the administration needs to invest in it.”

The Bush and Obama administrations considered helping Yemen formulate a rehabilitation program, but the idea foundered amid concerns about the Middle Eastern country’s capacity to implement it, officials said.

Since Obama took office, 44 detainees have been repatriated or resettled in third countries, including 11 in Europe.

The administration anticipates that about 20 detainees can be repatriated by this summer, and it has received firm commitments from countries willing to settle an additional 25 detainees who have been cleared for release, officials said.

Within a few days, sources said, several other detainees are slated to be transferred out.

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Kip Frey, Law ‘85, is the taking helm as the CEO of Zenph Studios, a music remastering company in Research Triangle Park. Frey, an adjunct professor at Sanford, was the Executive Vice President of World Championship Wrestling.

frey from page 1 line auction software firm, and earlier, was a major player in Turner Broadcasting System.

As an associate general counsel at Turner in the early 1990s, Frey found himself the subject of an unexpected request to run Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling organization.

“I didn’t know anything about wrestling,” Frey said. “I didn’t have any particular interest in it, but it was a chance to run a very significant division of a very large corporation.”

Frey spent a little more than a year in his position, going by the stage name “K. Allen Frey” in a Vince McMahon-like role and becoming a very public part of what he described as the “soap opera” of championship wrestling, before moving on to other ventures.

Frey’s latest undertaking with Zenph Studios tackles another arena of the entertainment industry and seeks to recreate past musical performances by converting them into data that can be manipulated on a computer. Already, Zenph has completed projects to re-master performances by renowned musicians including classical pianist Glenn Gould and violinist Sergei Rachmaninoff.

In addition to making older performances sound better, Zenph’s product allows modern-day artists to alter or build on the works of their predecessors. Features of Zenph’s technology allows users to digitally apply the “styles” of older performers to new recordings, or even insert their own performances and perform duets with other artists. Unlike older re-mastering technology, Zenph’s methodology—which can actually modify the data and sound waves associated within a performance—isn’t limited by the original recording, Frey noted.

“The re-mastered Beatles things that have just come out are really interesting and sound really interesting, but they’re simply a more perfect incarnation of what was originally recorded,” Frey said.

Frey added that Zenph has already been approached by violinist Joshua Bell, who expressed interest in performing a duet with Rachmaninoff, a 19th century Russian violinist.

“Joshua wanted to, in his performance, do something that required Rachmaninoff to change his performance a little bit. And so he asked Rachmaninoff to change his performance—and Rachmaninoff did, even though he’s been dead for [more than 60] years,” he said.

The focus of Zenph’s work has already raised questions about potential infringement of copyright laws. Frey noted that his company may find itself dealing with entirely new features of intellectual property rights.

“Because of his legal background and just the way he thinks, he has a really unique perspective and is able to look at things in different ways,” said Suzanne Cantando, communications director at Intersouth.

“If we can understand how an individual artist’s style can be applied digitally in new music, that’s a right that really doesn’t exist… so one of the interesting aspects of this company is that we’re going to be dealing eventually with truly a new species of intellectual property right, which could be fun,” Frey said.

Frey’s diverse business experiences have made their way into his classroom lectures, as well.

Senior Joshua Wohl, a former student in Frey’s course “Intellectual Property: Law, Policy, and Practice,” said Frey “was a big name-dropper” and “used to tell a lot of stories.”

In one class, Wohl added, Frey told a story about his time serving as counsel to NASCAR. Pressed for time to seek a copyright injunction against third-party merchandisers in a higher-level state or federal court, Frey got creative and maneuvered a family court judge to inflict the violation.

James Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, wrote in an e-mail that Frey is a “stellar teacher.”

“One great advantage of Kip’s continuing work in venture capital is that he stays current with trends in IT and media, [which] makes him a great resource as Duke students think about careers,” he said.

For Frey, staying abreast of cutting-edge trends in just another day at the job.

“It’s exciting for us to be able to bring this opportunity to the market, it’s exciting for the estates of artists whose work may have gone into the public domain [and] it’s a new stream of revenue that hasn’t existed before, so I think everyone’s going to end up winning,” Frey said.

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‘Volcker Rule’ shifts power away from Geithner

by David Cho and Binyamin Appelbaum The Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For much of last year, Paul Volcker wandered the country arguing for tougher restraints on big banks while the Obama administration pursued a more moderate regulatory agenda driven by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

Thursday morning at the White House, it seemed as if the two men had swapped places. A beaming Volcker stood at Obama’s right as the president endorsed his proposal and branded it the “Volcker Rule.” Geithner stood farther away, compelled to accommodate a stance he once considered less effective than his own.

The moment was the product of Volcker’s persistence and a desire by the White House to impose harsher checks on the financial industry than Geithner had been advocating, according to some government sources and political analysts. It was Obama’s most visible break yet from the reform philosophy that Geithner and his allies had been promoting earlier.

Senior administration officials say there is now broad consensus within the White House and the Treasury for the plan advanced

by Volcker, who leads an outside economic advisory group for the president. At its heart, Volcker’s plan restricts banks from making

speculative investments that do not benefit their customers. He has argued that such speculative activity played a key role in the financial crisis. The administration also wants to limit the ability of the largest banks to use borrowed money to fund expansion plans.

The proposals, which require congressional approval, are the most explicit restrictions the administration has tried to impose on the banking industry. It will help to have Volcker, a legendary former Federal Reserve chairman who garners respect on both sides of the aisle, on Obama’s side as the White House makes a final push for a financial reform bill on Capitol Hill, a senior official noted.

Advocates of Volcker’s ideas were delighted. “This is a complete change of policy that was announced today. It’s a fundamental shift,” said Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. “This is coming from the political side. There are classic signs of major policy changes under pressure ... but in a new and much more sensible direction.”

Industry officials, however, said they were startled and disheartened that Geithner was overruled, in part because they supported the more moderate approach Geithner proposed last year.

“His influence may have slipped,” said a senior industry

official who spoke on condition of anonymity to preserve his relationship with the administration.

“But you could also argue that it wasn’t Geithner who lost power.

It’s just that the president needed Volcker politically” to look tough on big banks.

Geithner agreed with Volcker that banks’ risk-taking needed to be constrained.

But through much of the past year, Geithner said the best approach to limiting it is to require banks to hold more capital in reserve to cover losses, reducing their potential profits. Geithner said blanket prohibitions on specific activities would be less effective, in part because such bans would eliminate some legitimate activity unnecessarily.

The shift towards Volcker’s thinking began last fall, according to government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations were private.

Volcker had been arguing that banks, which are sheltered by the government because lending is important to the economy, should be prevented from taking advantage of that safety net to make speculative investments.

To make his case, he met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and gave numerous speeches on the subject, traveling to at least nine cities on several continents to warn that banks had developed “unmanage-

able conflicts of interest” as they made investments for clients and themselves simultaneously.

“We ought to have some very large institutions whose primary purpose is a kind of fiduciary responsibility to service consumers, individuals, businesses and governments by providing outlets for their money and by providing credit,” he said during one speech in Toronto. “They ought to be the core of the credit and financial system. Those institutions should not engage in highly risky entrepreneurial activity.”

Gradually, Volcker picked up allies. John Reed, the former chairman of Citigroup, expressed his public support. So did Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England.

His ideas began gaining traction within the administration in late October, when the president convened a meeting of his senior economic advisors in the Oval Office to hear a detailed presentation by the former Fed chairman.

There was no immediate change of course. But after the House passed a regulatory reform bill on Dec. 11 that was largely based on the Geithner’s vision, the administration began to warm to Volcker’s ideas, which had the political value of seeming tough on Wall Street, said sources in contact with the Treasury and White House.

At the time, administration of-

ficials were growing concerned that government guarantees designed to spur lending by letting banks borrow cheaply were instead funding banks’ speculative investments and fueling soaring profits, said Austan Goolsbee, a member of the president’s council of economic advisors.

“We started coming out of the rescue and you saw some of the biggest financial institutions... who had access to cheap financing... use that money without lending or anything, just doing their own investments,” he said. “That clearly started putting (the issue) on the radar screen for us.”

In mid-December, the president formally endorsed Volcker’s approach and asked Geithner and Lawrence Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, to work closely with the former Fed chairman to develop proposals that could be sent to Capitol Hill. The three men had long discussions about the idea, including a lengthy, one-on-one lunch between Geithner and Volcker on Christmas Eve. Summers and Geithner had been reluctant to take on battles that weren’t at the heart of the problem that fueled the crisis. But ultimately, an administration official said, the two men concluded that reform needs to be about more than just fighting the last war—it needs to address sources of future risk as well.

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High court shows willingness to act boldly

by Robert Barnes The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The Roberts court ended its term last summer avoiding a constitutional showdown with Congress over the Voting Rights Act. But its first major decision of the current term might signal a new willingness to act boldly.

Chief Justice John Roberts and his conservative colleagues delivered a seismic jolt Thursday. They overturned two of the court’s past decisions — including one made as recently as six years ago — to upend federal legislation that corporations may not use their profits to support or oppose candidates and to declare unconstitutional a large portion of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act passed in 2002.

“This is obviously such an exceptionally dramatic, high-profile break with precedent,” said Pamela Harris, executive director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law Center. “The question is what will come next?

Perhaps they have exhausted themselves on this one case, or it could have the opposite effect, and be energizing. I really don’t

know which it will be.”

The court’s future (Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. were key to the decision) and its past (89-year-old John Paul Stevens led his liberal colleagues in dissent) were on vivid display at the court’s special session to deliver all 176 pages of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission.

Although the majority’s ode to the First Amendment was announced by Justice Anthony Kennedy, it would not have been possible without Roberts and Alito, President George W. Bush’s nominees to the court.

Roberts has shown himself more willing than his mentor and predecessor, William Rehnquist, to question the court’s past decisions.

Alito’s replacement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has tipped the court’s balance from supportive of congressional efforts to reduce the influence of special interests to suspicious of how the restrictions curtail free speech.

The dissent was read hesitantly

by Stevens, the court’s longestserving justice. Thought by many to be ready to leave the bench after this term, Stevens stumbled

uncharacteristically in more than 20 minutes denouncing the majority opinion.

His 90-page dissent, however, was razor-sharp.

He said the majority’s “glittering generality” that corporate speech, like individual speech, is protected under the First Amendment was a “conceit” that is “not only inaccurate but also inadequate to justify the court’s disposition of this case.”

He wrote of his conservative colleagues’ “agenda,” and said they had transformed a simple case about whether a conservative group’s movie about Hillary Clinton violated McCain-Feingold into a constitutional quandary. “Essentially, five justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to give themselves an opportunity to change the law.”

Roberts and Alito joined Justices Antonin Scalia, Kennedy and Clarence Thomas, the three court veterans who had signaled their disagreement with the corporate limits Roberts and Alito wrote separately to endorse the majority deci-

sion and to defend against charges that it was ignoring the respect for the court’s past decisions — known as stare decisis — that each had pledged to uphold during their confirmation hearings.

“We have had two rounds of briefing in this case, two oral arguments and 54 amicus briefs to help us carry out our obligation to decide the necessary constitutional questions according to law,” Roberts wrote. “This careful consideration convinces me that Congress violates the First Amendment when it decrees that some speakers may not engage in political speech at election time, when it matters most.”

But Roberts bristled at Stevens’ charge that the majority’s opinion showed it was not “serious about judicial restraint.”

“This approach is based on a false premise: that our practice of avoiding unnecessary (and unnecessarily broad) constitutional holdings somehow trumps our obligation faithfully to interpret the law,” Roberts wrote. “It should go without saying, however, that we cannot embrace a narrow ground of decision simply because it is

narrow; it must also be right.”

Roberts seemed to be speaking to liberals when he wrote that stare decisis cannot be seen an “inexorable command.”

“If it were, segregation would be legal, minimum wage laws would be unconstitutional and the government could wiretap ordinary criminal suspects without first obtaining warrants,” he said, referring to previous court decisions.

Perhaps with the nation’s editorial writers in mind, Roberts also pointed out that an exception in the McCain-Feingold law for media companies was “simply a matter of legislative grace.”

Roberts warned “The fact that the law currently grants a favored position to media corporations is no reason to overlook the danger inherent in accepting a theory that would allow government restrictions on their political speech.”

The battle over restricting corporate and union spending in political campaigns does not necessarily break down along ideological lines. The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association supported Citizens United.

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Duke seeks revenge at hostile Littlejohn

by Stuart Price The chronicle

Few can forget Clemson’s 74-47 thrashing of Duke last February. The lopsided victory was the Blue Devils’ worst loss in more than 13 seasons. Such an embarrassment left head coach Mike Krzyzewski dumbfounded, sitting throughout much of the second half with his hands covering his blank face, questioning what had happened to his fourthranked team.

“It was 40 minutes of them dominating. They just kicked our butts,” Krzyzewski said last year. “[Our team] shouldn’t forget this loss.”

The No. 7 Blue Devils, nearly a year later, now have their chance for revenge against the Tigers at the notoriously hostile Littlejohn Coliseum Saturday at 9 p.m. Still recovering from an 88-74 loss at N.C. State, however, Duke (15-3, 3-2 in the ACC) faces a formidable challenge in No. 17 Clemson (15-4, 3-2) in large part due to one of the most underrated home environments in college basketball.

Since opening in 1968, Littlejohn Coliseum has been the host to 50 Clemson wins against ranked opponents—21 coming against top-10 teams—and has propelled the Tigers to an impressive .750 home win-

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ning percentage. Earlier this season, thenNo. 13 North Carolina met the same fate Duke did last year, as the Tar Heels were dominated, 83-64.

While many people believe Cameron Indoor Stadium—with its notorious Cameron Crazies—creates the most intimidating and disruptive atmosphere for visiting opponents in all of college basketball, EA Sports NCAA Basketball representatives recently named Littlejohn Coliseum No. 2 on their list of Toughest Places to Play, three spots higher than Cameron.

The producer of NCAA Basketball ‘10, Novell Thomas—who attended a Tigers game against Maryland last season—was particularly impressed with Clemson’s student cheering section, which refers to itself as the OPP, or Oliver Purnell’s Posse. The OPP, coupled with the Tiger Band, creates an incredibly disruptive, orange-filled atmosphere for opposing teams.

“What I love is the fact that the student section is positioned behind both hoops and literally within five feet of any would-be inbounders along the baseline,” Thomas said. “They knew how to get under the skin of the players.”

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Duke was completely shut down by Clemson when it last visited Littlejohn Coliseum Feb. 4, 2008, but the No. 7 Blue Devils hope to redeem themselves against the No. 17 Tigers Saturday night.

HITTING THE LINKS WITH HIS AIRNESS Ed Ibarguen landed the dream job as Michael Jordan’s golf coach 25 years ago

by Andy Moore The chronicle

If you were to watch Michael Jordan’s NBA Hall of Fame induction speech on YouTube, a familiar face to the Duke campus is present amid the frequent cutaways to Jordan’s family and friends.

The face belongs to Ed Ibarguen, general manager of the Duke University Golf Club.

The PGA master professional has been Jordan’s swing coach and friend since Jordan’s playing days at North Carolina in the early 1980s.

The speech Ibarguen saw in person has Ed Ibarguen become controversial in the weeks since Jordan gave it. Some saw it as petty and consumed with old rivalries. Others said it was not befitting of His Airness—beneath the greatest basketball player of all time.

Ibarguen knew the real story, though. His unique position as a longtime friend to Jordan made him aware that the public was finally seeing the real MJ, one of the most competitive athletes of his or any generation.

“I thought he was perfect,” Ibarguen said. “[Jordan said,] ‘Everyone talks about how competitive I

am. Let me show you what drove me.’ I thought it was very genuine and very much Michael Jordan behind closed doors, which the public doesn’t get to see much.”

Ibarguen has known the Jordan behind closed doors for 25 years now. Their story begins in Chapel Hill.

Early Days with the Phenom Ibarguen and Jordan began their unique relationship during Jordan’s last year at North Carolina, in 1984. The junior, already a national star after two dynamic years playing under Dean Smith, wanted to take up golf as an escape from the rigors of the hardwood.

At the time, Ibarguen was the PGA head golf professional at UNC Finley, the Tar Heels’ college golf course.

It was early in the career of a man who would one day become a Golf Digest top 100 instructor. Not that that mattered—he was about to gain a very high-profile student in Jordan.

“He was an excellent student,” Ibarguen said. “You’d show him something, and he’d work really hard on it.

Then he’d come back and you’d see such improvement.

He’s a visual learner and very cerebral about his game….

His progress was amazing for the first three years.”

Jordan was drafted third by the Chicago Bulls in the 1984 NBA Draft, and he would average 28.2 points per game in a Rookie of the Year season. His second year, though, was marred by injury. A broken foot sidelined the young phenom, who took the break as a chance to get his degree from North Carolina—and improve his golf game.

“He spent a lot of time working on his game that sum-

mer,” said Ibarguen. “He probably got down to a 6 or 7 handicap.”

Working as Jordan’s swing coach that summer gave Ibarguen an unexpected perk—Jordan’s brand new Mercedes convertible.

“He couldn’t go anywhere without being followed, so we actually switched cars,” Ibarguen said, laughing. “I got to drive a Mercedes convertible all summer, while he was incognito in my car.”

Jordan reunited with Ibarguen after every season, and he followed Ibarguen to the Duke Golf Club when the golf professional moved in 1988.

Ibarguen tells the story of his move while staying fully aware of its unusual circumstances—for a Carolina guy to move to Duke, while keeping the same job, is something not normally done along Tobacco Road.

The switch was also not lost on legendary former athletic director Tom Butters.

“Tom Butters actually had the guts to hire a UNC guy,” Ibarguen said. “After we got done with my interview, he called everybody out of his office, and leaned over his desk and said smiling, ‘You better be as good as I think you are for me to hire an SOB from Carolina.’”

By this time, Jordan was widely considered one of the game’s best players, known both for his incredible scoring prowess—he led the league in points per game seven years in a row—as well as his burgeoning celebrity through his commercials for Nike and McDonald’s.

On the golf course, however, he showed no signs See Ibarguen on page 11

10 | FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2010 the chronicle

Women’s basketball

Thomas, No. 6 Blue Devils stifle Virginia Tech Staunch defensive effort puts Duke back on track for rivalry clash at Maryland Sunday

by Caroline Fairchild and Jeff Scholl The chroniclE

For much of Duke’s matchup against Virginia Tech, neither team could hold onto the ball—and the 22-15 scoreline at halftime indicated as much. But ultimately the Blue Devils showed they wanted it more than the Hokies did and used their suffocating 38 defense to put the VT game out of reach.

DUKE 69 No. 6 Duke overcame 11 first-half turnovers and forced 26 to defeat Virginia Tech 69-38 Thursday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The Blue Devils (16-3, 4-0 in the ACC) struggled to score in the opening period, shooting only 25.7 percent from the field.

Fortunately for Duke, the Hokies (11-7, 1-3) didn’t do much better, shooting 24 No. 6 percent, and they Duke were clearly flusat tered by Duke’s aggressive defense. As UMd a result, Blue Devil head coach Joanne SUNDAY, 8 p.m.

P. McCallie wasn’t Comcast Center disappointed with Duke’s weak offensive output.

“I really had no problem with the team at halftime,” McCallie said. “I was proud that we kept such a good team to 15 points. Sometimes the ball doesn’t go in a little bit and that’s okay as long as you are defending. We had the most awesome defense in terms of holding a team that is so good in transition, a team that has scored so many points against other opponents.”

The Blue Devils started off the game on a 6-0 run, but weren’t able to pull away from the Hokies because of four consecu-

tive missed layups. After Keturah Jackson finally converted an easy bucket on the fastbreak with 12 minutes remaining, Duke went cold again, failing to score for almost four minutes.

But even when Virginia Tech cut Duke’s lead to 16-15 at the 3:14 mark, turnovers derailed the Hokies’ chances of pulling ahead. Duke used a 2-2-1 fullcourt zone press that led to four quick steals, the last of which resulted in a wide-open layup for Jasmine Thomas and brought the lead back up to five points.

The second half brought more of the same for Virginia Tech. The Hokies gave the ball up seven times over the first three and half minutes of the period, and the Blue Devils took advantage of Virginia Tech’s ballhandling woes, putting together a 14-4 run over that span.

Duke finally converted easy attempts in the paint and Krystal Thomas led the charge down low, scoring 13 of her 17 points after intermission on efficient 4-of5 shooting. While the Hokies continued to stumble on the offensive end, the Blue Devils pulled away by consistently staying aggressive around the basket.

“We were getting great looks in the paint, so those are very easy convertible shots,” Thomas said. “We kept attacking.

We never stopped just because we missed a few shots in the first half. So we just stayed with what was working and the shots kept dropping in the second half.”

Thomas’s ability to effectively finish for the Blue Devils spurred McCallie to start the junior in last night’s contest after she came off the bench against No. 1 Connecticut Monday. As McCallie considers six to seven Blue Devils worthy of a starting spot, Thomas and the others need to regularly perform well to stay in the starting five.

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Junior Krystal Thomas led the No. 6 Blue Devils with 17 points and six rebounds against the Hokies Thursday. we need a team that is consistent and people every night who are focused on what they can contribute to the team,” McCallie said. “Krystal’s worked very hard.... The bottom line is the finishing element and who’s in the game when it’s done.”

With 12:31 left in the game, the Blue

Devils were up by 20 and the lead only grew from there as Jasmine Thomas and Joy Cheek found their shooting stroke, combining for 16 second-half points.

Currently sitting atop the ACC standings, Duke hopes to extend its success to Sunday when it matches up against Maryland away from home.

Women’s Tennis

Duke faces uphill battle to repeat in 2010

by Andrew Ermogenous The chronicle

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Junior Ellah Nze is confident that Duke can succeed, and even repeat, this season without 2009 NCAA individual champion Mallory Cecil.

Coming off the best season in school history and an NCAA championship, the Blue Devils will look to avoid complacency this season. Duke is the preseason No. 1 team in the country and has four players ranked in the top 100 in the nation.

Despite the high praise, the Blue Devils (1-0) remain humble and focused on the upcoming season. Like most NCAA defending champs, they realize it is very difficult to repeat, but repeating is still very much part of their plans.

“We are really excited about this year, but we are going to take it one match at a time,” senior Amanda ODU Granson said. “Every year’s a new vs. year and what we did last year was great, but we’re looking to the fuNo. 1 ture. We are trying to repeat but also Duke keep things in perspective.”

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Duke faces many obstacles in the Sheffield Indoor upcoming season, the most obvious of which is replacing former freshman phenom Mallory Cecil, who recently turned pro after winning the NCAA singles title in May. This season’s Blue Devils are tasked with not only replacing her performances on the court, but her desire and leadership off the court as well.

“Mal was definitely a big loss, not only the matches she won, but the intensity she brought to practice every day,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “I talk to people now from last year’s team and they say that Mal was one of the best leaders we had. ” Junior Ella Nze was a bit more optimistic in her outlook for the season.

“Losing Mallory was hard but at the same time, it’s a team. Mallory was very good at number one, but that’s one match and it takes four to win,” Nze said. “I think that we have a good team. All the upperclassmen are going to step up this spring.”

The upcoming schedule poses many challenges for Duke, starting with the nonconference slate. The Blue Devils play both No. 2 Northwestern and No. 6 Notre Dame, two perennial contenders for national honors. Within the conference, the schedule gets even tougher. It is very feasible that the majority of the ACC could end up in the NCAA tournament in May. “The ACC is now the toughest conference in the country,” Ashworth said. “Five years ago it wasn’t that way. We could have 10 teams out of the 64 that make the tournament be from the ACC.” Even though the Blue Devils have many hurdles to overcome this season, freshmen Mary Clayton and Jessica Stiles, as well as sophomore transfer Monica Gorny bring in a very diverse skill set that will be a great asset to the team moving forward.

“Mary has had a lot of experience in national tournaments and international tournaments,” Ashworth said.

“Jessica doesn’t have as much experience but will definitely be a help to our doubles.... It’s rare that you get a girl that likes to come to the net and has good volleys. She fits that role, and we need that on our team.

After emphatically defeating Memphis 7-0 in the season opener, the Blue Devils resume play against Old Dominion (1-0) today at 6 p.m. in Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

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that the fame had gotten to his head. Working on his game with Ibarguen during scorching Carolina summer days, Jordan endured practices that he called “harder than Phil Jackson’s,” while drinking from a garden hose and playing behind the Washington Duke Inn daily.

The unexpected difficulty of the game had grabbed him. He gained appreciation from the early practices with Ibarguen, a feeling which remains with him even now.

“He fell in love with golf,” Ibarguen said. “To this day, when you ask him what his passion is besides basketball, it’s golf.”

Thomas also added that the OPP had some great banter, some of it not suited for print.

Most notably, though, Purnell’s relentless, suffocating 1-2-1-1 full-court press fuels the Tigers’ high-energy defense. Clemson’s aggressive defensive style forces turnovers, opening opportunities for emphatic dunks, which make the raucous OPP nearly unbearable for visiting opponents.

The reality of playing in Littlejohn does not bode well for Duke. Despite the Blue Devils’ impressive ACCopening victory over Clemson, in which the team held the Tigers to 12 first-half points, Littlejohn may expose Duke’s Achilles’ heel: playing on the road. The Blue Devils’ 11-0 record when playing in Cameron overshadows their dismal 0-2 record in ACC away games and 0-3 overall road record. A defeaning Littlejohn crowd wil provide perhaps the truest test to the Blue Devils’ court composure, which has been suspect on the road.

In Duke’s three losses away from home, the Blue Devils have had an assist-to-turnover ratio below one, while averaging a 1.42 assist-to-turnover ratio in all other games.

Even though Saturday night will be a difficult battle, look for the Blue Devils to be ready to play and focused on proving to the country that they can win on the road.

“It’s not like we can’t win on the road,” senior Jon Scheyer reiterated after the N.C. State loss. “A lot of guys in this locker room have won a lot of tough games.”

On Saturday, the OPP will have its chance to challenge that.

Later Days with the Legend Jordan has continued to work with Ibarguen, partly because of how much the practice facilities at the Duke University Golf Club suit a man of his celebrity. The range has a section that can be blocked from the public, allowing Ibarguen to critique Jordan’s swing without autograph hounds bothering them.

“It’s a perfect setup at Duke,” Ibarguen said. “We can do some serious work on his game without him getting hassled too much…. Plus, he loves the golf course, really loves playing it, and he realizes what a jewel it is.”

Jordan’s game has improved greatly since his most recent retirement in 2003. He shot several sub-70 rounds last summer, all from the championship tees.

Jordan always plays all the way back—it’s a matter of pride for him.

His frequent visits to Durham have given him a different perspective on the school that he loathed as an undergrad. While he still will not stay at the Washington Duke Inn (Jordan can’t bring himself to spend the night on Duke’s campus), he has developed a relationship with Mike Krzyzewski and has, according to Ibarguen, “respect for the Duke coach and his basketball program.”

Last summer, Jordan suffered a wrist injury during a round prior to a lesson at Duke. He visited Durham anyway, and was brought to the Duke Athletic training staff while here. He was amazed at how well he was treated, even though he went to the school across 15-501.

“In his exposure to Duke, he’s realized that there’s a lot to like here,” said Ibarguen. “It’s interesting—as an undergrad at Carolina and Duke, you have blinders on and are conditioned to hate the other school. That’s the way he was.”

While he may have softened up towards Duke, Jordan, at 46, still has the competitive fire that made him a legend.

The public saw a glimpse of it in his induction speech. Ibarguen sees it every time he gets to coach him.

“He has a fire,” Ibarguen said. “People talk about how much he gambles, but it has nothing to do with money. On the first tee, he only wants to bet whatever makes [his opponent] nervous.… He will get out there and play just as hard for nothing. He just wants to beat you.”

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The Blue Devils will need to improve upon a poor defensive effort against N.C. State to contain the fast-paced Tigers on Saturday.

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Imagining Duke Immerse In February 2007, the Plans for Duke Immerse University unveiled an inno- were first announced at last vative program designed to week’s Arts and Sciences break down classroom walls Council meeting by Susan and encourage students to Lozier, chair of the Academactively apply their knowl- ic Council Committee on edge to real world issues.

Undergraduate Education.

Three years Under the later, now that Committee’s editorial this program— draft proposal, what we now know as Duke- Duke Immerse would allow Engage—has successfully students to forgo a four-class captured the attention of stu- semester workload in exdents and shaped their un- change for an intensive sedergraduate experience, ad- mester of full-time research ministrators are at it again. alongside two or three facAlthough it is still in ulty members. the initial planning stages, The classroom has always if executed correctly, the been and should continue to proposed Duke Immerse be the locus of undergraduprogram could provide stu- ate life at liberal arts universidents with a positive, intel- ties. But a program like Duke lectually focused research Immerse could complement experience and enhance the rich educational experithe quality of undergradu- ence the University seeks to ate education. provide to its students.

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First, Duke Immerse could increase the number of students participating in independent research, a goal that has been high on the agenda for Trinity College administrators during the past few years.

By providing students with pre-arranged research experiences, the University would remove the barrier to entry facing many students who desire to conduct research but cannot make the faculty connections. Plus, it would allow students with past research experience to take their work to the next level and pursue their intellectual interest full time for a semester.

Second, the program would encourage faculty-student interaction beyond what a student would otherwise experience through normal classroom or independent study courses.

In what closely resembles the tutorial system at Oxford University, students participating in Duke Immerse would meet regularly with their faculty supervisors and receive constant feedback.

Such a high level of personal attention would undoubtedly benefit students, and professors might even enjoy closer contact with their students, too.

Third, a semester of fulltime research and faculty tutelage would provide students with a uniquely rigorous experience unparalleled by other universities.

This would allow students interested in pursuing graduate study to distinguish themselves or to test the waters of full-time research before committing to graduate school.

As intriguing of an idea as it is, however, Duke Immerse will undoubtedly appeal only to a small, highly-motivated segment of the undergraduate population. In fact, it might prove a nice alternative for juniors who want to stay in Durham their Fall semester but desire a break from the traditional classroom grind.

Still, a rigorous application process should be implemented to ensure that accepted students have already proven themselves in the classroom and possess the independence and maturity necessary to succeed in a fulltime research project.

Lots of details need to be worked out, but for now, Duke Immerse is an interesting idea that merits sustained attention.

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yla Brown is the type of person you feel inclined to hate simply because she is better than you at pretty much everything.

Of course, Ayla Brown is probably a kind and generous person: indeed, she’s likely a more virtuous individual than you or me. Her outstanding character notwithstanding, she evokes the type of hatred you generally ben brostoff feel towards the kid bro’s stuff who knows all the answers in lecture or the unfailingly polite hallmate whose room is always spotless.

About five years ago, I happened to come across an issue of School Sports Magazine that pictured a smug Brown on the cover in her Noble & Greenough basketball uniform holding a microphone. What followed were several thousand words on Brown’s extraordinary accomplishments ranging from scoring 2,000 plus points at Nobles to making an extended run on American Idol Season 5 to predicting market volatility via use of a sun dial. Predictably, since that cover story Ayla Brown has continued to rack up achievements at the rate at which most of us pack our stuff up five minutes before class ends. She defies normalcy. Most people could never hope to relate to Ayla Brown.

Not coincidentally, Scott Brown, newly crowned Massachusetts’ senator-elect from the Republican Party, is Ayla Brown’s father. The elder Brown is also something of a jack-of-all-trades, with significant experience as a lieutenant colonel, attorney at law, nude model and jump shot assassin. His wife, Gail Huff, is a charming and pretty TV reporter, and his other daughter, Arianna, rides horses and is pre-med at Syracuse. If you lived next to him, you would probably find his family’s resemblance to the Brady Bunch perpetually annoying. Throw in the Brown’s McMansion in New Hampshire and timeshare in Aruba, and Scott is very hard to root for.

Yet, 52 percent of Massachusetts did vote for Scott Brown because, apparently, Scott Brown is just like us. “I’m Scott Brown. I’m from Wrentham.

I drive a truck,” said the average man’s everyman at his victory party on Wednesday. Scott Brown owns a 2005 GMC Canyon pickup with 200,000 miles on it. He drove this very working-class truck across Massachusetts to rally voters, sometimes while wearing jeans and a white T-shirt. “He was likeable. His guy-next-door persona­—in television ads and on bus tours across the state—appealed to voters,” wrote New York Times reporter and

blogger Jeff Zeleny. Even though Scott Brown is no doubt the kind of guy who would watch his hypothetical son’s little league game wearing a Bluetooth while holding an iPhone with a built-in scorecard application, he effectively became the guy sitting in a lawn chair enjoying a Busch Light.

The irony of witnessing a politician pull off this type of acting job is not lost on anyone with a pulse: what’s interesting to me about Scott Brown is not that he pursued the win-the-lunch-pail-and-hard-hatvote strategy, but that he executed it so seamlessly.

There’s a solid record of politicians who try to win over the common man tipping their hand.

Adlai Stevenson, despite running a series of ads for the 1956 presidential election in which he did things like carry grocery bags and stand near farms, was dogged by his reputation as an indecisive and aristocratic intellectual (shades of John Kerry in 2004). Barack Obama received similar criticism for a speech in San Francisco that was uncharacteristically demeaning to blue collar Midwesterners.

Brown’s Democratic opponent, Martha Coakley, exacerbated a litany of other campaign missteps (like taking a week off for Christmas) by stupidly calling former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling a Yankee fan. Clearly, not everyone can play the GMC truck card as well as Scott Brown can.

To play the part of average Joe, Scott Brown must have somehow suppressed years and years of evidence attesting to his own brilliance (and the brilliance of his genes), thereby convincing himself that he was just some random 50 year-old who is in no way exceptional in anything.

William Deresiewicz, former associate professor of English at Yale University, described this as a genuinely baffling task. The immaculately educated Ivy Leaguer lamented his inability to make small talk with a plumber in The American Scholar: “So alien was his experience to me, so unguessable his values, so mysterious his very language, that I couldn’t succeed in engaging him in a few minutes of small talk before he got down to work.” How can the mighty help their lesser counterparts when they can’t even communicate with them? This is a question for Scott Brown.

So, five years after Ayla’s awe-inspiring stint on American Idol (she’s set to release her debut album Circles later this year), the Browns are again on top of the world. Scott has done the seemingly impossible by becoming the first Republican senator in Massachusetts since 1972. He also might later prove to be the straw that broke Obamacare’s back.

It appears there’s nothing the Browns can’t do. But don’t be fooled by the hype: they’re just a normal family from Wrentham that drives a truck.

Ben Brostoff is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Friday.

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ountry singer Alan Jackson claims that where he comes from, it’s “cornbread and chicken.”

Well, Mr. Jackson and I don’t come from too far apart.

You see, the Southern way of life is simpler than most. It’s a lifestyle based on tradition, close-knit families and friendly neighborhood competitions. Everybody loves their momma, manners are of the utmost importance and time passes just a little bit slower. molly lester Over break, I had the opportunity to remore taste, connect with family I less filling had not seen in years.

We all have family we never see unless forced to at mandatory holiday gatherings, and this year I was reminded of exactly where I come from.

For my people, the perfect Christmas Day is not white. Snow, in fact, causes mayhem and much distress. Before a “storm,” everyone goes to the store to purchase enough milk and white bread for a week.

An inch and a half of snow closes schools, black ice is worse than the plague and no one owns winter clothes fit for the elements. Thus, we all stay indoors, constantly worrying one might get lost in the winter abyss. I exaggerate about the fear of wintry weather, but not about my kin.

For example, Grandma Kathleen, “Kat Kat” to all who came before me, was born and raised in north Georgia. Farm girl by day, Southern cook extraordinaire by night, she embodies the meaning of a true Georgia woman. She’s quick as a whip and caring as can be, but sometimes, she uses age-old Georgia colloquialisms that outdate our generation by 50 years.

“Georgian,” my dad calls it. “You speak French, I speak Italian. Kat Kat… she speaks Georgian.” Georgian is an archaic language much like Latin. At one point it thrived, but now it’s practically obsolete.

Personally, I prefer Georgian—fewer conjugations.

“How’s your momma and them?” Kat Kat asked me as she greeted me with a smiling hug.

“My momma and who?” I asked, curious as to whom else she was referring.

“You know, ‘and them,’” she said, plain as day.

“She still livin’ down yonder?”

I was confused and Kat Kat saw it written all over my face. She then decided to turn her Georgian off.

Clearly, it had been too long since I’d been home—

“trapped up yonder,” if you will—unable to practice my Georgian while attending the University of New Jersey at Durham.

“How’s your mom and her family? Is everyone still up in Virginia?” Kat Kat repeated, this time sans Georgia flair.

“Everyone’s doing well, Kat Kat,” I told her as she put the final pecan pie in the oven.

Before my career at Duke began, I thought everyone had a Grandma Kat Kat. I now understand, however, that I was wrong. Having spent the past weekend “rushing” freshmen girls, I realize my Southern roots put me in a minority at Duke. I don’t have California flair or New York drive, but I do know how to make a friend, hold a door and properly pronouce “y’all.”

As I wandered about the kitchen, thankful, like so many others, for our snow-less Christmas, I stumbled into my Uncle Jimmy.

Uncle Jimmy was anxious to talk football. “Every man should play football,” he had once told me, and now that Duke football was back on the map, Uncle Jimmy was eager to fill me in on his recruiting secrets from way back when.

“My secret,” he told me as he pulled me in close, so that no cousins might hear his tactics, “was to pay close attention to the boys’ mommas. When I’d have my tryouts, next to the boy’s name and position, I’d write GLM or GLM-D. You know what that stands for, don’t you?”

“No idea,” I said as I went through my mental list of football acronyms. QB was quarterback, PAT was point-after-touchdown, but GLM? I was stumped.

Perhaps, it was Georgian.

He pulled me in closer and grinned (“grinnin’ like a Cheshire cat,” as Kat Kat would say), “GLM: Good Lookin’ Momma. GLM-D: Good Lookin’ Momma, Divorced. Only lost three games in 15 years.”

Many consider Duke to be the “Harvard of the South,” but I disagree. Only its location makes Duke Southern; the entirely unique amalgamation of students has shown me more diversity than I’ve ever encountered in Georgia. With all these different backgrounds, I think it is important to understand where you come from, because how else will you know where you’re going?

For the record, if you don’t know where you’re going but got a Good Lookin’ Momma, football recruiting season starts soon.

Molly Lester is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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Commitment to integrity

n the beginning, there was chaos and continual disappointment. Duke football was one of the worst programs in the entire country, to the point where attorneys were able to defend Duke’s team in a scheduling lawsuit by arguing that Duke was unable to win a football game. But order was finally brought to the chaos.

In the first year, Coach David Cutcliffe brought a winning attitude, an entirely new staff and “Cokes with Coach Cut.” And it was good. In the second year, elad gross Cutcliffe brought fresh recruits, high expectations and a much kitty babies improved team. And it was good.

Now, just before his third season, Cutcliffe has brought something the sporting world seems to lose everyday—integrity. And it was very good.

Too little has been said about the decision Cutcliffe made to stay at Duke. He turned down a dream job at Tennessee to continue his remarkable rebuilding program at a perennially weak football school. For context, his would-be-predecessor in Knoxville left his position only one year into his contract to take up a more prestigious position in California. Coaching changes happen all the time, and it would have surprised few people if Duke had to start a search for a new head coach. But when weighing his decision, Cutcliffe sacrificed the potential for an even bigger salary and, perhaps, even a personal dream to uphold his integrity.

Integrity has been slowly slipping away from our daily lives.

The drain is painfully obvious in sports. The steroid era, which was recently punctuated by the admission of Mark McGwire, will leave an indelible stain on baseball. The recent application of the Rooney Rule in the National Football League, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching vacancies before making a hire, was a joke—the Seattle Seahawks already settled on a white candidate, and a black coach was flown in and interviewed just so the team could fulfill their obligation.

Even the college football national championship lacks fairness.

At the end of this past season, two teams performed exceedingly well in their respective bowl games and both ended their seasons undefeated. But only one was deemed the national champion.

The loss of integrity in sports has been elevated to such levels of national importance that Congress has even interposed itself into the steroids crisis and national championship debate.

But Congress need look no further than themselves and our government to deal with another abhorrent loss of integrity.

Members of Congress are bought out by lobbyists, the president is likewise beholden to interest groups and those honorable few who call for reform to the system are often hushed in the halls of the Capitol Building. The entire recession had its origins in diminished integrity among institutions that should have been impervious to such a collapse.

Where has integrity gone? Was it even ever here to start out with? As Americans, we are encouraged to push the envelope, to stretch perceived boundaries beyond their natural limits. We went from a series of 13 colonies to a nation of 50 states. We successfully competed with established national powers, from Britain to France to Germany. We wrote the book on wealth creation and pushed the material quality of life to new heights.

But, in doing so, did we lose a quality that was at the very basis of our earliest settlements: integrity? A well-functioning democracy requires integrity. Credit rating agencies are supposed to ensure integrity within the financial system. Banks are supposed to lend to those who can repay. Doctors are supposed to write referrals based on the best interests of the patient. Every person in this country is supposed to act with integrity, but the reality is not so rosy. Politicians’ election campaigns require that they be obliged to interest groups, bankers are pressured to squeeze out profits any way they can and doctors have an incentive to make a larger income through the self-referral process.

We like to preach integrity, but when children grow up in a country that glorifies the cheating athlete over the overworked elementary school teacher, and profits over morals, what kind of a country are we actually building? The U.S. may not have had more integrity in the past, but as we progress through time, the potential destruction posed by an absence of integrity becomes ever larger.

That is why actions like those of Cutcliffe are so important to not only note, but to praise. If only ESPN spent as much time talking about the man’s decision to stay as they did discussing his apparently obvious departure to Tennessee. Perhaps then we could inculcate a national expectation to uphold personal integrity to stand alongside the ever-important expectation to win.

Elad Gross is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Friday.

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