February 1, 2010 issue

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Monday, February 1, 2010

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, Issue 85

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Freshmen robbed at gunpoint

by Samantha Brooks THE CHRONICLE

Three freshmen were robbed at 1 a.m.

Saturday morning in the Wachovia bank parking lot at the corner of Ninth and Main Streets.

Although one student, John Besa, was shot twice in the leg by a BB gun and had to be treated by emergency medical services, none of the victims were seriously injured.

The freshmen, Besa, Mike Coggins and Melanie Weingart, told Duke University Police that three black men wearing black winter coats and bandanas over their faces approached them in the parking lot and demanded money. One suspect was armed with a BB-gun and another was armed with a knife, according to an alert on DUPD’s Web site. The victims reported that the suspects took between $125 and $130 in cash, but no other property was taken.

Besa said the suspects demanded his money and told him “they weren’t kidding.”

“At the time I was freaked out, it took me a while to process what was happening,” Besa said. “The first shot was to get my attention, the second shot was probably because I hesitated... after I understood what was happening, I just handed him the See Robbery on page 15

SNOWSTORM SLAMS DUKE courtney douglas/The Chronicle

A worker clears the snow on the West Campus Plaza Sunday afternoon. A snowstorm hit Duke Friday evening and left Durham covered in 6 inches of snow, prompting the University to activate its Severe Weather Policy Friday night. The blue-tenting kickoff party was canceled and grace is in effect until Monday morning.

Duke, Durham ‘well-prepared’

by Toni Wei

THE CHRONICLE

A burst of uncharacteristically cold weather blanketed Duke and the surrounding area Friday with 6 inches of snow, turning the Gothic Wonderland into a winter wonderland.

With substantial snowfall a rare occurrence in the area,

both the University and the city of Durham have taken measures to respond to the severe weather.

“I mean, there’s not a lot we can do—we were ready with crews to clean as fast as we could, but it’s very difficult to clean because of ice pellets on See snowstorm on page 4

MEET THE graduate YOUNG TRUSTEE FINALISTS Adrienne Clough, second-year graduate student in the Fuqua Health Sector Management program Involvement: Co-Chair and Executive Fellow for Fuqua Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series, colaunched alumni mentorship program for HSM students, coordinating recruitment across graduate schools What do you hope to accomplish if you are elected Young Trustee? “My goals are to increase cooperation among Duke’s graduate programs, to make the Duke graduate schools top-tier recruitment pools by enhancing career-building opportunities, and to provide greater transparency for the University’s decisions.”

Alethea Duncan, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in chemistry Involvement: Graduate and Professional Student Council president, President’s Council on Black Affairs, Board of Trustees Representative on Institutional Advancement Committee What do you hope to accomplish if you are elected Young Trustee? “If selected as Young Trustee I hope bring my views and experiences—including my experiences as a graduate student—to the work done by the Board, while representing the University as a whole.”

Jeremy Block, seventh-year Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry Involvement: Graduate and Professional Student Council Strategic Planning Committee chair, Duke University Health Systems Institutional Review Board Member, Liaison to Duke University Police Department, Duke University Alumni Assocation: Alumni Interviewer for Duke applicants.

What do you hope to accomplish if you are elected Young Trustee? “Overall, I believe the goal of the young trustee for the graduate and professional schools is to continue the strong tradition of developing academic and professional leaders from Duke by working arm-in-arm with other members of the board and the broader Duke community to develop creative solutions to problems, identify exciting new areas where the university can go, and provide the foundation for using knowledge in service of society.”

Tenting kickoff parties called off

by Lisa Du

THE CHRONICLE

Cameron Crazies may be prepared to face any force of nature during tenting, but this weekend proved that snow won’t be one of those challenges.

Krzyzewskiville tenters have yet to start tenting duties following kick-off celebrations Jan. 30, when grace was

called because of the 6 inches of snowfall Durham received Friday night, said Head Line Monitor Zach White, a senior.

The grace period will be in effect until Monday morning and could be extended depending on weather conditions, White added.

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Historic Hoya shooting buries cold Blue Devils

by Gabe Starosta THE CHRONICLE

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Washington Wizards weren’t playing until Saturday night, and with Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton already suspended by the NBA, there was a good chance there weren’t any guns at the Verizon Center this weekend.

77 DUKE But Saturday afternoon, GTOWN 89 Georgetown shot the lights out against No. 8 Duke.

In one of the best offensive performances in school history, the No. 7 Hoyas (16-4) shot 71.7 percent and led nearly the whole way as the Blue Devils (17-4) lost their fourth road contest of the season, this one with an 89-77 scoreline that could have been much worse. Duke is now 1-4 in true road contests this year.

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ONTHERECORD

“I don’t have any dry socks.” ­—Senior Cass Goh on the impact of the weekend snowstorm.

See student sound-off page 5

Women’s Tennis: Still Undefeated Duke is headed to the ITA Team Indoor Championships after two wins this weekend, PAGE 8

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U.S. temporarily suspends medical flights to Haiti The U.S. military has temporarily halted medical evacuation flights for Haitians critically injured in this month’s earthquake, after Florida officials told the Obama administration that the state’s hospitals are becoming too crowded, officials said Saturday.

The decision has alarmed doctors trying to treat the crush of wounded in the devastated country. BarthGreen, who oversees a field hospital in the Haitian capital run by the charity Project Medis-

hare, said some patients could perish if they did not reach foreign medical facilities soon.

“We have to resume these flights. Letting them die, that’s not America,” said Green, who labored Saturday to find private donors to underwrite the cost of alternative flights.

A White House spokesman, Tommy Vietor, said officials are scrambling to find available medical facilities in other states so the military flights can resume.

Budget woes force NASA GOP victories raise stakes to cancel moon plans A string of Republican victories, including this month’s stunning upset in Massachusetts, has raised the stakes considerably for one of the nation’s last remaining 2010 holdouts: Robert Ehrlich Jr. (R), who has yet to say whether he’ll try to regain the Maryland governorship.

Ehrlich’s actions indicate that he is moving much closer to seeking a rematch with Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), even lining up dozens of fundraising events should he move forward. But Ehrlich—who in 2002 became the state’s first Republican governor in a generation, only to lose to O’Malley four years later—said in an interview he is unlikely to announce a decision before March.

WASHINGTON — NASA’s grand plan to return to the moon, built on former President George W. Bush’s vision of an ambitious new chapter in space exploration, is about to vanish with hardly a whimper. With the release Monday of President Obama’s budget request, NASA will finally get the new administration’s marching orders, and there won’t be anything in there about flying to the moon.

The budget numbers will show that the administration effectively plans to kill the Constellation program that called for a return to the moon by 2020. The budget is also a death knell for the Ares 1 rocket, NASA’s planned successor to the space shuttle. The agency has spent billions developing the rocket, which is still years from its first scheduled crew flight.

Carol Guzy/The washington post

A group of Haitians line up at a food distribution point manned by the Haitian government in the capitol of Port-au-Prince. Troops and aid workers are finding it hard to get food and water to the people, with U.S. captain Edward Kim calling it a “logistical nightmare.”

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Women Housing Option builds Duke study finds community, culture on West domestic terrorism a ‘serious’ threat

by Christine Chen The chronicle

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Students listen in during an information session Friday for the new Women’s Housing Option residential community, which will be located in Few Quadrangle above the Women’s Center. The Panhellenic Association was also granted space in 201 and 202 Alexander on Central Campus.

by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE

Next Fall, upperclassmen women may be eligible to live in two new residential communities on campus—the Women’s Housing Option and the Panhellenic Association’s space on Central Campus.

Although the spaces were granted on different dates, both are part of a campus-wide initiative to promote women’s culture, said Associate Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez.

“I think over the years we’ve had a deficit of the ability of women to influence campus culture to the extent men have been able to, in part due to who currently has space and which students have sections,” Gonzalez said.

The WHO will be located in Few Quadrangle above the Women’s Center, and Panhel housing will be in units 201 and 202 on Alexander Ave. Although proponents of the WHO sought to increase

CAPS Workshops and Programs Spring 2010 CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services) offers much more than just psychotherapy. Workshops, discussions, and information sessions on various mental health and life issues are offered to help Duke students learn effective and fulfilling approaches to life. See below for the Spring 2010 offerings.

What Is Spiritual Anyway?

A discussion led by staff from CAPS as well as clergy serving Christian, Muslim, and Jewish communities at Duke, exploring the role that spiritual and/or religious belief plays on daily life experiences.

Tuesday 7pm-8:30pm February 2 Rare Book Room, Perkins Library

Chasing Adonis: Gay Men and Body Image Concerns A Discussion session exploring the impact of the media, social pressures, and the emotional experiences associated with the pursuit of physical attractiveness.

Offered in collaboration with the Center for LGBT Life.

February 1 7pm-8:13pm LGBT Center Lounge

First Generational Invitational A Discussion session between professionals and students who are among the first in their family to attend a 4-year university, forming a mentoring network to provide support and community to 1G students.

Offered in collaboration with the Academic Resource Center.

February 3 7pm-8:15pm East Duke Parlor

Do I Look Fat? Gay Men and Disordered Eating A captivating documentary offering insight and compassion into the issues underlying body image and disordered eating among gay men.

Discussion to follow the film.

7pm-8:30pm March 2, 2010 Women’ s Center Lounge

Mindfulness and Meditation Skills Classes A 4-week class designed teaching mindfulness through the practice of specific skills that calm and focus your mind, including the practice of meditation. An introductory class and a continuation class will be offered Various Dates and Times Throughout the Semester 217 Page Building

Visit the CAPS Website for more information and to register. http://caps.studentaffairs.duke.edu

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The possibility of homegrown terrorism among MuslimAmericans is a “serious, but limited, problem,” according to a recent study.

The study, published by two Duke professors and a professor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, states that the rate of homegrown terrorism among American Muslims is low and that MuslimAmerican communities have continually denounced radical Islam.

“Compared to other parts of the world, we have many examples of acts of terror-related violence,” said study coauthor David Schanzer, associate professor of the practice for public policy. “The question is why that is. We wanted to look at what the Muslim-American community was doing to prevent [homegrown terrorism].”

Schanzer, who is also director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, said Americans need to understand the Muslim community better and that Muslim communities need to cooperate more closely with lawenforcement agencies.

One obstacle to this cooperation is increased antiMuslim bias in America since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The study noted that despite this bias, MuslimAmerican communities feel strongly connected to the See terrorism on page 15

CORRECTION A Jan. 28 “sound-off” article on the State of the Union address incorrectly listed the year of junior Justin Robinette. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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snowstorm from page 1 top of the snow,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said Sunday. “Here in Durham we can go five years without a drop of snow so preparation is really on a perstorm basis rather than preparing for a season.”

Moneta said there were ice melters ready in every residence hall, and residence coordinators were responsible for sweeping and shoveling their dorms’ entrances. He added that crews have been out each day this weekend starting at 5 a.m. to clear snow from stairwells and “major arteries,” following a well-developed priority map Duke has for such situations.

“It was helpful that it was Saturday morning when people weren’t running to class,” he said. “It will be more difficult the next couple of days.”

The University’s severe weather & emergency conditions policy affecting University employees and services went into effect at 7 a.m. Saturday morning and remained active through 7 p.m. Sunday evening.

In addition, many campus eateries either closed early or shut down through the weekend, and buses ran on condensed sched-

ules due to the icy conditions.

Moneta said he sent a blast e-mail to the student body early Friday afternoon regarding the University’s preparations for the storm and cited technical difficulties when he was told students did not receive the e-mail as planned.

“This is really distressing because we sent a long e-mail that summarized all our preparations, including transportation and dining preparation,” he said. “We spent all day Friday doing what we could for the storm.”

The city of Durham began its preparations for the storm early, with crews from the Public Works Department out spreading deicing brine on high-traffic streets starting last Wednesday.

The salt-brine mixture, a combination of water and salt, is intended to coat the streets before snowfall and prevent snow from sticking, Durham Public Affairs Manager Beverly Thompson said Sunday.

“We were well-prepared for [the storm]—we had about 25 trucks out at one time clearing and salting the streets, working on 12-hour shifts [throughout the weekend] and just doing what was necessary,” she added. “We don’t wait until the last minute, until [the storm] hits. We need to

make sure our crews are prepared in terms of equipment.”

Thompson said she thinks the city’s preparations were effective and there were no major problems from the snowstorm.

“I think overall they’ve done a good job,” she said. “Actually I think we were kind of lucky this year in that with this last weather even we didn’t have any power outages that lasted a significant amount of time, we didn’t have wind, didn’t have freezing rain— so it was a combination of good preparation and good luck.”

Lt. Jerry Yount, Durham Police Department watch commander over the weekend, said the snow did not cause many incidents or alarm.

He added that there was one accident with an ambulance that was transporting a patient, but there

were no resulting injuries and they were able to safely transfer the patient to another ambulance.

“Pretty much I think people heeded the warnings of the news and stayed at home and off the roads—we didn’t have any serious accidents, and we didn’t have a lot of accidents at all,” he said.

“So not much excitement.”

The city also streamed live feeds from 15 traffic cameras throughout the weekend on its Web site and local television channel, where residents could check road conditions for several major thoroughfares.

But Thompson said Sunday that although the roads looked good at the time with the help of the sun, the roads would probably refreeze with the drop in temperature at night, and people should still be extremely careful when driving.

winterwonderland

Check out more photos of the wintry scenes online at www.dukechronicle.com/news

Courtney Douglas (TOP) and Michael Naclerio (BOTTOM)/The Chronicle

A snowstorm blanketed campus with 6 inches of snow over the weekend. As the University activated its severe weather & emergency policy Saturday morning, many students enjoyed the unusual snow by building snowmen and throwing snowballs.

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sound-off:weekendwinterwonderland The last weekend in January brought with it almost 6 inches of snow and freezing temperatures. Although icy roads and sidewalks made travel difficult, many students took time out of their weekend to enjoy the scenery and the rare snowfall. Whether they spent their weekend staying warm indoors or frolicking in the flakes, The Chronicle asked students how they enjoyed the snow.

—compiled by Lindsey Rupp

“I’m from Florida, so I was excited at first, I went out and played... but then getting to places was hard. I had to borrow my friend’s boots, and that helped.”

—Ginger Baker, junior “I don’t have any dry socks.”

—Cass Goh, senior

“The first day it snowed, we had a snowball fight on East [Campus], but that sucked because the buses stopped running. But other than that it was nice.”

—Shirley Lope, freshman “I have a broken foot, so it was kind of difficult for me. Thankfully, I’m off my crutches, so waddling everywhere was kind of difficult.... I mostly stayed inside....

I think it’s kind of funny—I went to Tufts [University] for two years, and this happens a lot more regularly, but they have the equipment, so it’s funny to see people stock up on soup in the supermarket.”

—Lindsay Voorhees, junior “I do like the campus when it snows. It’s very beautiful with the snow on it and you don’t get to see that very often.”

—Wasim Kabir, sophomore “For the first time, I saw people put their work aside to do fun things.”

—Jason Wong, freshman “It just kept me in my building, really, on West [Campus]. I still had to study, all that was the same.”

—Aneitra Hoggard, junior

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In spite of slippery roads and slush-covered sidewalks, students still enjoyed spending time in the snow that resulted from the Friday snowstorm.

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k-ville from page 1 “I’m certainly not looking for anyone to get sick,” he said.

The inclement weather also affected kick-off events— the watch party for the men’s basketball game against Georgetown University and the rXn Dance Party were canceled. To avoid unfavorable ground conditions, White said blue tenting set-up—which coincided with the end of black tenting—was moved from Saturday morning to 4 p.m. Friday.

The rXn Dance Party, co-sponsored by the Duke University Union, the Line Monitors and the men’s basketball team, will be rescheduled for sometime in February or the weekend of personal checks in March, said DUU Special Projects Director Christie Falco, a senior.

“We were worried about the safety of both students trying to get to the event, but also all of the professionals that would have to come to campus to make the event happen—people like the DJ, security and maintenance,” she said.

Despite the other cancellations, the activities to determine tent order went as planned Saturday. One of the three events, Dash to the Secret Spot, required students to go to a specific location on campus that was announced online. To ensure that students remain safe in the snow, White said he sent out an e-mail informing participating students that their cars would not be useful during the event. The location of the secret spot was Cameron Indoor Stadium.

White said he has “generally heard positive responses so far” about the new process to determine tent order. This is the first year that tenting order has been determined by a series of activities, instead of on a first-come first-serve basis to pitch tents in K-ville. The tenting policy underwent revision last Fall and included changes such as the introduction of official black tenting and a delayed start date for blue tenting, along with the kick-off activities.

Several tenters said they approved of the new method of deciding tent order. In one event, students had to answer questions pertaining to Duke basketball.

“It was kind of like studying for a test,” said junior Scott Basford of the Duke Basketball Trivia. “It wasn’t that bad, and I learned some things about Duke history anyway. It was definitely better than staying out there for an extra month.”

Seven groups completed black tenting, and 50 more groups joined the blue tenting line-up Saturday, White said.

Junior Lauren DeRuyter, who completed black tenting, said the experience was much better than she expected, and that the line monitors treated the groups well.

“I thought black tenting was a complete success,” White said. “I talked to a lot of the people who did black tenting and most of them were pretty pleased with it.”

Although the initial policy for black tenting did not al-

low for grace—allotted time off from tenting, White said that he called grace twice during the week of black tenting: once for a tornado watch and again on Friday for the impending snow storm.

DeRuyter’s tent group obtained the first spot in line after the kick-off celebrations and will be given first pick of seating in the student section in Cameron Indoor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill game. The group’s tent number, however, is technically No. 2 because tent No. 1 is reserved for the basketball team.

“We just wanted to have a tent out there for the basketball team,” White said. “We figured what better spot to put them other than tent No. 1.”

The idea to create the tent for the basketball players has been discussed for a while among the Line Monitors, White added.

The possibility of more snow and inclement weather later this week could force tenters out of K-ville once again, but White said he wants to put the health of the students first and has no qualms about giving more grace after an already extended grace period this past weekend.

“The last thing in the world I want is for Cameron Indoor to be packed with a bunch of kids who are too sick to scream their hearts out,” White said. “So obviously we’re trying to keep everyone nice and healthy.”

courtney douglas/The Chronicle

The heavy snowstorm dropped 6 inches of snow on Krzyzewskiville Friday evening, prompting the University to cancel Saturday’s blue tenting kickoff events. Grace was called for the end of black tenting and will remain in effect until Monday morning.

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MEN’S TENNIS: DUKE SPLITS TWO AT ITAs WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: SEMINOLES OWNED IN CAMERON

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women’s tennis

Blue Devils advance in ITA Team Indoors

by Felicia Tan THE CHRONICLE

In a match that was tighter than the 6-1 tally indicated, No. 1 Duke put away Virginia Commonwealth (3-2) Sunday evening at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center. Hosting Yale (3-1) Saturday and the Rams Sunday in the ITA National Team Indoor Championship qualifying rounds, the Blue DevDUKE 7 ils (4-0) used a 7-0 YALE 0 trouncing of the Bulldogs and a 6 DUKE late-week1 end VCU win over No. 44 Virginia Commonwealth to advance to Madison, Wisconsin for the next stage of the competition, which involves 15 teams.

The Rams quickly dropped the first three points but made closing out the win considerably more difficult for Duke. Junior Reka Zsilinszka and senior Amanda Granson, the last two on the court, were both down at some point in their matches at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively. Both eventually fought out their wins to close out a good weekend for the Blue Devils.

“This is the first time we’ve had any kind of adversity,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said, noting that the Rams are the toughest team Duke

has faced in the dual match season.

“We’re going to face that through the year, so it was good to see us come through that. We were in some situations where it could have gone either way, and mentally we showed that we can be a really strong team in those types of situations.”

Playing at the No. 2 spot for the first time this year, Granson dropped the first set to the Rams’ Ana Bara, 6-3. Although she was going after all the right shots, Granson said she wasn’t closing out the points. During the break between sets, she sat down and decided to hit the restart button. Good teams and good players make adjustments, Ashworth said, and Granson made those adjustments.

Immediately, Granson turned the match around with a 6-3 second set and put an exclamation point on the 6-4 final set by serving out the last game at love.

“I decided to just keep moving my feet, go up after my serve and play the ball,” Granson said. “That win felt especially good because the girl was tough and I had to work really hard to win it.”

Duke opened the afternoon by sweeping all three doubles matches and winning the doubles point.

Senior Elizabeth Plotkin and junior Monica Gorny followed that up by making quick work of their opponents at Nos. 3 and 5. courtney douglas/The Chronicle

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Senior Amanda Granson’s gutty three-set win set the tone for Duke’s tougher-than-it-looks victory over Virginia Commonwealth.

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Women’s Basketball

Thomas, defense keep Blue Devils atop ACC

by Vignesh Nathan THE CHRONICLE

After Friday night’s game against the Blue Devils, Florida State head coach Sue Semrau only needed three words to describe her team’s performance.

“We got hammered,” she said.

To anybody in attendance at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the reason for Semrau’s curt postgame conference was obvious.

The No. 7 Blue Devils (18-3, 6-0 in the ACC) handed No. 13 Florida State (18-4, 4-2) its worst loss of the season, a 73-43 rout to continue Duke’s conference winning streak.

The final score belied just how dominant the Blue Devils’ defense actually was.

In the first 10:34 of the game, the Seminoles were limited to only one field goal, part of a 20-2 Duke run.

To put that into perspective, within the next minute, Florida State more than tripled its point total. Duke completed the half with an imposing 30-13 lead.

“We worked very hard, and we focused a lot on defense,” junior guard Jasmine Thomas said. “When it comes down to it, defense is what is going to win us these games–how well we can shut down these teams and hold them to low scores.”

Florida State entered the contest as the

20th-ranked scoring offense in the country, averaging 75.9 points per game, but was held to its lowest point total this season.

For a team that usually shoots 45.5 percent from the field, the Seminoles could only manage 29.6 percent against Duke. In addition, the Blue Devils generated 16 steals, five blocks, and outrebounded Florida State by a 51-30 margin.

However, what was most impressive about the Blue Devil defense was the intensity with which they used their full-court press to generate turnovers. Duke was relentless, frustrating Florida State guards into making poor passes and giving the ball away. Indeed, the Seminoles’ starting guards–seniors Angel Gray and Alysha Harvin–combined for 14 turnovers.

“In the last few games, our press wasn’t doing what we wanted it to do,” Thomas said. “Today, we got some steals out of it. I think our press was really good tonight. “ Offensively, Duke’s performance still showed room for improvement. Despite an impressive 73-point outing, the only player with a noteworthy performance was Thomas. She had a terrific game, scoring 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting from the field. eugene wang/The Chronicle

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With President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at courtside in the nation’s capital, Georgetown pulled away from Duke early and never looked back.

g’town from page 1 Duke led briefly, by a single point with 10 minutes to play in the first half, before a game-deciding 18-3 run by Georgetown gave the Hoyas control for good. During that pivotal three-minute stretch, four Blue Devil turnovers and a series of missed shots were converted into layup after layup by Chris Wright, Austin Freeman and Greg Monroe, Georgetown’s three stars, who combined for 62 points on the day.

Duke’s top trio of senior Jon Scheyer and juniors Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler combined for a more than respectable 54 points, but they did so on 15-of-43 shooting. The Hoyas’ leaders,

meanwhile, went 23-of-31, and Wright, who directed Georgetown’s offense almost flawlessly, missed just once from the field.

“They were just sharp,” Singler said after the game. “We were soft on defense, and we have to come to games ready to compete.”

“The place was electric, their team was electric and they played that way for 40 minutes,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We haven’t had a team shoot 72 percent against us since…I don’t know when. The best thing we did was limit their offensive rebounds—they only had two because they only missed 13 shots.”

Despite Georgetown’s hot shooting

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Georgetown’s Jason Clark beat Mason Plumlee to this loose ball to help keep the Blue Devils off the offensive boards.

and a 13-point halftime advantage, the Blue Devils nearly found their way back into the game, although the comeback was short-lived. Two quick 3-pointers to open the second half pulled Duke within seven, and after trading baskets for several minutes, freshman Andre Dawkins had a chance to cut an eight-point Hoya lead to five.

But his long-range shot clanged off the rim, and Hollis Thompson hit a three on the other end to stretch the lead to 57-46 and to blow the lid off the Verizon Center. That advantage only grew the rest of the way, and Duke trailed by as many as 23 before garbage-time points made this game look closer than it was.

“That [stretch when the Blue Devils trailed by single digits] was our window of opportunity and we didn’t take advantage of it,” Krzyzewski said. “And in a game like this…you look for small windows where you may be able to crack in there and do it, and we weren’t able to do that.”

The Hoyas primarily managed to stay out in front by scoring off of Duke turnovers and by finding each other on backdoor cuts into the paint. Wright and Freeman slashed toward the basket repeatedly, and the Georgetown big men—especially Monroe—continually found them open under the basket left unattended by a foul-prone Duke front line. The Blue Devils racked up 29 team fouls, as Singler fouled out and Lance Thomas, Mason and Miles Plumlee accumulated four each.

Early on, though, both sides looked sloppy and took plenty of bad shots, especially from 3-point range, and neither team was able to create much on the offensive end. Duke turned the ball over on its first possession while Georgetown started with two straight empty offensive trips, but found its rhythm close to the 10-minute mark.

At that point, the unusually skittish Blue Devils fell apart for just a few possessions and could never recover.

After the game, Krzyzewski said several times that his team simply could not match the Hoyas’ emotion, inspired by the 20,000 gray-clad fans cheering it on and by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at courtside. No matter the reason, the Hoyas played their best—and gave disillusioned Washington basketball fans something to cheer about, and Duke fans something to worry about come March.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If President Obama came to the Verizon Center Saturday afternoon looking for recruits for the Department of Defense, he left happy he didn’t choose any members of the Duke basketball team.

The Blue Devils’ poor effort on that end of the floor allowed Georgetown to dictate the tempo of the game, and the Hoyas consequently ripped Duke with frequent transition baskets off Blue Devil turnovers.

Game In fact, the ease with Analysis which Georgetown scored on backdoor layups and dunks had to bring back nightmarish memories of Duke’s NCAA Tournament loss to another Big East team, Villanova, during which the Blue Devils were repeatedly victimized in the exact same fashion.

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lly getting back as much as thought they would sually get back in transition,” Hoya guard hris Wright said. “We went into this game sayng, especially off the rebounds, we just want to ush the ball.”

Duke has built its identity this season on beng a sturdy defensive team that played a solid, methodical halfcourt game. However, Georgeown exploded at the end of the first half to urn the contest into a track meet.

With 8:10 remaining in the first half and the lue Devils trailing 25-20, Hoya guard Austin reeman exploited a Jon Scheyer miscue and aced down to convert a layup on the other nd. On the ensuing possession, Jerelle Benimon stole the ball away, which lead to another eorgetown layup. Moments later, off another eal, Freeman scored again.

In less than a minute, Duke turned the ball ver three times, all three of which lead to Hoya askets. The horrendous sequence for the Blue evils put them in a deep hole, from which they

were never really able to regroup.

“This group, with each game, is getting a heightened sense and understanding that we don’t have to take a bad shot,” Georgetown head coach John Thompson III said. “With the offensive players we have, we know where our shots are coming from and they’re doing an outstanding job night-in and night-out to help each other get shots.”

The Hoyas again used their transition game in the second half to quickly snuff out any hopes of a Duke rally.

After the Blue Devils opened the period with consecutive 3-pointers by Scheyer and Nolan Smith, the Hoyas answered with a layup by Jason Clark. Then, sophomore Greg Monroe, who spurned Duke for Georgetown, stole the ball on the Blue Devils’ next sequence. The big man sprinted down the court and threw down a thunderous dunk, sending the crowd at the See analysis below

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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said his team could never match the Hoyas’ emotion at the Verizon Center.

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te Jon Scheyer’s. Smith, who is from Maryland, scored 19 points Saturday, but many came long after the game had been decided.

Verizon Center into a frenzy.

Monroe recorded yet another steal moments later, which lead to a Julian Vaughn fast-break dunk and ballooned the lead to 13. Duke was never a threat the rest of the way, as the Hoyas continued to get uncontested looks near the basket.

“When you turn the ball over and take bad shots, teams are going to take advantage,” Scheyer said.

For the game, Georgetown shot a ridiculous 71.7 percent from the floor, which is tied for the highest shooting percentage this year by any team in the country. Wright, who led the Hoyas in scoring along with Monroe, only missed one field goal the entire afternoon. The Blue Devils, meanwhile, were as frigid as

the ice and snow outside, shooting just 37 percent for the game. The anemic offense combined with the porous defense spelled disaster for Duke.

While the dismal effort in the loss to North Carolina State was written off as something of an anomaly, the Blue Devils’ most recent defensive performance on the road raises serious concerns. Given the nature of Duke’s offense, the team cannot afford to get sucked into a fast-paced game with a team that executes the way Georgetown did on Saturday.

“When a team’s playing that well, sometimes they put you in a positions where you hurry or scurry,” Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It’s not just their defense that does it, but its the presence that team has that day that forces you to come out and make quick decisions that are not the appropriate ones. They’re real good and well coached and just had it on us today.”

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MEN’S TENNIS

Duke gets rolled by Crimson Tide

by Kyle Lambrecht THE CHRONICLE

The cold weather that plagued students throughout the weekend and covered Durham in over five inches of snow was not the only challenge for the Blue Devils at the ITA Kickoff Weekend Tournament. Scheduled DUKE 4 to play in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Duke was forced to travel an hour north to Bir2 mingham to face off against No. 25 AUB Alabama and No. 22 Auburn.

DUKE 2 The Blue Devils were not fazed by last-minute location change ALAB 4 andthe showed their versatility in their first true test of the season. No. 18 Duke topped Auburn 4-2 in the first round of the tournament at the Pat M. Courington Tennis Pavilion, but Day Two of the tournament proved to be less of a success for the Blue Devils as they fell 4-2 to the Crimson Tide.

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Junior Reid Carleton won his singles match against Auburn, but did not complete his contest with Alabama because Duke had already lost four points.

“Our guys started off sluggish in both doubles and singles,” head coach Ramsey Smith said about Sunday’s contest against Alabama. “We came back to play great in doubles but could not come back from losing four first sets in singles.

Al[ain Michel] played really well for us but we had a couple of guys who were off their game today. Alabama played great in singles and we give them credit for playing well at home.”

Duke did not go down without a fight against the Crimson Tide (2-1) yesterday. After falling behind 3-0 in two of the three doubles matches, the Blue Devils battled back to post victories at the Nos. 1 and 3 spots and also won the doubles point. Eighth-ranked Henrique Cunha and Reid Carleton topped Michael Davis and Saketh Myneni 8-4, and David Holland and Jared Pinsky earned the point for Duke, but it wasn’t enough to defeat Alabama.

In the first contest, Auburn (0-2) began the evening strong, winning Nos. 1 and 2 doubles by a narrow margin. Eager to prove its mettle, Duke stormed back and won four of the five singles matches. The Blue Devils’ spectacular performance in the singles matches was led by junior Alain Michel, who topped Lucas Lopasso at the No. 6 spot with sets of 6-0, 6-1. Michel was also a part of Duke’s only doubles victory. Teaming up with Pinsky, the No. 3 doubles cruised to an easy 8-4 victory over the Tigers’ Andreas Mies and Oliver Strecker.

The typically dominant freshman Cunha struggled against the Tigers Friday, falling 8-6 alongside Carleton to the sixth-ranked doubles team in the nation of Tim Puetz and Alex Stamchev, in addition to losing in two sets in the singles match against Myneni. Ranked 17th in the nation for singles, Cunha lost for a second time to No. 24 Puetz at the No. 1 singles spot, 6-7, 6-3, 6-2. Later, Carleton managed to turn his day around, cruising to a two-set victory over Tim Hewitt at No. 2 singles.

Senior Dylan Arnould, ranked No. 62 in singles, extended his winning streak over ranked opponents to three after beating No. 86 Stamchev 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 at the No. 3 spot, but the streak ended the next day when he fell to Alabama’s Thompson, 6-4, 6-1.

Michel and Carleton were the only Duke players to win their first set in the singles matches against the Crimson Tide.

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Junior Alain Michel did not lose a singles or doubles match in Alabama.

Michel gave the Blue Devils an early 2-0 lead after taking down Ian Chadwell at the No. 6 singles spot 7-5, 6-4, but Wiestoska and Pinsky followed with losses at the No. 4 and No. 5 spots.

Duke’s loss to Alabama is the first of the 2010 season and moves the Blue Devils to 2-1 this year. The team suits up again this weekend to take on No. 15 Illinois, its third consecutive match against a top-25 team, at 6 p.m., Friday at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

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w. bball from page 9 “Jasmine is a very dangerous player,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “She is truly special in that way–extremely competitive, and very focused.”

Unfortunately, Thomas did not receive much help from her supporting cast on the offensive end of the court. The rest of Duke’s squad shot under 35 percent from the field, including an 0-of-11 performance from beyond the arc. This poor team shoot-

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ing has plagued the Blue Devils in all of their losses, including against No. 1 Connecticut and No. 2 Stanford earlier in the season.

As such, if the Blue Devils were hardpressed to find one thing wrong with their game against Florida State, it might be that they still don’t have the offensive depth that characterizes some of the nation’s other elite programs.

Nevertheless, on the heels of such a dominant defensive effort, the offense Thomas produced was enough to give Duke the easy victory.

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Reka Zsilinszka recovered from an illness in time to lead Duke to two victories at home over the weekend.

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Jasmine Thomas’s 23 points in Duke’s easy victory contrasted sharply with the offensive play of her teammates.

By putting up those two quick wins, the Blue Devils turned up the pressure on Virginia Commonwealth. Going up 3-0 meant that the Rams would need to win all four remaining matches to defeat Duke.

“Right now, I think our singles is at the point where, for someone to beat us at four singles is going to be a tough thing to do,” Ashworth said.

Olena Leonchuk overcame Duke freshman Mary Clayton 6-3, 6-2 at No. 6 to give the Rams their lone point of the match. One

court over, junior Ellah Nze took down sophomore Alex Bara at the fourth spot, 6-2, 7-6.

Then, Granson and Zsilinszka sealed the win with hard-earned, grind-it-out victories at the top two spots.

“The team played really well this weekend,” Granson said. “This was the first test that we had all season, and I’m happy with the way we came out and played. Going forward, this is something good to build off of, and we’ll be ready for Indoors in two weeks.”

Duke will face Indiana Saturday before traveling to the National Team Indoors the following weekend.

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WHO from page 3 women’s influence on West Campus, members of Panhel specifically requested space on Central.

“Panhel never asked for space on West,” Gonzalez said. “They wanted space on Central because their vision was to create a junior-senior community. Were they to request space on West it would definitely get consideration.”

The Panhel housing discussion has been on the table for years, said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. Although many ideas have been circulated in the past, Panhel members needed to develop a proposal that would accommodate all nine sororities and foster a cooperative environment, he added.

“About 1,000 women on campus are members of Panhel,” Nowicki said. “The proposal... is a social dynamic and we recognize the value of sorority based living.”

On the other hand, students who proposed the idea for the WHO were part of PubPol 140 “Women as Leaders.” Rachel Seidman, associate director of the Duke Center for History, Public Policy and Social Change, taught the course. She required her students to identify a problem on campus and to address it by exercising leadership in this field.

“One of the things the students noticed on campus was that there are a lot of women interested in gender issues, but that the Women’s Center is a underutilized resource,” Seidman said. “Part of the students’ goal was to facilitate a wider group of women to make use of the Women’s Center by providing a hub for different groups to connect to each other.”

The WHO has been designated as a substance free, special interest area that will house 46 women. WHO programming, however, is open to all students who seek to educate themselves about women’s issues on and off Duke’s campus.

“I really believe this is an important step in the right direction,” Gonzalez said. “Having a women’s group on West presents an opportunity for things to happen that currently do not.”

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terrorism from page 3 American government.

According to the report, titled “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans,” terrorism can also be discouraged by promoting religious literacy and integrating the Muslim community into American life.

Ebrahim Moosa, associate professor of Islamic studies and Charles Kurzman, a UNC professor of sociology, worked with Schanzer on the study, which was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic advocacy organization, said he agrees with the study’s conclusions.

“Like any religious community, you’re going to have some people who aren’t following the faith,” he said.

“Any level of extremism would be very small in the Muslim community and would not be prompted from mosques.”

Hooper noted that it is important to foster an improved relationship between Muslim-Americans and law enforcement agencies.

“It is a major point of concern that there is now a chilled relationship with law enforcement, particularly the FBI, a breakdown in the relationship we hope to restore,” he said. “This requires dialogue and outreach from law enforcement to the Muslim community.”

But the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a Phoenix-based Muslim organization, has criticized the study.

“I was very optimistic when I heard about the... study,” Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, AIFD president, wrote in an e-mail.

“Unfortunately, after reading the study, I was very disappointed in their premise, sources, method, biases and tunnel vision.”

Jasser said the study underestimates the threat of homegrown terrorism. He also criticized the authors for using biased sources and for ignoring the recent rise in incidents of homegrown terrorism..

Jasser also found it “very disturbing” that the study did not discuss what he called the separatist influence of political Islam and its influence on American Muslims.

“For scientists to omit the obvious connection of the very prevalent ideology of Islamism—political Islam—with Islamist terror is the equivalent of a physician studying the causes of lung cancer omitting substantive discussion and analysis of cigarette smoking,” he wrote. “Their research adds nothing to the already saturated public bandwidth

by Islamist organizations constantly in denial and claiming victimology.”

Schanzer acknowledged that the study is not scientific, but said that it has added to the discussion of homegrown extremism. He said the study was also meant to provide social science research as a basis for views about MuslimAmerican terrorism.

“Some assert randomly that this is a large or small problem, but attach no data or perspective,” he said. “We try to base [our observations] on data instead of speculation.”

The study was based on interviews in Muslim-American communities in Buffalo, Houston, Seattle and RaleighDurham. Communities were chosen because they were medium-sized and contained at least one terrorism-related incident.

Following the publication of the study, Schanzer said it has been distributed to numerous government agencies, think tanks and professors. He added that some law enforcement agencies have asked him to provide briefings on the study.

Schanzer said he has written 17 different opinion columns about the study in newspapers such as the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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“I don’t think that there has been any progress in the case as of yet,” Graham said. “We will certainly help them and assist them.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta sent out a mass e-mail to the student body reporting the incident, but claimed to have technical difficulties, which prevented numerous students from receiving it.

The students were walking to Cafe Parizade from East Campus, Coggins said.

“In hindsight, [the parking lot] probably wasn’t the best place to be because it’s not well-lit at night,” Coggins said. “I had never walked to Parizade before.”

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A campaign like no other Duke Student GovernThe Young Trustee, unlike ment’s decision to incorporate any other elected student poa general student body elec- sition, is not beholden to any tion into the selection of this special interests, nor does it year’s undergraduate Young represent one narrow conTrustee is a welcome change. stituency. Instead, he or she Instead of a process driven by is entrusted with the special internal politics task of balancand inside baseing competing editorial ball, it encourneeds, underages widespread student in- standing difficult problems volvement, transparency and and ultimately pursuing accountability. whatever policies build a betBut with the first Young ter, more dynamic University Trustee election comes an community. equally unknown prospect— By its very nature, the posia Young Trustee campaign. tion of Young Trustee is differUnder the bylaw approved ent, and it demands a different

by DSG, YT finalists are “en- type of campaign—one that couraged to campaign to dis- shies away from platforms and seminate knowledge of their promises in favor of educating background, qualifications and voters about the candidates’ positions on issues relevant to experiences, knowledge and the undergraduate student critical thinking skills. body.” This sounds too much Regrettably, candidates like a traditional campaign. only have one week to intro-

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They’ll start sticking people in K4 and then make them buy a meal plan....

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—“T-12” commenting on the story “Administrators, students grapple with dining deficit.”

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duce themselves to the public before next Tuesday’s elections. Still, the Young Trustee Nominating Committee and the candidates themselves can ensure that the first campaign for YT is both positive and informative.

Under the election bylaw, the YTNC chair is required to facilitate a public debate.

Guided by the educational spirit of a Young Trustee campaign, though, it shouldn’t be a debate at all.

A debate would imply that there are issues to argue over and agendas to compare.

With this race for Young Trustee, however, there simply are not. In place of a debate, the public should be treated to an open forum in which they will have the opportunity to ask substantive questions that challenge

candidates to think deeply and communicate the importance of their knowledge and experience.

With the new YT bylaw, student groups will also be able to endorse a candidate. We are pleased that the YTNC has reached out to large student groups and encouraged them to interview and endorse a candidate. The YT election will only succeed with an informed electorate, and endorsements can be an important step in this process.

But again, groups must recognize that endorsing a candidate for Young Trustee is different from endorsing a DSG president. They should not ask leading questions or use a litmus test to determine how well a candidate’s views fall within the mission of the organization. When interview-

ing candidates, groups should assess each finalist’s judgment and evaluate how effectively they could serve on the University’s Board of Trustees.

Candidates, too, can play a role in ensuring an informed electorate. In interviews with groups and informal conversations with students, they should avoid making promises or pandering to their audiences. Moreover, they should not post flyers or create ads.

These could cheapen the stature of the Young Trustee position and reduce the campaign to a popularity contest.

For the first time, the power to select the Young Trustee is in the hands of the entire student body. Voters deserve an informative campaign that will set a positive tone for the Young Trustee election this year and in years to come.

Apocalypse now

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adies and gentlemen, I don’t mean to alarm you, but The End is near. I can prove it.

And no, I’m not talking about the prophesy of destruction in the year 2012, or how the core of the Earth will stop spinning, or Godzilla.

I was originally planning on writing about the Second Coming of Leno and Conan’s crucifixion carson moore at the hands of humor me the network he had come to save, but I quickly realized there are much more dire omens afoot. I am talking, of course, about the “song” “TiK ToK” by Ke$ha. It turns out that the clock she refers to is counting down to the end of the world. Or at least after suffering through this song, I wish it were.

If you’ll indulge me for a moment, I have some questions to ask Ke$ha. How does P. Diddy feel in the morning? Where did the dudes learn you got swagger? If you don’t have a care in the world, maybe you should: Apparently the world thinks you’re a skank. Also, do you even know who Mick Jagger is? Do you realize he’s literally over three times your age, is known for substance abuse and having an outrageously large mouth, and is friends with Keith Richards? Do you really think he sets the standard for masculine appeal? Have you met Skeletor? Apparently you’d love him.

By the way, I searched the American Dental Association website, and it turns out whiskey is not an ADA-approved toothpaste analog. In fact, if you’re brushing your teeth with it in the morning, you probably a) don’t know anything about dental hygiene, b) are not improving your morning breath and c) have a very serious problem.

Notwithstanding Ke$ha’s unattainable level of stuck-up self-obsessed effrontery, the track itself manages to sound like someone turned up the volume on their iPod and then tried to play it over their car stereo. Doesn’t anyone remember when actual instruments made music? This song is so bad that I wish the boys would blow up her phones, phones. I’d accept any level of collateral damage if it took her out.

But the song in and of itself isn’t the sign of the coming apocalypse. The problem that I have with it is that, according to Billboard.com, it’s the number one song in the country. I heard

it on every radio station over winter break.

I’ve heard it blaring from sorority recruitment events, at pre-games, in clubs, at bars, in my house, at Alpine, pumped up in cars, at sporting events; I’ve heard it everywhere. That song is ubiquitous, which makes me believe that people actually identify with it.

This song epitomizes what I, for lack of any research into actual national trends or social theory, will describe as “American neo-isolationism.” The truth is that we live in a world with real problems. The world, not just America, suffered a financial meltdown from which many nations’ economies are having trouble recovering.

Haiti just had an earthquake that killed more than one hundred thousand people. America is at war!

And what does that have to do with any of us? The truth is very little. And that’s exactly my point. Chances are, unless you have family in Haiti or the military or you yourself are going to serve, you haven’t really done anything.

Sure, you’ve collected money or put up a bumper sticker, but without the draft, for instance, none of this really affects you directly. Oil prices are rising and falling and your family lost some money in the stock market, but I don’t exactly see any victory gardens on campus, and for the most part we’re all still here and living the lives we would have lived anyway.

This isn’t a call to action. I’m not saying that it’s bad that we’re not really affected by calamities outside of our scope; in fact, in most ways it’s probably a good thing. But I find it interesting that even though America has developed foreign entanglements in the form of wars, organizing economic and political aid to developing nations and taking a leading role in the global market recovery, the average citizen can put on their headphones, tune the world out and sing along: “Ain’t got a care in the world, but got plenty of beer!” And I do think that, in the end, our complacency will catch up with us and we’ll realize that, when we should have been applying our minds and bodies to complex issues concerning worldwide development and America’s place in a more competitive world, we were instead singing love songs to DJs. But the worst part of all of it—the worst part—is that that song is so catchy. When the world finally does come to its fiery end, I’ll be singing along as we all go down in flames.

Carson Moore is a Pratt senior. His column runs every other Monday.

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Young Trustee endorsement policy The Chronicle will be running endorsement letters for the 2010 Young Trustee election through Tuesday, Feb. 9.

We will accept letters from any and all student organizations, so long as the groups adhere to the following guidelines: 1. Organizations must meet with all three candidates: seniors Chelsea Goldstein, John Harpham and Zach Perret.

Organizations may not endorse if they do not meet with the candidates or if they only meet with some of the candidates.

2. In the endorsement process, organizations must give equal speaking and question time to each candidate. Each interview must last no longer than 15 minutes, according to the endorsement policy established by the Young Trustee Nominating Committee. No candidate may receive more time than another.

3. Members of organizations who decide they want to participate in endorsements must remain in the room for every candidate’s appearance. Members may not leave and return, or arrive late. If they do so, they may not participate

in endorsement voting.

4. The Chronicle trusts that members of organizations with significant personal or professional attachments or associations with candidates will remove themselves from the endorsement process. Members who sit on the Young Trustee Nominating Committee must recuse themselves from the process.

5. If an organization then wishes to endorse candidates in a Chronicle letter, the president of the organization must email chronicleletters@duke.edu. The e-mail must include an attached endorsement letter and the following statement: “I, the president of [organization name], certify that all required endorsement guidelines were followed in the formulation of this letter. I understand that failure to adhere to the guidelines undermines the election process, as well as the integrity of my organization and The Chronicle.”

There is no guarantee that any endorsement letters will be published. Letters may not exceed 325 words. Please contact Shuchi Parikh at sp64@duke.edu with questions.

lettertotheeditor Selecting a new Trustee Since 1972, the Duke Board of Trustees has benefited from having recent or current students serve as Young Trustees. Soon, undergraduate students will select a new Young Trustee in a campus-wide election—rather than through a committee process as in the past. As students consider their choices, I’d like to share with the Duke community a few thoughts on the criteria Trustees use when selecting new members of the Board.

Good Trustees are broad-thinkers. While having experience with a particular constituency (in the case of Young Trustees, the student body), Trustees are asked not to be advocates for that constituency, but for Duke as a whole— always thinking of what is best to support the overall mission of the University. They have an interest in the role of the University in society, respect how universities are administered and governed and are interested in the issues research universities face today. Trustees speak and think independently, are able to discuss tough issues in a candid,

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confidential, but friendly manner and value collegiality, knowing the importance of being a member of a group and respecting other members. They exercise good judgment and restraint. As representatives of the University, they embody the values that define Duke such as integrity, dedication, courage and respect for people of different backgrounds and cultures.

In my tenure on the Board, the Young Trustees have been recent graduates during the time they served as Trustees. I have found their perspectives always valuable and insightful: They are close enough to the experience of being a student while also eager to begin the work of ensuring that Duke continues to be a vital institution for future generations of students. Whoever is elected this year, I look forward to welcoming the Young Trustee to the Board in the fall, and to that Young Trustee’s invaluable contribution to Duke.

Dan Blue Chair, Board of Trustees

Anger management

othing encapsulates a public opinion poll quite like an analysis of anonymous online comment therapy.

Let’s take a brief look at the last couple weeks in sound bytes: “The Dems deserve this loss and I hope they take it as a wake up call to start governing and stop selling out to the corporate lobbyists.

They have been the keystone cops of politics since gaining the majority.” mike meers Such was the gist of much mike check of the reader commentary in The New York Times following Scott Brown’s defeat of his Democratic opponent Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts Senate race.

“The reactionaries at the top of the corporate food chain will channel their now unabated vast corporate sums to force even more of their self-serving will upon officials of government.”

That was indicative of the readers’ lament that accompanied the Times’ coverage of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court strikedown of corporate campaign contribution restrictions.

The song remains the same, at least in terms of the sort of paranoid fear mongering that has become typical of the national response at large. In fact, your average comment troll will tell you that this theme reappears with alarming frequency amongst the online-comment-faithful—that is, the idea that the government and the corporate sector are embroiled in a massive, malicious scheme and hell-bent on waging covert war against the American people.

Hyperbole is contagious, and we should take issue with this particular brand of it on a few fronts. Firstly, the lack of trust the American people has in its federal public officials is sobering and undoubtedly overstated. The perpetual election season, the always-healthy lobbying industry and the disingenuous and sensationalist nature of the 24-hour news cycle all have the potential to adversely influence the integrity of public officials. This doesn’t mean we should assume they are monsters right off the bat.

Secondly, and more importantly, scapegoating is almost always a distraction from a more inconvenient reality. In

this case, it is a blind anger intended to homogenize a more intractable problem for our own emotional edification. In other words, it seems almost as though we are more comfortable concocting a conspiracy as the source of our woes rather than facing the more unsettling prospect of a downturn that is more or less out of anyone’s hands.

Of course, the case for anger is all too real, even obvious when investigating the paper trail. The 2008 presidential election saw financial institutions, the primary lightning rods for populist anger, as three of the top seven contributors to President Obama’s campaign and the top five contributors to Senator McCain’s run. Corporate money will only be allowed to flood the political landscape more with the Supreme Court’s decision. No matter what anyone says, money both drives and influences politics, just as it does everything else in this triumphantly objectivist world of ours.

The response, however, is misguided and even counterproductive. It is interesting to note how many people who supported bank bailouts in a time of potential crisis for all now accuse the government of conspiring to help Wall Street crush the rest of us. No matter how you slice it, government is on the hook for public anger against corporations. Anger then manifests itself in elections a la Coakley-Brown that, apparently, now function solely as the regulators of legislative gridlock via filibuster.

With government in such a sorry state of affairs, it would behoove us to understand as much as we can about the many complex factors that contribute to the source of our anger before acting. Unfortunately, our appetite for instant gratification informs us otherwise, and like the French mob, heads will roll and anger will persist only until we develop a more efficient method of decapitation. But forgive me, for hyperbole has arrested me once again.

Democracy only functions well when the public renders an appropriate and properly directed reaction to potential abuses. Otherwise, problems that have the potential for correction are simply buried as the flimsy foundation for a growing infrastructure in danger of eventual collapse. Perhaps the worst consequence of Citizens United v. FEC will not be candidate panhandling for corporate scraps, but rather the fuel it provides for our own self-satisfying transfer of the blame—that is, anger not worth indulging.

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

Why so serious?

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on’t sweat the small stuff. And it’s all small stuff.”

You kids all sweat the small stuff. This college deserves a better class of students. And I’m gonna help you to give it to them. William Wallace would be ashamed of all of you. You’ve given up your freedom for good grades and high-paying jobs.

You all only have 12 free hours a week to do what you want to do—what you really want to do. When your grades and stresses from the week fade into the darkness and you become children again. Extremely intoxicated children.

The hours I’m talking about are from 10 p.m. to 2 p.m. Thurs- monday, monday day, Friday and Saturthe joker day nights. The rest of the time, you do your work, get overly stressed about papers and tests that have little to do with your actual lives and are pretty depressed, considering how well-off you are.

With all of your privileges, this is the extent of your happiness? Twelve hours a week? I’m more wellknown for my cosmetology than I am for my math prowess, but that looks like 1/14 of the week. That’s 7 percent. Is that really worth it? Let’s talk.

We clearly need to get you guys back up to at least 40 percent. When I was in college, week in and week out I was working at around 100 percent, sometimes cracking 120 percent. You know who else always gives more than 100 percent? A certain golfer I used to watch. That’s why he could give 100 percent to his wife and have some left over for extracurricular activity.

“But Mr. Joker, your college was probably easy. You probably didn’t have these brilliant students of other ethnicities who ruined the curves!” Maybe you’re right, but my college was easy because we made it easy. There’s an unspoken rule at state schools: No one tries, everyone gets wasted. It’s a great system.

We had LDOC, but we also had FDOC and SDOC and TDOC and every other DOC you can imagine; well, there was no petite, monocled miner who helped save Snow White. No matter, each DOC was the same, just not always free T-shirts. And look at the success I’ve become! I’ve lit more cash on fire than any of your families can ever imagine even seeing.

Here’s the challenge. Take a chill pill. If you still feel uptight, take another. If after two, you still feel uptight, don’t take another because three causes an overdose. Instead, you may wanna try some “alternative” energy sources. They’ll have you breathing free and easy for days straight. It’ll work, trust me. I didn’t get 120 percent fun-efficiency by playing hop skotch with the dean.

After you’ve chilled a bit, pre-game your next class. Hell, just turn your lecture into the game.

Whenever someone asks a question to show off their self-perceived brilliance, drink. If someone asks a question about homework due in over ten hours, drink. If someone cries about their grade, drink. If someone’s taking notes, drink.

But you don’t have to use drugs and alcohol to have a good time. I mean, it’s not absolutely essential. The only thing is, if you’re trying to light a fire, why rub two sticks together when you can use lighter fluid?

What you really need to do is first realize that nothing is serious and that creativity makes the world go round. Use your imagination to do some crazy shenanigans. You don’t need alcohol, but if it involves alcohol, hey, you’re 21 and are from Alaska, right? You don’t need rope, but if you’re setting up a zipline across Main West, get you some rope.

Stop all this nonsense about finding careers. Realize you’re a kid. Have some fun. Trip somebody. Bonus points if it’s a dean. Mess with tour groups. Show people why Duke is better than other colleges they visited. Accidentally take people’s towels out of the bathroom. Don’t be a dividual, be an individual. Be the most interesting person you know. Make people hang on your every word… even the prepositions.

The Joker guesses he’ll have to play Pagliacci and get himself a clown’s disguise.

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