February 5, 2010 issue

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86 DUKE GT 67 Council hears Singler finds his stroke in rout impact of K4

work on students

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

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Junior Kyle Singler endeared himself to the Cameron Crazies Thursday night against Georgia Tech, as he scored a career-high 30 points— and hit 8-of-10 3-pointers—in leading Duke to an important conference win. The Blue Devils are 6-2 in the ACC, SEE STORY PAGE 9

Students living in Edens and Keohane Quadrangles may begin to experience sleepless siestas in coming weeks.

At Campus Council’s Thursday night meeting, Associate Dean for Residence Life Joe Gonzalez presented K4 floor plans, projected construction schedule and the expected disruption to Edens and Keohane residents. Edens will be affected significantly with four twoweek utility projects occurring in the surrounding area, and through three weeks while classes are in session. Gonzalez said construction crews will work seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. but noted that administrators have negotiated quiet hours during finals week.

“There’s no way to make this happen unless [construction is] on full throttle,” Joe Gonzalez Gonzalez said. “I ask that students be patient. We can’t make all the progress we want to just by working over the summer.”

Gonzalez said K4 is a progression of housing models at Duke. The House-style residence hall will have four floors, with House 1 as levels one and two, and House 2 composed of floors three and four.

There will be a mix of university space and space designated for residents only, and 40 percent of the rooms in K4 will be single rooms as opposed to Keohane’s 20 See k4 on page 6

In trip to Haiti, team hopes to Thirty professors weighing assuage locals’ medical needs early retirement package from Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE

A Duke medical team will travel to Haiti today to support hospitals swelling with patients in the earthquake’s aftermath.

The team of 14 physicians and nurses will spend 10 to 14 days in two Partners in Health hospitals located outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, WRAL reported Thursday. Partners in Health, a global health organization co-founded

by University Trustee Dr. Paul Farmer, Trinity ’82, has been operating in Haiti for 20 years.

“We were immediately ready to mobilize a team to provide medical assistance in Haiti,” Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System, said in a news release Wednesday. “However, given the chaos

Clamshell containers promotes sustainability in Great Hall, Page 4

on the ground and the need for coordination there, we made a decision to work through a trusted partner in PIH which was already in Haiti and who we know would identify the urgent medical needs and provide the specific logistics support for our relief effort.”

Dr. Ian Greenwald, chief medical officer of Duke Health’s Preparedness and Response Center, led the team mobilization to Haiti, assembling a group of highly specialized physicians.

“They advised us what they needed based on the dynamic needs of their patients, and we assembled a team with exceptional specialized expertise to provide the services and care requested,” Greenwald told Duke Medicine News and Communication.

Although the team will bring some See haiti on page 11

by Christina Peña THE CHRONICLE

About 20 to 30 professors will retire under the faculty retirement incentive, Provost Peter Lange estimated last week.

The deadline for professors to decide to retire was Jan. 30. Professors, however, have a 45-day period to change their minds so the exact number retiring will not be available until mid-March.

“We’ve never had a program like this where we could make the resources available so that the deans could help alleviate the concerns of some of the faculty members,” Lange said. “The success of this incentive is going to vary across schools, but I think [it will be successful] overall.”

The retirement incentive could be offered to professors who meet the Rule of 75 in every school except Medicine and Nursing. Professors who accept the incentive will retire by June 30, 2011.

ONTHERECORD

“If it’s safe and they can use us, we want to be there.”

­—DukeEngage Director Eric Mlyn on DukeEngage’s summer program in Haiti.

See story page 4

The handling of the retirement packages and negotiations is unclear, and it is unknown what schools the 20 to 30 professors are retiring from.

“The process was fundamentally managed by the deans of each school and as a result there was variation throughout schools,” Lange said.

Tom Katsouleas, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, said no one in Pratt had accepted a package yet, but noted that he and a chair contacted eligible faculty by phone or in person to inform them of the incentive.

“The spirit of this [is] that there may be faculty that are ready and would like to retire and for whom the financial downturn in particular may prevent them from fulfilling that wish,” Katsouleaus said.

George McLendon, dean of the faculty See retirement on page 11

Duke’s perfect ACC mark spoiled in Boston, Page 9

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N.C. protesters honored WASHINGTON, D.C. — For 50 years now, the faces of the students have been etched in our memories, four young men at a lunch counter, nattily dressed, cleanshaven, looking over their shoulders, serious about their actions, perhaps a little uncertain about its results.

Sitting at the whites-only counter in a North Carolina Woolworth, they asked for cups of coffee and were refused service.

The Greensboro Four didn’t leave, instead stepping into history Feb. 1, 1960.

On Wednesday night on a plain stage at the National Museum of American History, a floor below where an 8-foot-long portion of that same lunch counter is on exhibit, stood living history. Now only three remain, Dr. Jibreel Khazan, Dr. Franklin McCain and Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil; together they heard, over and over again, but respectfully, how they had sat down so others could stand up.

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Despite several pieces of upbeat economic data, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 2.6 percent, finishing just two points above the 10,000 threshold.

Broader U.S. and foreign market indices fell about 3 percent. The euro fell to its lowest level against the dollar since May. What began in recent days as anxiety about the solvency of Greece spread to worry about Portugal’s budget and Spain’s housing bubble, then to concerns about how Europe’s richer nations might come to the rescue of weaker sisters sharing the common euro currency.

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BEIJING, China — China on Thursday threw a roadblock in the path of a U.S.led push for sanctions against Iran, saying that it is important to continue negotiations as long as Iran appears willing to consider a deal to give up some of its enriched uranium.

“To talk about sanctions at the moment will complicate the situation and might stand in the way of finding a diplomatic solution,” Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said at a conference in Paris.

After months of spurning the proposed deal, which would provide Iran with fuel for a medical reactor, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad showed a suddenly renewed interest in it this week just as France, a strong advocate of sanctions, assumed the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council.

French Prime Minister François Fillon said

Wednesday that he would ask the United Nations to adopt a resolution imposing “strong sanctions” against Iran because of its nuclear program.

U.S. officials had initially hoped they could push through a U.N. sanctions resolution this month or next, but China’s statement Thursday suggests that it may take months of haggling to achieve that goal.

That, in turn, would upend the delicate diplomatic process needed to fulfill the Obama administration’s wish to see “crippling sanctions” in place early this year.

China holds a veto as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, so any U.N. sanctions resolution will be relatively weak.

Indeed, one diplomat said, many of the ideas the Americans have floated, such as sanctioning Iran’s central bank, are “on the conservative end of the spectrum” in order to win quick approval.

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Attorneys ask for dismissal of Atwater case

Defense attorneys have requested the dismissal of federal carjacking and kidnapping charges against Demario Atwater.

Atwater’s attorneys have also filed motions asking for the death penalty to be removed from consideration. Atwater is one of two men charged with the 2008 murder of former University of Chapel Hill at North Carolina Student Body President Eve Carson.

In addition, Atwater’s lawyers have requested access to Chapel Hill and Durham police surveillance videos of Atwater and Shanita Love, who is considered a key witness in the case.

The defense is claiming the application of federal charges and the death penalty to 23-year-old Atwater’s case is unconstitutional and racially based, the (Raleigh) News & Observer reported Thursday.

Atwater says he and Love were coerced into making statements in March 2008 through mental and physical threats from police, and he has asked for his statements from that day to be suppressed. If the patrol car and booking room videos are released and show this to be true, all evidence resulting from the interrogations would be thrown out in court.

Federal prosecutors must respond to the motions by March 15. If the federal carjacking and kidnapping charges are dismissed, Atwater will still face a capital murder charge at the state level.

—from staff reports

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Construction in the Medical Center caused brief water outages on Central Campus Wednesday.

Med center construction left Central waterless

by Samantha Brooks THE CHRONICLE

The water outage on Central Campus Wednesday evening was a result of construction taking place in the Medical Center.

A Durham city line was cut during the construction, which caused low water pressure and outages in the area, Terry Lynch, Residence Life and Housing Services assistant dean of staff development and Central Campus, wrote in an e-mail to Central residents Thursday morning.

“It was kind of unclear on whether or not it was just a specific section of Central where the water was cut off or if it was throughout,” Lynch said. “At the time they thought it would only take 20-25 minutes to correct, but the individuals who were looking to correct the water couldn’t find the valve.”

The original information available to students and The Chronicle

by Kelvin Clark, a graduate resident for Central, incorrectly stated that See central on page 6

The Robertson Scholars Program announced Thursday that Alex Perwich will replace Tony Brown as executive director of the program, effective Feb. 15.

Perwich, who graduated with honors from the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned an MBA at Harvard University, served as a lieutenant colonel and has led several corporate and non-profit organizations.

“Alex is a high-impact leader dedicated to developing effective, top-performing organizations and programs,” Julian Robertson wrote in an e-mail to Robertson Scholars Thursday afternoon. “He brings an innovative and unique blend of experience to the Program.”

Brown, professor of the practice of public policy and sociology, will complete his threeyear term as director in June. He will return to his full-time faculty job.

—from staff reports

CORRECTION A Feb. 4 recess article, “The (other) prince of Haiti,” incorrectly merged tonight’s Hope for Haiti concert into Erol Josue’s Haiti Benefit Concert Feb. 6. The former will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. with Gaspard Louis, Reginald Patterson and Toby Bonar in Page Auditorium.

Josue’s concert is Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium on East Campus. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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The Faculty Handbook requires regular reviews of senior administrators of the University through a committee that conducts a performance review and submits a confidential report to the President. Typically these reviews occur in the fourth year of the administrator’s five year term. Such a committee has been appointed by President Brodhead to review Vice President and General Counsel Pam Bernard, who has served in her post since 2006. Jim Siedow, Vice Provost for Research, will serve as committee chair. Other members of the committee include: Amy Abernethy (Oncology/Duke Cancer Care), Kathy Bradley (Law School), Frank Emory (Trustee), Bill Fulkerson (Health System), Tracy Futhey (IT/CIO), and Stan Wilcox (Athletics).

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Program in Dining initiative fosters reusability Haiti faces uncertainties

by Carmen Augustine THE CHRONICLE

by Maggie Love THE CHRONICLE

When Kathy Walmer arrived in earthquake-stricken Haiti at the end of January, a highway bypass functioned as a makeshift airstrip.

Although atypical travel experiences like this may be familiar to Walmer, the executive director of Family Health Ministries, they may be unsettling for Duke undergraduates planning on going to the country for the first time.

Family Health Ministries, a Durhambased nonprofit, partnered with the Duke Global Health Institute and DukeEngage to take eight students to Léogâne, Haiti last summer. But Sumi Ariely, student projects coordinator for DGHI, said concerns about available landing strips, student safety and the potential burden non-specialized volunteers may cause, could ground this year’s trip before takeoff.

“If it’s safe and they can use us, we want to be there,” said DukeEngage director Eric Mlyn.

The International Travel Oversight Committee, of which Mlyn is a member, added Haiti to its restricted regions list for travel Jan. 23 Mlyn said the ITOC must consider travel safety, availability of medical facilities and housing stability in determining whether to remove Haiti from the restricted regions See dghi on page 7

It’s not every day that your environmental homework comes to life.

Two weeks ago, Duke Dining Services first distributed 250 reusable clamshell containers to students, faculty and staff at The Great Hall. Proposed by students in a Duke environmental sciences class, clamshell containers are made of the reusable plastic polypropylene and are designed to replace the disposable containers currently used at the Great Hall.

But as of this week, Dining Services officials were unable to provide specific information regarding the effectiveness of the program, such as the amount of trash reduced as a result of this initiative. The data may be reported later this month, however, at which point administrators can expand the program as they deem effective.

“The goal was to facilitate a transition to a more environmentally friendly container alternative,” said senior Katherine Rock, a student involved in the project. “That’s what makes it more exciting—that they took our recommendation seriously.”

The program was funded by a $4,800 grant from Green Grant Fund, which will cover the cost of 700 containers, said Tammy Hope, Duke Dining Services manager of quality assurance. The first 200 containers were given away for free, and all subsequent clamshells cost $5 on FLEX, food points, credit or cash, according to the Dining Services Web site.

Program participants receive a key chain that can be traded in for a clamshell container when purchasing food from The Great Hall. Students must rinse their containers before returning them to large

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A student learns about the new reusable clamshell containers in The Great Hall. The initiative, which gives students an environmentally friendly container for $5, was proposed by an environmental sciences class. depositories near the cash registers, at which point they are put into the facility’s dishwasher for further sanitizing.

“What we’re hoping is that students will have the environmental effect to recognize the harmfulness of [using disposable to-go containers] and will feel inclined to use these clamshells even though it requires them to rinse the clamshells and bring them back,” said junior Kirsten Moy, director of publicity for Environmental Alliance. EA helped publicize the program.

Although only currently available at the

Great Hall, the clamshells may be making an appearance at other on-campus eateries in the future. But Hope said a current program constraint is consumer participation and the availability of sufficient dishwashing facilities.

“Our goal is to expand [the program] on campus,” Hope said. “Right now we’re looking at The Refectory and The Loop.”

The idea of clamshells was born last year in the “Food and Energy” course, taught See clamshell on page 7

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New statewide database will centralize crime records

by Alejandro Bolívar The chronicle

Wake County will soon become a more difficult place to commit a crime.

The State of North Carolina is pioneering a new integrated crime database, called Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data Services—CJLEADS—to replace its current, outdated system.

“In 2008, following the murder of the Duke student [Abhijit Mahato], as well as the [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student Eve Carson], the North Carolina legislature recognized the need to integrate criminal data systems,” said Kay Meyer, project manager for data integration in the Office of State Controller.

An integrated crime database had been recommended by the North Carolina General Assembly in the mid-1990’s, Lori Freeman, Wake County clerk of superior court, said.

With the murders of Mahato and Carson the legislature renewed its commitment, she noted.

Meyer added that currently, law enforcement officers use systems which require them to log on to multiple databases. In the past, an officer in the field had no access to a suspect’s criminal record from other jurisdictions.

“When we stop a person or individual out in the field, it will tell us whether or not this person is wanted or on probation,” Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison said. “It will give us the history we need. You used to have to go to two systems.”

Wake County will be used as a pilot for the system, with a trial version arriving last May, Meyer said.

CJLEADS can also be used as a tool by prosecutors and judges if they need a complete and accurate criminal history to determine appropriate sentences for defendants.

“The goal of CJLEADS is to provide, in the most user-friendly capability as possible, a comprehensive view of the offender so the prosecutors can make decisions,” Freeman said.

One of the unique functions of the system is the watchlist function, which will alert a user via e-mail when someone on his or her watchlist is arrested, paroled or has a probation status change, Meyer said. Additionally, the system will include all available photographic images for each suspect.

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The Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data Services, currently in closed-testing, will bring crime records from across the state into a user-friendly system. The murder of Duke student Abhijit Mahato and UNC student Eve Carson renewed interests in the project’s development.

According to the Office of the State Controller’s Web site, CJLEADS will draw information from both the Department of Correction, including incarceration and probation information, and Administrative Office of the Courts’ records, such as dockets, warrants and orders for arrest.

Each suspect’s file includes criminal history, domestic violence, community corrections, jail and prison sentences, marks/scars/tattoos, gang affiliation and sex offender registry.

CJLEADS is being developed by SAS Institute in Cary and the Wake County Criminal Justice Partnership Advisory Board.

The development process has involved feedback from

members of several law enforcement agencies, including police officers, district attorneys and judges.

“We’ve had meetings with different agencies, everyone gives their input,” Harrison said. “Everyone has had a little bit of the pie trying to get to the controller’s office what we need. We’ve all had a part in it.”

By Fall 2010, the system will be in use throughout Wake County, with plans to expand it statewide in place for 2011.

“We’re 10 years further along with the capabilities, some of the challenges that arose when the system was conceived can now be handled in different ways,” Freeman said. “This is light-years ahead of where we currently are.”

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central from page 3

K4 from page 1

the water outage was caused by the construction on the Mill Village project. Despite Clark’s alert and inaccurate information, RLHS did not send an explanatory e-mail until the following afternoon.

“One of our graduate residents for Central Campus attempted to send out an e-mail to all of Central Campus [Wednesday] night about the water outage,” Lynch wrote in the Thursday e-mail. “In review, [Clark’s] e-mail only went out to about 50 percent of Central Campus. His e-mail also indicated that the outage was related to construction on Central Campus which was incorrect.”

Junior Joe Ahdoot, a Central Campus resident, said people who were affected by the outage were upset by the inconvenience.

“I was walking out the door when it started, but people sounded pretty upset that they couldn’t take showers,” he said. “If I had wanted to take a shower at that time, I would have been pissed.”

Numerous apartment buildings on Central will also be experiencing a power outage on Monday between 10 a.m. and noon as a result of Mill Village construction, according to a separate email alert from Lynch.

Associate Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez and Tony Bumphus, associate director for facility planning and operations, could not be reached for comment Thursday.

percent. The rooms themselves will be similar to those in Keohane, though the floor layout will differ from those in current Gothic residence halls.

Common rooms, termed “Great Rooms,” will be strategically placed at entrances, exits and stairwells as well as in more central locations.

The hope is to bring residents together and encourage a sense of community more commonly found on East Campus, Gonzalez said.

“One of the advantages of East Campus is you cross paths with other residents haphazardly,” he said. “We want to have something similar in K4—to bring people together.”

Although Gonzalez presented the plans to Campus Council at Thursday’s meeting, he declined to release them for publication at the time.

The four newest features of the fourth Keohane building are an increase and integration of study space, a connection between McClendon Tower and the rest of the quad, the creation of a hub for activity and the possibility of K4 becoming the new Housemodel for New Campus one day, said Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a junior.

“I also like the idea of pulling seniors back on campus,” Temple said, adding that his goal for K4 is to increase interaction between residents of different classes.

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At Campus Council’s meeting Thursday night, Associate Dean for Residence Life Joe Gonzalez explains the impact of the K4 construction on Keohane and Edens Quadrangles in the coming months and requested patience from residents in the affected area.

In other business: Two of the three Young Trustee candidates each had an opportunity to address the council at Thursday’s meeting. Seniors John Harpham and Zach Perret spoke for 10 minutes about their qualifications and plans for being the Young Trustee. The third candidate, senior Chelsea Goldstein, former Duke Student Government vice-president for academic affairs, was not at the meeting.

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Both Harpham, former chair of The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board, and Perret, Duke University Union president, expressed excitement about the K4 project and their enthusiasm for working toward improving residential life.

“Residential life has to be onpar with academic life and research,” Harpham said.

Perret also commented on the transition from quadrangle format to K4, House-style layout.

“I appreciate the value of

quality programming space,” he said.

Campus Council did not opt to endorse a candidate, but the candidates were invited to Thursday’s meeting to converse about the relationship between residence life and the position of Young Trustee, Temple said.

“We want to foster a relationship between the Young Trustee and Campus Council,” Temple said. “My hope is that the Young Trustee will use Campus Council as a resource.”

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clamshell from page 4

by Charlotte Clark, visiting professor and associate director of education and training at the Nicholas School of the Environment. Students researched different ways to make on-campus dining more eco-friendly, presenting their ideas to various experts on campus at the end of the semester.

Five students examined the use of disposable boxes in the Great Hall, discovering that these containers create an enormous amount of waste. According to their report, many students use the disposable option even when dining in the facility, as they prefer the containers for tossing salads.

The research team considered a variety

of different alternatives­—ranging from bagasse, a mixture of bamboo and sugarcane, to styrofoam—and chose one solution to present to Dining Services.

“We were all a little skeptical at first about a reusable program at Duke,” Rock said.

However, some students said they ultimately favored the clamshell approach over recyclable materials, because it would be more difficult to enforce the recyclable materials program. Recyclables must be cleaned of contents before going in the recycling bin to prevent contamination, said senior Sehhyun Lee, a group member.

The research group was inspired after seeing success in a similar program in dining halls at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

dghi from page 4 list. ITOC will also consider advice from organizations such as the U.S. State Department, the British Foreign Services and International SOS. “We do not wish to inhibit good faith intentions of our students to contribute to the support and rehabilitation efforts in the country. For that reason the International Travel Committee will reassess the situation, and the restriction, on a daily basis as we receive word from colleagues on the ground in Haiti,” said Christy Parrish-Michels, manager of global administrative support for the Office of International Strategy.

Ariely said DGHI will have to decide by mid-March whether the joint DukeEngage and DGHI trip to Haiti will

michael naclerio/The Chronicle

The new reusable clamshell containers went on sale two weeks ago for $5. The project, designed to lower students’ carbon footprint at The Great Hall, was first proposed by an environmental science class at Duke.

continue as planned. Any logistical issues, such as the time it takes to get travel visas, would become another obstacle.

“We are working with the hopeful assumption that the program will continue,” Ariely said.

DukeEngage has already selected this summer’s eight participating students, and if the trip happens as planned, students will work to reduce the safety issues associated with pregnancy, said Dr. David Walmer, founder of Family Health Ministries and Kathy Walmer’s husband.

Freshman Julie Rivo, one of the eight participants, became interested in Haiti because her community in Miami has a large Haitian population. Her interest has increased while taking Haitian Creole for the Haitian Recovery this Spring.

Rivo said that when she was accepted to the trip, she set aside her summer to address women’s health care needs

in Haiti.

“Some people like me have not applied to other programs because they knew they were doing DukeEngage,” Rivo said.

But program administrators have assured the DukeEngage students that officials will create another program for them if they cannot go to Haiti, Rivo said.

Even if this summer’s program cannot go forward, DGHI supplements its international work with Durhambased relief efforts, said Geelea Seaford, assistant director of communication at DGHI. She added that such efforts could include focusing the 2011 winter forum on Haiti.

Ariely said these are just some examples of DGHI’s commitment to Haiti.

“We’ve been there for the long haul, we’re going to be there for the long haul,” Ariely said.

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Duke’s 2010 schedule was announced Thursday, and its highlight is one of the biggest games at Wallace Wade Stadium in years, a visit from national champion Alabama

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Singler shoots Blue Devils to ACC summit 86 DUKE GT 67

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Junior Kyle Singler scored just one 2-point field goal Thursday, but he made eight total 3-pointers.

Something hadn’t been totally right with Kyle Singler’s game this year.

Sure, he’s had games where he’s been great on the defensive end, and, yes, he’s rarely an offensive liability. But something was always missing, even in those games in which he showed himself deserving of his ACC Preseason Player of the Year honors.

Singler has simply not shot the ball well.

He’s 40.7 percent from the field for the year, down from 44.1 percent last season.

Even more telling, he’s shot 30.3 percent from 3-point land this season after shooting 38.3 percent during his sophomore year.

That last figure will go up after his magnificent performance Thursday night. Singler finished with a career-high 30 points on 9-of-17 shooting and 8-of-10 from downtown during an 86-67 rout of No. 21 Georgia Tech (16-6, 4-4 in the ACC) at Cameron Indoor Stadium that kept Duke in first place in the conference standings.

“It was the first game all year that I’ve shot the ball well,” Singler said bluntly. “I just got into a rhythm, I took open shots and I started knocking them down.”

Singler started the game as cold as the tents in K-Ville, missing his first 3-point shot and not making a field goal until the 12-minute mark.

He heated up pretty quickly, though, finishing with 10 points in the half, including a buzzer beater that he called a “silent dagger”.

“He’s been right there all season, I mean, he really has,” senior guard Jon Scheyer said. “He’s been stroking it in practice all the time and he was due for a game like this. I mean, it’s going to happen with Kyle.

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He’s a great shooter, a great player.”

Singler was responsible for No. 10 Duke (18-4, 6-2) gradually pulling away from the Yellow Jackets. He hit a 3-pointer right out of the locker room, and then, after Krzyzewski waved at the student section while screaming, “Come on!” Singler made another, sending the crowd to a decibel level typically only reached by an F-14. He would make seven in a row by the time he was done.

“It was the first game all year that I’ve shot the ball well.”

— Kyle Singler He paid back the adoration, waving at the crowd and bunny-hopping all the way back to his defensive position. After finishing 2-of-13 shooting in Atlanta against Georgia Tech, he had exorcised his shooting demons.

“Tonight was the first night I really saw him in a great rhythm on the perimeter and it was fun to watch,” sophomore guard Nolan Smith said. “Every time he shot the ball I was excited because I knew it was going in.”

Of course, Singler couldn’t do it all by himself. Duke’s defense, markedly absent in Washington, D.C. last weekend, completely shut down Zachery Peacock, who scored the Yellow Jackets’ first 11 points and then didn’t score again.

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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — It had been barely three days since Duke had moved up two spots to No. 6 in the rankings, with a streak of 12 straight wins interrupted only by a loss to powerhouse Connecticut. And Boston College looked likely to become victim No. 13, as the Eagles had struggled with consistency en route to a record barely above .500.

Duke’s undefeated start to its ACC schedule came to an end Thursday night in Chestnut Hill, as sloppy play doomed Duke to a 61-57 defeat at the hands of Boston College (13-10, 4-4 in the ACC). The Blue Devils (18-4, 6-1) struggled on the boards, and looked entirely out of sync against the Eagles’ zone defense.

In total, Duke turned the ball over 20 times, and the Blue Devils had just nine assists on their 21 field goals. The .45 See upset on page 10

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Carolyn Swords grabbed nine rebounds of her own and helped clear the paint for her teammates in Boston College’s surprise win Thursday.

No. 19 Duke goes into Friday’s match against No. 15 Illinois with seven years of defeat riding on its back and high hopes of finally making the Fighting Illini go home disappointed.

Coming off a surprising 4-2 loss No. 15 Illinois against then-No. 25 Alabama in the second round of the ITA Kickvs. off Weekend, the Blue Devils preNo. 19 pared all week to avenge their deDuke feat and turn the first home match of the year into a victory. Illinois is FRIDAY, 6 p.m.

Sheffield Tennis Center ranked similarly to Duke (2-1) going into the match, and assistant coach Josh Goffi stressed the importance of being focused for the contest.

“If you get in a rut where you keep losing, the opponents tend to have a one-up on you,” Goffi said.

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Duke goes back to basics Blue Devils build, maintain lead with “free throws and threes”

by Taylor Doherty THE CHRONICLE

A frustrated Paul Hewitt summed up his team’s 86-67 loss in just four words: “Free throws and threes.”

An efficient Duke offense that made it to the line 36 times in 40 minutes and Game took advantage of open looks from deep the Yellow Jackets from the Analysis disrupted tipoff. No. 21 Georgia Tech converted on just six attempts from the free throw line in the first half despite getting to the line 14 times and missed on the front end of two oneand-ones. And as the Yellow Jackets struggled to take advantage of opportunities from the charity stripe, they got

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Lance Thomas showed his defensive versatility Thursday by playing the top of the zone at times and guarding Georgia Tech’s big men on other occasions.

upset from page 9 assist-to-turnover ratio was Duke’s worst of the season in ACC play.

From the outset, the Blue Devil offense failed to complete crisp passes, and never looked comfortable attacking the Boston College zone.

Eagle head coach Sylvia Crawley said that the Eagles played man-to-man defense only on inbounds plays, and that they even utilized some box-and-one defense to neutralize Duke’s leading scorer, Jasmine Thomas­­­—a strategy that proved effective. It was more than 12 minutes into the game before Thomas got her first points, and she shot just 6-of-17 from the floor for the game, including two critical misses in the final minute.

“We never really got a chance to take over the game,” Thomas said.

Duke also failed to take over the game with its typically disciplined pressure defense. The Eagles handled Duke’s full-court pressure with aplomb, having prepared for the defense in practice and previous games.

“The past two games that we’ve played— Miami and Clemson—actually really prepared me for this game,” Boston College point guard Jaclyn Thoman said. “Clemson pressed us the entire game.”

into foul trouble early as well. Forward Gani Lawal picked up two fouls in the first 33 seconds of the game and freshman Derrick Favors had three fouls of his own. Both players were limited to six minutes each in the first half, and in the absence of the talented duo of post players, No. 10 Duke outrebounded Georgia Tech 27-15 and found itself 12 points ahead at the break.

“We felt like if we could have had it to single digits going into halftime, we thought our pressure was wearing them down, that we’d have a chance,” Hewitt said.

“But we didn’t do what we had to do. We didn’t play well tonight. I’m very disappointed in our effort.”

Physical play—as senior guard Jon Scheyer pointed out after the game—forced the referees to continue to blow the whistle throughout the contest. By the end of regulation, the two teams had combined for 52 fouls and 64 free throw attempts.

“You know its going to be a physical game like most games in the ACC,” Scheyer said. “We prepare for that and we feel like we’re physical too. There were a lot of fouls called tonight and there should have been.... We put [the referees] in a position where they had to make foul calls.”

And then there were the threes. After the first half in which the Blue Devils made 6-of-9 3-pointers, Hewitt told his team that if Duke continued to shoot that well from deep—and went 6-of-9 on 3-point attempts once again—his team wouldn’t stand a chance to win. His words proved prophetic. The Blue Devils finished the game 12-of-18 from behind the arc, including junior Kyle Singler’s finest shooting performance of the season in which he made 8-of-10 shots from long range en route to 30 points, a career high.

The Blue Devil coaching staff recently tweaked the team’s attack in hopes that the junior would respond positively to a motion offense with non-predictable movement and frequent screens set by teammates. But just like any player in what some might call a slump, continued shot attempts—regardless of whether or not they went in— proved to be the only way to break out. “[The motion offense] helped him catch it strong,” Krzyzewski said. “Then, whatever his talents are should take over, and he took over. That is not coaching, that is him.

But I thought he was moving better and got the ball…. He was open a lot, because it is not predictable movement.”

The other two of Duke’s top three scorers helped Singler to once again shoulder the offensive burden. Scheyer added 21 points—including 2-for-4 shooting from deep— and Nolan Smith put in a 14-point effort. The three combined for all but 21 points of the Duke offense—that is,

To compound Duke’s woes, the Blue Devils were handily beaten on the boards against one of the ACC’s poorer rebounding teams.

Boston College pulled down 19 total offensive rebounds, and scored nearly a third of its points on second-chance opportunities.

The determined Eagle rebounders kept Duke off the offensive glass as well, limiting the Blue Devils to just 10 second-chance points. Coming into Chestnut Hill, Duke led the ACC in rebounding margin at plus11.4 per game, but Boston College pulled down 42 boards to the Blue Devils’ 33.

Duke compensated for its early lack of consistency on offense by shooting a high percentage from beyond the arc. Though Duke failed to put points on the board until nearly five minutes into the half, Karima Christmas sparked a long-range barrage for the Blue Devils, as Duke set a season high with five first-half threes.

Duke showed little improvement in the second half. The Blue Devils were never able to establish their offensive sets, and though Duke remained within striking distance until the end, its inability to stop Boston College’s guards proved to be the dagger. The final blow for Duke came with four minutes remaining in the game, when Boston College recovered two consecutive offensive rebounds and was able to keep the clock running continuously. After the

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Jon Scheyer epitomized the Duke offense Thursday, scoring 21 points on two 3-pointers, nine free throws and just three 2-point field goals. over 75 percent of the Blue Devils’ attack.

Duke converted on 24 shots from the free throw line and shot 67 percent from deep, and senior Lance Thomas’s efforts on the boards provided his team with second chance opportunities. Five of the forward’s 11 rebounds came on the offensive end of the floor and the Blue Devils scored 20 second-chance points. On the other end, Thomas spent a great deal of the game chasing around Zachery Peacock, who went scoreless after opening up the game with the Yellow Jackets’ first 11 points.

“Lance did a real good job tonight,” Krzyzewski said. “The obvious story is Kyle [Singler], [and] the hidden story is Lance. He was very good for us tonight, and he has been.”

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Jasmine Thomas’s 19 points were not enough to prevent Duke from suffering its first ACC loss Thursday. second rebound, the Blue Devils fouled center Carolyn Swords, who drained the free throws to put the Eagles up by four.

The Blue Devils were well-rested entering the game, with this contest being just their second in the last 11 days, but head coach Joanne P. McCallie empha-

sized that the layoff was not a factor in Duke’s poor play.

“You’ve got to be ready to go,” McCallie said. “If you’re going to be a very good team, or a special team, we’ve got a long way to go to learn lessons on the way we need to be. There’s no excuses for us.”

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illini from page 9 “We’ve prepared our guys mentally for that and we’re going to try and come out of the gates hot and come with a lot of energy.”

Head coach Ramsey Smith, a former Duke player who currently ranks second all-time with 119 single victories, fondly remembers the last time Duke beat the Illini the year after he graduated in 2002.

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Freshman Henrique Cunha’s first home match of his career is tonight at 6 p.m. against No. 15 Illinois.

retirement from page 1 of Arts & Sciences, said he did not want to comment until Feb. 22 when he would have “more information.”

Blair Sheppard, dean of the Fuqua School of Business was in India and unavailable to comment. Administrators at the Nicholas School of the Environment were compiling the numbers but did not make them available Thursday evening.

The incentive aims to sustain a level of faculty renewal, Lange said. He added that administrators have seen signs that retirements, faculty leaving to take positions at other universities and hiring would all slow down.

“The renewal of faculty on a regular basis is very important to keeping a very lively intellectual environment,” Lange said. “Furthermore, it also allows you to

haiti from page 1 medical supplies, Vascular Surgeon Dr. Richard McCann said the treatments will depend heavily on physical examination and intuition.

“The resources are in very short supply and it is something you have to learn to deal with,” he told WRAL. According to a Duke news release, Duke Medicine has

Although Illinois has fielded one of the top programs in the country for the past eight years, highlighted by a No. 10 ranking to end the 2007 season, Smith is still confident that the Blue Devils have what it takes to be successful this weekend.

“We’ve been stressing that it’s a new week and a fresh start,” Smith said. “We did a lot of things really well last week and there are just a couple fine tuning things. It’s been a good week and the guys seem eager.”

Smith looks to top singles and doubles player Henrique Cuhna to lead the team to victory against the Illini despite his loss in singles against Alabama. No. 17 Cunha is from Jau, Brazil and Smith thinks the player is still adjusting to not only playing in a new country, but also to coming into a leadership position at such a young age.

“For a freshmen to come in and play No. 1 singles and doubles is about as tough as it gets,” Smith said. “I think getting used to the team environment is key because he came straight from junior tournaments. The last team he played on was when he was 13 and he is just getting more and more comfortable with the college environment.”

The loss against Alabama aside, Cunha has seen major success playing alongside his Duke teammates. Finishing an impressive Fall season with a 14-3 singles record and a 17-3 doubles record with Reid Carleton, the Brazilian won 12 of his first 13 collegiate matches. Cunha has a 5-1 record against ranked single players and has racked up three ranked doubles wins.

This weekend is the biggest nonconference weekend of the year for the Blue Devils. Not only will Duke face Illinois (2-1) on Friday at 6 p.m. at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center, but it will square off against No. 30 Notre Dame (3-2) at 12 p.m. Sunday.

The Blue Devils finish the weekend against N.C. Central (0-2) Sunday night at 6 p.m.

maintain the demographic balance within your faculty because we have no one new coming in at the young end and the senior people [are] staying longer.

You’re going to get an aging of your faculty that is not in itself bad, but you don’t want to have gaps because eventually something is awry.”

Lange said the money the schools borrow from the University’s central fund to pay for the retirees’ offers would not be subject to interest.

“As we said from the beginning it is not fundamentally a budgetary measure,” Lange said. “There may be some savings in the short run... It is a faculty renewal measure [for] faculty who may have been thinking about retiring before the financial crisis and found themselves more uncertain whether or not they could do it and what the conditions would be.” already shipped medical supplies and medicines to Family Health Ministries, a non-profit medical mission organization in Haiti led by Dr. David Walmer, chief of reproductive endocrinology at Duke University Medical Center and the founder and chair of Family Health Ministries.

Medical administrators could not be reached after repeated attempts last week.

m. bball from page 9 And Derrick Favors, the athletic phenom who’s a projected top-5 pick in June’s NBA Draft, only had three shot attempts by the seven-minute mark of the second half. He finished with just eight points, thanks in large part to smothering defense from Miles Plumlee, Brian Zoubek and Lance Thomas.

“You’ve got to play physical with [Favors],” Thomas said. “I tried to make sure that his touches were limited and to stay in front of him. Keep contacting, let him know that you’re defending him.”

The big guys also held their own on the rebounding front. Duke outrebounded Georgia Tech 27-15 in the first half—and led by 12 at the break—and 40-32 in the end.

“They got 12 offensive rebounds in the first half,” Yellow Jackets head coach Paul

Hewitt said. “That was enough to give them that 12-point lead.”

The game took on a physical tone early on and never let up. Fifty-two total fouls were committed and, more than any other part of the game, hard fouls and questionable calls riled the fans up. The physicality of the game didn’t surprise Thomas.

“It was a very physical game. But that’s how it is when two teams compete at that level,” Thomas said. “Both teams want to win, whatever you’ve got to do to win, do it.”

In the end, though, the story of the game was Singler achieving a career-high in points, but more importantly for Duke, showing that he still has the touch from deep that helped make him the unique, versatile threat he is known to be.

“In this type of game,” Krzyzewski said, “that is a spectacular shooting performance.”

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Senior forward Lance Thomas appeared a step quicker than most of Georgia Tech’s frontcourt players Thursday in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Thomas hustled his way to 11 rebounds in Duke’s big win.

Democrats question Comcast, NBC brass on $30 billion merger

by Cecilia Kang

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House and Senate Democrats grilled top executives of Comcast and NBC Universal in hearings Thursday on the companies’ proposed $30 billion merger, with some lawmakers expressing concern that the deal could hurt consumers and stifle competition.

Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts and NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker tried to assure lawmakers, during back-to-back hearings before House and Senate subcommittees, that the deal would not limit consumer choice and that the combined company would abide by rules requiring that cable and Internet competitors get access to programming.

“Together, Comcast-NBCU can help deliver the anytime, anywhere multi-video experience consumers want,” Roberts said.

“We will be more creative and innovative. ... Our success will stimulate our competitors, too.”

But some Democratic lawmakers argued that the combined company could use its bulk to jack up prices for competitors who want its content or give greater priority to its own shows and movies. They also questioned the merger’s im-

pact on the future of Internet television, given that the deal would combine the nation’s biggest cable and Internet distributor with the fourth-largest media company.

“After additional review, I’m even more certain this joint venture, if approved, could trigger dramatic changes in the way consumers access video programming (and) independent programmers distribute their work,” said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., , chairman of the House Commerce Committee. “Will competition be sustainable with the largest video and broadband provider controlling huge quantities of content?”

Thursday’s hearings set the stage for an expected year-long regulatory review of the merger.

The lawmakers won’t ultimately rule on the union, but observers said the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission will take into consideration arguments for and against the merger as they conduct their reviews.

“They are in a position to pressure the administration and influence the amount of scrutiny the deal gets,” said Andrew Gavel, a professor of law at Howard University.

The executives argued that the merger would benefit the troubled

media industry, which is reeling from advertising losses and the wide amount of free content on the Web. Comcast has said it would put more money into NBC to develop new shows and movies, expanding the company into a new field beyond its core business of providing cable and Internet access.

Roberts called the merger a vertical merger without significant overlapping businesses. But consumer groups and competitors said regulators need to look at the large overlapping businesses. Both companies own broadcast stations and cable channels.

The companies have said they would make their content available to competitors online, but they didn’t address specific concerns that the combined company could apply tough terms and conditions to such deals to hurt smaller competitors. Colleen Abdoulah, president of Wide Open West, or WOW, a cable and Internet service provider in the Midwest, told lawmakers that Comcast has already rejected her firm’s request to purchase rights to its cable shows and other programs over the Internet.

“If I don’t have access to content, where will my customers go?

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A better K-ville, for all When Spring semester be- ball office has never released gan three weeks ago, things figures that quantify whether just weren’t the same. In student attendance at games place of a tent city and pools has decreased, so it’s hard to of mud in front of Cameron know exactly how serious of Indoor Stadium sat a plot of a problem this actually was. grass that was Still, the actually green. changes instieditorial An unusual tuted this year sight for the time of year, seem to have achieved their Krzyzewskiville was empty. goal of packing Cameron Last semester, line moni- full. But as an added benefit, tors and Duke Student Gov- they have also made the basernment were pressured ketball experience at Duke a by the Department of Ath- more inclusive one. letics to boost attendance The line monitors’ most at men’s basketball games significant change involved and restore rowdiness to a complete overhaul of the Cameron. As a result, the rules governing tenting. In line monitors implemented previous years, the tenting sweeping reforms to tenting process began with the blue policy that, among other tenting season that operated things, pushed back the on a first-come, first-served tenting start date. basis. As a result, many dieTo date, the men’s basket- hard students would pitch

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their tents as early as the day after Christmas.

This year, however, an official starting date of Jan. 30 was set for blue tenting, and groups that wanted to be one of the first tents in line were given the option of participating in a one-week “black tenting” experience starting a week earlier. In addition to this change, groups are only required to have six students in their tent each night during the blue season, a decrease of two students from last year.

As we wrote last Fall, loosening tenting requirements makes sense from a public health perspective. Nights out in the cold only increase the chances of a student falling ill, and limiting the number of students in a tent is a

prudent move after swine flu, pink eye and meningitis have hit campus in the past two years.

But these changes also make K-ville more accessible to more students. Seeing a large number of tents pitched in K-ville on the first day of classes gives the impression that only ultradedicated fans can get a spot in the student section. That perception is simply not true, and diverting the start of tenting to a more reasonable date helps to dispel this false notion.

Furthermore, a later start date and a lower number of students required to spend the night in a tent makes it easier for those who are dedicated to school work, extracurricular activities or greek

organizations to participate in the time-honored tradition of tenting.

Before this season started, Associate Head Basketball Coach Steve Wojciechowski spoke at several fraternity and sorority meetings, encouraging their members to attend more games.

And so it’s important to reiterate that, following in the spirit of inclusivity, this new approach to student section attendance should not target specific groups that the athletics department has deemed better, “rowdier” fans, but rather broaden the spectrum of students that go to Cameron to cheer on the team.

Line monitor Dan Romero recused himself from this editorial.

Stupid Tuesday

lightly less than a week from now we’ll all Tuesday’s Town Hall forum and Wednesday’s Great wake up and congratulate ourselves for elect- Hall debate to get a better feel for the candidates. ing a new Young Trustee.

Apparently, more than 99.5 percent of voters were The majority of the more than 6,000 under- busy one or both of these days. Tuesday brought out grads here, as per usual, will selfabout 15 students to Social Sciences referentially smile upon their 136, half of whom seemed to work for democratic fairness and think The Chronicle and the other half for themselves exceedingly smart. The the purpose of heckling the candidates powers that be have already tooted via Twitter. Wednesday saw a slightly bettheir own horns for organizing the ter turnout, albeit one less invested in first student-wide YT election. For the views of the candidates (“Is everythese supposed geniuses, it’s as ben brostoff body awake out there?” was heard more though they’ve done what no other than once by the candidates). Potential bro’s stuff gubernatorial body has done beattendees were invited to submit quesfore: organize a campus-wide elections via e-mail before the event: I found tion to “democratically” cast a student into the out later from moderator Lauren Moxley I was one ranks of Duke’s hallowed conference rooms. of two people to send questions her way.

No one is inclined to disagree with the univerIn one of those unintentionally funny moments sal suffrage approach either. The new YT electoral that happens when people who don’t really care system is pretty much invincible to criticism in the about something are accosted by people who do same way no one can knock Tim Tebow for loving really care about something, I had the undivided Jesus. To attack the idea of student choice is to sug- attention of all three candidates after Moxley angest not everyone should have a voice, which in 2010 nounced my softball submission (“How have your is clearly a politically indefensible position. individual leadership positions on campus prepared It’s fairly obvious, however, that not everyone you for the position of Young Trustee?”). It was tanshould have a voice. Profoundly misguided people tamount to trying to get Jon Stewart to take politics once allowed to have a voice are responsible for, seriously. This quality may have been the weirdest among other things, slavery, genocide, economic wrinkle to the whole debate set-up: three of the most depression and the inclusion of Allen Iverson and accomplished students at Duke urgently appealing Tracy McGrady in the 2010 NBA All-Star Game. to people who a) were more focused on recording The merits of widely inclusive decision-making pro- what they were saying for journalistic purposes than cesses are extremely dubious. thinking about the meaning of their words, or b) Democratic processes at Duke, ranging from treating the whole enterprise as comedic entertainplebiscites to Duke Student Government elections, ment. Alanis Morisette’s “Ironic” could be distantly are an exceptional case study in stupidity. Pretty heard over a heated debate about interfacing and fismuch all of these votes are done via Internet and cal minorities (yes, both of these terms were thrown are entirely optional. With more than 6,000 under- around multiple times two nights ago). graduates, it’s highly likely you know nothing about So, the evidence appears to be clear: Pretty much the majority of candidates on a given ticket and are no one has any vested interested in who is elected YT, similarly unlikely to find out anything of note about which means that ironically, the committee that spent the ones you’re unfamiliar with. Better yet, the vot- hours and hours picking the final three will leave the ing process is easily manipulable. Swinging a few ultimate decision up to people who constantly check hundred votes is within the realm of possibility just Facebook and Duke WebMail. Two of the three will by bombarding list serves with pandering emails. feel horribly accountable for losing and the winner There is virtually nothing anyone can do to distin- unabashedly proud for winning when in reality the guish themselves short of maniacally papering bul- correlations between how well they ran their camletin boards and acting like Ryan Seacrest. Plurali- paigns and the final vote tallies will be small. ties rule voting day, accompanied not long after by The kicker is that no one will read this column a general animus toward student leaders. because no one reads The Chronicle and YT will The YT position, to its credit, is infinitely more continue to be chosen by about 6,000 undergradimportant than any DSG seat, and consequently uates, roughly 5,937 of whom have midterms next should be decided by an infinitely better voting pro- week and don’t want to be bothered by Chelsea cess. Seeing as it is the most powerful and respect- Goldstein, John Harpham or Zach Perret. ed position a student here can hold, logic would Don’t forget to vote Tuesday!!! dictate that undergrads here would care enough to find out who was running and think long and hard Ben Brostoff is a Trinity sophomore. His column before voting. With this rationale in mind, I went to runs every Friday.

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The technology gap

o, can I bing you?”

Although this may seem like a completely moronic question to my fellow technologically savvy—and dare I say addicted—members of Generation Y, I in fact know a man who asked me this very question. We’ll call him Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith is a friend of my parents and a man born during the height of the Baby Boom.

I admit it, I laughed at Mr. Smith as he struggled to understand all the features of his new Blackberry Storm. Bing, molly lester pin numbers and brick breaker were several of the applicamore taste, less tions I planned on teaching filling Mr. Smith, but his naïveté had caught me off guard.

“No, you cannot bing me,” I told him. “You can ping me.

There’s a difference. In fact, the two aren’t even related. Bing is an advanced search engine for your phone but to ping someone makes his blackberry vibrate when he isn’t responding to your BBM. Bing is a thing and ping makes a ding.”

The blank expression on Mr. Smith’s face said it all. My simple rhyme had made no sense to him. He was a product of a generation whose identity came from the rejection and redefinition of the cultural values set by the generation before him. He grew up with Rock-N-Roll, Civil Rights and the first walk on the moon. He listened to a transistor radio during adolescence, used an ATM for the first time in 1969 and never dreamed in a million years that as an adult, he would own a portable telephone with a touch screen.

He is a Baby Boomer and I am a Millennial, born during the “Echo Boom” of 1982-1995. Like our parents, we too are a culturally liberal generation. We, however, place more emphasis on expression and acceptance, hence the popularity of emoticons, Facebook friends and “liking” said friends’ statuses. Sociologists believe that because of our similar numbers and ideologies, Baby Boomers and Millennials (your parents and you) better relate to one another than Baby Boomers

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and the Greatest Generation (your parents and your grandparents). I, however, disagree on one front: technology.

I had just effortlessly defined minute details of the Blackberry, a multi-purpose miniature computer that never leaves my side. It houses my phonebook, my e-mails, my to-do lists and even a handful of my favorite photos. I was clear in my explanations, but it was as if Mr. Smith and I spoke different languages. My techy vocab had surpassed his realm of comprehension. He was lost and I realized this vast generation gap.

We know our Blackberries, our iPhones and our iPods like the back of our hands. Much of our days are spent ferociously texting, BBM-ing and surfing the web for the latest scores. We know the ins and outs of Facebook, YouTube and iTunes. If our iPods aren’t in our ears, they’re charging in our computers.

As our generation has grown, so has communication technology and as a result, we adapt naturally to technology’s changes. That is why, for instance, it took me no time at all to adapt from my Verizon SLVR phone to the Blackberry, from dial-up Internet to Wi-Fi, from CDs to the third generation iPod Touch.

Just last week, a professor of mine handed out hard copies of an e-mail he wanted the class to read. Yes, he could just have easily forwarded the email to the class, saving both paper and time. However, he is a Boomer. Technology is very much a part of his everyday life in the 21st century and studies show that Boomers now spend more time online than watching TV, but because he did not learn from an early age, Internet operations that seem so obvious to us did not to him.

While I realize there are exceptions on both fronts— that friend who is an incompetent texter or that dad who invented an iPod App—collectively, we’re a generation whose desire to be “peer-oriented” has made us the most connected and best-informed cohort of individuals the planet has ever seen. We expect information to be instantaneous, high-speed. Ninety-seven percent of today’s college students own a computer, 94 percent own a cell phone and 56 percent own an MP3 player, according to a 2007 survey conducted by The BACCHUS Network.

My point here is simple. Although we are a generation

The third wheel

ith an economy in shambles, rising tuition and Bickers Bock said in an e-mail that some scrutiny is imporcramped dorm space, today’s college environment tant when it comes to condoms. Not all condoms are made may not be the best in which to raise a baby. But equal. Some condoms are made for novelty use—they usually with the apparent degeneration of relationships into a series don’t protect their wearers from anything. Such fool’s gold is of drinking games and superfluous conversations, any combi- not your friend. When you do find the real McCoy, consider nation of which leads to someone’s bedroom, the traditional the material from which the condom is made. According to workload normally required to satisfy horBickers Bock, latex is the best at preventing monal urges has significantly lightened over STDs and pregnancies. Lambskin condoms the years. Soon, if the economy continues to contain small pores that may permit STD transstruggle, niceties such as beer and vodka may mission. Polyurethane condoms have a higher no longer be affordable in the new courting tendency to slip off or break relative to their process, and the whole roundabout scheme to latex cousins. achieve physical satisfaction may devolve into But latex does not solve all problems. one charmingly simple question: “Sex?” Hook-up hubris will not escape the wrath of How to balance these two opposing forces, Bacchus and the burn of gonorrhea. A latex elad gross the natural call to procreate and the economic condom stored in heat or exposed to too kitty babies opposition to collegiate baby-making? The solumuch sunlight can dry out and will be more tion is counterintuitive: Add another sexual partlikely to break during crunch time. Bickers ner! No matter what combination of genitalia is present, a third Bock recommends keeping a condom somewhere other wheel will only make the experience better. That ever-present, than in a wallet, pocket or glove-compartment. And if the ever-ready, ever-satisfactory other partner is the condom. moment calls for that extra glide, make sure to use waterThe last defender of sexual promiscuity, the squire of based, rather than oil-based lubricants for latex condoms. modern chivalry, the artifact that, according to Trojan, For students looking to jump on the latest Duke condom turns pigs into humans. But is something awry in the land trend, Bickers Bock wrote that the Lifestyles Ultra Sensitive conof penis-covering plastic? Earlier this year, the Guttmacher doms have been the most popular over the past year. In terms Institute, an organization devoted to the study of sexual of safety, all of the packaging hoopla made over the strength, health, found that in 2006 the teen pregnancy rate rose for shape, texture and thinness of various condoms makes little the first time since the 1990s. According to the Centers for difference. If the condom is FDA approved, then the sex is Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of syphilis and safe. Your sexual experience is backed by the government! And chlamydia infections increased between 2007 and 2008. who said the little guy is getting no love from Feds?

Even the enchantment of the Gothic Wonderland may be When it comes to the casual sex scene, integrity may not overpowered by these trends. According to the 2007 report be the first word that comes to mind. The “hit-it-and-quiton the Campus Culture Initiative, a crack team of investiga- it” mentality turns every encounter into a one-night stand. tors discovered a “hook-up culture” characterized by “casual But for at least one relationship, integrity always matters. sexual connections.” In the oft-times treacherous world of ca- In the wild west of romantic involvement, only one sidekick sual sex, only one partner can be counted on—the condom. can be trusted with your life. That partner can come in But, like any effective partner, it too must be treated with different shapes, sizes and colors, and sometimes your acrespect. According to another Guttmacher Institute report, complice may even smell nice too. The relationship is one condoms used perfectly fail 2 percent of the time. But, due to of mutual respect, one in which both partners leave their mishandling, the typical failure rate is closer to 17 percent! well-being fully up to the other. And so next time someone Can Duke stave off disaster? Can the condom still be snidely asks about last night, have the courage to say you trusted? To find out, I went searching for the scholar of the did fall in love, even if it was with a piece of plastic. condom on campus. Her name is Lindsey Bickers Bock, the Healthy Devils Peer Education Program Coordinator.

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

that is comparable to our parents’ when it comes to college experience, careers paths and a love for music, the technology gap most greatly differentiates Millennials and the Boomers. Why else would all the people who make appointments at the Genius Bar of the Apple store be north of 40?

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

letterstotheeditor Panhellenic push for space not over As sorority presidents, we were thrilled to read The Chronicle’s Feb. 3 article, “Long push for sorority housing ends,” as it shows an understanding of the historical and contemporary issues of the Panhel space debate. We have every hope that the space on Central Campus will benefit our sisterhoods and Panhellenic unity; however, our long push for space is not over. In fact, our work is just beginning.

The Central housing, while a positive step, is what The Chronicle’s editorial board has called a “stopgap” measure. Our Panhellenic organizations still face obstacles in reserving rooms for recruitment and other large-scale events, issues that will not be fixed by the two common rooms on Central.

We encourage future Panhellenic presidents and University officials to continue the conversation begun last fall, and to find new ways to address the needs of the largest female organization on campus.

Becki Feinglos President, Delta Gamma Trinity ’11 Alyssa Dack Outgoing President, Alpha Delta Pi Trinity ’10 Casey Miller Outgoing President, Pi Beta Phi Trinity ’10 Clarifications on WHO House We would like to make some clarifications and provide further explanation about the goals of the Women’s Housing Option in response to the Feb. 1 article, “Women’s Housing Option builds community, culture on West.”

First of all: WHO House is not substance free.

WHO House hopes to provide Duke men and women with new social outlets, not excluding those with alcohol. In addition, the dorm will be focused on all social issues and how they affect both men and women. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, women’s issues.

WHO House was created through Professor Rachel Seidman’s “Women as Leaders” class, and has since taken on a life of its own. We identified the current lack of real estate for women on West. Baldwin is the only all-female section on West, but this phenomenal program is only able to take a small number of women each year. WHO House aims to expand the opportunities available to Duke women, and in doing so, make an impact on the whole campus.

WHO House will be driven by its members. Each year dorm members will go on a retreat early in the fall to build dorm cohesion, and to choose a focus around which they will structure programming.

This focus will represent their varied interests and can fall anywhere on a spectrum of social issues. An elected programming committee will plan WHO’s events, which can range from bringing in a guest speaker for a faculty dinner, to attending a campus lecture as a dorm, to organizing a campus-wide event on the Main Quad.

Through these events, WHO House will become an open place to build community between men and women. It will be an environment where members form mentoring relationships. It is meant to be a new experience for the women in many ways; there are no prerequisites or requirements, merely a willingness to build relationships and a desire to create the change you want to see.

Mary Dyke Trinity ’10

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