February 12, 2010 issue

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Power outage impacts Donations Winter Forum rising post Bryan Center, Perkins was successful, recession Nowicki says arts & sciences council

by Christina Peña THE CHRONICLE

reportedly among the affected locations. The lack of power was reported from scattered sites across campus and therefore could not officially be declared a power outage, Duke Police said Thursday.

Aurel Selezeanu, assistant director for electrical utilities, was among the

Administrators are hopeful that donations to Duke will rise this fiscal year.

Donations are up about 5 percent midway through the 2010 fiscal year, which runs from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010, said William Conescu, executive director of Alumni and Development Communications. Conescu declined to say how much money Duke has raised to date.

Last fiscal year, donations were down $83 million dollars from the previous year, as the University raised about $302 million.

“We’re cautiously optimistic based on what we’re seeing in the general economy and the donor conversations,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “Contributions are coming in throughout the year and we are definitely seeing an uptick. We’re hopeful.”

The decline from fiscal year 2008’s record high was attributed to the economic crisis and the absence of large gifts. The number of donors remained steady at about 100,000.

“In looking at any university year to year some of the differences seen deal with significant major gifts,” Schoenfeld said. “The timing of those can be unpredictable. We

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by Julius Jones THE CHRONICLE

At its meeting Thursday, the Arts and Sciences Council reviewed several elements of the University’s Quality Enhancement Plan.

Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, presented an initial assessment of last month’s inaugural Winter Forum. Nowicki called the event a “renaissance weekend,” noting that more students participated in the program than he expected, especially considering that the forum cut students’ winter breaks short, did not count for any academic credit and required a significant amount of reading.

Additionally, the Winter Fourm came in under budget, costing the University less than $60,000.

“We didn’t want this to be a $100,000 designer program for less than 100 students,” Nowicki said. “For the impact of the event, something that’s in the order of $60,000 seems to be a good investment.”

Although Nowicki said the Trinity College Office of Assessment is still working on a final report, he was able to report to the Council that 95 percent of participants said they would recommend the experience to See arts and sciences on page 5

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Facilities Management employees work to restore power to the West Union and Flowers buildings early Friday. The outage, which occurred around 10 p.m. Thursday, affected several campus buildings.

by Emmeline Zhao THE CHRONICLE

Several campus locations lost power late Thursday night. The cause of the outage was still unclear as The Chronicle went to press around 4 a.m. Friday.

The outage occurred just after 10 p.m. Thursday. The Bryan Center, Parking Garage I, Perkins Library and the West Union and Flowers buildings were

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Senior Jon Scheyer and the Blue Devils routed the Terrapins 85-44 the last time Maryland visited Cameron Indoor Stadium, but Duke expects a much stiffer test Saturday afternoon.

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“Porn is not just sex on the screen....” ­—Professor Robert Jensen on pornography. See story page 3

They may not be the Tar Heels, but the Terrapins have created an interesting rivalry with the Blue Devils over the past decade—a rivalry that will be tested once again at Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday at 1 p.m.

Over the past decade, No. 8 Duke (20-4, 8-2 in the ACC) and Maryland (16-6, 6-2) have split their most recent meetings with homecourt advantage not guaranteeing victories: while the Blue Devils have won three times in College Park, the Terrapins have won twice in Durham.

Aside from ACC play, Duke and Maryland have met twice in the conference tournament cham-

Campus Council: K4 delayed Joe Gonzalez tells Council the new dorm’s completion date will be pushed back, PAGE 3

pionship game and once in the Final Four.

But Saturday’s game represents a rare occasion in the two teams’ rich history as Maryland and Duke, each with two conference losses, both sit atop the ACC standings. Although the Terrapins have pulled out some impressive conference victories this season, including a 92-71 win over North Carolina, tomorrow’s game presents their first opportunity for a statement win to solidify their high conference ranking.

Senior Jon Scheyer understands the importance of this matchup, even after Duke beat the Tar Heels 64-54 Wednesday.

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Freshman leads Duke over Pack, Page 11

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Coast Guard budget cuts D.C. recovers from snow feasible, admiral may say WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Washington region wobbled to its feet Thursday as mass transit and commerce lurched slowly back to life after a record-breaking blizzard, and officials pleaded for patience from frustrated prisoners of some unplowed residential streets.

Although many roads remained treacherous, snowplows and rising temperatures made pavement visible on major arteries for the first time in days. Some bus service resumed. Planes began flying out of the area’s three airports, and Amtrak said service would be “close to normal” Friday.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Coast Guard will risk a drop in readiness and become a more “fragile” force to accommodate cuts in President Barack Obama’s proposed 2011 budget, its commandant, Adm. Thad Allen, is expected to say Friday.

In a preview of the service chief’s fourth and final annual state of the Coast Guard address Friday, aides said Allen will describe hard choices to meet Obama’s call for belt-tightening in the federal government while fulfilling the Coast Guard’s top budget priority, replacing obsolescent ships and planes.

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KIEV, Ukraine—Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko faces pivotal decisions about her political future this weekend as election authorities prepare to declare Viktor Yanukovych the country’s new president.

The Central Electoral Commission is set to announce the final result of the Feb. 7 presidential election on Feb. 15. That will trigger the inauguration process and set a five-day deadline for any legal challenges to the vote, in which Yanukovych, 59, beat Timoshenko.

In addition to deciding whether to challenge the election results, Timoshenko must weigh whether to persist in refusing Yanukovych’s demand that she and her government step down so he can assemble a new Cabinet with majority support in the parliament. She may be taking the wrong approach, according to

members of her own party and analysts including James Sherr, head of the Russia and Eurasia program at Chatham House, a London-based foreign affairs research organization.

“It would be better for her interest and the interest of her constituency if she goes soon and goes into opposition,” Sherr said in an interview Thursday.

“It would be better for Ukraine because what Ukraine desperately needs is a government with a capacity to govern, which is not checked and blocked at every single turn.”

A legislative impasse may worsen the former Soviet republic’s economic plight and delay the resumption of a $16.4 billion emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund, adding to pressure on the hryvnia and government bonds.

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by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

Students may have to wait a little longer than expected to move into K4.

The target completion date for K4 , the planned fourth building of Keohane Quadrangle, has been pushed back to December 2011, Associate Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez, announced at Campus Council’s weekly meeting Thursday.

Administrators have not yet set a new date for site prep work to begin. It was originally planned for this Spring.

“This is a very recent adjustment,” Gonzalez said. “This information is being developed right now and we plan to share it with the University as soon as we have it.”

Completion was initially projected for August 2011, but administrative discussion and student concerns convinced the administration to delay plans for K4 just a bit further.

“As we worked on the project, we began to see several advantages to adjusting the time line,” Gonzalez said. “Now we have a much better ability to manage the impact on students this Spring—there’s an increase in time, refined design and an increase in time for construction schedules to be worked out.”

Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a junior, said the delay aims to accommodate students living in Edens and Keohane Quadrangles, who would have been disrupted.

Most of these disruptions will have come from utility work and the close proximity of construction to students. At last week’s Campus Council meeting, many members of the council expressed concern about the effects of construction and

site prep work on students.

“I am very happy that Student Affairs and [Residence Life and Housing Services] were able to adjust the schedules to have the building soon and yet take into consideration the wellbeing of residents of Edens and Keohane,” Temple said.

In accordance with the new schedule, K4 will open to students January 2011 and will be used mostly to house students coming back from study abroad programs second semester, Gonzalez said.

In other business: Temple announced that the annual library party has been canceled for this year.

The party was set to be sponsored by the Duke Partnership for Service. DPS President Adam Nathan, a senior, could not be reached for comment Thursday night.

Campus Council Vice President, Alex Reese, a junior, said the “feline-friendly” space coming to Central this Fall at 205 Oregon St. will be a free program.

The Central Campus restaurant, slated to open next month, will either be called “The Devil’s Bistro” or “Devil’s Kitchen,” and the new Central Campus complex, which will be open the first Friday after spring break, will be called Mill Village.

Social space, study space and the Central gym will be called the Village Commons, the Village Study and the Village Gym respectively. These names, however, are still pending administrative approval.

Campus Council members also deliberated how they can work with Duke Student Government to improve transportation to and from Central Campus.

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Members of Campus Council participate in the group’s weekly meeting Thursday night.

Schork, DSG vice president for campus and athletic services, Friday to discuss possible strategies for improvement. One idea discussed is creating a Central-only bus route that would operate through the night, and those wishing to go to East or West Campuses can transfer onto a main bus route at a transfer stop. Council members are also exploring instituting a GPS bus-tracking system and canceling the West-Central C-4, but extending the EastWest-Central C-2 later into the night.

“We want to very clearly articulate the importance of transportation improvement campus-wide, but most specifically on Central, as one of the very top, if not the top, priorities of Campus Council,” Temple said. “I am very optimistic. I see beneficial and meaningful changes coming from our working group collaboration between DSG and Campus Council to improve transportation.”

Last night, professor Robert Jensen of the University of Texas Austin spoke on why he thinks porn is “what the end of the world looks like.”

The lecture, held in the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, was sponsored by Duke’s Women’s Center as part of the annual Founder’s Lecture series. Jensen spoke for an hour, summarizing the feminist critique on modern pornography, by paraphrasing the words of Andrea Dworkin, radical feminist activist, writer, and speaker. “[She said], ‘porn is not just sex on the screen,’” said Jensen. “It’s sex presented in the context of domination and subordination of women.”

Jensen went on to describe five popular and modernized sexual practices gaining momentum in the last five years, explaining the potential for violence and humiliation of each.

“The intensity of the scene, the erotic charge of the scene comes from the degradation of women,” he said.

Jensen also spoke on what he calls ‘the paradox of pornography’. The paradox, he explained, is that while pornography becomes more mainstream, it also become more violent and more racially offensive.

“The clear trend is it has become more See jensen on page 6

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arts and sciences from page 1 other students.

He also cited areas where the Winter Fourm could improve in the future. Nowicki said the number of minority students and student athletes who attended the event was smaller than he would have liked and reaffirmed his commitment to attract a broader range of students.

In the coming years, Nowicki said he will work with student groups to attract more underrepresented students.

“Part of it also is just raising the visibility of the forum— it was brand new,” he said. “We were flying by the cuff and we didn’t have enough time to do it.”

During his presentation, Nowicki announced that Winter Forum 2011 will be held Jan. 9 to Jan. 11 and the Duke Global Health Institute will serve as the event’s sponsor.

The title has yet to be decided.

Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs of Trinity College, presented an update on another phase of QEP—the Global Semester Abroad. The program will allow 60 students to study

donations from page 1 are seeing signs that majors gifts will be picking up.”

Conescu noted that last year was still the fifth highest fundrasing year ever for Duke following three consecutive record-breaking years. Duke conducted the Financial Aid Initiative, a major fundraising campaign, during that period.

The campaign brought in $308 million by Dec. 31 2008.

“Duke ranked 13th [among U.S. colleges and universities in] private fundraising last year, that’s a pretty strong position to be in especially when we weren’t in a campaign—others were in a campaign, which just naturally increases your profits,” Schoenfeld said.

Academic Council Chair Craig Henriquez, professor of computer science and co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering, said many large gifts are made with specific projects like new buildings or programs in mind. He said he does not think lower giving has had an impact on academic programs in any way.

Of the roughly $302 million given to Duke in fiscal year 2009, 42 percent went to Duke Medicine, 14 percent to Trinity College and 6 percent to athletics, according to the 2008-2009 “Giving to Duke” Annual Report. And of the $42 million given to Trinty College, donors designated $17 million for financial aid.

“It is very important to our leaders that the economic challenges are not going to have a negative impact on our students especially with financial aid policies,” Conescu said. “Adjustments have to be made elsewhere to maintain student programs.”

According to the Council for Aid to Education, donations were down about 12 percent for U.S. colleges and universities in fiscal year 2009.

“Any time people are anxious about their jobs, wealth or assets, that’s inevitably going to have an effect on charitable donations,” Schoenfeld said. “The economy was in a much more perilous position last fiscal year. There are still many difficulties, but we have a more stable situation.”

Conescu said Duke’s fundraisers are not employing any new tactics this year and are using many of the same methods from previous years.

“It is not a time to change tactics,” Schoenfeld said. “It is time to continue to strengthen relationships that you already have. It’s important to just keep them informed and to maintain the relationships that could ultimately result in a major gift. People don’t just wake up and want to give a major gift.”

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Baker told the Council that China and India will serve as the locations for the program, and the University is currently in the process of finalizing the details. The Global Semester Abroad is scheduled to begin Spring 2011.

In other business: Arts and Sciences Council Chair Ruth Day, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, announced at the meeting the Duke had its accreditation reaffirmed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools last month. The University was placed on “monitoring status” by the SACS for Institutional Effectiveness, which measures student learning outcomes.

“It was just this one thing about institutional effectiveness out of this large list of things,” Day said. “Other very fine liberal arts, undergraduate universities have had this happen to them. In our case, we were doing [institutional effectiveness] well and with our examples, but there were not enough of them and they were not across a broad enough range.”

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Robert Jensen, a professor at the University of Texas, speaks on the topic of pornography at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life as part of the annual Founder’s Lecture series Wednesday evening.

blackout from page 1 team of staff from Facilities Management working to solve the problem. Selezeanu declined to comment early Friday morning about the cause of the outage or the situation’s status at the time.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said at 10:25 p.m. Thursday that he had not received any information about the outage.

Students in Perkins Library reported out-

and more cruel and degrading two women and more and more overtly racist,” he said.

Modern pornography, occasionally labeled ‘interracial’ (denoting a pornography film featuring at least one non-white person), often features Black men with white women. Subconsciously, Jensen explains, this displays a type of racism.

“When you reach the limits of what you can do physically, you have to find new ways to degrade women,” said Jensen. “You can humiliate them by forcing them to have sex with ‘demonized’ Black men.”

Martin Liccardo, Prevention Specialist for the Women’s Center, arranged Jensen’s lecture.

“The purpose of the Founder’s Lecture is to pick a contemporary topic that’s affecting our folks and talk about it in an in-

tentional way,” he said. “Pornography is a binary topic, either good or bad. Our hope and goal is to challenge that binary.”

Junior Julia Finch, a women’s studies major, explains that she has discussed pornography in her classes here at Duke.

“It’s something that’s important for people think about, to critically analyze anything they consume,” she said. “I’m... not against it, or for it, I think it’s something that’s really interested to look at: how pornography has become such a huge part of our society.”

Jensen adds that pornography has a tendency to undermine the capacity to empathize.

“The routine brutality of pornography is very disturbing,” he said. “When I say pornography is what the end of the world looks like, what I mean is pornography is a picture of a world in which men’s empathy has been undermined.”

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ages on the third floor and in von der Heyden Pavilion, but noted that power was restored by about 11:30 p.m.

It is unclear whether other areas of campus were affected, and Facilities Management officials could not be reached for comment early Friday morning.

The Flowers building, where The Chronicle’s office is located, experienced the power outage until 3 a.m. The adjacent West Union building had power restored by about 1 a.m., the on-duty DukeCard Office operator said.

While performers insist that the show must go on, journalists might say that the news never stops.

That’s why several members of The Chronicle staff carried out an emergency relocation after the newspaper’s office lost power from 10:05 p.m.

Thursday night until around 3 a.m. Friday morning.

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by Alex Krinsky THE CHRONICLE

In the midst of a sloppy game full of turnovers and ugly shots, freshman center Allison Vernerey was a diamond in the rough. With staunch defense and Vernerey’s 20-point performance, the Blue Devils (20-4, 8-1 in the ACC) dominated N.C. State (13-11, 3-6) at Cameron Indoor Stadium, 70-39.

Vernerey, in only her second career start, took complete control of Duke’s offense in the first half. Due to the fact that N.C. State did not have a player in the starting lineup over 6-foot-1, the 6-foot-5 Vernerey was dominant in the paint, scoring 16 of the Blue Devils’ 33 points in the period.

“She was very mobile in the post,” Wolfpack head coach Kellie Harper said. “She was so active, she never stood on one block. Our defense had a hard time fronting her and keeping her from touching the basketball….

She wanted the ball and she found a way to get it. She doesn’t look very strong but she was very aggressive going to get those rebounds.”

Nevertheless, while Vernerey was hot, the rest of the the Blue Devils and the Wolfpack were cold. In the first half, Duke players not named Vernerey scored 17 points

while the Wolfpack shot an abysmal 24 percent, much in part to the suffocating Duke defense. For the game, the Blue Devils shot less than 40 percent, not counting Vernerey’s output.

The Wolfpack had trouble adjusting to the Blue Devils’ aggressive defense and were overmatched in size. Duke set up a tight perimeter and didn’t allow NC State to penetrate in the paint or have open looks from the beyond the arc, forcing them to take bad shots.

“Defense is one thing that you can control every game,” senior Joy Cheek said. “Every game you can’t control if the ball is going to go in, but you can control how hard you go.

“We knew if our offense wasn’t working for us we could at least play defense for 40 minutes…. We like to shut teams down.”

After halftime, N.C. State made several adjustments to attempt to contain Vernerey in the post. Although she notched fewer points, she was still able to pull down rebounds with her extremely physical play, notching five in the second half. Vernerey added four more points in the second half along with five more rebounds as she notched

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Freshman Allison Vernerey had a double-double in her second career start, scoring 20 points and grabbing 10 boards to lead Duke Thursday.

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No. 1 Duke travels up north to Wisconsin this weekend to compete for the title of ITA National Indoor champions. The unbeaten and topseeded Blue Devils (5-0) will compete in a bracket of 15 of the nation’s top teams for one of the sport’s top prizes.

The Blue Devils come into the tournament boasting impressive play at this early stage of the season. After five straight wins including a recent 7-0 handling of Indiana (7-1), Duke looks to build momentum while facing the nation’s elite.

“Hopefully we’re playing at this time of year as well as we can,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “You know it’s definitely a good test for us, it gives us a gage for where we stand and what we need to work on as we get into March and April.”

The Blue Devils open play today against the host, Wisconsin. The Badgers (2-4) come into the tournament reeling from consecutive defeats at North Carolina and N.C. State. However, according to Ashworth, the team should not be taken lightly.

“The courts here are a little faster than we are used to,” Ashworth said.

“They have a little bit of an advantage there. Playing against them, we have a bit of a target on our back—they have nothing to lose when they play us.”

If the Blue Devils survive the challenge against the Badgers, they will face the winner of the Clemson-Southern California matchup in the quarterfinals on Saturday. In last year’s quarterfinals, Duke lost a closely-contested matchup to eventual tournament winner Northwestern.

“Honestly, I think it was probably better that we lost against [Northwestern],” junior Ellah Nze said. “We came back and beat them like two weeks later. From there, it was a great way for our season to start; we got on a roll and had a great season.”

This year’s Blue Devils will also look to this weekend’s competition as an early chance to set the tone for the season, just as last year’s squad did.

After losing its two top offensive players and goalie to graduation, Duke looks to its younger players to fill some big cleats with confidence.

Finishing third in the ACC last season behind No. 2 Maryland and No. 4 North Carolina, the Denver No. 5 Blue Devils hope to achieve similar results this vs. year as they gain momenNo. 5 tum throughout the course Duke of the season.

“We’re going to take FRIDAY, 4 p.m. each game at a time, and Koskinen Stadium every team has a sort of chemistry, and that’s something we need to work on every year,” senior captain Lindsay Gilbride said. “In general, we’re very talented and skilled, so we just have to get connected and [achieve] that sense of togetherness.”

Duke will face off against Denver today at 4 p.m. at Vandy Koskinen Stadium, where it vs. will attempt to start off the season on a strong note. The No. 5 two teams have played each Duke of the past three years in the SUNDAY, 1 p.m.

Blue Devils’ first match of Nashville, Tenn. the spring.

“We’re going into the game with no expectations, as in it doesn’t matter who we play, the No. 1 team or an unranked team,” senior captain Danielle Kachulis said. “We’re going to try our best, and we have our whole class playing,

so we have an urgency and an enthusiasm that will be present. We hope to set the tone from the first whistle.”

Duke’s matchup against the Pioneers should be an even one, since Denver also graduated a big chunk of its offense, and has always been a “tough and scrappy” team, head coach Kerstin Kimel said.

The Blue Devils must adjust with a young group of freshmen and sophomores playing on offense, but Kimel said the team has been working on its execution in practice.

“One of the things we are really trying to do is build depth and work on our ability to be flexible and adaptable, like we have eight to nine players on the bench who can come out and play if others are out with injury, or just for a change of pace,” she said.

“We have changes game to game, and some kids have growing up to do, particularly three freshmen who didn’t have a chance to play much in the fall, and some sophomores who didn’t play a lot last season.”

Duke didn’t have a very extensive preseason to help prepare for the spring schedule, but the Blue Devils did have the opportunity to play against the U.S. Elite Team in Orlando Jan. 31, where the squad realized what it needed to work on in order to be a competitive opponent.

“We were fortunate enough to be able to go to Florida, and there, our youth showed,” Kimel said.

“We did not have as much composure as we had hoped, and on the offense, we were not as smooth or connected. But that was expected, and we’re looking to grow over the season.”

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W. BBALL from page 11 her second career double-double.

“We did try some different defenses in the second half that allowed [Vernerey] to catch it,” Harper said. “We double-teamed her a couple times, but she kicked it out unfortunately and they hit a three.”

“Coming back from Christmas break [Vernerey] turned it up another notch,” senior Joy Cheek said. “She’s a hard worker and like [head coach Joanne P. McCallie] said she’s low maintenance and you know that she’s going to work

hard every game. She’s going to try to give you her best.”

Duke led a more balanced scoring attack in the second half as senior Bridgette Mitchell and sophomore Shay Selby added 10 points each off the bench. Selby hit two crucial 3-pointers when Duke lost its offensive rhythm in the second half.

It was a sloppy night for both teams as they combined for 58 turnovers and much of the game was spent in transition after bad passes or poor ball handling.

However, the Blue Devils managed to add another dominant ACC victory to their record.

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Senior Jon Scheyer and the Blue Devils will look to replicate their staunch effort on the defensive side of the ball Saturday against Maryland when Greivis Vasquez and Co. visit Durham in a matchup of the ACC’s leaders.

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Freshman Allison Vernerey had a breakout game against N.C. State Thursday at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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“If we lose to Maryland and don’t show up, that’s the biggest thing,” Scheyer said.

“Coach talked about enjoying this win in the locker room and on the bus ride back, but once we get back to Cameron, it’s on to Maryland. And that’s really how it is. When we play them at our place, obviously, that’ll be a game we want to win.”

The Cameron Crazies are also anxiously awaiting the contest as fan foe Greivis Vasquez will come to Cameron for the first time since the Terrapins’ blowout 85-44 loss last season. Vasquez earned the ACC’s Player of the Week Award for the second time this season after averaging 24.5 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds this week, allowing Maryland to take sole ownership of second place in the conference. The Venezuelan native, who has repeatedly called Cameron “his house,” is a constant target for the Crazies in their cheers. Vasquez is also known for feeding the fan frenzy by repeatedly interacting

with cheering sections and even engaging directly with the few fans who really get under his skin.

But Maryland head coach Gary Williams doesn’t see a problem with his top player’s unusual relationship with jeering fans.

Williams recently told The Washington Post that he believes the interaction fuels Vasquez’s ability to play better basketball.

“Let’s face it, Greivis, I think, sometimes responds pretty well in those situations,” Williams said. “But I think that’s part of what makes him a very good player.”

Adding to the intensity of an already high-pressure evening, the matchup against Maryland marks Blue Devil head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s 1000th game coaching at Duke. The contest will bring 300 former members of the program back to Durham to honor Krzyzewski’s dedication to the Blue Devils as well as celebrate his 63rd birthday.

Hopefully the Blue Devils’ performance will leave little for Krzyzewski to wish for when he blows out his candles at the end of the night.

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or an organization that ety of other resources. claims to value transClicking on the link for parency and open com- any of the Senate committees, munication, Duke Student however, is an exercise in fuGovernment’s Web site sadly tility. Although each page disimplies the opposite. plays which vice president and The official Web site of senators sit on the committee, DSG—dsg. hardly any of editorial duke.edu—is these individuvisually unappealing and dif- als have posted biographical ficult to navigate, but more information or contact details. importantly, it lacks current What’s worse, all of the cominformation to keep the stu- mittees’ posted agendas and dent body up to date about lists of accomplishments— the organization’s activities. with the exception of AcaThe Web site’s front page demic Affairs—have not been contains a hodgepodge of updated since the 2008-2009 announcements soliciting school year. student participation in a Senate meeting minutes variety of committees, and and agendas posted on the the navigation bar at the top Web site are a vital compoof the screen contains links nent to keeping the public into pages for the four Senate formed of the major items up committees, Senate meeting for debate at the DSG Senate’s minutes, agendas and a vari- weekly meeting. But these,

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too, have not been kept up to date. Unbelievably, minutes have not been posted since the Oct. 14, 2009 meeting— nearly four months ago.

Even this year’s DSG webmaster, senior Danny Torres, has failed to update the timestamp at the bottom of the home page, which states that Andrew Tutt, Trinity ’09, currently manages the site.

The lack of information on the DSG Web site is troublesome, particularly in light of its past commitment to maintain direct communications with the student body.

DSG presidents, vice presidents and senators perennially campaign on a platform of increasing student involvement in the organization and increasing the organization’s transparency.

These two goals go hand in hand. If students do not know who their senators are or what their senators are working on, it is not surprising that apathy will take root.

A lack of transparency also allows DSG representatives to operate under a veil of unaccountability. It is difficult to hold these individuals to their promises and ensure that they are consistently advocating for students’ needs without clearer information on their goals and ongoing work.

Given the ease of Internet technology in the 21st century, there is no excuse for the lack of content on the DSG Web site.

Agendas should be current. Minutes should be uploaded from meeting to meeting. Biographies and contact information should be present and accurate.

In addition, each committee should list their goals and accurately present their current projects. The student body has a right to know the specific initiatives that each committee has undertaken and how they are progress toward achieving them.

While we hope that a new Web site is in the works, DSG should keep in mind that it is unacceptable to simply abandon the old site until an adequate, functional replacement is up and running.

Transparency and open communication should be more than just campaign slogans. An up-to-date Web site would be a big first step towards engaging and informing the student body on the work of their elected student government.

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t the World Economic Forum in Switzer- gave workers direct control over the hiring and firland last month, the world’s leading politi- ing of their fellow workers. cians put their heads together in an effort Today, however, there will be no “New” New to think of a solution to the crisis Deal. facing the world today, only to proThe federal government is in no duce a dull thud on impact. Their position to do anything remotely efforts, however valiant, are hamsimilar for working people, lackstrung by the assumptions of the ing both money and political will. old way of thinking that got us into Unlike the New Deal of the past, this mess in the first place. which resulted in concrete jobs and Where, then, will new ideas social programs for ordinary workcome from? people, any similar solutions tomichael stauch ing We might first ask how we got day only seem to benefit insurance spread the embers companies and Wall Street. here.

In the 1980 presidential election, Similarly, workers today find Ronald Reagan upset incumbent Jimmy Carter to themselves more often than not fighting against assume the presidency. Less than a year into his first their unions to preserve the benefits workers in term, Reagan and the regime lurking behind his the past formed those unions to fight for. This million-watt smile showed their true colors. comes as no surprise, as those unions now sit at On Aug. 3, 1981, the Professional Air Traffic the table with CEOs, as owners of the same compaControllers Organization (PATCO) struck, de- nies they once fought against, with a vested intermanding, among other things, a 32-hour work- est in keeping workers quiet and working, rather week. But, as Reagan’s campaign had claimed, it than fighting the rollbacks CEOs demand. was now “morning in America.” Unions were a In other words, in the eyes of more people than part of a dark night that Reagan sought to banish we can ever know, the government and unions, from our history. There would be no negotiations the two main guarantors of the New Deal of the with economic terrorists. After a bitter stand-off, past, have been discredited.

Reagan fired all but 1,300 of the 13,000 striking So where will the new ideas capable of solving air traffic controllers. Neoliberalism, with its ori- the crisis society faces come from? gins in the economic theories of Friedrich von To paraphrase C.L.R. James, perhaps the most Hayek and Milton Friedman, had arrived. dynamic radical thinker of the 20th century, I do In one fell swoop, Reagan broke the back of not propose here to do right what academics and PATCO and set the agenda for the three decades other intellectuals have failed to do or do wrong. that followed. Today, more and more people work For a solution to this crisis, we must look beyond two or more jobs just to keep their heads above the ivy-strangled walls of the ivory tower. water. They can no longer take for granted benWe might begin with Dec. 30, 1936. On this efits once guaranteed by unionized workplaces— day, the Flint sit-down strike began. Across ethnic health care, pensions, decent wages. We are living and racial lines, across language barriers once in the world Reagan created, a wretched, heart- seen as impenetrable, workers who at the start of less place, comparable in our history only to the the Depression seven years before could not have period immediately after the onset of the Great dreamed of struggling together fought one of the Depression. most heroic battles in U.S. labor history.

In the wake of the Depression, however, powThey fought to form a union able to address erful industrial unions, forged by workers and the injustices of their world; they provided for the revolutionaries like the Industrial Workers of the common defense and promoted each other’s welWorld, emerged from the economic wreckage to fare. They fought not only for themselves but for fight back. The federal government responded posterity. Out of a hundred languages and variawith the promise of a New Deal for American tions in skin color, a single union was formed. workers, establishing as policy many of the beneTheir actions demonstrated that the problems fits we’ve seen rescinded during the last 30 years. of our society can only be solved by the creative But that wasn’t all workers at the time were actions of ordinary people acting with great courfighting for. age and in massive numbers. Call it a revolution, At their best, they fought for a new society if you like. It may be our last, best hope of a more under their own direct control. The hiring halls perfect union. longshore workers established along the West Coast in the pitched battles of the 1930s repreMichael Stauch is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in sented perhaps the height of this struggle. These history. His column runs every other Friday.

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s usual, the media has been enjoying one of its favorite pastimes—viciously tearing down a celebrity it has spent years building up. This time, though, instead of a down-and-out child star or a bottle-blond starlet, the blogs and newspapers are swarming around a middle-aged French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy.

Referred to by the French eliza french media merely as B.H.L. and married to an actress, Levy je ne sais quoi had ascended to the most elite status of celebrity that a modern intellectual can hope for—that is, until he committed a faux-pas unique to the contemporary philosopher. In his latest work, “On War in Philosophy,” he draws on an analysis of Kant by a fake philosopher, Jean-Baptiste Botul, the creation of a French satirical journalist.

Anyone who spends 30 seconds on the French-language Wikipedia site could quickly discover that Botul was intended as a spoof. (His groundbreaking philosophical theory? Botulism.)

In his eagerness to impress readers with his knowledge of an obscure and never-before quoted philosopher, he overlooked simple research. Now journalists are using the same aspects of his character that initially fascinated them—his glamorous lifestyle, stylish clothes, impeccable tan and his ubiquity in popular culture—and turning it against him to underscore his idiocy.

As celebrities, Levy and his companions have the rare opportunity to know exactly what other people think of them, for better or worse. They know exactly the image the public has of them because their picture is posted on 100 different Web pages and printed in the leisure or style section of every major daily.

Since the rest of us don’t have this privilege (or curse), we are left to wonder in vain how others perceive us.

There is no way to guarantee that you’re making a good impression, and there is also no denying that life is much easier when people think well of you. We all want others to have a positive view of us, partially out of vanity, but also out of the innate and earnest need to be likeable.

I’m no different. I want to make a good first impression every time, but based on anecdotal evidence, I fail 90 to 95 percent of the time. I’ll graciously give my readers credit for a higher rate of success. Even so, it’s just as unlikely that everyone you meet will have a good opinion of you as it is that you will have a good opinion of all of them.

We all try to imagine, at one point or another, how other people see us. Even if you manage to remain relatively objective in your self-assessment, you still can’t replicate the view from the desk next to you in class or the seat behind you on the bus.

This is mostly because everyone is uniquely subjective in their opinions of one and another. When we encounter other people, our own perceptions and feelings at that particular moment necessarily influence the situation.

I will always think that the man at Saladelia who hands me my coffee before my 8:30 in the Smith Warehouse is an angel, regardless of his actual appearance or behavior (or how he views himself). And I always notice the devilish hint of glee in a professor’s eye as he passes out an exam, no matter how magnanimous I have known him to be.

I’m not making the case to behave with complete disregard for what other people think. After all, a relationship of mutual respect has useful benefits for both parties. Nor am I encouraging you to develop a crippling sense of self-consciousness or vanity. But, sometimes we have to stop worrying about losing before we can win someone over. There is no other way to explain the close friendships that proliferate in college except to note that it isn’t until we see some people at their worst that we begin to love them the most.

As undergraduates on an insular campus with limited social outlets, it can be tempting to become obsessed with how our peers, professors and potential employers view us. It is sometimes appropriate to give into this temptation. For example, there’s no better encouragement to back up your research than the fear of being scorned by your professor for espousing the theory of Botulism in your next philosophy paper.

The times to resist this temptation can be a little harder to pinpoint. Too often, we realize just after giving in that we should have followed the only opinions we can control—our own.

Eliza French is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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was pleasantly surprised to wake up Wednesday sible, but illogical. The best students and leaders natuand discover that I still am woefully inept at pre- rally inhabit one another’s orbits. Objectivity would dicting the future. have precluded capability. It also would have made Fittingly, Young Trustee election day occurred two the process significantly less compelling. years and one week after I lost a subLest we ever forget the election, an imstantial sum of money on the Patriots pressively official-sounding document regiving 14 against the Giants. That one mains for posterity. It’s a Microsoft Word still stings like Justin Tuck laying into doc that finalizes the outcome of the elecTom Brady. tion, written by actual lawyers! There’s In any case, roughly one week ago legal jargon like “corpus”, “quorum” and I was absolutely convinced no normal “constitutionally valid”! Of course, for individual would invest any semblance more lowbrow coverage of the YT elecben brostoff of thought or emotion into the Young tion, please consult Twitter.com.

Trustee election. The days leading up Personally, my most visceral memory bro’s stuff to the election generated less buzz on from YT: 2010 Edition will be the cast campus than the release of Google of characters that bordered on transcenBuzz. dent over the past week. To pick up the paper and Voting day (and night and early post-voting-day read about classmates is an uncanny experience, even morning) ended up being quite a different story. more so when the same people receive coverage for When Duke Student Government adjourned its judi- a few consecutive days. Politicians, media members ciary body around 2:30 a.m. Feb. 10, it’s safe to say and regulators suddenly emerged from the depths of the 2010 YT election had snowballed into the most sweat pants, caffeine and beer. If only for a brief several controversial election in Duke undergraduate history hours, Duke was D.C. and CNN social media. and, by association, the biggest non-basketball story of A modest proposal: let’s do this all again come the school year. It was the type of roller-coaster elec- DSG elections. I recommend even adding a few dration you can recount to friends for years to come and matic flourishes. Armored bodyguards trained by never cease to entertain.

Cutcliffe. Freshmen interns working the phones. Poet What happened this week is not at all replicable, es- laureates at the inauguration (hopefully we can work pecially seeing as there’s no way in go-to-hell-Carolina the Broadhead—Elizabeth Alexander connection). (populist rhetoric hangover, my apologies) that DSG Maybe even some media bashing. will be so obtuse (cue Andy in “Shawshank”) as to not drastically overhaul the YT voting bylaws. HarphamBen Brostoff is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs Goldstein 2010 was Bush-Gore 2000 raised to the 1,054. every Friday.

The presidential election of a decade ago did not come close to being decided by an infinitesimal 0.1 percent.

No one stayed up past midnight to refresh Twitter for news updates, presumably because Twitter did not exist. I would posit that this election is easily the most exShow more civility in letters citing one any of us will ever witness.

I’m disappointed with the tone and utter lack It becomes even more exciting when one considers of civility displayed by the chairman of College some of the less public details gleaned from the Young Republicans in writing to The Chronicle—from Trustee Nominating Committee meeting and DSG Judihis rude dismissal of Zach Perret as not one of ciary meeting that took place the night of the election. the “serious candidates” for Young Trustee to Although the exact nature of the conversations held his unnecessarily sensitive and mocking Feb. 9 in the Bryan Center office will never be fully divulged to letter to the editor titled “Chronicle coverage the general public,at some point I’d like to recreate the of State of the Union leans left.” timeline of events in a book and call it “All That RazzaWith regards to the latter: If one has a serious matazz: The 2010 Young Trustee Story.” Rampant specproblem with The Chronicle’s “bias,” I’d hope ulation tells me this: Both committees were not totally that one would be responsible enough to write impartial to any of the three candidates. Considering a calm, civil letter to the editor and lay off the less than a 1/3 of the campus voted, there’s also a staoverblown, oversensitive mocking—especially tistically significant chance some members of the comif that individual is running an organization as mittee did not vote and could have swung the election important and influential as College Republi(not dissimilar from being the guy who misses a three cans. There’s a way to be polite in discourse like run homer in the ninth because he went to the baththis, and I’m sorry to see that this student has room). Let me forward a guess that members of both not learned it. institutions felt something more than indifference towards the people involved in their private discussions.

Sandeep Prasanna Duke is still a comparatively small college: electing Trinity ’11 totally objective governing bodies is not only unfea-

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