February 22, 2010 issue

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, Issue 100

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VT 55 67 DUKE SJTU may be linked Three to go for ACC crown to attacks on Google SPECIAL REPORT: duke and Asian universities

by Felicia Tan

by Naureen Khan

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Malcolm Delaney’s 3-pointer quieted the Cameron crowd. With that bucket, the ACC’s leading scorer put Virginia Tech up 45-44 and issued a challenge to the Blue Devils. Ten minutes left, his trey seemed to say. Take your best shot.

The Blue Devils certainly did.

On the next possession, Duke flipflopped the deficit, and three minutes later, had built the lead to eight.

Within that span, junior Nolan Smith and senior Brian Zoubek stamped their marks on the contest and the Blue Devils took control of what Jon Scheyer called a must-win game over Virginia Tech, a gritty Sunday night battle at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

With the 67-55 win, No. 6 Duke (224, 11-2 in the ACC) gave itself a solid lead in the conference standings with three ACC games left.

“Down the stretch, our guys hit everything,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “When [Virginia Tech] took the lead and Delaney got that three to go up 45-44… our guys showed a lot of character in winning this ballgame.”

See M. BBALL on page 13

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One of Duke’s partners in its planned expansion into China may be linked to a series of cyberattacks on Google and other American corporations.

The New York Times reported Thursday that investigators have traced the origins of the online attacks to computers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and another Chinese educational institution—the Lanxiang Vocational School.

In late January, Duke administrators including President Richard Brodhead traveled to China to formalize the University’s partnership with SJTU to build a 200-acre campus in Kunshan, China.

Duke officials said they are giving their partners in China the benefit of the doubt and are waiting for more informa-

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Senior Brian Zoubek continued his recent string of stellar play with a 16-rebound effort against Virginia Tech Sunday. Duke’s win gave it a 1.5-game lead over Maryland in the ACC.

Library party cancelled amid funding and planning failures scrapped when the event fell behind schedule and the library and co-sponsor Purple pulled out.

Students looking forward to having a night in the Deborah Jakubs, University librarian and vice prolibrary that did not involve studying will have to look vost for library affairs, said she did not want to host for something else to fulfill the party unless it could be as their champagne wishes and successful as in previous years.

“The library said that we caviar dreams.

“It has become a tradition,” she didn’t have the pieces in Organizers and library offisaid. “I don’t want the library party cials confirmed that the fourth to become sort of ho-hum. I don’t order, which we didn’t. We annual library party will not be said ‘You’re right, we’re going want people to say, ‘The library hosted by Perkins and Bostock party wasn’t that great this year.’” to come back and do this libraries this year, citing a comSenior Adam Nathan, presibination of planning and fund- another time when it makes dent of DPS, said the event could ing issues for its demise. not go forward as planned bemore sense.’”

The event­—which has cause of the difficulty of raising — Senior Sam Bowler, the necessary funds in a shorter been hosted by a different president and founder of Purple amount of time than usual. DPS student group every year for the past three years—was supbegan organizing “The Benefit” posed to be organized primarafter Winter Break, although ily by the Duke Partnership for Service and focus on they took on the responsibility for the party in the the theme of service and civic engagement. “The Benefit,” as this year’s party was being called, was See library party on page 20

by Christopher Ross THE CHRONICLE

See SJTU on page 8

Asian school’s rise a unique ‘opportunity’

by Paul Horak THE CHRONICLE

The rise of Asian universities over the past several decades may present a challenge for their Western counterparts.

But as the prestige of these institutions increases, Western schools will benefit as well, higher education leaders and experts said. And Duke has been positioning itself to collaborate closely with Asian universities, aiding in and benefitting from their rise.

“The rise of Asia’s universities represents a challenge and an opportunity,” Provost Peter Lange said.

In the past six months, President Richard Brodhead, Lange and other Duke administrators have traveled to Asia to open a medical education and research facility that serves as the new home of the Duke University-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical

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North Carolina applies to join Google’s internet trial, Page 4

tion to surface before reaching any conclusions.

“The truth is that we’re concerned to understand this matter better,” Brodhead said Sunday. “We’re not going to leap to any conclusions when the facts are so ambiguous.”

Google announced in January that the company and other American corporations had been victims of sophisticated cyberattacks that aimed to steal trade secrets and computer codes, as well as hacking into the e-mails of Chinese human rights activists.

Details of the possible connection between SJTU and the cyberattacks remain murky, according to New York Times and Wall Street Journal reports.

Media reports have emphasized that it still remains

“Last year was more fun. A lot more people would come out to have a good time in K-ville rather than just stay in the tent.”

­—Sophomore Matt Akers on this year’s blue tenting. See soundoff page 5

School and to broker a deal to establish a new campus in Kunshan, China in partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

But even as Duke and other elite American universities begin new collaborations around the globe, there is an increasing awareness that current partners may become future competitors, administrators and higher education experts said.

“I believe that in 25 years certain Chinese universities will reach the level of America’s elite universities, but that they may have very different strengths,” Lange said.

Earlier this month during a trip to Britain, Yale President Richard Levin said Asian universities could come to rival the Ivy League and Britain’s top schools in a generation’s time.

“The rise of Asia’s universities is a natural manifestation of

No. 2 Duke stunned by Fighting Irish, Page 10

See yale on page 8

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Mongolia rich in minerals, “Dutch Disease” concerns ULAN BATOR, Mongolia — Mongolia’s billions of dollars worth of copper, gold, uranium and coal reserves promise the greatest influx of wealth for the country since Genghis Khan conquered much of the known world in the 13th century.

They also may spawn a crisis. Sudden prosperity can overwhelm an economy, exposing it to commodity-price swings.

Mongolia’s leaders, some educated at Harvard and Cambridge, say they are determined to avoid this syndrome,

known as “Dutch Disease”—a sudden surge in wealth that ultimately hampers expansion.

Working with the World Bank, they are dispatching officials to nations such as Chile, which successfully harnessed its copper resources to help drive growth.

They are also leveraging their democratic system to build support for policies including greater investment in transportation and a new budget law aimed at curbing the impact of volatile metals prices.

Obama wants to certify Recession bites breakfast education benchmarks WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s high unemployment rate has thrown millions out of work, scared shoppers away from stores and threatened the economic recovery. Now it’s taking a bite out of breakfast.

Breakfast sales had grown at a ravenous pace during the boom years as busy workers scarfed down sausage biscuits on the way to the office, fueling a $57 billion business and accounting for as much as a quarter of sales at some fast-food chains.

Chains opened earlier and expanded their morning menus to accommodate the traffic as lunch and dinner sales flatlined.

But as the jobless rate hit 26-year highs fewer people headed to work, and even those who did worried about their spending.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama will seek to raise academic standards across the country by requiring states to certify that their benchmarks for reading and mathematics put students on track for college or a career, administration officials said Sunday.

The proposal, part of Obama’s evolving blueprint for a revision of the No Child Left Behind law, was expected to be released Monday as the president meets with governors in Washington. It will give a further boost to a state-led movement toward common standards, a groundbreaking development for a public education system in which current expectations for students vary widely from coast to coast.

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A line of Mexicans wait at the national pawnshop, some to trade in wedding rings and other family jewels to pay for their children’s school uniforms. The pawnshop is known as the National Mountain of Pity and is situated on top of the ruins of Aztec Emperor Montezuma’s residence.

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Professor John Bell of the University of Cambridge Law School will present, “The Relevance of Foreign Examples to Legal Development.”

“Turtles Can Fly” Griffith Theater, 8 - 10 p.m.

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Spring Flower Walk in the Arboretum Duke Gardens, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Join curator Paul Jones. $5; free for Gardens Friends, Duke faculty, staff, and students. Pre-registration required.

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Author Brian Nelson takes a close look at the turbulent three-day uprising against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in 2002. Using video footage, photographs, and eyewitness testimony he shows how this was a very different kind of coup.

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2009-10 Deans’ Dialogue

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Date: Monday, Feb. 22nd Location: 116 Old Chem on the West Campus of Duke University The presentation will focus on the human rights violations that sparked the coup, how the military and civil authorities tried to seize power, and how the coup ultimately bolstered President Chávez’s revolutionary project.

Brian Nelson is a former Fulbright Grantee to Venezuela and the author of The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup against Chávez and the Making of Modern Venezuela.

Fuqua School Dean Blair Sheppard and Duke Chapel Dean Sam Wells

Sponsored by: The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and The Center for International Studies

Wednesday, February 24, 12:15-1:15 pm HCA Auditorium, Breeden Hall, Fuqua School of Business Lunch refreshments will be served

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Soaking up the sun A photo essay by Eugene Wang

Only three weeks ago, a snowstorm blanketed campus with six inches of snow. Yet on Sunday, with a warm breeze coming from the southwest and highs in the 60s, the Duke community enjoyed an unusually warm February day in the sun.

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a series of portraits of “out� LGBT athletes on high school and college sports teams

An evening with photographer/activist Jeff Sheng Wednesday, February 24th :: 7:30pm :: Scharf Hall Sponsored by the Duke Center for LGBT Life & Duke Athletics: Student-Athlete Development

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N.C. applies to join Google’s high speed network

by Samantha Brooks THE CHRONICLE

The city of Durham hopes to be a guinea pig for Google’s upcoming “Fiber for Communities” Internet experiment.

Durham is among municipalities across the country applying to be subjects of the experiment, which Google hopes will build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a few trial locations, according to the Google project overview Web site. The network would be more than a hundred times faster than most commercially-available options. Representatives from the city government, Duke, North Carolina Central University and Durham businesses met Friday to structure Durham’s application, which is due March 26, said Durham Deputy City Manager Wanda Page.

Although the time frame of the experiment and cost and construction requirements were not clarified by Google, the project’s Web site notes that a large amount of

construction may be necessary for the project. According to the overview, a long-term goal resulting from the experiment is the development of a national broadband plan that will become a federally-funded infrastructure project.

“By some estimates nearly 90 percent of the cost of deploying fiber is associated with construction costs like tearing up and repairing roads,” Richard Whitt, Google’s senior policy director, wrote on Google’s public policy blog. “Laying fiber… during the construction or repair of roads and other public works projects will dramatically reduce deployment costs.”

Page said that although the information regarding the

experiment from Google was vague, Durham had nothing to lose by applying.

“The only thing that we have is that Google has put perimeters around the program that at least 50,000 locations could have access to this network, and potentially up to 500,000,” Page said.

“This is a very wide range, but we know that we fit into that number in terms of the size of our community. We have no idea exactly what they are looking for in terms of making the final selection.”

The application focused on infrastructure, community engagement and innovation, Page wrote in an e-mail.

Because of the uncertainty regarding the experiment’s requirements and Durham’s participation, city officials are unsure of the level of Duke’s potential involvement, Page said. Representatives from Duke and the Office of Information Technology did not return requests for comment.

Page said that she did not know whether the new Internet service would be provided by Google or through other broadband carriers. She said that because a construction requirement is possible, Durham will look to both internal and external resources to provide funding if necessary.

“We always prioritize our programs [so] that we are able to fund with the dollars that we have,” Page said.

“At the time that we become aware that there could be a funding requirement, we would be at a decision point at that time to look for resources that we have.”

Google spokesperson Dan Martin said Google planned to finance the cost of building the broadband network.

“Our current plan is to manage the development of this experimental network ourselves, though we will likely work with a variety of outside partners as needed,” Martin said. “We intend to finance the full cost of building this network.”

Martin said Google plans to allow the residents of chosen communities to continue using their own Internet providers if they choose to.

“As part of the planned trial, Google will offer competitively priced, high speed Internet access service to residents of the chosen communities,” Martin said. “In addition, we will allow third-parties to offer their own Internet access services, or other data services, on our open network – consumers won’t be required to use Google as their Internet service provider.”

Page said that if Durham is selected, the experiment will be a good way to further the development of technology in the city.

“We are really excited about [applying],” she said.

“Whenever we can have an opportunity to bring technology to an area like Durham, we become excited.

We’re just hopeful.”

CORRECTION A Feb. 19 article, “In 3rd year, Andrews tackles budget challenge,” incorrectly identified David Goldstein as the director of Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. Goldstein is the director of the Center for Human Genome Variation. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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SOUNDOFF: the end of blue tenting

‘A lot quieter’

Sunday night capped the 2010 blue tenting season, marked by unusually cold weather and a strong display by the men’s basketball team. Although changes to the tenting policy were generally favored by students, some tenters voiced grievances regarding social aspects of Krzyzewskiville.

As students lined up for Duke’s matchup against Virginia Tech, The Chronicle asked tenters their thoughts on their experiences in K-ville.

—compiled by Joanna Lichter

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At the Group of Duke Independents’ first meeting Sunday night, senior Danny Lewin, GDI’s founder and a former columnist for The Chronicle, said he hopes the group will become a voice for independents in social discussions.

New group to advocate for independents’ rights

by Sonia Havele THE CHRONICLE

The Group of Duke Independents held its first membership meeting Sunday night to present prospective members with the goals and objectives of organization.

The group will primarily concern itself with the housing and social concerns of independents, who, unlike members of sororities, fraternities and selective living groups, do not have housing advocates.

“There are a lot of voids where an independent voice needs to be,” said GDI Founder and newly elected secretary Danny Lewin, a senior and a former columnist for The Chronicle.

Junior Joe Catapano, newly elected GDI president, added that GDI has not decided on a specific agenda.

Still, GDI hopes to build up a listserv this semester by tabling on the plaza and reaching out to freshmen so the group will have a strong base from which to advocate in the future.

“After many years of independents not having a voice, Danny and I hope this organization will be a vehicle for the expression of the opinions of these students and that by using the collective views of these students, we can help to improve both the Duke housing system and Duke social life for independents,” Catapano said.

Catapano emphasized that gaining the support of many independents is crucial to acquiring the legitimacy GDI needs in order to be a voice on campus.

See independents on page 6

The Baldwin Scholars Program announces the

Unsung Heroine Award This award will recognize a woman who has demonstrated extraordinary dedication to issues that face women at Duke or in the larger community, but whose efforts have not received formal recognition.

The recipient can be an undergraduate or graduate student, alumna, faculty, administrator, staff, or retiree.

Nomination letters should be sent to baldwinscholars@duke.edu.

Priority consideration will be given to nominations received by March 15, 2010.

“I thought tenting was difficult because of the weather and even though we got grace a lot, I never got it because grace was called on my nights off. I’ve talked to some older people and they said it was a lot more exciting before and K-ville was more of a party place. I think

it was too cold this year for that.”

—Sarah Baker, freshman “I mean, its been different, but the line monitors have done a good job.

See tenting on page 8

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Some students said the social aspect of Krzyzewskiville this year was lacking after a snowstorm forced cancellations of several kickoff events, but added that tenting seemed easier this year compared to the past.

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Toyota completes repairs on all five Duke Zipcars All five Zipcars at Duke are back in service after Toyota completed repairs on the two Prius vehicles and the three Matrix vehicles.

The vehicles were returned to the Duke Zipcar fleet as of Feb. 17, according to a press release from Parking and Transportation Services. Duke recently requested a hybrid Honda Civic to add to the fleet, according to the release. An earlier press release stated that the new vehicle would replace one of the two Toyota Prius vehicles currently in the fleet.

The three Toyota Matrix vehicles based at Duke by the car-sharing company were recalled in early February due to a defect that

could cause the accelerator pedal to stick and the car to speed up rapidly. The two Prius vehicles were recalled due to a brake pedal problem, according to a Zipcar press release.

Toyota has recently recalled about 6 million vehicles in the United States for similar repairs and about 2 million more overseas.

Akio Toyoda, the president of Toyota, will testify before Congress Wednesday about the problems with his company’s vehicles, the New York Times reported last week. He will likely face questions about whether Toyota recalled the vehicles as quickly as it could have.

—from staff reports

independents from page 5 “It is important to know we have backing,” Catapano said.

About 10 people attended the GDI interest meeting Sunday. The GDI Facebook group has 135 members as of Sunday night.

Senior Meg Foran, an independent, noted the importance of the group’s role in presenting a positive model of independents.

Foran, who was elected vice president for social affairs and did not join a selective living group, said her Duke experience was defined by her involvement in the first-year advisory counselor program.

She added that almost all Duke students find some group or organization they choose to get involved with, and for many of these students that group may not be a greek organization.

“I think it would be really great to foster a sense for independents not to be a dirty word on campus or necessarily a lack of something, but rather something people have chosen because they are defining their Duke experience in other ways,” Foran said.

Foran said greek affiliations tend to receive more attention because they are associated with housing options. She said she hopes GDI will be able to advocate for independents who do not have the “overarching branch” of the greek system.

GDI members also approved a constitution, voted to keep the name Group of Duke Independents and elected five officer positions at the meeting.

In addition to electing Catapano, Foran and Lewin, sophomore Christina Lieu was elected treasurer and freshman Arin Pamukcu was elected vice president for housing affairs.

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DGHI director named vice crimebriefs chancellor for NUS affairs

Picture perfect crime A student reported that a fraternity composite was missing from a study room in Edens 1C Saturday morning.

by Lindsey Rupp THE CHRONICLE

Dr. Michael Merson, director of the Duke Global Health Institute, will also assume the role of vice chancellor for Duke-National University of Singapore Affairs of Duke Medicine.

Merson will take on his additional role starting March 1, Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System, announced in a memo to School of Medicine and School of Nursing faculty Feb. 18.

“I’m hoping to continue to find opportunities and ways for faculty and students at Duke in Durham to work with

Directionless A student’s vehicle, parked in a lot near Alspaugh Residence Hall, was damaged and a GPS was stolen from it Saturday afternoon.

Duke-NUS,” Merson said in an interview Sunday. “It’s very exciting that Duke is involved with this medical school... really I think it’s very exciting how well this is going.”

As vice chancellor, Merson said he will be replacing Dr. R. Sanders Williams as the primary intermediary between Dzau and the leadership of Duke-NUS in Singapore. Williams is leaving Duke in March to head a non-profit biomedical research center.

“The vice chancellor for Duke-NUS position is a critically important one for Duke Medicine, as Duke-NUS represents our most ambitious global partnership to date,” Dzau wrote in his memo. “ I am very pleased that Mike has enthusiastically agreed to take on this most important responsibility.”

Pointing fingers Two visitors to Durham Regional Hospital were verbally fighting Saturday evening, when one touched the tip of the other’s nose with an index finger.

Hit and ran A vehicle hit a Duke bus as the bus made a turn at the intersection of Campus Drive and Anderson Street Thursday just after midnight. The vehicle then left without stopping.

New credit card regulation adds protection for students The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 takes effect today.

The law, which President Barack Obama signed in May, provides protections for students and imposes requirements on colleges and alumni groups that offer credit cards, according to Inside Higher Ed. Alongside a ban on retroactive rate increases and new rules governing timelines for implementing increases and late fees, the law features several campus-based protections.

The law prohibits companies from giving credit to customers under 21 years old unless they have a co-signer or have provided evidence they can pay their bills. Companies cannot offer tangible incentives to students at campus events under the new law and companies must disclose “college credit card arrangements”

Grand Theft Auto A visitor to Durham Regional Hospital reported that her vehicle was stolen Thursday night.

Purloined at Panda A Panda Express employee took a student’s belongings. The property was later returned to the student and the manager learned of the incident last Monday night.

to the Federal Reserve Board, Inside Higher Ed reported.

Colleges and universities are also subject to several regulations under the law. They cannot knowingly allow credit card companies to offer tangible incentives to students.

The law also requires that “an institution of higher education shall publicly disclose any contract or other agreement made with a card issuer or creditor for the purpose of marketing a credit card,” according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers.

The new law also suggests that colleges provide students with education and counseling about credit cards and debt, according to Inside Higher Ed. The law recommends these courses be part of orientation programs for students.

—from staff reports

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the more general phenomenon of globalization,” Levin said, according to a copy of his speech. “If the emerging nations of Asia concentrate their growing resources on a handful of institutions, tap a worldwide pool of talent, and embrace freedom of expression and freedom of inquiry, they have every prospect of success in building world-class universities.”

Levin said the Chinese government’s investments in higher education would propel its top institutions into a rivalry with Western institutions to attract the most talented students and faculty members. It is becoming more common for Chinese nationals in the United States and Great Britain to take posts at universities in their home country, he noted.

“Students from India, China and South Korea, who make up large portions of international students at American universities, can get almost as good an education at home as they can abroad and may decide to stay closer to home,” Brodhead said.

Brodhead noted that American universities are already losing some talent to Chinese universities, citing the recent departure of a Princeton biologist for a university in Beijing.

Other educators, however, said that although some people will return to their native countries, there will still be a large number of foreign nationals in the American higher education system.

“The loss of talent in American higher education to Asia is really only a short-term effect,” said Anirudh Krishna, associate professor of public policy and political science. “As a result of collaboration, eventually talent will migrate in both directions.”

Although talent will go from the West back to Asia, a Western education model will not necessarily be mirrored in China.

unclear exactly where and with whom the attacks originated, due to the complex nature of Internet espionage. Independent web analysts as well as investigators have said that the responsible individuals or institutions may have been using SJTU’s network as a cover, and the Chinese university itself may have been a victim, according to The New York Times.

“We’ll obviously discuss it with them when the opportunity arises and [talk about] what they think is going on,” Provost Peter Lange said. “At the moment, as the Times story made clear, nobody really knows exactly what’s going on.”

Lange added that Duke officials have not yet made contact with SJTU administrators because of the Chinese New Year holiday.

Brodhead said the University’s relationship with SJTU remains the same as all parties involved wait for more light to be shed on the situation.

“Something has been reported and the reporters made clear that no one really understands what the truth really is,” Brodhead said.

“It wouldn’t be correct to change the relationship when the facts of the situation are so ambiguous.”

Administrators also noted that the Duke network has been used in the past by outside perpetrators to launch cyberattacks.

“It is something of concern to us and we are going to explore it further with our partners at SJTU to see if we can better understand the facts of the situation,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

“Duke itself has been the victim of cyberattacks. We’ve also had our network used to attack others through spam and things like that, so we understand the complexities of the situation.”

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President Richard Brodhead signs an agreement finalizing Duke’s expansion plans in Kunshan, China Jan. 22. With the agreement, the University enters into a partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which is accused of being involved in a series of cyberattacks on Google last month.

Brodhead said the liberal arts model of education for undergraduates, with notions of freedom and open-ended exploration, is at odds with Chinese educational tradition, where a respect for authority serves as the basis for learning.

“There is a coexistence between the restriction of information by the government and inquiry within universities in China,” said Tianjian Shi, associate professor of political science.

Shi said although there is an element of competition between Chinese and American universities, the emphasis for the Chinese will be on collaboration and mutual gain.

“Each side has its own strengths and collaboration will create a win-win situation for China and the United States,” he said.

The need for Chinese students to travel abroad to receive a top-notch education is similar to other countries’ educational development, Brodhead said, adding that Americans were first educated in Britain before strengthening their own schools.

“We will probably see a dynam-

ic similar to the one between the United States and Europe emerge across the Asian and North American continents, where students and professors migrate in both directions,” Krishna said.

When it comes to the development of universities on the two continents, however, it is hard to draw many similarities.

“No American can easily imagine the history that Chinese universities have been through over the course of the twentieth century,” Brodhead said. “Chinese universities have not been growing healthily in the garden for many years.”

Unlike their British counterparts that have had up to eight centuries to develop and their American counterparts that have had nearly four, Chinese universities have undergone most of their growth since 1978, Shi said.

China experienced significant violence in the 20th century, including a civil war, a foreign invasion by the Japanese during World War II and continuing internal strife during the postwar period. During the Cultural Revolution, which ended in

1976, many Chinese intellectuals were persecuted and the country’s educational system suffered.

Policies enacted during the culutral revolutions were mostly overturned by 1978.

Now, as Chinese universities begin to rival other worldrenowned institutions, more attention is being drawn to the educational revolution that has occurred in the country over the past three decades.

“Universities aren’t easy to grow,” Brodhead said. “It’s not like building a great factory— developing experts takes years and even decades. Developing open inquiry to address profound challenges can take even longer. The most extraordinary thing with Chinese universities is that after all the tumult, they are as strong as they are.”

Brodhead, like his Yale counterpart, feels that the strengthening of Chinese universities will help improve global higher education.

“There is a lesson for all universities: they cannot rest on their reputations, but must continue to be at the forefront of innovation and collaboration,” he said.

tenting from page 5 Attendance is up and people are having a good time.

There’s been a lot of grace because of bad weather and I haven’t had to spend many nights in the tent.”

—Grant Alport, senior “I’m definitely glad I did it this year and not last year because the rules are a lot different. I’ve only had to sleep three out of the seven nights I was assigned because of grace. It’s a lot quieter, though, than last year.

Nobody seems to party and nobody wants the Friday or Saturday shifts because they’re boring.”

—Alix Jacobson, sophomore “The first night I did not dress appropriately and I froze to death and it was miserable, but after a few nights, I figured out how to take care of myself. It’s such a cool experience just being with so many people who are so passionate about Duke Basketball... I feel like its an obligation of every Duke student at some time. The environment is so awesome and the environment is so friendly.”

—Dori Levy, freshman “Last year it was a bit more of a college thing and this year its just a bit more of a line up thing. Last year was more fun. A lot more people would come out to have a good time in K-ville rather than just stay in the tent.”

—Matt Akers, sophomore “It’s been up and down. Figuring out the tenting schedule is a lot of hassle, but it’s really fun. It’s been really cold and we’ve gotten more grace than in past years.”

—Hannah Colton, freshman

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Duke fights back, but Irish get the victory

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It was hard to blame this one on the luck of the Irish.

Instead, No. 9 Notre Dame thoroughly outplayed No. 2 Duke Saturday in all facets of the game to ensure an impressive wire-to-wire 11-7 victory over the Blue Devils (11). In their season opener, the Fighting Irish (1-0) spoiled the Blue Devils’ home opener at Koskinen Stadium and emerged from Durham with a season-defining win—in their maiden contest of the year.

“Duke is very opportunistic and they’re obviously a very skilled team,” Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan said. “We’re really happy to come out of here with the win.”

The game was marked by the utter inefficiency of the Blue Devil offense, which struggled all day long in evading Fighting Irish defenders 11 and putting itself in good posiND tion to score. Aside from a 30-secDUKE 7 ond stretch in the second quarter when Duke scored three rapid-fire goals—“trash goals,” according to Corrigan—off three consecutive faceoff victories, the Blue Devil offense never managed to find its rhythm. Co-captain Max Quinzani’s three goals served as the lone offensive highlight for Duke, which was outshot 46-33 for the game.

“Notre Dame had a game plan and they came out and executed it,” co-captain Ned Crotty said. “They had long possessions on offense, and it seemed like finally we would get the ball and then get a quick turnover. Overall, we just didn’t look good today.”

Duke fell behind 6-2 in the second quarter before its timely spurt to cut the lead to one, but the Blue Devils were unable to build any momentum for the remainder of the contest. Two Quinzani goals in the third quarter—including one beautiful catch-and-shoot set up by Crotty—kept Duke in the game going into the final stanza, but the Fighting Irish defense completely shut down the Blue Devil offense in the fourth quarter, keeping Duke off the score sheet entirely for the final 15 minutes.

A tough Notre Dame defense was assisted by a wonderful performance from goalie Scott Rodgers, who made several point-blank saves to keep his team in front.

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Notre Dame goalie Scott Rodgers, an All-American last year, made 15 saves and generally stymied Duke’s explosive offense in an 11-7 win.

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Blue Devils get back on track

Facing a second consecutive ranked opponent Saturday and coming off a disheartening defeat to current No. 2 North Carolina, No. 6 Duke could have lost confidence and fallen out of the top 10 with a loss.

Instead, the Blue Devils picked up an impressive win to cement their place among the MICH 2 nation’s best.

Playing outdoors for the first DUKE 5 time on a beautiful day at Ambler 0 Tennis Stadium, Duke (9-1) took FUR down No. 7 Michigan, 5-2, behind DUKE 7 a dominant singles effort. The Blue Devils dropped the doubles point for the second consecutive match—Duke’s No. 24 doubles team of Reka Zsilinszka and Elizabeth Plotkin shut out its

Wolverine opponent, but Michigan (6-3) won the other two matches. In singles, though, Duke dropped only three total sets to get the five points needed for the win.

“Even against North Carolina, we had chances to win four, five, six singles matches, and we knew that we could win the same thing today—four, five, six singles matches,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “Losing the doubles point didn’t really affect our mindset in singles, but I think we knew coming off the UNC match that we could beat four singles and we can compete with anyone.”

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Junior Karima Christmas had 35 points in two games this weekend as the Blue Devils inched closer to an ACC regular season championship.

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Duke survived a brutal weekend of ACC play, eking out wins at No. 19 Georgia Tech Friday and at home over a determined Maryland team Sunday. The pair of victories all but secured the No. 7 Blue Devils (23-4, 11-1 in the ACC) their first conference title since the 2006-07 season with only two games left on the regdocket. After two tough DUKE 64 ular-season matchups and 350 miles of travel in 50 less than two days, Duke head coach GT Joanne P. McCallie was simply glad UMD 59 to escape with the sweep. just really proud of our fight DUKE 71 in “I’m a forty-hour turnaround,” McCallie said. “I’m really proud of our team’s poise, their focus and their maturity in dealing with a situation where you don’t really have a practice, per se, before you play again.”

Friday night in Atlanta was all about poise for the Blue Devils, as they pulled away from the pesky Yellow Jackets (21-7, 7-5) in the final minutes for a 64-50 win. In a physical, defensive struggle that resulted in a 21-20 halftime score, Duke was buoyed by Jasmine Thomas’s 20 points on 9-for14 shooting. Karima Christmas and Krystal Thomas both added 10 off the bench for the Blue Devils, who forced 27 Georgia Tech turnovers and picked up 14 steals.

“Jasmine Thomas’s leadership was outstanding,” McCallie said. “I think she showed why she comes from the highest level when it comes to her play.”

Sunday afternoon, however, Duke was forced to overcome a 3-for-15 performance from Thomas to sneak out of Cameron Indoor Stadium victorious, 71-59. Christmas stepped up in a big way and recording a career-high 25 points, including 4-for-6 shooting from beyond the arc.

“Karima was outstanding. She was attacking at all times, very aggressive, very confident,” McCallie said. “She showed a tremendous amount of leadership on the floor, which was so much fun to watch.”

Early in the game, Christmas dominated on offense by exploiting a Maryland zone focused on clogging the lane.

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Zoubek inspires Blue Devils to critical rebounding effort

by Ryan Claxton THE CHRONICLE

With 7:12 remaining in No. 6 Duke’s clash with Virginia Tech, the Blue Devils were holding on to a thin 49-47 lead. The teams had been within four points of each other for nearly eight minutes, but neither squad could find the spark to pull away.

Enter Brian Zoubek.

As Nolan Smith’s jumper clanged off the rim, Zoubek corralled the loose ball and went Game right back up, banking his first points of the Analysis in night while being fouled by the Hokies’ Jeff Allen. Cameron Indoor Stadium erupted with approval, and after the ensuing media timeout, Zoubek nailed his free throw to complete the 3-point play and jump start an 11-2 run.

While these were Zoubek’s only three points of the game, the rebound on the play was number 14 on the night for Duke’s center. He finished with 16 boards—including eight on the offensive glass.

“He’s a mountain masquerading as a man,” Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg said of Zoubek. “That guy is a huge human being... he creates space to rebound the ball and he’s not too far from the basket once he rebounds it.”

Zoubek spearheaded the Blue Devils’ tenacity on the offensive glass, as the team finished with 23 of its 47 total rebounds coming on the offensive end. By compari-

son, the Hokies managed only 23 defensive rebounds in the game and had no players in double digits on the glass. Kyle Singler joined Zoubek in double figures for Duke, grabbing 10 rebounds—among them three crucial offensive boards—of his own.

“Some of [Singler’s] offensive rebounds that turned into buckets were huge plays in this game,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “As you go through a game like this where buckets are hard to come by, all of the sudden him just getting an offensive board and willing it into the basket—Kyle is playing really well right now.”

“[Brian Zoubek] is a mountain masquerading as a man.... He is a huge human being.”

— Seth Greenberg The strong presence in the paint was a major factor in helping the Blue Devils overcome their shooting woes, especially early in the game. Duke shot only 23.3 percent from the field in the first half, going 7-for-30 as a team. But with 12 offensive rebounds in the period, the Blue Devils managed 13 second-chance points as they battled to a 35-30 halftime lead.

Even though Duke’s shooting improved

to 34.4 percent in the second half, secondchance points became even more critical as Virginia Tech managed to stay in the game for the greater part of the period.

The Blue Devils’ production on second and even third opportunities finally overwhelmed the Hokies, and Duke finished with 27 second-chance points while holding Virginia Tech to only nine.

“You’ve got to secure the basketball,” Greenberg said. “You can’t give your opponent that many extra possessions.”

Virginia Tech certainly couldn’t afford to give up the extra possessions as it had its own shooting woes. The Hokies shot 32.8 percent for the game, and star guard Malcolm Delaney was held to just 5-for-19 shooting from the field.

Krzyzewski added that this was a game about his team’s identity, and said that associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski made a point to stress this team’s identity— rebounding and defense—both before the game and at halftime.

No player embodied that identity better than Zoubek, who seemed to be around the ball every time it came off the glass. He also registered a block and a steal on the defensive end and was key in keeping Virginia Tech out of the paint in the second half.

“It’s my senior year. I have to put it all out there on the line,” Zoubek said. “We had a chance to create some serious separation in the league tonight.... I just want to go out there and get the win.”

Virginia Tech’s Malcolm Delaney, the ACC’s leading scorer, hit several ac

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m. bball from page 1 Using a bucket-and-one, two free throws and a jumper with the shot clock winding down, Smith scored seven points during Duke’s 16-4 answering run over five minutes. His plays bracketed a tremendous 3-point play from Zoubek with 7:08 remaining that had the rest of the team off the bench, Smith jumping on the center’s back and the noise level from the Crazies blowing the roof off the stadium.

The bucket and ensuing foul shot gave Duke a five-point cushion—nothing to sneeze at in a game that didn’t see a whole lot of separation between the two teams until the last few minutes. In fact, those three points were Zoubek’s only points of the game, but they were by no means his only contributions on the offensive end.

“Brian’s play was huge,” junior Kyle Singler said. “He’s been great for us all year, and tonight, he had another great performance. He really helped us out on the boards.”

“Down the stretch, our guys hit everything.”

— Mike Krzyzewski

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crobatic jump shots but went just 5-of-19 from the field.

Zoubek pulled down a total of 16 rebounds, just one shy of his career-high 17 against Maryland last Saturday. Eight of those rebounds against the Hokies (21-5, 8-4) were offensive and led to putbacks or open looks on the pe-

rimeter for the rest of the team.

As Krzyzewski pointed out, had the Blue Devils been hitting their shots offensively, Zoubek could have ended up with six or seven more assists.

Down the stretch, though, the Blue Devils hit when they needed to most. At the 4:15 mark, Smith tossed the ball to Scheyer, open on the wing, for a 3-pointer. A few minutes later, Scheyer returned the favor, swinging the ball over to Smith, who hit the long-range jumper from directly in front of the Blue Devil bench.

Despite Virginia Tech’s—and especially Delaney’s—best attempts, the Hokies could not cut the deficit below six the rest of the way.

And to add insult to injury, Singler drilled one last final trey as the game clock fell below 10 seconds.

“When it comes down the stretch, obviously you want to be in those moments [taking timely shots],” Scheyer said.

“They’re good opportunities, and you just need to knock them down. Our team is just really unselfish, so we got good looks down the stretch.”

Those were looks Duke wasn’t getting for the first 30 minutes of the game. At the half, Virginia Tech was shooting a measly 29 percent from the field, managing to exceed the Blue Devils’ anemic 23.3 percent showing. Duke stayed on top largely by outscoring the Hokies from three, hitting six treys in the first period.

“Both teams play outstanding defense, so it’s tough to get good looks,” Krzyzewski said. “I mean, we shoot 29 percent, they shoot

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and Duke’s Nolan Smith, who got right in each other’s faces, ended in nothing more serious than a double-technical for the two participants.

32 percent. It’s tough to come by…. Even when you got an open look, you were looking to see if someone was coming to challenge your shot.”

Scheyer agreed with Krzyzewski that the Blue Devils have hung their hat on defense throughout the year. And even though Duke took good shots Sunday night, Scheyer noted that “[defense] was what you saw tonight.”

In the end, though, winning entails scoring more points than the opposition, and all but four of the Blue Devils’ 67 points were scored by the trio of Singler, Scheyer and Smith. The three

were the second-highest scoring trio in the country going into Sunday’s game, but will likely retake the top position after their latest 63-point outing.

Singler led all scorers with 25 points, Smith added 23 and Scheyer chipped in 15 on the night.

Fittingly, it was Singler, Scheyer and Smith that took over during the final stretch of the game after Virginia Tech challenged the Blue Devils to answer.

“Every time out, we just take it possession by possession,” Smith said of that stretch. “We did that, and the best thing was we were able to make those big shots.”

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Kyle Singler went 4-for-9 from behind the 3-point line Sunday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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Blue Devils drop 3 of 4 in challenging start to season

by Gabe Starosta THE CHRONICLE

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Jeremy Gould recorded a hit in all four of Duke’s games this weekend, yet the Blue Devils scored just 10 runs combined in their three losses.

Duke traveled to Waco, Texas for its season-opening series looking to test itself against two excellent programs, and the Blue Devils came out of the Lone Star State knowing they have to improve to reach that stature themselves.

In a change from past years, Duke scheduled aggressively early in the season—instead of feasting on weaker teams like La Salle at home, the Blue Devils went to Texas to face host Baylor (3-1) and No. 22 Georgia (2-2). Duke played each team twice and won just once, Saturday afternoon against the Bulldogs, and returns to Durham with a 1-3 record on the year.

“It’s a departure for us, basically completely the opposite of the way we started [last year] and just about everybody in our league starts,” head coach Sean McNally said of beginning the year with tough competition. “I thought it was important for our guys to play ACC-caliber competition right out of the gate.”

In the Blue Devils’ lone victory of the weekend against Georgia, Duke’s bats awoke late in the game. Down 4-3 going into the top of the seventh inning, the Blue Devils scored two runs in each of the following three innings to earn the 9-5 win. Junior Jake Lemmerman singled home the go-ahead run, and he added a solo home run in the ninth to give the Duke bullpen some breathing room.

Freshman Marcus Stroman, in his first collegiate appearance, pitched the final three innings and gave up just a single unearned run to get the save.

“Our guys [showed] a combination of excitement and satisfaction [in the locker room] after the win,” McNally said. “I like the way we handled it. Georgia is very talented and as talented a team as we’ll play DUKE 3 all year, and we want our culture to be about expecting to beat those 9 types of clubs.”

BAY The Blue Devils stayed in the DUKE 2 game early against the Bulldogs 3 thanks to quality starting pitching BAY from a senior with high expectations, Jonathan Foreman. Charged DUKE 9 with replacing current pro Andrew 5 Wolcott, who plays in the farm sysUGA tem of the Arizona Diamondbacks, DUKE 5 Foreman gave up four runs in five innings and registed a no decision.

10 UGA Aside from Saturday afternoon’s triumph, Duke’s hitters were kept quiet, especially against the Bears. Unranked Baylor limited the Blue Devils to just five total runs in two matchups and picked up two wins, 9-3 and 3-2. In Duke’s season opener Friday, Baylor starting pitcher Shawn Tolleson struck out 11 Blue Devils in six innings and gave up three runs—all in the top of the first inning. After that early Duke spurt, Tolleson and reliever Josh Turley shut down the visitors while the Bear offense knocked around five Blue Devil hurlers.

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Jake Lemmerman’s clutch hitting Saturday helped Duke to its only victory over the weekend in Waco, Texas, a 9-5 win over No. 22 Georgia.

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Duke stays hot with VCU rout in Richmond

by Stuart Price THE CHRONICLE

After two dominating 7-0 victories over No. 34 Notre Dame and N.C. Central early this month, No. 21 Duke again came out firing against No. 47 Virginia Commonwealth (6-4) Sunday. Continuing their hot play of late, the Blue DUKE 6 Devils (5-2) convincingly defeated the 1 Rams 6-1 in a match VCU played at Thalhimer Tennis Center in Richmond, Va. The match was highlighted by the gutsy play of Henrique Cunha, the reigning ACC Player of the Week. In his No. 1 singles match against the Rams’ highly talented senior Thibaut Charron, Cunha showed extreme focus and competitiveness to win the match after being down in the second set. The freshman phenom was able to recover and extend the decisive second set to a tiebreaker, where he dispatched Charron 7-4.

“He competed like a professional and won the match playing a very talented guy from France,” assistant coach Josh Goffi said. “That has been the story all season.

He has just been out-competing people.”

Goffi, whose connections to Brazilian tennis were instrumental in recruiting Cunha, cannot speak highly enough of the freshman who currently is the No. 9 singles player in the nation and shares the No. 4 doubles ranking with his partner, junior

Reid Carleton.

“He’s obviously a great player but he’s one of the best competitors I’ve ever seen— pro or in college,” Goffi said. “That’s probably quite a big thing to say considering there are so many great competitors out

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McCrory, Johnston dominate Blue Devils still ACCs as Duke women finish 6th perfect after As the ACC women’s swimming and men and women’s diving championships came to a close Saturday night, a pair of Duke divers stood apart from the field.

The women’s swimming team finished sixth overall, but the highlights of the weekend came from sophomore Abby Johnston and freshman Nick McCrory, who were named women’s and men’s most valuable diver, respectively.

The swimming team’s showing was full of personal bests, as freshman Emily Kintz turned in a Duke record 1:59.47 in the 200-meter backstroke, and senior Elizabeth Bellew swam a season-best 2:01.19 in the 200-meter butterfly.

The weekend belonged to Johnston and McCrory, however. Johnston finished seventh in the women’s plat-

form, won the 1-meter springboard with an ACC Championship record and also won the 3-meter, setting an all-time conference record.

McCrory, who has dominated the sport of men’s diving since his arrival at Duke, had a sterling weekend at the meet. The freshman finished second in the 3-meter, but set an all-time pool record in the 1-meter, and set an all-time conference record in his men’s platform victory­—which featured a dive that drew perfect 10s from all judges.

The men’s swimming team will travel to Chapel Hill Wednesday for its ACC Championship meet.

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For the second time this season and the second weekend in a row, No. 5 Duke played in a set of Friday-Sunday matchups. And yet again, the team earned a pair of wins on the weekend, beating Richmond 17-9 Friday and William & Mary 16-9 Sunday.

“I intentionally set up Friday-Sunday matchups because it’s like a championship setup,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Like in the championships, we’ve had our tougher matchup on Sunday both times this year.”

Kimel acknowledges that this is an extra challenge for Duke during game preparation because the DUKE 17 players have to be ready to scout and RICH 9 play another team in just two days. Still, the lessons learned from these difficulDUKE 16 ties now will be an asset as the season progresses, as it prepares a Blue Devil W&M 9 team with high hopes of progressing deep into postseason play.

Against Richmond (0-2), the Blue Devils (4-0) were able to jump out to an early 10-4 halftime lead as junior Sarah Bullard scored all five of her goals in the first half en route to a career-best seven points, and senior Jillian Heinz added two of her own. After the intermission, Duke’s scoring became more balanced as five Blue Devils found the back of the net in the first six minutes of the second half to put the game out of reach for the Spiders.

“We had a lot of different people score. That will bode well for us as we move forward,” Kimel said.

The coach’s words were more prophetic than she could have known at the time. Two days later, nine different players scored for the Blue Devils in a win against No. 20 William and Mary (1-1). Despite trailing the Tribe 6-4 at halftime, Duke managed to blow the game open early in the second period. After giving up a seventh goal to the Tribe in the first minute, Duke went on a 9-1 run over the next 13 minutes to take a 13-8 lead. Kimel attributed the second-period goal haul to the halftime break itself.

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m. lax from page 10 “Scott Rodgers is a great goalie,” Crotty said, in reference to the 6-foot4, 254-pound Notre Dame behemoth between the pipes. “There were a few times when we thought we had a good chance at a goal, and then he stuck his shoulder pad right out there to make the save. We obviously had to shoot even better than we did.”

Besides Quinzani’s hat trick, freshman goalie Dan Wigrizer’s gritty performance was the most noticeable positive to take away from what was otherwise a tough early-season loss for Duke. Despite Duke’s 11-10 lead in the faceoff tally, the Fight-

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ing Irish controlled the clock throughout the game thanks to their much longer average possession time. Wigrizer held his own in his home debut, coming up with timely acrobatic saves to keep the Blue Devils in the game.

“We failed to clear the ball, literally could not run past their guys, and Notre Dame was able to play to its strengths on offense,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “Our goalie, for a freshman in only his second college game, played well today. He didn’t give up any easy goals, and we were very happy with his effort.”

The Blue Devils’ lackluster performance Saturday came one week after a nail-biting overtime victory against No.

19 Bucknell, as the 2010 campaign has certainly gotten off to a rockier start than some may have expected. Nonetheless, Duke has now faced two excellent opponents in its first two games, and looks to build off this experience as the season progresses.

“I just think Notre Dame was better than us today,” Danowski said. “We have no problem saying that at this time of the year. In the long run, this may be the best thing that could have ever happened to us. Losing at home and being disappointed with how you played—that’s good motivation for this week in practice.”

The Blue Devils’ first chance at redemption comes next Saturday against Pennsylvania in a 3 p.m. tilt at Koskinen.

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Junior Ellah Nze’s crucial victory over Michigan’s No. 1 seed paved the way for Duke’s win Saturday.

w. tennis from page 11 No. 1 seed, but she lined up in the second slot Saturday. There, she cruised past Michigan’s Rika Tatsuno in straight sets as expected.

The big surprise, however, came at the top spot, where No. 104 Ellah Nze upset No. 16 Denise Muresan, the Wolverines’ best player. Nze, a junior, won the first set in a tiebreak, and sealed the match with a 6-4 second-set win.

“It was great to fight through it and come out with a win against a ranked player,” Nze said. “It’s a great confidence booster for the first time outside.”

Lower down the ladder, Duke won three of four matches to notch the 5-2 victory. Fifth seed Monica Gorny went down in straight sets, but seniors Elizabeth Plotkin and Amanda Granson and freshman Mary Clayton all came out of their matches on top.

After the win over Michigan, the Blue Devils returned to action Sunday against overmatched Furman (3-5) at Ambler. Duke defeated the Paladins 7-0, and no Blue Devil lost more than seven total games in the crushing victory.

Duke used the match against Furman to rotate various players in and out of action. Nze, the hero of the win against Michigan, sat out the contest with the Paladins altogether, and the still-undefeated Plotkin (10-0)—not Nze or Zsilinszka— played No. 1 singles. The result, no matter who played at the top, was the same— another resounding win for Duke.

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w. bball from page 11 By swinging the ball around the outside, the Blue Devils were able to find wide open looks which led to six early threes. An early switch to a 3-2 zone defense helped Duke stymie the Terrapins’ offense, with the Blue Devils’ lead peaking at 10 with seven minutes remaining in the first half.

“We were thinking that open was in,” senior Joy Cheek said.

“We saw the basket, we didn’t have a defender and we had confidence that it was going in.”

The weekend’s miles finally caught up to the Blue Devils soon after. For six minutes, Duke made zero field goals and allowed the Terrapins (18-9, 5-7) countless chances on offense, many off of offensive rebounds. Maryland looked poised to take a slim lead into the locker room until Christmas was fouled after going coast-to-coast for a bucket with 0.8 seconds remaining.

“Karima is so athletic that she has that ability in mid-air to sort of change directions,” McCallie said. “She did hit some monster shots.”

The second half started just as the first had ended, with Duke misfiring all over the court. However, the Terrapins were no better, and both teams traded the lead for much of the second half. As time began to wane, the largely subdued group of Cameron Crazies took notice and began to will the Blue Devils on.

“It was loud. You need that because you can see [the opponents’]

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faces just drop,” Cheek said. “You want to shush them and get them worrying and make them tense.”

With the help of the more than 5,000 in attendance and Cheek’s leadership, the Blue Devils began to pull away. A Krystal Thomas jumper and two free throws by Christmas, followed by Cheek’s 3-point play with three minutes remaining, put the Terrapins

away for good.

“Joy was incredible playing the three, playing the four,” McCallie said. “Leadership was critical to the game, and Joy just stepped right into that role.”

Between Cheek and Christmas, Duke may have found itself a duo that can carry it deep into March, even when Jasmine Thomas struggles from the floor.

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Senior Jillian Heinz scored twice against Richmond in Duke’s 17-9 victory Friday.

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Jasmine Thomas dominated Georgia Tech Friday but struggled mightily against Maryland.

composure back. We needed that time to be together as a team, to look each other in the eyes and to go out and put that effort into the second half,” Kimel said. “Even though we’ve got juniors and seniors in a lot of places, we don’t have a whole lot of experience on the attack. That inexperience shows up at times.”

The Blue Devils were still able to get big plays from some

of their experienced players Sunday. Duke was led by senior captain and returning all-ACC midfielder Lindsey Gilbride, who had four goals and an assist in the game. Sophomore Kat Thomas, who played in 20 games as a freshman, had three goals and an assist, as well. But Kimel emphasized the team’s balanced attack.

“We have lots of kids who can be threats, and the opponent has to be prepared for that,” she said.

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baseball from page 14 14 Baylor batters he faced—the Bears pitching again prevailed in a one-run victory.

The weekend ended on a sour note for Duke, as the Blue Devils allowed Georgia to put insurance runs on the scoreboard in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings to extend a two-run lead to five. At the same time, Duke’s bats were unable to get anything going, and the Blue Devils faded late in a 10-5 loss. McNally was unhappy with his team’s

defensive play Sunday, but was pleased overall with the weekend—minus the results.

“Our defense was very solid at times and at other times looked like it needed a lot of work,” he said. “We’re going to be a really good team, and I think we accelerated that process by playing two of the best teams in college baseball.”

Duke’s next opponent has less of the pedigree that Georgia and Baylor boasted this weekend. The Blue Devils host Fordham in a three-game set at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park beginning this Friday.

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Junior Reid Carleton improved to 5-0 in dual matches since the team season began in January.

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Michael Ness provided the kind of front-of-the-rotation pitching Duke is looking for Saturday against Baylor.

there making a lot of money, but he’s definitely top-shelf.”

Cunha’s competitive play seemed to rub off on his teammates, especially Carleton. The junior dropped the first set of his match, but battled back to win the next two. And after Tim Johannsen picked up a 6-3, 7-5 victory for the Rams at the No. 3 spot, the bottom half of the Duke lineup finished off a dominant day in singles. The Blue Devils went 5-1 on the day individually, capping off a comprehensive win.

“Up and down the line our guys didn’t play our best tennis, but they competed the best I’ve seen all season,” Goffi said.

As the Blue Devils look to continue their success against No. 4 Texas this Friday at Ambler Tennis Stadium, they con-

tinue to use early-season defeats to No. 25 Alabama and No. 12 Illinois as sources of motivation. Goffi noted that Duke’s response to those defeats, especially the loss to a beatable Alabama team, could be the reference point of the season.

In response, Duke has refocused and is now putting a lot of pressure on itself to win. The newfound focus and commitment to winning has translated to the court. “[After Illinois], the guys came out firing on all cylinders and we haven’t looked back since then. The guys are just playing really good ball right now,” Goffi said.

Sunday’s handling of Virginia Commonwealth represents another step in the right direction for Duke. Led by its freshmen sensation, the Blue Devils will continue to move beyond their early-season defeats and seem well-prepared for an upset bid against Texas.

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library party from page 1 Fall. DPS was able to raise nearly $30,000 for the party, Nathan said. Junior Sharon Mei, vice president of events for DPS, added that DPS was under the impression that in past years, the library had matched the funds raised by the hosting student group.

“You can imagine the difficulty of planning such an event with half the budget and half the amount of time than the previous years,” Nathan said.

Duke Libraries did not contribute to the $41,000 raised by the International Association last year to fund the library party, said senior Alexis Rosenblum, president of IA. Nathan added that there will be an event this semester that accomplishes the same fundamental goals DPS hoped would be promoted through the library party. The party will be on the same scale, but held at a different venue.

Jakubs said library officials who worked with DPS felt the organization was not keeping with the schedule that had been set for planning the event. “[DPS] provided us with updates from time to time,” she said. “But fairly early on it was clear that the timetable we have to adhere to, that’s kind of worked—tried and true—over last three years, was kind of slipping. I was willing to assume, give them the benefit of the doubt, this would be OK, but it got to within three weeks of the date of the party and there still was no visible signs of publicity anywhere.”

Mei wrote in an e-mail, however, that they did meet the deadlines set by representatives of DPS and Purple.

Even after DPS came back to the library with a scaled-down proposal, Jakubs said she did not believe the event could work. After discussing the situation with Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate ed-

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ucation, and Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Jakubs decided that the library should pull out of the event.

“I explained the situation and just decided that it would be better all around [to cancel the party] because my perception was that it was going to be not that successful because [the organizers] had not gotten it together,” she said.

Senior Sam Bowler, founder and president of Purple, also said the event suffered from poor coordination this year. Purple was approached by DPS to help plan the party, but did not have direct interaction with library officials, Bowler said. They too decided to pull out of the party when it appeared that it would be difficult to pull off an event as successful as in past years.

“We were trying to sprint to the finish in the end,” Bowler said. “The library said that we didn’t have the pieces in order, which we didn’t. We said ‘You’re right, we’re going to come back and do this another time when it makes more sense.’”

The event was started three years ago by two students, Rachel Weeks and Haley Hoffman, both Trinity ’07, under the theme “DukePlays.” Mi Gente organized “Latin Chic” in 2008 and IA planned “Pangaea” last year. Jakubs estimates attendance at the party the last three years to be in the range of 1,500 to 2,000 people.

Rosenblum—who was then executive vice president—said last year, IA also faced difficulties raising funds in the midst of the economic downturn and budget cuts. IA solicited different university offices and academic departments to give small donations.

Larger bodies such as the Student Organization Finance Committee and Campus Council gave more substantial donations.

Campus Council allocated $5,000 for this year’s party which was a 43 percent increase over last year’s allocation of $3,500.

DPS did not approach SOFC or Duke

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The Library Party, which was supposed to be organized by the Duke Partnership for Service, has been cancelled this year after planning failures by the event’s organizers.

University Union for funding, sources within the organizations said.

Jakubs said she hopes the library will continue to host the party in years to come. She has discussed with Nowicki and Moneta the possibility of switching to a new model in which the funding comes

from a different source, such as the library or student affairs budgets.

“I do feel very badly,” Jakubs said. “I know they put a lot work into this. Just from my own experience I had to decide that it wasn’t going on schedule and it was going to need to not happen this year.”

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A voice for the silent majority When Duke administra- that well-organized student tors want student input about groups hold a monopolistic a proposed policy change or influence over major decifeedback on a new housing sions affecting the lives of model, it is easy simply to tap undergraduates. This prolifinto the leadership of major eration of “interest groups” campus organizations like is unhealthy, perpetuates anthe Panhellentagonism and ic Asssociation leaves many editorial and the Interstudents bereft fratenity Council. of representation.

But in these conversations, Under such imperfect cirall too often the voice of the cumstances, GDI fills an imsilent majority is missing. In- portant void. Independent dependent students—those students lack any consolidatunaffiliated with any greek ed group to advocate for their organizations or selective liv- needs. And in the absence of ing groups—are often forgot- such a representative group, ten, and the newly formed it is easy for administrators Group of Duke Indepen- simply to overlook independents may finally give these dent students, who in actualstudents their long-awaited ity comprise a majority of the and rightfully deserved place student body. at the bargaining table.

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Limited bed spaces and unequal housing quality across campus pit students against each other to secure the best rooms. For independents, this problem is only compounded by the fact that the best housing, especially those on West Campus, are reserved for highly-organized and well-established groups.

In the housing shuffle, independent students are often left behind, as demonstrated by the recently completed Residential Group Assessment Committee process in which independents were not given the opportunity for meaningful input.

And given the future plans for more selective and elective living on campus— which will further displace independents—the need for

an organization to represent unaffiliated students is particularly urgent.

At first, it will be difficult for GDI to fully represent independents. Unaffiliated students come from all walks of life, and many share little in common aside from the fact that they are not a member of any formalized group.

Without a clear mandate from a large, consolidated constituency, it will be difficult for GDI to legitimately speak on behalf of all independent students at Duke. Therefore, in its first months as a representative organization, GDI should only strive to give pushback on any new policies that call into question the rights of independents.

But if GDI grows and ensures the participation of

independent students of all genders, class years and ethnicities, it will reach a critical mass of membership that will position it to tackle large policy issues and actively push for change. Once formalized, the organization could also serve as a sounding board for administrators and leverage its large constituency to bring the grievances of unaffiliated students to the forefront of campus dialogue.

A formal organization should not be necessary to uphold the rights of independent students, but given Duke’s imperfect campus culture, GDI can hopefully level an unequal playing field.

Chelsea Goldstein recused herself from this editorial due to personal ties to one of the founders of GDI.

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raditional punishments accomplish nothing.

If your kid smokes weed, he’ll smoke weed.

You yelling at him will just alienate his affections. Unfortunately for him, he can’t use this as grounds for divorce.

So instead of lecturing him on some far off “adverse effects” on his future, you need to mix it up a bit and play pranks on him whenever he acts out of line.

This way, he gets negatively affected by his “crime” in the here and now.

Here are my alternative “punish- monday, monday ments” that will get the joker the point across much better than traditional disciplinary measures. I’ve used these with my daughter Anabel, and she’s become a firstclass citizen, just like her father.

Crime No. 1: Finding marijuana in son’s room.

Traditional, “Old Folks” method: Sit him down and tell him about how marijuana is a gateway drug and how smoking restricts lung functioning. Possible keywords include “laced with heroin,” “risky,” “high on life.”

The Joker’s recommendation: Sprinkle pepper in his dime bag so your kid learns firsthand what a smoker’s cough feels like. Leave a note somewhere in his room that reads, “Spice up your life!”

Crime No. 2: Stayed out past curfew.

Old Folks: Grounded for a week. Keywords: “for your benefit,” “good sleeping habits.”

The Joker: Take his car keys and bury them somewhere outside and make a scavenger hunt only Albert Einstein could solve. May or may not use Swahili instructions.

Crime No. 3: Find a condom in daughter’s room.

Old Folks: Lecture on the birds and the bees, with maybe some vague references to the “clap.”

Keywords: “pregnant,” “boys only want one thing,” “true love,” “worth the wait.”

The Joker: Write “so cute” on the condom wrapper and put a Post-it on her mirror that reads, “We used the same kind the night you were conceived! …Whoops!”

Crime No. 4: Bad grades.

Old Folks: Affects the future lecture. Possible restricting of privileges, such as phone, car, TV. Key phrase: “You’ll thank us someday.”

The Joker: Purchase “Hooked on Phonics” and various easy-reader books such as “See Spot Run” and “Everybody Poops” with a note that reads “Here’s something more on your level.”

Crime No. 5: Find alcohol in kid’s room.

Old Folks: Surely you know how this one goes, my fellow fratstar Duke students.

The Joker: Dump out their alcohol and put Everclear in its place. It’ll teach them how delicious alcohol really is. Potential problem: Everclear is pretty good stuff; may lead to child becoming an alcoholic.

Crime No. 6: Dirty room.

Old Folks: No allowance and/or lecture about how maintaining good habits leads to success.

The Joker: Go into child’s room and dump all of their clothes on the floor. Make it look like the dog got into all of their stuff. Place onto bed waterlogged snickers bar and/or spill Mountain Dew in a small circle on the carpet.

Crime No. 7: Breaking any miscellaneous rules not on this list.

Old Folks: The usual. Keywords: “respect,” “trust,” “it goes both ways.”

The Joker: When your kid’s boy/girlfriend comes over, do all kinds of horrifying things to them. For example, light a stink bomb under the couch they’re sitting on, pay your younger children to bother them, give them French kissing tips, discuss the lesser known sexual positions and be generally awkward. They’ll get the hint.

Note of caution: Those who use these punishments should be warned that their children may retaliate and it will most likely become a full-fledged prank war. If this happens, you are on your own, but I give you my best wishes. At least you’ll be having fun with your kid instead of sadly becoming your own grouchy parents. Anybody who doubts these methods, just think how much fun you would’ve had if your parents had done this to you. Especially with the Everclear. Talk about a good night.

The Joker was the laughter in the winding stream and in between.

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Unleash the studentprofessor bromance The bromance amongst my guy friends back home is a lovely sight to behold. When they get together, beer, poker and interminable hours of watching basketball (or football, baseball, hockey…) often follow. Indeed, it’s a real bro and brah-fest, but cut through the valley dude vernacular and you’ll find the stuff of real love stories.

You see, bromance for them is not just friendship, it’s unerring loyalty.

When I talk about loyalty, I mean enduring courtney han preferential treatment. That is, on the other hand defending and staying faithful— to friends, a country or basketball team—not just because of its characteristics, but for its intrinsic existence. Not the stuff of fair-weather friends and band-wagoners, no, loyalty is in it for the long-haul.

Maintaining such loyalty sometimes requires time and comfort, which can feel diametrically opposed to rationality. Loyalty says, yes, I will sleep through the snow and sleet for the team in spite of our bad season. Or, I will go with you to that bar or party though I’m tired and I will see my stalker ex-girlfriend, because I’m your wingman.

Duke students are, on the whole, loyal to our school. School spirit and passionate alumni were major reasons I, and I suspect many others, chose to come here in the first place.

But students comprise of only one element that makes Duke pride what it is, and what it could be. To realize our potential, Duke needs more demonstrated loyalty from our faculty.

In other words, professors need to play a more supportive and engaged role in the lives of their students.

Since loyalty is sustained by little more than an organic connection among member parties, it is frightfully fungible. The way I see it, professors are vulnerable to two extremes that depress their commitment to their students. There’s efficiency creeping in on one side, and there’s political correctness on the other. Efficiency puts the focus on research, which shortchanges students, and political correctness, with its principles of equality and fairness, breed neutrality.

These two threats seriously undermine a professor’s potential to connect to individual students. Many times I have seen bright, interesting friends who happened to choose less-marketable majors like political science, English or history throw up their hands in confusion over gap years and career paths. A diploma gives them a net to cast into an ocean of post-graduate possibilities,

but they are often ill-equipped to know how to reel in a decent catch, not to mention which ones to throw back.

But by consequence of attaining a faculty position, professors have proven their ability to navigate the sea of options. In doing so, they have accumulated networks, insider information and connections that their students dearly need.

Yes, we have a Career Center. But the Career Center’s focus, and indeed its comparative advantage, should be to provide us with a survey of career possibilities. It provides a useful starting point to help students parse personal interests, leverage their skills and learn to present themselves professionally. But when it comes to actually breaking into the chosen field of interest, the Career Center simply can’t attain the same depth of knowledge that professors have.

Indeed, professors can easily have a significant, lasting impact on how students view their college experiences. For example, students who have had a faculty member reach out to them were far more likely to report a very satisfying college experience, according to a 2003 study

by Charles Clotfelter, Duke professor of economics and law and Z. Smith Reynolds professor of public policy.

Of course, this is not to say that professors should hand out opportunities on a silver platter. Students need to do their share. It’s just that faculty need to signal their willingness to participate in one-on-one mentoring.

They can do this by making their time more available. They can regularly communicate that they want their students to succeed and find the things that really excite them. They can inquire about their students’ interests and campus life because we are far more shy to breach personal subjects and often rely on cues from the instructor.

Professors can be more forthcoming about their personal experiences, life paths and mistakes.

They might consider staying up to date about career opportunities and developments in their field on behalf of their students, and know who in their departments students can further consult for advice. Chris Blattman, assistant professor of political science and economics at Yale University, for example, posts practical and timely career advice on his Web site. Finally, professors should be open to the possibility of introducing their students into their own professional networks.

Take a pointer from the surfer dude bromance or the crazy towel guy. Do as the Beach Boys say and be true to your school. Have a soft spot for your kids, professors, and let them know you have their backs.

You may not agree on everything, but guess what? You’re a Blue Devil too.

Courtney Han is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

lettertotheeditor Some advice for Brostoff Ben Brostoff’s Feb. 19 column “A novel approach to RSA cryptosystem” bemoaned the existence of midterms as, essentially, boring stuff that has been done before. Why can’t we move on to the super-cool stuff in math and science classes?

Although Brostoff admits that learning fundamentals is key, he still hates midterms, and claims faculty do as well. I politely disagree. Faculty are just dying to see who really masters the fundamentals and aces their midterms (and finals, for that matter.) And if you seek to work on more advanced subjects outside of your coursework, I would bet $100 that you can find a faculty

member who will give you some attention.

Any Duke students, Brostoff included, who want to have a serious career tackling scientific problems would do well to master as wide an array of fundamentals as they can, especially programming their own scientific algorithms. I leave Brostoff and any other budding scientists with this little example: In my own research this week, I am wrestling with finding the roots of polynomials. Sounds like fundamentals, right?

That’s what most science is: expert application of fundamentals. Keep at it!

Mike Jenista Graduate student, mathematics

And the Oscars go to...

W

ith the first round of midterms among us, it’s time to brush off those procrastination skills people! But by now you have probably exhausted every Sporcle game, Youtube video and maybe even started playing Farmville, so creativity in the anti-study crusade is a must. List making is fun, and even more so when it is culturally relevant.

So in that vein and in honor of the upcoming Academy Awards (tune in March 7 if your Spring Break plans allow!), I have conferred with the members of the Duke division of the Academy (me, myself and I) and decided to award a select few individuals with proverbial golden statues. laura keeley Best Supporting Actress: The women of Chick-fil-A and Alpine Bagels. duke wonderland In this small corner of West Campus, the best food service is waiting for you to either devour a chicken biscuit or a Good Morning Camper. The Alpine ladies especially care about their customers and are perceptive to our needs, For instance, when I once asked for a coffee, the women collecting the fake money off of my Duke Card asked “What size– actually, here, you need a large.” Service at its finest.

Best Supporting Actor: Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. Now Mr. Moneta went abroad first semester on a “Fulbright” to Croatia, just like the rest of us juniors go abroad to “study.” We all know Europe is the place where the best and the brightest go to “find themselves” but, alas, all good things must end, and harsh reality must return. For Mr. Moneta, this reality has taken the form of leading everyone’s favorite campus entity, Resident Life and Housing Services. Traditionally at Duke, every spring brings another housing crisis, so let’s give a big thank you to Moneta for admirably undertaking this potential debacle. Don’t worry, Mr. Moneta, it’s been a rough transition back for us juniors, too!

Best Actress: Awa Nur, Duke Student Government president. On a campus where whining about lack of female leadership is in vogue, Ms. Nur is the shining exception. She made DSG relevant this fall with the Young Trustee reform project and even showed bold bravado by defying other senators and initially vetoing the changes. And who doesn’t love a leader who responds to foolish ideas proposed by the administration with sound bites such as “There is no way in hell that I am going to support that”? Stay strong, girl.

Best Actor: Zach White, head line monitor. Whether you love or hate the new leniency of K-ville, Mr. White deserves to be commended for his vision of change and translating it into action. The old tenting system was borderline inhumane and pretty much excluded every person on campus besides overeager freshmen. I personally know of several upperclassmen tenting this year, so I’m giving a big thumbs-up to Mr. White on accomplishing his goal. I’m also a big fan of the new big group walk-up policy—why more people do not take advantage of grilling before the game with 30 of their closest friends is beyond me. And Mr. White was the only person quoted in the Washington Post’s preview of the DukeMaryland game Feb. 13, so huge rockstar points for swinging that.

Best director: For best director, I only considered the Big Kahunas, the people who really call the shots. In my mind, that left the Board of Trustees, the University’s investment manager, the Duke University Management Company or President Richard Brodhead. Since the Board of Trustees decided to close its meetings to the media in September 2008 in the spirit of transparency and has not reconsidered this position, and, well, the endowment is down by 27.5 percent as of the last financial report this October, I am going to go with el presidente. Anything at Duke that has gone awry this year can be pinned on people below President Brodhead, and like any good leader, anything that goes right can be tracked back to his leadership abilities and delegation skills. Sometimes no news is good news, so congratulations, Mr. President, you are the winner! When asked for a speech, President Brodhead was honored but decided to keep it simple and just say thanks... and he looks forward to seeing this on TMZ. Best Movie: I debated about taking a cop-out and tweaking this category to “best move” so I could have more choices. For example, there was the proposed merger of the International House and the Multicultural Center (oops), the “directed choice” dining proposal to require students to spend 500 to 700 food points at non-contracted Bon Appétit Management Company vendors, including the Great Hall and the Marketplace (oops) or Duke’s attempt to move the snow and ice off our walkways after our version of Snowmageddon (once again, oops). But changing a category would cheapen this procrastination exercise, and since our admissions department has not made a “rock musical” to encourage high schoolers to choose Duke (seriously, Google “That’s why I chose Yale”—you will not regret it), I’m giving this award to the Brain Zoubek highlight reel shown during a TV timeout in the first half of the Duke-Maryland game. It’s already vintage since it contained no footage from this year’s Maryland game or the Miami game, so consider yourself lucky if you saw it!

There you have it Duke, these are your best performances from the past year! Until next time, you stay classy, Gothic Wonderland.

Laura Keeley is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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