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Law prof vies for NC teens’ rights in court by Ciaran O’Connor The chronicle

More than two years after her clients were suspended for fighting after school, Duke Law professor Jane Wettach was in North Carolina Supreme Court Monday arguing that the two high school girls were stripped of their constitutional right to an education. In January 2008, six teenage students in Beaufort, N.C. were suspended for the remainder of the school year from Southside High School for participating in a fistfight that subsequently made it onto YouTube. After also being denied access to Beaufort County’s alternative school for troubled youth, two of the suspended students— Viktoria King and Jessica Hardy—sued the school district in hopes of being allowed back to the classroom. Although King and Hardy were not allowed to return to school until the following year, their case has now made it to the highest court in the state. Wettach is asking the N.C. Supreme Court to set a standard barring fights that do not include weapons or injuries from causing students to sit idle for months. Of the six suspended students, only King plans to attend college next year, The New York Times reported last week. Wettach, who directs the Children’s Law Clinic at the Law School, said she based her argument on a 1997 school funding case, Leandro v. State. In that case, the state Supreme Court interpreted the State Constitution’s right to a public education to mean that the state must put forth a “compelling interest” in order to deprive a student of his or her right to attend school. “That was really the crux of our case,” Wettach said. “They didn’t provide a reason at all [for the suspensions].” The school district is arguing that the See suspension on page 4

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A chance to be Elite DUKE vs SDSU

DUKE vs PURDUE

Unheralded Aztecs look to topple heavily favored Duke

Blue Devils face shorthanded Boilermakers in ’08 rematch

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San Diego State may be the only double-digit seed in the Sweet 16, but the Blue Devils know better than to take the Aztecs lightly after they cruised to their first NCAA regional appearance since the tournament expanded in 1994. No. 2 Duke (29-5) could have its hands full with a San Diego State squad riding an eight-game winning streak when it meets the No. 11 Aztecs in Memphis Saturday at 2 p.m. An NCAA Tournament berth was far from a given for San Diego State (23-10) after the team finished third in the Mountain West Conference during the regular season. But the Aztecs locked up an automatic bid by winning their conference tournament and picked the perfect time to play their best basketball of the season—becoming this year’s Cinderella story in the process. “The seedings mean just about nothing,” senior co-captain Joy Cheek said. “You can see a lot of parity in the games. [The Aztecs] could have done the same things they’re doing throughout the season had they played in the ACC or SEC.”

Duke entered this year’s NCAA Tournament with high hopes, and after surviving a wild opening weekend which saw the No. 1 overall seed Kansas lose a shocker to No. 9 Northern Iowa, the Blue Devils are flying high. Of the 16 teams remaining, only Duke, Kentucky and Syracuse won their first two games by at least 15 points each, and the Orange have since been eliminated as well. The Blue Devils (31-5) will look to extend that scoring streak and avoid the upset bug Friday night in Houston when they take on No. 4 Purdue (29-5). The teams last met Dec. 2, 2008 in West Lafayette for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge—a game that the Blue Devils won, 76-60. Duke’s victory was characterized by stellar defense, as the Boilermakers were limited to just 37.3 percent from the field. Robbie Hummel, a key contributor for Purdue, had a team-high 15 points and eight rebounds in that matchup. Hummel tore his ACL in February, though, and is sidelined for the rest of the year. The Boilermakers’ coaching staff looks back to these teams’ last matchup as a turning point for its program. “The game really helped us because our guys felt like they played hard before that, but after that game they know what playing hard really means,” head coach Matt Painter said.

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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will speak today from Staff Reports The Chronicle

Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen will speak Friday at 4 p.m. in the Goodson Chapel on “The Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith.” Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University professor and professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, is the keynote speaker for a two-day series of events honoring Crauford Goodwin, James B. Duke professor of economics, for his 40 years at the helm of History of Political Economy—the scholarly journal was the first to be devoted to the history of econom-

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ics. Goodwin has been its only editor since its inception. Sen won the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in welfare economics—the study of how economic policies affect the well-being of communities. Born in present-day Bangladesh, Sen is known as the “Mother Teresa of Economics” for his work on the underlying economic principles of poverty, famine and gender inequality. His book “Collective Choice and Social Welfare” criticized the mainstream economic principles of the time that valued efficiency over economic equality and justice. He has spent most of his adult life in academia, with

professorships at Calcutta, Jadavpur University, Delhi School of Economics as well as renowned American universities like Cornell, Stanford, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today’s event is sponsored by the Center for the History of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Duke University Press, the Trent Foundation, Divinity School, Office of International Affairs and the Johnson Lecture Fund. Nobel prize-winning economist Vernon Smith will also deliver a speech Saturday as part of the conference.

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Obama travels to Iowa City Pelosi warns against threats to pitch health care reform WASHINGTON, DC. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Republican leaders Thursday to join Democrats in condemning threats and racial epithets directed at lawmakers who voted to pass health-care legislation. Republican leaders, while criticizing threats against lawmakers and racist taunts, accused Democrats of trying to capitalize politically on the episodes. Pelosi said political leaders of both parties should be united in their condemnation of such behavior. “It’s very important that across the board we all reject what has been said in the course of this debate, however it was provoked,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference Thursday in Washington. Asked whether Republicans had done enough to discourage such rhetoric, she said,“it would be important for us to have a bipartisan statement to that effect.”

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IOWA CITY — A jubilant President Barack Obama dared his Republican critics Thursday to run on a platform of repealing the health-care overhaul he signed into law earlier this week, urging them to “go for it” as he staunchly defended the measure. Returning to the place where he promised health care reform three years ago as he was beginning his presidential bid, Obama made Iowa City his first stop outside the Beltway in an incipient campaign to explain the benefits of the overhaul to the American people and rebut what he called “misinformation,” “fear-mongering” and “overheated rhetoric” about it. From now on, “all of the cynics and the naysayers will have to finally confront the reality of what this reform is and what it isn’t,” Obama told a crowd of several thousand people at the University of Iowa Field House.

NEW YORK CITY — Haiti’s President Rene Preval will join U.S. and United Nations leaders next week in seeking $3.9 billion to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure following the earthquake in January that killed more than 200,000 people. The U.N., World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank will present a 250-page reconstruction plan at a donors’ conference in New York on March 31, according to Jordan Ryan, director of the U.N. Development Program’s crisis prevention and recovery unit. Ryan said as many as 60 nations may pledge new funds. Ryan said Preval also will submit a 50page Haitian government “Vision and Plan” for his nation’s long-term economic development. “The government decided very early on that they didn’t want just to focus on the earthquake and the damage of the

earthquake,” Ryan said in an interview. “They wanted to seize the opportunity of the earthquake to, in a sense, relaunch a development path for Haiti.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will join Preval in opening the daylong conference at the U.N. Former President Bill Clinton, the U.N.’s special envoy for Haiti, also will speak at the conference, which foreign ministers of France and Japan are expected to attend, Ryan said. Ryan was one of the leaders of a monthlong mission to Haiti that produced the Post Disaster Needs Assessment report focusing on rebuilding schools, hospitals, government ministries, roads, airports and ports. It will propose the creation of what he called a “multidonor trust fund,” to be overseen by the World Bank and to channel pledges to reconstruction needs.

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Campus council

New committee would evaluate, assign residential space by Maggie Love THE CHRONICLE

Students may soon have a say in the addition or removal of residential groups. At its meeting Thursday night, Campus Council proposed the establishment of the Addition and Removal Committee. If instituted, ARC will have three main functions: granting residential spaces, removing those spaces and considering sanctions, as well as allowing residential groups to expand, said Vice President Alex Reese, a junior. This committee would serve as an umbrella group over Campus Council and the Residential Group Assessment Committee’s living space decisions. Under this structure, Campus Council and RGAC could present proposals and suggestions to ARC. “This brings students into the process, so it’s students holding students accountable, which is in line with the [RGAC process] as well—students holding peers accountable,” said President Stephen Temple, a junior. Temple added that this is not a new concept—the Annual Review Process, a previous committee serving a similar purpose, was ended around 2002. The proposal notes that ARC will be made up of eight student members and eight administrators. Of the students, two would be affiliated and six would be independent, a proportion representative of the student body, Reese said. One of the eight student members would be the Campus Council president, and all undergraduate students, including Campus Council members, would be eligible for the other seven positions. The executive director of Residence Life

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Campus Council members consider the creation of the Addition and Removal Committee, which would have powers to assign living space for residential groups. and Housing Services, the RLHS deans for West and Central Campuses and the dean of undergraduate education would number among the eight administrators on the committee, Reese added. The executive director of RLHS position, held by Eddie Hull until July 2009, is currently vacant. When determining whether to grant space or revoke residential privileges from a group, the ARC will consider the group’s

positive or negative influences on members as well as surrounding residents. Through a group’s RGAC scores, for example, the ARC would also be able to provide rewards for residential groups who demonstrate exemplary behavior. “Groups that rocked RGAC really saw very little [in rewards] last time. And that should not happen,” said Facilities and Services Chair John Pryor, a junior who also served as RGAC co-chair.

In other business: The grand opening of The Devil’s Bistro on Central Campus will take place April 9, Temple said. The opening is set to have jazz performers, a DJ and a menu tasting. This opening date marks yet another delay from the previously pushed back opening of April 2. Additionally, the Council allocated $1,960 to the Native American Student Alliance’s third annual Powwow.

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suspension from page 1 students temporarily forfeited their right to an education through their misconduct, and furthermore, that the state is only obligated to justify the initial suspension according to its disciplinary policy. The school system’s lawyer, Trey Allen, said such

disciplinary decisions should not be scrutinized by the courts. “If the court were to adopt [Wettach’s] position... it would lead to courts becoming student discipline policy makers,” he said. “We think the courts should defer to the expertise of the legislature in education matters... and to local school boards since they’re the ones who have to make the on-

the-ground decisions.” Erwin Byrd, staff attorney for the Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Advocates for Children’s Services project, said the 1997 case proves there is a constitutional issue at play, and thus, courts ought to apply strict scrutiny to such cases. “These days, there’s all kinds of alternatives to being in your regular class-

room,” said Byrd, who originally brought the case to Wettach and served as her co-counsel. “If the school district says, ‘We’re just not going to offer a student any of these things,’ they need to show a compelling reason why not.” The State Supreme Court will likely release its decision this year, though Allen said it will probably take several months.

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Duke’s women’s tennis team gets no vacation after its defeat of No. 1 Northwestern— the Blue Devils host ACC rivals Maryland and Boston College this weekend

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men’s lacrosse

D.C. trip serves as measuring stick by Jason Palmatary THE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils travel north to our nation’s capital this weekend to face No. 10 Georgetown in an intrigunonNo. 10 ing G’town c o n f e r e n c e matchup that vs. will serve as No. 7 an indicator Duke of how far this team has SATURDAY, 12 p.m. come after Washington, D.C. enduring a tough start to the season. No. 7 Duke (5-3) is riding a three-game winning streak during which the team is beginning to click on both the offensive and defensive ends of the field. One of those wins was an impressive grind-it-out performance against a top-10 Loyola team, while the other two wins were blowouts against lesser opponents in Penn State and Dartmouth in which the attack unit readily got the chance to get out and make plays in transition.

However, the Blue Devils have not always had this sweet a taste in their mouths. After entering the season among the nation’s top-ranked teams, Duke suffered a couple of unexpected losses, albeit to perennial lacrosse powers Maryland and North Carolina and an up-and-coming program in Notre Dame. The Tar Heels and Terrapins are currently ranked third and fourth in the country, respectively. “Coming into the season, a lot of people assumed things would happen because of our experience,” senior captain Ned Crotty said. “Once it didn’t, we took positives from the negatives and learned what we had to do better and are now executing.” The Blue Devils are especially experienced on the offensive end, as the four leading scorers from the previous year’s Final Four team all returned to Durham for another campaign. Yet Crotty noted that even with all of the experience among the offense’s top performers, it still

Out of the cold and into the spring

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Freshman Desmond Scott is one of the most exciting players on the Duke roster heading into the Blue Devils’ spring game Saturday at 1 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium. Head coach David Cutcliffe will address the crowd at halftime of the event.

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Baseball

Duke faces triple-header BC beckons in

key ACC series

by Tim Visutipol THE CHRONICLE

By beating then-No.3 Southern California last week, the Blue Devils recorded their first win over a team in the top five in three years. This weekend, Duke has a chance to capitalize on its momentum and begin the ACC season strongly. In fact, the Blue Devils have three opportunities to do so. Duke takes on Harvard at 10 a.m. today and plays its first conference opponent in Boston College at 4 p.m, with both matches taking place at Harvard’s Murr Center in Cambridge, Mass. To round off the weekend, the Blue Devils travel to College Park, Md. for a high noon showdown Sunday against Maryland. While Duke (6-5) will be attempting to keep up the top form it showed in its win over the Trojans, its three opponents will all be looking to bounce back from losses. To make matters more challenging for the Blue Devils, they will have to take on all three without star freshman and ACC Player of the Week Henrique Cunha, who is out injured with a slight ankle sprain. “It’s not that bad,” head coach Ramsey Smith said of Cunha’s injury. “It’ll keep him out of the Friday matches, but he’s going to be fine. It’s nothing that’ll take real long to recover.” Smith is looking at this injury blow positively, viewing Cunha’s absence as a test for the other players to step up and challenge themselves. “This will give our guys a chance to play higher [seeds],” Smith said. “In the long run, it’ll make us a stronger team if we can get through these matches without him.” The three matches over the weekend also represent a good chance for the Blue Devils to simulate tournament See M. tennis on page 7

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With Henrique Cunha out Friday, senior Dylan Arnould will take on much of the responsibility near the top of Duke’s rotation of players.

After a strong win over Davidson, Duke (13-7, 2-4 in the ACC) continues its second road stretch of the season with a three-game series against ACC opponent Boston College. Despite the Blue Devils’ solid overall record, a series against the relatively Boston weak Eagles (7-12, 1-5 in the ACC) is a College chance for Duke to improve its standvs. ing within the ultra-competitive ACC. However, Eagles ace Pat Dean stands in the Blue Devils’ way. Dean Duke is 3-0 with a 2.79 ERA on the season. FRIDAY-SUNDAY He leads the Boston College pitching Boston, Mass. staff in almost every statistical category, including wins, ERA, opponents’ batting average and innings. Dean lifted Boston College to a shutout win over then-No. 13 Miami, a team that swept the Blue Devils in Durham, March 12. Duke will need to continue to rely on its defense and smart base running to win ballgames. The Blue Devils are third in the ACC with a .977 fielding percentage and have been caught stealing only seven times in 38 attempts. On the offensive side of the ball, sophomore Will Piwnica-Worms must continue to generate runs, especially with such a dominant force on the mound expected for the third game. Piwnica-Worms leads the team with 22 RBI and 20 runs scored. Fortunately for the Blue Devils, the pitching matchups See baseball on page 6

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Baseball from page 5 are less daunting for the first and second games of the series. The Eagles will start sophomores Taylor Lasko and Mike Dennhardt Friday and Saturday. Dennhardt has not been successful on the bump thus far, going 1-4 with a 9.00 ERA. Duke will start junior Dennis O’Grady against Dean, while senior Christopher Manno and sophomore Eric Pfisterer will take on Lasko and Dennhardt. Manno has been dominant out of the bull-

pen so far this season with a 0.66 ERA, and he will be making his first start of the season. Thus far, Duke has found more success at home than on the road, going 11-4 in the Durham area. At the beginning of the season, the Blue Devils struggled on a road trip to Texas, splitting two games with Georgia and losing two to Baylor. This upcoming series is a chance for the Blue Devils to not only pick up much-needed ACC wins, but to prove to themselves that they can be consistent away from the friendly confines of Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

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Will Piwnica-Worms’ play in the field and at the plate was key in Duke’s win over Davidson in midweek.

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Schedule gauntlet begins with Virginia by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE

On the heels of five consecutive victories, No. 3 Duke will entertain ACC foe Virginia at Koskinen Stadium Saturday at 1 p.m. The Blue Devils (9-1, 1-1 in the ACC) are hoping to continue their winning streak as they carry over into the latter half of the season and prepare for the conference tournament. “I think we’ve done a great job, and I’m really happy with where we are,” head No. 5 coach Kerstin Kimel UVa said. “With a younger vs. team, you have to anNo. 3 ticipate that you’re Duke going to have a little bit of a rollercoaster SATURDAY, 1 p.m. at times, and you Koskinen Stadium have to have patience not just among the coaching staff, but also among the players.” Despite the team’s nearly perfect record, Kimel noted that many of the victories were closely contested. “The players have to understand that there are some good days and some not so good days, and they have to not let themselves get so emotionally caught up in that,” Kimel said. “You realize that there are some days of frustration and that we’re not always going to play pretty lacrosse, but with the amount of work we put in, you’re going to get better.” Kimel’s squad has done an admirable job responding to adversity. After losing just less than a month ago to No. 2 Maryland in its fifth game of the season, Duke has earned five straight victories, including two against top-10 teams. The ACC is composed of five top-10 teams, adding to Duke’s already difficult schedule, which also includes a contest against No. 1 Northwestern next month. Tomorrow, the Blue Devils will be facing the No. 5 Cavaliers (6-3, 1-1)—and Duke

will have to be at the top of its game to extend the win streak to six. “Virginia is a great team, and from our standpoint, we’ve prepared ourselves as best we could to get better this week,” Kimel said. “What we know to expect is that it’s going to be a good game, a close game. We have to be ready to battle for 60 minutes in all aspects of our game.” The team’s motto all season has been to focus on each game individually rather than look at the schedule as a whole, something the team is emphasizing before the clash with the Cavaliers. “In these ACC games, if you allow yourselves to get too high or low emotionally, those things can come back to bite you,” Kimel said. “For us, we take it one play at a time, one day at a time, one game at a time, and that take on everything has served us well throughout the season.”

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Duke desperately needs an ACC win against Virginia after losing to Maryland earlier in the season.

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took game action for the group to fully develop its chemistry. The 15-goal outburst against Dartmouth in which seven different Blue Devils found the back of the net is a perfect example of the depth and offensive potential that this squad possesses. Making the offensive barrage particularly impressive was the fact that the Big Green stayed in a zone for entire game, forcing Duke into its more methodical zone offense, a style that it prefers not to play. “The Penn Sate game is the style people would expect when they think of Duke lacrosse,” Crotty said. “It was all about transition and getting up and down the field. We like to play fast.”

play. Situations like this one will come up if Duke makes a deep run into either the ACC or NCAA tournaments, where the Blue Devils would play three or four matches in a row with little rest. Although the Crimson (8-6), the Eagles (8-8) and the Terrapins (13-4) are all ranked below the Blue Devils nationally, Smith stressed the importance of having the right mentality, citing this as the key to his team’s victory over the Trojans. “I think what we did really well in that last match was that everyone went out there and played to win,” Smith said. “Even though these teams are ranked below us, we need to go out there and assert ourselves early, play aggressive and play to win.” This is only the beginning of a busy ACC calendar—the Blue Devils play three matches a week until the regular season ends April 18.

“Defensively, we were disappointed that the sum wasn’t greater than the parts early on. We have some great parts, and they’ve been coming together as of late.” — Head coach John Danowski In the Hoyas (4-2), the Blue Devils face a team that likes to play the uptempo game just as much as they do. Georgetown features some of the country’s more prolific offensive talents in Andrew Brancaccio, Travis Comeau and Rickey Mirabito,. “They have the ability to score lots of goals,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “They have some guys that can really shoot it from the top—lots of firepower.” Another facet of the game in which the coaching staff has observed considerable improvements is on the defensive side. Over the past three games, Duke’s opponent was held to five or fewer goals twice, and Penn State’s 11 goals were

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Duke senior Ned Crotty’s playmaking powers the Blue Devil offense , as his 33 points on the year make clear. more of a byproduct of the fast pace. This defensive success was not always the case, despite the fact that the unit contains several talented individuals, including All-American Parker McKee. “Defensively, we were disappointed that the sum wasn’t greater than the parts early on,” Danowski said. “We have some great parts, and they’ve been coming together as of late.”

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But, if the Blue Devils can have any success in limiting the explosive Hoyas and continue their fast play on the offensive end, they have the chance to build on their recent momentum with a signature win. “Being Duke, we have that target on our back,” Crotty said. “If we can get this one, it would prove to us that we really have made a big step in our season.”

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Freshman phenom Henrique Cunha will miss Friday’s matches because of a sprained ankle.

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purdue from page 1 Purdue also had lofty expectations for this season and rose as high as No. 3 in the country Feb. 22. After losing Hummel, however, Painter’s squad has struggled to score, averaging just 61.1 points per game. A strong defense and clutch play late, though, have kept the Boilermakers competitive and led them to two straight Tournament wins over No. 13 Siena and No. 5 Texas A&M.

“[Purdue] might have some incentive from last year’s game, but we know we lost in this round last year.” — Nolan Smith “I thought [JaJuan Johnson] did a good job for us. He played good post defense,” Painter said. “He was beating the bigs down the court and getting in good position.” Johnson, a 6-foot-10 center, is averaging 17 points and nine rebounds per game in the Tournament. He was the team’s leading scorer in its first-round game against Siena, and he is the best big man the Blue Devils have seen in the Tournament thus far. But without Hummel, the Boilermakers lack the overall size to match up with Duke inside. Johnson is the only Purdue

player over 6-foot-6 who has averaged more than eight minutes per game this season. The Blue Devils—aware of the Boilermakers’ shortcomings—hope to exploit Purdue in the lane. “Lance [Thomas] and I are definitely going to have to step up this game,” senior center Brian Zoubek said. “We have to attack the paint and grab rebounds.” In its last game against No. 8 California, Duke’s big men won the battle on the glass thanks in large part to Zoubek’s 13 rebounds and Thomas’s nine. Purdue was outrebounded by 10 against Texas A&M and by five in its opening round matchup. Both coaches understand the importance of the battle under the boards. “We have to be able to take care of the basketball, rebound and play at a high level,” Painter said. “We have to worry about what we can control. Those elements of the game are going to be very important.” Luckily for the Blue Devils, they take care of the ball quite well. Senior guard Jon Scheyer holds the highest assist-to-turnover ratio of any player left in the Tournament, and against the Golden Bears, Duke turned the ball over a season-low five times. If the Blue Devils can protect the ball as well as they did in their last game, they will be very difficult to beat. The Blue Devils know that it has been six years since they have reached the Elite Eight, and they are ready for their chance to extend this Tournament run. “[Purdue] might have some incentive from last year’s game, but we know we lost in this round last year,” junior guard Nolan Smith said. “We want to go further. We’re a hungry team.”

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Schork for DSG executive vice president Of the three candidates A sophomore and the curfor the office of executive vice rent vice president for athletics president, Pete Schork is the and campus services, Schork most qualified to bring effec- has spent the past year managtive leadership and direction ing and mentoring a committo the difficult task of manag- tee of senators and interacting ing the Duke with adminisStudent Govtrators during editorial ernment Sennegotiations ate. He is our choice for EVP. over Duke Dining’s deficit. The office of EVP—unlike This first-hand knowlthe DSG president or other edge gives him a leg up on vice presidents—is internally the other candidates, and it focused. But by running effi- uniquely positions him to hit cient Senate meetings, assist- the ground running as soon ing senators in drafting legis- as he assumes office. lation and skillfully managing Although he is the most the legislative process, the experienced candidate, EVP can play a crucial role Schork has not rested on in pushing the Senate toward his laurels. He has adopted productivity and furthering a comprehensive platform DSG’s external advocacy. with concrete plans to fully Schork has the experi- address the responsibilities ence and the ideas to make of the EVP and the shortcomthis happen. ings of the Senate.

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As EVP, Schork would reinstate policy statements to keep track of each senator’s progress and monitor representatives who are slacking in their duties. He would also post voting records on the DSG Web site, a crucial step toward improving DSG’s waning accountability and transparency. More than that, Schork’s proposal to create an ad-hoc Executive Council is insightful and creative. In the wake of the disbanding of the Inter-Community Council, the DSG Senate lacks an effective external sounding board for its policy decisions. If he learns from the weaknesses of the ICC, Schork’s idea for an Executive Council composed of student leaders could fill an important role.

The other two candidates for EVP, sophomores Jane Moore and Price Davidson, correctly identify that there is a widening rift between DSG and the student body. Moore has workable ideas to address this important problem. She wants to increase the visibility of DSG through office hours, update the DSG Web site and reintroduce legislative intent forms to monitor legislation in the Senate. Although Moore has proven herself to be an articulate and keen observer of DSG during her two years as a senator, we are not confident that she is fully prepared for a major leadership role. She does have the potential for a bright future within the organization, and with another

year of experience, she could make a strong EVP. Davidson, in contrast to Schork and Moore, talks only in abstracts. When asked how he would motivate senators to pass legislation, Davidson responded that he would remind his peers of their duty to effectively represent the student body. This is naïve at best and neglects the root of the problem: intrinsic motivation in and of itself is not enough to ensure an effective Senate. The EVP must actively take charge, innovate and lead with vision. For this role, Schork fits the bill. The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board formally endorses Pete Schork for DSG executive vice president.

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h, spring! You’ve come late this year, but no means crowded, but there was standing room only matter, we all graciously welcome your re- and as fate would have it, I was the only one standturn. The Durham sky seems ing. All eyes stared at my bare legs bluer, the sun shines brighter and as I stood alone, exposed, in the the grass on Main Quad is gree-…. middle of the metro car. Well, it’s being replanted. After what felt like an eternity, With warmer weather upon us, we reached my stop. Head hung student attire has changed dralow, I darted off the metro and into matically. Just this past week, we’ve the street. I ran to the park as fast all seemed to rearrange our closas my bare legs would carry me, ets, tossing the Ugg boots and the avoiding eye contact with anyone molly lester North Face jackets to the back and and everyone. My running locale more taste, dusting off our tank tops and flipof choice was a quiet park in the flops. The girly girls among us have northwest corner of Paris. It was less filling delved into their summer dress away from the Seine, away from the collection, while the frat dudes crowds and away from the tourists. have happily shed tops altogether, preferring the While its isolation from the hectic summer tour“shirts-off” look. ism appealed to me at the time, in retrospect, I reWe runners, forced to run on the treadmill for alize that it meant these park-goers were primarily the duration of what feels like North Carolina’s Parisian locals, none of whom would accompany longest winter, have made a glorious return to me in my decision to sport running shorts. the world of outdoor exercise. We’ve lost the long The sunshine and the fresh air bettered my spandex and replaced them with what I believe is mood. I put on my iPod and temporarily forgot perhaps Nike’s most lucrative women’s clothing about my previous embarrassment. Sure, no one item: the Tempo running shorts. else in the park wore shorts, but my iPod blocked You know the shorts I’m talking about—we’ve their whistles and my fast pace forbade me from all got them. Simple, casual, comfortable and acknowledging their stares. I could tune out the practical, Nike shorts epitomize America’s ath- heavy-breathers on the treadmills in Wilson, why letic female youth. With color combinations such couldn’t I do the same in Paris? as black/white/perfect pink or sea green/white/ This temporary bliss suddenly came to an Baltic blue, who can resist? end. Having almost completed my second lap Well, I couldn’t. Even after receiving an explicit around the park, I was startled by a man, clearly warning that women in Paris do not wear shorts, I French, running next to me, laughing, pointing still packed my Tempos in my suitcase. Could I really at my legs, and asking me in between breaths if spend my entire six-week summer stay abroad run- I would race him. “Non!” I shouted, and stopped ning in pants? I’d said non, but wished I’d said oui. abruptly. The man continued running along, At 27 degrees Celsius (that’s more than 80 de- laughing to himself and wearing… you guessed grees Fahrenheit for you metric-system-haters), I it, pants. dubbed it simply too hot to run in pants. The streets I was defeated. I was a naive American girl who of Paris would just have to deal with Molly Lester and underestimated the power of French culture. I deher American running shorts. So, one afternoon, I cided to just relish in my indescribable mortificachanged out of my jeans, proudly slipped into my tion because it couldn’t get any worse, right? Nike shorts and headed to the nearest park. Wrong. As I approached my apartment buildWith my first steps onto the streets of Paris, I ing, I felt the stare of a 14-year-old French boy. knew the shorts had been a mistake. Nevertheless, He giggled, like the others, but then stopped me. I walked as confidently as an American girl who “Putain!” he screamed as he pointed at my legs. had just committed the greatest fashion faux pas “Putain! putain! putain!” could walk. What felt like a million pairs of PariWhile there is no tasteful way to translate putain, sian eyes glared at my bare legs. Their stares were it is how I would describe Britney Spears in her quick, as if to say, “Mais oui, she’s just a silly fille “I’m a Slave 4 U” video or any of Hugh Hefner’s américaine,” but with their stares, all of my previ- girls next door. And so, as I reflect on my hard lesous efforts to immerse myself into Parisian culture son learned, I warn my fellow Francophiles. When were squandered. in Paris, do as the Parisians do. Leave the Tempos The metro could not have come fast enough. I at home. Wear pants. hoped I could sit in an empty seat and cover my legs with my jacket, but no, the French fashion Molly Lester is a Trinity junior. Her column runs gods were punishing me. The metro car was by no every other Friday.

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hange. Yes we can. All those chanters supporting President Barack Obama’s campaign proved they really could make some changes, at least with respect to health care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by Obama this past Tuesday. The administration was so excited it entirely forgot to strap on Vice President Joe Biden’s muzzle, and the result was an expletive-laced congratulations unbecoming of a sitting vice president (unless your name happens elad gross to be Dick Cheney). kitty babies Whether the law stands or falls will be determined in the next few months in our courthouses, but until then, what can we expect from such a monumental bill? The first and perhaps most significant impact will be witnessed by millions on cable television. The text of the act is full of ways to assess how the various new programs are working, but the most immediate test will be broadcast pre-recorded for us all to see. Starting July 1, a 10 percent excise tax will be levied on indoor tanning services. And MTV must be salivating, because this tax just added a whole new ripple to the second season of the “Jersey Shore.” What will DJ Pauly D and Mike “The Situation” do now that their GTL (gym, tan, laundry) regimen is under fire? Will the

men have to work harder at their day jobs to make up the costs and spend less time partying? Will the stress carry over into the home, with even more drama this season than before? According to extensive Twitter research, shooting for this upcoming season is only in its earliest stages. Will MTV try to squeeze in a whole summer of fun before the doomsday date of July 1, or will we all play witness to the utter chaos the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will unleash onto the beaches of Miami? MTV played this game well by hedging their bets. Not only will the “Jersey Shore” cast be challenged, but the act opens new possibilities for the cast of “16 and Pregnant.” Sections 10211-10213 of the act provide new services for pregnant women and teenagers. Will the president save the day for a budding prom queen needing to find affordable daycare for her newborn daughter? Could this be the moment when the show transforms from a teen pregnancy deterrent into its unwitting advocate? This could translate into a cultural sea change: Did Congress just provide incentives for high school and college women to have babies? Only time, and MTV, will tell. But certainly not all college students will admit to watching such shows. Still, this act has quite a bit in store for them too. For computer scientists, the act encourages greater use of electronic health records and other data storage. Congress and the Obama administration have almost unequivocally decided that the future of the doctor’s office lies in digitization. For medical and health scientists, the bill offers grants galore to study human ailments and assess current treatment

mechanisms. Section 4305, for example, encourages further research into the pain treatment. For economists and public policy analysts, sections 3013-3015 and 4301-4302 offer grants to analyze national data on medical assessments and health disparities, and then formulate policy proposals to better the new system. Look no further for a thesis topic! The greatest benefits, however, accrue to future medical professionals. Section 5101 creates the National Health Care Workforce Commission, charged with helping medical, nursing and medical ancillary staff students finance their professional education. The same section also proposes a loan repayment program to encourage greater medical access in low-income and high minority population areas. Sections 5202-5210 offer further loan repayment programs and workforce retention mechanisms. Sections 5301-5315 establish greater incentives to lure doctors into specific medical fields. The last of these sections includes a national plan to train more doctors through direct programming at qualified institutions. By the time all of the act’s programs go into effect, we may become a nation of healers. No matter what seat you hold in the academic world, be it the nice study chair in the library or the couch in front of the television, this act has just rocked your world. And to think that the test for health care policy’s efficacy, for the guiding vision of our nation’s moral and fiscal future, might just lie in the hands of the one they call Snooki. Elad Gross is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Friday.

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ynsepalum dulcificum is a powerful drug. Vastly underrated, too. “Miracle fruit” registers as a solitary blip on the human-chemistry-altering-and-culturally-significant-but-illegal radar, lacking the intellectual firepower of marijuana, the socioeconomic symbolism of cocaine or even the lowestcommon-denominator quality of alcohol. For one reason or another, s. dulicificum never really ben brostoff went mainstream. It passed through Duke on Wednesbro’s stuff day without much fanfare. The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee this week sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 tablets of “miracle berry” at roughly market value ($5). As someone who has ingested one, allow me to suggest that the market has horribly undervalued this commodity. S. dulcificum essentially renders sour tasting foods sweet and thereby acts as a sugar substitute (without the caloric intake of Equal or Sugar in the Raw). The drug—actually a berry, but falling under that ever-growing umbrella of substances that modify chemical processes within the human body—achieves a sweetening effect via a glycoprotein called miraculin. This chemical binds to sweetness receptors in human taste buds, and, by a process thus far unknown to modern science, increases responsiveness to acids.

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re first-years more likely to vote in campus elections? Do men participate more than women? There is much speculation on such questions during election season. Our goal is to provide a clear picture of who really matthew rognlie votes in Duke Student Govvar shankar ernment elections. In order guest column to do so, we analyzed voter information (stripped of identifying features) from two recent DSG elections. In each of the claims we make, we control for all other variables. First we looked at the Spring election of March 31, 2009, which included races for DSG president, executive vice president, vice presidents, senators and class officers. Turnout for the election was 38 percent of the student body. Although the differences in participation across class years were small, juniors were more likely to vote than first-years, and sophomores less likely to vote than first-years. Voter information for last year’s seniors is not available. Students were equally likely to vote in Trinity and Pratt (again, controlling for all other variables). Among students with declared majors, Trinity science majors appear to have

Minutes after consuming my tablet of Fruit S.D. (I remain in the process of copyrighting the term and its abbreviated version, FSD), I found myself able to accomplish feats that no doubt would have won me an episode of “Fear Factor” or at least a stint on “Man vs. Food.” For 45 minutes, I could take down shots of vinegar and hot sauce faster than John Daly during happy hour. I weathered slices of lemons, limes and citrus sans the Amy Winehouse whiskey face. The entire experience was enough to constitute withdrawal symptoms that would put Ron Washington to shame, and merit two embattled celebrity references (I’m excepting Washington until the Rangers can string together two consecutive seasons with a team ERA south of 4.5). Predictably, the FDA has laid down the law on mass production of FSD, although not for the reasons one might think. Miracle fruit has no known significant health consequences. The threat it poses is mainly a commercial one: If properly packaged and advertised, it’s highly possible—perhaps even probable—that the drug could wipe out Big Sugar. Some theorize that this is the chief reason the FDA moved in the 1970s to quash efforts to commercialize FSD. Robert Harvey and Don Emery, co-founders of a miracle berry start-up called Miralin, maintain that the FDA effectively sabotaged their company. In 1974, the FDA cut the chord on Miralin’s products only weeks after the Miralin offices were raided by burglars: “Somebody influenced somebody in the FDA to cause the regulatory action that was taken against us,” Emery told the BBC according to a 2008 article. Little organizations like DUSDAC can have “Berry Tripping” parties, but, as of now, requesting coffee served black with a tablet of FSD doesn’t

register as a legitimate order at the Alpine counter. Miracle berries are still very much an underground phenomenon. If the drug ever does go above ground, every institutional investor in the nation should be prepared to corner this market. Miracle berry is a prime candidate to be wildly popular among diabetics, the overweight and the great majority of the college-aged population that enjoys lemons and beer. Basically, any industry that could benefit from making rancid-tasting substances taste sweeter would necessarily generate a heavy demand for FSD. Think big pharma. Consumer staples. Adult film. The very existence of FSD opens the door to a number of other intriguing possibilities. Miracle berry, after all, initially entered the sphere of public awareness in 1725, when Chevalier des Marchais, a French explorer, chronicled its gustatory effects. It’s possible—once again, maybe even probable—that plant species with similarly chemistry-altering berries have yet to be discovered. There is no biological principal affirming that only taste can be manipulated from ingesting yet unknown fruits: Who is to say there’s not a berry that has glycoproteins that bind to olfactory or tactile or auditory or visual sensors? Add in advances in genetic engineering, and it would seem that any of these berries’ offspring could be fine-tuned to enhance or nullify any of the five senses. FSD might just be the beginning of an infinite expansion of the scope of human consciousness. Unless, of course, a heavy-handed FDA gets in the way. Then America will lose out on a conscious-richer and, more importantly, sweeter planet. Ben Brostoff is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Friday.

Who really votes been less likely to vote than others, although the effect is not statistically significant. Among those with large majors, public policy students were 45 percent more likely to vote than average, while political science students were 33 percent more likely to vote than average. Women were 17 percent more likely than men to vote. White students were 17 percent more likely to vote than average, and Asian students were 21 percent less likely to vote than average. Black and Hispanic students both voted at roughly average rates. Next we looked at the Fall election of September 14, 2009, the vote in which students elected a special secretary for the young trustee selection process, along with first-year senators and a handful of senators representing other class years (whose races were largely uncompetitive). Voter turnout was 27 percent of the student body. As most of the competitive Senate races were for the class of 2013, first-years were twice as likely to vote as any other class. Rates for sophomores, juniors and seniors were about equal. Trinity and Pratt students were equally likely to vote. Women were 27 percent more likely than men to vote.

Black students and white students were each 10 to 15 percent more likely than average to vote, and 40 to 50 percent more likely to do so than were Asian students. Hispanic students voted at below average rates. First-years’ majors were mostly undeclared, and not enough upperclassmen voted in the election, to allow for any useful conclusions about voting among majors. Across both elections, our analysis suggests that women are significantly more likely to vote, and Asian students are significantly less likely to do so. It also suggests that Pratt voters are as active as Trinity voters, and that students vote at similar rates regardless of their class years (with the understandable exception of first-years in Fall elections, when firstyear Senate races are more numerous and more competitive than other races). Analysis of data from future elections (such as next week’s election for DSG president and executive vice president) will perhaps allow for more broadly supported conclusions. Matthew Rognlie is President of the Duke Math Union. Var Shankar is Attorney General of Duke Student Government. They are both Trinity seniors.

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the same defensive intensity that keyed their second-round victory over Louisiana State into Saturday’s game. Duke frustrated the Tigers’ leading scorer Allison Hightower with its matchup zone Monday, holding her to 1-of-9 shooting in the second half, and used its fullcourt press to force 22 turnovers. Head coach Joanne P. McCallie said San Diego State’s style of play closely resembles that of Louisiana State, and she emphasized the importance of getting one-on-one stops since the Aztecs frequently run isolation plays for Morris and

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Palm Sunday 9:00 am • 11:00 am

Holy Communion/distribution of palms

Maundy Thursday 7:00 pm Good Friday Noon • 7:00 pm Holy Saturday Easter Vigil • 5:00 pm Easter Sunday Holy Communion • 10:00 am All are welcome 870 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill 15 minutes from Duke, off Erwin Rd.

www.saintbenedicts.net

919-933-0956 The Rev. Robert Hart, Priest-in-Charge

Sisters’ Roundtable-- Come to the Prayer Room at 8 PM on Tuesdays for this event. Weekly Friday meetings at 6:15 PM in the Center for Muslim Life. Topic this week is “Purification of the Heart.” Islamic Awareness Month is coming in April! Join us at our tent on the BC Plaza next Mon, Wed, and Fri! Join MSA Listserv to find out more about these and other events in the future Center for Muslim Life: 406 Swift Ave. OPEN TO ALL!

catholic.duke.edu

www.dukemsa.org ~ Duke Search: Muslim Life @ Duke

PILGRIM

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

Whoever you are,

United Methodist Church 215 N. Church Street Sunday Early Worship: 8:45 a.m. Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m. Rev. Duke Lackey, Senior Pastor

E-mail: church@trinitydurham.org Web Site: www.trinitydurham.org Phone: (919) 683-1386

Come as you are— leave different!

“

wherever you are on life’s journey,

Honor God. Love the Community. Live like Family.

you are welcome here.” Pilgrim United Church of Christ is an intentionally inclusive, Open and Affirming community of faith.

Sundays at 5pm Downtown Chapel Hill (919) 360-4320 www.greenleafvineyard.org

Please join us Sunday mornings at 10:30 am.

www.pilgrimucc-durham.org 3011 Academy Rd. Durham NC 27707

(between University Dr. and US 15/501 Business)

919-489-1381

Discover

HINDU STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Evening Meditation & Buddhist Thought

Teachings from Thich Nhat Hanh’s “The Miracle of Mindfulness” When: Mondays from 7-8 PM Where: Multicultural Center in the Bryan Center What: 20 minutes of meditation followed by discussion Accessible to beginners and experienced practitioners alike!

Morning Meditation

When: Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays from 8:30-9 AM Where: Chapel Crypt (stairs left to altar) What: 20 minutes of meditation http://www.duke.edu/web/meditation/

• Weekly Gita Discussion • Diwali Puja • Shivratri Puja • Temple Trips • Hinduism 101 • Yoga • Ram Navami • Garba • Meditation March Events 1) Weekly Sunday Discussion, 12pm, Graduate Student Lounge Gray Building (2nd Floor) 2) Bhutanese Empowerment Project - tutoring every Thursday 6pm to 10pm and Saturday 2pm to 4pm 3) RAM NAVAMI CELEBRATIONS, March 20th, 7pm, Von Canons. Come join us for a Puja, Dinner, Antakshari (Singing) and Garba (Dance) as we celebrate the birth of Lord Ram! Join our Facebook Group: Hindu Students Association @ Duke University or visit our website: www.duke.edu/web/hsa for frequent updates!

Temples in the Area we visit: 1.) HSNC Temple 309 Aviation Parkway, Morrisville, NC 27560

2.) Sri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple 121 Balaji Place, Cary NC 27513

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DUKE CHAPEL

Come Join Us For

Everyone Welcome!

(919) 684-8959

037 Duke Chapel Basement (office) & 402 N. Buchanan Blvd.

Trinity

In the heart of Downtown Durham Between Mangum and Roxboro Streets

Holy Week Services

March 28 - Palm Sunday Liturgy 11am in Richard White Lecture Hall 9pm in Duke Chapel April 1 - Holy Thursday Liturgy 9pm in Duke Chapel (followed by Adoration until midnight) April 2- Good Friday Liturgy 5pm in Duke Chapel April 3 - Easter Vigil Holy Saturday Evening 8pm in Duke Chapel April 4 - Easter Sunday Liturgy 11am in Page Auditorium (No 9pm Mass on Easter Sunday) All are Welcome

Davis to take advantage of their athleticism and quickness. The Blue Devils have also come to relish the chance to use tough defense in order to create scoring opportunities on the other end. “I feel like our team likes to play defense,” Cheek said. “I think we have fun playing defense, and we have fun pressing and making teams turn the ball over, and then we get rewarded because we’re back on offense where most of us like to score.” If the Blue Devils can contain San Diego State’s formidable guard tandem, the Aztecs may have trouble mustering another reliable offensive option—the team’s highest Tournament scorer after Morris and Davis is averaging only 7.5 points per game. Duke, on the other hand, has four players averaging nine points or more through the first two rounds. Junior guard Jasmine Thomas, one of 12 finalists for the Wade Trophy, given annually to the nation’s best player, remains the focal point of the offense. But McCallie knows that she can call upon multiple players when the Blue Devils need a basket down the stretch. “To me, balance is necessary on great teams,” McCallie said. “I know there can be great players on great teams, but scoring balance and the fact that you have five people on the floor that are willing to attack makes for a great team.” And Duke hopes that balance can derail an opponent that would love nothing more than to knock off another elite program on the way to the Final Four.

SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP Sundays at 11:00 a.m. MORNING PRAYER Weekdays at 9:00 a.m. SERVICE OF COMMUNION & PRAYER Tuesdays at 5:15 p.m. CHORAL VESPERS Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. ALL SERVICES HELD IN DUKE CHAPEL

www.chapel.duke.edu/students.html

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Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said she is pleased with her team’s balanced scoring attack this postseason.

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