August 31, 2010 issue

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2010

GHI to host ‘Pandemic 2011’ Forum

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 4

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IOM solicited as external review body

by Itzy Santillan THE CHRONICLE

As part of an advertising campaign for the Winter Forum, Duke students may find themselves amid a group outfitted in Hazmat suits on the quad.

The Duke Global Health Institute will host this year’s conference from Jan. 9 to Jan. 11.

“Pandemic 2011” will provide 100 students with the opportunity to learn about disease outbreaks and their ramifications for society.

Applications are available online and must be completed by 5 p.m. Sept. 17.

“Pandemic 2011” is the University’s second Winter Forum. Last year, the Nicholas School of the Environment hosted “Making the Green Economy Work.” This year, about 20 more students will be able to participate, said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education.

“For better or worse, pandemics will be a part of our future,” said David Boyd, associate professor of the practice of global health and a key organizer of this year’s forum. “As global citizens, we have a responsibility to learn how to prevent and control pandemic outbreaks.”

Universities are like incubators for diseases, particularly because students tend to

by Sonia Havele THE CHRONICLE

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Students, faculty and alumni gathered for free food, drinks and gifts on Chapel Drive Monday for the Forever Duke Block Party, held annually on the first day of classes. SEE SOUNDOFF, PAGE 4

See forum on page 7

A representative for the Institute of Medicine confirmed Monday that the organization has been approached about conducting an external scientific review of cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti’s work.

Although Duke Medicine officials said Aug. 16 that an agreement with an external review organization was near finalization, at the time Anil Potti Dr. Victor Dzau declined to name the organization being hired, citing a confidentiality agreement between Duke and the agency. Dzau is chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer for the Duke University Health System.

“All studies conducted by branches of the National Academy of Sciences, including the IOM, have to be approved by [NAS’s] governing board, and the request for this [review] is going through See potti on page 8

Group looks to improve student dining on and off campus

by Sanette Tanaka THE CHRONICLE

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DUSDAC members discuss their goals at the group’s first meeting of the academic year.

ONTHERECORD

“[The government] is acting now to remedy this pattern or practice of discrimination.”

­—Thomas Perez asst. att. gen. for Just. Dept. Civil Rights div. See story page 3

This year, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee plans to improve on-campus eateries and raise awareness about the Durham food scene.

Co-Chairs Alex Klein and Andrew Schreiber, both seniors, outlined their goals at the DUSDAC meeting Monday night.

After the resolution of policy changes in Duke Dining in March, DUSDAC will now have more time to talk about food, Schreiber said. The restructuring of Dining, which is now overseen by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, will also result in more discretionary funds for the group to pursue larger projects.

DUSDAC members will foster relationships with managers of on-campus eateries to gain a better understanding of food quality and service, Schreiber added. Each member will be paired with at least one eatery in the next few weeks.

On the other hand, the committee will also concentrate on making information about

Volleyball comes home to Cameron , Page 9

off-campus eateries available to students.

Though a significant number of students live off campus, DUSDAC has not catered to that sector of students in the past, said Klein, former online editor for The Chronicle.

“We haven’t done enough to evangelize the Durham food scene,” he said. “I would love to make some sort of database of knowledge. That is a huge resource we can provide.”

Healthy options will continue to be a priority as well.

“When we talk ‘healthy,’ it is not always low calorie,” said Franca Alphin, director of nutrition services at Student Health. “It’s all about the big picture.”

Changes such as the conversion of barbecue joint Tommy’s Rubs and Grubs into The Tower, a healthier grill-based restaurant, are a start, she added.

“Over the next three to five years, we are going to cut high-fructose options,” Alphin said. “Also, we have more and more students See dusdac on page 7

Obama to speak on Iraq risks, Page 6

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“[New York Times’ Pete] Thamel, a predominately college sports writer, found more than a few connections to Duke and the FIBA Championships, including an observation that the heavily pro-Slovenia crowd in Instanbul’s Abdi Ipekçi Arena was like a ‘chanting, green version of the one at Cameron Indoor Stadium.’ Thamel also saw head coach Mike Krzyzewski to be a calm within the storm, even though, in his younger years, he would have thrown a chair after the U.S.’s listless first half.”

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Capt. Casey Thoreen converses with Iraqi soldiers in Tal Afar in 2008. U.S. and Iraqi soldiers will gather in Baghdad Monday to mark the official end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq. Thoreen, who spent the past nine years deployed, is now finishing a doctorate at Harvard and teaching at West Point.

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Rights groups sue over US Biden urges Iraqi leaders to authority in terrorist kill list form gov. amid instability WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the U.S. government’s authority to target and kill U.S. citizens outside of war zones when they are suspected of involvement in terrorism.

The civil liberties groups sued in U.S. District Court in Washington after being retained by the father of Anwar al-Aulaqi, a radical U.S.-born cleric who is in hiding in Yemen. The CIA placed al-Aulaqi on its list of suspected terrorists it is authorized to kill earlier this year; the cleric had been on a separate list of individuals targeted by the Joint Special Operations Command.

“The United States cannot simply execute people, including its own citizens, anywhere in the world based on its own say-so,” said Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden arrived here Monday, planning to meet with senior politicians as Iraqis worry about the impact of the official end of U.S. combat operations in the country Tuesday.

Biden’s visit, his fifth since becoming vice president, comes as the U.S. military fulfills an Obama administration pledge to drop to 50,000 troops in Iraq

by Sept. 1. Already, troop levels have declined to just under 50,000, though starting from more than 140,000 at the beginning of 2009.

Many Iraqis say they are concerned that the U.S. drawdown comes in the midst of a political impasse that has continued for nearly six months since national parliamentary elections and an increase in violence and disturbances across the country.

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US files new suit over Ariz. immigration issue

by Edward Cody

the washington post

The Justice Department filed another lawsuit against immigration practices by Arizona authorities, saying Monday that a network of community colleges acted illegally in requiring noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs.

The suit against the Phoenix area Maricopa Community Colleges was filed less than two months after the Justice Department sued Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer, R, over the state’s new immigration law. It also comes as the department is investigating Joe Arpaio, the sheriff in Maricopa County, who is known for tough immigration enforcement.

In Monday’s lawsuit, Justice officials said the colleges discriminated against nearly 250 noncitizen job applicants by mandating that they fill out more documents than required by law to prove their eligibility to work. That violated the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, the department said.

The law’s anti-discrimination provision “makes it unlawful to treat authorized workers differently during the hiring process based on their citizenship status,” said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for Justice’s Civil Rights Division. He said the government “is acting now to remedy this pattern or practice of discrimination.”

Tom Gariepy, a spokesman for Maricopa Community Colleges—which operates 10 colleges and two vocational training centers in and around Phoenix—declined to comment.

Justice Department officials said the lawsuit is unrelated to the case against Brewer

and the probe of Arpaio and stems from a different investigation that began in January 2009—the month the Obama administration took office.

It is the latest example of stepped-up enforcement by the department’s Civil Rights Division, which has been reshaping itself after an exodus of lawyers during the Bush administration. It filed a similar lawsuit in April against John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a Justice Department unit that adjudicates immigration cases. It was filed on behalf of Zainul Singaporewalla, a U.S. permanent resident who applied for a math teaching position at Glendale Community College, part of the Maricopa network.

After filling out a federal form attesting to his immigration status and producing a driver’s license and Social Security card, he was told to complete another form with more immigration-related information, the lawsuit said.

That form required other documents and his green card. When he couldn’t present his green card, the lawsuit said, the college would not process his paperwork and declined to hire him.

The government is asking a judge within the Justice Department unit to order the Maricopa colleges to pay a civil penalty of $1,100 for each of the 247 non-U.S. -citizen job applicants it says were required to produce the additional documents. It says the colleges ended the practice in January.

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Dr. Chih-Liang Yuang, minister of health for the Taiwan Department of Health, speaks at the School of Nursing Monday for the school’s Health Forum on Emerging Challenges in Keeping the Public Healthy.

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foreverdukesoundoff Past, present and even future blue devils gathered yesterday in the middle of Chapel Drive to attend the Forever Duke Block Party, which was hosted by the Duke Alumni Association. After students recovered from the bittersweet shock of the first day of classes, Dukies of all ages were excited for a celebration on the wooded lawn of the Forlines House full of free food and drinks, class directories and free T-shirts—all with a backdrop of live music. The Chronicle’s Matt Gordon asked some of the attendees to comment on their favorite aspects of Forever Duke and their experiences with the Duke Alumni Association and the University in general.

orientation programs.... It’s a very family-friendly, fun environment.”

—Kim Hanauer ’02, director of young alumni and student programs for the DAA

“It’s time to, you know, spend time and meet with alumni and spend time as a school. It’s a good start to the year.”

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“Free food.”

—Katie Baker, freshman

“I’ve seen different groups of people in different places, but I figured there would be friends here who I haven’t seen the last few days since I’ve gotten here.”

—Emily Gall, sophomore “We’re trying to revitalize [Black Student Alliance] this year and its presence on campus. That really means we’re trying to become more visible in more aspects of the University. This is an event that unites people from these various communities at Duke. Pretty much, we thought it would be important and effective to connect with people at such an event.”

—Nana Asante, junior, BSA president “I have the opportunity to create the things that I wish I had seen as a student.... We wanted to create an event that is a University-wide celebration to kick off the year because the freshmen have a lot of their own

“Before moving back to the area, I was living in Germany and then London. That’s what you get with a Duke degree.”

—David Hoffman, Law ’93 “Free food.”

—Cindy Choi, freshman

“Free food, but the free food was not as good as I expected.”

—Max Jin, freshman “Trying to come out, show our face, say, ‘Hi,’ show people that we’re friendly people, regular students, so we want to be amongst our peers.”

—Nolan Smith, senior “Today was the first day of class, and this is a fun event to come to. Some food, some drinks, some conversation.”

—Tyler Thornton, freshman “I got the e-mail invitation and I wanted to catch up with [freshman Eason Abbott], my son, and his friends, both new and some of his former classmates.”

—Mike Abbott, Fuqua ’83 “It wasn’t the beer; it was the beer steins. Something to remember Duke by.”

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Blue devils of all ages congregated to spend time with each other Monday evening. A sophomore class barbecue was held on the Main West Quadrangle, and students and alumni alike were invited to the Forever Duke Block Party hosted by the Duke Alumni Association.

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through Autobiography MW 10:05 – 11:20 AM | CCI ~ R ~ W ~ CZ ~ SS Professor Sarah Deutsch This summer, the Iroquois Nationals were prevented from participating in the Lacrosse World Championship because they traveled under passports of the Iroquois Confederacy, which crosses the U.S.-Canadian border. Nearly a century earlier, Dakota physician Charles Eastman wrote of his time as the Dartmouth College football captain, “It was here that I had most of my savage gentleness and native refinement knocked out of me.” Such Native American experiences defy conventional conceptions of race and nation. What does North American history look like from the vantage of more than 500 peoples who have viewed history from this space between tradition and adaptation, materiality and mythology, belonging and estrangement?

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WF 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM | Paul Johstono The U.S. military is currently engaged in two insurgencies which have presented significant challenges to the American war of war.

This course will help students gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of insurgencies and the challenges of counterinsurgency. Insurgency represents the most common type of asymmetrical warfare; that is, armed conflict waged between significantly unequal sides. This course seeks to build a richer context for and more complete understanding of the dynamics of modern insurgency and asymmetrical warfare.

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Obama’s speech focuses on risks in Iraq

by Anne Kornblut the washington post

WASHINGTON­ — President Barack Obama is promoting the decision to end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq Tuesday as a fulfillment of his campaign promise to draw the war to a close. But some of the president’s detractors are using the same moment to question the wisdom of doing so—noting that Iraq is still afflicted with violence and has yet to form a government.

Obama will mark the occasion by flying to Fort Bliss, Texas, to meet with veterans.

He will also deliver a prime-time Oval Office speech—only his second since taking office. On Monday, the president visited Walter Reed hospital and awarded 11 Pur-

ple Hearts to combat veterans. Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Iraq to amplify the message.

“Maybe he’s entitled to the partial victory lap, but this is not the right moment for it,” said analyst Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, who has been critical of both Democratic and Republican approaches to the war. “If I were him, I’d wait until we have an Iraqi government, and do it with the Iraqis together.”

O’Hanlon said he was “confused about the planned Oval Office speech.” It could raise unrealistic expectations among the public about the chances for calm in Iraq, he said. And the timing of the pullout may be seen as having more to do with the pres-

ident’s political needs than with real signs of progress on the ground.

White House officials said the speech, scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. and last 15 to 20 minutes, would acknowledge this week’s deadline as a “milestone” and pay tribute to the 1.5 million Americans who have served in Iraq since 2003. Obama will address shifting U.S. options now that the country is no longer technically at war in Iraq, including a greater emphasis on Afghanistan and Pakistan—and the domestic economy.

Obama will say that “it’s time for Iraq to step up and take responsibility for security in the country,” one senior administration official said, and that “it’s time to rebalance

our resources when it comes to national security and our economy.”

Obama will call former President George W. Bush before the speech, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.

He did not say whether Obama will give his predecessor credit for the surge as Republicans have demanded.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, in an opinion piece last week, assailed Obama for taking credit for the withdrawal. “While the administration continues seeking credit for ‘ending the combat mission’ in Iraq, it is important to remember that this transition was made possible by the very surge that President Obama and Vice President Biden opposed,” Boehner wrote.

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Italian 145S.01

Body, Anatomy & Gender Early Modern Period Professor Valeria Finucci TTH 2:50-4:05 Languages 305

Chinese in Paris: a “French” Identity in the Making

Ann pale Kreyòl will be supplemented by cultural units on the lyrics of Wyclef Jean’s “Welcome to Haiti Creole 101,” the Creole-dubbed version of the Jonathan Demme film “The Agronomist;” the “Marassa” or twins in vodou; a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. in Creole translation; and the child domestic worker/foster child or “Restavek” in Haiti. AAAS 193 ICS 182C

In a sarcastic 1974 French comedy about the imaginary invasion of Paris by the Chinese army, there is a memorable scene of an adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen: Carmen is recast as a young Chinese communist, and Maoist fighters replace Spanish soldiers. But what really happens to French culture when it is “reinvented” by authors of Chinese origin?

French 200S.04

PORTUGUESE

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Ptg 113S.01

Dana Chirila TTH 2:50-4:05 Languages 211

French 141S.03

Upcast Eyes: Visuality & Approaches to the Real Professor Anne Gaëlle Saliot MW 2:50-4:05 Languages 207

In his 1993 ground-breaking work, Downcast Eyes. The Denigration of Vision in 20th C French Thought, Martin Jay examines what he identifies as a discourse of suspicion of vision and its role in the modern era. This ‘anti-vision’ tendency in French intellectual life paradoxically coexists with an obsession with visual phenomena and objects. How can we make sense of this paradox? C-L: French 200S.03

French 141S.04

Intro to Post-Colonial France Professor Achille Mbembe TTH 2:50-4:05 Perkins 2-059

This seminar examines the different ways in which postcolonial debates are addressed in contemporary France and analyzes some of the most vibrant cultural forms and practices now being forged by France’s postcolonial minorities, from literature and music to film, television, sports, visual arts and fashion. CA 180S.07

Readings in Post-War French Theory: Sade, Bataille, Klossowski & Blanchot Seminar explores the enduring affinities between philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature in 20th C French thought.

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Intro to Brazilian Literature Aaron Lorenz WF 11:40-12:55 LSRC B105

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Literature & Film of the Caribbean Professor Francisco Adrian TTH 2:50-4:05 Lang 207

Freshman seminar explores texts and films from and about the Hispanic Caribbean, as a complex “region” at the crossroads of American, European and African history and politics, as well as an insular “space” of fantasy, economic inequalities and cultural diversity where global, transnational, and local narratives express some of the central predicaments of our present world.

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Theorizing Latinidad

Italian 113.01

Examines the major literary and performance traditions of 19th and 20th century Brazil.

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Major writers of the Italian modern literary tradition (19th, 20th & 21st C).

Poetry, fiction, theater, and essay. Taught in Italian.

Italian 131.01

The Italian American Experience Professor Luciana Fellin TTH 11:40-12:55 Perkins 2-088

What does Spike Lee have in common with Lady Gaga and the Sopranos? All three, in one way or another, as so many of the text and films in this course, deal with the representation of Italian Americans. Issues of identity, immigration, assimilation and stereotyping as they attempt to determine the place of Italian Americans in American and Italian societies.

Revolution in the Novel/ The Novel of Revolution

Professor José María Rodríguez-García TTH 11:40-12:55 Lang 207

Between 1962 & 1987 many of the finest novels written in the history of Spain’s plurinational literatures were published. This dazzling display of literary pyrotechnics amounted to a “revolution in the novel.” SP 200S.02

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Conceptual/Performative Methodologies of Visual Studies in the Americas Professor Esther Gabara T: 6:00-8:30 Perkins 2-085

Academic research in visual studies, or what are called “research-based practices” in contemporary art. This seminar seeks to go beyond artists’ writings and “interdisciplinarity” it explores methods of research outside the university, and forms of practice based in that research beyond the article, essay or book. AMI 298S.01, ArtHist 200S.03, LIT 255S.02

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Design on a dime

do a significant amount of traveling, Boyd said, adding that “viruses don’t need passports, they just need airplanes.”

The conference’s first day will feature an opening ceremony and keynote speakers, including Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Schuchat had a major role in preventing a widespread outbreak of the H1N1 virus last year, Boyd said.

Other speakers for “Pandemic 2011” will vary from Duke faculty to government officials and physicians, Boyd added. The agenda includes presentations about the impact of pandemics, group work among students and debates.

“This is going to be a very interactive conference,” said Geelea Seaford, assistant director for the DGHI communication department.

DGHI began planning “Pandemic 2011” in February, creating an agenda they hope will appeal to a large portion of the student body, Boyd said. Part of that preparation was selecting required background readings for students, but Seaford noted that

dusdac from page 1 coming in with gluten sensitivities. There are already gluten-free options on the [Student Health] website, so we are just going to expand on that.”

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Students search through racks of designer wares at the Rent the Runway trunk show Monday. The company offers brand-name dress rentals at low prices.

In other business: This past summer marked the transformation of the Faculty Commons’ former nighttime restaurant Upstairs at the Commons into Plate & Pitchfork­—complete with new management and chefs.

the amount of work before the conference would not be unreasonable.

The Winter Forum concept is a collaborative effort between the Office of Undergraduate Education and the University’s various schools and institutes as part of Duke’s Quality Enhancement Plan. Each year, a different school leads the forum. Its goal is to provide a venue to connect Duke students’ education with real life issues, Nowicki said.

Organizers are willing to expand the program in future years if more student interest is demonstrated, but they hope to maintain the intimate dynamic that was characteristic of last year’s forum, he added.

The Office of Undergraduate Education is currently discussing the idea of creating a committee of students and faculty to review proposals for future forums. Nowicki said he hopes that future proposals from the University’s individual schools will help broaden the topics available to students.

“I can see the Winter Forum becoming a valued and treasured Duke experience, so feedback from the students is important,” Nowicki said.

Next year’s forum will be hosted by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and will explore refugee issues, Nowicki added.

The full-service eatery will also focus on healthier menu items. DUSDAC’s meeting concluded with members tasting samples from Plate & Pitchfork’s soft opening menu, which debuted Monday.

“I’ve never been more excited in my four years at Duke about a new restaurant concept on campus,” Klein said. “I think they have the passion and skills to make that location not only a place for Duke students to enjoy food but for local Durham residents as well.”

Plate & Pitchfork will be open for dinner Monday through Friday.

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potti from page 1 that process and hasn’t yet been finalized,” Christine Stencel, media relations officer for the IOM, wrote in an e-mail Monday. “But what this would entail if it’s approved is an examination of the scientific validity of the Potti predictive models and suggestions of criteria for determining when predictive tests based on genomic expression profiles have sufficient validity to provide a basis for clinical trials.”

Stencel added, however, that the manner in which the charge is addressed will be determined by the IOM’s appointed review committee.

The IOM, the “health arm” of the National Academy of Sciences, is an independent, non-profit organization of scientists and researchers who provide advice on issues of health to policy and decision makers, according to the IOM website. The organization works outside of the government and takes on projects mandated by Congress as well as those requested by federal agencies and independent organizations such as Duke.

Duke commissioned an outside review of Potti’s work in late 2009 in response to questions about the safety of clinical trials based on Potti’s research. Although the clinical trials were reinstated on the completion of the first investigation, recent concerns raised by scientists and allegations regarding falsifications and embellishments in Potti’s resume have led to the second external review. According to a Duke News release Friday, an internal investigation of Potti’s resume did, in fact, find “issues of substantial concern.”

“That puts everything in a whole new light for me and for [Vice Dean for Re-

search] Dr. [Sally] Kornbluth and for Duke University,” said Dr. Michael Cuffe, vice president for medical affairs. Cuffe and Kornbluth signed the statement reinstating the clinical trials after the 2009 investigation.

Cuffe added that he still has faith in the review conducted last winter, but due to Potti’s resume allegations he has reason to question the manner in which the com-

demic literature” regarding Potti’s work had been going on for a while, consistent with how new, ground-breaking research is often debated.

The situation changed in 2009, however, when Baggerly and fellow biostatistician Kevin Coombes published another article in the fourth issue of the 2009 volume of Annals of Applied Statistics, which raised additional concerns suggesting

“I think in the end it has to be an unbiased, third party that really looks at all this in a way that will provide an answer to everybody’s satisfaction—not what’s posted on a website, or put in a paper or anywhere in the public domain,” — Dr. Michael Cuffe, vice president for medical affairs munications between the outside reviewers that Duke was putting the patients taking and Potti occurred. part in Potti’s clinical trials at risk, Cuffe “I think in the end it has to be an un- added. Potti and his collaborator Joseph biased third party that really looks at all Nevins, director for the Center for Apthis in a way that will provide an answer plied Genomics and Technology, claimed to everybody’s satisfaction—not what’s to be able to use genomic technology to posted on a website, or put in a paper or predict responses to chemotherapy for anywhere in the public domain,” Cuffe cancer patients. said. “It’s really work of Ph.D.-level stat“[Duke then] collaborated with the Naisticians from an unimpeachable third tional Cancer Institute and with others to n_10_0013_03a_nc005.indd _r01 party that will really give us the right an- try and figure out how to best address this swer here.” issue of patient safety, so we identified, toPotti’s research was first called into gether with the NCI, a set of outside reviewquestion when biostatistician Keith Bag- ers who could independently look at this gerly, associate professor of bioinformat- work,” Cuffe said. ics and computational biology at the Cuffe declined to identify the outside University of Texas MD Anderson Can- reviewers, but according to The Cancer cer Center, published concerns in 2007, Letter, Duke’s Institutional Review Board Baggerly said. for this matter turned to three directors of Cuffe said a “back and forth in the aca- other cancer centers and an independent

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In addition to temporarily suspending the three cancer clinical trials under Potti and Nevins, the reviewers were assigned two specific tasks—to make sure that Potti and Nevins had addressed all of the published concerns by Baggerly and Coombes and to evaluate the issue of patient safety and validity of their research, Cuffe said. The reviewers, who Cuffe said could communicate freely with Potti and Nevins and had complete access to their lab, concluded that although Potti and Nevins could have been more forthcoming and descriptive in the public literature about their methods, they had adequately addressed all concerns that Baggerly and Coombes had brought forward. Moreover, the reviewers concluded that it was “very likely” that Potti and Nevins’s work would be a productive line of research, Cuffe added.

“In doing so, [Duke’s] Institutional Review Board reviewed [the findings] and [in January 2010] endorsed restarting the trials,” Cuffe said.

However, since then, additional issues have been brought forward, including more concerns raised by Baggerly and Coombes expressed through The Cancer Letter, as well as a July 19 letter of concern signed by 33 other statisticians.

The statisticians expressed their concern for the cancer patients taking part in the three reinstated clinical trials that were being funded by the Department of Defense and Duke University. According to the letter, because of “the inability of independent experts to substantiate [claims made by Potti and Nevins] using the researchers’ own data,” it was “absolutely premature to use [their] prediction models to influence the therapeutic options open to cancer patients.”

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Duke’s future no longer a Cali dream

by Chris Cusack THE CHRONICLE

It’s been long established that the South—from Texas to the east—is home to the best football in the country, from Pop Warner all the way through college.

The pedigree of the Southeastern Conference speaks for itself: SEC teams have won the last four BCS National Chris titles and produced two of the last three Heisman Trophy winners. The ACC, not to be completely outdone, has storied programs such as Virginia Tech and Miami, which both made appearances in BCS title games in the last decade.

But despite all of this hardware, I’d like to believe I grew up in the purest of college football havens: Southern California.

Contrary to popular belief, Los Angeles and the surrounding area turn out in huge numbers to see USC, albeit when the team is projected to win more than 10 games. Calling these people fair weather

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fans would be an understatement, but who cares—people in Southern California are fair weather about everything. Unlike any other major market, Los Angeles has no NFL franchise—though many still cling to the Raiders.

That gap is what forces thousands to pack into high school stadiums all over the valley, or, as is the case with most football-seeking fans, pile into the L.A. Coliseum for USC games.

But after high school, while many of my classmates loaded down their cars and headed down the road to become Trojans, I took the road less traveled—east to count down the days until Midnight Madness. Before I came, I hadn’t heard of the new football coach at Duke, the third of the decade, an offensive coordinator from Tennessee whose claim to fame was having both Manning brothers on speed dial. And while I was planning my trek to Durham, USC was fresh off a 32-point victory over Illinois in the Rose Bowl. The cultures couldn’t have been any more distinct. My friends were already buying tickets for the next Rose Bowl, while my new school had four wins in as many years. courtney douglas/The Chronicle

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With blue-chip recruits like Sean Renfree, Chris Cusack feels that Duke is quickly becoming the new Stanford.

Duke welcomes home crowd, familiar court

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After a weekend swing in Colorado, the Blue Devils open their home campaign against Campbell tonight.

Duke opens its home schedule today against Campbell after splitting a pair of matches against Colorado State and Colorado in the Coors Rocky Mountain Challenge last weekend.

And after traveling hundreds of Camp. miles back and forth from the Rocky vs.

Mountains, Duke is glad to be back Duke on familiar ground.

The Blue Devils will TUESDAY, 7 p.m. continue their nonCameron Indoor conference schedule against a Fighting Camels squad that got swept in straight sets in each of their first three games.

After playing No. 17 Colorado State and facing more than 6,300 hostile fans Friday, squaring off against Campbell (03) at 7:00 p.m. in the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium might not seem like much of a challenge. Like Duke (1-1), the Fighting Camels have gone out of their way this season to face top-notch competition. They faced Villanova, North Carolina and defending

national champion No. 1 Penn State in the Carolina Classic August 27-28 in Chapel Hill.

Additionally, Campbell won’t have to contend with the fatigue from traveling cross country. The Blue Devils didn’t get back from Colorado until 6:30 p.m. Sunday after traveling for the better part of a day.

The Camels will have none of that jetlag.

Head coach Jolene Nagel thinks the energy of the home fans will counteract the travel fatigue. Additionally, Nagel said a favorable, and likely smaller, home crowd might also make Duke more consistent by removing the nerves that come from playing in front of the huge crowds at the Colorado schools, where the volleyball games have large, boisterous student sections.

“When the home team begins to get momentum, the crowd really gets excited,” Nagel said. “That can make a really big difference. The Cameron Crazies can help us score points—they can get the other team intimidated.”

After an offensively inconsistent weekend in Colorado, the Blue Devils—who hit .346 in winning games compared to .080 in those they lost—will need to be more conSee volleyball on page 10

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Behind Durant, Team USA survives Brazil scare

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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski survived yet another last-second shot attempt.

With 3.5 seconds remaining, Brazil’s Marcelo Huertas stood at the free throw line needing to sink both shots to take the game to overtime. After his second miss, Huertas collected the rebound and fired underneath to teammate Leandro Barbosa, who lifted a prayer over Kevin Love. And, just like Butler’s Gordon Hayward’s last-second attempt four months ago, Barbosa’s shot barely missed, bouncing off the front and back of the rim as the United States held on to win its Group B match of the FIBA World Championship in Istanbul 70-68.

With the victory, Team USA improved to 3-0 and is all but assured to win its group, needing only a victory over Iran or Tunisia, the bottom two teams in Group B, or another Brazil loss to earn the top seed. Kevin Durant paced the red, white and blue with 27 points and 10 rebounds as the squad attempts to end its 16-year drought in the tournament and bring home the second championship for Krzyzewski this year.

The win, needless to say, did not come easy.

volleyball from page 9 sistent in order to have a chance to win. Duke feels that shouldn’t be a problem, now that the team has had a chance to shake off some of the rust from the offseason.

Several Blue Devils have seemingly already found their peak form, most prominently senior middle blocker Becci Burling. In the Blue Devils’ last match, Burling matched her career-high with 18 kills and leads the team with 30 through

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“I said that I thought they had the character to win because it was not easy to win tonight,” Krzyzewski said.

“They had to do it doing tough things.”

The U.S. trailed for the entire first half and took a 64-62 lead on Lamar Odom’s dunk with 7:14 left in the third quarter. The team failed to build on its lead as the game wound down, with Billups knocking down the only basket in the last 6:50 in the game. Brazil had two chances to tie the game up in the last five seconds.

“I thought it was going to in, but it’s OK,” Barbosa said of his last-second shot. “I think we did a great job, it was a great game. I don’t think the USA knew that we could cause problems for them, and we did it.”

Krzyzewski, after making frequent use of his reserves in Team USA’s first two wins over Croatia and Slovenia, played his starters for longer stretches after the backups were ineffective at shutting down Barbosa and teammates Marcus Vinicius and Tiago Splitter.

Barbosa finished the game with 14 points, including two three-pointers to open the game. Vinicius added 16 and Splitter 13 with 10 rebounds in the losing effort for Brazil.

two games. Middle blockers Amanda Robertson, a junior, and sophomore Christiana Gray lead the team in hitting percentage after big games against Colorado. Some in the back line have also performed well so far, including freshman Ali McCurdy, who has played like a veteran and made her mark early by contributing 29 digs. McCurdy has even outpaced preseason All-ACC libero senior Claire Smalzer, who has 23. Junior setter Kellie Catanach—another preseason All-ACC pick—has done a solid job setting up the team’s offense and has 97 assists in nine sets this season.

Oh, how times have changed.

While USC faces numerous allegations of agent tampering and is not the national power that it used to be, Duke has a bright future in which a bowl berth is more than the joke it would have been when I was in high school. I didn’t see this coming. But maybe I should have.

Over the past three years, just a few hours north of the Coliseum, head coach Jim Harbaugh has taken Stanford from a one-win team that finished dead last in the Pac-10 and turned it into a legitimate conference title contender.

The 2009 second-place conference finish for the Cardinal would have been viewed as a flash in the pan in the recent past, but Harbaugh and Co. seem to be just beginning to tap into their potential.

How did Harbaugh turn a sunken program around so quickly?

He built the program through extensive in-state scouting and finding underrated recruits.

With academic standards higher than any in the Football Bowl Subdivision, building a winner is made all the more difficult. But Stanford has begun to steal recruits from in-state powers—like USC, simply from expanding their recruiting network in California. The Cardinal’s senior class was ranked No. 51 on Rivals.com, but the freshman class today is ranked 26th. The Blue Devils have not made quite as much progress­—their first-year class is ranked six slots higher than its counterpart in 2007.

Duke’s strategy is similar. Cutcliffe and his coaches have begun to make in-roads into North Carolina territory previously dominated by the Tar Heels and Wolfpack.

Plus, Cutcliffe’s quarterback coaching pedigree led Duke to steal Sean Renfree, the first blue-chipper of the new coach’s era.

Duke may still be a few years behind Stanford, but, if the similar strategies are any indicator, it’s clear the Blue Devils are heading in the right direction.

Still, as a high schooler, I never expected Duke to be bowl competitive while USC watched from home.

But then again, it won’t really matter because even if the Trojans decline, those fair weather fans won’t care anyway.

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The court ruled Aug. 17 A group of Durham lawthat charges against Davidson yers is poised to launch a College student Julie Yencer, similar suit against Duke. The who was arrested by the University maintains historic school’s police force for driv- ties to the Methodist church ing while impaired, should that are largely symbolic. But be thrown out. The case cit- even today, 24 of the 36 elected Davidson’s historic ties to ed members of the Board of the Presbyterian Church and Trustees are elected by Methstated that its police depart- odist Conferences and Duke’s ment’s arrest power violated current bylaws still include a the separation of church and significant emphasis on develstate mandated by the Con- oping Christian faith in union stitution. with knowledge. This makes

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Simply striking a deal with the Durham Police Department to take over the arrest duties of DUPD, like Campbell and Pfeiffer Universities have done, is not a sufficient solution. Durham is a much larger and more dangerous city than Buies Creek or Misenheimer, North Carolina.

DPD lacks sufficient manpower to police both Duke and Durham, and Duke may find itself left behind as the DPD patrols more troubled hotspots in the Bull City.

Similarly, hiring more private security forces, like those

from AlliedBarton, with whom Duke currently contracts, will not cut it. Private security forces cannot make arrests and thus cannot address Duke’s security problems.

We don’t know what a solution would look like, but Duke should begin seeking an innovative solution right away. Perhaps existing DUPD resources can be reallocated under DPD in a way to ensure compliance with the ruling, or maybe Duke’s lawyers can exploit a loophole to remedy a problem that we view as largely semantic.

In tomorrow’s editorial we will examine Duke’s connection to the Methodist Church from a broader perspective.

But, for now, the University and its legal team need to get to work to maintain the security status quo.

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Uhh... thank you for a high-level description of living at Duke. Are you planning on adding actual content and humor to your future columns?

Duke especially vulnerable to the same legal challenge encountered by Davidson.

In a purely practical sense, Yencer’s suit is wrongheaded— the University’s Methodist ties do not seem to affect the policies of the DUPD. But there is no reason for Duke to use its resources fighting against Constitutional principle and established precedent. The University should immediately explore waysπ to bring Duke into line with the new ruling.

An empowered security force is vital to campus safety.

DUPD presently acts as a necessary check to a sometimes raucous student body, but more importantly it works to protect the entire University community from external threats.

And DUPD’s perceived leniency is in fact based around the realization that it must

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came to Duke expecting to emerge triumIn academics, we all expect our chosen majors phant. I would be the unstoppable heroine of and other areas of study to guide us toward spemy own fairytale, vanquishing the demons and cific graduate schools or lucrative careers. But as conquering the kingdom in four you gain in-depth knowledge of short years. one subject, you often want to Although my college career learn just as much about others. has involved elements of the surIn attempting to narrow your foreal, reality has inevitably taken cus, you might instead find yourhold. I more often play the role self looking out from a wider of the wicked witch than the vantage point on the possibilities enchanted princess. And durfor life After Graduation. Rather ing this final chapter, instead of than finding out exactly what eliza french wrapping up all the loose ends you want, you find out what you je ne sais quoi into one big happy ending, I feel don’t. like I’m back at the beginning.

And all the while, you change This first week of classes feels disappointingly who you think you are and how you want others to like any other. Once again, unfamiliar faces sur- see you. Each time you realize you have misjudged round me—only now, they’re younger rather another person, you will be prompted to wonder than older. I am even less sure of my future plans whether you have also misjudged yourself. than I was as a freshman. And I possess neither These self-realizations sting with a sudden the aura of confidence nor the self-assured spring slap or creep up in a slowly sinking feeling. You of step readily apparent in members of the senior may start out as the hero of your own fairytale, class in years past and present. but at some point you will see yourself as the vilI’d like to believe I was not living alone in this lain. Or even worse, you could fall somewhere fantasy world when I first arrived at Duke. in between.

For many undergraduates, regardless of year, This is the part where you start at the beginthe linear narrative of college doesn’t progress as ning again, stuck in a state of perpetual déjà vu. anticipated. We don’t mature en masse from im- You work hard enough to become a decent appressionable freshmen to self-possessed seniors. proximation of the person you think you want to We don’t all glow with a collective sense of pur- be. You own up to your newly acknowledged fears pose, magically unearthed somewhere between and shortcomings, and you convey your newfound East Campus and West Campus. values and interests to your supporting cast of What I once considered the indisputable advan- characters. tages of age on campus—a well-established group I haven’t written off the possibility of a fairytale of friends, an academic specialization, an evolving ending just yet (sometimes self-delusion really sense of self—somehow make college more over- is the best available coping mechanism). By all whelming than ever. Now that I have earned them, means, brace yourself for the exciting conclusion I recognize they each come with their respective of “From Convocation to Commencement: Eliza liabilities.

French’s Path to Fame and Fortune.” But I reStaking out a comfort zone on campus some- alize now that to have a chance at Happily Ever times makes the social landscape at Duke more After, you have to be willing to start from Once complex, not less so. At first, you freely wander Upon a Time. the uncharted territory. But gradually you start to walk the same familiar pathways, carefully navigatEliza French is a Trinity senior. Her column runs eving around the bridges you have burned and the ery other Tuesday. fences you have built.

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omorrow night, the 17th Duke Student GovernTemple’s commitment to student input and his ment Senate convenes for the first time. close involvement as a student leader with the planning And you should care. process are exactly what we need from a Campus CounThat meeting is the closest thing Duke has to a start- cil president. But he should find answers to those funing gun marking another round of damental questions. And he should student efforts to shape the rhythms share them with the rest of us. and decisions of the University estabOn the DSG side of things, Presilishment. dent Lefevre is also full of good Wednesday’s Senate meeting is the ideas. coming out party of a new DSG adminHe knows that he will be judged in istration, led by President Mike Lefelarge measure by whether or not the vre, and Thursday’s Campus Council increased dining fee levied last year meeting will be similarly symbolic for gregory morrison and grudgingly accepted by students returning Campus Council President as an emergency tax actually is a onefinish the thought Stephen Temple as he begins his secyear, one-time only fee increase. ond term in office.

We expect that fee to return to $20.

So what should we expect from our two most promiIf it does not, one of Lefevre’s major campaign nent student leaders this year? pledges will be proven empty.

The president of Campus Council is squarely foLefevre, correctly, smells the huge potential of the cused on making the students key players in the design Socioeconomic Diversity Initiative to be a clarion call and implementation of Duke’s return to the “house” to action for student leaders and University administraresidential model. The current “quad model” is based tors and a virtual super-incubator for important policy on large neighborhoods of dorms, as opposed to au- reforms. The new DSG president told me that as a stutonomous dorms with multi-year residents. dent on financial aid, he wants to make the Office of So far, Temple has approached this complex issue Undergraduate Financial Aid more of a resource to stuwith a healthy dose of both realism and innovation. He dents, transforming what he perceives as a regulatory is willing to move slowly into the new model, making culture into one of support. sure we get it right the first time and don’t have to conHe also intends to wade boldly into the morass that tinually tweak it for the next several years. is judicial affairs at Duke. Too often, administrators will Any overhaul of a newly implemented system would seek student input only to disregard it during the final no doubt be a disorderly process that would cause drafting of policy. The right way to negotiate with stuchronic uncertainty among students (What size limi- dent conduct is not to pick individual policies and quibtations will houses observe? How will members be se- ble with them, but rather to work with administrators to lected? What privileges over the space will they have?) design a lasting process for writing and changing poliand would allow ample opportunity for administrative cies that involves full student participation and consent. rule changes to be made without meaningful student Student government has been working to improve input. judicial affairs at Duke at least since 2006. Progress has Temple also knows that the transition to the house been irregular and desultory. Students need this issue model transcends the traditional Campus Council com- at the top of the DSG president’s agenda. mittee baronies, and so he said he created a Campus Fortunately for us, it is.

Council-wide working group of students to parallel the This year will probably be one of retrenchment and work of the administrative committee tackling the tran- evaluation. We are unlikely to see any multimillion-dolsition. This innovative structure broadens the number lar initiatives announced or big new capital construcof students participating in transition planning and tion planned. This will be the year of the policy wonk. gives Temple, and the administration, a necessary feedOur leaders will need to revel in minutia to effectiveback loop. ly tackle the large and policy-laden topics which domiWhile the transition process seems well underway nate their agendas this year: the residential transition, and students seem adequately represented in it, I have socioeconomic diversity and student rights. yet to hear a clearly articulated reason for why we need We require active student leaders with clear visions to move to the house model. And I haven’t heard why and realistic expectations. Lefevre and Temple are we expect this go around with it to be any more suc- both experienced in the ways of campus politics and cessful than the last round, which, remember, was aban- both bring a wealth of leadership and negotiating exdoned as a failure in favor of the quad model in 2002, perience to their respective presidencies. soon after Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Have high expectations for the year ahead.

Moneta arrived at Duke.

The absence of clear answers to these questions unGregory Morrison is a Trinity senior. His column runs every dermines the legitimacy of the transition.

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hile the official Tea Party estimates of Saturday’s rally attendance may range between a gajillion and the fafillion, the company CBS hired to give an estimate placed the turnout at a respectably large 87,000, larger than the official estimates of turnout at last year’s 9/12 rally but no where near the estimated 1.8 million that attended Obama’s inauguration.

The number of people who showed up for Beck’s rally was also considerably smaller than the adam serwer 1963 March for Jobs and washington post Freedom, at which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech and which Beck selfconsciously styled his “restoring honor” event after, to the irritation of many liberals. The 1963 march drew around 200,000 people, according to contemporary estimates. The crowd then was considerably more diverse, had a leftist economic agenda and was organized by admitted socialists who palled around with a number of other lefty types who likely would have ended up on Glenn Beck’s chalkboard back in the day. That crowd also was produced without the kind of financial support provided by Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity, and at a time when long-distance communication tools were considerably more limited.

In fact, given the money and technology available to Beck, it feels like there should be a way to adjust for inflation when it comes to historical comparisons of crowd sizes. Imagine what King, the black church and labor movement could have done if they’d had access to the Internet and a television network.

The Million Man March in 1995, the last big event that similarly mixed a sort of vague spirituality with political criticism of the then-Republican majority’s congressional agenda, drew around 450,000 people, according to the lowest estimates. Louis Farrakhan’s relative obscurity other than as a right-wing bogeyman may also be instructive for liberals looking for some historical perspective. Ten years after positioning himself as the de facto leader of black America, he was pretty much a non-factor politically.

All of which invites the question of why liberals wrung their hands so publicly over Beck’s spectacle, as though this even might actually dwarf the 1963 March on Washington in terms of historical and political significance. At this point, it’s obvious that Beck’s stunts have a self-conscious hint of irony to them. His increasingly messianic self-conception and his outsize comparisons between himself and important American historical figures seem deliberately designed to make liberals issue angry public denunciations, which only increase his profile and solidify his stature in the conservative movement, where Pissing Off Liberals is actually more important than anything else. He’s figured out how this hustle works. What I don’t understand is why liberals keep indulging him with their outrage.

Beck’s inversion of history, by which a people demanding more supply-side tax cuts and a conservative takeover of Congress become the civil rights activists of their time, is too patently absurd to take seriously.

The historical context of the 1963 march, the size of the crowd and MLK’s avowedly leftist social and economic politics make an enduring association between that event and this one impossible. The only people who should be genuinely angry about Beck’s event are the conservatives who have apparently decided to take the comparison to heart.

Democrats are going to get shellacked in November because of the unemployment rate, not because Glenn Beck is leading a new civil rights movement for white people who don’t want to see the marginal tax rate for people making more than $250,000 a year go any higher. Given the economic misery most Americans are feeling, it’s probably a testament to the enduring mistrust people have for Republicans that Beck, even with the help of the conservative movement’s biggest star, couldn’t draw a bigger crowd.

Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. This column originally ran in the Washington Post on Monday.

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