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Duke apparel supplier pays ethical wages

Duke looks to exorcise Demon Deacons

Sophomore arrested on rape charge

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by Julia Love

The University Store has a fresh face at its entrance—and she’s greeting customers with a new message.

“With every purchase, you are supporting a better life for our community,” Yolanda Simon says on an oversized poster recently placed at the store front.

Simon is one of 120 employees at the recently-opened Alta Gracia factory located in the Dominican Republic’s Villa Altagracia that is now supplying Duke apparel. The poster is part of an extensive marketing campaign to encourage members of the Duke community to buy into ethical work standards.

“We’re really thrilled to have the opportunity to sell these products—Duke has long wanted to be able to source apparel from factories where compliance with the code of conduct is guaranteed,” said Jim Wilkerson, director of Duke stores and trademark licensing.

Wilkerson’s work with anti-sweatshop policies dates back to 1998, when he spearheaded efforts to implement a set of labor regulations for University suppliers. The code was widely applauded for setting standards higher than those of any other university, and was subsequently used as a

A sophomore withdrew from the University Thursday after being arrested for the alleged second-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping of a fellow student.

Eric Irons, a 19-year-old from Hong Kong, was arrested by Duke Police and taken into custody Wednesday. He was charged and released the same day on a $75,000 bond, according to court records. A district court date has been set for Nov. 9.

Irons allegedly assaulted a female student at a party on Central Campus April 17, according to the probable cause affadavit, part of the application for a search warrant submitted by the Duke University Police Department. Several witnesses described the alleged victim as “very intoxicated” at the party, according to the affadavit. The next day, the alleged victim went to the Duke University Medical Center’s Emergency Department, where a sexual assault kit was used.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an e-mail that the DUPD investigation was conducted in a “timely manner,” but the incident was not included in the initial DUPD crime log to protect the alleged victim, avoid jeopardizing

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After topping Elon 41-27, Duke travels to Winston-Salem Saturday to face Wake Forest and its highpowered running game. The game is set for 12:00 p.m. SEE STORY PAGE 9.

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Handicap accessibility varies across campus

by Amanda Young THE CHRONICLE

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Although the University has made efforts to improve campus accessibility, there are still areas that are not easily reached by handicapped persons.

Mi casa es su casa Campus Council explores Duke’s return to a residential house system, PAGE 3

For students like senior Caleb Winebrenner, getting around campus is not always too easy.

Born with cerebral palsy, which causes physical disabilities in his legs and part of the right side of his body, Winebrenner must use either a wheelchair or canes to walk, making getting around campus difficult.

Since arriving at the University, Duke has made efforts to accommodate his disability. As a freshman, Winebrenner wanted to live in Pegram Dormitory, so Disability Management System built a ramp in the back of the building for him and personalized a room to accommodate his wheelchair. This room is now used specifically for students with disabilities.

But problems remain on campus. Some of the buildings designated as accessible on campus are difficult to enter or are only accessible on the first floor, Winebrenner said, adding that the inconvenience hinders students in wheelchairs or using canes when traveling on campus.

“The West Campus Union is terrible,” Winebrenner said.

“There is only one accessible entrance, and there is only one elevator, which is not open to student use. There’s no way for me to get up to things like the recording studio in a wheelchair. I can only really do anything on the first floor.”

According to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, any public and commercial facilities built after July 1992 must comply with certain architectural guidelines that ensure accessibility for all people. For buildings built before that year at the University, Disability Management System has tried to add ramps or eliminate barriers when possible.

Most buildings at Duke are designated as accessible, though there are a number of notable exceptions, including Crowell Quadrangle and many of the apartments on Central Campus.

Still, Duke does try to accommodate students, said Jim Baker, the disability coordinator in Student Disability Access Office.

“No matter where the student is or wants to live, we have accessible dorm space or apartments for them,” Baker said.

But for students like Winebrenner, changes in transportation and physical infrastructure are still necessary.

“The transportation system at Duke is really a hit or miss,” Winebrenner said. “The bus lifts are unreliable— some work, but others don’t.”

Last Fall, Winebrenner’s frustration over different aspects of Duke’s transportation system and the infrastructure led him and junior Lauren Blake to create a commission group called the Integrated Campus Advocacy

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The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. put on hold a ruling by District Judge Royce Lamberth during its review of the ban. The Justice Department argued that the judge’s decision would cause irreparable harm to researchers, taxpayers and scientific progress.

Lifting the ban allows the government to temporarily continue funneling tens of millions of dollars to scientists seeking cures for diseases such as Parkinson’s, spinal cord injuries and genetic conditions.

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Fidel Castro’s comment to a visiting American journalist that Cuba’s economic system does not work is the strongest signal yet that the communist island is looking to private enterprise and foreign investment to bolster growth.

“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” Castro told journalist Jeffrey Goldberg after being asked if he believed it was something still worth exporting, according to a post Wednesday on The Atlantic magazine’s website. Castro did not elaborate on his comment, Goldberg said.

Since re-entering the public sphere in July following an illness that almost killed him, the former president has focused on international affairs. His silence on domestic issues signals he is willing to allow his brother Raul to reduce state control of the economy, said Tomas Bilbao, executive director of the Cuba Study Group, which promotes free-market reforms.

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Search begins for new SBI crime lab director

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In its meeting Thursday, Campus Council established plans for a House Model Student Working Group to ensure that students are part of the discussion in the University’s return to the ‘house model.’

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The structure of residential life at Duke may soon change in a far more drastic way than the construction of a new building.

At its meeting Thursday, Campus Council discussed the reintroduction of the “house model,” which is a residential system in which students are divided into small communities, or “houses,” and have the right to return to that location for the remainder of their undergraduate career.

“This is something really important for this year,” said Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a senior. “We’re going to put a lot of energy into this.”

Junior Leslie Andriani, Campus Council treasurer, said the University hopes to transition to this “house model” by Fall 2012. The University operated under the “house model” until 2002, when it converted to the “quad model,” currently in place on West Campus.

The “quad model” does not guarantee students the same location from year to year.

The council also presented plans to form a House Model Student Working Group.

“The hope here, with the working group, is to ensure students’ voice—and lots of it—going into the transition to the ‘house model,’” Temple said.

HMSW Group co-Chairs Andriani and Campus Council Vice President John Pryor, a senior, will appoint four at-large members to the group. Other members will include Temple and representatives from the Interfraternity Council, Selective House Council, the Inter-Greek Council and the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

The HMSW Group will work closely with the previously established House Model Working Group, a separate committee of administrators and students. The committee, which is co-chaired by Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of Residence Life and Housing Services, and Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education, includes Temple, Andriani and Duke Student Government President Mike Lefevre, a senior.

Applications for the HMSW group will go out within the next two weeks, and the group should be finalized by the end of this month, Andriani said.

“The goal is to get the word out about the house model and how residential life at Duke is going to change,” she said. “We will be able to gauge perspective and give insight to administration [and] that insight is going to help us form the best residential structure.”

A panel of state officials met for the first time Wednesday afternoon to discuss the search process for a new director of the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab after a report released last month revealed agent misconduct through evidence misrepresentation.

Led by SBI Director Greg McLeod, the advisory panel consists of prosecutors, defense lawyers and other representatives of the criminal justice system. The group agreed that the new director should be allowed a salary higher than the current $107,000 and should possess exceptional management and communication skills.

“I feel that [the new lab director] needs to be someone with a significant science background with previous experience working in a crime lab,” said Seth Edwards, president of the N.C. Conference of District Attorneys who sits on the advisory panel.

Earlier this week, former judge Gerald Arnold was appointed interim director of the SBI’s crime lab, one of several changes that could affect the sentences of the 159 inmates currently on death row.

The move, announced Wednesday

by Attorney General Roy Cooper, comes after former SBI crime lab director Jerry Richardson was removed from his post last month. The changes in leadership result from an independent report released in August that revealed SBI agents in the crime lab’s blood-stain analysis unit misrepresented blood evidence in about 190

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Cooper could not be reached for comment this week.

“I just have to take the attorney general’s word that he was looking for somebody with no axe to grind and somebody who could be objective looking at the SBI’s standards and reports,” Arnold said of his appointment.

As interim director, Arnold will oversee a full audit of all sections of the crime lab, as requested last month by the N.C. Conference of District Attorneys.

Officials took a closer look at SBI reports when death row prisoner Gregory Taylor was exonerated of his life sentence in February after 17 years behind bars, because SBI blood analyst Duane Deaver failed to disclose key evidence that could have led to Taylor’s acquittal. Deaver has since been suspended.

Taylor’s case prompted Cooper to request the August report, an independent audit by former FBI agents that reviewed the more than 15,000 cases that had taken place during the 17-year period.

The report raised serious questions about the agency’s investigative practices.

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Perdue names Col. Lusk as N.C. National Guard commander

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Col. Gregory Lusk, an Iraqi war veteran, will lead the North Carolina National Guard starting Oct. 1, Gov. Bev Perdue announced Thursday.

As adjutant general, Lust will oversee nearly 12,000 citizen soldiers and airmen of the N.C. Army and Air National Guard, according to a press release. He will also advise the governor on military issues. Lusk will replace outgoing Adjutant Gen. William Ingram, who has been in charge of the Guard since 2001.

“Col. Lusk has commanded our largest National Guard unit on tours of duty to Iraq and has served

with honor and distinction throughout his career,” Perdue said in a statement. “Whether it’s helping respond to hurricanes here in North Carolina or defending our country’s freedoms, the National Guard plays a vital role in our domestic and international security. Col. Lusk is a strong leader and will carry on that proud tradition of being a citizen soldier.”

Lusk has been a member of the NCSB since 1979 and served two tours of duty in Iraq, where he commanded the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, the state’s largest guard unit. During his most recent tour, See national guard on page 7

Mexico wary of vote to legalize marijuana in Calif. by nick miroff and willian booth the washington post

TIJUANA, Mexico - To embattled authorities here, where heavily armed soldiers patrol the streets and more than 500 people have been killed this year, marijuana is a poisonous weed that enriches death-dealing cartel bosses who earn huge profits smuggling the product north.

“Marijuana arrives in the United States soaked with the blood of Tijuana residents,” said Mayor Jorge Ramos, whose police department has lost 45 officers to drug violence in the past three years.

But just over the border in California, cannabis is considered by law a healing herb. After the Obama administration announced that it would not prosecute the purveyors, some 100 medical marijuana dispensaries have opened in San Diego alone in the past year, selling vast quantities of Purple Goo, Green Crack and other varieties of supercharged pot to virtually any adult willing to pay $59 for a doctor’s prescription and $10 for a joint.

The marijuana divide between these sister cities points to major disparities between the fight against drugs in Mexico and their acceptance in the United States.

As the Obama administration presses Mexican President Felipe Calderon to stand firm in his costly, bloody military campaign against drug mafias, Mexican leaders are increasingly asking why their country should continue to attack cannabis traffickers and peasant pot farmers if the U.S. government is barely enforcing federal marijuana laws in the most populous state.

This debate grows more urgent as California prepares to vote in November on Proposition 19, a game-changing ballot initiative to legalize the recreational consumption of marijuana. According to the polls, the vote is tight.

Weary of spectacular violence and destabilizing corruption stoked by the prohibition against pot, some of Mexico’s most prominent figures are wondering aloud what legalization would do on their side of the drug war.

Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, a rancher and a free-market conservative, said last month that cannabis should be legal in his country. “The sales could be taxed, with high taxes, as we do with tobacco, to be used to fight addiction and reduce consumption,” he said.

Marijuana smuggling and sales represent a roughly $10 billion-dollar business for Mexico’s drug mafias, which earn up to 60 percent of their profits from pot, according to U.S. estimates.

Fox said legalizing marijuana and other drugs “will allow us to hit and break apart the economic structure that allows the drug mafias to generate huge profits—profits they use to corrupt and increase their power.”

Calderon, a center-right politician, devout Catholic and father of three young children who has staked his presidency on his fight against organized crime, hosted three days of nationally televised meetings last month to debate “the pros and cons” of legalization.

“It is worth asking if it still makes any sense to maintain our prohibition against marijuana in Mexico when the United States is taking gradual steps toward legalization?” asked Jose Luis Astorga, one of Mexico’s most prominent scholars of drug policy. “Why are we spending our resources on this?”

U.S. voters have already passed measures allowing the medicinal use of marijuana in Washington, D.C. and 14 states. Proposition 19 would legalize the drug for all adults in California over 21.

The nonpartisan voters guide written by the California secretary of state concludes that a commercial marijuana industry could produce “hundreds of millions of dollars annually” in new taxes.

Proposition 19 allows local governments to adopt ordinances regarding commercial marijuana activities—including cultivation, processing, distribution, transportation and retail sales. For example, local governments could license establishments to sell marijuana and allow customers to get high on the premises. Oakland’s City Council has already approved giant indoor marijuana farms as large as two football fields.

But no one knows whether legalization in California would hurt or help Mexico. Bringing marijuana into California from Mexico would remain illegal under federal law.

Still, U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials worry that legalization in California could stoke greater demand that would be met by Mexican cartels.

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arrest from page 1 the investigation and prevent the destruction of evidence. He added that DUPD has the right to not report incidents in special cases, such as during ongoing investigations.

DUPD submitted a search warrant application to the magistrate Sept. 7 to procure DNA swabs from Irons and samples of his head and pubic hair, saliva and blood. The evidence was collected by DUPD and Emergency Department workers Sept. 8, according to the search warrant.

“The University’s principal concern is for the health and safety of the victim and the members of the Duke community,” Schoenfeld wrote. “We take reports of sexual assault very seriously and, through DUPD and other services available on campus, work to ensure that the rights of victims and those under investigation are respected and protected.”

Irons declined to comment and referred questions to Durham lawyer Bill Thomas, who could not be reached.

According to the affadavit, Irons admitted in “a subsequent interview” that he engaged in sexual conduct with

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the alleged victim but denied having sexual intercourse.

According to state statutes, second-degree rape is defined as vaginal intercourse “by force and against the will of the other person.” First-degree kidnapping is the unlawful confining, restraining or removal of a person from one place to another, the result being that “the person kidnapped either was not released by the defendant in a safe place or had been seriously injured or sexually assaulted,” the statutes state.

Schoenfeld referred questions about the prosecution of the case to the district attorney’s office, which could not immediately be reached for comment.

Student Affairs officials have been in contact with Irons and his parents, Schoenfeld said.

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said she cannot comment on ongoing criminal cases involving students, but she said the University considers each incident of this nature with great care.

“It’s a difficult balance to strike whenever we are attempting to preserve the rights and the safety of both the students that are involved in the cases and the rest of the community,” she said. “That is something that we take very seriously.”

campus council from page 3 As for the details of the “house model” itself, Gonzalez said there will be various subcommittees to the HMSW group, which will supplement decision making and ideas about the transition to the new model. “[The HMSW group will] implement new levels of the house model that brings continuity, community and student self governance that is equally available to all students,” he added.

In other business: Through a collaboration between Campus Council and the Office of Information Technology, students will be able to report poor cell phone service through an online survey. The survey will focus only on residential areas, Temple said.

Campus Council is also sponsoring the Homecoming Pep Rally Sept. 24 from 4 to 7 p.m. on Main West Quadrangle. The band Fastball will perform at 5:15 p.m., said Programming Chair Betsy Klein, a junior.

accessibility from page 1 Network, which works to foster dialogue on issues relating to disability accessibility. ICAN hopes to collaborate with administrators and DMS to point out solutions to improve accessibility on campus. This year, Winebrenner hopes to get enough signatures to make the group an official campus club, which he believes will then help the group make headway in the fight for accessibility on campus.

Blake does not have a physical disability, but she became interested in disability accessibility when she volunteered for the Special Olympics between eighth and 12th grade.

She said she has several friends at Duke with physical disabilities, which has opened her eyes to the many problems students with disabilities face every day.

“Lots of students with disabilities have a hard time getting around,” Blake said. “Because of this, these students feel invisible, like they are in a special category. If students aren’t out there, administrators won’t see them and they won’t be able to help these students. ICAN seeks to have a unified group of students fighting for disability accessibility.”

Mary Thomas, the executive director of DMS, said all new construction or major alterations are being reviewed by her office. DMS conducts quarterly campus tours to identify potential issues, she added, but the office also considers student input. For example, if a person with a physical disability enrolls in a class held in an inaccessible building, DMS will move the class to a different location.

“Students can sometimes identify things that haven’t been brought to our attention, and we respond very quickly to these issues,” she said. “We are also providing on-site training for project managers to make sure we’re up to date and that we’re doing what we’re supposed to.”

Winebrenner noted that all of the disability directors and coordinators have been very helpful, and that Duke’s campus overall is much more accessible than other college campuses that he has visited, but they lack the “on the ground” perspective that people with disabilities have.

“The problem is that some people don’t understand that there is a problem, and don’t think about finding a solution to that problem,” Winebrenner said. “For example, all of the ramps are in the very back, hidden behind the buildings—what kind of message is that sending to people with disabilities?”

Blake said buildings like Perkins are great because the stairs and ramp are right next to each other. When the ramps are in the back, she added, it is like calling people with disabilities “second-class citizens.”

Winebrenner remains hopeful that ICAN, with the help of students and deans, can improve Duke’s infrastructure for the better.

“Sometimes I’ve lost my patience with the infrastructure, and several times I’ve gotten quite angry,” Winebrenner said. “But I have to do my best to be optimistic.”

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national guard from page 4 Lusk’s brigade partnered with Iraqi Security Forces to carry out “combined security operations and civil capacity improvement,” the release noted.

Lusk holds a a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from N.C. State University and a masters of science in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.

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alta gracia from page 1 template for labor violations rules.

The University’s $250,000 order of Alta Gracia apparel arrived two weeks ago. As of Sept. 7, the store has sold $16,000 worth of apparel—or about 750 items—and expects to sell the remaining apparel by the end of the year, Wilkerson said.

In the Alta Gracia section of the University Store—located just behind the national championship gear—shoppers can watch a video of worker testimonials. The factory produces T-shirts, sweatshirts and other apparel, all sporting the Duke name.

Alta Gracia’s living wage is what sets it apart from other University suppliers, Wilkerson said. A living wage is defined as enough money to provide housing, clothing, child and health care, education, transportation and saving funds for a family. The factory also recognizes the workers’ right to unionize.

“Alta Gracia is establishing a model for this industry of how clothing should be made. We hope others will follow their lead,” said Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent labor rights organization that monitors factories including those producing collegiate garments.

The WRC determined that the living wage for Villa Altagracia is $497 per month, more than three times the local legal minimum wage of $147 per month, said WRC Communications Director Theresa Haas in an Aug. 31 teleconference. Alta Gracia items are the only ones in the world bearing

tags from the WRC affirming their compliance with rigorous WRC labor standards.

The factory is run by Knights Apparel, the top supplier of college-logo apparel to American universities, according to a July New York Times article. The article also stated that Duke is among 400 college campus stores selling the clothing.

The new clothing brand is not the only Duke store supplier paying living wages, however. Nova said the only other clothing factory in the developing world that pays approximately living wages is School House. The twoyear-old national collegiate brand was created

by Rachel Weeks, T ’07, and is based in Sri Lanka. Weeks said she does not consider Alta Gracia as competition for her company, adding that there is plenty of room in the market

for multiple living wage apparel brands.

“Living wage needs to become a standard and not an exception,” Weeks said.

Although Nova said School House has developed positive relationships with Sri Lankan groups, the WRC has yet to formally investigate the factory. He added that the WRC had spoken with Weeks about investigating School House “in the not too distant future.”

Weeks said she is excited about what the addition of the Alta Gracia brand means for her alma mater and for ethical labor practices.

“I am, as a Duke alumna, and now somebody who is a Durham resident, so proud of our University for the model we’ve created for how impactful a single university market can be for improving labor standards from the Dominican Republic to Sri Lanka,” she said.

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The University Store’s newest apparel line comes from Alta Gracia apparel, a label which is manufactured at ethical living wages in the Dominican Republic. Duke is one of 400 college campuses stocking the clothing.

sbi from page 3 or throw it into doubt,” said Neil Vidmar, a professor at Duke’s School of Law. North Carolina is one of 38 states in which a forensic lab is under the state’s law enforcement agency, which could create biases favorable to prosecutions. But some legislators and defense attorneys are now thinking twice about that setup.

State Representative Paul Luebke, D-Durham, said he supports making the SBI an independent agency to prevent a threat to its impartiality. “[The agency’s job is] to be impartial under the law, but in fact, its trial testimony [is] tilted towards the prosecution,” Luebke said. “Many of us in the legislature favor [SBI independence from the state] and we’ll be working to make that change.”

But Arnold said he thinks, with hesitance, that the current structure is relatively sound.

“Whatever improvements can be made, can be made where it is, but there are other people more qualified to answer that,” Arnold said.

Still, he defended the work of the crime lab and pointed out the role of technology in the lab’s errors.

“The technology and standards we have today are night and day from what they were 10 years ago,” Arnold said.

The state is expected to appoint a new SBI crime lab director within approximately 90 days.

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The Blue Devils have had a number of breakthroughs in the first two years of the David Cutcliffe era, like winning their first season-opener since 2002 and notching consecutive ACC victories last season. The team, however, has yet to defeat one of its primary in-state rivals—the Demon Deacons.

Saturday, Duke (1-0) gets a chance to exorcise the demons of some agonizing defeats to Wake Forest (1-0) when the two teams meet at BB&T Field at 12:00 p.m. in the first ACC contest of the season.

The Blue Devils haven’t beaten the Demon Deacons in 10 years, despite coming tantalizingly close on many occasions.

Last season, Duke was only down by four at halftime, but Wake Forest blew the game open in the third quarter, cementing the Blue Devils’ 15th consecutive losing season. In 2008, then-sophomore Nick Maggio

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bined score of 7-1.

No. 8 Duke (1-0-1) will look to improve upon a moderately successful opening weekend. The Blue Devils scraped out a 0-0 draw against Louisville thanks to an incredible performance by sophomore goalie James Belshaw and easily defeated Sacramento St. 4-1 behind three goals from sophomore Ryan Finley.

But Duke will have to take its game up another notch if it wants to stick with a talented No. 2 Virginia team.

“Starting off the season with Louisville [was tough] and Sacramento St. was

On the 38th anniversary of the disputed 1972 Olympic game between the two nations, the United States delivered a resounding 89-79 win against Russia yesterday morning.

Kevin Durant scored 33 points in the victory, just two shy of the U.S. record for world championship play, while also shooting 58 percent from the field. Lamar Odom added 12 rebounds at center to help the Americans overcome Russia’s size advantage down low.

The game Thursday was the culmination of a cold war of words between the two teams’ head coaches.

Russia’s David Blatt, a native of Louisville, Ky., said Monday that the Americans were treated fairly in losing the disputed 1972 Olympic gold-medal game, in which they watched Russia receive three tries to score the game-winning basket. Krzyzewski expressed annoyance at the comments and even ignored Blatt’s American background in his criticism.

“I mean, he’s Russian. He coaches the Russian team, so he probably has that viewpoint,” Krzyzewski said Wednesday.

“Whatever he thinks, he thinks. It has really absolutely no bearing on what we’re trying to do tomorrow.”

Despite the harsh words before the

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After outscoring its two opponents by a combined 14 goals last week, No. 15 Duke looks to FIU continue its offensive onslaught vs. against Florida International toNo. 15 night at 7 p.m. at Duke Koskinen Stadium FRIDAY, 7 p.m. and Yale Sunday Koskinen Stadium at 1 p.m.

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missed a field goal at the end of regulation that would have given Duke the win, and the Demon Deacons intercepted Thaddeus Lewis at the goal line in overtime to secure the victory. The 2006 meeting between the two teams followed a similar tune as Wake Forest blocked Joe Surgan’s potential gamewinning field goal as time expired.

“We know at Duke that every opportunity we have to stop a streak or to win a milestone game, that’s kind of what we’ve had to do,” Cutcliffe said. “We’ve passed a lot of those milestones. Certainly losing to Wake for 10 years is something we have to address. It’s fact. We’re big boys. We’ve got to be able to handle that.”

The Blue Devils will be facing a significantly different Wake Forest team this weekend than the one of the last four years. In past seasons, with four-year starter Riley Skinner directing the offense, the Demon Deacons

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Ryan Finley and the rest of the Blue Devils will take on defending national champion Virginia Saturday night.

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It may be early in the season, but the Blue Devils have one of their toughest games of the year Saturday night when No. 2 they face off against UVa the Virginia Cavavs. liers at 7 p.m. in KoNo. 8 skinen Stadium. The Duke defending national champion Cavaliers SATURDAY, 7 p.m.

Koskinen Stadium opened their season in a resounding fashion, beating UAB and St. John’s by a com-

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This weekend, the Blue Devils will face their toughest competition of the season at the annual Duke Invitational.

Duke (6-1) has won six consecutive matches since dropping its season opener on the road against Colorado State, and the team will need to continue its high level of play when it squares off against No. 12 Minnesota Saturday at 7 p.m.

Before the Blue Devils take on the Golden Gophers, they will have to contend with Delaware and N.C. Central Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 10 a.m., respectively. Delaware (6-1) won a share of the Colonial Athletic Association regular season championship last year and enters the weekend coming off consecutive 3-0 sweeps of East Carolina and Rutgers. Even though N.C. Central (1-5) has struggled in early stages of the season, the Eagles have an experienced roster that features six juniors and two seniors.

Regardless of N.C. Central’s experience, though, Duke will no doubt be looking ahead to Saturday’s tilt with Minnesota (5-1), which has dropped only one set over its five victories. The Golden Gophers reached the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament last year and feature three players who made the preseason All-Big Ten team.

Minnesota also has the tallest roster the Blue Devils will face this season with nine players who stand at least six feet tall. The Golden Gophers boast a potent offensive attack, hitting .314 on the year and averaging over 15 kills per set.

The Blue Devils will look to counter with their tough defense. They have held opponents to a .145 hitting percentage during their winning streak, and only two teams have hit over .200 against them this season.

The middle blocking trio of senior Becci Burling, junior

m. soccer from page 9 another good test... but none is bigger than this week when we play the defending national champions,” head coach John Kerr said.

Last year, the Blue Devils took down those defending champions 1-0 in a double-overtime thriller, with junior Daniel Tweed-Kent slotting home the game-winner.

Belshaw earned a clean sheet in that match, but he faced just three shots on goal. He could be much more active Saturday.

“Belshaw single-handedly kept us in the game last weekend,” sophomore Andrew Wenger said. “Our defending, our back four, wasn’t the best. Just knowing that in the back of our heads, that he can do that for us, is fantastic.”

Duke’s defense will look to close down a potent Virginia attack that is led by sophomore Will Bates and freshman Brian Span, who have combined to score four of the Cavaliers’ seven goals this year.

That responsibility will fall upon senior captain Christian Ibeagha and Wenger at the center of the defense.

Ibeagha’s brother, Sebastian, started next to him against Louisville, but left the game early in the second half with a knee injury and will likely be unavailable Saturday. After the younger Ibeagha departed, Kerr altered his lineup by moving Wenger from forward to the backline.

Wenger started all 21 games in 2009 at center defense and took home ACC Freshman of the Year honors for his stellar player at the position, but Kerr plans on using the sophomore at different positions this year. Wenger will return to his normal position of center back for this pivotal contest.

“Wenger is talented enough to play any part of the field, midfield, the forward, or in the back,” Kerr said.

“I’m just doing my best there [at center back] and I think it’s just best for me as well,” Wenger said. “I do what the team asks and I’m going to defend this week and do it the best I can.”

On the attack, Duke will face a goalkeeper as good as its own in Diego Restrepo, who has allowed just a single goal this season. Over his Virginia career, Restrepo has allowed just nine goals in 26 games, posting a 0.32 goals-againstaverage.

With Wenger lining up on the backline, the scoring

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Sophomore Christiana Gray has averaged 1.15 blocks per set this year.

She and the Blue Devils play in the Duke Invitational this weekend.

Amanda Robertson and sophomore Christiana Gray are largely responsible for the stingy defense, with Gray averaging 1.15 blocks per set. Freshman libero Ali McCurdy has also performed admirably, leading the team with 110 digs.

Offensively, Burling leads Duke with 81 kills, and junior Sophia Dunworth is not far behind with 73 of her own.

Dunworth may prove to be the Blue Devils’ best weapon against Minnesota. She leads the team with 3.04 kills per set and has also been one of the best servers this season with seven aces to her credit.

load will fall to Finley, senior midfielder Cole Grossman and the Tweed-Kent brothers, Daniel and Christopher.

Finley will be the first option for the Blue Devils as he is coming off a hat trick against Sacramento St. and is the most experienced forward on the Duke roster.

Freshman Jonathan Aguirre will start alongside Cole Grossman at the center-midfield position. Aguirre’s first game as a Blue Devil did not go as planned after he was red carded in the 68th minute against Louisville. However, the Madison, N.J., native linked up well with Grossman throughout the first half and opened up scoring opportunities for both Wenger and Finley. How Aguirre handles the pressure in his first big ACC game will be a major factor that determines whether the Blue Devils can pull off an upset for the second straight year.

“He can create opportunities for himself and he can also slip guys in with through-balls and play one-twos,” Kerr said of the freshman. “He’s a very talented player. He won’t be over-awed by the occasion on Saturday.”

While it is still early in the season for this Duke team, it has a chance to make a statement to the rest of the ACC Saturday night that though it may be young, it will not back down.

“It’d be great to knock off the defending national champions,” Kerr said. “We’re worried about the game and if it carries over and gives us confidence and creates a good spirit for our team, that’d be great. But we have to take care of business first.”

fiba from page 9 game, Krzyzewski had nothing but nice words to say afterwards.

“Coach Blatt has had an amazing career in coaching in Russia,” Krzyzewski said. “The way his team played today is an example of the high quality of coaching that he gives his players.”

Now Team USA will face Lithuania, which shocked Argentina by winning 104-85 yesterday, thanks in part to inspired play from Linas Kleiza, who had 17 points, and former Duke guard Marty Pocius, who had 16. Pocius, a starter, will play his former college coach for the second time Saturday. In an exhibition match last month against the U.S., he had seven points as his team fell 77-61.

were a passing juggernaut, scoring over 40 points in two of the teams’ last three meetings. Now, Wake Forest is establishing itself as a fearsome rushing team, having totaled 415 yards on the ground in the season-opener against Presbyterian en route to 53 points.

Duke’s rush defense was exposed against Elon, conceding six yards per carry, and the unit will have its hands full against the Demon Deacons’ mobile quarterbacks.

“They are very difficult to defend,” Cutcliffe said. “Their schemes, their run game, both quarterbacks can run, both quarterbacks can run the option, both quarterbacks can throw.... This is a very physical Wake Forest team, and we’re going to have to be physical on both sides of the ball to have any opportunity to go and have a road win.”

Nevertheless, the Blue Devils had enough of their own offensive firepower in their opener last weekend, particularly in the passing game. Duke has scored 30 points in each of its last three outings against the Demon Deacons, and Sean Renfree and company seem poised to repeat that feat after throwing for 350 yards against the Phoenix. Against a relatively inexperienced Wake Forest secondary, the Blue Devils will have to take full advantage of their ability to throw the ball.

Demon Deacon head coach Jim Grobe expressed concern about facing such a talented offense early in the season.

“You can be on your ‘A’‐game and still give up a lot of yards to these guys,” Grobe said. “It starts with the quarterback [Renfree]—he is really special. [Conner] Vernon, [Donovan] Varner and all those receivers are all the real deal. Not only do they have good foot speed and run really good routes, but they also have great hands. I’m really impressed with the quarterback, but you don’t complete 80 percent of your throws without people catching the football.”

With top-ranked Alabama coming to town next weekend, the Blue Devils could use some positive momentum at the start of the season if they are to realize their goal of earning a bowl bid. And if Duke finally breaks its decade-long reign of futility against the Demon Deacons, the team could accomplish another impressive milestone—the first 2-0 start of Cutcliffe’s tenure.

w. soccer from page 9 front, but expect Blue Devil midfielders to also get in on the offensive action.

“The nature of our beast is going to be how we score goals. Midfielders are scoring a lot of goals for us,” head coach Robbie Church said. “Their job offensively is to push themselves up high like forwards.”

While he is pleased with his players’ performance last week, Church still stressed his team’s room for improvement. He noted the disappointing August 29 2-1 loss to No. 2 Stanford, in which Duke blew a one-goal lead, as proof that his players are not completely ready to perform against the toughest of opponents.

“We’ve found out we’re not good enough [yet],” Church said. “We played Stanford, and they’re at the top of the ladder, and we’re not there yet. We’re spending a lot of time on [improving] ourselves.”

The Golden Panthers and Bulldogs may not have the same talent level as the Cardinal, yet both squads pose a legitimate threat to the Blue Devils. Florida International (3-3) returns ten starters from a Sun Belt Conference championship team, while Yale (1-1) knocked off then-No. 16 Penn State last week.

“Both of these teams are dangerous,” Church said.

“They’ve got some dangerous forwards, and they both rely on the counterattack. The final ball will be important this weekend.”

Golden Panther freshman Chelsea Leiva, in particular, will challenge the Duke defense. Six games into her collegiate career, the forward, who Church praised for her great speed, already has netted four goals.

Sunday, Duke will square off with Yale’s Becky Brown, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Year. The senior captain scored the decisive goal against Penn State last week.

Despite these skilled opponents, the Blue Devils look to continue their 31-game undefeated streak against unranked non-conference opponents at Koskinen Stadium. Church certainly thinks his team is up for the task.

“I’m really impressed with the girls and how hard they’ve competed and played,” Church said. “They’re just trying to get better.”

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The administration is well prepared to meet this first major policy change, and the Sept. 23 reforms should serve as a test case for Duke’s response to the act’s larger overhaul measures.

Now, the University should prioritize its employees and students by ensuring that they are prepared for the new law on an individual level.

Duke should take advantage of its legal, medical and policy expertise to produce a well-equipped forum to discuss the Patient Protection and Af-

fordable Care Act with students, employees and all University community members wondering how health care reform will impact them. Dialogue on health care can explore more than just the impacts on personal finance. Topics such as how health care overhaul will affect the medical profession would be both extremely relevant and interesting to students interested in pursuing careers in health.

The University should model its approach on similar programs offered in response to the economic recession. The “Primetime” forums, in which administrators briefed employees on key cuts and economic decisions that could affect

their jobs, could serve as an appropriate model.

For years, Duke’s medical heavy weights like Dr. Ralph Snyderman, Chancellor Emeritus of Duke University, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and past president and chief exective officer of the Duke University Health System, have been shaping the national policy debate on health care reform. Now that reform has arrived, it is time to help students, employees and others understand a complicated, yet extremely pertinent piece of legislation.

As an educational institution first and foremost, the University’s academic mission would be well served by such an initiative.

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y now everyone should be aware of the re- which point everything will more or less go back cent goings-on at Davidson University, as well to normal. as the similar but slightly more dated affairs This whole business of delegitimizing campus of Campbell University and Pfeiffer University. police on the basis of relatively inconsequential For those out of the loop, state religious affiliations, then, must courts have prohibited officers emeither be growing pains or a waste ployed by those three universities of time. Those who would call it from enforcing state law on the growing pains would most likely grounds that such action would repstill recognize the basically trivial resent an unconstitutional entanglenature of this debate while chalkment of church and state. Because ing a certain necessity of it up to those universities have religious affilthe coerced streamlining of Uniiations, state officers working there versity missions and operations. A chris bassil could evidently be seen as agents of ruling would seemingly leave the just a minute a religious organization. The first university no better choice than to of these cases was handed down in do away with its old religious lan1994 at Campell. Pfeiffer came in 2002 and David- guage and procedure, and anyone who feels that son marked the newest chapter just last month. this is a good thing for the school can probably And, as whispers in the media have indicated, stomach these court cases. the same issue may soon be arriving on the camOn the other hand, some individuals will pus of Duke University. A Durham attorney named choose to view the whole charade as a pointless Bill Thomas has made clear in a Herald-Sun ar- exercise in lawyerly indulgence. Perhaps perticle that he intends to challenge the legitimacy of sonal dissonance with the perceived importance the DUPD on the same grounds “in the immedi- of this case will come from the fact that none ate future,” with the implied goal of suspending of the arrests so far have involved any sort of their powers of arrest. Thomas also added that religious dispute, but rather are all instances of the reach of such a decision would be “hard to drunk drivers seeking to evade penalty through ignore.” cleverest means possible. Or maybe it’s the difThere is already debate going on as to how ficulty in rationalizing the dedication of time, successful Thomas’ thrust at the University’s po- legal and judicial concentration, university and lice will be. His most obvious strengths are the taxpayer money and effort in general to the duChristian terminology found in the University’s bious project of modernizing a set of words and bylaws, as well as the fact that local Methodist practices that are already observed as little more churches must approve candidates for 24 of the than a powerless collection of empty antiquities. school’s 36 elected seats on the Board of Trust- Lastly it could be that, as mentioned above, some ees. Some claim that this approval is nothing people already rest assured that there will be no more than vestigial and that the same goes for net effect to this affair: the University will go in the language of the bylaws; it is unclear whether with a capable police force and will emerge the or not the court will agree. same way, no matter what sort of headache goes If they don’t, then the University will have a on in between. Taken from this point of view, the couple of options. It can choose to hire Durham continued portrayal of this issue as one of utmost Police Department officers to police the school, urgency is not sustainable, and seems a little bit which is what Campbell, in its much tamer lo- more like an unadulterated saturation of noncale, has done since its 1994 decision at a cost sense than anything else. of $400,000 annually. It can also choose to hire Now, it would be foolish to deny that the events private security, but these measures too will leave discussed here represent some sort of constitutionenforcers without powers of arrest. Or it can re- al loophole, and of course that loophole should vamp the decades-old charter on which it came to be drawn closed. The state and University, though, national recognition, so as to eliminate the consti- would be wise to do it in the most efficient manner tutionally difficult language. possible and in such a way so as to prevent undue Whatever happens, if Thomas succeeds then polarization among the local population. changes will have to be made. After all, no seriA multitude of truly divisive issues exist in this ous institution is going to allow itself to go un- world. There is no need to pass a novelty off as policed. So the appropriate steps will be taken, one of them. whatever they may be, and the University will once again have some sort of police force with Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs evthe power to arrest wrong-doers on campus, at ery Friday.

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Unreality television

’m not much of a television watcher. There are collegiate sports and the yearly surfeit of professional bike racing with the European spring classics and the Tour de France and the spectacle of televised American pro sports and all its excesses from time to time, but ridding my household of its televisions would be an easy, albeit unpopular, decision for me.

I have never found the thomas sporn highly popular medical table for one shows particularly entertaining. With a steady diet of disease and doctors at the Medical Center, I don’t exactly feel the need to import more of the same into my living room via cable. Mostly I am struck by how weird and inauthentic the shows tend to be. What makes this compelling television to so many? It is the residents and trainees that the medical shows seem to center around, sympathetic figures that they are in view of the long hours and legendary hardships in servitude endured by these young doctors as they learn to save lives, perform complex medical procedures and battle arcane disease. The dramatis personae seem beset by all sorts of interpersonal situations that make the shows watchable, and the dramas unfold institutionally in settings that bear little resemblance, structurally or functionally, to either contemporary teaching hospitals or residency programs themselves.

They certainly don’t resemble anything I was ever part of.

My residency in internal medicine was short on interpersonal drama among the trainees, long on hours in the hospital, even shorter on sleep and virtually bereft of personal free time. With every third night on overnight call in the hospital, the housestaff would scurry about admitting and transferring patients, tending to developing situations on the wards, consulting with resident colleagues

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elp, Earl was a dud, but we sure could’ve used the rain.

All that sunshine and hot weather that was inescapable the last two weeks have been hanging around most of the summer while many students were off saving the world and being interns. Too much sunshine hardly seems like a bad thing until a lack of rain equals drought. liz bloomhardt And I hate to say it, but we are experiencing a lowgreen devil level drought.

Surprised? You probably shouldn’t be. This has happened almost every year since 2000, which is as far back as the data available on the North Carolina Division of Water Resources website allowed me to look. In fact, the nicely cyclical color patterns of drought intensity were hypnotizing as I scrolled down the page.

It was, perhaps, not a very scientific survey, but it was telling. Water is a big deal.

Many of us likely remember the recent drought of 2007 and 2008. I recall going home over winter break and joking with my family that there might not be any water in Durham when I got back. OK, only half joking; 25 days of water isn’t really that funny. The entire state was in a bad way.

Duke stopped washing dishes, opting for the paper plate approach, and installed hand sanitizer in bathrooms during that time. All I could think of was the mountains of trash and the superbugs that were sure to be forming before my very eyes.

Flash forward to today. We have yet to be totally consumed by superbugs, and many, but not all, of the changes that were made during that drought crisis are still in place.

The more efficient campus-wide systems, the low flow fixtures—in addition to those on campus, Duke gave away almost 1,000 low flow shower heads to faculty, staff and students living off campus—and the ultra-high efficiency washing machines, etc. (There are still hand sanitizing stations, but I think hand-washing is cool again.)

I’m happy to report that the water consumption of the University has not returned to pre-drought levels.

Don’t get too excited. Consider this amazing fact: Re-

from other services. Contact with the attending service was generally only permitted to move or reassign patients beds, or to notify of a disaster; any call for help would have been considered a sign of weakness.

Interns never slept, sometimes not even finding the time to change into scrubs, indicating their on-call status and whose wearing was prohibited during daylight hours.

A few rooms designated for housestaff use were scattered the medicine wards and ICU’s, but residents hardly slept either and would have to defend their actions and clinical decision making to their fellows and the faculty at morning report come daybreak. Fatigue from the night before would descend on the teams as the day began anew, rounds began and clinics were staffed until a new team’s turn oncall began.

The Chief of Medicine’s words, “You can never do enough for your patients,” were enough to motivate even the lazier residents to staying well into the post call day.

It was not a particularly easy time, nor was it by comparison a particularly brutal residency. Some senior physicians were even disdainful, recalling how things were back in the day, when the housestaff were on call every other night and doing it all, drawing blood, performing low-level laboratory tests and transporting patients about the hospital. And so it went. Patients generally got good care, and residents from my program and others like it generally became well trained and competent practitioners of internal medicine and its specialties.

But in 1984, a perfect storm of resident inexperience, lack of oversight by senior physicians, possible sleep deprivation and a complex medical scenario led to the death of a college freshman named Libby Zion in a teaching hospital in New York. She died within hours of her admission, and it was alleged by her father, a prominent journalist (and others) that it was resident incompetence, fatigue and lack of supervision that conspired to kill his daughter.

The Manhattan district attorney permitted a grand jury

to consider criminal charges, but the pair of residents caring for Libby were, after much legal wrangling, including allegations of contributory negligence and cocaine usage on the part of the decedent, finally cleared of a raft of charges of incompetence and inadequate care.

Several hundred thousand dollars were awarded the family following a separate civil suit years later. The hospital itself was fined millions of dollars. But it was The System in which we train our residents, reasoned the authorities, not the residents themselves, nor Libby Zion’s illness, her habits or the interactions between the prescribed drugs in her system, that killed her.

Something had to change. The New York State Health Commission established an expert panel to make recommendations as to the maximum number of hours residents could safely work, and what type of backup should be in place to assist them. These recommendations have been generally adopted by the Accreditation Counsel on Graduate Medical Education and exist today. Resident duty hours are now restricted to 80 hours per week averaged over a four-week period, inclusive of all in-house call activities. Residents also rate one day off in seven, “free from all educational and clinical responsibilities.”

One day.

This sounds like a lot of work. It is. And these are different times.

Some physicians, myself included, have mixed feelings about duty hour restrictions. There is an abundance of data regarding performance and learning impairment following sleep deprivation, but part of the training in medicine involves socialization to a lifestyle, adaption to the stress of its practice and learning through continuity of care. But I don’t for a moment suggest things were better when I was a resident or that residents become better physicians through suffering.

Dr. Thomas Sporn is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology. His column runs every other Friday.

Water world searchers at Toolik Field Station, a remote research station in the Arctic, use only about 9.7 gallons of water per person per day, compared to 99 in San Francisco.

Surely us Durhamites and Dukies are on the San Francisco side of that scale. But it’s not a totally fair comparison. We don’t bathe in a sauna or jump in a lake and, while few of us are watering lawns, some of us swim in the pools on campus and enjoy a stroll through the Sarah P. Duke Gardens on occasion.

So then, I encourage you to appreciate the success of

past efforts and as you get settled into the semester and develop your little routine, remember to continue to do the little stuff, like turning off the faucet when you brush, taking shorter showers and in general being wise about the water that flows out of the tap.

We live in a watery world, but we don’t get every hurricane.

Liz Bloomhardt is a fourth-year graduate student in mechanical engineering. Her column runs every other Friday.

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