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Greek life unites for convocation

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Duke Police undergoes restructuring

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by Matthew Chase

Despite their associations with 80’s parties, Tailgate and beer pong, members of the greek scene emphasized their commitment to academics and unity Tuesday night.

Roughly 500 greek students shuffled into the Duke Chapel with their chapters for an hour-long convocation. The event served to welcome students, unify chapters into the school-wide greek community and highlight the students’ academic excellence. The greek leaders said they intend for this inaugural event to occur annually in the future.

Zoila Airall, assistant vice president for student affairs for campus life, opened the night with a prelude. Krystal Clark, program coordinator for fraternity and sorority life, said the event was Airall’s idea. Clark added that the focus on academic achievement was intended to showcase the success greek students have in the classroom and their contributions to Duke.

Panhellenic Association President Bogna Brzezinska, a senior, next spoke on behalf of Panhel and its “outstanding academics and scholarship” among its 1,100 members at Duke. Each of the nine chapters has an

The Duke University Police Department and the administration’s oversight of campus safety have undergone significant changes in recent months.

Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, and DUPD Assistant Chief Gloria Graham both left the University last summer. The departures have prompted a restructuring of DUPD that is taking place now, Vice President for Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh said.

“We took this time to take a step back and take a look at the structure of the operation,” Cavanaugh said. “We are taking a look at, ‘What are the organizational needs across the entire enterprise?’”

Previously, DUPD Chief John Dailey reported to Graves, who then reported to Kemel Dawkins, the former vice president for campus services who left the University in June. Dailey now reports directly to Cavanaugh, who is responsible for campus safety. The change emerged after the reshuffling of campus services that occurred after Dawkins departed Duke.

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NYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer spoke at the Fuqua Business School Tuesday. He detailed policy shifts that could help secure America’s financial industries. SEE STORY PAGE 3.

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How the Crimson Tide rolled into Durham Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series focusing on the connection between Duke and Alabama. Yesterday, Laura Keeley wrote about Cutcliffe and Wallace Wade’s history with the Crimson Tide. Today, she focuses on how the game was brought to Durham.

by Laura Keeley the chronicle

When head coach David Cutcliffe sat down to look at future schedules not long after accepting the Duke job in December 2007, he made a mental note of this coming Saturday’s date with the Crimson Tide. The game would be a chance to square off against the team he grew up idolizing, which later became his alma mater, and one of his old Southeastern Conference foes, Nick Saban.

Now, three years later, the matchup also happens to feature the defending national champions, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner and this year’s No. 1-ranked team.

Regardless of what happens on the field—Cutcliffe acknowledged some fans are concerned about Duke’s ability to make a respectable showing—the fact that this game is being played in Durham is considered a victory for the program. In a sign of the University’s dedication to building a perennial postseason bowl contender, director of athletics Kevin White and his department turned down lucrative seven-figure offers to move the game to a neutral site.

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“Waking up in Africa is especially exciting.” ­—Junior Rachna Reddy in “I dreamed in Africa....” See column page 14

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Defense Secretary Gates looks to cut $100 billion in costs, PAGE 4

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Alabama Crimson Tide returned to the practice fields Tuesday in full pads. After thorough demolitions of San Diego State and then-No. 18 Penn State at home, the trip to Durham marks Alabama’s first road game of the year, and according to head coach Nick Saban, a true test of focus.”

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Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., chairman of the House Budget Committee, and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., face a tough line of questioning from congressional members. This year presents a serious challenge to the Budget Committee as members from both sides of the political spectrum struggle to balance a national economy that continues to struggle.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional Republicans said Monday that they will resist President Barack Obama’s plan to allow Bush-era tax breaks for the nation’s wealthiest households to expire. They vowed to fight to preserve the cuts for all Americans.

Obama has argued for extending the tax breaks—which President George W. Bush approved in 2001 and 2003 and are set to expire this year­—only to families earning less than $250,000 a year. But GOP leaders in the House and Senate said that any plan to raise taxes during an economic downturn would harm many small-business owners.

“Americans have had it. They’re tired of Democrat leaders in Washington pursuing the same government-driven programs that have done nothing but add to the debt and the burden of government,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday in a speech on the Senate floor.

KABUL — Although Taliban leaders have denounced Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections and threatened violence at the polls Saturday, some are discreetly making overtures to candidates, apparently in hopes of building political clout in Kabul, according to the top United Nations envoy here and some Afghan politicians.

“Any indication that they’re moving from bullets to ballots, as imperfect as it might be, is a good indicator,” said Staffan de Mistura, who previously was the top U.N. representative in Iraq and took over here in March.

Speaking in an interview at his Kabul office, de Mistura said insurgent leaders in Afghanistan could be trying to bolster their political standing in anticipation of a reconciliation process that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is hoping to jump-start this fall.

Correction

Yesterday’s story “Fuqua launches initiative to address global energy demand” incorrectly reported that the Corporate Sustainability Initiative was part of the Fuqua School of Business and that Daniel Vermeer was the program’s current director. The initiative is actually a part of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and Vermeer no longer holds the post. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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NPHC seeks funding for annual show

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

In its meeting Tuesday night, the Duke University Union received a request for funding and advertising to support the National Pan-Hellenic Council’s Homecoming Step Show.

Junior Clarence Williams, Jr., second vice president for the National Pan-Hellenic Council, asked DUU to co-sponsor the show to publicize the event to the entire Duke community. The National PanHellenic Council is an umbrella organization encompassing the eight historically black fraternities and sororities. The show will take place Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. in Page Auditorium.

“It’s a very popular event and it showcases the history of stepping,” Williams said. “It’s part of the history and tradition of black fraternities and sororities.”

Williams said typically the majority of students who attend the show are black.

In previous years, many students from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University attended the show. This year, however, Williams said the group is trying to get more students from Duke to attend the event.

The group also requested DUU’s support with ushering and finding a host that would reflect the desire for the show to be a “racially diverse” event that can help fight “self-segregation” on campus.

Williams said he already initiated outreach efforts to other student groups, noting that the Inter-Greek Council recently purchased 50 tickets.

In other business: DUU again discussed the possibility of re-opening the Freshman Intern Program, which previously ran in the 2008-2009 academic year.

The program would be implemented to draw freshman into DUU and provide them with a way to develop leadership skills within the organization, said senior Will Benesh, DUU vice president of external affairs. Freshman interns could plan their own event during first semester and potentially sit on DUU’s executive board second semester, he added.

“We know that it works,” Benesh said. “We know it’s a solid way to get these leaders.”

Board members postponed the discussion regarding the Freshman Intern Program another week.

Additionally, Duke Student Broadcasting President Maddie Burke, a senior, announced that DSB will now collaborate with GoDuke.com to produce content.

“We have a bunch of members working on professional live shoots,” Burke said.

“Some things still come down to licensing, but we got it. It’s done.”

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Duke University Union heard a presentation at its meeting Tuesday from the National Pan-Hellenic Council asking for funding and support for the annual NPHC Step Show, which takes place during Homecoming weekend. NPHC is looking this year for greater attendance at the show from Duke students.

NYSE CEO talks politics, economics by marshall vingi THE CHRONICLE

A crowd gathered at Fuqua Tuesday afternoon to hear NYSE Euronext Chief Executive Officer Duncan Niederauer speak about U.S. policy and finance.

Niederauer spoke as a part of the Fuqua School of Business’ Distinguished Speaker Series and drew the audience’s attention to changes he supports to secure the U.S.’s place in the world economy in the coming decade.

“President Obama needs to convey that the U.S. is open not just for business but [open] to business,” he said, adding that the Obama administration needs to stop supporting potential policies that would undermine American corporations and the strength of the U.S. economy.

An increase of the capital gains tax or a disruption of the balance of free trade would be problematic for major corporations, he said. Many companies that now have their headquarters in the U.S. would be forced to move elsewhere, he added. With the right policies, however, Niederauer said he is confident that the U.S. can promptly recover from the recent recession.

With an audience primarily consisting of graduate students, Niederauer also gave advice on entering the finance industry. When asked about the best places for graduates to submit their resumes, Neiderauer recommended that students “cast a wide net.” He told the audience that his first job out of college was a managing position at an Atlanta restaurant—not a typical start for a Wall Street executive.

Neiderauer also emphasized the continuing importance of proximity and access to financial centers such as New York and London, but he also recognized opportunities in emerging world markets such as China, India and Brazil.

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Federal agencies to cut Defense secretary to millions in IT contracts cut $100 billion in costs

by Ed O’Keefe and Marjorie Censer THE washington post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Office of Management and Budget plans to announce Wednesday the cancellation or restructuring of three multiyear information technology contracts totaling $337 million, according to senior administration officials.

The changes are part of the Obama administration’s budgetary and management reforms designed to cut billions of dollars in wasteful and no-bid government programs and contracts.

According to the OMB, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to save $180 million and the Department of Housing and Urban Development will pocket about $44 million by restructuring two long-term IT contracts. The Small Business Administration should save $113 million by canceling a contract.

The EPA contract is meant to replace an older financial system that had inconsistent data and costly maintenance, among other problems. CGI Federal, based in Fairfax, Va., has received $83.1 million in contracts for the program being restructured, according to the Obama administration’s IT Dashboard, a public website that compiles data on federal agencies’ IT programs. The company referred questions to the EPA. Delta Solutions of Reston, Va., has received more than half of the $2.1 million in contracts awarded so far for HUD’s

Financial Management Business Case program, according to the IT Dashboard.

The company did not respond to a request for comment.

The Small Business Administration said the contract being canceled with Fairfax-based SRA International to do a major modernization of its computer system originally cost $217 million. The SBA has spent $29 million on the contract so far, spokesperson Mike Stamler said.

But the deal became too costly, and the agency instead will complete $97 million worth of upgrades over 10 years, he said.

The Department of Veterans Affairs in July canceled a similar multiyear IT project slated to cost as much as $300 million. Other agencies may cancel or rewrite similar deals in the coming months, the OMB said.

The cuts announced Tuesday are “a classic outcome of what we expected when we looked more closely at these projects,” said OMB Controller Danny Werfel. Though they amount to a small fraction of the $80 billion in annual federal IT costs, they are part of a series of reforms announced since the spring that administration officials hope demonstrate the White House’s resolve to curtail government spending as deficit concerns dominate midterm election campaigns.

The cuts—and their impact on several Washington-area contracting firms— come as the Senate plans to pass a multibillion-dollar package of loans and tax relief for small businesses.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defense Secretary Robert Gates started laying out some details of his plans Tuesday to save $100 billion over the next five years as he tries to run the Pentagon more efficiently.

Over the past decade, the Pentagon’s spending has averaged a growth rate of 7 percent a year, adjusted for inflation, including the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that rate is expected to slow to 1 percent as the wars wind down.

Money saved in cutting overhead and other inefficient costs on weapons programs will go toward modernizing and recapitalizing military equipment and sustaining troops, Pentagon officials said.

Gates said Tuesday the Pentagon must get “more bang for its buck and shift its focus to the military’s needs for the future.”

“In too many instances, past mismanagement has deprived [contractors] of the incentives to bring down costs,” — Robert Gates “We’ve not seen productivity growth in defense,” Gates said. He noted that consumers buy “more powerful computers and mobile phones every year, but the taxpayer has had to spend significantly more in order to get more. We need to reverse this.”

The push to rein in the Pentagon’s roughly $700 billion-a-year in spending started last year when Gates trimmed several big-ticket military hardware programs.

Last month, he ordered the closing of the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk. And he took aim at reducing spending on “support contractors” by 10 percent each of the next three years, which could hurt local defense companies that provide professional, administrative and computer services. Also, for several months now, about 40 top acquisition officials have been looking for ways to squeeze the fat and eliminate inefficiencies and unnecessary overhead.

The savings plan he is detailing Tuesday includes a five-step road map on how the Pentagon can be more efficient when it buys roughly $400 billion worth of goods and services that range from advanced

aircraft, ammunition and submarines to contracts for feeding U.S. troops overseas, mowing lawns at military bases and running complex computer networks.

As part of the plan, the Pentagon will set a price of what it can afford to pay for a weapons system that would fit within its budget. Analysts say that often contractors bid on weapons and then return with ideas that can lead to runaway cost increases.

The plan also includes incentives for contractors to keep costs low; better manage how contracts are run; and get rid of some unnecessary, bureaucratic reports.

“In too many instances, past mismanagement has deprived [contractors] of the incentives to bring down costs,” Gates said.

Giving contractors performance incentives should “lead to higher financial reward, higher profit,” he said.

Defense industry analysts say it is unclear whether the savings plans will stick once Gates leaves. He has said he will retire next year. “There’s a lot of speculation about whether these efforts will continue once I’m gone,” Gates acknowledged, but added he believes the cost savings efforts would continue because designing them “has been a team effort of both civilian and military leadership” of the Pentagon.

“I have no doubt that for years to come, these efforts will continue as they see the benefit of adopting these processes that will allow us to transfer money from overhead to real military capabilities,” Gates said.

The Pentagon is closely considering what it can afford on several weapons programs, including the presidential helicopter, a new class of missile submarines, a long-range strike system and ground combat vehicles.

Gates said those programs need to be designed to “affordability and not just to design.” He added it was critical to keep costs in line “so we don’t end up with another half-a-billion dollar presidential helicopter.”

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Clinton convenes second round of Mideast talks

by Glenn Kessler THE washington post

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT — Israeli and Palestinian leaders met at the Red Sea resort Tuesday for their second round of direct talks, tackling for the first time some of the toughest “core issues” dividing the parties as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton scrambled to keep the talks from collapsing over the issue of renewed Israeli settlement construction.

No resolution of that impasse appeared to have been found during two hours of discussions, both before and after lunch, between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. But a senior U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that the settlement issue was discussed and that both men appeared interested in finding a solution.

“It is very clear to me that both leaders are sincere, are serious to want to find a way to continue the discussions,” the official said.

An Israeli official, also speaking anonymously, said: “We want the process to work, and the goal is to keep the process going.

Between zero and the tens of thousands of housing units that are in the pipeline, there are a variety of options.”

Netanyahu and Abbas were scheduled to continue the talks in Jerusalem Wednesday, along with Clinton and George J. Mitchell, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East.

Mitchell, briefing reporters with only sparse details after the initial conversation of 1 hour 40 minutes, sidestepped a question on whether progress was being made on the settlement dispute. He said only that “we continue our efforts to make progress, and we believe we are moving in the right direction, overall.”

Mitchell emphasized that for the first time in these talks, Netanyahu and Abbas have begun to talk about the core issues dividing them, such as borders, security, the status of Jerusalem and the right of Palestinians who had fled during the 1948 war to return to their homes.

“I am not going to attempt to identify each one that was discussed, but several were—in a very serious, detailed and extensive discussion,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell’s remarks were significant because the former Senate majority leader, who is known to choose his words carefully, had said after the first set of talks in Washington that such core issues had not been broached in a substantive fashion. Palestin-

ian officials have indicated they would like to discuss borders first, while Israel officials appear more keen to discuss security.

The U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian meeting followed bilateral talks Clinton held earlier with the two leaders. But looming over this week’s diplomacy is the 10-month moratorium on settlement construction that is due to expire by the end of the month.

Palestinian officials talked tough as they arrived at the negotiations, reiterating threats to walk out if construction does not continue to be curtailed. Netanyahu, under pressure from right-leaning members of his coalition, rejected Sunday a total freeze but suggested some flexibility on the issue. He said Israel could not “freeze the lives” of residents but would also not begin a massive construction program.

Before she arrived here, Clinton told reporters traveling with her that although the United States wants Israel to extend the moratorium, there could be other agreements between the two sides that would improve the atmosphere for talks and permit them to continue. Palestinian officials, for instance, are seeking to begin the discussions by focusing on the potential borders of the two states, which would identify which settlements Israel might keep in a peace deal. Israeli officials want Palestinian recognition of Israel as a “Jewish homeland.”

“There is no prospect for success in the absence of direct negotiations,” Clinton said. “For me, this is a simple choice: no negotiations, no security, no state.”

The administration had hoped that direct talks would have begun when the moratorium was announced, making it harder to let the ban lapse. Now U.S. officials are trying to keep the talks going past the initial phase, making the settlement issue less of factor in whether the talks continue.

Clinton said Monday that the “time is ripe” for the two sides to make a deal.

President Barack Obama has set an ambitious goal of concluding the talks within a year—a tall order, given that a final agreement has eluded peacemakers for decades.

Mitchell reiterated the administration’s desire to achieve a “comprehensive peace,” involving not only Israel and the Palestinians, but also Israel and its other Arab neighbors. To that end, he plans to visit Syria and Lebanon later this week.

Special correspondent Joel Greenberg in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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Wal-Mart targeted by labor union, farmers on Antitrust claims

by Jeff Bliss and Sara Forden bloomberg news

Wal-Mart Stores is the target of an unlikely alliance between a labor union and farmers and ranchers who say the world’s largest retailer is using its power to hold down prices in the agriculture industry.

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which has tried unsuccessfully to unionize Wal-Mart’s employees, is urging the Obama administration to broaden its antitrust inquiry into meat, dairy and seed businesses to include the retailer. Wal-Mart’s defenders say its policies benefit consumers, ensuring them low prices.

The viewpoint of the UFCW, is echoed by such groups as the National Farmers Union, a 190,000-member organization. Until recently, farmers and ranchers had mostly been directing their ire at meat producers such as Tyson Foods and Smithfield Foods. Now some are saying WalMart, whose motto is “Save money. Live better,” is unfairly cutting food costs at their expense.

“We’ve got to really join forces if we’re going to win against this abusive market power,” Mike Callicrate, a rancher based in Colorado Springs, Colo., said.

Wal-Mart’s critics said they anticipate, after years of government reluctance to regulate farming, that Obama will inject more competition into the food-producing business.

Those concerns were at the forefront of an Aug. 27 public meeting in Fort Collins, Colo., with Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

The event was the latest in a series of workshops held by the administration to air competitive and regulatory issues in the agriculture industry. Grocers such as Wal-Mart will be a focus of the final workshop Dec. 8 in Washington. A spokesperson for Kroger Co., the largest U.S. grocery chain, declined to comment on its pricing or supplier policies.

Wal-Mart’s goal is to streamline its supply chain for customers’ benefit by working with, not undercutting, farmers, said Lorenzo Lopez, a spokesperson for Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart.

“We look at ways to develop efficiencies so we can offer affordable choices by building strong relationships” with

local farmers and growers, he said.

The retailer’s actions are governed by market conditions, said Dave Warner, a spokesperson for the National Pork Producers Council, an Urbandale, Iowa-based trade group.

“Wal-Mart is responding to consumers,” Warner said.

“They’re meeting the demand, and the demand is setting the price.”

Chris MacAvoy, a lawyer at Howrey LLP in Washington who represents food suppliers, distributors and retailers, agreed. “To the extent Wal-Mart, or any other so-called power buyer, is using its efficiency to get lower prices for consumers, that’s a good thing,” he said.

Antitrust investigators usually are concerned about rising, not falling prices, which are a cornerstone of WalMart’s business strategy, said Andrew Gavil, a law professor at Howard University in Washington.

Wal-Mart’s detractors argue that the retailer’s power is so great it can underpay for goods, threatening suppliers.

In the past, antitrust officials have not seen Wal-Mart’s actions as a problem, Gavil said.

“So much has been written about Wal-Mart and whether there is anything that they do in pressing for lower prices that is an antitrust violation,” Gavil said. “So far, the answer is no.”

While the administration has not decided how it will proceed, there are no plans now to single out Wal-Mart, Vilsack said last month.

“I don’t think it’s a matter of taking anybody on,” he told reporters at the Fort Collins meeting. “It’s a matter of making sure that the marketplace is fair.”

The Justice Department is still listening to comments and is not going to “prejudge” what it should do, agency spokesperson Alisa Finelli said.

Some rancher activists said proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture rules that would put limits on meatpackers signal the administration’s intent to rein in agricultural companies.

The proposed regulations, which are opposed by industry, would bar meatpackers from buying animals from one another and restrict the companies’ exclusive contracts

with large livestock suppliers.

The administration must do more to combat the harm caused by big retailers, and Wal-Mart in particular, said Fred Stokes, executive director of the Organization for Competitive Markets. The Lincoln, Neb.-based group favors more government action to stop anticompetitive efforts in the industry.

Pressured by supermarkets like Wal-Mart to cut costs, the meat companies in turn force ranchers and farmers to sell their livestock at lower prices, said Bill Heffernan, professor emeritus of rural sociology at the University of Missouri.

“The processers and the packers still have enough power in the whole system to keep their revenues, so they push it all the way back to the farmer and the worker,” he said in an interview. “The buck stops there.”

In 2009, the grocery stores’ share of each dollar consumers spent on beef was 49 cents, while ranchers and farmers got 42.5 cents and meat packers 8.5 cents, according to the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.

That compared with 60 cents for ranchers and farmers in 1990, 32.5 cents for retailers and 7.5 cents for the meat companies.

In 29 U.S. markets, Wal-Mart controls more than half of the grocery market, according to a September report by the UFCW, which represents 1.3 million food-processing and retail workers. In some states, the retailer has more than 30 percent of the market in every major region, the UFCW said. Wal-Mart spokesman Lopez said the company did not participate in the research and declined to disclose its own market share figures.

Warner, the pork producers group’s spokesman, said the retailer is a victim of a campaign by a union trying to recruit its employees.

Wal-Mart’s opponents want “equal outcomes, not equal opportunities,” he said. “What you get out of that is mediocrity.”

Stokes said farmers are looking for a fair marketplace.

“Wake up, bubba,” he said. “They’ve been screwing you.”

Alan Bjerga in Washington, D.C. contributed to this report.

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greek from page 1 average grade point average of 3.5, and seven chapters won awards in national conferences, including Kappa Kappa Gamma as Best Chapter, Brzezinska said.

The Interfraternity Council GPA closely follows Panhel’s at a 3.4, said IFC President Erskine Love, a senior.

“Although the guys are more visible with the play hard aspect of work hard, play hard, we get the job done,” he said.

Inter-Greek Council President Amanda Robison, a senior, shared this sentiment, adding that “academics are above all else.”

Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, Omega Phi Beta, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority had the highest GPAs in IFC, IGC, National PanHellenic Council and Panhel, respectively, Robison said.

Although Love sent an e-mail Monday stating that attendance for the event was mandatory, Jason Lynch, a graduate assistant working

for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, said attendance was only strongly encouraged.

Perks at the event included free sunglasses as well as the year’s first official Pitchfork performance. The group sang “With or Without You” by U2, “I’ll Follow You Into the Dark” by Death Cab for Cutie and “Dear Old Duke,” the University’s alma mater.

Michael Gustafson, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, gave the keynote address, after being “humbled and confused” by the invitation since he wasn’t in a fraternity while an undergraduate at Duke.

Gustafson compared greek life to the Olympics by arguing the importance of symbols to represent mutual belonging to a certain community. Just as Olympic uniforms and flags unite players to their teams and respective countries, greek letters bind students to their local chapters and global legacies.

“A part of knowing who you are is where you came from,” Gustafson said. “You have it within you to make a difference.... Thank you, and let the games begin.”

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dupd from page 1 Cavanaugh said the organizational structure of DUPD in the absence of Graham has yet to be determined, but added that he has consulted with Dailey and other administrators about assessing DUPD. Cavanaugh said administrators have been “benchmarking” DUPD throughout the last 60 days by comparing it to police departments at other institutions. He noted that he has overseen departments similar to campus safety at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Florida.

“We are still going through that assessment,” he said. “If you look at any indicators, the policing operation is doing a terrific job and acting in outstanding shape.”

In the absence of Graham—who started as the University of Tennessee chief of police Aug. 11—Dailey said he has had an op-

portunity to implement changes and learn more about his department. Graham was largely responsible for the daily operations of the force, something that Dailey has taken over for the time being.

“We are looking strategically within the management of DUPD,” Dailey said. “I have been more involved. It’s been really good for me to see the details of the daily operations and needs of the organization.”

Graham, whose last day at Duke was Aug. 6, said her Duke career will prepare her for her future at Tennessee. She said she applied for the position early in the year, adding that her job in Tennessee will place her closer to members of her family.

“These have been, by far, some of the three best years of my career,” Graham said in an August interview. “All the experience I’ve gained here clearly put me in position to get that job at Tennessee.”

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Don’t forget about Thad Even though almost no one in the sellout crowd of 67,044 at the Edward Jones Dome for the St. Louis Rams opener took notice Sunday, the eyes of the Duke football community were looking down proudly. There, roaming the sidelines, was former Blue Devil quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, clutching a clipboard as the understudy to No. 1 overall pick Sam Bradford.

L e w i s ’ presence as a third-string quarterback is undoubtedly impressive, esJason pecially if you know the journey he’s made On Football to get there.

Growing up in a tough neighborhood in MiamiDade county, Lewis was a successful quarterback at Hialeah Lakes High School, leading his team deep in the state playoffs his senior year. But even as Scout.com’s 65th ranked quarterback in the nation, he received only a handful of offers and was not a prospect who scouts thought was destined to play at the professional level.

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With his arrival in Durham, things would not immediately get easier. Initially, Lewis was the third-string quarterback, playing behind both Zack Asack and Marcus Jones. However, Asack would be dismissed from the team following a university suspension, and Lewis beat out Jones for the starting spot.

Being thrust under center as a true freshman was no easy transition, and while Lewis showed some flashes of potential, he finished the season with 11 touchdown tosses compared to 16 interceptions. However, his quick move up the depth chart is a reminder that he’ll never know when his number may be called.

“A lot of people forget that I was the third-stringer at the start of my freshman season at Duke,” Lewis said. “Football is an unpredictable game, so you have to be prepared. You never know when you’ll need to be ready.”

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Palmatary writes that Lewis’s progression to the NFL is amazing when looking at his underdog past.

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In just under seven minutes, the Blue Devils scored four goals, giving them an insurmountable lead.

After a scoreless first half, No. 11 Duke was finally able to find the back of the net— in a big way. Scoring four goals in only 6:35 of play to start the second half, the Blue Devils beat George Washington 4-0 Tuesday night at Koskinen Stadium.

Sophomore Ryan Finley was responsible for three of the goals, giving him his second hat trick of the season.

“We went into knowDUKE 4 halftime ing that sooner or 0 G.W. later we were going to get one and the floodgates were going to open,” Finley said. “We were saying in the huddle before the second half started that we just have to go out there and be confident.”

Duke (2-0-2) controlled the first 45 minutes of the game, as the team applied pressure up top early and moved the ball with ease throughout the midfield. The Blue Devils displayed a variety of attacks, especially from the feet of Christian Ibeagha, who sent several balls over the top that nearly resulted in Duke goals.

The Colonials’ midfield, on the other hand, seemed lost for most of the first half, although they did see their chances off counterattacks that were mostly catalyzed by

forward Seth Rudolf. He was also a part of one of the most impressive plays of the first half when goalkeeper James Belshaw came off of his line past the 18-yard box to clear the ball away with his head and prevent Rudolf from getting a foot on the ball.

The game went into halftime with Duke having the advantage in shots taken (11-0) and corner kicks won (4-1). Despite the dominant performance, the Blue Devils still were unable to score a goal.

Duke came out firing in the second half and managed to break the scoreless streak in the 49th minute with an unassisted goal from Ryan Finley. Then, only a minute later, the forward took advantage of a Duke clear that sailed all the way into the George Washington (1-4-0) penalty area and pounded a shot in from the edge of the six-yard box into the net.

He would score again in the 52nd minute when captain Cole Grossman threaded a ball through two defenders to Finley, who took one more touch from the left flank and fired a scorcher from the middle of the box that left the keeper with no chance.

“He’s one of those guys that doesn’t need to have a ton of chances, he’s just a natural goal scorer,” Grossman said. “He’s one of those penalty box poachers and it’s See m. soccer on page 10

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In a ceremony held at the White House, Duke was honored by Barack Obama for its title win in Baltimore.

Back in May, Duke Men’s Basketball got to meet the president, a reward for winning the national championship.

This week, it was the lacrosse team’s turn.

The 2010 national champions traveled to Washington, D.C. to tour the capital and attend a reception on the South Lawn honoring numerous title-winning collegiate teams. More than 650 athletes and 150 coaches heard President Barack Obama speak to them for around five minutes.

“I want to thank all the teams that have traveled from all over the country for being here. And congratulations for being NCAA champions,” Obama said.

“This is the most athletic talent we’ve ever had on the South Lawn.”

The remarks from Obama focused on the challenges the athletes faced in balancing their academic requirements with their time on the field.

“When each of you won the titles you won, you didn’t do it as a professional,” Obama said. “You woke up early, put in countless hours of practice for the love of the game..... And most impressive of all, you did this while shouldering a full level of classes.”

Parker McKee, who now plays in Major League Lacrosse, along with Ned Crotty and Max Quinzani, told Duke News that one of the best moments of the day had to be reuniting with his former teammates.

“It’s great to be at the White House and it’s great to be back together with the team,” McKee said.

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awesome having him on our team.”

The Blue Devils tacked on their fourth goal in the 54th minute off a corner kick from Grossman that found the head of Matt Thomas uncontested on the far side of the six-yard box.

With a four-goal cushion that had come in the span of seven minutes, head coach John Kerr made a number of subs, giving significant time to the likes of defender Julian McIntosh and Christian Brown, among others.

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Duke remains in a tie for sixth in the NCAA Fall Preview after a solid second day, but sophomore Lindy Duncan has vaulted up the individual leaderboard after a careerbest round of 66. Now tied for fourth after a bogey-free Tuesday, Duncan is in prime position to challenge for the individual title.

Currently at 4-under, Duncan trails overall leaders Brooke Pancake of Alabama and Alex Marina of Vanderbilt.

“Everything was on and I was really confident in all parts of my game,” Duncan said.

Freshman Aleja Cangrejo sits in a tie for 34th place at 4-over, after a second straight round of 74. Laetitia Beck’s second-round 72 places her in a tie for 48th at 6-over, along with senior Kim Donovan. Sophomore Courtney Ellenbogen faltered on day two and was unable to replicate her 2-under performance in the opening round. Ellenbogen, after starting the day just 1-over through nine, barely survived the back nine, and bogeyed eight of her final nine holes.

Last year, the No. 8 Blue Devils staged a miraculous 10-shot final-day comeback to stun then-No. 1 UCLA, and though Duke lies 14 shots back of leader Alabama with 18 holes to play, the Traditions Club may yet see some jostling on the leaderboard. With the wind down and the greens receptive, anything is possible.

“I am definitely going to enjoy it, but I have to work again tomorrow and it isn’t going to be easy,” Duncan said.

Kerr said. “It’s nice to see them get some quality minutes and I thought they played very well.”

Kerr was satisfied with his team’s performance and believes his team is making the necessary strides forward at this point in the season.

“We’re in a good spot now, and a lot will come in the next few weeks,” Kerr said. “We’ve got some big games coming up, none bigger than our archrival North Carolina on Friday.”

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palmatary from page 9 Cutcliffe enough that the coach began talking the quarterback up to some of his NFL colleagues in 2008.

“Thaddeus does a tremendous job of keeping his eyes downfield and reading coverages,” Cutcliffe said. “I told my boys [in the NFL] that he had a real chance even though he’s not very tall.”

Despite his head coach’s recommendation and a record-setting senior season in which he became Duke’s all-time leading passer and a member of the 10,000-yard passing club, Lewis wasn’t among the 255 players taken in the NFL Draft in April.

Fortunately, one of those coaches whom Cutcliffe has a relationship with was former Mississippi State head coach Sylvester Croom, whom Cutcliffe knew from his Alabama days. Croom, now the running backs coach for the Rams, was intrigued by Lewis and recommended bringing the undrafted free agent into camp, which would be the only offer Lewis would receive.

The quarterback was a long shot to make the final roster. Knowing he had a limited time to impress his coaches,

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Lewis took care of business both on and off the field. In the preseason, he completed 22 of 28 passes for 255 yards and two touchdowns. Off the field, he was someone coaches described as humble and hungry. If someone was needed to catch punts or kickoffs during drills, the Miami native was there to do it.

“I totally needed to prove myself,” Lewis said. “They gave me a chance. I had to make the most of the opportunity. I had to go out on the field and execute.”

When it was time to make final roster cuts, Lewis fell in behind Bradford and 10-year veteran A.J. Feeley. And no one could be prouder or happier than Cutcliffe.

“He is such a special young man,” Cutcliffe said. “It may be the most satisfying thing that’s happened to me personally [in football]. I love seeing good things happen to good people.”

Although it is unlikely that Lewis will see much game action this year, he does play the important role of impersonator of the opponent’s quarterback on the scout team. The fact that he had to learn three different offenses at Duke benefits him greatly in this capacity as he shuffles between playbooks on a weekly basis.

While Lewis did acknowledge that his competitive nature makes it frustrating knowing that he is unlikely to play, he is encouraged by the other opportunities that he has to help his team. And even if his football career isn’t lengthy, those who know him best suggest that he will enjoy a very successful future.

“He may be the best crossover leader I have been around,” Cutcliffe said. “Not only does everyone respect Thad, but they love him. Whatever he chooses to do after football, he will do it well. Folks should be lining up now to hire him.”

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Cutcliffe is pleased that Lewis is with the Rams, and he called him the “best crossover leader I have been around.”

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“I think the most important thing was that Dr. White was so supportive, doing what was right long-term for Duke.”

Setting the Schedule Alabama approached Duke in Sept.

2005 with interest in setting up a two-game series because of the Wallace Wade connection, said Mal Moore, Alabama’s director of athletics. Wade led Alabama to three national championships before coming to Duke in 1931 and taking the Blue Devils to two Rose Bowl appearances.

When Duke’s then-director of athletics Joe Alleva and deputy director of athletics Chris Kennedy initially agreed to play the two games against the Crimson Tide, the contract stated Duke would first play at Alabama, a stipulation honored when the Blue Devils traveled to Tuscaloosa and lost 30-14 on October 7, 2006. The two teams also agreed to play again in 2010 at a site to be determined.

Duke had plenty of financial incentive to move the game to a neutral site, such as the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. A source within the athletic department confirmed that the Blue Devils were offered $2 million to move the game to Birmingham.

White and Kennedy didn’t blink.

“There’s more to gain in non-financial ways by having the game here,” Kennedy said. “First, it’s Alabama, second, there’s the Alabama-Duke connection and third, it should be interesting for our fans.”

The Cutcliffe Connection The fact that Cutcliffe now happens to coach the Blue Devils, adding another link between the two schools, is an additional attraction, said Alabama’s Moore. Cutcliffe was a student assistant at Alabama while Moore

was the quarterbacks coach and first offensive coordinator under Paul “Bear” Bryant.

“David Cutcliffe is a good friend of mine,” Moore said. “David was always a student of the game. We know he is a good coach and will have the team prepared. I just hope we come in there and play up to our expectations.”

A self-described college football romantic, Cutcliffe carries with him in his football-skin wallet three Alabama football treasures. The first is a ticket to the November 28, 1981 Iron Bowl matchup between Auburn and Alabama—the game in which Bear Bryant became the then-all-time winningest coach in college football history. The second is a yellowing copy of Bryant’s favorite poem, which was typed on a typewriter.

The third is a small folded newspaper clipping, a short obituary from January 27, 1983, the day after Bear Bryant passed away.

Seizing the Moment Cutcliffe, though, will not be romanticizing about the past for the rest of this week.

Instead, he will be focused on preparing his team for the sizable challenge at hand.

“I’ve been asked earlier in the week, ‘Fans are really hoping this is respectable, how do you feel about that statement?’” he said. “And I said, that’s completely understandable. We all have pride in our program, we have pride in our team, so it’s so understandable to have that feeling when you are playing a powerhouse.

“I want this team to respond in preparation.

I want this team to be prepared well enough to go play, to win if things fall your way.”

Cutcliffe also said he and his assistant coaches, most of whom coached alongside him at Tennessee and Ole Miss, are looking forward to squaring off against Nick Saban. Cutcliffe’s tenure at Ole Miss from 1999-2004 mirrored Saban’s at Louisiana State University. Cutcliffe has a 2-3 record against Saban, a man he considers a master

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Despite a $2 million offer to move the game to Birmingham, Duke will play Alabama at home Saturday. of preparation.

“It gets their blood flowing, too. They remember those days,” Cutcliffe said of his staff. “It’s the ultimate test.”

Adding to the excitement will be a large number of Crimson Tide supporters.

Alabama fans are known to travel in large numbers to away games. The athletic department is expecting the Crimson Tide faithful to bring 120 RVs this weekend and designated the abandoned car dealership across from the Super Target on Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd. as their parking lot. Additionally, Duke added eight sections of temporary bleachers, 3,904 additional seats, to Wallace Wade Stadium for the weekend’s contest.

“They will be wearing red, wearing hound suits, they’ll have flags and stickers on their cars, and they will their have

mobile homes,” Cutcliffe said. “When they start arriving early on Thursday to sightsee around town, folks don’t need to be surprised. They will be on our campus Friday, walking around getting a scouting report. It will be a great atmosphere.”

The players plan to thrive on the added attention. Both junior tight end Cooper Helfet and redshirt sophomore right guard Brian Moore said there would be an extra level of excitement for this weekend’s matchup. Junior safety Matt Daniels said he was so excited to compete against the Crimson Tide that the thought makes chills run down his spine.

“Whoever thinks growing up, ‘I’m going to have the opportunity to play the No. 1 team, defending national champions,’ you know?” he said. “Everyone looks for the opportunity. Only few get the chance.”

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whom they can gain technical skills and work experience in preparation for graduate school or another job.

The reality is that most Duke undergraduates go on to attend graduate school soon after finishing at the Gothic Wonderland. A first job gives students the chance to gain skills and become familiar with the working world before returning to the halls of learning.

It is worth noting that when the Wall Street Journal released a 2004 ranking of America’s most successful “feeder” colleges, Duke ranked sixth in terms of sending its students to prestigious professional schools.

Students, then, ought to look at their first jobs as a chance to step back from the academic grind and experience life in a different way. A

first job can be a stepping stone to a student’s ultimate career choice, or merely an opportunity to explore a passion that will inform their choices after graduate school.

Duke’s Career Center does a laudable job in recognizing the unique challenges of a Duke student’s career search.

Most importantly, it does not pressure students into making hard and fast career choices.

Going forward, the Center should strive to create programs that recognize the interconnectivity of first jobs and subsequent graduate studies.

Duke students could benefit from a ‘one-stop shop’ that addresses both their job search and graduate school concerns.

A pre-law student, for instance, ought to be able to seek law school admissions counseling

and short-term job search advice in the same place.

Finally, the Career Center should seek to expand the types of employers represented at career fairs and on-campus events. Although we recognize that the University is limited by the types of firms that are hiring unskilled undergraduates, the Career Center should continue to increase the diversity of opportunities students are exposed to beyond the typical plethora of consulting and finance offerings.

We hope that some students find their dream job today, but most should use the Career Fair to get excited about adding to their life experiences and continuing on the long path toward establishing a career.

I dreamed in Africa...

have had nightmares for the past three weeks. Little Bear. “Many conservation areas in Africa So have many of my classmates. They are a are thought to have acquired their status as a common side effect of antimalarial medica- result of the previous or persistent presence tions we all had prescribed to us beof regionally endemic animal or fore leaving the United States. human diseases,” my text notes.

Nightmares are not strange to Hmm. Several are listed: African me. When I was seven I repeathorse sickness, African swine feedly dreamt that I went to school, ver, foot-and-mouth disease, anstuck my pencil in the sharpener, thrax, sleeping sickness. started turning the handle, heard Sleeping sickness? What does it churn the wood shavings and rethat mean? Falling asleep in my dim, alized my classmates and teacher high-ceilinged hut seems haunted, rachna reddy were zombies. now not only because of the nightfield notes But these dreams lately have mares. (Oh no, there’s another been stranger than usual. The colsource of inspiration for them.) ors in them aren’t ones I usually imagine in. The I will be switching to another anti-malarial as tones are laboratory-like, green and gray, and I soon as we move to a new site, so I can sleep well am captured by people whose faces I cannot see enough to enjoy my life by day, which is a differor perceive as I try to escape from barred fortress- ent kind of dream. On 5:30 a.m. game drives, es. My roommate told me I’ve started talking in I watch the sun come up over the savanna. It my sleep. Hmm. Two days ago, the same medi- really is pink; the dust makes it look that way. cine started causing symptoms mimicking those And for an hour after it rises we drive through of the flu—I was dizzy, exhausted, and my limbs the hills that are waiting for the rain and see ached. I wished—like a child—that I could curl elephants and their tusks and the patterned up in bed at home all day. But I have never been ungulates and baboons. Then we drive back to farther from home. camp and I have breakfast and go to class while As a doctor’s daughter, I grew up believing monkeys groom each other and steal notebooks illnesses could be fended off as easily as the big if my classmates leave them on outdoor tables bad wolves I was certain slept in the bottom of too long. my bed past where my toes could reach (wolves If it weren’t for my bad dreams, or feeling ill, actually rarely attack humans and are one of my I’m not sure I’d ever want to come home. One favorite animals). But on this continent I am not particular morning, I was eating an apple as I so sure. I was told before I left that if you get even walked to class, and a baby Vervet monkey sat a tiny bit sick in Africa, you feel certain you are on his haunches, clasped his hands around an going to die. After several intense food-poisoning empty space near his chest (an imaginary apple? episodes in India, I am no stranger to unforgiv- I am guilty of anthropomorphizing, I know) and ing tropical diseases, but I have never faced them said so softly, “Eee, eee.” I crossed my arms and outside the protection of medically-trained fam- denied him the fruit; I did not want to be responily members before. sible for feeding wild animals, but I admired his This evening, as I took some Advil and read begging techniques. And another day I sat on the a chapter in my ecology textbook, “Wildlife porch sorting dung beetles for a field project, Diseases and Veterinary Controls,” I began to and saw a mongoose and bushbuck in the trees succumb to hypochondria. The disease names several meters from me. held me terrifyingly enchanted. They were illWaking up in Africa is especially exciting. nesses I had heard whispered, but never seen, aches that didn’t involve sitting on the couch Rachna Reddy is a Trinity junior. Her column runs with my grandma sipping flat 7up and watching every other Wednesday.

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Hedge-fund man finds inner lion in outer space

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o: The Loyal Investors of The Fund From: The Manager Like a lot of hedge-fund guys, I’ve recently endured what might be misconstrued as a nervous breakdown.

Before CNBC or the New York Times or some other rag grabs michael lewis the story and distorts it, I want bloomberg news to tell you about it myself—and explain not only my disappointing returns but also my prolonged absence. Just so you get it straight.

Anyone who runs several billion dollars of other people’s money, and 100 million of his own, is likely to having moments of self-doubt. I don’t recall experiencing any myself, but I concede that others have.

My personal crisis was different: a single moment, earlier this year, when I doubted not myself, but the world we inhabit. If I was a different kind of guy or (God forbid) a chick, I might easily have gone all “Eat Pray Love” on you.

My crisis struck one morning early this year, as I stared at my Bloomberg screens. Nothing had happened and that was the scary thing. For no reason in particular I was overcome by this eerie conviction that markets would never again be free. They’d become traps, run by politicians and bureaucrats, designed to ensnare the superior man.

What had happened, in a word, was socialism.

The law of the jungle, suspended since the fall of 2008, had been permanently revoked. Park rangers would forever more feed and protect all the animals, even the fat slow ones that deserved to die. In this new environment the apex predator— the lion with the gift for spotting the wounded antelope—was doomed. My sixth sense for the kill was now irrelevant.

It goes without saying that, to a lion, feelings of doom are especially painful. To my credit, I resisted hiring a shrink, or rethinking my priorities, or searching for any more meaning in my life. Instead, I shot you that note, reminding you that all of you have the same two-year lock-up, then I cut a check to the Russian government for a seat on its new Soyuz TMA-19 rocket.

Orbit turned out to be the perfect place for a hedge-fund manager to reconsider his place in the universe.

Floating around the capsule providing financial advice to my fellow astronauts and getting to know some of the ladies on board, the disturbing turn of events back on Earth came into sharper focus.

Your constant demands that I explain my strategy to you; the systematic extermination of some truly badass hedgefund guys; the rumors that Goldman Sachs might shut its prop-trading desk rather than simply evade the new laws; the drumbeat that Wall Street is no longer a land of opportunity; Craigslist shutting down its sex ads—all news points in the same direction: big-time returns for me in the future.

The price of being a lion is rising; the weaker lions are slinking away from the jungle. The stronger lion, the lion who survives, will have the jungle to himself. Inside the space capsule I had an epiphany: I am that lion.

Clawing my way along the wall to the capsule’s latrine, I passed a window. For the first time I really looked at the planet we live on—the planet on which I still think I can generate returns in excess of 18 percent per annum.

In that moment I realized how small it is. No bigger than my wallet, when I held it up to the window. A lot of people, including some of you, have described me as “larger than life,” but no one has ever called me “larger than Earth.” Yet in comparison, from that distance, I was huge.

Then it struck me: so long as I keep my distance from my planet, I will be able to keep myself in the proper perspective.

So long as I remain able to visualize my relative size, it doesn’t matter if others seek to shrink me.

The socialists thought they could force me to violate my own nature. I’d found the way to stay true to myself.

Thus reassured, I told the guys up front to cut the engines and get us back down on the ground, preferably somewhere near midtown Manhattan. I was itching to trade; poised for a few quick kills.

Rumor has it that those of you who have given up on me assume you have heard the last of me. Trust me: you haven’t.

Michael Lewis, most recently author of the best-selling “The Big Short,” is a columnist for Bloomberg News. This column originally ran on Tuesday.

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letterstotheeditor Editorial’s conclusion on DCR culture shortsighted The Chronicle’s recent editorial that argues for the disbanding of the Duke College Republicans comes to a strong conclusion without a strong argument to back it up. The editorial notes that the DCR was cleared by the DSG Judiciary last year regarding the impeachment of former club President Justin Robinette, yet feels that a set of distasteful and discriminatory emails compiled by Robinette compels the DSG Senate to disband the organization altogether.

The editorial proclaims that “[the] DSG Senate should take action by punishing the group and not its individual members,” but fails to detail why, exactly, a blind and blanket punishment is superior to a just and targeted one. It suggests that the DCR has fostered a culture­— and I had hoped that we had finished with that word!—of discrimination for “too long.” How long, exactly?

This “culture” was not evident for the years I subscribed to the listserv. Maintaining a “culture” of any kind in a college club is almost impossible. The current CR club is barely recognizable as the one I first joined in 2005. In two or three years, it will be unrecognizable again as new students replace the old and the Robinette saga, now so Earthshattering, fades from the transient memory of a four-year institution.

To be sure, the emails prove that certain members of the DCR listserv are pretty terrible people. Fine. Let the consequences of their reprehensible words fall upon their reprehensible heads. But to punish the many for the transgressions of the few, based solely on a vaguely-sensed “culture,” is pure silliness, born of a yearning for high drama. That the club so targeted is an unpopular political group in the midst of an election season only makes the overreach more troubling­—though how gracious of the Board to allow its return, a year later!

When emails sent through the Duke Chinese Students and Scholars Association’s listserv in 2008 caused actual, physical danger to a pro-Tibet student and her family in China, was the organization disbanded? No—DCSSA was allowed to learn from its mistakes and move on, for the greater good of the student body. Such common sense should prevail again.

Oliver Sherouse Trinity 09’

A message from your student leaders As you have likely witnessed, Duke has been entangled in an ongoing discussion of the activities of the Duke College Republicans and the behavior of the group’s senior leadership dating back to last spring. The Chronicle has already reported much of the story, and we invite you to search the Chronicle archives to learn more about the events that have unfolded here. Rather than retell the story’s past, we want to share our vision for the story’s end.

The Duke community has read the hateful words sent in e-mails between the leaders of the DCR and heard allegations of crimes ranging from vandalism to discrimination and even threats. It is tempting to assume the worst and seek swift remediation. The language used in what we have seen is unacceptable and unbecoming of any members of our community, let alone student leaders. But as these recent weeks have shown, the picture is complicated, and we must be careful to consider the full implications of our response.

Frustrating though it is, we must separate the DCR, whose membership includes an extraordinary number of sophomores and now a new class of freshmen, from the offensive behavior of past leaders who have since resigned. If individuals are guilty of punishable offenses, we must leave it to the Office of Student Conduct to pursue those cases. To take sweeping action against the DCR would be to punish more than 400 students who are guilty only by the remotest association.

Meanwhile, the DCR will hold a fresh election to find a new chair. Contrary to previous statements, this election will be absolutely open to all applicants, and any member of the group who has attended three meetings in the past calendar year may vote. The Student Organization Finance Committee will oversee the election directly and remain in close communication with all members to ensure the integrity of the process.

These internal changes represent significant steps towards fostering a renewed culture of openness and respectful political discourse, which are the shared end goals of Duke Student Government and all parties involved.

At the same time, the Senate is considering a number of actions to give DSG and SOFC greater oversight in the activities of student groups, with special attention to the DCR. Tonight, as the Senate considers this well-crafted legislation, we hope we can close discussions over DCR and be assured that the Duke community will never again allow such behavior to occur within our ranks.

Like many who have spoken out, we look forward to a revitalized DCR that is held to the highest standards of openness guaranteed by its SOFC charter and led by a new generation of campus leaders.

Thank you,

Hold everyone accountable…

Duke College Republicans deserves to lose its charter over the despicable comments individuals made about different races and the LGBTQ community.

However, I do not see Justin Robinette and Cliff Satell as knights in shining armor. These seniors sat silently as derogatory e-mails passed through the hands of DCR members. Only after they were no longer part of DCR did they feel it was a grave injustice.

What did Robinette do about these e-mails when he was president? It is evident that the ill will between Robinette and DCR is being played out on the main stage at the expense of all students involved. If Robinette and Satell actually cared about DCR’s “hostile atmosphere,” changes would have been made long ago. At this point, they are both playing a political game and I, for one, am not fooled.

So if we are holding DCR accountable, Robinette and Satell should be held accountable as well.

Amanda Morrall Trinity ’11

Mike Lefevre DSG President Trinity ’11 Pete Schork DSG Executive Vice President Trinity ’12 Andrew Schreiber DSG Chief of Staff Trinity ’11 Gurdane Bhutani DSG VP for Student Affairs Trinity ’13 Kaveh Danesh DSG VP for Academic Affairs Trinity ’12 Ubong Akpaninyie DSG VP for Durham and Regional Affairs Trinity ’12 Chris Brown DSG VP for Athletics and Campus Services Trinity ’13

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