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Panelists discuss illegal immigrant issue DSG Judiciary voids election violation

by Stephanie Moon THE CHRONICLE

Four panelists met Tuesday night to discuss illegal immigrants and potential reform as part of Duke Political Union’s “Super Tuesday” series. Irene Godinez, member of the Latin American Coalition and field director for the North Carolina Equals Project, Gunther Peck, professor of history and public policy, Noah Pickus, Nannerl O. Keohane director for the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Charles Thompson, director of undergraduate studies at the Center for Documentary Studies participated in the panel. The discussions strive to introduce interesting topics to the student body in hopes of cultivating a broader political culture on campus and strengthening smaller political groups, said DPU co-President Ben Bergmann, a senior. “Students... need to be informed,” Peck said. “If they don’t speak for themselves, others will speak for them.” The panelists discussed problems with the current approach to dealing with undocumented immigrants. Godinez noted an increase in racial profiling by local law enforcement and the growth of hate crimes against the Latino community since 2006. Thompson, who also serves as the leader of the Tucson, Ariz. DukeEngage program, said even as an American citizen, he has had to constantly present his See IMMIGRATION on page 12

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Four panelists examined the policy problems associated with undocumented immigrants Tuesday. The discussion was organized by Duke Political Union, as part of its “Super Tuesday” series.

Duke Student Government named two freshmen Durham and Regional Affairs senators after a one-day delay due to allegations of campaign violations. Freshman Marcus Benning was confirmed Tuesday night after the DSG Judiciary unanimously voted that the Election Commission’s previous ruling was unconstitutional. The Election Commission had punished Benning for his beginning campaigning before the official Sept. 13 start date without giving him an opportunity to respond to the allegations. “Mr. Benning received notice of the complaint after the Election Commission had already made a ruling on the allegations and decided a penalty,” the Judiciary’s majority opinion stated. “The Election Commission acted unconstitutionally in... penalizing him for the alleged infractions.” Freshman Gracie Lynne was also confirmed as a Durham and Regional Affairs senator Tuesday evening. Chief Justice Matt Straus, a junior, said the Judiciary did not rule on whether Benning violated the start date but instead See election on page 6

GoDuke, DSB enter sports coverage partnership by Brandon Levy THE CHRONICLE

Duke Student Broadcasting has recently begun collaborating with GoDuke.com, the official website of the University’s athletics, to create sports-related content. The videos produced by the partnership, called GoDuke.com Student Broadcasting, will eventually appear on both the DSB website and GoDuke.com. “Duke Student Broadcasting is becoming the official student voice of GoDuke.com,” said DSB president Maddie Burke, who explained that the collaboration will allow GoDuke.com to “maintain its professional ambience while we bring to the table the student perspective.” Rob McKinney, director of operations for GoDuke. com, said DSB’s participation will bring a new element to the athletics website. “What we want from them, what they can do that we can’t, is get that angle from the student perspective and from the campus life angle,” McKinney said. “That’s their competitive advantage; they have access to their fellow students and how those students react to all things Blue Devil.” McKinney said producing content alongside DSB will be similar to the way the athletics website currently produces media internally. GoDuke.com will have the final decision as to what is posted on its site.

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“If we feel [a student-produced piece] meets the standards for GoDuke.com we can instantly make it available. If there’s feedback or tweaks that need to be done we’ll give that feedback,” McKinney said. “So while [students] will get experience, they are expected to meet the creative standards we have.” DSB entered into discussion with GoDuke.com at the beginning of the academic year and the partnership officially began Sept. 14. Burke, a senior, said she had been thinking about the large national market for student-produced media and recommended to her contacts at GoDuke.com that they utilize DSB in order to tap into it. “We work with students quite often so it was a really natural progression,” McKinney said. “Maddie was a big advocate of the project; she originally brought the idea of an official partnership to us, so we worked out the details of it to make it something we were comfortable putting our GoDuke.com name on.” The main logistics that needed to be addressed before the partnership began were the logos DSB members would wear in the videos, the name of the partnership and certain workflow details, McKinney said. He emphasized the importance of determining a schedule for what DSB members would cover so as See goduke on page 12

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Duke Student Broadcasting has begun collaborating with GoDuke. com and will provide a student perspective to athletic events.

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Cutcliffe has been busy watching game tape from this weekend’s defeat against the reigning champs and on Duke’s upcoming opponent, too busy to edit the depth chart provided to the media during Lunch with Cut. When asked about the apparent lack of changes on the defense which has allowed 116 points through the last two games, Cutcliffe replied “To be honest, I have no idea what they gave you, but we are looking at some things and will have some changes for next week.” — From The Playground sports.chronicleblogs.com

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Security breach gives Swedish dems struggle Twitter users headache with immigration issues NEW YORK — Twitter Inc.’s website was impaired by a security flaw that caused people to unwillingly resend messages posted by other users and directed them to third-party sites, including ones that feature pornography. Twitter subscribers described the flaw in posts on the site, and it affected the account of White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. San Francisco-based Twitter said in postings that it identified an attack and “fully patched” it. The flaw affected subscribers when they moved their mouse over infected short messages, or tweets, causing an embedded code to execute and creating messages that directed people to third-party sites, said Graham Cluley, a consultant at Sophos Plc, a computer-security firm in Abingdon, England. It stemmed from a vulnerability that lets people post scripts—a type of software code—into tweets, he said.

STOCKHOLM — Thousands of Swedes demonstrated against the Swedish Democrats as Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt struggles to form a government that does not have to rely on the anti-immigrant party after Sunday’s election. About 10,000 people protested in central Stockholm late Monday after the Swedish Democrats got 5.7 percent of votes and their first seats in parliament. Protesters waved banners that declared their support for multiculturalism. Reinfeldt, whose four-party coalition won 49.3 percent, has reached out to the Green Party, part of the three-party opposition bloc, to stop the Swedish Democrats from holding the balance of power. They have so far rejected his overtures. All groups in parliament have said they will not work with the Swedish Democrats, who want to reduce immigration by 90 percent.

Correction

Yesterday’s article “Hispanics work to build a community” incorrectly stated that Latinos represent approximately 2.2 percent of Durham County’s population. Latinos actually represent 12.2 percent of the population. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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GAO report: OSHA failing to protect whistleblowers by Lisa Rein

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal agency responsible for worker safety and other protections for tens of millions of Americans has failed for decades to establish a system to shield whistleblowers from retaliation from their employers, according to government auditors. The Government Accountability Office’s report criticizes the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for “ineffective” whistleblower protections that have persisted 20 years after auditors first reported weaknesses. The stakes have only grown for workers and the public over the last decade, as OSHA— created to ensure safe and healthy working conditions for employees - has expanded its mission. The agency is now charged with enforcing 18 whistleblower laws, covering private employers in the areas of nuclear power, transportation, securities, consumer product safety and the environment. “For over 20 years, we have repeatedly found that [the agency] lacks sufficient internal controls to ensure that standards for investigating whistleblower complaints are consistently followed,” the 46-page GAO report, released last week, concludes. Auditors described “significant internal control problems” in the whistleblower protection program, adding, “The problems appear systemic, and sustained management attention is needed to address them.” Workers who report on waste, fraud or other prohibited or unlawful practices in

the workplace can play a crucial role in making sure federal laws are enforced. But whistleblowers risk reprisals from their employers, including demotion, reassignment and firing, auditors said. Federal laws establish a process for workers who believe they have faced retaliation to report their concerns to investigators. As President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, auditors conducting one in a long line of reviews of the whistleblower program reported that OSHA investigative teams were short-staffed and lacked adequate training and resources to do their jobs. The investigators also had insufficient oversight by superiors to ensure that complaints were properly investigated. The GAO recommended changes to address the problems. When auditors returned a year later, most of the problems remained. While some regional offices took whistleblower complaints more seriously than others, many investigators still lacked formal training. The agency’s national headquarters lacked accurate files and data to ensure that a case brought to regional office was investigated. The program is also not routinely audited, and audits that were performed “lacked independence,” auditors found. OSHA has hired 25 new investigators this year, but the process of assigning them to regional offices was “not transparent”— some areas of the country are See OSHA on page 12

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Grad students updated on insurance policies by Kelly Scurry THE CHRONICLE

The Graduate and Professional Student Council heard a presentation on one of its biggest issues—health insurance for graduate students—at its second meeting of the year Tuesday. Student Health Insurance Manager Anna Salinas spoke to the council on changes in the health insurance plan implemented for graduate students this year. There will be increases in premium rates, which could be as high as $5,640 per year depending on the graduate student’s age, Salinas said. “The rate is determined by claim sub-

mission history in the 2009-2010 [academic] year,” she added. Out-of-pocket expenses within the insurance network will be limited to $2,050 for the individual policy and $4,500 for the family policy, Salinas said, adding that this amount includes the $25 copay. Outside the network, the individual policy deductible will be $300 with a limit of $3,000 on out-ofpocket expenses, and the family policy deductible will be $900 with a limit of $9,000 on out-of-pocket expenses, according to Salinas’s presentation. For prescription medication benefits, a See GPSC on page 6

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Group holds event to recruit new members by Kevin Thurman THE CHRONICLE

Duke University Union held its first general body meeting of the year last night. The gathering, held to provide general information about the organization’s various committees to both returning and potential members, attracted approximately 60 students. DUU President Yi Zhang said the most important purpose of the meeting was recruiting freshmen, whom she hopes will become future leaders of DUU. She added that she was concerned that the organization would not have enough strong leadership next year after this year’s seniors, who comprise the majority of the Executive Board, graduate. DUU introduced its two new committees, the Innovations Committee and the Annual Events Committee, which are offsprings of last year’s Special Projects Committee. Zhang said she was initially concerned that DUU members would be hesitant about getting involved with the committees because they are new. Some members may also not yet have a strong idea of what these new committees do. But Senior Dustin Gamza, chair of the Innovations Committee, said there were many freshmen interested in joining, adding that he was excited about having so many new members. “Freshmen have a fresh perspective,” he said. “They have great and crazy ideas,” he said. Gamza said that the Innovations Committee can potentially collaborate with other organizations outside of DUU. “There are really no limits except our imaginations,” he said. “If it is financially feasible, then we can do it.” Senior Alison Lane, chair of the Annual Events Committee, said the meeting’s turnout was impressive and that it was worthwhile to have all the committees in one place so that students can get an overview of what DUU does as a whole. “A lot of times, people don’t realize that these committees are part of one organization,” she said. Lane added that the Annual Events Committee’s first event, a scavenger hunt, was a successful effort to strengthen ties between the University and Durham.

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Duke University Union described the different committees under its umbrella to potential new members at its general body meeting Tuesday.

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Sec. Clinton Teacher bonuses not linked to presses for student performance, study says more aid by Nick Anderson the washington post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A study released Tuesday found that offering teachers annual bonuses of up to $15,000 had no effect on student test scores — a result likely to inflame debate about performance pay programs sprouting in schools nationwide. The study suggests that teachers already were working so hard that the lure of extra money failed to induce them to intensify their effort or change methods of instruction. The experiment, in Nashville public schools, calls into question a key aspect of market-driven initiatives to improve schools that have become the vogue in some education circles. “Pay reform is often thought to be a magic bullet,” said Matthew Springer, a Vanderbilt University education professor who led the study. “That doesn’t appear to be the case here. We need to develop more thoughtful and comprehensive ways of thinking about compensation. But at the same time, we’re not even sure whether incentive pay is an effective strategy for improving the system itself.” With backing from federal and state governments and private foundations, a growing number of public schools in recent years have embraced paying teachers at least in part on how much they raise student achievement. President Barack Obama has encouraged the movement despite skepticism from some teachers unions and from lawmakers within his party. District of Colum-

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UNITED NATIONS -— On the sidelines of a U.N. anti-poverty meeting, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed Arab officials Tuesday to bolster their financial contributions to the Palestinian Authority and to support the nascent peace talks more visibly. The Palestinian Authority has received much of its budget support from the European Union and the United States, with oil-rich Arab countries lagging in supplying the amounts they had pledged. The situation has become even more acute this year, Palestinian sources said, as the Palestinian Authority has embarked on a two-year effort to build the governmental institutions needed for statehood. Clinton raised the question of aid to the Palestinians directly with the emir of Qatar during a lengthy meeting Tuesday, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. “She did encourage Qatar to make a contribution and to encourage others to do as well,” he said. Qatar, where some top officials of the militant group Hamas own homes, cut off all funding to the Palestinian Authority after Hamas seized exclusive control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 and a power-sharing agreement with the Fatah movement See AID on page 12 ADVERTISEMENT

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bia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee became a hero to reformers in part because of her insistence on a new teachers’ contract that allows performance bonuses. Central to such reforms is the notion that teachers should be rewarded when their students achieve outsize gains on standardized

“We need to develop more thoughtful and comprehensive ways of thinking about compensation.” — Matthew Springer, Vanderbilt University education professor tests. That is a major shift from the tradition of determining pay by seniority and credentials such as master’s or doctoral degrees. But the study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt casts doubt on hopes that performance pay alone can dramatically improve public schools. In a three-year experiment backed by federal funding, researchers tracked what happened in Nashville schools when math teachers in grades 5 through 8 were offered bonuses of $5,000, $10,000 and $15,000 for hitting targets in annual testscore gains. About 300 teachers volun-

teered, and half were assigned to a control group ineligible for the bonuses. Researchers designed the bonuses, funded by a private donor, to be large enough to function as a legitimate incentive. There were no additional variables— no professional development, mentoring or other elements in the experiment meant to help elicit better test scores. On the whole, researchers found no significant difference between the results from classes led by teachers who received bonuses and those led by teachers who did not. Obama administration officials and a wide range of experts were quick to note that the study did not examine the effect of performance pay in combination with other measures to improve teaching. “While this is a good study, it only looked at the narrow question of whether more pay motivates teachers to try harder,” said Peter Cunningham, assistant U.S. education secretary for communications and outreach. “What we are trying to do is change the culture of teaching by giving all educators the feedback they need to get better while rewarding and incentivizing the best to teach in high need schools, hard to staff subjects. This study doesn’t address that objective.” Under Obama, officials say, a federal program that backs performance pay efforts in dozens of school systems has quadrupled to $400 million a year. Federal officials say a number of such efforts have See bonuses on page 12

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GPSC from page 3 new tier system will determine a student’s copay. Salinas added, however, that some prescription drugs have quantity and supply limits and that students should access the Duke Student Medical Insurance Plan website for a list of approved medications and those with quantity and supply limits. For maternity testing lab screenings, medical providers must submit medical records at the time claims are submitted to UnitedHealthcare StudentResources, or the entire claim will be denied and the patient will pay the entire bill. The insurance policy will cover up to three ultrasounds. For additional ultrasounds, however, the medical provider must submit a letter of medical necessity and the patient’s medical records for insurance coverage. Salinas ended her presentation by providing information for receiving the current benefit booklet and prescription medication lists, emphasizing the need to know your benefits. David Kahler, a student health insurance advisory council

member and fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering, outlined the methodology for determining the costs of health insurance. Since 2000, health insurance prices have risen for students 45 years and older, a trend present “in the community and nationwide,” he said. Insurance prices are bracketed by age, with the prices rising as age increases. However, one reason for the high price of health care is obstetrical and gynecological services. Kahler said GPSC pushes for the use of gender brackets in determining prices but that it is currently illegal in North Carolina. He added, however, that North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities “is pushing for [the use of gender brackets]” in court. In other business: GPSC Treasurer Fallon Ukpe, a student in the School of Medicine and the Fuqua School of Business, recommended that the council approve additional funds for the GPSC Basketball Campout beyond the current budget of $7,400, but no conclusion was reached. Campout will be Oct. 1-3. Registration is currently open and the event will have a silent auction for charity.

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election from page 1 limited its discussion to the election bylaws and the language of the constitution. The Election Commission received the formal complaint Sept. 9 against Benning for soliciting support from his friends via e-mail. The Election Commission met immediately after polls closed Monday night and decided to penalize Benning by nullifying 21 votes. Had the loss of votes been upheld, Benning would have lost what DSG Attorney General Ryan Clark, a junior, called one of the more competitive races. Benning denied all allegations of illegal campaigning but declined to forward the e-mail in question to The Chronicle. “I want to make it completely clear that I did not campaign prior to the beginning of election week,” Benning said. “I sent an e-mail to friends... and asked them if they would help me with my campaign once my campaign began on the 13th of September.” Benning said he received a phone call at midnight Monday from Straus, who encouraged him to file suit against the Election Commission’s procedures. “I wouldn’t have appealed the ruling on my own, but it was suggested for me to do so by the Judiciary,” Benning said. The Judiciary did not come to a decision until approximately 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. Tuesday afternoon, the individual who filed the original complaint against Benning filed a second complaint alleging that Benning solicited support from students at places like the East Campus Bus Stop before Sept. 13. The Election Commission dismissed the allegations because they were based entirely on hearsay. Benning confirmed that the complainant was an opposing candidate, but Clark declined to reveal the individual’s identity.

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David Cutcliffe revealed several tidbits at his press conference yesterday, including news on Juwan Thompson’s ankle and difficulties putting together the depth chart

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Road trip a success by Steven Slywka THE CHRONICLE

Last night’s contest versus UNC-Wilmington was Duke’s first trip away from Koskinen Stadium this season, and the Blue Devils’ first road game was a success. Sophomore striker Ryan Finley scored early for Duke and sophomore keeper James Belshaw held DUKE 1 on for the shutout as the Blue Devils UNC-W 0 defeated the Seahawks 1-0. No. 11 Duke (3-1-2) faced one of the best keepers in the nation in senior Brock Duckworth, who hadn’t given up a goal at home for UNC-W (4-2) all year prior to the contest. The Blue Devils also had to contend with a hostile crowd for the first time. “They had a great crowd out there, it’s a difficult place to play, and not a lot of teams are going to go there and beat them,” head coach John Kerr said. “UNC-Wilmington is a difficult team to break down, so coming on the road for our first away game and getting a shutout was crucial.” After the game was relatively even early on, senior midfielder Cole Grossman won possession in the middle and found an

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Sophomore Ryan Finley continued his hot streak yesterday by scoring the Blue Devils’ lone goal.

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3rd quarter woes leave Duke puzzled by Andy Moore THE CHRONICLE

What has happened to Duke’s third quarter offense? It is a question that has plagued the

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Quarterback Sean Renfree needs to give the Duke offense a spark in the third quarter this weekend.

Growing up in a family of sports fans, oftentimes our holiday dinners would evolve into a discussion of sports that would resemble ESPN’s Around the Horn. My two brothers, Dad, Grandpa, and I served as the cast, and even Mom and Grandma would chime in with analysis that would make most women raise their eyebrows. Jason One of my g r a n d f a t h e r ’s favorite college On Football sports theories was that there should exist an All-Academic sports conference. The participating schools would include Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Rice, Army, Navy and Air Force. Always an old-school advocate of the student-athlete, he looked at this setup as a way to even the playing field for the smaller private schools, specifically in football. This past weekend’s demolition at the hands of Alabama in front of a split crowd at Duke’s home stadium serves as a perfect representation of the spoils that the big state schools enjoy in football. College football has become such a big business that the pure volume of alumni, boosters and other supporters creates a cash cow that fuels recruiting

Blue Devils’ coaching staff so far this season. Of Duke’s 102 total points, only three have come in the third quarter. Head coach David Cutcliffe is puzzled that his typically high-powered offense seems to go into sleep mode after halftime. “We’ve got a lot of work to do and look at it in every area,” head coach David Cutcliffe said at his weekly press conference yesterday. “Why are we disappearing in the third quarter offensively? I’m hunting that [question] with a big ol’ stick.” The inability to put points on the scoreboard began in the Blue Devils’ first game of the year, a 41-27 win over Elon. After scoring 27 points against the Phoenix in the first half, Duke began the third quarter with a quick three-and-out, then a five-play drive that ended in a turnover on downs, then a long run at the end zone that resulted in a missed 45-yard field goal from Will Snyderwine. The result: Zero points in the third quarter. It continued in Winston-Salem in Duke’s second game. The Blue Devils had just scored 35 points in the first half, but the offense shut down at the beginning of the second. Alex King was forced to trot out for four straight punts before Duke finally gave Snyderwine the chance to kick a field goal, which the junior responded to by making a 46-yarder. In Saturday’s Alabama loss, with 29 seconds left in the first half, Duke became the

first team all season to score a touchdown on the Crimson Tide. It had offensive momentum for the first time all day, and it was effectively killed by two straight three-and-outs and no points in the third quarter. After the game, Cutcliffe bemoaned his team’s regression after the first half. “Probably the most disappointing thing amongst many things is that we didn’t get better in the second half,” he said at the time. No easy answers exist to explain the issue. Cutcliffe has made sure that his team’s rhythm has not been thrown off by the break in action, checking to make sure that the Blue Devils’ warmup routines are similar to those before the game begins. He said he made sure during the Alabama game to watch the receivers catch balls and he checked if the running backs were practicing at game speed. He couldn’t find anything different enough to justify the lack of offense. “I’ve studied it and looked at it, and I watched us this week and saw us warming up and watched kids moving around,” Cutcliffe said. “I’ve kind of looked at everything and don’t see anySee 3rd quarter on page 8

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Wake Forest has created a football program that Duke can easily emulate, Palmatary writes.

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palmatary from page 7 and allows today’s national powerhouses to function almost like professional teams. For this reason, it is my personal opinion that a private institution other than USC or Miami will never win another NCAA national championship. Looking at the history books, one can’t help but notice that since 1960, only four different private schools—Notre Dame, USC, Miami and BYU—have won the consensus national title outright. All of these schools, though, had unusual circumstances surrounding their successes that aren’t afforded to the traditional private school is in today’s college football landscape. BYU won by vote 26 years ago while going undefeated, an accolatde that has not been reciprocated to modern, unbeaten non-BCS teams. Miami began its reign with an NFL stadium to play in and the “State of Miami” talentpool to recruit from. Notre Dame, with its 80,000-seat stadium, TV contract and rich football tradition isn’t remotely close to being a traditional private school from an athletic standpoint. And USC, with its sizable student body,

3rd quarter from page 7 thing really unusual.” He also dismissed changes on defense from Duke’s opponents as being the cause of the problem. “Schematically, it’s been nothing. Nobody’s run something new in the second half that they didn’t run in the first half,” the coach said. “There’s no particular reason

support from a large metropolitan area and lack of a pro football team in Los Angeles sticks out like a sore thumb when grouped with these other high-achieving academic institutions. Still, that doesn’t mean that one of these more representative private schools can’t enjoy a very successful football season. In just the past 10 years, Stanford, Northwestern and Wake Forest have each overcome their inherent disadvantages to turn heads with very impressive runs. If I were on the Duke coaching staff, I would be dissecting the runs that these teams had in an attempt to replicate them. Stanford posted a 9-3 record in 2001 before head coach Tyrone Willingham moved onto what he thought were greener pastures and, more recently, went 8-5 last season and nearly upset Oklahoma in the Sun Bowl by relying on the legs of Heisman contender Toby Gerhart. Northwestern, a program that not only consistently boasts one of Division I-A’s highest graduation rates but also has five bowl game appearances since 2000, has found a way to compensate for its lack of raw athleticism by relying on a unique form of the spread offense. And Wake Forest, despite being the smallest school in a BCS conference, has played in four bowl games, including the 2006 Orange Bowl, in this decade. Head coach other than we’re not getting it done.” Cutcliffe was hesitant to even bring up the subject Tuesday, saying that he didn’t want the issue to “become a thing.” Despite those remarks, though, he did say he had addressed the scoring problem with his players. “You have to be tough enough mentally to identify a problem and take it head on and not run from it,” he said. “I don’t mind mentioning it.”

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Duke’s coaching staff is puzzled by its team’s lack of offense in the third quarter this season, and is so far without any answers to the problem.

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Jim Grobe has done a tremendous job in recruiting players that fit into his complicated offense that combines the spread passing attack with the triple option. For smaller private schools operating on lesser budgets, down seasons are almost a guarantee as standout coaches are likely to leave for bigger paychecks and their talent that may have slipped through the cracks will eventually graduate. But, based on these schools’ successes, it is critical to have a head coach with a system that allows for smaller players to be competitive. Also, the importance of recruiting talented players at the playmaking positions that the bigger schools overlook cannot be overstated. In terms of the picture that these case studies paint for Duke’s prospects, I think it is very promising. First, head coach David Cutcliffe has made it clear that he is in it for the long haul and hopes to make Duke his legacy project. So, he just needs to continue to bring in talented playmakers to surround his hand-picked quarterback and increase the speed and physicality of the defense. The reality is that he has no other choice. My grandfather’s dream of an All-Academic conference is nothing more than that. Like Northwestern, Wake Forest and Stanford, Cutcliffe will need to find creative ways to bring down the titans of his conference.

M. soccer from page 7 opening in the Seahawk defense, playing the ball to Finley down the left side. Finley found himself alone with Duckworth. “Cole just played a great ball in, and then just oneon-one with the keeper. [Grossman and junior midfielder Chris Tweed-Kent] pretty much made the play and I was just on the end and finished. Those two did all the hard work,” Finley said. “You definitely want to get off to a good start, so when you get the first goal early in the half, it’s a confidence boost for your team.” Finley’s goal in the 22nd minute was his eighth of the season, making him the nation’s scoring leader. “I couldn’t do it without my team so I owe them a huge shout out for making it possible to score goals,” Finley said. “It’s important to not only see the stats but also the guys behind the scenes who are doing the dirty work.” Defensively, the Blue Devils continued their strong play. Belshaw earned his third shutout of the season, recording two saves. UNC-W pelted Duke with six shots in the second half and almost scored from a free kick around 35 yards out with just under 16 minutes left. But even after sending several men forward in the final 10 minutes, the Seahawks could not find an equalizer. The back line was also boosted by the return of freshman defender Sebastien Ibeagha, playing in his first game since suffering a leg injury in the season opener against Louisville. The return of Ibeagha not only solidifies the defense, but offers Kerr more freedom to use talented sophomore Andrew Wenger in different places on the field. “Everyone wants to know what we’re going to do with Wenger,” laughed Kerr. “We haven’t exactly decided what we’re gong to do but Sebastian will definitely be playing in back there. He played very, very well tonight.” The Blue Devils now return home to resume ACC play. While satisfied with the performance of his team in its first road test, Kerr realizes there’s room for improvement during conference play. “We played OK, but not great,” Kerr said. “We know we can do a lot better and we’ll move on to our big game Friday against Boston College.”

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Nicholas pledge needs closure This week it was revealed ronment, and $2 million was by The Chronicle that a to be allocated to Perkins landmark $72 million dona- Library. This remains the tion pledged to the Universi- largest publicly announced ty in December 2003 during donation pledged to the the Campaign for Duke has University in its history, and not yet been was at the time paid in full. one of the top editorial Although we five donations recognize this is a sensitive ever pledged in higher eduissue for both the University cation. The Nicholas School and the donor, we feel that was named after the Nichosuch a highly lauded gift re- las family following a previmaining unpaid is a subject ous $20 million gift. that necessitates discussion. Yet the school has not During the eight-year received all of the money public Campaign for Duke pledged, with the donation’s that ended in 2003, Peter December 2008 deadline Nicholas, co-founder of long since passed. It is difBoston Scientific and Trin- ficult to determine what opity ’64, pledged a record- tions Duke has to respond breaking $72 million to the to this unfortunate situaUniversity. Most of these tion. The most drastic course funds were devoted to the would be to pursue legal acNicholas School of the Envi- tion against Nicholas if he

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signed binding documents. While this may bring in the money, it would ultimately be foolish. To go after donors with such force could frighten potential donors from giving, lest they too fall short on a pledge. This is an undesirable consequence, and it would reflect poorly on Duke. Normally this sort of matter is best dealt with privately, and we can understand Duke’s hesitancy to publicize it. We do not wish to chastise Nicholas, a former chair of the Board of Trustees who has a generous track record of giving to Duke. Unfortunately, his largest pledge could have been the victim of bad timing. The value of Boston Scientific shares has plummet-

ed from about $48 in 2004 to about $6 today. Nicholas’ company has clearly suffered an unforeseen financial downturn. However, this donation has been publicly showcased since its inception. The missing Nicholas Hall, for which much of the money was reserved, is a symbol of the donation’s absence. Considering that it was billed as the largest gift in Duke’s history and the largest ever received by a Southern university, it should come as no surprise that questions are being raised. Budgeting considerations aside, this pledge is far greater than other donations. It is significant from a public relations standpoint, and it looks bad for both Duke and Nicholas if the sit-

uation goes without closure. Given the permanent visibility of this pledge, it is imperative that it is openly discussed. We hope that this will be an impetus for Duke and Nicholas to arrange a publicly acceptable agreement as to the status of this donation. Nicholas currently states that he plans to fulfill his pledge, but how he will do this remains unclear. Fortunately, this sum capped a campaign that was highly successful. Duke and the Nicholas School both raised much more than expected. We are lucky that this has little impact on undergraduate and graduate education. Nonetheless, this donation must be reconciled in some visible manner.

The disease of Next

uring Rosh Hashanah services, the remember that paper I had due the next day, rabbi at the Freeman Center (himself but I am going to remember blacking out on quoting another member of the Duke a Tuesday night,” but then we majored in ecocommunity) provided one of the nomics or public policy or took a more apt descriptions of students whole bunch of pre-med classes at this University that I had ever because it was important for us to heard. “Duke students,” he said, get somewhere in life. “are always interviewing.” For 21 years, we were constantly It’s a statement worth considupdating our resumes, constantly ering. Though the rabbi used interviewing, constantly trying that statement as a jumpingto impress someone else enough off point for a sermon about that we could take the next step. alex fanaroff the necessity of moving beyond So that eventually, we would get farewell tour the transient interaction of an there. This is an extraordinarily interview and becoming truly stressful way to go through life. engaged on campus, it’s more But then we get to a point like broadly applicable. medical school, or law school or a first job, and Indeed, that statement—Duke students are hopefully (for the sake of our own sanity and always interviewing—describes not just Duke that of those around us) we realize that there students, but an entire generation of high- probably is no final destination, and if there is, achievers. And it describes not just our interper- it’s a long way off. sonal interactions, but the whole way we think For me, that realization happened one of the about the world. first dozen times I answered the question about When I talk to people my own age about my what I would do after medical school. I’m not future plans—about three years of residency going to get where I’m going until seven whole and then three or four years of fellowship— years after I graduate medical school, I thought. the most common reply is, “And then you’ll I’m going to be 32! be done?” It’s symptomatic of our generation’s Shortly thereafter, I started to look at my pathology: The disease of Next. We’re more in- medical education—med school through fellowterested in where we’re going than where we ship—as an end to itself rather than as a means are now. to an end. I wish I could say that it lowered my Of course, we come by this illness quite stress level, that I stopped worrying about my naturally. We spent most of our childhoods future and started living in the moment, that burnishing our college applications. We stud- I finally stopped interviewing. But I still worry ied hard in elementary school so that we could about getting into the right residency, so that place into the right classes in middle school so I can get into the right fellowship, so that I can that we could eventually take a slew of AP class- get a job at the right hospital. es and get high scores that our top-10 college But perhaps I worry a little less than I wouldn’t give us credit for anyway. We took up might’ve otherwise. Perhaps I’ve been able to the oboe and played soccer and wrote for the appreciate the wonders of medical school a newspaper so that we could show the college little more than I might’ve otherwise. Perhaps admissions deans that we were well-rounded. I’m a little more focused on learning for learnWe volunteered in the hospital and at Legal- ing’s own sake than I might’ve been otherwise. Aid and in the soup kitchen so that we’d be Or perhaps not. able to show those deans how much we cared Maybe I am—maybe all of us are—unable to about our community. escape the central fact of our pathology. Maybe And we never stopped to wonder whether everything I’ve written here is just another way we’d rather be at summer camp or playing pick- of paying lip service to the present, the profesup basketball or just bouncing up and down on sional school equivalent of going out the night a see-saw because it never occurred to us that before a test. Maybe the disease of Next is inthe present might be as important as the future. curable. Or maybe we just never stopped to wonder beStill, focusing on the present makes me feel cause we didn’t have time. better, less like I’m interviewing and more like Then we got to college and, of course, all I’m living life. we knew to do was focus incessantly on the future. We gave lip service to the present, saying Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. things like, “When I graduate, I’m not going to His column runs every Wednesday.

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letterstotheeditor Column ignores progress of team I just finished reading Scott Rich’s article on the Wallace Wade beat-down and, being a football season-ticket holder, felt compelled to respond. Scott wrote that the game depressed Duke. Whom exactly does he speak of when he refers to Duke? I, for one, was not depressed— if you ask me, the more depressing sight was all the students bailing before halftime. The football program is what it is right now, which is light-years ahead of where it was before Coach Cutcliffe arrived. We are, for the most part, competitive against any ACC team now and will only get better as Coach Cut recruits to his style and builds upon the current foundation. Saturday was a new experience—a hyped home game against a No. 1-ranked SEC team with a Heisman Trophy winner. The football program will learn from it, grow from it and hopefully never forget it. Joe Schwartz Financial Services

Show class at sporting events Last Friday, my 11-year-old son attended the men’s soccer game against UNC with a friend and his father. Given his increasing love of soccer, I figured he would come back chatting excitedly about the game. Instead, when I asked him about his evening, he told me it wasn’t much fun. I didn’t press him at first, figuring maybe he lost interest or was too tired to enjoy it. Later he revealed that the Duke students sitting behind them kept “yelling at all the players.” The students were screaming obscenities the entire time, including words I would assume most adults (aren’t college students adults?) would not use in front of children and their parents. How appalling! These students are among the best and the brightest at one of the country’s leading institutions? As a Duke alumna and a former Durham resident, it’s embarrassing to think that we cannot take our kids to Durham for college athletics as they are no longer family-friendly. Caroline Connor Graduate School Ph.D. ’00

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t’s been 17 years since Congress enacted the law known had such an easy time getting rid of their bans. At a reas “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT), and the Senate will cent summit at the Brookings Institution, Canadian Lt. finally vote on its repeal this week. Public figures from Gen. Walter Semianiw said, “There has been no impact Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of to reflect on operational effectiveness by having men and Staff, to Lady Gaga have said it’s time for women of any sexual orientation fighting aaron belkin the policy to go. A federal judge in Calitogether.” special from fornia weighed in this month as well, find3. The integration of women and Afriing that the law undermines unit cohesion, the washington post can-Americans into the military offers usewastes money and leads to a loss of critical ful comparisons. military talent. It is also patently unfair and, according to The debates over gays, women and blacks in the milithe court, unconstitutional. On the long path to regula- tary seem quite similar in many regards. Just as some tions that treat all troops equally, a number of myths have people claimed that white enlisted personnel would not cropped up surrounding the law. follow black officers, for example, others say that straight 1. DADT was created to promote unit cohesion and troops will not follow gay commanders. military readiness. Yet it makes little sense to compare the current situation to DADT has never had anything to do with those goals. In the previous integration of women and racial minorities. Op1993, President Bill Clinton tried to compel the Pentagon erationally, the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” will be a cakewalk to eliminate the ban on gays in the military. The Penta- compared with racial and gender integration, which took gon formed a working group to figure out how to respond, many years and faced huge logistical obstacles. In this case, a and admirals and generals in that group, which ultimately majority of troops already say that they know or suspect that helped create DADT, acknowledged to historian Nathaniel they know gay peers and are comfortable serving with them. Frank that the policy was “based on nothing.” Symbolically, the comparison is wrong as well: It conBut that is not the full story. According to historian Anne flates homophobia, racism and sexism, which are distinct Loveland, the architects of DADT knew they could not ar- phenomena. gue that the law should be based on their personal moral4. The troops oppose repealing DADT. ity, so they used the unit cohesion argument instead. In It is true that when asked their policy preferences, her work on evangelical chaplains in the military, Loveland more troops say they favor DADT than allowing gays to discovered a behind-the-scenes debate as the policy took serve openly. But there are several caveats: First, the marshape in 1992-93. Though the chaplains and evangelical gin is small, and a large number of troops say they have groups wanted to present a case that gays and lesbians are no opinion. Typically, polls find that about 40 percent of abominations, polls showed that most of the public didn’t troops prefer DADT, 30 percent prefer open service, and share their moral concerns; they knew would have a better 30 percent have no opinion. Second, the vast majority of chance if they talked about military necessity. troops say they are comfortable working with gays and As recently as 2007, then-Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter lesbians. Third, even among those who have an opinion, Pace was asked why the military still had a ban on gays, very few feel strongly about it. and he said he believed that DADT was necessary beMilitary leaders have expressed their support for recause homosexual conduct is immoral. He later clarified pealing DADT as well. Mullen has said that eliminating that he was stating his “personal moral views” and that the policy “would be the right thing to do,” and his view he should have stuck to personnel issues. His comments is reflected, in large part, in the opinions of the troops. I spurred a group of retired generals and admirals to urge have made more than 25 visits to service academies and the repeal of the policy. But the problem really wasn’t that military universities over the past decade, and I have noPace spoke out of turn. It was that he told the truth about ticed a remarkable shift. Among those gays and lesbians a rationale that was supposed to remain unspoken. who are out to their units, very few are encountering 2. Repealing DADT will be complicated. problems these days. The gay troops who experience the Opponents of repeal are trying to depict the transition most difficulties are the ones who remain in the closet. to an inclusive policy as a fragile and complicated process. Their peers know they are hiding something, and that The Center for Military Readiness, a nonprofit organization perception of secrecy does undermine cohesion. whose president supports DADT, claims that lifting the ban 5. DADT is a losing issue politically. will lead to logistical headaches over housing, benefits and More than a dozen polls in the past five years have nondiscrimination policies. This echoes the obstructionism found that roughly two-thirds of the public supports reof former senator Sam Nunn, who on the Senate floor in peal. Majorities of regular churchgoers and Republicans 1993 asked more than 40 “thorny questions” that gay rights now support allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly. advocates would have to answer before he would support The political risk for the Obama administration and the allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly. (One particularly Democrats is in not following through on their pledge to memorable example: What would happen if a gay soldier repeal the policy. brought a partner to a military ball?) Some people believe that Clinton tried to push the But the shift to an inclusive policy is not rocket science. country too far to the left when it came to gays in the Research by the Rand Corporation shows that the Pentagon military. But Clinton’s key mistake was allowing himself to needs just three things to ensure a smooth transition: The get pushed around. That is why he lost the respect of the military must have a standard of nondiscrimination that military and its supporters. mandates equal treatment for everyone. There must be a single code of conduct that applies equally to gays and straights and does not mention sexual orientation. And military leadAaron Belkin is an associate professor of political science at ers at all levels must show their support for the policy. San Francisco State University and the director of the Palm CenAll of these steps are simple, which is why the militar- ter at the University of California at Santa Barbara. This colies of Britain, Israel, Canada and other U.S. allies have umn originally ran on Tuesday.

Walking among giants

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ow could you throw that on the ground?” my art history professor scowled, furious with one of my classmates who had just disposed of the last bite on his gelato cone on the ground outside of the great 13th century poet Dante Alighieri’s home in the Florence city center. “Don’t you have any respect?” A respect for history is paramount here in Florlauren moxley ence, the capital city of la vita e bella Tuscany and of the Renaissance and humanism. Florentines rarely forget their predecessors’ achievements in art, architecture, literature and science that have shaped much of Western civilization. Geniuses of the arts and sciences such as Galileo, Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, philosophers like Niccolò Machiavelli, Dante and his Divine Comedy and the powerful rulers and bankers of the Medici family are all Florentines, to name a few. It is impossible to walk the streets of Florence without constant reminders of the many achievements of Florentines. Whether a beautiful cathedral façade, a statue or Dante’s home stands in your way, there is no place to throw out that ice cream cone but the trash. If the city of Florence were an American university, its admissions packets would boast endlessly about its alumni and their groundbreaking achievements across disciplines. Students from around the country would clamor to study in the place where so many individuals had achieved such success. Wandering through the cobblestoned streets surrounding Dante’s house, I can’t help but think what Duke would be like if we adopted such a profound sense of historical awareness. I’m not suggesting that the accomplishments of former Duke graduates are equivalent to the thousands of years of Italian society, but perhaps we would benefit from reflecting on the accomplishments of our alumni: Individuals who lived, studied, ate and enjoyed life within the very same space where we carry our everyday lives. I can only remember fleeting moments when I have taken time to consider what came before us in our beautiful gothic campus. Walking past the Chapel late at night might inspire brief thoughts of the past, but they inevitably digress to more immediate academic or social matters. Besides a few big names (e.g. Richard Nixon and Melinda Gates), I have rather limited knowledge of what former Duke students have gone on to achieve in the world. Reading up on Duke’s alumni, I discovered a predictably impressive list that boasts former senators, current and former congressmen, three secretaries of the Cabinet, the former president of Chile, three Nobel Prize winners in physics, 15 CEOs, chairmen, presidents or vice presidents of Fortune 500 companies, Pulitzer Prize winners, prominent journalists and professional athletes. For example, while you may know that Trinity ’86 grad Melinda Gates is the co-founder of the nation’s wealthiest charitable foundation, did you know that Charles Hard Townes, who earned his Masters in physics from Duke in ’36, won the Nobel Prize for his research in quantum electronics, which lead to the development of the laser? Or that the president of CBS and CBS Sports Sean McManus graduated in ’77? Or that Charlie Rose, host of PBS’s Charlie Rose since 1991, graduated from Trinity in ’64 and the Duke School of Law in ’68? What about Richard Lagos, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006? I know that many Duke students, especially Admissions Ambassadors and members of Dukes and Duchesses, know a great deal about our alumni and their many achievements. And while the ability to list these people and accomplishments is noble, how often do we truly think about the giants that have walked on the very same steps and paths that we walk every day? Adopting such a heightened sense of awareness of our predecessors will help us develop a sense of humility about what we have already accomplished. At the same time, a greater appreciation of our history will remind us of our potential to achieve great success. Lauren Moxley is a Trinity junior. She is abroad in Italy for the semester. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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goduke from page 1 not to have their work resemble media content created by GoDuke.com’s own staff. Certain events, he said, will only be covered by members of DSB, while others will be covered by members of both organizations. Large events, such as the Alabama football game, are “all-hands” events, while “for smaller events it may just be a single student out there.” “The beauty of this partnership is that it really gives us the resources to send a media representative to events that otherwise wouldn’t have gotten any coverage,” McKinney said. While GoDuke.com Student Broadcasting has not yet begun work on any specific projects, McKinney said he and other members of the GoDuke staff will be holding a workshop for DSB members next Monday to give them “general guidance on the creative process.” For the members of DSB, the partnership will provide new opportunities and a larger audience. “It’s extremely exciting for us,” Burke said. “It helps us reach both local and national audiences and it provides our members with professional training in broadcasting. It’s a way for us to provide our members with better education and better engagement with the broadcasting world.” DSB member Danny Nolan, a freshman, wrote in an e-mail that working with the GoDuke.com staff will be a great learning experience for students. “Working with GoDuke.com is a great opportunity,” he wrote. “With a great partnership like this, it not only allows our hard work to reach a larger audience and expand our organization, but allows us to learn from the GoDuke.com staff as well.”

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passport when working near the militarized border. “I felt my rights and personhood were violated a number of times,” he said. “I can only imagine what it must be like to be a person of brown skin [living] so close to the border.” Peck, who categorized the history of immigration reform legislation as “the most spectacular series” of failures, said that if the purpose of immigration policy is to create a path toward citizenship, the current legislation is failing. To pass legislation, Peck said, U.S. citizens must generate a sense of solidarity. “It’s going to take conversation and getting out of our comfort zones,” he said. Thompson said immigration policy is a worthwhile start to address issues of societal inequality, but citizens must also examine the root economic causes of immigration—not just militarize the border. “If we emphasize enforcement, it pushes everyone to the shadows,” he said. “There are so many living in the shadows who would much prefer to live in the light if we could just provide them the opportunity to do so.” Sophomore Neha Sabharwal said the forum forced her to reconsider her views on immigration reform. “It pushed me to look at [the issue] more because of how narrow my understanding is,” she said.

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Award-winning author William Gibson read from his new book “Zero History,” the third in a trilogy, and signed copies of his works at the Gothic Bookshop Tuesday.

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shown positive results; they also are planning a comprehensive review of the program. Eric Hanushek, an expert on the economics of education at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a conservativeleaning think tank, said that the Vanderbilt study appeared to be sound but that it did not address a key question. “The biggest role of incentives has to do with selection of who enters and who stays in teaching—i.e., how incentives change the teaching corps through entrance and exits,” Hanushek said. “I have always thought that the effort effects were small relative to the potential for getting different teachers. Their study has nothing to say about this more important issue.” A teachers union leader in Nashville said the study raised significant questions about the “the extent to which we spend a lot of time trying to develop complex schemes to measure teacher performance and then reward them based on that performance.” The leader, Erick Huth, who is president of the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association, said the study’s results indicate that such efforts “may be a waste of time.”

underrepresented, with a high number of complaints awaiting investigation. Money for the whistleblower program is often not tracked separately from OSHA’s general budget, auditors found. Asked Tuesday why the problems have lingered for two decades, OSHA spokesman Jason Surbey cited a “lack of resources” and said the agency is conducting a “top-to-bottom” review of the whistleblower program—even though numerous reviews have been done over the years. “The agency is working hard to ensure that whistleblowers are protected from retaliation,” Surbey said in a statement. “The objective is to identify any weaknesses and inefficiencies in the program and improve the ways it conducts this very important activity.” OSHA’s director, David Michaels, has been on the job just nine months. The GAO report comes as efforts heat up in Congress to strengthen whistleblower protections across government. The House has twice passed legislation that would give federal employees the right to sue agencies that retaliate against

them for exposing improper actions or policies. Opposition in the Senate to applying such a provision to national security workers is under negotiation. The new financial regulatory law contains a provision offering cash rewards to individuals who report violations of securities law, while the new health-care law offers protections to caregivers or medical staff who challenge breakdowns in patient safety or denials of coverage by insurance companies. The Center for Public Integrity reported in July that since 2002, when Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform law, the Labor Department tossed out 1,066 whistleblower claims of corporate fraud and upheld 25 claims. Michaels said then that he had ordered a review of the agency’s handling of those cases and other whistleblower statutes. “OSHA failed to deliver on nearly all the commitments made by the Obama administration for so many corporate whistleblowers,” said Tom Devine, a whistleblower advocate and legal director of the Government Accountability Project. “We hope the [report] will be a healthy wind at the back of those toiling inside the agency.”

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aid from page 5 collapsed. Qatar briefly increased its contributions when Hamas was in the government, after years of providing little or no money. Clinton also pressed for more aid when she met with members of an Arab League committee charged with pursuing an Arab proposal offering Israel recognition after a peace deal with the Palestinians. Arab diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, have said there is little trust that the Palestinian Authority will use their contributions wisely, even though Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is a veteran of the International Monetary Fund and has introduced new standards of accountability and financial management. Arab diplomats have said they also resent the tight grip Israel has maintained on the Palestinian territories. U.S. officials say the institution-building effort undertaken by Fayyad has made that complaint much less valid. This week, they have highlighted a recent assessment by the World Bank that if the Palestinian Authority “maintains its current performance in institution building and delivery of public services, it is well-positioned for the establishment of a state at any point in the near future.” Moreover, despite the progress, the Palestinian authorities “still have significant needs” and Arab governments should help make up the gap, Crowley said. Clinton is also pressing Arabs to highlight their peace plan, known as the Arab League Initiative. The proposal, first made in 2002, would extend recognition to Israel if it withdrew to the borders before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and took other steps generally unacceptable to Israeli governments. But Arab officials privately say—and U.S. officials concur— that the plan holds forth the promise of full diplomatic recognition of Israel if the Palestinians reach a peace deal that is acceptable to them.