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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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Students see Dining from other side Gov. confirms Though few positions available, student waiters say experience is valuable

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going on in [the restaurant]. For five hours, my biggest stressor is getting someone their bread.”

Monroy is one of eight undergraduate students serving on the wait staff at Plate & Pitchfork, the nighttime rendition of

Despite numerous challenges facing her campaign, Gov. Bev Perdue has confirmed that she is running for re-election in 2012.

Perdue’s current approval rate across North Carolina is 32 percent according to a Nov. 1 poll taken by Public Policy Polling. The low approval ratings coupled with a current criminal investigation of her 2008 campaign may make it hard for her to win over the largely Republicanleaning state.

According to The (Raleigh) News & Observer, numerous contributors to Perdue’s 2008 campaign were recently issued subpoenas for allegedly providing Bev Perdue Perdue with unreported private flights despite reaching the state’s $4,000-per-cycle donation limit. Perdue, however, was not issued a subpoena and said in a statement that despite the claims, she has “tried [her] best to abide by all applicable laws, and [her] administration has been one of the most open in history.”

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Plate & Pitchfork, a restaurant in the West Union Building, employs eight undergraduates to serve on its wait staff. The eatery is one of only a handful of campus vendors that hires students, who say they enjoy the unique nature of the job in comparison to other campus positions.

by Sanette Tanaka THE CHRONICLE

As an organic chemistry tutor, an HIV-testing volunteer and a pre-med, senior Alexa Monroy already has a lot on her plate—and that’s including the ones she serves.

Every Wednesday from 5 to 10 p.m.,

Monroy checks her academic persona at the door, dons a white apron and embraces her role as a waitress.

“I like interacting with the students who come in and looking at the dynamic on the other side—it’s a stress-relief thing,” she said. “When I’m in that room, nothing else exists but what’s

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Duke receives Trask discusses remaining deficit grant to test HIV vaccine quality

by Maggie Love THE CHRONICLE

As part of a seven-year grant, Duke University Medical Center received $52.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to house a central quality assurance program for the testing of potential HIV vaccines.

According to The (Raleigh) News & Observer, Duke was chosen to conduct reliability and quality trials with vaccines as a part of the External Quality Assurance Program Oversight Laboratory, which is aimed at implementing and overseeing HIV/AIDS research and vaccine trials all over the world, the University announced Tuesday.

The grant will enable DUMC labs to produce and analyze data as vaccines and other HIV-related treatments are tested. In addition, the Duke laboratories will

In addressing the University’s remaining deficit, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask emphasized that academic programs remain a top priority.

Trask gave an overview of Duke’s budget at the Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting Tuesday night. He said the University still has to cut $30 million from its deficit as part of the three-year plan to reduce its $2 billion annual budget by $100 million. Trask noted that the University has taken significant steps to cut costs since the 27.5 percent drop in the value of the University’s endowment in fiscal year 20082009 but added that reductions are still necessary.

“Unfortunately, people talk about low-hanging fruit. All of the low-hanging fruit has been picked,” he said.

Although the University plans to scale back in certain areas, Trask stressed that administrators intend to protect academic programs. The Arts and Sciences graduate programs have been most affected by budget difficulties, Trask said, adding that they are highly endowment-dependent. On the other hand, professional schools including the Fuqua School

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Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said Tuesday that although Duke still needs to cut from its deficit, academic programs will take top priority.

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FDA plans crackdown on Under sanctions, Iranian caffeinated alcoholic drinks leadership fracturing WASHINGTON — Federal officials are planning to crack down on potent caffeinated alcoholic beverages, a leading Democratic senator said Tuesday - a response to alarm raised by public health authorities, law enforcement and state officials about the increasingly popular drinks.

The Food and Drug Administration will rule that caffeine is an unsafe substance to add to alcoholic beverages, “effectively making products such as Four Loko, Joose, and others like them, prohibited for sale in the United States,” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement.

In addition, the Federal Trade Commission plans to notify companies making the product that “they are engaged in the potential illegal marketing of unsafe alcoholic drinks,” he said. A year ago, the FDA sent letters of warning to nearly 30 companies that make the beverages.

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TEHRAN — Defense Secretary Robert Gates, reiterating his long-standing opposition to a military attack on Iran, said Tuesday that new sanctions led by the Obama administration are causing divisions within the Iranian leadership.

Sanctions “have really bitten much harder than [Iranian leaders] anticipated,” Gates told the Wall Street Journal CEO Council in Washington, citing indications that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in trouble with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

“We even have some evidence that Khamenei now is beginning to wonder if Ahmadinejad is lying to him about the impact of the sanctions on the economy and whether he’s getting the straight scoop in terms of how much trouble the economy really is in,” Gates said. Gates has repeatedly warned against military strikes on Tehran’s nuclear facilities.

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Profs debate Internet role in sexual image

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A panel titled “Sex in the Age of Digital Reproduction” addressed the role of the Internet and social media in light of the recent viral spread of a Duke alumna’s PowerPoint.

Victoria Szabo, assistant professor of visual studies, noted that Karen Owen’s presentation reflects the way in which people are now creating identities online through social media.

“It’s a retrospective analysis of her life, where [Owen, Trinity ’10] is reflecting on her ‘body of work,’” Szabo said. She added that forms of social media, including Fa-

cebook, serve to blur the boundaries between the public and private arena of sex.

Although a large portion of the talk focused on Duke undergraduate culture, those in attendance were primarily faculty and graduate students. About 30 audience members watched as professors discussed topics ranging from the University’s “hook-up culture” to sexuality and cyber bullying.

Anne Allison, chair of cultural anthropology, discussed how Duke’s hook-up culture factored into both the Karen Owen PowerPoint and the Duke lacrosse scandal of 2006.

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by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

Duke University Union plans to strengthen and expand its presence on and off campus as well as reach out to underclassmen, as discussed in its meeting Tuesday.

As a result of a senior-dominated executive board, DUU is renewing its commitment to recruiting new members and also taking various measures to increase its exposure on campus, said DUU President Yi Zhang, a senior, adding that the Freshman Intern Program is one of the main strategies in achieving this goal.

“Our Freshman Intern Program will match each freshman intern with an executive board member [or programming chair], which we’re hoping will help freshmen who want to eventually be on [executive board],” Zhang said. “Our elections for executive board are happening in February—which is right around the corner—so this is really important.”

DUU is still accepting applications for the program and will select the interns at its next meeting.

Zhang added that DUU is examining new venues for events in an effort to create diverse and unique programming. Possible locations for events include the K4 residence hall—upon its completion—and other outdoor locations. DUU is also meeting Thursday with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Union Activities Board to work on developing a network between the two groups, which will begin “as soon as possible,” Zhang said.

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After Karen Owen’s PowerPoint rapidly spread to the public, Duke professors held a panel discussion on social media’s role in portraying sex.

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Panel agrees ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal is best policy

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Panelists at “Do Ask, We’ll Tell” agreed that combat readiness would not be hindered by gays serving openly in the military.

Blue Devils United President Ollie Wilson, a junior, joined two Duke professors and Col. Kevin Colyer to discuss both the social and military implications of repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which remains one of the most pressing gay rights issues in the country.

All four were in favor of allowing gays to serve openly.

“It’s not as if American soldiers are not already serving with openly gay individuals,” Wilson said, pointing out that many American soldiers have worked with gay soldiers from nations in which they are allowed to openly serve.

Sharon Holland, associate professor of English and African and African American studies, cited a recent study that found that 70 percent of soldiers support the repeal of the policy. She added that it is becoming “harder and harder” to argue that Americans are worried about the effects of the repeal.

Colyer, who is at Duke for one year as a part of a U.S. Army War College program, compared the integration of open gays into the military to that of black soldiers and women. Despite initial prejudice, the troops grew to accept both groups over time.

The more pressing problems would be logistical, he said, recalling that when women were integrated into the military they had to be given separate barracks and that contact between the sexes had to be regu-

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lated. One question policy makers would have to consider would be whether or not separate living quarters would be needed for gay troops, as well.

“Do we have to have a separate set of facilities or can we allow a homosexual male to share quarters with a heterosexual?”

Colyer asked.

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Col. Kevin Colyer and Professor Sean Metzger participate in a panel discussion hosted by Duke Political Union, evaluating the consequences of the military’s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

But Wilson called the idea that separate facilities would be required “a little bit absurd.”

“It defines people in categories when in reality it is much more complicated than that,” he said.

Wilson cited the issue of accommodating bisexual troops and said separate facilities are not a legitimate solution to the concern.

The panelists also recognized the wider social implications of repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Holland said the policy has the “effect of closeting people who are already out.”

Sean Metzger, assistant professor of English who specializes in gender studies, said the debate has implications beyond military society. Metzger asked the audience to think back to the 1940s, when troops married people abroad despite domestic laws against interracial marriage.

“The military is more often than we think at the forefront of social change because it places people in situations in which our ideas need to be reexamined,” he said.

Metzger said the policy reflected the social climate of the time it was passed, and that its repeal would be an indication of increased tolerance.

Colyer said the military must wait for Congress to take action but is certain that the military will readily accept the repeal of the policy if it happens.

“I think we’re ready to allow gays to openly serve,” Colyer said. “As someone who has literally put his life on the line for our system, I believe in our system. Normally, it results in positive change.”

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UK to compensate UN weighs more troops for S. Sudan former Guan. Bay detainees for abuse

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LONDON - The British government will pay millions of dollars to 15 former Guantanamo Bay detainees, and a current one, who accused the country’s security services of collusion in torture and unlawful imprisonment, an extraordinary settlement that officials here insisted was not an admission of guilt.

Security agencies in Britain have repeatedly insisted they were not complicit in alleged acts of torture against the prisoners, all of whom are British citizens or residents.

Ken Clarke, the justice secretary, told Parliament that the settlement was meant to avoid years of costly litigation to defend security agents.

“The alternative to any payments made would have been protracted and extremely expensive litigation in an uncertain legal environment in which the government could not be certain that it would be able to defend . . . security and intelligence agencies without compromising national security,” Clarke said.

The settlement represents the first time any Guantanamo Bay detainee, of 779 who have passed through or are still held at the military prison in Cuba, has received a financial settlement because of his incarceration. And the payments are all the more significant because they are being made by the closest military and security partner of the United States. The George W. Bush and Obama administrations, as well as the federal courts, have rejected the idea of compensation.

A White House spokesman said the administration would have no comment on the British decision.

Most of the British detainees were picked up in Afghanistan or Pakistan in the months after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. In some cases, they were interviewed

by British agents before they were transferred to Guantanamo. Three of the men were picked up in Africa, two in Gambia and the other in Zambia.

The detainees were pursuing a high-profile court suit against the government related to their imprisonment and treatment in Guantanamo, as well as other detention centers in Pakistan and Morocco. They include the “Tipton Three” - Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul - who were returned to Britain from Guantanamo in March 2004 and who alleged abuse, including severe beatings, being chained to the floor for extended periods and prolonged periods of isolation.

A British government source said the case was settled because of a “very unhealthy legal atmosphere” that left in doubt whether the agents would be hauled into courtrooms and classified documents would be called on as evidence.

A number of former Guantanamo detainees have tried to sue in the United States. The courts have dismissed every case on the grounds that the government agencies and officials named have immunity from such civil lawsuits.

Former detainees held by the United States in the prison at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and at Bagram air base in Afghanistan have also unsuccessfully sued in U.S. courts, as have several of the alleged victims of the CIA’s program of transferring terrorism suspects to third countries for interrogation.

The Bush and Obama administrations have also invoked the “state secrets” privilege to end a number of lawsuits that charged that various government and private entities were complicit in torture.

The British action follows earlier decisions by the Canadian and Swedish governments to compensate citizens or residents who were transferred to third countries by the CIA for interrogation.

The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police apologized to Maher Arar, a Syrian native with Canadian citizenship, who was detained at Kennedy Airport in New York and transferred to Syria, where he was held for a year before being returned to Canada. Arar was also given $10 million in compensation by the Canadian government. Sweden compensated two Egyptian residents who were turned over to the CIA in 2001 and transferred to Egypt, where they said they were tortured.

“The Obama administration continues to shield Bushera torturers from accountability in civil proceedings by blocking judicial review of their illegal behavior,” said Steven Watt, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties See gitmo on page 7

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations may send more peacekeeping troops to Southern Sudan to deter violence in advance of the scheduled Jan. 9 referendum on possible secession from Sudan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

The U.N. is considering “options for possible augmentation of additional United Nations troops, to increase referendum and post-referendum security as well as our capacity to verify and monitor violations” of the 2005 cease-fire agreement between north and south Sudan, Ban told the Security Council.

The U.N. has 10,600 soldiers and civilian police in Southern Sudan, and has moved some of them to ar-

eas near the border between the two regions where the threat of violence is considered greatest. Ban called the region a “political and security minefield” and said the referendum’s results may “send shock waves throughout the region.”

The referendum will test the peace accord, brokered by the United States, Britain and Norway, that ended a 21-year civil war between the Muslim north and the oil-producing south, where Christianity and traditional beliefs dominate. About two million people died in the conflict and more than four million were displaced.

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of the Sudan’s 490,000 barrels of daily oil production. Sudan is subSaharan Africa’s third-largest producer, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy.

Registration for the referendum started yesterday, two days after northern and southern leaders agreed in African Union- mediated talks to maintain a “soft border” if the south secedes, permitting “unhindered economic and social activity and interaction, which will be essential for economic prosperity and harmony between the north and the south.”

The two sides also approved a “framework document” on how to address outstanding issues on the peace accord, such as border demarcation and sharing oil revenue after the referendum, according to an e-mailed statement from the African Union’s High Level Panel on Sudan, headed

by Former South African President Thabo Mbeki.

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti told the Security Council his government was “committed” to accepting the outcome of the referendum regardless of the outcome.

Delays in the registration have raised tension between the former battlefield adversaries, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, which governs the south, and President Umar al- Bashir’s National Congress Party in Khartoum.

The majority of Southern Sudanese favor independence, the Washingtonbased National Democratic Institute said in an Oct. 20 report, based on 63 focus groups surveyed in 48 locations from Feb. 5 to March 16.

“We want [Carolina’s Union Activities Board] to advertise some of our events in exchange for us adverting theirs,” Zhang said. “[We want to] give Duke students better access to events going on in the Triangle and widen the options available to the campus.”

In addition, Visual Arts Committee Chair Bibi Tran, a senior, said her committee is working to increase a visual arts presence on campus. The committee is now painting a mural opposite the Gothic Reading Room of Perkins Library and is also discussing the possibility of holding a light show sometime next semester.

DUU is also working to build its alumni network, said senior Elliot Johnson, DUU’s vice president of internal affairs.

Johnson and Zhang proposed creating an alumni newsletter.

“It’s one idea, but we’re not exactly sure what we want [an alumni newsletter] to form into,” Johnson said.

In other business: DUU Major Attractions is presenting Matisyahu with Freddie Gibbs in Page Auditorium tonight at 8 p.m. As of last night’s meeting, there were 200 tickets available for purchase, said Major Attractions Chair Karen Chen, a senior.

Dezember, an event modeled after a German Christmas market tradition, will be held Dec. 3 from 4 p.m to 8 p.m. on the Main West Quadrangle, said Annual Events Chair Alison Lane, a senior. It will feature various food and craft vendors, noted Marketing Chair Michelle Zhang, a junior.

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Duke University Union members discussed ways to make the group more visible on campus and recruit more underclassmen as Union members at their meeting Tuesday night.

gpsc from page 1 of Business that are more tuition based are doing relatively well financinally, he said.

Trask also referred to the “bridge funding” approved by the Board of Trustees in 2009 to “insulate” the three-year transition. This $165 million in funding, which was accrued from the endowment, helped to spread cuts over time in order to avoid making large, swift reductions. Trask added that in employing this strategy, Duke has circumvented the types of issues encountered at peer institutions such as Stanford University and Dartmouth College.

“While we had accumulated a fair amount of money, we were not accumulating money just so we could say we had— we were accumulating it to use it for good purposes,” he said. “In some sense, it was a rainy day fund of one sort or another, and it was certainly raining pretty hard.”

The transition is set to end in fiscal year 2012-2013, Trask said, adding that Duke hopes to institute a salary increase July 2011 that, if instituted, will be the first in three years.

In other business: Transportation Demand Coordinator Brian Williams spoke with the council about parking issues on campus.

Rather than build more parking lots, the University plans to encourage alternative forms of transportation including carpooling, biking and walking.

“Duke is behind in what incentives it offers. Right now Duke doesn’t have the budget set up very well to provide lots of incentives,” Williams said.

He said the funds for building incentives will come in part from increased parking pass rates in Fall 2011. Williams noted that parking passes at Duke are currently less expensive than those at other schools.

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become the headquarters for information gathered from HIV research and studies around the world. Having one lab provide oversight for all data gathered through HIV tests should enhance the reliability of scientific findings, the News & Observer reported.

Thomas Denny, chief operating officer of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, will head the new HIV vaccine laboratory.

“The absence of a single centralized laboratory makes it imperative that strict quality assurance standards and protocols are in place,” Denny said. “Patients, physicians and researchers all need to feel confident that a test on a blood sample performed in New York will yield the same results as the same test performed in London or South Africa as an example. Today, you might not find that.”

Duke is currently a member of the Center for HIV/ AIDS Vaccine Immunology, which is a group of universities and academic medical centers that was established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under Dr. Barton Haynes, director of Duke’s HVI.

the Faculty Commons restaurant. Relatively few students work at on-campus dining establishments at Duke, representing a small slice of the employed student body.

Several other eateries enlist student help as well, including Armadillo Grill, La Dolce Vita in the French Family Science Center and Bella Union in McClendon Tower, though Plate & Pitchfork employs the greatest number of undergraduates and has recently seen large increases in dinners served and sales.

Executive Chef Chris Holloway credited the “big upswing” in business partially to his servers, the majority of whom are students working between five and 20 hours per week.

“This has been the best wait staff I’ve probably ever had,” he said. “They’ve all been wonderful, confident, competent and just with it.”

The direct student-to-student connection has played a significant role in the restaurant’s success, Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said.

gitmo from page 5 Union. “To date, not a single victim of the Bush administration’s torture program has had his day in a U.S. court. The U.S. can no longer stand silently by as other nations reckon with their own agents’ complicity in the torture program.”

Others in the United States criticized the British government’s decision.

“This is nothing more than appeasement through payment,” said Kirk Lippold, former commander of the USS Cole, which was attacked in Yemen by al-Qaida in 2000. Lippold is a critic of the Obama administration’s ambition to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. “It is unfortunate that the British government has chosen to surrender to the demands of terrorists and compromise their nation’s, and our nation’s, security. Terrorists today have to be celebrating.”

But another former U.S. military officer praised the British action.

“Without getting into whether they are good guys or bad guys, there is a global obligation that we don’t condone torture, and the U.S. has done everything to avoid its duty under domestic and international law to prevent and atone for torture,” said retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, who resigned in 2007 after alleging political interference in the military’s legal process. “It’s heartening to see the British do their part.”

The details of the British agreement are confidential, and both sides have agreed not to reveal the financial sum paid out. According to British press reports, Binyam Mohamed, a detainee who claimed he was tortured and questioned with queries supplied by British intelligence, could receive up to $1.6 million. Government sources dismissed such figures as “guesses,” refusing to confirm or deny amounts. Mohamed said that after his arrest in Pakistan he was transferred by the CIA to Morocco, where he said he was tortured, including having his genitals slashed with a razor.

In addition to the cost of litigation, the government was concerned about intelligence officers being “paralyzed by paperwork” that the cases would require. Legal sources suggested the detainees’ legal action would have taken between three to five years at a cost of around $16 million a year.

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The price of a Dukie Sam Clowney, co-owner of Bella Union and La Dolce Vita and a partner at the Faculty Commons, said there are downsides to working with students. During crunch times like finals, students can be unreliable and may miss shifts, he said.

“It can be difficult [to work with students],” Clowney said. “It does get tough during exam week, but you know what, it’s one week. What you get in return... are people who already know your customer base.”

As such, student workers tend to comprise only a subset of overall employees, adding to the general obscurity of the positions. Some eateries do not employ students at all.

The sole undergraduate bartender at Armadillo Grill, senior Metty Fisseha, who writes a biweekly column for The Chronicle, snagged her job through her personal connections with the manager.

“In the past, Duke students have been hard to rely on,” she said. “I was the only student [the manager] hired, and she wanted to keep it that way.”

Though only one undergraduate is working at Bella Union this semester, averaging 25 hours per week, Clowney said he typically hires 15 to 20 student employees each year.

Students may pose logistical issues at times, Holloway said, but they make up for it with their enthusiasm and quick learning, “I was just amazed with the applicants,” he said. “To have a talent pool like the Duke student body, you don’t get that out in the real world.”

Resume-worthy Though the positions exist, student waiters said some

of their peers do not see the use of working in Dining.

Duke undergraduates tend to take on academic jobs that look nice on their resumes, Monroy said. Though working in eateries may not be “glamorous,” she added that waitressing gave her a valuable skill set she can use in future jobs.

Indeed, service jobs can give students practical experience, Wulforst said.

“It’s not easy to be a server, to wait on people,” he said. “You have to have a lot of confidence to win over those customers and make them feel comfortable.

There is a lot of life experience gained in being in this business.”

Senior Bibi Tran had previously served as a research assistant for a Fuqua School of Business study and as a tutor for the Teach for America program before becoming a waitress at Plate & Pitchfork—a job she called “15 times better.”

“Companies want someone who has experience in different ways, and I like the sides of me that can emerge in this job,” she said. “I learn a lot, and waitressing is always entertaining.”

Taboo?

Some students may dismiss Dining jobs because of the stigma associated with them, Monroy said. She added that some people are surprised when she tells them she waitresses, but she is proud of her work.

“After you push through the initial awkwardness, then it’s not a big deal,” she said. “If you own it and aren’t ashamed of it, then no one will contest it.”

Additionally, working in the service industry does a lot to break down student-employee barriers, she said.

“I think it’s a really good change on campus that students are getting involved in the service area,” Monroy said. “It eliminates the conception of who works in the position to serve Duke students and kind of equalizes who we are.”

Fisseha said she wishes Duke students were more interested in taking on service jobs, which she believes would help improve relationships between students and employees.

“Just walk through the Great Hall, and you can see... an obvious racial and socioeconomic divide.

There is a very separate culture of people who serve you and people who go here,” she said. “It’s not to say that everyone has a huge taboo against working in the food service, but there’s definitely some room for improvement.”

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sex from page 3 Allison has taught a class on the hook-up culture at Duke and told the audience about the results of field-work studies done by her students that looked into this culture.

“Hook-up culture has created a relationship that is erotic in some sense, premised on some relation of ‘non-relationality,’ that involves not wanting to continue the relationship beyond ‘the big act,’” Allison said.

She added that students in her class had said that alcohol was a precondition necessary to this hook-up culture and that sexual relations at Duke are often competitive because females students can be brutal in assessing one another’s level of attractiveness.

Kim Lamm, assistant professor of women’s studies, noted that although Owen is not the first woman to use an unconventional medium to display her sexual activities, women lack an “institutional framework” to discuss their sexual experiences. “[The Karen Owen PowerPoint] not only documents women having sex with multiple partners but also makes a joke about it. I think of it as raunchy, feminist art,” Lamm said.

Sean Metzger, assistant professor of English who specializes in gender

studies, discussed the consequences of bullying with regard to sexual orientation. Metzger recalled the 1998 incident of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was tortured and murdered by two other students because he was gay.

Metzger, who was working at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center at the time of the incident, was part of an effort that encouraged students to think about the effects of bullying based on sexuality.

Metzger also talked about how cases of cyber bullying are often results of a cultural atmosphere that has suppressed discussions of sexuality. He noted the recent incident at Rutgers University, when a male student committed suicide after his roommate broadcasted a video of him “making out” with another male student.

Following the discussion, Women’s Studies Chair Ranjana Khanna—who mediated the discussion—said the panel wanted to raise the question of publicized sex within different kinds of media without criticizing sexual activity itself.

“We wanted a discussion that wasn’t ‘anti-sex,’ that wasn’t moralistic,” Khanna said. “We want to understand what is going on in publicizing sexual activity today.”

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perdue from page 1 In spite of the upcoming challenges the campaign may face, Marc Farinella, Perdue’s 2012 campaign spokesperson, said Perdue has always intended to run for re-election.

In preparation for the political race, Farinella wrote in an e-mail that Perdue is currently directing her efforts toward improving government transparency as well as increasing jobs in the private sector and strengthening North Carolina school systems.

“She is focusing on... changing the way state government does business by increasing transparency as well as by passing the strongest ethics bill that has ever been proposed—which she did last ses-

demonstrated approval for Perdue had also voted for Obama in the 2008 election.

McCorkle added that he believed blacks would contribute greatly to Perdue’s campaign. In the November poll, 52 percent of participants who approved of Perdue were black, while 33 percent identified themselves as “other” and 26 percent said they were white.

Perdue’s potential victory would be the fifth consecutive Democratic win in an N.C. gubernatorial election. McCorkle said the state’s recent history of Democratic governance has been what has differentiated North Carolina from other southern states in the past.

“I think [Democratic governance] has contributed a lot to the state’s modernization and us being able to distinguish

“Her job approval numbers are not high, certainly, but they are still within the realm of her being able to win.”

— Pope McCorkle, adjunct professor at Sanford and Democratic analyst sion,” he wrote. “She is also going to propose a massive reorganization of state government designed to make government more efficient, curtail spending and deal with the new fiscal realities confronting the state. All of these will be important elements of her election campaign.”

But Perdue’s performance as governor is not necessarily the only factor in her campaign success and approval rating. According to Pope McCorkle, an adjunct professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and former political consultant for Perdue, the governor’s job approval ratings are “normally” low and still have a strong chance of increasing as the election race develops.

“There are a number of people on the Democratic side who are not giving her high job approval rates which is not exactly surprising... but once you get a Republican opponent in, numbers can and do change,” McCorkle explained. “Her job approval numbers are not high, certainly, but they are still within the realm of her being able to win. Especially given that a lot of that job approval is coming from people who ultimately will vote for her against a Republican.”

McCorkle said a portion of Perdue’s potential success may depend on President Barack Obama’s popularity during the 2012 election. Indeed, according to the November poll, 57 percent of those who

ourselves from a lot of younger southern states, that’s what’s under fire here,” he said. “We may be due at some point, but if Bev is able to win I think it would reflect that the Republican sweep that we saw recently in the state legislature is not a wave but a pendulum swing—and it would be the pendulum’s sweep back.”

As of now, efforts to begin rallying advocates of Perdue are underway. A fundraiser in support of the governor’s campaign took place at the Duke Mansion in Charlotte Monday night, which Farinella described as “the most successful Charlotte fundraiser for any Democratic gubernatorial candidate in state history.”

Farinella said the Perdue campaign is optimistic that Democratic prospects will improve in the next year as the national economy continues to solidify itself. David Rohde, Ernestine Friedl professor of political science, mirrored Farinalla’s sentiment, saying that the economy would be the key contributor to Democratic success in 2012.

“If the economy is significantly better [in 2012] then the Democrats will do significantly better because of that— because the electorate will be different than it was this year,” Rohde said. “If the economy is not doing significantly better, then the Republicans will have the advantage.”

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79 MIAMI 45 DUKE Behind Curry’s 17, Duke plucks RedHawks Deep Duke boasts multiple lineups

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Two minutes and one second into last night’s game, freshman point guard Kyrie Irving was whistled for his second foul, having harassed a RedHawk player a little too closely near the sideline. Irving Game later admitted it was a Analysis foul he shouldn’t have committed.

The foul really didn’t matter. Duke simply substituted in sophomore Andre Dawkins, shifting Nolan Smith over to run the point. The sequence showcased the depth and versatility of the Blue Devils, as well as their willingness to put different combinations on the court together.

That willingness extended to the starting lineup, with head coach Mike Krzyzewski starting forward Ryan Kelly over Miles Plumlee against Miami (Ohio).

“We’ll try some different things to see where our chemistry might be with different units,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s not like a demotion or a promotion. We look at how Ryan and Mason [Plumlee] play together, bring Miles in.”

Duke has the luxury of experimentation because of the team’s versatility, which was on display from the get-go—in fact, Krzyzewski had already played nine different Blue Devils only eight minutes into the game.

In one instance, during a 15-2 Duke run, Dawkins hit a 3-pointer at the top of the key, Mason Plumlee converted a lob from Seth Curry and Smith flipped the ball to Kyle Singler for a bucket in the paint. Everyone got involved.

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committed to Duke, have signed their national letters of intent, head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced Tuesday.

Duke’s recruiting class, which includes the Scout.com’s No. 2 overall recruit in Rivers, is

Despite a mixed performance from some of its top players, Duke had no problem handling Miami Tuesday night, cruising to an easy 79-45 victory in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Holding an advantage in height, depth and experience, No. 1 Duke (2-0) knew that it would not have an issue knocking off the RedHawks (1-1). However, the Blue Devils did commit excessive fouls and made careless turnovers at times.

MORE Head coach Mike ONLINE Krzyzewski noticed.

Listen to a podcast “We’re better than both these breaking down the teams,” Krzyzegame with two wski said about Chronicle reporters.

Duke’s first two sports.chronicleblogs. opponents. “But com you can be lazy and not contest threes and all that kind of stuff and not go for loose balls. Guys are doing that. We need to go into our next game and stay with our fundamentals.”

From the opening minutes of the game, Duke demonstrated that it was slightly overaggressive and careless with ball control.

Freshman Kyrie Irving committed two fouls in the first two minutes, and sophomore Mason Plumlee made two quick turnovers on the Blue Devils’ first two possessions. While

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Seth Curry had 17 points, and Duke blew out Miami last night in Cameron Indoor Stadium, winning 79-45.

Verbal commits sign their letters of intent No surprises here: Duke inked all four of its targets in the Class of 2011 during the early signing peQuinn Cook, Notebook riod.

Michael Gbinije, Marshall Plumlee and Austin Rivers, who had all previously verbally

‘Two-offense system’ doesn’t seem to work “It’s not a two-quarterback system,” head coach David Cutcliffe said at his press conference Tuesday. “It’s playing your backup.

There’s a difference.”

While Cutcliffe would go Jason on to clarify his comments, I find his mesOn Football sage to be confusing and misleading. He is willing to discuss the value in playing two quarter-

Palmatary

backs, but refuses to call it a two-quarterback system, instead referring to it as a two-offense system.

“When you have a two-quarterback system, that usually means you don’t have one [good quarterback],” Cutcliffe continued. “Playing your backup means you have confidence in him.

We’re more of a two-offense system.”

Debating semantics aside, I am forced to seriously question whether or not trying to rotate two quarterbacks in chris dall/Chronicle file photo

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Connette replaced Renfree at quarterback several times Sat., not finding much success, Palmatary writes.

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palmatary from page 9 and out of the game is best for the Duke offense’s overall productivity. Cutcliffe was quick to point out that he has experience when it comes to balancing the talents of dual quarterbacks. Bear Bryant, the legendary Alabama coach and one of Cutcliffe’s early mentors, was a big proponent of using multiple signal-callers, though mainly in a rushing capacity. And, at Ole Miss, Cutcliffe rotated through quarterbacks as he tried to find the passer with the hottest hand.

Beyond Cutcliffe’s personal coaching history, though, I wanted to scan the college football landscape to look for more recent evidence of other successful two-quarterback systems.

BYU was one program steadfast in its reliance on a dual-quarterback system early this season. But after Jake Heaps and Riley Nelson both MORE struggled to establish a rhythm ONLINE and the team suffered, Heaps Scott Rich writes an became the starter, and BYU has won four of its last five. online-only column Michigan has also given criticizing Cutcliffe’s decision to play Connette. extensive snaps to both Denard Robinson and Tate Forcisports.chronicleblogs. er this year, mainly due to com Robinson’s injury troubles.

Both quarterbacks have had good seasons but also have been inconsistent at times, and the program’s up-and-down season mirrors the situation under center.

Mississippi State and LSU have also run out multiple quarterbacks this year. While both are near the top of the SEC, it might be despite their quarterback play. They both have been looking for answers at quarterback and continue to waffle between options.

My point is not that a team can’t have a successful season while using two passers, but that the most dominant teams of each season do not feature a revolving door at quarterback. Typically, rotation is a result of inconsistency and discontent. The one recent exception to this rule would be the Chris Leak-Tim Tebow combination that led Florida to a national championship in 2006. Howev-

er, guys like Tebow that go down amongst the most dominant players in college football history are exceptions, and even he saw limited reps his freshman season.

Looking specifically at the Blue Devils, the emergence of Brandon Connette’s role in the offense coincided with Sean Renfree’s midseason struggles and the inefficiency of the offense in the red zone against Maryland.

Initially, Connette’s snaps were limited to almost exclusively red zone possessions. He even took the game’s first snap against Miami since Duke started inside the Miami 10. For the most part, the true freshman rewarded the coaching staff by improving red zone efficiency on the power of his legs.

However, it was very troubling in last week’s loss to Boston College when the running specialist began taking snaps in all areas of the field. With Sean Renfree developing a rhythm down the season’s stretch run, losing snaps becomes problematic.

“I really don’t know to be honest,” Renfree told me with regard to the substitution pattern. “It could be firstand-10 or third-and-short. I don’t know when they are going to be putting him in.”

Despite his increased action, only two of the 10 plays on which Connette ran or threw against the Eagles resulted in a positive result, and all of his red zone possessions stalled, with the drives ending in field goals.

Ironically, both the positive plays were actually short gains via the pass. The problem was that it has become pretty apparent that Connette is on the field to run, and the Eagles’ defense stacked the box, daring him to pass.

Not a bad strategy against a guy who has only thrown 20 passes in his young career.

While both quarterbacks are publicly supportive of their shared roles, no Division I athlete wants to leave the field. And, right now, Connette isn’t nearly polished enough as a passer to force defenses to respect his throwing ability. And this element of surprise and variability is needed for the Wildcat-like system Cutcliffe is using to add another wrinkle to Duke’s offensive attack.

“In today’s changing game, we want to become harder to defend and have more options,” Cutcliffe said.

Regardless, Cutcliffe and Connette haven’t conviced me. The most potent offenses rely on personnel consistency, a consistency absent in Durham.

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“I think we did pretty good,� sophomore Seth Curry said. “Throughout the whole game, even when we got big leads, Duke was able to earn a 38-17 lead at the we still locked down on defense and end of the first half, the Blue Devils con- were still working hard the whole game. tinued to look less than entirely dominant. That’s the biggest thing—just keep getOpening the second half, they came out ting better every game.“ with a suspect game from the free throw Duke utilized a balanced attack on the line, and they ended the night shooting 67 offensive end, as seven Blue Devils had percent from the charity stripe. seven or more points on the night, with Luckily, its defense was impenetrable. Curry boasting the game-high 17. In relyNarrowly avoiding the record for least ing on multiple players to score as opposed amount of points to a few major scored against contributors, “Throughout the game, even Duke displayed a Krzyzewskicoached team, depth of its when we got big leads, we still the Miami shot just roster that will 33 percent on the come in handy locked down on defense.� day. Duke applied come confer— Seth Curry ence play. constant pressure and forced the The Blue RedHawks to the Devils looked esperimeter, and Miami was forced to take 25 pecially good on the perimeter, where they shots from 3-point range, making only six of shot 40 percent on the night, largely due to them. Additionally, Duke was able to keep their proficiency in making the extra pass the RedHawks off the offensive glass, where and choosing good shots. only five rebounds were surrendered by the “I think we did a lot better,� Curry Blue Devils. Duke’s dominance on the glass said. “In the first game we struggled in was so complete, in fact, that Miami head the half court offense to get good shots. coach Charlie Coles said his team’s strategy Every night we’re not going to be able to was to not even go for offensive rebounds, get out and run like we want to, so somesaying “we just weren’t going to get a re- times we have to slow it down and get bound.� good shots in the half court.�

notebook from page 9 ranked No. 2 in the nation by Scout. “We are extremely excited about this recruiting class,� Krzyzewski said in a statement. “They each have a bright future in our program and we look forward to watching them develop on and off the court.�

Gbinije, ranked No. 21 in his class by Scout, averaged 18.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game last year for Benedictine High School in Richmond, Va. He earned all-state honors as a junior, and his team, which made it to the state semifinals, ended the year with a 26-10 record.

Rivers verbally committed to the Blue Devils Sept. 30 after a long recruitment that began after he reneged on his initial verbal commitment to Florida earlier this year. Rivers averaged 23.9 points and 4.4 rebounds a game last year for Winter Park High School.

The son of Boston Celtics head coach Doc

Rivers, Rivers told The Chronicle last month that he is “psyched� to join Duke.

Plumlee will join brothers Mason and Miles as tutees under Krzyzewski, and, if all three brothers are still on the team next year, it will mark the first time in ACC history that three siblings are on the same roster. The youngest and tallest Plumlee averaged 8.5 rebounds a game last season for Christ School in Asheville, N.C. and is ranked 40th in his class by Scout.

Cook—the last of the four to verbally commit—averaged 20 points and 5.9 assists a game last year for Hyattsville DeMatha and was named the Washington Post Metro Player of the Year. Ranked No. 20 by Scout, he played on the FIBA World Championships team this summer, amassing a tournament-best 7.4 assists per game.

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analysis from page 9 Those kinds of chemistry experiments will be ongoing. At times, the Blue Devils placed Singler, one of the Plumlees and Kelly together on the court. The trio towered over the RedHawks, whose tallest starter, Julian Mavunga, measures only 6-foot8. And at other times, Duke put together smaller, quicker lineups which boasted the lightning-fast Irving, Smith, Dawkins or Curry, and Singler. “It’s the second game of the season. Obviously, we’re trying different things out,�

Mason Plumlee said. “I mean, if you remember last year, it wasn’t until a little ways into the ACC where we had a set lineup.

So this early, we’re experimenting and just going from there.�

Plumlee certainly reaped the benefits against Miami. He left Cameron Indoor Stadium with his first career double-double, having contributed 10 points and 14 rebounds in 24 minutes. Despite a questionable start in which the forward turned the ball over on two straight possessions, the younger Plumlee got his feet under him as the game progressed. A stretch where Plumlee seemed to have his hand in every play culminated with 1:42 remaining in the opening period, when he went to the free throw line for two shots.

Plumlee made the first but missed the second, dashed in to follow the miss, grabbed the tip from Singler and put it through the hoop for two more points.

While Plumlee did not grab that rebound, he did have more than enough in the contest. “After our first game, we didn’t have anybody with more than four rebounds,�

Krzyzewski said. “And with Mason getting 14, it’s a huge step forward. He’s capable of doing that. He’s got great hands. He’s a good athlete. He’s a smart player.�

Plumlee was one of four Blue Devils to reach double figures against the RedHawks.

Seth Curry led the way with a game-high 17 points in 22 minutes, Smith chipped in with 10 points and Irving finished with 13 after his initial foul trouble.

The balanced scoring only serves to underscore the depth on the squad. Smith went as far as calling that depth “scary.� “We have so many guys who can come in and help us,� Smith said. “Obviously tonight, Seth came in and had a very good game. Andre, Josh Hairston, Ryan, Miles, whoever it is coming off the bench—and obviously guys who are starting, we already know what we can do. We have so many guys that can produce.�

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Duke Med on course for gender equity It appears that the glass well as the medical field at ceiling still exists, at least in large. Fortunately, Duke’s the medical profession. medical school seems well The School of Medicine’s poised to tackle this issue in regular rank faculty is roughly the near future.

36 percent female, a number The first development in slightly above making Duke editorial the national ava place where erage. But the women have picture is made bleaker by the equal opportunity has been fact that only about 17 per- the appointment of Dr. Nancy cent of tenure or tenure-track Andrews as dean of the School faculty are women, according of Medicine and vice chancela report presented to the Aca- lor for academic affairs. demic Council in 2008.

Although one prominent The Academic Council is female figure alone cannot set to hear an updated report instantly create a culture open early next year, and several to women in such positions, important factors should be Andrews’ appointment was a considered. landmark moment. Her ascent That women are not ad- to such a public place of auvancing to high-level posi- thority allows her female peers tions within the medical to aspire to similar posts. school marks a problem facAdditionally, the departing the Medical Center as ments of medicine, biostatis-

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tics and psychiatry are each currently chaired by women, yet another indication that females have a place in the highest ranks of Duke faculty.

Clearly Duke is on the right track in some respects. The percentage of female regular rank faculty in the medical school rose from 26 percent in 1998 to 34 percent in 2008, according to the most recent report Lange presented to the Academic Council in 2008.

Still, most of the “newsmakers” of Duke Medicine are male, and institutional barriers remain in medicine, both at Duke and across the country. This raises questions of what these barriers are and how Duke can work to break them down.

Medicine is a field in which an old boys’ network often

drives promotion and advancement. This environment can be difficult to change, as it perpetuates itself through culture, rather than policy or initiative from the administration.

Duke Medicine must work to eliminate this atmosphere through such tangible policy measures as accommodations for women who have children and the institution of a mentoring network among female medical faculty.

Mentorship begins with promotion of more women into high-profile faculty positions, something to which the University has already demonstrated a commitment. The next step comes in creating an infrastructure that these women can use to guide their junior counterparts through their medical

education and careers.

The medical school cannot take ownership of all the issues driving the gender gap. For example, the fact that many women choose specialties with a particularly female focus, such as obstetrics and gynecology, is not necessarily a problem.

Rather, Duke’s responsibility is to ensure that no barriers to entry exist for women seeking positions in traditionally male-dominated specialties.

Equality of opportunity may exist as the stated policy of the University, but the underlying culture of an old boys’ network often contradicts the party line of the school.

It is here that the impetus falls on Duke to take action and put into place measures that foster female talent to rise to the top of the ranks.

Intelligent success

eet Christopher Langan. depth of analysis.

He is the smartest man on earth, Freeman Dyson, a theoretical physicist in adwith an IQ reportedly between 195 and dition to an award-winning poet, doesn’t fit this 210. Before he was four years old, stereotype. He is technically not the he had already taught himself smartest man on earth, but he is how to read. Despite a dysfunchailed by The Atlantic as the “heir tional family life, he managed to to Einstein”. get a perfect SAT score. So far, However, the theory of EQ verhe has developed his own theory sus IQ doesn’t explain everything that can “prove the existence of because it applies mainly to saGod, the soul and an afterlife, usvants at the extreme lows or highs ing mathematics.” of both measurements. What rui dai Yet he is not the richest, the most about the rest of America and the a picture’s worth successful or even the happiest. negative correlation that someThis appears to contradict everytimes exists between intelligence thing society has taught us. and economic security?

Since elementary school, all of us have received For the rest of us non-prodigies, we theoretipraise for academic success. The scarlet A+ held cally have a combination of book smarts and street up against the refrigerator is every child’s dream smarts. IQ and EQ are not mutually exclusive. We and envy. Every parent wants his or her child to all have the potential to optimize both our emobe “gifted.” The gifted track or the smart private tional and intellectual capacities. school signifies: my child will be more successful People with high intelligence rack up credit than yours. card debt along with the rest of America. They Here at Duke, GPA is often at the top of stu- sometimes even do so at a higher rate. dents’ priorities. The expectation is that the This might be because intelligent people are smarter you are, the more successful you will be so open to new ideas that they begin to lose comlater in life. mon sense. Abstract analysis is great for dealing However, that is not necessarily true. with novel theories, but for many problems the Christopher Langan is probably smarter than most obvious solution (or common sense) is the Bill Gates but certainly doesn’t have as much in- right answer. come or financial net worth as the latter. MatDespite massive amounts of evidence to the thieu Richard, declared the happiest man on contrary, Freeman Dyson doesn’t believe in global earth by the United Kingdom’s The Indepen- warming. Instead, he thinks the current climate dent, is smart but doesn’t have Christopher change is due to natural cycles of temperature Langan’s IQ. turbulence. Since plants absorb carbon dioxide One of the most prominent theories attempt- from the air, he believes they will eventually be ing to explain this phenomenon is that success is able to reduce the levels of greenhouse gases withbased on much more than the intelligence quo- out human intervention. This theory ignores the tient. Humans exist in more than just a bubble of fact that deforestation and droughts have severely theory and formulas. We must also interact with stunted plant growth. And without this growth, each other. In addition to IQ, we must also exam- there are fewer plants to absorb carbon dioxide ine EQ, or emotional quotient. from the air.

EQ represents empathy and the ability to We assume that intelligent people know what communicate with others. In “The Outliers”, they are talking about. However, at the end of the Malcolm Gladwell compares Langan to J. Rob- day, intelligent people are still people. And people ert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the make mistakes.

Manhattan Project. The author theorizes that In 2008, Christopher Langan was a participant Langan didn’t achieve the same success as Op- in a NBC game show similar to “Jeopardy,” named penheimer because of the different environ- “1 vs. 100.” He, the smartest person on Earth, mental factors that raised Oppenheimer’s EQ didn’t win the grand prize. Someone else did. and lowered Langan’s.

Intelligence alone doesn’t predict wealth or When we think of high IQ and low EQ, we happiness. think of the brilliant history professor whose It is only one characteristic out of many that voice lulls the entire class to sleep. He is ex- contributes to a person’s success. tremely intelligent, but he isn’t able to effectively communicate. No one appreciates his Rui Dai is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs genius because no one is able to fully grasp his every other Wednesday.

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The predicament of the Romani people

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arli ingese? Spanoglo? Italiano? Russo? Tedesci?” I heard someone say timidly, tugging on the edge of my coat. I looked down to see an old man, about 5 feet tall and at least 80 years old, who was able to support himself only with crutches that were attached to his arms. Out of habit, I edged away from the man, ignoring his question and looking uncomfortably at my friend next to me. After a minute or so, the man gave up and sat down at the pew where mass was taking place.

Before you write me off as heartless, let me provide some context. I was in Rome this past weekend with my study abroad program. We lauren moxley had spent the last three days visiting the beaula vita e bella tiful and historical sites of ancient Rome, including the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Villa Borghese, the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain and the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Museums. Each church, ruin and piece of art was inspiring, whether due to its endurance, size or historical significance.

Yet at each historical site, the constant stream of tourists draws in another crowd: beggars, gypsies and corrupt street salesmen. Outside the Colosseum, middle-aged men dressed in gladiator costumes affably ask to take your picture with them and then hold your camera and demand five euros after the photo, antagonistically spitting insults in your face. Good luck trying to throw your coin in the Trevi fountain without being aggressively harassed by several men selling useless items like silly putty or tripods for your camera.

In line for the Vatican Museums, beggars with children with missing limbs or unsightly boils on their head beg for money from the crowd from sunrise until sunset every day.

When I first came to Europe, I felt sympathy toward each beggar and gypsy. I wondered about their life, whether they had enough food to eat and if their children were able to attend school. My stomach churned thinking about the maimed children, many of whose parents may have afflicted them with missing limbs to garner more sympathy from tourists, a “shocking industry” that generates up to 10 euros every day, according to The Daily Mail.

But as the weeks wear on, I have become immune to their manipulation and hardened to their calls for sympathy.

Much like I have, the governments of these European countries have become hardened to the plight of the sizable nomadic populations that depend on begging and stealing for sustenance. Many countries are beginning to look for more systematic responses to the problem. Europe’s problem with gypsies and beggars reached a high point late last July when French Prime Minister Nicholas Sarkozy controversially proclaimed the expulsion of the Roma, members of the ethnic nomad group colloquially referred to as gypsies.

Sarkozy’s announcement brought the problem to the forefront of international debate, inciting disciplinary action by the European Union and outraging human rights groups around the world, including Amnesty International and the League of Human Rights. Although the EU put a hold on disciplinary action last month, France has expelled over 1,000 of its 20,000 nomadic Roma since Sarkozy’s announcement, according to The New York Times.

International law permits systematic expulsion only if the groups are proven to provide a significant threat to public safety, though ethnic and racial categorization is illegal. On Sept. 5, UK’s The Guardian announced that Roman officials may follow Sarkozy’s example to address its own expanding population of nomads and beggars. After the recent death of a child in a fire at a Roma campsite, Rome’s Mayor Gianni Alemanno announced that the Roman government must address the problem, explaining, “these are the terrible risks and dramas of the illegal camps that have existed in Rome for too long.” Fed up with the begging, stealing and threats to public safety, Mayor Alemanno’s government has plans to demolish over 200 illegal campsites in Rome.

On this Saturday morning, the last day of the trip, I went with a small group from my program to St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. I was watching mass that was taking place in a chapel of the basilica from outside a fencedoff area when I was approached by the man who I had ignored so absentmindedly. He kneeled down at mass and prayed with such fervency that one of the Swiss guards that protect the Vatican had actually walked over him to see if he was okay. The man looked up, nodded and continued to pray.

As I watched the old man from afar, I experienced pangs of regret, knowing deep down that he had a fascinating story to tell that I had missed out on. While I do not know this man’s story, my encounter with him made me realize how automatic I have become in dismissing strangers since I have come to Europe. On a personal level, I hope to never miss out on such an opportunity again. On a greater level, I hope that the European leaders do not look at the nuisance and crime of the nomadic people of Europe as criminal statistics rather than people. Although Roma can pose a real problem for European nations, on a governmental level we must remember to treat all people with respect and remember the humanity of humankind in dealing with the problem.

Lauren Moxley is a Trinity junior. She is abroad in Italy for the semester. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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In defense of Tailgate

t is regrettable that Vice President for Student students are in the stands than a few years ago.

Affairs Larry Moneta and Duke University Ending Tailgate in the Blue Zone will reduce have decided to sacrifice tradition to the gods the incentive for curious newcomers to check of public relations and perout the team. Students ceived prestige. Nonethewill be torn between def. cartwright weiland less, the law of unintended ciding to attend the new guest column consequences teaches that off-campus Tailgate and Moneta’s decision to end watching our new and imTailgate will not be the end of the story. proved football team. Given the team’s inconMoneta calls the relatively young campus sistency and lack of recent bowl berths, many tradition an “embarrassment” to the school will choose the former over the latter. and especially to its football team. The preThe administration trying to substitute sumption would be that by ending the event, a new “pregame event” won’t work if all it the “embarrassment” would end as well. means is free hot dogs and a lackluster pep Wrong. rally. That’s been tried before. The best way Moneta underestimates the popularity of to increase attendance is to win more games. the Tradition and the creativity of the student And, ironically, winning more games might be body, which it will utilize to perpetuate Tail- the only way to subdue Tailgate. A team that gate in the future. Tailgate as we know it will can beat the likes of Miami and Virginia Tech go off-campus, to apartments or houses rented is a team the student body will drink less for in by fraternities and sororities. The revelry will order to see. continue, but this time, further away from the That last weekend’s Tailgate resulted in the Duke administration and with increased drunk hospitalization of a minor is a serious tragedy driving. Town-gown relations will continue to that should not be ignored, and one can cersuffer. And the student body will become even tainly understand the university’s liability conmore stratified, as Greek organizations vie to cerns. But cancelling Tailgate will only cause throw the biggest and baddest new incarnation more problems, foster more resentment and of Tailgate while choosing to invite only mem- further divide the student body. bers of their own social communities.

Finding a solution requires recognizing The football team, finally showing prom- Tailgate for what it is: a fun tradition for stuise under the inspiring direction of Coach dents accustomed to working their tails off.

Cutcliffe, will be harmed as well. The current It is extreme to brand it as a cheap excuse to geographic proximity of the Blue Zone to binge or an incredibly unifying social adheWally Wade means that there is now at least sive. It is more than the former and less than some “spillover” effect from Tailgate into the the latter. But it is unique. stands. Contrary to popular belief, numbers Here’s to hoping the administration can of fans are steadily growing as the team has find a way to save Tailgate. Let the kids wear gotten better over the past three seasons. Dur- costumes, and let their beers fly. ing my four years at Duke, the team won as many games. Now, when I go back each fall, I F. Cartwright Weiland is a Harvard Law stuam consistently surprised by how many more dent and Duke alumnus, Trinity ’08.

The end of all Duke’s ‘isms’

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hy are there so many f—ing not)—were unable to key into the challenges Asians in the library?” This was of my racial minority narrative. It is difficult the first moment I became aware to understand the weight of an ism—racism, of my identity as a person of sexism, classism, ableism and color. I was sitting in Perkins all the other isms—without a kristen lee procrastinating reading the frame of reference. To break guest column work of an old dead sociologist this down further, as a thought last month when a male student experiment I invite you to list walked past and spewed this bit of verbal vio- the dominant categories to which we sublence. In truth, there were only three Asians scribe to (e.g. rich, male, straight, right handin the room—myself, a third-generation Asian ed, etc.) and then count the number of domiAmerican, included—but that’s tangential to nant groups you belong to. To my surprise I my point. was a member of more dominant groups than My initial reaction was to view it as an isolat- minority categories. Often as members of ed incident of racism. However, the memory various dominant groups, we can unintentionhas continued to resurface, whether by the ally overlook the challenges of minority group caricature-like depictions of Asian Duke stu- members because we have never experienced dents in Gossip Bro’s comments about Asians them. in the library or through a greek email about a So, as a member of the Duke community, a certain group of Easterners f—ing up an econ social, curious and intelligent group of people, class curve, to name the most visible. I now I see it as my responsibility to be mindful of recognize that these occurrences are symp- the language of isms, in particular those that toms of a racial structure we need to question are not a part of my native tongue. As some and challenge, but I want to address them of my friends at the Center for Multicultural within a larger context: the matter of “isms.” Affairs say, to contend that people are beyond Because you see, what surprised me most race, to prematurely declare us beyond ‘ism’ about my experience wasn’t that race is still an is counterproductive. To buy into colorblindissue, but that many of the students I told my ness and say that we must not speak of race in story to just didn’t get why I was offended. order to end racism is problematic because it This was at first baffling to me. How could ignores the greater reality of racial inequities. some of my closest friends not understand the Instead, I encourage an address that, rather brutishness of being told indirectly (if you than tiptoeing around uncomfortable converconsider being called a f—ing Asian being sations and being excessively PC, recognizes told indirectly) that you were not welcome in ‘isms’ as a very real part of campus life. It is far a space because you looked a certain way or more progressive to acknowledge differences, belonged to a certain group of people? socially constructed and otherwise, and move It was only today after reading the fliers to understand those differences with an open posted across campus for “The Heterosexual mind and consciousness of behavior than to Privilege Checklist” that I really got it. Much deny them. Only then can ‘isms’ begin to belike I am often oblivious to the benefits I come relics of our past rather than challenges derive from hetero-normative privilege, my to our present. closest friends—many of whom benefit from a white privilege (whether they identified or Kristen Lee is a Trinity sophomore.

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Ice Hockey- Duke Hockey has been struggling recently, with losses to NC State (twice), UNC, and UNC Wilmington (current record of 1-4). However, the team is optimistic and looking for a fresh start. In addition to the current team, Duke recently held its alumni weekend with about 25 alumni returning.

Men’s Crew – Won the Varsity 4+ and Novice 4+ races at the scrimmage against N.C. State, Wake Forest, and Davidson at the Davidson Classic; finished 16th out of 33 in the Varsity 4+ race, 12th out of 32 in the Novice 4+, and 23rd out of 30 in the Novice 8+ at the Head of the Hooch Men’s /Women’s Tennis- win the Greenbriar tournament, beat UNC-G and NC State in duals, get 10th in Wisconsin (runner-up in the silver bracket) Table Tennis - Duke finished in 2nd place out of 7 schools with a 5-1 overall record behind Virginia Tech at the Table Tennis Team Regionals. The girls team consisting of Sunny Sun, Joy Xiang, and Emily Cao finished 1st in the Women’s division.

Women’s Soccer- Duke women’s soccer competed in the southeast regional tournament, pool play: Duke 0 UGA 1, Duke 2 Clemson 2,Duke 3 Auburn 0, moved on to the quarter finals, Duke 1 UNC 1, game went to overtime and then penalty kicks, UNC moved on. Overall Record for the season: 6-6-3 Women’s Ultimate - The women’s ultimate team took first place in the Blueridge Blowout tournament at App State. They defeated App State, UNCG, Virginia Tech, and Elon before winning the championship over College of Charleston (10-9).

Did you know that Duke has won 3 National Championships in Sport Clubs?

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