January 13, 2011 issue

The Chronicle T h e i n d e p e n d e n t d a i ly at D u k e U n i v e r s i t y

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20 apply for undergrad YT position

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Central to add four new SLGs

TALLAHASSEE STUNNER

by Anna Koelsch

by Nicole Kyle

More students have applied for undergraduate Young Trustee than in recent years following the first student body election of the position instituted last year.

Twenty students applied to be Young Trustee for the 2011 election cycle, up from 15 last year. In 2009, 14 students applied and 16 applied in both 2008 and 2007. Applications were due Jan. 9.

Junior Pete Schork, Duke Student Government executive vice president, attributed the rise in applicants to a strong senior class and the new election process.

Previously, a nominating committee of students selected the Young Trustee, but DSG chose to add an student-wide election to the final selection of the Young Trustee last Fall.

“I think that people are more comfortable with the election process,” Schork said. “Any hesitation with last year could have subsided.”

Along with the addition of an open election to last year’s Young Trustee selection process, DSG also discussed the need for seniors to apply who are not necessarily affiliated with major campus organizations such

New groups with space on Central hope to attract rushees this Spring.

Four new selective living groups’ requests for residential sections were approved by the administration over Winter Break. The Nexus, InCube, JAM! and an unnamed group focusing on research were given space on Central Campus, though the locations of their sections have yet to be determined, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life. He added that deliberations with the groups will begin this week.

“We’re definitely hopeful that these groups will add to the flavor of Central,” Gonzalez said. “I think that these groups are very unique in their focus, [and] I really think it adds some greater options to students in general.”

Each of the groups is focused on a specific interest or theme, Gonzalez noted.

The Nexus defines itself as a discussion society whose goal is to allow members to talk about their “big ideas,” said sophomore Elena Botella, one of the Nexus’ eight founding members and its interim executive chair. InCube’s focus is

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Hampered by a poor shooting night, the Blue Devils fell to Florida State, 66-61 in Tallahassee, Fla. The loss, No. 1 Duke’s first of the season, ended a 25-game winning streak.

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Panhel sees record registration numbers for third year

by Fei Chen

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More than 500 women registered for Panhellenic recruitment this year, surpassing last year’s mark by 76 students.

For the third consecutive year, the number of registered women has set a record. Last year, 434 girls signed up for recruitment, which was an 18 percent increase over the previous year.

Of the 510 women who are signed up this year, 46 are sophomores. Recruitment begins tomorrow and will conclude Jan. 23.

Administrators and students attribute the increase to better communication and public relations on behalf of the Panhellenic Association. The later registration date also gave women more time to sign up, said Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek.

“In the past years, after the window closed, there were a number of women who wanted to register and had missed the deadline,” Wasiolek said. “Panhel did a better job of capturing all the interested women this year.”

Delta Gamma President Becki Feinglos, a senior, also noted that sorority philanthropic events on campus may have played a part in increasing freshmen interest.

“I would love to think that the positive things that sororities have been doing on campus such as better PR for philanthropic events... might have been better seen by

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freshmen and sophomores planning on going through formal recruitment,” Feinglos said. “My hope is that that has had a positive effect this year, that we’ve done better jobs of getting our names out there.”

Pi Beta Phi President Rose Sheela, a junior, said that the increase may be due to positive word of mouth, as many freshmen come to Duke knowing girls in sororities nationwide. She noted that their positive experiences may have encouraged other students to join a sorority.

Panhellenic Association President Bogna Brzezinska, a senior, wrote in an e-mail Wednesday that she is not surprised that interest has increased.

“The Panhellenic community at Duke has grown stronger and more prominent on campus, particularly over recent years,” Brzezinska wrote. “We are involved in many visible ways on campus.”

Sheela also said one of the strengths of the recruitment process is that it brings women together and gives them the opportunity to meet new people.

“I just realized the majority of my friends are in my class [are participating], and joining a sorority would allow me to meet upperclassmen and underclassmen,” said sophomore Gini Li, who is currently registered.

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510 women signed up for Panhellenic recruitment this year, an increase attributed to improved public relations and positive word of mouth.

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“I live in Chapel Hill, so I know the UNC [ticket] system and ours is a lot better in comparison.”

­—Senior Chris Venters on K-ville. See sound-off page 4

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“Faculty members of Duke University Law School compiled their list of movie and television picks “wishing you the happiest of holidays…and some time to enjoy a film or two.” Among their picks is My Cousin Vinny recommended by Thomas Metzloff, professor of law.’“Of course, as all my students know, there is nothing like My Cousin Vinny. Simply the best legal comedy of all time!” said Metzloff.”

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In a bid to retain its share in a highly competitive market, General Motors displayed one of their new models, the Chevrolet Sonic, at the North American Auto Show on Monday. Critics have said the company has failed to deploy enough new models. GM aims to address this problem with the introduction of the Sonic along with other new models.

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Integration policies under Lebanese government attack from school board suffers after resignations RALEIGH, N.C. — The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And its suburban schools, rather than being exclusive enclaves, include children whose parents cannot afford a house in the neighborhood.

But over the past year, a new majorityRepublican school board backed by national tea party conservatives has set the district on a strikingly different course.

Pledging to “say no to the social engineers!” it has abolished the policy behind one of the nation’s most celebrated integration efforts.

And as the board moves toward a system in which students attend neighborhood schools, some members are embracing the provocative idea that concentrating poor children, who are usually minorities, in a few schools could have merits.

CAIRO — The Lebanese government collapsed Wednesday after ministers from the Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies resigned in advance of expected indictments against members of the organization by a U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the killing of the prime minister’s father.

Eleven ministers resigned from the 14-month-old unity government, immediately toppling the already crippled administration. The move is a major blow to Sunni Muslim Prime Minister Saad alHariri and his backers, the United States and Saudi Arabia. Hariri was in Washington on Wednesday and met with President Obama, but cut his visit short.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was in Qatar on Wednesday for meetings with Persian Gulf leaders, strongly condemned Hezbollah’s decision, which she suggested was a deliberate provocation.

Correction

The article “Record 29K apply to join Class of 2015” incorrectly stated that the majority of regular decision applicants were from California. More students applied from California than any other state, but the applicants did not represent a majority. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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Aquatic Center to receive new swimsuit dryers

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

Students who take a dip in the Taishoff Aquatic Center will no longer have to lug home a wet swimsuit thanks to a new budget allocation of $2,768 by Duke Student Government.

In their meeting Wednesday night, DSG members voted unanimously to purchase two swimsuit dryers for the aquatic center, one for each gender’s locker room.

Vice President for Athletics and Campus Services Chris Brown, a sophomore, said the dryers have been a long time coming.

The decision came after DSG Executive Vice President Pete Schork, a junior, announced that the DSG budget had a remaining balance of $11,300.

“Swimsuit dryers are a capital investment and will benefit students for years to come,” Brown said. “This is a resource that is going to be [widely] used.”

Brown said the number of students who use Duke aquatic resources warranted swimsuit dryers long ago.

He added that men’s and women’s varsity swim and dive teams—as well as club swimming and water polo athletes—will benefit.

Most aquatic centers across the country have swimsuit dryers, Brown said, adding that Duke’s lack of dryers is a “major shortfall.”

After the meeting, Brown noted that staff at Wilson have begun installing the dryer for the men’s locker room. He added that the installation date for the women’s

Repeal of DADT could alter University, military dynamic

by Samantha Brooks THE CHRONICLE

The recent repeal of the military’s 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which ended the ban prohibiting homosexuals from serving openly in the military, may change the relationship between ROTC and colleges across the country.

Although Duke has maintained Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs since World War II, many elite universities refused to participate in protest of DADT. But now that the policy’s repeal has been signed into law, institutions like Harvard, Yale and Columbia universities—which originally dropped ROTC in protest of the Vietnam War—are considering allowing the military back on their campuses. Other schools, including Princeton University, have indicated that they will not

modify their ROTC policies in light of the ban’s repeal.

Duke’s ROTC program—which encompasses Army, Navy and Air Force divisions—will not immediately see changes regarding DADT. According to Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Koloski, a professor of military science for the Army ROTC program at Duke, the repeal will not go into effect until 60 days after President Barack Obama provides Congress with a written certification stating that “the Defense Department has prepared the necessary policies and regulations to make the changes, and the implementation of these changes is consistent with the standards of military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion and recruiting and retention of See dadt on page 6

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Harvard, Yale and Columbia universities, schools that have not featured ROTC after protesting the Vietnam War, may now reinstate the program.

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K-villesoundoff Amid snow piles, inhabitants of Krzyzewskiville cozy up in sleeping bags in shelters varying from tents to tarps held up by sticks. Tenting for seats in Cameron Indoor Stadium for the rivalry game against North Carolina began Jan. 3, and although the Spring semester started off with temperatures below freezing, Dukies remain adamant that tenting really is worth braving the cold.

“Of course it’s worth it. I have been watching the Duke basketball games every year with my mom, so why would I ever pass up the chance to see one in person for free?

Why wouldn’t you? Yeah, it’s cold, but there’s a great feeling of camaraderie in K-ville.”

—freshman Cecile Diaz “It’s weird to say the least. Last year I remember waiting on line and, yeah, it was cold and you had to wait for hours, but at least you knew what you were waiting for.

When you’re tenting four weeks in advance, it’s easy to forget why you’re out in the cold at night. But I know in the end, it’ll be worth it.”

—sophomore Andrew Norwood

“It’s a week of hanging out with close friends. I thought it would be so much worse, but it’s actually a lot of fun.

I’m from New England, so this snow is a joke, but I’m sure if you ask the people in my tent from Los Angeles you’d get a very different opinion. They’ve all had to go out to buy new clothes for the cold.”

—freshman Brittany Zulkiewicz “I think tenting is a lot harder than I thought it would be, but I guess because of the stuff we go through it’s a bonding experience for everyone involved. Everyone in our tent is rushing, so it’s an insane task to balance out everyone’s schedule. We leave that to one girl, who spends hours on it. We call her Coach Sam.” —freshman Colleen Mulligan “I’m from Buffalo, N.Y. so we get three feet of snow there all winter, which is pretty much six months of the year, so I was like, ‘I’m in North Carolina—this won’t be an issue.’ But I definitely underestimated the power of nature.”

—freshman Olivia Wasteneys

“This is my third year tenting but the first time I am doing black tenting. I grew up in Raleigh so I always felt the Carolina-Duke rivalry, and it’s the hardest ticket to get, so that’s why we’re all out here I guess.”

—junior Tony Phipps “There aren’t any fights in our tent. We’re all in the same dorm, so it’s like a Randolph tent. We just rag on each other and talk junk— nothing serious.”

—freshman Sam Keenan “I live in Chapel Hill, so I know the UNC [ticket] system and ours is a lot better in comparison. There, you apply for a lottery, and they award the tickets randomly.

For us, it’s a merit-based system, so the people who earn it and are willing to work hard get it and that leaves you with the better die-hard fans up front and center.”

—senior Chris Venters “It’s cold. What do we do? Snuggle.”

—freshman Victoria Li

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slg from page 1 entrepreneurship and will work to aid the University’s goal of becoming a leading entrepreneurial institution, said junior Sidney Primas, a founding member of the group.

JAM!’s mission is to bring fitness, wellness and athleticism “back to the forefront of the Duke community’s mind in a way that is enjoyable and conducive to the busy Duke lifestyle,” sophomore Elizabeth Clark, one of JAM!’s founders, wrote in an e-mail Monday.

The last group is yet to be named but will is intended for students interested or involved in research, founding member Jason Klein, also wrote in an e-mail Monday.

The approval of the new groups’ residential sections is evidence of a strong student interest in the residential experience, said Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta.

“I think [Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education Steve] Nowicki and I have been pretty publicly expressive of our desire to expand student opportunity and to see [students] leverage their residential experience in terms of intellectual and co-curricular interest. [These groups] are going to continue the diversification of residential living and the dynamism of the student interest and identity.”

Nowicki said that the administration will not be adding any more selective residential space on West Campus.

“We’re incentivizing groups to consider Central [because] there are more opportunities for expansion,” he said. “What we get is students who really want to be out on Central who are adding even more life and activity.”

He also noted that it will be interesting to see how these new groups affect the transi-

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tion to the house model and said the administration does not intend to add more “selectivity” to the residential experience.

“You can be assured that Larry [Moneta], Joe [Gonzalez] and I would keep an eye out if the social selective thing was getting out of hand [and] was reducing the ability of students to be unaffiliated,” Nowicki said.

Moneta added that it is his intention to reduce the prevalence of private membership in these groups during the transition to the house model.

“We will be very cautious about limiting the number of groups that are privatemembership groups,” he said. “We will continue to work with [groups] so that their ability for limiting access is in some ways mitigated.”

Gonzalez also said it is anticipated that all current SLGs will have space in the new house model, and it is possible that selective groups will become their own house.

“I do believe at some point there is a tipping point where we have too many SLGs,” he said. “I don’t think we’re there yet, [but] under the house model, we’ll have to see to what extent students see the need for new SLGs or whether the new houses fill any void the students may have perceived.”

The decision to grant the groups residential space followed a recommendation from the student-led Approval Removal Committee, which heard presentations from the groups Dec. 10, Gonzalez said.

The ARC is part of the newly instituted Collaborative Housing Process and is responsible for making recommendations concerning granting housing privileges.

The ARC is also responsible for reviewing the Residential Group Assessment scores of groups in order to recommend if a group should be placed on probation.

The recommendation to extend housing to these four new groups is one of the

first major actions of the ARC since its inception in Spring 2010, said ARC Co-chair Priya Bhat, a senior.

“These groups all brought something very different or something that was lacking in the [Duke] community,” Bhat said.

“I think those different elements that it was seeking to promote will really benefit the housing community.”

Nowicki commended the ARC and the process and said it is important for students to have input in the decisions that will ultimately affect them. “[For the ARC] to take the lead was the right thing to do,” he said. “I think we went into it with a real sense of dialogue on the whole concept of the ARC and how it would be involved—we were all on the same page. This is a real win for student governance.”

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The four new living groups, The Nexus, InCube, JAM! and a group yet to be named, all bring unique elements to the Duke housing community.

recruitment from page 1 Freshman Gabrielle Hodgins said she thought much of the interest may be due to the influence of family members and friends who are in sororities.

Both Feinglos and Wasiolek, however, hesitate to draw any definite conclusions from the increase, saying it will be more significant to look at the number of girls who actually join.

Last year, the nine Panhellenic Association sororities offered 311 bids to the 434 women who rushed, an increase from the 260 bids offered in 2009. Feinglos said her chapter has made logistical preparations to accept 40 women into this year’s pledge class, five more than last year’s 35.

Sheela also said that this increase most likely means a bigger pledge class for her sorority.

Not all women who rush will ultimately decide to join, however.

“Women just might not find that sorority life and greek life is for them after the recruitment process,” Feinglos said. “Women drop out every year at different times for different circumstances.”

Wasiolek also noted that Duke offers a wide ranging and vibrant social scene in that students have the option to go greek, but it is not the only choice.

“It is an enhancement to a student’s overall experience here if they want that,” Wasiolek said. “I like the fact that it is a choice, an option. It is not necessarily a dominant feature. It can be an interwoven aspect of their life at Duke.”

Sheela echoed Wasiolek’s statement, adding that the process is less formal at Duke than at other schools. And though Sheela believes greek life is a big aspect of the Duke community, she said students do not necessarily have to go greek to be a part of the Duke social scene.

ROMANCE STUDIES COURSES STILL OPEN FOR SPRING 2011 FRENCH French 141S.01 ALP CCI FL

Surrealism: Aesthetics & Politics

Professor Anne-Gaëlle Saliot TTH 11:40-12:55 Languages 305

‘Beautiful like the fortuitous encounter on a dissection table of a sewing machine and an umbrella’: this poetical image by the 19th C writer, Lautrééamont, has been turned into a famous Surrealist slogan. But after the initial wordless bewilderment, how can we make sense of such an improbable chance encounter?

Surrealism is one of the most popular avantgardes of the 20th C. Basic principles and central issues of Surrealism and its relations with modernism. Examines many Surrealist strategies (automatism, hypnosis, collage, found objects), themes (dreams, sexuality, dépaysement, objective chance,), and political agendas (Marxism, anti-colonialism, anarchism) across a wide range of sources: (collective texts, manifestoes, narratives, poems, periodicals, games) and visual artefacts (drawings, paintings, collages, sculptures, photographs and films).

French 200S.01

French Cinema: 1920’s to Present ALP CCI FL Professor Anne-Gaëlle Saliot TTH 2:50-4:05 216 Friedl

Beautiful actresses with pouty lips, twitchy romantic young men in black and white, intellectual discussions in smoky café’8es, minimal plot, not enough action, too much ideology: Do you recognize this common view of French cinema? Among all the world cinemas, French cinema has sought to define itself against Hollywood. For Undergraduates and Graduate students. AMI 298S.02. LIT 255S.06

French 200S.02

Black Atlantic Literary Studies: Toussaint Louverture & JeanJacques Dessalines ALP CCI FL Professor Deborah Jenson W: 4:25-6:55 305 Languages

How did Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, former slaves and leaders of the Haitian Revolution, make their voices heard in a colonial world? Studythe oeuvres of two neglected founders of Afro-diasporic philosophy.

Students will have the opportunity to sit in on virtual conversations with Jean Casimir, Laënnec Hurbon, Michel Degraff, and others. For Undergraduate and Graduate students.

ITALIAN Italian 112.01

Italian Lit II

Professor Valeria Finucci MW 2:50-4:05 208 Lang

Major writers of the Italian early modern literary tradition in the 16th, 17th, 18th C. Includes Machiavelli, Castiglione, Ariosto, Galileo, Andreini, Tasso, Fonte, and Goldoni, and the culture in which their works were embedded together with the religious, political and aesthetic climate in which they lived. ALP, CCI, FL

Italian 114.01

Italy and the Shoah

ALP CCI CZ FL Jessica Otey WF 11:40-12:55 208 Languages

The Italian experience of the Nazi genocide of World War II. Includes historical accounts, concentration camp survivor memoirs, and stories of Jewish Italian life before the fall of Mussolini and the German occupation in 1943.

Authors include: Alberto Moravia, Primo Levi, Giorgio Bassani, Giorgio Agamben, Piera Sonnino, Edoardo Erba, as well as plays and films.

Italian 202S.01

Boccaccio’s Decameron: the Future of Literary Criticism Professor Martin Eisner TH 4:25-6:55 305 Languages

The interpretive enigma of Boccaccio’s Decameron and its hundred stories of love, sex, deception, and death through the lens of nearly seven hundred years of literary criticism. By examining how the text has been read in the past—from the rhetorical readings of the Renaissance to the structuralist, semiotic, and psychoanalytic strategies of the 1960’s and 1970’s, as well as the more recent (if belated) analyses of the work in terms of gender—the seminar asks what critical methods and techniques might be used to treat this intractable text in the future. For advanced undergraduates & grad students.

ICS 299S.01 LIT 255S.05 MEDREN 200S.01

PORTUGUESE Portuguese 143.01

Contemporary Latin American Film

Aaron Lorenz T: 6-8:30 Films LSRC D243, TH 11:40-12:55 Old Chem 123 ALP CCI

Explores the relationship between Latin American film production and its dependent relationship with the state, Hollywood, and European films: experimental films from the 1960’s,1970’s, contemporary films, and films that explore questions of urban violence and enduring class, race and gender differences.

AMI 120.02, LATAMER 199.02, ICS 130J.01

Portuguese 144S.01

20th Century Brazilian Music & Literature

ALP CCI FL W Aaron Lorenz TTH 2:50-4:05 105 Soc Sci

Popular music and literature in Brazil: songs, short stories and novels. Beginning with the first-recorded samba, Pelo Telefone in 1917, the class examines several musical genres including forró’97, bossa nova, rock, funk, brega, Hip Hop, and funk carioca.

RS 145.01

Representing Haiti

Professors Deborah Jenson and Victoria Szabo MW 2:50-4:05 Perkins LINK 2-085

Earthquakes, zombies, cholera, humanitarianism, carnival: How is Haiti represented in world media, literature, and art? Read the novels of two visiting Haitian writers, Edwidge Danticat and Lyonel Trouillot. Explore Haiti in cyberspace: google maps, virtual worlds, and web technologies. Taught in English.

C-L: ISIS 115.01/ VS 116 CCI CZ STS R

SPANISH Spanish 116.02

Introducción a la literature y el arte Hispanoamericanos

ALP, CCI, FL Prof. Beatriz Rodriguez-Balanta TTH 2:50-4:05

Introducción a la literatura y el arte hispanoamericanos.

Este curso sirve como una introduccíon a los movimientos más importantes en la literaturea hispanoamericana. Esta seccíon tambíen tiene un enfoque en la relación de la literature con las artes plásticas. Estudiaremos la cultura hispanoamericana a través de esta conversación entre las artes.

Spanish 142S.03

Colonialism, Citizenship & Culture in Puerto Rico/USA ALP CCI FL Professor Richard Rosa TTH 4:25-5:40 207 Languages

Introduces students to issues related to Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican community in mainland USA. Puerto Rico became a U.S. colony following the 1898 Spanish American war, and significant waves of migration that began early in the 20th century have created an important community in the US. Readings in Spanish and English include judicial documents regarding Puerto Rican citizenship, novels, poetry, art work and music. For Undergraduates & Graduate students.

CL: SP200S.03

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as Campus Council, Duke University Union and DSG. DSG President Mike Lefevre, a senior, is following suit with that observation by fulfilling his presidential campaign promise that he would not run for Young Trustee.

“Last year I made it clear that I wasn’t running for DSG president as a stepping stone for Young Trustee. I think my time this semester is better spent helping the student body [instead of] campaigning,” Lefevre said.

“While it is an important way for students to give back, I don’t see Young Trustee as the holy grail of leadership.”

Young Trustee Nominating Committee Chair Christine Larson, a sophomore, said last year’s election results paved the way for this year’s crop of applicants to be composed of students unaffiliated with major groups on campus. “[Current Young Trustee] John Harpham [Trinity, ’10] wasn’t exactly the big guy on campus,” Larson said.

“It proved that just because you’re the DSG president does not mean you’re the Young Trustee.”

This year’s Young Trustee selection process follows a wave of new DSG bylaw changes.

The YTNC, which is composed of eight DSG senators and 10 at-large members, is now only responsible for narrowing down the applicant pool from 20 to three finalists, as opposed to last year when the committee was also responsible for running the election process. The DSG Board of Elections now has jurisdiction over the Young Trustee open election. The Board of Elections will establish campaign rules and run the election.

The YTNC will announce the three finalists for the position Jan. 29.

Schork said this year’s bylaw changes are significant because he believes the Board of Elections is better suited for the open election process. He added that the Board of Elections will probably deliberate more during the election and will not ratify the election outcome as quickly as the YTNC had to last year.

“The nice thing is that there is a lot of discussion when we change [the selection process],” Larson said.

“I hope that people continue to talk when we don’t change the bylaws.”

military personnel.”

As it stands, the ban prohibits ROTC members from engaging in homosexual acts or verbal admissions of homosexuality. Koloski said offense allegations are reviewed by a general officer and that a service member’s termination from the military must be approved by the secretary of the Army as well as other Department of Defense officials.

Though the repeal is considered a substantial national policy change, Koloski said he thinks the atmosphere of Duke’s ROTC program will be affected minimally. He added that he does not expect the number of future applicants to significantly fluctuate as a result of the new law.

“I personally don’t think there will be a great deal of changes,” he said. “One of the great attributes of the Army ROTC program here at Duke is the diversity of our cadets and faculty. The program has a general culture of tolerance and encouraging diverse backgrounds and thinking.

I think this will only continue in the future.”

The statute was first repealed by the House of Representatives before being passed by the Senate in a 65-31 vote in mid-December, and President Obama signed the bill Dec. 23.

Many Duke administrators had expressed their opposition to DADT. In May 2010, Bruce Kuniholm, dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy and a former U.S. Marine,

dsg from page 3 locker room is unclear because Wilson has to schedule a time to close the room so that male employees can work.

The swimsuit dryer additions are a collaboration between the Wilson Recreation Center and DSG, with DSG covering the costs of purchasing the dryers and having them delivered.

In other business: DSG voted unanimously to allocate $360 to sponsor a char-

joined the deans of eight other public policy schools in signing a letter to Congress calling for the law’s repeal.

“We are pleased that a policy that has been both unfair and divisive has been repealed,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an e-mail.

Despite past criticism of the statute, however, Koloski said the University has never faced any organized protest against ROTC’s presence on campus.

“To my knowledge there has never been any real organized objection to Army ROTC at Duke and certainly nothing related to DADT,” he said. “I think we have an outstanding relationship with the University and the community. Last Fall, Duke University sponsored its Military Appreciation Day the same weekend as the North Carolina Pride Parade and Festival here on East Campus.”

Janie Long, the director of Duke’s Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life was not available for comment. Junior Ollie Wilson, president of Blue Devils United, said Duke’s LGBT community already maintains a good relationship with the ROTC program. Going forward, he said he hopes the repeal will provide closeted LGBT-identified students in ROTC a more tolerant environment in which to consider coming out.

“I think it’s been a long time coming,” Wilson said.

“There are already students who are LGBT who are ROTC, and I think the biggest difference we’ll see is that they’ll be able to be open and more comfortable in expressing themselves without fear of repercussion.” ter bus to bring students to and from Southern High School in Durham from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. for this year’s Stop Hunger Now Martin Luther King Jr. Meal Packaging event Jan. 26.

Academic Affairs Senator Ebonie Simpson, a junior, said students from North Carolina Central University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University will participate in the event as well.

Vice President for Academic Affairs Kaveh Danesh, a junior, and Schork delivered their semester reports to the DSG body. Schork said the financial aid advisory committee and the three committees created by Danesh on the arts, intellectual climate and curriculum were notable additions last semester.

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theSANDBOX. Things got a little crazy (rowdy? wild? kinky?) at Christmas this year. A little psycho-sexual, you might say.

I probably just made you uncomfortable right now, because I bet you think of Christmas as all about family togertherness with plenty of peace/ love/joy themes. But you ought not to feel too bad for me. I swear my family is just as weird as yours. We just wanted to see Black Swan as much as you secretly did.

I celebrate Christmas a little differently from everyone else in America, and what I mean by that is that I never legitimately celebrate it. But that isn’t to say that I don’t celebrate at all. Holidays should never be wasted. Jews just like to do all the things you aren’t doing, like eating culturally diverse takeout selection. It’s both economical and our tradition.

As per every year, mom and I were bored with nothing to decorate, trim or

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glaze and no worthy television programming. We called a Loews and debated seeing The King’s Speech or Black Swan, but obviously we both wanted to see the latter.

Later that night we drove to the theater and joined the large queue of other non-believers, once for tickets and again for a feast of popcorn, candy and soda. The film was so-so. The audience was entertaining. Packed to capacity, the theater brought out the holiday with moments of horror, pleasure and, most of all, family-togetherness.

You may think your Christmas-time is special, sacred even. But if you see me on campus, ask me how my holidays were and you’ll realize that your family is not really special at all. I’m special.

Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to you all.

—Maddie Lieberberg

[recesseditors] things we’ve lost in ’11 Kevin Lincoln......................................................everything but the phone battery Lisa Du.................................................................................................................sleep Jessie Tang........................................................................................her hipster cred Andrew O’Rourke......................................................chances of marrying NatPort Sanette Tanaka..........................................................................any interest in flying Ross Green...................................................................................his Twitter virginity Nate Glencer......................................................................his under-age innocence Lindsey Rupp.............................................................NOW that’s what I call music

More than halfway into her 5600-word Atlantic Monthly hit piece on Duke University and the current wave of sexual feminism, “The Hazards of Duke,” Caitlin Flanagan comes as close as she ever gets to citing a source.

She mentions the on-air speech of a “very pretty, golden-haired Fox news anchor” named Megyn Kelly, which concerned Karen Owen’s powerpoint. After invoking what she claims is the anchor’s defense of the “righteous tradition of Division I Men’s Lacrosse and all of the excellent guys who play it,” she goes on to paint Kelly as an apologist for misogyny and mocks her credentials for commenting on the Karen Owen situation.

Let’s try and ignore, for a second, all the implications of describing Kelly as “very pretty” and “golden-haired,” Flanagan’s grade-school taunts and her clumsy prose (“they prefer bikini waxes and spray tans to overalls and invective.”)

Flanagan’s a hack and the worst kind of pundit; after years of her hysterical essays, this is common knowledge. But that doesn’t excuse The Atlantic for having printed pages of what is essentially deception, unprofessionalism and, in at least one instance, outright lies.

Apparently, Tucker Max is the “unofficial king of Duke,” but whoever cc’ed this memo to Flanagan forgot to send it my way. The Amethyst Initiative, a movement to lower the drinking age to 18 endorsed by Duke’s president, Richard Brodhead, is dismissed as just one more example of Duke’s utter corruption; but as of right now, 135 different college presidents can be counted as signatories.

There are the simple things also, like saying one of the “F*** List’s” subjects was “drafted into a Major League Baseball team,” as though he were being consumed by the military-industrial complex (it should be “drafted by”).

And then there are the gross errors.

Flanagan accuses The Chronicle of ignoring an alleged rape that took place on campus.

But the paper ran three front-page stories about the incident, two as the day’s lead pieces.

Flanagan doesn’t support any of her ridiculous proclamations with sources or research. Apparently, Duke’s rise to elitism came through “lured academic luminaries—many of them longer on star power than on intellectual substance.” But she doesn’t give a single example. It’s pretty clear that she’s never set foot on Duke’s campus or spoken with any students—or the students of the other universities she’s so concerned about. And the reporting she does cite is always that of other writers, published in magazines not The Atlantic, taken out of context and placed in isolation.

Beyond the terrible execution of what is supposedly her trade, The Atlantic shouldn’t be advocating Flanagan’s demeaning treatment of Karen Owen. Flanagan interprets Owen like she’s a text to be studied, reducing her completely to the stuff of the “F*** List.”

Citing the fact that Owen only sent the list to three friends initially, she writes, “It’s not hard to believe that Owen had only three friends in college.”

In a throwback to antiquity, Flanagan attacks Owen for her sexual preferences. Her accusations are unfair and, frankly, bizarre, resembling nothing closer than the language of homophobia. For The Atlantic to print this reveals a chasm between our understanding of where contemporary gender discourse is at and where it actually resides—because pieces like “The Hazards of Duke” show that at least one foot’s still in the Stone Age. Clearly, Flanagan doesn’t know any better than to write nonsense like this. But the fact that The Atlantic continues to publish her isn’t just shameful—it’s irresponsible.

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Student program confronts issues through art

by Josh Stillman THE CHRONICLE

Looking to volunteer abroad over the summer? It turns out that there are more options than just DukeEngage.

Students of the World has been sending service-minded undergraduates across the globe for a decade. Founded by Courtney Spence, Trinity ’02, in 1999, the organization’s mission is to highlight social issues through student-produced media.

As a sophomore at Duke, Spence found herself interested in both activism and documentary studies, but was at a loss for an outlet that utilized both of her skill sets.

“I wanted to marry the two concepts, international experience with storytelling and media,” she said.

After fleshing the idea out with friends and Duke administrators, her vision became more and more of a reality, garnering enough support to send a pilot group to Russia that summer.

Working in an orphanage village, the team lived with families for several weeks and captured their experiences through photography and writing.

“We hung photos at coffee shops.... We got word out any way we could,” Spence said.

The response to their work that summer was so positive that they were able to send a group to Cuba the following year. When Spence graduated in 2002, the program at Duke was still thriving and the Universities of Texas and Michigan were forming their own chapters. Subsequent chapters at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brown University, Columbia University in 2007 and New York University have been established.

Since then, Students of the World teams have worked both domestically and in 30 different countries, including Thailand, Guatemala and Tanzania. Paired with local nonprofit organizations, volunteers use media to raise awareness for the groups and their causes. This takes the form of anything from documentary films to still photography to written words.

Last summer, sophomore Ashley Tsai helped create a stop-motion film for Brad Pitt’s Make it Right Foundation in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, the section of the city most ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. As a student, Tsai, like Spence, was drawn to both creative and philanthropic endeavors.

“I wanted to be able to use artwork to do something that benefits others,” she said. “[Students of the World] gave me the perfect venue to take my artwork to the next level, to do something bigger with it.”

Though it would be easy for an initiative like Students of the World to dwell on suffering and hardship, Spence stressed that her intent is not to exploit sentimentality.

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Founded in 1999 by a Duke undergraduate, Students of the World seeks to highlight social issues through student-produced media in countries around the world. Chapters exist at a number of different universities, including UNC-Chapel Hill.

“We’re storytellers focusing on solutions, not just prob- work to many key figures in social activism. Students are lems,” she said. “We’re bombarded with messages of ter- also granted the opportunity to collaborate with industry rible things; It’s important to recognize organizations and professionals during the six weeks of post-production in individuals that are doing incredible things.”

Austin, Texas.

Senior Dani Potter, who writes for Recess, worked with Spence believes that Students of the World is unique a team in Brazil in the summer of 2008. She said this among the myriad service-oriented volunteer programs ofoptimism is one of the most rewarding aspects of the fered to college students. work.

“You don’t see many organizations doing what we’re do“That experience has driven all of my further research ing, putting [the volunteers] in very intense immersion exand community involvement,” she said. periences with the purpose of storytelling,” she said. “We For the past six years, Students of the World has worked can be a microphone for voices that aren’t heard around with the Clinton Global Initiative, which publishes their the world.” articles and screens their films at its annual conference For more information about Students of the world, visit www. in September. This, Spence said, has helped expose their studentsoftheworld.org.

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An updated John Wayne western by the Coen brothers, True Grit features a solid cast including Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin, as well as 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, a new actress on the scene.

The storyline is simple: A girl approaches a notorious marshal to hunt down the man who shot her father. As the pair journeys into the wilderness to seek revenge, they form an unexpected bond. Though fairly orthodox, True Grit is no less riveting, chock full of the proverbial shoot-em-up scenes and balanced with an unexpected dose of charm and humor. The script is both well-written and well-delivered, crafting dynamic, developed characters throughout the course of the film. Though fast paced, the dialogue adheres to the rhetoric of the time. For example, there is not one contraction in the entire movie.

The real surprise comes, however, from Steinfeld, who holds her own amid a renowned cast. Steinfeld delivers the ideal character—a witty, intelligent girl bent on revenge for whom the term “tomboy” seems too feminine.

In all, True Grit is worth seeing at least once, though you could probably predict the resolution before the credits roll.

—Aziza Sullivan

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Colin Firth’s usual suave leading man is absent in The King’s Speech, and not the least bit missed. The unlikely king is the role of Colin Firth’s lifetime—one the Academy will surely not overlook.

Prince George (Colin Firth) has a stutter. No matter—his older brother will be king, and he will live with his wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) and two children in their loving home. That is the plan until his brother abdicates the throne to marry an American whore. The British Empire, outfitted with radios on the brink of WWII, looks to their stuttering king for guidance. Elizabeth employs the Australian Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) as a speech therapist who probes deeper than the mechanical in a search to cure George’s affliction.

Only director Tom Hooper’s second feature—his previous works include the HBO John Adams’ miniseries—the film almost exclusively uses close-ups, allowing a perfect cast to express finesse over an impressive emotional range, from chagrin to anguish, delight to satisfaction. Warm greens, blues and shales dominate the color scheme and expertly enhance the delicate costumes and impeccable character placement. A visual peppering of hanging airplanes, shiny cars juxtaposed with horses, a new recording device and the proliferation of radios hints at a subtext: an unacknowledged cultural, generational and class revolution. Hooper is timid in his commitment, however, and thus delays his inevitable rise to auteur status.

The King’s Speech is a film for anyone who has ever struggled with what should not be, but is, and has had to rely on a friend to find strength for reconciliation.

—Dani Potter

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This year, Santa’s sack was full of mixtapes.

On Christmas Eve, Rick Ross dropped Ashes to Ashes, his first release since the world-conquering grandiosity of Teflon Don. And on New Year’s Day, the dexterous, criminally undersung Curren$y put out Return to the Winner’s Circle, a nice victory lap after making two of the year’s best hip-hop albums, Pilot Talk and Pilot Talk 2.

Although neither of these new mixtapes quite lives up to their proper-LP predecessors—and, seeing as they’re free to download, this is hardly a surprise—both are nonetheless successful collections, continuing the development of the hip-hop game’s most improved players of 2010.

With Ashes to Ashes, Ross extends the winning strategy he put to work on Teflon Don: pretending to be other people.

Rap has always been a theater for playacting and impersonation, but Ross has turned the sculpting of new personas into his best sell. He’s always been locked inside a somewhat limited style, grounded by his guttural, rolling flow and narrow lyrical palette, but by shapeshifting from track to track he’s able to overcome these shackles and, at his best, turn them to his advantage.

“John Doe” is the prime example here. Over a subtle wave of a beat, dressed up with skittering drum machine, Ross raps mainly about being a cipher, comparing himself to Rajon Rondo and Bo Diddley within the song’s first minute.

Anonymity becomes a boast, though pseudonymity might be more on-point.

On the other hand, Curren$y knows exactly who he is.

Unlike Ross, the New Orleans rapper makes his bones as a standout technician with a deft and versatile flow. Where Ross would kick the door down, Curren$y finds an open window.

Ironically, one of the better tracks on Return to the Winner’s Circle uses a Teflon Don beat. “Daze of Thunder” takes Kanye West’s production on Ross’ “Live Fast, Die Young”—a flashy, ecstatic thing, anchored by soulful vocal samples—and turns it into a typical Curren$y joint, slurred and persistent. Other highlights include the bombastic “Frost” and “Record Deals,” a subtle and lachrymose cut that makes for a perfect mixtape track—low-key and prominently showcasing Curren$y’s weed-fueled wordplay.

The quality of the two mixtapes matches up pretty well, despite their different styles. Nothing on Return to the Winner’s Circle ever quite matches the polish of Ashes to Ashes tracks “9 Piece” and “Retrosuperfuture, ” buoyed by features from T.I. and Wiz Khalifa, respectively.

But both Ross and Curren$y give plenty reason to believe that they’re only getting better.

—Kevin Lincoln

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Not every band can claim that they produced a decade-defining anthem that remains relevant 15 years later, but Cake’s 1996 hit “The Distance” seized the airwaves, inspiring spliced movie montages and giving triathlon runners the extra boost they needed before collapsing.

Still capitalizing on the alternative movement that made them famous, Cake releases their sixth studio album, Showroom of Compassion, a record that will likely please Cake fans but garner few converts. John McRea’s signature semi-spoken vocals are still layered over the ska-tinged assortment of trumpet, bass and guitar, but the ques-

tion is, how does a band that is so distinctly ’90s adapt to the sound of 2011?

On first listen, Showroom is uneven, with some songs shining in typical Cake fashion while others become quickly forgettable. “Sick of You” and “Long Time” have the catchy alt-rock feel, and the band also scores with more melodic tunes like the synth-laced “Easy to Crash.” But their experimentation with piano in “Teenage Pregnancy” sounds out of place when compared with the band’s low-key, relaxed attitude.

Despite the standouts, Showroom of Compassion never surpasses mediocrity. It has the nostalgic feel of Fashion Nugget, but the tracks leave listeners uninspired. For Cake, this is another release of a few memorable songs instead of an overall achievement as a ground-breaking production.

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61 DUKE FSU 66 UNDEFEATED NO MORE

by Alex Krinsky THE CHRONICLE

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Duke’s loss to a big Florida State squad highlighted a weakness that other ACC teams could try to exploit in the coming weeks.

While Duke may have an arsenal of esteemed guards that can usually be counted on to shoot well from the perimeter, when those guards are cold, Duke Game is unable to depend on points Analysis coming from the post.

On last year’s national championship team, its late season surge was bolstered by senior Brian Zoubek’s dominant play down low. If Jon Scheyer, Nolan Smith or Kyle Singler were struggling from the field, the Blue Devils could push the ball down low to Zoubek.

But last night against the Seminoles, Duke did not have the seven-foot Zoubek. Both Mason Plumlee and Miles Plumlee had their hands full with Florida State’s powerful forwards that were able to do significant damage with their strength and size. Bernard James and Chris Singleton completely clogged the lane, preventing the Blue Devils from penetrating down low.

Mason Plumlee played solid defense, racking up 10 of his 14 rebounds on the defensive side of the ball, but he only scored three points. Miles saw limited playing time and finished with no points. Ryan Kelly was similarly futile offensively, hitting only one shot in See analysis on page 9

25-game win streak snapped with loss

by Alex Krinsky THE CHRONICLE

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Seth Curry struggled to find his shot Wednesday, going 3-for11 from the floor and 1-for-6 from beyond the arc.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — If you can’t take the heat, get out of the way of Derwin Kitchen.

The Florida State guard exploded for 22 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Seminoles to a 66-61 victory over the No. 1 Blue Devils (15-1, 2-1 in the ACC) last night. It was Duke’s first loss of the season, ending a 25-game win streak that dated back to last year’s national championship run. “[Kitchen] went into beast mode,” Florida State forward Bernard James sawid. “He has a tendency not to be aggressive on offense, but today the whole team was talking to him before the game, telling him to shoot the ball when he’s open and drive to the basket.”

Thanks in large part to Kitchen and forward Chris Singleton—who scored 18 points, including a clutch 3-pointer with 3:43 left in the game that gave the Seminoles a five-point lead—Florida State beat a topranked Blue Devil team at home for the third time in eight years. The Seminoles, just a few days removed from losses to unranked Auburn and Virginia Tech, also snapped the second longest winning streak in Duke’s school history.

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Florida State used a tough defense to hold Duke to its lowest point total this year.

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Irving’s absence is finally felt with loss to FSU Despite all the preseason hype, everyone knew this Duke team wasn’t going to be perfect. It was bound to have an Achilles’ heel.

Well, make that toe.

After a month of cautious optimism following Kyrie Irving’s now infamous injury to his right big toe, the loss of the Blue Devils’ dynamic point guard finally caught up to Duke in its first loss of the seaScott son against Florida State last night.

Against the Seminoles, the impact of Irving’s absence finally became apparent after a month of subpar competition and favorable crowds masked his loss. Without its freshman playmaker, Duke’s offense stagnated.

Throughout the game, the ball stayed in Nolan Smith’s hands too long, and many possessions simply devolved into a game of one-on-five between him and a stellar Seminole defense. Without a true point guard on the floor, Duke’s forwards were nearly invisible, and a team that was once ridiculed for reliance on 3-point baskets regressed into a similar system.

The loss finally justified the shadow that Irving’s injury has cast over the No. 1 team in the country. Before the Blue Devils’ first loss, fans complaining about Irving’s absence sounded like spoiled teenagers who got a Mercedes instead of a Ferrari for their sixteenth birthday.

Now, though, Duke has lost more than just its most exciting player—the Blue Devils might have lost their aura.

With Irving, Duke had what looked to be

the early front-runner for national player of the year and possibly the best point guard Durham has seen since Jason Williams.

In fact, Irving was on pace to be even better than Williams. Through his first eight games, Irving averaged 17.4 points and 5.1 assists, and the Blue Devils were 8-0. Williams, despite his dazzling career, only averaged 14.6 and 4.9 assists in his first eight games, two of which were Duke losses.

So while the Blue Devils will still be a very good team this season, it’s fair for fans to be depressed after losing arguably the best player in the country, and, if the stats show anything, possibly the best point guard to ever play in Durham. It’s fair for fans to be disappointed that they might not see Irving’s ball-on-a-string ball-handling skills again this year, or ever. It’s fair for fans to mourn the loss of what could have been one

of the most dominant teams in college basketball history, even though that loss doesn’t cripple the team’s national title hopes.

But despite the defeat in Tallahassee, it isn’t fair for fans mourning the loss of Irving to ignore the current Blue Devils on the court. This Duke team still has something incredibly rare in the modern college See rich on page 9

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The loss of Kyrie Irving, seen here in better days, finally manifested itself in a defeat to Florida State last night, Scott Rich writes. The freshman’s return is still uncertain.

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whose 20 points couldn’t save the Blue Devils from the defeat. “We didn’t really play that well, especially in the first half. We weren’t ready for how physical the game was.”

In a back-and-forth game that saw seven ties and eight lead changes, seniors Nolan Smith and Singler helped keep Duke within striking distance of Florida State with clutch shooting. Smith finished the game with 19 points and was 3-for-7 from 3-point range.

Singler drained five treys, including several threes in the middle of the second half that put Duke in a position to possibly come back and win the game.

Smith hit a wild 3-pointer to cut the Seminoles’ lead to three with two minutes left to play. However, Singleton and Michael Snaer each knocked down a pair of free throws that gave Florida State a fivepoint lead, from which Duke would prove unable to recover.

In all, the Seminoles hit five free throws in the contest’s last 37 seconds to seal their win.

“We haven’t been in a game like that all year. They knocked us back,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I really thought that Florida State played with an unbelievable amount of emotion…. [Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton] had his team playing the way they usually play, very athletic, very strong, very together.”

Florida State (12-5, 2-1) won this game with defense. The Seminoles kept a big, athletic lineup on the floor that prevented the Blue Devils from maneuvering in the paint, and the Blue Devils struggled, shooting only 31.1 percent from the field.

“They just played great defense,” Krzyzewski said. “They’re very fundamentally sound, and have been the entire time Leonard’s been here. They play outstanding defense, and they’re committed to it.

I don’t think they do anything tricky, their defense just dominated our offense for about 25 minutes in the ballgame.”

The Seminoles smothered the Duke guards and prevented them from penetrating into the paint on must possessions.

Duke wound up settling for 3-pointers, shooting 35 in all and making only 11. Andre Dawkins was 1-for-8 from beyond the arc, and Seth Curry also struggled, hitting only one trey in six attempts.

The unranked Seminoles took advantage of the Blue Devils’ futility from downtown and pulled off a stunner that ended with Florida State’s fans storming the court.

The unpredictable world of college basketball exhibited itself yet again.

“That’s the nature of the sport, especially at this level,” James said. “You throw a punch at a team, and they’re going to come back with two more. That’s what they did. They didn’t lay down. They fought back, and we took their punch and gave it back to them.”

the game. Collectively, Duke scored 10 points in the paint.

“There wasn’t a lot of room down low. They’re very big,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They knocked us back. And you can try to practice that, but you don’t practice against Singleton and Kitchen and James.”

Florida State did a fantastic job throughout the game in keeping the Blue Devils out of the interior. None of Duke’s forwards were able to drive the lane or get open looks down low.

Consequently, Duke was relegated to the perimeter—the Blue Devils launched 35 3-pointers in the contest, sinking 11.

Nolan Smith repeatedly brought the

rich from page 8 basketball landscape—a pair of seniors as talented and poised as Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith. It is still on track for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. It still has two months to adjust to Irving’s absence against ACC competition.

So while no one knows how long Irving will actually be out, it’s time for fans to accept that without Irving, this Duke team is different, not dead. It will continue to be a national title contender, just in a less dominant and flashy way. Smith and Singler will share the spotlight; it won’t be dominated

by Irving.

And as sad as Irving’s injury is, that’s OK. I’m betting as long as this team makes a deep run in March, fans will be satisfied— whether it’s with Irving running the point or not.

“They knocked us back. And you can try to practice that, but you don’t practice against Singleton and Kitchen and James.”

— Mike Krzyzewski ball up and dished it to another guard on the outside who would either have an open look, or pass to another guard with a shot. And normally this would be fine with the sharp-shooting Blue Devils. Before the loss to Florida State, Duke was shooting 49.4 percent from the field and 42.8 percent from three-point range.

However, against the Seminoles, these percentages dropped significantly, to 31.1 percent and 31.4 percent, respectively.

On the defensive side, the Blue Devils also struggled. Although Mason Plumlee was a force down low, the Seminoles were able to tally more defensive rebounds.

“Up until this point in the season we really haven’t gotten many second chance points.” Seminole forward Bernard James said. “That was just really huge for us tonight that we could do that. That was the reason why we were even in the game. If we didn’t get any second chance points, [Duke would have won] hands down.”

Last night, apart from Singler and Smith, Duke’s shooters were cold. If the Blue Devils have any more inconsistent shooting nights this season, they will have no choice but to better develop their post game.

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Hellinga case demands resolution For the past two years the an interrogation of Hellinga University has been investigat- and Duke across the scientific ing the research conduct of community—a community that Homme Hellinga, the James extends far beyond the walls of B. Duke professor of biochem- the Gothic Wonderland. A priistry, who was forced to retract vate, internal resolution does two published nothing to bring papers in 2008 closure to this editorial after peers called very public ishis research into question. sue. A true resolution demands The investigation left a that the University release the lot of scorched earth—it findings of its review. tarnished the reputation of Under federal regulations, Mary Dwyer, one of Hellinga’s the University only has to regraduate students, and re- lease the findings of the review sulted in Hellinga’s research if Hellinga is found guilty of rebeing publicly questioned in search misconduct as defined Nature magazine. by federal law. If Hellinga’s In December, The Chron- conduct violated University, but icle reported that the Uni- not federal standards, the University concluded a review of versity does not have to release Hellinga’s research conduct. the findings of the review.

Unfortunately, we know nothKeeping the review’s finding about the review’s findings. ings secret makes sense from The Hellinga case provoked a public relations standpoint.

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Hellinga is a distinguished researcher and Duke has an interest in protecting him.

Sweeping the review under the rug could also avoid increased media scrutiny of the University in general.

But public confidence cannot be restored through secrecy. The Hellinga review affected a lot of people. It dragged an innocent graduate student’s name through the mud, giving prospective and current graduate students reason to doubt Duke’s commitment to protecting its graduate students. Likewise, Hellinga’s peer scientists have good reason to doubt the credibility of his future research findings and, more importantly, the credibility of the University.

Duke endorsed and rewarded that scientist’s efforts and now

refuses to clarify whether research errors occurred.

For these groups to have their confidence restored in the University and its review processes, they need to know what Hellinga did wrong and what steps the University is taking to chastise the professor and prevent future misconduct.

Knowing that a review has been completed is not enough.

As it stands, we have little reason to have faith in the purity of Duke’s review process.

A recently released report on Duke’s review of Anil Potti’s research revealed that the Duke administrators decided not to pass on information about discrepancies between the raw data and the data Potti reported. A review of Hellinga’s conduct might be similarly flawed.

Protecting public confidence in the scientific process is vital. People rely on scientific conclusions to make critical decisions—whether or not to vaccinate their children; whether or not to turn conceptual research into a clinical trial. Individuals cannot evaluate this research on their own—they must make leaps of faith. Because they must place blind faith in the science, there is much at stake in protecting the integrity of the scientific process.

If Hellinga has done nothing wrong, he has nothing to lose from the release of a report that clears his name.

If he has done something wrong or simply made an honest mistake, the University stands to gain the trust of many by admitting it.

An alternate reality The phone rings – it’s mom. Here it goes. Time hint of pride glinting in his eyes – eyes which I imagine take after his mother’s. for updates.

However, it’s easy to recognize that most of us “How are classes? Are you sleeping enough? at Duke, including myself, have privileges that Don’t stress yourself out too much!” The usual.

Fernando may not. When my Then her tone deepens. “Listen, computers break, I don’t have to the phone company called recently wonder if money spent on a new and they’re going to cut our cell one will prevent my brother from phone service, so I may not be able having internet access for his to talk to you for a while,” she says. homework that month. Or when What do you do?

I go to the movies with my family, Most of us at Duke have been forI presume that my parents will pay tunate enough to never have faced the situation. It’s usually the other Bhumi Purohit for everyone rather than the other way around. way around – we call our parents to got privilege?

Regardless, Fernando has help pay our cell phone bills. learned to focus on what he has For Fernando Revelo La Rotta, rather than what he doesn’t. Doing so does not however, the story is all too common.

“My mom has called asking for help at least prevent the constant stress of knowing his family’s four or five times, around $100 each time, and financial situation any easier, but it does allow him that was just last semester,” he said. “She is a proud to focus on the good in life.

For Fernando, his family is never a point of diswoman… she is very subtle about it, but I know that my grandparents and my aunt’s family also cussion among his Duke peers, so most of them are unaware of familial stressors. Additionally, Ferrely on her for help.”

Fernando looks down and reflects on the nando’s economic status is rarely questioned due situation he has become familiar with over the to his generosity towards his friends, whether it’s years. It wasn’t always this way, though. Grow- with money or something else.

“I can’t stand to see anyone suffering,” he said. ing up in South America, he had a life of comIronically, his words, filled with purity from the fort and culture. With numerous artists and writers within his family, the arts were a con- heart, triggered memories of the numerous occastant part of Fernando’s life. When Fernando’s sions when I had failed to see my friends sufferstepfather, a United States citizen, and mother ing because of my socioeconomic privileges. As both became unemployed, the family decided someone who comes from a middle class family, I have neither struggled nor splurged, and I have to immigrate to the States.

“We moved because of the land of opportuni- certainly never been forced to recognize the conties s–,” he said with a hint of bitterness. “It is a sequences of my spending on my family – at least land of opportunities but it is no promise land – not to the extent Fernando is pushed to do every day. I presume that trips to Ninth Street will not it’s work or be eaten alive.”

Fernando’s feelings are understandable, given be financially problematic for any of my friends, that his stepfather worked three jobs, and his and an occasional night out is a norm rather than pregnant mother did, too, when they first moved. an exception.

Fernando’s openness, though, shines a new Regardless, Fernando said he has gotten used to things being different. Every day throws a curve light on the presumptions we carry around at ball, but he learns to make the best of situations, a Duke, and not simply about socioeconomic status. It’s hard to open our eyes because privileges skill acquired from his mother.

Fortunately, Duke’s generous financial aid al- are inherently granted to us rather than earned lows him to attend the university at no cost. How- or brought into being, and the special advanever, any spending money he gets is from his job tages they bring prevent us from truly noticing and refunds from books and other purchases. So alternate realities. Whether these privileges are how does it feel living at Duke, where designer la- related to socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicbels, expensive alcohols, and nice meals are all too ity, sexuality, age, or ability, we all have them, and they have often blinded me from experiencing common?

For Fernando, it means saving money to buy true diversity at Duke. How are they preventing one expensive jacket and nice clothes which allow you from seeing the challenges of those you live him to fit into “high class scenarios,” but he insists with everyday? that money isn’t everything.

“My family always taught me that we may not Bhumi Purohit is a Trinity senior. Her column runs have money, but we are cultured,” he says with a every other Thursday.

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Frenemy, pls refudiate haters With 2010 behind us, I had fun over break looking at pathways more complex than those of our predecesdifferent dictionaries’ and publications’ lists of “the new sors allowed for abstract thought and the use of symwords of 2010.” Sociolinguistic commentators always bols. This adaptive development allowed for complex have a field day around every new year: Some loudly la- social interactions and communication that made one ment the decline of English, and others Homo species more fit than another. marvel at the flexibility of our language.

And yet, as humans, we—by the same Everyone seems to love a good invective or different neural mechanisms—are against modern society—but why do we capable of reflection on our behavior care about change in language so much? in a way that hasn’t been observed in Natural systems are dynamic, any other animals. So for the entire history scientist will argue that. But most things of our species, where we are today is as man-made—from buildings to morals— much a product of natural forces as it is strive to achieve an intrinsic stability. sandeep prasanna deliberate choice. Taken into context, Nature fluctuates, but the concrete and if humans use language to communithe abstract of man-made creations are hooked on phonetics cate, and if language is useless without designed to be constant. Language, one facilitating communication, then we of the most fundamentally human of characteristics, ask why vocabulary isn’t finite and syntax isn’t fixed— straddles this dichotomy. It is at once a natural system en- this would seem to be the most effective way to ensure coded into society and into the human brain—an ability meaningful interaction. But the point is that it’s not. to process and synthesize communicative gestures of the This problem has occupied researchers and still same species—as well as a synthetic system based on arbi- isn’t resolved—but will it ever be? It seems to me that trarily assigning sounds and symbols to the human expe- change in language might be such a complex, multifacrience. As such, language has been torn between natural eted, multivariable process that we may never be able drift and conscious shift in ways that no mathematical or to understand how all of the forces work together in historical model will ever be able to describe or predict. one whole, coherent way such that we’ll be able to comAmid this complexity, change in language—a per- petently describe or predict past and future change in ceived or documented shift in semantics, vocabulary, every respect. Language is natural and synthetic and grammar, pronunciation, or writing—has engaged neither, and it displays trends characteristic of both and humanity because it is associated with some of the none. Human behavior, the human mind and human most important elements of the human condition: interactions are all inconceivably complex variables. culture, identity and the origin of man.

Linguists might always be consigned to dividing up We know at least some of the why of language language change into neat parcels and analyzing the change. Cultures attack, conquer and interact with hell out of each. This might not be such a desperate one another. Language academies are created and thing to do. As long as we recognize that the entirety maintained for the explicit purpose of standardizing of language change defies conclusive explanation, we written and spoken forms because there’s a historically can concern ourselves with functional explanations of and geographically universal perception that society in certain trends in a way that is useful and productive. general and language in particular is falling precipiEven if we don’t fully understand the mechanisms tously from a refined past. Certain forms of grammar and processes of language change, it would be silly to and vocabulary are stigmatized and others are praised; believe that our language is declining: It’s difficult to obthe same ones might be conversely mocked and ad- jectively characterize any change as degradation. We’re mired by different groups. The inherent variability in not moving toward some end-goal, no matter what sort the human experience, a necessary component for any of a harbinger the “texting generation” is. The truth is change, allows that when different cultures interact, that every generation has always experienced language there is a productive exchange of ideas and language. change and called it decline. Change is just change.

This is all well and good. We can name what has As far as I’m concerned, the “new words of 2010” happened and offer some explanations as to why these lists are only useful in reminding me how woefully changes occurred. I have shown above that language is square (we’re still using that word, right?) I am. inconstant: This much every linguistics student knows.

But if language is a man-made system, then it was creSandeep is a Trinity senior and a Program II major ated to be constant: Man works toward homeostasis. studying the dynamics of language. His column runs every Language, ostensibly, arose because certain neural other Thursday.

Life in Haiti goes on

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the Hai- ual level. I cannot relate to the people living in these tian earthquake, which claimed an estimated 230,000 camps. At least this is how I felt until I visited the tent lives and destroyed approximately 500,000 homes. One community Petite Ville, or Little Village. This is where year after the disaster, with a cholera epidemic raging all of my friends have moved, a small tent community of and a political crisis looming, what is life like for the Hai- just 37 people. When I visited this community, the realtian people? To find out, I decided to visit myself. ity of the earthquake hit me. This didn’t just happen to My curiosity stemmed from a personal a huge group of anonymous people, it connection with Haiti. In summer 2009, I happened to individuals, with personal max kligerman stories, dreams lived and volunteered in Leogane, Haiti, and ambitions. It hapguest column through DukeEngage. I fell in love with pened to my friends! I could now finally the city and Haiti. The friends I made see the faces affected by the disaster. were some of the closest I have had. As fate would have But instead of being sad, I found myself uplifted. The it, Leogane was the epicenter of the earthquake. I was same smiles and laughs that I had grown accustomed to scared to see how the city had changed. But I was also over two months were the same. Everything they lacked thrilled to return to a place that means so much to me. in physical possessions, they made up for with their love On Jan. 2, I landed in Toussaint L’Ouverture Airport for one another. Their hospitality and kindness was bein Port-au-Prince. Driving from Port-au-Prince to Leo- yond measure. They offered me the little they had to gane, you get a sense of the destruction. In every open welcome me—even insisting on cooking me dinner. And space in Port-au-Prince, tent communities have sprung there I was, with just about everything in the world but up. The lack of habitable space is so intense that hun- nothing to offer back. I was speechless and touched. dreds have even been set up on the median separating It was beautiful to see the way life has continued for each lane of the national highway. The most shocking this community since the earthquake. Two of my friends moment of the drive was passing by the National Palace, now have healthy babies, and even the dog has two new a huge, incredibly beautiful structure in the middle of puppies. They confront the hardships of life here with a the city that symbolized the country. The Palace was de- smile and faith that I am only beginning to understand. stroyed in the earthquake and still lies in ruins.

Overall, life here is hard—but it is good. The people As we made our way out to Leogane, the level of de- have humble ambitions, just asking for enough food to struction only increased. Entire blocks extend without a eat and a safe place to sleep, and I find myself perpetusingle structure left standing. I hardly recognized my old ally inspired by their happiness, hope and indomitable street. The house I lived in is completely gone, replaced spirits. But I am also disheartened because I know they now by just an empty plot of land surrounded by col- deserve so much more from the rest of the world. lapsed buildings and rubble.

The scale of the destruction made it difficult for me Max Kligerman is a Trinity senior writing a thesis in Global to comprehend the earthquake’s effects at the individ- Health.

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The hazards of (her)say There are dangers to writing a column about an article. One is that many of you may not have had a chance to read The Atlantic’s “The Hazards of Duke,” by Caitlin Flanagan while making your way back to icy Durham. Another is that this is too meta already and I’ve lost you.

But there is too much wrong with Flanagan’s piece to ignore it. We’re in a tough position because by increasing the number of page views, we’re giving The Atlantic exactly what they want in writing yet another article samantha about Big Bad Duke. lachman To summarize, Flanagan uses Karmy favourite things en Owen’s PowerPoint as a mechanism to talk about her conception of the dominance of greek life, alcohol and athletes on campus. She writes, “something ugly is going on at the university” as our university’s “thoughtful students are overshadowed by [our] voraciously self-centered ones.” However, about halfway through the article she pulls a 180 and starts discussing how women now outnumber men in meeting the clinical criteria for alcohol abuse. She then talks about...

Lacrosse in 2006, sexual consent and the modern college woman.

She ends her piece by arguing that women at elite colleges are “traumatized by what takes place during so much of this mindless, drunken partying when they’re steeped in alcohol.” It’s really a smorgasbord.

It’s easy to criticize Flanagan for not doing any independent research or interviewing any Duke undergraduates. She takes opinions and numbers from other people’s articles, books and television shows. Her upcoming book, “Girl Land,” about “the emotional life of pubescent girls,” seems to inspire much of her analysis of “our” lives.

She might excuse this criticism by saying she’s a cultural or literary critic rather than a journalist. But I would still hope she bases her myriad assertions at least somewhat in reality.

The bigger issue is that her rhetoric backfires. Arguing this school is “anti-intellectual,” she claims that anyone who doesn’t fit into her boxes is marginalized. But by saying that women are so impressionable they are overpowered by men, alcohol and the shadow of Karen Owen, she victimizes us. By us, I don’t just mean our University (which, by virtue of The Atlantic’s publication cycle got to start this semester with another formulaic Duke article). What I really mean is how it conceptualizes college-age women, because that’s who Flanagan targets with her condescension.

Matthew Yglesias has previously critiqued Flanagan’s “sweeping statements of social trends” on the Think Progress Blog. This also concerns Donna Lisker, associate vice provost for undergraduate education, who wrote in an e-mail that “it’s easy to pick on the outliers and say they represent everyone, but it’s entirely inaccurate” and that “[Flanagan] would have come away with a considerably more complex picture,” if she had spoken to Duke women.

Moving on from the ad-hominem issue, I think we can use this article as a catapult to take back discussions of our University and make them student-initiated. Flanagan focuses on one type of Duke student, which definitely exists... but we’re not all identical, and we’re more diverse than she gives us credit for.

Jazz at the Mary Lou Wednesdays isn’t focused on alcohol, and the discussions you’re likely to have there definitely aren’t anti-intellectual. The dinners I had at both my Hebrew and English professors’ houses last semester certainly don’t fit into Flanagan’s portrait of our school. Duke’s focus on entrepreneurship and civic engagement isn’t motivated by self-absorption. Events and organizations such as the Me Too Monologues and Common Ground have wide exposure and appeal. Every dorm room rainbow flag is working to change perceptions every day. Groups like Project Wild don’t just do a pre-orientation trip, but operate all year as a social network to help newcomers navigate Duke and Durham. There is so much about Duke to celebrate.

These articles about make-believe “Duke” have real world ramifications. I remember reading Rolling Stone’s “Sex and Scandal at Duke” and vowing to never attend this institution. That piece terrified me, and if I hadn’t had the opportunity to talk with real students, visit and find out that this is exactly where I should be that article could have changed my life for the worse.

We can’t concede total control of the dialogue about our University to those not at Duke and not in Durham. As Lisker says: “Reporters choose what to resurrect and what not to resurrect.” Let’s overcome that barrier to positive entry. Lisker added that Flanagan’s article is “patronizing about women and their sexual choices.” The way to combat such condescension is by proving that we each make the choices we make because we’re individuals. We at this one institution do not represent one viral anomaly. And we need to remember we aren’t the ones creating the hazards.

Samantha Lachman is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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