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Keohane explores effective leadership

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

Duke’s first and only female president returned to campus to share what she has learned from her study and practice of leadership.

Nannerl Keohane, former Duke president, gave her perspective on what makes a good leader Friday at the Sanford School of Public Policy, centered on her new book, “Thinking About

Leadership.” The discussion, led

by Kristin Goss, assistant professor of public policy and political science, and senior Mike Lefevre, Duke Student Government president, focused on leaders of many different types and characteristics they share.

“There are leaders in all sorts of situation,” Keohane said. “Why do we use this same term to describe the head of garden club as

the president of the U.S.? Leaders don’t all have high-powered, omnifarious jobs.”

Keohane said she decided to write a book about leadership in 1980 when she accepted the post as president of Wellesley College, her alma mater.

In discussing her work, Keohane described three elements to See keohane on page 3

Despite growth of the University’s long-term investments in the 2010 calendar year, spending for next fiscal year will not substantially increase.

The University’s share of the long-term pool of investments, which is managed by the private firm Duke University Management Company, saw 13.3 percent growth in 2010, Vice President of Finance Tim Walsh said. The increase has brought the current valuation of the investments to $6.0 billion, up from June 30 of last year when it was valued at $5.4 billion. Walsh noted that those figures do not include other funds managed within the longterm pool, including those of the Duke University Health System and other agency funds.

“From where we started in July 2008, would I have expected two calendar years of [these returns]?

No, our models were showing 5 percent, or 8.5 percent,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said.

“In part that’s because I didn’t want to overestimate before the fact.”

Even with the rise, the University is still yet to reach the level it was at before the economic recession. Trask added that the overall annual return since summer 2008

is still negative, standing at about -1 or -1.5 percent, he estimated.

“It’s better than I expected, but we’re not back to where we were,” Trask said.

Because not all universities have released their 2010 numbers, Duke has not been able to compare itself to other institutions, Walsh said.

He added that the most recent numbers should put Duke in the top quartile as usual.

Starting next fiscal year, some faculty members will benefit from the economic gains. In the Fall, President Richard Brodhead announced plans for a “modest salary increase”—a measure that Duke has not taken in two years— beginning next fiscal year. Trask said the positive growth last year reaffirmed the upcoming salary increases, although he noted that it is still “too early to tell” their exact size. The increases will likely be lower than they were prior to the economic recession, he noted. “[Increases before the recession] were in the 2, 3, 4 [percent] range, this will be in the 2, 3 [percent] range, I would guess,” he said. “We have a lot of work to do.... We are working hard to figure out how to pay for [the salary increases] again.”

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Athletics campaign 76 DUKE NCSU 52 to fund stadium upgrades, additions Duke cruises to win over State from Staff Reports

by Vignesh Nathan

Duke Athletics is embarking on an effort to raise $100 million to expand Wallace Wade and renovate Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The fundraising is expected to begin in the Spring and last three to five years, the Triangle Business Journal reported. The majority of money raised will go toward building a new press box and increasing seating in Wallace Wade Stadium by 10,000—including the addition of 24 suites and 700 to 800 club seats. Planned improvements to Cameron Indoor Stadium—which include expanding its lobby, constructing an upstairs club area and adding more concessions and rest rooms—will account for one-

There were only six competitive minutes in No. 5 Duke’s 76-52 rout of N.C. State Saturday—the first six. A scrappy Wolfpack squad, missing star freshman C.J. Leslie for a “violation of team rules,” managed to keep up with the Blue Devils, only down 10-8.

But four more minutes passed, and things quickly went downhill for N.C. State (12-11, 2-7 in the ACC). The Blue Devils (21-2, 8-1) went on a 17-2 run and had already built a seemingly insurmountable lead over the Wolfpack, 27-10, with 30 minutes of regulation still remaining.

It was then that Nolan Smith dealt the signature blow of the game.

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The Blue Devils went into halftime with a 29-point lead, and not even a subpar second half could stop them from cruising to an easy win.

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“Last night’s game in Maryland went mercifully riot-free. Was the power of prayer to be thanked? We had heard rumors that there was a prayer rally on Tuesday to ensure the safety of College Park after the Duke game Wednesday night. Yesterday, we got confirmation: Flyers were found leading up to the game advertising the rally. It featured at least three reverends, so you know it must have worked.”

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Workers load palm oil seeds off a cart on a farm outside Monterrey, Colombia, that was seized by paramilitary groups years ago. Colombia’s new president, Juan Manuel Santos, is ratcheting up the pressure on the guerrilla by returning thousands of square miles of stolen land to poor farmers who were displaced. He aims to pacify violent regions and put Columbia on a path to peace.

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Obama reaches out to US Egyptian uprising gives Chamber of Commerce hope to Iranian leaders WASHINGTON — The White House’s campaign to rebuild ties with corporate America gets the ultimate photo opportunity Monday when President Obama crosses Lafayette Park and steps into the imposing headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The gesture may surprise Americans who recall that Obama, just four months ago, said the group may have used foreign money to air ads attacking Democrats, or that a senior aide called the Chamber’s political tactics a “threat to our democracy.”

And the applause certain to fill the ornate Hall of Flags inside the Chamber building might seem jarring given the dollars the group spent to fight Obama’s signature health-care overhaul and deliver the House majority to the Republicans.

But Monday is also likely to show that tensions remain close to the surface.

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TEHRAN — The divergent narratives illustrate the deep divide that separates President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters from a struggling opposition movement made up of middleclass urbanites and politicians who were pushed from power. They underscore the uncertainty over where events in Egypt will lead, allowing political opposites to view them through their own lens.

In endorsing the popular movements in Egypt and Tunisia, Iranian leaders have called them a sign that the region is rising up against the United States. In a sermon on Friday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, likened the events to an “earthquake” that is uprooting American “servants” among Arab leaders.

To disgruntled Iranians, though, the sight of the Iranian government cheering on the Egyptian protesters is seen as deeply ironic.

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Growth of domain name system could be mixed blessing

by Ian Shapira

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The pillar of the basic Web address—the trusty .com domain—is about to face vast new competition that will dramatically transform the Web as we know it. New Web sites, with more subject-specific, sometimes controversial suffixes, will soon populate the online galaxy, such as .eco, .love, .god, .sport, .gay or .kurd.

This massive expansion to the Internet’s domain name system will either make the Web more intuitive or create more cluttered, maddening experiences. No one knows yet. But with an infinite number of naming possibilities, an industry of Web wildcatters is racing to grab these potentially lucrative territories with addresses that are bound to provoke.

Who gets to run .abortion Web sites—people who support abortion rights or those who don’t? Which individual or mosque can run the .islam or .muhammad sites? Can the Ku Klux Klan own .nazi on free speech grounds, or will a Jewish organization run the domain and permit only educational Web sites - say, www.remember.nazi or www.antidefamation.nazi? And who’s going to get .amazon - the Internet retailer or Brazil?

The decisions will come down to a little-known nonprofit based in Marina del Rey, Calif., whose international board of directors approved the expansion in 2008 but has been stuck debating how best to run the program before launching it. Now, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is on the cusp of completing those talks in March or April and will soon solicit applications from companies and governments that want to propose and operate the new addresses.

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keohane from page 1 gauge the effectiveness of a leader are their traits, experience and luck. She added, however, that the most important leadership quality is good judgment.

Judgment is a trait one is born with, Keohane said, sharing a personal anecdote about how she identified two of her grandchildren as natural leaders. Keohane injected some humor into her point, adding that even though she loves her other grandchildren, she “wouldn’t follow them anywhere.”

In response to a question from Goss about what kind of plans leaders should have when they take on their positions, Keohane said her limited knowledge of the University when she first became Duke’s president led to a delay in making controversial decisions. She reminded the audience of the first big issue she had to deal with as Duke’s president— whether East Campus should be made an all-freshmen campus.

“If you come into a new institution, I thought it was very important not to come with a big vision,” Keohane said. “I don’t think you can come in with a ready-made vision but you certainly shouldn’t sit there and stagnate. It’s an opportunity for creativity.”

Keohane also noted the importance of communica-

tion at all levels when Lefevre asked Keohane how a university president can ensure that her or she is in touch with the student body.

“I want to know what students see as working right and [what is] problematic for them,” she said. “It’s a doubleedged situation. You have to talk to elected folks but also test the waters [of other students].”

The first female president in Duke’s history also noted the differences between male and female leaders. She emphasized that though men and women generally have different approaches to leadership it is important not to generalize based on gender, citing the differences between former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and humanitarian Mother Teresa. Most successful female leaders reach a mixed style of leadership incorporating masculine and feminine elements, Keohane said.

Sophomore Hannah Colton attended the event knowing Keohane was a former president at Duke but little else about her. Colton said the speech was worthwhile, noting that she was inspired by Keohane’s thoughts on female leadership in particular.

“Her answers about how women need to have both feminine and stereotypical masculine traits in leadership was insightful,” Colton said. “We definitely need to deal with those stereotypes.”

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Former Duke president Nannerl Keohane, discussed her new book and leadership qualities at the Sanford School of Public Policy Friday.

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Nomination letters are due by March 2, 2011 In 2003, Duke University re-joined approximately 50 other Southern universities in presenting the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award. This award program, sponsored by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation, recognizes one graduating senior and one member of the faculty, staff, or graduate student body of Duke University and Health System for their outstanding commitment to service.

The New York Southern Society established the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards in 1925 in memory of Mr. Sullivan, a southerner who became a prominent lawyer, businessman and philanthropist in New York in the late nineteenth century. The award seeks to perpetuate the excellence of character and humanitarian service of Algernon Sydney Sullivan by recognizing and honoring such qualities in others.

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Duke University is giving this award to a graduating senior and a member of the faculty, staff, or graduate student body who exhibit the qualities of Mr. Sullivan. These qualities of service, character and spirituality are recognized in their practical application to daily living. Nobility of character is a criterion that is defined by the foundation as “when one goes outside the narrow circle of self-interest and begins to spend himself for the interests of mankind.”

The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award committee desires that this prestigious opportunity for recognition be available to students and employees alike regardless of their role at the University. This ensures that all who make significant contributions to the community and who lead lives of integrity will be considered as candidates for this unique award.

For more information or to nominate a candidate, contact Sam Miglarese (for faculty/ staff/graduate student nominations) at sam.miglarese@duke.edu or Domonique Redmond (for Duke senior nominations) at dredmond@duke.edu.

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athletics from page 1 fourth of the funds raised.

Tom Coffman, associate athletic director for development and planning, will lead the fund raising initiative.

“This is just a continuation of doing the things we need to do to build the football program and make sure that Cameron is up to speed,” Coffman told the Triangle Business Journal, adding that the reno-

vations to Wallace Wade are designed to improve the fan experience and generate more revenue.

The changes include relocating the running track, lowering the field by five feet and closing the south end of the stadium to create a bowl.

Architecture firm HNTB will help the University plan for the project, which will likely come before the Board of Trustees for approval in May, according to the Triangle Business Journal.

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The University’s share of the long-term pool of investments managed by the Duke University Management Company, saw 13.3 percent growth in the 2010 calendar year, exceeding previous expectations.

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But because the University has not been able to revert back to pre-recession practices, endowment distributions will be flat for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, Trask reported. This is partially because the University’s budget deficit has yet to be completely eliminated.

In Spring 2009, the University announced that it faced a $125 million budget deficit— which was later recalculated to be closer to $100 million—that it would have to eliminate over the next three years.

Chronicle file photo Last year, administrators announced that Duke Athletics will begin a $100 million fundraising campaign this Spring that will run three to five the deficit had been reduced to approxiyears and enable expansions to Wallace Wade Stadium and renovations to Cameron Indoor Stadium. mately $40 million, which they planned to eliminate over the course of this year and next year. Although Trask emphasized that it is hard to calculate the current status of undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct the deficit, he saidboard some models place its ate conduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board current value at or below $20 million.

“The problem ergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board is that there are a thounduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board sand moving parts... and some are up and some areconduct down,” he said. “We are certainly undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate board better off than we thought we were going ate conduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board to be... but I am not going to declare we ergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct are over. board We are in a new equilibrium, but nduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board that equilibrium does not provide us with undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate board much, if conduct any, investment capital.”

Walsh said that the reduction of the ate conduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board budget deficit—which dergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board should be complete nduct board undergraduate conduct board undergraduate conduct board by the end of fiscal year 2012—is “roughly on schedule.”

“While we are on schedule to eliminate it, there is clearly some more focus that is needed,” Walsh said.

The Board of Trustees will discuss plans to eradicate the remaining portion of the deficit at its meeting at the end of the month.

When first faced with the deficit, the

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University initiated early retirement programs and worked to eliminate the equivalent of about 400 positions. Trask said most of those efforts are over, pending another dip in the economy.

Although he noted that administrators plan to “push down some expenditures,” Trask said many of the future cuts will come through a more efficient method of ordering University resources, known as eProcurement. Some departments in the School of Medicine and the Pratt School of Engineering are currently running pilot tests of the procurement software program, which utilizes contracts that offer lower prices.

The program—which will go live across the University later in the Spring—could save up to $30 million a year. Trask noted that he is not certain that the savings would be that large, however.

Although he mentioned that the University will not need to eliminate more positions, it is currently working on reducing expenditures in certain areas of the University, particularly the media department. He added that some publications and websites may have to be eliminated to cut costs.

Going forward, Trask and Walsh emphasized that the University is being conservative in how it chooses to allocate funds. Because University officials remain fearful of the economy’s instability, Walsh noted that the University has maintained “an almost static endowment spending rate”—something that other universities have had to adjust.

“In general, I think we have done a reasonably good job in solving most of the problem, and the rest of the problem—at some level—is being solved by the economy, but I am not willing to bet yet that that part of the deal is going to stick,” Trask said.

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Duke looks for first win in Carmichael since ‘07

by Andy Margius THE CHRONICLE

Playing its third ranked opponent in just over a week, Duke opens up the Tobacco Road rivalry tonight with an away appearance at Carmichael Arena.

Taking on No. 15 North Carolina (20-3, 6-2 in the ACC), the Blue Devils look to continue their dominance in conference play, in which they remain undefeated on the season. Yet if history serves as any indication, tonight will be anything but easy—Duke has not won in Chapel Hill since 2007, losing its last three appearances at North Carolina by a combined 56 points.

“We’re just excited,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said Feb. 4. “It will be a very physical game, but poise and focus will be a big part of it.”

Although the Jan. 31 thumping delivered by Connecticut still lingers, the Blue Devils appear back on track after a strong performance Thursday night against Miami. Playing like a team with something to prove, No. 3 Duke (21-1, 7-0) saw a strong performance by freshman Richa Jackson.

Jackson has been especially impressive as of late, beyond just her 13-point, 9-rebound performance against the Hurricanes. Playing with aggression in the matchup against the Huskies, McCallie rewarded Jackson with her first career start Thursday. Despite missing

five games in December due to an injury and still nursing her hurt shoulder, she will be called upon again tonight against the Tar Heels.

“Richa is very tough kid,” McCallie said.

“She can defend with an attitude, and she can also rebound with an attitude. [She is] very confident in her offense and it just sort of flows.... Frankly it’s her toughness.

She’s a competitor.”

The play of senior Jasmine Thomas will need to improve if Duke is to come away with a victory. While Thomas has had a strong season, averaging 14.5 points and 2.5 steals a game, the Fairfax, Va. native has struggled from the field of late. Shooting just 6-of-23 in her last two games, Thomas will need to step up if she is to see her first victory in Carmichael.

North Carolina has been nearly perfect at home on the season, losing only one game at the hands of the same dominant Connecticut squad. Winning their last three home games by an average of about 17 points each, the Tar Heels come in playing some of their best basketball of the season.

Led by the play of senior guard Italee Lucas, North Carolina will look to dominate the match with the fifth-best offense in the country. The Tar Heels are averaging 81.3 points per game, with Lucas michael naclerio/Chronicle file photo

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Jasmine Thomas, who is averaging 14.5 points and 2.5 steals per game, will try for her first win in Carmichael.

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Blue Devils compete for ACC Championship spots McCrory takes 1st in synchronized diving at winter nationals current Purdue attendee David Boudia, finished first

by Tom Gieryn THE CHRONICLE

Most sports don’t cater especially well to the Tobacco Road rivalry, since only two teams can play at a time.

But at this weekend’s College Cup Invitational at the Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion, all three Triangle-area rivals swam against one another in the final meet for the Blue Devils before the ACC Championships.

Duke held out most of its top swimmers for the meet, so the focus was on individual results, as team members competed for what might be the last few spots to represent the Blue Devils in Atlanta.

“The quality of swimming was great,” head coach Dan Colella said. “I’m proud of how the Duke swimmers competed this weekend.”

Colella was also excited for several of his seniors who set lifetime bests in their final meet.

Senior Allie Speidel took first in the 100 back on Saturday before returning on Sunday to take second in the 200. Sophomore Chris Cirillo also placed highly in one event each day. On Saturday he broke 50 seconds for the first time all season to finish second in the 100 butterfly and on Sunday he overcame a poor showing in preliminaries to place second in the 200. In that same 200 butterfly event, sophomore Jacob Bieze barely outtouched N.C. State’s Gabe Davis to take third behind his teammate Cirillo.

Other top three finishes came from senior Kirstie Jeffrey in the 50 free on Saturday, and Eneka Lamb in the 200 backstroke.

Meanwhile, the diving contingent competed at the USA Winter National Diving Championships in Iowa City. Nick McCrory and his partner, 2008 Olympian and

Duke wins hardfought meet in South Bend

by Caroline Fairchild

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In Duke’s last competition before the ACC Championships, the team hosted N.C. State and North Carolina at the Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion.

For head coach Ramsey Smith, resiliency is everything.

Despite a tough loss in doubles and initial problems in singles, Duke (6-0) refused to give up Sunday, defeating Notre Dame (2-2) 5-2 in South DUKE 5 Bend, Ind. The Blue Devils have seen noth2 N.D. ing but success in doubles this season, winning the coveted point in their five previous matches. But despite a strong 8-4 performance from team leaders Henrique Cunha and Reid Carleton at the No. 1 position, the other two pairs couldn’t pull off a victory.

“It is the first doubles point we lost this season,” Smith said. “Notre Dame is a good doubles team to be sure, but we definitely had chances to win and unfortunately it didn’t go our way. It was a good opportunity to deal with some adversity, though, and be forced to do well in singles.”

No. 14 Duke struggled early against the No. 26 Fighting Irish in singles play as well, trailing in four of six matches and ultimately losing three of its first sets. Carleton struggled with a 1-6 loss of the first set at the No. 2 position, his largest defeat of the season.

“I lost my first set and then was down 2-0 in the second set too, which was tough,” Carleton said. “I was just trying to focus on the positives every time I won a point or did something well. I got a lot of energy that way and started chipping away little by little at the deficit and focusing on See men’s tennis on page 6

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themselves. Perhaps it was Lowe’s halftime speech or the simple realization that they were too good a team to be emTaking advantage of a poor N.C. State barrassed, but they entered the second pass, Smith swiped the ball, ran the floor half with every intention of getting back and resoundingly dunked it to the ex- into the game. citement of the Cameron Crazies. The Offensively, it wasn’t going to hapWolfpack were forced to call a timeout pen. They were missing their team’s to allow the game to settle, staring at the second-leading scorer, and the team short end of their now-19-point deficit. leader—senior forward Tracy Smith— Smith couldn’t help but flash a smile. simply could not figure out how to score But nobody was smiling on the visitors’ against Duke’s big men. He finished the bench. And unfortunately for N.C. State, game with only four points. not even a timeout could help them reBut their defense saw vast improvegroup and improve their performance. ment. After allowing the Blue Devils to Before they knew it, the Blue Devils had score 53 points in the first half, they increased their lead to 26, and the Wolf- held them to merely 23 in the second. pack went into the locker room at half- Duke, after shooting a mind-boggling time down 29.

64.5 percent from the field in the first “Obviously we dug ourselves a big hole half, was held to 19.4 percent in the secearly,” N.C. State ond. Smith, afhead coach Sidter a spectacular “It was just pretty much a ney Lowe said. performance “That was a result in the first half, near-perfect first half that of a couple of went 0-for-7 in we played. It was just fun things, I thought the second. we took a couple “The second playing.” of bad shots, half, I thought some one-pass — Nolan Smith State didn’t give shots, and then up. We probably some no-pass had a little bit shots where we dribbled around and shot of an emotional letdown, but that’s not some floaters.” taking away that State played well,” head As bad as N.C. State was during the first coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I thought half, the Blue Devils were just as good. [N.C. State] just played better in the secFor a team that built such a large lead so ond half.” early, they never relented or let their guard But, unfortunately for the Wolfpack, down. They defended the ball impeccably, their efforts were not enough. Even though ran the floor well, passed efficiently, found they outscored the Blue Devils in the secthe open man and scored. Senior Nolan ond half, their first half struggles were too Smith had 18 points within the first half much to overcome. They were unable to alone, off of a 6-of-8 shooting performance close the gap, giving Duke its 21st win of including two 3-pointers. the season. “[In the first half], we played the way “Overall it was a big win for us,” Krzyzewswe wanted to play. We came out, played ki said. “I”m just happy that no one got hurt, defense, and we were playing together and we won our eighth conference game.” and hitting shots,” Smith said. “It was just At 8-1 in the ACC after picking apart pretty much a near-perfect first half that we N.C. State, Duke will now look to hand rival played. It was just fun playing.”

North Carolina its second conference loss In the second half, though, the Wolf- on Wednesday, when the two teams meet in pack showed a renewed confidence in Cameron Indoor Stadium at 9 p.m.

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K: ‘We still feel [Irving] is not going to play’

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Sophomore Mason Plumlee showcased a well-rounded low post game Saturday that also included some crowd-pleasing dunks.

High-flying Plumlee makes statement with 16-point game

by Scott Rich THE CHRONICLE

The opening minutes of Duke’s 76-52 victory over N.C. State Saturday were a veritable dunk-a-palooza. And Mason Plumlee was the star performer.

But beyond his plethora of highlight-reel dunks, Plumlee showed a balanced offensive game for the first time in months, leading Duke to the blowout win. His performance gave Blue Devil fans something to be excited about, even if his increasing use of jump-hook shots aren’t as Game jaw-dropping as thunderous slams.

Analysis “It’s a strong shot,” Plumlee said of that jump-hook he used multiple times en-route to a 16-point, 12-rebound performance. “All the big guys, we work on that with Coach Wojo, and we all like the jump-hooks. We just have to take them in the flow of the game.”

Plumlee’s performance was far from perfect—the sophomore’s struggles from the free-throw line continued with a 2-for-7 performance, and he picked up three fouls in only 25 minutes of play. But after being solely a rebounder the first few weeks of the ACC season, the forward finally rediscovered his offensive game that he showed with stellar games in the CBE Classic all the way back in November.

In that tournament, though, most of Plumlee’s points were due to the playmaking ability of Kyrie Irving. And while Nolan Smith’s own skills were crucial in Plumlee’s outing Saturday, much of his scoring outburst can be attributed to his own one-on-one skills in the post.

Take, for example, those jump-hook shots that he confidently took when he had position down low. Or when, halfway through the first half, he took a rather innocuous looking inbounds pass, saw a lane, and drove baseline for one of his patented two-handed slams.

It all stems from the confidence Plumlee has gained

rday, it looked like Not have one of his caces. The senior scored 6-of-8 shooting while ebounds and dishing in the first half.

in his past two contests, thanks to an increased focus on his postgame in the offense.

“I felt like I had a good offensive game against Maryland too. I just tried to keep that momentum going, attack the basket,” Plumlee said. “If they send two guys I’m going to find the shooter, if it’s one-on-one I’m going to score. That’s how I’ve always thought about it.”

Irving’s absence has made Plumlee’s reemergence as a scorer all the more important. Since the infamous toe injury the Blue Devils have yet to find a consistent third scoring option, with Ryan Kelly, Seth Curry and Andre Dawkins all taking turns in that important role. But all these players score more from the perimeter than inside, accentuating the recent perception that Duke relies solely on perimeter shooting.

Plumlee, however, is the closest thing on this Blue Devil roster to a true post-player. Now with back-to-back double-doubles, the sophomore has shown the ability to be put together consistently solid games. It’s a positive sign as Duke prepares to face a solid, if shallow, North Carolina front-court Wednesday.

“He played with his strengths during this last month. His scoring will come,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “It’s just a process, but when you’re going through that process, don’t forget about your strengths, because he’s been one of the outstanding rebounders in the country.”

While his game continues to evolve into that of a more well-rounded big man, Plumlee hasn’t forgotten that the team relies on him to provide energy and excitement through his athletic ability.

In fact, that’s probably what he enjoys most.

“More than anything when you cause a couple turnovers [that leads to dunks] it gets the crowd going,” Krzyzewski said. “When you get a couple its like, ‘Oh boy!’, it gets the whole team excited. Those plays... took it to another level in the first half.”

Duke fans were heartened by the news that Kyrie Irving had his cast removed on Friday, Feb. 4. On Saturday after Duke’s win, though, head coach Mike Krzyzewski delivered a dose of reality.

“We still feel he’s not going to play Notebook and we have to go forward with that,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s a long way from playing. Just because you’re out of a cast, you have to be 100 percent before you come back, and he’s a ways from that.”

Irving, who averaged 17.4 points and 5.1 assists in his first eight games, was injured Dec. 4 against Butler, and the bone and ligament damage done to his right toe has been the source of endless speculation ever since. Krzyzewski has long expressed doubt that the phenomenal freshman would return this year, but Saturday’s comments may have represented his strongest statement on the matter.

“The main thing that we’re optimistic about is that there’s more healing,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s being done the right way and he’s got to be honest with us about how he’s doing.”

Krzyzewski added that Irving will have a CAT scan and an MRI over the next “couple of weeks,” and this next step of physical therapy would be time-consuming.

Irving has stayed postive about the injury on Twitter, writing on Friday: “Cast retired...now walking boot and rehab!!! Feels good to see my leg again lol.”

Irving even squared up to attempt a 3-pointer before the game began Saturday, but it was just a tease for the fans in attendance: He didn’t shoot the ball.

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After a dynamic first half, Duke’s offense sputtered in the second. The Blue Devils went only 6-for-31 from the field. N.C. State still trailed too much, though, for Duke’s shooting woes to make a difference.

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Kyrie Irving had his hard cast removed on Friday, but head coach Mike Krzyzewski said he “still feel[s] he’s not going to play” this season.

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what I was doing well.”

Carleton was not the only one who came back from a rocky start against the Fighting Irish. Senior Jared Pinsky turned things around to win the next two sets 6-2 and Cunha, freshman Chris Mengel and junior Luke Marchese won in straight sets after initial deficits against their opponents. Freshman Fred Saba was the only singles player who left South Bend without a singles victory.

“The high energy was just contagious at the beginning of those second sets when we started to break away,” Smith said. “You have to stay positive and keep the energy up. When they come with their punches we have to hang in there and keep fighting which we did a good job of.”

Smith said he was particularly impressed with the vigor Mengel showed throughout his singles match. Smith also noted the leadership exhibited by Cunha at the No. 1 position and Carleton at No. 2 who are now, respectively, 18-2 and 17-3 in singles.

An undefeated Duke team has little time to rest as it prepares to take on No. 16 Illinois in Urbana, Ill. today at 2 p.m.

Carleton said yesterday’s battle against the Fighting Irish gave the Blue Devils more experience as they move forward with their schedule and prepare for more skilled opponents down the road.

“I was really happy that we bounced back and it was good preparation for Illinois,” Carleton said. “They are a tough team and everyone is expecting a tough match. We need to show the intensity that we showed in the second and third set against Notre Dame. We are a tough team to play right now too, so I am looking forward to tomorrow.”

contributing 17 a game to that total. Also noteworthy is the strong defensive play of North Carolina, as the Tar Heels force an incredible 22.7 turnovers a game.

Although the matchup will provide challenges on both ends of the court, McCallie emphasized the importance of team play in achieving victory. “[It’s about] rebounding, passing the basketball and playing together,” McCallie said. “It’s always hard. But if we welcome it and if we have an edge about ourselves, we can do something really neat.”

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Reid Carleton struggled early in his match and lost his first set 1-6, but battled back to win, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.

in the synchronized platform by nearly 100 points. Unfortunately for McCrory, his partner for the synchronized diving became his competitor in the individual event, and Boudia edged the defending NCAA champion McCrory by 32.9 points in the platform.

McCrory led the six-dive event after his first dive. Despite attempting a forward 4.5 somersault tuck with a 3.7 degree of difficulty, he earned perfect scores from two judges for a total of 101.75 for the dive.

On three of his next four dives, though, McCrory failed to break 90 points, while the highly consistent Boudia earned two 97’s and a 99.

Up next for the swimmers and divers alike are the ACC Championships, which take place for the women Feb. 16-19 and for the men Feb. 23-26 in Atlanta.

“The last few years, we’ve been steadily moving up. We’re just looking to continue that ascent,” Colella said.

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Blue Devils set records Duke wins thriller in Collegiate Invitational against Northwestern

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After setting collegiate and school records at previous meets, Duke headed to the New Balance Collegiate Invitational last weekend with confidence.

Once there, the Blue Devils went on to win four championships and set three new school records.

“It was a great weekend for the whole program,” director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said. “It was the most successful regular season indoor meet we’ve had in a very long time.”

On the men’s side, senior Josh Lund ran the distance medley championship with sophomore teammates Curtis Beach, Domenick DeMatteo and freshman Ben Raskin. Lund ran the last leg to secure the win and the Blue Devils took first in the event for the second year in a row. Less than 24 hours later, Lund was back for the 3000m championship where his time of 8:04.85 shaved nearly six seconds off the previous school record set by senior Bo Waggoner.

Waggoner set a record of his own at the meet as well, breaking his previous school record in the 5k with a time of 14:10.50. Although four seconds faster than his championship winning time last year, Waggoner finished in third this weekend.

There were other solid performances in the field for the men, especially in the

high jump. On Friday, freshman Michael Krone tied the record set by fellow freshman Tanner Anderson. The next day, Anderson raised his record by about one and a quarter inches.

Prior to the start of this season, the Duke team had no athletes who were able to clear seven feet in the high jump. After this weekend, it has two.

The Blue Devil women also had a successful weekend, placing sixth overall.

Senior Kate Van Buskirk won the women’s one-mile championship with a time of 4:35.83, giving her the nation’s top time in the indoor event this season. The 4x200m team also performed well, running the fastest time yet for Duke.

The success experienced by Duke runners this weekend was not limited to the track. Two freshmen, Brian Atkinson and Clint McKelvey, competed at the USA Cross Country Championships this past weekend. The runners set off with hopes of earning a top ten spot and qualifying for Team USA in one of two upcoming competitions. Both had excellent races; Atkinson’s time of 25:38 was good for a 15th place finish, while McKelvey secured 10th with his time of 25:28, giving him the chance to run for the Americans in the NACAC Cross Country Championships.

This past weekend’s victories are just the last in a series of wins, potentially foreshadowing a banner indoor track season for Duke.

After sweeping Indiana 7-0 on Friday, Duke faced its sternest test of the spring thus far Sunday, and a resounding comeback in singles play ensured the No. 6 Blue Devils (6-0) remained undefeated after they squeaked past No. 23 Northwestern 4-3 in Evanston, Ill. Duke dropped DUKE 7 the doubles point 0 IND for the first time all year, as each Blue DUKE 4 Devil pairing fell to its Wildcat coun3 NW terpart. Though the fourth-ranked senior tandem of Nadine Fahoum and Ellah Nze kept their match close, Northwestern (3-3) had already wrapped up the doubles point, nullifying the impact of the final result. Nze and Fahoum lost 6-8.

Freshman Rachel Kahan continued her stellar run of play in the spring, however, and evened the score at 1-1, quickly dispatching of Linda Abu Mushrefova 6-2, 6-1. Kahan’s victory improves her to 5-0 on the season in singles, and she has yet to drop a single set this spring.

The Wildcats soon answered back, however, as No. 52 Maria Mosolova blitzed No. 25 Fahoum, 6-1, 6-0. Duke senior Elizabeth Plotkin continued her dominance at the No. 3 position, playing a perfect first set en route to a 6-0, 6-3 win to even the match score at 2-2.

With No. 4 Reka Zsilinszka battling into a third set with No. 66 Brittany Wowchuk, the Blue Devils picked up a much needed point from sophomore Mary Clayton, who fended off Stacey Lee 6-1, 3-6, 6-1. Zsilinszka was unable to prevail in her matchup, though, losing 1-6, 6-4, 3-6 and putting all the pressure on senior Nze with the score tied at 3-3.

After splitting the first two sets with No. 76 Belinda Niu 2-6, 7-6, No 49. Nze’s play in the third set would decide Duke’s fate at the Combe Tennis Center. Luckily for the Blue Devils, Nze didn’t disappoint.

Winning the third set 6-3, Nze raised her singles record to 5-0 on the spring, and Duke will now take their unblemished record back home to face No. 2 Florida on Feb. 13.

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allow students and administrators to hold each other to ideas and goals. Meaningful change can only follow from a meaningful student-administration relationship.

A forum, however, does not become a conversation only by dint of its persistence.

Productive conversation— the kind of conversation that could shape new University policies and change student mentalities—requires participants to take up and defend a concrete proposal. For President Brodhead and other administrators to meaningfully engage the student body, they must take a stand, not only on what is wrong with Duke, but also on what should be done about it.

Instead, much of what administrators offered resembled

the ambivalence and resignation of a tired parent. Brodhead encouraged students to “think hard” and “play well.”

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek reminded us that actions speak louder than words. The only thing that can be done, it seems, is to pull up our good behavior bootstraps and hope for the best.

That is assuming that there is anything to be done at all.

Administrators remained steadfast in the belief that the past semester’s scandals were anomalous or, at least, symptomatic of universal problems in higher education. They amount to nothing that could or should be met with a discrete policy proposal, except perhaps for the panacea that is the house model.

More must be said and

more must be done. Certainly, students should be part of the solution. But students who vanish after a fleeting four years cannot change the structure of University social life.

Administrators, on the other hand, are here for long haul and they control the structure of University social life. In particular, they control the review processes that social groups face and also the constraints governing the behavior of individual students.

Students do not want more regulations, but we deserve better ones. Administration policies cannot transform student mentalities. But they can make a start.

Last week’s open forum marked a step toward a better Duke, but we have to keep moving to get there.

Dissecting alphabet soup

ere’s a bad joke: What do you get when will the committee retain autonomy? Does a squiryou cross DSG, CC, and DUU? A really rel really need a timeshare on the beach? crappy alphabet soup.

Middle tier events—Homecoming? Old Duke?

I sat on a newspaper to eat an Endless Summer? Halloween? I acorn for lunch and stumbled upon wonder if these events will continue this very interesting story. Two of to suck, endure with some much these three sets of letters are divvying needed modifications, or be taken up the responsibilities of CC, which is away completely so their funding no longer going to exist separately. can be diverted to innovative proThat being said, I’m a bit congramming that would benefit stufused as to what is actually happendents and squirrels alike. ing. First, CC says it is dissolving due monday monday And of course there is the “smallto the change from the quad model er programming.” It has been said the gothic squirrel that the residential programming to the house model. Its policy-making responsibilities will be taken up of CC will fall under DUU’s purby DSG, while DUU will take over CC’s program- view. What? When did CC ever do residential proming. This should have happened five years ago. gramming? I never saw CC having a pizza party This begs the question: What, exactly, are these in Crowell­; they always farmed it out to their unmulti-hour conversations producing? Luckily for derlings, the quad councils. All the crappy flyers me, I heard various members of the organizations for these events I’ve used to line my nest say quad discussing the answers—including people like council, not CC. I never saw CC buying Panera for Steve Synagogue, Zhe Yang, and Like My Fever. a mid-morning coffee break—that was the GraduI heard someone tell his friend, whom he re- ate Resident. CC never made bizarre room decoferred to as “trinitard,” that it is pretty logical that rations that either took way too much time or way the policy-side of CC will just become a new branch too little time; those are made by RAs. Exactly of DSG. So this new branch of DSG will make de- what is CC/DUU going to do that the GR/RC/RA cisions like switching to the new housing model. doesn’t? If both groups program, isn’t that redun(Perhaps this group will avoid self-dissolution.) dant? I don’t think there has ever been dorm-scale But what will occur in the programming split, programming that benefitted from CC’s expertise. which is arguably the more visible element, is I guess there needs to be collaboration between rather murky at this point. Clearly DUU will get the dorms sometimes, but that’s nothing a quick most of the events, which is logical as it is the larg- Spacebook chat couldn’t fix. Quad council leader est programming body on camps. These events 1: “Craven is having a poker tourney?” Quad councomprise three programming tiers: desirable-to- cil leader 2: “So is Crowell! We should have the program events with high publicity, moderately winners play each other”. popular midsize events and generally unattended, On the subject of councils, there will still be small-scale shindigs. house councils, as there are still houses- just no Large events­—Is there really any large scale quad reps. But the houses might organize themprogramming on this campus? Is there any time selves for cooperation under the domain of this where over 1000 students all gather together? DUU VP. For example, the VP could organize Basketball games! Oh yeah, and LDOC, too. Sur- them into groups, like Kilgo houses I, J, K, L, M, prisingly LDOC is planned by a freestanding com- N, O, and P, in order to collaborate on an event. It mittee, which CC and DUU have overseen and would be almost like a quad. That would be much allocated money to each year on top of the sepa- better than the current system, especially for us rate LDOC budget (Zhang and Synagogue take squirrels…centralized events mean more convelarge briefcases of unmarked bills to give to the nient leftovers.

LDOC committee). With the proposed change, So a very valid question to ask after this merger CC’s money and power goes to DUU. This is like is: “How will this affect me?” In the grand scheme saying my girlfriend and I each have half a year of things, it won’t. Just calm down and eat some timeshare on this beach house (squirrel size). We alphabet soup. break up and she moves out of the state, so she gives me her timeshare. Am I now free to do anyThe Gothic Squirrel loves TLAs—three letter acrothing? Will LDOC become sole custody of DUU or nyms. IDK why.

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Meet your Undergraduate Young Trustee candidates

n last year’s Young Trustee election, 2,169 stu- making the hiring process more transparent and makdents voted. Over the course of the next week, ing sure that information is correct. Lastly, as Duke gets student group after student group will fill these larger, Sohn understands that there is a need to keep back pages with their endorsements tabs on different aspects of the Univerbased on their respective agendas or visity, and that analysis is necessary regardsions for the future. ing the development of Kunshan and The answer to why you should vote is other global campuses. Like Kingsland, simple: You (most likely) will one day be she feels it is important to understand an alumnus of this university. Trustees what undergraduate experience will be impact many future plans of the Univerhad there before making decisions. sity and will therefore impact the Duke of Matthew Davis is the lone engineer fithe future. Michelle Sohn framed the po- antonio segalini nalist and the only one to directly refersition as the person “you trust to be in the ence Duke’s ranking. He took a realistic musings room when no one else is there to stand approach to a potential applicant’s deciup and speak up.” When you have kids, it sion-making process. Duke’s US News & may be their Duke. Plus, especially for freshmen, there World Reports ranking does attract applicants to Duke, are some short-term goals that will impact students. but Davis ignored the increase in applications despite Running 11 pages each, the applications are daunting. Duke’s fall in the ranking. However, his stance on Duke So now I will attempt to break it all down for you. Over recruiting is the most realistic of the candidates. Dathe past few days I have read the applications of and inter- vis said that Duke is ‘underrated’ in the rankings, and viewed each candidate (including Brooke Kingsland) in needs to better portray its quality of education and facorder to try to portray the stance of each individual. ulty. He understands that athletics act as a differentiatBrooke Kingsland’s campaign benefits from her ex- ing factor, but feels that Duke needs to better represent perience with financial aid at Duke. Considering that what life is like at the University. Lastly, Davis is the most roughly 45 percent of students receive some need- thoughtful about budget cuts, stating that Duke needs based assistance and that 54 percent of students receive to focus on operational costs such as temperature conneed-based aid, merit awards or athletic scholarships, trols, cutting unnecessary phone lines and using our the strength and viability of financial aid is a serious size to order supplies in bulk (like file folders). These concern. Kingsland’s role as Chair of the DSG Finan- measures may not be enough, but Duke should look for cial Aid Advisory Committee gives her insight into the low-impact cuts before talking about cutting research policy behind this issue. In her application, she states and department budgets. that Duke needs to uphold “the commitment to affordBen Getson may have the most interesting goal of ability and accessibility while responding to the report the finalists. When each individual focused on “Duke’s on Socioeconomic Diversity,” referencing an upcoming Image,” financial issues and the concept of residential study that “will likely generate Board of Trustee-level space, Getson also brought up interdisciplinary rereview.” Kingsland believes that Duke should push to- search. Michelle Sohn mentioned the need for Duke to wards becoming completely need-blind in the long be innovative, but Getson took it to the next level. He term, mirroring other prestigious universities with re- knows that by working across departmental lines and gards to international students. Further, she acknowl- combining people with different interests, Duke can edges that while she might not be explicitly involved uniquely solve new problems. He used his experience in all aspects of Duke life, she understands the neces- founding Ubuntu to show that bringing people togethsity of research before making important decisions. For er to collaborate can foster new and innovative ideas. example, as not all information has been made pub- Further, Getson believes that Duke’s different campuslic regarding the Kunshan campus, she feels a proper es, from Singapore to Kunshan to here in Durham, will cost-benefit analysis cannot be made without knowing have more impact if they are considered together ratheverything. It is important to note that Kingsland is the er than as separate entities. He claims that if we focus only member of the greek system running. on what we do well (including global education), good Michelle Sohn may have the most knowledge of the media and press will follow. Lastly, Getson has worked University, in the sense that she has seen all aspects. to reform the idea of course feedback, attempting to Her roles as a member of the Editorial Board and DSG give students more information before deciding on bring many obvious things to the table, but her experi- what courses to take. He has also helped bring Coursence working with Duke Dining Services, the DukeCard eRank to Duke and make the class-selection process Office, RLHS and numerous other campus offices gives more transparent. her experience with day-to-day Duke operations. Sohn And there you go. These are your candidates. In the believes Duke can become a more global university by end, who you vote for will depend on what aspects of increasing aid to international students. Further, she Duke you value. calls for an “alternative scene” at Duke, which can be achieved by opening up spaces during the night, such Antonio Segalini is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs as classrooms and Page Auditorium. She also talks about every other Monday.

lettertotheeditor Room for debate The Duke Student Government’s Board of Elections is deliberating whether or not to include Brooke Kingsland, a Young Trustee semi-finalist currently campaigning as a write-in candidate, in the upcoming Young Trustee debate. This matter is being discussed because the provisions for write-in candidates are not clearly stipulated, and in the future DSG will need to make certain clarifications. This year, however, it is up to the Board of Elections to decide who participates in the debate. Regardless of where it chooses to draw the line in the future, Brooke deserves to be part of the process today.

The Young Trustee selection began with an initial screening of applicants and will end with a student body vote Feb. 15. Bylaws permitting write-in candidates allow voters to choose candidates who can

bypass the formal selection system with strong grassroots support. Brooke is a serious and legitimate candidate with student support already mobilizing and a website with clear and relevant information about her candidacy.

For the same reason this process allows write-in candidates, the Election Commission should include Brooke in the young trustee debate: to give the student body the ultimate decision. I urge the Board of Elections to allow Brooke Kingsland to participate in the debate in the interest of allowing the student body to make an informed decision through a fair election process in spite of procedural ambiguities.

Erica Lin Trinity ’11

CORRECTION: The “Inertia and lack of reason” column on Feb. 4 misspelled the author’s name. The author is Zbigniew Kabala, not Zbignew. The Chronicle regrets this error.

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Insufficient memory

speak to non-Duke fans on occasion, and most of the time, they want to know what’s up with the Toe of Kyrie Irving. Why? Because Kyrie is Superman.

Apparently, when Mr. Irving was healthy, he leapt tall buildings in a single (re)bound and fought for truth, justice and the American way. He was also pretty good at playing basketball. In fact, there have been only two players quite like Kyrie: Michael Jordan and my harrison lee father. Of course, it isn’t really fair to compare Kyrie to my only a master of evil dad, the greatest baller of all time. In addition to scoring over 75 points a game, my papa walked to school in the snow uphill both ways and worked tirelessly to support his family by mining coal for snooty Michigan fans who snickered “Obvious prole is obvious.”

Clearly, we don’t always remember people or their accomplishments with perfect clarity. In preparation for this column, I watched some KI highlights on YouTube and discovered that he was not the Superman we recalled but, in fact, a very talented basketball player on a very talented team. I was shocked. Why wasn’t he lifting up buses to save schoolchildren? I felt like I had been lied to. I gulped and tried to find out more about my father’s playing career, terrified of what the Internet might reveal.

Thankfully, Scout.com’s online video archive doesn’t go back to the 1890s, and so the Paul Bunyan-like legend of my father is preserved. In fact, for many people of his and previous generations, myths and legends will be safe because there simply aren’t YouTube highlights or old webpages to show the truth. But what about us?

We live in an era when more intimate information about us is available to more people in more places than ever before. And, due to cheap bandwidth and easy backups, that information will stay around for a long, long time.

In the days before electronic media, persistence would act as the ultimate arbitrator of greatness. For example, many symphonies might be written and performed, but in order to survive, they had to be copied and reprinted—after all, paper doesn’t last forever, and you can’t BitTorrent that stuff. The difficulty of copying them out mechanically meant that only the symphonies that were consistently good and consistently popular would have a high chance of survival. It also meant that embarrassing ones, like Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 10: Ice, Ice, Baby,” would fade away in the public consciousness.

The remaining works, filtered through time, would deify them. The nostalgia of the past would be forever secure.

Now, however, we have a problem. Time won’t erode away the naked truth. For example, the online Chronicle archives go all the way back to 1994. As memory and bandwidth continue to get cheaper, there seems to be very little reason for The Chronicle not to maintain its online archive.

Thus, unless Skynet becomes self-aware in the meantime, it is a very real possibility that The Chronicle archives will still hold my columns from 2011 when my kids get old enough to read. And that will be embarrassing.

My kids will be able to read every typo, every logical fallacy, and every poorly-hidden pop cultural reference I’ve written. Their image of me will be tarnished; I won’t be the Hugo Award winner they dreamt of someday becoming, but rather a sleep-deprived college student who kept forgetting when his deadlines were.

And I won’t be able to blame them; that’s just what everyone will do. Instead of honoring people for what they are, we hold people and memories to impossible standards and then rip them apart when we revisit the minutia of their actual work and lives. Maybe this trend was around before, but with technology it has never been easier or more pronounced. Witness the phenomenon of effortless perfection here at Duke: We are caught between the desire to be perfect and the desire to appear to not be trying.

If and when Kyrie Irving returns to active status for the basketball team, he might have to ease his way back in, he might discover he has no game left, or he might throw up a tripledouble every single night on the way to winning four consecutive national championships. But it remains to be seen. In the meantime, go and watch the YouTube highlights. There’s no flying, no heat-ray vision, and no Kryp-toe-nite, but there is some pretty awesome basketball. And that’s really something.

Harrison Lee is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Monday.

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