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Sciences lacking in minority and female faculty

Dance the night away

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

The Academic Council received the biannual update of the University’s Faculty Diversity Initiative and elected a new chair at its meeting Thursday.

In his report to the council, Provost Peter Lange commended the progress made in faculty diversity but added that there is still significant work ahead, particularly in the natural sciences and engineering.

“These efforts will continue as long as we believe we may be missing good candidates from a lack of effort to recruit,” Lange said. “Our science department has not been as successful at hiring the people whom [the departments] extend offers to.”

The Faculty Diversity Initiative was established in 2003 after the completion of the Black Faculty Strategic Initiative. The present initiative seeks to increase recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority and female faculty members.

Although the University has increased the total number of tenured and tenure-track women faculty in the past ten years, women are still considerably underrepresented in several fields.

Since 2005, recruitment rates for female faculty in the Nicholas School of the Environment have increased by 11.6 percent. In the Pratt School of Engineering, however, the number of female professors has declined by roughly 4.1 percent in the past five years. Women have the highest representation in the Nursing School, School of Medicine and Arts and Sciences—as of 2010, women make up 85, 36 and 35 percent, respectively.

Lange said the overall recruitment rates for black teachers have remained steady in the past 17 years. Since 1993,

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Duke’s rhythm tap dance ensemble, On Tap, presented their Spring Showcase Thursday in Reynolds Industries Theater.

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The Board of Trustees will discuss future projects and sources of funding this weekend, including Duke’s China campus.

In a strategic planning session, Trustees will consider investments in Duke’s future, including construction projects, academic programs, financial aid and other University priorities. The Board will focus on the Kunshan, China campus, evaluating its costs, its academic programs and the recently announced partnership with Wuhan University, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said.

The Trustees will also discuss increasing undergradu-

ate tuition. Provost Peter Lange estimated the increase in the cost of attendance at Duke will be between 3 and 4 percent.

The additional income will help to fund an increase in compensation for many University professors, staff and employees, which will include an increase in salaries and fringe benefits. Trask noted that administrators hope to end a two-year salary freeze, though the Board will not vote on the salary increases until the Board’s May meeting.

In addition, the Trustees will discuss plans for a University fundraising campaign. Dates for the public phase of the effort have not been finalized, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice

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young trustee series: part 1 of 2

Student leaders question integrity of YT election process

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

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Current Young Trustees Michelle Sohn, Sunny Kantha and John Harpham answer questions about the position and the direction of the University at a Young Trustee forum Thursday in Old Chemistry Building.

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In addition to completing their applications, recent Young Trustee candidates have made their way onto YouTube, imitated popular movies and posed with Duke basketball players in an attempt to draw in the most votes.

Whereas candidates did not campaign for the position before the introduction of the student body election, it has recently become the focus of most candidates’ efforts.

Now—after two Young Trustee student body election cycles—many leaders involved in the process have questioned certain components of an open election.

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Current Young Trustee John Harpham, Trinity ’10, said the election process puts candidates at a disadvantage because it confuses them about their potential future role.

“During an election you are put in a relationship with the student body that is not at all the relationship with the student body you will have as a member of the Board of Trustees,” Harpham said.

“The temptation is to present oneself as someone who will advocate for undergraduates.”

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The proposal will incorporate some of the $33 billion in program terminations and reductions included in President Obama’s recent budget request, a senior Senate Democratic aide said Thursday.

Democratic budgeters are also looking at cuts that have already been adopted by the Republican House, such as a plan to strip $8.5 billion for pet projects known as earmarks out of a measure aimed at keeping the government running through Sept. 30.

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The budget plan gives Merkel ammunition as she prepares her proposals for a comprehensive plan to stem Europe’s debt crisis at a European Union summit on March 24-25. Merkel has rejected calls from fellow EU countries to issue joint euro-area bonds, lower interest rates on aid or bolster the rescue fund, focusing instead on debt reduction and more competitiveness.

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Group considers plans for housing and dining changes

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

Rick Johnson’s got “multimillion dollar problems” but a lack of enthusiasm is not one.

Newly hired Rick Johnson, assistant vice president for housing and dining, spoke to Campus Council at its meeting Thursday to discuss the University’s residential future and plans to improve both facilities and dining at Duke.

“We’re doing the same thing every university in the United States is doing,” Johnson said. “How do we make our residence halls more user-friendly and contemporary while at the same time maintaining the great historic exteriors?”

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Johnson said Residential Life and Housing Services and the administration are going to focus on both short- and long-term changes within residential facilities, including beginning to get estimates for various projects like adding air-conditioning. He explained that RLHS will work more closely with the Facilities Management Department and the expertise of internal staff to try to put “priority to some of these projects.”

Johnson also noted that renovations will likely have to be done one at a time and gradually, unlike the major renovations to Kilgo and Few Quadrangles in 2002. Those renovations cost the University approximately See council on page 7

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Campus Council heard a presentation at its meeting Thursday from Rick Johnson, the new assistant vice president for housing and dining, on the University’s plans to renovate campus housing and dining facilities.

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Employee fitness program teaches healthy lifestyle

by Tullia Rushton THE CHRONICLE

Caught up in the grind of a weekly work schedule, a well-balanced diet and regular exercise may not be top priorities for the average Duke employee—the Duke Diet and Fitness Center aims to change that.

Since its start in Fall 2009, the Duke Employee Weight Loss Program has been conducting several four-week sessions per year to gear employees toward an overall healthier lifestyle, said Dina Lumia, client relations specialist for the Center, adding that more sessions have been added due to popular demand.

“The program is so comprehensive because we have the four different components: fitness, nutrition, medical and behavioral health,” said Sofia Rydin-Gray, assistant director of behavioral health for the program. “We work together in a whole-person approach.”

Overall, employees who have completed the program have been satisfied with the results. “[This program] is necessary for anyone wanting to lose weight,” said program participant Corey Lyon, who works for network services in the Duke Consultation and Referral Center.

Lyon, who finished his session earlier this year, said he previously would go all day without eating breakfast and would grab lunch around 3 p.m. He added that compounding his eating habits, he was going though a period when he also was not exercising.

“After doing [the program] for four

weeks, it set a precedent for me,” he said.

“It has made a lasting impression and I continue fitness... and have changed my eating habits tremendously.”

During the program, participants are provided 40 meals, 20 after-work exercise sessions and 20 seminars on weight control and fitness, which are all provided by the Diet and Fitness Center. The program costs $650 per person, and participants must be cleared by their health care providers prior to the start of the session.

Although not provided with every meal over the four weeks, employees are taught skills in grocery shopping and creating a healthy eating environment, Lumia noted. The program also provides group fitness opportunities and classes on subjects such as stress, behavior health, hypertension and diabetes.

Still for many participants, including Lyon, motivation to regularly follow the provided diet and exercise was his biggest challenge.

Time commitment can be hard for employees, Lumia said, because the program requires them to devote their free time as well as some of their work time toward program activities. She added that, although not every participant gives 100 percent the entire time, it is still beneficial overall.

“People who are more consistent will probably have more weight loss and feel better,” Lumia said. “Even if they don’t come in every night, they are in a better See weight loss on page 8

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Von Der Heyden will help host the Madmen and Madwomen Library Party Friday night. Organized by the Duke Marketing Club, the event is expected to be attended by local advertising executives and the Board of Trustees.

Library party returns with ’60s advertising theme

by Julia Ni

THE CHRONICLE

Throw on that vintage wear and party with class tonight at the Madmen and Madwomen Library Party.

For one night, Perkins Library will transform into the advertising headquarters of Sterling, Cooper, Perkins and Bostock.

Organized by Duke Marketing Club, the party’s theme centers around advertising in the 1960’s and is specifically based on the TV show Mad Men. Tonight’s event marks the return of the semiformal event, which had been an annual event hosted by a different student group since 2007 but was cancelled last

year due to funding and planning failures.

Led by senior Emma Donaho, a committee of 12 students from the Marketing Club began planning for the party in September 2010. The Marketing Club raised $50,000 for the event and is expecting about 2,000 people to attend, including local advertising executives and the Board of Trustees, according to George Grody, a visiting professor in markets and management studies and the faculty advisor for the student group.

“I don’t think there has ever been a bigger or better marketing campaign from any student event on campus,” Grody said.

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“As is always the case at a major university... you’re always looking at the next stage of our development and how we will identify the resources that will let us get to that next stage,” said Chair and Democratic N.C. state Sen. Dan Blue, Law ’73.

Investment in China President Richard Brodhead announced at his recent address to the faculty that the Kunshan campus will cost the University $1.5 to $2 million a year for the next five years.

In an interview Thursday, Lange clarified that Brodhead was citing the central administrative funding figure—not the total amount Duke will spend on the campus. Other sources of funding include money from the Fuqua School of Business and from philanthropic efforts.

If the Kunshan campus requires 20 percent more than the amount of central administrative funding approved this weekend, the measure would have to be separately passed by the Board, Trask said. The city of Kunshan is also contributing significant funding to the new campus.

Under Duke’s current agreement with Kunshan—which has not yet been finalized—the University and the Chinese city will split operating costs “50-50,” Trask said.

Blue said four or five Board committees will discuss specific parts of the Kunshan campus—one financial issues and another academic affairs, for example. Then, the Trustees will gather to discuss the campus at large. “[Planning] has been an extraordinary investment of time, energy and research,” Blue said, noting that members of the Board have been discussing the project for 18 months. “I think an overwhelming majority if not all of the Board members are extremely engaged and looking forward to us taking the next step in this process.”

Although Trask is confident in Duke’s plans for Kunshan, he acknowledged that sources of revenue are more difficult to predict than the cost of the campus. It remains unclear how many students will participate in programs on the campus and what tuition will be, he noted. Trask said the University has “clear exit options” if the Kunshan campus does not go as planned.

He noted that Kunshan has the highest per-capita in-

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come of any city in China and that a 15-minute high-speed train ride brings passengers from Shanghai to within 10 to 15 minutes of Duke’s new campus.

“I believe that 20 to 30 years from now people will say that it was a very good thing that Duke ended up with an international presence.” Trask said. “I think they’re going to agree that China was the interesting place to be, and I think that Kunshan is the most interesting opportunity we’ve seen in China.”

In the Fall of 2012, when administrators anticipate students will first study at the campus, Lange said the Global Executive MBA and Cross Continent MBA programs will be held there. He said he also hopes the campus will offer a Global Semester Abroad, a Duke INtense Global program and perhaps a one-semester, multiple-course program for undergraduates that may focus on global health. Those programs have not been finalized, he noted.

Lange said the University will continue to work with a consulting firm to properly set tuition. He noted that this effort is “a little bit unexplored territory,” however, because no American universities offer similar programs in China.

“I actually think that if we hit the tuition number right we’ll have as many students as we want,” he said. “It’s a big place and it should be an attractive degree—but I have no way of knowing [a precise number] right now.”

Duke’s plans for the China campus depend on approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education. The Board has to authorize the administration to submit the application to the ministry, Trask said.

Broader priorities The Kunshan campus is just one of many projects the Board will discuss.

Trustees will review future projects to give the University direction when funding becomes available, Trask said. The discussion will center on both construction projects and academic programs that will improve the student experience.

Of the construction projects administrators are currently considering, renovations to Baldwin Auditorium, Page Auditorium and the West Union Building are likely to be in Duke’s near future, although no architects have yet been hired, Schoenfeld said. In Baldwin and Page, Duke hopes to improve acoustics, upgrade seating and revamp the backstage areas.

Trask said he hopes enhancements to West Union and

the Flowers Building will begin in 2012. This will present a number of logistical challenges, he noted, including providing dining for students when the Great Hall is affected and selecting an architect.

“The biggest problem is 4,000 people have to eat somewhere,” Trask said.

Brodhead will speak to the Trustees about the two candidates to design West Union, though the Board will not necessarily pick an architect at the meeting, Trask said.

The Board will also discuss a logical first phase of New Campus, Trask said, though this is also dependent on funding that has not yet been secured.

“I have said to people, ‘We have weathered the worst of the storm.’ No one should assume we’re going back to where we were,” Trask said, noting the University’s investment portfolio is still down more than $1 billion.

Schoenfeld said the Board will also discuss financial aid, interdisciplinary studies, the arts, the student experience and changes to the residential experience, including the house model. The Graduate School is scheduled to give a presentation to the Board concerning its strategic outlook.

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yt from page 1 accompanied the shift to an open election is the endorsement process, which consists of candidates speaking to student groups and answering questions. Although some candidates have noted that the Young Trustee should not necessarily come with a set agenda, some have said that the endorsement process forces them to accommodate the interests of individual student groups.

Former Young Trustee finalist Chelsea Goldstein, Trinity ’10, said attempting to appeal to an interest group gives candidates the perception that they are running for a representative position as opposed to an informed board member with a student perspective.

“It’s a hard balance to strike when you’re not running to be a representative,” Goldstein said. “[When talking to groups and students] it’s hard not to tell them what they want to hear. It leads to a culture of false promises.”

Senior Ben Getson, one of this year’s Young Trustee finalists, said he was frequently asked about issues pertaining to Tailgate—a topic more relevant to the administration than to the Board of Trustees.

He added that he was frustrated by some questions he encountered during endorsement meetings.

“What the average student wants to know is how you will represent them in the board room and make their lives easier for three years,” Getson said. “It somewhat twists the intention of the position.”

Many students in endorsement meetings have a limited idea of what the role of Young Trustee is, said former write-in candidate Brooke Kingsland, a senior. She added that the majority of questions she faced in endorsement meetings dealt with topics handled by the administration instead of

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the Board of Trustees, leading her to jokingly refer to the position she was campaigning for as the “Young Administrator.”

Duke Student Government President Mike Lefevre, a senior, said the endorsement process forces candidates to appeal to the goals and interests of individual student groups, instead of providing evidence of why they would make a qualified Trustee.

“In the end it comes down to typecasting the candidate who represents [a certain] interest,” Lefevre said. “It becomes platformbased even though that is not the position.”

Endorsements could make or break a candidate, he said, noting that endorsement meetings do not necessarily represent who a candidate would be as a Trustee.

“Endorsements get a lot of student groups involved. About 50 percent [of undergraduates] voted this year, and maybe 25 percent [of the total votes] came from endorsements,” Lefevre speculated. “[Many times] they vote based on the wrong criteria.”

Although finalists campaign and advertise their unique skill sets and boardroom experience in an attempt to express why they are most qualified, Harpham said they will have a difficult time truly understanding the role until they officially join the Board.

“Nothing that you can do as an undergraduate can prepare you for the role as Young Trustee,” Harpham said. “No matter where you start from, you will have lots of work to do. The only way for a student to become an effective Trustee is to wipe from your mind that you are beholden only to students.”

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Council from page 3 $35-40 million, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life.

“We’re going to work to do the [projects] we can and make a pretty good set of improvements that are significant,” Johnson said.

Gonzalez added that over the summer, all of the apartments between Anderson and Alexander streets on Central Campus will undergo internal renovations, including new carpeting, interior paint jobs and bathroom renovations.

Johnson said RLHS looked into renovating all of Central Campus, but after completing two test apartments, determined the cost of renovating each apartment to be roughly $70,000—a figure in excess of the approximate $10 million the University allocated for Central.

Johnson is the former director of housing and dining services at Virginia Tech and was hired by Duke in late 2010. Johnson assumed his position Jan. 31 and said he has noticed some similarities between Duke and Virginia Tech, noting that Virginia Tech converted to a residential college model in 2010.

“The house model—that’s pretty cool,” he said. ‘Even though the house model is not a residential college [system], it is similar in that it promotes equity, community and a multi-class structure.”

Johnson also addressed some potential concerns residential groups may have regarding the house model.

“There is a general feeling that there probably is going to be a group not happy with [the changes],” he said. “The hope is that the improvement will be so large it will compensate for the groups that may think they did not get the best deal out of it.”

In the long term, Johnson added that under the house model, he believes there

is a lot of opportunity to connect residential life and dining, another way of promoting community. One of the projects on the horizon is the renovation of the West Campus Union and the Great Hall.

“In the near future, it’d be great if a house could get together and break bread,” he said. “People could come and go and know they will run into their friends.”

Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a senior, echoed the need for a residential and dining connection.

“A big piece will be the renovation to the West Union,” Temple said. “You go into the Great Hall now and see the plaques of all of the old houses we used to have. It would be nice if we could tap in to the residential dining component of Duke’s campus.

In other business: Sophomore Cherry Tran, a member of the council’s policy committee, presented a recommendation to improve the party monitor training and procedure. The proposal includes improvements such as, a summary of material at the end of each day’s training and a test that party monitor candidates must pass, Tran explained. The proposal also requires living groups’ executive board members, such as the president, risk manager and social chair to participate in training. Under the new policy, e-mail reminders about training will be sent to participants and groups and their residence coordinators will have to exchange contact information. Party monitors will also have to register parties in person.

The recommendation passed with one abstention.

The council unanimously approved a set of recommendations to be submitted to Duke Student Government regarding the merger of Campus Council and DSG. DSG will be discussing the merger bylaw at its meeting next week, Temple said.

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This year, the party will take place across Perkins and Bostock libraries, said Aaron Welborn, director of communications for Duke University Libraries. Von der Heyden pavilion will be turned into a 1960s lounge, while the Link will become a motown club. Attendees can listen to live music, watch vintage TV commercials from AdViews—the library’s online digital collection of TV commercials from the 1950s to the 1980s—and peruse the blown-up vintage ads decorating the entire event from the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History.

“What we’re really trying to do is to make this the quintessential Duke party, where people have a lot of fun, but there’s [also] a smart part,” Grody explained.

The library party will not lack an educational component.

The Marketing Club has also hosted three lectures on controversial issues prevalent in the 1960’s leading up to the party.

In addition, near the reference desk in Perkins, a big screen will be set up and play pertinent video footage of the decade, ranging from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and John F. Kennedy’s presidential inaugural address to atomic bomb scare commercials. Timelines of the early 1960s will also display events that characterized those years, such as the civil rights movement, women’s issues and the Vietnam War “Really, the idea is that you’ll walk in to the party and you’ll be saturated with all these images from the time,” Welborn said. “It’ll say a lot about the history of advertising and marketing.”

Donaho said one of the party’s most interesting components is its unique setting, adding that it is not every day that university libraries throw open parties for students.

“It means something that we’re having [the party] in the library and using library materials,” she said.

Welborn added that the party’s contrast to Duke’s standard social culture was one of its major assets.

“I think this will be a nice counterpoint to the usual image people have of Duke’s party culture,” he said. “This is not a massive kegger... this is something that is for everyone, and it’s something that is educational, and it’s something that highlights the seriousness of Duke students but also the fact that you can have fun and learn at the same time.”

the engineering department has consistently recruited between one and three black faculty members each year. But Arts and Sciences—the most diverse school—has annually recruited between 17 and 41 black professors.

The Faculty Diversity Standing Committee will continue to emphasize recruitment, particularly at the Divinity School, the School of Law and the Fuqua School of Business, Lange said.

Additionally, the council named Susan Lozier, professor of earth and ocean sciences at the Nicholas School, as its new chair. Lozier plans to address and maintain the faculty’s role in overseeing Duke’s international affairs, encouraging interdisciplinarity and shaping undergraduate campus culture, according to her statement of interest.

“I’m honored to be selected by my colleagues as the next chair of Academic Council and I look forward to addressing the challenges ahead,” said Lozier, who is the first council chair from the Nicholas School.

Lozier will begin sitting in on executive committee meetings immediately, but she will officially step into her two-year position July 1.

In other business: The council unanimously voted to convert the Fuqua School of Business’ Master of Management Studies pilot program into a permanent degree. The MMS program, which was instituted Fall 2009, is targeted toward recent college graduates. It is designed to prepare students who have strong liberal arts backgrounds for entering the job market by providing them with essential business skills.

Before the vote, Fuqua Dean Blair Sheppard shared some of the program’s initial successes with the council.

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The program also benefits Duke as an employer as well, Lumia said, noting that, when employees are more “preventative” and live healthier lifestyles, health care costs de-

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DukeEngage Director Eric Mlyn gave a presentation sharing the program’s successes and future goals with the council. Mlyn said he hopes to raise more financial resources, enhance the “DukeEngage experience” and further connect DukeEngage to students’ curriculums.

“We want to deepen the DukeEngage experience,” he said. “What can students do when they get back to campus?”

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Eric Mlyn, director of DukeEngage, spoke about the program’s successes and future plans at the Academic Council meeting Thursday. crease and productivity in the workplace increases.

Since the first weight-loss session, Rydin-Gray said the sessions have not structurally changed much, though administrators are currently conducting a cumulative study that will record the data of the employees’ progress over the four-week period. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board, she said.

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by Nicholas Schwartz For a program with five national championships, expectations are always high. And according to head Season coach Dan Brooks, time is now for Preview the his young Duke team to return to its place among the nation’s elite, as the Blue Devils return after an unsatisfying fall season.

“We’re not holding out for next year or the year after,” Brooks said in September. “We’re going to get it done this year.”

After contending for the overall win in multiple tournaments but coming up short, including a collapse at the Landfall Tradition in October in which Duke squandered a final round lead, the Blue Devils are hungry to return in 2011.

The No. 5 Blue Devils will look to 2010 ACC Player of the Year Lindy Duncan to lead the way for a talented, but relatively inexperienced squad. Duncan, a sophomore, will be joined by

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Singler will be asked to continue producing on offense, while guarding Jeff Allen Saturday.

Confident Singler ready for Hokies

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – There are no NIT banners hanging in Cameron Indoor Stadium. There are in John Paul Jones Arena. That difference was DUKE 71 evident on intheexpectations court Thursday 48 as Duke overpowered Virginia in UVA a 71-48 victory.

The No. 9 Blue Devils (25-3, 11-2 in the ACC) came away with the win by dominating in the paint, outscoring the Cavaliers 30-16 down low and out-rebounding them 55-37. And a strong defensive effort that held Virginia to 20 percent shooting didn’t hurt either.

“The team was really attacking, which is so important to be doing this time of year,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I thought we set the tone defensively early, and the team was really trying to get to the rack and create things.”

In one of their final tune-ups before the ACC Tournament, Duke started slowly and trailed Virginia (15-14, 4-9) for the first five minutes of play. After a Chloe Wells layup put them up 5-4, though, they wouldn’t trail again.

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2010 ACC Player of the Year Lindy Duncan will lead a team looking to regain its winning ways in 2011.

In Duke’s convincing victory over non-conference opponent Temple earlier this week, Kyle Singler reasserted his scoring prowess and totaled a game-high 28 points.

Finishing 10-for-19 from the field and a perfect 8-for-8 from the free throw line, the senior captain looked comfortable on the offensive end and seemed to have forgotten about his recent shooting woes.

And with the No. 1 Blue Devils (26-2, 12-1 in the ACC) returning to conference play this weekend, Singler has regained his offensive stride at an opportune time.

Saturday, Duke travels to take on conference foe Virginia Tech (18-8, 8-5) in Blacksburg, Va. at 9 p.m. as the Blue Devils look to extend their seven-game winning streak. Singler has fared well against the Hokies in his career, scoring 25 points in Duke’s 67-55 win last season.

For the reigning Final Four Most Outstanding Player, offensive success is tied to staying within the offense.

“I think most of it is just taking good shots,” Singler said Wednesday.

“Most of the time when you do get out of rhythm and get into a slump it’s when you do take bad shots. I’ve just got to focus on taking better shots, especially from the perimeter.”

Luckily for Duke, Singler’s shooting struggles did not affect its record. Senior Nolan Smith assumed a more active role, leading the Blue Devils’ offense and solidifying his position as the ACC’s leading scorer with 21.4 points per game. Over the past nine games, Smith has averaged 24.2 points, including a career high 34-point performance against rival North Carolina on Feb. 9.

While Duke features the coveted tandem of Smith and Singler, Virginia Tech boasts its own senior duo in Malcolm Delaney and Jeff Allen.

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Krystal Thomas scored seven and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead the Blue Devils to an easy win over the Cavaliers last night.

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Danowski warns not Defending national champs await for Duke to overlook Penn

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Head coach Kerstin Kimel and many of the Blue Devils are heading home, in a way, for the team’s first road game of the season against Maryland.

With former Terrapins Kimel and assistant coach Alex Kahoe as well as sevNo. 1 eral Maryland-native UMD Duke players, the vs.

No. 3 Blue Devils (3No. 3 0, 0-0 in the ACC) Duke will look to make this a successful homeSATURDAY, 12 p.m. coming as they take College Park, Md. on the defending national champions this Saturday.

“Playing the defending national champions is really just a great opportunity,” Trappe, Md.’s Christie Kaestner said. “For a lot of us, it’s closer to home. I know there’s going to be a lot of fans, and there’s obviously a lot of hype over the game.”

No. 1 Maryland (3-0, 0-0) is coming off a convincing win in which the Terrapins allowed just two goals against thenNo. 16 Penn State. Led by ACC defensive player of the week Brittany Poist, the Terrapins give up just over five goals per game. If the Blue Devils are to find holes in Maryland’s defense, according to Kimel, they must maintain possession.

“I think the key to the weekend is winning the fifty-fifty ball and having possession,” Kimel said. “What has hurt some of

these teams in watching film is that they don’t have the ball very much because Maryland wins the draw. Then they get antsy on offense, and run down the field and just turn the ball over.”

Duke will rely on Kaestner to lead the attack. She leads the Blue Devils with 18 points, but Kimel insists she does even more than what appears on the stat sheet.

“Christie’s kind of like our quarterback, it’s almost like having another coach out there on the field,” Kimel said.

“She does a great job communicating and understanding the flow of the game.”

Kaestner, however, is quick to stress the importance of her teammates against the Maryland defense.

“I think we have to play as a unit,” Kaestner said. “Everybody’s a threat, everybody’s dangerous and no matter who has the ball on the stick, they’re going to make things happen.”

Defensively, Duke will look to try and limit a balanced Terrapin attack, led by Karri Johnson and Katie Schwarzmann.

Schwarzmann leads the Terrapins with 13 goals, while Johnson just had her streak of 47 games with a goal snapped.

“Maryland has a lot of threats,” Kimel said. “Yet they don’t run a lot of set plays, they’re tendency heavy. So defensively, it’s going to be a matter of anticipating what they’re trying to do. You have to be able to sustain long stretches of defense and stay sharp mentally and physically.”

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Last year, the Blue Devils fell in their second game of the year to Notre Dame only to rebound in the following contest with a win over Pennsylvania. After a similarly disappointing loss last week against the Fighting Irish, No. 10 Duke Penn will look to repeat last year’s events vs. with a win against No. 10 the Quakers SaturDuke day afternoon in SATURDAY, 12 p.m.

Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. Although it was an easy victory for Duke last year over Penn, the Blue Devils will still have to greatly improve on their performance against Notre Dame in order to come out on top this weekend.

“Last week, I guess you could say we didn’t do a great job facing off in the middle of the field,” redshirt junior Justin Turri said. “The one area we’ve been focusing a lot on this week is winning face-offs.”

Despite last season’s blowout, the Blue Devils are making sure not to overlook their opponent this time around. The Quakers (0-0) were going through a transitional year last year—which was Penn head coach Mike Murphy’s first at the helm—and ultimately ended up with a dismal 5-8 record. Murphy will have extra motivation this weekend, as he coaches

against his alma mater for the second time. A former Duke lacrosse player himself, Murphy was a three-year starter and captained the squad in 1991.

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Justin Turri said Duke has looked to correct its faceoff problems after struggling against Notre Dame.

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w. basketball from page 9 nearly 16 minutes during a first half in which Duke went on a 30-4 run. The Cavaliers ended the first period with a pair of treys, but still trailed by 18.

Virginia started the second half energized and was able to cut the deficit to single digits with 15 minutes to play. But a Duke three on the ensuing possession sparked a 13-0 run that put the game out of hand for good.

“Duke’s tough,” Virginia head coach Debbie Ryan said. “They’re big inside and tough to guard mainly because of their size and ability to score inside and rebound. We couldn’t stay with them on the boards. That was our biggest problem.”

It was a sloppy game for the Blue Devils, who had 23 turnovers and shot 46 percent from the line. But a strong inside presence, good 3-point shooting and quality performances off the bench—led by Wells and Haley Peters, who combined for 19 points—proved more than enough against the overmatched Cavaliers.

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Duncan boasted the best stroke average on the team in the fall with a 70.83. After closely missing chances to win individual titles in the early season, the sophomore will look to return to her winning ways this spring, and Duke’s schedule should present her with chances to contend for an individual win. After two consecutive tournaments in Louisiana, the Blue Devils return to North Carolina to compete in the Bryan National Collegiate before heading to Athens, Ga., where Duncan will defend her title in the Liz Murphy Collegiate Classic April 1-3. Duke then heads to the ACC Championships at familiar Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., where Duncan posted a team-high fourth place finish last year.

Duncan, however, is solely focused on the collective success of the Blue Devils.

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started at guard and nearly tripled her season average with 16 points. Center Krystal Thomas added 16 boards, and forward Allison Vernerey led the team in the first half with 11 points while also finishing with 10 boards.

“Allison was fantastic, she’s very, very difficult to defend because she keeps moving and is very aggressive in demanding the ball,” McCallie said. “I was happy to see us go high-low and give her a chance to do some things inside. Her rebounding was exceptional.”

With six turnovers, Jasmine Thomas wasn’t her best. But she still managed to lead the team with 18 points and shot well from behind the arc, hitting four-of-nine from downtown.

Virginia did not fare as well from the field. Ariana Moorer led the team off the bench with 14 points while Ataira Franklin was close behind with 13, but they needed 29 shots to get there.

Unfortunately for the Cavaliers, that was still better than the rest of Virginia, which shot 20 percent overall.

Duke next faces North Carolina in the regular season finale at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils will look to avenge a close loss earlier in the season in Chapel Hill. just one win that would be great.”

The Blue Devils typically kick off the spring season with a trip to Tucson, Ariz., to compete in the Wildcat Invitational. A change in that tournament’s annual date to the first weekend in February, though, meant that Duke simply wouldn’t have enough time to prepare, given the wintry conditions in Durham that limit the practice schedule. Instead, the Blue Devils will be heading to New Orleans, La., and the English Turn Golf and Country Club to compete in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Championship this weekend.

While Duke has never ventured to English Turn before and will face the country’s top teams, Brooks is pleased with the progress his team has made over the last month of organized practices at the newly renovated Rod Myers Training Center.

“We’ve used the whole month of February [to prepare].... The difficult thing about playing in these kind of [cold] conditions is that your scores are just not going to be as low,” Brooks said. “There’s the psychological part of going low. Your game might be good enough to go low, but your mind isn’t ready to shoot 67s and 68s when you’ve been in these tough conditions [in practice].”

If Duke can take advantage of the favorable conditions in Louisiana, a top finish could prove the first step to returning to the nation’s elite.

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m. lacrosse from page 10 of the excitement of this year is that we don’t know who we are,” head coach John Danowski said. “You know that, this game, [Mike Murphy] puts extra time in preparing for this one.”

The Quakers will be buoyed this season by the return of three instrumental players— junior John Conneely, and seniors Corey Winkoff and Al Kohart.

Winkoff was 8th in the country with 1.92 assists per game last year and his 3.31 points per game were good for 28th best

m. basketball from page 9 game while shooting an impressive 42.7 percent from behind the arc. The Hokie guard has exceptional range and a quick release, allowing him to shoot over taller defenders from the outside.

Complementing Delaney’s exceptional perimeter game, Allen has proven himself as a consistent double-double threat, amounting 13.8 points and 10.3 MORE rebounds per ONLINE contest. He possesses a wide Follow a live blog of repertoire of the Duke-Virginia Tech post moves and plays physically contest Saturday: sports.chronicleblogs. in the paint, ranking among com the league’s leaders in offensive rebounding.

And while the Blue Devils hope Singler can build on his strong performance against Temple to pace his team on Saturday, it is his defensive tenacity that will prove invaluable guarding the

in the nation.

Furthermore, the Blue Devils enter the game uncertain of how the Quakers shape up this season, without any game film to scout them. Duke could be caught further off guard by a change in Penn’s strategy, as three members of the staff left for other coaching positions, with Chris Wojcik notably becoming the new head coach at Harvard.

“Are they going to look the same? Are they going to play the same?” Danowski asked. “I don’t know that we can beat Penn, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t.” likes of Allen and Delaney. Overshadowed by his offensive output, Singler’s defensive contributions on Wednesday were essential, as he shut down Owls’ standout Ramone Moore.

“Moore has been averaging 22 points a game and is their biggest threat offensively, and Kyle held him to eight points,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said after the game. “I think [Singler’s] as good defensively as anybody because he has the determination and the stick-to-it-iveness to defend.”

Singler will likely defend against Allen with Smith covering Delaney in what will be a matchup of two of the nation’s top senior duos. Much like his teammate, Smith has often had his offensive contributions often overshadow his ability to on-ball defend and force opposing team’s guards into committing turnovers.

Smith and Singler’s defense of the Hokies’ tandem, therefore, will be critical to reentering ACC play in stride.

“When we go up to Virginia Tech, we’re going to have to guard Delaney and stop Allen inside,” Smith said. “It’ll be a good one.”

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Tuition defines campus culture This weekend, the Uni- tuition, this bold move by versity’s Board of Trustees Sewanee is refreshing news, will meet to discuss a pos- although it smells faintly of a sible tuition increase for the clever promotional strategy.

2011-2012 academic year. It is Nevertheless, Sewanee’s expected that the Board will decision serves as a timely approve the reminder to tuition hike, Duke that it editorial raising the total has a commitcost of attendance closer to ment to provide not only an the $60,000 mark. As it stands, excellent education to its stuthe total cost of attending dents but an accessible one.

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Despite these benefits for low income families, aid has not yet been sufficiently extended to middle class families.

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The University must respond by beefing up financial aid and raising tuition only when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, middle class students will flock to more welcoming or affordable schools, and the University as a whole will suffer.

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very Duke student who has lived on East the University side, the competition would highCampus since 2002 has heard of Eco-Olym- light existing programs like carpool incentives pics. I say it’s time to spread the competi- and award points for enrolling members. It could tive energy and engage the rest of also measure tons of trash diverted campus. to recycling programs or percentIn its current form, Eco-Olympics age reductions in energy or water is held every Fall for several weeks. It use due to conservation measures pits freshman dorms against one anor changes in behavior. other in a competition that awards Finally, and most importantly, points for energy reduction, events the real data that is already being attendance and recycling. The wintracked by the service sectors of the ning dorm gets T-shirts and ice liz bloomhardt University would be used, displayed, cream. digested and owned by everyone. green devil The campus-wide version will reIt’s time to open the floodgates quire some tweaking to this model and let the data out! and a new name, but it offers the following benFacilities Management is migrating its data to efits: a) It will build community spirit. b) It will en- a user-friendly platform that will have limited acgage non-residential populations. c) It will provide cess and that should be out of beta in a couple incentive to participate in existing programs. And months. This data could be easily mined and d) it will put real data into the public domain. stripped of cost-sensitive information for display Let’s look at each point. on dashboards across campus. (On a side note: Mundane activities like recycling your office Dashboards are not new, and it’s a shame we don’t paper, turning off the lights or commuting to have any yet. Let’s get on that.) The competition the office aren’t necessarily fun by themselves. data can also be available through an online porRight now, you might be inclined to do them tal so users can interact with it. out of habit, because it’s convenient or because Some work will have to be done to migrate you derive satisfaction from doing things that other data streams—like waste and recycling are socially acceptable and encouraged. Now, tonnage—to the existing metered utility data, if you get a group of friends or colleagues to- but this is an investment worth making if Duke gether, these activities can become a bonding is serious about all aspects of sustainability. And experience. Get yourself a rival, and the passion I think we are. to achieve naturally gets kicked up a notch. An The detractors to this egalitarian proposal Eco-Olympics for all of Duke should provide might mention that Sustainable Duke already both the “Kumbaya” kind of community build- engages the community by sending out Green ing and the kind of community bonding that Devil Challenges to members of the Duke only rivalry-leading-to-positive-social-change can community who have signed the sustainability build. Plus, this would be a program we could pledge. I counter: These challenges are voluntotally brag about! tary and do not measure action, but they are a Next, Duke University is composed of some good start and should be included in the com15,000 undergraduate and graduate students, only petition. about 10 percent of whom are freshmen living on Despite the myriad benefits of a University-wide East Campus. That means there is a significant, Eco-Olympics, this program will likely cost money. untapped population just waiting to be engaged.

We should evaluate the associated costs, with the At a graduate student retreat in January, stu- understanding that we will reap the rewards of the dents in a roundtable discussion on sustainability investment with positive publicity (hard to quanfrom such schools as the Fuqua School of Busi- tify monetarily), decreased operating expenses ness and Sanford School for Public Policy were and lower cost of offsets in 2024, the date set for like, “Yea, I would want to compete against other carbon neutrality. The community is also likely to schools at Duke, but I also need to know that my learn a great deal in the process. Knowledge in the actions are making a difference.” Staff members service of society.... want in, too; I know they do, and well, fine, we can But wait, there’s more; I haven’t gotten to prizlet the professors play as well. es yet. They should be good—more than, but also Which brings me to the next point: incentive. including a trophy—certainly more than T-shirts This is not about grades, but about points, and and ice cream. That is all. Discuss. it runs both ways. On the competitor side there is also glory, a sense of moral righteousness and Liz Bloomhardt is a fourth-year graduate student in mecamaraderie (we’ll get to prizes in a second). On chanical engineering. Her column runs every other Friday.

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The promise of global youth culture

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he other night, I had a get-together for Tibetan I see this common youth culture every day in my students at my apartment in Alspaugh. While we own dorm. We have students here from Tibet, India, were chatting about what it’s like to be an ethnic Greece, England, Turkey, Cameroon, Jamaica, Mexico, Tibetan in territory now controlled by China, several Venezuela and no doubt several other countries that of the students mentioned that the last have eluded my memory. Yet, what I nonames on their Chinese passports read tice about them is not how different they the professor “XXX”. Tibetans don’t have conventionare, but how similar. These young peonext door al family names, and the Chinese bureauple are not divided by nationality; they cracy can’t deal with the rather complex are unified by the vibrant youth culture simon partner naming system that they actually live by, in which they all participate. so... XXX. As a member of their parents’ generaActually, my own children are somewhat similar. tion, I share some of the concerns about the directions Their mother is Japanese, I am British-American. For in which this culture might be taking them. Yes, I wish complicated bureaucratic reasons, we had to use their that kids today read more books and spent less time mother’s family name and their Japanese middle names multitasking. Yes, I would prefer it if they were not satuon their Japanese passports, while they use my last rated quite so early with all the internet-borne imagery name and their English first names on their American of sex and violence. Certainly I would like to see a little passports. In other words, they both carry two passports more sustained concentration and a little less grazing with a different first and last name on each. in the shallow pastures of Wikispace.

The fact is, the 20th century system of national identiBut on the other hand, there is far more that I want ty is being rapidly eroded by the new realities of cultural to celebrate—their connection to each other for a start. and ethnic mix-up. Nowhere is that more visible than on Social networks and Skype have opened up a world of the campus of Duke University. Twelve percent of the friendship that defies space and nationality. My kids class of 2014 come from countries outside the United spent part of last year in Japan and another part in CosStates. Including those living in the U.S., 26 percent are ta Rica. Now their Japanese school friends are friendAsian or Asian-American, 10 percent are African or Afri- ing their American classmates, and they Skype their can-American, and 8 percent are Latino. I love this diver- Costa Rican friends into their sleepovers in Durham. sity. Sitting on the bench outside my dorm and watching Through Skype, Facebook, video and the written word, East Campus life pass by, I feel that the old classifications students are able to “visit” dozens of different places of race and nationality have become all but meaningless. and cultures in a single evening. That urge to be evThis is no longer a campus of black and white, American erywhere at once surely reflects the great hunger for and foreign; it’s a campus of global community, in which experience and connection that this generation feels. every beautiful skin tone is a celebration of our unity and In many cases I see that hunger being translated into hope for the next generation. marvelous acts of compassionate entrepreneurship.

When I teach my classes on Japanese history, I often I look forward to the day when we can throw our begin by reminding my students of just how much they passports in the trash as we celebrate our common have in common with Japanese kids their age. They are membership in a global community. OK, I know that listening to the same music, buying clothes from the won’t ever happen in my lifetime. But the global youth same stores, texting on the same phones, watching the culture is here on campus today. And I can’t help sharsame movies, friending on the same social networks, ing its bright optimism for our future. studying the same environmental and health issues...

And I go on to suggest that Japanese students today Simon Partner is an associate professor in the history deprobably have far more in common with their Ameri- partment and faculty in residence in Alspaugh Dormitory. can or European counterparts than they do with their This is one in a series of weekly columns from the faculty memown grandparents. bers in residence on East Campus.

lettertotheeditor Defending the right to choose Last Friday, the House of Representatives passed the Pence Amendment, proposing to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funding.

The House’s passage of the Pence Amendment will cut the entire $317 million worth of Title X funding for the non-profit organization.

This money is used to offset the costs of annual exams, pap smears, testing for sexually transmitted infections, birth control and medications for low-income men and women. As a former Planned Parenthood employee, I have seen firsthand that for many of these patients, screenings and exams at Planned Parenthood account for the only medical care they receive. Blocking Planned Parenthood’s access to Title X funding will not change the fact that Planned Parenthood is an abortion provider. Instead, it will deny millions of men and women every year the ability to have basic medical needs met, to be screened for cancer, as well as prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.

In addition to the Pence Amendment, the H.R.3 “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” is currently attempting to redefine “rape.” Currently, the government will cover abortions in cases of rape or incest. However, H.R. 3 proposes to limit this coverage to cases of “forcible rape,”

effectively blocking access for women who have been determined as, I guess, “asking” to be raped by being drugged or date raped. H.R.3 would also block private insurance companies from providing coverage for abortion if they want to participate in the new federal health plan. Nearly 86 percent of current insurance plans cover elective abortions.

And last but not least, there is H.R 358, the ironically named “Protect Life Act,” which allows hospitals to choose to let women die instead of providing a pregnancy termination as a life saving measure.

These proposed amendments comprise a decisive attack on basic human rights. In a country filled with choices, we stand to lose one of our most valuable privileges—easy access to the tools and information to make safe, smart choices about our own reproductive destinies.

I am begging all of you to take action.

Please, stand up for yourself, for your friends and loved ones and for our collective future. Talk to people and tell them what’s going on. Call your representative and tell them how you feel. Now is the time to fight this antilife agenda.

Molly Chadbourne School of Nursing, ABSN Class of 2012

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ASHINGTON — A good litmus test of how far right a politician is leaning is the question of President Barack Obama’s place of birth.

Yes, this is still an issue. A recent survey of 400 Republican primary voters nationwide by Public Policy Polling found that 51 margaret carlson percent believed that the presibloomberg news dent wasn’t born in the U.S. Here’s what one prominent Republican figure said on the so- called birther issue: “It’s distracting. It gets annoying, and let’s just stick with what really matters.”

A second important Republican, asked to stand up to birther ignorance, responded, “It’s not my job to tell the American people what to think.” And, on the canard Obama is secretly a Muslim: “The president says he’s a Christian. I accept him at his word.” (Taking the president “at his word” is code to tea partiers. It means, “He’s a liar but there’s nothing I can do about it.”)

Here’s what’s interesting. The first quote— the more reasonable, if we’re grading on a curve—happens to be from Sarah Palin, the person we normally think of as holding the pole position in the Republicans’ daily race to the outer edge of our political galaxy. The latter quotes are from House Speaker John Boehner, on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Lapping Palin is one way Boehner can prove himself to his House freshmen. The insider of insiders, boon companion of lobbyists, Boehner smoked, drank and wept his way to his gavel. Now the man who once handed out campaign checks from the tobacco industry on the House floor finds that his old unsubtle ways don’t win quite so many friends.

Boehner is being pulled in different directions by his freshmen, by the larger Republican Party and by his own nature.

Republicans can’t win the presidency in 2012 by ceaselessly pandering to the tea party, a lesson even Palin has absorbed— as shown by her slight retreat on Obama’s citizenship. To win, Republicans must appeal to moderates and independents, many of whom are partial to clean water and Pell Grants.

Already the cutters have shown Boehner who’s boss. His $35 billion in pledged budget cuts quickly morphed into their $100 billion. Where he would trim, they would slash, even if it means being penny-wise and pound-foolish.

Cut home-heating-oil assistance and you risk sending more people to emergency rooms and seeing homes flooded by burst pipes. Demolish neighborhood block grants and you get more homeless people evicted when there’s no one to negotiate rent payments. Cut food inspections and you get more E. coli.

More than Ross Perot, the tea party has focused the country on the crazy aunt in the attic, the deficit, so that fighting it trumps concerns over unemployment, failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and health care. As long as the supposedly adult conversation we’re having remains childishly vague, it’s easy to turn those complaining about cuts into welfare queens who should toughen up.

Even worse is how some supposed budget hawks, on the eve of battle, made deficits even worse with tax cuts for the haves, then used mounting deficit projections to justify cuts to discretionary program that mostly hurt the have-nots. So much for spreading the pain.

The new austerity-chic is playing out in Wisconsin, where Republican Gov. Scott Walker gave tax cuts to businesses while demanding give-backs from public employees. He also wants to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights to make sure they don’t ever get their sweet packages again.

Analysts say public pay in Wisconsin is in line with private pay for similar work. State workers have agreed to contribute more for their benefits. Walker, refusing to take yes for an answer, prefers to use the issue as a pretext to cripple organized labor.

What an odd chapter in American history we’re living through. Suggesting that the financial elite might be responsible for the economic mess we’re in brings cries of “class warfare.” Meanwhile, congressmen and governors, under cover of cutting deficits created by congressmen and governors, wage real class warfare on janitors and on parents trying to pay their mortgage or send their kids to college.

Blaming nurse’s aides and prison guards for the death grip this economy has on the middle class is to indulge a fantasy on par with the fairy tale of an American president born in Kenya and secretly Muslim.

Margaret Carlson, author of “Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made It to the White House” and former White House correspondent for Time magazine, is a Bloomberg News columnist. This column was originally published by Bloomberg on February 23.

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