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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 110

‘A reason to come to school’ ‘Duke-in’ abroad

Poetic Justice gives struggling students an outlet for expression

programs see large increase in apps

by Julia Ni

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On the last day of January, two men in knit caps and hoodies walked into the Durham Performance Learning Center, stood up on tables in its crowded cafeteria and started yelling.

“How many of y’all like poetry? How many of y’all like hip-hop? Yeah? Aight, well check this out, then!”

And then Pierce Freelon and Kane Smego started performing spoken-word poems, delivering rhymes with such thunderous flow that students leapt out of their chairs. They were recruiting participants for Poetic Justice, their spoken-word after-school program, and by the time they left, they had handed out 70 applications—or one to nearly every student in the room at the small, nontraditional high school geared toward children who have not performed well in traditional settings.

First offered at Jordan High School in September, Freelon and Smego began a second 10-week

As students pack their bags to prepare for Spring Break trips, many have even larger ambitions to see the world.

More students than last year have submitted applications to study abroad through “Duke-in” programs, according to the Global Education Office for Undergraduates. As of Wednesday, a total of 520 Duke students have applied to go abroad this summer and Fall, Margaret Riley, the office’s director, wrote in an e-mail.

“A number of Duke programs have experienced increased applications,” Riley said.

Duke-administered programs experienced a larger increase in applications than non-Duke programs.

Overall, 255 students applied to Duke summer and academic year programs this year, a significant increase from the 191 students who applied last year.

Non-Duke programs, however, did not see much of an increase. This year, 363 students are applying to Duke-approved programs—up three students from last year.

Applications for Fall “Duke-in” programs were due March 1, and applications for many “Duke-in” summer programs—which were initially due Feb. 3—have been extended and are being accepted on a rolling basis.

This year’s application pool breaks down into 316 female and 204 male students. Most applicants were rising juniors and seniors, with just four rising sophomores applying to study abroad for the Fall semester.

The most popular choice among students was the Duke in Madrid program, which received 81 applications—up from last year’s 56.

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Egypt travel restrictions lifted with caution

by Kelly Scurry THE CHRONICLE

With unrest in Egypt stabilizing, University travel to the country will soon resume.

The International Travel Oversight Committee decided to lift travel restrictions to all of Egypt March 2, allowing programs in the region like DukeEngage Cairo to continue as previously planned.

The committee, which sets travel policy for initiatives like DukeEngage and Duke-sponsored study abroad programs, announced Feb. 3 a decision to freeze all travel to Egypt in light of the political turmoil and unrest that erupted throughout North Africa and the Middle East that started this January.

“We are very pleased and not surprised [by the decision] because of the termination of [former Egyptian President Hos-

ni] Mubarak’s regime. We knew it was a matter of time,” said Mbaye Lo, leader of DukeEngage Cairo and assistant professor of the practice for Asian and Middle Eastern studies.

The committee’s decision came with two caveats, said Christy Michels, Duke international travel policy administrator and manager for the global administration support. Before traveling to Egypt, ITOC will require students to register with the University and have a plan for leaving the country in case of emergency.

Additionally, ITOC will continue to monitor the situation in Egypt and reserves the right to reinstate the travel suspension if the committee believes the country is unsafe for students.

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The International Travel Oversight Committee ended travel restrictions to Egypt March 2, although Duke will still require that students traveling there have an emergency evacuation plan prepared.

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For some reason, it seems that being asked to supply a name for a food order compels people to create a fake name, or assume the identity of a celebrity.”

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1789: The Constitution of the United States went into effect.

Obama: Pentagon currently Calderon says Wikileaks looking at Libya options damaged US relations WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama Thursday renewed his call for Moammar Gadhafi to give up power in Libya and said he has authorized the U.S. military to study a “full range of options” to respond to the violence in the North African country.

Obama said he wants to continue working with international partners as the civil strife continues in Libya, holder of Africa’s largest oil reserves. The options being studied include both military measures and humanitarian assistance. Obama said he has ordered the Pentagon to help refugees from Libya get back to their home countries.

The United States must be to be able “to act, potentially rapidly, if the situation deteriorated in such a way that you had a humanitarian crisis on our hands,” Obama said Thursday at a news conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the White House. There is a danger that the turmoil could end up in a “bloody” stalemate.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Thursday that the release of State Department cables criticizing Mexico’s anti-drug fight had caused “severe damage” to its relationship with the United States and suggested that tensions had risen so dramatically that he could no longer work with the American ambassador in his country.

Calderon’s comments were the strongest to date on the secret cables distributed by WikiLeaks, which have threatened to disrupt what both sides have hailed as increasingly close cooperation against Mexico’s violent drug gangs.

The Mexican president, at the start of a one-day visit to Washington, suggested that the release of the cables had caused turmoil on his national security team. He took aim at one U.S. cable that said that Mexican military officials had “risk-averse habits.”

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Patient satisfaction best predictor of hospital care

by Stephanie Tsimis THE CHRONICLE

When searching for high-quality hospital care, Duke researchers suggest asking a friend or colleague for a recommendation.

Researchers from the Fuqua School of Business compared patient satisfaction surveys with objective performance measures, including standardized test data from federal databases. They found that patient satisfaction scores are a better predictor of high quality hospital care than clinical performance measures.

Richard Staelin, Edward S. and Rose K. Donnell Professor at Fuqua and a coauthor of the study, said the findings may surprise hospital staff who generally tend to believe that patients cannot properly assess medical treatment.

Instead of focusing solely on making patients “happy” by improving food or room decor, hospitals must increase the quality of interaction between patients and hospital staff, especially nurses and physicians.

Patients may not have medical expertise about appropriate treatments, but they still offer valuable insight, said Matthew Manary, a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Fuqua and co-author of the study.

“The information they have about their experience does in fact correlate to the overall quality care the hospital provides,” he said.

Researchers evaluated the quality of care using 30-day readmission rates— which, for the study, were collected from

patients who suffered heart attacks, heart failures or pneumonia. The study observed patient satisfaction surveys that included information regarding patients’ interactions with hospital staff—like whether staff provided written information about symptoms to watch out for—and questions such as, “Would you recommend this hospital to friends and family?”

Hospitals that scored well in these categories tended to have lower readmission rates. This is also to the financial advantage to hospitals because, under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals with high readmission rates will be subject to cuts in Medicare reimbursements, a Duke news release noted.

The study was a collaborative effort between medical and marketing researchers to study a statistical relationship between patient satisfaction and hospital care that was lacking in current medical research literature, Manary said. The findings were published in January’s issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.

“We aimed to merge what marketing has done in terms of figuring out customer perception with the medical literature’s focus on clinical performance and tie that into a true measure of quality, which in this case is readmission rates,” Manary said.

Staelin said although future implications of the study remain unclear, a definite causal link between patient satisfaction and hospital care could be developed through further research.

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Members of the federal government speak at the Durham launch of “Startup America,” an eight-city tour of the United States that aims to spur innovation and entrepreneurship and create jobs.

‘Startup America’ aims to bolster entrepreneurship

by Chinmayi Sharma THE CHRONICLE

Representatives from the Obama and Small Business administrations gathered in Durham to launch “Startup America”— a campaign that seeks to forge ties between government officials and entrepreneurs to spur innovation.

In what N.C. Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco called a “great day for North Carolina,” about 150 local businessmen and federal officials assembled to kickoff Startup America’s tour of eight different U.S. cities. The campaign was launched at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, an organization that provides loans and investments to entrepreneurs.

“After over 50 years in what used to be a pine forest, entrepreneurs and business leaders [have come] together to talk about economic start-ups and dreams, which [has] resulted in a massive increase in opportunity for the people of North Carolina,” Crisco said.

The goals of Startup America are to create jobs, spur innovation, reduce barriers to growth and increase access to capital, Crisco said. With three internationally recognized research institutions and a rich climate for entrepreneurship, Durham served as an ideal place to kickoff the initiative, said Lee Buck, partner See startup on page 4

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startup from page 3 and advisor of LaunchBox Digital. Buck said the program hopes to emphasize the idea of entrepreneurship as a “core American value” by collaborating across the public and private sectors.

Representatives of the Obama administration plan to revamp the country’s 52-year-old business start-up initiative, Small Business Investment Companies.

Although the SBIC has assisted small businesses in raising capital, it does not sufficiently promote risk-taking in entrepreneurship or job creation, Buck said.

Buck added that the initiative will inject $2 billion into small firms over the next five years through an “impact investment fund.” Once implemented, “an entrepreneurship mentor core” will pair veteran entrepreneurs with “rookies” to facilitate the spread of risk-taking experiences.

Risks that pay off Halfway through the event, the lecture transitioned into a panel discussion, moderated by Sean Greene, associate administrator for investment at the Small Business Administration. This same event format will be used in all eight cities, so that government officials have the chance to personally interact with private entrepreneurs. The Obama administration will take feedback from these discussions to shape future economic legislation.

Panelists included Aaron Chatterji, member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and associate professor at the Fuqua School of Business; Michael Fitzpatrick, associate administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; Esther Johnson, national ombudsman and assistant administrator

for regulatory enforcement fairness and David Morgan, CEO of Bandwith.com.

Despite modest job growth in 2010, Chatterji believes the government must do more to support entrepreneurship, as that is traditionally where the bulk of economic growth occurs.

“If you look at the data and statistics, there are a million of jobs today that didn’t exist 10 years ago,” Chatterji said.

“They didn’t have names for what we’re doing today... and the fact is almost all job growth comes from new companies.”

Fitzpatrick believes the money allocated to this initiative is being put in the right direction, as it reduces barriers to job entry. As part of the initiative, Obama asked Fitzpatrick to review pre-existing entrepreneurial regulations, and to either modify or eliminate them if they are inefficient. Fitzpatrick added that he plans to work with Greene to create a “consolidated portal”— an online forum in which business leaders can discuss effective policy measures.

Morgan believes policy should be reformed to alleviate the burden of student financial loans—noting that debt often prevents individuals from taking financial risks.

“Coming out of schools with the heavy weight of loans on their backs, young adults are deterred form taking entrepreneurial risks, costly in and of themselves, because they are told they must focus on paying back the bill of their education,” he said.

After the panel, audience members split up into small groups of four to five people and discussed specific government policies.

Although Obama representatives commended the event’s success, they believe there is still significant work ahead.

“Conversation doesn’t end with the event today,” Buck said. “We’re going to take these ideas and answers back and feed it into a greater process.”

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program at DPLC last Tuesday. Their course promotes artistic expression, providing an outlet for students who are otherwise struggling. “[Freelon and Smego] are addressing the needs of kids who have been neglected by the public school system and who don’t fit in the traditional mold,” said Danielle Riley, an English teacher at Jordan who works with students who struggle with literacy. “The talents they do have are writing and spitting their poems, and there’s not a lot of opportunity to do that in the fast-paced, highly-tested, highly-driven curriculum of our public school system.”

Smego, widely considered one of the best slam poets in the world, is on the Bull City Slam Team and has led the Sacrificial Poets—the Triangle’s youth team—to national championships in each of the last three years.

Freelon is a professor at North Carolina Central University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also raps for The Beast, an alternative hip-hop group.

The two men—Durham natives with UNC diplomas and neatly-trimmed facial hair— have extensive backgrounds in hip-hop. Both started rapping in grade school before later directing their interests toward academics.

Freelon’s honor thesis was an outline for a hiphop-culture-based academic curriculum, and Smego developed a spoken-word curriculum as an independent study his senior year.

The pair began collaborating when Smego needed another facilitator to put his curriculum into practice. Combining Smego’s hands-on experience and Freelon’s academic background, they developed a program and received $20,000 in grant money.

Supported by the Hayti Heritage Center and the Durham County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council, the grant comes from state and county government, the North Carolina Arts

‘A sense of belonging’ The unconventional, consensus-based classroom setting has a simple rule.

“Whoever comes out—[a] teacher who wants to watch, whoever it is—if you’re in the classroom, you have to contribute and take part in the workshop or activity because it eliminates that power dynamic,” he said.

As artists who blend rapping, storytelling, dance and theatre, spoken word poets do not simply recite lines, they perform them.

And students who struggled to memorize single sentences in the first week performed entire poems at the end of the program. “[The program]... gave me more confidence,” said Percy Watson, a junior at Jordan. “I grew up in a big house, and it taught me how to release emotions in a way that wasn’t physical.”

Freelon and Smego work with social workers, parole officers and school officials to recruit students who are failing at least one class or who have been involved with the juvenile justice system.

The course focuses on writing, performance and the history of spoken word. At the beginning of each class, Smego and Freelon direct students to write creatively on a prompt.

After dinner—which is provided because the program runs late—the students discuss a specific literary device or a performance exercise.

The participants are so enthusiastic about sharing their own poetry, Freelon said, that the class routinely runs over the allotted time.

The graduates of the program have visibly changed in their attitudes and behavior, Riley noted.

“Seeing the students in halls now, they have a sense of pride and accomplishment and ownership of the creative sort,” she said. “And beyond all of that is a feeling of connectedness—there’s a reason to come to school, a sense of belonging.”

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Completed applications must be submitted by Monday, March 14 to the URS Office, 011 Allen Building. A current transcript and two letters of recommendation are also required, at least one of them from a Duke faculty member in the student’s major department. Letters should be sent to: ursoffice@duke.edu, or Undergraduate Research Support Office Attn: Benenson Awards Committee 011 Allen Building, Box 90051, or faxed to: 660-0488

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Trip to China UNC DUKE carries broad CHAPEL HILL, N.C. • SATURDAY • 8 p.m. • CBS implications ‘TAKING THE FIGHT TO THEM’

by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE

ACC regular season title on line in Chapel Hill Saturday

For the 2008 summer Olympic Games, China embraced Mike Krzyzewski as the head coach of Team U.S.A. men’s basketball. The anthem of those games was “Beijing Huanying Ni,” or in English, “Beijing Welcomes You.” This August, China is prepared to welcome Krzyzewski not only as an ambassador of the United States, but also as a repDuke in resentative of Duke and its basketball program. The Blue Devils will China travel to play basketball games in three Chinese cities before heading to Dubai on Aug. 26.

Although the basketball team has travelled abroad in the past—most recently to London in 2002—this trip has broader implications. Whereas the venture to London was purely centered around playing basketball and training before the season, this one is also motivated by Duke’s drive to promote its brand. “[The trips] are going to be much different,” said associate head coach Chris Collins, who was with the team on the previous excursion. “It was very condensed and it was all basketball.... We didn’t really have a chance to do much outside of play.”

The 2011 journey to China was first proposed “about a year-and-a-half ago” according to Blair Sheppard, Dean of the Fuqua School of Business, who along

After capping off a second consecutive undefeated season in Cameron Indoor Stadium in front of adoring fans Wednesday, the Blue Devils now get to travel to the venue where they are hated more than anywhere else in the country.

They know to expect a hostile reception, to put it mildly.

“They’re a team that had us beat in the first half [of the first meeting], so we’re going to have to be sharp and be ready to play,” senior Nolan Smith said. “We’re going into their house now, so we’re going to have to take the fight to them.”

With the regular season ACC Championship on the line, No. 4 Duke (27-3, 13-2 in the ACC) will face No. 13 North Carolina (23-6, 13-2) 8 p.m. Saturday at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill.

When the two teams last met on Feb. 9 in Durham, the Blue Devils rallied back from a 14-point deficit at halftime and mounted the program’s largest comeback win since 1959, thanks to sharp shooting from Smith and sophomore Seth Curry.

To say that the Tar Heels and their fans are eager for their chance at revenge would be an understatement.

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Sophomore Seth Curry, who scored 22 points in the last Duke-North Carolina game, brings a hot hand to the Dean E. Smith Center Saturday.

Cusack elected sports editor of Volume 107

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Chris Cusack, a sophomore, was elected by his peers as The Chronicle’s sports editor Thursday night.

Sophomore Chris Cusack was elected editor of The Chronicle’s sports section in a meeting with the department’s staff Thursday night.

Cusack, a Santa Barbara, Calif. native, will lead a staff of approximately 30 writers and editors for a one-year term beginning in May. Cusack will replace junior Andy Moore.

Cusack is currently a biweekly columnist for The Chronicle and also serves as an associate sports editor. He was previously a baseball beat writer and wrote extensively on men’s soccer his freshman year.

“I am extremely excited about the opportunity to lead the sports department next year,” Cusack said. “I see it progressing and continuing to be one of the best in the country.”

In his speech Thursday night, Cusack said the sports section should have more well-reported stories and features.

He also highlighted the increased need for recruitment and retention of The Chronicle’s staff. And he focused on the online staff, saying the sports section must continue to improve The Blue Zone, the section’s sports blog.

Increasing the size of the online department will only be possible with more involvement from the whole staff, Cusack said.

“There is no reason why we can’t be the go-to source for Duke Basketball news,” the sophomore said. “Being on campus gives us unrivaled access to the team and its staff, so we should capitalize on that.”

In addition to writing a bi-weekly column this year, Cusack has covered the football and men’s basketball teams.

Cusack is a graduate of Cate School in Carpinteria, Calif. He is pursuing a major in Public Policy and a certificate in Policy Journalism and Media Studies.

He expects to graduate in May of 2013.

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Struggling Blue Devils go through growing pains

by Sabreena Merchant THE CHRONICLE

It hasn’t been a picture-perfect start to the season for Duke.

Pegged a top-5 team in the first poll of the year, the now-No. 19 Blue Devils have had some growing pains in their first No. 3 month, namely on UMD the offensive side of vs. the ball.

After a 20-goal No. 19 outburst in the seaDuke son opener— albeit SATURDAY, 1 p.m. against overmatched Koskinen Stadium Siena in the friendly confines of Koskinen Stadium—Duke (1-2) has mustered only 10 scores in the last two contests, including a three-goal output against Pennsylvania last Saturday that marked the lowest-scoring game of head coach John Danowski’s tenure.

“It was a really funny game statistically,” Danowski said. “We grade our team in seven different areas, and in six areas we graded as high as you could grade.... But in the box offense, we were 1-of-24, which is the lowest since I’ve been here. Not only were we 1-for-24, but we turned the ball over 21 times with 11 different people, so it wasn’t just one or two guys. It was a bit of a matter of chemistry, it was a bit of a matter of guys playing together—older guys playing too much, younger guys’ third game, and it made for a bad mix.”

The Blue Devils had similar difficulty out of the gate in 2009 and 2010, losing two of the first four games each season, so the team is accustomed to working its

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Still, even though many of the parties involved—including Krzyzewski and Vice

way up the standings.

In the past, though, Duke had the luxury of a more experienced lineup. Now, the team will be forced to sort out its chemistry issues quickly when No. 3 Maryland (2-0) comes to town for the conference opener Saturday at 1 p.m.

“We’ve had a great focus this week because it’s Maryland and it’s an ACC game,” midfielder Justin Turri said. “They’re a great team so we’re really prepared and ready to give them a good game Saturday.”

The Terrapins have had a near-opposite trajectory than the Blue Devils to start their year.

Led by 15 seniors, the veteran Maryland squad has won each of its first two contests by 12 points. The Terrapins hung 20 goals against Georgetown on the same day that Duke managed only three against the Quakers.

“They’re very explosive offensively,” Turri said. “They have a couple of guys that can shoot the ball really, really well with an inch of space, so we’ve been focusing on doing everything right, especially in transition, not letting them get breaks.”

In order to combat that powerful offensive unit, the Blue Devils have been focusing on winning the ground ball battle and not committing turnovers. With a younger team, Danowski has stressed a return to fundamentals to keep his team relaxed.

“We’re hoping that just being good at the little things will allow guys to think less, play faster and play with confidence,” the head coach said.

Maryland’s offensive style should also allow Duke to play freer Saturday. The TerraPresident and Director of Athletics Kevin White—believed the trip to be a good idea in 2009, it was far from a reality.

A major hurdle was Krzyzewski’s commitment to the U.S.A. men’s basketball program. In order for the coach to be free this summer, the United States had

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Justin Turri said the Terrapins possess an explosive offense, and Duke will look to “not let them get breaks.” pins, who have won their last two meetings against the Blue Devils, like to run up and down the field and play a similar tempo to what Danowski’s Duke teams have played in the last four years. Turri acknowledged that he and his teammates appreciate playing at a faster pace rather than being bogged down in a battle of possession.

But against a team that is capable of scoring on a moment’s notice, the Blue

Devils will have to come out strong to avoid falling behind early.

“We’re going to have to play really well,” Danowski said. “The hope is, like any game, you want to get off to a good start.”

Duke hasn’t had the best start this season, but a strong opening effort against Maryland could go a long way towards changing the team’s narrative for the rest of the year.

to win gold at the 2010 World Championships. The qualification last summer means that Team U.S.A. already has a bid to the 2012 Olympic Games.

“When we were in Istanbul and won the World Championships, I can remember being in the postgame reception area and tell-

ing Coach, ‘I guess I’ll be calling Blair and Greg when we get back,’” Senior Associate Director of Athletics Mike Cragg said.

This was just one among many obstacles that had to be bypassed, including receiving permission from the NCAA. Once those were pushed out of the way, however, the focus shifted more to the implications of the trip instead of the logistics.

One of the main reasons for the excursion is to promote Duke’s campus in Kunshan, China, which is scheduled to open in 2012. The team is scheduled to play its first game in Kunshan on Aug. 17.

“What’s really wonderful about this event is that it’s a great thing for the team—it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for students,” Sheppard said. “But it’s also a phenomenal opportunity to kind of announce Duke.... If you have an academic or corporate conference, you’re not going to get the 380 million basketball loving people in China.”

In a further contrast to the London trip, the team will not be spending its entire time playing games. Players will also have the cultural opportunities to visit attractions and run clinics for local basketball players.

Part of the program’s comfort with this stems from Krzyzewski’s international basketball success, largely coming from winning the gold at the Olympics in Beijing.

“Coach K is a known name there. That was quite clear in my meeting with the Chinese Basketball Association,” Cragg said.

Beyond Kunshan, Shanghai and Beijing, the team is visiting Dubai in its final leg of the trip. Sheppard noted that a

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While head coach Mike Krzyzewski thought the China trip was a good idea as far back as 2009, many factors, including a Team U.S.A. victory in 2010, had to fall in place.

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unc from page 5 Right after the final buzzer sounded Sunday night in an 87-76 home win against Maryland, an audible chant of “We want Duke! We want Duke!” broke out among the Smith Center crowd.

Before taking on the Blue Devils, though, the Tar Heels had to travel to Florida State, where a last-second 3-pointer by freshman Harrison Barnes allowed them to escape with a 72-70 win. After the narrow victory, talk immediately turned to Saturday’s matchup.

“I feel like the last time we played them, we just made mental errors that can be mentally corrected,” shooting guard Dexter Strickland said. “I think that on Saturday, we’re going to win. I know we’re going to win on Saturday. I have a lot of confidence in myself and in my teammates. And if everybody has the same attitude I do, I know we’re going to win.”

Strickland also said that he felt that playing at home would give North Carolina a “little advantage.” All three of Duke’s losses this year have come on the road, and its two ACC losses knocked the Blue Devils from the top of the AP poll each time.

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The Tar Heels’ recent six-game winning streak will not make Duke’s road woes any easier to overcome.

Last Sunday, while North Carolina was putting away the Terrapins, the Blue Devils let Virginia Tech come back within the last five minutes of the game to win 64-60.

Curry, who was integral in the comeback win against the Tar Heels with 22 points, 18 of those in the second half, struggled mightily in Blacksburg, where his father had been a star guard for Virginia Tech.

Curry fouled out after playing only 15 minutes and did not score any points.

He bounced back, though, against Clemson Wednesday night, scoring 18 points on a 6-for-13 shooting night. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski downplayed any thoughts that the sophomore’s struggles against the Hokies would impact future games.

“I think a bad player goes into a funk,” Krzyzewski said. “A good player says, ‘I played poorly.’ If he goes into a funk, he shouldn’t have a Duke uniform on.”

While Curry appears to be back on track, North Carolina will be missing a key reserve Saturday. Freshman Reggie Bullock, a former McDonald’s All-American who was averaging

6.1 points in 14.5 minutes this season, will be out for the rest of the year with a knee injury. The Tar Heels have had to play most of the season with limited depth due to two summer transfers, the dismissal of a player for breaking team rules right before the season started and the surprising departure of Larry Drew II last month.

With North Carolina’s shortage of scholarship players and Duke’s shooters back on track, the Blue Devils may take their second win this season against the Tobacco Road rivals.

But as the teams’ last matchup shows, even with a depleted lineup, the Tar Heels are a dangerous team.

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the trip is a multi-faceted promotion of the Blue Devil brand. The planners tout that it main reason for going to Dubai is one of is not only an exciting trip for the players— pure convenience: There is a sentiment something that could tempt potential basthat the team may as well make the most ketball recruits in the future—but a factor out of being in the region. that should raise awareness about Duke’s But in the end, Dubai was chosen be- commitment to cultural expansion and incause it was the ternational name most exciting oprecognition. tion for the team.

They hope “Coach K is a known name “Fuqua has when all is said people on the there. That was quite clear in and done, the trip ground and my meeting with the China promotes Duke’s runs programs well-roundedness Basketball Association.” in China, India, on and off the [United Arab — Mike Cragg court.

Emirates], Rus“By increasing sia and Europe,” our awareness Sheppard said. and the interest “The question really became what would [in] Duke as a kind of a place where cool be the place that would be the best expe- nerds go rather than uncool nerds go,” rience for the team.”

Sheppard said, “the consequence is that Ultimately, all parties involved agree that we’ll get more of the best.”

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President Brodhead’s protected tweets Last semester, we at The tected and thus viewable only Chronicle’s independent ed- by a select group of followers. itorial board called for PresiThis is our President—undent Richard Brodhead to cut, uncensored and real. become more in touch with -DickBro: Destroying @ the student body.

SWicki at words with friends!

We were not -DickBro: editorial expecting the Sad about the long, drawn KO scandal? out e-mails, nor the over- Don’t know where to turn? thought, underwhelming Always look to :-)8... Bow Tie conferences with students man!! Classiness, humility that would follow. and kindness all summed into We have all suffered the 1 emoticon! consequences and wish Mr. -DickBro: Trustee meetPresident could tone down the ing! Reppin’ the stash once elocution and be real with us.

Fortunately, luck has again, despite @DBlue’s minismiled on us, and an under- van joke.

-DickBro: $11 million just cover source (let’s call her Sue W... no, that’s too obvi- for phase one of Kunshan ous, how about S. Wasiolek) development?! Who would’ve has sent us some highlights thought you can’t trust the of Richard Brodhead’s secret Chinese Government? #FML -DickBro: Feeling loquaTwitter account, which is pro-

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cious this eve. Looking to prate with chums at Francesca’s.

-DickBro: PortaParty: #failgate !

-DickBro: @CoachK: Devines or Shooters tonight after the game?

-DickBro: @Dukechronicle again calling for me to address students. “I would prefer not to.”

-DickBro: Who caught that literary reference?

-DickBro: Academic Conference at Yale 2K11! #thinkhardplaywell -DickBro: Indeed, it is game day. Yes, sir.

-DickBro: @chanthorp: Thanks for taking the middle class off our hands. They expect too much for their minimal fiscal contributions. We go for the development admits!

-DickBro: Watching “Never

Say Never.” Inspiring! #bieber -DickBro: @Dukechronicle SMH, get off my case.

-DickBro: If Jimmer Freddete wins POY, I’m quitting.

-DickBro: Named Co-Chair for the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences! Finally my perspicacity won’t be lost on frat guys from Jersey! #Pearlsbeforeswine -DickBro: Edit board once again bashing MMS, it’s going to take some sweet-talking to schmooze these Trustees into voting for it. #FML -DickBro: Just made the MMS program permanent! #Cha-ching!

-DickBro: Aflame for the festivities and foolery! We will junket the quad with an auditory feast! #LDOC -DickBro: Tuition is going up 4.3%! Someone’s getting

a raise! #boomshakalaka -DickBro: Are there any immigrant professors we can underpay to teach us how to do this? #NewFarmatDuke -DickBro: @Luda’s coming to campus! What?! Holla! Will be nice to see my fellow wordsmith once again. Miss my bro!

-@Ludacris: @Dickbro, we gonna’ tear it up!

-DickBro: @chanthorp My students SLEEP in tents before graduation, yours LIVE in tents after!

-DickBro: OMG chicken and waffles!

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GOP Lone Star blues

on’t look now, but Texas is turning blue. migrant jihad—rejecting the Dream Act during Not today, to be sure, nor tomorrow. the lame-duck congressional session, continuing But to read the newly released census data to call for more mass deportations and the denial on the Lone Star State is to understand that Tex- of birthright citizenship. Where once a sizable as, the linchpin of any Republican number of Republican legislators electoral college majority, is turning (and President George W. Bush) harold meyerson were open to immigration reform, Latino and, unless the Republicans the washington post hardly any even broach the topic change their spots, Democratic.

Figures released last month by today amid the ever-rightward galthe Census Bureau show that durlop of the GOP’s voting base, which ing the past decade, Texas joined California as itself grows whiter every year. a majority-minority state: The share of whites in Given the growth of America’s Latino populathe Texas population declined from 52 percent tion, and the Republicans’ intensifying (and recipin 2000 to 45 percent in 2010, while the percent- rocated) hostility toward Latinos, the GOP’s only age of Latinos rose from 32 percent to 38 percent. long-term hope for clinging to power is to find Nearly half of all Texans under 18—48 percent— ways to restrict the franchise as much as possible are Latino. to reliably white Americans. In nearly two dozen Texas is hardly alone in this epochal demograph- states, Republicans have pledged to introduce legic shift. In the first four states for which the Census islation to require various forms of identification Bureau released detailed information - New Jersey, at polling places.

Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia - the number of The latest wrinkle in limiting minority reprewhites under age 18 actually declined during the sentation has popped up in Texas, which is going past decade. The numbers of Latinos and Asians to gain four congressional seats as a result of the among the young, by contrast, are soaring, and largely Latino population growth the state experithey are highest among the youngest. enced over the past decade. (Latinos account for Nationally, whites are now a minority—49.9 65 percent of the state’s growth during that time.) percent—of Americans age 3 and under. In eight Last month, three anti-immigrant activists asked states and the District of Columbia, according to a court to rule that undocumented immigrants an analysis by the Brookings Institution’s William must not be counted for purposes of the impendFrey, minorities comprise the majority in pre-K ing decennial redistricting, though the census and kindergarten. Looking at all school enroll- has tallied residents, not citizens, since it was first ment, from pre-K through graduate school, Frey conducted in 1790. They are not asking that Texas told The New York Times’ Sabrina Tavernise, forfeit one or two of its new House seats, mind whites were 58.8 percent of all students in 2009, you. They are asking, in effect, that districts with down from 64.6 percent in 2000. substantial Latino populations, in which it is asWhat these numbers mean is simply that the Re- sumed a disproportionate number of the undocupublicans have an existential problem. As America mented reside, be made larger than other districts becomes increasingly multiracial, the Republicans to account for the non-citizens. This would result, have elected to become increasingly white. of course, in fewer Latino-majority—and fewer The GOP’s response to this epochal demograph- Democratic-majority—districts. ic change has been to do everything in its power to The Texas lawsuit, which evokes memories keep America (particularly its electorate) as white of the constitutional clause that enabled our as can be. Republicans have obstructed minorities slave states to count each slave as three-fifths of from voting; required Latinos to present papers if a human being in order to enlarge those states’ the police ask for them; opposed the Dream Act, congressional delegations, may well go nowhere. which would have conferred citizenship on young But the transformation of the Republican Party immigrants who served in our armed forces or went from its origins as the party that favored freedom to college; and called for denying the constitution- and the franchise for all Americans into a party al right to citizenship to American-born children of whose continued success depends on restricting undocumented immigrants. that franchise is all but complete. Increasingly, In Nevada, California and Colorado last fall, that looks to be the only way that the GOP can the Republicans ran statewide candidates who keep Texas—and the rest of its electoral college embraced Arizona’s draconian racial identifica- base—red. tion law. And massive turnout from Latinos, who overwhelmingly voted Democratic, defeated those Harold Meyerson is editor-at-large of American Proscandidates. Undaunted, the Republicans have pect and the L.A. Weekly. This column was originally doubled down since November on their anti-im- published in The Washington Post on March 2.

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(Not) sorry, Charlie

couple of weeks ago, oil giant Chevron was deemed liable for rainforest pollution in the South American country of Ecuador. The finding was handed down by a local judge, who is holding the company responsible for $8.6 billion in damages and an additional 10 percent reparation fee. The most interesting part of this story? The judge gave Chevron just over two weeks to issue a formal apology for the chris bassil pollution, at which point the just a minute amount the company owed would double.

As shocking as such a ruling is, it really should come as no surprise. We are a world that loves our apologies, especially when they are big, juicy and made in front of the entire congregation. It hasn’t been long since Tiger Woods was up there, saying sorry to the world for something that should have stayed between him and his family. And for a few days earlier this week, it looked as though actor Charlie Sheen might have been next in line.

Sheen, whose smash hit television series “Two and a Half Men” was cancelled for the rest of the season after he publicly insulted creator Chuck Lorre, agreed to give an interview to ABC’s Andrea Canning earlier this week.

Canning spent much of the segment searching for explanations and apologies, but to no avail; Sheen stonewalled her every chance that he got, opting instead to espouse his own views on right and wrong, and on his life and career in general.

Sheen has largely been denigrated in recent weeks for his fondness of hard drugs and porn stars, and some have said that he exhibits signs of manic behavior in the interview. “I’m not bipolar,” he clarifies at one point, “I’m biwinning. I win here and I win there.” He then goes on to add that he routinely receives phone calls from a number of A-list celebrities, which he cites as evidence of a successful career. He affirms the existence of his violent side, but only validates it within the context of protecting his family.

And, when asked how anyone can possibly believe that he is finally drug-free, Sheen shows himself at his most candid, not to mention his most accessible. “I’m not interested in what people believe,” he says. “I’m interested in what I believe.” In fact, most of what Sheen expresses is directly in line with what we tell children: Work hard, love your family and try not to care too much about what other people think.

But Sheen’s most relevant argument comes when he reaches the topic of his career, where many might consider him to be at his most arrogant. “I won Best Picture at 20,” he told NBC’s Jeff Rossen, in reference to “Platoon.” (1986).

“I wasn’t even trying. I wasn’t even warm.” He also advises potential employers, as well as his critics, to check out his IMDB page, which sports a list of over 60 film and television appearances. Although Sheen comes off as somewhat of a showboat here, his message is, as always, somewhere beneath his delivery. He is telling us that we should not judge a career based on anything but the career itself.

There are those who say that that’s not true, and that our social lives will reflect our work efforts and performance. Well, that may or may not be the case, but it’s also true that Charlie Sheen isn’t the only one who’d like to have his cake and eat it, too. Why is it that so many students make changes to their last names on Facebook once internship season rolls around? Wouldn’t it be sufficient just to stop partying altogether, or at least to stop posting pictures of it?

The answer, of course, is no because that’s not the point.

The point is that when it comes to work, many of us believe that we should be evaluated on the basis of our body of work alone, which is exactly what Sheen is saying.

Sure, Charlie Sheen’s highly publicized behavior is unacceptable by society’s standard, and it’s probably unbecoming of someone in the position of father of five. But what many people fail to realize is that the views that drive his actions are not so different from ours. They are predicated on a love of family, a passion for work and an accountability of self that would be almost admirable, were they not so out of left field. Still, it’s always best to live and let live, and we can be glad that somebody finally said it: Sorry, but I’m not sorry.

Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs every Friday.

Obama needs Clinton rerun to gain in budget stalemate

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istory doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes, Mark spection or border security. But their leadership seems Twain is thought to have said. Democrats are more deft. Speaker John Boehner is far less messianic, hoping that’s true. and less likely to self-destruct, than Gingrich.

Fifteen years ago, fierce budget fights In any case, the public will find it between Bill Clinton and the Republihard to follow a simple shutdown moralmichael waldman ity play. In 1995, a president of one party can Congress forced the government to bloomberg shut down twice. The conflict boosted faced off against a Congress of another. the president, revitalized his vision for Today, Congress is divided. businesweek government and branded Republicans Today’s media environment will furas extreme. ther cloud the picture. The 1995 shutNow, as battles loom over the debt ceiling and spend- down dominated what quaintly used to be called “the ing, another shutdown seems quite possible. Congress evening news” and received much ink in what were temporarily postponed the first fight this week in a vote called “newspapers.” The Internet was in its infancy, approving a stopgap measure that keeps the govern- CNN was the only widely watched cable network, and ment funded until March 18.

Fox News hadn’t launched.

But the odds favor budgetary head-butting throughGiven all this, how can Obama prevail on policy out 2011. This year’s budget battle is even more tangled, while making a larger point? A key goal is to manage more fraught and more likely to lead to a murky result the government as effectively as possible, given the economically and politically than in the mid-1990s. hairpin turns ahead. Minimizing the public impact will For those of us working for Clinton, it was a charged prove better politics than letting government fail. He time. The White House echoed empty, with only a hand- will have to find his moments to engage, too, since he ful of aides. Every day, Clinton strode into the White may not have many veto statements to issue. At each House press room and volleyed arguments back and moment, he will have to choose whether to rise above forth with House Speaker Newt Gingrich at the other partisan passions, or step forward as a principled advoend of Pennsylvania Avenue. With the public riveted, cate for his point of view. he urged “a balanced budget that honors our values Ultimately, he must use the bully pulpit. Democrats by protecting Medicare, Medicaid, education and the can’t simply pick at unpopular cuts. Obama will have environment.” to explain that the economy still needs investment, or Every bit of stagecraft made the point. To veto one risk imperiling the recovery. And it needs real fiscal disbudget bill, he used the very fountain pen that Presi- cipline, without putting Medicare at risk. It’s a subtle dent Lyndon Johnson had used to sign Medicare into argument, but he will have a more attentive audience law. The ink didn’t work, but the photo op did. Soon than before. public opinion began to turn. When Gingrich comClinton sealed his shutdown victory in his 1996 State plained that he had been forced to leave Air Force One of the Union address. Though he declared, “The era through the back entrance, the entire grand confronta- of big government is over,” he also introduced Richard tion was easily caricatured as a fit of pique. Finally, Sen- Dean, a Social Security Administration employee in the ate Republicans, led by Bob Dole, forced a back-down. Oklahoma City federal building who had helped resA new consensus for a smaller, but active, government cue people injured in the 1995 bombing by Timothy took hold, at least for a while.

McVeigh.

It’s hardly likely to play out so cleanly today. The Dean, Clinton noted, was kept from doing his job by White House faces a different political imperative. the shutdown. On Dean’s behalf, Clinton declared, “I Clinton had been derided as “slick” and too prone to challenge all of you in this Chamber: Never, ever shut compromise. The budget fight gave him a chance to the federal government down again.” stand up for his principles. Obama’s weakness comes This year’s budget brawl will probably last months. If not from image but unemployment near 10 percent Obama doesn’t just try to make history rhyme, he has a for almost two years. He can stand tough all he wants: chance to set the terms for the next decade of debate.

If it doesn’t cure joblessness, the public won’t care.

Obama’s imperative is to convey a sure sense of ecoMichael Waldman, former head speechwriter for President nomic management.

Bill Clinton, is executive director of the Brennan Center for It’s different on Capitol Hill, too. Tea party lawmak- Justice at New York University School of Law and the author ers are just as excitable as their forebears, demonstrated of “My Fellow Americans.” This column was originally pubwhen they forced a vote on deep cuts in food-safety in- lished by Bloomberg Businessweek on March 3.

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study abroad from page 1 Riley said that the popularity of the Madrid program is not surprising because nearly half of the undergraduate student body meets their foreign language requirement with Spanish. “[The program]... allows students to take a broad range of courses, to have an intercultural experience living with host families, has an excellent staff, is in a dynamic city and includes excursions that complement the curriculum while exposing students to various regions in Spain,” Riley said.

For programs such as Duke in Madrid, which can accommodate a large number of students, a waitlist will be formed if the number of eligible and qualified students exceeds the targeted enrollment.

Other programs have experienced similar increases in applications. Duke in Florence received 58 applications for this Fall, compared to the 33 it received at this time last year. Duke in France had 19 more applicants this year—for a total of 47—and Duke in the Andes received 13 applications for the Fall, up five from last year’s figure.

Some students choose to apply to both Duke-administered and non-Duke programs, Riley said. She also noted that not all students who currently have an application in the database will complete the entire application process and make it to the review stage.

Junior Mia Lehrer wrote in an e-mail that she applied to the Duke in Oxford summer program for both academic and personal reasons. For Lehrer, the Oxford English program will give her an opportunity to finish her English minor and allow her to see places in Europe that she has only read about.

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Sophomore Kelly Kang, who will be heading to Cape Town, South Africa this summer for a program that focuses on global health issues, echoed similar reasons for going abroad. Kang, a biomedical engineering major, said her abroad program will allow her to take humanities courses.

“There were even more reasons to utilize my time in the summer to step out of my comfort zone,” she wrote in an e-mail.

“I wish to become more aware of the problems out there and the social systems in which they are born, so that I will be able to make not just a change, but the right change in the future.”

egypt from page 1 When reevaluating the restrictions, ITOC reviewed briefings from the U.S. State Department, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom regarding the events in Egypt, Michels said. The committee also consulted International SOS, the insurance company Duke uses for overseas travel.

Because travel restrictions have been lifted, the DukeEngage Cairo program will officially commence this summer. Lo said despite the restrictions, participants had continued making preparations for traveling to Egypt this summer by establishing programs and planning activities.

“We are currently joining with American University in Cairo, a partner in DukeEngage Cairo, to set up a civic engagement program and act upon the mission of DukeEngage,” Lo said.

DukeEngage administrators have remained in close contact with students throughout the duration of the protests in Egypt, said Kelly Jarrett, senior program coordinator at the Duke Islamic Studies Center. If ITOC had decided to uphold the travel restrictions, there would not be a replacement program available for DukeEngage Cairo participants.

“Students had been watching the situation [in Egypt] very carefully because they had been very excited about being part of and witnessing the political and cultural change occurring in Egypt,” Jarrett said.

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Sober Party Journal Tonight I went to a fraternity party that consisted of a late dinner at a local Durham restaurant followed by a party on campus. I volunteered to be the designated driver for a few of my friends, and made a promise that I would stay sober the entire night so that they could safely return to their apartments at the end of the night.

The dinner portion of the night was very enjoyable. When our group first arrived, everyone was sober. As I ordered my burger and sweet tea, many of my friends ordered beers to accompany their meals. During the course of the dinner we had very enjoyable conversation. Everyone seemed relaxed and at ease, and I couldn’t detect any big difference in behavior between those who were drinking and those who weren’t (I don’t think anyone had more than two beers). The beer seemed to simply be something the drinkers enjoyed, not a substance to be abused.

After we paid, I drove our group back to campus where a party was being held. As we walked in, I became fully aware of how different the atmosphere was compared to the previous portion of my night. The dorm building was filled to the brim with college students holding beer cans and solo cups talking about how much they had drank or were going to drink. I tried to navigate through the hall, stepping over empty beer cans, but couldn’t react in time to stop a girl from spilling half of her drink on my shirt. “Sorry!” she exclaimed before running off to fill her cup up again. As I opened my mouth to make a comment, I remembered that I had spilled my drink on plenty of strangers in the past myself, and never considered to even apologize in my drunken state. I closed my mouth and went to the bathroom, only to find a group of people in there laughing about how someone had just made the toilet overflow by trying to flush another person’s boot. Disgusted, I walked away and tried to find my friends.

I hung out with my friends the rest of the night and we left shortly after 1am, making our way through some ceiling tiles that someone had smashed, and drove them back to their apartment complex. Overall I had a good night, but I realized that the way my friends consumed their beers at the restaurant was much more responsible—and enjoyable—than the party where everyone was just competing to drink as many drinks as possible and break things around them.

1/21/2011