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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 120

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Duke stunned in Sweet 16 loss

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Initial DKU phase to cost Duke $37M

by Nicholas Schwartz

by Lauren Carroll

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The tide had turned. The lower-seeded but surging Wildcats, who had been outplayed in the first half and only had a fighting chance thanks to the masterful performance of sophomore Derrick Williams, were on the 77 DUKE cusp of putting 93 away the defending UA national champion and one-seeded Blue Devils.

With the ball at the top of the arc, Williams gathered himself to fire another 3-pointer, having already buried a seasonhigh five on the night. But after faking a helpless Miles Plumlee into a block attempt, Williams steamrolled into the vacant lane as the Duke defense stood and watched.

Williams unleashed a ferocious tomahawk dunk with his head far above the rim.

It seemed to signal not only the arrival of a superstar and the revival of a once-storied program, but also marked the heartbreaking end to Duke’s drive for a fifth national championship.

Williams’ career-high 32 points propelled Arizona to the Elite Eight, as the Wildcats trounced the Blue Devils 93-77 Thursday night at the Honda Center. The collegiate careers of Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith came to an end with the loss.

“It’s happened to me a couple of times before,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“All of a sudden, you just can’t stop them.

They were phenomenal in the second half, we just couldn’t stop them.”

The first phase of Duke Kunshan University is expected to cost Duke $37 million, according to a document released Thursday at Academic Council.

Administrators estimate that $70.5 million—between $5.4 million and $15.6 million each year for six years—will be necessary to ensure that DKU’s initial operating costs are fully met. According to the “DukeKunshan Planning Guide” document, Duke and the city of Kunshan are jointly funding the subsidies, with the University covering 52 percent of the costs—$37 million—and the city covering 48 percent of the costs—$33.5 million.

To pay for its part of the subsidy, Duke will draw from four sources, according to the document, which was last updated March 15. An estimated total of $9.1 million will come from central administrative funding, $7.5 million from the reallocation of current Durham campus funds, $10.4 million from the reallocation of current Fuqua School of Business funds and $10 million from philanthropic efforts. So far, $5 million of the philanthropic funding has been secured, according to the document, which was produced by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Global Strategy and Programs.

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Duke seniors Nolan Smith, Casey Peters and Kyle Singler look on as their final game plays out in Anaheim.

Dems fight bill requiring ID for voters

by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE

Out-of-state Dukies may face an obstacle on their way to the voting booths in the next presidential election.

House Bill 351, titled “Restore Confidence in Government,” would require North Carolina voters to present state-issued photo identification at polling places effective November 2012. The measure is currently being evaluated by the Elections Committee in the House of Representatives of the N.C. General Assembly. Republican state legislators—who control the state legislature for the first time in more than 100 years— introduced the proposal and claim it would ensure the integrity of election results.

“The benefit of the bill is that it would negate the need for investigations into the accuracy of election results,” said Rep. Ric Killian, R-N.C. and a co-sponsor of the bill, citing as an ex-

Positive verbal cues

by CEOs good sign for companies, Page 3

ample the 2010 sheriff’s election in Washington County, N.C., in which the close result was highly contested with evidence of election irregularities.

Opponents argue, however, that the bill would infringe on voting rights because eligible voters who do not possess state-issued photo identifications would have to go through the additional step of obtaining one before heading to the polls.

State Sen. Martin Nesbitt, D-N.C., said the proposal would impede many groups that traditionally vote for Democrats from voting, including African-Americans, the elderly, the disabled and college students. He argued that these groups often do not have state-issued photo IDs, adding that the requirement serves as a partisan roadblock to keep these demographics from voting.

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ONTHERECORD

“There is no metric in the current rankings formula that acknowledges diversity, but we think it is important.”

­—Dean of the School of Medicine Nancy Andrews on rankings. See story page 4

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President Richard Brodhead reported at Academic Council’s Thursday meeting that initial cost estimates for the University’s Kunshan campus total $37 million.

Campus Council looks forward in last meeting, Page 4

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From left to right, Mahmoud Arfa, Eli Eid and Osama Ibrahim work on their Facebook page on a computer in a cafe in Cairo. Ibrahim was one of those who worked with the April 6 movement that toppled Mubarak from power, but like many others he is frustrated by the group’s identity crisis and lack of direction. Reforming and rebuilding a government is comparatively harder than toppling it.

Federal agencies confront Foreign investors buying cyber-attack on EMC land in Southern Sudan WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal agencies are confronting possible repercussions from a cyber-attack disclosed late last week on one of the nation’s largest information security companies.

RSA Security, a division of EMC, has contracts throughout the federal government for its SecurID system, which uses a token to generate a random six-digit number every 60 seconds. That number, when used with a user’s password, provides access to unclassified systems throughout government agencies.

In a filing Thursday to the Securities and Exchange Commission, EMC reported “an extremely sophisticated” cyberattack that targeted its RSA business unit and resulted in “certain information” about its products “being extracted.” Although there were no reports of lost customer data as a result of the breach, the stolen information could enable a successful attack later.

JUBA, Sudan — Foreign investors are buying large tracts of land in Southern Sudan that add up to an area larger than Rwanda, threatening food supplies and stability in a region due to become independent in July, a Norwegian aid group says.

International organizations have sought or acquired 10,000 square miles of land for agricultural, biofuel and forestry projects since 2007,Oslo- based Norwegian People’s Aid said in a report. When domestic investments, previously established mechanized farms and investments in tourism are included, the total comes to about 9 percent of the region’s total land area, it said.

The group examined 28 land deals under negotiation or completed, mostly between state governments and foreign companies, and found that laws governing land ownership and investment were routinely violated.

Correction

The March 24 story “Discussion connects feminism, Greek life,” incorrectly described Becki Feinglos as the current president of Delta Gamma sorority. She is the former president. Nathalie Herrand is also the current president of Omega Phi Beta. In addition, the caption for the photo accompanying the story incorrectly labeled the event in the photo. The event pictured is actually “Rocking the Boat,” a forum Wednesday to promote dialogue about sex positivity in the 21st century. The Chronicle regrets the errors.

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Group discusses student fee increase at last scheduled meeting

by Maggie Spini THE CHRONICLE

Students could pay an increased residential programming fee beginning next year.

In its last scheduled meeting, Campus Council recommended to increase students’ residential programming fee from $47 to $60 in order to better accommodate the house model and the new state of residential programming.

“Under the house model, we envision houses will create very strong communities,” said Campus Council Treasurer Leslie Andriani, a junior.

Andriani noted that the creation of these new communities in the house model will be facilitated by “highquality, high-impact programming,” adding that this will require more money.

In the next year, the increased residential programming fee will make it easier for quad councils to enact programming, as some quad councils often use up all of their funding and then request more from Campus Council. “[Quad councils] won’t have to request so much of those funds or go through the request process, which sometimes deters people from requesting funds,” Andriani said.

In conjunction with the change to the residential programing fee, the council created a new, fund-distributing body, the Residential Finance Committee. The committee will manage the council’s finances throughout the rest of the year and serve as an aggregate rollover base for residential funding in 2011-2012 and then under the house model.

According to the council recommendations, in the year before the house model is implemented, the RFC will obtain its income from the Campus Council, Quad and Central Campus Council rollover funds from the previous year.

It will also receive $5 per West or Central Campus resident, an allocation from the residential programming fee. The RFC will also have the ability to grant allocations of larger than $1,000 to student groups or individuals.

Under the house model, however, the RFC will forfeit its allocation from the residential programming fee and instead hold the rollover from the previous year.

“Almost the full amount that can be allocated from the

[residential programming fee] is going directly to house councils, which is vital for the house model to be successful,” said Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a senior.

Instead, the RFC will obtain unused funds from house councils and distributing funding for residential programs hosted by house or neighborhood councils, or individuals.

RFC’s composition under the house model will be left to the discretion of Duke Student Government and the Residence Life and Dining Committee. In the interim year however, RFC will be chaired by someone chosen by DSG’s Residence Life and Dining Committee, and include six other members. Two will be senators from the Residence Life and Dining Committee, one from East Campus Council, one from Central Campus Council and two additional members from West Campus Quad Councils.

The council also recommended that East Campus Council receive more money from the residential programming fee, as opposed to quad fees. This measure will give house councils more money, in order to allow for greater flexibility. It will become effective in 2011-2012 and will continue after the house model takes effect, as East Campus will not be affected by the enactment of the house model.

The council also voted to give the Duke University Union a one-time transfer of $46,800 to be used exclusively for Old Duke, an annual concert that will take place April 15 in Keohane Amphitheater.

“DUU would like to continue Old Duke,” Andriani said.

“It’s just that they don’t have the money in their budget.”

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The new distribution of the residential programming fee will give house councils nearly the full amount that can be allocated from the fee. The group also recommended that the fee increase from $47 to $60.

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Admins express CEO emotions hint at firm performance doubts over med school rankings

by Tullia Rushton THE CHRONICLE

CEOs might want to note that the way in which they present financial news matters, according to a recent study by two Duke researchers.

William Mayew and Mohan Venkatachalam, professors at the Fuqua School of Business, assert that markets respond favorably to CEOs whose verbal cues indicate a positive emotional state. Management’s expression of such emotions in earnings conference calls foretells higher stock prices, unexpectedly high earnings and favorable press releases in the six months following the call, researchers found in a study of almost 700 corporations.

“We were looking at CEO discussions during conference calls... to figure out whether positive and negative emotion in their voices is associated with positive and negative growth in a firm’s market,” Mayew said. “[The consumer’s perception goes beyond] the words [CEOs] say and the numbers they give.”

The professors used emotion analysis software to review more than 1,647 conference calls from 691 firms in 2007, which they accessed through the Thomson Reuters’ StreetEvents database. The degree to which consumers are aware of the CEOs’ underlying tones is still unclear, Mayew said.

Mayew said that CEOs could possibly use the study’s results to their advantage, manipulating their voices to portray a favorable outlook of their company’s future performance.

“CEOs are already well-trained on how to be public speakers. Whether they can control their emotions if they have them is still to be seen,” he said.

Mayew said he was inspired by the installment of Regulation Fair Disclosure, a measure implemented in 2000

by Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE

Rankings may be just a number but Duke Med is on top.

According to the latest U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings, Duke’s medical school—and its affiliated programs—remain among the top in the country.

The school rose in the magazine’s rankings for medical research, up from a tie for sixth last year to a fourway tie for fifth with Stanford University, Yale University and the University of California at San Francisco.

In addition, the nursing school tied for seventh, the highest it has ever been rated. Duke’s physician assistant program—the first of its kind when it was founded in 1965—ranked first among similar programs.

Rankings are not the sole measure of success. Although administrators said they are glad Duke remains highly rated, many expressed concerns about the methodology behind the rankings and their role in helping students decide where to attend.

“No doubt the rankings are visible, and there is a lot of attention paid to these by prospective students interested in comparing schools,” Scott Gibson, executive vice dean for administration at the medical school, wrote in an email Monday. “[But] while there is a certain basic pride factor involved, we don’t make decisions... based on their possible impact on the rankings. We make [them] in the best interest of educating the next generation of physician leaders and in the advancement of our research mission to improve U.S. and world health care.”

U.S. News has come under fire in the past because some say its ranking formula pressures schools to accept students based almost solely on their GPAs and standardized test scores. These allegations are supported by the fact that, generally, students at top-ranked schools have higher average test scores than those at lower-ranked ones, as said in a Feb. 14 article for The New Yorker by author Malcolm Gladwell.

Nancy Andrews, dean of the School of Medicine and vice chancellor for academic affairs, wrote in an email Tuesday that in some ways Duke is an exception to this trend. For instance, the medical school does not use GPA or MCAT cutoffs in deciding who to interview, she said.

“While we look for students with outstanding academic credentials, we also recognize that there are students who have tremendous leadership potential but— for any of a variety of reasons—have MCAT scores or GPAs that may not be as high as others,” she said.

“Unlike some other institutions... we choose to accept exceptional individuals whose numbers might not be quite as high as others because of what they bring to the class and ultimately, to medicine.”

that requires that firms disclose financial information to all investors at the same time. Conference calls that were once only available to larger investors are now more readily available.

Mayew said he and Venkatachalam wanted to explore the implications of the measure, which was intended to allow consumers to hear the “tone of management.” In specific, the professors measured stock returns in the one or two days immediately following the CEO’s public address.

The market also reacted to negative vocal cues, as well, but the connection between the expression of such emotions and the future financial performance of the company was not as clear, Mayew said.

“On the negative side, there’s a lack of market response in the study,” he said, adding such vocal cues result in a less of a rapid change compared to an increase in the market in response to a positive undertone. Mayew said this is a potential area for further research.

He noted that the study could also be continued by analyzing a wider range of emotional undertones.

The Duke researchers’ study only differentiated between two unambiguous emotions: excitement and cognitive dissonance. According to their report, cognitive dissonance is an inconsistency between an individual’s beliefs and actions, which creates a feeling of discomfort and anxiety.

Mayew noted that the study is part of a new wave of research pertaining to consumer and company relationships and interactions. “[The study] creates many more questions than it gives answers,” he said. “It’s a starting point in literature in financial markets.”

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Anxiety grows over Japan’s food and water supply

by Chico Harlan and David Nakamura the washington post

TOKYO - At a downtown grocery store, a line of anxious mothers cleaned the shelves of bottled water seven minutes after the doors opened. At an organic farm at the city’s outskirts, a group tested spinach with a hand-held radiation detector. And at the prime minister’s headquarters, the chief cabinet secretary announced that Japan is considering importing drinking water from abroad.

As emergency crews battled Thursday to contain nuclear fallout from the badly damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant in northeast Japan, a nervous uncertainty spread as far away as Tokyo, 150 miles to the southwest, as radiation was reported in parts of the food chain and millions tried to understand the implications.

In Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Thursday that Japanese scientists have found “measurable concentrations” of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-137 in samples of sea water collected off the coast from the Fukushima plant.

“The iodine concentrations were at or above Japanese regulatory limits, and the cesium levels were well below those limits,” the IAEA said on its Web site. The samples were gathered Tuesday and Wednesday at several points 30 kilometers (18.6

miles) from shore, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said.

A day after Tokyo officials warned of elevated iodine levels in the city’s tap water and the national government restricted shipment of 11 leafy vegetables in several prefectures, residents scrambled to stock up on the essentials that are now in short supply. Tokyo officials distributed 240,000 bottles of water to households with infants most susceptible to radioactive iodine-131. The U.S. Embassy handed out to American citizens the potassium iodide pills that can block radioactive iodine from building up in the thyroid gland.

“If the situation isn’t better in one week, I actually might have to move in with my parents” said Yuki Ochiai, 32, mother of an 8-monthold daughter who was among twodozen customers in line at the Tokyu grocery store 20 minutes before it opened. “My husband is already encouraging me to leave.”

As residents fretted, the struggle to prevent more radiation from escaping the nuclear plant continued. Engineers successfully hooked up lighting to a control room at the No. 1 reactor - an incremental, but hopeful, step toward cooling overheated spent fuel rods. At the No. 3 reactor, workers prepared to test a cooling pump that would allow them to pump in fresh rainwater instead of less effective seawater.

But there were setbacks. Three workers sustained radiation burns after stepping in contaminated water while attempting to lay electrical wire at one of the buildings. Two workers, exposed to between 170 to 180 millisieverts of radiation, were hospitalized, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, who did not disclose the status of the third employee. The Associated Press quoted Fumio Matsuda, a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, as saying radiation levels between 170 to 180 millisieverts were well below the maximum 250 millisieverts allowed for workers.

The casualty rate continued to mount as the National Police Agency reported that 9,811 were confirmed dead and 17, 541 were missing.

It was a day that required people to sift through information about a complicated and rapidly changing problem. In Chiba and Saitama, two prefectures neighboring Tokyo, officials discovered elevated iodine levels exceeding the legal limit for infants. Yet Tokyo’s water, which had tested high a day earlier, showed a decrease Thursday.

For some, the brief water warning served as a tipping point - a sign that the environment itself had become a threat. At the Tokyu grocery store, a bowing employee opened the grocery store doors at 10 a.m. and a half-dozen pregnant women and young mothers rushed inside to the far aisle.

Within seven minutes flat, all 80 two-liter bottles were gone. Ochiai, cradling her daughter, held two of them. Her parents, who live in Hokkaido, a northern island, were sending 12 more bottles of water

by airmail, she confided.

“I actually feel sorry standing here with my two bottles of water,” Ochiai said. “All these other mothers See japan on page 7

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Mitsuhiro Shimada cooks miso soup in a parking lot for tsunami survivors. With radiation found in “measurable concentrations,” many are concerned for Japan’s food supply.

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US Postal Service announces job cuts

by Lisa Rein

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Postal Service announced Thursday that it will reduce its workforce with layoffs and offers of buyouts and will close seven district offices from New England to New Mexico to help address record losses.

The reorganization, designed to eliminate 7,500 administrative, executive and postmaster jobs this year, came as a commission that is evaluating the Postal Service’s plan to eliminate Saturday delivery concluded that one in four letters would be delayed by not just one but by two days.

The independent Postal Regulatory Commission also said that postal officials underestimated the losses the agency would suffer from handling less mail- and overestimated the cost savings.

Five-day service and a smaller workforce are among the Postal Service’s strategies to become solvent after losses of $8.5 billion in fiscal 2010, the result of declining mail volumes. Projected losses for 2011 are $6.4 billion.

Once buyout decisions aimed at administrative staff are final in April, the agency plans to eliminate the jobs of thousands of postmasters and supervisors, many through layoffs, officials said.

“Nobody did anything wrong, but we’re a victim of the economy and past legislation,” said Anthony Vegliante, the Postal Service’s chief human resources officer and executive vice president.

The cuts are expected to save $750 million a year.

District offices that handle managerial work will close in Columbus, Ohio; Albuquerque, N.M.; Billings, Mont.; Macon, Ga.; Providence, R.I.; Troy, Mich., and Carol Stream, Ill., the Postal Service said.

The closures will pave the way for the agency to close up to 2,000 local post offices throughout the next two years, a plan announced in January.

Vegliante said he expects about 3,000 administrators to take the buyouts, which will offer $20,000 to employees over age 50 with at least 20 years of service, or any age with at least 25 years of service. Layoffs will then be used to help reach the 7,500 goal, he said, though he would not commit to a number.

The Postal Service has eliminated 105,000 full-time positions in the last two years, among them clerks, plant workers and mail handlers. Those cuts were made mostly through attrition and early retirements.

The Postal Service announced plans for five-day service in 2009, although Congress, which must approve the change, has showed little interest in pursuing it.

Among the findings of the 211-page opinion from the Postal Regulatory Commission: - Five-day service would delay by two days delivery of 25 percent of first-class and See postal service on page 7

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Quarter of US nuclear plants not reporting defects

by Steven Mufson and Jia Lynn Yang THE washington post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than a quarter of U.S. nuclear plant operators have failed to properly tell regulators about equipment defects that could imperil reactor safety, according to a report by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inspector general.

Operators of U.S. nuclear power plants are supposed to tell the NRC when pieces of equipment “contain defects that could create a substantial safety hazard,” regulations say.

Although the report doesn’t assert that any imminent danger resulted from the lapses, many experts said the lack of communication could make it harder for other nuclear reactor operators to learn about flaws in their own equipment, because many similar parts are used in other reactors.

“If it happens in this one, maybe it’s a faulty part that’s in another plant and they should know,” said Diane Curran, a lawyer who has represented citizens groups and state and local governments in cases related to nuclear plants. “If you don’t report on this, the other licensees can’t look in their books and say, ‘Oh, do I have this one?’ and ‘Maybe I should switch it out.’ “ The NRC inspector general’s report appears at a time of heightened concern about nuclear safety as workers in Japan battle to control radiation leaks, fire, power outages and explosions at a series of reactors.

The inspector general’s office did not describe the defects, and that frustrated lawmakers, who said the report on unreported problems did not say what those problems were.

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As mothers fretted over supply, Japanese farmers worried about demand for their food, tainted by the government’s advisory that residents not eat 11 leafy vegetables grown in prefectures near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility, citing elevated levels of radioactive materials found in them.

The advisory has left farmers across the country wondering about the impact on their livelihood as consumers weigh the risks.

At a spinach farm in Chiba, about 1 ½ hours outside Tokyo, the proprietor, Masayuki Kumate, 45, looked on as Sumito Hatta, a food researcher, used a dosimeter to take a radioactivity reading of a lone row of green plants sprouting from the dark brown soil.

Kumate shook his head. Though Chiba officials had not yet banned any produce, Kumate said he has “been worried since Day One” of the disaster.

“It’s so clear what was going to happen,” he said of the nuclear fallout. “For Fukushima farmers, it is impossible [to recover]. The soil is contaminated. They will have to get rid of that before they start again. It takes a very long time. It will be a very big problem.”

Hatta and his friend, Shinya Takeda, launched a blog and Facebook page dedicated to informing the Japanese people and international community about the plight facing farmers and asking for donations.

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Farming and Fisheries sent a letter to banks this week encouraging them to provide loans to farmers who want to rebuild. And the government has promised that the embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the nuclear plant, will provide stipends to farmers whose crops have been contaminated.

“The farmlands that were soaked with saltwater will not be revived as farmland,” the Facebook page reads.

“This reality is another destruction for the farmers....

Now people in Japan are buying up all food at supermarkets and oil at gas stations due to the anxiety. Our food sovereignty is in great danger.”

Special correspondents Akiko Yamamoto and Kyoko Tanaka contributed to this report.

priority mail.

- The Postal Service did not adequately evaluate the effect of five-day service on rural areas.

- While the Postal Service estimated net savings from the reduced service at $3.1 billion, the commission’s estimate is closer to $1.7 billion.

- Lost revenue from mail volume declines from the service cuts would be $600 million a year, not the $200 million the Postal Services estimates.

Margaret Cigno, the regulatory commission’s chief analyst, said many letters normally delivered on Saturday would not arrive until Tuesday because Saturday mail would no longer be transported and processed over the weekend. “Saturday would not just end delivery, but mail would not go out,” she said.

Postal officials said they would continue supporting the plan.

“I’m comfortable that people did their due diligence,” Vegliante said, calling five-day service “an inevitable question.”

“Whether it’s tomorrow or 10 years from now, sooner or later it’s got to be dealt with.”

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rankings from page 4 Andrews added that because U.S. News uses average GPA and MCAT scores as important metrics, Duke’s decision to emphasize other criteria may cause the school to underperform in rankings.

The methodology behind rankings has drawn national attention because of the possibility that some students consider rankings too heavily when deciding which school to attend.

This type of anxiety about rankings, however, is probably misplaced, Gibson said.

“We believe students are attracted [to Duke] because of our unique curriculum, outstanding faculty and clinical and research programs,” he said. “Our students are very successful as they enter residency programs, and certainly that is a major factor as well.”

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an email Monday that though Duke recognizes that rankings may accurately identify broad trends and perceptions, rankings are far from perfect.

Students should consider other factors before making a decision, he said.

“We know from years of experience that rankings are one of the many factors that individuals use to make their decisions about which college or graduate school to attend,” Schoenfeld said. “But [they are] rarely the only, or even the most important, factor. We encourage prospective students to gather as much information as possible and make their decisions based on what is best for them.”

Junior Angela Jiang, who plans on attending medical school, said rankings will not be a significant factor when she applies.

“I don’t think the rankings will influence where I apply too much because they’re mostly based on how much funding a school gets for research,” she said. “I want to apply to places that emphasize primary care and problem-based learning.”

Duke’s medical school’s research ranking is noteworthy because it has consistently rated in the top ten. Conversely, the nursing school has only recently climbed to the top, though it has experienced a quick ascent.

“Since 2004, we have moved from 29th to seventh [in the rankings],” said Catherine Gilliss, dean of the School of Nursing and Duke Medicine’s vice chancellor for nursing affairs. “This is the result of our effort to hire outstanding faculty, recruit highly qualified students, develop excellent and relevant programs and conduct important research in the field of health and chronic illness management.”

Gibson said no matter where the medical school ranks in the future, it will always be one of the most distinguished schools in the nation.

“The School of Medicine has a three-year research program, which makes our curriculum very unique among medical schools,” he said. “We also have a very dedicated faculty and staff who really enjoy working with some of the brightest medical students in the country.”

Andrews agreed, adding that she believes the greatest shortcoming of the U.S. News rankings is its inability to measure some of the variables that Duke values most.

“We are proud that we recruit a very diverse group of students,” she said. “There is no metric in the current rankings formula that acknowledges diversity, but we think it is important.”

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The report notes, however, that as much as possible tuition will fund the campus’ operating budget.

Brodhead visited Academic Council Thursday to give an overview of the Board of Trustees’ February meeting, but he did not address the Kunshan budget in his prepared statement. In the discussion that followed, however, professor of political science Paula McClain raised the issue and asked if the extensive costs to Kunshan would be detrimental to the Durham campus.

Provost Peter Lange noted that the guide in full is 47 pages long, but the released document is a 23-page abridged version.

Council members also posed several questions regarding the details of the Chinese campus at the meeting.

Several members asked if DKU will be able to provide unrestricted Internet access, which is not available throughout most of China, and how Internet restrictions would affect its relationship with the national government. Brodhead said he is fairly certain that the campus will have unrestricted Internet access, in part because China wants to learn from Duke as a model of Western university education.

“What makes Western universities so great is the idea of academic freedom,” he said. “If China wants to get the value on its

end of the experiment, it has to learn to open itself.”

Associate professor of physics Steffen Bass said he has not heard any discussion of the campus’ surrounding area, noting that he hopes that students will be able to easily engage in local Chinese culture.

“We don’t want this campus to be in some kind of enclave,” Bass said. “Very little in the guide tells us about whether or not it is in a remote area where cultural exchange is not possible.”

DKU is located in a less-populated area of Kunshan, Brodhead said, comparing the area surrounding DKU to the area surrounding the Durham campus. He added that a student can easily take a 16-minute train ride to downtown Shanghai.

In other business: Kevin Smith, scholarly communications officer for Perkins Library, and Paolo Mangiafico, director of digital information strategy, updated the council on the Open Access policy that was passed in March 2010. The policy allows Duke scholars to publish their articles in a database—called DukeSpace— and make them available to the public.

As of Thursday, Smith said DukeSpace has 2,286 articles with more than 100 to be uploaded in the near future. The database currently has more than 360,000 item views, though Smith qualified the number by attributing many of the hits to maintenance views and search engines that pick up articles without them necessarily being opened by the viewer.

“The stuff in DukeSpace is getting found,” Smith said. “Most users are not going to come through the front door, they’re going to come in through Google or Wikipedia or something like that, and that’s why we think it’s good that [search engines] are finding this site.”

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Men’s Basketball

Williams too much for Blue Devils

by Jeff Scholl THE CHRONICLE

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2ND HALF BEATDOWN Duke went into the locker room after the first half with a relatively stable six-point lead. That disappeared quickly. Thanks to a strong supporting cast, Arizona rallied to pull ahead at the 15-minute mark.

32 DYNAMITE DERRICK Derrick Williams came into the postseason as a relatively unknown player. He’s now a star. Scoring 32 points, grabbing 12 rebounds and putting together a highlight reel all by himself, Williams stole the show Thursday.

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WILL NO. 1 RETURN? Now that Duke’s season is over, the question of the offseason concerns whether Kyrie Irving will declare for the NBA Draft. He said after the game that he could “see [himself] wearing a Duke uniform again.”

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Blue Devils simply could not stop Arizona’s Derrick Williams Thursday night.

But for the first 20 minutes of play, Duke could tolerate allowing the stellar sophomore Game to carry the Wildcats’ by himself: The Analysis offense Blue Devils maintained a six-point lead at halftime, even though Williams had scored 25.

William’s ability to single-handedly keep Arizona in the game, however, ultimately came back to haunt the Blue Devils in the second half. While Duke contained the 6-foot-8 forward for most of the final period, Williams found ways to involve the rest of his teammates in the offense. With the Arizona attack firing on all cylinders, the Blue Devils never recovered.

“The first half, Derrick’s individual play allowed us to have a chance. I mean he scored 25 points in one half,” Wildcats’ head coach Sean Miller said. “We could have had a huge deficit at halftime, but he gave us a chance.”

Miles and Mason Plumlee prevented Williams from scoring with his back to the basket for the majority of the first half. After Mason swatted Williams as he attempted to drive to the hoop, it seemed as if Duke would be able to neutralize the Wildcats’ best inside threat. Indeed, Williams would only score one of his eight first-half baskets with a traditional post move.

Realizing he would have difficulty scoring over a 6-foot-10 Blue Devil in the post, Williams simply brought the Plumlees out to an area of the court where they were not comfortable—the perimeter.

The sophomore, who entered the game shooting 58 percent from beyond the arc, took advantage of the Plumlee brothers’ reluctance to defend him tightly around the 3-point line. The Blue Devils clearly wanted Williams to beat them with the deep ball rather than wreak havoc in the paint, and the Wildcat responded to the challenge.

Williams nailed 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions with about four minutes remaining in the first, cutting a 7-point Duke lead to four. But his biggest basket from long range came with only one second left on the clock before halftime.

On Arizona’s final possession of the period, with the 6-foot-11 Ryan Kelly playing the Wildcat closely, Williams rose up for a shot, his vision to the basket obscured by the long arms of Kelly. The ball sailed through the net, making the sophomore a tremendous 5-for-6 from 3-point range in the period.

Although the Blue Devils were still up by six at halftime, Williams’s last-second shot gave the Wildcats the momentum they needed to start the second half. And despite Williams only scoring seven of his career-high 32 points in the final period, his offensive rebounding and deft passing from the post helped fuel Arizona’s surge out of intermission.

Singler assumed the primary defensive responsibility for Williams in the final period, and the veteran had no problem matching the Wildcat’s physicality, even while playing with four fouls. But with Singler

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Sophomore Derrick Williams scored 25 in the first half, then hit his teammates for great looks in the second. occupied down low, Duke’s taller players drifted from the hoop, and Williams found ways to exploit the Blue Devils’ defense.

“I though Kyle did a decent job on [Williams] in the second half, but that means our bigs are guarding a little bit away from the basket and you’re spread out,” Krzyzewski said.

Given this defensive arrangement, it was no surprise that both of Williams’ assists in the period came when he picked out a wide-open Kyle Fogg and Jamelle Horne for 3-point buckets.

Drawing the Plumlees out to the perimeter also gave Arizona several more opportunities to crash the glass. The Wildcats capitalized on these chances, grabbing 11 offensive rebounds to Duke’s two in the second half. The Blue Devils’ defensive adjustments ultimately played right into the hands of Arizona players who did not make an impact at the beginning of the game.

“The first half they were trying to choke off the wings, so it was one-on-one [for Williams at the top of the key],” Wildcats’ forward Solomon Hill said. “In the second half, they tried to change up a little bit and… they didn’t pressure the wing. So we were able to make plays, and we didn’t have to rely on [Williams] in the second half because they kind of abandoned their defense.”

It was no wonder that Krzyzewski mar-

veled at the many facets of Williams’ game afterward.

“With Williams, he gives you confidence. You always know that you have that guy on the court,” he said. “Even when he’s not scoring, he spreads you out.... He’s a beautiful player.”

Arizona 93, Duke 77 Arizona (30-7) 38 55 93 Duke (32-5) 44 33 77 arizona min fg 3-pt ft r a to s pts Williams 35 11-17 5-6 5-6 13 2 4 2 32 Hill 28 5-8 0-0 3-4 5 1 2 0 13 Perry 22 2-6 0-1 1-2 6 3 0 0 5 Jones 28 6-10 0-0 4-4 3 6 0 1 16 Fogg 27 3-8 1-5 1-3 0 1 3 1 8 Natyazhko 6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Parrom 20 3-4 1-1 0-0 1 0 1 1 7 Mayes 12 1-4 1-1 0-0 1 1 2 0 3 Lavender 7 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 1 2 Horne 15 2-4 1-1 2-2 5 0 0 1 7 Totals 200 18-64 5-19 13-21 35 6 12 5 93 Blocks — Williams (1), Hill (1), Perry (1) FG % — 54.0, 3-Point % — 60.0, FT % — 76.2 duke min fg 3-pt ft r a to Singler 35 7-11 2-3 2-3 8 1 0 Mi. Plumlee 13 1-3 0-0 0-0 3 0 0 Ma. Plumlee 32 3-5 0-0 2-2 7 3 1 Smith 34 3-14 0-3 2-4 5 2 6 Curry 9 1-2 0-1 0-0 0 1 0 Irving 31 9-15 2-4 8-9 0 3 1 Thornton 8 0-0 0-0 2-2 0 0 0 Hairston 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Dawkins 22 3-5 1-2 2-2 1 0 1 Kelly 14 0-3 0-1 0-0 2 0 2 Totals 200 27-58 5-14 18-22 26 10 11 Blocks — Ma. Plumlee (4), Singler (1), Mi. Plumlee (1) FG % — 46.6, 3-Point % — 35.7, FT % — 81.8

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Blue Devils embrace role as outsider

by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE

As Duke heads to the regional tournament in Philadelphia this weekend, the team is determined to do one thing—not play the way it did Monday.

“That wasn’t a great game for Duke, and there was very little emotion after the game,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I don’t believe in the philosophy of survive and advance. I don’t aspire to it. I believe in being a powerful team on the floor and going after things, so I can just tell you there was very little celebration.”

In the two-seeded Blue Devils’ 71-66 victory against 10thseeded Marist, Duke trailed from early in the first half until just 2:27 remained in the game. In the ensuing minute, the Blue Devils expanded their lead to 65-60, sealing a win in the team’s last game this season at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Now, Duke will leave the friendly confines of Durham and travel to the Sweet 16, facing a region whose other three remaining teams—DePaul, Georgetown and Connecticut—are all from the Big East.

“We’re definitely the outsider,” McCallie said. “Nobody’s

M. Basketball from page 1 Williams, who scored 25 points in the first half, had a relatively paltry seven in the second, but his teammates were there to pick up the slack. The Wildcats clawed back to a sixpoint deficit through the defensive efforts of Solomon Hill and Kyle Fogg, who were non-factors in the first half.

The emergence of additional scoring threats outside of Williams stretched the Blue Devils’ defense and allowed for open shots across the floor. With Duke forced to double

“The Tournament is cruel. It’s an abrupt end for everybody when you don’t win.”

— Mike Krzyzewski team Williams in the post, Arizona’s spot shooters made the Blue Devils pay. Senior Jamelle Horne and sophomore Lamont Jones, who scored just two points combined in the first half, finished the night with 23.

Enabled by the mismatches Williams created, Arizona ripped off a 19-2 run over a four-minute stretch that began with just over 16 minutes remaining in the second half, burying the Blue Devils and leaving Krzyzewski—and his players—shaking their heads.

“I don’t think it’s something our players did poorly…. [We got] overwhelmed there for a little bit and they knocked us back and got that double-digit lead,” Krzyzewski said.

Trailing for the majority of the second half, a rattled Duke team simply lost its composure against the pressure of a ravenous Wildcats’ defense, and fumbled any chance it had at making a late run.

With the ball in the hands of Ryan Kelly at the top of the arc, reserve guard Brendon Lavender capped off the Arizona run by picking off a sloppy exchange between Kelly and Nolan Smith, and speeding down the floor for an easy dunk.

The miscommunication symbolized Duke’s entire half, in which the Blue Devils’ costly mistakes prevented them from sustaining an offensive run. Against a team ranked second-to-last in the Pac-10 in field goal percentage allowed, Duke was bullied into shooting just 37.5 percent from the field.

Even more costly to the Blue Devils were the transition points the Wildcats manufactured on the defensive end. Seven

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Jasmine Thomas and Krystal Thomas played under DePaul head coach Doug Bruno on the U.S. U-19 team before their freshman year. talking about Duke, nobody has talked about Duke for the entire tournament.... We’re playing DePaul, they’re an excellent team, great balance, excellent defense, 3-point shooting and versatility.”

The Blue Demons’ balanced offense presents a chal-

lenge for the Blue Devils, with four players averaging double digits in scoring this season. DePaul’s attack is keyed by junior Keisha Hampton, who averages 16.1

second-half turnovers allowed for 14 Arizona points, and Duke couldn’t make up for lost ground offensively in crunch time.

Smith, the team’s leading scorer and usual go-to option, shot just 3-for-14 from the floor and looked out of rhythm all night. Although the duo of Kyle Singler and Kyrie Irving combined for 46 points, the formerly staunch Duke defense allowed the Wildcats to shoot an astronomical 58.3 percent from the field in the final period, negating any gains the pair made.

“We just gave them too many easy buckets in the second half… off of rebounds and turnovers,” Mason Plumlee said. “They were just getting uncontested shots.”

With the final score line spiraling out of control,

Smith and Singler exited the game for the final time at the 2:01 mark, sheepishly walking over to the bench to embrace their coaches and teammates. For two of the most prolific players in program history, the drubbing at the hands of the Wildcats was a cold reminder of the reality of the NCAA Tournament.

“The Tournament is cruel. It’s an abrupt end for everybody when you don’t win,” Krzyzewski said.

Now, a national championship banner will go up in a different stadium in 2011. And for two players who had the chance to place their names among the Hills and Laettners in Duke history, Smith and Singler are instead left to wonder what could have been.

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In addition to playing solid defense on Derrick Williams in the second half, senior Kyle Singler dropped 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting.

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Duke hopes to keep streak alive against UNC

by Bo Triplett THE CHRONICLE

During March, you might expect a heated DukeNorth Carolina matchup on the hardwood, but this weekend, the Tobacco Road rivalry moves to the baseball diamond. Playing its second No. 13 straight series on the road, Duke UNC (15-8, 2-4 ACC) will take on No. 13 vs.

North Carolina (20-3, 4-2 ACC) in a three-game series at Boshamer Duke Stadium Friday through Sunday.

With the Tar Heels’ national FRIDAY - SUNDAY ranking and marked pitching adBoshamer Stadium vantage, the series seems one-sided in favor of the Tar Heels. But recent history tells a different story—the Blue Devils have won their series against North Carolina each of the past two seasons. Duke head coach Sean McNally cited the programs’ standards of excellence as a motivating factor in competition.

“The competition extends to both schools,” McNally said. “We appreciate the rivalry and respect their strong program.”

McNally added that although the rivalry is surrounded with hype, his team remains focused on its own performance. The Blue Devils will need to regain focus after suffering three losses to Clemson in last weekend’s series. Duke will count on outfielder Will Piwnica-Worms, who always puts up strong performances against the Tar Heels—the junior has hit .387 with eight RBI against them over the past three years, and he smacked his first career home run in Chapel Hill in 2009.

“We go in knowing we have to be at our best,” PiwnicaWorms said. “A big part of the preparation has been getting rested up. We need to make sure we have our legs under us.”

North Carolina is coming off a six-game winning streak where they have proved to be an offensive powerhouse, outscoring their opponents 51-18.

With a very young team, the Blue Devils will focus on staying positive while playing against the stiffest competition of their young season. Sophomore Jeff Kremer and junior Joe Pedevillano will look to provide offensive leadership. Kremer leads the team with a .364 batting average and a .448 on-base percentage in ACC games. Pedevillano joins Piwnica-Worms as a Tar Heelkiller, batting .500 in five games.

Duke will have to put up strong performances on the mound if they hope to match up with the Tar Heels’ formidable starting rotation. The Blue Devils will face North Carolina’s Patrick Johnson (4-0, 1.67 ERA), Kent Emanuel (3-1, 1.84 ERA) and Chris Munnelly (2-1, 5.30 ERA). For Duke, righty Dennis O’Grady (4-0, 3.54 ERA) will look to repeat his strong performance of the 2010 series, when he held the opposition to three runs over six innings. He’ll be followed by Dillon Haviland (1-1, 1.06 ERA), making his first career weekend start, and Marcus Stroman (1-1, 3.38 ERA).

The Tar Heels will enter the series as favorites, but the past two seasons have shown that in this rivalry, the favorite doesn’t always come away victorious.

W. Basketball from page 10 points per game and who made two key free throws to propel her team to a 75-73 win over Penn State in the second round. Fifth-year senior point guard Sam Quigley’s experience could prove valuable as well, not to mention her 10.1 points and 3.9 assists per game.

Quigley leads an offense that rarely turns the ball over, which could cause problems for Duke, who has relied on forcing turnovers and finding opportunities to score in transition. But if there’s a positive takeaway from Monday’s contest, it’s that the Blue Devils did force 20 turnovers against a Marist team that, like DePaul, is usually careful with the ball.

The Blue Demons’ precision handling the basketball is unsurprising given their detail-oriented coach, Doug Bruno, who coached Jasmine Thomas and Krystal Thomas when they played on the U.S. national U-19 team the summer before their freshmen years.

“He was a good coach, a tough coach and got the most out of everybody who was there,” Jasmine Thomas said. “He’s a really good coach, and I just know his girls will be ready.”

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Will Piwnica-Worms has gained a reputation as a Tar Heel-killer in his three years at Duke, hitting .387 and eight RBI against the rivals.

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The Chanticleer must evolve The Duke undergraduate demand. The Chanticleer’s would not be remiss for be- editor-in-chief Felicia Arlieving that there is no much riaga has said, “most people such thing as a Duke Univer- don’t know we have a yearsity yearbook. But they would book.” The 2,500 yearbooks be wrong. The Chanticleer, from 2009-2010 that sit in which began UPB office publication in testify to this editorial 1912, is one of fact. This begs Duke’s oldest and, it turns the question: are expensive out, most expensive student yearbooks relevant in an age organizations. where we store many of our An article in the March memories online? issue of Towerview called atThe Chanticleer has value, tention to The Chanticleer’s even in the age of digital mebulky budget. The Chanticleer dia and social networking. But controlled $86,000 in 2010- to justify its budget, The Chan2011, nearly half the budget of ticleer must overhaul how it The Undergraduate Publica- reaches out to students. tions Board. That money purYearbooks might seem chases 4,000 yearbooks, which like living anachronisms are given away for free to any when we can use Facebook student that wants one. to summon half a decade’s But the supply of Chanti- memories with relative ease. cleers often outruns student But yearbooks still have a

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place. Print media captures something about the past that digital media seems to miss. And, where social networking sites sometimes have limited life spans (remember Friendster?), a yearbook lasts forever.

But if The Chanticleer aims to fight for relevance in the digital age, it must keep costs down while building student investment in the yearbook.

Indeed, $86,000 of SOFC funding is too much to spend on yearbooks when hundreds of them go unread. The Chanticleer could lower costs by coordinating yearbook supply with student demand. Ironically, the digital age could make this easier than ever. The organization could send out a blast email

to rising seniors—the primary consumers of yearbooks— asking them to pre-register for a yearbook. A nominal registration fee might even be in order—students would more reliably pick up a yearbook if they had to pay for it.

The Chanticleer could order a yearbook for every registrant, or thereabouts, and distribute them at the end of the following year.

But the Chanticleer faces another challenge: getting students excited about the yearbook. Handing out free yearbooks in the Bryan Center does little to build student awareness and investment.

And, at a University with about 6,500 undergraduates, some students may not have reason to own a yearbook that covers few of their unique ex-

periences. To remedy this, the Chanticleer must devise clever strategies for creating student interest.

For instance, The Chanticleer should use the new house model to reach out to students. Each house could be given a section of the yearbook, complete with house pictures and captions. When the Chanticleer captures some aspect of a student’s unique college experience, that student has reason to own one.

The yearbook still has a place in college life, despite Facebook and online social networks. But The Chanticleer needs to rebrand itself and build student investment in its continued success if it wants to stay relevant in the changing landscape of recollection.

Civility and respect I was born and raised in Poland, behind the experienced burned painful memories in their Iron Curtain. I didn’t want to raise my family minds. For the rest of their lives, they would not in a totalitarian system, so I decided to get out. let a slice of bread go to waste. They would force me and my siblings to sit at the taI came to the United States as a ble until we finished everything on graduate student. And I brought the professor our plates. As a child, many a time I my wife and two kids, still in next door cried my eyes out, making my soup diapers. We lived in the cheapsalty from tears in the process, but est graduate housing apartment zbigniew kabala my parents would not relent and available in town, the only one we could barely afford on a meager stipend sup- would not let me leave the table before my plate plemented by my weekend earnings from yard was clean. They and my grandparents treated work. The apartment was located in an army food with respect bordering on reverence. This barrack, built for the returning GI’s in 1945,and respect was ingrained in me throughout my later adopted by Princeton University for its stu- childhood, and it has stayed with me. Although I never forced my children to clean their plates dents.

But we were happy there. The boys had their down to the last morsel, seeing food go to waste own private pool, for $25 from Kmart, and they bothers me tremendously.

This brings me back to the subject at hand— filled it up every summer day with our garden hose and really enjoyed it. After a while, for a respect and civility. I am becoming increasingly whopping $325, I bought my first car, a Buick concerned with the decline of civility in the dorm.

Electra, with tons of miles on it but still run- Although our housekeeping crew maintains the ning well. It was the second longest boat ever common areas during the week, this state often made for American roads, with a V-8 engine, 8 deteriorates on weekends. A small, yet significantly to twelve miles per gallon, power steering, pow- large subgroup of our students does not have much, er windows, power seat, power everything. I was if any, respect for food or for sharing our common the man. I loved this car! The day I bought it, I areas. The amount of food that is left to rot in the took my family for a ride to Quaker Bridge Mall, TV and reading rooms over the weekends is bothand even though we could not afford eating out, ersome. But even more disturbing is the converwe decided to make an exception and celebrate sion of our common areas into a virtual landfill of the day at an exclusive restaurant: an all-you- unfinished take-out meals and half-finished drinks can-eat Chinese Buffet—$5.95 for lunch. We all spread or spilled, respectively, over the tables and enjoyed it, but my young boys especially loved floors. The spilled drinks create the danger of slipit, and they gorged themselves beyond what I ping and falling for unsuspecting residents, and the thought was possible. leftover food all but calls for another infestation of Afterward, we stepped out of the mall into the the dorm by rats or mice. parking lot and realized that we had lost our car. It A simple rule would make our lives so much was nowhere to be found among a zillion others.... better: Leave the common areas in the state you After looking for it for some time, we gave up and, to found them. We should not only follow this rule, the chagrin of my wife and the delight of my kids, re- but we should also encourage those who ignore it turned to the mall and roamed it until closing time. to comply.

Only then were we able to find our car. NotwithWe need this same civility on a national level. But standing this incident, as far as we were concerned, in college, civility starts in the dorms, our common we were living our American Dream. This brings me homes. If we show respect for what we have, we will to one of the most important lessons that I learned realize just how much we have and how lucky we in graduate school: You can be as poor as a church are to have it. We can be truly happy in our commouse and still be happy. In fact, the less you have, mon life together—all it takes is some civility. the more you tend to value what you have.

My parents and grandparents experienced Zbigniew Kabala is an associate professor in the real hunger during World War II: They would civil and environmental engineering department and go on a meager ration of potatoes for weeks at a a faculty-in-residence in Southgate Dormitory on East time. Like a hot branding iron, the hunger they Campus.

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he Duke community is having a food awakening, and next year’s incoming class of freshmen are getting a front row seat at the table.

The latest in a long line of food-related events, debates and campaigns on campus was the selection in February of Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer, as the summer reading assignment for the incoming Class of 2015 at both UNC and Duke. liz bloomhardt Having snuck a copy of green devil Foer’s book into my own stocking at Christmas (next to a copy of Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara) I took the opportunity over Spring break to do a little reading. Unfortunately, I didn’t really feel like any lunch after reading Foer’s book.

It may be an easy read, but Eating Animals is an emotional sucker punch.

Reviewers who insist this book is not about food, or that it’s more about how we make and relate to decisions in our lives, are taking a theme out of context. Although Foer himself states, “This book is not an argument against eating animals,” the book is, in fact, not not an argument against eating animals. And it’s an emotional, fear-mongering presentation of the argument at that.

Previous books in this genre, including The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, take a far more nuanced, intellectual, comprehensive and optimistic approach, covering issues on both sides of the dietary divide. That is, they address both animals and vegetables and acknowledge that neither category of food is perfect. Foer instead acknowledges his bias as a long time not-fully-committed vegetarian, then proceeds to outline in graphic detail the havoc factory farming is causing on our health, the environment and the animals themselves.

Maybe this is just the type of packaging the reality of factory farming needs to get us off our couches and into action.

But in my own experience, it might also serve to stifle the conversation.

I cried at the sight of packaged chicken on the bottom shelf of my refrigerator after reading this book, and I don’t consider myself prone to such instabilities in my emotional state. So, even though I wanted to discuss this book with my boyfriend, my behavior convinced him he’d rather not masochistically submit himself to a reading. So much for a conversation.

Interestingly and conspicuously missing from the coalition of schools that picked Eating Animals is North Carolina State University, home of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. According to that college’s website, “Agriculture and agribusiness generate more than $74 billion in valueadded income annually and account for 688,000 jobs across the state.”

Some of that revenue comes from the state’s pork industry, which Foer discusses in the “Pieces of Shit” section of his book. Consider the message that sends to new students: “Welcome to North Carolina—here’s a book about how you might not want to drink the water, breathe the air or eat bacon, ever again.”

Here at Duke, the Offsets Initiative, part of the Climate Action Plan and climate neutrality program that I’ve mentioned before in this column, has partnered with Duke Energy to build a methane capture system at a hog finishing farm in Yadkin County, N.C. The idea is not just to capture methane for offsets credits but also to treat other environmental pollutants including ammonia, heavy metals and nutrients, as well as the odors caused by the methane.

While this end-of-pipe project achieves the intended local impact and potential benefit, it does not address the underlying factory farm issue that forms the basis of Foer’s argument not not against eating animals. Perhaps the freshmen should consider our institutional complicity when they discuss the local implications of the book’s message.

I applaud the selection committee for a reading so intimately tied to environmental issues. The freshmen will be engaged in events surrounding the book mostly in September, but I believe this book is capable of infiltrating the campus dialogue on a broader scale, as well. I might, however, recommend starting with the aforementioned books by Pollan and Kingsolver (winner of this year’s Leaf Award).

Now that I’ve shared a few of my thoughts with you here, I encourage you to go out and read this book. When you’re finished, email me. I’m taking bets on the percentage of converted vegetarians in the Class of 2015. Happy eating...

I mean, reading!

Liz Bloomhardt is a fourth-year graduate student in mechanical engineering. Her column runs every other Friday.

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n 2004, Google publicized plans to work with universities prices through the roof. and public libraries in an attempt to create the world’s The logic behind such an argument is sound, and any largest digital book and journal archive. The project, intellectual will cringe at the thought of some Orwellian which eventually came to be known as Google monopolization over information. To fear Books, grew at some point into an endeavor to, Google Books as a stranglehold play on the in the company’s words, “democratize knowlorphan work market, however, is to overedge” by digitizing every unique book on the look a crucial distinction concerning the planet—all 129,864,880 of them, according to definition of those works, which is that they the company’s own calculations. have gone out of print before their copySince its inception, however, the undertakright has even expired. ing has been met with impassioned resistance In many cases, orphans are obscure and criticism. Literary types and publishers works that hold little value to most peochris bassil alike have decried the project as everything ple—that’s why they went out of print. just a minute from “massive copyright infringement” to the Were they profitable, they would be reslightly more hyperbolic “theft,” and by the fall newed, which is exactly the point: No wise of 2005 two separate lawsuits had been filed in the U.S. By company would look toward orphan works for exorbitant 2009, Google had been sued for copyright infringement in profits. The main audience that orphans have is the intelFrance and China as well. lectual community, comprised mostly of academics and uniDespite these roadblocks, Google continued to expand versity students who can access the books by walking across the project, adding to its list of partners to make 21 total, the quad and checking out physical copies from the library. nine of which are based overseas. In October, the company Orphans can oftentimes be invaluable to researchers and announced that it had scanned over 15 million books, with certainly should be preserved, but digitizing them serves as plans to continue rapidly building its collection. little more than a convenience to their limited audience.

Unfortunately, Google cannot yet be certain that such As such, no one would pay more than a minor fee to view a goal will be allowed to come to fruition. A federal ruling online what they could find elsewhere for free. handed down last Tuesday has sent them back to the drawOf course, it’s not so much the specifics that matter in aring board, deeming the company’s proposed agreement guments such as these. It just so happens that orphan works with the Authors Guild and the Association of American could never make a viable monopoly, but it’s certainly conPublishers unfair, inadequate and unreasonable. The agree- ceivable that a similar situation could arise in a more highly ment, which stems from the settlement of the 2005 lawsuits profitable arena. Thus, theoretically, the same standard must and would be worth $125 million, apparently grants Google be applied to both situations in order to reaffirm an equitoo much of a monopoly over the digitization of “orphan table process of evaluation. works.”

However, it will be a great blow to the democratization of Orphans are out-of-print books still subject to copyright knowledge, not to mention the potential longevity of unherlaws, but whose author or copyright owner is either unknown alded but unique and valuable documents, should the deal or cannot be located. Because rightful copyright ownership in the works ultimately be struck down. It’s a good thing, cannot be established, even libraries and artists may stay away then, that the judge in this case has made clear his willingfrom making orphans available for public consumption in ness to accept and review any revisions that might be made to any way, for fear of future reproach by the unknown copy- the initial agreement. It remains to be seen, of course, whethright owner. For that reason, companies like Amazon and er Google and its opponents-turned-allies decide to actually Microsoft are also contesting Google’s claim to orphan work return to the drawing board on this one. I, for one, hope that digitization: Were Google to somehow legally take control of they will.

orphans, it would be essentially the only entity in the world with the power to do so, and thus could conceivably drive Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs every Friday.

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am gay. I am in the military. I go to an elite university. fits a similar mold, that the military is only a destabilizing These are not contradictory things. With “don’t ask, force bent on destruction, and that bigoted neoconservadon’t tell” finally repealed, America’s elite universi- tives fill all ranks. Regrettably, this ignorance is entirely ties no longer have any excuse to perpetuunderstandable, as the Secretary of Deate the 40-year-old injustice of banning fense Robert Gates said in his September guest column military organizations on their campuses.

29 speech here at Duke, “With each passing anonymous Just as DADT robbed service members like decade fewer and fewer Americans know me of essential person liberties and freesomeone with military experience in their doms, the archaic Vietnam-era policy of banning mili- family or social circle.” Essentially, the all-volunteer force tary organizations at America’s most prestigious universi- has reinforced certain demographic trends that unfortuties denies students these same rights. nately have alienated more and more Americans from their Today, universities such as Stanford, Princeton, Columbia military. and Yale are debating the place of Reserve Officers’ Training I am not militaristic and have no family members in the Corps programs on their campuses in a post-DADT world. military. I disagree with many of the America’s defense poliDADT allowed them to continue to ban ROTC on campus cies. However, the military thrives on such diversity of opinunder the aegis of protecting vital freedoms of self-expres- ion. Drones cannot win a counter-insurgency. sion and choice. However, today that is a moot point. With I’m liberal, gay, in ROTC and proud of all three. The abilnew service-wide programs that promote respect and under- ity to freely be all three, beginning this semester, has been standing for gay brothers and sisters in arms, the military is one of the most amazing times of my life. For any university no longer the bastion of ignorance and intolerance many to deny its students the same freedom is reprehensible. purport it to be. By continuing the ban on ROTC, these uniMany elite schools—Duke, Northwestern, UPenn, and versities will perpetuate divisions between academia and the Vanderbilt—support ROTC programs on campus, but this military and simultaneously deny their students the oppor- is not enough. The Ivy League and its peer institutions all tunity to investigate military life and pursue a career as an need to open their doors to the military. ROTC disturbs no officer. one and commits no wrongs, nor does it promote militarism As a gay ROTC student at Duke, I strongly support uni- on campus. It simply allows those of us who would like to versities reinstating their ROTC programs. There is no di- serve to do so. We are neither a menacing presence nor a vide between my classmates and me. The military has not recruiting machine. made me a drone. ROTC has made me an officer. My fellow Let’s not make this some partisan issue. I am a gay, liberal service members and I think independently and retain our service member, and I am calling for elite universities to cast identities, which allows us to take our exceptional educa- aside their reservations about the military, just as the milition and experiences from Duke into the military at large. tary cast aside its reservations about gays. Intolerance exists ROTC programs at the most revered universities allow the on both sides of the political spectrum. Truly opening a diabest minds in the country to develop a grounded, informed logue on these campuses is the first step in coming to terms worldview before they begin working for one of the most in- with this intolerance. fluential institutions in the world. With so much power and All students deserve the right to be whoever they want to responsibility, the military needs empathetic, rational leaders be, and historic distrust should not stand in the way of this. capable of handling America’s Armed Forces effectively in light of global realities.

The author is member of Duke ROTC. He has requested anoThe entire debate on these campuses stems from igno- nymity because DADT still remains in effect pending implemenrance—the misguided beliefs that everyone in the military tation of the appeal.

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ids from page 1 “It is blatant voter intimidation—there is absolutely no problem with voter fraud. It’s a political bill,” Nesbitt said.

“It’s fine to play politics. It’s not fine to disenfranchise people.”

Students at the polls Out-of-state students can vote in North Carolina if they meet specific requirements, including living in the state for at least 30 days prior to the election and forfeiting their voter registration in their home states, said Mike Ashe, director of the Durham County Board of Elections.

But Senior Ben Bergmann, president of Duke Democrats, said the legislation would create an additional process that would make obtaining voter status more difficult.

Duke Democrats are planning to attend a rally opposing the requirement and are circulating a petition among their members, Bergmann noted. “[In 2008,] Obama lost every age group in North Carolina except voters under 30,” he said. “This is an incredible attempt to make it more difficult for college students to vote—it’s all designed to attack them.”

Representatives from Duke College Republicans could not be reached for comment.

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Francis DeLuca, executive director of the John W. Pope Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank in Raleigh, said that Duke students should instead consider voting by an absentee ballot in their home state unless they plan to reside permanently in North Carolina upon graduation.

“If they’re going to live here permanently and pay taxes, then they should vote here,” DeLuca said. “If they’re doing it because it’s convenient, then I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

The University is working through North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, an advocacy group for private institutions in the state, to address student concerns about access to voting, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations said.

The group is lobbying to potentially allow private universities’ student ID cards—such as DukeCards—to be used as valid IDs at the polls, said NCICU President Hope Williams. State university IDs would be considered valid IDs for voters because they are issued by state institutions.

“A number of lawmakers have supported the idea,” Williams said. “The challenge is that private colleges and universities are not part of the government—there might be some legal issues with allowing those IDs and not others.”

Footing the bill Some critics are wary of the costs that the state will incur if this legislation passes, as North Carolina will provide IDs to registered voters who do not currently have them.

The Institute for Southern Studies, a Durham-based think tank sponsoring research and educational programs geared toward advancing a better South, estimated that the new requirement, if passed, could cost the state $18 to $25 million over three years. According to the N.C. Board of Elections data, 556,513 voters did not have any record of a Department of Motor Vehicles-issued driver license or ID in their voter record or in the DMV as of February 2011.

The high potential cost of the measure needs to be considered in its implementation given the recent proposed state budget cuts, said Gunther Peck, Fred W. Shaffer associate professor of history and public policy.

“Class sizes in public schools are expected to increase this year [because of cuts to state education],” Peck explained. “This bill could spend millions of dollars to fix a problem that isn’t there.”

But Killian noted that Georgia—a state that is “demographically similar” to North Carolina—has not faced excessive costs since it implemented the state-issued voter ID requirement several years ago.

“Their estimate is ongoing, but it should reflect costs for North Carolina,” he said.

campus council from page 4 In other business: Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life, gave a presentation on improvements being made to Central Campus.

Changes include additions to Mill Village and the Devil’s Bistro, erecting fencing around Central, the completion of the Central Promenade and the repainting of many buildings.

Residence Life and Housing Services is still working on its “beautification” project, which includes the replacement of picnic benches, trash cans and other improvements on Central.

“Central Campus is definitely not the campus your parents knew,” Gonzalez said.

nuclear from page 7 statement saying that “this troubling study . . . raises serious questions about the self-policing allowed at nuclear facilities with regard to reporting of safety concerns.”

Markey said that “it is apparent that confusion and omissions regarding the reporting of defects at nuclear facilities are commonplace.”

The inspector general blames the failures on uncertainty about when to report defects. Operators said they thought they needed to report only when an “event” took place and backup systems did not prevent a breakdown - or in bureaucratic lingo, an “actual loss of safety function.” In fact, the rules require them to report any defect, even if backup systems kicked in.

The inspector general said there was confusion about the rule among at least 28 percent of the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors, based on interviews done from mid-2009 to mid-2010.

The IG’s report worried some experts who said the NRC was missing critical information that could prevent bigger accidents.

“If there is a bad patch of parts, you want to be aware of that and fix it,” said David Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, which released a report last week criticizing the NRC’s performance.

Government watchdogs have raised alarms before about defective parts at nuclear plants. In 1990, the Government Accountability Office released a report saying that utilities had installed counterfeit or substandard parts at about 64 percent of the country’s plants.

Paul Gunter, with the group Beyond Nuclear, said: “You could have two reactors that have faulty circuit breakers and though the part turns out to be defective, if it doesn’t necessarily cause an event like a reactor shutdown, it may be reported at one reactor, but not at another. But circuit breakers and fuses are . . . not trivial pieces of equipment.”

The industry said its overall safety record is still laudable.

“We agree there’s room to clarify and simplify the regulations,” said Steve Kerekes, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute. “It’s important to keep in mind the broader picture here, which is that this particular reporting area is one sliver of a much broader regulatory regimen, which shows that U.S. nuclear plants are operating at very high levels of safety.”