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by Caroline Fairchild THE CHRONICLE

For Duke fans Scott Kindrick and Randi Lyders, the decision to travel with the basketball team abroad was an obvious one.

The couple is a part of the group of about 60 fans who are paying as much as $13,465 each to travel with the men’s team as it makes its 13-day tour to play basketball across Asia and the Middle East this August.

The travel package boasts an all-inclusive itinerary featuring admission to all four of the exhibition games, chartered flights with the team, luxury accommodations, meals, sightseeing excursions and other activities.

Although Kindrick and Lyders are not Duke alumni, the couple traveled from Minneapolis to Durham for every home men’s conference game this season. Lyders, a certified financial planner, said her bond with the University began in 2000 when the parents of former forward Nick Horvath, Trinity ’04 and the 1999 Minnesota Mr. Basketball, became her clients. Three years ago, the couple traveled to Duke for their first game in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Now season ticket holders, they own a second home in the Duke Forest for their frequent visits to campus.

For fans like Kindrick and Lyders, this summer’s trip is a rare opportunity to see the Blue Devils up close.

“It was the easiest decision to make,” Lyders said of traveling with the team. “It was a perfect storm of opportunities for us.

I was in China 25 years ago, so I am looking forward to seeing all the ways that I know it has changed since then. And then, add to

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The collegiate careers of Jasmine Thomas, Karima Christmas and Krystal Thomas came to a close Tuesday night at the hands of the Huskies, who beat the Blue Devils by 30-plus points for the second time this season. Jasmine Thomas had 17 points, but Duke couldn’t stop Maya Moore, who led Connecticut with 28 points.

by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE

PHILADELPHIA — Despite what a certain sitcom title may say, it’s not always sunny in Philadelphia.

For Duke, last night was one of those occasions.

Unable to carry the momentum from Sunday afternoon’s victory against DePaul, the Blue Devils fell to one-seed Connecticut 75-40 at the Liacouras Center last night. The loss eliminated Duke from the NCAA Tournament.

“It was just a tough game playing against a good team, and we knew coming into the NCAA Tournament that we’d play good teams,” said senior Jasmine Thomas, who was selected to the Philadelphia region All-Tournament team. “We couldn’t afford

to come out and play a game like we did today, whether it was against UConn or the other day against DePaul. We didn’t stay as tough as we knew we could’ve.”

Duke started off the game with a Chelsea Gray jumper that gave the team an early 2-0 lead. Twenty-six seconds later, though, Connecticut took the lead and never looked back. The Blue Devils managed to stay in the game, even coming within three with 3:37 remaining in the first half, but lost momentum and were down 30-20 at halftime.

“In the first half, we definitely came out there and fought... in the second half we tried to come back, but at that point, they See w. basketball on page 11

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vice president for durham and regional affairs

Swain to draw on connections with Durham leaders

by Tong Xiang THE CHRONICLE

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Sophomore Alex Swain will work to involve Duke students more in the Durham community by publicizing local events on campus.

North Carolina’s tourism industry bounces back, Page 4

Alex Swain has a vision to bring Duke and Durham together.

Swain, a sophomore, is running uncontested for Duke Student Government’s vice president for Durham and regional affairs position. She is currently finishing her first term on this committee, which aims to advocate for student interests in Durham as well as build working relationships with community leaders.

“If elected, I would [want] to make the Durham and Regional Affairs Committee of [DSG] a resource for students that are interested in engaging in the Durham community,” she wrote in her platform. “I want to also make [DSG] a strong presence in the Durham community.”

Swain said she wants DSG to forge a deeper connection

between students and their community by involving them in Durham events and affairs.

Next year, she intends to work with regional businesses and the Durham Convention and Visitor’s Bureau to publicize events through social media and on-campus advertising. Additionally, to make local politics more accessible to students, Swain wants to promote participation in municipal elections with such initiatives as candidate lectures, poster campaigns and voter-registration drives.

During her first year on DSG, Swain organized an event bringing Mayor Pro Tempore Cora Cole-McFadden and State Rep. Larry Hall, D-Durham, to speak on campus. She said she is looking to further DSG’s relationship with the city’s elected officials by having Durham and regional affairs

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“She was always friendly and nice. The students were really affected by her passing.”

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FDA chemist charged with Japan tries to contain insider trading of stocks radioactive toxins at plant WASHINGTON — As a chemist at the Food and Drug Administration, which screens medicines for sale to the public, Cheng Yi Liang had access to the kind of information that can move drug company stocks. According to the government, he has illegally traded on that information in advance of at least 27 FDA announcements since 2006, reaping profits or avoiding losses of more than $3.6 million.

Liang, 57, was arrested at his Gaithersburg, Md., home early Tuesday, along with his son Andrew Liang, 25, who is accused of participating in the scheme.

The two face criminal charges, and the elder Liang also is named in a civil insider trading suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The case is part of a broader federal crackdown on insider trading that stretches from California’s Silicon Valley to Manhattan.

TOKYO — Cool water powered by diesel generators or firetruck pumps continued to circulate around nuclear fuel rods in reactors at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant Tuesday, limiting the potential for further releases of toxic particles, as workers struggled to contain the spread of radioactive contamination. Crews piled sandbags and concrete blocks around the mouths of flooded tunnels to keep contaminated water from spilling out into the sea and slowly pumped stagnant radioactive water out of dark turbine rooms.

At the same time, scientists—under orders from nuclear regulators—painstakingly increased their documentation of the damage that explosions from the malfunctioning reactors and probable leaks from one or more reactor cores have begun to inflict on the country’s food and water supply and its environment.

Correction

The headline of the March 29 story “Duke to end pay freeze for fiscal year ’11,” should have read “Duke to end pay freeze for fiscal year 2011-2012.”

In addition, the March 29 editorial “Vote Simpson for Student Life VP” incorrectly stated the number of years Simpson has served as a DSG senator. Simpson is serving her second year as a senator. Also, the March 29 story “Lieu, Liberman vie for renamed VP spot” incorrectly stated DSG President Mike Lefevre was a junior. Lefevre is a senior. The Chronicle regrets the errors.

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Great Hall worker remembered for spirit

by Sanette Tanaka THE CHRONICLE

As a lover of food, fashion and friendship, NaShanda Singletary lived her life with a flair for glamour.

Singletary, a food service worker for Duke Dining, died March 25 of sarcoma cancer. She was 26 years old.

“She was a loving person, and she was loved by everybody,” said Maria Singletary, NaShanda’s sister-inlaw and a food service worker at Subway. “She knew everybody by first and last name. We miss her terribly.”

A Durham native, Singletary—known as NaShanda Shanda—worked as a caSingletary shier and manned several stations in the Great Hall, the Marketplace and Subway for nearly 10 years before she stopped working in May 2010.

“She was just genuine and sincere as a person who really cared about making a difference in students’ experiences in dining,” Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst wrote in an email. “It’s just unfortunate and tragic that someone at this age was taken away from us.”

Her friends and family recalled her relentless optimism, kindhearted nature and appreciation for her favorite things in life.

“They called her Icy,” said Delvona Snipes, Singletary’s close friend and lead food service worker in the Great Hall. “She loved to shop and take pictures. She liked her nails done and her hair pretty.”

Snipes noted Singletary’s love for cheesecake and lasagna, prized collection of shoes—Air Jordans were her favorite—

and gorgeous hair with red highlights.

Singletary’s creativity and endearing personality also carried over to the workplace. A social and dedicated employee, she enjoyed chatting with students and was the first to help out at busy stations, said Danielle Bishop, a food service worker in the Great Hall.

“The students loved her,” Bishop said.

“She was always friendly and nice. The students were really affected by her passing.”

Bishop recalled her and Singletary’s involvement with a class project completed in April 2009 by Kristin Kremers, Trinity ’09. For the assignment, Bishop and Singletary danced to The Beatles’ “Twist and Shout” in the Great Hall with huge smiles on their faces. Kremers wrote in an email Monday that although she did not know Singletary well, she was quick to offer her assistance in the project.

Singletary planned to return to school, become an accountant and raise a family, Snipes said. She married Gary “Diddy” Singletary in July 2009, but the couple did not yet have children.

Singletary’s passing marks the third death in dining services over the past eight years, said Food Service Coordinator Ginger Harris. To the employees, the loss is like losing a member of their family, she added. Singletary will be remembered for her character and strength, which Harris credited to her faith in God. “Shanda had such spirit. She had so much gusto when a lot of us couldn’t manage,” Harris said. “I was really proud of her for that.”

Funeral services will take place today at 1 p.m. at New Calvary Baptist Church in Durham.

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The Duke Marketing Club hosted Rick Anicetti, former chief executive officer of Food Lion, Tuesday to speak about business and leadership. The event was a part of the club’s CEO speaker series.

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State tourism industry sees record $17B intake

by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE

Visitors to North Carolina opened their wallets a little wider over the last year, state officials said.

Tourists visiting the Tar Heel state spent a record $17 billion in 2010, according to a statement released March 15 by Gov. Bev Perdue’s office. A total of 36.8 million tourists visited the state—a 2.5 percent increase from 2009 that created nearly 2,000 tourism jobs.

At the Governor’s Conference on Tourism and Hospitality, Perdue noted the increased spending was a good sign for the state’s economy, adding that North Carolina offers many attractions for visitors.

“We live in a fabulous state with amazing resources,” said Lynn Minges, assistant secretary for tourism, marketing and global branding for the Department of Commerce in an interview Tuesday. “Visitors spend money to support around 40,000 businesses.... The spending [in 2010] has been higher than pre-recession levels, which has been fantastic.”

According to the release, tourists’ spending increased 9 percent from 2009, when spending totaled $15.6 billion. The tourists directly generated more than $1.5 billion in state and local tax revenues, which Minges said will help the state reduce its significant budget deficit.

Based on tourism’s increased contribution to the state economy, Perdue will continue to support funding for state tourist facilities in her planned budget for 2011, said Chris Mackey, press secretary for the governor’s office.

Minges credited the state’s wide variety of attractions, including its Atlantic Coast beaches, Appalachian Mountains and culturally vibrant cities, to the significant increase in tourism and spending.

“I think that is the secret of our success,” she said. “We are a lot of things to a lot of people.”

Durham has also played a role in the state’s tourism growth, said Shelly Green, president and CEO of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau, a community organization tasked with attracting visitors and

promoting the city. Although the group has not completed compiling data for 2010, Green noted that she expects an increase.

Green also said Durham has attracted two groups of travelers in particular: senior citizens with disposable incomes and people interested in the city’s cultural life. These “cultured travelers” are interested in the Durham Performing Arts Center and Bull City’s renowned restaurants, she added.

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State tourist spending increased 9 percent from 2009, contributing to a combined $1.5 billion in state and local tax revenues.

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But Green noted that business travel to the city is an area in which the city still has room to improve. “[Business travel] took a huge hit from 2007 to 2009 with the recession,” she said. “It will hopefully pick back up again with the economy.”

In 2011, officials are aiming to attract a younger demographic, Minges said, adding that the Department of Commerce plans to market the state’s offerings through social media platforms.

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Justices question next step for Wal-Mart discrimination suit by robert barnes

THE washington post

WASHINGTON. D.C. — Even Supreme Court justices who sharply questioned Wal-Mart’s pay and promotion policies regarding female employees expressed concern at Tuesday’s oral argument about how the largest gender discrimination class-action suit in history might proceed.

The court is considering decisions by lower courts that a suit that could cover upwards of 1 million current and former Wal-Mart workers should move to the trial stage. Wal-Mart claims it does not discriminate by sex and that such a massive class should not have been approved.

Theodore Boutrous, representing the nation’s largest retailer, said class-action suits must show that those in a nationwide class faced common practices of discrimination. But he said the company has a national policy of nondiscrimination and leaves it to local store managers to make pay and hiring decisions.

Lumping all women who have worked at Wal-Mart into the class, he said, made it impossible to either prove discrimination or defend against the charges. He noted that 544 female store managers counted as both victims and instruments of discrimination.

Joseph Sellers, arguing on behalf of the women, said it didn’t matter if Wal-mart had an official policy of nondiscrimination if it left its managers free to carry out a “corporate culture” of paying women less and promoting more men to managerial positions.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that even a company with an official policy of nondiscrimination must ask itself whether that policy is being enforced if it receives reports “month after month” that women are underrepresented in managerial jobs and lag in pay.

And several of the court’s liberal justices reminded those at the argument that the question for the court at this point is only whether the suit can go to trial, not whether the women could prove that Wal-Mart discriminated.

Conservative justices, however, said

that while individual women might have reason to sue, they questioned how WalMart’s corporate headquarters could be responsible for discrimination against all female workers.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the deciding vote in cases that divide the court ideologically, said it was “not clear to me” which particular Wal-Mart policy plaintiffs allege led to discriminatory actions.

Sellers responded that it was the “unchecked discretion” that the company allowed Wal-Mart managers across the

seems little doubt about how a ruling for Wal-Mart would be portrayed by liberal groups already suspicious of the court and the huge retailer.

Also notable is that the case—in which women have charged that they’ve suffered unequal pay, sexist remarks and insurmountable obstacles to promotion—arrives at a court whose membership for the first time is one-third female.

The question for the court is whether the small group of plaintiffs satisfies federal class-action rules, allowing the women to stand for co-workers nationwide who they

“Wal-Mart has a very in-depth training program, very careful corporate culture, all designed to ensure a uniformity in decision-making.”

— Brad Seligman, attorney for female Wal-Mart employees country.

Justice Antonin Scalia said he felt “whipsawed” by the arguments because Sellers was both blaming local decision-makers and corporate headquarters.

All told, the questioning seemed more skeptical of the class-action suit than of Wal-Mart’s position. Even Ginsburg said she had a “very serious problem” with how the company might be able to legally defend itself if the case went to trial and how damages would be assessed should the women prevail.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed similar concerns, although both justices also asked supportive questions of the women’s lawyer.

The suit, filed by six female Wal-Mart employees in 2001, spotlights two intriguing story lines about the Supreme Court.

One is the perception, reinforced by President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and civil rights groups, that the court is overly protective of the corporate world. There is evidence to support the claim, and there are exceptions. But there

say have endured common discriminatory practices. The class would include all women who have worked at Wal-Mart since December 1998.

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the suit could go forward. The plaintiffs’ attorney, Brad Seligman, a classaction specialist at the Impact Fund, a tiny public-interest law firm in Berkeley, Calif., assembled statistics showing that women constitute 80 percent of hourly Wal-Mart workers but hold only onethird of managerial jobs. The percentage of women decreases on each step up

the company hierarchy.

There were allegations of pay disparities between men and women; of a lack of job postings, keeping women from career advancement; and of a generally hostile work environment for women.

Affidavits from more than 100 female workers brought stories of women being called “Janey Qs” and being told that men were paid more because they had families to support, as well as a worker’s complaint that her male manager told her to “doll up.”

Seligman said that although pay and promotion decisions are made at the local level, they reflect an attitude from the top.

“Wal-Mart has a very in-depth training program, very careful corporate oversight, a strong corporate culture, all designed to ensure a uniformity in decision-making,” he said in a recent interview.

Wal-Mart responded in its brief to the court that “plaintiffs premised their motion on statistics, sociology, and anecdotes.”

At the time of the district judge’s decision in 2004, the company’s retail operation included seven divisions, 41 regions, 3,400 stores and more than 1 million employees.

“The named plaintiffs’ claims cannot conceivably be typical of the claims of the strangers they seek to represent,” Wal-Mart said.

The case languished for years at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco before a panel upheld the judge’s decision. The full appellate court agreed in a 6-5 decision last year.

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Clinton: ‘Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to lead’

by Liz Sly and Joby Warrick THE washington post

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan rebels fled under fire from a key town in eastern Libya on Tuesday as world leaders convening in London insisted that Col. Moammar Gadhafi step down but offered no new suggestions for how to dislodge him from power.

The rebels’ chaotic retreat from the town of Bin Jawwad, which they had captured from troops loyal to Gadhafi just two days earlier, reversed the momentum they had seized over the weekend and suggested that the ad hoc and lightly armed opposition force may have reached the limits of its capacity.

It was the fourth time Bin Jawwad has changed hands in less than three weeks, raising the specter of a prolonged stalemate along the sparsely populated stretch of coastal highway between the rebel stronghold of Benghazi to the

east and Gadhafi’s heavily garrisoned home town of Sirte to the west.

Although the 40 world leaders meeting in London pledged humanitarian aid and continued airstrikes to protect civilians, they indicated that it would be up to the Libyans themselves to force Gadhafi out, leaving it unclear how they were supposed to do so.

The question of whether to arm the rebels was not publicly discussed, nor was the question of how to release frozen Libyan assets to help fund them. But the leaders attending the conference made it clear that the military campaign in Libya would not end until Gadhafi had gone.

“Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to lead, so we believe he must go. We’re working with the international community to try to achieve that outcome,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters after

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the talks, indicating that the United States is pinning its hopes on defections from those around Gadhafi.

President Obama on Tuesday said he would not preclude the possibility of arming the rebels. Pressed on the issue in an interview with NBC News, Obama said, “I’m not ruling it out, but I’m also not ruling it in.”

“We are still making an assessment about what Gadhafi’s forces are doing,” Obama said.

In a series of interviews with the three major television networks, Obama emphasized that his decision to deploy U.S. forces in Libya should not be applied to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

He told NBC that his policy on Libya should not be construed as an “Obama doctrine” that can be applied in a “cookie-cutter fashion.”

The strongest challenge to Gadhafi in London came from the prime minister and foreign minister of Qatar, a nation that has been the most forthright Arab supporter of the Western-led military campaign in Libya. Hamad Bin Jassim al-Thani, the prime minister, warned “Gadhafi and his people to leave and not cause any more bloodshed.”

“Right now we don’t see any indication of that,” he said.

“But this hope which we offer now might not be on the table after a few days. I am not warning anybody here, but I’m trying to stop the bloodshed as soon as possible.”

Clinton and other leaders reiterated their conviction that the military campaign in Libya has already saved lives by reversing the advance of Gadhafi forces toward Benghazi.

“We have prevented a potential massacre, established a no-fly zone, stopped an advancing army, added more partners to this coalition, and transferred command of the military effort to NATO,” Clinton said. “That’s not bad for a week of work at a time of great, intense international concern.”

Gadhafi has not been seen or heard from publicly in a week, but with his forces advancing east on the 11th day of airstrikes, no immediate pressure appeared on his government to abandon him.

Bin Jawwad, 90 miles east of Sirte, marked the farthest point of the rebel advance the last time they swept west through government lines a little over three weeks ago.

The retreat Tuesday suggested that the rebels will have a difficult time taking and holding territory in Gadhafi’s loyalist heartland.

News footage showed images of panicked rebels leaping into cars and pickup trucks and scrambling to leave Bin Jawwad as approaching Gadhafi forces pounded them with mortars and artillery. There were no reports of coalition airstrikes as the rebels withdrew.

The rebels retreated 37 miles to Ras Lanuf, the oil refinery town they had retaken from Gadhafi earlier this month as the momentum in the war seemed to swing in their favor. Yet even there, their hold seemed tenuous and there were reports late Tuesday that the town was coming under heavy artillery fire from advancing Gadhafi troops.

There were also reports from the besieged town of Misurata that Libyan forces had launched a fresh onslaught of attacks, pounding civilian areas with mortar and artillery fire. Four brothers were killed, according to a physician at the rebel-controlled hospital. In Tripoli, airstrikes occurred for the first time in daylight, with three loud explosions shaking the capital at 5:30 p.m.

As news of the rebels’ retreat reached Benghazi, the mood was somber. Rebel spokeswoman Iman Bugaighis described the action as a “tactical withdrawal” designed to take rebel forces “out of the range of Col. Gadhafi’s militia and mercenary troops.”

Rebel officials nonetheless said they welcomed the London conference for the increased diplomatic recognition it appeared to afford their self-styled government, the Transitional National Council.

“We don’t have arms,” said Guma El-Gamaty, British cocoordinator for the council, who added that he would welcome offers to provide weapons to the rebels. “But we ask for political support more than we ask for arms.”

Clinton, like Obama, did not discount the possibility of arming the rebels. She said she believed such a step would be legal under the terms of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973, which authorized the use of force to protect the lives of Libyan civilians. But British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the subject had not been raised.

U.S. and European leaders met with leaders of the rebel council, and also set up a multinational Libyan contact group to coordinate political strategy in the weeks ahead.

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Sitting atop huge gas reserve, Md. debates fracking

by Darryl Fears

THE washington post

Natural gas is often hailed as the most promising energy source to feed America’s power-hungry future: cleaner than coal and oil, and free of the fears surrounding nuclear power. And sitting atop one of the largest gas reserves in the world, Maryland is one of several Chesapeake Bay region states that stand to profit handsomely.

But the process of drilling for the “clean fuel” is now embattled, as the Maryland General Assembly recently sought to do what no other state in the region has done. Before a single well has been drilled, it moved to ban the practice, boldly stepping into the center of a heated conflict.

In a vote that reflects growing national concern over the practice known as hydraulic fracturing, state lawmakers in the House on Wednesday passed a bill that would essentially place a moratorium on drilling until the Maryland Department of the Environment completes a two-year study to determine whether it endangers drinking water and public health, as some environmentalists in nearby states that allow drilling charge.

“We’re not going to be like other states that drilled first and asked questions later,” said Maryland Del. Heather Mizeur (D), who drafted and sponsored the legislation. “We understand that second chances are expensive, so we should slow down and take the time to do this right the first time.”

The gas has been entombed for about 380 mil-

lion years in a thick layer of rock called the Marcellus Shale, which covers 95,000 square miles from Ohio to Virginia. But the industry just recently discovered an economical way to get at it: a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, using blasts of water mixed with chemicals to fracture the shale and release the gas.

It’s a difficult and expensive way to get at the hydrocarbons, but the Marcellus Shale formation is now thought to hold as much as 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas—with about 50 trillion cubic feet already recoverable using current technologies. Drilling could potentially bring in billions of dollars in tax revenue and jobs, along with lease payments and gas royalties from companies to property owners.

But environmentalists say fracking is a dirty business, and some government officials have listened.

The state of New York imposed a moratorium on new drilling permits in December after environmentalists raised concerns about the threat to drinking water.

Drilling has launched an economic boom in Pennsylvania, but energy companies there have been hit with numerous citations for environmental violations and lawsuits from residents claiming that drilling fouled their water.

And U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said this month that he is considering federal regulations to ensure that the drilling does not damage waterways. Speaking earlier

this month to the House Natural Resources Committee, Salazar said: “We are going to have a huge backlash... from the American public if we continue to inject chemicals and fluids into the ground without people knowing what it is that’s being injected.”

A hydraulic fracturing well is drilled vertically for up to 5,000 feet, then horizontally for about a mile, according to experts. Up to 5 million gallons of water mixed with undisclosed amounts of chemicals, including benzene, a carcinogen, and radium, a radioactive element, is fired down the well.

The hole is surrounded by concrete to keep chemicals from seeping into groundwater, and industry leaders insist there is no proof that it has. But a portion of the chemicals come back to the surface in wastewater.

The proposal passed in Maryland last week would delay the plans of two companies, Chief Oil and Gas and Samson Resources, which obtained leases worth millions of dollars from property owners to drill in Garrett County, in the state’s far west.

Under the proposed law, Maryland would levy a tax on the companies of $10 per leased acre to pay for its study, estimated to cost $1 million by its completion in August 2013. The money would help the state Department of the Environment, which lost staff to budget cuts, hire workers to conduct the study.

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Iraqi insurgents kill dozens in Tikrit raid

by Mohanned Saif and Stephanie McCrummen THE washington post

TIKRIT, Iraq — Uniformed attackers driving military trucks and armed with a car bomb, guns, grenades and suicide belts blasted their way Tuesday into a provincial government headquarters in this northern city, killing at least 53 people in a highly organized raid, according to witnesses and local officials.

Over several hours, the attackers went room to room, tossing grenades down hallways and through doorways and killing local politicians and government workers with shots to the head, according to Iraqi security forces and two witnesses who escaped by jumping out of a secondfloor window. More than 90 people were wounded, officials said.

After an hours-long firefight, Iraqi security forces - who called in U.S. helicopters and soldiers for support - entered the building, but there were no survivors inside. The attackers had either been shot or blown themselves up.

Sabah al-Bazee, 30, a freelance Iraqi journalist who worked for Reuters news service and other media, was among those killed, Reuters reported.

Iraqi officials immediately blamed the attack on al-Qaida-linked insurgents bent on destabilizing Iraq’s fragile government. Tikrit, a predominantly Sunni area and the birthplace of Saddam Hussein, was long a stronghold of groups with ties to al-Qaida, although they have been relatively quiet in recent years.

For many Iraqis, the scale and apparent coordination of the attack brought to mind the siege of a Catholic church in Baghdad in the fall, also blamed on al-Qaida, that killed 68 people.

According to a doctor at Tikrit’s Salahuddin Hospital, 53 people were killed Tuesday, while an official at a morgue put the death toll at 75.

Although small explosions and, increasingly, assassinations occur almost daily across Iraq, security has improved dramatically. In general, Tikrit and the surrounding Salahuddin province has become one of the country’s the most secure areas. When attacks come, however, they are often on a large scale. In January, a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people gathered at a police recruiting center in Tikrit.

Still, Tuesday’s carnage horrified Iraqis, many of whom fear that violence will worsen after U.S. forces withdraw as scheduled in December.

“What is this?” yelled Maj. Ali Ghalib, an Iraqi soldier whose cousin, also a soldier, was killed in the attack. “How did they not provide security? How did this happen?”

The raid began early Tuesday afternoon when the assailants—witnesses cited 10 or more—easily passed a first checkpoint into the provincial government compound and drove straight toward the headquarters of the provincial council, which meets Tuesdays.

As they were questioned by security guards in front

of the building, the attackers shot the guards in the head and then charged into the building, spraying gunfire on workers and civilians running out, according to local officials.

When an Iraqi security forces team arrived at the outside gate of the compound, a car parked there exploded, killing at least a dozen people. Among them were civilian relatives of people inside the building, who had called them for help.

As the attackers moved into the building, shooting and throwing grenades, people jumped out of second- and third-floor windows, breaking arms and legs as they landed. Seven workers barricaded themselves inside an office by shoving furniture in front of the door.

“People who tried to run away were shot,” said Hassoun al-Jubouri, 55, an engineer who was among the group. “We heard explosions going off and gunshots.”

As the building caught fire, Jubouri and his colleagues

used a water cooler to douse the door, then managed to break a window and shout for help. Civilians outside leaned a ladder against the building, allowing him and six others to escape.

Outside, about 1,000 Iraqi security forces had surrounded the building and called in U.S. forces for support, according to Iraqi and U.S. officials. U.S. surveillance helicopters hovered overhead, and U.S. soldiers—it was not clear how many—were on the ground.

When security forces finally shot their way into the building, they found bodies of government employees, including many women, lying in hallways and offices with gunshot wounds to the head.

Several of the attackers had been shot, and others were charred to death, apparently having detonated belts with bombs.

Saif is a special correspondent. Ali Qeis in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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Swain said she has gained valuable experience this year through working with the Duke Office of Durham and Regional Affairs.

“Alex Swain is a native of Durham with a strong commitment to improving Duke-Durham relations,” Phail Wynn, Duke’s vice president for Durham and regional affairs, wrote in an email. “During the 2010-2011 academic year, she has been involved in a number of community outreach and engagement initiatives and she has developed an understanding of how DSG can work with my office to better connect with the Durham community.”

In the coming year, Swain also wants the Durham and regional affairs committee to make it easier for students to live off campus by facilitating dialogue between student groups and relevant neighborhood leaders.

“I want to build a good working relationship with student organizations that have a stake in off-campus housing, like [the Panhellenic Association] and [the Interfraternity Council], and really make the transition to living off campus easier for student groups,” Swain said. “This means maybe having programming about what it means to be a good neighbor or just sitting down and talking.”

Junior Ubong Akpaninyie, the current vice president for Durham and regional affairs, said Swain’s familiarity with Durham makes her the strongest candidate for the position.

“She was... very helpful with my vice presidency because she’s very well-connected with city council members and the mayor, and she helped me to develop a relationship with city officials,” Akpaninyie said. “I think she has a really good vision for next year.”

Along with the support of Akpaninyie, Swain has also secured the endorsement of Mayor Bill Bell, currently serving his fifth term in office. In an open letter, Bell said Swain had expressed her goals to him, and he recommended her candidacy.

“I feel very confident in Alexandra’s abilities to lead the [Durham and regional affairs committee] to realize these goals for the benefit of Duke University and [the] City of Durham if elected to be vice president,” Bell wrote.

that we get to spend time with [the Duke basketball] family and everyone that makes that program tick.”

Mike Cragg, senior associate director of athletics, said Duke hopes to add about another 40 names to the list of fans traveling with the team. Given current interest, he does not imagine having any trouble doing so.

The University’s travel agency partner, Anthony Travel, will oversee the trip’s logistical details. The team will play its first game in Kunshan, China—the site of the new campus Duke plans to open next year. From there, the group will travel to Shanghai for a contest and then to Bejiing to the arena where head coach Mike Krzyzewski won a gold medal as coach of Team USA in the 2008 Olympics. The final stop is in Dubai, where the Fuqua School of Business has already established a presence through the Cross Continent MBA program, which makes a stop there, and an administrative office in the Dubai International Financial Center.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, noted that the trip offers a

unique opportunity for Duke to further advance its image abroad. Although all the current international programs are primarily academically based, he said the popularity of Duke basketball has a lot to offer in promoting Duke’s name to a foreign audience. He called it a “once-in-avery-long-time chance” to project Duke’s excellence in athletics and academics to a much larger audience.

“Duke basketball is one of the things that makes Duke special, and it’s what gives us the attention that most other institutions can’t hope to have,” Schoenfeld said.

“We know that basketball is very popular in China and is growing in popularity, and connecting Duke basketball to the campus in Kunshan and the other programs we have abroad is a great opportunity.”

Schoenfeld noted that the University will help to secure tickets to the team’s games for interested alumni. Given that there is no Ticketmaster or equivalent company in most of the areas the team will be traveling, he noted, most fans will purchase tickets directly through the individual venues.

Traveling with the team will require other preparations.

In anticipation for the trip, Lyders said she is learning Chinese. She does not know the words for Cameron Crazie just yet, but she said she “sure is working on it.”

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Fans willing to pay upward of $13,000 will be able to travel with the men’s basketball team this summer as they travel to China and Dubai.

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Men’s lacrosse wins tuneup over Brown 12-7, No. 1 Syracuse next. PAGE 10 A comprehensive look back at the 2010-11 men’s basketball team. PAGE 10

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W. Basketball

Moore’s shot sets tone for 2nd half

UCONN 23, DUKE 20

3:37 LEFT IN THE 1ST HALF

Karima Christmas, who would have six points in her last game as a Blue Devil, hits a jumper to close the gap to three

UCONN 30, DUKE 20

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Maya Moore looked unstoppable for large portions of the night, scoring 28 points on 12-of-18 shooting and grabbing 10 rebounds. instrumental in taking care of the post for Connecticut, holding Blue Devil centers Krystal Thomas and AlPHILADELPHIA — It all started with 30 seconds left in lison Vernerey to a combined three points on 1-for-8 the first half. shooting.

Down by eight and with a full shot clock, the Blue “Frankly, offensively, we were just horrible,” head Devils forced an attempt and then coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “To get eight points in turned it over, choosing not to hold the paint? Come on, you can’t beat anybody with eight Game onto the ball for the final shot of points in the paint.” period. Twelve seconds was more Beyond play down low, a primary distinction between Analysis the than plenty the two squads was Connectito set up twocut’s ability to convert turnovers time National Player of the Year “Frankly, offensively, we were into quick points. Although Maya Moore for a fade-away Duke only turned it over two jumper, which she nailed to just horrible.... You can’t beat more times than the Huskies, extend Connecticut’s lead to anybody with eight points in Connecticut had nine more double-digits. It gave the Huspoints off turnovers and eight the paint.” kies the momentum to play a more on fast breaks. dominant second half.

McCallie and her players were — Joanne P. McCallie “That was big for us, it felt also frustrated by the team’s ingood to be able to execute,” ability to get back on defense on Moore said. “We had a good multiple occasions, a problem stop right before that, and that’s exactly how you want that plagued the Blue Devils even after made baskets. to go into the half.”

“I think that the game started to get away from us Reminiscent of the two teams’ first meeting of the sea- in the first half with the transition defense,” senior Jasson, in which Connecticut began the game 23-2, Duke was mine Thomas said. “We came out in the second half outscored 22-3 to begin the second half and never had a and took some quick shots and then let them get gochance after, culminating in a 75-40 loss. ing.

The Huskies’ scoring output came primarily within The majority of those easy shots went to Moore, who the paint. Although they dominated the post in both did not miss a shot from the field in the second half dehalves, outscoring the Blue Devils by 14 and 18, re- spite injuring her left knee with 7:39 to play. While the spectively, the statistics don’t show how completely the injury caused her to spend time on the stationary bike, Connecticut frontcourt players took over in the second Auriemma still subbed her back in the game. It allowed period. Duke only grabbed five rebounds in the second Moore to score her 3,000th career point, a jump shot half, compared to the Huskies’ 21, giving Connecticut over the Duke defense. multiple opportunities to score underneath the basket “We just really lost contact with her,” senior Karima on a given possession.

Christmas said. “We just really needed to bump her more Moore and freshman center Stefanie Dolson were and locate her and disrupt her shots, which we didn’t do.”

by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE

Unfortunately for Duke, Christmas’s shot would be as close as the team got to the Huskies.

Maya Moore hit this jumper to close the half

UCONN 52, DUKE 23

10:34 LEFT IN THE 2ND HALF

The drive that put the game away: a 20-1 run by Connecticut, capped by a Tiffany Hayes layup with 10 minutes left

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M. Basketball

M. Lacrosse

Duke ‘Dougie’d’ to Blue Devils top Bears promising start of year Eight different players score in easy win

by Chris Cusack THE CHRONICLE

It all started with the Dougie.

With a freshman shimmying down the graduate student section in Cameron Indoor Stadium, exuding a blend of confidence, cockiness and above all, pure joy, the dance would become the early hallSeason mark of the 2010-11 Lookback: Blue Devils.

“It was just great to Part one hear my name,” Kyrie Irving said that night.

“I’m finally here, and my journey can actually begin to where I ultimately want to be.”

That “journey” got a jumpstart at the CBE Classic in Kansas City, where Duke snuck by Marquette before demolishing then-No. 4 Kansas State, 82-68, before a hostile crowd.

Kyrie Irving recorded a combined 31 points and 13 assists in the Classic.

It was another 31-point performance, though, that put Irving in the national spotlight—and this time, he only needed one game. Back in Durham the next week, the freshman blew the lid off even the loftiest expectations against then-No. 6 Michigan State. Head coach Tom Izzo returned the cornerstone of the squad that had reached the 2010 Final Four in Kalin Lucas, alongside perimeter stars Korie Lucious and Durrell Summers, creating one of the most-hyped nonconference games Cameron Indoor Stadium had ever hosted.

In fact, the Spartans were just one threepoint loss to Connecticut in Maui away from their preseason No. 2 ranking.

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The play of Kyrie Irving early in the year opened up offensive opportunities for sophomore Mason Plumlee.

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There’s been no place like Koskinen Stadium for the Blue Devils since last season, and Tuesday was no exception, as they defeated Brown 12-7 to extend their home winning streak to 14 games. Those 14 wins comprise the longest active streak in men’s lacrosse.

Balanced offense was the name Duke 12 of the Brown 7 gf aom er No. 3 Duke (8-2) against the Bears (3-4), as eight players scored goals and five recorded multipoint games. The team’s top three scorers—senior Zach Howell and freshmen Jordan Wolf and Christian Walsh— each scored twice in the contest, and junior Robert Rotanz also tallied two goals.

Brown’s Teddy Daiber netted a goal early in the first quarter to put the Bears up 1-0, and they held that lead for four minutes before a threegoal Duke run put the Blue Devils ahead just after the start of the second period.

Brown would tie the game at 3-3 behind two goals from leading scorer David Hawley, but Duke reprised its earlier 3-0 run to go ahead 6-3 and remain in the lead for the rest of the contest.

The Blue Devils outshot the Bears by nearly 20, and domicaroline rodriguez/The Chronicle nated the faceoff battle by taking 14 out of 21. Senior Tom Mon- Bill Connors scored his first career goal in Duke’s win yesterday. telli led the defense with four turnovers caused, and sophomore goalie Dan its home winning streak until Apr. 11 Wigrizer stopped eight shots as Duke allowed against Presbyterian, but they’ll have its second-lowest scoring total this season. a far bigger test on the road Sunday Duke won’t get a chance to extend against No. 1 Syracuse.

Baseball

Slide continues as Duke loses eighth straight

by Alex Young THE CHRONICLE

With a 4-1 loss at Campbell last night, Duke (15-12) has now dropped its last eight in seemingly every fashion imaginable. The Blue Devils got smacked around in Clemson.

They stranded too many runners Duke 1 on base against Ohio. They blew multiple leads in Chapel Hill.

Camp. 4 And now Duke has fallen to the Fighting Camels (12-14), a team they pounded 9-2 on Feb. 22. This time it wasn’t the pitching that led to the Blue Devils’ downfall. Eric Pfisterer, Drew Van Orden, Dennis O’Grady and Mark Lumpa combined to allow only three earned and six hits over eight.

It was the bats that just didn’t do their part. They ted knudsen/Chronicle file photo

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Drew Van Orden suffered the loss last night, but the freshman only gave up two hits in two innings of work. He wasn’t helped by the Blue Devils’ bats.

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Connecticut dominated Duke in the paint last night, outscoring the Blue Devils 40 points to eight.

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already had too big of a lead,” said Karima Christmas, the other Duke player named to the regional All-Tournament team. “We just really wanted to play better than we did last time, and we did, but unfortunately it was the same outcome.”

In the first half, the Blue Devils outrebounded the Huskies 22-19. That number changed quickly, however, as Connecticut’s MORE bigs began crashONLINE ing the boards Jasmine Thomas was more in the second half, and named to the AP’s All-American second Duke was outrebounded 40-27 team yesterday. sports.chronicleblogs. by the end of the game. Two-time com All-American Maya Moore and freshman Stefanie Dolson combined for 16 rebounds and 40 points, or as many points as the entire Duke team.

“We lost contact, and we let them get open shots,” Christmas said. “There were wide open shots, and [Moore] was in the high post.... We had to be moving at all times, knowing where she was, locating where she was at, contesting all her shots.”

With the help of Moore and Dolson, the Huskies’ inside game proved unstoppable, making up the majority of Connecticut’s 45 points scored in the second half. They outshot Duke in the paint 408, and their edge in field goal percentage—59.3 percent to 25.4 percent—left the Blue Devils wanting for an answer.

“You have to credit certainly their defense, but I was a little dismayed on hustle plays,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said.

“We weren’t too alive, and it wasn’t like we

were really playing an aggressive type of game that you need to play in Game 4.”

Some of Duke’s shooting struggles resulted from Connecticut’s high-pressure defense. It forced the Blue Devils to toss the ball out to the perimeter and make rushed shots before the shot clock expired.

“It’s just not being patient, not getting good shots,” said Thomas, who finished with 17 points and six rebounds. “Once we got down by 20, we just lost that chemistry and just started trying to press shots.”

Faced with the defensive pressure and an inability to shoot from inside the paint, Duke’s forwards and centers had a difficult time finding ways to contribute. The frontcourt had only 11 points in the contest.

“I tried to get in there, tried to get shots, but some weren’t falling,” Christ-

“We are extremely proud of our seniors and the season that we’ve had.”

— Joanne P. McCallie mas said. “I never really found my attack, and I tried to find other ways to score, but that didn’t come as easily.”

Despite the team’s elimination from the Tournament’s Elite Eight for the second year in a row—Duke lost to Baylor last year 51-48—the Blue Devils are hopeful for next year and are happy with the way their season panned out.

“It’s been a great season, obviously that was not a very good basketball game today from our side, but it will provide us with a lot more lessons,” McCallie said. “We are extremely proud of our seniors and the season that we’ve had.… It’s been a tremendous season.”

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On the largest stage of his young career, Irving surpassed his highest point total of the season, 17, in the first half alone, en route to 31 points, four assists and two steals while shooting 67 percent from the floor, plus 13-of16 from the charity stripe. With Kyle Singler’s shots not falling—a harbinger of shooting struggles he would have later in the season— Irving’s performance came at a crucial time.

More important than just his own stat line, though, the freshman excelled at opening up space for the rest of his teammates, Mason Plumlee in particular. The sophomore flourished in his new starting role, taking advantage of Irving’s passes to post four double-digit scoring totals in his first eight games—more than his entire freshman year combined.

But then? The Toepacalypse.

At first, it was unclear how badly Irving had hurt his right big toe after he stubbed it on Matt Howard’s foot in an 82-70 win over Butler. Potential prognoses were tossed around every corner of the Web, hypothesizing either a stubbed toe or a torn ligament, and everything in between. In the midst of the debate, though, two things were clear.

First, nobody knew anything. The team kept the secret of Irving’s injury close to the vest for months. In fact, the final diagnosis was only known after head coach Mike Krzyzewski talked to media in the week leading up to the NCAA Tournament. Second, any attempt to replace Irving’s impact would have to emerge from the combination of several different Blue Devils.

Over the next few months, Krzyzewski tried every possible combination of supporting cast members for Singler and Nolan Smith. And while nothing could be done to match Irving, it gave Smith the opportunity to evolve from third wheel in the 2009-10 Big Three into a bonafide National Player of the Year candidate.

had eight hits, tallied nine strikeouts, stranded seven men on base and walked only twice.

Three errors on the other side of the ball didn’t help either.

Pfisterer started for Duke. The junior southpaw had a rough first, surrendering two Campbell doubles that led to an early 1-0 lead. But he struck out the side and wouldn’t allow another hit or run over the next two.

Will Piwnica-Worms responded for the Blue Devils in the third with a triple into right-center field. He scored on a wild pitch the next at-bat to tie the game.

Both managers brought in new pitchers to start the fourth. Van Orden, who relieved Pfisterer, limited the Fighting Camels to a sacrifice fly in the sixth. But that was all the Campbell bullpen needed.

Fighting Camel relievers Ryan Mattes and Matt Marksberry combined to hold Duke scoreless over the final six frames, scattering four hits and two walks while striking out six.

The Blue Devils had a chance to tie it with a man on first and two outs in the eighth. Anthony D’Alessandro drove a two-out double down the left field line, but a strong relay from right fielder Alan Denman and second baseman Ellis Lowe—who also had a hand in each of Campbell’s four runs with two doubles, two RBIs and two runs scored—nailed Jeff Kremer at the plate.

Two insurance runs in the bottom half of the inning thwarted any hope of a Duke comeback. The Blue Devils went down in order to end the game.

Duke now looks to stem the bleeding at home in a three-game series against No. 10 Georgia Tech this weekend. It’s a tall order, though—the Yellow Jackets come in having won 16 out their past 17.

Tomorrow, check back for Part 2 of the men’s basketball season retrospective.

men’s golf

Duke moves up five spots, finishes third Duke fired a team score of 276 yesterday to finish in a tie for third in the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate. The score was the lowest one-day total of the tournament, and it helped the No. 20 Blue Devils move up five spots on the

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Sophomore Tim Gornik was one of four Blue Devils to shoot even-par or better on Tuesday.

team leaderboard, helping them recover from a lackluster second day.

No. 12 LSU won the tournament by shooting a 3-under combined total of 849 over the three day event. No. 6 Augusta State finished one stroke off the pace, while No. 11 Auburn tied Duke with an 855.

Duke was paced in the final round by Brinson Paolini’s 67, the best individual score of the day. The sophomore opened with a birdie on the 485-yard par-four No. 1, then eagled the next hole. He would go on to shoot a 31 on the front nine.

Paolini finished with a one-over 36 on the back to finish the weekend two-over par.

Julian Suri almost topped his classmate on Tuesday, shooting a 68. Suri started his round with three birdies on the first six holes before cooling off and playing the remaining 12 holes at even-par. He wound up with a tournament score of six over-par, overcoming a tough first day by posting even-par and three under-par rounds to close out.

Tim Gornik played a very consistent round on day three with 16 pars and one bogey and one birdie. Gornik finished the tournament with a total score of 216, three over-par.

Paolini, Suri and Gornik’s scores all ultimately fell behind Wes Roach’s, however. The senior shot a team-best 69 on day one, followed that up with 71 on Monday, then finished with a solid one-under 70 on the final day of action.

His combined score of 210 was good for sixth overall. Roach has played well as of late— he went 3-1 with a win over the NCAA individual medalist at the Collegiate Match Play Championship last week.

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Lieu for VP for ASE The coming academic year es head on. will bring many challenges Lieu is a two-year veteran for the Duke Student Govern- of DSG and it shows. Her unment committee on athletics, derstanding of the scope of the services and the environment. ASE position is pitch-perfect.

The group will need to lobby She plans to focus on athletfiercely to make ics and services student voices but also intends editorial heard on Tailto expand the gate, to protect access to ser- committee’s environmental vices during the renovation of program by promoting collabothe West Union Building and ration among existing campus to make Duke’s transporta- environmental groups. Lieu is tion system convenient and an old hand at environmental sustainable. The student body issues. She serves on the Camneeds a vice president for ASE pus Sustainability Committee, who can successfully navigate and her experiences make her these challenges. well suited to lead this effort.

Both junior Christina Lieu Regarding Tailgate, Lieu’s and sophomore Harry Liber- vision for reform points to an man have poise, knowledge oft-forgotten fact—students and impressively substantive themselves do not agree on platforms. But Lieu’s experi- what Tailgate should be. For ence and optimism proves the student voice to have force she can meet these challeng- in the Tailgate discussion, it

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must be coherent. Lieu recognizes that building consensus among students is essential to successful lobbying and to student satisfaction.

And Lieu’s proposals are underwritten with optimism about what she can do for students. She aims to fight for space for club athletes, for extended gym hours and more.

These are lofty goals, but this optimism is necessary if the VP for ASE is to do more than react to administrators.

Lieu does come up short on some key details. Her Tailgate plan barely alludes to the potential for deep studentadministrative conflicts that could spring from reform.

And, while her concern for keeping the West Union renovations up to environmental snuff is admirable, she should

focus more on fighting for student services during the construction phase. Still, Lieu’s experience and brio make her the clear choice for VP for ASE. Liberman’s proposals make clear his impressive command of University issues and his realpolitik pragmatism. He aims to keep administrators in check during the reform of Tailgate. He vows to protect student access to services during the construction on West Union. And he hopes to improve transportation by running smaller buses during off-peak hours and by improving the bike infrastructure on campus.

But Liberman seems unduly focused on what constraints he would face as VP for ASE. He resignedly pointed out

DSG’s impotence to effect changes in Wallace Wade Stadium, to get more space for club athletes and to improve attendance at Tailgate and football games. Realism is important in politics, but so is optimism and ambition—neither of these can be in short supply if the ASE committee is to meet next year’s challenges successfully. Liberman’s impressive knowledge and poise will make him an excellent senator—the kind Lieu would be wise to consult.

The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board formally endorses Christina Lieu for vice president for athletics, services and the environment.

Precious Lockhart and Katherine Zhang recused themselves due to their roles in DSG.

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arly in the morning on August 21, 2001, a In the latest chapter of the Tale of Two Rivals, new bus rolled up to the West Campus bus UNC’s Chancellor, Holden Thorp, tweeted a hustop at Duke University for the first time morously deprecating message about Duke stuever. More than a few students dents’ propensity to spend large scratched their heads in confusion amounts of time in tents. President that day. The bus looked very much Brodhead responded with a statelike the others that students were ment suggesting that someone had used to seeing, but instead of the hacked into Thorp’s account, and “C1,” “C2” or other familiar campus the battle had begun. The Daily Tar route designations, this bus carried Heel re-published a 1990 “Why I a unique three letter combination hate Duke” column, and Duke colin its destination board: “UNC.” Scott Briggs fired back with chris edelman umnist Everything changed that day. a “Why UNC hates us” response. shades of blue When the Robertson Express These slings and arrows are Bus began its service, two rival camgreat when moderated and kept in puses opened themselves to each other and have perspective. By giving students at both universities not closed since. Numerous Duke luminaries such something to think about, something to strive for as Robert Steel, Trinity ’73 and former chair of and a basis for comparison, the rich novel that is Duke’s Board of Trustees, and Nan Keohane, for- our rivalry only grows stronger. However, we get mer president of Duke University, had shared the into danger when we believe that UNC actually goal of creating the opportunity for better inter- hates us, or when we actually hate UNC. I’m all institutional collaboration. That day, Duke and for poking fun at Tyler Hansbrough’s face, and I UNC made significant progress. will never cheer for UNC in a basketball game, but If collaboration was the criterion for success of I understand the great benefits we get out of havthe Robertson bus, then today it has surpassed all ing UNC as our rival. expectations. Indeed, the columnists and editorial This is not something I always understood. As a boards of both The Chronicle and The Daily Tar freshman, I was convinced that Duke was perfect.

Heel have recognized the basketball rivalry, the As I grew older, spent a semester during my sophshared summer reading book for incoming fresh- omore year at UNC, visited my friends at other men and the major academic collaborative ven- colleges around the country and simultaneously tures, such as the jointly-hosted China Leadership became more involved at Duke, I realized that I Summit and the Consortium in Latin American was mistaken. There was no other school I would and Caribbean Studies. have rather attended, but I came to understand But what does having access to UNC mean to and relate to Duke in a more mature way. I started the average Duke student? to notice Duke’s shortcomings while at the same It means the ability to enroll in a class at UNC time developing a greater appreciation for what and get Duke credit toward graduation. It means makes it so special to me. I returned to campus the chance to attend lectures by the likes of Che- eager to embrace the opportunities that I had unrie Blair, Soledad O’Brien, David Brooks and oth- dervalued before and excited to create the ones ers. It means completing your senior thesis thanks that other colleges similarly took for granted. to the use of an ancient Sanskrit text that is only At my class’s freshman-year convocation in available at UNC’s library.

2007, President Brodhead told us to “engage But it also means having access to Franklin Duke.” Over my four years, I have learned that Street on a Friday night. It means seeing Shake- to engage Duke to the fullest extent possible respeare performed by the PlayMakers Repertory quires engaging schools and communities beyond Company. It may even mean meeting the love our own. So no matter how far along you are in of your life! And, really, these non-academic ad- your Duke career, I encourage you to get the most vantages of our relationship with UNC are just as out of your experience by visiting other schools important as the often touted scholastic benefits. and utilizing Duke’s relationship with UNC, but As former Director of the Robertson Scholars Pro- to always come home to Duke with the desire and gram and current Director of DukeEngage, Eric the passion to make it better.

Mlyn told The Chronicle before the bus service This morning, the Robertson Bus is pulling up began, “There’s a whole variety of interactions again, and this time it is pulling up for you. Will that don’t take place because of transportation you get on? and parking problems.” Simply getting to know UNC students and enjoying Chapel Hill can end Chris Edelman is a Trinity senior and a Robertson up meaning a lot to us. scholar. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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lettertotheeditor Understanding BSAI The Black Student Alliance embraces the diverse opinions within the Duke community. However, it is essential that when assertions arise that may compromise the integrity of BSA, they are made with accurate facts and an informed perspective. Unfortunately, Brandon Lock missed this mark in his letter to the editor. We, BSA, take issue with the misrepresentation of several aspects of the Black Student Alliance Invitational.

As Carrie Mills clarified in yesterday’s letter, Locke’s assertion that Black p-frosh are exclusively paired with black hosts is incorrect. Locke also goes on to say that Black p-frosh “are exposed to culturally black events like step shows, Caribbean dinners and Gospel choir performances.” Again, this statement clearly reflects Locke’s lack of basic knowledge of BSAI, given that we did not have gospel choir performances. To imply that BSA should apologize for embracing the dynamic, heterogeneous nature of the Black culture is problematic.

It is also disconcerting to propose that the celebration

of our diversity is a form of self-segregation.

We graciously challenge Locke to not only educate himself about BSAI, but actively participate next year in order to gain a more sound, enriching perspective of the weekend. It is a monumental and successful effort to strengthen the Duke community, boasting a 50 percent yield, the highest of any recruitment weekend. It is a weekend in which p-frosh were exposed to the words of John Legend, the wisdom of well-renowned poet Sonia Sanchez, the pride of our football team and the vast array of resources available at Duke that transcend race. If Locke were involved in the weekend, he would be well-informed and know that BSAI is anything but a weekend of segregation, but rather a highly coveted weekend of genuine pride in who we are. More importantly, it is a unique invitation for prospective freshmen to become a part of this Duke community. And for that, we do not apologize.

Nana Asante Trinity ’12 President, Black Student Alliance

endorsement Vote Pete Schork for DSG President The Honor Council would like to endorse Pete Schork in his bid for DSG President. In meeting Pete, we came to understand his deep passion for Duke, and we feel that this quality when united with his extensive experience with DSG will provide him the leadership and the vision to navigate Duke’s future. Students will find in Pete a powerful, insightful advocate who is at once motivated and capable of delivering meaningful changes to DSG so that it will better satisfy the needs of students and student-leaders alike. We felt that Pete has a strong sense of the importance of our Community Standard and the expectation of honor that this document bestows upon the student body. Together with his

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future senate and cabinet, we are convinced that Pete will help realize changes to DSG that will see its most effective form come forth. By working with the Council for Collaborative Action and other student groups, we hope that Pete will bring about many collaborations among disparate groups on campus and see a burgeoning of campus culture and life. Please note that we invited Ashley Jordan to our endorsement meetings, but she did not to respond to our invitation.

Very respectfully, Chris Martin Trinity ’11 Chair, Honor Council

A case for Kunshan

ess than a week ago, the Duke University adminis- increasingly important and more often grouped with this tration revealed the most recent estimates for the list. New York University pioneered the movement when it school’s planned campus in Kunshan, China. What opened a campus in Abu Dhabi. Yale has strong ties with we were once told would cost $5.5 million numerous Chinese universities. Doha is in construction costs and a total of $11 milhome to international campuses for Corlion over five years has been magnified to nell and Carnegie Mellon with Northwesta now whopping $37 million to complete ern soon to jump onboard. While there are phase one construction and a total of always risks associated with investments, roughly $70.5 million over six years. To put the opportunity for payoff is great. that in perspective, $37 million represents And the biggest payoff of a successful just under two percent of the University’s campus overseas would more than likely operating costs for the fiscal year 2008. not be a financial one for Duke. Rather, a scott briggs That may not seem like very much, but strong international presence increases as i see it certainly it isn’t a figure to be overlooked. the global visibility of a school, greatly Thus, it seems appropriate that the new elevating its status and prestige. Prestige China campus has spawned numerous Chronicle articles translates to desirability, which in turn leads to higher reporting on and discussing the issue. Not surprisingly, yield rates and increases in applications for admission. many have been quick to criticize the University for what More applicants means a lower acceptance rate, which, appears to be a lack of transparency about Duke’s stake you guessed it, means a higher ranking. While the uniin the Kunshan campus. Concerns have also been raised versity may claim that it does not act deliberately to imabout the checkered past of Wuhan University, Duke’s “si- prove its calculated ranking, I’m not buying that the adlent partner” in the venture. missions office is trying to quell high school students’ I’m not about to deny the surmounting evidence re- interest in Duke. garding the problems with the Kunshan campus. Clearly, It’s a tough line to walk. Highly competitive schools these are questions that the University needs to answer. have no choice but to care about what their peers are However, I do think it is time that someone steps in to doing. At the same time, merely copying someone else’s argue on behalf of the school and its project. formula won’t ever allow you to surpass them. During her When you were little, I’m sure your parents warned time here, President Keohane was successfully able to you about the dangers of giving into peer pressure. As im- carve out a niche for Duke in the upper echelons of eduportant as that advice is on an individual level, it doesn’t cation by taking an innovative and proactive approach. In translate perfectly when applied to universities. While fact, many of the Study Abroad programs we have at Duke blindly following others is never a winning strategy, there today are a result of her efforts. It’s no coincidence that is something to be said for the pressure that peer insti- by 1998, five years into her presidency, Duke was ranked tutions put on Duke. In striving to be the best, Duke is third in U.S. News, tied with Yale. This should serve as a repushed even harder to action by the progress of other minder that in moving towards a more global Duke Unischools throughout the country and the world. Despite versity, we need to look at what the best in the world are the vast differences between our school and those that we doing and make it our own. While up to this point Duke like to consider our peers, there are important facets that may have made some mistakes with Wuhan and Kunshan, we hold in common. the importance of a strong presence in the international Chief among these attributes are large endowments, community is not something to be discounted. rigorous academics, active alumni networks and strong commitments to research. As the age of globalization proScott Briggs is a Trinity freshman. His column runs every gresses, a drive towards internationalization is becoming other Wednesday.

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y friend and I have a running argument about using advanced statistics to better understand basketball.

In what will come as no surprise to those of you that follow my columns (and also to Coach K), I’m a big basketball stats nerd. Offensive efficiency, defensive efficiency, offensive rebounding percentage, Pythagorean winning percentage—I can’t get enough.

Using databases from alex fanaroff previous years, some of the Internet stats gurus can use farewell tour the score and time remaining of a given game to estimate each team’s chances of winning. The more advanced models take into account the relative strength of each team to determine that, for instance, Duke had nearly a 100 percent chance to beat Hampton after the Blue Devils took a 16-4 lead five minutes into the game.

My friend takes exception to those statistics. He asks what value the statistics have. He asks whether, if I were Hampton’s coach, I would just take my team off the floor with 35 minutes left to play in a game that was—statistically—nearly unwinnable.

I bring this up because, by one commonly-used statistical model, Arizona had just a 9 percent chance to beat Duke at halftime of the teams’ Sweet Sixteen game on Thursday. Of course, we all know how that ended.

The point, which my friend apparently had been ineloquently trying to make, is that probabilities are essentially meaningless when predicting the outcome of a single event. Perhaps if Duke played Arizona 100 times, and led by six at halftime in each one of them, then the Blue Devils would win 91 of those games. But they only played once, and Arizona won that one.

Modern medical education is focused on evidence.

We are taught that, whenever possible, we should seek out a study to help us determine our patients’ diagnosis or prognosis, and that we should support our treatment decisions in the same way. These studies may follow a group of patients—half of whom receive a new drug and half of whom receive a placebo—and report on how many of each group achieved some specified outcome, like survival without having a heart attack or number of months before cancer relapse.

It is easy, as a trainee physician, to be seduced by the power of these numbers. We cite the study showing that fewer than one in 10,000 patients treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs requires hospitalization for muscle breakdown, and manage to convince ourselves that it can’t—won’t—happen to our patients. We cite the studies showing that fewer than seven out of 100,000 people aged 20 to 49 will be diagnosed with lung cancer to convince ourselves that we won’t have to give our 25-year-old patient with a cough a death sentence of a diagnosis.

Of course, it goes the other way, too. Less than 2 percent of patients with metastatic cancer of the pancreas will survive for five years, but we still cling to that hope.

This information is, of course, essential. It enables us, as doctors, to plan for our patients’ future and to choose the best course of action. But our patients only live one life, and as such are only one of our millions of data points. Someone, after all, has to be that one in a million.

The NCAA Tournament plays out this process on a smaller, but more public (and less important) stage.

Duke had a 91 percent chance to win—but lost. Using similar statistical measures, Virginia Commonwealth had a 12-in-10,000 chance to reach the Final Four at the start of the Tournament—but reached the Final Four anyway.

As I sat there watching the Blue Devils lose in improbable fashion, I did not think of my patients who get crushed by an improbable diagnosis or a rare medication side effect. But perhaps I should have. It is easy, in basketball or medicine, to be seduced by statistics, to try to put order to a world that so fiercely resists it.

But it’s the space between prediction and reality where March Madness lies. And although it would be nice to have more certainty in medicine, there’s no escaping life’s unpredictability. All we can do is embrace the madness.

Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. His column runs every Wednesday.

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Robert Summers, acting state environment secretary, testified in committee on behalf of Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration, supporting the House bill with the condition that it include a study, paid for by the industry, and allow his department to grant a permit if a company can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that its operation would not adversely impact public health and the environment.

“Natural gas . . . is a better source of energy than coal or oil, and it is right here,” Summers said in an interview. “We have throughout the history of the country taken advantage of our resources,” but without “sometimes preventing the environmental damage that could be caused.”

In Virginia, the state Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy gave a favorable review to the permit of Carrizo Oil and Gas, allowing the company to seek a specialuse permit for an exploratory well in Rockingham County.

But county supervisors tabled the request indefinitely over concerns about its environmental impact.

Natural gas has potential benefits beyond being a cleaner burning fuel. A Pennsylvania State University study said gas exploration created 29,000 jobs and added $240 million to state and local tax coffers in 2008.

Revenue was expected to grow the following year, producing an economic output of nearly $4 billion, yielding $400 million in state and local taxes and creating more than 48,000 jobs. The value of additional state and local taxes from gas between 2009 and 2020 would top $12 billion, the study said.

As Maryland lawmakers argued before the 98 to 40 vote to pass the bill, Del. Michael Smigiel (R) blasted the proposal, saying it would economically “handicap Western Maryland.” Smigiel said the bill was part of a “war on rural Maryland.”

Lee Fuller, vice president of government relations for the Independent Petroleum Association of America, said politics, not science, drove support for the bill.

“You don’t have to freeze the process for some unlimited amount of time,” Fuller said, noting that Pennsylvania allowed drilling and addressed environmental concerns as they arose. But Maryland lawmakers listened to environmentalists and residents complain in hearings that Pennsylvania did not do enough. Pennsylvania facilities were not prepared at first to treat the volume of contaminated wastewater, they said, and some of it was trucked to water treatment facilities outside the state and released into waterways.

The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association compiled a list of violations by Marcellus Shale drilling companies, relying on state records. According to the association, there were 91 violations of the state’s Clean Streams Law, 155 violations for discharge of industrial waste onto the ground and into waters, and 212 faulty pollution-prevention practices.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the New York Environmental Protection Agency are each engaged in environmental impact studies on hydraulic fracturing.

The New York study is due within months.

There’s also the issue of where the enormous amounts of water needed for hydraulic fracturing is drawn.

“There’s big questions about where the water comes from to even do this kind of drilling,” Mizeur said. “Is it coming from local water supply or being trucked in from somewhere?”

At a state House Environmental Matters Committee hearing, a group called Clean Water Action estimated that 2 million gallons at a single well requires “549 tanker truck trips.” The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection estimated that a horizontal well requires 1,000 trips by heavy trucks, often on small roads, the group said.

The truck traffic was a lightning rod for complaints at the hearing in Maryland.

Nadine Grabania, co-owner of Deep Creek Cellars winery in Garrett County, said the traffic at a well proposed by Chief Oil would hurt her business and eco-tourism. Marilyn Moors said she bought a house on 100 acres without knowing the previous owner sold the gas rights and now feels trapped.

“I will be drilled under regardless of my desires and won’t receive a penny for it,” Moors said. “Those of us who do not stand to gain anything from the . . . drilling should not be asked to bear any of the costs, in terms of decreased property value or . . . environmental damage.”

Staff writer Ann E. Marimow contributed to this report.