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Medical students set precedent for school by

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In early 1929, two men walked through the shell of what would soon become the Duke University School of Medicine. One of the men was Dr. Wilburt Davison, the first dean of Duke Hospital and the School of Medicine. He told the other he had received several letters from prospective students asking whether Duke would be a “Class A” medical school. “It will. Won’t it?” asked the other man, Dr. Ray Wilbur, then chair of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association. Davison affirmed that it would be. “Answer all letters from now on in the affirmative,” Wilbur said, effectively granting the school the premier classification. University lore holds that Duke was the first medical school to be approved by the Council before students were admitted instead of waiting, as is the rule now, until the first class graduates. The story, which is retold

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in Davison of Duke: His Reminiscences, marks the beginning of what later became one of the top medical schools in the nation. In Duke University Health System’s 75th anniversary year of medicine, more than $lOO million are invested into construction projects across the campus, and new scientific breakthroughs are being announced regularly. But at the institution’s beginnings, Davison was struggling to secure $3007090 in funding for a four-year medical school. At the time, schools around the area had two-year, purely clinical curricula. Officials from the University and Duke Endowment wanted to follow the wishes of James B. Duke, a benefactor of both, and establish the

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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ. There was no stopping JJ. Redick

Saturday. Scoring a career-high 41 points,

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RfIUHuBfEH This story about the foundations of the University's medical community is the third in an occasional series commemorating the 75th anniversary of medicine at Duke. The Chronicle will run the series throughout the year.

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JJ. Redick was all smiles Saturday in No. 1 Duke's 97-66 rout of No. 2 Texas.The senior scored a career-high 41 points and tied a Duke record with nine three-pointers.

the senior cruised past Texas’ guards one by one. Kenton Paulino, PJ. Tucker, Daniel Gibson and J.D. Lewis each tried their hands at guarding the shooter but found lithe success, as No. 1 Duke (9-0) routed No. 2 Texas, 97-66, at Continental Airlines Arena. Six minutes into the game, Redick glanced at the scoreboard to see he had scored a quick 10 points. He said he realized then that he might be in for one of those days—one of those days when more than half of his shots would drop, when he would sink threes on the run or with a hand in his face. If his first few minutes were any indication of what was to come, he knew he’d have a special day. And his teammates knew it too “When he’s shooting like that, just get him the ball and be ready,” freshman Greg Paulus said of Redick, who went 13-for-24 from the field. Redick’s hot shot gave the Blue SEE TEXAS ON PAGE 8

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Thefirst students to attend the Duke University School of Medicine came to campus Oct 2,1930 to begin studying at what would be a "Class A” medical center.

Visitors to the Duke homepage next month may be in for a shock. The multitude of links to articles and news updates will be gone—replaced by a centered search box and a photo essay that dominates the bottom of the page. Set to launch in late January, the new homepage will be simpler, feature more graphic elements and cater more to prospective students, parents and alumni. “We’re trying to really emphasize three main elements with that design—clear navigation, a SEE WEBSITE ON PAGE 5

The newly redesigned Duke homepage will minimize the clutter on the current page.

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Paramount buys DreamWorks for $775M by Gary Gentile THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Paramount LOS ANGELES, Calif. Pictures Sunday agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. for nearly $1 billion cash in a deal designed to help both companies reverse their troubled fortunes. The sale marks the end of an 11-year dream for Hollywood moguls Steven Spielberg, JeffreyKatzenberg and David Geffen, who had ambitious goals for DreamWorks that once included television, music, films and the Internet. Moreover, the DreamWorks acquisition is seen as a critical gambit for Paramount,

which has been under orders from parent company Viacom Inc. to improve the quality of both its movies and earnings. Paramount will pay $775 million in cash and assume |825 million in debt and other obligations, the company said. “We see this at Paramount as a transforming event for the studio,” said Brad Grey, Paramount’s chairperson and CEO. The studio will finance the deal by immediately selling the DreamWorks film library, which Paramount values at between $B5O million and $1 billion. The company said it is in advanced talks with several parties and expects to have a deal within weeks.

Paramount will retain distribution rights to the 59 library titles, which includes such hits as Oscar-winners “American Beauty” and “Gladiator.” The company is not likely to sell the library to a rival studio but to an investment group that would pay Paramount fees to distribute future products derived from the films. The agreement does not include DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., which was the most profitable part of the company. The animated unit went public last year. Paramount does gain the right to distribute the animated studio’s lucrative films for the next seven years, including the profitable “Shrek” franchise.

Brazilians convicted of killing U.S. nun by

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BELEM, Brazil Two Brazilian men were convicted Saturday of killing an American nun who spent decades trying to save the Amazon rain forest, in a trial many saw as a test of Brazil’s commitment to prosecuting land-related killings. Rayfran das Neves Sales and Clodoaldo Carlos Batista were found guilty of killing Dorothy Stang on Feb. 12 in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. The seven-member jury sentenced Sales, who shot Stang six times with a .38 caliber revolver on a muddy road, to 27

years in prison. Batista, charged as an accomplice, was sentenced to 17 years. The men had faced up to 30 years in prison. Stang, 73, was killed in Para state, which is notorious across Brazil for corruption and land-related violence that in the past 20 years has claimed the lives of some 534 people. Before Saturday, only eight killers had ever been convicted. “We think it’s just the beginning, but it’s a great beginning,” said the nun’s brother, David Stang, 68, who flew from his home in Colorado to attend the trial. Prosecutor Esdon Cardoso said the case would only be resolved when three other

men accused in the killing are convicted, including two ranchers accused of ordering the killing. A third man has been charged with acting as a go-between for the

gunmen and the ranchers. The three are expected to face trial some time next year. Under Brazilian law, any first offender sentenced to more than 20 years is automatically granted a new trial, so Sales will be retried later. Both defendants recanted earlier confessions. Sales said he acted in self-defense, believing Stang was reaching for a gun as she pulled out a Bible. Batista said he did not know about plans to kill her.

Months before Karl Rove corrected his statements in the Valerie Flame investigation, his lawyer was told that the president's top political adviser might have disclosed Flame's CIA status to a Time magazine reporter.

Fuel depotexplodes in London Explosions ripped through a major fuel depot north of London, injuring dozens of people and sending fireballs and massive clouds of black smoke into the sky. Police said the blasts appeared to be accidental.

Voting commences in Iraq Voting begins today in hospitals, military camps and even prisons across Iraq, launching the process to choose a new parliament that the United States hopes can help quell the insurgency so U.S.forces can begin heading home. Iraq's government announced it will close its borders, extend the curfew and restrict domestic travel starting Tuesday.

Nigerian crash kills 107 people Investigators on Sunday picked over the scorched wreckage of an airliner that was ferrying schoolchildren home for the holidays when it crashed, killing all but three of the 110 people on board. The cause of the crash was still unknown. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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University administrators and officials who hope to keep pace with scientific and technological developments may soon be supplying researchers with the best shop in town. An array of structural changes to the newly named Office of Licensing and Ventures, formerly the Office ofTechnology Licensing and Venture Development, aim to provide improved services to innovators hoping to turn inventions and discoveries into profitable enterprises. The OLV currently serves as the primary conduit for faculty hoping to launch products into the marketplace, offering advice on commercialization, strategies and patents. One of the more sizeable changes to be made will be an increase in staff support that will double its current size by September 2006. The OLV has also gained a new leader. After a long two-year search, the University hired Rose Ritts as the OLV’s new director because of her expansive experience in the fields of engineering and management, said Vice Provost for Research James Siedow. Ritts, who received a B.S. in biomedical engineering from the Pratt School of Engineering, hopes that a general increase in support will foster faculty confidence in

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Students line up at the Marketplace on East Campus for some late-night grub and a t-shirt at Midnight Breakfast. The semiannual tradition marks the beginning offinal exams, which for many start today. It usually attracts students ofall years looking for a breakfrom burning the late-night oil studying.

Anarchist professor fired from Yale A professor who also is an outspoken anarchist has agreed to leave Yale University this spring, dropping an appeal over if his termination was politically motivated. David Graeber, one of the world's leading social anthropologists, said he will teach two classes next semester, then take a yearlong paid sabbatical, after which he will not return. Yale officials have not discussed their reasons for terminating Graeber, and he said he has never learned why. Dozens of the school's 250 non-tenured professors come up for contract renewal each year.

Prof claims he was forced to resign as chair A college professor who drew sharp criticism for comments deriding Christian fundamentalists over "intelligent design" said he was forced out as chair of the university's religious studies department. Paul Mirecki, who remains a professor at the University ofKansas, said he had no choice when he signed the resignation letter, typed on stationary from the dean of the College ofLiberal Arts and Sciences. “The University penalized me and denied me my Constitutionally protected right to speak and express my mind,” he said in a written statement Friday.

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Student leader arrested for bank robbery Lehigh University’s Class of 2008 president was arrested and jailed Friday for armed robbery. Greg Hogan, 19, confessed to the police that he robbed the Wachovia Bank at 3:02 p.m. Hogan gave the teller a note that demanded money and said he had a weapon. Police haven’t confirmed if he had a weapon. According to police, Hogan left the bank with $2,871 and entered a black Ford Explorer owned and driven by Student Senate President Kip Wallen.

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County says ‘no’ to money for laptops The Durham County Board ofCommissioners has approved only $6.4 million of the $15.9 million requested by Durham school system administrators last spring. Commissioners did not approve a $l.lproposal to give every high school and middle school teacher a laptop computer. School system administrators went ahead with the program anyway, an action that has caused a rift between school and county officials. Officials in the school system want commissioners to consider a supplemental budget request after the new year, and help to pay higher than expected student growth and energy costs. Commissioners have said that the laptop purchases may have ramifications when they make funding decisions in the future.

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Iran opened the door TEHRAN Sunday for U.S. help in building a nuclear power plant—a move designed to ease American suspicions that Tehran is using its nuclear program as a cover to build atomic weapons. The offer, which did not seem likely to win acceptance in Washington, was issued as Israel said it had not ruled out a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. “America can take part in international bidding for the construction of Iran’s nuclear power plant if they observe the basic standards and quality,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hamid Reza Asefi said in a news conference. Asefi was apparently talking about a 360-megawatt light water nuclear power plant that the head of the country’s atomic organization said Saturday would be built in southwestern Iran. Iran also wants to produce 2,000 megawatts of electricity by building nuclear power plants with foreign help in southern Iran. In Washington, neither the State Department nor the White House issued any comment on the proposal. While it was unclear how the Americans would react to the Iranian proposal, relations between Tehran and Washington, which were severed after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, have seldom been worse. The United States has imposed unilateral sanctions on Iran, preventing American companies from doing business in Iran. The United States also has ratcheted up pressure against Iran, accusing it of pursuing a nuclear weapons program and supporting anti-Israeli militants. Iran says its nuclear program is designed only to generate electricity. Still, the United States is pushing for Tehran to be hauled before die U.N. Security Council, where it could face economic sanctions for violating a nuclear arms control treaty. The Iranian offer comes at a time when Iran is facing a barrage of criticism over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent remarks, first that Israel should be wiped off the map and later that the Jew-

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Iranian clerics (Mullahs) stand as human chain during a demonstration to support Iran's nuclear program. ish state should be moved to Europe. “Iran made the offer seriously to Israel denied a British newspaper reshow the United States that it won’t proport Sunday that reported it has plans to duce a bomb and ease its concern,” attack Iran in March, but officials said Leilaz said. “And partly, Iran made the they would not rule out a military strike if offer because it’s almost sure the United Iran makes advances in building nuclear States won’t accept it.” weapons. The report appeared in the Iran has been involved in stalled talks with European negotiators aimed at makSunday Times. Amos Gilad, a senior Defense Ministry ing Tehran permanendy freeze nuclear official, said attention was now focused enrichment, which can produce material on an international solution over the for use in warheads or fuel for nuclear Iranian program but added, “It isn’t corplants to generate electricity. rect to say that a country that is threatTehran temporarily froze its enrichened should deny that it will ever considment program in November 2004, but the er a different option.” Europeans want it permanendy halted. Israel Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom The United States backs the Iran-Eusaid the country would never accept a nurope talks, which broke off in August but clear-armed Iran. will resume Dec. 21 in Vienna, Austria. “Israel can’t live in a situation in which Tehran since has restarted uranium conIran has the atomic bomb,” he said. version, a precursor to enrichment. Iranian political analyst Saeed Leilaz “The [Vienna] meeting will be a serious one,” Asefi said. “Everything is dependent said Tehran’s offer was somewhat genuine but also politically motivated. on the meeting and the talks.”

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OLV from page 3 Duke’s capacity to support intellectual property and will also better engage the business community. “The trend is that more and more, a university’s ability to attract and retain top faculty and grants is linked to being able to show a strong and successful licensing and venture component,” Ritts said. The increase in size and visibility has been a long time coming, Siedow noted. “The demand has grown dramatically over several years, while staff size has remained constant,” Siedow said. “The office was woefully understaffed.” Siedow attributed the increase in demand to strategic hires and other initiatives—especially at the Duke University Medical Center and at Pratt—that have increased opportunities for faculty innovation.

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Dr. Barry Myers, professor of Biomedical Engineering and head of Duke’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, said he’s already seen positive changes in staff support from the OLV this year. “CERC’s job is to bring students and faculty together to create new ventures and research innovations,” he

company that has collaborated with Duke. “Outside of a university, businesses have tight profit margins and value this same trait.” OLV officials said that after products are patented, many must wait for a period of time before the OLV is able to transfer licenses from the University to interested businesses. “This is the key to the process of transferring things from the academic setting to the real world,” said Vice Chancellor for Corporate and Venture Development Robert Taber. Besides boosting appeal to businesses and faculty, University and OLV officials are hopeful that the OLV’s performance will provide a role model for other universities. “There isn’t sort of a one model [for technology transfer] among universities that everyone says is best,” Siedow said. “I’m hoping that we’ll leapfrog universities and become a model of how to do technology transfer.”

said. “I’m sure that with more staff the center will foster even more amazing things among innovators.” In addition to making sure ideas are efficiently patented, another added benefit of an expanded OLV staff will be enhanced collaborations with companies outside of Duke, he said. Toward that end, Ritts hopes that the creation of a new OLV website will better consolidate resources for faculty and increase Duke’s professional appeal. “Quick action will show the inventor that they are responsive to the inventor’s needs,” saidKaren LeVert, cofounder and president of Southeast Techlnventures, a

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WEBSITE from page 1 clear visual identity for Duke and an emphasis on themes that tie into Duke’s strategic messages,” said David Jarmul, associate vice president for news and communication. Much of the news content that is present on the current site will be moved to Duke Today, an online publication that will launch at the same time as the new homepage and will replace Duke Dialogue. “The existing website is more than three years old, and the whole web environment has changed a great deal at Duke and more broadly,” Jarmul said. “We felt that the site is trying to be too many things to too many people and that we really needed to take a fresh look at it.” By decreasing the amount of content displayed, designers can put more striking visuals on the website, said Benjamin Riseling, web development project manager for the Office ofNews and Communications. “There were some glamour shots on there, but only about 10 of them, and they would just rotate. But after three years that gets old, and there wasn’t enough real estate on the page,” he said. “We’re going to make [the redesigned site] graphically rich and try to give people the impression of what it’s like to be at Duke.” Since September, the Office ofNews and Communications has maintained a blog to post updates about the changes being made and mock-ups of what the website may look like. In addition, community members can post feedback, comments and questions. Many people who commented on the blog expressed concern regarding the amount of white space and loss of substance in the new design. “I like the simplicity but have concerns over the lack of content; it appears as though Duke has nothing to say,” wrote a user who identified himself as Andrew Smith. Administrators responded on the site by pointing out that the mock-ups were works in progress and were being continually revised. The redesign of the site started this summer, although planning has been going on for more than a year, Jarmul said. His office has tested the new website on a number of focus groups, most recently on a number offreshmen who “really liked the idea,” he said. “People have expectations with websites that every couple of years things should change,” Riseling said. “The web changes so radically, so quickly that there are a lot of expectations for using new technology.”

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medical school as a four-year institution, containing both preclinical and clinical instruction. Funding, however, was limited. Davison scoured the nation, seeking money from the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board, among other potential donors. After a summer of uncertainty, the Board approved Davison’s proposal in November 1929. “[The money] is even more significant as an indication that American philanthropy and the American public will not withhold gifts from Duke University' because one man has made it a very' great gift,” then-Duke President William Few said to the University trustees after the funds were promised. With money in hand, Davison’s vision for the four-year medical school was taking shape. The curriculum was originally designed to meet the needs of the Carolinas and Virginia, as many doctors who graduated from Duke would go on to staff clinics in this area. Other goals in the beginning were to emphasize the importance of sound teaching and good medical care, create informal student-faculty relations and give students a sense of what Davison considered the master word of medicine: work. “The content and arrangement of the curriculum are less important than the enthusiasm and interest and desire to work, which a dedicated instructor can instill into a student,” he wrote. After receiving some 3,000 applications, 30 first-year and 18 third-year transfer students were admitted. Similar to the admissions process today, officials looked at the applicant’s curricu-

of 11 weeks To graduate, students could take three terms each year for four years or four terms for three years. Students were encouraged to spend one quarter abroad or in a community hospital. Most students found the work difficult. At the end of two quarters, 13 first-year students received “strong warnings,” indicating their work needed improvement. Another 14 first-year and six thirdyear students received “mild warnings.” An honor system was instituted in April 1931. It was modeled after Princeton University’s code, with which Davison was impressed during his studies there. He said at Princeton, cheating was rampant and proctors monitored each test. After the honor system was put into place, students curbed their cheating habits and held themselves to a higher standard. All 18 third-year students graduated June 8, 1932. For the graduation ceremony, Davison borrowed another Princeton tradition planting ivy cut from England in front of the school. “It was a very pleasant occasion,” Davison wrote Days afterward, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that a faculty member had applied for a permit to import that ivy and had been refused. “I was furious because all garden lovers know that no one except experimental nursery-men can legally import plants,” Davison wrote, noting he smuggled it to the United States in his pocket. Davison was facing a jail sentence as a penalty. He appealed to a senator and told him the whole story, including that the ivy had already died as a result of the glaring sun. The incident was quietly settled. ters

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Duke School of Medicine officials planted ivy on campusfor the graduation lar and extra-curricular college records carefully, along with an interview and scores from the Medical College Admission Test. “Preference is given to the sons and daughters 0f... physicians because they are familiar with professional ideals and ethics and the problems of the practice of medicine,” Davison wrote. The students converged to Duke Oct. 2, 1930 to begin classes. Because enrollment was initially far below the capacity of 70 students per class, professors developed personal and individual relationships with their students. “There wasn’t a boy who went through medical school that didn’t feel that Dean Davison was a second father,” sard John

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Senior Blake Camp was named to the NSCAA All-America Second Team Friday. He scored nine goals and led the Blue Devils with 23 points.

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By the time the women’s basketball

takes the court for its Dec. 19 game against Ball State, it will have been nearly two weeks since the Blue Devils played their last game. The Blue Devils (7-0) can use the rest and the extra practice time- The y emer sed notebook from a stretch of five games m nine days unscathed, but the extended break will give the team the chance to focus on early season weaknesses in preparation for its upcoming ACC schedule. “We’ve had so many games, and we really haven’t been able to have practice where we can just break down and get back to basics,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “We’re going to be working on our defense, working on our screening—little things that make a big difference in close games.” So far this season, the Blue Devils have rarely been in close games. In their undefeated run, their average margin of victory has been 38.4 points. But in the two games against No. 19 Texas and Texas Christian Dec. 4 and 6, respectively, the final score was not an exact reflection of how competitive the games were. Against the Longhorns, the game was tied at 61 with 9:40 left in the second half until Duke pulled away for a 14-point win. Even though the final team

be No. 1 in the country were answered Saturday in front of a packed house at the Meadowlands. With a tireless commitment on both ends of the floor against the N°- 2 team in the na09I11C? tion, the Blue Devils analysis proved that despite a recent shaky stretch, they have the capability to win it all this year. It would be easy to overlook the completeness of Duke’s performance because of JJ. Redick’s dazzling offensive show. This game, however, should be noted as much more than that—this Blue Devil team finally lived up to its potential and dominated in all aspects of the game. “It’s a statement game for our team,” senior Shelden Williams said. “For the first time, everyone out there was playing as one.” Duke outrebounded a tall Texas team with a true team effort—all five starters finished with at least four rebounds and none finished with more than seven. The Blue Devils shot a solid 53.4 percent from the field and only turned the ball over seven times. On the defensive end, Duke forced 16 Longhorn turnovers and limited its opponents to just 66 points. Texas is a good team, even if the game’s margin of defeat suggests otherwise. The Longhorns will still figure into the national title picture come March. They have a couple sophomores in point guard Daniel Gibson—who Sean Dockery shut down and center LaMarcus Aldridge who could end up as All-Americans at their respective positions. But that didn’t matter to Duke. “Today was just about us trying to get better and trying to establish ourselves,” Redick said. “We’re still an unproven team, even though we’re No. 1 in the country —

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Senior Shelden Williams scored 23 points and recorded five blocks, while helping to limitTexas'frontcourt.

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Abby Waner and the Blue Devils have nearly two weeksbetween games.

Airlines Arena. But the threat of snow caused head coach Mike Krzyzewski to revise his team’s travel plans and leave Thursday night instead. The extra time away from Durham allowed the team to escape the grind of end-of-the-semester papers and exams, and instead focus on basketball. “It’s been a really tough week academically for us, just before exams,” Krzyzewski said. “We hadn’t played as well our past two ballgames. One, because we played two really good teams and, also, because we were just fried mentally.” Duke practiced at the New Jersey Nets’ practice facility SEE TESTS ON PAGE

TheBlue Devils'trip to New Jersey provided a much-needed breakfrom studying for final exams. Duke will not play another game until next Sunday againstValparaiso.

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TEXAS from page 1 Devils a commanding lead early in the game—one the Longhorns (8-1) could not overcome, even though they tried. Paulino began the game chasing after Redick, but after about 10 minutes, Texas’ head coach Rick Barnes reassigned Gibson to cover Duke’s All-American guard, who showed no signs of stopping. After Redick dismissed the efforts of three Longhorn guards, Lewis entered the game in the second half to try and quiet Redick but instead immediately committed two quick fouls. Then as if that weren’t enough, Redick received an inbounds pass just inside the arc moments later and

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back behind the line, set himself and sank an easy three-pointer, one of his careerhigh nine in the game. “J.J. Redick is such a great player that he can create space to gel his shot off,” Barnes said. Texas center LaMarcus Aldridge, who was quieted by Shelden Williams and Josh Mcßoberts in the paint, scored just eight points in the first half but came back in the second half and led the Longhorns with 21 points. Tucker and Paulino each contributed 14 points, w hich was a season high for Paulino. Forward Brad Buckman, who entered the game averaging 13.5 points per game, injured his right calf in the seventh minute and did not return. Williams and Mcßoberts combined for 11 rebounds, and the senior added 23 points for the Blue Devils. Although his performance was somewhat overshadowed by Redick’s, Williams held his own under the basket against one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the nation, Krzyzewski said. Along with his 23 points, Williams talliedfive blocks and four assists. Trailing by 12 at the half, Texas made its last-ditch effort shordy after the break. Gibson came out and demanded the ball, making a quick layup and a jumper, while leading a 9-2 Longhorn rally. But Kr2yzewski called a timeout to regroup, and Redick’s ensuing three and the team’s strong defense stopped any hope of a Texas comeback. From there, the Blue Devil’s lead only grew, and grew. “They’re overall physical nature on defense dominated us in the beginning of the game and the ending part of the second half,” Tucker said. “Duke is the kind of team that plays hard for the entire game.” Both Redick and senior guard Sean Dockery said the Duke coaching staff had

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Sean Dockery clamped down on Texas point guard Daniel Gibson, holding him to just 13points.

emphasized the importance of staying motivated and focused on both sides of the court throughout the game, no matter the opponent. Their defense kept most of Texas’ players under their season averages in points and virtually silenced the Longhorn bench. Although Saturday’s 31-point win was the largest ever for a No. 1 team over No. 2, Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils are not harping on rankings. After all, he has coached more than 100 games at No. 1. “We had a really good team performance,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought we had a chance to win, but to win by a significant margin is not what I expected.” And with strong performances all around, Krzyzewski and his team are hoping the win will only motivate them further. “Today was just about us getting better as a team,” Redick said. “It’s still a young season, and we want to establish ourselves and start playing to our full potential. This can either be a burst of energy or we can get complacent.”

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BIG WIN from page 7 and undefeated. It’s still a young season, we’re still a young team that’s developing, and we just wanted to establish ourselves against a great team like Texas.” Besides the ability to nail shots and hit the glass, the Blue Devils showed they also have the mental fortitude to win big games. They could have folded when the Longhorns launched a 9-2 run to open the second half and cut the lead to five. But they were unfazed. After Krzyzewski called a quick timeout, Redick got a shooter’s bounce on a long three-pointer and the team never looked back. The Blue Devils held Texas scoreless for the next five minutes and without a field goal for three more than that while pushing the lead over 20. And once the team was up big, it did not stop playing smart or tough. With 36 points already under his belt and Duke up 25 with just less than 10 minutes left, Redick stepped in front ofTexas forward R J. Tucker and his 225-pound frame barreling down the lane on a fast break to take a charge. Three minutes later, Williams, the Blue Devils’ other senior star, chased down a loose ball on Duke’s offensive end. The ball was seemingly out ofhis reach, but instead of giving up since Duke was already up 21, Williams dove to the ground and tapped the ball outside to Redick, who surprised nobody by nailing another threepointer from the wing. Even though they scored 41 and 23 points, respectively, all Redick and

Williams wanted to talk about after the game was their teammates. Their unselfish, lay-it-all-on-the-line attitude is starting to rub off on the freshmen too. Greg Paulus had five assists against just one turnover. Josh Mcßoberts played under control and increased his effort on defense. With five minutes left in first half he received a Sean Dockery pass down low and dunked it home. As he sprinted back on defense, he broke up a pass near half court and took it all the way to the basket, this dme for a two-handed tomahawk jam. “We had a really good team performance,” Krzyzewski said. “[Redick and Williams] don’t say it but they feel like they’re carrying those guys a litde bit. When Greg and Josh become assertive like that itfrees up the other guys.” Who knows why it took Duke this long to dominate against a good team. Maybe it’s the dynamic mix of freshman and seniors. Maybe Krzyzewski had yet to unleash all of his offensive sets—he said he employed some new plays for Redick Saturday—or utilize all his motivational tools. It doesn’t matter now. Whatever it was worked. The Blue Devils now have a firm hold on the nation’s top ranking and should continue to be seen as the team to beat in college basketball. “I think the way that we played and the way that we’re capable of playing showed that we are a top team,” Williams said. “I don’t think it matters right now if we’re the No. 1 team or not because everything that matters is in March.”

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score was 92-52 against TCU, Duke was only up by one on the Horned Frogs with one minute left in the first half before its offense exploded with 56 second-half points in the blowout win. “We definitely need to do a lot better job beginning games,” Goestenkors said. “We need to be focused and ready to play. So that’s an area where we’re going to try to do a better job with over this break because it is a concern of ours.” The Blue Devils should expect closer games as the level of competition will escalate after the New Year. In the ACC, they will play both No. 7 North Carolina (9-0) and No. 9 Maryland (8-1) twice. And the women’s squad will also meet No. 1 Tennessee (8-0) in a Jan. 23 matchup that will potentially pair the nations’ top two teams. But the Blue Devils, who did not graduate*-any starters from last season, will not be complete strangers to the stronger opposition. Last season, they set a Duke record with 12 wins against ranked opponents. And in three of those games, they relied on game-winning shots by senior guard Monique Currie, including one for a 59-57 regular season win against Tennessee. “We know it’s coming, where we do have close games that go down to the wire,” Goestenkors said. “We had many games lastyear that went down to the final buzzer, and we won all of those games. So, there is a level of confidence we already have based on past experiences. The players that were in those games are back. So, we feel good about the potential to be successful in those situations.” Before the student-athletes can look ahead to the vigorous upcoming schedule, they will have to tangle with the rigors of final exams and final papers this week as the semester comes to a close. But substantial time between games will give the players ample opportunity to

TESTS from page 7 Friday, and Krzyzewski said the team looked loose and ready to play No. 2 Texas the following day on national television. “I knew we were going to play well,” Krzyzewski said. “We were so much more

relaxed. All the stuff we had to do academically was over for three days.” The Blue Devils were especially under pressure with their schoolwork because of all the time missed recently for road trips. The players missed a day of classes each for the trips to New York for the NIT Season Tip-Off and Bloomington, Ind. for the tilt with Indiana.

focus on their studies Goestenkors said she will attempt to balance players’ time playing basketball and doing schoolwork with short, intense practices so that her team can do as well as possible in the classroom and on the court. “We know that we have to balance both our schoolwork and basketball,” senior guard Monique Currie said. “I think that now is a good time for everyone to have time to study and get ready for finals.”

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“Krzyzewski said. “It’s a really tough week. I could sense them feeling a relief. They were in a good mood these last two days. After the blowout win, the team now turns its attention to final exams before Duke resumes play next Sunday night at home against Valparaiso. Tuesday will be the only day the Blue Devils take completely offfrom team activities, but players are allowed to miss practice as they see fit, Krzyzewski said. The team’s positive attitude after the win may be short-lived, however, Krzyzewski warned. “These guys will be humbled over the next week by exams,” he said. “Hopefully not too much.”

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that I’m not going to be the only person fielding questions that make me wonder what might be wrong with me and why it might be a turn off to potential suitors. In Are Men Necessary ?, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s new book/very public pity party, Dowd delivers a walloping sucker punch of an answer to single American women everywhere. According to Dowd, my once-upon-a-time fern hero, the chances that any woman has to entrap a life partner decreases precipitously with intelligence, age and personal success. Apparently, empowering thinking is damaging to the ladies and threatening to the men-kind. So even in this liberated age of prolonged adolescence and modern feminism, it is still not okay for a woman to be on her own. Well, at least not if she wants to avoid yet another family holiday dating-intervention. (Santa Baby, all I want for Christmas is a renewed faith in the Myth of the Independent Woman. Slip it under the tree for me). Isn’t it just possible that single women in their 20s and beyond are okay, if not happy, being single? Isn’t it Just possible that they aren’t all lonely or desperate or stalkers? And would it be so terrible if the girl from that bad Wednesday night chick flick doesn’t get the guy in the end? I’m sorry, but if being young and smart and beautiful and single is wrong, then maybe I’m missing the point of being young and smart and beautiful and single. And maybe, just maybe, I don’t wanna be right. Boston Cote is a Trinity senior. Her column normally runs every Fri-

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is like unprotected sex: You were excited to get in, but sad that you came.” I recently overheard that phrase in Bostock, of all places, and burst out laughing, piercing the eerie silence of the reading rooms. But afterwards, I started thinking about the nugget of truth embedded in the comparison I don’t agree with the sentiment, but I know it nicely captures the feelings of many. But how does it happen? How is the rapturous excitement of

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I remember getting MY acceptance letter in the mail and, despite the passing cars, dancing in the driveway. My booty-shaking aside, I imagine many people were equally excited. Yet, the afterglow of admission starts to dull soon after we come. Is the disappointment really that great? Do we come here and realize that it’s not as impressive as we thought? Or do we simply get setded in, take things for granted and find problems to bemoan because it gives us something to talk about? I’m inclined to go with the latter for a variety of reasons, the most vivid of which occurred a few weeks ago. I was having dinner with my high school teacher and her mother, the two of them having surprised me with a chance visit. My teacher had attended Duke in the 1960 and her mother in the 19405. I watched their eyes widen with amazement as I spoke about Merchants on Points, all the new buildings and everything else that has changed in the past few decades. Seeing their genuine amazement at what Duke has become—the Duke we take for granted—I couldn’t help but feel a sense of ingratitude. And it’s not just that we don’t appreciate it. Rather, it’s that we have the nerve to constandy whimper about one thing or another. Something always bothers us. The current whine of the week is the massacre we suffered when the administration robbed us of a reading period. Do you really think the University harbors some malicious hostility towards the student body? Anyone who read the story on Friday about why the reading period was cut short understands that there was no other option. Considering thatwe’re “the best and the brightest,” you’d think we would at least arm ourselves with some factual ammunition before going around campus bewailing our sorrows. That’s the irony behind most of our complaints: We think we know better than the administrators. Although that sometimes may be true, and while we should always question authority, let’s get real! The administration is made up of professionals, most of them top in their field, who know what they’re doing. They’re the ones that transformed Duke into a top school right behind HYP. Of course, as accomplished students, we all contribute, but make no mistake—it’s their show. Duke’s constantly climbing rank is not a result ofanything you or I did. So, the next time you want to whine about something they did that you, with your infinite years of wisdom and experience, disagree with, at least give them the benefit of the doubt. Better yet, why whine at all? Regardless of what bothers you about Duke, there is so much to do here. There must be something you like. One of my best friends always says, “If you’re eager to graduate because you can’t wait to get out of Duke, you must have done something wrong during your time here.” It’s hard to disagree with that conclusion. Given the plethora of opportunities, clubs, organizations and events—not to mention 6,400 ridiculously diverse students—how is it possible not to find some small enclave of happiness in the Gothic Wonderland? Instead, so many of us groan about the bubble and [I took out ‘bemoan’] how we can’t wait to get out, for hardly more of a reason then simply to have something to talk about, something to make the time pass by. But rest assured, the time will pass fast enough. All of you who hate the bubble and can’t wait to get out, take it from a senior—the end will come much sooner than it seems. So, whether you’re on your last semester, your last year, or, as is my case, your last column, I hope you’ve enjoyed it. After all, it will all end sooner or later. You might as well savor it while it’s here.

Emin Hadziosmanovic is a Trinity senior. This is his final column.

Ramifications of movie worth a closer look Memoirs of a Geisha is just a movie. And yes, the poster is just marketing. But the controversy surrounding Memoirs does not question the author or director’s ability to provide an entertaining and well-marketed story. Rather, it focuses more on the authenticity of their portrayal of Japanese culture and its implications on the greater Asian community. Because Asian representations in the U.S. media are so often limited to the martial artist, geeky immigrant or hypersexualized female, the emergence of Memoirs carries with it both the opportunity of presenting a new aspect of Asian culture and the risk of reinforcing stereotypes. Because many, including Mineko Iwasaki, whose life the book is based upon, accuse author Golden of presenting geishas as little more than stylized prostitutes, I worry that Memoirs will only advance the fetishization of Asian women. The question then becomes: Can we trust the audience to know the difference between entertainment

and reality? Where do we draw the line between the appreciation and appropriation of culture? To build a buzz for Memoirs, Sony Pictures created tieins that include Banana Republic’s limited line and Fresh’s beauty product line that “captures the mystery of the Geisha with a scent that is understated, exotic and completely sensual.” Most of these items are only vaguely connected to authentic Japanese products and customs, yet they’re marketed as authentic and further reinforce the image that Asian women are the exotic “other.” The problem is when “exotic” is used either to hold you at an arm’s lengdi as foreign or to objectify you in a perverse embrace as a sexual experience; both override how “unique” and similar you truly are. The reality remains that the media does influence how we view each other and ourselves. Finally, the criticism against Chinese actors portraySEE LETTERS ON PAGE 11

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A hymn to endings never run into a shortage to have to slog through before of advice on how to get the end. The best I can hope for through semester’s end. Most is an inspired moment that of it sucks. With as much time as makes me forget. But they never I’ve spent listening to “wisdom” come often enough. Sooner orlater, such as “Oh, the I’ll have to get up work may be bad, for a break. As I Imsm but it only lasts walk away from my about a week, and if chair and see then you’re done,” everyone else still -sis* or “Just take it day K at their books, I by day,” we might as feel unstudious well be talking sugg guilty and check about the few to see if it hasn’t hours of sleep belast act been too soon tween fatigue and since the last inexhaustion There’s nothing factually wrong terruption. A few minutes later, with these suggestions. They just coming back, I see dozens still typing away, buried in their don’t help. Yes, it all may be done in a screens, and I wonder how it’s week. And I can only think of possible to concentrate like that yet again. And then I’ll probably what I have today—or risk collapsing in panic. But we don’t wish that I could live by the week. Wouldn’t it be neat if, when work in the scope of weeks or life Work is excruciating got hectic, I could just run to an days. collection of seconds divided my own little timeless panic into half-seconds into fourths room, come up with a list of what and eights and so on. It’s being I’d like to accomplish for the imprisoned in an agonizing next seven days, and then watch a “now,” and knowing exactly how very busy me run through the asmany more “nows” you’re going signments? I’d meet up with my-

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self a week from today, when Winter Break was in full force and the semester just memories. But I couldn’t be trusted with this machine. Soon I’d begin to use it for a boring class, or a hard thirty-minute run, or an ordinary week with something wonderful waiting at the end. I’d know exactly where in time I wanted to be; only, when I got there, nothing would be as great or last as long as I’d like, and I’d just keep skipping ahead. Years would go by. Right now, I am 21 years and 21 days old. I’d probably run out of time by around 21 years, 25 days. Near last week’s end, I found myself in the library, brooding over multiple 15-page papers due the next day. I think it was after 3 a.m. And though I really couldn’t afford to stop working, I hadn’t the willpower left to resist, so I left my nest in the small stacks of Perkins and went out questing for who knows what distractions. Ten, 15 minutes later, I plodded back up the stairs, opened the door to my floor, and choked—astounded—at a gigan-

of thick wooden boards pulled all the way across the stacks, dividing them in half, and dividing me from my belongings. What in the hell is this?!? Only extreme panic could have sent me leaping and scratching at this wall from hell, trying to fit my head through an opening between it and the ceiling not more than a few inches wide. It was extreme panic. But as I steadied my head enough to get my first real look through the slit, I paused. What, what, what... what are all these boxes doing in here? Where are the desks? Ahhhhh. Wrong floor. If, somehow, I had managed to shove myself into that demonic vault, like all prisoners too tired to escape, I would’ve had many, many “nows” to chew over. Just darkness. And now. And now. And now. And maybe, with no cafes to entice me, no friends talking to me, no bathrooms calling me, no IM flashing at me, no internet to sidetrack me, I’d have remembered what it’s like to love the “now.” I remember the final hours of tic

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didn’t think this would be my last column, so I guess I will just have to say all the things I was planning on writing about extensively next semester. First and most importandy, the Cameron Crazies are awfully lame, and if Cameron weren’t so small we wouldn’t have to hear so much about them. ESPN, Dicky V, SI and everyone else can write whatever they want, but I go to school here, and I know those kids. I am embarrassed that when many people think about where I go to college, bluepainted nerds jumping up and down are what springs to mind. The same kids who were getting thrown in trash cans in high school are cool in college? More likely they have just created a world for themselves with easily understandable rules for social success. The closer you are to the front of the line, the cooler you are. Never mind that it is just a basketball game or that the payoff for months of tenting is three sweaty hours repeating cheers that actually original people came up with long, long before you bought your $l5O tent from Wal-Mart and taped “Redick’s Road dogs” to it (if you were “crazy” enough to come back from Christmas joe cox early and be tent 4). not quite fiction Next, the only problem with the social scene at Duke are the people whining about the social scene at Duke. So the University makes it hard for the ffats to throw keggers, or even parties. All that means is that you don’t have to spend your weekends in claustrophobically small dorm rooms and hallways looking for a Solo cup or a can ofNatty. Go out, meet people. Go to the Federal, the Joyce, the G-Loft and everywhere else worthwhile in Durham. College is awesome, but you still have to make an effort to have a good time. That said, the reality is that the University’s efforts to corral student drinking has resulted in a sense of alienation between students and administrators. The most important issues to many students are annoying “wastes of time” to Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. I think that the vision of Duke that many of administrators have simply does not include people like me. Evidently, the diversity that the University strives to promote need not include that kind of social aspect. Perhaps this is simply part of the University’s focus on science at the expense of the liberal arts. Whatever the reason, many administrators seem to treat even legal alcohol consumption as embarrassing and unprofessional. Third, the police in Durham are a disgrace. I have been harassed by them in the past for being drunk at a bar, but the people who knock on my door at two in the morning asking for change are still able to limp and drool down the street free as drug-addled jay birds. The fact that the University not only does nothing to assist students who had their rights violated (the arrests at the Belmont pool, the Alcohol Law Enforcement raids) but looks further into punishing students after the fact is appalling and disturbing. The priorities of the administration seem to be running the University like a well oiled machine, not the safety, security or rights of the students. Finally, marijuana should be legalized. Nah, then I would never get anything done, and parents would be warning about gaining the freshman 50. Still, it would be cool to hear “Could I have a pack of Camel Greens?” at the gas station. Now to wrap this up before I go too far afield. I am sure that I offended some people this semester, but while to a certain extent that was my intention, I hope that no one took it personally. If you don’t drink or do drugs and you think I am wrong about everything, well, that is what is so great about America: You have the right to be tragically mistaken about things. As for acknowledgements, I would like to thank Sarah Ball, my extremely tolerant editor, for putting up with me this semester. Having no idea what sort of halfcocked rant I would go on every other week must have taken its toll on her, but she always pretended to like my column so as not to hurt my feelings. Thanks. As for the rest of you, I hope that at least a couple of you enjoyed my pseudo-humor column, and I had a lot of fun writing it.

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Celebrating Christmas our piano teacher and our few years ago, an acquaintance asked me, “Do you friends. We even mailed Christmas celebrate Christmas?” cards (though we were careful to ver“The commercialized make sure they said “Happy Holision,” I replied. The acquaintance smiled days” since at least 80 percent of wryly at me. He knew what I was the people to whom we mailed them weren’t talking about. nstian There are two In the days Christmases in the leading up to United States —the Christmas, my “real,” original, reliparents would Christmas that gious drive my broththe birth celebrates er and me V.VSirr-AS of Christ, and the through neighcommercialized, secpreeti aroon borhoods in our ular Christmas of pop aim for the stars hometown of culture. Lexington, Ky., isn’t My family Christian. But when I was a to look at people’s Christmas child, we had a Christmas tree in lights. On Christmas morning, a few token gifts would be under the living room, stockings hanging on the fireplace mantle and our Christmas tree, and some a wreath on our front door. We candy would be in our stockings. We weren’t Christian, but we watched the “Charlie Brown Christmas Special” and “It’s a were Americans, and we partook Wonderful Life.” We’d go to the of the American tradition of mall and wave “Hi” to Santa. commercialized, secular ChristWe’d drop loose change into mas. Why? Because it was fun, esSalvation Army buckets. We gave pecially for the kids in the famigifts to our teachers, our hair- ly —my brother and me. What kid doesn’t like candy canes, dressers and our newspaper deto livery boy. We went Christmas snowman cookies, Santa Claus, parties hosted by our schools, parties and toys?

It’s almost impossible to be a kid in the United States and not get enraptured by the “magic” of the Christmas season. During the past few years, some Christians have been complaining about stores that are “banning” Christmas. Advertisements and cashiers don’t say, “Merry Christmas;” instead, they’ve been saying the more inclusive “Happy Holidays!” Personally, I have no problem with stores’ saying “Merry Christmas.” They’re private businesses. It’s their right to say whatever they want. (With the government, it’s a completely different story, but that would be the subject of another column.) Even if outraged Christians got all stores to say, “Merry Christmas,” let’s not kid ourselves. We all know those stores would be referring to the commercialized, secular Christmas—the one that fattens their profits while raising Americans’ credit card debt. If I were a Christian, I’d be disappointed that one of my re-

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had come to be associated with such materialism. If a Wal-Mart greeter said “Merry Christmas”

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lands, Santa figurines and toys piled high to the ceilings of the typical warehouse-sized Wal-

Mart and think, “This is what my religion is about?” Essentially, Christmas has been captured by capitalism. The Grinch hasn’t stolen Christmas Capitalism has Christmas is gradually being secularized into a season of general merrymaking. It is in transition from religious “holy day” to secular holiday. The cries of Christians who are upset with this are the death throes of religious Christmas. This isn’t the first time a holiday has lost most of its religious trappings. Today, it’s not just Irish Catholics who wear green on St. Patrick’s Day. And the majority of children who dress as witches and goblins for Halloween aren’t pagan. At Duke, Diya’s annual Awaaz cultural show evolved from a Hindu celebration of Diwali to a more embracing, secular performance extravaganza. Participants and audience members include students of virtually all ethnicities and religions. Similarly, Christmas is following

this tradition and universalizing itselfinto a time of merrymaking to be enjoyed by all. When you see Santa Claus and Christmas lights in Japan —a country where less than one percent of the population is Christian—you know the process is well underway. Just about every culture of the world has times of the year devoted to celebration and revelry. For Americans, this season is just that time. A small subset of Christmas “purists” will probably continue observing the holiday in its original religious form, devoid of Santa Claus and the abundance of gift giving. For the rest of us—we’ll indulge in the commercialized secular Christmas. Conservative Christians can demand that stores start saying “Merry Christmas.” Unfortunately, it’s not going to put Christ back into Christmas. Christmas has become a commercialized, secular holiday —no matter what you call it. Preeti Aroon is a graduate student ofpublic policy. She would like to thank everyone for reading her column this semester.

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